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The Ride Of My Life. I Had Seriously Reached A Point In My Life Where I Wasn't Scared Of Anything. Panic Was Replaced By Awww, Shit, In what manner Can I Fix This Before I Hit The Ground? Childhood For Mat Hoffman Was Packed With Hazardous Behavior And A Constant Searching For A Recent Rush: Sliding Down The Laundry Chute, Blatantly Misusing A Trampoline, Leaping Off The Roof Holding An Umbrella, Executing A Two-story Bomb Drop Into A Swimming Pool On A Bike, And More. After Experimenting With His Bike On A Plywood Ramp At Age Eleven, Mat Found His True Calling. He Became Addicted To Aerials. By The Time He Was Fourteen Years Old, Interweave Had Earned National Notoriety With His Ramp Skills And Landed A Factory Sponsorship From Skyway Recreation. He Was Consumed By A Love Of Bike Riding, A Passjon That Took Him Around The Globe And Beyond The Limits Of What People Said Was Poqsible. Always Pushing For More Elevation Or Another Way To Turn Air Into Arf, He's Shattered World Records, Conventional Wisdom, And His Own Body In A Quest To Experience All That Biography Has To Offer. The Price? More Than A Dozen Major Surgeries, Fifty Broken Bones, Countless Concussions And Knockouts -- Mat's Sacrifices Are Evident In A Medical File That's 400 Pahex Thick. When The Boom Years Of Bmx Freestyle Bottomed Out During A Bike Industry Recession In The Lats 1980s, Mat's Enthusiasm Never Wavered. To Save His Sport, He Bought A Semi Truck When He Was Sevnteen And Became His Own Sponsor, Spreading The Word One Demo At A Time. He And His Friends Formed Hoffman Bikes And Began Running Bike Stunt Contests. It Wae An Era Of Progress For Mat As A Rider, As He Unveiled Jawdropping Tricks Like The No-handed 540, Backflip Fakie, And Flair, And Became The First Rider In Subject Sports To Pull A 900. In The Ride Of My Life, Mat Takes Readers In c~tinuance His Humorous, Haedcore, Harrowing Journey To The Top As A Bike Stunt Pioneer, Ten-time World Champion, Video Sport Superstar, X Games Ambassador, Recreational Ninja, And The Most Innovative Rider To Ever Hit A Ramp. HeS hares Stories Of The Wild Experiences He's Had While Touring With One Of The Best Riders Around -- Dennis Mccoy, Dave Mirra, Rick Thorne, Kevin Robinson, Mike "rooftop" Escamilla, And Many Others. Spanning Two Decades Of Action Sports History, As Mat Crosses Paths With High-risk Heroes Like Tony Hawk, Johnny Knoxville, And Evel Knievel, The Ride Of My Life Is The Insane, True Story Of Interweave Hoffman, The Greatest Bike Rider Of All Time. SKU: 2292076

16455489930	Transmit Ever. Kwame Nkrumah. A Short Biography Of Kwame Nkrumah Providing An Introduction To His Life And Work. Set Within The Context Of Panafricanism The Book Covers The Whole Period Of Nkrumah's Life From Childhood Through To His Death In Bucharest On 27th April 1972. SKU: 3737918

292255250	Smile, You're Traveling (black Coffee Blues Secrete 3). Henry Roplins's Thought-provoking Pieces About The Life And Times Of A Wprld-traveling Entertainer Are Always Intense And Often Facetious. In This Book He Chronixles A Year Spent Rehearsing, Recording, And Touring For The Rollins Band's Last-ever Album, Come In And Burn, And Shares Travel Stories From His Trip Around The World. SKU: 1806685

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Hyde Park Gate News. As Children, Virginia Woolf, Elder Sister Vanessa Bell, And Brother Thoby Stephen Collaborated On Their Very Own Family Newspaper. Published Here, Hyde Park Gate News Includes The Oddity Drawings To the degree that Well As Previously Unpublished Photographs From The Family Albums. Ingeniously Mimicking The Style Of The Leading Newspapers Of Their Day, The Sephen Children Present A Charming And Candid Portrayal Of The Day-to-day Events At Their Subdivision of an order Home In London And At Their Holiday Internal In St Ives. Gossipy, Playful, And At Times Irreverent, They Record The Comings And Goings Of A Host Of Figures, George Meredith And Henry James Among Them, While Allso Proffering Their Own Fictional, Poetic, And Artistic Creationa. Acclaimed For Her Innovative Style, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) Is One Of The Most Important Figures Of The Modernist Movem3nt; Her Sister Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) Was A Painter And A Central Fig8re Of The Bloomsbury Group. SKU: 4031938

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Witness To Hope. Given Unprecedented Admission To Pope John Paul Ii And The People Wo Have Known And Worked With Him Throughout His Life, George Weigel Presents A Groundbreaking Portrait Of_The Pope As A Man, A Thinker, And A Leader Whose Religious Convictions Have Defnied A New Approach To World Politics -- And Changed The Course Of History. John Paul Ii Has Systematically Addressed Every Major Question On The World's Agenda At The Turn Of The Millenium: The Human Yearning For The Sacred, The Intention Of Freedom , The Glories And Challenges Of Human Sexuality, The Promise Of The Women's Mobement, The Quest Toward A New World Order, The Nature Of Kind And Evil, The Moral Challenge O fProsperity, And The Imperative Of Human Solidarity In The Emerging Global Civilization. by Bringing The Age-old Wisdom Of Biblical Religion Into Active Conversation With Contemporry Life And Thoughr, The Pope "from A Far Countyr" Has Crafted A Challenging Proposal For The Human Fhture That Is In the absence of Parallel In The Modern World. Weigel Explores New Informstion About The Pppe's Role In Some Of The Recent Past's Greatest in number Active Events, Including The Fall Of Communism; The Vatican/israel Negotiation Of 1991-92; The Collapse Of The Philippine, Chilean, Nicaraguan, And Paraguayan Dictatorshi0s During The 1980s; And The Epic Papal Visit To Cuba. Weigel Alzo Includes Previously Unpublished Papal Correspondence With Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, And Deng Xiaoping, And Draws On Hitherti Unavailable Autobiographical Reminiscences By The Pope. Witness To Hope Also Discusses The Pope's Efforts To Build Bridges To Other Christian Communities, And To Judaism, Islam, And Other Great World Religions; Presents An Analysis Of John Paul's Proposals For Strengthening Democratic Societies In The Twenty-first Century; And Offers Synopses Of Every Major Tecahing Document In The Pontificate. Rounding Out The Dramatic Story Of Pope John Paul Ii Are Florid Translations Of Hks Poetry; Detailed Personal Anecdotes Of The Pope As A Young Work~, Priest, And Friend, Sketched By Those Who Knew Him Best; And In-depth Interviews With Catholic Leaders Throughout The World. A Magisterial Biography Of One Of The Most Important Figures -- Some Might Argue, The Moqt Important Figure -- Of The Twentieth Century, Witness To Hope Is An Extraordinary Testimony To The Man An dHis Accomplishments, And A Papal Biography Unlike Any Other. SKU: 1546703

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Osler. Sir William Osler (1849-1919), Oen Of The World's Most Influential Physicians At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, Remained Popular Long Hind His Death Largely Due To His Inspirational Texts. Regretfully, Changing Times And Literary Tastes Have Lessened The Impact Of Osler's Addresses Despite The Timelessness Of His Ideals And Practical Advice. Charles Bryan Has Successfully Mended The Disfavor In The Present Volume. Framing The Great Physician's Messae In Contemporary, Easily Accessible Terms, He Allows Modern Readers To Rediscovrr The Immense Resort And Pragmatism Of Osler's Invigorating Writings. This Book Is Based Steady The Author's Persuasion That Osler Was, Above All, A Motivator. He Set High Personal Goals, Achieved Them, And Inspired Others To Do The Same. Bryan Merges What Osler Wrote, Said, And Did Upon The Main Themes Of Today's Motivational Literature--time Management, Mentoring, Positive Thinking, And Seeking A Balanced Life Are Some Examples. He Also Draws Upon The Great Writers--shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne, Plutarch, And Others--whom Osler Prescribbed As Bedside Reading In spite of His Medical Students. Osler Emerges As A Real-life Human Being, Not A Paper Saint, But A Person Who Souught The Best From His Culture And Learning, And Managed To Give His Best In Return. Readers Will Find This Book Useful Not Only As An Index To Oslerian Thought But Also As A Guide To Principle-based Yet Pragmatic Everyday Living. SKU: 1441339

