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A charming mix of inspiration and aspirational quotes mixed with a dash of reality about modern motherhood.
In an era of online mom-shaming, Carissa Bonham likes to keep things authentic when discussing the struggles of modern motherhood. One popular meme shared on Carissa's website, Creative Green Living, says 'Some days I make beautiful dinners from scratch. Today my kids had cereal and ice cream for dinner. At least it was organic.' This is motherhood...
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Rich selection of 100 practice problems - with hints and solutions - for students preparing for the William Lowell Putnam and other undergraduate-level mathematical competitions. Features real numbers, differential equations, integrals, polynomials, sets, other topics. Hours of stimulating challenge for math buffs at varying degrees of proficiency. References.
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Contains 72 illustrations and 42 maps of the Russian Campaign. After the disasters of the Stalingrad Campaign in the Russian winters of 1942-3, the German Wehrmacht was on the defensive under increasing Soviet pressure; this volume sets out to show how did the Russians manage to push the formerly all-conquering German soldiers back from Russian soil to the ruins of Berlin. Save for the introduction of nuclear weapons, the Soviet victory over Germany...
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Contains 92 illustrations and 45 maps of the Russian Campaign. A brilliant modern history of the German invasion of Russia to their bloody crushing defeat by the re-invigorated Russian forces at the siege of Stalingrad. During 1942, the Axis advance reached its high tide on all fronts and began to ebb. Nowhere was this more true than on the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union. After receiving a disastrous setback on the approaches to Moscow in the winter...
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"A young reader's edition of Candacy Taylor's acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America." For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or even get gas at most white-owned...
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!
The picture book inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film The Green Book
Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family's new car! In the early 1950s, few African Americans could afford to buy cars, so this would be an adventure. But she soon found out that black travelers weren't treated very well in some towns....
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First Published in 1892, "The Green Fairy Book" is the fourth in a series of collections of fairy tales from around the world edited by Andrew Lang, the Scottish novelist, poet and literary critic, with translations and retellings by several authors, including his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. Lang and Alleyne collaborated on popular and enduring collections of fairy tales and poetry for over twenty years. Lang and Alleyne achieved great commercial...
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"In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in New York City. The guide sold like hot cakes! Soon customers started asking Green to make a guide to help them travel and vacation safely...
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"A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled by a dictatorship and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them are an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman Rahma. The Chairman's power is absolute and appears strong,...
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The Little Green Book of Tennis Wisdom celebrates the beloved lifelong sport of tennis. From New York to Roland Garros, London, Australia, and everywhere in between, fans from all over the world will enjoy the musings contained within this book. Some of the many past and present stars quoted here include:
•Andre Agassi
•Arthur Ashe
•Billie Jean King
•Serena Williams
•Rafael Nadal
•Roger Federer
•Steffi Graf
•Pete Sampras
•Novak Djokovic
•Venus...
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Wit, craic, and maxims from the Emerald Isle's most famous descendents including JFK, Ronald Reagan, St. Patrick, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde, George Carlin, Brendan Behan, Michael Collins, de Valera, Tug McGraw, and many more!
In this lively and wide-reaching collection Dermot McEvoy gathers together some of Ireland's most famous lines from its most famous (and infamous) residents.
But just who are the Irish, exactly? They are freedom...
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Surprising as it may seem, the first place an experienced gardener looks for advice and ideas is not the local gardening store or even the nearby botanical garden, but a good library. Gardeners have been sharing their wisdom for thousands of years, and their books and treatises still provide a rich resource for growers and landscapers today. Here in this volume is a bouquet of quotations that will strike a responsive chord with anyone who has ever...
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Celebrate the history and experiences of African American musicians, navigating segregation in The South, while creating the foundation of Jazz, R&B and Soul, on their road to success. With an exciting mix of classic songs performed by legendary and contemporary stars and candid interviews - honoring the genius of these Black artists who changed America with Song.
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The witnesses of segregation still live among us, and award-winning broadcaster and educator Alvin Hall sets out to record their dramatic memories. He uses “The Green Book”, the guide that helped Black people travel safely on the nation's highways and roadways to create a moving, vital story of our past.
“Driving the Green Book” explores the history of America's segregated past, through a journey across terrain once considered too dangerous...
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Phil Gordon plays poker with the best players in the world. He has won -- and lost -- in tournaments and cash games around the globe, all the while studying the game and learning from every hand dealt. As the resident expert and co-host of Celebrity Poker Showdown, Phil has quickly become one of the most sought-after teachers of No Limit Texas Hold'em. After fifteen years of keeping notes on the things he's learned, the greats he's played with, and...
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Dieses Handbuch wurde potentiellen Mitgliedern der IRA zur Verfügung gestellt. Es sollte auf Gefängnisaufenthalt und Verhöre vorbereiten. Ebenso wird Mind Set und Struktur einer konspirativen Organisation abgebildet. In der vorliegenden Deutschen Übersetzung ist das green book als historisches Dokument jüngster Irischer Geschichte zu verstehen. Mittlerweile ist es aber auch Lektüre von Demokratie Bewegungen, deren Mitglieder psychischer und...
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The must-read summary of Alexander Green's book: "The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get On With Your Life".
This complete summary of the ideas from Alexander Green's book "The Gone Fishin' Portfolio" shows that the best long-term investment approach is to manage your money yourself and set up your investments using the "Gone Fishin' Portfolio" as your central strategy. In his book, the author explains each stage of this strategy...