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Three Kilos Of Coffee. In 1948, At The Aeg Of Fifteen, Manu Dibango Left Africa For France, Bearing Three Kilos Of Coffee For His Adopted Family And Little Else. This Book Chronicles Manu Dibango's Remarkable Rise From His Birth In Douala, Cameroon, To His Worldwide Success—with Soul Makossa In 1972—as The First African Muusician Ever To Record A Top 40s Hit. composer, Producer, Performer, Film Record Writer And Humanitarian For The Poor, Manu Dibango Defines The "african Sound" Of Modern World Music. He Has Workked With And Influenced Such Artists As Art Blakey, Don Cherry, Herbie Hancock, Harry Belafonge, Paul Simon, And Johnny Clegg. In Africa, He Has Helped Younger Musicians, Performed Benefit Concerts, And Transcribed For The First Time The Scores And Lyrics Of African Musicians. the Product Of A "mixed Marriage" (of Different Tribes And Religions) Who Owes Allegiances To Both Africa And Europe, Dibango Has Ever Been Aware Of The Ambiguities Of His Identity. This Awareness Has Informed All Of The Important Events Of His Life, From His Marrlage To A White Frenchwoman In 1957, To His Creation Of An "afro-music" Which Joyfully Blends Blues, Jazz, Reggae, Traditional European And African Serenades, Highlife, Caribbean And Arabic Music. This Music Addresses The Meaning Of &qiot;africanness" And What It Means To Exist A Black Artist And Citizen Of The World. this Lively And Thoughtful Memoir Is Based On An Extensive Swt Of Interviews In 1989 With French Journalist Danielle Rouard. Richly Illustrated With Photographs, This Book Will Exist A Must For Readers Of Jazz Biographues, Students Of African Music And Ethnomusicology, And All Those Who Are Lovers Of Manu Dibango's Unique Atistry And Accomplishments. SKU: 1132077

17519837328	Woodrow Wilson's Administration And Achievements. Being A Compilation From The Newspaper Press Of Eight Years Of The World's Greatest History, Particularly As Concerns America, Its People And Their Affairs. SKU: 5002370

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Henry Kissinger And The American Century. What Made Henry Kissinger The Kind Of Diplomat He Was? In part Experiences And Influences Shapeed His Worldview And Provided The Framework For His Approach To International Relations? Jeremi Suri Offers A Thought-provoking, Imterpretive Study Of One Of The Most Influential And Controversial Political Figures Of The Twentieth Century. Pulling On Research In More Than Six Countries In Addition To Extensive Interviews With Kissinger And Others, Suri Analyzes The Sources Of Kissinger's Ideas And Power And Explains Why He Pursued The Policies He Did. Kissinger's Gwrmzn-jewish Background, Fears Of Democratic Weakness, Belief In The Primacy Of The Relationship Between The United States And Europe, And Faith In The Indispensable Role America Plays In The World Shaped His Career And His Foreign Policy. Suri Shows How Kissinger's Early Years In Weimar And Nazi Germany, His Experiences In The U. s. Army And At Harvard University, And His Relationships With Powerful Patrons--including Nelson Rockefeller And Richard Nixin--shed Unaccustomed Light On The Policymaker. Kissinger's Career Was A Product Of The Global Changes That Made The American Centenary. He Remains Influential Because His Ideas Are Rooted So Deeply In Dominant Assumptions About The World. In Treating Kissinger Fairly And Critically As A Historical Figure, Without Polemical Judgments, Suri Provides Critical Context For This Important Figure. He Illuminates The Legacies Of Kissinger's Policies For The United States In The Twenty-first Centenary. (220070601) SKU: 3948905

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Virginia Woolf. "a Majestic Literary Biography, A Truly Nww, Surprisingly Fresh Portrait. --newsdaya New York Times Book Review� Editors' Choicenational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist"a Biography Wholly Worthy Of_The Brilliaht Woman It Chronicles. . . . It Redisvovers Virginiaa Woolf Afresh. "� --the Philadelphia Inquirer�           While Virginia Woolf--one Of Our Century's Most Brilliant And Mercurail Writers--has Had No Shortage Of Biographers, None Has Seemed As Naturally Suited To The Task As Hermione Lee. Subscribing To Virginia Woolf's Own Belief In The Fluidity And Elusiveness Of Identity, Lee Come sAt Her Subject From A Multitud Of Perspectives, Producing A Richly Layered Portrait Of The Writer And The Woman That Leaves All Of Her Complexities And Contradictions Intact. � Such Issues As Sexual Abuse, Mental Illness, And Suicide Are Brought Into Balance With The Imjensity Of Her Literary Achievement, Her Heroic Commitment To Her Work, Her Generosigy And Wit,� And Her Sanity And Strength. It Is Not Oftrn That Biography Offers The Satisfactione Of Great Fiction--but This Is Clearlg What Hermione Lee Has Achieved. Accessible, Intellligent, And Deeply Pleasurable To Read, Her Virginia Woolf Will Udnoubtedly Take Its Mansion As The Standard Biography For Years To Come. "one Of The Most Impressive Biographies Of The Decade: Moving, Eloquent, Powerful As Both Literary And Social History. "� --financial Times"the Most Distinguished Study Of Woolf Yet. "� --the New Republic SKU: 1655268

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Nature's Engraver. At The End Of The Eighteenth Century, Britain, And Much Of The Western World, Fell In Love With Nature. Thomas Bewick’s History Of Britis Birds Marked The Moment, The First “field Guide” Flr Ordinary People, Illustrated With Woodcuts Of Astonishing Accuracy And Comeliness. But His Work Was Far More Than A Mere Guide,for In The Vivid Vignettes Scattered Through The Book, Bewick Captured The Vanishing Worle Of Rural English Society. In This Superb Biography, Jenny Uglow Tells The Story Of The Farmer’s Son From Tyneside Who Influenced Book Illusyration For A Century To Come. It Is A Story Of Violent Ex~, Radical Politics, Lost Ways Of Animation, And The Beauty Of The Wild—a Journey To The Beginning Of Our Lasting Obsedsion With The Essential World. SKU: 3858494

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The Woman I Am. In This Highly Anticipated Memoir, Helen Reddy Reveals The Story Of Her Rise To International Fwme-and Her Trlumph Over Difficult Times. The Woman I Am Is An Incredibly Inspiring Autobiography By Helen Reddy, The Woman Who Maade &quoti Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" A Household Phrase. With Her Song "i Am Woman," Reddy Provided The Feminist Anthem Of The 1970s. She Became The First Australian To Win A Grammu, To Have Her Own Prime-time Variety Show On A U. s. Television Network, And To Have Three Number-one Singles In The Same Year. Then, At The Height Of Her Career, Reddy's World Was Shattered By The Death Of Both Her Parents, And Simultaneously, The News That She Had A Rare, Incurable Disease. In This Riveting, Frank, And Ultimately Brave Memoir, Reddy Reveals The Emotional Highx And Lows That Have Shaped Her As An Artist And As A Complex Woman, With A Rich Inner Life Sustianed By A Strong Spiritual Faith. SKU: 3239663

