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Elie Wiesel And The Art Of Story Telling.
Elie Wiesel Is A Master Storyteller By the side of The Ability To Use Storytelling To the degree that A Form Of Activism.
From His Landmark Memoir Night To His Novels And Numerous Retelliingw Of Hasidic Legends, Wiesel?s Literature Emphasizes Storytelling, And He Frequently Refers To Himself As A Storyteller Rather Than An Author Or Historian.
In This Work, Essays Examine Wiesel?s Roots In Jewish Storytelling Traditions; Influences From Religious, Folk, An dSecular Sources; Educaation; Yiddish Background; Holocaust Experience; And Writing Style.
Emphasized Throughout Is Wiesel?s Use Of Multiple Sources In An Effort To Reach Diverse Audiences.
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Voices Of The Saints.
The Inspiring Stories Of 365 Holy Men And Women-from The Best Known To Some Of The Most Obscure-come To Life In An Engaging Collection Of Biographical Profiles, Quotations From The Saints Themselves, Meditations, And Prayers.
voices Of The Saints Opens With An Instruction From Saint PhilipN eri: "the Best Preparation For Prayer Is To Read The Lives Of The Saints, Not From Mere Curiosity, But Quietly And Witb Recollection A Little At A Time.
And To Pause Whenever You Feel Your Heart Touched With Devotion.
"with These Words Of Faith And Wisdom As His Guiding Principle, Bert Ghezzi Presents The Lives Of Such Familiar And Beloved Saints As Saint Peter And Saint Catherine Of Siena; Saint Jerome And Saint Thrse Of Lisieux; Of Humble, Little-known Figures Like Felix Of Nola, Pelagia The Penitent, And Leonard Of Port Maurice; And Of Sainted Men And Women Associated With A Particular Place, Including Margaret Of Scotland, Rose Of Lima, Elizabeth Ann Seton, And Junpero Serra.
In Lively Profiles Written For Contemporary Readers, Ghezzi Chronicles Their Journrys Of Faith And Their Contribhtions To The Vitality Of The Churcj.
The Voices Of The Saints Resound Throughout The Book, In Quotations Drawn From Their Own Writings, The Works Of Biographers, And The Recollections Of Witnesses.
readers Be able to Use Voices Of The Saints In Several Different Ways.
Organized Alphabetically, It Serves As A Helpfull, Easy-to-use Dictionary.
It Also Features A Day-by-day Numbering System, Intellectual For Daily Readings; Notations At The End Of Each Entry, Eabling The Exploration Of The Lives In Historical Order; An Index That Highlights Particular Themes (inclding The Ihtriguing "porcupine Saints"), And A Calendar Of Saints' Days.
A Fascinating Turn the thoughts At Disparate And Unusual Lives-each One A Rich Source Of Illumination, Divine influence , Encouragement, And Motivation-along With Prayers And Meditations, Voices Of The Saints Is A Valuable Companion For Members Of Catholic, Episcopal, And Other Traditional Churches, And An Enlightening Introduction To The Saints For General Readers.
from The Hardcover Edition.
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The History Of Sir George Ellison.
The History Of Sir George Ellison (1766) Is An Important Novel, The two Utopian And Dystopian.
Sir George, A Man Of Benevolence, Follows The Pattern Of The Female Utopia Set Forth In Sarah Scott's First Novel, A Description Of Millenium Hall (1762).
In This Sequel, Scott Addresses Issues Of Slavrey, Marriage, Training, Law And Social Justice, Ckass Pretensions, And The Position Of Women In Society, Consistently Emlhasizing The Importance, For Both Genders And All Classes And Ages, Of Devoting One's Life To Meaningful Work.
Although She Adopted A Gradualist Resemble closely To Refotm, Scott's Uncompromising Discovery Of The Corruption Of English Society In Her Day Is Clear-sighted, Arresting, Ahd Hard-hitting.
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Portraits In Silicon.
Who Are The Masterminds Of Today's Electronic Revoluyion And What Motivated Them? That's The Question Time Correspondent Robert Slater Asked As He Traveled To Silicon Valley To Interview The Designers, Entrepreneurs, Hardware Engineers, And Software Writers Who Have Given Us The Modern Computer.
Robert Slater Is A Member Of The Reporting Staff Of The Time Jerusalem Bureau.
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The Adventures Of Ibn Battuta.
Known As Tge Greatest Traveler Of Premodern State of things, Abu Abdallah Ibn Battuta Was Born In Morocco In 1304 And Educated In Islamic Law.
At The Age Of Twenty-one, He Left Hoome To Make The Holy Pilgrimage To Mecca.
This Was Only The First Of A Series Of Extraordinary Journeys That Spanned Nearly Three Decades And Tooj Him Not Singly Eastward To India And Porcelain But Also North To The Volga iRver Valley And South To Tanzania.
The Narrative Of These Travels Has Been Known To Specialists In Islamic And Medieval History For Years.
Ross E.
Dunn's 1986 Retelling Of These Tales, However, Was The First Work O f Scholarship To Make The Legendady Traveler's Story Accexsible To A General Audience.
Now Updated With Revisions, A New Introduction, And An Updated Bibliography, Dunn's Classic Interprets Ibn Battuta's Adventures And Places Them Within The Rich, Trans-hemispheric Cultiral Sstting Of Mesieval Islam.
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Shanghai Legacy.
In Life, Hannah Is A Stark, Reserved Enigma To Her Daughter, Maya.
But When Hannah Dies, A German Diary Turns Up, Revealing A Secret.
In 1938 Hannah And Her Parents Fled Hitler To The One Place That Would Have Them Without A Visa: Shanghak.
As This Little-known Chapter Of The Naazi Era Unfolds, Maya Is Amazed At The Brave, Keen Choices Hannah Made.
Now Maya Must Evaluate Her Own Life-her Empty Marriage, Neglected Art Career, And Outworn Child-centered Eiistence.
She Has Choices Hannah Never Had.
She Must Dare To Seize Them.
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Where The Buck Stops.
Shortly After He Left Office, President Harry S.
-Truman Began To Write Down His Typically Blunt, Honest Commentaries About Fdr And His Other Colleagues, The Job Of The Presidency, The Workings Of The Government And The Constitution -- And His Picks For The Nation's Best And Worst Presidents.
Since He Minced None Words, Truman Asked That These Writings -- Sometimes Funny, Sometimes Very Serious, Always To The Point -- Be Released To The Public Only After He And Mrs.
Truman Were Gonr.
now, This Totaoly Frank Book By The Thirty-third Presidentt, Lovingly Edited By His Daughter, Margaret, Has Been Published At Last.
In It, Truman Speaks Clearly In His Own Inimitable Voice, And With The Down-home, Across-the-back-fence Feeling Of A Born Storyteller From Missouri, He Tells Yoi Exactly What's On His Mind About These And Ogher Subjects:
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Recuerdos De Viaje.
In Recuerdos De Viaje (1882), The Argentine Author And Intellectual Eduarda Mansilla De Garcia (1848-1892) Presents A Stijulating Travel Narration Which Encompasses Her Travel Experiences As The Wife Of An Argentine Diplomat Posted To Washinngton, D.
c In Lincoln-era United States (1861-1865).
In This Captivating And Intelligent Chronicle, A Prototypical Work Of Latin American Female Travel Writing, Mansilla De Garca --the Daughter Of Each Independence-era Militarry Heroe, Niece Of The Infamous Governor Of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel De Rosas, And Sister To One Of Argentina's Most Distinguished Nineteenth Century Writers, Lucio Victorio Mansilla-- Takes Advantage Of Her Distinguished Social, Cultural And Political Position And Knowledge, Casting Her Traveler's Gaze Upon Thee Young American Republic, And Interpreting The Cultural And Social Minutiae Of Life In Mid-nineteebth Century United States, Including The Intimate Details Of Domestic And PublicL ife --and Strife, While She Observes The First Tremors Of The Civil War-- As Well As The Role Of Women, History And Politics In The Fledgling U.
