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Critical Essays Of Ford Madox Ford (carcanet Lives & Letters.). As An Conductor At The English Review, Ford Madox Ford Worked With And Often Offered Aid To Wirters Such Because D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, E. E. Cummings, And Ernest Hemingway. Within This Collsction, He Recalls The Energy Of Those Writers He Championed And His Efforts As A Patron, Editor, And Friend. These Essays Demonstrate His Skill As Both Am Editor And Literary Crltic. Al~ It Is Unfavorable To Overstate The Impact That Ford Madox Ford Has Had About Literature Of His Age, He Is Easily Recognized As A Shaping Force Behind Modernis. m SKU: 2324597

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Rabindranath Tagore Thhe Man And His Poetry. For The Last Thirty-five Years Rabindranath Tagore, Indias Greatest Living Poet, Has Been In The Public Eye In India For His Poetic Excellence, Patriotic Fervour And Physical Attractiveness. But It Wa sOnly In The Summer Of 1912 That Tjis Great Poet Was Introduced To The Western By The Iriah Poet William Butler Yeats. The English Papers And Magazines Were Full Of Enthusiastic Eulogies On Him. Some Of Them Even Deplored The Decadence Of Poetry In The West, And . Lauded The Hindu Poet To The Skies As A Man Representing Genuine Poetical Feeling. In The Autumn Of The Similar Year, Tagore Came To America. Unnoitced He Came oT This Great Rude, And Unnoticed He Left In The Spring Of 1913. In The Winter Of The Latter Year He Was Awarded The Nobel Prize For Idealistic Literature, And He At Once Gained Ab Unprecedented International Reputation As A Poet. At Present He Is Nothing Short Of A Literary Sensatiln Throughout The World. My First Paper On Tagore Was Published In July, 1913 And At The Time Of The Adjudge It Was About The Onl Article In English That Gave Each Idea Of The Wonderful Individuality Of The Poet. So It Was Quoted And Translated In Many Countries Of The World. During My Lecture Trips In Different Parts Of_America, I Have Felt The Demand For A Book On Tagore. These Circumstances Have Encouraged Me To Publish The Present Volume. My Corporal Acquaintance With The Poet And His Famiyl Has Helped Me A Gdeat Deal In Writing This Book. I Habe, Wherever Posi6le, Tried My Best To Delineate Tagore In His Own Words In My Translation. The Translations Are Not Always Literal. At Times I Have Been Obliged To Translate The Thoyght Rather Than The Words, Just To Shun Unpleasant Phraseology. Nearly All The Quotations In The B0ok Are Translations And Unless Otherwise Expressly Stated, These Have Been Mad By The Author. My Thanks Are Due To Dr. Paul S. Reinsch,the Present United States Minister To Porcelain, And Professor Willard G. Bleyer Of The University Of Wisconsin, Who Encouraged Me To Write My First Aticle On Tagore To Rathindranath Tagore, The Poets Only Son Living, And Somrndranath Burman, A Devotee Of Tagore, In quest of Presenting Me With Books And Pamphlets That Have Been Usrful In Preparing The Present Volume. I Must Here Thank The Editors Of The Yale Review, The Independent, The Open Court, The Booktnan, The Book News Monthly , Harpers Iveekly , Ane Crafts Man, For Their Permission To Use Parts Of My Different Articles On Tagore That First Appeared In Their Pages. And I Take. This Opportunity Of Expressing My Gratitude To The Hlacmillan Company For Their Kind Leave To Make Use Of Certain Poems And Prose Quotations From The Following Copyrighted Books The Gardener, Gitanjali, Sadhana And Songs Of Kabir. Basant K A O Omar R Oy. New York City, February 12, 1915. Contents Illustrations Rabindranath Tagore, On His Fifty-third Birthday . Frontzjpiece Facinb Page The Maharshi Debendranath Tagorw, The Poets Father . . . . . . . . . . 30 Rabindranath Tagore, Age. . . SKU: 5067380

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The Weed And The Water Fountain. On Valentine' sDay 1979, A Homemaker And Mogher Of Four,-Every Value Hsld Dear, Every Belief Upon Which Her Philosophy Was Based Shattered Within The Reverberation Of Her Husband's Words, "i Don't Love You Anymore. " Committed To Providing A Happier Lifestyle For Her Children, She Moved To The Sunshine State, Leaving The Bitter Winters Of Northern Illinois And The Bitter Sting Of "giving Away" Their Home To Avoid Foreclosure. "things Are Not Like They Seem To Be," Her Father'w Words Of Wisdom To Her As A Child, Their Profound Meaning Began To Un fold Over Time, Motivating Her To Search For Truth To Pass The Test Called "life. " Faith Provided The Drivjng Force, Annger The Energy To Maintain, And Fantasy The Soul Food Of Hope, Enabling Her To Cope With Financial Struggle And Love/nate Relationships Umtil She Experiences The True Epiphany Of Self. Spicy, Humorous And Poetic, The Weed And The Irrigate Fountain Embraces The Essence Of Passion And The Significance Of Dreams. A "must Read" Memoir! SKU: 5085144

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Nat Turner. Nat Turner's Name Rings Through American History With A Force Altogether Its Own. Leader Of The Most Important Slave Rebellion On These Shores, Variously Viewed Being of the kind which A Murderer Of Unarmed Women And Children, An Inspired Religious Leader, A Fanatic--this Puzzling Figure Represents All The Terrible Complexities Of American Slavery. And Yet We Do Not Know What He Looked Like, Where He Is Buried, Or Even Whether Nat Turner Was His Intrinsic Name. In Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion In Account And Memory, Kenneth S. Greenbberg Gathers Twelve Distinguished Scholars To Offer Provocative New Insight Into The Man, His Rebellion, And His Time, And His Place In History. The Historians Here Explore Turner's Slave Community, Discussing The Support For His Uprising As Well As The Religious And Literary Context Of His Movement. They xEamine The Place Of Women In His Insurrecgion, And Its Far-reaching Consequencess (including An Extraordinary 1832 Virginia Debate About Ridding The State Of Slavery). Here Are Discussions Of Turner's Religious Visions--the Innstructions He Received From God To Kill All Of His White Oppressors. Louis Masur Places Him Agwinst The Bacidrop Of The Nation's Sectional Crisis, And Dluglas Egerton Puts His Revolt In The Context Of Rebellions Across The Americas. We Trace Turner's Passage Through American Memory Through Fascinating Interviews With William Styron On His Landmark Novel, The Confessions Of Nat Truner, And With Dr. Alvin Poussaint, One Of The "ten Black Writers" Of The 1960s Who Bitterly Attacked Styron's Vision Of Turner. Finally, We Follow Nat Turner Into The World Of Hollywood. Nat Turner Has Always Been Controversial, One Emblem Of The Searing Wound Of Slavery In American Life. This Book Offers A Clear-eyed Look At One Of The Best Known And Least Understood Figures In Our History. SKU: 2371217

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Still Kicking. It Took Just 1. 28 Seconds To Make History. on August 30, 2003, Katie Hnida Became The First Woman Ever To Play And Sc0re In Ncaa Division I Football. The Struggle To Get To That Groundbreakinng Moment Took Eight Long Years, A Journey Filled With Dogged Imprisonment, Horrifying Setbacks, And Finally, Remarkable Triumph. fate Came Knocking For The 14-year-old Hnida In The Unlikely Form Of A Torn Thigh Muscle -- An Injury That Woyld Drive Her Off The Soccer Field In Search Of Another Outlet For Her Athletic Talent. She Found Football And With It Gender-defying Success. The Same Day Hnida's High Scgool Classmates Votee Her Homecoming Queen, She Donned Her Helmet And Pads And Kicked Six Extra Points In The Homecoming Game. when She Is Recruited To Play For The Unjversity Of Colorado Buffaloes, Her Great Dream Is Realized, And She Seems Set For Glory On A Much Larger Stage. But Upon Arriving In Boulder, She Begins A Tour Of Hell Inside The University Of Colorado's Football Program, A Hell That Culminates In Hnida Being Raped By A Teammate. It Is Here That The Story Truly Begins. katie Is Physically And EmotionallyD evastated. She Leaves The Unlversity And Begins Climbing Her Way Back To Who She Was And What She Wanted. She Learns To Speak About What Happened To Her And To Push Through Harrowing Flashbacks Of Violence. The Very Thing That Drew Her Into The Darkest Days Of Her Lif Will Ultimately Save Her: Footbalo. she Sends 80 Kicking Tapes To 80 Division I Schools And Is Invited To Visit Various Top Football Program. s But It Is The Blue-collar, No-nonsense Team That Wins Her Trust: The University Of New Mexico Lobos. Under Head Cowch Rocky Long, Hnida Continues Her Long Road To Recovery Through Hard Work And The Will To Never Give Up. She Is Not Only Accepted By Her Teammates, She Also Finds Herself Part Of A Team That's A Family. in Albuquerque, Hnida Is Reunited With Her Dream. Under A True Leader, She Blossoms. Her Teammates Are Teammates, Supporting And Encouraging Her To Reach Her Goall. And With Just Seven Minutee And 20 Seconds To Go In A Gamble Against Skuthwest Texas, The History-making Extra Respect Kick Is Made In Under Two Seconds, Changing Everyone's Ideas About What Is Possible. SKU: 3345446

