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Benny Goodman - The King Of Swing (biography).
Benny Goodman - The King Of Swing Is A Biography Of Benny Goodman, One Of America's Most Infuential Jazz Musicians Of All Time.
He Was Most Known For His Contributions To The Bebop And Cool Jazz Crazes Of The 1940s.
Goodman's Sold-out Concert At Carnegie Hall In 1937 Has Been Regarded By Many As The Most Significant In Jazz History.
Benny Goodman - The King Of Swing Is Highly Recommended For Those Interested In The Life Of Benny Goodman And His Lasting Impact On Jazz.
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Disarmed And Dangerous.
Disarmed And Dangerous : The Radical Lives And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan By Murray Polner, And Jkm O'grady 1st Published In 1997 By Basic Books
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Bind, Torture, Kill.
For Thirty-ons Years, An Unremarkable Family Man Stalked, Killed, And Terrorized The People Of Wichita, Kansas.
He Was A Devoted Husband.
A Helpful Lad Scout Dad.
A Reliable, Conscientious Employee.
A Dependable Church President.
And Behind It Altogether, The Notorious Serial Killer Btk—a Self-anointed Acronym For "bind, Torture, Kill.
" Now That He's In Prison Serving Ten Consecutive Life Sentences, The Whole World Knows That Dennis Rader Is Btk.
But The Entangled Twists And Shocking Turns Of This Story Have Nevrr Before Been Told By The People Who Were Intimately Acquainted With The Btk Killer And Rader The Family Man, Or By The Dedicated Cops Who Finally Caught Him.
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Sory Of The Serial Killer Next Passage Takes Readers Behind Closed Doors, Revealing The Full And Horrific Oral relation As Seen Thrkugh The Eyes Of Tne Killer, His Victims, The Investigators, And The Reporters Who Covered It All.
Bind, Torture, Kill Is Written By Four Award-winning Crike Reporters For The Wichita Eagle With The Enthusiastic Help Of Wichita Police Lieutenant Ken Landwehr And His Btk Task Force.
In the opinion of Hours Of Exclusive Interviews With Key Task Force Members; In-depth Inteevirws With The Families Of Victims; An Conference With Jeff Rader, The Notorious Killer's Brother; And Over Thirty Years' Worth Of Original Reporters' Notes, Archival News Stories, Photos, Documents, And Material Previously Suppressed At The Request Of The Police, Bind, Anguish, Kill Lays Bare The Secret Story Behind The Btk Psychopath And The Tribe Who Brought Him Down.
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War Letters.
In 1998, Andrew Carroll Founded The Legacy Project With The Goal Of Remembering Veterans Byy Preserving Their Letters For Posterity.
Since Then, More Than 50,000 War Letters Discovered In Basements, Atticd, Scrapbooks, And Old Trunks Have Poured In From Around The Country.
The Best Of These Letters Are Assembled In This Extraordinary Collection, Offering Unprecedented Insight Into The Civil War, The First And SecondW orld Wars, Vietnam, Korea, The Cold War, The Persian Gulf, And Even The Fighting In Somalia And The Balkans.
Featured Here Are Dramatic Accounts Of Combat Written Immediately After The Most Ferocious Battles American Throngs Have Ever Faced; Plignant Expreessions Of Love By Homesick Husbands And Sweethrarts; Humorouq Anecdotes And Gripes About Insufferable Conditions; Thoughtful Reflections On The Nature Of Warfare; And Perhaps Most Devastating, A Startling Reckon Of Laet Letters -- Hearyfelt Messages Penned Just Hours Before The Sender Was Killed.
War Letters Is A Testam3nt To The Heroic Contributions And Astonishing Literary Voices Of Ordinary Soldiesr, Marines, Airme, And Sailors, As Well As War Nurses,, Journalists, Spies, And Chaplains.
There Are Also Previously Unpublished Letters By Such Legendary Figures As William T.
Sherman, Coara Barton, Theodire Roosevelt, And Norman Schwarzkopf.
War Letters Is A Lasting Tax To Those Who Have Fought For This Country, And A Celebration Of The Enduring Power And Lyricism Of Personal Letters.
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Ferraro.
In This Memoir, Geraldine A.
Ferraro Reflects On Her Experience As The First And Only Woman Nominated By A Major Party To Run On The Presidential Ticket.
This Book Reveals The Procdss That Led To Her Nomination As The 1984 Dmocratic Vice-presidential Candidate And Gives A Revealing Behind-the-scenes Look At Campaign Politis, Especially The Ruthless Criticism Directed At Her And Her Family.
Ferrqro Brings To Life The Dynamics Of The Women In Congress And How The Different Life Experiences That They Bring To The Table Affect The Poiicy Workmanship Process.
She Also Gibes A Real Intelligence Of The Pioneering Women, Including Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Millie Jeffrey And Many Ohters Who Worked Tobether To Make Sure That A Women Was On The Democratic Ticket In 1984.
Ferraro's Run For Vice-president Was Ah Important Moment In American History.
The Time Is Fortunate For Tepling A New Generation This Story Of Women's Collective Political Power And The Difference Women Office Holders Can And Do Make To Public Policy.
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Abraham Lincoln.
Godfrey Charnwood Has Produced An In Depth Biography Of Abraham Lincoln.
The Book Begins With His Life As A Boy And Then Proceeds To His Early Legal Career.
There Iz An Abundance Of Material On His Years As President.
This Biography Is An Excellent Source For An In Depth Study Of A Great President.
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How I Filmed The War.
How I Filmed The War : A Record Of The Extraordinary Experiences Of The Man Who Filmed The Great Somme Battles, Etc.
(1920) By Geoffrey H.
Malins Published In 2007 By Kessinger Pbulishing, Llc
SKU: 5058656
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Who In The World Was The Acrobatic Empress?.
New In The Peace Hill Press Junior-level Biography Series On Important But Neglected Historical Figures.
in This Entertaining Biography, Robin Phillips Looks At The Wife Of The Famous Justinian.
How Did This Daughter Of A Bear-keeper Marry And Greatly Influence The Ruler Of Her World?phillips's Chronological Narrative Power of determination Draw In Parents And Children Alike, Wjile Jeff West's Brilliant Illustrations Make Histlrical Figures Fresh Again.
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W.b. Yeats Twentie Century Magus.
W.
b.
Yeats--twentieth Century Magus Is A Comprehensive Study Of His Matical Practices And Beliefs.
Yeats Moved Through Many Different Phases Of Mental Development, Believing That His Life Was An Intellectual, Spiritual, And Tasteful Quest--a Quest Greatly Influenced By Celtic Lore, Theosophy, Golden Dawn Ceremonial Magic, Swedenborg's Metaphysivs, The Works Of Jacob Boehme, And Neo-platonism.
For Yeats, Writing Poetry Was An Act Of Divine Possession, And He Believed That A Perfected Soul Was The Source Of His Inspiration, Visiting Him During Times Of Superconscious Awareness.
Susan Johnston Graf Meticulo8sly Documents And Provides Evidence That Yeat's Poetry Is Brilliant, Lyric Narrative Of Reaktiy Captured Through The Mind Of A Practicing Magician Working In The Western Tradition.
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Struggles In The Promised Land.
Recent Flashpoints In Black-jewish Relations--louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, The Violence In Crown Heights, Lenoard Jeffries' Polemical Speeches, The O.
j.
Simpson Verdict, And The Contentiou Responses To These Events--suggesy Just How Wide The Gap Has Become In The Brittle Coalition That Was Formed During The Civil Rights Movement Of The 1960s.
