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Acts of Faith : Daily Meditations for People of Colorby Iyanla VanzantISBN 0684832364 (0-684-83236-4)
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Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople Everywhereby Brian TracyISBN 0684824744 (0-684-82474-4)
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Strategy, tactics, and mental preparedness separate superior salespeople from the average -- and with technological advances evening the competition, the selling edge is now more important than ever. Drawing on his own successful sales career and on his extensive experience as a sales consultant and seminar leader, Brian Tracy has developed the most comprehensive and effective approach to selling ever created.
Advanced Selling Strategies provides you with the techniques and tools used by top salespeople in every industry -- methods that net immediate and spectacular results. This book explains how to:
* Develop the self-image to give you the edge in every sales situation
* Concentrate on the customer's emotional factors to ensure better sales results
* Identify your customer's most pressing concerns and position your product or service to fill those needs
A MUST READ FOR SALESPEOPLE AND BUSINESSPEOPLE ALIKE. [via]
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Africa in History: Themes and Outlinesby Basil DavidsonISBN 0684826674 (0-684-82667-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa in History: Themes and Outlines'Book summary:Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization," applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work presents the inner growth of Africa and its worldwide significance, the internal dynamic of its old civilizations and their links with Asia, Europe and America, as well as the development of specific areas, tribes and cultures. From accounts of the days of the green Sahara and the great iron age, the earliest Portuguese colonization, the coming of slavery and the subsequent legacy of violence and mistrust, the growth of Islam in the north and the cults of the Congo, the sophistication of art and architecture, and the pattern behind social and tribal mores, the entire picture of the continent emerges. This revised edition reflects the recent astonishing changes in South Africa, including the release of Nelson Mandela. [via]
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Ah, but Your Land Is Beautifulby Alan PatonISBN 068482583X (0-684-82583-X)
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Alias Shakespeareby Joseph SobranISBN 0684826585 (0-684-82658-5)
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And the Waters Turned to Blood : The Ultimate Biological Threatby Rodney BarkerISBN 0684831260 (0-684-83126-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Waters Turned to Blood : The Ultimate Biological Threat'Book summary:Don't drink the water. Don't swim in it, fish in it, or even bathe in it. Rodney Barker's book, And the Waters Turned to Blood details the latest plague to visit our shores: Pfiesteria piscicida, the "cell from hell," an aquatic microorganism that causes sufferers to exhibit symptoms similar to Alzheimers or multiple sclerosis. As it follows the fortunes of Dr. JoAnn Burkholder, one of the first scientists to recognize the danger of Pfiesteria, Barker's book reads like a cross between science fiction and conspiracy theory: Dr. Burkholder discovers that excessive pollution in the rivers and coastal waters of the Southeastern United States causes a deadly microorganism to breed like crazy; state and federal government attempts to suppress the report.
An investigative reporter by training, Mr. Barker writes And the Waters Turned to Blood like a thriller, revealing pieces of the puzzle judiciously as he builds tension. Unlike in a literary thriller, however, there is no tidy ending to this story. Readers will be left with the disturbing knowledge that fish are still dying, fishermen are still getting sick, and the potential for disaster in this latest scourge is still unmeasured. [via]
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Aphrodite's Daughter: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soulby Jalaja BonheimISBN 0684830809 (0-684-83080-9)
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalismby Ben Yagoda, Kevin KerraneISBN 0684830418 (0-684-83041-8)
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Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleauby Rafe Martin, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Philip Kapleau, Roshi Philip KapleauISBN 0684829738 (0-684-82973-8)
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Between Two Fires : American Indians in the Civil Warby Laurence M. HauptmanISBN 0684826682 (0-684-82668-2)
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Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxyby Bruce BawerISBN 0684827662 (0-684-82766-2)
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The Bible According to Mark Twain: Irreverent Writings on Eden, Heaven, and the Flood by America's Master Satiristby Mark Twain, Joseph B. McCullough, Howard G. BaetzholdISBN 0684824396 (0-684-82439-6)
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in Americaby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0684826348 (0-684-82634-8)
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Body Count: Moral Poverty... and How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugsby John J. Diiulio, William J. Bennett, John P. WaltersISBN 0684832259 (0-684-83225-9)