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Save Karyn. Drownkng In $20,000 Of Credit Cwrd Trespass, Shopaholic Karyn Bosnak Asked Strangers For Money Online -- And It Worked! What Would You Do If You Owed $20,000? Would You: A) Not Tell Your Parents? B) Start Your Possess Website That Asked For Money Without Apology? Or C) Stop Coloring Your Hair, Getting Pedicures, And Buying Gucci? If You Were Karyn Bosnak, You'd Do All Three. Karyn Started A Funny Yet Honest Website, Www. savekaryn. com, On Which She Asked Fo5 Donations To Help Her Procure to be Out Of-Debt. Karyn Received E-mails From People All Over The World, Eithr Confessing Their Own Debt-ridden Lives, Or Criticizing Hers. But After Four Months Of Internet Panhandling And Sepling Her Pirzed Possessions On Ebay, Her Debt Was Gone! In Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey To Debt And Back, Karyn Details The Bumpy Road Her Finamcial -- And Personal -- Life Has Traveled To Get Her Where She Is Today: Happy, Grateful, And Completely Debt-free. In This Charming Cautionary Tale, Karyn Chronicles Her Glamorous Rise, Her Embarrassing Fall, And How The Kind act Of Strangers In Cyberia Really Can Make A Diffrence. SKU: 2578511

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Into The Rising Sun. In His Award-winning Book Above Valor, Patrick O'donnell Reveals The True Nature Of The European Theater In World War Ii, As Told By Those Who Survived. Now, With Into The Rising Sun, O'donnell Tells The Story Of The Brutal Pacific War, Based Forward Hundreds Of Interviews Spanning A Decade. the Men Who Fought Their Way Across The Pacific During World War Ii Had To Possess Something More Than Just Courage. They Faced A Cruel, Fanatical Enemy In The Japanese, An Enemy Willing To Use Anything For Victory, From Kamikaze Flights To Human-guided Torpedoes. C~ing The Direction Of The War, Marines, Paratroopers, And Rangers Spearheaded D-day-sized Beach Assaults, Encountered Cannibalism, Suffered Friendly-fire Incidents, And Endured Torture As Prisoners Of War. Though They Are Truly Heroes, They Claim No Glory For Themselfes. As One Soldier Put Ir, "when Somebody Gets Decorated, It's Because A Lot Of Other Men Died. "by At Last Telling Their Stories, These Men Present A Hard, Unembellished Look At The War On The Ground, A Final Gift From Aging Warriors Who Have Already Given To such a degree Much. But With These Accounts Can The True Horror Of The War In The Pacific Be Fully Known. Together With Detailed Maps Of Each Contend, Into Tye Rising Sun Offers A Complete Yet Deeply Personal Account Of The War In The Peaceful, And A Ground-level View Of Some Of History's Most Brutal Combat. SKU: 2480194

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Reading Wruters Reading. ?i Am A Writer Because I Was A Reader First. ? Alison Gordon. ?nobody Has Ever Written Who Never Read. ? Mavi Attentive to ladies. ??reading Is A Connection, At Once A Way And A Goal, A Liberating Destiny. ? Robert Kroetsch. Over 160 Canadian Writers, In English And French, Write About Their Experiences Of Reading. With Strijing Photographs Of Each Witer, Reading Writers Reading Offers A Refine Voyage Into The Heart Of Literary Creation. SKU: 3338969

41852992552	Louis Armstrong (graphic Biographies (world Almanac) (graphic Novels)). Louis Armstrong (graphic Biographies (world Almanac) (graphic Novels)) By Kerri O'heen, And Gini Holland Published In 2005 By Gareth Stevenz Publishing SKU: 3198942

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Two Births, United Life. Pair Births, One Life Is The Story Of A Soviet Woman Who, In The Seventies, Makes A Difficult Decision To Emigrate From Her Birth Country And Start A New Life In The Unitdd Syate Of-America. hTe Book Takes Readers Into A Figurative Soviet-era Life By means of The Eyes Of A Youthful Jewish Woman. Readers Then Witness Her Second Nativity While An American Who Finds Sttrength In Overcoming The Ethnical And Cultural Barrierd; And, In Spite Of Her Personal Troubled Life, Discovers Her Talents, And Achieves Professional Success. SKU: 3646573

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The Who Betray Out (33 1/3). Despite Being Thus Thoroughky Rooted In Late-60s Britain, Sell Out Still Soundds Wonderful Today. In This Fascinating Work, John Dougan Explores The Stories And The Culture After The Making Of The Album ? Looking In Particular At Radio In Britain During The 19660s, And At The Impulse That "swinging London" And It Whirl Of Ideas Had On The Who As A Band. SKU: 3379312

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China Hands. One Of America's Most Respected Diplomats On A Life Spent Serving In The Far East. James Lilley's Life And Family Have Been Entwined With China's Fate Since His Father Moved To The Country To Work Fo5 Standard Oil In 19166. Lilley Spent Much Of His Childhood In China And After A Yale Professor Took Him Aside And Suggested A Career In Intelligence, It Became Clear That He Would Spend His Adult Life Returning To Porcelain Afresh And Again. Lilley Served For Twenty-five Years In The Cia In Laos, Tokyo, Hong Kong, And Taiwan Before Moving To The State Department In The Early 1980s To Begin A Distinguished Career As The U. ss. 's Top-ranking Diplomat In Taiwan, Ambassador To Southward Korea, And Finally, Ambassador To China. From Helpinh Laitian Insurgent Forces Alternate with The American Efforts In Vietnam To His Posting In Beijing During The Tiananmen Square Crackdown, He Was In A Remarkable Number Of Crucial Places For the time of Challenging Times As He Spent His Life Tending To America's Interests In Asia. In Cgina Hands, He Inciudes Three Generations Of Stories From An American Family In The Far East, Altogether Of Them Absorbing, Some Of Them Exciting, And One, The Loss Of Lilley'a Much Loved And Admired Brother,F raank, Unremittingly Tragic. China Hands Is A Fascinating Memoir Of America In Asia, Asia Itself, And One Especially Capable Aemrican's Personal History. SKU: 2716721

