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This, You Won't Believe! Adventures of an Entrepreneur
Maxx Robinson Manufacturer: Cardinal Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 1891014005 |
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Bored selling commercials for NBC's Today & Tonight shows, I rebuilt an 1898 yacht to sail around the world with my wife.In my first foreign port I met a very astute fellow building a deepwater harbor, schools and hospitals for the British Colonial government in exchange for a 30-year income tax-free contract. Following his instructions, I found a dirt-poor British island in the Caribbean, obtained a contract with the Crown. I began raising millions from investors. Six months later, England gave this 99.9% black island its independence. Read the book for its grim but fascinating ending and my half-million dollar award from IRS
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Friends said: "You've got to write about your life!" I did!.......1999-08-08
Egotistical Entrepreneur Is Run Out Of Dominica.......1999-04-15
A real life Forest Gump............1999-02-08
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The 500 Home Run Club : Baseball's 16 Greatest Home Run Hitters from Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire
Bob Allen Manufacturer: Sports Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1582612897 |
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The 500 Home Run Club: Baseball's Greatest Home Run Hitters from Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire is one of the most unusual and revealing baseball books ever written. It tells the stories of the 16 men who have hit more than 500 home runs. They are all here, from Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire, the latest player to hit 500 homers. In first-person accounts with friend and agent Bob Allen, baseball's most legendary sluggers describe and assess their own careers and lives, and each other's, including the obstacles they faced along the way. Allen interviewed 180 former major leaguers to get their first-person accounts of playing with and against baseball's most dominant sluggers in what is destined to become one of the best baseball books of all time.Customer Reviews:
Updated with McGwire.......2001-01-25
New and Improved........2001-01-15
Along with those listed earlier you read about Aaron, Schmidt, Jackson, Foxx, Killebrew, Mays, Robinson, Williams, McCovey, Banks, Murray and the newest member McGwire.
The book is new and updated and the 16 players are listed alphabetically and no ranking system is used. I like this concept as it gives the reader the choice as to which they consider the best of this very special and elite group.
Each chapter is written to not only discuss the career of the player but also let others who knew them talk about the person as well. The book also includes photos of each of the players. This is for every baseball fan young and old - excellent work and well done!!
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The Making of "Tank Girl"
Frank Wynne Manufacturer: Titan Books Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1852866217 |
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Voices from the Federal Theatre
Bonnie Nelson Schwartz Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0299183203 |
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The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theater to more people in every corner of America that at any time in U.S. history. The Project had units in every region of the country, including groundbreaking African American troupes, and staged productions from daring dramas like The Voodoo Macbeth, Waiting for Lefty, and The Cradle Will Rock to musicals, vaudeville, and puppet shows. It was canceled in a firestorm of controversy that gave birth to the damning question: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?"
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New York Times Sunday Crossword Tribute to Eugene T. Maleska (NY Times)
Manufacturer: Random House Puzzles & Games ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound Similar Items:
ASIN: 0812933842 Release Date: 2000-11-28 |
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For 16 years, the legendary Dr. Eugene T. Maleska ruled the roost of puzzledom as the New York Times crossword editor, and he did so with inimitable style. Now, in a special tribute to this landmark editor, a new volume of 100 Sunday Times crosswords edited by Dr. Maleska that have never been published in book form.
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How to Do Everything with Dreamweaver 8 (How to Do Everything)
Michael Meadhra Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0072262389 |
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Covering the latest version of this state-of-the-art Web design tool, this step-by-step guide shows beginning to intermediate users how to create and maintain striking Web sites with Dreamweaver. Readers will learn to use all the components, including the visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing capabilities. The clearly defined chapters work equally well for readers who prefer to learn sequentially in a tutorial fashion, or for those who need a quick reference to a specific task or feature.Customer Reviews:
FOR beginners.......2007-04-13
A bit disappointed.......2007-01-19
Do not buy this book!!!!.......2006-03-16
How to Do Everything with Dreamweaver 8 (How to Do Everything).......2006-03-10
The Guide to Getting Started in Dreamweaver.......2006-01-01
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Aztecs: An Interpretation (Canto)
Inga Clendinnen Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521485851 |
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In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent center of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.Customer Reviews:
Wordy, ponderous style obscures interesting insights.......2006-05-08
A definitive study.......2002-07-26
a handy overview.......2001-10-18
The title refers to Aztecs, but the author calls them Mexica (pronounced meh-SHEE-kah) throughout because it's what they called themselves.
Especially appreciated are her reminders that we tend to see in conquered peoples what we want to see, and that many accounts of this people were written by Spanish colonizers.
