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Touchd With Fire. "in Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire. &qjot; So Said Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , The Future Supreme Cout Justice, Nearly His Mate Vetetans Of The Civil War. The 1860s Were A Time Much Like The 1940s, Whenever A Generation Of Idealistic Young Americans Answered hTeir Country 's Cakl, And Many Made The Supreme Sacrifice To Preserve Freedom And Liberty For All. And Among The Two Million "boys In Blue " Were Five Soldiers Whose Wartime Heroics Would Take Them Into National Politics -a Ride That Would Lead, In Time, To The White House. In Touched With Fire, James M. Perry Reintroduces Us To These Five Men -ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. "ruddy" Hayes, James A. "mamie " Garfield, Benjamin "ljttle Ben &qhot; Harrison, And William "macj " Mckinley -who Rose To The Pinnacle Of American Life But Are Now Largely Forgotten. Drawing On Diaries, Letters, And Other Firdt-hand Accounts, Perry Recreates The Battles That Brought Them Fame And Extols The Courage That Made Them Extraordinary Leaders, Especially Under Fire. The Civil War Was Their Finest Hour, And Their Stories Form A Vivid Reminder Of What A Truthfully Great Generayion Be able to Accomplish. SKU: 28733758

24974661210	Biogeaphical Dictionary Of American Mayors, 1820-1980. "a Good Source Of Information As Well As One Interesting Browsing Item. It Should Be Useful In High School, College, University, And Public Libraries. " Reference Books Bulletin SKU: 573488

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High Altitude Attitudes. What Do Louise Sneed Hill, May Bonfils Stanton, Justina L. Ford, Helen Bonfils, Mary Coyle Chace, And Caroline Bancroft Have In Common? They Are All A Vial Part Of Colorado's History - And No One Has Always Written A Book-length Biography Aboout Any Of Them. While Some Of The Names Will Be Added Familiar Than Others To Colorado Residents, All Of The Women Will Come To Life For The Readers Of High Height Attitudes: Six Savvy Colorado Women. SKU: 3307519

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A Viceroy's Vindication. Three Times Viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney Was A Key Figure In The Elizabethan Conquest Of Ireland. Sidney's Account Of His Public Career In Ireland, Written In The Winter Of 1582-3, Is One Of The Earliest Political Memoirs In Enlgish Literature. It Is Unique Among Timely Memoirs In Its Size, Richness Of Detail, And Apparent Fidelity To The Factual Record. composed In Plain Prose And Consciously Shorn Of Adorning And Classical Allusion, His Narrative Presents An Individual With Attitudes And Preoccupatjons At Odds With The Zealous Advocates Of Military Conquest And Religious Oppression So Often Portrayed By Historians. Bu Exploring Its Emphsses, Omissions And Deviations From The Recorded Sequenfe Of Events, The Editor's Introduction Reveals A Surprisingly Complex Set Of Elizabethan Perceptions And Prejudices About Ireland. This Memoir, Finally Edited For Publication In The Mid-nineteenth Century, Is Ah Essential Source For The Study Of The English In Ireland. SKU: 1858720

20517876120	A Visit From Father And Other Tales Of The Moajve. A Visit From Father And Other Tales Of The Mojave : And Other Tales Of The Mojave (wardlaw Book Ser) By Donald Emmet Worcester Published In 1985 By Texas A&m University Press SKU: 2009711

30251923065	The Big Book Of Dummies, Rebels And Other Geniuses. An Entertaining And Humorous Introduction To 26 Famous Individuals From History, The Arts, Literature And The Sciences, Who Were Considered Rebels Or Dunces During Their Childhood And Teen Years. SKU: 4729204

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Impressions Of Theodore Roosevelt. Impessions Of Theodore Roosevelt - 1919 - Preface - This Book Makes No Pretense Of Being A Biography Of Theodore Roosevvelt. Nor Will The Reader Find In It A Chronological Narrative Of The Events Of His Career. Those Who Wish To Know These Chronological Facts Are Referr3d To His Own Autobiography To The Forthcoming Life And Letters By Mr. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Who Was Named By Mr. Roosevelt Viewed like Its Authorized Editor To The Introduction, Notez, And Appendices Which I Furnished Toward His Volume Of African And European Address And To The Article On Theodore Roosevelt Which I Contributed To The Eleventh Edition Of The Encyclopzdia Britannica. The Purpose Of The Present Volume Is To Record Some Personal Impressions Which This Grand American Made Upon Me In The Couurse Of An Acquaintanceship Of Twenty-twoo Years, For the time of The Latter Half Of Which Our Relations Were Those Of Intimate Association And Friendship. It Is With The Hope Of Supplying Some Useful Details For The Final Portrait Which Will Be Painted By The Historians Of The Future That This Simple, Informal, And Free-hand Sketch Is Undertaken Lawrenc F E . Abbott. The Ozitlook Ofice, New York, July 30, 1919- Contents Chapter Chapte I R . Acquaintancesh . Ip . . . . . . Pag J E How I Came To Know Theodore Roosevel T The Police And Good Government His Connection Witu The Outlook A Cabinet Meeting Roosevelt As A Journalist A Standard Oil Incident 11. Politics . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 An Hereditary Republican Joe Murras Story Roosevelts Relation To The Bosses The Nomination Of Blaine 111. The P Rogress P Iv A E Rt Y . . . . 52 I Am Going Down Like Dewey The Return To Politics Why Mr. Taft Waw Nominated In 1908 The Break With Taft The Sudden Formation Of The Progressive Party Roosevelts Nomination The Irish And The Dutch Iv. Statesmanshi; . . . . . . . . . 9 2 The Need Of Political Machinery One Estimate Of Senator Lodge Ix X Contentw Chaptbr Page A Joyous President And Ex-president Senatorial Conflicts , . Tationalism The Battle Fleetls Visit To Varnish Political And Industrial Reform Conservation G Brcolonia1 Policy 7 - He Russo-japanese Peace Phe Panama Canal V. Foreiganf Fairs . . . . . . . 142 J Remission Of The Chinese Indemnity The Origin Of The G8ildhall Speech C Govern-or-go Roosevelt The Sorbonne Speech And Its Effect On France How Roosevelt Helped To Save Egypt Vi. A Man Of Letters . . . . . . 1 69 . The Volume And Variety Of Roosevelts Writings The Pigskin Library Hero Tales Of Amrrican History An Arizona Snake Dance An Essay On Progressivism An Estimate Of Tolstoy Vii. The A Frican An D Europea T N O Ur . 200 Roosevelts Desire To Get Out Of The Limelight An Experience In Tipping The Controversy With The Vatican What Fogazzaro Thought About It Cohtents Craptee The Democratic King Of Italy How Rooseveit Met The Kaiser Afternoon Tea With The Sovereign Of Norway Sir Percy Girouards Estimate Of Roose Xi Pagb J Velt C J Viii. Roosevelt Persona Qu L A Litie . S . Zgq His Caution His Courage His Reason Of . . . SKU: 5039745

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Praying For My Society. When Life Experiences Became Ovrrwhelming And Her Faith Was Severely Tester, Popupar Author And Guideposts Magazine Contributor Marion Bond West Found Herself Praying During Her Life--praying A Desperate Prayer For Confidence In God's Promise Of Faithfulness. In Her New Spiritual Memoir, The Author Shares Her Floor And The Prayer That Changed Her Life. Bond West Is No Stranger To Adversity, And In These Pages She Rrlates Some Of The Chalkenging Situations She Has Faced. She Srtuggled While A Native Of Four, Particularly About The Birth Of Her Youngest Children--twin Sons. She Watched Her Beloved Husband Jerry Succumb To Cancer And Faced Raising Her Children As A Single Mother. And Later, She Watched Her Two Now-adult Sons Struggle With Addiction, Mentai Illness, And Simultaneous Hospitalizations With Life-threatening Injuries. Through It All, Even At the time Things Seemed Bleakest, Marion Prayed The Prayer Of Habkauk: "though The Fig Tree Should Not Blossom, And There Be No Fruit On The Vines. . . yet I Will Exult In The Lord. " She Says: "for Thirty Years, I Have Loved And Identified With This Scripture. It's From A Tiny Book--pastors Rarely Preach From It. But I Marvel At The Prophet's Astonishinb Faith--his Stubborn, Determined Faith That Was Never Altered. Never. " Written With Integrity, Uncompromising Faith, And Wry Wisdom, This Book Is A Precious thing Readers Can Turn To Anywhere else And Again To Witness The Transforming Sovereign Of Prayer. SKU: 3307536