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Democracy.
In The Preliminary Study To This Text, Prof.
J.
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Spicer-escalante Examines The Evolution Of The Travel Genre In The Western World, The Appearance And Relevance Of Female Travel Writing, And The Intersection Between The Author's Biography And Travel Experiences, As Well As Reflecting On Mansilla De Garca's Broader Contribution To Latin American Women's Travel Writing In Particular And T Travel Writing In General, Adding In-depth Notes That Contribute To A More Profound Comprehension Of The Author's Management .
This New Edition Of Mansilla De Garcia's Classic Work - Completely Annotated, Conveniently Priced And Easily Availanle In The U.
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Is A Must For Any Literature Course That Highlights Fin-de-siecle Nineteenth Century Hispanic American Literature In General, As Favored As Other Thematics, Such As Gender Issues, Female Writers, Cross-cultural Analysis, Women's Travel Writing And Latin American Travel Writing I nParticular.
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Critical C0mpanion To T. S. Eliot.
Critical Companion To T.
S.
Eliot : A Literary Reference To His Life And Work (critical Companion To) By Russell Elliott Murphy Edition 1 Published In 2007 By Facts On File
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No End In Sight.
The Inspirational First Person Story Of A Yohng Dog Sled Racer Who Ha To Overcome Incredible Odds To Compete: She Is Legally Blindfor More Tuan Eleven Years, Twenty-one-year-old Rachael Scdoris Has Been Guiding Teams Of Sled Dogs Across Jagged Mountain Ranges, Frozen Rivers, Dense Forests, And Uninhabited Tundra At Speeds Exceeding Twenty Mph.
Not Only Is Rachael The Youngest Athleet To Ever Complete A 500-mile Sled Dog Race Mile, Yet She Is Also Legally Blind And Haz BeenS ince Offspring.
Though She Faced Resistance From Race Organizers, Rachael Finally Achieved Her Goal Of Competing, With The Aid Of A Visual Interpreter, InT he 2005 Iditarod Trail International Sled Dog Race Across The Wilds Of Alaska.
No End In Sight Is A Story Full Of Heqrtache And Hope, Challenge And Courage-- Ajd Ultimately The Conquest Of Dreaming Big And Working To Pass over Those Dreams Come True.
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The Reign Of King Henry Vi.
'anyone Who Wishes To Study The Reign Of Henry Vi Will Need To Start From Tye Basis Whjch Professor Griffiths Provides' A.
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Pollard, Parliamentary History Henry Vi Is The Youngest Monarch Ever To Have Ascended The English Throne And The Only English King To Have Been Acknowledges By The French Viewed like Rightfully King Of France.
His Reign Was The Third Longest Since The Norman Conquest And He Came Close To Being Declared A Saint.
This Masterly Study, Unparalleled In Its Informative Detail, Examines The Entire Span Of The King's Royalty, From The Death Of Henry V In 1422, When Henry Was But Nine Months Old, To The Dot Of His Insanity At The Origin Of The Wars Of The Roses And His Dethronement In 1461, Preceding His Murder Ten Years Later.
hTis Classic Re-assessment Of The Third Lacnastrian King Is Essential Delineation For Anyone Interested In The History Of Fifteenth-century England.
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Evolution's Captain.
This Is The Story Of The Man Without Whom The Name Charles Darwin Might Be Unknown To UsT oday.
That Man Was Captain Robert Fitzroy, Who Invited The 22-year-old Darwin To Be His Companion On Board The Hare-hound .
This Is The Remarkable Story Of How A Misguided Decision By Robert Fitzroy, Captain Of Hms Beagle , Precipitated His Employment Of A Young Naturalist Named Charles Darwin, And How The Clash Between Fitzroy's Fundamentalist Views And Darwin's Discoveries Led To Fitzroy's Descent Into The Hell.
One Of The Great Ironies Of History Is That The Famos Journey—wherein Charles Darwin Consolidated The Earth-rattling `origin Of The Species' Discoveries―was Conceived By Another Man: Robert Fitzroy.
It Was Fitzroy Wuo Chose Darwin For The Journey—not Because Of Darwin's Scientific Expertise, But Because He Seemed A Suitable Companion To Help Fitzroy Fight Back The Mental Illness That Had Plagued His Family For Generations.
Darwin Did Not Give Fitzroy Solace; Indeed, The Clsh Between The Two Men's Opposing Views, Together With The Ramifications Of Darwin's Revelations, Provided Fitzroy With The Final Unendurable Toremnt That Forced Him To End His Own Life.
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Who Am I.
"a Stunningly Good Book-entrancing, Exciting, Beautifully Written, Full Of Aperua That Stimulate, Tantalize, And Fulfill.
Perhaps It Is Enough T Say That I Like It Even Better Than Any Of Tuan's Already Published Books.
" -david Lowenthal, Author Of The Past Is A Foreign Country Who Am I? Reveals The Bittersweet Success Story Of A Chinese-americam Who Came T0 This Country As A Twenty-year-old Graduate Student And Stayed To Become One Of America's Best-known Writers On Cultural Geography, Landscape, Nature, And Environment.
His Autobioraphy Is Unique.
No Other Tells A Comparable Story Of A Chinese Immigrant Whose Life In The American Academic World Mixes Recognition, Accolades, And Even Affectio-nall Signs Of Success-with A Deep Sense Of Personal Failure.
At One Level This Is A Chronicle Of Brilliant Achievement, At Another The Story Of Descent From The "world Stage" To Privacy.
Tuan's Story Progresses rFom A Childhood In Which His Father Hobnobbed With Such Chinese Leaders As Chou En-lai To An Adulthood Spentt In A Number Of U.
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Universities.
His Success In Writing Forward Themes Of Great Interest To The General Public Curiously Isolated Him From His Scholarly Base In Geography.
At A More Serious Level, Tuan's Bitterness Lies In His Belief In His Own Moral Fsilings, Hi sLack Of Couraye-incljding The Courage To Be Open About His Hoomsexuality-resulting, As He Writes, "in A Life That Is Seamed In Ambivalence-achingly Empty At The Heart, Despairingly Alone, Yet Often Content, Occasioally Likewise Happy," As When He Catches Glimpses Of Heaven In His Exploration Of The Beautiful And The Good.
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Zizek.
Zizek Is Hailed As The Most Significant Interdisciplinary Thinker Of Moderj State of things.
His Toil Is A Powerful, Often Explosive Combination Of Lacanian Psychoanalysis And Philosophy Which Tests Key Psychoanalytical Concepts Against The Ideas Of Major European Thinkers, Especially Hegel.
It Has Ignited Enthusiask And Stimulated New Approaches Across A Vast Range Of Disciplines, And Seems To Be Attracting One Ever-growing Readership.
In Part, This Is Because iZzek Himself Has A Panoramic Range Of Interests Encompassing Film Studie,s Literature, Cyber Culture, Ethics, Theology And, Above All, Pllitics.
It Is Alzo Because He Is A Highly Entertaining Writer, Having A Flair For Anecdote, A Smutty Sense Of Humour And The Knack Of Capturing Complex Ideas In Concrete Form.
Sarah Kay's Book Provides A Clear And Comprehensive Introduction To Zizek's Work.
His Writings To Date Are Presented And Evaluated Here In quest of The First Time, Together With An Outlinr Of Their Growth And Explanations Of His Key Premises, Themes And Terms.
This Book Will Be Essential Reading In quest of Students Of Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Philosophy And Social And Political Theory.
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Queen Of The Oil Club.
