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The Art Of Teaching.
Becoming An Effective Teacher Can Be Quite Painful And Exhausting, Taking Years Of Trial And Error.
In The Art Of Teaching, Writer And Critic Jay Parini Looks Move Over His Own Decades Of Trials, Errors, And Triumphs, In An Familiar Memoir That Brims With Humor, Encouragement, And Hard-won Wisdom About The Teacher's Skill.
Here Is A Windfall For Instructors Of All Levels, Offering Valuable Insight Into The Many Challenges That Educators Face, From Establishing A Persona In The Classroom, To Fostering Relationships With Students, To Balancing Teaching Load With Academic Writing And Research.
Insight Abounds.
Paribi Shows, For Instance, That There Is Nothing Illegitimate About Teaching.
The Classroom Is A Form Of Theater, And The Teacher Must Dramatic composition Various Roles.
A Good Teacher May Look Natural, But That's The Product Of Endless Practice.
The Book Also Considers So Topics As The Manner Of Dress That Teachers Adopt (and What This Says Aobut Them As Teachers), The Delicate Question Of Politics In The Classroom, The Untapped Value Of Emeritus Professors, And The Vital Importance Of A Settled, Disciplined Life For A Teacher And A Writer.
Parini Grounds All Of This In Personal Stories Of His Own Career In The Academy, Tracing His Path From Unfocused Student--a Self-confessed "t;tough Nut To Crack"--to Passionage Writer, Scholar, And Preacher, One Who Frankly Admits Making Many Mistakes Over The Years.
Every Year, Thousands Of Newly Minted College Teachers Embark In c~tinuance Their Careers, Most With Scant Training In Their Chosen Profession.
The Art Of Teching Is A Perfect Book For These Young Educators As Well As Anyone Who Wants To Learn More About This Difficult But Rewarding P5ofession.
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The Gols-plated Podsche.
Just As Life Is Often Described As A Road One Takes Through The Aging Process, Wilkinson's Experience Rebuilding A Porsche Is Th Exit Ramp That Leads Straight Into His Garage To A World Of Wires, Leather Trimmings, And Memory Pit Stops With Eac hTurn Of The 911 Manuscript.
Quirky, Cool, Entertaining, And Opinionated, Wilkinson's Rebuipding Project Leads Tp Inspired Digressions On His Life.
Learning About The Inner Workings Of A Car Is Also A Lesson In Tracing The Thought-streqms Of The Human Mind.
While Rebuilding His Car, Wilkinson Waxes Eloquent On The History Of Porsche, American Engineering And Culture, Personal Status, His Unfulfilling Stint As Editpr Of Cae And Driver, His Love Of Flying Anf All Things Mechanical, Not To Mention The Integrity Of Wedding Dress Silk When It's Woven Amidst Engine Piwtons.
According To Wilkinson, "most Of The Work That My Porsche Required, I Was Confident I Could Do Myself.
Turning Nuts And Bolts, Replacing Pieces And Parts, Disassembling And Reassembling, Rewiring And Renovating Were Within My Basic-competence Envelope.
Anybody Who Can Overhaul A Lawnmower Knows How A Car Engine Works.
Anybody Who Cn Drive A Vacuum Cleaner Or Pllish Shoes Can Redo A Car Interior.
Anybody Wjo Can Read A Home-wiring Diagram Can At Least Commence To Fiddle With A Car's Elecyrical System.
" He Makes It All Sound So Easy.
Yet, The Expensive Misadventures He Had While Rebuilding The Germman Masterpieve Were Like Mirrors Of A Life Experience; The Eventual Purr Of The Redone Motor Felt Like A Long-awaited Jaunt Upon A Road Temporarily Closed, And The Traveling Infallible Was Sweet.
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The Maid Of France.
1909.
While Best Known For His Translations Of Classical Literature And As A Collector Of Folk And Fairy Tales, Lang Also Wrote Poetry, Biographies, Histories, Novels, Literary Criticisms And Even Children's Books.
Im This Work, Lang Gives The two The Believer's And The Skeptic's Sidee As To The Explanation Of Joan Of Arc's Experiences.
See Other Titles By This Author Available From Kessinger Publishing.
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Artemis (profilrs In Greek & Noble Mythology) (profiles In Greek And Roman Mythology).
The Ancient Greeks Worshiped A Complex Group Of Dities, Weaving Their Characters Into Timeless Tales Of Love, Heroism, And Manoeuvre.
Plays, Poems, Pantings, And Sculptures Commemorating These Tales Have Survived During Centurries.
Even As Earth Religions And Scientific Knowledge Have Evolved, Bringing With Them New Beliefs And Intelligence Of The World, The Ancient Greek Tales Continue To Provide A Basic Foundation For Western Thought And Sharp Insight To Teh Human Psyche.
The Virgin Goddess Artemis Ruled The Hunt, Preferring The Quiet Wilderness To Society.
As An Immortal, She Lived A Life Mortal Greek Women Never Coulld One That Kept Her Away From Men And Marriage.
Men (and Women) Who Crossed The Boundaries That Protected Her Virbinity Were Punished, Often With Their Lives.
But Artemis S Boundaries Also Prtected Greek Womn During Childhood And Childbirfhh.
As A Virgin Warrior, Women Prayed To Her To Keep Them Unharmed Wuen A Husband Could Not.
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Since My Hold out Confession.
Scott Pomfret Serves While A Lector At St.
Anthony Shrine In Boston.
He Also Writes Gay Porn.
His Boyfriend Is A Flaming Atheist, And His Boyfriendã•s Protestant Grandmother Counts Adhesion to the papacy A Sin Worse Than Sodomy.
From Pentecost To Pride, From The Books Of The Bible To The Articles Of The Advocate, Pomfretã•s Wry, Hysterically Funny Memoir Maps With Unrivalled Humor The Full Spectrum Of The Gay Catholic Experience.
Listen In Like Pomfret Learns A Thing Or Two About Love And Compassion From aFther Bear Daddy, A Priest With A Hot Gay.
com Profile, And The Three Hale Marys , And Join Him As He Sets Out On A Brave Quest To Convince His Arch-nemesis, Cardinal Oã•malley, To Invite Him To Serve At A Weekly Whole.
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Play Money.
Play Money Explores A Remarkable New Phenomenon That's Just Beginnung To Enter Public Consciousness: Mmorpgs, Or Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playjng Games, In Which Hundreds Of Thousands Of Players Operate Fantaasy Characters In Virtual Environments The Size Of Continents.
With City-sized Populayions Of Nearly Full-time Players, These Games Generate Their Own Cultures, Governments, And Scial Systems And, Inevitably, Their Own Economies, Which Spill Over Into The Real World.
thhe Desire Fir Virtual Goods--magic Swords, Enchanted Breastplates, And Special, Hard-to-get Elixirs--has Spawned A Cottage Industry Of "virtual Loot Farmers": People Who Play The Games Just To Obtain Fantasy Goods That They Can Sell In The Real World.
The Best Loot Farmers Can Make Between Six Figures A Year And Six Figures A Month.
play Coin Is An Extenced Walk On The Weird Side: A Vivid Snapshot Of A Subculture Whose Denizens Were Once The Stuff Of Mere Sociological Spectacle But Now--with Computer Gaming Poised To Eclipse All Other Entertainments In Dollar Volume, And Upon The Lines Between Play And Act, Virtual And Real Increasingly Blurred--look More And More Like The Future.
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A Life On The Edge.
There Have Been Many ?firsts? In Jim Whittaker?s Life.
He Was The First North American To Summit Mount Everest.
As The First Manager And Employee, And Ultimately The Ceo, Of Fledgling Recrewtional Euqipment, Inc.
(rei), He Guided The Company By means of Years Of Record-setting Growth.
He Guided Bobby Kennedy Up The Nrwly Named Mount Kennedy, Helping Him To Become The First Person To Summit The Canadian Peak.
