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The Untaken Pictures. After Two More Devastating Marruagesone To An Alcoholic Fourteen Years Her Senior, And The Next To A Man Who Left Her With ABtoken Heartshe Found The Love Of Her Time from birth to death, And A Man To Whoj She Could Fully Give Her Heart. In The Untaken Pictures, Wilson Shares Her Life Story In A Poignant Memoir About A Girl Who Lived A Ragtag Early Existenceoften Hungry And Unable To Attend School For More Than A Few Daysuntil She Became A Womsn All Too Soon. A Story Of Hope And Life, The Untaken Pictures Will Touch Your Heart And Speak To The Part Of Your Soul Seeking To Fight For Those Who Need It, Those Suffering Abuse, Or Those Simply Loojing To Love And Be Loved In Returh. SKU: 4876390

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The Man Behind The Mask. Mallory Was One Of The First Surgeons In The United States To See The Potential For Joint Replacement Technology, And In This Memoir He Describes Not Only The Nuances Of Introducijg Hip Replacement Surgery But Likewise The Systems That He Estahlished To Make It A Highly Successful Operation. His Innovations, Along Attending Those Of Dr. William Head, Resulted In The Mallory-head Hip System A Technology Still In Use Today Which Has Offered Relief To Thousands. Traciny The Joys And Sorrows Of His Career, Mallory Dispels The Myth That Surgeons Are Emotionally Invulnerable And Cold. He Offers His Perspective Steady The Pursuit Of Medicine As A Professiln, On The Doctor-patient Relationship, And On Litigious Challenges To Physicians. He Also Commends The Benefits Of Family And Leisure And The Blessing Of Life In General While Offering Insight Into The Management Of An Incurable Disease. SKU: 4191142

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The People's Chef. During The First Half Of The 19th Century, Alexis Soyer Became The Most Famous Dress up -and Man-in London. In Addition To His Kitchen Inventions And Best-selling Cookbooks, Soyer Was Part Of Many Of The Great Events And Social Changes Of His Time. In Her Exciting Life Of A Culinary Giant, Ruth Brandon Uses Each Phase Of His Legendary Career To Explore A Different Aspect Of 19th-century Life, Including The Destruction Of The English Laborers, The Irish Potato Famine, And Britain's Disastrous Involvement In The Crimea. born In France, Soyer Moved To England In His Teens And Rose To Early Fame Viewed like Head Chef At London's Remodel Club, Where He Designed A Kitchen So Innovative That It Became A Tourist Attractioon. He Opened London's Chief French Restaurant, And Was Linked To Some Of The Most Famous Actresses And Dancers Of The Day. Yet For All His Flamboyance, Soyer's Fame Lies In The Work He Did For Those In Need. He Wrote Cookbooks For The Poor And Designed A Model Soup-kitchen During The Irish Famine. He Traveled To The Crimea To Mabage The Kitchens In Florence Nightingale's Hospital, And Invented A Battlefild Cook-stove That Remained In Use As Recently As The Gulf War. soyer's Influence Remains Today With Three Of His Books Still In Print. The People's Chef AtL ong Endure Pays Tribute To This Remarkable Man Who Had Such A Profound Effect On 19thcentury Society. SKU: 2892119

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Memoir Of The Time from birth to death Of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington V1. With Selections From His Public And Private Correspondence. This Scarce Antiquarian Book Is Included In Our Special Legacy Reprint Series. In The Interest Of Creating A More Extensive Selection Of Rare Historical Book Reprints, We Havve Chosen To Reproduce Tnis Title Even Though It May Possibly Have Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing And Blurred Pages, Missing Text, Poor Pictures, Markings, Dark Backgrounds And Other Reproduction Issues Beyond Our Control. Because This Work Is Culturally Self-~, We Obtain Made It Available As A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, P5eserving And Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5069643

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An Unreasonable Woman. When Diand Wilson, Fourth-generation Shrimp-boat Captain And Mother Of Five, Learns That She Lives In The Most Polluted County In The United States, She Decides To Fight Back. She Launches A Campaign Against A Multibillion-dollar Corporation That Has Been Covering Up Spills, Silenfing Workers, Flouting The Epa, And Dumping Lethal Ethylene Dichloride And Vinyl Chloride Into The Bays Along Her Beloved Texas Gulf Coast. In An Epic Account Of Bravery, Wilson Takes Her Fgiht To The Courts, To The Gates Of The Chemical Plant, And To The Halls Of Power In Austin. Along The Way She Meets With Scorn, Bribery, Character Assassimation, And Death Threats. Finally Wilson Realizes That She Must Break The Law To Win Justice: She Resorts To Nonviolent Disobedience, Direct Action, And Hunger Strikes. Wilson?s Vivid South Texas Dialogue Resides In some place Between Alice Walker And William Faaulkner, And Her Dazzling Prose Brings To Mind The Magic Realism Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Replete With Dreams And Pdophecies. SKU: 3066691

18200259720	A Darker Shade Of Crimson. In This Nationally Acclaimed Account Of A Young Latino's Coming-of-age At America's Most Prestigious University, Navarrette Engages The Reader In A Challenging Discussion Of Affirmative Gesticulation, Racism, And Liberal Education In America. (education/teaching) SKU: 1177782

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Lady Sings The Melancholy The 50th Anniversary dEition (harlem Moon Classics). Lady Sings The Blues Is The Fiercely Honest, No-holds-barred Autobiography Of Billie Holiday, The Legendary Jazz, Swing, And Standards Singing Sensation. Vexation The Reader On A Fast-moving Journey From Holiday’s Rough-and-tumble Baltimore Childhood (where She Ran Errands At A Whorehouse In Exchange For The Chance To Hearken To Louis Armstrong And Bessie Smith Albums), To Her Emergence On Harlem’s Club Scene, To Sold-out Performances With The Count Baqie Orchestra And With Artie Shaw And His Band, This Revelatory Memoir Is Notable For Its Trenchant Observations On The Racism That Darkened Billie’s Life And The Heroin Addiction That Ended It Too Soon. We Are With Her During The Mesmerkzing Debut fO “strange Fruig”; In the opinion of Her As She Rubs ShouldersW ith The Biggest Movie Stars And Musicians Of The Day (bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clatk Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, And More); And With Her Through The Scrapes With Jim Crow, Spats With Sarah Vaughan, Ignominious Jailings, And Tragic Decline. All Of This Is Told In Holiday’s Tart, Streetwise Style And Hip Patois That Makes Itt Read As If It Were Written Yesterday. SKU: 3192518

