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The author behind the “eye-popping” (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for “The Next Trump.” After a chaotic and violent first Trump presidency, Miles Taylor knew one thing for sure: Trump would be...

Based on actual events spanning forty years, this story is about the relentless struggle of a family’s search for freedom, the Great Seven Fidel Castro’s inner circle, and an epic adventure driven by a passionate love relationship set in pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba. The love story is the main impetus of this chronicle. Pepe, the only survivor of the inner circle to escape several assassination attempts, is forced to leave his family and his fiancée (Alicia) in Cuba. Alicia, who is carrying his unborn child, conceals her pregnancy to ensure Pepe’s immediate departure to safety.

Este libro conjuga en breve síntesis el análisis de problemas fundamentales de la historia de Cuba con la información indispensable para comprender su peculiar evolución. Desde una perspectiva de "larga duración", el pasado cubano es examinado en sus aspectos más sobresalientes...

Myers was an American journalist and historian who published a series of highly critical and influential studies on the social costs of wealth accumulation.

Una buena fiesta, una buena fiesta de verdad, no cabe en una sola noche. (Ni en un solo libro.) Digamos: una fiesta a la queasisten Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera, Rigo Tovar y Aurora Reyes, Enriqueta Ochoa y Cantinflas, Vicente Rojo y Olga Breeskin, todo el exilio español y todo el elenco de Avándaro. Entre pulques y cocteles, la plática se pone buena y el chisme es mejor.

Tulsa, Oklahoma might not be the first place mentioned when people talk about American music history. But this bustling city has a rich and diverse legacy that spans genres, generations and cultures. Tulsa Sounds: Contributions to American Music takes you into the stories behind the songs, the artists and the venues that made Tulsa not only a musical hot spot but influenced social, cultural and political change in the city as well as the nation. There is Leon Russell and his contributions to rock and roll. There are the toe-tapping pioneers of Western Swing, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

En el segundo audiolibro, el equipo de “El Gran Genocidio” fortalece las pruebas que demuestran que el genocidio perpetrado por la corona española en tierras americanas es el peor que se ha cometido en la historia del mundo, pero el menos conocido; se consiguen apoyos de líderes indígenas; comienzan a llegar patrocinadores y el bufete en Bruselas establece contacto con la Corte Penal Internacional.

Reedición revisada y aumentada del best seller que reúne las experiencias del abogado y oficial de ejercito José Miguel Varela, en la Guerra del Pacifico, las Campañas de la Araucanía y Guerra Civil de 1891.

After winning "that splendid little war", the Spanish-American War, how did the terms concentration camp and pacification first emerge in the brutal two-year Filipino guerilla war against US occupation?

Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. A courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly 1,000 children out of Germany and Austria. Of these children, 93 were placed on a freight train, traveling through the night away from their families and into the relative safety of Vichy France.

La Révolution bilingue raconte l'histoire de parents et d'éducateurs impliqués dans la création de filières à deux langues dans les écoles publiques de la ville de New York. Convaincus que l’éducation bilingue est un bien public qui devrait être offert à tous les enfants, ces pionniers et leurs récits illustrent bien la capacité de ces filières à transformer positivement une communauté, une école et même un pays. Le livre sert de manuel pour vous permettre de mettre en place votre propre filière bilingue et de lancer ainsi votre propre révolution.

On the fateful night of the Titanic disaster, heiress Loretta Linden made sure her friends and fellow passengers got to the lifeboats before she even thought of herself. Her soft heart is legendary - and her desire to help others is her great passion. She will not rest until her little band is safely reunited in her native San Francisco - where she meets the dashing Captain Quarles.

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.

Every firefighter has a treasure trove of interesting stories to tell, and the stories more often than not are instructional, as well as exciting. When I was a firefighter, I kept notes of the fires I responded to. Now that I am retired, I have reflected on my career as a firefighter and have written a second book about the men alongside whom I worked, facing dangerous situations daily. This book is a compilation of eight short fire stories written between 1963 and 1972, from notes I wrote after returning from fires.

Step inside this time machine as we go back to the awesome era of VHS with in-depth discussions on the glory days of VHS, video shops, renting videocassettes, and VHS nostalgia. VHS is still relevant today and loved by so many people across the globe, VHS will never die. Once called the "dead format" VHS has truly risen from the grave, defying the odds and taking no prisoners. And you'll find out why VHS still lives from VHS collectors themselves in VHS Lives 2. Sit back and listen as we rewind through cult VHS tapes, video players, and video shop nostalgia!

""No one should miss this beautiful legend."" —Tony Hillerman Velma Wallis’s award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winter Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers...

As Sicily fell and the Allies prepared to press on, Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was actually arrested to prevent him from doing further damage. Il Duce still held considerable power in the eyes of many ground-level activists, and if left unchecked, the possibility of violence in the streets was genuine. He was jailed in Campo Imperatore on August 28, 1943, on one of the largest mountains in Central Italy, but when the new Italian government surrendered to the Allies, most of the Italian mainland was still controlled by the Germans.