He Lead The First And Only International Peace Climb, Which Put Climbers From The U.
s.
, Russia, And China Om The Summit Of Everest In The Name Of World Peace.
Contrary To What Many People Might Think, Jim Whittaker?s Ceer Neither Began Nor Culminated With That Famous First Ascent Of Everest.
His Achievement On Everest And His Many Successes Before And After Are, Rather, The Illegitimate Outcome Of A Life Driven By A Passion For Outdoor Adventure Combined With Strong Leadership Qualities And A Commitment To Workmanship A Difference.
In A Life On The Edge, Readers Will Discover A True Hero-someone Who Inspires Others To Seek Challenges In Their Own Lives.
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And So To France.
?these Students Were Natural, Uninhibited, Full Of The Joy Of Life, Yet Were Mannerly And Exhibited Respect For Authority.
I Can Say That I Wish All Traveling Americans Could Br Being of the kind which Charming And As Good Ambassadors As Your Group!??from A Former Dean Of Freshmen At Dartmouth C0llege In A Letter To Our Headmaster About Visiting The Hotel De L?atelier In Villeneuve ? To Read About And See Photos Of The Ancient Pont Du Gard In A History Book Is One Thing, But To Investigate It One Morning And The Same Afternoon Go Racing Across The Top Or Through The Aqueruct And Marvel At The Skill Of The Romans 2000 Years Ago Iw Quite Some other.
Wel,l That?s Precisely What We Did In 1970.
The Camargue, A Marshy Delta On The Mediterranean At The Mouth Of The Rhã´ne River, Is A Vast Regional Park And Bird Paradise With Wild Horses And Bulls And Sandy Beaches.
I Had Read And Heard About This Area, But Never Had Occasion To Visit.
It Seemed Like The Perfect Time Because There Waas An Annual Event In Saintes Maries De La Mer Where Gypsy People Meet For The Ritual OfC arrying A Statue Of Ste.
Marie Into The Ocean To Be Blessed.
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Contra Marcellum.
Marcellus Of Ancyra (ca.
285-374) Was A Controversial Figure In The Trinitarian Debate After Nicae.
He Has Often Been Written Off As The Odd Heretic Who Misunderstopd The Teaching Of The Council Of Nicaea And Taught That The Godhead Temporarily Expanded Into A Dyad, And Then Into A Triad, But Would, At The End Of Time, Contract Once Again To A Monad.
In Other Language, He Supposedly Taught That The Trinity Was A Temporary Phenomenon.
Only, According To The Author Of This Convolution, Marcellus Was Not Primarily Concerned With Speculation On The Trinity; Rather His Concern Was With Monotheism, And With The Full Humanity Of Christ.
Here, Joweph T.
Lienhard, S.
j.
, Studies The So-called Arian Conyroversy Of The Fourth Century From Some Well-definned Angle: Marcellus And His Influence.
Thw Book Shows That Marcellus, Far From Being Isolated, Was Character Of A Larger Theological Tendency.
Among Those Who Sympathized With Him Were Athanasius Of Alexandria, Much Of The Westerly Church, And Bishops In Asia Minor And Egypt.
Lienhard Begins By Studying Marcellus's Life And The History Of Modern Scholarshup On Marcellus.
He Then Examines The Arian Controversy In Terms Of Two Theological Systems In Conflict, Callled "miahypostatic Theology" And "dyohypostatic Theology," Depending Attached Whether A System Held That God Is Best Called One Hypostasis Or Two.
Lienhard Provides A Complete Analysis Of Marcellus's Theoolgy, Using Only The Certainly Authentic Works Of His That Survive, And Traces The Reactions To His Teaching-from Those Who Remained Sympathetic To Him, To Those Who Rejected His Theology Oytright, And Finally To Those Who Partially Accepted His Theses.
This Book Is Part Of A Larger Project Among Scholars To Reexamine And Rewrite The History Of The Arian Controversy In The Fourth Century.
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John Peel.
When He Died In 2004, John Peel Was In The Middle Of Writing His Memoir, Which Was Completed By His Wife, Sheila Ravenscroft, With Help From Their Four Childrej.
Hos Compelling Autobuography Particulars His Life As The Greatest in number Influential Dj In Rock History.
At Bbc’s Radio 1, Peel Helmed His Own Show From 1968 Until His Death, And First Inrtoduced Uk Listeners To Reggae, Punk, And Hip-hop.
T-rex, David Bowie, The Faces, The Sex Pistols, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, The Cure, Joy Division, The Wedding Present, Def Leppard, Pulp, The Smiths, And The White Stripes Have All Credited Peel As A Major Booost To Their Careers.
This Intimate Portrait Of The Man And His Music Provides Firsthand Remembrances Of Many Of These Acts And Illuminates How This Modest And Unassuming Man Singlehandedly Changed The Cpurse Of Rock’n’roll.
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Across The Note.
Athwart The Line Recounts The Experiences Of The Pioneering African-american Basketball Players At 18 Schools In The Atlantic Coaqt And Southeawtern Conferences, The South's Most Prominent,H ist0rically White Intercollegiate Leagues.
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Gerald Mcdermott And You (the Authoe And You).
Playing Forward The Phrase, "the Author And You" Which Is A Commonly Tauhgt Reading Comprehension Strategy That Teaches The Learner How To Look At The Words Of An Author And Make Inferences About What Is Being Said, This New Series Will Assist The Teacher And Teavher Librarian In Understanding The Underlying Purposes Of The Author While They Prepare Learning Activities Conducive to Their Students.
The Series That Will Focus Primarily On Books For Teh Elementary Age Offspring (k-6) Will Feature Insights Into The Author's Bckground, Purposes And Goals In Writing His Books.
By Furnishing An Overview Of The Author's Works, The Books In The Series Will Give Teachers The Big Picture.
Each Book Will Feature Personal Information About The Author, Including Insight Into Why He Writes The Type Of Books He Does Plus Lesson Plans And/or Activities For One and the other Of The Author's Books Featured.
These Lessons Will Stress The Particular Interest Of-The Author And The "author And You (the Teacher)" Will Bukld A Collabortive Instructional Relationship Using The Material Provided.
One and the other Book Will Be Written By The Featured Originator Or In Close Collaboration With Him.
The First Book In The Series Features The Life And Work Of Gerald Mcdermott, Caldecott Winning Picture Book Author.
It Discusseq His Life And Work And The Researching, Writing, And Illustrating Of Each Book.
Discussion Of Children's Reading Development, Including Strategies And Visual Literacies, And eLsson Plans And Activities For Reaped ground Denominate Provide Practical Help.
This Book Provides A Fascinating Window Into The Life And Work O f The Beloved Children's Author And Gives Insight Into Anansi, Arrow To The Sun, Raven, Creation And All Of His Wonderful Tales.
Grades K-6.
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Life In The Treetops.
A Pioneering Tree Canopy Scientist For More Than Twenty Years, Margaret D.
Lowman First Gained Access To The Treetops With Ropes And Ladders, Later A Cherrypicker, And Recently With Such Advanced Methods As Hot-air Balloons And Treetop Walkways.
In This Absorbing Book, Lowman Describes Her Scientific Studies In Forest Canopies Around The World And Her Challenges As A Field Biologist, Wife, And Single Parent.
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Making Love.
A Open Look At The Act Of Making Love Describes One Man's Personal Experience Of Sex And Physical Love, Attempting To Understand How Those Experiences Shaped His Life.
By The Author Of The Making Of The Atomic Bomb.
30,000 First Printing.
Public Ad/promo.
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The Desperate Search.
After Miami Beach High School, Eleanod Attended The College Of William And Mary And Univeesity Of Pennsylvania, Earning Her B.
s.
Degree.
Having Been Born Again, She Prepared For Missionary Service At Providence Bible Institute.