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Capone: The Man and the Eraby Laurence BergreenISBN 0684824477 (0-684-82447-7)
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Catch-22by Joseph HellerISBN 0684833395 (0-684-83339-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch-22'Book summary:There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]More editions of Catch-22:
Character above All: Ten Presidents from FDR to George Bushby Robert A. WilsonISBN 0684827093 (0-684-82709-3)
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Chocolate For A Woman's Soul: 77 Stories To Feed Your Spirit And Warm Your Heartby Kay AllenbaughISBN 0684832178 (0-684-83217-8)
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The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writingby David KahnISBN 0684831309 (0-684-83130-9)
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern Worldby Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawISBN 0684829754 (0-684-82975-4)
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Completing the Revolution: A Vision for Victory in 2000by Robert D. NovakISBN 0684827468 (0-684-82746-8)
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Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custerby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0684832755 (0-684-83275-5)
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Death by Chocolate Cookiesby Marcel DesaulniersISBN 068483197X (0-684-83197-X)
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A Diary of Private Prayer: A Devotional Classicby John BaillieISBN 0684824981 (0-684-82498-1)
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Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench?: Hardware Stores and Hardware Storiesby Vince StatenISBN 0684832747 (0-684-83274-7)
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Divided They Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party, 1964-1996by Ronald RadoshISBN 0684828103 (0-684-82810-3)
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Early Christian Fathersby Cyril C. RichardsonISBN 0684829517 (0-684-82951-7)
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The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Antsby Erich HoytISBN 0684830450 (0-684-83045-0)
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The End of Racismby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0684825244 (0-684-82524-4)
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Eyewitness to Power : The Essence of Leadership: Nixon to Clintonby David GergenISBN 0684826631 (0-684-82663-1)
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Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Childrens' Minds-For Better and Worseby Jane M. HealyISBN 0684831368 (0-684-83136-8)
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Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values, and the Meaning of Lifeby Steven E. LandsburgISBN 0684827557 (0-684-82755-7)
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False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakesby Thomas HovingISBN 0684831481 (0-684-83148-1)
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Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communitiesby George L. Kelling, Catherine M. ColesISBN 0684824469 (0-684-82446-9)
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Forever Fifty and Other Negotiationsby Judith ViorstISBN 0684832372 (0-684-83237-2)
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From West To East: California and the Making of the American Mindby Stephen SchwartzISBN 0684831341 (0-684-83134-1)
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Glued to the Set: The 60 Television Shows and Events That Made Us Who We Are Todayby Steven D. StarkISBN 0684828170 (0-684-82817-0)
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God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle Eastby Judith MillerISBN 0684832283 (0-684-83228-3)
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God Was Not in the Fire: The Search for a Spiritual Judaismby Daniel GordisISBN 0684825260 (0-684-82526-0)
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A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventuresby Ben BradleeISBN 0684825236 (0-684-82523-6)
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The Groom's Secret Handbook: How Not to Screw Up the Biggest Day of Her Lifeby Anthony E. Marsh, Jay BlumenfieldISBN 0684833166 (0-684-83316-6)
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Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Pastby Susan JacobyISBN 068483250X (0-684-83250-X)
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Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspaceby Janet Horowitz MurrayISBN 0684827239 (0-684-82723-9)
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The Homebrewer's Recipe Guide: More Than 175 Original Beer Recipes, Including Magnificent Pale Ales, Ambers, Stouts, Lagers, and Seasonal Brews, Plus Tips from the Master Brewersby Patrick Higgins, Paul Hertlein, Maura Kate KilgoreISBN 0684829215 (0-684-82921-5)
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Hugh Johnson's Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine 1997by Hugh JohnsonISBN 0684830612 (0-684-83061-2)
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I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depressionby Terrence RealISBN 0684831023 (0-684-83102-3)
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I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jrby Michael Eric DysonISBN 068483037X (0-684-83037-X)
