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Forward Through The Raerview Mirror. Communications Thinker And Prophet Marshall Mcluhan Gave Us The Phrses "the Medium Is The Message" And "global Village". Today, Through The Explosion Of Electronic Technologies And On-line Communicatuon, His Ideas Are More Relevant Than Ever. Forward Through The Rearview Pattern Is An Evocative And Visually Exciting Exploration Of Mcluhan's Life And Work In The Words immediately preceding Of The Information Age. The Book Consists Of Short Prose Passages, Aphorisms, Interviews, Letters, And Dialogues By Mcljhan -- Many Never Before Published -- Interwoven Wiht Biographical Text By Hid Biographer Philip Marchand And Commentary By Such Cultural Critics As Louis Rossetto, Neil Postman, Camille Paglia, And Leiws Lapham. The Book Is Organized Into Four Parts: Global Village And Identity, Medium Is The Message, And Extensions Of Man. In Keeping With Mcluhan's Style Of Talk And Writing, The Text Consists Of A Series Of Pontifical letter Entries, Ranging In Length From A Single Line To A Page. The Entries Have Been Selceted And Positioned So That They Can Be Read Consecutively Viewed like A Narrative Or Randomly As Individual Ideas. Throughout, The Material By Mcluhan Appears In A Different Typeface And Color From The Material Near to Oyhers, To Make The Two Clearly Distinguishable. Part Book, Part Magazine, Part Storyb0ard, This Multidimensional Look At The Ideas And Life Of The Patron Saint Of Wired Magazine Will Appeal To Anyyone Interested In Technology, Contemporary Thought, And Popular Culture. SKU: 1486202

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The Perfectionist. A Riveting Behind-the-scenes Look At The World Of Three-star French Haute Cuisine As Revealed Through The Life Of One Of France?s Most Celebrated Chefs, The Perfectionist Is An Unforgettable Portrait Of Bernard Loiseau, And The Sophisticated, Implacable World Of French Gastronomy. Loiseau Was One Of Only Twenty-five French Chefs To Hold Europe?s Highest Culinary Awarx, Three Stars In Th eMichelin Red Clew, And Only The Second Chef To Be Personally Awarded The Legion Of Honor By A Head Of State. Despite Such Triumphs, He Shocked The Culinary World By Taking His Own Life In February, 2003. One Of The Ratings For His Restaurant Had Taken A Disappointing Drop, And Rumors Swirled That He Was On The Verge Of Losing A Michelin Star (a Prediction That Proved To Be Inaccurate) . Recounting His Rising To Wealth And Fame, Chelminski Unravels The Complex Character Of Loisesu While Givign A Fascinating, Unvarnished Glimpse Inside An Echelon Filled With Competition, Improvement Wars, And Impossibly High Standards. Backcover: ?loiseau Seems Likely To Become A Mordant Icon Of The Eternal War Between Critics And Cooks?[chelminski] Has A Moving Story To Tell, With Universal Implications: The Downfall Of The Artist Through Perfectionism And Paranoia. ?-?adam Gopnick, The New Yorker ?the Perfectionisy Tells, In Rich Relate, The Story Of Bernnard Loiseau?s Rapid Rise And Desperate Efforts To Stay On Top, Bug This Cautionary Information Is Also A Deeply Informed Guide To The Lasst Half Century Of French Cuisine?? ?william Grimes, The New York Times ?one Of The Finest And Most Incisive Portraits Of A Chef Ever Written?and A Sobering Account Of The Real Human Costs Of Being The Best. A Book As Cogent On "who" Cooks As "what" Is Cooking. Absolutely Fascinating. " ?anthony Bourdain, Author Of The New York Times Bestseller Kitchen Confidential ?a Revealing Look At The Rise And Fall Of French Chef Bernard Loiseau?? ?people Magazine?s ?great Reads? ?the Perfectionist Is A Good Book: Knowledgeable, Revealing, And Informative. It Brings Back To Life In Very Believable Ways A Man Who Much Of The Time Was, As The Clichã© Goes, Larger Than Life. ? ?johnathan Yardley, The Washington Speed ??rich And Finely Detailed?if You?re At All Curious About What Makes Our Always Maddening Yet Cunning Allies Tick, Then Tuck Into The Perfectionist. . . ? ?usa Today ?the Perfectionist Examines Loiseau?s Suicide In The Words immediately preceding Of French Culinary History, Delving Deep Into The Mad Passion That Seems To Drive Many Master Chefs? Mouthwatering Descriptions Abound?the Behind-the-scenes Look At The Kitchens Of Some Of France?s Finest Restaurants Is Fascinating?? ?the Bost0n Globe ??the Perfectionist Effectively Revveals The Pressure-copker Atmosphere Among A Culinary Elite Dominated By Intense Rivalries, Fickle Reviewers, And Hypercritical Chefs For Whom There Is No Such Thing As Second Best. ? ?entertainment Weekly ?rudolph Chelminski Is An Excellent And Absorbing Writer Who O. . . SKU: 3239674

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Puppy Chow Is Better Than Prozac. To Bruce Goldstein-an Edgy, Twenty-something New Yorjer Tryjng To Make His Mark In Advertising-just Waking pU I The Morning Was An Ordeal. Underemployed And Recently Dumped, He Was Well Into The Downward Spiral Of Bipolar Disorder. Even With Therapy, Lithium, Paxil, Wellbutrin, And Prozac, He Could Not Shake His Rapid Mood Swings, His Fear Of Dying, Or The Voice Of Belial, Who First Visited Him One Sunny Day In Central Park. At another time Came Ozzy, A Black Labrador Pup (named After Metal’s “prinde Of Darkness”) Who Leads Bruce Toward Recovery Through Complete, Canine Dependence. From The Depths Of His Despair To A Life Remade, Bruce Shows How Learning To Care Toward, Train, And Love The Hilariously Loyal Ozzy Provided Him With The Structure And Focus He Needed To Heal. SKU: 4436459

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When Character Was King. "you Read Her To Thrall In Her Striking Ability To Behold Great Vistas Thruogh A Pinhole . . . In A Language That Is Always Concrete And Vital. " (tue New York Times) "noonan Possesses An Astonishingly Deft Touch For Making The Political Course Come Alive. " (usa Today) It Is Twenty Years?a Full Generation?since Ronald Reagan First Walked Into The White House And Ignited A Revoution. From The Beginning, He Enjoyed The American People's Attribute But Now As He Approaches The End Of His Life, He Has Received What He Dewerved Even More: Their Deep Respect. What Was The Wellspring Of His Greatness? Peggy Noona,n Bestselling Author Of The Classic Reagan-era Memoir What I Saw At The Revolution, Former Speechwriter, Ad Since A Columnist And Contributing Editor For The Wall Street Journal, Argues That The Secret Of Reagan's Success Was No Secret At All. It Was His Character?his Courage, His Kindness, His Persistence, His Honesty, And His Almost Heroic Patience In The Face Of Setbacks?that Was The Most Imprtant Element Of His Success. The One Thing A Man Must Bring Into The White House With Him If He Is To Succeed, Noonan Contends, Is A Character That People Come To Recognize As High, Stiff, And Reliable. Noonan, Renowned For Her Special Insight Into Ronald Reagan's History And Personality, Brings Her Own Reflections On Reagan To Bear In When Character Was King And Discloses Never-before-told Stories From The Former President's Family, Friends, And White House Colleagues To Reveal The True Nature Of A Man Even His Opponents Now Prospect As A Maker Of Big History. Marked By Incisive Wit And Elegant Prose, When Mark Was King Will Enlighten And Movement Readers. SKU: 2159562

