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423 | 2017-04-08 20:21:50 | Dark Horse | Steve Neal | 9780700604531 | 0700604537 | Trade Paperback | 10/10/1989 | University Press of Kansas | Biography of Wendell Willkie | English | 384 | 1.25 | 1 | B | United States Politics and government 1933-1945.|Politicians|Biography|Politics and government|United states | |||||||||
424 | 2017-04-07 15:50:41 | Groundwork Charles Hamilton... | Genna Rae Mcneil | 9780812211795 | 0812211790 | Trade Paperback | 05/01/1983 | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS | 344 | 1.02IN | 6.03IN | 1.02 in. | 1 | 2800812211797 | Jr. Higginbotham | B | Civil rights workers -- United States.|Literature-A to Z|Civil rights workers|Constitutional history -- United States.|Biography-Lawyers and Judges | |||||||
425 | 2017-04-08 00:07:00 | John Wayne Gacy Defending a... | Sam L. Amirante, Danny Broderick | 9781632203632 | 1632203634 | Trade Paperback | 09/15/2015 | Skyhorse Publishing | 472 | 1.40IN | 6.00IN | 1.25 | Yes | Sam L. Amirante | B | Crime - True Crime | ||||||||
426 | 2017-04-08 20:23:30 | Five Chiefs A Supreme Court... | John Paul Stevens | 9780316199803 | 031619980X | Hardcover | 10/01/2011 | LITTLE BROWN & CO | 304 | 8.5 in. | 6 in. | 1.25 in. | 7 | Biography - General|Biography-Lawyers and Judges | ||||||||||
427 | 2017-04-08 20:23:43 | Louis D Brandeis American Prophet | Jeffrey Rosen | 9780300158670 | 030015867X | Hardcover | 06/01/2016 | YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS | Jewish Lives (Hardcover) | 256 | 1.10IN | 6.10IN | B | |||||||||||
428 | 2017-04-08 20:24:17 | Saving Justice: Watergate, the... | Bork, Robert H. | 9781594036811 | 1594036810 | Hardcover | 03/12/2013 | Encounter Books | English | 136 | .80IN | 6.30IN | .75 | Yes | Robert H Bork | B | US History-General|Biography-Political | |||||||
429 | 2017-04-08 20:25:38 | Up the Capitol Steps A Womans... | Barbara Roberts | 9780870716102 | 0870716107 | Trade Paperback | 10/01/2011 | OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS | Women and Politics in the Pacific Northwest | 448 | 1.10IN | 6.00IN | 1.25 | Yes | Roberts | B | AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Political|AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women|Autobiography-Personal Memoir|Biography-Political | |||||||
430 | 2017-04-02 19:26:19 | Sir William Garrow: His Life, Times and Fight for Justice | Hostettler, John and Braby, Richard | 9781904380696 | 1904380697 | Trade Paperback | 01/17/2011 | Waterside Press | English | 352 | .80IN | 6.10IN | Yes | B | Biography-Lawyers and Judges | |||||||||
431 | 2017-04-08 20:25:52 | Scorpions The Battles & Triumphs... | Noah Feldman | 9780446699280 | 0446699284 | Trade Paperback | 07/15/2016 | HACHETTE BOOK GROUP | 513 | 1.44IN | 5.21IN | 1.50 | Yes | Noah Feldman | B | Biography-Lawyers and Judges | ||||||||
432 | 2017-04-02 19:26:41 | Clarence Darrow Attorney for the Damned | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsDrawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. Darrow left a promising career as a railroad lawyer during the tumultuous Gilded Age in order to champion poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts against big business, Jim Crow, and corrupt officials. He became famous defending union leader Eugene Debs in the landmark Pullman Strike case and went from one headline case to the next—until he was nearly crushed by an indictment for bribing a jury. He redeemed himself in Dayton, Tennessee, defending schoolteacher John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial,” cementing his place in history. Now, John A. Farrell draws on previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs to offer a candid account of Darrow’s divorce, affairs, and disastrous finances; new details of his feud with his law partner, the famous poet Edgar Lee Masters; a shocking disclosure about one of his most controversial cases; and explosive revelations of shady tactics he used in his own trial for bribery. Clarence Darrow is a sweeping, surprising portrait of a legendary legal mind.From the Hardcover edition.SynopsisWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyThe definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever. Amidst the tumult of the industrial age and the progressive era, Clarence Darrow became America’s greatest defense attorney, successfully championing poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts, against big business, fundamentalist religion, Jim Crow, and the US government. His courtroom style—a mixture of passion, improvisation, charm, and tactical genius—won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. In Farrell’s hands, Darrow is a Byronic figure, a renegade whose commitment to liberty led him to heroic courtroom battles and legal trickery alike.About the AuthorJohn Aloysius Farrell is the author of the highly acclaimed Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century, which was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, received rave reviews from the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Boston Globe, and was a New York Times “Notable Book” and a Washington Post Book World “Rave of the Year.” He is a staff correspondent at National Journal magazine in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was Washington bureau chief for the Denver Post, served as Washington editor, White House correspondent for the Boston Globe, and was a senior writer at the Center for Public Integrity. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington. |
John A Farrell | 9780767927598 | 0767927591 | Trade Paperback | 05/01/2012 | VINTAGE BOOKS | 561 | 1.21IN | 5.17IN | 1.50 | Yes | John A Farrell | B | Biography|Biography-Lawyers and Judges | |||||||
433 | 2017-04-06 02:31:15 | Glass Castle a Memoir | Jeannette Walls | 9780743247542 | 074324754X | Trade Paperback | 01/17/2006 | SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE | 288 | .80IN | 5.20IN | .50 | 1 | Yes | 2800743247544 | Jeannette Walls | B | Problem families -- United States.|Poor|Personal Memoirs|Biography - General|Homeless persons | ||||||
434 | 2017-04-28 20:26:17 | The Empathy Exams: Essays | Leslie Jamison | 9781555976712 | 1555976719 | Trade Paperback | 04/01/2014 | Graywolf Press | 226 | .70IN | 5.60IN | .75 | B | Anthologies-Essays | ||||||||||
435 | 2017-04-02 19:27:28 | I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | About the AuthorPoet, writer, performer, teacher, and director, Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, and five poetry collections, including I Shall Not Be Moved and Shaker, Why Dont You Sing? | Maya Angelou | 9780345514400 | 0345514408 | Mass Market | 04/21/2009 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 289 | .83IN | 4.32IN | 1.00 | 1 | 2800345514402 | Maya Angelou | B | African American authors|Authors, American -- 20th century.|Biography-Literary|cultural heritage | ||||||
436 | 2017-04-07 17:25:13 | All the Wild That Remains: Edward... | David Gessner | 9780393352375 | 0393352374 | Trade Paperback | 03/14/2016 | W. W. Norton & Company | 368 | 1.00IN | 5.40IN | Yes | B | |||||||||||
437 | 2017-04-03 02:10:04 | So Sad Today: Personal Essays | Melissa Broder | 9781455562725 | 1455562726 | Trade Paperback | 03/15/2016 | GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING | 224 | .60IN | 5.20IN | B | Biography - General | |||||||||||
438 | 2017-05-10 02:20:32 | Heartbreaking Work of Staggering... | Dave Eggers | 9780375725784 | 0375725784 | Trade Paperback | 02/13/2001 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 496 | 1.02IN | 5.22IN | 1.00 | 12 | 2800375725786 | Dave Eggers | B | Personal Memoirs|Death|Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.|Biography - General|Parents | |||||||
439 | 2017-04-02 19:28:12 | Naked | From Powells.comWhether he is best known as a playwright, a radio personality, an essayist, or satirist, David Sedaris in Naked is screamingly funny. In the autobiographical essays that comprise Naked, Sedaris reveals his childhood compulsions (nervous ticks, high pitched noises, counting stairs, touching burners), takes readers along on successful shoplifting raids with his quadriplegic companion (nobody stopped them), and describes a number of emotional and vocational misadventures that are disturbing, unfortunate, and utterly hilarious. Sedaris's humor is at times cruel. It is also deeply charitable. His descriptions of his family are celebrations of their eccentricities, and his take-no-prisoners style places himself first among those against the wall. Anyone ready for his sharp, cathartic tour of wit will laugh out loud in every story. Sedaris appears regularly on National Public Radio as a comentator. He is also the author of Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice and Me Talk Pretty One Day. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsIn Naked, David Sedaris's message — alternately rendered in "Fakespeare," Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek — is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in "A Plague of Tics" to the title story, in which he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed. Review"Hilariously entertaining....The essays in Naked re-create the cathartic, the spiritual experience of laughing so hard that it hurts." Francine Prose, New York Observer SynopsisOne of the most talked-about, most enjoyed bestsellers of the year, Naked offers a collection of hilarious, touching, genre-bending vignettes "guaranteed to make you blow milk out your nose" (Details).SynopsisWelcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview — a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing. |
Sedaris, David | 9780316777735 | 0316777730 | Trade Paperback | 06/01/1998 | HACHETTE BOOK GROUP | 224 | .79IN | 5.58IN | .75 | 1 | 2800316777737 | B | Biography|United states|Humor-Anthologies|Humorists|United States Social life and customs. | |||||||
440 | 2017-04-06 02:32:15 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A... | Kingsolver, Barbara and Kingsolver, Camille and Hopp, Steven L. | 9780060852566 | 0060852569 | Trade Paperback | 04/29/2008 | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | P.S. | 370 | 1.30IN | 5.20IN | 1.00 | 1 | Yes | 2800060852568 | Barbara Kingsolver | B | Biography - General|Personal Memoirs | |||||
441 | 2017-04-03 02:10:04 | Lit A Memoir | Mary Karr | 9780060596996 | 0060596996 | Trade Paperback | 06/29/2010 | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | P.S. | 432 | 1.05IN | 5.40IN | 1.00 | 1 | 4294967295 | J. A. Jance | B | Biography - General|Personal Memoirs|Suspense | ||||||
443 | 2017-04-27 02:51:35 | What I Talk about When I Talk... | Murakami, Haruki | 9780307389831 | 0307389839 | Trade Paperback | 08/11/2009 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 179 | .56IN | 5.20IN | .75 | 1 | 2800307389833 | Philip Gabriel | B | Personal Memoirs|Murakami, Haruki|Biography - General|Marathon running | |||||||
