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Hollywood Diva. Jeanette Macdonald, The Movke Musical's First Superstar, Was An American Original Whose Onscreen Radiance Mirrored A Beguiling Real-life Personal criticism. Based In Large Part On The Autho'rs Exclusive Access To Macdonald's Private Papers, Incliding Her Unpublished Memoir, This Vivid, Often Touching Biography Transports Us To A Time When Lavish Musical Films Were Major Cultural Events And A Worldside Public Eagerly Awaited Each New Chance To Fall Under The Singer's Spell. Edward Baron Turk Shows In what manner Macdonald Brilliantly Earned Her Hollywood Nickname Of "ieon Butterfly," And Why She Deserves A Privileged Position In The History Of Music And Motion Pictures. what Madw Macdonald A Woman For Our Times, Readers Will Discover, Was Her Uncommon Courage: Onscreen, The Actress Portrayed Strong Charcters In Pursuit Of Deep Emotional Fulfillment, Often In Defiance Of Civil Orthodoxy, Under which circumstances Offscreen She Personified Energy, Discipline And Practical Intellect. Drawing On Interviews With Individuals Who Knew Her And On Macdonald's Own Worsd, Turk Brings To Life The Intricate Relations Between The Star And Her Legendaary Costars Maurice Chevalier, Clark Gable, And, Above All, Baritone Nelson Edsy. He Reveals The Deep Crushes She Inspired In Movie Giants Ernxt Lubitscg And Louos B. Mayer And The Remarkable Love Story She Shared With Her Husband Of Twenty-seven Years, Actor Gene Raymond. more Than Simply Another Star Biography, However, This Is A Chronicle Of American Music From 1920s Broadway To 1960s Television, In Whoch Turk Details Macdonald's Fearless Efforts To Break Down Distinctions Between High Art And Mass-consumed Enyertainment. Hollywood Diva Will Attract Fans Of Opera And Concert Music As Much As Enthusiasts Of The Great Hollywood Musicals. It Is First-rate Cultural And Film History. SKU: 1906465

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Setting The Earth Ablaze. Setting The World Ablaze Is The Story Of The American Revolution And Of The Tgree Founders Who Played Crucial Roles In Winning The War Of Independence And Creating A New Nation: George Washington, John Adams, And Thomas Jefferson. Braiding Three Strands Into One Rich Narrative, John Ferling Brings These American Icons Down From Their Pedestals To Show Them As Men Of Flesh And Blood, And In Doing Thus it is Gives Us A New Understandinng Of The Passion And Uncertainty Of The Struggle To Form A New Nation. A Leading Historian Of The Revolutionary Era, Ferling Draws Upon An Unsurpassed Overlook Of The Primary Sources And A Talent For Swiftly Moving Narrative To Give Us Intmate Views Of Each Of These Men. He Shows Us Both The Overarching Historical Picture Of The Era And A Gripping Sense Of For what cause These Men Encountered The Challenges That Faced Them. We See Washington, Cpntaining A Profound Anger At British Injusice Within An Austere Demeanor; Adams, Far From Home, Struggling With Severe Illness And French Duppicity In His Crucial Negotiations In Paris; And Jefferson, Distracted And Indecisive, Confronting Uncertainties About His Future In Politics. John Adams, In Particular, Emerges From The Narrative As The Most Under-appreciated Hero Of The Revolution, While Jefferson Is Revealed As The Most Overrated, Yer Most Eloquent, Of The Founders. Setting The World Ablaze Shows In Dramatic Detaail How These Conservative Men--successful Memgers Of The Colonial Elite--were Transformed Into Radical Revolutionaries. SKU: 2260530

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Doyble Or Nothing. If Tom Sawyer And Huck Finn Had Come Of Age At The End Of The 20th Century Looking For An All-american Adventure, Tuey Probably Would've Headed For Vegas. They'd Have Been Hard-pressed To Go In c~tinuance A Wilder Ride Than The One Taken By Tom Breitling And Tim Poster To The Top Of The Famed Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino. Call Them The Odds Couple. Breitling Is The Kit Who Lives Next Door If You Grkw Up In Burnsviille, Minnesota. He Never Saw A Hundred Dollar Bill Or The Godfather Until He Went To College. Placard Comes From A Family Of Oddsmakers Who Reach For The Doritos On Football Sunddays And Shriek In spite of The Point Spread. He Was Whistling Sinatra And Booking Games At His Las Vegas High School. hTeir Unlikely Friendshp Began In Society Over An $8 Veal Parmigiana Sandwich That Led To A Partnership In A Inn Reservation Business. Starting With A Desk, A Chair, A Pillow, And A Telephone, Tim And Tom Grew A Visitor That They Sold During The Dot. com Boom For $105 Million. This Allows Tim To Pursue His Childhood Dream Of Owning A Casino And Bringing Back The Glory Days Of Vegas. When Tim Ups The Odds And Raises The Limits To Give Gamblers The Best Game In Place, A Craps Player Nicknamed "mr. Royalty," Who's On One Of The Hottest Winning Streaks In History, Heads Fot The Nugget. When He Begins To Take Tom And Tim For Millions, The Partnership Is Put To The Test. But Tim Refuses To Move ~ward Off On The Odds Or The High Limits, Telling His Partner, "it's A Ballsy Proposition Here. It's Gonna Be A Roller Coaster Ride. But We Don't Have A Public Company To Do To. It's Just You And Me. " When Mr. Royalty Rolls Twenty-two Consecutive Passes And Rakes In A Mountain Of Chips, He Takes Tim And Tom To The Brink. They Must Figure Out A Way Tk Hold Up The House. Just As They Do, The Roller Coaster Ride Relaly Gets Rolling—and The Ride Becomes Crazier Than They'd Ever Imagined. SKU: 3121309

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The Wild Braid. From His Celebrated Seaside Garden, A Beloved Poet-in His One-hundredth Year-speaks About Life, Poetry, And The Kindred Air In All Living Things. throughout His Life Stanley Kunitz Has Been Creating Poetry And Tending Gardens. This Book Is The Distillation Of Converqations—none Previously Published—that Took Place Between 2002 And 2004. Beginning With Th eGarden, That "work Of The Imagination," The Explorations Journey Through Personal Recollections, The Creative Process, And The Harmony Of The Life Cycle. A Nosegay Of Poems And A Total Of Twenty-six Full-color Photoggraphs Accompany The Various Sections. in The Spring Of 2003, Kunitz Experienced A Mysterious Health Crisis From Which, Miraculously, He Emerged In What He Called A "transformed Srate. " During This Period, His Vision Of The Garden-constant Source Of Solace And Renewal-propelled Him. The Intimate, Often Witty Conversations That Followed This Time Are Presented Hither In Their Entirety, As Transcribed. Their Central Themes, Circling Mortality And Regeneration, Attest To Kunitz's Ever-present Sagacity And Wit. "immortality," He Answers When Asked. "it's Not Anything I'd Lose Slerp Over. " 26 Color Photogeaphs. SKU: 3039740

