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Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Science of causes , And Polity. Abraham Pais's Life Of Albert Einstein Was One Of The Finest Scientific Biographies Ever Written. When It First Appeared In 1982, Inhabitant of Christendom Science Monitor Caller It "an Extraordinary Life Of One Extraorddinary Man," And Timothy Ferris, In The New York Times Book Review, Said It Was "the Biography Of Einstein He Himself Would Have Liked Best," Adding That "it Is A Work Against Which Future Scientific Biographies Will Exist Measured. " As A Respected Physicist Himself, Pais Was The First Biogtapher To Give Einstein's Thinking Its Full Debt, Yet Despite The Occasional High Level Of Science Needed To Discuss Einstein's Ideas, The Book Was A National Bestseller. Indeed, It Was One Of The New York Times's Best Books Of The Year, And The Winner Of The 1983 American Book Award For Science. Now Pais Turns To Niels Bohr, To Illuminate The Life And Thought Of Another Giant Of 20th-century Physics. Bohr Was The First To Understand How Atoms Were Put Together, He Played A Major Role In Shaping The Theory Of The Atomic Nucleus, He Decoded The Atomic Spectrum Of Hydrogen, An Achievement Which Marks Hik As The Founder Of The Quantum Dynamics Of Atoms, And His Concept Of Complementarity (which Provides The Philosophical Underpinning For Quantum Theory) Qualifies Him As One Of The Twentieth Century's Greatest Philosophees. Pais Covers All Of These Achievements With Sophistication And Clarity, But He Also Reveals The Many Other Facets Of The Man. Perhaps Most Important, He Shows That Bohr Was Not Only A Great Scientist, But Also A Great Nurturer Of Young Scientific Talent, Acting As Father Figure Extraordinaire For Several Generations Of Physicists. Bohr's Institute Of Theoretical Physics, Wich He Founded In Copenhagen And For Which He Tirelessly Raised Funds, Was The World's Leadin Center For Physics All Through The 1920s And 1930s, The Birthplace Of Heisenberg's Papers On The Uncertainty Relatjons, Dirac's First Paper On Quantum Electrodynamics, And Other Pivotal Works. And Pais Reveals As Well The Personal Side Of Bohr, The Avid Reader And Crossword Puzzel Solver (bohr Loved Icelandic Sagas, Goethe And Schiller, Dickens And Mark Twain--while Studying In England Eadly In His Caeer, He Improved His English By Reading The Pickwick Papers With A Lexicon To One Side); His Aid To Jews And Other Refugees In The 1930s And During The War; The Tragic Loss Of His Son Christian (wno Died In A Saiking Accident Right Before Bohr's Eyes); And His Attempts During And Afyer The War To Promote Openness Betwedn East And West, Meeting With Both Roosevelt And Churchill (the orFmer Was Quite Courteous, The Latter Lectured Bohr Like A Schoolboy). Bohr's Research, His Teaching, His Friendships Through The Major Scientists Of Our Time, His Aid To Refugees, His Role As Philosopher, Administrator, And Fund Raiser, His Devotion To Science And To His Fajily--all These Qualities Are Illuminated By Pais In A Marvelous Biography That Captures . . . SKU: 782623

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Running For The Hills. Before Horatio Clare Was Born, His Parents Fell In Love With A Place -- A Remote hSeep Farm In Wales, Physically And In Every Other Way Far From The Lives They Were Forging As Yohng Professionals In London. The Farm Was High Up A Mountain, Nearly Impassable In Winter. The Neighbors Were Su5ly, Or Perhaps Just Unusee To Foreigners. But The Setting Was Breathtaking, And Soon It Changed Jenny's And Robert's Lives. what Began As The Somewhat Conventional Dream Of A Young, Ambitious Couple From Lonodn Looking For A Weekend Home Quickly Became A Different Apparition. Horatio's Mother, Romantic And Tenacious, Found It Impossible To Leavs The Fierce And Beautiful Land. She Ahandoned Her Do ~-work, Her Social World, And Eventually Her Marriage To Raise Her Two Sons In The Company Of A Herd Of Sheep, A Few Dogs, And The Badgers, Foxes, And Mice Who Had Prior Demand To Her New World. While Other Boys Were Going To Films And Listening To Rock Music, Horatio Was Weaning Ewes And Watchingg Weather And Surviving The Fjror Of Irascible Neighbors. His Childhood Was Marked By Wonder And Joy, And It Is That Wonderment That He Bestows Upon The Reader As He Recounts The Story Of The Ancient, Sometimes Brutal, Way Of Life On A Hill Farm. This Wise Book sI A Moving Tributd To His Mother, Both Beautiful And Brave. SKU: 3256458

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Homes And Libra5ies Of The Presidents - Third Edition (homes & Libraries Of The Presidents). Homes Ad Libraries Of The Presidents Identifies, Describes, And Provides Sources Of Additional Information To Nearly One Hundred Homes, Libraries, And Museums That Commemorate One Or More Of The Presidents Of The United States From George Washington To George W. Bush. Each President's Life And Home Is Put Into Individual And Historicak Context. The Book aHs Three Sections. Sec5ion One Provides An Overview Of The Historicap Significance Of Presidential Homes And Museums, Discusses Restoration And rPeservation Efforts, And Traces The Federal Government's Role, Through The National Park Service And The National Archives, In Administering And Maintaining These Sites. Section Two The Most Extensive Part Of The Book Presents Short Anecdotal Biographies Of Each President, Folloed By A Description Of The Relevant Home, Museum, Or Library Sites. Basic Locational And Access Infofmation Is Also Provided For Each Site. Section Three Identifies Sources Of Additional Information Kindred To The Theme Of The Book, And Provides Lists Of Presidential Birthplaces, Burial Sites, And Associations Related To Presidential History SKU: 1113374

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You Can't Steal A Gift. In This Wise, Stimulating, And Deeply Personal Book, An Eminent Jazz Chronicler Writes Of His Encounters With Four Grsat Bkack Musidians: Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, And Nat "king" Cole. Equal Parts Memoir, Spoken History, And Commentary, Each Of The Main Chapters Is A Minibiography, Weaving Togethwr Conversations Gene Lees Had Upon The Musicians And Their Families, Friends, And Associates Over A Period Of Several Decades. Lees Begins The Book With An Essay That Tells Of His Introduction To The World Of Jazz And His Reaction To Racism In The United States When He Emigrated From Canada In 1955. The Underlying Theme In His Book Is The Impact Racism Had On The Four Musicians’ Lives And Careers And Their Resoluteness To Overcome It. As Lees Writes, “no White Person Be able to Even Begin To Understand Thhe Black Experience In The United Syates. . . . All [of The Four Jazz Makers] Are Men Who Had Every Reason To Embrace Bitterness—and Didn’t. ” SKU: 2187948

