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10,000 Dreams Interpretedby G.H. MillerISBN 1586630954 (1-58663-095-4)
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After The Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Nextby Jana Hensel, Jefferson ChaseISBN 1586482661 (1-58648-266-1)
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In After the Wall, Jana Hensel tells the story of her confused generation of East Germans, who were forced to abandon their past and feel their way through a foreign landscape to an uncertain future. Now as they look back, they wonder whether the oppressive, yet comforting life of their childhood wasn't so bad after all.
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The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terrorby George SorosISBN 1586483595 (1-58648-359-5)
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Aircraft of World War II: 300 Of the World's Greatest Aircraftby Chris ChantISBN 1586633031 (1-58663-303-1)
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Anatomy for the Artistby Jen”O BarcsayISBN 1586631748 (1-58663-174-8)
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Anatomy of a Castleby John GibsonISBN 1586631942 (1-58663-194-2)
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Art of War: Eyewitness U.S. Combat Art from the Revolution Through the Twentieth Centuryby H. Avery ChenowethISBN 1586633112 (1-58663-311-2)
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The Beatles Filesby Andy DavisISBN 1586631004 (1-58663-100-4)
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Best of I.f. Stoneby I.F. Stone, Karl Weber, Peter OsnosISBN 158648463X (1-58648-463-X)
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The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumersby Katherine GreiderISBN 1586481851 (1-58648-185-1)
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Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and His Fabulous Kiteby Tom TuckerISBN 1586482947 (1-58648-294-7)
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The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classicsby W. John CampbellISBN 1586632043 (1-58663-204-3)
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Booknotes On American Characterby Brian LambISBN 1586483420 (1-58648-342-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Booknotes On American Character'Book summary:Over the past twenty-five years, C-SPAN has established itself as a national treasure. And Booknotes, the flagship of its book programming, has become the premier place to see serious, thoughtful nonfiction get its television due. Over the past fifteen years, Brian Lamb, the CEO of C-SPAN and host of Booknotes, has interviewed 765 authors on the program, and these deep and wide-ranging interviews have been the basis for three bestselling Booknotes books. Now, in a new collection, Booknotes: On American Character, Lamb has selected seventy original pieces that reveal something about America: the nation's people, history, and character.[via]
Here are biographies of artists, businessmen, politicians, and inventors; stories of events famous, infamous, and less well-known in the nation's history; a look at how politics works in America and how the nation responds to conflict. Our leading historians, journalists, and public figures draw from a diverse set of sources to examine what kind of nation and people we are. The result is a valuable addition to the Booknotes legacy and a welcome read for any fan of the program.More editions of Booknotes On American Character:
Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American Historyby Brian LambISBN 1586482327 (1-58648-232-7)
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The Cat from Hueby Jack LaurenceISBN 1586481606 (1-58648-160-6)
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The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the Imfby Paul BlusteinISBN 1586481819 (1-58648-181-9)
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The Christian Bed & Breakfast Directory: 2002-2003 Editionby Ellyn SannaISBN 1586603906 (1-58660-390-6)
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Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Educationby Harry R. LewisISBN 1586483935 (1-58648-393-5)
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A G-Man's Life : The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat' and the Struggle for Honor in Washingtonby Mark Felt, John D. O'ConnorISBN 1586483773 (1-58648-377-3)
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Gastronomy Of Italyby Anna Del ConteISBN 1586632965 (1-58663-296-5)
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The Girl With the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert And the Making of the Modern Art Marketby Lindsay PollockISBN 1586483021 (1-58648-302-1)
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Governor Reaganby Lou CannonISBN 158648284X (1-58648-284-X)
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Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospitalby Alex BeamISBN 1586481614 (1-58648-161-4)
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A Great and Godly Adventure: The Pilgrims & the Myth of the First Thanksgivingby Godfrey HodgsonISBN 1586483730 (1-58648-373-0)
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The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissanceby R.J. SmithISBN 1586482955 (1-58648-295-5)
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The Hammer: Tom DeLay God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congressby Reid, Jan ReidISBN 1586482386 (1-58648-238-6)
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Handwriting of the Famous and Infamousby Sheila LoweISBN 1586632264 (1-58663-226-4)
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The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in Americaby Lawrence J. EpsteinISBN 1586481622 (1-58648-162-2)
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Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hateby Neil BaldwinISBN 1586481630 (1-58648-163-0)
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The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared For Stalin From The Interrogations of Hitler's Personal Aidesby Giles MacDonogh, Joseph Stalin, Henrik Eberle, Heinz Linge, Matthias Uhl, Fyodor Parparov, Igor Saleyev, Otto GunscheISBN 1586483668 (1-58648-366-8)
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The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler's Personal Aidesby Henrik Eberle, Matthias Uhl, Giles MacDonoghISBN 1586484567 (1-58648-456-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler's Personal Aides'Book summary:Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, he was in 1945 unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the debris of the Berlin bunker. In his paranoia, Stalin ordered his secret police, the NKVD, precursor to the KGB, to explore in detail every last vestige of the private life of the only man he considered a worthy opponent, and to clarify beyond doubt the circumstances of his death.[via]For months two captives of the Soviet Army--Otto Guensche, Hitler's adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his personal valet--were interrogated daily, their stories crosschecked, until the NKVD were convinced that they had the fullest possible account of the life of the Führer. In 1949 they presented their work, in a single copy, to Stalin. It is as remarkable for the depth of its insight into Adolf Hitler--from his specific directions to Linge as to how his body was to be burned, to his sense of humor--as for what it does not say, reflecting the prejudices of the intended reader: Joseph Stalin. Nowhere, for instance, does the dossier criticize Hitler's treatment of the Jews.
