Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| DANIEL J. BOORSTIN | CLEOPATRA'S NOSE - CLEOPATRA'S NOSE is not a miscellany but rather a compilation of essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Daniel Boorstin for several decades. Provocative themes all: How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World? How has the fourth kingdom-the kingdom of machines- contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, seated a need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense? In a "personal postscript," Boorstin-winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Putlizer Prize-gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and celebrates the amateur spirit in the writing of history. | Y
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| DANIEL J. BOORSTIN - | CLEOPATRA'S NOSE - This selection of Boorstin's recent essays explores subjects that have pre-occupied the Pulitzer Prize winner for years and asserts the vital purpose of the accidental or unexpected in history. Stimulating themes abound: how discovery can sometimes increase our ignorance; and how the kingdom of machines has contradicted Darwinian expectations, proliferated statistical confusion and created the need for the unnecessary.
But Boorstin remains optimistic, hailing the United States as the "Land of the Unexpected."
"An extravagantly intellectual achievement." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
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| DANIEL J. BOORSTIN | THE IMAGE - How could a man who is devoid of character and who offers us unending doses of symbolism instead of substance be elected to our country's highest office? Daniel Boorstin saw it coming thirty years ago.
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo events"-events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported-and the contemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness." Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
"Excellent...it is the book to end all books about 'American image'-what it is, who projects it, what effect it has at home and abroad." | Y
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| JOHN FEINSTEIN | THE MAJORS - John Feinstein returns to his most popular subject - golf - and brings us the story behind 1998's most competitive, lucrative, and unfailingly dramatic contests. Taking readers to all four majors - the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA - Feinstein dispenses his usual complement of insights and observations, and displays a copious knowledge of golfing lore and legend. Setting the scene for the '98 majors, Feinstein profiles the most important players, among them Tiger Woods, Mark O'Meara, Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples, Payne Stewart and David Duval. Feinstein probes the relationships between players and sponsors; he also follows around some hard-luck cases, showing how grim life on the tour can be for those living week-to-week. As Feinstein observes, "Four days a year, golfers go out to play for Forever. Those are the four Sundays at the major championships. They all know what is at stake." | Y
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| ROBERT GRAVES | I, CLAUDIUS - Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Physically weak, a stammerer, Claudius was ignored. He survived because of his infirmities. Imagine his agenda when he became emperor!
Written in the form of Claudius's autobiography, this book recounts the events of a scandalous era. Public morality deteriorated and corruption flourished. Barbarians found Rome ripe for the picking.
Robert Graves speaks to us from another era. He survived the trenches of WW I to create books of uncommon diversity and insight.
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| ROBERT GRAVES | THE GREEK MYTHS (part 1) - Endymion, Pelops, Daedalus, Pygmalion -- we recognize the names, but what are the stories behind these and other familiar gods from the Greek pantheon -- names that recur throughout the history of European culture?
Drawing on an enormous range of sources, Robert Graves has brought together elements of these myths in simple narrative form. He retells the adventures of the most important gods and heroes of the ancient Greeks. His work has become the reference source for the serious scholar as well as the casual inquirer.
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| ROBERT GRAVES | THE GREEK MYTHS (Vol. 2) - Few modern writers are better qualified than Robert Graves to retell the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience.
And, in the two volumes of THE GREEK MYTHS, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek mythology is "no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons." His work covers, in nearly 200 sections, the creation myths, the legends of the birth and lives of the great Olympians, the Theseus, Oedipus and Heracles cycles, the Argonaut voyage, the tale of Troy and much more.
All the scattered elements of each myth have been assembled into a harmonious narrative, and a full commentary on each myth explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today's archaeological and anthropological knowledge.
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| STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD | PENDRAGON - Arthur is King, but treachery runs rampant throughout the beleaguered Isle of the mighty. Darkest evil descends upon Britain's shore in many guises. Fragile alliances fray and tear, threatening all the noble liege has won with his wisdom and his blood. his most trusted counselor-the warrior, bard and kingmaker whom legend will name merlin-is himself to be tested on a mystical journey back through his own extraordinary past. So in a black time of plague and pestilence, it is Arthur who must stand alone against a great and terrible adversary. For only this way can he truly win immortality-and the name to treasure above all others: PENDRAGON.
