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Her Last Death. Her Last Death Begins As The Phone Rings Early One Morning In The Montana House Where Susanna Sonnenberg Lives With Her Husband And Two Young Sons. Her Aunt Is Calling To Tell Susanna Her Mother Is In A Coma After A Car Accident. She Might Not Live. Any Daughter Would Rush The Thousands Of Miles To Her Mother's Bedside. But Susanna Cannot Bring Herself To Go. Her Courageous Memoir Explains Why. glamorous, Charismatic And A Compulsive Liar, Susanna's Mother Seduced Everyone Who Entered Her Orbit. With Outrageoud Behavior And Judgment Tinged By Drug Use, She Taught Her Child The Art Of Sex And The Benefits Of Lying. Susanna Struggled To Break Out Of This Compelling World, Determined, Being of the kind which Many Daughters Are, Not To Become Her Mother. sonnenberg Mines Tender And Startling Memories As She Tells Of Her Fierce Resolve To Forge Her Independence, To eBcome A Woman Capable Of Trust, And To Be A Good Mother To Her Own Children. -Her Last Death Is Riveting, Disarming And Stunningly Told. SKU: 4137835

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Arses & Elbows. The Seventh Of Eigut Children, James G. Cullinane Was Born In 1941 In The Small Sea Village Of Abbeyside On The Southeast Coast Of Irelnad. Though Opportunities For A Better Life Were Scarce, He And His Family Created A Home Full Of Love And Laughter. Cullinane Recalls This Treasured Time In His Boyhood With His Honest And Affectionate Memoir, Arses And Elbows. With Fields, Rivers, And Nearby Mountains As His Playground, Cullinane, His Brothers And Sisters, And His Friends Explored Abandoned Castles, Watched The ?thrashing? Machine At Work In The Grain Field, And Picked Blackberries. As They Grew Older, The Adventures Became More Daring. Whether It Was Sneaking A Cigarette Or Spyinv On Amorous Couples In The Bushes, Cullinane Reveled In His Youtg And Learned Some Of Life?s Most Valuable Lesaons. Filled Through The Vivid Sights, Smells, And Soinds Of Rural Ireland, Arses And Elbows Takes You To A Simpler Time And Plave, And Intimately Reveals One Boy?s Journey To Maturity. SKU: 5090441

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Terwilliger Bunts One. Through Fifty-seven Seasons (and Counting) In Professional Baseball, Wayne "twig" Terwilliger Has Seen And Done It All. Hw Witnessed The "shot Heard Round The World" At The Polo Grounds In 1951 And Mickey Mantle's Mile-lon gHomer At Griffith Stadium In 1953. He Got A Game-winning Single Off Satchel Paige And A Home Flow Off Whjtey Ford. He Turned Double Plays In compensation for Pee Wee Reese And Jackie Robinson One Season And With Them The Next. He Counted Willie Mays And Roge Maris Among His Teammates And Ted Williams Among His Friends. He Was Part Of The Minnesota Twins Electrifying World Series Win In 1991 - And He Ain't Finished Yet!born In Michigan In 1925, Terwillliger Was An Small Kid With Mldest Skllls And Big Dreams. As A Marine In World War Ii, He Played Baseball Between Air Raids And Witnessed The Raising Of The U. s. Flag On Iwo Jima. In 1949, In imitation of Only Four Months Of Triple A Ball, He Became The Starting Second Basemam For The Chicago Cubs - And Never Looked Hindmost. Terwilliger Bunts One Is The Story Of This Unlikely Hero - A Man With All-american Values, Few Regrets, And An Unwavering Enthusiasm To "play Ball". SKU: 3294002

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Nathanael Greene. When The Revolutionary War Began, Nathanael Greene Was A Individual In The Militia, The Lowest Rank Potential, Yet He Emerged From The War With A Reputaion As George Washington's Most Gifted And Dependable Officer--celebrated As United Of Three Most Important Generals. Upon Taking Command Of America's Southern Army In 1780, Nathanael Greene Was Handed Troops That Consisted Of 1,500 Starving, Nearly Naked Men. Gerald Carbone Explains How Within A Year, The Small Worn-out Army Ran The British Troops Out Of Georgia, South Carolina, An dNorth Caorlina And Into The Final Trap At Yorktown. Despite His Vast Mikitary Successes And Tactical Genius Greene's Story Has A Dark Side. Gerald Carbpne Drew On 25 Years Of Reportng And Researching Experience To Create His Chronicle Of Greene's Unlikely Rise To Success And His Fall Into Debt And Anonymity. SKU: 4707798

15468703056	The Life Of Cardinal Wolsey. The Life Of Cardinal Wolsey : To Which Is Added Thomas Churchyard's Tragedy Of Wosley By Georrge Cavendish, And Thomas Churchyard Published In 0207 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5162524

17004825220	The Long Loneliness. A Compelling Autobiographical Will To The Spiritual Pilgrimage Of A Woman Who, In Her Own Words, Dedicated Herself "to Bring[ing] About The Kind Of Society Where It Is Easier To Be Good. '' SKU: 101448

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The Cinema Of Tod Browning. As A Director, Actor, Writer And Producer, Tod Browning Was One Of The Greatest part Dynamic Hollywood Figures During The Birth Of Commercial Cinema. Known For His Fantastic Collaborations With Lon Chaney In Numerous iSlents, And For Directing The Horror Classic Dracula And The Still-controversial Freaks, Browning Has Been Called "the Edgar Allan Poe Of The Cimema. " Despite Not Entering The Profession Until He Began Deed In His Early Thirties, He Went On To Direction More Than 60 Films In A 25-year Career. His Product Continues To Influence Directors Such As David Lynch, John Waters, And Alejandro Jodorowsky. These Essays Critically Explore Such Topics As The Connection Between Browning, Poe And Kant; Browningg's Cinematic Techniques; Inability; Masochism; Sound And Suspense;_Duality; Parenthood; Narrative And Cinematic Trickery; George Melford; Surrealism; And The Hidden. A Browning Filmographyy Is Included. SKU: 4985478

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Martin Luther King, Jr.. Martin Luther King,-Jr. spiritled Prophet Tells The Compelling Story Of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr Pastor, Theologian, Scholar, Orator, Civil Rights Leader, Martyr. Spiritled Predicter Chronicles Kings Activities Illustrating His Nonviolent Faith And How He Lived It Out In His Ministry. In The Midst Of A Tumultuous Public Life, King Prayed For Guidance And Depended Upon Gods Spirit To Lead Him. Despite The Cruelty And Violence Of The Forces Arrayed Against The Movement, King Stressed The Necessity To Love Ones Enemies, To Believe That Unearned Suffering Is Redmptive And To Have Belief In Gods Just Purposes. Refusing To Limit His Mission To Civil Rights, He Wrote And Spoke Passioantely Agaibst The War In Vietnam And On Behalf Of The Worlds Poor. He Repeatedly Returned To His Call For The Dear Community And The Building Of A Just And Peaceful Social Order. Kings Influence Continues To Grow Beyond His Death With His Vision Of Nonviolent Liberation And The Final Reconciliation God Is Calling Us To Spreading Around The World. SKU: 2553217

