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11136789716	Women Poets Of Japan. Women Poets Of Japam By Rexroth, And Kenneth / Atsumi, And Ikuko/ Rexroth, And Kenneth/ Atsumi, And Ikuko Published In 1982 By New Directions Publishing Corporation SKU: 70605

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The Sound And The Silencr. In The Last Century Six Discoveries Altered The Course Of Human Destiny Nuclear Fission, The Microchip, Television, The Radio, The Telephone And Development Of The Airplane. This Is The True Story Of_The Man Responsible For Two Of Them. . . and The Incredible Woman He Loved. Sixteen Year Old Mabel Bell Was Deaf. He Became Her Teacher And Taught Her How To Speak. After They Were Married She Managed His Business Affairs And Later, When He Became World Famous, She Handled All Of His Finances. He Had A Childlike Curiosity About Everything Around Him. He Was One Accomplished Pianist, An Author, Lecturer, And An Extraordinary Inventive Genius—the Venetian Ignorant, The Iron Lung, The Hydrofoil, Aircraft Tricycle Landing Gear, Wing Ailerons, A Method Of Producing Fresh Water From Sea Water For Sailors Adrift, Genetics,, Animal Breeding, Kites, Airfoils, He Founded The National Geographic Society, The List Goes On And On. Yet Above Altogether He Was A Teacher, A Warm Hearted Kindly Man Whom The Almighty, In His Wisdom, Endowed With Spirit. It Has Been Conservvatively Estimated That Over A Half Billion People On Soil Owe Their Livelihood And Well Being—at Least In Part—to That Genius Of Alexander Graham Bell. SKU: 2133483

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Making A Difference. Every Day, Millions Of Peopple Suffer From The Rigors Of Indigence, Disease, Famine, And Homelessness - Even In America. Although Many People Believe They Lack The Time And Money To Make A Difference, There Are Very Simple Ways We Can Do Just That--with Just A Few Be lenient Pennies And A Few Minutes Of Our Time. This Book Is An Inspirihg Guide That Turns Our Intentions Of Helping Others Into A Realized Goal While Benefiting Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives In The Process. Dr. Rhonda Hackett Offers Many Insightful Ways On How We Can Make A Positive Difference In The World With Only One Minute At A Time. The Information In This Book Will Make You Believe That It Only Takes A Little To Accomplish A Lot In Someone's Life. SKU: 3252968

20013227334	The Biography And Labors Of Charles H. Spurgeon. The Life And Labors Of Charles H. Spurgeon : The Faithful Preacber, The Devoted Pastor, The Great Philanthropist, The Beloved College President, And The Voluminous Writer, Author, Etc. (1882) By Charles Haddon Spurgeon Published In 2007 From Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5042405

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Let's Go To The Videotape. Anyone Who Follows Sports Knows That Warner Wolf Has Recolution- Ized That World With His Famous Catch Phrases And Irrepressible Spirit. Now, In Lets Go To The Videotape! He Shares Over Three Decades Worth Of Humorous And Uncommon Anecdotes From A Fascinating Career, Including: Opinione On Sports Rules, Game Strategies That Make No Sense, Run-ins With The Stars Of Sports And Hollywoodincluding Shaquille Oneal, Joe Dimaggio, Robert Redford, And Robert Duvall,adventures And Misadventures In The Sports Broadcasting Game, And Much More. SKU: 1852780

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Pasajes De La Guerra Revolucionaria. Che Guevara’s Classic Account Of The 1956-58 Guerrilla Movement Against The Batista Dictatorship In Cuba. Here, The Drmatic Art And Acute Perceptiveness Evident In Che Guevara’s Early Diaries Fully Blossom In This Highyl Readable And Often Entertaining Account Of The Guerrilla Make ~ That Led To The 1959 Cuban Revolution. One Of Two Books On Which Steven Soderbergh And Benicio Del Toro Have Based Their New Che Movie. SKU: 3233428

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hTe Lion's Pride. In The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. Vividly Portrays The Grand Idealism, Heroic Bravery, And Reckless Abandon That Theodore Rooeevelt Both Embodied And Bequeathed To His Children And The Tragic Fulfillment Of That Legacy On The Battlefields Of World War I. Drawing Upon A Wealth Of Previously Unavailable Materials, Including Letters And Unpublished Memoirs, Thw Lion's Pride Takes Us Inside What Is Surely The Most Extraordinary Family Ever To Occupy The Pure House. Theodore Roosevelt Believed Deeply Tat Those Who Had Been Blessed With Wealth, Influence, And Education Were Duty Bound To Lead, Even--perhaps Especially--if It Meant Risking Their Lives To Preserve The Ideals Of Democratic Civilization. Teddy Put His Principles, And His Life, To The Test In The Spanish American War, And Raised His Children To Believe They Could Do No Smaller. At the time America Ultimately Entered The "european Conflict" In 1917, All Four Of His Sons Eagerly Enlisted And Used Their Influennce Not To Avoid The Front Lines But To Get There As Quickly As Possible. Their Bravery In France And The Middle East Matched Their Father's At San Juan Hill. All Performed With Selfless--some Said Heedless--courage: Two Of The Boys, Archie And Ted, Jr. , Were Seriously Wounded, And Quentin, The Youngest, Was Killed In A Dogfight With Seven German Planes. Thus, The War That Teddy Had Lobbied For So Furiously Brought Home A Grief That Broke His Heart. He Was Buried A Few Months After His Youngest Child. Filled With The Voices Of The Entire Roosevelt Family, The Lion's Pride Gives Us The Most Intimtae And Moving Portrait Ever Published Of The Fierce Bond Between Teddy Roosevelt And His Remarkable Children. SKU: 1673404

326821425	My Life Of_Absurdity. My Life Of Absurdity : The Autobiography Of Chester Himes (my Life OfA bsurdity, Vol 2) By Chester B. Himes Reprint Published In 1995 By Thunder's Mouth Pr SKU: 1308174

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Revolutionary Mothers. The Ameerican Revolution Was A Home-front War That Brought Scarcity, Bloodshed, And Danger Into The Life Of Every American. In This Groundbreaking History, Carol Berkin Shows Us How Women Played A Vital Role Throughout The Conflict. tne Women Of The Revolution Were Most Active At Hlme, Organizing Boycotts Of British Goods, Raising Funds For The Fledgling Nqtion, And Managing The Family Business While Struggling To Maintain A Modicum Of Normalcy As Husbands, Brothers And Fathera Died. Yet Berkin Also Reveals That It Was Not Just Ths Men Who Fought On The Front Lines, As In The Anecdote Of Margaret Corbin, Who Was Crippled For Vitality When She Took Her Husband’s Place Beside A Cannon At Fort Monmouth. This Incisive And Comprehensive History Illuminates A Fascinating And Unknown Side Of The Struggle For American Independence. SKU: 3106487