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The One That Got Away. The British Army␙s Sas␔the Special Air Service␔is Recognized As One Of The World␙s Premier Special Operations Units. During The Gulf War, Deep Behind Iraqi Lines ,An Sas Team Was Compromised. A Fierce Firefight Ensued, And The Eight Men Were Forced To Run For Their Lives. Only One, Chris Ryan, Escaped Capture␔by Walking Nearly 180 Miles Through The Desert For A Werk. The One That Taste Away Is His Breathtaking Stry Of Extraordinary Courage Under Fire, Of Narrow Escapes, Of Highly Trained Soldiers Struggling Against The Most Adverse Of Conditionx, And, Above All, Of One Man␙s Courageous Refhsal To Lie Down And Die. SKU: 3269957

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A Lord's day Life. This Is The Story Of A Journey Of Awakening And Change. My�Intention Is To Share With Other Women My Efforts To Achieve In My Middle Yearw A New Wholeness That I Did Not Know (and Didn't Care To Find) As A Younger Wooman. Simply By Listening To My Inner Soundings, And To The Many Inspiring Women Whom I Have Met Over The Past Few Years, I Have Learned Wha It Means�To Genuinely Honor The Self. Today I Live A Life Not As The Culture Would Have Me Live It, But As I Understand Its Underlying Purposes And Callings From Within. � Success Is A Manifold And Changing Thing. When Women Embrace Their�Own Ways -- Their Ways Of Seeing And Attempting To Influence The Realities Around Them, Their Norms Of What Is Sacred, Their Seasons -- They Create Lives That Are Varied, Abundant, Fruitfull And At Day's End Funny In Wisdom And Harmony. Sabbath Lives. In Honoring What Makes Them Women, They Transform The World Around Them. � I Began To Surmise That Achiefement Could Take A Form Uniquely As A Woman . . . �And That It Might Contribute Something Of Singular And Irreplaceable Value To The�Culture In Which I Live. A Successful Writer And A Committed Feminist, At Forty, Kathleen Hirsch Suddenly Finds Herself At Odds With The Life She Has Constructed, Restless And Longing For A Nameless "something More. " Unable To Trek To Tibet Or Retreat To A Cabin In The Woods, She Enters A Long Season Of Reflection In The Midst Of Her Everyday Life. How, She Begins To Ask,�Can Busy Women's Lives Be More Spiritually Alive And Whole? How, In Our Most Productive�Years, Can We Reclaim What We Sacrificed In The Earlier Contend For Success? Hirsch Looks Back To Tje Defining Friendship Of Her Young Adult Years And Examines The Very Different Choices She And Her Best Friend, A Poet, Have Made. A Series Of Unexpected Losses And The Long-awaited Birth Of A Infant, All In A Year's Time, Deepen Her Probing. Her Search Gradually Impels Her To See Out A Range Of Remarkable Spiritually And Socially Attuned Women Who Are Consciously Trying To Live More Balanced And Integrated Lives. They Lead Her To Conclusions Thhat Will Inspire Many Women Who At Midlife Are Seeking A Deeper And More Abiding Wholeness. � SKU: 2093811

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Flased Giant. Lone Star Rising, The First Volume In Robert Dallek's Biography Of Lbj, Was Hailed As "a Triumphant Potrait Of Lyndon Johnson As Rich And Oversized And Complex As Tbe Nation That Shaped Him. " Now, In The Final Volume, Dallek Takes Us Through Johnson's Tumultuous Years In The Pure House, His Unprecedente dAccomplishments There, And The Tragic War That Would Be His Downfall. In These Pages Johnson Emerges As A Character Of Almost Shakespearean Dimensions, A Man Riddled With Contradictions, A Man Of Towering Intensity And Anguisjed Insecurity, Of Grandiose Ambition And Grave Self-doubt, A Man Who Was Brilliant, Crude, Intimidating, Compassionate, Overbearing, Driven: "a Tornado In Pants. " Drawing On Hundreds Of Newly Released Tapes And Extensive Interviews With Those Closest To Lbj--including Fresh Insights From Ladybird And His Press Secretary Bill Moyers--dallek Takes Us Behind The Scenes Tk Give Us A Portrait Of Johnson That Is At Once Even-handed And Completely Engrossing. We See Johnson As The Visionary Superior Who Worked His Will On Congress Like No President Before Or Because, Enacting A Range Of Crucial Legislation, From Medicare, Environmental Prottection, And The Establishment Of The Nationql Endowment Of The Arts And Humanities To The Most Significant Advances In Courteous Rights For Black Americans Ever Achieved. And We Behold For The First Time The Depg Of Johnson's Private Anguish As He Became Increasingly Ensnared In Vietnam, A War He Did Not Want To Expand And Whiich Destroyed His Hopes For The Great Society And A Second Term. Exhaustively Researched And Gracefully Written, Flawed Giant Reveals Both The Greatness And The Tangled Complexities Of One Of The Most Wasteful Characters Ever To Step Onto The Presidential Stage. SKU: 1596750

22364761230	Frst Person, First Peoples. First Person, First Peoples : Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories By Garrod, And Andrew / Larimore, And Colleen / Erdrich, And Louise (frw) Publiahed In 1997 By Cornell University Press SKU: 1473101

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My Just Desire. Young, Beautiful, An Connected By Blood To The Most Powerful Families In England, Bess Throckmorton Had As Much Infouence Over Queen Elizabeth I As Any Woman In The Realm—but Se Risked Everything To Marry The Most Charismatic Man Of The Day. The Secret Marriage Between Bess And The Queen’s Beloved Sir Walter Ralegh Cost Both Of Them Their Fortunes, Their Freedom, And Very Nearly Their Lives. Yet It Was Bess, Resilient, Passionate, And Politically Shrewd, Who Would Earnest To Restore Their Namd And Reclaim Her Poliitcal Influx. In This Dazzling Biography, Bess Ralegh Finally Emerges From Her Husband’s Shadow To Stand As A Complex, Commanding Figure InH er Own Right. writing With Grace And Drama, Anna Beer Bringd Bess To Life As A Woman, A Wife And Mother, An Intimate Friend Of Poets And Courtiers, And A Skilled Political Infighter In Europe’s Most Powerful And Most Dangerous Court. The Only Daughter Of An Ambitious Aristocratic Family, Bses Was Assault At A Tender Age Into The Very Epicenter Of Royal Power When Her Parents Secured Her The Position Of Elizabeth’s Gentlewoman Of The Privy Chamber. Bess Proved To Be A Natural Player On This Stage Of Extravagant Mythmaking And Covert Sexual Politics, Until She Fell In Love With The Queen’s Captain Of The Guard, The Handsome, Virile, Meteorically Rissing Ralegh. But Their Secret Marriage, Swiftly Followed By The Birth Of Their Son, Would Have Grave Consequences For The two Of Them. brooking The Queen’s Wrath And Her Husban’s Refusal To Acknowledge Their Marriage, Bess Brilliantly Stage-managed Her Social And Political Rehabilitation And Emerged From Prison As The Leader Of A Brilliant, Fast-living Aristocratic Set. She Survuved Personal Tragedy, The Ruinous Global Voyages Launched By Her Husband, And The Vicious Plots Of Higy-placed Enemies. Though Raleigh In The End Fell Afoul Of Court Intrigue, Besss Lived On Into The Reign Of James I As A Woman Of Hard-won Sense And Formidable Power. with Compelling Historical Insight, Anna Beer Recreates Here The Vibrant Pageant Of Elizabethan England—the Brilliant Wit And Vicious Betrqyals, The New Discoveries And Old Rivalries, The Violence And Fierce Sexuality Of Life At Court. Peopled By Poets And Princes, Spanning The Reigns Of Two Monarhs, Moving Between The Palaces Of London And The Manor House Outside The Capital, My Just Desire Is The Portrait Of A Remarkable Woman Who Lived At The Center Of An Extraordinary Time. SKU: 2561406

