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Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion

Gareth Stedman Jones · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 768
Format: Print book

As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts...
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Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism & Education in Logan Circle

Ida Jones
Format: Book

Best known as an educator and early civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1936, she organized and represented thousands of women with the National Council of Negro Women. She led the charge to change the segregationist...
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Women Chefs of New York

Nadia Arumugam · Absolute Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Women Chefs of New York is a colorful showcase of twenty-five leading female culinary talents in the restaurant capital of the world. In a fiercely competitive, male-dominated field, these women have risen to the top, and their stories--and their recipes--make it abundantly clear why. Food...
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Race with the Devil: Gene Vincent's Life in the Fast Lane

Susan Van Hecke · Minotaur Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Gene Vincent--most famous for his classic 1950s rendition of "Be-Bop-A-Lula"--is one of the most influential rock and roll artists of all times. Elvis Presley adopted his loose-hipped style, and bands from The Rolling Stones to The Beatles toured Britain with him throughout the fifties...
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A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World

Scott Tong · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace," the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became much more - it offered the opportunity...
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Ronald C White · Random House
Pages: 826
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals - and most misunderstood presidents In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American...
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They're playing our song : a memoir

Carole Bayer Sager · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares the remarkably frank and darkly funny story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with some of the greatest composers and musical...
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How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons

Bob Mankoff · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover

Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Complete Paintings and Drawings

Frank ZoÌ?llner · Taschen
Pages: 707
Format: Print book

Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work all pictures, all drawings One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci(1452 1519) is recognized the world over as a figure ofinfinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability. Thisupdated...
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The Skeptic and the Rabbi: Falling in Love with Faith

Judy Gruen · She Writes Press
Pages: 219
Format: Paperback

As Judy Gruen walked down the aisle and into her Orthodox Jewish future, her bouquet quivered in her shaky hand. Having grown up in the zeitgeist that proclaimed, "If it feels good, do it," was she really ready to live the life of "rituals, rules, and restraints" that...
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Based on a true story

Norm Macdonald · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, SNL veteran, and one of the best stand-up comedians of all time.   As this book's title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life - more or less - from his origins on a farm...
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Live, Love, Explore: Discover the Way of the Traveler a Roadmap to the Life You Were Meant to Live

Leon Logothetis · Univ Of Hawai'I Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Part travel memoir, part self-help book, Live, Love, Explore is a guide to finding meaning and adventure in your everyday life and discovering the road you were always meant to walkLeon Logothetis's life was well plotted out for him. He was to do well in school, go to university, get a job in finance,...
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Jane Doe January : my twenty-year search for truth and justice

Emily Winslow · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In the vein of Alice Sebold s Lucky, comes a compelling, real-life crime mystery and gripping memoir of the cold case prosecution of a serial rapist, told by one of his victims. On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at hisapartment in Brooklyn....
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A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning

Robert Zaretsky · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against oppression." These twin obsessions help explain something of Camus' remarkable character, which is the overarching...
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