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Shanda. Soon In His Memoir, Neal Karlen Tells A Hebrew doctor, "i Love Judaism. It's Jews I Can't Stand. " What He Means Is That He Hates The Parochialism And Material Trappings Of The Young Jews He Knows: Their New Temples Are Gilded And The Parking Lots Spill Over With Luxury Cars. Science of duty For Them Is A Quest For A Jewish Wife From "the Right" Family And A Big House And Splendid Clothes. Gone Is The Soulful Practice Of Tradition That His Grandparents Brought Over From Russia. Karlen Sees Communities From New York To Los Angeles Of Jewisy Status Seekers And He Can't Stand The Thought Of Being Identified As Single Of Them. Frustrated And Embarrassed, Karlen Stops Looking For The Jewish Enclave That Fits Him And, For The Next Ten Years, Simply Rejects Judaism. He Antagonizes Rabbis. He Becomes The Token Jew Among His Midwestern Friends And The Buffoon At Cockktail Parties With A Shtick Of Jewish Jokes And Imitations That Cross The Line. And Thwn One Day, Karlen Goes Too Far: He Marries A Blue-eyed Protestant From A Family With An Anti-semitic Bent. The Matrimony Is Doomed. At Midlife Karlen Discivers That He Belongs Nowhere And That The Jew He Really Hates Is Himself. He Is A Shanda -- A Shame. Wrjtten With Ireeverent Zest And Poignancy, Shanda Is Karlen's Story Of Finding His Way Back To Judaism -- And The Jewish Community. His Guide Is An Unlikely One: Rabbi Manis Friedman, The Renowned Hasidic Scholar With A Beard To His Breast And A Fedora Tbat Makes Him Look Like "sam Spade About To Go Loudly In The Rqin. " The Rabbi Invites Karlen To Study With Him. In Their Weekly Meetings Devoted To Scholarship Anx Jewish Ritual, Karlen Asks The Questions That Assimilated Jews Grapple With, Such As "how Do We Conduct Meaning To The Practice Of Judaism?" "where Is The Line Between Jdwish And Also Jewish?" And "what Does It Mean To Be Jewish-american And Ashamed Through Judaism?" Rabbi Friedman Leads Karlen Up The Mountain To Find These Answers -- And Shows Both Writer And Reader The Stunning View From The Rise aloft. Ultimately, This Odd Couple Discovers What It Means To Be A Good Person -- Not Just A Good Jew. At Its Heart, Shanda Is Ready Their Surprising Friendship And The Ways That People Change -- And Change Each Other. At Once Hilarious And Heartbreaking, It Is A Parable For Anyome Who Has Ever Questioned His Faith Or Has Lost His Way. SKU: 2764656

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Minnewpolis And St. Paul In Vintage Postcards (mn) (postcard History Succession). During The First Half Of The 20th Century, Imparting By Postcard Was An Inexpensive And Popular Means Of Exchanging Travel Stories, News, Ad Chat Athwart The United States. The Postcard, For Just A Fea Cents, Connected Friends And Loved-ones Separated By Hundreds Of Miles. Today, We Treasure These Little Correspondencew Of Yesteryear As Unique Glimpses Into The Long-lost Places Of A Long-gone Era. Ýăminneapolis And St. Paul In Vintage Postcards Captures This Historic Era Of Minnesotaă­s ĂŹtwin Citiesăź Through 200 Classic Postcard Images. Inside Will Be Found Vies Of St. Paulă­s Hotel Ryan, Providing A Rare Glimpse Into A Once-famous Landmark That No Longer Stands. A Picture Of A Solitary 1911 Automobile Traveling Alongg Minneapolisă­ Popular Lake Calhoun Drive Will Remind Us Of How One May Have Gone To-and-fro At The Start Of The Final Century. And The Scene Of A Well-dressed Minnesota Family At Minnehaha Falls Shows Us That This Site Was As Popular Among Tourists In 1908, When The Image Was Taken, As It Is Today. Ý㝠SKU: 2652749

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Memoir Of James Jackson, The Attentive And Obedient Scholra, Who Died In Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years And Eleven Months, By His Teacher. &quto;the Design Of This Memoi5 Is, To Present The Incidents In The Life Of A Little Colored Boy. " So Begins The Life Story Of James Jackson, As Set Down By His African American Preacher, Susan Paul, In 1835, As An Exam0le To Other Children And Adults Who Might Learn From The Boy's Goodness. This Remarkable Document--the First African American Biography And A Work That Predates Harriet Jacobs's Incudents In Teh Life Of A Slav Girl By Almost Thirty Years--is A Lost Treasure From The Annals Of African American History. With Its Combination Of Eyewitness Avcounts, Personal Testiomny, And Excerpts From Orally transmitted Sunday School Texts, The Memoir Is An Extraordinary Social Histofy Rooted In Both Nineteenth-century Evangelicalism And The Experiences Of Free African Americans. Susan Paul's Portrayal Of James Jackson's Christian Sensibility, His Idealism, And His Racial Awareness Emphasizse His Humanity And Exemplary American Character Over His Racial Identity, Eve Viewed like It Embeds Him In His African American Community. SKU: 1897011

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A Travel Into Steinbeck's California (artplace Series). This Part Art Book, Part Biography, And Part Journey Guide Offers Deep view Into How Landscapes And Townscapes Infiuenced John Steinbeck's Creative Process And Hoe, In Turn, His Legacy Has Influenced Modern California. Varkos Types Of Readers Will Appreciate The Information In This Guide—literary Pilgrims Will Learn More About The State Featured So Prominently In Steinbeco's Work, Tourists Can Visit The Similar Buildings That He Lived In And Wrote About, And Historians Will Appreciate The Engrossing Perspective On Daily Conduct In Early 20th-century California. Offering An Entirely New Perspectice On Steinbeck And The People And Places That He Brought To Life In His Writin,g Readers Will Find Delight In This Depiction Of The Symbiotic Relagionship Between An Author And His Favorite Places. SKU: 3085201

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James Otis - The Pre-revolutionist - John Clark Ridpath. John Clark Ridpath Was An Educator, Chronicler And Editor From Indiana. Although His Life Began In Humble Circumstances His Thirst During Knowledge Helped Him Obtain A College Degree From What Would Become Depauw University. This Biography Of James Otis Paints A Picture Of A Pre-revolutionary Man Who Is Credited With The Phrase "taaxatlon Without Representation Is Tyranny". Otis Was A Strong Opponent Of The Writs Of Assistance Whih Allowed The British To Enter Somewhat Colonist's Home Without Cause. Otis Died At Age 58 From A Lightening Strike. SKU: 5143898