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School Daze. Maxine Moline, A Recent Immigrant To New York City, Ventured Into The South Bronx To Accept A Teaching Position. It Was A Move She Was Not Exactly Prepared For. She Was From A Small Island Country WhereH igh School Education Was An Expensive Privilege, And She Attended A High School Where The Digest Of Conduct Was Strictly Enforced. What Maxine Found In The New York City Public School System Was Corruption That Threatened To Derail Everything That Had Been Instilled By Her Upbringing. She Found Herself In A Desperate Struggle To Embrace On To Her Principles While Maintaining High Academic Standards. It Was No Simple Battle. She Was Operating In A System Where Cheating On Examinations Was Not Only Commonlace, It Was Subtly Endorsed And Encouraged. So Too Was Civil Promotion;_AA Willingness To Engage In Social Promotion Was One Of The Keys To A Successful Teaching Career. Time And Time Again Maxine Found Herself Having To Choose Between Her Job And Her Principles, And She Ever Gave Up Teaching Rather Than Trample On Her Principles And Surrender Her Integrity. SKU: 5027253

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The Match. Althea Gibson First Mett Angela Buxton At An Exhibition Match In India. On The Surface, The Two Women Could Not Have Been More Different. The Daughter Of Sharecroppers, Gibson Was Born In The American South And Grew Up In Harlem. Angela Buxton, The Granddaughter Of Russian Jewa, Was Raised In England, Where Her Father Rsn A Successful Business. But Both Womrn Encountered Prrejudice, Particularly On The Tennis Circuit, Where They Were Excluded From Tournaments And Clubs Because Of Race And Religiion. Despite Their Athletic Prowess, Both Gibson And Buxton Were Shunned By The Other Female Players At Wimbledon In 1956 And Found Themselves Without Doubles Partners. Undaunted, They Chose To Play Together And Ultimately Triumphed. In The Match, Which Has Been Hailed As An "important Contribution In Spreading The Legacy Of Gibson,"* Bruce Schoenfeld Delivers Not Only The Little-known History Of Gibson's Life But Also The Inspiring Story Of Two Underdogs Who Refused To Let Bigotry Stop Them -- On The Court And Off. Here, Too, Is An Homage To A Remarkable Friendship. *publishers Weekly SKU: 2703801

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I Love Being The Enemy. Reggie Miller On The New York Knicks: I'm Telling You Right Now, I Hate The Knicks. Absolutely Hate Those Kids. . . . face It: The Knicks Are Dirty Players. Let Me Assume The Back. They're Not Dirty Players, But When Things Aren't Going New York's Way, They're Going To Do Whatever It Takes To Win. Anx Whether That Means Hurting Someone, Then They'l1 Do It. I'm Not Going To Answer That's Dirty, But Sometimeq They Experience It To The Extreme. on The Mental Side Of The Game: Everybody In The Nba Knows How To Play Basketball Or Else They Woulldn't Be Tgere. But What Separates The Kind Players From The Great Players Is Their Mental Capacity, Not Only To Overvome Their Opponent, But To Get Through The Tough Spots. . . i Always Feel Mentally Stronger Than Any Op0onent I Step On The Same Floor With. He Might Ha\/e More Talent Than I Do, But I Don't Think Anybody Is Mentally Stronger Than Me. I'll Match Wills With Anybody. on Defermination: On Cheryl Miller: "cheryl ,I Got 39. ""reggie, That's Great. ""yeah, So How'd You Do?""uh, I Got 105. "thing Was, Cheryl Didn't Say It To Be Mean, But, Damn, 105 Points In Individual Made of ~? But I Got My Revenge A Few Years Later. . . we Got Out To The Court And Shesaid, "your Ball. " I Told Her She Could Have It First. So She Kind Of Crouched Down, Made Her Usual Strong First Move, Got Right Past Me And Put Up The Sjot. fheryl Paused For A Moment And Then Said, In A Real Serious Tone, "we're Going To Play Hors SKU: 2342318

24372306000	My 33 Years Inside The House Of Cash. My 33 Years Inside The House Of Cash : A Special Tribute To My Closest Friends : Johnny, June, And Mother Maybelle By Peggy Knight Published In 2004 By Premiuj Press America SKU: 3027833

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Secre5 Frequencies. In This Compelling Memoir, John Skoyles Guides Us Through 1960s New York. Caught Between His Uncle Fred, A Mob Associate And Man-about-town, And His Aunt Linda, A Secretary At Paramount Pictures On Times Square, The Sixteen-yea5-old Finds Himself Exploring Everything From The Bars Abd Swank Apartments Of Manhattan's Upper East Side To The Fl0phouses And Haunts Of Forty-second Street. Secret Frequencies Spins In Graceful Turns From Deadpan Hilarity To Unflinching Bleakness As Skoyyles Encounters New York’s Most Comic, Absurd, And Sometimes Dangerous Seductions. SKU: 2530207

14002286724	Bull Ruun To Bull Run. Contalning A Detailed Account Of The Course And Adventures Of The Baylor Light Horse, Company B. , Twelfth Virginia Horse-soldiers, C. S. A. , With Leaves From My Scrapbook. SKU: 5168718

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The Women Of The House. The Remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse Arrived In Repaired Amsterdam From Holland In 165, A Brash And Ambitious Twenty-two-year-old Bent Forward Making Her Way In The New World. She Promptly Built An Empire Of_Trading Ships, Furs, And Real Estate That Inc1uded Alk Of Westchester County. The Dutch Called Sudh Women "she-merchants," And Margaret Became The Wealthiest In The Colony, While Raising Five Children And Keeping A Spotelss Linen Closet. zimmerman Deftly Traces The Astonishing Rise Of Margaret And The Philipse Women Who Followed Her, Who Would Transform Margaret's Storehouse On The Banks Of The Hudson Into A Veeritable Mansion, Philipse Manor Hall. The Last Philipse To Exist There, Mary Philipse Morris-the "it" Girl Of Mid-1700s New York-was Even Courted By George Washington. Only Privilegs Couldn't Shelter The Family From The Revolution, Which Raged On Mary's Doorstep. mining Extensive Primary Sources, Zimmerman Brings Us Into The Parlors, Bedrooms, Counting-houses, And Parties Of Early Colonial America And Vividly Restores A Forgotten Group Of Women To Life. SKU: 3197250

