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561) True raiders: the untold story of the 1909 expedition to find the legendary Ark of the Convenant
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called "most beautiful woman in the world," headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. Like a real-life version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this incredible story of adventure and mystery has almost been completely forgotten today. In 1908, Monty is approached by a strange Finnish scholar...
Series
House document volume 108-224
Publisher
U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
From the publisher: Provides a comprehensive history of the more than 120 African Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Written for a general audience, this book contains a profile of each African-American Member, including notables such as Hiram Revels, Joseph Rainey, Oscar De Priest, Adam Clayton Powell, Shirley Chisholm, Gus Hawkins, and Barbara Jordan. Individual profiles are introduced by contextual essays that explain major...
Publisher
Indiepix films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Cristóbal returns, camera in hand, to his native town of Chaitén, after it's been destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Searching for his childhood home, amidst ruins. He meets Ana, a strong-willed, middle-aged woman whose sick elderly mother,Maria, refuses to leave town in order to seek treatment. As events unfold, these three friends form an unlikely bond and become the lost family that Cristóbal sought to recover with his photography....
565) The sower: Le semeur
Series
Publisher
Film Movement, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
In 1851, France's autocratic President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising. The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands; others, like the shy but inwardly strong Violette, suddenly have no chance of experiencing physical love or motherhood. The women take an oath: if a man comes, they...
Series
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An essential addition to the Stone Reader series, Question Everything is a groundbreaking collection of philosophical essays from some of our foremost thinkers and storytellers. When The Stone Reader--a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy column--first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide of post-fact...
Author
Series
Publisher
Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An apparent lack of interest by Russia in Sub-Saharan Africa over recent years masks persistent key strategic drivers for Moscow to re-establish lost influence in the region. A preoccupation with more immediate foreign policy concerns has temporarily interrupted a process of Russia reclaiming relationships that were well-developed in the Soviet period in order to secure access to mineral and energy resources which are crucial to Russia's economic...
Author
Series
Testimony volume GAO-08-1155 T
Publisher
U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
According to EPA, children face disproportionate risks from contaminants such as air pollution and lead paint. The health consequences to the country's 74 million children are significant. In 2006, 55 percent of children lived in counties exceeding allowable levels for at least one of the six principal air pollutants such as ozone which causes or aggravates asthma. Asthma is the third-most common cause of childhood hospitalization, resulting in $3.2...
Author
Series
Testimony volume GAO-09-490T
Publisher
U.S. Govt. Accountability Office
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) have made available over $182 billion in assistance to American International Group (AIG) to prevent its failure. However, questions have been raised about the goals of the assistance and how it is being monitored. Also, because AIG is generally known for its insurance operations, questions exist about the effect of the assistance on...
570) Courtroom evidence
Series
Publisher
Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Office of Legal Education
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Courtroom Evidence is a practical skills manual. An attorney can consult it, and learn enough about the rules of evidence to use the predicate questions with confidence. A close study of Courtroom Evidence will give any trial lawyer expert knowledge of the evidence code.--p. xiv.
572) Miniatures 2020
Publisher
The 62nd Gramophone Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Boil it down to a minute. The first was Morgan Fisher's now legendary 1980 classic, Miniatures, then 20 years later came the double-length volume two, now, after twenty more years, this double-double volume three-124 one-minute compositions by a wide cohort of the seasoned and emerging, some well thumbed...and a wide sampling of selected contemporaries.