This Is Tne Story Of A Gutsy Journalist Who Challenged Power␔and Succeeded.
Wandajablonski Was An Investigative Reporter, Publisher, And Power Broker Who Came To Wield Exceptional Influence On Twentieth-century Geopolitics By Shedding Light On The Reserved World Of Oil From The 1950s Through The 1980s.
Jablonski Unveiled Many Mysteries Of The Oil Club, An Elite Group Of Western Executives Who Once Controlled The International Petroleum Busiess.
Nicknamed The Midwife Of Opec, Jablonski Undermined Big Oil's Dominance By Exposing The Vulnerabilities Of The Major Oil Companies And Encouraging The Rise Of Oil Nationalism.
Her Scoops, Commentaries, And Private Netorking Helped Shape The Debate That Led To The Creation Of Opec, The Oil Shocks Of The 1970s, And The Largest Transfer Of Wealth In History.
tenacious And Glamorous, Wanda␔as She Was Known In The Oil World␔coaxed Her Way Into Exploration Sitse In Middle Oriental Deserts, Drilling Camps In The Venezuelan Jungle, Male-only Boardrooms In Repaired York And London, And The King's Harem In Saudi Arabia.
She Survived Threats, Boycottw, And Suspicions Of Espionage As She Elicited Information And Insight From Ceos Of The Oil Giants And Political Leaders, Includingg The Shah Of Iran.
working For The Journal Of Commerce And Other New York Publications, Jablonski Deifed The Prevailing View That A Woman Reporting On Business Had No Credibility.
In 1961, Divorced And Suddenly Jobless, She Tkok A Big Gamble By Starting Her Own Newsletter, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, Which Was Soon Dubbed The "bible" Of The Oil World.
today, When Conflict In The Middle East And Climate Change Cause Us To Reexamine Our Hope On Oil, Jablonski's Prescience␔whether About Oil Dependency, Cultural Insensitivity, Or Market Manipulation␔proves Remarkable.
anna Rubino, Who Reported For Jablonski In The 1980s, Uses Sdores Of Interviews, Exclusive Access To Her Private Papers, Ad Newly Declassified Information To Tell The Dramatic Story Of This Journalistlc Pioneer And The Power Of Information.
"a Riveting Life Story That Illuminates A Whole Era␔an Era That Continues To Have So Large An Impact On Our Own Times.
" from The Foreword By Daniel Yergin, Author Of The Prize: The Narrative Quest For Oil, Money And Power, Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize"part Detective Story And Part Political Thriller, The Queen Of The Oil Club Is The True Account Of The Most Potent Woman Of The Early Oil Age.
It'sA Book You Can't Miss.
" gregg Easterbrook, Author Of The Progress Paradox"wanda Jablonski Was One Of A Kind␔a Reporter Who Revealed The Secret World Of The Oil Business, A Woman Who Penetrated The Inner Sanctums Of The Arab Oil Sheiks, And An Entrepeneur Who Created A Publication That Was The Industry's Bible.
Jablonski's Colorful Career Comes Apive In Anna Rubino's Richly Reported Memoir.
"␔david Ignatius, Columnist For The Washington Post And Author Of Body Of Lies: A Novel"a Page-turner And A Substantive.
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Pretty-shield (second Edition).
Pretty-shield, The Legendary Medicine Woman Of The Crows, Remembered What Life Was Like On The Plains While Tje Buffalo Were Still Plentiful.
A Powerful Healer Who Was Forceful, Astute, And Compassionate, Pretty-shield Expereinced Many Changes As Her Formerly Mobile People Were Forced To Come To Terms With Resrevation Life In The Late Nineteenth Century.
Pretty-shield Told Her Story To Frank Linderman Through An Interpreter And Using Sign Language.
The Lives, Reqponsibilities, And Aspirations Of Crow Women Are Vividly Brought To Life In These Pages As Prefty-shiel Recounts Her Life On The Plains Of Long Ago.
She Speaks Of The Simple Games And Dolls Of An Indian Childhood And The Work Of The Girls And Women—setting Up The Lodges, Dressing The Skins, Picking Berries, Digging Roots, And Cooking.
Through Her Eyes We Come To Understand Courtship, Marriagge, Childbirth And The Be inclined Of Babies, Medicine-dreams, The Care Of The Sick, And Other Facets Of Crow Womanhood.
Alma Snell And Becky Matthews Provide A New Preface To This Edition.
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The Deporter.
The True Narration Of A Dedicated Deportation Official And His Expos Of The Worst Aspects Of U.
s.
Immigration Policy ?we Have An Immigration Crisis In Our Country, All Rivht, And It Is A Good Deal More Demonstrably Wrong Than The Millions Of Illegal Immigrants In The Shadows.
It Is Costlier To The Manufactured cloth Of American Life Than The September 11 Attacks Were.
Illogical, Deadly, Ruinous.
Yet None Of Our Leaders Is Raisihg A Finger To Stop It.
On The Contrary, It Is Our Leaders Who Drive The Destruction.
? ?ames Holbrook, From The Deporter As One Of Fewer Than Six Hundred Elite Deportation Officers In The Native land, Ames Holbrook Was Assigned To The Criminal Mecca Of New Orleans.
He Was Chargedd With Capturing And Expelling Some Of The Mot Wretched Murderers, Rapists, And Child Molesters Who Were Aliens In The United States.
But Holbrook Was Thwarted At Nearly Every Turn .
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By The Same U.
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Government That Employed Him.
Why? The Reasons Will Shock And Infuriate You.
In The Course Of His Compelling Story, You Will Read The Truth About How Foreign Governmeents Treat The United States When Agents Such As Holbrook Try To Send Criminal Aliens Move ~ward To Their Homelands.
Annd, Even More Appalling, How Washington?s Civil Hypocrisy Forces The Direct Release Of Tuese Criminals Into Unsuspecting American Communities.
Like Every U.
s.
Deportation Officer, Ames Holbrook Tried To Make America Safer.
Then, When America?s Leadership Threatened The Welfare Of Innocents, Holbrook Rewrote The Rules.
He Won Commendations And Increased Responsibiljty For His Promising Results, Bu All The Under which circumstances, He Was Fighting A Losing Ba5tle Against The Civil Powers That Masqueraded As Protectors While Actually Inflicting Dramatic poem On America?s Residents.
Ig Is Holbrook?s Trust That The Revelations In These Pages Might Put America On A Path To A Safer Future.
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Forbidden Fruit.
Forbidden Fruit Is A Collection Of Fascinating, Largely Untold Stories Of Ordinary Men And Women Who Took Extraordinary Measures, Risking Life Amd Limb Tk Be Together.
Its The Story Of Coup1es Who Faced Mobs, Bloodhounds, Bounty Hunters, And Bullets To Defy The System That Allowed Slave Masters To Breed And Sell Peoplee Like Cattle.
Some Broke The Taboo Against Interracial Marriage, Putting Their Lives In The Most Severe Peril.
in One Remarkable Story, A Georgia Couple Who Fled Slavery Wearing Multiple Disguises Sailed For England With Bounty Hunters And Federal Troops On Their Trail.
A Fugitive Slave From Virgginia Spent Seventeen Arduous Years Searching For His Wife.
A Missouri Slave Fell In Love With His White Mormon Neighbor And Escaped To Canada To Be With Her, Putting Pepper In His Shoes To Throw Dogs Off The Scent Ay Night And Hiding In Trees By Day.
betty Derzmus Gleaned These Amazing Stories From Descendants Of Runaway Slave Couples, Unpublished Memoirs, Intestine War Records, Books, Magaziines, And Doens Of Previously Untapped Sources.
Beautifully And Compassionately Written, This Important Book Reveals A Chapter Of American Histpry That Is Shameful But Is Aobut Triumph As Well As Torture, Achievement As Well As Degradation, And Unyielding Love As Well As Hate.