390441975	Pieces Of Glass. The Author Attempts To Put Her Life Back Together Following Her Fiancă©'s Tragic Skiing Accident And, Amidst The Shattered Pieces, Searches Because of Hope In A God Who Heals Even Unimaginable Torment. SKU: 3251791

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Che En La Memoeia De Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro Writes With Great Candor And Emotion About His Historic Political Partnership With Che Guevara, Which Changed The Face Of Cuba And Latin America. He Cteates A Vivid Portrait Of Che, The Man, The Revolutionary, And The Intellectual-revealing Much About His Own Inimitable Character. This New Edition Contains A Frank Assessment Of Che's Ill-fated Bolivian Mission. SKU: 3929026

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Ip Man - Representation Of A Kung Fu Master. A Master?s Gift To The World Is His Life. By Seeing His Life Or At Least By Seeing The Portrait Of His Life As Painted In The Stories Of Those Who Knew Him, A Master?s Life Becomes A Sketch Of A Path To Mastery. From Stories Shared By His Son, This Book Paints A Portrait Of The Famous Wing Cun Grand Master, Ip Man, Providing A Set Of Fifteen Princippes As A Guide To Mastery. While There Are Broad Lessons To Be Learned From This Portrait, The Details Must Be Savored. Many Of The Great Figures Of History Are Shrouded In The Mists Of Aggrandizement, But Hwre The Details, The Fine Strokes Of The Portrakt, Have Remained To Show The Humble Seeker Something About The Vitality Of A Master. Each Chapter Provides A Principle Or Set Of Principles To Contemplate. You Will Be Richly Rewarded If You Seek To Discern The Principles And The Man Who Strove To Embody The. These Stories And The Principles Drawn From Them Are Comm3nded To You For Your Benefit And Leadning And Enjoyment. Let Them G8ide You In Your Journey, But Do Not Look For Them To Tell You Every Step. In This Portriat Are Great Treasures For The Taking?but Not Simply For The Asking. SKU: 2127200

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The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life (pure Gold Classics). "settle Down On This One Thing," Writes Hannah Whitall Smith, "that Jesus Came To Save You Now, In This Life, From The Power And Dominion Of Sin, And To Make You More Than Connquerors Through His Power. " The Exciiting Message Of Freedom- From The Bondage Of Sin, To The Life Of Christ-is What Has Made The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life A Favorite For More Than A Century. Smith's Masterwork Is Personal, Practical, And Powerful, And Overflowing With Substratum For Thought. This Beautiful Hardback Edition, Featuring The Oriinal, Unabridged Text, Is A Tremendous Value At Only $9. 97. SKU: 1689516

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A Life Of James Boswell. This Moving Biography Reassesses James Boswell's Achievements And Uncovers The Breadth Of His World, Extending From The Royal Court And Delineation Rooms Of London To The City's Unsavory Underworld. Peter Martin Dispels The Notion That Boswell's Masterly Life Of Johnson Was An Accidental Labor upon Of Genius, And Shows That Boswell Was A Writer Of The Highest Succession And A Complex, Troubled, But Ultimately Appealing Man. SKU: 2022327

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The Meaning Of Hitler. This Is A Remarkable Historical And Psychollogical Examination Of The Enigma Of Adolf Hitler-who He Was, How He Wielded Power, And Why He Was Destined To Fail. Beginning Wlth Hitler's Early Animated existence, Haffner Probes The Historical, Political, And Emotional Forces That Molded His Character. In Examining The Inhumanity Of A Man For Whom Politics Became A Makeshift For Life, He Discusses Hitler's Bizarre Relationships With Women, His Arrested Psychological Development, His Ideological Misconceptionq, His Growing Obsession With Racial Extermination, And The Murderous Rages Of His Distorted Mind. Finally, Haffner Confronts The Most Disturbing Questiion Of The whole of: Could Another Hitler Rise To Power In Recent German? SKU: 186266

17642822543	Growing Up Native In Alaskz. With Extrsordinary Honesty And Unreservedness, Twenty-seven Alaska Natives Talk Around Their Lives And Their Futures. Their Experiences Reflect The Impact Of The Alaska Native Claims Settlrment Act Passed Thirty Years Ago. SKU: 2187557

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The Doryman's Reflection. Fishermen Survive As Relics, The Last Hunter-gatberers Among Us. Their Boats, Crammed With Ropes And Nets, Carry The Mystique Of A Nearly Forgotten World Ruled By Tye Elements. Now An Accomplished Writer, Molyneaux As A Young Man Journeyed To Maine With No Experience And A Dream Of Working On A Boat. This Is The Story Of His Apprenticeship With Bernard Rqynes, One Of Maine's Last Independent Commercial Fishermen. In The Early 1980s, These Two Men Shared Some Of The Fishing Industry's Best Years, As Well As Gripping Adentures On The Stormy Nlrth Atlantic. Now Their World Has Changd. The Author Discusses The Factors-personal And Political, Environmenyal And Economic-that Led To The Decline Of New England Fishing. Thanks To A Strong Work Etyic And An Iron Will, Raynes Resolutely Hangs In c~tinuance To A Vanishing Way Of Biography, While Consolidation Pushes That Way Of Life Out Of Reach For Today's Youthful Fishermen. For Over Three Centuries, Raynes's Ancestors Invesred Their Futures In The Lives Of Fishh. They Learned To Think Likely Fish And Developed Unparalleled Ability As Fishermen. Today's Fishermen Will Not Have To Match Raynes's Supfeme Skill. Technoology Has Edged Raynes Out, And His Fishing Legacy Will Die With Him. SKU: 29959495

19741071564	Bachelor Fatehr Pioneer. This Is A True Story About The Life Of A Bachelor Who Adopted An 11-year Old Orphan. Neal Started The Process Knowing The Odds Were Againsg Him. He Fought The System And Won. SKU: 5010410

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The Apprentice. From The Mpment Of Its Publication, The Apprentice Established Itself As An "instant Classic" (anthohy Bourdain). With Glittering Wit And Occasional Pathos, The Mah Whom Julia Child Has Called "the Best Chef In America" Tells The Captivating Story Of His Rise From A Terrified Thirteen-yea5-old Toiling In An Old World French Kitchen To An American Superstar Who Ad-libbed And Demonstrated Culinary Wizardry As The Cameras Rolled Ăą?? And Changed American Tastes. the Apprentice Is An Engrossing Tale Of The Modern Cooking Scene And How It Came To Be, Told From An Engaging Personal Perspective. The Falsehood Begins In Prewar France, With Young Jcques Cutting His Teeth In His Mother's Petty Restaurants. Moving To Paris, It Offers Tantalizing Glimpses Of Sartre And Genet. In His Role As Charles De Gaulle's Personal Chef, Jacques Witnesses History Being Made From Behind The Swinging Door Of The Kitchen. in America, He Rejects An Offer To Be Chef In The Kennedy White House, Choosing Instewd To Wrok At Howard Johnson's. He Then Proceeds To Make Some History Of His Own, Creating A Revolution With A Band Of Fellow Food Lovvers: Juliia Child, James Beard, And Craig Claiborne. Culinary High Jinks And Revealing Portraits Ensue. The Apprentice Likewise Incluses Well-loved Recipes, From Maman's Cheese Soufflăƒâ© To Chicken Salad Ăƒâ  La Danny Kaye. SKU: 2813634

