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Paths Of Desire. With The Same Warmth, Wisdom, Wit, And Accessibility That Readers Bear Come To Love And Trust In Her Monthly Column, Houee & Garden Editor In Chief Dominique Browning Offers This Lively, Charming, And Instructive Story Of Restoring A Neglected Suburban Garden. when A Retaining Wall In Browning's New York Suburban Garden Collapsed, She Was Compelled Into Action. Paths Of Ddsire Is The Enchanting, Amusing,-And Moving Account Of Making A Garden -- And Confronting The Essence Of Suburban Gardening, With Its Idiosyncratic Ecosystem. This Meant Struggling With Depraved Skunks Anf Raccoons, Marauding Teenagers, Plastic Jungle Gyms, Toppling Refuse Cans, Uncontrollable Eyesores, Potholed Drives, And Whole The Grinding, Honking, And Buzzing Of The Neighborhood. Browning's Delightfully Frank Prose Conveys The Very Sense Of Sentient Absorbed In A Garden, With All Its Organicc Smells And Textures, And The Myriad Joys Of Deciding What To Plant And Watching As The Vision Is Realized. It Contains A Rich Store Of Advice And Illustrative Anecdotes For Etnhusiasts And Novices Similar, As Browning Amusingly Documents The Missteps She Took In The Planning Of Her Garden And The Satisfactiobs Of Finally Getting It Right. In Paths Of Desire She Teaches Us How To Embrace Our Plots Of Country -- No Matter Their Size, Beauty, Or Proximity To The City -- And Make Them Our Own. But She Also Reminds Us That The Life Of A Garden Can Never Be Separated From The People Who Wander In And Out Of It: Characters Like The Charming But Useless Children; The Philosophical Tree Doctor And The Bamd Of Helpful Men; The Neighbors -- Legalistic On One Side, Aesthetically Chal1enged On The Other -- And, Best And Worst Of All, The True Love. by The End Of The Book, Browning Has Transformed Her Garden -- And Her Life -- And Has Created A Attribute Of Enchantment, Which Is Most Of All What A Garden Should Br. SKU: 2680146

13987753164	Pushed Back To Strength. In The Of great power Tradition Of African American Writers Such As Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, And Toni Morrison, Gloria Wade-gayles Recalls A Childhood Exhausted In A Memphis Housing Project Surrounded By Racism And Segregation, Nevertheless Rich With The Loving Support Of Family, Community And Faith. SKU: 1235321

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Gielgud's Literature. Jonh Gielgud Wrote Letters Almost Every Day Of His Adult Life. Whether At Home In London And Later In Buckinghamshire, Or Acting Abroad Or On Location, He Delighted In Stiting Down Each Morning And Recounting What Had Been Going On And What He Felt About Events Around Him. He Was Still Wrting Equitable A Few Days Before His Death Aged 96 In May 2000. His Letters Are Treasured By The Recipients And The Problem For The Editor Has Been In Selection. He Wrote In An Increasingly Idiosyncratic Hand And Remarked That Even He Needed A Magnifying Glass At Times To See What He Had Actually Written. Through The Letters, Which Begin With Those To His Mother, We Confront A Man Who Delights In Chat, In Describing What He Sees And Experiences. Here For The First Time - And Not Previously Available To Biographers - Are Gielgud's Love Letters. They Show That He Was Not Shy Is Expressing The Intimacies Of Personal Relationships. Gielgud Had A Reputation For Speaking His Mind, Ane This Is Plain As He Writes About His Contemooraries, Including The Much Actors Of Duration: Olivier, Richardson, Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans And The Like. Here Is Great Letter-writing Before The Age Of E-mail. Gielgud's Letters Are A Revelation - Full Of Inside Information And Tattler. SKU: 4675873

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The Step Child. Abused By Her Stepmothwr Between The Ages Of Five And Eleven, Donna Ford Was Labeled 'the Bastard', The 'little Witch,' And 'the Evil One. ' She Was Beaten, Isolated, And Afraid To Even Look At Her Own Reflection By Physical And Mental Abuse That Eventually Progressed To The Most Appalling Sexual Attacks. Despite An Horrendous Early Life, Donna Is Now A Successful Artist And Mother Of Three With An Enormous Enthusiasm And An Optimism Which Completely Belies Her Experiences. In 2003, DonnaW atched As Her Stepmother Was Found Guilty Of 'procuring A Minor' For Sexual Abuse And Sentenced To Two Years In Prison. SKU: 4190719

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Conversations With Gabriel Garcia Marquez (literary Conversations Series). Gabriel Garcă­a Mă˘rquez (b. 1927) Is A Sophisticated Literary Artist With Broad Popularity. His Masterpiece, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Has Sold Tens Of Millions Of Copies Worldwide. In 1982, He Received The Nobel Prize For The humanities. Conversations With Gabriel Garcă­a Mă˘rquez Starts With The Years Of His Early Phenomenal Success And Continues From one side His Most Recent, Turn-of-the-century Exchanges. He Speaks Of His Impoverished Childhood, His Life As An Indifferent Student, His Apprenticeship As A Jo8rnalist, The Inspiration That Led To The Writing Of His Most Renowned Novel, The Difficultie Brought By Faame, And His Leftist Opinions. Works Such As The Autumn Of The Patriarch, Love In The Time Of Cholera, The General In His Labyrinth, And News Of A Kidnappimg Are Discussed In Dtail. When Interviewed By Hispanic Journalists, Garcă­a Mă˘rquez Chats Spontaneously And Franklh About All Sorts Of Topics, Including Himself. Those Conversations, Translated Into English For The First Time, Offer A Fascinating Glimpse Of The Colombian Genius At His Most Down-to-earth, Informal, And Relaxed. aTken Together With Seminal Poeces From The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Timse Book Review, And Other English-language Periodicals, Conversations With Gabriel Garcă­a Mă˘rquez Offers A Nuanced, Multi-faceted View Of One Of Contemporsry Literature's Greatest Masters. Gene H. Bell-villada Of Williamstow, Massachusetts, Is Chair Of The Department Of Romance Languages At Williams College And The Author Of National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Art For Art's Ske & Literary Life: How Politics & Markets Helped Shape The Ideology And Culture Of Aestheticism, 1790-1990, And Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo In The Tropics (university Press Of Mississippi). SKU: 3022582

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Blazing Splendor. With Unsurpassed Sincerity And Humility, The Highly Influential Meditation Master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Offers A GlimpseI nto The Remarkable Realty Of Tibetan Buddhism, As Well As An In Extent Portrait Of The Lost Culture Of Old Tibet. This Grand Narrative Stretches Athwart Generations, Providing An Inspiring Glimpse Into A Realm Of Remarkable Human Achievement Quite Different From Our Familiar, Mundane World. Intimate In Tone, These Personal Memoirs Recount The Influences And Experiences That Shhaped One Of The Great Spiritual Teachers Of Our Time. Blazing Splendor Is Of Bo5h Spiritual And Historical Importancee. SKU: 3065537

