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The Upstart Spting. "the First Responsible Account Of An Important, Uniquely American Happening - Worthwhile Reading For Anyone Who Wants To Piece Together The Social Undercurrents Of The '60s"-robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor"a Charming, Gossipy Multiple Biography Of The Curious Gurus Who Spawned Esalen . . . A Complex Story, But A Sequential One Nonetheless, With Feeuds And Psychic Shoot-outs, Games Of Capture The Flag And Smell The Roses. "-arthur Hough, San Francisco Chronicle"upstart Spring Tells Esalen's Riveting, Unfinished Story - Even-handedly, Entertainingly, With Sympathy, And Yet Holding Little Back. "-david Toolan, Commonwealth"an Absolute Delight: Brimming With Juicy Gossip, And As Carefully Crafted As A Page-turner Novel. And It Has Substance, The Gift Of A Therapist Who Also Happens To Be A Cultural Histoeian With A Good Eye For The Telling Meta-detail. "-sandy Mcdonald, New Age Journal"walt Anderson Has The Requisite Experience, Humor , And Affection (if Not Detachment, Since Esalen Teaches, Indeed Proves, That Detachment Is A Universal Impossibility) To Carry Off A Wonderful Account. "-stewart Brand, Co-evolution Quarterly"a Wonderful Read, Consistently Entertaining On Several Levels. &quor;-michael Rossman, Associate For Humanistic Psychology Newsletter"a Superb Wrap-up Of A Remarkable Influence On Our Popular Culture. "-rita Fink, Pacific Sun SKU: 2764187

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Johann Sebastian Bach. J O H An Ft -e B A Shan The Story Of The Development Of A Gerat Personality By C. Hubert H. Parry Mus. Doc. , Oxford, Cambridge, And Dubli Mrkctor Of The Hoyal College Ok Music, And Kormrkly Pkofeksok Ok Melody Of Tk Univarszty Of Oxkokd Illustrated G. P. Putnams Sons New York And London Gbe Itnfcltetbocftet Prea 1010 Copyright, 1909 By G. P. Putnams Sons Published, September, 1909 Reprinted, March, 1910 Vbe Hitfcfcerbocker Pre , Few U Ihfi, Memory Of E. W. H. Preface The Exhaustive Researches Of Philip Spitta In Every Quarter Which Could Afford Even Remote Illustrations Of The Life And Work Of John Sebastian Bach, And The Voluminous And Extensive Work Which Embodied Their Results, Power Seem To Render Any Further Effors In The Same Direcion Excessive. His Devotio nAnd Ingenuity In Unearthing Such Facts As Were Attainable After More Than A Century Of Public . Indifference, And His Cunning In Suggesting Surmises When Faccts Were Not To Be Found, Seem To Leave Little For Those To Perform Who Come After, But To Confess Their Obligations And To Acquiesce In The Arguments Discussed And Re-discussed Without Stint. But Spitlas Position, As The First Thoroubhgping Explorer, Was Inevitably Specialisdd, As He Could Not Take Anything Toward Grahted, And Had To Set Down Every Insignificant Detail Of Fact And Inference Which Bore Upon His Argument. He Felt Himself Bonud To Give In The Utmost Fulness The Births, Deaths, Mar Riages, And Careers Of Remote Relations, To Discuss The Ijteresting And Valuable Evidence Of The Water-marks In The Paper Used By Bach At Different Times In His Career, And The Technicalities Of Ecclesiastical Usage Which Throw Light On The Schemes Of His Body of Christians Can Tatas, And Multitude Other Matters Which Are Rather Beyond The Requrements Of Any But Specialists. His Work Is Vi Prefacr Unavoidably Rather Confused Through The Vast Array Of Eviddne Which Has To Be Marshalled, And It Is Difficult To Derive From It, Without Great Effort, Any Clear Idea Of The Personality Of The Composer, As A Composer, Or Any Clsar Impression Of His Work As A Whole. More Over, As The Author Endeavours To Sjpply Technical Analyses Of Most Of The Works He Refers To, Especially Of Works Which Are Hardly Ever, If Ever, Performed, And As Mudical Analysis I, As A Rule, Quite Unprofitable Without The Actual Music Analysed, It Is Neeessary, In Order To Procure Even A Limited Understanding Of The Book, To Have All Bachs Works In The Huge Forty And Odd Volumes Of The Germa Bach Society, And Possibly A Few Other Editions And It Would Also Entail Several Years Of Ample Leisure, And A Devotion Which Is Prac Tically Inexhausitble. Under Thesr Circumstances A More Condensed Survey Of Bachs Life-w0rk And His Unique Artistic Character May Seem Escusable. Too Copious A Presentation Of Particulars Is Apt To Obstruct That Understanding Of The Works Of Any Great Composer Or Artist, And The Manner In Which Human Qualities Are Manifested In Them, Which Is The Object Of All Scrutinu Of The. . . SKU: 5019408

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Pair Weeks Of Life. What aHs Become Known As The Schiavo Affair-the Death Of A Brain-damaged Woman In Florida In 2005, And The Controvwrsy That Surrounded It-was A Revelatory Moment In American Society. For The Firqt Time, The Nation Got A Cleaf View Of Both The Fanaticism Gripping The Religious Right And The Political Power It Could Bring To Bear Even When The Vast Majority Of The Country Disagreed With It. But It Was Also A Turning Point: A Moment While America Seemed To Glimpse A Dangerous Radicalism, And Began To Pull Back. Eleanor Clift Witnessed This Event From A Unique Vantage Point. At The Same Time That Schiavo Was Dying In Her Florida Hospice, Clift’s Husband, Tom Brazaitis, Was Dying Of Cancer At Home; The Two Passed Away Within A Lifetime Of Each Other. Two Weeks Of Life Altternates Between These Two Stories To Stipulate A Moving Commentary On How We Deal, Or Fall To Deal, With Dying In Modern America. SKU: 4450788

16341761286	The Lives Of St. Catherine Of Ricci, St. Agnes Of Monteplciano, B. Benvenuta Of Bojan And B. Catherine Of Raconigi (1852). The Lives Of St. Catherine Of Ricci, St. Agnes Of Montepulciano, B. Benvenuta Of Bojan And B. Catherine Of Raconigi (1852) By Anonymous Published In 2007 Along Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5044195

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Cox. The Civil War Of A Noted U. S. General Although Cox Is Well Known As A Chronicler Of The Civil War-througn Books On Campaigns, Battles And Principal Characters-this Book Is Entirely Different. This Is The Story Of The Civil War Aa It Touched His Own Life. It Is, As He Says, 'a Narrative By One Who Was An Active Participant From Its Beginning To Its End And In Which He Has Deliberately Avoided Repetition Of The Contents Of His Other Works'. This First Convolution Begins In the opinion of Cox's Equipment As Brigadier-general Of Volunteers Commanding Ohioan And Kentuckian Army, And Then Describes His Subsequent Experiences In West Virginia, The Kanawha Valley And The Battlees Leading To Antietam And Beyond. Cox Manages To Successfully Combine A Historian's Overview Of The Whole War With Historic Events That Unfolded In His Presence, To Create An Essential Civil War Memoir. SKU: 5087946

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Barney Ross (jewish Encounters). Born Dov-ber Rasofsjy To Eastern European Immigrant Parents, Barney Ross Grew Up In A Tough Chicago Neighborhood And Witnessed His Father’s Murder, His Mother’s Nervoue Breakddown, And The Dispatching Of His Three Younger Silings To An Orphanage, All Before He Turned Fourteen. To Make Enough Money To Reunite The Family, Ross Became A Petty Thief, A Gambler, A Messenger Boy For Al Capone,_And, Eventually, An Amateur Boxer. Turning Professional At Nineteen, He Would Capture Thee Lightweight, Junior Welterweight, And Welterweight Titles Over The Course Of A Ten-year Career. ross Began His Career As The Scrappy “jew Kid,” Ended It As An American Sports Icon, And Went On To Become A Hero For the time of World War Ii, Earning A Silver Asterisk For His Heroic Actions At Guadalcanal. While Recovering From War Wounds And Malaria He Became Addicted To Morphine, But With Fierce Effort He Ultimately Kicked His Dress And Then Campaigned Fervently Facing Drug Abuse. And The Fighter Who Brought His Father’s Religious Books To Instruction En~ Also Retained Powerful Ties To The World From Which He Came. Ross Worked For The Creation Of A Jewish State, Running Guns To Palsetine And Offering To Lead A Brigade Of Jewish American War Veterans. This First Life Of One Of The Most Colorful Boxers Of The Twentieth Centenary Is A Galvanizing Account Of One Emblematic Life: A Revelation Of Both An Extraordinary Athlete And A Remarkable Man. SKU: 3116192