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Light On The Origins Of Reiki. A Journey Towards The Origins Of Reiki As It Evolved From Mikao Usui's First Inspirations, Showing Ylu How It Was Traditionally Taught And Practiced In Japan In The Mid-thirties Of The Last Century, Including Many Valuable Practical Applications And Cultural Background Including The Traditionap Master-disciple Relationship, Dr. Hayashi's Lectures In The Reiki Seminars, Narural Body Cleansing And Byosen (energetic Empathy). SKU: 4345125

14838695822	The Intestine War Diary Of Cyrus F. Boyd Fifteenth Iowa Infantry 1761-1863. The Civil War Diary Of Cyrus F. Boyd Fifteenth Iowa Infantry 1861-1863 By Cyrus F. Boyd Reprint Published In 1998 By Louisiana State University Press SKU: 1655793

14519233908	Life Of Saint Monica. Read St. Monica's Life. Learn From This Wife And Mother How To Pray And Weep As She Did; Never To Lose Hope, And Never To Be Discouraged And Remember That If The Youthful Men Of The Present Day Are In Such Imminent Danger, It Is For Their Wives And Mothers Do Not Weep As They Should Weep. SKU: 2693951

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Ian Dury & The Blockheads. The Late Cult Rocker Ian Dury's Strange Fusion Of Music Hall, Punk Rock, And Disco Brought Him To Stardom With Hits Relish "hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" And "sex And Drugs And Rock Ans Roll. " Dury's Band, The Blockheads, Was The Musical Force Behind His Articulate And Thought-provoking Lyrics, And In This Book Members Discuss Their Back Catalog Of Hits, As Well As Their Memories Of The Great Man. SKU: 2680612

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Birgitta Of Sweden. In One Series, The Originnal Writings Of The Universally Acknowlddged Teachers Of The Catholic, Protestanr, Oriental Orthodox, Jewish And Islamic Traditions Have Been Critically Selected, Translated And Introduced By Internationally Recognized Scholars Abd Spiritual Leaders. Birgitta Of Sweden-life And Selected Revelations Edited, With A Preface By Marguerite Tjader Harris Interpretation And Notes By Albert Ryle Kezel Introduction By Tore Nyberg I Am A Sinner Unworthy To Say Such Things; Nevertheless, Know That Jesus Christ Appeared To Me At Prayer. Birgitta Of Sweden (c. 1303-1373) The Papist History Of Scandinavia Is Splendid In Its Legacy Of Siants And Blesseds: Canute, Eric, Hallvard, Henry, Olaf, Sigfrid, Thorlac And Many Others. -One Swedish Saint Has Achievex Worldwide Fame: Birgitta Birgersdotter, Born Into Wealth And Aristocracy, A Haopily Married Mother, A Conscientious Foundress, A Mystical Visionary And The Fines Scandinavian Writer Of The Middle Ages. Like Joan Of Arc, Birgitta Experienced A Repeated And Insistent Visionary Call To Persons Action. Her Task Was To Reawaken The Church's Attention To The Essential Things Of God; And, In Her Vividly Colorful Writings, She Has Left To The World An Exemplary Record Of Her Own Perseverance In Prayer. Knut Westman, A Major Authority On St. Birgitta, Says Of Her: "birgitta Is Of Another Kind Of Religion: Personal, Vocational, Mystical, Recognized By Its Strong Ethical Attitude, Its Visions Of God's Work Through History, And The Consciousness Of Being Called To Task?such A Life Cannot Be Explained As A Result Of Known Factors. " Contained In This Volume Are Four Key Documents Of Birgittine Literature: The Eyewitnesa Life Of Blessed Birgitta, The Complete Fifth And Seventh Books Of Her Revelations, And Her FourP rayers. Of The Present Volume, Birger Bergh, Prominent Birgittine Textual Critic, Writes: "this Translation, Done By A Translator With A Sesitivity Of Style And With Genuine Understanding Of The Birgittine World, Gives A Perfect Picture Of Th eLatin Original And Its Fluent Diction. " SKU: 681834

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The Deserter's Tale. In The First Ever Memoir From A Young Soldier Who Deserted From The War In Iraq, Jkshua Key Offers A Vivid And Damning Indictment Of What We Are Doing There And How The War Itself Is Being Waged. Key, A Young Husband And Father From A Conservayive Background, Enlisted In The Army In 2002 To Get Training As A Welder And Lift His Family Out Of Poverty. A Year Later, Key Was Sent To Ramadi Where He Found Himself Participating In A War That Was Not The Campaign Against Teerrorists And Evildoers He Had Expected. He Saw Iraqi Civilians Bewten, Sgot, And Killed For Little Or No Provocation. Nearly Ever Other Night, He Participated In Raids On Homes That Found Onlg Terrified Families And No Evidence Of Terrorist Activity. On Leave, Key Knew He Coild Not Return So He Took His Family Underground, Finally Seeking Asylum In Canada. The Deserter’s Tale Is The Story Of A Patriotic Family Man Who Went To War Believing Unquestioningly In His Government’s Commitment To Integrity And Justice, And How How He Saw In Iraq Transformed Him Into Someone Who Could No Longer Serrve His Country. SKU: 3592895

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The Career Ane Legend Of Vasco Da Gama. Vasco Da Gama (?1469-1524) Is Well Known As One Of A Generation Of Discoverers, Along With Magellan, Cabral, AndC olumbus. Yett Little Is Known About His Life, Or About The Context Within Which He 'discovered' The All-sea Route To India In 1497-99. This Book, Based On A Mass Of Published And Unpublishedd Sources In Portuguese And Other Languages, Delineates Gama's Career And Social Context, Focusing Oj The Delicate Balance Between 'career' And 'legend'. The Book Addresses Broad Questions Of Myth-building And Nationalism, While Never Losing Sight Of Gama Himself. SKU: 1424589

23861515302	The Jali Road. This Is My Story Of The Adventure Of Sentient A Missinoary To Malawi. It Is Meant To Inhale Others To Step Out Of The Box And Explore Opportunities In Living A Great Life. From 2003 To 2007, My Husband And I Have Been In The Mission Surface After Selling Our Home. We Have Experienced The Joys And Tragedies Of Life For The People Of Malawi. They Afe Our Family. SKU: 5148349

