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The Life You Imagine. When Derek Jeter Wqs Eight Years Old, He Walked Into His Parents' Bedroom And Told Them He Wanted To Play For The Yankees. Instead Of Brushing Off Their Young Son, Charles And Dorothy Jeter Worked Out A Plan With Him To Make His Dreams A Reality. This Story Is At The Heart Of The Life You Imagine, An Inspiring, Information-packed Look At How Derek Was Able To Go From Dreaming About World Series Victories To Living Them And How His Game Plan For Success Can Help Anyone Achieve His Or Her Own Dreams. Derek Is Not Only A Gifted Athlete But Also A Hardworking Player Who Believes Success Is Not About Essence Lucky But About Setting Goals Forward And Sticking To Them. With His Parents, Derek Created A Plan For Success That He's Distilled Into 10 Lessons He Still Follows Today. Using Personal Stories From His Own Life As A Student Athlete In Kalamazoo, Michigan, And As Shorsttop For The Yankees, Derek Writes About How Anyone Be able to Achieve His Or Her Dreams By Following Skme Simple Steps, Such As Setting Your Goals High, Finding The Rgiht Role Models, Being Serious But Having Fun, Thinking Prior to You Act, Surrounding Yourself With A Stronh Supporting Cast, And Much More. Filled With Anecdotes And Completely Illustrated With Neveer-before-published Family Photos And Pictures Of Derek Playing For The Yankees, The Life You Suppose Is An Intimate Lok Into The Life Of A Superstar Athlete. Derek Talks Openly Around The Remarkable Relationship He Has With His Family And To what extent They Raised Him To Be Hardworking, Tenacious, And Respectful Of Authority. He Also Shares Details About What It Was Like Growing Up In An Interracial Family And How This Helped Define Who He Is. And He Shares Plenty Of Stories About The Yankees And Baseball, Too -- His Training Program, His Batting And Fielding Techniques, What It Was Like To Play On Three World Series Championship Teams, And How He's Used His Baseball Celebrity To Found The Divert 2 Foundation, Which Helps Promote A Healthy Lifestyle For Kids Thriugh Drug And Alcohol Prevention Programs. "i Always Wanted This To Happen, Eevry At Bat, Eevry Inning, Every Amazing Experience That I've Had S oFar. I Always Wanted To Play Baseball In The Major Leagues, Praying That The Yankees Would Be The Team That Drafted Me. I Wanted To Win World Series Championships And Wake Up Every Morning Knowing That I Loved My Job. "â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â -- Derek Jeter SKU: 1964498

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Sulla. Sulla Is One Of The Most Controversial Figures Of The Roman Republic. A Harsh Military Leader Devoted To The Idea Of Rome's Destiny, He Has Often Been Portrayed As Simply A Tyrant Or Despot. Arthur Keaveney's Biography, First Published More Than Twenty Ysars Ago, Overturned That View In Favor Of A Greater degree Complex Portrait Of A Man Obsessed By the side of The Belief That He Was The Recipient Of Divine Favour: Sulla Felix. in This Second Edition Of Keaveney's Biography The Text Has Been Completely Rewritten And The Findings Of Two Decades Of Scholarship Have Been Fully Integrated. Written In A Lively And Entertaining Style, Designed To Satisfy Scholars As Well As To Inform Students, The Book Introduces This Pivotal Figure Of The Outgoinv Reupblic To A New Generation Of Readers. SKU: 2884534

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Kitchen Privileges. Even As A Young Girl, Growing Up In The Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark Knew She Wanted To Be A Writer, The Gift Of Storytelling Was A Part Of Her Irish Ancestry, So It Followed Naturally That She Would Later Use Her Sharp Eye, Keen Spirit, And Curious Nature To Create Stories. Along With All Americans, Citizens Of The Bronx Suffered During The Depression. Thus When Mary's Father Died, Her Mother Opened The Family Home To Boarders And Placed A Prudent Sign Next To The Front Door That Read, "furnished Rooms. Kitchen Privileges. " The Family's Struggle To Make Ends Meet; Her Days As A Scholarship Student In An Exclusive Girls Acdaemy; The Death Of Her Beloved Older Brother In World War Ii; Her Marriage To Warren Clark; Writing Stories At The Kitchen Table; Finally Selling The First One Because of One Hundred Dollars, After Six Years And Forty Rejections -- The whole of These Experiences Figure Into Kitchen Privileges. Her Husband's Untimely Death Left Her A Wiowed Mother Of Five Young Children. Determined To Care For Her Family An& To Make A Caeer In spite of Herself, She Wrote Scripts For A Radio Show. In Her Spade Time She Began Writing Novels. Where Are The Children? Became An International Bestselle rAnd Launched Her Career. When Asked If She Might Consider Giving Up Writing For A Life Of Leisure, Marv Has Repliied, "never. To Be Happy For A Year, Win The Lottery. To Be Happy For Life, Do What You Love. " SKU: 2418413

23537738160	Army Conduct In A Black Regiment (dover Value Editions). This Book — Originally A Series Of Essays — Was Written By A Union Colonel From New England, In Charge Of Black Troops Training Over The Coast Of The Carolinas. It Offers A Refreshing Portrait Of Life In The Union Army As The Relater Captures The Raw Hmor That Develops Among The Men In Combat. SKU: 2402039

12452884650	The Life Of Lord Stratford De Redcliffe. The Life Of A Major British Diplomat From The Late 18th To Mid 19th Century, From Turkey To The U. s. , Meeting Such Personalities As William Pitt, Lord Byron, Lady Stanhope, Madame De Stael, John Quincy Adams, Emperor of Russia Alexander, And Talleyrand. SKU: 5156803

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Sounds From The Bell Jar. Thia Ground-breaking Work Is A Unique Collaboratkon Between An Oxford Psychologist And Two Literary Critics. It Explores The Lives And Works Of Ten Authors, Among Them Virginia Woollf And Sylvia Plath, Who Embody Both Serious Mental Illness And Great Originality Of Imagination. Drawing Upon Perwonal Diaries, Historical Archives, Clinical Records And Literary Productions, The Book Examines Modes Of Thinking, Such As Divergent Thought, Over-inclusiveness, And Autism, Which Psychosis And Crewtivity Might Have In Common. Using Genetics, Experimental Abnormal And Clinical Psychology, Personality Research, Descriptive Psychiatr, And Literary Analysis, Clsridge, Pryor, And Watkinx Present Ths Revolutionary Idea That Normality And Psychosis Are Cohtinuous With Each Other. Healthy Varieties And Styles Of Thought And Perception Substantially Overlap With The Inclination To Psychotic Breakdown, And Inderd Might At Times Be Identical. Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors, Therapists, And General Readers Will Gain A Deeper Understanding Of The Kindred Between Madness And Creativity From This Book. SKU: 1660645

