Publication date: 1999-09-01
Dewey code: 796
Price: $35.00
Review John Bentley: My Story / Andre Deutsch:Straddling both union and league, John Bentley started out playing in Yorkshire clubs such as Cleckheaton and Otley, but was soon playing for England. This funny, outspoken, and insightful book offers a unique insider's view of the game.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-10-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $80.30
Review Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:From his spectacular launch of Playboy magazine to his recent television hit The Girls Next Door, Hugh Hefner has attracted public attention and controversy for decades. But how did a man who is at once socially astute and morally unconventional, part Bill Gates and part Casanova, also evolve into a figure at the forefront of cultural change? Granted unprecedented access to the man and his enterprise, historian and biographer Steven Watts argues that Hefner has profoundly altered American life and values. Punctuated with anecdotes of life at the Playboy Mansions, the book tells the compelling and uniquely American story of how one person with a provocative idea, a finger on the pulse of popular opinion, and a passion for his work altered the course of modern history. Amazon Exclusive: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion 1. He has been keeping an exhaustive “scrapbook” of his life since adolescence, which now consists of over 1800 volumes and takes up much of the third floor of the Mansion. 2. His favorite weekly event is Monday’s “Manly Night,” a gathering of longstanding male friends for an evening devoted to eating, trading friendly insults and stories, and watching old films. 3. Hefner became obsessed with backgammon in the 1970s, playing in tournaments at the Mansion that attracted world-class players and lasted for hours, sometimes days. 4. [+]He was deeply traumatized during his college days when his fiancé confessed that she was involved in a sexual affair. 5. He nearly choked to death in the late 1970s after ingesting a small sex toy during a raucous lovemaking session with his girlfriend. She dislodged it with the Heimlich maneuver. 6. Hefner was a strong backer of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, contributing money and booking African American entertainers for his television show and the Playboy Clubs. 7. The Mansion library still prominently displays a large ceramic bust of Barbi Benton, Hefner’s girlfriend from the late 1960s and early 1970s. 8. The Mansion staff is inundated with requests for invitations to Hefner’s big parties. Some are from celebrities who want to bring their friends, and many are from young women who send photos of themselves in skimpy clothing and provocative poses. Nearly all are turned down. 9. Every bathroom at the Mansion is equipped with a bottle of baby oil, bottle of aspirin, and Jergens cherry-almond skin lotion. During big parties, many of them also have bowls filled with condoms. 10. Hefner has all of his meals brought to him in his bedroom suite at the Mansion. Even when the Mansion is filled with dozens of guests enjoying an elegant buffet meal for movie nights on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, he eats in his room before joining the crowd.
Publication date: 1999-09-01
Dewey code: 796
Price: $35.00
Review John Bentley: My Story / Andre Deutsch:Straddling both union and league, John Bentley started out playing in Yorkshire clubs such as Cleckheaton and Otley, but was soon playing for England. This funny, outspoken, and insightful book offers a unique insider's view of the game.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-05-23
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $15.29
Price: $80.93
Review Switched At Birth: My Life in Someone Elses World / BookSurge Publishing:A true story about two baby boys who were inadvertently given to the wrong mothers & would later in life cross paths in so many different ways. How I met my birth mother & biological family for the first time three years ago. How my life has been spared in so many ways I think I have more lives than a cat. This is why it is imperative of me to write my life story, also to show my birth mother how my life has been without her,which is no fault of her.
Publication date: 2007-07-12
List Price: $79.99
Price: $79.99
Review Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, Volume II / IndyPublish:Mrs Katherine Thomson, nee Byerley (1797-1862) who also wrote under the pseudonym Grace Wharton was the author of: Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 (3 volumes, 1845-46), The Wits and Beaux of Society (1861), The Life and Times of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth and Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.
Publication date: 2007-07-06
Dewey code: 973.917
List Price: $120.00
Price: $79.99
Review The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Human Rights Years 1945-48, Vol. 1 (Eleanor Roosevelt Papers) / Charles Scribners Sons/Reference:Human rights. Global relations. The role of women. U. S. politics. Eleanor Roosevelt was a trailblazer in many arenas. Her writings are essential tools to better understand American politics, diplomacy and policy, and the struggle to implement democracy domestically and internationally in the first two-thirds of the 20th century.
Authors
- Ida Piller-Greenspan
- Susan M. Branting
Dewey code: 940.5318092
List Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00
Review When the World Closed Its Doors: Struggling to Escape Nazi-occupied Europe / Paradigm Publishers:At the beginning of World War II, the United States and other countries erected a "paper wall" - a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a small number of Jewish refugees from emigrating from Nazi-occupied Europe. When the World Closed Its Doors tells the true story of a young couple who, like many European Jews, were caught between the Nazis and the "paper wall". Ida Piller-Greenspan was married in Belgium on May 9, 1940. That night the Nazis invaded Belgium. She and her new husband survived the next four months hitchhiking through occupied territory, hiding in barns and tunnels, dodging bombs near Dunkirk, crossing the Pyrenees on foot, and enduring weeks with little food and no money. Ultimately they arrived in Portugal, certain they would find sanctuary somewhere in the world beyond Europe's borders. But their trials were not over. It took nine anxious months for them to find a country that would let them in - months spent watching in horror as most refugees were forced back to uncertain lives in their home countries. Forty years later, Ida, an accomplished artist, created a pictorial diary of their journey. Her prints, lyrical, haunting, and compelling, are accompanied by a page-turning narrative that bears witness to this treacherous and largely forgotten chapter of World War II history.
