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[ "Looks at the history of photo images in art, the nature of designing with photo images, and the techniques and application of transfer-, contact-, emulsion-, and innovation printing processes" ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Photography & Video" ]

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[ "Books", "Law", "Criminal Law", "Criminal Procedure" ]

[ "Examina el desarrollo de las artes plasticas puertorriquenas en busca de aquellos rasgos que afirman su identidad como pueblo diferenciado. Texto bilingue, espanol-ingles. Contiene mas de 100 fotos a color y otras tantas en blanco y negro.", "An examination of Puerto Rican fine arts in search of the features that affirm their distinct identity. Bilingual text, Spanish-English. Contains over 100 color photographs and as many in black and white." ]

[ "From the Back Cover", "PUERTO RICO: ARTE E IDENTIDAD examina el desarrollo de las artes plasticas puertorriquenas en busca de aquellos rasgos que afirman su identidad como pueblo diferenciado.Reconocidos autores discuten las diversas manifestaciones de nuestras artes- pintura, escultura, ceramica, tallas de santos- con profusion de excelentes ilustraciones de las obras; el volumen contiene mas de cien fotos a color y otras tantas en blanco y negro. Ademas de interpolaciones de caracter historico para proporcionarle al lector el trasfondo sociopolitico en que se desenvuelve el proceso creativo.El alcance didactico se amplia con un apendice en que se leen biografias minimas de cada uno de los artistas que se mencionan en el texto.Un libro de informacion y de afirmacion. Un libro unico en el campo de las artes plasticas de Puerto Rico." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "History & Criticism" ]

[ "Little Berry, born in the savage Maine wilderness, watches as her father is swept away by a flood wave and her mother is carried off by savage wolves, never to be seen again. Orphaned and alone, she is discovered by the kindly Ms. Parks, who operates a trading store in the remote valley not far from Bar Harbor known as the Valley of the Four Ponds.", "Mentored by Ms. Parks, Little Berry stuns her when she begins to speak and soon can read books. Not only can Little Berry speak English, she can speak numerous languages. It was if she had been alive for many years and even perhaps had existed as many beings and maybe had once been human. Surrounded by savage wolves and bears, Little Berry rallies a small band of young beavers to her side. Realizing Little Berry’s great abilities, the beavers elect her as their queen. Her cousins, the twins, better known as Chunk and Crunch, become her bodyguards. Soon the Queen is winning over some of the bears, such as Sleepy Pete, with great kindness while fighting the wolves led by such fierce leaders as One-Eyed Jack and the Devil’s Breath.", "Along the way, Toasty, a tall lean bull beaver, learns to start fires and fly a plane. The Queen, with the help of the twins, finds a giant egg in a cave, which reveals the greatest surprise of all. Added to the mix of tales is Catalina Cougar, who kidnaps the Queen, but in the end, she is saved by a small kit beaver known as Little Ace. There are beaver baseball games and many other tales of adventure as the Queen and her furry friends meet the wolves in the climatic battle. Within these pages are many tales of fun and adventure as told by the Queen and her bucktoothed friends." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Action & Adventure" ]

[ "H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song.In", "Fortissimo", ", Murray follows twelve young singers in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s training program, the prestigious Opera Center for American Artists, through the 2003–2004 season. In the course of the year, these singers attend countless coaching sessions, inspiring master classes, nerve-racking auditions and grueling rehearsals—and finally perform with some of the most celebrated names (and spectacular egos) in opera, from Samuel Ramey to José Cura and Natalie Dessay. While chronicling their progress, Murray offers an insider’s look at the different aspects of the opera world that influence a young singer’s success, a world filled with temperamental maestros, ambitious directors, old-world tradition and sacred monsters. Weaving recollections of his own days training in New York, Rome and Milan in the 1950s with the personal and artistic struggles of the young singers in Chicago today, Murray lays bare the staggering ambition and relentless will required to achieve a career in the arts. As he writes, “Becoming a successful opera singer—stepping out on a huge stage to try to fill the house with your voice, to bring an audience of thirty-six hundred people to its feet—is as risky in its own peculiar way as embarking on a career as a matador. You can triumph, you can struggle to survive or you can perish from your wounds.”", "Fortissimo", "is a delicious tale of rising talents, angst and heartache and small triumphs, and the music that inspires it all.", "From the Hardcover edition." ]

[ "About the Author", "William Murray was a staff writer at", "The New Yorker", "for more than thirty years and authored more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including", "City of the Soul", "and", "The Last Italian", ". He died shortly after completing this book.", "From the Hardcover edition.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Chapter 1The CellThe studio Gianna Rolandi refers to as The Cell is a long, rectangular room with a grand piano at one end and a full-length mirror along one wall. In a corner is a large, yellow rubber ball on which Rolandi sometimes asks her young artists to sit as they sing; it forces them to adopt a correct posture—feet planted solidly on the oor, torso erect, shoulders straight—to support the tone. On a typical day early in November 2003, I stopped by The Cell to see what might be going on that morning at Lyric Opera Center for American Artists (LOCAA), in Chicago. Rolandi, with the help of one of the company’s staff accompanists, was busily at work on Siébel’s aria from Faust with Lauren McNeese, the young mezzo-soprano about to sing the role for the first time on the Lyric stage a few days later.McNeese is a slender, strikingly beautiful young woman with blond hair and green eyes. Three years earlier she had been accepted into the LOCAA program for young singers, after auditioning with arias from the heavier mezzo repertory. Once in, however, she was told that she had to make changes; it was much too early in her career for her to tackle the big dramatic parts. Rolandi and her colleague Richard Pearlman, who had been running the Opera Center since 1995, put McNeese to work on arias by Rossini, especially the coloratura passages that require breath control and vocal agility. McNeese labored with Rolandi several times a week. “I’m famous for making her hoarse when we first started,” McNeese told me. “She was demonstrating all these things she wanted me to do, all these difficult methods, so we worked for hours.” Having been a coloratura soprano diva herself, at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere until her retirement fourteen years earlier, Rolandi was just the person to teach McNeese; but it wasn’t easy for the young mezzo. “My voice was placed farther back and darker then and this new technique was very difficult for me. I had to place my voice forward, make it lighter.” Nevertheless, by the end of that first year in the program, McNeese found herself singing not only Rossini but also Bellini and Mozart. “Gianna lets you know there are no barriers,” she said.At this session, no sooner had McNeese begun to sing the opening phrases than Rolandi stopped her. “You need to get your words smaller,” she told her. “You need to think in terms of funneling the sound.” After the second attack on the aria, Rolandi exclaimed, “This is good! There you go!” She then asked McNeese what she was doing onstage as she sang, which consisted mostly of gathering up flowers to make a bouquet. “It’s really pretty, Lauren, but you also need to think about the words.” She asked the young mezzo to speak the words of the aria in order to get the right French vocal sounds: “Lean into that word bénie.” She made McNeese hold the tip of her nose while singing. “Better! Better! There it is!” she said. “You know where it is; the other won’t carry.” McNeese put on a nose clip before singing a soaring climactic high note on the difficult vowel sound ee. “Lauren, don’t be discouraged,” Rolandi said at the end of the hour- long session, “I’m being really picky here. When’s your next rehearsal?” It was scheduled for one o’clock, McNeese told her. “You’ve been singing a lot,” Rolandi said. “Be sure to mark.” (Marking is the operatic term for not singing full voice.)“I don’t think that’ll be possible,” McNeese said, smiling as she gathered up her belongings and score, then quickly left.The rest of that morning I sat there watching and listening to Rolandi work with three more of the young singers in the LOCAA program. Lauren Curnow, a tall, handsome, short-haired blonde with the strong-looking jaw characteristic of many opera singers, was preparing arias from Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and Meyerbeer’s rarely performed Les Huguenots. Curnow, a first-year LOCAA member listed on the Opera Center’s roster as a mezzo, sounded more like a soprano to me and was much less self-assured than McNeese. Before Curnow had even finished singing an opening phrase, Rolandi bounded out of her chair to move in on her. “Lauren, it’s the right idea, but you’ve got to sing every note. You have to sell each one.” The whole thrust of her coaching was aimed at getting Curnow to move her voice forward into what the Italians call la maschera (the mask), which is the upper jaw and the nasal passages above it. Standing close together now, Rolandi and Curnow faced the mirror. “You have to get all that extra gunk out from under there,” Rolandi said, “out of the back of the throat, otherwise your voice won’t carry.” Most pop singers never get out of their throats, but stick mikes up against their teeth to make any kind of sound, she explained, grinning at me. She made Curnow sing now while holding both hands up to cradle her neck. “That’ll help move it forward,” Rolandi said, then looked at me again. “All these mezzos fall in love with that darker sound.” After a few more phrases, she went to work with Curnow on making sure her tongue was in the right place. “Right, Lauren, you’re getting it,” she said. “Just make sure your tongue feels like a piece of liver.” Tongues, if not properly aligned, can almost literally strangle a singer; mostly they should be lying flat behind the lower teeth.As Curnow continued to work on mastering not only her vocal technique but also her dramatic approach to what she was singing, Rolandi kept moving around behind, beside and in front of her, energetically dispensing advice, admonitions and always constructive criticism, making her repeat phrases over and over until she got them right. It was an amazing performance, not unlike that of a great coach coaxing a well-trained but inexperienced athlete into mastering his sport.As I listened to and watched Rolandi work with her charges that morning, I found myself marveling at how different an experience these young singers were having from the one I’d had during the years I’d been hoping for a career and then later hanging around Madam La Puma. The twelve young singers currently in the LOCAA program were not students but already well-trained vocal artists. In addition to McNeese and Curnow, the roster included sopranos Erin Wall and Nicole Cabell, mezzo Guang Yang, tenors Patrick Miller, Roger Honeywell, and Scott Ramsay, baritones Levi Hernandez and Quinn Kelsey, and bass Christopher Dickerson. Before coming to Chicago they had all graduated from prestigious conservatories or university opera programs, they’d studied for years with private teachers and most had sung professionally for various American opera companies. LOCAA was just the sort of career launching pad that hadn’t existed back when I was studying, or for many years thereafter. In the fifties, sixties and well into the seventies, young American opera singers, even the best-trained ones, had nowhere to go but Europe to begin their careers. The conservatories and universities that had opera programs were largely unsatisfactory training grounds due to the absence on their staffs of good singing teachers and the requirement that students master other musical disciplines, such as music history and sight-reading, that had little directly to do with training the instrument in your throat. No one at the New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston, or at the Manhattan School of Music, in New York, where I studied, ever explained to me how the vocal cords worked, what the larynx looked like or how the tone should be supported on a column of air by the diaphragm muscles. Then there were the private teachers, who were prohibitively expensive (ten dollars for a half- hour lesson back in the mid-forties), especially if they had been great opera stars themselves, and who were mostly as incompetent as the earnest pedants in the conservatories. Great singers don’t necessarily make great teachers; singing comes too easily to them or they’ve forgotten how they got there.In Boston, while establishing a reputation as a goof-off through five terms at Harvard, I studied with a middle-aged ex-soprano who made me learn a half-dozen classical Italian songs without telling me anything about breathing or how to sing anything above an F, the last note an untrained tenor can sing without having to go into what is usually called a passage note, which leads into the so-called head tones any tenor has to master to sing in his upper range. In New York I studied with two great Wagnerian baritones, Friedrich Schorr and Herbert Janssen. Schorr hadn’t a clue what to do with me and saw me only once a week. Janssen, who was still singing at the Met and elsewhere, taught all of his students to funnel the sound by pursing the lips to make it look as if we were sucking bananas. Not a word from either man about breath support. Matters didn’t improve much when I finally left for Italy in 1948 to pursue my studies there. My first teacher in Rome was a celebrated baritone named Riccardo Stracciari, a famous Rigoletto and the singer who persuaded Ruggiero Leoncavallo to let him interpolate a high A-flat into the Prologue, the opening aria of I Pagliacci. Stracciari would sit at his upright piano in his apartment in Rome dressed in his pajamas and bathrobe while belting high notes off the walls in an effort to show me by example how to do it. Eventually, I wound up at the Calcagni School of Music, off the Corso, in the heart of the city, where, as one of about thirty aspirants, I showed up every day, ve days a week, to sing solos, duets and ensembles with my fellow students. Countess Calcagni, who had been a successful lyric soprano herself, taught the women; the Count, who couldn’t sing a note and sounded when he tried like a fishmonger hawking his wares, supervised the men. Still, the lessons cost only the equivalent of fifty American cents and simply by trial and trial and trial and sometimes useful advice from my fellow students I was finally able to gure out approximately how to sing without cracking my high notes—no mean accomplishment. At my first saggio musicale (a sort of school concert), given in a small church on the outskirts of Rome, I did break on my first sustained high note, in an aria from Mignon, but I managed to get through the Love Duet from Madama Butterfly, though to this day I don’t know whether I managed to get up to the high C at the end of it. I had my mouth open and I was straining every muscle I had, but my Butterfly, standing next to me, was Caterina Mancini, a jolly young Roman soprano with a voice like a cannon, who went on to sing later that year at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and at La Scala. All I can be sure of today is that she hit the high note.I wondered, as I thought about those years, whether these bright-eyed kids working that morning with such a talented coach as Gianna Rolandi had any idea how favored they were.The two other young singers who followed McNeese and Curnow into The Cell that morning were sopranos Nicole Cabell, a second-year member of LOCAA, and Erin Wall, then in her third year and about to make her debut at Lyric in a major role, that of Marguerite in Faust. Cabell, elegantly dressed in beige slacks and a fuzzy white sweater, is a tall, willowy brunette with long, curly brown hair and a luminous smile who radiates confidence and optimism.Because Cabell wanted to practice her runs, she immediately went to work on “Bel raggio lusinghier,” a fiendishly difficult bel canto piece from Rossini’s Semiramide, an opera about a Babylonian queen who is raised by doves and murders her husband; the opera survives only because of its gorgeous music for soprano and contralto. Despite a number of stops and comments from Rolandi about the need to get “a little more into the tube” and to beware of “widening the sound,” Cabell sang ravishingly. She has a very beautiful lyric voice with a solid coloratura top. I first heard this aria sung by the great Catalan soprano Montserrat Caballé many years earlier and had never heard anyone sing it nearly as brilliantly since, even though I’d been listening to Cabell work through it only in stops and starts that morning. Cabell was just twenty-six years old, but judging only from what I’d just heard, she seemed more than ready to embark on a professional career. Instead, after finishing the aria, she told Rolandi she thought she might be too old to qualify for the Metropolitan Opera regional auditions by the time she got around to applying. The yearly Met auditions, held all over the country and culminating in a final contest for the survivors at the Met itself, are the most prestigious in the nation. They are widely promoted in the opera world and can launch a career. The singers who win them have a chance to be signed to Met contracts, and all the finalists receive cash awards and recognition. “Don’t worry about it now,” Rolandi told her. “Next year I want all you guys to do it. Now, let’s do this again, exactly what you’ve been doing, only a thousand times more.”As Cabell went back to work, Erin Wall walked into the room and sat down to listen. When Cabell paused to express some frustration over her ability to master the runs, Wall called out, “You can do it, you can do it. I can do it.”Rolandi turned to her. “No, you can’t,” she said. “Not while you’re doing Faust.” Singing Rossini and tackling a romantic role like Marguerite are conflicting disciplines, and Wall knew it.Rolandi proceeded to sing one of the Rossini runs herself. “Like that or something like that,” she told Cabell, grinning. “Anyway, this is impressive, Nicole. You can do this. It’ll be ready in a week. Now that you’re in your place, your runs sound really good.”Before Cabell left, she and Wall spent a minute or two horsing around for my benefit, singing some phrases the way they used to do them, parodying the big hollow tones set way back in the throat that some singers use. Such tones can sound huge in a room, but, as Rolandi never fails to point out in her coaching sessions, they won’t carry in an opera house, especially one as big as Lyric, with its thirty- six hundred seats." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Music" ]

