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Title: Love
Author: Toni Morrison

Language: English
Published: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781441119681
Extension: EPUB
Size: 200 KB
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
Categories: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction

Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels ( Paradise, Love, A Mercy) the contributors to this volume revisit issues that continue to engage Morrison and are part of the currency of contemporary American literary and cultural history. These selections examine Morrison's ongoing "romance" with African Americans as they continue to battle the demons of race, gender, class, and poverty, to name a few. Together, these essays offer comprehensive and nuanced discussions of Morrison's latest novels and provide new directions for Morrison scholarship in the 21st century.
This volume provides students of literature, cultural studies, and history with an overview of Morrison's examination of African American progress and leadership at key moments in American history and culture from the Colonial Period to the present. Through their thematic interconnectedness, the essays reveal Morrison at her most brilliant in her ability to reach into the past to comment on contemporary issues.

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Title: Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Author: Mitchell Zuckoff

Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: Harper
Extension: EPUB
Size: 14 MB
Subjects: History, General, Survival After Airplane Accidents; Shipwrecks; Etc., Primitive Societies - New Guinea, World War II, Aircraft Accidents - New Guinea, World War; 1939-1945 - Search and Rescue Operations - United States, Survival After Airplane Accidents; Shipwrecks; Etc - New Guinea, World War; 1939-1945, United States - Search and Rescue Operations, Survival After Airplane Accidents; Shipwrecks; Etc, Aircraft Accidents, World War; 1939-1945 - Missing in Action - New Guinea, Airplane Crash Survival - New Guinea, World War; 1939-1945 - Search and Rescue Operations - New Guinea, Military, Primitive Societies, New Guinea, Missing in Action, World War; 1939-1945 - Aerial Operations; American


Amazon.com Review
Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff's remarkable and inspiring narrative. Faced with the potential brutality of the Dani tribe, known throughout the valley for its violence, the trio's lives were dependent on an unprecedented rescue mission--a dedicated group of paratroopers jumped into the jungle to provide aid and medical care, consequently leaving the survivors and paratroopers alike trapped on the jungle floor. A perilous rescue by plane became their only possible route to freedom. A riveting story of deliverance under the most unlikely circumstances, Lost in Shangri-La deserves its place among the great survival stories of World War II. --Lynette Mong
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Outside magazine and the author of the international bestseller __, which won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble, and also served as the basis for the 2005 Miramax film The Great Raid.
Although World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of this planet, many a jaded reader has come to the reluctant conclusion that there aren't any more World War II stories left to tell. At least not good ones-not tales of the "ripping good yarn" variety. Yet remarkably, in his new book Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff has found one, and he's told it with reportorial verve, narrative skill, and exquisite pacing.
What makes this World War II story all the more fascinating is that it isn't really a war story-not in a strict military sense. It's more of an exotic adventure tale with rich anthropological shadings. In 1945, near the end of the war, an American plane crashes in a hidden jungle valley in New Guinea inhabited by Stone Age cannibals. 21 Americans die in the crash, but three injured survivors soon find themselves stumbling through the jungle without food, nursing terrible wounds and trying to elude Japanese snipers known to be holding out in the mountains.
The first contact between the three Americans and the valley's Dani tribesmen is both poignant and comical. The Americans, Zuckoff writes, have "crash-landed in a world that time didn't forget. Time never knew it existed." The tribesmen, who have never encountered metal and have yet to master the concept of the wheel, think the American interlopers are white spirits who've descended on a vine from heaven, fulfilling an ancient legend. They're puzzled and fascinated by the layers of "removable skin" in which these alien visitors are wrapped; the natives, who smear their bodies in pig grease and cover their genitals with gourds, have never seen clothes before.
The Americans, in turn, are pretty sure their boartusk-bestudded hosts want to skewer them for dinner.
What ensues in Zuckoff's fine telling is not so much a cultural collision as a pleasing and sometimes hilarious mutual unraveling of assumptions. Though the differences in the two societies are chasmic, the Americans and the Dani become-in a guarded, tentative sort of way-_friends_.
But when armed American airmen arrive via parachute to rescue the survivors, relations become more tense. The Americans make their camp right in the middle of a no-man's land between warring Dani tribes-a no-man's land where for centuries they have fought the battles that are central to their daily culture. Here, Zuckoff notes, the ironies are profoundly rich. The Dani, untouched by and indeed utterly unaware of the great war that's been raging all across the globe, become thoroughly discombobulated when their own war is temporarily disrupted.
Yes, there are still a few good World War II stories left to tell. And yes, this one meets all the requirements of a ripping good yarn. Zuckoff, who teaches journalism at Boston University, is a first-rate reporter who has spared no expense to rescue this tale from obscurity. His story has it all: Tragedy, survival, comedy, an incredibly dangerous eleventh-hour rescue, and an immensely attractive heroine to boot. It's extraordinary that Hollywood hasn't already taken this tale and run wild with it. If it did, the resulting movie would be equal parts Alive, Cast Away, and The Gods Must Be Crazy. It's as though the Americans have arrived in the Stone Age through a wormhole in the space-time continuum. The Dani don't know what to do with themselves-and life, as any of us know it, will never be the same.

