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Title: Laelius, on friendship (Laelius de amicitia) ; &, The dream of Scipio (Somnium Scipionis)
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero, J. G. F. Powell

Language: English
Publisher: Aris & Phillips
ISBN: 9780856684418
Extension: EPUB
Size: 84 KB
Subjects: Philosophy, History & Surveys, Ancient & Classical, General, History, Rome, Ancient, Early works to 1800, Conduct of life, Friendship - Early works to 1800, Cicero; Marcus Tullius - Translations into English, Scipio, Friendship, Scipio Aemilianus; P. Cornelius


Product Description
The De Amicitia is one of Cicero's most carefully crafted philosophical treatises. It offers an excellent introduction both to the eleoquence of his expository prose style and to the ethical values of Roman society during the first century BC. Moreover, many of the issues raised by its content are not entirely divorced from the realities that present-day students may encounter in regard to friendship. This edition contains a full vocabulary, a biographical index, and notes which give assistance ewith translation, as well as informative and detailed coverage of language and content.

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Title: Lady Sings the Blues
Author: Billie Holiday

Language: English
Published: 2006
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780767923866
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Sociology, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Music, Sociology, Nonfiction

[b]Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation-a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz[/b]
Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday's rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem's club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie's life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon.

We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of "Strange Fruit"; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scbangs with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday's tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.

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Title: L.A. noir: the struggle for the soul of America's most seductive city
Author: John Buntin

Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: True Crime


From Publishers Weekly
Buntin, a crime writer for Governing magazine, chronicles the complex, interlocking lives of brutal gangster Mickey Cohen and durable security officer chief William Parker, telling their stories against the backdrop of Tinseltown from the 1930s to the '60s. The author adds to the mix the colorful cultural and political saga of the star-struck metropolis, a city ripe for a bitter power play between the crooks and cops, rampant with drug dens, pleasure palaces, illegal gambling and other assorted vices. The ruthlessness of Cohen, an heir to "Bugsy" Siegel, and the deadpan determination of Parker are placed in proper context with the seminal events of Prohibition, the Red scare, the federal crackdown on mobsters, and the Watts riots. Packed with Hollywood personalities, Beltway types and felons, Buntin's riveting tale of two ambitious souls hell-bent on opposing missions in the land of sun and make-believe is an entertaining and surprising diversion-as well as a sobering look at the role of the LAPD in fomenting racial tensions in L.A. 16 pages of b&w photos.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review
Named One of Daily Beast's "Favorite Books of 2009"
"Important and wonderfully enjoyable..A highly original and altogether splendid history that can be read for sheer pleasure and belongs on the shelf of indispensable books about America's most debated and least understood cities...Utterly compelling reading."
-_Los Angeles Times
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"Completely entertaining..a colorful and entirely different take on the vices of Tinseltown."
-Daily Beast
"Echoes crime stylists Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy."
-_American History_
"_L.A. NOIR _is a fascinating look at the likes of Mickey Cohen and Bill Parker, the two kingpins of Los Angeles crime and security officer lore. John Buntin's work here is detailed and intuitive. Most of all, it's flat out entertaining."
-Michael Connelly
"A roller coaster ride....Gripping social history and a feast for aficionados of cops-and-robbers stories, both real and imagined."
-_Kirkus Reviews_
"Packed with Hollywood personalities, Beltway types and felons, Buntin's riveting tale of two ambitious souls on hell-bent opposing missions in the land of sun and make-believe is an entertaining and surprising diversion."
-_Publishers Weekly_
"Reads like a novel....almost impossible to put down. Buntin has written an important and entertaining book about one of America's greatest cities in the 20th century that echoes down to the world we live in today."
-_Bookreporter.com
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"In this breathtakingdual biography of mobster Mickey Cohen and security officer chief William Parker, John Buntin confronts America's most enigmatic city. For a half century and more, the chiaroscuro of Los Angeles, its interplay of sunshine and shadow, has inspired novelists and filmmakers alike to explore what Buntin has now explored in a tour de force of non-fiction narrative."
-Kevin Starr, University Professor and Professor of History, USC
"John Buntin's nonfiction cops and robbers narrative about mid-20th century Los Angeles is not only compelling reading, but a heretofore unexplored look into the LAPD and the city it tried "To Protect and Serve" during one of the most colorful and tumultuous eras in the always provocative history of the City of Angels (and badmen). Dragnet, One Adam Twelve, security officer Story, LA Confidential all rolled into one captivating book. Buntin nails it in this great read.'"
-William Bratton, Chief of security officer, LAPD

