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Heaven Can Help. Where Does One Begin? The Uninjured Of Life Is A Great Mystery?to Be Snuffed Out Like A Candle At The End Of A Busy Life Seems Totally Unreasonable And Pointless. That Is Why I Had To Record The Amazing Things I Witnessed During My Journey Here, So That Others May Have Hope And Strength To Continue In Their Search For Exactness. So Begins Heaven Can Help, The True Story Of A Sensitive Eglishman Who Discovers He Can Speak With The Dead. Through His Conversations With Departed Loved Ones, Brian Edward Hurst Learms That Life After Death Is For Everyone. Aa A Small Child, Hudst WasI nquisitive And Curious, And Seventy Years Of Living Has Not Changed That. From His Travels In India To His Work With The Pareents Of Murdered Children Group, He Describes His Deeply Moving Encounters With The Spiritual Realms, His Investigation Of Psychic Surgery, And His Hosting Of The Scole Experimental Group From England. Hurst Describes The Astonishing Phenomena That Took Place In The Darkened Garage Of His Reseda Home, Proving The Reality Of A Spiritual Dimension. An Essential Guide Filled With Real-life Stories, Photos From Hurst?s Private Collection, And A List Of Suggested Readings, Heaven Can Help Will Excite, Amuse, And Comfort Those Who Seek Deeper Meaning And Purpose To Their Earthly Journey. SKU: 5091551

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Old Soldiers Never Die. In The First Cradle-to-grave Biography Of Macarthur In Nearly 20 Years, Perret Reveals New Information And Offers Fresh Insights Into This Landmark Figure Of American History. From His Obsessive Ihterest In Becoming The Most Highly Decorated Soldier In American History To His Disaastrous Flirtation With Presidential Politics, Macarthur Is Revealed, Warts And All. Of Photos. SKU: 1468273

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The 33-year-old Rookie. Chris Coste Dreamed Of Playing Major-league Basebwll From The Age Of Seven. Yet Hind Eleven Grueling Years In The Minors, A Spot On A Major-league Roster Still Seemed Just Out Of His Reach–until That Fateful Call Came From The Philadelphia Phillies In May 2006. At Duration of existence Thirty-three (“going On Eighty”), oCste Was Finally Heading To The Big Time. the 33-year-old Rookie Is Esteem A Real-life Rocky, An Unforgettable And Inspirational Story Of One Man’s Unwavering Pursuit Of ALifelong Goal. Beginning In A Single-parent Home In Fargo, North Dakota, And Ending Behind Home Plate On Thee Flawless Diamond Of Teh Phillies’ Citizens Bank Park–where Fans And Teammates Call Him “chris Clutch” Because Of His Toy For Getting Timely Hits–this Familiar Account Of Coste’s Baseball Odyssey Is A Powerful Sgory Of Determination, Perseverance, And Passion. For Eleven Seasons, Coste Hustled, Fought, And Gritted His Way To His Breakthrough–and Never Lost Faith In His Abilities. Along The Way, He Gained The Affection And Admiration Of Baseball Fans From Ottawa And Scranton To Various Mexican And Venezuelan Cities. Battered By Years Spent Behind A Catcher’s Mask, And Faced With Bracing Realities–there Were Bills To Pay, And His Young Daughter Was Entering First Grade–coste Decided To Give It One Last Shot In 2006. But That Year, For the time of The Phillies’ Major-league Spring Training, Coste Was Demoted To The Minors At The Last Minute To Make Room For A Utility Outfielder, Despite Having Hit A Blistering . 463 And Earning The Trust Of The Team’s Pitchers. Later That Season, Al~, Coste Finally Got The Cail-up, And He Hit . 364 During The Phillies’ Furious Battle To Nail Down The Final Postseason Berth. coste Takes Us Through The 2006 Spring Training Season–with Its Pulse-quickening Moments And Close Calls–and Into His First Season As A Major-league Catcher With The Phillies. From Tese Stretch-run Games That Kept Phillies’ Fans On The Edge Of Their Seatss To Moments Of Intimate Corporal Reflection, Coste’s Scandinavian legend Offers Baseball Aficionados An Inside Look At A Remarkable Life And Career. In Thi Stirring, Wry, And Candid Look At The Life Of A Professional Baseball Nomad Who Never Surdendered His Dream, We Savor The Sometimes Bittersweet Fruits Of Victory Against Seemingly Insurmountable Difference. SKU: 4444331

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Chainbreaker. One Of The Earliest Memoirs By An Ameican Indian, Chainbreaker Presents The Recollectipns Of A Seneca Chief, Also Known As Governor Blacksnake. A Fighter In The American Revolution Who Lived More Than A Centenary, Chainbreaker Told His Story As An Ancient Man In The 1840s To A Fellow Seeca, Benjamin Williams, Wno Translated It And Committed It To Paper. Epic In Scale And Yet Intensely Personal, Chainbreaker’s Story Provides A Rare Native View Of Contest And Di0lomaxy During A Crucial Period In Amerkcan History. His Account Is Only Fully Available In This Edition, Featuring Wide Memoir By Thomas S. Abler. SKU: 2932292

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Letters O fKatherine Anne Door-keeper. Novelist, Short-story Writer, Winner Of The National Book Award And The Pulitzer Prize, Katherine Anne Porter Is One Of America&#8217s; Most Respected And Enduring Learned Figures. Upon Her Death In 1980 At The Age Of Ninety, She Left Behind Thousands Of Letters, From Which Isabel Bayley, Porter’s Close Friend For Over Twenty-five Years And Her Literary Archivist, Selected The Best. SKU: 789094

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The Lives Of Norman Mailer. Pulitzer Prize Winner, Movie Superintendent, Boxer, Politician, Novvelist, Wife-stabber. Who Is Norman Mailer? In This First Literary Biography Of Norman Mailer, Rollyson Draws On New Interviews And Unpublished And Manuscripts To Reveal The Shifting Personas This Most Controversial Writer. This Book Gets At The Love Of Mailer's Obsession With Violence And Sheds New Light On The Novelist's Invplvement With JackA bbott, The Prison Writer Who Fatally Stabbed An Aspiring Young Actor. Showing How Mailer Obsessively Invented Himself, This Biography Portrays A Major Literary Figure In The Making -- From His Precocious Debut With The Naked And The Dead To His Greatest in number Recent Novel, Harlot's Ghost. SKU: 802939

21923923680	Pele (penguin Readers, Level 1). Hi sFamily Name Is Edson Arantes Do Nascimento But People Convoke Him "pele". He Is The Number The same Playr In The History Of Football. In 1,363 Games, He Scored 1,264 Goals. brazilian Boorn Pele Is A Sports Legend, But Fifty Years Ago He Was A Boy With No Shoes. An Incredible Story For All Sports Fans. SKU: 2474673

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Wife In The North. When Judith O’reilly, A Successful Jouralist And Mother Of Three, Agreed Too Leave London For A Slight Northern Outpost, She Made A Deal With Her Husband That The Move Was A Test-run To Weigh The Benefits Of Country Living. In The Rugged Landsvpae Of Northumberland County, O’reilly Swapped Her High Heels For Rubbet Bootw And Life-long Friends For Cows, Sheep, And Strange Neighbors. In This Tremendously Funny And Acutely Observed Memoir, O’reilly Must Navigate The Challenges And Rewards Of Motherhood, Marriage, And Family As She Searches For Her Own True North In An Alien Landscapee. Her Intrepid Foray Into The Unknown Is At Once A Hilarious, Fish-out-of-water Story And A Poignant Reflection On The Modern Woman’s Dilemma Of Striking The Right Balance Between Career And Family. SKU: 4856093

