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Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Her rise from housemaid to shop owner in the face of rampant poverty and discrimination kept her family intact, allowing her only son P.J. went on to become the first American Kennedy elected to public officethe first of many.Written by the grandson of an Irish immigrant couple and based on first-ever access to P.J.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Her rise from housemaid to shop owner in the face of rampant poverty and discrimination kept her family intact, allowing her only son P.J. went on to become the first American Kennedy elected to public officethe first of many.Written by the grandson of an Irish immigrant couple and based on first-ever access to P.J.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Her rise from housemaid to shop owner in the face of rampant poverty and discrimination kept her family intact, allowing her only son P.J. went on to become the first American Kennedy elected to public officethe first of many.Written by the grandson of an Irish immigrant couple and based on first-ever access to P.J.…

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Condizione: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. This book reports on cutting-edge research and best practices in the broad fiel of biomedical engineering. Based on the XLVI Mexican Congress on Biomedical Engineering, CNIB 2023, held on November 2-4, 2023 in Villahermosa Tabasco, Mexico, this second volume of the proceedings covers research topics in biomechanics, materials and engineering design and manufacturing, with applications in prostheses design and development, tissue engineering, medical device assessment and healthcare management. All in all, this book provides a timely snapshot on state-of-the-art achievements in biomedical engineering and current challenges in the field. It addresses both researchers and professionals, and it is expect to foster future collaborations between the two groups, as well as international collaborations. .…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. This book reports on cutting-edge research and best practices in the broad fiel of biomedical engineering. Based on the XLVI Mexican Congress on Biomedical Engineering, CNIB 2023, held on November 2-4, 2023 in Villahermosa Tabasco, Mexico, this second volume of the proceedings covers research topics in biomechanics, materials and engineering design and manufacturing, with applications in prostheses design and development, tissue engineering, medical device assessment and healthcare management. All in all, this book provides a timely snapshot on state-of-the-art achievements in biomedical engineering and current challenges in the field. It addresses both researchers and professionals, and it is expect to foster future collaborations between the two groups, as well as international collaborations. .…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. ?Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating.??Jon MeachamBased on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish refugee couple who escaped famine; created a life together in a city hostile to Irish, immigrants, and Catholics; and launched the Kennedy dynasty in America.Their Irish ancestry was a hallmark of the Kennedys? initial political profile, as JFK leveraged his working-class roots to connect with blue-collar voters. Today, we remember this iconic American family as the vanguard of wealth, power, and style rather than as the descendants of poor immigrants. Here at last, we meet the first American Kennedys, Patrick and Bridget, who arrived as many thousands of others did following the Great Famine?penniless and hungry. Less than a decade after their marriage in Boston, Patrick?s sudden death left Bridget to raise their children single-handedly. Her rise from housemaid to shop owner in the face of rampant poverty and discrimination kept her family intact, allowing her only son P.J. to become a successful saloon owner and businessman. P.J. went on to become the first American Kennedy elected to public office?the first of many.Written by the grandson of an Irish immigrant couple and based on first-ever access to P.J. Kennedy?s private papers, The First Kennedys is a story of sacrifice and survival, resistance and reinvention: an American story.…

