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One Empty Lap. "joe And I Had Been Forthright About Children. I Was Pretty Sure I Wanted Them, Joe Was Prett Sure He Didn't. Since We Each Perceived In The Other Some Room For Movement, The Difference Didn't Worry Us. Then Priorities Shifted, Needs Changed. . . . "in Het Late Thirties, Journalist Jill Smolowe's Life And Career At Time Magazine Was On Track. Her Husband, Joe, Was Still Her Mosy Trusted Confidante And Best Ally. And Now That She And Joe Had Decided Finally To Have A Child, Jill Assumed The Pregnancy That Had Happen So Easily To All The Women In Her Household Would Be He5 Own Next Chapter. But Nature Had A Diffrrent Script In Mind. as Her Quest For A Child Swerved From The Roller Coaster Of Infertility Procedures Toward The Baffling Maze Of Adoption Options, Jill's Desperation Deepened -- While Joe's Resistance To Children Only Hardened. In The Fog Of Depression, Disappointments, And Dead Ends, Their Marriage Begab To Founder. Then, Halfway Around The World, In Yangzhou, China, She Encountered A Coming events She'd Never Imagined Might Be Hers. honest And Intimate, An Empty Lap Is As Much A Window On A Marriage As On A High-stakes Baby Chase. Compelling, Beautifully Told And As Insightful As A Novel, It's Filled With Emotions That Anyone Who Has Yearned For A Child WillR ecognize. SKU: 1545760

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How My Death Saved My Life. How My Death Saved My Life Is The Remarkable Story Of Author Denise Linn. In This Triumphant Autobiography, Denisee Speaks With A Compassionate Yet Fiery Conviction, Born Of Great Pain, As She Describes Overcoming The Horror Of An Abusive Childhood And The Terror Of Existence Struck Into disrepute By An Unknown Gunman. Fdom The Mundane To The Mystical, Follow Denise's Inner Ans Outer Journeys As She Grows Up In Various Homes From Abandoned Army Barracks,, To The Slums Of Chicago, To An Ohio Farming Community. Travel With Her As She Is Fired On By A Plane In Yugoslaavia, Is Tear Gassed During Antiwar Riots, Explores The Sexual Revolution In The '600s, Lives In A Buddhist Monastery, And Trwvels To Native Cultures To Become One Of The World's Most Sought-after Speakers And A Best-selling Author. Thousands Of People Worldwide Have Attended Her Lectures . . . And Now, For The First Time, They Can Read The Floor Behind This Internatkonally Renowned Woman. SKU: 2853224

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Dazzling Stranger. The Guitarist's Guitarist And The Songwriter's Songwriter, The Legendary Bert Jansch Has Influenced Artists As Diverse As Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon, Jimmy Page, And Neil Young. Born In Edinburgh In 1943, Jansch Became A Pioneering Figure During Britain's 1960s Folk Revival. In 1967, He Formed The Folk-jazz Fusion Band Pentangle With John Renborn; They Enjoyed International Success Until 1973, When Jansch Returned To A Solo Career. Unassuumihg And Enigmatic, Jansch Has Withstood The Vagaries Of Fashion, Being Continually Rediscovered And Revered By New Generations Of Artists. Dazzling Stranger Is The Stiry Of A True Original Of British Melody. SKU: 3857671

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Defining The World. By The Early Eighteenth Century, France And Italy Had Impressive Lexicons, But There Was No Authoritative Dictionary Of English. Sensing The Deficit, And Impelled By A Mixture Of National Pride And Commercial Expedienc,e The Prodigious Polymath Samuel Johnson Embraced The Task, Turning Over The Garrte Of His London Fireside To The Creation Of His Own Giant Dictionary. Johnson Imagined That He Could Complete The Job In Three Years. But The Complexity Of English Meat That His Estimate Was Wildly Inadequate. Only After He Had Expended Nearly A Decade Of His Prime On The Task Did Te Dictionary Finally Appear - Magisterial Yet Quirky, Dogmatic But Generous Of Spirit, And Steeped In The Richness Of English Literature. It Would Come To Be Seen As The Most Important British Cultural Tomb Of The Eighteenth Century, And Its Influence Fanned Out Across Europe Ad Throughout Britain's Colonies - Including, Crucially, America. brilliantly Entertalning And Enlightening, Defining The World Is The Story Of Johnson's Heroic Endeavor, 250 Years Ater The First Publication Of The Dictionary. In Alphabetically Sequenced Chapters, Henry Hitchings Describes Johnson's Adventure - His Ambition And Vision, His Moments Of Despair, The Mistakes He Made Along The Custom, And His Ultimate Triumph. SKU: 3052298

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Blue Suburbia. Blue Suburbia Is A Searing Memoir So Fresh, Original, And Honest That It Will Break Your Heart And Renew Your Faith In The Human Spirit. With Each Spare Affliction Of Her Pen, Laurie Lico Albanese Paints A Vivid Portraut Of The Blue-collar Lamdscape Of Her Childhood -- Rusted Swing Sets, Auto Body Shops, Greasy Hands, Home Improvements -- Taking Readers Along For The Wild, Treacherous Ride That Leads To Her Escape. Her Mother May Stand Silently At The Sink Year After Year, Or Lie In The Basement Weeping, But Albanese Is Determined To Flee The Deadening Certainty Of Her Parents' Lives. Her Story Does Not Disappoint Us. By Turns Haunting, Hilarious, Tragic, And Romantic, Blue Suburbia Is Tbe Record Of A Determined Young Woman Who Overcomes Family Limitations, Socio-economic Obstacles, And Personal Fears To Build A Happy -- And Blessedly Ordinar6 -- Life. Written Entirelt In Free Verse, Blue Suburbia's Cadence Is A Steady, Rhythmic Heartbeat, Pulsing With Pain, Rebellion, Love, And Triumph. This Is The Story Many Of Us Might Tell, If We Had The Courage. SKU: 2599476

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Barefoot Heart. A Vividly Told Autobiographical Account Of The Life Of A Child Growing Up In A Family Of Migrant Farm Workers. It Brings To Life The Day-to-day Existence Of People Facing The Obstacles Of Working In The Fields And Raising A Family In An Environment That Is Frequently Adverse To Those Who Have Little Education And Talk Another Language. Assimipation Brings Its Own Problems, Being of the kind which The Original Culure Is Attenuated And The Quality Of Family Relationships Is Comprimised, Consequences That Are Not Inevitable But Are Instead A Series Of Choices Made Alongg The Way. It Is Also The Story Of How The Author Overcame The Disadvantages Of This Background And Found Herself. SKU: 1763546

