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All the President's Menby Bob Woodward, Carl BernsteinISBN 0446322644 (0-446-32264-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made Itby Richard Hofstadter, Christopher LaschISBN 0394488806 (0-394-48880-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Angela Davis: An Autobiographyby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0394489780 (0-394-48978-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Arnold Bennett: A Biographyby Margaret DrabbleISBN 039448794X (0-394-48794-X)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Augustusby Pat SouthernISBN 0415166314 (0-415-16631-4)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nceby James JohnsonISBN 0393972860 (0-393-97286-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jrby Clayborne CarsonISBN 0446676500 (0-446-67650-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr'Book summary:Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography. In an early student essay, King prophetically penned: "We cannot have an enlightened democracy with one great group living in ignorance.... We cannot have a nation orderly and sound with one group so ground down and thwarted that it is almost forced into unsocial attitudes and crime." Such statements, made throughout King's career, are skillfully woven together into a coherent narrative of the quest for social justice. The autobiography delves, for example, into the philosophical training King received at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University, where he consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian Benjamin Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau, Gandhi, and Thoreau. Through King's voice, the reader intimately shares in his trials and triumphs, including the Montgomery Boycott, the 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech," the Selma March, and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. In one of his last speeches, King reminded his audience that "in the final analysis, God does not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives." Carson's skillful editing has created an original argument in King's favor that draws directly from the source, illuminating the circumstances of King's life without deifying his person. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Beginningby Kenneth BranaghISBN 0393028623 (0-393-02862-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Bound Feet & Western Dressby Pang-Mei Natasha ChangISBN 0385479646 (0-385-47964-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Charles Darwin, a Man of Enlarged Curiosityby Peter Ludwig BrentISBN 0393301095 (0-393-30109-5)
Softcover, Norton
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Charles Laughton, a Difficult Actorby Simon CallowISBN 0413587703 (0-413-58770-3)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Christopher Columbus Marinerby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0451138791 (0-451-13879-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Crusade in Europeby Dwight D. EisenhowerISBN 0385416199 (0-385-41619-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriageby Brenda MaddoxISBN 0393314545 (0-393-31454-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Day I Became an Autodidact: And the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafterby Kendall HaileyISBN 0440550130 (0-440-55013-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Edward R. Murrow: An American Originalby Joseph E. PersicoISBN 0440503019 (0-440-50301-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Elizabeth and Catherine:Empresses of All the Russias: Empresses of All the Russiasby Robert CoughlanISBN 0399112502 (0-399-11250-2)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Elizabeth Bowenby Victoria GlendinningISBN 0394405331 (0-394-40533-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Elvis and Meby Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyISBN 0425091031 (0-425-09103-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Elvis and Meby Sandra Harmon, Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyISBN 0399129847 (0-399-12984-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Emma, Lady Hamiltonby Flora FraserISBN 0394530535 (0-394-53053-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Emperorby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0394723767 (0-394-72376-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Steinby Janet HobhouseISBN 0399116052 (0-399-11605-2)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Evita-First Lady: A Biography of Eva Peronby John BarnesISBN 0394502892 (0-394-50289-2)
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Falling Towards Englandby Clive JamesISBN 0393023605 (0-393-02360-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collageby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0425134067 (0-425-13406-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980'sby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0399136339 (0-399-13633-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and Lifeby Leonard MlodinowISBN 0446692514 (0-446-69251-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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First Ladiesby Margaret TrumanISBN 044922323X (0-449-22323-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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--The Christian Science Monitor
Whether they envision their role as protector, partner, advisor, or scold, First Ladies find themselves in a job that is impossible to define, and just as difficult to perform. Now Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry Truman and an acclaimed novelist and biographer in her own right, explores the fascinating position of First Lady throughout history and up to the present day.