"Though Lawhead brilliantly creates an authentic and vivid Arthurian Britain, he never forsakes the sense of wonder that has graced the legend throughout the ages." -Publishers Weekly
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| STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD | MERLIN - He was born to greatness, the son of a druid bard and a princess of lost Atlantis. A trained warrior, blessed with the gifts of prophecy and song, he grew to manhood in a Britain abandoned by its Roman conquerors-a land ravaged by the brutal greed of petty chieftains and barbarian invaders. Respected, feared and hated by many, he was to have a higher destiny: to prepare the way for the momentous event that would unite the Island of the Mighty-the coming of Arthur Pendragon, Lord of the Kingdom of Summer....
This miraculous epic adventure is a stirring mix of magic, legend, and history that will enthrall, enchant, and lift the heart. | Y
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| JOHN MYERS MYERS | THE ALAMO - Poet, novelist, and historian, John Myers Myers gives us a fascinating account of an American symbol. Written with tremendous zest, The Alamo is thrilling... and sometimes amusing. Says the Chicago Tribune, "Here is a historian with the vitality and drive to match his subject. A reporter of the first rank, he can clothe the dry bones of history with the living stuff of which today's news in made."
"The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary partly hearsay and at best fragmentary. It has been left to John Myers Myers to present an exhaustively researched book which reveals the chronicle of the siege of the Alamo in an entirely different light... . Myers' story will stand as the best that has yet been written on the Alamo... It's a classic." -Boston Post
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| TOM WOLFE | THE PURPLE DECADES - ... if we hadn't lived them, they wouldn't have seemed possible. Luckily, future historians will be able to turn to Tom Wolfe for the definitive tuned-in portrait of our age
This volume is a compendium of his most popular essays, articles and chapters from previous collections. From architecture to astronauts, from Upper West Side to Lower East Side, he identifies the trends of our recent past.
Our reader, Christopher Hurt, comments that The Purple Decades is "twisting yet thoughtful, hilariously insightful ... a treasure chest of observations for culture-watchers of the late, great 20th century." | Y
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| TOM WOLFE | THE RIGHT STUFF - "The Right Stuff" is a quality beyond bravery. It's men like Chuck Yeager, fastest man on earth; Pete Conrad, with his outside sense of humor; Gus Grissom, who nearly lost it when his capsule sank...and John Glenn, the only space traveler whose apple-pie image wasn't a lie.
"This is Tom Wolfe at his very best. It is technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic--THE RIGHT STUFF is superb." (The New York Times)
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| DANIEL YERGIN | THE PRIZE (PART 1) - A Pulitzer Prize winner about oil, money and power in the twentieth century. Fascinating and necessary reading for our time.
THE PRIZE reveals how and why oil has become the largest industry in the world, a game of huge risks and monumental rewards. The personalities are fascinating and diverse--Dad Joiner, John D. Rockefeller, Winston Churchill, George Bush and Saddam Hussein. In a way it is the story of the 20th century. | Y
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| DANIEL YERGIN | THE PRIZE (PART 2) - The dominant world player in the past century is not a person but a mineral--oil. It has shaped our politics and profoundly altered the way we live.
"A brilliant roadmap...should be read by everyone who wants to know why nations struggle over the control of oil." --John Chancellor
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| 9780786109951 ELIOT ASINOF | EIGHT MEN OUT - "THE MOST GIGANTIC SPORTING SWINDLE IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA!" This headline proclaiming the 1919 fix of the World Series startled millions of readers and focused the attention of the entire country on one of the most incredible episodes ever to be enacted in the public eye. After painstaking research, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-be-scene story of this fantistic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the series to Cincinnati.
Mr. Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the motives and backgrounds of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible.
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| EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS | AT THE EARTH'S CORE - They found themselves in a prehistoric land-thousands of miles underground.
When David Innes and his inventor friend pierced the crust of the Earth in their new burrowing device, they broke out into a strange new inner world of eternal daylight-a world in back of the Stone Age, where prehistoric monsters still lived, and cave men and women battled against cruel, inhuman masters.
The story of what these two men did in that new world of Pellucidar makes At The Earth's Core one of Burrough's most outstanding bestsellers.
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| DONALD DEWEY | JAMES STEWART - Fans feel they know Jimmy Stewart: vulnerable sincerity delivered with an endearing drawl, the charismatic boy-next-door filled with righteous conviction-the American ideal. But Jimmy Stewart, the image and ideal, often eclipsed James Stewart, the actor and the man.