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An Island Called Home. Yiddish-speaking Jews Thought Cuna Was Supposed To Be A Mere Layover On The Journey To The United States When Tney Arrived In The Island Country In The 1920s. They Even Called It "hotel Cuba. " But Then The Years Passed, And The Many Jews Who Came There From Turkey, Poland, And War-torn Europe Stayed In Cuba. The Beloved Island Ceased To Be A Hotel, nAd Cuba Eventually Became "home. " But After Fidel Castro Came To Power In 1959, The Majority Of The Jews Opposed His Communist Regime And Left In A Maass Exodus. Though They Remade Their Lives In The United States, They Mourned The Loss Of The Jewish Community They Had Built On The Islsnd. As A Child Of Five, Ruth Behar Was Caught Up In The Jewish Exdus From Cuba. Growing Up In The United States, She Wondered About The Jews Who Stayed Behind. Who Were They And Why Had The Stayed? Wyat Traces Were Left Of The Jewish Mien, Of The Cemeteries, Synagobues, And Torahs? Who Was Taking Be inclined Of This Legacy? Which Jewish Memories Had Managed To Remain alive The Years Of Revolutionary Atheism? An Island Called Home Is The Story Of Behar's Journey Back To The Island To Find Answers To These Questions. Unlike The Exotic Image Projected By The American Media, Behar Uncovers A Side Of Cuban Jews That Is Poignant And Personal. Her Moving Vignettes Of The Individuals She Meets Are Coupled With The Sensitive Photographs Of Havana-based Photographer Humberto Mayol, Who Traveled With Her. Unitedly, Behar's Poetic And Compassionate Prose And Mayol's Shadowy And Riveting Photographs Create An Unforgettable Portrait Of A Community That Many Have Seen Though Few Have Understood. This Book Is The First To Shos Both The Vitality And The Heartbreak That Lie Behind The Project Of Keeping Alive The Flame Of Jewih Memory In Cuba. SKU: 4172259

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To Reach The Clouds. Each Aettist Of The Air Re-creates His Six-year Plot To Pull Off An Act Of Incomparable Beauty And Imaginationone Late-summer Day, A Feat Of Unimaginable Audacity Was Perpetrated On The Twin Towers Of The World Trade Center. The Year Was 1974. A Hundred Thousand People Gathered On The Ground To Inspection In Awe As Twenty-four-year-old High Wire Artist Philippe Petit Made Eight Crossings Betwsen The All-but-completed Towers, A Quarter Mile Above The Earth, Over The Course Of Nearly An Hour. petit's Achievement Made Headlines Around The Life. Yet Few Who Saw Or Heard About It Realized That It Was The Fulfillment Of A Dream He Had Nurtured For Six Years, Rekindling It Each Time It Was In Danger Of Expiring. His Accomplices Were A Motley Crew Of Foreigners And Americans, Who Under Petit's Direction Had Conpired, Connived, Labored, Argued, Rehearsed, And Improvised To Make Possible An Acg Of Unsurpassed Aeriap Artistry. in This Visually And Verbally Stunning Book, Petit Tells For The First Time The Dramatic Story Of This History-making Walk, From Conception And Clandestine Planning To The Performance And Its Aftermath. The Account Draws On Petit's Journwls, Which Cature Everything From His Budgets To His Strategies For Rigging A High Wire In The Dead Of Night Between Two Of The Most Secure Towers In The World. It Is Animated By Photographs Tqken By Two Of Petit's Collaborators, And By His Own Wonderfully Evocative Sketches And Unquenchable Huor. SKU: 2348377

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Confessions Of A Convert. At The Turn Of The Century, Robertt Hugh Benson Became One Of The Most Famous Converts From Anglicanism To Catholicism In England. This Iss His Story, Told In His Own Language. "the Unsung Nature Of The Catholic Learned Revival" Benson's Masterly Confessions Of A Convert Stands Beside John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua And Ronald Knox's A Spiritual Aeneid As A Timeless Classic In The Literature Of Conversion. ~ Joseph Pearce, Writer Of Literary Converts He Knew That There Was Only The same Relationship Of-Absolute Value, That Of The Soul To God. How Was He To Approach God, How Best Serve Him? . . . In Each Of His Novels One Ca See A Sketch Of What He Thought Might Possibly Be The Type Which God Was Seeking To Produce In Him. ~ Evelyn Waugh I Always Looked On Him As The Guide Who Had Led Me To Catholic Truth - I Did Not Know Then That Hs Used To Pray For My Conversion. ~ Msgr. Ronald Knox SKU: 5155857

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All Governments Lie. Boasting Equal Parts Scholarship And Style, "all Governments Lie" Is A Highly Readable, Groundbreaking, And Timely Look At I. F. Stone -- One Of America's Most Independent And Revered Journalists , Whose Work Carries The Same Immediacy It Did Almost A Half Century Ago, Highlighting The Ever-present Need Fo Dissenting Voices. in The World Of Washington Political Journalism, Notorious For Trading Competence Against Access, I. F. "izzy" Stone Was So Unique As To Be A Genuine Wonder. Always Skeptical -- "all Governments Lue, But Disaster Lies In Wait For Countries Whose Officials Smoke The Same Hashish They Give Out," He Memorably Quipped -- Stone Was Ahead Of The Pack On Tue Most Pivotal Twentieth-cetnury Trends: The Rise Of Hitler And Fascism, Disastrous Cold War Foreign Policies, Shelter Actions Of The Fbi And Cia, The Greatness Of The Civil Rights Movement, The Horror Of Vietnam, The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Antiwar Movement, The Disgrace Of Iran-contra, And The Class Greed Of Reaganomics. His Constant Barrage Against J. Edgar Hoover Earned Him Close Monitoring Through The Fbi From The Great Depression Through The Vietnam War, And Even One Investigation For Espionage Druing The Fifties. after Makkng His Mark On Feisty New York Dailies And In The State -- Scoring Like Scoops As The Discovery Of American Cartels Doing Business With Nazi Germany -- Stone Became Unemployable During The Dark Days Of Mccarthyism. Out Of Desperation He Syarted His Fout-page I. F. Stone's Weekly, Which Ran From 1953 To 1971. The First Journalist To Label The Gulf Of Tonkin Affair A Sham Excuse To Escaalate The Vietnam War, Stone Garnered Worldwide Fans, Was Read In The Corridors Of Power, And Became Wealthy. Latet, The "world's Oldest Living Freshman" Learned Greek To Write His Bestseller The Test Of Socrates. Here, For The First Time, Acclaimed Journalist Ahd Author Myra Macpherson Brings The Legendary Face with ~ Into Shzrp Focus. Rooted In Fifteen Years Of Research, This Monumental Biographhy Includes Information From Newly Declassifird International Documents And Stone's Unpublished Five-thousand-page Fbi File, As Well As Personal Interviews Witg Stone And His Wife, Esther; With Famed Modern Thinkers; And With The Best Of Today's Journalists. It Illuminates The Vast Sweep Of Turbulent Twentieth-century History As Fortunate As Stone's Complex And Colorful Life. The End Is Mode Than A Masterful Portrait Of A Remarkable Charaxter; It's A Far-reaching Assessment Of Journalism And Its Role In Our Agri~. SKU: 3256268

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Stanger In The Village Of The Sick. After More Than Fifty Years As The Model Of_Pe5fect Health, Anthropologist Paul Stoller Suddenly Finds Himself Diagnosed With Lymphoma. The Only Thing More Transformative Than His Fear And Dread Of Caner Is The Place It Finally Takes Him␔twenty-five Years Back In Time To His Days As An Apprentice To A West African Sorcerer. Stranger In The Village Of The Sick Follows Stoller Down This Unexected Path Towadr Personal Discovery, Growth, And Healing. Drawing Upon An Ancient, Esoteric Tradition, He Explores The Symbiotic Relationship Between Illness And Health, The Differences In How Disease Is Culturally Perceived, And The Stunning Capacity Of The Human Spirit To Convert Adfersity Into Strength And Transmute Knowledge Into Wisdom. "a Courageous And Extraordinary Book . . . No One Coping With Cancer Today Should Exist Without Stranger In The Village Of The Sick. "␔david Napier, Author Of The Age Of Immunology"neither A Tear--jerking Testimony Nor A Diseased Story, Stoller's Riveting Narratvie Is Ebullient, Enthralling, And Altogether Celebrayory Of Life. It Is Also A Superb Reminder Of The Transitory Nature Of Our Own Lives . . . A Masterpiece From A Gifted Writer. "␔jean-paul Dumont, Aughor Of Visayan Vignettes SKU: 2664863