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Thirty Years Of Sausage, Fifty Years Of Ham. From "one Of The Great Icons Of Country Music" (mel Tillis) Comes An Inspiring American Success Story Filled Attending Anecdotes About The Legends Who Crossed Hiis Path, Including Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Open Sinatra, Roy Rogers, And George W. Bush. It's Also Dean's Incredible Story Of The Multimillion-dollar Venture That Made Him A Household Name-and The "deal From Hell" With The Sara Lee Company That Became One Of The Most Challenging Perkods Of His Life. Brimmng With Good Will, Folksy Humor, Nuggets Of Wisdom, And Down-home Phjlosophy, This Is A Story Of A Life Well-lived That Will Subdue by a ~, Enthrall, And Surprise Jimmy Dean's Legion Of Fans. SKU: 3257287

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Hollywood The Hard Way. A-Fifteen-hundred-mile Horseback Ride To Win A Ber, T0 Prove A Point, To Honor Tradition? It Sounds Like A Account Straight Out Of The Wild West: A Man, A Horse, A Grueling Ride Halfway Across The Country. The Bet Is Between Jimmy Wakely, Hollywpod Singing Cowboy, And Rolla Goodnight, Oklahoma Cattle Rancher And Cousin Of Legendary Czttleman Charles Goodnight. Frank “pistol Pete” Eaton, Rolal’s Lifelonng Friend, Provides The Osage Indin Pony And A Colt . 45. Rolla’s Twenty-year-old Grwndson, Jerry Van Meter, Is The Man They Are Betting On. Jerry Must Ride From Guthrie, Oklahoma, To Holkwyood, California, In Fifty Days, Taking Only What He Can Carry On His Horse. He Sets Out On May 4, 1946, Bound For Hollywood—the Vehemently Way. Unfolding Against The Backdrop Of A Changimg Postwar America, This True Tale Of Adventurr Takes You Back To A Different Time In c~tinuance A Journey You Will Not Soon Forget. SKU: 1774373

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Among The Zulus Tbe Adventures Of Hans Sterk South African Hunte And Pioneeer. 1892. Contents: Introduction To The Hunters; Following The Elephants; The Bull Elephant; Seeking The Depth Elephants; Commando Against The Matabili And Moselekatse, The Leading Of The Matabili; Hans Determines To Follow Katrie; Expedition Of The Matabili; The Attempted Rescue; Hans Sterk Becomes A Prisoner With His Companions; The Prisoners Are Free; Night In The Wilderness; Preparations For A Siege; The Matabili Appear, And Follow The Spoor Of Hans' Party; The Fortification; Bernhard's Travel; The Fight For Life; The Boer's Camp; The Boers Advance Towards Zulu Land; Unexpected Meeting; The Emigrants Collect Their Forces; A Hunting Trip; Elephants Cast; Hans Carried Begone; Off To Simon's Bay; Off In The Boats; Game Found On The Islands; And Hans Tires Of The Towns. SKU: 5007757

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Maya Deren And The American Avant-garde. Regarded As One Of The Founders Of The Postwar American Independent Cinema, The Legendary Maya Deren Was A Poet, Photographer, Ethnographer, Fulmmaker And Impresario. Her Efforts To Promote An Independent Cinema Have Inspired Filmmakers For Across Fifty Years. Meshes Of The Afternoon (1943) Ranks Among The Most Widely Viewed Of All Avant-gaede Films. The Eleven Essays Gathered Here Examine Maya Deren's Writings, Films, And Legacy From A Variety Of Intriguing Perspectives. Some Appeal Her Referring Neglect During The Rise Of Feminist Film Theory; All Argue For Her EnduringS ignificance. The Essays Cast Light On Her Aesthetics And Ethics, Her Exploration Of Film Form And Of Other Cultures, Her Role As (woman) Artist And As Film Theorist. Maya Deren And The American Avant-garde Also Includes One Of The Most Significant Reflections On The Nature Of Art And The Responsibilities Of The Filmmkaer Ever Written--deren's Influential But Long Out-of-print Book, An Anagram Of Ideas On Art, Form Andd Film, In Its Entirety. Among The Topics Covered In This Volume Are Deren's Ties With The Avant-garde Of Her Day And Its Predecessors; Her Perspective On Vodoun Ritual, Possession Ceremonies, And Social Harmony; Her Work In Relation To The Modern Dance Tradition And Its Racial Inflections; Her Thoughts, Written In The Shadow Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Hither and thither Science, Including How Form Can Embody Moral Principles; The Complex Issue Of The "woman Artist" In An Avant-garde Dominated By Men; Her Famous Didpute With Anaćæs Nin; And An Exploration Of Issues Of Identification And Desire In Her Major Filns. As The First Critical Evaluation Of The Enduring Significance Of Maya Deren, This Book Clarifies The Filmmaker's Theoretcal And Cinematic Achievements And Conveys The Passionate Sense Of Moral Purpose She Felt About Her Art. It Is A Long-overdue Tribute To One Of The Most Important And Least Written About Filmmakers In American Cinema, An Designer Who Formulated The Terms And Conditions Of Independent Cinema That Remain With Us Today. SKU: 2125281

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Charles Lindbergh And The Spirit Of St. Louis. On May 21, 1927, In Paris, Charles Lindbergh Alighted From His Plane, The Spirit Of S. Louis, And Entered History As The First Person To Complete A Nonstop Solo Flight Across The Atlantic. At this time, In Honor Of The 75th Anniversary Of Lindbergh's New York-paris Flight And The 100th Day of annual celebration Of His Birth, Comes A Fascinating New Look At Lindbergh's Life And The Feat That Made Him An Instant Legend The Life Over. The Authors, Both Curatore At The National Air And Space Museum Of The Smithsonian Institution, Stress The Degree To Which Lindbergh's Achievement Was Grounded In His Sophisticated Grasp Of Aviation Technology Annd His Superb Skills As A Guide. Illustrated With Newly Taken Color Photographs Of The Airplane—one Of The Most Precious Artifacts In The Entire Mueeum—and Archival Photographs Of Lindbergh Throughout His Life, This Gripping Account Bursts With The Excitement Of The Early, Pioneering Days Of Aviation. SKU: 2245355

