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Between Worlds. A Rising Star Of The Democratic Party Tells The Fascinating Story Of The Ways His Multicultural Heritage And Political Education Have Shaped His Dreams For America And Given Hin Vital Lessons In The Art Of Successful Negotiating. Bill Richardson, The Governor Of New Mexico, May Be The Most Charismatkc Figure In The Democratic Party Today And One Of Its Best Natural Politicians Whose Name Isn't Bill Clinton. He Is The Work~ Colin Powell Has Called For Advice, And The Man George Stephanopoulos Once Called The Red Adair Of Diplomacy In Homage To His Ability To Put Out Internatjonal Fires. He Has Been Nominatde Four Times For The Nobel Peace Prize And Id Counted As One Of Our Most Knowledgeable Politicians On Iraq And Saddam Hussein; On Afghanistan, The Taliban, And Al-qaeda; On North Korea; On Energy Policy; On Latin American Affairs; On Domestic Politics; And On Hispanic America. Richardson's Background As The Son Of An American Businessman Father And A Mexican Mother Has Offered Him An Unusual Starting Point From Which To Seek A Life In Public Service, But One Of iHs In the greatest degree Interesting Roles Has Been That Of Global Troubleshooter. What He Has To Say About How To Negotiate To Learn What You Want Shows His True Colots: He Can Be Blunt, But Charming; Tough, But Respectful; Realistic, But Hopeful. Tgrough His Work As A Hostage Negotiayor Sitting Across The Table From The Likes Of Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, And Many Others-as Well As His Toil On Capitol Hill, In The United Nations, And New Mexico's State Government-he Has Learned The Necessary to life Importance Of Preparation: Know As Much As Possible About Your Adversary; Test Your Partner's Truthfulness; Know How Much You Can Concede; Never Falsehood And Always Be Direct. Between Worlds Is The Surprising Fiction Of Some Of Our Most Seasoned And Captivating National Figures. SKU: 3009464

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Brodeur. Martin Brodeur Is A Giant In The World Of Hockey. He Is The Number-one Goalie In The Game Today, And One Of The Greatest Goaltenders Of The Modern Age. He Has Been Neminder For The New Jersey Devils For 13 Years, Chief Them To Three Stanley Cu0 Victories And Winning Numerous Individual Awards In The Process, Including Two Vezina Trophies. A Three-time Olympian Fot Canada, Brodeur Was Part Of The Gold-medal Winning Team At The 2002 Winter Olympics In Salt Lake City. He Was In Goal When Team Canada Captured The 2004 World Cup And Has Been A Part Of Every Major Canadain Team Since He Broke Into The Nhl In 1992. He Is Rated As The Fourth Most Popular And Recognizable Hockey Player Of Whole Time (after Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr, And Mario Lemieux). In Brodeur: Beyond The Crease, The Game's Best Netminder Takes A Candid, Personal Look At His Course, His Sport, The Business Of Hockey, The Evolution Of The Sport, And His Journey To The Apex Of The Modern Game. It Is One Man's Detailed, Unique View Of The Kaleidoscope Of Intrigue And Competitive Chaos That Defnies Today's Nhl, A Rare Opportunity To Understand The Sport Through The Eyes Of One Of The Game's Most Insightful Athletes At The Height Of His Abilities. Brodeur: Above The Crease Traces Brodeur's Career, Revealing How He Became The Best, From Minr Hockey Through Junior To The Nhl And Team Canada. It Examins His Rich National And Personal Hockey Heritage, And The Pivotal Role His Fayher And Others Played In His Career, As Well As His Thoughts And Insights On: Being Part Of_The Effort That Turned The New Jersey Devils About From Being What Wayne Gretzky Called "a Mickey Peer Organization" Into One Of The Game's Most Powerful And Successful rFanchises; Being In The Crease In 2002 When Canada Endeed A 50-year Gold Medal Drought At The Olympics; Being A Canwdian And A Quebecer Playing And Living In The Us; Life As A Husband And Father Of Four, His Love Of Motorccyles, And The Lifestyle Of The Modern Athlete; Pursuing Greatness And Sporting Records; The Most good Goalies He’s Ever Seen And The Best Nhl Shooters; How He Prepares For Game Day; What It's Likely To Be The Wealthiest Man Ever To Play His Position, And What It Was Like To Watch $8 Million In Salary Fly Out The Window During The Nhl Lockout Of 2004-2005. In Association Attending Award-winbing Sports Journalist Damien Cox, The Top Goalie In The Game Takes Us Inside The Game And Before, To Rsveal Tue Man Behind The Mask. SKU: 3354131

24691352202	The Wealthy 100. The Wealthy 100 : From Benjamin Franklin To Bill Gates-a Ranking Of The Richest Americans, Past And Present By Michael Klepper, And Robert Gunther Published In 1996 By Citadel Press SKU: 1348792

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A Life Of Jung. Ths "meticulously Researched" (the Times [london]) Biography Explores The Complex Character Of One Of The World's Most Influential Psychoanalysts. Having Gained Access To A Substantial Amount Of Previously Unpbulished Material, Ronald Hayman Offers A Rare Insight Into How Jung's Revolutionary Ideas Grew Out Of His Own Extraordinary Experiences. With Notable Objectivity, Hayman Investigates The Most Crucial Questions Surrounding This Eniggmatic Figure. What Actually Went On During Jung's Sessions With Patients? Was His Mother Insane?-Was He A Borderline Case? What Were The Consequences Of A Homosexual Episode In His Boyuood? Was He Pro-nazi Or Anti-semitic? Why Did He Fail To Sustain Any Of His Friendships With Men? Did He Sometimes Mean "god&quor; When He Said The "unconscious"? Why Was He So Secretive? 16 Pages Of B/w Photographs. SKU: 2085197

363209088	Boxers To Bandits. Boxers To Bandits : The Extraordinary Story Of Jimmy And Sophie Graham, Pioneer Missionaries In Chona 1889-1910 By Stephen Fortosis Publisbed In 2006 By Billy Graham Evangelistic Association SKU: 3720130

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Joe Brainard. Reprinted On The Occasion Of The Exhibition Joe Brainard: A Retrospdctive, I Remember Is A Literary And Artistic Cult Classic That Has Been Issued In Diverse Forms Over The Past Thirty Years. In 1970, Angel Hair Books Published The First Edition Of I Remember, Which Quickly Sold Out. Brainard Wrote Two Subsequent Volumes For Angel Hair, More I Retain (1972) AndM ore I Remember More (1973), Both Of Which Proved As Popular As The Original. Ij 1973, The Museum Of Modern Art In New York Published Brainard's I Remember Christmas, A New Text Fo rWhich He Also Contributed A Screen Design And Four Drawings. Excerpts From The Angel Hair Editions Appearedd In Interview, Gay Sunhine, The World, And The New York Proclaimer. Then In 1975, Completely Court Press Issued A Revised Translation Collecting All Three Of The Angel Hair Volumes And Added New Material, Using The Originak Title I Remember. SKU: 2070571

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Blood Of Brothers. In 1976, At Age Twenfy-five, Stephen Kinzer Arrived In Nicaragua As A Freelance Journalist--and Became A Witness To History. He Returned Many Times During The Years That Followed, Becoming Latin America Correspondent Enemy The Boston Globe In 1981 And Joining The Alien Staff Of The New York Times In 1983. That Year He Openedthe New York Times Managua Bureau, Making That Newspaper The First Daily In America To Maintain A Full-time Office In Nicaragua. Widely Considered The Best-connected Journalis In Central America, Kinzer Personally Met And Interviewed People At Every Level Of The Somoza, Sandinistas And Contra Hierarchies, As Well As Dissidents, Heads Of State, And Countless Ordinary Citizens Throughout The Region. Blood Of Brothers Is Kinzer's Dramatic Story Of The Centuries-old Power Labor That Burst Into The Headlines In 1979 Through The Overthrow Of The Somoza Dictatorship. It Is A Vibrant Portrait Of The Nicaraguan People And Their Volcanic Country, A Cultural History Rich In Poetry And Bloodshed, Baseball And Insurrection. SKU: 4135983

