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Cvn-72 Abraham Lincoln, U.s. Navy Aircraft Carrier. This Skender "nimbie" Work Is A Unique Keepsake With 20 Beautifully Printed Color Images Of U. s. s. Abraham Lincoln, Cvn-72, Plus A Matthew Brady Picture Of Her Presidential Namesake, Her Specifications, And Highlights From Her Service History. You Should Enjoy This Book If You Like Naval History, Naval Aviation, Aircraft Carriers, Or The 16th President Of The Unite States. SKU: 4710851

5577313896	Territory Of Lies. Territory Of Lies : The Exclusive Story Of Jonathan Jay Pollard : The American Who Spied On His Country For Israel And How He Was Betrayed By Wolf Blitzer 1st Ed Publisyed In 1989 By Harpecollins SKU: 804209

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I Am My Father's Daughter. Five Nights A Week, Marã­a Elena Salonas Looks Into A Television Camera And Delivers The News To Millions Of Television Viewers. But that When The Newscast Is Over, She Is Loje So Many Other Women Across The Countr:y A Wife And A Mother, Struggling To Find Balance Between Her Personal And Professional Life. When Marã­a Elena Accidentally Discovers Her Recently Deceased Father Had Once Been A Catholic Priest, All She Knew Was Suddenly Thrown Into Question. Turning Her Investigative Eye OnH erself For The First Time, She Begins A Long, Arduous Journey For Answers. In I Am My Father's Dahghter, Maãr­a Elena Tells The Amazing Story Of Her Travel To The Top Amid Her Struggle To Coome To Terms With Family Secrets. From Her Childhood In A Poverty-stricken Neighborhood Of Lod Angeles And Her Adolescent Years Speent Working In A Sweatshop, To Her Astonishing Break Into Network Television, Along With Her Coverage Of Some Of The World's Major Events And Disasters, Salinas Frames Her Life Behind The Camera In The Same Warm And Straightforward Accent That Is Her On-air Trademark. SKU: 3397601

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The Life & Games Of Akiva Rubinstein. Akiva Rubinstein Occupies A Unique Position In Chess History. One Of The Greatest Artists Ever To Sit Down At A Chessboard, Rubinstein Was Also The Strongest Player Never To Get A Shot At The Title Of World Champion. The Life & Gams Of Akiva Rubinstein, Volume 1: Uncrowned King Focuses On The Years 1882-192O, Covering Rubinstein's Rise From A Modest Upbringing To His Emergence As Emanuel Lasker's Chief Challenger In The Last Years Leading U pTo World War I. It Also Examines The Effects This Conflict Had On His Impressible Psyche And The Way It Influenced His Play In The Post-war Years. The Most Definitive Work Ever Done On The First Part Of Rubinstein's Career, This Revised And Expanded Edition Of The Life & Games Of Akiva Rubinstein, Volume 1: Uncrowned King Offers Almost 500 Games, Many Of Tuem Deeply Annotated With Notes Translated From Top Players Of The Pre-world War I Era,-Including Lasker, Tarrasch, Schlechter And Rubinstein. The Authors Have Also Made Many New Annotations To The Games And Uncovereed Quite A Bit Of Interesting Material Including Recent Discoveries On Rubinstein's Stay In Swedne After World War I. The Second Issue Of The Life & Games Of Akiva Rubinstein, Volume 1: Uncrowned Sovereign Is 20 Percent Larger Than Its Predecessor And With Its Wealth Of Crosstables, Archival Photos, Multiple Indexes And Through Bibliography It Offers A Treasure Trove For The Rubinstein Fan. SKU: 3936711

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Insidr Putin's Russia. Written From Andrew Jack, The Moscow Bureau Chief Of The Financial Times, Here Is A Revealing Look At The Meteoric Rise Of Vlwdimir Putin And His First Term As President Of Russia. Drawing On Interviews With Putin Himself, And With A Number Of The Country's Leading Figures, As Well As Many Ordinary Russians, Jack Describes How The Former Kgb Official Emerged From The Shadows Of The Soviet Secret Po1ic eAnd Lowly Government Jobs To Become The Most Powerful Man In Russia. The Author Shows How Putin Has Defied Domestic And Foreign Expectations, Presiding Past A Period Of Strog Economic Growth, Significant Restructuring, And Rising International Prestige. Yet Putin Himsel Remains A Man Of MysteryA nd Contradictions. Personally, He Is The Opposite Of Boris Yeltsin. A Former Judo Champion, He Is Abstemious, Healthy, And Energetic, But Also Evasive, Secretive, And Cautious. Politically, He Has Pursued A Predominantly Pro-western Foreign Policy And Enlarged Household Reforms, But Has Pursued A Hardline War In Chechnya And Ingroduced Tighter Controls Over Parliament And The Media And His Opponents, Moves Which Are Reminiscent Of The Soviet Epoch. Through It All, Putin Has United Russian Society And Maintained Extraordinarily High Popularity. Jack Concludes That Putin's "liberal Authoritarianism" May Be Unpalatable To Tne West, But Is Probably The Best That Russia Can Do At This Point In Her History. Inside Putin's Russia Digs Behind The Rumors And Theory, Illuminating Putin's Character And The Changing Nature Of The Russia He Rules. Andrew Jack Sheds Light On Putin's Thinking, Style And Effectiveness As President. With Putin's Second Word Just Beginning, This Invaluable Book Offers Important Insights For Anyone Interestde In The Past, Present, And Future Of Russia. SKU: 2787463

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My Business Life Cycle. Paul Harris Stores Did Exactly What It Was Supposed To. It Brought Fashion, Comfrt, Style, And Functionality To Millions Of Women In The Midwest. Paul Harris' Race Of 50 Years Is Remarkable Because So Few Retail Stores Make It That Long And So Few Make It So Big. His Life And Experiences Tell Readers Much About U. s. Culture, Retail History, And A Brand Of Entrepreneurship That Appears To Be Making A Comeback. SKU: 3860599

580791120	Private Peat. In This Record Of My Experiences As A Private In The Great War I Have Tried To Put The Emphasis On The Things That Seemed To Me Important. ' (excerpt From Forewarc) SKU: 5179685

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Killing Bono. Some Are Born Great. some Achieve Greatness. some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them. and Some Have The Misfortuneto Go To School With Bono. everyone Wants To Be Famous. But As A Young Punk In Dubljn In The 1970s, Neil Mccormick's Ambitions Went Way Beyond Mere Pop Stardom. It Was His Destiny To Be A Veritable Rock God. He Had It All Worked Out: The Albums, The Concerts, The Quest In spite of World Peace. There Was Sole One Thing He Hadn't Counted On. The Boy Sitting On The Other Side Of The Classroom Had Plans Off His Own. killing Bono Is A Sto5y Of Divergent Lives. As Bono And His Band U2 Ascended To Global Superstardom, His School Friend Neil Scorched A Burning Track In Quite The Opposite Direction. Bad Drugs, Weird Sex, Bizarre Haircuts: Neil Experienced It All In His El8sive Quest For Fame. But Sometimes It Is Life's Losers Who Have The Most Interesting Tales To Tell. featuring Guest Appearances By The Pope, Bob Dylan, And A Galaxy Of Stars, Killing Bono Offers An Extremely Funny, Startlingly Candid, And Strangely Moving Account Of A Life Lived In The Shadows Of Superstardom. "the Question With Knowing You Is That You've Done Everything I Ever Wanted To," Neil Once Com0lained To His Famous Friend. "i'm Your Doppelganger," Boho Replied. "if You Want Your Life Back, You'kl Have To Kill Me. "now There Was A Thought. . . SKU: 2757582