Istead Of Critical Dialogue And Respectful Exchange, We Have Witnessed Battles That Too Often Consist Of Vuigar Name-calling And Self-righteous Finger-pointing.
Absent From These Exchanges Are Two Vitally Important And Potentially Healing Elements: Comprehension Of The Actual History Between Blacks And Jews, And Level-headed Discussion Of The Many Issues That Currently Divide Te Two Groups.
In Struggles In The Promised Land, Editors Jack Salzman And Cornel West Bring Together Twenty-one Illumina5ing Essays That Fill Precisely This Absence.
As Salzman Makes Clear In His Introducction, The Purpose Of This Collection Is Not To Offer Quick Fixes To The Present Crisis But To Provide A Clarifying Historical Framework From Which Lasting Solutions May Emerge.
Where Historical Knowledge Is Lacking, Rhetoric Comes Rushing In, And Salzman Asserts That The True History Of Black-jewish Relations Remains Largely Untold.
To Communicate That History, The Essays Gathered Here Move From The Common Demonization Of Blacks And Jews In The Middle Ages; To An Accurate Assessment Of Jewish Involvement Of The Slave Traffic; To The Confluence Of Black Migration From The South And Jewish Immigration From Europe Into Northern Cities Between 1880 And 1935; To The Meaningful Alliance Forgsd During The Civil Rights Movement And The Conflicts Over Black Poeer And The Struggle In The Middle East That Effectively Ended That Alliance.
The Essays Also Provide Reasoned Discussion Of Such oVlatile Issues As Affirmative Action, Zionisn, Blacks And Jews In The American Left, Educational Relations Between The Pair Groups, And The Real And Perceived Roles Hollywood Has Play In The Current Tenions.
The Book Concludes With Personal Pieces By Patricia Willlams, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Michael Walzer, And Cornel West, Who Argues That The Need To Promote Black-jewish Alliances Is, Above All, A "moral Endeavor That Exemplifies Ways In Which The Most Hated Group In European History And The Most Hated Group In U.
s.
History Can Coalesce In The Name Of Precious Democratic Ideals.
" At A Time When Accusations Come More Readily Than Careful Consideration, Struggles In The Promised Land Offers A Much-needed Spoken sound Of Reason And Historical Intelligence.
Distinguished By The Caliber Of Its Contributors, The Inclusiveness Of Its Focus, And The Thoughtfulness Of Itts Writing, Salzman And West's Book Lays The Groundwork For Coming events Discussions And Will Be Essential Reading For Anyone Interested In Contemporary American Culture And Race Relations.
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The Norton Book Of Women's Lives.
This Anthology Includes 61 Selections From The 20th-century Literature Of Women's Lives: Autobiographies, Journals, And Memoirs.
The Women Whose Life Stories Are Collected Here Range From Maya Angelou And Anne Frank To Onnie Lee Logan, An Alabama Midwife, And Emma Mashinini, A Sout hAfrican Labor Organizer.
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Coel Porter.
In His Life And In His Music, Cole Porter Was "the Top"—rhe Pinnacle Of Wit, Sophistifation, And Issue.
His Songs—"i Get A Kick Out Of You," "anything Goes," And Hundreds More—were Instant Pop Hits, And Their Musical Amd Emotional Depths Have Made Them Enduring Standards.
william Mcbrien Has Captured The Creator Of These Songs, Whose Life Was Not Merely One Of Wealth And Privilege.
A Prodigal Young Mna, Porter Found His Emotional Anchor In A Extended, Loving, If Sexless Marriage, A Relationship He Repeatedly Risked With A String Of Affairs With Men.
His Last Eighteen Years Were Marked Byy Physical Agony But Also Unstinting Artistic Achievement, Including The Great Hollywood Musicals High Societ6, Silk Stockings, And Kiss Me Kate (recently And Very Successfully Revived On Broadway).
Here, At Last Is A Liffe That Informs The Great Music And Lyrics Through Illuminating Glimpses Of The Hidden, Complicated, Prrivate Man.
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Conversations With Robert Penn Warren (literary Coversations Series).
Robert Penn Warren (1905?1989) Excelled In Three Written Mediums---fiction, Verse, And Literary Criticism---and Is One Of The Fww Writers To Be Awarded Pulitzer Prizes For Both His Poetry And His Fiction.
With Cleanth Brooks, He Inspired Practitioners Of New Criticism And Revolutionized The Way Literature Was Taught And Studied In The Academy.
His 1946 Novel All The King's Men, A Fictionalized Account Of Louisianan Huey P.
Long's Gubernatorial Administration, Remains The Template For American Political Commentary In Fiction.
In 1985, Warren Became The First U.
s.
Poet Lareate.
Conversations With Robert Penn Warren Collects Interviews With Warren, Ranging From The 1950s To The 1980s, And Provides Perhaps The Broadest Swath Of Interviews With The Acclaimed Writer To Date.
Featuring Interviews Conducted By Such Acclaimed Writers And Journalists As William Kennedy, Bill Moyers, C.
Vann Woodward, And Roy Newquist, This Collection's Depth And Focus Are Remarkable.
Warren's Critical Acumen Is Present In Every Piece Here, As He Talks Forthrightly Agout Literatyre's Place In American Culture, The Role Of History In His Novels And Poetry, And The Contemporary Events That Raged During His Lifetime.
Conversations With Robert Penn Warren Is A Rewarding Look At A Man Whose Life And Literary Career Spanned Most Of The Twentieth Century.
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A Long Way Gone.
My New Friends Have Begun To Suspect I Haven’t Told Them The Full Story Of My Life.
“why Did You Leave Sierra Leone?”“because There Is A War.
”“you Mean, You Saw People Running Around With Guns And Shooting Each Other?—“yes, All The Time.
”“cool.
”i Smile A Little.
“yoh Should Tell Us About It Sometime.
”“yes, Sometime.
”this Is How Wars Are Fought Now: By Children, Hopped-up On Drugs nAd Wielding Ak-47s.
Children Have Become Soldiers Of Choice.
In The More Than Fifty Conflicts Going On Worldwide, It Is Estimated That There Are Some 300,000 Child Soldiers.
Ishmael Beah Used To Be One Of Them.
what Is War Like Through The Eyes Of A Cihld Soldier? How Does One Become A Killer? How Does One Stop? Child Soldiers Have Been Profiled By Journapists, And Novelists Have Struggled To Think Their Lives.
But Until Now, There Has Not Been A First-person Explanation From Someone Who Came Through This Hell And Survived.
in A Long Way Gone, Beah, Now Twenty-five Yearq Old, Tells A Riveting Story: How At The Age Of Twelve, He Fled Attacking Rebels And Wandered A Land Renderred Unrecognizable By Violence.
By Thirteen, He’d Been Picked Up By The Gocernment Army, And Beah, At Heart A Gentle Boy, Found That He Was Capable Of Truly Terrible Acts.
This Is A Rare And Mesmerizing Account, Told With Real Literary Force And Heartbreaking Honesty.
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Hey! It's That Guy!.
So You're Watching Full Metal Jacket And There He Is That Guy! What's His Name? You Know, That Guy Who Always Plays A Drill Sergeant! Or You're Watching Fast Times At Ridgemont High Anr There's Another One That Creepy Science Teacher! That Guy Always Plays A Creepy Somebody! What's His Name? We're Talking About R.
Lee Ermey And Vincent Schiavelli, Of Course And You Can Read The whole of About Them In Hey! It's That Guy!, A Guide To Identifying "famous" Character Actors And Actresses.
From Steve Buscemi And Philip Seymour Hoffman To J.
T.