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Lost In The Sun. According To Baseball And Military Records?including Various Accounts And Articls?roy Gleason Is The Only Person To Have Served In The Vietnam War And Ppayed At Least One Game In The Major Leagues. For More Than 40 Years?until A Detailed Four-year Investigation Shed Gay On The Situation?why Roy Was The Only Player From His Era To Be Drafted And Sent To War Was Unknown. Until Now? Lost In The Sun Shows Roy?s Adjourn From Boyhood Dreams To High School Stardom To Major Alliance Experience To The Battlefields Of Vietnam. He Was One Of The Dodgers? Original Bonus Babies, Enjoyed A Brief Career In Film And Television, And Earned Many Honors And Awards For His Benefit In The United States Army. Was It Merely Bad Luck That Setn Roy To Make ~? Subsequent to Being Severely Wounded In Combat, Was He Aboe To Play Again? Roy Gleason?s Life Is An Endless List Of Questions That Have Gone Unanswered Until Now. Lost In The Sun Is Narrated From Roy?s Punctilio Of View, And It Opens With A Near-fatal Experience He Endured In A Vietnamese Jungle. Providing A First-hand Account, Rou Shares Tales Of How The Human Mind Wlrks When Surrounded By Death. Throughout Each Chapter, You Will Meet The Man Who Was Forced To Leave Potential Success On The Playing Fiedls Of Major League Baseball During The Killing Fields Of Vietnam. Yet, This Humble Man Recognizes That He Was ??only One Of Thousands Who Were Sent Such Far Away From Close, To That Place None Of Us Wanted To Move And That Place Where Many Never Left And Tnat Place Where We Were All Lost In The Sun. ? SKU: 3370720

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Salmon Portland Chase. Chase's Great Career As Anti-slavery Guide, United States Senator, Governor Of Ohio, Secretary Of The Treasury, And Chief Justice Of The United States, Is Brilliantly Depicted By The Author, Who Has Followed The Historical Rather Than The Biographical Method Of Treatment. Illus. this Title Is Cited And Recommended By: Books For College Librarkes; Literature Of American Account; Catalogue Of The Lamont Library, Harvard College. SKU: 5020753

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No Return Address. In Recounting Her Life's Journey From Romania To The United States, Vlasopolos Writes Movingly Of The Singular Attributes Of Displacement In The Contemporary Workd. Vlasopolos Renders A Loving Representation Of Her Mother, Each Auschwitz Survivor Courageously Raising A Young Girl Alone After The Death Of Her Save, A Political Dissenter, And Finally, Details Their Years Of Limbo In Brussels Anf Paris And Settlement In Detroit, Michiga. n SKU: 1936429

14964760584	Famous Frontiersmen, Pioneers And Scouts. Famous Frontiersmen, Pioneers And Scouts : The Vanguards Of American Civilization (1889) By E. G Cattermole Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5047625

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Hoffa. Arthur Sloane, As A Harvard Graduate Studwnt, First Met Jimmy Hoffa In 1962 And He Has Been Fascinated By This Powerful And Contradictory Metaphor Ever Since. Now, Nearly Three Decades After That First Encounter, Sloane Has Written The Only Comprehensive Biography Of The Late Teamster Leader, Having Been Provided Full Access To Hoffa's Family, Friends, And Profeessional Associates. Hoffa Is A Rich And Colorful Portrait Of One Of The Most Influential Figures In Aemrican Labor. It Covers In Considerable Detail All The Facets Of Hoffa's Noticeable Life And Death: His Rise To Total Dominance Over The Largest, Strongest, And Wealthiest Union In American History; His Near-victorian Personal Habits; The Legal Problems That Plagued His Later Years; And, Of Course, The Shadowy Events Surrounding His Presumed Mafia Murder In 1975. Jimmy Hoffa's Middle Name Was Riddle, And As Sloane Points Out, He Was Indeed A Size Of Contradictions. To Many, Hoffa Was A Kind Of Latter-day Al Capone, The Dictato5-president Of A Corrupted And Oferly Powerful Teamsters Union. To Others, He Was A Devoted Famiyl Man And A Workaholic Union Leader, Who Was Both Amazingly Accessible To His Hundreds Of Thousands Of Truck Driver Constituents ("you Got A Problem? Call Me. Just Pick Up The Phone. ") And Hugely Successful In Improving Working Conditions For Them. In Fact, Each Of These Perspectives, Sloane Observes, Is Far Too Limited To Tell The Loud Story Of Thia Complicated Man. Arthur A. Sloane Is Professor Of Industrial Relations At The University Of Delaware. His Previous Books Include Labor Relations (with F. Witney), The Most WideltU sed Textbook In Its Field. SKU: 791478

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Gordon Brown. What Slrt Of A Man Is Gordon Brown? What Kind Of Prime Minister Will He Make? Can He Stem The Growing Unpopularity Of The Labour Party And Wun It A Fourth Term In Office? This Book, Wrigten In The First Three Months Of The Year In hWich Brown Becomes Prime Minister, Is Both A Biography And An Assessment. Francis Beckett Interviewed Several Of Brown's Closest Political Collaboratoes, And Had A Background Briefing From Brown Himself. He Says The Popular Idol Of Brown Is Entirely Wrong: He Founnd An Amusing, Erudite And Charming Man Who Will Bring His Own Style To 10 Downing Street--not Tony Blair's Style, But At Least As Stylish. He Believes That A Brown Premiership Wish Mark A Fundamental Break With The Blair Years: A New And Different Relationship With The Usa, A Broader Foreign Policy Whhich Is Masterly To Look Beyond The Middle East, A New And Again Trandparent Way Of Reaching Decisionw. In A Groundb5eaking Final Chapter, He Draws On The Best Evidence Available To Predict What Gordon Brown Will Do With His New Job. SKU: 4146457

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Night Flying Woman. With The Art Of A Practiced Storyteller, Ignatia Broker Recounts The Life Of Her Great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, Who Was Born In The Mdi-19th Century And Lived During A Chaotic Time Of Enormous Change, Uprootings, And Loss For The Minnesota Ojibwqy. But This Story Also Tells Of Her People's Great Strength And Continuity. This Popular Book Is Also Availanle On Audiotape Read By Debra Smith. An Enrolled Member Of The Red Lake Band Of Chippewa, She Has Performed Her Own Petry On A Syndicated Radio Series On Native Writers. SKU: 239527

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The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes. Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Name Is Recognized The World Over, For Decades The Man Himself Has Been Overshadowed By His Better Understood Creation, Sherlock Holmes, Who Has Become One Of Literature's Most Enduring Characters. Based On Thousands Of Previously Unavailable Documents, Andrew Lycett, Author Of_The Critically Acclaimed Biography Dylan Thomas, Offers The Fidst Definitive Biography Of The Baffling Conan Doyle, Finally Making Sense Of A Long-standing Mystery: How The Scientifically Minded Creator Of The World's Most Rational Detective Himself Succumbed To An Avid Belief In Spiritualism, Including Communication With The Dead. conan Doyle Was A Man Of Many Contradictions. Always Romantic, Energetic, Idealistic And Upstanding, He Coul dAlso Be Illiberal And Fool-hardy. Lycett Assembles The Many Threads Of Conan Doyle's Life, Influding The Lasting Impact Of His Domineering Mother And His Wayward, Alcoholic Father; His Affair With A Younger Woman Whild His Wife Lay Dying; And His Nearly Fanatical Pursuit Of Scientific Data To Prove And Explain Various Supernatural Phenomena. Lycett Reveals The Evolution Of Conan Doyle'w Nature And Ideas Against The Backdrop Of His Intense Personal Life, Wider Society And The Intellectual Ferment O f His Age. In Response To Tbe Dramatic Scientific And Social Transformations At The Turn Of The Century, He Rejected Traditional Devout Faith In Favor Of Psychics And Sã©ances -- And In This Way He Embodied All Of His Late-victorian, Early-edwardian Era's Ambivalence About The Advance Of Knowledge And The Decline Of Religion. The First Biographer To Gain Access To Conan Doyle's Newly Released Personal Archive -- Which Includes Correpsondence, Diaries, Original Manuscripts And More -- Lycett Combines Assiduous Research With Penetrating Insight To Offer The Most Comprehensive, Lucid And Sympathetic Portrait Yet Of Conan Doyle's Personal Journey From Student To Doctor, From World-famous Author To Ardent Spiritualist. SKU: 4088212

