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  Louise Kraszniewicz, Michael Blitz Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Biography EN

  Krasniewicz and Blitz present the story of Governor Schwarzenegger's life as the classic tale of the American Dream. They chronicle Arnold's childhood in Austria, rise to bodybuilding fame, movie career in Hollywood, interest in politics, and election to California governor.

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  Craig Cravens Culture and Customs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia EN

  The Czech Republic and Slovakia share fundamental similarities in language and culture, but they never managed to create a common national Czechoslovak identity, after being merged in 1918 when the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed. The lifting of the Iron Curtain and the Velvet Revolution of 1989 led to the final breakup of Czechoslovakia into two countries in 1993. This volume overviews the current social,…

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  Gerard Molyneaux Gregory Peck: A Bio-bibliography

  Born in 1916 in La Jolla, California, Gregory Peck took up acting in college on a lark that would lead to a career. In his early years, he appeared in a series of summer stock engagements and Broadway shows. He became a star within a year after...

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  Paula Johanson Lady Gaga: A Biography EN

  Lady Gaga: A Biography details Lady Gaga's life from birth to 2011. Readers will learn about her personal background - where she was born, who her parents were, what her early school years as a weird girl with rabbit teeth were like - as well as her pre-fame years where she gained an education in music and paid her dues as a small-time professional in small performance venues. The many milestones of her wildly…

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  Elspeth Whitney Medieval Science and Technology EN

  Medieval science and technology was firmly rooted in Aristotelian explanations of the physical world. This book begins by introducing the basic concepts of the classical tradition, and explains how these ideas were promulgated by the ancient Greeks, preserved and commented on by the great Muslim scholars of the early middle ages, and finally transmitted to western Europe as that region began to grow and expand…