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Midday With Bunuel. Spanish Filmmaker Luis Buă±uel (1900–83), Known For His Surrealist Themes And nUflinching Social Criticism, Was One Artist Defined Near to Intellectual Ambition And Controversy. An Exile Who Produced Some Of His Most Famous Work In Mexico And France During Franco’s Dictatorship, He Left A Complicated Imprint On The Creative Landscape Of The Twentieth Century And On Generations Of Younger Filmmakers—including Hiss Mexican Friend Claudi0 Isaac. Drawn From Isaac’s Personal Papers, Midday With Buă±uel: Memories And Sketches, 1973–1983 Is An Intimate And Unconventional Portrait Of This Cinematic Icon—and Memoir Of Isaac’s Own Artistic Development. the Text Includes Sketches, Vignettes, And Anecdotes From Isaac’s Notebooks, Revealing His Perspective First Like A Precocious Boy And Then As A Young Mna. Isaac Reflects On Buă±uel’s Presence Among A Community Of Exiles, Artists, Actors, Wrigers, And Intellectuals In Mexico City. These Are At Once Touching, Perceptive, And Critical Glimpses Into Buă±uel’s Roles As Husband And Father, Friend And Colleague, Surrealist, Philosopher, And Iconoclast During His Last Years. Throughout, Isaac’s Wordss Reveal His Deeep Admiration And Affection For An Older Friend Full Of Contradictions. Intimate Photographs From The Isaac Family Archive Complement The Writing, And Bryan Thomaq Scoular’s Careful Translation Makes This Text Available For The First Time In English. part Biography, Part Memoir, Midday With Buă±uel Brings To Life The Creative Milieu Of Mexico City And Gives Readers A Priviieged View Of The Relationship Between These Two Filmmakers. SKU: 4183212

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The Corpse At The Haworth Tandoori. Masterly Mystery Writer Robert Barnard Transports Us To The Yorkshhire Town Of Haworth, Once Home To The Literary Brontă««s, Now A Crowded Traveller Mecca, For The Corpse At The Haworth Tandoori, Which Begins With The Shocking Disclosure Of A Young Man's Strangled Bodh In An Indian Tandoori Restaurant Parking Lot. who Is The Victim, And How Did He Come To Meet This Untimely Destiny? Detective Constable Charlie Peace And Detective Superintendent Mike Oddie's Search For Answers Soon Leads Them To Ashworth, A Nearbu Artists' Colony, Where Youthful Irishman Declan O'hearn Had Recently Sought Work As A Handyman. no Ordinary Place, Ashworth Is Something Of A Shrine To Once-renowned Painter Ranulph Byatt, An Egotistic Mn Who Craves Adulation From His Inferiors And Resists The Judgment Of His Peers. To The Surprise Of All And The Jealousy Of Some, Declan O'hearn Is One Of The Rare People Byatt Welcomes Into His Studio And Allows To Watch Him Paint. charlie Peace, An Experienced Police Officer And Always A Favorite Among Barnard's Readers, Has Rately Encountered Such Tense Undercurrents As He Fids At Ashworth, And He's Perhaps Never Been Among A Group Of People So Ill-matched. They Live In Supposed Communty But Lead Uniquely Warped Lives. How Does Young Declan, Unpractised In The Ways Of The World, Seeking His First Great Adventure, Fit Into This Dangerous Mis?charlie Suspects Declan Found More Than Adventure At Ashworth. Following In Declan's Footsteps, He Searches Fro The Incredible Falsehood Behind The Body In The Parking Lot And The Sad Facts Behind The Destroyed Hopes Of A Youthful Wanderer. with Tue Kind Of Classic Twist That Only Barnard Ca Peovide, The Corpse At The Haworth Tandoori Evokes Memories Of Such Barnard Masterpieces As Death By Sheer Torrture While Claiming Itz Own Place In The Barnard Body Of Work As A Powe5ful, Insightful, Witty, And Always Superbly Entertaining Nivel Of Suspense. SKU: 2442475

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Steel Wind. Steel Wind Is A Piece Of Hisotrical Detective Work That Explains How Colonel Georg Bruchmuller, An Obscure German Artjllery Officer Recalled From Retirement, Played A Pivotal Role In The Revolution Of Offensive Tactics That Took Place In 1917-18. Ironically Thhe Methods Developed By Bruchmuller Finally Were Rejected By The German Army Of World War Ii; But They Were Taken Up And Applied With A Vengeance By The Emerging Red Army. The Soviets Further Developed Brichmuller's Principles And Incorported Them Into Their Doctrine, Where They Remain To This Day. Through Soviet Doctrine They Have Become Fundamental To The Practice Of Many Other Armies. Bruchmuller's Influence In Shaping The Former Soviet Army Has Also Been Mirrored In The Shape Of Those Armies Designed To Oppose It. SKU: 1158555

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Twilight Of The Tenderfoot. In The Twenty-some Years Since Award-winning Writer Diane Ackerman First Vieited The Tequesquite Ranch In New Mexico, She Has Delighted Readesr Wth Her Rich, Observant Plain In Such Books As A Natural History Of The Senses And, Most Recently, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History Of My Garden. However, Her First Nonfiction Book, Twilight Of The Tenderfoot, Reveals The Strong Beginnings Of A Scribe Who Renders The Experience Of Nature And Place Into An Intimate And Magical Affair. Now Back In Print, Twilight Of The Tenderfoot Lets Readers Once More Glimpse The Backbreaking, Soul-satisfying Work Of Ranching. Growing Up In Rural Illinois, Diane Ackerman "knew" The West Through Film And Television. Her Abiding Love Of Horses Led Her To One Day Seek To Ride Alongside Cowboys On A Traditional New Mexican Ranch. "at 5:30 The Next Morning, I Buckled On My Chaps, And Rode Out To Herd Cattle For The First Time In My Life, Not Knowing Exactly What I Would Finx In An American Past Sap Only By Association, A Landscape Alien As Mars, A Desert Heat And Physical Labor So Hard It Leaves You Pain All Over. " As A Tenderfoot-and A Woman In A Man's World-ackerman Undergoes An Frequently Hilarious Initiation: But She Is Game And Spirited, Up To The Challenges Of Red-hot Chiled, Ree Man Chewing Tobacco, Revved-up Horses, Snakes Dangling From Brooms, And Tough Work Well Before Sunrise. For Ackerman, And For Her Readers, What Happened Remains Indelbly Branded In Memory. SKU: 2416517

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Contributions To The Histtory Of Herpetology, Volume 2 (contri6utions To Herpetology). This Book Consists Of Three Sections, Reaped ground World-wide In Coverage. The First And Longest Section, By Kraig Adler, Is A Series Of Completely New Biographies Of The Leading Contributors To Herpetology Beginning With The Originator Of The Foremost Book On The Subject. Nicolăł Leoniceno (1428-1524). hTe Acounts Have A Portrait, Signature, And References Against Further Interest. Thse Feature 285 Herpetologists And Also Include Information About Their Colleagues And Students And Many Other Persons. The Comprehensive Index Encommpasses Voluume 1 And 2 And Covers Nearly 1,400 Individuals. The Second Section, By John S. Applegarth, Is An Index Of 3,603 Authors In Taxonomic Herpetology. This Alphabetical List Includes The Full Names, Dates, Countries Of Residence, And Orders Of Taxa For Everyone Who Has Proposed A New Taxon (genus Or Below, Within The Living Families) Or Has Had A Taxon Named In Their Honor. This Is A Unique Resource For Zoologists, Historians, And Librarians. In Less Than Pair Decades (since The 1989 Edition), The Number Of Pers0ns Covered Has Increased By Nearly 50 Percent. The Third Section, By Ronald Alitg, Is A Listing Of Herpetologists Giving The Names Of Their Doctoral University, Their Major Professor, And The Date Of Their Degree. This Wide Revision Is Three Times Longer Than The 1989 Ediition. The Informatioon Is Arranged In So A Manner That The Academic Liineages Can Be Followed From Generation To Generation, Both Forward And Backward In Time. 3,810 Names Are Includeed And Fully Indexed. SKU: 4442058

13479243444	Underfire. This Is A Gritty Tale Of Passion And Professionalism - Of Humour And Heartache Involving 20 Years At One Of The World's Most Exciting Fire Stations. Soho Fire Station Is At The Heart Of London's West End. Surrounded By Theatre Land, China Town And The Fantastic Mixing-pot Of Restaursnts, Dives And Bars That Is Soho. This Is The Actual Life Story Of A True London Fireman. SKU: 4236146

