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"Since its publication five decades ago, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century's blackest hours. A worldwide bestseller with millions of copies in print, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. Here, in a thoughtful new introduction for the fiftieth...
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"This book tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous...
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Pub. Date
1980
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1st Touchstone ed.
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255 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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At the beginning of the 1930s, historian William L. Shirer was sent to India by the Chicago Tribune to cover the rise of the Independence Movement. During this time Shirer was privileged to observe Mahatma Gandhi as he launched the Civil Disobedience Campaign and to enjoy his personal friendship and confidence.
In this fascinating memoir, Shirer writes perceptively and unforgettably about Gandhi's frailties as well as his accomplishments. Despite...
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Pub. Date
1956
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431 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies - television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food - and lifestyles, such as...
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1983
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xvi, 412 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Among the philosophers covered are : Plato ; Aristotle ; Francis Bacon ; Spinoza ; Voltaire ; Immanuel Kant ; Schopenhauer ; Herbert Spencer ; Friedrich Nietzsche ; Henri Bergson ; Benedetto Croce ; Bertrand Russell ; George Santayana ; William James ; John Dewey.