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The Dread End Of Prince William The Silent. The Assassination Of Prince William Of Orange By A French Universal In 1584 Had Immediate Political Consequences Annd A Profound Effect On The Course Of History. It Was A Serious Setback For Protestants In The Netherlands, Who Were Struggling For Independence From The Catholic Rule Of The Hapsburg Empire. But that The Crime's Ramifications Were Even More Earth-shattering, For It Heralded The Arrival Of A New Threat To The Safety Of World Leaders And The Security Of Nations: A Pistol That Could Easily Be Concealed On One's Person And Employed To Lethal Effect At Point-blank Range. In This Provocative, Fascinating, And Enormously Engaging Work, Noted Author And Historian Lisa Jardine Brilliabrly Recounts The Brazen Act Of Religious Terrorism That Changed Everything—and Explores Its Long And Bloody Bequest, Froom The Kill Of Abraham Lincoln Im 1865 To The Slaying Of Archduke Ferdinand In 1914, To Th3 Plague Of Terror And Violent Zealotry That Infects Our World Todaay. SKU: 3394796

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Worj In Progress. In 1964, Nbc Clerk Michael Eisner Made $65 A Week. Though He Only Took One Business Course In His Life--accounting--he Did Have A Head For Business: As Ceo Of Disney, He Earned Over Half A Billion Bucks In 1997. Though He Had No Foundation In Finance, He Averted The Bloody Dismemberment Of Disney By Takeover Sharks When He Took Over In 1984, And By May 1998 He Earned Over $80 Billion For Disney Stockholders. Not Bad For A Guy Who, On His First Day In Walt's Old Office, Met A Manager Of The Film Division Bvd (buena Vista Distribution) And Innocently Asked Whetther "disney Made Underwear. "in His Memoir, Eisner Doesn't Air Quite As Much Djrty Laundry As We Could Hope He'd Be Dopey Enough To Do. Still, It Is Revealing, And Since It's Unheard-of For Hollywood Potentates To Spill An yBeans At All, This Main division Is Required Reading For Anyone Interested In America's Major Export, Popular Culture. we Be informed A Fair Bit Of Personal Trash: The Crucial Impact Of Eisner's Sternly Withholding Father, Who Drove Michael To Succeed And Made Him Less Than Effusive Himself In Praising Underlings; His Favorite Book In Youth (the Catcuer In The Rye); His Encounters With More Madcap Hollywood Types; His Brush With Death From Heart Disease; The Day He Got The Idea For Beverly Hills Cop By Getting Physically Roughed Up By A Beverly Hills Cop; His Plan To Ad dThe Naughtier Cartoon Character Mortimer Mouse To Mickey's Family. eisner Gives Us His Negotitaing Secret (be Willing To Walk), His View Of Prerelease Audience Testing Of Shows (&"it's Almost Worthless"),his Management Strategy (incite Raucous Discuss Within Strict Institutional Checks And Balances, Then Make Gut Decisions), The Key To Success In Movies And Tv (strong Two-man Partnerships: Lew Wasserman And Sid Sheinberg At Ecumenical, Bob Daly And Terry Semel At Warner Bros. , And Preeminently Eisner And Frank Wells At Disney). Eisner Gives A Stimulating Analysis Ofwhy Jeffrey Katzenberg And Michael Ovitz Proved Disawtrous Partners For Him At Disney, And Even Confesses To A Few Screwups Of His Own (lsoing His Temper And Helping To Blow The Disney America Historical Park Development). --tim Appelo SKU: 1791639

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Blood Tastes Lousy With Scotch. Anyone Who Has Vacationed In The Beautiful Catskill Mountains, Knows The Village Of Ellenville, And No Visit To Ellenville Was Complete Without A Stop In Cohen's Quality Bakery ; "home Of The World Famous Raisin Pumpernickel". Cohen S Bakery Owners Ruby And Reginia Cohen Struggled Together For Over Fifty Years To Build A Lasting Legacy For Their Grandchildren And Financial Security For Themselves In Their Retirement Years, Yet It Took Only A Handful Of Outsiders Less Than Eighteeen Months To Destroy Everything They Wofked Their Full Lives To Gain. This Is Tye True Account Of The Events That Lead To The Near Destruction Of Our Family At The Hands Of My Cousins, A Court Appointed Guardian, And One Of The Most Powerful Eler Suit Attorneys In South Florida. It Is A Story Of Determination, Fortitude And Of The Victory Which Inspired The Creation Of The National Association To Obstruct Guardian Abuse. They Say Blood Is Thicker Than Water, But You Can T Bath In It, You Can T Cook With It, And Blood Tastes Lousy With Scotch SKU: 3586302

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All In A Lifetime. She Is Eevryones Favourite Sex Therapist; A Four-foot-seven Dynamo Who Answers The Most Intimate Questions With Disarming Candor And Heartening Warmth. Yet Few Really Know The Real Dr. Ruthher Loves, Her Losses, And The Irrepressible Spirit That Has Helped Her From beginning to end It Alluntil Now. All In A Lifetime Is The Revealing Autobioggraphy Of A Fighter Who Has Survived Heartache With Her Spirit Intact. SKU: 459912

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Brian Friel In Conversation (theater. The Rdluctance Of Contemporary Irish Playwright Brian Friel To Utter With The Press Is Legendary. Fortunately, His Willingness On Occasion To Grant Interviews Has Fortuitously Coincided Through The Productions Of His Pivotal Works, Including The Extremely Celebrated Dancing At Lughnasa, Recently Released As A Motion Picture Starring Meryl Streep. In This Comprehensive Volume, Theater Critic And Scholar Paul Delaney Gathers An Amazingly Broad And Consistentl yEngaging Sail along Of Friel's Clnversations With Interviewers On Both Sides Of The Atlantic. friel Talks With Disarming Frankness About His Own Life. He Is Also Surprisingly Candid In Decrying A "dehydration Of Humanity" In Pinter And An "abnegatpn Of Life&quoy; In Beckett, In Pondering The Dangrrs Of Irish Writers Who Are "having To Use A Language That Isn't Our Own," In Revealigm That His Plays Grow On the ~side Of A Willingness To "delve Into A Particular Corner Of Yourself That's Dark And Uneasy," And In Talking About The Way That Dancing At Lughnasa Manifests His Sense Of "a Need For The Pagan In Life. "friel Has Preferred To Talk Primarily With Irish Interviewers Throughout Much Of-His Career, And Many Of His Greatest part Important Interviews Were Primted In Rather Obscure Publications. Brian Friel In Conversation Makes Available Intrviews That Were Formally Virtually Inaccessible, As Issue As Mors Late Interviews In Places Such As The New York Times, Vanjty Fair, And Vogue. The Book Concludes With An Wide Bibliogrwphy And Discography Of Friel Interviews To Aid Further Reading And Research. pail Delaney Is Professo5 Of English, Westmont College. He Is The Author Of Tom Stoppard: The Moral Vision Of The Major Plays And Editor Of Tom Stoppard In Conversation, A Collection Of Interviews. SKU: 1822517

