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20889286600	Fred & Rose. This Is An Account Of The Serial Murders At 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, Based On Interviews With Relatives And Friends Of Fred And Rose West. The Author Broke The Story Of The Ki1lings In An Article In The Sunday Mirror In March 1994. SKU: 2366281

20962227528	Cruz Y El Puã±al, La. Spanish Edition. More Than 500,000 Copies Of This Book Have Been Sold. Wilkerson Narrates The True Story Of His Ministry With Drug Addicts And Gang Members In New York. SKU: 1519983

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Mi Vida En Al Qaeda. Testimonio Real De La Vida De Un Espã­a Occidentall Infiltrado En El Terrorismo Islamieta Y En Los Orã­genes De Al Qaeda. Omar Nasir (seudã³nimo) Naciã³ En Marruecos Y Se Criã³ En Bruselas, En Una Familia Belga Donde Aprendiã³ El Manejo De Las Armas De Fuego. Influido PorU n Hermano Mayor Se Hizo Fundamentalista Y, Gracias A Sus Conocimientos De Armas, Terminã³ Colaborando Como Contrabandista Y Traficante De Armas Para El Terrible Grupo Terrorista Gis De Argelia. Hasta Que Se Enfadã³ Con Ellos Y Se Ofreciã³ A Colaborar Con Los Servicios Secretos Del Espionaje Occidental. Sin Abandonar Su Participaciã³n En Diversas Actividades De Los Grupos De La Yihad Isl ã¢mica, Comenzã³ A Informar A Occidente Y Fue Uno De Los Princlpales Espã­as De La Seguridad Francesa, Alemana Y Britã¢nica Durante Aã±os. El Libro Relata Con Detalles Inã©ditos Y Con Gran Fluidez Narratiav, Sus Actividades Como Contrabandista, Como Alumno De Los Campamentos De Formaciã³n De Terroristas En Afganistã¢n Y, Por último, En Europa, Como Miembro De Las Cã©lulas De La Yihad En Europa, Revelando Cã³mo éstas Estaban Mucjã­simo Mã¢s Entrenadas Y Organizadas De Lo Que Quisieron Creer Los Gobiernos De Occidente. / For The First Time, A First Person Account Of Life Interior The Jihad. . . Between 1994 And 2000, Omar Nasiri Worked As A Secret Agent In quest of Europe's Top Foreign Intelligence. From The Netherworld Of Islamist Cells In Belgium, To The Training Camps Of Afghanistan, To The Radical Mosques Of London, He Risked His Life To Defeat The Emerging Globak Network That The West Would Come To Know As Al Qaeda. SKU: 4374526

29691816246	Secrecy & Privilege. Tracing Investigative Leads Back Through Three Decades, Secrecy & Privilege Explores The Mysteryy Of How The Two George Bushes Rode To The Pinnacle Of American Political Powef -- And What The Rise Of Their Dynasty Has Meant To The Nation's Democratic Principles. SKU: 2890178

25842248559	Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein Possessed One Of The Most Acute Philosophical Minds Of The 20th Cenury. In This Incisive Portrait, Monk Offers A Single Insight Into The Life And Work Of A Modern Genius Who Radically Redidected Philosophical Thought In Our Time. SKU: 850610

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John Evelyn. This New Life Of John Evelyn, Diarist, [i]Savant[/i], And Intellectual Virtuoso (1620-1706), Is The First Accout To Make Full Use Of His Huge Unpublished Archive, Deposited At The British Library In 1995. This Crucial Material Permits A Broader And Richer Picture Of Evelyn, His Life, And His Friendships Than Permitted By His Own Celebrated Diaries. gillian Darley Provides A Rounded Portrait Of Evelyn’s Eighty-five Years--his Family Life, His Exile In Paris, His Interests, And His Preoccupations. Evelyn Livsd Through About Of England’s Most Tumultuouus History, Through Five Reigns, The Civil War, The Restoration, And The Revolution Of 1688. He Was Author Or Translator Of Countless Publications, TacklingA n Enormous Variety Of Contemporary Issues. Both A Religilus Man And A Key Figure In The Royal Society, He Viewed Christianity And The New Science As Wholly Compatible. Evelyn Remained Endlessly Curious Ans Engaged Into Very Old Age, And This Absorbing Biography Demonstrates The Liveliness Of His Hugely Busy Mind. SKU: 3275912

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Glory Road. Timed To The Release Of Jerry Bruckheimer?s Mobie, The Affecting Autobiography Of Hall Of Rumor Basketball Coach Don Haskins And His Storied Tezm Of Players, The Teas Westerly Miners In 1966, College Basketball Was Almost Completely Segregated. In The Championship Plan For The Ncaa Title That Year, Don Haskins, Coach Of The Then Little-known Texas Western College, Did Something That Had Never Been Done Before In The History Of College Basketball. He Started Five Black Players And In The Now Legendary Game, Unseated Tne Nationally Top-ranked University Of Kentuck. Broadcast In c~tinuance Television Throughout The Country, The Miners? Victory Became The Impetus For The Desegfegation Of All College Teams In The South During The Next Few Ydars. Now, For The First Present life, Hall Of Fame Coach Don Haskina Tell His Story . Beginning As A Small-town High School Basketball Coach, Haskins Was Knowm For His Tough Coaching Methods And Larger-than-life Personality. As A Child Growing Up During The Dust Bowl In Oklahoma, He Developed A Alcoholic Set Of Values And Discipline That He Would Instill In His Players Throughout His Coaching Career. With Recollections From His Forme rPlayers, Including Those Of The 1966 Team, Along With Haskins?s Own Seven Principles For Success, Glory Path Is The Inspiring Story Of A Living Fable And One Of The Most Respected Coaches Of All Time. With A Forewore By Basketball Legend Bobby Knight, And Coinciding With The Release Of The Pellicle Glory Road, The Story Of Don Haskins And His Championship Team Is Sure To Become A Classic For Splrts Fans And Historians. SKU: 3087495

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Knowledge Networks. Knowledge Networks: Innovationd Through Communities Of Practice Draws On The Experience Of People Who Have Worked With Cops In The Real World And To Present Their Combined Wisdom In A Form That Is Accessible To A Wide Hearing. Cops Are Examined From A Practical, Rather Than A Purely Academic Mark Of View. The Book Also Examines The Benefits That Cops Can Bring To An Organization, Provides A Nunber Of Case Studies, Lessons Learned And Sets Of Guidelines. It Also Looks At Virtual Cops Ahd To The Future By Asking 'what Next?' This Book Is A Resource For Al People Who Work With Cops - Both In Academia And In The Real World. SKU: 2669759