[ "\"A Green One for Woody\" is a true story about a boy becoming a man. And while themes of abuse and alcoholism are common in memoirs, there is nothing common about how Patrick O'Sullivan patiently peels away the textured layers of his life to reveal truths that will cause readers to both marvel and despair, and, sometimes, celebrate.From the author...“My dad had been anointed to resurrect our family name, sullied for decades by alcoholism and suicide. He was big, bright and handsome, and blessed with a silver tongue and athletic prowess. The Tigers and the Cubs wanted him. Instead, his dad insisted he attend the University of Michigan, but a broken leg on the practice field ended his big league dreams. Then he met my mom and she got pregnant, and with my heart beating inside, she denied to her preacher dad that I was there.\"Years of boozing and abuse took their toll; being poor didn’t help, and his dad continued his downward spiral across the years of the author's young life. But over another decade, buoyed by friendships and uncommon love, Patrick O'Sullivan was propelled forward by an inimitable sense of humor and a faith anchored in hope.This is his story of becoming a man." ]

[ "About the Author", "Michigan native Patrick O'Sullivan lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with his wife of thirty years, Carrie. He has degrees from Hope College and Wake Forest University. Professionally, he has spent most of his career toiling in a variety of advertising and marketing positions. He enjoys running, golfing and fishing and his favorite place to do the latter is in the gin-clear waters of Lake Michigan near Beaver Island, off the dune-lined shores of Northern Michigan - a place that plays a transformational role in his book. For decades Patrick jotted notes on the back of bar napkins, envelopes and sandwich wrappers - whatever was handy. He'd squirrel them away in a drawer or in a file folder and as the collection swelled so did the need to tell his story. In the winter of 2010, bored and unfulfilled with his marketing job for a technology start-up, he called his wife and told her he wanted to quit his job. \"I need to write,\" he said. Always the unconditionally supportive spouse, Carrie said, \"Go ahead.\" So, he did. That day. In just ten weeks 110,000 words poured from his soul, through his fingers and into the hard drive of his iMac. It took another eight months to whittle the manuscript down to 85,000 words and capture a cadence that satisfied his senses. The result is a true story about a boy becoming a man." ]

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[ "Books", "Biographies & Memoirs", "Memoirs" ]

[ "This puzzle book is a fun and entertaining way to both sharpen your mind and improve your concentration.", "Book Details:", "100 circular mazes to keep you entertained for hours", "100 circular mazes to keep you entertained for hours", "Solutions to all mazes available at the back of the book", "Solutions to all mazes available at the back of the book", "Mazes are organized into 3 levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard", "Mazes are organized into 3 levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium and Hard", "Ideal to relax and unwind for anxiety or stress relief", "Ideal to relax and unwind for anxiety or stress relief", "Perfect for a quiet evening or to occupy yourself on a road trip", "Perfect for a quiet evening or to occupy yourself on a road trip", "A great gift for puzzle lovers of all ages", "A great gift for puzzle lovers of all ages", "Grab a pen and see if you can escape the maze!" ]

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[ "Books", "Humor & Entertainment", "Puzzles & Games" ]

[ "Provides an easy, visual approach to teaching Dreamweaver, using pictures to guide students through the software and show what to do in a step-by-step manner. Softcover." ]

[ "Amazon.com Review", "Whether you're a beginner who needs a quick introduction to Dreamweaver or an intermediate user who needs help with one of the program's newer or more complex features, this handy guide is perfect. Instead of a tutorial where you work through a specific project, the lesson in this book walks you through your documents", "while", "you work on them.", "If you've used QuickStart guides before, you know how convenient they are as references. Succinct text eliminates having to wade through discourses on theory or history, and a thorough index directs you to answers quickly. Plus, with their small footprint, these guides earn their place on a crowded desk. The QuickStart series is consistent in style (with numbered steps in one column, screen shots in the other) and quality.", "Even within this established format, author J. Tarin Towers's light and friendly style shows through--making for interesting reading. The author has also included numerous sidebars on how things work (for example, using measuring units such as pixels, picas, or ems) and timesaving features (for example, the Hints menu in the Quick Tags editor). Alternate methods for executing tasks and other handy information can be found in the many tips that follow each section.", "Macintosh users in particular should read the introduction, which explains the few, but crucial, differences in the Windows version of Dreamweaver. This affects the way screen shots look throughout the book.", "This edition has four new chapters that cover changes in Dreamweaver 3. Since one of the best features of Dreamweaver is the ease with which you can view and edit source code, the book devotes a chapter to HTML and the application's tools for working with it (for example, the new Clean Up Word HTML command). With more than 500 pages, this is one of the longer QuickStart guides and well worth a spot on a Webmaster's desk.", "--Angelynn Grant", "Topics covered:", "Step-by-step instructions for using Dreamweaver 3 (including an introduction to the working environment, palettes, and menus); creating a Web site and site management; working with text, images, links, tables, frames, CSS, DHTML, behaviors, timeline animation, and plug-ins; customizing and automating tasks; working with HTML; and the new features of version 3.", "From the Back Cover", "WYSIWYG doesn't always translate as \"simple,\" as many Dreamweaver users have discovered. Dreamweaver 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide takes this sophisticated site design and management tool and breaks it down topic by topic into easy-to-follow, visually rich sets of instructions. This edition of the bestselling guide includes new and reorganized chapters that focus on site management, the HTML Styles palette and Quick Tag Editor, and customizing and automating Dreamweaver. What hasn't changed is the patented Visual QuickStart approach: clear, step-by-step directions and plenty of screen shots, plus an easy-to-navigate tabbed format that lets you page straight to the subject you want. Whether you're new to Dreamweaver or moving up from the previous version, you'll be creating sophisticated and sound Web sites in no time.", "About the Author", "J. Tarin Towers has contributed as a writer and technical editor to more than a dozen books about computers and the Internet. As an editorial consultant, she has worked with such companies as Netscape Communications, Microsoft, Informix Software, and infoseek. She is also a published poet and essayist. Her Web site resides at tarin.", "Read more" ]

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[ "The engagement and honeymoon stages of life are exciting times, and with 80% of traditional weddings being performed in churches (aweddingministers.com), it's evident that one's faith plays an important role when preparing for marriage. As the soon-to-be spiritual leader of a new family it's important that a man of faith establishes a firm foundation on which his family will be built.", "The Groom's Bible", ":", "Preparing Spiritually for the Most Important Day of Your Life", "is the only gift Bible currently available on the market dedicated to grooms as a tool to help a groom prepare spiritually for his wedding day and marriage. 32 pages of content apply Scriptural truths to the experience of marriage and cover everything from handling wedding decisions wisely to understanding the meaningful connection between husbands and wives, and Christ and the church. It will aid a groom in growing closer to God through his journey to marriage, in preparing spiritually for becoming a husband, and in discovering God's extraordinary design for his relationship with his wife.", "$19 billion is spent annually on wedding gift registries (aweddingministers.com); and Thomas Nelson, Inc.'s joint research project with the Barna Group has revealed that 61% of all Bibles purchased are for gifts. The Groom's Bible is a perfect choice for the 23 million bridesmaids and groomsmen and the 380 million wedding guests expected to be involved with weddings in a single year (CNNMoney.com). So the need for the perfect gift is there, but selecting the right one is key. The elegant black tuxedo stripe LeatherSoft binding makes this Bible the perfect gift for any groom who wants a firm footing as he journeys down the path to marriage!" ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Bible Study & Reference" ]

[ "The Life of Riley will delight the young reader with the antics of a smart, little dog named Riley who shows he definitely has a mind of his own!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Brenda as a mother and teacher, has been a long time observer of the actions of children and animals. This is the third book in a series whereby Brenda highlights their sweet, endearing behaviors. Visit her website at www.brendastales.com for information on her other books or contact her at brendastales@gmail.com." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Humor" ]

[ "The Aldens take a paddle-wheel boat down the Mississippi River to visit their friend Cap Lambert in his cabin. But strange things are happening on Cap's property. When they see spooky flickering lights at night, the Boxcar Children must find out if the cabin is haunted!" ]

[ "From the Inside Flap", "The Aldens visit Cap Lambert near Hannibal, Missouri.", "About the Author", "Gertrude Chandler Warner", "grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote", "The Boxcar Children", "because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car―just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books―a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Growing Up & Facts of Life" ]

