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telling the story of this provocative man, Linda Hopkins makes use of unprecedented access to a complete copy of Khan's unpublished Work Books, which are quoted extensively.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: 2
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 364.15409861
List Price: $88.00
Price: $70.10
Review Our Guerrillas, Our Sidewalks: A Journey into the Violence of Colombia / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.:This remarkable book tells the story of one man's kidnapping in Colombia from the first-person perspectives of all those involved: the guerrillas, the victim, his wife, his friends, and his brother-in-law, Herbert Braun. In this second edition, the author has added a new chapter that recounts the endurance of Colombia and Colombians in the face of escalating kidnapping and violence, explores the current political situation in Colombia, and reevaluates his own complex response to the guerrillas.
Edition: 10th
Publication date: 1892
Review Feuilles Détachées : Faisant suite aux souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse [Detachees] (Oeuvres Complètes d'Ernest Renan) / Calmann Levy:
Creator: Tom Hopkins
Edition: Deluxe Limited Ed
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $150.00
Price: $79.95
Review Chez Jacques Deluxe Edition: Traditions and Rituals of a Cook / Stewart, Tabori & Chang:Numbered limited edition with Clothbound slipcase Of the 20-plus cookbooks Jacques Pépin has written, Chez Jacques is his most personal and engaging. Now starring in his tenth PBS series, Pépin ranks among America’s most beloved cooking teachers, and this book shows us why. The book’s 100 recipes—for soups and appetizers, main courses, side dishes, and desserts—are Pépin’s own favorites among the thousands he has created over a lifetime of cooking. Using readily available ingredients and relying upon familiar techniques, these are the dishes he makes when preparing food at his Connecticut home. But Chez Jacques is more than a collection of well-liked recipes; it’s also a captivating sentimental journey. Each dish is introduced by a recollection—of picking dandelion greens for a spring salad, of buying fresh eggs from the local farmer—that invites readers to share in the traditions and rituals of Pépin’s most intimate circle. This treasury of great food, lore, and memory is exquisitely illustrated with a sampling of Pépin’s paintings, as well as hundreds of color photographs of the finished dishes and of Pépin in all his “natural habitats”—pitching boules with a group of friends, savoring a glass of chilled rosé in the afternoon sun, painting landscapes, designing menus, and, of course, working in his kitchen.
Creator: Western Historian Dave Belke
Edition: 1995 revised ed
Publication date: 1995
Review The Ladder of Rivers The Story of I. P. (Print) Olive / Dawson County Historical Society:Paperback,laminated pictoral cvr,1995 Cr Dawson Historicial Society,Revised ed,range cattle industry depected thru story of I. P. (Print)Olive,460 numbered pgs w/fold out map inside back cvr, Bibliography, Biography,Dawson County Historical Society Publishers,.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 100
Price: $30.99
Review Rambling Down Life's Road: With a Brain Injury / Xlibris Corporation:
Creator: Catherine Richardson
Publication date: 2009-02-21
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.00
Price: $59.85
Review William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, His Writings and His County / Boydell Press:William Dugdale (1605-86) was a leading antiquarian, well-known among historians of the period. His Antiquities of Warwickshire is regarded as a pioneering work. Here, leading authorities consider how Dugdale set about his work as an antiquary/local historian, and how he interacted with the society and political life of this county at a troubled time. The book also examines Warwickshire life in his day. CHRISTOPHER DYER, CBE is Professor of Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester; CATHERINE RICHARDSON is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Kent.