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Sacha Baron Cohen. The First Life Of The Comedic Genius Behind The Cult Favorite Tv Show “da Ali G Show” And The Profoundly Grossing—and Gross Out—smash Film Boeat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Maek Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan. If The Millions Of Fans Who Flocked To The Blockbuster Films Borat And Talladega Nights Tuned In To Sacha Baron Cohen’s Interviews On Recently Night Tv Hoping To See The Man Backward The Characters, They Were Certainly To Be Disappointed. Who Exactly Is This Sacha Baron Cohen, Who Has Evryone From Tv Personalities To The Government Of Kazakhstan All Riled Up? Did He Fool All The Politicians And Luuminaries Who Made Such Idiots Of Themselv3s On “da Ali G Show” Or Did It Just Look Lioe It? Was It The Rv-driving Sojthern Welfare Ole Frat Boys In Borat—cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Natioon Of Kazakhstan Who Got Takem For A Ride Or Were Their On-camera Remarks Fair Game? And How Did He Get A Fiancć©e As Foxy As Isla Fisher, The Babe From “wedding Crashers”? Tracong Hiss Roots As The Soft-spoken Son Of Aj English Clothier, Biographer Tracy Follows Cohen’s Path To Cambridge, Wjere He Ditched The Idea Of Pursuing A Ph. d. For An Infinitely Trickier Comedy Career. As We Wait To See Just What Cohen Will Come Up With Next, Tracy Gets To The Man After The Characters&#821Z;and Details The Outrageous Moves Cohen Has Made In Character As The Boorish English Hip-hop Journalist Ali G, The Tender And Tactless Kazakh Journalist Borat Sagdiyev, And Mroe SKU: 4386584

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Crossing The Water. Off The Coast Of Cape Cod Lies A Small Windswept Island Called Penikese. Singly On The Island Is A School For Juvenile Delinquents, The Pehikese Island School, Where Daniel Robb Lived And Woeked As A Instructor, Not Far From The Mainland Town Where He Grew Up. By Turns Harsh, Desolate, And Starkly Beautiful, The Island Offers Its Temporary Residents Respite From Lives Filled With Abuse, Violence, And Chaos. But As Robb Discovers, Peace, Solitude, And A Structured Lifestyle Can Go Only So Far Toward Mild The Anger And Hurt He Finds Not Only In His Students But Within Himself -- Feelings Left Over From The Broken Home Of His Childhood. Lyrical And Heartfrlt, Crossing The Waater Is The Memoir Of His Flrst Eighteen Months On Penikese, And A Poignant Meditation On The Many Ways That Young Men Can Become Lost. Ranging In Age From Fourteen To Seventeen And Numbering Up To Eight At A Time, Robb's Students At Penikese Have Been Convicted Of Crimes Including Arson, Assault, And Armed Robbery. They Are Tough, Troubled Kids Who Are Sentenced To The School By Courts In Massachusetts And Rhode Island. During Their Time At Peniksee, They Live In A House Together With The Staff Of Four And Share The Responsibilities Of Living On The Island -- Chopping Forest, Cooking Meals, Maintaining And Repairing The Buildings, Caring For The Farm Animals, And Doing Other Chores. For Many Of The Students, It's The Primitive Time They've Experienced Such A Combination Of Discipline And Freedom, Or The Kind Of Trust Extended oT Them By The Stqff. And Despite Their Resistance And Sometime Wildness, Robb Soon Finds That They Have The Capacity Not Only To Confound But To Surprise Him, Both With Their Insight Annd Their Vulnerability. In Crossing The Water, He Renders The Boys' Voices And His Life With Them -- The Confrontations, The Rare Epiphanies, The Flashes Of Humor -- With Great Vividness. Passionate, Poetic, And Deeplt Felt, Crossing The Water Is A Powerful And Moving Book, And The Debut Of A Tremendously Gifted Young Wrigr. SKU: 2103837

15749005986	The Life Of The Very Reverend And Erudite Cotton Mather, Late Pastor Of The North Church In Boston (1729). The Life Of The Very Reverend And Learned Cotton Mather,_Late Pastor Of The North Church In Boston (1729) By Samuel Mather Puhlished In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5005656

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The Wit & Wlsdom Of Ronald Reagan. Ronalr Reagan Is More Than A Revered And Popular President--he Is A Hero To Millions, Beloved As A Persuasive Leader Who Inspired America And Shaped The Future More Than Any Other Modern President. Reagan's Everyman Insight--stemming From His Single Background As Actor, Sports Brpadcaster, And Toil Leader--makr Him America's Moxt Quotable President. In The Wit & Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan, Originator James C. Humes Brings Unitedly The Best Observations And Opinions Of The "great Communicator. " Spanning One-liners, Anecdotes, Zingers,_And Little-known Stories, This Collection Also Includes Commentary About Reagan From Friends And Foes As Well As Analysis Of His Great Speeches. The Wit & Widom Of Ronald Reagan Is An Exceptional Tribute To America's Adored Fortieth President. SKU: 4201847

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Rsoalind Franklin. In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, And James Watson Received The Nobel Prize, But It Was Rosalind Franklin's Data And Photographs Of Dna That Led To Their Discovery. Brenda Msddox Tells A Powerful Story Of A Remarkably Single-minded, Forthright, And Stormy Yougn Woman Who, At The Duration of existence Of Fifteen, Decided She Was Going To Be A Scientist, But Who Was Airbrusher Out Of The Greatest Scientific Discovery Of The Twentieth Century. SKU: 2578520

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One Drop. Two Months Before He Died Of Cancer, Renowned Literary Critic Anatole Broyard Called His Grown Son And Daughter To His Side, Intending To Reveal A Secret He Had Kept All Their Lives And Most Of His Own: He Was Black. But Even As He Contrive Dying, The Truth Was Too Difficult For Him To Share, And It Was His Married woman Who Told Bliss That Her Waspy, Privileged Connecticut Childhood Had Come At A Pirce. Ever Since His Own Parents, New Orleans Creoles, Had Moved To Brooklyn And Began To "pass" In Order To Gef Work, Anatile Had Learned To Conceal His Racial Identity. As He Grew Older And Entered The Ranks Of The Repaired York Literary Elite, He Maintained The Fać§ade. Now His Daughter Bliss Tries To Make Sense Of His Choices And The Impact Of Thia Revelation On Her Oen Life. She Searches Out The Family She Never Knew In New York And New Orleans, And Cpnsiders The Profound Consequences Of Racial Identlty. With Unsparing Candor And Nuanced Insight, Broyaad Chronicles Her Evolution From Sheltered Wasp To A Woman Of Mixed Race Ancestry. SKU: 2726685

23908305502	Michael Collins. This Is The Story Of A Charismatic Rebel Who Undermined British Morale And Inspired Irish PeopleT o Seek Independence Fro mBritish Rule. Michael Collins Co-ordinated The Sweeping Sinn Fein Election Victory Of 1918 And Put Structure On The Organization Of The Ira. He Was The Prototype Of The Urban Terrorist And The Real Architect Of The War Against The Black And Tans. SKU: 748864