[ "Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series.", "For the centennial celebration of this annual series,", "The Best American Short Stories", ", master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of character and voice.”These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biographical note that he began to write “as an aid to love-making.” Nancy Hale’s story describes far-reaching echoes of the Holocaust; Tillie Olsen’s story expresses the desperation of a single mother; James Baldwin depicts the bonds of brotherhood and music. Here is Raymond Carver’s “minimalism,” a term he disliked, and Grace Paley’s “secular Yiddishkeit.” Here are the varied styles of Donald Barthelme, Charles Baxter, and Jamaica Kincaid. From Junot Díaz to Mary Gaitskill, from ZZ Packer to Sherman Alexie, these writers and stories explore the different things it means to be American." ]

[ "About the Author", "LORRIE MOORE is the author of the story collections", "Bark, Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help", "and the novels", "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?", "and", "Anagrams", ". Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award.HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for", "The Best American Short Stories", "since 2007. She is the author of the novels", "The Birthdays", "and", "The Daylight Marriage", ".", "--This text refers to the", "hardcover", "edition.", "From the Inside Flap", "The Best American Short Stories", "is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls all its wildnesses of character and voice. These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biographical note that he began to write as an aid to love-making. Nancy Hale s story describes far-reaching echoes of the Holocaust; Tillie Olsen s story expresses the desperation of a single mother; James Baldwin depicts the bonds of brotherhood and music. Here is Raymond Carver s minimalism, a term he disliked, and Grace Paley s secular Yiddishkeit. Here are the varied styles of Donald Barthelme, Charles Baxter, and Jamaica Kincaid. From Junot Diaz to Mary Gaitskill, from ZZ Packer to Sherman Alexie, these writers and stories explore the different things it means to be American. Moore writes that the process of assembling these stories allowed her to look thrillingly not just at literary history but at actual history the cries and chatterings, silences and descriptions of a nation in flux.", "100 Years of The Best American Short Stories", "is an invaluable testament, a retrospective of our country s ever-changing but continually compelling literary artistry.\"", "--This text refers to the", "hardcover", "edition.", "From the Back Cover", "EDNA FERBER SHERWOOD ANDERSON ERNEST HEMINGWAY RING LARDNER F. SCOTT FITZGERALD KATHERINE ANNE PORTER WILLIAM FAULKNER NANCY HALE EUDORA WELTY JOHN CHEEVER TILLIE OLSEN JAMES BALDWIN PHILIP ROTH FLANNERY O’CONNOR JOHN UPDIKE RAYMOND CARVER JOYCE CAROL OATES DONALD BARTHELME STANLEY ELKIN GRACE PALEY CHARLES BAXTER MONA SIMPSON RICHARD FORD ROBERT STONE DAVID WONG LOUIE ALICE MUNRO MARY GAITSKILL JAMAICA KINCAID AKHIL SHARMA JUNOT DÍAZ JHUMPA LAHIRI ZZ PACKER SHERMAN ALEXIE EDWARD P. JONES BENJAMIN PERCY TOBIAS WOLFF NATHAN ENGLANDER JULIE OTSUKA GEORGE SAUNDERS LAUREN GROFF", "--This text refers to the", "hardcover", "edition.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "TABLE OF CONTENTS", "1915-1920", "1917 EDNA FERBER-The Gay Old Dog", "1920-1930", "1921 SHERWOOD ANDERSON-Brothers 1923 ERNEST HEMINGWAY-My Old Man 1925 RING LARDNER-Haircut", "1930-1940", "1931 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD-Babylon Revisited 1933 KATHERINE ANN PORTER-The Cracked Looking-Glass 1936 WILLIAM FAULKNER-That Will Be Fine", "1940-1950", "1942 NANCY HALE-These Are As Brothers 1948 EUDORA WELTY-The Whole World Knows 1948 JOHN CHEEVER-The Enormous Radio", "1950-1960", "1957 TILLIE OLSEN-I Stand Here Ironing 1958 JAMES BALDWIN-Sonny's Blues 1959 PHILIP ROTH-The Conversion of the Jews", "1960-1970", "1962 FLANNERY O'CONNOR-Everything That Rises Must Converge 1962 JOHN UPDIKE-Pigeon Feathers 1967 RAYMOND CARVER-Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 1969 JOYCE CAROL OATES-By the River", "1970-1980", "1975 DONALD BARTHELME-The School 1978 STANLEY ELKIN-The Conventional Wisdom", "1980-1990", "1980 GRACE PALEY-Friends 1982 CHARLES BAXTER-Harmony of the World 1986 MONA SIMPSON-Lawns 1986 RICHARD FORD-Communist 1988 ROBERT STONE-Helping 1989 DAVID WONG LOUIE-Displacement", "1990-2000", "1991 ALICE MUNRO-Friend of My Youth   1993 MARY GAITSKILL-The Girl on the Plane 1995 JAMAICA KINCAID-Xuela 1996 AKHIL SHARMA-If You Sing Like That For Me 1997 JUNOT DIAZ-Fiesta, 1980", "2000-2010", "2000 JHUMPA LAHIRI-The Third and Final Continent 2000 ZZ PACKER-Brownies 2004 EDWARD P. JONES-Old Boys, Old Girls 2005 SHERMAN ALEXIE-What You Pawn I Will Redeem 2006 BENJAMIN PERCY-Refresh, Refresh 2006 TOBIAS WOLFF-Awaiting Orders", "2010-2015", "2012 NATHAN ENGLANDER-What  We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank 2012 JULIE OTSUKA- Diem Perdidi 2013 GEORGE SAUNDERS-The Semplica-Girl Diaries 2014 LAUREN GROFF-At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners", "--This text refers to the", "hardcover", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "History & Criticism" ]

[ "The New State of the Art in Information Security: Now Covers Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, and Cyberwarfare", "Students and IT and security professionals have long relied on", "Security in Computing", "as the definitive guide to computer security attacks and countermeasures. Now, the authors have thoroughly updated this classic to reflect today’s newest technologies, attacks, standards, and trends.", "Security in Computing, Fifth Edition,", "offers complete, timely coverage of all aspects of computer security, including users, software, devices, operating systems, networks, and data. Reflecting rapidly evolving attacks, countermeasures, and computing environments, this new edition introduces best practices for authenticating users, preventing malicious code execution, using encryption, protecting privacy, implementing firewalls, detecting intrusions, and more. More than two hundred end-of-chapter exercises help the student to solidify lessons learned in each chapter.", "Combining breadth, depth, and exceptional clarity, this comprehensive guide builds carefully from simple to complex topics, so you always understand all you need to know before you move forward.", "You’ll start by mastering the field’s basic terms, principles, and concepts. Next, you’ll apply these basics in diverse situations and environments, learning to ”think like an attacker” and identify exploitable weaknesses. Then you will switch to defense, selecting the best available solutions and countermeasures. Finally, you’ll go beyond technology to understand crucial management issues in protecting infrastructure and data.", "New coverage includes", "A full chapter on securing cloud environments and managing their unique risks", "A full chapter on securing cloud environments and managing their unique risks", "Extensive new coverage of security issues associated with user―web interaction", "Extensive new coverage of security issues associated with user―web interaction", "New risks and techniques for safeguarding the Internet of Things", "New risks and techniques for safeguarding the Internet of Things", "A new primer on threats to privacy and how to guard it", "A new primer on threats to privacy and how to guard it", "An assessment of computers and cyberwarfare–recent attacks and emerging risks", "An assessment of computers and cyberwarfare–recent attacks and emerging risks", "Security flaws and risks associated with electronic voting systems", "Security flaws and risks associated with electronic voting systems" ]

[ "About the Author", "Charles Pfleeger", "is an internationally known expert on computer and communications security. He was originally a professor at the University of Tennessee, leaving there to join computer security research and consulting companies Trusted Information Systems and Arca Systems (later Exodus Communications and Cable and Wireless). With Trusted Information Systems he was Director of European Operations and Senior Consultant. With Cable and Wireless he was Director of Research and a member of the staff of the Chief Security Officer. He was chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy.", "Shari Lawrence Pfleeger", "is widely known as a software engineering and computer security researcher, most recently as a Senior Computer Scientist with the Rand Corporation and as Research Director of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection. She is currently Editor in Chief of", "IEEE Security & Privacy", "magazine.", "Jonathan Margulies", "is the CTO of Qmulos, a cybersecurity consulting firm. After receiving his Masters Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University, Mr. Margulies spent nine years at Sandia National Labs, researching and developing solutions to protect national security and critical infrastructure systems from advanced persistent threats. He then went on to NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, where he worked with a variety of critical infrastructure companies to create industry-standard security architectures. In his free time, Mr. Margulies edits the “Building Security In” section of", "IEEE Security & Privacy", "magazine." ]

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[ "Books", "Computers & Technology", "Networking & Cloud Computing" ]

[ "If you like to make great tasting food, here are 112 recipes that will improve your health and make your taste buds sing all in one easy to follow, convenient cookbook. All the recipes taste fantastic. And they are quick and easy to make, so you can eat tasty gourmet meals that are perfectly balanced, highly nutritious, and healthy for you and your family! I personally own over 80 cookbooks from the biggest book publishers and celebrity chefs. I have tried them all. And honestly, most of them are pretty bad, overall with only a few great recipes in each book. Not this one. Believe me when I tell you... you will never find a recipe book with better tasting food, cover to cover, like you will find in Great Taste No Pain! Imagine a cookbook full of recipes that are not only great for your health, but that don't taste like cardboard! If you own many cookbooks, you can't even imagine it... because you know most of your cookbooks are pretty bad. You will not be told to eat grapefruit at every meal or drink special “shakes” or eliminate entire food groups from your daily meals or to eat an apple at night (THAT could make you violently ill!). Instead, you will simply be making great tasting, healthy food that makes your mouth water! What I'll teach you is a complete lifestyle. It's not just dinner recipes. They are all types of meals for all types of occasions. I'll show you how to eat wherever you are... travel, home, work, play, dining out..." ]

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[ "Books", "Health, Fitness & Dieting" ]

[ "Fun and easy to color graphics,sThe perfect coloring book for learning colors and at the same time getting to know cleaning tools,Clear graphics that make it easy for children to color and enjoy,This book is ideal for children between the ages of 2 and 6 years,Colouring allows children to learn 50 different things about cleaning tools", "Fun and easy to color graphics,sThe perfect coloring book for learning colors and at the same time getting to know cleaning tools,Clear graphics that make it easy for children to color and enjoy,This book is ideal for children between the ages of 2 and 6 years,Colouring allows children to learn 50 different things about cleaning tools" ]

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[ "Books", "Engineering & Transportation", "Engineering" ]

[ "Told in a unique dual-narrative format,", "The Diamond and the Boy", "follows the stories of both natural diamond creation and the life of H. Tracy Hall, the inventor of a revolutionary diamond-making machine. Perfect for fans of", "Rosie Revere, Engineer", ", and", "On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein", ".", "This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children.", "Before a diamond is a gem, it’s a common gray rock called graphite. Through an intense trial of heat and pressure, it changes into one of the most valuable stones in the world.", "Before Tracy Hall was an inventor, he was a boy—born into poverty, bullied by peers, forced to work at an early age. However, through education and experimentation, he became one of the brightest innovators of the twentieth century, eventually building a revolutionary machine that makes diamonds.", "From debut author Hannah Holt—the granddaughter of Tracy Hall—and illustrator Jay Fleck comes this fascinating in-depth portrait of both rock and man." ]

[ "Review", "“A gem of a biography.” —", "Booklist", "(starred review)", "From the Back Cover", "Before a diamond is a gem, it’s a common gray rock called graphite. Through an intense trial of heat and pressure, it changes into one of the most valuable stones in the world.", "Before Tracy Hall was an inventor, he was a boy—born into poverty, bullied by peers, forced to work at an early age. However, through education and experimentation, he became one of the brightest innovators of the", "twentieth century, eventually building a revolutionary machine that makes diamonds.", "Told in a unique dual-narrative format, The Diamond and the Boy follows the stories of both natural diamond creation and the life of Tracy Hall, inventor of diamond-making machines. From debut author Hannah Holt—the granddaughter of Tracy Hall—and illustrator Jay Fleck comes this fascinating in-depth portrait of both rock and man.", "About the Author", "Hannah Holt is a children's author with an engineering degree. Some of her favorite childhood memories are of reading stories with her grandpa, Tracy Hall. Hannah thinks great stories and good memories are the best kinds of treasures. She lives in Oregon with her husband and four children.", "The Diamond and the Boy", "is her first picture book. She can be found online at hannahholt.com.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Science, Nature & How It Works" ]

