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Aldcroft, Derek. Europa en crisis: Las consecuencias económicas de la guerra y la paz (1919-1929).Aldcroft, Derek. Historia de la economía europea, 1914-1980. Capítulo 3: Crisis económica y recuperación (1929-1939). Capítulo 4: Guerra y reconstrucción (1940-1950).Barbero, María Inés: La revolución industrial en Inglaterra, Europa y Estados Unidos: Una comparación el comienzo del proceso de industrialización en el continente europeo.Cabrera,...
42) Summary of Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain fo
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Genius Foods is a New York Times bestselling book written by filmmaker Max Lugavere. His life changed when his mother was diagnosed with a rare dementia. Max decided to take a break in his media career to explore all that he could about the brain and how it works. He spent years reading brain research, interviewing medical doctors, neurologists and scientists. He hopes to better understand his mother's ailment. In his book Genius Foods, he shares...
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The Last Anniversary: by Liane Moriarty Conversation Starters. When Sophie receives a visit from her ex-boyfriend, Thomas, she is rather nervous. But it turns out that she has been left a house in his Aunt Connie's will. Sophie is thrilled because the house was located on Scribble Gum Island, the site of the Baby Munro Mystery. She moves to the island to live in her new home and makes friends with the Doughty family and the residents of the island....
44) Summary of Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fift
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic: Conversation Starters
Authors Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic team up to write the definitive true story of USS Indianapolis and its unfortunate fate. In Indianapolis, Vincent and Vladic take us back to the midnight of July 30, 1945. This was days after the Indianapolis delivered the atomic...
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo: Conversation Starters
The New York Times best-selling book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism explores the reactions that white people have when their personal assumptions about race are challenged. DiAngelo observes that when their reactions are challenged, they maintain racial inequality. DiAngelo is an anti-racist educator...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind, a political play that fictionalized the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
As a play of the 1950's, Inherit the Wind defended intellectual freedom. Moreover, the play intended to denounce the state of McCarthyism at the time. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Lawrence and Lee's classic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Euripides, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. Titles in this study guide include Rhesus, Iphigenia In Aulis, Bacchae, Phoenissae, Orestes, Electra, Trojan Women, Helen, Iphigenia In Tauris, Ion, Suppliants, Hecuba, Heracles, Cyclops, A Satyr-Play, Andromache, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, Medea, and Alcestis.
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The High Tide Club: A Novel by Mary Kay Andrews: Conversation Starters
Josephine Warrick is an extremely wealthy 99-year-old woman dying of fourth stage cancer and wants to settle her will before time runs out on her. She chooses struggling lawyer and single mother Brooke Trappnell to carry out a will. But why would she choose Brooke who is not among the big-name law firms in Georgia? Brooke reluctantly agrees, not knowing that Mrs. Warrick has secrets...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry James' Washington Square, a simple tragicomedy that is, based on a true story.
As a novel of the nineteenth-century, illustrates family conflict between a daughter and her unemotional father. Moreover, Washington Square's omniscient point of view and uncomplicated prose continues to entice readers. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history...
50) Summary of The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal B
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang: Conversation Starters
A "wave of automation and job loss" is currently taking over American industries. Experts in robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and software have warned that job losses will continue to happen in the coming years. "Normal people," who represent the 70 percent of the American population,...
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Atlas Shrugged SparkNotes Literature Guide by Ayn Rand
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When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying...
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Old Testament SparkNotes Literature Guide
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When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing.
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes and NOT the original book. Preview: Ed Yong's I Contain Multitudes (2016) is an expansive treatise on microbes, the microscopic organisms that shape the known world. Yong celebrates the fascinating complexity of the microbes contained within all living organisms and the environments they inhabit…Inside this companion to the book: • Overview of the Book • Insights from the Book...
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Alexander Hamilton (SparkNotes Biography Guide)
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SparkNotes Biography Guides examine the lives of historical luminaries, from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf. Each biography guide includes: An examination of the historical context in which the person lived
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by J.K. Rowling
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysis
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A God in Ruins: by Kate Atkinson Conversation Starters. A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson is the companion novel to her popular book Life After Life. A God in Ruins focuses on Teddy, the little brother of Ursula from Life After Life. In Life After Life, Teddy has died in World War II. However, in A God in Ruins, Teddy is still alive after the War with a wife and a daughter. During World War II, Teddy joins the Royal Air Force to escape the monotony...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paul Van Der Merwe's Lucky Go Happy and NOT the original book. Preview: Author Paul van der Merwe follows an unlikely journalist on an adventure to define happiness in Lucky Go Happy: Make Happiness Happen! (2014). The journalist is not actually a person but rather a rat named Lucky who searches for a shared definition of happiness among the animals of the African Bushveld... Inside this companion to the book:...
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REA's MAXnotes for Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Günter Grass's The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar German novel.
As a novel, The Tin Drum is a memoir of a man living in an insane asylum with supernatural powers who grew up in Nazi Germany. Moreover, Grass uses allusion and metaphor to comment on modern society, history, the individual, and the government. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context...
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Shakespeare everyone can understand-now in new DELUXE editions!
Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, these popular guides make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. They introduce Shakespeare's world, significant plot points, and the key players. And now they feature expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter.. A Q&A, guided analysis of significant...
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