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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer's Disease , Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Lifeby Nancy L. MacE, Peter V. RabinsISBN 070895801X (0-7089-5801-X)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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4001 Babies' Names and Their Meaningsby James GlennonISBN 0709024517 (0-7090-2451-7)
Softcover, Robert Hale Ltd
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Adolescenceby John W. SantrockISBN 0697253406 (0-697-25340-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Societyby Sharon KinsellaISBN 0700710043 (0-7007-1004-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Alternative Londonby Nicholas SaundersISBN 0704502879 (0-7045-0287-9)
Hardcover, the author : Wildwood House
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American Art: History and Cultureby Wayne CravenISBN 0697167631 (0-697-16763-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way Craven charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture. The resulting book is as much a history of American culture as of American art. [via]
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Aristocratsby S. K. TillyardISBN 0701159332 (0-7011-5933-2)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristocrats'Book summary:I must confess that initially I tried to skim this book. But it was far too good, and I ended up spending hours totally engrossed in the lives, loves, and letters of the Lennox sisters--Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah. Author Stella Tillyard gives a second life to these 18th-century aristocrats, whose extended family included some of the most significant and colorful British political figures of the era. She mixes impeccable research, a sharp eye for detail, and a writing style that's both precise and lively to produce a biography of a clan that doubles as a panoramic history of the aristocracy in the 1700s.
Each sister's defining characteristics shine through her letters, portraits, and Tillyard's terrific storytelling. Caroline, the eldest, is deeply pessimistic, intelligent, and moral but fascinated by and attracted to "wickedness" (she eloped with the naughty-but-nice Henry Fox and lived happily ever after). Emily: beautiful, loving, dictatorial, and unbelievably fertile (22 children, 10 of whom survived into adulthood). Louisa was good, gentle, always unwilling to believe ill of anyone, and when she died, was mourned not only by family and friends, but also by the whole of the Irish town in which she lived. And Sarah--flighty, flirtatious Sarah, with whom the young King George III fell blushingly and tongue-tiedly in love. Who, after disgracing herself and her dull, uninterested husband with the moody younger brother of Lord Gordon (of Gordon riots fame), finally found happiness and respectability, in her late 30s, with an understanding soldier. Unmissable. --Lisa Gee, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Michael PalinISBN 0708985734 (0-7089-8573-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Art Across Time: Prehistory to the Fourteenth Centuryby Laurie Schneider AdamsISBN 0697274799 (0-697-27479-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Asian Artby John D. LA PlanteISBN 0697115917 (0-697-11591-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Battle of Kurskby David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. HouseISBN 0700609784 (0-7006-0978-4)
Hardcover, University Press of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle of Kursk'Book summary:Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses--including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties within the first ten days of fighting. Going well beyond all previous accounts, David Glantz and Jonathan House now offer the definitive work on arguably the greatest battle of World War II.
Drawing on both German and Soviet sources, Glantz and House separate myth from fact to show what really happened at Kursk and how it affected the outcome of the war. Their access to newly released Soviet archival material adds unprecedented detail to what is known about this legendary conflict, enabling them to reconstruct events from both perspectives and describe combat down to the tactical level.
The Battle of Kursk takes readers behind Soviet lines for the first time to reveal what the Red Army knew about the plans for Hitler's offensive (Operation Citadel), relive tank warfare and hand-to-hand combat, and tell how the tide of battle turned. Its vivid portrayals of fighting in all critical sectors places the famous tank battle in its proper context. Prokhorovka here is not a well-organized set piece but a confused series of engagements and hasty attacks, with each side committing its forces piecemeal.
Glantz and House's fresh interpretations demolish many of the myths that suggest Hitler might have triumphed if Operation Citadel had been conducted differently. Theirs is the first account to provide accurate figures of combat strengths and losses, and it includes 32 maps that clarify troop and tank movements.
