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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
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Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan
This evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative--the companion volume to the 12-hour PBS series--delves into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 through to the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly 400 sites and 84 million acres.
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Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
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Jack D Schwager
Interviewing such personalities as Michael Marcus - who turned a $30,000 account into $80 million - and Tom Baldwin - a former meat-packing plant manager who now trades up to $2 billion worth of T-bond futures a day -, Jack D. Schwager gets these top traders and others to disclose their various trading approaches and personal rules and secrets for ...
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The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders
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Jack D Schwager
Praise for THE NEW MARKET WIZARDS "Jack Schwager simply writes the best books about trading I've ever read. These interviews always give me a lot to think about. If you like learning about traders and trading, you'll find that reading this book is time well spent." -Richard Dennis, President, The Dennis Trading Group, Inc. "Jack Schwager's deep ...
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Culinary Artistry
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Andrew Dornenburg, Karen Page
Written in an anecdotal style, this text focuses on the development of leading chefs' cuisines, detailing the work in photographs. It also highlights the principles upon which the chefs base their cuisine. The authors and the chefs discuss techniques for flavour enhancement, the development of new dishes and the principles behind their menus.
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Interview with the Vampire
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Anne Rice
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of this book were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become something of a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature.
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project
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Dave Isay (Editor)
Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious oral history project in American history, this tapestry presents the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones.
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Interview with the Vampire: Anniversary Edition
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Anne Rice
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of this book were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become something of a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature.
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
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A national treasure, radio legend Studs Terkel first made his name in his home town of Chicago, conducting tens of thousands of radio interviews over several decades. (He even interviewed Bob Dylan in the early '60s.) In WORKING, Terkel lets the tape roll as people talk about their jobs--an oral history approach which, though he did not invent it, ...
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Power of Myth
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Joseph Campbell
A series of interviews that Bill Moyers conducted with Joseph Campbell near the end of the scholar's life. They range across his writings and serve as a summing up. Each chapter has a focus on one aspect of myth as reflected in Campbell's writings and each conversation brings out the idea that myths go across time and are present in modern, ...
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Beginning to Pray
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Anthony Bloom
Hailed both by Catholics and Protestants, it was written by an Orthodox Archbishop for people who had never prayed before and has been read and loved by persons at all levels of spiritual develop-ment.
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Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention
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Lorraine M Wright, RN, PhD, Maureen Leahey, RN, PhD
With a clear focus on clinical nursing practice, this is the only textbook that provides specific how-to guidelines for family assessment and intervention. It's the ideal 'how to' book for promoting better family health care. "The Calgary Family Assessment Model" serves as the foundation for the book. This title includes genograms for blended ...
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Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
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George Soros
George Soros Ends the Speculation "The outcome [of this book] is a summing up of my life's work...As I finish the book, I feel I have succeeded."--George Soros from the Preface Critical praise for Soros on Soros "If you have ever wanted to sit down for a candid conversation with a phenomenal financial success, George Soros's book provides the ...
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Working
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A national treasure, radio legend Studs Terkel first made his name in his home town of Chicago, conducting tens of thousands of radio interviews over several decades. (He even interviewed Bob Dylan in the early '60s.) In WORKING, Terkel lets the tape roll as people talk about their jobs--an oral history approach which, though he did not invent it, ...
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The Habit of Surviving: Black Women's Strategies for Life
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Songwriters on Songwriting
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Paul Zollo
Pretty much essential reading for anyone even remotely interested in the songsmith's elusive art, songwriter and editor of SoundTalk magazine Paul Zollo's SONGWRITERS ON SONGWRITING contains an outstanding series of interviews with a notable cross section of songwriters, including both contemporary figures and icons from the golden days of R&B and ...
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Crossing the Threshold of Hope
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John Paul II
This bestselling work by Pope John Paul II reflects his concerns as leader of the Church near the dawning of a new millennium. Writing for the general public, the pontiff is both generous and morally clear, reflecting his profound awareness of human suffering, as well as is his concern for the soul. His warnings about the dangers in modern life, ...
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I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
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Brian Lanker
Maya Angelou wrote the introduction to this volume of eloquent photographs of black women who struggled to effect change in a world that was often hostile to them.
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Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness
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David Allen Karp
"Even though depression has periodically made me feel that my life was not worth living, has created havoc in my family, and sometimes made the work of teaching and writing seem impossible," writes David Karp, "by some standards, I have been fortunate." Indeed, depression can be devastating, leading to family breakups, loss of employment, even ...
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My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
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Howell Raines
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Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
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Dan Baum
Originating in a heralded series of "New Yorker" articles, "Nine Lives" explores New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over 40 years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous subcultures, and the rich and colorful lives that played themselves out within its borders.
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The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics
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P C Davies (Editor), J Brown (Editor)
Quantum physics is one of the most successful branches of science. Its conceptual foundations, however, are replete with-paradoxes, and the implications of the theory for the nature of reality are profound. Interest in this topic has been re-awakened by a key experiment performed in 1982 to test the foundations of the theory. The occasion prompted ...
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Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
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Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin (Editor)
Edited by one of the authors of THE WORLD OF EDWARD GOREY, this volume is comprised of excerpts from interviews with and autobiographical writings by illustrator Gorey, and is accented with a number of previously unpublished drawings and sketches, along with little-seen photographs.
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Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South
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Susan Tucker
; Segregated South /Susan Tucker A moving and eloquent collection of oral histories that convey the bonds that have united black and whit
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American Route 66: Home on the Road
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Jane Bernard
Featuring powerful portraits and beautiful colour images with poignant and often humorous interviews, this is a contemporary portrait of America's first highway. It documents how the heritage of Route 66 is reflected in the current conditions and rhythms of life and portrays a fresh spin on local folklore and Americana.
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On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations a
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Kathy Cronkite
A compilation of interviews with celebrities who have overcome depression, including Kitty Dukakis, Joan Rivers, Mike Wallace, John Kenneth Galbraith, Jules Feiffer, and Rod Steiger.
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