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This little book is not intended to be a scholarly treatise.  Rather, it is a book that might invoke lively discussion and healthy debate.  It may have the further effect of dredging up either pleasant or unpleasant memories, but it contains something of interest for anyone who loves the state of North Carolina as deeply as the author, J.C. Knowles.

Mr. Knowles has spent a lifetime studying the history of North Carolina and filing bits and pieces of special interest on his countless note cards.

Learn obsure and not so obscure facts about the state and about what Civil...

Taken in conjunction the author's earlier Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, this classic volume provides a thoroughly workmanlike study of the rise and progress of industrialism. Here she surveys the main developments in the agricultural, industrial, mechanical transport and commercial policy of France. Germany, Russia and the United States. It provides the handiest manual available of the comparative history of industrialism. It is an absolute godsend to students. This book was first published in 1932.

A unique account of the Italian Campaign--never before in print

This book tells the personal story of one young man's experience of the Second World War from the perspective of a private soldier in a tank regiment. When Sam Knowles was conscripted into the British Army at the age of 18, the war had begun and his home city had suffered the ravages of the 'Manchester Blitz'. Despite his preferences for a less combative army career, Sam found himself channelled into the Royal Armoured Corps as a tank crewman. Despatched to North Africa, he was posted as a...

Rodney James Alcala, an American serial killer whose true crime story will give you chills He was a killing machine...

The most exhaustively researched and coherently argued Democrat Party apologia to date, Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide is a political treatise sure to stand the test of time. A must-have addition to any political observer's coffee table.

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When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N. Bacon looked into his crystal ball in 1959, he saw a remarkable vision: "Philadelphia as an unmatched expression of the vitality of American technology and culture." In that year Bacon penned an essay for Greater Philadelphia Magazine, originally entitled "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," in which he imagined a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Philadelphia World's Fair and Bicentennial celebration, an event that would be a catalyst for a golden age of urban renewal.

What Bacon did not predict was the long,...