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The Undiscovered Paul Robeson
Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
The eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activist.
The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. In this...
The I-Can't-Chew Cookbook
Delicious Soft Diet Recipes for People with Chewing, Swallowing, and Dry Mouth Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
When his wife was diagnosed with TMJ (temporomandibular joint) problems and needed surgery, the oral surgeon told Randy Wilson that his wife would need to eat soft foods for six months. The author took this as a challenge and developed 200 meals that were soft, appealing and nutritious. The self-published...
by Scott Simon
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
"An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk."
--Chicago Tribune
"Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson's arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this extended essay."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Scott Simon tells...
All You Have to Do is Listen
Music from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for almost twenty years with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he gives you a set of tools you can use when listening to any piece of music in order...
A Season of Splendor
The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Journey through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age
"Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beautified their surroundings; works of art uplifted and were shared with the public; clothing...
Everything Changes
The Insider's Guide to Cancer in Your 20's and 30's
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
"By page three of the introduction to Everything Changes, I wanted not only to devour the rest of the book, but I wanted to call Kairol up, get to know her, and (if we weren't both already married) see if I could sleep with her. Then the book got really good. It is, without doubt, the most forthright,...
False Alarm
The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Life today for citizens of the developed world is safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history thanks to modern medicine, science, technology, and intelligence. So why is an epidemic of fear sweeping America? The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr....
Bird Flu
Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say."
-Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, the New Yorker
"Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal'...
The Concord Quartet
Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
"We will walk on our own feet;
we will work with our own hands;
we will speak our own minds."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837
From the start of transcendentalism and America's intellectual renaissance in the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond,...
by Michael Paymar, MPA
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
• Written by the co-founder of the nationally recognized Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project and executive director and co-founder Education for Critical Thinking (ECT). • Previous Edition Sales History: 17,300 tr, 150 ebook • As a Minnesota Congressman, the author wrote landmark trafficking...
by Georg August Griesinger, Luis Gago, Luis Gago
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), el "padre de la sinfonía", es uno de los compositores clásicos más celebrados de la historia, y al mismo tiempo protagonista de una biografía casi desconocida para el lector en español. La fama de Haydn fue tal que, ya en vida, tres escritores emprendieron...
by V. E. Tarrant
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
A fascinating account of one of the most successful spying operations of World War II
Long recognized as one of the most successful (and ruthless) spy networks in history, the Red Orchestra was a group of Soviet cells that operated throughout Germany and occupied Europe until late 1943. The...
Knit This Doll!
A Step-by-Step Guide to Knitting Your Own Customizable Amigurumi Doll
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Discover the most adventurous way to knit dolls
Amigurumi is the Japanese hobby of creating dolls and anthropomorphic stuffed animals with an anime aesthetic. Long popular in Asia, amigurumi are on an upward trajectory in the U.S. as more crafters discover this unique form of artwork.
Now,...
Restoring Life's Missing Pieces
The Spiritual Power of Remembering and Reuniting with People, Places, Things and Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
A powerful and thought-provoking look at "reunions" of all kinds as roads to remembering and re-membering ourselves.
“Reunions with people, places, things, and ourselves happen every day around us and within us. Whether to participate or not will always be your choice.”
—from...