To understand the Aztec Civilization.......2000-06-02
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Aztecs An Interpretation
Inga Clendinnen Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PRYFBS |
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Aztecs an Interpretation
Inga Clendinnen Manufacturer: Cambridge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000I37C64 |
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The Metaphysics of Mass Art-Cultural Ontology: Mysticism, Mexico and English Literature (Studies in Art and Religious Interpretation, V. 24a-B)
C. J. P. Lee Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0773481826 |
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The Metaphysics of Mass Art-Cultural Ontology: Madness and the Savage Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and the Psychology of the Observer in Us Film ... Art and Religious Interpretation, V. 24a-B)
C. J. P. Lee Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0773481842 |
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Fops, Frenchmen, hidalgos, and Aztecs: Being a survey of the prose fiction of J.M. Legare of South Carolina (1823-1859)
Curtis Carroll Davis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007F6UP2 |
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The identification and interpretation of name and place glyphs of the Xolotl Codex (Katunob, occasional publications in Mesoamerican anthropology)
Charlotte McGowan Manufacturer: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006XA2RC |
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Lafcadio Hearn, Aztecs, and the cosmology of life
Theodore Ashmead Langstroth ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007K8OEM |
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Pitfalls and stimuli in the interpretation of history through loan words, (Philological and documentary studies)
John Eric Sidney Thompson Manufacturer: Middle American Research Institute, the Tulane University of Louisiana ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007EOK8C |
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Quetzalcoatl, Jesus in the Americas?
Eric Johnson Manufacturer: Mormonism Research Ministry ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 099184498X |
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Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal
Patty Loew Manufacturer: Wisconsin Historical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0870203320 |
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From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal explores Wisconsin’s rich Native tradition. Each chapter is a compact tribal history of one of the state’s Indian nations—Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican and Brothertown, and Ho-Chunk—and the book relies on the historical perspectives of Native people. Author Patty Loew focuses on oral tradition—stories, songs, the recorded words of Indian treaty negotiators, and interviews—as well as other untapped Native sources, such as tribal newspapers, to present a distinctly different view of history.Customer Reviews:
Refreshing look at Native American history!.......2001-11-21
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Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis
Robert Proctor Manufacturer: Harvard University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0674745787 |
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Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial Hygiene focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor demonstrates that the common picture of a passive scientific community coerced into cooperation with the Nazis fails to grasp the reality of what actually happened--namely, that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy.
The book presents the most comprehensive account to date of German medical involvement in the sterilization and castration laws, the laws banning marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and the massive program to destroy "lives not worth living:' The study traces attempts on the part of doctors to conceive of the "Jewish problem" as a "medical problem," and how medical journals openly discussed the need to find a "final solution" to Germany's Jewish and gypsy "problems."
Proctor makes us aware that such thinking was not unique to Germany. The social Darwinism of the late nineteenth century in America and Europe gave rise to theories of racial hygiene that were embraced by enthusiasts of various nationalities in the hope of breeding a better, healthier, stronger race of people. Proctor also presents an account of the "organic" health movement that flourished under the Nazis, including campaigns to reduce smoking and drinking, and efforts to require bakeries to produce whole-grain bread. A separate chapter is devoted to the emergence of a resistance movement among doctors in the Association of Socialist Physicians. The book is based on a close analysis of contemporary documents, including German state archives and more than two hundred medical journals published during the period.
Proctor has set out not merely to tell a story but also to urge reflection on what might be called the "political philosophy of science"--how movements that shape the policies of nations can also shape the structure and priorities of science. The broad implications of this book make it of consequence not only to historians, physicians, and people concerned with the history and philosophy of science, but also to those interested in science policy and medical ethics.
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Cautionary Tale.......2005-02-26
Racial Hygiene.......2002-04-05
Great Book Eyeopening!.......2001-07-10
A great indepth look at the roots of Racial Hygiene.......1999-02-05
An interesting addition to the Nature Vs. Nuture debate........1998-05-12
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Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis. (book reviews): An article from: The Hastings Center Report
Arthur L. Caplan Manufacturer: Hastings Center ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00091Q4XM Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on March 1, 1990. The length of the article is 1238 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis
Robert n. Proctor Manufacturer: Harvard ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000J2CTT4 |
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Tax woes wipe out parks department: lessons from the demise of the Cheney, Washington Park and Recreation Department.: An article from: Parks & Recreation
Matthew Chase , and Ryan Shannahan Manufacturer: National Recreation and Park Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008GFKWE Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3534 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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