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  • Aquarius Habitat is Unique in the World

    by Tim Grollimund

    There literally is no other place like this on earth. It is the only operating undersea research laboratory in the world. As a dive site, it’s sensational since the animals that live underneath and around the habitat are used to divers. It’s pretty easy to get close to the resident goliath groupers, and swim among the schools of snappers that are always there. But more important things take place ... Read more

    Free

  • Casebook for The Foundation: A Great American Secret

    Unique in All the World, the American Foundation Sector has been an Engine of Social Change for More Than a Century.

    by Joel L. Fleishman and 2 more

    Unique in all the world, the American foundation sector has been an engine of social change for more than a century.In this companion volume to The Foundation: A Great American Secret, Joel Fleishman, Scott Kohler, and Steven Schindler explore 100 of the highest-achieving foundation initiatives of all time. Based on a rich array of sources -- from interviews with the principals themselves to ... Read more

    € 3,99

  • I Am an English-Language Learner: The Real and Unique Stories of Immigrant Children In America

    by Melissa Campesi and 1 more

    All around the world, people speak, read, and write in many different languages. Some languages have different alphabet systems, and others make sounds that don’t exist in English. Not only can our languages be different, but so can the ways we dress, eat, and greet others. When children come to the United States from other countries and need to learn English, they become English language learners ... Read more

    € 7,95

  • Audiobook

    Angels in America

    A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

    by Tony Kushner

    Narrated by Andrew Garfield and 9 more

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National Theatre revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia ... Read more

    € 23,24

  • Frida in America

    The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

    by Celia Stahr

    The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today"[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr’s engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both feminists and art lovers." —Publisher's WeeklyMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she ... Read more

    € 14,05

  • Xavier

    Vampires in Europe

    by D. B. Reynolds

    series Vampires in America #14
    Barcelona--exquisite architecture, masterful artists, and just down the coast, an ancient fortress where an old and powerful vampire lives. . . and rules all of Spain.Tall, dark, and deadly, vampire Xavier Prospero Flores waded through blood to destroy his enemies and reach the pinnacle of vampire society--Vampire Lord. He has only one regret in his long life, and that's the day he rejected the ... Read more

    € 6,53

  • Democracy in America

    And Two Essays on America

    by Alexis Tocqueville and 2 more

    One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracyIn 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's evolving politics. Tocqueville looked to ... Read more

    € 10,99

  • Quiet Odyssey

    A Pioneer Korean Woman in America

    by Mary Paik Lee and 2 more

    series Classics of Asian American Literature
    Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California. They shared the poverty-stricken existence endured by thousands of Asian immigrants in the early twentieth century, working as farm laborers, cooks, janitors, and ... Read more

    € 20,15

  • Sam Walton

    Made In America

    by Sam Walton and 1 more

    Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and ... Read more

    € 7,40

  • Black Movements in America

    by Cedric J. Robinson

    Cedric Robinson traces the emergence of Black political cultures in the United States from slave resistances in the 16th and 17th centuries to the civil rights movements of the present. Drawing on the historical record, he argues that Blacks have constructed both a culture of resistance and a culture of accommodation based on the radically different experiences of slaves and free Blacks. ... Read more

    € 42,39

  • The Richest Woman in America

    Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

    by Janet Wallach

    A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal to more than 2 billion dollars today. A strong believer in women being financially independent, she offered valuable ... Read more

    € 10,67

  • The Devil in America

    A Tor.Com Original

    by Kai Ashante Wilson

    series A Tor.Com Original
    Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shattering consequences of this confrontation echo backwards and forwards in time, even to the present day."There’s so much here to appreciate and admire, fine storytelling with a clearly-realized setting and ... Read more

    € 0,92