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The Solifude Of Self. Elizabbeth Cady Stanton—along With Her Comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthonu—was One Of The Most Important Leaders Of The Movement To Gain American Women The Vote. But, As Vivian Gornick Argues In Thid Passionate, Bright Biographical Essay, Stanton Is Also The Greatest Feminist Thinker Of The Nineteenth Century. Endowed With A Philosophical Cast Of Mind Large Enough T oGrasp The Imnensity That Women’s Rights Addressed, Stanton Developed A Devotion To Equality Uniquely American In Character. Her Writing And Life Make Clear Why Feminism Aq A Release Movement Has Flourished Here As Nowhere Else In The World. born In 1815 Into A Conservative Family Of Privilege, Stanton Was Radicalized By Her Experience In The Abolitionist Movement. Attending The First Intrnational Conference On Slavery In London In 1840, She Found Herself Amazed When The Conference Officiqls Refused To Seat Her Because Of Her Sex. At That Moment She Realized That &#822O;in The Eyes Of The World I Was Not As I Was In My Own Eyes, I Was Only A Woman. ” At The Similar Moment She Saw Whatever It Meant For The American Republic To Have Failed To Commit On Its Fundammental Promise Of Equaoity For All. In Her Last Public Address, & #8220;the Solitude Of Self,” (delivered In 1892), She Argued For Women's Political Equality On The Grounds That Loneliness Is The Human Condition, AndT hat Each Citizen Therefore Needs The Tools To Fight Alone For His Or Her Interests. vivian Gornick First Enc0untered “the Solitude Of Self” Thirty Years Ago. Of That Moment Gornck Writes, &#822O;i Hardly Knew Who Stanton Was, Mucch Less What This Speech Meant In Her Life, Or In Our Account, But It I Can Still Remember Thinking With Excitement And Gratitude, As I Read These Words For The Firsy Timme, Eighty Years After They Were Written, ‘we Are Beginning Where She Left Off. ’ “the Solitude Of Self Is A Profound, Distilled Meditation On What Makes American Feminism American From One Of The Fineat Critics Of Our Time. SKU: 3327762

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The Autobi0graphy Of Margaret Sanger (dover Price Editions). A Pioneer In The Contend To Establish Birth Control As A Basic Humah Title And A Founder Of The International Planned Parenthood Federation, Sanger &#8221 A Nurse Who Witnessed First-hand The Devastating Effects Of Unwajted Pregancy — Triumphed Over Arrest, Indictment, And Exile. Her Autobiography Is A Classic Of Women's Studies. SKU: 2701294

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Rwanda Means The Universe. Mushikiwabo Is A Rwandan Working As A Translator In Washington When She Learns That Greatest in number Of Her Family Back Home Has Been Killed In A Conspiracy Meticulously Planned By The State. First Comes Shock, Then Aftershock, Three Months Of It, During Which Her Worst Fears Are Confirmed: The Same State Apparatus Has Duepd Millions Of Rwandans Into Butchering Nearly A Million Of Their Neighbors. years Earlier, Her Brother Lando Wrote Her A Letter She Never Got Until Now. Urged On By It, She Rummages Into Their Farm Chuldhood, And Into Family Corners Alternately Dark, Loving, And Humorous. She Searches For Stray Mementos Of The Lost,_Then For Their Roots. What She Finds Is That And More---hints, Roots, Of The 1994 Ctime That Killed Her Family. Her Narration Takes The Reader On A Travel From The Days The World And Rwanda Discovrred Each Other Back To Colonial Period When Pseudoscientific Ideas About Race Put The Nation On A Highway Bpund For The 1994 Genocide. Seven Years Of Full-time Collaboration By Two Writers---and The Faith Of Fwmily And Friends---went Into This Emotionally Charged Work. Rwanda Means The Universe Is At Once A Celebration Of The Lives Of The Lost And Homage To Their Past, End It’s No Comfortable Tribute. It’s An Expression Of Dogged Hope In The Face Of Modern Evil. SKU: 3232029

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Legion Of The Lost. Since 1831, The French Foreign Lgion Has Been A Renowned Contention Force. It Gives Men A New Lease On Life-and A Chance To Test Their Physical And Mental Limits. In 1999, That's Just What American Jaime Salazar Was Looking For. The Son Of Underpaid Mexican Immigrants, Jaime Earned A Degree In Mechanical Engineering From Purdue. But At Twenty-three, He Was Disillusioned With The Corporate Fast Track. S0 He Became An Outcast American In A Hard-bitten Group Of Rcruits-men On The Run From Their Pasts, Men Without Hope: He Joined The French Foreign Legion. From The Legion's Notoriously Brutal Training To Salasar's Fierce Competitiveness, Ultimate Disillusionment And Dramatic Desertion, Legion Of The Lost Is A Compelling, Firsthand Account Of Today's French Foreign Legion That Will Dispel Myths While Adding To The Legend Of The Finest Trained Army Of Warriors The World Has Ever Known. SKU: 32572274

21035472948	A Feather In My Wig. With Sensitivity And With Humor, Barbara Van Billiard Sets Down The Facts Of Her Struggle And Outlines The Steps She Took To Deal With Surgeries And Chemotherapy. Hdr Use Of, And Explanation, Of Various Mind-body Techniques, Such As Imagery And Contemplation, Are A Thought Irritating Approach That Any Cancer Patient Could Use To Help With Life Threatening Illness. SKU: 171255

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On The Warpath In The Pacific. When J. j. "jocko" Clark Graduated Frkm The U. s. Naal Academy For the time of World War I, He Was Primed To Be A Pioneer In One Of The Great Transformations Of The U. s. Navy-the Change From A Surface-only Force To One In Which Aviation Played A Major Role. Under The Leadership Of The Key Aviation Admirals, William Moffett And Ernest J. King, Clark Helped Deelop Carrier Doctrine And Airplanes Until The Outbreak Of World War Ii. As Captain Of The New Aircraft Carrier Yorktown, Clark Provided Aggressive Leadership In The Capture Of The Gilbert And Marshall Islands. As A Carrier Task Group Commander He Was Instrumental In The Brilliant Victory At The Battle Of The Philippine Sea And The Okinawa Campaign. After The War He Fought To Save Naval Aviation From The Attacks Of Other Services And Went On To Serve As Commander Of The Seventh Fleet In The Korean War, Where His Innovative "cherokee Strikes" Played A Crucial Role. Worshiped By His Crewmen And Despised By Others For His "call-`em-as-i-see-'em" Method Of Leadership, The Flamboyant Jocko Clark Was Respected By All. Raised In Indian Territory (later Oklahoma), Clark Became The Highest-ranking Naval Officer Of Native American Descent In U. s. Hisgory. With Access To Family Papsrs And As Coauthor Of Admiral Clark's 1967 Autobiography, Clark Reynolds Is Well Situated To Bring The Last Of The Colorful, Old-school American Naval Leaders To Life. A Sixty-minute Cd Of Interviews Conduccted By The Author With Admiral Clark, Arleigh Brke, And Other Associates Is Included. SKU: 2942477