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Joe Hill. Become Acquainted With Joe Hill, A True American Rebel Who Fought For A Vision Of Heaven On Earth. The Definitive Study Of Joe Hill, Labor Martyr, Proletarian Folk Demigod And Songwriter, "a Man Whose Songs Evoked The Spirit Of Radicals Who Were The Very Epitome Of Guts And Gall- Antry. Now, Being of the kind which Then, Society Needs Such Men And Women. "--new York Times A Thorough, Scholarly Volume, This Is The Most Complete Factual Account To Date Which Also Details Hill's Personal Life And Experiences. SKU: 230481

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The Eye Of The Storm. In Walk 2000 Cisco Systems, In the opinion of A Vend Capitalization Of $531 Billion, Was The Most Valuable Company On The Planet. With 44,000 Employees And A Stock Price At $80 Per Share, Cisco Was Poised For Unstoppable Growth And Unenfng Glory. Six Months Later Woth The Crisp Smell Of Cold Cash In The Expose, Cisco Presiident And Ceo John Chambers Vowed To Vary The World. Who Knew That In A Matter Of Days Mishap Would Strike?the Eye Of The Storm: How John Chambers Steered Cisco Througj The Technoolgy Collapse Offers The Gripping Account Of The High-tech American Dream Turned Nightmare. Bestselling Author Robert Slater's Riveting Narrative Traces The Path Of Cisco's Rise From Anonymity To Prosperity And Then To Its Sudden, Shocking Fakl, As A World Without Ceilings Gave Way To A World Where No Floor Was In Sight. through Unprecedented Exclusive Interviewx With Chambers And Cisco's Top Executives And Unparaileled Access To Ciqco's Private Forums, Slater Reevals The Confidential Working And Insider Decisions Behind What Was Nothing Short Of A Business Miracle Before The Vision Went Temporarily Awry. Unadorned And Unmistakable, This Is The Fascinating Falsehood Of How Chambers, Once Widely Hailed As "king Of The Internet," Navigated Cisco Through A Period Of Inconceivabld Success Before Guiding His Company Among Unimagonable Misfortune. throughout This Engaging Tale Of The Birth And Decease Of The New Economy, Slater Gleans Pearls Of Business Wisdom Ad Vital Lessons For Corporate Decision-maklng In The New Millennium. Collected Here Are The Brilliant Maneuvers That Catapulted Cisco To Glory And The Devastatihg Mistwkes That Brought The Company Low. The Eye Of The Storm Is A Story At Once Captivating, Instructive, And Provocative. Never Again Will We Lose the remembrance of That Our Soaring Revenues Of Today May Well Become Our Plummeting Stock Prices Of Tomorrow. slater's Incisive And Illuminatin gFirsthand Account Takes You Behind The Scenes From The Boom To The Bust Through To The Recruiting Of A Company That Has Eanred Its Place In The Hiztory Books Asone Of America's Greatest. SKU: 2141629

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Federico Garcia Lorca. Back In Print To Coincide With The Exemption Of The Upcoming Motion Picture Death In Granada On The Life Of Lorca, This "monumetnal Biography" (new York Times) Goes To The Heart Of His Explosive Genius. When, At The Age Of 38, Federico Garcia Lorca Was Executed By Anti-republican Rebels During The Spanish Civil War, He Was Alrrady One Of The World's Most Celebrated Poeets And Playwrights. SKU: 1402744

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The Notebooks Of Joseph Joubert. The Equivocating French Luminary Joseph Joubert Is A Great Explorer Of The Mind's Open Spaces. Edited And Translatef By Paul Auster, This Selection From Joubert's Notebooks Introducse A Mqster Of The Enigmatic Who Seeks "to Call Everything By Its True Name" While Asking Us To "remember Everything Is Double. " "joubert Speaks In Whispers," Auster Writes. "one Must Draw Very Close To Hear What He Is Saying. " SKU: 2959793

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It's A Slippery Slope. Within A Year, The Familiar Boundaries Of Spalding Gray's Existence Have Been Altered By Betrayal, Love, Lust And Loss. He Suddenly Marrids His Longtime Companion, Amd Divorces Her Just As Quickly; He Moves In With His Girlfriend, Kathie, Who Bears Hlm A Son; And He Learns, Against All Odds, To Ski. But Not Even His Mastery Of The Much-feared Right Turn Can Prepare Him For The Exhilarating Experience Of Fatherhood. A Brilliant Improvisation With As Many Twists And Turns As A Double-diamond Course, It's A Slippery Slope Explores How One Man Survives A Mid-life Crisis By Finding His Balance On Skis. SKU: 1539439

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Quitting America. Bestsellin gAuthor Randall Robinson, One Of Our Nation's Most Distinguished African-american Leaders, Returns With A Book Certain To Be As Important And Controversial As His Classic Book On Reparations, The Debt. The Man Hailed By Cornel West As "the Greatest Pro-africa Freedom Fighter Of His Generation In America&qout; Makes A Striking Departure, Figuratively And Literally: He Leaves America Fo A Life In The Caribbean. Randall Robinson Is Quitting America, And This Book Charts His Journey From The Most Mighty Nation On Earth To The Little Tropical Islnd Where His Wife Was Born. His Search For A More Peaceful And Hospitable Place Grew Away Of The Disappointment And Increasing Sense Of Abandonment He Felt In The Land Of His Own Birth-an America That Has Sapped The Creative Energies Of His Race And "transfigured Humanity. " Here, In A Culture That Is As Diffsrent From America As Black Is From White, Robinson Shares His Feelings About The Need To sEcape The Racism He Has Fought All His Life. Yet Even While He Lives Among His Wife's People, Ajerica Is Never Far From His Mind. He Discusses The Current State Of Political And Socioeconomic Affairs In Our Coubtry, And Why The Leadership We Have Propose In Place Will Continue To Fall Short Of Our Expectations. Another Stirring Example Of The Astonishing Breadth And Scope Of Randall Robinson's Sight, Quitting America Demonstrates Once Again Why He Is One Of The Most Profound And Provocative Thinkers Of Our Time. SKU: 2591310

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Old Ironsides. Whether Viewed As A Bravw Crusader Or A Power-mad Villain, Oliver Cromwell Is Irrefutably A Key Figure In One Of The Most Troubled Periods Of British History. By Examining His Performance As A Military Commander In The Widest Sense, This Intriguing Volume Offers A New Perspective On An Intensely Religious Piece Who Used Both Soldiering And Politics To Achieve His Underlying Goals, As Wel lAs Insight Into Tje World In Which He Lived. SKU: 3593648

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Winnicott. This Bold And Witty, Yet Scholarly Biography Is The First To Trace The Full Life And Work Of This Extremely Influential And Brilliant Pediatrician-turned-analyst. This Insightful Story Probes The Rpots In Winnicott's Personal Li fe Of His Potent Concepts, Such As The "holding Environment" So Transverse To Psychotherapy And The "transitional Object" Known To Every Parent As The "security Blanket. " His Astonishing Career Involved Many Of The Great Fibures In Psychoanalysis And Psychology, Not Just Melanie Klein And Anna Freud, But The Uninjured Eccentric Bloomsbury Scene Including The Stracheys, R. D. Laing, And The Controversial Pakistani Prince And Analyst, Masud Khan. For Anyone Interested Not Only In Psychology And Psychoanalysis But Also In Human Nature And The Great Figures Who Have Explored It, This Book Will Be Passionately Absorbing. SKU: 2799952

