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  Exploring the Poles: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  Exploration of Earth’s wilderness areas became an international obsession in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as economically advantaged nations, in particular European powers and the United States were well equipped to mount exhaustive expeditions. From previously inaccessible forests and jungle country to the world’s great mountain ranges, adventurers sought out the greatest extremes of climate and terrain in a race to plant the first flag where humanity struggled to survive. 
  	An earlier wave of explorers led to the opening of the New World, and early polar expeditions saw ancient ships of various nations sail along the coastlines of Greenland and within reach of the Arctic and Antarctic continents. Many 19th century figures approached the polar region with an eye to traversing it. Most notable among them was British explorer Sir James Clark Ross, who took the Erebus and the HMS Terror to the southernmost coastlines of the planet. Ross is probably the first explorer to realize that Antarctica was a continent and not just a large chain of islands, and he discovered the section of the shelf that was to become the Victoria Barrier. Asian nations also took part in Antarctic exploration when Nobu Shirase of Japan mounted his 1911 expedition, while Sir Edgeworth David, a Welsh-Australian, was the first person to successfully reach the summit of Mt. Erebus. Richard Evelyn Byrd is believed to be the first pilot to cross the Antarctic continent, and even well past the era of great polar expeditions, British figures such as Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest, made several expeditions to the South Pole. 
  	Nevertheless, the golden age of polar exploration of the furthermost continents did not reach its zenith until the turn of the 20th century, and national rivalries abounded between the major seafaring nations of the world.

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  American Politics - A Graphic...

  Laura Locker

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  Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Jules Scheele teams up with Dr Laura Locker in this comic-book introduction to the political history of the Land of Opportunity.
  
  How did
  
  a political outsider like Trump win the 2016 presidential election? Why do some
  
  Americans feel so strongly about gun rights? Is there a role for more than two
  
  political parties in the system?
  
  Politics
  
  isn't something that just occurs in the West Wing or the gleaming Capitol
  
  building – it comes from the interaction between state and society, the
  
  American people living their daily lives. In this unique graphic guide, we
  
  follow modern citizens as they explore everything from the United States'
  
  political culture, the Constitution and the balance of power, to social
  
  movements, the role of the media, and tensions over race, immigration, and LGBT
  
  rights.
  
  Step
  
  right up, and see what lies beneath the pageantry and headlines of this great
  
  nation.

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  How to Live the Right Way

  VK Sindhu

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  How to Live the Right Way by VK Sindhu is a motivational guide on how to be successful in your personal life. The guidelines VK Sindhu shares will help you move forward through gaining insight and inspiration. It touches base upon the notion that all living things are connected to the universe and the powers behind the universe can help us achieve happiness and peace in life. The guide reveals the secret of achieving your goals, combatting common challenges, finding satisfaction on a day-to-day basis, lead a balanced life, and so much more!

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  The Rusted Tea Box

  Estee Perchik Sery

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  A Heartbreaking Saga of War, Separation, and the Unbreakable Bonds of Sisterhood 
  "Poignantly captures the long-term effects of displacement, not just physically but emotionally. The trauma of exile is not something easily left behind." — Earle Abrahamson, PhD 
  January 1939. Two months after Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass), sisters Elsie (7) and Rose (5) are torn from their mother’s arms and placed on the Kindertransport to London—a promise of safety that becomes a journey of unimaginable loss.A Story of Survival, Separation, and SecretsThe Kindertransport’s Forgotten Children: Follow Elsie and Rose as they arrive at Liverpool Station, exhausted and terrified—only to be separated upon arrival.A Genetic Mystery: Decades later, Rose’s son is diagnosed with a rare disorder, and Elsie may hold the key to his mother’s hidden past.Historical Depth: A meticulously researched portrayal of Jewish refugees during WWII, the Kindertransport, and the scars of displacement.Emotional Resonance: A testament to sisterly love, resilience, and the enduring pain of separation.Dual Narration: Claire Glover and Dan Levy bring Elsie and Rose’s voices to life with heart-wrenching authenticity. 
  Published by Audiobook Publishing Services, The Rusted Tea Box is more than a novel—it’s a haunting exploration of war’s invisible wounds and the ties that endure across lifetimes.

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  Edward II - The Unconventional King

  Kathryn Warner

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  He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his kingdom, and he ended his reign wandering around Wales with a handful of followers, pursued by an army. He was the first king of England forced to abdicate his throne. Popular legend has it that he died screaming impaled on a red-hot poker, but in fact the time and place of his death are shrouded in mystery. His life reads like an Elizabethan tragedy, full of passionate doomed love, bloody revenge, jealousy, hatred, vindictiveness, and obsession. He was Edward II, and this book tells his story. Using almost exclusively fourteenth-century sources and Edward's own letters and speeches wherever possible, Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far more accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen.

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  The Picnic - A Dream of Freedom...

  Matthew Longo

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  In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic—it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German "vacationers" packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents. The Pan-European Picnic set the stage for the greatest border breach in Cold War history: hundreds crossed from the Communist East to the longed-for freedom of the West. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on dozens of original interviews, Matthew Longo tells a gripping and revelatory tale of the unraveling of the Iron Curtain and the birth of a new world order. Just a few months after the Picnic, the Berlin Wall fell, and the freedom for which the activists and refugees had risked imprisonment was suddenly available to everyone. But were they really free? And why, three decades since the Iron Curtain was torn down, have so many sought once again to build walls? 
   
   
   
  Cinematically told, The Picnic recovers a time when it seemed possible for the world to change. With insight and panache, Longo explores the opportunities taken—and the opportunities we failed to take—in that pivotal moment.

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