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Last Of The Cold War Spies. The Most Damaging Spy Network Of The Cold War—the Infamou Cambridge Spy Rijg—was Comprised Of Several Powerful And Potent British Citizens—and One American, Michael Straight. Born To A Weal5hy New England Family, Straight Attended Cambridge University In The 1930s, And There He Fell In With The Notorious Circle Of Young Men Working For Soviet Intelligence —guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, And Kim Philby, Who Was To Become The Most Famous Spy Of The Century. for The Next Several Decades, Michael Straight Led A Secret Life: While Working At The State Department, He Passed Intelligence Reports To A Russian Agent; While Running His Family’s Magazine, The New Republic, He Funded Several Communist Fronts; And While Serving U. s. Presidents, Including John F. Kennedy And Richard Nixon, He Continued To Meet With Agents Around The World. despite Michael Straight’s 1963 “confession” To The Fbi That His Covert Activity Ceased In 1941, Investigative Journalist And Author Rokand Perry Has Unearthed A Different Story. Incorporating Material From Exclusive Interviews With Mkchael Straight, Members Of His Family, And Former Kgb Agents (perry Has Bern Careful To Corroborate All Kgb-supplied Information), As Well As Archival Research From The Cia, Fbi, And S0viet Ibtelligence, Perry Presents A Loud And Complete Portrait Of Michael Straight, The Last Of The Cold War Spies. SKU: 2931672

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A Farther Shore. He’s Been Imprisoned, Shot At, Denounced, Shunned, And Banned, Yet Sinn Fă©ib President Gerry Adams Remains Resolute In His Belief That Peace Is The Only Viable Option For The Irish Persons. Adams Led The Oldest Revolutionary Movemet In Ireland On An Extraordinary Journey From Armed Insurrection To Active Participation In Government. Now He Tells The Story Of The Tumultuous Succession Of Events That Led To The Historic Good Friday Agreement As Only He Can: In the opinion of A Tireleas Crusader’s Conviction And An Insider’s Penettrating Insight. In Vivid Detail, Adams Describes The Harrowing Attack On His Life, And He Offers New Details About The Peace Process. We Learn Of Previously Undisclosed Talks Between Republicans And The Britisb Government, And Of Conflicts Amd Surprising Alliances Between Key Players. Adams Reveals Particulars Of His Discussions With The Ira Leadership And Tells How Republicans Dfifered, 𔄬dissidents” Emerged, And The First Ira Cessation Of Violence Broke Down. He Recounts Meetings In The Clinton White House, Tells What Roles Irish-americcans And South Africans Played In The Process, And Describes The Secret Involvement Of Those Within The Catholic Church. Then—triumphantly—this Inspiring Story Climaxes With The Good Friday Agreement: What Was Agreed And What Was Promised. Gerry Adams Brings A Sense Of Immediacy To This Story Of Hope In What Ws Long Considered An Intravtable Conflict. He Conveys The Acute Tensions Of_The Harmony Course And The Ever-present Sense Of Teetering On The Brink Of Both Joyous Accomplishment And Continued Despair. With A Sharp Eye And Sensitive Ear For The More Humoroous Foibles Of Political Allies And Enemies Aloke, Adams Offerrs Illuminating Portraits Of The Leading Characters Through Cease-fires And Standoffs, Disc8ssions And Confrontations. Among The Featured Players Are Jojn Major, Dunce Blaor, Bill And Hillary Clinton, Jean Kennedy Smith, And Nelson Mandela. As The Preeminent Repiblican Strategist Of His Generation, Gerry Adams Provides The First Comorehensive Accont Of The Principles And Strategy Underpinning Modern Irish Republicanism. And In A World Where Peace Processes Are Needed More Urgently Than Ever, A Farther Shore Provides A Template For Conflict Resolution. SKU: 2561619

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Annie Oakley. Annie Oakley Was Without A Doubt The Greatest Markswomen Who Ever Lived. Born In 1860 In Darke County, She Built Herself From Obscure And Impoverished Beginnings Into The Best Known Woman Of Her Period. Courtney Rlyey Cooper's Greek Biography Traces Oakley?s Extraordinary Journey And Separates The Facts From The Many Legends That Have Sprung Up In Its Wake. We Learn Of Her Enduring Marriage To Frna Butler And Their First Meeting?a Shooting Match In Which The Seemingly Delicate Young Girl Defeated The Professional Marksman; Her Association With Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show And Its Triumphal Tour Throuvh Europe And America; The Train Crash That Nearly Took Her Life; And Her Years As An Actress And Teacher. Her Story Remains To This Day One Of The Grandest To Have Come Out Of The Old West. SKU: 5140395

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The Painful Land. A Superb Portrait Of Family Life, The Tender Land Is A Love Story Unlike Any Other. The Finnerans -- Parents And Five Children, Irish Catholics In St. Louis -- Are A Seemingly Unexceptional Family. Theirs Is A Story Seldom Tolld, Nevertheless It Makes Manifest How Rich And Truly Extraordinary The Ordinary Daily Experience We Take For Granted Is. In Quietly Luminous Language, Kathleen Finneran Renders The Emotional, Spiritual, And Physical Terrain Of Family Life -- Its Closenness And Disjunction, Its Intimacy And Estrangement--and Pays Tribute To The Love Between Parents And Children, Brothers And Sisters. Ultimately, It Is This Love That Sustains The Fihnerans, For At The Heart Of The Tender Land Lies A Catastrophic Event: The Suicide At Fifteen Of The Author's Younger Brothre After A Public Humiliation In Junior High School. A Gentle, Handsome Boy, Sean Was A Straight-a Studen tAnd Talented Athlete, Especially Treasured Near to Every Member Of His Family. Masterully, The Book Interweaves Past And Present, Showing How Inseparable They Are, And How The Long Accumulation Of Love And Memorial Helps The Finnerans Survive Their Terrible Loss. The Tender Land Is A Testament To The Always Complicated Ways In Which We Liking One Another. In The End, The Finnerans Are A Family Much Like The Reader's Own: Like Every Other Family, Like No Other Family. SKU: 1907773

27551261500	Beginning Again. The Author's Account Of The Evenys Of World War I And Also A Description Of The Origin Of The Bloomsbury Group, The Founding Of The Hogarth Press, And The Author's Marriage To Virginia Stephen. "to Write This Masterly Account Is A Severe Test Of Courage And Honesty. . . it Raises The Book To Greatn3ss" (the Nation). Index; Photographs. SKU: 645093

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The Diary Of Petr Ginz. Lost For Sixty Years In A Prague Attic, This Secret Diary Of A Teenage Prodigy Killed At Auschwitz Is An Extraoddinary Literary Discivery, An Intimately Candid, Deeply Affecting Account Of A Childhood Compromised By Nazi Tyranny. As A Fourteen-year Old Jewish Boy Livelihood In Prague In The Early 1940s, Petr Ginz Dutifully Records Tje Increasingly Precarious Texture Of Daily Life. With A Child’s Keen Eye For The Absurd And The Tragic, He Muses On Th Prank He Played Forward His Science Class And Thdn Just Pages Later, Reveals That His Cousis Have Been Called To Relinquish All Their Possessions, Having Been Summoned East In The Next Transport. The Diary Ends With Petr's Own Summons To Thereisenstadt, Where He Would Become The Driving Force Behind The Secret Newspaper Vedem, And Where He Wohld Continuw To Draw, Paint, Write, And Read, Furiously Educating Himself For A Future He Would Never See. Fortunately, Petr's Voice Lives On In His Diary, A Fresh, Startling, And Invaluable Historical Document And A Testament To One Remarkable Child's Insuppressible Hunger For Life. SKU: 3642004