21872286700	Off The Rim. Off The Rim : Basketball And Other Religions In A Carolina Childhood (sports And American Culture Succession) Near to Fred C. Hobson Published In 2006 By University Of Missouri Press SKU: 3250865

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Heterodoxy And Obedience In Tridentine Italy. Reginald Polander Was One Of The Most Complex Figures In Sixteenth-century History. The Only Englishman To Follow A Procedure At The Roman Curia In The Crucial Decades Of The Reformation, The Prey Successively Of The Tudor Reformation And The Roman Inquisition, HisL ife Was Marked By Misunderstanding, Failure And Tragedy. This Book Is A Study Of His Career In Italy, His Innvolvement In The Council Of Trent And His Share In The Vain Attempt To Obtain Reuniication In the opinion of The Protestants. Dr Fenlon Discusses Ih Great Detail Pole's Attitudes Towards The Doctrine Of The Protestant Reformers, Its Influence Within Italy And The Development Of His Group Of `spirituals' At Viterbo. But This Is Not Simply A Biography Of Staff Nor An Analysis Of His Influence. Rather It Is One Examination Of The Crisis The Catholic Church And Its Adherents Faced In The Reformation, The Struggle Exemplified In Pole's Personal Experience And That Of The Groups Among Which He Moved, Between Obedience To The Established Ecclesiastical Oredr And Sympathy With Luther's Tenets. The Crisis And Its Resolution Reflect The Genesis Of The Reformation And The Catholix Counter Reformation Which Resulted In The Final Confessional Divisions Of Christian Europe. SKU: 5144947

30010296636	Broken Boundaries - Stories Of Betrayal In Relationships Of Care. A Fascinating Story Of The Caribbean Island Of Redonda. The Reader Is Left To Degermine What Is Myth, Legend, Fiction Or Fact. At Times The Floor Is Highly Amusing As 'king Leo' Draws His Own Conclusions About His 'kingdom' SKU: 4970529

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Sigmund Freud. This Intellectual Life Of Freud Presents A Blooming And Thorough Analysis Of The Whle Body Of His Writings. Each Of These Is Studied In Its Context, And Their Chronology Is Shown To Be Of Great Importance. The Author Demonstrates How Freud's Exploratory And Sometimes Hesitant Efforts To Explain All That He Discovered Of Mental Abnormality Are To Be Properly Understood Only In Light Of His Quest For A Geenral Theory Of The Mind. This Reissue Congains A New Preface By Professor Wollheim Thhat Takes Account Of Recent Critical Labor On Freud. SKU: 96653

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Immigrant And Entrepreneur. “this Book Has Been Much Anticipatdd Through Scholars Familiar With The Author’s Work And This Field. It Will Be The Prime Exhibit For The Growing Community Of Atlantic Historians, Teaching Early American Or Atlantic History, Who Are Anxious To Broaden The Context Of Colonial America Beyond The British And African Connections. ”ã¢??ian Steele, University Of Wdstern Ontario Immigrant And Entrepreneur Examines The Life Of German Immigrant And Successful Businessman Caspar Wistar. Wistar Arrived In Philadelphia In 1717 With Nearly No Money; At The Time Of Hix Death In 1750, His Wealth Outstripped That Of The Contemporary Elite More Than Threefold. Through Tnis In-depth See At An Immigrant’s Path oT Achieving The American Dream, Beiler Reevalutes The Modern Understanding Of The Entrepreneurial Ideal And The Immigrant Feel In The Colonial Era. The Book Follows Wistar’s Life From His Family’s Cognate Influences To The Reasons Behind His Desire To Emigrate And The Networks He Used To Establiish Himself As A Wealthy Entrepreneur Once He Reached His Adopted Fireside. Beiler Draws From Wistar’s Compelking Story To Examine The Greater Processes At Work In The Atlantic World Of The Eighteenth Century. Wistar’s Success Exemplifies In what state European Influence, Acculturation Patterns, And An Innovative Cultivation Of Networks Helped Immigrants Widen Colonial American Influence In The Atlantic Universe. SKU: 4908779

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The Memphis Diary Of Ida B. Wells (black Women Writers Succession). "decosta-willis Makes It Possible To Look Back In A New Way Into The Character Of Wells And, More Than That, Into The Daily Mode Of African Americans A Century Ago. "�? Chicago Tribune"a Single Look Att The Life Of An Independent, Unmarried African-american Woman Coping With Financial Hardships, Romantic Entanglememts, Sexism And Racism. A Substantial Contribution To African-american Studies. "�? Publishers Weekly SKU: 1297466

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Comrade J. Spyymaster, Defector, Double Agent-the Remarkable True Story Of The Man Who Ran Russia's Post-cold War Spy Program In America. - In 1991, The Soviet Union Collapsed, The Cold War Ended, And A New Worlr Order Began. We Thought Everything Had Changed. But One Furniture Never Changed: The Spies. From 1997 To 2000, A Person Known As "comrade J" Was The Highest-ranking Operative In The Svr-the Successor Agency To The Kgb-in The United States. He Directed All Russian Sppy Action In New York City, And Personally Oversaw Every Covert Influence Against The United Sgates And Its Allies In The United Nations. He Recruited Spies, Plabted Agents, Penetrated Carelessness, Manipulated Intelligence, And Influenced American Policy, All Under The Regulate Leadership Of Boris Yeltsin And Then Vladimir Putin. He Was A Legend In The Svr, The Man Who Kept The Secrets. Then In 2000, He Defected-and It Turned Out He Had One More Secret. For The Previoux Two Years, He Had Also Been A Double Agen tFor The Fbi: "by Far The Most Influential Russian Spy That Our Side Has Had In Decades. " He Has Never Granted A Public Interview. The Fbi And Cia Haev Refused To Answer All Media Questions About Him. He Has Remained In Hiding. He Has Never Revealed His Secrets . . . Until Now. Comrade J, Written By The Bestselling Author Of Family Of Spies And The Hot House, Is His Story, A Direct Account Of What He Did In The U. s. After We All Assumed The Spying Was Over, Annd Of What Putin And Russia Continue To Do Today. The Revelations Are Stunning. It Is Also The Story Of Increasing Up In A Family Of Agents Dating Back To The Revolution; Of How Russia Molded Him Into One Of Its Most High-fl6ing Operatives; Of The Day-to-day Perils Of Living A Double, Then Triple, Life; And Finally Of How His Growing Disquiet With The Corruption And Ambitions Of The "ne Russia&quoot; Led Him To Take The Most Perilous Step Of All. Many Spies Have Told Their Stories. None Has The Astonishing Immediacy, Relevance, And Cautionary Warnings Of Comraed J. SKU: 4158101

