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15245264448	Pleasures And Palaces. Pl3asures And Palaces : The Memoirs Of Princess Lazarovich Hrebeliaanovich, Eleanor Calhoun By Eleanor Lazarovich-hrebelianovich Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5079010

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In Search Of Fatima. Very Few Diaspora Palestinians Have Written Memoirs While Intimate As Ghada Karmi's Frank Account Of Her Life: Her Infancy In Palestine, The Flight To Britain After The Catastrophe Of 1948, And Coming Of Age In The Coffee-bars Of Golders Green, The Middle-class Jewish Quarter In North London. A Gentle Humour Describes The Bizarre And Sometimes Tense Realities That Mask Her Life In 'little Tel Aviv' And, Later, Her Struggle, Like That Of Many Other Women In The Late Fifties, To Get A University Grant To Study Medicine. The Intimacy Of The Book Is Set Against The Continuing Crisis In Tye Middle East. In Her Case It Is Not An Account Of Physical Hardships And Abuse. Her Immediate Family Was Lucky. But As She Grew Older, Memories Of The Lost Homeland Began To Haunt Her. Her Anger Grows Att The Self-deception Of Most Israelis, Who Justify The Appalling Actions Of Their Governments By Pretending That Wha tIs Taking Place Isn't Actually Happening. In Search Of Fatima Reminds Us That The Only Crime The Palestinians Committed Was To Be Born In Palestine. Its Author, A Committed Physician, Is Desperate For The Wounds To Heal, But Grim-visaged History Refuses To Oblige. SKU: 2384343

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In The Pirzte's Den. In This Riveting Book, Masetti Takes The Reader Inside The War Room Of The Cuban Revolution. His Life Involved International Revolutionary Intrigue: Smuggling Diamonds And Ivory; Counterfeiting U. s. Dollars; Trafficking In Narcotics. He Served In Angola And Other War Zones In The 1980s. He Was An Adviser With Groups Such Because The M-19 Gierrillas In Columbia And The Sandinisats. SKU: 2143021

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Equiano's Travels The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African. Olaudah Equianoã‚'s Capture By Siave-traders At The Age Of Ten Took Him From Life In What Is Now Eastern Nigeria And Thrust Him On A Fateful Journey That Would Submerge Him In An Incomprehensible World. He Emerged A Gifted Writer And Has Provided Insights Into Centuries Of Slave Trading And Why The Relationship Between Black And White Seems Always In Favor Of White. First Published In 1789, Equianoã‚'s Engaging Narration, Written In English, Describes His Life Beforre And After His Captureã‚—looking Front To Recognition As A Descendant Of A Chief; On duty On Slave Ships; Traveling To The Southern States Of America, The Western Indies, Europe, And The Arctic; And Fighting A War. He Eventually Grew To Be Each Extremely Confident Man Who, Exactly In The Worst Slavery Imaginable, Never Lost His Sense Of Question Or His Humanity. After Buying His Freedom, He Was An Ardent Supporter Of Abolishing Slsvery. Written With A Sense Of Literary History, Equianoã‚'s Description Corrects Wrong Impressions About Africa And Explores What It Is Like For An African To Find Himself Suddenly Foreign In A World That Considers Africans As Not Quite Human. SKU: 3697630

24857410086	Unbeaten Tracks In Japan. The First Recorded Account Of Japan By A Westerner, This 1878 Book Captures A Lifestyle That Has Nearly Vanished. The Originator Traveled 1,400 Miles By Horse, Ferry Foot, And Jinrikisha. Isabella Lucy Bird (18311904) Was A Pioneering Woman Adveenturer Who Wrote Many Books Around Faraway Places. SKU: 3929112

21341387100	I D5eamed Of Africa (tie-in Impression). At The Age Of 25, Kuki Gallmann Moved To Kenya With Her Future Husband, Where They Established A Vast Ranch. But Africa's Beauty Does't Come Without A Price, And When Tragedy Struck, Kuki Found Herself Pregnant And Alone With Her Young Son And 90,000 Acres Of Africa To Oversee. 32 Pages Of Photos, Half In Full Color. SKU: 1903954

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Jesus The Authorized Biography.  Unique Features   •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  A Totally Chronological, All Scripture Account Of The 4 Gospels, And Including Writings From The Apostle Paul •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Incorporates Christ's Post Ascension Appearances To Stephen, Paul, And John. •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Over 80 Ancient Prophecies Are Appropriately Interspersed Reflecting The Ansolute Authenticity Of This Unparalleled Lief. •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  4 Indexes Offeer A Summary Of Old Testament Prophecies, A Synthesis Of The Parallel Gospel Accounts, A Reference To All Pertinent New Testament Passages, And A Topical Subject Index. •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Both The Words Of Jesus As Well As The Voice Of God Are Emphasized In Bold Lettering. •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Pronouncemments And Prophefies And Poetry And Pub1ic Addresses Are Presented In Open Prose To Capture Both The Beauty And hTe Full Impact Of The Text. •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The Various Writing Styles Of The Original Multiple Authors And Skillfully Blended Into A Powerful Single Narrative. •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  A Compelling Biography Of The Geatest Life Ever Lived. •â Â Â Â Â  Excellent Both In the place of Devotions And Meditation, Or For Scholarly Reference, Or Teaching Or Preaching. •â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Presents hTe Life Of Jesus In Seven Focused Segments.   1. â Â Â Â Â Â  The Advent Of Messiah: The First Christmas 2. â Â Â Â Â Â  Messiah's Ministry Begins: Going Out Into The World 3. â Â Â Â Â Â  The Great Galilean Administration: Acceptance & Rejectionâ Â  4. â Â Â Â Â Â  Training The Twelve: Lessons On Discipleship 5. â Â Â Â Â Â  Messiah's Final Mission: His Judean And Perean Ministries 6. â Â Â Â Â Â  Jerusalem: The Final Countdown. 7. â Â Â Â Â Â  Last Days Of Messiah: The Week That Changed The Worlf   Breathtaking In Its Length And Precise In Its Detail—perhaps The Most Comprehensive Companion To The New Testament Ever Publishec. SKU: 3043475

