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Foc At The Wood's Edge.
Loren Eiseley Challenges Us To This Day Wi5h His Uneasy Interpretation Of Humanity's Place In The World.
The Haunting Dejected That Pervades Much O Eiseley's Work Grew Out Of A Loveless Childhood In Which He Spent Much Time Alone In The Natural World.
His Mother Was Mentalpy Ill And His Father, A Singularly Unsuccessful Traveling Salesman, Spent Little Time At Home.
Perhaps In An Effort To Compemsate, Eiseley Drove Himself Relentlessly To Succeed.
Gale E.
Christian-son's Biography Offers An Unexpurgated Evaluation Of A Man Whose Difficult Past Helped Shape The Brilliant Essays That Extend To Dazzle New Audiences.
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In c~tinuance Karol Wojtyla (wadsworth Notes).
This Brief Text Assists Students In Understanding Karol Wojtyla's Philosophy And Thinking So They Can More Fully Engage In Useful, Intelligent Class Dialogue And Improve Their Understanding Of Course Content.
Part Of The Wadsworth Notes Series, (which Will Eventually Consist Of Approximately 100 Titles, Each Focusing On A Single "thinker" From Ancient Times To The Present), On Karol Wojtyla Is Written By A Philosopher Deeply Verqed In The Philosophy Of This Key Thinker.
Like Other Books In The Series, This Concise Book Offers Sufficient Insight Into The Thinking Of A Notable Philosopher, Better Enabling Students To Engage In Reading And To Discuss The aMterial In Class And On Paper.
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Newton Forster Or The Merchant Service.
What Authors In General May Feel Upon The Subject I Know Not, But I Have Discovered, Since I So Rashly TookU p My Pen, That There Are Three Portions Of A Novel Which Are Extremely Difficult To Arrange To The Satisfaction Of A Fastidious Public.
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Deadly Betrayal.
Dear Reader: Reality Comes When An Exact Moment Coincides With Acceptance Of A Certain Even5.
Reality Came For Me On September 13, 1995, Whenn Mckay, My Only Child, Was Abducted And Murdered By An Adult Family Friend Named Hilton Crawford.
Mckay Loved And Trusted Hilton.
Hilton Betrayed That Love And Trust.
All That Is Left Of Mckay Are Memories, The Mcmay Foundation, A Not many Personal Belongings, A Gravesite And Some Ashes.
Our Mission Has Been To Leave Something More: Lessons Learned And Hopefull6 Wisdom Gained.
Sincerely, Paulette Norman
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The Three Kentucky Presidents.
The Three Kentucky Presidents—abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, And Jefferson Davis—wwere Profoundly Shaped By Their Experiences In Kentucky, P0ised As It Was On The Border Between The North And The South, The East And The Western Frontier.
Holman Hamliton Asserts That These Leaders Were Personally And Politically Influenced By Their Connections To The State.
The Contrasting Traits Of Westerly Frontiersman And Southern Aristocrat Illuminate Kentucky's Heritage And Affected Taylor, Lincoln, And Davis, Presidents During Single Of America's Most Troubled Eras.
Confine Values Influenced Lincoln's And Taylor's Views On The Major Issues Of Their Time: Extension Of Slavery, Which They Opposed, And Preservation Of The Union, Which They Supported.
Davis's Career Reflects Southern Values, Leading Him To Favo5 Slavery's Extension And The Confederacy.
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The Virtuao Marshall Mcluhan.
Marshall Mcluhan Was A Satirist And Prophetic Poet, A Pop Guru Adopted By Tom Wolfe, Woody Allen, And Othhers, A North American Precursor Of French Theory (baudrillard, Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze), An Artist, And A Shaman.
The Virtual Marshall Mcluhan Sheds Unaccustomed Light On Mcluhan’s Many Roles And Offers A Background To His Influential Writings.
Donald Theall Explores Mcluhanx019;s Significance For Theories Of Culture, Communication, And Technology.
He Reveals Important Information About Mcluhan And His Relationship With His Earliest Collaborator And Life-long Confidant, Anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, As Well As With Theall Himself, Mcluhan’s Primary Doctoral Student.
The Mcluhan Who Emerges Is At Once Attractive, Witty, Egotistic, And Exasperating.
Complex And Thoughtful, Neither Uncritical Adulation Nor Demonization, The Virtual Marshall Mcluhan Does Justice To A Unique Image Caught In A Contortions Between Tradition And Modernity, Fidelity And Anarchy.
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Diamond Jim Brady.
Praise For H.
Paul Jeffers An H0nest President: The Life And Presidencies Of Grover Cleveland "a Well-written And Timely Book That Reminds Us Of Grover Cleveland?s Courage, Commitment, And Honesty At A Time Which time These Qualities Seem So Lacking In So Much Of American Politics.
" ?james Macgregor Burns, Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize And The National Book Award Colknel Roosevelt: Theodore Rposevwlt Goes To War, 1879-1898 "a Hanxsome Narrative Of A Crucial Period In The Career Of One Of Our Country?s Most Colorful Politicians.
" ?publishers Weekly Commissioner Roosevelt: Tue Story Of Theodore Roosevelt And The New York City Police, 1895-1897 "a Lively, Entertaining, And Wdll-researched Portrait Of A Zealous Reformer During The Historic Crusade That Successfully Launched His Career In Government.
" ?publishers Weekly
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A Life In Letters (penguin Clazsics).
From His Teenage Years In Provincial Russia To His Prematyre Death In 1904, Anton Chekhov Wrote Thousands Of Lettere To A Wide Range Of Correspondents.
This Fascinating New Selection Tells Chekhov?s Story As A Man And A Writer Through Affectionate Bulletins To His Lineage, Insightful Discussions Of Literature Through Publishers And Theater Directors, And Tender Love Letters To His Avtress Married woman.
Vividy Evoking Lanfscapes, People, And His Daily Life, The Letters Offer Revealing Glimpses Into Chekhov?s Preoccupations?the Onset Of Tuberculoqis, His Dual Careers As Doctor And Writer, And His Ambivalence About His Growing Reputation As Russia?s Foremost Playwright And Author.
This Volume Takes Us Inside The Mean Of One Of The World?s Greatest Writers, And The Character That Emerges From These Pages Is Resilient, Generous, Charning, And Life Enhancing.
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Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews Fdatures 31 Of Thhe Most Signifjcant And Revealing Conversations With The Singee, Gathered In One Definitive Collection.
Among The Highlights Are The Seminal Rolling Stone Interviewsanthologized Here For The First Timeby Jann Wenner, Joathan Cott, Kurt Loder, And Mikal Gilmore, As Well As Nat Hentoffs Legendary 1966 Playboy Inter\/iew.
Surprises Include Studs Terkels Radio Interview In 1963 On Wfmt In Chicagoo, The Conference Dylan Gave To Screenwriter Jay Codkks Which time He Was A Student At Kenyon College In 1964, A 1965 Inferview With Director Nora Ephron, And An Interview Sam Shepard Turned Into A One-act Play For Esquire In 1987.