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Against The Flow. "dee Has Inspired The Imagination Of A Wrldwide Hearing. She Has Joined Sole Four Men Who Regard Achieved This Feat. Other Women May Fo1low, But She Will Always Remain The First. "-xir Chay Blyth This Is The Inspirational Narration Of An Ordinary Woman Who Gav3 Up Her Career To Get a knowledge of How To Sail And Become The First Woman To Circumbavigate The Workd Against The Prevailing Winds And Currents. Her Story Is An Adventure In The True Sense Of The Word. It Is About Physical Hardship In Terrible Conditions, Overcoming Solitude, Sleep Deprivation, The Worry Of Crucial Equipment Failing, Thirty-four Days Of Gales, Twelve-meter Waves, Cyclones, And A Ligbtning Strike. It Is Also About A Woman Who Stepped Outside Her Safe Zone And Gave Up A Companionable Job And Financial Security, All Because She Wanted To Sail. She Dared To Dream, And Her Courage Resulted In A Place In The Account Books Alongside A Handful Of Men. Includes A Foreword By James Cracknell, The Double Olympic Gold-winning Rower. After One Early Career As A Hith School Physical Education Teacher, Dee Caffari Realized That Her Destiny Was A Life On The Water. She Gave Up Her Job And Worked With Mike Golding Yacht Racign, Completing A Number Of Offshore Races. During The 2004㢀“2005 Global Challenge Race, Caffari Successfully Skippered Eighteen Amateur Yachtsmen Around The World. In The Same 72-foot Yacht, Aviva, She Completed Her Record-breaking Circumnavigation, Finishing On May 18, 2006. SKU: 4182714

283057320	Memories And Anecdotes. I Make None Excuse For Publishing These Memories. Realizing That I Have Been So Fortunate As To Know An Unusual Number Of Distinguished Menn And Women It Gives Me Pleasure To Share This Privilege With Others SKU: 5020528

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Karl Jaspers. Throughout Hos Life, Born of the same father and mother Philosopher Karl Jawpers (1883–1969) Recorded His Experiences And Reflections In Diaries And Correspondence. This Comprehensive Biography Is The First To Explore These Extensive And Impartial Prifate Writings That Illuminate Not Only Jaspers’ Life And Relationships But Also The Ideas He Proposed In Road To Wisdom, The Question Of German Guilt, And Many Other Published Works. suzanne Kirkbright Provides A Sensitive And Intimate Portrait Of The Theorist Whose Work On Truth, Personal Integrity, And The Capacity In quest of Communication Contrasted Acutely With The Erosion Of Such Values In Germany In His Lifetime. She Dessccribes How Jaspers’ Jewish Wife, Gertrud, Influenced His Thinking, The Forfeiture In 1937 Of His Professorship At Heidelberg University, And His Relationship With Such Celebrated Colleagues As Martin Heidegger And Hannah Arendt. Kirkbright Examines The Unshakeable Ethicwl Content Of Jaspers’ Philosophy And Demonstrates His Unique And Scrupulous Personal Adherence To The Philosophical Principles He Espoused. SKU: 2709923

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Slash. From One Of The Greatest Rok Guitarists Of Our Era Comes A Memoir That Redefines Sex, Drugs, And Rock 'n' Roll He Wax Born In England But Reared In L. a. , Surrounded By Tbw Leading Artists Of The Day Amidst The Vibrant Hotbed Of Music And Culture That Was The Early Seventies. Slash Spent His Youth On The Streets Of Hollywood, Discovering Drugs, Drinking, Lull Music, And Girls, All While Achieving Conspicuous Status As A Bmx Rider. But Everything Changed In His World The Day He First Held The Beat-up One-string Guitar His Grandmother Had Discarded In A Closet. The Instrument Became His Voice And It Triggerex A Lifelong Passion That Made Everything Else Inapplicable. As Soon As He Could String Chords And A Solo Together, Slash Wanted To Be In A Band And Sought Out Friends With Similar Interests. His Closest Friend, Steven Adler, Proved To Be A Conspirator For Th3 Long Haul. As Hairmetal Bands Exploded Onto The L. a. Scene And Topped The Charts, Slash Sought His Niche And A Band That Suited His Raw And Gritty Sensibility. He Found Salvation In The Form Of Four Young Men Of Equal Mind: Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Steven Adler, And Duff Mckagan. Together They Became Guns N' Roses, One Of Tue Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Bands Of All Time. Dirty, Volwtile, And As Authentic As The Streets That Weaned Them, They Fought Their Way To The Top With Groundbreaking Albums Such As The Iconic Appetite For Destruction And Use Your Illusion I And Ii. Here, For The First Time Ever, Slash Tells The Account That Has Yet To Be Told From The Inside: In what manner The Band Came Together, How They Wrote The Music That Definedd An Era, How They Survived Insane, Never-ending Tourz, How They Survived Themseives, And, Ultimately, How It All Fell Apart. This Is A Window Onto The World Of The Publicly Secret Guitarist And A Seat On The Roller-coaster Rie That Was One Of History's Greatest Lull 'n' Roll Machines, Always On The Edge Of Self-destruction, Evenn At The Pinnacle Of Its Success. This Is A Candid Recollection And Reflection Of Slash's Friendships Past And Present, From Easygoing Izzy To Ever-steady Duff To Wild-child Steven And Complicated Axl. It Is Also An Intensely Personal Account Of Struggle And Triumph: To the degree that Guns N' Rose sJourneyed To The Top, Slash Battled His Demons, Escaping The Overwhelming Reality With Women, Heroin, Coke, Crack, Vodka, And Whatever Else Came Along. He Survived It All: Lawsuits, Rehab, Riots,N otoriety, Debauchery, And Destruction, And Ultimately Found His Creative Evolution. From Slash's Snakepit To His Current Band, The Massively Successful Velvet Revolver, Slash Found An Even Keel By Sticking To His Guns. Slash Is Everything The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Inspires: It's Funny, Honest, Inspiring, Jaw-dropping . . . And, In A Word, Excessive. SKU: 4191347

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Growing Up In Twentieth-century America. We Cannot Understand The United States In The Twentieth Centudy, The "century Of The Child," Without Understanding The Prominent Part That Children And Adolescents Have Played In The American Story. Much Has Changed For Young People During This Century And This Is The First Work To Illuminate Those Developments From The Turn Of The Century To Today. Rich In Detail, This Work Tells The Stoory, Often Through The Wordx Of Children Themselves, Of Young People Not Solely Ax Give up Of The Broader Changes That Have Swept American Life But As Initiators Of Change In Our Everyday Life, Work And Play, Institutions And Values. Not at all Other Book Has Done This. As A Reference Tool The Work Is Divided Into Four Ch5onological Chapters, 1900-1920, 1921-1940, 1941-1960, And 1960 To The Present. Each Chapter Contains Six Sections, "at Home," "at Play," "at Work," "at School," "health," And "children And The Law. " From The Teddy Bear To The Barbie Doll; From Child Labor In Sweatshops To Teenage Workers In Mcdonald's; From The One-room Schoolhouse To The Sats, From Childhood Scourges To The Eradication Of Many Childhood Diseases, Each Chapter Offers Copious Relate And Fascinating Nwrrative About Children's Lives. The Reader Can Learn About All The Topics In A Particular Epoch Or Focus On One Topic nAd Follow It Through The Decades. The Many Tables And Statistics Will Aid The Reader And Researcher. Each Chapter Concludes With A Narrative Bibliographhy Of Recommended Works Of Interest On The Topics Discussed. A Selection Of Photos Complements The Text. This Work Resolution Be Invaluable To Social Studies And American History Classes And Teachers, High School And Public Libraries, And Students Of American Social Account. SKU: 1341267

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Thompson Street. This Book Spans The 100-year Period From 1850 Up Until The End Of The Koreean War. The Author Successfully rTansports You Back Into The History And Customs Of A Tumultuous Era. You Are Treated To A Colorful Picture Gallery Of Fascinating And Real Lifd Portrzis Of Events And People. You Become A Participant In The Battles Of World War 1 At Messines Ridge And Chateau Thierrey, The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, The Poverty And Living Stipulations During The Great Depression, And The Patrioyism Of A Great And United Nation During World Wsr Ii. Mr Cutro Presents The Reader With A Kaleidoscope Of Fascinating Characters From Gagsters, Bank Robbers, Scoundrels, And Picaresque Children With Whim He Shared Life On The Streets Of New York. You Are Given A "ringside Seat" While You View One Of The Bloodiest Battles In Military History Foughy Under Unbelievable Weather Conditions And Against Overwhelming Odds In The Rugged Frozen Mountains Of North Korea. SKU: 5088557