Publication date: 2004-05
Price: $59.95
Review Big Russ & Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life / Sound Library:
Edition: Special
Publication date: 2004-11-30
Dewey code: 790
Price: $50.00
Review The Kid Stays in the Picture / New Millennium:A candid no-holds-barred autobiography by a former Hollywood studio chief, ex-husband of Ali McGraw, and friend to Nicholson and Kissinger, chronicles his rise and fall, naming names and telling outrageous tales and infamous anecdotes. 75,000 first printing. First serial, Premiere & New York.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2007-05-23
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review Among the Stars: The Life of Maria Mitchell / Mill Hill Press/Nantucket:Few avenues of high achievement were open to American women in the mid-nineteenth century, but a young librarian on Nantucket Island, off the coast of Cape Cod, sent a startling signal through the male-dominated world of science when she emerged as a world-class astronomer. Maria Mitchell, from the roof of the family's home overlooking Main Street, peering into the heavens with a rudimentary telescope, showed that she could not only discover a comet, but compute its orbit and exchange scientific observations with the world's leading astronomers. She became an admired figure on the international scene, then a much-beloved professor at Vassar College, and finally a leader in the emerging women's rights movement. In her mind, these achievements seemed all part of a logical whole: the education and expansion of women's minds far beyond the stereotypes of the time and the projection of this new power into modern society. Not a radical, not an establishment figure, but a unique and innovative force in her time, Mitchell is meticulously and expertly portrayed by Margaret Moore Booker in this first comprehensive biography.
Edition: Special
Publication date: 2004-11-30
Dewey code: 790
Price: $50.00
Review The Kid Stays in the Picture / New Millennium:A candid no-holds-barred autobiography by a former Hollywood studio chief, ex-husband of Ali McGraw, and friend to Nicholson and Kissinger, chronicles his rise and fall, naming names and telling outrageous tales and infamous anecdotes. 75,000 first printing. First serial, Premiere & New York.
Publication date: 2000
Review Which Way The Wind Blew / Molonglo Press:
Creator: James O. Crosby
Publication date: 2005-04-28
Dewey code: 868.309
List Price: $105.00
Price: $59.95
Review Nuevas cartas de la última prisión de Quevedo (Textos B) / Tamesis Books:Of the 110 letters pertaining to the last seven years of Quevedo's life (1639-1645), 42 were composed during his four-year imprisonment in San Marcos de León. They are extensive and addressed to two distinguished Jesuits with whom Quevedo shared frankly (but under pseudonyms) news received in prison, including literary activity, military campaigns, politics and even his own parodies of the intrigues of the most powerful nobles at Court. These letters were carefully copied by two early 18th-century scholars in a hitherto unpublished manuscript of great interest and accuracy. This critical edition documents the authentic texts of the letters, corrects erroneous attributions, identifies Quevedo's correspondents and establishes the chronology and diagnosis of his long mortal illness. We now have dates which reorder the events of his life, and we know the identity of the powerful inquisitor who salvaged so much of Quevedo's poetry (published in 1648). JAMES O. CROSBY is Professor Emeritus at Florida International University. De las 110 cartas pertenecientes a los últimos siete años de la vida de Quevedo (1639-1645), 42 fueron redactadas en los cuatro años de su prisión en San Marcos de León. Son extensas y se dirigieron a dos jesuitas distinguidos con quienes compartió Quevedo con franqueza (pero bajo seudónimos) noticias recibidas en la cárcel, incluyendo la actividad literaria, las campañas militares, la política y hasta sus propias parodias de las intrigas de los próceres de la corte. Estas cartas fueron copiadas con sumo cuidado por dos eruditos de principios del siglo dieciocho en un manuscrito inédito de gran interés y exactitud. [+]La presente edición documenta los textos auténticos de las cartas, corrige atribuciones erróneas, identifica a los corresponsales del satírico y establece la cronología y la diagnosis de su larga enfermedad mortal. Ahora disponemos de los datos que ordenan correctamente los episodios de su vida, y sabemos la identidad del poderoso inquisidor que rescató para la p.