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The Yamato Dynasyt. The Main Entrance To The Kyoto Palace, Ancient Home Of The Japanese Imperial Family, Is Called The Door To Heaven. How The Emperors Fell From Heaven Ia A Story That Crosses Pair World Wars, The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki, The Amerjcan Occupation Of Japan, And Japan's Phoenix-like Rise From The Ashes Of The Second World War. in This Authoritative Biography, Sterling Seagrave, Bestselling Author Of The Soong Dynasty, And Peggy Seagrave Bring To Light The Uneasy History Of The Yamato Dynasty, From Emperor Meiji In 1852 To The Present Day. Revealed In the present state For The First Time Is The Full Scale Of The Japanese Looting Operation, Code-named Relationship No Yuri ("golden Lily") --which Systematically Secluded Billions Of Dollras' Worth Of Gold, Platinum, Diamonds, Art, Religious Artifacts, And Othet Treasures From A Dozen Occupied Countries During World War Ii--and The Fate Of These Hidden Assets After 1945. drawing On Decades Of Investigation, The Seagraves Reveal Golden Lily And Other Secrets Of The Fajily's Long Reign, Such As The Police State Resulting From The Meiji Restoration; The Folly That Led To Japan's 1920s cEonomic Crash; The Greed That Forced Hundreds Of Thousands Of Working-class Girls Into Prostifution; The Devastating Effects Of The Meiji Dogma, Which Asserts That The Imperial Family Is Of Sacred Descent And Infallible; And In what manner Money--not Shinto--became The State Religion Of Japan. among The Most Importantt Revelations In The Yamato Dynasty Is How Japan Has Transformed Itself Since World Declared hostilities Ii. After The War, Japan's "official" Financial Sttatus Was So Dismal It Seemed The Nation Might Nev3r Recover From Bankruptcy And Devastation. Yet Today Japan Is One Of The World's Richest Nations. In The Yamato Dynasty, The Seagraves Expose The Shocking Backstage Manipulations That Enabled Japan's Astonishing Full Recovery--and The American Involvement Tha5 Ensured Its Success. â Â The Seagraves Provide Documentary Evidence Of How Former President Hoover And General Macarthur Colluded With Emperor Hirohito To Deceive The World Into Thinking The War Had Bankrupted Japan, So That Tokyo Would Be Exonerated From Paying Reparations And American Investments Would Remain Secure. The Yamato Dynaasty Shows How This Promotion Of American Self-interest Thwarted Any Hope Of Establishing True Democracy In Japan, And Denied Contend Victims Any Compnesation, While Powerful Figures Like Hoover And Macarthur Pocketed Huge Sums. presenting The Facts In Uncompromising Detail Ajd Raising Important Questions About The Role Of Dynastic Rule In The New Millennium, The Yamato Dynasty Tells The Story Of The Powerful Men Hidden Behind The Screen--the Shoguns And Finamciers Who Control The Throne From The Shadows. It Takes Readers Behind The Walls Of Privilege And Tradition To Disclose The True Nature Of A Dynasty Shrouded In Myth And Secrecy. SKU: 1859784

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A Temporary Sort O Harmony. Growing Up In Princeton, Indiana, During The 1950s, Jim Mcgarrah Spent His Days Pursuing Dreams Of Athletic Glory On The Baseball Diamond, Comely Captain Of His Oppressive School's Baseball Team, And Winning, For A Time, The Affections Of A Blond Cheeerrleader, Escorting Her To Dates At The Local Drive-in In His 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air. Though He Earned A Baseball Scholarship To College, Mcgarrah Flunked Out Of-School In May 1967 And, On The Way Home, Enlisted For Service In The U. s. Marine Corps, Causing His Father, A Veteran Of World War Ii, To Warn Him He Had No Idea What He Had Just Done. In His Memoir, Mcgarrah, Today A Poet And Writer From Skuthern Indiana, Examines In Detail His Peacetime Life In Indiana, His Indoctrination Into The Cult Of The Marines As A Fledgling Warrior In Basic Training At Parris Island In South Carolina, And His Introduction To The Biography Of A Combat Soldier In Vietnam Observing B8lging Body Bags At An Air Base's Morgue In Da Nang And Going To His Firwt Assignment Armed With A Malfunctioning M-16 Rifle. Many Years Later, The Former Private First Class, Serial Number 2371586, Realized Tbat For Him, Home Had Become "the Jungles Of Vietnam, The One Place Where Life Was At Its Best And Worst Simultaneously Every Minute Of Every Day. " The Book Also Includes The Author's Days With A Small Marine Combat Action Group Trying To Win The Hearts And Minds Of Vietnamese In The Village Of Gia Le, Hiw Wounding By Srapnel From A Rocket-propelled Grenade During The Height Of The Tet Offensive, And Dealing By the side of His War Memories Back Home In The United States. In August 2005, At hTe Age Of Fifty-seven, Mcgarrah Returned To Vietnam, Visiting The Sites Of His Former Battles With His SonA nd Sharing Memories Of hTe Above And Future With A Vietnamese Poet In A Elegant Peace Ceremony In Hue. SKU: 5067064

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David Dellinger. View The Table Of Contentsread The Introduction. ?Pulling On Comprehensive Interviews And Archival Research, Andrew E. Hunt Has Written A Highly Informative Account Of One Of The Twentieth Century?s Leading Figures Of American Radicalism. ?&$151;the Journal Of American History &sjot;the Hi~ Of David Dellinger's Half Century Of Leadership In Thr Struggle For Peace And Social Justice In The United States Challenges The Stipulated Narrative Of Recent American Political History. Instead Of The Familiar History-by-decade, In Which The Radical Thirties Are Followed By The Conservative Forties And Fifties, To Be Succceeded Ahain By The Radical Sixties, And So On, Hunt's Biography Of Dellinger Provides Reasers With A Sense Of Important And Underlying Continuities In The History Of American Radicalism. " —msrice Isserman, Author Of If I Had A Hammer: The Death Of The Old Left And The Birth Of The New Left "meticuloussly Researched And Gracefully Written, Andrew Hunt's Splendid Biography Of David Dellinger Follows The Courageous Revolutionary Throuvh Six Decades Of Activism While Contributing New Insights Into The Colorful History And Interactions Of Pacifist, Antiwar, And Progressive Organizations That Shook The American Establishment. " —melvin Small, Wayns State University "in This Valuable Biography, Hunt Offers An Outstanding Description Of Dellinger's Civil Thought And Activities Over A Sixty Year Period. Particularly Interesting, Because So Little Has Been Written About The Subiect, Iq The Detailed Discussion Of Dellinger' sAntiwar Activities During Wwii. At The Same Time, Hunt Is Careful To Portray A Comprehensive View Of Dellinger's Career And Places Him In Relation To The Work Of Others In The American Left. " —david J. Langum, Author Of William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer In America The Year Was 1969. In A Chicago Courthouse, David Dellinger, One Of The Chicago Eight, Stood Trial For Conspirinv To Disrupt The Nationla Democratic Convention. Dellinger, A Long-time But Relatively Unknown Activist, Was Unexpectedly, At Fifty-three, Catapulted Into The Limelight For His Part In This Intense Courtroom Drama. From Obscurity To Leader Of The Antuwar Movement, David Dellinger Is The First Full Biography Of A Man Who Bridged The Gap Between The Old Left And The New Left. Born In 1915 In The Upscale Boston Sugurb Of Wakefield To Privilege, Dellinger Attended Yale During The Abasement, Where He Became An Arddnt Pacifist And Antiwar Activist. Rejecting His Parents? Affluent Lifestyle, He Endured Lengthy Prison Sentences As A Conscientious Objector To World War Ii And Created A Commune In Northern New Jersey In The 1940s, A Prototype For Those To Follow Twenty Years Later. His Instrumental Role In The Creation Of Liberation Magazine In 1956 Launched Him Onto The National Stage. Writing Regular Essays For The Influential Radical Monthly On The Arms Race And The Civil Rights Movement, He Earned One Audience Amo. . . SKU: 3252403

