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  • Health Matters
    George Hill / George J. Hill
    Health Matters proposes an audacious new concept of human history. The author, George J. Hill, is a physician and historian. He argues that the primary goal of humans, from cave dwellers to those in the modern world, has been the search for good health and a long life. The quest for health has been to avoid illness, to treat disease and injuries, and to delay death. Humans were...
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    57,10 €

  • American Dreams
    George J Hill
    This book tells the story of John Zimmermann and Eva Katherine Kellenbenz and how they succeeded in their dreams in America. The story begins in the state of Werttemberg, in southern Germany, where their ancestors had lived in small towns for more than 400 years. Both towns were a few miles east of Stuttgart, although the Kellenbenz and Zimmermann families did not know each oth...
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    45,02 €

  • Three Men in a Jeep Called 'Ma Kabul,' Script for a Movie
    George J. Hill / George JHill
    Do you want to make a movie? Here’s how to do it. From Lawrence of Arabia to Charlie Wilson’s WarAt the height of World War II, two U.S. military intelligence officers meet near the Khyber Pass with a British agent. Their secret mission: To travel from Peshawar for 800 miles along the Indian-Afghan border, and thus to introduce America to the Great Game of Central Asia.This mov...
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    30,02 €

  • 'Dearest Barb' From Karachi, 1943-1945
    George J. Hill
    Carefully boxed and bound with a silk ribbon, the letters of Lieutenant Albert Zimmermann to his wife Barbara from Karachi, India, in 1943–1945 were discovered nearly sixty years later, long after they were dead. These letters are unique. No other personal correspondence of a Naval Intelligence Officer in World War II is known to have survived. The 119 letters give a glimpse in...
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    41,97 €

  • Four Families
    George J Hill
    This book is a guide to four books about the genealogy of four American families. It is the synopsis of a tetralogy. The ancestors of these families emigrated from Northern Europe to North America, coming by ship from many countries, over a span of two and a half centuries. Some of the immigrants in these families were related in Europe, and many of their descendants intermarri...
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    34,66 €

  • Edison’s Environment
    George J Hill / George J. Hill
    'Thomas Edison is acclaimed as the ’Wizard of Menlo Park,’ and as Time magazine’s ’Man of the Century.’ Edison saw himself as a benefactor of humanity. But in this startling new look at Edison, Dr. George J. Hill suggests that the price of invention was serious industrial pollution and other environmental costs. Meadows, ponds, and forest disappeared to make way for Edison’s la...
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    51,10 €

  • Hill
    George J. Hill / George JHill
    This book tells the story of a yeoman farmer and ferry keeper and his wife from the time of their marriage in 1651 in Windsor, Connecticut, until they died in Simsbury, a town which they helped to found. It also tells of their eight children and their spouses, and it continues to follow this family down to the present. The author tells of the rare occupation of the right of fer...
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    73,35 €

  • John Saxe, Loyalist
    George J. Hill / George JHill
    'Hang the Tory spy!!' John Saxe could rightly have expected to hear these words when he was in prison in Esopus-now Kingston-New York, in 1779. Then forty-seven years old, he had staunchly maintained his loyalty to the King of England, to whom he had proclaimed his allegiance when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1750. Indeed, John Saxe was already a subject of the King of England...
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    36,72 €