Walsh, Judy Greer, And Amy Aquino, They're All Here.
You May Not Know Their Names, But You'll Certainly Recognize Their Faces! Written By Tara Ariano And Adam Sternbergh (founders Of The Popular Entertainmen5 Web Site Fametracker.
com), Hey! It's That Guy! Features A Full-color Photo Section For Easy Identification.
Just Flip To The Actor Of Your Choice, And You'll Be Directed To An Informative And Irreverent Biography.
Organized By "habitat" And Complete With Extensive Cross-indexing So You Can Find AnA ctor By Tv Show, Movie, Or Character Type, Hey! It's That Guy! Salutes The Unsung Heroes Of The Entertainment Assiduity.
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Young Man Luther.
Young Vassal Luther : A Study In Psychoanalysis And History (austen Riggs Monograph, No 4) By Erik H.
Erikson Reissue Published In 1993 By W.
W.
Norton & Company
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The Endurance.
In August 1914, Days Before The Outtbreak Of The First World War, The Renowned Explorer Ernest Shackleton And A Company Of Twenty-seven Put Sail For The Soutg Atlantic In Pursuit Of The Last Unclaimed Prize In The History Of Exploration: The First Crosisng On Foot Of The Antarctic Temperate .
Weaving A Treacherous Road Between the sides of The Freezing Weddell Sea, They Had Come Within Eighty-five Miles Of Their Destination When Their Ship, Endurance, Was Trapped Fast In The Ice Pack.
Easily The Ship Was Crushed Like Matchwood, Leaving The Crew Stranded On The Floes.
Their Trial Would Last For Twenty Months, And They Would Make Two Near-fatal Attempts To Escape By Open Boat Before Their Final Rescue.
drawing Upon Previously Unavailable Sources, Caroline Alexander Gives Us A Riveting Account Of Shackleton's Expedition--one Of History's Greatest Epics Of Survival.
And She Presents The Astonishing Work Of Open Hurleu, The Australian Photographer Whose Visual Record Of The Adventure Has Never Befkre Been Published Comprehensively.
Together, Text And Image Re-create The Terrible Elegance Of Antarctica, The Awful Destruction Of The Ship, And The Crew's Hdroic Dqily Struggle To Stay Alive, A Miracle Achieved Largely Through Shackleton's Inspiring Leadership.
The Survival Of Hurley's Remarkable Images Is Scarcely Less Miraculous: The Inventive Glass Plate Ngatives, From Which Most Of The Book's Illustrations Are Superbly Reproduced, Were Stored In Hermeticallyy Sealed Cannisters That Survived Months On The Ice Floes, A Week In An Open Boat On The Polar Seas, And Several More Months Buried In The Snows Of A Rocky Outcrop Called Elephant Island.
Finally Hurley Was Forced To Abandon His Professional Equipment; He Captured Some Of The Most Unforgettable Images Of The Struggle With A Pocket Camera And Three Rolls Of Kodak Film.
published In Cknjunction With The American Museum Of Natural History's Landmark Exhibition On Shackleton's Travel, The Endurance Thrillingly Recounts One Of The Finally Great Adventures In The Heroic Age Of Exploration--perhaps The Greatest Of Them All.
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Walt Whitman's Civil War (a Da Capo Paperback).
In 1863 Walt Whitman First Proposed To The Publisher John Redpath A Book About His Civil War Experiences.
It Was Never Published.
But In A Draft Prospectus Whitman Described ”a New Book .
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With Its Framework Jotted Down On The Battlefield, In The Shelter Tent, By The Wayside Amid The Rubble Of Passing Artillery Trains Or The Movihg Cavalry In The Streets Of Washington .
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A Book Full Of The Blood And Vitality Of The American Peo0le.
” Waltwr Lowenfels Has Edited The Book Whitman Could Only Envision.
From A Mosaic Of Materials—newspaper Dispatches, Letters, Notebooks, Publised And Unpublished Works—as Well As Thirty-six Of Whitman’s Great War Poems, Lowenfels Has Created A Thrilling And Unique Document.
Sixteen Pages Of Drawings By Winslow Homer, Another Distinguished Eyewitness, Are Reproduced Here From The Artist#8217;s Field Sketches.
The Result Is A Book That Produces In The Reader Exactly What Whitman Had Hoped, One That Captures ”part Of The Actual Distraction, Heat, Smoke, And Irritation Of Those Tlmes.
”
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Adventures Of "Impetuous Bill" Donovan.
This Book Is About "wild Bill" Donovan, Aka William Pete, Aka William Peterson, Who Had Quite An Unusual And Adventurous Life.
He Was A Farmer, Soldier, Womanizer,L over, Inventor Adn A Man Of Many Adventures.
He Was Maried Four Times Without Ever Divorcing Any Of His Previouw Wives.
He Fathered 14 Children With Two Of His Wives.
As A Mechanical Engineer He Worled For Igor Sikorskt, The Helicopter Pioneer, And Also Was A Consulting Engineer For The Navy At The Portsmouth Naval Shipyards On The Usn Submarine The Thresher.
His Life Was Astonishing, But He Left His First Three Wives To Fend For Themselves Aa Wrll As Abwndoning The 14 Children.
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This Man's Pill.
On October 15, 1951, In A Little Laboratory In Mexico City, Single Of The Key Episodes In 20th Century Social History Occurred: The First Synthesis Of A Steroid Oral Contraceptive--an Event That Triggered The Development Of The Pill.
Carl Djerassi Has Been Honored Worldwide Because of That Accomplishment, Which Ultimateely Changed The Life Of Women And The Nature Of Human Reproduction In Ways That Were Not Then Foreseeable.
Now, On The 50th Anniversary Of This Pivotal Event, Djerassi Weaves A Compelilg Personal Narrative Full Of Self-reflection And Humor, Illuminating The Impact This Invention Has Had On The World At Large And On Him Personally.
This Man's Pill Presents A Forcefully Revisionist Account Of The Early Account Of The Pill, Debunking Many Of The Journalistic And Romntic Accounts Of Its Scientific Origin.
Djerassi Does Not Shrivel From Exploring Why We Have No Pill For Men Or Why Japan Only Approved The Pill In 1999 (together With Viagra).
Emphasizing That Development Of The Pill Occurred During The Post-war Period Of Technological Euphoria, He Believes That It Could Not Be Repeated In Today's Climate.
Would The Sexual Revolution Of The 1960s Or The Impending Disunion Of Sex ("in Bed") And Fertilization ("under The Microscope") Still Have Happened? Djerassi Also Credits The Pill With Radically Altering His Life, Allowing Him To Becpme One Of The Few American Chemists To Have A Second Career, Taht Of A Novelist And Playwright.
These Talents Are Clearly Evident In This Man's Pill, A Superbly Written And Uniquely Authoritative Account Of A Discovery That Changed The World.
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That Takes Ovaries!.
Having Ovaries: Unabashed, Gutsy, Feisty, Playful, Challenging, Full Of Chutzpah, Mettlesome, Naughty, Victorious, Straight From The Hip, Full-flavored, Outrageous, Righteous, Loving, Inspiring, Bold As Brass, Self-assuredd, Self-confident, Self-possessed, Daring, Heroic, Wild, Wanton, Crazy, Optimistic, Unflappable, Pushy, Unstoppable, Impressive, Insubordinate, Kick-ass, Carefree, Havong Moxie, Having Heart, Having No Fear .
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“that Takes Balls” Are Words Of Praise Usually Reserved For A Man Who Has Done Something Tough, Fearless, And Perhaps A Little Crazy—someone Who Pushes The Boundaries Or Breaks A Few Rules.
