Search this site    The Living Planet Illustrated Author: Attenborough, David ISBN: 0-316-05748-7 Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Little Brown & Co Published: November 1, 1984 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From Publishers Weekly: Attenborough looks here at continuing evolution and the adaptation of plants and animals to specific and differing environments. For example, he finds that the coral reef is the marine equivalent of the tropical rain forest, that modern cities, with their masonry and concrete, are the counterparts of the ash fields and lava flows of volcanoes. PW lauded this book, maintaining that it deserves as much attention as its predecessor, Life on Earth. What a Difference a Year Makes How Life's Unexpected Setbacks Can Lead to Unexpected Joy Author: Guiney, Robert / Hertz, Amy ISBN: 1-58542-301-7 Pages: 176 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Tarcher Published: November 10, 2003 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From Publishers Weekly: Guiney, a.k.a. "Bachelor Bob" from the ABC reality television show The Bachelorette, divulges how in one calendar year he experienced both the highest of highs and lowest of lows in this sentimental month by month account. The "pseudo-celebrity" hopes to inspire readers with his rebound from the personal setbacks (his divorce, which his then-wife announced with a Dear John post-it note, and his battle with his weight) that dogged him only a few months before he was chosen as one of 15 bachelors for The Bachelorette, and later as the star of ABC's latest season of The Bachelor. However, as he makes pains to emphasize (in lackluster, straightforward prose), his success would never have been possible without the hard knocks (and paradoxical liberation) of divorce. In his sketch of this turbulent year, he shares his precious memories of family and friends, and their over-simple axioms for life, like Grandpa Guiney's advice that "doing anything at all is better than doing nothing," and his mother's mantra that "the brightest star shines even brighter when it takes other stars along with it." Fans who first appreciated his self-deprecating humor on The Bachelorette and those interested in the behind-the-scenes dirt on the Animal House bonhomie at the eligible bachelors' pad (although either out of tact or media shrewdness, Guiney trashes no one) will enjoy this hastily drawn self-portrait. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Book Description: The next star of ABC's The Bachelor, and the funny guy who stole America's heart on The Bachelorette shares hard-earned advice and wisdom on how life's unexpected setbacks can lead to unexpected joy. One Thanksgiving weekend Bob Guiney came home to find a white Post-it(tm) note from his wife informing him that she wanted a divorce. On top of his broken heart, he suffered a series of physical injuries, gained forty pounds, and fell into a deep depression. For the first time in his life, he found himself at rock bottom, unsure of how to pick up the pieces. What a Difference a Year Makes looks, month-by-month, at a devastating year and the wise words and lessons drawn from uncles, aunts, parents, and his best friend: Grandma. "On paper," he writes, "I looked like a failure-no football career, no music career, and a divorce. But actually I'm doing better than I ever have in my life." With the honesty and humor that have made Bob America's favorite bachelor, he explores the simple but valuable life lessons that helped him return to vitality and optimism. The result is a witty and warm book that will touch and inspire anyone who has ever suffered a broken heart. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved Author: Kusche, Lawrence David ISBN: 0-06-012475-X Pages: 302 Format: Hardcover Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Published: 1975 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Washington: City of Scandals Investigating Congress & Other Big Spenders Author: Lambro, Donald ISBN: 0-316-51288-5 Pages: 299 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Little Brown & Co. Published: June 1987 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Vicki Lansky's Birthday Parties Author: Lansky, Vicki ISBN: 0-916773-10-8 Pages: 131 Format: Paperback Publisher: Book Peddlers Published: May 1989 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 See, I Told You So Author: Limbaugh, Rush / Regan, Judith ISBN: 0-671-87120-X Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Atria Published: November 1, 1993 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 From Publishers Weekly:  Limbaugh's send-up of American liberalism was a 13-week PW bestseller. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Between Heaven and Hell A Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia Author: Lincoln, W. Bruce / Koay, Pei ISBN: 0-670-87568-6 Pages: 544 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Viking Adult Published: March 1, 1998 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 Amazon.com: This slim volume tackles an overwhelming subject: 1,000 years of Russian achievements in the arts, from medieval ikons to the novels of Tolstoy to the films of Eisenstein. Much has been written about the subject over the years, but Lincoln poses himself a slightly different task: to depict not so much the history of Russian arts as the history of the country's "artistic experience," including the "social and political forces" that shaped artistic creation. Author of such histories as Romanovs and Nicholas I, Lincoln ably provides the context such a task requires. Unfortunately, Lincoln's purple prose can sometimes be distracting. No one ever seems to merely wear a medal, they wear it "proudly"; a building is not simply painted turquoise when it can be "brilliant" turquoise. Here, for instance, is Lincoln on the music of Rimsky-Korsakov: "Oceans churned, storms thundered, the sun sparkled in wintry forests, and in the new warmth of spring nightingales sang and golden fish leaped from crystal streams." Overall, however, Lincoln's marriage of history and the arts is a happy one, demonstrating how the peculiarly Russian tension between East and West and between politics and the arts helped produce artistic works that were both uniquely beautiful and uniquely Russian. The New York Times Book Review, Richard Lourie Especially in the first quarter of the book, the reader has the same sensation of glut--cathedrals, dates, rulers, isms--that comes from a tour guide's breathless patter.... All this is a shame because Lincoln ... has clearly done epic research for this book, which, once it settles down, especially in its treatment of the 19th and 20th centuries, has both good anecdotes and good insights.... Street Smarts for the New Millennium Author: Luger, Jack ISBN: 1-55950-149-9 Pages: 144 Format: Paperback Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited Published: August 1996 Condition: Price: USD $3.99 From the Publisher:  Professional methods and techniques for information and intelligence gathering... now revealed for you to use. Now you can find out anything you want to know about anyone you want to know about! Satisfy your need to know with these revealing professional manuals on investigation, crime and police sciences. Life can be risky for the average citizen. There are criminal elements in our society, as well as pitfalls in our everyday life, which pose real dangers to the safety and security of ourselves and our families. Be aware of con artists, muggers, carjackers and rapists... as well as speed traps, lawsuits, and unnecessary taxes! In this unique book, author Jack Luger has provided the methods and resources that enable the reader to minimize these threats to our lives, liberties, and pursuit of happiness. So don't be a victim! Learn to be self reliant, and arm yourself with the knowledge that it takes to develop your street smarts and survive this dangerous decade! Sexually Abused Children and Their Families Author: Mrazek, Patricia Beezley / Kempe, C. Henry ISBN: 0-08-030194-0 Pages: 300 Format: Paperback Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Published: November 1982 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 All the Trouble in the World The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague & Poverty Author: O'Rourke, P. J. ISBN: 0-87113-580-9 Pages: 340 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr Published: October 1994 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From Publishers Weekly:  Political humorist O'Rourke (Give War a Chance) takes a swipe at "fashionable worries," reminding us that "This is a moment of hope in history"-no more evil empire to threaten us. His contention that this is "the best moment of all time" and the U.S. is "the best place to be" is funny mostly in one-liners and anecdotes, but his larger arguments flag: while Miami's efforts at multiculturalism are worthy of parody, a field trip to "multiculturalism in practice"-the war in Bosnia-is no real contrast. After skewering environmentalists, whom he accuses of crying wolf too often, the author visits the polluted Czech Republic to proclaim sophistically that collectivist government can't solve ecological problems. As usual, O'Rourke has a good eye for self-righteousness, but his libertarian reach exceeds his wisecracking grasp. Environmental Vacations Volunteer Projects to Save the Planet Author: Ocko, Stephanie ISBN: 0-945465-78-5 Pages: 235 Format: Paperback Publisher: Distributed by W.W. Norton Published: 1990 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 From Library Journal:  For travelers who want a vacation that leaves them with a sense of accomplishment, Ocko provides mainly experiential accounts about helping scientists with field research or assisting in development projects. While she includes addresses and background information on Earthwatch and other agencies, her focus is on giving potential volunteers a sense of what to expect. Ocko is honest about the hard physical work, lack of facilities, expense, and perils of doing research in remote areas, but she also makes such a vacation seem stimulating and rewarding. This readable book belongs in most public and school libraries (YA volunteers are wanted too). - Sue McKimm, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Cleveland Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. First Lady Author: Phillips, Susan Elizabeth ISBN: 0-7394-0688-4 Pages: Format: Hardcover Publisher: Avon Published: 2000 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Case Closed Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK Author: Posner, Gerald L. ISBN: 0-679-41825-3 Pages: 607 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Random House Published: August 31, 1993 Condition: Price: USD $3.29 From Publishers Weekly:  Posner, a lawyer and investigative