Today, the 413-page original of Stalin's personal biography of Hitler is a Kremlin treasure and it is said to be held in President Putin's safe. The only other copy, made by order of Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1959, was deposited in Moscow Party archives under the code number 462A. It was there that Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl, two German historians, found it. Available to the public in full for the first time, The Hitler Book presents a captivating, astonishing, and deeply revealing portrait of Hitler, Stalin, and the mutual antagonism of these two dictators, who between them wrought devastation on the European continent.
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Holy Unexpected: My New Life As a Jewby Robin ChotzinoffISBN 1586483080 (1-58648-308-0)
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Horse of a Different Colorby James D. SquiresISBN 1586481800 (1-58648-180-0)
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How Did This Happen?: Terrorism and the New Warby James F. Hoge, Gideon RoseISBN 1586481304 (1-58648-130-4)
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How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The Worldby Francis WheenISBN 158648348X (1-58648-348-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World'Book summary:In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.[via]
What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World:
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Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethicsby Leon R. KassISBN 1586481762 (1-58648-176-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics'Book summary:Few avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of human beings, a radical way to control our DNA. In August 2001, in conjunction with his decision to permit limited federal funding for stem-cell research, President George W. Bush created the President's Council on Bioethics to address the ethical ramifications of biomedical innovation. Over the past year the Council, whose members comprise an all-star team of leading scientists, doctors, ethicists, lawyers, humanists, and theologians, has discussed and debated the pros and cons of cloning, whether to produce children or to aid in scientific research. This book is its insightful and thought-provoking report.[via]The questions the Council members confronted do not have easy answers, and they did not seek to hide their differences behind an artificial consensus. Rather, the Council decided to allow each side to make its own best case, so that the American people can think about and debate these questions, which go to the heart of what it means to be a human being. Just as the dawn of the atomic age created ethical dilemmas for the United States, cloning presents us with similar quandaries that we are sure to wrestle with for decades to come.