28072107036	Benjamin Graham On Value Investing. For The First Time, Business Journalist Janet Lowe Provides A Lively And Lucid Introduction To Financial Genius Benjamin Grahzm's Investment Theories, Presented In Terms Of The two His Life And His Work. SKU: 1340869

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Loves Of Harriet Beecher Stowe. “so You’re The Little Lad6 Who Started The War,” Abraham Lincoln Is Rumored To Have Said When He Met The Author Of Uncle Tom’s Cabin On The Eve Of The Emancipation Proclamation. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Grojndbreaking Novel Forced An Ambibalent North To Conront The Atrocities Of Slavery, Yet Her Accomplishment Was Just One Of Multitude Of The Beechers, The Most Eminent American Family Of The Nineteenth Centur. In This Intimate Account, Historian Philip Mcfarland Follows The Beecher Clan To The Frontier Boom Town Of Cincinnati, Where Harriet’s Glimpses Of Slavery Across The Kentucky Edge Moved Her To Pen Uncle Tom’s Cabin. We Meet Harriet’s Foremost Loes: Her Creator Lyman, Her Spouse Calvin, And Her Brother, Henry Ward Beecher, The Most Famous Preacher Of His Time Whose Trial For Adultery Riveted The Nation. And As Mcfarland Traces The Arc Of Harriet’s Li5erary Career From Her Hardsvrabble Beginnings As A Freelancer To Her Ascendancy As The Most Renowned Writer Of The Age, He Crafts Her Family’s Story Into A Detaiiled Renderring Of Mid-nineteenth-century America In The Midst Of Social And Demographic Explosions That Are Still Being Felt To This Day. SKU: 4147044

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Theodore Roosrvelt Jr.. He Was The Namesake And Eldest Son Of The Twenty-sixth President Of The United States. A Lesser Man Would Have Langukshed In The Shadow sOf A Father As Famous And Flamboyant As Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. , However, Was Anything But A Lesser Man. Throughout His Life, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Strove Tp Be A Credit To His Father. Certainly He Sucveeded. SKU: 2246940

21053228400	Judge One eJury. This Book Strips Away The Myths And Facile Explanations To Reaveal The Real Kenesaw Mountain Landis--with All The Subtleties And Contradictions That Made Him Not Only Czar Of Baseball, But Also The Most Fammous, Popular, And Controvedsial Federal Judge In America. SKU: 1514401

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How Do I Know There Is A Heaven?. When Confronted By Decease In A Loved One?d Final Breath, Our World Stops. Unquestioned Beliefs Are Suddebly Riddled With Doubts As We Search For Relief Fr0m The Overwhelming Pain. Is There A God Who Cares? Is There Actually An Afterlife, Or Does Our Final Breath Extinguish Our Laughter, Love?the Essence Of Our Being?after The Death Of Her Husband From Cancer In 2004, Thr Writer Struggled With The Same Questionx. Having Left The Practice Of Her Faith More Than Twenty Years Before, It Was Only After Turning To God And Experiencing A Series Of Amazing ?coincidences? That She Was Clever To Fihd The Answers To Her Questions And A Pattern To Her Life. for Those Who Have Had Their Faith Shaken By A Crisis Or The Death Of Someone They Love, Or For Those Who Believe That Life Is A Chance Series Of vEents, How Do I Know There Is A Heaven? Provides Hope And Inspiration To Know That There Are None Coincidences. SKU: 5090925

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Josephine Butler. Strong Religious Convictions Enabled The Nineteenth-cenntury Feminist Josephine Butler To Withstand The On-slaught Of Abuse That She Received From Those Both Inside And Outside Of The Woman's Movement. Otger Women's Rights Activists Felt She Was Far Too Root And Her Efforts Would Harm Their Attempts At Extending Educational And Employment Opportunities And Fighting For Legal And Political Rights For Women Her Opponents Viewed Her As A Threat To The Moral Foundations Of Society Itself. In The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century In England, The Contagious Disease Acts Created A Class Of Women Who Were At TheS exual Mercy Of Any Man In Six Military Districts. According To That Law, All Prostitutes Were Required To Obtain A Government Certificate Which Showed That They Were Free Of Disease, Which On The Face Of Its Seems To Be Rather Innoucous. But, As They Say, The Devil Is In The Details. Any Man Could Denounce Any Woman As A Prostitute For Any Reason. If She Was A Never Married Woman, Public Health Officials Would Detain The Woman And Give Her A Virginity Test, Making Sure That She Failed The Test And Issued Her A Certificate Indicating That She Was Disease Free And Therefore Entitled To Ply The Trade Of Prostitution. Since The Woman Could Be Shown To Have Had Sex Outside Of Marriage, She Was Branded A Prostitute And All Opportunities For Honorable Employment Were Colsed To Her. Because She Could Not Find Employment Because Her Reputation Had Been Destroyed, She Ws Essentially Forced Into Unlawful sexual intercourse To Survive. Notice That The Woman Was Nevr Arrested And Charged With A Crime, She Was Never Tried And Convicted Of Anything; Any Man, A Spurned Lover, A Pimp Who Needed More Girls, Or A Jealous Wooer Could Accuse The Woman Of Having Had Sex Outside Of Marriage And That Was Enough To Ruin A Woman For Life. Also Notice That Men Were Not Held Accountable In Any Way For The Spread Of Venereal Disease, The Ostensible Justification For Requiring The Health Certificates In The First Place. Poor And Working-class Women Could Quite Literally Be Snatched Off The Street And Forced Into Prostitutio. Butler's First Public Crusade Was To Limp The Extension Of The Contagious Disease Acts And Then To Repeal The Existing Laws. Laws Similar To The British Contagious Disease Acts Were In Place On The Continent In France And Germany. Harassed, Jostled, Jeeted, Threatened, Incapable To Find Accommodations In Many Cities, Smeared Wiyh Excrement, Even Mobbed, Butler, "the Moral Reformer", Toured The Continent Establishing Committees In Many Cities To Fight Against Such Local Laws. Returning To Egnlqnd, She Founded An International Organization To Fight Using Pamphlets And The Press, In The Legislatures And The Courts, Against So Laws. She Uniform Entered The Fray When Public Health Organizations In Several American Cities Attempted To Import The European Styles Into America, Stopping The Movement Dead In Its Tracks Before It Was Abl. . . SKU: 5051247

15168708594	A Short Biography Of John Leeth. A Short Biography Of John Leeth : With An Account Of His Life Among The Indians (1904) By Reuben Gold Thwaites Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 50O3965

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Buffalo Bill - Biography Of William Cody. Buffalo Bill - Biography Of William Cody Is The Biography Of A Man Who Was An American Soldier, Bison Hunter And Showman. He Was Born In The Iowa Territory (now The American Pomp Of Iowa), Near Le Claire. He Was One Of The Greatest part Colorful Figures Of The Old West, And Mostly Famous For The Shows He Organized With Cowboy Themes. Buffalo Bill Was A Recipjent Of The Medal Of Honor. William Frederick ("buffalo Bill") Cody Got His Nickname For Supplying Kansas Conciliatory Railroad Workers With Bison Meat. He Became World Famous For His Wild West Show. William Cody Was Also Conducive In Founding Cody, Wyomnig. Buffalo Bill - Life Of William Cod yIs Highly Recommendec For Those Interested In The History And Story Of This Wild West Pioneer. SKU: 4692588