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I Was Right on Time: My Journey from Negro Leagues to the Majorsby Steve Wulf, Buck O'Neil, David ConradsISBN 068483247X (0-684-83247-X)
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In the Classroomby Mark GersonISBN 0684827565 (0-684-82756-5)
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Commandby Stephen W. Sears, Douglas Southall FreemanISBN 0684833093 (0-684-83309-3)
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The Libertarianism Readerby David BoazISBN 0684832003 (0-684-83200-3)
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Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internetby Sherry TurkleISBN 0684833484 (0-684-83348-4)
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The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilitiesby Philip KitcherISBN 0684827050 (0-684-82705-0)
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Lost Prophet : The Life and Times of Bayard Rustinby John D'EmilioISBN 0684827808 (0-684-82780-8)
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The Luckiest Girl in the World : A Novelby Steven LevenkronISBN 0684826046 (0-684-82604-6)
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Madness on the Couch : Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysisby Edward DolnickISBN 0684824973 (0-684-82497-3)
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The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhoodby Selma H. Fraiberg, Berry BrazeltonISBN 0684825503 (0-684-82550-3)
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Making the Corps : 61 Men Came to Paris Island to Become Marines, Not All of Them Made Itby Thomas E. RicksISBN 0684831090 (0-684-83109-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making the Corps : 61 Men Came to Paris Island to Become Marines, Not All of Them Made It'Book summary:Marines are different: distinct not only from ordinary U.S. citizens but from the ranks of the army, navy, and air force as well. The difference begins with boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, where the history and future of the United States Marine Corps intersect in the training of every new recruit. In Making the Corps, Ricks follows a platoon of young men through 11 grueling weeks of boot camp as their drill instructors indoctrinate them into the culture of the Few and the Proud. Many arrive at Parris Island undisciplined and apathetic; they leave as marines.
With the end of the cold war, the role of the American military has shifted in emphasis from making war to keeping peace. "The best way to see where the U.S. military is going is to look at the marines today," says Ricks, as the other armed forces have begun to emulate the marine model. To understand Parris Island--a central experience in the life of every marine--is to understand the ethos of the Marine Corps. Ricks examines the recent changes in the Standard Operating Procedures for Recruit Training (the bible of Parris Island), which indicate how the corps is dealing with critical social and political issues like race relations, gender equality, and sexual orientation. Making the Corps pierces the USMC's "sis-boom-bah" mythology to help outsiders understand this most esoteric and eccentric of U.S. armed forces. --Tim Hogan [via]
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Mean Justice : A Town's Terror, a Prosecutor's Power, a Betrayal of Innocenceby Edward HumesISBN 0684831740 (0-684-83174-0)
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Millenniumby Fernandez Armesto, Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoISBN 0684825368 (0-684-82536-8)
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The Modern Jewish Canon : A Journey Through Language and Cultureby Ruth R. WisseISBN 0684830752 (0-684-83075-2)
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Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feelby Candace B. PertISBN 0684831872 (0-684-83187-2)
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Moral Judgment of the Childby Jean PiagetISBN 0684833301 (0-684-83330-1)
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The Motley Fool Investment Guide: How the Fool Beats Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Tooby David Gardner, Thomas GardnerISBN 0684827034 (0-684-82703-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Motley Fool Investment Guide: How the Fool Beats Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too'Book summary:Should you let a Fool tell you where to invest your money? If he's a Motley Fool, the answer is a resounding YES! David and Tom Gardner launched the most successful investment information service ever to grace cyberspace, and now they show you how to beat the market, even if you don't know a dividend from a divining rod. With this guide, you'll find out how the information revolution can put money in your pocket. [via]
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Murdoch: The Making of a Media Empireby William ShawcrossISBN 0684830159 (0-684-83015-9)
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The Nature of Horses: Exploring Equine Evolution Intelligence and Behaviorby Stephen BudianskyISBN 0684827689 (0-684-82768-9)
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Needlepoint Bookby Jo Ippolito ChristensenISBN 0684832305 (0-684-83230-5)
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The New Testament in Modern Englishby J.B. PhillipsISBN 068482633X (0-684-82633-X)
