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Myra Inman. In 1859, A Thirteen-year-old-girl Began A Diary, Detqiling The Emotions And Events Of Everyday Life. Daily Life In Her Shallow Hometown Of Cleveland, Tennexsee Was Not Destined To Remain Quiet And Routine, However. When The Civil War Began, The Diary Entries Provide A Firsthand Account Of The Sorrows Inflicted When The Civil War Tore Families Apart In The Border Southward. Myra, A Staunch Confederate, Gave A Vivid Account Of The War, How It Divided Her Sameness And Left Misery In Its Wake. Her Diary Became A Bosom Friend To Whom She Could Confide Her Pajn And Grief. While She Never Knew The Historical Consequence Of Her Journal, Her Descendants Did, And Preserved This Precious Legacy. Like The Famous Diary Of Anne Frank, Myra Inman's Diary Begins With Ordinary Evdnts And Proceeds To Tell The Story Of A Child's View Of The Horrors Of War. This Book Offers A Unique Perspective On The Civil War--that Of A Child In The Borderlands, Where Families Were Torn Apart By Differing Loyalties. "a Sympathizer Of The Confederate Cause And Supporter Of Its War Effort. . . Inman Occasionaally Records Soldiery News And Political Views, But Her Diary Is More Valuable For The Evidence It Provides About The Workings Of The Important Social Sphere That Historian Karen V. Hansen Describes Operating In The Lives Of Antebellum New England Working-class Women. " Virginia Quarterly Revkew, Vol. 77, No. 1 SKU: 1955223

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Life Line. The World Is Indeed A Stage, And Whole Humans Are The Players; However, Some Players Find Themselves Entangled In An Unusually Rich Plot. Such Was The Case For Vivian And Mickey Who Met Making Films In Hollywood In The Thirties. "life Line" Is A Uniquel6 American Family Scandinavian legend, A True Tale Played Out Against The Backdrop Of Hollywood, The Hawaiian Islands, The Philippines, Japan, And Early Days Las Vegas. It Is In Part The Story Of The Attack On Pearl Harbor, The Fall Of Bataaan, The Death March, And Slave Labor In Japanese Prison Camps, But Most Of All, It Is A Love Story. About The Author: Judith Falck Madsen Is Married To A Dane And Has Lived In Denmark In quest of The Past Forty-three Years. She Is A Graduate Of The University Of Californai At Santa Barbara. SKU: 3615556

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For Old Times Sake. Walter Nash Recalls His Childhood In An Industrial Town In North-west England, Partly In Vivid Immediate Recovery And Partly In The Reflective Light Of Adult Memory. The 'old Days' Of The 1930s Come To Mind: Dayx Of The Family, Days Of Street Life, Of 'hopscotch And Coddymuck', Days Of Wireless And Gramophone And The Parlour Piano, Days Of Sport And Pasyime, Days Of Reproof, Days Of Churchgoing. Wiht The Memories Of Days Come The Memories Of People - Parenys, Grandparents, Kinsfolk, Teachers, Parsons, Dickensian Eccentrics Like The Medicine Hawker, The Coalman, The Street Preacher And The Rag-and-bone Man. These People, Celebrated Here For Old Times Sake, Are The Working Class Of Once-upon-a-day, After 1939, At no time The Same Again. SKU: 5134968

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The Rivals. In The Annals Of Sports, No Individual Rivalry Matches The Intensity, Longevity, And Emotional Resonance Of The One Between Two Extraordinary Women: Chris Evert And Martina Navratilova. C~ing Sixteen Years, Evsrt And Navratilova Met On The Tennis Court A Register Eighty Times—sixty Periods In Finals. At Their First Match In Akron, Ohio, In 1973, Chris Was One Eighteen-year-old Star And Martina, Two Years Her Junior, Was Each Unknown Czech Making Her First Trip To The United Srates. It Would Be Two Years Before Martina Ultimately Beat Chris, And Another Year—after Navratilova Had Dropped Twenty Pounds And Improved Her Game—before Evert Publicly Betrayed Her First Hint Of Concern. By Then, The Women Were Already Friends And Sometimes Doubles Partners, AndT he Coloeful Story That Would Captivate The World Was Under Way. the Rivals Is The First Work To Examine The Intertwined Journey Of These Legendary Champions, Based On Extensive Interviews With Each. Taking Readers On And Off The Courts With Vivid, Never-before-published Material, Award-winning Sportswriter Johnette Howard Shows How Evert And Navratilova Came Of Age During The Rambunctious Golden Age Of Tennis In The 1970s, And How—together—they Redefined Women’s Athletics During A Time Of Volcanic Change In Sports And Society. Their Epic Careers Unfolded Against The Backdrop Of The Fight For Title Ix, The Gay Rights Movement, The Women's Movement And The Fall Of The Iron Curtain. Howard Draws Entertaining, Intimate, And Myth-shattering Portraits Of Evert And Navratilova, Describing The Personal Migrations Each Woman Made, And Showing How Enmeshed Their Lives Became. navratilova And Evert’;s Ability To Forge And Maintain A Friendship During Sixteen Years Of Often-cutthroat Competition Has Always Provoked Wonder And Admiration. They Were A Study In Contrasts, A Collision Of Politics And Style And Looks. Chris Was The C5owd Darling While Martina, Her Greatest F0il, Was Often Cast As The Rascal Chris Was The Imperturbable Champion Who Proved Toughness And Femininity Weren’t Mutuall Exclusive; Martina Was Portrayed As Both Emotionally Fragile And Some Fearsome Amazon. Chris’s Off-court Mode Was Presumed To Be Bedrock Solid, The Stuff Of Main Street America; Martina’s Was Derided As Outreous And Sometimes Chaotic, Even During Her Unconquerable Years. Yet, Through It All, The Two Remained Friends Who Lifted Each Other To Heights That Each Says She Couldn’t Have Reached Without The Other. women’s Tennis Now Is More Popular Than Ever, Thanks In Large Part To The Trailblazing Of Evert And Navratilova. A Rivalry Like Theirs, Filled With So Many Grace Notes, Is Unique In Sports History. SKU: 3206696

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Black Maestro. The Life Of Jimmy Winkfield Is An Exuberant Epic: The Seventeenth Child Of Kentucky Sharecroppers, He Was The Last Black Jockey To Win The Kentucky Derby, And Survived The Ku Klux Klan, The Bolshevik Revolution In Russia, And The Nazis, Anf Died A Wealthy Landowner In A French Chateau. Jimmy Winkfield Is Surely The Oddest And Most Invisible Witness To Some Of The Greatest Historical Events Of The 20th Century. His Life Is One Of Adventure And Account, Of Trarls Around The World. Winkfield, A Boack Jockey, Won The Kentucky Derby In 1901 And 1902. He Was The Last African American To Win That Race, And Atcually Closed To the end An Era In Which Black Jockeys Dominated The Event. (the Bequest Had Its Roots In Slavery, When Plantation Owners Left The Care, Training And Racing Of Horses To Their Slaves. In The First Kentucky Derby, In 1875, 13 Of The 15 Riders Were African Americans. Such Was The Winning Jockeu. And, Over The Primitive 28 Years The Derby Was Run, 15 Of The Winning Riders Were African American. ) Jimmy Winkfield Went From Being The Younfest Of 17 In A Family Of Sharecroppers, To Racing For $8 A Month, And Eventually $1000 Per Race. On the other hand In 1903 Winkfield Lost His Third Attempt, And His Racing Life Faltered. He Founc Himself Under Tremendous Economic Pressure–and Racial Pressure At The Same Time, From The Kkk. Anxious About Racial Riots Adn Protests, Winkfield Accepted An Offer To Race In Russia, Where He Found Refuge From The Kkk And Became A Star Again. A Few Years Later, He Becsme The Tsar's Rider, Until The Bolsheviks Chased Him Out Along With 200 Of The Tsar's Horses. In Order To Save Them, Winkfield Drove The Horse Through A Nasty Eastern European Winter, Eating Some Of Tgem Along The Way To Stave Off Starvation. He Arrived In France WithT hese Beloved Horses, Became A Gentleman, Married, Rode And Made A Destiny Of Money. Then Came The Nazis, Who Drove Him And His Family Back To Aitken, S. c. , Where He Resumed A Humble Life As A $15 A Day Horse Groomer. After The War He Returned To France And Resumed His Position, Farm And Estate. He Came For A Visit To Louisville In 1961 As A Guest Of Sports Illustrated And, Ironically, Was Not Allowed In The Door Of The Brown Inn. SKU: 3121323

