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Covered Wagon Women : Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1890

Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp.

by Pierre Cabanne

”Marcel Duchamp, one of this century’s pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with impressionism into t field with impressionism into t field where language, thought and vision act upon one another, There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more... (more)

The Dream at the End of the World : Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in TangierMichelle Green

The Dream at the End of the World : Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier

by Michelle Green

Fleeing New York in 1947, Paul Bowles settled in raffish Tangier, a wellspring for his fiction. For "extravagantly neurotic" wife Jane, the Moroccan mecca was a place to explore forbidden impulses. She embarked on a lesbian affair with a Berber grain-seller, while Paul also took same-sex lovers. Arriving in 1954, William Burroughs lived in a mildrew-ridden male brothel and tried to kick his drug habit. In 1957... (more)

Everything You'd Better Know About the Record Industry

Everything You'd Better Know About the Record Industry

by Kashif

Everything You'd Better Know About the Record Industry is "must" reading for anyone seeking to engage the music business professionally. Everything You'd Better Know About The Record Industry is about how to find success in the music business and how to make money doing it. by answering all the questions -- especially those that the novice wouldn't even know to ask! Included are over 150 pages of contracts and... (more)

Hooray for Yiddish : A Book About English

Hooray for Yiddish : A Book About English

by Leo Calvin Rosten

Mary Kay

by Mary Kay Ash

It could be said that her legendary status comes from creating a brand that's a household name, or from the marvelous marketing prowess by which she virtually owns the color pink. She could be lauded as one of the greatest executives to ever lead a company. Indeed, all of those plaudits would be true. But what endears the late MARY KAY ASH far beyond cosmetics, business genius, or financial success is her role as... (more)

Mozart

by Ann Rachlin

Focuses on the childhood and early musical training of the versatile eighteenth-century Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mythology

by Thomas Bulfinch

The three works, popularly known as Bulfinch's mythology, which were originally written and published separately.

Pagans and ChristiansRobin Lane Fox

Pagans and Christians

by Robin Lane Fox

The author recreates the world from the second to the fourth century A.D., when the gods of Olympus lost their dominion, and Christianity, with the conversion of Constantine, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.

The Supper of the Lamb : A Culinary Reflection (On Food)

The Supper of the Lamb : A Culinary Reflection (On Food)

by Robert Farrar Capon

From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The Supper of the Lamb, Capon talks about festal and ferial cooking, emerging as an inspirational voice extolling the benefits and wonders of old-fashioned home cooking in a world of fast food and prepackaged cuisine. This... (more)

The Catholic Bible : New American Bible : Personal Study Edition

The Catholic Bible : New American Bible : Personal Study Edition

One study Bible doesn't fit all, so Oxford publishes Catholic editions to suit the needs of new and seasoned Scripture students alike. The Personal Study Edition is ideal for the beginners, whether it's used within the context of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults or other such parish-based scripture education programs. It provides a wealth of background information in a single volume that informs readers... (more)

Heaven's Mirror; Quest for the Lost Civilization

Heaven's Mirror; Quest for the Lost Civilization

by Graham Hancock

In Heaven's Mirror , author Graham Hancock continues the quest begun in his international best-seller Fingerprints of the Gods: to rediscover the hidden legacy of mankind and to reveal that "ancient" cultures were, in fact, the heirs to a far older forgotten civilization and the inheritors of its archaic, mystical wisdom. Working with photographer Santha Faiia, Hancock traces a network of sacred sites around the... (more)

Japan.

by Chris Rowthorn, Ray Bartlett, Justin Ellis

Let the bullet train whisk you from futuristic Tokyo to Kyoto's most exquisite temples. Join a sake-filled cherry blossom party or the drum beat of a local matsuri. Pick your own way through sophisticated mega-cities packed with world-class museums. Then meet the wild snow monkeys of Chûbu. How could one country offer so much? This bestselling guidebook explains it all. o GET MORE FOR YOUR YEN -... (more)

Bieinvenido, Espiritu Santo/Welcome, Holy Spirit

Bieinvenido, Espiritu Santo/Welcome, Holy Spirit

by Benny Hinn

Lleva a los lectores a conocer el trabajo del Espíritu Santo en el mundo de hoy.

Helen Keller : Crusader for the Blind and Deaf

Helen Keller : Crusader for the Blind and Deaf

by Stewart Graff, Polly Anne Graff

This easy-to-read biography introduces Helen Keller to the young reader. A courageous girl who overcame the obstacles of being both deaf and blind since infancy, Helen Keller's story stands as an inspiration to all.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown, Dee Alexander Brown

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller... (more)

The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

by Zlata Filipovic

Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the... (more)

Eleanor of Aquitaine

by Alison Weir

Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. In this beautifully written biography,... (more)

Now, Discover Your Strengths

How to Build Your Strengths and the Strengths of Every Person in Your Organization

by Marcus Buckingham

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the... (more)

E=mc2

by David Bodanis

'By the end of the astonishing "E=mc2", a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners. It's a lucid, even thrilling study: the very best kind of science journalism. I didn't know I could know so much.' - Fay Weldon, Books of the Year, "Washington Post". In 1905, Albert Einstein produced five... (more)

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