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No room for small dreams : courage, imagination, and the making of modern Israel / by Peres, Shimon,1923-2016,author.;
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The myth of the strong leader : political leadership in modern politics / by Brown, Archie,1938-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-438) and index.LSC
Subjects: Political leadership; Political leadership;
© c2014., Basic Books,
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Margaret Atwood / by Bloom, Harold.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses, and index.LSC
Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Women and literature;
© c2009., Infobase Pub.,
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The angel makers : arsenic, a midwife, and modern history's most astonishing murder ring / by McCracken, Patricia Nell,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."THE ANGEL MAKERS is a true-crime story like no other-a 1920s midwife who may have been the century's most prolific killer, leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men"--
Subjects: Case studies.; True crime stories.; Murder; Poisoners; Serial murders; Women murderers; Women serial murderers;
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The second emancipation : Nkrumah, pan-Africanism, and global Blackness at high tide / by French, Howard W.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From the acclaimed author of Born in Blackness comes an extraordinary account of Africa's liberation from colonial oppression, a work that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of modern history. A work of epic dimension that recasts the liberation of twentieth-century Africa through the lens of revolutionary leader Kwame Nkrumah.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972.; Pan-Africanism;
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Tom Thomson : the silence and the storm / by Silcox, David P.,1937-; Thomson, Tom,1877-1917.; Town, Harold,1924-1990.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An extensive collection of the work of Tom Thomson, considered by many to be the most important artist in Canadian history. The accompanying text provides aesthetic commentary and a full biography.LSC
Subjects: Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917.; Painters; Landscape painters; Landscape painting, Canadian.; Landscape painting; Painting, Modern;
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Style your modern vintage home : a guide to buying, restoring and styling from the 1920s to 1990s / by Beavis, Kate.; Whitmore, Simon.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Interior decoration.; Interior decoration;
© 2013., F&W Media International,
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The Penguin history of modern China : the fall and rise of a great power, 1850 to the present / by Fenby, Jonathan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. This book shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim to brutality on an unmatched scale, to oppression, to war and to famine. This makes its current position as the newest and, arguably, most important global superpower all the more extraordinary.
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Satellite boy : the international manhunt for a master thief that launched the modern communication age / by Amelinckx, Andrew K.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Spanning the hemisphere from the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection between an audacious bank heist and the other Space Race that gave birth to the modern communication age"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; True crime stories.; Lemay, Georges, 1925-2006.; Artificial satellites.; Bank robberies; Bank robberies; Electronics in criminal investigation.;
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The golden age of murder : the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story / by Edwards, Martin,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets.
Subjects: Detection Club.; Detective and mystery stories, English; English fiction;
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