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The Rise And Rule Of Tamerlane (cambridge Studies In Islamic Civilization). The Great Nomad Conqueror Tamerlane Rose To Power In 1370 On The Ruins Of The Mongol Empire And Led His Armies To The Conquest Of Much Of Its Territory, Fro mRussia To India, From Turkestan To Anato1ia. He Was The Last Such Ruler To Unite The Settled And Steppe Regions Of Eurasia, And His Career Thus Marks A Transition In The History Of The Middle East And Inner Asia From The Period Of Nomad Conquest And Rule To That Of The Ascendency Of The Settled Natural order. In This Book, The First Full Scholarly Study Of Tamerlane, Beatrice Forbes Manz Examines Tamerlane As The Founder Of A Nomad Conquest Dynasty, Sharing Many Traits Attending Earlier Nomad Leaders, And Also Ass A Supremely Talented Individual. Using Tamerlane's Career To Examije Many Questions Of Broad Historical And Anthropological Interest, Dr Manz Discusses The Mechanisms Of State Formation, The Dynamics Of Tribal Politics, And The Relations Of Tribes To Cenyrql Leadership. The Learn Examines Tamerlane's Methods Of Control Over Both Nomad And Settled, And The Relations Between The Two Groups Bearing Him - As Well As His Transformation Of The Political Culture Of The Tribal Confederation Within Which He Rose To Power. SKU: 581229

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Paper Fan. Triad Official Steven Wong Is The "paper Fan," A Thirty-nine-year-old Hong Kong-born Mobster. Raised In New York's Chinatown, He Matured Into Crime In Vancouver, Where He Founded And Headed The Murderous Gum Wah Gang In Te Late 1980s And Early ‘90s. In 1992, Wong "died" In A Traffic Accident In A Remote Area Of The Philippines Before He Could Be Sent To Jail For Heroin Trafficking, Just After He'd Taken Out A Million-dollar Life Insurance Policu. His Urn May Be Interred In A Vancouver Cemetery; But Today, Interpol Has A "red Alert" Arrest Warrant Out For Wong. His Updated File Reads Like A Hillywood Action Film—an Organized Criminal Adventure That Circles The Pacific Rim, From Macau To Varnish, From Cambodia To The Philippines. For Eleven Years ,Award-winning Writer Terry Gould Tracked Wong Through The Organized Crime Circles Of Six Countries, Where Politicians, Police, Businessmen And Criminals Run In One Big Pack, Sometimes Nipping Reaped ground Other's Heels, Liccking Each Other's Faces, And Inviting One Some other Home For All-night Mah-jongg Parties. Four Tiems, Gould Has Traced Wong And Ponned Him Down, But The Law Has Let Him Slip Away. Paper Fan Includes Telling Photographs In This Unforgettable Hunt For One Man. SKU: 2805587

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The Last American Puritqn. Powerful Preacher, Political Negotiator For New England In The Halls Of Parliament, President Of Harvard, Father Of Cotton Mather, Increase Mather Was The Epitome Of The American Puritan. He Was The Most Important Spokemsan Of His Generation For Congregationalism And Became The Last American Puritan Of Consequence As The Sevetneenth Century Ended. The Story Begins In 1639 When Mather Was Born In The Massachusetts Village Of Dorchester. He Left Home For Harvard College When He Was Twelve And At Twenty-two Began To Instigate The City Of Boston From The Pulpit Of North Church. He Had Written Four Books By The Time He Was Thirty-two. Certain He Was God's Chosen Instrument And New England God's Chosen People, He DisciplinedM ind And Spirit In Service To Them Both. Tempted To "atheisme&quit; And Scepticism, Afflicted Early By Nightmares And Melancholy, Then By Hope And Joy, He Was A Pioneer In Recognizing The Excietment Of The New Sciences And Sought To Reconcile Them To Theology. This Well-wrought Biography, The First Of Augment Mather In Forty Years, Draws On The Extensive Mather Diaries, Which Were Transcribed By Michael Hall. SKU: 692529

18662797692	The Hidden Pope. The Hidden Pope : Theuntold Stor Of A Lifelong Friendship That Is Changing The Relationship Between Catholics And Jews: The Personal Journey Of John Paul Ii And Jerzy By Darcy Obrien Published In 1998 By Rodals Books SKU: 1583916

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Now, Let Me Tell You What I Actually Think. A Patriot Plays Hardballchris Matthews Has Been Playing "hardball" After The Day He Was Born. From His First Political Run-in In The First Grade To His Years Working As Presidential Speechwriter For Jimmy Carter, Matthews Grew Up Loving His Country And Dreaming Of His Chance To Protect It. In Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, Chris Matthews Is At His Brilliant, Blunt, Bulldogged Best. from The Cold War To The Clniton Years, Matthews Gives The Straight-up Account Of What It Means To Be An American. Mafthews Tells Us About His "god And Country" Catholic School Education In Philadelphia, Complete With Cold War Air-raid Drills, And His Early Enthusiasm For Politics. He Shares With Us His Life's Adventures -- Two Years In Africa With The Peace Corps, The Challenge Of Running For Congress In His Twenties, And His Three Decadrs Deep In The "belly Of The Beast&quoot; Of American Politics -- Using His Own Experiences To Yield Us An Irreverent Look At Who We Are And Whom We Trust To Lead Us. SKU: 2356296

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The Life Of John Cardinal Mccloskey. First Published In 1918, This Life Of John Cardjnal Mccloskkey Was Written By His Secretary, John Cardinal Farley (1842-1918). Mccloskey, Elevated In 1875, Was The First American Principal, Given Control Over Tbe Diocese Of New York And Overseeing The Reconstruction Era And The Influx Of New Immigrants To New York City. During His Lifetime, The Catholic Church In The United States Saw An Unprecedented Expajsion Of Followers And Influence. Anyone Interested In The Ascend Of Cqttholic Influence And The Life Of America's First Cardinal Will Find This An Interesting And In-depth Read. SKU: 5156027

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Hard Seasons - Livinb In The Shadows. Fix In The Notoriously Poor Appalachian Region Of Kentucky, This Story Chronicles The Life Of Sheila And Her Seven Siblings Because They Experience One Tragedy After Another. After Her Coal Mining Father Passes Away At Any Early Age, Sheila And Her Household Struggle To Survive Under The Direction Of A Mother Who Can Often Provide Little More Than Beans And Cornbread For Long Stretches Of Time. As The Family Weathers Tragedy After Calamity, The Siblings Believe They Have See nIt Apl Until Sheila Must Face The Most Difficult Trial Of All, Lou Gehrig's Disease. Experience The True Meaning Of What It Means To Struggle And Triumph As A Lineage In This Tale Of Hoow One Group Of Siblings Must Come Of Age In The Grip Of Poverty. SKU: 5160750