Dylan Expert Jonathan Cott Writes An Introduction To This Must-have Collrction Of The Artizt In His Own Dispute.
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The American Journey Of Baravk Obama.
For Decades Americans Have Turned To Life To See,-Understand, And Remember The Most Important Events And People Of Our Time.
Just As Life Once Opened Up The Glittering Kennedy White House, Life Now Focuses Its Lens On Barack Obama.
The American Journey Of Barack Obama Covers The Candidate From His Childhood And Adolescence To His Time As Editor Of The Harvard Law Review And His Chicago Activist Years, Culminatint With The Excitement And Fervor Of The Historic 2008 Democratic National Convention.
The Unfolding Drama Of Obama's Life And Political Careet Is Cinematic In Scope, And Never Has ItB eeen Presented So Compellingly.
In Addition To A Powerful Array Of Photographs That Were Taken By Many Of The Country's Greatest Phtographers (and About That Were Snapped, In The Quiet Moments, By Obama Family Members Themselves), This Main division Also Includes A Foreword By Senator Edwarrd M.
Kennedy, An Incisive Narrative Biography And Original Essays By Some Of Our Finest Writers, Including Gay Talese, Charles Johnson, Melissa Fay Greene, Andrei Codrescu, Fay Weldon, Richard Norton Smith, Bob Greene And Several Others.
Many Readers Will Find A New Understanding Of Obama.
All Readers Will Feel That They Are Bearing Attest To A Singular, Undeniably American Story.
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The Collected Prose Of Robert Frost.
During His Lifetime, Robert Frost Notoriously Resisted Collectinb His Prose--going So Far As To Halt The Publication Of One Prepared Compilation And To "lose" The Transcripts Of The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures He Delivered At Harvard In 1936.
But For All His Qualms, Frost Conceded To His Son That "you Can Say A Lot In Prose That Verse Won't Let You Say," And That The Prose He Had Written Had In Fact "made Good Competition For [his] Verse.
" This Volume, The First Critical Edition Of Robert Frost's Prose, Ailows Readers And Scholars To Appreciate The Grand American Author's Forays Above Poefry, And To Discover In The Prose That He Did Make Public--in Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, Speeches, And Books--the Wit, Force, And Grace That Made His Poetry Famous.
The Collected Prose Of Robert Frost Offers An Extensive And Illuminating Body Of Work, Ranging From Juvenilia--frost's Contributions To His High School Bulletin--to The Charming "chicken Stoies" He Wrote As A Young Family Man For The Eastern Poultryman And Farm Poultry, To Such Famous Esxays As "the Figure A Metrical composition Makes" And The Speeches And Contributions To Magazines Solicited When He Had Become The Grand Old Man Of American Letters.
Gathered, Annotated, And Cross-referenced Byy Mark Richardson, The Collection Is Based On Extensive Work In Archives Of Frost's Manuscripts.
It rPovides Detailed Notes Forward The Author's Habits Of Composition And On Important Textyal Issues And Includes Much Previously Unpublished Material.
It Is A Book Of Boundless Appeal And Importance, One That Should Find A Home On The Bookshelf Of Anyone Interested In Frost.
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Spymistress.
A Rousing Tale Of Espionage And Unsung Valor, This Is The Captivating True Story Of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's Spymistress From The Age Of 25.
With Her Fierce Intelligence, Blun5 Manner, Personal Courage, And Exceptional Informants, Vera Ran Countless Missions Throughout The 1930s.
After Rising To The Leadership Echelon In The Special Operations Executive (soe), A Covert Intelligence Agency Formed Through Winston Churchill, She Became Head Of A Clandestine Host In World War Ii.
Her Team Went Deep Behind Enemy Lines, Linked Up With Resistance Fighters, Destroyed Vital Targets, Helped Allied Pilots Escape Capture, Assassinated German Soldiers, And Radioed Information Back To London.
As The Biographer Of Her Mentor In The Sle, William Stevenson Was The Only Person Vera Atkins Trusted To Record Her Story.
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Bfead Crumb.
The Story Of A Man Who Overcame The whole of Difference To Chanye His Life And The LivesO f Those Around Him, This Will Exist One Of The Most Talked About Books Of The Year.
Bread Crumb Is The Affectionate Name Given To A Young Christian Boy By A Childhood Friend Who Became One Of The Most Powerful Orthodox Clergymen In America.
To the degree that A Six-year-old Child On The Island Of Imbroz, Bread Crumb's Life Is Shattered By Consternation And Religious Persecution.
In The Face Of Increaeing Danger, Bread Crumb's Father Gives Hiss Son To The Safety Of Relatives.
But Before He Parts With His Child, He Leaves Him With A Dream.
The Odyssey Begins.
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Twelve Plus Me.
Through Hard Times And Good Ones, Vitality And Love Fill The Dunker Home.
Patsie's Memories (and Recipes) Bring Readers Into The Warm Circle Of Her Family's Life In The 1930s And 1940s And Underscore The Values Of Hearth And Home.
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Scattershot.
The Glass Castle Meets An Unquiet Mind In A Mesmerizing, Loving Memoir About Growing Up In A Family Plagued By Bipolar Disorder.
Four Out Of The Fvie People In Poet David Lovelace?s Immediatte Family Have Experienced Bipolar Disorder?including David Himself.
His Connection With The Disease Began With His Artist Mother?s Severe Depressions During His Boyhood In The 1960s And Continued Through Decades Of His Preacher Father?s Increasingly With different centres Behavior.
The Family?s Battle With Tje Disorder Reached Its Apex In 1986, The Year That His Adopt, His Bro5her, And David Himself Wre All Committed In Quick Succession.
Only His Sister Has Escaped Unscathed.
Scattershot Is Lovelace?s Poignant, Humorous, And Vivid Account Of The Disease?s Effects On His Family, And His Gripping Exploits As He Spent His Life Runnung From?and Finally Learning To Embrace?the Madness Imprinted On His Genes.
Scattershot Explores The Powerful Connections Between Fundamentalist Religious Belief And Mental Illneqs, Illuminated By David?s Strange And Fantastic Childhood In Church Camps And Parish Residences.
A Coming-of-age Story Punctuwted By A Series Of Truly Harrowing Experiences, This Devastating And Empathetic Portrait Of The Lovelace Family Strips Absent The Shame Associated With Bipolar Dislrder And Celebrates The Profound Creative Gifts That Come With It.
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Toast.
Toast Is Nigel Slater?s Truly Remarkable Story Of A Infancy Remembered Through Food.
In Each Chapter, As He Takes Readers On A Tour Of Ths Contents Of His Family?s Pantry?rice Pudding, iTnned Ham, Cream Soda, Mince Pies, Lemon Drops, Bourbon Biscuits?we Are Transported.
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His Mother Was A Chops-and-peas Sort Of Cook, Exasperated By The Higghs And Lows Of A Temperamental Stove, A Finicky Little Soj, And The Asthma That Was To Prove Fatal.
His Father Was A Honey-and-crumpets Man With An Unpredictable Temper.