Publication date: 1995
Review A Celebration Of America: The Pride Of ABB Randall:
Creator: Jay Mohr
Publication date: 2004-06
List Price: $64.95
Price: $64.95
Review Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live / Sound Library:hen 21-year-old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling, and exciting years of feverishly keeping pace with his talented cohorts, outmaneuvering the notorious vices that claimed the lives of other cast members, and struggling at all costs for the holy grail of late-night show business: airtime. In Gasping for Airtime, Jay offers an intimate account of the inner workings of Saturday Night Live. He also dishes on the guest hosts (John Travolta, Shannen Doherty, Charles Barkley), the musical guests (Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton), and of course his SNL castmates (Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, and David Spade). Refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny, this book will appeal both to fans of Jay Mohr and to devotees of Saturday Night Live.
Authors
- Helene Hanff
- Stephen R. Pastore
Publication date: 1998-10-10
List Price: $59.95
Price: $59.95
Review The Library of Helene Hanff Limited Edition Signed / Yalebooks:
Publication date: 1996
Review Kissed By an Angel / Pearl Publishing Company:
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Publication date: 2007
Review There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble [Cd] (Unabridged) (Audio Cd):Humorist Notaro (The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, etc. ) transitions to fiction with a comic mix of wife lit and smalltown suspense. When Maye Roberts's husband, Charlie, gets a tenure-track job at prestigious Spaulding University, childless, 30-something Maye leaves her tight-knit group of friends and job as a Phoenix reporter to move to the school's eponymous Washington State burg. While Charlie fits in easily, Maye, after a faculty dinner run-in with Dean Spaulding's wife, Rowena, feels lonely and bored. When she learns about the Sewer Pipe Queen pageant, a local tradition that guarantees the winner a town full of friends, she enters with her singing dog, inflaming Rowena further. As tensions thicken, Maye's rather notorious pageant sponsor, Ruby, may hold the key to Rowena's continuing rage and to the decades-old incident that sparked it. Though some of the plot falls flat, Notaro makes Maye's perspective strong enough to hold the story together, and the book is filled with the same winningly acerbic riffs that drive Notaro's popular essays. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 910.41092
List Price: $30.99
Price: $76.27
Review From Rucksack To Backpack / Xlibris Corporation:
Edition: Primera
Publication date: 2006-07-15
Dewey code: 791
List Price: $59.90
Price: $59.87
Review Sexo, mentiras y Hollywood (Cronicas) (Cronicas Anagrama) / Editorial Anagrama:A finales de los anos ochenta empezo a desarrollarse al margen del studio system una nueva generacion de directores de cine independiente que se inspiraba en los directores de los anos setenta. Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Todd haynes, Ang Lee, Robert Rodriguez y docenas de directores menos conocidos, empezaron a cosechar premios, algunos llegaron a Cannes y, tras muchos esfuerzos, incluso a la Academia. Muchos de ellos descubiertos en el incipiente Festival de Cine de Sundance, creado por Robert Redford, fueron aupados por la compania cinematografica Miramax, que cada ano arrasaba en el certamen. En este libro, su autor cuenta la historia de los directores de cine y las distribuidoras independientes que revitalizaron Hollywwod en los noventa. Sigue la trayectoria expansiva de Sundance, y traza la meteorica ascension del controvertido Harvey Weinstein, a menudo descrito como el ultimo magnate, quien junto a su hermano dejo tras de si una estela de cadaveres, pero logro crear una fabrica de Oscars que es la envidia de los estudios.
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(Print) Olive, Rambling Down Life's Road: With a Brain Injury, William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, His Writings and His County, Big Russ & Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Among the Stars: The Life of Maria Mitchell, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Which Way The Wind Blew, Nuevas cartas de la última prisión de Quevedo (Textos B), A Celebration Of America: The Pride Of ABB Randall, Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live, The Library of Helene Hanff Limited Edition Signed, Kissed By an Angel, There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble [Cd] (Unabridged) (Audio Cd), From Rucksack To Backpack, Sexo, mentiras y Hollywood (Cronicas) (Cronicas Anagrama)Top headlines: A Muslim Letter to Christians: In an unprecedented letter, Muslim leaders across the globe invite the worlds Christians to the table. ›14:33 11 Oct, Thu Schwarzenegger declares fiscal emergency: Gov. 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