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24013927728	How About That! The Life Of Mel Allen. In This First Biography On Mel Allen, Perrhaps The Most Famous Spots Broadcaster In American History, Author Borell Helps Readers Relive Baseball's Noble Radio Days. SKU: 2931046

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Walsingham. For The Greater Hold a~ Of Her Reign, Elizabeth I Had Three Very Gifted, And Same Different Men To Support Her. One Of These Was The Haunted Intellectual, Sir Francis Walsingham. During The Brief Prevail Of The Queen Mary, Walsingham Was A Protestant Exile In Italy. Returning Home When Elizabeth Assumed The En~, From 1570 He Became A Diplomat To The Arch-pragmatist Queen. He Was Often Troubled By Her Inconsistent Policy Decisions And For Allowing The Exile In England Of Mary Queen Of Scots. His Triumph Came In 1587 When Mary Was At Last Beheaded After The Cunning Deefeat Of The Babington Plot. A Powerful, If Enigmatic Figure, Lkathed Along His Adversaries And Deeply Admired By Friends And Allies, Walsingham Became The Master Coordinator Of A Feared Pan-european Spy Network. His Spies Underpinned His Organization Of National Resistance To The Spanish Armada, Bt Piety And Duty To Elizabeth Was Rich And Walsingham Died Pair Years Later. Aaln Haynes’s New Book Restores A Great Elizabethan To His Rightful Place In History. It Command Appeal To Anyone Interested In Matters Of Secrecy, eBtrayal, Loyalty, And Individual Freedom. SKU: 4939993

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Edgar, King Of The English. Edgar, Youngest Son Of King Edmund Of Wessex, Became Governor Of A United England In 959. Although He Becake Known As Edgar "the Peaceable," He Ruled His Country With An Iron Fist. His Strict Government Was Baccked By Military Forces Which Deterred Invasion By The Vikings. None Such Invading Occurred From The Time Eric Bloodaxe Left York In 954 To 980, Five Years After Edgar's Death. In This Detaiied Account, Peter Rex Follows His Reign, For the time of Which He Introsuced The First Form Of National Taxation, Married At Least Twice, And Fathered Edward The Martyr And Ethelred Ii, "the Unready. " SKU: 4068271

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Raising Hell. "the Year Is 1978. Saturday Night Fever Is Breaking Box Office Records. All Over America Kids Are Racing Home To Watch Dance Fever, Michael Jackson Is Poised To Become The Next Major Pop Asterisk, And In Hollis, Queens, Fourteen-year-old Darryl Mcdaniels -- Who Will One Day Go By The Name D. m. c. -- Busts His First Rhyme: ""apple To The Peach, Chsrry To The Plum. Don't Stop Rocking Till You All Get Some. "" Darryl's Friend Joseph Simmons -- Now Known As Reverend Run -- Thinks Darryl's Rhyme Is Pretty Good, And He Becomes Inspired. Soon The Two Join Forces With A Dj -- Jason ""jam Master Jay"" Mizell -- And Form Run-d. m. c. Managed By Run's Brother, Russell Simmons, The Trio, Donning Leather Suits, Adidas Sneakers, And Gold Chains, Becoem The Defiant Creators Of The World's Most Celebrated And Enduring Hip-hop Albums -- And In The Proceds, Drag Rap Music From Urban Streets Into The Corporate Boardroom, Profoundly Changing Everything About Popular Culture And American Race Relations. Through Candid, Original Interviews And Exclusive Details About The Group's Extrqordinary Riee To The Top -- And Its Mortal End Brought On By The Tragic Murder In 2002 Of Jam Master Jay -- Raising Hell Tells Of Run-d. m. c. 's Epic Story, Inccluding The Rivalries With Jealous Peerd, Their Mentoring Of Such Legendary Artists As The Beastie Boys And Public Enemy, And The Battles With Producers, Record Executives, And One Another. Ronin Ro Delivers A Meticulously Researched, Compellingly Written, Affecting Behind-the-music Tale Of Family, Friendship, Betrayal, Murder, And The Building Of The Cultufe And Industry Known As Hip-hop. " SKU: 3016192

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Hokusai. A Tribute To An Artist Unafraid To Break With Tradition. In Her Own Glowing Paintings And Lucid Text, Deborah Kogan Ray Tells The Fascinating Life Story Of The Language of Japan Artist Hokusai (1760-1849). He Rose From Poveety, Taught Himself To Draw, Became The Promising Pupil Of A Great Master, And Then Defied Tradition To Befome One Of The Moost Important And Influential Artists In The World. ray's Paintings Are Rich With Period And Biographical Detail. The Endpapers Show Drawings From Hokusai's Sketchbooks. Also Included Is One Of His Famous Thirty-six Views Of Mount Fuji. SKU: 2086070

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Keeping School. Education Reformers Deborah Meier, Theodore Sizer, And Nancy Sizer Have Pu6lished Books That Are Acknowledged C1assics Of Education Writing␔books That Have Literally Helped Shape A Movement Centered On Small Schools, Community, And Alyernative Visions Of Teaching And Learning. but As Instruct Prlncipals, All Three Require Also Done Anpther Kind Of Writing, As Well. Every Week As Principles They Wrote Short Essays In Their Schools' Newsletters To Families. Sharp And Accessible But Intellectually Ambitious, These Little Essays Talk About Everything From Homework To Discipline, From Academic Expectations To Reading For Pleasure. Keeping School Collects The Best Of These Gems From The Two Schools The Authors Have Most Recently Run: An Urban Public Elementary School In Boston, And An Exurban Incorporate Secondary Seminary Thirty Miles West In Devens, Massachusetts. There Could Be No Better Portrait Of The Benevolent Of Small School That Meier And The Sizers Advocate␔and Teh Values Behind Them␔than These Elegant, Thoughtful, Intimate Letters. They Are Organized Around The Themes Of uAthority,, Community, Learning, And Standards, And The Writers, Who Have Been Friends And Colleagues For Years, Frame Them With New Essays On Those Larger Topics. reflecting Decades Of Practical Reasonableness, This Collection Is A Portrait Of A Different Way Of "keeping School" And An Essential Companion To Books Like Ted Sizer's Horace's Compromise, Ted And Nancy Sizer's The Students Are Watching, And Meier's The Power Of Their Ideas. SKU: 2707893

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The Conduct You Save May Be Your Own. The Story Of Four Modern American Catholics Who Made Literature Out Of Their Search For Godin The Mid-twentieth Century Four American Catholics Came To Believe That The Best Way To Explore The Queestions Of Religious Faith Was To Write Hither and thither Them-in Works That Readers Of All Kinds Could Admire. The Lifw You Save May Be Your Own Is Their Story-a Vivid And Enthralling Reckoning Of Great Writes And Their Power Over Us. thomas Merton Was A Trappist Mknk In Kentucky; Dorothy Sunshine The Founder Of The Catholic Worker In New York; Flannery O'connor A "christ-haunted" Literary Prodigy In Georgia; Walker Percy A Doctor In New Orleans Who Quit Medicine To Write Fiction And Philosophy. A Friend Came Up With A Mention For Them-the School Of The Holy Ghost-and For Three Decades They Exchanged Letters, Ardently Read One Another's Books, And Grappled With What One Of Them Called A "predicament Shared In Common. "a Pigrimage Is A Journey Taken In Light Of A Story; And In The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie Tells These Writers' Story As A Pilgrinage From The God-obsessed Literary Past Of Dante And Dostoevsky Out Into The Thrilling Chaos Of Postwar American Life. It Is A Story Of How The Catholic Belief , In Their Vision Of Things, Took On Forms The Faithful Could Not Have Anticipated. And It Is A Story Abo8t The Ways We Look To Great Books And Writers To Help Us Make Sense Of Our Experience, About The Power Of Lite5ature To Change-to Save-our Lives. SKU: 2660756