444 | 2017-04-06 02:32:50 | This Is the Story of a Happy... | Ann Patchett | 9780062236685 | 0062236687 | Trade Paperback | 10/07/2014 | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | 306 | .90IN | 5.30IN | .75 | Ann Patchett | B | Biography - General | |||||||||
446 | 2017-04-02 19:29:14 | At the Existentialist Cafe Freedom Being & Apricot Cocktails | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsFrom the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century’s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. “You see,” he says, “if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!” It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism. Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists’ story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters—fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships—and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.Publisher Weekly Reviews"When first reading the existentialists, Bakewell recalls that she was less attracted to their individual biographies than their theories; now, she writes, she’s changed her mind: ‘Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.’ Much to the great fortune of her readers, this book is richly populated with both." The Boston GlobeReviewBakewell (How to Live) brilliantly explains 20th century existentialism through the extraordinary careers of the philosophers who devoted their lives and work to “the task of responsible alertness” and “questions of human identity purpose and freedom.” Through vivid characterizations and a clear distillation of dense philosophical concepts Bakewell embeds the story of existentialism in the “story of a whole European century” dramatizing its central debates of authenticity rebellion freedom and responsibility. Albert Camus Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau Ponty all strut and fret across the stage with cameos from Richard Wright James Baldwin and Iris Murdoch among others. Casting his shadow over all is Jean Paul Sartre perhaps existentialism’s most famous face and beside him Simone de Beauvoir whose feminist masterpiece The Second Sex was as “revolutionary in every sense” as Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and Heidegger’s Being and Time. Bakewell illustrates how existentialism contributed to “almost all the great liberation movements” of the 1950s and ’60s arguing persuasively for its continued relevance. This ambitious book bears out Bakewell’s declaration that “thinking should be generous and have a good appetite” and that for philosophers and the general reader alike “ideas are interesting but people are vastly more so.” Photos. (Mar.) " Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."Review"Sarah Bakewell is expertly equipped to tell us the story of existentialism…she writes well, with a lightness of touch and a very Anglo-Saxon sense of humour…[A] skillful and nuanced teacher…[Bakewell’s] explanation of the mysteries of phenomenology, [is] clear and succinct…[At the Existentialist Café] offers fascinating insights into the cultural impact of existentialism on the English-speaking world…Bakewell makes the case that these questions remain as important today as they ever were." The Guardian (US)Review"Don’t let the breezy title put you off. At the Existentialist Café, Sarah Bakewell’s group portrait of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Beauvoir, and the other ‘Continental’ philosophers who flourished before and after World War II, is a work of deep intelligence and sympathy, reminding us how exciting those thinkers can be. And it’s a page-turner. I was so sorry to finish the last chapter that I almost—almost—ran over to the Strand to see what they had by Merleau-Ponty." Lorin Stein, Paris Review DailyReview"When first reading the existentialists, Bakewell recalls that she was less attracted to their individual biographies than their theories; now, she writes, she’s changed her mind: ‘Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.’ Much to the great fortune of her readers, this book is richly populated with both." The Boston GlobeReview"When first reading the existentialists, Bakewell recalls that she was less attracted to their individual biographies than their theories; now, she writes, she’s changed her mind: ‘Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.’ Much to the great fortune of her readers, this book is richly populated with both." The Boston GlobeReview"Warm and intellectually rigorous…Bakewell’s is a clearing in a dense philosophical thicket few of us have the ability or inclination to navigate alone." The Financial TimesReview"An understanding of philosophy cannot be separated from the lives that defined it. [Sarah Bakewell’s] whole book is a quizzically humane response to the question: What is existentialism anyway?" The Wall Street JournalReview"At the Existentialist Café is a bracingly fresh look at once-antiquated ideas and the milieu in which they flourished. Ms. Bakewell’s approach is enticing and unusual: She is not an omniscient author acting as critic, biographer or tour guide." Janet Maslin, The New York TimesReview"In At the Existentialist Café [Sarah Bakewell] combines confident handling of difficult philosophical concepts with a highly enjoyable writing style. I can’t think of a better introduction to modern intellectual history." NewsdaySynopsisFrom the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. You see, he says, if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafes of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism. Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Cafe follows the existentialists story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world."SynopsisA New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2016" From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. You see, he says, if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafes of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism. Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Cafe follows the existentialists story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world."About the AuthorSarah Bakewell was a bookseller and a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart, The English Dane, and the best-selling How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In addition to writing, she now teaches in the Masters of Studies in Creative Writing at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. She lives in London. |
Sarah Bakewell | 9781590514887 | 1590514882 | Hardcover | 03/01/2016 | Other Press (NY) | 448 | 1.50IN | 6.20IN | Yes | B | Biography-Philosophers | |||||||||
447 | 2017-04-02 19:29:22 | Year Of Magical Thinking | Awards2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction 2006 Powell's Puddly Award for Nonfiction Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsFrom one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage and a life, in good times and bad that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later the night before New Year's Eve the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness...about marriage and children and memory...about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."Review"Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare personal essays. The author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem and 11 other works chronicles the year following the death of her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, from a massive heart attack on December 30, 2003, while the couple's only daughter, Quintana, lay unconscious in a nearby hospital suffering from pneumonia and septic shock. Dunne and Didion had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years, and Dunne's death propelled Didion into a state she calls 'magical thinking.' 'We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss,' she writes. 'We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes.' Didion's mourning follows a traditional arc she describes just how precisely it cleaves to the medical descriptions of grief but her elegant rendition of its stages leads to hard-won insight, particularly into the aftereffects of marriage. 'Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.' In a sense, all of Didion's fiction, with its themes of loss and bereavement, served as preparation for the writing of this memoir, and there is occasionally a curious hint of repetition, despite the immediacy and intimacy of the subject matter. Still, this is an indispensable addition to Didion's body of work and a lyrical, disciplined entry in the annals of mourning literature. Agent, Lynn Nesbit. 60,000 first printing; 11-city author tour. (Oct. 19)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)Review"[A] spare and searing memoir....[T]he raw feeling [Didion] funnels into her taut sentences has all the more power because it is so tightly rationed. (Grade: A)" Entertainment WeeklyReview"[A] master essayist, great American novelist, and astute political observer....[A] remarkably lucid and ennobling anatomy of grief, matched by a penetrating tribute to marriage, motherhood, and love." Booklist (Starred Review)Review"A potent depiction of grief, but also a book lacking the originality and acerbic prose that distinguished Didion's earlier writing." Kirkus ReviewsReview"[T]he predominant atmosphere is one of authentic suspense that makes for a remarkable page-turner. As always, Didion's writing style is sheer and highly efficient." Library JournalReview"A moving record of Didion's effort to survive the death of her husband and the near-fatal illness of her only daughter....A potent depiction of grief." Kirkus ReviewsReview"[A]n utterly shattering book that gives the reader an indelible portrait of loss and grief and sorrow, all chronicled in minute detail with the author's unwavering, reportorial eye....[P]rovides a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage, an extraordinarily close relationship between two writers." Michiko Kakutani, the New York TimesReview"The book is an exacting self-examination, but it is also a heartbreaking, though far from sentimentalized, love letter, engrossing in its candor." The Boston GlobeReview"The Year of Magical Thinking, though it spares nothing in describing Didion's confusion, grief and derangement, is a work of surpassing clarity and honesty....It is also as close as Didion will be able to come to a final conversation with John Gregory Dunne." Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldReview"Didion's book is thrilling and engaging sometimes quite funny....Though the material is literally terrible, the writing is exhilarating and what unfolds resembles an adventure narrative." Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book ReviewReview"This book is about getting a grip and getting on; it's also a tribute to an extraordinary marriage." The New YorkerReview"This is a sad and anguished book, told in some of the plainest, yet most eloquent prose you'll ever encounter. Everyone who has ever lost anyone, or will ever lose anyone, would do well to read it." Seattle TimesReview"Readers of average and above sensitivity will not find The Year of Magical Thinking easy going; melancholy, loneliness and mortality are waiting with the turn of nearly every page. But it is also written in Didion's usual spare, dramatic prose, and it is also a love story, with its telling flashbacks from an unconventional forty year marriage that nonetheless revolved around children, meals, fireplaces and hotels in Honolulu. Didion ultimately offers a fiercely intelligent portrait of grief, at a time when that particular experience is so often treated gingerly, sappily, and then hidden away." Anna Godbersen, Esquire (read the entire Esquire review)Review"Didion's memoir of her year of mourning is largely a story of her growing self-awareness of the futility of attempting to control events that are beyond any mortal's control. Although there are moments when she tries to reckon with her feelings of powerlessness...her constant need to detect, and to expunge, all signs of self-pity...means that even her book's occasional inward moments have an emotionally detached feel." Rochelle Gurstein, The New Republic (read the entire New Republic review)SynopsisAn autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood details the critical illness of her daughter, Quintana Roo, followed by the fatal coronary of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter's second bout with a life-threatening ailment, and her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief. Winner of the National Book Award. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.SynopsisFrom one of Americas iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage — and a life, in good times and bad — that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.About the AuthorJoan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction. |
Didion, Joan | 9781400078431 | 1400078431 | Trade Paperback | 02/13/2007 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 227 | .70IN | 5.20IN | .50 | 1 | 2801400078433 | Allen C. Shelton | B | Personal Memoirs|Biography-Literary | ||||||
448 | 2017-11-09 03:24:37 | Tibetan Peach Pie | Tom Robbins | 9780062267412 | 0062267418 | Trade Paperback | 04/14/2015 | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | 384 | 1.00IN | 5.20IN | .504505 in. | B | Biography - General | ||||||||||
449 | 2017-04-28 20:27:10 | Year Of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | 9781400043149 | 140004314X | Hardcover | 10/04/2005 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 227 | .90IN | 5.40IN | 1.00 | 1 | 2801400043141 | Joan Didion | B | Personal Memoirs|Loss (psychology)|Journalists|Grief|Biography-Literary | |||||||
450 | 2017-04-06 02:33:39 | Tibetan Peach Pie | Tom Robbins | 9780062267405 | 006226740X | Hardcover | 05/27/2014 | Ecco Press | 362 | 1.50IN | 6.20IN | 1.50 | Tom Robbins | B | Biography - General | |||||||||
451 | 2017-04-08 19:07:42 | Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas A... | Hunter S Thompson | 9780679785897 | 0679785892 | Trade Paperback | 05/12/1998 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 224 | .61IN | 5.24IN | .75 | 1 | Yes | 2800679785899 | Hunter S. Thompson | B | Biography|Journalists -- United States -- Biography.|Thompson, Hunter S|US History - 20th Century|Journalists | ||||||
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456 | 2017-04-02 19:30:31 | Secret History of Wonder Woman | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsThe Splash Page Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic-book superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no other comic-book character has lasted as long. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Superman first bounded over tall buildings in 1938. Batman began lurking in the shadows in 1939. Wonder Woman landed in her invisible plane in 1941. She was an Amazon from an island of women who had lived apart from men since the time of ancient Greece. She came to the United States to fight for peace, justice, and women’s rights. She had golden bracelets; she could stop bullets. She had a magic lasso; anyone she roped had to tell the truth. To hide her identity, she disguised herself as a secretary named Diana Prince; she worked for U.S. military intelligence. Her gods were female, and so were her curses. “Great Hera!” she cried. “Suffering Sappho!” she swore. She was meant to be the strongest, smartest, bravest woman the world had ever seen. She looked like a pin-up girl. In 1942, she was recruited to the Justice Society of America, joining Superman, Batman, the Flash, and Green Lantern; she was the only woman. She wore a golden tiara, a red bustier, blue underpants, and knee-high, red leather boots. She was a little slinky; she was very kinky. Over seven decades, across continents and oceans, Wonder Woman has never been out of print. Her fans number in the millions. Generations of girls have carried their sandwiches to school in Wonder Woman lunch boxes. But not even Wonder Woman’s most ardent followers know the true story of her origins. She’s as secret as a heart. In an episode from 1944, a newspaper editor named Brown, desperate to discover Wonder Woman’s secret past, assigns a team of reporters to chase her down. She easily escapes them, outrunning their car in her high-heeled boots, leaping like an antelope. Brown, gone half mad, suffers a breakdown and is committed to a hospital. Wonder Woman, taking pity on him, puts on a nurse’s uniform and brings him a scroll. “This parchment seems to be the history of that girl you call ‘Wonder Woman’!” she tells him. “A strange, veiled woman left it with me.” Brown leaps out of bed and, not stopping to change out of his hospital johnny, races back to the city desk, where he cries out, parchment in hand, “Stop the presses! I’ve got the history of Wonder Woman!” Brown’s nuts; he hasn’t really got the history of Wonder Woman. All he’s got is her Amazonian legend. This book has got something else. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is the result of years of research in dozens of libraries, archives, and collections, including the private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston—papers that have never been seen by anyone outside of Marston’s family. I read the published material first: newspapers and magazines, trade journals and scientific papers, comic strips and comic books. Then I went to the archives. I didn’t find anything written on parchment; I found something better: thousands of pages of documents, manuscripts and typescripts, photographs and drawings, letters and postcards, criminal court records, notes scribbled in the margins of books, legal briefs, medical records, unpublished memoirs, story drafts, sketches, student transcripts, birth certificates, adoption papers, military records, family albums, scrapbooks, lecture notes, FBI files, movie scripts, the carefully typed meeting minutes of a sex cult, and tiny diaries written in secret code. Stop the presses. I’ve got the history of Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman isn’t only an Amazonian princess with badass boots. She’s the missing link in a chain of events that begins with the woman suffrage campaigns of the 1910s and ends with the troubled place of feminism fully a century later. Feminism made Wonder Woman. And then Wonder Woman remade feminism, which hasn’t been altogether good for feminism. Superheroes, who are supposed to be better than everyone else, are excellent at clobbering people; they’re lousy at fighting for equality. But Wonder Woman is no ordinary comic-book superhero. The secrets this book reveals and the story it tells place Wonder Woman not only within the history of comic books and superheroes but also at the very center of the histories of science, law, and politics. Super- man owes a debt to science fiction, Batman to the hard-boiled detective. Wonder Woman’s debt is to the fictional feminist utopia and to the struggle for women’s rights. Her origins lie in William Moulton Marston’s past, and in the lives of the women he loved; they created Wonder Woman, too. Wonder Woman is no ordinary comic-book character because Marston was no ordinary man and his family was no ordinary family. Marston was a polymath. He was an expert in deception: he invented the lie detector test. He led a secret life: he had four children by two women; they lived together under one roof. They were masters of the art of concealment. Their favorite hiding place was the comics they produced. Marston was a scholar, a professor, and a scientist; Wonder Woman began on a college campus, in a lecture hall, and in a laboratory. Marston was a lawyer and a filmmaker; Wonder Woman began in a courthouse and a movie theater. The women Marston loved were suffragists, feminists, and birth control advocates. Wonder Woman began in a protest march, a bedroom, and a birth control clinic. The red bustier isn’t the half of it. Unknown to the world, Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century, was part of Marston’s family. Wonder Woman has been fighting for women’s rights for a very long time, battles hard fought but never won. This is the story of her origins—the stuff of wonders, and of lies.SynopsisA riveting work that reveals the origin of one of American popular culture's most iconic figures--a story that hides within it not only a fascinating family saga but a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism. From the author of the National Book Award finalist Book of Ages.Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as long or commanded so vast and wildly passionate a following. In the more than seven decades since she first appeared, her comic books have never been out of print. In years of interviews and archival research, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator. Lepore has discovered that, from Marston's days as a Harvard undergraduate, he was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with the British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home, as Marston's mistress, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. The Marston family story--a house of one man, three women, and four children--is a story of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1930s, Marston and Sanger's niece together wrote a regular column for Family Circle celebrating conventional family life, even as they pursued a life of extraordinary nonconformity. No less fascinating is Marston's role as the inventor of the lie detector. Internationally known as an expert on truth, he lived a life of secrets--only to spill them on the pages of the Wonder Woman comics he began writing in 1941. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history, explaining not only the mysterious origins of the world's most famous female superhero, but solving some of the most vexing puzzles in the American past. Wonder Woman, Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women's rights--a chain of events that begins with the women's suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later.SynopsisJill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award; New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; and The Mansion of Happiness, which was short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.SynopsisJill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her Book of Ages was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.SynopsisA provocative, lively deep-dive into the meaning of America’s first black president and first black presidency, from “one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today” (Vanity Fair)About the AuthorMICHAEL ERIC DYSON is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a Georgetown University professor, an MSNBC political analyst, and best-selling author of seventeen books. He is an American Book Award winner, and two-time NAACP Image Award winner. Dyson’s writing inspired Vanity Fair to say that he is “one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today.” |