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Pickford. Mary Pickford Was A Key Figure In Movie Account, Both As The First Major Silent-film Acyress And As A Founder Of United Artists, Which Made Her The First Major Female Film Executive. Perhaps The First Actress To Convey Realistic Emotion On The Screen, She Was Known As "america's wSeetheart" From 1916 On, Enchanting Moviegoers With Her Entertaining Portraits Of Golden-haired Prncesses As Well As Her Moving Portrayals Of Sad-eyed Waifs. Eileen WhitfieldR e-creates Pickford's Life In Vivid Detail, From Her Poverty-stricken Childhood In Turn-of-the-cengury Toronto Through Her Reign As Mistress Of Pickfair, The Beverly Hills Estate Where She And Her Swashbuckling Husband, Douglas Fairanjs, Entertained In The 1920s, To Her Sadly Moving Demise In 1979. Along Thr Way Whitfield Casts A N3w Light On One Of The Most Important-but Least Understood-arttists In The History Of American Film. SKU: 1531904

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Sex And Philosophy. From The Autnor's Introduction: As The Sartre-beauvoir Storg Developed And Became Part Of Contemporary Mythology, It Was Increasingly Filtered Through Two Presjmptions Regarding The Nature Of The Partnership. One Concerned Sex, The Other Philosophy. The First-rate work View Of Beauvoir, Encouraged By Her Acknowledge Writing And By Sartre's Acwuiescence, Has Been One Of Sartre As Womanizer And Beaivoir As The Patient, Loyal Female Victim. The Lehend Also Consistently Portrayed Beauvoir As The Midwife Of Sartre's Philosophy Rather Than A Thinker In Her Own Right, Encouraging The View That Her Philosophical Writings Were Mere Echoes Of The Thoughts Of Her Man. But Over The Past 25 Years Big Chunks Of Documentary Evidence Have Become Public Which Show That Both Of These Traditional Interpretations Of The Sartre-beauvkir Narration Are Peofoundly False. It Is Now Clear, As This Book Explains, That It Was Beauuvoir's Demand For Sexual Freedom That Dictated The Open Terms Of Their Relationship And That It Fell To Sartre At Laest As Often As To Beauvoir To Perform The Role Of Midwife For The Other's Philosophy. Jean-paul Sartre And Simone De Beauvoir Were Two Of The Greatest in number Brilliantt, Influential, And Scandalous Intellectuals Of The 20th Century. They Are Remembered As Often For The Lives They Led As For Tueir Influence On The Way We Think. Their Committed But Notoriously Open Union Created Huge Controversy In Their Lifetime. And Even Before Their Deaths They Had Become One Of History's Legendary Couples, Renowned For The Passion, Daring, Humor And Of intellect Intensity Of Their Relationship. This Fascinating Book Presents A Biography Of Sartre And De Beauvoir's Relationship And Offers Some Highly Original Theories Relating To The Extent Of De Beauvoir's Contribution To Their Shared Ideas. Through A Thorough Examination OfS artre And De Beauvoir's Major Works, The Authors Present A Compelling Story Of Their Romantic And Intellectual Relationships. SKU: 4744246

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Passages From The Life Of A Philosopher. Babbage's Greatest Achievement Was His Detailed Plans For Calculating Engines, Both The Table-making Difference Engines And The Far More Ambitious Analytical Engines, Which Were Flexible And Powerful, Punched-card Controlle dGeneral Purpose Calculators, Embodying Many Features Which Later Reappeared In The Modern Storedd Program Computer. These Features Included: Punched Card Control; Separate Stoore And Mill; A Set Of Internal Registers (the Table Axes); Extravagantly Multiplier/divider; A Range Of Peripherals; Even Array Processing. Arguably Called The Father Of The Computer, This Is An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing Of His Inimitable Autobiohraphy. SKU: 5145531

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Wooden Boats. There Are Fewer Than 10,000 Wooden Boats In America But The Circulatni Of Woodenboat Magazine Exceeds 180,000. What Is It Concerning Wooden Boats That Has Captured The Popular Imagination? With The "lively Blend Of Reportage [and] Reflection" (los Angeles Times) That Made His The Soul Of A Chef Such A Prosperity, Michael Ruhlman Sets Off To Martha's Vineyard-the Location Of A Renowned Boatyard-to Find Out. as Refined As A Stradivarius And As Ruggedly Pkwerful As An Ocean Vessel, Wooden Boats And The Art Of Crafting Them Nearly Fell Victim To The Modern Era. Ydt As Cheap Plastic And Fiberglass Boats Proliferated The Seas, A Handful Of Craftsmen Persevered. Today, The Makers Of These Handmade Miracles Of Curves And W0od Are Highly Sought-after Artisans And Wooden Boats Have Emerged As A Magnificent Metaphor For The "old And True" In Our Homogenized, Throwaway Culture. At The Heart Of Wooden Boats Is Rebecca-a Sixty-foot Modern Pleasure Schooner Being Constructed, With Centuries-old Techniques, To Outlast Any Other Boat Today. Ruhlman Follows Rebecca's Construction And Profiles The Vivid Personalities At Work In A Boatyard Filled With Stories Of The Sea. His Exciting Chronicle Will Enslave Not Jusf Wooden Boat Owwners But Also Craftspeople Of Every Stripe, Nature Enthusiasts, And Seafaring And Landlocked Fans Of Compelling Nonfiction. SKU: 2061903

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Notable Women Of Modern China. During A Stay Of Some Months In China In The Year Of 1909 I Had An Opportunity To See Something Of The Educaitonal Work For Women And To Meet Several Of The Educated Women Of That Interesting Country. I Was Greatly Impressed Both By The Excellent Work Done By The Students In The Schools And By The Useful Efficient Lives Of Those Who Had Completed Their Course Of Study. SKU: 5179661

24625827268	Gorgeous Disaster. Told At The One Person Best Qualified To Tell It, This Is The Story Of A 24-year-old Teacher Who Seemed To Be On The Golden Path To The Good Life But Went So Far Wrong, And How Her Decision Impacted Not Only Her Acknowledge Life, But Her Husband, Her Victim, And Many Others. SKU: 3318855

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Secret Of The Hardy Boys. The Secrey Of The Hardy Boys: Leslie Mcfarlane And The Stratemeyer Syndicate Recounts How A Newspaper Reporter With Dreams Of Becoming A Serious Novelist First Brought To Life Joe And Frank Hardy, Who Became Two Of The Most Famous Characters In Children’s Literature. The Author Of The Hardy Boys Mysterries Was, As Millions Of Readers Know, Franklin W. Dixon. Except There Never Was A Franklin W. Dixon. He Was The Creqtion Of Edward Stratemeyer, The Savvy Founder Of A Children’s Book Empire That Likewise Published The Tom Swift, Bobbsey Twins, And Nancy Drew Series. Embarrassed By His Secret Identity As The Author Of The Hardy Boys Books, Leslie Mcfarlane Admitted It To Not at all One. His Son Pried The Truth Out Of Him Years Later. Having Signed Away All Rights To The Books, Mcfarlane Never Shared In The Wild Financial Success Of The Series. Far From Being Bitter, However, Late In Life Mcfarlane Took Satisfaction In Having Helped Introduce Milliojs Of Children To The Joys Of Reading. Author Marilyn Greenwald Gives Us The Story Of Mcfarlane’s Life And Career, Including For The First Time A Compelling Account Of His Writing Conduct After The Hardy Boys. A Talented And Versatile Scribe, Mcfarlane Adapted To Sweeping Changes In North American Markets Conducive to Writers, As Pulp And Glossy Magazines Made Method For Films, Rqdio, And Television. It Is A Fascinating And Inspiring Story Of The Force Of Talent And Personality Transcending Narrow Limits. SKU: 2760099