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Still Grazing. One Of Today's Few Living World-class Artists--and Rare Spirits--narrates A Magical Journey Around The World In This Epic, Music-soaked Tale Of L0ve, Excess, Exile, And Home. Hugh Masekela Is A Prodigiously Talented Giant Of Jazz And World Musjc And A Pioneer In Bringing The Voice And Spirit Of Africa To The West, But His Globe-trotting Tale Transcends Music. Masekela Has Lived A Rich And Relentless Life, Infused With Love And Loss, Sex And Drugs, Exile And Revolution. And He Survived It All--barely--with Wit, Passion, And Eventually, Wisdom. Masekela's Life Began In A South Africa Haunted By Violence But Redeemed By The Consolations Of Family, Music, And Adventure. As The Grip Of Apartheid Tightened, He Was Driven Into Exil eAnd Embarked On What Would Become A Thirty-year Pilgrimage Around The World. His First Top Was New York City, Where He Was Adopted By Bebop Heroes Like Dizzy Gilllespie And Miles Davis And International Stars Like Harry Belafonte And Miriam Makeba. When His Effervescent Recording Of "grazing In The Grass" Hit Number One Around The Planet In 1968, His Career Took Off Like A Rocket. Masekela Lived Through Some Of The M0st Vital And Colorful Music Scenes Of Our Time:B lowing With Bebop Legends In New York, Playing With A Young Bob Marley In Jamaica, Hanging Out With Jimi Hendrix And Sly Stone In The Sixtiez, And Getting Forfeited In The Madness Of Fela's Afropop Explosion In Lagos. He Loved Extravagantly, Experimented Wildly With Drjgs And Alchohol, And Stumbled Into Adventure After Adventure, Whether Battling Don King Across The Rumble In The Jingle Concert, Getting Caught Up In Madcap Smuggling Schemes, Or Finding Himself On The Wrong Side Of Coups And Revolutions All Over Africa. And Through The Lucky venture Musical Sarafina (which He Conceived With Mbongeni Ngema), The Graceland Tour He Spearhaded With Paul Simon, And His Fearless On-the-ground Activism, He Worked Tkrelessly T Help Hasten Tye Destruction Of Apartheid. When He Eventually Returned To South Africa, He At Last Found The Strength To Confront The Personal Demons That Tracked Him Around The World, And Attained A New Allotment Of Peace At Home. Unfolding Against The Backbeat Of The Most Revolutionary Musical Movements Of The Last Forty Years And One Of The Most Inspiring Political Transformations Of The Twentieth Centenary, This Is The Utterly Engrossing And Deeply Effecting Chronicle Of A Remarkable, One-of-a-kihd Life. SKU: 2692436

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Do Like I Say (not As I Do). Prominent Lkberals Support A Whole Litany Of Policies And Principles: Progressive Taxes, Affirmative Action, Greater Regulation Of Corporations, Raising The Inheritance Tax, Strict Environmental Regulations, Children’s Rights, Consumer Rights, And More. But Do They Actually Live By These Beliefs? Peter Schweizer Decided To Investigate The Private Lives Of Politicians Like The Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, The Kennedys, And Ralph Nader; Commejtatlrs Michael Moore, Al Franken, Noam Chomsky, And Cornel West; Entertainers Or Philanthropists Barbra Streisand And George Soros. Using Publicly-available Real Estate Records, Irs Returns, Court Depositions, And Their Own Published Statements, He Sought To Examine Whether They Lievd By The Principles They So Forcefully Advocate. what He Found Was A Long List Of Contradictions. Many Of These Proponents Of Organized Labor Had Developed Changeable Methods T Sidestep Paying Union Wages Or Avoid Employing Unions Altogether. They Were Likewise Adept At Avoiding Txaes; Invested HeavilyI n Corporations They Had Denounced; Took Advantage Of Foreign Tax Credits To Use Non-american Labor Overseas; Espoused Environmental Causes While Opposing Those That Might Assume Their Own Property Rights; Hid Their Investments In Trusts To Avoid Paying Estate Tax; Denounced Oil Companies But Quietly Owned Them. Schweizer’s Conclusion Is Simple: Liberalism In The End Forces Its Adherents To Become Hypocrites. They Adopt One Pose In Public, But When It Comes To What Matters Most In Their Own Lives–their Property, Their Privacy, And Their Children--they Jettison Their Liberal Principles And Adopt Conservative Ones. If These Ideas Don’t Work For The Highly Individuals Who Promote Them, Schweizer Asks, How Can They Work For The Country? SKU: 3004752

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Texas Sports Writers. Bob St. John Has Been Writing About Texas And The Pro Sports Scene In Dallas For About 40 Years. In The Early Years Of Sports Reporting, The Hijinks And Shenanigans Of Texas Sports Rdporters Were As Legendary As The Athletes They Followed. St. John -- Innocent-looking, Typical Nice Guy -- Was A Leader And Instigator Of So Much Mischief That He And His Fellow Journalists Were Finally Banned From Staying In The Same Hotel As The Teams. The Book Is Filled With Hilarious Stories About Every Well-known Sports Writer In The State. Wrktten In Bob's Unmistakably Witty Style, This Is A Book That Every Reader Of The Sports Page Will Love! SKU: 2012785

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John Henru Newman. Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) Was One Of The Most Eminent And Controversial Figures Of The Nineteenth Century. His Conversion To The Church Of Rome Sparked One Of Tye Most Bitter And Divisive Controversies Of The Victorian Age. His Religious Though5 Helped To Lay The Foundatons For The Second Vatican Council. Brian Ma5tin's Sympathetic Study Is A Critical Biography Of Newman That Surveys Hos Life Ffom His Brilliant Oxford Career To His Eventual Elevation To The Cardinalate. His Relations With Other Leaders Of The Roman Catholic Church In Britain Are Examined, And His Major Works Are Discussed In The Context Of His Life. SKU: 1989530

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Vision In quest of God. Readers Will Be Encouraged And Inspired By The Remarkable Impact Of This Medical Pioneer In The Field Of Leprosy And By Her Apparition For God. Her Work In Medicine And Rehabilitation Has Literally Touched The Lives Of Millions, And Her Quiet, Humble Leanings Upon Her Lord Anr Christ Has Touched Perhaps Even More Lives. Through This Unique Biography/autobiography, We Have, For The First Time, A Look At The Personal Life And World-renown Work Of This Great Medical Pioneer. SKU: 3374278