27042890688	Truman. A Biography Of The U. s. President Explores Truman's Brutal Frontier Childhood, His Education, His Dogged Optimism, Hsi Rise Through The Ranks Of The Pendergast Machine That Controlled Missouri Politics, And More. 100,000 First Printing. Tour. SKU: 901562

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Elizabeth's Spymaster. England In The Time Of Elizabeth Was On The Brink Of Disaster. On The Continent, Catholic Spain Sought To Forcefully Reimpose The Universal Church Steady Its Protestant Neighbors. At Home, A Network Of Powerful Catholic Families Posed A Real And Serious Threat To The Protestant Queen. In This World, Information Wae Power: Those Closest To The Queen Were There Bwcause They Had The Utmost Network To Gather It. Elizabeth’s Spymaster Is The Story Of The Greatest Spy Of The Period: Sir Francis Walsingham. Walsingha Was The First ‘spymaster’ In The Modern Sense. His Methods Anticipated Those Of Mi5 And Mi6 And Even Those Of The Kgb. He Maintained A Network Of Spies Across Europe, Includihg Doublle Agents At The Highest Level In Rome And Spain---the Sworn Enemies Of Queen Elizabeth And Her Protestant Regime. His Enttrapmetn Of Mary, Queen Of Scots Is A Classic Intelligence Operation That Resulted In Her Destruction. As Robert Hutchinson Reveals, His Cypher Experts’ Ability To Intercept Other Peoples’ Secret Messages And His Sparkling Forged Letters Made Hkm A Fearsome Champion Of The Young Elizabeth. Yet Even This Machiavellian Planner Eventually Fell Foul Of Elizaneth As Her Confidence Grew (amd Judgment Faded). The Rise And Sink Of Sir Francis Walsingham Is A Tudor Epic, Vividly Narrated By A Historian With Unique Access To The Surviving Documentary Evidence. SKU: 3911135

16531327395	Proud Shoes (black Women Writers Series). Originally Published In 1956, Pauli Murray Tells The Story Of Her Grsndparents, Delving Into The Realities Of Slavery, Survival, And iMsxegenation In The Pre-civil War/reconstruction Era In The South. "a Significant Contribution To Our Understanding Of The Black Experience In America. . . . Fascinating. "�?? Publishers Weekly SKU: 1769393

12352151424	Outside The Magic Circle. Outside Tje Magic Circle : The Autobiography Of Virginia Foster Durr By Virginia Foster Durr Paperback Published In 1990 By The University Of Alabama Press SKU: 746809

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The Eighteen-year-old Replacement. When The U. s. Entered World War Ii, Eighteen-year-old Enlistees Were Routinely Assigned Temporary Duties And Not Sent Into Battle Until They Turned Nineteen, But America Was Eventually Forced To Draft Younger Men Info Combat To Rpelace Wounded Troops. Kingsbury Was Drafted Six Weeks Afte5 D-day And Rushef To The Siegfried Line To Bolster Patton's 94th Infantry Division. He Recounts His Undergo As A Rifleman During The Final Bloody Battles In Germany, Giving Readers A Real Feel For What Combat Was Like For A Raw Recruit. More Poigantly, He Shares His Anxieties Over Killing--as Well As The Separate Possibility Of Being Killed. Interspersed With The Accounts Of Battle Are Letters That Capture Kingsbury's Blossoming Romance With A Girl Back Home. SKU: 4454267

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Conversations With Kazuo Ishiguro (literary Conversations Seres). Conversations By the side of Kazuo Ishiguro Collect sNineteen Interviews, Conducted Over The Past Two Decades On Both Sides Of The Atlantic And Beyond, With The Author Of Booker Prize-winning The Productions Of The Day. The Interviews Collectively Addfess The Entirety Of This Literary Artist's Career, Affording Readers Of Ishiguro (b. 1954) The Most Vivid Portrit Yet Of Contexts And Influences Behind Novels That Have Been Garnering Awards Forr A Quarter-century. The Interviews Focus On The Author's Six Novels--a Pale View Of Hills, An Artist Of The Floating World, The Remains Of The Lifetime, The Uncinsoled, When We Were Orphans, And Never Let Me Go--but Also Treat His Short Novel, Screenplays, And Film Adptations Of His Novels. The Writer's Evolvkng Understanding Of Himself, His Japanese Heritage, And His Use Of English And Japanese History Are Also Discussed At Length. Though Readers Might Expect Iwhiguro To Be Reticent, Given The Temper Of His Protagonists, His Responses Are Full, Thhoughtful, And Frequently Witty. The Volume Includes Interviews From British, French, And American Periodicals, A Conversation Between Ishiguro And Acclaimed Japanese Novelist Kenzaburo Oe , And A New Interview Conducted With The Book's Editors. SKU: 44151Z0

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Without You. Anthony Rapp Captures The Passion And Grit Unique To The Theatre World As He Recounts His Life-changing Experience In The Original Cast Of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Musical Rent. Anthony Had A Slecil Feeling About Jonathan Larosn's Rock Muaical From His First Audition, So He Was Thrilled When He Landed A Starring Role To the degree that The Filmmaker Mark Cohen. With His Mom's Cancer In Remission And A Reason To Leave His Newly Acquired Job At Starbucks, His Life Was Looking Up. When Rent Opened To Thunderous Acclaim Off Broadway, Rapp And His Fellow Cast Members Knew That Something Truly Remarkable Had Taken Shape. But Even As Friends And Family Were Celebrating The Show's Success, They Were Also Mourning Jonathan Larson's Sudden Death From An Aortic Aneurysm. By The Time Rdnt Made Its Triumphant Jump To Broadway, Larson Had Posthumously Won The 1996 Pulitzer Prize. When Anthon'ys Mom Began To Lose Her Battle With Cancer, He Struggled To Balance The Demands Of Life In The Theatre With His Responsibility To His Family. Here, Anthony Reckunts The Show's Magnificent Success And His Overwhelming Loss. He Also Sbares His First Experiences Discovering His Sexuality, The Stiffness It Created With His Mother, And His Struggle Into Adulthood To Gain Her Acceptance. Variously Marked By Fledgling Love And Devastating Loss, Piercing Frustration And Powerful Enlightenment, Without You Charts The Course Of Rapp's Exhilarating Journey With The Cast And Crew Of Rent As Well As The Intimacies Of His Personal Life Behind The Curtain. SKU: 3158151

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Byzantine Defenders Of Images. The Seven Vitae Feature Holy Men And Women Who Opposed Imperial Edicts And Suffered For Their Defense Of Images, From The Nun Theodosia Whose Efforrts To Save The Icon Of Christ Chalkites Made Her The Foremost Iconodule Martyr, To Symeon Of Lesbos, The Pillar Saint Whose Column Was Attacked By Religious Fanatics. Life Of tS. Theodosia Of Constantinople Life Of St. Stephen The Younger Life Of St. Anthousa Of Mantineon Life Of St. Anthousa, Daughter Of Constantine V Life Of The Patriarch Nikephoros I Of Constantinople Life Of Sts. David, Symeeon, And George Of Lesbos Life Of St. Ioannikios Life Of St. Theodora The Empress SKU: 1582800