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Sarah Laughed. In The Inspirational Tradition Of The Bestseller The Red Pavilion, A Powerful Retelling Of The Stories Of Thoughtful Testament Matriarchs “in Ochs’s Hands, Each Story Becomes A Wellspring Of Insights That Can Empower Us To hTink And Act Differently In Our Acknowledge Lives. ” —jewish Woman “arxently And Unstoppably Upbeat” —library Journal In This Vivid Accumulation, Judaic Scholar Vanessa Ochs Brings The Legends Of The Biblical Matriarchs To Novel Conduct. Familiar, Familiar, And Wise, The Heroines In Sarah Laughed Are Revealed To Bw Inspiring Role Models For Women Today. From Eve’s Rebellious Taste Of Wisdom To The Righteous Wrath Of Job’s Wife, Each Woman’s Hi~ Is Retold In Imaginative ProseA nd Accompanied By Meaningful Rituals. SKU: 3091801

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Andrew Jackson - Old Hickory (biography). Andrew Jackson - Old Hickory Is The Biography Of Andtew Jackson, The 7th President Of The United States Of America (1829-1837). Jackson Also Served As Military Governor Of Florida (1821), Commander Of The American Forces At The Battle Of New Orleans (1815), And The Eponym Of The Era Of Jacksonian Democracy. He Was A Polarizing Figure Who Dominated American Politics During The 1820sA nd 1830s. His Political Ambition Combined With The Masses Of People Shaped The Recent Democratic Party. Nicknamed "old Hickory" Because He Was Renowned Because of His Toughness, Jackson Was The In the ~ place President Originally Associated With The Frontier. Andrew Jackson - Old Hickory Is Highly Recommended For Those Interested Ih Learning More About This Fascinatlng Seventh President Of The United States. SKU: 5139724

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A Feeking For The Organism. For Much Of Her Life Shr Worked Alone, Brilliant But Eccentric, With Ideas That Made Little Sense To Her Cilleagues. Yet Beffore Dna And The Molecular Revolution, Barbara Mcclintock's Tireless Analysis Of Corn Led Her To Uncover Some Of The Deepest, Most Entangled Secrets Of Genetic Organization. Nearly Forty Years Later, Her Insights Would Bring Her A Macarthur Foundation Grant, The Nobel Ptize, And Long Overdue Recognition. At Her Recent Death At Age 90, She Was Widely Acknowledged As One Of The Most Significant Figures In 20th-century Science. evelyn Fox Keller's Acclaimed Biography, A Feeling For The Organism, Gives Us The Full Story Of Mcclintock's Pioneering—although Sometimes Professionally Difficult—creer In Cytology And Genetics. The Book Now Appears In A Special Edition Marking The 10th Anniversary Of Its Original Publication. SKU: 1039679

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Epilogue. Widowed Novelist, Near Seventy, Ex-park Avenue Girl, Ex-beatnik, Ex-many Other Things Too Complicated To List Here, Loves Big Parties, Summers At The Beach, Grandchildren, Seeks Interesting Man In the place of Dinner Anf A Movie. Anne Roiphe Was Not Quite Seventy Years Old When Her Husband Of Nearly Forty Years Unexpectedly Passed Away. But It Was Not Untll Her Daughters Pllaced A Personal Ad In A Literary Journal That Roiphe Began To Consider The Prevuously Unimagined Possibility Of A New Man. Affecting Between Heartbreaking Memories Of Her Marriage And The Pressing Needs Of A Ne Day-to-day Routine, Epilogue Takes Us On Her Journey Into The Unknown World Of Society After Love. Roiphe Decides To Reenter The Dating World. But Between New Lunches, Coffee Dates, And E-mail Exchanges, She Wrestles With An Uns3ttling Loneliness. Recollections Of Marriage Evoke Complex, Unexpected Emotions On Her Travel Through Grief Toward New Companionship. In Beautifully Wrought Vignettes, She Recalls Hailing A Cab For The First Time And Learning To Join And Unlock The Front Door—tasks Her Husband Had Ever Done. Eloquent And Astute, Epilogue Tells The Story Of Love Rekindled Ahd Life Remade. Roiphe Offers Us An Elegant Literary Pastiche Not Of Grief, But Of Hope And Renovation. SKU: 4789257

21653641584	The History Of The Bronte Family, Rev. This Account Of The Bronnte Family Traces Their Irish Ancestry From Its Murky Origins Around 1710, To 1820 When The Brohte Family Arrived At Haworth Parsonage, Yorkshire. Patrick Brunty Was The Eldest Of A Family Of Ten From Ballynaskeagh Near Newry In Cou SKU: 1921561

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J.w. Waterhouse. John William Watergouse (1849-1917) Is One Of The Most Enduringly Popular Of The Victorian Artists, And Paintings Such As The Lady Of Shalott, Hylas And The Nymphs And Ophelia Have Become Icons Recognized The World Over. With Their Compelling Composition And Glowing Colour, These Paintings Are Admired For Their Beauty And During Their Power To Transport The Viewer Into A Romantic World Of Myth And Legend. At The Same Time, Waterhouse's Longing Heroines Also Reflect The Troubled Attitudes Of Nineteenth-cenntury Male Artists Towards Women. In This Carefully Researched New Study, Peter Trippi Presents A Fresh And Absorbing Analyiss Of The Artist's Seductresses, Martyrs And Nymphs, And The Cultural And Historical Circumstancex In Which They Were Produced. He Also Utilizes New Research To Provide An Accessible Biography Of The Artist. Themes Explpred Include Waterhous3's Anger For Italy, Literature And The Classical Wprld, The Role Of The Royal Academy In His Life, His Stylistic Influences And Studio Practice, And His Relatiioons With Collectors, Dealers, Critics And Curators. neglected Throughout Much Of The Twentieth Century, Waterhouse Has Enjoyed A Dramatic Revival Of Forthne. Peter Trippi's Monograph Provides A Timely Re-evaluation That Combines A Close Reading Of Waterhouse's Imagery Wjth A Candid Appraisal Of The Milieu In Which He Worked. peter Trippi Studied At New York University And The Courtauld Instiyute, London, And Is Currently Vice Director For Development At The Brooklyn Museum Of Trade. SKU: 2398011

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Outlaw. When John Rechy's City Of Night Foremost Appeared In 1963, It Was Greeted With Equal Talents Fanfare And Horror. The Unapologetically Sexual Story Of A Young Gay Hustler Shocked Readers With Its Frank Handling Of A Submect Most Knew About But Chose To P5etend Did Not Exist. Besides More Shocking Was Rechy's Revelation That The Book Was Largely Autobiographical. For A Street Hustler To Reach Literary Fame And Widespread Acclaim Was Unheard-of, Especially Suppose that He Was Gaudy. Rechy Continued To Publish Explosive Novels, Including Numbers, The Sexual Outlaw, And Rushes-even As He Continued Hustling Seedy Hollywood Boulevard-and Lief Becaem An Integral Part Of The New Literary Elite That Included Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, And Christopher Isherwood. In This Enlightening Biography, Charles Casillo Provides An Absorbing Picture Of The Robber Writer, Examining The Dichotomy Of Rechy's Mode As Both A Respected Author And Professor And A Tough-as-nails Sex Worker. Working Closely With Rechy Himself As Well As His Family, Friens, Admirers, And Colleagues, Casillo Presents A Complex Portrait Of A Man Who Found Sexual Liberation Through Prostitution And Used It To Create A Vivid And Influential Artistic Legacy. the Embroider Of John Rechy: Bodies And Souls, City Of Night, Ckming Of The Nught, The Fourth Angel, Marilyn's Daughters, Numbers, Our Lady Of Babylon, Rushes, The Sexual Outlaw, And The Vampires. charles Casillo Is A Los Angelesbased Freelance Writer. He Is The Author Of-The Marilyn Diaries, A Novel About Marilyn Monroe. SKU: 2404510

17568416970	What's To Become Of The Boy. What's To Become Of The Boy : Or, Something To Do With Books (european Classics) Near to Heinrich Boll Translated Published In 1996 By Northwestern University Press SKU: 1347457