[ "In Part One of this book we will study you.You will discover your own powers. You will come to an understanding of your environment. You will see how your body reacts to your attitudes and your thoughts. You will come to understand how you got into trouble and then you will see how to get out of it. You will learn to work in the field of causes rather than in the world of effects. Part Two deals with your use of the power of mind so that you may have and retain personal physical health, happy relations with other people, prosperity and right ideas. You will learn how to overcome a feeling of inferiority and sensitiveness; how to change bad habits to good ones; how to work with your mind so that you will always know what to do and how to do it. In short, you will discover the secret of turning failure to success. Part Three of the book deals with maintaining your new state of mind. These chapters are designed to inspire you to greater achievement. You will find there is no end to this road of happiness and accomplishment." ]

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[ "Books", "Religion & Spirituality", "New Age & Spirituality" ]

[ "***REPUBLISHED IN NEW FORMAT*** Mandala Designs Coloring Book No. 1, illustrated by Alberta Hutchinson, is a collection of 35 mandala designs in elaborate square frames. These mandala designs have been revised in a new format to fit the Hutchinson Mandala Coloring Book Collection. Children and adults alike will enjoy the infinite designs that can be made by adjusting the color of both the mandalas and their intricate borders. Hutchinson has colored seven of the designs on the front and back covers as examples and inspiration. As with Hutchinson’s other design coloring books, Mandala Designs No. 1 will be enjoyed by colorists of all ages and levels of skill." ]

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[ "Books", "Crafts, Hobbies & Home", "Crafts & Hobbies" ]

[ "In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come to see if the rumors were true—if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders had built, he realized his foes had been vanquished—but what did the arrival of these “New Men” portend for the Navajo?Narbona could not have known that “The Army of the West,” in the midst of the longest march in American military history, was merely the vanguard of an inexorable tide fueled by a self-righteous ideology now known as “Manifest Destiny.” For twenty years the Navajo, elusive lords of a huge swath of mountainous desert and pasturelands, would ferociously resist the flood of soldiers and settlers who wished to change their ancient way of life or destroy them.Hampton Sides’s extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but as is found in the best history, the same person might be both. At the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson—the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier who embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American experience in the West. Brave and clever, beloved by his contemporaries, Carson was an illiterate mountain man who twice married Indian women and understood and respected the tribes better than any other American alive. Yet he was also a cold-blooded killer who willingly followed orders tantamount to massacre. Carson’s almost unimaginable exploits made him a household name when they were written up in pulp novels known as “blood-and-thunders,” but now that name is a bitter curse for contemporary Navajo, who cannot forget his role in the travails of their ancestors." ]

[ "Review", "“Riveting . . . monumental . .. . Not only does", "Blood and Thunder", "capture a pivotal moment in U.S. history in marvelous detail, it is also authoritative and masterfully told.” —", "The Washington Post Book World", "“Stunning. . . Both haunting and lyrical,", "Blood and Thunder", "is truly a masterpiece.” —", "Los Angeles Times", "“We see a panorama and a whole history, intricately laced with wonder and meaning, coalesce into a story of epic proportions, a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy . . . Sides fills a conspicuous void in the history of the American West.” —N. Scott Momaday,", "The New York Times Book Review", "“From the lean crisp descriptions of the characters to the sights, sounds and smells of the trail, this is a crystal clear picture of the West.” —", "San Antonio Express News", "From the Trade Paperback edition.", "About the Author", "A native of Memphis,", "HAMPTON SIDES", "is editor-at-large for", "Outside", "magazine and the author of the international bestseller", "Ghost Soldiers", ", which was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film", "The Great Raid. Ghost Soldiers", "won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble, and his magazine work has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Hampton is also the author of", "Americana", "and", "Stomping Grounds", ". A graduate of Yale with a B.A. in history, he lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons." ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Americas" ]

[ "Sach \"Bi Mat Viet Nam Qua Ho So Wikileaks\" (Tap 1) bao gom nhung bi mat Viet Nam chua tung he lo truoc khi Wikileaks tung ra. Ban Bien Tap bao Nguoi Viet tuyen chon, tra cuu, dich thuat, phan tich, tong hop, bien tap in an va xuat ban, dua den tay doc gia. Cuon sach co 62 bai viet duoc tuyen chon tu cac cong dien ngoai giao Hoa Ky lien quan den tinh hinh chinh tri, kinh te, xa hoi, giao duc va bang giao quoc te cua Viet nam hien nay, nhat la doi voi Trung Quoc, Hoa Ky va Viet kieu. Thong tin lien quan den Viet Nam co nhieu loai nhu cong khai, khong cong khai, te nhi va toi mat, do cac dai su va tong lanh su My tai Viet nam, va mot so quoc gia khac trong vung Dong Nam A, goi ve Washington, DC. Ngoai nhung nhan vat lanh dao Viet Nam nhu Vo Van Kiet, Do Muoi, Nong Duc Manh, Nguyen Tan Dung, hay con em cua ho, ten cua hon vi dai su Hoa Ky nhu Pete Peterson, Raymond Burghardt, Michael Marine va Michael Michalak xuat hien rat nhieu trong cac cong, cung voi nhung nhan vat va to chuc dang phai cua nguoi Viet hai ngoai nhu Nguyen Cao Ky, Ly Tong, Nguyen Huu Chanh, Viet Tan, Chinh Phu Viet Nam Tu Do... Sach kem theo nhieu hinh anh, co day du cac phuong tien tra cuu va cac bai gioi thieu, phu luc de doc gia tra cuu ten tung nhan vat, dia danh va de tai mot cach de dang. Hon 1,000 cuon sach duoc ban ngay trong ngay ra mat, hom 15 thang 11 nam 2011. Sau nhieu lan tai ban, cuon sach duoc hang ngan doc gia o hai ngoai va ca Viet Nam tim doc." ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Asia" ]

[ "In this first book of the African Covenant series, Jack Cavanaugh spins an intriguing story of two people who fall tenderly in love amid the injustice and heartbreak of South Africa in the early 1700s." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "Book by Blyton, Enid" ]

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[ "Books", "Deals in Books" ]

[ "Designed to support holistic and eclectic approaches, this assessment tool is the most comprehensive on the market. The flexible battery of tests enables teachers to quickly screen children and adults in a non-threatening manner so appropriate referrals can be made. Field-tested, this inventory offers a unique range of devices to identify reader abilities in five specific areas - Reading Readiness, Word Identification, Comprehension, Spelling, and Language. It also uses an arithmetic test to compare language skills with math skills for better overall assessment." ]

[ "From the Back Cover", "The current edition of the most comprehensive reading inventory. Based on the latest cognitive research, The Bader Reading and Language Inventory offers a range of devices and graded passages to test reading ability through the twelfth grade level. The inventory includes pre-literacy and word-identification tests to ensure a comprehensive assessment and an arithmetic test to determine competence independent of verbal skills. It also provides instructions for administering and evaluating the tests and a scoring guide for each passage. In addition, experiential word lists permit testing of individuals with little formal schooling and those for whom English is a second language. Also includes several unique sections: \"Classroom Teacher's Reading Referral\" (passages for classroom assessment); \"Interest and Attitude\" (determine a students' optimal instructional environment); and \"Portfolio Assessment\" (guidelines for classroom use, establishing criteria, and selecting appropriate portions of the inventory). The third edition of The Bader Reading and Language Inventory now includes a separate booklet of reading passages, a greater emphasis on portfolio and \"authentic\" assessment, and the inclusion of an ESL test. An essential diagnostic tool for educators." ]

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[ "Books", "Reference", "Words, Language & Grammar" ]

[ "A revelatory and touching tribute to the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds written by the person who knew them best, Todd Fisher’s poignant memoir is filled with moving stories of growing up among Hollywood royalty and illustrated with never-before-seen photos and memorabilia.", "In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, two unspeakable losses that occurred in less than twenty-four hours. The stunned public turned for solace to Debbie’s only remaining child, Todd Fisher, who somehow retained his grace and composure under the glare of the media spotlight as he struggled with his own overwhelming grief.", "The son of \"America’s Sweethearts\" Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Todd grew up amid the glamorous wealth and pretense of Hollywood. Thanks to his funny, loving, no-nonsense mother, Todd remained down to earth, his own man, but always close to his cherished mom, and to his sister through her meteoric rise to stardom and her struggle with demons that never diminished her humor, talent, or spirit.", "Now, Todd shares his heart and his memories of Debbie and Carrie with deeply personal stories from his earliest years to those last unfathomable days. His book, part memoir, part homage, celebrates their legacies through a more intimate, poignant, and often hilarious portrait of these two remarkable women than has ever been revealed before.", "With thirty-two pages of never-before-seen photos and memorabilia from his family’s private archives, Todd’s book is a love letter to a sister and a mother, and a gift to countless fans who are mourning the deaths of these two unforgettable stars." ]

[ "Review", "“A frequently hilarious and too often heartbreaking story of life with the women he called “my girls”.… More than a Hollywood tell-all, Fisher’s memoir of a family’s love and endurance under trying and sometimes outrageous circumstances is a clear-eyed tribute to lives lived to the fullest. —", "Publishers Weekly", "Poignant and joyous, genuine and reverential, Fisher’s tribute to these larger-than-life creative ladies is a down-to-earth portrait of a loving mother and supportive sister. —", "- Booklist", "From the Back Cover", "In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, two unspeakable losses that occurred in less than twenty-four hours of each other. In the aftermath, the stunned public sought solace from Debbie’s only remaining child, Todd Fisher, who somehow managed to retain his grace and composure as he confronted his own overwhelming grief.", "Now, in this poignant, lively, and uplifting book, Todd pays homage to these two unsinkable women who shaped him, celebrating their outspoken legacies with a candid yet uproarious glimpse at life in their one-of-a-kind family. The children of “America’s Sweethearts” Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Carrie and Todd grew up amid the glamorous wealth and pretense of Hollywood, and here he shares stories from that incredible childhood—from dazzling parties to the MGM back lot—as he and Carrie learned to navigate life against the backdrop of Debbie’s remarkable career. Detailing how this precocious youth and life with Debbie, a tender, hardworking career woman, set the stage for Carrie’s own budding career and meteoric ascent in", "Star Wars,", "Todd sheds new light on Carrie’s uneasy connection to fame and life as Debbie Reynolds’s daughter.", "Despite the success that surrounded all three of them, their lives were not without challenges, and Todd does not shy away from the family’s most difficult moments.  Speaking openly about Carrie’s struggles with substance abuse and bipolar disorder as well as Debbie’s lifelong difficulties with men, he provides an honest look at some of their most challenging times together, illustrating the depth of the bonds that connected the three of them, even as they were tested time and time again. He also examines the unfailing bravery that Carrie and Debbie each displayed as they dealt with their demons, demonstrating how through it all, no amount of darkness ever diminished their humor, talent, or spirit.", "Equal parts love letter and family portrait, the end result is a deeply felt journey through love, laughter, and life with Carrie and Debbie. With thirty-two pages of never-before-seen photos and memorabilia from his family’s private archives,", "My Girls", "is a moving account of two extraordinary women whose connection to each other proved so powerful not even death could separate them for long.", "About the Author", "Todd Fisher is a director, cinematographer, and producer of television, films, and documentaries. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife, Catherine Hickland.", "Read more" ]

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[ "A drawing and handwriting course for kids that is challenging, motivating, and fun! This book contains a collection of beginning drawing lessons and text for practicing handwriting based on the philosophy of author Marie Hablitzel. An elementary teacher for more than 30 years, Marie believed that drawing and handwriting require many of the same skills, and intertwined her daily drawing and handwriting lessons with math, science, social studies, geography, reading and creative writing. This series separates these lessons into common themes in eight instructive books that can be used in any order. Books are colorful and non-consumable, with an accompanying workbook (not included) to record the student s work. Children will improve their drawing skills, refine their handwriting clarity, and enjoy learning in the process!" ]