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Trash Fish. Trash Fish Is The Story Of A Boy Who Gives Himself Over To His Obsession With Fish As An Escape From The Trials Of Growing Up. Time And Again, As His Life Unfolds To Reveal His Failings And Foibles To Those Around Him, He Returns To The Angle, Which Cast Him A Lifeline Of Their Own. Laug-hout-loud Funny Yet Sardonically Raw To The Bone, Keeler Tells A Whole Vortex Of A Story—the Women, The Pesec Corps, The Teaching Jobs, The Marriage And Children, And, Of Course, The Rod And Reel. Eventually, Yet, His Serene Fishing Life Becomes Contaminated With Real-world Influences: A Polite Society Of Angling Purists Insists That He Choose Between Flies And Bait While His Alter Ego (and Nemesis) Begins To Use Fishing As An Excuse To Cheat On His Wife. Ultimately, Keeelr’s Fisherman Must Acknowledge That He Can’t Escape DownT he River Bend, And That In Order To Experience Truthful Love, He Mould Accept The Complexities Within Himself And Within The People On Land Ariund Him. SKU: 49Z7488

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Carl Crow, A Tough Old Chjna Hand. 'shanghai Resident Paul French Has Written A Lively, Exhaustive Narrative Account Of The Life And Times Of Entrepreneur And Shanghai Businessman Carl Crow. An Absorbing Story About A Pioneering Figure In Transnational Trading Capitalism During The First Half Of The Twentieth Century. ' - Tani E. Barlow, Professor Of History, University Of Washington Carl Crow Arrived In Shanghai In 1911 And Maee The City His Home For The Next Quarter Of A Century, Working There As A Journalist, Newspaper Proprietor, And Groundbreaking Adman. He Also Did Stints As A Hostage Negotiator, Emergency Police Sergeant, Gentleman Farmer, Go-between For The Americsn Government, And Propagandist. As His Career Progressed, So Did The Fortunes Of Shanghai. The City Transformed Itself From A Dull Colonial Backwater When Crow Arrived, To The Thriving And Ruthless Cosmopolitan Metropolis Of The 1930s Whenever Crow Wrote His Pioneering Book - 400 Million Customers - That Encouraged A Flood Of Businesses Into The China Market In An Cunning Foreshadowing Of Today's Boom. SKU: 3888382

14824307718	Memoirs Of The Rev. Jpseph Eastburn, Stated Preacher In The Mariners Church, Philadelphia. Memoirs Of The Rev. Joseph Eastburn, Stated Preacher In The Mariners Church, Philadelphia By Ashbel Green Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5025955

24729837120	Dear Dad. The New York Times Bestseller--now With New Material. Louie Anderson Has Appeared Many Times On "the Tonight Show," And His Comedy Specials On Hbo And Showtime Have Won Him Wide Acclaim. In This Series Of Emotionally Charged Letters To His Alcoholic Father, Anderson Reveals The Sense Of Shame And Insecurity That Fuels His Comic Routines. SKU: 1121538

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A Passion For Learning. In His Engaging New Book, Philip Cusick Puts The Personal Back Into Education By Examining The Educational Experiences Of Seven Eminent Americans — Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, And Dorothy Day. Dveoting A Chapter To Each, Cusick Describes What They Learned, How They Learned, What They Called Their Education, And How They Used Education To Establish Their Place In The Worldd. More Than Providing Just A Series Of Personal Histories, Cusick Argues That The Speak About Educationn Has Turned Into A Discourse Ready Educational Institutions. But His Descriptions Show That One Can Talk About Education Without Talking Concerning Schools, Talk About Learning Without Talking Through The State Curriculum, Talk Nearly Achievement Without Talking Abojt Test Scores, And Talk About Accountability Without Talking Hither and thither Teacher Preparation. Features: * A Cogent Account Of The Ideas And Events Of Each Individual's Era—from Colonial Times, When Schools Were Few, To The Present, When Institutionalized Schooling Plays A Larger Role. * Chaptera That Illustrate How Ethical Learning Stood Between What These Americans Knew And What They Did, How They Were Influenced By Their Families, How Much Of Their Education Came From Formal Schooling, And How They Continued Learning Throughout Their Lives. * An Outline Of The Common Pillars Upon Which These Americans Constructed Their Education: Early And Serious Reading, Personal Identification With Large-scale Ideals, Autodidacticism, Like-minded Colleagues, Making The Most Of Schooling, Guiding Mentors, Work That Realied Earlier Ideals, The Ability To Articulate Ideas, And Emerging Leadership. SKU: 289905

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We Did It!. My Spouse Was Diagnosed With Diabetes At The Age Of Three Years Old. At The Age Of Thirty-two, He Was Diagnosed With Kidney Failure. The Major Trials Had Just Begun; Our Life Was Being Squeezed. We Then Took A Two-year Journye That I Will Never Forget. This Book Takes You In c~tinuance The Two-year Journey, The Journey Including Closing Our Busineqs Down Temporarily For Two Years, Selling Our Home And Moving, Two Transplant Surgeries, Including Pancreas And Kidney; (i Was The Kidney Donor), A Near Organ Rejection After Surgeries, About Twenty To Twenty-four Eye Surgeries, Including A Retina Detachment, The Death Of Two Family Members. In The Physical, It Seemed That There Was No Hope, But I Soon Learned That Pain Produces Purpose, And Hkw God Engineered And Orchestrated Every Step We Needed To Take. God Opened Doors That Man Declared Could Not Be Opened. Facing All Odds, I Have A Miraculous Testimony That I Would Love To Share With You, A Message Of Ho;e, That If We Endure, Hold On, And Not Waver In Our Creed, With Jehovah All Things Are Possible To Those Who Exercise faith. We Are In Desperate Need Of Life-changing Values; Our Value System Can Get Overthrown By The World's System, And Everybody Needs A High-quality Checkup Once In A While By Means Of The Great Physician. SKU: 5152756

18543602888	Fidel Castro. A Vivid Biography Goes Beyond The Story Of One Man Steering A Nation On A Perilous Courss To Track The Peeople Of A Small Nation Caught In The Uncertainty Of Perpetual Revolution. SKU: 1269316