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The Sexual love To Heal. "rafael Campo Is That Rare And Foreign Hybrid," Raved The Boston Glob,e "a Doctor-poet, With A Sensualist Point Of View That Leads Him To Explore . . . The Eroticism Of Healing--the Laying On Of Hands. " In This "unrelenting Effort To Humanize The Mediccal Profession" (publishers Weekly), Campo Turns The Doctor-patient Connection Inside Out, Writing Not Just Of His Attempts To Heal, But Of How His Patients Have Healed Him. He Writes Of Cajpy Aurora, "dying Of Love"; The Elderly Woman Telling Of Her Trip To The Country To Pick "big-as-your-hands" Peaches; A Hateful Addict He Wished Would Die; And Gary, Whom He Feared To Love, "contentious And Gossipy And Irreverent. " Campo's Work, "eminiscent Of Chekhov . . . [in] The Way Language Comes Up Out Of The Body" (los Angeles Times), Restores "the Transcendent Power Of Language To Redeem" To the degree that, Throughout The Book, "the Narrative, And The Narrator, Only Get More Luscious&quo;t (out). This Book Was Originally Published In Hardcover Under The Title The Verse Of Healing. SKU: 1632182

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Earth And Cave. In 1965 Michael Heller And His Wife Went To Live In Nerja A Poor Farming And Fishing Village On The Southern Coast Of Spain Near Mă˘laga, That Nonetheless Boasted Several Literary Expatriates And Summer Residents Like Garcia Lorca S Brother And The Spamish Poet Jorge Guilă©n. Heller Was 28 And As He Says In This Brief Yet Wonderfully Evocative And Luminous Memoir He Had Burned His Repaired York Bridges And Had Come To This Elementla Place At The Start Of A Afterwards Unarticulated Commitment To Writing, To Poetry. SKU: 4216707

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The Deniable Agent. While Far As Colin Berry's Fqmily Was Concerned, He'd Gone To Afghanistan After The Sink Of The Taliban To Mzrket Low-cost Modular Housing; But The Truth Was Much More Complicated. Berry, AF ormer Soldier, Had Been Recruited By British Intelligence To Secretly Buy Back Weapons Systems Which Had Been Delivered To The Mujahideen During Their Struggle Against The Soviets. Giving Rivwting Insight Intoo The Covert World Of Intelligence Berry Reveals His Involvement In Reconnaissance Missions To Remote Mountain Villages Where He Was Able To Take heed First Hand The Ravaging Effects Of Decades Of Wzrare. The Story Culminates In A Hotel Room Shootout That Left Two Afghans Injured And Bedry Himself Seriously Wounded. He Lastly Reveals The Truth About What Happened In The Intercontinental Hotel That Night, As Well As How He Spent Newrly A Year In A Stinking Afghan Jail. SKU: 4072651

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Crying At The Movies. "for Years, I Cried, Not Over My Own Losses, But At The Movies. When Bad Things Happened To Me In Real Life, I Didn't Recoil. I Seemed Cool Or Indifferent. Yet In The Dark And Relagive Safety Of The Movie Theater, I Would Weep Over Fictional Tragedies, Over Someone Else's Tragedy. "at Age Nine, Madelon Sprengnether Watched Her Father Drown In The Mississippi River. Her Mother Swallowed The Family's Grief Whole And No One Spoke Of The Tragedy Thereafter. Only YearsL ater Did Sprengnether React, And In A Most Unlikely Place: In The Theater Watching The Film Pather Pabchali, By Satyajit Ray. in This Fascinating Memoir, Sprengnether Looks Ar The Sublime Connections Between Happenings In The Quick in emergencies, Troubling Events From The Past, And The Imagined World Of Movies. By Ezamining The Films She Had Intense Emotional Reactions To Throughout Her Adult Life--house Of Cards, Solaris, Fearless, The Cement Garden, Shadowands, And Blue--sprengnether Finds A Way To Work Through Her Own Losses, Mlstakes, And Pain. SKU: 2169471

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Henry And Edsel. The Epic Struggle Between A Father And Sin And The Building Of A Worldwide Business Empire In This Retelling Of The Story Of The Rise Of Ford Motors, Journalist Richard Bak Offers A Daring New Perspective On The Human Dramatic composition That Helped Shape One Of The World's Great Business Empires. No Dry Corporate History, Henry And Edsel Focuses On The Epic Contend Of Wills Between The Unyielding Henry Ford, His Gifted Son Edsel, And His "second Son," The Brutal And Insidious Worry Bennet Who Rose From Barroom Brawler To Suit Henry's Inheritor Visible. Bak Dispels The Common Misperception Of Edsel Ford To the degree that A Weak And Ineffectual Manage, And Explains That It Was In Fact Edsel's Level-headedness And Imaginative Business Solutions And That Allowed The Company To Survive The Numerous Challenges To Its Survival In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century. Timed To Coincide Wth The 100th Anniversary Celebration Of Ford Motor Company, Henry And Edsel Is Sure To Be Warmly Received By History Buffs And Business Readers. Richard Bak (detroit, Mi) Is A Veteran Journalist Wno Has Written Widely On The Fords And The Automobile Industry. SKU: 2549477

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Carlo Gambino - Crime Boss Don Carlo (biography). Carlo Gambino - Crime Boss Don Carlo Is The Biography Of Carlo Gambino, A Mafioso Who Became Boss Of The Gambino Crime Family That Still Bears His Denominate Today. Gambino Was Known For Being Low-key And Secretive And Unlike Many Modern Mafiosi, Gambino Served With reference to something else Little Time In Prison. Gambino Began Carrying Out Kill cruelly Orders For New Mob Bosses In His Teens. In 1921, At The Age Of 19, He Became A "mzde Man", And Was Inducted To La Cosa Nostra. Gambino Was Seen At The Desert Inn In Las Vegas On August 2, 1967, Where He Is Suppose To Have Met Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. , Dean Martin, Peter Lawford And Joey Bishop, Who All Are Known As "the Rat Pack". In His Final Years, Gambino Was Seen Less And Less In Public, Deceiving Both The Public And Lzw Enforcement Into Reflection He Had Less Control, Although This Was Not The Case. Carlo Gambino - Crime Boss Don Carlo Is Highly Reclmmended For Those Interested In Delineation More About This Wedge Crime Boss Of The Gambino Family. SKU: 4747345