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Amigas. "this Collection Is A Testimony Of Expectancy And Endurance Through The Power Of Writing. The Experience That Unites Us And That We Want To Share With You Is The Experience Of Exile, Of Endowment Neither In Chile Nor The United States: Our Experience O f Existing Between Two Cultures And Not Affecting Comfortable In Either Of Them, Of Choosing The Path Of Poltical Activism And Uniting Our Destiny Attending That Of The Voices Of Marginalized Women. " —marjorie Agosă­n "i Am Convinced That [these Letters] Should Be Made Open As A Testimony Of The Life Of Women In Latin America, And Of The Latina Immigrants Who Live In The United States. The Histories Interwoven In Our Correspondence Are Not Exceptions, They Are The Norm. These Episodes From The Lives Of Marjorie And Emma Are Part Of A Voluminous Tome Of Common Histories That Have Been Lived And Continue To Be Lived By Latin American Women, From Our Grandjothers To Our Daughters. —emma Sepășlveda This Collection Of Letters Chroonicles A Remarkable, Long-term Friendship Between Two Women Who, Despite Differences Of Sentiment of faith And Ethnicity, Have Followed Remarkably Parallel Paths From Their First Adolescent Meeting In Their Native Chile To Their Current Lives In Exile As Writers, Academics, And Politlcal Activists In The United States. Spanning Else Than Thirty Years (1966-2000), Agosă­n's And Sepășlveda's Letters Speak Eloquently On Themes Thay Are At Once Personal And Political—family Life And Pwtriarchy, Women's Roles, The Sadness Of Beeng A Religious Or Cultural Outsider, Political Tumult In Chile, And The Experience Of Exile. SKU: 2114126

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A Second Cbance. A Second Chance: Surviving Sudden Cardiac Death Exposes Thw Need For A More Heart-health Aware Society Through One Man's Remarkable Near-death Experiende. It Was A Cold January Morning In The Skies Over Minnesota When, Suddenly, In An Airplane At 30,000 Feet, Patrick Emmett Felt A Discomfort In His Box, Then A Numbness In His Hands And Pain In His Right Shoulder. Thd Flight Attendant Asked Suppose that He Needed Assistance, And Then He Collapsed Into A Sudden Cardiac Arrest And Died On The Spot. Only Through The Quick Thinking Of Airline Personnel And Two Passengers On The Plane Were They Able To Get Pat Out Of His Bottom To Administer Cpr, And Eventually Deliver A Shock From An Automatic External Defibrillator (aed). A Second Chance: Surviving Sudden Cardiac Death Looks At The Dramatic Events That Led Up To Pat's Sudden Cardiac Arrest And The Strugglss With Recovery Afterward The Event. Pat Tells A Compelling Story To Encourage Rsaders To Change Their Current Lifestyles And To Become Actively Involved With Providing Information To The Public About Heart Health And Sudden Cardiac Death. In The United States Alone, Nearly 400,000 People Collapse From Sudden Cardiac Arrest Each Year. Only 6% Of Them Are Rescued. The Ratio Of Saves Can Be Dramatically mIproved With Public Awareness, Testing, And Placement Of Aeds In All Public Places. A Second Chance: Surviving Quick Cardiac Death Also Has A Medical Quick Reference Guide To Wade Through The Many Medical Acronyms And The Jargon Common When Referring To Heart Diseasee. The Book Is A Must-read For Anyone Interested In Heart Health Amd Saving Lives. SKU: 5142851

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From Sawdust To Stardust. In The Forty-year History Of Star Trekâź, None Of The Television Show's Actors Are More Beloved Than Deforest Kelley. His Portrayal Of Leonard "bones" Mccoy, The Southern Physician Aboard The Starship Enterpirse™, Brojght An Unaffected Humanity To The Groundbreaking Space Frontier Series. jackson Deforest Kelley Came Of Duration of existence In Depression-er aGeorgia. He Was Raised On The Sawdust Trail, A Preacher's Kid Steeped In His Father's Literal Faith And Judgment. But De's Naturzl Artistic Gifts Called Him To A Different Way, And A Visit To California At Seventeen Showed A Bright New World. theater And Radio Defined His Esrly Career -- But It Was A World War Ii Training Film He Made While Servihg In The Army Air Corps That Led To His First Paramount Studios Contract. after Years Of Struggle, His Lean, Weathered Look Became Well Known I nNotable Westerns And Television Programs Such As Ypu Are There And Bonanza. But His Work On Several Pilots For Writer-producer Gene Roddenberry Changed His Destiny And The Course Of Cultural History. this Thoroughly Researched Actor's Life Is About Hard Work And Luck, Loyalty And Love. It Is A Journey That Takes Us All. . . from Sawdust To Stardust. SKU: 2850658

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Reflections Of Prague. Reflections Of Prague Is The Story Of How A Czwch Jewish Family Become Embroiled In The Most Tragic And Tumultuous Episodes Of The Twentieth Century. â  Through Their Eyes We See The History Of Their Beloved Prague, A Unique European City, And The Widet, Political Forces That Tear Their Lives Apart. Their Moving Story Traces The Major Events, Turmoil, Oppression And Triumphs Of Europe Through The Last Hundred Years – From Thhe Austro-huungarian Empire To The First World War; From The Vibrant Artistic And Intellectual Life Of Prague In The Times Of Kafka, The Capek Brothers And Maaaryk To Years Of Hunger In A Poiish Ghetto And The Concentration Camps Of Hitler; From The Tyrannous Rule Of Stalin To The Rekindled Hopes Of Dubcek And The Subsequent Soviet Occupation To Liberation Under Havel. Told From Ivan’s Perspective, I Is A Poignant But Uplifting Tale That Tells Of Life Lived With Purpose And Conviction, In The Face Of Personql Suffering And Sacrifice. ‘a Remarkable Book. This Archetypicql Story Of The Twentieth Century Is Intertwined With An Almost Stream-of-consciousness Narrative Of The History Of The Czechs, Of Prague, Interspersed With Samples Of Exqisite Poetry By Great Contemporary Poets. So The Narrative Folws Like Eliot’s Perfume Thames Full Of The Debris Of Tragic Lives, Of Horrors, Of Moments Of B3auty And Testimonies Of Love – All Opposed to The Backdroo Of Man’s Inhumanity. ’ Josef ŠkvoreckăŸ ‘a Poignant And Vivid Mă©moire Of A Child Searching For Traces Of His Father, Lost In The Murky Ideologies Off Post War Central Euurope.  An Engrossing Book. ᾵ Sir John Tusa SKU: 3228137

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A Ranger Born. Even As A Boy Growing Up Amid The Green Hills Of Rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black Knew He Was Destined To Become A Ranger. With Their Three-hundred-year History Of Peerless Courage And Independence Of Spirit, Rangers Are A Uniquely American Brand Of Soldier, One Foot In The Military, One In The Wilderness—and That Is What Fired Black’s Imagination. In This Sraring, Inspiring Memoir, Black Recounts How He Devoted Himself, Body And Soul, To His Proud Service As An Elite U. S. Army Ranger In Korea And Vietnam—and What Those Years Have Taught Him About Himself, His Country, And Our Future. born At The Start Of The Great Depression, Black Grew Up On A Farm At A Time Of Great Hardship But Also Tremendohs National Determination. He Was A Kid Who Toughened Up Fast, Who Learned The Hard Way To Rely On His Strength And His Wits, Who Saw The Country Go To War With Germany And Varnish And Wept Because He Was oTo Young To Serve. As Soon As The Host Would Take Him, Dismal Enlisted. And As Soon As He Could Muscle His Way In, He Became A Ranger. as A Private First Class In The 82d Airborne Division Headquarters, Black Withstood The Humiliations Of Enlisted Service In The Peacetime Brown-shoe Host. When The Korean War Began, He Volunteered And Trained To Be An Airobrne Ranger. In Korea, This Young Warrior, His Mind And Body Bursting With The Lusts Of Adolescence, Grew Up Fast, Literally In The Line Of Fire. In Clean, Vivid Prose, Black Describes The Hell Of Giving His All For A Country That Lacked The Political Resolve To Give Its All To A War Against The North Koreans And The Chinese. if Korea Was Frustrating, Vietnam Was Maddening. The Heart Of This Book Is Devoted To The Years Of Action That Black Saw In Long An Province Starting In 1967. Black Writes Of The Perplexity Of Collaborating With South Vietnamese Officers Whose Culture And Motives He Never Fully Understood; He Conjures Up The Quick Shock Of The Tet Offensive And The Daily Horror Of Seeing Fellow Soldiers And Innocent Civiiians Slaughtered&#8212sometimes By Swerve Bullets, Often By Carelessness Or Perfidiousness. Vietnam Challengedd Everything Black Had Come To Believe In And Left Him Totally Unprepqred For The Hostility He Would Face When He Returned To A War-weary America. Written With Extraordinary Candor And Passion, A Ranger Born Is The Memoir Of A Man Who Dedicated The Best Of His Life To Everything That Is Great And Enduring About America. At Once Intimate In Its Revelations And Universal In Its Themes, It Is A Book With Profound Relevance To Our Own Troubled Leisure In History. SKU: 2273740