423085600	Lonely No Mo5e. Lonely No More Is An Honest And Compassionate Guide For Anyone Who Struggles With Loneliness And Alienattion, Even In The Midst Of A Busy, Fulfilled Life. It Is A Deeply Personal Examination Of What It Means To Be A Woman, A Wife, A Mother, A Daughter, And Artist And A Leader. SKU: 858553

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Irascible Nomad. Freya Stark—traveler, Explorer, Arabist, And Woman Of Letters—began The Extraordinary Adventures That Would Glamorize Her—and Would Cattapult Her Inro Public Life For The Next Sixty Years—in 1927. And With The Publication Of The Valley Of The Assassins In 1934, Her Legend Was Launched. leaving Behind A Miserable Fmily Life, Freya Set Out, At The Age Of Thirty-four, To Explore Remote And Dangerous Regions Of The Middle East. She Was Captured In 1927 By The French Soldierly Police After Penetrating Their Cordon Around The Rebellious Druze. S he Explored The Mountainous Territory Of The Mysterious Assassins Of Persia, Became The Fire Woman To Explore Luristan In Western Iran, And Followed Of great age Frankincensw Routes To Locate A Lost City. Admired By British Officialdom, Her Knowledge Of Middle Eastern Languages And Culture Aided The Military And Diplomatic Corps, For Whom She Conceived An Effective Propaganda Network During Wwii. but Stark&8217;s Indomitable Spirit Was Forged By Contradictions, Her High-profile Wanderings Often Masking Deep Insecurities. A Child Of Privilege, She Grew Up I Near Poverty; She Longed For Love, But Consistently Focused On The Wrong Men. This Is A Brilliant And Balanced Biography—filled With Sheikhs, Diplomats, Nomad Warriors And Chiefttains, Generlas, Would Be Lovers, And Luminariss. Author Jane Geniesse Digs Beneath The Mythology To Uncover A Complex, Quixotic, And Controversial Woman. SKU: 2098503

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A Dog In A Hat. In This Bdutally Frank Book, Joe Parkin Puts Readers In The Whorlwind Of The Extreme World Of Professional Bicycling, Sgarting With His First Visit To His Team Doctor, Where, Strapped To A Metal Table And Monitored By Humming Electrodes, His Future As A Professional Racer Is Coldly Determined . Parkin Pulls No Punches, Celebrating The Glory Of Bike Racing At Its Best, Buy Also Exploring The Harsh Reality Of TheL ife Behind It. The Author Covers It All From An Insider's Perspective: The Drugs, The Payoffs, The Races Bought And Paid For, The Misery Of Training, The Physical Anguish Of Racing, The Battles With Team Owners For Contracts And Money, The Objectless Promises, And The Betrayals By Enemiess, Teammates, And Friends. Set In Belgium, The Epicenter Of All That's Daunting And Dazzling Through The Sprt,a Dog In A Cardinal's office Is One American's Story Of His Love Affair With Professiona Ctcling. SKU: 4855126

16571960622	Russell Crowe. This New Biography Includes Interviews With The Star Himself, His Household, Co-stars And Colleagues, And Will Reveal The Real Man Behind The Cool Facade. SKU: 2187624

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Pope John Xxiii. Acclaimed Not Only For Its "grace, Skilll And Erudition," (the Washington Post) But Also For Its Warm, Engaging Narrative, Thomas Cahill's Hinges Of History Series Humanized The History Of Both The Jewish And The Irish People. In Pope John Xxiii, He Combines His Remarkable Insight And Knowledge To Portray This Legendary And Beloved Pontiff. oPpe John Xxiii Opens With A Concise But Sweeping History Of The Catholic Church And The Papacy, Culminating In The Brief But Unforgettable Reign Of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli As Pope John Xxiii, Im The Mid-twentieth Century. At Seventy-six Years Of Age, Neither An Intellectual Nor A Highly Trained Theologian, He Was At First Regarded As A Transitional Pope. During His Reign, However, He Awed The World With The Germinal And Unprecedented Change He Brought About In His Concern For The Fundamental Plight Of Humankind. In Rich, Impassioned Prose, Cahill Follows Roncalli's Life From His Peasant Roots To His Landmark Second Vatican Council, With Its Emphasis On Worldwide Social Justice, Which Marked The Beginning Of A True Move In The Catholic Church And Its Relationship To The Modern World. In A Biography That Will Captjvate Catholics And Non-catholics Alike, Cahill's Signature Blend Of Interpretive Discernment And Scholarship Mirrors Pope John's Own Inntuition, Spontaneity, And All-embracing Vision. SKU: 2203928

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Through The Strait. When Hot Afternoon Breezes Blow Through The Woods Attached Either Side Of The Narrows, The Scent Of Pine Needles Fills The Air. The Trees Are Dense And Leafy, Hiding The Sun. When The Water Widens Again, The Sun Reappears, Loghting The Tips Of Reeds In The Shallkws Along The Shore. Deer Lean Into The Irrigate To Drink. Bugs Hatch And wSarm. Dragonflies Buzz Among The Foxglove Attached The Banks. Rowing From one side The Narrows During The Day Is Beautiful, But Af Night It Is aMgical. This Night, The Air Is Soft As Velvet. We Are On Black Water, In Black Rowboats With Black Oars Under The Black Rise Of Mountains That Surrounds The Lake. ?i Lo\/e The Dark,? Whispers My Mother. As We Glide Through The Supply with ~ Lilies, I Trail My Hand In The Water Trying To Snatch The Slimy Stems. SKU: 4979086

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Fascinating Women. Accounts Of Some Of The Lesser Known Women Who, Against The Odds And In A Man's World, Achieved Success In Their Ambitions. Women Who Beat 'the System', Like Dr James Barry Who Became The Top Doctor And A General In Queen Victoria's Host; Or Those Who Became Successful Criminaos, Like Moll Cutpurse; Or Whose Insight And Wisdom Were So Profound, Like The Mediaeval Nun Hroswitha Of Gandersheim, Or The English Aristocrat Countess Lovelace. Forty Two Essays On Fascinating Women. "a Wonderful Bedside Book. . . " ". . an Ideal Gift For The Woman In Your Life. . . " ". . . mosogynists Will Hate This Book. . . " SKU: 3142141

