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It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn't know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He'd dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes-no two are the same. And recovery can be brutal-and lengthy.As a third-generation driver in a family forever connected to the sport of stock-car racing, how could Dale Earnhardt Jr....
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Determined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early 1940s to study dance and drama. She also made a name for herself as a dancer and singer, Belle Rosette. But she turned her back on the bright lights to return to Trinidad. There she continued the work she had begun before World War II, researching and performing the dances of the Caribbean, especially those that drew on African traditions....
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all • Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre • Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer • Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as 'the People's Poet' • Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life...
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«Este es un libro acerca de la virtud más admirable de todas las virtudes humanas: el valor. Ernest Hemingway la definió como "gracia bajo presión". Y estos son los relatos sobre las presiones que experimentaron ocho Senadores de Estados Unidos y la gracia con la cual las enfrentaron». -John F. Kennedy Durante los años 1954 y 1955, el entonces Senador de Estados Unidos, John F. Kennedy, escogió a ocho de sus colegas históricos para presentar...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher • Socrates, the great Greek philosopher • Aristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledge • William Wilberforce who ended the British slave trade • Karl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital • Mahatma Gandhi who helped free India from British rule BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 16,058 • Headword count: 1,701...
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Victor Hugo is one of the best-known French writers and is part of the greatest literary figures of all time. His poetry made him famous very early, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets when he was only 20 years old. He was also a novelist and a dramatist, and furthered the cause of Romanticism, this exalted artistic movement which toyed with Sublime and soared on the winds of emotion. The high-achieving poet was also actively...
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Una Marson's work embodied anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, class politics and pan-Africanism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her poetry and dramatic work symbolically ushered in a new era in Jamaica's literary landscape and her efforts in championing early Jamaican literature, as well as her avid support for Caribbean writers in Britain and the region, made her a key proponent of the development of a national and West Indian literary...
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The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents: • Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa • Christopher Wren who rebuilt London • Antoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona • Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painter • Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artist BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 10,172 • Headword count: 941 • PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study...
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A day that will live in infamy... Nothing to fear but fear itself... Ask not what your country can do for you... Ich bin ein Berliner... Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. From Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Barack Obama, this collection features original speeches by the presidents of the United States. *These are actual historic recordings, the sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era, and varies by recording.
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family rich • Cornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world's biggest cereal company • Elizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company • Walt Disney who started the famous entertainment company • Soichiro Honda who started the Honda motorbike...
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A Moving Story of Redemption and Second Chances Jep Robertson, the youngest son of Duck Commander Phil Robertson, and his wife, Jessica, open up about their personal trials, their early years together, and the challenges that might have destroyed them both had the grace of God not intervened. Jep describes being molested as a child and his reluctance to tell anyone until only a few years ago, his downward spiral into drug and alcohol abuse, and...
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A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named Cloud 9.Abandoned by his father at age two, Rick Sylvester lived with an abusive mother whose struggles as a member of the working poor led her to drugs, alcohol, theft, and prostitution--and eventually attempted suicide. Rick battled depression, anxiety, and PTSD as the chaos, neglect, and unpredictability...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook • Humphry Davy who discovered 'laughing gas' • Charles Darwin who changed people's ideas with his theory of evolution • Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics • Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs • Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA BRITISH...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England • Saladin, historic Muslim leader • Genghis Khan, famous leader of the Mongol empire • Catherine the Great, the woman who turned Russia into an empire • Abraham Lincoln who stopped slavery in the USA • Queen Victoria, the famous British Queen BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 6,360 • Headword count: 628 • PLUS: visit...
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This collection showcases Lucille Ball's amazing spectrum of radio work, from comedy to mystery and everything in between. As Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball brought a tomboy's enthusiasm and a scatterbrained quality to the long-running television program I Love Lucy. She was the wacky wife making life difficult for her loving but exasperated husband Ricky Ricardo, played by Ball's real-life husband Desi Arnaz. Long before I Love Lucy, Ball worked her...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child genius • Giuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La Traviata • Johann Strauss, 'The Waltz King' • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan Lake • Irving Berlin who wrote There's No Business Like Show Business BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 8,344 • Headword count:...
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For decades Americans have turned to LIFE to understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, LIFE now focuses its lens on Barack Obama. The American Journey of Barack Obama covers the candidate from his childhood and adolescence to his time as editor of The Harvard Law Review and his Chicago activist years, culminating with the excitement and fervor of the historic...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize • Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people • John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away • Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children • Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research • Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community BRITISH...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature • William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history • Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place • Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor • Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace • Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize BRITISH...
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