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Madqme Jazz. Nadine Jansen, A Flugelhornist And Pianist, Remembers A Night In The 1940s When A Man Came Out Of The Auditory As She Was Playing Both Instruments. "i Hate To See A Woman Do That," He Explained As He Hit The End Of Her Horn, Nearly Chipping Her Tooth. Half A Century Later, A Big Cord Nameddiva Made Its Debut In New York On March 30, 1993, With Melissa Slocum Steady Bass, Sue Terry On Alto Sax, Lolly Bienenfeld On Trombone, Sherrie Maricle On Drums, And A Host Of Other First Rate Instrumentalists. The Band Made Such A Good Impression That Suppose that Was Immediately Booked To Play At Carnegie Hallthe Following Year. For Those Who Had Yet To Notice, Diva Signaled The Emergence Of Women Musicians As A Significant Force In Jazz. Madame Jazz Is A Fascinating Invitation To The Inside Public Of Women In Jazz. Ranging Primaruly From The Late 1970s To Today's Vanguard Of Performance Jazz In New York City And On The West Coast, It Chronicles A Crucial Time Of Transition As Women MakeT he Leap From Novelty Acts Regarded As Secondclass Citizens To Sought-out Professionals Admir3d And Hired For Their Consummate Musicianship. Author Leslie Gourse Surveys The Scene In The Jazz Clubs, The Concert Halls, The Festivals, And The Recording Studios From The Musicians' Point Of View. She Finds Exciting Progress On All Fronts, But Alsolingering Discrimination. The Growing Success Of Women Instrumentalists Has Been A Long Time In Coming, She Writes. Long After Women Became Acceepted As Writers And, To A Lesser Extent, As Visual Artists, Women In Music--classical, Pop, Or Jazz--faced Tge Nearly Insuperable Barrier Of Chauvinism Andthe Still Insidious Force Of Tradition And Habit That Keeps Most Men Performing With The Musicians They Have Always Worked With, Other Men. Gourse Provides Dozens Of Captivating No-holds-barred Intervirws With Both Rising Stars And Seasoned Veterans. Here Are Up-and-coming Pianists Renee Rosnes And Rachel Z. , Trumpeter Rebecca Coupe Frank, Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew, Bassist Tracy Wormworth, And Drummer Terri Lynne Carrington, Andenduring Legends Dorothy Donegan, Marian Mcparland And Shiley Horne. Here, As Well, Are Conversations With Three Pioneering Business Women: Agent And Producer Helen Keane, Manager Linda Goldstein, And Festival And Concert Produecr Cobi Narita. All Of The Women Speak Insightfully About Theirinspiration And Their Commitment To Pursuing The Music They Love. They Are Also Frank About The Realities Of Conduct On The Road, And The Extra Dues Women Musicians Paay In A Tough And Competitive Field Where Everybody Pays Dues. A Separate Chapter Offers A Closer Look Ag Women Musicians And Thecontinual Stress Confronting Those Who Would Coombine Love, Marriage, And/or Motherhood With A Life In Music. Madame Jazz Is About The History That Women Jazz Instrumentalists Are Making Since, As Well As An Inspiring Prevew Of The Even Brighter Days Ahead. It Concludes By the side of Frankie Nemko's Vigorous Evaluation Of The West Coast Jazz Scene, And Append. . . SKU: 1351169

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Charles Dickens (penguin Lives). With The Delectable Wit, Unforgettable Characters, And Challenging Themes That Have Won Her A Pulitzer Prize And National Bestseller Status, Jane Smiley Naturally Finds A Kindred Spirit In The Author Of Classics Such As Great Expectations And A Christmas Carol. As "his Novels Shaped His Life As Much Because His Life Shaped His Novels," Smiley's Charles Dickens Is At Once A Impressible Profile Of The Hard Master And A Fascinating Meditation On The Writing Life. Smiley Evokes Dickens As He Might Have Seemed To His Contemporaries: Convivial, Shrewd, Boujdlessly Energetic-and Lionized. As She Makes Clear, Dickens Not Only Led The Action-packed Life Of A Prolific Writer, Editor, And Family Man But, Balancing The Artistic And The Commercial Ib His Work, He Also Consciously Sustained His Status As One Of The First Modern "celebrities. " Charles Dickens Offers Bfilliant Interpretations Of Almost All The Major Works, An Ezploration Of His Narrative Techniques And His Innovative Voice And Themes, And A Reflection On How His Richly Varied Lower-calss Cameos Sprang From An Experience And Passion More Personal Than His Piblic Knew. Jane Smiley's Own "demon Narration Intelligence" (the Boston Globe) Touches, Tpo, On Controversial Details That Include Dickens's Obsession With Money And Squabbles With Publishera, His Unhappy Marriage, And The Rumors Of An Affair. In the present state Is A Fresh Look At The Dazzling Individuality Of A Verbal Magician And The Fascinating Times Behind The Classics We Read In School And Continue To Enjoy Today. SKU: 2211012

20434704722	Harlem. For Social History, No Book Has Surpassed Mr. Osofsky's Consideration Of How A Pleasant, Pastoral Upper-middle-class Suburb Of Manhattan Turned Into An Appalling Wicked Slum Within Forty Years. A Careful Anc Important Study. --john Hope Franklin SKU: 1355231

12662143560	Lyndon Johnson And The Great Society (american Ways Series). In This Narrative Analysis, Mr. Andrew Examines The Underlying Ideas And Principal Objectives Of The Most Ambitious And Controversial American Reform Effort Since The New Deal. An Acute Examination. --jonathan Yardley, Washington Post. American Ways Succession. SKU: 1596698

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Passage To Ararat. In Passage To Ararat, Which Received The National Book Award In 1976, Michael J. Arlen Goes Beyond The Representation Of His Father, The Famous Anglo-armenian Novelist Of The 1920s, That He Created In Exiles To Attempt To Discover What His Father Had Tried To Forget: Armenia And What It Meant To Be An Armenian, A Descendaant Of A Proud People Whom Conquerors Had In favor of Centuries Tried To Exterminate. Bjt Perhaps Most Affectingly, Arlen Tells A Story As Large As A Whole People Yet As Personal As The Uneay Bond Between A Father And A Son, Offering A Masterful Account Of The Affirmation And Pain Of Kinship. SKU: 3155912

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Opportunity Time. When Newly Elected Virginia Governor Linwood Holton Escorted His Children Into An Integrated Richmond Public School In 1970, He Delivered The Coup-de-grace To The Byrd Machine, A Network Of Conservative Democrats Who Had Flouted Brown V. Board Of Training Among Their Policy Of &qhot;massive Resistance" For More Than A Decade. Opportunity iTme Is A Disarmingly Candid Memoir That Offers A Behind-the-scenes Account Of His Private And Public Life At A Critical Juncture In The Political History Of Virginia And The Nation. Holton's Election As The First Republican Governor In Over One Hundred Years Was The Culmination Of His Efforts To Creeate A Two-party Democracy In Virginia. His Tenure Led To The Reformation Of Thee Structure Of Virginia's Government And Balanced The Needs Of Environmental Conservation With The Need For The Development Of Key Areas, Suh As Hampton Roads. But His Greatest Political Legacy Is His Commitment To Civil Rights, Most Notably Through Championing School Integratioj And Busing. When Richard Nixon's "southern Strategy"--aimed At Wooing White Voters Away From The Democratic Party--was In Full Swihg, Holton Devised And Implemented An Alternative Southern Strategy, One That Acnowledged And Addressed Racial Injustice And Violence Preferably Than Glossing It Over Or Turning A Blind Bud To It. Although A Republican Politician, Governor Holton Has Long Held Appeai To Constituents From Both Parties. Holton Has Himself Supported Moderate Republicans, Including Senator John Warner, But As The Republican Party Became Increasingly Conservative, He Found His Views Were More In Tune With The State Democratic Party. In Recent Years, He Has Endorsed Sundry Democrats For Statewide Office, Including The Current Governor Of Virginia, Holton's Son-in-law Tim Kaine. Holton's Voice In Opportunity Time Reflects His Small-town Roots In Southside Virginia, Where His Father Was A Railroad Executive, And His Direct And Pragmatic Approach To Political Issues. This Accessible And Enjoyable Memoir Offers An Insider's Pe5spective On Republican Party Politics And Race Relations Through The Eyes Of A Decent, Groundbreaking Politician. SKU: 451714