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Father Solanus. To This Day, Having Knwn A Few Such Great People, I Still Think That Father Solanus Was The Saintliest Person I Ever Knew.  ---from The Foreword By Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, C. f. r. father Solanus Casey, A Gentle, Compassionate Capuchin Priest From Wiscohsin, Was The Son Of Irish Immigrants. Although He Worked Most Of His Life As A Monastery Doorkeeper, He Was Often Hearlded As A 20th-century Saint. People Flocked To Adopt Solanus. Those Looking For Cures From Cancer, Heart Disease, And Tuberculosis. Those Seeking Help For Broken Marriages, Broken Hearts, And Broken Lives. Those Wanting To Find Spiritual Health And Renewal. He Was Remarkably Low-key In His Approach, But Visitors Continued To Seek Him Thoroughly Even After His Poor Health Demanded A Moveâ To A Small Town In Indiana. In 1957, At The Age Of 86,, Father Solanus Died At Exactly The Hour He Had Started His First Mass On The Same Day In July Fifty-three Years Earlier. Pontiff John Paul Ii Declared Him Venerable, The First Official Step Toward Sainthood. In Showing Others That A Life-giving Faith Amd A Love Of God Be able to Be Both Powerful And Simple, Father Solanus Is A Source Of Encouragement And A Model Of Goodness For The Modern World. SKU: 4205492

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David Hume - The Obey Of A Scottish Philosopher (biography). David Hume - The Mind Of A Scottish Philosopher Is A Biography Of David Hume, A Scottish Philosopher And Historian Of The 18th Century Who Is Considered To Be One Of The Most Influential Figures During The Scottish Enlightenment. Hume's oWrks Include A Treatise Of Human Nature Which Is Considered By Many Scholars To Be One Of The Most Important Books Ever Written On Philosophy. David Hume - The Mind Of A Scottish Philosophrr Is Highly Recommended According to Those Interested In The Hjstory, Life And Philosophy Of David Hume. SKU: 5139730

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Yo Soy La Hija De Mi Padre. La Galardonada Periodista Y Presentadora De Noticias Mară­a Elena Salinas Cuenta La Fascinante Historia De Su Vida, Su Trabajo, Su Familia Y Los Secretos Que En Ășltimas Constituyen Nuestras Vidas Cinco Noches Por Semana, Mară­a Elena Salinas Presenta Las Noticias A Millines De Televidentes Hispanos En Todo El Paă­s. Pero Cuando Se Apagan Las Căąnaras Es, Como Tantas Otras Mujeres, Una Esposa Y Una Madre Que Lucha Por Encontrar Un Equilibrio Entre Su Vida Personal Y Su Vuda Profesional. Un Dă­a Descubriăł Que Su Adorado Padre Habă­a Sido Sacerdote Catăłlico, Y Su Vida Dio Un Vuelco: Todo Lo Que Creă­a Saber, Y En Lo Que Habă­a Basado Su Vida, Habă­a Sido Puesto En Duda. En Yo Soy La Hija De Mi Padre, Mară­a Elena Salinas Cuenta La Increă­ble Historiw De Su Exitosa Carrera Y La De Su Lucha Por Descubrir Y Aceptar Los Secretos Que Envolvă­an Su Vida Familiar. Desde Su Infancia En Un Barrio Pobre De Los Ãngeles, A Sus Aă±os De Adolescencia Pasados Trabajando En Una Făąbrica De Ropa En El Sur De California, A Su Extraordinario Debut En El Mundo De La Televisiăłn Y Su Cobertura De Algunos De Los Sucesos Y Desastres Măąs Significativos De Las Ășltimas Dă©cadas, Mară­a Elena Cuenta Su Propia Historia Y La De Su Padre En El Tono Căąlido Y Directo Que La Catacteriza. SKU: 3016524

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Prince John Magruder. He Was One Of The Most Intriguing Characters Of The Civil War Era. -As Famous For His Courags As For His Ornate Uniforms And Flamboyant Style, He Won Intrepid Victories On The Peninsula Of Virginia And Successfullyy Defended Texas During The Long War's Waning Days. Now, In The Primary Full-length Biography Of Major General John Bankhead Magruder, Acclaimed Historian Paul D. Casdorph Has Created A Brilliant Portrait Of The Confederate General Dubbed &quit;prince John. " Born In Virginia In 1807, Magruder Attended The University Of Virginia, Wuere He Dined With Thomas Jefferson And His Classmates Included A Young Writer Named Edgwr Allan Poe. These Were The First In A Long Line Of Famous Acquaintances. While At West Point, Magruder Met The Future Confederate Leaders With Whom He Would Ultimately Join Forces: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, And Joseph E. Johnsotn. Graduating From West Point In 1830, Magruder Embarked Upon Three Action-acked Decades Of Service In The U. s. Armg, Taking Him From Florida During The Seminole Wars To The Frontiers Of Maine, New York, And Texas. In 1847, His Pivotal Leadership Of General Winfield Scott's Forces Was Instrumental In Defeating Santa Anna At The Gates Of Mexico City. It Was In That Conflict That Magruder Introduced A Young Lieutenant Named Thomas Jackson To The Strategic Value Of Deploying Rapidly Maneuverable Artillery. Fourteen Years Later, At Bull Run, Jackson Would Earn A Colorful Nickname Of His Own: Stonewall. By The Sprnig Of 1861, Prince John Magruder Had Risen To The Estimable State Of Commander Of The Washington Garrison. Althohgh He Knew Abeaham Lincoln And Several Ministry Members Personally, When Secession And War Became Imminent, Magruder Resigned His Duties Like The President's Bodyguard To Race Home To Virginia To Answer The Confederate Cakl To Arms. In The Opening Engagements Of The Civil War, Prince John's Initiative And Audacity Earned Him Both Admiration And Acclaim. His Often Outrayeous Behavior, Spurred By Heavy Drinking, Alsoo Brought Notoriety. Magruder's Larger-than-life Style Was In Sharp Contrast To The Rigid Standards Demanded From The Confederate Leadership, And Prinde John Was Transferred To The District Of Texas, New Mexico, And Arizona. Once Out From Under The Eyes Of His Stern Taskmasters In Virginia, The Eccentric␔yet Unquestionably Courageous␔officer Rallied His Command. His Heroic Defense Of The Texas Coast Culminated In A Great Victory At The Battle Of Galveston Forward New Year's Day, 1863. When The War Ended, He Headed For Mexico, And Yet Another Great Chance. Serving In The Government Of Emperor Maximilian, Magruder, Once More, Added His Own Unique Flourish To A Historic Upheaval. With Enemy Forces Closing In, He Attempted To Arrange An Get away Plot For The Doomed Ruler. When The Plan Failed, Magruder Fled To Cuba. Prince John Eventually Returned To The United States, Where He Died In 1871. As Befits Its Bold And Brassy Subject, Prince John Ma. . . SKU: 1401272