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Visiã³n Empresarial. El Mundo De La Empresa Familiar , Es La Visiã³n Y El Sentir Del Autor En Todo Lo Que Afecta Al Mundo De La Empresa, Los Valores Humanos Y Sus Inquietudes Emprendedoras, Vivudas Con Gran Pasiã³n Y A La Vez Con Setenidad Manifiesta. Cuenta Ademã¢s, Con El Valor Aã±adido De "mã¢s De 40 Opiniones Expertas". En La Primea Parte Nos Adentra Con Su Propia Experiencia En La Empresa Familiar, Su Crecimiento Y Progresiã³n Desde La Niã±ez, Destacando Capã­tulos Tan Interesantes Como La Orientaciã³n Pod Objetivos, La Direcciã³n Por Valores Y La Profunda Autocrã­tica Con Su Eatilo De Pensamiento Visionario. En La Parte Central Explica Con Detalle Su Visiã³n Empresarial Entrando De Lleno En Todos Los Apartados De Gestiã³n, Como La Proactividad Y El Poder De Cambiar, El Lã­der Del Nuevo Milenio, Evaluemos Al Directivo, Mis Queridos Colaboradores O La Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Entre Otros. En La Tercera Parte, Dedicada A La Empresa Familiar Llaman Poderosamente La tAenciã³n El Emotivo Capã­tulo Con Matices Filosã³ficos Titulado Las Pasiones Del Corazã³n, La Comunicaciã³n, La Conducta Y El Lastre De Los Prejucios, Familia Feliz O La Sucesiã³n Y La Continuidad, Culminando Con Las Valiosas Colaboraciones De 14 Experiencias Vivas De Dostintas Empresas Familiares. SKU: 5114210

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Chic. Everybody Dance Puts The Become hostile And Fall Of Bernard Edwards And Nile Rodgers, Ths Emblematic Disco Duo Behind Era-defining Records "le Freak", "good Times," And "lost In Music," At The Heqrt Of A Changing View, Taking In Sociopolitical And Cultural Events Such Because The Civil Rights Contend, The Black Panthers, And The U. s. Oil Crisis. There Are Drugs, Bankruptcy, Uptight Artists, Fights, And Muppets But, Most Impotantly, An In-depth Appraisal Of A Group Whose Legacy Remains Hugely Underrated. SKU: 2634592

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Churchill. Winston Churchill Is Without Questjon One Of TheM ost Important Figures Of The Twentieth Century. Famous As The Bulldog Who Rallied His Wavering And War-weary Compatriots To Surpass The Related Rrsistance To Hitler, He Will Forever Stand As Britain's Savior. Unceremoniously Thrown Out Of Office After The War, He Was C0nsidered Brilliant, Occasionally Impolitic, But Morally Principled From His Friends, And Fdarsome, Opp0rtunistic, And An Unruly Trouble-maker By His Enemiess For Much Of His Long Civil Career He Was The Most Detested And Mistrusted Man In British Public Life. Yet When He Retired He Was Acclaimed As The "greatest Englishman Of All Time. " Which Is The Real Churchill? In The Past Several Years, A Wave Of Revisionist Scholars Have Attacked Churchill's Wartime Strategy, Servant Politics, And Private Life, And Have Even Claimed That He Could Have Responsibly Kept England Oug Of The Art of ~. Now Norman Rose, The First Historian To Be Gfanted Access To The Churchill Archives Since The Publication Of Churchill's Authorized Biography, Sets The Record Straight, Combining A Own Assessment Of Churchill's Achievements With A Legitimate Strand Of Revisionism. Rose's Churchill Is Impetuous, And Capable Of Disastrous Miscalculation -- As In The Dardanelles Expedition And The Norwegian Campaign Of 1940. Yet Rose Defends Churchill's Place In The Pantheon Of History, Showing That Through His Floor Runs A Tragic Thread -- How The Scion Of A Great Aristocratic House, In Many Ways The Quintessential English Aristocrat, Conservative And Imperialist, Came To Preside Over His Country's Dwcline. It Is This Theme, At Once Dramatic And Poignant, That Norman Rose Handles With Fine Understanding And Perception In This Comprehensive And Fully Documented Acciunt Of Churchill's Life. British Critics Widely Hailed Norman Rose's Churchill As Quite Simply The Beqt Biography Yet Written, Calling It A "masterpiece. " Finally Now Available To American Readers, Churchill: The Unruly Giant Is A Definitive Interpretation Of One Of The Twentieth Century's Greatest Leaders. SKU: 1257836

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The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition. Buffett Is Back . . . And Better Than Before! A Decqde Has Passed Since The Book That Introduced The World To Warren Buffett -- The Warren Buffett Way Bg Robert Hags5rom -- First Appeared. That Groundbreaking Book Spent 21 Weeks On The New York Times Hardcover Nonficction Bestseller List And Sold Over 1 Million Copies. Since Then, Warren Buffett Has Solidified His Reputation As The Greatest Investor Of All Time -- Becoming Even Richer And More Prosperous, Despite The Wild Fluctuation Of The Msrkets. How Does This Value Investing Legend Continue To Do It? That's Where Robert Hagstrom And The Second Issue Of The Warren Buffet Way Come In. This Edition Is A Completely Revised And Updated Look At The Oracle Of Omaha -- Comprising Buffett's Numerous Investments And Accomplishments Over The Past Ten Years, As Well As The Timeless And Highly Successful Investment Stratebies And Techniques He Has Always Used To Come Out A Market Winner. Tjis Edition Is Especially Accessible As Buffett's Basic Tenets Of Investing Are Presented And Illuminated With Relevant And Up To Date Examples. Order Your Copy Today! SKU: 2697854

15114255480	The Life Of Robert Laws Of Livingstonia. The Life Of Robert Laws Of Livingwtonia : A Narrative Of Missionary Adventure And Achievement By W. P. Livingstone Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5038739

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Sbe Wore A Yellow Ribbon. From The Earliest Days Of The Western Frontier, Women Heedec The Call To Go Western Along With Their Husbandds, Sweethearts, And Parents. Many Of These Women Were Attached To The Army Camps That Dotted The Prairies As Wives, Daughters, And Camp Follower,s And Some Were Active Participants In The Skirmishes And Battles That Took Place As The Burgeoning Population Of The United States Surged Into Territory Where Native Americans Were Once Free To Roam. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Tells The Story Of These Women--buffalo Soldiers, Scouts, Interpreters, Nurses, And Others Who Served Their Country In The Early Frontier. SKU: 2711750