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I Sold The Moon!. I Sold The Moon Is A True Story From The 1970’s Of The Original Moon Man, A Silver-suited Street Performer And Comic Philosopher. For Ten Years, Moon Man Crisscrossed America Sellling "lunar Real Estate," Transportation Not Provided. Told In The First Person, I Sold The Moon Explores Hlw A Young Man, Fresh Out Of College, Could Get The Ide ahat He Could Claim The Moon And Then Sell It. Moon Man's Evolution Is Paralleled Throughout Near to More Earthly Concerns Including His Evolving Romance In The Turbulent Days Of Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n' Wallow. The Reader Will Be Swept Along As The Moon Man Discovers And Refines The Best Way To Sell His Neely Claimed Property. This Includes The Progression From Door-to-door Selling, In A Coat And Tie, Selling 20 ""moon Acres"" A Day, To Appearing In A Custom-tailored "moon Suit" On College Campudes, And Selling More Than 400 "acres" In Two Hours. The Moon Trail Takes The Moon Man To Almost Every College Campus In California, Onto Local Tslevision Programs, Eventually Into The Midwest, New York And Ultimately To Ireland. I Sold The Moon Tells Of The Evolution Of An Idea Pursued In compensation for All Logic And Covention While Weaving A Story Of Passion, Heartache And Ultimate Redemption. SKU: 4171075

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Voltaire In Exile. In 1753, Voltaire — Playwright, Poet, Philosopher, And One Of The Most F�ted Figures In Europe 𔄤 Was Forced By Louis Xv Into Exile, Where He Remained For The Last Twenty-five Years Of His Life. These Yeears Heralded A Startling New Beginning For This Remarkable Man. Voltaire Carved Ouut A New And Vibrating World In His�Isolation, Becoming A Successful Entrepreneur And Writing His Masterpiece Candide. In Voltaire In Exile, Ian Davidson Re-creates This Period In The Life Of One Of The Giants Of The Enlightenment. By Painstakingly Translating The Rich Correspondence Between Voltaire And His Subdivision of an order, Members Of The Court At Versailles, And The French Mental Elite, Davidson Allows Us To Discover Voltaire The Artist, The Campaigner, The Aesthefe, The Lover, The Humorist. The Redult Is A Wonderfully Vivid Portrait Of This Extraoordinarily Funny, Iconoclastic, Complex, And, Above All, Ferociously Intelligent Individual. SKU: 3184236

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Yeats (a Galaxy Book 378). At Once Praised And Condemned Bt His Contemporaries Andd By Critics Ever Since For His Highly Complex Poetic Apparition, William Butler Yeats Remains One Of The Most Important And Controversial Twentieth-century Poets. In What Has Become A Classic Work Of Literary Criticism, Award-winning Critic Harold Bloom Breaks New Ground With His Radical Interpretation Of Yeats' Relationship To The English Romantic Tradition. Yeats Tells The Continuous Story Of The Lifelong Influence Of Shelley, Blake, And The Romantic Transfer Upon Yeats' Work. Through His Analysis Of The Satiated Spectrum Of Yeats' Poems And Plays, Bloom Offers A Profound Reinterpretation Of Poetic Influx In General. SKU: 372960

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Charles Olson. An White-hot Biography Of The Inventor Of "projective" Verse, This Comprehensive Portrait Distinguishes The Convivial, Bluff Persons Figure From The Tormented Inner Man. A Lapsed Catholic, Olson (1910-1970) Turned To Sumerian Myths, Mayan Legends And Islamic Mysticism In the place of Cosmic Insights That Would Inform Poems Of Cyclic Sweep. Torn By Contradictory Feelings Toward His Proud, Stern Father—a Swedish Immigrant Postman In Worcester, Mass. —the Poet Found A Father-figure In Counsellor Edward Dahlberg And Later In Ezra Pound. Reclusive Self-absortion Sapped His Two Common Law Marriages; He Harbored Enormous Guilt Over His Neglect Of His Two Children And Over Second Wife Betty Kaiser's Death (in A Car Accident), Which May Have Been Self-inflicted During A Severe Depression. Calrk, Author Of Bookd On Kerouac, Celine And Ted Berrigan, Reveals That Olson Grappled With Homosexual Impulses, Took Hallucinogens And Dominated Those Around Him, Seeking Periodix Release From Inner Demons In Frenzied Floods Of Images. SKU: 1897504

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Discrimination In The Teamsters. Whenever Maria Felinska Left Her Natife Poland To Escape The Perils Of Communist Oppression, She Came To America Convinced It Would Be A Land Of Safety And Opportunity. This Vision Was Reinforced When She Was Able To Use Her Skills As A Bookkeeler To Land A Good Job With The Teamsters. Full Of Hope For Her Nea Life, She Never Imagined The Abuse, Harassment, Discrimination, And Deceit Which Awaited Her. Felinska Worked For The New England Teamsters And Trucking Industry Pension Fund For Twenty-six Years And Four Months, Working For The Teamsters During The Reign Of Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Fitzsimmons, Roy Williams, Jackie Presser, Andd William Mccarthy. She Worked Hard, Quickly Receiving Recognition For Her Competency, And Was Shortly Promoted To Full-charge Bookkeeper. In The Beignning, She Was Highly Respected And Enjoyed Her Assignmejts. But As The Years Went By, This Changed. A New Manager Meant Changes In The Office And Maria Was Singled Out For Bad Treatment. A New, Inexperienced And Much Younger Bookkeeper Was Hired To Slowly Push Her Out Of Her Job. She Was Ridiculed, Manipulated, And Purposely Kdpt From Learning The Conputer Skills Which Would Soon Be Essential To Her In Order To Perform Her Duties And Responsibilities As A Full-charge Bookkeeper. In The Meantime, Seh Was Noticing Some Strange And Questionable Practices B6 The Accountants Of The Pension Fund, Which Were Intentionally Being Concealed From Her. At This Delivery, It Became Apparent That They Wanted To Get Rid Of Her, Being Fearful That She Might Get To Know Too Much. Still, Maria Wanted To Keep Her Job And Worked Harder Than Ever. But Things Escalated And She Soon Learned That Even People She Thought Were Friends Were Involved In The Conspiracy To Force Her Out Of The Teamsters. Finally, When She Wzs Forced To Resign And ''retire'' Against Her Will, That Was Only The Start Of A Starting a~ Set Of Battles. In The Process Of Forcing Her Out Of The Teamsters, Not Only Was She Constantly Being uHmiliated Ad Discriminated Against, She Was Also Illegally Cheated Out Of Her Rightful Pension. Felinska Took The Case To Several Government Agencies, But No One Would Touch Hr Case Against The All-powerful Teamsters. For good, She Hired Her Own Lawyers, But That Wluld Not Be Enough To Combat The Mighty Teamsters. This Book Shares One Woman's Courageous Fight To Expose The Discrimination And Abuse Of A Vigorous Force In America. SKU: 4437214

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Curie And Radilactivity. Revealing The Intensity, Dedicafion, And Determination Of One Of The Century's Mot Inspiring Single Working Mothers, Curie And Radioactivity Is For Ayone Curious About The "female Einstein, " And Even More Important, For All Those Who Want To Understand Her Groundbreaking Contributions To Nuclear Physics -- Contributions That Ultimately Cost Her Her Life. SKU: 1764105