Shrouded in obscurity and speculation for more than half a century, the Battle of Kursk finally gets its due in this dramatic retelling of the confrontation that marked the turning point of the war on the Eastern front and brought Hitler's blitzkrieg to a crashing halt.
This book is part of the Modern War Studies series. [via]
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The Battle of Kurskby Jonathan M. House, David M. GlantzISBN 0700613358 (0-7006-1335-8)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Beasts in My Belfryby Joe DurellISBN 0708901727 (0-7089-0172-7)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Betrayal of Richard IIIby V. B. LambISBN 0705100197 (0-7051-0019-7)
Hardcover, Mitre P.
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Biologyby Peter H. Raven, George B. JohnsonISBN 069724251X (0-697-24251-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945by Michael D. DoublerISBN 0700607447 (0-7006-0744-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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The Collectionby Peter Ackroyd, Thomas WrightISBN 0701173009 (0-7011-7300-9)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvaniaby Andrew ShankmanISBN 0700613048 (0-7006-1304-8)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Debutante: Rites and Regalia of American Debdomby Karal Ann MarlingISBN 070061317X (0-7006-1317-X)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Differential Equations: An Introductionby Daniel A. MarcusISBN 069705957X (0-697-05957-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945by J. C. MastermanISBN 0708104592 (0-7081-0459-2)
Hardcover, Australian National University Press
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Emily Bronte : Hereticby Stevie DaviesISBN 0704344017 (0-7043-4401-7)
Softcover, Women's Press, Limited, The
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Encyclopedia of the Horseby Elwyn Hartley EdwardsISBN 0706406060 (0-7064-0606-0)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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Epics of Early Civilization: Myths of the Ancient Near EastISBN 0705435539 (0-7054-3553-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Essays of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillieISBN 0701206667 (0-7012-0666-7)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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The Essentials of Psychoanalysisby Sigmund Freud, Anna FreudISBN 0701207205 (0-7012-0720-5)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-analysis
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Fascism: A Historyby Roger EatwellISBN 0701161884 (0-7011-6188-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhoodby Elspeth Joscelin Grant HuxleyISBN 0701108231 (0-7011-0823-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Forests of the Vampiresby Charles Phillips, Michael Kerrigan, Duncan Baird PublishersISBN 0705436136 (0-7054-3613-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Freud Journalby Lou Andreas-Salome, Stanley A. LeavyISBN 0704300222 (0-7043-0022-2)
Softcover, Texas Bookman
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Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebookby Paula Gunn AllenISBN 0704343185 (0-7043-4318-5)
Softcover, Womens Pr Ltd
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Greek Science After Aristotleby Geoffrey Ernest Richard LloydISBN 0701119063 (0-7011-1906-3)
Softcover, Chatto and Windus
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Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 2001 to February 2002ISBN 0707803012 (0-7078-0301-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This BookBook summary:[via]For more than a century, Britain's National Trust has worked for the preservation of places of historic interest and national beauty throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The National Trust Handbook is a visitor's guide to the National Trust properties that are open to the public, including stately homes, gardens, castles, barns, and lighthouses. The Handbook lists more than 300 properties, and each has a brief description, address, telephone number, opening times, admission fee, travel directions, and details of the facilities on site. The National Trust Handbook will open up a world of riches to those traveling in Britain.More editions of Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 2001 to February 2002:
The Humanistic Tradition: Medieval Europe and the World Beyondby Gloria K. FieroISBN 0697340694 (0-697-34069-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Centuryby Margaret AlicISBN 0704339544 (0-7043-3954-4)
Softcover, Women's Press
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Frontby Derek S. Zumbro, G. H. Bidermann, Dennis ShowalterISBN 0700610162 (0-7006-1016-2)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, In Deadly Combat conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English.
Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war trapped in the Courland Pocket. He shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape. He recalls a Christmas gift of gingerbread from home that overcame the stench of battle, an Easter celebrated with a basket of Russian hand grenades for eggs, and his miraculous survival of machine gun fire at close range. In closing he relives the humiliation of surrender to an enemy whom the Germans had once derided and offers a sobering glimpse into life in the Soviet gulags.
