Publication date: 1968
Review Grandma Raises the Roof / M. C. Print Shop:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2006
Dewey code: 915.20448
List Price: $74.95
Price: $74.95
Review 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan / Duke University Press:In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make up a panoramic view of Japan. With wit, candor, and a lover’s keen eye, she tells captivating stories—from that of a Buddhist funeral laden with ritual to an exhilarating evening spent touring the “Floating World,” the sensual demimonde in which salaryman meets geisha and the normal rules are suspended. On a remote island inhabited by one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, a disconcertingly down-to-earth priestess leads her to the heart of a sacred grove. And she spends a few unforgettable weeks in a quasi-Victorian residence called the Practice House, where, until recently, Japanese women were taught American customs so that they would make proper wives for husbands who might be stationed abroad. In an afterword new to this edition, Davidson tells of a poignant trip back to Japan in 2005 to visit friends who had remade their lives after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995, which had devastated the city of Kobe, as well as the small town where Davidson had lived and the university where she taught. 36 Views of Mount Fuji not only transforms our image of Japan, it offers a stirring look at the very nature of culture and identity. Often funny, sometimes liltingly sad, it is as intimate and irresistible as a long-awaited letter from a good friend.
Publication date: 1997
Review Gifts From the Prairies (First Edtion - SIGNED by Author) / Peanut Butter Publishing:Life story/memoir, includes numerous photos
Creator: Stephen Paley
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1997-11-01
Dewey code: 780
Price: $44.95
Review Callas: The Voice, The Story / Highbridge Audio:Even before her death in 1977, Maria Callas was the subject of controversy and never-ending fascination. Drawn from interviews with Callas, her life is told from her first public appearance to her years as a glamorous international diva. Commentaries and reminiscences by her contemporaries and with Callas herself are interspersed with excerpts from her most memorable live performances, presenting a remarkably frank and heartbreaking portrait of an extraordinary woman. 4 cassettes.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $120.00
Price: $75.00
Review The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan / Blackstone Audio, Inc.:In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging that pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Hardy, realizing the letter was the work of a genius, arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most remarkable collaborations ever chronicled. With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and teeming slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, "the Prince of Intuition," tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, "the Apostle of Proof. " In time, Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of thirty-two, but left behind a magical and inspired legacy that today is still being plumbed for its secrets.
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $30.99
Review Simple Pleasures: A Love Letter to My Grandchildren / Xlibris Corporation:
Creator: Sameer Nass
Publication date: 2003
Review From Survival to Significance ... a Journey / Dar Akhbar Al Khaleej:This book is about an ordinary person who became extra-ordinary not by doing different things, but by doing things differently. It is a description of a life journey that has had plenty of unexpected twists, turns, and rough terrain. This person had dogged determination to reach the summit. He crossed all the hurdles cheerfully and eventually succeeded. Abdulla Nass, the founder of Nass Group of companies, was born in Bahrain in a middle-class family. Story of his meteoric rise from a modest background is motivational and inspiring. Abdulla's life has one special dimension besides 'Success,' and that is 'Significance. ' 'Significance' is much wider than 'Success. ' It is a stage where one becomes more interested in service, in contributing to the welfare of the society and in searching real meaning of life and purpose of one's existence. In addition to being a biography, this book is also an exercise in modelling excellence and dynamic entrepeneurship, qualities that are hallmarks of Abdulla Nass. [+]It looks 'beyond the visible and discernible. ' The author talks about hierarchy of neurological levels and psychological factors that determine our beliefs, thought-processes and capabilities, which trigger certain behavioural patterns; in short, everything that effectively drives our destiny. The author has attempted to add value to the book by verbalising Abdulla's life practices and presenting them in a generalized form, which he calls 'GEMs,' or 'Guidelines for Entrepeneurs & Managers. ' These GEMs are answers to some of the common doubts confronted by Entrepeneurs and Managers in their careers. In a collective form, GEMs could therefore serve as a tool-kit for budding managers and entrepeneurs. Being successful need not be the 'end all and be all' of our lifes. In our journey, how we reach our destination is more important than reaching the destination itself. Abdulla's life story can serve as a guide and a road map in this endeavour.
Creator: Carol Zeman Rothkopf
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $85.00
Price: $75.00
Review A Library-Keeper's Business / Oak Knoll Press:Roger Stoddard is a highly respected librarian and author. As Head of Rare Books at Harvard University's famed Houghton Library, he has gained a lifetime of unique experiences. In a series of insightful essays and commentaries, this quiet scholar's scholar shares his work of forty years at one of the great epicenters of power and learning. A beautifully-written memoir illustrated with many rare photos. One will find his reaction to working with such giants as William A. Jackson and Lawrence C. Worth and a host of other notables. The author shares his insights from the perspective of a young student evolving into one of the foremost librarians in America.
Creator: Jon Gauger
Publication date: 2009-01
List Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
Review Born Again (Playaway Adult Nonfiction) / Playaway:CharlesColson, once a powerful aide to President Richard M. Nixon, describes the day he sat in his prison cell and began jotting down notes of the events that brought about the fall of a president and the rebirth of his former "hatchet man". His story has brought hope, encouragement, and inspiration to the many thousands who have read it.