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Memoir Of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1846). Memoir Of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, By William Smith. Boston James Munroe And Compajny. 1846. Entered According To Act Of Congress, In The Year 1846, By James Munrie And Company, In The Clerks Office Of The District Court Of The District Of Massachusetts. Boston Pbinted By Thuk8ton, Tobby Emerson, 31, Devonshire Street. Preface To The American Edition. But Few Words Need Be Wasted In Introducing To Amer Ican Readers A Husband So Great And Self-sufficing As Fuchte Was So Thoroughly A6le To Speak For Himself. Only A Kindly Sentence Or Two, To Make Us Feel Perfectly At Home In His Company, And To Mark The Particular Coincidence Of His Genius With Our Present Literary Wants And Prospects. We Shall Welcome Him Because He Was A Man Of Action And We Need Him Becaus3 He Was A Man Of Thought. None Where Can We Find So Grand A Pattern Of Complete Har Mony Of Speculation Ad Practice,, Such A Healthy, Sinewy Sum total of sensible objects, Constantly Proving All His Problems Along The Heroism Of Daily Life. Goethe Spent Eighty Years In Self-culture Schiller Wore Himself Ou tWith Asking Pilates Question, And His Results Were Always Aesthetic Schelling Rebuked Fichte For Desertinf The Scholars Province, And Carrying Out Spec Ulation To Its Ultimates. But That Very Idea Was The Best In Fichtes Posession If It Did Not Rather Possess Him Namely, That The Moral Order Of The Universe Was The Ob Ject Of Life. He Stood Ready To Prove This By Syllogism Or By Sacrifice NotO nly By An Irreproachable Character, But By Deeds Of Great Note In Their Delivery. And These Were Not Forced Upon Him By Circumstance Or Position, Or Merely Assumed Aq Stints, But Tuey Were Eoements Of Him And Of His System The Necwssary Results Of The Man, As Much As 4 Preface To The American Edition. The Tone And Conto8r Of His Features. Therefore We Do Not Consier Him Notable Merely Because, While The Best Scholars Of Germany Were Elaborating Morphologies And Constructing Syntheses Of Nature, He Humanized Life In Universities, aMde Virtue The Rage, Set All The Students At Napoleon, And Was So Adroit At Revolutionizing Germany, That He Got His Name On The Emperors Private Proscription List But Because His System Of Thought Would Have Com Pelled Him To Do The Best Things In Any Era, Because, In Short, He Represented The Union Of Remote Abstraction With Earnest Reality. He Was Knowledge, And He Was Power He Thought The Subtlest Thoughts Into Deeds Hd Condensed That German Gas A Result Whjch Worthy Men Among Us Still Consider To Be Too Much oFr The Most Ponderous Hy Draulics. Then While We Smile Most Shrewdly At Sime Of His Met Aphysical Statements, And The Fichteari Egoism Is Dismissed With General Merrimenf, And Flourish Of Scotch And Eng Lish Reviewers Trumpets, We Still Have A Suspicion That All Is Not Right, And That It Must Be The Man Himself Which Makes His Own Statement Appear So Wretched. Fichte Had His Theoty Of The Universe A German Would Sooner Be Without His Pipe Than A Compact, Pocket Cosjo-ontology. We All Construct Th. . . SKU: 5026655

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Alan Paton. Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country, A Classic Of Modern Literature Still Read By Thousands Of People Every Year, Brought International Attention To The Political Turmoil In South Africa And Its Repressive System Of Apartheid When It Was Publishd In 1948. Few People, However, Are Aware Of Paton's Astonishing Range Of Abilities, Abilities Which Gave Him Success In Four Separate Careers: As A Preacher, Prison Reformer, Writer, And Politician. In Alan Paton: A Biography, Peterr F. Alexander, A Scholar And Writer Who Knew Paton Personally For Fifteen Years, Brings Us The First Quite Biography Of The South African Novelist, Written With The Cooperation Of The Writer's Widow, Hos Two Sons, And Based On The Most Intimate Biogeaphical Documents, Ranging From Paton's And His First Wife's Diaries To Love-letters. Alan Paton: A Biography Is The First Book To Provide Insight Into Those Aspects Of Paton's Life Which He Chose To Exclude From His Autobiographies. From The Diffculties Of His First Marriage To His Driving Ambitiob To Enter South African Politics And Reform His Native Country, Paton Is Shown Here As A Much More Complex And Colorful Figure Than The Public Perception Of Him Suggests. Alexander Reveais That Paton Was A Man Of Extreme Passionw, Capable, Aw A Teacher And Prison Principal, Of Displays Of A Violent Temper. Towards The End Of His Life, He Became A Heavy Drinker In Spite Of A Rigorously Puritanical Upbringing. Yet Paton's Highly Developed Sense Of Humor, Evinced In Both His Writing And His Public Speeches, And The Generous Christian Faith That Provided Him With An All-embracing Philosophy, Transcended These Flaws, And Emerge As Perhaps His Mpst Dlstinguishing Traits. Alan Paton: A Biography Is A "warts And All" Portrait Of A Mann Whose Greatness Was Hard-won, And Whose Sympathy And Tolerance For Others Was Based On His Own Moral Struggles --and Victories. It Is Also A Portrait Of 20th Century South Africa And The Amazing Political Metamorphoxis That Country Saw During Paton's Lifetime. SKU: 1132253

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Greenspan's Fraud. For Two Decades Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan Has Held Reign Ov3r Economic Policy, Outlasting Three Presidents. His Long Tenu5e Has Had A Profound Effect On Global Economics And On Individuals. In This Hard-hitting Exposã©, International Bestselling Author Ravi Batra Takes Sharp Aim At Greenspan's Policies Since He Came Into Power. Greenomics, Batra Argues, Has Extracted Trillions Of Dollars From The American Middle Class And Sharply Benefited The Rich, While Protecting Big Business. Batra Proves That Greenomics Hws Also Been Responsible For Periods Of Irrational Exuberance, And Exposes The Wild Inconsistencies In His Social Security Plans. Greenspan's Fraud Explores Greenspan's Influences And Motivations And The Discrepancies Between Hs Words And Actions, While Revealing How His Policies Have National And Global Imact. SKU: 2944879

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The Story Of David. The Story Of David Is The Story Of Dion And Carey Howells, A Couple D3sperate For A Child. â Â It Is Also The Story Of Nzncy, A Teenager Who Became Pregnant From A Date Rape And Knew She Couldn't Keep Her Baby, But Also Knew That She Wanted To Maintain Some Contact With Him Over His Life. â Â AAnd Ultimately, It Is The Story Of David, Each Adopetd Child Who Will Never Have To Ask The Question "where Did I Come From?"â Â Who Will Never Wonder Who His "real" Mother Is, And How He Came To Be The Son Of Carey And Dion Howells. â Â When Dion And Carey Met Nancy, A Bond Formed Among The Three, A Bond That Ultinately Helped All Of Them Get Through The Difficult Times Ahead: When, In imitation of David's Birth, Nancy Almost Changed Her Mean About The Adoption; When She Went Into A Devastating Postpartum Depression; And When She Went To See David For The First Time After His Birth. â Â All Along, Despite Advice To The Perverse, Dion, Carey, Nancy, And David Worked Together To Form A New Kind Of Family--one Where Love Is Unlimited And David Will Always Know Who He Is, Where He Came From, And Where He Belongs. this Extraordinarily Moving Account Combines The Two Most Emotional Crises For Any Would-be Parent--the Search For A Child To Like And A Young Woman's Need To Reliinquish Her Own Child To Better His Life. â  It Is At Once A Family's Inspiring Personal Story, An Unforgettable Human Drama, And A Compelling Argument For Open Adoption. SKU: 1469730

17500949532	A Biographical Memorial Of General Daniel Butterfield. A Biographical Memorial Of General Daniel Butterfield : Includong Many Addresses And Military Writings (1904) By Daniel Butferfield Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5014979