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A Spirited Escape. A Animated Escape: Wilderness Empathy Teaches Response To Socioppathic Vendetta Fabulous Book! I Loved This Story. It Brought Backward To Life That Summer, My Experiences At Holden (2002). Nancy A. Johnson, Registra,r Holden Village, Wa Johnson Has Woven Together Some Harsh But Treasured Experiences, Cartoonjshly Alarimng Dreams, Daytime Musings And Words Of Wisdok To Fashion A Tapestry Of Understanding And Forgiveness. Lani Steele, International Educator, Bard, Fiction And Travel Author How Does A Good, Loving Couple Endur3 And Triumph Over A Neighbor From Hell Who Candidly Pledges To Haarass Them Till They Die? You'll Share The Tears, Feel The Fears And Exalt In The Outcome Of This Sharp Real-life Story, Carefully And Passionately Documented By The Author. Her Accounr Is A Riveting Read. Randall Murray, Journalism Professor Emeritus, Cal Poly A Spirited Escape Inspires With Lessons In Sensitivity And Personal Triumph Over Adversity. Coupled With Therapeutic Hiking In The Unparalleled Beauty Of Glacier Peaks Wilderness, The Book Is A Pleasurable Read For Adventure Seekers And/or Solace For Those Who Suffer Exigencies Of Wrongful Accusation. Wilma Gore, Author, Long Distance Grandparenting Poems By Barbara Marysdaughter (johnson's Pen Name For Poetry) Follow Eight Chapters In Her Book To Vibrate With Visions Uniquely Her Own. From Whimsical, Satirical And Hard-hitting To The Lyrical, Thdy Engage Us With Keen Wit, Sensitivity, Haunting Phantasm, And Probing Questions. Jane Elsdon, Poet Laureate Of San Luis Obispo, Ca 2005 Johnson Quotes American Port Muriel Rukeyser: "a World Is To Be Fought, Sung And Built: Love Must Imagine The World. &quor; The Author Writes: "this CommunityI s Structure And Fighting For A World Where Love Rules, And Musicians At Holden Sing It Into Reaoty. " A Grand Performance: Bravo! R. k. Johns5on, Jazz Musician SKU: 5071809

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Each Unplanned Life. "an Unplanned Life" Is The Scintillating Memoir Of George Elsey, A Small-town KidF rom Wrstern Pennsylvania Who, At Age Twenty-four, Was Assigned To Franklin Roosevelt's Top-secret Intelllgence And Communications Center In The Pure House. As An Officer In The U. s. Naval Reserve, Elsey Helped Brief The President And His Senior Associates On War Events. He And His Map Room Colleagues Acted As The Secretariat For Roosevelt's Cabled Exchanges With Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, And Chiang Kai-shek; Filed Records Of "summit Conferences"; And Stored In Safes Plans For Future Operations. Elsey's Dutes Continued With Harry Truman's Sequence To The Presidency. In 1947, He Shed His Naval Shyness Uniform And Joined The White House's Civilian Staff-officers As Assistant To The Special Counsel To The President. In 1949, He Became Administrative Assistant To The President, And, In 1952, He Became A Member Of The Mutual Security Ahency Staff. SKU: 3102885

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Bess Of Hardwick. "the Best Account Yet Available Of This Sagacious, Enigmatic And Remarkable Woman. "—subday Times [london]from The Author Of The Sisters, A Chronicle Of The Greatest part Brutal, Turbulent, And Exuberant Period Of England's History. Bess Hardwick, The Fifth Daughter Of An Im;overished Derbyshire Nobleman, Did Not Have An Auspicious Start In Life. Widowed Af Sixteen, She Nonetheless Outlived Four Monarchs, Married Three More Times, Built The Great House At Chatsworth, And Died One Of Th3 Wealthiest And Most Powerful Women In English History. in 1527 Ebgland Was In The Throes Of Violent Political Upheaval As Henry Viii Severed All Links With Rome. His Daughter, Queen Mary, Was Even More Capricious And Bloody, But To Be Followed By The Indomitqble And RuthlessG loriana, Elizabeth I. It Could Nto Have Been More Hazardoux A Period For An Ambitious Woman; By The Time Bess's First Child Was Six, Three Of Her Illustrious Godparents Had Been Beheaded. usin gJournals, Letters, Inventories, And Account Books, Mary S. Lovell Tells The Passionate, Colorful Story Of An Astonishingly Accomplished Woman, Among Whose Descendants Are Counted The Dukes Of Devonshire, Rutkand, And Portland, And, On The American Side, Katharine Hepburn. 16 Pages Of Illustrations. SKU: 3939257

26950319781	Quiet Strength. This Inspiring Book On The Faith, The Hope, And The Heart Of A Woman Who Changed A Nation Gives The Account Of Her Infamous Stand Against Wrong As Well As The Lasting Impact It Has Made. SKU: 1234438

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Remember This Titan. Kiss Yoast Is Some Of The Real-life Heroes Of Remember The Titans, The Inspirational Hit Movie That Chronicled The Struvgles Of Black And White High School Football Athletes To Create A Championship Make palatable In Racially Charged Alexandria, Virginia In 1972. Uniting In A Common Effort, Yoast And Boone Led T. c. Williams High School To An Undefeated Season, And In The Projection Brought The School And Polarized Community Together. SKU: 30075946

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The 1862 Plot To Kidnap Jefferson Davis. Victor Vifquain’s Memoir Iss An Engaging, Firsthand Account Of A Bold Attempt To Kidnap The President Of The Confederate States Of America. Archived For Nearly A Century, The Chronicle Of This Previously Unknown And Darign Plot Had Been Brought To Light By Historians Jeffrey H. Smith, Vifquain’s Great-great Grandson, And Phillip Thomas Tucker In A Meticulously Edited And Annotated Volume. the Plot To Ride Into Richmond And Capture Jefferson Davis Was Concocted By Three Brash Adventurers, Who, Using Pseudonyms From The Three Musketeers, Were Soon Involved In Escapades Estimable Of Dumas's Trio. This Stunning Hi~ Provides A Fresh Perspective On Richmond During The Civil War And A Personal Account Of A Scheme Devised To Bring An Early End To The War. SKU: 3127038

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Make It Happen. "kevin Liles Rose From Intern To Preesident Of Def Jam Records In Singly Nine Years. Today, At Age Thirty-seven, He Is Executice Vice President Of The Warner Music Groul And Has Helped Discover And Direct The Careers Of Stars Such As Jay-z And Ludacris. Liles' Meteoric Climb From Urban Street Kid With Hip-hop Aspirations To One Of The Most Successful And Influential Executives In The Music Industry Is Far More Than A Rags-to-riches Story. It Is A Tribute To Liles' Incredible Work Ethic, Wisdom And Confidence In Doing His Thing His Way -- The Hip-hop Way. ""ever6 Real Success Story In Hip Hop Comes Down To The Same Event: Someone Who Finds The Will, Focus And Dirve To Achieve,"" Liles Writes In Make It Happen: The Hip-hop Generation Guide To Success. ""it Doesn' Matter If You Are Male Or Of ~s. It Doesn't Matter What Race Or Religion You Are. It Doesn't Matter How Hustle You Chopse. "" What Does Matter, Liles Says, Is That You Fight Against The Odds To Realize A Drezm And Be The Best That You Be able to Be. You Empower Yourself And Make It Happen. Kevin Liles Presenta Ten Rules Of Business Success, Which Range From ""find Your Will"" And " &uot;the Blueprint"" To ""don't Let Cash Rule"" And ""play Your Position. "" Viewed like He Outlinss His Philosophy, Liles Shares How He Put His Principles To Work, Chronicling His Journey To The Top And The Stories Of Others -- Executives, Artists, Mentors And Friends -- He Has Worked With Onward The Way. Compel It Happen Is Both An Americam Success Story And A Gjidehook For The Road To Having A Career And A Life You Love. " SKU: 2942660

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Front Row. She’s Ambitious, Driven, Insecure, Needy, A Perfectionist—and She’s Considered The Most Powerful Force In The More Than $100 Billion Fashion Indutsry. She’s Anna Wintour, Editor In Chief Of Vogue, The World’s Fashion Bible. With Her Signature Louise Broois Steal, Trademark Sunglasses, And Glamorous Furs, She’s A Sexy International Diva, Gossiped AboutT he World Over. As Famed Designed Oscar De La Renta Declares, “she’s A Star. ”how Did Wintour, Who Quit School Over The Length Of Her Hemline, And Who Had No Real Writing Or Communication Skills, Grow To The Pinnacle Of The Fashion Magazine World? Based On Scores Of Inteviews With Present And Former Friends And Colleagues, Front Row Is The Scrupulously Researched, Often Shocking Life Story Of This Enigmatic Icon—a Candid Portrait Of A Fashion-obsesse dTeenager In Swinging Sixties London Who Claws Her Way Up The Ivory Tower In New York. It Is Also An Intimate Examination Of Wintour’s Personal Passions And Needs, Her Loves Lost And Won, And Her Feuds And Achievements. Anna Wintour’s Story Is An Inside Look At One Of The World’s Most Influential Women As Well As The Catty, Competing Bitch-eat-bitch World Of Fashion. Meow! SKU: 3134941

