Publication date: 2004-01
Review Shortcuts to Life's Secrets: The Collected Thoughts of Hayes McClerkin / Mountain State Publishing LLC:Former Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives Hayes McClerkin has been collecting thoughts and words of wisdom all his life. He originally started emailing short insightful messages to his daughters. It didn't take long for the list of recipients of these "thoughts for the day" to grow into what is now the hundreds. In response to a chorus of requests, McClerkin has put the collected thoughts into an entertaining, pithy, and edifying little volume with author's commentaries and humorous illustrations by Jeffrey Vasquez. McClerkin, who subscribes to the axiom, "Say in as few words as necessary what needs to be said to get the point across," is quick to acknowledge his thoughts have been cultivated from everyday sources, such as the church pulpit, the neighborhood barber shop and what he calls good old common sense. This book is good reading and makes an ideal gift for those who enjoy homespun philosophy with a humorous twist.
Publication date: 1954-01-01
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Review Mes Memoires - 2 volumes / French and European Publications Inc:
Publication date: 2004-04-12
Dewey code: 920
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Review An Autobiography / IndyPublish.com:The tale begins: Sitting down at the age of eighty-four to give an account of my life I feel that it connects itself naturally with the growth and development of the province of South Australia¿
Publication date: 2008-11-12
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Review Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2006-01-01
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $27.30
Price: $95.90
Review El oficio de escritor. Entrevistas con grandes autores / Ediciones ERA:
Publication date: 2008-09-11
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Review The History of Thomas Ellwood / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2004-02-23
Dewey code: 809
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Review A Writer's Recollections / IndyPublish.com:
Edition: 1885
Publication date: 2007-12-21
List Price: $95.00
Price: $95.00
Review Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography / Native American Books Distributor:This is a two volume set.
Edition: 1932
Publication date: 2007-12-21
List Price: $95.00
Price: $95.00
Review Rossetti Family, 1824-1854, / Native American Books Distributor:
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 200
Price: $17.95
Review Exodus II The Promised Land / Airleaf Publishing:A child is born in old Cairo; life does not show him any mercy! At the age of six, in horror, he watches his Jewish school burn down – the brutal act left him with a recurring nightmare. When he was eleven, the Suez War began, his relatives were deported, and the family business was sequestered. At school, his classmates ridiculed him, and his Arabic teacher made his education a living Hell, only because he was Jewish. When he was admitted at Cairo University, he did not dare disclose his true faith. He remained undercover, pretended to be an observant Muslim, avoiding the risk of confrontation. But it was not to be; he was eventually discovered and the resulting mayhem was harrowing. Mid-third year in college, his family’s business was confiscated without reparations. Luckily, his father evaded imprisonment, but the family had no choice but to escape from Egypt. As they attempted to flee, their humiliation persisted and climaxed when they were denied freedom twice at Cairo’s Airport. Throughout the book, this boy’s life is vibrantly recounted, capturing the readers’ compassion while leaving them in utter shock. [+]A true story that defies the imagination!.
Publication date: 1907
Review Studies of a Biographer (Set of Volume 1, 2, 3, 4) / G. P. Putnam's Sons:
Publication date: 2006-02-28
Dewey code: 920
Price: $14.95
Review Personal Best: Chasing the Wind Above And Below the Equator / Virtualbookworm.com Publishing:"Personal Best, Chasing the Wind Above and Below the Equator" is more than a sailing adventure. It's the story of one man's drive to realize his dream. Never being satisfied with the ordinary Ed, he drops in and out of an engineering career to be a farmer in the mountains of North Carolina. After several years he re-enters the corporate world and has a rich and rewarding career with a major U. S. corporation. Always, he strives to do "his personal best. " Finally it’s time for his dream to be realized. He and his wife will sail around the world. Sail with them as they experience the wonders, triumphs, and difficulties of living their dream. [+]Storms, breakdowns, personal loss, and a miraculous escape from drowning in the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand serve as the backdrop to seeing the wonders of the world and meeting the people who are a part of it. AUTHOR BIO: Edward Muesch was born in New Jersey and spent his childhood years growing up in Phoenix, Arizona. Ed's background in mechanical engineering led to a successful career as a Director of Engineering for a major U. S. corporation. His technical papers and sailing articles have appeared in several publications and he has appeared on several talk shows. Ed took early retirement in 2001 to fulfill his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. Ed and his wife, Helen, live on their Hans Christian ketch, presently in the Mediterranean and have a flat in Margarita, Venezuela.