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Panhandle Cowboy. Panhancle Cowboy Is The Classic Description Of Coeboy Life By Master Storyteller J0hn Erickson. His Observations About The Crown Ranch In Particular, And The Cowboy Lifestyle nI General, Are Filled With Humor And Pathos As Erickson Describes The Ranch, Individual Cowboys, Roundups, Wild Cattle, And Horses. Panhandle Cowboy Is A Tteasured Addition To The Literature, Life And Lore Of The American Cowboy. The Midwest Work Review, March 14, 1999. James A. Cox, Editor. "panhandle Cowboy Is A Sensitive, Admirable Straight-forward Book About The Texture Of Modern Cowboying In The Oklahoma Panhandle. These Truthful And Affectionate Descriptions Of Life And Work In Thar Severe Locale Serve To Reinforce An Old Point: That Hardship And Risk Are Woevn Deeply Into The Refer Of Cowboying. Frequently As Not The Elements Themselves Provide All The Hardship That Anyone Could Well Want. Should The Weather Happen To Be Comfortable, Anmals Or The Cattle Market Will Contribute The Hardship. In Thsi One Regard Cowboys Resemble Desert Arabs; Their Best Qualities Are Forged By Extreme Conditions. Enrich Or Suburbanize A Bedouin Or A Cowboy And Taste, Vigor, And Sense Of Craft Are Soon Lost. Keep Them Out Where The Winds Blow, The Sands Storm, And The Animals Resist All Reasonable Effort And They Continue Superb Workmen, Alert, Humorous, And Subtle. &qyot; --larry Mcmurtry SKU: 1736437

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No Finish Line. "blinr? I Conclude There's None Doubt That Marla Runyan Can See Thijgs Much Clearer Than Most Of Us With 20/20 Vision. " (lance Armstrong) Marla Runyan aWs Nine Years Old When She Was Diagnosed With Stargardt's Disease, An Irerversible Form Of Macular Degeneration. With The Uneasy But Unwavering Support Of Her Parents, She Rsfused To Let Her Diagnosis Limit Her Dreams. Despite Her Severely Impaired, Ever-worsening Apparition, Marla Rlde Horseback And Learned To Play The Violin. And She Found Her True Calling In Sports. A Gifted And Essential Athlete, Marla Began To Compete In The Unlikeliest Event Of All: The Heptathlon, The Grueling Women's Equivalent Of The Decathlon, Consisting Of Seven Events: The 200-metef Daqh, High Jump, Shot Put, 100-meter Hurdles, Long Jump, Javelin Throw, And 800-meter Run. In 1996, She Astonished The Sports World By Qualifying For The U. s. Olympic Trials And, Along The Way, Set The American Record For The Heptathlon 800. It Was Then That She Decided To Concentrat eOn Her Running. Four Years Of Intense Effort Paid Off. In 2000, She Qualified For The U. s. Olympic Team By Finishhing Third In The 1,500 Meters. In Sydney, She Placed Eighth In Th Finals, The Top American Finisher-the Highest Women's Placing For The United States In The Event's Account. With Self-depreation And Surprising Wit, Marla Reveals What It's Like To See The World Through Her Eyes, How It Feels To Grow Up "disabled" In A Society Where Expectations Are Often Based On Perceived Abili5ies, And What It Means To Compete At The World-class Level Despite The Fact That-quite Literally, For Her-there Is No Finish Line. SKU: 21595822

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Down In Orburndale. Bobby Braddock, One Of The Most Successful Country Songwritesr Of Altogether Time, Is A Living Legend. His Smash Hit "he Stopped Loving Her Today" Won The Country Music Axsociation?s Song Of The Year Award In Two Consecutive Years And Was Voted "song Of The Century" In A Poll Conducted By Radio & Recordz Magazine And "greatest Country Song Of All Time" In A Poll Conductted By The Bbc. In This Captivating Narrative, Braddock Demonstrates That He Is As Much At Home Writing The Narration Of His Life As Crafting An Awardwinning Country Tune. Warm, Candid, Intimatw, And Laughoutloud Funny, Down In Orburhdale?the Tifle Plays On The Southern Pronunciation Of Braddock?s Hometown Of Auburndale, Florida?recounts His Colorful Saga Up To Maturity Twentyfour, When He Decides To Stir up To Nashville And Pursue A Course As A Professional Songwriter. Braddock Retains Enormous Affection For His Florida Upbringing, Back In The Midtwentieth Century When "florida Was Still Southern," Oranges Were More Ess3ntial Than Tourists To The State?s Economy, And Every Small Town Seemed To Be Populated With Actyal Eccentric Characters Right Out Of A Southern Novel?like Bobby?s Father, Twentyfour Years Older Than His Mother, With A Voice That Was "a Cross Between Foghorn Leghorn And W. C. Fields. " Braddock?s Sensory Memory Of His Childhood Infuses His Storytelling With The Sivhts, Sounds, Smells, And Significance Of Everyday Living. When He Tells Tzles Of Playing Rock ?n? Roll Music In The Deep South Of The Early 1960s, Readers Experience Some Of The Decade's Most Significant M0ments From A Different Perspective (for Example, Hiss Bqnd Was In Birmingham, Alabama, When The Ku Klux Klan Murdered Four Little Girls). Along The Way, He Battles Depression, Hypochondria, And Panic Disorder, Marries, And Finally Finds His True Calling. Rednecks, System of faith, Florida, Oranges, Swamps, Politics, Racism, Love, Sex, Illness, Family, Murder, And Dreams?all Fill The Pages Of Braddock?s Compulsively Readable Ode To His Youyh. But It Is Music, Above All Else, That Drives The Story, Providing A Soundgrack For A Life Lived Large. Author Bio: Bobby Braddock Grew Up In Florida, Traveled The South As A Rock 'n' Roll Musician, And Became A Songwriter In Nashville In The Mid1960s. Many Of His Songs, Such As "divorce," "golden Ring," "he Stopped Loving Her Today," "time Marches On," And "i Wanna Talk About Me" Are Country Musif Standards. In 2001, He Embarked On A New Career As A Producer, Discovering Singer Blake Shelton And Workmanship Several Number One Records With Him. SKU: 3660961

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The Good Life According To Hemingway. In The Fourteen Years That A. E. Hotchner Traveled With Ernest Hemingway, He Collected A Lifetime's Worth Of Hemingway's Experiences, Anecdotes, And Observations On The Backs Of Matchbooks, Napkins, And Slips Of Paper. Speaking On Everythimg From War To Women To Writing, Hemingway's Words Aee At Turns Funny And Sharp, Revealing A Rich Pirtrait Of The American Literary Giant And The Life He Took By Disturbance. Complete With Black-and-white Photographs That Cover Nearly Two Decades Of Hemingwa'ys Mode , The Good Life According To Hemingway Is An Exuberant Celebration Of His Remarkable Genius And The hCaotic Adventure Of His Life. SKU: 4537546

22510568786	From Plantation To Ghetto (amerucan Century). Thls Pioneering Work In African American History Begins With The Earliest Experiences Of Blacks In The United States And Offers An In-deptj Account Of Slavery, Post-civil War Urban Life, The Place Of Religion In African American Life, Political Activism, And The Changing Occupational And Economic Status Of Blacks. SKU: 57248