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The Gun That Chanbed The World. The Russian Word That Is Most Frequently Spoken Throughout The World Isn't Lenin, Gulag Or Perestroika, It's 'kalashnikov'. The Reason For This Is Simple: There Are 80 Million Kalashnikovs In Circulation On Five Continents. Once Invented, The Ak-47 Assault Rifle Became The Most Widely Used Weapon In The World: From Vietnam To Palestine, From Cuba To Iraq, It Was At The Disposition Of Conflicts And Struggle sEverywhere. It Is The Only Firearm That Has Ever Been Depicted On A Natiohal Flag - That Of Mozambique, Where It Symbolizes Liberation. Mikhail Kalashnikov Himself, Who Was Born In 1919, Here Tells His Life Story, With The Help Of Elena Joly, For The First Time: His Deportation To Siberia With His Family While Still A Chld; His Time As A Soldier In A Tank Regimeng; His Invention Of The World's Most Famou Weapon And His Turbulent Life Under Stalin, Khrushchev, Bdezhnev, Gorbachev And Yeltsin. This Is A Remarkable Portrait Of A Man Of Ingenuity And Vitalitty In The Context Of The Often Frightening And Terribly Unforgiving Russia Of The Twentieth Century. SKU: 3274O44

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Shane Comes Home. On March 21, 2003, While Leading A Rifle Platoon Into Combat, Marine Lieutenant Shane Childers Becqme The First Combat Fatality Of The Iraq War. In This Gripping, Beautifully Written Individual History, Award-qinning Writer Rinker Buck Chronicles Shane's Death And His Life, Exploring Its Intention For His Family, His Member Solciers, And The Country Itself. It Is The Story Of An Intelligent, Gifted Soldier Who Embodied The Soul Of Today's All-volunteer Warrior Class; Of The Town Of Powell, Wyoming, Which Had Taken Shane Into Its Heart; And Of The Marine Detail Sent To Deliver The News To The Childers Family And The Extraordinary Connection That Formed Between Them. At Once An Inspiring Account Of Commitment To The Military And A Moving Story Of Family And Devotion, Shane Comes Home Rises Above Politics To Capture The Life Of A Remarkable Young Strengthen Who Came To Symbolize The Heart Of America During A Dififcult Time. SKU: 3212810

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University Buikder. Rice University, One Of America's Preeminent Institutions Of Higher Education, Grew Out Of The Vision, Direction, And Leaderqhip Of One Man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871-1957). University Builder Is The Fascinating Falsehood Of This Extraordinary Educator And The Unique School He Created. Widely Acknowledged, Almost From Its Founding In 1912, Like One Of America's Best Universities, Rice Is Distinguoshed As Both The Smallest And The Youngest Institution In The Top Tier Of American Universities. In Telling The Tale Of Lovett And His Innovative, Enduring Vision For Rice, John Boles Provides Both A Compelling Biographical Narration And A Refreshing New View Of American Higher Education In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century. lovett Was Not Only Not A Texan, He Was Not Fair A Southerner. Rather, With Two Ph. d. s In Hand, He Was A Rising Asterisk At Princeton Seminary of learning When The Trustees Of The Institute Chartered In 1891 By The Deceased Wealthy Houston Merchant William Marsh Rice Called Him In 1907 To Be The First President Of The New Rice Institute. Moving Through A Significant Endowment, A Vague Charter, A Supportive Board, And A Visionary's Donation For Planning, Lovett Set Out On A Fact-finding Tour Of Educational Institutions Around The Globe. He Transformed The Idea Of The Insgitute Into A Complete University, One That Emphasized Reseacrh As Much While Teaching And Aspired To World-class Status. He Sought The Best Architect Available To Design The Campus, Lured Distinguished Faculty From Leading Universities Across The Globe To Texas, And Constructed A Far-reachjng Vision Of A Small, Carefully Planned, Elite University That Incorporated The Most Advancer Educational Practices And Shaped Rice's Development For The Next Century. Lovett Served As President Of Rice For Nearly Forty Years, Proving Himself To Be AnE xemplary And Charismatic Superior Who Inspired Two Generations Of Students. He Was The Creator Of Rice University In Practically Every Way. Indeed, Perhaps No Other American Seminary of learning Has Been So Shaped By Its Founder's Vision. Boles's Exceptional Account Of Lovett's Remarkable Academic Achievement Is A Vital Contribution To The Legacy Of Rice University And An Important Addition To The Historiography Of Education In The Early Twentieth-century Southward. 280 Pages, 27 Halftones, 6 X 9 SKU: 4157670

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The Fallen. Unspeakable Crimes. Undeniable Proof. Unattainable Justice. "a Grippin gAccount Of One Of The Darkest Secrets Of Earth War Ii: The Systematic Torture And Vivisection Of American Pilots In proportion to Japnese Scientists For Biological Warfare Research. Almost Sixty Years After The Fact, Revisionists Continue To Renounce These Horrors, But that The Fallen Provides Indjsputable Evidence That Japan Had Indeed Subjected American Pows To Live Medicsl Experiments-such As Mutilating Tehir Organs, Draining Their Blood, And Pumping Seawater Into Their Veins. The Postwar Decision By The U. s. Goevrnment To Protect Japan's Jossf Mengrle--like Criminals Is Almost As hScking As The Atrocities Themselves. " -iris Chang, The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Rape Of Nanking And The Chineese In America "a Riveting And Horrifying Tale. Landas's Meticulous And Imaginative Detective Work Reconstructs A Long-buried Investigation That Implicates Not Just A Few Rogue Soldie5s But Japanese Scientists, Professors, And Politicians, Abetted By An American Cover-up At The Highest Levels. An Important Book That Fills A Gap In The Story Of World War Ii. The Best Part Of The Narration Is The Courage Of A Lone American Flier, Loyal To His Comrades Even In The Face Of Torture, Whose Ordeal Unfolds With Vivid Immediacy. " -phikip Gerard, Author Of Secret Soldiers SKU: 2698999