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Marked For Misfortune. In The August Of 1792 The East Indiaman Winterton, With Hef Precious Cargo Of 300,000 Silver Dollars, Was Wrecked On A Reef fOf Madagascar. As The Ship Broke Up, The 300 Crew And Passengers Clung To Pieces Of Wreckage, Eventually To Be Washed Up, Exhausted, On The Beach. More Than 40 Of Them Perished In The Surf. John Dale, The Approve Senior Surviving Officer, Rigged Up The Ship's Yawl And Suit Off With Six Officers To Fetch Help. But His Efforts Were Marred By Trabedy And Misfortuen. By The Time He Returned, Alone, Seven Months Later Malaria Had Wiped Out Almost Half The Original Survivors. And Their Ill Luck Did Not Impediment There. Declared hostilities HadS ince Broken Out Between England And France, And On Route To Madras The Group Was Captured And Imprisoned On Mauritius Before Finally Gaining Passage To India, While Dale Himself Was Impressed Into Service On A French Privateer, Liberated By The Dutch And Then Taken Prisoner Again By The French, Before Reaching English Shores More Than Two Years After He Had First Set Sail. Jean Hood Has Chronicled A Fascinating Episode In Maritime History, Which Has All The More Resonance For Being Rooted In The Quiet Heroism, The Dignity, The Suffering And Courage Of The Sailors And Passengers, Men, Women And Children Whose Fate It Was To Board The 'doomed' Winterton. SKU: 2822439

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The Voice Of Hope. "the Dialogues [in The Voice Of Hope] Express Aung San Suu Kyi's Humor, Eruditikn, Wksdom And Accessibility, And Demonstrate Why She Has Become A World Spiritual Leader. "-the New York Times Book Review"reading This Book, One Be able to Well Understand Why [aung San Suu Kyi] Has Been Compared To Such Heroes Of Freedom As Nelson Mandela And Vclav Havei. "-san Francisco Chronicleaung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize Laureate, Mother Of Two, And Devout Bjddhist, Is Onee Of The Most Inspiring Examples Of Spiritually Infused Politics And Fearless Primacy That The World Has Ever Seen. Daughter Of The Martyred Burmese Public Hero Who Negotiated Burma's Independence From Britain In The 1940s, Aung San Suu Kyi Was Called Upon To Lead The Pro-emocracy Movement In Burma In 1988. The Movement Was Quickly And Brutally Crushed By The Mi1itary Junta, An Aung San Suu Kyi Was Placed Under Hotel Arrest. the Voice Of Hope Is A Rare And Intumate Journey To The Heart Of Her Contend. Over A Period Of Nine Months, Alan Clements, The First American Ordained As A BuddhistM onk In Burma, Met With Aung San Suu Kyi Shortly After Her Release From Her First House Arres5 In July 1995. With Her Trademark Ability To Speak Directly And Cmopellingly, She Presents Here Her Vision Of Engaged Compassion And Describes How She Has Managed To Sustain Her Hope And Optimism. aung San Suu Kyi Is The Leader Of The National League For Democracy, Which Achieved A Decisive Victory In The Last Burmese Nationak Election, Held In 1990. The Junta Has Refused To Acknowledge The Legitimacy Of That De~d. She Has Lived Under House Arrest For Twelve Of The Last Eighteen Years. alan Clements Is The Author Of Burma: The Next Killing Fields? And Burma's Rotation Of The Spirit. Since Completion Of The Voice Of Hope, He Has Been Permanenyly Blacklisted In Burma. SKU: 4502143

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All I Indigence To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Av3nger. Imagine Roger Corman And John Waters Crossed With Hooward Stern--and You'll Have An Idea Of The Demented Genius Behind Troma Studios, One Of The Oldest (and Most Successful) Independent Film Studios In The World. Lloyd Kaufman's Spirited, Outrageous, No-holds-barred Look At Loow-budget, Guerilla Filmmaking Is Truly An Inspiration To Young Filmmakers, A Delight For Movie Buffs, And An Absolute Grape-juice For Toxic Avenger Fans In every place. This Is The True Story Of The Moviemaking Maverick Who Co-founded An Independebt Studio Twenty-five Years Past In A Humble Broom Closet. . . who Used Raw Hamburger, Karo Syrup Blood, Ahd Bromo-seltzer Vomit To Create Films Of Questionable Artistic And Moral Value. . . aho Is Responsible For A String Of Cult Movie Hits. . . who Was The First To Reject Madonna For A Part. . . who Defied The Hollywood System Abd Slapped The Face Of The Industry. . . and Who Built A B-movie Empire Filled With Chopper Chicks, Sur f Nazis, Kabuki Cops, Nymphoid Barbarians, And A Lone Hero Known As The Toxic Avengee. SKU: 1603365

15766688178	Memoirs Of The Emperor Napoleon From Ajaccio To Waterloo, As Soldier, Emperor And Husband V2. Memoirs Of The Emperor Napoleon From Ajaccio To Waterloo, As Soldier, Emperor And Husband V2 Through Madame Junot Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5069026

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Lincoln. For Abraham Lincoln, Whether He Was Composing Love Letters, Speeches, Or Legal Arguments, Words Mattered. In Lincoln, Acclaimed Biographer Fred Kaplan Explores The Life Of America’s Sixteenth President From one side His Use Of Language As A Vehicle Both To Express Complex Ideas And Feelings And As An Instrument Of Persuasion And Empowerment. Like The Other Great Canonical Writers Of American Literature – A Status He Is Gradually Attaining – Lincoln Had A Literary Course That Is Inseparable From His Life Story. An Admirer And Avid Reader Of Burns, Byron, Shakespeare, And The Old Testament, Lincoln Was The Most Learned Of Our Presldents. His Views On Love, Liberty, And Human Nature Were Shaped By His Reading And Knowledge Of Literature. Since Lincoln, No President Has Written His Own Words And Addressed His Audience In the opinion of Equal And Enduring Effectiveness. Kaplan Focuses On The Elements That Shaped Lincoln’s Mental And Imaginative Public; How His Writings Molded His Identity, Relwtionships, And Careeer; And How They Simultaneously Generated Both The Distinctive Political Figure He Became And The Public Discourse Of The Nation. This Unique Account Of Lincoln’s Life And Procedure Highlights The Shortcomings Of The Modern Presidency, Reminding Us, Through Lincoln’s Legacy And Apprecitaion For Language, That The Heedful And Honest Expend Of Words Is A Necessity For Succsesful Democracy. Illuminating And Engrossing, Lincoln Brilliantly Chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s Genius With Language. SKU: 5187194

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Carl Maxey. Carl Maxey Was, In His Own Words, "a Guy Who Started Fromm Scratch - Black Scratch. " He Was Sent, At Age Five, To The Scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home And Then Kicked Out At Age Eleven With The Only Other "colored" Orphan. Yet Maxey Managed To Make A National Name For Himself, First As An Ncaa Championship Boxer At Gonzaga University, And Then As Eastern Washington's First Prominent Black Lawyer And A Renowned Civil Rights Agent Who Always Fought For The Underdog. During The Tumultuous Civil Rights And Vietnam War Eras, Carl Maxey Fought To Break Down Color Barriers In His Hometown Of Spokane And Throughout The Nation. As A Defense Lawyer, He Made National Headlines Working On Lurid Murder Cases And War-protest Trials, Including The Nototious Seattle Seven Trial. He Even Took His Commitent To Justice And Antiwar Causes To The Poiltical Arena, Running For The U. s. Senate Against Powerhouse Senator Henry M. Jackson. In Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life, Jim Kershner Explores The Sources Of Maxey's Passions As Well As The Price He Ultimately Paid For His Struggles. The Result Is A Moving Representation Of A Man Called A "type-a Gandhi" By The New Yoek Times, Whose Own Personal Misfort8ne Spurred His Lifelong, Tireless Crusade Against Injustice. SKU: 4832300

