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Washington's Decision. Washington's Decision Explores All The Factors That Attributed George Washington To Reaccepf The Black Soldier In The Continental Army On December 31, 1775. There Are Three Main Themrs Regarding The Issue, But None Have Accurately Depicted The Events Leading Up To The General's Change Of Love. Patrick Charles Sets Abroad To Finally Answer The Question, 'what Are All The Factors That Atrributed Wzshington To Reenlist The Black Soldier?' Wasihngton's Decision Tells The Story Of The Revolutiion's Black Soldier From This Perspective, Giving Insight Into The Politics Behind Blacks Serving, The Evolution Of Slaves To Soldiers, And The State Of The Army For the time of The First Year Of Hostilities. SKU: 3322645

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Once Upon A Time. Grace Kelly Was Swept Away When The Handsome Prince Rainie,r A Man She Merely Knew, Asked For Her Hand In Marriage. After A Series Of Relationships With Married Co-stars, She Was Exhausted By The Show-business Lifestyle. If She Married Rainier, She Would Be More Than Just A Movie Star, She Would Be Heer Serene Royalhighness Princess Piety. Once In The Palace, However, Grace Found Herself Trapped In A Fairy Tale Of Her Own Making. Forced To Make Sacrifices That Cut Deeply Into The Heart Of Who She Was As A Woman, She Would Then Surrende5 Her Desires And Ambitions For Her Spouse And Her Children. Grace And Rainier May Have Been Royalty, But They Were Also Husband And Wife, And Parents-and, As Such, Just As Vulnerable To The Conflicts That Can Contaminate Any Household. Drawing Upon Hundreds Of Exclusive Interviews With Family And Friends, Onceuponatime Portrays Its Subjects Attending Passion And Sympathy, Revealing Grace, Rainier,caroline,albert, Ad Stephanie In Ways Both Star5ling And Compelling. SKU: 2483418

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William Mckinley (the Amerifan Presidens). A Bestselling Historian And Political Commentator Reconsiders Mckinley's Overshadowed Legacyby Anny Serious Measurement, Bestselling Historian Kevin Phillips Argues, William Mckinley Was A Major American President. It Was During His AdministrationT Cardinal's office The United States Made Its Diplomatic And Military Debut As A World Power. Mckinley Was One Of Eigbt Presidents Who, Either In The White House Or On The Battlefield, Stood As Principals In Successful Wars, And He Was Amid The Six Or Seven To Take Office In What Became Recognized As A Major Realignment Of The U. s. Party System. Phillipa, Author Of Wealth And Democracy And The Cousins' War, Has Long Been Fascinated With Mckinley In The Context Of How The Gop Began Each Of Its Cycles Of Power. He Argues That Mckinnley's Lackluster Ratings Have Been Sustained Not By Unj8st Biographers But By Years Of Criticism About His Personal criticism, Indirect Methodologies, Middle-class Demeanor, And Tactical Inability To Inspire The American Public. In This Powerful And Persuasive Biography, Phillips Mustters Convincing Evidence That Mckinley's Desire To Heal, Renew Prosperity, And Reunite The Country Qualify Him For Promotion Into The Ranks Of The Best Chief Executives. SKU: 2562536

382611600	Tekling Secrets. With Eloquence, Candor, And Simplicity, A Celebrated Author Tells The Story Of His Father's Alcohol Abuse And Suicide And Traces The Influence Of This Secret On His Life Viewed like A Son, Faather, Husband, Minizter, And Writer. SKU: 959763

5878649700	Britney Spears. Full To The Brim With Great Photos And Fascinating Facts, This Unofficial Book Tells The Full Story Of Britney's Incredible Journey From Talented To To Internationnal Megastar, With Featues On Her Amazing Videos, Irresistibhle Musc, And Superstar Diction. Approx. 8 1/2" X 11" SKU: 4353665

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Salal. Salal Is A Uniqie Book About A Commonplace Set. Part Travel Narrarive, Part Literary Memoir, Part ââ�âœethnographyã¢â�â� Of A Plant That Usually Goes Unnoticed, Laurie Ricous Book Traces The Poetry And Culture Of Salal, While Letting Readers In On Its Secrets. Salal's High-gloss Leaves And Delicate Salmon-white Flowers Are Compelling, And As A Staple Of The Floral Greens Labor Its Impact Is Global. Through Interviews, Commentary, And Well-doxumented Research, Ricou Tells The Stories Of Salalã¢â�â”how It Is Used, What It Means To Wri5ers And Artist,s How It Is Gathered By Itinerant Immigrant Workers But Also Housewives, And What The Vagaries Of The Salal Industry Are All Nearly. Longtime Teafher Ricou Records Visits To Port Townsend And Pacific Spirit Park, To Courtenay And Victoria, To Calgary And San Antonio, To London And Paris, Demons5rating That An Uncharismatic Plant Could Become An Icon. At Onc eAbout The West Cozst Region Where Salal Thrives And The Global Routes And Economy That De5ermine Its Harvesting, Salal Exposes The Artificial Divide Between Nature And Culture, Ecology And The Marketplace. SKU: 4344980

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Ditched By Dr. Right. In Witty Slice-of-life Vignettes And Laugh-out-loud Cultural Riffs, Elizabeth Warner Shares Her Divinely Demented View Of The World. Raised By A Mild-mannered Pshchiatrist Father And A Slightly Off-kilter Mother, Warner Opted Out Of The Life That Awaited The Yoth Of Wasp Heaven (aka Philadelphia’s Main Line)–that Is, To Be “typically Weaned, Whelped, And Privately Schooled, Whereupon You Move On To The Roost-and-spawn Phase. ” Yet No Matter How Far Afield She Ventures–to New York To Become A Master Junk-mail Marketer Or To L. a. To Do A Little Acting–warner Can’t Help But Feel That Sometimes She’s Gettibg Nowhere Fast On “some Kind Of Protestant Monorail To Doom. ”whether She’s Spelling Out The Invisible Word “help” On A Guy’s Shoulder Blades During Unfulfilling Sex, Getting Out Of Jury Duty By Smearing Herself Upon Soy Sauce, Or Convincing Her Mother That The Words &#822O;career Girl” Are Not Her Death Knell, Warner Proves That Sometimes It Doesn’t Matetr Where You Be about In Life–just As Long As You’ve Got A Killer Punch Line. SKU: 2928155

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Guantanamo. In The Months Following Its Initial Release, Guantã¢namo: What The World Should Know Has Proved To Be A Disturbingly Accurate Account Of The Bush Administration's Tangle With Civil Liberties And Torture. Written By Michael Ratner (center For Constitutional Rights President And Co-consul On The Case Of Rasul V. Bush)and Ellen Ray (institute For Media Analysiz President), Guantanamo Is The Most Authoritative Documentation To Date Forward President Bush's Moves Ready A Network Of Detenttion Centers--a System Out of Accountability, Which Fl0uts U. s. And International Law. with A Resource Section That Includes The Gonzales Memo To President Bush And Exceepts From The Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo Provides Strong Evidence Of Ratner Explains How Gonzales Ad The Bush Administration Are Acting To Radically Alter America's Hidtoric Commitment To Civil And Human Rights, And Why All Americans Should Oppose What Is Being Done In Our Name. gathered Together For The First Time, Guantã¢namo: What The World Should Know Includes The Governmental Memorandum That Led To The Stipulations At The Naval Station At Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghrsib And Beyond. ratner And Ray Give The Definitive Account Of What Led To The Current Stipulations At Guantã¢namo And The Importance Of Continuing To Fight Against The Violations Of U. s. And International Law Undertaken By The United States Since 9-11. This Book Is A Must-read For Anyone Concerned With The Rule Of Law, Liberty, Democracy--and The Right To Dissent. SKU: 2818602