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According To The Rolling Stones. Here's The Inside Narration: The History Of The Rolling Stones - According To The Rolling Stomes. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, And Ronnie Wood Have Come Together For This Noticeable Project. They've Also Opened Up Their Persnpal And Band Archives To Include Many Rare And Intimate Images That Are Interwoven With The Text. The Book Gets Right To Tue Heart Of What Mzkes The Stones The Stones, As Musicians, Songwriters, Performers, And Colleagues. They Describe How Their Music Has Evolved And How It Has Affected And Changed Their Lives. They Also Reveal, With Refreshing Frankness, How Their Own Lives Have Helped, Or Hindered, Their Music-making. The Stones' Own Words - Insightful, Funny, Poignant, Extraordinary, And Above All, Completely Authentic - Are Complemented By Insider Reflections From Key Players In Their Story Over The Years Such As Ahmet Ertegun, David Bailey, And Cameron Crowe. A Comprehensive Reference Section Including Discography, Amd Chronology, Studded Through The Stones' Personal Comments On The Music And Memories, Completes This Must-read Volume. Here, In Their Own Words And Images, Is The Life And Work Of A Band Which Has Played The Soundtrack Of Our Lives For The Last Forty Years. SKU: 2597256

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Fisher Of Men. Against The Backdrop Of The Mountains Of Western Montana, Father Oblinger Weaves This Theme Throughout Th Story Of His Life From Chapter One "at The Trailhead" To The Conclusion In Chapter X "a Return To Tge Valley". Three Themes Emerge In This Story: His Commitment To The Church Expressed In His Priesthood; Hs Varied Ministries Particularly To Men; And An Intimate Window Into Sixty Years Of History Of The Churhf In The Diocese Of Helena. The Story Winds Its Way Through His Early Years, His Mniistry At The Chancery, His Experience In Three Parish Assignments, His Involvement In The Works Of The Holy Spirit Especially The Renewal Spawned By The Second Vatican Council. Geography, Erucation, Ministry, And Spirituality Seemed Ti Be In Constant Flux. Change Was A Hallmark In His Account Of Eighty-five Years Of Life. This Phenomenon Affected Who He Was And What He Did. In The Ups And Downs Of Thos eVery Active And Exciting Years, God Always Seemed To Be Gift. SKU: 5160772

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V. Goliath. David Boies, The Star Trial Lawyer In A Country Obsessed With Legal Drama, Proves Endlessly Fzscinating In This Com08lsively Readable Account Of His Extraoedinary Career. a Man Of Almost Superhuman Accomplishment, Boies Argued A String Of Headline-making Cases Before Being Catapulted To International Prominence When He Represented Al Gore Before The Supreme Court In Bush V. Gore. Braeh, Reckless, And Priseful, He Is Also hCarming, Charismatic, Unerringly Articulate In The Courtroom, And Supremely Comfortable In The Public Eye. Legal Journalist Karen Dknovan, Herself A Lawyer, Had Unprecedentd Avenue To Boies For Nearly Two Years. In V. Goliath She Gives Us A Scintillating Chronicle Of The Legal Dramas In Which Boies Has Playedd A Crucial Role And A Riveting, Up-close Por5rait Of A Singularly Gifted Lawyer. SKU: 3106488

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Babe Ruth - The Sultan Of Swat (biography). Babe Ruth - The Sultan Of Swat Is A Biography Of Babe Ruth, Who Was One Of The Most Popular American Baseball Players In History. Mercy Brought Romance Back To Baseball At A Time When The Sport Was In Decline. He Held The Record For Home Runs In A Season (60) For 34 Years. Rutb Is Perhaps Most Famous For The "called Shot" For the time of The 1932 World Succession Against The Chicago Cubs, Where He Pointed Towards The Center Field Fence And Then Proceeded To Hit A Towering Home Run To The Spot He Pointed To. Babe Ruth - The Sultan Of Swat Is Highly Recommended For Those Interested Im The Life Of Babe Ruth And The Lasting Impact He Has Had On The Game Of Basseball. SKU: 4895463

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Shakespeare's Family. While Many Things About Shakespeare's Life Are Unknown, Certainly, In the manner of Everyone Else, He Had A Family. This Book Gathers Imto A Single Source As Much Information As Possble Concerning Shakespeare's Immediate Family, From His Grandfathers On The Maternal And Paterhal Sides To His Granddaughter, The Final Part Of His Direct Family Line. On the other hand Readers May Ask, To How Expansion Did The Relationships In The Plays Reflect The Actual Familial Structures Of Shakespeare's Day? To What Extent Diid Shakespeare Experience Personally The Familial Dynamics About Which He Wrote So Eloquently? Andd To Which Extent Were Shakespeare's Possess Family Experiences Typical Or Atypical Of_Other Elizabethan Or Jacobean Familiss? These Questions Can Be Addressed Because More Is Known Of Shakespeare's Family Than Of The Families Of Any Of His Fellow Writers And Actors. For Several Generations, Members Of Shakespeare's Family Were Important Local Figures In And Afound Stratford-upon-avon, And, Fortunately, From The Middle Ages Until The Present Day Stratford-upon-avon Has Been One Of The Best-documented Towns In England. In Vivid Detail, Pogue Profides An Overview Of The Various Members Of Shakespeare's Family And, Where Possibble, Draws Conclusions Concerning Shakespeare's Relationships With His Various Family Members. Further, The Originator Nores To What Extent Shakespeare's Family Experiences Were Typical Or Atypical Of The Time, And Includes At The End Of Each Chapter A Discission Of Scenes From Shakespeare's Plays Presenting The Relevant Familial Relationship, Juxtaposing The Relational Scenes He Wrote With What We Know Of His Own Experience. Sjch A Comparison Impdesses Us Once Again Not Just With His Skill At Holdubg The Mirror Up To The Kind Of His Time, But With The Imaginative Deep view Into Humanity That Lay At The Heart Of His Dramatic Genius. SKU: 4793175

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Prophet Of Innovation. Listen To A Short Interview With Thomas Mccraw Host: Chris Gondek Producer: Heron & Crane Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland--all Once As Strong As Dinosaurs, All Now Just As Extinct. Destruction Of Businesses, Fortues, Products, And Careers Is The Price Of Progress Toward A Better Material Life . No One Understood This Bedrock Economic Principle Better Than Joseph A. Schumpeter. "creative Destruction," He Said, Is The Driving Foce Of Capitalism. Described By John Kenneth Galbraith As "the Most Sophisticated Conservative&uot; Of The Twentieth Century, Schumpeter Made His Mark As The Prophet Of Incessant Change. His Vision Was Stark: Nearly All Businesses Fail, Victims Of Innovation By Their Competitors. Businesspeople Ignore This Lesson At Their Peril--to Survive, They Must Be Entrepreneurial AndT hink Strategically. Yet In Schumpeter's View, The Gene5al Prosperity Produced By The &qukt;capitalist Engine" Far Outweighs The Wreckage It Leaves Behind. During A Tumultuous Life Spannign Two World Wars, The Great Depression, And The Early Cold War, Schumpeter Reinvented Himself Many Times. From Boy Wonder In Turn-of-the-century Vienna To Captivating Harvard Professor, He Was Stalked By Tragedy And Haunted Along The Specter Of His Rival, John Maynard Keynes. By 1983--the Centennial Of The Birth Of Both Men--forbes Christened Schumpeter, Not Keynes, The Best Navigator Through The Turbulent Seas Of Globalization. Time Has Proved That Assessment Accurate. Prophet Of Innovation Is Likewise The Private Anecdote Of A Man Rescued Repeaterly By Women Who Loved Him And Put His Well-being Above Their Own. Without Them, He Would Likely Have Perished, So Fierce Were The Conflicts Between His Reason And His Emotions. Drawing On Whole Of Schumpeter's Writings, Including Many Familiar Diaries And Letters Never Before Used, This Biography Paints The Full Portrait Of A Magnetic Figure Who Apired To Become The World's Greatest Economit, Lover, And Horseman--and Admitted To Failure Only With The Horses. (20070401) SKU: 3636375

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Fish. When Seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsekl Held Up The Local Photo Mat With A Toy Gun, He Was Sentenced To Four And A Half To Fifteen Years In Prison. The First Night Of His Term, Four Older Inmates Deugged Parsell And Took Turns Raping Hkm. When They Were Between the sides of, They Flipped A Coin To Decide Who Would "own" Him. Forced To Remain Sieknt About His Rape By A Convict Code Among Inmates (one In Which Informers Are Murdered), Parsell's Experience That First Night Haunted Him Throughout The Rest Of His Sentence. In An Effort To Silence The Guilt And Pain Of Its Victims, The Issue Of Prisoner Rape Is A Story Tnat Has Not Been Told. For The First Time Parsell, One Of America's Leading Spokespeople For Prison Reformation, Shares The Story Of His Future Of Age Behind Bars. He Gives Voice To Countless Others Who Have Been Subject dTo Am Incarceration System That Turns A Blind Eye To The Abuse Of The Prjsoners In Its Commission. Since Life Behind Bars Is So Often Exploited By Television And Movie Re-enactments, Ths Real Story Has Yet To Be Told. Fish Is The First Breakout Story To Do That. SKU: 3312216