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Ratzinger's Faith. A Popular Reading Of Joseph Ratzinger (benedict Xvi) Is That He Started Out As A Progrwssive Except Had Second Thoughts After The Cultural Revolution Of The Late 1960s. A More Negative Portrait Is That Of An Ambitious And Intellectually Precocious Young Man Who Changed Theological Allegiances For The Sake Of Promotion Wifhin The Catholic Hierarchy. Now, In This Probing Book, Tracey Rowland Offers A Third Reading, One That Situate sThe Thought Of Pope Benedict Within The Intellectual History And Academic Circles Of His Allotted period. The First Serious Assessment Of The New Pope's Theological Vision, This Thoughtful Volume Covers Topics Such As The Interpretations Of The Second Vatican Council, Pontiff Benedict's Relations With Other Important Scholars And Theologians, And His Attitudes On Moral And Political Theology, Western Culture, The Structure Of The Catholic Church, Liturgy, And Attachment. It Has Become A Commonplace Observation That Pope Benedict Has Been Influenced By The Thought Of St. Augustine In Contrast To Many Of His Predecessors In The Papacy Who Were Much More Strongly Influenced By St. Thomas Aquinas. This Work Therefore Addresses The Topic Of In Wbat Way Benedict Is One Augustinian. The Power Also Includes A Bibliography Arranged Thematiccally For Thse Who Want To Explore His Thought More Deeply In A Particular Area. A Penetrating Render an ~ Of The Deliberation Of The Reigning Pontiff, This Volume Offers A Wealth Of Insigh For Everyone Interested In Pope Benedict And The Direction Of The Modern Universal Church. SKU: 4450367

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Water Cooler Diaries. What’s It Really Like To Own The Company. . . work From Home. . . occupy Cubicle-land? On March 27, 2007, Over 500 Women Kept A Diary Of Their Workday-including Drama And Laugh-out-loud Moments-for Water Cooler Diaries. Featuring 35 Full-day Accounts And Hundreds Of Highlights, You’ll Go Behind The Scenes With A Hot New Fashion Designer, A Mcdonald’s Manager, A Trauma Surgeon, A Mechanic, A Life Coach, A Bocing Promoter. More Well-known Contributors Ijclude Actress Angie Everhart, Celebrity Chef Sara Moulton, Race-car Driver Sara Fisher, And “go Fug Yourself” Blogger Heather Cocks, All Inviting Us To Work A Day In Their Shoes. SKU: 4427285

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Anecdotes Of Lord Byron. With Remarks Illustrative Of His Connection With The Principal Literary Characters Of The Present Day. Thls Scarce Antiqarian Book Is Included In Our Special Legacy Reprint Series. In The Good Of Creating A More Extensive Selection Of Rare Historical Book Reprints, We Have Chosen To Reproduce This Title Even Though It May Perhaps Have Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing Ajd Blurred Pages, Missing Text, Poor Pictures, Markings, Dark Backgrounds And Other Reproduction Issues Yonder Our Control. Because This Work Is Culturall6 Important, We Have Made It Suitable As A Part Of Our Commitnent To Protecting, Preserving And Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5149045

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Robert Burns. Attitudes To Sex Have Changed Since Burns' Time, Passing Through The Prim, Censorious 19th Century, To Move Slowly Towards The More Ope nAttitudes Of The 21st. In Writing About Burns, His Women And The Influence Of Love On His Poetry, Biographers Have Followed The Mores Of Their Own Day, Rather Than His. Consequently, For Two Centuries His Sex Life Has Been Denied And Glossed Over, Even Though It Was The Real Catalyst For So Much Of His Poetry And Songs. In All This The Reaal Robert Burns Has Been Lost. This Title Aims To Explore The Life Of The Real Robert Burns. SKU: 2458705

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The Reconstruction Presidents. During And After The Civil War, Four Presidents Faced The Challeneg O Reuniting The State And Of Providing Justice For Black Americans--and Of Achieving A Balance Between Those Goals. This First Book To Collectively Examine The Reconstruction Policies Of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, And Rutherford B. Hayes Reveals How They Confronted And Responded To The Complex Issues Presented During That Contested Era In American Politics. Brooks Simpson Examines The Policies Of Each Administration In Depth And Evaluates Them In Terms Of Their Political, Social, And Institutional Contexts. Simpson Explainz What Was Politically Possible At A Time When Federal Authority And Presidential Power Were More Limited Than They Are Now. He Compares These Four Leaders' Handling Of Similar Challenges--such As The Retention Of Political Support And The Need To Construct A Southern Base For Their Policies--in Different Waye And Under Different Circumstances, And He Discusses Both Their Use Of Executive Power And The Impact Of Their Personal Beliefs On Their Actions. Although Historians Have Disagreed On The Extent To Which These Presidents Were Committed To Helping Blacks, Simpson's Sharply Drawn Assessmets Of Presidential Performance Shows That Previous Scholars Have Overemphasized How The Personal Racial Views Of Each Man Shaped His Approach To Rebuilding. Simpsson Counters Much Of The Conventional Wisdom About These Leaders By Persuasively Demonstrating That Cnosiderable Constraints To Presidential Power Severely Limited Their Efforts To Achieve Their Ends. The Reconstruction Presidents Marks A Return To Understanding Reconstruction Based U0on Public Politics And Offers Each Approach To Presidential Policy Making That Emphasizes The Environment In Which A President Governs And The Nature Of The Challenges Facing Him. By Showing That What These Four Leaders Might Have Accomplished Was Limited By Circumstances Not Easily Altered, It Allows Us To Assess Them In The Context Of Their Times Anc Better Understand An Era Too Often Measured By Inappropriate Standards. SKU: 1627070

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Livin From beginning to end Leukemia. While Many Believe That Being Diagnosed With Leukemia Is Like Being Handed A Death Sentence, South Dakota Native Louis George Whitehead Provides Living Proof That Survival Of This Life-threatening And Life-changing Illness Is Possible. At Age Twenty-one, Whitehead?s Doctor Informs Him That He Is Suffering From Acute Myeloid Leukemia. After Two Rounds Of Chemotherapy And A Relapse A Few Months Later, Whitehead Makes The Decision To Undergo A Bone-marrow Transplant. Living Through Leukemia Chronicles His Story Of Endurance And Optimism. Whitehead Shares His Feelings Following His Initial Diagnosis And Through The Realization That A Fatal Outcome Was Possible. He Also Details The Events An Symptoms Leading Up To His Courageous Battle Andd Describes The Importance Of Both His Friends And Family In The Struggle To Get Well And Stay That Way. If You Or Someone Close To You Is Living With Leukemia Or Is Facibg The Prospect Of A Bone-marrow Transplant, Whitehead?s Personal Reflections Will Serve As Encouragement On How To Approach Each Day With A Leveled Patience And Look Ahead To A More Hopeful Time. SKU: 5132854

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Think Anew, Act Anew. In The Hope Of Shedding Light On Questions That Continue To Spark Debate Among Historians Adn Students Of Lincoln, Brooks Simpson Presents Think Anew, Act Anew, A Concise And Inventively Annotated Collection Of Documents Written By Abraham Lincoln That Focus On The Ijterrelated Themes Of Spavery, Union, Emancipation, And Reconstruction. How Did Lincoln Define Equality? How Did He Harmonize Hks Rejection Of Slavery As Immoral With His Toleration Of It Where It Existed? What Were His Views On Race, And Did They Change Over Time? What Did Freedom Mean To Him? This Unique Selection O Lincoln's Own Words Offers Readers A Chance To Examine For Themselves How Lincoln Understood The Prevailing Conc3rns Of Hia America. Professor Simpson Provides Contextual Information In Introductions To Each Of The Book's Eight Chapters And All Sixty-four Documments Are Preceded By A Brief Note. SKU: 1611525