In the most penetrating and in-depth biography yet written about the beloved screen icon, award winning author Donald Dewey delves beneath the persona into the usually unremarked turmoil of the actor's private life and behind the earnest Capraesque image so often accepted as the Stewart identity. He draws upon extensive research and nearly two hundred interviews with childhood neighbors, fellow workers, old loves, airmen who flew with Stewart during World war II, as well as with close and estranged family members and friends.
This riveting biography follows Stewart from his hometown of Indiana, pennsylvania, and a childhood shaped by a strong-willed father; to the fateful encounter at Princeton University with actress Margaret Sullavan, and the forging of a remarkable life-long friendship with Henry Fonda in New York, and his unexpected stardom at MGM.
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| 9780786102877 WILL DURANT | THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY - This is an endlessly inspiring and instructive chronicle of the world's great thinkers, from Socrates to Santayana. It gives not only the ideas and philosophical systems of the world-famous "monarchs of the mind," such as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, Locke and others of similar stature, but their flesh-and-blood biographies. It also gives their setting in their own time and their place and influence in our modern intellectual heritage. These pages are "packed with wisdom and wit."
Eleven years of research and three years of actual writing went into the creation of this book which, while written with exacting and scrupulous scholarship, is not meant solely for scholars. It is designed to command the respect of educators, and at the same time capture the interest of the layman. | Y
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| 9780786104246 PAUL FUSSELL | BAD, or the Dumbing of America - In this amusing and trenchant book, Paul Fussell zeroes in on the death of American sensibility and taste. "We are living in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash," he writes in this reference work that exposes American BAD, from BAD Advertising and BAD Banks ("Personal Bankers" who are neither) to BAD Ideas (such as cadaver freezing practiced by Americans who think death is optional), BAD Restaurants (where waiters establish friendly relations by announcing their first names-"Hi, I'm Brad"), and BAD TV (where news is presented as "stories" by reporters who don't report, but act and read scripts). While plain bad is something like a failing grade or a case of scarlet fever, BAD is something phony, witless, and vacant that is hyped as genuine, graceful, or fascinating.
Throughout BAD, Paul Fussell exposes the BAD that lurks around every American corner, and in doing so provides us all with an expert guide to taste in America today.
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| ROBERT A. HEINLEIN | FRIDAY - FRIDAY... is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at Boss' seemingly whimsical beheste. From one to another of the new states of America's disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.
Not since Valentine Michael Smith, hero of the best-selling Stranger In a Strange Land, has Robert Heinlein created a more captivating protagonist... in a novel every bit as entertaining and exciting as this grand master of science fiction has given us over his four-decade career.
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| ROBERT A. HEINLEIN | STARSHIP TROOPERS - "The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one 'The Third Space War' (or the fourth), or whether 'The First Interstellar War' fits better. We just call it 'The Bug War.' Everything up to then and still later were 'incidents,' 'patrols' or 'police actions.' However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an 'incident' as you are if you buy it in a declared war..."-Starship Troopers
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In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe - and into battle with the Terran Mobile infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy!
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| ROBERT A. HEINLEIN | THE MENACE FROM EARTH - From a master of science fiction come eight startling stories of time and space.
In "The Year of the Jackpot", a statistician charts a curve of unusual happenings throughout the earth, only to find that his facts and figures prove the approach of the end of the world.
In "By His Bootstraps," a man steps thirty thousand years into time and is trapped in the fourth dimension with three strange, yet oddly familiar, people.
In "Goldfish Bowl," people disappear one by one, in great swirling balls of fire, and are held captive in space by beings of vastly superior intelligence.
Also in this collection of short stories originally published in 1959 are "Columbus Was a Dope," "The Manace from Earth," "Sky Lift," "Project Nightmare," and "Water Is for Washing."
"These are mature stories published as the author was moving from some of the best juvenile sci-fi novels ever penned to his adult novels... Much of what made Heinlein great is audible here: contempt for government and convention, stark self-reliance, prescient scientific vision." -AudioFile
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| ALFRED LANSING | ENDURANCE - Described by the Chicago Tribune as "one of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read,"Endurance is, without a doubt, a book which listeners will talk about whenever man's durability is discussed.
This fabulous account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic adventure recreates one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August, 1914, the Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
Alfred Lansing's vivid narrative describes how the men survived-after a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will to fight back and survive that shines through.