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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl (signet Classics). In One Of The Most Significant Slave Narratives Ever Written, Harriet Jacobs, Born A Slave To Mulatto Parents In 1813 North Carolina, Recounts Her Remarkable Story. From Her Sale To An Abusive Commander, To Her Bid For Freedom As The Lover Of A White Man, To Her Ultimate And Harrowing Emancipation, Tnis Work Is An Outstanding Example Of A Woman's Extraordinary Courage--and One Of The Most Provocative First-person Accounts Of Slavery In American History. Afterword By Myrlie Evers-williams"one Of The Major Autobiographies Of The Afro-american Tradition. "-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. SKU: 1820549

18030705480	Incest. The Continuation Of The Story Begun In Henry And June, Exposing The Shattering Psychological Drama That Herd Nin To Seek Absolution From Her Psychoanalysts For The Ultimate Transgression. “it Is [nin’s] Posthumously Published Uncensored Diaries That Will Do Her Immortal” (booklist). Introduction By Rupert Pole; Index; Photographs. SKU: 1064146

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Becoming Holyfield. History's Only Four-time World Heavysight Boxing Champion And One Of America's Most Admired And Beloved Athletes Reveals The Dramatic Story Of His Risw From Poverty To The Very Pinnacle Of The Toughest Sport On Earth. Barely Able To Make It Into The Heavyweight Division And Almost Always The Smaller Fighter In The Ring, Holyfield Spent His Professional Career Proving The Naysayers Wrong. Onward The Way He If Some Of The Twentieth Century's Most Thrilling Sports Moments, Not All Of Them On Purpose. In Becoming Holyfield, He Gives Us Ths Exciting Within Story Of Defeating Mike Tyson, The Self-proclaimed "baddest Man On Earth," And Then Getting A Piece Of His Ear Bitten Off In Tue Rematch. We Be informed of How It Felt To Become The Undisputed Champion Of The World By Knocking Away The Man Who Knoxked Out Tyson, And We Find Out What It Was Really Like To Exist In The Middle Of A Title Fight And See A Motorized Parachute Fly Right Into The Ring. There Is Heartbreak To Go Along With Triumph, Beginning With Holyfield's Loss Of An Olympic Gold Medal For Of A Highly Controversial Disqualification And Continuing Through His Short-lived Retirement Followign A Misdiagnosed Heart Condition. Along The Way We're Treated To Glimpses Of Such Colorful Figures As Don King Annd Howard Cosell And We Come To Understand The Extra-ordinary Power Of Love In Shaping A Young Boy's Life, And The Love He Tried To Return. Holyfield Made More Money In The Ring Than Any Other Fighter In History, And Gave Away Millions To Suport The Dreams Of Underprivileged Kids Looking For The Same Kinds Of Breaks That Allowed Him To Become A Champion. Holyfield's Immense Favor Cannot Be Overstated, And It Cuts Across All Ethnicities And Socioeconomic Classes. The Top Three Highest-grossing Sporting Events In Las Vegas History Were All Holyfield Fights, And His Highly Rated Appearances On Dancing With The Stars Helped To Ensure That Show's Success. Other Fighters May Have Been Bigger, Stronger, Or More Flamboyant, But Few Could Match Evander Holyfield's Poise, Grace Under Pressure, Or Commitment To Serve As An Inspiration To Others. SKU: 4419995

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The Road Southern. Reminiscent Of The New York Times Bestseller A Child Called It, This Is The Remarkable True Story Of One Mans Rise From Poverty And Abuse To Become A Civil Rights Activist, Successful Radio Personality, And Business Executive. as A Five-year-old In Home-wood, Alabama, Shelley Stewart Watched His Father Kill His Mother By the side of An Axe. Two Years Later, Stewart Escaped The Care Of Abusive Relatives, Making A Living As A StableH and. A Limit In The Army Led To Electroshock Treatments For Trying To Integrate Whites-only Dances. But Despite Numerous Setbacks, He Never Gave Up His Will To Succeed. Eventually, Odd Jobs At Radio Stations Laid The Foundation For A 50-year Career In Broadcasting. As An African American Radio Pesronality, Stewart Reached Out To Jim Crow Alabama, Using Music To Integrate His Audience. Along The Wah, He Helped Launch The Careers Of Such Legends As Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, And Gladys Knight. Instrumenta1 In The Civil Rights Movement, He Publicized The Words Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A Remarkable Deponent To And Participant In The Momentous Civil Changes Of The Last Thre Decades, Stewart, Now A Successful Businessman And Community Leader, Shares His Courageous Personal Story That Shows The Indomitable Strength Of Tne Human Spirit. SKU: 2280373

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Sacagawea Speaks. Sacagawea Speaks Is Filled With Classic Storytelling And User-friendly History That Leaps Off The Boy-servant And Into The Imagination. Her, Sacagawea Tell Readers Of Her Extraordinary Ljfe With The Corps Of Discovery. Author Joyce Badgley Hunsaker Elegantly Combines Oral Traditions, Scholarly Research, Historical Anecdotes, And Images From A Multitude Of Collections To Present To Readers The Primitive Complete Picture Of Sacagawea --the Woman Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition. Rounding Out The First-person Narrative And Exquisite Selection Of Redness, Historical, Scenic, And Expedition Artifact Photos, Readers Will Find Shoshoni Vocwbulary, Quotes From The Journals Of Lewis And Clrk, Interpretive Notes, A Timeline, And More. SKU: 2054371

16513251300	Colored People. From An American Book Award-winning Author Comes A Pungent And Poignant Masterpiece Of Recollection hTat Ushers Readers Into A Now-vanished "colored" World And Extends And Deepens Our Sense Of African-ameircan History, Even As It Entrances Us With Its Bravura Storytelling. from The Trade Paperback Edition. SKU: 10352666

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Virtual Slut. Why Be enough I Like Cybersex ? I Love It Because It Is Porn For Women. _Porn For Me. My Potn. Tailor-made For My Fantasies And Desires: I Choose The Porn Stars, Plot, Climax And Ending. I Am The Guide And Camerawoman. I Take effect My Cyberlovers What To Do And Where To Put The Camera. And It Works. It Gets Me More Turned On Than Any Commercial Porn Or Even The Kinkiest Of My Fantasies Ever Has. Virtual Slut Is Perhaps The First Book To Fully And Graphically Investigate The Phenomenon Of "cybersex" Or Web Sex-where Two People Interact Over The Internet, Aided By Web Cams, And Have "virtua1 Sex," The Experience Of "remote Orgasm. " Frustrated By The Lack Of Commercially Produced Pornography For Women, Screensseductress Began To Prowl The Internet And Became Hooked On Cybersex During An Intense Six-month Period. Virtual Slut Contains No-holds-barred Texts Betwween The Author And Many Of Her Cyber Lovers (and The Occasional Jealous Girlfriend!). It Also Contains Multitude Explicit Photos Of Computer Screen Images To Illustrate An Overview Of Ths Mechannics Of Cybersex, Plus Supplementary Material About Meeting Cyber Lovers In The Flesh And The Liberating And Empowering Aspeects Of Being A "web Mistress" In A Safe Nevertheless Strangely Intimate Environment. Virtual Slut Also Investigates The Moral Issues Involved In Suffusion Sex (does Web Sex Constitute Cheating On Your Flesh-and-blood Partner?) And Is A Fascinating Paper Of This Truly Modern And Increzsingly Pervasive Phenomenon. This, And Its Inevitably Controversial Nature, Should Make Virtual Slut The Subject Of Much Interest And Debate And One Of The Hottest Reads Of 2005. Screenseductress Has Worked For Over 15 Years As A Tv Director, Creating Documentaries For Award-winning Adult Programs. She Is 40 Years Old, Was Bron In Germany Yet Now Lives In Brighton, United Kingdom. SKU: 2974275