Review
"Zuckoff transforms impressive research into a deft narrative that brings the saga of the survivors to life." (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )
"Zuckoff delivers a remarkable survival story. . . . In this well-crafted book, Zuckoff turns the long-forgotten episode into an unusually exciting narrative. . . . Polished, fast-paced and immensely readable-ready for the big screen." (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )
"[An] engaging story. . . . This excellent book will be enjoyed by anyone who loves true adventure stories." (Library Journal (starred review) )
"This is an absorbing adventure right out of the Saturday-morning serials. . . . LOST IN SHANGRI-LA deserves a spot on the shelf of Greatest Generation nonfiction. It puts the reader smack into the jungle. " (Cleveland Plain Dealer )
"[A] gripplingly cinematic account. . . . A remarkable cast of characters. . . . A" (Entertainment Weekly )

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Title: Lost scriptures: books that did not make it into the New Testament
Author: [edited by] Bart D. Ehrman

Language: English
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
ISBN: 9780195182507
Extension: EPUB
Size: 554 KB
Subjects: Biblical Reference, Bible Study Guides, Bibles, Other Translations, Apocryphal books (New Testament), New Testament, Christianity, Religion, Biblical Commentary, Biblical Studies, General, History


Review
"The author of more than ten books on New Testament history and early Christian writings, Ehrman has established himself as an expert on early Christianity. These two works should soundly solidify his stature, as they illuminate the flavor and varieties of early Christian belief."--Library Journal (on Lost Christianities and Lost Scriptures)
"History, it's often said, is written by the victors. Bart Ehrman argues in a pair of intriguing new books that the same could be said of the Bible's New Testament.... Will shock more than a few lay readers."--The Boston Globe
"Lost Scriptures provides a good sample of the literature and illustrates nicely the complex and often exotic world of second- and third-century Christianity."--America
"Fresh authoritative translations of the texts that fell outside in the canon."--Christian Science Monitor

Product Description
While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia. Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary understanding. Readers will find Gospels supposedly authored by the apostle Philip, James the brother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and others. There are Acts originally ascribed to John and to Thecla, Paul's female companion; there are Epistles allegedly written by Paul to the Roman philosopher Seneca. And there is an apocalypse by Simon Peter that offers a guided tour of the afterlife, both the glorious ecstasies of the saints and the horrendous torments of the damned, and an Epistle by Titus, a companion of Paul, which argues page after page against sexual love, even within marriage, on the grounds that physical intimacy leads to damnation. In all, the anthology includes fifteen Gospels, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles, a number of Apocalypes and Secret Books, and several Canon lists. Ehrman has included a general introduction, plus brief introductions to each piece. This important anthology gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era.

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Title: Lost in the Meritocracy (v5)
Author: Walter Kirn

Language: English
Publisher: a cognizant original v5 release october 08 2010
ISBN: 9780385529266
Extension: EPUB
Size: 256 KB
Subjects: General, United States, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography, American, Literary, 20th Century, Literary Criticism, Education, Higher, 21st Century, Students, Students & Student Life, Authors; American, Authors; American - 20th century, Authors; American - 21st century, Kirn; Walter - Childhood and youth, Students - United States


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Calling something "irreducible." Searching for a contest, no matter how trifling, that he'll be sure to win. These are just two of the tricks Kirn used to shuttle himself through high college, Princeton, and on to Oxford, and such soulless maneuvers are what frame this memoir of duping the educational system. Even as a child, Kirn quickly learned that college was not about learning; it was about reciting the code words teachers most wanted to hear-a salient fact that will ring painfully (and shamefully) true to A-students everywhere. This pandering is most acidly portrayed as eight-year-old Kirn reacts to a teacher's declaration that art isn't about drawing dinosaurs, it's about "emotion"-leading Kirn to draw a bunch of squiggly lines around his triceratops to indicate "feelings." Kirn sprinkles his otherwise finely honed thesis with more typically memoir-ish recollections, which range from meandering to brilliant, but most of the book plays like a mirror-angle Catcher in the Rye, this time from the point of view of one of Holden's dreaded phonies. --Daniel Kraus