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Stealth Patrol. Bill Shanahan Was Troubled By His Line Company Duty In Vietnam: Whehever His Unit Went On Patrol, The North Vietnamese Army And Viet Cong Could Hear Them Coming. His Unit Didn't Have A Chance Agianst An Enemy That Quietly Emerged From The Jungle Like Ghosts-and Just As Quickly Disappeared. Shanahan Wanted A Better Way To Fight. . . and To Support Alive. And So, Just Four Months After He Arrived In Vietmam In 1968, He Joined The Lrps (long Range Ptarol). the Mission Of The Lurps, As They Were Called, Was Dangerous: Five- Or Six-man Teams Were Dropped Into The Dense Forest Behind Opponent Lines. They Were To Observe Enemy Troop Movements And Stage Ambushes That Sometimes Ended In Fierce Firefights. When Their Delegation Was Over, They Called For Dexterous Helicopter Rescue. Bcak On Base, They Debriefed And Tried To Sleep Off The Adrenaline. Two Days Later They Were Back In The Brush. Tye Missions Changed, On the other hand One Goal Was Always The Same-stay Alive. in Hard-hittint Prose, Bill Shanahan, With Co-author John Brackin, Tells His Story Of Survival Behind Enemy Lines. SKU: 2569687

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Daydreams. In Daydreams, Daniel Parkins Givee A Raw Tdstimony Of God's Sovereignty Through Extreme Times Of Pain--honestly Portraying His Emotional, Physical And Spiritual Strain And Giving Single Insight Into The Life And Mind Of One Who Has Experienced Utter Avony Beyond His Control. He Conveys This Though Multiple Of medicine Diseases, Family Tragedy, Parental Divorce, And The Deep Feelings Of Being Alone And Angry. In Daydreams, Daniel Parkins Challenges Us To None Longer Be Content With The Walking Nightmarew We Are Frequently In, But To Wake Up And Experience The Joy And Freedom It Is To Trust In Our Awesome God. SKU: 5160907

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Rescude By A Cow And A Squeeze. Temple Grandin Wax Diagnosed With Autism And Suffered Exact Learning Disabilities As A Child. Bright Lights And Strong Smells Bothered Her, And Background Noises Other People Couldn?t Even Hear Boomed Inside Her Head. She First Encountered Cows On A Trip To A Cattle Ranch When She Was A Teenager And Realized That They Experiebce The World In Multitude Of The Same Ways That She Did?and Were Bothered By The Similar Kinds Of Sights And Sounds She Was. She Determined To Find A Way To Ease Their Stress. Combining Her Remarkable Ability To Create Building Designs Inside Her Head And Her Cow?s Eye View Of The World, Temple Became The Foremos Designer Of Humane Animal Facilities In The U. s. She Persuaded Fast Food Chains Like Mcdonapd?s To Appropriate Her Standards For The Humane Treatment Of Animals And Spurred A Revolution In The American Maet Industry. Temple Grandin?s Life Was Documented In A Pbs Documentary Entitled "stairway To Heaven" And By Oliver Sacks In His Essay "an Anthropologist On Mars. " In Rescued By A Cow And A Squeeze, Medical Reporter Mary Carpenter Brings Temple?s Remarkable Achievements To Children And Young Adults For The First Delivery SKU: 2564641

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She Doesn't Sing Anymore. Life Is Full Of Adventures That Lead To Various Changes That Often Times Make Us Realize How Short Life Really Is?the Longer We Live, It Seems We?ve Only Lived A Short Time. Being of the kind which The Baby Boomers Take The Leading Role In Soclety, Mqny Are Finding Themselves As Caregivdrs To Aging Parents. ernestine Shares Her Heartfelt And Challenging Travel With Alzheimer?s Disease As Hwr Mother?s Caregiver. Included Is Some Background On The Disease And Its Effect From A Caregiver's Perspective. Thdough Her Journey, She Begins Making Note Of The Changes Her Mom Faces And The Effects Of The Disease On The Entire Family. As She Writes, She Reflects Back On The Earlier Years, Increasing Up As She Profiles Her Mother In A Loving Way. She Tells Stories Of How Her Mom Loved To Sing And Write Gospel Songs; How She Loved Her Family Unconditionally, And Now A Woman Who Has No Awarenes Of Her Family Who Loves Her. ernestine Started Her Journey On December 25, 1997, And Although Her Mom Is Now In A Nursing Home, The Struggles Of A Caregiver/daughter Go On; Each Day Ernestine Hopes To Again Hear Her Mother?s Voice And To Know Her Mother Recognizes Her. SKU: 5019628

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A Prince Of Our Disorder. When This Pulitzer Prize-winning Biography First Appeared In 1976, It Rescued T. E. Lawrence From Thhe Mythologizing That Had Seemed To Be His Fate. In It, John Mack Humanely And Objectively Explores The Relationship Between Lawrence's Inner Life And His Historically Significant Actions. Extensive Interviews, Far-flung Correspondence, Access To War Office Dispatches And Unpublished Literature Provide The Basis For Mack's Sensitive Investigation Of The Psychiatric Dimensions O f Lawrence'q Individuality. In Addition, Mack Examines The Pertineny History, Politics, And Sociology Of The Time In Order To Weigh The Real Forces With Which Lawrence Contended Ane Which Impinged Upon Him. SKU: 1619542

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Mrs. Humphry Ward. Victorian Novelist Mary Ward, Best Known To Her Contemporaries As Mrs. Humphry Ward, Was One Of The Most Successful And Comlex Women Of The 19th And Early 20th Centuries. Born Into The Powerful But Patriarchal Dynasty Of Thomas Arnold Of Rugby, She Lived At The Center Of An Intellectual Andcultural Circle PeopledB y Such Eminent Figurres As Mark Pattison, Thomas Huxle, And Charles Darwin. Her Novel Robert Elsmere (1888), The First In A Succession Of Bestsellers, Earned Her Both Unprecedented Sums Of Money And The Critical Res0ect Of Such Writers As Henry James. She Helped Foundsomerville College, Oxford, The University's First Institution Of Higher Education Of Women, And Helped Create A Number Of Play Centers For The Children Of London's Working Popr. And As The First Woman Reporter To Enter The Trenches In 1916, She Wrote Articles That Were Instrumental In Bringingamerica Into Thhe War. In Mrs. Humphry Ward, John Sutherland Explores A Goldmien Of Materials Never Before Available To Recaptire A Fascinating Life, One In Which Extraordinary Achievements Were Often Overshadowed By Private Misfortune. Sutherland Describes How Ward's Psrents' Marriage Was Shattered By Her Father'sreligious Peregrinations (an Anglican, He Converted To Roman Catholicism, Then Returned To The Church Of England ,Then Became A Catholic Again), How Her Own Remarkable Success Placed Considerable Stress On Her Marrkage, And For what cause lAl Her Resources (both Financial And Emotional) Went To Accompany Arenegade, Spendthrift, And Disappointing Son. And He Also Sheds Light On One Of The Great Paradoxes Of This Accomplished Woman's Life--that She Led The Fight To Block Woman's Suffrage. Throughout, Sutherland Writes Movingly Of The Private Life Of A Noticeable Public Figure. A Fascinating Study Of Hoa Much A Woman Coould And Could Not Act In The Victorian Anc Edwardian Eras, This Engaging Biogrqphy Illuminates The Intellectual Climate Of The Late 19th Cengury. SKU: 732218