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On Her Own Ground : The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walkerby A'Lelia BundlesISBN 0684825821 (0-684-82582-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Her Own Ground : The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker'Book summary:She was the daughter of slaves, married at 14, a widow with a baby daughter at 20. But, by the time that she was 40, Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919) was making as much money as a white corporate executive, thanks to her popular hair-care products for black women and her brilliance at marketing them. She created a workforce of sales agents that gave African American women job options other than being washerwomen or domestics. As her prominence and wealth increased, she became a generous benefactor of black educational institutions, and such a staunch supporter of the antilynching movement that the State Department labeled her a "race agitator" and denied her a passport in 1919. Yet, she had plenty of time for fun, too; she built a lavish mansion (near John D. Rockefeller's) in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and her daughter Lelia entertained the Harlem Renaissance elite in a spectacular Manhattan townhouse that was renovated with revenues from the company's New York branch. Author A'Lelia Bundles, a veteran television journalist and Madam Walker's descendant, reminds us that controversy over straightened hair has raged within the black community for a century, and that the businesswoman insisted that her aim never was to "de-kink" her customers' tresses, but instead to "grow" them through proper care, frequent washing, and improved nutrition. Bundles seamlessly weaves together her great-great-grandmother's remarkable personal odyssey with the broader outlines of African American struggle in the early 20th century, to create a colorful biography that's also a fascinating social history. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Origins of the Second World Warby Alan J. TaylorISBN 0684829479 (0-684-82947-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of the Second World War'Book summary:The first book ever to examineexclusively and in depth the cause of the Second World War and to apportion the responsibility among Allies and Germans alike. [via]
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A Penny Saved: Teaching Your Children the Values and Life Skills They Will Need to Live in the Real Worldby Neale S. Godfrey, Tad RichardsISBN 0684824809 (0-684-82480-9)
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Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Classby Robin D.G. KelleyISBN 0684826399 (0-684-82639-9)
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Reporting Liveby Lesley StahlISBN 0684829304 (0-684-82930-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reporting Live'Book summary:No TV news blond has more steel than 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl, whose Reporting Live is one impressively substantive celebrity memoir. As a rookie in the CBS Washington, D.C., bureau in 1972, she got an assignment too grubby and unpromising for the big reporters: Watergate. She didn't just date Bob Woodward, she vied with him for scoops. For a quarter century, workaholic Stahl saw more of presidents and fellow bulldog newshound Sam Donaldson than her own daughter and husband, Urban Cowboy writer Aaron Latham.
Stahl's book belongs on any political-history shelf. Besides a briskly readable account of epochal events witnessed up close, she offers canny insights into what broke Nixon, backs up Tom Shales's opinion of Carter as "a combination Mr. Rogers and John the Baptist," assesses Reagan's mysteriously fogbank-like mind, and paints a startlingly warm portrait of George Bush (though not Barbara). Not only can Stahl fire fierce questions at world leaders against hair-raising deadlines, she can analyze trends with cool detachment, sometimes busting her profession or herself as guilty parties. She laments the "moral McCarthyism" of our times and compares her profession to a pack of wild dogs she'd encountered on an African safari.
What did it mean to be a woman in a man's world? Menachem Begin sexually harassed her, but her experience with teenage girls proved useful in understanding Reagan's bitchy, backstabbing male staff. Stahl sketches her personal life (and Latham's near-fatal depression), but her stuff on media and politics is the real news here. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecksby Clive Cussler, Craig DirgoISBN 0684830272 (0-684-83027-2)
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Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White Houseby Elizabeth DrewISBN 0684825511 (0-684-82551-1)
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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Ageby James Dale Davidson, William Rees-MoggISBN 0684832720 (0-684-83272-0)
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St. Petersburg: A Cultural Historyby Solomon Volkov, Antonina W. BouisISBN 0684832968 (0-684-83296-8)
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Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmo Therby Helie LeeISBN 0684827115 (0-684-82711-5)
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The Sun Also Risesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684830515 (0-684-83051-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sun Also Rises'Book summary:The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.