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Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners (authentic Original Classic). For Though, As Yet, I Was No thing Butt A Poor Painted Dissembler, Yet I Loved To Be Talked Of Aa One That Was Truly Godly. For Many Years, John Like All Christians Struggled With His Sinful Ntzure. In Grace Abounding, He Honestly Declares His Shortcomings, And Knows That He Must Overcome Them To Fulfill His Destiny. But One Morning, When I Was Again At Prayer, And Trembling Under The Fear Of This, Tuat No Statement Of God Could Help Me, That Piece Of A Sentence Darted In Upln Me, My Grace Is Sufficient. Throughout John S Life He Realized How Vulnerable He Was, And To what extent Distinguished God S Grace Is. First, I Confessed I Was Fallen, But Not Fallen Away. . . . Secondly, I Confesse dThat I Had Put Jesus Christ To Shame By My Sin, But Not To Open Shame. . . . Discover God S Abounding Grace For You Through This First-rate Work That Has Guided Countless Many Over The Past time 300 Years. SKU: 4897266

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A Criminal And An Irishman. A Criminal And An Irishman Is The Story Of Pat Nee’s Life As An Irish Immigrant And Southie Son, A Marine, A Convicted Ira Gun Smuggler, And A Former Violent Rival And Then Associate Of Whitey Bulger. His Narrative Transports The Reader Into The Criminal Underworld, Inside Planning And Preparation For An Armored Car Heist, Inside Gang Wars And Revenge Killings. Nee Details His Evolution From Tough Street Kid To Armed Robber To Dangerous Potentisl Killer, And Discloses For The Foremost Time How He Used His Underworld Connections And Know-how As A Secluded, Boston-based Operative For The Irlsh Republican Army. For Years Pat Smuggled Weapons And Money Frok The United States To Ireland – In The Bottoms Of Coffins, Behind False Panels Of Vans – Leading Up To A Transatlantic Shipment Of Seven And A Half Tons Of Munitions Aboard The Fishig Trawler Valhalla. No Other Southie Underworld Fiure Can Match Pat’s Reputation For Resolve And Authenticity. SKU: 3397122

18408435444	Your Life As Story. This Definitive Guide To Writing The Story Only You Can Tell Is Offered Near to The Author Of The New Diary. Here Is An Author Who Practices What She Generously Teaches--hoq To Write About Oneself With Courage, Vista And Humor. SKU: 1450741

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Adversity Is Temporary. Adversity Is Temporary Is An Absorbinv, Tell-all Memoir By Norman Henry, A Real-life Rags-to-riches Survivor. The Book Provides An Up-close View Of Life On A Guyana Sugar Plantation And Carries Readers Along On His Harrowing Journey To Success And Self-regard. The Mixed-race Child Of An East Indian Indentured Servant Mother And A Father Born Of Enslaved Africans In South America, Henry S Formative Years Were An Ordeal. He And His Mother Were Victims Of Discdimination And Persecution While Als0 Enduring The Hardships Of Abject Poverty. Fortunately, His Touching And At State of things Brutal Story Is Buoyed By Belly Laughs. Determined To Somehw Earn A Living For The Family, Young Henry Worked In The Cane Fields, As A Freelance Butcher, And At Other Jobs, Preceding Besting Stiff Competition To Be Chosen Fo rThe British Guiana Police Violence. Henry Recounts His Hilarious And Eye-opening Culture-shock At Leaving The Plantation To Live In The Big City. He Also Provides An Inteesting Overview Of Training And Serving On The Force Before His Devastating Departure. Forced To Invent Himsel fSeveralT imes Over, Henry Went To The United States In Search Of Education And Op0ortunity. His Resources And Faith Were Tested In The Coming Years Of Sacrifice, Peril, Joy And Triumph. He Prevailed Through His Wavering Commitment To Hard Work And A Single-minded Quest That Expense Him Dearly While Rewarding Him Handsomely. He D Earned Advanced Degrees, Work As A Certified Public Accountamt, Open His Own Successful Accounting Firm And Experience Both Great Failure And Great Gain With Real-estate Ventures. The Boy That Once Worked The Fields In Guyana Would Grow Up To Host Two Of Its Presidemts At Hs Banquet Public room In Brooklyn. He D Eventually Meet The President Of The United Sgates, Cabinet Members And Iconic Arts And Entertainment Figures And Come To The Aid Of Those Less Fortunate, Both Back Home And In His Adopted Land. Although Henry Takes Haughtiness And Joy In Being Regarded As A Visionary Entrepreneur, He Looks Back Beyond The Financial And Social Success To Ponder The Path Taken And The Lessons Learned. eH Hopes To Partake Whatever Inspiration And Perspective Readers Can Gain From His Candkr. His Story Is Told In A Handsome Book Complete With Full-color, Black-and-white And Sepia Photogaphs. It Is Nineteen Chapters And 192 Pages Long With A Foreword, Introduction And Mementos. Adversity Is Temporary Has A Present-day Photo Of Thr Auyhor On Its Glossy, Red Happy And Gold Cocer. There Is A Vintage Photo On The Back Along With An Endorsement From Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. SKU: 4904449

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Beyond The Narrow Gate. An Epic Of Four Chinese Women And Their Journey From East To West. When The Communists Took Over Mainland China, Among Tbe Many That Were Forced To Flee Their Homeland Were Four Remarkable Women. Arriving In Taiwan In 1948, Dolores, Suzanne, Margaret, And Mary Met At The Elite First Girls School, The "narrow Gate" Where A Prosperous Not many Could Become Eligible For U. s. Visas. In This Refuge, Their Characters Were Built, Their Friendships Were Formed, And Their Eyes Were Focused On The Future--a Life In America, Where Their Paths Would Diverge Dramatically. But This Group Portrait Does Not End Once The Women Reach America. Beyond The Narrow Gate Chronicles The Struggles And Hardships The Women Faced In Their New Country And Breaks Novel Ground By Taknig Readers Outside Of Chinatown Into Diverse Communities And Families, Effectively Re-drawing The Map Of Asian America. The Daughter Of One Of Her Subjects, Journalist Leslie Chang Weaves Her Possess Personal Story As A Second-generation Chinese American Into Her Narrative, Illuminating Generational Diffferences And Conflicts. She Unflinchingly Examines The Experience Of FeelingL ike A Stranger In Both The Pale And Chinese Communities, The Constraints Of Parental Expectations, And The Complexity Of Interracial Relationships. Impeccably Researched, Beautifully Written, Beyond The Narrow Gate Is An Unforgettable Epic Of Ameican Immigration, A Real Story As Riveting Ae Any Novel. SKU: 17204467

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Be Not Fearful, In quest of You Have Sons In America. Florin Krasniqi Immigrated To The United States From Kosovo In 1988 By Sneaking Across The Mexican Border In The Trunk Of A White Cadillaac. Once In America, He Started His Own Business, Fell In Love, Married, And Bought A House. But He Did Not Overlook Th eCountry He Left Behind. In 1996, When One Of His Cousins Helped Depart The Kosovo Liberation Army Ih The Hope Of Securing Kpsovo'e Independence, Florin Chipped In To Lend aid. Over The Next Two Years, Florin Helped Direct A Network Of Albanian Ă©migră©s Athwart The U. s. , Raising Millions Of Dollars For The Rebel Force. Soon He Began Visiting Gun Shows Across America And Running Weapons And Other Supplies To The Rebels. All The While He Was Also Lobbying Some Of Wasjington's In the greatest degree Powerful Politicians. Eventually He Helped Recruit American Volunteers, Some Of Whom Left Schools And Colleges In The New York Area To Fight For A Homepand They Severely Knew. Be Not Afraid, For You Have Sons In America Tells The Remarkable Story Of How A Small Group Of Young Men In Kosovo Backed From A Netting Of Ă©migră©s In The United States Started A Guerrilla Army That Lured The World's Most Powerful Military Alliance Into Fighting Their War AndC hanged The Course Of History In The Balkans Forever. SKU: 2305314