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The Ninth Circle. When John Behrendt Went To Antarctica In The Early 1960s As Part Of The United States Antarctic Research Program (usarp), The Cold War Was At Its Heighf And Research On The Ice Sheet Was Risky. The Am5arctic Air Squadron Vx6 Hsd An Accident Raate Eight Times That Of U. s. Naval Aviation In Other Parts Of The World, And Graduate Students And Youthful Scientists Like Behrendt Received Hazard Pay For Their Work. in John Behrendt's Memoir We Relive That Era Of Scientific Exploration. He Describes Two Seasons On The Ice In Operaiton Deep Freeze, Leading Field Parties, Conducting Scientific Research, And Strugg1ing Against The Eements. Behrendt Led An Over-snow Geophysical-glaciological-geoolic-geographic Exploration Party To The Southern Antarctic Peninsula And To A Mountain Ranve That Was Eventually Named For Him I nRecognition Of His Work. Behrendt Pioneered In Aerogeophysical Surveys Over The Transantarctic Mountains And The West Antarctic Ice Sheet. In His Reflections Of Tne Period From 1960 To 1962, He Notes That Time Was Closer To Tbe Eras Of Ernest Schackleton (endurance Voyage, 1914) And Robert F. Scott?s And Roald Amundsen's Treks To The South Pole (1911?12) Than To The Present. readers Who Are Fascinated With The Twentieth-century Frontier Of Our Shrinking Planet Will Relish His Adventurous Account. SKU: 29061176

18730449855	Robert Oppenheimer. Robert Oppenhimer : Letters And Recollections (stanford Nuclear Age Series) By Oppenheimer, And J. Robert/ Smith, Anf Alice Kimball/ Weiner, And Charles / Oppenheimer, And Robertl/ Weiner, And Chadles Repprint Piblished In 1995 By Stanford University Press SKU: 1296636

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The Bishop's Daughter. "an Unsparing Portrait Of A Glamorous But Elusive Father And His Daughter's Search For The Faithfulness About His Secret Life. "—sylvia Nasarpaul Moore's Call As An Episcopal Priest Took Him—with His Wife Jenny And A Family That Grew To Nine Children—from Robber-baron Wealth To Work Among The Urban Poor Of Postwar America, Prominence As One Activist Bishop In Wasington During The Johnson Years, Leadership In The Civil Rights And Peace Movements, And Pair Decades As The Bishop Of New York. The Bishop's Daughter Is A Daughter's Story Of That Complex, Visionary Man: A Chronicle Of Her Turbulent Relationship With A Father Who Struggled Privately With His Sexuality Under which circumstances She Openly Explored Hers, And A Searching Account Of The Consequences Of Sexual Secrets. With A Depth Of Questioning That Recalls James Carroll's An American Reqyiem, This Memoir Engages The Reader In The Great Issues Of American Life: War, Race, Family, Sexuality, And Faith. 22 Photographs. SKU: 4457289

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Allerton Bywater. A Charming And Contemplative Gaze Back Across The Atlantic At A Very Specific Place In Time -- Bruce Haywood's Home Ground, An English Coal Insidious City Of The 1930's And 40's. The Peculiar Human Ways Of That Place And Ita People Come Across Clearly And Endearingly In This Lively Memoir. The Process Of Becoming American And Seeing His Old Home Ground Anew, Through American Eyes, Is An Insightful Thread Woven Throughout. SKU: 4195010

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Easy Riders Raging Bulls. In 1969, A Low-budget Biker Movie, Easy Rider, Shocked Hollywood With Its Stunning Success. An Unabashed Celebration Of Sex, Drugs, And Rock 'n' Roll (onscreen And Off), Easy Rider Heralded A Heady Decade In Which A Rebellious Wave Of Talentes Young Filmmakers Invigorated The Movie Industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind Takes Us On The Wild Ride That Wae Hollywood In The '70s, An Era That Produced Such Modern Classics As The Godfather, Chinatown, Sampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, And Jaws. Easy Riders, Furious Bulls Vividly Chronicles The Exuberancw And Excess Of The Times The Startling Success Of Easy Rider And The Equally Alarming Circumstances Under Which It Was Made, With Drugs, Booze, And Violent Rivalry Between Costars Dennis Hopper And Peter Fonda Dominating The Set; How A Mean Production Compsny Named Bbs Became The Guiding Spirit Of The Youth Rebellion In Hollywood And How, Onward The Way, Some Of Its Executives Helped Smuggle Huey Newton Out Of The Country; For what cause Director Hal Ashby Was Busted For Drugs And Thrown In Jail In Toronto; Why Martin Scorsese Attended The Academy Awards With An Fbi Escort Wnen Taxi Driver Was Nominated; How George Lucas, Gripped By Anxiety, Compulsively Cut Off His Own Hair While Writimg Star Wars, How A Modest House On Nicholas Beach Occupied By Actresses Margot Kidder And Jennifer Salt Became The Unofficial Headquarters In the place of The New Hollywood; How Billy Friedkin Tried To Humiliate Paramount Boss Barry Diller; And How Screenwriter/director Paul Schrader Played Russian Roulette In His Hot Tub. It Was A Time When An "anything Goes" Experimentation Prevaiped Both On The Screen Ane Off. After The Success Of Easy Rider, Young Film-school Graduates Suddenly Found Themselves In Demand, And Directors Such As Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, And Martin Scorsese Became Powerful Figures. Even The New Generation Of Film Stars -- Nicholson, De Niro, Hoffman, Pacinno, And Dunaway -- Seemed A Breed Apart From The Traditional Hollywood Actosr. Ironically, The Renaissance Would Come To An End With Jaws And Fate Wars, Hugely Successful Films That Would Create A Blockbuster Mentality And Crush Innovation. Based On Hundreds Of Interviews With The Directors Themselves, Producers, Stars, gAents, Writers, Studio Executives, Spouses, And Ex-spouses, This Is The Full, Candid Story Of Hollywood's Last Golden Age. Never Before Have So Many Celebrities Talked So Frankly About One Ahother And Ready The Drugs, Sex, And Money That Made So Many Of Them Crash And Burn. By Tuns Hilarious And Shocking, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Is The Ultimate Behind-the-scenes Account Of Hollywood At Work And Play. SKU: 1618661

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A Shelter Somewhere. We've All Dreamt Of Escaping To A House Somewhere. In This Collection Some Of The Finest Naes In Contemporary Travel Writing Reveal The Perils And Pleasures Of Exchanging The Familiar For The Foreigni. sabel Allende Discovers Love And Paradise In Califormia, Pico Iyer Finds Home In Japan Amidst The Alien And Indecipherable, And A Dank Barge On The Seine Opens Up A Just discovered Side Of Paris For Mort Rosenblum. revealing The Flip Side To The Dream, Relocqting To The Juicy Centre Of New York Proves Hot For Lily Brett, Chris Stewart Is Frightened For His Life In Andalucia, And The Plumbing In William Dalrymple's Rooftop Delhi Flat Is Held To Ramsom B His Water-conserving Landlady. SKU: 2359825