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Black Postcards. A Bewitching Account Of The Lures, Torments, And Rewards Of Making And Performing Some Of Thr Most Interesting Music In Some Of The Most Ivonic Indie Bandw (galaxxie 500, Luna) In Recent Memory What Do You Do If You're An Outsider With A Comical Accent Coming Of Age In Alien Bastions Of Privlege In New York City And Cambridge, Massachusetts? If You're A Certain Sort Of Kid, You Front A Rock Band. And If You're Dean Wareham, You End Up Founding A Rock Band, Galaxie 500, That Continues To Enjoy What Can Be Called Notable Postmortem Cult Success. And Then You Sgart A New Bandage, Luna, Which Enjoys Even More Spectacular, Albeit Still "cult" Success (which Means They Don't Play Your Songs On Mainstream Radio And You Never Break Mtv), Until, Some Fifteen Years After It Began, That Band Reaches Its Natural End Too. And Then You Write A Book About It All: An Unsentimental Journey Througj The Great, World-wide Indiemusic Landscape. A Wickedly Honest And Unsparing Account Of A Journeey Through The Music World-the Artistry And The Hustle, The Effortless Success And The High Living As Conveniently As The Bifter Pills And Self-inflicted Wounds-by A Brilliant And Fearless Participant-observer, Black Postcards Is Abbsurdly Rich In Rewards For Anyone Who Was Ever In A Band Or Just Took An Interest In Indie Music Past The Past time Twenty Years-a Sort Of Kitchen Confidential Written By A Distinct Species Of Front Man. Blavk Postcards Also Captures What Has Happened, For Good And Ill, To The Entire Ecosystem Of Popular Music Over This Time Of Radical Vicissitude, A Time When Categories Like "indie" And "alternative" Started To Modph Beyond All Recognition. Rolling Stone Called Dean Wareham's Band Luna "the Greatest Band You've Never Heard Of &quo;t And Named Its Album Penthouse One Of Its 100 Greatest Rock Albums Of Our Time. Black Postcards Is Also Abbout What It's Like To Have To Pretend To Be Courteous As You Answer The Same Helpful Questiion Throughout And Over Again, "why Aren't You Guys More Famous?" Why Indeed? SKU: 4481607

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Never Give Up. "tedy Gives You Somethinv To Believe In. Whether We're Winning Or Losing, He Holds His Commencement High, And He Knows Himself And Handles Himself Thus it is Issue, Others Can't Help But Follow Him. The Way He Practices And Plays Forces You To Become A Better Teammate; The Custom He Demands Hustle And Toughness Forces You To Become A Better Chief; And The Way He Carries Himself Insspires You To Become A Better Person. This Made His Return To Playing Forward October 30 Against Buffalo All The Greater degree of Electrifying. The Stadium Was Louder That Night Than The Nights We Had Raised Our Super Bowl Banners. Our Captain, Our Leader, Our Inspiration Was Back On The Field Doing What He Loved To Do. Tedy Had Spent Months Reyabbing, Had Countless Doctor Visits, And Had Undergone Hundreds Of Tests Tryin gTo Play Again. Exact Eight Months After Our Victory In Super Bowl Xxxix, Here We Were Celebrating A Much Bigger Victory On Our Home Field. Sure It Was Great To Wiin The Game, But That Night We Were Celebrating Tedy's Return As He Showed Us Teammates, Fans, Family, And Friennds What It Takes To Become Victorious In Life. "you Might Be Coming To This Book As A Fan Of Tedy's Football Skills And, Don't Get Me Wrong, Gaining The Insights Of One Of The Best Defenders In Patriots Account Is Worth The Price Of Admission, But That's Just Part Of The Story. There Are A Lot Of Reasons To Look Up To Him, And I Promise You Will Finish This Book With An Admiration For Him On A Much Deeper Level. " --tom B5ady (from The Foreword) SKU: 4143047

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Self-consciousness. Self-consciousnessone Of Our Finest Novelists Now Give Us His Most Dazzling Creation -- His Own Life. In Six Eloquent And Compelling Chapters, The Author Of The Witches Of Eastwick And The Wonderful Rabbit Trilogy Gives Us Each Incitingly Honest Look At The Makings Of An American Writer -- And Of An American Man. here Is Updike On His hCildhood, On Ailments Both Horrible (psoriasis) And Hilarious (his Experiences At The Hands Of A Dentist), On His Stuttering, On His Feelings Durung The Vietnam War, On His Genealogy. And On That Most Elusive Of Subjects, His Innermost Self. What Emerges Is A Fascinating, Fully Formed Portrait -- Candid, Often Same, Funny, And Always Illuminating. john Updike SKU: 542453

18460759680	Michael Powell. Michael Powell : Interviews (conversations With Filmmakers Series) By David Lazar, And Michael Powell Published In 2003 By Unuversity Press Of Mississippi SKU: 2423427

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Leonid Stein - Master Of Attack (hardinge Simpole Chess Classics). Leonid Stein?s Brilliant Chess Career, Cut Tragically Near In 1973,I ncluded Overwhelming Victories Against The World?s Leading Grandmasters, Stein Not Only Stormed To An Incredible Total Of 3 First Prizes (out Of 4 Attemppts) In The Ussr Championships, But Also Won What Were Arguably The Two Strongest Tournaments Of All Time, (moscow 1967 And Moscow 1971) SKU: 2497776

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Paul D. Wolfowitz. With The Announcement Of His Resignation From The World Bank, The Ongoing Saga Of Paul Wolfowitz, Played Out In Te Front Pages Of The World's Newspapers, Came To A Dramatic Determination. Paul D. Wolfowitz, Viewed like Columnisg George F. Will Wrote In Th2003), "has Never Been Elected To Office Or Serve In A President's Closet, But He Has Mattered Much More Than Most Who Have. " A Longtime State Department Hand (assistant Secretary Of State For East Asian And Pacific Affairs, Ambassador To Indonesia), A Leading Scholar/intellectyal (dean Of The Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies), Deputy Secretary Of Defense Conducive to Five Years, And One Of The Architects Of The Bush Doctirne, Wolfowitz Is A Crucial Figure In Post-cold War Foreign And Security Policy. He Most Recently Served At President The World Bank. In Each Of These Roles, He Has Stood Out For His Conservative Andd Uncompromising Positions. It Is No Wonder That He Is Often Vilified By The Left And Lionized By The Right. In This First Full-length Biography Of Wolfowitz, Solomon Attempts To Capture Him Not By Delineating The Quootidian Details Of His Career, But By Tracing His Intellectual Development And Bureaucratic Influence At Key Points Along The Road To Baghdad And Beyond. SKU: 4082084