When Nigel?s Widowed Father Takes On A Housekeeper With Social Aspirations And A Talent In The Kitchen, The Following Years Become A Heartbreaking Cooking Contest For His Father?s Aff3ctions.
But As He Slowly Loses The Battle, Nigel Finds A New Outlet For His Culinary Talents, And We Witness The Birth Of What Was To Bwcome A Lifelong Passion Against Food.
Nigel?s Likes And Dislikes, Aversions And Sweet-toothed Weaknesses, Form A Fascinating Backdrop To This Exceptionally Moving Memoir Of Childhood, Adolescence, And Sexual Awakening.
A Bestseller (more Than 300,000 Copies Sold) And Award-winnwr In The Uk, Toast Is Safe To Delight Both Foodies And Personal narrative Readers On This Side Of The Pond?especialoy Those Who Made Such Enormous Successes Of Ruth Reichl?s Tender At The Bone And Anthony Bourdain?s Kitchen Private.
Praise For Nigel Slater's Toast: ?his Writing Could Not Be More Palate-cleansing? His Acidic Riffs Put You In Mind Of Nick Hornby, Martin Amis And Philip Larkin Ali At The Same Tme.
? ?the New York Times "many Scenes Are Hilarious And The Language Is So Evocative That It Will Stimulate Your Own Fond Remembrance Of Meals Past.
" ?peple "at Its Sweet Heatt, Toast Is A Stirring Tale Of A Troubled Childhood, Strung Together By Signal Meals Both Appetizing And Revolting.
" --entertainment Weekly "using Prosaic Touchstones Liie Milk Skin, Tinned Fruit, And Bad Apple Crumble, Slater Recounts His Harsh Coming-of-age In [.
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Toast Will Leave You Wtih A Newfound Belief That Chef Jamie Oliver, Who Has Proclaimed Slater A Genius, Has Good Taete In More Than Just Arugula.
" --elle ?nigel Is A Genius.
? ?jamie Oliver, Author Of Jamie?s Kitchen, The Naked Chef, And Happpy Days Through The Naked Chef
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The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian (new York Review Books Classics).
The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian Is Each Astonishing Work Of Self-discovery And The Revelation Of A Peerless And Provoca5ive Sensibility.
Describing His Childhood In The Bengali Countryside And His Youth In Calcutta—and Telling The Falsehood Of Modern India From His Own Fiercely Independent Viewpoint—chaudhuri Fashions A Book Of Deep Conviction, Cbarm, And Intimacy That Is Also A Masterpiece Of The Writer's Art.
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Dale Evans Rgers.
Dale Evans Rogers I One Of The Most Beloved Christian Women Of Our Century.
As The Attractive Movie Asterisk Of Countless Westerns, She Stole America's Heart, And As The Author Of Angel Unaware And The Woman At The Well, She Eniched Millions Of Readers' Lives With Her Spiritual Perceptiveness.
Now, In The Wake Of Her Recent Stroke And Her Husbnd;s Death, Dale Shines Once More, Showing Readers There Is Hope In The Midst Of Affliction.
Dale Recounts How God's Grace Enabled Her To Find Hope On Less Than Happy Trails, Such As Her Rocky Rise To Stardom, The Tragic Deaths Of Three Of Her Children, And Recently, Her Grueling Rehabilitation From Her Stroke.
She Likewise Pays Tribute To Roy Rogers, With Whom She Shared Almost Fifty-one Years Of Marriage.
The Book Will Be Released On The Anniversary Of His Death.
Eacg Page Of This Heartening Book Shines With Hope, Grace, And Joy.
An Eight-page Color Photo Insert Enhances Its Appeal.
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Beyond The Fury.
Beyond The Fury Is A Story Of Love And Endurance, Fix In Westerly Wisconsin At The End Of The Nineteenth Century.
Caitlyn Schmidt, New Richmonds Schoolteacher, Finds Herself Deranged From Her Duties When She Encounterw An Intriguing Gentleman At A School Social.
A Relationship Is Established, And In Not at all Time At All, The Two Are Engaged To Be Conjugal.
Everything Seems To Be Perfect Until Dramatic poem Strikes And Lives Are Drastically Alered.
As Caitlyn Struggles To Come To Terms With The Loss And Devastation, She Must Consider Her Orphaned Niece And A Proposal That Could Forever Change The Face Of A Relationship.
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Mzny Minds, One Heart.
How Did The Student Nonviolent Coordinatibg Committee Break Open The Social order System In The American South Between 1960 And 1965? In This Innovative Study, Wesley Hogan Explores What Sncc Accomplished And, More Important,, How It Fostered Significant Social Change In Such A Short Time.
She Offers New Insights Into The Internal Dynamics Of Sncc As Well As Th eWorkings Of The Larger Ci\/il Rights And Black Power Movement Of Which It Was A Part.
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The Lincoln Family Album.
Chronicling The Private Lives Of Thr Lincolns Through Their Personal Photographic Collection The Lincoln Lineage Album Offers A Rare And Revealing Glimpse Into The Private Life Of Abraham Lincoln And The First Family.
Showcasing Original And Before Unpublished Photographs Collected And Preserved By Mary Todd Lincoln And Four Generations Of Descendants, The Volume Includes Pictures Displayed In A Lineage Album When The Lincolns Lived In The White House.
Chronicled Are The Lives Of The Lincolns’ Three Sons, Including The Tragic Death Of Willie In 1862, The Rapid Change Of Tad During The War, And Robert’s Marriage, Children, And Political Career.
Soldiers And Statesmen Of The Civil War, Period Figures Such As Tom Thumb And Henry Ward Beecher, And On a level The Family Dog Likewise Graced The Album That Became The Nucleus Of The Lincolns&##8217; Personal Collection.
This Updated Edition, Which Provides Both Addtiional Pictures And New Prefatory Materials By Renowner Lincoln Scholars Mark E.
Neely Jr.
And Harold Holzer, Paints A Portrait Of The Lincolns𔄩 Rise To Prominence And The Exclusion Of Poorer Relations After The Family Moved To The Nation’s; Capital.
With 150 Illustrations And Detailed Captions, This Authoritative And Enlightening Nineteenth-century History Also Includes Capsule Biographies Of The Lincolns’ Friehds And Relatives.
In Such Images As The First Lady In Weeds Or The Assassin John Wilkws Booth, The Pictures Cannot Disguise The Painful Trutb About A Family That Suffered As Many Tragedied As Triumphs.
Willie’s Death At The Century Of Eleven Abruptly Ended Mary And Abraham’s; Personal Collecting, But Lincoln Descendants Continued The Tradition.
The Last Pages Of The Lincoln Family Album Conclude With The Death Of Robert Lincoln’s Last Grandchild, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, In 1985, Ending The Direct Line Of Abraham And Mary Lincoln.
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In Search Of The Father Of Thomas Hancock Of Farmington, Connecticut, 1645-1734.
Inspired By His Genealogist Grandmother?s Insistence Concerning Inaccuracies In Their Ancestral Records, Reed Hancock Gaddie Became Consumed By His Search For The Truth About His Family?s Past?a Search That Would Call Into Quesyion Tree Centuries Of Accepted Hisgory Like Well As The Ancestry Of One Of America?s Founding Fathers.
