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61) The Moon Metal
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For thousands of years, human civilization has pegged its currencies and barter systems to stores of precious metals. What would happen if our interstellar explorations uncovered infinite stores of gold, silver, platinum, and more? That's the thought-provoking premise of The Moon Metal, a tale from Garrett P. Serviss, an astronomer and science-fiction pioneer who blazed trails in both fields in the early twentieth century.
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In Garrett P. Serviss' 1911 novel "The Second Deluge," due to a cosmic mischance, no fewer than 30,000 feet of rain fall upon our fair planet in under one year...enough to effectively drown the entire world, past the tippy top of Mt. Everest itself! A wonderfully written novel that is fairly epic in scope, it is a sadly neglected apocalyptic work that is surely ripe for rediscovery in our modern-day era of climate change and rising coastal waters....
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A group of friends travel to Venus in a "car" (the author deliberately avoids calling it a ship) constructed by one of their number, a scientist with a brilliant mind, who - like the author himself - has always been explaining scientific and other complicated facts to his lesser gifted friends. The car runs on nuclear power, and their aim is Venus, because their guide is certain of the planet's habitability. At that time, Venus was still thought to...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Political Economy for Beginners is a timeless introduction to the Classical Political Economy of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill. The book was so well regarded that it broke the record for the number of editions published of an elementary textbook. In this important work, Fawcett explains the theory of production, exchange, and distribution of wealth....
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Excerpt: "The Galaxy, or Milky Way, surrounds the borders of our island in space like a stellar garland, and when openings appear in it they are, by contrast, far more impressive than the general darkness of the interstellar expanse seen in other directions. Yet even that expanse is not everywhere equally dark, for it contains gloomy deeps discernible with careful watching. Here, too, contrast plays an important part, though less striking than within...
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"Most books on the Roman Empire deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things that seldom appear in history books: myths and magic, barbers and birth control, fine wine and the daily grind. This book, based on questions Roman historian Garrett Ryan, PhD, gets asked most often on Quora and the popular Reddit forum AskHistorians, reveals the nitty gritty details on how Romans and Greeks lived...
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Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved...
69) Believe no one
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Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms is in the United States on sabbatical with St Louis PD. She is working with a 'method swap' team, reviewing cold cases, sharing expertise. Forensic expert Professor Nick Fennimore also happens to be in the States on a book tour and is engineering his trip to get down to St Louis--the last thing Simms wants . . . But a call for help from a sheriff's deputy in Oklahoma distracts the professor: a mother dead, her...
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Every woman can accentuate her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures.
Ginger Garrett reveals how every woman can accent her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures-where every scent and every act of beautification had spiritual and emotional significance.
A woman's longing to present herself as physically beautiful is universal. Beauty is extolled throughout the Bible as complementing...
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In The Fifth Episode, Garrett Campbell takes you through his five manic episodes beginning in 2014 after graduating from pharmacy school. It goes into great detail regarding the consistent thought patterns held between episodes and will provide you with great insight into how the manic mind works. After reading The Fifth Episode, you will have a greater understanding of how a mental illness such as Bipolar Disorder can affect a person's life. Garrett...
72) Dark Hour
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One of the darkest battles ever fought was not won or lost on a medieval battlefield but in one of the most opulent palaces ever built. The strategies come not from men eager to extend their influence but from women bent on exercising their wit and prowess in a kingdom not their own. Treason and murder are fair game. Marriage is manipulation, a means to an end. Children are the enemy. And the days of the House of David are numbered--unless one woman...
73) Keeper
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He rescued her from a raging river, risking his own life against blizzard-like conditions. He drove her to his home over treacherous icy roads to render treatment for exposure. But when Nancy Barnett revived, she thought Wayne Crocker had kidnapped her, and Wayne doesn't have the words or the way to persuade her otherwise. Trapped together with no telephone or electricity, Wayne must keep Nancy from making an accusation that could imprison him until...
74) Murder and Magic
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This alternate history series starring detective Lord Darcy and his sorcerer sidekick, Sean O Lochlainn, takes us into a reality where Richard the Lionheart's descendants rule the Anglo-French Empire and the laws of magic have developed in place of the laws of physics. Murder and Magic, comprised of the first four stories of the acclaimed Lord Darcy series, finds Lord Darcy solving murders using his wits, a keen eye for observation, and a few choice...
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"You're Not Special" attacks the culture in a way that many people will find politically incorrect. It takes an in-your-face approach to breaking down the false narratives driven home in the minds of too many people. These narratives keep people believing that they do not have gifts, or that their gifts are not, meant to be, shared.
Most people have their self-confidence and self-image built on a mountain of trash. This book challenges the culture...
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Every family has its secrets. But hers could destroy everything he's built.Robert Spencer is just about to reach the pinnacle of his profession. With his dream job within reach and his beautiful wife Margaret by his side, their place in high society is finally within reach. But Margaret's refusal to buy into Robert's dream threatens everything he's worked for. And one day she's gone, leaving only a cryptic note.Confused and in denial, Robert wallows...
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The Gospel is said to be concealed in the Old Testament and revealed in the New Testament. Often it can feel concealed in both. Using an everyday approach to typology and literary analysis, Garrett Soucy takes the reader through the Scriptures in order to hear the Gospel from the most unlikely of candidates--rocks and stones.
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Do you retreat from challenges because your inner critic says "you can't do it"?Do nervous butterflies constantly leave you tongue-tied around new people or on dates?Does imposter syndrome plague even your greatest wins? If self-doubt is sabotaging your goals and preventing you from showing up as your truly confident self, How To Be Confident: Overcome Insecurity and Build Your Self Esteem is the life-changing personal growth guide for you. In 10...
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Celebrated by writers from Petrarch to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Historic cities like Arles, Avignon and Aix contain Roman amphitheatres, papal palaces and royal residences, while market towns and picturesque villages maintain age-old traditions of wine producing and agriculture. From the highland towns of Digne and Sisteron to the marshy expanse of the Camargue, Provence encompasses...