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10941) The fall and rise of China
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[2010]
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Professor Baum delivers forty-eight 30-minute lectures tracing China's tumultous journey from the decline and fall of the 19th-century Manchu dynasty to its rise from the ashes of revolutionary Maoism to become an aspiring 21st-century superpower.
10942) The origin of civilization
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[2010]
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Around 10,000 years ago, the small group of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers that had walked the earth for millennia gave way to increasingly complex Neolithic villages of agricultural producers. Around 4,000-5,000 years later, people had gathered in urban settings, established laws, and developed cultural and political systems. This remarkable change took place in Mesopotamia, on the North China plain, in the Indus Valley, in the Nile Valley, on Aegean...
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p2005
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Reginald on house parties / Saki - The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W. W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie / Rudyard Kipling -- Caterpillars / E. F. Benson -- Lost...
10945) Artist biographies
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[2016]
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A collection of biographies of some famous artists.
10946) Gunsmoke: dead or alive
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[2018]
Description
"By the 1956-57 season, Gunsmoke had reached the peak of its dramatic power as radio's foremost adult western, with its powerful scripts and careful characterizations."... "The citizens of Dodge City, Kansas emerged as living, breathing embodiments of frontier America in radio dramas that represent the medium at its most potent. Experience 27 hard-hitting adventures from this landmark season in this 10 disc collection!"--Container.
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[2019]
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When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner's seat of his Sherman tank, his crewmates discover that the gentle giant from Pennsylvania has a hidden talent: He's a natural-born shooter. At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division--"Spearhead"--thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged:...
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[2020]
Description
Four sweet stories about picnics and romance.
Baskets of sunshine: Kevin Weaver has lived with his brother's family since his parents passed away when he was young, but he craves a home and family to call his own. Freeman Kurtz owns a successful brick manson business, and Kevin takes the job as Freeman's apprentice to pursue his own financial freedom. Phoebe Kurtz is helping her sister with her booth at the marketplace when she notices, Kevin, her...
10951) Ilusionarium
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[2020]
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Christian Bennet, veterano periodista ganador de un Premio Pulitzer, recibe una enigma?tica llamada de Martha Sullivan, propietaria del diario El Sentinel de Nueva York, postrada por una enfermedad mortal, que le hace un singular encargo: quiere que localice a su hija y u?nica heredera, Angela, desaparecida an?os atra?s, ya que si esta no aparece el perio?dico caera? en manos de un grupo inversor.
El mundo quiere ser engañado. Una vibrante novela...
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[2014]
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From the course guide. We are all constantly confronted with moral challenges. A friend asks if you like his new beard: Do you lie and say yes or tell the truth and hurt his feelings? You discover that a friend is having an affair or "taking liberties" with office resources: What are you required to do, if anything? Morality forces its way into the most everyday decisions we make, such as recycling, whether or not to buy the "cage-free" eggs at the...
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