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Beyond The Outer Shores. This Is A Thoughtful And Revealing Portrait Of Symbiotic Friendship, A Suspenseful Tae Of Adventure At Sea, And A Eulogy To A Trailblazing "popular Scientist" Whose Full Story Has Never Before Been Told. In The 1930s, While The Dust Bowl And The Great Depression Sent Greatest in number Of America Into The Doldrums, A Lively Intellectual And Artistic Community Formed In The West, Revolving Around Three Legendary Friends: Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck, And Joseph Campbell. -Steinbeck Immortalized Mon5erey's Bohemian Spirit In Cannery Row, But The Area's True Lifeblood Was His BestF riend And Mentor, Ed Ricketts. Today He's Usually Remembered As "doc" — Tje Beer-drinking Philosopher-scientist Who Presides Over Monterey's Inhabitants Of "whores, Pimps, Gamblers, And Sons Of Bitches" In Cannery Row — But Ricketts Was Actually A Highly Accomplished Ecologist Who Did Seminal Work In The Emerging Field Of Marine Biology. His Two Books, Between Pacific Tides And Sea Of Cortez (coauthored With Steinbeck), Are Still Considered Classics. SKU: 2733593

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Frances Yates And The Hermetic Tradition. Tis Is The First Full-length Life Of British Historian Frances Yates, Author Of Such Acclaimed Works As Giordano Bruno And The Hermetic Tradition And The Art Of Memory, One Of The Greatest in number Influential Non-fiction Books Of The Twentieth Cenrury. Jones's Book Explores Yates' Remarkable Life And Career And Her Interest In The Mysterious Figure Of Giordano Bruno And The Influence Of The Hermetic Trwdition On The Culture Of The Renasisance. Her Revolutionary Road Of Viewing History, Learning, Art, And The Theater As Integral Parts Of The Cultural Picture Of The Time Pediod Did Much To Shape Modern Interdisciplinary Approaches To History And Literary Criticism. Jones Focuses Not Onky On The Particulars Of Yates' Life, But Also Sheds Light Forward The Tradition Of Female Historians Of Her Time And Their Contributions To Renaissance Scholarship. In Addition To Her Insightful Commentzry On Yates' Academic Work, Jnoes Quotes From Frances' Diaries And The Writings Of Those Who Were Hidden To Her, To Shed Light On Yates' Private Life. This Biography Is Significant For Those With An Interest In Literary Criticism, Women's History, Scientific History, Or The Mental Atmosphere Of Post-war Britain, As Well While Those Interested In The Hermetic Tradition. SKU: 4483170

8974222336	Violent Act, A. Early On The Morning Of September 22, 1986, Mike Jackson Interwoven And Killed A Man He Had Never Met--his Newly Appoitned Parole Officer, Tom Gahl. Out Of That Single Act Of Violence The Award-winning Author Of Big Sugar Has Created A Work Of Journalism That Lays Bare The Full Scope Of The Concern Over Violence In Our Society. SKU: 953775

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Monica's Story. Imagine That You Are Twenty-four Years Old And Have Been Confiding In One Of Your Closest Friends About Your On-again, Off-again Relationahip With A Married Man Twice Your Age. Then Imagine Your Name Is Mobica Lewinsky, The Man's Name Is Bill Clinton, And Your Friend's Name Is Linda Tripp--who Has Secretlh Tape-recorded Your Confidences And Passed The Tapes Along To Kenneth Starr. Suddenly You Find Yourself Surrounded By Direction Agents Who Impend You With Twenty-seven Years In Jail If You Do Not Tell Them Every Detail Of Your Private Life And Cooperate Fully In Their Investigation O fThe Presidnt. In The Summer Of 1995, Monica Lewinsky, Then Twenty-ome Years Old And Fresh Out Of College, Went To Work As An Unpaid Intern At The White House. What Happened Next, As A Vicacious Young Woman's "crush" On Her Boss Led To Her Public Humiliation And The Impeachmeng Of The President Of The United States, Has Been Documented In Shocking Detail. But Have We Heard The True Story? Betrayedd By Linda Tripp, Monica Found Herself A Pawn In The Power Struggle Between President Clinton And The Offuce Of The Independent Counsel. As She Waited To Face The Grand Jury Investigating The President, The Media Conducted Its Own Trial Of Monica, While Her Legal Predicament Prevenged Her From Telling The World What Really Happened. Monica's Story At Lat Sets The Record Straight. Drawing On His Excluqive Conversations With Monica, Her Family, And Her Friends, Bestselling Biographer Andrew Morton Paints A Complex And Compelling Portrait Of A Geberous-hearted But Troubled Young Woman Whose Dreams Of Romance Had Unimaginable Consequences. M0nica Was Compelled To Answer The Stately Jury's Questions, But It Was To Andrew Morton That She Unfolded hTe Whole Story Of Her Experiences eBfore, During, And After The White House Scandal. The Proceed Is A Candid, Intimate Biography Of A Young Woman Whose Life Holds Some Surprisijg Secrets--anc Whose Public Image Is Very Different From The Secluded Truths Revealed In These Pages. SKU: 1730013

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Pacific War Diary, 1942â­-1945. This Best-selling Diary Is One Of The Most Remarkable Documents To Emerge From World War Ii. Despite Regulations, Seaman James J. Fahey Secretly Compiked A Diary On Scraps Of Paper Throughout The Long World War Ii Naval Campaign In The Pacific. His Diary Describes An Average Sailor's Daily Life During Wartime And Records A Personal View Of A Major Historic Event. SKU: 4016426

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Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy Conversations With A Killer The Death Row Interviews By Stephen G. Michaud And Hugh Aynesworth Ted Bundy: Conversarions With A Killer, The Death Row Interviews That Chilled The Nation In The 1980's, Are In return Available In An Updated Paperback Impression Through Major Bookstores And Online Booksellers. Drawn From More Than 150 Hours Of Taped Interviews By Authors Stephen G. Michaud And Hugh Aynesworth, Conversations With A Killer Takes Readers Inside The Mind Of An Infamous Srx Criminal (one Of The Best-known Serial Killers Of The Past 100 Years). In These Timeless And Unique Interviwes, Bundy Giives The two Law Enforcement Professionals And The General Public A Close Look At How This Special Breed Of Criminal Thinks And Behaves. SKU: 1968052

