Author: Ralph Ege
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Category : Hopewell (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Thomas Townsend Sherman
Publisher: New York : T.A. Wright
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Languages : en
Pages : 108

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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Author: Joshua Kendall
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455502367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred ogling new gadgets at the hardware store to watching girls walk by in their summer dresses. Sure, Lindbergh's unique mindset invented the pre-flight checklist, but his obsession with order also led him to demand that his wife and three German mistresses account for all their household expenditures in detailed ledgers. Lucky Lindy is just one of several American icons whom Joshua Kendall puts on the psychologist's couch in America's Obsessives. In this fascinating look at the arc of American history through the lens of compulsive behavior, he shows how some of our nation's greatest achievements-from the Declaration of Independence to the invention of the iPhone-have roots in the disappointments and frustrations of early childhood. Starting with the obsessive natures of some of Silicon Valley's titans, including Steve Jobs, Kendall moves on to profile seven iconic figures, such as founding father Thomas Jefferson, licentious librarian Melvil Dewey, condiment kingpin H. J. Heinz, slugger Ted Williams, and Estee Lauder. This last personality was so obsessed with touching other women's faces that she transformed her compulsion into a multibillion-dollar cosmetics corporation. Entertaining and instructive, Kendall offers up a few scoops along the way: Little do most Americans know that Charles Lindbergh, under the alias Clark Kent, sired seven children with his three German "wives." As Lindbergh's daughter Reeve told Kendall, "Now I know why he was gone so much. I also understand why he was delighted when I was learning German."

Author: Roger Thurow
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458767337
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the ''Green Revolution'' succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year - most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading, Enough is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.

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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Richard Bissell
Publisher: eNet Press
ISBN: 1618865757
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Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A riotous story about an Indiana author who packs up his family and moves 900 miles (by car in a heat wave with four children) to take up residence in Connecticut where he will commute to New York City to work with the team who will transform his book into a musical comedy.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1360

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Author: Philip Long
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781840183832
Category : Color in art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Featuring commentary on the artists' lives and their involvement in the avant-garde in Paris, The Scottish Colourists is richly illustrated with over 100 of the Colourists' most stylish and inventive paintings.