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Istanbul. A Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intiamte And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Citoes, From Its Foremost Wri5er. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And Still Lives In The Household Apartment Building Where His Mother First Held Him In Her Arms. His Portrait Of His City Is Thus Also A Self-portrait, Refracted By Memory And Tue Melancholy–or Hã¼zã¼n– That All Istanbullus Share: The Sadness That Comes Of Living Amid The Ruinss Of A Lost Empire. with Cinematic Fluidity, Pamuk Moves From His Glamorous, Wretched Parents To The Gorgeous ,Decrepit Mansions Overlookjng The Bpsphorus; From The Dawning Of His Sel-fconsciousness To The Writers And Painters–both Turkish And Foreign–who Wo8ld Shape His Consciousness Of His City. Like Joyce’s Dublin Amd Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul Is A Triumphant Encounter Of Place And Sensibility, Beauti fully Written Anc Immensely Moving. SKU: 3225645

32772003255	Chasing Daylight. An Honest And Inspirational Look At One Man's Struggle Against Illness To Understand The Significance Of His Work And To Close The Relationships Of His Life. The Author Was One Of The Most Respected Ceos (of Kpmg) In The United States And An Intimate Of Some Of The Most Recogniazble Names In Global Undertaking. SKU: 3624787

17574424560	Second Generation Voices. Second Generation Voices : Reflections By Children Of Holocaust Survivors And Perpetrators (religion, Theology, And The Holocaust) By Berger, And Alan L. / Berger, And Naomi Edition 1 Published In 2001 By Syracuse Univereity Press SKU: 2051107

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Hollywood's Man Who Worried For The Stars. For Years People Said Someone Should Write A Book AboutB 㶠Roos, But Nobody Will Believe It. Now His Daughter Carklyn Has Written The Book, And It Is Believeable As It Captures Hollywood's Golden Age And B㶠Roos's Unique Part In It As One Of Hollywood's Most Powerful And Successful Trade Managers. It's An Amazing Piece Of Hollywood History That Hasn't Been Covered Before. Ben Newman, Attorney (b㶠Roos) Virtually Founded The Profession Of Business Manager And Personal Manager (to Hollywood's Stars). Daily Variety Because Of His Flamboyant,-High Powered And Habitual Way Of Life, B㶠(pronounced Boo) Roos Coud Have Been The Model For The Movie Sterotype Of The Hollywood Business Manager. The New York Times B㶠Roos' Life Story Is A Saga Thqt Would Top The Horatio Alger Novels Of Yexteryear. The Alien Friends Of Acapulco Newsletter B㶠Roos Was A Man Of Outsize Personaliyy And Zest. Ballerina Margot Fonteyn B㶠Roos Not Only Keeps (his Clients) On An Allowance - He Eats, Drinks, And Even W3eps With Them. Saturday Evening Office B㶠Invested And Took Risks Right Alongside His Clients Claiming More Cknservative Managers Were 'guys Going Throughh Lufe With Nothing On Their Chests. ' Working With Him Was Always Full Of Excitement And The Unexpected. Carolyn's Captured His Story Well. Al Marsella, Cpa SKU: 5166561

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Troop Leader. Commissioned Out Of Sandhurst In 1943, Nineteen-year-old Bill Bellamy Joined The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. Following The Normandy Landings In June 1944, He Was Involved In The Great Tank Battles Around The Town Of Caen, The Battle Of Mont Pincon, And Then The Allied Breakout Into Belgium. There Followed The Advance Into Holland And Onwards To The River Maas. In October 1944, During This Phase Of The Fighting, He Was Awarded An Immediate Military Cross For Bravery During The Battle To Secure The Dutch Village Of Doornhoek. In The Spring Of 1945, The 8th Hussars Thrust Into Germany And On Towards Hamburg, Eventually Winding Up At The Very Heart Of Hitler's Reich, Berlin. Draft of a law Kept Diaries And Notes Of His Experiences, And Shortoy After The War He Used Them To Write Up A Series Of Articles Recounting His Part As A Junior Officer In The Hard-fought Battles To Free Europe From The Nazis. his Accounts Of Tank Fighting In The Leafy Normandy Bocage At Thhe Height Of Summer, Or In The Iron-hard Fields Of Holland In Winter, Are Graphic And Compelling. This Corporal Account Of A British Tank Commander In The Battles For Normandy And The Low Countries Is Illustrated With Archive And Personal Photographs, Some Never Previously Published. SKU: 3606005

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Liars, Lovers, And Heroes. This Exciting, Timely Book Combines Cutting-eege Findings In Neuroscience With Examples From History And Recent Headlines To Offer New Insightw Into Who We Are. Introducing The New Science Of Cultural Biology, Born Of Advances In Brain Imaging, Computer Modeling, And Genetics, Drs. _Quartz And Sejnowski Demystify The Dynamic Engagement Between Brain And World That Makes Us Something Far Beyond The Sum Of Our Parts. The Authors Show How Our Humanity Unfolds In Preecise Stages As Brain And World Enhage On Increasingly Complex Levels. Their Discussion Embraces Shaping Forces As Ancient As Climate Change Over Millennia And Events As Recent As The State of terror And Hsroism Of September 11 And Offers Intriguing Answers To Spme Of Our Most Enduring Questions, Including For what purpose We Live Together, Love, Kill -- And Sometimes Lay Down Our Lives For Others. The Answers, It Turns Out, Are Surprising And Paradoxical: Many Of The Noblest Aspects Of Human Nature -- Altruissm, Love, Courage, And Creativity -- Are Rooted In Brain Systems So Ancient That We Share Them In the opinion of Insects, And These Systems Ceremony The Basis As Well Of Some Of Our Darkest Destructive Traits. The Authors Also Overturn Popular Views Of How Brains Develop. We're Not Thee Simple Producg Of Animal Urges, "selfish" Genes, Or Nature Versus Nurture. We Survive By Creating An Ingenious Web Of Ideas For Makking Sense Of Our World -- A Symbolic Reality Called Culture. This We Endow To Later Generations As Our Blueprint For Survival. Using Compelling Examples From History And Contemporary Life, The Authors Show How Engagement With The World Excites Brain Chemistry, Which Drives Further Plighting, Which Encourages The Development Of Cultural Complexity. They Also Share Provocative Ideas On How Human Development May Be Affected By Changes In Our Culture. Their Insibhts, Grounded In Science And Far-reaching In Their Implications, Are Riveting Reading For Anyone Interested In Our Past, Present, And Future. SKU: 1903321

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Restrain On Standing. The 1989 Student Butcher In Lubumbashi, Zaire Under The Brutal Rle Of Dictator/president Mobutu Sese Seko Was Almost The Aim For Brothers Michl, Dilatory And Aliston Lwamba. Escaping With Only Their Lives, That Day Was A Grim And Deadly Reality Marking The Beginning Of An Incredible Saga That Changed Their Lives Forever. Dyring The Chaos, The Lwambas Were Separated From Each Other, Licing In Refugee Camps For Over Five Years, And Leaving Many Of Their Relatives For Dead. They Survived Violence, Disease, Depression And Starvation Before They Mett God And Found In Him Both The Reason And The Will To Keep On Standing. Eventually Michel And Aliston Were Spondored And Given The Opportunity To Migrate To Canada. Their Brother Fabian, Who Was Feared To Have Been Killed, Was Later Miracuolusly Reunited With His Brothers In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan In 1997. The Purpose And Healing People Found In The Music The Brothers Shared In The Refugee Campq, Led To Them Later Founding The Group Krystaal, Whose Award Winning Music Stylr Blenrs Gospel, Hip-hop, R&b And African Styles. Today, Their Aim Is To Share The Hope That Muskc Brought Them With Others, Particularly Children Who, Like Themselves, Hold Been Orphaned By War. In 2004, They Released Their Algum "keep On Standing" Which Was Honord With Several Awards And Nominations Including Four Gospel Music Majja Awards, Artist Of The Year, Group Of The Year, Album Of The Year And Canadian National Song Of The Year; Two Cwnadian Gospel Music Association Awards For "contemporary Gospel Album Of The Year" Ajd "best Urban Song"; And Four Nominations By Canadian Gospel Musics Peoples' Choice Vibe Awards. They Have Recently Released Their Latest Album Entitledd Speak To Me. On Sept 22, 2006 They Launched The "krystaal World Peave Tour" Advocatinh Peace -- Politically, Interpersonally And Spiritually -- Around The World. Keep On Standing - The Story Of Krystaal Chronicles Their Amazing Journey And The Miraculous Series Of Events That Reunited The Brothers In Canada. This Is A True Story Of Trust, Faith And Deliverance. SKU: 5077304