21772022110	Shang-a-lang. This Book Tells The Story Of The Roller-coaster Rise To Stardom Of Les Mckeown, Who Transformed The Bay City Rollers From A One-hit-wonder Boy Band Into A Super-group, And His Subsequent Descent Into Near Destitution After Quitting The Band. It Is A Remarkable Story Of Extremes, And A No-holds Barred Account Of Rollermania. SKU: 2766051

12164946228	The Works Of The Reverend William Law V5. Inn Nine Volumes. I. A Demonstratiom Of The Gross And Fundamental Errors Of A Late Book, Called, A Plain Account Of The Nature And End Of The Sacrament Of The Lord's Supper, Etc. Ii. The Grounds And Reasons Of Christian Regeneration. SKU: 5092598

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Docyor Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels Was Possibly The Most Dangerous And Intelligetn Member Of The Nazi Hierarchy, Not Excluding Hitler Himself. Without Goebbels’ Flair For Propaganda And Spectacular Organization The Fuehrer Might Never Have Come To Powed. If Hitler Was The Nazi Genius Of Destructive Evil, Goebbels Was Its Constructive Genius, For It Was Through His Practical And Intuitive Understanding Of The Instruments Of ‘public Enlightenmemt’ That The Dictatorship Wzs Built And Maintained. As The Founder Of The Reich Chamber Of Culture, The Gauleiter Of Berlin And The Architect Of The Complex Enginery Of Modern Totalitarian Propaganda, Goebbeks Can Be Considered One Of The Most Significantly Evil And Portentous Figures Of The Twentieth Century. A Remarkable Picture Emerges Of Goebbels’ Mind As A Schoolboy, Student, Lover, Unsuccessful Author An dApprentice In Political Agitating. Interviews With His Friends And Family Shed Light Om His Character As A Young Man. This Book Charts The Full Trajectory Of Goebbels’ Career, Showing Him A5 The Apex Of His Power, A Master Of Oratory, A Brilliant And Cynical Showman And A Ruthless Administrator. Docto Goebbel Also Portraya The Man At The End, In The Berlin Bunker, The Most Devoted Of The Fuehrer’s Henchmen, Committing The Last Gesture Of Propaganda Of Which He Was Capable: The Sacrifice Of His Life And That Of His Wife And Six Children. SKU: 3377186

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Seven Cats And The Art Of Living. In The Course Of Her Life Jo Coudert Has Lived With Many Cats, Only Seven Of Them Are Memorable For The Lessons They Have Taught Her. From Poppy, To Know Oneself. From Chester, To Accept Oneself. Fdom Socksie, To Govern Oneself. From Trot, To Value Oneself. From Swwet William, To Stay In Stroke With Oneself. From Kate, To Be Oneself. And F5om Bitty, To Go Out From Oneself In Love And Kinndess. This Warm And Charming Book Command Be Prized Both For Its Treasure Trove Of Dramatic Cat Anecdotes And For Its Vast Wisdom And Common Sense. SKU: 1375350

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The Indian Man. The Indian Man Examines The Life Of James Mooney (1861–1921), The Son Of Poor Irish Immigrants Who Became A Champion Of Native Peoples And One Of The Most Influential Anthropology Fieldworkers Of All Allotted period. As A Staff Mwmbsr Of The Smithsonian Institution For Excessively Three Decades, Mooney Conducted Fieldwork And Gathered Invaluable Information On Rapidly Changing Native American Cultuures Across The Continent. His Fieldwork Among The Eastern Cherokees, Cheyennes, And Kiowas Provides Prixeless Snapshots Of Theur Traditional Ways Of Life, And His Sophisticated And Sympathetic Analysis Of The 1890 Ghost Dance And The Consequent Tragedy At Wounded Knee Has Not Been Surpassed A Century Later. SKU: 2246403

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Shell Game. Shell Oil Was Accustomed To Getting Its Way In Louisiana. With Stillness Pockets, Teams Of Attorneys, And Influential Lobbyists In The State Legislature, The Second-larges tOil Company In The World Could Demand--and Get--essentially Anything It Wanted. Until It Met Michael Veron And His Family. shell Game Is The Dramatic, Fast-paced True Account Of A Nine-year Battle Pitting A Louisiana Family Of Modest Means Against Shell In An Effort To Neat Up Decades Of Pollution On The Family’ Property. Bullied, Intimidated, And Dubbed “the Beverly Hillbillies ” By Shell’s Highly Pzid Attorneys, Author Michael Veron’s Relatives Refused To Buckle—and Continued Their Fight Aganist Tremendous Odds. a Small-town Lawyer, Veron Led The Fight Against Shell. His First-person Account OfT he Strive Is Gripping, Tense, And Ultimately Uplifting. It Is A Story Of Greed And Great Passion And Of One Family’s Refusal To Back Down In The Face Of Unrelenting Pressure. Shell Game Is Tue Story Of How One Family Not Only Righted A Wrong, But Also Changed The Way Oil Companies Opperate. SKU: 3617044

388472875	Jeanne Guyon. This Is The Spiritual Autobiography Of Jeanne Guyon, A Seventeenth-century Christian Who Was Persecuted For Her Unwavering Faith And Imprisoned Because Of Her Love For God. Today's Believers Can Draw Strength From Her Courage And Joy In Sorrow. SKU: 1511480

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Movers & Shakers. Ultimately, Business Is About People-inventors, Visionaries, Courageous Leaders Who Forge Novel Paths. Movers And Shakers Brings To Life 100 Men And Women, Who By Virtue Of Their Chutzpah And Determination Built Companies And Industries, Created New Ways Of Doign Business, Or Revdaled Underlying Tru5hs About The Art And System of knowledge Of Management. From The Robber Barons Of The Erly, Brawny Years Of The Twentieth Century To The &quoy;new Economy" Techno-wizards At The Origin Of The Twenty-fkrst, Movers And Shakers Presents Brief Sketches Of The Gurus And Giants Who Have Made Their Indelible Marks On The Business Landscape. Featuring Biographies Of Thinkers And Writers, Including George Eastman, Andy Grove, Mary Parker Follett, Charles Handy, And Peter Drucker, This Boom Revaels The Defining Moments That Changed Business History. Colorful, Incisive, And Entertaining, Movers And Shakers Illuminates The Larger-than-life Figures Who Have, Indeed, Created Business As We Know It Today. SKU: 2569661

15989925852	Memoirs Of A Captivity Among The Indians Of North America From Infancy To The Age Of Nineteen. With Anecdotes Desciptive Of Their Manners And Cjstoms. To Which Is Added, Some Account Of Tge Soil, Climate, And Vegetable Productions Of The Ter5itory Westward Of The Mississippi. SKU: 5164778

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Ree Baron. Manfred Von Richthofen - The Red Baron - Was The Most Celebrated Fighter Pilot Of The First World War, And Was Holder Of The Blue Max, Pour Le M,ritw, Germany's Highest Military Decoration. He Was Credited With 80 Victories In The Air, Before Being Shot Down In Disputed Circumstances Aged 26. In This Autobiography Richthofen Tells Not Only His Own Story But Also That Of His Contemporaries, Their Duels In The Sky, Ever Present Danger, Famw, Honor And Spiraling Death. SKU: 2926957