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I Can't Stop Loving You! 2by yoshino SomeiISBN 1586558897 (1-58655-889-7)
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The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Centuryby Michael MandelbaumISBN 1586482068 (1-58648-206-8)
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Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Senseby Francis WheenISBN 1586482475 (1-58648-247-5)
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What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
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Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War IIby Stuart Eizenstat, Elie WieselISBN 1586482408 (1-58648-240-8)
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Jesus: The Son of Godby Dan LarsenISBN 1586609408 (1-58660-940-8)
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Jesus Wants All of Meby Phil Smouse, Phil A. SmouseISBN 158660841X (1-58660-841-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jesus Wants All of Me'Book summary:Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest truly has become a Christian classic. First published in the United States in 1935, Utmost remains a Christian best-seller with millions of copies in print. Now this popular devotional has been edited and revised for children ages 2 to 7. Faithful to the essence of each original devotion, Jesus Wants All of Me includes full-color illustrations throughout. Parents and children together will delight in reading this daily devotional that encourages children to offer their very best for God. Approved and authorized by the Oswald Chambers Publications Association, Ltd. [via]
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Lawyer: A Life of Counsel and Controversyby Peter Israel, Arthur LimanISBN 1586481770 (1-58648-177-0)
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 1586632108 (1-58663-210-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
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Lighthousesby Virginia Woolf, Valerie E. KenneyISBN 1586631489 (1-58663-148-9)
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Lillian Too's Chinese Wisdom: Spiritual Magic for Everyday Livingby Lillian TooISBN 1586631632 (1-58663-163-2)
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Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Rightby Michele WuckerISBN 1586483560 (1-58648-356-0)
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Lydia: Christian Businesswomanby Katherine GreegorISBN 1586609483 (1-58660-948-3)
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Masters Of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forcesby Linda RobinsonISBN 1586483528 (1-58648-352-8)
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Critics and supporters of the recent American interventions alike should find the technical proficiency of the Special Forces interesting and impressive. Each 12-soldier team may marshal more than a century of combined experience in weapons, foreign languages, intelligence, communications, air control, and trauma medicine. For a book about such an action-packed subject, though, Robinson's effort is somewhat dry, and she devotes more time to mundane background biographies than to the dramatic battle scenes in which the Special Forces invariably find themselves. In addition, Robinson's "secret history" is an authorized and sympathetic one, and readers may be left wondering what she may have left out of her accounts in order to maintain her access. --Alex Roslin [via]
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The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Doby Michael MandelbaumISBN 1586483307 (1-58648-330-7)
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Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earthby Dan GlickISBN 1586482378 (1-58648-237-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth'Book summary:After losing his brother to cancer and a painful divorce that left him the sole charge d'affaires of two decidedly spirited children, environmental reporter Daniel Glick knew he and his little family desperately needed some karmic rejuvenation. He opted for an epic adventure. In the summer of 2001, Dan, Zoe, and Kolya packed up and set off on a six-month tour to see the world's most exotic and endangered habitats.[via]
Monkey Dancing takes readers along for this incredible journey. From the python-infested rivers of Borneo to the highest summits of Bali, from Nepal's Gangeatic Plains to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Glick recounts the adventures they met with, the challenges they confronted, and how they learned to cope with grief, loss, and one another. Along the way, he offers intimate reflection on life, fatherhood, change, and the fragile health of our troubled planet.
Acclaimed by reviewers, a BookSense Parenting bestseller, Monkey Dancing is a "poignant, affirming, ultimately courageous book"Audubon Magazine.More editions of Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth:
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My Utmost for His Highest: Updated Grad Editionby Chambers, Oswald Chambers, James ReimannISBN 1586608304 (1-58660-830-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Utmost for His Highest: Updated Grad Edition'Book summary:Oswald Chambers, a Scotsman who converted to Christianity in his teens under the ministry of Charles Spurgeon, has been affecting Christians with his devotional words since My Utmost for His Highest was first published in 1935. This acknowledged classic contains 365 daily readings that take heady doctrine and make it practical, realistic, and intensely personal. With humor and humility, Chambers speaks plainly to the common man struggling with devotion to Christ in daily living. Worldly cares and self-serving desires begin to lose their appeal as Chambers aides the reader in transforming his mind by viewing life through the instruction of God's Word. Richard Halverson, former chaplain of the United States Senate, attests to this: "no book except the Bible has influenced my walk with Christ at such deep maturing levels." This is Chambers's chief desire, directing the reader to "shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only--My Utmost for His Highest... determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone." --Jill Heatherly [via]
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My Utmost for His Highest: Updated Promotionalby Chambers, James ReimannISBN 1586608290 (1-58660-829-0)
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My Warby Andy RooneyISBN 1586481592 (1-58648-159-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My War'Book summary:On July 7, 1941, a young Colgate University football player named Andy Rooney reported for U.S. Army training. He was, Rooney allows, not prime military material. He had a knack for enraging the drill instructors with his wisecracks, and for pulling harsh assignments as a result, and his shenanigans got him disqualified from officer candidacy. Still, Rooney survived boot camp and served for a time as an artilleryman until being reassigned to the daily newspaper Stars and Stripes. Lucky for him, too: in 1942 his old outfit ran into trouble in North Africa, fighting against Erwin Rommel, and although few of them were killed, Rooney writes, "there's a good possibility I would have spent all of 1943, 1944, and six months of 1945 in a German prison camp."
In My War, a fine and wholeheartedly irreverent memoir, Rooney--later to gain fame as a 60 Minutes commentator--recounts what happened instead. As a correspondent, he saw combat up-close while honing his craft alongside such fellow chroniclers as Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin. What he witnessed will perhaps not please some survivors and students of the war, especially those who revere Gen. George S. Patton--whom Rooney charges with having committed improprieties, injustices, and even war crimes in the quest to secure personal fame.