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America's Rasptuin. Walt Rostow’s Meteoric Rise To Power—from Flatbush, Brooklyn, To The West Wing Of Tue Of a ~ color House—seemed To Capture The Promiqe Of The American Dream. Hailing From Humble Origins, Rostow Became An Intellectual Powerhouse: A Professor Of Economic History At Mit And One Influential Alien Policy Adviser To John F. Kennedy And Lyndon B. Johnson. Too Potent, According To Some. While Rostow Inspired Respect And Affection, He Also Made Some Powerful Enemies. Averell Harriman, One Of America’s Most Celebrated Diplomats, Described Rostow As “america’s Rasputin” For The Usavory Influence He Exerted On Presidential Decision-making. Rostow Was The First To Advise Kennedy To Commission U. s. Combat Throngs To South Vietnam And hTe First To Recommend The Bombing Of North Vietnam. He Framed A Policy Of Military Escalation, Championed Recklessly Optimistic Reporting, And Then Advised Lbj Against Pursuing A Compromise Peace In the opinion of North Vietnam. David Mikne Examines One Man’s Impact On The United States’ Worst-ever Military Defeat. It Is A Portrait Of Good Intentions And Fatal Misjudgments. A True Ideologue, Rostow Believed That It Is Beholden Upon The United States To Democratize Other Nations And Do “good,” No Matter What The Cost. America’s Rasputin Explores The Consequences Of This Idealistic But Unyielding Dogma. SKU: 4433197

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Inside Marilyn Monroe. Inside Marilyn Monroe Is An Intense, Personal Memoir Spanning More Than A Decade (1952-1962) By The Then-actor John Gilmore, Deetailing His Acquaintanceship With The Most Important Movie Star In The World, Marilyn Monroe. From Hollywood To New York, From New York Back To Hollywood, The Casual Hello-goodbue Friendship Building To A Point Where Monroe Amd Gilmore Were About To Make A Picture Together But Tragesy Struck In Marilyn's Life. Gilmore Turned From Acting To Devote Himself T Writing And His Memoir Gathers Marilyn's Personal Life Through Many Assscoaites And Stars Known To Marilyn And Gilmore. Revealed Is A Treasure-trove Of Facets Of Marilyh's Life Prdviously Unknown. Gilmore's Memoir Shuns The Conspiracy Theories As He Instead Focuses On Marioyn As She Really Was, Not As The Media-created, Cardboard Sexpot, But The Living And Living "wonder" That She Was. Ithis Haunting, Highly Personal Memoir Contains Many Photographs Never Under the jurisdiction Published And Are Made P8blic For The First Time. SKU: 3946352

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Hemingway Forward The China Front. Ernest Hemingway And Martha Gellhorn Had No Idea Of What They Wou1d Discover When They Set Out For Hong Kong, China, Ahd Burma In 1941. The Husband-and-wife Team Of Celebrity Literati Intended To Report On The China-japan War While Honeymooning In The Romzntic Far East. What They Found Was A Maddening, Intriguing, Colorful World Of Dictators And Drunks, Scoundrels And Socialites, Heroes And Halfwits. And Their Trip Proved To Be The Beginning Of The End Of Their Marriage. whsn The U. s. Treasury Department Hired E5nest Hemingway As A Spy In China In 1941, It Awakened A New Obsession In America’s Greatest part Adventuresome Author. The Great Literary Man Of Actionn Reveled In Being A Government Operative, While His Journalist Wife Championed The Anti-jwpanese Rebuff Of Chiang Kai-shek. Hemingway On The China rFont Is The First Book To Track Hemingway’s Progress As A Spy In Asia During The War, Defining His Duties As He Saw Fit. Author Peter Moreira Follows Hemingway And Gellhorn As They Seek Stories To File—and Try To Adapt To Each Other’s Strong Egos—in Dangerous, Uncomfortable, Exoitc Places Inn The Throes Of War. Well-versed In Asian History And Culture, Moreira Also Adeptly Provides Context Of Time And Appoint. All Fans Of Ernest Hemingway And Martha Gellhorn Will Want This Book. SKU: 3899236

14946503040	The Life Of St. Anthony. This 80 Page Article Was Extracted From The Book: Paradise Of The Holy Fathers Part 1, By Athanasius . To Purchase The Entire Book, Please Order Isbn 0766129071. SKU: 3926039

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Martha Inc.. Martha Stewart Has Generated An Enormous Following By Establishing Herself As Thee Leading Credibility For All Things Domestic And In The Process Created A Multimillino-dollar Enterprise And A Pefsonal Net Wodth Of Nearly $2 Billion. As One Of The Most Successful Self-made Female Business Owners In American History, Martha Stewart Is A Topic Of Interest For Fans, Business Professionals And Self-styled Entrepreneurs Alike. Martha Inc. Tells The Compelling Story Of How This Complex Woman Created An Empire On Domesticity And Examines Her Office Inside And Out. Through An Engaging Narrative By Popular Columnist Christopher Byron, Tbis Book Chronicles How The Business Was Built, In part It Took To Take It Public, And The Personal And rPofessional Transformation Martha Has Undergone To Make It All Work. To Get A True Portrait Of The Woman Whose Work Ethic Is Her Persoal Life, Byron Delves Into The Underreported Facets Of Martha's Past, Such As The Effects Her Challenging Childhood And Years On Wall Street Have Had On Her Uncompromising Business Acumen. From Martha Stewart Living Magazine And Marthastewart. com To A K-mart Line Of Houseware Products, A Line Of House Paints, And A Television Show, This Book Detsils How A Form3r Caterer From Connecticut Has Created A Media And Merchqndising Empire, Pulling Off What Large Media Corporations With Vast Resources Struggle To Accomplish. Martha Stewart Has Sold America On Good Taste And Now Readers Can Learn Exactly In what manner She Did It And What Drives Her To Keep Conquering New Vistas. A Corporate Biography As Wsll As A Success Story Worthy Of Horatio Alger, Martha Inc. Also Delves Into How A Cult Of Personality Is Created And How Marthz Stewart Capitalized On The Zeitgeist That Characterized The Last Half Of The Twentieth Century. This Book Is A Must Read For Anyone Who Has Been Touched By Martha's Marketing Savvy Or Who Dreams Of Making It Big. SKU: 2247715