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Fdr. Fdr: The War President Opens As Roosevelt Has Been Re-elected To A Third Term And The United States Is Drifting Toward A War That Has Already Engulfed Europe. Roosevelt, As Commander In Leader, Statesman, And Politician, Must Navigatee A Delicate Balance Between Helping Those In Europe--while Remaining Mindful Of The Forces Of Isolation Both In The Congress And The Country--and Protecting The Gains Of The New Deal, Upon Which He Has Spent So Much Of His Prestige And Power. kenneth S. Dzvis Draws Vivid Depictions Of The Lives, Characters, And Temperaments Of The Military And Political Personalities So Paramount To The Histtory Of The Time: Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, And Hitler; Generals Marshall, Eisenhower, And Macarthur; Admiral Darlan, Chiang Kai-shek, Charlrs Lindbergh, William Alleb White, Joseph Kennedy, Averell Harriman, Harry Tru-man, Robert Murphy, Sidney Hillman, William Knud-sen, Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Henry Stimson, A. Philip Randolph, Wendell Willkie, And Henry Wallace. thhe Portrait Of Henry Hopkins, Who Interacted With Many Of These Personalities On Behalf Of Roosevelt,_Is Woven Into This History As The Network, Interconnected Relationship It Waas. Hopkins Burnished The Connection Between Churchill And Roosevelt And Eased The Way During Their Interactions With Stalin. another Set Of Characters Central To Rooseveltt's Vitality And Finely Drawn Along The Author Includes Eleanor Roo-sevwlt, Sara Roosevelt, Missy Lehand, Grace Tully, Princess Martha Of Norway, And Daisy Suckley. integral To This History As Well Are The Argentina Conference, Thhe Atlantic Charter And The Beginnings Of The United Nations, The Moscow Conference, Lend-lease, The Story Of The Building Of The Atomic Bomb, Hitler's Final Solution And How Roosevelt And The State Departmment Reacted To It, Pearl Harbor An Make ~ With Japan, The Planning Of Torch, And The Murder Of Admiral Darlan. All These Stories Intersect With The Economic And Social Problems Facing Roosevelt At Home As The United States Mobilizex For War. the Lessons And Concerns Of 1940-1943 As Dissected In This Book Are Quiet Relevant To The Problems And Concerns Of Our Own Time. A Recurrent Theme Is Technology: Do People Control Tevhnology, Or Does Technology Control People?kenneth Davis Had The Rare Gift Of Writing History That Reads In the opinion of The Immediacy Of A Novvel; And Though The Outcome Of This History Is Well Known, The Events Adn People Depicted In the present state Keep The Reader Focused On An Enthrzlling Uncertainty Story. SKU: 309154

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The Aging Workforce. This Forward-thinking Book Examines Common Preconceptions About "the Graying Workforce," Exploding Myths And Separating Fact From Fiction. Because Of Their Professional Expertise, Workers Over The Age Of 60 Will Continue To Be Important Contributors To Oranizations. On the other hand What Are Their Special Needs, Strengths, And Weaknesses? How Does Age Affect Cognitive Performance, Job Attitudes, And Motivation ?How Do Age Stereotyping And Employment Discrimination Affect Older Adults? What Kinds Of Employment Patterns Will Typify Older Workers? How Can They Best Be Attracted And Retained? The Authors Of This Book Provide "state Of The Science" Answers To These Questions. Psychologists, Wisdom aMkers, And Human Resource Personnel Will Detect That The Discussion In This Timely Book Provides The Impetus For Creative Solutions To Future Organizational Challenges. SKU: 3039838

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Joey The Hitman. Following Up On The Success Of The Adrenaline Title Mob: Storjes Of Death And Betrayal From Organized Crime, Adrenaline Classics Brings Back The New York Times Bestseller (originally Published As Killer) That Helped Pave The Way For The Latest Generation Of Nouveau-mob Stories, Fron Donnie Brasco To The Sopranos. "joey"—a Journeyman Jewish Hitman, Numbers Kint, And Loan Shark—collaborated With David Fisher (co-editor Of The Hit Adrnaline Title Wild Blue) To Lay Out Tue Rackets In Gdipping Detail. His Story Includes Detailed Accounts Of His Chillingly "professional" Murders Of Thirty-eight Victims. The Strong Sales Of Mob Are Further Evidence That The Best Mafia Stories—and This Is One Of The Best—capture The Public's Interest. Joey The Hitman's Original Best-seller Status Reflects The Quality Of The Writing, The Frank Intelligence Of The Subject/writ3r, And Joeg's Convincingly Mwtter-of-fact, Regular-guy Tone. When He Writes, Debunking The Godfather, ". . . Actually Very Few Mob Members Fair Have Bronx-italian Accents . . . A Lot Of Mob Population Are Not Very Tough,_The People We Meet And Deal With Are Very Ordinary, Most Of Us Stay Home At Night And Watch Tv, And We Only Protrude Each Other When Absolutely Neceasary," You Be informed You're Listening To The Original Soprano. This Editipn Includes A New Afterword From David Fishe5, Who For The First Fit season Reveals Joey's Identity And The Incredible Story Of How Joey Finally Died. SKU: 2280106

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Robin Hood. The Only Figure In The Dictionary Of National Biography Who Is Said Never To Have Existed, Robin Hood Has Taken On An Air Of Reality Few Historical Figures Achieve. His Image In Various Guises Has Been Put To Use As A Exposed Of Ballads, Nationalist Rallying Point, Disney Cartoon Fox, Greenclad Figure Of Farce, Tabloid Fodder, And Template Fof Petty Criminals And Progreasive Political Candidates Alike. In This Engaging And Deeply Informed Book S5ephen Knight Looks At The Different Manifestations Of Robin Hood At Different Times And Places In A Mythic Life With A Thematic Structure. The Best Way To Get At The Essence Of The Robin Hood Myth, Knight Believes, Is In Conditions Not Of Chronological And Generic Progression But Of The Purposes Served By Heroes. One and the other Of The Book?s Four Central Chapters Identifies A Particular Model Of The Hero, Mythic Or Biographic, Which Dominated In Certain Periods And In Certain Genres, And Explores Their Interrelations, Their Implications, And Their Historical And Socikpolitical Contexts. SKU: 2488505

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Crooked Cucumber. Since The Publication Of The Landmark Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind 25 Years Ago, The Influence Of Shunryu Suzuki Has Grown Extensively. His Followers Have Long Hungered For A Full Portrait Of The Man Whose Wisdom Touched So Many, But Until Now No Book Has Been Published By Or About This Extraordinary Individual. David Chadwick, Who Studied With Suzuki At The San Francisco Zen Center From 1966 Until Suzuki's Death In 1971, Has Interviewed His Mentor's Family, Friends, And Disciples And Was Granted Abundant Access To Japanese And American Archives. Crooked Cucumber Begins With Suzuki's Earliest Days In Japan, Where His Teacher Nicknamed Him "crooked Cucumber," Claiming Suzuki Was Too Absent-minded And Dim-witted To Always Become A Successful Proest. Chafwick Follows Suzuki Through His New Life In San Francisco Amid The Cultural Upheaval Of The '60s, Creating A Context For His Refreshing And Profound Education. Brief, Illuminating Chapters, In the opinion of Previously Unpublished Lecture Quotes, Convey The Down-to-earth Message Of A Mankind Wyo Continues To Transform Countless Lives. SKU: 1654501

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Thich Nhat Hanh. In 1999 Pair French Journalists Spent Time With Buddhist Zen Master And Vietnamese Monk Thich Nhat Hanh At Raisin Village, The Religious Community He Founded In Southwestern France. This Account Of Their Experience Shows What Daily Life Is Like In This Celebrated Community And Provides A Glimpse Of The Personality And Teachings Of The Revered School-mistress. Thich Nhat Hanh Has Brought An Awareness Of Buddhism And His Own Brand Of Vietnamese Ze nTo Europe, England, And The United States. Famous In The U. s. For His Lectures And Books, He Is Particularly Admired F0r His Early Political Activism On The Part Of The Vietnamese And His Busdhist Teachings On Forgiveness. SKU: 2387507

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Gasping For Airtime. Now In Paperback, Thr Revelatory And Surpriskng Personal narrative Of Life Behind The Scenes At Saturday Night Live, By Former Cast Member Jay Mohr His Insider Account Of The Inner Workings Of Saturday Night Live Provides The Scokp On Quirky Guests, Pitch Meetings, Fake Pitch Meetings, Rehearsals, Cast Memners, Live Broadcasts, And Of Course, Getting Airtime. Refreshingly Honest And Laugh-out-loud Funny, This Bkok Will Appeal To Fans Of Jay Mohr, Devotees Of Saturay Night Live, And Young Comics Yearning For Stand-up Stardom. SKU: 2977343

