Creator: Raivaaja Publishing
Publication date: 1949
Review Who's Who Among Finnish-Americans: A Biographical Directory of persons of Finnish descent who have made noteweorthy contributions to the pattern of American Life / Raivaaja Publishing Company:
Publication date: 2002
Review Guru - Glimt Fra Gurdjieffs Verden / Cappelen:
Authors
- Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo
- Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo
Publication date: 2004-11-19
Dewey code: 986.10632092
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Review My Life as a Revolutionary: Reflections of a Former Guerrillera / Temple University Press:In "My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary", Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo presents a gripping account of her experiences as a member of M-19, one of the most successful guerrilla movements in Colombia's tumultuous modern history. Vasquez's remarkable story opens with her happy childhood in a middle-class provincial household in which she was encouraged to be adventurous and inquisitive. As an eighteen-year-old university student in Bogota, Maria Eugenia embraced radical politics and committed herself to militant action to rid her country of an abusive government. Dedicated and daring, Vasquez took part in some of the M-19's boldest operations in the 1970s and 1980s and became one of its leaders. She was able to avoid detection for nearly twenty years in the movement because she was both clever and considered too attractive to be a guerrillera. Her vivid narrative brings to life the men and women who were her comrades and conveys their anxiety and exhilaration as they carried out their actions. When she tells of her love affairs with some of M-19's top leaders, she cannot separate romance from camaraderie or escape a sense of impending tragedy. If Vasquez gave us only a rare insider's account of youth culture and a guerrilla movement in a Latin American country, this would be a book well worth reading. But she also gives us an unsparing analysis of what it meant to be a woman in the movement and how much her commitment to radical politics cost her. Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo is Director, Fundacion Mujer y Futuro (NGO: Woman and Future Foundation), working in coordination with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the project "Mujer y Derechos" (Women and Rights), which serves women forcibly displaced by the armed conflict. [+]The Spanish-language edition of this book, published as Escrito para no morir, was awarded the Colombian National Prize for Testimonial Literature in 1998. Lorena Terando is Assistant Professor of Translation at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Edition: Stated 1st
Publication date: 1961
Review The Rancher Takes a Wife / Longmans, Green & Company:This is the third in a series of autobiographical books about opening up the Cariboo region of British Columbia and starting up a ranch on the Chilcotin Plateau. These have since been made into a popular TV series. The first two books are Grass Beyond the Mountains and Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy.
Creator: Campo das Letras
Publication date: 2006
Price: $59.96
Review Álvaro Cunhal Íntimo e Pessoal - Um dicionário afectivo / campo das letras:Um dicionário com quase 500 entradas e mais de 600 citações O que Álvaro Cunhal pensava sobre Arte, Beleza, Ciência, Cinema, Futebol, Homossexualidade, Humor, Jovens, Literatura, Morte, Música, Poesia, Pornografia, Viagens. As palavras do líder histórico do PCP sobre a Mãe, o Pai, os Irmãos, a Família, os Netos, e as recordações da Infância, da Escola, da Tropa e da Prisão. As reflexões sobre a dimensão ética e moral da política. Como é que um comunista olhava para os Católicos, a Igreja, Deus, a Religião, a Fé. A Amizade, o Amor, a Paixão, o Casamento e a Felicidade, segundo Álvaro Cunhal. E os testemunhos de quem o entrevistou. As memórias de Alexandra Lucas Coelho, Ana Sousa Dias, Carlos Cruz, Catarina Pires, Fernanda Mestrinho, Fernando Alves, José Carlos de Vasconcelos, Luís Osório, Mafalda Serrano, Maria Flor Pedroso e Mário de Carvalho.
Authors
- Philip S. Foner
- Frederick Douglass
Review The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Vol. I, Early Years, 1817-1849 / International Publishers Co. Inc.:When Frederick Douglass, the outstanding Negro leader of the last century, died in 1895, he left behind him a vast body of speeches. Scattered all over the country in numerous libraries and historical societies, most of this material remained forgotten for almost half a century. Dr. Philip S. Foner spent six years collecting and preparing it for publishing. it is to appear in four volumes: "Early Years," "The Pre-Civil War Decade," "The Civil War," and "Reconstruction and After. " Dr. Foner has also contributed a full length biography of Douglass to these volumes, which may well be considered the definitive biography of Douglass. "Early Years" includes the section of this biography dealing with the years 1817 to 1850. In "Early Years," the reader will find a remarkable collection of material written by the young Douglass, who had only just escaped slavery. [+]Even before he was thirty, this self-taught man was already emerging as the foremost spokesman, orator, and organizer of the Negro people and indeed of the Abolitionist movement. The founding of his first newspaper, "The North Star," his relations with such figures as William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Horace Greeley, his championship of women's rights, his uncompromising stand on civil liberties, his stirring calls to the oppressed Negro people are presented here in rich profusion. -From the inside flap.