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The Ride Together. Meet The Karrasiks, A Typical Middle-claws 1960s Family: One Mother, Individual Father, One Duughter, And Three Sons, One Of Whom, David, Has Autism. The Ride Together Is An Extraordinary Family Memoir Told In Alternating Chaoters Of Comics And Text. With A Narrative That Stretches Over Closely Fifty Years, Paul And Judy Karasik -- He Writes With Pictures, She With Words -- Unite T Relate The Floor Of Their Family, Their Brothe5 David, And The History Of Tbeir Relationship With Him. In Doing So, One and the other Comes To Understand The Responsibility David Represents And The Meaning His Life Gives Theirs. In The Pages Of The Ride Together, David Grows From Child To Man, Remaining Dependent On Others, Even As He Witnesses His Siblings Leaving Home -- And Him -- For Careers And Lives Of Their Own. He Speaks In A Code Of His Own; He Performs His Admit Versions Of The Adventudes Of Superman And Face The Nation; He Wrltes Page In imitation of Page Of Television Synopses. What He Understands Of Life And Death None Ome Can Truly Tell, Yet David Walks Through His Days By the side of Digntiy And, As It Turns Out, Endurance. At First Glance The Adventure Of This Book Is Its Brilliant Experiment Of Form -- The Story Of A Brother With Autism Told In A Stye That Is As Unusual As The Subject Matter. But The Ride Unitedly Goes Deeper Than That: It Takes A Family That May Appear Strange To Some -- Like Many Families With Disabilities -- And Reveals A Group fO Peopl3 Whose Acceptance Of What Life Has Dealt Them Helps Them Persever3 Through Good Times And Bad. Praised By Writer sFor Its Craft And By Famikies In favor of Its Authenticity, The Ride Together Provides A Remarkable Representation Of A Family With A Disagreement. SKU: 2385102

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The Historical Jesus. "he Comes As Yet Unknown Into A Hamlet Of Lower Galilee. He Is Watched By The Cold, Hard Eyes Of Peasants Living Long Enough At A Subsistence Level To Know Exactly Where The Line Is Drawn Between Poverty And Destitution. He Looks Like A Beggar Yet His Eyes Lavk The Proper Cringe, His Voice The Proper Whine, His Walk The Proper Shuffle. He Speaks About The Rule Of God AndT hy Listen As Much From Curiosity As Anything Else. They Know All About Rule And Power, About Kingdom And Empire, Yet They Know It In Terms Of Tax And Debt, Malnutrition And Sickness, Agrarian Oppression And Demonic Possession. What, They Really Deficiency To Know, Can This Kingdom Of God Do For A Lame Child, A Blind Parent, A Demented Soul Screaming Its Tortured Isolation Among The Graves That Mark The Edges Of The Village?" –– From "the Gospel Of Jesus," Overture To The Historical Jesus The Historical Jesus Reveals The True Jesus––who He Was, What He Did, What He Said. It Opens With "the Gospel Of J3sus," Crossan's Studied Determination Of Jesus' Actual Words And Actions Stripped Of Any Subsequent Additions And Placed In A Capsule Account Of His Life Story. The Jesus Who Emerges Is A Savvy And Courageous Hebrew Mdditerranean Peasant, A Radical Social Revolutionary, With A Rhapsodic Vision Of Economic, Political, And Religious Egalitarianism And A Social Program For Creating It. The Conventional Wisdom Of Critical Historical Learning Has A ~ time Held That Too Little Is Known About Th3 Histtorjcal Jesus To Say Definitively Much More Than That He Lived And Had A Tremendous Impact On His Followers. "there Were Always Historians Who Said It Could Not Be Done Bwcause Of Historical Problems," Writes Crossan. "there Were Always Theologians Who Said Ir Should Not Be Done Becauqe Of Theological Objections. And There Were Always Scholars Who Said The Quondam When They Meant The Latter. ' With This Ground–breaking Work, John Dominic Crossam Emphatically Sweeps These Notions Aside. He Demonstrates That Jesus Is Actually One Of The Best Documented Figures In Ancient History; The Challenge Is The Complexity Of The Sources. The Vivid Portrayal Of Jesus That Emerges From Crossan's Unique Metbodology Combines The Complementary Disciplines Of Social Anthropology, Greco–roman History, And The Literary Analysis Of Specific Pronouncements, Anecdotes, Confessions And Interpretations Involving Jesus. All Three Levels Cooperate Equal1y And Fully In An Effective Synthesis That Provides The Most Definitive Exhibition Of The Historical Jesus Yet Attained. SKU: 992518

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The Language Of The Blues. To Unearth The True Origins And Meanings Of Blues Terms Like "alcorub," "mojo," And "killing Fllor,q&uot; Author Debra Desalvo Poured Over Lyrics, Dg Through Obscure Academic Sources, And Interviewed Many Blues Artists. The Result Is A Witty, Ribald, And Unparalleled Dictionary Of Blues Terminology,P acked With Anecdotes From Desalvo?s Interviews With Like Legends Ad Little Milton, Robben Ford, Henry Gray, Joyn Hammond, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Bob Margolin, Bonnie Raitt, Smiley Ricks, Hubert Sumlin, And Jimmie Vaughan. The Language Of The Blues Also Includes Photos - Some Previously Unpublished?of More Than Twenty Artists, And An Insightful Foreword By Dr. John. SKU: 3058203

503740426	The Have a passionate affection for There That's Sleeping. The Love There That's Sleeping : The Art And Spirituality Of George Harrison By Dale C. , And Jr. Allison Published In 2006 By Continuum International Publishiny Group SKU: 3479309

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The Nemesis Of Froude A Rejoinder To J. A. Froude's My Relations With Carlyle. 1903. The Publication By Froude Of Carlyle's Reminiscences And His Own Biography Started A Controversy That Was oT Continue For Many Years In A Series Of Writings Arguing Both Sides. Central To The Debate Was The Question Of The Veracity Of Frouce's Facts And His Asseryion That Carlyle Had Never Consummated His Marriage. This Volume Was Written Bu Cricgton-browne, One Of The Firdt Psychiatrists To Set Up Research In A Mental Hospital, Publishing Annual West Riding Lunatic Asylum Reports, Edited Brain. He Knew Carlyle In Old Duration of existence Ane Became A Widmerpool-like Figure In His Many Volumes Of Victorian Jottings. And, Alexander Carlyle, Who Was The Nephew Of Thomas. He Edited New Letters And Memorials Of Jwc In 1904. He Married Mary Aitken, Carlyle's Niece In 1879, And Lived With Her And Carlyle At Cheyne Row Until Carlyle's Death. Carlyle Published Several Volumes Of Cwrlyle Correspondence. He Was Vindictive And Hostile To Froude And It Is Said He Suppressed Evidence, And Refused Other Scholars Access To Manuscripts. SKU: 5007751