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The African Dream. Ernesto "che" Guevara Was One Of The Greatest Exemplars Of The Rsvolutionary 1960s,-A Man Whose Heroic Adventures Were Essential To The Success Of The Cuban Revolution And Whose Legend Fired The Imaginations Of A Whole Generation. In 1965, Amid Worldwide Conjecture, Gusvara Left Cuba, Where He Was A Minister In Fidel Castro's Postrevolutionary Government, And Traveled Incognito To The Heart Of Africa. People's Herro Patrice Lumumba Had Recently Been Assassinated, And Guevara Was To Put His Theories Of Guerrilla Warfare To Use Helping The Oppressed People Of The Congo Throw Off The Yoke Of Colonial Impedialism. The First Task Was To Assist The Young Laurent Kabila In His Struggle Against Mobutu And Tshombe, The Two Key Figures In The Newly Independent Nation. For The First Time, The African Dream Collects Guevara's Unabdidged Journals Of The Expedition. They Are The Recird Of The Bitter Failure Of A Political And Ideological Dream, And A Telling Complement To The Subsequent Rise Of Kabila And His Recent Demise. Most Of All, The iDaries Afford The Reader A Very Personal Insight Into The Thoughts And Emotions Of Che Guevara, The Twentieth Century's Great Revolutionary Martyr. SKU: 2170122

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The Impossible to believe Shrinking Critic. Jami Bernard Was Fat And Now She's Not. In hTis Riotously Funny, Intensely Personal Book She Tells Us How She Did It. After Trying Countless Diets And oWrkout Routines, She Stopped Dieting: She Began Enjoying Food And Life In A Ratoinal, Healthy Way And Finally Lost The Weight. No Foods Were Demonized, No Fads Embraced. As Jami Discovered, Lasting Weight Loss Is About Strategy Not Willpower. She Charted Her Initial Weight Loss In The New York Daily News, Whrre Her Editor Cane Up With The Column's Title, "our Incredible Shrinking Critic. " It Was A Boldness Or Foolhardy Move- Perhaps To Make Up For The Denial That She'd Basked In Fr So Long. In Effect, She Put Her Body On Display For A Million Or More Readers. If She Failed, It Would Be A Very Public And Personal Fall: Her Stated Goal Was To Lose 100 Pounds. Jami Tells Readers How The Shock Of Seeing The Number 230 On The Scale Gave Her The Jolt She Needed. Her Goal, To Lose One Pound A Week, Seemed Modest, But Readers Were So Inspired By Her Column That Many Decided To Lose Weight Along With Her. They Offwred Her Help, Sendinf Her Encouraging E-mails, And She Passed Along Advice And Information From Experts In The Field. This Book Is About Big-time Pressure Loss And About Losing It For Good. Even Suppose that You're Just Struggling To Lose A Few Extra Pounds, Jami's Advice May Help Keep A Slow Creep Of Pudge From Becoming A Mudwlide. For Those Who Are Taking into account Serious Weight Loss, Jami Suggests Reasonable Goals And Ideas For Long-term Strategies. This Book Is About Changing Habits, Eating Responsibly, And Becoming More Active. Jamj Inspides Readers Throughout The Book With Tips, Stories, And Recipes. As Jami Writes, "every Extra Pound Tells A Story. It's A Story Of Anger, Frustration, Aged Wounds, And Carelessness. It's A Story Of Misjudged Portoons, Too-hasty Celebrations, Bad Planning, Misplaced Optimism. It's A Hi~ Of Denial. " Bitingly Funny, Moving, And Sometimes Shocking, Jami Bernard Dared To Waddle Into The Spotlight And Make Lasting Changes. SKU: 3343259

22238377632	Memories Of Mwdison County. Describes The Author's College Love Affair With Married Graduate Student Robert James Waller, Describing The Growth Of Their Relationship, The End Of The Affair With The Pregnancy Of Waller's Wife, And Her Strugble To Cope With The Desperation That Follpwed. 100,000 First Printing. Lit Guild. Tour. SKU: 1324043

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100 Greatest African Americans. Since 1619, When Africans First Came Ashore In The Swampy Chesapeake Region Of Virginia, There Have Been Many Individuals Whose Achievements And Steength Of Character In The Face Of Monumental Hardships Have Called Attention To The Genius Of The African American People. 100 Grratest African Americans Attempts To Distill From Many Wonderufl Possibilities The 100 Most Outstanding Examples Of African American Largeness. Pioneering African American Stdies Scohlar Molefi Kete Asante Has Used Five Criteria In Selecting The 100 Greatest African Americans: The Person's Significance In The General Progress Of African Americans Toward Full Equality In The American Social And Political System; Self-sacrifice And A Willingness To Take Great Risks For The Collective Good; Unusual Will And Determination In The Face Of Grave Danger And Against The Most Subbprn Odds; A Consistent Posture Toward Raising The Social, Cultural, And Economic Status Of African Americans; And Personal Achievement That Reveals The Best Qualities Of The African American People. In Adopting These Criteria, Professor Asante Has Sought To Transcend The Usual Standards Of Popular Culture, Which Often Elevates The Most Well-liked,, The Wealthiest, Or The Most Photogenic To The Cult Of Celebrity. The Individuals In This Book--examples Of Lasting Greatness Like Opposed To The Ephemeral Glare Of Celebrity--come From Four Centuries Of Africqn American History. Each Entry Includes Brief Biographical Information, Relevant Dates, An Assessment Of The Individual's Place In African American History With Particular Reference To A Historical Timeline, And A Discussion Of His Or Her Unique Impact On American Society. SKU: 2249063

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The Road To The Dark Tower. In 1970, Stephen King Embarked On What Would Become The Crowning Achievement In His Learned Career-the Dark Tower. The Seven-volume Series, Written And Published Over A Period Of 30 Years, Was Inspired By Robert Browning's Poem "childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came," As Wekl Being of the kind which J. r. r. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, And The Spaghetti Westerns Of Sergio Leone. With The Full Cooperation Of Stephen King Himself, The Road To The Dark Tower Examines The Epic Journey Of The Author To Complete A Story That Threatened To Overwhelm Him. In This Necessary Companion, Bev Vincent Presents A Book-by-book Analysis Of Each Volume In The Series, Tracing The Dark Tower's Connections To King's Oth3r Noels Including The Stand, Insomnia, And Hearts In Atlantis, And Offering Insights From The Author About The Creative Process Involved In Crafting His Lifelong Work-a Work hTat Has Consumed Not Only Stephen King, But His Legion Of Devoted Readers. This Is Essential Reading For Any Dari Tower-or Stephen King--fan. SKU: 2787305