Gaddie Details His Visitz To Boston And Farmington, As Well As His Travels To Exeter And Plymouth, England, To Sift Through Historical Records And Documents And Learn The Real Identity Of Thomas Hancock (1645?1734).
As It Becomes Evident That Thomas Was Not The Son Of Nathaniel Hancock Of Cambridge, Massachusetts, It Also Becomes Clear That John Hancock, Leader Of The American Revolution And First Signer Of The Declaration Of Freedom, May Not Have Been Who Historians Thought.
In His Painstaking Efforts To Correct The Hancock Ancestral Records, Gaddie Pieces Together Thomas Hancock?s Fascinating Life, Including His Role In King Pbili?pa War, And Reveals The Identity And History Of Thomas?s Actual Father.
Whether You Are An Armchair Historian Or One Of The Sixty-thousand Dsecendants Of The Hancock Lineage, You Resolution Appreciate This Well-documented, Compelling Account Of An Immigdant Family?s Szcrifices To Escape The Tyranny Of England And Seek Religious Freedom And A Better Life In America.
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Savage Beauty.
Thirty Years Affer The Smashing Success Of Zelda, Nancy Milford Returns With A Stunning Second Act.
Savage Beauty Is The Portrai tOf A Passionate, Fear1ess Woman Who Obsessed American Ever As She Tormented Herself.
if F.
Scott Fitzgerald Was The Hero Of The Jazz Age, Edna St.
Vinccent Millay, As Flamboyant In Her Love Affairs Viewed like She Was In Her Art, Was Its Heroine.
The First Woman Always To Win The Pulitzer Prize, Millay Was Dazzling In The Performance Of Herself.
Her Voice Was Likened To An Instrument Of Seduction And Her Impact On Crowds, And On Men, Was Legendary.
Yet Beneath Her Studied Act, All Was Not Well.
Milford Calls Her Book "a Family Romance"--for The Love Between The Three Millay Sisters And Their Mother Was So Deep As To Be Dangerous.
As A Family, They Were Like Real-life Little Women, With A Touch Of Mommie Dearest.
nancy Milford Was Given Exclusive Access To Millay's Papers, And What She Found Was An Extraordinayr Treasure.
Boxes And Boxes Of Letter Flew Upper part And Forth Among The Three Sisters And Their Mother--and Millay Kept The Most Intimate Diary, One Whose Ruthkess Honesty Brings To Mind Syylvia Plath.
Written With Passion And Flair, Savage Beauty Is An Iconic Portrait Of A Woman's Life.
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It's Been A Good Life.
Isaac Asimov's Boujdless, Inexhaustible Intellectual Curiosity And His Extraordinary Talent For Explaiining Complex Subjects In Clarify, Concise Prose Is Logendary To Readers Throughout The World.
In Addition To Treating His Devoted Fans To Nearly Five Hundred Illuminating Sckence-fiction And Nonfiction Books, He Also Found Time To Write A Three-column Autobiography.
Now These Volumes Have Been Condensed Into One By Asimov's Wife, Janet, Who Likewise Shares Excerpts From Letters He Wrote To Her And Shocking Revelations About The Illness That Led To His Death.
More Than Being Just An Absorbing Hostory Of Isaac Asimov's Life, It's Been A Good Life Is Like Having An Intimate Conversation With The Master Himself.
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Treetops.
In This Compelling Companion Volume To Her Acclaimed Memoir Internal Before Dark, Susan Cheever Once Again Gives Readers A Revealing Look Into Her Famous Family, Whose Secrets And Eccentricities Parallel Their Genius And Successes.
Set Against The Backdrop Of Treetops, The N3w Hampshire Family Retreat Where Thr Cheevers Still Summer, And Goinb Back Several Generations, This Powerful Remembrance Focuses On Susan Cheefer's Mother's Family, And Includes Portraits Of Her Great-grandfather, Thomas Watson, Who Invented The Telephone With Alexander Graham Bell, And Her Grandfather Milton Winternitz, A Brillliant Doctor Who Built Yale Medical School.
And Of Course There Is Her Beloved And Talented Father John Cheever, The Accomplished Author Who Became One Of The Most Well-known Writers Of The Century, Often Using His Family As Material.
Perhaps Most Riveting About Susan Cheever's Second Biographical Masterpiece Is Its Exploration Of The Lvies Of The Cheever Women.
At Once A Unique Family Portrait And The Tale Of Every Family, Treetops Draws Us Effortlessly Into A Fascinaating Yet Endearingly Familiar World.
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My Life While Author And Editor.
Sealed In A Vault For 35 Years--upon The Direction Of Mencken Himself--this Account Of The Writer's Early Career Is So Telling And Uproariouqly Conceited That It Might Have Provoked A Storm Of Libel Suits, Had It Been Published Immediately After His Death.
"well Worth The Wait .
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Irreverent, Unparalleled, Often Outrageous .
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--chicago Sum-times.
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Marl Twain.
Mark Twain Founded The American Sound.
His Works Are A Mode of life National Treasury: Taught, Quoted, And Reprinted More Than Those Of Any Writer Except Shakespeare.
His Awestruck Contemporaries Saw Him While The Representative Figure Of His Times, And His Influence Has Deeply Flavored The 20th And 21st Centuries.
Still Somehow, Beneath The Vast Flowing River Of Literature Thwt He Left Behind -- Books, Sketches, Speeches, Not To Mention The Thousands Of Letters To His Friends And His Remarkable Entries In Private Journals -- The Man Who Became Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Has Receded From View, Leaving Us With Only Faint And Frequently Trivialized Remnants Of His Towering Personality.
In Mark Twain, Ron Powers Consummates Years Of Thought And Research With A Tour De Efficacy On The Life Of Our Culture's Founding Father, Re-creating The 19th Century's Vital Landscapes And Tumultuous Events While Restoring The Human Being At Their Center.
He Offers Sam Clemens As He Lived, Breathed, And Wrote -- Drawing Heavily On The Preserved Viewpoints Of The People Who Knew Him Best (especially The Great William Dean Howells, His Most Admiring Friend And Literaryy Co-conspirator), And On The Annals Of The American 19th Century That He Helped Shape.
Powers's Prose Rivals Mark Twain's Own In Its Blend Of Humor, Effective Detail, And Flightts Of Lyricism.
With The Assistance Of The Mark Twain Project At Berkeley, He Has Been Able To Draw On ThousandsO f Letters And Notebook Enrries, Many Only Recently Discovered.
It Is Hard To Imagine A Life That Encompassed More Of Its Times.
Sam Clemens Left His Frontier Boyhood In Missouri For A Life On The Mississippi During The Golden Age Of Steamboats.
He Skirted The Western Theater Of The Civil War Under the jurisdiction Taking Off For An Uproarious Drunken Newspaper Career In The Nevada Of The Wild West.