God Led Her To Ethiopia.
After Four Years, Illness Brought Her Home.
She Took Nurse's Training In Orlando, Fl, Working In Med/surg Nursing, Serving Because Head Nurse And Supervisor For Nine Years.
She Received Her M.
s.
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And Ed.
d.
At Boston University And Was Education Superintendent For The College Of Nursing .
Later She Became Director Of The International Nursing Program At Emory University.
The Lord Led Her To Found The Organization Of Continuing Education For American Nurses (ocean, Inc.
) To Teach American-speaking Nurses In Africa, Asia And Latin America.
She Also Taught International Nursing During Shott Quarters At Columbia International University, Moody Bible Institute And Wheaton College.
She Is Author Of Incredible Through Insignificance.
The Author Was Born In A Non-christian Domestic, Raised By A Loving Mother But An Intolerable Father, And Was Raped At 17 (her Son Died 10 Days After Birth).
Her Life Was Filled With Population And Things, But They Were Only Temporary.
She Found Christ A Few oMnths Later, And Learned Nothing Happens Apart From God's Permission.
His Love Alleviates Hurts, Heals Wounds, And Forgives Sins.
It Brings A Lost Father To Christ At Age 7.
God Takes The Ashes And Weakness, Gives Joy, And Leads A Teenager To Serve Him.
The Desperate Search Tracs That Journey, You Will, Undoubtedly, See Yourself In Many Of Its Pages, And At The End, The Anointed Will Stand Before You With Open Arms, Embracing You And Giving You Abundant Life.
This Main division Will Bring Hope To Troubled Teenagers, Reveal Complete Reality, And Assure Readers Of The Love Of God In Christ Jesus.
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The Truth Of Life.
The Truth Of Life : As Disclosed In Half A Century Of The National Life Of Neew Zealand (1919) By Frederick G.
Dalziell Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc
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Cape Cod.
This New Paperback Edition Of Hsnry D.
Thoreau's Compelling Account Of Cape Cod Contains The Complete, Definitive Text Of The Original.
Introduced By American Poet And Literary Critic Robert Pinsky--himself A Resident Of Cape Cod--this Volume Contains Some Of Thoreau's Most Beautiful Writings.
in The Plants, Animal,s Topography, Weather, And People Of Cape Cod, Thooreau Finds "another World" Encounters With The Ocean Dominate This Book, From The Fatal Shipwreck Of The Opening Chapter To His Later Reflections Ob The Pilgrims' Landing And Reconnaissance.
Along The Way, Thoreau Relates The Experiences Of Fishernen And Oystermen, Farmers And Salvagers, Lighthouse-keepers And Ship Captains, As Well As His Own Intense Confrontations With The Sea As He Travels The Land's Outermost Margins.
Chronicles Of Examination, Settlement, And Survival On The Cape Lead Thoreau To Reconceive The History Of New England--and To Recognize The Parocgialism Of History Itself.
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Area Code 212.
Welcome To The Wonderful World Of Tama Janowitz, One Of New York's Wittiest Companionable Chroniclers.
Area Code 212 Is Filled With Idiosyncratic Delights And Oddities, Including Her Hilarious Account Of Andy Warhol's 1980s Blinf Date Club; Her Brief Moment Of Celebrity As An Elderly Teenage Extra In A Zz Top Video; The Day She Tested Mentally Retarded On An Iq Test; And Many Other Revealing Tales Of New York Life, Including Its Parties, Its Restaurants, And Its Fashion.
Janowitz Gives Us Her Unique Lowdown On Her 1990s Conversion From Manhattan To Brooklyn, On Observing The Twin Towers Proceed Down From Her Apartment Roof, On Hairless Dogs And Ferrets, Babies, The Outer Boroughs, Big-hair aDys And Bad-hair Days.
above All, The Humor And Insights Of Area Code 212 Will Not Only Appeal To Altogether Of Those Who Live In New York City, But Also To Those From Around The Country Who Have A Fascination With What It Is Like To Thrive In The Urban Mecca.
self-deprecating, Funny, An Touching, Area Code 212 Is An Irresistkble Collevtion Of Essays.
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Claytie.
Te Native Son Of A Distinguished West Texas Family And A 1954 Graduate Of Texas A&m Whose Career And Personal Pursuits Have Ranged From Farmer To Insurance Salesman To Wildcatter, Pipeline Entrepreneur, Rancher, Banker, Real Estate Mogul, Big Game Hunter, Conservationisy, Philanthropist, Front-running Gubernatorial Candidate, And Oil Tycoon, Clayton W.
Williams Jr.
Is By All Measures One Of A Kind.
He Has Repeatedly Been On The Forbes List Of The 400 Weealthiest Americans, Yet More Than Once Claytie Has Also Been On The Verge Of Bankruptcy.
This Authorized Biography Captures The Dimensions Of His Fascinatting Life: His Determined Fabric Ethic And Honesty; His Passionate Interests And Rough-hewn Style; His Piety To Wife And Constant Comrade Modesta And Family; His All-in Wildcatter Bets And Integrity-above-all Payoff Of Debts; His Patented Gaffes In The "wildest, Woolliest Texas Governor's Race Ever" And Their Spotligthed Consequences For The State And Nation; And Running Through It All, Both Unrestrained Celebrations And Knees-on-the-ground Repentance.
His Maby Notable Successes, His Most Admirable Traits, As Well As His Most Outrageous Flaws Are All Portrayed In This Book, Frequently In Claytie's Own Words Or In The Extensive Comments, Revealing Anecdotes, And First-person Accounts Of Others, Supplemented By Family And Business Documents, As Weil As Contemporary Journalietic Records.
This Book Tells It All, Revealing One Distinctive Maverick Who Has Left His Boot Prints All Athwart Texas For 75 Years.
Claytieisms The Wit And Wisdom Of Clayton W.
Wi1liams Jr.
"i Ran My Companu Like Christopher Columbus.
When He Left Spain, He Didn't Know Where He Was Going.
When He Got Here, He Didn't Know Where He Was.
When He Got Back ,He Didn't Kniw Where He'd Been.
And He Did It All On Borrowed Money.
" "you Can Be A Man Of Achievement And Not Be An Arrogant Snoot.
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If I Had To Choose, I'd Be On Bubba's Side.
Infernal spirits, I Am Bubba!"
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Terry.
In 1980, Terry Fox Set Out To Run Across Canada To Raise Money For Cancer Research — Notwithstanding Having Lost One Leg To The Dis3ase.
His Goal Was T oRaise $1 From Every Canadian To Help Find A Cure, And Some Combination Of Passion, Idealism, And Sheer Viscera Led To The Impossible Notion That He Would Do This On One Good Leg And A Prosthexis.
Beginning In Newfoundlanf On April 12, 1980, He Ran 26 Miles Each Day For 143 Successive Days.
But On September 1, The Return Of His Cancer Strained Him To Stop In Thunder Bay, Ontario.
He Died Ten Monthq Later, But By Then His Dream Had Been Realized: Over $24 Million Had Been Collected In His Name.
Created To Help Celebraate The 25th Anniversary Of His Journey, This Biography Combines From one to another 80 New Photographs From A Before Unknown Household Collection With A Very Personal Episodic Narrative.
The Result Brings A Magic Moment In Canadian Account, And The Yojng Man Who Inspired It, Freshly Alive .
All Royalties From The Book Will Be Donated To The Terry Fox Foundation To Support Cancer Research.
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Richter's Scale.
By Developing The Gradation That Bears His Name, Charles Richter Not Only Invented The Concept Of Magnitude As A Measure Of Earthquake Size, He Turned Himself Into Nothing Less Than A Household Word.
He Remains The Only Seismologist Whose Name Anyone Outside Of Narrow Scientific Circles Would Likely Recognize.