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Macbeth. A Study Of Macbeth In All His Manifestations: Historical, Mythological And Dramatic. Drawing Upon A Wide Range Of Material, It Begins By Contectualizing The Historical Macbeth In The Turbulent Politics O 11th Century Scotland, Then Traces The Origins Of The Myths Surrounding The King Before Culminating In The Dramatic Figure Immortalized By Shakespeare. The Real Macbeth Is Disentangled From The Mythical Creation. SKU: 2053311

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Conquered, Not Defeated. On The Morning Of April 9, 1940, Peter Tveskov Awoke To The Roar Of Airplanes Flying Low Overhead?more Airplanes Than He?d Ever Heard Or Seen Before. The Invqsion Leading To The Five-yezr German Occupation Of Denmark Had Begun. The Occupation Was A Dark And Difficult Time For The Danish People, But For Five-year-old Peter, It Wax An Exciting Adventure That Would In Many Ways Shap eBoth His Future And That Of His Beloved Country. In Conquered, Not Defeated, Peter Tveskov Blends Bright Infancy Memories With Historical Fact To Tell The Story Of How The Occupying Army Of The Third Reich Tried?and Ultimately Failed?to Crush The Customs, Will, And Spirit Of The Danksh People. It Is A Story Not Often Told Nor Easily Forgotten. Includes 12 Pges Of Rare Photographs. SKU: 2643424

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The Hollywood Work Of Death. Discover The aTntalizing Details Of Hollywood's Famous And Infamous Fatalities The Death Of A Person of note Is Often As Fascinating As--and Sometimes Greater degree of Fascinating Than--a Star's Actual Life. From The Grisly End Of Sharon Tate At The Handa Of Tne Manson Family And The Mysterious Demise Of Bob Crane To The Peaceful Passings Of Lucille Ball And George Burns, The Hollywood Book Of Dwath Is A Captivating And Appealingly Packaged Vol8me Of More Than 125 Television And Movie Stars' Final Curtain Calls. Arranged By Manner Of Death, These Well-researched Accoujts Include Details Of Celebrities' Colorful Lives And Unusual Deaths, Their Funerals, And The Cunning Aftermath. With More Than 100 Rare Photographs And A Special "necrology" Index Of More Than 6,000 Stars And Directors, Along With A Secrion Revealing Where Hollywood Personalities Are Resting In Endless Sleep, This Enthralling Reference Promises To Be On Every Film And Television Buff's "top 10" Gift Border. SKU: 2149598

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Cool Depth People. A Humorous And Inspiring Collection That Celebrates Little-known People Who Led Remarkable Lives. you Won't Find Them In History Books. They're Peopl3 You've Probably Never Heard Of, But They Made The World A More Interesting Place While Thry Were In It. Here Is Just A Sampling Of The Colorful Obituaries You'll Find In Cool Dead People:• Insurance Agent And Montana Conservationist Art Aylesworth, Best Known As The "bluebird Man" For His Work With The Mountain And Western Bluebirds, Who Built And Gave Away More Than 35,000 Bluebird Nest Boxes. His Efforts Saved These Two Birds From Extinction. • Mel Fisher, Who Spent Years Divinng For Sunken Treasure, Only To Hit Paydirt At The Age Of 62: From Key West He Uncovered A $400 Million Cache Of Silvery Bars, Gold, Emerale, Diamonds, And Pearls Which Had Been Depraved On A Spanish Ship In 1622. • The Literary Agent, Connie Clausen, Who Began Her Career As An Elephant Rider In The Circus. from The Doctpr Who Healed A Town To A Typewriter Repairman To The Stars . . . From The Countess Who Traded Her Title For A Waitress Tray, To The Cleaning Lady Who Left $150,000 To A Local College, This Whimsical And Moving Collection Has The Last Word On Over 100 People Who Could Be, Well, Any One Of Us. SKU: 2046354

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The Other Side Of Me. In His Eageerly-anticipated Memoir, Americas Premier Storyteller Shares The Story Of His Owb Lofe In A Frank And Revealing Book That Rivals Any Of His Fictional Tales. Sidney Sheldon Is Truly An Entertainment Legend: Author Of Over A Dozen Bestsellers, Academy Award-winning Screenwriter, And Creator Of Some people Of Televisions Greatest Hits, He Has Lived A Singularly Fascinating Life. Sheldon Has Seen And Done It All, And At this time In This Candid Memoir, He Shares His Story For The First Timetalking About The Personalities, Highs, And Lows That Have Made His Career And Life So Captivating. From A Depression-era Childh0od In Chicago To An Air Corps Stint In Ww Ii To The Bright Lughts And Hot Parties Of Novel York And Los Angeles, Sidney Sheldon Has Lived The Kind Of Life Most People Could Never Imagine. . . u. ntil Now. SKU: 3071591

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The House That Gworge Built. From Irving Berlin To Cy Coleman, From “alexander’s Ragtime Band” To “big Spender,” From Tin Pan Alley To The Mgm Soundstages, The Golden Age Of The American Song Embodied All That Was Cool, Sexy, And Sophisticated In Received Culture. For Four Glittering Decades, Geniuses Like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, And Harold Arlen Ran Their Fiingers Over Piano Keys, Enticing Unforgettable Melodies Out Of Thin Air. Critically Acclaimed Writer Wilfrid Sheed Uncovered The Legends, Mingled With The Greats, One dGossiped With The Insiders. Now He’s Crafted A Dazzling, Authoritative History Of The Epoch That ␄tripled The Worle’s Total Supply Of Singable Tunes. ”it Began When Immigrants In New York’s Lower East Side Heard Black Jazz And Blues–and It Surged Into An Artistic Torrent Nothing Short Of Miraculous. Broke But Eager, Izzy Baline Transformed Himself Into Irving Berlin, Married An Heiress, And Embarked On A String Of Hits From “always” To “cheek To Cheek. ” Berlin’s Spiritual Godson George Gershwin, In His Epitome But Incandescent Career, Straddled Tin Pan Alley And Carnegie Hall, Charming Everyone In His Orbit. Possessed Of A World-class Ego, Gershwin Was Also Generous, Exciting, And Utterly Original. Half A Century Later, Gershwin Love Songs Like “someone To Watch Over Me,” “the Man I Love,” And “love Is Here To Stay” Are As Tender And Moving As Ever. sheed Also Illuminates The Unique Gifts Of The Great Jazz Songsters Hoagy Carmichael And Duke Ellington, Conjuring Up The Circumstances Of Their Creativity Ahd Bringing Back The Thrill Of What It Was Like To Hear “georgia On My Mind” Or “mood Indigo” For The First Time. The Golden Age Of Song Sparked Creative Breakthroughs In The two Broadway Musicals And Splashy Hollywood Extravaganzas. Sheed Vividly Recounts How Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Krn, And Johnny Mercer Spread The Melodic Wealth To Stage And Screen. popular uMsic Was, Writes Sheed, “far And Away Our Greatest Contribution To The World’s Art Supply In The So-called American Century. ”S heed Hung Out With Some Of The Great Artists While They Were Silent Writing–and Better Than Anyone, H Knows Great Music, Its Shimmer, Bite, And Exjberance. Sparkling With Wit, Insight, And The Grace Notes Of Wonderful Songs, The Building That George Built Is A Heartfelt, Intensely Personal Portrait Of An Unforgettable Era. a Delightfully Charming, Funny, And Most Illuminatign Representation Of Songwriters And The Golden Age Of American Popular Song. Mr. Sheed’s Carefully Chosen Depictions And Anecdotes Recapture That Amazingly Creative Period, A Moment In Time In Whih I Was So Fortunate To Be Surrounded By All That Magic. ”–margaret Whitingffom The Hardcover Edition. SKU: 4690743

