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  Summary Bundle: History &...

  Readtrepreneur Publishing

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  Summary Bundle: History & Biography | Readtrepreneur Publishing: Includes Summary of Legends and Lies & Summary of Leonardo da Vinci 
   
  From the Description of “Summary of Legends and Lies”…? 
  "If every man would wait till his wife got willing for him to go to war, there would be no fighting done till we all got killed in our own house." – David Fisher 
  Recreating a chaotic time that led to this country's creation, where just a few could be trusted and there wasn't not a stable ground that wasn't a warzone. A book full of bloodshed, treason, and historic moments, this is definitely a title that you can't miss. A fast-paced, thrilling book that will walk you through the birth of this nation. 
   
  From the Description of “Summary of Leonardo da Vinci”… 
  "His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than a century later by Bacon and Galileo." – Walter Isaacson 
  The author of the bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein and Benjamin Franklin returns with a captivating biography of Leonardo da Vinci, who is considered to be one of the most diversely talented individuals to have ever lived. 
   
  What if you could learn 3X more in 2X less time? How much faster could you accelerate to reach your goals? Start accelerating your growth today by adding this book to your shopping cart now or clicking on the buy now button.

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  Thriving Beyond Sustainability -...

  Andres R. Edwards

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  Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming atmosphere. But against this bleak backdrop, beacons of hope shine from thousands of large and small initiatives taking place everywhere from isolated villages to major urban centers. 
  Thriving Beyond Sustainability draws a collective map of individuals, organizations and communities from around the world that are committed to building an alternative future - one that strives to restore ecological health, reinvent outmoded institutions and rejuvenate our environmental, social and economic systems. the  projects and initiatives profiled are meeting the challenges of the day with optimism, hope and results, leading the way in: 
  - relocalization- green commerce- ecological design- environmental conservation- social transformation. 
  Overflowing with inspiration, the stories and ideas in these pages will cause the most chronic pessimist to see the glass as half full - to move beyond a perception of surviving with scarcity to one of flourishing with abundance. the  comprehensive resource section provides the tools for everyone to become a catalyst for change. 
  Published by Post Hypnotic Press Inc. Distrubited by Big Happy Family LLC.

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  Should America Pay? - Slavery...

  Raymond Winbush

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  Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from lawsuits against major corporations and a march in Washington to an anti-reparations ad campaign. As a result, the link between slavery and contemporary race relations is more potent and obvious than ever. Grassroots organizers, lawmakers, and distinguished academics have embraced the idea that reparations should be pursued vigorously in the courts and legislature. But others ask, Who should pay? And could reparations help heal the wounds of the past?  This comprehensive collection -- the only of its kind -- gathers together the seminal essays and key participants in the debate. Pro-reparations essays, including contributions by Congressman John Conyers Jr., Christopher Hitchens, and Professor Molefi Asante, are countered with arguments by Shelby Steele, Armstrong Williams, and John McWhorter, among others. Also featured are important documents, such as the First Congressional Reparations Bill of 1867 and the Dakar Declaration of 2001, as well as a new chapter on the current status and future direction of the movement.

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  The Age of Intoxication -...

  Benjamin Breen

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  Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term "drug" encompassed everything from herbs and spices—like nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomile—to such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arsenic. In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories—illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional—and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist. 
   
   
   
  Focusing on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen examines the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed. He then turns his attention to the British Empire, arguing that it owed much of its success in this period to its usurpation of the Portuguese drug networks. From the sickly sweet tobacco that helped finance the Atlantic slave trade to the cannabis that an East Indies merchant sold to the natural philosopher Robert Hooke in one of the earliest European coffeehouses, Breen shows how drugs have been entangled with science and empire from the very beginning.

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  Voyagers of the Titanic -...

  Richard Davenport-Hines

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  “The story of the Titanic has been told many times; this one takes a sociological perspective, with the confident, graceful prose of fine fiction.” —Wall Street Journal 
   
  It has been over one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship—from deal-makers and industry giants, like J.P. Morgan, who built and operated it; to Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor IV, and other glittering aristocrats who occupied its first class cabins; to the men and women traveling below decks hoping to find a better life in America. Voyagers of the Titanic offers a fascinating, uniquely original view of one of the most momentous catastrophes of the twentieth century. 
   
  “Impressive in both its writing and reporting.” —USA Today 
   
  “Eloquent and absorbing.” —The Telegraph (UK)) 
   
  “This will not be the last book on the Titanic, but it is a safe bet that there will not be a better.” —The Spectator (UK) 
   
  “Bolstered by photographs of the people who built, staffed, sailed on and survived the Titanic, Davenport-Hines finds a slew of new points of view from which to scan history.” —Denver Post 
   
  “Utterly compelling.” —Sunday Times (UK) 
   
  “Paints a provocative portrait of the “upstairs, downstairs” social stratification in play aboard the doomed ship.” —Entertainment Weekly 
   
  “An astonishing work.”  —Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of Downton Abbey 
   
  “A haunting story of real, intersecting lives on a collision course with destiny.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  The Revelation

  Coventry Patmore

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  Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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