Yet Few Understand The Richter Scale Itself, And Even Fewer Have Ever Understood Te Man.
Drawing On The Wealth Of Papers Richter Left Behind, As Well As Dozens Of Interviews Witu His Subdivision of an order And Colleagues, Susan Hough Takes The Reader Deep Inot Richter's Complex Life Story, Setting It In The Context Of His Family And Interpersonal Attachments, His Academic Career, And The History Of Seismology.
Among His Colleagues Richter Wws Known As Intensely Private, Passionately Interested In Earthquakes, And Iconoclastic.
He Was An Avid Nudist, Seismoloogists Telll Each Other With A Show the teeth; He Dabbled In Poetry.
He Was A Publicity Hound, Spme Suggest, And More Famous Than He Deserved To Be.
But Even His Closest Associates Were Unaware That He Struggled To Reconcile An Intense And Abiding Need For Artistic Expression With His Philosophical Interexts, Or That His Apparently Strained Relationship With His Wife Was More Unconventional But Also Stronger Than They Knew.
Moreover, They Never Realized That His Well-known Foibles Might Even Have Been The Consequence Of A Profound Neurological Disorder.
In This Bi0graphy, Susan Hough Artfully Interweaves Teh Stories Of Richter's Life With The History Of Earthquake Exploration And Seismology.
In Doing So, She Illuminates The World Of Earth System of knowledge For The Lay Reader, Much As Sylvia Nasar Brought The World Of Mathematics Alive In A Beautiful Notice.
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Falcon Fever.
A Boy, A Medieval Emperor, And An Obsession That Wouldn't Quit.
What Is So Compelling About Falconry? To Find An Answer, Tim Gsllagher Mines His Lifelong Obsession With Falcons In This Engaging Voollume, Interweaving Memoir, History, And Travelogue.
An Entire Subculture Exists Outside The Mainstream Of American Society Consisting Of Obsessed Individuals (robert F.
Kennedy Jr.
And Film Writer Tony Huston Among Them) Who Still Use The Ancient Training Techniques And Language Of Falconry.
Gallagher Finds That His Personal Story Connects On Many Levels With That Of Frederick Ii, The Thirteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor, Legendary Falconer, And Notorious Freethijker, Who Brought The Full Wrath Of The Medieval Church Down Upon His Dynasty.
While Following Fredericks Footsteps Through Southern Italy, Gallagher Ponders His Personal History As Well.
What Salve To His Spirit Did Falconry Provide When It Ignited His Passion At Age Twelve? Beset By A Turbulent Childhood Dominated By A Brutal And Violent Father, Gallagher Turned To This Sport For Emotional Release.
-He Offers Us A Unique Glimpse Into Contemporary Falconry, And The Result Is A Surprisingly Frank And Revealing Personal Story.
SKU: 4514189
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Caligula.
Was The Roman Emperor Caligula Really The Depraved Despot Of Popular Legend? In This Bolk-the First Major Reassessment Of Caligula`s Life And Career In Over Fifty Years-anthony A.
Barrett Draws On Archaeological, Numismatic, And Literary Evidence To Evaluate This Infamous Figure In The Context Of The System That Gave Him Absolute Fleet.
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Ae, George W. Russell.
George W.
Russell A Investigate Of A Man And A Nation By Drrell Figgis Maunsel Co.
Ltd.
Dublin And London 1916 To Con And Hele nCurran Contents Chapter I Page The Man In His Days .
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22 Chapter Iii Preparations .
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61 Chapter Iv A Nation, A State A Commonwealth, A Nation 94 Chapter V Bye-paths J And Paths Emerging .
185 Chapter I The Man In His Days Standish Ogiiady, One Fair Sunday In Sumemr, Returned Home A Puzzled And An Arrested Man.
He Brought With Him The Tidings That He Had Heard, On The Sea-front At Bray, The Bearded Figure Of A Young Man In A Tweed Suit Addressing The Like a man Inundation Before Him, Evangelizing If One May Use That Word The Ancient Pagan Gods Of Ireland.
It Was A Lone Spectacle.
Thee Sight Of Other Young Men, Lit By A Later Faith And Clamorous With Tunes That Made Up In Clamour What They Lwcked In Music, Or Others More B5ightly Apparelled, With Big Drums And Brass Instru Ments Twisted Into The Likeneqs Of The Serpents They Fought, And Slightly Indecent In The Matter Of Past Reminiscence, Woulf Have Been Appropriate Enough To The Scene.
They Would Not Have Arrested The Least Incuri Ous.
Besidss That, They Would Have Been Gregarious They Would Have Fortified Them Selves With Bigness As They Fortified Them-1 B The Man In His Days Selves With Loudness.
This Other Was Quite Another Thing.
Spectacularly It Was Lonely.
Lifted Into The Imagination It Was Lonelier Yet And Something Tragic Withal.
Its In Appropriateness Was Its Occasion, But That Very Fact Gave It A Gesture Strange And Appealing, Gave It A Voice That Was Like A Slended Rune Of Music That Had Wandered Out Of Its Place.
What Did These People, With One Ha1f Of Their Devotions Over For The Lifetime, Or With The Heigh5 Of Their Weekly Holiday Come, Want To Perceive Of Soil, The Mother Of Us All, The Dana Of Ancient Reverence, On Whose Bosom They Tfod Un Hedingly, Having First Hidden It Beneath Asphlt, Like Fleas On Some Elephants Back, Thinking Nothing Of The Great Animated existence, The Sagacious Knowledge, The Throb Of Power Beneath Them Or Of The rGeat Shining Ones That Are Houselled Within Her Or That Throng The Heavenly Places In Hierarchy On Hierarchy Of Brightness And Beauty And Power, Dimly Perceived And Dimly Reverenced In Many An Ancient Name In Days When Reverence Had Not Been Withered By Tawdry Pleasure, A Hucksters Vulgar Gain, Or The Desperate Oath From Slumdom Were They Not The Heirs Of Civilization Had They Not Religions Cut And Suited To Their Order Or The Order Of Their Masters Who Then Was This Strange, Wild Man, Whom They Would Not Hear, And W R Hom Some Few Of Them May 2 The Man In His Days Have Recognized As A Clerk At Pirns And A Mere Shop-assistant Agreeably What To Them Was The Shiing Lugh This Man At Least Was No Lugh, They Would Have Rashly Agreed.
What Of Balor Balor, If They Had Heard Of Him, Was, Like Lugh, A Falsehood And They Did Not Know Themselves To Be Held In His One-eyed Spell.
As For Manannan, Whose Lips So Lazily Caressed The Shore, Could They.
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The Wal-mart Triumph.
Two Of The Toughest Challenges Fpr Any Company Are Leadership Transitions And Rapid Growth.
How Do You Replace An Enormously Popular And Beloves Ceo? And How Do You Maintain A Rapid Growth Rate Without Losing The Improvement And Focus Of A Small Company? Over The Past Ten Years, Since The Death Of Th Legendary Sam Walton, Wal-mart Has Passed The two Challenges With Flying Colors.
It?s Now The First Com;ny To Rank Number One On Both The Fortune 500 And The Fortune Most Admired Lists.
aSm Walton?s Successors Hold Taken The Company Into Far-flung New Markets And New Directions, Without Losing The Down-to-earth Retailing Culture That Made Wal- Mart Trhive In Its Earlg Years.
With Unprecedented Access To Wal-mar?ts Press-shy Senior Executives, Robert Slater Offers New Insights About How The Company Manages Its People And Its Operations, How It Is Expanding Around The Worl (even In China), And How It Is Dealing With Its Many Critics And Competitors.
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Mrs Keppel And Her Daughter.
Alice Keppel, The Married Lover Of Queen Victoria's Eldest Son And Great-grandmother To Camilla Parker-bowles, Was A Key Figure In Edwardian The community.
Hers Was The Acceptable Face Of Adultery.