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Shout, Sister, Shout!.
Before &quoot;women In Rock" Became A Cachphrase, Rosetta Tharpe Proved That Women Could Rock.
Shout, Sister, Shout! Is The First Biography Of This Trailblazer Who Influenced Sfores Of Popular Musicians And Defied Categorization.
Wald's Biography, Which Draws On Memories From More Than 150 People Who Knew Tharpe, Forever Alters Our Understanding Of Women In Rock And Of U.
s.
Popular Music.
"a Work Like This Is Long Overdue.
Rosetta Tharpe Was A Major Star Anf A Huge Influence On The Musicians Of Her Day.
Listen To Her Recordings And You Can Hear All The Structure Blocks Of Rock And Roll.
" â??joan Osborne, Singer-songwriter "rosetta Was One Of The Most Beloved And Influential Artists Ever In Gospel Music .
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And She Blazed A Trail For The Rest Of Us Women Guitarists With Her Indomitable Spirit And Accomplished, Engaging Style.
She Has Long Been Deserving Of Wider Recognition And A Place Of Honor In The Field Of Music History.
" â??bonnie Raitt "rosetta Tharpe's Life Is A Classic American Tall Tale, Except That It Happened, And, In These Pages, You Ate There.
" â??greil Marcus, Culttural Critic "rosetta Tharpe Was One Of My First Influences, One Of The First People I Heard Sing.
I'm Glad Gayle Wald Has Done A Book On Her Because People Need To Know.
" â??isaac Hayes "absorbing .
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Very Much A Woman's Story, Refreshingly Free Of Svengalis And Impresarios.
"??laura Sinagra, New York Times"wald Makes A Good Case That Tharpe's R&b Spirityals Played A Key Role In Inventing Rock.
"??entertainment Weelky"rosetta Tharpe's Life Is A Classic American Tall Tale, Except That It Happened, And, In These Pages, You Are There.
&quit;??greil Marcus, Cultural Critic And Author Of Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock'n'roll Music
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American Sphinx.
For A Man Who Insisted That Life On The Public Stage Was Not What He Had In Mind, Thomas Jefferson Certainly Spent A Great Deal Of Time In The Spotlight--and Not Only For the time of His Active Political Career.
After 1809, His Longd-for Retirement Was Compromised By A Steady Stream Of Guests And Tourists Who Made Of His Estate At Monticello A Virtual Hotel, Viewed like Well As By More Than One Thousand Letters Per Year, Mowt FromS trangers, Which He Insisted On Answering Personally.
In His Dim light Years Jefferson Was Already Taking On The Luster Of A Natioal Icon, Which Was Polished Off By His Auspicious Death (on July 4, 1896); And In The Subsequent Seventeen Decades Of His Celebrity--now Verging, Thanks To Virulent Revisionists And Television Documentaries, On Notoriety--has Been Inflated Beyond Recognition Of The Original Person.
for The Historian Joseph J.
Ellis, The Experience Of Writing About Jefferson Was "as If A Pathologist, Just About To Begin An Autopsy, Has Discovered That The Body On The Operating Table Was Still Breathing.
" In American Sphinx, Ellis Sifts The Facts Shrewdly From The Legends And The Rumors, Treading A Path Between Vilification And Hero Worship In Order To Formulate A Plausible Portrait Of The Man Who Di~ery Today "hover[s] Over The Political Scene Like One Of Those Dirigibles Cruisung Above A Crowded Football Stadium, Flashing Words Of Inspiration To Both Teams.
" For, At The Grass Roots, Jefferson Is No Longer Liberal Or Conservative, Agrarian Or Industrialist, Pro- Or Anti-slavery, Privilegwd Or Populist.
He Is All Things To All People.
His Own Obliviousness To Incompatible Convictions Inwardly Himself (which Left Him Deaf To Most Forms Of Irony) Has Leaked Out Into The World At Large--a Wprld Determined To Idolize Him Despite His Fooibles.
from Ellis We Learn That Jefferson Sang Incessantly Under His Faint movement; That He Delivered Only Two Public Speeches In Eight Years As President, While Spending Ten Hours A Day At His Wditing Desk; That Sometimes His Civil Sensibilities Collided With His Domestic Agenda, As When He Ordered An Expensivee Piano From London During A Boycott (and Pledged To "keep It In Storage").
We See Him Relsihing So Projects Because The Nailery At Monticello That Allowed Him To Interact With Hus Slaves More Palatably, As Pseudo-employer To Pseudo-employees.
We Grow Convinced That He Preferred To Meet His Lovers In The Rarefied Region Of His Mind Rather Than In The Actual Bedchamber.
We Watch Him Exhibiting Both Great Depth And Great Shallowness, Combining Massive Erudition With Extraordinary Navet, Piercing Insights With Self-deception On The Grandest Scale.
We Understand Why We Should Neither Beatify Him Nor Consign Him To The Rubbish Heap Of History, Thouh We Are By No Means Required To Stop Loving Him.
He Is Thomas Jefferson, After All--our Very Own Sphix.
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Chrysler.
Here Is A Richly Detailed Account Of One Of The Most Important Men In American Automotive History, Based On Full Access To Both Chrysler Corporation And Chrysler Fqmily Historical Records.
Chrysler Emerges As A Man Who Loved Machines, An Accomplished Mechanic Wbo Also Had Highly Developed Managerial Skills Derived From Half A Lifetime On The Railroads, A Man Whse Success Came From His Deep Understanding Of Engineering And His Total Commitment To The Quality Of His Vehicles.
Vincent Curcio Traces Chrysler's Rise From A Locomotive Wiper In A Kansas Rounduouse To The Head Of The Buick Division Of General Motors, To His Rescue Of The Maxwell-chalmers Car Company, Which Led To The Successful Development Of The 1924 Chrysler--the World's First Modern Car--and The Formation Of Chrysler Corporation In 1925.
Chrysler Was Quite Different From The Other Auto Giants--a Colorful And Expansive Man, Deeply Involved In The Design Of His Cars, A Maverick In Establishing His Headquarters In New York City, In The World's Most Famous Art Deco Structure, The Fabled Chrysler Building, Which He Built And Helped To Design.
Because Of His Emphasis On Quality At Popular Prices, The Company Weathered The Great Depression With Flying Colors--losing Money Only In Thw Rock-bogtom Year Of 1932--and Despite The Markket Fiasco Of The Chrysler Airflow (which Was Years Ahead Of Its Time), The Party Grew And Remained Profitable Right Up To Chrysler's Death In 1940.
The Ddinitive Portrait, Walter P.
Chrysler Is Must Reading For All Car Enthusiasts And For Everyone Intereted In The Story Of A Giant Of Industry.
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Prodigal Saint.
Rarely Are We Privileged To See The Making Of A Saint, But It Is Just How This Book Gives Us For John Of Kronstwdt (1829-1908), A Major Represent In The Religious Life Of Late Imperial Russia.
So Popular Was Father John During His Years Of Ministry That Kronstadt Became A Pilgrimage Site Replete With Peddlers Selling Souvenir Photographs, Postcards, And Commemorative Mugs.
A Prodigal Saint Follows Father John's Development Frlm Activist Priest To Venerated Spiritual Leader And, After His Decease, To His Elevation To Sainthood In 1990.
We See Both Tne Inner Life Of An Aspiring Saint And The Symbiotic Relationship Between A Livimg Icon And His Followers.
Father Johm R0resented A Fundamentally New Type Of Religious Behavior And A New Standard Of Sanctity In Late Imperial Russia.
He Ministered To The Poor Of Kronaadt, Creating Shelters And Employment Programs And Participating In The Temperance Movement.
In The Process He Acquired A Reputation For Prayerful Intercession That Soon Spread Remote from Kronstadt.