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Title: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Author: Simon Winchester

Language: English
Publisher: ePenguin
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist '.s: one of the first outbreaks of ---c-inspired killings anywhere.
Simon Winchester's long experience in the world wandering as well as his knowledge of history and geology give us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event as he brings it telling back to life.

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Title: Korea
Author: Simon Winchester

Language: English
Published: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060750442
Extension: EPUB
Size: 498 KB
Subjects: History, Travel, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Travel, Nonfiction

In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea - from its southern tip to the North Korean border - in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land.
Fascinating for its vivid presentation of historical and geographic detail, Korea is that rare book that actually defines a nation and its people. Winchester's gift for capturing engaging characters in true, compelling stories provides us with a treasury of enchanting and informed insight on the culture, language, history, and politics of this little-known corner of Asia.
With a new introduction by the author, Korea is a beautiful journey through a mysterious country and a memorable addition to the many adventures of Simon Winchester.


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Title: Knock 'em Dead 2011
Author: Martin Yate

Language: English
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 974 KB
Subjects: epub, ebook

As America starts down the long road of recovery from the worst recession in more than a generation, millions are searching for new jobs. With unemployment peaking at more than 10 percent in 2010, strong job-search strategies aren't an option-they're a necessity.
This twenty-fifth edition of Martin Yate's guide contains:
[*]Strategies for the long-term unemployed about how to best focus on their skills and strengths to win a job
[*]Completely revised "Where the Jobs Are" section, with new advice for where to find the best employment opportunities in 2011
[*]A new introductory chapter that focuses on long-term career managementToday more applicants struggle for fewer jobs. Yate shows you how to get an edge, whether you're a recent college graduate, unemployed, or contemplating a career change. And once you get a foot in the door, this book shows you how to ace the interview and clinch an attractive, exciting job offer.

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Title: Knowledge Retention Strategies and Solutions
Author: Jay Liebowitz

Language: English
Extension: EPUB
Size: 890 KB
Subjects: TEAM DDU


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Title: Knockout Job Interview Presentations: How to Present with Confidence, Beat the Competition and Impress Your Way into a Top Job
Author: Rebecca Corfield

Language: English
Extension: EPUB
Size: 157 KB
Subjects: 0749457155, 9780749457150


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Title: Columbus
Author: Laurence Bergreen

Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
ISBN: 9780670023011
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction

From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs- political, moral, and economic.
In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.


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Title: The laws
Author: Plato

Language: English
Published: 2013
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781606200056
Extension: EPUB
Size: 636 KB
Subjects: Philosophy, Classics, Political science, State; The
Categories: Philosophy, Nonfiction

A lively dialogue between a foreign philosopher and a powerful statesman, Plato's Laws reflects the essence of the philosopher's reasoning on political theory and practice. It also embodies his mature and more practical ideas about a utopian republic. Plato's discourse ranges from everyday issues of criminal and matrimonial law to wider considerations involving the existence of the gods, the nature of the soul, and the problem of evil.
This translation of Plato's Laws by the distinguished scholar Benjamin Jowett is an authoritative choice for students of philosophy, political science, and literature. It is included among Dover Publications' Philosophical Classics, a series that comprises the major works of ancient and modern world philosophy. Low-priced, high-quality, and unabridged, these editions are ideal for teachers and students as well as for general readers.