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 974.710049672950092
List Price: $94.75
Price: $94.75
Review Casi una Mujer/Almost a Woman / Recorded Books:A simultaneous Spanish-language edition, originally translated for Vintage byNina Torres-VidalIn her new memior, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her life. "Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, and inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, for privacy, and her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's Performing Arts High School in the afternoon, and dancing salsa all night, she also seeks to find balance between being an American and Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of dates, she finds that independence brings challenges. At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood.
Publication date: 2003-10
List Price: $74.99
Price: $74.99
Review Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume 1 / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 1996
Review The Roaring Rebel: Roderick Sullivan Clancy 1896-1973:
Creator: Davina Porter
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1991
Review To the Scaffold : The Life of Marie Antoinette / Recorded Books, Inc.:To this day Marie Antoinette remains one of history's most misunderstood heroines. How she triumphed over the petty jealousies and backstairs rivalries of the court, how she sustained a good-hearted but malleable king, and how she was transformed from French queen to Austrian "whore," is the story told with skill and fascinating detail.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1987
Review Francesco Clemente (Elizabeth Avedon Editions):
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-06-19
Dewey code: 296.8332092
List Price: $75.00
Price: $74.97
Review The Regal Way: The Life and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) / Stanford University Press:This is a pioneering study of the nineteenth century Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of the most controversial and influential Hasidic leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin (1796-1850). The dramatic episodes of his life—including his involvement in the murder of Jewish informers, his imprisonment in Russia, his subsequent escape to Austria where he successfully reestablished his court—are echoed by the contradictory and highly critical opinions of his personal character and his role as leader of one of the largest and most opulent Hasidic courts of the nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century Hasidism has been a comparatively neglected topic in Jewish historiography largely because of the traditional view that the movement was in a degenerate state during this period. The natural interest that scholars found in the eighteenth-century origins of the movement, alongside their personal dislike of the nineteenth-century Hasidic courts and their machinations, led them to concentrate on the earliest years and the more recent phases of Hasidism. The book is in four parts. Part I draws on surprisingly rich non-Hasidic sources as well as on Hasidic materials to recreate the early life of Rabbi Israel from his childhood to his leadership of a Hasidic community. Part II concentrates on his activities as a famous spiritual leader, his adventures in Russia, and his final years in Austria. In Part III, the author analyzes major aspects of Rabbi Israel’s career and thought as a Hasidic leader and public figure, with emphasis on his approach to materialism, wealth, and luxury. Part IV describes in detail the royal Hasidic court of Rabbi Israel and his sons—its formation, buildings, economics, social structure, functionaries, and administrative organization.
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $74.99
Price: $74.99
Review My Bondage and My Freedom / IndyPublish.com:Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, My Bondage and My Freedom reveals the author of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) grown more mature, forceful, analytical, and complex with a deepened commitment to the fight for equal rights and liberties. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by John David Smith.
Publication date: 1898
Review The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1737-1832: with His Correspondence and Public Papers (Volume II) / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons:
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $74.99
Price: $74.99
Review Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction / Playaway:What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A. M. phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on Nic. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. Amazon Best of the Month, February 2008: From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. [+]Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic's story, but from the perspective of his father, David. Achingly honest, it chronicles the betrayal, pain, and terrifying question marks that haunt the loved ones of an addict. Many respond to addiction with a painful oath of silence, but David Sheff opens up personal wounds to reinforce that it is a disease, and must be treated as such. Most importantly, his journey provides those in similar situations with a commodity that they can never lose: hope -Dave Callanan.
Publication date: 1804
Review The Works of Joseph Butler (Two Volume Set) / Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.:
Publication date: 2008-10-24
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
Review Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary with Discographies / McFarland:Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter. This is a comprehensive guide to 1,054 composers and lyricists (in English) from all the popular genres, including Tin Pan Alley, rhythm & blues, country & western, jazz, rap, and film and show tunes. Each artist's entry includes birth name (if different), date and place of birth, principal musical genre, main instruments played (if any), a short biography, a list of compositions, a list of long playing albums or CDs (with year of release, record label and peak chart position) and any noteworthy compilation albums. Artists are cross-referenced with musical group and co-writers, when applicable, and the final section of most entries is an alphabetical list of every known chart version of any song written by that particular artist since 1890 (when Billboard first compiled a pop chart).
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Grandma Raises the Roof, 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan, Gifts From the Prairies (First Edtion - SIGNED by Author), Callas: The Voice, The Story, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, Simple Pleasures: A Love Letter to My Grandchildren, From Survival to Significance ... a Journey, A Library-Keeper's Business, Born Again (Playaway Adult Nonfiction), Casi una Mujer/Almost a Woman, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Volume 1, The Roaring Rebel: Roderick Sullivan Clancy 1896-1973, To the Scaffold : The Life of Marie Antoinette, Francesco Clemente (Elizabeth Avedon Editions), The Regal Way: The Life and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C), My Bondage and My Freedom, The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1737-1832: with His Correspondence and Public Papers (Volume II), Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction, The Works of Joseph Butler (Two Volume Set), Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary with DiscographiesTop headlines: Randy Jackson reveals his weight battle: After landing in an emergency room with diabetes and gastric bypass surgery that helped him lose 100 pounds, Randy Jackson of American Idol has written about his experience in hopes of helping others defeat obesity. 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