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The setting is Atlanta, Georgia — a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000 acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a... (more)

An Hour Before Daylight

Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood

by Jimmy Carter

In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict... (more)

Brothers And Keepers

by John Edgar Wideman

A haunting portrait of lives arriving at different destinies, Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman’s seminal memoir about two brothers — one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive wanted for robbery and murder. Wideman recalls the capture of his younger brother Robby, details the subsequent trials that resulted in a sentence of life in prison, and provides vivid views of the American prison system.... (more)

The Tapestry: The Life and Times of Francis and Edith SchaefferEdith Schaeffer

The Tapestry: The Life and Times of Francis and Edith Schaeffer

by Edith Schaeffer

The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives (Phoenix Books)

The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives (Phoenix Books)

Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophical thought of the period remains largely unknown. This volume illuminates three major currents of thought dominant in the earlier Italian Renaissance: classical humanism (Petrarch and Valla), Platonism (Ficino and Pico), and Aristotelianism (Pomponazzi). A short and... (more)

James Gould Cozzens: New Acquist of True Experience.Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

James Gould Cozzens: New Acquist of True Experience.

by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Issues In Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies

Issues In Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies

by Sheila Ruth

This best-selling text-reader offers 65 interdisciplinary readings drawn from work in the humanities and the social sciences. Classic and contemporary selections represent both feminist and anti-feminist viewpoints in an examination of women's lives and the ways in which women can effect alternatives to traditional gender roles. Extensive chapter introductions place selections in context, define and explain... (more)

Jefferson, Nationalism and the EnlightenmentHenry Steele Commager

Jefferson, Nationalism and the Enlightenment

by Henry Steele Commager

Slavery in the New World;: A reader in comparative history,

Book BurningCal Thomas

Book Burning

by Cal Thomas

Documents in Early Christian Thought

The purpose of this book is to bring within a single volume a representative selection of extracts from the writings of the Early Christian fathers, covering the main areas of Christian thought. The extracts, for the most part newly translated by the editors, are arranged by topic under the following headings: God, Trinity, Christ, Holy Spirit, Sin and Grace, Tradition and Scripture, Church, Sacraments, Christian... (more)

Personal History.

by Vincent Sheean

The American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries (2000-2001 Edition)

The American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries (2000-2001 Edition)

by J Wright, John W. Wright

A updated edition of a standard guide to salaries covers hundreds of occupations and professions, from Playboy centerfold to factory worker to the president, including comprehensive job descriptions, requirements, and career prospects.

The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past

The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past

by Keith Windschuttle

The Killing of History reveals how the trendy academics have garbled the European discovery of America, the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and other topics in an attempt to deny that truth and knowledge about the past are possible. What emerges is an important lesson in the separation of fact from fiction that will do much to rescue history as we know it--and teach it.

Daughter of Shanghai

by Tsai Chin, 1936- Tsai Chin

The daughter of China's greatest classical actor, Chin grew up in cosmopolitan Shanghai; her youth saw Japanese occupation, civil war, and Communist takeover. Moving to England in 1960, she became the China doll sex symbol in The World of Suzie Wong. This memoir follows Chin through those years and to the present with her role in the film The Joy Luck Club. 40 photos.

So Far So Good the autobiography of a distinguished editor who has been part of the literary, theatrical and social worlds....

The Dispossessed MajorityWilmot Robertson

The Dispossessed Majority

by Wilmot Robertson

Gifts Differing : Understanding Personality Type

Gifts Differing : Understanding Personality Type

by Isabel Briggs Myers

The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Women Scientists in America : Before Affirmative Action 1940-1972

Women Scientists in America : Before Affirmative Action 1940-1972

by Margaret W. Rossiter

Margaret Rossiter's widely hailed Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 marked the beginning of a pioneering effort to interpret the history of American women scientists. That effort continues in this provocative sequel that covers the crucial years of World War II and beyond. Rossiter begins by showing how the acute labor shortage brought on by the war seemed to hold out new hope for women... (more)

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A Man in Full

by Tom Wolfe