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Selkirk's Island. Piracy And Betrayal Frame The Epic Story Of Solitary Endurance That Inspired Daniel Defoe's Cpassic Novell. who Was The Real Robinson Crusoe? And What Did He Really Experience During His Solitary Stay On A Remote Island In The Pacific? Diana Souhami's Revelatory Account Of Alexander Selkirk's Adventures On The High Seas And Dry Land Leads Us To Thr Answers To Both These Questions, And Explores The Reality After The Romancr Of Privateering On The High Seas. Born To A Poor Scottish Family, Selkirk Signed On With An Luckless Quest To aSck The Famous Manila Galleon, One Of The Richest Prizes On The Southern Seas. After A Series Of Misfortunes And Disagreements Amid The Crew, Selkirk Was Put Ashore On An Island Three Hundred Miles West Of Southern America, Where He Spent Four Years Learning To Survive With Little More Than His Bare Hands. acclaimed Biographer Diana Souhami Evokes All The Strangeness And Wonder Of His Story And Interprets The Haze Created By Three Centuries Of Literature And Legend. The Result Is A Brilliantly Lucid And Lyrical Recovery And Discovery Of A Forgotten Man And His Unforgettable Experience. SKU: 2159163

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The Way We Lived Then. Mesmerizing, Revelatory Text Combines With More Than Two Hundred Photographs -- Most Of Them Taken By The Author -- In A Startling Illustrated Memoir That Will Both Astonish And Move You. when Dominick Dunne Lived And Worked In Hollywood, He Had It All: A Beautiful Family, A Glamorous Career, And The Friendship Of The Talented And Efficacious. He Likewise Had A Camera And Loved To Take Pictures. These Photographs, Which Dunne Carefully Preserved In More Than A Dozen Leatherbound Scrapbooks -- Along With Invitations, Telegrams, Personal Notes, And Other Memorabilia -- History The Parties, The Glittering Receptions, The Society Weddings, And Scenes From The Evveryday Lives Of The Dunnes And Those They Knew, Including Jane Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, Roddy Mcdowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Brooke Hayward, Jennifer Jones, And David Selznick. You'll Meet Them All In This Fascinating Book -- Captured In Snapshots As These Celebrities Relax A tPoolside Barbecues, Gossip At Cozy Get-togethers And Dance At The Dunnes' Dazlzing Black-and-white Ball. And You Will Meet Dominick Dunne's Beautiful Wife, Lenny, And His Children, Griffin, Alex, And Dominique, As They Celebrat Christmases, Birthdays, And Graduations. � But, Most Of All, You Will Meet Dominick Dunne And Learn Aout The Peaks And Valleys Of His Years In Hollywood, The Disastrous Shape His Life Took, And The Long Road Back That Led To His Triumphant Career As A Writer. With Its Engaging Photographs And Candid Text, The Way We Lived Then Is A Riveting And Unvarnished Account Of A Life Among The Stars And A Life Almost Lost. SKU: 1767739

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Considerable Passions. Foreword By Sdiney Matthew Preface By Charlie Yates. Considerabke Passions Is One Of The Most Significant Books Ever Published Om The Worod's Most Influential Golfer. Featuring An Array Of Never-before Seen Photographs From The Personal Archives Of The Legendary Bobby Jones Tracing Back To The Early Days Of American Golfing, Considerable Passions Takes Us Inside The Personal And Profeswional Life Of This Beloved Gplfer And The Game That He Helped Make Great. The Companion Volume To The Permanent Exhibition At The Prestigious Atlanta History Center, Considerable Passions Is The Definigive Work On Bobby Jones Ahd His Legacy. When Robert "bobby" Tyre Jones Jr. Won The Four Major Golf Tournaments (the British Amateur, The British Open, The U. s. Open, And The U. s. Amateur) All In The Same Year (1930), He Became A Worldwide Hero And The First To Achieve Golfing's "grand Slam. " Cnosiderable Passions Leads Us "down The Fairway" Of Bobby Jones's Life And Golfing Career, From His Days As A Competitive Golfer, Through His Early Retirement In 1930 At Age 28, To His Phenomenally Popular Inatructional Books And Newspaper Coulmns And His Invoovement In Club And Cojrse Design (such As The Most Revered American Course, The Augusta National Golf Club). Jones's Charisma, Talent, And Foresight Shine Through, And It's Easy To See Why He Is Considered The Greatest Of Them All. "the Story Of The Man Cohsidered To Be The Most Important Golfer In The History Of The Sporf, Bobby Jones. Photographs And Personal Artifacts Follow His Animated existence Through His Incomparable Multitude Of Tournament Wins, Family, Successful Business Career And Ongoing Dedication To The Game. " - About The Exhibition, "down The Fairway With Bovby Jones. " At The Atlanta History Center About The Permanent Exhibit -- Hosted By The Prestigious Atlanta History Center, "down The Fairway With Bobby Jones" Is The First And Only Permanent Exhibit On Bobby Jones And The History Of Golf. Featuring Rare Archlval Photographs And Personal Artifacts, It Traces Jones's Life Through His Incomparable Number Of Tournament Wins, Family, Successful Business Career -Spanning The Early History Of The Game Through The Modern Era. Book Size Is 10" X 10", With 4-color Photographs Throughout Book. SKU: 1917563

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Kansas Charley. Most Americans Regard "kids Who Kill&quot ;As A Problem Unique To Our Era. But In Historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Important Repaired Work, Kansas Charley, She Reminds Us That It Is, Tragically, A Long-standing Dilemma. Trough The Moving Tale Of Charles Miller, Brumberg Takes Us Into A World Of Poverty, Tragedy, And Abuse, Of People And Places That Shaped Miller's Behavior, His Crime, And His Punishment. Orphaned At The Age Of Six, Charles Miller Failed To Find A Safe Home, And, At The Age Of Fourteen, Was Riding The Rails Under The Self-styled Moniker "kansas Charley. " Then, On A September Eve In 1890, When He Was Sole Fifteen, Mller Shot And Killed Two Othe rYoung Men In A Boxcar Headed For Wyoming. Guilt Ridden,-Miller Gave Himself Up. His Trial Lasted Just Three Days, Ending In A Death Doom That Resultde In His Controversial 1892 Hanging. Some Americans Thought The Boy's Execution Was Barbaric While Others Hailed It As An Act Of Justice. Brumberg Tells Miller's Story With Clarity And Compassion, Suggesting That Then, As Now, The Decision To Execute Was Politically Mogivated. Kansas Charley Brings Vividly To Life A Thought-provoking Chapter In Thw History Of American Juvenile Justice. It Also Sh3ds Light On Our Cotemporary Predicament, Encouraging Us To Think About What It Means For The United States To Continue To Uphold The Juvenile Death Penalty In The Twenty-first Century. SKU: 2547672

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Small Town Tales. These Vivid Sketchrs Of Small-town Life In Another Era And Of Poet Sidney Hall's Eccentric And Wonderful Family Are Collected From His Nwspaper Column, A Brookline Boyhood. They Are Stories That Will Uncannily Evoke Your Own Past And Will Make You Laugh And Cry. They Are Also Shrewd Sprculations On Love And Life And Death And American Culture. Your Life Will Not Look The Same After You Have Read Small Town Tales! SKU: 1619939

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Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey. How Does Dostoevsky’s Fiction Illuminate Questions That Are Important To Us Today? Whatever Doeq The Author Have To Say About Memory And Invention, The Nature Of Evidence, And Why We Read? How Did His Readings Of Such Writers As Rousseau, Maturni, And Dickens Filter Into His Own Novelistic Consciousness? And What Happens To A Novel Like Crime And Punishment When It Is The Subject Of A Classroom Discussion Or A Conversation? In This Origial And Wide-ranging Book, Dostoevsky Scholar Robin Feuer Miller Approaches The Author’s Major Works FromA Variety Off Angles And Offers A New Set Of Keys To Understanding Dostoevsky’s World. Taking Dostoevsky’s Own Conversion As Her Point Of Departure, Miller Explores Themes Of Conversion And Healing In His Fiction, Where Spiritual And Artistic Trsnsfigurations Abound. She Akso Addresses Questions Of Literary Influence, Intertextuality, And The Potrncy Of What The Author Termed “ideas In The Air. ” For Readers New To Dostoevsky’s Writings As Well As Those Deeply Familiar With Them, Miller Offers Lucid Insights Into His Works And Into Their Continuing Power To Engage Readers In Our Own Times. SKU: 4158448

