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This audiobook explores how the award-winning NBC drama offered a space for vibrant conversation about US politics, identity, and culture.

This book will change your perspective on the universe and expand your mind with its condensed breakdown of the most profound mysteries in physics and cosmology. From the nature of dark matter and dark energy to the origins of life, this book delves into the most fundamental questions of our existence, guiding readers through the latest research and discoveries in the field. Through captivating storytelling and thought-provoking discussions, this book will ignite a passion for science and inspire readers to join in the quest for knowledge. Uncover the secrets of the universe and gain a ...

The first of its kind, a unique volume of twenty-one unpublished gems from one of the twentieth century’s most popular and prolific writers Using his father’s handwritten notes, journal entries, and correspondences, Beau L’Amour uncovers how and why many never-before-seen manuscripts...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”—The Wall Street Journal “Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity.”—Los Angeles Times When and how...

A Sweeping History of Western Australia Before the gold rush made it famous, before the boom towns rose from red dust and ambition, Western Australia was the world's longest-running experiment in isolation. Covering an area larger than Western Europe, this vast and ancient land was home for tens of thousands of years to Aboriginal nations of extraordinary sophistication — the Noongar, the Martu, the Wongi — whose knowledge of country, law and ceremony gave shape to a continent long before any European eye glimpsed its shores. In The Golden State, Daniel Hardy tells the full story of how...

Jake Stone is a bounty hunter working out of Denver. Over the years the forty-something-year-old manhunter has excelled to the point that he has been given a Special Deputy U. S. Marshal’s badge, allowing him to be called upon when a deputy might not otherwise be available. This badge also opens a lot of doors that might otherwise be closed. Stone never hesitates to use that position to his advantage. ★ In this first episode, Stone rides into a sleepy little town in northern New Mexico. He’s not sure he’s on the right trail of the escaped killers until one of them attempts to ...

This book is a collection of some of the best and most popular recipes from Africa. It provides clear and concise steps to follow in the preparation of the exotic recipes it contains. The recipes contained in this book originate from North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa and even Southern Africa. The ingredients required for each recipe are listed in their English name rather than the native African names to enable anyone to be able to acquire them from their nearest grocery store. While some of the catchy African names for the dishes may be lost in translation, the flavors...

Bloomsbury presents At the Gates of Rome by Don Hollway, read by Mark Meadows. A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths. It took little more than a...

Jordan Christy shares advice on how to be the most confident version of yourself, in this fully revised and updated edition derived from How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World. Though fashions may change, certain things never go out of style -- like your favorite little black dress that can take...

NEW RELEASE ~ WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT Inside every hoof, a horse has a second heart that pumps blood back up its legs with each step. Every fact is drawn from academic research and documented institutional data. This True Verified Facts book delivers 350+ answers about horses, from the cat-sized creature they began as to the legends that rewrote racing history, written to educate, entertain, and give you something worth sharing. Inside This Book: The house-cat-sized ancestor that became the horse, and why it nearly vanished forever Why a horse cannot vomit or breathe through its mouth, ...

While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history.

The Histories Of Tasmania, Victoria & Western Australia In One Collected Volume Three states. Three frontiers. One sweeping history of the island continent's edges, where convicts, gold-seekers, and rebels built worlds apart from Sydney's shadow. In Tassie, the island at the end of the world tells a story of brutal beginnings and unlikely reinvention — from the Black War and the convict stain to Lake Pedder, the Franklin blockade, and a museum that put Hobart on the global map. In The Garden State, Victoria rises from squatters' runs to gold-rush riches, erupts at the Eureka Stockade, and...

Stunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest general It's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash attends a glittering banquet to dine with the King of England and the likes of Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill and...

Nineteenth century Americans were all too happy and eager for the transcontinental railroad to help speed their passage west and render overland paths obsolete. One early trail got its start in Independence, Missouri, one of many cities marked as starting points for pioneers, settlers, or traders. From there, the trail went all the way to Santa Fe, which at that time was part of the newly independent country of Mexico.

When a town in the Old West comes under attack by a greedy, land grabbing relic of the past, lawman Lucas Wade comes to seek Just Compensation. In this classic western story, the first in the Lucas Wade Western series, Wade uses tough talk, a quick draw, and a deadly aim to draw the line between right and wrong. His attempt to get justice for those who can’t find it for themselves will be clouded by a past love, her jealous husband, and a new taboo infatuation. Can even a hard man like Wade face down a series of known gunslingers, including the gun fight of his life? The Lucas Wade ...

If you were to look up the word “mean” in the dictionary, you may in fact find Morgan Montgomery’s picture right beside the definition...and the picture would be fabulous. That is exactly the reason Olivia does not want Morgan knowing that she just got braces. Unfortunately, Morgan does find out and much name calling and "Morgan meanness" follows. When a science lab experiment goes wrong, Morgan finds herself in the unusual position of being on the wrong side of popularity, which causes Olivia to discover just how complicated friendships and mean girls can be.

Sparks fly when a billionaire’s daughter and a disillusioned cowboy are thrown together in an impossible arrangement. Help is on the way with a whacky almost angel who tries to help soften two stubborn hearts. Just when Gracie, angel-in-training feels like she’s getting the hang of the angel matchmaking thing, she’s faced with the impossible task of finding love for Brooke Matthews—the snotty, entitled princess, who did everything in her power to thwart Gracie’s first assignment. Where in the world will Gracie find a man to put up with this beauty of a beast? Nash Rigby is a bull ...

Every City Has Two Names. One Is on the Map. One Is Buried Beneath It. London has been called London for two thousand years — and nobody knows what it means. Paris is named for a Gaulish tribe who burned their city rather than surrender it to Julius Caesar and then disappeared into history. Madrid is Arabic, given by a Moorish garrison commander in the ninth century, and the capital of Spain has never changed it. Reykjavik was named for geothermal steam in 874 AD. The steam is still rising. The Naming of the World: Western Europe is the second volume of The Name Behind the Place — a ten...

The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a...

She promised her father she’d be the best.While fighting for a promotion to senior associate at her Washington, DC, law firm, Kate McNamara receives a call that her grandmother has fallen and broken her leg. She rushes to West Virginia to help Gram, but struggles to adjust to the slow pace and folksy ways of small town life. Despite daily trips to the rehabilitation center, volunteer hours, and even swallowing her pride to be auctioned off during a fundraiser, she’s determined to stay on top of her heavy caseload. But when a sexy mountain man shows up in Gram’s backyard, Kate’s ...