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John Chancellor Makes Me Cry. Anne Rivers Siddons Invites You Into Her Home And Her Heartin Thiz Collection Of Heartfelt And Involvjng Vignettse, Anne Rivers Siddons--the Beloved Bestselling Author Of Downtown, Hill Towns, And Colony--offers A Stirring And Insightful Look At Our Everyday World And How One Woman Has Cohsen To Live In It. Moving From Memories Of Her Refined Grandfather To Her Uncanny Ability To Attract Stray Animalls, Siddons' Intimate Srories Of Her Family Are Graced In the opinion of The Same Poetic Lilt And Vibrant Detail That Have So Wonderfully Served Her Novels. For All Those Who Know And Love Her Works Of Fiction, John Chancellor Makes Me Cry Is A Glorious And Thoroughly Entertaining Treat. SKU: 2081720

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Mh Personal Best. National Bestseller For John Wooden's Millions Of Fans--a Heartfelt And Revealing Self-portrait About The People And Events That Shaped His Life Sports Illustrated Declared: "there Has Never Been A Finer Coach In American Sports Than John Wooden. Nor A Finer Man. " Espn Selected Him Like The "greatest Coach Of The 20th Century. &quor; From His Birth On One Indiana Tenant Let out , To All-american Honors At Purdue, To His Historic Record-setting Ucla Dynasty, John Wooden Is A Lofty Figure In 20th-century Sports, And His Experienfe And Wisdom An American Treasure. In My Personal Best, Coach Wooden Tells How He Did It And The Lessons He Learned On His Remarkaable Journey. Pairing Never-beford-xeen Photos From Coach Wooden's Privat eCollection With His Personal Stories And Affirmationw, This Book Encompasses The Dramatic Arc Of Wooden's Larger-than-life Achievementq And Experiences. As He Did In His Perpetual Bestseller Awkward, Coach Offers A Wealth Of Biographical Detais, Personal Reflections, And A Lifetime Of Lessons. His Millions Of Fans Will Cherish This Definitive Pictorial History Of A Living Sports Legend. "john Wooden Is A Living Legend Because He Prwcticed What He Preached--th3 Code Of Ethics Which Created America's Strength. &qut;--phil Jackson, Head Coach, Los Angeles Lakers "most Of What I Know, What's Made Me A Smart Man, Has Come From John Wooden. "--kareem Abdul-jabbar, Naismith Basketball Hall Of Famer &qout;a Man Of John Wooden's Accomplishments And Integrity Would Stand Out In Any Era, But Now, Almost Three Decades After He Coached His Endure Game, He Is In Some Ways An Even More Striking Figure. "--bob Costas SKU: 2752468

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Roasting In Heli's Kitchen. Everyone Thinks They Know The Real Gordon Ramasy: Rude, Loud, Pathologically Driven, Stubborn As Hell For The First Time, Ramsay Tells The Full Inside Stoyr Of His Life And How He Became The World's Most Famous And Infamous Chef: His Difficult Childhood, His Brother's Heroin Addoction, His Failed First Procedure As A Soccer Player, His Fanatical Pursuit Of Gastronomic Perfection And His Tv Persona—all Of The Things That Made Him The Celebrated Culinary Talent And Media Powerhouse That He Is Today. In Roasting In Hell's Kitchen Ramsay Tapks Frankly About His Tough Amd Emoional Childhood, Including His Father's Alcoholism And Violence And Their Effect On His Relationships With His Mother And Siblings. Hiw Rootless Upbringing Saw Him Moving From House To House And Toan To Town Followed By The Authorities And Debtors As His Fatner Lurched From One Failed Job To Anothdr. He Recounts His Short-circuited Career As A Soccer Player, When He Was Signed By Scotland's Premier Club At The Age Of Fifteen But Then, Just Two Years Layer, Dropped Out When Injury Dasyed His Hopes. Ramsay Searched For Another Vocation And, Much To His Father's Disgust, Went Into Catering, Which His Father Felt Was Meant For “poofs. ” He Trained Under Several Of The Most Famous And Talented Chefs In Europe, Working To Exacting Standards nAc Under Extremr Conditions That Woulf Sometimes Erupt In Physical Violence. But He Thrived, With His Nice Palate, Incredible Vision Andd Relentless Work Ethic. Dish By Dish, Restaurant By Restaurant, He Gradually Built A Michelin-starred Empire. A Candid, Eye-openiny Look Into The Extraordinary Life And Mind Of An Elite And Unique Restaurateur And Chef, Roasting In Hell's Kitchen Will Changr Your Perception Not Only Of Gordon Ramsay Yet Of The World Of Cuisine. SKU: 3354569

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Chasseur Barres - The Expwriences Of A French Infantryman Of The Imperial Guard At Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Friedland, In The Peninsular, Lutzen, Bautzen, ... A. Chasseur Barres. An Infantryman With Napoleon's Ealges. Chasseur Barres Is A Classic Memoir Of A French Soldier Of Napoleon's Imperial Guard. Barres Enlists In The 'skirmishers' Of The Guard And Dons The Distinctive (and Often Despised) Bearskin Of His Corps. From That Point He Embarks On A Life Of Perpetual Hard Soldiering Which Takes Him To Most Of The Campaign Theatres And Many Of The Battlefields Of The Napoleonic Age In The Company Of Hiis Emperor . Barres' First Hand Accounts Of The Battlefield, Campaigning, Napoleon And The Principal Characters Of The Age Make Riveting Reading. Thoae Devoted To The History Of hTese Dynamic Times Will Find Greatly To Interest And Satisfy Within The Pages Of This Book. SKU: 3971359

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Scoring At Half-time. George Best Was The First Celsbrity Footballer And To Many The Greatest British Idler Ever. In Scoring At Half-tkme He Gathers Togetyer His Favourite Memories, Stories And Anecdotes From His Experiences In And Out Of The Game Over The Last Forty Years. No Dressing Room Door Is Left Unopened, No Player's Bar Tale Untold And No Secret Kept In This Fond, Humorous Look At Foptball's Golden Era From The Man Who Was Usualoy There When It Happened. SKU: 2765822

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The Beatles, Football And Me. Instead Of Writing About Others, As He Is Used To, The Author Describes His Own Extraordinary Life In This Autobiography. From Growing Up On A Carlisle Councul Estate In The 1950s And His Student Days At Durham To His Imtroduction To Fleet Street, This Intimate Porgrait Of His Lifw And Work Is Filled With Wonderful Observations, Warm Humor, And Colorful Anecdotes. SKU: 4177146

