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The Curse of Beauty

The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel

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The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation.As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist’s model of choice. Her perfect form became the emblem of the Gilded Age and appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Supermodel, ... Read more

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Cognitive Risk

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Cognitive Hack

The New Battleground in Cybersecurity ... the Human Mind

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This book explores a broad cross section of research and actual case studies to draw out new insights that may be used to build a benchmark for IT security professionals. This research takes a deeper dive beneath the surface of the analysis to uncover novel ways to mitigate data security vulnerabilities, connect the dots and identify patterns in the data on breaches. This analysis will assist ... Read more

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Executive Search

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Change is threatening to most organizations but the challenge of changing executive leadership for nonprofits, universities, and colleges may be one of its most critical functions to get right. By the same token finding highly qualified leaders who are willing to dedicated themselves to nonprofit institutions has become increasingly competitive. That is why I have written Executive Search. ... Read more

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Change is threatening to most organizations but the challenge of changing executive leadership for nonprofits, universities, and colleges may be one of its most critical functions to get right. By the same token finding highly qualified leaders who are willing to dedicated themselves to nonprofit institutions has become increasingly competitive. That is why I have written Executive Search.
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Journey Interrupted

A Family Without a Country in a World at War

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In the midst of World War II, a German-American family finds themselves stranded in Japan in this inspiring tale of an extraordinary family adapting to the hazards of fate, and finding salvation in each other.In the spring of 1941, seven-year-old Hildegarde Ercklentz and her family leave their home in New York City and set off for their native Germany, where her father has been recalled to the ... Read more

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Words of Mercury

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A career-spanning anthology from the greatest traveler—and travel writer—of the twentieth century.The adventures of Patrick “Paddy” Leigh Fermor, Britain’s most beloved traveler, began in 1933, when he embarked on a walk from Holland to Constantinople—the entire length of Europe—at the tender age of eighteen. Sleeping in barns, monasteries, and, on occasion, aristocratic country houses, the young ... Read more

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The Heir Apparent

A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE BOSTON GLOBEThis richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen. Granted unprecedented access to the royal archives, noted scholar Jane Ridley ... Read more

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Jefferson's Daughters

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The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent AmericaFINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet ... Read more

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Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux

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The international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs.The Great Railway BazaarIn 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden ... Read more

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