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| ALFRED LANSING | ENDURANCE (copy 2)- Described by the Chicago Tribune as "one of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read,"Endurance is, without a doubt, a book which listeners will talk about whenever man's durability is discussed.
This fabulous account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic adventure recreates one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August, 1914, the Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
Alfred Lansing's vivid narrative describes how the men survived-after a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will to fight back and survive that shines through.
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| STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD | ARTHUR - They called him unfit to rule-a lowborn, callow boy, Uther's bastard. But his coming had been foretold in the songs of the bard Taliesin. He had learned powerful secrets at the knee of the mystical sage Merlin. He was Arthur, Pendragon of the Island of the Mighty-who would rise to legendary greatness in a Britain torn by violence, greed, and war... who would usher in a glorious reign of peace and prosperity... and who would fall at the treacherous hands of the one he loved more than life.
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| STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD | TALIESIN - It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While, across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.
This is the remarkable adventure of Charis-the courageous princess from Atlantis who escapes the terrible devastation of her land-and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is a story of an incomparable love that joins two astonishing worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawns the miracles of Merlin... and Arthur the king!
"Reminiscent of C.S. Lewis... Highly recommended."-Library JOURNAL | Y
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| LARRY NIVEN | RINGWORLD - A modern science-fiction classic, Ringworld won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel in 1970.
"I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. build a ring 93 million miles in radius one Earth orbit which would make it 600 million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere.
"There are other advantages. We can spin it for gravity. A rotation on its axis of 770 miles/second would give the Ringworld one gravity outward. We wouldn't even have to roof it over. Put walls a thousand miles high at each rim, aimed at the sun, and very little of the air will leak over the edges." -Larry Niven
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| LARRY NIVEN | THE INTEGRAL TREES - For a long time, the State used slower-than-light spacecraft to prepare star systems for colonization by Man. Normally the ramseeders traveled centuries-long circuits which began and ended at Earth. Normally the mixed crew of citizens and "corpsicle" convicts remained with their ship. Normally ultimate control of the mission was exercised by a built-in cyborg "adviser," the true despot of the tiny State microcosm that was the ship.
But little happened normally when Discipline reached the double-star system of T3 and LeVoy's Star. There an immense doughnut-shaped gaseous envelope had formed around a neutron star-and a vast volume of that nearly-empty cloud was comfortably habitable to Man. Though it had very little usable land, the Smoke Ring had evolved a huge variety of free-fall life-forms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly.
The Smoke Ring seemed a paradise to the restless crew of Discipline and so they fled to it, leaving behind only the ship and Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop. Five centuries passed, and most of the mutineers' descendants forgot about the Earth, the State, even Discipline. But Sharls Davis Kendy never forgot about the humans, and somewhere, just outside the Smoke Ring, he waited...
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| LARRY NIVEN | THE INTEGRAL TREES (copy 2)- For a long time, the State used slower-than-light spacecraft to prepare star systems for colonization by Man. Normally the ramseeders traveled centuries-long circuits which began and ended at Earth. Normally the mixed crew of citizens and "corpsicle" convicts remained with their ship. Normally ultimate control of the mission was exercised by a built-in cyborg "adviser," the true despot of the tiny State microcosm that was the ship.
But little happened normally when Discipline reached the double-star system of T3 and LeVoy's Star. There an immense doughnut-shaped gaseous envelope had formed around a neutron star-and a vast volume of that nearly-empty cloud was comfortably habitable to Man. Though it had very little usable land, the Smoke Ring had evolved a huge variety of free-fall life-forms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly.
The Smoke Ring seemed a paradise to the restless crew of Discipline and so they fled to it, leaving behind only the ship and Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop. Five centuries passed, and most of the mutineers' descendants forgot about the Earth, the State, even Discipline. But Sharls Davis Kendy never forgot about the humans, and somewhere, just outside the Smoke Ring, he waited...
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| LARRY NIVEN | THE INTEGRAL TREES (copy 3)- For a long time, the State used slower-than-light spacecraft to prepare star systems for colonization by Man. Normally the ramseeders traveled centuries-long circuits which began and ended at Earth. Normally the mixed crew of citizens and "corpsicle" convicts remained with their ship. Normally ultimate control of the mission was exercised by a built-in cyborg "adviser," the true despot of the tiny State microcosm that was the ship.