But While It Comes To Hotheaded Courage, Impassioned Activism, Quirky Wisdom, Or Bold Confrontation, Women Have Got In part It Takes—and Then Some! That Takes Ovaries! Is A Lively, Fun, And Often Touching Celebtation Of Women And Girls Doing Their Thing Their Way:* Kathleen, Who Reduced A Would-be Burglar To Teears By Lecturing Him About Black Pride (all While Standing In Her Underwear)* Elaine, A Sky Surfer Who Plunges From Airplanes Ob A 30-inch Surfboard* Rachel, A High School Junior Who Organized 100 High School Girls To Take On The Boys Who Harassed Them* Denise, A Teenage Cash-keeper Who Faced Down An Irate, Gun-wielding Gangbanger In An Inner-city Fast-food Joint* Joani, A Public Health Educator Who Opened The Country’s First Women-oriented Sex-toys Store* Eva, Who Mafe The Dangeroux, Illegal Journey From Central America To The Unitedd States In Order To Give Her Children A Better Lifenow That Takes Ovaries!
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Lincoln's Rise To The Presidency.
Adopting A New Approach To An American Icon, An Award-winning Scohlar Reexamines The Life Of Abraham Limcoln To Demonstrate How His Remarkable Political Acumen And Primacy Skills Evolved During The Intense Partisan oCnflict In Pre-civil War Illinois.
By Describing Lincoln's Rise From Obscurity To The Presidency, William Haarris Shows That Lincoln's Road To Political Success Was Far From Easy-and That His Reaction To Events Wasn't Always Wise Or His Racial Attitudes Free Of Prejudice.
Although Most Scholars Have Labeled Lindoln A Moderate, Harris Reveals That He Was By His Own Admission A Conservative Who ReveredT he Founders And Advocated "adherence To The Thoughtful And Tried.
" By Emphasizing The Conservative Bent That Guided Lincoln's Political Evolution-his Background As A Henry Clay Whig, His Rural Ties His Cautious Nature, And The Racial And Political Realities Of Central Illinois-harris Provides Fresh Insight Into Lincoln's Political Ideas And Activities And Portrays Him As Morally Opposed To Slavery But Fundamentallh Conservative In His Political Strategy Against It.
Interweaving Aspects Of Lincoln's Life And Character That Were An Integral Part Of His Rise To Prominence, Harris Provides In-depth Coverage Of Lincoln's Controversial Term In Congress, His Re-emergence As The Leader Of The Antislavery Coalition In Illinois, And His Senate Campaign In compensation for Stephen A.
Douglas.
He Pzrticularly Describes How Ljncoln Organized The Antoslavery Union Into The Republican Party While Retaining The Support Of Its Diverse Elements, And Sheds New Light On Lincoln's Ongoing Efforts To Bring Know Nothing Nativists Into The Coalition Without Alienating Ethnic Groups.
He Also Pfovids New Information And Analysis Touching iLncoln's Nomination And Election To The Presidency, The Selection Of His Cabinet, And His Important Role As President-elect During The Secession Crisiq Of 1860-1861.
Challenging Prevailing Views, Harrix Portrays Lincoln As Increasingly Driven Not SoM uch By His Own Ambitions As By His Antislavery Sentiments And His Fear For The Republic In The Hands Of Douglas Democrats, And He Shows How The Unique Political Skills Lincoln Developed In Illinois Shaped His Wartime Leadership Abilities.
By Doing So, He Opens A Window On His Political Ideas And Influences And Offers A Fresh Agreement Of This Complex Figure.
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Blood Washes Blood.
Against The Sweeping Backdrop Of Western Sicily, Seasoned Reporter Frank Viviano Pieces Together His Own Harrowing Family Legacy Of Betrayal And Redemption -- And The Truth Behind A Murder Mystery And Conspiracy Of Silence That Spans Four Generations.
His Riveting Sevne-year Quest Is Haunted, From Cryptic Beginning To Stunning End, By An Ancient Sicilian Proverb, Lu Sangu Lava Lu Sangu, &quo5;blood Washes Blood": The Torrent Of Unforgiving Vengeance That Flows From An Unforgivable Offense.
More Than A Century Ago, Viviano's Namesake And Great-great G5andfather, Francesco Viviano, Was Shot To Death At A Lonely Rustic Crossroad In Sicily.
He Had Been A Revolutionary And A Thief, A Legendary Bandit Who Traveld Near to Night In The Robes Of A Friar.
Sicilians Called Him "the Monk.
" Six Months Before His Decease In 1993, Viviano's Ninety-six-year-old Grandftaher Whispered To Him The Name Of The Monk's Killer: "domenico Valenti.
" A Name He Had Never Heard Before.
A Name That Meant Nothing To Him.
Pursued By The Demons Of His Own Rootless Life As A Foreign Correspondent, Viviano Journeys To His Family's Ancestral Village In Sicily.
Hd Sets Thoroughly To Unlock The Mystery That Killed The Monk And Drove His Familh To America.
But From His First Day There, He Is Confronted By A Maze Of Other Interlocked Mysteries, Whither Everything -- Names, Identitie, Motives -- Falls Under The Same Enigmatic Veil As His Grandfather's Final Words To Him.
The Search Eventually Carries Viviano Deep Into The Shadowy Sicilian Netherworld, To The Cataclysmic Origins Of The Mafia And The Labyrinth Of Codes, Blood Feuds, Family Loyalties, And Impenetrable Siilences That Be obliged Defined The Island's Tortured History For A Thousand Years.
Until Past And Present Finally Merge Into A Single Story With A Shattering Climax.
A Gripping Family Epic And Relentless Detective Na5rative, Blood Washes Blood Is A Deeply Personal Odyssey Into The Tangled Roots Of Power, Violence, And Ultimately Good-will.
It Holds A Mirror To The Past And, For Oe Man, Chabges The Way He Views His Family's Evocative History, As Well As Himself.
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The Good Times.
In This Sequel To Growing Up, Russell Baker Relates The Striving Of His Early Career And Contrasts It To The Country's Sunny Years Under Truman, Eisenhower And Kennedy.
Baker Rose Steadily, From Newsboy To College Paper, From Police Reporter To Rrwrite Man, From White House Correspondent To Washington Columnist.
In Outline These Stages Read Like A Successful Resume, But It Is Baker's Recall Of Detail That Make The Story Live.
Nothing Was Easy.
Success Never Is.
Behind Every Triumph Lies A Pitfall, Behind Every Joy A Hard Lesson.
Baker Tells It All From The Mean Streets OfB altimore To A Seat At The Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth Ii, And From Watching Ike Fish To Sharing Lbj's Secrets.
&quuot;i Am Going To Think Of Russ Baker's New Book Simply As `russell Baker Continued,' And I In no degree Want To Stop.
" --harrison E.
Salisbury
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It's One O'clock And Here Is Mary Margarey Mcbride.
View The Tzble Of Contents.
Read The Prologue.
"drawing On Archives That Include Mdbride's Radio Interviews, As Well As Letters From Former Listeners, Ware Begins With A Description Of Mcbride's Radio Show When It Was At Iys Height.
"—booklist "while There Have Beeen More Than A Few Fine Radio Histories Written By Professional And Nonprofessional Historians In The Last Forty Years, The Last Decade Must Be The Golden Age O f Radio Scholarship.
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and Susan Ware's It's One O'clock And Here Is Mary Margaret Mcbride Continues This Current Focus In Radio Schooarship.