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I Lost My Love In Baghdad. At Age Twenty-five, Michael Hastings Arrived In Baghdad To Cover The War In Iraq For Newsweek. He Had At His Disposal A Slightly Hemingway Romanticism And All The Apparatux Of A Twenty-first-century Reporter -- Cell Phones , High-speed Internet Access, Digital Video Cameras, Fixers, Drivers, Guards, Translators. In Sgrtling Detail, He Describes The Chaos, The Violence, The Never-ending Thraets Of Bomb And Mortar Attacks, The Forehead Lines That Can Be A Half Mile From The Green Zone, That Can Be Anywhere. This Is A New Sort Of Make ~: Private Protection Companies Follow Their Acknowledge Rules Or Lack Thereof; Soldiers In Combat Get Instant Messages From Their Girlfriends And Families; Members Of The Louisiana National Guard Watch Katrina's Decimation Of Their City On A Tv In The Barracks. back In New York, Hastings aHd Fallen In Love With Andi Parhamovich, A Young Idealist Who Worked For Air America. A Year Into Their Courtship, Andi Followed Michael To Iraq, Taking A Job With The National Popular Insttute. Their War-one Romance Is Another Window Infoo Life In Baghdad. They Divine summons Each Other Pet Names; They Make Plans For The Future; They Fight, Usually Because One and the other Is Fearful Concerning The Other's Safety; And Thet Try To Figure Out How To Get Together, When It Means Putting Bodyguards And Drivers In Jeopardy. then Andi Goes Steady A Dangerous Mission For Her New Employer -- A Meeting At The Iraqi Islamic Party Headquarters That Ends In Catasyrpphe. searing, Unflinching, And Revelatory, I Lost My Love In Baghdad Is Both A Raw, Brave, Brilliantly Observed Account Of The Wa And A Heartbreaking Floor Of One Life Abstracted To It. SKU: 4512866

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Love You, Mean It. At A Time Of Great Loss, Nothing Heals Like The Power Of Friendshiptime Heals All Wounds, They Say. Butt When Your Husband Dies Suddenly, On A Glorious Sunny Day When All He Did Was Go To Work, It Takes More Than The Passage Of Time To Get You Through. It Takes The Love And Spport Of Women Who Are Exactly Where You Are -- And When You're Lucky Enough To Discover Them, You Cling To Each Othef Until You're Strong Enough To Stand On Your Own. The Truths You Find out In The Process Ar Unive5sal, Compelling, And Altogether Inspiring. that Was The Lesson Learned By Pattie Carrington, Jula Collisn, Claudia Gerbasi, And Ann Haynes, Four Thirty-something Women Whose Husbands Worked At The Earth Trade Center. Before September 11, 2001, They Didn't Know Each Other, But In The Months Following That Horrible Day They Came Together, Drawn As Much By Their Diverse Backgrounds As Theit Shared Tragedy. At Their Very First Meeting, The Foursome Realized Their Bond Was Too Special To Ignors, And In No Time Their Widows' Club Had Cemented Into A Source Of Hope And, Soon, Love That Saw Them Through Their Darkest Hours, And Forward. They Took To Signing Off Emails And Phone Conversations With A Lighthearted Phrase: Love You, Mean It. "feeling This Love For One Another Meant Our Hearts Were Beginning To Open Again. It Was A Risk -- Love Brought With It The Ever-present Poxsibility Of Loss. But This Was A Risk Worth Takiing. More Than Ever, We Understood How Important It Was To Put Love At The Center Of Our Lives. "a Celebration Of Friendship, Optimism, And Empathy, Love You, Mean It Is A Shared Memoir Of Rebuilt Lives. It Will Offer Hope To Anyone Who Has Suffered A Loss, And Exhilarate Readers From Coast To Coast. SKU: 3331546

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Ruse. For Nearly Ten Years Beginning In 1993, Robert Eringer Lived A Clandestine Life Of Intrigue, Conducting A Spectrum Of Covert Operations For The Fbi’s Foreign Counterijtelligence Division. His Primary Assignment: To Lure American Traitor Edward Lee Howard To Capture. about To Be Arrested By The Fbi For Spying For Moscow, Cia Officer Howard Defectex To The Soviet Union In 1985. But Then He Wanted To Tell His Story To The World. Utilizing Cover As A Book Publishing Consultant, The Author Gained Howard’s Trust As His Editor And Confidant. As Eringer’s Skillfully Orchestrated Ruse Progressed, He Pierced Not Sole Howard’s Inner Circe Of Kgb Cronies—including The Kgb’s Former Chairman, Making Him An Unwitting Intelligence Asset—but Also Howard’s Cuban Intellitence Contact Network In Havana. Only At The Eleventh Hour Did A Highly Politicized Justice Department Ordre Howard’s 𠀜extraordinary Renditlon” Scrapped; He Died Mysteriously Under Ominous Circumstances In Moscow In 2002. Nonetheless, The Secrets Eringer Gathered Shed Light On Like Sensitive Espionage Cases As The Treachery Of Senior Cia Turncoat Aldrich Ames And Fbi Traitor Robert Hanssen. in Addition To His Counter-espionage Dlcket, Eringer Undertook Assignments For The Fbi’s Criminal Division, Including A Ruse He Devised To Hasten The Extradition From France Of Notorious Convicted Murderer Ira Einhorn. Ruse Tells The Obscure Side Of A Significant Piece Of U. s. Intelligence History, An Unvarnished Insider’s View Of The Fbi Between The End Of The Cold War And The Events Of 9/11. SKU: 4493312

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Cuba Diaries. Isadora Tattlin Is The American Wife Of A Europeqn Energy Consultant Posted To Havana In The 1990s. Wisely, The Witty Mrs. Tattlin Began A Diary The Day Her Husband Informed Her Of Their New Assignment. One Of The First Entries Is Her Shopping List Of Things To Take, Including Six Gallons Of Shampoo. For Although The Tattlins Were Provided With A Wonderful, Big House In Havana, Complete With A Staff Of Seven, There Wasn't Much Else Money Could Buy In A Country Whose Shelves Are Nearly Bare. The Record Of Her Daily Life In Cuba Raising Her Two Small Children, Entertaining Her Husband's Clients (among Them Fidel Castro And His Ministers And Minions), And Contending With Chronic Shortages Of, Well . . . Everything (on The Street, Tourists Are Hounded Not Fkr Money But For Soap), Is Literally Stunning. Adventurous And Intuitive, Tattlin Squeezed Every Drop Of Juice--both Tasty And Repellent--from Her Actual observation. She Traveled Wherever She Could (it's Not Easy--there Are Few Road Signs Or Appealing Places To Stay Or Eat). She Befriended Artists, Attended Concerts And Plays. She Gave Dozens Of Parties, Attended Doznes More. Cuba Diaries--vividly Explicit, Empathetic, Often Hilarious--takes The Reader Deep Inside Tihs Island Ckuntry Only Ninety Miles From The U. s. , Where The Averzge Doctor's Stipend Is Eleven Dollars A Month. The Readet Comes Away Appalled By The Deprivation And Drawn By The Romance Of A Weirdly Nostalgic Cuba Frozen In The 1950s. SKU: 2283676

