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Following both his four-star US Navy father and grandfather into military service, McCain's naval career imprinted the code of honor he has maintained to this day. Throughout the myriad life and death perils he faced--most notably being held captive as a Vietnam War prisoner of war for five and one half years in the Hoa Lo Prison or 'Hanoi Hilton'--his courage, bravery, and tenacity has served him time and time again: as Navy liaison to the US Senate,...
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Venecia, 1755. Después de diez largos años recorriendo Europa, Giacomo Casanova regresa finalmente a su ciudad natal y a la que siempre ha pertenecido su corazón. Pero esta agoniza en medio de la violencia y la miseria, lejos del brillo del pasado. El regreso de su joven más rebelde se convierte en todo un acontecimiento y, aclamado por sus habitantes, Casanova no desperdicia ocasión alguna para llamar la atención entre nobles y gentes de la...
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"In No One Is Illegal Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who daily risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. Counting the mounting chorus of anti-immigrant voices, No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants, revealing their deep roots in U.S. history, and documents the new...
17210) The lion and the journalist: the unlikely friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop
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"Theodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. Bishop hitched his wagon to the politician's star and used his editorial pages in New York papers to buttress Roosevelt's initiatives first as police commissioner, then as governor and president. Here is a new and important look at one of America's most important leaders and the man who helped him...
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A breathtakingly ambitious book that reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of the fight for the soul of a nation. With the deep insight only possible of a native son, Arkady Ostrovsky introduces listeners to the propagandists, oligarchs, and fixers who have set Russia's course since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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"Lo que comemos tiene implicaciones no sólo para nuestra cintura, sino para el planeta, la sociedad y la economía global. Lo que hacemos a nuestro cuerpo se lo hacemos al planeta, y lo que le hacemos al planeta se lo hacemos a nuestro cuerpo. Escrito por el autor bestseller Matk Hyman, éste es un manifiesto contundente que cambiará tu forma de pensar sobre los alimentos--y sobre comerlos--para siempre. Te dará claves para entender la causa de...
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