Publication date: 2008-10
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Review Loose Girl (Playaway Adult Nonfiction) / Playaway:
Publication date: 1958
Review Thackeray : The Uses of Adversity 1811-1846 [AND] The Age of Wisdom 1847-1863 [two volume set] / McGraw-Hill:Both volumes: The Uses of Adversity (1955) and The Age of Wisdom (1958)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-12-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:SuperbMr. Anderson does a masterly job in evoking Ches complex character, in separating the man from the myth New York Times Book Review.
Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing
Publication date: 1984
Review D. W. Griffith, an American Life SIGNED / Simon and Schuster:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-26
Dewey code: 616.89170092
List Price: $35.00
Price: $99.95
Review False Self: The Life of Masud Khan / Other Press:The definitive biography of one of the most engaging figures of British psychoanalysis. Both gifted analyst and generational bête noire, M. Masud R. Khan (1924-1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behavior the bigotry of his proponents turned detractors. The son of a wealthy landowner in rural India (now Pakistan), Khan grew up in a world of privilege that was radically different from the Western lifestyle he would adopt after moving to London. Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as a brilliant clinician, Khan was closely connected to some of the most creative and accomplished individuals of his time, including Donald Woods Winnicott, Anna Freud, Robert Stoller, Michael Redgrave, Julie Andrews, Rudolph Nureyev, and many more. Khan's subsequent downfall, which is powerfully narrated in this biography, offers interesting insights not only into Khan's psychic fragility but into the world of intrigues and deceptions pervasive in the psychoanalytic community of the time. In telling the story of this provocative man, Linda Hopkins makes use of unprecedented access to a complete copy of Khan's unpublished Work Books, which are quoted extensively. Additionally, she conducted innumerable interviews with Khan's peers, relatives, and analysands in order to provide an in-depth and balanced account of Masud Khan as a talented and deeply conflicted individual.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05
Dewey code: 920
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Review Touch and Go / Playaway:At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir that-embodying the spirit of the man himself-is youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun.
Authors
- Clifford Whittingham Beers
Dewey code: 920
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Review A Mind That Found Itself / IndyPublish.com:This is the autobiography of Clifford Whittingham Beers.
Creator: zefiro
Publication date: 2006
Price: $59.98
Review AGOSTINHO DA SILVA - ELE PRÓPRIO + DVD (PAL) Inédito no Interior (Colecção: Ventos da Lusophia) / zefiro:Agostinho da Silva - Ele Próprio é uma obra inédita, resultante da transcrição de um vídeo gravado por António Escudeiro nos anos 90. Este vídeo esteve, até hoje, "guardado no bau", até que o Espírito Santo o fez ganhar asas, voar e encontrar a sua razão de existência. Segundo o desejo do mesmo, tanto o DVD incluído como as palavras do texto são completamente fiéis ao original: sem montagens, sem correcções. Estas imagens e estas palavras são, assim, um reflexo de Agostinho da Silva, do seu espírito criativo e do seu pensamento original e criador, o testemunho de um dos maiores pensadores portugueses do século XX. ÍNDICE Nota do Editor Porquê Para começar pelo princípio. O poema que é Fernando Pessoa O "sim"e o "não" Depende do apetite de cada um. [+]Aquela coisa misteriosa. Tudo mudou e o diabo deste país não muda Tá vivo! Façam favor as pessoas de boiar Há coisas na vida muito mais interessantes do que trabalhar Faz parte da cultura portuguesa chegar tarde O regresso ao futuro passado.
Edition: DVD
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Starlust: The Price of Fame / Morgan James Publishing:Here's a story that's going to make you laugh, make you cry, and most of all make you think. Celebrity is a rough game. But Jesse Cutler is a survivor. Read how Jesse reinvents himself over and over. With Jesse, you brush elbows with legendary celebrities. You're up close to the action as he signs major recording contracts, performs on Broadway, records in the best studios in New York and Los Angeles. From having Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones watch in amazement as Jesse's band, the Young Executives, covered the hit song "Satisfaction," to helping arrange and then perform in Stephen Schwartz's hit Broadway show Godspell with the #1 single "Day by Day," to being the premier artist for Faberge's Brut Records label that included Michael Franks and comedian Robert Klein, to recording an album with Academy Award winner Joe Renzetti (The Buddy Holly Story), Jesse had it all. But temptations, seduction and leveraged buyouts of major entertainment conglomerates left him out in the cold.