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[ "From the author of Fire and Fury, this irresistible account offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale—and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future. If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate them. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer in The Man Who Owns the News. With unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch himself, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of Murdoch's $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail, he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles that have threatened to destroy it to the reconciliations that seem to only make it stronger. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, he offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and Newsday as they’ve never been revealed before." ]

[ "Amazon.com Review", "Book Description", "If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings--from the", "New York Post", ", Fox News, and most recently", "The Wall Street Journal", ", to name just a few--are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer in", "The Man Who Owns the News", ".", "With unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch himself, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of Murdoch's $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail, he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles that have threatened to destroy it to the reconciliations that seem to only make it stronger. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, he offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and", "Newsday", "as they’ve never been revealed before.", "Written in the irresistible stye that only an award-winning columnist for", "Vanity Fair", "can deliver,", "The Man Who Owns the News", "offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale--and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.", "An Interview with Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch", "Q: Over the years, Rupert Murdoch has built a personal fortune worth $9 billion and a global media empire that includes more than 100 newspapers, the Fox movie studio and television networks, satellite TV systems in Europe and Asia, the book publisher Harper Collins, and MySpace. Despite that, he has continued to be regarded as an outsider, an interloper at the establishment ball. Is that perception of him accurate, or is it an image that he has carefully cultivated to serve his own goals?", "Michael Wolff: I think both are absolutely true. Rupert Murdoch came into this business as an outsider and he continues to see himself as such, no matter that he owns everything, controls everything, and is the central person of our time. He continues to see himself as an outsider and it gives him enormous happiness, joy, and a reason to get up in the morning to stick it to, I guess, the rest of us.", "Q: In 2007, Murdoch mounted a successful $5 billion bid to acquire Dow Jones, a drama that occupies center stage in your narrative. Why did he pursue Dow Jones and its crown jewel,", "The Wall Street Journal", "? Was it an expression of the opportunism for which he is legendary, a bid for respectability, or both?", "MW: It was a bid for a newspaper. Murdoch is a newspaper man--a man who is consumed by newspapers. His reason for being is newspapers.", "The Wall Street Journal", "is arguably second only to the", "New York Times", ", the best newspaper in the world--and Murdoch had set his sights on it long before he had any hope of getting it. That’s one of the interesting things about Murdoch: The fact that he has no hope of realizing his dreams is never an impediment to him. With Dow Jones, he was just there and just wouldn’t go away, and, finally, as in all things, it comes to him.", "Q: Murdoch has said that he is “proud” of the enemies he has made. Why does he instill such strong feelings of fear, contempt, and even outright loathing in so many people? What is it about him that gets under people’s skin?", "MW: The truth is that he doesn’t go along. “To get along, you go along” is not a Murdochian turn of phrase or turn of mind. He is a man who, because he comes out of the newspaper business, has fought newspaper wars and newspaper-like wars wherever he’s gone. There’s always an enemy, and an enemy gives Rupert a reason for being, it gives structure to the fight, it gets him up in the morning--and it means that at the end of the day, there’s always a winner and there’s always a loser. There’s no middle ground, there’s no ambivalence with Rupert Murdoch.", "Q: The title of your book,", "The Man Who Owns the News", ", calls to mind outsized media moguls such as Henry Luce, William Randolph Hearst, and William Paley, men who relished ownership of their media properties and used them not just to build their fortunes but also to influence politics and society. Do you see Murdoch as a continuation of that historical tradition? And, if so, is he the “Last True Mogul,” an anachronistic throw-back in today’s world?", "MW: The point is that Rupert Murdoch is so much bigger than any of these men. The world has never seen someone like Murdoch. He has held power literally longer than any politician, any businessman, any celebrity in our day and age. For thirty years he has been at the top of his game, more influential than anyone else across that period of time. So you have to see Rupert as absolutely sui generis, absolutely unique. We will, I doubt, ever see the likes of Rupert Murdoch again.", "Q: In reporting your book, you gained an unprecedented level of access to Murdoch himself, as well as to his family members and most trusted lieutenants. How were you able to gain such access? And did Murdoch try to impose any conditions on your reporting?", "MW: Absolutely no conditions were unimposed. The answer to how I gained such access remains entirely unclear to me, and I think, certainly for the first couple of months as I sat interviewing Rupert, that it was entirely unclear to him. I think he looked at me, kept looking at me, and kept asking himself, “What is this guy doing here?” This is partly a function of the unique culture of News Corp. I think Rupert’s people thought that Rupert wanted me to be there, so I kind of found my way in. But I must say that this was cooperation beyond my wildest dreams. They never said no to anything. Even when I went to Australia and spent the day with Rupert’s 99-year old mother, he called ahead and said, “Oh, tell him anything,” and she did. It has been one of the seminal experiences of my long journalistic life.", "From", "Bookmarks Magazine", "By no means has Michael Wolff given the world the definitive biography of Rupert Murdoch. Several critics, especially those in the United Kingdom, felt that he had not even written a factually adequate one, leaving out major episodes and making several major errors. Others wrote that Wolff has written an interesting book but that it never truly penetrates the \"secret world\" of its subtitle. But like the tabloid newspapers upon which Murdoch built his empire,", "The Man Who Owns the News", "offers so many titillating details that reviewers found it difficult to put down. Add in the fact that its foundation was an encounter between two of the most enigmatic and controversial characters in today's media elite, and it may not even matter what's true and what's not.Copyright 2009 Bookmarks Publishing LLC", "Review", "Praise for Michael Wolff’s BURN RATE“", "Burn Rate", "has a terrific feel for the crazy deals, the characters, and the clashing bicoastal cultures of the Internet.” —Deborah Stead,", "New York Times", "“", "Burn Rate", "is the real deal: a smart, thoughtful, funny, knowing, clear-eyed, candid and altogether exhilarating insider’s chronicle of the new media business—that is, the new media ‘business.’ If there’s a more honest and entertaining book on the digital revolution, I haven’t seen it.” —Kurt Andersen, columnist at", "The New Yorker", "“Wolff has given us the best account of both the lure and the frustration of the Internet.” —Peter Martin,", "Financial Times", "“", "Burn Rate", "is a hilarious and frightening account of the life of an Internet startup.” —Amy Cortese,", "BusinessWeek", "“Wolff, a nimble writer with a knack for spotting colorful details, moves the story along at movie-of-the-week pace.” —Katie Hafner,", "New York Times Book Review", "About the Author", "Michael Wolff, a columnist for", "Vanity Fair", "and two-time National Magazine Award winner, is one of the nation’s most influential writers about media, culture, and politics. He is a commentator for CNBC and a found of Newser (www.newser.com), the news aggregator. In 2003, he achieved international recognition for his dispatches from the Persian Gulf as the Iraq War began. His work, which has been widely anthologized, has appeared in numerous publications in The United States, including", "New York", "magazine, where he was a columnist, and the", "Guardian", "and", "Spectator", "in The United Kingdom. He is the author of four other books, including", "Autumn of the Moguls", "and", "Burn Rate", ". He lives in New York City.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "PROLOGUE: HIS MESSAGEFALL 2007—WINTER 2008", "Rupert Murdoch, a man without discernible hubris–or at least conventional grandiosity–had nevertheless begun to believe that his takeover of Dow Jones and the", "Wall Street Journal,", "something he’d dreamt about for most of his career, might actually indicate that he and his company, News Corporation, had a certain destiny, a higher purpose of which the world should be made aware.He’d started to think that his triumph in the quest for Dow Jones was an opportunity to rebrand–the kind of marketing frippery he usually disdained. He was even toying with the idea of changing the name of News Corp., that oddly boring, genericsounding throwback to the company’s earliest days–his first paper in Adelaide, Australia, was the", "News", "–to something that could better indicate his and News Corp.’s philosophical reason for being.What that reason for being exactly was . . . well, um . . . that was still hard to actually put into words. But it had something to do with . . . well, look at these:He had mock-ups of full-page ads that, he was thinking, should run in all the", "Wall Street Journal", "’s competitors–particularly the", "New York Times", "and the", "Financial Times", "–on the day he took over the paper.One of the ads had the big headline “Agent Provocateur.” Another pursued the idea of pirates–the notion being that for more than fifty years the company had been . . . well, if not exactly outlaws . . . not", "literally,", "still . . .When, after many hours of conversation with Murdoch, I despaired of ever getting an introspective word out of him, his son-in-law Matthew Freud, the PR man from London, advised me to ask him about “being a change agent.”This conversational gambit prompted Murdoch’s enthusiastic unfurling of these ads and eager, if far from concrete, ideas–“We’re change agents,” he kept repeating, as though new to the notion–about the meaning of News Corp. and, by extension, himself. It also prompted dubious looks from some of the executives closest to him. Murdoch’s sudden search for an ennobling and guiding idea was a vexation not just because it called attention to exactly what News Corp. executives often despaired of–that image of runamok ruthlessness that the battle for Dow Jones had stirred up all over again–but also because it was distinctly out of character. Soul-searching wasn’t, to say the least, a part of the News Corp. culture. So it was curious, and unsettling, to have the veritable soul of the company trying to figure out why he’d gotten where he’d gotten, and for what good reason.Such a statement about his fundamental righteousness (and even, perhaps, relative coolness) was, significantly, being urged on him by his son James, a Harvard dropout who had started a music label and then spearheaded News Corp.’s new-media initiatives in the 1990s, and who had become the CEO of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), the News Corp.—controlled company that operates the Sky satellite TV network in the United Kingdom. Not long before, Murdoch had favored his older son, Lachlan, and before that his daughter Elisabeth, to eventually run News Corp. But now it was James. In fact, unbeknownst to the rest of News Corp., James was about to be given responsibility for the U.K., Europe, and Asia by his father–who wanted to spend more of his time at the", "Wall Street Journal", "and, in addition, wanted to use the opportunity to put James in reach of the top spot in the company (without having to actually turn over the top spot).James had been, much more so than his father, particularly aggravated by the terrible press heaped on his dad and on the company because of the Dow Jones bid. Alternately aggressive and defensive, James was looking for a way to fight back. In fact, it was not entirely clear that the father’s sudden enthusiasm for brand development wasn’t about pleasing his son, clearly the apple of his eye at this moment. (He was very excited about showing off BSkyB’s annual report, for which his son was responsible and which he thought was the kind of thing they could be doing at News Corp.–every employee, he said, as though new to the novelty of an expensively produced annual report, could get one!) There was enough triumphalism around News Corp. to please everybody.Gary Ginsberg, News Corp.’s executive vice president for global marketing and corporate affairs and one of the executives most frequently attending Murdoch, while worried about the particular branding initiative of the ads, had his own brand idea that he was pushing. He had, of late, vastly expanded his portfolio beyond just being the company’s PR guy to include, among other things, big-concept brand-awareness thinking. In this role, he was helping spearhead the bid News Corp. was making with the Related Companies, a major Manhattan real estate developer, for the rights to build a massive complex (larger than Rockefeller Center) on the biggest undeveloped piece of land in Manhattan. News Corp., with its naming rights to News Corp. Center (unless they changed the name of the whole company), would become the anchor and one of the main brand names of midtown.In light of the fact that Rupert Murdoch now owned the most important–all right, the second most important–newspaper in the world, not to mention having created the world’s most successful media company and being quite possibly the most influential businessman of the age (certainly the most influential for the longest time), why wouldn’t he want to figure out just how he’d done what he did and claim credit for it? (Of course, another reasonable view, one that Murdoch–for so long a deal-a-minute guy–also seemed to subscribe to, was about how little meaning or calculated direction or vision there had been in the growth of News Corp. But no matter.)Murdoch was, frankly, impressed with himself. Delighted. Giddy. He couldn’t believe how exhausted he felt once the deal was done. He’d held his anticipation and excitement “all inside,” and as soon as he could relax, he felt “wiped out.” Perhaps more than any other accomplishment, getting the", "Wall Street Journal", "was, in and of itself, the big one, and not just a next step toward something else.And there was the other stuff. Legacy stuff. There were his two young children–Grace, six, and her sister Chloe, four–and how they would think of him in, well . . . the future. There were his older children and the importance of defining the meaning of the company he would be leaving them. That was James’ point. That was also what he was always hearing from Matthew Freud, the Svengali-ish marketer, who was now married to thefamily. Brand was legacy. The bigger the brand message, the bigger the legacy.Plus there was Murdoch’s wife, Wendi, thirty-nine. Her energy, her sense of possibilities, her urge to take over the world, to leave her mark, might be as great as his own. Perhaps they were competing.Not to mention that at nearly seventy-seven, even a man without hubris should get a chance to make a statement. If not now, when?On the other hand, it also seemed a potentially great mistake to attribute too much sentiment or craving for positive recognition to his motivations.For one thing, the branding statements toward which Murdoch seemed to gravitate were not so much about News Corp.’s greatness or vision as they were about kicking dirt in people’s faces. His true message about his acquisition of the", "Wall Street Journal", "was that he was the winner.A month or so after the Bancroft family voted to sell him their great-great-grandfather’s company, Murdoch invited the", "Journal", "’s fifteen top editors to lunch at the Ritz-Carlton downtown and brought along as the featured guest Col Allan, the profane, harddrinking and foul-tempered editor of the", "New York Post", ". (Not too long after the sale went through, Allan was dressing down a subordinate so heatedly that he slammed his hand on the desk and cracked his cuff link–a gift from the police commissioner.) In journalistic terms, Allan might be as different from a", "Wall Street Journal", "editor as, say, a pit bull from a spaniel. Allan’s very presence at the lunch announced that the", "Wall Street Journal", "had been taken over by News Corp. (Not to mention that it was just delightfully evil of ol’ Rupe to bring ol’ Col along to scare the bejesus out of his new charges.)Murdoch’s march into the", "Wall Street Journal", "newsroom with his two lieutenants–loyal Les Hinton, who ran News Corp.’s U.K. operation and who would be coming to run the Dow Jones business, and inscrutable Robert Thomson, the London", "Times", "editor, who would be taking over the", "Journal", "’s newsroom–was not the arrival of someone who wanted his great purpose and historic destiny to be roundly applauded. Rather, with the back of his hand, he let it be known that the", "Wall Street Journal", "was his most recently conquered nation–the staff at the", "Journal,", "many of whom were soon to be displaced persons, were merely history’s flotsam and jetsam. They were the impediments to change. He was the change agent. “We might,” he said one afternoon as he considered his new conquest, “have to let people go just to make a point.” He summarily replaced Dow Jones’ top executive, Richard Zannino, and the", "Journal", "’s publisher, L. Gordon Crovitz. He was purposely brutal with the sitting editor, Marcus Brauchli–who was, in theory, protected by the editorial agreement Murdoch had entered into with the Bancroft family in order to buy the paper. Doing an easy end run around the a...", "Read more" ]