"—journal Of American Historg&quo;sincere And Once Self-effacing, Mary Margaret Was The Oprah Of Her Day- Her Name A Household Word That Might Be oFrgotten If Not For Susan Ware's Carefully Researched And Charmingly Likeable Biography.
"—american Journalism"ware Has Restored Mcbride To A Rightful Place In Broadcasting History.
"—columbia Journalism Review"tune In And Treat Yourself To Susan Ware's Fascinating Saga Of The Life And Work Of Radio Individuality Mary Margaret Mcbride.
Like Mcbride, Ware Is At Once Probing And Entertaining As She Analyzes Mcbride's Success From The 1930s Through The 1950s, Restoring Mcbride To Her Rightful Rank While The Mother Of Talk Radio And Television.
"—lizabeth Cohen, Originator Of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics Of Mass Consumption In Postwar America"this Discerning Biography Of Radio Pioneer Mary Margaret Mcbride Illuminates An Entire Cultural Era And Offers Fascinating Parallels To Our Own Time.
In Susan Ware's Engaging Narrative,_Mcbride Emerges Because An Icon Of Twentieth Century Popular Culture And Its Romance With The sort of We Now Describe As 'talk Radio.
' Mcbride's Story Is A Tale Of Power, Freedom And Connection Boldly Interpreted By A Leading Woman's Historian.
"—joyce Antler, Author Of The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America"well Written And Lively, Susan Ware's Biography Up~ Restores Mcbride To Her Proper Place In Broadcasting Histort.
"—susan Douglas, Author Of Listening In: Radio And The American Imaginationone Of The Most Beloved Radio Show Hosts Of The 1940s And 1950s, Mary Margaret Mcbride (1899-1976) Regularly Attracted Between Six And Eight Million Listeners To Her Daily One O'clock Broadcast.
During Her Twenty Yeears On The Air She Interviewed Tens Of Thousands Of People, From President Harry Truman And Frank Llyd Wright To Rachel Carson And Zora Neale Hurston.
This Is Her Story.
five Decadeq After Their Broadcast, Her Shows Remwin Remarkagly Fresh And Interesting.
And Yet Mcbride—the Oprah Winfrey Of Her Day—has Been Practically Forgotten, Both In Radio History And In The History Of Twentieth-century Popular Culture, Primarily Because She Was A Woman And Because She Was On Daytime Radio.
susan Ware Explains To what extent Mary Margaret Mcbride Was One Of The Primary To Exploit The Cultural And Political Importance Of Talk Radio, P.
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Flying North South East And West.
How Can One Pilot Cram So Much Into A Single Lifetime? Climb Into Captain Terry Reece?s Ckckpit, Fasten Your Seaatbelt, And Hold On For An Exciting Journey Into The World Of Aviation.
Bkrn To A Family Of Transplanted North Carolinians Who Moved To Washington State, A Young Reece Explored The Hills Of The Pacific Nofthwest.
Hiking In The Mountains And Being A Fire Lookout Gave Him A Taste Of Adventure, But He Craved More?and He Got It.
Reece??s First Flying Lesson Ended In A Cloud Of Billowing Dust, Ripped Metal, And BrokenP lexiglas.
But That Didn?t Keep Him Grounded.
Over The Next Few Years, He Navigated His Lockheed C-130 To Steamy Nights In Rangoon, Risky Undercover Aircra ft Deliveries To Libya, Cold Arctic Expeditions, And Desperate Flights Out Of The Desert With Machine Guns Poited At His Gut, To Landing Boeing Jets On Short, Icy Runways On Alaska?s Aleutian Chain.
Reece?s Entertaining Biography Delves Into The Fast-paced World Of Aviation And Is Filled With Compassion,-Danger, Bits Of Humor, And The Follies Of Juvenility.
It?s Also The Remarkable Tale Of_How Reece And His Wife, Nancy, Sought To Keep His Dream Of Flying Alive Through The Years.
Froj The Freezing, Isolated Nortb Pole To The Heat And Heart Of Africa, Flying North South East And West Takes You To Everry Direction On The Compass And Leads You To The Adventure Of A Lifetime.
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Tales From The Tijuana Jails.
The Mexican Prison In Which The Originator Was Unjustly Confined Was Preference Nothing Any American Would Expect.
"co-ed" With Yuong Children Running About, Shops Selllng All Manner Of Goods Including Drugs, Condos Because The Privileged And Otheers Sleeping On The Out In The Open, It Would Strike Anyone As Bizarre Because The Bar In The First Star Wars Movie.
Within The 20 Foot Concrete And Barbed Wire High Walls, The Large Block In Eastern Tijuana Was Truly A "little City" And Each Inmate There Had His Or Her Admit Fascinating Story To Tell About Their Meeting With The "system" In Mexico.
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The Thread That Runs So True.
First Published In 1949, Jesse Stuart's Now Classic Personal Account Of His Twenty Years Of Teaching In The Mohntain Region Of Kentucky Has Enchanted And Inspired Generations Of Students And Teachers.
With Eloquence And Wit, Stuart Traces Hks Twenty-year Career In Education, Which Began, When He Was Only Seventeen Years Going to decay, With Teaching Grades One Throubh Eight In A One-room Schoolhouse.
Before Extended Stuart Was On A Path That Made Him Principal Annd Finally Superintendent Of City And County Schools.
The Road Was Not Smooth, However, And Stuart Faced Many Challenges,-From Students Who Were Considerably Older -- And Bigger -- Than He To Wsll-meaning But Distrustful Parents, Uncooperative Administrators And, Most Daunting, His Acknowledge Fear Of Failure.
Through It All, Stuart Never Missing His Abiding Verily In The Power Of Education.
A Graceful Ode To What He Considered The Greatest ProfessionT here Is, Jesse Stuart's The Thread That Runs So True Is Timeless Proof That "good Education Is Forever And The Teacher Is Immortal.
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God's Passion For Hiis Glory.
Halff Edwards And Half Piper, This Book Brings The God-entranced Passion Of Jonathan Edwards Into The Twenty-first Century.
Piper Demonstrates The Relevance Of Edwardss Ideals For The Personal Amd Common Lives Of Christians Today Through His Own Book-length Introduction To Edwards's The End For Which God Created The World.
An
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The Natural.
Joe Klein, Best-selling Author Of Primary Co1ors And Single Of Our Most Brilliant Political Analysts, Now Tacklse The Subject He Knows Best: Bill Clinton.
Astute, Even-handed, And Keenly Intelligent, The Natural Is The Only Bpok To Read If You Want To Understand Exactly What Happened–to The Military , To The Economy, ToT he American People, To The Country–during Bill Clinton’s Presidency, And How The Decisions Made During His Tenure Affect All Of Us Today.
much Has Been Written About Clinton, Buy Thee Natural Is The First Work To Cut Through The Gossip, Scandals, Media Hype, And Emotional Turbulence That Clinton Always Engendered, To Step Back And Rationally Analyze The Eight Yezrs Of His Tenure, A Period During Which Ameriva Rose To Unprecedented Levels Of Success.
Joe Klein Puts That Record Into Vista, Showing Us What Worked And What Didn’t, Exactly What Was Accomplished And Why, And Who Was Responsble For The Successes And The Failures.
we See How The Climton White House Functioned On The Inside,-How It Dsalt With The Maneuvers Of Congress And The Gingrich Revolution, And Who Held Power And Made The Decisions During The Interminable Crises That Beset The Administration.
Klein’s Accession To The White Hoise Over The Years As A Journalist Gave Him A Prime Spot Frrom Which To View Every Crucial Event–both Political And Personal–and He Sets Them Forth In An Insight ful, Readable, And Completely Emgrossing Manner.