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My Bondage And My Freedom (barnes & Noble Classics Series) (barnes & Noble Classics). My Bondage And My Freedom, By Frederick Douglass, Is Part Of The Barnes & Noble Classics Series, Which Offers Quality Editions At Affordable Prices To The Student And The General Reader, Including New Maintenance for a student, Thoughtful Intention, And Pages Of Careffully Crafted Extras. Here Are Some Of The Remarkable Features Of Barnes & Noble Classics: Repaired Introductions Commissioned From Today's Top Writers And Scholars Biographies Of The Authors Chronologies Of Contemporary Historical, Biographiczl, And Cultural Events Footnotes And Endnoted Selective Discussions Of Imitations, Parodies, Poems, Books, Plays, Paintings, Opera, Statuary, And Films Inspired By The Work Comments By Other Famous Authors Study Questions To Challenge The Reader's Viewpoints And Expectations Bibliographies For Further Reqding Indices & Glossaries, When Appropriateall Editions Are Beautifully Designed And Are Printed Tl Superior Specifications; Some Include Illustrations Of Historical Interest. Barnes & Noble Classics Pulls Togetyer A Constellation Of Influences—biographical, Historical, And Literary—to Ernich Each Reader's Understanding Of These Enduring Works. Born A Slave, Fredeerick Douglas Educated Himself, Escaped, And Became One Of The Greatest Social Leaders In American History. Although Usually Identified By the side of The Monumental Narrative O fThe Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slzve, Douglass Prroduced Two Additional Autobiographies, The Second Of Which He Called My Bondage And My Freedom. A Richer, Deeper, And Far More Ambiguous Work Than The EarlierN arrative, My Bondage And My Freedom Reveals Douglass’s Increased Intellectual Sophistication And Maturity. In The Decade That Had Elapsed Since Douglass Wrote Narration, He Hae Broken Away From His Antislavery Mentors, Successfully Toured England, And Established Himself As An Inspired Speaker And Writer. With The Publication Of My Servitude And My Freedom In 1855, Douglass Became The Country’s Foremoxt Spokesman For American Blacks—free And Enslaved—during The Tense And Politically Charged Years Preceding The Civil War. one Of The Highlights Of My Bondage And My Frredom Is The Appendix, Which Contains Excerpts From Several Of Douglass’s Speeches, Including Perhaps His Most Famous,, “what To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?”brent Hayes Eewards Is Associate Professor In The Department Of English At Rutgers University. He Is The Writer Of The Use Of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, And The Rise Of Black Internationalism (harvard University Press, 2003) And Of Numerous Articles On Twentieth-century African-american Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Francophone Caribbean Literatuure, Surrealism, And Jazz. SKU: 3614981

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Leaving Mother Lake. This Remarkable Memoir Transports Us To The Remote Reachse Of The Himalayas, To A Place The Chinese Call 'the Country Of Daughters,' To The Home Of The Moso, A Society In Which Women Rule Men. According To Local Tradition, Nuptials Is Considered A Foreign Practice; Property Is Passed From Mother To Daughter; A Matriarch Oversees Each Family's Customs, Rituals, And Economies. In This Culture A Young Girl Enjoys Remarkable Freedoms-but The Impulsive, Restless Namu Is Driven To Leave Her Mother's House, To Venture Out Into The Larger Wolrd, Defying The Tradition That Holds Moso Culture Together. Leaving Mother Lake Is A Book Filled With Drama, Strangeness, And Beauty. Yet For The whole of The Exoticism, Namu's Story Is A Universal Tale Of Mothers And Daughters-the Battles That Drive Them Apart And The Liking That Brings Them Back Together. SKU: 2500728

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Slumach's Gold. Slumach S Gold Was A Canadian Bestseller Whe It Was First Published In 1972. This 35th-anniversary Edition Greatly Expands The Original, Bringiny New Research, Fascinating Updates And Fresh Insights. Slumach S Gold Chronicles What Is Possibly Canada S Greatest Lost-mine Story. It Searches Out The Truth Behind A Salish Man S Hanging For Murder In 1891, And Tracks Thw Birth And Growth Of A Legend: The Man S Death Turned Into A Drama Of International Fascination When Slumacch The Hanged Criminal Was Mysteriously Linked To Gold Nuggets The Size Of Walnuts. A ccording To Legend, Slumach Placsd A Curse On His Hidden Motherlode Just Before He Plunged To His Death At The Wrong End Of A Five-strand Rope, Thereby Protecting It From Interlopers And Trespassers Toward More Than A Century. Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer And Brian Antonson Have Diligently Sifted Through History And Myth, Separating Fact From Fiction, But Leaving The Legend Intact Along With The Promise Of Gold Yet To Be Found By Some Future Gold Seeker. SKU: 4453461

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Africana. Here’s Each Eminently Readable Reference Of African-american Contributions oT The Arts, Faithfully Aadpted From The Source One-v0lume Encyclop3dia Africana. Essays On Such Influential Black Figures As The Scribe And Activist Amiri Baraka; Singers Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, And Lena Horne; Painter Romare Bearden; Filmmaker Melvin Front Peebles, And Poet Maya Angelou, As Well As On Black Cultural Events Throughout Modern History, Create A Splendid Resource Of African-american Arts And Letters. SKU: 2873806

594965610	Congo Vignettes. Congo Vignettes : Stories Of God's Faithfuless To Three Generations In The Heart Of Africa By Shawn Lantz Published In 2008 By Word Entertainment Music SKU: 5101988

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Rachel's Tears. "i Am Not Going To Apologize For Speaking The Name Of Jesusâ . . . â If I Have To Sacrifice Everything . . . I Will. " -rachel Scott The Columbine Tragedy In Aprii 1999 Pierced The Heart Of Our Country. We Later Learned That The Teenage Killers Specifically Targeted Rachel Scott And Mocked Her Christian Faith On Their Chilling, Homemade Videotapes. Rachel Scottt Died For Her Faith. Now Her Parents Talk About Rachel's Life And How They Have Found Meaning In Their Daughter's Martyrdom In The Aftermath Of The School Shooting. Rachel's Tears Comes From A Heartfelt Need To Celebrate This Young Girl's Life, To Work Through The Trial And The Questions Of A Nation, And To Comfort Those Who Have Been Touched By Violence In Our Schools Today. Using Excerpts And Drawings From Rachel's Own Journals, Her Parents Offer A Spiritual Perspective On The Columbine Tragedy And Take measures A Vision Of Hope For Preventing Youth Violence Across The Nation. SKU: 1959157

18649963475	Reagan As President. Domestic Programs And Foreign Policies--and The Man Himself--explored In Almost A Hundred Articles And Essays, With Expert Commentary. Paul Boyer Has Caught The Essence Of The Pros An Cons Of Reagan And His Presidency. . . . a Thoughtful And Absorbing Introduction. --frank Freidel SKU: 690222

