Among the greatest leaders who were responsible for changing the fate and course of their countries, Mao’s name stands as an example, for he lifted China from the tyrannical dynasties and extreme poverty and started a revolution which resulted in the super power status for China. Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) was born on December 26, 1893, in Shaoshan, Hunan Province,

China. He was a Han Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His
theoretical contribution to Marxism-Leninism, military strategies,
and his brand of Communist policies are now collectively known as Maoism.

Author: Marie Publications
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Company: Marie Publications (2011-09-13) (2011-09-13)
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

Author: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Kindle Edition: 154 pages Kindle eBook
Company: www.Bandclyde.com (2011-05-10) (2011-05-10)
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"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

-----Fidel Castro


Introduction
Castro and Politics
Castro and Revolution
Cuban Revolution
July Movement
Batista’s Operation Verano
Revolution Spreads
Batista Regime Falls
New Government
Strengthening Power of Fidel Castro
Castro’s Government
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Socialist State
The Missile Crisis
Assassination Attempts on Castro
United States Embargo against Cuba
Cuban Foreign Relations
Castro and Religion
Castro’s Illness
Castro’s Retirement
Castro’s Public Personality
Family and Children
Criticism


Author: Marie Publications
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Company: Marie Publications (2011-07-23) (2011-07-23)
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During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping other young girls escape "the life."

In Girls Like Us, Lloyd reveals the dark world of commercial sex trafficking in cinematic detail and tells the story of her groundbreaking nonprofit organization: GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. With great humanity, she shares the stories of the girls whose lives GEMS has helped—small victories that have healed her wounds and made her whole. Revelatory, authentic, and brave, Girls Like Us is an unforgettable memoir.

Author: Rachel Lloyd
Paperback: 288 pages
Company: Harper Perennial (2012-02-28) (2012-02-28)
ISBN: 0061582069
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Chesterton's two-part biography of CHARLES DICKENS examines the life and works of 19th century British literary figure Charles Dickens. Chesterton's reinterpretation of Dickens' life and work proved important to the modern perception of Dickens as a literary giant, and the work has received widespread praise. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British author, philosopher, and Christian apologist. He wrote a number of influential religious works including THE EVERLASTING MAN and ORTHODOXY. He was also an accomplished fiction writer, penning the acclaimed FATHER BROWN series of mysteries.

This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.


Author: G.K. Chesterton
Kindle Edition: 192 pages Kindle eBook
Company: Halcyon Press Ltd. (2011-01-12) (2011-01-12)
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A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time.

Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Joni Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Carly Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, a great swath of American girls who came of age in the late 1960s. Their stories trace the arc of the now mythic sixties generation -- female version -- but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way, far from cliché. The history of the women of that generation has never been written -- until now, through their resonant lives and emblematic songs.

Filled with the voices of many dozens of these women's intimates, who are speaking in these pages for the first time, this alternating biography reads like a novel -- except it's all true, and the heroines are famous and beloved. Sheila Weller captures the character of each woman and gives a balanced portrayal enriched by a wealth of new information.

Girls Like Us is an epic treatment of midcentury women who dared to break tradition and become what none had been before them -- confessors in song, rock superstars, and adventurers of heart and soul.

Author: Sheila Weller
Paperback: 608 pages
Company: Washington Square Press (2009-04-14) (2009-04-14)
ISBN: 0743491483
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"I intend that this autobiography shall become a model for all future autobiographies when it is published, after my death, and I also intend that it shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method—a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel. Moreover, this autobiography of mine does not select from my life its showy episodes, but deals mainly in the common experiences which go to make up the life of the average human being, because these episodes are of a sort which he is familiar with in his own life, and in which he sees his own life reflected and set down in print. The usual, conventional autobiographer seems to particularly hunt out those occasions in his career when he came into contact with celebrated persons, whereas his contacts with the uncelebrated were just as interesting to him, and would be to his reader, and were vastly more numerous than his collisions with the famous."

So begins one of the most remarkable autobiographies in all of American Literature. Mark Twain was, in the words of his good friend, editor and Pulitzer Prize Committee member, a true visionary.

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This new signature edition collection of autobiographical and biographical writings on Mark Twain brings together, for the very first time, i) the hard to find chapters from Mark Twain’s autobiography published in the North American Review and ii) Samuel Clemens’ own, extremely rare, privately printed autobiographical sketch, iii) a history of Mark Twain’s Life, Literature and Legacy by Albert Paine (Pulitzer Prize Committee member and editor of the Collected Letters of Mark Twain and the Collected Speeches of Mark Twain), and iv) several of Mark Twain’s major essays illuminating his thoughts and views on key issues of his time.

The enduring freshness and relevance of Mark Twain’s writings serves as a true testament to a remarkable spirit which “still young ... continues to cheer and comfort a tired world” even to this day.


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This edition has special Kindle enabled features, including interactive table of contents, text-to-speech capabilities which enables audiobook features, as well as words that can be looked up on the Kindle supplied built in dictionary

Contains the only autobiography published in Twain's own lifetime. Includes an extensive historical background by Albert B. Paine of the Pulitzer Prize Committee, authorized biographer of Mark Twain and editor of The Letters of Mark Twain and The Speeches of Mark Twain.

"Highly recommended ... Mark Twain in his very own words"

"A superb collection, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Twain's death"

"A true American genius, and a giant of world literature"

Author: Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain
Kindle Edition: 814 pages Kindle eBook
Company: Literary Classics Press (2010-11-15) (2010-11-15)
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The American Civil War, as told by General Ulysses S Grant, who led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy. Origianl maps illustrate the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, The Widlerness, and the surrender at Appomattox. With 14 pages of photos.

Author: Ulysses S Grant
Paperback: 436 pages
Company: Red and Black Publishers (2008-03-03)
ISBN: 193494114X
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Lois Bourne realized her psychic abilities during her early childhood in the form of ghostly sightings. For many years, she has been a practising witch and occultist. The extraordinary deeds her gifts have enabled her to perform are here recorded in fascinating detail. In her attempts to explain the secrets behind these powers, she offers the reader new insight into the realms of witchcraft and presents evidence that lends credence to the 'Craft of the Wise' - and indeed, to the 'supernatural' as a whole.

Author: Lois Bourne
Paperback: 208 pages
Company: Robert Hale Ltd (1995-09)
ISBN: 0709037619
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He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.

A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of war—of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends.

American Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children, as well as on Chris.

Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell.

Author: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice
Hardcover: 400 pages Deckle Edge
Company: William Morrow (2012-01-03) (2012-01-03)
ISBN: 0062082353
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