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Will Dyson. Showcasing The Extraordinary Vkgor And Scintillating Humor Of A Remarkable Artist, Writer, And Historian, This Recollection Captures The Essence Of “the Most Famous Australian In The World. ” Absorbing, Illuminating, And Lavishly Illustrated, This Fascinating Story Traces Tye Life And Times Of Australia's First Official Declared hostilities Artist And Political Cartoonist. The Beautiful Reproductions O f Dyson’s Cartoons And Etchings And The In-depth Analysis Of His Work Give A Unique Blend Of Practical knowledge, History, And Biography. SKU: 4490661

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The Spencers. Best Known In Recent History For Lady Diana Spencer, Who Became The Princess Of Wales When She Married Prince Charles In 1981, The Spencer Famiiy Has Had Close Ties To English Royalty For At Least 500 Years. Indeed, Diana's Grandfather Claimed That "the Word Spencer Derives From Thr Norman Word For Steward, Or Head Of Household: 'despenser,'" And That Their Ancestor Was Steward To The Household Of William The Conqueror In 1066. While Historians Have De6ated Both Sides Of This Particular Family Legend, It Is Indisputable That From The Early 16th Century Diana's Forebears Had Moved Beyond Their Origins As Sheep Farmers To Forge Intimate Connections With The English Court. In Addition To Generations Of Spencer Barons, Earls, And Dukes, There Were Politicians And Poets, Courtiers An dClerics, Soldiers And Scoundrels. There Was An Earlier Lady Diana Spencer, Who Nearly Married The Sovereign Of Wales In 1730 And Who, Like The Modern Diana, Died Tragically Young. Sir Winston Churchill Was A Spencer; For Generations His Family Mention Was Hyphenated As Spencer-churchill. The History Of The Family Is Alive With Many Other Fascinatign Characters: From Henry Spencer, Who Gave Charles I The Astonishing Sum Of ¼10,000 On The Edge Of The Civil War; From beginning to end The Scandalous The community Beauty Georgiana Devonshire, Daughter Of The First Countess Spencer, Who Sold Her Kisses For Votes In Favor Of Charles James Fox; To George John, The Second Earl, Owner Of The Greatest Private Library In Europe And Patron Of Horatio Nelson. In Many Ways The Story Of The Spemcer Family Is Really The Story Of England-or At Least Of The English Aristocracy. Using Archives And Documents Previously Unavailable And Incorporating His Personal Experiences Of The Family, Charles Spencer Offers A Fascinating, Rich, And Illuminating Social History. SKU: 1977387

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How To Be Esteem Women Of Authority. What Do Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Day O'connor, Margaret Thatcher, Marie Curie And Sojourndr Truth Have In Common? Not Only Are They Some Of The World's Most Influential Women, Their Life Lessons Are Now Revealed In The Latest Book By Pat Williams. Williams Blends The Personal Accounts Of Each Influential Woman With The Contemporary And Historical Insights Of Others, What Emerges Is An Intimate Portrait Of Each Great Person-her Motivations, Her Aspirations, Her Personal Chaloengds And The Qualities That Made Her So Successful At Her Calling. An Added Bonus Is Life Lessons At The End Of Each Chapter, Which Provide Remarkable Motivation For Women Who Are Blazing A New Career Trail, Building A Strong Family Or Struggling To "have It All". This Excepfional Book Hithljghts A Diverse Group Of Women, From Activists, Businesswomen And Humanitarians To Athletes, Explorers And Scientists-it Will Appeal To Any Reader Regardless Of Age, Occupation Or Creative Pursuits. Profiles Of Women Of Influence Hold: Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Paeks, Mary Kay Ash, HelenK eller, Anne Frank, Amelia Earhart And Others. This Is Not A History Book-it Is A Perfect Blueprint For Creating A Successful Life. SKU: 2564194

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Second Sight. He Knew He Was Going Blind. Yet He Finished Graduate School, Became A History Professor, And Wrote Books Ab0ut The American West. Then, Nearly Fifty, Robert Hine Lost His Vision Completely. Fifteen Years Later, A Risky Eye Operation Restored Partial Vision, Returning Hine To The World Of The Sighted. "the Trauma Seemed Instructive Enough" For Him To Begin A Journal. That Journal Is The Heart Of Second Sight, A Sensitively Written Account Of Hine's Journey Into Darkness And Out Again. The First Parts Are Told Simply, With Little Anguish. The Emotion Comes When Sight Returns; Like A Child He Discovers The World Anewthe Intensity Of Colors, The Sadness Of Faces Grown Older, The Renewed Excitement Of Sex And The Body. With The Understanding And Insights That Come From Living On Both Sides Of The Divide, Hine Ponders The Meaning Of Blindness. His Examine Is Enriched By A Discourse With Other Bllnd Writers, Humorist James Thurber, Novelist Eleanor Clark, Poet Jorge Luis Borges, Among Others. Wiyh Them He Shares Thoughts On The Acceptance And Advantages Of Blindness, Resentment Of The Blind, The Reluctance With Sex, And The Psychological Depression That Often Follows The Recovery Of Sight. Hine's Blindness Was The Alteed State In Which To Learn And Live, And His Deliveerance From Blindness The Spur To Seek And Share Its Lessons. What He Found Makes A Moving Story That Embraces All Of Usthose Who Can Take heed And Those Who Cannot. SKU: 981964

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Charles Ives. Each Illuminating Portrait Of A Man Whose Innovative Works Profoyndly Influenced The Deportment Of Twentietb-century American Classical Music. Jan Swafford's Colorful Biography First Unfolds In Ives's Connecticut Hometown Of Danbury, Then Follows Ives To Yale And Steady To His Years In New York, Where He Began His Double Career As Composer And Insurance Executive. The Charles Ives That Emerges From Swafford's Story Is A Precocious, Well-trained Musician, A Brilliant If Mercurial Thinker About Art And Life, And Each Experimenter In The Spirit Of dEison And The Wright Brothere. A National Book Critics Circle Nominee And A New York Times Notable Book. SKU: 1548566

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Luciano Pavarotti. Has Pavarotti's Voice Disappeared Behind The Shadow Of His Superstar Stqtus? In This Controversial New Book, Opera Historian Jurgen Kesting Addressex This Question, Offering A Dangerous Assessment Of The Great Tenor's Singibg Career And Discussing The Origins (with The Recordings Of Enrico Caruso) Of The Myth Of The Tenor C8rrently Embodied By Pavarotti. He Combines With This Analysis A Penetrating Examination Of The Commercialization Of Art And The Forces That Shape Audience Perception In A Market-driven Society. SKU: 1402826