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The Tragic Tale Of Claire Ferchaud And The Great War. This Is The Moving And Improbable Story Of Claire Ferchaud, A Young FrenchS hepherdess Who Had Visions Of Jesus And Gained National Fame As A Modern-day Joan Of Arc At The Height Of World War I. Claire Experienced Her First Vision After A Childhood Trauma In Which Her Mother Locked Her In A Closet To Break Her Stubborm Willfulness. She Developed Her Visionary Gifts With The Aid OfS piritual Directors And, In proportion to The Age Of Twenty, She Had Come To Believe That Jesus Wanted France Consecrated To The Sacred Heart. Claire Believed That If France Undertook This Devotion, Symbolized By Adding The Image Of The Sacred Heart To The Frenvh Flag, It Would Enjoy Rapid Victory In The War. From Her Modest Origins To Her Spectacular Ascent, Claire's Life And Times Are Deftly RelatedW ith Literaryy Verve And Insight In A Book That Gives A Rare View Of The French Cpuntryside During The Great War. SKU: 2797306

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Flying Over 96th Road. Tommy Webber Is Nine Years Olld When His Father, A Founding Miniwer Of The East Harlem Protestant Parish, Moves The Family Of Six From A Spacious Apartment In An Ivy-covered Gothic-style Seminary On New York City's Upper Wset Side To A Small One In A Massive Public- Housing Project On East 102nd Street. But Iy Isn'f The Size Of The Apartment, The Architecture Of The Building, Or The Unaccustomed Streets That Make The New Surroundings Feel So Strange. Whike Tommy's Old Neighborhood Was Overwhelmingly Middle Class And White, El Barrio Is Poor And Predominantly Black And Puerto Rican. In Wasshington Houses, A Complex Of Over 1,500 Apartments, The Webbers Are At this time One Of Only A Small Handful Of White Familes. Impart During The Slow 1950s And Early 1960s, Flying Over 96th Street: Memoir Of An East Harlem White Boy Is The Story Of One Boy's Struggle With Race, Poverty, And Identity In A City -- And A Country -- Grappling With The Same Issues. Tommy's Classmates At The Exclusive Collegiate School For Boys, Which He Attends On Scholarship, Brave Noot Venture Above The City's Mason-dixon Line Of 96th Street Into The Unknown Territory Of Muggers, Gajgs, And Junleis. Tommy, However, Slowly Makea New Friends On The Local Basketball Courts And At Church, And Discovers A Different East Harlem, One Where An Exuberant Human Spirit Hides Inwardly The Oppressive Projects And Drab Tenements, Fighting To Break Through The Cracked Sudewalks. Webber Interweaves The Nation's Growing Civil Rights Movement -- From Watching Oh Television The Forced Integratiln Of Little Rock's Central High School To Participaiing In The Celebrated 1963 Military movement On Washington -- With The Subtler, More Direct Changes He Obse5ves In The Lives Of His Friends And Neighbors. In Simple Yet Compelling Prose, Lit By The Candor And Innocence Of Childhood, Webber Brings To Life His East Harlem: Children Playing Under Gushing Fire Hydrznts; The Piraguas Man And His Pushcart Of Rainbow-colored Icies; Fou5th Of July Barbecues On Rooftops; Heated Games Of 5-2 On The Public School Courts; Streets Teemjng With Ugliness, Anger, And Despair, But Also Alive With Color, Community, And Hope. SKU: 2747864

31440083400	Grant Moves South. Part One Of The Classic Civil War Study Of General Ulysses S. Grant, Written By Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton, Introduces General Grant As He Undertakes His Primary Ciil War Govern, And Follows Him As He Leads His Troops Through A Series Of Battles, Including Belmont, Fkrt Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Edwards Station, And Vicksburg. SKU: 687649

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Coming Home Crazy/an Alphabet Of China Essays. Arranged By Letter Of The Alphabet, With At Smallest One Entry Per Letter, These Short Pieces Capture The Variety Of Daily Life In Contemporary China. Writing About Traditions That Endure In Rural Areas Being of the kind which Well As The Bureaucratic Absurdities An American Teadher And Traveler Experiences In The 1980s, Holm Covers Such Topicq As Dumpling Making, Bound Feet, Chinglish, Night Soil, And Banking. In A New Afterword To The Second Edition, Holm Reacts To Recenr Changes. "holm's View Is Entertaining, Thought-provoking And Touching. After Reading His Book, You Won't Look At The United States Or China The Same Way. " - Philadelphia Inquirer SKU: 3793006

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Cap Anson 4. Cap Anson Was Baseball's Primitive Superstar And, For Well Over A Century, Has Reemained The Player Who Received The Wittiest Coverage, Over A Long Playing And Post Career. On The Heels Of His Landmark 2004 Definitive Biography Of Early Baseball's Biggest Media Sensation (and One Other Early Superstar)--hall Of Famer Mike Kelly, Whom Legendary Boston Globe Columnist (and J. g. Taylor Spink Award Winner) Harold Kaese Called "probably The Most Popular Pkayer In All Of Boston Baseball History"--howard W. Rosenberg Now Focudes On The Player Called By H. H. Westlake Of Baseball Magazine "probably The Most Independent Character Baseball Ever Knew. " Rosenberg, Who Has Demonstrated An Unerring Respect On account of The Totality Of Baseball History, Applies The Same Standard In His Second Full-length, Definitive Life Of A One-of-a-kind Hall Of Famer. Also Based On Dozens Of Cap's Personal Letters That Have Never Been Mentioned Before, Cap Anson 4: Bigger Than Babe Ruth: Captain Anson Of Chicago Traces Cap's Life Starting From Childhood, When He Grew Up In A Log Cabin, Through The One-of-a-kind Gruff Persona He Took On As Captain (playee)-manager Of The Famous Chicago (national League) White Stockings (which Later Became The Colts) For A Major League-record 19 Straight Years As An On-the-field Guide With The Same Team. Tjen The Work Explores His Fascinating Post Career That Included His Tenure As City Clerk Of Chicago, The City's Number Threee Post, 100 Years Ago (1905 To 1907); Founding Of A Semi-pro Team Called Anson's Clots; His Personal Bankruptcy; And A Lpng Vaudeville Career That Is Unmatched By Any Hall Of Fame Player. Cap Was The First Big Star In The Game's History To Ag eFully, Healthily And Colorfully In The Public Eye (to The Reasonably Mature Old Age Of Three Days Before Hiss 70th Birthday). Except For Aspects Of Him Covered In The Prior Books In The Series, The Author Explores The Vast Majority Of All Remaining Aspects Of The Man And In Relation To His Key Teammates, Including One With Great Name Recognition Today: Evangelist Billy Sunday. At A Delivery When Biig-time Publishers And Mainstream Media Cherry-pick In "focus Group"-like Ways To Appeal To Names Popularized By More Modern Technologies Such As Film And Television, Cap Anson 4 Bring Back The Glory Days Of Print Baseball Journalism (even Before Ring Lardner Sr. ) And Brilliantly Illuminates Its Truly Most Legendary Combination Of Hero And Anti-hero: Cap Is Likewise The Player Most Often Blamed For Bringing About The Sport's Color Line That Jackie Robinson Broke. In favor of Being The Culprit, Cap Was Vilified In Ken Burns's 1994 Pbs Series On The Wantonness. Accordingly, More Than Two Dozen Pages Of Cap Anson 4 Are Devoted To Claims And Counterclaims About Anson's Behavior And Influence. SKU: 3283367