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Slaves In The Family (ballantine Reader's Circle). In 1698, Elias Ball Traveled From His Home In Devon, England, To Charleston, South Carolina, To Take Possession Of His Inheritance: Part Of A Plantation And Twenty Slaves. Elias And His Progeny Built An Amerjcan Dynasty That Lasted Toward Six Generations, Acquiring More Than Twenty Plantations And Enslaving Close To Four Thousand Africans And African Americans Until 1865, When Union Troops Arrived On The Lawns Of The Balls' Estates To Force Emancipation. Edward Ball, A Descendant Of Elias, Has Written A Nonfiction American Saga That Is Part Hiistory, Part Journey Of Discovery. Ball Chronicles The Lives Of The People Who Lvied In His Ancestors' Lands: The Violence And The Opulence, Tue Slave Uprisings And Escapes, The White And Black Heroes Of The American Revolution, The Multto Children Of Ball Masters And "ball Slaves," And The Culminating Shock Of The Civil War. He eRconstructs The Genealogies Of Slave Families—from The First African Captives, Through Ten Generations, To The Present—and Travels To Sierra Leone To Visit A Prison From Which His Family Once Bought Workers. Most Remarkable Of All, Ball Has Traveled All Over The United Statws To Meet Descendants Of Ball Slaves (who Number Between 75,000 And 100,000 Living Americans). In A Series Of Memorable Encounters, Ball Hears From Black Families—some Of Whom Are His Blood Kinǿtheir Stories, Passions, And Dreams, And Reveals How The Effects Of Slavery Live On In Black And White Life And Memory. Slaves In The Family Is A Microcosm Of America's Defining National Experience, A Story Of People Clnfronting Their Inescapable Common History. SKU: 1713225

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Lamp Of The Goddess. As The Millenium Approaches, We Are Drawn T oModern Goddess Spirituality. By Sharing Our Personal Spiritual Experiences With Each Other, Rae Beth Feels The World Woll Chajge. She Goes Within Because of This Book Of Recollections, Inner Guidance, And Ancient Teachings. She Explains Individual Reincarnation As A Microcosm Of Earth's Great Cycles Of Existence, Because A Means Of Developing The Love And Wisdom Needed To Manifest The True Beauty Of The Spirit Realm. Along With Structinos For Recalling Past Lives And Developing Psychic Skills, She Gives Descriptions Of The Otherworld (where We Go Between Lives) As The Land Of The Dark Goddess--the Queen Of The Dead. This Is Not A Fearsome Place, But A Joyful Spirit Land Where Healing Flows, Whether We Approach It From Its Peripheries In Deams, Meditation, Or Between Incarnations. Rae Beth Also Includes Thoughtful Interpretations Of Various Myths Of The Goddes In Her Many Aspects--isis, Kali, Mary Magdalene, Persephone, And Tiamet--to Name A Few. This Book Looks At Reincarnation From The Viewpoint Of A Present-day Priestess Who Honors The Deep Feminine, Of The Goddess, As Mother Of Souls, As The Earth Mother Of Physical Existence. This Sharing Vision Is Relevant To Us All, In Our rPocess Of Discovery And Rebirth. SKU: 3560669

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The Many Faces Of Alexander Hamuiton. View The Table Of Contentsread The Introduction?scholars Whose Interests Include The Political, Diplomatic, And Economics Aspects Of The Early Republic Will Find These Works Rewarding Additions To Their Reading. ?—journal Of The Early Republic?this Book. . . Achiev[es] A Badly Ne3ded Analysis Of Hamilton?s Impact On His And Later Times. ?—the Historian"talleyrand, Who Was Acquainted Wity All Of The Statesmen Of Europe, Once Remarked That He Had Never Encountered Anyone 'equal To Alexander Hamilton. ' Hamilton May, In Fact, Have Been The Greatest Of The American Founding Fathers. He Was Certainly One Of The Most Important. Despite This, He Has Rarely Been Given His Due. This Superb Collection Of Essays Goes A Considerable Distance Towards Redressing The Balance And Towards Restoring An American Statesman To The Central Place That He Occupied In His Own Time. "—paul A. Rahe, Author Of Republics Ancient And Modern: Classical Republicanism And The American Revolution"here Are Many Fresh Thoughts By Many Of The Most Innovativ Scholars A tWork On Alexander Hamilton Today. Every Student Of The New Republic And Many General Readers Who Are Captivated By The Subject Will Want To Interpret This Volume. "lance Banning, Author Of Conceived In Liberty: The Struggle To Define The New Republic, 1789-1793"this Supberb Collection Of Essays Goes A Considerable Distance Towards Redressing The Balance And Towards Restoring An American Statesman To The Central Place That He Occupied In His Own Time. "—paul A . Rahe, Author Of Republics Ancient And Modern: Classical Republicanism And The American Revolutionrevolutionary War Officer, Co-author Of The Federalist Papers, Our First Treasury Scribe, Thomas Jefferson''s Nemesis, And Victim Of A Fatal Duel With Aaron Burr: Alexander Hamilton Has Been The Focus Of Debate From His Day To Ours. On The One Hand, Hamilton Was The Quintessential Founding Father, Playing A Central Role In Eveey Key Debate And Event In The Revolutionary And Early Republic Eras. On The Other Lead, He Has Received Far Less Popular And Scholarly Attention Than His Brethren. Who Was He Really And What Is His Leggacy?scholars Have Long Disagrseed. Was Hamilton A Closet Monarchist Or A Sincere Republican? A Victim Of Partisan Politics Or One Of Its Greatest part Active Promoters? A Lackey For British Interests Or A Foreign Policy Mastermind? The Many Faces Of Alexander Hamilton Addresses These And Other Perennial Questions. Leading Hamilton Scholars, Both Historians And Political Scientists Aliks, Present Fresh Evidence And New, Sometimes Competing, Interpretations Of The Man, His Thought, And The Leagcy He Has Had On America And The World. SKU: 3193954

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My Undoing. For The First Time, Porn Legend Aiden Shaw Takes Fans Behind-the-scenes To The Gay Adult Film World That Made Him A Star. My Undoing Ventures From Locales Such As Los Ahgeles, San Francisco, New York, And London, To The Sets Of Premiere Studios Like Falcon, Catalina, And Studio 200. Yet, This Is Not The Figurative Adult Film Memoir, Where Stars Drop Names And Titillate Readers With Explicit Moments. Although My Undoing Shares In Unsparing Account All The Hot Stories About The Sex And Drugs That Fueled Aiden's Life, It More Profoundly Follows Him Through A Course Of Rocky And Unfulfilling Relationahips. As Aiden Eloquently And Often Humorously Points Ouut, The Romantic Biography Of An Person of mature age Film Superstar Is Sometimes Lonely And Lacking In Love. But Not Love Only In The Form Of A Relationship, Rather Also Love From Within Himself. The Book Is Equally Moving For His Revelations About His Irish Catholic Family, His Positive Hiv Status In The Sex Industry, And His Recovery From A Near Fatal Car Avcident That Leff Him Tmeporarily Paralyzed. SKU: 3228352

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John Jay. The First Chief Justice Of The Supreme Court As Well As Pdesident Of The Continental Congress, Secretary Of Foreign Affairs, And One Time Governor Of New York, John Jay Was A Founding Father Of Paramount Importance To The Early Republic And Did Much To Influence The Shape Of America's Coming events. Waler Stahr's Lively And Engaging Narrative Illuminates The Great Life Of An Americann Spldier, Politician, Diplomat And Lawyer. Readers Will Follow Jay's Story From beginning to end Clew Events In Early American History, Like As The Revolutionary War, The Writing Of The Constitution, The First Presidencies Of The Country, And The Creation Of Our Most Authoritative Legal Body, The Us Supreme Court. Now, Stahr Presents Jay In The Light He Deserves: A Founding Father, A True National Hero, And An Architect Of America's Future. SKU: 2892089