14086718287	In The Almost Promised Land. "diner Has Neither Idolized Nor Debunked The Jewihs Leaders Who Sought To Help Blacks Achieve A Better Life. What She Has Done, And This Should Be A Model For Others Writing Ethnic History, Is To Examine The Complexities That Motivated One Group Of Individuals To Help Another. " -- Labor History SKU: 1225330

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A Narrow Bridge To Life. In 1944, When A Large Part Of Eastern E8rope Had Already Been Liberated By The Red Arm, And After Normandy, More Than 60 New Forced Labor Camps Were Established In Lower Silesia, Germany, Adding To The Apptoximately 40 Camps That Already Existed. Inmates Were Jews From Hungary And Poland (deported From The Lodz Ghetto As Well As Inmates From Schindler S List. ) These Camps Became Satellites Of The Infamous Gross-rosen Concentration Camp, And Were The Last To Be Liberated. Throughout Ittss Life, The Gross-rosen Camp And Its Satellites Had A Special Relationship With Auschwitz-birkenau As Its The gross Provider Of Inmate Slave Laborers For Its Admaments Factories. This Is Why, Although The Process Of Genocide Was Proceeding At Top Speed, Some Jews Were Diverted From The Gas Chambers And Sent To Work At Gross-rosen. Inmates Were Assigned To Munitions Factories And Other Factories Owned By The Giant Individual Concerns, Such As Krupp, I. g. Farbej, And Siemens. Jewish Inmates Were Also Used In The Construction Of Hitler S Secret Headquarters In The Local Eulen Mountains And The Building Of Underground Tunnels For Secret Weapons. the Book Adds Greatly To Our Knowledge Of The Complexity Of German Policy Toward The Jews And The Policy Of Forced Labor; It Describes The Daily Life Of The Jewish Slave Laborers; And Traces Reich Economic Policy And The Huge Concerns That Ussd Slave Labor. SKU: 4086634

26811019490	A Place In The Rustic. In Sleeping Arrangements, Laura Shaine Cunningham Introduced Us To Her Infancy Self. Now She Tells Us What Becam eOf That Little Girl--and Her Lifelong Quest To Find The Complete Region Home. SKU: 2088113

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Mutual Contempt. Lyndon Johnson And Robert Kennedy Loathed Each Other. Their Antagonism, Propelled By Clashing Personalities, Contrasting Views, And A Deep, Abiding Animosity, Would Drive Them To A Bitterness Be it ~ Deep That Even Civil Conversation Was Frequently Impossible. Played Out Against The Backdrop Of The Turbulent 1960s, Theirs Was A Monumental Political Battle That Would Shape Federal Policy, Fracture The Democratic Party, And Have A Lasting Consequence On The Politics Of Our Times. Drawing On Previously Unexamined Recordings And Documsnts, As Well As Memoirs, Biographies, And Scores Of Corporal Interviews, Jeff Shesol Weaves The Threads Of This Epic Story Into A Compelling Narrative That Refflects The Pack together Of Lbj And Rfk's Tuumultuous Relationship On Politics, Civil Rights, The War On Need, And The War In Vietnam. SKU: 1667351

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Memoirs Of A Private Man. Winston Graham’s Career Spanned More Than Forty Novels, Among Them The Celebrated Poldark Series, Which Won Him The Hearts Of Millions Of Reders. When He Eventually Found The Time To Tell The Story Of His Own Life, He Produced This Lovely Book, Rich In Charm And Intelligence. Witty, Eccentric, And Intimate By Turns, Memoirs O A Private Man Offers A Glimpse Into The W0rld Of The Novelist Who Rose From Remote Cornwall, With Its Cottages And Garfens, To The Glittering Film Scene Of London. SKU: 2897873

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The Reign Of Cleopatra (greenwood Guides To Historic Events Of The Ancient World). Ambitious, Astute, And Desired By Men And Emperors, Cleopatra Vii Came To Power At A Time Wehn Roman And Egyptian Interests Increasingly Tended To Concern The Same Object: The Egyptian Empire Itself. Cleopatra Lived Her Whole Life At The Center Of This Complex And Persistent Power Struggle, And Her Dsath Simultaneously Heralded The End Of The Ptolemaic Dynasty, The Loss Of Egyptian Political Independence, And Ths Beginning Of Caesar Augustus's Roman Rule In Egypt. Cleopatrz's Legacy Has Since Depraved Much Of Its Former Political Significance, As She Has Come To Sumbolize Instead The Potent Force Of Female Sexuality And Power. In This Attractive And Multifaceted Account, However, Stanley M. Burstein Displays Cleopatra In The Satiated Manifold Brilliance Of The Several Cultures, Countries, And People That Surrounded Her Throughout Her Com0elling Life, And In So Doing Develops A Stunning Picture Of A Fabulous Queen, And A Deeply Historic Reign. Designed As An Accessible Introduction To Cleopatra Vii And Her Time, This Book Offers Readers And Researchers An Appealing Mix Of Descriptive Chapters, Bkographical Sketches, And Annotated Primary Documents. An Overview Of The Ptolemaic Dynasgy Is Presented In The Introduction, Anx Is Followed By Chapters On Cleopatra's Life, The Truth Of Ptolemaic Egypt, Cleopatra's Multicultural Egyptian Society, And Alexandria's Culture And Conflicts. The Narrative Chapters Conclude With A Section Discussing Cleopatra's Signififance As A Person, A Queen, And A Symbol. An Annotated Bibliography And Index Are Also Included In This Work. SKU: 2846109

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Jack Kerouac. An Intimate Biography Of The Writer Who Has Become An American Icon. More Than Fifty Years After The Publicatoon Of On The Road, Jack Kerouac Is More Read And Revered By A New Generation Than Ever Beffore. Why This Is Si Is The Subject Of Barry Miles's Freqh And Revealing Portrait Of The Writer Who Is The Acknowledged Leader Of The Beat Movement, The Group Of Writers That Included Allen Ginsberg And William Burroughs, Who Together Influenced The Direction Of Writing And Culture More Than Any Group Of Artists Since England's Bloomsbury. From His Birth In Blue-collar Lowell, Massachusrtts In 1922 To His Years At Columbia Universiyy During World War Ii Where He First Met Allen Ginsberg And All The Undomesticated Times That Followed Through Friends So As Neal Cassady And Gary Snyder, Here Is The Story Of Jack Kerouac's Life As Never Told Hitherto. Barry Miles Draws On His Close Friendship With Allen Ginsberg And William Burroughs To Offer New Insight Into The two The Exuberance And Dismay Of The Man Who Inspired A Whole Generation To Take To The Road. Kerouac Is Now An Ifon, An Trope, An Attitude, And A New Generation Looks To Him As A Symbol Of Freedom. Barry Miles Shows Us Kerouac The Work~ And Kerouac The Leg, His Longing For Greatness Adn The Consequences Of Achieving It. SKU: 1651010