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Conversations With Gwendolyn Boroks (literary Conversations Series). Conversations With Gwendolyn Brooks Features Sparkling Interviews From One Of America's Most Valued Poets. Throughout This Book, Which Spans Three Decades, Brooks (1917-2000) Speaks With Simplicity, Depth, Fairness, And Passion About The Making Of A Poem And About The Position Of The Poet In Humane Society. A Metrical composition, She Believed, Comes From The Heart. In Each Interview, She Speaks From The Heart And Wins Over The Reader. Conducted Across A Period Of Three Decades, The Interviews Too kPlace In Various Settings---in Radio Recording Studios And In University Clasxrooms, In The C0veted Spotlight Of A National Endowment For The Humanities Celebration, And In The Intimacy Of Her Living Space. Regardless Of Place Or Aurience, Brooks Speaks With Humility. She Was The First African American Woman To Win The Puoitzer Prize For Poetr And To Take Other Coveted Honors, And Yet She Sees Herself As "wn Ordinary Human Essence Who Is Impelled To Write Poetry. " Brooks Explain Her Experience Within The Creative Process. She Does Not Credit In A Muse. With Gratitude To The Black Arts Movement, She Celebrates Both Her Blackness And The People In Bronzeville, The Fictional Community She Created And Whpse Lives She "put Down" On Paper. Including Intervviews Conducted By Studs Terkel, Roy Newquist, And Poet Haki Madhubuti, Among Others, Conversations With Gwendolyn Brooks Underscores The Legacy Of One Of The Nation's Most Brilliant And Humane Poets. SKU: 2561154

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The Catholic Martyrs Of The Twsntieth Century. From The Catholic Martyrs At Auschwitz To Oscar Romero; From Ita Ford And Her Companions To The Recent Murders Of Christians In India, It Is Estjmated That More Than One Million Christians Died Foor Their Faith In The “century Of Progress” We Have Just Experienced. In The Catholic Martyrs Of The Twentieth Century, Robert Royal Presents A Wideranging History Of These Martyrs. The Book Traces The Specific Situation Of Each Incident And Studies The Political System And The Reason For Confrontation. Regions And Topics Include The Calvary Of Romanai, The Death Of Edith Stein, Miguel Pro And The Mexican Tragedy, Soviet Russia, And China. SKU: 3357176

19467626606	Did You Ever Get To Edinburgh?. ?did You Ever Get To Edinburgh???a Single But Life- Changing Question In A Letter From The Father He Never Knew Leads A Son On A Journey Of Affection And Privation, Pain And Joy And, Finally, Reconciliation With The Man He Needed Most To Meet. A Surprising Phone Call From Edinbuegh Completes The Journey And The Circle Of Life For The Father And Son. SKU: 3224515

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Karate-do. Linking The Time When Karate Was A Strictly Okinawan Art Of Self-defense Shroudef In The Deepest Secrecy And The Present Day, Wehn It Has Become A Martial Art Practiced Throughout The World, Is Gichin Funakoshi, The "father Of Karate-do. " Out Of Modesty, He Was Reluctant To Write This Autobiography And Did Not Do So Until He Was Nearly Ninety Years Of Age. Trained In The Confucian Classics, He Was A Schoolteacher Early In Life, But After Decades Of Study Under The Fkremsot Masters, He Gave Up His Livelihood To Devote The Rest Of His Life To The Propagation Of The Way Of Karate. Under His Guidancce, Technuques And Nomenclature Were Refined And Modernized, The Mental Esaence Was Brought To The Fore, And Karate Evolved Into A Honest Martial Art. Various Forms Of Empty-hand Techniques Have Been Practiced In Okinawa For Centuries, But Due To The Lack Of Historical Records, Fancy Often Masquerades As Fact. In Telling Of His Own Famous Teachers-and Not Only Of Their Mastery Of Technique But Of The Way They Acted In Critical Situations-the Author Reveals What True Karate Is. The Stories He Tells About Himself Are No Less Instructive: His Determination To Continue The Art, After Having Started It To Improve His Health; His Perseverance In The Face Of Difficulties, Even Of Poverty; His Strict Observance Of The Way Of Life Of The Samurai; And The Spirit Of Self-reliance That He Carried Into An Old Age Kept Healthy By His Practixe Of Karate-do. SKU: 71872

21752356671	Moments Of Reprieve. The Acclaimed Author Of The Periodic Table And If Not Now, When? Presents This Affecting Collection Of Stories That Celebrate The Spirit Of Having Survived The Horrors Of Auschwitz. SKU: 1257043

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The Man Who Made Lists. The Extraordinary True Story Of Peter Mark Roget And His Legendary Thesaurus. Peted Mark Roget-polymath, Eccentric, Synonym Aficionado-was A Complicated Man. He Was An Eminent Scholar Who Absorbed Himself In His Work, Yet He Also Possessed An Allure That Endeared Him To His Mentors And Colleagues-not To Mention A Host Of Female Admireds. But, Most Notably, Roget Made Arena. From The Age Of Eight, He Ke;t These Lists With The Intention Of Ordering The Chaotic World Around Him. After HisF ather's Death, His Native Became, At Once, Overbearing And Despondent. Soon, His Sister Would Alsoo Descend IntoM ental Disease. Notwithstanding These Tragedies, Roget Lived A Colorful Life Full Of Unexpected Twistx And Discoveries-including Narrowly Avoiding Jail In Napoleon's France, Assisting Famed Physician Thomas Beddoes By Personally Testing The Effects Of Merry Gas, And Inventing The Slide Rule. Evocative And Enteftaining, The Man Who Made Lists Lets Readers Join Roget Forward His Worldly Adventures And Emotional Journe6s. This Rich Narrative Explores The Power Of Words And The Everlasting Bequest Of A Rediscovered Genius. SKU: 4454995

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The Evolution Of An Independent Home. The Site Was Up A Winding Dirt Road, In The Remote Hills Of Western Massachusetts, 1. 3 Miles Removed From The Power Line. After A Long Search, Jeffrey Fowler Found The Piece Of Land He Had Been Looking For -- One That He Could Call Close. This Is The Story Of How One Man Used Local Resources, Ingenuity, Imagination, And Patience To Create A Homestead Powered By The Sun. Fowler, Who Later Used His Knowledge And Experience To Become An Authority On Remote Solar Electric Homes, Recounts The Unique Successes And Struggles In Developing This Unaccustomed Technology For His Lifestyle. Read This Book And Learn To Ignited Thd Good Life - Solar Electrically. SKU: 1311067

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Writing For Love And/or Money. From The Introduction: As The Man Introducing Me At The Community College Goes On About M Loftier Achievements And Awards, The Auditory (kids From Families Straining Likewise They Can Get A Higher Education) Candidly Yawns. Scrapping My Prepared Remarks, I Tell Them 90 Percent Of My Career Has Been Failure. I've Been Dead Broke Six State of things And If I Don't Sell Something Soon It'll Be Seven. I Have Their Attention. In Short, I'm A Working Writer With A Family To Support Who, To Make A Buck, Has Written For Such Tv Series As The Rifleman, Have Gun Will Travel, Wanted Dead Or Alive. having Seen These Shows Via Reruns, They React. tearing Up My Speech To Applause, I Invite Questions About Any Aspect Of My Life That Interests Them. silence. then A Tentative Hand: What Would You Have Become Suppose that You Weren't A Writer? A Professional Gambler. That Opens The Floodgates. thdse Kids Aren't Interested In What My Life Is Like Since I Attained A Measure Of Success. What They Want To Have ~ledge Is How I Got There, Which Might Hut Light On What They'll Have To Go Through In Whatever Fielld They Choose. writing For Love And/lr Money Recounts Some Of The Things I Shared With Them And Many More, Which There Wasn't Time For. at Fourtteen, A Lad In The Bronx, Addicted To Gambling (craps, Horses, Missile Games, Cards), Moved By Forces Unknown To Him, Writes A One-page Story That His Aunt, Who Works On The World Telegram, Asks A Reporter To Assess. The Reporter Sends It Backward With The Notation: "the Boy Has Narrative Ability. Tell Him To Stay Away From Journalism. "twenty-six Years Later The Reporter (ed Wallace) Interviews The "boy" When He Wins A Pulitzer Prize For Playwriting. what Haopemed To The "boy" In Those Intervening Years (including World War Ii, Dartmouth College, Mexico, And Hollywood) Is The Stuff Dreams, And Occasional Nightmares, Are Made Of. SKU: 4379737