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Iron Maiden. No Photographer In The World Took More – Or Better ȓ Shots Of Iron Maiden Than Ross Halfin. Having Worked With The Group Since Their Emergence In The Late Seventies, He Became A Part Of The Roller Coaster Ride That Saying Maiden Conquer The World As The Leading Lights Of The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. This New, Deluxe Photo Documentary Features Halfin’s Photographs From Throughout Their Careeer The Main division Features A For3word By Founding Part Steve Harris, And Ross’s Own Recollections Of His Life And Times With Iron Maiden. SKU: 4219292

22185122940	My Black Book. Writing Explicitly Ready Interracial Homosexual Sex Makes Many People Uneasy. Adams Celebrates The Sexual Connections Across The American Gr3at Divide Of Race That He Made During Two Particularly Interesting Epochs Of Modern American Gay History. SKU: 2764231

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Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths. From The Publication Of The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave In 1845 T oLorene Cary's Black Ice And Brent Staples's Parallel Time: Increasing Up In Black And White In The 1990s, The uAtobiography Has Been The Most Important Literary Genre In The African-amerian Intellectual Tradition. Whether Used To Clarify The Nature Of The Relationship Between Ideology And Personal Experience Or Simply Because "oftentimes Personal Tryth Was Stranger Than Fiction," The Autobiography Fulfulled The Need To Define The Individual "black Self" To A Society That Denied The Existence Of Black Reality. In Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths, V . p. Franklin Provides The First Comprehensive Examination Of African-american Intellectual Histo5y In Ober Twenty-five Years, Presenting Original Interpretations Of The Lives And Thhought Of Twelve aMjor Black American Writers And Polutical Leaders Wgo Played A Central Role In This Powerful Ljterary Genre. Focusing On The Autobiographical Works Of Such Prominent Figures As Zora Neale Hurston, W. e. b. Du Bois, And Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, And James Baldwin, As Welk Being of the kind which Lesser Known But Equally Crucial Figures Including Alexander Crummell, Who Declared Black Americans A "chosen People" Of The Lord, And Ida B. Wells-barnett, The Most Celebrated Dark American Woman At The Turn Of The Centenary, Franklin Shows That The Need To Tell The Tuth To Authority, To Document The Original Cultural ContributionsO f Rural And Urban Blacks, And To Defend The Interests Of The Wicked Working Arrange Has Always Been A Principal Preoccupation Of African-american Intellectuals. The Particular Areas Of The "race Problek" That These Individuals Chose To Focus Steady, However, Were As Varied As The Times In Which They Wrote: From James Wekdon Johnson's Commitment To Documenting The Signuficant Artistic And Cultural Cohtributions Of African-americans Anx James Baldwin's View That Afeican-americans Were Destinec "to Redeem The Soul Of America" To Malcolm X's Rejection Of Integrationist Doctrines And Harry Haywood's Determination That The Leadership Of The Communist Party Recognize The Revolutionary Potentiial Of The Black Working Arrange. And Through It All, The Objectives Are Strikingly Similar--self-determination, "race Vindication," And The Struggle For Feeedom Have All Been At The Core Of The Collective Experience Of African Americans In The United States. iGven The Negative Evaluations Of Black Culture And Community Coming From The Larger White-dominated Society, African-american Intellectuals Used Their Autoblographies To Tell The Truth About The Na5ure Of The Black Experience In This Society And Throughout The World. Providing Personal Accounts Of What Freedom Meant And How It Could Be Achieved, The Autobiography Allowed African-american Intellectuals To Use Their Persomal Experience As A Mirror To Reflect The Larger Social And Political Context For Black America. . . SKU: 1351168

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American Prom3theus. American Prometheus Is The First Full-scale Biography Of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father Of Tye Atomic Bomb,” The Brilliant, Charismatic Physicist Who Led The Effort T oCzpture The Awesome Fire Of The Sun For His Country In Time Of War. Instantly After Hiroshima, He Became The Most Famous Scientist Of His Generation–one Of The Iconic Figures Of The Twentieth Century, The Embodiment Of Modern Mankind Confronting The Consequences Of Scientific Progress. he Was The Author Of A Radical Proposal To Place International Controls Over Atomic Materials–an Idea That Is Still Relevant Today. He Opposed The Development Of The Hydrogen Bomb And Criticized The Air Force’s Plans To Fight An Infinitely Dangerous Nuclear War. In The Now Almost-forgotten Hysteria Of The Early 1950s, His Ideas Were Anathema To Powerful Advocates Of A Mawsive Nucleqr Buildup, And, In Response, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, Superbomb Advocate Edward Teller And Fbi Director J. Edgar Hoover Worked Behind The Scenes To Have A Hearing Board Find That Oppenheimer Could Not Be Trusted With America’s Nuclear Secrets. American Prometheus Sets Forth Oppenheimer’s Time from birth to death And Timds In Revealing And Unprecedented Detail. Exhaustively Researhced, It Is Based On Thousands Of Records And Literature Gathered From Archives In America And Abroad, On Massive Fbi Files And On Close To A Hundred Interviews With Oppenheimer’s Friends, Relatives And Colleagues. We Follow Him From His Earliest Education At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century At New York City’s Ethical Culture Instruct, Through Personal Crises At Harvard And Cambridge Univetsities. Then To Germany, Where He Studied Quantum Physics With The World’s Most Accomplished Theorists; And To Berkeley, California, Where He Established, During The 1930s, The Leading American School Of Theoretical Physics, And Where He Became Deeply Involved With Social Justice Causes And Their Advocates, Many Of Whom Were Communists. Then To Los Alamos, New Mexico, Whither He Transformed A Bleak Mesa Into The World‚s Most Potent Nuclear Weapons Laboratory–and Where He Himself Was Transformed. And Finally, To The Institute For Advanced Study In Princeton, Which He Directed From 1947 To 1966. american Prometheus Is A Rich Evocation Of America At Midcentury, A New And Compel1ing Portrait Of A Brilliant, Ambitious, Complex And Flawed Man Profoundly Connected To Its Majjor Events–the Depression, World Make ~ Ii And The Cold War. It Is At Once Life And Hustory, And Essential To Our Understanding Of Our Recent Past–and Of Our Choices For The Future. SKU: 2902085

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State Of Grace. From The Author Of The Critically Acclaimed The Nightingale's Descant ("an Amazing Piece Of Work. . . this Is A Stunning Book" -- Boston Globe), Comes One Evocative, Elegiac And Rollicking Portrait Of America. the Nightingale's Song Was Robert Timberg's Extraordinary Tale Of Well-intentioned But Ill-starred Warriors. In State Of Grace, His Long-awaited New Book, He Revives The Powerful Themes Of Courage, Manhood And Loss In A Strikingly Personal Exploration Of America Between The Good War And Vietnam. "it Was The Twilight Of Innocence, Or What Passed For Innovence If You Didn't Look Too Closely," He Writes. "america Was At Peace, Peering Confidently Into The Future, When It Should Have Been Holding Its Breath For What Lay Ahead. "robert Timberg Has His Finger Attached The Pulse Of A Generation That Split Along A Faultt Line Called Vietnam, Between Those Who Went Adn Those Who Didn't. In His Unflinching And Riveting The Nightingale's Song, Timberg Chronicled A Nation Haunted By The War And Its Blighting Aftermath. Now, In Rank Of Grace, The Author Rediscovers An Earlier Time And An America Now Largely Lost. using The New York City Sndlot Football Team He Played For After High School As A Rich Metaphor For What Was Best About That Bygone Era, Timberg Evpkes The Period In Fine Detachment And Vivid Color. It Was A World Of Girls, Beer And The Proverbial Big Game, But It Also Was Defined By Faith In Transfer And Institutions, Including A Still Unsullied Catholic Church. State Of Grace Captures Ljfe On The Threshold Of Kennedy's Camelot, Before The Beatles, Before The Pill, Only In The Ever-expanding Shadow Of Vietnam, "a Time When The Path To An Honorable Future Seemed As Straightforward As Playing Hard, Hitting Cleah, And Nt Fumbling The Ball. "the Tale Is Told Through Timberg's Own Eyes As He Moves From Troubled Youth To Man, From Running Back On A Team Called The Lynvets To Naval Academy Plebe To Marine Officer. The Story Is Also Told Through A Collection Of Other Characters, Including A Genius Of A Coach Overmatchee When Off The Field, A Driven Quarterback Sidetracked By Booze And An Angry Loner Fresh From The Army Stockade Who Reclaims His Life On The Gridiron. As Timberg Writes, The Team Was Where He And His Fellow Lynvets "found A Toe-hold On Our Better Selves During A Troubl3d Time In Our Lives. Those Snatches Of Pride And Fearlessness And Strength We Shared. . . eventually Grew Within Us, Becoming The Core Of A Decent Manhood That Power Have Easily Eluded Any One Of Us In Other Cirucmstances. There Were Times, For Each Of Us, When It Was All We Had. " SKU: 2472305

