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He was almost two years old when 'Black Monday' the stock market's Great Crash occurred. Andrew recounts a host of memories he lived throughout its aftermath. Set in the years following the Great Crash he unleashes decades old memories that fleetingly linger in the mind and heart. Travel with him from pre-school days toward his teens reliving your own cherished experiences, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and yes sometimes tearful and heart wrenching. Enhanced with original illustrations by his wife Marilyn, this book promises to be a delightful romp through personal memories for fans of all ages.
Considers the administration of German and Japanese assets seized by Govt during WWII and the efficiency of procedures established to adjudicate claims under the Trading With the Enemy Act.
The political climate is always laden with discord but in this political thriller, the subject intensifies when the United States President falls into to the fierce grip of an unprecedented illness. With America amid talks with a drunkard and rash Russian president, as well as a corrupt U.S. Vice President eager to take charge, it looks like the only hope for keeping the U.S. out of war lies in the hands of Dr. Jack Dwyer, a discredited neurobiologist who's developing a memory-loss cure from human embryo stem cells.
Books in the Fantasy Field Trips series take the reader on field trips to the most unlikely of destinations! In this book, climb into our amazing drilling machine as we prepare to make a journey to the centre of the Earth! Our 'tour' takes us through the various layers that make up our planet: the crust, upper and lower mantle, outer core, and finally the inner core itself. But what will we find when we get there?
Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and economic crises. Why do people remain in declining areas through difficult circumstances? What do their choices tell us about rootedness in a time of flux? Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in Iron County, Wisconsin, Amanda McMillan Lequieu traces the power and shifting meanings of the notion of home for people who live in troubled places. Building from on-the-ground observa...
Alphabetically arranged two-page entries cover the places of the world where creatures live, providing information on weather, plants, animals, and the people that made the area known.