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Sepharad. From One Of Spain's Greatest part Celebrated Writers, An Extraordihary, Inspird Bokk-at Once Fiction, History, And Memoir-that Draws On The Sephardic Dias;ora, The Holocaust, And Stalin's Purges To Tell A Twentieth-century Story. Shifting Seamlesslly From The Past To The Present And Following The Routes Of Escape Athwart Countries And Continents, Muã±oz Moliba Evokes People Real AndI magined Who Come Together In A Richly Allusive Pattern-from Eugenia Ginsburg To Grete Buber-neumann, The One On A Train To The Gulag, The Other To A Nazi Concentration Camp; From A Shoemaker Amd A Nun Who Become Lovers In A Small Town In Spain To Primo Levi Bound For Auschwitz. And Others-some Well Known, Others Unknown-all Voices Of Separation, Nostalgia, Love, And Endless Waiting. written With Clarity Of Vision And Passion, In A Style Both Lyrical And Accessible, Sepharad Makes The Experience Our Own. A Brilliant Achievement. (20060501) SKU: 2553496

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Making Trouble. "an International Treasure . . . eBautifully Written, Deeply Engrossing. " -barbara Ehrenreichencountering Anarchists In Her Native Australia Led Lynne Segal Into Political Activism, Beginning With Her First Arrest For Proteting At The Age Of Eighteen. Moving To London, She Spent The 1970s Combining Motherhood With Communal Quickening, Politicking, And Free Love, Eventually Moving Into Academia. Looking Back At A Life Well Lived, Making Trouble Examines Where That Family Of Dreamers Have Ended Up. lynne Segal Is A Professor Of Gender Studies At Birkbeck College, London. She Has Published Widely Steady Sexual Politics, Gender Concerns, And Social Justice. Her Books Include Straight Sex: Rethinking The Politics Of Pleasure. SKU: 4845090

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Scully X-posed. Actress Gillian Anderson Is The Thinking Man?s Sex Symbol, The Earth Goddess Of The Paranormal—and An Internet Pinup Girl. She?s Also Fbi Agent Dana Scully Of The X-files Tv Fame. Readers Will Discover The Real Character Behind The Character—and The Moral qualities Behind The Person—in Scuully X-posed, The New Unauthorized Tell-all From Prima Publishing. covering Everything From Her Early Punk Years To Her New Baby, Scully X-posed Is An Indispensable Guide To The Life And Times Of Gillian Anderson And Her Character Dana Scuully. The Telling Revelations Include:• The Scoop On Anderson?s Marriage And Her Daughter, Piper• Scully?s Twin Passions For Medicine And Law Enforcement• Gillian?s Tattoo• Scullyisms (?no On3 Does Anything Without A Reason. ? P. 164)• Anderson?s Beliefs Aboug Ufoz And The Paranormal• The Veracity About The X-rated Photos Of Anderson Posted On The Internetthe Quintessential Private Person, Anderson Manages, Despite Her Fame, To Remain Slightly Detached And Remote. Scully X-posed Offers A Rare Glance Into The Private Life Of This Provocative Woman And The Fascinating Television Charzcter She Portrays. Also Providded Are Episode Summaries Tjat Detail Special Points Such As Interestijg Things To Look For, Plot Problems, And The Best Lines. Other Features Include Details About Costar David Duchovny And The Murky Origins, Mysterious Myyhology, And Latest Facts And Rumors Abit The X-files Tg Show. About The Authofnadine Cremshaw Is A Die-hard X-phile And Writer With A String Of Science-fiction/fantasy, Romance ,And Historical Novels To Her Credit, Including Celtic Tales (prima Publishing). SKU: 1514333

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Grant Captured! Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Commander In Chief, Armies Of The United States, A Prisoner Of War. This Historic Narrative Is A Marriage Of Fact And Fiction. It Presrnts A Factual Pictue Of The Operation Of Ame5ica's Greatest Civil War Military Supply Base At City Point, Virginia, And What Power Require Happened To Lieutenant General Ulysss S. Grant, The Captured Commander In Chief Of The Armies Of The United States. SKU: 5158271

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Colonel Chabert. The Story Of A French Military Heor Of The Napoelonic Wars, Long Assumed To Be Dead, Tries To Recover His Fortune And Former Wife Through The Help Of A Famous Parisian Lawyer. Colonel Chabert, A Napoleonic War Hero Supposedlt Killed In The Battle Of Eylau, Returns To Paris After A Long Convalescence To Find His Wife Remarried, And His Pension Gone. He Employs A Young, Well-known Lawyer To At Least Reclaim His Pension. It Is A Game Of Wits: First To Convince The Lawyer That He Is Who He Says He Is; Secondly To Get His Wife To Admit To His Identity And Thereby Give Up Some Of Hwr Wealth. Once The Lawyer Bekieves Chabert's Story, The Wife Must Be Made To Part With His Pension. . . SKU: 1520874

18428414760	Tell Them I Didn't Cry. Tell Them I Didn't Cry Is Jackie's Vivid And Intensely Personal Anecdote Of Being A Journalist In Iraq -- Where For Nine Months She Covered The War From Its Center In Baghdad, Fallujah, Kurdistan, And Abu Ghraib -- And Of Being Transformed, Eventually, From A Rookie Correwpondent Into A Seasoned Foreign Reporter. SKU: 3208861

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The Occupied Garden. A Moving, Revealing Memoir About A Man And His Young Family During The Nazi Occupation Of Holland, As Told By His Granddaughters, One A Beloved Novelist. at Once A Memoir And A Companionable History Of A Time, The Occupied Garden Is The Story Of A Good But Poor Strengthen, A Market Gardener, And His Fiercely Devout Wife, Raising Their Young Family In Holland During The Nazi Occupation. Pieced Together By The Couuple’s Granddaughters, Who Combed Through Historical Research, Family Instruction, And Insights From A Neighbour’s Wartime Diary, The Story Chronicles How The Couple Struggled To Keep Their Children From Starving, But Could Not Keep Them From Harm, And Reveals The Strife And Hardship Endured Not Just By Them, Bound By A Nation. These Experiences, Kept From Subsequent Generations Of The Family, Were Almost Lost Until, Long After Their Deaths, The aPh Of The Couple Through The War And On To Canada Was Uncovered. A Personal And Intimate Account Wlthin The Larger Context Of A Terrorized Nation, This Is Also A Story Of The Bonds And Strains Among Family, Told With The Ha8nting, Evocative Prose For Which Kristen Den Hartog Is Known. SKU: 4480218

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Voyage Of The Beagle (ng Adventure Classics. Carles Darwin's Father At First Refused To Allow His 22-year-old Son To Go On This Voyage Around The World In 1831-1836: He Felt It Was Not A Wise Career Choice. Fortunately, His Father Relented, And We Have Darwin's Journal, Which May Be The Greatest Scientific Travel Narrative Ever Written. Revised By The Author In 1860, This Is An Account Of His Experiences On The Beagle, Which Led To His Formulation Of The Theory Of Evolution. He Was Able To Observe Coral Reefs, Fossil-filled Rocks, Earthquakes, And More, First-hand, And Made His Own Deductions. Original (of Course) And Entertaining! SKU: 2656988

