Biography: adventurers and explorers Books
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Blurb, Inc. Capablanca Leyenda y realidad Tomo I
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Hare with Amber Eyes Illustrated Edition
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pride and Pleasure
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Flying to the Moon
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Tongue Set Free
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Master of the Mountain Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Book SynopsisIs there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. This book - based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers - opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world.
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Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl Stranger In My Own Country
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Melting Point
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Constantine Cavafy
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Indignity
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Salvage
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Random House USA Inc The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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Random House USA Inc Uncle Tungsten
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Random House USA Inc The Peoples Tycoon
Book SynopsisHow a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral toll exacted by consumerism. He believed in giving his workers a living wage, though he was entirely opposed to union labor. He had a warm and loving relationship with his wife, but sired a son with another woman. A rabid anti-Semite, he nonetheless embraced African American workers in the era of Jim Crow. Uncovering the man behind the myth, situating his achievements and their attendant controversies firmly within the context of early twentieth-century America, Watts has given us a comprehensive, illuminating, and fascinating biography of one of America’s first mass-cultur
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group A Memoir of Misfortune
Book SynopsisSu Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became the object of a government manhunt and was forced to flee China, leaving behind his wife and young son. Eventually his family was allowed to join him in exile in the United States, and he believed the worst was behind him. Then a terrible automobile accident left his wife, Fu Li, unable to move or speak.In this remarkably honest account, Su, who blamed himself for his family''s disaster, writes wrenchingly of his inner torment and despair. He describes the pain of living in exile, his desperate search for a miracle cure for Fu Li, and his bemusement at his teenage son''s increasing Americanization. Above all, Su''s moving memoir invites us along on a deeply personal odyssey, as a man who had once been at the center of an international political drama dedicates himself to the far more demanding task of remaking an emotional world for his wife and son.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Against Wind and Tide
Book SynopsisIn this final collection of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s letters and journals, we mark Mrs. Lindbergh’s progress as she navigated a remarkable life and a remarkable century with enthusiasm and delight, humor and wit, sorrow and bewilderment, but above all devoted to finding the essential truth in life’s experiences through a hard-won spirituality and a passion for literature. Between the inevitable squalls of life with her beloved but elusive husband, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, she shepherded their five children through whooping cough, horned toads, fiancés, the Vietnam War, and their own personal tragedies. She researched and wrote books and articles on issues ranging from the condition of Europe after World War II to the meaning of marriage to the launch of Apollo 8. She published one of the most beloved books of inspiration of all time, Gift from the Sea. She left penetrating accounts of meetings with such luminaries as John and Ja
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Random House USA Inc John Brown Abolitionist
Book SynopsisAn authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause. Reynolds locates Brown within the currents of nineteenth-century life and compares him to modern terrorists, civil-rights activists, and freedom fighters. Ultimately, he finds neither a wild-eyed fanatic nor a Christ-like martyr, but a passionate opponent of racism so dedicated to eradicating slavery that he realized only blood could scour it from the country he loved. By stiffening the backbone of Northerners and showing Southerners there were those who would fight for their cause, he hastened the coming of the Civil War. This is a vivid and startling story of a man and an age on the verge of calamity.