With her unique perspective as the daughter of a First Lady, Ms. Truman reveals the truth behind some of the most misunderstood and forgotten First Ladies of our history, as well as the most famous and beloved. In recounting the charm and courage of Dolley Madison, the brazen ambition of Florence Harding, the calm, good sense of Grace Coolidge, the genius of Eleanor Roosevelt, the mysterious femininity of Jackie Kennedy, and the fierce protectiveness of Nancy Reagan, among others, Margaret Truman has assembled an honest yet affectionate portrait of our nation's First Ladies--one that freely acknowledges their virtues and their flaws. [via]More editions of First Ladies:
Franz Kafka: Representative Manby Frederick Robert KarlISBN 0395561434 (0-395-56143-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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General A. P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warriorby Robertson, James I., Jr.ISBN 0394552571 (0-394-55257-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesmanby Ed CrayISBN 0393027759 (0-393-02775-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Genghis Khan and the Mongol Hordeby Harold LambISBN 0394805127 (0-394-80512-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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George Sand: A Biographyby Curtis CateISBN 0395199549 (0-395-19954-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Hank : The Life of Charles Bukowskiby Neeli CherkovskiISBN 0394575261 (0-394-57526-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Hemingway: The Final Yearsby Michael S. ReynoldsISBN 0393320472 (0-393-32047-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Henry James Treacherous V4by EdelISBN 0397005830 (0-397-00583-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boysby Steven S. GainesISBN 0451150333 (0-451-15033-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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In Search of Historyby Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 0446346578 (0-446-34657-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Ivan the Terribleby Henri TroyatISBN 0425084817 (0-425-08481-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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J. M. W. Turner: Ackroyd's Brief Livesby Peter Ackroyd, J. M. W. TurnerISBN 0385507984 (0-385-50798-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worldsby Peter GoodchildISBN 0395305306 (0-395-30530-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Manby Dale PetersonISBN 0395854059 (0-395-85405-9)
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Leeby Charles Brace FloodISBN 0395929741 (0-395-92974-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lee'Book summary:After his surrender at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee lived only another five years - the forgotten chapter of an extraordinary life. These were his finest hours, when he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between North and South. Flood draws on new research to create an intensely human and a "wonderful, tragic, and powerful . . . story for which we have been waiting over a century" (Theodore H. White).[via] -
Lee--the Last Yearsby Charles Bracelen FloodISBN 0395312922 (0-395-31292-2)
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Lenin for Beginnersby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate, Michael AppignanesiISBN 0394737156 (0-394-73715-6)
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Lessons in Livingby Maya AngelouISBN 0394223632 (0-394-22363-2)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Liar's Autobiographyby Graham ChapmanISBN 0416009018 (0-416-00901-8)
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A Liar's Autobiography, Volume VIIby Graham ChapmanISBN 0413475700 (0-413-47570-0)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandraby Sergei Mironenko, Andrei Maylunas, Nicholas, Alexandra, Empress, consort of Nicholas, Darya GalyISBN 0385486731 (0-385-48673-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Love, Lucyby Lucille Ball, Betty Hannah Hoffman, Lucie ArnazISBN 0425177319 (0-425-17731-9)
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Manchild in the Promised Landby Claude BrownISBN 0451168275 (0-451-16827-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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This autobiographical novel, in print for more than thirty years, has been widely praised for its portrayal of the "lost" generation of African-Americans whose parents left the sharecropping lifestyle of the South for the crowded inner cities of the North. [via]
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Marilyn: The Last Takeby Peter H. Brown, Patte B. BarhamISBN 0451404203 (0-451-40420-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Husseinby Jean SassonISBN 0451212924 (0-451-21292-4)
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My Last Sighby Luis BuñuelISBN 0394725018 (0-394-72501-8)
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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biographyby Jack HurstISBN 0394551893 (0-394-55189-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography'Book summary:Nathan Bedford Forrest was the only soldier to rise from the rank of private to general during the U.S. Civil War. At once "a soft-spoken gentleman of marked placidity and an overbearing bully of homicidal wrath," Forrest is best remembered for the combination of brilliant military leadership and flamboyant bravery that drove his Confederate cavalry troops from victory to victory on the battlefield. His subordinates feared him (he shot those who turned tail), as did his enemies (he rarely lost a fight). General Sherman once said that Forrest must be "hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000 lives and bankrupts the [national] treasury." Detractors point out that Forrest never has been exonerated from the Fort Pillow massacre, in which many Union soldiers, most of them black, were slaughtered after attempting to surrender. Following the war, he went on to found the Ku Klux Klan. Late in life, however, Forrest disavowed racial hatred and called for black political advancement. Author Jack Hurst has written the essential biography of a complex and compelling man who was arguably the Civil War's most remarkable soldier. (Movie trivia: Forrest Gump's mother named her son after this general.) [via]
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Nearer, My God : An Autobiography of Faithby Buckley, William F., Jr.ISBN 0385478186 (0-385-47818-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Storyby Michael LewisISBN 0393048136 (0-393-04813-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story'Book summary:Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn health care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring the vast majority of the industry's transactions online. So why was he spending so much time on a computerized yacht, each feature installed because, as one technician put it, "someone saw it on Star Trek and wanted one just like it?"