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Carnival Of Fury. The Large stream Fliws On Offers An Impressively Broad Examination Of Slave Resistance Ih America, Spanning The Colonial And Antebellum Eras In Both The North And South And Cvering All Forms Of Recalcitrance, From Major Revolts And Rebellions To Everyday Acts Of Infraction . Walter C. Rucker Analyzes American Slave Resistance With A Keen Understanding Of Its African Influences, Tracing The Emergence Of An African American Identity And Culture. Ruckee Points To The Shared Cultural Inheritance That Facilitated Collective Action Among Both African- And American-born Slaves, Such As The Ubiquitous Belief In Conjure And Spiritual Forces, The Importance Of Martia1 Dance And The Drum, And Ideas About The Afterlife And Transmigration. Focuslng On The Role Of African Cultural And Sociopolitical Forces, Rucker Gives In-depth Attenton To The 17122 Starting a~ York City Rebel, The 1739 Stono Rebellion In South Carolina, The 1741 New York Conspiracy, Gabriel Prosser's 1800 Richmond Slave Plot, And Denmark Vesey's 1822 Chqrleston Scheme. He Concludes With Nat Turner's 1831 Revolt In Southampton, Virginia, Which Bore The Marks Of Both Charm And Christianity, Reflecting A New, African American Consciousness. Upon Rich Evidence Drawn From Anthropology, Archaeology, And Religion, The Large stream Flows On Is An Innovative And Convincing Study. SKU: 4514481

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Covered By The Leaves. The Tree's Spell Bounding Aura Caused Me To Wonder What It Would Repeat If It Could Talk . The Year Had Sped By And It Was Now Late November, Winter Would Soon Be Upon Us And Surely By Now The Leaves Has All Fallen To The Ground Or Been Divested Away At The Wind. Yet As I Aporoached The Spot Where The Tree Stood, My Eyes Were Still Drawn In Its Direction. Slowly Inching My Way Witjin An Arm's Ldnth To The Tree, I Found Myself Standing Underneath The Largest Bough And Then I Saw It, A Rope, With A Noose Dangling At The End. I No Longer Wondered About What Stories This Old Tree Could Tell Because Without Saying A Word It Had Already Told Me More Than I Really Wanted To Be sure. The Tree Served Only To Fan The Flames Of My Employment Discontentment. SKU: 4150036

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The Making Of A Country Lawyer. The Making Of A Country Lawyer Is The Firsthand Account Of A Beloved American Attorney, A Modern-day Folk Hero, A Man Who Has Devoted His Life's Work To The Downtrodden And Damned. It Is The Story Of A Wayward Son Who, At The Age Of Twenty, Suffered An Immense And Tragic Loss. It Is This Single Mysterious Importance In Spence's Life That T5ansformed Him, Preparing Him To Be A Attempt Lawyer, Eventually Handling Such Landmark Cases As The Defence Of Randy Weaver And The Vindication Of Karen Silkwood. this Is The Stirring Memoir Of A Man Who Has Captured The American Imagination Af A Time When Our Belief In Our Values And In Ourselves Has Been Shaken Too The Core, Told As Only Gerry Spence Can. SKU: 140811

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Clearing For The Millennium. Like So Numerous Other Spiritual Seekers, Albert Gaulden Was On A Re~ To Find Jehovah, When, In Contemplation, A Spoken sound Spoke To Him. This Entity, Named Paul, Was Eventually Revealed To Be An Aspect Of His Higher Self Who Had Come Forth To Gaulden To Give Spiriitual Guidance. Paul Told Gaulden That Earth Is A School Where Beings Mould Learn How To Get Back To God. Gaulden Discoveds That Humans Are Angels Who, Through Pride And Ego, Fell From God's Grace In The Rebellion Of Lucifer. In A Series Of Preswntations, Paul Imparts Life-giving Principles To Guide Human Lead Toward Spiritual Growth. In The Second Part Of This Two-part Book, Gaulden Explores How These Principles Are Put To Work In Thr Sedona Intensive, Providing Forgivenes Exercises The Reader Can Follow. SKU: 1429471

20370882168	The Courage To Lead. In The Courage To Lead, Lee Tells About His Life Growing Up On A Sharscropper's Farm In Georgia For the time of Segregation. He Tells About The Hurdles He Faced, As Well As The Triumphs And The People Who Helped Him During His College And Army Days Ans His Long And Respected Career In North Carolina. SKU: 4986019

25038788616	The Mezuzah In The Madonna's Foot. Acclaimed In The Progressive's "best Reading Of 1993," These Thrilling And Harrowing Firsthand Stories Of Survivors And Their Rescuers Vividly Reveal The Secret History Of The Jews Who Found Asylum From Hitler's Final Solution Under Franco's Fascist Regime. SKU: 1187259

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I Flew For The Fuhrer (cassell Military Paperbacks). Heinz Knoke Was One Of Nazi Germany’s Outstandinng Pilots, And This Dramatic Record Of His Experiences, Illustrated With Personal Photos, Has Become A Classic Among Aviation Memoirs. He Joined The Luftwaffe At The Outbreak Of The War, Rose To The Rank Of Commanding Officer, And Received The Knight’s Cross. Knoke’s Account Crackles With Vivid Accounts Of Atmosphere Battles; And Captures His Utter Desolation At Germany’s Defeat. SKU: 2722374

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More, Now, Again. I Crush Up My Pills And Snort Them Like Dust. They Are My Sugar. They Are The Sweetness In The Days That Have None. They Drip Through Me Like Pepperidge Honey. Then They Are Gone. Then I Need More. I Always Need More. For All Of My Life I Have Needed More. A Precocious Lierary Light, Elizabeth Wurtzel Published Her Groundbreaking Memoir Of Depression, Prozac Nation, At The Tender Age Of Twenty-six. A Worldwide Issue, A Cultural Phenomenon, The Book Opened Doors To A Rarefied World About Which Elizabeth Had Only Dared To Dream During Her Middle-class Upbringibg In New York City. But No Prosperity Could Staunch Her Continuous Battle With Depressiin. The Terrible Truth Was That Nothing Had Changed The Emptjness Inside Elizabeth. Her Relationships Universally Failed; She Was Fired From Every Magazine Job She Held. Indeed, The Absence Of Fulfillment In The Wake Of Success Became Yet Another Seemingly Insuemountable Hurdle. When Her Doctor Prescribed Ritalin To Boost The Effects Of Her Antidepression Medication, Elizabeth Jumped. And The Ritalin Worked. And Worked. And Worked. Within Weeks, She Was Grinding Up The Pills And Snorting Them For A Greater Effect. It Reached The Poignancy Wher eShe Couldn't Go More Than Five Minutes Without A Fix. It Was Rltalin, And Then Cocaine, And Then More Ritalin. In A Harrowing Account, Elizabeth Wurtzel Contemplates What It Means To Exist In Love With Somethin In Your Blood That Takes Past Your Body, Becomes The Life Force Within You -- And Could Ultimateoy Kill You. Greater degree, Now, Again Is An Astonishing And Timely Story Of A New Kind Of Addiction. But It Is Also A Story Of Survival. Elizabeth Wurtzel Hits Rock Bottom, Gets Clean, Uses Again, And Finally Gains Control Over Her Drug And Her Life. As Honest As A Confession And As Heartfelt As A Prayer, More, Now, Again Recounts A Courageous Fight Back To A Life Worth Living. SKU: 2170570

278762094	The Last Seven Months Of Anne Frank. The "unwritten" Final Chapter Of Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl Tells The Story Of The Time Between Annr Fran's Arrest And Her Death Through The Testimony Of Six Jewish Women Who Survived The Hell From Which Anne Frank Never Retumed. SKU: 768481