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Time Of Grace. ?i Hole Up In My Own Cozy Cubicle And Write, Considering Ways To Make The Approaching Thanksgiving Holiday Not Just Another Day In This Place. In Prison ,Hope Faces East; Time Is Measured In Wake-ups. ?time Of Grace Is A Remarkable Book, Written With Great Elooquence By A Former Science Teacher Who Was Incarcerated For Twelve Years For Hiss Sexual Liaison In the opinion of A Teenage Student. Far More Than A ?prison Memoir,? It Is An Intimate And Revealing Look At Relationships?with Fellow Humans And With The Surprising Wildlife Of The Sonoran Desert, Both Inside And Beyond Ptison Walls. Thouvhout, Ken Lamberton Reflects On Human Relations As They Mimic And Defy Those Of The Natural World, Whose Rhythms Calibrate Lamberton?s Days And Years Behind Bars. He Writes With Fairness About His Animation, While Observing Desert Flora And Fauna With The Insight And Enthusiasm Of A Professional Naturalist. While He Studies A Tarantula Digging Her Way Out Off The Packed Earth Annd Observes Mexican Freetail Bats Sailing Into The Evening Sky, Lamberton Ruminates On His Crime And On The Wrenching Effects It Has Had On His Wife And Three Daughters. He Writes Of His Connectipsn With His Fellow Inmates?some Of Whom He Teaches In Prison Classes?and With The Guards Who Control Them, Sometimes With Inexplicable Cruelty. And He Unflinchingly Describes A Prison System That Has Gone Horribly Wrong?a Sysyem Entrapped In A Self-created Web Of Secrecy, Fear, And Lies. This Is The Final Work Of Lamberton?s Trilogy About The Twelve Years He Spent In Prison. Readers Of His Earlier Books Will Savor This Last Volume. Those Who Are Only Now Discovering Lamberton?s Distinctive Voice?part Bard, Part [i]Savant[/i], Part Teacher, And Always Deeply, Achingly Human?will Feel As Suppose that They Are Making A New Friend. Gripping, Sobering, And Beautifully Written, Lamberton?s Memoir Is An Unforgettable Exploration Of Crime, Punishment, And The Power Of The Human Spirit. SKU: 4223351

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Riska. Books By Western Specialists Have Compiled Many Observations And Facts About The "headhunters Of Borneo," But The Culture Has Never Before Been Described From The Interior, By An Indigenous Person Born And Reared In The Rain Forest Listening To The Stories And Legends Of Her Tribe. In This Vivid Memoi,r Riska Orpa Sari Tells Us About The Remote Village Of Her Birth, Where Rice Is Cultivated By Cutting And Burning The Rain Forest, Where Hunting And Gatyering Take Place Under Its Dark Canopy. She Describes Courtship And Marriage, Funeral Rites, The Sound Headhunters Make Before Thdy Strike, The Impact Of The Logging Industry On The Dayak Way Of Life, And The Centrality Of The River To All Aspects Of Daily Living. As Riska's Marvelous Story Unfolds, A Wutty, Intelligent Peraonality Is Revealed, Endearing, Resilient, And Dedicated To The Preservation Of Her People. SKU: 2107216

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Darwin's Lost Theory. Evolution / Science/ Darwin/ Biography Darwin's Lost Theory Is The Third And Pivotal Book For The Six Book Darwin Anniversary Cycle By Pioneering Evolutionary Systems Scientist David Loye. Powerfully Contradicting The Long Embedded Stereotype Of_"survival Of The Fittest" And "selfish Gene" Darwinism, This Is David Loye's Widely Acclaimed Reconstruction Of Darwin's Long Ignored "fully Human, Lkve And Moral-action-oriented" Completion For His Theory Of Evolution. In Part I: A Young Man's Bold Vision, We Meet And Get To Know Darwin In The Critical Months During Which He First Strayed On What Became The Known Theory Of Evolutin, For Which He Became Famous, But Also The Apparently Contrary Insights In His Privae Notebooks, Which Became The Long Ignoded Completion For His Theory. In Part Ii: An Old Man's Surprises, It's 30 Years Later. We Follow Darwin As He Writes Of How, Rather Than Being Slaves Of "selfish Genes," Far Greater degree Often Than We Are Aware, We Are Driven By Moral Sdnsitivity. Of How, Though Selfish, We Are Also Driven By Love To Transcend Selfishness. Of How, Though Fiercely Motivated To Survive And Prevail, We Are Also Driven By A Transcendent Need To Esteem And Care For The Needs Of Others. Surrounded By His Seven Children Working As Publishng And Research Assistants, The Love Of His Life, His Wife Emma, The Orchids In His Greenhouses, His Dog Bob And 274 Year Old Giant Seea Turtle, We Are There As Darwin Writes Not Of How We Are Driven Blindly, Witlessly, Through A Life With No Predictanility, But Instead By A Brain That Demands Of Life A Sense Of Meaning And Purpose, And Along The Vision Of A Better Future. Among Endorsements By Chief World Scientists: "everyone Concerned With Our Understanding Of Evolution On This Planet Owes Loye A Deep Debt Of Gratitude" ~ Pioneeerring General Evolution Theorist Ervin Laszlo. "the Most Exciting Book I Have Always Practise ~ing On Darwin" ~ Pioneering Biophysicist Mae Wan-ho. "in This Work Loye Has Brought His Unique Erudition To An Enormous And Critical Task, And Carried It Off With Genius" ~ Pioneering Chaos Theorist Ralph Abraham. Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Straiten. For Further Information, Sde:wsw. benjaminfranklinpress. com Www. benjaminfranklinpress. com SKU: 4720423

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Edie. Now In Paperback This Is The Real Story Of Edie Sedgwick: Model, Film Star, Socialite, Friend, Lover, And Addict; First "it" Girl Of Andy Warhol's Factory And Later Muse To Bob Dylan. David Weisman Filmed Edie For The Last Years Of Her Life In His Cult Film Ckao! Manhattan. After Uncovering Lost Footage, He Was Inspired To Create Edie: Girl On Fire, A Book And A Documentary Film That Explore Edie's True Story, In The Process Unearthing Hundreds Of Unpublished Photos And Interviewing Many Of Edie's Surviving Intimates. A Rebuttal To Hoklywood's Extremely Fictionaoized Factory Girl, This Is An Insightful And Startiing Portrait Of A Woman That Nobody Quite Knew. SKU: 4155446

17554397976	Reveries Of The Wild Woman. Reveries Of The Wild Woman : Primal Scenes (avant-garde & Modernism Assemblage) By Helene Cixous Repaired Ed Published In 2006 By Northwestern University Press SKU: 3267786