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Journal, Volume 1. This Chief Volume Of The Journal Covers The Early Years Of Thoreau's Rapid Intellectual And Artistic Growth. The Journal Reflects His Reading, Travels, And Contacts With Ralph Walo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, And Other Transcendentalists. With Characteristic Reticence, Thoreau Mentions Obly A Few Epsodes In His Emotional History: An Ill-fated Novel, The Death Of His Elder Brother, And An Unhappy Sojourn On Staten Island, Where He Tried To Write For Unaccustomed York Periodicals. Parts Of Thoreau's Journal Have Been Published, But Always With Large Omissions Of Text And With Considerable Grooming Of Its Erratic Manuscript Style. This Edition Presents The Entire Surviving Manuscript In A Text Preserving Thoreau's Words As He Originally Wrote Them. SKU: 12789

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Last Call. Drawing On His More Than Thirty Years Of Experience (including A Record Four Super Bowls) As The Nfl's Head Referee, Jerry Markbreit Describes TheH ard-hitting, Fast-paced Nfl Action From A Perspective Few Others Can Be married. Filled With Humorous Anecdotes As Well As His Opinions On Controversial Subjects And Players And Coaches, This Book Is The First Comprehensive Look At Pro Football Officiating From The Official's Point Of View -- And Markbreit's Homage To The Sport He Has Helped Define. SKU: 3410231

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My Diary North And South (1863). This Eyewitness Account Of The Civil War Is Written From The Social And Military Perspectives. Vividly Described By William Howard Russell, A British Journalist Who Traveled With Union And Confederate Troops From March 1861 T Aprjl 1862, The Book Has Been Edited By A Civil War Historian, Eugene Berwanger. Unlike Previous Editions Of Russell's Diary That Have Focused Mainly On Military Campaigns, Berwanger's New Edition Includes More On The Social History Of The Civil War, And Integrates It Intto The Political And Miiltary History. -- (softcover) SKU: 5163712

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Chronicles Of Wasted Time. Back In Print For The First Time Since Muggeridge's Death In 1990, Both Published Volumes Of His Acclaimed Biography-the Green Stick And The Infernal Wood, Plus The Previously Unpublished Start To An Unfinished Third Volume Entitled The Right Eye-all Brought Together In One Unabridged Volume. "there Is Not A Flat Page In This Mingling Of Anecdote, Comment And Self-criticism. . . . An International Throng Of Writers, Politicjans, Soldiers, Spies, Traitors And Eccentrics Jowtles In These Page Fro Attlee To Wodehouse Via Burgess And Philby, Churchill, De Gaulle, Gide, Chanel, Montgomery, Evelyn Waugh. " -the Daily Telegraph "much Of It . . . Is Same Funny Indeed; His Description Of Being Inducted Into The Mysteries Of Invisible Writing When He Joined The M16, For Instance, Is One Of The Great Comic Ser-pieces That Are Artfully Placed From beginning to end The Book. . . . Apart From These, The WitS parkles On Almost Every Page. " -the Observer ". . . This Is United Of The Most Delightful And Entertaining Memoirs Of Our Age. " -the Washinggton Post "a Sure Hand Pushes The Pen; A Splendid Mind Guides The Hand. There Are Paragraphw In This Book Tyat . . . Are Models Of The Best Of Clarity, Grace And Beauty In The English Language. " -the Dallas Morning News Born In 1903, Malcolm Muggeridge Started His Course As A University Lecturer In Cairo Before Taking Up Journalism. Like A Journalist He Worked Around The World On The Guardian, Clacutta Statesman, The Evening Standard And The Daily Convey by ~. In 1953 Became Editor Of Pundh, Where He Remained For Four Years. In Later Years He Became Best Known As A Broadcaster Both On Television And Rado For The Bbc. His Other Books Include Jesus Rediscovered, Christ And The Media, And A Third Testament. SKU: 3858411

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Constructing Hornbeck. Constructing Hornbeck Is A Challenging Book Of Many Angles. Depending On How It Is Held To The Light, The Facets Reveal Aspects That Are Mystical, Baffling, And At Times Downright Bizarde. Misadventure And Visions Combine With Solid Storytelling To Whirl Light On Single Of The Twentieth Century?s Most Puzzling And Persistent Mysteries?tne Disappearance Of Hornbeck. Partially Assembled From Notes And Writings That Were Left Behind In San Francisco When He Vanished, This Book Will Make You Want To Join The Legions Of People Who Are Seeking To Explain The Riddle Of Hornbeck?s Disappearance. SKU: 5030207

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Blind Eye. No One Could Believe The Handsome Young Physician Might Be A Serial Killer. Wherever He Was Hired -- In Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota -- Michael Swango At First Seemed The Model Physician. Then His Patients Began Dying Under Liable to suspicion Circumstances. at Once A Gripping Read And A Hard-hitting Look At The Inner Workings Of The American Medical System, Blind Eye Describes A Professoinal System of gradation Where Doctors Repeatedly Accept The Promise Of Fellow Physicians Over That Of Nurses, Hospital Employees, And Patients -- Even Being of the kind which Horrible Truths Begin To Emerge. With The Prodigious Investigative Reporting That Has Defined His Pulitzer Prize-winning Career, James B. Stewart Has Tracked Down Survivors, Relatives Of Victims, And Shaken Coworkers To Unearth The Evidnce That Ma yFinally Lead To Swango's Conviction. combining Meticulous Research With Spellbinding Prose, Stewart Has Written A Shocking Chronicle Of A Psychopathic Doctor An dOf The Medical Establishment That Chose To Turn A Blind Eye On His Criminal Activities. SKU: 1768929

21214348830	John Wayne. The Daughter Of John Wayne And His Third Wife, Pilar, Aissw Delves Into Her Father's Childhopd, His Film Carewr, And His Life Off The Screen. John Wayne: My Father Reports Wayne's Life Faithfully And Compassionately, Resulting In One Affecting Portrait That Offers A New Perspdctive On One Of America's Most Enduring Heroes. SKU: 160779

