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(0)John Ross
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City's days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated urban stain in the western world are doomed, and the monster he has grown to know and love through a quarter century of reporting on its foibles...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying ace
At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies, the car and airplane, took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace.
No individual did more to create...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Bard meets "House "in John J. Ross's 'Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough', an illumination of the medical mysteries surrounding ten of the English language's most heralded writers. Were Shakespeare's shaky handwriting, his obsession with venereal disease, and his premature retirement connected? Did John Milton go blind from his propaganda work for Oliver Cromwell, or did he have a rare and devastating complication of a very common eye problem?...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm at Shiloh), and a passionate naturalist and geologist, in 1869 Powell tackled the vast and dangerous gorge carved by the Colorado River and known today...
15) Build a shed
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Guides viewers through building a sturdy shed from laying the foundation to shingling the roof. Topics: foundations, framing the floor, building walls, framing the roof, installing windows and doors, siding and shingles, acccessorizing your shed, storage solutions.
18) Build a deck
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Guides viewers step-by-step through the construction of a sturdy deck, from pouring the foundation to applying the decorative trim. Learn trade secrets for attaching a secure ledger board, maintaining a square structure, building steps, and working with composite materials. Topics: building a solid foundation, framing the deck, installing joists, laying down decking, building basic deck stairs, assembling railings.