Much of The New New Thing, to be fair, is devoted to the Healtheon story. It's just that Jim Clark doesn't do startups the way most people do. "He had ceased to be a businessman," as Lewis puts it, "and become a conceptual artist." After coming up with the basic idea for Healtheon, securing the initial seed money, and hiring the people to make it happen, Clark concentrated on the building of Hyperion, a sailboat with a 197-foot mast, whose functions are controlled by 25 SGI workstations (a boat that, if he wanted to, Clark could log onto and steer--from anywhere in the world). Keeping up with Clark proves a monumental challenge--"you didn't interact with him," Lewis notes, "so much as hitch a ride on the back of his life"--but one that the author rises to meet with the same frenetic energy and humor of his previous books, Liar's Poker and Trail Fever.
Like those two books, The New New Thing shows how the pursuit of power at its highest levels can lead to the very edges of the surreal, as when Clark tries to fill out an investment profile for a Swiss bank, where he intends to deposit less than .05 percent of his financial assets. When asked to assess his attitude toward financial risk, Clark searches in vain for the category of "people who sought to turn ten million dollars into one billion in a few months" and finally tells the banker, "I think this is for a different ... person." There have been a lot of profiles of Silicon Valley companies and the way they've revamped the economy in the 1990s--The New New Thing is one of the first books fully to depict the sort of man that has made such companies possible. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Norton Book of Women's Livesby Phyllis RoseISBN 0393312909 (0-393-31290-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Book of Women's Lives'Book summary:This amazingly rich lode of memoirs, letters, and diaries jumbles together a great roster of 20th-century women, including Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Bernadette Devlin, Emily Mashinini, Sara Suleri, and Santha Rama Rau.
Le Ly Hayslip, the sixth child in a Vietnamese peasant family, describes a life pinched between the violence of Viet Cong revolutionaries and South Vietnamese republicans. Poet and lesbian feminist Audre Lorde writes about being introduced to the wonders of reading as a stubborn, bright, legally blind youngster. "I lay spreadeagled on the floor of the Children's Room like a furious brown toad, screaming bloody murder and embarrassing my mother to death," she recalls. Jill Ker Conway tells of her father's depression and death when a drought crushed their sheep farm in the Australian outback.
The excerpts drop us smack into the middle of each life; inventive cross-referencing encourages the reader to fly back and forth, sampling other writings on "filial exasperation," for example, or child's-eye views of romance and war. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Brailleby Russell Freedman, Kate KieslerISBN 0395968887 (0-395-96888-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille'Book summary:A biography of the 19th century Frenchman who developed Braille. The book spans Braille's life from childhood through his days at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth and into his final years, when the alphabet he invented was finally gaining acceptance.[via]More editions of Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille:
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P.G. Wodehouseby Frances DonaldsonISBN 0394505808 (0-394-50580-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'P.G. Wodehouse'Book summary:[via]There are not many characters in literature more famous or cherished than Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. They feature in nearly 100 tomes, which taken together, make their creator, Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse, among the most eminent and best-loved writers of comedy in the English language. But what of the man himself? Frances Donaldson, who first met Wodehouse in 1921, was given unique access to his most important private papers. From his blissful school days and his love affair with Hollywood to his time as a prisoner of war and his final years in America, Donaldson's definitive biography paints a luminous and affectionate portrait of the man known to his friends as "Plum."More editions of P.G. Wodehouse:
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collageby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440369061 (0-440-36906-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Palm Sunday : An Autobiographical Collage'Book summary:In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonneguts singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-- Case Closedby Patricia CornwellISBN 0425189651 (0-425-18965-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed'Book summary:[via]Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus.
