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Product Description: Prussian Blue is a bold fictional account of terrorism and chaos to life described in frightening realism. The novel has lots of action, and thought-provoking ideology, with mounting suspense. Prussian Blue is politically explosive. - Reader Views

Product Description: Prussian Blue is a bold fictional account of terrorism and chaos to life described in frightening realism. The novel has lots of action, and thought-provoking ideology, with mounting suspense. Prussian Blue is politically explosive. - Reader Views

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Sir William Hamilton personified the age of the Enlightenment - a collector and connoisseur, amateur scientist and archaeologist, vulcanologist, anthropologist and above all a gentleman of taste and intellectual curiosity - and in Naples, one of the most fascinating stations on the Grand Tour, he had found his ideal setting...read more

Product Description: Don't Take It Personally advocates for both parents and teenagers with an engaging style that is smart and hopeful. This book explains why teens act the way they do and why parents have yet to figure out how to reach their teenage kids...read more

Because of his rivalry with Cindy, Jimmy hatches up some new inventions that allow him to build a robot brother, to travel through the space-time continuum with Thomas Edison, and to make every day his birthday by hypnotizing his parents.

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Provides the heroic tales of a space-traveling genius who is determined to bring his abducted parents and their friends back to Retroville while also teaching the evil Yokian aliens a lesson they won't soon forget. Original.

Product Description: Covering the period from the French Revolution to the end of the 19th Century, this volume sets the events leading to Italian Unification and the creation of an independent Italian state in the broader context of 19th-century European history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Examines the structure and management of family-owned businesses, from small companies to multinational conglomerates, discussing how they differ from public companies and how they move through generational changes in leadership

Product Description: By setting industrialization against the background of wider processes of economic growth, recent trends in economic history have once again placed agriculture at the center of debate on the formation of modern economies. The nine essays in this volume examine the broader terms and implications of this new emphasis, and reassess the contribution of agriculture to economic growth in contexts that range from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and from Europe to Russia and Asia...read more

Product Description: This book offers a re-appraisal of the origins and nature of technological change, a subject which as long been at the heart of debates over industrialization and economic growth. How and why does technological change occur? What are the conditions that favour first the development and then the application of the new technologies? Why has successful innovation occurred in certain places and at certain times, but not in others? Is innovation a conscious, deliberate, planned and cumulative process, or is it accidental and discontinuous? What is the relationship between technology and economic growth, and between technological change and the social and political context in which it takes place? These are the questions addressed...read more

Product Description: Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento contains ten essays written in honor of Denis Ma.... (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)