Creator: Nadia May
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $80.17
Review The Life and Times of William Shakespeare: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2004-04-13
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.99
Price: $81.07
Review Penal Colony House, The: A Winter In Bungendore / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2004-06
Dewey code: 306.42
List Price: $81.00
Price: $80.96
Review Going Down for Air: A Memoir in Search of a Subject (Great Barrington Books) / Paradigm Publishers:What is hidden in the taste of a madeleine cookie-or in snatches of Bob Dylan songs, operatic arias, and the remembered sting of a rattan cane? An exploration of memory, Going Down for Air artfully combines two very different yet connected texts. A Memoir is richly evocative not only of times past, but also of a very English, imperial, queerly masculine subjectivity, caught on the cusp of the extinction of the world in and of which it made sense. Derek Sayer's allusive writing succeeds as few have done before in capturing the leaps and bounds of memory itself. Rich in its detail, unstinting in its honesty, this beautifully written memoir is a considerable literary achievement. The memoir is complemented by Sayer's provocative theoretical essay on memory and social identity. Drawing on linguistic and psychoanalytic theory, photographic images, and literary texts, In Search of a Subject argues that it is memory above all that maintains the imagined identities upon which society rests.
Authors
- Claybourn Carson
- Martin Luther King
Publication date: 2003
Price: $79.99
Review Eu Tenho Um Sonho - A Autobiografia De Martin Luther King / Bizâncio:Lutando contra um gigante (as leis e preconceitos seculares de discriminação dos negros nos EUA), tornou-se um símbolo para todo o mundo. Não apenas para os negros, mas para todos os que defendem causas justas. Este livro, organizado pelo professor de História Claybourn Carson, reúne os inúmeros textos de Luther King, muitos deles nunca publicados, "fundidos num relato único", como se de uma autobiografia se tratasse, mas "preservando a sua integridade". Temos assim "uma narrativa que traça a vida de King até ao fim (seria assassinado em 1968, com 39 anos), partindo de textos de base de períodos muito diferentes dessa mesma vida". As ideias, as lutas, a vida de um homem extraordinário. Páginas: 436.
Publication date: 1949-01
List Price: $90.00
Price: $90.00
Review Way of a Fighter: Memoirs (History United States Series) / Reprint Services Corp:
Publication date: 2006-09-21
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00
Review Thomas Becket and his Biographers (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion) / Boydell Press:In the wake of his murder in December 1170, an extraordinarily large number of Lives of Thomas Becket were produced. They provide an invaluable witness to the life and death of Thomas and the dramatic events in which he was involved, but they are also works of great literary value, more complex and sophisticated than has been recognised. This book, the first to be devoted to the biographers and their works, consists of an examination the individual Lives, followed by an analysis of the biographers' treatment of the major themes in Thomas's life - conversion, conflict, trial, exile and martyrdom - in the light of contemporary hagiographical, historical and theological writing and canon law. It raises points of major significance for the study of intellectual and literary life in the central middle ages and provides an important reassessment of the Becket conflict and Thomas Becket himself. Dr MICHAEL STAUNTON is Lecturer in Medieval History, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin.
Publication date: 2008-11-12
List Price: $80.99
Price: $80.99
Review Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest / IndyPublish:
Creator: Arthur (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-03-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00
Review Money For Nothing: One Man's Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:This wry and funny memoir tells the story of America's addiction to gambling from an astonishing angle. A neurotic gambler himself, Ed Ugel made a lucrative living with a company that capitalized on other gamblers weaknesses.
Publication date: 1994
Price: $80.00
Review AutoVision Release 2, User's Guide And Reference / Autodesk, Inc.:
Publication date: 2008-11-12
List Price: $80.99
Price: $80.99
Review Colonel Thorndyke's Secret / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2004-07-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $20.99
Price: $88.00
Review Just Do It / Xlibris Corporation:
Creator: Marcel Gautherot
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1964
Review The Tropical Gardens of Burle Marx / Reinhold Publishing Corp:Illustrated throughout with color and balck & white photos.
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $79.99
Price: $79.99
Review Autobiographic Sketches / IndyPublish.com:
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John Bentley: My Story, Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Library Edition, John Bentley: My Story, Switched At Birth: My Life in Someone Elses World, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, Volume II, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Human Rights Years 1945-48, Vol. 1 (Eleanor Roosevelt Papers), When the World Closed Its Doors: Struggling to Escape Nazi-occupied Europe, The Life and Times of William Shakespeare: Library Edition, Penal Colony House, The: A Winter In Bungendore, Going Down for Air: A Memoir in Search of a Subject (Great Barrington Books), Eu Tenho Um Sonho - A Autobiografia De Martin Luther King, Way of a Fighter: Memoirs (History United States Series), Thomas Becket and his Biographers (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion), Lectures of Col. R. G. 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