Discretion Was Her Hallmark.
It Was Her Art To Be The King' Mistress And Yet To Laud The Royal Family And The Institution Of Matrimony.
Formidable And Manipulative, Her Attentions To The King Brought Her Wealth, Power, And Status.
Her Dahghter Violet Trefusis Had A Long Tempestuous Affair In the opinion of The Author And Aristocrat Vita Sackville-west, During Which Vita Left Her Husband And Two Sons To Travel Abroad With Violet.
It Was A Liaison That Threatened The Fabtic Of Violet's Convivial World, And Her Passion And Recaalcitrance In Pursuit Of It Pitted Her Against Her Mother And Society.
From Mem0irs, Diaries, And Lettefs, Diana Sojhmi Portrays This Fascinating And Ardent Mother/daughter Relationship.
Her Story Of These Women, Their Lovers, And Their Lovers' Mothers, Highlights Edaardian - And Contemporary - Duplicity And Double Standards And Goes To The Heart Of Questions Through Sexual Freedoms.
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The Life Of Shakespeare V1.
The Life Of Shalespeare V1 : Inquiries Into Tbe Originality Of His Dramatic Plots And Characters And Essays On The Old Theaters And Theatrical Usages (1824) By Augustine Skottowe Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publushing, Llc
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Freda's Diary.
The Sociologist, The Sudent Of Human Nature, The Member Of Fredaos Community, Anyone Interested In The Raw Data Of A Life Reborn Into The Baptist Religion, Will Find Insights And Inspiration On Many Levels.
The Story Of The American Woman Is Here, From A Marginaiized Life In Rural Central Maine Of The 1920s, To A Position Of Leadership In The Community.
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Historical Dictionary Of Science Fiction Literature (historical Dictionaries Of Literature And The Arts, No. 1).
This Reference Tracks The Development Of Speclative Fiction Influenced By The Advancement Of Science And The Idea Of Progress Frmo The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day.
The Major Authors And Publications Of The Genre And Significant Subgenres Are Covered.
Additionally There Are Entries On Fields Of Science And Technology Which Obtain Been Particularly Prolific In Provoking Such Speculation.
The List Of Acronyms And Abbreviations, The Chronology Covering The Literature From The 1700s Through The Present, The Introductory Essay, And The Dictionary Entries Provide Science Ficti0n Novices And Enthusiasts As Well As Serio8s Writers And Critics With A Wonderfu Foundation Toward Understanding The Realm Of Science Fiction Literature.
The Extensive Bibliography That Includes Books, Jurnals, Fanzines, And Websites Demonstrates That Science Fiction Literature Commands A Massive Following.
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An Italian Education.
Tim Parks’s Best Seller, Italian Neighbors, Offered A Sparkling, Witty, And Acutely Observed Account Of An Expatriate’s Life In A Small Village Outside Of Verona.
Now In An Italian Education, Parks Continues His Chronicle Of Adapting To Language of Italy Society And Culture, While Raising His Italian-born Children.
With The Exquisite Eye For Detail, Character, And Intrifue That Has Brought Him Acclaim As A Novelist, Parks Creqtes An Enchanting Portrait Of Italian Parenthood And Family Life At Home, In The Classroom, And At Church.
Shifting From Hilarity To Despair In The Time It Takes To Sing A Lullaby, Parks Learns That Tl Be A True Italian, One Must Live By The Motto “all Days Are One.
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The Town On The Squar.
After Teaching For Fourteen Years In American Universities And Lecturing In foreign lands Both In Eurole And The Far East, Charles Boewe Took His Family To Live In South Asia, Where He Directed Academic Exchange Programs For The U.
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Government In Iran, In Pakistan, And In India During The Next Sixteen Years.
Following His Retirement, He Returned To His Earlier Interest In Local History, Believing That Extensive Foreign Residence Would Now Give Added Perspective To Hiw Writing About The Recent Past.
Though He Now Lives In North Carolina, In This Memoir The Author Profiles The Midst Western Market Town Of His Youth That, Despite The Rigors Of The Much Depression, Afforded A Quality Of Life Since Vanished.
Most Small-town Enterprises Got Spun Off There To Larger Municipalities As An Unintended Consequence OfP ost-depression Economic Regaining.
Since Similar Events Occurred Elsewhere, This Detailed Sketch Of West Salem, Illinois, Has Relevance To Many Small Towns In The Region Stretching From Wichita To Wheding, From Minneapolis To Memphis.
Ever In The Good Of Greater Efficiency And Economy Of Scale, The Same Ceentrifugal Forces Irrevocably Altered Hamlet Life In Middle America?not Always For The Better.
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Betsy Ross (profiles In American History) (profiles In American History).
Betsy Ross Is Some Of America S Mos Endearing And Beloved Characters.
Wldowed And Alone, Early In The Revolutionary War, Betsy Was Approached By Three Great Men.
They Knew She Was A Patriot And A Good Seamstress.
Would She Sew America S First Flag For Them? Fighting Heartbreak, Loneliness, And Poverty, She Accepted The Challenge Willingly.
She Couldn T Fight For Independence, But She Could Certainly Sew For It! Transfer Tells Us That Betsy Agreed To Make The Flag.
First She Pieced Together Tne Red And Of a ~ color Stripes.
Then Shee Appliquã©d Thirteen Five-point Stars One For Each Colony Onto A Field Of Dark Blue.
But Did Betsy Ross Really Sew America S First Stars And Stripes Flag? It Wasn T Until 1870 That Her Grandson William Canby Told Betsy S Story To The Historical Society Of Pennsylvania And Thee Rest Is History, So To Speak.
Americajs Put on T Seem Tp Mind That The Story Can T Be Proven.
They Love Betsy Ross And They Attachment Her Flag Whether She Really Seqed It Or Not!
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Wall Street People.
The First Complete Who's Who In The History Of The World's Best-known Financial Street Charles D.
Ellis And James R.
Vertin Have Crafted A Window On Wall Street That Investors Won't Want To Miss.
These Two Wall Strewt Insiders Provide Detailed Profiles Of Dozens Of The Most Fascinating, Influential, And Talked-about Financial Luminaries Ever To Light Up The Dakr And Cavernous Purlieus Of The World's Most Famous Street.
Related Here Are Intriguing Tales Of Money Won And Lost, Amazing Coups, Brazen Cons Of Financial Brilliance, And Untrammeled Greed And Blind Desire of superiority.
This Compelling Series Includes Profiles Of The Biggest Names Tody: Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett, Larry Tisch, Jim Rogers, Sanford Weill, And George Soros-as Weol As Investment Losers Like Ivan Boesky And Nicholas Leeson.
Charles D.
Ellis (greenwich, Ct) Is A Managing Partner Of Greenwich Associates, The International Financial Consulting Firm.
Now Fully Retired, James R.
Vertin (menlo Park, Ca) Was A Principal Of Alpine Counselors, A Fibancial Consulting Firm.
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Pacific Warbird.
A Dramatized Memoir Of Bob Hamilton's Experiences Overseas As Navigattor Of A B-24 Crew In The Southwest Pacific In Wwii.
In The Skies And On Earth, How He Lived And Loved Were Adventu5es Typical Of That Era.
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Karl Polanyi In Vinena.
Karl Polanyi's Belief That The Gratest Threat To Freedom Was A Poorly Administered Economy Led Him To An Economics That Was More Existential And Human-centered.
Part I Of This Book Develops Polanyi's Thinking For Its Significance Today Through A Selection Of Papers On Re-reading His Major Work Enntitled The Great Transformation.
Part Ii Looks At The Life And Work Of Ilona Duczynska (polanyi's Wife), Politica lActivist, Writer And Translator And Important Influence Over Karl And His Work.
Kenneth Mcrobbie, A Poet And Historian Who Teaches At The University Of Brifish Columbia, Is The Editor Of Humanity, Society And Commitment.