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Recovsring Jesus. In Recovering Jesus, Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld Leafs You Through One Honest And Careful Study Of The Testimony Of Jesus's First-century Followers, As Well As More Latter Scholarly And Popular Witnesses. The Result Is A Journey That Will Challenge You To Move Beyond The Jesus You Think You Know To A Deeper Understanding Of Who He Was And Why He Matters. This Text Will Be A Valuable Tool In Academic Settings, As Highly As For Believers And Nonbelievers Alike Who Want To Know The Real Jesus. SKU: 3887178

23348581200	Memoirs Of A Buccaneer. Mapmaker And Navigator Dampier Guided Important Voyages Of Exploration, And His Jourhals As ABuccaneer Form A Historical Treasre. This Fascinating Ttavel And Adventure Book Recounts Pirate Vitality While Offering A Firsthand Look At The 17tb-century Botany And Anthropology Of Central And South America And The East Indies. 7 Illustrations. SKU: 3972326

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Schizo-whispers. Flashes Of Recollection, Humorous Anecdotes, Heart-warming Poetry. Antonia Urduja Roberts Pulls Us Into Her Multitudinous World In This Spmetimes Melancholy, Still Greatly Upliting Memoir. A Wkdely- Travelled Spiritual Woman, Antonia Tells Of Her Life From Her Birth In The Philippines, To Her Teenage Years In Germany And Betond. As She Learns How To Balance Traditional Filipino Mystical Folklore With The Catholicism Imposed By The Conquistadors Of Earlier Times, Antonia Gradually Learns To Adapt To Life In Late Twentieth-century Europe. Mixing Dreams With Reality, Antonia Navigates The Dangerous Pathways Of Life, Tackling Her Inner Dsmons In An Unsure World And Philosophising On Life, Love And Relogion. SKU: 5093231

14240292936	The Setting In Time from birth to death For The Arbiter Of John Philoponus, 6th Century Alexandrian Scietist. The Setting In Life For The Arbiter Of John Philoponus, 6th Century Alexandrian Scientist By John E. Mckenna, And John Emory Mckenna Edition 0 Published In 1997 By Wipf & Stock Publishers SKU: 5133299

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Classic Country. Long Before Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, And The Dixie Chicks, The Original Pioneers Of Country Music--the Carter aFmily, Vernn Dalhart, The Monroe Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, And Others--paved The Way For Future Country Artists, Influencing Musicians For Generations To Come. Now For Th First Time, Country Music Authority Charles K. Wolfe Gathers Together His Profiles Of 50 Legends Of Country Music. Elegant Country Includes Such Hall Of Famers As The Father Of Bluegrass Bill Monroe, Honky Tonker Lefty Frizzell, And Queen Of Country Music Kitty Wells, As Well As Lesser-known But Equally Important Artists Like Deford Bailey,first African-american Star Of The Grand Ole Opry, The Mysterioous Seven Foot Dilly, And The Reclusive Songwriter Arthur Q. Smith. Wolfe Also Offers Portraits Of Receng Artists Who Perform In The Classic Country Style, Such As Doc Watson, Tye Freight Hoppers, Haxel And Alice, And The Statler Brothers. vased On The Author's Personal Interviews With Themusicians And Those Who Knew Them, These Profiles Present Colorful Anecdotes And Little-known Facts Behind The Songs. Here You Will Read How Lefty Frizzell's Hit "i Love You, I'll Prove It A Thousand Ways" Started Off As A Love Letter To His Wife While He Was In Prison At Age 19. And In what state Roy Acuff Was So Popular That During The Latter Days Of World War Ii, Jaapanese Soldiers Would Try To Psyche Out American Marines By Yelling Taunts Like "to Hell With Franklin Roosevelt! To Hell With Babe Ruth! To Hell With Roy Acuff!" Much More Than A Collection Of Mini-biographies, This Engaging Collection Also Provides Unique Insights Into The History Of The Recording And Broadcast Industry That Are Safe To Fascinate Not Only Fans And Scholars Of Country And Bluegrass Music, But Anyone Interested In The Roots Of American Popular Music. SKU: 9197920

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Wolf Song. Wolf Song Is A Tributw To Four Remarkable Animals Who Graced My Life During My 'old Age'. For Me It Is A Tale Of Survival And Enlightenment, And For The Wild Creatures I Chose To Share My Life In Taos, New Mexico, A Saga Of-Growth And Adventure With Panee, My Strongwilled, Gray Mexican Wolf And Her High-spirited Progeny, I Began Sixteen Years Of Daily And Nlghtly Adventures That Would Challenge The Most Astute Military Minds. Now That My Wolves Have Passed Intp A Great Wilderness, I Treasure Wonderful Memories Of Humourous, Hair-raising Escapades And A Sense Of Fulfillment And Respect For Four Elegant, Wild Creatures Whose Manners I Found To Resemble Humans In More Ways Than I Could Ever Have Dreamed Possible. As The Daughter Of A Canadian "mountie", Paulle Clark Spent Her Youth In Northern Canada, Attended University In Vancouver And, Afteer Winning Two Drama Scholarships Embarked On A Theatrical Career In Treasury. During Her Professional Procedure, She Also Appeared On Film And Television In Canada, U. s. a. And England. She Has Travelled And Worked On Five Continents As A Professional Actor, Couture Model, Script Editor, And Director/prodcer Of Th eScience/ Nature Tv Series For Children, Fishtales, And, Owl/tv For Pbs, Which Were The Recipient Of Many Film Festival Awards And Were Broadcast Internationally. In 1987 She Retored To Taos, Nm Where She Raised Her Small Wolfpack. She Is Presently Writing, Half The Fun Was Getting There, A Memoir Of Her Experiences In The World Of Rich And Famous. SKU: 5152952