Jill Lepore | 9780385354042 | 0385354045 | Hardcover | 10/28/2014 | Knopf Publishing Group | 410 | 9.50 | 6.75 | 1.75 | Jill Lepore | Feminist Studies-General | |||||||||
458 | 2017-04-02 19:30:57 | Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival Resilience & Redemption | Awards 2012 Puddly Award for Nonfiction Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.Review"From the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan's most brutal POW camps, Hillenbrand's heart-wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it's just as much a page-turner, and its hero, Louie Zamperini, is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics, he's a wit, a prankster, and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps, In other words, Louie is a total charmer, a lover of life--whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen 'Phil' Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the 'theater of cruelty' that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright--his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment. After one beating, as Watanabe left Louie's cell, Louie saw on his face a 'soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture.' And Louie, with his defiant and unbreakable spirit, was Watanabe's victim of choice. By war's end, Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid-August 1945, a depleted Louie's only thought was 'I'm free! I'm free! I'm free!' But as Hillenbrand shows, Louie was not yet free. Even as, returning stateside, he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life, Louie remained in the Bird's clutches, haunted in his dreams, drinking to forget, and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view, she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness, Hillenbrand says, 'there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path....' The book's final section is the story of how, with Cynthia's help, Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich, granular detail of Hillenbrand's narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to 'gawk at his filthy, sore-encrusted body') against American POWs in Japan, and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs, who made attempts on Watanabe's life, committed sabotage, and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand's triumph is that in telling Louie's story (he's now in his 90s), she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism, cruelty, life, death, joy, suffering, remorselessness, and redemption. (Nov.) -Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold" Publishers Weekly (Copyright PWyxz LLC)ReviewFrom the 1936 Olympics to WWII Japan's most brutal POW camps Hillenbrand's heart wrenching new book is thousands of miles and a world away from the racing circuit of her bestselling Seabiscuit. But it's just as much a page turner and its hero Louie Zamperini is just as loveable: a disciplined champion racer who ran in the Berlin Olympics he's a wit a prankster and a reformed juvenile delinquent who put his thieving skills to good use in the POW camps In other words Louie is a total charmer a lover of life whose will to live is cruelly tested when he becomes an Army Air Corps bombardier in 1941. The young Italian American from Torrance Calif. was expected to be the first to run a four minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B 24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record breaking 47 days adrift on a shark encircled life raft with his pal and pilot Russell Allen "Phil" Phillips they were captured by the Japanese. In the "theater of cruelty" that was the Japanese POW camp network Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright his pleasure came from their slow unending torment. After one beating as Watanabe left Louie's cell Louie saw on his face a "soft languor.... It was an expression of sexual rapture." And Louie with his defiant and unbreakable spirit was Watanabe's victim of choice. By war's end Louie was near death. When Naoetsu was liberated in mid August 1945 a depleted Louie's only thought was "I'm free! I'm free! I'm free!" But as Hillenbrand shows Louie was not yet free. Even as returning stateside he impulsively married the beautiful Cynthia Applewhite and tried to build a life Louie remained in the Bird's clutches haunted in his dreams drinking to forget and obsessed with vengeance. In one of several sections where Hillenbrand steps back for a larger view she writes movingly of the thousands of postwar Pacific PTSD sufferers. With no help for their as yet unrecognized illness Hillenbrand says "there was no one right way to peace; each man had to find his own path...." The book's final section is the story of how with Cynthia's help Louie found his path. It is impossible to condense the rich granular detail of Hillenbrand's narrative of the atrocities committed (one man was exhibited naked in a Tokyo zoo for the Japanese to "gawk at his filthy sore encrusted body") against American POWs in Japan and the courage of Louie and his fellow POWs who made attempts on Watanabe's life committed sabotage and risked their own lives to save others. Hillenbrand's triumph is that in telling Louie's story (he's now in his 90s) she tells the stories of thousands whose suffering has been mostly forgotten. She restores to our collective memory this tale of heroism cruelty life death joy suffering remorselessness and redemption. (Nov.) Reviewed by Sarah F. Gold " Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."Review"It is hugely refreshing when [a book] as fine as this one comes along. The research is meticulous, the writing elegant and concise, so that every page transports you back to the period....This is a remarkable tale well told." The EconomistReview“Extraordinarily moving...a powerfully drawn survival epic.” The Wall Street JournalReview“[A] one-in-a-billion story...designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.” New YorkReview“A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.” The Washington PostReview“Ambitious and powerful...a startling narrative and an inspirational book.” The New York Times Book ReviewSynopsisIn her long-awaited new book, Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a young lieutenant's journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. VideoAbout the AuthorLaura Hillenbrand is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, landed on more than fifteen best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, “A Sudden Illness,” won the 2004 National Magazine Award, and she is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award, the highest journalistic honor in Thoroughbred racing. She and actor Gary Sinise are the co-founders of Operation International Children, a charity that provides school supplies to children through American troops. She lives in Washington, D.C.Reading Group GuideReader’s Guide: Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand 1. Louie’s experiences are singular: None of us is going to be in a plane crash, strafed by a bomber, attacked by sharks, cast away on a raft, or held as a POW. And yet the word most often used to describe him is “inspiring.” What does Louie’s experience demonstrate that makes him so inspirational to people who will never endure what he did? What are the lessons that his life offers to all of us? 2. Is Louie a hero? How do you define heroism? 3. In Louie’s boyhood, he was severely bullied, then became a delinquent and hellraiser. In these experiences, did he already display attributes that would help him survive his wartime ordeal? Did he also show weaknesses or tendencies that foreshadowed the struggles he would face postwar? 4. Did Louie’s athletic career help prepare him for what he would face in war? 5. Louie was especially close to his brother Pete, who devoted himself to him. If Pete hadn’t been there, what would have become of Louie? Does Pete deserve credit for shaping Louie into a man who could endure and survive his Odyssean ordeal? 6. Hillenbrand explores the extraordinary risks faced by America’s WWII airmen: 54,000 men killed in combat, 36,000 killed in noncombat aircraft accidents, and a stunning 15,000 men killed in stateside training—at times, an average of 19 per day. Men faced a 50% chance of being killed during combat tours of only 30-40 missions. Were you aware of the dangers faced by airmen in the Pacific war? What facts and stories were most surprising to you? 7. What are your feelings about Mac? Do you feel sympathy for him? Anger? If you endured the trauma of a plane crash, and were placed in a situation that you knew very few men survived, might you have reacted as he did? In the end, did he redeem himself? 8. When Louie, Phil and Mac were on the raft, a key factor in their survival was optimism. All three men were young and able-bodied, veterans of the same training, experiencing the same hardships and traumas, yet Louie and Phil remained optimistic while Mac was hopeless, seemingly doomed by his pessimism. Why are some people hopeful, and others not? How important is attitude and mindset in determining one’s ability to overcome hardship? 9. What did you find most remarkable about the things Louie and Phil did to survive on the raft? 10. Over 47 days on the raft, the men lost half their body weight, and were rendered mere skeletons. Yet they refused to consider cannibalism, which had not been uncommon among castaways before them. Would you, in the same situation, ever consider cannibalism? If it could ensure that two men survived, when otherwise all three would almost certainly perish, would it be a moral decision? 