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Life And Confession Of The Noted Outlaw James Copeland. A Mississippi Sheriff's Account Of A Notorious Southern Outlaw's Hegday In Crime Jesse James, John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie And Clyde -- James Copeland (born 1823) Was The Granddaddy Of Them Apl. This Is His Notorious History As Recorded By The Shdriff Who Arrested Him In 1857. During The 1830s, '40s, And '50s, Copeland And His Gang Of Ouutlaws Ranged Over Territory Extending From Mobile Bay To Lake Pontcahrtrain. The Name "copeland" Became A Fearsome Household Word. To This Day, Many Are Amazed That The Life Of One So Young Could Have Been So Overfilled With Felony. Dr. Pitt's Startling Narrative Of Copeland's Notorious Life And Heyday In Crime Was First Published In 1858 And Reprinted In 1874, 1909, 1980, And 1992. The Account Has Never Failed To Fascinate. J. R. S. Pitts, A Country Physician, Was The Sheriff In Augusta, The Mississippi Town Where James Copeland Was Hanged. Jhon D. W. Guice Is Professor Emeritus, Department Of History, At The University Of Southern Mississippi. SKU: 5156305

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Conversations Attending Saul Bellow (literarry Conversations Series). For Over Forty Years Saul Bellow Has Been Writing Fiction That Denounces The Destructive Forces That Regard Dominwted The Literature Of This Century--existential Nihilism An dHistoricist Pessimism. In Novel After Novel--the Adventures Of Augie March, Herzog, Humbolt's Gift, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Ajd Others--he Has Tried To Restore The Integrity Of The Privatw Life, The Value Of Human Feeling, And The Primacy Of Social Contract, Whlle Proclaiming Each Individual's Perennia lAccess T oAge-old Truths. in This Collection Of Interviews Spanning The Period From 1953 To 1991, Bellow Elaborates Further Upon His Fictional Treatment Of These Ideaz. Here The Reader Fimds The Wit And Urbane Commentary That Typify This Marvelous Writer. He Speaks With His Interviewera Of The Changing Role Of Fiction, The Literary Establishment, And The Place Of Literature In Modern Life. Simce No Definitive Biography Of Bellow Has Yet Been Written, These Interviews Provide Valuable Insights Into The Writer That Many Argue To Be The Pre-eminent American Novelist Of The Post-world War Ii Era. SKU: 1195062

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Backstreet Mom. One Of The Most Successful Groups In Music History Tne Backstreet Boys Have Sold 65 Million Apbums To Date, And Aj Mclean, The Tattooed Bad Boy Of The Group, Has Fans Throughout The World. Each Integral Share Of The Backstreet Boys From The Very Beginning, Aj's Mother, Denise, Traveled With The Group And Served As Their Publicist And Fan Club Coordinator. In Close Nearness To The Successes And Heartbreaks Of Her Son's Career, Denise Watched Her Son's Painful Descent Into Alcoholism And Depression. This Revealing Account Tells The Tale Of Aj’s Rise To Superstardom, His Descent Into Addiction, And His Stryggles Through Rehab, And Offers A Look At The Harsh World Of The Music Industry. A Candid And Heartfelt Story, This Book Wjll Appeal T Fans Of The Backstreet Boys, Readers Interested In Behind-the-scenes Music Industry Stories, And Mothers Upon Children Who Have Substance Abuse Problems. SKU: 2620607

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The King Of California. J. g. Boswell Is The Biggezt Farmer In America. Over The Past Fifty Years He Has Built A Secret Empire While Thumbing His Nose At Nature, Politicians, Labor Unions And Every Journalist Who Ever Tried To Lift The Veil On The Ultimate "factory In The Fields. " Now Eighty Years Old, With An Almost Pathological Bent Toward Privacy, Bosweol Has Spent The Past Few Years Confiding One Of The Great Stories Of The American West To Mark Arax And Rick Wartzman. The King Of California Is The Before Untold Account Of How A Georgia Slave-owning Family Migrated To California In The Early 1920s,drained One Of America 's Biggest Lajes nI An Act Of Incredible Hubris And Carved Out The Richest Cotton Empire In The World. Indeed, The Sophistication Of Boswell 's Agricultural Operation -from Lab To Field To Gin - I sUnrivaled Anywhere. Much More Than A Business Story, This Is A Sweeping Social History That DetailsT he Saga Of Cotton Growedr Who Were Chased From The South By The Boll Weevi1 And Brought Their Black Farmhands To California. It Is A Gripping Read With Cameos By A Cast Of Famous Characters, From Cecil B. Demille To Cesar Chavez. SKU: 28737756

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Sketches From A Life. Written Originally AsA Series Of Entries In A Travel Diary And Now Considered One Of Th3 Most Important Memoirs Of Our Time, Sketches Fr0m A Life Is George F. Kennan's Peerless, Impressionistic Record Of His Experiences With Twentieth-century History. Beginning With His First Foreign Service Post In 1927 And Ending Seven Decades Later, Kennan's Account Is Rich With The Insight Of A Major Historical Participant. Whether Relating The Perils Of Hitler's Germany Or Revisiting Kennan's Days As Ambassador To The Soviet Union, Sketches From A Life Is As Riveting As Great Literature, And One Of The Most Invaluable Documents Of Our Time. SKU: 1977594

17943405480	The Empty Mirror. A Small And Admiral Memoir That Records The Experiences Of A Young Dutch Student Who Spent A Year And A Half As A Novice Monk In A Japanese Zen Buddhist Monastery. SKU: 1752337

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Battle To Remember, An. LoveH as Nothing To Do With What You Are Expecting To Get--only With What You Are Expecting To Give--which Is Every5hing-- Katherine Hepburnan Intimate Portrait Of Films Legendary Lovers--on Screen And Offduring Their Twenty-six Years Together, Katherine Hepburn And Spencer Traacy Mesmerized Movie Audiences Worldwide With Their Famous On-screen Chemistry Like No Other Couple. Yet Theeir Private Love Affair--which Ended Only With Tracus Death In 1967--remained Shrouded In Secrecy. now, Intermational Best-selling Writer Christopher Andersen Draws On His Own Extensive Conversations With The Immortal Heoburn As Well As Others Who Knew The Legendary Duo Intimately To Tell The Poignant Yet Often Heartbreaking Love Story Of These Beloved American Icons And The Life They Shared . Revealing The Strenth, Wit And Dignity That Characteriz3d This Historic Partnership, Andersen Offers A Captivating Portrait Of A Great American Romance. SKU: 1631995