Though the book is a personal memoir, Rooney has taken pains to square his anecdotes with the historical record. However, he writes, "It is distressing for me to note how infrequently the facts concur with my memory of what happened." (In such cases, he adds, he assumes that the facts are wrong.) Affecting, occasionally disturbing, and thoroughly well-written, Rooney's memoir is a welcome addition to the literature of "the good war." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Futureby Daniel AltmanISBN 158648351X (1-58648-351-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future'Book summary:The neoconomy: a place without taxes, without a social safety net, where rich and poor live in different financial worlds and it's coming to America.[via]The first glimpses of the neoconomy appeared during the Reagan administration, but were soon clouded by a legacy of sky-high budget deficits. George H. W. Bush couldn't afford the neoconomy. In the Clinton years,its prospects all but disappeared in a flurry of economic fine-tuning that delivered record-setting budget surpluses and rock-bottom unemployment rates. But just when you might have counted it out, the neoconomy found a savior. George W.Bush was a businessman who understood the neoconomy almost instinctively, and had the will and boldness to make it a reality.
In Neoconomy Daniel Altman explains the intellectual roots of the Bush administration's economic policy; and why Bush has been so intent on implementing it despite the dashed expectations, terror and financial scandals that have buffeted the economy. He shows why the neoconomists remain committed to their vision even though it has contributed to the biggest budget deficit in history, at the end of the nation's fastest-ever swing into the red. The neconomists are seeking to transform the American economy; but inadvertently or not, they are also transforming American society. The revolution is finally coming,and it's coming from above.
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The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Courseby Richard HaassISBN 1586484532 (1-58648-453-2)
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Our Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the Worldby John Edwards, John KerryISBN 1586483145 (1-58648-314-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World'Book summary:John Kerry and John Edwards know that the issues, and the stakes, of the 2004 Presidential election are the most profound and urgent to confront America in generations. They think that America needs more than to get back on courseAmerica needs a whole new direction.[via]Our Plan for America presents, in full scope, Kerry and Edward's map for the next four years and beyond. Here, in thorough detail and accessible language, Kerry and Edwards delineate point-by-point the most urgent challenges facing America today, and their plans to redress these, including:
LAUNCHING AND LEADING A NEW ERA OF ALLIANCES
MODERNIZING THE MILITARY
CHARTING THE COURSE TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
RESTORING FISCAL DISCIPLINE TO WASHINGTON
CREATING NEW JOBS IN AMERICA
PROVIDING HEALTH CARE FOR EVERY CHILD
MANAGING SKYROCKETING HEALTH CARE COSTS
PROVIDING EVERY AMERICAN A WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND COLLEGE
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Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabweby Martin MeredithISBN 158648186X (1-58648-186-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe'Book summary:In 1980, Zimbabwe was the great hope of Africa, a place where blacks were supposed to realize their postcolonial destinies under the enlightened leadership of Robert Mugabe. But now the country formerly known as Rhodesia is an international basket case with a wrecked economy and a dim future. In this disturbing book by Martin Meredith, a British journalist with extensive experience in southern Africa, Mugabe transforms into a villain. "Year by year, he acquired ever greater power, ruling the country through a vast system of patronage, favoring loyal aides and cronies with government positions and contracts and ignoring the spreading blight of corruption," writes Meredith. "Power for Mugabe was not a means to an end, but the end itself." His reign has been so wretched, in fact, that some of the most sympathetic people in Our Votes, Our Guns are the white farmers who once supported apartheid-style rule but decided not to flee when Mugabe came to power. They were promised multiracial harmony; what they got instead was a racist dictator who thought nothing of using violence against them. Admirers of Philip Gourevitch--or, indeed, anyone with an interest in African politics--will appreciate Meredith's depressing but important story. --John Miller [via]
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Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Frauds - American History From Bancroft And Parkman To Ambrose, Bellisles, Ellis, And Goodwinby Peter HofferISBN 1586482440 (1-58648-244-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Frauds - American History From Bancroft And Parkman To Ambrose, Bellisles, Ellis, And Goodwin'Book summary:Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the disenfranchised women. So the history of Wilson's generation omitted a significant proportion of the population in favor of a perspective that was predominantly white, male and Protestant.[via]That flaw would become a fissure and eventually a schism. A new history arose which, written in part by radicals and liberals, had little use for the noble and the heroic, and that rankled many who wanted a celebratory rather than a critical history. To this combustible mixture of elements was added the flame of public debate. History in the 1990s was a minefield of competing passions, political views and prejudices. It was dangerous ground, and, at the end of the decade, four of the nation's most respected and popular historians were almost destroyed by it: Michael Bellesiles, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose and Joseph Ellis.