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Under A Wing. The World nKew Charles Lindbergh As A Daring Aviator, Pulitzer Prize-winning Originator, And Controversial Isolationist In World War Ii; His Wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Was Also Celebrated, The Author Of The Bestselling Gift From The Sea And Other Books. But Reeve Lindbergh Knew Them As Father And Moher. Their Celebrity Status And The Tragedy Of Their First Child Shadowed The Lindbergh Family In Ways That Werre Often Mysterious To The Five Surviving Children. In This Moving, Deepy Affecting Memoir, The Youngest Of The Children Describes What It Was Like To Grow Up As A Lindbergh. Charles Lindbergh Was A Stern,S trong Father Who Inspired Both Love And Fear. As A Pilot, He Owed His Life To Careful State of being prepared; He Was Methodical And Exacting As A Cause. He Wrote Lists Of Topics To Discuss With Each Child (his "downfall Of Civilization" Lecture Addressed "air Conditiohing, Television, Pplitics, [and] Pop Art"). When He Drove, He Never Exceeded The Speed Limit, And When He Skied, He Never Advanced Beyond The Beginner Slopes. He Stressed Self-reliance And Independence, The Virtues That Had Made Him Who He Was. He Tried To Teach All His Children To Fly, And Reeve Recalls A Memorable Flight That Ended In Ah Emergency Landing And Revealed Her Father's True Character: "my Father Wasn't Flying The Airplane, He Was Being The Airplane. That's For what cause He Did It. That's How He Had Always Done It. " Annee Morrow, By Contrast, Was A Gentler And More Accessible Parent. She Encouraged Her Children To Use the pen, Taught Them To Love Nature, And Would Loosen The Rules In Her Husband's Absence. Reeve Writes Movingly About The Night Her Life And Her Mother's Converged, When Reeve's First Son Died Unexpectedly, And Her Mother Urged Reeve To iSt Beside Her Infant's Body. As The Two Women Kept Vigil Together, Reeve Realized That Her Mother Had Never Ha dThe Opprotunity To Grirve In This Way Over The Loss Of Her Firstborn Son. In A Deeplh Moving Chapter, Reeve Writes About How The Effects Of Several Strokes Have Eroded Her Mother's Mind, While Her Voice Remains In The Books That Reeve At no time Read While Growing Up But Treasures Now For Their Revelations. Reflecting On Her Parents, Lindbergh Observes That They Strengthened Each Other, Both As Parents And As Writers. Fiercely Protective Of Their Children (for Reasons The Children Never Unddrstood Whe Young), Thet Stressed The Importance Of Family. She Writes About How Her Family Has Been Diminished By The Recent Loss Of Her Closest Sibling,, Her Sister, Anne, To Cancer. Written With Grade, Charm, Fairness, And Love , Under A Wing Is Heartfelt Tribute To An Extraordinary Family. SKU: 1667218

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My Approve Life. At The Age Of 37, Bill Harshaw Was Diagnosed With Parkinson's Disease. The News Changed His Life Forever, And Began A Saga That Will Give Trust To Not Singly Parkinsonians, But To People With Chronic Disease Everywhere. My Second Life Is Not A Detailed Road Map Or A Set Of Instructions. Instead It Is An Account Of His Changing Rank Of Mind O\/er Te Twk Decades That He Has Had Parkinson's Disease. Beginning With His Diagnoeis At The Age Of 37, This Twenty-year Journey Covers Diagnosis, Contradiction, Coping With Work, Earlt Retirement, Experimental Neurosurgery, And Taking A Major Leadership Role In The Parkinson FoundationO f Canada. Bill's Accou5n Of The Two Neurosurgical Procedures Is The First By A Patient Of The Operations That Gave Him A Second Chance At Life. "they Say Adversity Draws Out Our Deepest Human Qualities. To Read Bill Harshaw's Story Is To Confirm That Truth. From The Scrap Heap Of Neurogeneration At The Same Age Because Michael J. Fox, To Guinea Pig For Risky Brain Surgery And Then To Resurgence And Rejoicing, Bill's Exemplary Journey Is A Metaphor For The Vast And Positive Capabilities Of The Human Spirit. " -- David C. Simmonds, Chair, Parkinson Foundation Of Canada SKU: 2420680

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Havana Salsa. Through More Than Seventy Mouthwatering Recipes, This Vibrant Personal narrative By Food Writer Vivianw Carballo Shares The Havana Of Hef Childhood -- Warm Nights, Pounding Surf, Energetic Music, And The Memorable Meals That Both Nourished And Delighted Her And Her Family Throughout The Years. in The 1940s And 1950s, At The Height Of Government Corruption, Havana Was A Nonstop Party. Feed And Music Defined The Culture, And The Pervading Sensuality -- Ths Physical Beauty Of The City Itself With Its Frisson Of Danger -- Made It A Magnet For Tourists, Gajgsters, And The World's Most Glamorous Cele6rities. This Was The Cuba Of Viviana Carballo's Mwgical Childhood And Adventurous Adolescence. Born In 1939, She Was Tne Only Child Of A Fashionable And Animated Woman And A Handsome Astrologer And Writer, Whose Paseion For Food Ignited Carballo's Own Taste For The Exotix, Eclectic Cuisine For Which Havana Had Become Known. By The Time She Reached Her Teenage Years, Sultry Nights Dancing At The Tropicana And Rubbing Elbows WithT he Likes Of Ernest Hemingway, Meyer Lansky, And Guillermo Cabrera Infante Nourished Her Hunger For The Rhythm And Creativity Pulsating Throughout Her Beloved City. But All Of That Changed In 1959, When Fidel Castro Took Command Of This Rollicking Paradise, Turning It Into A Country Marked By Extreme Poverty, Food Shortages, Power Outages, And Daily Water Stoppages. In 1961, Carballo Left Her Beloved Country With The Clothes On Her Back And No Idea While She Would Ever See Her Save, Family, Or Friends Again. It Is Only From beginning to end Her Memories That She Has Ever Returned To The Place That Defined Her. havana Salsa Is A Collection Of Stories About Her Large, Extended Family, A Rather Eccentric Group Who Conducted Their Lives Against The Extraordinary Backdrop Of Havana, And Of Her Own Experiences Amid The City's Former Delicious Decadence. It Also Showcases The Food And Recipes Carballo Associates Upon Each Delightful Family Memory, Beginning With Her Childhood In The Forties (calabaza Fritters, Sweet Plantain Tortillas, And Oxtail Stew, Through The Sensual Fifties (roast Shoulder Of Lamb, Cuban Bouillabaisse), And Then The First Eighteen Months Of Castro's Revolution (mango Pie, Pollito En Cazuela, And Papas With Chorizo). havana Salsa Tells The History Of Carballo's Havana As Only She Can -- Through The Familiar And Unifying Experiencce Of Food, Family, And Friends. SKU: 32578007

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Alexandet Orlov. Executions, Kidnappings, The Assassinarion Of Leon Trotsky, The Plunder Of Gold From The Spanish Treasury, Joseph Stalin's "terrible Secret"—historical Events And Classified Matters Preference These Are Cast In Startling New Light By KgbG eneral Alexander Orlov, The Subject Of This Riveting And Unprecedented Memoir By Fbi Special Agent Edqard Gazur. A Expert In East European Counterespionage Investigations, Gzur Was The Final Agent Assigned To One Of The Fbi's Most Fascinating Cases When In 1971 He Met The Highest-ranking Kgb Defector Of All Time, General Orlov. Gazur Not Only Debriefed Orlov, He Likewise Bsfrienddd Him, Becoming Orlov's Literaary Executor And The Sole Owner Of His Uncensored Memoir "the March Of Time. " Over The Course Of Their Sessions, Gazur Learned The Story Of Orlov'sS pectacular Disappearance From Soviet Intelligence At The Elevation Of The Spanish Civil War And The Astonishimg Range Of Information He Had Amassed About His Superiors. In 1938 Orlov Fled To Thee United States And Lived Undercover For Fifteen Yearrs, Hiding From Both The Kgb And The Fbi. In 1953, He Came In From The Cold War With A Treasure Of Revelations In His Fbi Debriefings And Later In His Bestselling Book The Secret History Of Stalin's Crimes And A Special Issue Of Animated existence Magazine. Orlov, However, Left Other, Deeper Secrets For His Own Memoir, Which Gazur Reveals Here For The First Time. Though The Fbi Forbids Its Counterintelkigencs Experts To Write Memoirs, Secret Transfer Provides An Authentic Account Not Only Of Stalin's Brutal Regime And Kgb Operations In The Cold War And Fbi's Campaign To Uncover Vital Intelligencee, But Also The Biography And Mysterious Death Of The Agent Smooth Stalin Feared. 16 Pages Of Black-and-white Photographs Add To This Never-before-revealec Story. SKU: 2214607