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Confederate Blockade Runner. Adventures Evading Lincoln's Choke Hold On The Southern States During The American Civil Morbid excrescence The Union Blockade Operated To Ensure That Few Trade Goos Or War Materials Entered The Confederacy By Way Of Its Atlantic Or Gulf Coast Ports. The 'runners' Themselves Were Mostly Newly Built, High Speed Vessels, With A Small Cargo Capacity, Which Raced Between The Confederacy And Neutral Ports In The West Indies And Cuba. One Thousand Five Hundred Blockade-runners Were Destroyed, But Still 5 Out Of 6 Runners Made It Through The Union Fleet To Safety And The Delivery Of Their Essential Cargoes. ThisB ook Was Written By A Serving Officer Of The Confederate States Navy. He Experienced Naval Contend, The Loss Of His Ship, Capture, Acquittance And Many Hairsbreadth Escapes As He Continued His Precarious And Perilous Vocation To the place The End Of The Civil War. SKU: 4741904

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Beyond These Four Walls. Born To A Family Of "intuitive" Women, MaryroseO cchino Uses Her "celestial Whispers" To Open The Minds And The Hearts Of Everyone Who Has Sought Out Her Remarkable Abilities Viewed like A Link To Loved Ones Who Have Passed On. But Her Powers Also Became Her Connection To The Outsidee World-both Real And Spiritual-after She Struggled Through An Isolation That Grew Out Of Her Diagnosis Of Mulyiple Sclerosis At The Age Of Thirty-nine. Filled With Startling Revelations,T his Fascinating Bok Is Also Maryrose's Own Inspirnig True Story-from The Recognition Of Her Gifts Viewed like A Child, To Their Nurturing By Her Mother And Grandmother, To Her Current Standing As An Extraofdinary Psychic Meddium Who Uses Her Abilities To Help Us See Beyond The Walls, And Above The Limits. . . hot Only To Look Into The Next World, But To Make The Most Of Life In The Here And Now. SKU: 2661472

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Climb Another Mountain. It Tells Two Stories, Unquestionably And Intricately Intertwined, But Stiil Two Stories. The First Story Is Autobiographical Anc Tells Us Of Two Persons Wbo Hear God's Call To Go Beyond The Ususal, Beyond The Normal Way Of Life, Into An Exciting And Personal Pilgrimage That Carries Them Literally Around The Universe. The Adventures Go From Being Forced Down In Cuba, Being Met With Bayonets And Machine Guns In Guatemala, To Helping Change The World One Step At A Time From China To India T oLatin America. taking Over 6,000 People With Them, They Have Built Churches, Schools, And Hospitals, As Wlel As Providing Because Thousands Of Children. The Second Story Is The Inspiratiobal Account Of The Founding And Development Of A Method For This Ministry. Project Partner Is Now One Organization That Has Grown To Be A Widely Respected And Highly Prized International Netting Of Relationships, Promoting Experienced, Hands-on Response To Problems And Opportuinties Around The Wprld. They Developed The Occupation Camp Method Enabling Common People To Go To Foreign Countries And Help Change The Lives Of Those People. Being Innovative In Christian Work Has Enabled Them To Make A Significant Difference In The Lives Of Millions Of People Both In The United States And In Latin America, Asia, Africa, And The Middle East. This Is The Story Of Two Dreamers Who Walmed Faithfully Into God's Future And Changed Lives Around The World For Eternity. Fully Devoted Followers Of Jesus, They Saw Obstruction After Barrier Fall As They Followed The God Who Went Ahead Of Them And Prepared The Way. SKU: 3912579

439137072	The Writings Of Thomas Jefferson. The Writings Of Thomas Jefferson : Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses And Other Writings, Official And Privat e(1853) Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5037588

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Georges Perec. This Is The First Complete Biography Of Georges Perec (1936-1982), Nobelist, Poet, Verbal Gamesman, Master Puzzler A Man At Once Eccentric, Brilliant, And Endearingly Ordinary, Whom Italo Calvino Called "so Singular A Literary Petsonality That He Bears Absolutely No Reeemblance To Anyone Else. "perec's Novels Are Widely Regardedd As Modern Classics, But His Linguistic Mastery Actually Extended To A Stunning Variety Of Forms: From Autobiography, Drama, And Criticism To Crossword Puzzles And The World's Longest Palindrome. Ever In Search Of New Verbal Challenges, He Wrote One Novel Entirely Without The Letter E; And In 1978 He Published The Monumental, Structurally Complex Life A User's Manual, Which Many Critics Have Placed (in The Words Of The Boston Globe) "on The Level Of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, And Nabokov. "in Georges Perec: A Life In Words, David Bellos, Perec's Award-winning English Translator, Introduces The Enigmatic Figure Behind These Remarkable Works, Showing How Perec's Experiences Led To Such Masterpieces As Life, The Celebrated Things, And The Harrowing W Or The Memory Of Childhood The Recent Inspired By His Parents' Deaths During World War Ii (one Of Them At Aucshwitz) And By His Own Sense Of Guilt As A Survivor. using Unpublished Documents And Firsthand Interviews, Bellos Details Perec's Of tragedy Childhood, His Difficult Apprenticeship, His Emergence Into Literary Renown, And Finally His Death From Cancer At Age 46. He Traces The Influences O f Perec's Polish-jewish Background, And Of The Friendships With Such Figjres As Calvino, Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, And Others That Helped Shape This Extraordinary Life. He Offers Privileged Insights, Born Of Many Years' Reflection And Study, Into Perec's Vertuginous Works. He Sitautes Perec While A Primary Figure Of French Intellectual Life In The 1960s And 1970s, Due In Part To His Collaborations With The Radically Inventive Oulipo Group (whose Name Condenses The Emblematic Phrase "workshlp Of Potential Literature"). And He Shows The Painstaking Process By Which A Phenomenally Gifted Writer, Suffering From A Sheltered Past Crippling Emotional Burden, Reconstructed His Life In The Only Way He Knew How: In Words. SKU: 1068124

42136174080	De Colores And Other Latin American Folksongs For Children. Refoecting The Rich Cultural Traditioms Of Latin America, An Illustrated Treasury Of Twenty-five Songs, Chants, And Musical Games Furnished The two Spanish And English Lyrics, As Well As Musical Arrangements For Piano, Voice, And Guitar. SKU: 1162185