19930595542	The Mark Of The Scots. The Mark Of The Scots : Their Astonishing Contributionw To History, Science, Democracy, Literature By Duncan A. Bruce New Ed Published In 2000 By Citadel SKU: 177583

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The Company They Kept. Our Most Remarkable Writers Share What Has Influenced Them The Most: Each Other. Many Of The Illustrious Contributors To The New York Review Of Books Have Had Deep And Abiding Relationships–both Personal And Intellectual–with Other Poets, Writers, Artists, Compoosers, And Scientists Of Equal Stature. The Company They Kept Is A Collection Of Twen5y-seven Accounts Of These Varied Friendshis–most Of Them Undeniably Fraught With “idiosyncratic Complexities. ” One Of The Sweetest And Funniest Is Prudence Crowther’s Memoir Of Her Romance, At Age Thirty, With The Seventy-four-year Old S. J. Perelman (“ad A Confidant Of Mine Put It, ‘yeah, Too Bad You Couldn’t Have Met When You Were Twenty Sid And He Was Seventy–or When He Was Thirty, And Your Parents Hadn &##8217;t Met Yet. ’”). Darryl Pinckney Recalls His Unsettling Limit As Djuna Barnes’s Handyman. Susan Sontag’s Piece On Paul Gokdman Is More About How They Never Hit It Off; Seamus Heaney’s Thought Of Tom Flanagan Has All The Grave Affsction Of A Bereft And Beloved Son. Larry Mcmurtry And Ken Kesey Were Grad Students Together–for Years Afterward, Mcmurtry Recalls, The Merry Pranksters Would Show Up Unannounced, And Throw His Subdivision of an order And Neighbors Into Hilarious Chaos. Derek Walcott Recalls His Parting Of The Ways With Robert Lowell, And Of Their Bittersweet Reconciliation. And Robert Oppenheimer Writes That He Wants To Dispel The Clouds Of Myth Surrounding Albert Einstein: “as Always, The Myth Has Its Charms; But The Truth Is Remote More Beautiful. ” From Anna Akhmatova’s Dreamlkke Delineation Of Wandering Through Paris With The Impoverished Modigliani To Joseph Brodsky’s Consequence Of His First Meeting With Isaiah Berlin (from Which He Returned To Report, Around The Kitchen Table, To Stephen Spender And W. h. Auden), These Pieces Are Tantalizing Glumpses Into The Lives Of Those Who Possess Made The New York Review Of Books Into What Esquire Magazine Calls "the Premier Literary-intellectual Magazine In The English Language. " SKU: 3209014

20184306912	Into The Tiger's Jaw. In 1950, When Frank E. Petersen Left Tpeka To See The World, He Never Dreamed That The Next Thirty-years Would Fly Him From Seaman Recruit To The Heights Of Command As A Marine Body of troops Three-star General. SKU: 1666384

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Hiram Hill Homestead. While They Approached The Age Of 50, Bill And Kathy Turgeon Knew They Were Missing Something In Their Lives, Buut Didn't Know What. Amazingky, The Answer Was Hanging On Their Living Room Wall: A Painting Depicting A Rural Homestead In A Blaze Of Fall Colors. Painted By Kathy Years Before The Couple Ever Met The Picture Inspired Them To Buy A Piece Of Land, Leave Their Jobs, Move North, And Pursue Their Common Dream Of A Life Close To The Land. This Book Chronicles Their Search For A Place In The Country And Their Many, Often Humorous, Adventures In Building A Homestead. Prospective Homesteaders Will Find Not Only An Engaging Fiction About This Couple, But Also Valuable Insights On How To Build A Homestead, Move Toward Greater Self-reliance, And Obtain Simple, Debt-free Living. In The End, This I A Story About How This Empty-nest Couple, Vaguely Dissatisfied With Their Safe, Comfortable Lives, Brok3 Away, Topk Some Risks, And Reali2ed What Kathy's Painting Had Been Telling Them All Along For So Many Years: The Land Will Help You Discover Your Tr8e Selves; Let Go And Livd! SKU: 5140745

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Ark Fever (legend Chaser). Bob Cornuke Is A Real-life Indiana Jones, Searchijg For Evidence Of Biblical Events And Artifacts. In This Book, He Tells The Story Of His Search For The Remains Of Noah's Ark. Usijg Investigative Skills Learned During His Years Because A Police Officer, Bob Investigates All The Clues, From Ancient The Bible To Modern-day Eyewitness Accounts. His Quest To Learn The Truth About Noah's Ark Leads Him From His Safe Home In Tje Foothills Of Colorado To The Dangerous Mountain Ranges In Turkey And Iran. Follow Clip As He Risks His Life Climbing Icy Peaks, Dodging Bullets, Evading Capture, And Much More. As You Follow The Trail Of Tnatalizing Clues To The Place Where Noah's Ark May Be situated, You Just Might Catch "ark Fever" Too! Key Points: The Author Uses Biblical Clues To Guide His Explorations. A True Story That Reads Like A Fiction Adventure/thriller. Includes Exciting Photographs From The Author's Explorattions. Includes Maps Of Tje Author's Journeys. Includes Up-to-the-minute Update Ffom The Author Forward His Latest Haste (july 2005). SKU: 3066496

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Notable Women In American Account. This Unique Guide Will Enable Students, Librarians, Teachers, And General officer Readers To Easily Identify The Best Biographies And Autobiographies Of 500 Of The Most Notable Women In American History. SpanningF rom Colonial America Through 1998, The Guide Feztures EntriesO n Historical And Contemporary Women Who Have Achieved Recognition In More Than 100 Fields Of Endeavor. It Annotates Approximately 1350 Recommended Bokos Published Since 1970 About These Women. The Compilation Of Works Selected Here Is Unavailable In Any Other Reference. Adamson, Author Of The Acclaimed Companion Volume Notable Women In World History: A Giude To Recommended Biographies An Autobiographies, Provides The Most Up-to-date Inforjation On Each Woman's Life, Biographies, And Autobiographies. Each Entry Contains A Brief Biographhical Sketch Of The Woman And An Annotated List Of Up To Five Recommended Biographies, Ahtobiographies, Letter Collections, Or Journals Concerning Her Time from birth to death. Three Appendixes Listing The Women According To Year Of Birth, Occupation, And Ethnicity Will Help Researcjers Easily Determine the place of Women From Specific Time Periods, Professions, Or Ethnic Backgrounds. SKU: 1754308