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Random House Publishing Group Weird And Tragic Shores The Story of Charles Francis Hall Explorer Exploration S
Book SynopsisIn 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly taken ill on that voyage and died under mysterious circumstances.Ninety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed Hall's frozen body and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that the investigators of Hall's death nervously sidestepped the damning evidence. Loomis has written a masterful biography-cum-mystery that brilliantly evokes the lure of the Arctic and th
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Random House Publishing Group Colonel Roosevelt
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. . . . A moving, beautifully rendered account.”—Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smalle
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Random House USA Inc Shrub
Book SynopsisWhen it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or 'Shrub,' as Ivins has nicknamed Bush the Younger. A candidate of vague speeches and an ambiguous platform, Bush leads the pack of GOP 2000 presidential hopefuls; 'Dubya' could very well be our next president. What voters need now is an original, smart, and accessible analysis of Bush--one that leaves the 'youthful indiscretions' to the tabloids and gets to the heart of his policies and motivations. Ivins is the perfect woman for the job. With her trademark wit and down-home wisdom, Molly Ivins shares three pieces of advice on judging a politician: 'The first is to look at the record. The second is to look at the record. And third, look at th
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Random House USA Inc Without Reservations
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Random House USA Inc Van Gogh
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The definitive biography for decades to come.”—Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete LettersSteven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Jackson Pollock, have written another tour de force—an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable portrait of Vincent van Gogh. Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials to bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist: his early struggles to find his place in the world; his intense relationship with his brother Theo; and his move to Provence, where he painted some of the best-loved works in Western art. The authors also shed new light on many unexplored aspects of Van Go
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Random House Publishing Group ANOTHER RIVER ANOTHER TOWN A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat1945
Book SynopsisMany narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers. Another River, Another Town is the story of John P. Irwin, a teenage tank gunner whose idealistic desire to achieve heroism is shattered by the incredibly different view of life the world of combat demands. He comes to the realization that the realm of warfare has almost nothing in common with the civilian life from which he has come. The interminable fighting, dirt, fatigue, and hunger make the war seem endless. In addition to the killing and destruction on the battlefield, Irwin and his crew are caught up in the unbelievable depravity they encounter at Nordhausen Camp, where slave laborers are compelled to work themselves to death manufacturing the
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Random House Publishing Group I Love You Ronnie The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan by Nancy Reagan 20020226
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Penguin Random House LLC The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Passion of Ayn Rand
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Random House USA Inc Dino
Book SynopsisFrom dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the famous Rat Pack in a Hollywood he called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand, guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and Hollywood''s biggest stars. He was one of America''s favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him. Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the image--the dark side of the American dream. It''s a wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex, ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast, and without apologies.
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Random House USA Inc How to Fight Presidents
Book SynopsisMake no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea. As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first popularly elected president and served the nation, pausing briefly only to beat a would-be assassin with a cane to within an inch of his life. Theodore Roosevelt had asthma, was blind in one eye, survived multiple gunshot wounds, had only one regret (that there were no wars to fight under his presidency), and was the first U.S. president to win the Medal of Honor, which he did after he died. Faced with the choice, George Washington actually preferred the sound of bullets whizzing by his head in battle over the sound of silence. And now these men—these hallowed leaders of the free world—want to kick your ass. Plenty of historians can tell you which president had the most effective economic strategies, and which president helped shape our current political parties, but can any of them tell you what to do if you encounter Chester A. Arthur in a bare-knuckled boxing fight? This book will teach you how to be better, stronger, faster, and more deadly than the most powerful (and craziest) men in history. You’re welcome.
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Crown The Demon of Unrest
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this ?riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult? (Los Angeles Times). ?A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.??The Wall Street JournalA PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAROn November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln?s election and the Confederacy?s shelling of Sumter?a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were ?so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.?At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter?s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable?one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink?a dark reminder that we often don?t see a cataclysm coming until it?s too late.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Man Who Tried to Save the World
Book SynopsisA swashbuckling Texan, a teller of tall tales, a womanizer, and a renegade, Fred Cuny spent his life in countries rent by war, famine, and natural disasters, saving many thousands of lives through his innovative and sometimes controversial methods of relief work. Cuny earned his nickname 'Master of Disaster' for his exploits in Kurdistan, Somalia, and Bosnia. But when he arrived in the rogue Russian republic of Chechnya in the spring of 1995, raring to go and eager to put his ample funds from George Soros to good use, he found himself in the midst of an unimaginably savage war of independence, unlike any he had ever before encountered. Shortly thereafter, he disappeared in the war-rocked highlands, never to be seen again.Who was Cuny really working for? Was he a CIA spy? Who killed him, and why? In search of the answers, Scott Anderson traveled to Chechnya on a hazardous journey that started as as a magazine assignment and ended as a personal mission. The result is a galvanizin
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Traveling Mercies
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Mother Angelica
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The Crown Publishing Group Maimonides The Life and World of One of Civilizations Greatest Minds
Book SynopsisThis authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time.Maimonides was born in Córdoba, in Muslim-ruled Spain, in 1138 and died in Cairo in 1204. He lived in an Arab-Islamic environment from his early years in Spain and North Africa to his later years in Egypt, where he was immersed in its culture and society. His life, career, and writings are the highest expression of the intertwined worlds of Judaism and Islam. Maimonides lived in tumultuous times, at the peak of the Reconquista in Spain and the Crusades in Palestine. His monumental compendium of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah, became a basis of all subsequent Jewish legal codes and brought him recognition as one of the foremost lawgiv
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Random House Publishing Group Pretty Is What Changes Impossible Choices the Breast Cancer Gene and How I Defied My Destiny
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Girls Play Dead
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group An American Story
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WW Norton & Co Perspectives on American Composers
Book SynopsisArticles by and about composers, beginning with Charles Ives and including Edgard VarÃse, Roger Sessions, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, Stefan Wolpe, and others.