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[ "STUDY, PRACTICE, REVIEW!", "This complete Certification Kit includes:", "CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide: Exam XK0-005, Fifth Edition", "Building on the popular Sybex Study Guide approach, this book provides 100% coverage of the NEW Linux+ Exam XK0-005 objectives. The book contains clear and concise information on all Linux administration topics. It includes practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience. It also provides authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:", "Configuring, managing, operating, and troubleshooting Linux, on-premises and cloud-based server environments", "Configuring, managing, operating, and troubleshooting Linux, on-premises and cloud-based server environments", "Using security best practices", "Using security best practices", "Scripting, containerization, and automation", "Scripting, containerization, and automation", "CompTIA Linux+ Practice Tests: Exam XK0-005, Third Edition", "CompTIA Linux+ Practice Tests: Exam XK0-005, Third Edition, helps you gain the confidence you need for taking the NEW CompTIA Linux+ exam. The hundreds of domain-by-domain practice questions prepare you for test success, focusing on:", "System Management", "System Management", "Security", "Security", "Scripting, Containers, and Automation", "Scripting, Containers, and Automation", "Troubleshooting", "Troubleshooting", "You'll also get access to the online test bank, including bonus practice exams, electronic flashcards, and a searchable PDF of key terms." ]

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[ "\"Meshing deft scientific text with Tuttle’s sumptuous images, it’s a superb introduction to the baroque morphologies and flying prowess of these beguiling beasts.\"- Nature Bats: An Illustrated Guide to All Species looks in detail at the more than 1,300 species known today. Nocturnal, fast-flying and secretive, they are endlessly fascinating, yet extremely difficult to observe and catalogue. The diversity of bats is both rich and underestimated and the threats they face from humans are very real. This guide illuminates the world of bats and reveals their true nature as intelligent, social and deeply misunderstood creatures.This extravagantly illustrated handbook features the work of famed nature photographer Merlin D. Tuttle and in-depth profiles of 288 bats, from the Large Flying Fox, which has a wingspan of more than five feet, to the Bumblebee Bat, contender for the world’s smallest mammal. Bats includes close-up images of these animals’ delicate and intricate forms and faces, each shaped by evolution to meet the demands of an extraordinarily specialized life, and a thorough introduction which explores their natural history and unique adaptations to life on the wing." ]

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[ "Color 8 heavenly figures and place near a source of light to brighten Christmas trees, evergreen garlands, and windows." ]

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[ "Esther Beachy enjoys working for an elderly wheelchair-bound woman and her husband. Her clients are pleasant, and their home is far more peaceful than Esther’s, with so many siblings. She only dreads the day when their grandson Viktor will return from the river to take care of some business on the farm. She and Viktor were classmates years ago, and he was an obnoxious flirt who paid attention to every girl but her.A seasoned riverboat crew member, Viktor Petersheim has seen his share of trials. He left the Amish after the death of his parents and siblings in a house fire for which he still feels responsible. Now, after years of working on the Mississippi River, he returns home to help out on the farm—and, hopefully, to repair some of the damaged relationships and broken hearts he left in his wake. When Viktor returns home, it doesn’t take long for him and Esther to realize their mutual attraction. Even so, their relationship remains as tumultuous as a shaken snow globe. Viktor isn’t the only man with an eye on Esther, and soon it looks as if she’s ready to make a future with someone else. Will the two go their separate ways again? Or will the hand of God work something beautiful out of their angst and agitation?" ]

[ "About the Author", "LAURA V. HILTON is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers and is a professional book reviewer for the Christian market, with more than a thousand reviews published on the web. Her first series with Whitaker was The Amish of Seymour, including A Harvest of Hearts (2012 Laurel Award winner, first place in the Amish Genre Clash); and her second was The Amish of Webster County. Her most recent series was The Amish of Jamesport, featuring", "The Post Card", ",", "The Snow Globe", ", and", "The Birdhouse", ". Laura and her husband, Steve, live in Arkansas with their five children, whom Laura homeschools." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Literature & Fiction" ]

[ "The powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor.From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel at the age of twenty-six, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean poetic language, a keen sense of detail, and insightful characterization. Now, after publishing three novels, he's turning his considerable talent toward short fiction. The stories in this beautifully wrought collection explore a specific physical world and the people who inhabit it.Set among the lowlands and levees, the fens and ditches that mark the spare landscape of eastern England, the stories expose lives where much is buried, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won. The narrators of these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell us what they believe to be important-in language inflected with the landscape's own understatement-while the real stories lie in what they unwittingly let slip.A man builds a tree house by a river in preparation for a coming flood. A boy sets fire to a barn. A pair of itinerant laborers sit by a lake and talk,while fighter-planes fly low overhead and prepare for war.", "This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You", "is an intricate exploration of isolation, self-discovery, and the impact of place on the human psyche.", "Praise for", "Even the Dogs", ":", "\"A rare combination of profound empathy and wonderful writing.\" -", "Mark Haddon, author of", "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" ]

[ "Review", "“30 electric tales... This is a book of ominous preludes and chilling aftermaths... McGregor stealthily commands our active engagement, scattering crumbs of data for us to pick through, gumshoe-style.” ―", "New York Times Book Review", "“Each tale in this slim, elegant book does something most of us wish would happen to us in real life: It stops us in a humdrum moment and reveals how that small, unnoticed sliver of time can illuminate an entire life... Magic.” ―", "Oprah.com, Book of the Week", "“John McGregor is one of the UK's most fascinating and versatile writers. The fact that most American readers have never heard of him does not speak well of us. Let's all buy his book NOW.” ―", "Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story", "“These stories by Jon McGregor feel as if they are made half of words and half of the earth. They are elegant, understated, sometimes wry, and yet full of the drama and passion of life.” ―", "Matthew Sharpe, author of You Were Wrong", "“Jon McGregor's uncanny stories linger long after you have finished them. He quietly inserts distinct, convincing voices into vivid and compelling landscapes. This original, beautiful, and haunting book totally captivated me.” ―", "Dana Spiotta, author of Stone Arabia and National Book Award Finalist Eat the Document", "“With the depth, range, and quiet restraint of these masterly, truth-bearing stories of blighted hinterland souls, Jon McGregor holds his own among the wisest writers alive.” ―", "Gary Lutz, author of Divorcer", "“Jon McGregor's stories are strange and lovely masterpieces: painfully authentic, inquisitive rather than confrontational, he has a tremendous ability to disturb the surface of everyday things...Underneath that which is radically quotidian, he captures our unique and unusual selves.” ―", "Sarah Hall, author of The Electric Michelangelo", "“Jon McGregor's stories are full of unremarkable landscape, destabilizing drama, and people pinned in place by themselves. But they gleam with endearing detail. Depictions of a plain afternoon, an impatient conversation or a menacing gesture swing the reader though hairpin curves, from precarious, to terrifying and finally to okay. His writing is unnerving, unconventional and lovely.” ―", "Leanne Shapton, author of Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry", "About the Author", "Jon McGregor is the author of the critically acclaimed", "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to Begin", "and", "Even the Dogs", ". He is the winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was runner-up for the BBC National Short Story Award in both 2010 and 2011, with 'If It Keeps on Raining' and 'Wires' respectively. He was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now lives in Nottingham.www.jonmcgregor.com@jon_mcgregor" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Short Stories & Anthologies" ]

[ "In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by", "unlearned classes", "in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted in a broadening of the uses of writing and printing in China. These texts are now generally seen to occupy an important place in the development of Chinese literature as a whole, and of Chinese vernacular literature in particular.In the first monographic treatment of", "all", "the chantefable corpus in English the author, by examination from a more anthropological view, points out that these 'oral traditional texts' can only be appreciated in the festival, ritual and performative context of their derivation and reception. Topics dealt with in this important work include the popular interpretation of Confucian orthodoxies, the literary recycling of the oral tradition, and the influence of chantefables on the development of Chinese vernacular fiction.The author offers interesting comparative perspective on the different social consequences of print technology in China and the West.Illustrations of ten chantefable woodblocks are included." ]

[ "Review", "\"Anne McLaren has given us an extremely well-researched, extensive, and stimulating study of early Chinese \"tell-and-sing\" literature.\" - Vibeke Børdahl, in:", "Asian Folklore Studies", ", 1999\"...this is a wide-ranging volume containing a wealth of detail and insight on the changing and complex practice of reading, performance, writing and ritualizing storytelling in Ming China.\" - Louise Edwards, in:", "Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia", ", 1998\"...a contribution of great merit that will have a significant impact upon the study of Chinese popular culture ... McLaren's", "Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables", "is a good example of how studies on archaeologically and archivally recovered materials are not only reshaping but completely transforming our understanding of the nature and development of Chinese civilization.\" - Victor Mair, in:", "T'oung Pao", ", 2000\"...a book of excellent scholarship on an extremely important topic.\" - Liangyan Ge, in:", "China Review International", ", 2000\"In general, McLaren's book displays its author's impressively wide range of knowledge and is a great contribution to studies of popular culture in late imperial China. I warmly recommend this book to anyone in the field.\" - Shuhui Yang, in:", "Journal of the American Oriental Society", ", 2000", "About the Author", "Anne E. Mclaren,", "Ph.D. in Chinese liturature, Australian National University, is Senior Lecturer and Head, Chinese program, at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has published extensively in the field of Ming popular narratives, including", "The Chinese Femme-fatale", "(University of Sydney, 1994)." ]