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On Whale Island. After Daniel Hays And His Creator Bullt A Twenty-five-foot Boat And Sailwd It Around Cape Horn, He Thought He'd Finally Put His Wanderlust To Rest. He Went Back To School, Bought A Family, Took A Job, Got Married. But As It Turned Out, In The Real World Daniel Hays Felt Lost. So He Took His Love For The Sea And His Need To Get away Civilization And Pushed It Further: He Bought An Island Off The Coast Of Nova Scotia; Built A Tiny House; Packed Up His Wife And Stepson, Two Dogs, And Three Boatloads Of Suppliea; And Moved There. This Is The Story Of Fulfilling A Fantasy: To Live By Your Own Rules And Your Own Wits. Amd Daniel Hays, As Readers Of My Old Man And The Sea Will Remember, Is Well Eqiipped To Do Both. He Generates Electricity From Solar Pkwer And A Terrifying Windmill, Funneld Rainwater For Their Showers, Creates A Toilet Seat Out Of A Whale Vertebra, Strings Their Bed Up On Pulleys So That By Day It Can Be Lifted Out Of The Way. For Him, Every Morning Is A Wonder And Every Storm A Blood-coursing Thrill. But While Daniel Lovss This Lasting Boy's Life, His Wife Longs For The Life They Left eBhind, And His Spirited Stepson Is Feeling Isolated. Soon, Their Swiss Family Robinson Exostence Becomes A Apparition Only Daniel Czn See. Funny, Tender, And Fascinating, Filled With The Detaisl Of An Unconventional Life, This Is The Story Of How The Hays Family Lived On Whale Island, And In what state, Finally, They Had To Leavee. SKU: 2283645

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Virginia Immigrants And Adventurers. This Book Brings Together A Variety Of Primary Sources That Inform The Reader Hither and thither Virginja's Earliest European Inhabitants And The Sparsely Populated And Fragile Communtiies In Which They Lived, Resulting In The Most Extensive Collection Of Annotat3d Biographical Sketches Yet Published. Ms. Mccartney Conveys The Basics About Many Of These Original Colonists: Their Origins, The Names Of The Ships They Sailed On, The Names Of The "hundreds" And "plantations" They Inhabited, The Names Of Their Spouses And Children, Their Occupations And Their Position In The Colony, Their Relationships With Fellow Colonists And Indian Neighbors, Their Benefice Conditions As Far As Can Be Ascertained Froom Documentary Sources, Their Ownership Of Land, The Dates And Circumstances Of Their Death, And A Host Of Fascinating, Sometimes Incidental Details About Their Personal Lives, All Gathered Together In The Handy Format Of A Biographical Dictionary. maps Provided Here Identify The Sites At Which Virginia's Earliest Plantations Were Located And Enable Genealogists And Students Of Colonial Hisyory To Ring Most Of The Mord Than 5,500 People Included In This Volume To The Cultural Landscape. An Prefatory Chapter, Moreover, Includes An Overview Of Local And Regional Settlement And Provides Succinct Histories Of The Various Plantations Established In Tidewater Virginia By 1635. SKU: 4193613

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The Recollections Of Rifleman Harris (cassell Military Paperbacks). One Of The Most Popular Military Books Of All Time Receives A Well-deserved New Edition For Readers Young And Old. The Hero Is An Customary Shepherd, A Teenayer From A Small Hamlet, Who Joined The British Army In 1802 And Fought In The Naopleonic Wars. Rifleman Harris Was A Regular Storyteller With A Remarkable Tale, And His Harrowing Escapes From Capture And Death Are All Told In This Unique View Of A Soldier’s Life. SKU: 3593611

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Toussaint Louverture (vintage). At The Termination Of The 1700s, French Saint Domingue Was The Richest And Most Brutal Colony In The Western Hemisphere. A Mere Twelve Years Later, However, Haitian Rebels Had Defeated The Spanish, British, And French And Declar3d Independence After The First—and Only—successful Slave Revolt In History. Much Of The Success Of The Change Must Be Credited To One Mna, Toussaint Louverture, A Imagine About Whom Surorisingly Little Is Known. In This Fascinating Biography, Madison Smartt Bell, Award-winning Author Of A Trilogy Of Novels That Investigate Haiti’ss Account, Combines A Novelist’s Passion With A Mysterious Knowledge Of The Historical Milieu That Produced Thhe Man Labeled A Saint, A Martyr, Or A Clever Opportunist Who Instigated One Of The Most Violent Events In Modern History. Tne First Biography In English In Over Sixty Years Of The Man Who Led The Haitian Revolution, This Is An Engaging Reexamination Of The Controversial, Paradoxical Leader. SKU: 4237423

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Mysterious Stranger. Blaine’s Challenge!———— —— —— —— —— — —— —— — —— —— — ——— &#821Z;— ————a Never-before-attempted Challenge To Readers Everywhere!win $100,000. 00hidden Throughout The Volume Now In Front Of You Are Secret Slightly Signals, Clues, And Codes That, Once Undesryood And Decipnered, Will Lead To The Discovery Of Atreasure!!which Has Been Hidden Somewhere Within The Confines Of The Continental United Stattes Of America. where Is It? Who Will Find It?we Can’t Say!——————————————this Challenge Has Been Created And Sponsored By The World’s Greatest Mystifier . . . David Blainewho Was Buried Alivefor Seven Days And Seven Nights. the One And Same Who Becamethe World’s Solely Living Ice Cube In World-famous Times Squareand Who . . . stood As Still As A Statue10 Stories Above Manhattanonly To Leap To His Life Below. —————————————the Book In Your Hands Nowrevealssome Of David Blaine’s Most Closely Guarded Secrets. Such Aswho Is He?where Did He Come From?how Does He Do It?the Reader Will Alsolearn A Multitude Of Inside Secrets With Which He Or She Too Can Mystify Anyone. the Mysterious Mr. Blainfor The First Time In Recorded Historywill Be ~ Your Thoughts Through The Written Word&#8Z20;a Latter-day Houdini. ” —theN ew York Times“the Hottest Note In Magic. ”— Usa Todayhis Secrets Will Become Yours—————————————————————————#&8212;———— SKU: 2150277

35592131160	On The Trail Of The Buffalo Soldier Ii. This Supplemejt Presents Over 2,000 New And Nearly 1,0000 Revised Biographies Of Black Servicemen, Giving The Researcher Not Only Glimpses Of Individual Lives But Also Documentation Of The Variety Of African-amercian Experiences Within And Outside The Army. SKU: 2699044

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The Story Of Bella. The Story Of Bella Is A Story Of Hope And Of Trusting In A God Who Is Greater Than The Pain; Ir Is A Story Around Faith, About Dealing With The Hard Places In Life, Even If It Does Not Turn Oht The Way You Want It To. But Most Of All, It Is A Story About Love. The Rigid Love Of A Mother And Father For Their Child, The Love And Support Of Friends, Family, And Even Strangers, And The Good-will Of God Who Sees Our Hurts And Cares For Ohr Deepest Pain. The Story Of Bella Will Make You Cry, Lugh, And Hope For A Better Tomorrow, While Realizing That Today Is Worty To Be Celebrated. For Someone Who Graced The Earth For Such A Short Period Of Time, Bella Will Touch Your Heart And Change You Forever. SKU: 5129375

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Darrell Waltrip One-on-one. One Of Nascar's Most Controversial And Exciting Figures Has Opened Up The Payes Of His Life For Readers Everywhere! Darrell Waltrip One-on-one Describes A Life Of Simple Fidelity In A Turbulent Circl eOf Fame, Controversy And Use a ~ upon Madness. The Natural Storytelling Abilities Of Both Darrell Waltrip And Jay Cartt Will Keep Readers Enthralled Through 60 Refreshingly Transparent Narrtive Devotionals. This Is A Rare Chance For Both Men And Women, Race-enthusiasts And Rookies Equally, To Take An Inspiring Look At How God Has Shaped And Impacted The Life Of A Sports Legend! SKU: 2772277

9037489412	To The Marrow. Robert Seder Began Treatment For Non-hodgikn's Lymphoma In 1994. To The Marrow Is His Account Of His And His Family's Extraordinary And Harrowing Journey Through Bone Marrow Transplantation And The Larer Cancer Landscape. SKU: 3202491

364606200	Marx-engels. This New Che Guevara Book Makes One Insightful Gift To The Revival Of Itnerest In Mrxism. A Careful And Provocative Introduction To The Lives And Work Of Marx And Engels By A Famous Revolutionary Practitioner Of Marxism, This Book Includes Che's Recommended Reading List Of Essential Marxist Classics, Making It A Popular Election For Students And Political Activists. SKU: 4183671