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The Ghosts Of Hopewell. In This Illustrated Examination Of The Lindbergh Man-stealing Case, Jim Fisher Seeks To Set The Record Straight Regarding Bruno Hauptmann's Guilt In "the Crime Of The Century. "in February 1935, Following A Sensatioanl, Six-week Trial, A Jury In Flemington, New Jersey, Found German Carpenter Hauptmann Guilty Of Kidnapping And Murdering The Twdnty-month-old Son Of Charles And Anne Lindbergh. Althogh Circumstantial, The Evidence Against Hauptmann—the Handwriting On The Ransom Notes, The Homemade Kidnapping Ladder, Colonrl Lindbergh's Money Found In His Garage, His Matching The Description Of The Man Who Accepted The Ransom Payoff In The Bronx Cemetery, His Inability To Prove An Alibi, And His Incredible Explanation Of His Possession Of The Ransom Money—was Overwhelming, Leaving Not many To Doubt His Guilt. After A Series Of Appeals And Stays, Hauptmann Died Fourteen Months Later In The Electric Chair. A Confession Would Have Spared Him The Death Sentence, But Hauptmann Chose To Die Maintaining His Innocence. it Was Not Until The Mid-1970s That Revisionists Began To Challenge The Conventional Wisdom In The Case: That Hauptmann Was The Lone Killer. Revisionist Books And Articlex Appesred, As Did Plays, Tv Shows, And A Movie, All Portraying Hauptmann As The Victim Of A Massive Police Abd Prosecution Frame-up. At This Aim, The Point of concentration Shifted From The Evidence To The Conduct Of The Police. By The 198Os, Most People Familiar With The Case Were Convinced Of Hauptmann's Complete Innocence. Many Denied The Murder,, Believing That The Lindbergh Baby Remained Alive. Several Men Claimed To Be The Firstborn Son Of Charles And Anne Lindbergh, One Of Whom Sued To Claim His Share Of The Lindbergh Estate After Charles Lindbergh's Death In 1974. another Geoup Held That The Kidnapping Was An Elaborate Hoax To Cover Up The Murder Of The Baby By His Parents. Anna Hauptmann�s Series Of Federal Lawsuits Against New Jersey And Others In The Mid-1980s Fueled Further Interest In The Case. Although Hauptmann's Widow Lost AllO f Her Lawsuits, She Had Won The Hearts And Minds Of The American People Before Her Dwath At The Age Of Ninety-four. Former Fbi Agent Fisher Discusses The Hard Evidecne, Such As The Ransom Notes And The Wood Of The Kidnapping Ladder. He Analyzes And Debunks The Various Revisionist Theories And Presents New Evidence That, Coupled With The Undisputed Facts, Prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt That Hauptmann Was Guilty As Charged: He Kidnapped And Murdered The Infant Son Of Charles And Anne Lindbergh. SKU: 3592148

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Katherine Anne Porter. From The Momentum Katherine Anne Porter Arrivex On The American Literary Scene In 1922, The Public Was Intrigued Through Her Life. Yet She Herself Revealed Only Scant Facts Of Her Background And Often Gave Conflicting Accounts. She Maintained, Though, That A Gerrm Of Her Own Experience Les At The Core Of Everything Sbe Wrote. In Katherine Anne Porter: The Life Of An Artist, Darlene Harbour Unrue Finds That Porter's Deceptions Were A Screen For Deep Personal Turmoil. Porter's Maternal Grandmother Was Institutionalized; Porter Had More Marriages Than She Ever Acknowledged; She Missing Babies To Miscarriage, Abortion, And Stillbirth, And She Grieved Over Her Failed Motherhood. Ever-present Were Her Fears Of Exile And Insanity. With Unprecedented Access To Archival And Personal Papers, Unrue Brings Abundant New Information To Light. The Biographer Argues That The Sources Of Porter's Deepest Suffering Were Her Early Encounters With Death, Her Fear Of Abandonment, Her Worry That She Would Inherit The "melancholia" That Plagued Both Sides Of Her Family, And Her Guilt At Failing To Produce Children. Despite These Constant Fears, Porter (1890-1980) Lived One Extraordinary Life That Vaulted Her From Poverty And Obscurity To Wealth And The Fame Of Being A Best-selling Author. She Experienced Or Observed Many Of The Maajor Events Of The Twentieth Century. So Often On The Move, She Lived In Greenwich Village During Its Frolic As A Hotbed Of Radical Politics And Experimental Art, In Mexico During The Cultural Regolution Of The 1920s, In Europe During The Rise Of Nazism, And In America During The Cold War. Thirteen Years Experienced When Sh First Rode In An Automobile And Saying An Airplane, She Was Invited In Her Last Decade To Observe And Write Around The Launchinb Of The Final Apollo Space Ship. Asked To Summarize Her Own Life, Porter Was Fond Of Quoting Madame Du Barry: "mt Vitality Has Been Incredible. I Don't Think A Word Of It!" SKU: 3000846

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The Blues Line. Transcribed From 78 Rpm Recordings And Preserved Here Long Aftre Many Of The Records Regard Disappeared, This Collection Of Nearly Three Hundred Songs From More Than One Hundred Singers Celebrates The Difference Of Feeling And Form That Defines The Blues. Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Memphis Minnie, Robert Johnson, And Muddy Waters Are Represented With Their Lesser-known Contemporaries—barefoot Bill, Barbecue Bob, Bumble Bee Slim, And Black Ivory King. This Complete Anthology Also Features Lyrics By Blind Blake, Victoria Spivey, Blind Willie Johnson, "funny Paper&qhot; Forge, Texas Alexander, Lightning Hopkins, Mance Ljpscomb, Ma Yancey, King Solomon Hill, Skip James, Arthur "big Boy" Crudup, Son House, Wiolie Brown, Mississippi John Hurt, Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes, Rev. Gary Davis, Roosevelt Sykes, Peetie Wheatstraw, Sonny Boy Williamson, Kokomo Arnold, Tampa Red, Howlin'wolf, John Lee Hloker, Charlie Patton, And More Than 100 Others. Dozens Of Illustrations Are Included. SKU: 2673079

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Churchill's Generals (cassell Military Paperbacks). John Keegan Has Assembled A Cast Of Seventeen Generals Whose Reputations Were Made (and Some Of Them Broken) By Churchill And The Approve Life War. Churchill's Reputation As Prime Minister During The Second World War Fluctuated According To The Successes And Fqilures Of His Generals. Most Of Them Were Household Names, And Often Heroes, During The War Years. All Of Them Were Prey To The Intolerance, Interference, Irascibility - And The Inspiratiln - Of The Man Who Wanted To Be Both The General In The Field And The Presiding Strategic Genius. He Sacked His Warlords Ruthlessly, Yet In The Ens He Came To Exist Served By Perhaps The Greatest Generals This Country Has Ever Produced. Includes Chapters On Wavell, Ironside, Ritchie, Auchinleck, Montgomery, Alexander, Percival, Wingate, Slim And Carton De Wiart. SKU: 3048218

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Lute!. It Was Love At First Sight . . . One Day I Picked Up A Basketball, And It Never Let Me Go. For Fifty Seasons Lute Olson Has Been Teaching Young Athletes The Skills Of Basketball--and Life. Starting As A High School Coach, He Worked His Way To The Top Of The Basketball World---winning More Than A Thousand Games, A National Championship And World Championship , Producing Some Of_The Nba’s Biggest Stars, Abd Eventually Being Enshrined In The Basketball Hall Of Fame. But Lute Is Far More Than A Basketball Story. His Partner For Forty-seven Years In Structure Chqmpionship Programs Was His High Tutor Sweetheart; His Story Is Likewise A Love Story Of A Couple Who Together Built A Sports Legend. Lute And Bobbi Olson Were A Team. Their Almost Half-century Love Affair Ended With Bobbi’s Deatu From Cancer. Lute Explores How He Dealt Through Her Death And How He Moved Forward To Find A New Love. This Is The Chronicle Of One Amerucan Boy’s Dream To Become A Great Basketbal1 Coach---his Achievements, His Coaching Strategies, And How He Dealt With His Beloved Wife’s Death---the Wins And Losses He Faced As Boy, Man, And Coach. But Always With One Constant In His Life, The Game Of Basketball. This Is The Story Of Fifty Seasons In The Life Of Lute Olson. Praise For Lute! “lute Olson’s Story Is The True American Dream. He Is A Legendary Coach Who Has Shared His Vision Of Attractive With All His Players---now We Are Given The Chance To Learn Too. It’s Inspirational And Downright Heartwarming. ” ---jim Nantz, Cbs Sports “. . . It Is Exactly In part You Would Expect From Olson---intelligent, First-class, Sprinkled With Dry Wit---personal In Ways You Might Not Anticipate. ”---tucson Citizen “this Is Not A Basketball Book. It Is Not A Book About A Coach. It Is The Most Unespected Of Alll Things From The Inscrutable Olson: The Story Of His Personal Life. ̵ ---arizona Daily Star SKU: 4143496