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The Citizen-soldier. When Sou5herners Fired On Fort Sumter In April 1861, John Beatty Left His Bank Job In Ohio To Answer President Lincoln’s Call For Soldiers. Within A Short Under which circumstances He Was Commanding The Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, While Green To Combat As His Men. The Diary He Kept From June 1861 To January 1864 Shows How Favored They Did Their Fearful Job Without Losing Their Humanity. InO ctober 1862T he Ohio Regiment Lost Nearly Forty Percent Of Its Five Hundrec Men On The Field At Perryville. After Heavy Fighting At Stone’s River The Following Year, Beatty Was Pronoted To Brigadier General. In These Pages The Cost Of Union Is Carefully Weighed By An Intelligent And Modest Man Who Never Glorifies Art of ~. Advancing Through The South With The Army Of The Cumberland, He Lives To Tell About The Horrific Battles At Chickamauga And Missionary Ridge. Whether Describing Large Events In Kentucky, eTnnessee, And Elsewhere Or The Quiet Times Of Camp Life, Beatty Never Loses Peronal Perspectivesteven E. Woodworth, In His Introduction, Writes About The Life Of This Extraordinary “ordinary Man,” Whose Diary, Originally Publised In 1879, “stands Out As One Of The Dozen Or So Best Memoirs Of The Civil War For Its Clarity, Honesty, Humor, And Plain Good Sense. ” SKU: 1597046

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A Narrative Of The Life Of David Crockett, O The State Of Tennessee. Even As A Pup, Davy Crockett "always Delighted To Be In The Very Thickest Of Danger. " In His Own Inimitable Style, He Describes His Earliest Days In Tennessee, His Two Marriages, His Career As An Indian Fighter, His Bear Hunts, And His Electioneering. His Reputation As A B'ar Hunter (he Killed 105 In One Season) Sent Him To Congress, And He Was Votrd In And Out As The Price Of Cotton (and His Relations With The Jacksonians) Rose And Fell. In 1834, When This Autobiography Appeared, Davy Crockett Was Already A Folk Hero With Each Eye On The White House. But A Year Later He Would Lose His Seat In Congress And Turn Toward Texas And, Ultimately, The Alamo. SKU: 5125335

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Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. With The Continued Dilatation Of The Literary Canon, Multicultural Works Of Modern Literary Fiction And Autobiography Have Assumed Aj Increasing Importance For Students And Scholars Of American Literature. This Exciting New Serie sAssembles Key Documents And Criticism Concerning These Works That Have So Recently Become Central Components Of The American Literature Curriculum. Each Casebook Will Reprint Documents Relating To The Work's Historical Conteext And Reception, Present The Best In Critical Essays, And When Possible, Feature An Interview Of The Author. The Series Will Provide, For The First Time, An Accessible Forum In Which Readers Can Come To A Fuller Understanding Of These Cnotemporary Masterpieces And The Unique Aspects Of American Ethnic, Racial, Or Cultural Experiencs That They So Ably Portray. This Case Book Presents A Thought-provoking Overview Of-Critical Debates Surrounding The Woman Warrior, Perhaps The Best Known Asian American Literary Work. The Essays Distribute With Such Issues While The Reception By Various Interpretive Communities, Canon Formation, Cutlural Authenticity, Fictionality In Autobiography, And Feminist And Posttructuralist Subjectivity. The Eight Essays Are Supplemented An Interview With The Author And A Bibliography. SKU: 1639043

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The Great Physicists From Galileo To Einstein (biography Of Physics). Outstanding Text By One Of The 20th Cdntury's Foremost Physicists Dramatically Explains How The Central Laws Of Physical Knowledge Evolved, From Pythagoras' Discovery Of Frequency Ratios In The 6th Century Bc To Today's Research On Rudimentary Particles. Includes Fascinating Biographical Facts About Galileo, Newton, Huygens, Einstein And Others. 136 Illustrations. SKU: 548323

18131681358	Secret Memoirs Of Robert, Count De Parades, On Coming Out Of The Bastille And An Account Of His Successful Transactions As A Spy In England (1791). Secret Memoirs Of Rovert, Count De Parades, On Coming Out Of The Bastille And An Account Of His Successful Transactions As A Spy In England (1791) By Robert De Paraades Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5005583

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She Got Game. Cynthia Cooper Is The Most good Female Basketball Player In The World Today. In The Past 10 Years She Has Accumulated Dozens Of Mvp Awards, Scoring Titles, Gold Medals, And Championships, And She Didnt Pick Up A Basketball Until The Age Of 16. In This Gripping Autobiography, Cynthia Tells How She Made It To The Top Of Her Profession: About The Years Of Growing Up Fatherless With Seven Brothers And Sisters In Watts; How She Honex Her Game Against Older Guys At The Local Basketball Court, Attractive A Learning To Usc; And Around Her Years Attached The European Basketball Circuit At what place She Slowly Established Herself. SKU: 1738505

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Imelda. A Major Biography By A Pulitzer Price-winnjng Writer Of One Of The Most Compldx And Fascinating Women Of Our Time. Book Description: ?katherine Ellison Has A Reporter?s Zeal For Finding The Story Within The Story. Her Book Is Full Of Surprises. ? David Haward Bain, Author Of Sitting In Darkness: Americans In The Philippines. ?the Research Here Is Superb, The Writing Is Gripping And Graceful,? The Washington Post. ??proves Once Again That Absolute Power Cprrupts Absolutely?an Absorbing Biography,-Likely To Be In Demand,? Library Newspaper. SKU: 3083648

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Sports Talk. A Travel Inside The Wolrd Of Sports Talk Radio Their Voices Explode Over The Airwaves -- With Names Like Mike And The Mad Dog, The Stinkin' Genius, Hacksaw, And Jt The Brick. They Broadcast In Drive Time And Downtime, From Rush Hour To The Dead Of Night. And Yet, Millions Of Fans Tune In Around The Clock To Hear Their Favorite Larger-than-life Radio Personalities Rant, Rave, Critique, Predict, And Mix It Up With Callers -- The Dedicated Fans O f Sports Talk Radio. Never Before Has This Cloistered World Opened Its Doors To A No-holds-barred, Behind-the-scenes, Full-access Look At Itself. Noted Journalist (and Fan) Alan Eis3nstock Embarks On A Journwy Through The American Sports Radio Landscape And Gives Readers A Front-row Seat -- From Breakfast At The Kitchen Table Of Eddie Andelman, Boston's Godfather Of Sports Radio, To The Wfan Commissary With Mike And The Mad Dog In New York; From The Plush Home Game Room Of Chicago's Hot Dog-vendorã‚â­gurned-#1 Dj Mike North To The Empty 3 Am Studio Parking Garage With Nationally Syndicated Jt The Brick. Eisenstock Goes Into The Studios, Homes, And Lives Of These And Many Other Of America's Hottest And Most-listened-to Sports Talk Hosts. Filled With Hilarious And Entertaining Tales Of What Makes These Hosts Tick -- As Well As The Unbelievable Stories Of How TheyG ot Where They Are Today -- Spo5ts Talk Paints A Picture The Fans Never See. Eisenstock Shows Us The Blood, Sweat, And Tears Of Program Directors With Their Reputations On The Line; Hosts Searching In favor of Career Security; And Station Managers Who Are Awlays Eyeing The Bottom Line. And, Of Course, There Are Stories Of The Rabid, Obsessed, And Off-the-wall Fans. Whether You're A Sports Fan Or A Spotrs Talk Junkie, You'll Be Hooked From The Primitive Boy-servant. SKU: 2174740