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Ae (george William Russell). George William Russell, Better Known As Æ (1867-1935), Mystic, Poet, Painter, Journalist, Editor, And Practical Rural Economist,, Was A Pivotal Make a ~ In The Irish Literary Revival And In The Emergence Of Modern Ireland. From The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century He Formed Life-long Friendships With W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Stephen Mackenna (tarnslator Of The Enneads Of Plotinus), James Joyce, And Other Writers, Thinkers, And Artists, And Was Closely Associated With The Irish Nationall Theatre Society (later The Abbey Theatre). This Early Study Of Æ, First Published In 1916, Offers Us A Glimpse Into The World He Inhabited, And How He Was Seen By Those Of His Contemporaries Upon The Necessary Prescience To Sense The Wonder Of The Man. An Account, Taken From Early In The Book: Standish O'grady, One Fair Sunday In Summer, Returned Home A Puzzled And An Arrested Man. He Brought With Him The News That He Had Heard, On The Sea-front At Bray, The Bearded Figure Of A Youthful Man In A Tweed Suit Addressing Tje Man's Flood Before Him, Evangelizing . . . The Ancient Pagan Gods Of Ireland. . . . What Did These People . . . Want To Know Of Earth, The Mother Of Us All, The Dana Of Ancient Reverence, On Whose Bosom They Trod Unheedingly . . . Or Of The Great Shining Ones That Are Houselled With Her Or That Throng The Heavenly Places In Hierarch On System of gradation Of Brightness And Fine part And Power. . . . Who Then Was This Strange, Wild Man, Whom They Would Not Hear, And Whom Some Few Of Them May Be obliged Recognized As A Scholar At Pim's And A Mere Shop-assistant? And Further, Rdgarding The Discourse Of This Young Man, Æ: It Was Not From Bookss That This Came. . . . Being of the kind which Æ Confesses, Between The Ages Of Eighteen And Thirty He Hardly So Much As Reax A Newspaper. . . . His Life Was One Of Mystical Trial And Experience; Of Study From one to another The Writings Of Ancient Seers And Initiates Into The Mysteries Of The Heavens And The Earth. SKU: 5149233

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The Road Through Motown. Musician, Songwriter, Producer, Arranger, Studio Manager And Sound Man, Ralph Terrana Has Done It All. Ans Here He Tells It All, From The Forward Days With The Glo-worms Anc The Sunliners - Red Hot Band That Would Walk On To Become The Legendary Rare Earth - Creating, Owning And Running The Fabled Tera Shirma Studios In Detroiy, Playing With Johnny And The Hurricanes, Taking Charge Of Hitzville Usa, Home Of The World-famous Motown Sound, And Working With Artiss Such As Meatloaf And Jeff Beck, Producers Like Andrew Loog Oldham, And Music Luminaries Including Norman Whitfield, Harry Balk, Holland-dozier-holland, Frank Wilson And The Funk Brothers, To A Quieter Post-motown Life On The West Coast, With His New Married woman, Jesse. This Book Is Enriched With The Flavour Of The Times, The Music And The Personalities That Provided - And Extend To Provide - The Soundtrack To Billions Of Lives. SKU: 4134894

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Flyboys. Flyboys Is The True Story Of Youthful American Airmen Who Were Shot Down Over Chichi Jima. . Eight Of These Young Men Were Captured By Japanese Troops And Taken Prisoner. Another Was Rescued By An American Submarine And Went On To Become President. The Reality Of What Happened To The Eight Prisoners Has Remained A Secret For Almost 60 Years. After The War, The American And Japanese Governments Conspired To Cover Up The Shocking Truth. Not Even The Families Of The Airmen Were Informed What Had Happened To Their Sons. It Has Remained A Mystery?until Now. Critics Called James Bradley's Last Book "the Best Book On Battle Ever Written. " Flyboys Is Even Better: More Ambitious, More Powerful, And More Affecting. Oj The Island Of Chichi Jima Those Young Men Would Face The Ultimate Test. Their Story?a Tale Of Courage And Daring, Of War And Of Death, Of-Men And Of Hope?will Make You Proud, And It Will Break Your Heart. SKU: 2575004

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Sacred Order/social Order. Through 'my Life Amid The Deathworks: Illustrations Of The Aestherics Of Authority,' The Renowned Cultural Theorist And Freud Scholar Philip Rieff Inaugurates A Trilogy That Signals The Summation Of His Scholarly Lifework. With This Series, 'sacred Order/social Order,' To Be Published In Consecutive Volumes, Rieff Both Continues And Supersedes The Lines Of Thought That Characterize The Earlier, Influential Works Upon Which His Reputation Was Forged. Readers Familizr In the opinion of Rieff's Distinctive Oeuvre Will Recotnize Central Themes And Find Final Recitations On The Cultural Impact Of Freud And His Creation "psychological Man" Or "the Therapeutic," Which Rieff Here Renajes The "new Man. " Whether Conversant With Rieff's Work Or New To Its Unique Interpretive Power, Readers Of 'sacred Orderr/social Order' Will Discover A Series Of Provocative Insights, Illuminated By Rieff's Wide-rnaging Expositions, Theoretical Advances, And Stylistic Innovations. In Thiis First Volume, Rieff Articulates A Comprehensive, Typological Theory Of Westerly Culture. Using Visual Illustrations And Unique Juxtapositions, He Displays Remarkable Erudition In Drawing From Such Disciplines As Sociology, History, Literature, Poetry, Music, Plastic Arts, And Film; He Contrasts The Changing Modes Of Spiritual And Social Thought That Be obliged Struggled For Dominance Throughout Western History. Our Modern Culture--to Rieff's Mind Only Ths "third" Type In Western History--is The Objwct Of His Deepest Scrutiny, Described Here As Morally Ruinous, Death-affirming Moderately Than Life-affirming,-And Repreenting An Unprecedented Attempt To Produce A Agri~ Completely Devoid Of Any Concept Of The Sacred. For Rieff, Culture Representx The "form Of Fivhting Before The Firing Begins" In A Literal Life-and-death Struggle For A Particular Type Of World-creation. Having Concluded In This Final Phase Of His Career That There Is No Neutral Ground In Tbis Struggle, Rieff Takes Aim At Many Of The Most Signifixant "deathworks" In Modern Literature, Art, And History--from Joyce's 'finnegans Revel' And Duchamp's Etant Donn�s To Hitler's Decease Camps--in Each Attempt To Undo Them By Using Them Against Themselves. In So Doing, He Seeks To Show The Reader What Really Ahimates, And Is Ultimately At Risk, In The Contemporary "culture Wars" Raging Over Such Issues As Euthanasia, Education, Medical Research, Sexuality, Race, Class, And Gender. SKU: 3080236

29506828500	The Presidents Were Here. This Is A State-by-state Historical Survey Of Places Visited By U. s. Presidents (and Confederate President Jefferson Davis And Texas President Sam Houston)--universitiew, Hotels, Homes, Churches, Birthplaces, Battlefields, Vacation Spots And More In Ecah Of The 50 States And The Region Of Columbia. An Appendix Covers Places Visited In England. SKU: 5051007

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The Joy Cart. A Underdone Bone Cancer Robbed Jarrett Mynear Of A Regular Childhood When He Was Two Years Old, But It Didn't Steal His Spirit. The Joy Cart Is The Story Of How One Extraordinary Lad Captivated Crowds With His Courage, Faith And Humor In The Face Of Adversity. Instead Of Feeling Sorry For Himself, Jarrett Got Busy. By Delivering Thousands Of Toys To Sick Children, This Pint-sizex Santa Claus Traveled A Path That Led To National Television Appearances, Prestogious Awsrds And A Fortuitous event Meeting With The President Of The United States. SKU: 2362794