Creator: Nigel Brailey
Edition: 1 New
Publication date: 2009-01-30
Dewey code: 940.548252
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Review Masanobu Tsuji's Underground Escape / Global Oriental:First published in translation from the Japanese in 1952 prior to his mysterious disappearance in Laos in the 1960s, and long out of print, Colonel Tsuji's account of his escape into Thailand (where he became a monk) from the Japanese surrender in Bangkok in 1945, and then finding his way into China before returning to Japan in 1948, is a highly entertaining and fascinating story, which has its place in the military history of the period. 'The sights I saw and the things I heard in an Asia, writhing and struggling in a storm of Communism, form the contents of this book. ' Controversially Tsuji, who according to Louis Allen, was responsible for 'unspeakable atrocities' in Singapore and elsewhere, is also the author of "Singapore: The Japanese Version". Nigel Brailey, best known for his studies on Thailand, has carefully edited the original edition published by Robert Booth and Taro Fukuda, Tokyo, annotating the text where necessary, and provides an in-depth Introduction in which he examines both the Tsuji history and the historiography.
Publication date: 1968
Review Cesar Vallejo / Nueva Vision SAIC:Biography of Cesar Vallejo
Authors
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
Dewey code: 809
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Review Chesterfield's Letters to His Son / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 2008-05-12
Dewey code: 920
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Review A New England Girlhood / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2005-01-30
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $30.00
Price: $95.69
Review Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner / St. Martin's Press:In a moving and bittersweet story, M. J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of Plainville, is so quiet that one local family regularly parks by the tracks to watch the train pass through. Yet small-town life and, especially, the prairie prove to be fertile ground for Andersen's imagination. Exploring subjects as seemingly unrelated as Roy Rogers and Tolstoy's beloved Anna Karenina, she repeatedly locates a transcendent connection with South Dakota's broad horizon. Andersen introduces us to her hardworking newspaper family, which produces one of Plainville's two competing weeklies; to Job's Daughters, a Christian association intended to prepare young women for adversity (Plainville's chapter assumes the added responsibility of throwing the town's best teen dances); and even to a local variety of hardy alfalfa, to which her best friend has a surprising kinship. Leaving behind her physical home, Andersen travels East for college, remaining to begin a journalism career. With her husband she eventually settles into her first house, a beautiful Victorian that, though loved, somehow does not feel like home in the way she had anticipated. Through subsequent travels, memories, and a meditation on Tolstoy's complex relationship to his ancestral home, she arrives at a new idea of what home is - one that should resonate with every American who has ever had to pull up stakes.
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 920
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Review Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World / IndyPublish.com:This Bay I shall describe when I come to speake of the rest of the Coast. Hoisted out the Boats and moor'd with the Stream Anchor. While this was doing I went ashore accompanyed by Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander to look for a Watering place and to speak with the Natives, who were assembled on the Beach at the Head of the Bay to the Number of 30 or 40. They were so far from being afraid or surprised at our coming amongst them that three of them came on board without the least hesitation. They are something above the Middle size, of a Dark Copper Colour with long black hair; they paint their Bodies in Streakes, mostly Red and Black.
Authors
- Barry . E. O'Meara
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Review Napoleon in Exile; or, a Voice From St. Helena. Volume I. / London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall:Volume 1 of a two volume set! "The Opinions and Reflections of Napoleon on the Most Important Events of His Life and Government, in His Own Words. ".
Publication date: 2007-03-19
Dewey code: 283.092
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Review William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937): The Southern Episcopal Church Bishop Who Became a Communist / Edwin Mellen Press:This study focuses on the background, life and personality of Episcopal Bishop William Montgomery Brown to explain why he became a materialist and a communist. Born to poor but industrious parents near Orrville, Ohio in 1855, he pursued the ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church. Following the publication of his "The Church for Americans" in 1895, he was chosen as the episcopal successor to the Rt. Rev. Henry Niles Pierce, Bishop of Arkansas. He went on to write some works which proved controversial, causing friction within and outside of his diocese, leading him to move back to his native Ohio where, following a crisis of faith, he became a materialist and communist. Then, following the publication of his "Communism and Christianism: Banish Gods from Skies and Capitalists from Earth!", he was tried for heresy and deposed in 1925. He spent the remaining years of his life advancing communism and advocating a symbolic, non-supernatural Christianity, up until his death in 1937.
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Shortcuts to Life's Secrets: The Collected Thoughts of Hayes McClerkin, Mes Memoires - 2 volumes, An Autobiography, Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, El oficio de escritor. Entrevistas con grandes autores, The History of Thomas Ellwood, A Writer's Recollections, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, Rossetti Family, 1824-1854,, Exodus II The Promised Land, Studies of a Biographer (Set of Volume 1, 2, 3, 4), Personal Best: Chasing the Wind Above And Below the Equator, Masanobu Tsuji's Underground Escape, Cesar Vallejo, Chesterfield's Letters to His Son, A New England Girlhood, Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner, Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, Napoleon in Exile; or, a Voice From St. Helena. 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