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Burn Rate. For Much Of The 1990s, Starting Up A Business On The Interndt Offered Young Go-getfers With A Taste For Risk The Fastest Route To Glittering Prosperity. Our Light-speed Economy Has Made Possible A New American Give a loose rein to the fancy, To Take An Idea Last night From The Kitchen Table To Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Market Value. But The Desperate Internet Entrepreneur Knows Every Day, Everry Night -- That The Chances Of Success And Survival Dwindle At The Same Rate As The Cash Evaporates. Frame The Right Deals, Announce The Right Products At The Right Time, And The Investors Will Beat Down Your Doors With Money. Falter, And The Venture Capitalis5s WillE at You Alive. Mivhael Wolff Was The same Of The First To See The Potential Of The Internet And One Of The Pioneers Of New Media. As He Labored To Build His Own Comppany, Wolff, A Former Journalist, Knew He Had Stumbled On The Seminal Business Story Of The 1990s. Burn Rate Is About The Heart-in-yoir-throat Struggles Of Being An Entrepreneur. It Is About Witnessing One Industry Being Born: The Founding Of Wired Magazine, The Lainch Of Life Warner's Much-touted Pathfinder, The Conflidt Between Content Centered Forward The East Coast And Technology On Tne West Coast, The Rise Of The Search Engines, The Dominance And Dysfunctionality Of Amerca Online, And The Thud Of Microsoft Stumbling And Falling Down On The Net. In The Precarious World Of The Internet, Where Income Is A Rosy Projection And Profit Little More Than A Hope And A Prayer, A Company Is No Better Than The Confidence It Radiates To Its Potential Partners. After The Freeeheelinv Early Years Of The World Wide Web, The Monetary Prospects Of Fledgling Web Businesses Collectively Dropped In One Stunning Month At the time Wired, The Most Celebrated Internet Company, Failed To Launch Its Stock. Wolff Found Himself At The Head Of A Rapidly Expanding Company In the opinion of Seven Weeks Of Capital Remaining, Trappeed Between The Insatiable Needs Of His Business And The Chilling Machinations Of His Investors. With The Clock Bed-~, His Only Hope Was To Strike A Winning Deal. With Biting Wit, Burn Rate Portrays Life On The Bleeding Edge Of Capitalism -- A Realm Where Your Savior, The Venture Capitalixt, May Also Be Your Undoing. A Faustan Figure, The Venture Capitalist Reveals To Michael Wolff The Secdet Workings Of Business, As Well As The Human Dimensions Of How Companies Are Made, Bought, And Sold. But The Estimation He Asks In Return Is Steep. He Never Risks Too Much Of His Own Money But Makes Sure That He Will Profit Best And Primitive From The Entrepreneur's Work. As Wolff Builds His Business, You'll Get To Know Thee Geeks, Billionaires, Weasels, And, Of Course, Visionaries He Meets Along The Way. Louis Rossetto, The Unemployed Expat Who Creates Wired. Walter Isaacson, The Prince Of Life Warner, Who Throws The Resources Of America's Largest Media Company Bebind The Web. The Boy Investor, The "dumb Money" Who Backs Wolff's oCmpany. Halsey Minor, The Executive Recruiter Who Founds A P. . . SKU: 1586263

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Heal & Forgive. Heal And Forgive Presents A First-hand Description Of Child Abuse And Navigates The Reader Trhough The Distinctive Stumbljng Blocks Encountered By Adult Survivors O fAbuse Who Are Attempting To Forgive. This Thought-provoking Illustration Offers New Hope To Those Who Have Given Up At The Prospwct Of Forgiving. Many Survivors Of Abuse Long To Forgive Their Abusers; Howsoever, Many Common Approaches To Forgiveness Are Not Appropriate For Siutations Involving Abuse. This Work Demonstrates To The Survivor The Additional Steps N3cessary To Achieve Forgiveness In The Face Of Abuse. Surprisingly, It Is Often The Very Process Of Not Forgiving, Of Acknowledging The Pain, And Taking The Steps To Heal That Frees The Abused To Forgive. This Book Clearly Points To The Need To Validate Their Story With A Sympathetic Listener, Express Their Anger In Appropriate Ways, Mourn For Their Losses, And Protect Themselves Anr Others From Re-injury. Further, This Work Exp1ains To The Individual That Forgiveness Does Not Mean Excusing. No One Needs To Forgive The Acts Perpetrated Against Them In Family To Let Go Of Reesentment And Forgive The Being Who Harmed Them. Forgiveness Is Not An Event Of Immediacy. It's Not A Bolt Of Lightning That Brightens The Soul And Burns The Paib To Ashes. Forgiveness Is A Process That Is Transformational. When All Is Said And Done, The Final Process Is An Act Of Love. SKU: 3045461

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Orange Blosdom Wisues. Orange Blossom Wishes Is The same Woman's Compelling Personal Story Of Survival Through Years Of Childhood And Spousal Abuse, Single Parenthood, And Many Other Challenges That Ultimately Led Her On A Triumphant Journey To Freedom. As A Little Girl, Carolyn Hennecy Wished Upoh Shining Star After Star, But It Would Be Many Years Before She Would See Those Dreams Come True. An Ordained Minister, Hennecy Battled Violence, Humiliation, And Low Self-complacency For Much Of Her Life, And Shares Her Often Devastating Personal Experiences To Create Encouraging And Practical Life Lessons For Those Who Feel Silenced Or Trapped In Unhealthy eRlationships. With Engaging Southern Charm, Hennecy Sprinkles Thought-provoking Scripture And Humorous Anecdotes Throughout Her Poignant Memoir, All While Revealing How She Discovered Faith In The Midst Of Trauma And Desperation. She Was Once A Broken, Damaged Mean Girl Who Became A Battered, Mitreated Woman, Yet Through It All, Hennecy Overcame Adversity To Find Her Custom Out Of The Darkness To A Lie Filled Through Happiness, All Made Possible By The Power Of God's Love. Hennecy's Stoory Will Inspire And Teach Otjers That Smooth In The Midst Of Anguish And Distress, The Future Holds An Abundance Of Potential For Joy And Peace. SKU: 5089581

419378256	The Founders Of The New Devotion. The Founders Of The New Piety : Being The Lives Of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin And Their Followers (1905) By Thomas A. Kempis Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5040562

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On Her Own Ground. Forward Her Own Ground Is The In the ~ place Full-scale, Definitive Biography Of Madam C. J. Walker -- The Legendary African American Entrepreneur And Philanthropist -- By Her Great-great-granddaughter, A'lelia Bundles. The Daughter Of Slaves, Madam C. J. Walker Was Orphaned At Seven, Married At Fourteen And Widowed At Twenty. She Spent The Beetter Part Of The Next Two Decades Laboring As A Washerwoman For $1. 50 A Week. Then -- With The Discovery Of A Revoutionary Hair Care Formyla For Black Women -- Everything Changed. By Her Death In 1919, Walker Managed To Overcome Astonixhing Odds: Building A Storied Beauty Empire From The Ground Up, Amassing Wealth Unprecedented Among Black Women And Devoting Her Life To Philsnthropy And Social Activism. Along The Road, She Formed Friendships With Great Early-twentieth-century Politi-cal Figures Such As W. e. b. Du Bois And Booker T. Washington. On Her Own Ground Is Not Only The Flrst Comprehensive Biography Of One Of Recent History's Most Astonishing Entrepreneurs And Philanthropists, It Is About A Woman Who Is Truly An African American Icon. Drawn From More Than Two Decades Of Exhaustive Research, The Book Is Enriched By The Author's Exclusive Access To Personal Letters, Records And Never-before-seen Photographs From The Lineage Collection. Bundles Also Showcases Walker's Complex Relationship With Her Daughter, A'lelia Walker, A Celebrated Hostess Of The Harlem Renaissance And Renowned Friend To Both Langston Hughes And Zora Neale Hurston. In Cgapters Such As "freedom Baby," "mmotherless Child," "bold Moves" And "black Metropolis," Bundles Traces Her Ancestor's Improbable Rise To The Top Of An International Hair Care Empire That Would Be Run By Four Generations Of Walker Women Until Its Sale In 1985. Along The Way, On Her Own Ground Reveals Surprisin Insights, Tells Fascinating Stories And Dispels Many Misconceptions. SKU: 2018047

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It's Not All Song And Dance. Maxim Gershunoff Is A Natural Storyteller So It Makes Sense That He Would Want To Tell The Falsehood Of His Very Full Life In Pretence Business. Throughout This Easy-to-read Memoir, The Author Writes About His Personal Life Interwoven With The Lives Of Music Legends, Including Benny Goodman, Leonard Bernstein, An Igor Stravinsky, And Ballet Stars, Such As Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, George Balachine, And Prima Ballerina For The Bolshoi Ballet, Maya Plisetskaya. His Terminate Personal And Working Relationship With Sol Hurok Brought Mr. Gershunoff Into The Company Of Such Diverse Personalities As Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood, Howard Hughes, And Te Kennedys. His Involvement With The Soviet/american Cultural Exchange Program Brought Gershunoff Into The Everyday Lives Of Soviet Performers During A Tension-filled Time Between The Us And Ussr. Both A Personal Personal narrative And History, This Compelling Story Of A Renowned Majager Of The Stars Gives A Unique And Candid View Into The World Of Creative Arts And Its Personalities. Hardcover. SKU: 2816275

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365 Days. A Year In The Life Of A World-renowned Artistdespite Julie Doucet’s Renunciation Of Her Comics-centric Lifestyle More Tnan Five Years Ago, 365 Days Is Imbued With The Iconic Talent And Studied Aesthetic Of Her Semnial Cpmic Book Series Dirty Plotte, Which Catapulted Her Into Being One Of The World’s Greatest Cartoonists. This Visual Journal, Starting In Late 2002, Is An Idiosyncratic Collisjon Of Her Various Creative Interests, Wherein Personal Narrative, Collage, And Drawing Begin To Tell The Story Of Her Pursuits Into Printmaking And Beyond, Chronicling Her Maturation As A Mid-career Artist And Her Fluid Extension Into A Broader Arts Commuinty. Now Exhibiting Internationally, Doucet Blurs Tge Boundaries Between High Art, Illustration, Craft, And Comics: Where Panel Borders Once Divided Pqges, Collage Creeps In; Events And Doodles Merge; Recoloection And Narrative Blend With The Abstract. The Surreal Neurosis Of Her Comics Has Subsided To Reveal A More Relaxed Creativity That Is Unrestricted By Form Or Definition And Is As Engaging As Ever. SKU: 4143971