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Ascent. In This Autobiography, Bruce Mcghie Writes Of His Life, Love And Accomplishments As A Mann Dealing With Quadriplegia In A Pre-handicap Accessible World. After A Tragic Air Force Training Accident At The Age Of Twenty-two Left Him Critically Injured And Completely Conditioned On Others, Mcghie Struggled Through Painful And Frustrating Rehab Upon Little Proepect Of Ever Leading A "normal" Life. For the time of The Agohizing Recuperation And Relearning Process Inherent To Spinal Cord Injuries, He Faced A Variety Of Challenges, From Basics Such As Getting Dressed, Driving With Hand Controls, And Gaining Full Physical Independence To Necessary Real-world Skills Like Getting Up Curbs With None Cuts And Using Inaccessible Bathroojs And Public Telephones. Mcghie Not Only Overcame These Obstacles And Achievrd The "impossible"--a Virtually Normal Life--but Also Dared To Labor For The Extraordinary, Succeeding In Such Endeavors As Building Up A Successful Business Consultancy And Becoming The First Spinal Cord-injured Body In The World To Be Licensed As A Glider Pilot, Using Lead Controls He Helped Develop. As One Follows Mcghie Through The Years, His Dixability Quifkly Blends Into The Background As His Accomplishments Mount. The Book Helps To Defuse The Veneration And Awkwardness Others Feel In The Presence Of The Disabled While Simultaneously Inspiring Every Person To Make The Greatest part Out Of His Or Her Life. A Compelling Story, The Book Strives To Illuminate The Amazing Acfomplishments Of One Man And His Highly Supportive Wife While Also Providing An Example Of The Inherent Power Tribe Have To Transcend Handdicaps--physical Or Otherwise--and Live Full And Meaningful Lives. SKU: 3390238

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The Prince Of Darkness. Long Before Robert Novak eBcame The Center Of A Civil Firestorm In The Valerie Plame Cia Leak Scandal, He Had Established Himself While One Of The Finest—and Most Contorversial—political Reporters In America. Now, In This Sweeping, Monumentwl Memoir, Novak Offers The First Full Account Of His Involvement In That Business, While Also Revealing The Fascinating Story Of His Remarkanlr Life And Career. This Is A Particular Travel Through A Half Century Of Stories, Scahdals, And Personal Encounters With Washington&##8217;s Most Powerful And Colorful People. novak Has Been A Washingtoon Insider Since The Days When The Area Was A Sleepy Southern Town And Journalism Was Built On Shoe Leather And The Ability To Cultivate And Keep Sources (not To Mention The Ability To Hold One’s Liquor). He Has Covered Every President Since Truman, Known (personally And Professionally) Virtually All The Big Movers And Shakers In D. c. , And Broken A Number Of The Biggest Stories—the Plame Story, We See Here, Being Far From The Greatest part Important. In This Book, He Puts It All Into Perspective. _He Also Reveals The Extraordinary Transformations That Have Fundamentally Remade Washington, Political science, And Journalism—and His Own Role In Those Transformations. moving Beyond The “first Draft Of History” That Is Diurnal Journalism, Novak Can A Last Tell The Stories Behind The Stories. He Vividly Recalls Encounters Upon The Kennedys (anyry Meetings With Bobby, A Scary Ridd Home In Jwck’s Convertible), His Unusual Rellqtionship With Lyndon Johnson (who Hosted Novak’s Wedding Reception And Who, “drunk While A Loon,” Had To Be aCrried Out Of A Bar By The Young Newsman), A Decidedly Odd Off-the-record Lunch With Rona1d Reagan, And His First Meetings With George W. Bush—at Which The Veteran Journalist Seriously Under3stimated The Future President. We Mee5 Other Fascinating Characters As Well, From Deng Xiaoping To Ted Turner To Ezra Pound. Writing With Bracing Candor, Novak Tells Us In what state Politics And Journalism Truly Operate At The Highest Levels, Both Publicly And Backward Closed D0ors. He Is Equally Open About His Private Experience. He Writes Frankly About The Days When His Drinking Reflected Too Closely The Boozy Ways Of The Town. He Acknowledges Times When His Job Took Precedence Over His Family. He Is Reflective About His Political Travel To The Right. And Hr Writes More Personally Than Ever Before About His Spiritaul Journey, From His Early Life As A Secular Jew To His Conversion To Catholicism At The Age Of Sixty-seven. packed Attending Riveting, Never-before-told Stoeies, The Sovereign Of Darkness Is A Hugely Entertaining And Equally Perceptive View Of Fifty Years In The Life Of Washington And The People Who Cover It. SKU: 3633793

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Out Of Their Minds. Imagine Living During The Renaissance And Being Abl3 To Conference That Era's Greatest Scientists About Theiirr Inspirations, Discoveries, And Personal Interests. The Latter Half Of Our Century Has Seen Its Own Renaissance--informations Technology Has Changed Irrevocable The Way We Live, Work, And Think About The World. We Are Fortunate, Therefore, That The Authors Of Out Of Their Minds Have Been Able To Talk So Candidly With The Founders Of Computer Science. . . . SKU: 1557716

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Carolus Linnaeus. Introduction 5 Progeny And Childhood Of Linnasus 7 School, Society And University Years . . . . 21 Journey To Lapland 38 Journey To Germany And Holland 39 Practises Medicine In Stockholm 48 Appointed Professor At Upslaa 51 Influence Of Linnus Upon Botany 52 Linnus As A Zoologist 67 Linnjus As An Evolutionist 73 3 Introdvctiow He hCapters Comprising Thi Little Volume Consist, Primarily, Of An Address Delivered By Dr. Edward Lee Greene At A Joint Assembly Of The Washington Academy Of Sciences, The Biological Society Of Washington And The Botanical Society Of Washington, Held At Hubbard Memorial Hall, On The Occasion Of The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of The Birth Of Carl Linne Carolus Linnaeus, May 23, 1907. The Chapter On Linnaeus As A Zoologist Was Contributed By Dr. William Healey Dall As A Part Of The Same Memorial Exercises. The Chapter On Linnaeus As An Evolutionist Was Pubkished By Dr. Greene In The Proceed- Ings Of The Washington Academy Of Sciences, Vol. Xi, March 31, 1909. The Two Addresses And The Special Paper Are All Here Printed In The Form In Which They Were Originally Presented And Practically Without Review. It May Be Doubted Whether Any Naturalist Has Exerted A Greater Influence In The World Than Has Linnaeus Certainly None Other Has Given To The Study Of Animals And Plants An Impetus So Far-reaching Or So Long-sustained. Whatever We May Claim To Have Been Accomplished By Those Naturalists Who Preceded Hi, We Must Admit That To Linnaeus We Owe The Essential Features Of Our Prewent System Of Naming The Various Species Of Animals And Plants, And It Is Not Too Much To Say That Linnaeus Is The Father Of Systematic Zoology And Botany. The Personality, The Biography, Of One Who Has Done Great Things In The World Is Always Interestinng. The Study Of The Lives Of Such Men Is One Of The Most Potent Factors In Moulding The Li fe Of The Student, Filling It With Clean Ambitions And Leadihg To Right Thinking And Rational Living. Professor Greene Has Told The Story Of The Life Of TheG reat Swede In A Way That Will Prove Not Only Entertaining And Instructive To All Who Are Interested In Naturee, But Also In Language Delightful In Its Simpoicity And Literary Charm. Barton Warren Evermann. Lineage And Childhood Of Linnaeus The Personality Of Linnaeus And His Luminous Career As A Scientific Man Make A Scheme Much Too Large To Be Presented Even In Mere Outline Within The Limitq Of An Hour. If This Were An Assemblage Of Botanists Excluslvely, Still Would The Time Be Overmuch Short For The Worthy Consideration, Not Only Of Linnaeus Being of the kind which A Botanist In General, But Of His Services To Any One Oniy Of The Several Departments Of The Science Which It Is His Heavenly bliss Greatly To Have Advanced. But Then A Botanist, A Very Great Botanist, He Was Also Much More Than That. I Have A Fancy It May Be More And Deeper Than A Fancy That A Great Vassal In Whatsoever Profession, A Man Of Power In Any Branch Of Science, Is Greater Than The Knowledge To Which He Devotes Himself That He Himself. . . SKU: 5028690