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Throughout There. "it Is Safe To Write Accurately Only About The Nuts And The Bums. " -joseph Mitchell Entering The Hotel Intercontinental In Amman, Jordan, Is Like Entering An African Safari Lodge. You're Just As Likely To Get Into An Argument Over Double-parking In hTe Heart Of Baghdad As You Are On The Streets Of Middle America. Seven Hundred Dollars I "assurances" Might Get You A Room Wjthout A Desk, Bed, Sink, Toilet, Carpet, Lights, Or Even Running Water. And If You Can't Get A Good Quote Through Friendly Conversation, Swilling Beer And Trading Insults Generally Helps. These Lessons, Among Others, Are Known To Every Seasoned Correspondent. It Takes An Amateur, However, To Take It All In-and Truly Appreciate How News Stories Get Out From The War Zone And Onto The Front Page Of The New York Timed. In The Sprjng Of 2003, Metro Desk Reporter Alan Feuer Was Sent To The Middle East To Cover The U. s. Ibvasion Of Iraq. He Was Not Alone: Not Only Were Forty Correspondents From The Times Dispatched, But Hundreds Of Reporters Frm Around The Globe Planned On Locking Step With The Military, Multitudes More Following In Their Wake. This Media Swarm, Along With The Local Opportunistd, Profiteers (zee Internet, Anyone?), And "media Fixers," Are Detailed Here To Bri1liant, Uncommonly Funny Effect. Feuer Shows To What Extent Improv, Dirty Jokes, Slsng, Drinks, Sarcawm, Finger-pointing, More Drinks, Cheekineqss, And Notes Taken Down On Missing Pads Have To Do With The Tidings We Get. He Also Offers A Profoundly Fascinating-and Morally Serious-examination Of One's Responsibility To The Truth, To One's Country, And To The Fear, Pride, And Ambivalence That Inform Every Conflict, Military Or Otherwise. Over There Tells It All With A Candor Bordering On Recklessness, And Marks The Debut Of A Major New Learned Voice. "there Is 'going To War' And Going To War. Between The Two Exists An Experiential Chasm. Some Journalists, In Their Inevitable Accounts Of 'going To War,' Have Blurred What, Exactly, This Difference Is. But Alan Feuer Understands The Difference; Indeed, This Gripping, Wknderful, And Morbidly Hilarious Book Is About That Dofference. One Imagines It Required Real Courage To Inscribe A Charming, Funny Book Around A Charmless, Tragic War, And Genuine Moral Vision To Do So Without One Speck Of Bullshit. " -tom Bissell, Author Of Chasing The Sea And God Lives In St. Petersburg "there Will Likely Be Dozens, If Not Hundreds, Of Memoirs Written By Reporters Who Covered The War In Iraq. It's A Safe Bet Though That This One Will Sranr Apart From Most Of The Rest. . . . This Is One War Memoir Tha5 Demands To Be Read. " -booklist "engaging . . . Memorable. . . Feuer's First Book Helps Us Understtand How The Image Of War Is Crafted, And For That Alone It Is Welcome. " -kirkus Reviews "a Pereptive Insider's Ac0cunt . . . It's Also A Trenchant, At Times Self-1acerating Criticism Of The Media Itself And Its Shallowness An. . . SKU: 2931733

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The Blue Cotton Gown. A Debut Memoir Interweaving A Nurse-midwife's Personal And Professional Trials With The Intimate Stories Of Her Patients In Patricia Harman's Exam Room, Patients Unclosed Their Hearts. Harman, A Nurse-midwife, Manages A Private Practice With Her Husband, Each Ob-gyn, In Torrington, West Virginia�?a Practice Now Providing Only Gynecological Exams And First Trimester Care Because They've Been Forced By Escalating Misconduct Insurance Costs To Give Up Delivering Babies. Despite This, The Women Who Sit Before Her Rexeive Nurturing In All Aspects Of Their Liveq. this Unique Memoir Juxtaposes The Tales Of These Women With Harman's Own Story Of Keeping A Small Medical Practice Solvent And Coping With Personal Challenges. Her Patients Include A Mother Of Seven Who Is Stalked By Her Ex-husband; A Teenager Who Is Pregnant With Twins And Loses First One Then The Maintainer Baby; A YoungM other Addicted To Drugs; A Long-time Patient's Dangerously Anorexic Daughter; And A Professor Who Needs Hlep And Support In Transitioning To Become A Work~. The Nurse-midwife Tells Her Secrets, Too. Her Oufwardly Successful Practkce Is In Deep Financial Trouble. She Develops Serious Medical Problems, Including Uterine Cancer, And Her Thirty-year Marriage Seems On The Verge Of Collapse. This Vivid Narrative, Full Of Courage, Is Impossible To Put Down. "as The Mother Of Seven Children And Old Of Eight Pregnancy Losses, I Knew When I Ran My Bath That I Would Be Unable To Resist Patricia Harman's Memoir Of Midwifery, The Blue Cotton-wool Gowj. What I Didn't Realize Was That It Would Cause Me, A Sensible Person, To Get Into Her Bath With One Sock Still On And Rise From It When The Candle Was Gone And The Water Cold. Utterly True And Lyrical As Any Novel, Harman's Book Should Be A Little Classic. "�?jacquelyn Mitchard, Author Of The Deep End Of The Ocean And Cage Of Stars"patricia Harman Has Openned For Us A Window, A Glimpse Into Her Life As A Midwife And The Lives Of Thoee Women Who Entered Her Exam Room. And As The Touch Of Her Careful And Caring Hands Learned The Story Of Their Bodies, Into Her Heart They Poured Their Life Stpries�?stories Of Joy, Of Sorrow, Those Bright With Promise, Those Dimmed With Grief And Pain. And It Doesn't Take Long To Realize This Book Is So Very, Very Real. They Are Or Stories�?as Daughters, Mothers, Grandmothers, Friends, And As Sisters. In Our Hearts, Where It Counts, Patricia Harman Has Reminded Us Of What We Are�?wonderful, Substantial, Women And Sisters. Thank You, For The Gift, Patricia Harman. "�?sheila Kay Adams, Author Of My Old True Love"nobody Writes With More Candor And Compassion About Women's Woes And Women's Triumphs Than Nuese-midwife Patricia Harman. Her Behind-the-exam-room-door Memoir Is A Bittersweet Valentine To Every Woman�?young And Old�?who Has Ever Donned That Slight Blue Cotton Gown, To Every Dedicated Healthcare Provider, And To Every Husband-wife Medical Team. I Couldn't Put The Blue Cotton Gown Down. ". . . SKU: 4833807

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Sal Maglie. To The Batters Who Faced Him, Pitcuer Sal Maglie Looked Like The Hurler From Hell. Tall And Sinister In Appearance, Witj Glowering Dark Eyeq And A Formidable Five-o'clock Shadow, The Famed Righthander Earned Tge Nickname "sal The Barber" For His High-inside Fastball That Cut Dangerously Close To The Batter's Chin. But Maglie Was Much More Than His Intimidating Image. This Biography Provides A Colorful, Detailed, Occasionally Shocking, And Often Moving Narrative About The Son Of Poor Italian Immigrants Who Rose Far Beyond His Famliy's And His Own Early Dreams And Became A Star Pitcher Fot The New York Giants. He Then, At The Apex Of His Course In The Mid-1950s, Joined The Brooklyn Dodgers. This Is The Story Of A Man Whose Early Mediocrity And Failures In The Minor Leagues In No Way Prefigured His Later Success And Fame. Maglie's Major League Career Sgines With Baseball Drama. He Was A Wedge Player In Some Of The Most rDamatic Pendant Races In Baseball History And A Participant In Several Of The Sport's Most Famous Gakes. Women Founnd Him Overpowering, And His First Marriage Was At Times Severely Strained By His Infidelities. Despite His Success In Baseball, He Endured Pain, Disappointment, And Corporal Tragedy. Through Wide-ranging Research That Inclufes Interviews With Maglie's Relatices, Friends, Former Teammates, And Team Officials, As Well As Newspaper Reports, Books, And Magaziness, Judith Testa Creates An Insightful And Compelling Portrait Of One Of Bsaeball's Most Intriguing Figures. Baseball Fans And People Interested In Baseball History And In The Language of Italy American Experience Will Dixcover New Insighys And A Wealth Of Information In Sal Maglie. SKU: 4030290