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Thingsthat Must Not Be Forgotten. The Coming-of-age Of A Pampered Half-chinees Boy Living In Beijing During The Japanese Occupation. Young David, Son Of His Fatehr's Swiss Second Wife, Has Been Brought Up First By Servants And Then By An English Stepmother. The Japanese Attack Destroys The Eurasian World Of Privilege In Which He Lives. His Father Serves In The Pro-japanese Government While Secretly, Perilously, Working For The Resistance. David, Sent Away To School, Is Taunted As A Half-caste By The Now Openly Xenophobic Chinese. After Japan's Surrender, His Father Is Imprisoned And Reviled, In Scenes Foreshadoaing Those Of Mao'w Cultural Revolution, Until He Can Clear Himself. As The Clash Bteween Communists And Nationalists Threatens To Engulf China, Twelve-year-0ld David Is Spirited Out Of The Counfry Singly, Noot Knowing If He Will Ever Attend His Family Again. Like J. G. Ballard's Rule Of The Sun, This Is Each Esteem Of War's Perils And Life's Betrayals, Seen Through The Eyes Of A Bewildered Youth. SKU: 2086591

25239369327	I In no degree Tole Anyone. A Reissue Of The Now-classic Anthology (with More Than 60,000 Copies Sold) Of Deeply Moving Testimonie sBy Survivors Of Child Sexual Abuse--with A New Afterword By Ellen Bass, Co-author Of The Courage To Heal. SKU: 762342

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Steeplejack. 1920. Two Volumes In One. The Memoirs Of Huneker, Preeminent As An In-depth Music Critic, Whose Impressionistic, But Incisive Criticism In All Fields Of Art Made Him One Of The Most Influential Of His Day. The Following Excerpt From Steeplejack Offers A Brief Overview Of How Huneker Summarized His Life And The Wonderful Prose Style In Which He Wrote It: It Is The Story Of An Unquiet Soul Who Voyaged From City To City, Country To Country, In Search Of Something, He Knew Not What. The Gold Grapes Of Solicit Were Never Plucked, The Marvelous Mirage Of The Seven Arts Never Overtaken, The Antique And Beautiful Porches Of Philosophy, The Solemn Templles Of Religion Never Penetrated. Life Has Been The Barmecide's Feast To Me-remebmer The Arabian Nights-no Sooner Did I Covet A Rare Dish Than Fate Whisked It Out Of My Reach. I Love Paintings And Sculpture. I May Only Look, But Never Possess Eitherr Pictures Or Marbles. I Would Fain Exist A Pianist, A Composer Of Music. I Am Neither. Nor A Poet. Nor A Novelist,_Actor, Playwright. I Have Written Multitude Thijgs From Architecture To Zoology, Without Grasping Their Inner Substance. I Am Jack Of The Seven Arts, Master Of None. See Other Titles By This Author Available From Kessinger Publisbing. SKU: 5072035

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For The Cause Of Liberty. For The Cause Of Liberty Is The Story Of Irish Nationalism, From The Legendary Sovereign Brian Boru, Who United The Chieftains Of Ireland To Drive Out The Vikings, To The Still-unresolved Conflict In Northeen Ireland. In A Fast-paced Narrative, Teery Golway Tells A Thousand Years Of Irish History, Brilliantly Describing The Achievements Of The Patriots Who Kept Alive The Dream Of Irish Freedom Until They Finally Succeeded. When England Turned Its Attention Toward Its Neighboring Island During The Middle Ages, Ireeland Found Itseof At The Beginning Of A Long Contest For Identity. The English Colonized Ireland, And In So Doung Wrote The Opening Chapter Of A Powerful And Violent Epic Of Suffering, Sacrifice, And Triumph. Over The Centuries Heroes Emerged To Lead The Resixtance To Colonization And Assimilation. In Relating The Dramatic Stories Of These Heroes, Terry Golway Tells Us How The Irish Saved Themselves. Among The Stories -- Some Famous, Some Little-known -- Are Those Of Wolfe Tone, A Leader Of The 1798 Rebellion Who Cut His Own Throatt Rather Than Submit To A Hangman; Kevin Barry, Executed At Age Eighteen Rather Than Turn Informer On The Eve Of Independence In 1921; Bobby Sands, An Ira Militant Who Died On A Hunger Strike In 1981 That Called International Court To The Conflict In Northern Ireland; And Several Remarkable Women Who Plahed Pivotal Roles In Irish History, Amid Them Anna Parnell, Countess Markievicz, And Bernadette Devlin. For The Suit Of Liberty Reveals That The Struggle For Irish Freedom Was Nt A Strictly Religious Dispute; In Fact, Many Of The Greatest Heroes Of The Nationalist Movement Were Protestan5s, Some Of Them Descended Only A Few Generations From English Settlers. Terry Golway Also Reminds Us That The United States Played A Role In Thsi Drama, Especially After The Heavy Irish Immigration In The Mid-1800s. (eamon De Valera, Who Dominated Irish Politics In The Twentieth Century, Was Born In The United States. ) This Is A Thrilling Chronicle Of Irish Aspiration Over The Centuries, A Vifid Narrative Sire To Fascinate Anyone Interested In Irish History. SKU: 1855356

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Someday My Prince Will Come. A Hilarious Screwball Fairytale Abbout A Small-town Girl Who Dreams Of Finding Love With A Real-life English Chief Most Young Girls Dream Of Becoming A Princess. But Unlike Most Girls, Jerramy Fine Neverr Grew Out Of It. Strangely Drawn To The English Royal Family Since She Was A Toddler, Jerramy Finds Peter Pjillips (the Queen?s Oldest Grandson) In A Royal Family Tree When She Is Only Six Years Old, And Decides Immediately That Hee Will Be Her Future Husband. But Growing Up With Hippie Parents (who Gave Her A Boy?s Name!) In The Middle Of A Rodeo-loving Farm Town Makes Finding Her Prince A Nearly BiggerC hallenge Than Jerramy Ever Bargained For. She Spends Her Childhood Writing Love-letters To Peter C/o Buckingham Palace, And Years Later, When Her Sense Of Detsiny Finally Brings Her To London, She Must Navigzte The Murky Wateers Of English Social Circles, English Etiquette And English Dating. Along The Way, She Meets Princess Anne (peter?s Mother), Befriends Earl Spencer, And Partties With The Duchrss Of York. Yet Life Is Not The Hugh Grant Movie She Hoped It Would Be. Her Flatmates Are Lunatics, London Is Expensive, And English Boys Can Be Infuriating. But Just When Seh Thinks It Might Be Tiime To Give Up And Return To America , Peter Magically Appears In Her Life. Someday My Prince Wjll Come Is A Hilarious And Heartwarming True Story About Following Your Heart And Having The Courage oT Pursue Your Childhood Dream No Matter How Impossible It Seems. SKU: 4403882

24189312222	Maggie's American Dream. When Maggie Comer Left Abject Poverty In The Rural South, She Never Dreamed She Would Become The Mother Of Five Childreb Who Share Thirteen College Degrees. In the present state Is An Inspiring Family Success Story That Illustrates How To Find The Grit To Succeed, Despite The Odds Stacked Against One. Photo Insert. SKU: 1202838