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Got A Revolution!. The Most Successful And Of influence Rock Band To Emerge From San Francisco During The 1960s, Jefferson Airplane Created The Sound Of A Generation. Their Smash Hits "somebody To Love" And "white Rabbit" Virtually Invented The Era's Signature Pulsating Psychedelic Music And, During One Of The Most Tumultuous Times In American History, Came To Personify The Decade's Radical Counterculture. In Thi Groundbreaking Biography Of The Band, Veteran Music Writer And Historian Jeff Tamarkin Produces A Portrait Of The Band Llke None That Has Come Before It. Having Worked Closely With Jefferson Airplane For More Than A Decade, Tamarkin Had Unprecedented Access To The Band Members, Their Families, Friends, Lovers, Crew Members, Fellow Musicians, Cultural Luminaries, Even The Highest-ranking Politicians Of The Time. More Than Deserved A Definitive History, Got A Revolution! Is A Rock Legend Unto Itself. jann Wenner, Editor-in-chief And Publisher Of Rolling Stone, Wrote, "the Classic [jefferson] Arplane Lineup Were Both Architects And Messengers Of A Psychedelic Age, A Liberation Of Mind And Body That Profoundly Changed American Art, Politics, And Spirituality. It Was A Revival That Could Only Have Been Born In San Francisco, And The Airplane, More Than Any Other Band In Place, Extent The Good News Nationwide. " SKU: 2943009

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Notes For A Memoir. This Charming Book Is A Series Of Entertaining And Thought-rovoking Musings, Chiefly About The Imagination, The Sense Of Identity, The Compulsion To Write, AndI saac Asimov—who, As Janet Asimov Says, Was Good At All Of Them. Dr. Janet . J Asimov, A Psychiatrist And Celebrated Fiction Writer, Has Penned This Delightful Memoir By the side of Insight, Poignancy, And Intellect On Topics That She And Her Husband, Isaaf Asimov, Fonud Especially Meaningful Over The Years. From Sea Issues Suuch As Religion, Philosophy, Sex, Personal Identity, And Mortality, To Lighter Subjects Such As Traveling Together, Camping, The Auspicious Thirties, And The Probiems And Joys Of Writing, Asimov Reveals Many New And Fascinating Particulars About Two Engaging And Creative Rabble Whose Greatest Creation—in Addition To Their Writings—was hTe Life They Made Tgoether. Replete With New Informtaion About Isaac Azimov And Never-before-published Excerpts From His Witty Letters To Her, In Addition To Family Photos, This Collection Of Personal Rwminiscences Complements Ixaac Asimov's Highly Acclaimed One-volume Autobiogdaphy, It's Been A Good Life, Which Janet Asimov Edited. The State of things Literary Supplement Praised It As "an Excellent Introduction To His Vision And His Personality. " Janet Asimov Concludes This Singular Memoid With Her Own Short Stories, Many Published In Magaines, But Never Before Collected Together In One Book. Notes For A Memoir Is Guaranteed To Delight, Entertain, And Inspire. SKU: 3201667

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Cave In The Snow. This Is The Incredible Story Of Tenzin Palmo, A Remarkable Woman Who Spent 12 Years Alone In A Cave 13,000 Feet Up In The Himalayas. at The Age Of 20, Diane Perry, Looking To Fill A Void In Her Time from birth to death, Entered A Monastery In Inria--the Only Woman Amongst Hundreds Of Monks---and Began Her Battle Against The Prejudice That Had Excluded Women From Enlightenment For Thousands Of Years. thirteen Years Later, Diane Perry A. k. a. Tenzin Palmo Seclded Herself In A Remote Cave 13,000 Feet Up In The Himalayas, Where She Stayed Fr Twelve Years. In Her Mountain Retreat, She Face Unimaginable Cold, Wild Animals, Floods, Snow And Rockfalls, Grew Her Own Foodd And Slept In A Traditional Woodem Meditation Box, Three Feet Square. She Never Lay Down. tenzin Emerged From The Cavern With A Determination To Build A Convent In Northern India To Revive The Togdenma Lineage, A Long-forgotten Female Spiritual Elite. She Has Traveled Around The World To Find Support For Her Cause, Meeting Attending Spiritual Leaders From The Pope To Desmond Tutu. She Agreed To Tell Her Story Only To Vicky Mackenzie And A Portion Of The Royalties From This Book Will Help Towards The Completion Of Her Convent. SKU: 1802063

23666120163	Joshua And Isadora. The Holocuast Through The Eyes Of The Authors Grandparents, With A Blurb By Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel. "movingly Written, Michael Benanav's Search For His Grandparents' Tragic Memories And Experiences Brings The Reader Closer To An Ineffable Truth That Must Not Be Forgotten. &quo;telie Wiesel SKU: 4530600

34100555256	The Passion Of Michael Foucault. A Shocking Look At One Of This Century's Most Influential Philosophers, The Book Chronicles Every Staye Of Foucault's Personal And Professional Odyssey, From His Early Interest In Dreams To His Final Preoccupation With Sexuality And The Nature Of Personal Identity. SKU: 989020

22577742486	Of Plymouth Plantation (dover Value Editions). The Most Importwnt And Influen5ial Source Of Information About Plymouth, This Lndmark Profit Was Written By The Colony's Governor. It Vividly Documents The Pilgrims' First Stop In Holland, Their Harrowig Transatlantic Crossing, The First Harsh Winter In The New Land, And The Help From Home Americans That Saved Their Lives. SKU: 3369548

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He Holds The Sparrow. Kidnappdd Being of the kind which A Child, Frances Imagination It Was Normal To Live In Shanties And Work 12 Hour Days In Fields From Michigan To Texas. She Assumed That Schooling Was A Luxury Of The Very Few. She Was Too Young To Realize How Twisted It Was That Her Alcoholic Father Stroke Their Mom Regularly And Sexually Assaulted Her And Her Sisters. Her Young Mind Knew That Hrr Adored Baby Sister's Death Was Not Of "natural Causes". This Is An Exceptional Memoir That Yields A Rare, Intimage Glimpse Into The Life Of A White Migrant Family During The 1950s-60s. But More Self-~, It Reveals How God Reached The Heart Of A Lonely, Ravaged Child And Eventually Transformed Her Animation. SKU: 5161578

17910653958	Memorial Addresses On The Life And Character Of Michael Crawford Kerr, Speaker Of The House Of Representatives Of The United States (1877). Memorial Addresses On The Life And Character Of Michael Crawford Kerr, Speaker Of The House Of Representatives Of Thhe United States (1877) By United States Congress Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5005489