Review
"A funny, self-mocking memoir about how persistently Mr. Kirn went astray. . . . Great fun." -_The New York Times
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"The witty, self-castigating story of the author's single-minded quest to succeed at a series of tests and competitions that took him from one of the lowest-ranked high colleges in Minnesota to Princeton." -_The New York Times Book Review
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"Very few people could get away with complaining about attending Princeton University, but Walter Kirn does. . . . Darkly hilarious." -_The Plain Dealer_
"Scathing and funny. . . . Too delicious." -_Newsweek _
"Hilarious. . . . Kirn recounts the many ways that the America educational rat race betrayed him." -_The Washington Post Book World
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"Tough, funny, and moving. . . . What's such great fun about the book is the intense good humor with which he looks back, and the wonderful portraits he provides of the side characters in his life. . . . There's a kind of joyous cackle behind these colorful scenes, and a sadness, too, both finally giving way to a clean-edged wisdom that infiltrates his story as he leads us toward his moral awakening." -_O, The Oprah Magazine_

"Tartly funny." -_Newsday _

"The revelation that skating on the surface of knowledge might kill him if he didn't cut it out was Kirn's alone, but its impact registers far and wide." -_Elle _

"A diverting memoir that has less to do with grades and standardized test scores than with a Mormon-raised farm boy's difficulty adjusting to the temptations and prejudices of an Ivy League college." -_The Miami Herald _
"A smart, ambitious writer. . . . Kirn's sentences would be a delight even if they were empty. That they address a serious subject-the Ivy League training that is less about learning than about preparing its beneficiaries to join the ruling class-seems like a bonus." -_Bloomberg News_

"A fine narrative of what it is to be young, lost, deeply immersed in drugs, and frequently on the verge of a nervous breakdown." -_Bookslut
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"Kirn shows, better than any recent book, how our educational system is perverted from beginning to end. . . . Kirn's is one idealist's stirring recollection of what it took to awaken himself from the sloth imposed by the Ivy League's bureaucratic-meritocracy." -_The Daily Beast
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"Our only wish was for more." -_McSweeney's _
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Title: Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Author: H. W. Brands

Language: English
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385519583
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: U.S.A., Biography, Political Science, Politics, American History, History


Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: With Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H.W. Brands penetrates the clenched grin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a masterful biography of one of America's most beloved leaders. Though born into the upper crust of society, FDR dedicated his career to fighting for the common good and the ideals of the American Dream. With the same exhaustive research familiar to fans of his biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Jackson, Brands provides a portrait of an unflinching (and often recalcitrant) figure whose unshakable confidence inspired a beleaguered nation. FDR's path may have been unorthodox (evidenced by an unprecedented 12 years spent as commander-in-chief) and arguably illegal (the New Deal didn't always work well with the Constitution), but his shared goal of a stronger America at home and abroad endeared him to voters of varying backgrounds. "We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern," proclaimed Roosevelt in 1937. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -- -Dave Callanan

From Publishers Weekly
It is unfortunate for University of Texas historian Brands (_Andrew Jackson_) that his serviceable biography of Franklin Roosevelt comes on the heels of Jean Smith's magisterial Francis Parkman Prize winner, FDR (2007). Still, Brands provides an entirely adequate narrative detailing the well-known facts of Roosevelt's life. We have the young Knickerbocker aristocrat somewhat tentatively entering the dog-eat-dog world of local Democratic politics in New York's Hudson Valley. We have him embarking on a marriage with his cousin Eleanor that was fated to be politically successful but personally disastrous. We also have the somewhat spoiled son of privilege facing the first real battle of his life-polio-and emerging with greatly enhanced fortitude and empathy. Appropriately, Brands gives two-thirds of his book to FDR's presidency and its two most dramatic events: the domestic war against devastating economic depression (fought with tools that many in America's upper classes considered socialist), and the international war against Axis power aggression. It is fitting that Roosevelt commands the amount of scholarly attention that he does, but sad that so much is wholly redundant with what has come before. 16 pages of photos. (Nov. 4)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Title: Hacking: The Next Generation
Author: Nitesh Dhanjani, Billy Rios, Brett Hardin

Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Extension: EPUB
Size: 7 MB
Subjects: Reference:Computers

With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of systems, Hacking: The Next Generation is one of the few books to identify a variety of emerging attack vectors.

