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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
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Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan
This evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative--the companion volume to the 12-hour PBS series--delves into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 through to the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly 400 sites and 84 million acres.
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Power of Myth
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Joseph Campbell
A series of interviews that Bill Moyers conducted with Joseph Campbell near the end of the scholar's life. They range across his writings and serve as a summing up. Each chapter has a focus on one aspect of myth as reflected in Campbell's writings and each conversation brings out the idea that myths go across time and are present in modern, ...
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Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
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Jack D Schwager
Interviewing such personalities as Michael Marcus - who turned a $30,000 account into $80 million - and Tom Baldwin - a former meat-packing plant manager who now trades up to $2 billion worth of T-bond futures a day -, Jack D. Schwager gets these top traders and others to disclose their various trading approaches and personal rules and secrets for ...
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The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders
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Jack D Schwager
Praise for THE NEW MARKET WIZARDS "Jack Schwager simply writes the best books about trading I've ever read. These interviews always give me a lot to think about. If you like learning about traders and trading, you'll find that reading this book is time well spent." -Richard Dennis, President, The Dennis Trading Group, Inc. "Jack Schwager's deep ...
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project
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Dave Isay (Editor)
Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious oral history project in American history, this tapestry presents the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones.
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Culinary Artistry
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Andrew Dornenburg, Karen Page
Written in an anecdotal style, this text focuses on the development of leading chefs' cuisines, detailing the work in photographs. It also highlights the principles upon which the chefs base their cuisine. The authors and the chefs discuss techniques for flavour enhancement, the development of new dishes and the principles behind their menus.
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Interview with the Vampire
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Anne Rice
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of this book were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become something of a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature.
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Interview with the Vampire: Anniversary Edition
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Anne Rice
A vampire named Louis tells his life story to a young reporter. While initial reviews of this book were unfavorable, it has nevertheless become something of a contemporary classic in neo-Gothic literature.
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
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In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" ("Chicago Daily News")--"a magnificent book. . . . A work of art. To read it is to hear America talking" ("Boston Globe").
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Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention
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Lorraine M Wright, RN, PhD, Maureen Leahey, RN, PhD
With a clear focus on clinical nursing practice, this is the only textbook that provides specific how-to guidelines for family assessment and intervention. It's the ideal 'how to' book for promoting better family health care. "The Calgary Family Assessment Model" serves as the foundation for the book. This title includes genograms for blended ...
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Working
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Studs Terkel
A national treasure, radio legend Studs Terkel first made his name in his home town of Chicago, conducting tens of thousands of radio interviews over several decades. (He even interviewed Bob Dylan in the early '60s.) In WORKING, Terkel lets the tape roll as people talk about their jobs--an oral history approach which, though he did not invent it, ...
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The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist
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Margaret R Lazzari
The multitude of contemporary professional issues facing today's artist are dealt with in a detailed, practical way in this handbook. Primarily designed to help visual art students make the transition from art school to their own art practice, this book is also an excellent resource for practicing artists. It is the first book to focus on all ...
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Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
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George Soros
George Soros Ends the Speculation "The outcome [of this book] is a summing up of my life's work...As I finish the book, I feel I have succeeded."--George Soros from the Preface Critical praise for Soros on Soros "If you have ever wanted to sit down for a candid conversation with a phenomenal financial success, George Soros's book provides the ...
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The Habit of Surviving: Black Women's Strategies for Life
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Songwriters on Songwriting
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Paul Zollo
Pretty much essential reading for anyone even remotely interested in the songsmith's elusive art, songwriter and editor of SoundTalk magazine Paul Zollo's SONGWRITERS ON SONGWRITING contains an outstanding series of interviews with a notable cross section of songwriters, including both contemporary figures and icons from the golden days of R&B and ...
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I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
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Brian Lanker
Maya Angelou wrote the introduction to this volume of eloquent photographs of black women who struggled to effect change in a world that was often hostile to them.
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Beginning to Pray
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Anthony Bloom
Hailed both by Catholics and Protestants, it was written by an Orthodox Archbishop for people who had never prayed before and has been read and loved by persons at all levels of spiritual develop-ment.
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Crossing the Threshold of Hope
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John Paul II
This bestselling work by Pope John Paul II reflects his concerns as leader of the Church near the dawning of a new millennium. Writing for the general public, the pontiff is both generous and morally clear, reflecting his profound awareness of human suffering, as well as is his concern for the soul. His warnings about the dangers in modern life, ...
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Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
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Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin (Editor)
Edited by one of the authors of THE WORLD OF EDWARD GOREY, this volume is comprised of excerpts from interviews with and autobiographical writings by illustrator Gorey, and is accented with a number of previously unpublished drawings and sketches, along with little-seen photographs.
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Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness
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David Allen Karp
"Even though depression has periodically made me feel that my life was not worth living, has created havoc in my family, and sometimes made the work of teaching and writing seem impossible," writes David Karp, "by some standards, I have been fortunate." Indeed, depression can be devastating, leading to family breakups, loss of employment, even ...
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My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
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Howell Raines
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Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South
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Susan Tucker
; Segregated South /Susan Tucker A moving and eloquent collection of oral histories that convey the bonds that have united black and whit
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How to Think Like a CEO: The 22 Vital Traits You Need to Be the Person at the Top
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Debra A Benton
Once, the coveted position of CEO - chief executive officer - was the unreachable pinnacle reserved for the lucky few born with a silver spoon in their mouths, that priveleged group that went to the right schools with the right people. But on today's level playing field, corporate chiefs get there on their merits. At last, you can understand the ...
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Tying Rocks to Clouds
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William Elliott
Time and again, luminaries such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross warmed to author Bill Elliott's heartfelt longing for meaning behind the workings of the world. In this collection of fresh and joyful wisdom gathered from across the globe, their views and those of 17 others are framed by Elliott's ...
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Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs
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George Barris
In the closest thing to a Marilyn autobiography, George Barris, who spent the summer of 1962 photographing Monroe for a national magazine feature, recounts his days and nights with the actress, recalling their carefree, unencumbered conversations, and her enthusiastic exuberance for life. The sexy, flirtatious, incredibly beautiful Marilyn Monroe ...
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