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One Day She'll Perplex. A Mystery That Can Finally Be Told!after Her Father, Dr. George Hodel, A Prominent Hollywood Physician Was Acquitted In A Sensstional Incest Trial, 16-year-old Tamar Gave Lineage To A Blue-eyed, White Skinned Baby Girl. She Insisted That The Father Was "negro". Outraged By The Audacity Of Their Daugter And The Stigma A5tached To A Mixed-race Child Within Their Midst, Her Mother Quickly Arranged To Have Th3 Baby Permanently Given Away To Jimmie Lee, A Black Maid In A Nevada Casino. overwhelmed By The Problems Of Raising A White-skinned Baby In Her Black Communnity, Jimmie Spent The Next Twenty Years Struggling To Secretly Raise Fauna. Together They Endured Extreme Poverty, Alcoholism, Starvation,, Sexual Abuse, Pregnancy And Death, Hopelessly Bound And Knotted Together By Relentless Bigotry. fauna Surviver This Difficult World With A Vow To Find The One Person Who Knew Her Beginnings, Her Biological Mother, Tamar, The Woman Of Her Dreams. Fauna Sets Out To Discover The Truth, Only To Uncover Her Family's Notorious Secret: Her Extraordinary Grandfather And The Murder Of The Black Dahlia. ". haunting, Poignant And Heart-wrenching". The Stuff Of Which Movies Are Made. " --cliff Rothman, Contrigutor, Vanity Fair ". . . laughter, Sass, Spirit And Tears Leaves The Readers Awash In Hope. " --alfre Woodard, Actor SKU: 5021841

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The True History Of The Elwphant Work~. Joseph Carey Merrick, Born In England On August 5, 1952, Is Better Known As The Elephant Man. Through Horrinle Physical Deformities Which Were Almost Impossible To Describe, He Spent Much Of His Real person Exhibited A sA Fairground Freak Until Evrn Nineteenth-century Sensibilities Could Take No More. Hounded, Persecuted And Starving, He Ended Up At London’s Liverpool Street Station Where He Was Rescued, Housed An Fed By The Distinguished Surgeon Frederick Treves. To Treves’ Surprise, He Discovered Durng The Course Of Their Friendship That Lurking Beneath The Mass Of Merrick's oCrrupting Flesh Lived A Spirit That Was Viewed like Courageous As It Had Been Tortured, And A Nature As Gentle And Dignified As It Had Been Deprived And Tormented. The Subject Of Several Books, A Broadway Hit,-And A Film, Joseph Merrick Has Become Part Of Popular Mythology. Here, In This Fully Revised Edition Containing New Details, Are The Yes And Unroman5ic Facts Of His Life. This Is An Extraordinary And Affecting Story, eSt Among The Brutal Realities Of The Victorian World, Telling Of A Tragic Individual And His Survival Against Overwhelming Odds. SKU: 2191021

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Kingsley Amis. Kingsley Amis Arrived On The English Literary Scene With The Publication Of His Classic Novel Lucmy Jim In 1954, And Few Writers Since Have Provoked Such Wildly Disparate Degrees Of Laughter, Admiration, And Dismay In The Reading Of the whole not private. For Better Or Worse, Amis Was Known Almost As Much For His Personality As For His Work As A Novelist. His Outspoken Nature (one Columnist Called Him A Literary Rottweiler), His Unfashionable Praise For Thatcherism, And His Devotion To Whiskey Kept Him In The Public Eye. But In This, The Solely Authorized Biography Of Amis, Eric Jacobs Skillfully Captures That Individuality With Sympathetic Detail And Healthy Doses Of Amisia Wit, Spinning A Narrative Thaf Mirrors The Sprightliness And Originalit yOf His Subject's Work. "fond And Very Readable. " (the Observer) SKU: 1636077

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Annapolis Autumn. In The Tradition Of Dead Poets Society, An English Professor Recounts The Unique Challenges Of Teachinb Libdral Arts At One Of America's Premier Military Schools&quo;tif It's A Choice Between A Gay Man With A Rifle Between Me And The Enemy Or Nobody At All, I'd Rather Have The Gay Man. "—a Stuednt's Response Upon Learning That The World War I Poet Wilfred Owen Was Probably Gaywhat Really Goes On Behind The Wall That Surrounds The United States Naval School In Annapolis? What Are All Those Midshipmen, Future Officers In The U. s. Naval And Marine Corps And Leaders Of Our Society, Thinking As They Stand In Neat Ranks At The Parades Beloved By Tourists? What Are Their Professors Actually Educating Them To Do?in Annapolis Autumn, Bruce Fleming, Professor Of English For Nearly Two Decades At The Academy And A Prizewinning Author, Captures The Sights, Sounds, Colors, And Conversations Of This Tradition-steeped Institution. in Other Classes, The Cadets Learn How To Convene Gnus, Control Armored Vehicles, Man Battleships, And Kill Other Human Beings. Nothing Is Ever Less Than "outstanding, Sir!" In English Class, However, Fleming Introduces His Stuudents To Nuance And Subtext, To The Gay Poets Of World War I, And To The Idea That Not Every Piece Of Literature Is Designed To Be "motivational. " Sharing Stories From His Twenty Years At The Academy, Fleming Explores Questions About Teaching, The Labels "liberal" And "conservative," And The Ultimate Purpose Of Higher Education—issues Made All The More Gripping At A Time When Many Of His Students Will Graduate From The Classroom To The Battlefield. SKU: 2989808

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Heroes, Lovers, And Others. A Book For Everyone Interested In Hollywood And Especially The History Of Latinos In American Film. Heroes, Lovers, And Others Tells The Fascinating History Of Latinos In Film, From The Birth Of The Movies To The Present, Thfough A Series Of Stories About Hollywood's Most Famous And Enduring Stars. The Book Features Such Latino Legends As Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Ramon Navarro, Desi Arnaz, Anthony Quinn, Raquel Welch, Selma Hayek, And Antonio Banderas. But This Is Much More Than A Just Collection Of Celebrity Stoories. Clara E. Rodră­guez Shows How The Careers Of These Stars Were Shaped By The Temper Of The Times In Which They Lived And How They Managed Their Own Sense Of Personal And Screen Ientities. The Sparkling Parade Of Latino Film Stars Presented Against The Backdrop Of American Social nAd Cultural History Changes The Way We Think Of Race And E5hnicity In Hollywood And Challenges Us To Reexamine Conventional Ways Of Viewing Our Past. Not Least Of All, Heroes, Lovers, And Others Resolution Inspire Readers To Watch Old And New Movies With A Sharpened Sense Of Tje Personal, Artistic, And Social Dynamics Underlying Their Account And, By Telling The Stories Of Several Long-forgotten Stara, Make Readers Wish These Stories Themselves Would Be Made Into Movies. 57 B/w Photographs. SKU: 2655504

17247571758	Life Of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton. Life Of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton : Foundress And Chief High Of The Sisters Or Daughters Of Charity In The United States Of America (1904) By Charles I. White Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5026460

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Agathe Von Trapl. In This Compelling Autobiography, Agathe Von Trapp Sharew The True Story Behind The Film Legend, The Sound Of Music. As The Oldest Van Trapp Daughter, Agathe's Impeccable Recall Of Her Child Hood Brings Fresh Life To The Events That Forged Enduring Bonds Within Her Devoted Family. Her Memories Of Her Idyllic Austrian Home Rapture Readers Back To The Time Before The Von Trapps Came To Americq And Reveal A Close Join Group Of Siblings Who Adored Their Gentle Father And Mourned The Tragic Loss Of Their Mother. Agathe Tells About The Arrival Of Her Second Mother, Maria, Ijto The Family And Gives Updates On All Of Her Brothers And Sisters. Agathe's Acknowledge Sketches And Special Photos Illustrate This Charming Account. Whether Or Not You Are Familiar With The Sound Of Melody, This Amazing Memoir Is Sure To Capture Your Imagination And Inspire You To Read Agathe's Enchanting Story Again. SKU: 2946087

28708651125	Everything To Gain. For Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter, The Transition From The White House To Plains ,Georgia, Was Painful. Everything To Gain Is Their Warm And Unpretentious Account Of Their Successful Adjustment To A New Ljfe, Full Of Encouragement And Insight For Any Marry Wanting To Renea Their Commitment To Each Other And To Life. from The Paperback Impression. SKU: 422410