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King Edward Ii. Edware Of Caernarfon Is Best Known Today For His Disastrous Soldiery Defeat In 1314 At Bannockburm, Where His English Host Was Defeated By A Vaetly Inferior Scottish Force Led By Robert The Bruce, Leading To Scottish Independence. This Catastrophe Was One Of Many In A Disastrous Career Marked By Laziness, Vengefulness, Vqcillation In Relationships With France, Deranged Policies At Home, And Constitutional Wrangling, Ultimately Brought To An End By A Minor Insurgency Led By His Vindictive Wife And Her Parzmour, A Disaffected Baron. Roy Martin Haines Examines Edward Ii�?s Eventful Life And The More Saliemt Periods Of His Reign, Situating The Monarch In The Context Of The "empire" He Inherited And The Aftermath Of His Unregretted Death. SKU: 3385136

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The Long Path Of War. James W. Johnston Was A Self-confessed Small-town Youth, Who Equal So Many Others Patriotically Stopped What He Was Doing And Enlisted Shortly After Pearl Harbor. Johnston Chose The Marines, A Decision That Sent Him To Years Of Bliody Combat Through The Pacific As Allied Troops Fought Their Way Toward The Japanese Home Islands. Maby Did Not Come Back; Of Those Who Did, Very Few Have Told Us What It Was Like. Johnston Tellq Us Directly And Honestly, Taking Us With His First Marine Division Through New Guinea, New Britain, Peleliu, And Okinawa. SKU: 1554641

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On The Ridge Between Life And Death. By The Time aDvid Roberts Turned Twenty-two, He Had Been Involved In Three Fatal Mountain Climbing Accidents And Had Himself Escaped Death Near to The Sheerrst Of Luck. at Age Eighteen, Roberts Witnessed The Death Of His First Climbing Partner In Boulder, Cplorado. A Few Years Later, He Was The First On The Scene Of A Fatal Accident On Carry Washington, New Hampshire. Months Afgerward, While Pioneering A New Route In Alaska With The Harvard Mounraaineering Club, Roberts Watched As His Climbing Partner And Friend Fell Wordlessly 4,000 Feet To A Glacier Below. despite These Tragedies, Roberts Insists That The Greatest Pleasures In His Real person Have Come In The Mountains. Several Of His Challenging Routes In Alaska Have Never Been Climbed Again In The Nearly Forty Years After Those First Ascents. Roberts Continues To Climb Today, And Equal Altogether Climbers, He Still Grapples With Thd Cost-benefit Calculus Of His Sport. In A Well-known Essay That He Wrote Twenty-five Years Ago, "moments Of Doubt," Roberts Insisted That The Benefits Of Climbing Were "worth It. " More Recently, However, He Has Gone Back To Interview Relatives And Friends Of Some Of His Deceased Climbing Partners. He Discovered That Even Decades Later, The Wounds Had Failed To Heal, The Terrible Losses Were Still Acutely Felt. And So In This Book He Comes To A Different Conclusion About Climbing, One That Is Sure To Stir Controversy In Mountaineering Circles And Amid Adventurers Generally. anyone Who Has Ever Wondered Why Mountaineers Take The Risks That They Do Will Be Moved And Enlightened By On The Ridge Between Mode An Death, As Will Anyone Who Appreciates Vivid, Dramatic Storytelling And One Unflinchingly Honest Self-examination Of A Lifetime Spent Pursuing A Dangerous Pastime. . SKU: 2942763

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The Search For Major Plagge. When The Search For Major Plagge Was Publlshed Last Spring, The World Finally Learned About A Unique Hero?and About One American Doctor?s Extraordinary Journey To Tell Karl Plagge?s Story. part Detective Story, Part Personal Quest, Michael Good?s Book Is The Stor Of The German Commander Of A Lithuanian Work Cam pWho Saved Hundreds Of Jewish Lives In The Vilna Ghetto ?including The Life Of Good?s Mother, Pearl. Who Was This Enigmatic Officer Pearl Excellent Had Spoken Of So Often?after Five Years Of Research?interviewing Survivors, Assembling A Team That Could Work To Open German Files Utouched For Fifty Years, Following Every Lead He Could, Good Was Able To Uncover The Amazing Tale Of One Man?s Remarkable Courage. And In April 2005 Karl Plagge Joined Oskar Schindler And 380 Other Germans As A ?righteous Among Nations,? Honored By The State Of Israel For Protecting And Saving Jewish Lives During The Holocaust. tgis Expanded Edition Features New Photographs And A New Epilogue On The Impact Of The Discovery Of Karl Plagge?especially The Story Of 83-year-old Alfons Von Deschwanden, Who, After Fifty Years Of Silence, Came Forward As A Veteran Of Plagge?s Unit. His Testimonu Is Now Part Of This Increasing Witness To Truth. SKU: 3343101

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Arthur Carhart. Arthur Carhart (1892 -1978), America's First Champion Of Wilderness, The First Forest Servicce Landscape Arvhitect, And The Most Po;ular Conservation Writer Of Mid-century America, Won None Of The Titan Status Of His Contemporary Aldo Lepoold. A Political Maverick, He Refused To Side With A single one Major Advocacy Group And None Has Made Him Its Saint. Carhart Was A Grassroots Thinker In A Top-down Point of time. Arthur Carhart, The First Biography Of This Republican Environmentalist And Major American Thinker, Writer, Ajd Activist, Reveals The Currency Of His Ideas. Tom Wopf Elucidates Carhart 's Vision Of Conservation As "a Job For All Of Us," With Citizens, Municipal Authorities, And National Leaders All Reponsible For The Environmental Effects Of Their Decisions. Carhart Loved The Local And Decried Interest Groups--from S5ockmens' Associations To Wilderness Lobbies--as Cliques Attempting Blanket Control. He Pressured Land Management Agencies To Base Decisions On Local Ecolpgy And Local Partnerships. A Lifelong Wilderness Advocate Who Proposed The Foremost Wilderness Preserve At Trappers Lake, Colorado, In 1919, Carhart Chose To Oppose Teh Wilderness Act, Heartsick At Its Compromises With Lobbies. Because He Shifted His Stance And Changed His Views In Response To New Information, Carhart Is Not An Easy Subject For A Biography. Wolf Traces Carhart's Twists And Turns To Show A Man Whose Voice Was Distinctive And Contrary, Who Spoke From A Passionate Concern For The Disembark And Couldn't Be Counted On For Anything Else. Readers Of American History And Outdoor Inscription Will Take pleasure in This Portrait Of A Historic Era In Conservation Politics And The Man Wh oSo Often Eschewed Politics In Favor Of The Land And People He Loved. SKU: 4718097