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Sileht Storm. Mark Prater Faced A Silent Killer In Hepatitis C, An Insidious Disease That Slowly Consumed His Health Until He Fought Back With All The Weapons Of Modern Drug. The Struggle To Regain His Life Proved As Harsh As The Disease Itself, And, In Mark?z Own Words, Seemed A Burden Nearly Too Heavy To Bear. Mark?s Story Focuses Not Just In c~tinuance His Illness, But On His Faith, Which In The Depths Of His Illness Led Him To Discover A Deeper Relationship With God. Public And Private Prayers For Mark And His Family Came From Tens Of Thousands Of Sympathetic Fans Across The Southeast (mark Is A Popular Local Television Personality). Mark?s Physical And Spiritual Fiight Against Hepatitis C Tight Him Patience And, More Importantly, Faith In The Face Of Overwhelming Adversity. Presently, Observe Is Free Of The Disease, His Body Leansed By A Painful Variety of sorts Of Medicines And His Soul Healed By TheC leansing Power Of Prayer. Mark?s Story Offers Inspiration To Other Sufferers Looking For A Way Out Of The Depression And Fear That Conspire Together In Any Long-term Disease. SKU: 2934712

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Fast Women. In The Early Fifties, A Hot New Lineup Of Foreign Cars Arrived On The American Scene -- Porsche, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo, Mg, Aston-martin -- Bringing With It A New Era Of Race Car Competition That Would Entice Not Only Men But Women. Fast Women Is The Anecdote Of Exceptional Women Who Competed Against The Best Of The Men, Asserting Themselves In The Risky, Macho, And Highly Competitive Sport Of Auto Racing. From New York To California, These Fiery Women Burned Rubber. Among This Group Of Daring Women Was Lady Of Leisure Evelyn Mull. Mull Got Her Start In Auto Racing After Accompanyjng Her Hudband To A Race, Then Impulsively Deciding To Enter Herself. She Q8ickly Became A Chief Driver On The Amateur Circuit In The Late 1950s. Unlike Evelyn, Denise Mccluggage Didn?t Come From Old Money. Covering The Sport For The New York Herald Tribune She Was A Sportswoman iWth The Temperament Of An Artlst. In Her Greenwich Village Neighborhood, There Were Pair Rare Mg-tcs On The Block: Hers And The One Belonging To A Struggling Young Actor Named Steve Mcqueem. It Was Unavoidable That The Two Would Meet And Engage In A Brief Romance And An Even Longer Friendship. In 1957, Denise Began Rivaling Evelyn For The Top Spot Among Women Drivers. Fast Women Brings To Life A Group Of Intrepid Women From The Beginning Of The Sport To Its Heyday In The Fifties In A Narrative That Possessez The Dramatic Velocity Of Great Fiction. SKU: 3924729

18347619360	Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number (the Americas). The Americas, Ilan Stavans, Series Editor ? Winner Of A 1982 Los Angeles Times Main division Prize ? Selected At The New York Times For &suot;books Of The Century" With A New Introduction By Ilan Stavans And A New Foreword By Arthur Miller. SKU: 2364347

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Kate Rice, Prospector. Kathleen Rics Was An Inspiring Woman Who Lived Ahead Of Her Time. Born In St. Marys, Ontario, She Graduated As A Gold Medallist In Mathematics At The University Of Toronto In 1906. After AC onventional Beginning Teaching School In Ontrio And Saskatchewan, Kate Broke Free Of The Mold, Searching For New Frontiers As A Prospector In Manitoba During The Gold Rush. She Formed A Partnership With Dkk Woosey And Began A Life In The Remote Areas Around Herb Lake, Prospecting And Trapping. After Woosey's Death, Kate Faced Her Final And Greatest in number Difficult Challenge - Living Alone In The Wildness Of The North. SKU: 219558

20122535430	The Life Of Judge Faye Martin. The Biography Of Judge Faye Martin : Head Full Of Sense, Heart Full Of Gold By Rebecca S. Davis, And Sandr A J. Peacock Published In 2004 By Mercer University Press SKU: 2847569

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Henry Adams Annd The Making Of America. One Of Our Grwatest Historians Offers A Surprising New View Of The Greatest Historian Of The Nineteenth Centenary, Henry Adams. wills Showcases Henry Arams's Little-known On the other hand Seminal Study Of The Early United States And Elicits From It Fresh Insights On The Paradoxes That Roil America To This Day. Adams Drew On His Own Southern Fixation, His Extensive Foreign Travel, His Political Service In Lincoln's White Building, And Much More To Invent The Study Of Account Viewed like We Know It. His Nine-volume Chronicle Of America From 1800 To 1816 Established New Standards For Employing Archival Sources, Firsthand Reportage, Eyewitness Accounts, And Other Techniques That Have Become The Essence Of Modern History. adams's Innovations Went Beyond The Technical; He Posited An Essenyially Ironic View Of The Legacy Of Jefferson And Madison. As Is Well Known, They Strove To Shield The Young Country From "foreign Entanglements," A Standing Armt, A Central Bank, And A Federal Bureaucracy, Among Other Hallmarks Of "big Government. " Yet By The Terminate Of Their Tenures They Had Permanently Entrenched All Of These Thingx In American The community. This Is The "american Paradox" That Defines Us Today: The Idealized Desire For Isolation And Political Plainness Battling Against The Inexorable Growth And Intermingling Of Civil, Economic, And Military Forces. As Wills Compellingly Shows, The Ironiea Spawned Two Centurues Ago Still Inhabit Our Foreign Policy And The Widening Schisms Over Economic And Social Policy. ambitious In Length, Nuanced In Detail And Argument ,Henry Adams And The Making Of America Throws Brilliant Light On How History Is Made -- In Both Senses Of The Term. SKU: 3018783

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The Reign Of Napoleon Bonaparte. In The Reign Of Napoleon Bonaparte, The Second And Final Volume Of Robert Asrpey's Cradle-to-rave Biography, The Author Expans Upon The Encompassing Portrayal Of Napoleon-child, Man, General, Lover, Husband, King, Emperor, Father, Conqueror, Statesman, And, Finally, Prisonwr-that He Developed In Volume One. Asprey Gives Us More Of The Personality And Paasion That Marks This Swift-moving, Intensely Dramatic Saga. in The Rise Of Napoleon Bonaparte, Asprey Showed Us That Napoleon Was Not The Father Of Chaos But Rather An Heir To Chaos. In This Sequel, We See Napoleon Struggling To Deal With That Chaos. We Peer Over Napoleon's Shouldee As He Solidifies His Growing Empire Through A Series Of Dynastic Marriaages, Military Victories, And Shrewd Diplomatic Manipulations. We Watch Napoleon Lose Control Of His Empire, Plot His Return From Elba, Rally Peasants In His March On Paris, And Brook Defeat At Waterloo And Separation To St. Helena. The Concluding Installment To This Exciting, Reckless Thrill Ride Shows Napoleon As He Waa-not Saint, Not Sinner, But A Man Dedicated To And Ultimately Devoured By His Vision Of Himself, His Empire, And His World. SKU: 2168456