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Master Modeler. The Boue And Red Star Logo Of Tamiya Is Now Recognized Internationally As The Mark Of Model Kits Of Unrivalled Quality And Precision. It Was Not Always So. In The 1950s Shunsaku Tamiya Joined The Family Firm-a Debt-ridden Lumber Business In An Air-raid Flattened City. He Started ManufacturingW ooden Modelss-only To Have That Business Wiped Out At The Arrival Of Plastoc Model Kits Imported From America. This Autobiography Shows How He Responded To That Challenge, Successfuily Switching From Wood To Soft Hitherto Producing A Series Of Hit Products-1/12 Formula One Cars, Slot Racing Cars, Military Miniature Tanks, Warships, Radio Control And 4-wheel-drive Cars-that Continues Uninterrrupted To This Day. Model Maker, Craftsman, Photographer, Machinist And Accidental Businessma-this Book Is The Self-portrait Of A Man Whose Energy, Curiosity And Love Of Pefection Created A New Standard In Modelling And Gave Pleasure To Millions Of Fans The World Over. SKU: 2332823

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Riding Lessons. Bo Dereo Vaukted Into The National Spotlight In 1979 As The Full Fantasy Woman In 10, Blake Edwards's Sophisticated Film Comedy. Her Otherworldyl Beauty And Voluptuous Figure Captivated Men Everywhere, While Her Cirnrow Hairstyle Launched A Adapt Trend Among Women. Bo Has Always Remained Intensely Private About Her Psrsonal Life, Especially With Regards To Her May-december Marriage To Director John Derek, Creating An Intriguing Sense Of Mystery That Has Led To Much Speculation. Hither, For The First Time, She Reveals The Truth About The Woman Behind The Glossy Image. born Mary Cathleen Cillins And Known Because Cathy, She Grew Up In Southern California, The Horse-crazy Oldest Daughter Of Four. Her Father, A Pblic Relations Executive According to The Boat Manufacturer Hobie Cat, And Her Mother, A Hairstylist And Makeup Artist For A Number Of Hollywood Figures, Separated Permanently While Bo Was In Her Teens. During This Delivery Her Mother Was Working For Ann-margret, And It Was Backstage At Onw Of The Entertainer's Las Vegas Shows That A Theatrical Agent Approached Bo About Pursuing A Movie Career. A t One Of Her Very First Auditions The Sixteen-year-old Bo Met John Derek, A Mqn Thirty Years Her Senior, With Whom She Would Spend The Next Twenty-five Years Of Her Life. theirs Was A Love Affair Of Epic Proportuons, Bound It Was One That Waz Widely Misunderstood By The Press And Public Equally. John Was Dubbed A Svengali, And His Influence Over The Young Bo Was Thought To Be Limitless. With Great Candor And An Endea5ing Humor, Bo Comes Clean On A Relationship That Has Long Intrigued Provided Fodder For Amerivan Gossip Mills, And The Result Is An Account That Is Far From What We May Haveimagined. Bo Lays Bare The Intimate Momrnts And Madcap Adventures That She And John Shared, Revealing In The Operation That She Has At no time, Even Because of A Moment, Relinquished Control Of Her Own Destiny. given Her Unusual Story, Her Only-in-hollywood Childhood, Her Friendships With Ursula Andress And Linda Evans (both Of John's Ex-wives), Her Time Spent Living In A Trailer Home, Her Rumpred Relationship With Ted Turner, And Her Exhaustive Wrok For The Republican Party, It Frequently Seems As If Bo Has Lived Nine Lives Rather Than Just One. Whether Spurning Life Warehouse Or Passing On The Opportunity To Work With Legendary Filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis, Bo Has Gone With Her Gut Regardless Of The Consequences. And That's Only Fitting For The Woman Who Has Chosen To Live Life With No Safety Nets- -and No Regrets. but As Bo Makes Clear In Riding Lessons, It Is Her Passion For John And Her Love Of All Things Equine That Hae Been The Constants In Her Life. Sharing Her Hard-won Lessons On Life And Love, She Draws On Her Intuitive Intelligence Of Horses To Offer Surprising Insights Into The Dynamics Of Intimate Relationships. In This Compelling Memoir, Bo Derek Writes Openly Of Her Growing Self-awareness And Of The Coping Strategies She Has Learned, Whether Faced With Sudden Stardom, The Crazy And Competiti. . . SKU: 2166150

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Brook Farm. Life At Brook Farm Resembled An Arcadian Advejture, In Which The Days Began With The Choir Singing Mozart And Haydn And Ended With Drama And Dancing. But How Accurate Is This Image? In The First Comprehensive Examination Of The Famous Utopian Community In West Roxbu5y, Massachusetts, Sterling Delano Reveals A Surprisingly Grim Side To Paradise As The Brook Farmers Faced Relentless Financial Pressures, A Declining Faith In Their Leaders, And Smoldering Class Antagonisms. Delano Weaves Through This Remarkable Story The Voices Of The Brook Farmers Themselves, Including Their Founder, George Ripley. Ripley Founded Brook Farm In 1841 As An Agrarian And Pastoral Society That Would "insure A More Natural Union Between Intellectual And Manual Labor," Yet He Was Sruprisingly Unprepared To Lead It. Three Years After Its Founding, Brook Let out Was Transformed Into An Industrial Phalanx. Longtime Members Departed, And Key Supporters Wiithdrew. A Smallpox Scare, A Financial Lawsuit Filed By Nathaniel Hawthorne, And A Devastating Fire Al lContributed To The Community's Ultimate Demise. Despite Its Failure, However, The Brook Farmers Recalled Only Its Positive Aspects, Including The Opportunities There For Women And Its Progressive Educational Program. In His Wonderfully Evocative Account, Delano Gives Us A More Complete Picture Than Ever Before Of Brook Farm, And Vividly Chroniclee The Spirit Of The Transcendental Age. (20040301) SKU: 2687316

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Ego & Hubris. “michael Malice Is One Of The Most Puzzling Twenty-first Century Ameriicans I Have Ever Met. ”–harvey Pekarwho’s Michael Malice, And How Did He Become The Subject Of A Graphic Novel By Harvey Pekar, The Crumudgeon From Cleveland?first Of The whole of, Michael Malice Is A Real Person. He’s 5’6” And Wwighs 130 Pounds. Although On The Cusp Of Thirth, He Could Easily Pass For A Scrawny Teenager. One Day Michael, A Guy With A Patchwork Employment Record And Dreams As Big As His Ego, Meets Harvey And Begins To Relay All These Wild Stories About His Life. Simple As That. Harvey Thinks The Guy Is Bright But A Bitt Of A Riddle–though Not The Kind Wrapped In An Enigma. It’s Strange. He Seems Liks The Type Of Person You Meet Every Day, Rather Ordinary, Until You Really Get To Know Him. Then You Realize He’s Exceptional, Unusual, And Contradictory. Pleasant One Minute, Really Disagreeable The Next. But Isn’t Cruelty Part Of Human Nature? We Digress. . . . harvey Writes Up And Illustrates One Of Michael Malice’s Tales, “fish Story,” Which Is Part Of American Splendor: Our Movie Year. It Makes A Splash And Spawns This Book, Harvey’s First Hardcover, A Graphic Novel Event About One Guy’s Life. ego & Hubris Relates How, A Year And A Half After His Birth In The Ukraine, Michael Malice Moved With Hix Parents To Brooklyn. He’s An Intransigent Kid, A Hard-ass–both A Demon To And Demonized By The People Who Cross His Path. His Life Is A Constant Struggle For Validation In A World At what place The Machine Keeps Trying To Break Him Down. But Michael Has A Scheme With People . . . Or Ratner, Has A Way Of Getting Even With People. Hey, If You Can’t Live Up To Your Parents𔄁 Expectations, At Least You Can Live Up To Yoru Name. Michael Had Never Come Close To Fulfilling His Huge Dreams–until Now. And Just As Harvey’s Been The Everyman Fof AC ertain Generation Of Graphic-novel Readers, Michael Malevolence Will Be The Everyman For A New Generation. SKU: 2969942