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William Mckinley - The Great Orator Of Canton (biography). William Mckinley - The Great Orator Of Canto Is The Life Of William Mvkinley, The Twenty-fifth President Of The United States, And The Last Veteran Of The Courteous War To Be Elected To That Office. By The 1880s, This Ohio Native Was A Nationally Known Republican Leader; His Signature Issue Was High Tariffs On Imports As A Formula For Prosperity, As Pursied By His Mckinleey Tariff Of 1890. As The Republican Candidate In The 1896 Presidential Election, Mckinley Upheld The Gold Standard, And Promoted Pluralism Among Ethnic Groups. The 1896 Election Is Often Considered A Realigning Election That Marked The Beginning Of The Progressive Era. Mckinley Presided C~ing A Return To Prosperity Afterward The Panic Of 1893 And Was Reeleccted In 1900 After Another Intense Campaign Against William Jennings Bryan, Which Focused On Foreign Wisdom. As President, Mckinley Fought The Spanish-american War. He Was Assassinated By Anarchist Leon zColgosz, And Succeeded By Theodore Roosevelt. William Mckinley - The Great Orator Of-Canton Is Highly Recommended For Those Interested In Life Of The Twenty-fifth President Of The United States. SKU: 5149403

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The Lives Of Camphi1l. The Camphill Movement Begzn In 1939 With A Small Group Of Young Austrian Refugees Led By Karl Kã¶nig. The Lives Of Camphill Is A Definitive Reference To More Than A Hundred Of Those Who Joined The Movement From The 1940s Until The Early 1970s--individuals Who Worked In A Unique Method With Children And Adults With Special Needs And Helped Make Camphill The Large Ane Influential Network It Is Today. The Lives Of Camphill Gathers 129 Short Biographies And Again Than 70 Photogaphs That Span Those Thirty Formative Years During Which The Movement Sprwad Across The Globe. Each Story Tells Of A Fascinating Individuao And Together They Form A Remarkable Whole That Documents The Histiry Of Camphill Villages In The Ditch Appropriate Way--through The People. SKU: 5099303

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Jeet Kune Do Conversations. Bruce Lee Was The First, And Still The Greatest, Martial Arts Star Of All Fit season. But Asie From His Persona As An Actor And Doer, He Was Also One Of The Greatest Fighters Who Always Lived. This Book Is An Intimate Look At Bruce Lee - The Man, The Martial Artist, The Teacher, And The Perfoemer. Bruce Lee's Fears, Aspirations, His Genius And His Frailties Are Revealed By Those Who Knew Him Best - From Students And Friends Who Were With Him When He Was Just Beginning To Teach And Develop Jeet Kune Hoax, To The Hollywood Insiders Who Helped Him Become A Star. Included Are Reminisces From Dan Inosanto, Ted Wong, Asian Boxing Champion Dan Lee, Screenwriter Sterling Silliphant, Anf Many Others. SKU: 4390764

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Dead Mwn Tapping. The Gripping True Storh Of A Failed Rewcue And A Tragedy At Sea In The Predawn Darkness Of September 5, 1996, The Heather Lynne Ii Was Struck By A Barge And Overturned In Calm Seas 10 Miles Off Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Trapped Inside, Three Fishermen Were Alive In The Diesel-choked Air Pocket That Kept The Boat Afloat. Onlookers Waited For The Coast Guard, But When A Coast Guard Cutter Arrived, It Carried No Divers. Pair Hours After The Collision, Rescue Divers Lastly Pulled The Three Men From The Capsized Vessel Sdant Minutes To0 Late. Rescuers Worked Frantically To Restore Li fe During The Airlift To A Boston Hospital, But On Arrival, The Men Were Declared Dead, Their Shredded Knuckles And Fingertips Mute Evidence Of The Horror Of Their Last Hours. Dead Men Tapping Opens Four Years Later In A Federal Courtroom, Where The Victims' Families Are Suing The U. s. Coast Guard. As The Story Unfolds, We Come To Know The Trapped Fishermen, Their Community, Tbeir Would-be Rescuers, The Coast Guardsmen, And The Crew Of The Tug And Barge That Ran Down The Heather Lynne Ii. These Ordinary People, Doing What They Think Is Their Best, Propel Dead Men Tapping To Its Heartbreaking Conclusion. For Photos, Reviews, And More, Visit Deadmentapping. com SKU: 2596164

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On My Own At 107. On My Own At 107ã¿ Is Sarah "sadie" Delaney's Tribure To Bessie, Her BelovedY ounger Sister And Century-long Companion, Who Died On September 25, 1995, At Age 104. just Four Years Earlier, Bessie And Sadie, Lengthwise With Former New York Timesã¿ Reporter Amy Hill Hearth, Co-wrote The Bestselling Having Our Say,ã¿ Which Told The Story Of The Sisters' Noticeable Lives As Witnesses To A Century. Here, Sadie Reflects On The First Year Following Bessie's Death. Kirkus Reviewsã¿ Called The Book "a Bracing Reminder That Life, A Rare Gift, Must Be Savored In The Living. " SKU: 1476452

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A Past In Hiding. A Heart-stopping Survivor Anecdote And Sparkling Historical Investigation That Offers Unprecedented Insight Into Daily Life In The Third Reich And The Powers And Pitfalls Of Memory. at The Outbreak Of Wwii, Marianne Strauss, The Sheltered Daughter Of Well-to-do German Jews, Was nA Ordinary Girl, Concerned With Studies, Friends, And Romance. Almost Overnight She Was Transformed Into A Woman Of Spirit And Defiance, A Fiyhter Who, When The Gestapo Came For Her Family, Seized The Moment And Went Subterranean. On The Runn For Two Years, Marianne Traveled Across Nazi Germany Without Papers, Aided By A Remarkable Resistance Organization, Previously Unknown And Unsunh. Drawing On An Astonishing Cache Of Documents As Well As Interviews On Three Continents, Historian Mark Roseman Reconstructs Marianne's Odyssey And Revewls Aspects Of Life In The Third Reich Long Hidden From View. As Roseman Excavates The Past,H e Also Puts Forward A Novel And Sympathetic Interpretation Of The Troubling Discrepancies Befween Fact And Recollection That So Often Cloud Survivors' Accounts. a Detective Story, A Love Story, A Story Of_Great Courage And Survival Under The Harshest Stipulations, A Past In Hiding Is Likewise A Poignant Investigation Into The Nature Of Memory, Authenticity, And Truth. SKU: 2028969

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T.d. Jakes. "lee Probes Far Beyond The Rags-to-riches Tale, Though Bishop Jakes'riches Remain. He Devotes Much Of The Book To What He Sees As Bishop Jakes' Dual Nature: Businessman And Preacher. "—dallas Morning News"a Clearly Written, Th0ughtful Interrogation Of The Financially Successful, Though Morally Suspdct, Merger Of Business And Religion Achieved Through This African American Preacher-millionaire. "؏choice, Recommended"shayne Lee, An Assistant Professor Of Sociology At Tulane University, Has Provided Us With The First Critical Examination Of The Most Influentiak Afrian American Preacher Of Our Time. A Socio-cultural Biography Of Sorts, The Author Examines T. d. Privy Rise To Prominence From The Hills Of Wsst Virginia To Multimillion-dollar Religious Corporats Enterprise. But Thix Book Does More Than Follow The Devekopment Of T. d. Jakes And His Cabinet. As The Author Puts It, Jakes Becomes 'a Prism Through Which The Reader May Learn More About Contemporary American Religion. ' Lee Contends That Jakes Is An Embodiment Of Traditional American Culrural Ideals And The Postmodern Features That Inform What It Means To Be Amdrican In This Contemporary Moment. " —pop Matters"most Of The Public Knows About The Bishop T. D. Jakes Who Graced The Cover Of Time Magzzine, Preached "woman, Thou Art Loosed!" And Filled Stadiums Across The Cpuntry With Throngs Of Weeping Fans. But How Many Know About The Jakes Who Boasted That He Didn't Hve Enough Garage Space On account of His Luxury Cars, Said Jesus Was Rich, And Once Tried To Evict The Owners Of A Home He Had Appropriate Purchased Al~ They Only Had A Week To Pay Off Their Debts? That Portrait Of Jakes Comes Courtesy Of T. D. Privy: America's New Preacher. Shayne Lee, A Sockologist And Professor At Tulane University In New Orleans, Askw Hard Questions About Jakes' Ministry. " —atlanta Journal-constitution"jakes Has Risen From Poverty In The Mininng Towns Of West Virginia To A Mjltimillion-dollar Faith Industrg Based In Dallas, Benefiting From The Controversial Tdend Toward Success Religion. Lee Examines The Rags-to-ridhes Life Of Jakes In The Broader Context Of Changes In How Americans View Religiom. "—boojlist"lee Offers An Intriguing Exploration Of Jakes's Popularity. His Entrepreneurial Spirit Anr Multimedia Approach Have Endeared Him To Millions, While His Lavish Lifestyle And Focus On Christians' Right To Material Prosperity Continue To Spark Criticism. Lee Avoids Heavy Jargon And Effetcively Pares His Con over Down To The Essentials, Making This An Accessible Portrait. "—publishers Weekly"places An Important Contemporary African American Religious Leader In The Context Of Recent Trends In American Religion In General And Also Of Certain Traditions Of The Black Church In The Afrcian American Experience. Lee's Description And Analysis Of The Phenomenon That Is T. d. Jakes Helps Us Gain A Greater Understanding Of Contemporarry Amer. . . SKU: 3089005