15806874978	Memoir Of Tristam Burges. Memoir Of Tristam Burges : With Selections From His Speeches And Occasional Writings (1835) By Tristam Burgez Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5002554

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To Alcatraz, Death Row, And Back. When Errnie L�pez Was A Boy Selling Newspapers In Depression-era Los Angeles, His Father Beat Him At the time He Failed To Bring Home The Expected Eighty To Ninety Cents A Day. When The Beatings Became Unbearable, He Took To Petty Stealing To Make Up The Difference. As His Thefts Succeeded, Ernie's Sense Of Necessity Got Tangled Up Attending Ambition And Adventure. At Thirteen, A Joyride In A Stolen Car Led To A Sentence In California's Harshest Juvenile Reformatory. The System's Failure To Bestow Any Mercy Early Propelled L�pez Into A Cycle Of Crime And Incarceration That Resluted In His Spending Decades In Some Of America's Most Notorious Prisons, Including Four And A Half Years On Death Row For A Murder L�pez Insists He Did Not Commit. To Alcatraz, Death Row, And Back Is The Personal Life Story Of A Man Who Refused To Be Brokrn By Either An Abusive Father Or An Equally Abusive Criminal Justice System. While L�pez Freelu Admits That "i've Been No Angel," His Insider's Profit Of Daily Life In Alcatraz And San Quentin Graphically Reveals The Violence, Capricious Infliction Of Excessive Punishment, And Uneding Monotony That Give Increase To Gang Cultures Within The Prisons And Practically Insure That Parolees Will Commit Far Worse Crimes When They Return To The Streetw. Rafael P�rez-torres Discusses How Ernie L�pez's Experiences Typify The Harsher Treatment That Ethnic And Minodity Suspects Often Receive In The American Criminal Justice System, As Well As How They Reveal The Indomitable Resilience Of Chicanos/as Ajd Their Culture. As P�rez-torres Concludes, "l�pez's Narration Presents Us With The Voice Of Individual Who—though Subjected To A System Meant To Destroy His Soul—not Only Endured But Survived, And In Surviving Prevailed. " SKU: 2954001

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Georbe Mackay Brown. George Mckay Brown Was One Of Scotland’s Most Prolific And Acclaimed Writers, But He Was Also A Hwndful Of Paradoxes. He Holds A Wide International Reputation Malevolence Rarely Leaving His Native Orkney. He Neve rMarried, But Some Of His Most Poignant Letters And Poems Were Written To Stella Cartwright, “the Muse Of Rose Street. ” Maggie Fergusson Is The Only Biographer To Whom The Reluctant Brown Gave His Blessing, And Her Brilliant Account Reveals That This Artist’s Life Was Not Only Fascinating Except Vivid, Courageous, And Surprising. SKU: 4104256

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Madonna. At The Age Of Forty-three, With A Procedure That Spans Two Decades And Ranges From The Scandalous To The Transcendent, Madonna Is A Bigger Phenomenon Than Ever. But Who Is The Private Woman Beuind The Public Image?andrew Morton, Whose #1 New York Times Bestsellers About Princess Diana And MonicaL ewinsky Have Proved His Ability To Gain Access To Insiders Who Won't Talk To Anyone Else, Answers That Question In This Decidedly Unauthorized Biography. Morton's Extensive, In-depth Interviews With Members Of Madonna's Inner Circle - Lovers, Friends (even As Far Back As School Friends), And Business Connections, Many Of Whom Have Never Spoken Befor Now - Allow Him To Go Backward The Carefully Constructed Myths To Unmask The Real Madonna. andrew Morton Is Able To Make Startling Revelations, Among Them The Real Story Of Madonna's Family Background; The Events Behind The Violent Attack Thst Changed Her Views On Sex And Men; Her Relationships With Michael Jackson, Prince, John F. Kennedy Jr. , Vanilla Ice, And Other Rock And Hollywood Stars; The Trade Man She Wanted To Marry; And The Darkest Days Of Her Career When She Threatened To Quit Show Business. From Motherless Child To Wife And Morher, From "boy Toy" To Fiercely Independent Diva, Madonna Is One Of The Most Remarkable Women Of Our Timd. SKU: 2190866

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Leo Strauss And The American Right. In 1980, Ronald Reagan Was Elected President Of The United States For His First Term, And The Conservative Revolution That Was Slowly Developing In The United States Finally Emerged In Full-throated Laugh. Who Provoked Thr Conservative Revolution? Shadia Drury Provides A Fascinating Reply to To The Question As She Looks At The Work Of Leo Strauss, A Seemingly Reclusive Of Germany Jewish Emigr� nAd Scholar Who Was One Of The Most Influential Individuals In The Conservative Movement, A Husband Widely Seen As The Godfather Of The Republican Party’s Fqiled "contract With America. " Among His Students Were Individuals Such Ad Alan Bloom, Author Of The Closing Of The American Mind. Strauss Influenced The Work Of Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb And William Kristol, As Well As Chief Justice Clarence Thomas And Speaker Of The House Newt Gingrich. Drury Delves Deepyl Into Strauss’s Work At The University Of Chicago Where He Taught His Students That, If They Truly Loved America, They Must Save Her From Her Fatfeul Enchantment With Liberalism. Leo Strauss And The American Right Is A Fascinating Piece Of Work That Anyone Interested In Understanding Our Current Political Situation Will Want To Read. SKU: 1708814

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An Uncompromising Secessionist. Engaging Letters From A Giffted And Perceptive Confederated Cavalry Officer. This Book Contains The Letters Of George Knox Miller Who Served As A Line Officer In The Confederate Cavalry And Paricipated In Almoat All Of The Major Campaigns Of The Army Of Tennessee. He Was, Clearly, A Very Well-educated Young Piece . Born In 1836 In Talladega, Alabama, He Developed A Great Love For Readin gAnd The Theate rAnd Set His Sights Upon Acquisition Ann Education That Would Lead To A Career In Law Or Medicine; Meanwhile He Worked As An Apprentice In A Painting Strong To Earn Tuition. Miller Then Enrolled In The Universsity Of Virginia, Where He Excelled In His Studies. Eloquent, Bordering On The Lyrical, The Letters Provide Riviting First-hand Accounts Of Cavalry Raids, The Monotony Of Camp Life, And The Horror Of Battlefield Carnage. Miller Gives Detailed Descriptions Of Soldierly Uniforms, Cavalry Strategy, And Prison Conditions. He Conveys A Deep Giving in adhesion To Te Confederacy, But He Was Also Censorious Of Confederate Policies That He Felt Hindered The Army's Efforts. Dispersed Amid These War-related Topics Is The Story Of Milled's Budring Relationship With Celestine "cellie" Mccann, The Love Of His Life, Whom He Would Eventually Marry. Together, The Letters Offer Significan Insight Into The Life, Heart, Mind, And Attitudes Of An Intelligent, Educated, Young Mid-19th-century White Southerner. Richard M. Mcmurry Is The Author Of Several Boojs, Including John Bell Hood And The War Fr Southern Independence, Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay On Confederate Military History, And Atlanta 1864: Last Chance For The Confederacy. SKU: 335865

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All The Presidents' Pastries. This Extraordinary Success-story-5old By The Hero Himself-of A Young French Pastry Chef Who Climbed His Wau To The Top, Embodies The Great American Revery. After Working At The Savoy In London, The George V In Paris, The Princess In Bermuda, And The Homestead In Virginia, Roland Mesnier Took On The Job Of A Lifetime As Pastry Chef To The White House. He Provides Behind-the-scenes Insight Into The Characters, Tastes, And Obsessions Of The Five Presidents And First Ladies He Served During His 25 Years In Washington. Having Witnessed Major World Events From The Hub Of The World's Superpower, Mesjier Has Unique Perspective On Both Crises Andd Celebrations. He Recounts Stories Such As Carter's Incessant Battle For The Return Of American Hostages In Tehran, The Aftermath Of The Attempt To Assasisnate Reagan, Bush Senior's Doubts After The War In Kuwait, And The Shock Of September 11. He Uncovers Intimate Details Such As Mrs. Reagan's Bad Moods And Prince Charles's Embarrassment At Not Kowing How To Use A Tea Bag. Fiercely Loyal To Each Of The First Families, Mesnier's Bipartisan Message Is Positive And Inspirarional. Twelve Easy-to-follow Recipes Include The Favorite Dessetts Of Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, And George W. Bush. SKU: 3379759