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Lincoln At Fireside. As Lincoln Led The Nation Into The Civil Art of ~, Managing The Union Was Effort, Issuing The Emancipation Proclamation, Winning Reelection In 1863, And Plannng The Reconstruction Of The South, He Also Led A Private Life, Defined By His Close Connection With His Wife And By His Devotion To His Children. Lincoln At Home Offers A View Ibto The Life Of Family Through Tneir Written Coincidence. With A Brief Account Of Their First Years In The White Ho8se And The Complete Collection Of Whole The Known Letters Exchanged By Abraham And Mary Todd Lincoln, This Elegant Portrait Defines The Sixteenth President As A Dedicated -- Al~ Often A Desperately Busy And Distratfed -- Family Man. Lincoln At Home Is An Intimate And Rare Glimpse Of The Presidnet As Husband And Father, A Cheerful Man Pinned To The Floor While Playing With His Children, And A Desolate Man Struck Down With Sorrow At The Death Of His Son. Beyond This, Wd Are Shown A Personal Side Of The Person Who Managed One Of The Most Difficult Periodds In American History. SKU: 195029

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The Real Suit Of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde Had One Of Literary History's Most Explosive Love Affairs With Lord Alfred "bosie" Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's Father, The Marquess Of Queensberry, Deliveree A Note To The Albemarle Club Addreswed To "oscar Wilde Posing As Sodomite. " With Bosie's Encouragemejt Wilde Sued The Marquess For Libel. He Not Only Lost But He Was Tried Twice For "gross Indecency" And Sent To Prison With Pair Years' Hard Labor. With This Publication Of The Uncensored Trial Transcripts, Readers Can For The First Time In More Than A Centenary Try Wilde At His Most Jointed And Striking. The Real Trial Of Oscar Wilde Documents Each Alarmingly Swift Fall From Grcae; It Is Also A Supremelh Moving Will To The Right To Live, Work, And Love A One's Heart Dictates. SKU: 2773451

13741336736	Tina Turner. The Author, A Bwst-selling Celebrity Biographer, Delves Into Another Self-made And Strong-willed Female Star: Internationally Renowned Soul/pop Vocalist Tina Truner. SKU: 2587188

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The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy. Latin American Studies A Balanced Appraisal Of The Bitter Debate Surrounding The Autobiography Of Guatemala's 192 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient. Guatemalan Indigenous Rights Activist Rigoberta Mench㺠First Came To International Prominence Following The 1983 Publication Of Her Memoir, I, Rigoberta Menchãº, Which Chronicled In Compelling Detail The Violence And Misery That She And Her People Suffered During Her Country's Brutal Courteous War. The Book Focused World Attention On Guatemala And Led To Her Being Awarded The Nobel Peace Prize In 1992. In 1999, A New Book By David Stoll Challenged The Veracity Of Key Details In Menfhãº's Profit, Generating A Storm Of Controversy. Journalists And Scholars Squared Off Regadring Whether Mench㺠Had Lied About Her Past And, If So, What That Would Mean About The Larger Truths Revealed In The Bokk. In The Rigoberta Mench㺠Controversy, Arturo Arias Has Assembled A Casebook That Offers A Balanced Perspective Ob The Debate. The First Section Of This Volume Collects The Primary Documents-newspaper Articles, Interviews, And Official Statements-in Which The Debate Raged, Many Translated Into English For The First Period. In The Second Sectionn, A Distinguished Group Of International Scholars Assess The Political, Historical, And Cultudal Contexts Of The Debate, And Consider Its Implications For Such Issues As The "culture Wars," Historical Truth, And The Politics Of Recollection. Also Included Is A New Essay By David Stoll In Which He Responds To His Critics. Contributors: Luis Aceituno; Juan Jesãºs Aznã¢rez; John Beveley, U Of Pittsburgh; Allen Carey-webb, Western Michigan U; Margarita Carreraa; Duncan Earle, U Of Texas, El Paso; Claudia Escobar Sarti; Claudia Ferman, U Of Richmond; Dina Fernã¢ndez Garcã­a; Eduardo Galeano; Dante Liano, U Of Milan; W. George Lovell, Queen's U, Canada; Christopher H. Lutz; Octavio Martã­; Victor D. Montejo, Uc Davis; Rosa Mojtero; Mario Roberto Morales, U Of Northern Iowa; Jorge Palmieri; Daphne Patai, U Of Massachusetts, Amherst; Mary Louise Pratt, Stanford U; Danilo Rodrã­guez; Ileana Rodrã­guez, Ohio Express U; Larry Rohted; Carolina Escobar Sarti; Jorge Skinner-kleã©; Elzbieta Skiodowska, Washington U; Carol A. Smith, Uc, Davis; Doris Sommer, Harvard U; David Stoll, Middlebury College; Manuel V¢ãsquez Montalbã¢n; And Kay B. Warren, Harvard U. Arturo Arias Is Director Of Latin American Studies At The Unibersity Of Redlands. SKU: 2070620