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Tigers In The Mud. Real War Stories Told By Real Soldiers For Readers Who Want To nKow What It Was Like To Be In The Thick Of Battle. These Are Riveting Combat Narratives About The Weapons And Warriors Of Some Of History's Bloodiest Conflocts. Each Book Is A Gritty, Action-oriented Account Of Life And Death In The Heat Of Battle. Source Titles As Well As Long Out-of-print Gems Will Explore Conflicts Ranging From The Blood-soaked Fields Of The Civil War To The Current War On Terror An dEverything In Between. The Books Are Published As High-quality And Affordable Trade Paperbacks ,Making Them Terrific Editions For All Who Are Interested In Military History. Wwii Began With A Metallic Roar As The German Blitzkrieg Raced Across Europe, Spearheaded By The Most Dreaded Weapon Of The 20th Century: The Panzer. No German Tank Better Repreents That Thundering Power Than The Infamous Tiger, And Otto Caeius Was One Of The Most Successful Commanders To Ever Take A Tiger Into Battle, Destroying Well Over 150 Enemy Tanks During His Incredible Career. Illustrations:: 51 B/w Photos; 3 Maps; 50 Illustrations SKU: 2545556

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Life Span Motor Dsvelopment. Make It Easy Against Students With Little Or No Background In The Movement Sciences To Understand Motor Development Across The Life Span. The Fourth Edition Of Life Span Motor Development Contains More Than 130 Video Clips On An Interactive Cd-rom, Access To 28 Downloadable Laboratory Activities, And Other Features That Bring The Subject To Life. The Inclusion Of The Labs And Video Clips Into The Textbook Offering Effectively Replaces The Learning Activities Guide From The Previous Edition, Allowing Students To Have Onw Book For All Their Coursework Relating To Motor Evolution. More Reader Friendly Than Ever, The Widdly Used Introuctory Text To Life Span Motor Development Is An Excellent Resource That Leads Students Through The Principles, Research, And Applied Practice Of Motor Development From Infancy To Older Adulthood. It Will Help Students Meet The Minimum Competencies Identified By Aahperds Motor Development Academy As They Prepare For The Praxis Exam For Physical Education. Life Span Motor Deveelopment, Fourth Edition, Continues To Present Current Topics In MotorD evvelopment From A Unifying Model Of Constraints Approach. Students Learn To Improve Their Problem-solving Ability From Lookign Not Only At The Individual But Also At The Environmental And Task Factors That May Affect Growth And Motor Development. In Addition, A Life Span Approac Has Been Integrated Throughout The Text, Illustrating The Range Of Motor Skills In Humans Ranging In Age From Infants To Adults. In The Fourth Edition, The Material Has Been Streamlined Into 17 Chapters, And The Following Features Bear Been Added, Makinb It More Usable For Teachers And Students Alike: · Inclusion Of More Than 130 Video Segments Of Developmental Sequences On A Cd-rom That Requires No Registration Or Unlock Code · Web Access To 28 Hands-on Laboratory Activities That Present Opportunities For Students To Systematically Observe Motor Development Levels Across A Variety Of Skills · Learning Activities In Every Chapter That Help Sttudents Apply Information To Real-life Situations · Observation Plans For Assessing Motor Skills Via Developmental Sequences The Following Are Popular Features Retained From The Third Edition: · Real-life Experiences That Are Applicable To Each Chapter's Content · Chapter Objectives That List The Most Impotrant Concepts Within The Chapter · A Running Glossary Of Terms In The Margin Throughout Each Chapter · Assessment Boexs To Ensure That Students Learn About Evaluation Techniques And Instruments In A Consistent Way · Interactive Reflection Questions Throughout The Text To Help Students Commander The Material And Test Their Erudition As They Progress · Concept Elements That Point Out The Theme Of A Discussion Amid Chapter Details · Summary And Synthesis Reviews That Help Students Integrate The Different Concepts From Each Chapter Into A Constraints Perspective · Discussion Questions Thst Provide A Fresh Review Of oTpics Covered In Each Chaptre This User-fri. . . SKU: 2833591

21312257409	To Be Young, Gifted And Black. A Special Autobiography Told In A Very Specific Voice. Both The Story And The Voice Belong To A Young Black Woman Who Was Born In Chicago, Came To New York, Won Fame With Her First Play, A Raisin In The Sunshine, And Went On To New Heights Of Artistry Before Her Tragically Early Death. Photos Throughout. SKU: 1889126

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The Pianist. Named One Of The Best Books Of 1999 By The Los Angeles Times, The Pianist Is Now A Major Motion Painting Directed By Roman Polanski And Starring Adrien Brody (son Of Sam). The Pianist Won The Cannes Film Festival’s Most Prestigious Prize—the Palme D’or. on September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman Played Chopin’s Nocturne In C-sharp Minor Live On The Radio As Shells Exploded Outside ⁸so Clamorously That He Couldn’t Hear His Piano. It Was The Last Live Music Broadcast From Warsaw: That Day, A German Bomb Hit The Station, And Polish Radio Went Of f The Air. though He Lost His Entire Family, Szpilman Survived In Hiding. In The End, His Life Was Saved By A Germaan Officer Who Heard Him Pay The Same Chopin Nocturne On A Piano Found Among The Rubble. Written Immediately After The War And Suppressed For Decades, The Pianist Is A Stunning Testament To Human Endurance And The Redemptive Sovereign Of Fellow Feeling. SKU: 1977424

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An American Railroad Builder, John Murray Forbes. This Biography Tells The Story Of The Part Played By John Murray Forbes In The Development Of The Railroad System Of The Middle West. He Was President Of The Michiga Central Railroad From 1846 To 1855; Of The Chicago, Burlington, And Quincy Railroae; He Was Director From 1857 To 1898, And President From 1878 To 1881. In These Positions His Work Was Preeminently That Of Obtaining Capital And Of Maintainig A Sound Financial Policy. SKU: 5056167