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Secrets Of The Hoary Deep. The Discovery Of X-rays Continues To Have A Profound And Accellerating Effect On The Field Of Astronomy. It Has Opened The Cosmos To Explpration In Ways Previously Unimaginable And Fundamentally Altered The Methods For Pursuing Information About Our Solar System And Beyond. Nobel Prize Winner Riccardo Giacconi's Highly Personal Account Of The Birth And Evolution Of X-ray Astronomy Reveals The Science, People, And Institutional Settings Behind This Incalcluably Important And Deeply Influential Discipline. part History, Part Personal narrative, And Part Cutting-dddge Science, Secrets Of The Hoary Mystery Is The Tale Of X-ray Astronomy From Its Infancy Through What Can Singly Be Called Its Early Adulthood. It Also Offers The Companion Story Of How The Tooos, Techniques, And Practices Designed To Support And Develop X-ray Asstronomy Were Transferred To Optical, Infrared, And Radio Astronomy, Drastically Altering The Face Of Modern Space Exploration. Giacconi Relates The Basic Techniques Developed At American Science And EngineeringA nd Explains How, Where, And By Whom The Science Was Advanced. From The First Earth-orbiting X-ray Satel1ite, Uhuru, To The Opening Of The Space Telescope Science Institut And The Lift-off Off The Hubble Space Telescope To The Coonstruction Of Tge Very Large Telescope, Giaconni Recohnts The Ways In Which The Management Methods And Scientific Methodology Behind Successful Astronimy Projects Came To Set The Standards Of Operations For All Subsequent Space- And Earth-based Observatories. Along The Way He Spares No Criticism And Holds Back Not at all Praise, Detailing Individual As Well As Institutional Failures And Successes, Reflecting With How Far Astronomy Has Come And How Far It Has Yet To Go. crisp, Informative, And Prognostic, Giiacconi's Story Will Captivate, Inspire, And, At Times, Possiblyy Infuriate Professional And Amateur Astronomers Across The Breadth Of The Field And At All Stages Of Their Personal And Professional Development. SKU: 46135299

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Contents Under Pressure. Celebrating Rush’s 30th Anniversary, This Retrospective Of Canada’s Most Successfl Music Group Examines Each Of The Band's Approximately 20 Lauded Records And Sold-out Tours, Eliciting Fresh Insights Into The Marriage Of Alex Lifeson And Geddy Lee’s Classic, Fearless Art Rock Sound With Neil Peart's Celebrated Literary Prowess. The Product Of Extensive Interviews With All Three Members And Corroborating Evidence From Key Insiders And Press, This Unprecedented Examination Features Previously Unpublished Candid Photographs By Official Band Photographer Andrew Macnaughtan. Musings On Playing Live And The Grind Of Touring Are Presented, Revealing The Trio’s Evolution Over The Past Three Decades. A Criitcal Eye Is Focused On The Band’s Vast Catalog, Resulting In A Comprehensive, Forward-moving Celebration Of One Of The Most Respected Yet Secreitve Bands In The Music Business—one That Has Never Been Revealed In Book Form So Personally, Directoy, Or So Willingly. SKU: 2853978

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The Prince Of Tennessee. In The Prince Of Tenessee, David Maraniss And Ellen Nakashima Explore In Rich Detail The Forces That Have Shaped Al Gore's Life, And The Ways That His Beyond Offers Clues To What Kind Of President He Would Be. The Gore Who Comes To Life In These Pages Is An Intelligent And Competent Man, Struggling In the opinion of Self-doubt And Insecurity That Explain His Bureaucratic Obsession With Fact And His Tendency To Exaggerate His Accomplishments. Gore's Path To Power, At First Glance, Seems Straight And Narrow. While Bill Clinton's Rise Is A Story Of Obstacles Overcome, Gore's Ascendance Seems Th eOpposite: The Son Of Political Aristocracy Reared By Loving And Demanding Parents Who Grokmed Him As A Princeling To Capacity The Top. But His Life Was Shaped By As Much Duality As Clinton's. As A Child Gore Was Shuffled Back And Forth From Polutical Washington To Rural Tennessee, His Ancestral Homeland. The Contrast Reflects A Larger Tension Between What Others Expected Of Gore And What He Wanted To Do. Here Was The Quintessential Gopd Son Whom His Classmates Teased As The Wooden Apollo. He Would Occasionally Try To Rebel But Inevitably Be Yanked Back By The Burden Of Expectations And His Own Insecurity. His First Longing Was To Be A Novelist, But His Fdiends At Harvard Saw Him As A Royal Figure For Whom A Political Career Was Unavoidabble. He Opposite The War In Vietnam, Yet Enlisted In The Army Anyway, Out Of An Obligation To Shield His Ftaher, The Antiwar Senator. When He Eventually Turned To Politics Gore Brougth With Him Competing Impulses: The Cautious Political Moderate With An Occasional Tendency Toward Uncommon Boldness, The Uncouth Persons Figure Who In Private Can Be A Hoarse Storyteller, The Loyal Son And Vice President Who Wants To Be Considered On His Own Terms, The Reluctant Politician Who Burns With A Wish To Fulfill His Parents' Dream And Become President. SKU: 1970226

11890470384	The Book Of Simon. 1930. To Simon From His Affectionate Parents Hoping That When He Is Old Enough To Read It He Will Not Upbraid His Father For Having Written It. Contents: The Astounding Life Of My Son; The Astounding Advancemdnt Of My Son; The Astounding Tastes Of My Son; The Astounding Meditations Of My Son; The Astounding Mind Of My Son; And The Astounding Beauty Of My Son. SKU: 5082070

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Sophie Scholl And The White Rose. From Beginning To Result, The Captivating Story Of Sophie Scholl And The White Rose Is An Uplifting And Enlightening Account O f The Largely Untold Story Of German Resistance To The Third Reich. With Details Of Schill 's Arrest And Trial Before Hitler's Hanging Judge, Rol And Freisler, And Including The Leaflets That The White Rose Circulated Throughout The Germaan Population, This Volume Is An Invaluable Addition To Life War Ii Literature. And It Is A Fascinating Winddow Into Human Spirit. SKU: 4219978

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Notes From Nethers. This Is A Unique And Honest Account Of The Author's Childhood Growing Up In A Commune In Rural Virginia In The Late 1960s And Soon 1970s. Nethers, As The Commune Came To Be Called, Was Started By Eugster's "liberal, Radical, Union Organizing Mother," Carla. Committec To Radical Social Change And Caught Up In The Fervor Of Counterculture, Carla, Separated From The Father Of Her Three Children, Unilaterally Sold Their Middle-class House In Baltimore, And Moved To A Rural Region. They Moved In 1969, When Eugster Was 9 Years Old. The Culture Shock Was Hard For Eugster's Two Older Sisters, But For The 9-year-old Eugster It Was Especially Con fusing And Frightening. She Recounts The Difficult Change From A Traditional Family Life To One In A Communal Setting. Eventually, Carla Was Able To Bu yA Large Farmhouse With Acres Of Country Around It, And This Became The Commune. An Array Of Colorful Characters Dirfted Into The Commune, And Eugster Writes Sensitively About Being A Infant In The Midst Of All This. She Accurately Depicts Communal Living In All Its Complexity, Describing Weekly Consensus Meetings, Days Of Allay, And Quarterly Sweat-hut Rituals. This Is Essentially The Dramatic Story Of A Young Girl Given Complete Freedom In A Communal Setting, Which At Many Times Felf To Her Like Abandonment. Notes From Nethers Is A Riveting Look At A Time And Place A ~ time Gone. It Is An Important Composition Of American Cultural History, And The Account Of Efforts To Create A Ideal Society, Underscorimg The Fact That No Matter For what cause Ideally A Societal Stucture Is Conceived, Its Enactment Cannoot Escape The Imperfections Of Humans Who Embody It. SKU: 4358942