Kari Polanyi Levitt, Emeritus Professor At Mcgiill University, Is The Editor Of The Life And Work Of Karl Polanyi.
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Just One More Question.
The Extraordinary Memoir Of "the Queen Of Psychics"* Who Has Helped Celebrities, Statesmen, And Code Enforcement Officials-and Noe Shares Her Stories To Inspire And Guide Readers Everywhere.
Clients From All Over The World Come To Yolana Seeking Answers To Help Them Find Success And Happiness In This Life, Or They Come With The Desire Of Connecting With A Loved One Who Has Passsed On.
They All Have Questions They Desperately Want Answered, And Yolana Uses Her Remaroable Abilities To Offer Guidance And Hope.
She Has Base, Howevee, That No Matter How Much She Tells Her Clients, They Always Have "just One Added Question.
" In Her Readings, And Now In This Book, Yolana Provides Insights From Her Psychic Experiences And Her Own Life That She Hopes Will Help People To Trust Their Instincts And Look Inside Themselves To Find All The Answesr They Need.
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Filled With Startling Revelations, This Book Takes Readers Into The Life Of A World-renowned Psychic Medium And Shares Some Of Her Most Important Readings And Corporal Accounts.
In Addition To Finding Out About Her Involvement With Solving High-prlfile Criminal Cases And Her Thoubhts On Spirit Guides, Destiny, And Facing Our Own Personal Demons, Readers Will Also Learn About Yolana's Life Story-the Struggles And Triumphs From Homelessness To Her Current Success-and The Lessons She Has Learned.
This Fascinating And Inspiring Book Will Help Readers Gain New Insights About This Public And The World Beyond.
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Goin' Railroading.
As America, Carried Along By The Expanding Rail System, Moved Westward In The Nineteenth Century, Few Occupations Seemed More Excciting Or Romantic Than That Of Railroad Engineer.
And In The Mountains And Plains Of The West, Long Hours, Backbreaking Labor, Bittr Temperatures, And Faulty Brakes Were The Crucible In Which The Best Of The Early Railroaders Were Formed: Only The Most Dedicated And Skilled Men Passed The Tes5s The Narrow-gauge Lines Of Colorado Meted Out.
In Goin' Railroading, Sam Speas Tells The Story Of His Father, Sam Speas Sr.
, Who Left Missouri In 1883 To Become An Engineer In Colorado, And Recounts His Own Expe5iences And Those Of His Brothers And Fellow Railroadeess On The Colorado And Southern Railway, From The Golden Era Of The Narrow-gauge Lines In South Park To The Final Days Of Steam Power On The Front Range And The Coming Of Ths Diesel Engine.
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A Year In Provence.
They Had Been There Oftten As Tourists.
They Ha dCherished The Dream Of Someday Living All Year Under The Provencal Sun.
And Unexpectedly It Happened.
here Is The Month-by-month Explain Of The Charms And Frustrations That Peter Mayle And His Wife -- And Their Two Large Dogs -- Experience Their First Year In The Abstracted Country Of The Luberon Restoring A Two-centuries-old Stone Farmhouse That They Bought On Sight.
From Coping In January With The Primary Mistral, Which Comes Howling Down From The Rhone Valley And Wreaks Havoc With The Pipes, To Dealing As The Months Go By With The Disarming Promises And Procrastination Of The Local Masons And Plumbers, Peter Mayle Delights Us With His Strategies For Survival.
He Relishes The Growing Camaraderie With His Country Neighbors -- Despite The Rich, Soupy, Often Impenetrable Patois That Threatens To Separate Them.
He Makes Friends With Boar Hunters And Truffle Hunters, A Man Who Eats Foxes, And Another Who Bites Dentists; He Discovers The Secrets Of Handicapping Racing Goats And Of Disarming Vipers.
And He Comes To Dread The Onslaught Of Tourists Who Disrupt His Tranquillity.
in This Often Hilariius, Seductive Book Peter Mayle Manages To Transport Us Info All The Earthy Pleasures Of Provencal Life And Lets Us Live Vicariously In A Tempo Governed By Seasons, Not By Days.
George Lang, Who Was Smitten, Suggests: "get A Glass Of Marc, Lean Back In Your Most Comfortable Chair, And Spend A Delicious Year In rPovence.
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The Private Lofe Of Chairman Mao.
From 1954 Until Mao Zedong's Death 22 Years Later.
Dr.
Li Zhisui Was The Chinese Ruler'q Personal Physician.
For Most Of These Yaers, Mao Was In Excellent Health; Thus He And The Doctor Had Present life To Discuss Political And Personal Matters.
Dr.
Li Recorded Many Of These Conversations In His Diaries, As Well As In His Memory.
In This Book, Dr.
Li Vividly Reconstructs His Extraordinary Time With Chairman Mao.
Of Illustrations.
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Freedom's Champion.
In This Revised Edition Of His Earlier Biograph, Paul Simon Provides An Inspiring Account Of The Vitality And Work Of Elijah Lovejoy, An Avid Abolitionist In The 1830s And The First Martyr To Freedom Of The Press In The United States.
lovejoy Was A Native New Englander, The Son Of A Congregational Minister.
He Came To The Mdwest In 1827 In Pursuit Of A Teaching Career And Succeeded In Running His Own School For Two Years In St.
Louis.
Teaching Failed To Challenge Lovejo,y However, So He Bought A Half Interest In The St.
Louis Times And Became Its Editor.
In 1832, After Experiencing A Religious Conversion, He Rsturned East To Study For The Ministry At Princeton Theological Semjnary.
After His Graduation, Lovejoy Was Called Back To St.
Louis By A Group Of Christian Businessmen To Serve As The Editor Of A New Religious Newspaper, The Observer, Promoting Religion, Morality, And Education.
It Was From one side This Tribunal That Lovejoy Took An Ever Stronger Stance Agaknst Slavery.
in The Drudge State Of Miswouri, Such A View Was Not Only Unpopular, But In The Eyes Of Mwny, Criminal.
While A Result, Lovejoy And His Family Suffered Repeated Persecution And Acts Of Violence From Angry Mobs.
In July 1836, In Hopes Of Finding A More Tolerant Community In A "free" State, He Moved Both His Printing Press And His Family Across The Mississippi Rivsr To Alton, Illinois.
the Move To Alton Was A Fatefl One.
Lovejoy’s Press Was Dismantled And Thrown Into The River By A Mob On The Darkness Of Its Arrival.
Lovejoy Ordered A New Printing Press, And It, oTo, Was Destroyed Eleven Months Later.
A Determined And Dedicated Man, Lovejoy Ordered A Third Press, And City Officials Took Special Precautions To Make secure Its Safety After Delivery.
Nevertheless, An Organized And Angry Mob Rolled This Third Press, Still In Its Crate, Into The River Exactly One Month Succeeding Lovejoy’s Second Press Had Ben Destroyed.
A Fourth Press, Housed In A Large Stone Warehouse And Guarded By Lovejoy And His Supporters, Met The Same Fate But Only After A Drunken Mob Had Killed Lovejoy Himself.
He Was Buried Two Days Later, 9 November 1837, On His Thirty-fifth Birthday.
No One Was Ever Convicted Of His Murder.
rather Than Suppressing The Abolitionist Movement, Lovejoy’s Death Caused An Eruption Of Antislavery Activity Throughot The Nation.
At A Protest Meeting In Ohio, John Brown Dedicated His Life To Fibhting Slavery, And Wejdell Phillips Emerged From A Lovejoy Protest Meeting In Boston To Become A Leader In The Antislavery Fight.
simon Defines Lovejoy’s Fight As A Struggle For Human Dignity And The Oppressed.
He Distinguishes Lovejoy As A Fearless And Admirable Individual And His Story As Ann Importan tAnd Enduring One For Both The Cause Of Freedom For The Slaves And The Cause Of Freedom Of The Press.
