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What Should I Do with My Life?
The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
by Po Bronson
In What Should I Do with My Life? Po Bronson tells the inspirational true stories of people who have found the most meaningful answers to that great question. With humor, empathy, and insight, Bronson writes of remarkable individuals—from young to old, from those just starting out to those in a second career—who have overcome fear and confusion to find a larger truth about their lives and, in doing so, have been... (more)
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Captives
The Story of Britain's Pursuit of Empire and how its Soldiers and Civilians were Held Captive by the Dream of Global Supremacy
by Linda Colley
In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean, North America, India, and Afghanistan. Here are harrowing, sometimes poignant stories by soldiers... (more)
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Our America
Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
by Lealan Jones, David Isay, John Brooks
Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now this powerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Set against the stunning photographs of a talented young photographer from the projects, Our America evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men, and... (more)
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Into the Heart of Borneo (Vintage Departures)
by Redmond O'Hanlon
The story of a 1983 journey to the center of Borneo, which no expedition had attempted since 1926. O'Hanlon, accompanied by friend and poet James Fenton and three native guides brings wit and humor to a dangerous journey.
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A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
by Mark Caldwell
The perceived breakdown of civility has in recent years become a national obsession, and our modern climate of boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette watchdogs, like Miss Manners and Martha Stewart, who defend us against an onslaught of nastiness. Touching on aspects of both our public and private lives, including work, family, and sex, literary and social critic Mark Caldwell examines how the rules of... (more)
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No Contest: The Case Against Competition
by Alfie Kohn
No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. In this new edition, Alfie Kohn argues that the race to win turns all of us into losers.
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The Day Traders: The Untold Story of the Extreme Investors and How They Changed Wall Street Forever
by Gregory J. Millman
The gold rush that is revolutionizing Wall Street and the markets--the story of day trading as it's never been told In The Day Traders, Gregory Millman goes behind the scenes to reveal the truth about a modern gold rush that has people from all walks of life playing the market online, in real time, just like Wall Street's biggest pros. This is the story of the extreme investing scene, where the upside dazzles and... (more)
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Lapham's Rules of Influence: A Careerist's Guide to Success, Status, and Self-Congratulation
by Lewis H. Lapham
As the editor of Harper's Magazine , Lewis Lapham has enjoyed entrée to America's "cultural elite," a class distinguished by its talent for currying favor, licking boots, and kissing ass. Now, in this scathingly funny and politically incorrect self-help book, Mr. Lapham offers his best advice to aspiring careerists seeking to ride in helicopters and see themselves on television. Drawing upon a lifetime... (more)
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My First Cousin Once Removed: Money, Madness, and the Family of Robert Lowell
by Sarah Payne Stuart
The art of being truly funny is an undervalued one in these angst-ridden times, but it is an ability that acclaimed novelist Sarah Payne Stuart has in abundance. Her talents have never been on more glorious display than in My First Cousin Once Removed , a memoir--at once hilarious, personal and sad--of her extraordinary Boston Brahmin family, whose most famous member is the legendary poet Robert Lowell, the... (more)
The professors: Who they are, what they do, what they really want, and what they needHerbert B Livesey
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The professors: Who they are, what they do, what they really want, and what they need
by Herbert B. Livesey
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Empire
The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
by Dominic C. B. Lieven
Focusing on the Tsarist and Soviet empires of Russia, Dominic Lieven in this wide-ranging book reveals much about the nature and meaning of all empires in history. He examines factors that mold the shape of empires-geography, population, ideology, culture, politics-and compares the Russian empires with their direct competitors and with other imperial states, from ancient China and Rome to the present-day United... (more)
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The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer
by Georges Ifrah
"A fascinating compendium of information about writing systems–both for words and numbers." –Publishers Weekly "A truly enlightening and fascinating study for the mathematically oriented reader." –Booklist "Well researched. . . . This book is a rich resource for those involved in researching the history of computers." –The Mathematics Teacher In this brilliant follow-up to his... (more)
American GentlemanDavid Castronovo
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American Gentleman
Social Prestige and the Modern Literary Mind
by David Castronovo
What is a gentleman? And what separates the American Gentleman from his European counterpart? This book argues that Americans express their gentlemanliness through a variety of specially adapted usages & customs. We see that American gentility has been shaped by the unique nature of the New World experience: the wilderness, race relations, transplanted Englishness, & the cherished place of business in our... (more)
Downscaling: Simplify and Enrich Your LifestyleDave Babbitt, Kathy Babbitt
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Downscaling: Simplify and Enrich Your Lifestyle
by Dave Babbitt
It's easy to lose track of one's priorities, as they often get put on a "back burner" in the shuffle of everyday living. The Babbitts offer a formula for downscaling--simplifying one's lifestyle in order to avoid the avalanche of details, demands, obligations, desires, pressures, and indecisions that are so prevalent in today's society.
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Black Ice
by Lorene Cary
In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and... (more)
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Japan Faces the World, 1925-1952
by Mary Hanneman
B> By 1925, the process of Japan's transition to a modern industrialized, westernized state was pretty much complete. This impressive survey looks at developments at home, Japan's aggressive foreign policy. All books in the Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist survey and begin with a brief "Introduction" and/or "Background" to the subject, valuable in bringing the... (more)
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Top 10 of Everything 2002
by Russell Ash
The worst storms, the richest rulers, the fastest cars, the highest jumps, the deadliest snakes, the brightest stars, the hottest hits. A great new 2002 edition of the best-selling guide to the top "pick-of-the-lists" and record breakers-completely revised and updated. Outstanding coverage of sports, music, film, and television. Over 1,000 Top 10 lists based on the latest research by leading experts. Bursting with... (more)
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Kentish Lad
by Frank Muir
For more than 25 years Frank Muir, in partnership with Denis Norden, produced comedy for radio and television. On programmes such as "My Word!" and "My Music" his distinctive voice became familiar to millions as he displayed an astonishingly well-stocked mind and a genius for ad libbing and outrageous puns. Later, working at the BBC and then at London Weekend Television, he produced television comedy in the 1960s... (more)
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Defining New Yorker Humor (Studies in Popular Culture)
by Judith Yaross Lee
"The early history of New York is obscured in myth," observed the pseudonymous author of "The Story of Manhattankind" in the first issue of The New Yorker (21 February 1925), "and to separate the purely historical from the purely hysterical is no easy task." The same must be said of the magazine itself. The purely historical remained hidden until The New Yorker 's archives were opened to scholars in the... (more)
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Alma Mahler: or the Art of Being Loved
by Françoise Giroud
Born in 1879, the daughter of a Viennese painter, Alma Mahler inspired the passionate love and devotion of an astonishing array of creative artists. She married three of them--the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, and the writer Franz Werfel--and had a host of admirers and lovers, including the painters Oscar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, and Gustav Klimpt. The composer Alban Berg dedicated his... (more)