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[ "Books", "New, Used & Rental Textbooks", "Humanities" ]

[ "Ivan Everley, 13th Baron Rothvale", ", would admit he's the last person on earth who should have custody over a priceless collection of art.British law affords him the title of 'Lord,' but underneath all the trappings he's just a regular guy, despite being a world champion in archery, and certain...proclivities of a private nature.But Ivan’s public celebrity is merely a sham—a carefully guarded secret borne out of the pain of betrayal. Even his cousin Ethan Blackstone doesn't know the truth behind the man he considers a brother.Lord Rothvale has a plethora of problems piled up to his aristocratic eyeballs, but that doesn’t stop him from complicating his world further when a beautiful art conservationist shows up to appraise his inherited collection of paintings.Once Ivan gets a taste of", "Gabrielle Hargreave", ", mistaken identity or not, he can't think of anything but how good the green-eyed beauty felt in his arms.The chase is on, and Ivan's dominant side isn't taking 'no' for an answer—but yet, Gabrielle might just teach our discontented lord a thing or two about life, and about himself, and help them both discover the undeniable truth in what it means to find something genuinely", "... priceless." ]

[ "Review", "An astounding and spellbinding spin off from Raine Miller's patented Blackstone Affair series!!", "-Kawehi's Book Blog", "To sit back and be able to experience firsthand the sudden courtship of Gabrielle and Ivan simply took my breath away. To see it all unfold as they explore, sometimes hesitantly, their newfound feelings for each other was indeed,", "priceless.", "I felt giddy, thrilled even, to see these two souls, hurt by previous lovers, embrace the chemistry and the intellect they share. Their witty banter made me smile and their exploration of both their bodies and their minds made me sigh. And often.", "-MJ Loves to Read", "WOW!! This is where Raine proves to you once again that she is the master of blending the perfect amount of hot to die for sex with romance, angst, and characters that you can't stop thinking about. Priceless has the perfect combination of romance, steamy scenes, and beauty.The four words that Ivan uses to describe Gabrielle: \"Something of the marvelous.\"That's what this book was. \"Something of the marvelous.\"", "-Schmexy Girl Book Blog", "There's always something special in a Raine Miller book. There's a singular elegance and seductiveness that simply dazzles me from the start.", "Priceless", "is no different.", "-Vilma's Book Blog", "I loved how Raine Miller incorporated the book's title with the plot. LOVED it. There's just no other way to describe the things that happened. How Ivan and Gaby met (epic and", "hot!", "), what went on between them, the art...", "everything", ". It was all brilliantly executed. Very, very clever. The story line definitely kept me turning the pages, wanting to find out what could possibly happen next.", "-HEA Bookshelf", "About the Author", "Raine Miller is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who's been reading romance novels since she picked up that first Barbara Cartland book at the tender age of thirteen. And it's a safe bet she'll never stop because now she writes them too! Granted Raine's stories are edgy enough to turn Ms. Cartland in her grave, but to her way of thinking, a hot, sexy hero never goes out of fashion. A former teacher, she's now writing sexy romance stories full time. She has a handsome prince of a husband, two brilliant sons, and two bouncy Italian Greyhounds to pull her back into the real world if the writing takes her too far away. Her sons know she likes to write stories, but gratefully have never asked to read any. (thank God!) Raine is a super-fan of the #VegasGoldenKnights and all things hockey. You are welcome to come hang out in her readers' group, Raine Miller Romance Readers on Facebook anytime." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "Discusses the German social and cultural traits that are most likely to confuse international visitors, including stereotypes, communication, food, wine, and shopping customs, business, and other aspects of life in Germany." ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Europe" ]

[ "A nighttime ride in the surrey with the fringe on top is a grand and beautiful experience." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Warhola follows Surrey with the Fringe on Top with this bathetic picture-book adaptation of the memorable song from The Sound of Music . In the opening scene, seven animal friends scamper across a field toward an outsize singing chicken, who uses a beribboned parasol to defend herself from the threat of \"raindrops.\" The fulsome menagerie, which includes a pig, a rabbit, a bear and a turtle, among other zoological types, careens from one high-spirited scene to another, across pages crammed with \"bright copper kettles,\" \"crisp apple strudel\" and all the other \"favorite things\" highlighted in the song. Warhola's workmanlike watercolors don't stint on the sentiment: to illustrate the \"silver white winters that melt into spring,\" for example, he catapults the grinning animals into the sky, positioning them in front of--what else?--a pastel rainbow. Endpapers carry the score. Ages 3-6. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From School Library Journal", "K Up-Yes, it's a famous and popular tune, even 50 years later. Yes, it's well known, and the lyrics are easy to learn. Yes, lots of people love the musical from which it comes. Nevertheless, there is no excuse for taking a song, changing the context to make it age-appropriate, and turning it into a children's book. The words are here, written in regional dialect. The scene has been changed to that of a young man taking two children for a ride in the surrey. Their progress is shown on the double-page spreads, and also at the bottom of the pages, where a small carriage makes progress along a picture that represents the whole trip. The watercolor illustrations have a lot of life and motion, and the layout is good. The music is included, although split by the text, so that half is at the front, and half at the back. (At least it's not on the endpapers.) This is not a bad book-but it is pointless to take the song out of context to market it for an audience that is too young to appreciate either.", "JoAnn Rees, Sunnyvale Public Library, CA", "Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Performing Arts" ]

[ "twenty:six is a collection of poetry that Kendyl Rose has broken up through different chapters of emotions. A journey through time, it explores an array of different periods of life relatable to all readers. Raw, emotional, and real, twenty:six is able to put feelings into words effortlessly." ]

[ "About the Author", "Kendyl Rose has a creative mind. Writing is her passion, and she shares it so that people can see into their hearts and learn to love their own souls." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Poetry" ]

[ "A look at one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in airline history describes how American Airlines president Bob Crandall helped pull the airline back from the brink of bankruptcy and took it to the top" ]

[ "From Library Journal", "In 1980 Crandall became CEO of American Airlines and inherited a world of problems. The DC-10 fleet was grounded, fuel costs and labor costs were out of control, and a strike threatened to make the general recession last indefinitely. Using Dallas/Fort Worth as a hub airport, Crandall guided American through deregulation, developed discounted air fares, and instituted a two-tier wage system in one of the most successful corporate turnarounds in history. Resourceful and competitive, he was also controversial and has been blamed for the demise of other airlines, most notably Braniff. A complete history of the years during which Crandall made American a highly successful and well-managed corporation, this book also presents an interesting history of SABRE, the computerized reservation system. Recommended for general collections.", "- William A. McIntyre, N.H. Technical Coll. Lib., Nashua", "Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Kirkus Reviews", "An extravagantly adulatory appreciation of Bob Crandall, whose world-class executive talents have enabled American Airlines to survive, if not thrive. Drawing on apparently open access to his subject's company and its top brass, Reed (who covers commercial air transport for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram) focuses on Crandall's career at American. After joining the carrier in 1973 (at age 38) as chief financial officer, Crandall took almost immediate wing, moving up through a succession of increasingly responsible posts to the presidency in 1980 and the chairmanship five years later. Along the way, Crandall contributed significantly to the development of a breakthrough computer-based reservation system that brought travel agents into the loop, helped American weather the storms of deregulation, and beefed-up so-called ``hub-and-spoke'' flight operations. A tough, innovative competitor, Crandall also settled price-fixing charges (stemming from an ill-advised phone conversation with his opposite number at Braniff) and incurred the enmity of organized labor by pioneering two-tier wage scales for pilots, mechanics, et al. But though he's a master of the game when it comes to aggressive expansion and controlling overhead expenses, Crandall has never had much luck in keeping fares at consistently profitable levels. Indeed, his vaunted Value Plan came an instant cropper last year. Reed nonetheless gives him an ``A'' for effort on this and a flock of other projects, all but ignoring the bleak realities facing airline operators in the unfriendly skies of global as well as domestic markets. Although Crandall is arguably the air-transport industry's dominant personality, the author fails to offer enough big-picture perspectives (e.g., indications that his subject may be fighting a losing battle) to raise the airline executive's curriculum vitae above the level of corporate hagiography. A wasted booking. (Eight pages of b&w photographs--not seen) --", "Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved." ]

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[ "Books", "Engineering & Transportation", "Transportation" ]

[ "Parmenides,", "a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book attacks some of the most firmly established conceptions of Greek thinking and of the Greek world. The central theme is the question of truth and the primordial understanding of truth to be found in Parmenides' \"didactic poem.\" Heidegger highlights the contrast between Greek and Roman thought and the reflection of that contrast in language. He analyzes the decline in the primordial understanding of truth―and, just as importantly, of untruth―that began in later Greek philosophy and that continues, by virtue of the Latinization of the West, down to the present day. Beyond an interpretation of Greek philosophy,", "Parmenides", "(volume 54 of Heidegger's Collected Works) offers a strident critique of the contemporary world, delivered during a time that Heidegger described as \"out of joint.\"" ]

[ "From the Back Cover", "This text, as one might expect in a book on ancient philosophy, is heavily flavored with Greek and Latin. It is giving away no secret that Heidegger decried the Latinizing of things Greek, and one of the central themes of the present volume is the impoverishment in the understanding of Being concomitant with such \"\"\"\"transporting\"\".\"\" To the reader unfamiliar with Greek, certain passages might appear rather formidable, then. For the rest, the book's format and content very closely match the source text.", "About the Author", "André Schuwer (1916-1995) was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Duquesne University and co-translator (with Richard Rojcewicz) of", "Plato's", "Sophist and", "Basic Questions of Philosophy", "by Martin Heidegger and", "Ideas II", "by Edmund Husserl.", "Richard Rojcewicz teaches philosophy at Point Park College, Pittsburgh." ]

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[ "Books", "Politics & Social Sciences", "Philosophy" ]

[ "Help Nancy and her friends track down the crafty clown who stole George’s junior ringmaster whistle in the fourth book in an all-new, interactive Nancy Drew chapter book mystery series. Includes space for readers to jot down their own ideas and solutions to the case!", "The Bingle and Bumble Circus is coming to River Heights, and Nancy, Bess, and George are super excited to see the clowns, animals, and acrobats. But most of all, they’re excited about the Junior Ringmaster whistling contest! To win, all they have to do is be the kid who whistles the loudest and the longest. The winner of the contest will get to be Junior Ringmaster at the circus’s opening night and they’ll get a shiny silver whistle as a prize! After George wins, her friends can’t wait to see her in the show. But when the time comes, she blows and blows her whistle…and nothing comes out. When she checks her whistle, George realizes that it was switched with a broken one! Will Nancy and her friends find the whistle-snatcher before the circus leaves town?" ]

[ "About the Author", "Carolyn Keene is the author of the ever-popular Nancy Drew books.Peter Francis lives in Brighton, UK, where he spent a number of years as an illustrator for children’s television before turning to books. When not painting in his studio, he enjoys long coastal walks, exploring local history, and growing vegetables.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Big Top Flop" ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Growing Up & Facts of Life" ]

[ "All three books of the amazing \"Murder in the Genes\" trilogy!SON OF A SERIAL KILLERBen Green is a troubled young man, losing his mind and hearing voices. Worse than that, his nightmare is just beginning… Detective Inspector Summers hates dealing with drug addicts, thieves, violent men and women, rapists, child molesters and murderers. She wants to be a doctor in a surgery, saving the lives of the sick. Instead, she deals with the sick and twisted. Finally, she gets handed the case she wants, the reason she joined the force… Her investigations lead Summers closer to Ben, and his involvement to the case slowly becomes clear…BLOOD OF A SERIAL KILLERIt's only natural for Benny Jones to want to know more about the father he never met. He's turning eighteen and his doting mother, Eve, can no longer put off answering his questions with the excuse that he is too young to understand. Discovering whose genes he carries, Benny grasps why he has behaved the way he has in recent times and is intrigued to learn more about the darker side of his family. He has many questions, and his grandmother Lily Green, once known as the notorious killer The Phantom, lives on in a mental hospital not far from home and she could supply the answers. The corpses pile up as Benny discovers his purpose in life...FANATIC... Martin Day is at breaking point. The loner, ignored and ridiculed for as long as he can remember, looks to his hero for inspiration. Sadly, for those in the near vicinity, the person Martin looks up to most is notorious killer The Phantom." ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