Bidermann's account also debunks the myth of a highly mechanized German army that rolled over weaker opponents with impunity. Despite the vast expanses of territory captured by the Germans during the early months of Operation Barbarossa, the war with Russia remained tenuous and unforgiving.
Translator Derek Zumbro has rendered Bidermann's memoir into a compelling narrative that retains the author's powerful style. This English-language edition of Bidermann's dynamic story is based upon a privately published memoir entitled Krim-Kurland Mit Der 132 Infanterie Division. Zumbro has also added important events derived from numerous interviews with Bidermann to provide additional context for American readers. [via]
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Frontby G. H. Bidermann, Dennis Showalter, Derek S. ZumbroISBN 0700611223 (0-7006-1122-3)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, In Deadly Combat conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English.
Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war trapped in the Courland Pocket. He shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape. He recalls a Christmas gift of gingerbread from home that overcame the stench of battle, an Easter celebrated with a basket of Russian hand grenades for eggs, and his miraculous survival of machine gun fire at close range. In closing he relives the humiliation of surrender to an enemy whom the Germans had once derided and offers a sobering glimpse into life in the Soviet gulags.
Bidermann's account also debunks the myth of a highly mechanized German army that rolled over weaker opponents with impunity. Despite the vast expanses of territory captured by the Germans during the early months of Operation Barbarossa, the war with Russia remained tenuous and unforgiving.
Translator Derek Zumbro has rendered Bidermann's memoir into a compelling narrative that retains the author's powerful style. This English-language edition of Bidermann's dynamic story is based upon a privately published memoir entitled Krim-Kurland Mit Der 132 Infanterie Division. Zumbro has also added important events derived from numerous interviews with Bidermann to provide additional context for American readers. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0708980155 (0-7089-8015-5)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiographyby Janet FrameISBN 0704350726 (0-7043-5072-6)
Hardcover, Womens Pr Ltd
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Journeys Through Dreamtimeby the Editor's of Time-Life BooksISBN 0705436233 (0-7054-3623-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Leave the Letters Till We're Deadby Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann BanksISBN 0701204702 (0-7012-0470-2)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939;by Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. FreudISBN 0701203374 (0-7012-0337-4)
Hardcover, Hogarth P.
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The Letters of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann BanksISBN 0701204036 (0-7012-0403-6)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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The Literary Critics: A Study of English Descriptive Criticismby George WatsonISBN 0701207256 (0-7012-0725-6)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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Lost Realms of Gold: South American Mythby the Editor's of Time-Life BooksISBN 0705435830 (0-7054-3583-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940by James S. CorumISBN 0700608362 (0-7006-0836-2)
Hardcover, University Press of Kansas
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Making Doll's House Miniatures With Polymer Clayby Sue HeaserISBN 0706375904 (0-7063-7590-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Martha Gellhorn: A Lifeby Caroline MooreheadISBN 0701169516 (0-7011-6951-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The National Trust Handbook: for members and visitors, March 2005 to February 2006by Not AvailableISBN 0707803993 (0-7078-0399-3)
Softcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement C. MooreISBN 0698115953 (0-698-11595-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, Lisbeth ZwergerISBN 0698400305 (0-698-40030-5)
Hardcover, Minedition
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Nil Desperandum: A Dictionary of Latin Tags and Useful Phrasesby Eugene H. EhrlichISBN 0709026315 (0-7090-2631-5)
Hardcover, R. Hale
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Oliver Twist ; Great Expectations ; A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0706416716 (0-7064-1671-6)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyageby Mary DalyISBN 070434372X (0-7043-4372-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Past Is Myselfby Christabel BielenbergISBN 0701113332 (0-7011-1333-2)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Foundingby David C. HendricksonISBN 0700614931 (0-7006-1493-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Photographyby Phil DavisISBN 0697125149 (0-697-12514-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Pig City: From The Saints To Savage Gardenby ANDREW STAFFORDISBN 0702233609 (0-7022-3360-9)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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Portable Nietzscheby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0701116013 (0-7011-1601-3)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Question of Things Happeningby Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann BanksISBN 0701204206 (0-7012-0420-6)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Right-Wing Womenby Andrea DworkinISBN 0698111710 (0-698-11171-0)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann
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Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American Historyby Peter Charles Hoffer, N. E. H. HullISBN 0700611436 (0-7006-1143-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History'Book summary:Abortion. In a sharply divided America is there a more divisive issue? The bitter debate over Roe v. Wade--in the courts, legislatures, press, and streets--has grown ever more ferocious since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 1973. For years pro-choicers have applauded Roe as a guarantee of women's rights, while pro-lifers have condemned it as the work of an activist and atheistic Court. Now it looms at the center of a growing political storm, as a new president, an old Court, and a divided Congress reconsider Roe's status in the wake of the controversial 2000 elections.