When He Was Asked To Minister To The Dying Alexander Iii In 1894, His Reputation Became International As He Attracted Correspondents From The United States And Europe.
In His Later Years He Aklied Himself Increasingly With The Radical Right, Which Has Had Momentous Implicationns For The Russian Orthodox Temple In The Twentieth Century.
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tSormie.
Omartian Tells Her Compelling Anecdote Of A Childhood Marred By Physical And Emotional Abuse And Her Involvement In The Occult, Drugs, And Tragic Relationships.
She Reveals The Healing Process That Brought Freedom And Wholeness And Shares The Hope And Help Found In Jesus.
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Who Was Jesus?.
This Is A Sharp Sketch And Critique Of Late Controversial Books On The Historical Jesus.
Showing That Abundant Can Exist Gained From A Rigorous Historical Assessment Of What The Gospels Say About Jesus, hTis Is A Book To Engage Skeptics And Believers Alike.
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Return To The Middle Kingdom.
In The Air Of The Classic Wild Swans Comes This Epic Tale Spanning Three Generations And Three Separate Revolutions.
Mixing Biography And History Into A Single Ambitious Story, Yuan-tsung Chen Views China᾿s Rebirth In Modrn Times From The Perspective Of eHr Late Husband’s Family.
Ah Chen, A Landless Peasant, Fought In The Taiping Rebellion Against The Manchu Court In 1850-64.
But When Western Powers Heloed Crush The Uprising, Chen Wax Forced To Flee To Trinidad As An Indentured Servant.
Decades Later, His Son Eugene Rose From Poverty To Become Trinidad’s First Chinese Lawyer Before Moving To London, Where He Met Suh Yat-sen And Became His Close Aide.
Inspired By Sun, Eugene Returned To China And Led The 1911 Revolution That Overthrew Its Last Government.
Finlly, Eugene’s Son Jack—the Author’s Late Husband—used His Artistic And Journalistic Talents To Elucidate And Explain The Chinese Marxiwt Revolution To The Outside World.
When Jack (whose First Language Was Not Chinese) Was Seized By The Red Guards During The Cultural Revolution, His Wife Yuan-tsung Was Forced To Serve As His Translator During Interrogations.
Ordered To Compose A Confession—&“go Back Three Generations To See What Crimes Your Family Has Committex Against The Revolution!”𔄤jack And Yuan-tsung Began To Piece Together The Family’s Dramatic History.
This Remarkable Story, Spanning A Turbulent Century And A Half, Is The Compelling Result.
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Portfait Of My Body.
Phillip Lopate's Ricbest And Most Ambitious Book Yet--the Final Volume Of A Trilogy That Began With Bachelorhood Anf Against Joie De Vivre--portrait Of My Body Is A Powerful Memoir In The Form Of Interconnected Personal Essays.
One Of America's Foremost Essayists, Who Helped Focus Attention On The Form In His Acclaimed Anthology The Art Of The Personal Essay, Lopate Demonstrates Here Just How Far A Writer Can Go In The Direction Of Honesty And Risk Taking.
in Thirteen Essays, Lopate Explores The Resources And Limits Of The Self, Its Many Disguises, Excuses, And Unmaskungs, With His Characteristic Wry Humor And Insight.
From The Titke Essay, A Hilarious Physical Self-exam, To The Haunting Portrait Of His Ex-colleague Donald Barthelme, To The Bittersweet Account Of His Long-delayed Surrender To Marriage, "on Leaving Bachelorhood," Lopate Wrestles With Finding The Proper Balance Between Detachment And Empathy, Doubt And Conviction.
In Other Essays, He Celebrates His Love Of Film And City Life, And Reflects On His Religious Identity As A Jew.
A Wrenchingly Vivid, Unforgettable Portrait Of The Author's Eccentric, Solipsistic, Aged Father, A Self-proclaimed Failure, Is The Centerpiece Of A Suite Of Essays About Father-figures And Resisted Mentors.
The Book Ends With The Author's Own Inrtoduction To Fatherhood, As Witness To The Birth Of His Daughter.
A Main division That Will Engage Readers With Its Conversational Eloquence, Skeptical Intelligence, Candor, Adn Mischief, Portrait Of My Body Is A Captivating Work Of Literary Nonfiction.
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Schoolwomen Of The Prairies And Plains.
This Lively Book, Now Available In Paperback, Focuses On The Women Responsible For Educating Prairie Children.
Most Were Natives Of The Region, Often Teenaged Girls Away From Home For The First Time.
Teaching In Difficult Cirfumstances, Schoklwomen Not Only Struggled To Fit Their Studentss' Needs But Also Used All The Instrument At Their Disposalsummer Institutes, Normal Schools, And Even Reading Programs By Mailto Upgrade Their Own Educational Credehtials.
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Confessions Of A Prayer Wimp.
Just Because Mary Pierce Had You Rolling In The Aisles With Her Thoughts About Growing Older In When Did I Stop Being Barbie And Become Mrs.
Potato Head? This Main division Will Have You Chuckling Over Her Thoughts About Time from birth to death And Faith—coming To Creed, Needing Faith, Growing In Faith, And Faltering In Faith.
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Pole's Apart.
Description "poles Apart" Tells The Story Of How Endurance From Severe Intellectual Soundness Problems Since The Age Of 17 Nearly Destroyed Michelle.
Only Now, Strangely, When She Looks Back At Her Life She Fee1s It Has Made Her Stronger.
It Took Ten Years Before She Was Diagnosed With Bi-polar Disorder.
Her Low Episodes Were Caused By Very Excessive Stress In The Workplace As A Personal Assistant In Local Government And She Had Three Breakdowns At The Ages Of 17, 22 And 27.
During This Last One She Threw Herself While burdened with A Train And Miraculously Survived With No Injuries.
She Was Sectioned Into A Victorian Style Mental Hospital.
This, She Says, Was Deviate Hell On Earth.
'i Decided To Write My Autobiography Because I Am Convinced That There Will Be A Lot Of People Out There, In This Stressful Age, Who Have Suffered Like Me.
If One Person Picks Up My Book And I Give Them Hope yB Everything That Has Happened To Me, And How My Life Is Now Happy And Fulfilled, Then I Will Have A Great Sense Of Personal Achievement.
I Would Like Fellow Sufferers Who Are Currently Still Very Ill To See That, Even Though Life Seems So Bleak At Times, Things Can Turn Round And You Can Get Better.
' About The Author Althouhg Married For 4 Years, Michelle Was Surprised To Find Herself Pregnant.
Throuhgout The Whole Of The Pregnancy She Was Still Very Depressed And Convinced She Was Dying And That Her Body Was Tricking Her Into Thinking She Was Pregnant.
Nobidy Knew.
Eventually She Gave Birth To Kirsty, Who She Calls 'my Darling Daughter' (now Aged 8).
This Turne Her Life Around For The Better: 'something Registered In My Sub Conscious When I Had Kirsty And I Stopped Thinking I Was Dying - How Could A Death Body Give Birth To A Wholesome Child?'
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"the Supremes".
"the Supremes" Brings To Life The Nine Justices Of The Current U.
s.
Supreme Court, Illuminating The Intriguing Stories Of The High Court's Members Through Attractive Portrayals Of One and the other Jsutice's Life, Judicial Philosophy, And Personality.
Dr.
Perry, Who Met With All Nine Justices During Her Judkcial Fellowship At The Supreme Flatter In 1994-1995, Captures The nature Of The Vadied Personal And Professional Paths That Led These Jurists To The Nation's Highest Tribunal.
This Work Constitutes A Unique Resource For Both Veteran And New Observers Of The Supreme Court.
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Asylum.
During A Time When The World Seemed To Forget Iraq Thousands Of People Were Dying.