Creator: Chris Coste
Publication date: 2008-12
List Price: $59.99
Price: $59.99
Review The 33-Year-Old Rookie (Playaway Adult Nonfiction) / Playaway:Chris Coste dreamed of playing major-league baseball from the age of seven. But after eleven grueling years in the minors, a spot on a major-league roster still seemed just out of his reach–until that fateful call came from the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006. At age thirty-three (“going on eighty”), Coste was finally heading to the big time. The 33-Year-Old Rookie is like a real-life Rocky, an unforgettable and inspirational story of one man’s unwavering pursuit of a lifelong goal. Beginning in a single-parent home in Fargo, North Dakota, and ending behind home plate on the flawless diamond of the Phillies’ Citizens Bank Park–where fans and teammates call him “Chris Clutch” because of his knack for getting timely hits–this intimate account of Coste’s baseball odyssey is a powerful story of determination, perseverance, and passion. For eleven seasons, Coste hustled, fought, and gritted his way to his breakthrough–and never lost faith in his abilities. Along the way, he gained the affection and admiration of baseball fans from Ottawa and Scranton to various Mexican and Venezuelan cities. Battered by years spent behind a catcher’s mask, and faced with bracing realities–there were bills to pay, and his young daughter was entering first grade–Coste decided to give it one last shot in 2006. But that year, during the Phillies’ major-league spring training, Coste was demoted to the minors at the last minute to make room for a utility outfielder, despite having hit a blistering. 463 and earning the trust of the team’s pitchers. [+]Later that season, though, Coste finally got the call-up, and he hit. 364 during the Phillies’ furious battle to nail down the final postseason berth. Coste takes us through the 2006 spring training season–with its pulse-quickening moments and close calls–and into his first season as a major-league catcher with the Phillies. From tense stretch-run games that kept Phillies’ fans on the edge of their seats to moments of intimate personal reflection, Coste’s saga offers baseball aficionados an inside look at a remarkable life and career. In this stirring, wry, and candid look at the life of a professional baseball nomad who never surrendered his dream, we savor the sometimes bittersweet fruits of victory against seemingly insurmountable odds. From the Hardcover edition.
Authors
- Washington, D.C. The National Foundation For The Improvement Of Education
Review Connecting The Bits: A Reference For Using Technology In Teaching And Learning In K-12 Schools / NFIE:"Purpose and Sources: Connecting the Bits provides information for integrating technology into teaching and learning in K-12 schools. The information is based upon findings from two past programs of the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education: The Road Ahead program explored how technology can facilitate teaching and learning in both formal and informal education settings. Twenty-two sites across the country created schoold-community partnerships. The sites reflected a full range of technology experience, from elementary students' first computer use to high school students' commercial quality multimedia presentations. The Road Ahead program was supported by Bill Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corporation, with proceeds from his book, The Road Ahead. The Learning Tomorrow program funded pilot projects that investigated how technology can improve teaching and learning for underserved students. The program supported teachers' professional development, examined how technology can meet diverse student learning needs, and engaged students in real-world learning activities. Learning Tomorrow was supported by the Sega Foundation of American and the AT&T Foundation. Evaluative data from the experiences of the thirty-two teams of teachers, administrators, and community-based partners that participated in The Road Ahead and Learning Tomorrow programs are major sources. [+]" [from introduction].
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-03-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $59.99
Price: $59.99
Review Body of Work: Library Edition / Playaway:
Authors
- Camille Kingsolver
- Steven L. Hopp
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-08
Dewey code: 641.0973
List Price: $99.00
Price: $59.99
Review Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U. S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. " Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. [+]Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew. and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air. ".
Creator: Uhuruh Askari
Publication date: 2008-02-08
List Price: $59.99
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Review 2008 Historic Presidential Campaign T-Shirt Iron-on Souvenir Kit Book / Imprints Publishin:2008 Historical Presidential Campaign of all Campaigns Memoir T-Shirt Ink jet Iron on Souvenir Kit Book. Democratic and Republican Candidates Memorable Keepsake Ready to Apply Colorful Original Templates. Senator: Hillary Clinton, Female, Senator: John McCain, Eldest Candidate Ever, Senator: Baraka Obama, African American, Governor: Mike Huckabee, Dark Horse. These Presidential Candidates have Captured the Imagination of the World which make this product a must have T-Shirt and other textile applicational Kit Book. This set consists of : (6) 1st Quality T-Shirts, (3) Adults M, L, XL, (3) Children M, L, XL, (6) Templates, (3) Republican, (3) Democrats (Perpetually Useful), (6) Ink jet Iron-on Transfer Sheets, (2) Complimentary Future President Children Template Designs with Easy to Follow Professional Results Instructions.
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