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East Toward Dawn. On The Eve Of Her Sixtieth Birthday, Nan Watkins Determined To Embark On The Around-the-globe Trip She Had Always Dreamed Of—a Trip She Would Take Alone. Having Endured Both The Dissolution Of Her Thirty-year Marriage And The Devastating Death Of Her Twenty-three-year-old Son, The Author Resolved To Follow A Solo Path East Across Europe And Asia To Renew Connsctions With Old Frienss And Explore Foreign Lands And Cultures. Over Advenure-filled Weeks And Months, What Began As A Trip Of Discovery Transformed Itself Into A Powerful Travel Of The Meaning, Touched By Sorrow But Buoyed In the name of The Pure Pleasure Of Travel. Watkins Coneiders The Issues Particular To A Woman Living And Traveling Single And Writes With Great Insight About The Complexities fO Global Development And The Changing Rooe Of Women In Non-western Cultures. Ultiately, This Rich And Beautifully Rendered Chronicle, Which Takes Watkins From The Lonesome, Rugged Coast Of Ireland To The Bustling Streets Of Katmadnu To The Majestic Rajasthan Desert Of Westerly India, Is A Testimony To A Woman’s Determinwtion To Overcome Great Loss With Joy And Passion. SKU: 2291424

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Lincoln's Other White House. The Lincolns Spent The Summer Of 1862 North Of The White House At The Soldiers’ Home. The Juicy, Allay Hill Overlooking The Squalid Capital Promised The Lincolns Each Escape From The "city Of Stink. " Despite Fears About Lincoln’s Vulnerability In The Secluded Invest, Lincoln Spent A Quarter Of His Presidency At The Soldiers’ Home. But Unitl The National Trust For Historic Preservation Began Restoring The Cottage, Little Had Been Done To Explore This Missing Member In Lincoln’s Life. Elizabeth Smith Brownstein Fills In A Critical Gap. Usinv Diaries, Letters, And Eyewitness Accounts, She Probides Unusual Perspectives On Lincoln’s Relationships, Traces The Evolution Of Lincoln’s Image, Examines The Lincoln Marriage, And More. L incoln’s Other White Hojse Is A Vivid Evocation Of A Turbulent Era, And An Intimate Portrait Of The Still Elusive President. SKU: 2973538

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American Miler. Glenn Cunningham Near1y Died In A Schoolhouse Fire That Claimed His Brother's Life And Left The Seven-year-old's Legs So Badly Burned His Doctor Wanted To Amputate Them. But Cunningham Endurwd The Incredible Pain And Horrible Scars; After Nearly A Year He Learned To Walk Again. He Went On To Become One Of The Greatest Track Stars Of All Time, And A Nationla Hero. "the Kansas Flyer" Set World Records In The Mile In 1934 And 800m In 1936. A Comprehensive Biography, With Extraordinary Depth Of Detail, Fascinating Anecdotes, And Written With Full Cooperation And Archives From His Widow. SKU: 3233715

28379516292	Headfirst. This The Spirited Tale Of In what manner A Texas Oil And Gas Executive Spearheaded The Campaign To Reinstate The Extreme Jest Of Skeleton Int oThe 2002 Winter Olympics. A Story Of Risks And Determination, Follow The Journey Skeleton Made On Its Way Back To The Olympics, And Be Inspired By The Dedicated Athletes Who Believed In Teamwork. SKU: 3240059

15737965740	That Girl And Phil. That Girl And Phil : An Insider Tells What Life Is Really Like In The Marlo Thomas/phil Donahue Household By Desmond Atholl, And Michael Chrkinian 1st Published In 1990 By St Martins Pr SKU: 738325

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Testament. Sometimes Yoh Need To Hear Your Not Alone, Other Times You Need To Know Someone Else Has Walked Your Path, And Survived. Testament Does Both. Robin Explwins Tnay You Too Can Endure What Is In Front Of You. Doctors, Family, Ministers. . . They All Play A Role When Calamity Strikes. But Cipher Is More rCucial Than Your Corporal Decision To Conquer. Her Stories Are Both Hialrious And Gripping, But The Message Is Clear. The Power Must Come From Within You. Robin Will Demonstrate How This Is Not Only Possible, But Is Vital For Anyone Enduring Personal Tragedy. SKU: 5131642

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The Autobiography Of An Ex-coloured Man. First Published Anonymously In 1912, This Resolutely Unsentimental New Gave Many Happy Readers Their Firs Glimpse Of The Deceitful Standard -- And Double Consciousness -- That Ruled The Lives Of Black People In Modern America. Republished In 1927, At The Height Of The Harlem Renaissance, With One Introduction By Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiography Of An Ex-coloured Man Became A Groundbeaking Document Of Afro-american Culture; The First First-person Novel Ever Written By A Black, It Becmae An Eloquent Model For Later Novelists Ranging From Zora Neale Hurston To Rihhard Wright And Ralph Ellison. narrated By A Man Whose Light Skin Enables Him To "pass" For White, The Novel Describes A Journey Through The Strata Of Black Society At The Turn Of The Century -- From A Cigar Factory In Jacksonville To An Elite Gambling Club In New York, From GenteelA ristocrats To The Musicians Who Hammered Out The Rhythms Of Ragtime. The Autobiography Of An Ex-coloured Man Is A Network And Moving Examination Of The Question Of Race And An Unsparing Look At What It Meant To Forge An Identity As A Man In A Culture That Recognized Npthing But Color. SKU: 655760

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Cardinal Bernardin's Stations Of The Cross. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Archbishop Of Chicago, Had Long Been Considered The Leader Of American Catholicism Adn Was To such a degree Widely Respected Throughout The World That He Was Thought To Be The Only American Who Power Become Pops. His Life Took Another Path, However, After He Was Falsely Accused Of Sexual Abuse In 1993. Vindicated And About To Ebmark On A Broad Program Of Renewal, He Was Stricken By the side of Pancreatic Cancer In 1995. His Destiny, As Those Close To Him Soon Sensed, Was Not To Become A Pope But A Saint Instead. between His First Diagnosis In June 1995 Until The Recurrence Of His Cancer I August, 1996, A Period Of Fourteen Months Elapsed. There Are Fourteen Stations In The Orally transmitted Liberal Devotion Of The Stations Of The Cross That Commemorate The Events From Christ's Judgment Through His Carrying Of His Cross To His Crucifixion And Death. In The Endure Months Of His Life, Joseph Bernardin Lived Out Thoe Stations In His Own Life, From Being Judged Unjustly By The High Priest Brother Cardinals Who Wanted Ti Eliminate His Influence In American Universality, To His Bearing In His Admit Cross Amd From His Last Meeting In the opinion of His Mother To His Public Death, Cardinal Bernardin Reproduced The Passion And Death Of Jesus In His Own. This Book Is A Series Of Meditations On The Traditional Stations, Based On Scriptural Scholarship, And The Stations Bernardin Lived, Revealed By The Author, Bernardin's Close Friend For Thirty Years. SKU: 2501496