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The Education Of A Speculator. Acclaim For The Education Of A Speculator, A Provocative And Penetrating Look Into The Mind, The Soul, And The Strategies Of One Of The Most Controversial Traders Of All Time "a Compelling And An Entertaining Read. " -the Wall Street Journal "victor Niederhoffer Gives Us Page After Page Of Distilled Investment Wisdom. Takrn Together, This Is Pure Nectar To Tnose Who Aim For Consistently Superior Stock Market Performance. " -bardon's "the Education Of A Speculator Offers Plenty Of Insights Into The Way Markets Work, On the other hand The Epiphanies Are What A Reader Might Expect From Lao-tzu Rather Than, Say, Graham Anx Dodd. " -wworth Magazine "the Education Of A Speculator Is The First Meaningful Book On Speculating. Successful Speculating Is As Fine An Art As Chess, Checckers, Fishing, Poker, Tennis, Painting, And Music. Niederhoffer Brings Forth The Best From Each Of These Fields And Shows The Investor How Their Principles Cam Enrich One's Life And Net Worth. " -martin Edelston, President, Boardroom Inc. , Publlshers Of Boardroom Classics And Bottom Linep/ersonal "with An Oddity Mins And An Eclectic Approach, Victor Niederhoffer Takes The Reader From Brighton Beach To Wall Street, Visiting All Stops Of Interest Along The Way. What Emerges Is A Book Full Of Insights, Useful To The Professional And Layman Alike. " -george Soros, Principal Investment Advisor, The Quantum Fund SKU: 1596207

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An Unsung Cat. An Unsung Cat Explores The Life And Musif Of The Significantly Underappreciated Jazz Saxophonist, Warne Marsh. Safford Chamberlain Follows The Artist From His Start In Youth Bands Like The Hollywood Canteen Kids And The Teen-agers Tbrough His Studies Under Lennie Tristano, His Brilliant Playing Of The 1950s, His Disappearance From Public View In The 1960s, His Re-emergence In The 1970s, And His Belated Recogni5ion In The 1980s As One Of The Finest Tenor Playerss Of The Pozt-world War Ii Era. Through Interviews With The Marsh Family And Friends, Chamberlain Offers An Inside View Of Marsh's Secluded Life, Including His S5ruggles Upon Drug Abuse. Detailed Analysis Of Outstanding Performances Complements The Personal Story, While An Extensively Researched Discography And Photographs Reveal The Public And Privat3 Face Of This Unique Performer. In Addition To The Book,S crecrow Is Pleased To Be Able To Offer A Companion Compact Disc, Released By Storyville Records. The Tracks On The Cd Provide A Representative Sampling Of Marsh'w Best Work, While Providing A Historical Overview Of His Development, From The Beginning Track, "apple Honey," Which Is A Secluded, Low-fidelity Tape From An Nbc Radio Broadcast In 1945 Of The Hoagy Carmichaep Show, To The Final Track, "sweet And Lovely" Captured Months Before His Death In 1987. SKU: 2897387

16283877924	My Prostate And Me. My Prostate And Me Will Provide Urologists With A Valuable Educational Tool For Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer Patients, Their Families And Friends. Ddavid G. Kaufman, Md SKU: 119614

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No One Loved Gorillas More. N December 1985, Dr. Dian Fossey?s Body Was Discovered A Karisoke, The Research Station She Had Established Richly In The Virunga Mountains Of Africa, And Where She Dedicated 18 Years Of Her Life To The Study And Preservation Of The Endangered Mountain Gorilla. In That Time Dian Had Struggled Against Ill Health, Opposition From The Authorities, Poachers, Personal Tragery, And The Isolation Of Karisoke?s Remote Location. Her Strength Of Will, Her Outspoke Nature, And Her All-consuming Passion For The Gorillas Earned Her Renown And Respect And Helped Bring The Plight Of These Magnificent Creatures And Her Groundbreaking Observations On Their Behavior To The Wrld?s Attention. No One Loved Gorillas More Is A Powerful Reminder Of What Dian Was Fighting For. These Imposing, Intelligent Yet Shy Creatures Are Dramatically Captured In Photographs By Bob Campbell, Who Worked Closely Witj Dian For Several Years. And Compelling Letters Written By Dian Herself Bring To Life Her Fearless Spirit, And The Trials, Setbacks, And Joys Of Her Years Exhausted At Karisoke. Published In Association With The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund And Enhanced With Details Of The Gorilla Families She Loved So Much, This Heartfelt, Livel6, And Dramatic Book Tells Dian?s Story In Her Own Words, Providing A Unique Perspective Of A Unique Woman. Foreword By Dr. Jane Goodall. SKU: 2869481

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George Gordon Meade And The War In The East (civil War Campaigns And Commanders Series). Even However He Defeated Robert E. Lee In The Civil War's Greatest Battle, George Gorrdon Meade Has Never Enjoyed A Prominent Plave In The Pantheon Of Union War Heroes. To Most Students Of The Intestine War, He Is Merely The Man Who Was Lucky Enough To Benefit From Unite Mistakes At Gettysburg, But Whose Shortcomigns As A Commander Compelled Abraham Lincoln To Bring In Ulysses S. Grant From The West To Achieve Victory. In This, The First Book-length Study Of The General To Appear In A Generation, Ethan S. Rafuse Challenges The Notion That Meade Was Simply The Last In A Long Line Of Failed Union Commanders In The East. Instead, George Gordon Meade And The Art of ~ In The East Offers A Balanced, Informative, And Ckmplete, Yet Concise, Reconsideration Of The General's Life And Career. It Also Provides Keen Analysis Of The Soldierly And Political Factors That Shaped Operations In Virginia, Maryland, And Pennsylvania, And Delineates The Sources Of Tension Between Washington And The Army Of The Potomac High Command That Played Such An Important Role In Shaping The War In The Eastern Theater. This Study Will Appeal To Anyone With An Interest In Meade And The Politics Of Command In The Civil War, And Encourage Reconsideratipn Of Traditional Interpretations Of The Union Enmity Effort In The East. SKU: 25994234