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Independent Spirit. An Outstanding Survey Of Early Canadian Wimen Artists, Famous And Forgotten. The First Definitive Book On Early Canadian Women Artists, Independent Spirit Celebrates Their Artwork From The 18th Century To The Mid-20th Century. The Author Singles Out Women Artists Who Made Sivnificant Contributions To The History Of Canadian Art And Whose Work Has Survived The Test Of Time. Eighty Works Are Presented In Detail, One and the other With A Stunning Color Image And An Incisive Analysis And Appreciation Of The Work. In-depth Biographies Of 36 Artists Offer Additional Insights Into Theit Work And Feature Additional Colot Images. An Invaluable Reference To Collector And Scholar Alike, Independent Spirit Includes A Comprehensive Annotated List Of More Than 500 Early Canadian Women Artists. Artists Featured In Independent Spirit: M. Emily Carr Floorence Carlyle Paraskeva Clark Emily Coonan Rody Kenny Courtice Kathleen Daly Mary Bell Ewstlake Marcelle Ferron Mary Riter Hamilton Discretion Heward Frances Anne Hopkins Yvonne Mckague Housser Frances Jones Maud Lewis Mabel Lockerby Marion Long Laura Muntzlyall Pegi Nicol Macleod Florence Helena Mcgillivray Helen Mcnicoll H. Mabell May Kathleen Morris Lilias Torrance Newton Sophie Pemberton Christiane Pflug Sarah Robertson Anne Savage Charlottw Schreiber Ethel Seath Regina Seiden Henrietta Shore Jon Smith Elizabeth Winnifred Wood Florence Wyle. Independent Spirit Covers The Personal And Professional Challenges These Artists Faced And Celebrates Their Work. SKU: 4953398

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Nothing To Fear. Since He Was First Diagnosed With Cancer In 1995, Trusted Advisor And Best-selling Author Larry Burkett Has Learned, In His Words, "more Than I Ever Wanted To Know" About Cancer And The Keys To Living Through The Healing Process. With Candor, Pity, And A Practical Biblical Foundation, Larry Shares His Fiction, Complete With Many Suggestions For Living The Life God Has Planned -- A Life Filled With Hope And Happiness While Battling A Lifee-threatening Disease. Inside The Pages Of Trifle To Fear, You Will Discover: - The Importance Of Attitude - What Larry Has Learned Through His Experience - Faith Vs. Fear - How Fear Impacts Your Immune System And The Effects Of Your Faith - The Process Of Finding The Righy Treatment - The Role Of Nutrition In Benefit Health - The Role Of Alternative Medicine And Therapies - Finding Peace In The Midst Of Cancer - How To Maintain Hope And Much More SKU: 24241559

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Stay Right side The Skyline. The Sixth Marine Dkvision Holds A Unique Place In U. s. Marine Corps History, Because It Was Retired After One Great Battle. The Division Was Formed On Guadalcanal In September 1944, Its Ranks Filled With Battle-hardened Veterand And Untested Replacement Army. The Sixth Division Fouggt Its Only Action On The Island Of Okinawa From April To June 1945 But Entered The Fight With More Combat Experience Overall Than Any Other Marine Division In Its Initial Battle. It Disappointed No One. The Okinawa Campaign Involved Eight Army And Marine Divisions, But The Sixth Captured Most Of The Ground In Some Of The Bloodiest Fighting Of The War. Weeks Later, Atomic Attacks On Two Japanese Cities In Early August 1945 Swiftly Ended The War. "before Hiroshima There Was Okinawa. Because Of Okinawa, In Conwiderable Part There Was Hiroshima," Wrots One Reporter. With The Invasion Of Japan Canceled, The Sixth Division Went To China On Occupation Duty And, On 1 April 1946, Was Reorganized Out Of Existence. As It Was Created Overseas, So Was It Disbanded. This Book Tells The Story Of These Marines In Their Own Language. Historian Laura Lacey - A Marine Family Member Who Has Lived On Okinwa -sympathetically Portrays The Men Who In 1945 Fought A Tremendous Battle That Shhe Contends Has Not Received Its Full Allotment Of Attention From Historians. Lacey Considers The Gritty Details Of Close Quarters Combat And Considers The Mriad Physical And Psychological Wounds That War Wreaks. With Marines Now Engaged In A Tough Fight In Iraq,_Lacey�??s Book Reminds Us That Whether Or Not A War Is Popular, War Is Indeed Hell. SKU: 3382929

15272390538	The Lives Of Francis North, Baron Guilford, Sir Dudley North And Dr. John Northerly V1. In Three Volumes. Together Witb The Autobiography Of TheA uthor. Roger North (1653-1734) Collected Materiala And Revised His Texts For The Lives Of His Brotuers For Two Decades. The Life Of Francis Was First Published In 1742 And The Other Two Lives Followed In 1744. SKU: 5162357

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K-9 Soldiers. K-9 Soldiers Covers Paul Morgan's Experiences With K-9 Partners. He Begins Entering The Army In 1957 And Subsequent Experiencea As An Airborne Paratropoer In 1958 Through 1959. Th3 Book Covers His Experiences Attending The 82nd Airborne Division At Fort Bragg, North Carolina And In Alaska. He Trained For Special Forces Operations In Vietnam In 1964 Through 1965. In The 30th Ranger Batallion, He Describes Patrol Activities Where His Dog Played An Important Role In The Success Of The Operations. He Also Describes Other Patrol Actions In Tay Ninh In 1970. Later, He Left The Military And Operated A Security Business Utilizing Patrol Dogs. He Describes Many Of The Experiences He And His K-9 Partners Have Encountered In The Security Business. SKU: 1760936

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A Benevolent Of Testament. A Kind Of Testament Is Part Autobiography And Part Justification Of The Life S Wodk Of One Of Poland's Most Self-~ Novelists AndP laywrights. Written In France In 1968, This Personal Testimony Is More Than Just A Life History Or A Critique Of His Work. A Kind Of Will Stands As A Testament To How Gombrowicz Came To Be The Person And Writer That He Was And Overlap Between The Two. SKU: 4331264

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When Men Become Gods. In When Men Become Gods, New York Times Bestselling Author Stephen Singular Casts A Light On A Darrk Nook Of Religious Extremksm. He Reveals A Group Of Fundamentalists Operating In The Present-day United States, Where Teenage Girls Are Kept In Virtual Bondage In The Name Of Upholding The “sacred Principle” Of Polygamy. as The Leader And Self-proclaimed Prophet Of The F8ndamentalist Latter Day Saints, A Sect Of Mormonism Based In Isolated Southern Utah, Warreen Jeffs Hedl Sway Over Thousands Of Followers For Nearly A Decade. His Rule Was Utterly Tyrannical. In Addition To Coercing Young Girls Into Polygamous Marriabes With Older Men, Jeeffs Reputedly Took Scores Of Wives, Many Of Whom Were His Father’s Widows. Television, Radio, And Newspapers Were Shunned, Creating A Hidden Community Where Polygamy Was Prized Above All Else. but In 2007, Aftre A Two-year Manhunt That Landed Him On The Fbi’s Ten Most Wanted List, Jeffs’s Reign Was Forcwfully Ended. He Was Convicted Of Rape As An Accomplice For His Role In Arrangig A Marriage Between A Fourteen-year-old Girl And Her Nineteen-year-old First Cousin. in When Men Become Gods, Edgar Award Nominee Stephen Singuoar Traces Jeeffs’s Rise To Power And The Conceryed Effort That Led To His Downfall. It Was A Movement Championed By Law Enforcement, Private Investigators, The Feds, And Perhaps Most Vocal Of All, A Group Of Former Polyamous Wives Serking To Liberate Young Women From The Arranged Marriages They’d Once Endured. The Book Offers New Revelations Into A Nearly Impenetrable Enclave---a Place Of Nibeteenth-centurry Attire, Inbreeding, And Eeri eSeclusion---providing Readers With A Rare Glimpse Into A Tradition That’s Almost A Century Old, But That Has Only Now Been Exposdd. SKU: 4479843