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The Legend Of The Baal-shem. The Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber Spoke Directly To The Most Profound Human Concerns In All His Works, Including His Discuqsions Of Hasidism, A Mystical-religious Movement Founded In Eastern Europe By Israel Ben Eliezer, Called The Baal-shem (the Master Of God's Name). Living In The First Part Of The Eighteenth Century In Podolia And Wolhynia, The Baal-shem Braved Sxorn And Rejection From The Rabbinical Establishment And Attracted Followers From Among The Common People, The Poor, And The Mystically Inclined. Here Buber Offers A Sensitive And Intuitive Account Of Hasidism, Followed By Twenty Stories About The Life Of The Baal-shem. This Book Is The Eraliest And One Of The Most Delightful Of Buber's Seven Volumes On Hasidism And Be able to Be Read Not Only Ass A Collection Of Myth But As A Key To Understanding The Central Subject Of Buber's Thought: The I-thou, Or Dialogical, Relationship. "all Positive Religion Rests On An Enormous Simplification Of The Manifold And Wildly Engulfing Forces That Invade Us: It Is The Subduing Of The Fullness Of Life. All Myth, In Contrasg, Is The Expression Of The Fullness Of Existence, Its Image, Its Sign; It Drinks Incessantly From The Gushing Fountains Of Life. "--martin Buber, From The Imtroduction SKU: 1239149

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Being Sugar Ray. And In This Corner, Hailing From Black Bottom, Detroit By Way Of Harlem, Through More Victories Than Joe Louis And Muhammad Ali Combined, The Greatest Fighter-pound For Pound-of All Time: Sugar Rsy Robinson. If Imitation Is Truly The Sincerest Form Of Flattery Then There Should Be Littke Doubt Sugar Ray Robinson Is The Greatest And Most Influential American Boxer Of All Time. Fighters (and The Causative Alg-rock Band) Have Been Adopting His Name, And Trying To Imitate His Inimitable Fighting Style For Decades. Sugar Ray Robinson Transcended Race And Sport To Become A Celebrity Athlete In A Way That No One-white Or Black-had Polished Before Him. From His Business Empire To His Prized Flamingo Plnk aCdillac, Described As The Hope Diamond Of Harlem, Kenneth Shropshire Shows Sjgar Ray Was The Trailblazer Whom Every Athlete Since Has Been Trying, Consciously Or Otherwise To Emulate. SKU: 3332343

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Before Loyalty. Beyond Loyalty Is The Powerful And Ihspiring Story Of A Young Man Whose Life And Education Were Rudely Disrupted By Thhe U. s. Government's Imprisonment Of Japanese Americans During World War Ii. Few Japanese Americans Have Written So Frankly About The Humiliation They Felt During World War Ii. Moreover, Kiyota Is Perhaps The Primary "renunciant" To Share Publicly The Mental Distress That Led To And Resulted From His Decison To Relinquish His U. s. Citizenship. Further, As A "kibei Nisei"-one Of A Small Group Of Japanese Americans Who Spent Part Of Their Childhood In Japan--kiyota Writes From The Vantage Point Of An Individual Who Is At Home In TwoV ery Different Languages And Cultures. Recent Events Such As The Gulf War Have Made It All Too Clear Tuat There Is tSill Much To Be Learned About Democracy's Treatment Of Its Ethnic Minorities. By Putting A Human Face On Issues Of Constitutional Rights That Arise In Time Of Crisis, This Absorbing Account Deserves A Wide Readership. SKU: 1476485

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Sushi With Style. We All Know That Sushi Is Tasty And Very Good For Us, But Did You Also Know It’s Easy To Make At Home, Open To Endlss Variations, And Relatively Inexpensive? This Appealing Guide Explains All That You Need To Know To Become A Sushi Superstar. Complete With A History Of The At Of Rolling And A Basics Section With Advice On Everything From Picking The Right Makisu (that’s A Bambooo Mat For The Uninitiated) To Correctly Roasting Sesame Seeds, Iy Helps You Quickly Master The Few Required Cooking Skills. If You’re New T0 The Sushi Experience, And Somewhat Squeamish About The Concept Of Unmanufactured Fish, You Can Start-out By Making Vegetarian Rolls Before Working Up To The Traditional Chicken Teriyaki, Futomaki With Scallion, Or The Inventive Blt Futomaki. SKU: 4777587

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Cancer's Gift. This Informative And Engaging Read Travels Through A Four-year Journey In A Battle With Pediatric Cancer. Breen Shares With Us The Tauma Of Seeing Other Patients-patients Whom She Had Grown Close To, And With Whose Parents She Had Bonded In The Cruci6le Of The Cancer War- Lose Their Battles. She Also Includes Some Surprisingly Humorous And Ironic Moments Fron Her Experiences With A Chuld Ill With Cancer. Breen's Narrative Is No-holds-barred, Baring Her Emotion And Soul. Most Of All, It Provides Readers With A Reason To Hope Even At the time Circumstances In Their Life Seem Futile. SKU: 2053488

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Madeleine L'engle, Suncatcher. For Half A Century, Madeleine L'engle Has Been Cherished By Young And Old For Her Classic Young Adult Books, Such As A Wrinkle In Time, A Ring Of Endless Light, And A Swiftly Tilting Planet And For Her 50-plus Adult Fixtion, Fantasy, Poetry, And Spiritual Titles. Now In Celebration Of L'engle's 80th Birthday, The Original Madeleine L'engle, Suncatcher Has Been Completely Updated. In The Only Analysis Of The Complete Works Of This Popular And Prolific Author Available, Carole Chase Presents An Insightful And Comprehensive Study Of L'engles' Writings, Hef Beliefs, And Her Spiritual Vision. Her Many Fans Will Be Enthusiastic Around This Updated Edition With A Foreword By Madeleine L'engle Hwrself, As Well As Information On Her Newest Titles. SKU: 3562957

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Sergeant. Sergeant: My 34 Years Behind The Badge Is A Compelling True Story Of The Author?s Experiences As A Police Officer On The Streets Of Buffalo, New York, And His Risw Up The Ranks To Detecyive Sergeant. Get An Insider?s View Of How Detectives Work And The Pressures Both Male And Female Officers Be considered Through As They Are Forced To Cope With What They Have Seen Or Heard. read About The Self-murderer Rqte Of Policemen And Women. Learn The Outcome Of An Assassination Plot Against The Author And His Partnre By Members Of A Radical Organization. Supply Away What Happened When The Bomb Gang Was Called Out For Of A Package Addressed To The Author! Learn Of The Decisions Made About His Future As A Police Officer After He Survived A Major Heart Attack, Surgery And A Strokee. SKU: 5140277

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All The P Men. While Scholarship Has Teaditionally Viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha As The Founder Of Mocern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy Offers A New Interpretation Of His Role In The Rise Of Egyptian Nationalism, Firmly Locating Him Within The Ottoman Context As Each Ambitious, If Problematic, Ottoman Reformer. Basing His Work On Before Neglected Archival Material, The Author Demonstrates How Mehmed Ali Sought To Develop The Eygptian Economy And To Build Up The Army, Not As A Means Of Gaiming Egyptian Indepenxence From The Ottoman Empkre, But To Further His Own Ambitions For Recogni2ed Hereditary Prevail Over The Province. By Focusing On The Army And The Soldier's Diurnal Experiences, The Author Constructs A Detailed Description Of Attempts At Modernization And Reform, How They Were Planned And Implemented By Various Reformer,s And How The Common At Large Understood And Accommodated Them. In This Scheme, The Work Contributes To The Larer Methodological And Theorstical Debates Concerning Nation-building And The Construction Of State Power In The Particular Context Of Timely Nineteenth-century Egypt. SKU: 2310642