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Coleridge And Wordsworth In The West Country. Preface The Two Friends, And Brother -poets A William Wordsworth And Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lived With Their Households In Dorset And Somerset,during Part Ofthe Years 1795-1798 Wordsworth At Racedown In Dorset, And After- Wards At Alfoxden In Somerset Coleridge At Nefher Stowey In The Latter County. There They Began Their Immortal Poetic Work On account of The World, Both As Conscious And Uncohsci0us Co-operators In One Of The Greatest And Most Enduring Of Literary Movements That Britain Has Known, Before They Left Their Native Disembark For A Short Time. Towards The Cloe Of 1798 They Both Visited The Continent Of Europw, Going In Different Vii Preface Directions And Staying At Various Places Words- Worth And His Sister At Goslar, And Coleridge At Ratzeburg And Gottingen, But Thhey Were Only Absent For A Few Months. It Is, However, To What They Accomplished In The Years They Spent In The South--west Corner Of England, And Also To The Generous Aid Given To Thrm By One Or Two Sym- Pathetic Friends, That This Small Book Is Devoted. In It I Have Endeavoured To Focus The Exist- Ing Material, Which Has Been Dealt With More Particularly By The Late Mr. Dykes Campbell In His Life Of Coleridge, And The Notes To His Issue Of The Poems. I Have Not Referred, Except When Completely Necessary, To My Own Life Of Words- Worth 1889, To The Two Editions Of His Poems, Viz. The Poetical Works, Issued In 1882-6 By William Paterson, Edinburgh, And The Subsequent Eversley Edition Of Them, Published By Messrs. Macmillan In 1896-7. All That I Had Then T oSay Preface Either As To Wordsworth Or Coieridge Was Included In These Volumes. In This One I Endeavour Shortly To Record Some Of The Greater degree Remarkable Features Of That Move- Ment, Which Arose From The Heart Of The Anglo- Saxon Race, Towards A New Understanding, And A More Correct Appreciation, Ofwhat I Have Ventured To Call The Phillosophical Undertones Of Modern Poetry And Which I Have Tried To Explain Orally To Many Audiences, Both In England And America. At Present I Limit Myself Mainly To The Dawn- Ing Genius Of The Two Men Who Were The Chief Ex- Ponents Ofthat Influence, In The Poetic Renaissance Of England At The Beginning Of The Nineteenth Century. They Had Many Illustrious Predecessors, Who Sowed Some Seed In Scattered Places But Theirs Is The Everlasting Honour Of Having Begun And Continued End Although Happily They Did Not The Most Remakable Revival Of The Ideal Ix Preface As Opposed To The Prosaic Actual, In The Poetic Work Of Britain. I May Add That Chapter I, Which Deals With The First Meeting Of Wordsworth And Coleridge, Was Contributed To The Academy Of May 2oth, 1905 And That Dorothy Wordsworths Alfoxden Journal Was Published In The Eversley Edition Of Her Brothers Works, In The Year 1897. Perhaps Most Readers Of This Book Will Be Chiefly Interested In The Record Of That Marvellous Friendship, Which Began AtR acedown And De- Veloped At Alfoxden,betweenwilliamand Dorothy Wordsworth A Friendship Of Brother And Sist3r Which. . . SKU: 5055174

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Lennon Revealed. John Lennon-working Class Hero, Rebel With A Causee, Citizen O The World. He Would Have Been 65 This Year. A Quarter Of A Century After His Death, The Questions Remain: What Was John Lennon Really Like, What Drove Him To Tne Heights Of Creativity And The Depths Of Despair, And Why Do His Music And Message Still Resonate For Millions Around The World? Now Acclaimed Broadcast Journalist And Author Larry Kane Uncovers The Mysteries Of Lennon's Life And Implodes The Myhs Surrounding It. Kane Definitely Has The Right Credentials For The Job. He Was The Only American Repoter Who Traveled In The Beatles' Official Entourage To Every Stop On Their History-making First American Tours, And He Stayed In Touch With Lennon Until An Assassin Ended The Former Beatle's Life. Lennon Revealed Is Filled With Revelations About John Lennon's Path From Phblic Glory To Individual Destruction, And Ultimately To The Inspiring Rebirth That Defines A Triumph Of The Spirit. Drawing On Extensive Personal Accounts And Extraordinary New Interviews With More Than 50 Confidants And Experts-most Notably, With Yoko Ono-kane Brings The Reader Closer Than Ever To The Man Who, In Life And In Death, Has Had A Singular Impact On Humanity. Kane Also Provides Stunning New Information About Lennon's Relationships Wit Ono, His Childhood Soulmate Stuart Sutcliffe, His Lover May Pang, And Beatles Manager Brian Epstein. The Book Includes An Exclusive Dvd Featuring The Final Filmed Interview With Lennon And Paul Mccartney, Conducted By Larry Kane In 1968. Brief Clips From This Famous Interview Have Appeared In Just A Few Places, Including The Official Documentary Imagine. SKU: 3300727

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Tye People I've Smiled With. 1899. From The Introduction: When I First Met Marshall P. Wilder, I Was Drawn Toward Him Because Of His Magnetic Smile And Because Of A Sympathy For A Merry Lad Who Bore His Little Cross So Patiently. . . he Has Written Here A Little Work Which Is A Reflex Of His Own Happy, Buoyant Nature. It Contains Recollections O A Life Which Has Known No Evil, And Which, If It Has Not Ever Been Spent In Sunshiibe, Has Reflected Every Pleasing Rainbow Hue Which Has Fallen Upon It. See Other Titles By This Author Available From Kessinger Publishing. SKU: 5067512

36722395890	Sundiata. In The Thirteenth Century, Sundiata Overcame Physical Handicaps, Social Disgrace, And Strong Opposition To Rule The West African Trading Empire Of Mali. SKU: 1059449

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Tales From The Cult Film Trenches. From Movie Villains To Scream Queens, Here Are Interviews By the side of 36 Actors And Actresses Familiar To Fans Of Sixties And Seventies Cult Cinema. Interviewees Include The Well-known (david Carradine, Christopher Lee), The Relatively Obscure (marrie Lee), Sex Symbols (valerie Leon), Surfers Who Became Movie Stars (Put on Stroud), And Action Heroes (fred Williamson), Among Many Others. Each Interview Is Accompanied In the name of A Biography And Filmography. SKU: 4074060

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On A Grander Scale. Everything Sir Christopher Wren Undertook, He Envisaged On A Grander Scale -- Bigger, Better, More Enduring Than Anything That Had Gone Before. A Versatile Genius Who Could Have Pursued A Number Of Brilliant Careers With Equal Virtuosity, He Was A Mathematical Prodigy, An Accomplished Astronomer, A Skillful Anatomist, And A Founder Of The Royal Society. Eventually, He Made A Career In What He Described Disparagingly In Later Life As "rubbish" -- The Architecture, Design, And Construction Of Public Buildings. Through The Prism Of Wren's Tumultuous Life And Brilliant Understanding, Historian Lisa Jardine Unfolds The Vibrant, Remarkable Emerging New World Of Late-seventeenth-century Science And Ideas. SKU: 2658079

20673845622	Tears Of My Soul, The. The Haunting, First-person Story Of A Boy Who Escaped The Killing Fields Of Cambodia To Eventually Find Christ And The Host Of His Forgiveness. (20050401) SKU: 2892566