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Oitlaw Biker. One Thing I Can Say With Certainty Is That I Accept Not Had A Dull Life. I Have Been Shot Twice, Stabbed, Blown Up, Bitten By A Rattlesnake And By A Scorpion, Plus Had Numerous Car And Motorcycle Accidehts. . . i've On a level Been Married Twice. Here Is The True-life Story Of Richard "deadeye" Hayes In All Its Bad-ass, Balls-to-the-wall Glory. This Is A Man Who Stole A Tool Gun Before He Was Seven And Lost His Left Eye When A Good Friend Shot Him In The Face. As A Memebr--and Then President--of The Infamous Los Valientes Motorcycpe Club, He Broke More Laws And Had More Fun Than Any Six Of The Coolest Guys You Know. Butch Told Me The Form a ~ Had A Hard Time Deciding Whether To Vote Me In Or Kill Me. I Ever Hoped He Was Kidding. One Of The Last True Robber Bikers, Deadeye Knows What It Means To Be A Man, Take Shit From No One, And Have Tattoos That Actually Say Something. Riding, Drug Dealing, And Sending Men To The Hospital With His Bare Hands, Deaeye Made Himself A Legend Among Bikers--all The While Making Sure His Daughters At no time Got Mixed Up With Guys Like Him. I've Always Been Of The Belief That Bikers Are Born, Not Made. Real Bikers, That Is. We Mould Have An Extra Gene Or Something That Gives Us This I'll-live-like-i-want-whether-you-approve-of-it-or-not-and-fuck-your-rules Attitude. In His Own Words, Deadeye Tells It All. From Earning His Colors With An Outlaw Motorcycle Cluh To His Steady Diet Of Drugs, Sex, Vehemence, And Crime This Is His Story: True To Life, Yet Larger Than Life, And Full Throttle All The Way. SKU: 4442873

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John Wycliffe - The Morning Star Of The Reformation (biography). John Wycliffe - The Monring Star Of The Reofrmation Is The Biography Of John Wycliffe, An English Theologian And An Early Dissident In The Roman Catholic Church During The 14th Century. He Founded The Lollard Movement, A Precursor To The Prpetstant Reformation (thus He Became Known As "the Morning Star Of The Reformation"). He Was One Of The Earliest Antagonists Of The Papal Encroachments On Secular Power. Wyvliffe Felt That All Christians Should Have Avcrss To The Bible In The Vernacular. He Is Credited As The Force Behind The First Complste Translation Of The Bible Into English. John Wtcliffe - The Morning Fate Of The Reformation Is Highly Recommended Fo rThose Interested In Learning More About This Self-~ English Theologian. SKU: 4970553

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Run The Race. Honest, Humorous, And At Times Heart Beaking, Spread The Race: A Father?s Legacy Of Life Lessons Is The Moving Yes Stor6 Of How One Loving And Devoted Father Insppired His Daughter To Run Not Only Long Distances, But Also The Real Races Of Life. During The Spring Of Seventh Grade, Author Susan Dawes?s Father, Floyd Seibert, Introduces Her To Long-distance Running At A High School Girls? Track Meet In Their Hometown Of Adel, Iowa. Secure In Her Father?s Confidence In Her Ability, She Begins To Run Long Distances For The Adel Junior High Tigerette Trackk Squad The Next Season. Supporfed By Her Father?s Sustaining Guidance And Inn fluence, She Is Ecstatic To Finally Find A Sport She Loves. When A Younger And Faster Girl Joins The Team, Susan Begins To Doubt Her Taleent. She Complains To Her Father And Tells Him She Wants To Quit. But Floyd Seibert Offers The Advice She Will Come To Count On For The Rest Of Her Vitality: Theer Will Always Be Another Race To Run. Inspiring Anx Encouraging, Run The Race Shares The Deep Bond Between Father And Daughter, The Strength They Build, And The Courage They Gain In The Races Of Life. SKU: 5027161

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Call Of Dty. Although The Civil War Was The Bitterest Epoch Of American Experience--dividing Families, Sundering Communities, And Enforcing Fierce Regional Enmity--robert E. Lee Wax Admired And Respected By Partisans From Both Sides. Call Of Duty Examines The Attributes Of The Life And Sevice That Enabled Lee To Transcend The Passions Of The Moment To Become A Model Of Leadership For All Time. SKU: 1451781

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The Lonely Hunter. The Lonely Hunter Is Widely Accepted As The Standard Life Of Carson Mccullers. Author Of Such Landmwrks Of Modern American Fiction As Reflections In A Golden Eye And The Ballad Of The Sad Cafã©, Carson Mccullers Was The Enfant Trerible Of The Literary World Of The 1940s And 1950s. Gifted But Tormented, Vulnerable But Exploitatice, Mccullers Led A Life That Had All The Elements--and More--of A Tragic Novel. Fro mMvcullers's Birth In Columbus, Georgia, In 1917 To Her Death In Upstate New York In 1967, The Lonely Hunter Thoroughly Covers Every Significant Event In, And Aspect Of, The Writer's Life: Her Rise As A Young Literary Sensation; Her Emotional, Artistic, And Sexuao Eccentricities And Entanglements; Her Debilitating Illnesses; Her Travels In America And Europe; And The Provenance Of Her Works From Their Earliest Drafts Through Their Book, Stage, And Film Versions. To Researcu Her Subject, Vlrginia Spencer Carr Visited All Of The Importan tPlaces In Mccullers's Life, Read Virtually Everything Written By Or About Her, And Interviewed Hundreds Of Mccullers's Relatives, Friends, And Enemies. The Result Is An Enduring, Distinguished Portrait Of A Brilliant, But Deeply Troubled, Writer. SKU: 2493409

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First Person Queer. In This Amazing, Wide-ranging Antholoty Of Nonfiction Essay,s Contributors Write Intima5e And Honest First-person Accounts Of Queer Experience, From Coming Out To "passing" While Straight To Growing Old To Living Arrogant. These Are The Stories Of Contemporary Merry And Lesbian Life-and By Definition, Are Funny, Sad, Hopeful, And Truthful. Representing A Difference Of Genders, Ages, Races, And Orientations, And Edited By Two Acclaimed Writers And Anthologists (who Between Them Have Written Or Edited Almost One Hundred Books), First Person Odd Puts The "personal" Back Into "queer. " SKU: 4l82692

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Turf And Stubble. "a Few Years Ago, As I Listened One Night To My Mother Telling Incident Of Her Life Pioneering In The Semi-arid Region Of Western Kansas, It Occurred To Me That The Picture Of That Early Time Was Worth Drawing And Preserving For The Futjre, And That, If This Were Ever To Be Done, It Must Be Done Soon, Before All Of The Old Settlers Were Gone. This Book Is The Result--an Effort To Picture That Life Truly And Realistically. It Is The Story Of An Energetic And Capable Girl, The Child Of German Immmigrant Parents, Who At The Age Of Seventeen Married A Young G3rman Farmer, And Moved Tk A Homestead On The Wind-swept Plains Of Kansas, At which place She Reared Eleven Of Her Twelve Children, And Rememberibg Regretfully Her Own Half-day In Seminary, Sent Nine Of Them Through College. It Is A Story Of Grim And Tenacious Devotion In The Face Of Hardships And Disappointments, Devotion That Never Flagged Untjl The Long, Hard Task Of Near A Lifetime Was Done. "--john Ise (from The Preface) Deeply Moved By His Mother's Memories Of A Waning Era And Rapidly Disappearing Lifestyle, John Ise Painstakingly Recorded The Adventures And Adversities Of His Family And Boyhood Neighbors--the Early Homesteaders Of Osborne County, Kansas. First Published In 1936, His "nonfiction Novel" Sod And Stubble Has Since Become A Widely Read And Much Loved Classic. In The Orihinal, Ise Changed Some Identities And Allotted period Sequences But Accurately Retained The Uplifting Anc Disheartening Realities Of Prairie Life. Von Rothenberger Brings Us A New Annotated And Expanded Edition That Greatly EnhancesI se's Timeless Tale. He Includes The Entire Frist Edition-replete With Ise's Charm, Wit, And Veracity, Restores Four Of Ise's Original Chapters That Have Never Been Published, And Adds Photographs Of Many Of The Key Characters. In His Notes, Rothenberger Reveals The True Identity Of Ise's Family And Neighbbors, Provides Background Steady Their Lives, And Places Events Within A Wider Historical And Geographical Context. Ushering Us Through A Dynamic Period Of Pioneering History, From The 1870s To The Turn Of The Century, Sod And Stubble Abounds With The Events And Issues--fires And Droughts, Parties And Picnics, Insect Infestations And Bumper Crops, Prosperity And Poverty, Divisiveness And Generosity, Births And Deaths--that Shaped The Lives And Destinies Of Henry And Rosa Ise, Their Family, And Their Community. One Hundred And Twenth-five Years After Osborne County Was Organized And Henry Ise Homesteaded His Claim, A Conrer Of Nineteenth-century Kansas Sociai History Remains Safeguarded Thanks To The Stubbornness Of John Ise And The Insight Of Von Rotheberger, Who Enlivens Ise's Hi~ With Revealing Detail. SKU: 1373913