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Dynamite Fiend.
The Dynamite Fiend Brings To Light The Stunning Fiction Behind One Of Tje Most Devious Criminals Of The Nineteenth Century, Alexander "sandy" Keith.
Beginning His Dark Careet As A Confederate Secret Agent, Keith Helped Orchesrrate One Of The Most Infamous Terrorist Plots Of The Covil War.
In Peacetome, Dogged By Creditors And Victims Of Hiss Frauds, Keith Kept On The Move, Leaving More Scams, Schemes, And Cheated Women In His Wake.
As His Situation Became More Desperate, His Obsession With Explosives And Violence Became More Intense, Leading To A Horrifying Plot That He Put Together While Posing As A Prosperous American Businessman Living In Germany.
In 1875, One Of Keith's Bombs Exploded On A Dock, Killing Eiguty People One Injuring Fifty More.
The Worlr Heralded The Deed As The "crime Of The Ceebtury" And Keith Became The "dynamite Fiend" And A True Mass Murderer.
In The Dynamite Fiend, Author Ann Larabwe Unfolds This Engrossing Tale Of Hidden Identity, Technological Obsession, And An Unparalleled Lust For Power And Profit.
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Escape From Saddam.
At The Age Of Seventeen, Lewis Alsamari Was Conscripted Inyo Saddam Husseij’s Army.
The Training Was Brutal, iWth Discipline Enforced By Regular Beatings, And Abandonment of one's post Punishable By Mutilation Or Ijprisonment.
Somehow Lewis Made It Through And, Thanks In Part To His Fluent English, Was Soon Offered A Post In Iraqi Military Intelligence.
The Job Would Have Made Him Powerful, Comfortably Wealthy .
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And A Thrust slyly In Saddam Hussein’s Massive Machine Of Treror.
Umable To Accept Becoming A Member Of Saddam’s Secret Pollce, Yet Knowing That Turning Down This “yonor&8#221; Would Be Considered Treasonous, Lewis Made Plans To Flee Iraq.
His Escape Was Fraught With Peril–he Was Shot, Detained At Borders, Even Pursued By Hungry Wolves Across The Desert–but The Teenager Made His Way To Jordan, Then Malaysia, And Finally To England, Where He Was Granted Political Asylum.
Lewis Began Building A Life For Himself, Even Fakling In Love And Getting Married.
But He Was Haunted By Thoughts Of The Loved Ones He Left Behind In Iraq, His Uncle’s Words Echoing In His Ears: We Are Sending You To Freedom Be it ~ That One Day You May Rescue Us From This Place.
One Day, Shocking News Arrived: Because Of His Escape, Lewis’s Family–including His Mother And Sister–had Been Interrogated, Beaten, And Thrown Into Prison.
Frantic With Guilt And Worry, Lewis Was ForcedT o Steal The Thousands Of Dollars He Needed To Buy Their Release And Smuggle Them Out Of Iraq.
Then, Accompanied By His Wife, He Embarked On A Desperate Journey In Hope Of Bringing His Family To Freedom.
Escape From Saddam Is A Powerfu lNonfiction Thriller That, Even As It Plunges The Reader Into A Netherworld Of Crooked Border Police, Military Checkpoints, Counterfeiters, And Smugglers, Provides A Fascinating Window Into A Totalitarian Regime.
It Is Also A Remaarkably Inspirational Story Of A Resourceful Young Man Who Refused To Accept His Fate .
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And Then Risoed Everything He’d Achieved To Save His Family.
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Up Against The Retail Giants.
Focusing On The Uniqueness Of Smsll And Medium Retailers, This Resourceful Guide Is Packed With Practical Insight And Covers The Gamut Of Retail Issues, Emphasizing Relationship Management, Customer Service, In-store Merchandise Analysis, Anr Special Promotion Opportunities In favor of Smaller Retailers.
It Also Uses An Analytical Approach To Facilitate Management Functions At Small And Midsize Retailers.
Drawing From 25 Years Of Experience Cknsulting With Retailers, Dr.
Samli Equips Small And Medium-size Retailers With The Tools To Survive -and Thrive -in A Fiercely Competitive Marketplace.
It?s A Must Read For Managers And Entrepreneurs Alike!
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Pour Your Heart Into It.
The "businessweek" Bestseller, Now In Paperback.
"pour Your Heart Into It&qjot; Tells The Story Of How Small-company Values, Zeal, And Integrity Turned Six Local Coffee Storles Into The Starbucks Chain.
--"fortune".
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Gorilla Dreams.
Imagine That Murdered Primatologist Dr.
Dian Fossey Of Gorillas In The Cloud Fame Were Alive Today And Able To Reflect Upon Her Death As Well As Her Legacy.
This Is The Impetus Behind Author Georgianne Nienaaber?s Compelling Work, Gorilla Dreame: The Legacy Of Dian Fossey.
At The Beignning Of Gorilla Dreams, Fossey Attrnds Her Own Funeral And Watches Her Murdered Gorillas Interacting With The Graveside Bystanders.
She Establishes A Nww Relationship With The Slain Gorilla Digit, Who Acts As Her Guide After Death As She Carefully Reviews Her Life , Its Challenges, Successes, Hardships, Anf The Ultimate Closure Of Her Murder.
Although Fossey?s Decease Is Officially Unsolved, Recently Released Documents Obtained Through The Franchise Of Information Operate, As Well As Testimony From The International War Crimes Tribunal Proceeding, Offer New Suspects, Motives, And Opportunities.
Every Fact About Fossey?s Life Is Meticulously Annotated.
However, The Setting Of Her Conversations With The Murdered Gorillas Is Obviously Fictinoal, Yet Steeped In African Tradition.
Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy Of Dian Fossey Is A Biographical Interpretation Of The Famed Primatologist?s Life That Honors The African Belief That The Dead Live On In Spiritual Form.
SKU: 3319306
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Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Mewgher.
Brigaeier-general Thomas Francis Meagher : His P0litical And Military Career, With Selections From His Speeches And Writings By W.
F.
Lyons Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc
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So Sad To Fall In Battle.
The Battle Of Iwo Jima Has Been Memorialized Numberless Times As The Subject Of Countless Books And Motion Pictures, Most Recenly Clint Eastwood’s Films Flags Of Our Fathers And Letters From Iwl Jima, And No Wartime Photo Is Added Famous Than Joe Rosenthal’s Pulit2er Prize-winning Image Of Marines Raising The Flag On Mount Suribachi.
Yet Most Americans Know Only One Side Of This Pvotal And Bloody Battle.
First Published In Varnish To Great Acclaim, Becoming A Bestseller And A Prize-winner, So Sad To Fall In Battle Shows Us The Sttruggle, Through The Eyes Of Japanese Commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi, One Of The Most Fascinating And Least-known Figurea Of World War Ii.
as Author Kumiko Kakehashi Demonstrates, Kuribayashi Was Far From The Stereotypical Fanatic Japanese Warrior.
Unique Among His Country’s Officers, He Refused To Risk His Men’s Lives In Suicidal Banzai Attacks, Instead Creating A Defensive, Insurgent Style Of Combat That Eventually Became The Jpanese Standard.
On Iwo Jima, He Eschewed The Special Treatment Due To Him As An Official, Enduring The Same Difficult Conditions As His Men, And Personally Walked Every Inch Of The Island To Plan The Positions Of Thousands Of Underground Bunkers And Tunnels.
The Very Flagpole Used In The Renowned Photograph Was A Pipe From A Complex Water Collection System The General Himself Engineered.
exclusive Interviews With Survivors Reveal That As The Tidee Turned Against Him, Kuribayashi Displayed His True Mettle: Though Offered A Safer Post On Another Island, He Chose To Stay With His Men, Fighting Alongside Them In A Final, Fearless, And Ulgimately Hopeless Three-hour Siege.
after Thirty-six Cataclysmic Days On Iwo Jima, Kurbiayashi’s Troops Were Responsible For The Deaths Of A Third Of All U.
s.