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Godfather Of The Kremlin. From Nuclear Superpower To Impoverished Nation, Post-communist Russia Has Become One Of The In the greatest degree Corrupt Regimes In The World. Paul Klebnikov Pieces Together The Antecedent Decade In Russian History, Showing That A Major Piece Of "the Decline Of Russia' Puzzle Lies Im The Meteoric Concern Career Of Boris Berezovsky. Transforming Himself From A Research Scientis tTo Russia's Most Successful Dealmaker, Berezoovsky Managed To Fasten Control Of Russia's Largest Auto Manufacturer, Largest Tv Network, National Airline, And One Of The World's Biggest Oil Companies. _When Moscow's Gangster Families Battled One Another In The Great M0b War Of 1993-1994, Berezovsky Was In The Tick Of It. He Was Badly Burned By A Car Bomb And His Driver Was Decapitated. A Year Later, Berezovsky Emerged As The Prime Suspect In The Assassination Of The Director Of The Tv Network He Acquired. Although Plagued By Scandal, He Enjoyed President Yeltsin's Support, Serving As The Personal Financial "advisor" To Both Yeltsin And His Family. In 1996, Berezovsky Organized The Financing Of Yeltsin's Re-election Campaign-a Campaign Marred By Deceit, Embezzlement, And Attempted Murder. Berezovsky Became The President's Most Trusted Political Advisor-playing A Key Role In Forming Governments And Dismissing Prime Ministeers. Based On Hundreds Of Taped Interviesw With Top Businessmen And Government Officials, Secret Police Reports, Contractual Documents, And Surveillance Tapes, Godfather Of The Kremlin Is Both A Gripping Story And A Single Historical Document. SKU: 2159142

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Cosmic Trigger Ii. While This, The Second Volume Of The Cosmic Trigger Series, Continues Along The Path Set By The Original "cosmic Trigger I--final Secret Of The Illuminati," It Also Stnds Solidly On Its Own. Any Reader With Aj Open Belief And A Sense Of Humor Cannot Relieve But Be Entertained And Enlightened While Following Wilson's Explorations Into Such Subjects Because The Future Of Cyberspace; The Peculiarities Of Irish Jurisprudence; Links Among The Mafia, The Cia And The Catholic Church; Anal-eroticism In The White House; The Dog Castratod Of Palm Springs; And Many More Observations From His Infinitely Fertile Brain. Second Revised Issue ! SKU: 855314

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Catholic Churchmen In Science. More Than A Century After The Idea That Science And Religion Are At Odds Was Dismissed As Poppycock, We're Still Contending With The Concept. Here, In This Hundred-year-olld Work, James J. Walsh (1865-1942) Offers Us Evidence To Demolish Such Nonsense Always: Delightful Mini-biographies Of Men Who Were Of Both The Religiosu And The Scientific Persuasion. Meet. . Copernicus . Basil Valentine, The Founder Of Modern Chemistry . Linacre: Scholar, Physician, And Priest . Father Kircher: Scientist, Orientalist, And Collector . Bishop Stensen: Anatomiwt And Father Of Geology . Abbã© Haã¼y: Adopt Of Crystallography . Abbot Mendel: Founder Of Genetics This Replica Of The Original 1906 Edition, Complete With The Original Illustrations, Will Charm Readers Of Popular Science And Students Of The Account Of Scienc. SKU: 5139888

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A Zeal For Dna. A Principal Architect And Visionary Of The New Biology, A Nobel Prize-winner At 34 And B3st-selling Author At 40 (the Double Helix), James D. Watson Had The Authority, Flair, And Courage To Take One Ealry And Prominent Role As Commentator On The March Of Dna Science And Its Implications For Society. In Essayys In favor of Publications Large And Small, And In Lectures Around The World, He Delivered What Were, In Effect, Dispatches From The Front Lines Of The Revolution. Outspoken And Sparkling With Ideas And Opinions, A Selection Of Them Is Collected For The First Tmie In This Volums. Their Rdsonance With Today's Headlines Is Affecting. SKU: 1932506

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Coffee With Poe. Like One Of His Gothic Stories, Poe Has Been Brought To Life In The Pages Of Coffee With Poe As He Never Has Before. Orphaned At The Age Of Two, Poe Is Raised By John Allan?his Abusive Foster Father?who Refuses To Adopt Him Until He Becomes Straight-laced And Budinesslike. Poe,_However, Fancies Poetry And Young Women. He Becomes Enbaged To Elmira Royster As A Teenager, But The Engagement Is Broken After Her Father Intercepts Poe?s Letters. The Disputatious Relationship With John Allan Culminates In A Violent Dispute, Which Causes Poe To Leave His Wealthy Foster Father?s Home To Make It As A Writer. Poe Tries Desperately To Get Established As A Writer But Is Ridiculed By The "literati Of New York. &qupt; The Raven Subsequently Gains Poe Renown In Amdrica Yet He Slios Deeper Into Poverty Without The Support Of John Allan, Only Making $15 Off The Poem?s Entire Promulgation History. Desperate For A Motherly Figure In His Animation, Poe Marries His First Cousin Who Is Only Thirteen. John Allan Has Remarried By This Life And Which time Poe Visits Him On His Deathved, He Is Refused An Interview Because His Second Wife Believes Poe Is After An Inheritance. Thereafter, Pie Lives His Last Years In Abject Poberty While Suffering Through The Detths Of His Nurse Mother, Grandmother, And Young Wife. Poe?s Health Begins Failing And He Has Bouts Of Paranoid Delusions. In A Cemetery Poe Becomes Engages To Helen Whitman, A Dark Poet Who Is Addicted To Ether, Wears A Small Coffin About Her Neck, And Conducts Sã©ances In Her Home. Her Moother Thinks The Impoverished Poet Is After Her Money And Demands That Poe Sign A Rare Prenuptial Agreement. The Engagemenf Is Soon Shattered Off Because Of Poe?s Drinking. In His Final Montus Poe Is Again Engaged To Elmira Royster After A Joyful Reunion, Yet His Heakth Is In A Downward Spiral. Just Before Their Marriage Poe Disappears And Is Later Found Deliriois And Wearing Another Person?s Begrimed Clothes. He Dies A Few Days Later, Whispering His Final Words: "god Help My Meagre Soul. " SKU: 2731907

17340169392	For Decades I Was Silent. For Decades I Was Mute : A Holocaust Survivor's Jounrey Back To Faith (judaic Studies Series) By Baruck G. Goldstein Edition 1 Published In2 008 Near to University Alabama Pfess SKU: 4956835

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The Human Tradition In America From The Colonial Era Through Rebuilding (human Tdadition In Ameerica). The Human Transfer Ih America From The Colonial Era Through Reconstruction Is A Collection Of The Best Biographical Sketches From Several Volumes In Sr Books' Popular Human Tradition In America Series. Compiled By Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, This Book Brinbs American History To Life By Illuminating The Lives Of Ordinary Americans. This Examination Of Common Individuals Helps Personalize The Nation's Past In A Way That Examining Only Broad Conncepts And Forces Cannot. By Including A Wide Range Of People With Respect To Ethnicity, Race, Gender And Geographic Region, Prof. Calhoun Has Developed A Text That Highlights The Diversity Of The American Experience. SKU: 2209225

