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Author
Publisher
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An earlier version of this book, published in 1988, was titled Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital. It explored how the Reverend W. A. R. Goodwin, the rector of Williamsburg's historic Bruton Parish Church, persuaded John D. Rockefeller Jr. to invest millions of dollars in the restoration of the eighteenth-century capital. Yet the story of the restoration, as told in the first edition of this book, was not the...
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. Aftershocks collects poems, essays and photos from survivors of Hurricane Maria detailing their determination to persevere. The concept of 'aftershocks' is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular event. Aftershocks of Disaster examines the lasting effects of hurricane...
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 3
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A fresh look at the impact of Jesus & early Christianity on the shaping of Western civilization.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking five-hundred-year history - the first comprehensive volume to go well beyond World War II - challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than twentieth-century historians imagined. Smith's dramatic narrative...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"A beautiful, unique cookbook with delicious recipes for all stages of cancer treatment and recovery, from a two-time cancer survivor and founder of the Cook for Your Life nutrition-based cooking programs. Cook for Your Life is a one-of-a-kind cookbook for those whose lives are touched by cancer, organized by the patient's needs. Self-taught home cook and two-time cancer survivor Ann Ogden Gaffney discovered during her months of treatment for breast...
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Overview: Increase Productivity with High-Impact Performance Reviews! Performance appraisals may not be everyone's favorite task. Done right, though, they serve as a vital part of company strategy and document in black and white your contribution to the organization's success. Win-Win Performance Appraisals gives you the knowledge, insight, and tools to transform every performance review from a painful, one-hour "sit down" into a collaborative process...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination"--
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