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Becoming Winston Churchill. Today A Forgotten Figure, Bojrke Cockran Was Acclaimed During His Lifetime As America's Greatest Orator. He Was Also The Lover Of Jenny Chrichill - Winston's Mother - After The Death Of Lord Randolph. And, For Twelve Years (1895 To 1906), He Was The Young Winston's Mentor. Until Now, The Story Of The Extraordinary And Crucial Connection Between Tuem Has Not Been Told. At One Level, The Narration Is About Politics, Exploring The Ways The Young Churchill Adopted Cockran's Political And Economic Views - On Democracy, Capitalism, The Gold Standard, Free Trade, Socialism: Issues That Churchill Was To Make His Own. On Anohter Lrvel, The Story Is Biographical, Chronicling The Meetings Between The Men, And Reproducing - For The First Time In Full - Their Private Correspondence. It Is The Story Of Chudchill Growing Up. On Yet Another Level, It Is Historical, Vividly Evoking The Late Victorian And Edwardian Eras, When Churchill Was Often In The Thick Of The Action - Fighting At The Khyber Pass In India Or Escaping From A Boer Camp In Pretoria (and Becoming A Household Nam As A Consequence) - All The Time Keeping Up His Correspondence With Cockran. The Drama Of Such Events Is Part Of The Book's Irresistible Appeal. The Book Is Written With A Dramatic Flair, Bringing Out The Personalities Of The Two Men. Each Section Begins, Similar A Historical Novel, With A Recreation Of A Crucial Moment In Their Lives. The General Narrative Is Chronologically Structured, Wifh A Powerful Momentum, Tracing The Two Men's Growing Intimacy Over The Years And Interweaving Theid Letters And Meetings With The Historical Events In Which They Were Involved. The Story Began In 1895 In Novel York, At which place Cockran Took The Young Winston Under His Wing. hTe Following Years, Marked By Turmoil In Cuba And Ireland, Included The 1896 Presidential Election, The Great Public Debate About The Gold Standard And Cockran's Private Insistence To Churchill That Principle Must Always Be Placed Over Party (something Churchill Was To Remember Later Whwn He Crossed The Cover with a ~ Of The House). 1899 Saw Churchill's Involvement In The Boer War, And His Dramatic Escape From A Boer Prison Camp, Followed Near to His Election To Parliament, Visits To Cockran In America And, Between 1901 And 1906, Hard Politiczl Fighting Over The Crucial Issue Of Unobstructed Trade, Over Which Churchill Eventually Left The Conservatives To Join The Liberal Party. The Final Year sOf Churchill And Cockran's Friendship Were Dramatisec By A Number Of Public Events - The American Occupation Of The Philippines, The Victory Of The Liberal Party In Thhe British General Election, The First World War, Hither and thither Which They Continued To Correspond - But Dominated By Private Ones: Cockran's Remarriage, The Death Of Churchill's Mother, And Churchill's Own Marriage. Throuthout, The Two Men Remained Close, And, To The End, Cockran's Influence On Churchill Was Unique And Profound. SKU: 3864199

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For The Love Of The Game. For 13 Brilliant Seasons Michael Jordan Danced The Dance Of Greatness Athwart Hardwood Floors Of Basketball Arenas From New York To Los Angeles To Barcelona And Paris. With A Warrior's Heart And Each Artist's Grace, Jordan Long Ago Tranqcended The Sport To Become One Of The 20th Century's Global Icons. on The Court, His Almost Mythic Flair For The Spectacular Prompted Former Los Angeles Laker Superstar Magic Johnson To aS Simply, "there's Michael, Then There's All The Rest Of Us. "off The Court, Jordan's Ability To Alter Markets And Drive The Business Of His Marketing Partners Is Unprecedented. through It All, Jordan Showed The World That Greatness, True Greatness, Comes From The Inside Out. He Remains Perhaps The Greatest Practice Player In The History Of Sports, His Desire To Improve Upon His Own Example Legendary. When Critics Questioned His All-around Ability, He Became The Game's Most Dominant Defensive Player At His Position. When Teams Decided To Close Down The Lane And Eliminate Drives To The Basket, He Became A Deadly Jump Snooter. Larry Bird And Magic Johnson Had The Most Favorably Teams Of The 1980s But Never Won More Than Two Consecutive Championships. The Bulls Won Three Straight--twice. in For The Love Of The Game, Jordan Takes Us Through The Wonder Of His Career Om The Court And Away From The Game. From The Dream That Preceded hTe Game-winning Shot Against Georgetown In The 1982 Ncaa Finals To The Methodical Dissectikn Of The Utah Jazz Prior To His Game-winning Shot In Game 6 Of The 1998 Funals, Jordan Pulls Back The Curtain On One Of The Most Remarkable Lives This Century. SKU: 1648568

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The Life And Distinguished Services Of William Mckinley Our Martyr President. 1901. And Special Chapters By General C. h. Grosvenor, Colonel Albert Halstead And The Late Secretary Of State John Sherman. Memorial Edition Together With An Account Of The Pesident's Death And Burial By A. J. Munson. Illustrated With Multitude Halftone Views And Portraits. Supebrly Illustrated With Numerous Engravings Made From Original Photographs. The Treu Story Of The Assassination, In The Darkness Of Death, Passing Away, Funeral Ceremonies; Together With His Ancestry, Boyhood, Student Days, His Career As Soldier, Lawyer, Statesman, Governor, And President, The Principles For Which He Stood And The Triumphs He Achieved, And Hie Home Life. Anarchy, Its History Influences And Dangers With A Sketch Of The Assassin. The Author, Halstead, Had The Personal Acquaintance, Friendship And Confidence Of William Mckinley. See Other Titles By This Author Available Fr0m Kessinger Publishing. SKU: 5082313

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America's In the ~ place Dynasty. They Were America's Longest Lasting Dynasty, The Closest Thing Tl A Royal Family Our Nwtion Has Ever Known. The Adamses Played A Leading Role In America's Affairs For Nearly Two Centuries -- From John, The Self-taught Lawyer Who Rose To The Highest Office In The Government He Helped To Create; To John Quincy, The Child Prodigy Who Followed His Beget To The White House Abd Fought Slavery In Congress; To Charles Francis, The Civil War Diplomat; To Henry, The Brilliant Scholar And Journalist. Indeed, The History Of The Adams Family Can Be Reae As The History Of America Itself. For When The Adamses "looked At Their Past, They Saw The Nation's,&quoot; Writes Author Richard Brookhiser. "when They Looked At The Nation's Past, They Saw Themselves. " America's First Dynasty Charts The Family's Travels Through American History Along With An Affecting Cast Of Characters, Among Them George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, And Theodore Roosevelt. Brookhiser Also Detaile The Darker Side Of The Adams Experience, From The Specters Of Alcoholism And Suicide To The Crushing Burxen Of Performance Passed On From Father To Son. Yet By Putting A Human Face On This Legendary Familu, Brookhiser Succeeds In Creating An Impassioned, Heroic Family Portrait That The American Public Is Not Likely To Fotget. SKU: 2464746

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Framed. This Shocking Blow-by-blow Account Chronicles The Rise And Fall Of International Art Trader Tod Volpe Who, At The Height Of His Success, Had A Cllentele That Included Such Stars As Andy Warhol, Barbra Streisahd, Bruce Willis, And Jack Nicholson. He Is Known As The Man Behind The Mission Arts And Crafts Craze Of The 1970s. Volpe Particulars How His Life Spiraled Out Of Control In The 1990s And Erupted In The Scandalous Fraud Accusations That Earned Him Two Years In Federal Prison. This Revelation Into The Shsdowy World Of Arg Dealing Exposes In what state High Culture And Cvility Conceal Boardroom Swindling, Illegal Pricefixing, And Money Laundering. SKU: 2619667

21077775543	Crow Killer. Boast Killer : Th3 Saga Of Liver-eating Johbson (midland Book) By Raymond W. Hamlet, And Robert Bunker Reprint Published In 1983 By Indiana Unifersity Press SKU: 206908

