LIFE 100 People Who Changed the World

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Religious and political leaders, artists, scientists, and adventurers are all represented in these pages - cultural icons of the greatest fame and obscurities that will surprise the reader. Albert Einstein is here, of course, and so is Madame Curie. Crucial issues of race are examined in the lives of not only Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama, but of Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali. Certainly Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were t... More >>

LIFE 100 People Who Changed the World

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

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Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters — and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day — has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire thinker. A powerful influence on the great writers of the ... More >>

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

The Bite of the Mango

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The astounding story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative. As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During ... More >>

The Bite of the Mango

The Invention of Solitude

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"One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own role as father.Amazon.com Review
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The Invention of Solitude

Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men

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Blevins portrays the incredible lives of such men as Jed Smith, Jim Bridger, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Bill Williams, while he looks for the greater story, the story of their experiences, rather than the political realities of their era.... More >>

Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

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In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle journeys back to the age of King Arthur and his Round Table to chronicle the powerful, enthralling story that has delighted generations of readers fascinated by chivalry, magic, and the unforgettable drama of medieval times. **MASS MARKET PAPER**... More >>

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

The Return of Martin Guerre

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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean villa... More >>

The Return of Martin Guerre

Real Soldiers of Fortune

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Davis, known for his fiction and plays, also wrote about real people in Real Soldiers of Fortune, originally published in 1910. The Real Soldiers of Fortune are: Major-General Henry Ronald Douglas MacIver – from none of the eighteen countries he has served has he a pension, birth, or billet and at sixty he finds himself at home in every land, but with a home in none, Baron James Harden-Hickey – the man who made himself king, the man who was born after his tim... More >>

Real Soldiers of Fortune

The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero

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Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his s... More >>

The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero

Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East

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By assembling the biographies of 24 ordinary Middle Eastern men and women - peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites - this book provides a series of vantage points from which to consider how Middle Eastern history might seem from the "bottom up".... More >>

Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East

Drawing the Head and Figure

• Product Details: Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade (January 15, 1983
• Language: English, ISBN-10: 0399507914, ISBN-13: 978-0399507915
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches, g Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (75 customer reviews), Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #22,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A how-to handbook that makes drawing easy. It offers simplified techniques and many hints and helps, as well as step-by-step procedures.... More >>

Drawing the Head and Figure

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2

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Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lyc... More >>

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2