11. Louie believed he was the beneficiary of several miracles, among them his escape from the wreckage of his plane, the fact that he and the other men were not hit with bullets when their rafts were strafed, and the appearance of the singers in the clouds. What is your interpretation of those experiences? 12. The POWs took enormous risks to carry out thefts, sabotage, and other acts of defiance. Men would risk their lives to steal items as trivial as pencil boxes. What benefit did they derive from defiance that was worth risking death, or severe beatings? 13. In the 1930s and 1940s, Germany and Japan carried out what are arguably the worst acts of mass atrocity in history. What leads individuals, and even whole societies, to descend to such a level? What motivated the notoriously sadistic POW camp guards in Japan, particularly the Bird? Do we all carry the capacity for cruelty? 14. After the war, Louie would say that of all the horrors he witnessed and experienced in the war, the death of the little duck, Gaga, was the worst. Why was this event especially wrenching for him and the other POWs? 15. Louie, Frank Tinker, and William Harris planned to escape from Ofuna, walk across Japan, steal a boat and make a run for China. It was an attempt that very likely would have ended in their deaths. Was it foolish, or did it offer a psychological benefit that was worth the enormous risk? 16. Louie joined a plot to kill the Bird. Was he justified in doing so? Would it have been a moral act? Do you think Louie could have found peace after the war, had he killed the Bird? 17. Unbroken reveals that, under the “kill-all order,” the Japanese planned to murder all POWs, a plan that was never carried out because of the dropping of the atomic bombs. The book also explores the lengths to which the Japanese were prepared to go to avoid surrender. How did the book make you feel about America’s use of the atomic bomb on Japan? 18. “Anger is a justifiable and understandable reaction to being wronged, and as the soul’s first effort to reassert its worth and power, it may initially be healing,” Laura Hillenbrand wrote in an article for Guideposts magazine. “But in time, anger becomes corrosive. To live in bitterness is to be chained to the person who wounded you, your emotions and actions arising not independently, but in reaction to your abuser. Louie became so obsessed with vengeance that his life was consumed by the quest for it. In bitterness, he was as much a captive as he’d been when barbed wire had surrounded him.” Do you agree? 19. Many of us struggle to forgive those who have wronged us, but forgiveness is often so difficult to find. What makes it so hard to let resentment go? 20. “What the Bird took from Louie was his dignity; what he left behind was a pervasive sense of helplessness and worthlessness,” Hillenbrand continued in her Guideposts article. “As I researched Louie’s life, interviewing his fellow POWs and studying their memoirs and diaries, I discovered that this loss of dignity was nearly ubiquitous, leaving the men feeling defenseless and frightened in a world that had become menacing. The postwar nightmares, flashbacks, alcoholism and anxiety that were endemic among them spoke of souls in desperate fear. Watching these men struggle to overcome their trauma, I came to believe that a loss of self-worth is central to the experience of being victimized, and may be what makes its pain particularly devastating.” Do you agree? 21. Hillenbrand wrote that among the former POWs she interviewed, forgiveness became possible once the POW had found a way to restore his sense of dignity. Was this what Billy Graham gave to Louie? If so, what was it about that experience, and that sermon, gave Louie back his self-worth? 22. Do Louie Zamperini’s wartime and postwar experiences give you a different perspective on a loved one who was, or is, a veteran? 23. Why has most WWII literature focused on the European war, with so little attention paid to the Pacific war? |
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465 | 2017-04-02 19:32:07 | Black Count Glory Revolution Betrayal & the Real Count of Monte Cristo | AwardsWinner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsHere is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo — a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave — who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly sold into bondage but made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French aristocracy. Enlisting as a private, he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution, in an audacious campaign across Europe and the Middle East — until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat.The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.Review“Tom Reiss wrings plenty of drama and swashbuckling action out of Dumas’ strange and nearly forgotten life, and more: The Black Count is one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that also sheds light on the flukey historical moment that made it possible.” TimeReview“A remarkable and almost compulsively researched account…The author spent a decade on the case, and it shows.” Christian Science MonitorReview“Fascinating…a richly imaginative biography.” New York Times Book ReviewReview"It would take an incredibly fertile mind to invent a character as compelling, exciting and unlikely as Gen. Alexandre (Alex) Dumas [hence] you might forget, while reading, that The Black Count is a work of nonfiction; author Tom Reiss writes with such narrative urgency and vivid description, you'd think you were reading a novel….The Black Count reminds us of how essential stories, whether true or invented, can be.” National Public RadioReview“Vibrant….Sometimes the best stories are true. This is one of them.” EbonyReview“Reiss details the criminal forgetting of Alex Dumas….This remarkable book stands as his monument.” Washington PostReview“Superb...as improbable and exciting as [Dumas’s] best books… but there is much more to this book than that.” Newsweek/The Daily BeastReview“Lush prose and insightful details make The Black Count one of the best biographies of 2012…a tale that is as easily engrossing as one of Dumas’ page-turning and timeless works.” Essence Review“Impressively thorough….Reiss moves the story on at an entertaining pace…fascinating.” Wall Street JournalReview“To tell this tale, Reiss must cover the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the rise of Napoleon toward Empire; he does all that with remarkable verve.” Boston GlobeReview“Fascinating [and] swashbuckling...meticulously evokes the spirit of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France....Dumas comes across as something of a superhero...a monument to the lives of both Dumas and his adoring [novelist] son.” The Seattle TimesReview“A thoroughly researched, lively piece of nonfiction that will be savored by fans of Alexandre Dumas. But The Black Count needs no partner: It is fascinating enough to stand on its own.” BookpageReview“A compelling new work by literary detective Reiss, author of The Orientalist, tracks the wildly improbable career of [Count of Monte Cristo author] Alexandre Dumas’ mixed-race father....Reiss eloquently argues the General’s case.” Kirkus ReviewsReview“Alex Dumas, an extraordinary man whose sensational life had been largely lost to history solely because of his race, takes the spotlight in this dynamic tale….Reiss capitalizes on his subject’s charged personality as well as the revolutionary times in which he lived to create an exciting narrative.” Publishers WeeklyReview“Thrilling…Reiss makes clear that Alex lived a life as full of adventure, triumph, and tragic loss as any of his son’s literary creations….This absorbing biography should redeem its subject from obscurity.” BooklistSynopsisWINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYGeneral Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today, yethis story is strikingly familiar because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life featsas inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behindGeneral Dumas'sswashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where herose to command armies at the height of the Revolution until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical moment that made itpossible." It is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son."SynopsisSLAVE. SOLDIER. LIBERATOR. HERO. General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar — because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave — who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution — until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical moment that made it possible." It is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.About the AuthorTom Reiss is the author of the celebrated international bestseller The Orientalist. His biographical pieces have appeared The New Yorker, The New York Times and other publications. He makes his home in New York City. |
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466 | 2017-04-09 14:19:11 | Churchill's Ministry of... | Giles Milton | 9781250119025 | 1250119022 | Hardcover | 02/07/2017 | Picador USA | 368 | 1.40IN | 6.40IN | Yes | B | |||||||||||
467 | 2017-04-09 14:19:11 | Lone Survivor The Eyewitness... | Marcus Luttrell | 9780316044691 | 0316044695 | Mass Market | 04/28/2009 | HACHETTE BOOK GROUP | 446 | 6.75 | 4.00 | 1.25 | 2800316044693 | Marcus Luttrell | Biography-Military | |||||||||
468 | 2017-04-09 14:19:11 | Valiant Ambition: George... | Nathaniel Philbrick | 9780525426783 | 0525426787 | Hardcover | 05/10/2016 | Viking | 448 | 1.60IN | 6.40IN | Yes | B | |||||||||||
469 | 2017-04-09 14:19:11 | Unbroken A World War II Story of... | Laura Hillenbrand | 9780812987119 | 081298711X | Trade Paperback | 11/04/2014 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 500 | 1.30IN | 5.50IN | 1.25 | Yes | Laura Hillenbrand | B | Biography-Military | ||||||||
470 | 2017-04-06 02:36:52 | Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell, Lionel Trilling, Adam Hochschild | 9780544382046 | 0544382048 | Trade Paperback | 05/19/2015 | MARINER BOOKS | 304 | .90IN | 5.20IN | .75 | Adam Hochschild | Adam Hochschild | B | Biography-Military | ||||||||
471 | 2017-04-04 05:21:20 | Beyond Band of Brothers The War... | Dick Winters, Cole C Kingseed | 9780425213759 | 0425213757 | Trade Paperback | 05/06/2008 | PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE | 304 | .85IN | 5.97IN | 1.00 | 1 | Yes | 2800425213751 | Cole C Kingseed | B | Biography-Military | ||||||
472 | 2017-04-27 02:52:45 | Where Men Win Glory The Odyssey... | Jon Krakauer | 9780385522267 | 0385522266 | Hardcover | 09/15/2009 | BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL | 383 | 1.50IN | 6.38IN | 1.50 | 1 | Yes | 2800385522269 | B | Football players -- United States.|Soldiers -- United States.|Biography-Military | |||||||
473 | 2017-04-09 14:19:36 | What it is Like to Go to War | Karl Marlantes | 9780802145925 | 0802145922 | Trade Paperback | 09/11/2012 | GROVE PRESS (NY) | 272 | .80IN | 5.40IN | .75 | Karl Marlantes | B | Biography-Military | |||||||||
