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  Lessons in Leadership

  Paula S. Wallace

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  As the founder and president of SCAD, Paula Wallace has reshaped higher education and transformed creative industries. In Lessons in Leadership, Wallace describes a new model for leaders informed by her more than 50 years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, university founder, and chief executive. 
  Drawing from research, interviews, and her own lifetime of stories—as she transformed a tiny art school into the world’s most comprehensive university for creative professions—she provides 10 practical and immediately applicable lessons for new and established leaders. 
  With wit and warmth, Wallace empowers listeners to apply these lessons in their work, studies, and life writ large.

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  Voices of Famous Polar Explorers

  Frederick Albert Cook, Robert E....

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  Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 - August 5, 1940) was an American explorer and physician noted for his claims of achieving the first summit of Mount McKinley, in September 1906, and having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908, which would have been a year before Robert Peary. Both claims have been largely discredited. Later, Dr. Cook was a founding member of the Arctic Club and Explorers Club. 
  Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856 - February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole. 
  Peary's claim was widely accepted for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim by Frederick Cook who said he got there a year earlier. More recently, historians generally believe Cook did not reach the pole, and there are grave doubts that Peary did, though he may have been as close as five miles. 
  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (February 1874 - January 5, 1922) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. 
  In January 1909 - as leader of the Nimrod Expedition - he and three companions made a southern march which established a record-farthest south latitude at 88 degrees 23' S - some 97 geographical from the South Pole - the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home. 
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  Ghost of the Thames

  May McGoldrick, Jan Coffey

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  GHOST OF THE THAMESSpine-tingling suspense and heart-throbbing romance in a poignant and unpredictable tale of Victorian London!Captain Edward Seymour—the last of a long line of distinguished Royal Navy officers—has returned from sea to find that his niece has disappeared. Combing every inn and hellhole of the city's darkest corners, he desperately hopes to find some trace of the girl. Then one night, as he returns home from yet another fruitless search, a mysterious woman falls under his carriage.With no idea of who or where she is, Sophy finds herself being led from the cold, murky waters of the Thames through danger-filled alleyways of London by a ghost...and into the path of Seymour's horses.Fate...or the supernatural...has thrown them together. But Sophy needs to solve the mystery of her identity, and Edward Seymour is the only person who can help her.

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  All in a Doctor's Day - A...

  Peter Sykes

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  Peter Sykes lifts the lid on the good, the bad and the ugly in the NHS, based on real-life situations from his 40 years experience at the sharp end of medical practice. 
  Some of these stories will make you laugh, a few will make you cry and others have a surprising twist in the tail. 
  They feature patients, doctors and nurses, blood, sweat and toil, life and death, heartache and joy.

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  Why Can't Somebody Just Die...

  Gerhard Maroscher

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  “A memoir that offers a rare, underrepresented perspective of World War II.” -Kirkus
  
  _A true story of a Romanian family’s miraculous survival of World War II, becoming refugees, fleeing their homeland, starving after the war, and coming to the United States to live the American Dream._Life was full of promise for the young Maroscher family. Gustav was a teacher; Helene was busy rearing two boys and managing their small farm. The war changed everything. While Gustav fought the Russians on the Eastern Front, Helene fled the advancing army to her sister’s house in Germany. Danger and hardship transformed Helene from a shy young mother into a lioness; she once pointed an illegal pistol at the Nazi refugee camp director to save her younger son’s life. In the early years of the war, Gustav had helped a Jewish friend at considerable risk to himself. As a released prisoner of war, Gustav faced certain arrest after returning home. His friend, now the communist police commissioner, protected him. Eventually, though, his friend could no longer protect him, and Gustav fled to the West.To reunite the family, Helene and her sons made a dangerous nighttime border crossing from communist East Germany to the West. After being reunited in West Germany they faced discrimination and hunger. The family immigrated to the USA and embraced the freedoms and opportunities of America. Gustav became an engineer working on NASA’s Moon Shot. Helene became an independent businesswoman. Their sons continue to thrive and enjoy their freedom.

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  The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

  Charles Darwin

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  "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin" is a seminal work that offers a personal glimpse into the life and mind of one of history's most influential figures in science. Originally written for his family, it provides an intimate account of Darwin's upbringing, education, scientific discoveries, and the development of his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin's autobiography is not only a narrative of his life but also a reflection on the intellectual and personal struggles he faced in challenging conventional beliefs about the origin of species. It offers insights into his motivations, his doubts, and the profound impact of his ideas on the scientific community and society at large.

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