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Hardback. Condizione: Good. A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert Believe It or Not Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable. As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley's life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Buck-toothed and cursed by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation for the strangeness of the world. After selling his first cartoon to Time magazine at age eighteen, more cartooning triumphs followed, but it was his Believe It or Not conceit and the wildly popular radio shows it birthed that would make him one of the most successful entertainment figures of his time and spur him to search the globe's farthest corners for bizarre facts, exotic human curiosities, and shocking phenomena. Ripley delighted in making outrageous declarations that somehow always turned out to be true--such as that Charles Lindbergh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that The Star Spangled Banner was not the national anthem. Assisted by an exotic harem of female admirers and by ex-banker Norbert Pearlroth, a devoted researcher who spoke eleven languages, Ripley simultaneously embodied the spirit of Peter Pan, the fearlessness of Marco Polo and the marketing savvy of P. T. Barnum. In a very real sense, Ripley sought to remake the world's aesthetic. He demanded respect for those who were labeled eccentrics or freaks--whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 1,615 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. By the 1930s Ripley possessed a vast fortune, a private yacht, and a twenty-eight room mansion stocked with such oddities as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices, and his pioneering firsts in print, radio, and television were tapping into something deep in the American consciousness--a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, dumbest and most weird. Today, that legacy continues and can be seen in reality TV, YouTube, America's Funniest Home Videos, Jackass, MythBusters and a host of other pop-culture phenomena. In the end Robert L. Ripley changed everything. The supreme irony of his life, which was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual, is that he may have been the most amazing oddity of all. From the Hardcover edition.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The true story behind NASCAR?s hardscrabble, moonshine-fueled origins, ?fascinating and fast-moving . . . even if you don?t know a master cylinder from a head gasket? (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). ?[Neal] Thompson exhumes the sport?s Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history.??Time Today?s NASCAR?equal parts Disney, Vegas, and Barnum & Bailey?is a multibillion-dollar conglomeration with 80 million fans, half of them women, that grows bigger and more mainstream by the day. Long before the sport?s rampant commercialism lurks a distant history of dark secrets that have been carefully hidden from view?until now.  In the Depression-wracked South, with few options beyond the factory or farm, a Ford V-8 became the ticket to a better life. Bootlegging offered speed, adventure, and wads of cash. Driving with the Devil reveals how the skills needed to outrun federal agents with a load of corn liquor transferred perfectly to the red-dirt racetracks of Dixie. In this dynamic era (the 1930s and ?40s), three men with a passion for Ford V-8s?convicted felon Raymond Parks, foul-mouthed mechanic Red Vogt, and war veteran Red Byron, NASCAR?s first champ?emerged as the first stock car ?team.? Theirs is the violent, poignant story of how moonshine and fast cars merged to create a sport for the South to call its own.  In the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand?s Seabiscuit, this tale captures a bygone era of a beloved sport and the character of the country at a moment in time.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The true story behind NASCAR?s hardscrabble, moonshine-fueled origins, ?fascinating and fast-moving . . . even if you don?t know a master cylinder from a head gasket? (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). ?[Neal] Thompson exhumes the sport?s Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history.??Time Today?s NASCAR?equal parts Disney, Vegas, and Barnum & Bailey?is a multibillion-dollar conglomeration with 80 million fans, half of them women, that grows bigger and more mainstream by the day. Long before the sport?s rampant commercialism lurks a distant history of dark secrets that have been carefully hidden from view?until now.  In the Depression-wracked South, with few options beyond the factory or farm, a Ford V-8 became the ticket to a better life. Bootlegging offered speed, adventure, and wads of cash. Driving with the Devil reveals how the skills needed to outrun federal agents with a load of corn liquor transferred perfectly to the red-dirt racetracks of Dixie. In this dynamic era (the 1930s and ?40s), three men with a passion for Ford V-8s?convicted felon Raymond Parks, foul-mouthed mechanic Red Vogt, and war veteran Red Byron, NASCAR?s first champ?emerged as the first stock car ?team.? Theirs is the violent, poignant story of how moonshine and fast cars merged to create a sport for the South to call its own.  In the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand?s Seabiscuit, this tale captures a bygone era of a beloved sport and the character of the country at a moment in time.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. The definitive biography of Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, with a new Foreword by Chris Kraft   "One of the finest books ever written about the space program."--Homer Hickan, author of Rocket Boys   "A wonderful and gripping biography . . . meticulously reported in the best tradition of David Halberstam."--Buzz Bissinger, New York Times bestselling author of Friday Night Lights   Alan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America's original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic, he was among the most private of America's public figures and, until his death in 1998, he guarded the story of his life zealously.    Light This Candle, based on Neal Thompson's exclusive access to private papers and interviews with Shepard's family and closest friends--including John Glenn, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper--offers a riveting, action-packed account of Shepard's life. …

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The definitive biography of Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, with a new Foreword by Chris Kraft   "One of the finest books ever written about the space program."--Homer Hickan, author of Rocket Boys   "A wonderful and gripping biography . . . meticulously reported in the best tradition of David Halberstam."--Buzz Bissinger, New York Times bestselling author of Friday Night Lights   Alan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America's original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic, he was among the most private of America's public figures and, until his death in 1998, he guarded the story of his life zealously.    Light This Candle, based on Neal Thompson's exclusive access to private papers and interviews with Shepard's family and closest friends--including John Glenn, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper--offers a riveting, action-packed account of Shepard's life. …

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Her rise from housemaid to shop owner in the face of rampant poverty and discrimination kept her family intact, allowing her only son P.J. went on to become the first American Kennedy elected to public officethe first of many.Written by the grandson of an Irish immigrant couple and based on first-ever access to P.J.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Her rise from housemaid to shop owner in the face of rampant poverty and discrimination kept her family intact, allowing her only son P.J. went on to become the first American Kennedy elected to public officethe first of many.Written by the grandson of an Irish immigrant couple and based on first-ever access to P.J.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Her rise from housemaid to shop owner in the face of rampant poverty and discrimination kept her family intact, allowing her only son P.J. went on to become the first American Kennedy elected to public officethe first of many.Written by the grandson of an Irish immigrant couple and based on first-ever access to P.J.…