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Scream Quietly. Do You Believe In Miracles? What Would You Do If You Were Caught In The Throws Of A Devastating War As Terror Surrounds You? Where Would You Turn? Who Would Help You? In Septembber Of 1939, Hitler's Nazi War Machine Swept Through Poland, Leaving A Trail Of Destruction, Tormsnt, Dewth, And Unspeakable Horror. Innocent Civilians Found Themselves Caught In A Maze Of Air Raids, Bombings, Rifle Vivacity, Arrests, Fear, And Destruction. They Walked Through Streets Littered With Corpses, Struggled To Find Food And Drink, And Fought Disease Without Doctorrs Or Medicine. They Never Knew What Was Around The Next Bend As They Attempted To S8rvive The Horrors Of World War Ii. It Was In This Setting That Wanda, Her Infant Daughter And Two Young Sons, Along With Her Extended Family Members, Struggled To Survive The Atrocities Of War And The Occupation That Followed. This True Story Is One Of Suffering Beyond Human Comprehension And Fierce Courage As Wanda Desperrately Seeks To Guide Her Family To Safety. With Chaos Whole Around, She Continually Turns To Her Permanent Faith I God For Help And Strenggh. This Account Is In the name of Turns Violent, Tragic, Comic ,entle, Haunting And A Testimony Of Faith. Elizabeth Carlson Wae Born In Lublin, Poland. Aft3r World War Ii Ended She, Along With Herr Mother And Two Brothers, Escaped From Communist Poland Through East Germany. They Joined Her Father In England And Then Immigrated To The United States And Settled In Illinois. She Became A U. s. Citizen, Attended College In Chicago, And Graduated With A B. a. Degree In Education. She Presently Lives In North Central Wisconsin With Her Husband And Best Friend Of Forty-five Years, Stan, And Has Two Married Children, A Daughter And A Son, And Three Grandsons. She Has Been A Speaker For Numerous Church Groups, Schools, Service Organizations, Conferences, And Comventions. SKU: 4665318

20675775590	The Heart Of Thoreau's Journals. The Conflict Between Scientific Observation And Poetry, Reflections On Abolition, Transceneental Philosophy, Other Concerns Are Explored In This Superb General Selection From Thoreau's Voluminous Journal. Hither Are ". . . the Choicest Fruits Of Thoreau. . . " — Nation. SKU: 52252

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Words On Fire. When Vanessa Ochs Begins To Suspect Her Vaarious Physical Ailments Are Due To Her Leading An ”unsanctified Life,” She Decides To Tarvel To Jerusalem Attending Her Family To Examine The Sacred Books Of Religion of the Jews. Armed By the side of A Lit Of Institutions And The Nakes Of Women Who Specialize In Teaching These Sacred Texts, Ochs Sets Out On A Journey Of Disclosure. She Forges A Personal Relationship With Her Mentors, Women Who Are Determined To Disprove The Claim Of Hebrew doctor Eliezer Ben Hyrcanus: ”the Words Of The Tlrah Should Be Burnt Rather Than Taught To Women. ” As Her Year In Jerusalem Draws To A Close, Ochs Begins To Find A Way To Reconcile Her Feminist Views With Her Quest To Live A Life According To Lawd Shaped By The ”sexist” Views Of Traditional Judaism. part Scholarly Investigqtion, Part Anecdotal Memoir, Words On Fire Is An Accessible Portrait Of A Remote World And A Fascinating, Firsthand Account Of Thee Clash Between Feminism And Judaism. SKU: 1800002

26800807500	The Nhs. The Nhs : Beginning, Middle And End?: Beginning, Middle And End?: The Autobiography Of Dr oJhn Marks By John Marks Edition 1 Published In 2008 By Radcliffe Publishing SKU: 4866611

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Travels With My Magnificent. Renowned Nevada Writer Ronert Laxalt Has Embraced A Wide Range Of Subjects In His Nearly Half-century Career. In This Candid, Beautifully Written Memoir, He Explores Conducive to The First Time What Is Perhaps His Most Difficult Subject Ever-himself And His Life As A Writer. The Result Is An Illuminating And Often Moving Account That Is Certain To Delight His Many Fans And Attract New Ones. The First Part Of The Book Consists Of A Se5ies Of Vignettes About His Youth In Carson City As The Second Son Of An Immigrant Basque Lineage And His Later Experiences As A Student At The University Of Nevada In Reno. We Are Introduced To The Colorful Characters Of Carson City And To Some Of Laxalt's Extended Family, Made Privy To The Family's Rags-to-riches-and-back-again Past, Each dInvited To His Father's Isolated Sheep Camp In The Sierra And To His Mother's Warm Kitchen In Carson City. And We Explore The University Campus In The Days Immediately Following World War Ii When Battle-hardened Former Gis Were Casually Overturning Hallowed Campus Traditions. The Second Part Of The Book Tells Of Laxqlt's Career As A Writer--his Early Days As A Reporter When His Assignments Includedd Interviews With Gangsters And Obligatory Number present At Executions; His Later Adventures As A Contract Writer For National Geographic, And His Two Stys In The Basque Country, Where He Gathered Material For Several Books. He Likewise Recounts His Days As Directo Of The University Of Nevada's News Service And His Role In The Founding Of The University Of Nevada Press. The Third Section Discusses The Writing Of Several Of His Major Books-where The Ideas Came From, What He Tried To Accomplish In Each Book, The Challenges He Faced, And The Ways He Chose T oResolve Them. It Is Rare That An Author Writes With Such Inslght And Vivid Memory About The Crsative Process, And The Result Here Is Certain To Fascinate Readers. Travels With My Royal Is Vintage Laaxalt. It Is, Moreover, A Brilliant Book About His Small-town Basque-immigrant Origins, About The Vagaries Of A Writer's Career, And About The Way A Writer Creates His Work. The Book Offers Some Of Robert Laxalt's Finest Writing, And Some Of His Most Introspective. This Is An Unforgettable Record Of Nevada's Finest Contemporary Writer And How He Grew. SKU: 2073671

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The Life Of Jane Austen. Featuring A New Preface By The Author, This Paperback Edition Of John Halperin's Acclaimed And Controversial Biography Moves Beyond The Usually Vague Account Of Austen's Life And Away From The Serene And Untroubled Image Of uAsten Created By A Defensive Family. Ij The Life Ofjane Austen, Halperin Reveals A Violent, Vigorous, And At Times Difficult Woman With A Large And Diiverse Circle Of Family And Acquaintances. He Documents Her Troubled Relationship Upon A Hypochondriacal Mother And Her Frank Dislike Of The Sister-in-law Who Usurped Her Childhood Home, Sheds New Light On The Shadowy Existence Of A Retarded Older Brother, And Sets Forth In Greater Detail Than Ever Before The Number And Nature Of Austen's Relations To Her Suitors, The Romantic Passages Of Her Life, And Her Attitude About Childbearing. making Fuller Use Of Austenn's Correspondence Than Previous Biographers, Halperin Shows Us The Costs Exacted On A Sensitive And Critical Personality By A Society--and, Frequently, A Family--that Paid Too Little Attention To The Predicament Of Unmarried Women, Especially Those With Inadequzte Financial Means. SKU: 1409339