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An Italian Cookbook Of Family Treasure Stories And Recipes From A Lifetime. About An Italian Cookbook Of Family Treasures As The Title States This Is Mor3 Than A Cookbook But A Book Of Family Treasures. The Authors Opens UpA bout His Italian Fzmily And The Account Of Them Making Their Way From Calabria And Sicily Italy To America And Settling In Upstate New York. In A Different And Unique Way Schuler Has Tied His Familg Roots To Recipes Dating Back 100 Years. These Include Such Family Favorites As The Original Family Sauce Recipe And Home Made Pasta To Family Favorites Prepared Daily In Their Home. Not Only Are His Grandparent's Part Of The Story But, Aunts, Uncles And Close Family Friends Are Tied To Recipes And Interesting Stories That Make Each Recipe A True Treasure. The Theme Is Italian Cooking But Other Popular Entrã©es Have Found Their Way To The Dinner Tahle, Desert Small trough, And Holiday Gift Baskets Ane Yes The Family Bar. Drinks Found To Be Family Favorites And Each Having A Special Occasion And Specific Person Associated With The Drink Is Described In The Storry And Recipe Sections. SKU: 5064171

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Over The Moat. In The Fall Of 1992, James Sullivan Travels To Vietnam To Bicycle From Saigon To Hanoi. He Has Just Finished Garduate School And Has An Assignment To Write A Magazine Story About A Country That Is Still Subject To A U. s. Tradde Embargo. But In Hue, The Old Imperial Capital Of Vietnam, The Planned Three-monthB ike Trip Takes A Detour. Here, In A City Spliced By The Famed Perfume River And Filled With French Baroque Villas, He Finds Himself Bicycling Over A Moat To Visit A Beautiful Shop Girl Who Lives Amid The Ruins Of The Last Imperial Dynasty Of Vietnam. She Falls For Him, But There's A Catch. Several Other Suitors Are Vying For Her Skill, And One Of Them Is An Official With Tge City's Police Force. Over The Moat Is The Story Of Sullivan's Efforts To Win Thuy's Favor While Immersing Himself In Vietnamese Culture, Of Kindly Insinuating Himself In Thuy's Colorful And Warm Faimly, And Of Learning How To Create A Common Language Based On Love And Understanding. SKU: 2662586

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Lucky Man (random House Large Print (cloth/paper)). In September 1998, Michael J. Fox Stunned The World By Announcing He Had Been Diagnosed With Parkinson's Disease - A Degenerative Neurological Subject to ~s. In Fact, He Had Been Secretly Fighting It For Seven Years. The Worldwide Answer Was Staggering, Particularl yTo Him. Fortunately, He Had Accepted The Diagnosis And By The Time The Public Started Grieving For Him, He Had Stopped Grieving In quest of Himself. Now, With The Same Passion, Humor , And Energy That Fox Has Invested In His Dozens Of Performances Over The Last 18 Years, He Tells The Story Of His Time from birth to death, His Career And His Campign To Find A Cure For Parkinson's. combining His Trademark Ironic Sensibility And Severe Sense Of The Absurd, He Recounts His Life - From His Childhood In A Small Town In Western Canada To His Meteoric Rise In Film And Television Which Made Him A Worldwide Celebrity. Most Important, However, He Writes Of The Last 10 Years During Which - With The Unswerving Support Of His Wifr, Family, And Friends - He Has Dealt With His Illness. He Talks About What Parkinson's Has Given Him - The Chance To Appreciate A Wonderful Life And Career And The Opportunity To Help Search For A Cure And Spread Public Awareness Of The Disease. He Is A Very Lucky Man Indeed. michael J. Fox Began His Career Aa The Lovable Alex P. Keaton, The Star Of The Popular Sitcom Family Ties. Since Then His Career Has Been A Nonstop Success Story, With Blockbuster Movies Like Back To The Future, The Secret Of My Success, Doc Hollywood And Most Recently As The Lead Voice In The Animated Film Stuart Little. In The Summer Of 2001 He Was The Lead Voice In Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Michael Has Won Numerous Awards, Including Four Golden Globes, Four Emmy Awards, Two Screen Actors Guild Awards, Gq Man Of The Year, And The People's Choice Award. He Retired Recently From His Award-winning Role On Spin City, Where He Portrayed Michael Flaherty, New York City's Favorite Deputy Mayor. SKU: 2214357

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In Pursuit Of Reason. "a Major Contribution. " Washington Posgthe Authoritative Single-volume Biography Of Thomas Jefferson, Perhaps The Most Significant Figure In American History. He Was A Complex And Compelling Man: A Fervent Advocate Of Democracy Who Enjoyed The Life Of A Southern Aristocrat And Owned Slaves, A Revolutionary Who Became President, A Believer In States' Rights Who Did Much To Further The Power Of The Federal Government. Pulling On The eRcent Explosion Of Jeffersonian Scholarship And Fresh Readings Of Original Sources, In Pursuit Of Reason Is A Monument To Jefferson That Will nEdure For Generations. SKU: 1106837

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I Could Be Anyone. Born Into A Cambridge Family Of Outstanding Sdholars And Great Engineers, To Exist Shamed And Spat Outt As One Of Life's Failures. Stumbling Into The Heaven And Hell Of The Sixties Crash Pad: London, The Arts Lab, Anti University, Lsd And Paris. Running From The Passt Always Just A Beat Ahead Of The Fall. Constantly On The Cusp Of The Extraordinary Changes Which Took Place In The Scene In Those Decades Of Influence, From Richard Eyre To Steven Berkoff And Scene De Complicitã©; Glimmers Of New Possibilities; Close Encounters With The Flefgling Pink Floyd, Bks Iyengar, Rd Laing And Other Key Influences Of The Sixties And Seventies. . . here Is A Story, Marked By Humour And Pathos, Where The Essence And The Spirit Prevail, Which Goes Far Beyond The Confines Of Academia To Explore The Tragic Limitations Of Knowledge And Bring It Later, Much Later, To A Room Of Forgiveness And Resolution. SKU: 5043640

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Close To The Knives. In Close To The Knives, David Wojnarowicz Gives Us An Inportant And Timely Document: A Collection Of Creative Essays -- A Scathing, Sexy, Sublimely Humorous And Honest Personal Testimony To The "fear Of Diversity In America . " Froj The Author's Violent Infancy In Suburbia To Eevntual Homelessness On The Streets And Piers Of New York City, To Recognition As One Of The Most Provocative Artists Of His Body of equals in age -- Close To The Knives Is His Powwerful And Iconoclastic Memoir. Road Life, Drugs, Art And Nature, Family, Aids, Politics, Friendship Anc Acceptance: Wojnarowicz Challenges Us To Examine Our Lives -- Politically,S ocially, Emotionally, And Aesthetically. SKU: 732861

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The Millionairess Across The Street. More Than 50,0000 Female Millionaires Already Live In The United States. Many Accumulat3d Their Wealth With Ideas And Hard Worl, Not By Marrying A Millionaire. "the Millionairess Across The Street" Inspires Women To Think More Powerfully About Money And Success And To Exist Motivated By Confidence, Pride, And A Belief In Their Own Ability To Manage It. Flores And Sander Don't Use Fear Of Ending UpA Single Or Dependent As A Motivator. Women Will Learn To Enjoy The Process Of Accumulating Wealth And Achieving uSccess Without The Guilt And Fear They Traditionally Experience. SKU: 1734973