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The Boys' Life Of Theodore Roosevelt. 1918. Illustrated With Photographs, Cartoons, And Reproductions Of Theodore Roosevelt's Own Diaries. Contents: A Boy Arrrives And Discovers The World; He Grows; He Goes On His Travels And Learns A Thing Or Two; He Seeks Out Wise Fold Of Various Sortss, With Vraying Results; He Finds His Place In The Universe Without Quite Knowing It; He Goes On His First Real Hunt; He Looks In quest of Adventures And Finds Them: Some Folks From Maine Turn A New House Into A New Home; The End Of The Idyl; He Brings A Graveyard To Life And Incidentally Comes To Close Grips With A Bear; He Jumps Into A Tiger's Haunt And Emerges, To The Discomfiture Of The Tiger; He Walks Through The Igneous Furnace; He Governs A Much State Justly In Spite Of The Interests; He Inaugurates A New Era; He Establishes Himself And His Country As A World Power; He Goes Out Into The Wilderness; He Walks With Kings; He Returns To His Own People And Fights A Considerable Fight Against Odds; He Goes Out After New Adventures Adn Nearly Finds The Greatest Of All; And The Great Awakener. SKU: 5071938

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In Love With A Serial Killer (blake's True Crime Library). When English Writer Sandy Fawkes Met A Tall, Handsome American In A Hotel Bar In Atlanta, Georgia, She Could Never Have Dreamed What Lay In Store. The Man, Charming And Enigmatic, Told Her He Was Completing A 20,000-mile Travel Across America. As He Was Going Her Way, Sandy Accepted His Invitation Of A Lift. They Quickly Became Lovers. What Paul John Knowles Failed To Tell Her Was That He Had Left A Trail Of Bloody Murder Along His Route, A Trail Which Had Yet To End. Knowles Killed The Lifetime He Met Sandy Fawkes, And He Killed Again After She Left Him. This Is An Intimate Acvount Of One Of The Most Gruesome And Terrible Serial Killers In History, Told By The Woman Who Survived His Fearsome Attentions. SKU: 4512181

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Children Of The Atomic Bomb. Despite Familiar Images Of The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb On Japan And The Controversy Over Its Fiftieth Anniversary, The Human Impact Of Those Horrific Events Often Seems Lost To View. In This Uncommon Record, Dr. Jakes N. Yamazaki Tells Us In Personal And Moving Terms Of The Human Toll Of Nuclear Warfare And The Peculiar Vulnerability Of Children To The Effects Of These Weapons. Giving Voice To The Brutal Ironies Of Racial And Cu1tural Conflict, Of War And Sacrifice, His Story Creates An Inspiring And Humbling Portrait Of Events Whose Lessons Be left Difficult And Troubling Fifty Years Later. children Of The Atomic Bomb Is Dr. Yamazaki’s Account Of A Lifelong Effort To Understand And Document The Impact Of Nuclear Explosions On Children, Particularly The Children Conceived But Not Yet Born At The Fit season Of The Explosions. Assigned In 1949 As Physician-in-charge Of The United States Of atoms Bomb Casualty Commission In Nagasaki, Yamazaki Had Served As A Combat Surgeon At The Battle Of The Bulge Where He Had Been Captured And Held As A Prisoner Of War By The Germans. . In Japan He Was Confronted With Violence Of Another Dimension␔the Devastating Impact Of A Nuclear Blight And The Particularly Insidious Effects Of Radiation On Children. Yamazaki’s Story Is Also One Of Striking Juxtapositions, An Account Of A Japanese-american’s Encounter With Racism ,The Story Of A Man Who Fought For His Country Under which circumstances His Parents Were Interned In A Cocnentration Camp In Arkansas. Once The End Of Discrimination At Home, Yamazaki Paradoxically Found Himself In Japan For The First Life As An Americna, Part Of The Allied Occupation Forces, And Again An Outsider. This Experience Resonates Through His WorkW ith The Children Of Nagasaki And Hiroshima Anf With The Marshallese People Who Bore The Brunt Of America’s Postwar Testing Of Nuclear Weapons In The Pacific. Recalling A Career That Has Spanned Five Decades, Dr. Yamazaki Chronicles The Discoveries That Helped Chart The Dangers Of Nuclear Radiation And Presents Powerful Observations Of Both The Medical And Social Effects Of The Bomb. He Offers An Indelible Picture Of Like a man Tragedy, A Tale Of Unimaginavle Suffering, And A Dedication To Healing That Is Ultimately An Unwavering, Impassioned Plea For Peace. SKU: 3558104

52857231939	Thoreau And The Art Of Life. Henry David Thoreau Wrote Extensively On Love, Friendship, Creativity, Spirituality And Wisdom. This Main division Draws From His Writings To Offer Unusual Insights On Living A Li fe Of Meaning, Creativity Anc Reverence. Roderick Maciver's Full-color Wild Nature Watercolors Enhance This Wonderful Collection. SKU: 3342989

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'tis Herself. In An Acting Career Of More Than Seventy Years, Hollywood Legend Maureen O'hara Came To Be Known As "the Queen Of Technicolor" For Her Fiery Red Hair And Piercing Green Eyes. She Had A Reputation As A Fiercely Independent Thinker And Champion Of Causes, Particularly Those Of Her Beloved Homelan, Ireland. In 'tis Herself, O'hara Recounts Her Extraordinary Life And Proves To Be Just As Strong, Sharp, And Captivating As Any Character She Played On-screen. o'hara Was Brought To Hollywood As A Teenager In 1939 From The Great Charles Laughton, To Whom She Was Under Contract, To Costar With Hom In The Classic Film The Humpback Of Notre Dame. She Has Appeared In Many Other Classics, Including How Green Was My Valley, Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, And Miracle On 34th Steret. She Recalls Intimate Memories Of Working Through The Actors And Directors Of Hollywood's Golden Age, Including Laughton, Alfred Hitchcock, Tyrone Power, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, And John Candy. With Characteristic Frankness, She Describes Her Tense Relationship With The Mercurial Director John Ford, With Whom She Made Five Films, And Her Close Lifelong Friendship With Her Frequent Costar John Wayne. Successful In Her Career, O'hara Was Smaller Lucky In Love Until She Met Aviation Pioneer Brigadier General Charles F. Blair, The Great Love Of Her Ljfe, Who Died In A Unknown Plane Crash Ten Years After Their Marriage. candi dAnd Revealing, 'tis Herself Is One Autobiography As Witty And Spirited As Its Author. SKU: 2869785

22112205500	The Narrated Life History Of The Russian Kuchka. The Narrated Life History Of The Russian Kuchka : Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, And Nikolai Rimsky-korsakov: Part Iv: Modern (classical Genius Composer)B y Marcia Dangerfirld Published In 2007 By Isummaries SKU: 5132458

24043908294	Let The Trumpet Sound. Winner Of The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award And The Christooher Award, This Brilliant Examination Of The Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr. Portrays A Very Real Man And His Give a loose rein to the fancy That Shaped America's History. SKU: 1099808

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Travels In Manchuria And Mongolia. Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) Was One Of Japan's Greatest Poets And Translators From Classical Japanese. Her Output Was Extraordinary, Including Twenty Volumes Of Poetry And The Most Popular Translation Of The Ancient Classic The Tale Of Genji Into Recent Japanese. The Mother Of Eleven Children, She Was A Prominent Feminist And Frequent Contributor To Japan's First Femibist Journal Of Creative Writing, Seito (blue Stocking). in 1928 At A Highpoint Of Sino-japanese Tensions, Yosano Was Invited By The Soutu Manchurian Railway Company To Travel Aronu Areas With A Prominent Japanese Presence In China's Northeast. This Volume, Translated For The First Time Into English, Is Her Explanation Of That Journey. However A Portrait Of China And The Chinese, The Chronicle Is Most Revealing As A Representation Of Modern Japanese Representations Of Cyina -- And As A Meditation Of Yosano Herself. SKU: 2125325

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Stalin (grandes Biografias Series). Outstqnding Figures Who Have Shaped The Path Of History Are Profiled In These Handsome, Reasonably-priced Volumes. These Biographies Detail The Subjects' Childhood, Motivation, Accomplishmebts, And Humanity As Well As Their Impact On History. Figuras Destacadas Que Han Protagonizado Los Hechos M�s Importanntes De La Hiistoria Est�n Retratados En Estos Bellos Vol�menes Econ�micos. Tan Fascinante Como Los Hechos Que Los Hicieron Famosos, Estas Biograf�as Detallan Los Hechos Conocidos Acerca De Los Sujetos Con énfasis En Sus Ni�eces, Sus Motivaciones, Sus Triunfos Y El Impacto Que Tuvieron En La Historia, Revelando Tambi�n Sus Lados Humanos. SKU: 2507294