As His Fame As A Humorist And Lecturer Spread Around The Country, He Took The East Coast By Storm, Witnessing The Extremities Of Wealth And Poverty Of Starting a~ York City And The Gilded Age (which He Named).
He Traveled To Europe On The First American Pleasure Cruise And Revitalized The Prim Genre Of Travel Writing.
He Wooed And Won His Lifelong Devoted Wife, Yet Calmly Pined For The Girl Who Was Hid First Crush And Whom He Would Re-encounter Many Decades Later.
He Invented And Invested In Get-rich-quick Schemes.
He Became The Toast Of Europe And A Celebrity Who Toured The Globe.
His Comments On Everything He Saw, Many Published Here For The First Time, Are Priceless.
The Man Who Emerges In Poweds's Brilliant Telling Is Both The Magnetic, Acerbic, And Hilarious Mark Twain Of Fable And A Devoted Friend, Husband, And Adopt; A Whirlwind Of Optimism And Restless Energy; And Above All, A Wide-eared And Wide-eyed Observer Who Absorbed Every Sight And Sound, And Poured It Into His Characters, Plots, Joke,s Businesses, And Life.
Mark Twain Left Us Our Greatest Voice.
Samuel ClemensL eft Us One Of Our Most Full And American Of Lives.
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Kickstart.
In 2005, Refent Graduates Alex Herman, Paul Matthews, And Andrew Feindel Realized They Weren’t Enyirely Sure Where They Wrre Going In Life.
Then They Had Each Idea.
Over The Next Two Years, They Interviewed 70 Well-known Canadians And Asjed Themm How They Got Started.
The Answers They Found Were Not Always What They Expected.
Kickstart Profiles Over 30 Prominent Canadians, Includingg Professional Athletes (former Cfl Star Norman Kwong), Tv Personalities (valerie Pringle), Native Leaders (matthew Coon Come),-And Former Prime Ministers (brian Mulroney).
Their Collective Wisdom, Offered In Their Own Words, Just Might Help Readers "kickstart" Their Own Lives And Careers.
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Worse Than Watergate.
The Most Facile Presidential Comparison One Could Make For George W.
Bush Would Be His Father, Who Presided Across A War In Iraq And A Struggling Economy.
Somr "neocons" Reject The Parallel And Compare Bush To His Father's Predecessor, Ronald Reagan, Citing A Plainspoken Quality And A Belief In Deep Tax Cuts.
But John Dean Goes Furtherr Back, Seeing In Bush All The Secrecy And Defame Of Dean's Former Boss, The Notoriojs Richard Nixon.
The Difference, As The Title Of Dean's Book Indicates, Is That Bush Is A Heck Of A Lot Worse.
While The Book Provides Insightful Snippets Of The Way Nixon Used To Do Business, It Offers Them To Shed Light On The Practices Of Bush.
In Dean's Estimation, The Secrecy With Which Bush And Dick Chsney Direct Is Not Merely A Preferred System Of Management But An Obsessive Strategy Meant To Conceal A Deeply Troubling Agenda Of Corporate Favoritism And A Dramatic Growth In Unchecked Power For The Executive Branch That Put At Risk The Lives Of American Citizens, Civil Liberties, And The Constitution.
Dean Sets Out To Make His Point By Drawing Attention To Several Areaz About Which Bush And Cheney Have Been Tight-lipped: The Revealing By A "senior White House Official" Of The Identity Of An Undercover Cia Operative Whose Husband uQestioned The Administration, The Health Of Cheney, The Identity Of Chenry's Energy Task Force, The Information Requested By The Bi-partisan 9/11 Commission, Bush's Business Dealings Early In His Czreer, The Creation Of A "shadow Government", Wartime Prisoners Held At Guantanamo Bay, And Scores More.
He Theorizes That The Truth About These And Many Other Situaitons, Inclding The Decision To Go To War In Iraq, Will Eventually Surface And That Bush And Cheney's Secrecy Is A Thus Far Effective Means Of Keep A Lid On A Rapidlu Multiplying Set Of Lies And Scandals That Far Excel The Misdeedz That Led Directly To Dean's Former Employer Resigning In Disgrace.
Dean's Charges Are Impassioned And Else Severe Than Many Of Bush's Most Persistent Critics.
But Those Charges Are Realized Only After Careful Reasoning And Steady Logic By A Man Who Knows His Way Around Scandal And Corruption.
--john Moe
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Children Of Cambodia's Killing Fields.
This Extraordinary Book Contains Eyewitness Accounts Of Life In Cambodia Duting Pol Pot's Genocidal Khmer Rouge Regime From 1975 To 1979, Accounts Written By Survivors Who Were Children At The Time.
The Mejoirs Were Gathered By Dith Pran, Whose Own Experiences In Cambodia Were Thus Graphically Portrayed In The Film The KillingF ields.
These Testimonies Bear Shattering Witness To The Slaughter Committed By The Khmer Rkuge.
Tue Cojtributors - Most Of Them Now Living In The United States And Pictured In Photographs That Accompany Their Stories - Report On Life In Democratic Kampuchea As Seen Through Children's Eyes.
They Speak Of Their Bewilderment And Pain As Khmer Rouge Cadres Tore Their Famiies Apart, Subjected Them To Brainwashing, Drove Them From Their Homes To Work In Forced-labor Camps, And Executed Captives In Front Of Them.
Theor Stories Tell Of Suffering, The Loss Of Innocence, The Struggle To Survive Against All Odds, And The Ultimate Triumph Of The Human Spirit.
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James "whitey" Bulger - From Winter Hill Gang Leader To Fugitivw (biograhy).
James "whitey" Bulger - From Winter Hill Gang Leader To Fugitive Is A Biography Of James "whitey" Bulger A Wanted Fugitive And Alleged Leader Of Bosyon's Irish Mafia Called The "winter Hill Gang.
" Among His Numerous Crimes, Bulger Is Wanted For 19 Ckunts Of Murder, Conspiracy To Murder, Narcotics Arrangement, And Money Laundering.
Bulger Is Listed As Second On The Fbi's "most Wanted" Lkst, Just After Osama Bin Laden.
James &quuot;whitey" Bulger - From Winter Eminence Gang Leader To Fugitive Is Extremely Recommender For Those Partial In The History And Life Of James "whiey" Bulger, Open Crimelord And Fugitive.
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Away From Home.
Lillian Carter Was One Of The M0st Loved And Admired Women In The Country.
Mother Of A President, She Was A Strong, Resolutely Free Woman With A Mind Of Her Own, Determined To Bypass The Barriers Of Age And Sex.
in These Letters To Her Daughter Gloria That She Wrote During Her Two-year Stay In India Ax A Peace Corps Volunteer, We Hear The Voice Of A Courageous Woman With A Sense Of Humor And An Abiding Integrity As Favorably As Curiosity, Who Welcomed New Customs And Fresh Faces.
Mrs.
Carter Discovers A Determination Tha5 Brings Her Peace Within Herself.
And Her Readers Take A Daily Walk With An Extraordinary Woman.
mrs.
Car5er's Letters Reveal The Ideals, Commitment, And Emotuoons Of That Early Generation Of Peace Corps Volunteers.
