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The Last of the Doughboys

The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

by Richard Rubin ...

"Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)."Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who have all since died—bring to vivid life a cataclysm that changed our world forever but that remains ... Read more

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"Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)."Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who have all since died—bring to vivid life a cataclysm that changed our world forever but that remains
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Foundations of Library and Information Science

by Richard E. Rubin, Rachel G. Rubin ...

Richard E. Rubin’s book has served as the authoritative introductory text for generations of library and information science practitioners, with each new edition taking in its stride the myriad societal, technological, political, and economic changes affecting our users and institutions and transforming our discipline. Rubin teams up with his daughter, Rachel G. Rubin, a rising star in the library ... Read more

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Richard E. Rubin’s book has served as the authoritative introductory text for generations of library and information science practitioners, with each new edition taking in its stride the myriad societal, technological, political, and economic changes affecting our users and institutions and transforming our discipline. Rubin teams up with his daughter, Rachel G. Rubin, a rising star in the library
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Confederacy of Silence

A True Tale of the New Old South

by Richard Rubin ...

In this stunning twist on the timeless tale of an outsider fascinated by a closed society, a young Jewish writer goes back to Greenwood, Mississippi, where he had his first newspaper job, and covers a murder trial that challenges his notions of both the South and himself.When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, ... Read more

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In this stunning twist on the timeless tale of an outsider fascinated by a closed society, a young Jewish writer goes back to Greenwood, Mississippi, where he had his first newspaper job, and covers a murder trial that challenges his notions of both the South and himself.When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood,
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The Johns Hopkins Guide To Diabetes

For Patients and Families

by Christopher D Saudek, Richard R. Rubin, Thomas W. Donner ...

Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
From the experts at the world-renowned medical institution, clear information on diabetes and "practical advice on all aspects of care" ( Publishers Weekly).Living with diabetes is a balancing act of monitoring blood glucose, food intake, and medication. It makes sense that individuals who have diabetes do best when they understand their condition and how to control it.The Johns Hopkins Guide to ... Read more

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From the experts at the world-renowned medical institution, clear information on diabetes and "practical advice on all aspects of care" ( Publishers Weekly).Living with diabetes is a balancing act of monitoring blood glucose, food intake, and medication. It makes sense that individuals who have diabetes do best when they understand their condition and how to control it.The Johns Hopkins Guide to
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Back Over There

by Richard Rubin ...

Based on Richard Rubin's wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated.In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. ... Read more

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Based on Richard Rubin's wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated.In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War.
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The Last of the Doughboys

The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

by Richard Rubin ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

20 hours 8 min

In 2003, eighty-five years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interviewed them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and their war led Rubin across the United States and France, through ... Read more

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In 2003, eighty-five years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interviewed them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and their war led Rubin across the United States and France, through
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Back Over There

One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends and Ghosts to Count

by Richard Rubin ...

Narrated by Richard Rubin ...

Unabridged

13 hours 2 min

Based on Richard Rubin's wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated.In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

Based on Richard Rubin's wildly popular New York Times series, Back Over There is a timely journey, in turns reverent and iconoclastic but always fascinating, through a place where the past and present are never really separated.In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War.
... Read more
Concepts of Nature

Ancient and Modern

by Barry Cooper, Melissa Moschella, Jeremy Seth Geddert, Jesse Covington, James R. Stoner Jr., Christopher O. Tollefsen, Susan Meld Shell, Geoffrey M. Vaughan, Charles T. Rubin, Amy Gilbert Richards, Anna Bonta Moreland, Randall S. Rosenberg, Gregory R. Beabout, Thomas W. Smith, Glenn Hughes, Stephen M. Fields ...

If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and ... Read more

$61.99 CAD

If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz

by L. Frank Baum, Alcazar AudioWorks, Laurelle Westaway, Al Bedrosian, Bruce Blau, Jim Johanson, Linda Montgomery, Pam DeWeerd, Susan McCarthy, Rob Rubin0, Lou Spiegel1, Debra Ting2, Bobbie Frohman3, Paul Coyle4, David Thorn5, David Thorn6, Johnnie Anderson7, Cherielyn Ferguson8, Gene Gore9, John Lavette0, Tony Hughes1, Richard Martinsen2, Rachel Rubin3, Glenna Mills4, Chris Thomas5, Katherine Turner6, Roger Vosburg7, Larry Smith8 ...

Narrated by various narrators ...

Series Audiobook 7 - The Oz Novels
Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

This dazzling tale once again demonstrates L. Frank Baum's creative genius and his power to delight audiences young and old.Join Dorothy, the Tin Woodsman, and a host of new characters as they embark on a series of enchanting adventures in the magical land of Oz.After a doll made out of a patchwork quilts and cotton stuffing is brought to life by a magician, she must find a way to break a spell ... Read more

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This dazzling tale once again demonstrates L. Frank Baum's creative genius and his power to delight audiences young and old.Join Dorothy, the Tin Woodsman, and a host of new characters as they embark on a series of enchanting adventures in the magical land of Oz.After a doll made out of a patchwork quilts and cotton stuffing is brought to life by a magician, she must find a way to break a spell
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Digest of ICSID Awards and Decisions: 1974-2002

by Richard Happ, Noah Rubins ...

Investment arbitration has become the primary means of settling disputes between states and foreign investors. The majority of those arbitration proceedings take place before tribunals of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). This book provides the reader with a reliable reference guide containing concise summaries of the facts and holdings of ICSID Tribunals ... Read more

$106.99 CAD

Investment arbitration has become the primary means of settling disputes between states and foreign investors. The majority of those arbitration proceedings take place before tribunals of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). This book provides the reader with a reliable reference guide containing concise summaries of the facts and holdings of ICSID Tribunals
... Read more
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Quite Contrary

by Richard Roberts ...

Narrated by Amy Rubinate ...

Unabridged

10 hours 27 min

The secret of having an adventure is getting lost. Who ever visited an enchanted kingdom or fell into a fairy tale without wandering into the woods first?Well, Mary is lost. Mary is lost in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and that is a cruel and murderous story. She's put on the red hood and met the Wolf. When she gives in to her Wolf's temptations, she will die. That's how the story goes, ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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The secret of having an adventure is getting lost. Who ever visited an enchanted kingdom or fell into a fairy tale without wandering into the woods first?Well, Mary is lost. Mary is lost in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and that is a cruel and murderous story. She's put on the red hood and met the Wolf. When she gives in to her Wolf's temptations, she will die. That's how the story goes,
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Water Tossing Boulders

How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

by Adrienne Berard ...

Narrated by Moe Egan ...

Unabridged

6 hours 5 min

A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

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A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and
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