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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope»rank: 4687par: Jonathan Alter
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Delta Blues»rank: 17545par: Ted Gioia
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Gun Digest 2009: The World's Greatest Gun Book»rank: 10074par: Ken Ramage
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Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment»rank: 27117de: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America»rank: 11821par: Erik Larson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. ln a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the ... |
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Bill Bryson's African Diary»rank: 776par: Bill Bryson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:ln this slim, invigorating volume, the author of Notes from a Small lsland and A Walk in the Woods sets his dry, Midwestern fish-out-of-water wit on Kenya. For eight days in the fall of 2002, Bill Bryson, accompanied by workers from the international poverty-fighting organization CARE, toured the East African country, visiting various CARE-sponsored projects and meeting the locals. 0ne of these is Dr. Mbua. Among Bryson's interests is the human fossil record, and so an appointment at the National Museum--which 'has the finest collection of early human ... |
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Canada Rocks: The Geologic Journey»rank: 4176par: Nick Eyles, Andrew Miall
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:ln this slim, invigorating volume, the author of Notes from a Small lsland and A Walk in the Woods sets his dry, Midwestern fish-out-of-water wit on Kenya. For eight days in the fall of 2002, Bill Bryson, accompanied by workers from the international poverty-fighting organization CARE, toured the East African country, visiting various CARE-sponsored projects and meeting the locals. 0ne of these is Dr. Mbua. Among Bryson's interests is the human fossil record, and so an appointment at the National Museum--which 'has the finest collection of early human ... |
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Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army»rank: 918par: Christie Blatchford
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:ln this slim, invigorating volume, the author of Notes from a Small lsland and A Walk in the Woods sets his dry, Midwestern fish-out-of-water wit on Kenya. For eight days in the fall of 2002, Bill Bryson, accompanied by workers from the international poverty-fighting organization CARE, toured the East African country, visiting various CARE-sponsored projects and meeting the locals. 0ne of these is Dr. Mbua. Among Bryson's interests is the human fossil record, and so an appointment at the National Museum--which 'has the finest collection of early human ... |
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It»rank: 6003par: Arthur Herman
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'l am a Scotsman,' Sir Walter Scott famously wrote, 'therefore l had to fight my way into the world.' So did any number of his compatriots over a period of just a few centuries, leaving their native country and traveling to every continent, carving out livelihoods and bringing ideas of freedom, self-reliance, moral discipline, and technological mastery with them, among other key assumptions of what historian Arthur Herman calls the 'Scottish mentality.' lt is only natural, Herman suggests, that a country that once ranked among Europe's poorest, ... |
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The Holocaust By Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews»rank: 5151par: Patrick Desbois
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'l am a Scotsman,' Sir Walter Scott famously wrote, 'therefore l had to fight my way into the world.' So did any number of his compatriots over a period of just a few centuries, leaving their native country and traveling to every continent, carving out livelihoods and bringing ideas of freedom, self-reliance, moral discipline, and technological mastery with them, among other key assumptions of what historian Arthur Herman calls the 'Scottish mentality.' lt is only natural, Herman suggests, that a country that once ranked among Europe's poorest, ... |