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How to grab attention, drive and convert traffic, and live a fabulous life as a wealthy online entrepreneur.

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The Boston Bruins are America's oldest and most honored NHL franchise. Although they tasted success early on, the arrival of Bobby Orr in 1966 seemed like divine intervention. Over the past half-century, the Bruins have missed the playoffs only twelve times and have captured two Stanley Cups (1970 and 1972). When their twenty-nine-year streak of consecutive playoff appearances ended in 1997, it marked the conclusion of the longest such streak ...

In the beginning, the Boston Bruins were a rough tribe of Canadian tradesmen seeking their fortune with the first American team in the fledgling National Hockey League. When the Bruins played their first game in 1924, hockey was already a staple of the Boston sports scene. It was the prospect of attracting the capacity crowds that supported Boston's local club and college teams that lured Charles F. Adams to invest in the franchise. The Bruins...

Firefighting in Portland boasts many proud traditions and a long and storied history. In 1851, Col. Thomas Dryer, editor of the Oregonian newspaper, decided that it was in the best interest of the city to establish a firefighting force, and with that, he founded the Pioneer Fire Engine Company No. 1. Little better than a bucket brigade, this volunteer force of 37 men wearing red shirts started operations with just a single hand pump. From thes...

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Topics include the fundamentals of digital representation, programming and interfaces for design, the shifting landscape of opportunity and expectation in practice and pedagogy, placing sensors in buildings to measure performance, and the challenge of applying information effectively in design.

The Cold War began almost immediately after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis in Europe. As images of the Nazis atrocities became part of American culture s common store, the evil of their old enemy, beyond the Nazis as a wartime opponent, became increasingly important. As America tried to describe the danger represented by the spread of Communism, it fell back on descriptions of Nazism to make the threat plain through compar...

Hope Station was a glittering wonder of ingenuity and promise. The first continuously inhabited commercial space station, it was a tourist destination and the dream of lifelong friends Rem Kang and Sanjay Shu. The nightmare of the Hope Station Riot, as it was dubbed on the satellite networks, destroyed them both, driving them into hiding. Seven years later, caught up in a political conspiracy, Rem is blackmailed into an interplanetary hunt for...

Inventory of more than 220 countries and territories' flags, giving their history, meaning and symbolism. With maps and key data and statistics on the countries.

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For seven decades, the Boston Garden functioned as both a de facto community center and the indoor entertainment hub of New England. Known to millions as the home of the Bruins and Celtics, the Garden was also home to a variety of other events. The Boston Garden was truly a people's palace, serving as a venue for events both grand and humble, monumental and mundane. It was nothing less than the city's playpen, music hall, political clubhouse, ...

Brian L. Johnson's remarkable biography of W.E.B. Du Bois describes the evolution of religious views from Du Bois's birth until his resignation as editor of Crisis magazine in 1934. W.E.B. Du Bois, Towards Agnosticism (1868-1934) traces Du Bois' mounting skepticism through his earliest church experiences to his sociological training in Berlin culminating with his writings in Crisis Magazine. Johnson argues that despite Du Bois' frequent use of...

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The front-man of rock legends AC/DC tells his story for the first time, and its a life that has encompassed the rock lifestyle, alongside an obsession with cars. Packed with hair-raising anecdotes told in skilful comic style, this paperback edition will be essential reading for car nuts and rock fans.