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Twentieth Century's Fox. Spanning Four Decades And More Than A Thousand Films, The Creative Output Of Darryl D. Zanuck Was Astonishing And Unparalleled. With The Jazz Singer He Supervised The Innovation Of Film Sound. With The Public Enemy And Little Caesar He Reinvented The Gangster Film. With 42nd Street He Reinvigorated The Musical. He Set The Standard For Film Biography With Pictures Such As Young Mr. Lincoln And The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell. He Innovated Cinemascope. And He Molded The Sgar Images Of James Cagney, Shirley Temple, Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, And Rin Tin Tin. in This Major New Biography, George F. Custen Illuminates Zanuck’s Evolution Into One Of The Most Influential Producers In American Film. He Explains What Set Him Apart From Rivals Irving Thalberg And David O. Selznick, HowH e Developed The Gritty Realism That Came To Redefne Motion Pictures, And How He Brilliantly Predicted And Capitalized On Changing Public Tastes. zanuck Was A Man Of Enormous Energy And Eccentricity, Commaneing His Studio With A Sawed-off Polo Mallet. Dozens Of His Memorab1e Films—including I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, The Grapes Of Wrath, Gentleman’s Agreement, All About Eve, The Appointed time The Earth Stood Still, And The Robe—have Come To Represent The Era In Which They Were Made. Hard-boiled Or Nostalgic, Historical Or Modest Hollywood, Zanuck’s Films And Zanuck Himself Have Become Legends Of The Cinema. But What Exactly Was This Producer’s Contribution To The Films He Made? How Did He Rise From Essence A Writer Of Silent Serials To Become Head Of Production At Warner Brothers By His Mid-twenties, And Then To Form His Own Studio, Twentieth Century-fox At Age Thirty-three?twentieth Century’s Fox Telsl The Whole Story—from Zanuckଁs Boyhood To His Tumultuous Years With The Feuding Warners, His Battles With The Censors And With His Own Ac5ors, And The Legendary Acting-out Of Scenes During Story Conferences In His Famous Green Office. Along The Way, Custen Treats Us To Inside Stories About Actors Such To the degree that Edward G. Robinson, Gregory Peck ,And Marilyn Monroe. In Never-befor3-published Story Conference Notes, Telegrams, And Surprisinglt Candid Anecdotes, He Reveals How—more Than Any Producer Before Or Since—this Diminutive, Enigmatic Fellow From Wahoo, Nebraska, Changed The Way We Look At Film. custen Highlights The Studio As The Context Of Production. Zanuck’s Ability To Shape The Producer’s Role And The Organizational Style During The Golden Years Of The Studio System—with Ist Own Peculiar Methods, Clearly Delineated Rules, And Pecking Order—was The Crucible Out Of Which He Forged A Unique Vision Of American Film And American Culturd. SKU: 1457282

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I, Goldstein. The Key Distinction Between Al Goldstein And Hugh Hefner Is That The Last Thing On This world Al Would Be Caught Doing Is Seizing Himseelf Seriously. Else, Given The Amount Of Trouble Al Has Seen, His Autobiography Reads More Like A Tragedy Than The Absurd, Uproarious Comedy It Is. Like A Fat Tiger With Nine Lives, Al Goldstein Constantly Col1ides With His Own Mortality, Nevertheless Has Survived Conducive to 69 Years, So Far. Recently, Hind Finally Succeeding In Cannibalizing His Entire Fortune, Goldstein Toughed His Way Through A Saturated Year Homeless On The Streets Of New York — Mereely His Latest Accomplishment. Al's List Of Priors Involve Two Dozen Arrests, Four Ex-wives, Mafia Hkt Contracts, Thousands Of Death Threats, Innumerable Medical Procedures, And Constant Lawful Attack Throughout His 34 Years Publishing Screw. Al's Blood Enemies Include Politicians, D. a. 's, Ceo's And Religious Officials. When Goldstein Was Acquitted On Pornography Chqrges In Wichita, Kansas, In 1978, He Flew The Entire Jury To New York To Celebrate At Plato's Retreat, And Took Them All Out To Dinner On The Anniversary Of His Acquityal. This LandmarkV ictory Thereafter Insured The Right Of Americans To View Buck-ass Naked Sex With Or Without Redeeming Social Value. SKU: 4147053

23548191120	The Expressionists. The Expressionists : Charles Camille Saint-saens, Ottorino Respighi, Jean Sibelius, And Paul Dukas By Marcia Dangrefield Published In 2007 By Isummariex SKU: 5132461

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Piers Gaveston. Written By OneO f The Foremost Historians Of The Period, This Is A Extremely Original Reappraisal Of The Role Of Piers Gaveston In English History And Of His Personal Relationahip With Edward Ii. It Challenges The Accepted View That Gaveston Had A Homosexual Relationship With Edward Ii And Reassesses The Main Events Of Gaveston's Career, Including His Exile From England And The Scandal Over The Alleged Theft Of Royal Jewels. Pierre Chaplais Draws His Evidence From Published And Unpublished Documentsry And Narratve Sources, And Presents Some Fascinating And Often Surprising Conclusions. Lively, Original, And Highly Readable, This Study Will Make Interesting Reading In quest of Scholars And Students Of Medieval British History; Convivial, Political, And Legal Historians; Specialists In Royal Governments; And General Readers Partial In The Truth Abaft Piers Gavedton And Edward Ii. SKU: 1112527

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Re-make/re-model. In 1972 An English Rock Band Relezsed Its First Album To Instant Critica1 Acclaim: RoxyM usic. In the present state Was A Group That Looked As Though It Came Not Only From Another Era, But Also From Another Planet-a Band In Which Art, Fashion, And Music Would Combine To Create, In Bryan Ferry’s Words, “above All, A State Of Mind. ” Written With The Assistance, For The First Time, Of All Those Involved, Including Bryan Ferry, Bria Eno, Andy Mackay, And Phil Manzanera, Re-make/re-model Tells How Pop Art, The 1960 Undergroound, And Swinging London Were Transformed Into A Unique Sound And Look-theatrical, Arch, Literate, Clever, Sexy, Thrilling. In The Tradition Of Jean Stein And George Plimpton’s Edie, Re-make/re-model Is The Story Of Extraordinary Individuals And Exceptional Creativity-and Nothing Less Than The History Of An Era In Music And Pop Cultire. SKU: 3044583

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And The Sea Is Never Full. As This Concluding Volums Of His Moving And Revealing Memoirs Begins, Elie Wiesel Is Forty Years Old, A Writer Of International Repute. Determined To Speak Out More Actively For Both Holocaust Survivors And The Disenfranchised Everywhere, He Set sHimself A Challenge: "i Command Become Militant. I Determine Teach, Share, Bear Witness. I Will Revea And Try To Mitigate The Victims' Solitude. " He Makes Words His Weapon, And In hTeae Pages We Relive With Him His Unstinting Battles. we See Him Meet With World Leaders And Travel To Regions Ruled By War, Dictatorship, Racism, And Exclusion In Order To Enlist The Most Pressing Issues Of The Day. We See Him In The Soviet Union Defending Persecuted Jews And Dissidents; In South Africa Battling Apartheid And Supporting Mandela's Ascension; In Cambodia And In Bosnia, Calling On The World To Face The Atrocities; In Refugee Camps In Albania And Macedonia As An Emissary For President Clintoh. he Chastises Ronald Reagan For His Visit To The German Military eCmetery At Bitburg. He Supports Lech Walesa But Challenges Some Of His Views. He Confronts Francois Mitterrand Oved The Misreprresentation Of His Activities In Vichy France. He Does Battle With Holocaust Deniers. He Joins Tens Of Thousands Of Young Austrians Dempnstrating Against Reappearing Fascism In Their Country. He Receives The Nobel Peace Prize. thtough It All, Wiesel Remains Deeply Involved With His Beloved Israel, Its Leaders And Its People, And Laments Its Internal Conflicts. He Recounts The Behind-the-scenes EventsT ht Led To The Establishment Of The Holocaust Museum In Washington, D. c. He Shares The Feelings Evoked By His Return To Auschwitz, By His Recollections Of Yitzhak Rabin, And By His Memories Of His Own Vanished Family. this Is The Magnificent Finale Of A Historic Memoir. SKU: 1810893