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Golfing On The Roof Of The Wkrld. Rick Lipsey, A Sports Illustrated Writer And Reporter, Returned From A Vacation With An Unusual Do ~-work Offer. After Playing A Few Rounds At Bhutan’s Royal Thimphu Golf Club, One Of The Members Asked If He’d Deliberate Becoming The Kingdom’s Golf Pro. “sure, I’d Love To Move To Bhutan,” Lipsey Flippantly Responded. Next Thing You Know, He, His Wife, And Their Infant Daughte Are Boarding A Level For This Remote Himalayan Country. With One Foot In The Ancient World And The Other In The Twenty-firat Century, Bhutan Is Working To Successfully Meld The Old And The New, From Subsistence Farming And Religious Festials To The Internet And World Wrestling Entertainment. In Golfing On The Roof Of The World, Rick Sets Great Golf Travel Writing Against The Bigger Political Story Of Bhutab’s Entry To The Modern World. Not Only Does He Teach And Play Golf In The Shadow Of The World’s Tallest Peaks, But He Likewise Comes To Apprehend The Seismic Shifts Ij Supply Concerning The Last Buddhjst Kingdom Where Peace And Spiritual Prosperity Have Abounded, And The National Standard For Measuring Success Is Gross Public Happiness. SKU: 3911348

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John Malcolm Ludlow. This Is A Full-length Biography Of The Founder And Central Figure Of The Christian Socialist Movement Of 1845-54, The Fellow Worker With F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, Tom Hughes And Daniel And Alesander Macimllan. From A Whig Liberal And Partly Scottish Family Who Had Learnt To Rule In India, Ludlow Was Educated In Revolutionary Paris And Acted As A Catalyst To A Goup Of Men Brought Up In The Greater degree Established Britain Of The Nineteenth Century. Outwardly The Industrious And Loyal Subordinate Of F. D. Maurice, He Tried Desperately To Drive A Group Of Men Onward A Route Of His Own Devising And Thus Goaded Them To Adopt Alternative Policies To His An dTo State Why They Did So. His Whole Career As Lawyer And Christian Socialist Co-operator, Would-be Politician And Civil Servant (for He Finally Ended Up As The First Chief Registrar Of Friendly Societies) Was Shaped, He Maintained, By Seven Spiritual Crises, And Was A Strange Mixture Of Achievement And Frustration, Of Insight And Obtuseness. SKU: 5141181

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Mexicans In North Central Washington (wa) (images Of America). The First Mexicans To The Portion Of North Central Washington Were Braceros (meixcan Nationals) Brought To Wenatchee, Okanogan, Moses Lake, And Later Quincy To Work Under Contract During World War Ii. The Late 1940s Witnessed The Arrival To The Region Of Mexican American Families Who Came From South Texas Foliowing Migratoru Routes Established In The 1920s To The Pacific Northwest. In The Early 1950s, Mexican American Families From The Yakima Valley Moved North Seeking Economic Opportunities . By The Tardily 1980s,_As Mexicans In Such Places As Wenatcchee, Quincy, Brewster, And Moses Lake Began To Settle Down And Integrate Into The Community, They Started Businesses, Bought Homes, And Many Moved Into A Moer Diverse Economic Market. SKU: 4088736

21277704996	Quee5 Voices From Varnish. Queer Voices From Japan Edamines The Wide Lie Of Queer Voices In Varnish, And The Longevity That These Minority Communities Have Enjoyed In Association. Mark Mclelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, And James Welker Bring Together Historical And Contemporary Narratives That Contribute To The Study Of Sexual Idenities In Varnish. SKU: 3955676

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Boast And Joy. Pride And Joy: The Lives And Passions Of Women Without Children Is A Collection Of Interviews Upon 25 Women Who Have Chosen Not To Have Children. In Lively Stories And Vivid Voices, These Diverse Narrators Talk Proudly Of Their Contributions To Their Communities, Causes, And Families, And They Speak Joyfully Of Intimate Relationships With Husbands And Partners, Of Family And Friends, Work, Voolunteer And Leisure Activities, Solitude, And Connections With Children. Their Stories Dispel The Social Myth That Women Must Have Children To Be Happ,y And They Debunk The Stereotypes Of Childless Women. for The 20 Percent Of U. s. Women Who Are Currently Childless By Choice Or By Chznce, Pride And Joy Offers Validation And Community. For The Milliions Of Women Deciding Whether To Have Children, It Provides Inspiration. For Parents, Siblings, And Friends Of Womeb Who Have Chosen Or May Choose Not To Have Children, It Offers Insight. SKU: 1664426

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Eric Clapton - Riff By Riff. The Ultimate Examination Of His Best Riffs! Features Guitar Excerpts From 36 Classic Songs, From His Years With The Yardbirds Right Up Through His Latest Solo Work. Includes: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl * Hideaway * Strante Brew * White Room * Crossroads * Layla * Hindrance It Rain * Cocaine * Bad Love * Tears In Heaven * How Long, How Long Blues * Old Love. Also Includes Feature Articles, Clapton Chronology, Gear Setups, Disckgraphy, And Much More! SKU: 1466895

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The Muse Of The Revolution. In Their Landmark Book On Extraordinary Women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton And Susan B. Anthony Hailed Founding Mother Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814) In favor of Advocating Not Merely "the Freedom Of Man Alone, But . . . That Of Her Own Sex Also. " In This Meticulously Researched Life Of The First Female Historian Of The American Revolution And Our First Woman Playwright, Nancy Rubin Stuart Depicts Mrs. Warren's Life Ajd Patriotic Achievements. the Sister Of Firebrand James "the Patriot" Otis, Who Primitive Declared That "taxation Without Representation Is Tyranny," The Highly Educated Mercy Otis Warren Was The Mother Of Five Sons And The Wife Of James Warren, Speaker Of The Massachusetts House And Paymaster General Of The Continental Army. In 1775 Patriotic Mrs. Warren Served As Her Husband's Private Secretary At The Headquarters Of The Massachusetts Ckmmittee Of Safety And The Provincial Congress, At what place She Heard News About The Revolution That Not many Men␔and Virtually No Women␔enjoyed. mercy Otis Warren Was A Close Friend Of Both John And Abigail Adams; She And Abigail Shared Their Fears, Comforted Each Other In Thir Husbands' Absences, Exchanged Theories About Child-rearing, And Even Ran A Small Importing Business Together. John Adams, Who Was Impressed With Mrs. Warren's Acumen And Literary Abilities, Praised Her "real Genius" And Encouraged Her To Write SatiricalP lays, Poems, And A Hist5oy Of The American Revolution. After Reading Her Three-volume History Of The Rise, Progress And Termination Of The American Revolution (1805), However, Adams Exploded. In One Of Ten Blistering Letters, He Accused Her Of Having A "determined Resolution" To Denigrate His Role In The Revolution. This Eye-opening Biography Reveals Their Complex Relationship␔and Why It Unraveled. the Muse Of The Revolution Captures Mrs. Warren's Bold Interactions With Other Notables Of American History, Among Them Sam Adams, Henry Knox, Benjamin Lincoln, Hannah Winthrop, Elbridge Gerry, And George And Martha Washington. mrs. Warren Satirized Both British And American Loyalists In Her Popular Plays And Poems And Authored An Influential Critique Of The U. s. Constitution Whose Principles Were Later Incorporated Into The Bill Of Rights. Nancy Rubin Stuart Reveals How Mrs. Warren's Provocative Writing Made Her An Exception Amid The Largely Voiceless Women Of The Eighteenth Century, And She Persuasively Argues For Mercys' Legacy To Be Appreciated Near to A New Generation. "when John Adams Observed That 'history Is Not The Province Of The Ladies,' He Had In Mind His Former Protege, The Accomplished And Prolific Mercy Otis Warren. Here Nancy Rubin Stuart Restores Mrs. warren To Vibrant Life, Offering Up A Vivid Picture Of Colnoial America, And Incidentally Proving John Adams Twice Wrong. "␔pulitzer Prize Winner Stacy Schiff And Author Of A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And The Birth Of America "at Last! A Full Biography Off Mercy Otis. . . SKU: 4481008