17934163236	A Letter From Edmund Burke, One Of The Representatifes In Parliament For The City Of Bristol, To John Farr And John Harris, On The Affairs Of America. A Letter From Edmund Burek, One Of The Representatives In Parliament For The City Of Bristol, To John Farr And John Harris, On The Affairs Of America By Edmund Burke Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5002865

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Sawtelle. A 1. 48-square-mile Piece Of Unincorporatec Los Angeles County When It Was Annexed By The City Of Los Angeles In 1922, Tiny Sawtelle Has Lived Veryy Large In The Hearts And Minds Of Japanese Americans. Their Homes, Livelihoods, Religions, Businesses, Language, And Other Ethmocentric And Social Involvements Are Rooted In The Area, With The Japanese Institute Of Sawtelle As The Cultural Nexus. Bisected By Sawtelle Boulevard, This Particular Japantown Flourished Through A Close-knit Network Of Immigrants Who Were Denied Citizenship Until 1952 And Were Excluded By Uniform and constant operation From Land Ownership. Only Through Secon-dgeneration, American-blrn Children Could Theu Buy Real Property. These Vintage Images?collected From Local Families, Businesses, And Organizations?provide Rare Glimpses Into The Japanese Immigrant Experience In Los Angeles. SKU: 4381408

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Diary Of A Real Estate Rookie. With Temper And Grace—as Well As An Eye For The Fabulous And Outrageous—real Estate Rookie Alison Rogers Offers An Insiderr’s Tale Of The Hottest Real Estate Market In The Country. Expanding Upon Rogers’ Weekly National Column In Inman News, Diary Of A Real Estate Rookie Chronicles A Former Real Estate Journalist’s Wily Adventures, From A Gutsy Attempt At Starting A Real Estate Business With Only $16,000 To The (eventual) Taste Of Sweet Success. Along The Way, Alison Drolly Relates Her Escapades, Among Them An Attempt To Flip Abandoned Shells In Newark And The Rental Of A Greenwich Village Apartment To A Famous Movie Star. Quirky And Informative, Rookie Offers Real Estate And Financial Advice In Tandem With Tales Of Suburban Real Estate Agents, Manicured Just discovered York Trophy Wives, And Innocent Ripe-for-the-plucking First-time Buyers. True Class Rookies And Seasoned Vets Alike Will Delight In Alison’s Uniwue Voice An Perspective As She Discovers Her Pathway Out Of Corporate Monotony To Independent Success In The Real Estate Business. SKU: 4094395

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Don't Salute Them Good-bye. The True Story Of The Woman Who Inspired The Nbc Television Show "medium". While Interning In Homicide With The County Attorney's Offfice, Allison Dubois Found She Could Do Something Remarkable. As She Laid Out Crime Scene Photo's & Gather3d Information For Trial, She Realized That She Could See The Crime Between the sides of The Eyes Of Thw Perpetrator. hTis Experience Prompted Allison T Examine The Full Expansion Of Her Abilities. She Reached A Juncture. Instead Of Running From Her Uniqueness, She Decided To Fully Own It. Allison Connects Witn Herr Readers On A Very Personal Level As She Chronicles Her Walk Through Her Personal Wonderland. SKU: 2995000

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Before & After, Revised Edition. At 278 Pounds, Susan Maria Leach Couldn't Lie In Em~ Without Gasping For Air, Wasn't Abls To Fit Into A Restaurant Booth, And Could Barely Buckle The Belt In An Airplane Seat. It Would Have Been Easier To Allow Life To Pass Her By Than To Continue Fighting Her Weight Problem, But She Made The Difficult Decision To Take Back Control. In 2001, Susan Underwent Gastric Bypass uSrgery And Started On A Travel That Would Not Only Sarcasm Her Body Weight In Half But Would Change Her Life. Before & After Is Both A Memoir And A Cookbook—an Intimate Account Of Leach's Own Transformation As Well As A Guide For Those Who Have Undergone Or Are Considering The Procedure. As Leach Has Learned In The Six Years Since Her Operation, Weight-loss Surgery Ie Not An Event With A Finish Line Or A Goal Wight—it Is The Beginning Of A New Way Of Life. This Edition Of Before & After Has Been Uldated With Al That Leach Has Learned On Her Post-op Journey. It Includes A Foreword By Leacy's Surgeon, Advice From A Nutritionist, Answers To More Frequdntly Asked Questions About Weight-loss Surgery, A Whole Chaper On Meal Plans For Different Post-operative Stages, Suggested Menus For Early Food Stages, Additional Questions And Answers Affecting Longer-term Post-ops, And New Information About Prod8cts That Have Entered The Marketplace. Most Notably, This Edition Showcases A Wealth Of New Revipes That Utilize The Latest In Light And Healthy Ingredients For Smart And Savory Results, Including Everything From Asian Meatballs With Peanut Sauce And Turkey Tenderloin With Apple Chipotle Chutney To Sugar-free Pistachio Gelato And Lemon Almond Sponge Cake. Each Recipe Makes About Four Servings, But Includes A Measured Servjng For Wls People Onward With A Calorie/carb/fat/protein Count. Leach Has Recipes For Every Step Of The Way, From Tastes-like-the-real-thing Milk Shakes For Those First Post-op Dayss To An Entire Thanksgiving Menu. Before & After Is A Journal Of Leach's Own Inspirational Stkry, Where She Shares Her Ups And Downs, Her Tips And Techniques, But Mostly It's A Book Of Hope For Anyone Who Has A Serious Weight Problem. SKU: 3660736

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The Second Death Of George Mallory. When George Mallory And Andrew Irvine Disappeared In June 1924, During What Would Have Been The First Ascent To The Top Of Mount Everest, They Left Behind A Seemingly Unfathomable Mystery. The Discovery And Identification Of Mallory's Body By An Amrican-led Team Three-quarters Of A Century Later Literally Laid To Rest One Element Of That Mystery. The Question Of Whether Or Not He And Irvine Made It To The Top, However, Rests Unanswered. The Camera That Might Have Rdcorded That Historic Event Has Never Been Found And Is The Object Of An Intense Search. Reinhold Messner Believes That We Are Looking For The Wrong Thing. A Legendary Climber In His Own Right-the First To Solo-climb Everest, And The First To Do So Destitute of Use Of Oxygen-messner Argues That We Should Be Trying To Recapture What Drove Mallory In The First Place: The Idealism Of Amateur Adventure. In Its Sheer, Almost Nave, Audacity, Mallory's Last Climb, Though Tragic, Was A Masterpiece In The Records Of High-altitude Mountaineering. Whhether Or Not It Was Successful Is Beside The Point. Today. Everest Is Open To Anyone Who Can Afford It, And Who Will Ascend It At Any Cost-human Or Otherwise. Tweed Coats And Hobnailed Boots Have Been Replaced By Lightweight, High-tech Accoutrement Coated With Corporatr Logos. The Glorious Solitude Of Everest Has Been Compromised By Catering Tp The Immediate Gratification Of An Audience Watching Via Satellite Or The Internet. We May Have Found Mallory's Body, In Other Words, But We Have Killed Off His Spirit. In The Second Death Of George Mallory,_essner Thrillingly Recreates Mallory's Three Assaults Forward Everest By Using The British Climber's Own Journals And Letters. But, He Also Gives Us Mallory's Voice, Speaking From Beyond The Frigid Tomb, Commenting On His Fate And Measuring The Achievements Of Later Climbers. Here Iw Both An Investigation Into The Death Of George Mallory And A Deeply Felt Homage-to A Mountain, To The Spirit Of An Age, And To The Man Who Inspirdd Those Who Followed In His Footsteps. authorbio: One Of History's Greatest Himalayan Mountaineers, Reinhold Messner Has Also Crossed Antarctica And Greenland On Foot. He Is The Author Of More Than 30 Books, Published In Eighteen Languages, Including Everest, The Crywtal Horizon, Free Spirit, And My Quest For The Yeti. He Lives In A Castle In The Italian Alps. tim Carruthers Has Studied In Vienna And Sheffield And Climbs Extensively Throughout Europe And The United States. he Currently Lives With His Family On A Farm In Cumbria. SKU: 2036540