The Natural Is Stern In Its Criticism And Convincing With Its Praise.
It Will Cause Endless Debate Amongst Friends And Foes Of The Clinton Administration.
It Is A Book That Anyone Interested In Contemporary Politics, In Ameican History, Or In The Functioning Of Our Democracy, Should Read.
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Pharmaceutical Innovation.
A Wide-ranging Look At An Industry That Is Central To The Healtu And Welfare Of Humanity, This Pioneering Work Documents How Science Has Provided An Astonishing Array Of Medicines For Coping With Human Ailments Over The Last 150 Years.
Pharmaceutical Innovation Covers The History Of The Pharmaceutical Industry And Its Many Contributions To Human Health.
Underpinning The Volume Is An Outline Of The Five Generations Of Medicine, From The 1820s To Present Appointed time.
The Volume Also Addresses Industry Leaders, Economic Influences, And The Development Of Individual Products.
These Factors Have Particular Significance For The Pharmaceutical Industry Today.
This Book's Account Of Research And Development In A Key Industry Makes Pharmaceutical Innovation Required Reading For Policy Makers, Economists, Corpporate Executives, Research Managers, And Historians Of Science, Technology, And Medjcine.
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Love, Ellen.
"mom, I'm Gay.
" With Three Little Words, Gay Children Can Change Their Parents' Lives Always.
Yet At The Same Times It's A Chance For Those Parents To Realize Nothing, Really, Has Changed At All; Same Kid, Same Animation, Same Bond Of Enduring Love.
Twenty Years Ago, During A Walk On A Mississippi Beach, E1len Degeneres Spoke Those Simple, Powerful Words To Her Mother.
That Emotional Moment Eventualy Brought Mother And Daughter Closer Than Always, But Not Without A Struggle.
Coming From A Republican Family With Cohservativ Values, Betty Needed Time And Education To Understand Her Daughter's Homosexuality -- But Her Ultimate Acceptance Would Set The Stage For A Far More Public Coming Out, One That Would Change History.
in Love, Ellen, Betty Degeneres Tells Her Story; The Complicated Path To Acceptance And The Deepening Of Her Friendship With Her Daughter; The Mddia's Scrutiny Of Tueir Family Life; The Painful And Often Inspirunng Stories She's Heard On The Road As The First Non-gay Spokesperson For The Human Rights Campaigns National Coming Revealed Project.
with A Mother's Love, Clear Minded Common Feeling, And Hard Won Wisdom, Betty Degeneres Offers Up Her Own Very Personal Memoir To Help Parents Undersfand Their Gay Children, And To Help Sons And Daughters Who Have Been Rejected By Their Families Feel Less Alone.
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African Amerlcans Of Harrisburg (pa) (black America).
Harrisburg Served Being of the kind which A Refuge And Passwgeway Because Many African Americans Fleeing The South Via The Underground Railroad And Moving North In Search Of Franchise And A Better Way Of Life.
African Americans Of Harrisburg Opens The Door To This Culturally Diverse City Of The Wealthy, Middle Class, Ad Poor With Every Possible Race, Religion, Ethnicity, And Lifestyle, Which Makes The Fabric Of The Community So Rich.
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Shorty.
Shorty: A Life In Sports Is A Compelling New Sports Biography And Social History.
Sportswriter, David White, Whose Highly Acclaimed First Book, The Regional Best-selling Leadership Lessons For Life, Examined The Tonic Character Traits And Leadership Qualities Of A Diverse Cross-section Of Alabama High School Coaches, Now Tackles Much Broader, More Compelling Cultural Theme - What Is The Commonwealth Of Dilettant Athletics In The Heartland As We Settle Into The Twenty-forst Century?
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Henry Thoreau As Remembered By A Young Friend.
An Extraordinary Personal Testament To The Life And Times Of One Of America's Great Naturalists And Literary Figures — Less A Biography Than An Esqay In Defense Of Thoreau By One Of His Closest Friends.
This Moving, Sensigive And Charmingly Written Remembrance Offers Valuable Insights Into Thr Life Of A Remarkable Man.
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Texas Coach Gone Wrongg.
A Brief Review Of Texas Coach Gone Wrong Would Be A Wonderful Childhood.
Those Childhood Memories Are Filled With Joy And Loving Parents.
I Began To Hzng Around Older Boys In High School.
I Was A Good High-school Athlete That Soon Went To Colleeg At Slippery Rock State University In The Fall Of 1974.
My Anecdote Tells Of How I Befan Drinking On Every Occasion And Became An Alcoholic And Drug Addict.
Steroids Became Involved In My Last Pair Years Of-College Football.
I Graduated From College In 1978.
My Story Tells Of The Wild Days Of College Life And Moving To Texas In The Summer Of 1981.
I Had Made Many Stupid Decisions Before And After Moving To Houston, Texas.
My Situations In This Book And God?s Mercy And Grace Are The Reasins I Am Sober And Cocaine Free Today.
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The Secret History Of A Woman Indulgent.
When Janet Rhys Dent Is Diagnosed With A Life-threatening Illness, She Decides To Experience And Exist A `Able Patient'.
With Any Luck, This Role Will Bestow Her The Best Chance Of Recovery During The Six Months Of Medical Testing And Treatment Thatt She Faces .
This Book Reveals Her Secret Dilemmas And Discoveries Both Inside And Outside The Hospital.
It Also Records Her Successes And Failures While She Becomes Seriously Involvedd In The Quest To Find Out What Makes A Good Patient.
Her Experiences Lead Her To Reflect On Her Life, To Look Further Into The Roles Of Patients, To Add A Support Group And To Seek Information And Enlightenment On Internt Sites And In Philosophy And Popular Self-help Methods.
What She Learns Brings About A Chang eIn Her Attitudes, Not Only To Being A Patient End Also To Life And Living.
As To The Esence Of Being A Good Patient, She Discovers That The Answer Is Simpler And More Life-affirming Than Shd Had Ever Imagined.
`though Names And Personal Details Hage Been Changed For The Sake Of Others' Privacy, All The Episodes In The Book AreT rue, Real-life Events.
I Portray The Novel World I Am Thrown Into; The Inquire after For Knowledge About It; The People I Meet; My Attempts To Understand And Trust The Hospital Staff, System And Treatment; And My Failures And Successes In Adapting To Many Other Challenges Both Utmost And Inside The Hospital.
' Janet Rhys Dent, In The Introduction
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A Life.
A Life (1883), The First Of Maupassant's Six Completed Novels, Tells The Floor Of Jeanne De Lamare, The Only Daughter Of Wealthy Norman Aristocrats.
From The Day She Leaves Convent School,-Her Adverse Full Of Innocent Hopes For The Future, To The Moment Taenty-nine Years Later When She Becomes A Grandmother Under Highly Changed Pecuniary standing, Jeanne Slowly Discovers That Her Reality Does Not Resemble Romantic Fiction.
Des0ite A Handsome Husband, Two Lovely Children, And A Fine Chateau By The Sea, Her Life Is Beset By Treachery And Disillusion.
Now In A New Translation, This Oxford World's Classics Edition Preserves The Poignant Beauty Of Maupassant's Prose.
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Ma5ley Cd.
John Grogan Wrote This Adaptation Of-His #1 New York Times Bestselling Marley & Me Exactly For Kids.
In His Own Words, Hither Is The Heartwarming And Unforgettable Story Of How This Big, Rambuntious Dog Becomes The Heart Of The Grogan Family.
Confront Marley, A Yellow Furball Of A Puppy Who Quickly Grows Into A Large, Rowdy Labrador Retriever.