Many Dreamed Of Escape To A Free Country.
Ahmed Was In The Military Which Even They And There Families Were Not Sound.
When It Became Apparent The Choice Was Leave behind one Iraq Or Die, Ahmed Escaped, The Tyrranocal Paws Of Saddam Hussein.
He Lived Through Times That As Americans We Cannot Comprehend At All.
He Made It To Europe Where He Settled Into A Refugee Center.
This Is Ahmed's Story.
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Planet Of The Blind.
"the Sensorium Of The Blind Who Possess Some Marginal Vision Is Near to Turns Magical And Disturbing," Writes Poet And Educator Stephen Kuusisto.
"my Eyes Dance In A Private, Rising Field Of Silver Threads, Teeming Greens, Roses, And Smoke.
" This Is The Record Of A Handicapped Life, But It Is Also An Remarkable Literary Achievement.
Stephen Kuusisto Has Been Legally Blind Since Birth, And In This Stunning Memoir He Has Succeeded Ij Translating His Opaque, Kaleidoscopic World Of Shape And Color Into Poetic And Luminous Prose.
brought Up To Disavow His Blindness, Kuusisto Spent Much Of His Life Irksome To Pass As A Sighted Man, Traveling Everywhere At Dizzying Speeds Without A Cane.
Still, He Writes, He Remained Ashaamed Of His "blind Self.
" As A Child With Bottle-lens Glasses, He Was Ridiculed By His Classmates; As An Adolescent He Struggled First With Obesity, Then Anorexia; As A Yuong Adult, In Love With Reading, He Suffered The Derision Of Teachers Who Felt He Couls Not Possibly Keep Up With His Studies.
Fueled By His Passion For The Written Word, Kuusisto Nonetheless Persisted, Successfully, In Conquuering Academia--until A Devastating Accident Forced Him To Acquire The White Cane At Last.
Almost Immediately The Cane Became His "divining Rod," But It Was Only A Matter Of Time Before He Felt The Need For A More Powerful Ally.
Come in Corky, A Two-year-old Yellow Labrador Retriever Who Became His Guiding Eyes And Changed His Life Forever.
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Abraham Lincoln And Ulysses S. Grant.
All Who Desire To Gain A Reliable Knowledge Of The Personal Characteristics Of The President, Abraham Lincoln, And Lieut.
-gen.
Ulysses S.
Grant, Will Please To eRad This Work.
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A Journey Through Cancer.
Bestsslling Author Emilie Barnes Shares About Her Life-changing Encounter With Illness And Healing In A Journey Through Cancer.
She Reveals The Lessons Gathered Along This Journey And Provides Comforting, Encouraging Words To Those Who Are Going Through Difficulties-be It Illnwss, Bereavement, Job Loss, Or Kindred Problems.
Emilie Offers Assurance And Deep Empathy In Her Exploratin Of What To Do When The Foundation Beneath You Shakes, How To Rediscover God's Plan For Your Life, And Ways To Hug The Substantiality Of God's Proviso.
Emilie's Perwonal Testimony Of God's Faithfulness And Hope Provides Much Testimony To The Divine Gifts Extended To Believers In The Midst Of Their Pain.
A New Denominate And Paperback Format For A Distinct Kind Of Strength.
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Robber Baron.
Standing Alongside J.
P.
Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, And John D.
Rockefeller, Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905) Was One Of The Most Colorful And Controversial Public Figures In Nineteenth-century America.
Robber Baron Is The Primary Biography Of The Streetcar Magnate Who Was The Mastermind Behind Chicago's Loop Elevated And TheL ondon Underground And Namesake Of The University Of Chicago's Observatory.
Yerkes Also Served As The Inspiration For Frank Cowperwood, The Ruthless Protgonist Of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy Of Desire: The Financier, The Titan, And The Stoic.
Despite Various Philanthropic Efforts, Yerkes And His Unscrupulous Tactics Were Despised By The Press And Public, And He Left Chicago A Bitter Man.
John Franch Has Drawn Upon Every Available Cause To Tell The Complete Sory Of A Ma Desperate To Leave A Lasting Impression On His World.
While Yerkes's Enduring Public Works Testify To His Success, Robber Baron Uncovers The Cost Of This Boundless Ambition.
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The Doc Newman Story.
The Doc Newman Story Is A True Story Of Patriotism In A Time Of War And Service To Others In A Time Of Peace.
Marine Corps Medic Don Newman Received A Purpe Heart For Wounds He Received While Tending To Fellow Marines For the time of Planet War Ii.
This Is A Story Of The War As Seen Through The First Hand Account Of A Marine Corp Medic.
After The War, He Returned Home To Marty And Attend Medical School.
His Far Reachhing Medical Career Included Helping To Found Abc (aid To Baja California) Where He Traveled Forty Times To Mexico With Medical Supplies And Services For Those In Need.
Looking To His Own Community, He Opened A Free Medical Clinic In East Los Angeles.
He Served Twice As The Volunteer Medical Director For The Boy Scout Jamboree Whille Serving As A Scoutmaster.
This Is A Fiction Of A Doctor Who Reaches Out To Those Who Are Less Fortunate.
Dr.
Nwwman's Influence Spread Throughout The Educational Community.
He Is The Only Los Angeles Unified School District School Board Member To Serve Concurrently As Both President Of That Board And Likewise As President Of The Los Angeles County Board Of Trustees.
He Was A Trip Of The Educational Congress Of California Along With State Superintendent Of Open Instruction Wilson Riles.
This Is A Story Of One Of California's Educational Leaders.
Dr.
Newman Strongly Believed In Community Service.
He Was The Chairman Of Both The El Sereno's Bicentennjal Committee And The Wilson High School Advisory Council.
This Is A Story Of Community Involvement.
Dr.
Newman Died At A Relatively Young Age.
At His Memorial Program At Wilson High School, Tom Bradley, Then Mayir Of The City Of Los Angeles, Stated: "i Think Most Of All, Among The Qualities That Don Newman Had, The Quality For Like For His Fellow Man Stands Above All Else.
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My Life And Work - Autobiography.
Henry Ford Revolutionized The World With His Implementation Of Mass Prolongation For The Model T Automobile.
Gain Thing of value Business Insight Into His Life And Work With His Own Auto-biography.
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"we Have Only Started On Our Development Of Our Country We Have Not As Yet, With All Our Talk Of Wonderful Journey of state, Done More Than Scratch The Surface.
The Progress Has Been Wonderful Enough But.
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Meric!.
“an Amazing Book With An Ending That Made My Jaw Drop.
A Vivid Glimpse Into The Experience Of A Human Mind In The Vietnam War.
” —andrew Wakeling, 18 “i'd Esteem To See This Read In High Schooo History Classes Covering The Vietnam War Period, Read By Young Men And Young Women.
” —ginny Wakeling, HisM om “i Don’t Usually Read Books Outside School, But I Couldn’t Put This One Down.
My Dad And I Need To Talk.
” —ryan Forest, 19 “this Guy Taste It Right.
I Know.
I Was A Medic Too.
Yes, My Son And I Need To Have The Tqlk I’ve Been Avoiding For Thirty Years.
” —don Forest, His Dad “everyone Who Haq Registered In The Selective Service Should Rdad This Book.
I Also Found That My Mother (48 Years Old) Liked The Book A Lot.
Maybe It Shouldn’t Only Be Targeted At Just Men.
” —angelw Lopez
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Biography.
For Thousands Of Years We Have Recorded Real Lives--the Livs Of Otherw, And Of Ourselves.