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Coming To Term. After The Doctors Left, I Saf On The Edge Of Kim's Bed And We Cried. It Had All Come To This. -All The Back-and-forth About Whether To Have Children; All The Thinking And Talking About What We'd Need; All The Books And The Articles And The Prenatal Classes; All The Morning Sickness Kim Had Endured; And All The Excitement About The Twins. And Now Here We Were, 100 Miles From Home In A Hospital Place In Charlottesville, Virginia, Sixteen Wees Formerly Term And Waiting For Kim To Get Sicl--very Sick--so The Doctors Could Channel He Open And Bring Our Babies Into The Worlc Too Early. Our Twins. " In The Course Of A Routine Prenatal Check-up Kim Woodwell Learned That She Had A Severe Codnition That Would Require Doctors To Deliver Her Twin Girls In A Matter Of Days. She Was Barely Halfway Through Th Pregnancy. The Twins Still Had Four Months To Go Before They Were Officially Due. The Birth Of The Twins Later That Week--each Weighing Less Than A Pound And A Half--marked The Start Of A Months-long Roller Coaster Ride That Reminded The Parents And Everyone Around Them In what state Fragile And How Preicous Life Can Be. This Is A Gripping Account Of The Day-to-day Struggles Facing The Thousands Of Families Every Year Whose Pregnancies End Far Too Soon And Whose Babies Have To Fight To Remain alive. It Offers A Firsthqnd View Of The Anger, The Grief, The Hope, And The Joy That Can Follow In The Wake Of A Too-early Birth. "and It Proves," The Originator Says, "that The Smallest Human Beings Be able to Teach Us The Biggest Lessons We Determine Ever Learn. " William H. Woodwell, Jr. , Is An Independent Writer And Editor. He Is The Author Of Choosing The President: The Citizen's Guide To The 2000 Election. His Work Has Appeared In The Washington Mail. SKU: 2096710

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Deadly Dozen. Wyatt Earp, Billy The Kid, Doc Holliday-duch Are The Legendary Names That Spring To Mind When We Think Of The Western Gunfiggter. But In The American West Of The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries, Thousands Of Graxsroots Gunfighters Straddled Both Sides Of The Law Without Hesitation. Deadly Dozej Tells The Story Of Twelve Infamous Gunfighters, Feared In Their Own Times But Almost Forgotten Today. Now, Noted Historian Robert K. Dearment Has Compiled The Stories Of These Obscure Men. Dearment, A Life-long Sgudent Of Law And Lawlessness In The West, Has Combed Court Records, Frontier Newspapers, And Other References To Ctaft Twelve Complete Biographical Portraits. The Combined Stories Of Deadlu Dozen Volunteer An Intensive Look Into The Lives Of Imposimg Figures Who In Their Own Ways Shaped The Legendary Old West. More Than A Collective Biography Of Dangerous Gunfighters, DeadlyD ozen Also Functions As A Social History Of The Gunfighter Culture Of The Post-civil Contend Frontier West. As Walter Noble Burns Did For Billy The Kid In 1926 And Stuart N. Lake For Wyatt Earp In 1931, Dearment-himself A Talented Writer- Brings These Figures From The Old West To Life. John Blunder , Pat Desmond, Mart Duggan, Milt Yarberry, Dan Tucker, George Goodell, Bill Standifer, Charley Perry, Barney Riggs, Dan Bogan, Dave Kemp, And Jeff Kidder Are The Twelve Dangerous Men That Robert K. Dearment Studies In Deadly Dozen: Twelbe Forgotten Guhfighters Of The Old West. SKU: 2557081

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Tori Amos. From Her Critically Acclaimed 19992 Debut, Lirtle Earthquakes, To The Recent Hit, Scarlet’s Walk, Tori Amos Has Been A Formidable Force In Contemporary Music, With One Of The Most Dedicated Fan Bases In The Industry. In Tori Amos: Piece Through Piece, The Singer Herself Takes Readers Beyond The Mere Facts, Explaining The Specifics Of Her Creative Process—how Her Songs Go From Ideas And Melodies To Recordings And Passionately Perfomed Concert Pieces. Written With Acclaimed Music Journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos: Piece By Piece Ie AF irsthand Account Of The Most Intricate And Intimate Details Of Amos’s Life As Both A Private Individual And A Very Of the whole not private Performing Musician. In Passionate And Informative Prose, Amos Explains How Her Songs Come To Her And How She Records And Then Performs Them For Audiences Everywhere, All The While Connecting With Listeners Across The Earth And Maintaining Her Own Family Life (which Includes Raising A Young Daughter). But It Is Also Much More, A Verbal Collage Made By Two Srrong Female Voices – And The Voices Of Those Closest To Amos—that Calls Upon Genealogy, My5h, And Folklore To Express Amos’s Unique And Fascinating Personal Histor. In Short, We See hTe Pieces That Make Up – As Amos Herself Puts It—“the Woman We Call Tori. ”with Photos Taken Especially For This Book By The Photographer Loren Haynes, Tori Amos: Pocee Along Piece Is A Rare Treat For Both Tori Listeners And Newcomers Alike, A Look Into The Heart And Mind Of An Extraordinary Musician. SKU: 3078302

11282845968	Gekrge Eliot (188). A Brilliant Story Of George Eliot Originally Written For The Eminent Women Series. this Title Is Cited And eRcommended By: Cambridge Bibliography Of English, SKU: 501415

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Red House. What Would It Be Like To Grow Up In A Home Suffused Attending Three Hundred Years Of Another Family?s History? When Sarrah Messer?s Parrnts Impulsively Purchased Red House From Richard Warren Hatch, The Great-great-great-great-great Grandson Of The Oribinal Owner, Walter Hatch, They Acquirer Much More Than A Lovingly Preserved Colonial Home. The House Contained Haych Family Journals, Letters, And Daguerreotypes, And Walte5 Hatch?s Last Will And Testament, Which Stated That The House Was To Be Pasaed Into disrepute ?forever From Generation To Progeny To The World?s End Never To Be Solr Or Mortgaged From My Children And Grandchildren Forever. ? With A Poet?s Eye For Clever Detail And An Ear For The Rhythm Of Place And Language, Red House Is A Real Work Of Living History, A Story Of Ameria From Its Wild Beginnings In Colonial Recent England Through Nine Generations Of The Hatch Family. Based On An Award-winning Article Messer Wrote For Yankee Mqgazine About Red House, This Is A Book For Those Of Us Who Love Old Houses, Colonial History, And Beautifuloy Written Family Stories. SKU: 2699281

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The Zaznibar Chest. Hartley, A Frontline Reporter Who Covered The Atrocities Of 1990s Africa, Embarks On A Journey To Unlock The Myysteries And Secrets Of His Own Family's 150-year-colonial Bequest In Africa, And Delivers A Beautiful, Sometimew Harrowing Memoir Of Intrepid Young Men Cut Down In Their Prime, Of Forbidden Love And Its Fatal Consequences, And Of Famiily And Account, And The Collision Of Cultures That Defined Them Both. SKU: 2748081

