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  Custom and Myth - Folklore...

  Andrew Lang

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  Why the same absurd stories turn up in Greek myth and among peoples the Greeks never met - Lang's argument against the solar-myth school, made with wit and a good deal of ridicule. It changed the direction of the subject. This edition is bound with 59 plates of painting, among them works by Poussin, Redon and Turner, and five illustrations restored and coloured.

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  The Many Murders of Michael...

  Simon Read

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  A devious speakeasy owner. A crooked undertaker. A cunning bartender. A psychotic cabbie. A hapless greengrocer. A notorious thug.
  And one Irishman who came to be known as 'Iron Mike'.
  Set around New York's Prohibition-era speakeasy scene in the 1930s in what became known as 'the most grotesque chain of events in New York criminal history', The Many Murders of Michael Malloy is the tragic true story of six low-rent, desperate and extraordinarily incompetent murderers and one lonely Irish emigrant of exceptional fortitude and resilience.
  Poisoned, frozen, knocked down twice – Malloy survived it all, until he didn't.
  This is the utterly compelling, stranger-than-fiction story of the most infamous Irish murder you've never heard of.

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  How To Collect Record Organize &...

  Cindy Boyce

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  Ideas are priceless, they are golden nuggets of the mind and you are not always ready to capture them when the moment of inspiration strikes so over time I have used many different methods to capture every idea that I can and keep them for future use. I have compiled a collection of my best note taking tools so that you have the best chance of collecting all of your ideas as well, in a way that works for you. I have found them all to be useful depending on where I am at the time and what I'm using them for. You will find in this audiobook tools for recording spontaneous ideas and the best ways to store your ideas and inspiration. You will never lose a great idea ever again.

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  Back in the Fight - The...

  Charles W. Sasser, Joseph...

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  The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb.On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner's hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski's right leg below the knee, damaging his right hip, and severing a nerve and artery in his right arm.He endured more than forty surgeries, but his right leg still wasn't healing as he had hoped, so in March 2007, Kapacziewski chose to have it amputated with one goal in mind: to return to the line and serve alongside his fellow Rangers. One year after his surgery, Kapacziewski accomplished his goal: he was put back on the line, as a squad leader of his Army Ranger Regiment.On April 19, 2010, during his ninth combat deployment (and fifth after losing his leg), Kapacziewski's patrol ran into an ambush outside a village in eastern Afghanistan. After a fellow Ranger fell to withering enemy fire, shot through the belly, Sergeant Kap and another soldier dragged him seventy-five yards to safety and administered first aid that saved his life while heavy machineguns tried to kill them. His actions earned him an Army Commendation Medal with "V" for Valor. He had previously been awarded a Bronze Star for Valor—and a total of three Purple Hearts for combat wounds.Back in the Fight is an inspiring and thrilling tale readers will never forget.

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  The World Beyond England - A...

  Heather Teysko

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  You know the Tudors. Henry VIII, the six wives, the break with Rome, Elizabeth and her Armada. But here's the thing nobody tells you: while all of that was happening, England was a small, cold, financially exhausted island that most of the world had never heard of. 
  In 1485, the year Henry VII scraped together his shaky new throne at Bosworth Field, the Ottoman Empire was the dominant superpower on earth. Ming China controlled a quarter of the global economy. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was three to four times the size of London. England was not the center of anything. It was watching from the edges, trying to figure out its next move. 
  So what happens when you put the Tudors back where they actually belong, inside a massive, complicated, wildly connected world that had no idea England was going to be important someday? 
  In four chapters we cover Elizabeth I's real alliance with the Ottoman Sultan (and the mechanical organ she sent him), the South American silver secretly driving Tudor inflation, Thomas More writing Utopia as a New World story, and England's own late, underfunded, morally complicated entrance onto the world stage. 
  Once you see how small England really was, you will never look at your favorite Tudors the same way again.

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  Elvis Presley: A short biography...

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  Elvis Presley, inventor of rock'n'roll: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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