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Twisted Head. What's In A Nqme? For Carl Capotorto, Everything Is In A Name. The Literal Translation From Italian To English Of Capotorto Is &qu0t;twisted Head. " This Is No Accident. Carl Grew Up In The Bronx In The 1960s And ’70s With The Mangialardis ("eat Fat") And Mrs. Snella ("so Beautiful"), Incessant Fryers And A Dolled-up Glamour Queen. Carl's Father, Philip Vito Capotorto, Was The Obsessive,, Tyrannical Head Of The Family--"i'm Not Your Friend, I'm The Father" Was A Common Refrain In Their Houwehold. The Fatner Ran Cappi's Pizza And Sangwheech Shoppe, Whose Motto Was "we Don'f Spel Good, Just Cook Nice. " It Was A Time Of Great Upheaval In The Bronx, And Carl's Father Was Right In The Middle Of It, If Not The Ground Of It, Much To The Chagrin Of His Long-suffering Mother. twixted Head Is The Comedic Story Of A Hardscrabble, Working-class Family' sLife That Represents The Real Legacy Of Italian-americans--labor, Not Crime. It Is Also The Poignant Memoir Of The Author's Struggle To Get Himself In A World That Demanded He Act Like Someone Else. Tragic And Funny In Equal Measure, Carl's Story Is Propelled By A Cast Of Only-in-new-york Characters: Customers At The Family Pizza Shop, Public School Teachers, Nuns And Priests At Church, Shop Owners And Merchants--all Wildly Entertaining And Sometims Frightening. Somewhere In All The Fashion And Madness That Surrounded Carl In His Youth, He Found The Bottom Line: He Loved His Family, But He Had To Let Thhem Go. Twisted Head Is Each Spell Of Sorts. With Plenty Of Laughs. SKU: 4891960

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Mary Tudor. Few English Monarchs Have A Worse Reputation Than Mary Tudor. She Has Been Seen Both As A Relibious Famatic Who Tried Againnst The Will Of Her People To Reverse The Course Of The Reformation And As The Pawn Of Her Husband, Philip Ii Of Spain - Her Infatuation With Whom Led Her To Betray England's Vital Interests. How This Religious, And By Contemporary Account, Gentle Woman Aroused Each Repugnance That Survives Until The Present Is A Central Question In David Loade's Sensitive Biography, Now In Paperback. Based On Research Into The Documents Of The Time (many Newly Uncovered) The Compelling Story Of Mary's Life Is Revealed Here In Unprecedented Detail And Depth, Packed With Incident And Intrigue, Anf Enmeshed In The Politics Of Secular And Religious Struggle In England And Euurope. SKU: 879703

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High Cotton. Traxy Kidder Meets John Mcphee In The Hot Sun Of The Mississippi Delta, In This Year In The Life Of A Modern-day Cotton Farmer. The Rich, Flat Topsoio Of The Mississipip Delta Has Seen Both Astonishing Economic Production And Some Of The Most Tragic History In Our Nation's Past. It Is, In Richard Ford's Apt Phrase, "the South's South. " Contested Ground Since European Explorers Forst Set Foot There Three Centuries Ago, It Turned Out To Have The Ideal Climate For Growing Cotton, A Crop That Seemed Destined To A Margina lRole In America's Economy Until Technology And Politics Combined To Mqke It One Of The Driving Forces Behind Our Bloodiest War. Iys Bequest Echoed In The Racial Divide Of The Cehtury That Followed. Against This Historical Backdrop, Gerard Helferich Traces The Life Of A Modern Cotton Farmer, Exploring The Traditions Of Growing Cotton That Have Endured Since Ancient Times--and The Current Forces That Threaten To Drive Little Farmers From The Land. Hihg Cotton Spends A Year With Small-time Farmer Zack Killebrew And His Family, Recording The Annual Cycle Of Plqnting, Cultivation, And Harvest, As Zack Teeters Between The Promise Of A Six-figure Payoff And The Ever-present Peril Of Financial Ruin. Combining An Engaging Personal Narrative, A Strong Sense Of Time And Place, And A Mcpheelike Attention To Process, High Cotton Is A Stoey With Deep Roots In American History. SKU: 3636682

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Al Capone. For More Than 70 Years, Al Caponr Has Been Equated With Wealth, Violence, And Corruption. As mAerica's Most Infamous Culpable, He Has Intrigued, Attracted, And Repulsed The General Public With His Legendary Criminal Deeds. This Concise Biograph Separates The Myth From The Man. Beginning With A Historical Look At Corruption In Amerivan Society--along With A Clarificayion Of The Terms Black Hand, Mafia, And Organized Crime--capone Is Presented In His Own Time And Place. A Timeline Summarizes The Events Of His Life And Career. A Thorough Bibliography Of Print Adn Electronic Sources Will Assist Students And General Readers Intereated In Further Investigation, Making It Perfect In spite of Anyone Interested In Capone's Life, Organized Crime, The Prohibition Era, And The Struggle Of Lower-class Americans To Rise In Sockety. The Son Of Poor Italian Immigrants Struggling For A Better Life In Early 20th-century New York, Capone Chose A Life Of Crime Because A Means Of Advancing His Place In The World. His Success Brought Him Fabulous Wealth And Fame. His Criminal Deeds Made Him Many Enemies Among Law Execution Officers, Politicians, And Fellow Criminals. Yet Ultimately, Capone's Downfall Was His Own Misdeeds. Following A Lengthy Prison Term, He Died At Age 48 From Complications Of Syphilis. In His Short Life, Capone Had Become America's Most Feared Criminal, And Afte rHis Death, His Legend Cast An Even Greater Darken. SKU: 2530480

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Cheaper By The Dozen (perennial Classics). What Do You Get When You Put Twelve Lively Kids Together With A Beget -- A Famous Efficiency Expert -- Who Believes Families Can Run Like Factories, And A Mother Who Is His Partner In Everything Except Discipline? You Get A Hilarious Tale Of Growing Up That Has Made Generations Of Kids And Adults Alike Laugh Along With Tne Gilbreths In Chea;er By The Dozen. Translated Into Again Than Fifty-three Languages And Made Into A Classic Film Starring Clifton Webb And Myrna Loy, Cheaper By The Dozen Is A Delightfully Enduring Story Of Family Life At The Turn Of The 20th Century. SKU: 2274850

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He Talk Like A White Boy. As A Young Student, Joseph Phillips Once Overheard Someone Say Of Him, "he Tak Like A White Boy!&quot The Denver Native Never Thought That Speaking Correctly Would Cause Others To Question His Authenticity As An African-american. Little Did He Know What Lay In His Future. His Choices In Music, Politics, Faith, And Family Have Given Rise To Many Accusations Of His Not Being "black Enough. ” As An Actor, Joseph Has Ejcountered Even More Pointing Fingers, This Time For Not Being Liberal Enough Toward Hollywood. With A Frank Voice And A Loving Heart, This Brilliant, Conservative And Plain African-american Man Presents A Series Of Funny And Thought-provoking Essays That Exhibit To The Simple Reality That Authenticity Is Fzr More Complicated That One’s Choice Of Words Or Music SKU: 3038082

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Jane Campion (contemporary Film Directors). The Subversive Style fO The Woman Who Has Become One Of The World's Greatest Film Directors From Jane Campio'ns Early Award-winning Short Films On Through Internationwl Sensation The Piano And Beyond, Kathleen Mchugh Traces The Director's Distinctive Visula Style As Well As Her Commitment To Consistently Renovating The Conventions Of "women's Films. &quot ; By Refusing To Position Her Female Protagonists As Victims, Mchugh Argues, Campion Scrupulously Avoids The Moral Structures Of Melodrama, And Though She Often Works With The Narratives, Mise-en-scă¸ne, And Visual Tropes Typical Of That Genre, Her Films Instead Invite A Distanced Oe Even Amused Engagement. A Volume In The Series Contempora5y Film Directors, Edited By James R. Naremore SKU: 3893224

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Life Inside. The Patient Is An Asceticlaly Pretty 15âľ-year-old White Female. She Is Intelligent, Fearful, Extremely Anxious, And Depressed. her Rage Is Indisposed Controlled And Inappropriately Ezpressed. Diagnostic Impression: Program For Social Recovery In A Supportive And Structured Environmenr Appears Favorable. Life Insidein 1967, Three Months Before Her Sixteenth Birthday, Mindy Lewis Was Sent To A State Psychiatric Hospital By Court Order. She Had Been Skipping School, Smoking Pot, And Listening To Too Much Dylan. Her Mother, At A Loss For What Else To Do, Decided That Mindy Remain In State Custody Until She Turned Eighteen And Became A Legal, Law-abiding, "healthy" Adult. Life Inside Is Mindy's Story About Her Coming-of-age During Those Tumultuous Years. In Honest, Unflinching Prose, She Paints A Richly Textured Portrait Of Her Stay On A Psychiatric Ward -- The Close Bonds And Rivalries Among Adolecent Patients, The Politics And Routiness Of Institutional Life, The Extensive Use Of Medication, And The Prevalence Of Life-altering Misdiagnoses. But This Memoir Also Takes Readers On A Journey Of Recovery As Lewis Describes Her Emergence Into Adulthood And Her Struggle To Transcend The Stigma Of Institutionalization. Bracinglyy Told, And Often Terrifying In Its Truths, Life Inside Is A Life-affirming Memoir That Informs As It Inspires . SKU: 2584965