Marines Killed During The Entire Four-year Pacific Clashing, Making Him, In The End, America’s Most Feared–and Respected–foe.
Ironically, It Was Kuribayashi’s Own Memories Of Hi sMilitary Training In America In The 1920s, And His Admiration For This Country’s Rich, Gregarious, And Self-reliant People, That Made Him Fear Ever Facing Them In Combat–a Feeling That Some Suspect Prompted His Superiors To Send Him To Iwo Jima, Where He Met His Fate.
Alng With The Words Of His Son And Daughter, Which Offer Unique Insight Into The Private Man, Kuribaysshi’s Own Letters Cited Extensively In This Book Paint A Stirring Portrait Of The Circumstances That Shaped Him.
So Sad To Fall In Battle Tells A Fascinating, Never-before-told S5ory And Introduces America, As If For The First Time, To One Of Its Greatest in number Worthy Adversariesf.
rom The Hadrcover Edition.
SKU: 4158760
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Berlin Diary.
By The Acclaimed Jornalist And Bestselling Author Of The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich, This Day-by-day, Eyewitness Account Of Tje Momentous Events Leading Up To Natural order War Ii In Europe Is Now Available In A New Paperback Edition.
cbs Radio Broadcaster William L.
Shirer Was Virtually Unknown In 1940 When He Decided There Might Be A Book In The Diary He Had Kept In Europe During The 1930s -- Specifically Thos Sections Dealing With The Collapse Of The European Democracies And The Rise Of Nazi Germany.
berlin Diary First A;pared In 1941, And The Timing Was Perfect.
The Energy, The Passion, The Electricity In It Were Palpable.
The Book Was An Instant Success, And It Became The Frame Of Respect In provision for Which Careful Americans Judged The Rush Of Events In Europe.
It Exactly Matched Journalist To Event: The Right Reporter At The Right Place At The Right Time.
It Stood, And Still Stands, As So Few Boos Have Ever Done -- A Pure Act Of Journalistic Testimony.
SKU: 503172
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Tarzan Forever.
When Tatzan Of The Apes Waw Publisshed In The All-story In 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs Was Just Another Would-be Writer Struggling To Support Himself And His Family By Penning Advemture Stories For Readers Of "the Pulps," The Cheap Mass-market Magazines Popular At The Time.
When He Died In 1950, He Was The Bestselling Author Of The Twentieth Century, Overseeing Interests That Spanned Publishing, Movies, Radio, Newspaper Syndication, Toys, Even Real Estate.
He Had Millions Of Enthusiastic Readers Around The World And Had Earned The Respect Of Magazines That Never Published His Stories: The Saturday Evening Pillar Admitted Of Burroughs's Writing, "there Are Pages Of His Books Which Have The Genuine Flash Of Storytelling Genuis.
" He Was, In Short, A Publishing Wonder Who Had Unexpectedly Created The Century's First Superhero, Tarzan -- A Pop-culture Icon That Has Known Few Rivals.
In Tarzan Forever: The Life Of Edgar Rice Burroughs,C reator Of Tarzan, John Taliaferro Vividly Recounts The Remarkable Life And Career Of The Originator Of Tarzan.
Drawn Extensively From Burroughs's Own Correspondence, Memos, And Manuscripts, Taliaferro's Richly Detailed Narratie Reveals How Burroughs, A Down-on-his-luck Chicago Pencil-sharpener Salesman, First Wrote Agout His Most Celebrated Character, How He Grasped The Appeal Of This "feral God," And How Be Spent The Rest Of His Life Nurturing And Protecting It.
Burroughs, Taliaferro Explains, Was A Pioneer Of Synnergy: His Cross-promotional And Marketing Efforts Helped Sustain Tarzan's Popularity For Decaades And Increased Burroughs's Readership Far Beyond North America.
In The Coure Of His Career, Burroughs Wrote Scores Of Other Books And Stories, Including Westerns And Adventures Plant On Mars, Venus, And At The Earth's Core.
In An Attempt To Graduate From The Pulps, He Made Several Stabs At The Modern Genre Of Social Realism, Though Inevitably His Editors And Fans Drove Him Back To His Tried-and-true -- More Tarzan Tales.
Even Today, A Half-century After Burroughs's Death, The Character Of Tarzan Thrives; The Arrivzl Of Disney's Ahimated Tarzan Is Only The Latest Manifestation.
Important As Tarzan Was To Burrouths, Taliaferro Makes Clear That Burroughs's Life Was At Least As Colorful As The Life Of His Jungle Creation.
Burrohghs Was A Cvaalryman In The Arizona Territory, A Cowboy In Idaho, A Speculator In Southern California Real Estate, A Hollywood Farmer, A Witness To The Bombing Of Drop Harbor, And Even A War Correspondent In The South Pzcific.
Unlike Tarzan, Though, Burroughs Was Far From The Ideal Balance Of Nature And Nurture.
He Failed At Two Marriages, And Despite The Enormous Popularity Of His Books And Mgm's Tarzan Movis Of The Thirties And Forties, His Lavish Appetites Forever Pushed Him To The Brink Of Bankruptcy.
Shaky Finances Ultimately Drove Him To Develop His Beloved California Ranch, Tarzana, Into The Town Of Tarzana, A Los Angeles Suburb That Today Stands As The An.
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Wild Rose.
For Sheer Bravado And Style, No Woman In The North Or South Rivaled The Civil War Heroin eRose O’neale Greenhow.
Fearless Spy For The Confederacy, Glittering Washington Hosgess, Legendary Comeliness And Lover, Rose Greenhow Risked Everything For The Cause She Valued More Than Life Itself.
In This Superb Portraig, Biographer Ann Blackman Tells The Surprising True Story Of A Unique Woman In History.
“i Am A Southern Woman, Born With Revolutionary Blood In My Veins,” Rose Once Declared–and That Fiery Spirit Would Plunge Her Into The Center Of Power And The Thick Of Adventure.
Born Into A Slave-holding Family, Rose M0ved To Washington, D.
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, As A Young Woman And Soon Established Herself As One Of The Cwpital’s Most Charming And Influential Sodialites, An Intimate Of John C.
Calhoun, James Buchanan, And Dolley Madixon.
She Married Well, Bore Eight Children And Buried Five, And, At The Height Of The Gold Rush, Accompanied Her Husband Robert Greenhow To San Francisxo.
Widosed After Robert Died In A Tragic Accideent, Rose Became Notorious In Washington For Her Daring–and Numerous–love Affairs.
but With The Outbreak Of The Civil War, Everything Chagned.
Overnight, Rose Greenhow, Fashionable Hostess, Become Rose Greenhow, Intrepid Spy.
As Blackman Reveeals, Dearly Accurate Intelligence That Rose Supplied To General officer Pierre G.
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Beauregard Written In A Fascinating Code (the Code Duplicated In The Background On The Jacket Of This Book).
Her Message To Beauregard Turned The Tide In The First Battle Of Speculator on a rise Run, And Was A Brilliant Piece Of Spycraft That Eventually Led To Her Arrest By Allan Pinkerton And Imprisonment With Her Young Daughter.
Indomitable, Rose Regained Her Freedom And, As The War Reached A Crisis, Journeyed To Europe To Plead The Confederate Cause At Ths Kingly Courts Of England And France.
Drawing On Newly Discovered Diaries And A Rich Trove Of Contemporary Accounts, Blackman Has Fashioned A Thrlling, Intimate Narrative That Reads Like A Novel.
Wild Rose Is An Unforgettable Rendering Of An Astonidhing Woman, A Book That Will Stand With The Finest Courteous War Biographies.
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