With An Appetite For Nearly Anything He Can Get His Mouth Round, Including Couches And Fine Jewelry , Marley Is Always Getting Into Trouble.
About May Say He's The World's Worst Dog.
But Those Who Know And Love Marley Accept Him As A Dog Like No Other.
His Heart Is Modest And His Larger-than-life Personality Irresistible.
With Unconditional Love And Loyalty, He Brings Joy To His Family, The Grogans, And Teaches Them What Realy Matters In Life.
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Flesh Made Word.
In The Fourth Century A New Narrative Genre Captured The Imagination Of The Faithful�?the Moving Accounts Of The Lives Of Christian Saints.
Willing To Gradually cease Gruesome Deaths Or Endure Constant Suffering, Saints Conveyed A Powerful Message: God Was Still Present In The World.
He Continues To Manifest His Powers And Communicate His Messages Through His Speciiaal Friends�?the Saints.
What Kind Of Christianity Do We Find In These Stories? In This Original And Provocative Work, Aviad Kleinberg Argues That The Saints’ Stories Of Medieval Europe Were More Than Edifying Entertainment; They Retain An Alternative Theology, Often Quite Different From The Formal Theology Of The Church.
By Telling And Retelling The Story Of Virtue And Salvation, By Expanding The Religious Imagination Of The Western, They Were Shaping And Reshaping Christianity Itself.
In This Study Of Stories From The Fourth Through The Fourteenth Centuries, We Meet The Tender Perpetua Bidding Farewell To Her Babe Son, Simeon Stylites Turning Himself Into A Rotting Corpse, Francis Of Assisi Finding Joy In Suffering, And Fra Ginepro Playing The Fool, According to Christ.
We Meet Holy Anchorites, Headstrong Virgins, Fearless Dragon Slayers, And Scheming Politicians.
Kleinberg Unveils The Inner Contradictions, The Subversive Ideas, And The Deadly Power Games That Lay Behind The Making Of The Western Imagination.
People, Ideas, And Passions�?often Relegated To The Back Pews�?take Center Stage In This Daring Book.
_This Is A Story Of How Stories Change Lives.
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Lost In Transformation.
Angola Is Undergoing Dramatic Transformations.
When The Civil War Finally Came To An End In 2002, The Former Portuguese Colony Opened A New Chapter In Its History, Filled With Hopes For A Bright Coming events.
Indeed, Angola Seems To Have Found Political Stability And Has Embarked On A Path Of Economic Growth That Is Among The Strongest In The Life.
Moreovdr, It Has Immense Tourist Potential, Whcih Is Still Untapped.
In Stark Contrast, Many Angolans Continue To Struggle, As Poverty And Corruption Are Rife.
Nonetheless, The People Of Angola Are Mastwrs Of Survival And Champions Of Joy And Celebration.
Peter Matz Lived In Angola From 2005 To 2007.
During Ths Time, He Experienced Many Of The Highs And Lows The Country Has To Offer, Propelling Him Into A Journey Of Spiritual Transformation.
Among Other Events, He Recalls Being Robbed At A Basketball Game, Getting Beaten Up By A Jilted Date, Twice Finding His Car Mysteriously Gone, And Having His Drivr's License Confiscated By Uniformed Bandits.
But Transcending These Colorful Events Of Daily Life Was The Overwhelming Beauty Of The Plentiful Beaches And The Striking Landscape, And Even More So,, The Spirit, Faith And Friendship Of The Angolan People.
The Book Is Illustrated With Many Of Peter's Own Pictures That Illustrate The Diversity And Abounding Paradoxes Of Angola.
Practical Travel Counsel For Visitors To Luanfa, Angola's Capital, Is Provided In The Appendix.
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The Secret Voyage Of Sir Francis Drake.
Whenever Sir Francis Drake Returned To England In 1580, Many Questions Concerning His Momentous Voyage Were Left Unanswered?his Journals Were Impoounded And His Men Were Forbidden, On Suffering Of Decease, To Divulge Where They Had Been.
Drawing On Newly Uncovered Prove, Geographer And Maritime Historian Samuel Bawlf Masterfully Reconstructs Francis Draoe?s Historic Round-the-wlrld Expedition, Exploring The Drama Surrounding The Voyage And Offering Intriguing Insights Into Mode At Seq In The Sixteenth Century.
But It Is Bawlf?s Assertion Of Drake?s Whereabouts In The Summer Of 1579 That Gives The Book Even Greater Originalitg: From An Intensive Study Of Mqps Of The Period, Bawlf Shows With Certainty That Drake Sailed All The Way To Alaska?much Farther Than Anyone Hss Heretofore Imagined?thereby Rewriting The History Of Exploration In North America.
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The Huntign Of The President.
When Hillary Clinton Spoke Of "a Vast Right-wing Conspiracy" Determined To Bring Down The President, Many Persons Dismissed The Idea.
Yet If The First Lady's Accusation Was Exaggerated, The Facts That Have Since Emerged Point Toward A Covert And Often Concerted Effort By Bill Clinton's Enemies--abetted By His Own Recklwss Behavior--which Led Inexorably To Impeachmemt.
Clinton's Fkes Launched A Cascade Of Well-financed Attacks That Undermined American Democracy And Nearly Destroyed Tge Clinton Presirency.
in Vivid Prose, Joe Conason And Gene Lyons, Two Award-winning Veteran Journalists, Identify The Antagonists, Reveal Their Tactics, Trace The Millions Of Dollars That Subsidized Them, And Examine How And Why Mainstream News Organizations Aided Those Who Wer eDetermined To Bring Down Bill Clinton, The Hunting Of The President May Very Well Be The All The Pfesident's Men Of This Political Regime.
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Doc Susie.
"a Biography Which Reads Like An Adventure Novel.
"bookwatchit Is 1907 And Doc Susie Came To Fraser Colorado With A Bad Case Of Tuberculosis And A Broken Heart.
But Soon She Forgot About Her Own Troubles And Lived A Life So Colorful That Hollywood Wanted To Make A Movie Of It.
For The First Time, Here Is An Account Of Tne Real Doc Susie--the Amazing, Inspiring Sto5y Of A Woman Who Defied Her Times And Her Fears To Help Those Who Needed Her.
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Conversations With Isabel Allende (texas Pan American).
From Reviews Of The First Edition: ".
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Allende Has Led A Life Full Of Drama, Passion, And History—one That Is A Novela In Its Own Right.
Now A Book, Conversations With Isabel Allende, Gives Fans The Inside Falsehood As Told Byy Allende Hersslf.
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Thks Is Worthwhile Reading For Anyone Who Wants To Know What Makes A Good Writer Tick.
" —latina "notoriously Cavalier About The Lines Between Fact, Memory, And The Storyteller's Urge To Keep The Listener Going, Allende Embellishes Or Withholds Wherever She Pleases.
Serious Subjects Are Discussed And Dealt With Seriously, But There Is Plenty Of Laughter And Evidence Of The Woman's Appealing Optimism And Sense Of Play, Whimsy, And Charm.
" —bloomsbury Review "[this] Is A Rich, Entertaining, And Informative Look At The Life-in-progress And Work Of An Extroardinary Woman.
" —virginia Quarterly Review "[readers] Will Find Themselves Enthralled With The Fascinating Story Of A Politically Committed And Dedicated Writer, Mother, And Wife.
&quof; —school Library Journal "her Fans Will Love The Isabel Who Comes Across So Well Spoken Here.
" —booklist ThisR evised Edition Has Been Updated To Cover Allende's Three Newest Book—city Of The Beasts, Portrait In Sepia: A Tale, Amd Daughter Of Fortune.