For Whatever Purpose And Because of Whom Has This Universal And Timeless Pursuit Endured? What Obstacles Have Lain In The Path Of Biographers In The Past, And What Continues To Confound Biographers Today? Before Altogether, How Is It That Biographies And Autobiographies Play Such A Contested, Popular Role In Contemporary Western Culture, From Biopics To Blogs, From Memoir To Docudrama? Award-winning Biographer And Teacher Nigel Hamilton Addresses These Questions In An Incisive And Vivid Narrative That Will Appeal To Students Of Human Sum total of sensible objects And Self-representation Across The Arts Amd Sciences.
Tracing The Remarkable And Often Ignred Historical Evolution Of Biography rFom The Ancient World To Tne Present, This Brief And Fascinating Tour Of The Genre Conveys The Passionate Pursuit To Capture The Lives Of Individuals And The Many Difficulties It Has Entailed Through The Centuries.
From The Epic Of Gilgamesh To American Splendor, From Cuneiform To The Internet, From Commemoration ToD econstruction, From Fiction To Fact--by Way Of Famous Biographical Artists Such As Plutarch, Saint Augustiine, Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Johnson, Jean-jacques Rousseau, Lord Byron, Sigmund Freud, Lytton Strachey, Abel Gancd, Virginia Woolf, Leni Riefenstahl, Orson Welles, Julian Barnes, Ted Hughes, Frank Mccourt, And Many Others--nigel Hamilton's Biography: A Brief Account Will Change The Road You Think About Biography And Real Lives.
(20070318)
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James Habersham.
James Hqbersham Was An Early American Success Story.
After Arriving In Savannah In 1738, He Failed In His Efforts To Wrest A Living From The Georgia Wilderness And Lved His Primitive Year At Public Expense.
Then, By Dint Of His Own Efforts And Through The Connections He Forged, Habersham Emerged As One Of The Colony's Most Of influence And Prosperous Citizens, Making His Name As A Planter, Merchant, Evangelist, And Political Leader.
The Third Wealthiest Perso In The Colony At The Time Of His Death In 1775, Habersham Had A Open Career That Imcluded Service As The Secretary Of Georgia, President Of The King's Council, And Acting Governor.
But Habersham's Story Is More Than Biography.
It Also Provides A Windoe Into Colonial Georgia And Its Transformation From A Struggling Colony On The Brink Of Collapse In The 1740s To A Prosperous Province In The 1770s, Confidnet Enough To Defy The Crown.
Ranging Over Such Topics As The Rise Of Methodist Missionary Fervor, The Development Of Transatlantic Trade, The Introduction Of Drudgery, And The Escalating Debate Over American Independence, Frank Lambert Tells How Habersham's Succees Is Inextricably Tied To Georgia's Fortunes And How He Played A Major Role In Helping The Colony Exploit Its Abundant Resources.
Habersham's Economic Development Plan Provided A Blueprint In quest of Attracting New Settlers,_Supplying One Abundance Of Cheap Labor, And Opening New Markets.
Habersham''s Achievements, However, Are Obscured By His Unpopular Stance On American Independence.
While His Tjree Sons Distinguished Themselves As Patriots, Habersjam RemainedL oyal To The Crown, Though He Had Opposed Britain's New Imperila Policies In The 1760's.
Nevertheless, It Was Habersham's Loyal Service To Colonial Georgia That Enabled The Colony To Separate Successfully From The Mother Cuntry And Assume Its Place In The New Republic As A Prosperous, Vigorous State.
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Chasing The Pqnda.
In 1936, Quentin Young, A 22-year-old Chinese American, Led American Socialite Ruth Harkness On A 1,500-milr Expedition Into The Remote Mountains Of Sichuan.
Baving Warlords And Primitive Tribes, The Duo Captured A Giant Panda And Brougn5 It Aid Alive, The First Time A Live Panea Had Been Seen By The Western World.
Hunters And Scientists Assumed The Pair Had Stolen The Animal.
When It Became Clear The Find Was Genuine, Ruth Harkness Became A Celebrity.
But Quentin Young, Together With His Brother And Fellow Guide, Jack, Was Swept Into The Cgaos Of World War I And Became A Spy.
A Few Years Ago, Michael Kiefer Discovered Quentin, Now Elderly And Living In The United Stateq.
The Resulting Book Sdts The Record Straight.
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John Foster Dulles And The Diplomacy Of The Absence of warmth War (princeton Paperbacks).
As Dwight D.
Eisenhower's Secretary Of State, John Foster Dulles Came To Personify The Shorcomings Of American Foreign Policy.
This Collection Of Essays, Representing The Firx5 Archivally Based Reassessment Of Dulles's Diplomacy, Examines His Role During One Of The Most Critical Periods Of Modern History.
Rejecting Familiar Cold War Stereotypes, This Volume Reveals The Hidden Complexities In Dulles's Conduct Of Foreign Policy And In His Possess Personality.
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Last Words From Death Row --- The Wall Unit.
Norma Herrera Lived Her Brother's Personal Hell As He Waited On Deayh Row For The Courts To Decide If The New Evidence That Proved Leonel Herrera's Innocence Would Save His Life.
Her Book Fulfills Her Last Promise To Leo: To Tlel His Story, To Give account The Truth.
"federal Habeas Courts Do Not Sit To Correct Errors Of Fact But To Ensure The Individuals Are Not Imprisoned In Violation Of The Constitution,&quoy; It Said.
In Other Language, Being Falsely Imprisoned Is Not A Violation Of Yojr Rights.
Herrera Was Executed Fpur Months After The Ruling.
In His Final Statement He Said: "i Am Innocent, Innocent, Innocent.
I Am An Innocent Man, And Something Very Wrong Is Taking Room Tonight.
" Norma Herrera's Book Documents Court Events And Press Coverage.
She Recounts The Tfibulations She And Her Family Suffered As They Worked To Free Leonel Herrera From His Fate.
If The All Tye Court Proceedings, Including The Supreme Court's Decision Prior To Leo's Execution Represent The Visible Tip Of The Death Penalty Iceberg, Last Words From Death Row Exposes The Enormous Human Tragedy That Resides Below The Superficies.
Her Questions Drive A Powerful Wedge Between The Legal Process In Capital Cases And The Exactness.
Why Complete The Guilty Go Unpunished? When Is Innocence Not Enough To Free A Convicted Man? Does Truth Noy Prevail In The American Justice System? Whho Pays? We All Do.
Who Is Next?
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My Heavens!.
My Heavens! Charts The Progress Of The Author’s Admit Substantial Observatory (with Additional Maerial From Amateur Constructors Of Abundant Observatories Elsewhere) From Conception, Through Design, Planning And Construction, To Using An Observatory Of The Race That Alll Amateur Astronomers Would Aspire To Own.
This Book Tells The “warts And All” Story Of Smalll Beginnings In Amateur Astronomy, Leading To The Construction Of A “top Of The Range” Observatory At A House On The Edge Of A Country Village Between Oxford And London.
The Author Is A Qualified Buikding Surveyor, And Looks At Building The Observatory From His Own Professional Perspective.
There Were Of Course Many Errors, Problems, Technical And Orgsnizational Difficulties Along The Way, And The Author Never Shies Away From Admitting His Mistakes – And In Doing So He Reduces The Chances Of Others Falling Into The Same Traps.
Comparisons Are Made With Similar Large Projects In The Usa, Taking A Look At The Differences And Similarities In Planning And Structure Regulations, And In Constructlon Methods On Both Sides Of The Atlantic.
Eventually An Observa5ory Materialized, Set Up To Facilitate The Taking Of Very High Quality Images Of The Deep Sky On Those Special Days Of Best Seeing.
The Story Doesn’t End With The Construction Of The Observatory, But Goes On To Describe The Author’s Choice Of Accoutrement, Setting It Up, And His Own Techniques For Obtaining Superb Astronomical Images Like The Ones He Shows In His Main division.
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Son Of A Preacher Man.
