In The Art and Science of Aging Well, Mark E. Williams, MD, discusses the remarkable advances that medical science has made in the field of aging and the steps that people may take to enhance...
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Auteur: Williams, Mark E.Sommaire:
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Auteur: Gandt, RobertSommaire:
Angels in the Sky is the gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state. It is the exhilarating account of a ragtag band of...
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Auteur: Podell, AlbertSommaire:
This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the...
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Auteur: Axelrod, AlanSommaire:
On August 12, 1944, Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., heir to one of America's most glamorous fortunes, son of the disgraced former ambassador to Great Britain, and big brother to freshly minted...
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Auteur: O'Harrow, RobertSommaire:
Born to a well to do, connected family in 1816, Montgomery C. Meigs graduated from West Point as an engineer. He helped build America's forts and served under Lt. Robert E. Lee to make navigation...
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Auteur: McGovern, Patrick E.Sommaire:
Patrick E. McGovern takes us on a fascinating journey through time to the dawn of brewing when our ancestors might well have made a Palaeo-Brew of wild fruits, honey, cereals, and botanicals....
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Auteur: Carhart, TomSommaire:
In The Golden Fleece, Tom Carhart describes how he and five of his classmates from the U.S. Military Academy stole the billy goat mascot from their rival, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, just...
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Auteur: Hall, DonaldSommaire:
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age...
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Auteur: McKean, DavidSommaire:
As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the US Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country...
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Auteur: Rosenhouse, JasonSommaire:
Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing...
Genre: Puzzles and games