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  • Into Africa

    When the explorer René Caillié returned to France from Africa in 1828, he published a sketch of the legendary city he had discovered - Timbuctoo. But neither that simple drawing nor his matter-of-fact description gave Caillié's countrymen a sufficiently colorful picture to match their preconceptions of how Africa should look. They turned their backs on the young explorer, ignored his ... Read more

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  • Tales of World Landmarks

    When curious storytellers Rowlan and Vespera uncover dusty guidebooks in their museum attic, they embark on a whirlwind pilgrimage to the world’s most famous landmarks. At each site—from Pisa’s tilted tower to Dubai’s sky-scraping Burj Khalifa—they spin playful legends of wind gods, water sprites, and stone guardians, while weaving in real engineering marvels and cultural facts. Along the way, ... Read more

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  • Twilight Chimes and the Silver Lantern

    On the eve of the Twilight Festival, the legendary Silver Lantern vanishes from the town’s shrine, threatening to cast the celebration into darkness. Resourceful twins Soren and Avia volunteer to retrieve it, following elusive chimes through moonlit alleys, starlit rooftops, and hidden garden mazes. Along the way they learn to listen for secret melodies from a mysterious wind-whistler and to ... Read more

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  • The Lanterns That Led the Way

    In the fog-covered town of Mistvale, Ava and her friends set out to create a lantern that can cut through the thick fog that has been growing year after year. With teamwork, creativity, and a little bit of humor, they build a lantern that not only guides the way but also lights up new paths to unity, understanding, and innovation. The Lanterns That Led the Way is a fun and inspiring story about ... Read more

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  • High Performance Computing

    Modern Systems and Practices

    Performance Computing: Modern Systems and Practices is a fully comprehensive and easily accessible treatment of high performance computing, covering fundamental concepts and essential knowledge while also providing key skills training. With this book, students will begin their careers with an understanding of possible directions for future research and development in HPC, domain scientists will ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • High Performance Computing

    Modern Systems and Practices

    High Performance Computing: Modern Systems and Practices is a fully comprehensive and easily accessible treatment of high performance computing, covering fundamental concepts and essential knowledge while also providing key skills training. With this book, domain scientists will learn how to use supercomputers as a key tool in their quest for new knowledge. In addition, practicing engineers will ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

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  • Edison

    by Quincy Shaw ...
    We remember Thomas Alva Edison as the craggy, rumpled inventor of the light bulb and the phonograph - a prodigy, the affable "Wizard of Menlo Park." But he also was a visionary entrepreneur who changed the world. What Edison invented was the modern age. Here is his unforgettable story. ... Read more

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  • Texas and the Mexican-American War

    The Mexican-American War established the reputation of Major General Zachary Taylor, resulting in his election as president of the United States. It also gave invaluable experience to young American officers who would play leading parts in the Civil War - among them, Ulysses S. Grant, George H. Thomas, and George G. Meade on the Union side and Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph E. ... Read more

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  • Life in Victorian England

    Here, the eminent historian Christopher Hibbert explores life in Victorian England, a time when the British Empire was at its height, when the prosperous English basked in the Pax Britannica and thought their progress and stability would go on forever. ... Read more

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  • Lewis and Clark

    On May 14, 1804, a party of explorers dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson set off up the Missouri River into America's newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the men of the Corps of Discovery would cross the continent and into history. Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K. Andrist, is the dramatic story of their epic journey. ... Read more

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  • American Heritage History of the Indian Wars

    Here, from American Heritage, is the dramatic story of the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than 300 years, the effects of which still resonate today. Acclaimed historians Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn examine both small battles and major wars - from the Native rebellion of 1492 to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War to the massacre at Wounded Knee ... Read more

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  • Peter the Great

    by Ian Grey ...
    "Ian Grey's Peter the Great reads like a novel . . ." - Louis Fischer. The first modern Russian was Peter the Great. In this enthralling biography of that remarkable ruler, award-winning historian Ian Grey paints an illuminating portrait - clear, objective, and without malice or sentimentality. Here we have, life-size, not only the great czar, but the man who fell in love with a peasant girl and ... Read more

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