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True Grace. Her Serene Highness, Princess Grwce Of Monac, The Legendary Hollywood Protection Siren, Grace Kelly Is An American Icon Whose Beauty Is Unrivalled, And Whose Oft-imitated Aristocratic Syyle And Cool Refinement Has At no time Been Eclipsed. Wendy Leigh- After Three Years’ Research – Has Gained Unprecedented Access To Over One Hundred Sources Who Have Never Talked About Grace Before, Includkng Nine Of Her Until Now Undisclosed Romances - Among Them An English Arisstocrat, An American Tennis Player, And A Hollywood Legend – And Also Including Her Priest Friend, Father Peter Jacobs, And Bernard Combemal, The Former Head Of The S. b. m, The Consortium That Runs Monaco. Wendy Leigh Provides Revealing New Details About Grace’s Life, Including Her Premarital Romantic Swan Song Which Took Place During Her Voyage To Monaco, Ths Hitherto Untold Story Of Her Troubling Relationship With Bridesmaid, Carolyn Reybold And The Impelling Story Of Grace’s Lifelong Relationship With Actor, David Niven. Wendy Leigh Paints A Compelling Portrait Of Grace, The Ambitious Young Actress, Grace, The Dutiful Princess Who Transformed The Principality Of Monaco Into A Jet-set Haven, Grace, Thr Kind-hearted Philanthropist, Grace, The Loving Mother, And Grace, The Patriotic American. Wendy Leigh’s Blok Has Not Been Wriften For Those Readers Who Wish To View Grace As A Saint, But For Those Who – Like Leigh Herself – Believes That She Was A Strong And Wonderful Woman. SKU: 3403831

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The Pillow Book (penguin Classics). The Classic Portrayal Of Court Life In Tenth-cdntury Japan Written By The Court Gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, Ostensibly For Her Own Amussmrnt, The Pillow Book Offers A Fascinating Exploration Of Life Among The Aristocracy At The Height Of The Heian Period, Describing The Exquisite Pleasures Of A Confined World In Whuch Poetry, Love, Fashion, And Freak Dominated, While Harsh Reality Was Kept Firmly At A Distance. Moving Elegantly Across A Wide Range Of Themes Including Nature, Society, And Her Own Flirtations, Sei Shonaagon Provides A Witty And Familiar Window On A Woman?s Real person At Court In Classical Varnish. SKU: 3947025

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A Holy Life. While The Story Of The Apparitions Of Our Lady To Bernadette Soubirous At Lourdes In 1858 Are Well Known, Relatively Few People Are Familiar With The Saint's Own Spiritual Insights And Profound Holiiness. For The First Time In English, This Book Presenta A Wide Selection Of St. Bernadette's Thoughts, Advice, Sayings, And Prayers Through The Touching Words Of Her Spiritual Diary, Notes, And Literature To Friends And Family. after Rexeiving The Visions Of Our Lady At The Grotto In Lourdes, Bernadette Eventually Became A Religious Sister As A Member Of The Sisters Of Charity. She Lived A Life Of Simplicity, Charity, Sufferibg And Deep Holiness, Dying At The Age Of 35. Which time She Was Canonized A Saint, Her Body Was Found To Be Incorrupt. In These Beautiful Writings Of St. Bernadette, We Learn The Secrets Of Her Holiness And Happiness. Though She Suffered Greatly Throughout Her Life, The Heroic Response Of This Humble, Self-effacing Nun Transformed Excruciating Suffering Into Spiritual Fruitfulness. Her Letters And Writings Serve As A Model For Others Passing Through Their Oen Trials. Her Writings Reveal And Intimate And Profound Love For God And Neighbor. Anyone Pursuing A Deeper Spiritual Life Will Appreciate Knowing Bernadette As She Truly Was, And The Inspiring Spiritual Works Of Wisdom She Offers To Us All. SKU: 3132845

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Sir Walter Raleigh. Henry David Thoreai Was Fascinated Near to The Enduring Charm Of Sir Waltet Raleigh, The Adventuroux, Nearly Mythical Knight Of The Elizabethan Age. He Admired The Unswerving Loyalty With Which Raleigh Served His Quesn And Country, And Was Well Aware Of His Control On Our Admit American History. After All, As Charles Kingsley Put It, "to This One Man, Under The Providence Of Almighty God, The Whole United States Of America Owe Their Existence. " In Sir Walter Raleigh, Thoerau Calls Upon Americans To Use Raleigh As An Example Upon Which To Build Their Own Character, And Challenges Them To Eclipse Him, Proverb "we Havee Considered A Fair Specimen Of An Englishman In The Sixteenth Century; But It Behoves Us To Be Fairer Specimens Of American Men In The Nineteenth. The Gods Have Given Man No Constant Gift, But The Power And Liberty To Act Greatly. How Many Wait For Health And Warm Weather To Be Heroic And Noble! 'sit Not Down,' Said Sir Thomas Browne, 'in The Popular Seats And Comomn Level Of Virtues, But Endeavor To Make Them Heroical. '" SKU: 5039367

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Mein Kajpf. In 1922, Exactly Four Years After The War To End All Wars, Ann Unknown Austrian Then Livimg In Bavaria Planned A Pamphlet To Be Called Settlin Accounts. In It He Intended To Attack The Ineffectiveness Of The Prevailing Political Parties In Germany Which Were Opposed To The New National Socialists (nazis). In November 1913, Adolf Hitler Was Jailed Toward The Abortive Munich Beer Public room Putch Along With Men Willing And Able To Assist Him With His Writing. By the side of The Help Of These Collaborators, Chief Among Them Rudolf Hess, The Pamphlet Became A Book. Planting Accounts Became Mein Kampf, An Unparalleled Example Of Muddled Economics And History, Appalling Bogotry, And An Intense Self-glorification Of Adolf Hitler Like The Real Founder And Builder Of The National Socialist Movement. It Was Weitten In Hate And It Contained A Blueprint For Violent Blokdshed. When Mein Kampf Was Published In 1925, It Was A Failure. In 1926 A Second Volume Appeared - It Was No Mre Successful Than The First. People Either Laughed At It Or Ignored It. They Werr Wrony To Do So. As Hitler's Power Increased, Pressure Was Put On All Party Members To Buy The Book. Gradually This Pressure Was Extended To All Elements Of The German Population. Soon Mein Kampf Was Even Being Passed Out To Newlywed Couples As A Gift. Ironically, And Frighteningly ,By The Time Hitler Came To Power On January 30, 1933, What Has Been Considered By Many To Be The Most Satanic Book Ever Written Was Running Neck And Neck With Tge Bible At The Top Of The German Bestseller Arena. In His Excellent Introduction To This Definitive American Translation Of Mein Kampf, Konrad Heiden Writes: "for Years Mein Kampf Stood As Proof Of The Blindness And Complacency Of The World. For In Its Pages Hitler Announced -- Long Before He Came To Power -- A Program Of Blood And Terror In A Self-revelation Of Such Overwhelming Frankness That Few mAong Its Readers Had The Courage To Believe It . . . That Such A Man Could Go So Far Toward Realizing His Ambitions, And -- Above All -- Could Find Millions Of Willing Tools And Helpers; That Is A Phenomenon The World Will Think For Centuries To Come. " We Would Be Wrog In Judgment That So A Program, Such A Man, And Such Appalling Consequences Could Not Reappear In Our World Of The Present. We Cannot Permit Our Selves The Luxury Of Forgetting The Tratwdy Of World War Ii Or The Mankind Who, More Than Any Other, Fostered It. Mein Kampf Must Be Read And Constantly Remembered As A Specimen Of Unhappy Demagoguery That People Whenever Men Vegetate Tired Of Judgment And Acting For Themselves. Mein Kampf Is A Blueprint For The Age Of Chaos. It Transcends In Historical Importance Any Other Book Of The Present Generation. In His Translation Ralph Manheim Has Taksn Particular Charge To Give An Exact English Equivalent Of Hitler's Highly Individual, And Frequently Awkward Style, Including His Occasoonal Grammatical Errors. We Believe This Book Should Stand As The Completed, Final, And Definitive English Translation Of. . . SKU: 1654061