Anyone looking for a concise, balanced, readable, teachable, current, and complete guide to the case need search no further than this new volume by N. E. H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer. Giving due respect to both sides of the conflict, the authors effectively trace and analyze the core debates, examine the case's unique history, clarify the jurisprudence behind the Court's ruling, and gauge its impact on American society. Of special note is their revealing account of how the Court attempted to steer a middle course by rejecting both abortion on demand and the absolute right to life and yet, in the end, wound up igniting a firestorm of protest instead.
Unlike other accounts of Roe, this one examines the complete social and legal context of the case. Hull and Hoffer review more than a century of abortion practice (and abuse), common-law views on abortion, nineteenth-century criminalization measures, and the rapid changes in science, public mores, and civil rights that finally brought the issue before the Supreme Court. They also trace abortion law through the twentieth century, reprise the 1965 case of Griswold v. Connecticut, in which the Supreme Court overturned a state law against contraceptives, and reexamine the highly publicized attempts to reverse Roe in Webster v. Reproductive Services (1989) and Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992).
All of the key actors are here: Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" who never actually had the abortion she originally sought; attorney Sarah Weddington, who challenged Texas law by drawing on her own abortion experience; lobbyists on both sides of the question; and each of the Supreme Court justices. This is a book that can inform and enlighten those on either side of the debate, as well as all of those in between.
This book is part of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series. [via]
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Rumor of War: With a Twentieth Anniversary Postscript by the Authorby Philip CaputoISBN 0708958648 (0-7089-5864-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Russian Thinkersby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0701204389 (0-7012-0438-9)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russian Thinkers'Book summary:Among the seven essays collected in Russian Thinkers is perhaps Isaiah Berlin's most famous work, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," which begins with an ancient Greek proverb ("The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing") before taking on Leo Tolstoy's philosophy of history, showing how Tolstoy "was by nature a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog." The other half dozen pieces examine other Russian writers and philosophers, including Alexander Herzen, Ivan Turgenev, and Mikhail Bakunin--although the latter, Berlin says, "is not a serious thinker. There are no coherent ideas to be extracted from his writings of any period, only fire and imagination, violence and poetry, and an ungovernable desire for strong sensations." Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptibly about Russian thought and culture as the Latvian-born Berlin, and the history covered in Russian Thinkers is a unique elaboration of Berlin's theses concerning the impact of ideas upon culture. [via]
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranesby Eleanor CoerrISBN 0698119002 (0-698-11900-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranesby Ronald Himler, Eleanor CoerrISBN 0698118022 (0-698-11802-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes'Book summary:Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan. [via]
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Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writingsby Angela Carter, Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0701163364 (0-7011-6336-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Shelley the Pursuitby Richard HolmesISBN 070433111X (0-7043-3111-X)
Softcover, Quartet Books Ltd
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Sociology As Applied to Medicineby Graham ScamblerISBN 0702026654 (0-7020-2665-4)
Softcover, W B Saunders Co
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The Sport of Queensby Dick FrancisISBN 0708908969 (0-7089-0896-9)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Three Guineasby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701207019 (0-7012-0701-9)