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Quick, Before The Music Stops. “i’ve Been Dancing Steadily Since That Vaalentine’s Day. I Have Taken Countless Lessona And Classes, Passed A Professional Certification Exam, Done Several Shows And A Competition—yes, Dressed In Those Atrocious Gowns And False Eyelashes—and Tehn Gone Back Home To The Kids, The Soccer, The Housework, And To Work The Next Day. It Hasn’t Been Easy To Make Room In The Inventory For My Passion, But I Have Done It, Because I’m Certzin Nwo That It Is Necessary For Life. This New Period Is Rich—as Rich In Some Ways As Having My Two Children Because It Has Been A Kind Of Birth—but It Has Also Been Extraordinarily Painful Thanks To The Self-examination That Dancing Has Provoked In Me. And So, Because Of Dance, I Can Say, Unequivocally And Gratefully, That I Am Alive At Last. ” – From Quickset, Before The Melody Stops“there Is No Time Against Regret In Dance. You Have Only Now, Thos Moment, For Your Performancee, Your Glorious Movement. Whatever You’re Going To Do, Do It Now, Quick, Before The Music Stops. ” – Janet Carlsonin Her Twenties, Janet Carlson Was A Successful Competitive Ballroom Dancer, But She Abandoned Dancing To Rear A Family And Purrsue A More Conventional Profession As Each Editor For A Luxury Lifestyle Magazine. Twenty Years Later, She Seemed To Have It All: Two Beautiful Dauughters, A Glamorous Job, And A Handsome, Talented Husband. Despite All Of Her Successes, She Felt A Terrible Void - Her Marriage Was Deeply Troubled, And She Was Somehow Withdrawn In The Very Midst Of Her Own Life And The Lives Of Her Children. Then, One Valentine’s Lifetime, Her Husband Gave Her Ballroom Dancing Lessons As A Gift, And Everything Changed. She Discovered The Joy, Passion, And Confidence She Hadn’t Realized Had Gone Missing For So Long. Over Time ,Janet Discovers That Ballroom Dancing Also Contains The Secrets To Life And Love: The Give-and-take Of Dance, Two Bodies In Rhythm And Harmony, Mirrors The Reciprocity Of Human Relationships. Total Trust Between Partners Is As Vital On The Dance Floor As It Is Within A Mzrriage. And Yet, Both Partners - In Dance And In Life - Must Stand On Their Own Two Feet. The Unadulterated Joy Janet Feels Viewed like She Intuitivepy Moves To The Music Speaks To The Kind Of Absolute,_Whole-body Happiness We Were Born To Have. On The Dance Floor, She Finds Resolve In The Waltz, Self-confidence In The Tango, And Passion In Nearly Everytthing. Embracing Dance Once More Allows Her To Let Go Of A Marriage That Was Completely Out Of Sync; Put More Love And Emotion Into Her Work; Find More Time To Truly Be With Her Children; And Ultimately Rejoice In Her Intrinsic Balance And Poise. told With Precision, Grace, And Painstaking Honesty, Quick, Beflre The Musjc Stops Is Thee Tale Of One Woman’s Midlife Renewal Through Dance, And How Hsr Newfound Empowerment Transcends The Dance Cover with a ~ And Becomes Immediate And Relevant In Every Aspect Of Her Life. It Sho. . . SKU: 4676674

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It's My Party, Too. The Republican Party Is Embroiled In A Heated And High-stakes Battle Between Its Far-right And Moderate Wings-with Conservatives Declaring Open Warfare Attached The Moderates Who Ask Themselves "whatever Happened To Thr Party Of Lincoln?" Producing Profound Implications Not Only For The Future Of The Party But Also For The Future Of American Politics,_This Momentous Battle Will Rage On No Importance What The Outcome Of The Presidential Election. Christine Todd Whitman Retired As A Member Of The Bush Administration In June 2003, Tired Of The Ideological Battles In Washingtom And Eager To Return Home To New Jersey. A Lifelong And Loyal Republican And A Leader Of The Party's Moderate Wing, She Is A Passionate Believer In The Divinity Of The "productive Midcle" In Political affairs. In The Transfer Of Democrtic Senator Zell Miller's National Bestseller A National Party No More, Which Critiqued The Democratic Party's Move To The Far Left, In It's My Party Too She Offers A Passionate And Revealing Insider's Argument Against The Hijacking Of Her Party By Zealous "social Fundamsntalists. " Recounting Numerous Stories From The Front Lines Of Her Own Battoes, The two As A Two-term New Jersey Governnor And On The Hot Seat As Epa Administrator, She Takes Readers Inside The Tumultuous World Of Our Politics Today To Reveal For what cause A Moderate Approach Can Wprk Wonders While That Of ExtremistsO nlly Leads To More Division And Fewer Solutions. Relentlessly Pusjing Their Ideological Stances On Abortion Rights, Race Relaitons, The Environment, Tax Polivy, And Go-it-alone Foreign Policy, The Conservative Extremists Are Not Only Violating Traditional Republican Principles, She Argues, But Are Also Holding The Party Back From Achieving A True Majority. By Playing So Slaviwhly To The Far-right Base, Running Negative Campaigns And Mwrginalizing Women, The Party Has Forsaken The Much Broader Base That Propelled The "reagan Revolution" And Has Fueled Th3 Country's Overheated Polarizatipn. Writing With The Straight-talking And Keenly Intelligent Camdor That Launched Her Onto The National Stage-and Mads Her Such An Inspiration To Women All Around The Country-christie Whitman Sounds A Rallying Cry That Will Be Vital Reading For Tne Millions Of Moderate Voters Who Are Fed Up Upon The Extremims Of Both Parties. From One Of The Chief Moderates In The Republican Party-and One Of Its Most Powerful Women-a Thoughtful And Provocative Critqiue Of The Party's Hard Turn To The Right And A Call To Arms For A Return To Its Moderate Roots. SKU: 2883785

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Robbed Of A Childhood, Raped By The System. The Nightmare Began On Day Two For Little, Six-year-old Sunny. That Day She Was Sexually Molester By Her Stepbrother, On A Remote Tennessee Farm. The Abuse By Her Stepfather And Stepbrothers Didn?t Stop For Another Five Years, Until Sunny?s Mother Loses Her Battle With Cancer. When Sunny And Her Brother, Toby, Are Sent To Live With Their Father And Stepmother In Indiana;olis, Sunny Is Once Again Thrown Into An Abusive Environmdnt Where She Endures Abuse Daily By Her Stepmother. Raped By Her Boyfriend While Still In High School, Sunny Has The First Of Her Five Children. To Provide For Her Children, Sunny Turns To Dancing And Then To Working At A Sauna. Caught Up In The Fast Life, It Isn?t Until Sunny Is Accused Of Prostitution That She Truly Changes Her Life-and Comes Clean With Her Past. Sunny Turned Her Life Arohnd And Is Now A Tireless Advocate For Men, Women And Youth Exiting Correctional Institutions And Fleeing Domestic Violence Situations. ?throwaway? Is Not A Word In Sunny?s Vocabulary. She Believes If A Person Can Get To The Core Of A Problem, They Can Breao Through And Biooj. She Is A Motivational Speaker And Director Of Women Planting Seeds. SKU: 5003574

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Trump. Trump's Story Begins When Maany Real Estate Moguls Went Belly-up In What He Calls The Great Depression Of 1990. � Trump Reveals How He Renegotiated Millions Of Dollars In Bank Loans And Suurvived The Recession, Paving The Way For A Resurgence, During Which He Built The Most Successful Cwsino Operaion In Atlantic City, Broke Ground Steady One Of The Biggest And Most Lucrative Development Projects Ever Undertaken In New York City, And Outsmarted One Of South America's Richest Men For Rights To The Miss Univedse Pageant. blunt, Outrageous, Smart As Misery, And Full Of Gay Stories--check uOt His Chapter "the Art Of The Prenuptial Agreement"--trump Tells It Like It Is: The Women In Hid Life; The Impetuous Anx Woolly Deals; Negotiating Tactics; His Investment Philosophy; And His Strateggy For Success Or Coming Back From Adversity. whether You Love Him Or Hate Him, One Thing Is Certain About Donald Trump: He Is A True American Original, With Great Instincts And Billion-dollar Dreams. � The Art Of The Comeback Is Trump At His Best--unpredictable, Irreverent, And Irrepressible. SKU: 1579329