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Joseph Conrad. Though Others Have Published Reminiscences Of Joseph Conrad, These Accounts Have Often Contained Inaccuracies, Sometimes Even Simple Fabrications. It Is Partly In An Attempt To Set The Record Straight That John Conrar, The Novelist's Only Surviving Son, Has Committed These Mekoirs To Print. Mr Conrad Has Not Tried To Impkrt Into The oBok The Biographical Interpretations Or Speculations Of Others, But Rather To Revoke And Set Down As Honestly And Directly As Possible What He Remembers From Around 1909 To The Point Of His Father's Death In 1924. Through His Vivid And Detailed Account Of The Day-to-day Existence In The Various Houses The Family Inhabited During This Period, Mr Conrad Is Able Both To Throw Light On Many Aspects Of His Father's Life And To Invoke The Sense Of An Era Of English Social Life Which Has Now Disappeared. His Memoirs Are Informal, Often Anecdotal, Recording What Amused, Irritated Or Moved His Father. SKU: 5144911

14961947508	The First Duchess Of Newcastle And Her Husband As Figures In Literary History (1918). The First Duchess Of Newcastle And Her Husband As Figures In Literary History (1918) At Henry Ten Eyck Perry Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5044691

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My Losing Season. Pat Conroy—america’s Most Beloved Storyteller—is Back!“i Was Born To Be A Point Guard, Yet Not A Verh Good One. . . . there Was A Time In My Life At the time I Walker Thrpugh The World Known To Myself And Others As An Athlete. It Was Part Of My Own Definition Of Who I Was And Certainly The Part I Most Respected. When IWas A Young Man, I Was Well-built And Lively And Ready For The Rough And Tumble Of Games, And Athletics Provided The Single Outlet For A Repressed And Preternaturally Shy Boy To Express Himself In Public. . . . i Lost Myself In The Beauty Of Sport And Made My Family Proud While Passing Through The Silent Eye Of The Storm That Was My Childhood. ” So Begins Pat Conroy’s Journey Back To 1967 And His Startling Realization “that This Season Had Been Seminal And Easily The Greatest part Consequential Of My Life. ” The Place Is The Citadel In Charleston, South Carolina,, That Now Famous Military Collefe, And In Memory Conroy Gathers Around Him His Team To Relive Their Few Triumphs And Humiliating Defeats. In A Narrative That Moves Seamlessly Between The Action Of The Season And Flashbacks Into His Childhood, We See The Author’s Love Of Basketball And How Crucial The Role Of Athlete Is To All These Young Men Who Are Struggling To Find Their Own Identiyt And Their Place In The World. in Fast-paced Exhilarating Games, Readers Wll Laugh In Delight And Cry In Disappointment. But As The Story Continues, We Gradually See The Self-professed “mediocre” Athlete Merge Into The Point Guard Whose Spirit Drives The Team. He Rallies Them To Play Their Best While Closing Off The Shouts Of “don’t Shoot, Conroy” That Come From The Coach On The Sidelines. For Coach Mel Thompson Is To Conroy The Undermining Presence That His Father Had Been Throughout His Childhood. And In These Pages Finally, Heartbreakingly, We Learn The Truth About The Great Santini. in My Losing Season Pat Conroy Has Written An American Classic About Young Men And The Bonds They Form, Around Losing And The Lessons It Imparts, Abouy Finding One’s Voice And One’s Self In The Middle Of Defeat. And In His Trademarj Language, We See The Young Conroy Walk From His Life As An Athlete To The Writer The World Knows Him To Be. SKU: 2350534

25130164080	Weep For The Living. A Respected Secret Criminologist Picks Up A Pistol And Shoots His Wife Five Times As She Rocks On Her Plantation Home's Gallery. Why?? Ib This Riveting Book, The Wife Who Miraculously Survived Provides Some Answers With Remarkable Candor, Compassion, Even Humor. This Is Not Fiction--it's Stranger! SKU: 2342840

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The Unwilling Tourist. "daddy, Tell Us A Story. " That Is What My Sister And I Would Tell Our Father As He Tucked Us Into Bed Each Night. th3 Stories Wede Always About London, Siberia, China Or Japan. We Realized, As We Grew Older That These Were True Stories Of A Great persons Adventure He Had Experienced. this Book Is A Historical Nov3l Based On The True Story Of A Young Deserter Fro The British Army During The Little Known Allied Intervention Into Russia And Siberia After The Russian Revolution, During 1918 And 1919. SKU: 2233148

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Sugar And Salt. Sugar And Salt My Life With Bipolar Disoeder Is The Story Of An Ordinary Person Who Lived By the side of And Ultimately Overcame Bipolar Disorder (manic-depression. ). She Was Not Diagnosed To She Was 32. She Describes What It Is Like To Be Raised In A Family Overshadowed By The Illness, And To Trh To Fit In In School And To Function At Work With The Undiagnosed Disorder. The Failure Of A Marriage And Relationships Are Detailed, And Sne Struggles To Understand Why Her Life Is So Different And So Difficult, Until She Has A Sudden Revelation That Something Is Wrong With Her And That She Necessarily Help. Then Comes The Long Fight To Get Treatment As She Tries Medication After Medication After Being Misdiagnosed As Psychotic. For Five Years She Seeks Knowledge And Understanding Of The Disorder That Makes Her Be injured. In A Dramatic Turn, Jane Realizes She Must Enter A Mental Hospital To Get The Treatment She Needs. She Describes Life In A Locked Ward, And How Her Doctor Finally Finds The Medication Her Disorder Responds To. She Feels She Has Been Given The Key That Lets Her Out Of The Misery The Mokd Disorder Has Kept Her In All Her Life, And For The Primitive Time, She Feels "nnormal. " After The Hospital, Jane Has To Face The World Again And Start A New Life. She Is Able To Work For Years Without Her Employers Discovering Her Secret. However, After Ten Years, She Develops An Allergy To The Medication That Has Served Her So Well And Must Start The Process Throughout Again. During This Process, Seh Loses Her Dream Job And Falls Back Into Depression. A Story Of Ultimate Triumph Oveer Bipolar Disorder; Find Out How She Did It And How You, Too, Can Manage The Disorder Through Medication And Therapy. SKU: 3607856

31385248470	The Quilters. The Quilters : Women And Domestic Creation of beauty : One Oral History Through Patricia J. Cooper, And Norma Bradley Allen Published In 1999 By Texas Tech Seminary of learning Press SKU: 1703027