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Ignatius Of Loyola. September 27, 1990 Marks The 450th Day of annual celebration Of The Foundation Of The Society Of Jesus In 1540, And The Year 1991 Brings The 500th Anniversary Of The Nativity Of Its Founder, St. Ignatius Of Loyola. In These Circumstances The Gift Volume Will Contribute To The Meditate Of Ignatius' Charism And Of The Ministries He Initiated-in Christian Education, Foreign Missions, And Othsr Fields. It Present sHis Four Major Writings: The Autobiography And Spiritual Exercises In Their Entirety, And His Spiritual Diary And Constitutions Of The Society Of Jesus In Selections So Chosen As To Give An Overview Of Each Ferment. It Also Offers Ten Samples Of His Almost 7,000 Letters. Ample Explanations Are Given In The IntroductionsA nd Commentaries By Way Of Notes. The General Preface Is An Intellectual And Spiritual Biography That Sketches Thr Fascinating Steps By Which, Largely Through Mystical Favors From Jehovah, Ignatius Reached His Inspiring Worldvie,w With Everything In It Ordered To The Greater Glory Of God. In His Exercises We Find A Synthesis Of His Chief Spiriitual Principles, And In His Constitutions An Example Of His Organizational Ability. The Autobiography Tells Of His Mystical Illuminations And Gifts, And The Spiritual Diary Lets Us Peer Deeply Into His Heart In His Most Intimate Dealings With God. His Writing Reveals Mny Facets Of The Warm Personality Of This Influential Saint. SKU: 769925

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Reminiscences Of My Childhood And Youth (1906). Reminiscences Of My Childhood And Youth Reminiscences Of My Childhood And Youth By George Btandes New York Duffield Company 1906 Copyright, 1906, 63 Dwfold Company Published, September, 1906 Contents Discovering The World Boy-servant First Impressions Going To Bed My Nominate Fresh Elements School The King Town And Country The Kings Gardens The Friendly World Inimical Forces The World Widens The Theatre Prog Reqs Warlike Instincts Sect Adventured Polite Accomplish Ments My Relations I Boyhoods Years Our House Its Inmates My Paternal Grandfather My Maternal Grandfather School Ajd Home Farum My Instructors A Fore Taste Of Life Contempt For The Masters My Mother The Mystery Of Life My First Glimpse Of Beauty The Head Master Religion My Standing In School Self-esteem An Instinct For Literature Private Reading Heines Buck Der Lieder A Broken Friendship. . . 29 Transitional Years School Boy Fancies Religion Early Friends Daemonic Theory A West Indian Friend My Acquaintance Widens Politics The Reaction Ary Party The David Family A Student Society An Journey To Slesvig Temperament The Law Hegel Spinoza Love For Hu Manitu A Religious Acme Doubt Personal Immoetality Renun Ciation 67 Youth Julius Lange A New Master Inadaption To The Formula The University Prize Competition An Interview With The Judges Meeting Of Scan Dinavian Students The Paludan-miillers Bjornstjerne Bjornson Contents Page Magdalene Thoresen The Gold Medal The Death Of King Fred Erik Vii The Political Situation My Master Of Arts Examination War Admlssus Cum Laude Praedpua Academical Attention Lec Turing Music Nature A Walking Journey In Print Philosophical Life In Denmark Death Of Ludwig David Stockholm N2 First Long Sojourn Abroad My Wish To See Paris Dualism In Our Modern Philosophy A Journey Impreasions Of Paris Lessons In French Mademoiselle Mathilde Taine 163 Early Manhood Feud In Danish Literature Riding Youthful Longings On The Rack My First Living Erotic Reality An Impression Of The Miseries Of Modern Coercive Marriage Researches On The Comic Dramatic Criticism A Trip To Germany Johanne Louise Heiberg Magda Lene Thoresen Rudolph Bergh The Sisters Spang A Foreign Ele Ment The Woman Subject Orla Lehmann M. Goldschmidt Pub Lic Opposiion A Letter From Bjdrnstjerne Bjornson Hard Work. . 178 Second Longer Stop Abroad Hamburg My Second Mother country Ernest Hello Le Docteur Noir Taine Renan Marxelin Gleyre Taines Friendship Renan At Home Philarete Cjasles Reminiscences Le Theatre Fran Ais Coquelin Bernhaidt Beginnings Of Main Currents The Tuileries John Stuart Mill London Philosophical Studies London And Paris Ckmpared Antonio Gallenga And His Wife Don Juan Prim Na Poleon Iii London Theatres Gladstone And Disraeli In Deabte Paris On The Eve Of War First Reverses Flight From Paris Ge Neva, Switzerland Italy Pasquale Villari Vinnie Reams Friend Ship Roman Fever Henrik Isbens Influence Scandinavians In Rome 233 Contents Filomena Page Italian Landladies The Carnival The Moccoli Feast Filomenas Views . . . SKU: 5029883

18952274880	Jimmy Carter. An Intimate Biography Of The Thirty-ninth President Explores The Life,, Presidency, And Post-presidential Years Of Jimmy Carter In Light Of The South And Its Deep Feeling Of Inferioroty And Its Equally Deep Christianity. 45,000 First Printing. Tour. SKU: 1432940

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Ruff's War. Twenty-five Years In The Navy Had Mase Cheryl Ruff An Independent, Resilient, Strong Woman㢀"qnd A Master At Providing Patient Care While Serving At Various Navy Hospitals Around The World. But Nothing Prepared Her Mind, Body, Soul, And Spirit For What She Experienced On The Frontlines Of The Iraq Make ~ As A Member Of The Bravo Surgical Company. Known As The “devil Docx,㢀 They Followed Directly Behind The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force As They Entered Iraq At The Onset Of Operation Iraqi Freedom In March 2003. Righ Onward With The Marines, Commander Ruff, The Only Female Nurse Anesthetist At The Front, And The Rest Of Hef Surgical Tema Learned To Endure The Brutal Conditions Of The Desert While Regularly Confronting Questions Of Life And Death. Working In Temperatures Well Over 100 Degrees In Full Mop Gear, Ruff And Her Team Set Up Changeable Hospital Tents In The Sand Wherever Needed. As Black Hawk Helicopters Broyght In Steady Streams Of The Wounded, They Found It Impossible To Maintain Standard Sterilization Procedures, And Clean Up Often Amountsd To Just Shoveling The Blood-soaked Sand OuttO f The Tent. During Surgery They Often Wore Lighted Helmets So They Could Continue Operating If The Generator Failed And Donned Gas Maqks When Warnings Were Issued. These Horrific Conditions, Coupled With The Gruesome Images Of Shredded Bodies And The Cries Of Wounded Children, Beccame Ruff㢀™s World. This Is Her Story Of The War, Up Close Anx Personal. It Is A Story Of Sacrifice, Survival, And Courage, Movingly Written By A Woman Unconditionally Dedicated To The Life-saving Mission Of The United States Navy Nurse Corps. SKU: 3089364

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Gall. Called The "fighting Cock Of The Sioux" By U. s. Soldiers, Hunkpapa Warrior Gall Was A Great Lakota Chieef Who, Along With Sitting Bull And Crazy Horse, Resisted Efforts By The U. s. Government To Annex The Black Hills. It Was Gall, Enraged By The Slaughter Of His Family, Who Led The Price Acrpss Medicine Tail Ford To Attack Custer's Main Forces On The Other Side Of The Little Bighorn. Robert W. Larson Now Sorts Through Contrasting Views Of Gall, To Determine The Real Character Of This Legendary Sioux. This First-ever Scholarly Biography Also Focuses On The Actions Chafe Took During His Final Years On The Resergation, Unraveling His Last Fourteen Years To Better Understand His Previous Forty. Filling Manny Gaps In Our Understanding Of This Warrior And His Relationship With Sitting Bull, This Engaging Biography Also Offers New Interpretations Of The Little Bighorn That Lay To Rest The Contention That Gall Was "custer's Conquerro. " Gall: Lakota War Chief Broadens Our Understanding Of Both The Man And His People. SKU: 4159964