reporter ( Mengele ), has set himself a major task here and brought it off with considerable panache. In the face of a multitude of assassination books propounding dozens of theories, all of them critical of the lone-assassin/no-conspiracy case, he has come out square for Oswald as the sole culprit. Posner propounds--and offers good evidence for--just three shots, all from Oswald in the Book Depository, and spends nearly half the book on a closely detailed examination of the life of that unhappy and, he claims, ultimately paranoid young man. He also scrutinizes every minute of the time Jack Ruby spent between the assassination and the moment he shot Oswald in the police garage, and cannot find that Ruby's act was other than an outburst of spur-of-the-moment rage born of unexpected opportunity. Posner does not ride, testy and rough-shod, over objections , as lesser proponents of Warren Commission orthodoxy do. He scrutinizes many of the conspiracy theories and theorists carefully, sometimes even with respect, but inevitably finds them wanting. If someone has changed his or her story later (as many witnesses did), he tends to give more credence to their first impressions, before the conspiracy theories tempted them to doubt themselves. And in many cases--perhaps too many--he finds that people whose stories have been widely relied upon by writers are mistaken about time or place, crazy, delusional or otherwise unreliable. About New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison, the hero of the movie JFK , he is merciless, laying out an endless trail of his lies and exaggerations. Posner is occasionally critical of the Warren Commission and the later House Select Committee investigations, but makes extensive use of their findings, adding to them much recent expert testimony--and technological enhancements of visual and auditory material--to which they did not have access. While not exculpating the FBI or the Dallas Police for their erratic work and lack of cooperation, he casts no suspicion on them, or upon the CIA (whose statements he seems to accept uncritically), for possible involvement in, or foreknowledge of, the crime; and he does not even try to explain why a motorcade so bereft of elementary security precautions was allowed to proceed. Still, this is a painstaking and remarkably thorough presentation of what has become an utterly unfashionable approach. There are extensive notes on sources, and some innovative and helpful graphic reconstructions of the shooting scene and the shots. First serial to U.S. News and World Report. From Library Journal:  The majority of books written on the assassination of John F. Kennedy focus on the various conspiracy theories. Annual Editions World Politics 04/05 Author: Purkitt, Helen E. ISBN: 0-07-286157-6 Pages: 256 Format: Paperback Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Published: June 11, 2004 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Book Description:  This twenty-fifth edition of Annual Editions: World Politics, which is revised each year, contains articles addressing international political economy, North America, Latin America, Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet States, The Pacific Basin, The Middle East and Africa, and international organizations and global issues. This reader is complemented by a free student website, Dushkin Online, which provides links to related Web sites and study support tools. Dreams Die First Author: Robbins, Harold ISBN: 0-671-22590-1 Pages: 350 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: October 15, 1977 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 For Lust of Knowing Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer Author: Roosevelt, Archie ISBN: 0-316-75600-8 Pages: 500 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Little Brown & Co Published: February 1988 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 From Library Journal:  This is a charming, anecdotal report of a life spent in intelligence work in the Middle East and Africa. Grandson of one president and nephew of another, Roosevelt attended Groton and Harvard. He demonstrated a serious approach to learning "exotic" foreign languages and cultures, and a sensitive interest in the people and places he encountered. He says little about his specific activites in World War II military intelligence and post-war CIA work, but portrays the history and atmosphere of the region in lively sketches. Concluding chapters discuss his commitment to preserving American values and his views on the CIA. But the book appeals largely through colorful stories and fascinating personalities. Recommended. Elizabeth R. Hayford, Associated Colls. of the Midwest, Chicago Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Change is Power Unlock Your Personal Best: From the Inside Out Author: Ross, John ISBN: 1-879868-02-4 Pages: 226 Format: Paperback Publisher: EBC Publishers Published: December 1, 1999 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Book Description:  Our energy vectors lie within the untapped 90% of our brains. CHANGE is the key to unlock it. CHANGE IS POWER. CHANGE creates energy. Energy to maximize productivity, increase communication, enhance employee morale, build relationships - to create what is wanted. CHANGE is necessary. It frees individuals and organizations from limiting perspectives, thinking and outcomes. Just Between Us Blacks Author: Rowan, Carl T. ISBN: 0-394-47090-7 Pages: 202 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Random House, Inc. Published: October 1974 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Just Friends The Role of Friendship in Our Lives Author: Rubin, Lillian B. ISBN: 0-06-015460-8 Pages: 235 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Harpercollins Published: September 1985 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 San Francisco Chronicle:  "A comprehensive and fascinating study...intelligent and provocative."  