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Title: Law Literature
Author: Honorable Richard A. Posner

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032460
Extension: EPUB
Size: 760 KB
Subjects: AvE4EvA


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Title: Lateral Thinking
Author: Edward De Bono

Language: English
Publisher: PENGUIN group
ISBN: 9780141033082
Extension: EPUB
Size: 767 KB
Subjects: Business & Economics, General, Marketing, Self-Help, Creativity, Creative thinking, Lateral thinking
Categories: Business, Nonfiction

Thinking is a skill; it can be developed and improved if one knows how. An internationally known bestseller, this title encourages the habit of lateral thinking to generate new ideas. Learn special techniques to accomplish this. Whether in a group or alone, the result is a triumph of entertaining education. "The underlying argument of this title is that there are two kinds of thinking vertical and lateral. Most of us are educated to think vertically, to go from one logical step to the next, moving all the time towards the one correct solution to our problem. We are not usually educated to be creative, to generate idea after idea. . . "Dr. de Bono argues that the function of vertical, logical thinking is to exclude what is wrong. It is a very useful way of thinking, but it is not the only useful way. To claim it is the sort of intellectual arrogance that makes creative thinking unlikely. "A very useful book. . . Dr. de Bono does not claim to be able to turn us all into Miltons, da Vincis and Einsteins, . . . but his techniques provide an alternative to just sitting around waiting for the Muse to appear. The Muse never appears to most of us hence the value of (lateral Thinking). "


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Title: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Author: Hillenbrand, Laura

Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB


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Title: Last Words
Author: George Carlin;Tony Hendra

Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781439172957
Extension: EPUB
Size: 560 KB
Subjects: United States, Performing Arts, Comedy (Performing Arts), Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography And Autobiography, Biography, Entertainment & Performing Arts - General, Rich & Famous, George, Comedy, Entertainment & Performing Arts - Comedians, Comedians, Comedians - United States, Carlin; George, Carlin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)

For the last 14 years of his life, the brilliant, caustic, and hilarious George Carlin worked on his autobiography-now, written with bestselling author Tony Hendra and posthumously published, Carlin has proven that even after death, he is still one of the funniest men who ever lived.
One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy, with nineteen appearances on the Johnny Carson show, thirteen HBO specials, five Grammys, and a critical Supreme Court battle over censorship under his belt, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career, and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acerbic humor with never-before-told stories from his own life, including encounters with a Who's Who of 1970s celebrity-from Lenny Bruce to Hugh Hefner-and the origins of some of his most famous standup routines. Carlin's early conflicts, his long struggle with substance abuse, his turbulent relationships with his family, and his triumphs over catastrophic setbacks all fueled the unique comedic worldview he brought to the stage. From the heights of stardom to the low points few knew about, Last Words is told with the same razor-sharp wit and unblinking honesty that made Carlin one of the best-loved comedians in American history.

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Title: Last Chance to See
Author: Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine

Language: English
Published: 1990
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780345371980 / 9780330320023
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: General, Mathematics, Science, Travel, Essays & Travelogues, Nature, Life Sciences, Endangered Species, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Popular Science, Zoology, Travel writing, Endangered species & extinction of species, Rare animals, Zoology & animal sciences
Categories: Nature, Travel, Nonfiction

New York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.
Join them as they encounter the animal kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but loveable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of Zaire, the rare birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean. Hilarious and poignant-as only Douglas Adams can be- Last Chance to See is an entertaining and arresting odyssey through the Earth's magnificent wildlife galaxy.

Praise for Last Chance to See

"Lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written . . . shows how human care can undo what human carelessness has wrought." -The Atlantic
"These authors don't hesitate to present the alarming facts: More than 1,000 species of animals (and plants) become extinct every year. . . . Perhaps Adams and Carwardine, with their witty science, will help prevent such misadventures in the future." -Boston Sunday Herald

"Very funny and moving . . . The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams's] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them live." -The Washington Post Book World

"[Adams] invites us to enter into a conspiracy of laughter and caring." -Los Angeles Times

"Amusing . . . thought-provoking . . . Its details on the heroic efforts being made to save these animals are inspirational." -The New York Times Book Review

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Title: Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Author: Daniel Okrent

Language: English
Published: 2010
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743277020
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: History
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.
From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing.

Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent's dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever.

Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women's suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax.

Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible-if long-forgotten-federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent's account of Joseph P. Kennedy's legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.)

It's a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent's narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing "sacramental" wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology.

Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer.

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Title: Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
Author: Timothy Egan

Language: English
Published: 1998
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679781820
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Travel
Categories: History, Travel, Nonfiction

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award
"Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." - The New York Times
"Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." - Los Angeles Times
"They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and subdivide it," writes Timothy Egan of the West; still, "this region's hold on the American character has never seemed stronger." In this colorful and revealing journey through the eleven states west of the 100th meridian, Egan, a third-generation westerner, evokes a lovely and troubled country where land is religion and the holy war between preservers and possessors never ends.
Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment. In a unique blend of travel writing, historical reflection, and passionate polemic, Egan has produced a moving study of the West: how it became what it is, and where it is going.
"The writing is simply wonderful. From the opening paragraph, Egan seduces the reader. . . . Entertaining, thought provoking."
- The Arizona Daily Star Weekly
"A western breeziness and love of open spaces shines through Lasso the Wind. . . . The writing is simple and evocative."
- The Economist

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Title: Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--And Save His Life
Author: Daniel Asa Rose

Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061708718
Extension: EPUB
Size: 357 KB
Subjects: Business & Economics, General, Medical, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography And Autobiography, Biography, American, Literary Criticism, Industries, Authors; American, Medical tourism, Hospitality; Travel & Tourism, Travel & Tourism, Physician & Patient, Hospitality, Nephrology, Kidneys
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Christian Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction

"One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I've read."
-Boston Globe
Larry's Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose's wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant, collect a mail-order bride, and stop a hit-man from killing their uncle. An O. Henry Prize winner, a two-time recipient of PEN Fiction Awards, and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellow, Rose has written "a surprisingly fun, and moving, book with resonance" (Chicago Tribune).


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Title: Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown
Author: Michael Cunningham

Language: English
Published: 2008
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780307718013
Extension: EPUB
Size: 202 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, History, United States, Massachusetts, Travel, Essays & Travelogues, Northeast, State & Local, Sports & Recreation, Walking, ME, NH, VT), New England (CT, RI, Provincetown (Mass.) - Description and travel, Cunningham; Michael, Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.), MA, Walking - Massachusetts - Provincetown, New England (CT; MA; ME; NH; RI; VT)
Categories: Science, Nonfiction

From the author of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE HOURS comes a celebration of one of the nation's hidden treasures: Provincetown. "It is the only small town I know of where those who live unconventionally seem to outnumber those who live within the prescribed bonds of home and licensed marriage, respectable job, and biological children," Cunningham writes, having lived there for more than twenty years. Known for its beautiful beaches, quirky shops, and wild nightlife, Provincetown is a place of deep and enduring history - as well as an inspiration for such artists and writers as Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, and Mark Rothko who, like Cunningham, found in it's beautiful landscape and unconventionality an escapist paradise.


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Title: Let's Get It On!
Author: McCarthy, Big John, Loretta Hunt, Bas Rutten, Bas Rutten

Published: 2011
Publisher: Medallion Press
ISBN: 9781605421414
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction

An intimate profile of the legendary mixed martial arts (MMA) referee, this first full-length autobiography of pop culture icon “Big" John McCarthy details every aspect of his life-from his strong-handed Los Angeles upbringing to his involvement in the naming of the sport, his role in its regulation, and MMA's rise in stature. The narrative follows “Big" John through his 22-year career as a Los Angeles security officer officer, where he taught recruits arrest and control procedures as well as survival tactics, then his 15-year career as MMA's premier official in the chain-linked cage. A fixture of the sport, “Big" John started refereeing at UFC 2 in 1994 when MMA was in its infancy and went on to officiate at every major UFC event but two until 2007. Following a one-year hiatus as a color commentator and on-camera analyst for MMA and boxing events, he returned to MMA refereeing in 2008. In his own words, "Big" John relates his insider's perspective from the midst of many of the sport's greatest moments-from Tito Ortiz-Ken Shamrock I at UFC 40 in 2002 to Randy Couture-Tim Sylvia at UFC 68 in March of 2007-along with his account of the birth of the sport in America, its evolution, and MMA's ongoing struggles for acceptance.


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