But little happened normally when Discipline reached the double-star system of T3 and LeVoy's Star. There an immense doughnut-shaped gaseous envelope had formed around a neutron star-and a vast volume of that nearly-empty cloud was comfortably habitable to Man. Though it had very little usable land, the Smoke Ring had evolved a huge variety of free-fall life-forms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly.
The Smoke Ring seemed a paradise to the restless crew of Discipline and so they fled to it, leaving behind only the ship and Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop. Five centuries passed, and most of the mutineers' descendants forgot about the Earth, the State, even Discipline. But Sharls Davis Kendy never forgot about the humans, and somewhere, just outside the Smoke Ring, he waited...
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| DONALD SPOTO | A PASSION FOR LIFE - Born in England to socially ambitious parents, Elizabeth Taylor was catapulted into child stardom and molded by MGM into the great violet-eyed beauty of postwar America. Along the way, she also became an award-winning actress, without training or theory, without teachers or counsel, ultimately dazzling audiences everywhere with spectacular performances. Elizabeth Taylor has lived nothing less than an extraordinarily remarkable life.
With an abundance of new information, internationally acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto explores the gripping story of her brutalizing six-month marriage to compulsive gambler and hotel heir Nicky Hilton, her romances with top Hollywood directors, and her marriage to the ailing Michael Wilding. Four years later, she would be swept off her feet by showman Mike Todd, into an alternately violent and loving marriage that would end after a year with Todd's death in a plane crash, leaving Taylor, at the age of twenty-six, a twice-divorced widow with three children. Here are Taylor's years with Eddie Fisher, Republican Senator John Warner and Richard Burton, with whom she shared a hedonistic, brash lifestyle that would virtually define the 1960's jet set.
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| A.E. Taylor | Socrates: The Man and His Thought - Without question the finest short biography of the world's greatest philosopher, Socrates provides us with an excellent introduction to Socratic thought. Although Socrates himself left no writings, Professor Taylor consolidates all that can be known about the life and death of Socrates through the Dialogues of Plato, Aristotle's treatises, and Xenophon's discourses.
Socrates believed that virtue is knowledge; all wickedness, he said, is due to ignorance. In his teaching, Socrates sought the universal definition of virtue through particulars. Aristotle credits him with developing the inductive method. With self-knowledge the foundation for inquiry, Socrates would save men from leading "unexamined" lives.
Taylor reveals Socrates as "the man who created the intellectual and moral tradition by which Europe has ever since lived" and "an original genius in whose character there was a unique blend of the passionate lover, the religious mystic, the eager rationalist, and the humorist."
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| V.C. ANDREWS | PETALS ON THE WIND - PETALS ON THE WIND, second in Andrew's Dollanganger quartet, continues the lives of four innocent children locked away from the world by a selfish mother scheming for an inheritance.
Cathy knew what to do. She knew it was time to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten. Show them once and for all!
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| T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE | WITHOUT A HERO - The 15 rudely funny, satirical stories in the author's fourth collection display a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America. Some of the stories will spur spontaneous outbursts of laughter, while others charge emotions.
"Sharp, rueful, malevolently funny short stories...Boyle's wry sense of the unnatural is so highly developed it shows up everywhere." (The New York Times)
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| BILL BRYSON | NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND - Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland--and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so much about a country that produced Marmite, zebra crossings, and place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey, and Shellow Bowells. The result is a perceptive and highly entertaining social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain.
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| JEANNE CAVELOS | THE SCIENCE OF STAR WARS - An astrophysicist looks at the science facts and science fictions underlying the technology of America's most popular science fiction series: the principles of quantum physics as exemplified by the Millennium Falcon; the latest technological advances in robotics; how close we are to creating our own R2-D2 like robots; Einstein's theory of relativity and how it affects spcace travel in the films. Filled with mind-blowing scientific facts, this is a fantastic book. | Y
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| C.S. FORESTER | BEAT TO QUARTERS - Another exciting addition to our growing collection of sea stories, BEAT TO QUARTERS is a favorite among devotees of Horatio Hornblower, England's most durable sailor.
The creation of C.S. Forester (AFRICAN QUEEN, THE GOOD SHEPHERD), Hornblower is known and admired throughout the Western world. Winston Churchill was a notable enthusiast; he mentioned Hornblower in his WW II memoirs.
In BEAT TO QUARTERS, a still young Hornblower is captain of the 36-gun frigate Lydia. He sets his course for Spain and Nicaragua in his ongoing quest to cut Napoleon's lines wherever he crosses them.