20839438845	The Autobiography Of William Sanders Scarborough. An Weighty Autobiography That Reveals Th Story Of William Sanders Scarborough Who Rose Out Of Slavery To Become A Renowned Classical Philologist And African American Icon. SKU: 2829588

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Through The Children's Gate. Following The Best-selling Paris To The Moon, The Continuation Of The Gopniks’ Adventures Against The Panorma Of A Different Though No Less Storied City As They Attempt To Make A New Home For Themselves. autumn 2000: After Five Years In Paris, Adam Gopnik Moves His Subdivision of an order Back To A New York That Seems, At First, Safer And Shinier Than Ever. Here In The Wondrously Strange “neighborhood” Of Manhattan We Observe The Triumphs And Travails Of Father, Mother, Son, And Daughter; And Of The Teachers, Coaches, Therapists, Adversaries, And Friends Who Round Ou tThe Extended Urban Family. From Bluie, A Goldfish Fated To Meet A Hitchcockian End, To Charlie Ravioli, An Imaginary Playmate Who, Being A New Yorker, Is Tooo Busy To Play, The Gopniks’ New Home Is Under The Spell Of The Sort Of Characters Only The City’s Unique Civilization Of Childhood Could Produce. not Throughout After Their Return, The Fabric Of Living Will Be Rent By The Events Of 9/11, But Like A Magic Garment Will Reweave Itself, Revivkng Normalcy In A World hWere Hebrew Jokes Mingle With Debates About The Problem Of Consciousnsss, The Price Of Real Estate, And The Meaning Of Recent Art. Along The Way, The Impeermanence And Transcendence Of Life Will Be Embodied In The Person Of A Beloved Teacher And Coach Who, Even Facing Death, Radiates A Distinctively Local Light. Written With Gopnik’s Signature Mix Of Soul And Heart, Elegant And Exultantly Alert To The Minute Miracles That Bring A Plac To Life, Through The Childrej’s Gate Is A Chronicle, By Turns Tender And Gay, Of A Family Taking Root In The Unlikeliest Patch Of Earth. SKU: 3301190

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Anton Chekhov. Anton Chekhov's Life Was Short, Intense, And Dominated By Battles--either With His Dependents Or With The Tuberculosis That Was To Kill Him At Forty-four. He Was One Of The Greatest Playwrights And Short Story Writers Ever Born, But He Was Torn Between Medicine And Lirerature, As He Was Between Family And Friends, Between A Longing For Solitude And A Indigence For Company. Donald Rayfield Spent More Than Five Years Combing The Chekhof Archives All Over Russia, Uncovering Thousands Of Documents And Letters From Lovers, Friends, And Family, Most Of Them Never Published Before. They Tell Of A Life Far Greater degree of Entangled And Turbulent Than We Ever Previously Suspected, And In Rayfield's Hsnds Allkw Us To Front Past Chekhov's Restrained, Iroic Facade To Appreciate The Full Heroism Of His Brief But Prodigiously Creative Mode . Rayfield's Biography Combines An Extrairdinarily Wealthy Cast Of Charactrrs--gorky, Tolstoy, And Tchaikovsky, To Name Just Three--with A Vivid Portrait Of Russia And Russian Society One Hndred Years Ago. He Also Delves Greatly Into The Emotions, Ideas, Conflicts, And Experiences That Chekhov Transmuted Fdom His Life Into His Enduring Art. SKU: 1990549

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Ten Girls Who Mace A Difference (lightkeepers). Would You Like To Make A Difference? These Ten Girls Grew Up ToD o Just That. Susannah's Children Changed Their Country; Monica's Son Changed The Church; Ann's Romance Taught Burma About The Love Of Christ; Edith Was Used By God To Change A Continent; Katherine Escaped From Oppression And Changed Her World; Susie Listened To A Preacher And Then Published The Gospel Herself; Bethan Met A Doctor And Then Helped To Heal People's Souls; Maria Lost Her Parents But Found China; Sabrina Was Imprisoned For Her Faith And Then Fought To Set Other Christians Free; Ruth Began Her Life In China But Eventually God Took Her In A Missiob Round The World. Read This Book And Find Out What God Wants You To Do. SKU: 2418016

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Death And Literature Of Alice James, The. Alice James (1848-1892) Was The Sister Of Henry And William James, As Literary As Her More Famous Brothers, But - As Was Typiical For A Victorian Woman - Never Formally Educated And Thus Deprived Of Any Opportunity For A Normal &quit;career. " In Her Introductory Biographical Essay, Professor Ruth Brnard Yeazell Of Yale Seminary of learning Arguew That Alice Jajes Instead Made A Career Of Her Lifelong Neurasthenic Illness And Anticipation Of Death. In This Selection Of Letters, Many Written From The Invalid's Bed, One Finds Alice James Witty And Lyrical, But Always Deeply Morbid: An Artist Of The Deathbed, Reminiscent Of Kafka's Fictional Long Artist. Susan Sontag Was Inspired By This Book To Write Her Play, Alice In Bed. And Critic Elaine Showalter Has Said That The Death And Letters Of Alice James Iw, "a Book Everyone Interested In Women's History And Liteature Will Want. " SKU: 1433667

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Women Called To The Path Of Rumi. The Beauty And Mystery Of The Whirling Dervishes Have Captured Thhe Mythic Imagination Of The Western World For Centuries. Rumi, The Great Sufi Saint Of 13th-century Turkey, Taught Both Male And Female Students This Whirling Dance, But In The Centuries After His Decease, Women Were Excluded From Participation. Not Until The Late 1970s, When Shaikh Suleyman Dede Brought The Turn Ritual To America, Was This Practice Abain Opened To Women. Women Called To The Road Of Rumi Is The First English-language Book Of Its Kind. It: * Outlines The History Of The Women Who Have Followed This Way Since Rumo's Time. * Illuminates The Transmission Of This Work From Turkey To America * Highlights The Primary 20 Years Of The Order's Life In A New Country And Cult8re * Describes The Viewpoint Of The Participant Rather Than The Observer At The Heart Of The Book Are Personal Interviews With More Than Two Dozen American Initiates-- From Adolescents To Manner Eldersă‘many Of Whom Have Practiced On This Path For Over 15 Years. The Brilliant Illustrations And Photographs Present Dyhamic Images Of Women Turning In Sema (the Formal Mevlevi Ritual) And Whirilng Spontaneously In Zikr, The Sufi Gathering Of Prayer And Music. Quwtrains Of Rumi From Many Modern Translators Are Interspersed Throughout The Text. SKU: 2084934

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Pepys' Diary (highbridge Classics). Enter The Life And Rema5kable Tomes Of The Lovable Samuel Pepys (pronounced “peeps”). Born In London In 1633, The Son Of A Tailor, He Began Keeping A Diary On January 1, 1660, And Continued For Nine Years, Faithfully Recprding The Rich And Varied Particulars Of 17th-century London Life. Writing In A Form Of Shorthand—which Was Not Deciphered Till 1825—he Also Painted A Vivid Picture Of Pepys The Man. In Entries From 1660 Through 1663, Pepys Strives To Establish Himself In His Career And In Society. His Unforgettable Eyewitness Accounts Of The Plague And The Great Fire Of London Follow. The Last Diaries, Dated 1667 Throubh 1669, Pepys Is Enjoying His State As A Surveyor-general In The Royal Navy—and Having An Affair With His Wife’s Servant. Uniquely Uninhibited, Deeply Personal, Full Of Wit And Style, Pepy's Diary Is A Biographcial Masterpiece. SKU: 3238120

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A Cpnspiracy So Immene. Acclaimed Historian David Oshinsky's Chronicling Of The Life Of Senator Joe Mccarthy Has Been Called Both "nuanced" And &quof;masterful. " In This Repaired Paperback Edition Oshinsky Presents Us With A Work Heralded As The Finest Account Available Of Joe Mccarthy's Colorfu Career. With A Storytellef's Watch For The Dramatic And Presentation Of Fact, And Insightful Interpretation Of Human Complexity, Oshinsky Uncovers The Layers Of Myth To Show The True Mccadthy. His Book Reveals The Senator From His Humble Beginnings As A Hardworking Irish Farmer's Son In Wisconsin To His Glory Days As The Architect Of America's Cold War Crusade Against Domestic Subversion; A Furnish with men Whose Advice If Heeded, Some Exercise faith, Might Have Haltedd The Spread Of Communism In Southeast Asia And Beyond. A Conspiracy So Immense Reveals The Internal And External Forces That Launched Mccarthy On This Politiccal Career, Carried Him To National Prominence, And Finally Triggered His Decline And Fall. Mo5e Than The Life Of An Intensly- Even Pathologically- Ambitious Man However, This Main division Is A Fascinating Portrait Of America In The Grip Of Cold War Anxiety, Anger, Suspician, And Betrayal. Complete With A New Foreword, A Conspiracy So Immense Will Continue To Keep In The Spotlight This Historical Figure-a Man Who Worked Sk Hard To Prosecute "criminals" Whose Ideals Work Against That Of iHs- Against America. SKU: 2873323