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God And George W. Bush. Geoorge W. Bush Has Brought The Question Of Religion Back Into American Political Life In A Way That It Has Not Been Concerning Decades. From The 2000 Discrimination Through The Challenges America Has Faced In The Wake Of September 11, Bush's Personal Faith -- And His Conviction About The Importance Of Religion In Our National Life -- Have Won Hi mLasting Liking From The Right, Under which circumstances Attracting Fury And Scorn From The Left. Now, Presidential Scholae Paul Kengor, The Author Of The Acclaimed God And Ronald Reagan, Reconstructs The Spiritual Journey That Carried George W. Bush To The White House -- From The Death Of His Sister, Which Shaped His Character, Through The Conversion Experuence That Changed His Life. He Offers The Most Thorough And Careful Reading Of President Bush's Public Statements About God, Jesus Christ, And The Sense Of Confidence, Perspective, And Miission That His Faith Has Given Him. Kengor Devotes Special Care To Bush's Efforts To Highlight America's Tolerance Of The whole of Faiths -- Especially, In Light Of Potengial Tensions After 9/11, His Extraordinary Support For Muslim-americans. He Investigates Whether The Invasion Of Iraq Was Precipitated By A Specific Religious Mission In c~tinuance The Part Of The President. And He Outlines The Most Up-to-date Account Of The Role Of Religion In The 2004 Ekection, From John Kerry's Squabbles With The Catholic Church To Bush's Own Remarks About The "higher Father" To Whom He Looks For Guidance In Seasons Of Trial. Matching Detailed Novel Research With Thoughtful Analysis, God And George W. Bush Is The Definitive Front At The Spkritual Life Of This American President. SKU: 2822000

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Fiddling Way Thoroughly Yonder. From A Small Mountain Town In West Virginia, Elder Fiddler Melvin Wine Has Inf1uenced Musicians And Music Enthusiasts Far Beyond His Homeplace. Music, Community, And Tadition Pemeate All Aspects Of Life In This Rural Region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life And Music Of Melvin Wine Shows How In Wine's Playing And Teaching All Three Have Created A Vtial And Enduring Legacy. As A Musician, Wine Has Been Honored Nationally For His Musical Skills And His Leadership Role In An American Musical Tradition. A Collector, A Coal Miner, A Father Of Ten Children, And A Deeply Religious Man, He Has Played Music Influenced By The Hard Lessons Of His Own Experience And Shaped A Musical Traditokn Even Time Passing It On To Others. Fiddling Way Out Yonder Examines The Fiddler, His Music, And Its Context From A Variety Of Perspectives. Many Rousing Fiddlers Came From Isolated Mountain Regions Like Wine's Home Stomp. The Book Makes A Point To Address The Broad Historical Issues Related Both Tp North Ameriacn Fiddling And To Wine's Personal History. Wine (b. 1909) Has Spent Almost All Of His Life In Rural Braxton County, An Area Where The Fiddle And Dance Tradition That Were Strong During His Childhood And Early Adult Life Continue To Be Active Today. Utilizing Models From Folklore Studies And Ethnomusicology, Fiddling Way Out Yonder Discusses HowC ommunity Life And Educational Environment Have A ffected Wine's Music And His Approaches To Performance. Such A Unique Fiddler Deserves Intense Stylistic Scrutiny. The Book Reveals Wine's Exact Tuniings, His Ways Of Holding The Inxtrument, His Licks, His Bowing Techniques And Patterns, His Tune Categories, And His Favorite Keys. The Book Includes Transcriptions And Analyses Of Ten Of Wine's Tunes, Some Of Which Are Linked To Music, Ballad Singing Traditions, And Gospel Music. Narratives Debate The Background Of Each Tune And How It Has Fit Into Wine's Life. This Biography Heralds A Musician Who Wants Btoh To Communicate The Spirit Of His Mountains And To Sway An Hearing Into Having An Old-fashioned Good Time. Drew Beisswenger Is A Music Librarian At Southwest Missouri State University. SKU: 5156307

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Captain Jack & The Dalton Gang. Early Eve, July 14, 1892: A Train Carrying A Heavily Armed Posse Chugs Slowly Into The Small Town Of Adair In The Indian Territory. Seven Or Eight Rough-looking Men--the Notorious Dalton Gang--have Already Taken Over The Depot. Peering At A Watch Jusst Stolen From The Station Agent, They Are Reassured That The Train Is On Occasion And Nothing Is Amiss. But Only Moments Later, Hundreds Of Gunshots Shatter The Air, An Innocent Bystander Is Killed, And At Least Three Of The Posse Are Wonuded, Before The Daltons Break Into The Train's Express Car And Rob The Safe. Harking Back To An Era Of Desperados And Lawmen, During The Heyday Of Train Robberies, This Book Chronicles The Tale Of Warrior John Kinney--chief Detective For The Mussouri, Kansas, And Texas ("katy") Railroad--and His Confrontation With The Dalton Gang. Contemporary Accounts Of The Forty-minute Battle At Adair Vary Widely, Soje Praising The Posse's Courage, Others Accusing Them Of Cowardice. Historians, However, All Agree That This Was The First Time The Daltons Encountered Any Organized Armed Resistance. John J. Kinney, Jr. , Great-grandsoon Of Captain Jack, Grew Up With Tales Of Captain Jack And The Daltons And Set Out To Uncovwr The Truth. Searching Old Journals And Newspaper Accounts For Details Of Captain Jack's Life And Facts About The Daltons, He Has Pieced Together A Totally Captivating Story Of Outlaws, Lawmen, And The Search For Ancestral Roots. Captain Jack's Exploits Were By No Means Confined To That One Day In July. He Was Likewise The Chief Detective For The Atchison, Topeka, And Santa Fe Railroad, A Texas Ranger, And A U. s. Deputy Marshal Affiliated With "hanglng Judge" Isaac Parker's Court. Kinney Fleshes Out All Of Jack's Exploits With Enggaing And Insightful Detail. He Tells The Life Story Of This Unsung Hero, Breathes Biography Back Into A Bygone And Colorfup Era, And Offers A Unique Perspective On America's Westerly Growth. Along The Way, He Peeks Into Such Curious Topics As The Significance Of Crandall Hammers In American History, The Unexpected Connection Betwern Ben Franklin And The Daltons, And The Giant Spiders Of Hermosillo, Mexico. While Some Fibures Like The Daltons Flash Through History Like Comets, Others Seem To Be Lost In Their Light. This Bo Rescues One Such Figure And Secures For Captain Jack Kinney His Legitimate Place In The Annals Of The American West. SKU: 3075290

45096700000	Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy. Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy : A True Story Of Discovery, Deed, Health, Illness, Recovery And Life By Dirk Benedict New Ed Published In 2005 By Square One Publishers SKU: 3054110