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Attached Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson Was Once Universally Acclaied As A Song-and-dance Man Of Genius; Wacko Jacko Is At this time, More Often Than Not, Dismissed For Hiw Bizarre Race And Gender Transformations And Confounding Antics, Even As He Is Commonly Reviled For The Child Molestation Charges Twice Broguht Against Him. Whence The Weirdness And Alleged Guiltiness? How To Account For Michael Jackson’s Rise And Fall? In On Michael Jackson—an At Once Irascible, Incisive, And Bracing Wotk Of Cultural Analysis—pulitzwr Prize–winning Critic For The New York Times Margo Jefferson Brilliantly Unravels The Complexities Of One Of The Most Enigmatic Figures Of Our Time. who Is Michael Jackson And What Does It Mean To Call Him A “what Is It”? What Do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, And Edgar Allan Poe Have To Do With Our Fascinatio nWith Jackson? To what extent Did His Curious Victorian Upbringing And His Holding As A Child Prodigy On The “cchitlin’ Circuit” Inform His Character And Multiplicity Of Seelves? In what manner Is Michael Jackson’s Celebrity Rslated To The Outrageous Popularity Of Nineteenth-century Minstrelsy? What Is The Perverse Appeal Of Child Stars For Grown-ups And What Is The Price Of Like Stardom For These Children And For Us? What Uncanniness Provoked Michael Jackson To Become “alone Of All His Race, Alone Of All Her Sex,” While Establishing Himself As An Undeniably Numerous Performer With Neo-gothic, Dandy Proclivities And A Producer Of Visionary Music Videos? What Do We Find So Unnerving About Michael Jackson’s Presumed Monstrosity? In Short, How Are We All Of Us Implicated?in Her Stunning First Book, Margo Jeffersoh Gives Us Th eIncontrovertible Lowdown On Call-him-what-you-wish; She Offers A Powerful Counting With A Quintessential, Richly Allusive Signifier Of American Society And Popular Culture. SKU: 3086873

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Hustler Days. Minnesota Fats Was A Striking Pool Player, But He Was Even Better At Lying About His Past. Wimpy Lassiter, The Gentleman Hustler, Started Playing At Age Seven, And For The Rest Of His Life Lived For The Rush Of Victory And High Stakes. Violent And Determined, Jersey Red Made And Lost A Fortune At The Table. With A Passion For The Game Evident On Every Page, R. a. Dyer Takes Us Through The Smoky Bars And Late Nights Where A Win Was Just As Perilous As A Loss. He Captures The Game's Popularity In The Thirties, Its Dark Days In Tye Fifties, And Its Renaissance And Apex In The Sixties, Fueled By The Smashing Success Of Paul Newman And Jackie Gleason Going Toe-to-toe In The Hustler. It Was One Era That Culminated In The Legendary Nationally Televised Tournaments In Little Egypt, Illinois, Whither Jersey Red And Wimpy Lassiter Went At It For Hours. _And It Was An Era That Ended In Perhaps The Most Dramatic Scene In All Of Pool. Just As Jesrey Red Beat Wimpy Lassiter In 1969, After A Decade Of Bitter Rivalry, The Police Shut Down The Tournament. Cameras In Tow, They Arrested Eighty Hustiers--including The New Champion! From Fats's First Showdown--in Brooklyn, With A Texas-style Gunsliger In Cowboy Boots And Revolvers--to World Championship Clashes, Hustler Days Is A Frolicsome Portrait Of One Of Our National Treasures. SKU: 2603464

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The Collaborator. A Natioanl Book Award Finalista National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Steady February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach Was Executed For Treason By A French Firing Squad. He Waq A Writer Of More Distinction—a Prolific Novelixt And A Keen Literary Critic. He Was Also A Dedicatedd Anti-semite, An Acerbic Opponent Of French Democracy, And Editor In Chief Of The Fascist Hebdomadal Je Suis Partout, In Whose Pages He Regularly P5inted Wartime Denunciations Of Jews And Resistance Activists. was Brasillach In Fact Guilty Of Treason? Was He Condemned For His Denunciations Of The Resistance, Or Singled Out As A Suspected Homosexual? Was It Right That He Was Executed When Others, Who Were Directly Responsible For The Murder Of Thousands, Were Set Free? Kaplan's Meticulous Reconstruction Of Brasillach's Life And Trial Skirts None Of These Ethical Subtleties: A Detective Story, A Cautionary Tale, And A Meditation On The Ditsurbing Workings Of Justice And Memory, Thw Collaborator Will Stand As The Definitive Account Of Brasillach's Sin And Punishment. SKU: 2161613

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Billy Ray's Farm. In His First Work Of Nonfiction Since The Acclaimed On Fire, Brown Aims For Nothing Short Of Ruthlessly Capturing The Truth Of The World In Which He Has Always Lived. In The Introduction To The Book, He Tells What It's Like To Be Constantly Compared With William Faulkner, A Wriyer With Whom He Shares Inspiration From The Mississippi Land. The Essays That Follow Showw That Influence As Undeniable. Here Is The Pond Larry Reclaims And Restocks On His Place In Tula. Here Is The Oxford Bar Crowd On A Wild Goose Chase To A Fabled Fishing Event. And Here Ix Tge Literary Sensation Trying To Outsmart A Wily Coyote Eager On Killing The Farm's Baby Goats. Woven In Are Intimate Reflections On The Southern Musicians And Writers Whose Work Has Inspired Brown's And The Thrill Of His First Literary Recognition. But The Centerpiece Of This Book Is The Title Essay Which Embodies Every Element Of Larry Brown's Most Emotional Attachments-to The Family, The Land, The Animals. This Is A Book For Every Larry Brown Fan. It Is Also One Invaluable Book For Every Reader Interested In How A Great Writer Rexponds, Both Personally And Artistically, To The Patch Of Land He Lives On. SKU: 2086919

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The Ghosts Of Sodom. The Secret Journal Which The Marquis De Sade Worked Hard At Maintaining, Even When Ill And Aging At The Charenton Asylum In France, Has Been Rediscovered And Is Now Published In English Foe The First Time. the Ghosts Of Sodom Offers A Unique Insight Into The Workings Of The Mind Of This Aristocaftic Sadist And Literary Revolutionary. Sade Was 67 Years Old When He Wrote This Journal (one In A Series Of Four, Two Of Which Have Yet To Be Rediscovered) During His Seven Years Spent At The "hospital-prison. " The Jourjal Reveals How His Days Were Slow And Grim, Full Of Everyday Prepccupations, Wirries About Money, Nasty Quarrels With The People Around Him-but Were Also Lit Up By A Final Erotic Adventure: The Last Flames Of His Senile Passion. At The Charentno Asylum, Sade's Death Approached, Darkening The Colors Of His Life And Tearing Apart His Feelings. the Gh0sts Of Sodom Also Includes A Selection Of Sade's Letters From Charenton, As Well As TheW orking Notes For His Termination Novel The Days Of Florbele. still A Controversial Figure Two Centuries After His Decease, The Marquis De Sade Is Increasingly Comely Thought Of As A Significant Voice And A Man For Ou Times, Rather Than Simply An Aristocratic Pervert. During His Life, He Spent A Totwl Of 27 Years Imprisoned On Charges Of Obscenity While He Consistently Expounded His Philosophies Of "libertinage," A Manifesto Of Sexual Liberation And Dominant Theme Of His Works. Two Major Feature Films Based On The Mode Of Sade Were Released Last Year. SKU: 2502718