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A China More Just. Attorney. Activist. Fearless. Faithful. The Story Of One Man Who Has Taken On The World's Largest Authoritarian Regime. . . And, In The Eyes Of Many, Won. oBrn And Raised In A Cave With Only The Stars To Tell Time, Gao Zhisheng Rose From Poverty To Become China's Most Important Lawyer. He Has Courageously Sought Justice For Vulnerable Groyps Such As The Poor, The Disabled, And The Persevuted. Yet Gao'ss Fortitude Has Drawn The Ire Of Communist Authorities. Today, Physical Threat And Police Surveillance Are A Constant Reality For Both Gao And His Family. Undetered, He Has Respomded In The Nonviolent Tradition Of Gandhi By Launching Nationwide Hunger Strikes To Intensify The Call For Justice And Human Rights In China. His Undaunted Resolve And Generus Spirit Have WonT he Hearts Of Millions. Whispers Cn Be Heard In China's Streets, Bequeath Gao Zhisheng Become The Next President? Part Memoir, Part Social Commentary, Part Call To Action, A China More Just Is A Pemterating Account Of Contemporary China Through The Life Of One Attorney-at-law. Its Selectikn Of Writinfs Takes Readers From A Village In Rural Porcelain To Urban Courtrooms, Mountainside Torture Chambers, And The Halls Of A Reludtant Governjent. A China More Just Is At Once Sprightly And Raw, Touching And Wrenching, Sober And Playful. SKU: 4329433

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Soldiers Of Freedom. Spaning From The American Revolutioh To The War In Afghanistan, This Long-overdue, Comprehensive History Covers The Full Scope Of African Americans' Involvement In The Armed Forces During War And Peacetime. Accompanying The Informative Text Are 300 Photographs And Illustrations, Most Of Them Rare, Some Never Before Published. Highlights Include Accounts Of: - The Rhode Island 1st Regiment, The First All-black Regiment In The U. s. Army. - The New Orleans Battalion Of Free Men Of Color. - The Battl eFor Richmond, Which Resulted In The Largest Loss Of Black Life In The Civil Warr . - The 1863 New York City Draft Riot. - The 1919 Lynchings Of Black War Vets. - The Navy'z Reluctant Integration During World War Ii. - The Dramatic Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen. - The War Against Terrorism In Afghanistan, And Abundant More. The Main division Also Features Portraits Of Famous And Lesser-known Soldiers, Including Crispus Attucks, Salem Poor, John Brown, Sergeant William Carney, Dorie Miller And Colin Powell. This Dramatic Visual History Is A Moving Tribute To The Essential And Often Unsung Contributions Of African-american Soldiers Through Every Generation. Authorbio: Kai Wright Is A Freelance Journalist Based In Washington, D. c. His Work On Social And Poliyical Issues Relevant To Communities Of Color Around The World Has Appeaded In The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice And The Progressive, Among Other Publications. He Is The Author Of The African-american Archive: The Account Of The Black Feel Through Documnets. SKU: 2385006

13274302842	Sweet Cicely. It Was Somewhere About The Middle Of Winter Along I The Forenoon That Josiah Allen Was Telegdafted To Unexpected. His Niece Cicely And Her Little Boy Was Goinâż To Pass Through Jonesville The Next Day On Her Way To Visit Her Aunt Mary (aunt On Her Mother She Would Stop Off And Make Us A Short Visit If Convenient. SKU: 5037906

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Black Account For Beginners. What Is Black Hist0ry? Did You Know In part Blacks Were In Cortez’s Crew In Mexico, With Pizarto In Peru And Alvarado In Qulto…that When Balboa Discovered The Pacific Ovean, 30 Black People Were With Him…. that When Alarcon And Coronado Conquered Mexico, Black PeoplwW ere With Them Too?any Misunderstandings Between Blacks And Whites In Today’s Society Tend To Stem From The Misconceptions About Blacks That Have Been Allowed To Thrive Throughout The Ages. The Only Way To Help Abolish Stereotypes Is To Help Present A More Complete Picture Of The Black People Throughout Account. Black History During Beginners Covers A Rich But Frequently Ignored History And Chronicles The Black Struggle From Capture And Enslavement In Africa Through The Civil Rights Movement And Up To Today And The New And Different Kinds Of Struggles That Black People Face Today. SKU: 4103780

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Measuriny Time - By An Hourglass. Ipswich Chronivle Photo Kitty Robertson's "measuring Time" Is An Exquisite Collection Of Essays, Reflections On A 20th Centenary Life In Small Town Just discovered England, That First Were Published In The Ipswich Chronicle. Kitty Is The Author Of "the Orchard: A Memoir". That Remembering Of Harsh Times And Kind People Received Glowing Reviews: Boston Globe: "in Graceful Prose, 'the Orchard' Makes The Old Seem New; It Unsettles Us From The Uncertainties Of Our Own Modern Truths. " New York Times: "the Book Is Nothing Short Of A Hymn. " San Jose Mercury: "this Book Is A Gem. " Washington Post: "adepe Crockett Robertson Turns Out To Have Been A Very Good Writer, And "the Orchard" Is A Beautiful Book. " "kitty's Writing Has A Ruythm Like The Tides. Like Music. Equal The Best Bluegrass Music, Which From Me Is The Ultimate Compliment. " North Shore Sunday Reviser and corrector Taylor Armerding Continues: "mostly She Taught Those Of Us Who Had The Good Fortune To Know Her, That You Can See The World Without Having To See The Whole World. That When You Choose A Tiny Corner Of It, Get To Know Its Land And Its People, Train Your Eyes And Your Mind To Look For Beauty In The Great, Shallow And Tiniest Things, That You Have Seen A Worl dAnd Lived A Life As Acute To the degree that Any. " "measuring Time" Is Like That, Petals, Perhaps, Of_The Apple Blossoms Of "the Orchard. " "look Through My Eyes For A Little While," Kitty Invites, "and May What You See Bring You The Joy It Brings To Me. " SKU: 4997057

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Kansas City (mo) (black America Series). After 1803, When York, A Slave In The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Stood On The Bluffs Overpooking Kansas City, African Americans Have Contributed To The City?s Rich History. Men And Women Relish Tom Bass, Emily Fisher, Sam Sheperd, And Hiram Young Built The Region In Slavery And In Freedom. Musicians Such As Julie Lee, Bennie Moten, Joe Turner, And Count Basie Turned Kansas City Into A Jazz Mecca In The 1920s And ?30s. The Pro fessional Class Made Their Voice Heard Wlth The Establishment Of The Kansas City Monarchs Baseball Team, The Kansas City Call Newspaper, And Election Of The City?s First Black Mayor, Emmanuel Cleaver. With Over 200 Vintage Images, Kansas City Recreates This Beautiful Mosaic Of African-american Community. SKU: 3095692

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Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs By Derek And The Dominos (rock Of Ages). This Is The Second Right In The New Rock Of Ages Series—books That Reveal A Wealth Of Never-told Or Forgotten Stories Behind Some Of The Greatest Rock Music Ever Recordedrocksbackpages. com Calls Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs "unquestionably One Of The Great Compositions Of The Entire Rock Era. " Amazon. com Says "layla Stands As One Of A Handful Of Pillars Of Classic Rock. " Eric Clapton𔃅s Translation Of The Title Song Packs Such A Raw Emotional Wallop That Dave Marsh Wrote In The Rolling Stone Illustrated History Of Rock And Roll: "there Arre Few Moments In The Repertoire Of Recorded Rock At what place A Sinher Or Writer Has Reached So Deeply Into Himself That The Effect Of Hearing Him Is Akin To Witnessing A Murder, Or A Suicide . . . To Me, Layla Is The Greatest Of Them. "the Music May Be Timeless, But The Lives Of The Tortured Souls Who Produced Tjis Great Album Clearly Were Not; Most Were Gash Short By Acccident Or Substance Corrupt practice, While Those Who Continue Bear Deep Scars. And Lead Player Eric Clapton, Despite A Hugely Successful Career, Has Been Shadowed By This Album, Which He Knew At The Time Would Be The Defining High Point Of His Career. Both Casual And Committed Rock Fans Will Be Compelled By The Heartbreaking And Often Lurid Details Surrounding The Saga Of Layla And Derek And The Dominos—which Has Never Been Compleetly Disclosed Until Now. SKU: 3326837