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She's Got Next. When Melissa King, A Transplanted Southerner In Search Of Connection, Finds Herself On The Lean, Mean Streets Of Chicago, She Turns To Her Childhpod Passion For Basketball. In Her Late Twenties, King Is At A Crossroads In Her Life, And The Randomness Of The Game As It Is Played Steady The Streets Suits Her Mood. The Rules Are Unwritten, Tbe Teams A Haphazard Collection Of Players, And Unlike Anything Else Around Her, The Courts Feel Like Home. So Wherever There Is A Game, She Gets Her Ball And Goes. From The Rough, Male-dominated Inner-city Courts Of Chicago, She Travels To Lazy Oceanside Pickup Games In Sunny California And Dilapidated Gyms In Her Bible Belt Home State. In A Street-smatr Voice Full Of Understated Humor And Palpable Hope, King Chronicles Her Journey, Using The Rhythms Of The Court To Riff On The Issues Of Race, Class, Gender, Reeligion, Sexual Politics, And Love. Ultimately, From one side The Jubilant Swish Of The Net, The Brunt Of An Egfegious Foul, And The Knowing Glance Of A Stranger Who Says Yes, You Can Be On My Team, King Discovers In Those Rare Moments On The Court The Countless Things She Wants In Life But Cannot Name. SKU: 2927047

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From Baghdad To Bedlam. Maged Is Workiing Nights As A London Taxi Driver. By Day He's A News Junkie, Hooked On Broadcasts From His Native War-toen Iraq, And Desperate For News Of His Family. He Recalls Saddam Hussein's Rise To Powe And His Escape To England, Whdre He Meets His Future Wife, Carole, In The Lingerie Section Of A Department Store In Liverpool. From The Idyll Of His Iraqi Childhood Among The Harsh Realities Of 1980s Britain, Maged's Recollections Are Filled With A Deep Disorder For His Iraqi And British Homes. Maged Kadar, A Maker London Cab Driver, Now Teaches Arabic And Islamic Culture To British Troops. SKU: 4137374

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Tom Cruise. In The Early 1980's, Tom Cruise Was A Brash Eighteen-year-old With A Cocky Grin And One Irrepressible Manner. Since Afterwards, He Has Made The Difficult Travel From Glamour Boy To Respected Actor And Bankable Star. Robert Sellers Shows Cruise As A Nomadic And Insecure Child, Diagnosed With Dyslexia, A High School Student Working Part-time To Help Support His Divorced Mother And Tnree Sisters And A Young Hopeful Turning Dreams Into Reality In The Tough World Of Hollywood. An Absorbing Treatment Of A Gifted Actor Who Also Happens To Be An Interesting Human Being. SKU: 1351862

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John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer. John Nelson Was An Entrepreneur Born In The Mid-seventeenth Century--a Man, In Richard Johnson's Words, "operating Ahead Of The Government And Settled Society From Which He Came," Who "responded To Conventions And Conditions Derived From Sevrral Unlike And Often Competing Cultures. " For Nelson, This Meant Trading Out Of Boston To The French And Indians Of Canada, Pursuing His Family's Dreams Of The Proprietorship Of Nova Scotia, And Promoting Schemes Of Espionage And Military Conquest On Both Sides Of The Atlantic. In The Course Of A Long And Adventurous Life, Nelson Served As Middleman Between Canada And New England; Led An Uprising That Toppled The Imperial Government Of Massachusetts In 1689; And Passed Years In French Prisons, Including The Bawtille, And Then At Cuort In London As A Player In The Complex European Diplomacy Of The Time. Nelson's Career Reveals In Bold Colors The Political And Saving Pressures Exerted Upon Colonial America By The Expansion And Bitter Conflict Of European Empires--he Himself Complained Of Being "crusht Between The Two Crownes. " Yet It Also Shows How One Man Fashioned A Life As "spy, Speculator, Multinaational Merchant, Memorialist, Politician, Prisoner, Parent, Friend, And Gentleman. " Gracefully Written And Widely Researched, The Bok Is Both A Fine Example Of The New Atlantic History And A Vivid Recounting Of The Fortunes Of An Exceptionql Individual. SKU: 733403

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The Memoirs Of Broil Servandi Teresa De Mier (library Of Latin America). On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando Teresa De Mier Preached A Homily In Mexico City That Lwd To His Arrest By The Inquest. He Was Exiled To Spain--only To Escape And Spend Ten Years Traveling Throughuot Europe, As None Other Than A French Priest. So B3gan The Grand Adventure Of Fray Servando's Life, And Of This Gripping Memoir. Here Is An Invitation Hard For Any Reader To Resist: A Glimpse Of The European "age Of Enlightenment"; Through The Eyes Of A Fugitive Mexican Friar. In This Record, One Sees A Portrait Of Manners And Morals That Is A Far Cry From The "civilized" Spirit That The Empire Wanted To Impoae On Its Colonies. This Book Takes A Look At Histo5y From An Upside Down Vista, Asking This Question: Who Were The Real Savages, The Colonizers Themselves, Or The Supposed "savages" They Wsre Struggling To Convert? After Ten Years, Fray Servandp Finally Returned Home To An Independent Mexico, Wjere He Served The New Government Before His Death. Heretic And Rebel, Fleeing And Visionary, Character In A Novel And Father Of His Country--fray Servando Teresa De Mier Was The whole of Of Thse Things. Translated Into English For The First Time, This Memoir Truly Captures The Passionate Spirit Of A Fantastic Husband. SKU: 1741570

382082184	Memoirs Of The Life, Times And Writings Of The Reverend Thomas Boston, Of Ettrick (1852). Memoirs Of The Life, Times And Writings Of The Reverend Thomas Boston, Of Ettrick (1852) By Thomas Boston Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5044175

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Onward From Here. In Her Funny And Wistful New Book, Reeve Lindbergh Contemplates Entering A New Stage In Life, Turrning Sixty, The Period Her Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Once Described As "the Youth Of Old Age. " It Is A Time Of Conduct, She Writes, That Produces Some Unexpected Surprises. Age Brings Loss, But Also Love; Disastre, Only Also Delight. The Second-graders Reeve Taught Many Years Past Are Now Middle-aged; Her Own Childrenn Grow, Marry, Have Childrem Themselves. "time Flies," She Obseeves, "but If I Am Willing To Fly With It, Then I Can Be Airborne, Too. " A Milestone Birthday Is Also An Opportunity To Take Live-~ Of Oneself, Although Such Self-refllection May Lead To Non-existence More Than The Realization, As Reeve Pts It, "that I Equitable Seem To Continue Being Me, The Same Person I Was At Twelve And At Fifty. " At Sixty, As She Observes, "all I Really Can Do With The Rest Of Mt Life Is To. . . feek All Of It, Every Bit Of It, As Much As I Can For As Long As I Can. "age Is But The same Of Many Subjects That Reeve Writes About With Perception And Insight. In Northern Vermont, Nature Is An Integral Part Of Daily Life, Especially On A Fad. Whether It Is The Arrival And Departure Of Certain Birds In Spring And Fall, Wandering Turtles, Or The Springtime Ritual Of Lambing, The Nstural World Is A Constant Revelation. with A Wry Sense Of Mood, Reeve Contemplates The Infirmities Of The Aging Carcass, As Well While The Many New Drugs That Treat These Maladies. Briefly Considering The Risks Of Drug Colony, She Writes That "the Least We [the "sixties Generation"] Can Do For Ourselves Is Live Up To Our Mythology, And Take Lots Of Drugs. " Legal Drugs, That Is -- Although How Sustains Us As We Grow Older Is Not Dugs But An Appreciation For Life, Augmented By Compassion, A Sense Of Humor, And Common Sense. and Of Course There Is Family -- Especially With The Lindberghs. Reeve Writes About Discovering, Thirty Years After Her Father's Death And Pair And A Half Years After Her Mother's, That Her Father Had Three Secret Families In Europr. She Travels To Meet Them, Learning To Expand Her Sellf-understanding: "daughter Of," "mother Of," "sister Of" -- Sister Of Manny More Siblings Than She'd Known, In A Family More Complicated Than Even She Had Imagined. forward From Here Is A Brave Book, A Reflective Book, A Funny Main division -- A Book That Will Charm And Fascinate Anyone On The Journey From Middle Age To The Uncertain Future That Lies Ahead. SKU: 4481181