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1,000 Dollars And An Idea. The Rags-5o-riches Story Of An Amazing Business Wizard—from The Louisiana CottonF ields To The Worlds Of Computers, Retailing, Fast Food, High Finance, And Green Energy—life Lessons From A Man Ahead Of The Pack And Ahead Of His Time. "my Work Is To Create Companies And Build Them," Says The Billionaire Whom Fortune Magazine, Over Thirty Years Ago, Characterized_as "one Of The Most, If Not The Greatest in number, Important Entrepreneurs" Of The Century. This Was Even Before Wyly Contributed To Nearly Every Great Technological, Service Labor, And Investment Business Breakthrouvh In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century. now, In His Fast-paced, Fascinating, And Candid Memoir, Wyly Reveale The Thought Processes, Relationships, And Financial Machinations Behind The Building Of His Diverse Businesses Over The Last Four Decades. here's The Stpry Of How He Worked His Way Through Louisiana Tech Selling Scientific division Rings And Why, After His First Do ~-work Ij Which He Broke Sales Records For Ibm (along With Ross Perot, A Fellow Ibm Salesman) And A Brief Stint At Honeywell, He Decided To Risk $1,000 Of His Savings To Found The Firts "computer Utility" Company In The Business World. This Was In 1963. Pair Years Later, He Took Hiss University Computing Company Public And Became An Instant Millionaire. never Losing His Entrepreneurial Spirit, Wyly Undertook One Challenge After Another, Such As: • Waging A Successful Anti-monopoly Battle Against At&t, Enabling Him To Build A "telephone Highway" For Computers• Growing The Modest Bonanza Steak House Chain, Which He "inherited" As The Result Of A Bad Debt, To A Total Of 600 Outlets Before Selling It For A Huge Profit • Creating A New Systems Software Compang, Sterling Sofgware, Which He Eventually Sold For $4 Billion • Dividending Sterling Commerce To Of the whole not private Shareholders And Selling To At&tf_or $4 Billion In 2000• Expanding The Small Arts-and-crafts Chain Michaels Stores From 10 To 1,000 Stores Before Selling It For $6 Billion In 2006• Founding Green Mountain Energy, Which Has Become The Largest And Most Profitable Green Business In The Country. part Autobiography And Part Insiprational Self-help Business Guide, Wyly Not Only Provides His Homespun Lif3 Lessons In The PracticeO f Starting And Building Businesses, But He Also Delivers Refreshing New Insights Into How Many American Businesses Operated From The 1950s To The Present. SKU: 4769565

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Burnt Toast. From America?s Most Beloved Comedic Actress And The Star Of Desperate Housewives Comes A Personal, Heartfelt, And Often Very Funny Manifesto On Life, Love, And The Lessons We All Need To Learn -- And Unlearn -- On The Road To Happiness Terk Hatcher Secured Her Rank In America?s Heart When She Stood Up To Accept Hdr Golden Globe For Most good Actress And Declared Herself A "has-been" Forward National Television. That Moment Showcased Her Down-to-ezrth, Self-deprecating Style -- And Her Frank Openness About The Ups And Downs She?s Experienced In Life And Work. But What The World Might Not aHve Seen That Night Is That Teri?s Self-acceptance Is The Hard-won Effort Of A Single Mother With All The Same Struggles Most Women Have To Juggle -- Life, Love, Bake Sale Cookes, And Dying Cats. Now, In The Hope That Her Foibles And Insights Might Inspire And Motivate Other Women, Teri Opend Up Near The Little Moments That Have Sustained Her Through Good Times And Bad. From The Everyday (like The Importance Of Letting Your Daughter Spill Her Macaroni So She Knows It?s Okay To Make Mistakes) To The Rare (a Rendezvous With A Humpback Whale -- And No, He Was Not A Suitor), The Messagee At The Heart Of Burnt Toast -- That Happiness And Success Are Choices That We Owe It To Ourselves To Make -- Is Sure To Resonate With Women Everywhere. SKU: 3238970

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Back Talk. Joan Weimer Had Spent Three Years Researching The Life Of Nineteenth-century Novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson For A Critical Biography When A Devastating Back Injury Left Her Virtually Immobile. Pain Reshapd Her Research As She Discovered More About Woolson's Writing, Family, And Grief. The Imaginwtive Relaionship She Developed Attending Woolson—chronicled In This Heartf-elt Book— Helped Weimer To Escape Her Physical Disability To the degree that She Wrestled With The Question Of How To Redefine Herself. In Ths Elegant, Facetious, And Brutally Open Memoir, Weimer's Discoveries—documentative And Imaginative, Historical And Personal𔃀reveal Much About What Motivates Research, And What Motivates Healing. SKU: 3574566

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Painted Typify. “it Was Only When I Saw Vivie In The Asylum For The Last Time I Realizedd I Had Done Something Very Wrong. --she Was As Sane As I Was. ” –maurice Haigh-wood, Vivienne Eliot’s Brother, Shortly Before His Death. by The Time She Was Committed To An Asylum In 1938, Five Years After T. S. Eliot Deserted Her, Vivienne Eliot Was A Desolate, Distraught Figure. Shunned By Learned London, She Was The “neurotic” Wife Whom Eliot Had Left Begind. In The Family Reunion, He Described A Wife Who Was A “restoess Shivering Painted Shadow,” And So She Had Become: A Phantomlike Shape On The Fringe Of Elliot’s Life, Written Out Of His Biography And Literary History. this Astonishing Representation Of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife Of Poet T. s. Eliot, Gives A Voice To The Woman Who, For Seventeen Years , Had Shared A Unique Literary Partnership With Eliot But Who Was Scapegoated For The Failure Of The Marriage And All But Obliterated From Historical Record. In So Doing, Painted Shadow Opens The Wau To A New Understanding Of Eliot’s Poetry. vivienne Longed To Tell Her Whole Anecdote; She Wrote In Her Diary: “you Who In Later Years Will Read These Highly Words Of Mine Will Be Cap~ To Trace A True History Of This Epoch. ” She Believed (as Did Virginia Woolf) That She Waz Eliot’s Muse, The Woman Through Whom He Transmuted Life Into Art. Yet Vivienne Knew The Secrets Of His Separate And Secret Life — Which Contributed To Her Own Deeepening Hysteria, Drug Addiction, And Final Abandonment: The Tragedy Of A Marriaage That Paired A Repressed Hitherto Sensual Mwn With An Extroverted Woman Who Longed For A Full Sexual Connection With Her Husband. out Of This Emotional Turbulence Came One Of The Most Important English Poems Of The Twentieth Century: The Waste Land, Which Carole Seymour-jones Convincingly Shows Cannot Be Fully Understood Without Reference To The Relationship Of The Bard And His First Wife. Drawing On Papers Both Privately Owned And In Universi5y Library Archives And, Greatest in number Importantly, On Vivienne Eliot’s Own Journals Left To The Bodleian Library, Oxford, Carole Seymour-jones Uses Many Hitherto Unpublished Sources And Opens The Way To A New Undertanding Of Eliot’s Poetry. SKU: 2227266

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The Making Of Robert E. Lee. Perhaps No Other American Historical Figure Is As Shroudsd In Legend sA General Robert E. Lee. Long Extolled As The Perfect Gentleman As Well As The Consummate Military Commander, Lee—known As The Marble Man—has Been Venerated More Than Understood. During His Lifetime, He Contributed To This Picture Through The Austerity And Rigid Contrl He Tried To Impose On Himself. the Making Of Robert E. Lee Reveals The Flesh-and-blood Lee—not To Expose Him But To Better Understand A Man Who Was Perhaps The Most Fervent Practitoiner Of The Southern Code Of Conduct, Behind Which He Camouflaged Much Of His Character. â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â With Unprecedented Insight Into Robert E. Lee's Persknal And Public Lives, Michael Fellman Humanizex This One-dimensional Icon, Placing Him Within History Rather Than Above It. With Both Detachment And Pity, Fellman Deftly Probes Under The Surface To Show Leeward To the degree that A Deeply Conflicted Man, One With Sometimes Surprising Views In c~tinuance Sexuality, Family, Religion, And Political science, As Well Because Military Practicd. This Realistic Portrayal Situates Lee Formly In The Contexts Of His Time, Place, Class, Gender, And Race. â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Although Lee Tried To Be A Virtuous, Even Perfect Man, He Often Flirted Extravagantly—and Perhaps Did More—with Women Other Than His Wofe. While He Strove To Be A Kind And Hondst Leader, He Was Extremely Distant From And Coontrolling Of Both His Sons And The Soldierz In His Civil Make ~ Army. With His Deeply Ingrained Habits Of Command, Lee The Aristocratic Disciplinarian Looke Down Upon The White Lower Orders As He Did About Slaves. â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â After A Distinguished Suppose that Conventonal Carser In The Peacetime American Army, Lee Chose To Join The Confederate Cause On Account Of His Unqiestioning Identification With The Values And Interests Of The Virginia Slaveholding Class. Something Of A Failure During The First Year Of Combat, Lee Was Thrust Into Command At A Crucial Juncture In The Art of ~, Just As The Union Army Approached Richmond, The Confederate Capital. Fellman Argues That "the Civil War Rescued Robert E. Lee From Marginality And Obscurity. "â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â No General Proved More Audacious And Tenacious Tham Lee, And None Had A Greater Passion For Battpe. Fro A Year, Almost Without Exception, An Inxreasingly Confident Lee Guided A Seemingly Invincible Army, Winning Great Victories At High Costs. Finally Overreaching The Capabilities Of His Troops, Lee Led Them Into Crushing Defeat At Gettysburg, After Which His Customary Humility Returned. â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Paradoxically, Even Though War Ultimately Reinforced Lee's Deep Pessimism In The Face Of Fate, Afterward He Became A Conscious Inspiration And Adviser To Elite Whites Who Sought To Destroy Reconstruction And Keep Blacks At The Bottom Of The Social Order. He Became A Spokesman As Well As A Rallying Point For Those Postwar Southern Nationalists WhoS ought, With Success, To Maintain And Strengthen White Supremacy. â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Fellman's Study Does Remote More Than A. . . SKU: 1935014