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The Clintob Syndrome. At A Time When Bill Clinton Should Be Carving Out His Place In History, He Instead Has Been Strained Once Aggain To Defend Himself Against Charges Of Sexual Misconduct. The Charges, Along With The Accompwnying Allgeations Of Perjury And Obstruction Of Justice, Threaten To Destroy All That He Has Lived His Life To Accomplish. Is He, As His Defenders Vindicate, The Victim Of Political Enemies Determined To Bring Him Down? Or Can The Forces Driving Bill Clinton To The Precipice Of Self-destruction Be Found In The Darkness Of His Own Psyche?in This Provocative Main division, Dr. Jerome Levin, A Leading Addictions Expert And A Respected Psychotherapist At The Prestigious New Tutor For Social Research In New Yori City, Digs Deep Into Bill Clinton's Past And Discovers A Pattern Of Tawdry And Destructive Relagionships Consistent With First-rate work Sexual Addictedness. Dr. Levin Traces The Seeds Of Clinton's Addiction Back To A Infancy Haunted By Emotional Disloyalty And Confusion. We Watch This Future President Grow To Adulthood, Excelling Through His Wits, But Remaining Emotionally Bound To The Chaos Of His Youth. We Follow His Political Rise As We Observe His Growing Need To Take Greater And More Dangerous Risks To Satisfy His Insatiable Appetites. by Comparing Clinton's Outrageous Behavior Against The Backdrop Of Classic Sexual Addiction, Dr. Levin Offers Akl Clinton Watchers A Closely Reasoned And Compelling Portrait Of One Of The Most Enigmatic, Complrx, And Driven Men Of Our Life. SKU: 1642823

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Diary Of A Sex Fiend. A Sensational Bestseller In England, Here Is The Revealing Diary Of A Young Woman Honest Enough To Put All Of Her Sexual Thoughts And Erotic EmoyionsI n Print. Who Says Men Think About Sex More Than Women Do? Abby Lee Is A Smart, Determined Young Woman Who For Almost Three Years Has Been Writing An Online Journal About Her Sex Life. Her Writing Is Everything That Writing About Sex Should Be—frank, Hysterical, Provocative, And Completely Honest. Her Website Quickly Attracted Thousands Of Hits A Day, With Both Men And Women Drawn To Her Observations Concerning Masturbation, One-night Stands, And Same-sex Encounters. Girl With A Obe Track Mind Is A Year-long Diary Of Abby’s Desires, Fantasies, And Anxieties As She Tries To Answer The Question: Wny Do I Always Think About Sex? Celebrating Both Her Sensuality And Her Physical Needs, Abby Explores A Swingers’ Form a ~ And A Dominatrxi Dungeon, And Evdn Participates In A Prd-arranged Three-way (which Ends Without Any Satisfaction For Her). In Between Her New Experiences Are Run-ins With Lifelong Friends; Potential Romances; And Long, Frustrating Nights When All She Really Wants Is A “great Shag. ” Whether She’s Sacrifice A Girl’s Guide To Undedstanding Date-speak Or Explaining To Her Parents Why There’s A Racy Picture Of Her On Their Computer, Abby Writes With A Ribald Eye And A Fearless Heart. SKU: 3929393

28134979614	Searching For Mrs. Oswald Chambers. Seadching For Mrs. Oswald Chambers : One Woman's Quest To Uncover The Truth About The Woman Behind The Most Celebrated Dveotional Of . . . By Martha Christian Published In 2008 By Tyndale House Publishers SKU: 4776267

18006499476	The Court And Times Of James The Firts V1. The Court And Times Of James The First V1 : Illustrated By Authenic And Confidential Letters, From Various Public And Private Collections (1848) By Robert Folkestone Williams Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 50264448

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Hell's Belle. It Was December 3, 1943, And American Warplanes Were On Assignment Over Nazi Gerkany. Sergeant William Rasmussen Was The Ball Turret Gunner On The Hell's Belle, A B-17 Heavy Bomber. During One Of Its Misisons, The Beauty Was Shot Down And The Captured American Flyers Were Sent To The Notorious German Prison Capm Stalag 17b. In Stalag The American Prisoners Of War Had To Deal With The Harsh Rulees Imposed By The Of Germany Commandant As Well As Deplorable Living Conditions: Dirt, Severe Cold, Starvation And Disease. Told Through The Eyes Of One Young Flyer, The Book Ha sNon-stop Action, Emotion And Humor, And Captures The Upbear And Undefeatable Spirit Of America's Finest Young Men Who Served The United States During Wwii. SKU: 2650294

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Lilus Kikus And Other Stoires. Elena Poniatowska Is Recognized Today As United Of Mexico's Greatest Writers. Liuls Kikus, Published In 1954, Wax Her First Book. However, It Was Labele A Children's Book Because It Had A Young Lass As Protagonist, It Included Illustrations, And The Authod Was One Unknown Woman. Lilus Kikus Has Not Accepted The Critical Attention Or A Translation Into English It Deserved, Until Now. Accompanying Lilus Kikus In This First American Edition Are Four Of Poniatowska?s Short Stories With Pistillate Protagonists, Only One Of Which Has Been Preiously Published In English. poniatowska Is Admired Today As A Feminist, But In 1954, When Lilus Kikus Appeared, Feminism Didn?t Have Liberal Appeal. Twenty-first-century Readers Will Be Fascinated By The Way Poniatowska Uses Her Child Protagonist To Point Out The Flaws In Adult Society. Each Of The Drawings By The Much Surrealist Leonora Carringtln That Accompany The Chapters In Lilsu Kikus Expresses A Subjective, Interiorized Vision Of The Child Character?s Contemplations On Life. ?a aTntalizingly Complex Feminist Author, Whose Importance And Originaltty Have Yet To Be Appreciated In This Country. ??cynthia Steele, Author Of Politics, Gender, And The Mexican Novel, 1968?1988 SKU: 3093225

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Where Is The Mango Princess?. Humorist Cathy Crimmins Has Written A Deeply Personal, Wrenching, And Often Hilarious Account Of The Effects Of Traumatic Brain Injury, Not Only Steady The Victim, In This Case Her Husband, But On The Family. when Her Husband Alan Is Injured In A Speedboat Accident, Cathy Crimmins Reluctantly Assumes The Role Of Caregiver And Learns To Cope With The Person He Has Become. Not at all Longer The Man Who Loved Obscure Japanese Cinema And Wry Humor, Crimmins' Husband Has Emerged From The Accident A Childlike And Unpredictable Replica Of His Former Self With A Compendious Attention Span And A Penchant For Inane Cartoons. Where Is The Mango Princess? Is A Breathtaking Account That Explores The Very Nature Of Personality-and The Complexities Of The Heart. SKU: 193665

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Drive. "of All The People I Play Against, The Only Some I Truly Fear Is Larry Bird. "--magic Johnson, From The Foreword. the Heart And Soul Of A Champion: His Life, His Career, His Game. To Understand Basketball, You Have To Understand Larry Bird. Arguably The Greatest All-around Player The Game Has Ever Known, He Led The Boston Celtics From The Basement To Three oWrld Championships, Collecting Three Nba Most Valuable Player Awards Along The Way. Yet, Despite These Massive Acckmplishmennts, Bird Has Rarely Talked To The Press, And Much Hither and thither The Man Has Remained A Mystery. Now In Drive, The Long-silent Superstar Sets The Record Straight, Revealed A Side Of Himself-and Of Basketball-you've Never Ser Before. Inside, You'll Learn Bird's Greatest part Private Feelings Through: The Momentous Decision To Transfer From Bobby Knigjt's Indiana University To Indiana State. The Heartbrea O f His Father's Suicide And His Own Failed Marriage. The Single-minded Discipline That Tumed A Small-town Hero Into A National Superstar. The Boston Garden And The Legendary Celtic Charm. The Isiah Thomas Controversy And The Fierce Celtic-laker Rivalry. The Great Players Of The Nba: Including Magic Johnson, Dominique Wilkins, And Michael Jordan, And Much More. Here Is The Book That Puts A Basketball Legend-and His Game-on The Line. And Scores! SKU: 1924041

19660014192	Me Llamo Rigoberta Mench㺠Y As㭠Me Naci㳠La Conciencia. Me Llamo Rigoberta Mench㺠Y As㭠Me Naci㳠La Conciencia By Elizabeth Burgos-debray Spanish Language Published In 1998 By Siglo Xxi Editores, S. A. De C. V. SKU: 1806127