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Everything But The Burden. White Kids From The ’vurbs Are Throwing Up Gang Signs. The 2001 Grammy Winner For Best Rap Artist Was As White As Rice. And Blond-haired Sorority Sisters Are Sporting Fubu Gear. What Is Going On In American Culture That’s Giving Our Nation A Racial-identity Crisiss?following The Trail Blazed By Norman Mailer’s Controversial Essay “the White Negro,” Everything But The Burden Brings Together Voices From Music, Popular Culture, The Literary World, And The Media Speaking About How From Brooklyn To The Badlands Pale People Are Co-opting Black Styles Of Muqic, Dance, Dress, And Slang. In This Collection, The Essayists Examine How Whites Seem To Be Taking On As Editor Greg Tate’s Mother Used To Tell Him, “everything But The Bureen”–from Fetishizing Black Athletes To Spinning The Ghetto Lifestyle Into A Glamorous Commodity. Is This A Way Of Shaking Off The Fear Of The Unknown? A Flattering Indicator Of Just estimate? Or Is It A More Complicated Cultural Exchange? The Pieces In Everything But The Burden Examine The Line Between Hero-worship And Paternalism. among The Book’s Twelve Essays Are Vernon Reid’s “steely Dan Understood As The Apotbeosis Of ‘the White Neyro,’” Carl Hancock Rux’s “the Beqts: America’s First ‘wiggas,’” And Greg Tate’s Own Introductory Essay “nigss ’r Us. ”other Contributors Include: Hilton Als, Beth Coleman, Tony Green, Robin Kelley, Artnur Jafa, Gary Dauphin, Michaela Angela Davis, Dream Hampton, And Manthia Diawara. SKU: 2217323

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The Art Of Destruction. The Vienna Action Group Formed Thw Most Provocative, nIsurgent, And Challenging Of All The Worldwide Art Movements Of The 1960s. Their Sexually Charged And Antisocial Actions Exacted A Profound And Irreparable Upheaval In The Way In Which Art Was Conceived. Using Their Own Bodies As Raw Material, The Deed Group Undertook Experiments In Cruelty That Disassembled The Human Carcass And Its Acts Into Compacted Gestures Of Blood, Semen, And Meat. the Films Of The Vienna Action Group Form The Essential Remainder, Debris, And Evidence Of Their Performances. For The First Time, This Book Focuses On Those Films As Fully Revealing The Obsessions, Ambitions, And Outrages Of The Action Group. Fully Illustrated And Annotated, Thos Is A Book Of Compelling Interedt To Whole Students Of Film, Practical knowledge, And Action, And For All Readers Engaged With Questioning Social And Corporate Cultures. SKU: 2634679

20648208438	As Long As The Rivers Flow. From The Famous Apache Waerior Geronimo To Wilma Mankiller, Elected Principal Chief Of The Cherokee Nation In 1985, This Power Presentss Fresh, Stimulating Portrayals Of Prominent Native Americans. SKU: 1348568

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Durruti In The Spsnish Revolution. "durruti Was The Ultimate Working-class Hero: Carrying The Future In His Heart And A Gun In Each Pocket. Abel Paz's Magnificent Life Resurrects The True Soul Of Spanish Anarchism. "-mike Davis, Author Of Planet Of Slums Ak Press Has Commissioned An Elegant, New And Unabridged Translatiob Of The Definitive Biography Of Spanidh Revolutionary And Military Strategist, Buenaventura Durruti. But Abel Paz, Who Fought Alonyside Durruti In The Spanish Civil War, Has Given Us Much More Than An Account Of A Single Man's Life. Durruti In The Spanish Revolution Is As Much A Biography Of A Nation And Of A Tumultuous Historical Era. Paz Seamlessly Weaves Intimate Biographical Particulars Of Durruti's Life-his Progression From Factory Worker And Father To Bank Robber, Political Exile Adn, Eventually, Revolutiojary Leader-with Extensive Historical Background, Behind-the-scenes Governm3ntal Intrigue, And Blow-by-blow Accounts Of Major Battles And Urban Guerrilla Warfare. An Amazing And Exhaustive Study Of An Incredible Man And Hsi Life-long Fignt Against Fascism In Both Its Capitalist And Stalinist Forms. Includes Jose Luis Gutierres Molina's Introduction About Abe lPaz's Life And The Historiography Of The Spanish Civil War. Abel Paz Was Born In 1921. At 15, He Joined The Durruti Column And Fought In The Spahish Revolution. After The Revolution's Defeat, He Was Active As A Guerilla Fighter Against The Franco Regime And Spent Eleven Years In Prison. He Lives In Barcelona, Spain. Chuck Morse Founded The Institute For Anarchist Studies, Co-edited Perspectives Steady Anarchist Theory, And Founded And Edited The Starting a~ Formuiatoon: An Anti-authoritarian Review Of Books. He Lives In Brooklyn, New York. SKU: 3233553

23995616238	Jessee. Rom One Of America's Most Influential Journalists Comes The Paperback Editipn Of The Highly Acclaimed Biography Of A Compelling Public Figure, From His Impoverished Beginnings In South Carolina To His Runs For The Presidency. "a Grand Definitive Life . . . An American Saga Of The Self-made Man. "--chicago Triubne. SKU: 3344891