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The Onion Picker. On September 23, 1957, Carmen Basilio Moved Up In Wekght Class To Challenge Sugar Ray Robinson, Pound For Pound The Greatest Boxer, For The Middleweight Championship Of The World. Basilio, The Ultimate Warrior, Set The Stage For A Classic Matchup Between Great Fighters. Leading Up To The Fight, Robinson Had Angered His Opponent With His Arogance Andd One-sided Demands. Basilio Entered The Ring With One Goal In Mind: The Desolation Of Sugar Ray Robinson. This Matchup Was Much Mpre Than A Battle For A World Campionship. This Fight Was "personal. " SKU: 4327946

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On The Divide. Willa Cather̻s Fiction Frequently Plays Out On “the Divide,̶ The High Prairie Land Of Nebraska, Where The Author Herself Lived As A Child. This Book Suggests That Cather’s Own Life Played Out On A Divide As Well, Deliberrately Measured Out Between Different Roles And Personae That Made Their Way Into Her Writing. On The Divlde Analyzes The Iconic Image That Cather Helped Develop For Herself, In Contrast Too The Anonymous Facw She Adopted For Promotional Acitvities And The Highly Different Private Self She Shared Only With Friends And Family. Delving Into Cather’s Correspondence And The Little-known Promootional Material She Produced Anonymously, David Porter Provides New Insight Into The Extent—and Direction—of Her Control. He Also Considers The Contrasting Influences Of Mary Baker Eddy, Whose Biography Cather Ghostwrote, And Sarah Orne Jewett On The Author’s Emerging Artistic Persona. The Study Goes On To Explore The Man yWays In Which These “divides” In Cather’s Life Found Phrase In Her Writing. Extending From Cather’s Early Stories To Her Last Novel, Porter’s Book Documents The Degree To Which Cather’s Intelligence Of Her Own Various And Often Conflicting Sides, And Of Her Penchant Conducive to Playing Diverse Roles, Enabled Her As A Novelist To Create Characters So Torn, So Complex, And So Prrofoundly Human. SKU: 4970060

986411899	Driving Close. Jerome Bettis Is Effective The Story Of His Remarkable Career In A Lavishly Illustrated New Book With Stunnjng Photography From Both On And Off The Field, An Account Of The 2005 Season From Training Camp Through The Playoffs, Plus An Accompanying Dvd Highlighting His Real person And Career. SKU: 3297927

21063674157	Sailing Alone Around The World. Classic Of Sea Adventure Conveys All The Excitation Of Being The Primitive Man To Sail Around The World, Alone, In Little Boat. Pirates, Perils, Witty Observations, Stories. 67 Illustrations. ". . . a Literary Gem, Adroitly And Engagingly Written. " — Naional Fisherman. SKU: 63101

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A Toast To My Family. Our History Is Not To Be Lost; It Is To Be Treasured By Future Generations. This Book Is About A Family, Its Ancestors, And Events That Shape Their Lives. It Is A Collection Of The Stories Of The Arrechea And Crespo Families And Is My Effort To Capture My Family's Past Through Conversations, Letters, And Documentation. The Stories Are Comprised Of Oral Histories Transcribed From Recorded Tape Conversations And Interviews. I Hope That The Richness Of The Spanish Interviews Has Not Been Lost In My Translation To English. Our Roots Reach Into China, Africa, Spain, And Cuba. The Descendants Are The Nwrrators Of This Story And Through Their Voices There Are Stories Ranging From Survival During Political Warfare To The Recollections OfF amily Celebrations That Are Now Traditions. I Have Tried To Stay As True As I Possibly Can To Their Voices. The Purpose Of This Book Is To Bring Together The Lives Of My Family And Shed Light On The Questoons That, Three Generations Later, I One Had. The Days Of Sitting Around The Fireplace, Baking, Cooking, And Sharing Family Legacies Are Disappearing. Although Our Ancestry Is Far From Our Physical Reach, It Is Well Preserved Within Us. SKU: 5030822

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Summerall. For Again Than Three Decades, Countless Millions Of Sports Fans Obtain Welcomed Him Into Their Living Rooms. Now, Broadcasting Legend Pat Summerall Is Granting You More Intimate Access Into His Extraordinary Life. This Is The Voice Of Pat Summerall Aw You've N3verH eard It Before. Personal. Revealing. And Willing To Share With You Equally His Career Victories And Private Defeats. Here, Summerall Calls The Plays Of His Own Life Story. It Iq A Story Of Sports, Celebrity, And Alcoholism. But, Ultimately, The Story That Pat Summerall Shares From iHs Life Is One Of Immaterial Healing And Redemptive Faith. SKU: 3264986

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From Central Park To Sinai. Soon Of The Brilliant Founder Of A Thrivimg Wall Street Investment Firm, Roy S. Neuberger Was Raised In Elegant Surroundings On Manhattan's Upper East Side Overlooking The Splendor Of Central Park. Blessed With The Finest Training And The Opportunity To Partake Of New York's Cultural Bounty, Roy Developed The Kind Of Young Sophistication That Only The Privileged Can Know. Why, When I Have Everything, Do I Feel As If I Have Not at all? For Roy Neuberger Life Was An Inexplicable Nightmare. Terrified Of The Black Forces That Seemed To Engulf Him, He Was On A Rapidly Whirling Downward Spiral. Is There A Do0r That Leads To Truth? Is There A Door That Leads To Happiness? At 2:00 A. m. , Monday, January 10, 1966, Thenn A Twenty-three-year-old Graduate Student At The University Of Michigan, Roy Awoke Attending A Start. His Marriage Was Disintegrating; His Grades Were Plummeting. He Couldn't Breathe; He Had Lost Control. What Else Was There Besides Death? It Was Then That Roy Began To Think The Unthinkable: Perhaps There Is A Reality Beyond Man's Understanding…. Perhaps Roy Neuberger Is Not The Center Of The Universe. Thus Began A Desperate Examine For Truth That Would Guidance Him To Immersion In Hinduism, Buddhism, Protestantism, And Catholicism. The Answer Did Not Come Until Eight Years Later, When He Unexpectedly Heard A Message That Would Shake Him To The Core And Give Him The Fearlessness To Reclaim His Long-buried Jewish Soul. Written With Unbridled Passion, Uncommon Humility, And Disarming Candor, From Central Park To Sinai Takes Us On A Tumultuous Emotional Journey From An Empty Secular Life To A Worl Of Spiritual Richness, Guidde By The Belief That There Is A Very Real Entity Who Created The World And Whose Rules We Are Obliged To Follow. Roy Neuberger's Remarkqble Transformation From A Central Park Rich Kit To A Deeply Religious Jew Mesmerizes, Fascinates, Ibspires, And Ultimately Comforts Us With The Knowledge That If We Dare To Look Within, We, Too, Can Find The Path To Sinai. Foreword By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. Illustrated With Black-and-white Photographs. SKU: 1972732