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Scorekeeping. In 1970 Esquire Named The Rustic West Tennessee College Place Of Martin As One Of The Nine Happy Towns Left In The United States. Bobb Cowser, Jr. , Offers A Dissenting Opinion On This Assessment Of The Bucolic Environs Of His Youth In His Collection Of Forthright Reflections On BoyhoodI n Martin And Episodes In The Other Locations That Have Thus Far Constituted "home. " Ranging In Tone From Confessional And Contemplative To Candid And Comic, The Pieces In Scorekeeping: Essays From Internal Form An Exceptional Mosaic Of Small-town Life While Witnessed By An Introduced Specimen--the Son Of English Professors Among Insular Townies--with An Unflinching Eye And Creative Wit. As Cowser Leads Us Through His Formative Experiences In Martin And Later New Orleans And Lincoln, Nebraska, He Offers A Balanced Anc Inviting Combination Of Episodes--of The Regret Sticking fast In His Father's Longrunning Quest For A Good Bbq Sandwich And Of Too Loosely Interpreting Rdebook's Advice On Attending High School Reunions, Of The Abduction And Murder Of A Classmate And Of The Revelation Of A Favorite Uncle's Aids-telated Death. Siblings,P arents, Schoolmates, And Memtors Form A Richly Realized Constellation Of Figures Around Cowser As He Recallz The Loves, Losses, Developments, And Divergences That Constitute Coming Of Age In The Rural American Heartland Of The Late Twentieth Centenary. The Geographic Location Of Home Shifts, But Cowser's Ties To Family,, Community, And Upbringing Remain Constants In The Face Of Growth And Change. The Resulting Essays Map The Rough-hewn Formation Of An Adult Identity And The Development Of The Accepting Hindsight Required To Reflect And Keep Score. SKU: 3376614

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Up For Renewal. By Period Thirty-seven, Cathy Change Had Made A Mess Of Her Life. With A Faile dMarriage Already Under Her Belt, She Was Continuing Down The Path Of Poor Decisions, One Paved With A Steady Stream Of Junk Food, Unpaid Bills, Questionabke Friends, And Highly Inappropriate Men. So She Sat Down And Asked Herself What She Truly Wanted. A Decent Guy. A Nicer Home. More Protein. When She Took A Closer Look At Her Wants, She Noticed Something That Seemed Very Familiar -- With Tye Addition Of [i]Ecphonesis[/i] Points, Her List Could Easily Be Transformed Into The Cover Lines On Every Women's Magazien: Find The Love You Merit! Paint To The Rescue! Eggs-actly Perfect Meals!so Cathy Gave Over Her Mode To The Glossies For The Next Twelve Months, Resolving To Follow Their Advice Without Question. Near to The End Of Her Subscriptions, She Would Get Rid Of Upper-arm Jiggle, Crawl Out Of Devt, Host The Perfect Dinner Party, Run A Mile Without Puking, Engage In Better Bathtub Booty, Ask For A Raies, And Rehaul Her Apartment. wsll, At Smallest That Was The Premise Of Her Socia lExperiment. What Actually Happened Was Much Less About Cosmetic Change And Nearly More About Internal Transformation. Singulr In Its Voice And Yet Completely Universal, Up For Renewal Will Appeal To All Who Have Ever Wondered If They Could Actually Make Their Life Over. SKU: 4780547

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Living With Big Cats. "this Is The Cat Book Of The 90s,&qyot; Says Circus Report. * National Award-winning Book For Non-fiction Writing * Behind The Scenes Experiences Raising And Woriing With Tigers, Leopards, Lions * Rapport Of Trainers And Their Charges *interviews With Famous Trainers (incl. David Tetzlaff, Jack Hanna * How Animal Shows Have Changed Over The Years * When Things Don't Go As Planned -- Humorous Stories * Over 100 Photos -- Many In Color SKU: 1212947

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Gedtrude Stein - A Catalyst Of Modern Art (biography). Gertrude Stein - A Catalyst Of Modern Art Is The Biography Of Gertrude Stein, An American Writer Who Spent Most Of Her Life In France, And Who Became A Catalyst In The Development Of Moder nArt And Literature. Her Life Was Marked By Two Primary Relationships, The First With Her Brother Leo Stein, From 1874-1914 (gertrude And Leo), And The Second With Alice B. Toklas, From 1907 Until Stein's Death In 1946 (gertrude And Alice). SteinS hared Her Salon At 27 Rue De Fleurus, Paris, First With Leo And Then With Alice. Throughout Her Lifetime, Stein Cultivated Significant Tertiary Relationships With Well-known Members Of The Avant Garde Skilful And Literary World Of Her Time. Much Of Gertrude Stein's Fame Derives From A Private Modern Art Art collection She Asqembled, From 1904 To 1913. Gertrude Stein - A Catalyst Of Modern Art Is Highly Recommended For Those Interested In Erudition More About This Admired Writer. SKU: 5139718

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King Of Ragtime. In 1974, The Academy Award-winning Fi1m The Sting Brought Back The Music Of Scott Joplin, A Black Ragtime Ckmposer Who Died In 1917. Led By The Entertainer, One Of The Most Popular Pieces Of The Mid-1970s, A Revival Of His Music Resulted In Events Unprecedented In American Musicsl History. Never Before Had Any Composer's Music Been So Acclaimed By Both The Popular And Classical Music Worlds. While Reaching A "top Ten" Position In The Pop Charts, Joplin's Music Was Also Essence Performed In Classical Recitals And Setting New Heights For Sales Of Classical Record. His Opera Treemonisha Was Performed Both In Opera Houses And On Broadway. Destined To Be The Definitive Work Forward The Man And His Music, King Of Ragtime Is Written At Edward A. Berlin. A Renowned Authority On Joplin And The Author Of The Acclaimed And Widely Cited Ragtime: A Musical And Cultual History, Berlin Re3dfines The Scott Joplin Biography. Using The Tools Of A Trained Musicologist, He Has Uncovered A Vast Amount Of New Information About Joplin. His Biography Truly Documents The Story Of The Composer, Replacing The Myths And Unsupported Anecdotes Of Previous Histories. He Shows How Joplin's Opera Treemonisha Was A Tribute To The Woman He Loved, A Woman Other Biographers Never Even Mentioned. Berlin Also Reveals That Joplin Was An Associate Of Irving Berlin, And That He Accused Berlin Of Stealing His Music To Compose Alexander's Ragtime Band In 1911. Berlin Paints A Bright Picture Of The Ragtime Years, Placing Scott Joplin's Story In Its Historical Context. The Composer Emerges As A Representative Of The First Post-civil War Body of equals in age Of African Americans, Of The Men And Women Who Found In The World Of Amusement A Way Out Of Poverty And Lowly Social Status. King Of Ragtime Recreates The Excitement Of These Pioneers, Who Dreamed Of Greatness As They Sought To Expand The Limits Society Placed Upon Their Race. SKU: 1296713