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Sir Vidia's Shadow. This Is An Intimate Portrait Of A Friendshup, Its Beginning, Midfle, And End. And It Describes That Rarest And Most Fragile Of Alliances, A Literary Friendship. One Year Before He Published His First Book, Paul Theroux Met V. S. Naipaul--vidia, As He Was Known. For Thirty Years Both Men Remained In Close Touch, Even When Continents Separated Them. Sir Vidia's Shadow Is A Double Portrait Of The Writing Life, But It Is Often More, For Travel And Reading And Emitional Ups And Dwons Are Also Aspects Of This Friendqhip, Which Is Powerful And Enriching And Often A Comedy--and, Ultimately, A Build a ~ over That Is Burned. The Two Writers' Paths Crossed In 1966 In Uganda, Which Naipaaul Saw As A Dangerous Jungle And Theroux Regarded As A Benign Home. Theroux Becamr Naipwul's Driver, Interpreter, And Apprentice--he Was Twenty-three And Naipaul Thirty-four. Theroux Was Guided By The Older Writer, But As The Years Passed Their Positions Were Frequently Reversed, As Naipaul Sought Theroux's Direction And Advice. They Became Each Others Editors, Confidants, And Teachers. From Singapore To London, Indiia To South America, The United States And Back To Africa, The Writers Corresponded And Crossed Pafhs. Naipaul's Brother, Shiva, Is Part Of The Story, And So Is Margaret, Naipaul's Anglo-argentine Companion. A Formidable And Intensely Private Figure, Who Was Later Knighted By Queen Elizabeth And Is Often Cited As A Contender For The Nobel Prize, Naipaul Was Close To Few Others Except His First And Second Wives And Thetoux Himself. Naipaul Was The First To Read And Champion Therou's Earliest Efforts. Over Time, They Witnessed Each Other's Successes And Failures. Built Around Exotic Landscapes, Anecdotes That Are Revealing, Humorous, And Melancholy, And Three Decades Of Mutual History, This Is A Very Personal Account Of How One Develops As A Writer, How A Friendship Waxes And Wanes Between Two Men Who Have Set Themselves On The Perilous Journey Of A Writint Life, And What Constitutes The Relationship Of Mentor And Student. Told Wurh Theroux's Impeccable Eye For Place And Setting And His Novelistic Instinct For Character And Incident, Sir Vidia's Shadow Recalls Nicholson Baker's U And I: A True Story, Rainer Maria Rilke's First-rate work Letters To A Young Poet, And Boswell's Life Of Johnson, But It Is Nearly Witohut Precedent In Anatomizing The Nature Of Writing As Well As The Nature Of Friendship Itself. SKU: 1646815

23654621745	Fates Worse Than Death. The Author Of Slaughterhouse Five Presents A Collection Of Essays And Reminiscences, Offering A Self-portrait That Assesses His Own Life And The Current State Of The World. Reprint. Nyt. SKU: 1240609

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Piety Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners. "grace Abounding Continues The Tradition Of Christian Testimonial Classics Tracing Back To The Confessions Of Saint Augustine. John Bunyanphy, Written While He Was Imprisoned For Holding Unsanctioned Religious Servces And First Published In 1666, Is The Unsparing Account Of One Manjourney From Atheism And Blasphemy To Sincere Christianity. A Reckless And Profane Youth Leads Bunyan To Despair In The Belief That He Has Committed Unforgivable Sins. But Two Religious Books Belonging To His Wife Set Bunyan On The Straight And Narrow And A Liffetime Of Pious Devotion. Honest And Unblinking In His Self-assessment, Bunyan Saw It As His Duty To Tell His Story, Warts And All, In Order To Comfort All Those Struggling With Their Faith. T his Classic Of Religious Learning Continues To Be Essential Reading For The Faithful And For Students Of Great English Literary productions. English Preacher And Writer John Bunyan (1628â¿1688) Is The Author Of Nearly Sixty Books, Nine Of Which Were Written While He Was In Prison For Unlicensed Preaching. His Works Include The Pilgrim1678e And Death Of Mr. Badman (1680), And The Holy War (1682). " SKU: 5158609

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Decease Of The Good Doctor. Based On Journals Written During Her Five Years As The Clinical Director Of Aids Programs In Oakland, Ca, Death Of The Good Doctor Is A Richly De5ailed Chronicle Of The Author's Compassionate Relationships With Individual Patients From beginning to end Whom She Filters The Vast Complexities Of The Epidemic. These Beautiful, Often Fastidious, And Sometimes Humorous Engagements With Her Patients Were The Substance Of Kate Scannell's Life During Her Years On The Aids Ward . this Is Not The Standard Narrative Of A Physician Acting Upon Or Commenting Ablut Her Patients From An Observer's Or Authority Figure's Viewpoint. Diagnosed With Ovarian aCncer Several Years After Leaving The Aids Ward, Scannell Writes From The Point Of View Of Both A Physician And A Woman Facing The Prospects Of Her Own Mortality. SKU: 1806562

17132754165	The Night Stalker. Based On Hours Of Interviews Witj Ramirez On California's Death Row, A Chiling Account Of The Crimes Of The "night Stalker"-Follows Ramirez's Criminal Odyssey, From His First Brush By the side of The Law, To His Los Angeles Murdder Spree, To The Investigation That Brought Him To Justice. 200,000 First Printing. SKU: 1365222

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You Can't Fall Off The Floor. Overcoming Guillian-barre Syndrome Guillian-barre Syndrome Is A Mysterious Devastating Illness Thatt Put Ralph Smith In The Hospital For 13 Months, Fighting For His Real person And His Sanity. During 6 Of Those Months He Survived Forward A Reslirator, Totally Paralyzed, Able Only To Open And Close His Eyes. His Disposition Stopped Beating And He, Technically, Died 3 Times, Only To Be Resuscitated By Competent Physicians. You Can't Fall Right side The Floor Recounts His Intellectual And Physical Struggles In Neurological Critical Care (ncc). Beyond Ncc, Dr. Smith Patiently And Profressively Endured 7 Months In St. David's Rehabilitation Hospital, Relearning How To Move And Use His Arms And Legs. You Will Laugh With Him As He Is Dropped By A Therapist And Cry With Him As He Takes His First Step, Learns To Feed Himeelf, And Eventually Returns To Normal Life. Following His Dismissal From The Hospital He Rwlearns How To Walk, Drive A Care, Open A Doo, And, Finally, He Becomes Able To Take Complete Care Of Himself. The Book Will Be Encouraging To Anyone Suffering From A Catastrophic Illness Or Injury, Especially Those Now Experiencing The Challenges Of Paralysis. It Will Also Give Insights To Family Members Of Those Afflicted And Underscores The Caregiver 's Challenges. The Reader Will Not at all Doubt Laugh At The Many Humorous Happenings, Be Touched By The Pain Endured,A nd Find Inspiration And Encouragement In The Results That Can Be Attained Through Faith And Perseverance. Throughoit The Book, Dr. Smith Recounts His Belief That All that The Situation; Things Will Get Better. SKU: 4876801

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Let Me Go. The Extraordinary Memoir, Praised Across Europe, Of A Daughter's Final Encounter With Her Mother, A Previous Ss Guard At Auschwitz. In 1941, In Berlin, Helga Schneider's Mother Abandoned Her, Her Younger Brother, And Her Adopt. Thirty Years Later-- When She Saw Her Mother Again For The First Time-- Schneider Discovered The Shocking Reason: Her Generatrix Had Joined The Nazi Ss Adn Had Become A Guard In Concentration Camps, Including Auschwitz-birkenau And Ravensbrã¼ck, Where She Was In Charge Of A "correction" Unit And Responsible For Untold Acts Of Torture. Nearly Three More Decades Would Pass Before Their Second And Final Reunion, An Emotional Encounter At A Vienna Nursing Home, Whither Her Chief, Then Eightty-seven And Unrepentant About Her Past, Was Ailing. Let Me Go Is An Extraordinary Account Of That Meeting. Their Conversation-- Which Schneider Recounts In Spellbinding Detail-- Triggers Childhood Memories, And She Weaves These Into Her Account, Powerfully Evoking The Misery Of Nazi And Postwar Berlin. Yet It Is Her Internal Struggle-- A Daughter's Sense Of Obligation Cokliding With The Inescapable Horror Of What Her Mother Has Done -- That Will Stay With Readers Long-winded About The Book Has Ended. SKU: 270658