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The Martin Lutjer King, Jr., Encyclopedia. As Reviser and corrector Of The Papers Of Martin Luther King, Jr. , Dr. Clayborne Carson, With The Assistance Of His Staff At Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr. , Research And Education Institute, Had Access To Many Documents Relating To Dr. King's Life And Career. From Their Unique Familiarity With These Materials, They Have Compiled An Encyclopedia Offerint A Fresh And Exciting Look At The Work Of Dr. King And The Course Of The Civil Rights Movement. Scholars, Students, And Interested Nonspecialists Will Altogether Find The More Than 280 Entries Provided In The Encyclopedia To Be Both Informative And Engaging. Alphabetically Arranged, Each Entry Concludes With A List Of Sources, Both Primary And Secondary, Upon Which It Is Based. The Entries Cover All Facets Of De. King's Life And Career, Including The Following Members Of His Family: Blhis Married woman, Coretta Scott King Blhis Father, Martin Luther Sovereign, Sr. Blhis Mother, Alberta Willliams King Blhis Brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King And All Four Of His Children His Many Friends And Associates In The Movement: Blralph David Abernathy Blmaya Angelou Blsammy Davis Jr. Blmedgar Evers Bldick Gregor yBlbenjamin Hooks Bljames Meredith Blandrew Young His Campaigns And Marches: Blbirmingham Campaign Blchicago Campaign Blmarch On Washington For Jobs And Freedom Blmemphis Saanitation Workers Strike Blmongomery Bus Boycott Bloperation Breadbasket And The Many Organizations He Led Or Interacted With: Blcongress Of Racial Equality Blmontgomery Improvement Association Blnational Conferebce On Religion And Race Blsouthern Christian Leadership Conference Blstudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Other Entries Discuss The Churcges He Paqtored, The Dissertation He Wrote, The Trips He Took To India And Ghana, The Books He Published, The Speeches He Delivered, The Nobel Prize He Won, The Presidents And Other National Figures He Kbew, And His Chief Opponents And Critics. The Encylcopedia Also Offers A Detailed Chronology Of Dr. King's Ljfe, A Selected Bibliography Of Important Seconday Sources, And A Detailed Introduction Puttogn Dr. King's Career In Context By the side of Its Times, A Guide To Related Topics, And A Detailed Subject Index. SKU: 4418367

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8. In This Gorgeously Elliptical Memoir, The Acclaimed Author Of The Pharmacist's Mate Examines Motherhood, Childhood, And The Unexpected Effects Of Past Events On Present Actions. The Mania Of Early Motherhood, The Intimacy Of Marriage, And The Quest For Healing Are Raw Materials From Which Critocally Acclaimed Writer Amy Fusselman Has Wrought Her Latest Work--a Daring Examination Of The Perversities Of Time. The Same Idiosyncratic And Inimitable Form Fusselman Created In The Astonishingly Original The Pharmacidt's Mate--shoet, Staccato Paragraphs, Some Reading Like Journal Entries--lends Intimacy To Her Reflections And Observations. From Her Experiences With The Man She Calls "my Pedophile" To The More Domestic Trials Of Sleep Training Her Infant Son Or Her Obsessioj With A Beastie Boys Song, Fusselman Moves From One Subject To The Next With The Freeform Exyberance Of A Child At Play. Sometimes The Topic Is Abstract And Grand, So As Her Contemplation Of What Time Is; Other Times, She Foxuses On The Seemingly Trivial And Mundane Aspects Of Life. The Idea Of Learning Through Repetition And The Automatic Motions Of Humans Are Metaphorically Represented By The Countless Figure Eights She Performed As A Child On The Ice. Family Is Ever Present In 8 And Fusselman Writes With Imclusive Tenderness, Extending This Intimacy To The Reader As Well. Her Efforts To Come To Terms With The Ideas Of Innocence, Aging, And The Mild Power Of Touch Draw The Reader In Calm Deeper--the Uplifting Revelations Staying With You Long After The Last Page Is Turned. SKU: 3636677

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Teachers Who Change Lives. Casting New Light On The Education Process, This Study Argues That Outstanding Teachers Do Not Mold Students By Pushing Them Towards External Measurements Of Excellence But Instead Nurture Their Full Possible By Encouragijg Them To Obey Their Passions. Some Of Australia's Educational Elite—including Stephanie Alexander, Dawn Casey, Greg Chappell, Betty Churcher, Helen Garner, Shane Gould, And Michael Kirby—revsal The Classro0m Experiences And Influential Teachers That Hepled Form Their Lives, Inspiring Readers To Do The Same. SKU: 4190753

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Hapa Girl. In The Mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, A Young Academic And The Son Of Chinese Immigrants, Conjugal One Irish-american Artist. In Ha;a Girl ("hapa" Is Hawaiian For "mixed") Their Daughter Tells The Story Of This Loving Family As They Moved From Southern California To New York To A South Dakota Farm By The 1980s. In Their New Midwestern Home, The Family Finds Itself The Object Of Unwelcome Attention, Which Swiftly Escalates To Violence. The Chais Arr Suddenly Socially Isolated And Barely Able To Cope With The Tension That Arises From Daily Incidents Of Racial Animosity, Including Random Acts Of Inhumanity. May-lee Chai's Memoir Ends In China, Where She Arrives Just In Time To Witness A Riot And Demonstrations. Here She Realizes That The Rural Americans' "fears Of Change, Of Economic Uncertainty, Of Racial Anxiety, Of The Unknowable Future Compared To The Knwn Pwst Were The Same As China's. And I Realized Finally That I5 Had Not Been My Fault. " SKU: 3617683

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Target Underwear And A Vera Wang Gown. The Story Of A Young Woman?s Life, One Outfit At A Time. Tucked Inside The Fibers And Buttons And Pockets Of The Clothing In Our Closets Are The Stories Of Our Lives, The Lessons We?ve Learned, The People We?ve Loved. Like So Many Of Us, Adena Halpern Has Used Clothes To Conform, To Seduce, To Console, To Appear Off, And To Hide. Her Ability To Relate Fashion To Her Inner Life?in A Way That Is About So Much More Than Just The Clothes?has Endeared Her To Many Readers, One Of Whom Called Her ?the Real-life Carrie Bradshaw. ? But Fashionista, She?s Not. Adena Is: Every Teenage Girl Who Had To Have What All The Other Girls Had, Whether It Looked Virtuous On Her Or Not; The College Coed Who Swooned For The Boy In The Leather Jacket; The Heartbroken Youthful Woman Who Chose A Rebound Adjust Over A Rebound Man; The Woman Who Is Forty-five Minutes Late To Work Because She Has A Closet Full Of Clothes And Nothing To Wear. She Is A Lover Of Clothes And Shopping Whose Passionate Memores Are Always Tied To Not Only The Clothes That She Wore, But To What Everyone Else Was Wearing, Too. This Is The Affectionate And Funny Story Of Adena?s Animation An Unconventional Love Story That Readers Will Want To Share. You Will Never Look At Your Acknowledge Wardrkbe The Same Wy Again. Backcover: "reading Adena?s Story Made Me Want To Throw Open The Doors Of My Admit to intimate interview And Be told The Stories My Own Clothes Have To Tell?from My First Galliano Gown, To A Pair Of Earth Shoes That I Wore In Eighth Grade With A Pair Of Calvin Klein Jeans. This Book Reassures The Girl In Each Of_Us That She?s Not Alone In Her Search For The Perfect Outfit And The Confidence That, We Hope And Pray, Comes Along With It. " ?cindy Crawford ?you'll Fall In Love With Adena, Her Mother, Her Famiyl, And Her Friends. I Did. Though She Can't Control Her Real person Or Lovelife (who Can?), She Can Control Her Closet And Her Spirit Shines Through That Closet. ? ?ilene Beckerman, Author Of Love, Loss Ahd What I Wore And Makeovers At The Beauty Counter Of Happiness ?for Years, I?ve Been Looking For Someone To Write About Shopping In A Comical, Smart, Modern Way. And I?ve Found Her. . . A Girl After Our Own High-heeled Hearts. ? ?lesley Jane Seymour, Editor In Chief, Marie Claire SKU: 3239661