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Title: The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Author: H.W. Brands

Language: English
Published: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Autobiography

National Bestseller
He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography.
Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America's first Renaissance man. From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America's independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world's most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin's greatness and humanity, The First American_ _is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy.
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Title: Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition
Author: Jon Erickson

Language: English
Published: 2010
Publisher: No Starch Press
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Reference:Computers

While other books merely show how to run existing exploits, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation broke ground as the first book to explain how hacking and software exploits work and how readers could develop and implement their own. In the extensively updated and expanded second edition, author Jon Erickson again uses practical examples to illustrate the most common computer security issues in three related fields: programming, networking and cryptography. Includes a live CD, which provides a Linux programming environment and all of its benefits without the hassle of installing a new operating system.

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Title: The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie MAnsfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
Author: H. W. Brands

Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 9780307743275
Extension: EPUB
Size: 971 KB
Subjects: History
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Business, History, Nonfiction

[b][b][b]The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War[/b][/b]traces the extraordinary downfall of financier Jubilee Jim, bringing to life New York's Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the railroad tycoon Jay Gould.
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Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously open affair with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that ultimately led to his demise.

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Title: 1915: The Death of Innocence
Author: Lyn Macdonald

Language: English
Published: 1997
Publisher: Penguin Group UK
ISBN: 978-0-14-196117-0
Extension: EPUB
Size: 13 MB
Subjects: History
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Military, Nonfiction

Over two decades' research puts Lyn Macdonald among the greatest popular chroniclers of the First World War. In 1915: The Death of Innocence, from the poignant memories of participants, she has once again created an unforgettable slice of military history.
By the end of 1914, the battered British forces were bogged down, yet hopeful that promised reinforcements and spring weather would soon lead to a victorious breakthrough. A year later, after appalling losses at Aubers Ridge, Loos, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres and faraway Gallipoli, fighting seemed set to go on for ever. Drawing on extensive interviews, letters and diaries, this book brilliantly evokes the soldiers' dogged heroism, sardonic humour and terrible loss of innocence through 'a year of cobbling together, of frustration, of indecision'.
'It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that' Sunday Times
Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.


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Title: Swimming to Antarctica
Author: Lynne Cox

Language: English
Published: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780375415074
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreations, Nonfiction

[b]NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this extraordinary book, the world's most extraordinary distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself.[/b]
Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water "like cold tapioca pudding" and was told she would one day swim the English Channel. Four years later-not yet out of high college-she broke the men's and women's world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, she swam the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Union-a feat that, according to Gorbachev, helped diminish tensions between Russia and the United States.
Lynne Cox's relationship with the water is almost mystical: she describes swimming as flying, and remembers swimming at night through flocks of flying fish the size of mockingbirds, remembers being escorted by a pod of dolphins that came to her off New Zealand.
She has a photographic memory of her swims. She tells us how she conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and re-creates for us the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water, including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit. She tells us how, through training and by taking advantage of her naturally plump physique, she is able to create more heat in the water than she loses.
Lynne Cox has swum the Mediterranean, the three-mile Strait of Messina, under the ancient bridges of Kunning Lake, below the old summer palace of the emperor of China in Beijing. Breaking records no longer interests her. She writes about the ways in which these swims instead became vehicles for personal goals, how she sees herself as the lone swimmer among the waves, pitting her courage against the odds, drawn to dangerous places and treacherous waters that, since ancient times, have challenged sailors in ships.

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Title: American Colossus
Author: H. W. Brands

Language: English
Published: 2010
Publisher: Doubleday
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB


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Title: Lucrezia Borgia: life, love and death in Renaissance Italy
Author: Sarah Bradford

Language: English
Published: 2005
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 978-0-14-190949-3
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Autobiography
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Nonfiction

The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance-incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither a vicious monster nor a seductive pawn, Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd, determined woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day. Drawing from a trove of contemporary documents and fascinating firsthand accounts, Bradford brings to life the art, the pageantry, and the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world Lucrezia Borgia helped to create.


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Title: Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Author: Lars Brownworth

Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780307407962
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Size: 590 KB
Subjects: General, History, History - General History, Middle East, Western, Byzantine Empire, Rome, History: World, Ancient, Medieval, Civilization, Civilization; Western, Byzantine Empire - History, Middle East - Turkey, Ancient - General
Categories: History, Nonfiction

Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.
For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against '. expansion, keeping Christianity alive. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture. And the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history.
Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.