In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror. An elusive madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in the slums of Londons East End. Police seemed powerless to stop the killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly escalating in violence from victim to victim. And then the Rippers violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun. He had struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene. Decades passed, then fifty years, then a hundred, and the Rippers bloody sexual crimes became anemic and impotent fodder for puzzles, mystery weekends, crime conventions, and so-called Ripper Walks that end with pints of ale in the pubs of Whitechapel. But to number-one New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Ripper murders are not cute little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with, even after death. Now Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the Ripper case than any detective before herand reveal the true identity of this fabled Victorian killer.
In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult serial murder cases in history. Drawing on unparalleled access to original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival, academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the worlds finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert.
It has been said of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better than she. Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in 1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britains greatest painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by megalomania and hate. She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the press. Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this mans birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created.
New information and startling revelations detailed in Portrait of a Killer include:
- How a year-long battery of more than 100 DNA testson samples drawn by Cornwells forensics team in September 2001 from original Ripper letters and Sickert documentsyielded the first shadows of the 75- to 114 year-old genetic evid...
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Roughing Itby Mark TwainISBN 0451524071 (0-451-52407-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earthby Alan CutlerISBN 0434008575 (0-434-00857-5)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth'Book summary:Dubbed "the founder of modern geology" by Stephen Jay Gould, the 17th-century Danish scientist Nicolaus Steno was the first man to discover "deep time": to suggest that the existence of fossils, particularly those far away from where the animals of which they are the remains would have lived ("the seashell on the mountaintop") demanded a much longer history for the Earth than the roughly 6000 years suggested by the Bible. Steno's work was ignored for over a century: he himself dropped his geological studies without completing a university dissertation; he converted to Catholicism and later became a bishop; in 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul I. This work tells the story of this passionate and fascinating man, exploring his contributions to geology and his remarkable ideas on science and religion. Steno's work was eventually to transform Western ideas of time, creating not only a long past for the earth, but also the possibility of a future that was not about to be cut short by Armageddon. [via]
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Something Like an Autobiographyby Akira KurosawaISBN 0394714393 (0-394-71439-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Stengel: His Life and Timesby Robert CreamerISBN 0440578299 (0-440-57829-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Sunday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Storyby Jack Benny, Joan BennyISBN 0446393215 (0-446-39321-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Sword of San Jacinto : A Life of Sam Houstonby Marshall De BruhlISBN 0394576233 (0-394-57623-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Twenty Years at Hull-Houseby Jane AddamsISBN 0451527399 (0-451-52739-9)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Years at Hull-House'Book summary:While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else.
Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Walden And Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Paul LauterISBN 0395980771 (0-395-98077-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden And Civil Disobedience'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry. [via]
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Walden and Resistance to Civil Governmentby Henry David Thoreau, Owen Thomas, William RossiISBN 0393959058 (0-393-95905-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Resistance to Civil Government'Book summary:On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is new in this edition, and those reading the book for the first time will discover why it has changed the lives of generations of readers. [via]
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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"by Henry David ThoreauISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?by Jean Fritz, Margot TomesISBN 039923487X (0-399-23487-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?by Jean Fritz, Margot TomesISBN 0399233059 (0-399-23305-9)
Hardcover, Coward Mc Cann
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With Love from Karenby M. KillileaISBN 0440996155 (0-440-99615-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The World of Charles Dickensby Angus WilsonISBN 0436575132 (0-436-57513-2)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Something Like an Autobiographyby Akira Kurosawa, Audie E. BockISBN 0394509382 (0-394-50938-2)
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