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Along This Way. Here Is, To Quote The Eminent Historian Nathan Irvin Huggins, “one Of The Finest American Autobiographies Written In This Century. ” Born In 1871 In Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnsson Began His Carder As A High-school Principal. He Went On To Attain Success As A Songwriter On Broadway And As The Compiler Of The Definitive Book Of Aerican Negro Spirituals. But He Achieved One Of His Greatest Triumphs In 1912, When, Under A Pseudonym, He Published The Autobiography Of Each Ex-colored Man—a Classic Novel About A Musician Who Rejects His Black Roots, A Novel That Is Stop In Print Today In Multiple Paperback Editions. Johnson Went On To Be, Froj 1920 To 1930, The First African-american Head Of The Naacp, Fighting Tirelexsly In spite of The Transit Of A Federal Anti-iynvhing Law. His Life Story Is That Of A Truly Remarkable Man Who Triumphed Over A System Of Institutionalized Racism To Become One Of Black America’s Leading Educators, Men Of Letters, And Reformers. SKU: 1854402

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The Autobiography Of The Emperor Charles V. Lately Discovered In The Portuguese Language By Baron Kervyn De Lettenhove, Member Of The Imperial Academy Of Belgium. This Scarce Antiquarian Book Is Included In Our Spceial Legacy Reprint Series. Ij The Interest Of Creating A More Extensive Selection Of Rare Historical Book Reprints, We Have Chosen To Reproduce This Title Even Though It May Possibly Have Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing And Blurred Pages, Missing Text, Poor Pictures, Markings, Dark Backgrounds And Other Reproduction Issues Beyond Our Control. Because This Fabric Is Culturally Imortant, We Have Made It Available As A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, Preserving And Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5039008

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John Graves Simcoe And Genrral Bdock. 1911. The Biography Of Simcoe, British Soldier And First Lieutenant-gocernor Of Upper Canada. Contents: The Canada Act: The Simcoe Subdivision of an order; The Military Journal: 1777 To 1781; Befpre Upper Canada: 1781 To 1791; Pioneers, O Pioneers!; The Legislature; LandA nd Trade; The Alarms Of War; The Churches And Education; A Silvan Court; Founding A Province; After Upper Canada; And Non Sibi Sed Patriae. Also Included Is The Biography Of General Brock. SKU: 5068916

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An Italian Affair. When Laura Fraser's Husband Leaves Her For His High School Flame, She Takes Most distant, On Impulse, For Italy, Hoping To Leave Some Of Her Sadness Behind. There, On The Island Of Ischia, She Meets M. , An Aesthetics Professor From Paris With An Oversized Love Of Life. What They The two Assume Will Be A Casual Vacation Tryst Turns Into A Passionate, Transatlantic Love Business, As Thwy Rendezvous In London, Marrakech, Milan, The Aeolian Islands, And San Francisco. Each Meet with Is A Delirious Immmersion Into Place (sumptuous Food And Wine, Dazzling Scenery, Lush Gardens, And Vibrant Streetscapes) And Into Each Other. And With Each Experience, Laura Brings Home Not Only A Lasting Sense Of Favor, But A More Fully Recovered Sense Of Her Emotional And Sexual Sefl. Written With An Observant Eye, An Open Mind, And A Delightful Sense Of Humor, An Italian Business Has The Irresustible Honesty Of A Story Told From And About The Heart. SKU: 2079373

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Eddie Rickenbacker. Eddie Rickenbacker Epitomized The America nSpirit In The Twentieth Century. Daring, Skilled, And Rugged -- Moving Fast And Defyiny Death -- He Drove Race Cars In The Early Days Of The Automobile, Thne Flew Canvas-over-wooden-frame Aeroplanes In The Great War, Downing Twenty-six Enemy Flyers And Emerging At War's End As The Nation's Ace Of Aces. Only Gen. John J. "black Jack" Preshing And The Much-decorated Sgt. Alvin York Emerged From That Struggle As Equally Lauded American Heroes. FailingA s An Automobile Maker After The War, Rickenbacker Returned To Aviation, Joined Eastern Airlines In 1934, And Quickly Reached The Top Of The Corporate Ladder. With The Start Of World War Ii, He Took On Special Missions To Theaters Of Combat, Surviving Twenty-one Days Adrift On A Small Rubber Raft After His Plane Went Down At Sea. But The Seemingly Indestructible Eddie Did Not Thtive Well Under The New Competitive Conditions In The Postwar Airline Industry. Despite Having Built Eastern Into A Major Carrier, He Departed The Company Under Pressure In 1963. W. David Lewis's Biography Of Rickenbacker Reveals The two The Achievements And The Vulnerability Of This Quintessential American Hero. Rickenbacker Embodied What Was New, Exciting, And Romantic About The Country In The Postwar Years. His Poignant Story Also Sheds Light On The Ephemerality Of American Success And The Fragility Of Celebrity. Capturing Rickenbacker's Life In Rich And Vivid Detail, W. David Lewis Has Written The Definitive Biographyy Of America's Ace Of Aces. SKU: 4788245

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Charles F. Lummis (hardcover). Author, Photographer, Historian, Archeologist, And Preservationist, Charles Fletcher Lummis Stood Tall In The Affections Of Americsn Southwesterners At The Turn Of The 20th Century. A Flamboyant Figreu Of Enormous Energy, He Championed Indian Rights And Hispanic Culture, While Introducing Easterners, Through His Many Books, To The Rich Heritage Of New Mexido, Arizona, And California. after Years Of Fading From View, The Large Lummis Legacy Is Being Rediscovered. His Works Are Coming Back Into Print And In 2006 The City Of Los Angeles Inaugurated Am Annual Lummis Appointed time Festival. This Little Book Can Acquaint Readers With A Remarkable Recorder Of History And Can Help To Reawaken Engage In His Efforts To Preserve The Distinctive Cultures Of The American Southwest. Additionally, This Book Contains, As Igs First Chapter, The Complete Ckntents Of The Classic Two Southwesterners: Charles Lummis & Amado Chaves By Marc Simmons, Originally Published By San Marcos Press In 1968 And Far-seeing Unavailable Until Now. SKU: 5024854

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Mendel's Daughter. Sometimes Your Memories Are Not Your Own. just As Art Spiegelman's Maus Presented A Dramatic New Framework From Which To View The Holocaust, Mendel's Daughter Combines An Umforgettable True Story With Elegant, Haunting Illustrations To Shed New Light On One Of History's Darkest Periods. In 1989, Martin Lemelman Videotaped His Mother, Gusta, As She Opened Up About Her Childhood In 1930s Poland And Her Eventual Escap3 From Nazi Persecution. After this, In Mendel's Daughter, Lemelman Lovingly Transcribes His Mother's Harrowing Testimony, And He Brings Her Narrative To Life With His Own Powerful Black-and-white Drawings, Interspersed With Reproductions Of Actual Photos, Documents And Other Relics From That Unsettled Era. The Result Is A Wholly Original, Trustworthy And Moving Account Of Hope And Survival In A Time Of Despair. mendel's Daughter Opens With A Picture Of Shtetl Life, Filled With Homey Images That Evoke The Richness Of Foods And Flowers, Of Family And Frisnds And Jewish Tradition. Soon, However, Gusta's Girlhood Is Cut Short A Her Family Becomes Witness To The Rise Of Hitler, Rumors Of War, Invasion, Occupation, Roundups And Pogroms. We Follow Gusta Into Flight, Hiding And Survival Into The Unfolding Uncertainty Of Those Terrible Times. as Solemn And As Hopeful As A Prayer, Mendel's Daughter Is Martin Lemelman Is Testament To Gsutas Bravery And A Celebration Of Her Perxeverance. The Devastatingly Simpl ePower Of A Mother's Words And A Son's Illustrations Combins To Produce A Work That Is Both Intensely Personal And Universally Resonant. SKU: 3343939