This is their story, set against the wider narrative of the writing of America's history. It may be, as Flaubert put it, that "Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times." To which he could have added: falsify, plagiarize and politicize, because that's the other story of America's history.
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Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death Og Enronby Robert BryceISBN 1586482017 (1-58648-201-7)
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Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, Jealousy and the Death of Enronby Robert BryceISBN 158648138X (1-58648-138-X)
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Play With Your Foodby Saxton Freymann, Joost ElfersISBN 1586632302 (1-58663-230-2)
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Powder Burn: Arson, Money, and Mystery on Vail Mountainby Daniel GlickISBN 1586481649 (1-58648-164-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Powder Burn: Arson, Money, and Mystery on Vail Mountain'Book summary:On the face of it, this is the story of unsolved arson at a high-glamour resort, a mystery packed with suspects that range from crusty ski bums to radical tree huggers to the resort's own corporate honchos. But underlying this entertaining true-life plot is a greater theme that is playing out across America. Here, tensions mount between the progress-minded shareholders of Vail Resorts Inc., environmentalists, and locals who simply pine for the days when they weren't priced out of having a meal--or a life--in Vail, Colorado. Elsewhere, similar hostility brews over conflicting interests in pricey tourist regions like Taos, New Mexico; the Florida Keys; and the Hamptons of New York. So while Powder Burn is an intriguing tale on its own, it also serves as a snapshot of our country as it struggles with its final growing pains. The modern corporatization of Vail Mountain is in direct contrast to its past, when a hard-drinking fellow could ride his horse into a bar and turn himself into local legend. Daniel Glick, a special correspondent for Newsweek, masterfully uses his reporter's eye for detail to deliver the spirit and breathtaking scenery of the Rocky Mountain West. He introduces personalities in rapid-fire succession, but, to his credit, the reader never feels overwhelmed or confused. The descriptions are so vivid--from the environmentalist tracking lynx paw prints through the snow to the vacationing company president staking out a Disney World pay phone as he receives updates on the 1998 fire's damage--that they remain fixed in the reader's mind as the story unfolds. It's a story that makes interesting reading for skiers, environmentalists, or anyone intrigued by the unfolding drama in our last wild places. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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Public Editor Number 1: The Collected Columns (With Refections, Reconsiderations, and Even a Few Retractions) of the First Ombudsman of the New York Timesby Daniel OkrentISBN 1586484001 (1-58648-400-1)
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The Quotable I Love Lucyby Elisabeth EdwardsISBN 1586632884 (1-58663-288-4)
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Ruth: Woman of Loyaltyby Kjersti Hoff BaezISBN 1586609424 (1-58660-942-4)
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Sparknotes Frankensteinby SparknotesISBN 1586633570 (1-58663-357-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparknotes Frankenstein'Book summary:Get your "A" in gear!
They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
· They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.
· They're easier to understand, because the same people who use them have also written them.
· The clear writing style and edited content enables students to read through the material quickly, saving valuable time.
And with everything covered--context; plot overview; character lists; themes, motifs, and symbols; summary and analysis, key facts; study questions and essay topics; and reviews and resources--you don't have to go anywhere else!
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Sparknotes Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 1586633589 (1-58663-358-9)
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
· They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.
· They're easier to understand, because the same people who use them have also written them.
· The clear writing style and edited content enables students to read through the material quickly, saving valuable time.
And with everything covered--context; plot overview; character lists; themes, motifs, and symbols; summary and analysis, key facts; study questions and essay topics; and reviews and resources--you don't have to go anywhere else!