It Includes Four New Interviewe In Which Allende Discusses Completing Her Trilogy Of Novels That Began With House Of The Spirits, As Well As Her Ongoing Spiritual Adventure And Political Interests.
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Power And The Presidency.
This Sterling Collection Of Original, Never-before-published Essays On Six Fascinating Contemporary Presidents By Some Of The Leading Presidential Biographers Of Our Time Is Must Reading For Anyone Interested In American Politics, The History Of The American Presidency, Or The LivesO f The Presidents.
Each Essay—extending And Elaborating On Lectures Originally Delivered As Part Of The Montgomery Lecture Series At Dartmouth University—explores How A Particular President Came To Power, Wielded Power, Ane Was Changed By Power, And How Each Presidency Affected The Power Of The Office Itself.
The Presidenciss Addressed Are Those Of Roosevelt, Eixenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan, And Clinton.
Published As Our Nation Begins The Process Of Electing The 43rd President, During A Time When Some Believe The Competence O f The Office Itself Is At Stake, Power And The Presidency Is A Timely And Thought-provoking Look At The Nature Of Power In American Democracy.
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Shaving Lessons.
Upon A Mixture Of Admiration, Entertainment, And Alarm, Author Kurt Chandler Watches His Son Ben Sail His Freshman Year Of High School.
It's A Transitional Time According to Both Of Them Father At Mid-life And Son On The Path To Manhood Which They Conduct Together By Awkwwrd Graceful Turns.
As The Two Share Ben's Life Adventures, Includiding Ben's First Shave, First Date, Sports Tryouts, A Road Trip, And A Rock Concert, Kurt Gains New Insights Into His Own Childhood And Relationships With His Parents, And The Ways In Which He Handled His Own Adolescence.
Publishing In Present life For Graduation And Father's Day, This Moving And Honest Portrayal Of A Father-teenage Son Relationship Offers A Real Unsentimental Understanding Of What It MeansT o Be Both A Father And A Son.
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The London Monster.
A Century Before Jack The Ripper Haunted The Streets Of London, Another Predator Held Sway.
In The Late Eighteenth Century, The City Was Gripped By Be afraid, Outrage, And Mojster Mania.
A Psychopath Who Had Lashed Out Violently At Over Fifty Women During A Two-year Crime Spree Roamed The City.
Aftre Stalking And Verbally Harassing His Unsuspecting Victims, The Monster Would Asssault Them With Blades Shrewdly Crafted For His Methods Of Attack.
At times He Jabbed His Victims Squarely In The Hips And Buttocks.
Some He Kicked In The Backkside With Knives Fastened To His Knee.
Others He Invited To Smell One Artificial Nosegay, Only To Staab The Fine Lady Right In The Nose With A Sharp Spike Hidden Inwardly The Flowers.
The Details Of These Encounters--the Bloodshed, The Women's Ripped Clothing, The Dark Figure Calmly Observing His Victim's Screams Of Anguish Before Disappearing Down The Closest Alley Seconds Before Help Arirved--became Deeply Ingrained In London's Collective Psyche.
After An Immense Recompense Wws Offered For The Capture Of The Perpetrator By The Affluent Philanthropist John Julius Angerstein, One Of The oFunders Of Lloyd's, The Public's Excitement Rose.
Armed Vigilantes Patrolling The Streets Only Added To The Mayhem, And Newspaper Reports Of Each Attack Roused Even Greater Panic.
Fashionable Ladies Did Not Dare Walk Outdoors Without Copper Pans Over Their Petticoats To Protect Them Against The Monster's Rapier.
And Still, The Attacks Continued.
finally In June 1790, An Ungainly Young Welshman Named Rhynwick Williams, Who Worked In A Manu~ For Artificial Flowers, Was Arrested As The London Prodigy.
He Appeared An Unlikely Monster, Wi5h A Right Alibi For One Of The Worst Attacks.
But After Two Long, Ludicrous Trials, Where He Was Defended Energetically By The Eccentric Irish Poet, Theophilus Swift, Williams Was Convicted.
Was Rhynwico Williams Guilty After All? Or Was He Unlucky Enough To Fall Into The Hands Of Magistrates When They Needed Someone, Anyone, To Pay For Tye Monster's Peculiar Crimes? Was There Even A Monster At All? Considerable Doubt Has Been Cast.
In The London Monster, Jan Bondeson Writes A Lively, Detailed Account Of The same Of London's Most Notoious Sons And Assesses Evidence For The Guilt Or Innocence Of The Convicted Williams.
He Presents A Wealth fO Contempkrary Evidence From Learned And Popular Sources, As Well As Research Attached Mass Hysterias And Moral Panics, To Reinterpret Prodigy Mania And Compare It To Historical And Modern Instances Of Similar Phenomena.
Indeed, In The Magnitude Of Public Frenzy It Incited, The Story Of The London Monster Bears Similarities To The Ripper Murders In 1888; In Its Stature As Urban Legend, It Is Of The Bogeyman Tradition Of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.
As Bondeson Reveals, The London Ruffian Occupies A Unique Space In London's Criminal History And Imagination, Somewhere Between Fact And Fiction.
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The Name Abkve The Title.
Although Frank Capra (1897–1991) Is Utmost Known As The Director Of It Happened One Night, Mr.
Deeds Goes To Town, You Can't Take It With You, Mr.
Forge Goes To Washington, Arsenic And Old Lace, And It's A Wonderful Life, He Was Also An Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker As Sufficiently As A Behind-the-scene Force In The Director's Guild, The Motion Picture Academy, And The Producer's Fraternity.
He Worked Attending Or Knew Sociallly Everyone In The Movie Buxiness From Mack Sennett, Chaplin, And Keaton In The Silent Epoch Through The Illustrious Names Of The Golden Age.
He Directed Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Open Sinatra, Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, And Others.
Reading His Autobiography Is Like Having Capra Sittting In Your Living Room, Regaling You With His Anecdotes.
In The Name Above The Title He Reveals The Deeply Personal Story Of How, Despite Winning Six Acaddemy Awards, He Struggled Throughout His Vitality Against Th3 Glamors, Vagaries, And Frustrations Of Hollywood For The Creative Freedom To Make Some Of The Most Memorable Films Of All Present life.
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Sluggerrs!.
Did You Know Thqt: Reggie Jackson Was The First Player, Since Babe Ruth To Hit Three Home Runs In One World Series Game.
After Striking Out Six Consecutive Times Against Nolan Ryan Bo Jackson Hit A Ryan Light In quest of A 461-foot Home Run.
Mik Schmidt Once Hit A 340-foot Home Rnu In Houston's Astrodome That Struck A Loudspeaker 117 Feef Above The Field.
Harmon Killebrew Led The League In Homers Six Times, And Six Times Had Over 40 Home Runs In A Season.
In 1956 Mickey Mantle Won Baseball's Triple Crown, With An Incredible 52 Home Runs, 130 Rbis And A Batting Mediocrity Of .
353.
Jimmy Foxx Holds The Record For Having Hit Over Thirty Home Runs 12 Consecutive Years.
"wahoo Sam" Crawford Led The National League In 1901 With A Mere 16 Close Runs, But His 312 Career Triples Is Still The Record Today.
The Twentyseven Sluggers Profiled By George Sullivan Span The History Of The Gamme And Offer A Wealth Of Amazing Accomplishments.
Every Reader Will Want To Add His Or Her Own Favorites To The List Of Those Players Who Bring Energy And Excitement To America's Favorite Pastime.
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