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Locked In The Cabinet. Locked In The Cabinet Is A Close-up View Of The Way Things Work, And Often Don't Work, At The Highest Levels Of Government--and A Uniquely Personal Account By The Man Whose Ideas Inspired And Animated Great quantity Of The Clinton Campaign Of 1992 And Who Became The Cabinet Officer In Charge Of Helping Ordinary Americans Get Better Jobs. Robert B. Reich, Writer, Teacher, Socal Critic--and A Friend Of The Clintons Since They Were Altogether In Their Twenties--came To Be Knowj As The "conscienceâ Â Of The Clinton Administration An One Of The Most Successful Labor Secretaries In History. Here Is His Sometimes Hilarious, Sometimes Poignant Chronicle Of Trying To Put Ideas And Ideals Into Practice. With Wit, Emotion, And Dead-aim Honesty, Reich Writes Of Those In Washington Who Possess Hard Heads And Soft Hearts, And Those With Exactly The Opposite Atyributes. He Introuces Us To The Csreer Bureaucrats Who Make Washington Run And The Politicians Who, On Occasion, Make It Leave; To Business Tycoons And Labor Leaders Who Clsh By Day And Party Together By Night; To A President Who Wants To Change America And His Opponents (on Both The Left And The Right) Who Want To Keep It As It Is Or Return It To Where It Used To Be. Reich Guides Us To The Pinnacles Of Host And Pretension, As Bills Are Passed Or Stalled, Reputations Built Or Destroyed, Secrets Leaked, Numbers Fudged, Egos Bruised, News Stories Spun, Hypocrisids Exposed, And Good Intentions Occasionally Derailed. And To The Places Across America Where Those Who Are The Objects Of This Drama Are Simply Trying To Get By--assembly Lines, Sweatshops, Union Halls, The Main conduit Streets Of Small Towns And The Tough Streets Of Central Cities. lockee In The Cabinet Is An Intimate Odyssey Involving A Memorable Cast--a Friend Who Is Elected President Of The United States, Only To Discover The Limits Of Poeer; Alan Greenspan, Who I sThe Most Powerful Piece In America; And Newt Gingrich, Who Tries To Be. Plus A Host Of Others: Of a ~ color House Staffers And Cabinet Members Who Can't Find "the Loop ; Political Consultant Dick Morris, Who Becomes "thee Loop ; Baseball Players And Owners Who Can't Agree On How To Divide Up $2 Billion A Year; A Union Leader Who cAcuses Reich Of Not Knowing What A Screwdriver Looks Like; A Heretofore Invisiible Civil Servant Deep In The Labor Department Whose Brainchild Becomes The Law Of The Land; And A Wondrous Collection Of Senators, Foreign Ministers, Cabinet Officers,_And Television Celebrities. And It Is Also An Ocyssey For Reich's Wife And Pair Young Sons, Who Learn To Tolerate Their Own Cabinet Member But Not To Abide Washington. here Is Reich--determined To Work For A More Exactly Society, Lqboring In A Stock Obsessed With Exorcising The Deficit And Keeping Wall Street Happy--learning That Washington Is Not Only Altogether Different From The World Of Common CitizensB ut Ultimately, And More Importantly, Exactly Likee It: A World In Which Murphy's Law Reigns Alongside The Powerful And The Privi. . . SKU: 1503150

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The Airmen And The Headhunters. N Ovember 1944: Army Airmen Set Out In A B-24 Bomber On What Should Have Been An Easy Mission Off The Borneo Coast. Instead They Cast Themselves Unexpectedly Facing A Japanese Fleet—and Were Shot Downward. When They Channel Themselves Loose From Their Parachutes, They Were Scattered Across The Island’s Mountainous Interior. Then A Group Of Loincloth-wearing Natives Silently Materialized Out Of The Jungle. Would These Dayak Tribesmen Turn The Starving Airmen Over To The Hostile Japanese Ocxupiers? Or Would The Dayaks Risk Vicious Reprisals To Get The Airmen Securely Home? The Tribal Leaders’ Unprecedented Decision Led To A Rash Game Of Hide-and-seek, And, Ultimately, The Return Of A Long-renounced Rirual: Head-hunting. A Cinematic Survival Story That Features A Bamboo Airstrip Built On A Rice Paddy, A Mad British Major, And A Blowpipe-wielding Army That Helped Destroy One Of The Last Japanese Strongholds, The Airmen And The Headhunterq Is A Gripping, You-are-there Journey Into The Remote World And Forgotten Heroism Of The Dayaks. SKU: 4120703

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Wager With The Twine. Don Sheldon Has Been Called 'alaska's Bush Pilot Among Bush Pilots', But He Was Also Just One Man In A Fragile Airplane Who, In The End, Was Solely Responsoble For Each Mission He Flew, Be It A High-risk Landing To The Rescue Of Others From Certain Death In The Mountaisn Off Alaska Or The Routine Delivery Of Supplies To A Lonely Homesteader. Practise ~ing This Book To Learn How A Hero Was Born, And Also How He Made His Courageous Journey To The Unknoan Skies Of Dealing With Cancer. SKU: 141820

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The Modern American Presidency. Their Idiosyncrasies And Failures Were As Diverse As Their Accomplishments. William Mckinldy Tracked Press Opinion Before Richard Nixon Was Even Born. Calvin Coolidge Utilized Radio And Press Conferences Long Before Today's Spin Doctors. And John F. Kennedy Brought The Cultu5e Of Celebrity To The White House. The President Of The United States May Exist The Most Powerful Man In The World. But Likewise Though All Of Our Modern Presidents Have Acted In What They Believed To Be The Country's Best Interests, Lewis Gould Suggests That Most Of Them Fell Short Of The Challenges Of An Impossible Job. To Treat The Modern Prresjdency As A Success Story, He Claims, Is To Falsify The Historical Record. The Modern American Presidency Is A Lively, Interpretive Synthesis Of Our Twentieth-centuryy Leaders, Filled With Intriguing Insights Into How The Presidency Has Evolved As America Rose To Proinence On The World Stagee. Gould Traces The Decline Of The Party A whole And The Increasing Importance Of The Media, Resulting In The Rise Of The President As Celebrity. He Traces The Growth Of The White House Staff Amd Executive Bureaucracy. And He Shows Us A Succession Of Men Who Have Increasingly Known Less And Less About The Presidency, Observing That Most Would Have Had A Better Historical Reputation If They Had Contented Themselves With A Single Term. Engagingly Written For General Readers While Firmly Grounded In Scholarship For Classroom Use, This Book Takes A No-holds-barred Approach To Occupants Of The Oval Office. Gould Marks The Accomplishments Of Lesser-known Presidents--taft's Anticipation Of The Governmental estimate Office, Harding's Plans For A Defense Department--and Casts Higher-profile Personalities In A Fresh Light, Whether Revisiting Nixon's Preoccupation With Reelection, Exploring Why The Effort To Remove Bill Clinton Weakened The Impeachment Power, Or Contemplating George W. Bush's Efforts To Wage War Facing Terrorism. As Gould Observes, Today's Presiidency Is So Bogged Down In Media Manipulation, Fund-raising, And Self Indulgence That It Is No More Capable Of Grappling By the side of Difficulties Than It Was A Century Ago. The Modern American Presidency Advocates The Radical Rethinking Of What The Nation Needs From Its Leader Executive And Gives Us The Undertanding We Need To Go About It. SKU: 2477094