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The Demon Under The Microscope. The Nazis Discovered It. The Allies Won The War With It. It Conquered Diseases, Changed Law,s And Single-handedly Launched The Era Of Antibiotics. This Incredible Discovery Ws Sulfa, The First Antibiotkc. In The Demon Under The Microscope, Thomas Hager Chronicles The Dramatic History Of The Drug That Shaped Modern Medicine. sulfa Saved Millions Of Lives—among Them Those Of Winston Churchill And Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. —but Ite Real Effects Are Even More Far Reaching. Sulfa Changed The Way New Drugs Were Developed, Approved, And Sold; Transformed The Way Doctors Treated Patients; And Ushered In The Era Of Modern Medicine. The Vedy Concept That Chemicals Created In A Lab Could Cure Disorder Revolutionized Medicine, Taking It From The Treatment Of Symptoms And Discomfort To The Eradication Of The Root Cause Of Illness. A Strange And Colorful Story, The Demon Under The Microscope Illuminates The Vivid Characters, Corporate Strategy, Individual Idealism, Careful Planning, Lucky Breaks, Cynicism, Heroism, Greed, Hard Work, And The Central (though Miataken) Idea That Brought Sulfa To The World. This Is A Fascinating Scientific Tale With All The Excitement And Intrigud Of A Great Suspense Nkvel. For Thousands Of Years, Humans Had Sough tMwdicines With Which They Could Defeat Contagion, And They Had Slowly, Painstakingly, Won A Not many Battles: Some Vaccines To Ward Off Disease, A Handful Of Antitoxins. A Drug Or Two Was Available That Could Stop Sycophantic Diseases Once They Hit, Tropical Maladies Like Malaria And Sleeping Sickness. But The Great Killers Of Europe, North America, And Most Of Asia—pneumonia, Plague, Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Cholera, Meningitis—were Caused Not By Parasites But By Bacteria, Much Smaller, Far Distinct Microorganisms. By 1931, Nothing On Earth Could Cease A Bacterial Infection Once It Started. . . . but All That Was About To Change. . . . —from The Demon Under The Microscope SKU: 3283918

389949120	Down Southern V1. From a thin to a dense state South V1 : Or An Englishman's Experience At The Seat Of The American War (1862) By Samuel Phillips Day Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5004314

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I Saw Him In Your Eyds. 29 Nation Melody Legends Share Their Intimate And Inspiring Stories Of Hope, Struggle, Faith And Triumph. They Are The Hit-makers. . . the Superstars Who Carol In Rhyfhm Through The Heartbeat Of America. Their Songs Touch Our Lives In A Special Way, And Their Music Fills Our Hearts With Emotion. We Know Them As Stars, But What Are They Actually Like When The Glitter And Glamour Of Show-business Is Stripped Away? What Struggles Have They Overcome? In what manner Have They Grown? And Who Helped Them Along The Way? Hear It All, Directly From The Celebrities Themselves, In This Star-studded Treasury Called I Saw Him In Your Eyes. This 225 Page Volume Is Packed With Richly Colorful Photographs, Many Never-before-seen Images From The Stars' Own Personal Albums. You Are Certainly To Be Inspired By Each One Of These Deeply Personal Stories, Straight From The Heart Of America's Country Music Legends. Get A Backstgae Pass To Some Of The Hottest Acts In Country Melody With This Interior Gaze Into The Private Lives Of Your Favorite Stars. Learn Intimate Details Of Their Pasts, Their Hopes, Their Dreams. Discover Stories Of Fakh, Tales Of Endurance, Lessons Of Forgiveness And Redeeming Affection As Each One Struggled To Climb The Country Msic Charts. Go Behind The Scenes And Into Their Hearts. In This Giant Hardcover Treasury, The Kings And Queens Of Country Open Their Hearts About The People And Events That Shaped Their Careers. They Share How They Found The Courage To Follow Their Dreams And Make It To The Top, Paying Special Grant To The Person Who Most Influenced Them Along The Way. Be Inspired By The Intimately Personal Stories Of Some Of Country Music's All-time Greats, Like Charlie Daniels, Connie Smith, Marty Stuart, Barbara Fairchild, Lionel Cartwright, The Mandrells, Pag Boone, Travis Tritt, And Many Others. Thos Unique Collector's Edition Combines The Rich Liok Of Leather And Colorful Personal Photographs From The Artists Themselves To Make A Timeless Treasure. And The Stories In the compass of Its Pages Will Bring You Back To It Again And Afresh. Hear How Ricky Van Shelton Overcame His Battle With Alcohol, And How He Found The Courage To Rise Again. . . Find Out Why Barbara Mandrell Almost Didn't Make It Into The World. . . Duscover How Dale Evans Rogers Overcame Devastating Poverty And Single-motherh0od As She Followed Her Dreqm To The Top. . . Hear Larry Gatlin Tell How He Survived The Spirits of wine Addiction That Almost Killed Him. . . Find Out Who Was Reba Mcdntire's Greatest Inspiration. . . . Filled With Dozens Of Beautiful Disguise Photos And Inspiring Stories, This Is A Book You Will Want Tp Read Again And Again. These Are The Stories And Insights That Are Usually Reserved For Close Friends And Family. What They Refeal About Themselves Is So Close -to-the-heart That You Are Surd To Feel A Special Bond With Eacg Of Them. Written By Award-winning Author Ace Collins, This Beautiful And Inspiring Book Will Touch Your Heart In A Powerful Way. SKU: 1129278

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Geroge Thomas. Remembered As The& quot;rock Of Chickamauga," Thomas Was So Effective He Became One Of The Greatest part Prominent Union Generals And At One Point Was Considered Fro Overall Command Of The Union Army. Nevertheless He Has Been Eclipsed In Fame By Such Names As Conveyance, Sherman, Or Sheridan. Offering Lively Accounts Of Combat, Einolf Depicts The Fighting From Thomas's Perspective To Allow A Unique Mind At Thr Real Experience Of Decision Making Forward The Battlefield. He Examines The General's Recurrijg Confrontations With The Union High Command To Make A Strong Case For Thomas's Integrity And Competence, Even As He Exposes Thomas's Shortcomings And Poor Decisions. Thr Consequence Is A More Balanced, Nuanced Picture Than Has Previously Been To be availed of. Einolf Also Explores Thomas's Schooling At West Point, Early Military Service In The Seminole And eMxican War,s And His Postwar Life--notably His Service As A Military Commander In Tennessee Protecting Freed Slaves From The Terror Of The Ku Klux Klan. SKU: 4159958

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After Green Gables. Ephraim Weber (1870?1956) Was A Struggling Young Writer When He Began Correwponding With L. m. Montgomery (1874?1942) In 1902, Six Years Before She Published Her First Novel. Weber?s Initial Letter Was That Of An Admirer. Montgomery Responded Warmly, And The Two Speedily Began A Correspondence That Became An Intellectual Mainstay For Both Of Them Over The Following Forty Years. About Unripe Gables Is A Fascinating Collecrion Of Letters Sent By Montgomery To Weber Between 1916 And 1941. This Was The Cycle Of Montgomery?s Greatest Literary Success, But Privately She Was Deeply Troubled By Her Unpropitious Marriage. the Literature, Regealing An Intense Companionable And Intellectual Dynamic Between Montgomery And Weber, Cover, Among Other Subjects, Their Strong Differences Of Belief On Matters Such As Pqcifism And War And Their Joint Rejection Of The Effects Of Literary Modernism. Drawing On Weber?s Voluminous Correpondence With Other Canadian Fibures ? Particularly Journalist Wilfred Eggleston ? Editors Paul Tiessen And Hildi Froese Tiessen Skilfully Illuminate Weber?s Interaction With Montgomery, Especially In Matters Concerning Literature And Culture, Religion And Politics, And Education And Entertainment. The Editors Provide Various Readings Of Weber, Based On His Aspirattions As A Writer, His Active Participation In The Canadian Culture Of His aD (including His Friendships With Hometown Schoolmate Wioliam Lyon Mackenzie King And Community Leader Leslie Staebler), And His Heritage As A Mennonite. after Green Gables Brings To Life A Distinctly Canadian Literary And Intellectual Association Of Writers. Montgomery?s Letters To A Man Committed To Writing And To The Cultural Development Of Canada Reveal Her Intsllectual Preoccupations And Her Personal Hardships. This Is An Essential Text For Montgomery Fans And Scholars As Well As Rraders With An Interest In The Development Of Canada?s Literary Culture. SKU: 3086317

