On Great Fields : The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 9780525510093, 9780525510086

Lawrence of Arabia: The Life and Legacy of T.E. Lawrence

*Includes pictures *Includes Lawrence's own quotes about his life *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for furthe

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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign: His Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, His Near-Mortal Wounding, and a Civil War Myth Reconsidered [1 ed.] 9781611213072, 9781611213065

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain earned the sobriquet "Lion of the Round Top" for his tactical brilliance leading h

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World War One KILLING FIELDS: Death and Destruction on the Battlefields of The Great War

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Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life 9781400820252

Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main

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Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement 9780300262353

A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice

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Interdisciplinary Research of Magnetic Fields and Life Sciences 9782759825004

Magnetic field is a ubiquitous physical field. Humans have long been aware that certain birds can use the Earth’s magnet

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From Rice Fields to Killing Fields: Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge 9780815654223, 0815654227

Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and n

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Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway [1 ed.] 9781609171971, 9780870138720

The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959.

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Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus 9780786732296, 0306813009, 9780306813009

One of the most original, influential, and commercially successful American songwriters, Jerome Felder, aka Doc Pomus (1

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space 9781982176617, 9781982176624, 9781982176631

"Vivid...A true-life thriller." —The New York Times"Gripping history." —Publishers Weekly (starred r

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