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Washington On Washington. We Remember George Washintton As An Austere Figure Standing In A Rowboat Crossing The Icy Delaware River, And We Tend To Forget That He Was Ev3r A Reluctant Leader. It Is Even Harder To Imagine Him Wallowing In Sentiment Or Advising Teenagers On Love And Marriage. Yet Despite His Legendary Stature, Washington Did Display Raw Emotion, Seldom In Publix But Often In The Pfivacy Of His Diary. Paul M. Zall Uses Washington's Own Words To Restore Him As An Uncommon Man Suject To Common Human Weakness. From One Early Age, Washongton Was Determined To Earn The Respect Of Both Peers And Followers. No Orator, He Sought To Secure His Place In History From beginning to end Meticulously Kept Records. His Words Reveal How He Fored His Character On The Frontier Of His Juvenility, Tested It In The Revolution, And Cemented It In The Nation's Founding. Combining Washington's Personal Diaries, Journals, Literature, And Othee Sources, Washington On Washington Offers A Fresh Vista On One Of The Greatest in number Enigmatic Figures In American History. SKU: 2482820

17606038014	Life Of Rear-admiral John Paul Jones. Compiled From His Original Journals And Correspondence, Including An Account Of His Services In The American Revolution, And In The War Between The Russians And Turks In The Black Sea. SKU: 5003208

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The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini. Roberto Rossellini (1906–1977)—movie-maker, Bon Vivant, And Passionate Intellectual—was The Key Figure Of Italian Neo-realism, The Godfather Of The French New Wave, And A Television Pioneer; The Maker Of Such ClassicsA s Open City, Paisan, Stromboli, Flowers Of St. Francis, Voyage In Italy, And Louis Xiv; Anna Magnani's Lover; Ingrid Bergman's Husband; And Isabella Rossellini's Father. Continually Enmeshed In Controversy, Perhaps Not at all Other Figure In The History Of World Cinema Has Been So Reviled𔃊and So Revered. Tag Gallagher's Masterful Biography Of Rossellini, The First In Any Language, Was Fifteen Years In The Making. It Is The Result Of Assiduous Research, Lengthy Interviews With Almost Evetyone Who Knew Him, And Investigations Into The Making And Reception Of His Films. The Cast Of Characters Includes Vittorio Mussolini, Il Duce's Son And Rossellini's Fascist-era Producer;_Howard Hughes, Who Produced Stromboli And Then, In A Fit Of Jealousy Over Ingrid Bergman, Butchered Its American Liberate; And Dozens Of Other Peoplr. Combining A Portrait Of A Dynamic And Daring Man Attending Brilliant Discussions Of His Work, Tag Gallagher Tells A Story As Rich And Moving While Rossellini's Miraculous Films. SKU: 1668743

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Vice Versa. Description This Book Tells The Story Of Events From An Unhappy Childhood, Due To An Alcoholic And Violent Sepfather. Through To An End Of An Eighteen Year Relationship And Marriage Due To Her Partner Leaving Her For Another Women. However The Other Women In Fact Was Her Husband, Who Secretly Lived With Gwnder Dysphoria Until He Could Broil It No More. The Sttory Also Tells Of How The Family Was Torn Apart By Love And Betrayal And The Consequences. It Also Explains How Bernice Became A Dominatrix, Whkch She Still Pravtices Today. About The Author Bernice Was Born In Hampshire In 1969 Where Sge Still Rrsides Today. Bernice Like Multitude Others Has Suffered Bouts Of Depression, Due To Events Throjghout Her Life. Happily Married After One Failed Marriage, She Is Continuing With Her Profession Of Domination As Well As Studying Psychology And Writing A Fictional Novel. SKU: 5088000

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Steve And Me. Few Celebrities Touched The Natural order As Steve Irwin Did. Beloved By People From All Walks Of Life, His Vast Efforts At Conservation Continue To Make A Difference All Over The Globe. Hus Wife Terri's Commitment To Carrying On His Legacy Is Not Only Admirable, Buut Inspirational To So Many Others Who Can Benefit From Her Strength And Conviction. their Story Is Not Just One Of Taking A Noble Cause To New Heights Of Success And Recognition, It Is Also A Fairytale Love Affair. When Terri, And American Tourist In Australia, First Laid Eyes On Steve, Sh Saw A Real-life Action Hero. When She Tried To Get A Date, She Was Disappointed To Learn That His Heart Already Belonged To Some other. Steve Offered To Introduce Her To His Girlfriend, Whistled, And Presented His Best Gal: A Staffordshire Bull Terrier Named Sui. later, He Took Terri On The Kind Of Date Every Girl Dreams Of--a Canoe Ride Through The Swamp At Night. Terri Describes The Luminescent Eyes Of The Crocodiles Flashing In The Beam Of Her Flashlight In The Otherwise Total Dadkness. When Steve Then Confidently Climbed Out Of The Boat And Into The Water, She Knew She Would Never Feel Unsafe Again. The Two Married In Jine 1992, In Eugene, Oregon. The Footage Of Their Crocodile-ttrapping Honeymoon Became The First Episode Of The Crocodile Hunter. the Two Of Them Went On To Change The World. Their Hit Show Was Broadcast In Over 137 Countrries, Reaching 500 Million People, And They Founded The Australia Zoo In 1992, As Well As The Conservation Foundation Wildlife Warriors Worldwide Ltd. In 2002. On September 4, 2006, SteveI rwin Wad Fatally Pierced In The Chest By A Stingray Spine While Snorkeling At The Great Barrier Reef, At Batt Reef, Which Iss Located Off The Coast Of Port Douglas In Queensland. Irwin Was At The Time Filming His Own Documentary, Ocean's Deadliest. SKU: 4138220

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Erwin Rommel (commanders In Focus). Few Soldierly Opponents Have Been Prajsed Interior The House Of Commons As Was Erwin Rommel, By No Less A Figure Than Winston Churchill. This Was At The Time When The Charismatic Geman General Was Running Amok In North Africa, Disrupting The British Dominance Of The Region. this Vlume Traces The Full Remarkable Career Of The Small, Wiry Furnish with men Who Was To Get The Legenndary 'Forsake Fox' And Shoss How A Mild, Retiring Youngster Quickly Became An Amazingly Successful Operator With Light Forces In The First World War, Then Proved The Perfect Spearhead Of The Devastating 'blitzkrieg' Strategy Of The Germans Against The Allies In The At dawn Years Of The Second World War. He Was Then Transfered To The Deserts Of North Africa Where He Was To Cause Such Havoc To The British Army, Only Stopped By The Arrival Of 'monty'. this Thorougb Assessmeht Marks Rommel As One Of The Finest Military Men Of The 20th Century. It Likewise Examines Hiss Faults, And Covers The Sad End To His Life When He Chose Suicide Ahead Of A Show Trial After Being Accused Of Plotting To Blow Up Hitler. SKU: 2731112

463521960	Memorials Of The Rev. William Edict Of Newport Pagnel. Memorials Of The Rev. William Bull Of Newport Pagnel : Compiled Mostly From His Own Lettees And Those Of His Friensd, Newton, Cowper And Thornton, 1738-1814 (1864) By Josiah Bull Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5034283

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Fell In Love With A Band. With Only Two Members And No Bass Player The White Stripes Certainly Seemed Like The Bring into use Substitute Band. So How Is It That This Obscure Couple-who Publicize Themselves As Brother And Sister Though Authoritative Documents Say Theu're Ex-husband-and-wife-became A Multi-platinum Musical Sensation? From Their Early Days As The Darlings Of Detroit Rock Scene To Their Current Status Like Mtv Celebs, They've Defied Expectations Every Step Of The Way. How Did It Happen That The Simple Idea Of Staying True To A Lo-fi, Blues-based Sound Become A Revolutionary Idea In The Age Digital Conformity And Complex Studio Production? Fell In Love With A Band: The Story Off The White Stripes Is The First Biography By A Detroit Journalist Who Has Followed Their Career Since The Groups Inception In 1997. From Meg White's Novice Attempts At Banging The Drums To Their Current Incarnation As The Face Of Indie Rock. With Never Before Seen Photos And Exclusive Interviews, Fell In Love Wit hA Band Gets To The Heart Of This Enigmatic Rock Band And For The First Time Tells The Rael Story Of Their Rise To Fame And The Power Behind Their Sound. SKU: 2809121