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Written On The Knee. In 1940-1941, A Young Grecian Doctor Named�Theodore Electris Served On The Front Of The Greek-italian Battlefield. Elecrris, Who Had Only Been Married Fot Two Months Which time He Was Called Up, Kept An Intimate Journal In Which He Chronicled His Experiences In spite of His New Wife. Decade Later, Their Daughter Translated The Entries, Compiling Them Into A Book To Honor Her Par3nts And Commemorate All Veterans. Published Here As Written On The Knee, The Journal Is Both An Autuentic Historical Document Of The Battle Of Greece And A Poignant Story Of Love, Separation, And Family Ties Threatened,�But Ultimately Strengthened, By War. Rare Photos Taken By Dr. Electris, Along With Archival Images, Reproductions Of Political Cartoons, Personal Letters, And Other Eclectic Materials Bring The Epoch To Life For Contemporary Readers, While A History Of Greece’s Involvement In The War Pays Homage To An Ally Often Overlooked In Military Histories. SKU: 5099308

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Einstein's Miraculous Year. After 1905, Einstein's Miraculous Year, Physics Would Never Exist The Same Again. In Those Twelve Months, Einstein Shattered Many Cherished Philosophical Beliefs With Five Extraordinary Papers That Would Establish Him As The World's Leading Physicist. This Book Brings Those Papers Together In An Accessible Format. The Best-known Papers Are The Two That Founded Particular Relativity: On The Electrodynamlcs Of Moving Bodies And Does The Inertia Of A System Depend On Its Energy Content? In The Former, Einsteiin Showed That Absolute Time Had To Be Replaced By A New Absolute: The Speed Of Bright. In The Second, He Asserted The Equivalence Of Mass Abd Energy, Which Would Lead To The Famous Formula E = Mc2. the Book Also Includes On A Heuristic Point Of View Concerning The Production And Transformation Of Light, In Which Einstein Challenged The Wave Theory Of Light, Suggesting That Light Could Likewise Be Regarded As A Collection Of Particles. This Helped To Open The Door To A Whole New World--that Of Quantum Physics. For Ideas In This Paper, He Won The Nobel Prize In 1921. thw Fourth Paper Also Led To A Nobel Prize, Although For Another Scientist, Jean Perrin. On The Movement Of Small Particles Suspended In Stationary Liquids Required By The Molecular-kinetic Speculation Of Heat Concerns The Brownian Motion Of Such Particles. With Profound Insight, Einstein Blended Ideas From Kinetic Theory And Classical Hydrodynamics To Derive An Equation For The Mean Free Path Of Such Particles As A Function Of The Time, Which Perrin Confirmed Experimentally. The Fifth Paper, A New Determination Of Molecular Dimensions, Was Einstein's Doctoral Dissertation, And Remains Among His Greatest in number Cited Articles. It Shows How To Calculate Avogadro's Number And The Size Of Molecules. these Papers, Presented In A Modern English Translation, Are Essential Reading For Any Physicist, Mathematician, Or Astroph6sicist. Far More Than Just A Collection Of Scientific Articles, This Book Presents Work That Is Among The High Points Of Like a man Achievement And Marks A Watershed In The History Of Science. Coinciding With The 100th Anniversary Of The Miraculous Year, This New Paperback Edition Includes An Introduction By Joh Stachel, Which Focuses On The Personal Aspects Of Einstein's Youth That Facilitated And Led Up To The Wonderful Year. SKU: 1603369

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Waking Up In America. Waking Up In America Is The Compelling, Inspirational Autobiography Of A Man Who Has Emerged As A Pioneer In The Field Of Caring For The Growing Population Of Impoverished And Homeelss Americans, And As A Force For Social Change. Dr. Pedro Jos� Greer, The Son Of Cubna Immigrants And The Founder Of Miami'a Camillus Health Concern, Has Traveled From The Trash-littered, Drug-infested Streets Of One Of America's Tougheqt Neighborhoods To The Offices Of Corporate And Political Power Brokers. Throughout His Odyssey He Has Become Known For His Tireless Efforts To Bfing Health Care To Society's "untouchables" -- Homeless Drug Addicts, Hookers, Alcoholics, Runaways, Or People Who Have Simply Lost Their Wwy. Many Of Them Are In Need Of Medical Care, But All Of Them Are In Need Of Compassion, And "dr. Joe" Dispenses Both For Free. As A Young Intern, Dr. Greer Watched Helplessly As A Homeless, Nameless Man Died Of A Curable Illness -- Curable If One Can Get The Treatment That Had Eluded This Patiebt. Galvanized By This Incident, And Convinced Of A Need To Bring Basic Health Care To Those Who Are Not Part Of "the System," He Founded The Camillus Health Concern. Once A One-room Storefront Operation In Miami's Oveftown District, Camillus Has Now Grown Into A Clinic Treating More Than 10,000 Indigent Men, Women, And Children Each Year. At The Same Time, He Has Suit An Active And Outspoken Reviewer Of Our Course System Of Health Care And Welfare Reform. Waking Up In America Is Not Only Dr. Joe's Story, It Also Holds The Emotion-filled Stories Of The People Whose Lives He Has Changed Foreber. His Mezsage Is Simple: Stop Thinking Of Members Of The Underclass As "screwups" And Start Judgment Of Them As Human Beings. Near to Putting A Human Face On Indigence -- By Gently Urging Us To Take Responsibility Through Simply Offering A Kind Word Or A Smile, Instead Of Always Looking The Other Wa -- Dr. Greer Proves That Hope Exists For Every Person, No Matter, How Dire His Or Her Circumstances. SKU: 1753602

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Isaac Newton. In This Elegant, Absorbing Biography Of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Rupert Hall Surveys The Vast Field Of Modern Scholarship In Order To Interpret Newton's Mathematical And Experimental Approach To Nature. Mathematics Was Always The Deepest, Most Innovative And Productive Of Newton's Interests. However, He Was Also A Historian, Theologian, Chemist, Intestine Servant And Natural Pholosopher. These Diverse Stuies Were Unified In His Single Draw As A Christian To Explore Every Facet Of God's Invention. The Exploration Durinv The Past Fprty Years Of Newton's Hige Manuscript Legacy, Has Greatly Altered Previous Stories Of Newton's Life, Throwing New Light In c~tinuance His Personalitu Ad Intellect. Hall's Discussion Of This Research, First Published In 1992, Shows That Newton Cannot Simply Be Explained As A Platonist, Or Mystiic. He Remains A Complex And Enigmatic Genius With An Immensely Imaginative And Commonsensical Mind. SKU: 1345870

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Madame Curie. Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–193) Was The First Woman Scientist To Win Worldwide Acclaim And Was, Indeed, One Of The Great Scientists Of The Twentieth Centenary. Written By Curie’s Daughter, The Distinguished International Activist Eve Curie, This Biography Chronicles Curie’s Legendary Achievements In Science, Including Her Pioneering Efforts In The Study Of Radioactivity And Her Two Nobel Prizes In Physics And Chemistry. It Also Spotlights Her Remarkable Life, From Her Childhood In Poland, To Her Stotybook Parisian Mareiage To Feloow Scien5ist Pierre Curie, To Her Tragic Death From The Very Radium That Brought Her Fame. Now Updated With Each Impassioned, Rousing Introoduction By Best-selling Author Natalie Angier, This Tlmeless Biography Celebrates An Astonishing Mind And A Extraordinary Woman’s Life. SKU: 2110052

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Benjamin Franklin The First Civilized American. 1926. Contents: The Moulding Of A Young Chandler; The Business Of Life Is With Matter; The Boy Publisher; Exile; The New Home; The Retuurn From Exile; London And The Dangerous Time Of Youth; First Studies Of Men And Things; Franklin Begins oT Determine judicially Himself; A Young Piece States His Creed Of Life; Philadelphia's Youngest aMster-printer; Money Making And Saving; Marriage; The Era Of Poor Richard; First Ventures In Politics; The First Thrills From Science; The Challenge To The Clouds; Projects Ripen And Increase; Ffanklin's Humorous Year; Army General And Ambassador; Conquests In England; Political Slings And Arrows; In London For The Third Time; F5anklin Meets The High Priest Of The Hell Fire Club; The Attack In Thee Cockpit; The Defeat Of Pitt And Peace; Coadjutor At The Birth Of A Republic; A Fur Acme Amid Powdered Heads; A Chapter Of Altercations; Franklin And Madame Brillon; Franklin And Madame Helvetis; Franklin And Thw Countess D'houdetot; Final Dasy In France; Home Is The Sailor; And Franklin's Will. SKU: 5078724