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A thought-provoking analysis of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-and what might have happened if conventional weapons were used instead.
It has always been a difficult concept to stomach-that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, causing such horrific suffering and destruction, also brought about peace. Attitudes toward the event have changed through the years, from grateful relief that World War II was ended to widespread...
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A concise and entertaining explanation of how other accounts, and popular culture such as films, have misrepresented medieval warfare.
We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armor smashing each other with their maces and poleaxes for hours on end, as depicted on film and in programs such as Game of Thrones? They could not have done so. It is impossible to fight in such a manner for more than several minutes...
3) Future Ready
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Rethink climate, resilience, and sustainability for your organization
In Future Ready: Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability, a team of business leaders with deep expertise in engineering, planning, finance, project, program implementation and advisory consulting perspective delivers an essential guide for executives, managers, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement...
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"On January 24, 1791, President George Washington chose the site for the young nation's capital: ten miles square, it stretched from the highest point of navigation on the Potomac River, and encompassed the ports of Georgetown and Alexandria. From the moment the federal government moved to the District of Columbia in December 1800, Washington has been central to American identity and life. Shaped by politics and intrigue, poverty and largess, contradictions...
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Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries-Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff-whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time, when the American romance with science and technology was...
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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape....
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Far Northern Australia is a land of extremes. Huge bushfires ravage the ancient landscape in the dry season and the world's biggest thunderstorms bring torrential rain and flooding in the wet season. These almost-Jurassic conditions have created some of the richest wetlands on Earth. The coast, rivers, and waterholes are haunted by sharks. The plains are guarded by territorial buffalo and venomous snakes, but the apex predator here is a living dinosaur-the...
12) Red Hill
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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After a police officer starts his new job in the quiet town of Red Hill, the news of an escaped convict heading for the town to seek revenge causes chaos in the police department.
13) Redeeming love
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended?
14) Redeeming love
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended?
15) The Channel
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English
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Following a near-death experience in a car crash, teenager Cassie Stevens realizes a shadowy figure has followed her back from the other side. As her visions escalate, Cassie discovers that everyone haunted by a similar specter has died. She turns to Father McCready, a priest who can perform the only remedy Cassie may have - an Exorcism.