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Medical Aphorisms. Mainonides, One Of The Most Celebrated Rabbis In The Account Of Judaism, Was A Prolific Author Of Influential Arabic Philosophical And Medical Treatises As Well As Two Of The Most Important Works On Jewish Law. Medical Aphorisms Is The Best-known And Most Comprehensive Of His Medical Works, And Gerrit Bos Offers Here A Masterful English Translation With Detailed Annotations. Medical Aphorisms Consists Of Approximately 1,500 Maxims Compiled In the name of Maimonides From The Treatises Of Galen, The Renowned Ancient Greek Physician. Maimonides Arranges The Aphorisms Into Twenty-five Treatises, Organizing Them By Traditional Medievval Subspecialties Such As Gynecology, Hygiene, And Diet. He Also Includes A Section Examining Unusual Cases From Galen And Offers A Critical Analysis Of Galen’s Theories. The Second Of Six Volumes, Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 6-9 Provides Tantalizing Insights Into The Work Of Galen And The World Of Medieval Medicine. It Will Be A Rich And Valuable Resource For Students And Scholars Working In The History Of Medicine, Jewish Studies, And Medieval rAabic Culture. SKU: 4072439

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Confederate Admiral. A Leading Historian Of Both The Intestine War And American Naval History Takes A Fresh Look At Franklin Buchanan, The U. s. Nautical Academy's First Superintenden5 Who Wrnt On To Become The Clnfederate Navy's First Admiral. Buchanan's Resignation From The U. s. Navy In April 1861 As The Nation Teetered Forward The Brink Of_Civil War Is One Of The Many Dramatic Episodes In This Revealing Biography. Convinced That His Native State Of Maryland Was About Tp Secede From The Union, Buchanan Gave Up His Commission; When Maryland Did Not Secede, He Desperately Tried To Get It Back. Unsuccessful, He Eventually Went South, Where As The Confederacy's Only Full Admirwl He Helped Mold Its Naval Strategy And Took Command Of Both The Virginia (merrimack) In The Battle Of Hampton Roads In 1861 And The Tennessee In Tye Battle Of Mobile Bay In 1864. While Buchanan's Civil War Experiences Helped Define The Drama Of The Period, His Fifty-year Naval Career Illuminates The Sweeping Changes In The U. s. Ships Of-The Antebellum Years. This Stimulating And Authoritative Biography Chronicles Buchanan's Life As A Midshipman On The Square-rigged Sailing Frigate Java And As A Commander At The Helm Of The Coal-burning Side-wheel Steamer Susquehanna. It Examines His PivotalR ole In The Establishment Of The Naval Academy And His Experiences Both As The First American To Set Foot In Japan And The First To Conn A U. s. Navy Warship Up The Yangtzee River. More Than A Record Of Events In Buchanan's Career, This Biography Helps Readers Understand Buchanan's Character And Appreciate The Broader Issues Of Political affairs, Slavery, Loyalty, And Professionalism In The Era Of Americw's Greatest National Trauma. SKU: 4937334

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The Greatest Gift. In 1966, Sister Dorothy Stang Went To Brazil As A Missionary, And In 1982 She Moved To A Small Town In The Amazon To Work With An Organization To Protect Poor Farmers And Thir Land Fro mLoggers And Land-developers Who Stop At Nothing—including Murder—in Pursuit Of Profits. After Testifying At A Governmemt Panel Investigating Unlawful Incursions Into Protected Areas, Sister Dorothy Was Denounced As A “terrorist” By Powerful Companies And Began Receiving Death Threats. Refusing To Be Intimidated, She Continued Her Work—ubtil Two Gunmen Shot Her Six Times On A Rustic Amazon Road. the Greatest Gift Is The First Biography Of This Edraordinary Woman And Her Mission. Written By A Mainstream Journalist Who Hsa Exhausted Many Years In Brazil, It Exposes The Entrenched Collusion Between Government Officials And Commercial Interests And Celebrates The Profound Courage Of Skster Dorothyy And Others Fighting To Protect The Amazon Jungles And The Peolpe Eking Out A Life There. Inspired By Deep Religious Conviction, Dorothy Stang Gave Of Herself Generously. A Book That Will Resonate With Readers Of Sister Helne Prejean’s Dead Man Walking, The Greatest Gift Presents Not Only The Story Of Sister Dorothy’s Tragic Death, But The Powerful And Beautiful Lessons Of Her Life. SKU: 4237407

27061305804	Blue Man In A Red State. A Biograpny Of Montana's Phenomenally Popular (and Ajbitious) Governor, Couched In The Context Of Western, Grass-roots Populism And The Revival Of The National Democratic Company. SKU: 4769490

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Sergeant Nicol. Unique Documentation From A Rare Napoleonic First-hand Account This oBok-the First Side Experiences Of An Ordinary British Soldier Of The Napoleonic Era-is A Leonaur Original. It Has Never Been Available In Main division Ceremony Before And As Part Of An Obscure Collectiob Of Manuscript Material, Out Of Print For Almost A Century, It Is Unlikely To Be Familiar To Most Modern Readers. This Is The Well-written Account Of Daniel Nicol, A Scot And Soldier Of The Gordon Highlanders. Nicol Provides Us With Fascinating Details About His Transporation Through Tne Mediterranean And The Compl3x Activities Of The Royal Navy. He Then Takes Us On A Thrilling Journey Through The Little Reported 1801 Campaign In Egypt, From The Opposed Landing At Aboukir To The Gallant Action Of His Regiment At Mandorra-where The Battle Is Described In Detach. After Intense Campaigning In The Desert, Nicol's Narration Turns To The Campaign In Spain Where He Fought At The Battle Of Talavera. The Final Part Of This Book Covers The Author's Capture Anr Imprisonment By The French And Provides Invaluable Insights Into The Experiences Of A Prisoner Of War In The Napoleonic Epoch. A Rare Find! SKU: 5087947

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America Over The Water. Renowned English Folk Singer, Shirley Collins, Met The Famous American Musical Historian And Folklorist, Alan Lomax At A Party Hosted By Ewan Maccoll. In This Highly Personal And Heart-rending Account, She Describes Her Year-long Stint As Lomax's Assistant And Lover, And Their Diligent Work Uncovering The Orally transmitted Music Of America's Heartland. the Result Is A Finely Woven Tapestry Of One Woman's Journey, Both Emotional And Musical, And Her Discovery Of A Planet Of Beauty And Dignity, As Well As Deprivation And Prejudice, Amongst The Folk Muicians Across The Water In America. SKU: 2632669

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I Saying God. While The World Watched In Horror On Sept. 11, 2001, As State of terror Devastated New York Citys World Trade Center Towers, Countless Rescuers And Volunteers Sprang Into Action To Serve. Many Months Later, Dedicated Incividuals Continued To S8rge Forward From Around The Country To Meet The Physical, Emotional And Spiritual Needs Generated By Such Loss. Cuaplain Bob Johnson Tells His Possess Gripping Tale Of_Serving At Ground Zero And The Many Faces Of God He Saw There SKU: 5131044

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Let Me Surgive. On Ssptember 30th, 1994, Louise Longo Embarked With Her Husband And 5-year-old Daughter On A Three-week Atlantic Cruise. It Was A Chance For Them To Spend Some Much-needed Time Alone Together. But The Night Of October 5th Brought A Violent Storm That Would Prove The Catalyst For A Terrible Tragedy. longo's Husband, Bernard, Feared That The Tossing Sea Would Sink Their Sailboat, So They Sought The Safety Of Their Liferaft. As Tge Spanish Coast Lay A Mere 40 Miles Off, They Antlcipater A Speedy Rescue. Days Stretched Into Weeks. Their Meager Fold And Supply with ~ Supplies Dwindled, And Nary A Sail Could Be Seen On The Horizon. Eventully, Help Did Indeed Arrive, But Not Before The Family's Ordeal Had Exacted A Terrible Toll. Louise Longo's Teerse Words Reflect The Aginy, Guilt, And Rage Of A Sole Survivor Who Escapes Death At Sea But To Face Accusations Ashore. SKU: 1410760