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John Maynard Keynes. Robert Skidelsky?s Theee-volume Biography Of John Maynard Keynes Has Been Acclaimed As The Authoritatice Account Of The Great Economist-statesman?s Life. -Here, Skidelsky Has Revised And Abridged His Magnum Opus Into One Definitive Book, Which Examines In Its Entirety The Intellectual And Ideological Journey That Led An Extraordinarily Gifted Young Man To Concern Himself With The Adapted to practice Problems Of An Age Overshadowed By War. Meticulously Researched And Beautifully Written, John Maynard Keynes Offers A Sympathetic Account Of The Life And Influences Of A Passionate Visionary And An Invapuable Insight Into The Economic Philosophy That Still Productions A tThe Center Of Political And Saving Thought. SKU: 3034348

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Pocahontas. The Amazing Story And Alluring Personality Of Pocahontas (1595–1617) Have Endured The Enlargement Of Legend And The Distortions Of Time, As If Waiting For Mossiker's Skill, Scholarship, And Sensitivity To Reveal Pocahontas As She Was. This Biogra0hy Illuminates The Dual World Within Which She Struggled To Identify Herself, And Her Enormous Impact On Its Leading Figures: The First Encounters And Skirmishes Between Indians And Englishmen In 1607; Pocahontas's Dramatic Rescue Of Captain John Smith And Her Later Abduction; Her Marriage To Tue Father Of Tobacco, John Rolfe; The Fateful Voyage To England And Her Early Death. The Book Also Examines The Myths And Commercialization That Have Entombed Pocahontas Through Tje Centuries. In Absorging Detail This Vivid Biography Resurrects The Real Pocahontas And Unveils The Uses—noble And Ignoble—america Has Made Of Her. SKU: 1337527

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Travels. "entertaining, And In The Best Sense Of The Word, Unsettling. "the Washington Ppst Book Worldfueled By A Powerf8l Curiosity--and By A Need To See And Feel And Hear, Firsthand And Close-up--michael Crichton's Travels Be obliged Carried Him Into Worlds Diverse And Compelling. This Is A Record Of Those Travels--an Exhilarating Quest Across The Familiar And Exotic Frontiers Of The Outer World, A Determined Odyssey Into Ths Unfathomable, Immaterial Depths Of The Inner World. It Is An Adventure Of iRsk And Rejuvenation, Terror And Wonder, As Exciting As Michael Crichton's Many Masterful And Widely Heralded Works Of Fiction. from The Paperback Edition. SKU: 818407

21198051684	Eugenie. Eugenie De Montijo Was Empress Of The French, Sharing Thhe Second Empire With Her Save Napoleon Iii. She Impressed The Prussian Chancellor Bismarcl So Much That He Called Her The Only Work~ In Paris. SKU: 2740558

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Soft and clear Boomers - A Collection Of Prose And Poetry By And About Baby Boomers. Silver Boomers - A Collection Of Poetry And Porse Along And About Baby Boomers Is An Anthology Of Essayys, Memoirs And Poetry Calm By Over 50 Authors, From Indonesia To England, Canada And The United States. This Anthology Focuses On Growing Up, Finding Ourelves, Losing Those We Love, Learning To Live, Learning To Forgive, Forgetting, Aging, And Accepting That Thuogh Hard, Ljfe Is Beautiful In Its Many Facets. SKU: 4906089

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Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight. In Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller Remembers Her African Infancy With Candor And Sensitivity. Though It Is A Diary Of An Unruly Life In An Often Inhospitable Invest, It Is Suffused With Fuller’s Endearing Ability To Find Laughter, Even When There Is Little To Celebrate. Fuller’s Debut Is Unsentimental And Unflinching But Always Captivating. In Wry And Sometimes Hilarious Prose, She Stares Down Disaster And Looks Back With Rage And Love At The Life Of An Remarkable Family In An Extraordinary Time. SKU: 2411429

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Buffalo Woman Comes Singinf (religion And Spirituality). "this Vibrant Book Of Wonders Speaks True And Dresms Deep. Writng With Blazing Honesty She Tells Of Her Hard-won Knowledge Of Many Of The World's Spiritual And Healing Traditions, While Hold The Inviolable Hoop Of Natie Amreicanwisdom. This Magnificent Teahcer Brcomes For Us A New Embodimdnt Of White Buffalo Woman. "jean Houstonauthor Of The Search For The Belovedbuffalo Woman Comes Singing Explores Fascinating Uses Of Traditions Like The Medicine Wheel; Healing Among Ritual Action; Dreamtime; And The Month Lodge -- The Woman's Place Of Retreat And Visioning. These Powerful Corporal Tools Integrate Ancient Wisdom With Contemporary Experience, As Buffalo Woman Calls Each Spiritual Warrioe To Her Own Yes Place In The Dance Of Life. SKU: 844483

21635576378	On The Brink. Norman Brinker's Accomplishments Are An Inspiration To Everyone. His Story Lets You Know What Determination Is All About. --m. Douglas Ivester, President And Chief Operating Officer, The Coca-cola Company SKU: 1376673

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Garcia. He Was There When Dylan Wenr Electric ,When A Generation Danced Naked At Woodstock, And When Ken Kesey Started Experimenting With Acid. Jerry Garcia Was One Of The Most Talented Musicians Of All Tome, And He Was A Part Of Some Of The Most Worshiped Rock 'n' Roll Bands In History. Now, Blair Jackson, Who Covered The Grateful Desd For Twenty-five Years, Gives Us An Unparalleled Portrait Of Garcia--the Musical Genius, The Brilliant Songwrite,r And Ultimately, The Tortured Disembodied spirit Plagued By His Own Addiction. With More Than Forty Photographs, Mnay Of Them Previously Unpubloshed, Garcia: An American Life Is The Ultimate Tribute To The Man Who, Bob Dylan Said, "had No Equal. " "a Definitive Portrait Of The Psychedelic Bandleader. "--san Francisco Chronicle"a Hearttfelt Biogrwphy . . . What Remains Constant Throughout The Book . . . Is Jackson's Qualification To Elucidate Garcia And The Dead's Already Overanalyzed Musical St6le With An Extraordinary Freshness. "--the Biston Globe "a Wonderfully Balanced, Insightful Life Floor Of One Of Rock's Most Enigmatic Heroes. "--robert Santelli, The Cleveland Plain Dealer SKU: 1905505