474 | 2017-05-10 05:01:10 | With the Old Breed at Peleliu &... | E B Sledge, Victor Davis Hanson | 9780891419198 | 0891419195 | Mass Market | 09/25/2007 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 384 | 1.05IN | 4.17IN | 1.25 | 1 | 2800891419190 | Victor Davis Hanson | B | Biography-Military | |||||||
475 | 2017-04-09 14:19:36 | Long Walk The True Story of a... | Slavomir Rawicz | 9781592289448 | 1592289444 | Trade Paperback | 04/01/2006 | GLOBE PEQUOT PRESS | 245 | .81IN | 6.32IN | .75 | 1 | 2801592289440 | B | Prisoners of war|BIO026000|Biography-Historical|World war, 1939-1945|Personal Memoirs | ||||||||
476 | 2017-04-09 14:19:36 | Red Platoon A True Story of... | Clinton Romesha | 9780525955054 | 0525955054 | Hardcover | 05/03/2016 | DUTTON | 400 | 1.30IN | 6.30IN | .94 | Yes | B | ||||||||||
477 | 2017-04-06 02:40:14 | Lone Survivor The Eyewitness... | Marcus Luttrell | 9780316067607 | 0316067601 | Trade Paperback | 05/01/2008 | HACHETTE BOOK GROUP | 392 | 1.10IN | 5.40IN | 1.00 | 1 | 2800316067609 | Mitch Weiss | B | United states|Biography-Military|Afghan War, 2001-|Campaigns|United States - Officers | |||||||
478 | 2017-06-01 02:22:53 | A Higher Call: An Incredible True... | Adam Makos, Larry Alexander | 9780425252864 | 0425252868 | Hardcover | 12/19/2012 | BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP | 400 | 1.40IN | 6.20IN | 1.25 | Yes | Larry Alexander | B | Military-World War II General | ||||||||
479 | 2017-04-06 02:39:55 | Storm of Steel Penguin Classics... | Ernst Junger, Neil Gower, Michael Hofmann | 9780143108252 | 0143108255 | Trade Paperback | 05/31/2016 | PENGUIN BOOKS | Penguin Classics Deluxe | 320 | .80IN | 5.60IN | Michael Hofmann | B | ||||||||||
480 | 2017-04-09 14:19:56 | Through My Eyes: 91st Infantry... | Weckstein, Leon | 9781555714970 | 1555714978 | Trade Paperback | 01/01/1999 | Hellgate Press | Hellgate Memories World War II | English | 193 | .53IN | 7.52IN | .53 in. | 1 | 2801555714972 | B | World War, 19|Biography-Military|Campaigns|Soldiers|United states | ||||||
481 | 2017-04-04 05:05:05 | Empire of the Summer Moon Quanah... | S C Gwynne | 9781416591061 | 1416591060 | Trade Paperback | 05/10/2011 | Scribner Book Company | 371 | 1.00IN | 5.50IN | 1.00 | Yes | S. C. Gwynne | B | Biography-Native Americans | ||||||||
482 | 2017-04-07 17:25:13 | Heart of Everything That Is The... | Bob Drury, Tom Clavin | 9781451654684 | 1451654685 | Trade Paperback | 09/02/2014 | Simon & Schuster | 432 | 1.20IN | 5.40IN | 1.00 | Yes | Bob Drury | B | Biography-Native Americans | ||||||||
483 | 2017-04-02 19:35:42 | Empire of the Summer Moon Quanah Parker & the Rise & Fall of the Comanches the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsIn the tradition of andlt;iandgt;Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, andlt;/iandgt;a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;S. C. Gwynneand#8217;s andlt;iandgt;Empire of the Summer Moonandlt;/iandgt;andlt;bandgt; andlt;/bandgt;spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled andlt;iandgt;backward andlt;/iandgt;by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them: the six-gun.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynneand#8217;s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroadsand#8212;a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the and#8220;White Squawand#8221; who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;S. C. Gwynneand#8217;s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. andlt;iandgt;Empire of the Summer Moon andlt;/iandgt;announces him as a major new writer of American history.Review"Journalist Gwynne tracks one of the U.S.'s longest-running military conflicts in this gripping history of the war against the Comanche Indians on the high plains of Texas and Colorado. The Comanches stood for decades as the single most effective military force on the southern plains; their mastery of horseback warfare and their intimate knowledge of the trackless desert of the plains stymied the armies of Spain and Mexico, and blocked American westward expansion for 40 years. Gwynne's account orbits around Quanah Parker (ca. 1852 1911), the brilliant war chief whose resistance raged even as the Comanche, increasingly demoralized by the loss of the buffalo and the American military's policy of total annihilation, retreated into the reservation. Rigorously researched and evenhanded, the book paints both the Comanches and Americans in their glory and shame, bravery and savagery. The author's narrative prowess is marred only by his fondness for outdated anthropological terminology ('low barbarian,' 'premoral' culture). That aside, the book combines rich historical detail with a keen sense of adventure and of the humanity of its protagonists." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)Review"S.G. Gwynneand#8217;s andlt;iandgt;Empire of the Summer Moonandlt;/iandgt; is many thingsand#8212;a thrilling account of the Texas frontier in the nineteenth century, a vivid description of the Comanche nation, a fascinating portrait of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son, the mysterious, magnificent Quanahand#8212;but most of all it is a ripping good read. Gwynne writes history with a pounding pulse and a beating heart. In andlt;iandgt;Empire of the Summer Moonandlt;/iandgt; heand#8217;s given us an epic frontier peopled with real men and women, living and dying and hoping and dreaming at the bloody edge of civilization. I couldnand#8217;t put it down."andlt;BRandgt; --Jake Silverstein, Editor, andlt;iandgt;Texas Monthlyandlt;/iandgt;, and author of andlt;iandgt;Nothing Happened and Then It Didandlt;/iandgt;Review"Sam Gwynne is a master story-teller and a dogged reporter, and in this book he makes history come to life in a way that everyone -- not just students of the Texas myth -- will find irresistible. I couldn't put it down."andlt;BRandgt; --Evan Smith, CEO and Editor in Chief, andlt;iandgt;The Texas Tribuneandlt;/iandgt;Review"Man for man, the Comanches were the fiercest and most resourceful warriors in North America, and they held onto their domain with an almost otherworldly tenacity. In this sweeping work, S.C. Gwynne recreates the Comanche's lost world with gusto and styleand#8212;and without sentimentality. After reading andlt;iandgt;Empire of the Summer Moonandlt;/iandgt;, you'll never think about Texas, or the Great Plains, in quite the same way again."andlt;BRandgt; --Hampton Sides, author of andlt;iandgt;Blood and Thunderandlt;/iandgt; and andlt;iandgt;Hellhound On His Trailandlt;/iandgt;SynopsisA sweeping narrative about the rise and fall of the Comanche, the most powerful and influential tribe in American history. About the AuthorSam Gwynne is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared extensively in Time, for which he worked as bureau chief, national correspondent and senior editor from 1988 to 2000, and in Texas Monthly, where he was executive editor. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and California Magazine. His previous book Outlaw Bank (co-authored with Jonathan Beaty) detailed the rise and fall of the corrupt global bank BCCI. He attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins and lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Katie and daughter Maisie. |
S C Gwynne | 9781416591054 | 1416591052 | Hardcover | 05/25/2010 | SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE | 371 | 1.23IN | 6.26IN | 1.25 | 1 | Yes | 2801416591056 | S C Gwynne | B | Biography-Native Americans|Native Americans | |||||
484 | 2017-04-09 20:48:45 | Black Elk: The Life of an... | Joe Jackson | 9780374253301 | 0374253307 | Hardcover | 10/25/2016 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 624 | 9.12 in | 159.51 mm | Yes | B | |||||||||||
485 | 2017-04-09 20:49:00 | Anishinaabe Syndicated A View... | Jim Northrup, Margaret Noori | 9780873518239 | 0873518233 | Trade Paperback | 01/01/2011 | MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS | 248 | .70IN | 6.10IN | .75 | Yes | Margaret Noori | B | Biography-Native Americans | ||||||||
486 | 2017-04-09 20:49:00 | River Song: Naxiyamt'ama (Snake... | Scheuerman, Richard D. | 9780874223279 | 087422327X | Trade Paperback | 03/15/2015 | Washington State University Press | English | .70IN | 5.90IN | .50 | Yes | 9780874223279 | Richard D. (edt) Scheuerman | Carrie Jim Schuster | B | Native American-General Native American Studies | ||||||
487 | 2017-04-03 02:16:27 | Crazy Brave A Memoir | Joy Harjo | 9780393345438 | 0393345432 | Trade Paperback | 07/29/2013 | W W NORTON & CO | 169 | .60IN | 5.50IN | .50 | Yes | B | Biography-Native Americans | |||||||||
488 | 2017-04-28 20:35:56 | Education Of Little Tree | Forrest Carter | 9780826308795 | 0826308791 | Trade Paperback | 05/01/1986 | UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS | viii, 216 p. | 8.07 in. | 5.43 in. | .57 in. | 1 | 2800826308797 | Forrest Carter | Cherokee Indians -- Fiction.|Indians of North American|Indians of north america|Cherokee Indians|Fiction | ||||||||
489 | 2017-04-08 08:54:31 | Black Elk Speaks Being The Life... | John G Neihardt | 9780803283596 | 0803283598 | Trade Paperback | 08/01/1988 | UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS | 298 | 8 in. | 5.25 in. | 1 | 2800803283598 | Vine, Jr. Deloria | Indian mythology -- Great Plains.|Teton Indians|Fiction|Religion | |||||||||
490 | 2017-04-08 08:54:31 | Black Elk Speaks as Told through... | John Neihardt | 9780803261709 | 0803261705 | Trade Paperback | 12/01/2000 | UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS | 2800803261701 | Vine Deloria Jr. | Oglala Indians|Biography|Teton Indians|Religion | |||||||||||||
491 | 2017-04-09 20:49:40 | House of Shattering Light Life as... | Joseph Rael | 9780982327449 | 0982327447 | Trade Paperback | 12/12/2016 | Not Avail | 200 | .60IN | 5.10IN | 9780982327449 | B | Biography-Native Americans|Metaphysics-General | ||||||||||
492 | 2017-04-07 17:26:31 | Heart of Everything That Is The... | Bob Drury, Tom Clavin | 9781451654660 | 1451654669 | Hardcover | 11/05/2013 | SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE | 414 | 9.50 | 6.25 | 1.30 | Tom Clavin | Military-General History | ||||||||||
493 | 2017-04-09 14:25:27 | Code Talker: The First and Only... | Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila | 9780425244234 | 0425244237 | Hardcover | 09/06/2011 | Caliber | English | 320 | 1.20IN | 6.00IN | 1.00 | Yes | Judith Schiess Avila | B | Biography - General | |||||||
494 | 2017-04-08 16:25:00 | Lakota Woman | Mary Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes | 9780802145420 | 0802145426 | Trade Paperback | 06/14/2011 | GROVE PRESS (NY) | 263 | .90IN | 5.40IN | .75 | Richard Erdoes | B | Biography-Native Americans | |||||||||
495 | 2017-04-09 20:50:02 | Jacksonland President Andrew... | Steve Inskeep | 9781594205569 | 1594205566 | Hardcover | 05/19/2015 | Penguin Press | 448 | 1.39IN | 6.18IN | 1.75 | 11 | Yes | Steve Inskeep | B | US History-19th Century | |||||||