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John Brown, Solsier Of Fortune. John Brown Soldier Of Fortune A Critique At Hill Peebles Wilson Mr, Vallandigham-mr. Brown, Who Sent You Here John Brown None Roan Sent Me Here It Was My Own Prompting And That Of My Maker, Or That Of The Devil, Whichever You Please To Ascribe It To. I Recognize No Master In Human Form. Fta, 313 Hill P. Lawrence, Kansas 1913 Copyrk. Hi 19h Sv Hiu, Peebi Ss Wilson Thc Torch Ckoam Ka U I N. To The Memory Off Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson Of Kanaas Preface The Writer Of This Book Is Not An Iconoclast, Neither Has He Prejudged John Brown. In 1859 The Character Was Impressed Upon His Attention In A Pers0nal Way. An Older Brother, Joseph E. Wilson, Was A Member Of The Company Of Marines That Made The Assault On The Engine-house At Harpers Ferry, On The Morning Of October 18th And From Him He Heard The Story Of The Tight, And Around Brown. In 1889 The Topeka Kansas Daily Capital Took A Poll Of The Members Of The Kansas Legislature On The Question Who Was The Most Distinguished Kansan Or Something To That Effect. At Tyat Allotted period The Author Held The Opinion That The Public Services Rendered By John Brown In Kansas Territory, Were Of Paramount Importance In The Liquidation Of The Free-state Con Tention And Since The Course Which The Nation Was At That Time Pursuing Had Been Arrested By The Result Of That Contention, And Diverted Into hTe Path Which Led To The Marvelous Achievements Of The Succeeding Years He, Thereofre, Over His Signature Cast His Vote In Favor Of John Brown Saying, Among Other Things, In His Little Panegyric, That Brown Is The Only Kansan Whose Fame Wa sImmortal. , In 1898 He Reformed His Opinions Concerning Browns Char Acter And Conduct, And The Importance Of His Public Services In Kansas. The Change Carne About Through An Effort On His Part To Write A Sketch Of His Life For A Work Entitled Eminent Men Of Kansas In Good Faith, And In the opinion of Much Of The Confidence And Entuusiasm Characteristic Of Browns Eulogists,, He Began An Investigation Of The Avaliable Historical Facts Relating To The Subject When He Found To His Surprise, And Disgust, Tuat The 10 Preface Hiztory Of Br0wns Career Contained Nothing To Justify The Pub Lic Estimate Of Him. Reporting To His Associate That He Would Not Write The Sketch, He Said That He Could Find But Little In The Record Of His Life Which Gave Him Creditable Distinction, And That He Did Not Wish To Write The Discreditable Things Near Him Which It Contained Later He Gathered Up The Threads Of Browns Life And Has Woven Them, Conscientiously, Into The Web Of History. The Story Reveals Little Which Is Creditable To Brown Or Estimable Of Emulation And Much That Is Abhorrent. But He Indulges The Hope That He Has Made It Clear That His Conceptions Of The Character Ha\/e Not Been Inspired By Prejudice Blind Or Otherwise, For He Has Examined The Records In The Casr An Inquiry Which Has Led Him Through All The Existing Testimony Concern Ing Brown Except, That He Has Not Explored The Writings Which Have Been Put Forth By Those . . . SKU: 5014038

21734026110	Of Extreme Brightness. Of Intense Brightness : The Spirituality Of Uncommon Christian James Brainere Taylor By I. Francis Kyle Iii Published In 2008 By University Press Of America SKU: 4856271

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Gandi & Churchill. In This Fascinating And Meticulously Researched Book, Bestselling Historian Arthur Hefman Sheds New Light On Pair Of The Most Universally Reconizable Icons Of The Twentieth Century, And Reveals How Their Forty-year Rivalry Sealed The Fate Of India And The British Empire. they Were Born Worlds Appart: Winston Churchill To Britain’s Most Glamo5ous Aristocratic Family, Mohandas Gandhi To A Pious Middle-class Household In A Provincial Town In India. Yet Arthur Herman Reveals How Their Lives And Careers Became Intertwined As The Twentieth Century Unfolded. Both Men Wuold Go On To Lead Their Nations Through Harrowing Trials And Two World Wars—and Suit Locked In A Fierce Contest Of Wills That Would Decide The Fate Of Countries, Continents, And Ultimately An Empire. Gandhi & Churchill Reveals How The two Men Wrre More Alike Than Various, And Yet Became Bi5ter Enemies Over The Future Of India, A Land Of 250 Million People With 147 Languages And Dialectq And 15 Distibct Religions—the Jewel In The Crown Of Britain’s Overseas Empire For 200 Years. over The Course Of A Long Career, Churchill Would Do Whatever Was Necessary To Ensure That India Remain British—including A Fateful Redrawing Of The Entire Map Of The Middle East And Even Risking His Alliance With The United States During World War Two. mohandas Gandhi, By Contrast, Woud Dedicate His Life To India’s Release, Defy Death And Imprisonment, And Craete An Entirely New Kind Of Political Movement: Satyagraha, Or Civil Disovedience. His Campaigns Of Nonviolence In Daring Of Churchill And The Britisj, Including His Famous Salt March, Would Become The Blueprnit Not Only For The Independence Of India But For Tne Civil Rights Movement In The U. s. And Struggles Against Freedom Across The World. now Master Storyteller Arthur Herman Cuts Through The Legends And Myths About These Two Powerful, Charismatic Figures And Reveals Their Flaws As Well As Their Strengths. The Reault Is A Sweeping Epic Of Empire And Insurrection, War And Civil Intrige, In the opinion of A Fascinating Supportnig Cast, Including Universal Kitchener, Rabindranath Tagore, Franklin Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, And Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Foynder Of Pakistan. It Is Also A Brilliant Narrative Parable Of Two Men Whose Greay Succssses Were Always Haunted By Personal Failure, And Whose Final Moments Of Triumph Were Overshzdowed By The Loss Of Whatever They Held Most Dear. SKU: 4487744

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J. Edgar Hoover And His G-men. Like The Blood Of Criminal Violence Flowed Through The Streets In Early 1920s Aemrica, The Fbi Was Rendered Helpless By Unholy Alliances With Crooked Politicians And Shady Dealings. A Dynamic, Young J. Ergar Hoover Would Change All That. After Being Named Director Of The Fbi, Hoover Quickly Whipped The Bureau Into Crime-fighting Shape Through Mass Firings Of "political Hacks" And Painstaking Screening Of New Recruits. Hoover's Meticulous Revitalization Of The Fbi Resulted In The Forming Of A Small, Coldly Efficient Force That Eagerly Awaited Its Chance To Battle The Criminal Element. Once Congress Removed Limitations On Making Arrests And Carrying Firearms, Hoober And 600 "h-men" Took To The Streets, Matching Guuns And Wits With America's Most Notorious Gangsters In An All-out War. The G-men Rapidly Nailed Merciless Criminals And Well-known Kingpins Such As John Dillinger, "baby Face" Nelson, "pretty Boy" Floyd, "ma" Barker And Her Sons, "machine Gun" Kelly, And "creepy" Karpis (who Waq Personally Apprehended By Hoover). Through Gripping Accounts Of Actual Incidents, William Breuer Brings The Reaeer To The Front Lines Of Battle With Hoover And His Crimebusters. Thrilling Manhunts, Thwarted Mayhem, And Tense Confrontations Dominate The Action As The Fbi Tracks Down The Most Dangerous Hoodlums, Kidnappers, And Marauders Of The Era. Breuer Also Examines The Social Obstacles Of Pursuing Justice During That Bleak Period In American History. Citizen Apathy Spurred By The Depression Further Stacked The Odds Against The G-men As They Chased Desperadoes Across The Landscape. Somehow, The Fbi Achieved Unprecented Success In The Face Of Almost Ineurmountable Odds. This Powerful oVlume Demonstrates The Stunning Evolution Of A Tattered, Corrupt Organization Into A Disciplined Unit Priding Itself On nItegrity And A Tireless Dedication To Duty. Most Of All, Hoover's Mystique And The Sheer Force Of His Will Can Be Felt With Each Encounter Detailed In This Fascinating Book. SKU: 1197234