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Stained Glass: Jewels of Lightby Joe PorcelliISBN 1586630148 (1-58663-014-8)
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Talking Right: How the Right turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times Reading, Body Piercing, Hollywood Loviby Geoff NunbergISBN 1586483862 (1-58648-386-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking Right: How the Right turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times Reading, Body Piercing, Hollywood Lovi'Book summary:Geoffrey Nunberg breaks new ground with this fierce and funny narrative of how the political right has ushered in a new world order, aided unwittingly by the liberal media. Democrats are well known for their "lousy bumper stickers," as Joe Klein puts it. As liberals wade through the semantics of "social security lockbox," "single payer," and other wonky locutions, the right has become harder, meaner and better at getting out the message: the estate tax became the more menacing "death tax" and a contentious education initiative was wrapped in the comforting (and memorable) blanket of "No Child Left Behind." But Nunberg shows that the real story is more subtle than just a bumper sticker war. Conservatives' main goal wasn't to win voters over to their positions on healthcare, education, or the environment. They had a much more dramatic ambition. By changing the meaning of words like "values," "government," "liberal"; "faith," and "freedom," conservatives have shifted the political center of gravity of the language itself to the right. "Whatever our politics," Nunberg observes, "when we talk about politics nowadays, we can't help using language that embodies a conservative world-view."[via]More editions of Talking Right: How the Right turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times Reading, Body Piercing, Hollywood Lovi:
Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Televisionby Don HewittISBN 158648141X (1-58648-141-X)
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Teslaby Margaret CheneyISBN 158663187X (1-58663-187-X)
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They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudanby Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Judy A. BernsteinISBN 1586482696 (1-58648-269-6)
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Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip Trueby Robert RivardISBN 1586484559 (1-58648-455-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True'Book summary:In December 1998, San Antonio Express-News reporter Philip True vanished during a solo backcountry trek in western Mexico, home of the reclusive Huichol Indians and the Chapalagana, the Twisted Serpent Canyon, a 150-mile long gash that twists and plunges through the heart of the Sierra Madre. Five days later his editor, Robert Rivard, was part of a small search party that, nearly miraculously, tracked a trail of feathers that had leaked from True's sleeping bag to find his body.[via]Trail of Feathers is the story of the search for True and of the quest to bring his killers to justice. It is also the story of another perplexing mystery: Why had True taken such a dangerous trip, into such a raw, uncivilized wilderness, alone and without sufficient safety preparations, in the first place? After an unhappy and unsettled youth, True was at the age of fifty finally settling down to a career and a wife he loved. His first child was about to be born. What was he running from, or to?
Rivard's search for answers to these questions leads him deep into the Sierra Madre Occidental, one of Mexico's last true wildernesses, and deep into the secrets of Philip True's past. It also leads him into his own past, and an acknowledgment of the ways in which his life and True's mirrored each other. Suspenseful, atmospheric, and moving, Trail of Feathers is more than a true crime tale; it's a classic tragedy about how the past reverberates destructively into the present for individuals, for cultures, for nations.
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Townby Nate BlakesleeISBN 1586484540 (1-58648-454-0)
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Valley of the Kingsby Kent R. Weeks, Araldo De LucaISBN 1586632957 (1-58663-295-7)
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Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combatby Wesley K. ClarkISBN 1586481398 (1-58648-139-8)
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1586632116 (1-58663-211-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Other Writings'Book summary:The quintessential back-to-nature book, Walden is an account of Thoreau's attempt to find a spiritual awakening by returning to a simple life in the Massachusetts woodlands. Thoreau's rejection of the values of the then-burgeoning Industrial Revolution still reverberates for contemporary readers. His quest for something deeper and more meaningful than materialism created a work that gave form to some of man's deepest yearnings. Walden, or Life in the Woods, is an attempt to awaken the "sleepers" of society to the potential for greatness within each of them. Written with poetry and fire, it remains one of literature's greatest road maps to the divine. [via]
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War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survivalby Sheri FinkISBN 158648267X (1-58648-267-X)
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The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorismby Richard C. Leone, Greg AnrigISBN 1586482106 (1-58648-210-6)
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Water Gardens: A Guide to Creating, Caring For, and Enjoying Aquatic LandscapingISBN 1586633082 (1-58663-308-2)
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Will the Boat Sink the Water: The Life of China's Peasantsby Guidi Chen, ChuntaoISBN 1586484184 (1-58648-418-4)
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Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasantsby Chen Guidi, Wu Chuntao, Guidi Chen, Tao Chun, Zhu HongISBN 1586483587 (1-58648-358-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants'Book summary:The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social and economic leap forward, because if it is to leap it must carry the 900 million with it. Chinese journalists Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi returned to Wu's home province of Anhui, one of China's poorest, to undertake a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants there, asking the question: Have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer. Told principally through four dramatic narratives of paricular Anhui people, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth of daily life for its vast population of rural poor.[via]More editions of Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants:
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