496 | 2017-04-12 01:40:43 | Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah... | S. C. Gwynne | 9781508229551 | 1508229554 | Compact Disc | 09/20/2016 | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | 1.00IN | 5.10IN | S C Gwynne | A | |||||||||||
497 | 2017-04-09 20:50:28 | Warrior of the People How Susan... | Joe Starita | 9781250085344 | 1250085349 | Hardcover | 11/01/2016 | St. Martin's Press | 320 | 1.30IN | 6.30IN | Yes | B | |||||||||||
498 | 2017-04-07 17:26:58 | Place of the Pretend People:... | Carolyn Kremers | 9780882408552 | 0882408550 | Trade Paperback | 09/01/2011 | Alaska Northwest Books | English | 250 | .67IN | 6.09IN | B | Memoir|Native American-General Native American Studies|Biography-Native Americans | ||||||||||
499 | 2017-04-09 14:33:06 | Coming Through Fire George... | Duane Schultz | 9781594161650 | 1594161658 | Hardcover | 12/07/2012 | WESTHOLME PUBLISHING | 312 | 1.20IN | 6.30IN | 1.00 | Yes | Duane Schultz | B | United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)|Biography-Military | ||||||||
500 | 2017-04-02 19:38:53 | Journey Of Crazy Horse | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsDrawing on vivid oral histories, Joseph M. Marshall’s intimate biography introduces a never-before-seen portrait of Crazy Horse and his Lakota community Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership—fought for his people’s land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating biography, Joseph M. Marshall, himself a Lakota Indian, creates a vibrant portrait of the man, his times, and his legacy. Thanks to firsthand research and his culture’s rich oral tradition (rarely shared outside the Native American community), Marshall reveals many aspects of Crazy Horse’s life, including details of the powerful vision that convinced him of his duty to help preserve the Lakota homeland—a vision that changed the course of Crazy Horse’s life and spurred him confidently into battle time and time again. The Journey of Crazy Horse is the true story of how one man’s fight for his people’s survival roused his true genius as a strategist, commander, and trusted leader. And it is an unforgettable portrayal of a revered human being and a profound celebration of a culture, a community, and an enduring way of life.ReviewMarshalls gloriously poetic and sweeping chronicle ushers in a new genre of American history. (Peter Nabokov, author of Native American Testimony)SynopsisIn the great oral tradition of the Lakota people, Marshall shares the compelling history of a man, a tribe, and a legacy of courage and endurance. SynopsisAs the peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse remains one of the most perennially fascinating figures of the American West. Now Joseph Marshall—a masterful storyteller, historian, and descendant of the same Lakota community that raised Crazy Horse—goes beyond that image in this one-of-a-kind portrait of the legendary leader. Drawing on extensive research and a rich oral tradition that is rarely shared outside the Native American community, Marshall gives us a uniquely complete portrait of Crazy Horse, from the powerful vision that spurred him into battle to the woman he loved but lost to circumstance. The Journey of Crazy Horse celebrates a long-standing community’s enduring culture and gives vibrant life to its most trusted and revered hero. About the AuthorJoseph M. Marshall III, historian, educator, and storyteller, is the author of many books, including The Journey of Crazy Horse and The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for the Living, which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA West Award in 2002. He was raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation and his first language is Lakota. Marshall is a recipient of the Wyoming Humanities Award, and he has been a technical advistor and actor in television movies, including Return to Lonesome Dove. He makes his home on the Northern Plains. |
Joseph III Marshall | 9780143036210 | 0143036211 | Trade Paperback | 09/01/2005 | PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE | 310 | .59IN | 5.10IN | .50 | 1 | Yes | 2800143036212 | Joseph M. Marshall III | B | Biography-Native Americans|Native Americans | |||||
501 | 2017-04-08 00:06:08 | Prison Writings My Life Is My... | Leonard Peltier | 9780312263805 | 0312263805 | Trade Paperback | 06/16/2000 | ST MARTINS PRESS | 272 | .73IN | 5.08IN | .75 | 1 | Yes | 2800312263807 | Ramsey Clark | B | Native Americans|Indians of north america|Prisoners' writings, American.|Indian prisoners|Oglala Indians | ||||||
502 | 2017-04-28 20:44:53 | My Body Is a Book of Rules | Elissa Washuta | 9781597099691 | 1597099694 | Trade Paperback | 08/12/2014 | RED HEN PRESS | 224 | .70IN | 6.50IN | 1.00 | Elissa Washuta | B | Biography-Native Americans | |||||||||
503 | 2017-04-09 20:50:51 | The Unlikely Peace at... | Martin Prechtel | 9781583943601 | 1583943609 | Hardcover | 01/31/2012 | North Atlantic Books | English | 445 | 1.70IN | 6.10IN | 1.50 | Martin Prechtel | B | Biography-Native Americans|Religion Western-Inspirational | ||||||||
504 | 2017-04-07 17:27:31 | Little Lion of Southwest A Life... | Marc Simmons | 9780804006330 | 0804006334 | Trade Paperback | 01/01/1983 | OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS | 275 | .77IN | 5.46IN | 1.00 | 1 | Yes | 2800804006332 | B | Native Americans|Biography-Native Americans|Chaves, manuel antonio | |||||||
506 | 2017-04-15 21:13:35 | How to Live or a Life of... | Sarah Bakewell | 9781590514832 | 1590514831 | Trade Paperback | 09/20/2011 | OTHER PRESS | 399 | 1.09IN | 5.56IN | 1.00 | Yes | Sarah Bakewell | B | Biography-Philosophers | ||||||||
507 | 2017-04-06 01:11:32 | Dying to Survive | Rachael Keogh | 9780717147625 | 0717147622 | Trade Paperback | 03/15/2010 | Gill & Macmillan | 224 | 7.50 | 5.00 | .75 | Rachael Keogh | |||||||||||
508 | 2017-04-02 19:40:08 | John Rawls His Life & Theory of Justice | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsJohn Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics. Nonetheless Rawlsian theory is not easy to understand, particularly for beginners, and his writing can be dense and forbidding. Thomas Pogge's short introduction (originally published in German) gives a thorough and concise presentation of the main outlines of Rawls's theory, introduces biographical information when necessary, and draws links between the Rawlsian enterprise and other important positions in moral and political philosophy.Review "There is a big need for a brief but well-informed study of Rawls for students and other beginners, complete with a bit of biographical information. Pogge's book is ideal. It is popular without being inaccurate. Pogge is as knowledgeable about Rawls's work as anyone could be, and he is a clear writer and a rigorous thinker."--Thomas Nagel, New York University"The book is indeed a pleasure to read; serious, clear, substantial, and sensible: it is for me the exemplar of what a book in philosophy ought to be today."--Rudiger Bittner, University of Bielefeld (on the German edition) Review"There is a big need for a brief but well-informed study of Rawls for students and other beginners, complete with a bit of biographical information. Pogge's book is ideal. It is popular without being inaccurate. Pogge is as knowledgeable about Rawls's work as anyone could be, and he is a clear writer and a rigorous thinker."--Thomas Nagel, New York University"The book is indeed a pleasure to read; serious, clear, substantial, and sensible: it is for me the exemplar of what a book in philosophy ought to be today."--Rudiger Bittner, University of Bielefeld (on the German edition)About the AuthorThomas Pogge is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for Philosophy and Public Ethics. He has published widely on Rawls, Kant, political and moral philosophy, and on issues in global justice.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Biography1.1. Family and Schooling1.2. College and War1.3. Academic Career1.4. The Turbulent Decade 1962-19711.5. After A Theory of Justice1.6. The Meaning of Rawls's Project2. The Focus on the Basic Structure2.1. The Origin of the Theory2.2. The Complexity of Modern Sciences2.3. The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus2.4. The Scope of the Theory3. A Top-Tier Criterion of Justice3.1. Purely Recipient-Oriented Criteria of Justice3.2. The Anonymity Condition3.3. Fundamental Interests versus Happiness4. The Basic Idea: Justice as Fairness4.1. The Original Position4.2. Maximin versus Average4.3. Primary Goods4.4. The Lexical Priority of the Basic Liberties5. The First Principle of Justice5.1. The Structure of a Basic Right5.2. Formulating the Required Scheme of Basic Rights and Liberties5.3. The Fair Value of the Basic Political Liberties5.4. Permissible Reductions of Basic Liberties5.5. Impermissible Reductions of Basic Liberties6. The Second Principle of Justice6.1. The Difference Principle in First Approximation6.2. The Difference Principle in Detail6.3. Advocating the Difference Principle in the Original Position6.4. The Opportunity Principle6.5. Advocating the Oppportunity Principle in the Original Position6.6. A Property-Owning Democracy7. A Rawlsian Society7.1. A Well-Ordered Society7.2. A Political Conception of Justice7.3. Political versus Comprehensive Liberalisms7.4. An Egalitarian Liberal Conception of Justice7.5. A Society Well-Ordered by Rawls's Conception7.6. A More Realistic Vision8. On Justification8.1. Reflective Equilibrium8.2. Fundamental Ideas8.3. Truth and Reasonableness9. The Reception of Justice as Fairness9.1. Rawls and Libertarianism9.2. Rawls and Communitarianism9.3. Rawls and KantConclusion Appendix Index |
Thomas Pogge | 9780195136371 | 0195136373 | Trade Paperback | 12/01/2006 | Oxford University Press, USA | 228 | .72IN | 5.56IN | .72 in. | 1 | Yes | Michelle Kosch | B | Rawls, John|Philosophy | History | 20th C & Contemporary|Justice|Philosophy | History | 20th C and Contemporary|Contemporary | ||||||
509 | 2017-04-16 03:51:50 | Fichte: The Self and the Calling... | Vopa, Anthony J. La | 9780521791458 | 0521791456 | Hardcover | 04/23/2001 | Cambridge University Press | English | 449 | 1.22IN | 6.45IN | 1.22 in. | 1 | 9780521791458 | B | Biography-Philosophers|Fichte, Johann Gottlieb|Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography.|Philosophers -- Germany.|Fichte, johann gottlieb, 1762-1814 | |||||||
510 | 2017-04-08 02:19:06 | Worldly Philosopher The Odyssey... | Jeremy Adelman | 9780691163499 | 0691163499 | Trade Paperback | 10/26/2014 | Princeton University Press | 760 | 1.78IN | 5.59IN | 2.00 | B | European History|World History/Comparative History|Political philosophy|Biography-Political|Economics | ||||||||||
511 | 2017-04-04 21:49:09 | Dirty Electricity Electrification... | Samuel Milham Mph | 9781938908187 | 193890818X | Trade Paperback | 12/05/2012 | iUniverse Star | 128 | .40IN | 5.90IN | .50 | 9781938908187 | B | Biography/Medical | |||||||||