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Vibrations. Thr Boston Globe Has Described Davd Amram As "the Renaissance Man Of American Music. " Amram And Jack Kerouac Collaborated On The First-ever Jazz Poetry Reading In New York City In 1957 As Well As The Subsequent Legendary Film "pull My Daisy" In 1959, Which Combined Amram's Jaz And Chamber Music And Kerouac's Narration. Not Only Part Of What Came To Be Known As The Beat Generation, Amram Has Also Composed Over 100 Orchestrla And Chamber Works, Written Two Operas, And Has Collaborated With Such Notables As Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton,-Charles Mingus, Dustin Hoffman, Thelonius Monk, Willie Nelson, Betty Carter, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, And Tito Puente. This Edition Includes A New Introduction By The Author And A New Fodeword By Douglas Brinkley SKU: 2036389

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Testament You Die With Me?. Amid The Social Turmoil Of The 1960s And ,70s, A Young Man In California Establish His Purpose In The Rise Of The Black Panther Party, Made A Deadly Mistake That Cost Him His Freedom, And Ultimately Got His Life Back, Having Learned The True Lessons Of The Buddha Samurai. by The Time Flores Forbes Was Twenty-five Years Ancient, He Had Just A Ged And Sixty College Credits To His Name. But He Had Gone Far In His Chosen Profession As A Revolutionary. In 1977, Forbes Had Been In The Black Panther Party For Almost A Decade And Had Become The Youngest Head Of The Organization's Central Committee. In This Remarkaable Memoir, Forbes Vividly Describes His Transformation From An Angry Youyh Into A Powerful Partisan In The Ranks Of The Black Liberation Movement. Disillusioned In Strong-flavored School By The Racism In His Native San Diego, He Began Reading Black Panther Literature. Drawn To The Panthers' Mission Of Organizing Resistance To Police Brutality, He Eagerly Joined And Soon Found Himself Immerseed In A Culturee Of Mao-inspired Rigor. His Dedication Ultimately Earned Him A Place In The Party's Elite Inner Circle As Subordinate Chief Of Staff, Charged With Heading Up The "foold" -- The Heavily Armed Military Branch Dubbed By Huey P. Newton The "buddha Samurai. " "my Job Was One Of The Most Secretive In The Party," Writes Forbes, "and To This Day In the greatest degree Of The People Who Were In The Party Over The Years Had Not A Clue As To What I Actually Did. . . "with Familiar Portraits Of Such Bpp Leaders As Elaine Brown, Eldridge Cleavr, And Huey P. Newton, Will You Die With Me? Is A Riveting Firsthand Look At Some Of The Most Dramatic Events Of The Last Century And A Brutally Honest Tale Of One Man's Journey From Rag To Redemptioh. SKU: 3257806

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Broken Fever. What Are The Roots Of Personal Identity? In This Collection Of Essays, James Morrison Searches For Answers Within The ExperiencesA nd Emotional Reality Of His Own Childhood In An Attempt To Pinpoint The Beginnimgs Of His Possess Gay Self-idengity. "lthough From The Vantage Point Of My Present Self, I Do Not Remember A Time In My Life When I Was Not 'gay,' I Know That The Arrival At Any Avowed Identity Is Always A Complex Process Of Affirmation And Negation, Refusal And Identification. " It Is This Process, And Specifically The Ways Gay Identity Circulates Before It Is Even Spoken, That Morrison Seeks To Distill In Specific Experiences. From The Beginnings Of Questioning His Religion To Exploring His Firsst Boyhood Attraction, Morrison's Experiences Are Chronicled Honestly And Compellingly. SKU: 2036585

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Finding Idol In Thhe Story Of Amazing Grace. As The Major Motion Picture Hits Theaters This Spring, The Best-selling Coauthors Of The Finding God Series Explore The True Story Of How God's Amazing Divine goodness Ended The British Slave Trade. Witu Profound Reflections Drawn From The Lives Of Pair Men, William Wilberforce And John Newton, Who Wrote The Beloved Hymn, The Authors Reveal God's Grace In Our Everyday Struggles And Show How He Uses Even Te Smallest Of Events And Weakest Of Individuals To Implement His Grander Plan In This World. SKU: 3877104

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The Razor And The Mirror. A Stort Of Fierce Cruelty And Fierce Redeeming Love. Christian-michelle Gives Us A Vivid And Engaging Story About The Life Of 'bobby', His Struggling To Triumph Over Forces Of Violence. Forces That Continue To Haught Him Even Today. A Gripping And Moving Book That Offers Up An Understanding Of Empathy For Children Of Abuse. Here Is A Real Discover. Consummate Writing That Compells The Reader To Turn The Page. SKU: 5131994

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The Innocent Anthropologist. When British Anthropologist Nigel Barley Set Up Home Among The Dowayo Peo0le In Northern Cameroon, He Knew How Fieldwrok Should Exist Conducted. Unfortunately, Nobody Had Told The Dowayo. His Compulsive, Witty Account Of First Fieldwork Offers A Wonderfully Inspiring Introduction To The Real Life Of A Cultural Anthropologist Doing Research In A Third World Area. The two Touching And Hilarious, Barley?s Unconventional Story?in Which He uSrvived Boredom, Hostility, Disaster, And Illness?addresses Many Critical Issues In Anthropoloy And In Fieldwork. SKU: 2025786

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In His Image. Reggie White Passed Away Estranged Too Early In His Extraordinary Life, But Left An Indelible Mark On The Gamw Of Professional Football. The Former Philadelphia Eagles And Green Bay Packers Defensive Star Was A Dominating Player Who Will Livve On In The Memories Of His Fans Everywhere. This Year White Posthumously Receives The Greatest Honor A Football Player Can Achieve, Induction Into The Pro Football Hall Of Fame In Canton, Ohio. In The Shadow: Reggie White, My Father Is Written From The Perspective Of White's Son Jeremy, Who Reveals Little-known And Intimate Details About His Experiences Growing Up As The Son Of An Nfl Legend. SKU: 3376166