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| C.S. FORESTER | SHIP OF THE LINE - This sixth installment in C. S. Forester's eleven-volume chronicle of Horatio Hornblower places the captain in the gravest danger yet.
The time is May, 1810, deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Hornblower, newly in command of his first ship of the line is on his way to Spain with a ragtag, brutish crew. All their seamanship and all of Hornblower's ingenuity are demanded when the "Sutherland" takes on four French men-of-war.
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| C.S. FORESTER | FLYING COLORS - In FLYING COLORS we find Captain Hornblower, his crippled first mate, Bush, and his servant, Brown, all prisoners of the French, after losing their ship, The Sutherland. The tale lies in their escape from their escort in route to Paris for trial as pirates, the recapture of an English vessel and their return to England and honors.
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| C.S. FORESTER | COMMODORE HORNBLOWER - Hornblower returns in command of a small but powerful squadron. His mission is so delicate that the fate of Europe hangs on the outcome. Often outgunned and outmanned, but never outfought or outsailed, Hornblower takes his squadron north to Russia. There he wins the Czar's resistance against Napoleon. As with all Hornblower sagas, this one receives high marks for technical accuracy as well as excitement. | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| WILLIAM GOLDING | LORD OF THE FLIES - A group of British schoolboys survive a plane crash and end up on a desert island with no adults to supervise them. They soon create rules about how to run the group and who should be leader. In short, they soon create their own society based on the values they have been taught. They manage to collect enough food and even to keep a fire going in the hope of being able to attract attention from would-be rescuers. But gradually, the order in their society starts to break down, as their situation becomes more desperate and as alliances between different subgroups start to build. Although it is a fantasy, the underlying psychology of the novel is plausible, and it is still a provocative story. | Y
(6T,7H) | $20 | No | T |
| GOODALL / BERMAN | REASON FOR HOPE - In this book Goodall candidly shares her life—talking of the love and support of her mother, her son, her late husband, of friends and strangers—as well as the Gombe chimpanzees she introduced to the world nearly forty years ago. And she gives us convincing reasons why we can and must open ourselves to the saints within each of us.
At one with nature and challenged by the man-made dangers of environmental destruction, inequality, materialism, and genocide, Dr. Goodall offers insight into her perceptions of these threats and celebrates the people who are working for earth's renewal. Here, indeed, is Reason For Hope.
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(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS | LIFE OF NAPOLEON - Many thought that Napoleon was the greatest military genius since Alexander the Great. The diminutive general, a conquering hero, helped steer the French through revolution and reign of terror, then parlayed his military victories into an emperor's crown. Griffiths, a noted historian and a major in the British army, gives a no-nonsense account of one of history's most enigmatic figures. | Y
(5T,7.5H) | $17 | No | T |
| HEINRICH HARRER | SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET - Dramatized in a motion picture starring Brad Pitt, SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET is the autobiographical account of a young Austrian adventurer and the escape from an internment camp that changed his life forever. In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a noted mountain climber and skier, slipped out of captivity in India and made his way through the Himalayan passes to the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet. From destitute vagabond, he rose to the position of tutor and confidant to the fourteen-year-old Dalai Lama. Until their parting in 1950, when the Chinese Communists overran the country, his close relationship with the revered holy man profoundly altered his way of living, even his way of thinking. SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET is a classic memoir filled with brilliant observations, a work that touches on the spiritual component in travel and adventure. | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| STEPHEN HAWKING | BLACK HOLES AND BABY UNIVERSES - In his bestselling A Brief History of Time (B-O-T # 2356), Stephen Hawking transformed our thinking in physics and about the universe. In this follow-up work, Hawking -- considered the most brilliant physicist since Einstein -- presents 13 essays which reveal more amazing possibilities about the universe.
Free from jargon and full of humor, Hawking discusses imaginary time, how black holes spawn baby universes and how scientists continue searching for a complete, unified theory that would predict everything in the cosmos. He also reflects on life and death, how science fiction stacks up to science and how ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) has affected -- but not constrained -- his personal and intellectual life.
"Succinct, illuminating and remarkably easy to read." (The Wall Street Journal)
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(6T,6H) | $16 | No | T |
| JAMES JOYCE | DUBLINERS - These 15 stories, Joyce's first published prose, are complete in themselves, even though they got further development in ULYSSES. The author called them "a series of chapters in the moral history of his community." They bear the unmistakable stamp of Joyce's genius and are an augury of the masterworks which were to follow.