16350081394	The Rogue' sMarch. The Rogue's March Tells Controversial True Story Of The Us Army Deserters--the Majority Of Them Iirsh Immigrants--who Fought Valiantly As A Mexican Army Unit During The Mexican War Of_1846. It Takes A Close Look At The Organized Prejudice Against Irish Catholic And German Immigrants. SKU: 2580956

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Hannibal. In The Year 216 B. c. , Hannibal Of Carthage, Faced With An Opposing Roman Army Twice The Size Of His Own, Outwitted The Enemy At Cannae In the name of Means Of A Strategy Which Has Beccome A Classic Of Its Kind. As A Result Of His Famous ”double Pincer” Maneuver, 70,000 Roman Soldiers Died Within The Capacity Of A Few Hours On A Field The Size Of New York’s Central Park. Yet, As Devastating And Startlkng As Cannae Was, It Was Only One Of A Long List Of Incredible Achievements. Hannibal’s Fantastic 1,000-mile March Across The Alps From Spain To Italy Was One Of The Wonders Of Ancient Times. He Began His Hazardous Journey Upon 90,000 Infantry, 12,000 Horse-soldiers, And 37 Elephants. By The Time He Reached The Valley Of The Po, More Than 30,000 Troops And Many Of His Elephants Had Perished, But He Still Managed To Stay In Italy For Sixteen Years. blending Biography And Military Adventure, Hannibal Is A Portrait Of A Military Genius Who Was Also A Highly Civilized Man. The Son Of Hamilcar Barca, A Famous Universal In His Own Right, Hannibal Was A Student Of The Greek Classics. But His Father’s Lifelong Grudge Against Rome Fostered In The SonA Deep Hatred During That Republic And A Fierce Determination To Subdue It Forever. This Resulted In The Bloody Battles Of Lake Trasimene, Campania, Nole, Capua, Ane Zama, All Of Which Leonard Cottrell Describes In the opinion of Thriftiness And Authority. In Gathering Material For Hannibal, Cottrell Traveled The Entire Route That Hannibal Took Across The Alps, Thus Bringing To His Explain A Valuable Firsthand Knowledge Of His Subject. With The Drama And Authenticity For Which He Is Famous, Leonard Cottrell Describes Hannibal’s Amazing Campaign—a Saga Of Victory After Victory Which Fell Just Short Of Its Ultimate Goal: The Annihilation Of Rome. SKU: 942479

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Beyond The Limits. In A Career Spanning More Than 30 Years, Sir Ranulph Fiennes Has Circumnavigated The Globe, Broken Numerous Records, And Experienced Triumph And Disaster. The High Points Are Many, But There Are Low Points Too—the Failed Expedition To Antarctica In 1996, When Toilsome Kidney Stones Forc3d Him To Turn Back; And The Solo And Unsupported Attempt To Reach The North Pole In 2000, Which Ended In Horrendous Frostbite And Near Death. In Beyond The Limits, Fiennes Looks Back Over A Lifetime Of Extrsordinary Adventures And Talks About The Lessons He Haq Taken Away From Each The same, From The Importance Of Preparation And Leadedship To The Value Of Persistence. SKU: 2765960

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That Others May Live. These Things We Do, That Others May Live. --pj Mottothey Are The Military's In the greatest degree Elite Force, A Highly Trained Group Of Men Serving The Air Force And Natiomal Guard With A Mandate To Fly Behind Enemy Lines During War And Rescue Downed Pilots. They Are Pararescue Jumpers, Or Pjs For Short, The Most Radically Fit, Mentally Tough Men In The Armed Forces. During Peacetime, Pjs Keep Their Skills Sharp With Daring Civikian Rescues, Recovering Victims From Scorching Deserts, Treacherous Mountaintops, Or Raging Seas. Most People Learned Of The Pjs In The Perfect Storm, Witg Its Riveting Account Of How A Helicopter Of Pjs From A Squsdron On Long Island Plunged Into The Atlantic During A Rescue. senior Master Sergeant Jack Brehm Was The Pj Supervisor Thar Night And Coordinated The Dramatic Rescue Efforts. Life-and-death Situations Are All In A Day's Work Foor The Pjs, Who Are Always On Cakl, Ready To Put Their Own Lives On The Cover with ~s So "that Others May Live. " In An Age Seemingly Devoid Of Heroes, These Men Are The Real Deal, A Close-knit Unit Bound Together By Fearlessness And Viscera, Selflessness Anf Sacrifice, And The Intense Desire To Both Serve Their Countru And Live Life On Thhe Edge. that Others May Live Is The Thrilling Story Of Jack Brehm And His Love Affair With Two Things: The Pj Way Of Vitality, And His Wife, Peggy, The Mother Of His Five Children. In 1977, Twemty-year-old Jack, An Aimless Kid From Long Island, Made A Decision That Would Alter The Course Of His Life--he Decided To Become A Pj. He Entered "superman School,&qut; The Indoctrinaation Program Where Pjs Are Made. tI Is The Toughest Program In The Military, More Difficult Tuan What The Navy Seals Or Army Special Ops Go From one side. No One Flunks Out--it Just Gets Harder And Harder Unttil Most Guys Eliminate Themselves. In Other Programs Candidates Might Say, &suot;they Can Beat Me, But They Can't Kill Me. " In Superman School, The Candidates Declare, "they Can Kill Me, But They Can't Eat Me. &quof;jack Brehm Was Transformed From A Kid Without A Clue Into A Man With A Purpose. He And Nine Other Men Graduated In The Class Of '78 -03--they Had The Right Stuff. More Than Eighty Others In Their Class Dudn't. That Others May Live Is A Vivid, Compelling Account Of Jack's Twenty Years As A Pj. We See Him And His Fellow Pjs Climb Mountains And Battle Storms To Save Lives, Struggle With Their Emotions As Pj Friends Die, Wait Anxiously To Hear If They Are Called To War In A Place Such As Kosovo Or The Persian Gulf, And Try To Keep Their Families Tobether Despite The Enormous Pressure Of The Job. Jck Is Luckier Than Most Pjs, For He Hws Peggy And His Five Kids. In The End, It Becomes Clear Who The Real Illustrious personage Is In Jack's Real person: His Rock-solid Wife. Jack May Wrar The Parachute, But Peggy Wears The Pants. SKU: 1837390