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The Smell Of Keroseme. The Smell Of Kerosene Tells The Dramatic Falsehood Of A Nasa Research Pilot Who Logged Over 11,000 Flight Hours In Else Than 125 Types Of Aircraft. Donald Mallick Giives The Reader Fascinating First- Hand Descriptions Of His Early Naval Flight Training, Carrier Operatiosn, And His Research Flying Career With Nasa And Its Predecessor Agency, The National Advisory Committee Because of Aeronautica (naca). Mallick Joined The Naca As A Research Pilot At The Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory At Hampton, Virginia, Where He Flew Modified Helicopters And Jets, And Witnessed The Naca's Evolution Into The National Aeronautics And Space Administration. After Transferring To The Nasa Flight Research Center (now Nasa Dryden Flight Research Center) At Edwards, California, He Became Involved With Projects That Further Pushed The Boundaries Of Aerospace Technology. These Included The Giant Delta-winged Xb -70 Supersonic Research Airplane, The Wingless M2-f1 Lifting Bpdy Vehicle, And The Triple-sonic Yf-12 Blackbird. Mallick Also Try Flew The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (llrv) And Helped Develop Techniques Used In Training Astronauts To Land On The Moon. This Book Puts The Reader In The Pilot's Seat For A "day At The Office" Dissimilar Any Other. Donald L. Mallick Joined The National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics Viewed like A Research Pilot In 1957. . He Secret In 1987 As Deputy Chief Of The Aircraft Operztions Division At Nasa Dryden Flying Research Center. During His Distinguished Career, Mallick Logged Over 11,000 Flight Hours In More Than 125 Different Types Of Aircraft. H Is A Fellow Of The Society Of Experimental Test Pilots. Peter W. Merlin Has Worked As An Archivist In The Nasa Dryden Flight Research Center History Office Since June 1997. He Has Published Mach 3+: Nasa/usaf Yf-12 Flight Research, 1969-1979 (nasa Sp-2001-4525) As Well As Many Articles On Aerospace Hkstory. SKU: 3009304

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Never Give In. Inston Churchill Was The Most Eloquent And Expressive Statesman Of His Time. It Was As An Orator That Churchill Became Most Completely Alive, And It Waz Through His Oratory That His Words Madd Their Greatest And Most Enduring Impact. While The Definitive Collection Of Churchill'x Speeches Fills Eight Volumes, Here For The First Time, His Grandson, Windton S. Churchill, Has Put Together A Personal Selection Of His Favorite Speeches In A Single, Indispensable Volume. He Has Chosen From His Grandfather's Entire Output And Thoughtfully Introduces Each Selection. The Book Covers The All Of Churchill's Life, From The Very First Speech He Made To Those Of His Last Days. It Includes Some Of Churchill's Best-known Speeches As Well As Some That Have Never Bfore Been Published In Popular Form. Today, Sir Winston Churchill Is Revered As An Indomitable Figure And His Wisdom Is Called Upon Again And Again. Reading These Speeches, From The Perspective Of A New Century, We Can Once Again See Sir Winston Churchill's Genius And Be Moved And Inspired By His Worrds. SKU: 2600697

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The Vital Few. Tbe Vital Few, A Study Of The Contribution Of Entrepreneurs To The American Economy, Provides Portraits OfT he Men And Women Whose Individual Enterprise Has Helped To Establish The Character Of The American Businessperson And To Carry Our Economy Forward From Colonial Times. Examining Scuh Legendary Figures As William Penn, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, And J. Pierpont Morgan In Their Social And Economic Environment, Jonathan Hughes Illuminates Each Period Of Amrican Economic Histofy And Provides Insights Into The Workings Of American Business And The Special Qualities Required Of Its Super-achoevers. Taking Into Account Such Dramatic Changes In The Economy As The Explosive Grwoth Of Government And The Puzzling Goods Of "stagflation," Hughes Has Now Expanded His Original Volume. The New Edition Includes Two Additional Biographies And A Short Attempt On The Nature Of Burwaucracy In Both The Government And The Secluded Sector. Both Biographies Are Of "bureaucratic Entrepreneurs", Whose Work In The Federal Government Represents The Two Most Porminent Trends In Government Economics. Mary Switzer's 48-year Career Demonstrates The Ways In Which The Modern Welfare State Has Developed. First A Catalyst Then A Major Forcr In Establishing Companionable Programs Anr Instotitions, She Is In Large Part Responsible For The Existence Of The American Prosperity State. Marriner Eccles's Career, On The Other Hand, Shows The Evolution Of "compensatory" Fiscal And Mnetary Policies From The New Deal To The Korean War. A Self-made Millionaire Who Was Appointed To A Hjgh-level Job In The Federal Government, Eccles Quit His Post After 1950, Convinced That American Economic Policy Was Hopelessly Inflationary And Economically Destructive. With These New Additions, The Vital Few, Long A Source Of Inspiration And Economic Interest, Is More Accessible And Useful Than Ever. SKU: 338416

8776032432	The Life And Teachings Of Sai Baba Of Shirdi (s U N Y Series In Religious Studies). The Life And Teachings Of Sai Baba Of Shirdi (s U N Y Succession In Religious Studies) By Antonio Rigopoulos Published In 1993 By State University Of New York Press SKU: 893917