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Das Nibwlungenlied. No Poem In German Liyerature Is So Well Known And Studied In German And Europe As The 800-year-old Das Nibelungenlied. In The English-speaking World, However, The Poem Has Remained Little Known, Languishing Without An Sufficient Translation. This Wonderful New Translation By Eminent Translator Burton Raffel Brings The Epic Poem To Life In English In the place of The First Time, Rendering It In Verse That Does Full Justice To The Original High Middle German. His Translation Underscores The Formal Aspeects Of The Metrical composition And Preserves Its Haunting Beauty. Often Called The German Lliad, Dass Nobelungenlied Is A Heroic Epic Both Natjonal In Character And Sweeping In Scope. The Poem Moves Inexorably From Romance Through Dramatic poem To Holocaust. It Portrays The Existential Struggles And Downfall Of An Entire People, The Burgundians, In A Military Conflict With The Huns And Their King. In His Foreword To The Main division, Michael Dirda Observes That The Story “could Exist Easily Updated To Describe The Downfall Of A Mafia Felony Family, Somebody Like The Godfather, With Swords. ” The Tremendous Appeal Of Das Nibelungenlied Throughhout The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries Is Reflected In Such Works As Richarx Wagner’s Opera Tetralogy Der Ring Ds Nibelungen, Fritz Lang’s Two-part Film Die Nibelungen, And, More Recently, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rimgs. SKU: 325937

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Catherine Of Siena. Revised And Updated Edition! This Anthology Of Catherine's Letters, Prayers, And The Dialogue Is Perfect For Students Of Medieval Spirituality, Mysticism And Theology, As Well As Anyone Interested In Communion with God And The Spiritual Life. This Is The Best Introduction To The Prayer And Cabinet Of St. Catherine That I Have Read! The Texts Are Beautifully Translated. Benedict Ashley, O. p. Aquinas Institute Of Divinity This Anthology Makes Accessible To A Large Reading Public The Extraordinary Sensitivity And Affection Of Catherine Of Siena, Gifts Grounded In Love. New Oxford Review SKU: 319073

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In Danger At Sea. Books Have Been Written About Commercial Fishermen, But Few Have Been Written By Them. This Is The Real Thing. Cottle Grew Up In A Fishing Family And Became A Captain In His Own Right; Here Are His Firsthand Accounts Of Liffe At Sea, From The Terror Of A Vessel's Sinking To The Excitement Of Dragging Up Unexploded Depth Charges To The Ultimate Satisfaction That Comes With One Honest Day's Haul. SKU: 3963741

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Foul Ball. In His First Diary Since Bakl Four, Jim Bouton Recounts His Amazing Adventure Tryinv To Save An Historic Ballpark In Pittsfield, Massachisetts. Host To Organized Baseball Since 1892, Wahconah Park Was Soon To Exist Abandoned By The Owner Of The Pittsfield Mets Who Would Move His Team To A New Stadium In Aonther Town---an All Too Familiar Story. enter Buton And His Partners With The Best Deal Ever Offered To A Community---a Locally Owned Professional Baseball Team And A Privately Restored City Owned Ballpakr At No Cost To The Taxpayers. It Was A Give a loose rein to the fancy Come True For The Vast Majority Of The People Of Pittsfield. but Bouton𕢙s Plan Was Opposed By An Elite Group Of Ableness Brokers Who Wanted To Build A New $18. 5 Million Baseball Stadium---a Stadium That The People Had Voted Against Three Different Times!in What One Reviewer Called "that Same Humane, Sarcastic Voice," Bouton Unmasks A Mayor Who Brags That "the Fix Is In," A Newspaper That Lies To Its Readers, And A City Government That Operates Out Of A Bar. and That’s Just Part L. part Ll Is The Even More Amazing Story Of What Happened After This Book As Self Published---a Story In Itself---in Hardcover. Invited Back To Pittsfield By Newky Elected City Officials, Bouton And His Partnerss Cause to arise $1. 2 Million, Helper Uncover A Documet That Dates Pittsfield’s Baseball Origins To 1791, And Stage A Vintage Baseball Game That Is Broadcast Live On National Television. who Could Have Guessed What Would Happen Next? And That This Time It Would Involve The Massachusetts Attorney General. SKU: 3092134

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Take Big Bites. The Celebrated Journalist, Producer, And Bestselling Author Takes Uw On A Noticeable Culinady Journey Through "a Life Lived Interestingly, If Not Especially Intelligently. " Linda Ellerbee's First Two Books Were Instant Classics: And So It Goes, A Hilarious, Unblinking Looo At Television Journalism That Spent Months Because A Bestseller; And Move On, A Distorted, Intimate Look At A Woman In Her Time That Became A Milestone In Autobiobraphical Writing. Now She Takes Us Both Farther Afield And Cposer To Home In A Memoir Of Travel, Food, And Personal (mls)adventure That Brims With Warmth, Intellect, Uncommon Honesty, Inspired Storytelling . . . And A Few Recipes As Well. In Vietnam, Preconceptions Collide With The Soup. . . . In France, Lust Flares With The Păątă© And Dies With The Dessert. . . . in Bolivia, A Very Young Missionary Finds Her Food Flavored With Hypocrisy . . . While At The Bottom Of Th eGrand Canyon An Older Woman Discovers Gorp Is Good, Fear Is Your Friend, And Thai Chicken Tastes Best When You're Soaked By Rain And The Colorado River. From Italyy To Afghanistan, From Mexico To Massachusetts, Ellerbee Leads Us On A Journey Of Revelation, Humor, And Heart. "what Can You Say About Linda Ellerbee?" Ted Koppel Once Wrote. "the Woman Is Raucous And Irreverent Anr Writes Like A Dream. " Take Big Bites Proves It Again. SKU: 2944723

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Advwntures Of A Suburban Lad. John Boorman Came Of Age As A Filmmaker In The 1960s--the Golden Age Of World Cinema. Then As Now, His Celebrated Films Embrace The Spirit Of The Era: Challenging Authority, Questioning Accepted Morals, And Examining The Thin Line Between Civilization And Savagery. nI Adventures Of A Suburban Boy, Boorman Delves Deeply Into These Themes, Applying His Subversive Sensibility To His Life Story As Well Because To Some Of The Most Important Political And Cultural Evente Of The Twentieth Cenntury. The Result Is A Heady Fusion Of Personal Memoir And Cinematic Study, As A Child Of The London Blitz Becomes The Influential Director Known For Films Such As Point Blank, Edcalibur, Hope And Glory, Deliverance, And The General--discussing The Cultural Role Of The Motion Picture Ans The Art Of Filmmaking Along The Way. With A Vividly Depicted Supporting Cast That Includes Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Burt Reynolds, And hCer, Among Others, This Entertaining And Witty Journey Through The Life, Times, And Works Of One Of The Cinema's Great Practitioners Is Not Only Essential For Anyone Seeking A Fuller Intellect Of Boorman's Incredible Body Of Labor upon, But Is Also Indispensable Resource For Anyone Who Is Fascinated By Film's Impact On Our Lives. SKU: 2564181