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Title: Lost and Found in Russia
Author: Susan Richards

Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Other Press
ISBN: 9781848857834 / 9781590513484
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Travel, Nonfiction

Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with a new and unfamiliar world. Returning again and again, for over a decade, to the deep heartland of this rapidly-evolving country, Susan Richards has encountered extraordinary people and forged lasting friendships. Through their unforgettable stories and her own experiences she reveals how in Russia the past and the present cannot be separated. Illuminating a forgotten people and sweeping away traditional assumptions, "Lost and Found in Russia" is a compelling and essential portrait - poignant, yet full of hope for a new future.

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Title: Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
Author: Attorneys Stephen Elias, Susan Levinkind (Nolo)

Language: English
Published: 2003
Publisher: NOLO
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Law, Reference, Nonfiction
Categories: Law, Reference, Nonfiction

Excellent for anyone searching for information in a real or virtual law library (including paralegals, law students, legal assistants and journalists), Legal Research outlines a systematic method to find answers and get results. In plain, readable English, Attorneys Elias and Levinkind explain, with plenty of examples and instructions, how to: read and understand statues, regulations and cases evaluate cases for their value as precedent use all the basic tools of legal research practice what you've learned with "hands-on, feet-in" library exercises, as well as hypothetical research problems and solutions This easy-to-use and understand book, now in its 11th edition, has been adopted as a text in many law colleges and paralegal programs. The Adobe Reader format of this title is not suitable for use on the Pocket PC or Palm OS versions of Adobe Reader.


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Title: Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
Author: Paul, Ron

Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Extension: EPUB
Size: 432 KB


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Title: Literary Occasions
Author: V.S. Naipaul

Language: English
Published: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781400031306
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
Categories: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction

Eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity-which have been brought together for the first time-from the Nobel Prize-winning author. • "He brings to [nonfiction] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought.. I can no longer imagine the world without Naipaul's writing." -Vivian Gornick, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Here the subject is Naipaul's literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently cited as his forebear, and, in his celebrated Nobel Lecture, "Two Worlds," traces the full arc of his own career. Literary Occasions is an indispensable addition to the Naipaul oeuvre, penetrating, elegant, and affecting.

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Title: Living Well in a Down Economy for Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
Author: Tracy Barr

Language: English
Published: 2008
Publisher: For Dummies
ISBN: 9780061765896
Extension: EPUB
Size: 368 KB
Subjects: Business & Economics, General, Personal Finance, Home economics, Finance; Personal, Saving and investment
Categories: Business, Finance, Nonfiction

Get smart about spending and saving-and ride out a recession!
Looking for practical ways to make every dollar count? This savvy guide gives you expert tips for tightening your belt and saving cash in every area of your life-from your house and car to dining and entertaining to banking and managing debt. You get realistic solutions for making smarter choices and living well in this time of economic turmoil-without extraordinary sacrifice!
[*]Bump up your take-home pay-spiff up your resume, find a good job fast, explore telecommuting, or start a home-based business
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Title: Lost in My Own Backyard
Author: Tim Cahill

Language: English
Published: 2004
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781400046225
Extension: EPUB
Size: 481 KB
Subjects: Fiction
Categories: Sports & Recreations, Travel, Nonfiction

"Let's get lost together . . . "
Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his-and America's-favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world's first national park. Cahill has been "puttering around in the park" for a quarter of a century, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring its remote backwoods. So does this mean that he knows what he's doing? Hardly. "I live fifty miles from the park," says Cahill, "but proximity does not guarantee competence. I've spent entire afternoons not knowing exactly where I was, which is to say, I was lost in my own backyard."
Cahill stumbles from glacier to geyser, encounters wildlife (some of it, like bisons, weighing in the neighborhood of a ton), muses on the microbiology of thermal pools, gets spooked in the mysterious Hoodoos, sees moonbows arcing across waterfalls at midnight, and generally has a fine old time walking several hundred miles while contemplating the concept and value of wilderness. Mostly, Cahill says, "I have resisted the urge to commit philosophy. This is difficult to do when you're alone, twenty miles from the nearest road, and you've just found a grizzly bear track the size of a pizza."
Divided into three parts-"The Trails," which offers a variety of favorite day hikes; "In the Backcountry," which explores three great backcountry trails very much off the beaten track; and "A Selected Yellowstone Bookshelf," an annotated bibliography of his favorite books on the park-this is a hilarious, informative, and perfect guide for Yellowstone veterans and first-timers alike. Lost in My Own Backyard is adventure writing at its very best.

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