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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0701131373 (0-7011-3137-3)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Trees for Flower and Fragranceby Stirling MacOboyISBN 0701816244 (0-7018-1624-4)
Hardcover, Lansdowne Pr
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True History of the Kelly Gangby Peter CareyISBN 0702231886 (0-7022-3188-6)
Softcover, University of Queensland Press
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The Tyrannicide Briefby Geoffrey RobertsonISBN 0701176024 (0-7011-7602-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Understanding Your Catby Michael W. FoxISBN 0698106032 (0-698-10603-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Venture to the Interiorby Laurens Van Der PostISBN 070113044X (0-7011-3044-X)
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Virginia Woolf: A Biographyby Quentin BellISBN 0701202912 (0-7012-0291-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virginia Woolf:a Biography: A Biography'Book summary:A biography of Virginia Woolf written by her nephew, which was originally published in two volumes in 1972. Details are provided on her family and childhood, her earliest writings, the formation of the Bloomsbury group, her marriage, her mental breakdown between 1912 and 1915, and various other personal and professional events until her death. [via]
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Voices of the Ancestors: African Mythby Tony Allan, Charles Phillips, Fergus Fleming, Time-Life BooksISBN 0705436438 (0-7054-3643-8)
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What Kansas Means to Me: Twentieth-Century Writers on the Sunflower Stateby Thomas Fox AverillISBN 0700607102 (0-7006-0710-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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William Wallace : The King's Enemyby D. J. GrayISBN 0709043295 (0-7090-4329-5)
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Wise Lord of the Skyby Tony Allan, Charles Phillips, Michael Kerrigan, Duncan Baird PublishersISBN 0705436330 (0-7054-3633-0)
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The World's Most Infamous Murdersby Nigel Blundell, Roger BoarISBN 0706419529 (0-7064-1952-9)
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Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942by David M. GlantzISBN 0700614176 (0-7006-1417-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942'Book summary:One of the least-known stories of World War II, Operation Mars was an epic military disaster. Designed to dislodge the German Army from its position west of Moscow, Mars cost the Soviets an estimated 335,000 dead, missing, and wounded men and over 1,600 tanks. But in Russian history books, it was a battle that never happened--a historical debacle sacrificed to Stalin's postwar censorship.
David Glantz now offers the first definitive account of this forgotten catastrophe, revealing the key players and detailing the major events of Operation Mars. Using neglected sources in both German and Russian archives, he reconstructs the historical context of Mars and reviews the entire operation from High Command to platoon level.
Orchestrated and led by Marshal Georgi Kostantinovich Zhukov, one of the Soviet Union's great military heroes, the twin operations Mars and Uranus formed the centerpiece of Soviet strategic efforts in the fall of 1942. Launched in tandem with Operation Uranus, the successful counteroffensive at Stalingrad, Mars proved a monumental setback. Fought in bad weather and on impossible terrain, the ambitious offensive faltered despite spectacular initial success in some sectors: Zhukov kept sending in more troops and tanks only to see them decimated by the entrenched Germans.
Illuminating the painful progress of Operation Mars with vivid battle scenes and numerous maps and illustrations, Glantz presents Mars as a major failure of Zhukov's renowned command. Yet, both during and after the war, that failure was masked from public view by the successful Stalingrad operation, thus eliminating any stain from Zhukov's public image as a hero of the Great Patriotic War.
For three grueling weeks, Operation Mars was one of the most tragic and agonizing episodes in Soviet military history. Glantz's reconstruction of that failed offensive fills a major gap in our knowledge of World War II, even as it raises important questions about the reputations of national military heroes.
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