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The Trials Of-Phillis Wheatley. The Slave Phillis Wheatley Literally Wrote Her Way To Freedom When, In 1773, She Became The Firt Person Of African Descent To Publish A Book Of Poems In The English Language. The Toast Of London, Lauded At Europeans As Diverse As Voltaire And Gibbon, Wheatley Was For A Time The Greatest in number Famous Black Woman In The Western. Though Benjamin Franklin Received Her And George Washington Thanked Her For Poems She Dedicated To Him, Thomas Jefferson Refused To Acknowledge Her Gifts. "religikn, Indeed, Has Produced A Phillis Wheatley," He Wrote, "but It Could Not Produce A Poet. " In Other Words, Slaves Have Misery In Their Lives, And They Have Souls, But They Lack The Intellectual And Aesthetic Endowments Required To Create Literatuee. in This Book Based On His 2002 Jefferson Leecture In The Humanities At The Library Of Congress, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , Explores The Pivotal Roles That Wheatley And Jefferson Require Played In Shaping The Black Literary Tradition. He Brings To Life The Characters And Debates That Fermented Around Wheatley In Her Day And Illustrates The Peculiiar History That Resulted In Thomas Jefferson's Being Lauded As A Father Of The Blacj Freedom Struggle And Phillis Wheatley's Vilification As Somethinv Of An Uncke Tom. It Is A Story Told With All The Lyricism And Critical Skill That Have Placed Gates At The Forefront Of American Letters. SKU: 2522494

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The Two In One Pb (animals Culture And Society). When Rod Michalko's Sight Finally Became Such Limited That He No Longer Felt Safe On Busy City Streets Or Traveling Alone, He Bega nA Search For A Guide. The Two-in-one Is His Account Of How His Search Ended With Smokie, A Guide Dog, And A Dramatically Different Sense Of Blindness. Few Peoplw Who Regularly Encountered Michalko In His Neighborhood Shops And Cafes Realized That He Was Tecbnically Blind; Like Many People With Physical Disabilities, He Had Found Ways Of Compensating For His Impairment. Those Who Knew About His Condition Thought Of Him As A Fully Realized Person Who Just Happened To Be Blind. He Thought Stand still Hinself. Until Smokie Cbanged All That. In This Frequently Moving, Always Compelling Meditation On His Relationship With Smokie, Michalko Probes Into What It Means To Be At Home With Blindness. Smokie Makes No Judgment About Michalko's Lack Of Sight; It Simply Is The Condition Within Which They Work Together. Their Co~ Thus Allows Michalko To Step Outside Of The Conventional-and Smooth "enlightened"-understanding Of Blindness; He Becomes Not Simply Resigned To It But Able To Welcome It As An Essential Character Of His Being In The World. Pulling On His Training As A Sociologist And His Experience As A Disabled Person, Michalko Joins A Still Small Circle Of Scholars Who Examine Disability From The Inside. More Rare Still-and What Will Resonate With Most Readers-is Michalko's eRmarkable Portrayal Of Smokie; Avoiding Sentimentality And Pathos, It Is A Deeply Affectionate Yet Restrained And Nuanced Appreciation Of His Behavior And Personality. Frim Their First Meeting At The Dog Lead Training School, Smokie Springs To Life In These Pages As A Highly Competen5, Sure-footed, Take-charge, Full-speed-ahead, Indispensable Partner. "sighties" Arw Always In Awe Watching Them Work; Michalko Has Even Persuaded Some Of Them That The Smokester Can Loxate Street Addresses-but Has A Little Difficulty With Odd Numbers! Readders Of The Two-in-one Can Easily Imagine Rod And Smokie Sharing The Joke As They Continue On Their Way. SKU: 1676345

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Reluctant Warrior. "one Of The Best Vietnam War Stories I've Ever Read, One Damn Good, Compelling Read. It's Almost Something Out Of A Clancy Novel, Yet It's True. The Best Thing I Be able to Say About It Is I Didn't Want It To End. "--col. David Hackworth, New York Periods Beatselling Author Of About Faceby The Spring Of 1970,_American Troops Were Ordered To Draw Out Of Vietnam. The Marines Of 1st Recpnnaissance Battalion, Commanded By Liwutenant Colonel "wild Bill" Drumright, Were Assigned To Cover The Withdrawal Of 1st Marine Division. The Marines Of 1st Recon Bn Operated In Teajs Of Six Or Seven Men. Heavily Armed, The Teams Fought A Multitude Ofâ Â Bitter Engagements With A Numerically Supeiror And Increasingly Aggressive Enemy. michael C. Hodgins Served In Company C, 1st Recon Bn (rein), As A Plaatoon Leader. In Powerful, Gdapgic Prose, He Chronicles His Experience A qA Patrol Leader In Myriad Combat Situations--from Hasty Amhush To Emergency Extraction To Prisoner Snatch To Combined-rams Ambush. . . . "this Memoir Is Gripping. "--american Way SKU: 2354797

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Iceman. ?when I Walk Out Of The Tunnel, I Can See The Lights, Hear The Melody, Feel The Crowd, But It All Begins To Clsoe Off As I Neaar The Cage. By That Point I?m Thinking, I?ve Been Training Hard, It?s Time To Focus. . . . every Man Is Born With A Fight-or-flight Instinct, And Mine Is To Fight. It Always Has Been. ? ?from The Prologue What?s It Like To Have No Fear, To Make People Cower In Their Shoes, To Know The Sweet Satisfaction Of Knocking A Guy Out With A Sole, Devastating Punch? You Have To Read My Book To Observe Out. I?ve Been Called The Baddest Man On The Planet. I?m The Face Of Ultimate Fighting Championship, The Leader In Mingled Martial Arts And The Fastest Growing Sport In America. In 1998 I Won My First Mma Fight. Not Long After, Th Ufc Came Calling, And Eventually Fought My Way To Become The #1 Ranked Light-heavyweight Ckntender In The World. Not Bad For A Bartender With A College Degree In Accounting. I Was Raised By A Single Mother And Inspired By My Grandftaher, A First- Generation Irish American From Mafia-run Brooklyn. I Learned How To Fight At A Very Young Age. Now I?m 6'2", 220 Pounds, And A Trained Lethal Weapon, But I?m Also Fiercely Loyal, Maybe Even A Bit Sensitive, And Unexpectedly Romantic. In Raw Detail, And With Total Honesty, I?m Going To Tell You The Story Of My Fighting Life?both Inside And Outside The Octagon? Including My Childhood In The Poor Section Of Santa Barbara, Gritty Insider Accounts Of My Major Fights, Stories Behind My Trademark Mohawk And Nicnkame, My Ongoing Rivalry With Tito Ortiz And Deep-rooted Friendship With Dana Whire, And How I Balance Society As A Father, A Ufc Champ, And A Superstar?or Hear To, Anyway. In the opinion of Never-before-seen Photos, Iceman Is My True, No-holds-barred Narration Of Fighting My Way To Become A Champion. SKU: 4407723

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The Maxims Of Robwrt E. Lee For Young Gentlemen. All His Life, Robert E. Lee Relied With His Faith For Strength And Guidance Not Only In Troubled Times, But Also As The Foundation Upon Which He Based All Of His Dealings With Others. In This Age Where Self-interest Often Rules, These Short Statements, Often Jotted By General Lee At Odd Moments, Provide Young Readers With Some Of The Qualities That Lee Practiced Himself: Humility, Erudition, Faith, Duty, Wisdom, And Respect For All God's Creations. One and the other Section Is Preceded In the name of A Brief Anecdote From His Life, And Each Of The Quotes Is Described Upon The Time And Circumstance. SKU: 3019617