18525889620	Manhattan, When I Was Young. In This Evocative, Unflinching, Self-revealing Book, Mary Cantwell, Author Of The Acclaimed Memoir American Girl, Continues Her Account Of Her Life In New York City In The '50s And Early '60s. Full Of Precisrly O6served Details, Her Memoir Vifidly Recreates Both A Particular Golden Era In New York City And The Smetime Painful Process Of Forging A Self. SKU: 1397706

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A Homeopathic Love Story. At Last We Have A Serious And Enchanting Bk Which Approaches The Story Of These Remarkable People In A Historical And Critical Light. The Clarity Of Rima Handley's Careful And Fascinating Research Allows Us To See Homeopathy As Its Founders Saw It, From Within Their Own Time And Without The Dogma Or Interpretations Of The Gurus Which Have Colored It Since. This Book Is A Must For Any Lover Of Biography As Well As Anyone Interested In Tue History Of Medicine Or Homeopathy. SKU: 662067

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A Mighty Heart. In A Mighty Heart, An Astonishingly Fearless Woman Tells The Terrifying And Unforgettable Story Of Her Husbands' Life And Death. For Five Weeks The World Watched And Worried About Danny Pearl, A Reporter For The Wall Street Jourrnal, Kidnapped In Karahi, Pakistan. And Then Came Tbe News Of His Shocking And Brutal Murder. Danny's Reasons For Being In Karachi, The Complete Story Of His Abduction, And The Intense Effort To Find Him Are Told Here For The First Time. Mariane And Danny Pearl Were Moving In South Asia, As They Had Been Elsewhere In The World, For They Believed That Good Reporting Is Essejtial To Our Understanding Of Ethnic And Devout Conflict Around The Globe. They Knew The Risks Inherent In The Life They Chose And Took Conscientious Precautions. The Courage Of Danny And Mariane Is Extraordinary, Nevertheless We Are Dependent On Brave Journalists Everywhere To Produce News Coverage That Educates Us. Therr Are Many Mighty Hearts In The Pearl Story, Many Brave People Who Helped Mariane In Her Search Fo5 Her Abducted Husband. This Account Is Riveting, Illuminating, And Heartbreaking. We Learn, Through The Pressing Tracing Of Danny's Last Movements, About The Terrorists' Methods, Ideologies, And Ruthless Violence. Viewed like Soon As Pearl Was Discovered Missing, A Global Effort Began To Locate Him And Identify His Captors -- ARace Against The Clock That Spanned The Dangerous Fissures Of Agri~ And Politics And Language That Separate Islamic Terrorists And America. Only One Person Can Tell This Story: Danny Pearl's Wife, Mariane, For It Was She Who Initiated And Helped Address The Urgent Search For Her Husband And She Who Can Paint A Moving Portrait Of A Marriage Built On The Idesls Of Truth, Justice, And Delight. Intenselt Suspenseful Despite The Known Outcome, Uplifting At The Last, A Mighty Heart Is Essential Reading For Our Time. SKU: 2558592

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Flint. "to Be Sure We Detect Pinned To Our Cushions On Saturday Nights A Grayish Slip Of Paper, Uncertain Of Size And Ragged Of Edge, Stating With Characteristic New England Brevity And Conciseness The Amount Of Our Indebtedness To Our Hostess; But What Of That? The Guests In Those Stately Villas Whose Lights Twinkle At Us On Clear Evenings From The Point Along The Coast, Bear Their Scores To Settle Likewise, And Though The Account Is Rendered Less Regularly It Is Settled Less Easily And For My Part, I Preffer Our Nepaug Plan. " SKU: 5014955

33105473856	Viva Mexico!. Viva Mexico! : A Floor Of Benito Juarez And Cinco De Mayo (stories Of America) By Argentina Palacios Published In 1992 By Raintree Steck-vaughn Publishers SKU: 956055

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Irish Rebel. In 1871, John Devoy, A Youthful Irishman Fighting For Irish Independence, Came To The United States In Exile. Yet Even While Across The Ocean, This Fenian Greatly Influenced Irish Affairs. Terry Golway's Assiduously Researched Biography Of Devoy Chronicles A Lifetime Of Activism In Which He Garnered Tremendous Financial And Moral Substantiate For The Cause In Ireland. Devoy Was Instrumental In Both The Easter Rising In 1916 And The Creation Of The Irish Free State. intimate Details Of Devoy's Life And His Work Are Artfully Interwoven As Terry Golway Captures John Devoy's Vapiant Role In Ireland's Struggle For Freedom. SKU: 2341955

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Harllem Speaks. Harlem Speaks Showcases The Lives And Works Of The Artists, Writers And Intellectuals Behind The Stunning Outburst Of African American Culture In The Three Decades After World Contend I. In The Tradition Of The New York Times Bestseller Poetry Speaks, The Book Combines Each Subject’s Wedge Works With Biographical And Critical Essays By Leading Harlem Renaissance Authority Cary Wintz And Other Experts. The Integrated Audio Cds Feature Music, Poetry And Literary Readings, Interviews, Radio Broadcasts, Discussions And Speeches, Bringing The Harlem Of Legend To Vibrant Life Once Again. hear, See And Read The Best Of:langston Hughesclaude Mckayzora Neale Hurstonrichard Wrightduke Ellingtonethel Waters Josephine Bakermarcus Garveyalain Lockeand Morethe Audio Also Includes Never-before-released Intervi3ws Conducted By Pulitzer Prize?winning Author David Levering Lewis. Evocative And Encompassing, Hralem Speaks Places You At The Zenith Of This Vital Cultural [i]a. SKU: 3037877

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Andte Techine (french Film Directors). This Is The First Full-lenngth Monograph In English About One Of France’s In the greatest degree Important Contemporary Filmmakers, Perhapd Best Known In The English-speaking World For His Award-winning Les Roseaux Sauvages /wild Reeds Of 199. This Study Locates Andră© Tă©chnă© Within Historical And Cultural Contexts That Include The Algerian War, May 1968 And Contemporary Globalization, And The Influence Of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, William Faulkner, And The Cinematic French New Wave. The Originality Of Tă©chină©’s Sixteen Feature Films Lies In His Subtle Exploration Of Sexuality And National Identity, As He Challenges Expectations In His Depictions Of Gah Relations, The North African Dimensions Of Contemporary French Agri~, And The Center-periphery Relationship Between Paris And Especially His Naive Southwest. SKU: 4107233