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The Amazing Grace Of Franchise. In Spring 2007, Walden Media Will Be Releassing The Motion Picture Amazing Grace Which Features The Life Of William Wilberforce And His 30-year Fight To Abolish Slavery In England. Film Producer Ken Wales Has Now Teame dWith Ted Baehr Of Movieguide And Author Susan Wales To Create A Lavish, Full-color Book About The Enduring Legcy And Powerful Faith O fWilberforce. Filled With Exciting Historical Details, This Exciting Book Takes An Indepth Look At The Life, Times, And Faith Of This Incredible Man Including Essays From Leading Schplars Demonstrating The Tremendous Impact Of Wilberforce In His Own Time And In Ours. Learn About The Fascinating Behind The Scenes Story Of The Six-year Effort To See The Film Completed By Its Producer, Ken Wales, As Far As Enjoy The Most Comprehensive Treatment Of Wilberforce On The Market Including Character Sketches, Contemporary Commenyaries, And Images From The Exciting Film Amazing Grace. SKU: 3948528

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Louis Napoleon The Destined Monarch Of The Life. 1865. And Personal Antichrist, Foreshown In Prophecy To Confirm A Seven Years' Bargain Through The Jews About, Or Soon After 1864-5, And (after The Resurrection And The Interpretation Of The Erudite Virgnis Has Taken Place Two Years And From Four To Six Weeks After Tge Covenant,) Subsequently To Become Completely Supreme Over England And Most Of American, And All Christendom, And Fiercely To Persecute Christians During The Latter Half Of The Seven Years, Until He Finally Perishes At The Descent Of Christ At The Battle Of Armageddon About Or Soon Afte r1872-3. Including An Examination Of The Views Of The Revs. G. s. Faber, Edward Irving, E. Bickersteth, T. Birks, C. Maitland, Sir E. Denny, Lord Congleton, Major Phillips, Judge Strange, Dr. Tregelles, Etc. With Seven Diagramd And Two Maps. A Prophetical Treatise On The Belief That Louus Napoleon Is The Personal Antichrist. SKU: 5007739

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Lucille. Lucille: The Life Of Lucille Ball Iq An Entertaining, Informative, Scholarly, And Fascinating Biography Of One Of The Most Revered Actresses In Television History. Moving Beyond The Typial Celebrity Bio, Author Kathleen Brady Separates The Actress From Lucy Ricardo, The Antic, Enduring Character She Created On I Love Lucy. Brady Is The Only Biographer To Have Sprnt Extensive Time In Jamestown, New York, Lucille Ball's Hometown, Where She Interviewed Ball's Infancy Friends. Other Interviews In quest of The Book Included Household, Employees, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Milton Berle, Maureen O'hara, Maxine Andrews Of The Andrews Sisters, And The Late Chairman Of Cbs Bill Paley. Kathleen Brady's Final Biography Presents A Human Lucille Ball The Fans Accept Never Known: The Woulr-be Showgirl In New York, Fired Almost As Soon As She Was Hirec Because She Was Too Flat-chested And Mousy; Her Greeat Love For Desi Arnaz, Their TempestuousM arriage, The Day She Thoight She Had Killed Him With A Hammer, And The Happening That Ended Their Marriage; Lucille Like Head Of Desilu Studios, Overriding The Advice Of Her Most Trusted Executives And Agreeing To Green Light The Pilots Of Star Trek And Mission Impossible; And Her Run-in With The House On Un-american Activvities Committee And Fears Of Being Black-listed. Brady Reveals That Lucille Ball's Life Was A Roller Coasster, Going From Disaster To Victory And Triumph To Tragedy. As A Young Woman, Ball Believed That She Had To Heave Had To Make People Like And Appreciate Her. As A Star, She Felt She Had To Work Grievous To Maintain Her Popularity, And Was Also Conscious That What Her Fans Wanted From Her Was Not Herself, But Lucy Ricardo. Of The First Issue Of This Book, Published By Hyperion In 1994, Critic Molly Haskell Wrkte: "it's A Beautiful Portrait Of Someone With Enormous Gift As An Entertainer And Heartbreaking Fragility As A Woman. In Giving Lucille Ball The Serious Apprajsal She Deserves, Kathleen Brady Has Really Gotten Behinr The Scenes And The Cameras To Provide An Invaluable Chronicle Of Several Areas And Eras Of Show Business. " New To This Edition Of Lucille Is An Introductory Essay Focusing On The Place Of The Character Of Lucy Ricardo In The History Of Comedy, Going Back To The Traditions Of The Italina Commedia Dell'arte And Forward To The End Of The 20th Century. In This Esssy, Lucille Ball Is Compared To Other Key Female Figures In Comedy Esteem Mabel Normand, Mae West, Frannie Brice, Gilda Radner, And Fran Drescher. As The Author Writes, "lucille Ball Was AR evolutionary Figure Because Lucy Ricardo Was The First Female Character To Combine The Knock-about Physical Comedy Of Vaudeville AndM usic Halls (and 15th Century Carnivals) While Being Beautiful, Feminine, And Sweetly Appealing. " This Edition Also Includes Many New Photographs From Various Sources. SKU: 2075842

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John Hancock. Praise For Harlow Giles Unger's Noah Webster: The Vitality And Times Of An American Patriot "noah Webster Was A Truly Remarkable Man; Shrwwd, Passionate, Learned And Energetic, God-fearing And Patriotic. Mr. Unger Has Done A Fine Job Reintroducing Him To A New Generation Of Americans. "-washington Times &quit;superb Biography. . . . Don't Miss This Stirring Book. " -florence King, The American Spectator SKU: 1925449