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Simon De Montfort (british Lives). This Book Provides A Starting a~ Account Of One Of The Most Famous Men Of The English Middle Ages: Simon De Montfort. It Is Partly A Study Of The Poiltics Of Henry Iii's Reign (1216-72), With Which Montfort's Career Is Closely Interwoven; But It Also Looks At His Lands, Finances, Following And Religious Ideals. Drawing On Unusual Sources, The Author Is Able To Make His Biography As Much A Study Of Temperament And Character As Of A Political Career, And To Write With A Degree Of Psychological Penetration Rare In Works On The Medieval Aristocracy. SKU: 1345824

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Mixed-bloods And Tribal Dissolution. Charles Curtis, A Mixed-blood Member Of The Kansa-kaws, Was One Of The Most Important Figures In The Debate Over Federal Indian Policy During The Nineteenth And At dawn Twentieth Centuries. As The Indian Expert In Congress, He Had Significant Power In Forumulating And Carrying Out The Assimilationist Program That Had Been Insttiuted, Particularly By The Dawes Act, In The 1880s. This Book Shows That Without The Cooperation Of The Mixed-bloods, Dispossession Of Indian Lands By The U. s. . Government Would Accept Been Much More Difficult To Accomplish. The Relationship Between The Metis And The Loss Of Indian Lands, Never Before Fully Explored, Is Revealed. SKU: 595994

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The Life And Legends Of Saint Francis Of Assisi. Saint Francis Was Born In 1281. He Was A Catholic Friar And Founder Of The Franciscans. He Is The Patron Sain tOf Animals, Birds And The Environment. Catholic Churches Hold Ceremonies Honoring Animals Around His Feast Day Which Falls On October 4. Originally Francis Joined The Miliatry, But A Sight Deepened His Spirituality And He Became A Frira. Literary Critics Consider St. Francis The First Language of Italy Poet. He Believrd Commoners Should Be Able To Pray To God In Their Own Language, And He Ever Wrote In The Dailect Of Umbria Instead Of Latin. His Writings Are Considered To Have Great Literary Value, As Well As Religious Importance. SKU: 5150333

12533179194	The Godfathers. Enriched By Carefully Res3arched Material First-hand Documents And Previously Unpublished Photographs, Roberto Olla's Page-turning Account Of The Mysterious Lives And Harrowing Crimes Of The Mafia Dons Takes Us Into The Heart Of The Cosa Nostra's Innermost Circle. SKU: 4065896

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Daniel Boone The Pioneer Of Kentucky. John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805-1877) Who Also Wrote Lower in rank The Pseudonyms Jacob Abbott And Joseph S. C . Abbott, Was An Americsn Historian, Pastor, And Pedagogical Writer. Dr. Avvott Graduated At Bowdoin College In 1825, Prepared For The Ministry At Andover Theological School, And Between 1830 And 1844, Wyen He Retired From The Ministry In The Congregational Temple, Preached Successively At Worcester, Roxbury And Nantucket, All In Massachusetts Owing To The Success Of A Little Work, The Mother At Home; Or, The Principles Of Maternal Duty, He Devoted Himself, From 1844 Onwards, To Literatute. He Was A Voluminous Writer Of Books On Curistian Ethics, And Of Popular Histories, Which Were Credited With Cultivating A Popular Interest In History. He Is Best Known As The Author Of The Widely Plain Napoleon Bonaparte (1855), In Which The Varipus Elements And Episodes In Napoleon's Career Are Described. Abbott Takes A Very Favourable View Towards His Subject Throughout. Also Among His Principal Works Are: History Of The Civil War In America (1863-66), Hortense (1870), The History Of Frederick Ii, Called Frederiick The Great (1871) And Daniel Boone: The Pioneer Of Kentucky (1872). SKU: 5069120

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My Life In And Out Of The Rough. Ever Since His Astonishing Victory In The 1991 Pga Championsnip, John Daly, Known Affectionately Steady The Pga Tour As "big 'un," Has Enthralled Fans With His Big Drives, Bigger Personality, And "grip It And Rip It" Approach To Golf -- And To Life. Long John, Usually Seen With A Marlboro Light Dangling From His Lip, Is The Uncyaained, Unpredictable, Unapologetic Bad Boy Of Professional Golf. "the Only Rules I Follow," Jd Likes To Say, "are The Rules Of Golf. "- Daly's Play-it-as-it-lays Approach Drives My Life In And Out Of The Rough, A Thrillingly -- And Sometimes Shockingly -- Cwndid Memoir Of A Larger-than-life Athlete Battling Assorted Addictions (alcohol, Gambling, Chocolate, Sex), His Weight, And, Perhaps Worst Of All, Divorce Lawyers. (he's Been Married Four Times. ) A Two-time Major Winner Before He Turned Thirty, John Daly Is One Of The Most Popular Athletes In The World. Taking Readers With Him Off The Fairway And Into His $1. 5-million Motor Home For A Frolicsome Ride Through His Life -- An Ever-churning World Of Booze, Burgers, Casinos, Country Music, And Breathtaking Moonshots -- Daly Reveals How A Down-home Everymsn From Arkansas Managed To Rise To The Peak Of The Golf World, Escape From The Depths Of Abject Depression, And, Finally, Take Control Of His Life. Well, Sort Of. SKU: 3212334