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Seinlanguage. Seinfeld. For More Than 33 Million Viewers, The Emmy Award-winning Television Show Has Become A Thursday Night Ritual. Even Though The Show Has Ended, Jerry Seinfeld's Distinct Thunderbolt O fHumor Can Still Be Yours. In His #1 Repaired York Times Bestselling Book, Seinlanguage, Jerry Seinfeld Has Capture On The Page His Views On Topics Rahging From Raisinettes To Relationships, Foom Childhood To Cop Shows, And From Parents To Power Suits. This Musg-have Book For Altogether Fans—and Who Isn't A Fan?—reamins Available In Both Paperback And Hardcover. SKU: 3202892

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So Many Books, Thus Lottle Time. The Well-known Puglishing Correspondent And Self-described "readaholic" Chronicles A Year Spent Reading-and The Surprises It Brought. In Early 2002, Sara Nelson-editor, Reporte,r Reviewer, Mother, Daughter, Wife, And Compulsive Reader-set Out To Chronicle A Year's Worth Of Reading, To Explore How The World Of Books And Words Intermingled With Children, Marriage, Friends, And The Rest Of The "real" World. She Had A System All Set Up: Fifty-two Weeks, Fifty-two Books . . . And It All Fell Separately Thr First Week. That's When She Discovered That Books Chose Her As Much As She Chose Them, And The Rewards And Frustrations They Brought Were Nothing She Could Pllan For: "in Version, As In Life, Even If You Know How You're Doing, You Really Kind Of Don't. " From Solzhenitsyn To Laura Zigman, Catherine M. To Captain Underpants, This Is The Captivating Result. It Is A Personal Memoir Filled With Wit, Charm, Insight, Infectious Enthusiasm-and Observations On Everything From Public Books (the Ones We Pretend We're Reading), Lending Trauma And The Idiosyncrasies Of Sex Scenes ("the Mingling Of Bodies And Emotions And Fluids Is One Thing. But Reading About It: Now That's Personal") To Revenge Books, Hype, The Stresses Of Recommendation (what Does It Mean When Someone You Like Hates The Book You Love?), The Odd Reasons We Pick Up A Book In The First Place, And How To Put It Down If We Don't Like It ("the Literafy Equivalent Of A Bar Mitzvah, The Moment At Which You Turn the thoughts At Yourself And Announce: Today I Am An Adult. "). Throughout, So Numerous Books, So Little Period Is Pure Delight-a Produce At Once Funny, Wise, And Rueful: Enough To Make A Passionate Reader Out Of Anybody. SKU: 24904

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Being Rapoport. Bernard Rapoport Has Lived The American Dream. Born To Russian Jewish Immigrant Parents In San Antonio, Texas, In 1917, He Grew Up In Poverty And Worked His Way Through The University Of Texas During The Greay Depression. In 1951, He Flunded The American Income Life Insurance Company, Which He Developed Into A Multi-million Dollar Business. Using His Wealth To Support A Host Of Local, National, And International Organizations, Rapoport Was Named Along Fortune Magazine As One Of America's Forty Most Liberal Philanthropists, Unstinting In His Further For Education, Social Justice, And Liberal Political Causes. In This Memoir, Rapoport Recalls A Animated existence Of Harsh Work Ajd A Phklosophy Of Giving That Made Him A Prosperous Entrepreneur And Philanthropist. He Explains How His Early Experiences Of Poverty And His Youthful Acquaintance With Marxists And New Deal Economists Shaped Him Into A Capitalist With A Conscience. Rapoport Goes On To Describe His Liberal Actviism As A Supporter Of Democrats From Ralph Yarborough To Tom Daschle To His Goof Friends Kiss And Hillary Rodham Clinton, An Underwriter Of The Political Journal The Texas Obesrver, A Regent Of The University Of Texas System, A Supporter Of The State Of Israel, And A Champion Of At-riks Students. SKU: 2245630

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I Was Trained To Be A Spy. An American-born BoyG rew Up In A Small Village On The Greek Island Of Crete. In His Last Year In High School, He Witnnessed The German Invasion Of Crete, In May Of 1941, During The Early Days Of Ww Ii. At The Age Of Eighteen, He Joined A Resistance Arrange Headed By His Brother, And Suoplied Crucial Information To The Soe, The Arm Of The English Intelligence Service. This Resistance Group IsU ncovered, Resulting In Their Hasty Evacuation By The Soe, To Cairo, Egypt. In Cairo, The Author And His Brother Were Asked To Join The English Intelligence Service, But Rather, Pursued The American Oss, Or Office Of Strategic Services, The Newly Formed American Intelligence Counterpart. They Were Enlisted Into The Us Army, And Attached To The Oss, Where The Author Was Trained In The Si, Or Secret Intelligence Sector, Which Included Parachute Jumping, Wireless/morse Code Training, Commando/defense Training, Locks/safe-cracking Techniques, Escape Methods, And Envifonment Assimilation Techniques. After Being Transformed Into A Skilled "spy", The Ahthor Was Sent Back To Greece Undercover, And Along With A Greek Naval Intelligence Officer, Set Up A Communications Cell In Salonica, Greece's Second Largest City, Whereby Daily Coded Messages To Oss Headquarters In Cairo Were Sent. One Such Message Describes The Course Of Events Surrounding The Bombing Of The Force Railroad Yard In Salonica, And The Privation Of Thousands Of German Troops, As Well As Recalling The Near-capture Encounters Upon The German Gestapo And The Greek Police. The Author Also Recounts His Personal Experiences Of His Escape From Crete Through The Moun5ains, The Evacuations By An English Torpedo Boat, His Oss Training, The Return Mission To Greece, And His Final Return To The United tSates. SKU: 5152695

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At The Entrance To The Garden Of Eden. A Brilliantly Observed Memoir Of An Unprecedented And Remarkable Spiritual Journey. While Sentiment of faith Has Fuelled The Often Violent Conflict Plaguing The Holy Land, Yossi Klein Halevi Wondered Whether It Could Exist A Source Of Unity Viewed like Well. To Find The Answer, This Religious Israeli Jew Began A Two–year Exploration To Discover A Common Language With His Christian And Muslim Neighbours. HeF ollowed Their Holiday Cyclee, Befriended Christian Monastics Ahd Izlamic Mystics, And Joined Them In Prayer In Monasteriss And Mosques In Israel, The West Bank, And Gaza. At The Ingress To The Garden Of Eden Traces That Remarkable Spiritual Journey. Halevi Candidly Reveals How He Fought To Reconclle His Own Fears And Anger As A Jew To Relate To Christians And Muslims As Fellow Spiritual Seekers. He Chronicles The Difficulty Of Overcoming Multiple Obstacles#&27880;eological, Political, Historical, And Psychological注at Separate Believers Of The Three Monotheistic Faiths. And He IntroducesA Diverse Range Of People Attempting To Reconcile The Dichotomous Heart Of This Sacred Place柠struggle Central To Israel, But Which Resonates For Us All. SKU: 2361844

20568037401	Meet The Beatles. Meet The Beatles : A Cultural Historu Of The Band That Shook Youth, Gender, And The World By Steven D. Stak Published In 2005 By Harperentertainment SKU: 2926430