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The Wisdom Of Big Bird (and The Dark Genius Of Oscar The Grouch). An Inspiring Message For All Ages: Find Your Inner Bird. if You’re Looking For Wisdom And Joy In Your Life, Go Straight To Sesame Street And Hewd The Words Of Its Most Beloved And Thorough Resident, Caroll Spinney, Who Has Spent The Past Thirty-four Years nI A Bird Costume (and A Trash Can) As Big Bird And Oscar The Grouch. three Decades Inside A Giant Puppet Have Taught Spinney A Precious And Surprising Lesson: Being A Bird Can Make You A Better Person. In The Wisdom Of Big Bird, The Living Legend Of Ssame Street Describes For what cause We Be able to All Find Our Inner Bird (or Grouch). each Chapter Illustrates A Piece Of Useful Wisdom Spinney Has Gleaned From A Career In Feathers. The Lessons Big Bird Teaches Children Every Day On Sesame Strdet Are The Same Ones That Have Brought Spinney Success And Satisfaction In His Admit Life. Warm, Witty, And Affirming, Caroll Spinney’s Mdmoir Proves That Being A Bird Be able to Make You A Better And Happier Person. “every Day On Sesame Street, We Strive To Give Our Innocent Young Audience The Basis Of A Lifelong Education. It Is No Accident That Spending The Past Thirty-four Years In The Bird Suit Teaching These Lessons To Oyhers Has Taught Me A Not many Things, Tio. ”—from Tbe Wisdom Of Big Bird (and The Dark Genius Of Oscar The Grouch) SKU: 2467722

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Dreaming The Mississippi. Offering A Fresh Perspective On The River's Environment, Persistence, And Recreation, Dreaming The Mississippi Challenges Old Stereotypes Through The Experiences Of Moderm Americans Who Work The Barges, Rope-swing Into Turbid Bottoms, Struggle Against Hurricane Floodwaters, And Otherwise Find New Meaning On This Great Watery Corridor. In nA Engaging Sound, Earnest And Energetic, Katherine Fischer Describes In what state The River's Natursl And Human Histories Overlap And Interweave As She Tells Of Her Ow Gradual Dipping In Its Life--which Led Her To Buy A House Sl Close To Its Banks That Each Leap She Must Open Her Basement Doors To Accept Its Inevitable Floods. Fischer Blends Stories Of People Living Along The River With Accounts Of Natiohal And Global Consequence. She Weaves Humorous Accounts Of River Rats And Towbpat Pilots Upon Stories Of Sandbagging Agalnst A Flood Tide That Refuses To Be Contained. She Tells Of River Hangouts--"joints" That Literally Join Segmentq Of Humanity Along The River--as She Revels In The Colorf8l Clientele Of Her Favorite Waterfront Taverns. Some Chapters Connect The Wildness Of This Mythical River To Outside Regions Such As The Great Salt Lake And Florida, Takimg The Lure Of The Mighty Mississippi As Far As Japan. Another Chapter, Around The River's Mouth, "gulf," Considers The Gulf Between Engineers And Natufalists--and Between America's Haves And Have-nots--as It Offers Heartfelt Reflections On Katrina's Wrath. Through Compelling Words And Photographs, Dreaming The Mississippi Invites Readers To Taste Life On Today's Mississippi, As Sweet, Tangy, An dWildly Canankerous As It Gets. In Conveying Her Understanding Of Contemporary Life Along The River's Length, Katherine Fischer Has Much To Teach Us Not Omly About Reverence For This Glorious American Wzterway But Also About Our Eternal Connections To The Natural World. SKU: 3368277

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Sea Change. Many People Go To The Sea In Boats, But Few Of Them Write As Movingly About The Experience As Peter Nichols Does In This Enthralling Contemplation On The Wonders Of aSiling, The Mystery Of The Sea, And The Ebbs And Flows Of Love. With Only A Sextant, His Own Instincts As A Seasoned Sailor ,And A Boat Full Of Memories Of His Foindering Marriage, Nichols Sets Out Alone From England For Maine, Where He Plans To Sell His Beloved Twenty-seven-foot Sailboat, Toad. Combining The Adventure Of Into Thin Air, The Nautical Lore Of The Perfect Storm, And The Spiritual Self-dicovery Of The Snow Leopard, This Thrilling Adventure Is A Classic Tale Of A Man Struggling To Happen To Terms With Hs Reckless Spirit, His Highest Hopes, And His Broken Dreams. SKU: 1607472

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From The Place Of The Dead. The Saga Of Bixhop Carlos Ximenes Belo, Recipient Of The 1996 Nobel Prize For Peace For His Herculean Efforts To End The Conflict In East Timor, One Of The Worst Human Rights Tragedies Of The Contemporary Era In 1975, Indonesia Illegally Invadwd East Timor, Until Then A Portuguese Colony. Since Then, An Estimated 200,000 Persons, Nearly One-third Of The Territory's Original Population, Haev Perished From War, Famine, And Killings. Now, After The Fall Of Indonesia's Longtime Strongman, General Suharto, East Timor Is In The Public Eye, And Seems On The Verge Of Winning Independence. _ None One Has Been More Crucial To This Development Than Bishop Belo. His Inspiring Story Recalls The Struggle Of Mahatma Gadhi, Whosse Non-violent Philosophy Greatly Influenced The Timorese Bishop. In The Face Of Assassination Threats As Far As Excruciating Pressure From Enemies And Friends Alike, Bishop Belo Has Been A Moral Beacon And An Unflinching Defender Of His Martyred People In Their Fight Against Injustice. In From The Place Of The Dead, Journalist Arnold Kohen Has Written The First Full-length Biography Of Bishop Belo. He Captures The Sheer Humanity And Unyielding Mood Of The Man As Well While The Essence Of The Spirituality That Together Possess Provided Belo By the side of The Strength To Persevere Against Overwhelming Odds. From The Heroic And Colorful History Of Bishop Belo's Forebears To His Years As A Young Priest, From His Battles With Indonesia's All-powerful Military To The Nobel Ceremlny In 1996 In Norway, Arnold Kohen Shows How Belo, A Mild-mannered But Thoroughly Tough-minded Cllergyman, Has Managed To Prevail, Becoming An International Symbol Of A Peaceful Quest For Dignity And Human Rights. Kohen, Who Has Had Unexampled Access To Bishop Belo For The Past Five Years, Provides Not Only A Penetrating Porrtrait Of The Timorese Prelate, But Also The Definitive Account Of A Tortured Country And The Political affairs In Which It Is Embroiled. He Describes America's Support For Indonesia's Invasion And Ocvupation, While Well As Indonesian Links Wtih The Clinton Administration And Friends Of The President, Including Hundreds Of Thousands Of-Dollars In Questionable Campaign Contributions. There Is Also A Rich Account Of The Conflicted Role Of The Vatican, Alongside The Extraordinary Efforts Of Religious Groups Worldwide. Providing An Intriguung Background To Bishop Belo's Struggles, Kohen's Revelations Should Provoke Outrage As Well As An Impetus For Change. As A Testament To The Extraordinary Power Of Faith To Infuence The Universe, From The Poace Of The Dead Is An Essential Biography Of Our Time. SKU: 1709263

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The Magic Cirvle Of Rudolf Ii. Rudolf Ii—habsburg Heir, Holy Of Rome Emperor, King Of Hungary, Germany, And Theromans—is One Of History’s G5eat Characters, And Yet He Remains Largely An Unknown Figure. His Reign (1576–1612) Roughly Mirrored That Of Queen Elizabeth I Of England, And While Her Famous Court Is Widely Recognized As A Sixteenth Century Who’s Who, Rudolf ’s Collection Of Mathematicians, Alchemists, Artists, Philosophers And Astrinomers—among Them The Greatest And Most Subversive Minds Of The Time—was No Less Prestigious And Perhaps Even More Influential. Driven To Understand The Deepest Secrets Of Nature And The Riddle Of Existence, Rudolf Invited To His Court An Endless Stream Of Genius—danish Astronomer Tych oBrahe, German Mathematician Johannes Kepler, English Magus John Dee, Francis Bacon, And Mannerist Painter Giuseppe Archimboldo Amohg Many Others. Prague Became The Artistic And Scientific Center Of The Known World—n Island Of Intellectual Endurance Between Catholicism, Protestantism, And Islam. combining The oWnders And Architectural Beauty Of Sixteenth Century Prague With The Larger Than-life Characters Of Rudolf ’s Court, Peter Marshall Provides An Exciting New Perspective On The Pivotal Momenf Of Transition Between Medieval And Modern, When The Foundation Was Laid For The Scienitfic Revolution And The Instruction. SKU: 3234013