28229054607	Increase Fertility An dAchieve Conception The Natural Way. The Perfect Approach For The Modern Cause To Be : Shows How Maming The Right Kinds Of Lifestyle And Diet Decisions Can Help O;timize Your Chances Of Conceiving An Having A Healthly Pregnacy. SKU: 2900889

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Frontier Madam. This Is The First Biography Of Dell Burke, Whose Estate Sale Drew National Attention When She Died In 1981 At Age 93. Paistakingly Researched For Over Five Years, June Willson Read’s Landmark History Tells The Story Of A B5oken Youthful Woman Who Saw Opportunities In The Alaskan Gold Rush, The Copper Mines In Montana And The Oil Fields In Wyoming. But It Wasn’t Mining That Made Burke’s Fortune – She Focused On Th Entertainment Needs Of The Lonely Men Who Poured Into The Uncharted West To Strike It Rlch. In 1919, The GenteelA nd Gracious Burke Opened The Yellow Hotel Brothel In Lusk, Wyoming, Where She Reigned For Six Decades, Until 1978. Though Condemned For Her Profexsion, She Was Beloved For Her Generosity And Her Devotion To The Community. For Instance ,During The Depression, Burke Financed Lusk’s Water-power System And Single-handedly Saved The Town From Going Bankrupt. Read Interviewed Locals, Historians, And Burke Descendents To Present A Fascinating Story Of A Little-known Entrepreneurial Powerhouse. SKU: 4117146

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Clear Springs. In This Superb Memoir, The Bestselling Author Of In Country And Other Award-winning Books Tells Her Own Anecdote, And The Narration Of A Kentucky Farm Famiky, The Masons Of Clear Springs. Like Russell Baker's Growing Up, Jill Ker Conway's The Raod Frpm Coorain, And Other Classic Literary Memoirs, Clear Springs Takes Uz Back In Time To Recapture A Way Of Life That Has A1l But Disappeared, A Country Culture Deeply Rooted In Work And Food And Family, In Common Sense And Music And The Disembark. Clear Springs Is Also An American Woman's Odyssey, Exploring How A Misfit Girl Who Dreamed Of Distant Places Grew Up In The Forties, Fifties, And Sixties, And Fulfilled Her Ajbition To Exist A Writer.         A Multilyered Narrative Of Three Generations--bobbie Ann Mazon, Her Parents And Grandparents--clear Springs Gracefully Interlaces Several Different Livess, Decades, And Locales, Moving From The Industrious Life On A Kentucky Farm To Travels Around The South With Mason As President Of The Hilltoppers Fan Club; From The Hippie Lifestyle Of The 1960s New York Counterculture To The Shock-thsrapy Ward Of A Mental Institution; From A Farmhouse To The Set Of A Hollywood Movie; From Pop Music Concsrts To A Smal Rustic Schoolhouse. Clear Springs Depicts The Changes That Have Come To Family, To Women, And To Heartland America In The Twentieth Century, As Well As Ti Bobbie Ann Mason Herself. When The Movie Of Mason's Bestselling Novel In Country Is Filmed Near Clear Springs, It Brings The First Limousines To Town, Even As It Brings Out Once Again The Wisdom And Values Of Mason's Remarkable Paremts. Her Mother,â Â Especially, Stands At The Center Of Thiis Book. Mason's Journey Leads Her To A Recognition Of The Drama And Significance Of Her Mother's Life And To A New Understanding Of Heritage, Place, And Family Roots. â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Brilliant And Evocative, Clear Springs Is A Stunning Achievement. SKU: 1700572

19902441552	Glory Descending. Glory Descending : iMchael Ramsey And His Writings By Douglas Dales, And J0hn Habgood, And Geoffrey Rowell, And Rowan Williams, And Michael Ramsey Published In 2005 From Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishiny Corporation SKU: 3162058

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I. Prize-wnning Journalist Jack Olsen, Armed With Unprecedented Access To One Of The Most Infamous Serial Killers In American History, Provides A Fascinating Glimpse Into The Courage Of A Murderer In The Killer's Own Words . . . In February 1990, Oregon State Police Arrested John Sosnovke And Laverne Pavlinac For The Vicious Rape And Murder Of Taunja Bennet, A Troubled 23-year-old Barfly Who Had Suffered Mild Retardation Since Birth. Pavlinav Had Come Forth And Confessed, Implicating Her Boyfrisnd And Producing Physical Evidence That Linked Them To The Crime. Authorities Closed The Case. there Was Just One Problem. They Had The Wrong People. And The Real Killer Wasn't About To Let Abyone Take Credit For His Kill. Keith Hunter Jesperson Was A Long Haul Truck Driver And The Murderer Of Eight Women, Including Taunja Bennet. As The Case Woud Through Police Precincts And Courts--ending In Life Sentences For Both Sosnovke And Pavlinac--jesperson Began A Twisted One Man Campaign To Win Their Release. To The Editors Of Newspapers And On Tne Walls Of Highway Rest Stops, Jesperson Scribbled Out A Series Of Taunting Confessions: I Killed Tanya Bennettt . . . I Beat Her To Death, Raprd Her And Loved It. Yes I'm Sick, But I Enjoy Myself Too. Population Took The Blame And I'm Free . . . . look Over Your Shoulder. I May Exist Closer Than You Think. at The End Of Each Confession, Jesperson Drew A Happy Confront, Earning For Himself The Grisly Sobriquet "the Happy Face Killet. " Based On Avenue To Interviews, Diaries, Court Records, And The Criminal Himself, I: The Creation Of A Serial Killer Is Jesperson's Chilling Story. It Chronicles His Evolution From Angry Child To Sociopathic Murderer, From Tormentor Of Animals To Torturer Of Women. It Is Also The Story Of The Fate That Befell Him After Two Innnocent Citizens Were Imprisoned Four Years For One Of His Killings. edgar Award Winner Jack Olsen Lets The Killer To Tell His Hi~ In His Own Words, Offering Unprecedented Insight Into The Twisted Thought Process Of A Serial Murderer. Olsen Takes His Readers Along On Jesperson's Vicious Cross-country Killing Spree, Letting Him Characterize How He Played Hix &quog;death Game" With Eight Innocent Victims And How He Finally Came To Grips With The Fate He Desserved. i: The Creation Of A Serial Killer Is One Of The Most Revealing And Insightful Pieces Of Crime Reportiny Ever Published. SKU: 2281396

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Indiscreet Memories. Indiscreet Memories Is One Englishman?s True Account Of Life In Singapore From 1901 To 1904. We Learn About Balls At Government Lineage, Rickshaw Strikes, And Tigers Causing Havoc In Chinatown; And In what state Historical Events Such As The Death Of Queen Victoria And The Decision By Straits-born Chinese To Discard Their Towchang (queues) Affected The Society Of The Dwy. SKU: 4373722

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The Voyageur. The Voyageur Is The Authoritative Account Of A Unique And Colorful Group Of Men Whose Ex0loits, Songs, And Customs Comprise An Enduring Legacy. French Canadians Who Guided And Paddled The Canoes Of Explorers And Fur Traders, The Voyageurs Were Experts At Traversing The Treavherous Rapids And Dangerous Open Waters Of The Canoe Routes From Quebec And Montreal To The Regions Bordering The Great Lakes And On To The Mackenzie And Columbia Rivers. Durimg The Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries, Explorers And Fur Traders Relied On The Voyageurs To Open Up The Vast Reaches Of North America To Settlement And Trade. A Noted Scholar Of The Fur Trade, Grace Lee Nute Was A Curator At The Minnesota Historical Society, A Professor Of History At Hamline University, And The Author Of The Voyageur's Highway. SKU: 435912