Joyce was born near Dublin in 1882 and educated in Jesuit schools in Ireland. Dissatisfied with the intellectual atmosphere, he left in 1902 and spent most of the remainder of his life abroad.
ULYSSES, his best-known work, was published in 1922. When he died 19 years later, his pioneering literary efforts were still the subject of intense debate, as they are to this day. No author could ask for more.
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(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| PETER MAYLE | TOUJOURS PROVENCE - Life in Provence is a far cry from the quiet existence suggested by idyllic postcards. All kinds of characters are lurking in the lavender: a disgraced gendarme, reporters from Vogue and hordes of summer invaders, proving that, while you may not be able to escape from it all, at least you can have fun trying. | Y
(6T,6H) | $16 | No | T |
| PETER MAYLE | A YEAR IN PROVENCE - Peter Mayle and his wife cherished the dream of someday living in Provence. Then it happened. They bought a two-centuries-old farmhouse and began the exhilarating, frustrating, joyful and satisfying task of restoration.
It was total immersion. From coping with freezing weather to dealing with disarming and procrastinating local craftsmen, Mayle shares his strategies for survival and relishes the growing camaraderie with this country neighbors, in the earthly pleasure of Provencial life. | Y
(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS | HILL TOWNS - Something so terrible happened to Catherine Gaillard as a child that for 30 years she couldn't leave Tennessee. But when she does, it's to Italy for friends who are going to be married.
Italy transforms Cat. Her liberation threatens her husband. Only a painter who joins the group in the hill towns of Tuscany understands her.
Endowed with a marvelous setting and rich characters, HILL TOWNS probes the multiple meanings of love. It's ". . .a vivid allegory about safety, truth and the survival of marriage. A novel that delivers on its promise." (Cosmopolitan)
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(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| CALVIN TRILLIN | KILLINGS - "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. And he should know: he's a reporter, and his beat is the American scene. Drawn from THE NEW YORKER'S "U.S. Journal" series, KILLINGS brings together vivid, eloquently written pieces that deal with sudden death: the murder of a high-living defense lawyer in Miami, a feud between two Mexican-American families in Southern California, a violent tragedy in an Iowa farm family. Trillin's subject, though, is not violence but America itself -- specific people in specific places. With his signature black humor and insight, Calvin Trillin looks beyond the sensational headlines to bring us a view of our nation that can't be found on the city pages of local newspapers. KILLINGS, says Trillin, "is meant to be more about how Americans live than about how some of them die."
"Calvin Trillin is one of the best journalists around." (Jonathan Yardley, Philadelphia Enquirer)
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(6T,9H) | $16 | No | T |
| HENRI TROYAT | PETER THE GREAT - Born in 1672, died 1725, Peter proved the old adage that genius does not take long to shine. He changed Russia.
Peter was a giant of a man, six feet four inches tall, active, energetic, imperious and resolute. He was fascinated by science. He thought it equaled progress. And he ruled with absolute and autocratic power.
Like Stalin after him, Peter permanently changed the destiny of Russia. He destroyed the Swedish empire, built St. Petersburg and opened Russia to the West. He was a visionary, but he was cruel, gargantuan in his appetite for debauchery, secretive and paranoid.
"Any biography of Peter is an epic, but Troyat's is exceptional in its compression. He catches the great ruler whole -- from his maniac cruelty to his remarkable gifts for leadership - and makes the story stick with vivid examples of the man, his court, his people, his times." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| JULES VERNE | AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS - One day in the Reformer's Club in London, in 1872, Phileas Fogg takes up a wager to journey round the world in 80 days. He is accompanied by his valet, Passepartout, and a detective named Fix, who has been assigned by the Reformer's Club to observe his movements. Showing fortitude and endless resourcefulness, Fogg and his companions narrowly escape from barbarians, hostile mobs and schemers during their journey. Does Fogg win the bet? | Y
(7T,7H) | $20 | No | T |
| GARY ZUKAV | THE DANCING WU LI MASTERS - Gary Zukav has written the bible for those who are curious about the mind-expanding discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background.
Like the Wu Li masters who teach wonder for the failing petal before speaking of gravity, Zukav writes in beautiful, clear language -- with no mathematical equations -- opening our minds to the exciting new theories that are beginning to illuminate the ultimate nature of our universe...quantum mechanics, relativity and beyond.
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(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
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