512 | 2017-04-02 19:40:39 | Keep Moving & Other Tips & Truths about Old Age | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsBeloved Hollywood icon Dick Van Dyke will celebrate his 90th birthday in December 2015. Hes an established legend, having starred in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. And yet hes still keeping himself busy, entertaining America on television, movies, the stage, and social media. Everyone wonders, How does he do it?” For the first time, Van Dyke will share his secrets and tips on old age: Just keep moving. In a fun and folksy way of addressing readers, Keep Moving will serve as an instruction book on how to embrace old age with a positive attitude. The chapters are filled with exclusive personal anecdotes that explore various themes on aging: how to adapt to the physical and social changes, deal with loss of friends and loved ones, stay current, fall in love again, and keep moving” every day like theres no tomorrow. ReviewPraise for Dick Van Dykes My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business:In my opinion, Luck has little to do with Dick Van Dykes life. It is, rather, his innate kindness and talent that have had an extraordinary effect in shaping the man. And what a fascinating self-portrait hes given us in this book.” Mary Tyler MooreFrom the time I worked with Dick on the movie Bye Bye Birdie, I have admired his many talents, not the least of which is the joy and enthusiasm he shares with audiences. Im a big fan of his... and his book.” Ann-MargretVan Dyke tells a wonderful story about himself and his times. And in an often surprisingly relevant manner our times. Weve always liked the performer its hard not to like Dick Van Dyke but this will make you admire him.” PlaybillSynopsisShow-business legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better to offer instruction, advice, and humor than someone who s entering his ninth decade with a jaunty two-step? Van Dyke isn t just a born song-and-dance man; his irrepressible belief in embracing the moment and unleashing his inner child has proved to be the ultimate elixir of youth. When he was injured during the filming of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, his doctor warned him he d be using a walker within seven years, but Dick performed a soft shoe right there and never looked back. In Keep Moving, Dick Van Dyke offers his own playful anecdotes and advice, as well as insights from his brother, actor Jerry Van Dyke; his friend and creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Carl Reiner; and other spirited friends and family. Whether he s describing the pleasure he takes in his habitual visits to the grocery store; how he met his late-in-life-love Arlene; or how he sprung back, livelier than ever, from a near-death experience, Dick s optimistic outlook is an invigorating tonic for anyone who needs a reminder that life should be lived with enthusiasm despite what the calendar says. You don t have to act your age. You don t even have to feel it. And if it does attempt to elbow its way into your life, you do not have to pay attention. If I am out shopping and hear music playing in a store, I start to dance. If I want to sing, I sing. I read books and get excited about new ideas. I enjoy myself. I don t think about the way I am supposed to act at my age or at any age. As far as I know, there is no manual for old age. There is no test you have to pass. There is no way you have to behave. There is no such thing as age appropriate. When people ask my secret to staying youthful at an age when getting up and down from your chair on your own is considered an accomplishment, you know what I tell them?Keep moving. Dick Van Dyke "About the AuthorDick Van Dyke is a Hollywood icon and New York Times bestselling author of My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. He has received the Theatre World Award, a Tony, a Grammy, and four Emmy awards, as well as the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013. He lives in California.Todd Gold is a New York Times best-selling author who has collaborated on several dozen books with celebrities including Dick Van Dyke, Belinda Carlisle, Maureen McCormick, Drew Barrymore, and Sonny Bono, among others. He is currently the Executive Editor of XFINITY TV. |
Dick Van Dyke, Todd Gold | 9781602862968 | 1602862966 | Hardcover | 10/13/2015 | Weinstein Books | 264 | 1.00IN | 5.80IN | 1.25 | Yes | Todd Gold | B | Biography-Philosophers | |||||||
513 | 2017-04-24 06:33:18 | Paolo Sarpi Between Renaissance &... | David Wootton | 9780521892346 | 0521892341 | Trade Paperback | 04/04/2002 | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS | 204 | .62IN | 6.12IN | 1 | Yes | 2147483647 | Wootton David | B | Biography-Philosophers|Historians|Biography-Historians | |||||||
514 | 2017-04-02 19:40:49 | Aleister Crowley The Biography Spiritual Revolutionary Romantic Explorer Occult Master & Spy | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsTobias Churton is a world authority on Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Hermeticism and Gnosticism. Holding a Masters degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, Tobias is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter University and Faculty Lecturer in Western Esotericism. An accomplished filmmaker and composer and the writer of the award-winning drama documentary series The Gnostics, for the UK's Channel 4, Tobias has also written a now standard biography on Elias Ashmole (1617-92). Please consult www.tobiaschurton.com for more information. The author lives in UK. |
Tobias Churton | 9781780283845 | 1780283849 | Trade Paperback | 05/20/2014 | WATKINS PUBLISHING | 474 | 1.30IN | 6.00IN | 1.25 | Yes | B | Biography - General | ||||||||
515 | 2017-04-16 03:56:48 | Germs: A Memoir of Childhood | Wollheim, Richard | 9781593761257 | 1593761252 | Hardcover | 11/01/2006 | Shoemaker & Hoard | English | 263 | .85IN | 5.42IN | 1 | Yes | 2801593761259 | B | Wollheim, Richard - Childhood and youth|BIO026000|Personal Memoirs|Biography-Philosophers|Philosophers -- Great Britain. | |||||||
516 | 2017-04-08 02:27:07 | Aristotle | Ross, David | 9780415328579 | 0415328578 | Trade Paperback | 11/23/2004 | Routledge | English | 336 | .73IN | 6.08IN | .73 in. | 1 | 2800415328571 | John L. Ackrill | B | Biography-Philosophers | ||||||
517 | 2017-04-07 21:12:59 | Giordano Bruno and Renaissance... | Gatti, Hilary | 9780801487859 | 0801487854 | Trade Paperback | 02/04/2014 | Cornell University Press | English | 272 | .65IN | 5.98IN | .65 in. | 1 | Yes | 2800801487851 | B | Science Reference-General | ||||||
518 | 2017-04-16 02:26:26 | Heros Journey Joseph Campbell on... | Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L Brown | 9781608681891 | 1608681890 | Trade Paperback | 03/11/2014 | NEW WORLD LIBRARY | Collected Works of Joseph Campbell | 304 | .80IN | 5.50IN | 1.00 | Yes | Phil Cousineau | B | Biography-Philosophers | |||||||
519 | 2017-04-08 02:29:54 | The Life of David Hume | Ernest Campbell Mossner | 9780199243365 | 0199243360 | Trade Paperback | 05/03/2001 | Clarendon Press | English | 738 | 1.58IN | 5.50IN | 1.5 in. | 1 | Ernest CampbellMossner | B | Philosophy | History | 18th C|Hume, David|Philosophers - Scotland|Scotland|Biography-Philosophers | |||||||
520 | 2017-04-03 02:36:41 | Rabindranath Tagore The Myriad... | Krishna Dutta | 9781845118044 | 1845118049 | Trade Paperback | 01/01/2009 | PALGRAVE | 493 | 1.60IN | 6.10IN | 1.50 | 1 | Yes | 2801845118046 | Andrew Robinson | Anita Desai | B | Biography-Literary|Tagore, Rabindranath|Authors, Bengali - 20th century | |||||
521 | 2017-04-16 03:58:35 | Giordano Bruno Philosopher... | Ingrid Rowland | 9780809095247 | 0809095246 | Hardcover | 08/01/2008 | FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX | 335 | 9.29 in. | 6.4 in. | 1.3 in. | 1 | 2800809095249 | Bruno, Giordano|Biography-Philosophers | |||||||||
522 | 2017-04-25 04:55:35 | Opening the Dragon Gate: The... | Kaiguo Chen | 9780804831857 | 0804831858 | Trade Paperback | 09/15/1998 | TUTTLE PUBLISHING | 288 | .85IN | 6.08IN | 1.00 | 1 | 2800804831859 | Kaiguo Chen | B | eastern religious books ; buddhist sayings|Biography-Philosophers|taoism ; taoist meditation ; taoist books | |||||||
523 | 2017-04-02 19:42:45 | Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution | Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsOne of the most spectacularly reviewed books of 2011, LOVE AND CAPITAL reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful procrastinator, freeloader, and man of wild enthusiasms-one of which would almost destroy his marriage. Through years of desperate struggle, Jenny's love for Karl would be tested again and again as she waited for him to finish his masterpiece, Capital.An epic narrative that stretches over decades to recount Karl and Jenny's story against the backdrop of Europe's Nineteenth Century, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a surprising and magisterial account of romance and revolution-and of one of the great love stories of all time. About the AuthorMary Gabriel is the author of Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored, a New York Times Notable Book, and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone. A graduate of American University and the University of Paris at the Sorbonne, she works as an editor for Reuters's World Desk in London. |
Mary Gabriel | 9780316066129 | 0316066125 | Trade Paperback | 11/13/2012 | Back Bay Books | English | 709 | 1.40IN | 5.90IN | 1.50 | Yes | B | Biography-Philosophers | |||||||
524 | 2017-04-09 23:54:53 | Immanuel Kant A Biography | Manfred Kuehn | 9780521524063 | 0521524067 | Trade Paperback | 02/28/2009 | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS | Biography | 576 | 1.41IN | 5.98IN | 1.41 in. | 1 | 2800521524065 | B | Kant, immanuel, 1724-1804|Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography.|Biography-Philosophers | |||||||
525 | 2017-04-26 01:44:32 | Thoreau You Dont Know The Father... | Robert Sullivan | 9780061710322 | 0061710326 | Trade Paperback | 03/08/2011 | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | 354 | .92IN | 5.44IN | 1.00 | 1 | 4294967295 | Robert Sullivan | B | Biography-Philosophers | |||||||
526 | 2017-04-16 04:01:50 | Kierkegaard: Great Thinkers on... | Robert Ferguson | 9781605988047 | 1605988049 | Trade Paperback | 07/15/2015 | Pegasus Books | English | 120 | .30IN | 5.50IN | .50 | Robert Ferguson | B | General Philosophy | ||||||||
527 | 2017-04-16 04:01:50 | Jacques Derrida | Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida | 9780226042626 | 0226042626 | Trade Paperback | 06/15/1999 | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS | Religion & Postmodernism (Paperback) | 432 | .80IN | 5.28IN | 1 | Yes | 2800226042628 | Jacques Derrida | B | Derrida, Jacques|Derrida, jacques, 1930-|Biography-Philosophers | ||||||
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