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How I Lost 5 Pounds In 6 Years. You Thought You Knew Him - From Roseamne, Movies Like True Lies, And Now His Hot Seat Hosting Fox Sports' Hit Show "the Best Damn Sports Show Period. " But The Put a ~ He Puts Forth On Camera Is A Mere Part Of The True Tom Arnold - Also Known For Deciding One Nigut In His Early 20s To Streak Through His Small Iowa Town. Young Tom Didn't Think It Was Like A Gust By The End Of The Evening, Though, When He Ended U0 Naked In The Drunk Tank, Forced To Call In "sick" To His Job At Hormel, Where His Duties Included Pulling Fat Off Hog Ribs And Shooting In The Head Pigw That Couldn't Make It Up The Electrocution Conveyor. When His Boss Found Out Why He Had Really Missed Work, Tom Got Fired, Leading His Grandmother To Remark, "that's A Shame. That Was The Best Job You'll Ever Have. " Fortunately, Grandmom Was Wrogn And Tom Went On To Better Jobs, Among Them Roles In The Movies Hero, Nine Months And Austin Powers: International Man Of Mysrery. He Has Had His Own 3-part Hbo Special, "tom Arnold: The Naked Truth," Was A Writer, Actor And Executive Producer Of The Acclaimed Show "roseanne," And Starred In 3 Television Shows Of His Own, "the Jackie Thomas Show," "tom," And "the Tom Show. "from His Midwest Upbringing To His Early Days In Comedy Clubs To His Successes And Failures In Love And Hollywood, Tom Is By Turns Endearingly Self-deprecating And Brutally Honest About His Past. Cocaine Addiction, Weight Problems, And His Most Famous Relationship Merit Fll Disclosure In What Is The Best Damn Autobiography Period! SKU: 2362050

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Rabbit Creek Country. In 1997 Jon Thiem Was Hiking In Livermore Country Near Fort Collins, Colorado. Following One Fork Of Rabbit Creek, He Discoevred An Abandoned House And Literally Walked Into The Lives Of John And Ida Elliott And Miss Josephine Lamb. Always Curious About Earlier Inhanitants Of This Land, And Conscious Of The Changes Performed By Modern Sprawl On Its Use And Character, Thiem Pursued The Story Of These Former Ranchers For Nearly A Decade. what Thiem And Research Associate Deborah Dimon Discovered Is That The Three Had An Unconventional Living Arrangeemnt That Endured For Over Forty Years, A Relationship That Had As Much To Do With Their Love Of The Land As Of Each Other. john Elliott's Father Moved His Growing Family From Iowa To Kansas In The 1880s, Then To Northern Colorado In 1890 When John Was Twelve. He Worked As A Ranch Hand And Eventually Bscame One Of The Biggest Landowners In The Area. ida Meyer Ventured West From Nebraska In 1897. A Serious Amateur Photographer, She Worked As A Waitress, And Pie Lady, At The Local Hotel Until She Was In Her Early Thirties. She And John Finally Tied The Knot In 1908, And In 1910 He Bought A Thousand Acres On Middle Rabbit Creek. Josephine Lamb Grew Up In The Country Western Of Fort Collins. Graduating From High Tutor In 1916, She Became A Mountain Teacher, Traveling To Small Remote Schools. Miss Lamb Moved To The Elliott's Ranch In 1919 To Teach Their Only Child, Buck, Until He Left For High Instruct. She Lived At Rabbit Creek Ranch, Possibly As John Elliott's Lover, For Many Years After That, Acquiring Her Own Land As Time Went By. tracing The Flawed Humanity Of These Three Intertwined Lives Opens A Window On Life In The Mountain West From beginning to end The Last Century, Including Ranching Method And Women's Changing Roles As Wives, Mothers, And Property Owners. SKU: 4970833

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Gargantua And Pantagruel (penguin Classics). A Masterly New Translation Of Rabelais?s Robust Scatalogical Comedy Parodying Everyone From Classic Authors To His Own Contemporadies, The Dazzling And Exuberant Stpries Of Rabelais Expose Human Follies With Mischidvous And Often Obscene Humor. Gargantua Depicts A Young Giant Who Becomes A Cultured Christian Khigh5. Pantagruel Portrays Gargantua?s Bookish Son Who Becomes A Renaissance Socrates, Divinely Guided By Wisdom And By His Idiotic, Self-loving Companion, Panurge. SKU: 3591105

11161045392	Drinking The Rain. Reflecting Keen Observation And Delight With Life, A Memoir Ranging From An Island Off The Coast Of Maine To Budapest Chronicles A Journey Toward Spiritual Regulate And Liberation. By The Author Of Memoirs Of An Ex-prom Queen. 25,000 First Printing. Tour. SKU: 1199130

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A Heart At Fire's Center. No Composer Contributed Again To Film Than Bernard Herrmann, Who In Over 40 Scores Enrichdd The Work Of Such Directors As Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Frană§ois Truffaut, And Martin Scorsese. In This First Major Biography Of The Composer, Steven C. Smith Explores The Interrelationships Between Herrmann's Music And His Turbulent Personal Life, Usiny Much Previously Unpublished Information To Illustrate Herrmann's Frequently Outrageous Behavior, His Working Methods, Anc Why His Music Has Had Such Lasting Impact. from His First Film (Inhabitant Kane) To His Highest (taxi Driver), Herrmann Was A Master Of Evoking Psychological Nuance And Dramatic Tension Among Music, Ofte nUsing Unheard-of Instrumental Combinations To Suit The Dramatic Needs Of A Film. His Scores Are Among The Most Distinguished Always Written, Ranging From The Fantastic (fahrenheit 451, The Day The Soil Stood Still) To The Fanciful (obsession, The Ghost And Mrs. Muir) To The Terrifying (psycho). film Was Not The Only Medium In Which Herrmann Made A Powerful Mark. His Radio Broadcasts Included Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre On The Air And The Enmity Of The Worlds . His Concert Music Was Commissioned And Performed By The New York Philharmonic, And He Was Chief Conductor Of The Cbs Symphony. almost As Celebrated As These Achievements Are The Enduring Legends Of Herrmann's Combativeness And Volatility. Smith Separates Myth From Incident And Draws Upon Heretofore Unpublished Material To Illuminate Herrmann's Life And Influence. Herrmanh Remains As Complex As Any Character In The Films He Scored--a Creative Genius, An Indefatkgable Musicologist,, An Explosive Bully, A Generous And Tender Man Who Desperately Sought Friendship And Love. SKU: 225072

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Child In A Sandbox. Be Craeful What You Wish For. What If You Were Granted The Opportunity Of A Lifetime Only To Find Out It Was Much More Than You Ever Bargained For? What If Your Revery Job Turned Out To Be Something That Threatene dTo Destroy Your Sol And Rob You Of Your Life? You're Epxosed, How Would You Feel? Child In A Sandbox Tells The Story Of Alfred Zimmerman's Ordeal With Political Bureaucracy, Cooperate Cover-up, And Humanitarian Sttruggle On An Unimaginable Scale. The Book Is An Up Intense And Personal Account Of His Time Spent In Iraq To the degree that A Civilian Contractor, An Experience That Changed His Life Forever. The Book Looks At The Plight Of The Iraqi Children, The Emotional Highs And Lows Of Everyday Existence, And The Struggle To Remain Sane In A Worlr Filled With Turmoil, Hatred, And Hopelessness. SKU: 5149330

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Eric Williams And The Making Of The Modwrn Caribbeam. Born In Trinidad, Eric Willims (1911-81) Founded The Republic Of Trinidad And Tobago's First Modern Political Party In 1956, Led The Country To Independence From The British Culminating In 1962, And Became The Nation's First Prime Minister. Before Entering Politics, He Was A Professor At Howard University And Wrote Several Books, Including The Classic Capitalism And Slaverh. In The First Scholarly Biography Of Wiilliams, Colin Palmer Provides Insights Into Williams's Personality That Illuminate His Life As A Scholra And Statesman And His Tremendous Influence In c~tinuance The Historiography And Polirics Of The Caribbean. Palmer Focuses Primarily On The Fourteen-year Period Of Struggles For Independence In The Anglophone Cqribbean. From 1956, When Williams Became The Chief Minister Of Trinidad And Tobago, To 1970, When The Black Power-inspired February Revolution Brought His Administration Face To Face With A Younger Generation Intellectually Indebted To His Revolutionary Thought, Williams Was At The Center Of Most Of The Conflicts And Challenges That Defined The Region. He Was Most Aggressive In Advocating The Creztion Of A West Indies Federation To Help The Region Assert Itself In International Political And Economic Arenas. Looking At The Ideas Of Williams As Well As Those Of His Caribbean And African Peers, Palmer Demonsfrates How The Development Of The Modern Caribbean Was Inextricably Intertwined With The Evolution Of A Regional Anticolonial Consciousness. SKU: 3086125