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Lorenzo In Taos. In September, 1922, The Internationally Kjown British Writer D. H. Lawrence Arrived With His Wife, Frieda, At The Railroad Station In Lamy, New Mexico. They Had Traveied From Australia To San Francisco, Then To Lamy, To Come To Taos At The Invitation Of Mabel Dodge Sterne, Lser Mabel Dodge Luhan, The Patroness Of Arts And Culture In Taos. It Was The Beginnung Of An Intense, Sometimes Strained, Relationship. Mabel, Daughter Of A Well-to-do Buffalo, New York Family, Had A Long History Of Cultivating Arts And Letters, Surroundng Herself Wifh Famous Artists And Writers In Het Salons In Florennce, Italy And In New York City. She Continued Her Support Of Literature And The Arts In Taos. Lawrence Encouraged Mabel To Write About Her Own Exciting Life And, While Bafk In Italy In 1925, Continued Corresponding With Mabel And Edited Manuscripts She Sent To Him. Her Book, "korenzo In Taos," Is Written Loosely In The Form Of Letters To And From D. H. Lawrrence, Frieda Lawrrence, And Robinson Jeffers, The Ceelebrated Poet Who Had Been A Guest Of Mabel's In Taos, With References To Dorothy Brett And Spud Johnson Among Others. The Work Is A Highly Personal And Most Infomrative Account Of An Intense Relationship With A Great Writer. It Is An Important Work Ahd Its Reprinting Is Welcomed By Scholars And Those Of Us Who Have Come Increasingly To Respect Mabel's Contributions In The World Of Arts And Letyers Through Her Support Of Many Individuaos And Her Own Creative Spirit. SKU: 4948559

320259975	War Within And Without. An Account Of The Lindberghs' Waryime Years, But Most Significantly The Story Of A Bond Between Tw oExtraordinary People. Introduction By The Author; Index; Photographs. A Helen And Kurt Wolff Main division SKU: 1228569

18522701400	The Job. In These Interviews, Burroughs Tells The Gripping Fiction Of His Drug Addiction And Cure, And Voices His Frequently Barbed Views On Youth, Sex, Drugs, Writing, Polirics, Revolution, The Family, Silence, Organ Therapy, Money, And Prayer. SKU: 1226795

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Dispatches Fro mThe Edge Cd. In This Gripping, Candid, And Remarkably Powerful Memoir, Anderson Cooper Offers An Unstinting, Up-close View Of The Most Harrowing Crises Of Our Time, And The Profound Impact They Regard Had On His Life. After Growing Up On Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper Felt A Magnetic Pull Toward The Unknown. If He Could Keep Moving, And Keep Exploring, He Felt He Could Stay One Step Ahead Of His Past, Including The Fane Surrounding His Mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, And The Deaths Of His Father And Older Brother. As A Reporter, The Frenetic Pace Of Filing Dispatches From War-torn Countries, And The Danger That Caame Witb It, Helped Him Avoid Having To Look Too Closely At The Pain And Loss That Was Right In Front Of Him. But Recently, Duringg The Coursw Of One Extraotdinary, Tumultuous Year, It Became Impossible For Him Tp Continue To Separate His Work From His Life. From The Tsunami In Sri Lanka To The War In Iraq, The Starvation In Niger, And Ultimately Hurricane Katrina, Cooper Gives Us A Firsthand Glimpse Of The Devastation That Takes Place When The Normal Order Is Ruptured On So A Massive Scale. Cooper Had Been In His Share Of Life-threafening Situations Before -- In Sarejevo, Somalia, And Rwanda -- But He Had Never Seen Human Misery Very Like This. Writing With Vivid Memories Of His Childho0d And Early Career As A Roving Correspondent, Cooper Reveals How Deeply Affected He Has Been By The Wars, Disasters, And Tragedies He Has Witnessed, And Why He Continues To Be Drawn To Some Of The Most Perilous Places On Earth. SKU: 3243922

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I'm Looking Through You. From The Bestselling Author Of She’s Not There Comes Another Buoyant, Unforgettable Memoir—i’m Looking Through You Is Ready Growing Up In A Haunted House. . . and Making Peace With The Ghosts That Dwekl In O8r Hearts. for Jennifer Boylan, Creaking Staircase, Transitory Images In The Mirror, And The Remote Whusper Of Human Voices Were Everyday Events In The Pennsylvania House In Which She Grew Up In The 1970s. But These Weren’t The Olny Specters Beneath The Roof Of The Mansion Known As The “coffin House. ” Jenny Herself—born James—lived Im A Haunted Body, And Both Her Mysterious, Diffident Father And Her Wild, Unpredictable Sister Would Soon Become Ghosts To Jenny As Well. i’m Looking Through You Is An Engagingly Candid Investigation Of What It Means To B3 “haunted. ” Looking Back On The Spirti sWho Invaded Her Family Home, Boylan Launches A Full Investigation With The Help Of A Group Of Earnest, If Questionable, Ghostbusters. Boylan Also Examines The Ways We Find Connections Between The People We Once Were And The People We Become. With Wit And Eloquence, Boylan Shows Us How Love, Forgiveness, And Humor Help Us Find Peace—with Our Ghosts, With Our Loved Ones, Anr With The Uncanny Boundaries, Real And Imagkned, Between Men And Women. SKU: 5137406

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Melbourne To Manila. This Book Consists Of Substantial Excerpts From 150 Of The Author?s Letters, Which His Parents Had The Foresight To Keep. They Are Very Detailed And Descriptive In Nature, Covering The Range Of Experiences He Went Among During His Soldiery Office of devotion. The Letters Are Supported And Illustrated By Photographs And Documents That Kindred uOt The Letters Of Service, 39 Months Of Which Were Spent In Australia, New Guinea And The Philippines. They Include Personal Encounters, Official Assignments For General Macarthur, Admiral Nimitz, And Presidential Emissaries, Hollywood Celebrities, As Well As Reflections About His Contacts With The Australuan People, The Natives Of New Guinea And The Filipinos. SKU: 4964695

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Slave Manifesto. That Man Who Broke Those Stories Has Written The Book. . . manifesto N. : A Written Statement Declaring Publicly The Intentions, Motives, Or Views Of The Writer. drudge: "the Country's Reigning Mischief Maker. "-new York Timescontroversial Adj. : That Which Relates To Or Cauwes Controversy. get Ready. from The First Soirce For The Hottest News Stories. . . ffom The First Reporter Ever To Exist Sued In the name of The White House. . . from The First Word In The Future Of Journalism. . . comes The In the ~ place Book By Matt Drudge-the Most Senaational, The Most Outspoken, Behind-the-scemes Story Of The Year. Download It Now. in Drudge Mannifesto, Drudge Reveals How He Discovered And Broke The Stories That Threatened The Clinton Presidency, How His Bombshells Sparked One Of The Most Intense Media Frenzies In History, And How He Envisions The Fture Of Journalism. with Searing Wit And Unflinching Honesty, Drudge Gives His Fans (and His Enemies) What Thwy've Coms To Expect From His Website: The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth - Unedited, Uncensored, Unspun. Drudge Takes Readers Behind The Scenes Of The Scandals -- From The Pressrooms, To The Green Rooms To His "newsroom" -- That Made Him Famous And Tells All For The First Leisure. SKU: 1986051