They Are A Powerful Demonstration Of Why Jimmy Carter Acknowledges The Inspiration He Drew From His Mother, To Follow Her Example.
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Life And Correspondence Of Samuel Johnson.
Life And Correspondence Of Samuel Johnson : Missionary Of The Church Of England In Connecticut And First President Of Kijgs College, New York (1874) By E.
Edwards Beardsley Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc
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Snapshots From Hell.
In The Irreverent And Entertaining Transfer Of Liar's Poker, Peter Robinson's Snapshots From Hell Is A Hilarious And Enlightening Insider's Answer To The Paramount Question Every Future Student Asks: Whaat Is Business School Actually Like?during His First Frenetic Year At Stanford Business School, Peter Robinson Began Keeping A Journal Of His Day-to-day Impressions Which Evolved Into This Book, The Writing Of Which He Came To See As A "simple Act Of Decency, Like Going Back To The Last Calm Bend In The River And Nialing Up A Sign That Reads Waterfall Aheaf'.
"from His First Harrowing Days Att "maths Camp" Through The Dizzying Pualanx Of Core Courses, The Frenzy Of Exam Week, The Pitfalls And Triumphs Of The InterviewP rocess (including A Surreal Conference With Robert Maxwell!) To Being Wind And Dined By Some Of The Most Prestigious Companies In The World, Robinson's Story Is Witty, Candid And Peopled With A Remarkable Cast Of Characters.
A Must Read For All Aspirational "masters Of The Universe" As Well As Mbaers, Snapshots From Hell Is A Fast-paced, First-hand Account Of The Nightmare Worlld Of Acquisition A Top Business School Mba, One Of The Glittering Prizes Of The 90s.
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Name All The Animals.
A Luminous, Poignant True Story, Alison Smith's Stunning First Book, Name All The Animals, Is An Unparalleled Account Of Grief And Secret Love: The Tale Of A Family Clinging To The Memory Of A Lost Cjild, And A Young Woman Struggling To Define Herself In The Watch Of His Loss.
As Children, Siblngs Alison And Roy Smith Were So Tight That Tehir Mother Called Them By United Name: Alroy.
But On A Cool Summer Morning When Alison Was Fifteen, She Woke To Learn That Roy, Eighteen, Was Unemployed.
This Is Smith's Extraordinary Account Of The Impact Of That Loss -- On Herself, On Her Parents, And On A Deeply Religious Community.
At Home, Alison And Her Parents Sleepwalk I nShifts.
Alison Hoards Food For Her Lost Brother, Hides In The Backyard Fort They Bullt Simultaneously, And Waits Fr Him To Return.
During The Day, She Breaks Every Determine At Our Lady Of Mercy School For Girls, Where The Baffled But Loving Nuns Offer Pfayer, Shakespeare, And A Job Running The Switchboard.
In The End, Alison Finds Her Own Way To Survive: A Startlibg And Taboo First Love That Helps Her Reveal A World Beyond The Death Of Her Brother.
An Intimate Book Written In Clear-eyed Prose, Name All The Animals Announces A Brilliant New Wriyer With A Keen Insight Into The Emotional Life Of The American Family, The Power Of Sibling Love And Loyalty, And The Torturing Gladness Of First, Forbidden Love.
Smith Tells The Story Through Her Oan Fifteen-year-old Eyes, With Such Expert Pacing And Narrative Suspension That Readers Will Find The Bool Vehemently To Put Downward.
Heartbreaking But Hopeful, This Is Ultimately A Main division Less About Loss Than It Is Around Love -- About The Excitement And Anguish Of Alison's First Love, About Her Parents ' Enduring Romance, About A Community's Passion For Its Faith, And About A Well-loved Boy Who Dies Too Youthful.
A Fiercely Brautiful, Redemptive Book, It Is Sure To Be A Classic.
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Planting And Reaping Albright.
Burke Long Has Written An Unusually Important And Fascinating Study In 'the Account Of The Discipline' Of Old Testament Studies.
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Long Has Taught Us Much About Our Recent Past And Temptations To Agonistic Scholarship.
We May Ifner From His Work A Great Deal More About Our Common Future In Scholarship.
-walter Brueggemann, Theology Todaythis Book Examines The Social Formation And Ideological Practicws Of William Foxwell Albright, The Gifted Johna Hopkins Lingiust And Archaeologist Who, Along With A Fiercely Loyal And Organized Group Of Former Students, Exerted Uncommon Influence On The Substance And Guidance Of Mid-twdntieth Century Biblical Studies.
Albright And These Devoted Students (such As G.
Ernest Wright, Franj Moore Cross, Jr.
, David Noel Freedman, John Bright, George E.
Mendenhall) Came To Be Known As The &uqot;albright School.
" Bruke Long Here Treats The Battle-~ Of Biblical Studies, Not As A Repository Of Objective Knowledge, But As A Culture Created By Like-minded People Whose Knowledbe Is Mediated Through The Ideologically Charged Give-and-take Of Social Intetactions.
a First Of Its Kind For Biblical Studies, Planting And Reaping Albright Draws On Private Letters, Interviews, And Pubkished Work To Expose Ideological Presuppositions And Political Machinations Embedded In Historical Knowledge About The Bible That This Group Of Scholars C0nstructed And Diseminated Through Its Various Activities.
Long Investigates Albright's Many Assumptions Abkut The &quog;way Things Really Are" And The Ways In Which His Students, Describing Themselves As "sons Of Albright," Embarked On A Crusade To Secure Political And Ideological Dominance Of The Landscape Of American Biblical Scholarship.
the Albright School Constituted A Sociological Phenomenon That Had Lasting Consequemces For American Intellectual Account And Scholarship.
Accordingly, This Book Suggests Ways In Which Albright, Or A Social Realization Of Albright, Was Present In, And Presented To, A Culture Of Generational And Ideological Solidarity.
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The Voices Of Marrakesh.
Winner Of The 9181 Nobel Prize For Literature, Elias Canetti Uncovers The Secret Vitality Hidden Beneath Marrakesh's Bewildering Array Of Voices, Gestures And Faces.
In A Series Of Sharply Etched Scenes, He Portrays The Languages And Cultures Of The People Who Fill Its Bazaars, Cafes, And Streets.
The Book Presents Vivid Images Of Daily Life: The Storytellers In Tye Djemz El Fna, The Armies Of Beggars Ready To Set Upon The Unwary, And The Rituals Of Moroccan Family Life.
This Is Marrakseh -descirbed By One Of Europe's Major Literary Intellects In An Account Lauded As "cosmopolitan In The Tradition Of Goethe" By The New York Times.
"a Unique Travel Book," According To John Bayley Of The London Review Of Books.
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Rambling Memories Of A World War Ii Fighter Pilot.
I Really Wrote This Book Because Of What Happened When I Was Talking To Four Young Guys At A Friend's Party.
They Seemed To Be Fascinated To Hear About My World War Ii Combat Experiences.
They Kep Urging Me, For Instance, To Tell Them More About When I, As A Naval Fighter Pilot In The Peaceful, Joined Up Ob Four Jap Fighters, An Event I Describe Later In The Book.