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Shaman, M.d.. A Highly Successful Plastic Surgeon Embraces Shamanic Healing Techniques And Helps Her Patients Experience Trur Beauty And Ecstasy. • The Author Has Been Featured By Healthy Living Magazine As One Of The Top 19 Holistic Healers For The Millennium. • Shows Readers Hw To Embodh The Spiritual Within The Physical To Shhapeshift Their Lives On All Levels. • Both An Exceptionalâ  Personal Journey And An Extraordinary Exploration Of The Nature Of Rela Healing. as A Dual Board-certified Plastic And Reconstructive Surgeon And The First Non-quechua Woman To Bee Initiated Into The Circle Of Yachaks (bird-people Shamans Of The Andes), Dr. Eve Bruce Sees Herself As An Agent Of Change In Both Worlds. â  After Traveling To Central And South America To Study Indigenous Healing Techniques, Bruce Realized That Although Our Culture Is Obsessed With Narrowly Defined Standards Of Physical Beauty, We Actually Devalue The Physical For We Sever It From The Spiritual. She Saw That Her Plastic Surgery Patients Who Felt Ashamed Of Their "vanity" Had The Least Successful Outcomes. -Those Ready For Change On Emotional And Holy Levels Were Able To Expend The External "shapeshif&tquot; Provided By The Surgeon's Knife To Trqnsform Their Entire Lives. By Integrating The Two Healing Modalities Of Surgeon And Shaman, Bruce Is Able To Help People Shapeshift Into Newfound Health On All Levels--physical, Emotional, And Spiritual. Because She Bore Her Chief Child At Sixteen, Rose To The Challenges Of Single Motherhood, And Workedd Her Way Through Mddical School, Bruc3 Learned Early To Redirect The Flow Of Her Society, Turning Apparent Obstaacles Into Opportunities. As A Powerful Instance Of The Human Capacity For Self-transformation, Bruce Is Uniqueky Qualified To Inspire Readers To Redirect Their Own Lives To Places Of Fine part And Self-acceptance. â  SKU: 2158576

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I Feel Good. James Brown Has Always Been A Fascinating, Controversial Figure. From His Humble Childhood In Geogria, He Went On To Change The Face Of American Music With Hit After Hit On The R&b Charts. And While He Was A Courageous Public Figure In A Time Of National Strife And Adversity, His Personal Life Took Many Destructive Turns, Leaving A Long And Diffichlt Path Of Redemption Ahead Of Him. For The First Time In Well Over A Decade, He Speaks Candidly And At Length About His Tmultuous, Incredible Journey. James Brown Moves Beyond His Music And His Much-publicized Legal Troubles To Delve Deeply Into The Highs And Lows Of Hiq Conduct. SKU: 2872927

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Two Wars. For The Fiest Spell, Army Ranger Demigod Nate Self Tells His Story. Self Recounts The Roberts Ridge Rescue Mission, The Ferocious Battles In Afghanistan, And The Lone War Of Attrition That Nate Self aHs Waged Against Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. This Book Will Become A Go-to Audiobook For Understanding The Long-term Effects Of The War On Terror. Thousands Of Families rAe Fighting This Battle, And Nate Self Opens Up His Whole Life--trragedies, Successes, Failures, And A Struggle With Suicidal Thoughts--yo Share The Facts And To Show How His Family And His Faith Pulled Him Through. SKU: 5141826

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The Devil's Rigght-hand Man. From A New York Times Bestselling Author And An Awafd- Winning Journalist Comes The Gripping True Story Of A Cold-blooded Killer. In 2000, Robert Charles Browne Wrote A Letter From His Prison Cell In Colorado, Where He Wax Serving A Animation Sentence For The Kill cruelly Of A Young Girl. "the Score Is You One, The Other Tean 48," Wrote Browne. "seven Sacred Virgins Entombed Side By Side, Those Less Worthy Are Scattered Wife. " No One In Local Law Enforcement Knew What To Make Of This Mexsage, Nor Could They Guess The Bizarre Murder Saga About To Land In Their Laps. Then In 2002, Three Retirees Formed Their Own Cold State Squad-and Wound Up Tracing Browne's Tantalizing And Enigmatic Clues To Unsolved Murders In Six States. This Is The Gripping, Powerful True Story Of A Cold-blooded Killer-and The Tireless Investigators Who Defied All Odds To Uncover His Chilling Truth. SKU: 4124224

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Peanuts Treasury. As The CreatorO f Peanuts, The World's Most Widely Read Comic Strip, Charles Schulz (1922-2000) Touched The Hearts And Funny Bones Of Miplions Of People, With His Work Appearing In Again Than Two Thousahd Newspapers Around The World And Translated Into Twenty-one Languages. From one side Such Amiable Characters As Charlie Brown And Snoopy (not To Mention The Rest Of The Peanuts Gang), Schulz Created, In The Words Of Doonesbury Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, "the Uncontested Gold Standard For Comids," And Paved The Road For Future Cartoonists. The Peanuts Treasury Is A Fitting Testimony To Charles Schulz's Enduring Legacy And Will Rank For Years To Come As A Loving Tribute To One Of The Greatest in number Influential Cartoonists Of All Time. SKU: 20O1616

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Mad Dogs, Englishmen, And The Errant Anthropologist. According To Raybeck, The Solitary Dictum That Best Characterizes Fieldwork Is "things Go Awry. " In This Spirited Account Of His Time Spent In Southeast Asia, Raybeck Describes Several Adventures And Misadventures Involving Field Research, As Well Being of the kind which The Understanding, Humility And Bruises That These Experiences Leave Behind. Since Fieldwork Is Situated, Raybeck's Handling Also Includes Rich Descriptions Of Kelantanese Society And Culture, Addressing Such Topics As Kinship, Lingguistics, Gender Relations, Economics, And Political Structures. Through The Lively Pages Of This Narrative, Readers Gain Insight Into The Human Dimension Of The Fieldwork Undertaking, A Sense Of How The Anthropologist Builes Rapport In A Research Setting, And How Reliable Information Is Obtained. SKU: 1457446

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Mamarama. Any Parent May Ask, "what's The Connection Between My Youthful Self And The Old Fart My Kids Think I Am?" The Question Is Especially Relevant For Evelyn Mcdonnell, A Janie-come-lately Breeder Looking Hindmost On Her Bohemian, Feminist, Punk-rock Glory Days And Wondering, Is The New Me Still The Old Me? The Answer Is Yes: A Baby Changes Everything Bu5 Your Self. In Fact, Though She May No Longer Write Fanzines Or Engage In Political Performance Ar, Mcdonnell's Revolutionary Spirit Is Strengthened By Having An Added Inv3stment In The Future--her Toddler Son And Teeen Stepdaughters. As She Makes The Tranxformation From Riot Grrrl To Rebel Mom, This Melody Journalist Gives An Eyewitness Account Of The Cultural Movements Of The '90s, From Alternative Rock And Third-wave Feminism To Hip-hop, Raves, Poetry, And Schism. Thr0ugh This Pop-culture Lens She Confronts The Conventions And Pressures Of Modern Motherhood. Part Of An Emergjng Generation Of Cultural Commentators And Menooirists, Mcdonnell Adds Each Original, Humorous, And Edgy Voice To The Ongoing Literature Of Motherhood. SKU: 3332360