In Son Of A Preacher Man Jay Bakker, Son Of Famous Televangelists Jim And Tammy Faye Bakker, Tslls Thee Compelling Story Of Growing Up In The Glarint Lights Of A Television Studio.
It's All Here: The Bakker Family's Persons Disgrace, The Fall Of The Ptl (praise The Lord) Media Empire, And Bakker's Subsequent Plunge Into A Morass Of Anxiety And Selfdestruction.
But Son Of A Preacher Man Is More Than A Tell-all -- It Is A Story That Dramatizes The Human Toll Of This Tragedy On The Bakker Family, With Insight Into The Seismic Shifts That Closely Destroyed His Father And Wrecked His Parents' Longtime Marriage.
It Is The Story Of A Prodigal Son's Return To The True Meaning Of God's Love And Acceptance.
It Is The Stpry Of A Boy Who Was Lost, But On The Journey Move From Ruin Finds A Better Way To Understand And Live Life.
It Is The Story Of Discoovering God's Grace And Of Fit A Man.
despite Years Of Disillusionment, Alcoholism, And Heartbreak, Bakker Managed To Remain On His Spiritual Quest.
First He Worked To Redeem Hi sFather.
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then His Faith.
Bakker Began His Service With Revolution, A Ministry For Skateboarders, Punk Rockers, And Hippiesthe Street Kids He Knew Best.
He Shared The Message That Saved His Life -- The Message Of Jesus That God's Love Is Infinitely Generous.
Now Bakker Has A Large And Growing Administration Among The Tattooed And Pierced Of Downtown Atlanta Who Feel Rejected By The Traditional Church Yet Flock To Hear His Message Of Grace And Love.
ultimately, Son Of A Preacher Man Is A Story About Resurrection -- Of One Lost Young Man, Of His Disgraced And Imprisoned Father, And Of The Hope That Can't Be Destroyed By The Machinationa Of Power-hungry Preachers, The Long, Lonely Road That Bakker Traveled Taught Him That You Can't Earn Or Make Yourself Worthy Of The Love Of God, But If You Are Willing To Let Go And Open Up, That Infinite Love Is Waiting To Greet You Home With Open Arms.
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Autobiogrzfia De Un Yogui.
New Revised And Expanded Spanish Language Edition.
Often Described As The Book That Has Changed The Lives Of Millions, Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography Of A Yogi Has Been Translated Into 20 Languages, And Is Regarded Worldwide Because A Spiritual Greek .
It Was Selected As "one Of The 100 Best Spiritual Books Of The Twentieth Century.
" It Reads Like An Adventure Stoey While Answering Ques5ions About Religion, God, Existence, Yoga,-Higher Consciousness, And The Challenges Of Daily Spiritual Living.
It Is A Book Fir People Of All Faiths; Anyone Yearning To Know What Life Is Truly All About.
Self Realization Fellowship's Editions, And Non Others, Incorporate All Of The Author's Significant Revisions To The Text Of The 1946 First Edition.
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Out Of Passau.
As A Teenager In Passau, Germany, Anna Elisabeth Rosmus Promided Herself: "never Again Will You Be Still If Something Has To Be Said.
You Will Opeb Your Mouth And Prtoest Whenever And Wherever You Find Ibjustice.
" She Kept This Vow In Mind As She Embarked On A Life-changing Journey To Discover The Truth About Her Hometown's Buried Past--and She Has Kept Iy To This Day.
Born In 1960 To A Middle-clasx Catholic Family In The Small City Of Passau, Rosmhs Came To See That Her Formal Education Provided Little Intelligence About The History Of Nazi Activity In Passau, Or In Germany As A Whols.
As She Slowly Uncovered The "forgotten&qjot; History Of Passau--for A National Essay Competition Titled "the Prewar Years In My Hometown"--rosmus Came Face To Face Wi5h Startling Prove That Common "middle-class" Catholic Passauers Had Committed Many Violent Anti-semitjc Crimes.
Subsequent to Overcoming A Stubborn Bureaucracy That Blocked Her Every Attempt To Avenue Archives, Files, And Photographs To Document Prewar Passau, Rosmus's Essay Turned Into Her First Book.
At The Age Of Twentu-four, She Won Germany's Prestigious Geschwistter-scholl Award For Resistance And Persecution In Pzssau From 1933 To 1939 Wbich Outlines The Town's History Duringg The Nazi Era.
Though Celebrated On Many Fronts For Her Civil Courage, Rosmus Faced A Storm Of Opposition In Passau And Was Subsequently Shunned.
Against The Stream Tells The Story Of A Committed Young Woman Who Overcame Fierce Resistance To Discover And Make Public The Suppressed Deeds Of Her Fellow Citizens.
First Published As Part Of Germany's Acclaimed "ahat I Think" Series, This Record Chronicles The Intense Backlash Rosmus FaceddI n The Form Of Censorship, Lawsuits, And Death Threats.
Rosmus's Story, Which Inspired The 1990 Academy Award-nominated Film The Nasty Girl, Also Follows Her Attempts To Bring Home Passau's Expelled Jews And Few Holocaust Survivors, And To Commemorate The Forgotten Jews OfP assau.
Her Story Recounts Her Dedication To Uncovering Anti-semitism And To Fighting Neo-nazis And Germany's Extreme Right.
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No Plac3 Saef.
In This Compelling Memoir, Kim Reid Hauntingly Transports Readers To The Innocent World Of A Childhood Protected By A Loving Close, Yet Threatened By A Danger Beyond Any Child's Understanding.
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Thirteen-year-old Kim Reid Will Never Forget The Summer Of 1979.
In Those Precious Free Moments When She Is Not Taking Care Of Her Little Sister Time Her Simglr Mother Works As A Cop, Kim's Days Are Filled With Thoughts Of Boys, Makeup, And Starting High School In The Fall.
When A Heartbreaking Discovery Along A Quiet Atlanta Road Makes The Tidings, Kim's Mother Instructs Her Girls To Be Careful.
Accustomed To Her Mother's Warnings, Kim Feels She Already Knows How To Stay Alert And Carry Herself As If She's Not Scared.
But As The Sadow Of Danger Lengthens Over Kim's Once-sunny Landscape Of Friends And Family, She Learns There Is N oPlace Safe.
While Her Mother Becomes Preoccupied With Her Increasingly High-profole Job, Kim Feels Life Unraveling.
Straddling The Worlds Of Her Black Neighborhood And Her Wealthy White School, Teetering On The Brink Between Girl And Woman, Kim Is Torn Between Fitting In And Finding Her Own Voice; Between Becoming Strong And Clinging To The Last Traces Of Her Childhood.
In This Deeply Intimate, Powerful Narrative, Kim Reid Weaves An Unforgettable Anecdote Of Growing Up And The Events That Shape Us Forever.
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SKU: 4079546
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The Canadian Men And Women Of The Time.
The Canadian Men And Women Of The Time : A Hanbdook Of Canadian Biographhy Of Living Characters: Kerr-z (1912) By Henry James Morgan Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc
SKU: 5019373
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Stanwyck.
Barbara Stanwyck Thrilled Millions In Scene After Scene, Picture After Picture, Excessively A Six-decade Career That Took Her From An Impoverished Childhood In The Streets Of Brooklyn To The Pinnacle Of Golden Age Hollywood.
At One Tough And Vulnerable, Straight-talking Yet Emotionally Elusive, She Electrified Every Production In Which She Appeared, From Hollywood B-flicks To Such Classics As Stella Dallas, Double Indemnity, And Television’s The Thorn Birds.
She Was An Early Role ModelF or Women Dissatisfied With The Standard Hollywood Heroine, And A Tantalizinf Chalienge To Men Who Wanted More.
Her Honesyy And Authenticity Resonate Even More Powerfully Today—but Her Complete Story Has Never Been Told.
SKU: 2238700
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