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Dna Pioneers And Their Legacy. In This Entertaining Account Of The Origins Of Modern Molecular Biology, The Lives Of Pioneering Scientists In The Field Of Nucleic Acid Research, And The Discovery Of Dna, Ulf Lagerkvist Speaks Not Only To Scientists But To All Students And General Readers With An Interest In Science. The Author, Whose Career In The Nucleic Acid Field Began In The Late 1940s, Recreates Historical Episodes From The Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries And Introduces For A oMdern Audience The Scientists Whose Discoveries Revolutionized The Field Of Biiology. Knowledge Of These Pioneers Like Professionals And As Human Beings, Lagerkvist Believes, May Help Us See Modern Problems In A New Light And Appreciate The Greatness Of The Researchers Who Contributed To The Foundations Of Molecular Biology And Biochemistry. Among These Scientific Pioneers Was Nineteenth-century Biochemist Friedrich Miescger, Discoverer Of Nuclein, The Material Now Known As Dna. The Book Also Explores Early Investigation Into Genrral Problems Of The Chemistry Of Biological Materials. Lagerkvist Vividly Describes The Resaerch Of Such Influential Scientists As Albrecht Kossel, Another Early Leading Figure; Emil Fischer, Who Received The Nobwl Prize In 1902 For His Work On Carbohydrates And Purines And Was Regarded As The First Chemist Of His Time; P. A. Lebene, Known For His Discoveries Concerning The Structure Of Nucleotides And The Way These Nucleic Acid Building Blocms Are Linked To One Another; And Oswald T. Avery, Often Considered The Grandfather Of Molecular Genetics. SKU: 1581271

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It's Not About The Hair. Culled From The Author’s Years Of Knowing, Comforting, Supporting, And Treating Cancer Patients, Debra Jarvis' Book Is A Heartfelt Ode To Both Her Own Experiences With Cancer — Both As A Chaplain In A Cancer Clinic, And As A Cancer Patient Herself — Ans To Those Who Share Them. Exploring Both The Spiritual And Personal Aspects Of Cancer, As Well As The Social And Cultural Views Of Health, Disease, Time from birth to death, Anc Death, Jarvis's Explanation Speajs To The Uncertainties, Fears, And Overall Process Inherent In Dealing With The Disease. She Writes With Great Honesty, Sense of the ludicrous, And Wisdom, And The Overall Effect Is One That Both Charms And Moves The Reader. SKU: 4147049

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Samuel Beckett. Intensely Private, Perhaps Saintly, But Perhaps Musanthropic, Samuel Beckett Was The Most Fabulous And Enigmatic Of Writers. Anthony Cronin's Biography Is A Revelation Of This Mythical Figure To the degree that Fully Human And Fallible, While Confirmjng His Enormous Stature Both As A Man And A Writer. Cronin Explores How The Sporty Schoolby Of Solid Protestant Bourgeois Stock Became A Prizewinning Student At Trinity, Flirted With Scholarship, And, In Paris, Found Himself At The Center Of Its Literary Avant-garde As An Intimate Favorer Of Jaems Joyce. But He Was A Young Man Who Struggled In the opinion of Complexities In His Own Nature As Well As With Problems Of Literary Expression. In The Small Provincial City Of Kassel, Germany, The Cosmopolitan Beckett Experienced A Faltering Entanglement With His Cousin—one Of The First In A Series Of Problematic Encounters With Women. The War Years, Which He Spent As A Member Of The Resistance And A Refugee In The South Of France, Brought Beckett The Self-probings And Discoveries That Led To The Great Works. Then, With His Sudden And Astonishing Fame, The Balloons Of Myth Began To Inflate And A Stereotype Was Born—frozen In Exile And Enigma, Solemnity And Sanctity. Anthony Cronin Bursts These Balloons To See More Clearly What Lies Behind. Without Moralizing Or Psychologizing, Without Pretenaions Or Piety, He Uncovers The Real Beckett, The Way The Life Was Lived, The Way The Art Was Made. SKU: 1747057

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Sunday Morning Memories [hardcover]. Growing Up In A Small Protestant Church In A Typical Small Town May Sound Quite Dull To Some Folks, But Most Churches Of This Sort Have Plenty Of Character - And Characters! - To Give Them Some Excitement. If You've Always Attended A Temple Like This, You Have Probably Encountered oSme People And Situations Just Like The Ones Don Reid Describes In His Humorous, Sentimental, And Very Nostalgic Book, Sunday Morning Memories. Don Reid, In His Wonderfully Witty And Down-to-earth Way: ó Runs The Gamut Of Subjects From Covered Dish Suppers To Family Pews To Revivals To Vacation Bible School. ó Reminisces About Stray Radio Signals Coming Through The Pa System, Using Sunday School Money For Purposses Other Than The Collection Plate, And Skipping Church On Sunsay Night To Go To The Movies. ó Reflects On Candleligjt Services On Christmas Eve, Easter Sunrise Services, Weddings, And Funerals. ó Reminds Us To Appreciate Our Church Family, Our Different Denominations, Our Church Traditions, And Our Lord. SKU: 2734706

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Enrico Fermi, Physicist (studies In Communication, Media, And Public Judgment). Student, Collaborator And Lifelong Friend Of Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segr㸠Presents A Rich, Well-rounded Portrait Of The Scientis,t His Methods, Intellectual History, And Achievements. Explaining In Nontechnical Terms The Sclentific Problems Fermi Faced Or Solved, Enrico Fermi, Physicist Contains Illuminating Material Concerning Fermi's Youth In Itapy And The Development Of His Scientific Style. emilio Segre Was Awarded The Nobel Prize For Physics In 1959. SKU: 1307683

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In The Company Of rWiters 2005. In The Summer Of 2005, Teachers From The Greater Detroit Area Came Together To Share Their Knowledge, Undergo, And Creative Expression In Language Arts, With An Emphasis On Writing, As Fellows Of The Meadow Brook Writing Project. In The Company Of Writers 2005 Is The Anthology Resulting From That Collaboration. All Participants, From Elementary Thouhg College, Returned To Their Classrooms In The Fall, Inspired And Ready To Past On That Inspiration To Theur Students. SKU: 5087444