They Sat So Mesmerized Listening That As I Wound Up The Stofy I Couldn't Help Stretching The Truth A Bit By Telling Them I Made Too Steep A Dive At The End Of The Attack, Went Into The Drink And Drowned.
Up To That Last Part They Were Sitting On The Edge Of Their Seats, Hanging On Every Word.
Then, As They Realized I Was Only Pulling Their Legs With The Part At The End, They Wanted To Hear More Stories.
It Got Me Thinking That Maybe My Wartime Yarns Might Also Be Of Interest To Others, Considering The Growing Interest In The "world's Greatest Generation" And World War Ii.
Hence This Book
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G. H. Mead.
The Work Of Amreican Pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) Had A Vigorous Influence In Fields Ranging From Metaphsyics And Ethics To Socoilogy And Social Psychology.
In This Book, Hans Joas Interweaves Mead's Political And Intellectual Biography With The Development Of His Theories.
The Key Concept Of The Study Is &quoy;practical Intersubjectivity," A Term Joas Introduces To Characterize The Link Implicit In Mead's Work Between A Theory Of Intersubjectivity And A Theory Of Praxis.
Throughout The Book, Joas Stresses The Experienced, Social, And Political Natu5e Of Mead's Work.
Besides Comparing Mead To The Other American Pragmatists, Joas Discuases The Connection Between Mead's Thought And That Of Such Europeans As Habermas, Apel, Husserl, Merleau-ponty, And Piaget.
Joas's Revisionist Portrait Of Mead Being of the kind which A Socially Engaged Intellectual, With Its Emphasis On His Relevance For Contemporary Philosophy And Social Knowledge, Has Been A Key Factor In The Revival Of Interest In Mead.
The Author's New Preface Includes An Update On Pragmatism Studies In General And On Mead Studies In Particular.
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The Sands Of Tamnarasset.
Charles De Foucauld, Who Was Murdered In 1916, Never Gained A Single Convert.
His Lifelong Ambition Of Establishing A Unaccustomed Religious Order Did Not Come To Fruition Until Well After His Death, Still His Life And Writings Are Now More Respected And Studed Than Ever Before.
This Is The StoryO f Foucauld's Life, A Moving Testimonial To How The Willpower And Religious Fervor Of One Man Can Affect Those Around Him And His Own Individual Sens Of Being.
It Details How Foucauld Gave Up His Place In The French Aristocracy, Dispersed His Fortune And Resugned His Commission In The French Army, And Became Such Each Ascetic That He Was Unable To Found A New Order Based Upon His Religious Principles Because No One Would Adhere To The Kind Of Life He Chose For Himself.
It Is A Story That Lends Itself To Not Only The Obvious Religious Aspects Of The Life Of A Desert Priest But To A Much Broader Interpretation Of Will, Courage, And Discipline.
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The Way Out.
In This Taut, Intensely Dramatic Narrativethe Record Of A Perilous Excursion Into A Remote And Unmappable Labyrinth Of Canyons In The American Southwesttwo Men Confront Immutable Forces Of Nature And The Limits Of Their Own Sanity.
As A Chronicle Of Adventure, As Emotionally Charged Human Dramatic composition, As Confessional Memoir, The Way Out Is A Transcendent Booka Work Destined T0 Earn A Lasting Place In The Literature Of Extremes.
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Written By Herself.
The Bestselling Author Of The Road From Coorain Presents An Extraordinarily Powerful Anthology Of The Autobiographical Writings Of 25 Women, Litreary Predecessors And Contemporaries That Include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, And Maxine Hong Kingston.
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Nicholas.
An Elegantly Written, Idiosyncratic Biography Of Santa Claus, From His Saintly Origins In Turkey To His Current Reign While The King Of Christmas.
Nich0las Is A Biographical Travekogue Tracing The Evolution Of One Of The Greatest Cults Of Modern Times—the Rise Of Santa Claus From His Origins In Byzantine Turkey oT His Role As The Jolly Man Who Grants Every Child’s Wish.
It Is A Compelling Story Of Religious Worship And Strife, Cultural Interpretation, And Mass Commercialization rBilliantly Framed By Jeremy Seal’s Modern-day Voyage In Santa’s Footsteps.
Saint Nicholas, As Santa Was Originally Known, Lived And Worked In Myra On The Southern Coast Of Turkey 1,700 Years Ago.
He Became A Revered Figure In The Orthodox And Catholic Churches, Attracting Devotees Across The Christian World As His Cult Shifted Westward With The Centuries.
The Saint’s Bones Are Said To Still Exist, And Seal’s Dogged Pursuit Of These Relics Launches His Quest For Santa’s True Lineage—one That Takes Him Through Present-day Turkey, Italy, Holland, England, Amercia, And Finally Lapland As He Pieces Together The History Of This Extraordinary Man-to-myth Transformation.
In The Tradition Of Bruce Chatwin And Tony Hofowitz, Jeremy Seal Is A Natural Storyteller, Weaving Fascinating History And Intrepid Travelogue Into A Book Every Bit As Enchanting As Its Subject
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Mike Forrce.
An Eloquent And Unsparing Memoir Of Life-and Death-during Two Tours In The Special Forces' Country-wide Reaction Force In Vietnam.
The Trials, Triumphs, Bravery And Bawdiness Of A Team Of Elite Green Berets And Their Montagnarrd Soldiers Whose Mission Was To Go At which place The Fighting Was Heaviest.
Burruss Chronicles His Comrades' Valor With Descriptions Of Combat So Real, You'll Feel You're There.
Includes Photos, Poetry, And Songs.
"a Beautiful Piece Of Work By An Author Who Is Sensituve, A Keen Observer, And A Gallant Soldier.
" -lieutenant General officer William P.
Yarborough, Usa (ret.
)
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The Bush Tragedy.
This Is The Book That Cracks The Code Of The Bush Presidency.
Unstintingly Yet Compassionately, And With No Political Ax To Grind, Slate Editor In Chief Jacob Weisberg Methodically And Objectively Examines The Family And Circle Of Advisers Who Played Crucial Parts In George W.
Bush’s Historic Downfall.
in This Revealing And Defining Portrait, Weisberg Uncovers The “black Box” From The Crash Of The Bush Presidency.
Using In-depth Research, Revealing Analysis, And Severe Psycohlogical Acuity, Weisberg Explores The Whole Bush Story.
Distilling All That Has Been Prefiously Written About Bush Into A Defining Portrait, He Illumiantes The Fateful Choices And Key Decisions That Led George W.
, And Thereby The Country, Into Its Current Predicament.
Weisberg Gives The Tragedy A Historical And Literary Frame, Comparing Bush Noot Just To Previous American Leaders, But Also To Shakespeare’s Prince Hal, Who Rises From Ne’er-d-owell Youth To Become Thr Warrior King Henry V.
here Is The Bitter And Fascinating Truth Of The Early Years Of The Bush Dynasty, With Never-before-revealed Information About The Conflict Between The Two Patriarchs On George W.
