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  The Pessimist's Guide to History...

  Doris Flexner, Stuart Berg Flexner

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  “A tongue-in-cheek romp through the bleak house of history that most textbooks ignore”—now updated with even more appalling facts (Kenneth C. Davis, New York Times–bestselling author). 
   
  Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded—and it’s been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hundreds of devastating epidemics; for every benevolent despot, a thousand like Vlad the Impaler; for every cup half-full, a larger cup half-empty. This enthralling, enlightening, and devilishly entertaining chronicle of disasters and dastardly deeds brings to light the darkest events in history and the most abysmal calamities to strike the planet . . . so far. 
   
  88 BC: Mithridates VI Eupator provides an early example of genocide by massacring 100,000 Romans. 
   
  1347: Saint Vitus’ Dance Epidemic shimmies across Europe like a deadly disco fever, leaving its victims twitching, uncontrollably leaping, and foaming at the mouth. 
   
  1888: Jack the Ripper stalks through the dark alleys of Whitechapel, England, turning the world’s oldest profession into the world’s most dangerous one. 
   
  1939: A Swiss chemist wins a Nobel Prize for developing DDT—and the environment gets another nail in the coffin. 
   
  2005: Hurricane Katrina devastates the Gulf Coast. In a classic double whammy, the government response also devastates the Gulf Coast. 
   
  And much, much more!

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  HeteroSexual Chaos - Decided...

  Joseph Batte

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  Embrace yourself with a rare genre: Poetic Short Stories. Twenty-four poetic short stories, embedded with sparks of life drama and humor. Think through a box, rather than its outside, understanding life fully; with both an inside, and outside perspective. Why restrict your subconscious?

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  Gardening at the Margins -...

  Gabriel R. Valle

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  Gardening at the Margins tells the remarkable story of a diverse group of neighbors working together to grow food and community in the Santa Clara Valley in California. Based on four years of deeply engaged ethnographic field research via a Participatory Action Research project with the people and ecosystems of La Mesa Verde home garden program, Gabriel R. Valle develops a theory of convivial labor to describe how the acts of care among the diverse gardeners—through growing, preparing, and eating food in one of the most income unequal places in the country—are powerful, complex acts of resistance.The individuals featured in the book are imagining and building alternative worlds and futures amid the very real challenges they embody and endure. Climate change, for example, is forcing thousands of migrants to urban areas, which means recent immigrants' traditional environmental, nutritional, and healing knowledge will continue to be threatened by the pervasiveness of modernity and the homogenization of global capitalism. Moreover, once rural people migrate to urban areas, their ability to retain traditional foodways will remain difficult without spaces of autonomy. The stories in this book reveal how people create the physical space to grow food and the political space to enact autonomy to revive and restore agroecological knowledge needed for an uncertain future.

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  RV CAMPING in National Parks - A...

  Andrew Trott

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  Welcome to the world of RV camping in national parks 
  RV camping is one of the greatest ways to see national parks, which 
  feature some of the most stunning and diverse natural settings in the 
  world. Camping in an RV grants you the ability to take the 
  comforts and amenities of home with you into the great outdoors, 
  allowing you to experience nature without sacrificing convenience 
  or ease. We will provide you with an overview of the world of RV 
  camping in national parks as well as the information that is required 
  to get started in this activity.

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  Lawn Geek: The Ultimate Guide to...

  Cal Godfrey

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  Lawn Geek: The Ultimate Guide to Lawn Care, Discover the Professional Tricks and Useful Tips on How to Care For Your Own LawnDo you want a lawn that is the envy of your neighbors? Lawn care has become a competition these days because everyone wants to have a lawn that would make their neighbors jealous. But aesthetic and beauty aside, our lawns are a major player in the ecosystem because it covers over 50 million acres of land in the US alone. So it is important to take care of your lawn not just because it makes the outside of your home beautiful but because it is your own piece of earth and you are responsible for it..  This audiobook will teach you all the valuable information you need to know about lawn care. You will learn the tips and tricks used by professional landscapers that you can use for your own lawn. You will also learn how to take care of your lawn without harming the environment. You will learn useful tips on how to take good care of your lawn and have a lawn that is the envy of your neighbors. In this audiobook, the following topics will be discussed:- Starting From Scratch- Grass Varieties- Planting the Seeds- Watering- Fertilizing- Weed Control- Patch Diseases- Aerating Your Lawn- Choosing a Mower- Mowing the Lawn- Grass Clippings- Leaf Removal- Landscaping- Building a WaterfallGrass and lawns are an important part of the environment because it helps reduce carbon dioxide emissions and help reduce energy consumptions as well because of their cooling effects. And a well-maintained lawn can be a great place for all sorts of living things to thrive and grow as well. To learn more about the professional tricks used by landscapers in taking care of lawns, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  Bridge for Beginners

  My Ebook Publishing House

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  Bridge is the ultimate card game. It is truly a mind sport, as taxing on the brain as a decathlon is to the body. Bridge for Beginners is the ultimate introduction.
  
  Learn how to play bridge with this simple step-by-step guide. While good bridge classes are, of course, of great value, this book is itself the complete tutorial. It will help you to learn properly without other help and give you a solid foundation on which to start playing this absorbing game. Work at your own pace. Understand the key basic principles.
  
  Bridge for Beginners is the only guide a novice will ever need.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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