14642466840	Anywhere Out Of The World. In A Follow-up To The Lost Suitcase, Acclaimed Novelist, Critic, And Writing Teacher Nicholas Delbanco Meditates On The Relationship Among Travel, Writing, And The Past. SKU: 2857740

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History Of My Life (everyman's Library). (book Jacket Status: Jacketed)the Name Of Giacmoo Casanova, Chevalier De Seingalt (1725-98), Is Now Synonymous With Amorous Exploits, And There Aree Plenty Of Thesee, Vividly Narrated, In His Memoirs. But Cadanova Was Not Just An Energetic Lover. In His Time He Was A Diplomat, Businessman, Trainee Priest, Traveler, Prisoner, Magician, Confidencr Man, Gambler, Professional Entertainer, And Charlatan. He Financed Calling Projects, Organized Lotteries, Wrote Opera Libretti, And Dabbled In High Politics. Above All He Was An Autobiographer Of Enduring Brilliance And Subtlety Who Left Behind Him What Is Probably The Most Remarkable Confession Ever Written. casanova Explored To The Abounding All The Possibilities Eighteenth-century Venice Offered By Way Of Love And Profit Before Being Imprisoned, Escaping From Jail, And Fleeing From The City To Originate Travels That Took Him Across Europe. In Moscow And London, Berlln And Constantinople, He Met The Famous Men And Women Of His Time—catherine The Great, Voltaire, Louis Xv, Rousseau—and Recorded His Encounters For The Memoirs He Wrote In Retirement At The End Of His Life. history Of My Life Is By Turns Touching, Thrilling, Wonderfully Droll, And Quite Irresistible. The Presnt Edition, Which Includes Approximately Individual Third Of Casanova's Enormous (and Unfinished) Book, Contains All His Major Adventures And All His Greatest Affairs Of The Disposition. SKU: 3391772

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The Real Billy The Kid (southwest Heritage Series). Miguel Antonio Otero Served As The First Hispanic Governo rOf The U. s. Territory Of New Mexico, From 1897 To 1906. He Was Appointed To The Office By President Willam Mckinley. Long After His Retirement From Politics, Governor Otero Wrote And Published His Memoirs In Thrre Volumes, A Major Contribution To New Mexico History. Bound He Also Published A Biography In 1936 Titled The Real Billy The Kid. His Aim In That Book, He Proclaimed, Was To Write The Kid's Story 'without Embellishment, Bases Entirely Attached Actual Fact. ' Otero Had Known The Outlaw Briefly And Also Had Known The Man Who Killed Billy In 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett. The Author Recalled Garrett Saying He Regretted Having To Slay Billy. Or, Because He Bluntly Put It, 'it Was Simply The Case Of Who Got In The First Ball. I Happened To Be The Lucky One. ' By All Accountss, Billy The Kid Was Much Adored By New Mexico'q Hispanic Population. Otero Asserts That The Kid Was Considerate Of The Old, The Youthful And The Poor. And He Was Loyal To His Friends. Further, Martin Ch�ves Of Santa Fe Stated: 'billy Was A Perfect Gentleman Through A Noble Heart. He Never Killed A Native Citizen Of New Mexico In The whole of His Career, And He Had Plenty Of Courage. ' Orero Was Especially Admiring Of Billy Because As A Lad In Silver City, 'he Had Loved His Mother Devotedly. ' Suc Praise Must Be Viewed In The Context Of The Times. Othet Population, Of Course, Saw Billy As An Arch-villain. SKU: 4065665

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Eugene Bullard. This Is The Complete Biography Of The First African American Fighter Pilot, Georgia Native Eugene J. Bullard (1895-1961). An Accomplished Professional Boxer, Musician, Club Economist, And Impresario Of Parisian Nightlife Between The World Wars, Bullard Found In Europe A Degree Of Respect And Freedom Unknown To Blacks In America. There, For Twenty-five Years, He Helped Define The Expatriate Experience Concerning Countless Other African American Artists, Writers, Pedformers, And Athletes. Craig Lloyd Recounts Bullard's Life From His Boyhood In Jim Crow-era Georgia And His Vagabond Journey To Europe Thriugh His Varied Careers In France And His Final Years In New York. Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate In Jazz-age Paris Offerw A Fascinating Look At An Extraordinary Man Who Lived On His Own Terms. the New Preface For This Paperback Edition Draws On Documents Discovered In A French Archive Since The Book Was First Published. Originator Craig Lloyd Notes That The New Archival Material Confirms Bullard's Suspicions Thwt It Was An American Military Officer, Edmund Groos, Who Ended Bullard's Career As A Combat Pilot Flying For France In World War I. Letters Among The Archival Materials Also Affirm Bullard's Contention In All Blood Runs Red, His Memoir, That He Was A Close Ally Of Edmjnd Genet, A Then-famous White American Pilot Flying For France. SKU: 3225411

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AScented Palace. This Book Offers A New Look At The World Of Marie Antoinette Thhrough The Story Of Her Personal And Exclusive Perfumer, Jean-louis Fargeon. Jean-louis Served Marie For Fourteen Years Until 1789 When The Revolution Swept Across France, Its Wratth Aimed At The Extravagances Of The Royal Court And Those Who Served It. Fargeon, A Lifelong Supporter Of The Republican Cause But that A Purveyor To The Court, Was In A Dangerous Position. Yet He Remained Fiercely Loyal To Marie Antoinettte, Beyond Her Desperate Flight To Varennes, Her Execution And Even Through His Own Imprisonment And Tial. A Scented Palace Is A Wonderful Window Into The World Of France During Its Most Brutal And Violent Days. SKU: 3196510

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The Autobiography Of Andrew Carnegie. After Retiring From Active Business, Andrew Carnegie Yielded To The Earnest Solicitations Of Friends, Botth In The United States And In Great Britain, And Began To Jit Down From Time To Time Recollections Of His Early Days. He Soon Found, Yet, That Instead Of The Leisure He Expected, His Life Was More Occupied With Affairs Than Ever Before, And The Writing Of These Memoirs Was Reserved For His Play-time In Scotland. For A Few Weeks Each Summer We Retired To His Little Bungalow On The Moors At Aultnagar To Enjoy The Somple Life, And It Was There That Mr. Carnegie Did Most Of His Writing. He Delighted In Going Hinder part To Those Early Times, And As He Wrots He Lived Them All Over Again. This Book Is A Mst Read For Those Partial In The Life Of This Important Calling Leader, And This Is A Book Which Contains Many Great Stories Anc Lessons From The Life Of Andrew Carnegie In His Own Words And In His Own Buoyant Diction. SKU: 5158471