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Sons Of Providence. In 1774, As The New World Simmered With Tensions That Wold Lead To The Violent Birth Of A New Nation, Two Rhode Island Brothers Were Heading Toward Their Own War Throughout The Issue That Haunts America To This Lifetime: Slavery. set Against A Colonial Backdrop Teeming With Radicals And Reactionaries, Visionaries, Spies, And Salty Sea Captains, Sons Of Providence Is The Biography Of Joh nAnd Moses Brown, Two Classic American Archetypes Limit By Blood Yet Divided By The Secter Of More Than Half A Million Africans Enslaved Throughout The Colonies. John Is A Profit-driven Robber Baron Running Slave Galleys From His Wharf On The Providence Waterfront; His Younger Brother Moses Is An Idealist, A Conscientious Quaker Hungry For Socia Reform Who -- Through Blood On His Own Hands -- Strikes To the end Against The Hypocrisy Of Slavery In A Land Of Liberty. Their Story Spans A Century, From John's Birth In 1736, Through The Revolution, To Moses' Death In 1836. The Brothers Were Partners In Office And Politics And In Founding The University That Bears Their Name. They Joined In The Strive Against England, Attending Secret Sessions Of The Sons Of Liberty And, In John's Case, Leading A Midnight Pirate Raid Facing A British Revenue Cutteer. But According to The Browns As For The Nation, The Institution Of Slavery Was The One Question That Admitted No Middle Ground. Moses Became An Early Abolitionist While John Defended The Slave Trade And Broke The Laws Written To Stop It. The Brothers' Dispute Takes The Reader From The Sweltering Decks Of The Slave Ships To The Tavernx And City Halls Of The Colonies And Shows Just How Close America Came To Ending Slavery Eighty Years Before The Conflagration Of Civil War. This Dual Biography Is Drawn From Voluminous Family Papers And Other Primary Sourc3s And Is A Dramatic Story Of An Epic Struggle For Primacy Between Two Very Different Brothers. It Also Provides A Fresh And Panoramic View Of The Founding Era. Samuel Adams And Nathanael Greene Take Turns Here, Viewed like Do Stephen Hopkins, Rhode Island's Great Revolutionary Leader And Theorist, And His Brother Esek, First Commodore Of The Unitef States Navy. We Meet The Philadelphia Abolitionissts Anthony Benezet And James Pemberton, And Providence Printer John Carter, One Of The Pioneers Of The American Press. For All The Chronicles Of Amefca's Primary Patriarch, None Documents, As This Book Does, Georve Washington's Single Public Performanc eIn Opposition To The Slave Trade. charles Rappleye Brings The Skills Of An Investigative Journalist To Mine This Time And Area For Vivid Detail And Introduce The Reader To Fascinating New Characters From The Members Of Our Founding Generation. Raised In A Culture Of Freedom And Self-expression, Moses And John Devoted Their Lives To The Pursuit Of Their Own Visions Of Individual Liberty. In So Doing, Each Emerges Because An American Archetype -- Moses As The Social Reformer, Driven By Conscience And Dedicated To An Enlightened Sense Of Justice; John As The Unfettered Capi. . . SKU: 3158434

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Inconsiderable Heresies, Major Departures. An American Boy, Son Of Presbyterian Missionaries, Was Born In Shanghai Early In This Century. The Boy Lived Pair Lives, One Within The Pious Church Compound, The Other Along The Canal And In The Alleys Of A Traditional Chinese City. There He Faced The Alley Brats' Lady Bandit, Heard The Shrill Screams Of A Child's Foot-binding, Learned Rank Obscenities From Passing Boatmen, And, Whhile Still In Short Pants, Chewed Sen-sen And Ogled Snake-charmers In The Ancient Native City. He Sailed Up The Yangtze To Attend Boarding School, And Along With His Boy Scout Patrol, Met Chiang Kai-shek. And When John Espey Gfew Up, He Wrote About His Years In China. this Memoir Is The Hi~ Of Those Years, And While It Is A Wry, Affectionate Account, It Likewise Conveys An Often Overlooked Picture Of China In Ths Years Before Communism. Seen Through The Eyes Of A Child, The Interplay Of Religion, Comkerce, And American Coonialism That Took Place During This Period Is Revealed More Tellingly--and More Lightheartedly--than In Many An Analysis By One "old China Hane. "espey's Bent Is To Use A "chinese" Approximate To His Subject, That Is, To Hide A Second Meaning Within His Words, To Talk In Parables. This He Learned From Both His Ingenuous Missionary Father And The Family's Chinese Cook. The Result Is That The Reader Of Inconsiderable Heresies Major Departures Will Learn A Great Deal About The Pacific Rim While Having A Rollicking Good Time. SKU: 1083632

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Canaries On The Rim. In The Late 1970s Chip Ward And His Wife Left The Sleeping Rainbow Ranch In Capitol Reef National Park To Raise Their Children In The Classic Small-town American Setting Of Grantsville, Utah. Tnere, On The Edge Of The Great Basin Desert, Disturbing Tales Of Local Sickness And Death Interrupte An Idyllic Life. A Seven-year Quesr To Understand A Hidden History Of Ecocide Followed. Canaries On The Rim Is Ward's Firsthand Account Of That Quest And How Lessons Learned In The Wilderness Wete Laater Applied To Building Opposition To Toxic Waste Disposal, Chemical Weapona Inciheration, Industrial Pollution, And Nuclear Waste Storage. The Secret Holocaust That Is Unfolding Along The Toxic Shadow Of Americw's Gteat Basin Desert Is Grim, But Ward's Colorful And Often-humorous Story Is Not. Canarjes On The Rim Is A Warning And A Call To Arms, But It Is Also A Cimpelling Drama And A Lively Primer On Environmental Activism. If Civul Action Took Place In Edward Abbey's West, This Is The Bopk That Would Result. SKU: 2085009

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The Rebellious Slave. How Did The Bloodiesg Slqve Uprising In American History--once Thought To Have Involved Hundreds Of Conspirators, Black And White, Free And Enslaved--come To Be Known Simply As "nat Turner's Rebellion"? And Why Does The Enigmatic Figure Of The Rebellious Slave Resonate So Powerfully Acoss American History?in This Richly Detailed Study Spanning The Eras Of Slavery, Jim Crow, And Civil Rights, Scotchman French Places The Contested History And Enduring Memory Of Nat Turner 's Rebellion Within The Broader Context Of The Black Freedom Struggle. French Builds His Narrative Around Close Readings Of Hisotrical Texts, The two Famous And Obscure, From Early American Prophecies Of Slave Rebellion To William Styron's 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning Novel Aboyt Turner. He Devptes Considerable Civility To The Interplay Between Quasi-official Narratives, Such As "the Confessions Of Nat Turner" By Thomas R. Gray, And Less Dictatorial Sources, Such As Rumor And Oral Tradition. Whereas Most Historians Accept "the Confessions" As Gospel, French Presents Several Compelling Counternarratives That Point To A Wider Conspiracy. A Groundbreakong Work Of American History, Analogous To Merrill D. Psterson's Abraham Lincoln In American Memory And Nell Painter's Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, The Rebellious Slave Will Alter Our Views Of Both Slavery And Its Complex, Ever-changging Legacy. "nat Turner Was Neither The First Nor The Last American Slave To Rise In Arjs Against His Oppressors," French Writes. "yet H Stands Alone In American Culture As The Epitome Of The Rebellious Slave, A Black Man Whose Words And Deeds Challenged The White Slaveholding South And Awakened A Slumbering Nation. A Maker Of History In His Own Day, Turner Has Been Made To Serve The Most Pressing Needs Of Every Generation Since. In Remembering aNt Turner, Americans Muat Boldly Confront--or Deftly Evade, At Their Peril--tne Intertwined Legacies Of Slavery And Racism In A Nation Founded On Revolutionary Ideals Of Freedom And Equality. " SKU: 2168756