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The Race that Changed Running

The Inside Story of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc

by Doug Mayer ...

With an estimated 20 million participants since 2010, trail running has been one of the world's fastest growing sports, according to the International Track and Field Federation. Starting in 2023, 25 races around the world will send runners to the UTMB, making the race the Super Bowl of trail running. Televised live around the world in 4 languages to millions of viewers, and attracting more than ... Read more

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With an estimated 20 million participants since 2010, trail running has been one of the world's fastest growing sports, according to the International Track and Field Federation. Starting in 2023, 25 races around the world will send runners to the UTMB, making the race the Super Bowl of trail running. Televised live around the world in 4 languages to millions of viewers, and attracting more than
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Trail Running Illustrated

The Art of Running Free

by Doug Mayer, Brian Metzler ...

Everything a trail runner needs to know, from training to racingPassionate authors and experienced trail runnersIntroduction by Brendan Leonard, creator of Semi-Rad.comRunning through pastures and forests, hopping over rocks, and splashing through streams: trail running is humanity’s original form of play—an activity we’ve been doing for millions of years. Adventurous runners of all ages, shapes, ... Read more

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Everything a trail runner needs to know, from training to racingPassionate authors and experienced trail runnersIntroduction by Brendan Leonard, creator of Semi-Rad.comRunning through pastures and forests, hopping over rocks, and splashing through streams: trail running is humanity’s original form of play—an activity we’ve been doing for millions of years. Adventurous runners of all ages, shapes,
... Read more
Make Congress Your Bitch

50 Ways to Finally Make Your Congressman Serve!

by Doug Mayer ...

Fed up with Congress? It’s Time to Get Even!Feeling like you’d trust your local used car salesman more than your member of Congress? You’re not alone! Democrats and Republicans everywhere are sick and tired of our “Do-Nothing-Congress.” Are you ready to get even… in a radically different way? Great! Because we’ve got the solution.It’s time to Make Congress Your Bitch.In 50 wildly disrespectful and ... Read more

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Fed up with Congress? It’s Time to Get Even!Feeling like you’d trust your local used car salesman more than your member of Congress? You’re not alone! Democrats and Republicans everywhere are sick and tired of our “Do-Nothing-Congress.” Are you ready to get even… in a radically different way? Great! Because we’ve got the solution.It’s time to Make Congress Your Bitch.In 50 wildly disrespectful and
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You Don't Know Sh*t

A Brilliant Miscellany of All Things Scatological

by Doug Mayer, Val Stori, Tod von Jahnes ...

A brilliant miscellany of all things scatalogical" You Don't Know Sh*t glides from the sublime heights of human ingenuity to the lowest of the lower depths. It's the ultimate human journey."—Frederick Kaufman, author of WastelandIt's part of all of our lives. But how much do you really know about poop, scat, sh*t, excrement? From the historical to the scientific, the cultural to the gross, You Don ... Read more

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A brilliant miscellany of all things scatalogical" You Don't Know Sh*t glides from the sublime heights of human ingenuity to the lowest of the lower depths. It's the ultimate human journey."—Frederick Kaufman, author of WastelandIt's part of all of our lives. But how much do you really know about poop, scat, sh*t, excrement? From the historical to the scientific, the cultural to the gross, You Don
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Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements

Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings

Edited by Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, ... Read more

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Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities,
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Capitalism and Colonial Production

by Hamza Alavi, P.L. Burns, G.R. Knight, P.B. Mayer, Doug McEachern ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism
Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link between colonialism and capitalism. These essays confront the complex of issues, using as material the various countries in Asia. They advance the debate by reconsidering the problems involved by identifying pre-colonial modes of production and by ... Read more

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Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link between colonialism and capitalism. These essays confront the complex of issues, using as material the various countries in Asia. They advance the debate by reconsidering the problems involved by identifying pre-colonial modes of production and by
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The Race Underground

Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

by Doug Most ...

Narrated by John H. Mayer ...

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15 hours 26 min

In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers—Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City—pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to ... Read more

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In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers—Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City—pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to
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The Johnstown Flood

by David McCullough ...

Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old ... Read more

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The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old
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The Unwinding

An Inner History of the New America

by George Packer ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

18 hours 4 min

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite BookA Washington Post Best Political BookA New Republic Best BookA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the ... ... Read more

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite BookA Washington Post Best Political BookA New Republic Best BookA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the ...
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The Great Bridge

The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

by David McCullough ...

Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

Abridged

10 hours 4 min

A monumental tale of American ambition, told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough. This gripping saga of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the country’s boldest engineering achievements, reveals not only the politics and personalities behind "America’s Eiffel Tower," but charts New York’s ascent as a thriving metropolis.Around 1870, during the Age of ... Read more

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A monumental tale of American ambition, told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough. This gripping saga of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the country’s boldest engineering achievements, reveals not only the politics and personalities behind "America’s Eiffel Tower," but charts New York’s ascent as a thriving metropolis.Around 1870, during the Age of
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This Town

Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America’s Gilded Capital

by Mark Leibovich ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

11 hours 48 min

One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, the New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, controversial--and often hysterical--look at Washington's incestuous "media industrial complex." ... Read more

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One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, the New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, controversial--and often hysterical--look at Washington's incestuous "media industrial complex."
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Isaac's Storm

A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

by Erik Larson ...

Narrated by Richard Davidson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 46 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review**September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review**September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston,
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