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WW Norton & Co Questions Of Madness
Book SynopsisZhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of repression by psychiatry in Russia today.
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WW Norton & Co The Devil Drives
Book SynopsisReprint. Originally published: New York: Norton, 1967.
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WW Norton & Co No Excuse To Lose
Book SynopsisâœYou are likely to learn more about winning yacht races by reading this book than from anything youâve read in quite a while. . . . [It] gives us a close look at Connerâsurely the most successful sailboat skipper in the United States today . . .â âBruce Kirby
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WW Norton & Co A World of Light Portraits And Celebrations
Book SynopsisIts revelations, its tender frankness, its acutely sensitive observations recommend [this book] to Sarton's growing legion of readers. -ChoiceTrade Review"Buy this book and enjoy one by one and at leisure Sarton's sensual evocations of person and place, lit by occasional tantalizing flashes of the author herself, in and out of love, up and down the world from Belgium to Maine." -- Library Journal
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WW Norton & Co In the Shade of Spring Leaves The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo with Nine of Her Best Stories
Book SynopsisHiguchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multi-volumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.
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W. W. Norton & Company No Ordinary Genius
Book SynopsisIn words and more than 100 photos, this work traces Feynman's remarkable adventures inside and outside science. The book gives insight into the mind of a great creative scientist at work and at play, and challenges the popular myth of scientists as cold reductionists, dedicated to stripping romance and mystery from the natural world.Trade Review"The many photographs, along with...anecdotes and monologues taken from interviews...give the reader...insight into the depth of Feynman's originality and gifts as a physicist." -- Washington Times
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WW Norton & Co Science and the Founding Fathers Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin John Adams and James Madison Science in of Jefferson Franklin Adams and Madison
Book SynopsisGeneral readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspicuously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of early America.Trade Review"Intellectually engaging…deftly written." -- Boston Globe"Cohen's eye-opening, elegant study shows that America's Founding Fathers were true citizens of the Age of Reason who sought links between scientific principles and constitutional government." -- Publishers Weekly"A fascinating study…the founding fathers appear in an interesting new light, thanks to Cohen's fresh, not to say iconoclastic, vision." -- Kirkus Reviews
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WW Norton & Co The Stevensons A Biography of an American Family
Book Synopsis[A] sweeping narrative, beautifully written and scrupulously evenhanded, [that] does full justice to Stevenson and his people. . . . Ambitious, elegiac, and provocative.--Richard Norton Smith, Chicago Tribune, front page reviewTrade Review"A vivid portrait. . . . It is a great American story." -- Baltimore Sun"A valuable study of one of the most frustratingly elusive figures of mid-century American politics, rich in political anecdote but rigorously analytical." -- Michael Kenney - Boston Globe"Scrupulous and perceptive." -- Jonathan Yardley - Washington Post Book World
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