Jake Barnes, Hemingway's narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafés, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fiancé and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he's a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands.
But what's most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation. --David Laskin [via]
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Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzanby John TaliaferroISBN 068483359X (0-684-83359-X)
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincolnby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0684824906 (0-684-82490-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln'Book summary:Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. [via]
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Tell Newt to Shut Up: Prizewinning Washington Post Journalists Reveal How Reality Gagged the Gingrich Revolutionby David Maraniss, Michael WeisskopfISBN 0684832933 (0-684-83293-3)
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There's a Word for It: A Grandiloquent Guide to Lifeby Charles Harrington ElsterISBN 0684824558 (0-684-82455-8)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0684830469 (0-684-83046-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Paradise'Book summary:Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]
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The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impactby Colin TudgeISBN 0684830523 (0-684-83052-3)
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Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperamentby Kay Redfield JamisonISBN 068483183X (0-684-83183-X)
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War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politicsby Eleanor Clift, Tom BrazaitisISBN 0684833468 (0-684-83346-8)
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We Wrecked the Place: Contemplating an End to the Northern Irish Troublesby Jonathan StevensonISBN 068482745X (0-684-82745-X)
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We're History!: The 20Th-Century Survivor's Final Examby Jaime O'NeillISBN 0684829223 (0-684-82922-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We're History!: The 20Th-Century Survivor's Final Exam'Book summary:The twentieth century is nearly history, and since you probably weren't born yesterday, you should at least remember a few things about the last one hundred amazing years. For old time's sake, take this short quiz to see what you remember and how much you may have forgotten:
- Which came first, Velcro, spandex, or polyester?
- What kind of a detective was Ace Ventura?
- True or False: Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
- What was going on in San Francisco on April 19, 1906?
- What do Laika, Belka, and Strelka have in common?
Surprised? And those five questions are just a sample of the people, places, and things that come flooding back in We're History!, a host of cleverly designed quizzes that celebrate and test your knowledge of the twentieth century. With more than 2,000 creatively phrased and organized questions (short answer, fill-in-the blanks, true/false, "which came first?" and "spot the anachronism") and seventeen chapters covering every conceivable twentieth-century theme, innovation, and icon, We're History! will sharpen your trivia skills, dust off your memory, and, most importantly, provide you with what may be your last whirlwind ride through a truly memorable century.
Answers: Velcro came first in 1948; Ace Ventura was a pet detective; true; San Francisco is burning after a great earthquake; they were dogs, and also the first animals in space. [via]
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Why the North Won the Civil Warby T. Harry Williams, Norman A. Graebner, Henry Steele Commager, Richard Nelson Current, David Morris Potter, David Herbert DonaldISBN 0684825066 (0-684-82506-6)
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Why We Watch: Killing the Gilligan Withinby Will MillerISBN 0684831066 (0-684-83106-6)
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The Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauserby J. Moussaieff Masson, Paul Johann Anselm FeuerbachISBN 0684830965 (0-684-83096-5)
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The World Within War: America's Combat Experience in World War IIby Gerald F. LindermanISBN 0684827972 (0-684-82797-2)
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The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric, 1994-1997by George F. WillISBN 0684825627 (0-684-82562-7)
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Zen Guitarby Philip Toshio SudoISBN 0684830906 (0-684-83090-6)
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The Zone Gardenby Charlotte M. Frieze, Joel Barkley, Michael H. DodgeISBN 0684825600 (0-684-82560-0)
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The Zone Garden 3-4-5: A Surefire Guide to Gardening in Your Zoneby Charlotte M. Frieze, Joel Barkley, Michael H. DodgeISBN 0684824655 (0-684-82465-5)
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The Zone Garden: 8-9-10 A Surefire Guide to Gardening in Your Zoneby Charlotte M. Frieze, Joel Barkley, Michael H. DodgeISBN 0684825619 (0-684-82561-9)
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