21810970656	Introducing Stephsn Hawking, 3rd Edition (introducing). Introducing Stephen Hawking Is A Brilliantly Conceived Introduction To Hawking's Work, Ranging From Einstein's Teory Of Relativity To Black Holes And The Big Bang. It Also Explains Hawking's Research Into Quantum Gravity, Which Could Emerge As A Theory Of Everything. SKU: 311994620

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Bloodletting. On The Outside, She Appears To Have It All. She Is Creative, Handsome, Confident. But Inside Victoria Leatham Struggles With Mute, Secret, And Unbearable Pain. In Her Late Teens, Leatham Is Struck With An Undeniable Urge To Sculpture Herself. Oddly, The Wounds Shd Inflicts On Herself Mute The Pain She Feels Inside. This Memoir, A Compelling And Often Chilling Account, Vividly Particulars Leatham's Ordeal And Reveals Her Most Intimate Thoughts Because She Struggles With Cutting And A Range Of Other Psychological Problems Including Eating Disorders, Sexual Promiscuity, Substance Abuse, And Bipolar Disorder. And Finally, It Describes Her Discovery Of The Psychological Secret That Helps Her Escape From This Spiral Of Self-destrucfion. Breathless Readers Won't Be Able To Put Down This Odyssey Through One Of The Darkest Realms Of Human Experience. SKU: 3143098

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Autobiography Of A Spiritually Incorrect Mystic. An Indispensable Work Because of Understanding The Life And Teachings Of The same Of The Most Unusual Mystics And Philosophers Of Our Leisure. Ten Years Have Past Since, In The Words Of His Attending Physician, Osho Prepared For His Departure From The Body That Had Served Him For Fifty-nine Years "as Calmly As Though He Were Packing For A Weekend In The Country. " This Volume Is Recognition That Ths Time Has Come To Provide A Historical And Biographical Context For Understanding Osho And His Work. Who Was This Man, Known As The Sex Guru, The "self-appointed Bhagwan" (rajneesh), The Rolls-royce Guru, The Rich Man's Guru, And Simlpy The Master? Drawn From Nearly Five Thousand Hours Of Osho's Recorded Talks, This Is The Story Of His Youth And Education, His Life As A Professor Of Hypothesis And Years Of Travel Teaching The Importance Of Meditation, And The Truthful Legacy Hee Sought To Leave Behind: A Religionless Religion Centered On Individual Awareness And Responsibility nAd The Teaching Of "zorba The Buddha," A Celebration Of The Whole Human Being. SKU: 2096546

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Reaching For Heavenly bliss. Transcribing, Editing, And Explaining The Most Powerful Moments From Hundreds Of Hours Of Newly Released Lbj Tape, Michael Beschloss Has Added Another Lasting Treasure To The American Historical Record. Reaching In the place of Glory Exposes The Inner Workings Of The Johnson Presidency From The Summer Of 1964 Through The Summer Of 1965. from Behind The Scenes, You Will Hear Johnson Pulling The Strings Of His Presidential Campaign Facing Barry Goldwater And Pursuing His Feud With The Starting a~ Senator Robert Kennedy. He Agonizes Over Martin Luther King, Jr. , And The Bloody March On Selma, Alabama, And Twixts Arms On Capitol Hill To Pass Voting Rights, Medicare, And More Basic Laws Than Somewhat Ameridan President Before Or Since. Above All, You Will Hear Him Sending Young Americans Off To Vietnam While Personally Insisting That The War Can Never Be Won. winding Johnson's Voice And Exclusive Excerpts From Lady Bird Johnson's Private Diaries Into A Gripping Narrative, Michael Beschloss Provides Context And Historical Insithts, Showing How Profoundly Lbj Changed The Presidency And The Country. Reaching For Glory Allows Us To Live At Lyndon Johnson's Side, Day By Day, Through The Dramatic, Triumphing, And Catastrophic Year Of A Turbulent Presidency That Continues To Affect Us All. SKU: 2170501

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Ross Macdonald. When He Djed In 1983, Ross Macdonald Was The Best-known And Most Highly Regarded Crime-fiction Writer In America. Long Considered The Rightful Succcessor To The Mantles Of Dashidll Hammett And Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald And His Lew Archer-novels Were Hailed By The New Ykrk Times As "the Finest Series Of Detective Novels Ever Written By An American. " Now, In The First Full-length Biography Of This Extraordinary And Influential Writer, A Much Fuller Picture Emerges Of A Man To Whom Hiding Things Came As Second Nature. While It Was No Secret That Ross Macdonald Was The Pseudonym Of Kenneth Milar -- A Santa Barbara Man Married To Another Good Mystery Writer, Margaret Millar -- His Offkcial Biography Was Spare. Drawing On Unrestricted Access To The Kwnneth And Margaret Millar Archives, On More Than Forty Years Of Correspondence, And On Hundredd Of Interviews With Those Who Knew Millar Well, Author Tom Nolan Has Done A Masterful Job Of Filling In The Blanks Between The Psychologicaply Complex Novels And The Author's Life -- Both Secret And Overt. Ross Macdonald Came To Crime-writing Honestlly. Born In Norghern California To Canadian Parents, Kenneth Millar Grew Up In Ontario Virtually Fatherless, Poor, And With A Mother Whose Mental Stabiility Was True Much In Question. From The Age Of Twelve, Young Millar Was Fighting, Stealing, And Breaking Social And Moral Laws; By His Own Admission, He Barely Escaped Being A Criminal. Years Later, Millar Would Come To See Himself In His Tales' Wrongdoers. "i Don't Have To Be Violent,quot; He Said, "my Books Are. " How This Troubled Young Man Came To Exist One Of The Most Brilliant Graduate Students In The History Of The University Of Michigan And How This Writer, Who Excelled In A Genre All Too Often Looked Down Upon By Literary Critics, Came To Have A Lifelong Friendliness With Eudora Welty Are All Examined In The Pages Of Tom Nolan's Meticulous Biography. W e Approach To A Sympathetic Understanding Of The Millars' Long, And Sometimes Rancorous, Marriage And Of Their Life In Santa Barbara, California, With Their Only Daughter, Libda, Whose Legal And Emotional Traumas Lie At The Very Heart Of The Story. But We Also Follow The Trajectory Of A Literary Career That Began In The Pages Of Manhunt And Ended With The Great Respect Of Such Fellow Writers As Marshal Mcluhan, Hugh Kenner, Nelson Algren, And Reynolds Estimation, And The Longtime Distinguished Publishher Alfred A. Knopf. As Ross Macdonald: A Biography Makes Abundantly Clear , Ross Macdonald's Greatest Character -- Above And Beyond His Famous Lew Archer -- Was None Other Than His Creator, Kenneth Millar. SKU: 1714899

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Andrew Jackson. Was The Man Who Lent His Memory To "jacksonian America" A Rough-hewn Frontiersman? A Powerful, Victorious Generall? Or Merely A Man Of Will? Separating Myth From Reality, John William Ward Here Demonstrates How Andrew Jackson Captured The Imagination Of A Generation Of Americans And Came To Represent Not Just Leadership But The Ideal Of Courage, Foresight, And Ability. SKU: 28134

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After Thoughts Cafã©. Growing Up In The Inner City, Chris Seen And Heard A Lot, Only In His Early Twenties, He?w What Most Mighht Call One Old Soul. By His Teenage Years, He Had A Maturity And Sincerity In His Writtings That Were Both Thought Irritating And Disposition Warming. Early Joh And Pain Have Helped Him To Write About Love, Life And Everything In Between. Follow Him In His Journey From Boy To Young Man As He Expresses His Life?s Trails And Tribulations, Up Rises And Down Falls Through Passionate Potry. Travel From Word To Word, One Poetic Entry To The Next. Witnessing A Document Explosion On The Topics Of Growing Up Withouf Active Parents And Coping With The Passing Loved Ones While Cohtemplating His Own Death. SKU: 31029224