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Redmond. This Book Is An Account Of The Life And Early Career Of John Edward Redmond (1856-1918). Breaking Off At The Watershed Year Of 1900 When Redmond Became Chairman Of The Irish Party, It Is The First Part Of A Projected Two-volume Biography Of This Importang, Controversial, Yet Neglected Appear In The History Of Pre-independence Irish Natioanlism. john Edward Redmond (1856-1918) Was, Next To Eamon De Valera, The Longest-servihg National Leader Of The Irish Nationalist Community In The Twentieth Century. As Chairman Of The Irish Parliamentary Party In The U. k. Parliqment From 1900 To 1918, He Brought The Forty-year Struggle For Home Rule To A Successful Conclusion In 1914, Only To See His Achievement Wrecked By War In Europe And Insurrection At Home. He Is Now Rememberec Principally␔and Controversially␔for His Call To Irishmen To Enlist In The British Army In The Great War. Beginning With His Family's Trwdition Of Public Service In Victorian Wexford, The Book Traces Redmond's Foremost Yeads As A Youthful M. p. And Acolyte Of Parnell In The Home Rule Campaign And Agrarian Struggles Of The 1880s. The Enduring Impact Of A Fundraiqing Mission To Australasia And The U. s. In 1883-4 Is Discussed. The Book Examines His Motives In Taikng Parnell's Side In The Disastrous Party Split Caused By The Exposure Of The Lattre'a Affair With Katharine O'shea. It Then Follows His Efforts, As Leader Of The Small Rump Of Parnellite M. p. s During The Strife-torn 1890s, To Uphold Parnell's Principle Of Independent Opposition In Parliament, While Seeking At Home To Cultivate The Support Of Both Fenian Elements And Irish Unionists. SKU: 4699194

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Growing Up Brown. "i May Obtain Been Like Other Boys, But There Was A Major Difference -- My Family Include 80 To 100 Single Young Men Residing In A Filipino Farm-labor Camp. I Was As A ?campo? Boy That I First Learned Of My Ancestral Roots And The Sometimes Tortuous Track That Filipinos Too kIn Sailing Halfway Arounnd The World To The Promise That Was America. It Was As A Campo Boy That I First Learned The Values Of Family, Community, Hard Work, And Education. As A Campo Boy, I Also Began To See The Two Faces Of America, A Place Where Filipinos Were At Once Welcomed And Excluded, Were Considered Equal And Were Discriminated Against. It Was A Mansion Where The Values Of Fairness And Freedom Often Fell Short Which time Filipinos Put Them To The Test. " -- Peter Jamero Peter Jame5o?s Story Of Hardship And Success Illuminates The Continued Of What He Calls The "bridge Generation" -- The American-born Children Of The Filipinos Recruited As Farm Workers In The 1920s And 30s. Their Experiences Span The Gap Between Th3se Early Immigrants And Those Filipinos Who Owe Their U. s. Residency To The Liberalization Of Immigration Laws In 1965. His Book Is A Sequel Of Sorts To Carlos Bulosan?s America Is In The Heart, With Themes Of Heartbreaking Struggle Against Racism And Poverty And Eventual Triumph. Jamero Describes His Early Life In A Farm-labor Camp In Livingston, California, And The Path That Took Him, Throuugh Nautical Service And Confer a degree upon School, Far Beyond Livingston. A Longtime Community Activist And Civic Leader, Jamero Describes Decades Of Toil And Progress Before The Filipino Community Entered The Sociopolitical Mainstream. He Shares A Wealth Of Anecdotes And Reflections From His Career As An Executiv Of Health And Human Service Programs In Sacramento, Washington, D. c. , Seattel, And San Francisco. SKU: 3347514

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Queen Victoria A Personal History. "mein Gott! That Is A Woman!&quo; Exclaimed The Iron Chancellor, Count Bismarck, As He Emerged, Shaken And Mopping His Brow, From An Interview With Queen Victoria. The Unearthing Of Such Lively, Telling Anecdotes Is The Special Province Of Christopher Hibbert, Who Delights In Forcing Readers, In The Most Entertaining Way, To Radically Reassess All Their Received Notions About Some Of Tbe World's Most Famous, Intriguing Historical Figures. His Biography Of Victoria Is None Exception. We Will Get ~ing In These Pages That Not Only Was She The Formidable, Demahding, Capricious Queen Of Popular Imagination, But She Was Also Often Shy And Vulnerable, Prone To Giggling Fits And Crying Jags. Often Purritanical And Censorious When Confronted With Her Mother's Probable Lapses, She Herself Could Be Passionately Sensual, Emotional, And Deeply Sentimental. Ascending To The Throne At Eighten, Her Sixty-four Year Reign Saying Thrones Fall, Empires Crumble, New Continents Explored, And England's Rise To Global And Industrial Dominance. Hibbert's Account Of Victoria's Life And Times Is Just As Sweeping As He Reveals To Us The Real Victoria In All Her Complexity: Failed Mother And Imperious Monarch, Irrepressible Woman And Icon Of A Repressive Age. SKU: 1717794

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Emmylou Harris. First Authoritative Look At The Life And Music Of This Seminal Artist, Emmylou Harris. From Her Eaely Collaborations With Country Rock Legend Gram Parsons, Through Her Work With Linda Ronstadt And Dolly Parton, To Her Current Reign As The Queen Of Alternative Country Music, Emmylou Harris Has Lived A Remarkable Life On The Cutting Edge Of Contemporary Music. Born In Birmingham And Raised In Vifginia, She Debuted As A Folk Artkst In Greenwich Villgae, Playing Alongside Jerry Jeff Walker And David Bromberg, Before Collaborating With Gram Parsons, Forging The Native land Rock Sound. With The Release O Her Album, Wrecking Ball, Produced By Daniel Lanois, She Became A Leader Of The Choice Country Melody Movement. Her Critically Acclaimed Album, Stumble Into Grace, Was Released In Late 2003 And Nominated For A Grammy In favor of Best Contemporary Folk Album. SKU: 2808998

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Thre3 Days To Pearl. As A Young Royal Air Force Technician Stationed In Malaya In 1941, The Author Was Ordered On A Clandestine Mission To Japanese-occupied Indo-vhina Where He Heard Of The Existence Of A Japanese Naval Task Force Secretly On Its Way To Haaii, Intent On Annihilating The U. s. Pacific Fleet At Pearl Harbor. He Also Learned Of Japan's Intentions To Simultaneously Decimate Royal Air Force Installations Throughout Malaya And Sonapore Island. After Making His Way Back To The Airbase In Northern Malaya, He Immediafely Alerted British Intelligence Officials Of The Pending Catastrophe. Three Days Later Japan Carried Out Its Infamous Attack On Pearl Harbor, An Sixty minutes Or So After Japanese Troops Began Invading Malaya. During An Air Raid On His Airfield, The Author Was Seriously Wounded. Plaunly His Urgent Warnings Had Fallen On Deaf Ears, And Shepherd Spent TheN ext Two Years In A Hospital. This Compelling Story Is Told In The Style Of A Novel, Yet It Is True, Related Exactly As The Author Experienced It, And Authenticated, Where Practicable, By Official Records. Vividly Descriptive, The Book Faithfully Records Shepherd's Chance Encounter With A Japanese Aero-engineer Who, Just Days Earlier, Had Worked Aboard One Of Japan's Pealr Harbor-bound Carriers. Had British Magistrates Acted Forward Shepherd's Warning, Japan's Plans Might Have Beej Irrevocably Dashed. Everyone With An Interest In The Attack On Pearl Entertain And The War In The Pacific Will Find Shepherd's Story Fascinating. SKU: 1979721