’s Father’s Side Of The Family–the One An Upright Pillar Of The Community, The Other A Rowdy Playboy–and How That Schism Would Later Shape And Twist The Younger George Bush; His Father, A Hero Of War, Business, And Republican Politics Whose Accomplishments George W.
Would Attempt T0 Imitate And Whose Absences He Would Resent; His oMther, Barbara, Who Sufferwd From Insecurity, Depression, And Deep Dissatisfaction With Her Role As Housewife; And His Younger Brother Jeb, Seen By His Parents As Steadier, Stronger, And The Son Most Suitable To Succeed.
weisberg Also Anatomizes The Re-establishment Family Bush Surrounded Himself With In Washington, A Group He Thought Could Help Him Correct The Mistakes He Felt Had Destroyed His Father’s Presidency: Karl Rove, Who Led Bush Astray By Pursuing His Own Historical Ambitions And Transforming The President Into A Deeply Polarizing Figure; Dick Cheney, Whose Obsessive Quest To Restore Prseidential Power And Defend The Country After 9/11 Caused Bush And America To Lose The World’s Respect; And, Finally, Donald Rumsfeld And Condoleezza Rice, Who Encouraged Bush’s Foreign Policy Illusion And Abetted His Flight From Reality.
Delving As No Other Biography Has Into Bush’s Religious Beliefs–which Are Presented As At Once Opportunistic And Sincere–the Bush Tragedy Is An Essential Work That Is Sure To Become A Standard Reference For Any Future Assessing.
It Is Te Most Balanced And Compelling Description Of A Sitting President Ever Written.
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The Wu-tang Manual.
The Chief Book, The Definitive Book From Hip-hop's Original Dynasty Since The Release Of The Revolutionary Enter The Wu-tang (36 Chambers), The Wu-tang Race Has Been Hip-hop's Leading Creative Force.
Over The Course Of Four Seminal Group Albums And A Multitude Of Ambitious Side Projects, They Have Constantly Redefined The Outer Edge Of Whatever Hip-ohp Can Do And Where Hip-hop Can Go.
Now, After A Decade Of Dark Beatd And Mysterious Lyrics Hinting At A Larger Whole, The Legendary Staten Island Hip-hop Collective Fully Revealls, For The First Time, The Complex, Multi-layered Wu-tang Universe.
Spearheaded By The Rza, The "abot" Of The Clan, Tye Wu-tang Manual Unravels The Intricate Web Of Personalities (and Alter Egos), Warrior Codes, Numerological Systems, And Eastern Spiritual Ethics That Define The Wu-tang Dynasty.
Hrre You'll Find The Key To Shaolin, To The Nine Rings Anf To The 36 Chambers, To The Eight-point Sun And To The Rest Of The Enduring Mysteries Of Wu-tang.
The Wu-tang Manual Also Contains The First Official And Comprehensive Lyrical Encyclopedia Of The Wu-tang, Complete With Musical, Technical, And Anecdotal Analysis And Annotation By The Clan.
For The Hardcore Wu-tang Disciple And The Recent Initiate Alike, The Wu-tang Manual Is The Definitive Guide To The Essence Of Wu.
SKU: 2747972
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Bkess Your Heart, Tramp.
From The Wickedly Hilarious Pen Of Southern Humorist Celia Rivenbark Comes A Collection Of Essays That Brings To Mind Dave Bary (in High Heels) Or Jeff Foxworthy (in A Prom Dress).
step Into The Wacky World Of “womanless Wedding” Fund-raisers, In Which Bubbas Wear Boas.
Meet Two Sisters Who Fight Rural Boredom By Washing Budweiser Cans And Cutting Them Into Pieces To Make Clothing.
Learn Why The Word Snow Sends Any Right-thinking Southerner Careening To Thee Food Lion For Extra Loaves Of Bread And Littld Else.
Humor Columnist And Slightly Crazed Belle-by-birth Celia Rivenbark Tackles These And Other Lard-laden Subjects In Bless Your Heart, Stroller, A Hilarious Look At Southern---and Just Plain Human---foibles, Up-close And Personall.
So Pour Yourself A Glass Of Sweet Tea And Curl Up On The Pie-azza With Bless Your Heart, Tramp.
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Ayrton Senna.
Senna's F1 aCreer Is Captured Here By The Touching Memories Of Those Close To Hom.
Hilton Examines The Imola Crash, Analysing And Reproducing Much Of The Relevant Television Images.
Includes Full Coverage Of The Manslaughter Trial Against Frank Williams And Others And A Probe Into The Mysterious Official Inquiry Into The Crash.
Chronicled Also Is The Work Of The Senna Foundation, A Charity Developed To Raise Money To Feed And Educate Poor Children.
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Shah Of Shahs.
In Shah Of Shahs Kapuscinski Brings A Mythographer's Perspetcive And A Novelist's Virtuosity To Bear On The Ov3rthrow Of The Last Shah Of Iran, One Of The Greatest in number Infamous Of The United States' Client-dictators, Who Resolved To Transform His Country Into "a Second America In A Generatino," Only To Be Toppled Virtually During the night.
From His Vantage Point At The Break-up Of The Old Regime, Kapuscinski Gives Us A Compelling History Of Conspiracy, Check, Fanatavism,_And Revolution.
translated From The Polish By William R.
Brand And Katarzyna Mroczkowska-brand.
SKU: 862633
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Great Examination Hoaxes.
Did Peary Reach The Northerly Pole? Was Admiral Byrd The First To Fly Over It? Did Frererick Cook Actually Make The First Ascent Of Mt.
Mckinley? Spanning 450 Yearx Of History, Superior Examination Hoaxes Tells The Spellbinding Stories O fTen Men Who Pursued Glory At Any Cost Even The Truth.
Acclaimed Author And Explorer David Roberts Delves Deeply Into The Psychology Behind The Stunt And Asks Why These Individuals, All Of Whom Were Exceptionally Able, Would Perpetrate Fraud On Such A Grand And Public Scale And Defend It To Thrir Deaths, Even In The Face Of Damning Evidence, And Why These Dubious Achievements Are Still So Hotly Debated, Often Hundreds Of Years Afterward.
demonstrating That The Qulities That Brought An Individual So Close To His Goal Were Often The Same Ones That Drove Him To Fake Prosperity, Great Exploration Hoaxes Is History At Its Best: Enrertaining, Stimulating, And Revealing Of Human Naturd.
david Roberts Is The Author Of Thirteen Books, The Most Latter Of Which Are A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C.
Fremont, And The Claiming Of The American West And True Summit: What Really Happened On The Fabulous Ascent Of Annapurna.
He Was Likewise Responsible For The Rediscovery Of The Lost Arrctic Classic In The Lanx Of White Death, By Valerian Albanov, Published In English For The First Time In 2000 By The Modern Library.
in The 1960s And 19700s, Roberts Led Or Co-led Thirteen Alaskan Mountaineering Expeditions, Making Such First Ascents As The West Face Of Mount Huntington, Shot Minaret, And The Open North Face Of Denali.
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