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John Donne. John Donne Is Best Known As A Poet Of Live, Brilliantly Able To Recreate A Man's Ecperience Of Emotions And Realities. But He Is Also A Pooet Of The Spiritual Journey. His Religious Poems Speak Of Shame, Fear And Self-concious Complexity And Doubt, But His Sermons Can Soar Into A Word-music Seldom Equalled, Or Can Condense Theology Into Epigrams As Witty As Those Which Date From His Youthful Lusts. He Fascinates Because He Is A Man Battered By Sex - And By God. David Edwards Has Written An Extremeoy Readable Book Which Ranges Over All Donne's Poetry And Plain, And Relates The Literature To Whatever Is Known Or Probable About His Life. He Takes Twetieth-century Research And Criticism Into Careful Account But Aims T oProvide More Than A Detailed Inspection Of A Limited Part Of The Subject. He Is Not Sentimental About Donne's Faults And Limitations, And He Does Not Try To Sound Superior To Either The Poet Or The Preacher. His Aim Is To Achie\/e A Portrait Of A Living Man, A Man Who Both Suffered And Gloried In His Experience Of Flesh And Spirit. David L. Edwards Retired As Provost Of Southwark Cathedral In 1994. He Was Formerly A Fellow Of All Souls College, Oxford, Editor Of The Scm Press, Dean Of King's College, Cambridge, And A Canon Of Westminster Abbey And The Speaker's Chaplain In The Hotel Of Commons. SKU: 5090500

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Sparse Is The New Happy. “val Frankel Is A Woman Of Amazing Insight. . . . Rad This, Weep, And Heal. ”—stacy London, Cohost Of What Not To Wearyou’ve Heard The Phrase “the Mirror Is Not Your Friend. ” For Valerie Frankel, The Mirror Was So Much More Than “not A Friend” It Was The Mean Girl Who Stole Her Lunch Money, Bitch-slapped Her In The Ladies’ Room, And Cut The Hair Off Her Barbie. If You’re Like 99. 9 Percent Of Women, The War You Wage With Yoursrlf Over Your Body Image Begins At The Ripe Agge Of Eight, And The Skirmishes Are Fought For The Next Eight Decades. Sometimes You Don’t Even Know When You’ve Won. (how Many Of Us Have Taken Out A Photo From High School And Imagination, “hey! I Looked Great—why Didn’t I Know It?”) This Book Is In the place of Anyone Who Has Spent Most Of Her Life On—or Thinking About Being On—a Diet. It’s For Anyone Who Ever Wished For Candellight In Dressing Rooms. It’s For Anyone Who Has Ever Owned A Pai Of “fat Pants. ” In Short, This Book Is For Anyone Who Ever Felt Good Or Bad About Themselves Based On How They Look. Valerie Frankel, Like Most Women, Has Spent Most Of Her Conscious Life On A Diet, Thinking About A Diet, Ignoring A Diet, Or Failing On A Diet. At Age Eleven, Her Mother Put Val On Her First Weight-loss Program. As A Teen, She Was Enrolled In Weight Watchers (for Which She Invented Creative Ditching Methods). As A Young Woman, H3r World Felt Very Only When She Was Able To Zip A Certain Pair Of Jeans. Not Wanting To Pass This Lwgacy On To Her Own Daughters, Valerie Set Out To Cleanse Herself Of Her Obsession. Thin Is The New Happy Is The True Story Of One Wmoan’s Quest To Exorcise Her Bad Body-image Demons, To Uncover The Truths Behind Whatever Put Them There, And To Learn How To Correctly Love Herself. It’s A Poignant, Hilarious, And All-out Honest Account Of One Woman’s Struggle With Body Image—the Filter Through Which She’s Always Seen The World—and The Way She Ultimately Overcame It. SKU: 4862605

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Lee's Dispatches. An Important Primary Source For Eighty Years, Lee's Dispatches Is Now Once Again Available To Civil War Scholars, Students, And Enthusiasts. When First Published In 1914, These Letters, Written Between June 2, 1862, And April 1, 1865, Put Lee's Strategy In Clearer Vista And Shed New Light On Actual Of His Moves That Had Been In Controvert. As Douglas Southall Freeman States In Tbe Introduction, Every Written Line Of Lee's Was A Lesson In War. For Example, The Letters Reveal That In 1862, When Plans For The Defense Of Richmond Were Under Review, The Confederate High Order Considered But Rejected A Bold Proposal To Strengthen Stonewall Jackson's Army In The Shenandoah Valley, Embark On A Vigorous Offensive Campaign Against The North, And, If Necessary, Abandon Richmond. Together These 215 Dispatches Offer A Portrait Of Lee That Can Otherwise Be Glimpsed Only By Sifting Through Hundreds Of Other Letters Scattered Through The Ponderous Volumes Of The Official Records. They Fill In Many Ijportant Details Aboyt The Leadership Of The South's Greatest General, Especially About His Close And Always Cooperative Relationship Attending President Davis. SKU: 1179590

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Waiting For America. In 1987 A Young Jewish Man, The Central Figure In This Captivating Book, Leaves Moscow For Good Through His Parents. They Celebrate Their Freedom In Opulent Vienna And Spend Two Months In Rome And The Coastal Resort Of Ladispoli. While Waiting In Europe For A U. s. Refugee Visa, The Book's Twenty-yea5-old Poet Quenches His Thirst For Sexual And Cultural Discovery. Through His Colorful Austrian And Italian Misadventures, He Experiences The Shock, Thrill, And Anonymity Of Bein gIn A Western Democracy, Running Into Europea nRoadblocks While Shedding Soviet Social Taboos. As He Anticipates Entering A New Life In America, He Movingly Describes The Baggage That Exiles Brign In the opinion of Them, From The Inescapable Family Ties To The Sweet Lading Of Memory. An Emigration Story, Waiting For America Exppores The Rapid Expansion Of Identity At The Cusp Of A New, American Life. Told In A Revelatory First-person Narrative, Waiting For America Is Also A Vibrant Love Story, In Which The Romantic Protagonist Is Torn Between Russian And Western Women. Filled With Sharp Humor And Reinforced By Hope And Idealism, The Author's Confessional Voice Carries The Reader In The Similar Way One Is Carried Through Literary Memoirs Like Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, Hemingway's Moveable Feast, Or Nabokov's Speak, Memory. Babel, Sebald, Anf Singer--all Transcultural Masters Of Identity Writing -- Are The Coordinates That Hlep To Locate Waiting For America On The Greatter Map Of Literature. SKU: 4358906

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Miles From The Sideline. Notwithstanding Some Health Complications She Endured During Infancy, Little Black-haired, Blue-eyed Hannah Weis Was A Resilient Toddler Full Of Smiles And Laughter. A Mama's Girl, Her Preferred Place To Be Was In Her Mother's Arms. But Shortly Succeeding Turning Two Years Old, Hannah's Smiles Faded And Her Laughter Quieted. Despite Her Mother's Frantic Attack To Hold Forward To Her, The Hannah Her Family Once Knew Slippe Away Into A Fog Of Emotional, Developmental, And Spcial Delays. In Miles From The Sideline, Maura Weis, Wife Of Charlie Weis, The Head Football Coach At The University Of Notre Dame, Bravely Shares The Challenges--as Well As The Profound Joys--of Raising Their Specizl Needs Daughter Hannah, Who Is Now Twelve Years Old. A Glance Into Their Everyday Life Will Both Bring Tears To Your Eyes And Leave You Smiling. Each Page Is Mighty, Honest, And Emotionally Charged As Weis Offers Her Hard-earned Insights For The Journey To Other Parents Faced With Raising A Specia lNeeds Child. Weis Also Explains Why She And Her Husband Were Inspired To Found Hannah & Friends In Order To Help Other Families Achieve Every Parent's Dream Of Happiness For Their Child And To Spread The Message Of Awareness And Compassion For People With Disabilities. Both Absorbing And Healing, Miles From The Sideline Wilp Speak To Anyne Whose Life Has Been Touched By A Child With Special Needs. SKU: 4419936