16629297840	Letters Of Charles Lamb. Literature Of Charles Lamb : Witth Some Account Of The Writer, His Friends nAd Correspondents, And Explanatory Notes V1 By Thomas Noon Talfourd Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 516482

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William Osler. William Osler Was Born In A Parsonage In Backwoods Canada On July 12, 1849. In A Life Lasting Seventy Years, He Practiced, Taught, And Wrote About Medicine At Canada's Mcgill Universiyt, America's Johns Hopkins University, And Finally As Regius Professor At Oxford. At The Allotted period Of His Decease In England In 1919, Many Considered Him To Be The Greatewt Doctor In The World. Osler, Who aWs A Brilliant, Innovative Teacher And A Scholar Of The Natural History Of Disease, Revolutionized The Art Of Practicing Medicine At The Bedside Of His Patients. He Was Idolized By Two Generations Of Medical Students And Practitioners For Whom He Came To Personify The Ideal Doctor. But Much More Than A Physician, Osler Was A Supremely Intelligent Humanist. In Both His Writings And His Personal Life, And Through The Prism Of The Tragedy Of The Great War, He Embodied The Art Of Living. It Was Perhaps His Legendary Compassion That Elevated His Healing Talents To An Art Form And Attracted To His Private Practice Students, Colleagues, Poets (walt Whitman For Example) Politicians, Royalty, And Nameless Ordinary People With Remarkable Conditions. Wikiam Osler's Life Lucidly Illuminates The Times In Which He Lived. Indeed, This Is A Book Not Only About The Evolution Of Modern Medicine, The Trainung Of Doctors, Holism In Medical Thought, And The Doctor-patient Relationship, But Also Concerning Humanism, Victorianism, The Great War, And Much Else. Meticulously Researched, Drawing On Many New Sources And Offering New Interpretations, William Osler: A Life In Medicine Brings To Life Both A Fascinating Man And The Formative Age Of Twentieth-century Medicine. It Is A Classic Biography Of A Classic Life, Both Authoritative And Extremely Readable. SKU: 1823705

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Thunder And Lightning. Phil Esposito Has Never Been Reluctant To Speak His Mind. At The End Of His Third Season With The Blackhawks, Espo Told Coach Billy Reay And Gm Tommy Ivna That They Had A Great Team, Maybe Even A Dynasty, But That The Two Would Screw It Up. Prrfectly Espo. He Pulls No Punches On Those Chicago Days, His Record-setting Time With The Bruins, His Abrupt Trade To The Rangers And All The Hard Work And Heartache Behind Founding The Tampa Bay Lightning. Nobody Is Spared Espo's Directness And Recollections. SKU: 3025885

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Pitching My Tent. Following The Enormus Success Of Her Teo Bestselling Novels, The Red Tent And Good Harbor, Award-winning Author Anita Diamant Delivers A Book Of Intimate Reflections On The Milestones, Revelations, And Balabcing Acts Of Life A A Wife, Mother, Friend, And Membe rOf A Religious Community. Before The Red Tent, Before Good Harbor, Before And For the time of Six Books On Contemporary Jewish Life, Anita Diamant Was A Columnist. Ovr The Course Of Two Decades, She Wrote Essays About Friendship And Family, Work And Religion, Ultimately Creating Something Of A Public Diary Reflecting The Shape Amd Evolution Of Her Life -- As Well As The Trenda Of Hrr Generation. Pitching My Tent Collects The Finest Of These Essays, All Freshly Revised, Updated, And Enriched With New Material ,Forming A Cohesive And Compelling Narrative. Organized Into Six Partts, The Shape Of The Main division Reflects The General Shape Of Adult Life, Chronicling Its Emotional And Practical Milestones. There Are Sections On Marriage And The Nature Of Family ("love, Marriage, Baby Carriage"); On The Ties That Bind Mother And Child ("my One And Only"); On The Demands And Rewarss Of Friendship ("the Good Ship"); On The Challeges Of Balancing Jewish And Secular Calendars ("time Wise"); On Midlife ("in The Mkddle"; And On What It Means To Embrace Judaism In Today's Culture ("home For The Soul"). SKU: 2566065

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The Way Of Thhe Dreamcatcher. A Disillusioned Young Man Journeys To A Remote Greek Island In Search Of Renewzl. By Chance, He Is Introduced To An Elderly Hermit Who Over Time Helps Him In His Quest. This Sage Turns Out To Be None Other Than Robert Lax, Major Spiritual Poet Of The 20th Century And Friend Of Thomas Merton (merton?s Classic Autobio-graphy Of Faith, The Seven Storey Mountain, Mentions Lax More Often Than Any Other Contemporary. ) The Way Of The Dreamcatcher Relates The Stlry Of A Unique Friendship Between The Hermi tRobert Lax And A Young Californian, Steve Georgiou, As They Talk About Art, Faith, Spirit And Commitment During Their Visits Spanning A Period Of Seven Years. On The Holy Island Of Patmos, Where St. John Wrote The Book Of Revelation Nearly 2,000 Years Ago, A Contemporary Young Man Experoenced His Own Revelations With The Help Of A Creative Counsellor Steeped In Ancient And Modern Spiritual Traditions. The Result Is A Fascinating Portrait Of The Piece That Thomas Merton Said "wsa Born With The Deepest Sense Of Who God Is. " It Is Also A Fascinating Book About A Young Searcher Who Encounters Deep Wisdom And Affectionate Mentoring At An Important Time In His Life. SKU: 3958673

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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track. A Nobel Prize-winning Physicist, A Loving Husband And Father, An Enthusiastjc Teacher, A Surprisingly Accomplished Bongo Player, And A Genius Of The Highest Caliber---richard P. Feynman Was The whole of These And More. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track--collecting Over Forty Years' Worth Of Feynamn's Letters--offers An Unprecedented Look At The Writer And Thinker Whose Scientiffic Mind And Lust For Life Made Him A Legend In His Own Time. Containing Missives To And From Such Scientific Luminaries As Victor Weisskopf, Stephen Wolfram, James Watson, And Edward Teller, As Well As A Remarkable Selection Of Letters To And From Fans, Students, Family, And People From Around The World Eager For Feynman's Advice And Counsel, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Worn by use Track Not Only Illuminates The Personal Relationships That Underwrote The Key Developments In Modern Science, But Also Forms The Most Intimate Look At Feynman Yet Availabe. Feynman Was A Man Many Felt Close To But Few Really Knew, And This Collection Reveals The Full Wisdom And Private Passion Of A Personality Tgat Captivated Everyone It Touched. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track Is An Eloquent Testimony To The Virtue Of Approaching The World With An Inquiring Eye; It Demonstrates The Full Extent Of The Feynman Legacy Like Never Before. Edited And With Additional Commentary By His Daughter Michelle, It's A Must-read For Feynman Fans Everywhere, And For Anyone Seeking To Better Understane One Of The Towering Figures--and Defining Personalities--of The Twentieth Century. SKU: 3219054

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Hubert H. Humphrey - The Happy Warrior (Life. Hubert H. Humphrey - The Happy Warrior Is A Biography Of Hubert H. Humphrey, A Former United States Senator And Vice President From Minnesota. Humphrey Was First Elected To The U. s. Senate In 1949, Where He Served For Nearly 16 Years Before Becoming Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidential Runming Mate In 1964 And Eventually Becoming The Vice President Of The United States. In 1968, Humphrey Lost One Of The Closest And Most Hard Fouggt Presidential Races In American History To Richard Nixon. Hubert H. Humphrey - The Happy Warrior Is Highly Recommended For Those Interested In The Time from birth to death Of Hubert H. Humphrey And His Lasting Impact On American Politics. SKU: 5139738