Book Description:  An exploration of the role of friendship in men's and women's lives. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Putting the Soul Back in Medicine Reflections on Compassion & Ethics Author: Schiedermayer, David ISBN: 0-8010-8374-5 Pages: 192 Format: Paperback Publisher: Baker Pub Group Published: April 1994 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town Author: Schiller, Lawrence Schiller, Linda ISBN: 0-06-019153-8 Pages: 640 Format: Paperback Publisher: HarperCollins Published: February 18, 1999 Condition: Has some water damage, but very readable Price: USD $1.69 The murder of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey on Christmas night in 1996 inspired sensational headlines throughout the nation and plunged idyllic Boulder, Colorado's justice system into an ongoing nightmare. In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, bestselling author Lawrence Schiller explores both the child's mysterious death and the exhaustive, yet often mishandled, investigation that has, in the two years since the crime, failed to produce either a plausible scenario or a killer. The more that was discovered about the crime, the less likelihood there seemed of tying all the evidence into a single theory that fit the murder scene. Meanwhile, conflicting agendas and personalities within the Boulder police department, the district attorney's office, and the sheriff's office escalated a war that has all but eroded the picture-postcard image of liberal, laid-back Boulder. Schiller has a knack for distilling context and meaning from violent crime. He partnered with Norman Mailer on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Executioner's Song and was O.J. Simpson's choice of confidante for I Want to Tell You. (From there, he went on to write the definitive story of the Simpson defense, American Tragedy.) For Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Schiller and researcher Charles Brennan conducted more than 500 interviews, examining the exculpatory evidence from every conceivable point of view to create a fascinating portrait of what happens when tragedy strikes in paradise. There are no easy answers, no simple outs; the murder of JonBenét Ramsey remains unsolved. --Patrizia DiLucchio -- Boston Herald "The most detailed . . . account of the mysterious killing of 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey." New State of the Earth Atlas 2nd Edition Author: Seager, Joni / Stott, Peter / Reed, Clark ISBN: 0-671-89103-0 Pages: 128 Format: Paperback Publisher: Touchstone Published: March 1, 1995 Condition: Price: USD $1.49 Description: In the clear, colorful, and innovative maps that are the hallmark of this series, this book provides an up-to-date overview of the health of our planet and the quality of life in every area of the world, illuminating the full scope of environmental concerns, trends, tragedies, and triumphs. Authority Author: Sennett, Richard ISBN: 0-394-42803-X Pages: 206 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House Published: 1980 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From the Publisher:  This book is a study of both how we experience authority and how we might experience it differently. Sennett explores the bonds that rebellion against authority paradoxically establishes, showing how this paradox has been in the making since the French Revolution and how today it expresses itself in offices, in factories, and in government as well as in the family. I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not Author: Shenkman, Richard ISBN: 0-06-016346-1 Pages: 226 Format: Hardcover Publisher: HarperCollins Published: October 1991 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From Publishers Weekly:  Lacking the verve and elan of Shenkman's Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History , this sequel is a more conventional history, although debunkery is once again the author's mission. Readers learn that flag worship is a relatively new phenomenon in the U.S., that the colonists (even in theocratic enclaves) were not especially devout and that the great industrialists of the late 19th century were neither daring nor innovative. Readers will discover also that Thoreau was no recluse at Walden Pond, Hemingway never fought in a war and Horatio Alger was a pedophile. That democracy has never been widely popular and that there were drug addicts in the land as early as 1866 are not front-page news either. The book is pop-revisionist history with few surprises. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal: As in Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History (Morrow, 1988), Shenkman again sets out to reveal the truth about America's past. Twelve well-researched chapters cover subjects from patriotism to saints and scalawags. A book that's sure to stimulate discussion, amuse, and perhaps even anger those who cling to traditional views. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Portraits of the Presidents Author: Sidey, Hugh (Photographer) ISBN: 1-929049-04-8 Pages: 186 Format: Paperback Publisher: Time Books Published: September 1, 2000 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From the Publisher:  Studded with the stories only Hugh Sidey can tell and brimming with the memorable pictures that readers expect form a Time Books volume, Hugh Sidey's Portraits of the Presidents is a bracing, intimate encounter with the men who have shaped modern American history. USSR: The Corrupt Society The Secret World of Soviet Capitalism Author: Simis, Konstantin ISBN: 0-671-25003-5 Pages: 316 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: August 24, 1982 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Language Notes Text: English, Russian (translation) The Struggle for Black Equality 1954-1980 Author: Sitkoff, Howard ISBN: 0-8090-0144-6 Pages: 259 Format: Paperback Publisher: Hill & Wang Published: August 1981 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 Book Description:  The Struggle for Balck Equality is an aresting history of the civil-rights movement--from the pathbreaking Supreme Court decision of 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the major issues of the 1990s. harvard Sitkoff offers not only a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of the civils-rights organization--SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC, and others--but a superb study of the continuing problems plaguing the African-American population: the future that in 1980 seemed to hold much promise for a better way of life has by the early1990s hardly lived up to expectations. Jim Crow has gone, but, forty years after Brown, poverty, big-city slums, white backlash, politically and socially conservativepolicies, and prolonged recession have made economic progress for the vast majority of blacks an elusive, perhaps ever more distant goal. All Americans who strove and suffered to make democracy real come vividly to life in these compelling pages. Elvis Rising Stories on the King Author: Sloan, Kay / Constance, Pierce (Editor) ISBN: 0-380-77216-7 Pages: 262 Format: Paperback Publisher: Avon Books Published: August 1993 Condition: Price: USD $1.69 From Publishers Weekly:  Most of the stories in this disappointing collection are strikingly similar to one another, both in their view of Elvis and in their condescending tone toward Elvis fans. In virtually every entry, quirky Southerners either visit Graceland or relate to Elvis in private ways that reverberate long afterward. Les Roberts's truck driver, Earl Lee, considers the King to be an appropriate topic for small talk and reels when he meets a truck-stop denizen who disagrees. William Hauptman's Elvis impersonator, Bubba, imitates every aspect of Presley's downward slide, and Constance Pierce's truck driver, Vern Pender, travels to Graceland with his retarded, junk-food-eating son Gene for the 13th time, taking some hostages while he's there. A few stories that stretch the collection's basic concept are more interesting. Kay Sloan uses a Leningrad Elvis impersonator's act to link the rebellion of rock 'n' roll to perestroika and calls Presley "the Lenin of lust." Howard Waldrop's Elvis is a young, respectful Senator who is thrilled to see a performance by his idol, famed jazz clarinetist "Ike" Eisenhower; and Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick collaboratively bring forth a creepy parallel universe where Elvis, Janis Joplin and Buddy Holly give a final fantastic concert together. The editors teach in the English department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Rediscovering Gold in the 21st Century The Complete Guide to the Next Gold Rush Author: Smith, Craig R. / Bradshaw, David / Vaughn, Cliff ISBN: 0-9711482-0-1 Pages: 172 Format: Paperback Publisher: Idea Factory Press Published: July 28, 2001 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Pat Boone, Entertainer, May 2001 "Crisp, concise - an instant classic! ...Craig's financial advice is like 24-karat gold - tested and pure." Warren Duffy, host Live From L.A., KKLA, May 2001 "Craig Smith...predicted the tech-wreck was coming on my program back in 1999." Polar Star Author: Smith, Martin Cruz ISBN: 0-394-57819-8 Pages: 386 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Random House Published: June 13, 1989 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 From Publishers Weekly:  Sprung from a state psychiatric hospital, Arkady Renko takes refuge in Siberia, ultimately working on a Soviet factory ship in the Bering Sea. When one of his shipmates is murdered, he's pressed into service. "Those eagerly awaiting the return of Renko, the saturnine, chain-smoking police investigator from Moscow who appeared in the bestseller Gorky Park , will be glad to know their hero is back in fine form," said PW. Author tour. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Book Description:  Arkady Renko has made too many enemies and now he toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when a female crew member is picked up dead with the day's catch, Arkady becomes obsessed with the case and once again discovers more than he wants to know and certainly more than he bargained for... Stop the Nonsense Author: Sohar Sohar, Ezra ISBN: 1-56171-006-7 Pages: 159 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Shapolsky Publishers Published: January 1991 Co