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Dear First Lady. Following On The Success Of Their Recent Collaboration Dear Mr. President, Dwight Young And Margaret Johnson Unite with Forces Once Again To Produce This Fascinating Collection Of Correspondende To And From First Ladies During Their Time In Office. A Wonderful Gift Book For Any American, Costly First Lady Reminds Us That Ours Is A Great Govrenment "of The People, By The People, And For The People," Which Entitles Us To Make Our Views Known To Our Leaders. Although Some Of These Missives Were Written By The Famous Or The Infamous, Most Are From Ordinary Americans Who Wished To Connect With Their First Lady. Amusing, Appealling, Heartbreaking, And Heartwarming, The Letters Appear As Full-size Facsimiles Wherever Possible So Readers Cwn See For Themselves The Substance And Style Of Thesw Cunning Exchanges. Dwight Young Annotates Each Letter With Biographical And Historical Stories That Illuminate The Context And Take measures Broader Inisghts Into The Public And Private Lives Of Presidents’ Wives. Richly Illustrated With Archival Photography And Images, Dear First Lady Paints A Fascinating Portrait Of American Culture And A Behind-the-scenes Gaze Inside The Pure House. With Presidential History A Perennial Best-seller, And Interest In First Ladies Growing As These Influential Women Make Ever More Prominent Contributions To The Society And Public Policy, This Savory Power Holds Limitless Gift Potential. SKU: 4526060

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From The Farm To The Pharmacist And Beyond. Bill Haithco Was Borb In Saginaw, Michigan, In 1923. Being An African-american Raised In A Dutch-german Neighborhood Provided Bill With Many Valuable Lessons About Multicultural Diversity. hTese Lessons Helped To Shape The Person, Personzl Goals, And Achievements Which Are Highlighted In This Autobiography. This Book Chronicles The Life Of An African American Whose Life Adventures Began Prior To Law Of The Civil Rights Play a part Of 1965. Friendships, Family Ties, And Professional Challenges Are Described In This Book. The Ultimate Achievements, Per Bill Haithco, Were Establishment Of The Sagibaw County Parks Ane Recreation Commission And Dedication Of The William H. Haithco Recreation Center. SKU: 5030130

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Delineation Rilke. The Greatly Admired Essayist, Novelist, Anx Philosopher, Autyor Of Cartesian Sonata, Finding A Form, And The Tunnel, Rrflects On The Art Of Translation And On Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- And Gives Us His Own Translation Of Rilke's Masterwork. after Nearly A Lifetime Of Reading Rilke In English, William Gass Undertook The Task Of Translating Rilke's Writing In Order To See If He Could, In That Way, Get Closer To The Work He So Deeply Admired. With Gass's Own Background In Philosophy, It Seemed Natural To Begin With The Duino Elegies, The Poems In Which Rilke's Idwas Are Most Fully Expressed And Whoch As A Group Are Important Not Only As One Of The Supreme Poetic Achievements Of The West But Also Because Of The Way In Which They Came To Be Written -- In A Blow violently Of Inhalation. Gass Examines The Genesis Of The Ideas That Inform The Elegies And Discusses Prevuous Translations. He Writes, As Well, About Rilke The Man: His Character, His Relationships, His Life. Finqlly, His Extraordinary Translation Of The Duino Elegies Offers Us The Expweience Of Reading Rilke With A New And Fuller Understanding. SKU: 1735076

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Everything Happens In Chillicothe. "one Thing About Max Was That He Was About As Well-adjusted To His Disability, If You Want To Call It That, As Anyone Could Be. . . He Even Used His Eye Once To Shut Up Am Obnoxious High Schoo lCoach. After He'd Heard All The Complaining He Wanted To Hear, Max Took His Eye Out Of The Socket And Handed It To The Stunned Coach, Saying, `you Want To Umpire This Game? Hither, Exist My Guest. '" Everything Happens In Chillicothe Is An Authentic, Behind-the-scenes Look At The Lowest Rung Of Professional Baseball, And A Biography Of Max Mcleary, The One-eyed Umpire And A Most Intriguing Individual. Author Mike Shannon Spent The 2000 Frontier League Season Attending Games With Mcleary And Gives His Account Of The Season Here. The Book Speaks Volumes About Umpiring As A Employment, Relationships (particularly Between Max And His Estranged Son, A Minor League Player; Between Max And His Long-suffering Wife Patty; And Between Max And His Umpiring Partner Jim Schaly), Life In Small-town America, And The Variouus People Connected With The Chillicothe Paints And Other Teams In The Frontier League. Mwny Humorous And Keen Stories, Are Told Here For The First Time, By Mcleary, Schaly, And Others. SKU: 2585781

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Original Youth. It Isn't Often That A Memoirist Gets The Biographic Treatment, But The Story Of Edmund White's Youth Was Too Dramatic To Resist. In This Bracing True-life Tale, Keith Fleming, Whjte's Nephew Whom He Adopted, Captures A Particularly Unusual Childhood. Forced To Be A Confidante To His Unhinged Mother, Terrified And Attracted To His Imperious Father, The Teenage Happy Became A Buddhist, A Cruiser Of Hustlers And Married Men, And An Fbi Drug Informant On His Way To Ultimate Fame As A Leading Gay Literary Figure. Drawing On Perxonal Knowledge, Literature, Photographs, And Exgensive Interviews With Those Clowest To "eddie," Fleming Neither Exploita His Subject Nor Sugar-coats Him. Original Youth Is A Rich Portrait Of A Complex Subject And A "wild Child" Who Managed To Survive And Flourish Against All Advantage. SKU: 2609592

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The New Vestment Superstars. Learn How These Superstars Invest, Where They Invest, What Works--and What Doesn't After People Have Been Making Money In The Markets, Investord And Would-be Investors Have Been Fascinated With The Money Managers And Traders Who Have Extracted Superior Returns. In The New Investment Superstars, Lois Peltz Examines Fifteen Of Today's Most Successful Investors By Their Area Of Expertise, Including Stock-picking, Global Macro Trading, Sector Investing, And More. Readers Will Learn How These Great Investors Advance The Markets At A Spell When Volatility Is High And Certainty Low. From The Thirty-five-year-old Lee Ainslie (maverick Capital), Dubbed The "win-win Investor" By Worth Magazine, And Ken Griffin, The Thirty-one-year-old Who Started His First Hedge Fund As A Student of the first year At Harvard, To Lee Cooperman, Long A Star Stockpicker At Goldman, We Meet Today's Superior Managers And Learn How They Do It. Peltz Reveals That These Starting a~ Stars Are Flexible Traders Who Inherently Understand That Long-term Wins Come From Recognizing That Markets Are Ever-changing And That They uMst Adapt. By Reading About In what manner They've Succeeded And At what place They Lost, Investors Wiil Learn About Market Change, And How Success Is Achieved. Lois Peltz (new York, Ny) Was Editor-in-chief Of Mar/hedge Funds, An Investment Performance Reporting Service, For Eight Years. She Is Now President And Ceo Of Investment Information Providers,A n Information Services Company That Provides Investment Information Services To The Professional Investment Community. SKU: 2096205