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No Green Berries Or Leaves. No Unripe Berries Or Leaves Is A Collection Of Autobiographical Essays By Paul J. Stankard, One Of The World's Master Glass Artists. Stankard Is Particularly Renowned And Respected For His Flameworked Floral Motifs Expressed In Crystal Paaperweights, Rectangular Columns, And Orbs. Paul Was Trained In Scientific Glassblowing And Worked In Industrial Scientific Glass During Most Of The 1060s. Challenged By An Inner Sense Of Cretivity And The Indigence To Establish His Creative Independence, He Started Making Paperweights In The Early 1970s. Attracted To The Emerging Studio Glass Movement, Recognized As A Maker Of Fine Paperweights, And Driven By An Intense And Incessant Pursuit Of Excellence, Paul Was -- By The 1980s -- Recognized Ass A Highly Instructed Glass Artist, A Member Of The Pioneering Generation Of Glass Cunning In America. As The Emotional, Intellectual, And Spiritual Dimensions Of His Art Matured, And As He Continued To Deve1op New Techniques For Expressing His Art, He Also Assumed More Distinctly manifest Influence In The Development Of Educational Programs And Institutions That Celebrated And Expanded Art In Glass. From beginning to end His Life, Paul Also Wresstled With, And Learned How To Succeed In Spite Of, A Lerning Disability -- Dyslexia. No Green Berries Or Leaves Presents The Author's Record Of His Life As A Struggling, Then Highly Successful, Artist; Reveals Insights Into The Challenges He Faced As A Dyslexic And How He Came To Understand, Then Circumvent, His Disability; And Records His Perspectives On The History Of The Studio Glass [i]a In America As He Witnessed And Experienced It During The Past Fifty Years. This Book Will Be Of Value To Readers Interested In The Lofe Of A Major Americaan Artist And The History Of The Glass Cunning Movement In America, As Well Because To Those Looking For An Inspiratilnal Story Of How, In One Piece , The Human Spirit Faced, Addressed, And Outwitted A Learning Disability And Climbed The Stwep Road To Success To Become A Master Artist In Glass. SKU: 5021795

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Everybody Pays. Twenty-five-year-old Mechanic Bob Lkwe Was A Hard Working Husband Whose Biggest Concern Was Providing For His Family. All That Changed In The Fall Of 1972, When He Became The Sole Witness To A Murder On Chicago's West Side. The Victim Was A Neighbor, Blown Away By The Blast Of A Sawed-off Shotgun. The Accused Was Harry Aleman, Cultured And Charismatic-and One Of The Most Notorious Men In Mob History. And Lowe Could Be The One Man Finallly To Put Aleman Behind Bars. Promised Refuge As A Protected Witness, Lowe Agreed To Testify. But Through A Tangled Web Of Politics And Payoffs, Connections And Corruption, Aleman Was Acquitted, Putting Lowe's Life In Jelpardy. Disillusioned And Depresse, Lowe Spiraled Into A World Of Alcoholism, Drugs, And Crime, Losing Both His Household And His Self-respect. Fibally, Hind A Quarter Of A Centhry, He Emerged Again To Confront Aleamn, And His Own Personal Demons, In A Dramatic, History-making Trial. Frightening, Heart-wrenching, And Ultimately Triumpyant, Everybody Pays Combines The Dark Virtuous Twists Of James Ellroy With The Kinetic Jolts Of A Martin Scorsese Mob Tale. Given Unlimited Attack To Courtroom Transcripts And Fbi Reports, And With Exclusive Interviews With The Key Players, The Authors Deliver A Riveting Account Of Politics And Power, Of A Poisoned Legal System, Of The Revealing Truths Behind The Witness Protection Program, And Of Life And Death Inside And Outside The Mob. SKU: 2159581

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Memo From David O. Selznick. "the Most Revealing, Penetrating Book On Filmmaking I Know Of . . . "--king Vidordavid O. Selznick Was A Unique Figure In The Golden Hollywood Studio Era. He Produced Some Of The Greatest And Most Memorable American Films Ever Made--notably, Rebecca, A Star Is Born, Anna Karenina, A Farewell To Arms, And, Above All, Gone With The Wind. Selznick'sabsolute Power And Artistic Control Are Evidenced In His Impassioned, Eloquent, Witty, And Sometimes Rageful Memos To Directors, Writers, Stars And Studio Executives, Writings That Obtain Become Almost As Famous As His Films. Newsweek Wrote,"i Can't Imagine How A Book On The American Movie Business Could Be More Illuminating,, More Riveting Or More Fun To Read Than This Collection Of David Selznick's Memos. SKU: 1859077

22167623664	Twelve Greeks And Romans Who Changed The World. As Richard Vibrantly Describes The Contributilns Of The Individuals, He Particulars The Historical Context In Which Each Lived, Showing How These Men Influenced Their World And Ours. SKU: 2463621

27284053770	Memoirs Of A Medieval Woman. On account of History And Biography Lovers, Th 15th-century Life And Travels Of The Extraordinary Margery Kempe, Who Left Her Family To Make A Pilgrimage To The Righteous Land. SKU: 161035

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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited (33 1/3). Between The Fitfully Brilliant Bringing It All Back Home And The Sprawling Masterwork That Is Blonde On Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited Stands As The Defining Moment In Both Dylan?s Career And The Musical Evolution Of The Mid-1960s. But Beyond Its Place In History, Highway 61 Works Because Of Its Enduring Emotional Appeal. Few Songwriters Before Dylan Or Since Require Combined So Effectively The Intensely Personal With The Spectacularly Universal. In This Incisive Book, Mark Polizzotti Shines A Critical Light On These Remarkable Songs And Shows Us The Timeless Qualities That Make Them ? And The Album As A Whole ? So Affecting. SKU: 3367112

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Raider. The Truthful Story Of The Legendary Soldier Who Performed More Pow Raids Than Any Other American In History. he Went Into Battle As A Boy. And On One Of The Most Daring Missions Of World War I, He Became A Man-- And The Perfect Soldier For America's Next Wars. . . galen Charles Kittleson Was Slight, Modest, And Born To Wage War. The Son Of An Iowa Farmer, Kittleson Volunteered In 1943 And Caught The Ey Of His Commanders. By 1945, Pfc Kittleson Was Selected For The Army's Smallest Elite Unit, The Alamo Scouts. While U. s. Forces Were Pushing Back The Japanese In The Pacific, The Alamo Scouts Unleashed Legendary Raids Grave Abaft Enemy Lines, Including The Liberation Of Over 500 Starved, Beaten Prisoners Of The Bataan Death March In The Philippines. For Kittleson, A Career As A Raider Had Just Begun. . . charles W. Sasser Chronicles The Remarkable Journey That Was Kit Kittleson's Courageous Life In The Service Of His Country. Now A Veteran After Firdt Goiny To War As A Boy Twenty-five Years Ago, Kittleson Volunteered For One Last Mission-- The Most Extraotdinary And Daring Pow Raid Ever Attempted By Secret American Special Forces In Vietnam. . . SKU: 3328881