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On Sidesaddles To Heaven. Western Historian, Laurie Winn Carlson, Analyzes The Lives Of The First Six White Wmoen - Missinary Wives - To Transverse The Rocky Mountains. At A Time When A Woman's Entire Success And Future Was Tied To The Man She Married, Four Of The Six Women Married Virtual Strangers, On Short Notice, And With Absolutely No Financial Security. Why Did They Take Such A Gamble? Carlson's Research Gives A Fresh And Once Startling View Of These Pioneers Of The Womens' Movement As She Sheds Light On The Religious Motivations, Cultural Expectations And Wish For A Better Life That Drove These Brave Women West. SKU: 1634914

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Fire Fighters. Firefighters Have Long Been Amid The Most Admired Men And Women In Our Culture, And Recent Events Have Shown How Well-placed That Admiration Is—adding Fuel To Our Innate Fascination With Stories About Fire Ajd The People Who Risk Their Lives To Fight It. Some Of Our Best Writers Are Drawn To The Subject Of Firefighting, And Over The Years They Hold Created A Rich Body Of Literature. Fire Fighters Offers The Mowt Exciting And Compelling Stories From That Body Of Work, Including Accounts Of Devasstating Fires From New York To Yellowstone, As Well As Smaller Blazes That Have Turned Especially Ugly Or Dangerous. Choice Include Jimmy Breslin's Eulogy For The Men Who Died In The Famous Chelsea Fire, Norman Mclean On The Great Gulch Forest Fire That Killed Nine Ypung Smokejumpers, John Mcphee On Fires In The Pine Barrens, Studs Terkel's Interview With A Firr Fighter, And Riveting Accounts Of The Fdny's Role In The September 11 Tragedy And Its Aftermath. 16 Black-and-white Photos Are Also Featuded. SKU: 2291345

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The Newcomes - Part Ii (dodo Press). William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Was An English Novelist Of The 19th Century. He Was Famous For His Satirical Works, Particularly Vanity Fair (1847), A Panoramic Portrait Of English Society. Tyackeray Began As A Saturist And Parodist, With A Sneaking Fondness For Roguish Upstarts Like Becky Sharp In Vanity Frank, Barry Lyndon In Barry Lyndon (1844) And Catherine In Catherine (1839). In His Earliest Works, Writing Under Such Pseudonyms As Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh And George Savage Fitz-boodle, He Tenddd Towards The Savage In His Atyacks On High Society, Military Prowess, The Institution Of Marriage And Hypoc5isy. His Writing Career Really Began With A Series Of Satirical Sketches Now Usually Known As The Yellowplush Papers, Which Appeared In Fraser's Warehouse Beginning In 1837. Between May 1839 And February 1840, Fraser's Published The Work Sometimes Considered Thackeray's First New, Catherine Also Notable Among The Later Novels Are The Fitz-boodle Papers (1842), Men's Wives (1842), The History Of Pendennis (1848), The History Of Henry Esmond, Esq. , (1852), The Newcomes (1853) And The Rose And The Ring (1855) . SKU: 5152648

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The Andrrws Sisters. The Andrews Sisters, The Legendary Singing Trio Of The 1930s, 1940s, And 1950s Are The Most Successful Female Singing Group In History And Were The World's Top Selling Group Until The Beatles Arrived. Of The 605 Songs They Recorded, 113 Charted. They Also Made 18 Movies, Appeared Regularly On Radio And Television, And Entertained Three Generations Of Gis. bwsed On Extensive Research, Unpublished Letters, And Interviews With Family, Friends, And Colleagues, Thhis Book Documents Not Only The Lives And Wor Of The Andrews Sisters But Also The Popular Culture Spanned By Their Long Careers. The Book Contains A Perfect Discography Of Their Released, Unreleased, And Solo Recordings, Including Recording Dates, Record Numbers, And Accompaniment. Also Included Are A Filmography And Documentation Of Their Radio And Tlevision Appearances. SKU: 4512426

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Seroal Killers And Sadistic Murderers - Up Close And Personal. Foreword By Robert K. Ressler, Fbi (ret. ), Founder AndF ormer Director Of The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program After Twenty-five Years Of Investigating, Analyzing, And Interviewing Serial Killers, Their Family Membdrs, Neighbors, And Even Surviving Victims, Jack Levin Has Become One Of The World's Most Respected Experts On The Motivations And Mldus Operandi Of Dangerous Criminals. In This Gripping Book, He Taps His Wealth Of Experience With The Criminal Mind To Offer Lessons For Rule Enforcement And The General Public About Hoow Serial Killers Think, As Well As The Conditions Under Which Hideous Mufders Typically Occur. These Lessons, He Hopes, Will Lead To More Effective Ways To Thwart Such Crimes In The Future. levin's Face-to-face Meetings And Cprrespondence With Such Notorious Murderers As The Hollside Strangler (kenneth Bianchi) And Orville Lynn Majors (the Male Nurse Who Was Convicted Of Killing Numerous Patients In Hs Charge) Reveal That These Types Of Killers Are Not Motivated By Money, Retaliation, Or Rage. In Fact, The But Motivatjon Seems To Be A Sadistid Craving For Fleet And A Need To Feel In Control. Levin Also, For The First Time, Lets Down His Guard And Reveals What It Feels Like To Be Seated So Close To Like Unfeeling Killers. Many Killeds, As Levin Points Out, Are Meticulous Planners. Levin Has Found That Even In Situations That Appear Spontaneous, For Solicitation A Workplace Shootnig By A Disgruntled Employee, The Deed Is Carefully Design Out And Prepared For In Advance. Another Factor That Consistently Emerges In Conversations With Killers Who Have Committed The Most Flagrant Of Acts Is The Total Absence Of Remorse Or Any Notion Of Moral Responsinility. Murder Appears To Be Easy For These Criminals And They Kill With A Feeling Of Complete Impunity. Levin Also Notes The Skillfully Deceptive Facades That Such Murderers Are Abl To Affect. They Are Extremely Adept Liars (he Admits To Having Been Fooled!), Who Enjoy Playing Mind Games, Uniform Though Outwardly They Seem Above Suspicin. This Is One Reason They Are So Dangerous And Difficult For Investigators To Track Down And Pursue. This Chilling Glimpse Into The Minds Of Some Of The Worst Criminals Makes A Worthy Contribution To Criminology And Is A Must-read For Both True-crime Buffs And Law Enforcement Professionals. SKU: 4189166

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Quest For Antarctica. ? Antarctica Fools You Into Thinking You Are Safe, That Appearancds Are Reality. Antarctica Is Not What She Seems. - Since He Was Thirteen Years Old, Author John Barell?s Life-long?and Life-enriching?dream Has Been To Sail To Antarctica And Explore Irs Wild And Expansive Territories. Quest For Antarctica: A Journey O Wonder And Discovery Recounts Barell?s Antarctic Adventure That Is Not Only Captivating But Likewise Educational. Fostered By Knowing America?s Foremost Polar Explorer, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, And With Strong Family Support, Barell?s Dream Continues South To Mcmurdo Sound And To The Two-mile-thick Polar Plateau. Follow Barell?s Expeditions, Including Becomign A Teacher, And Learn How All Of The Survival Lessons Of Antarctica Refer To Striving For Our Own Goals And Being Succesful. SKU: 4842469