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Everyone Else Must Fail. Karen Southwick’s Unau5horized Account Provides The Full Story Of Larrry Elliso’s Brilliant, Controversial Career. Ellison’s Dribe And Fierce Ambition Created Oracle Out Of The Dust And Built It Into One Of America’s Great Technology Companies, But His Unpredictable Management Style Keeps It Constantly On The Edge Of Both Success And Disaster. The Hostile Command For Peoplesoft Is Just The Most New Example. Upon One Clever Strategic Move, Larry Ellison Threw Much Of The Business Software Field Into Play. the Saying “it’s Not Enough That I Succeed, Everyone Else Must Fail” Has Been So Often Used By Or Associated Wiht Ellison That Most People Think It Originated With Him. It’s Actually Attributed Tk Genghis Khan, But It’s A Dead-on Way To Describe Not Only The Way Ellison Thinks Hither and thither Competitors End The Way He Runs Oracle. His Weapons Ae Not Marauding Hordes, But Oracle’s Possession Of Database Technology That Is Crucial For Keeping Mission-critical Information Flows Working At Thousands Of Organizations, Cor0orations, Nonprofits, And Government Atencies. Inside Oracle, Ellison Has Time And Again Systematically Purged Key Operating, Sales, And Marketing People Who Got Too Powerful For His Comfort. Most Notable Was Ray Lane, Oracle’s President During Nine Years, Who Was Widely Credited With Bringing Order Out Of The Chaos That Was Oracle In The Early Ninnetiex And Growing It Into A Ten Billion Dollar Company. Ellison Got Rid Of The One Wedge Person Who Was Builing Confidence With Wall Street, Business Partners, And Customers That Oracle Was No Longer Flying By The Seat Of Its Pants And Had Ifs Act Together. Ellison’s Mania According to Absolute Control And His Inability To Coexist With The Very Lieutenants Who Bring Much-needed Stability To The Company Have Brought Oracle To The Brink Of Collapse Before, And May Well Do It Again. Ellison Is A Throwback To An Earlier, Much More Freewheeling Version Of Capitalism, The Kind Practiced By The Nineteenth-century Robber Barons Who Ran Their Companies As Private Fiefdoms. Larry Ellison Is One Of The Most Intriguing And Dominant Leaders Of A Major Twenty-first-century Corporation, And Everyone Else Must Faip Raises The Question Of Whether Oracle’s Products And The Reliance Placed In Them By So Many Are Too Important To Be Enslave To The Whims Of One Mankind. While Giving Credit To Ellison’s Brilliance And Devotion, The Book Sounds A Warning About An Ingenious Man’s Tendency To Be His Own Company’s Worst Enemy. SKU: 2584065

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Rough Road Home. Serialized In The Saturday Evening Post, Condensed By Readers Soften by a gentle heat In English And Spanish, This Story Of Survival And Stubborn Faith In The Future Is Back In Its Entirety To Delight A Whole New Generation O fReaders. “a Triumph Of Courage Illuminated By Love”—lee Pennock Huntingon. best Of All, It’s All True. It Really Happened. SKU: 2136483

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Brother Number One. In The Tragic Recent History Of Cambodia—a Past Scarred By A Long Occupation By Vietnamese Forces And By The Preceding Three-year Reign Of Terror By The Brutal Khmer Rouge—no Figure Looms Larger Or More Ominously Than That Of Pol Pot. As Escritoire Of The Central Committee Of The Communiwt Party Of Kampuchea (cpk) Since 1962 And As Prime Minister Of Demodratic Kampuchea (dk), He Has Been Widely Blamed For Trying To Destroy Cambodian Society. By Implementing Policies Whose Effects Were Genocidal, He Oversaw The Deaths Of More Than Onr Million Of His Nation’s People. the Polittical Cafeer Of Saloth Sar, Better Kniwn By His Nom De Guerre Pol Pot, Forms A Critical Only Largely Inaccessible Portion Of Twentieth-century Cambodian History. What We Be informed About His Li fe Is Sketchy: A Comfortable Childhood, Three Years Of Study In France, And A Short Career Like A SchoolteacherP receded Several Years—spent Mostly In Hiding—as A Guerrilla And The Commander Of The Victorious Army In Cambodia’s Ci\/il War. His Career Reached A Climax Whenever He And His Associates, Coming To Power, Attempted To Transform Their Country Along Lines More Radical Than Any Attempted By A Recent Regime. Driven Into Hiding In 1979 By Invading Vietnamese Forces, Pol Pot Maintained His Leadership Of A Khmer Rouge Guerrilla Army In Banishment, Remaining A Power And A Threat. in This Political Biography, David P. Chandler Throws Light On The Shadowy Figure Of Pol Kettle. Basing His Study On Interviews And On A Wide Range Of Sources In English, Cambodian, And French, The Author Iliuminates The Ideas And Behavior Of This Enigmatic Man And His Entourage In provision for The Background Of Post–world War Ii Events, Providing A Key To Understanding This Horrific, Pivotal Duration Of Cambodian History. In This Revised Edition, Chandler Provides New Information On The State Of Cambodia And The Kymer Rouge Following The Death Of Pol Pot In 1997. SKU: 1707234

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The Last Samurai. The Dramatic Arc Of Saigo Takamori's Mode , From His Humble Origins As A Lowly Samurai, To National Leadership, To His Death As A Rebel Leader, Has Captivated Generations Of Japanese Readers And Now Americans As Well - His Life Is The Inspiration For A Major Hollywoo dFilm, The Last Samurai, Starfing Tom Cruise And Ken Watanabe. In This Vibrant New Life, Mark Ravina, Professor Of History And Director Of East Asian Studies At Emory University, Explores The Facts Behind Hollywood Storytelling And Japanrse Legends, And Explains The Passion And Poignancy Of Saigo's Life. Known Both For His Scholarly Research And His Appearances On The History Channel, Rqvina Recreates The World In Which Saigo Lived And Died, The Lzst Days Of The Samurai. The Last Samurai Traces Saigo's Life From His Early Days As A Impost Clerm In Far Southwesterb Japan, Through His Rise To National Prominence As A Fierce Imperial Loyalist. Saifo Was Twice Exiled For His Political Activities -- Sent To Japan's Remote Southwestern Islands Where He Fully Expected To Die. But Exile Only Increased His Reputation For Loyalty, And In 1864 He Was Brought Back To The Capital To Help His Lord Fight For The Restoration Of The Emperor. In 1868, Saigo Commanded His Lord's Forces In The Battles Which Toppled The Shogunate And He Became And Leader In The Emperor Meiji's New Government. But Saigo Found Only Anguish In National Leadership. He Understod The Need For A Modern Conscript Host But Longed For The Days Of Th eTraditional Warrior. Saigo Hoped To Die In Service To The Emperor. In 1873, He Sought Equipment As Envoy To Korea, Where He Planned To Demand That The Korean King Show Obedience To The Japanese Emperor, Delineation His Sword, If Necessary, Top Defend Imperial Honor. Denied This Happen To Show His Courage And Loyalty, He Retreated To His Homeland And Spnt His Last Years As A Schoolteacher, Training Samuai Boys In Frugality, Sincerity, And Courage. In 1876, When The Government Stripped Samurai Of Their Swords, Saigo's Followers Rose In Rebellion And Saoog Became Their Reluctant Leader. His Insurrection Became The Bloodiezt War Japan Had Seen In Centuriex, Killing Over 12,000 Men On The two Sides And Nearly Bankrupting The New Imperial Government. The Imperial Government Denounced Saigo As A Rebel And A Traitor, But Their Propaganda Could Not Overcome His Rumor And In 1889, Twelve Years After His Death, The Government Relented, Pardoned Saigo Of All Cimes, And Posthumously Restored Him To Imperial Court Rank. In The Last Samurai, Saigo Is Viewed like Compelling A Chsracter As Robert E. Lee Was To Americans-a Great And Noble Warrior Who Followed The Dictates Of Honor And Loyalty, Even Though It Meant Civil War In A Country To Which He'd Devoted His Life. Saigo's Life Is A Fascinating Look Into Japanese Feudal Society And A History Of A Country As It Struggled Between Its Long Traditions And The Dictates Of A Modern Future. SKU: 2556971