[ "No one in Cumberland, Rhode Island, was surprised when Aaron Fricke showed up at the high school prom with a male date. He had sued his school for the right to do so, and the papers had been full of the news ever since. Yet only a year earlier, Fricke would never have dreamed of being so open about his gay feelings. Now you can read his gripping story about growing up gay: about coming to terms with being different and a moving lesson in what gay pride can really mean in a small New England town." ]

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[ "Books", "Biographies & Memoirs" ]

[ "In his debut book on trading psychology,", "Inside the Investor’s Brain", ", Rich­ard Peterson demonstrated how managing emotions helps top investors outperform. Now, in", "Trading on Sentiment", ", he takes you inside the science of crowd psychol­ogy and demonstrates that not only do price patterns exist, but the most predictable ones are rooted in our shared human nature.", "Peterson’s team developed text analysis engines to mine data - topics, beliefs, and emotions - from social media.  Based on that data, they put together a market-neutral social media-based hedge fund that beat the S&P 500 by more than twenty-four percent―through the 2008 financial crisis. In this groundbreaking guide, he shows you how they did it and why it worked. Applying algorithms to so­cial media data opened up an unprecedented world of insight into the elusive patterns of investor sentiment driving repeating market moves. Inside, you gain a privi­leged look at the media content that moves investors, along with time-tested techniques to make the smart moves―even when", "it doesn’t feel right", ". This book digs underneath technicals and fundamentals to explain the primary mover of market prices - the global information flow and how investors react to it.  It provides the expert guidance you need to develop a competitive edge, manage risk, and overcome our sometimes-flawed human nature.  Learn how traders are using sentiment analysis and statistical tools to extract value from media data in order to:", "Foresee important price moves using an understanding of how investors process news.", "Foresee important price moves using an understanding of how investors process news.", "Make more profitable investment decisions by identifying when prices are trending, when trends are turning, and when sharp market moves are likely to reverse.", "Make more profitable investment decisions by identifying when prices are trending, when trends are turning, and when sharp market moves are likely to reverse.", "Use media sentiment to improve value and momentum investing returns.", "Use media sentiment to improve value and momentum investing returns.", "Avoid the pitfalls of unique price patterns found in commodities, currencies, and during speculative bubbles", "Avoid the pitfalls of unique price patterns found in commodities, currencies, and during speculative bubbles", "Trading on Sentiment", "deepens your understanding of markets and supplies you with the tools and techniques to beat global markets― whether they’re going up, down, or sideways." ]

[ "From the Inside Flap", "In his debut book on trading psychology,", "Inside the Investor's Brain", ", Richard Peterson demonstrated how managing emotions helps top investors outperform. Now, in", "Trading on Sentiment", ", he takes you inside the science of crowd psychology and demonstrates that not only do price patterns exist, but the most predictable ones are rooted in our shared human nature.", "Peterson's team developed text analysis engines to mine data – topics, beliefs, and emotions– from social media. Based on that data, they put together a market-neutral social media-based hedge fund that beat the S&P 500 by more than twenty-four percent—through the 2008 financial crisis. In this groundbreaking guide, he shows you how they did it and why it works. Applying algorithms to social media data opens up an unprecedented world of insight into the elusive patterns of investor sentiment driving repeating market moves. Inside, you gain a privileged look at the news and social media themes that move investors, along with time-tested techniques to make the smart moves—even when", "it doesn't feel right", ". This book digs underneath technicals and fundamentals to explain the primary mover of market prices — the global information flow and how investors react to it. It provides the expert guidance you need to develop a competitive edge, manage risk, and overcome our sometimes-flawed human nature. Learn how traders are using sentiment analysis and statistical tools in order to:", "Foresee how market prices will be influenced by news, rumor, and social media", "Foresee how market prices will be influenced by news, rumor, and social media", "Identify when prices are trending, when trends are turning, and when sharp market moves are likely to reverse", "Identify when prices are trending, when trends are turning, and when sharp market moves are likely to reverse", "Improve value and momentum-based investment returns", "Improve value and momentum-based investment returns", "Take advantage of unique price patterns found in commodities, currencies, and during speculative bubbles", "Take advantage of unique price patterns found in commodities, currencies, and during speculative bubbles", "Forecast changes in global economic activity", "Forecast changes in global economic activity", "Overcome the most common mistakes of the investing herd", "Overcome the most common mistakes of the investing herd", "Trading on Sentiment", "deepens your understanding of markets and supplies you with the tools and techniques to profit—whether prices are moving up, down, or sideways.", "From the Back Cover", "Praise for", "Trading on Sentiment", "\"", "Trading on Sentiment", "will undoubtedly be seen in time as a seminal work.”", "―Brenda Jubin,", "Investing.com", "\"In markets, as in poker, if you don't have an edge, you shouldn't play. There are 3 sources of edge in markets: information, analysis, and human behavior. The first two are hard to obtain and harder to maintain as the world is constantly changing. Human nature, the cycles of fear and greed, are unchanging and are the most fertile ground of sustainable competitive advantage. Until now, there has been no comprehensive guide to this almost inexhaustible source of potential profits. Dr. Richard Peterson is one of the world's experts on human behavior in capital markets and he has written by far the best book to appear on the subject. This marvelous book should be read by every serious investor. It will pay dividends for years to come.\"", "―Bill Miller,", "Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of LMM LLC", "\"Finally a book on behavioral finance by a market practitioner who can also be your professor. Peterson's", "Trading on Sentiment", "is a pioneering work that will help you not only contextualize your emotions, but also profit from them.\"", "―Keith R. McCullough,", "Chief Executive Officer, Hedgeye Risk Management", "\"", "Trading on Sentiment", "is more than a book about trading and more than a book about sentiment. It is a book that informs us about how to gauge changes in the emotional temperatures of financial market participants. Richard Peterson is a true visionary who early on developed techniques that would convert big financial data into information and trading heuristics upon which active investors can, well, act. As always, the usual caveat applies that financial markets are risky, complex, nonlinear neighborhoods to visit, especially when the academic literature has yet to converge on a consensus view of how to measure the risk associated with expected return.\"", "―Hersh Shefrin,", "Mario Belotti Professor, Santa Clara University, and author of", "Behavioral Risk Management", "Praise for", "Inside the Investor's Brain (Wiley, 2007)", "\"Richard Peterson has distilled his own first-hand experience as a psychiatrist in Silicon Valley and has used his knowledge of behavioral finance to describe the emotional qualities necessary to be a good investor. Not only is this a fascinating book for everyone, it may also be the most profitable book you ever read.\"", "―George Akerlof,", "Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001", "\"Exceptionally well-written, it will likely prove to be a seminal text on the influence of the human brain on investment behavior. And neurofinance, as that field is known, may provide the next great edge for savvy investors.", "Inside the Investor's Brain", ", written by an experienced but surprisingly young author (he's 35), is outstanding. Peterson and his first book have much to offer investors and the institutions in which they work.\"", "―Dr. David L. Nathan,", "Barron's", ", September 2007", "\"Highly recommended.\"", "―", "Kiplinger's", "Best Investing Reads of 2007", "About the Author", "RICHARD L. PETERSON is CEO of MarketPsych and a behavioral finance expert, investment adviser, psychiatrist, and consultant to the financial industry. His two previous books,", "Inside the Investor's Brain", "and", "MarketPsych", ", were named top financial books of the year by", "Kiplinger", ".", "Read more" ]

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[ "At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of the now-classic", "The Wages of Whiteness", ", a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In", "Working Toward Whiteness", ", he continues that history into the twentieth century, recounting how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country.While some historians have claimed that these immigrants were “white on arrival,” Roediger paints a very different picture, showing that it wasn't until the 1920s (ironically, just when immigration laws became much more restrictive), that these ethnic groups definitively became part of white America, primarily thanks to the nascent labor movement and a rise in home-buying.From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants —the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods—", "Working Toward Whiteness", "explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. In this masterful history, which is sure to be a key text in its field, David Roediger charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the “white ethnics” of America today." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Too much recent scholarship \"simply ignores the long, circuitous process by which 'new immigrants' became 'white ethnics,' \" declares Roediger (", "The Wages of Whiteness", "), finding that the process in the early 20th century was slower and messier. Well-detailed examples include Greeks and Italians victimized by white mobs at the turn of the century (with the Chicago papers providing the parenthetical identification \"Italian\" in crime stories just as they did \"Negro\"). Jobs, Roediger finds, were often divided on lines that separated whites from European immigrants, but unions opened to European immigrants more readily than to blacks, Mexican-Americans and Asian-Americans. Most significantly, he sees the oppression faced by Europeans as qualitatively different than that faced by other groups and goes into painful detail. Roediger hearkens back to the 1924 immigration restrictions, showing how they drove the \"great migration\" of African-Americans northward, thus rendering immigrants less \"foreign\" to some entrenched whites. Reinforcing that were the immigrant drive for home ownership, backed by New Deal–era restrictive racial covenants and laws against interracial marriage. While slow going, Roediger's book tills some major historical ground.", "(June)", "Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "From", "Booklist", "When immigrants from southern and eastern Europe arrived in America, their status was somewhere below that of \"native\" white Americans but above that of blacks and other nonwhites. In the period 1890 to 1945, social upheavals in labor, housing, and politics shifted and allowed these immigrants to take on the mantle of whiteness. Roediger explores the social forces that elevated the social status of these immigrants and contributed to deepening racial divisions. This ethnic focus is really deemed by Roediger as part of race history in the U.S., how people were placed within an evolving intellectual and social structure. Roediger focuses on the early twentieth century, when these new immigrants lived an in-between existence as their white consciousness took form. Segregated housing practices, and labor unions favoring the immigrants over blacks, helped to solidify the whiteness status. U.S. policy, notably the New Deal, also helped to confirm the inclusion of people who had formerly suffered the low social status of unassimilated immigrants.", "Vernon Ford", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "About the Author", "David R. Roediger", "teaches on the history of race and class in the United States at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is the Babcock Chair of History and of African American Studies. He lives in Champaign, Illinois.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Have you ever laughed so hard that it made you cry? Those are Pools of Joy. The laugh-cry can unearth buried treasured that we've tried to lock away; I have found that writing and sharing poetry with the world helps me to achieve similar relief from that which ails me.Pools of Joy is the 2nd collection of poetry written by Steven Woodburn, the author of Hut Hut Haiku. The artwork featured in the book was compiled using the Midjourney A.I. software.I hope this book finds you in good spirits and can help you on your path to reaching deeper levels of awareness and self-expression" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Poetry" ]

[ "Life has taught Prince Vereham al a'Karim bin Hakar to control his emotions. Duty to his kingdom drives the enigmatic sheikh.But one unexpected, intensely sexy encounter with inexperienced Samantha McLellan shakes Vere's steely control. And when he discovers that Sam could be betraying his country, he decides to blackmail her—into being his mistress!" ]

[ "About the Author", "After reading a serialized Mills & Boon book in a magazine, Penny Jordan quickly became an avid fan! Her goal, when writing romance fiction, is to provide readers with an enjoyment and involvement similar to that she experienced from her early reading – Penny believes in the importance of love, including the benefits and happiness it brings. She works from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by four dogs and two cats, and welcomes interruptions from her friends and family." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Women's Fiction" ]

[ "Bronze Award Winner, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards for 2010.Nearly two million people visit Gettysburg National Military Park annually, but most of these visitors possess only a rudimentary knowledge of the battle and restrict their travel to the well-established tourist routes. Few know the stories behind the monuments that dot the battlefield or the controversies, and there are many, that became a part of the story. The answers to these and other questions are often as fascinating as the story of the battle itself.In", "So You Think You Know Gettysburg?", "James and Suzanne Gindlesperger provide details for over 200 different sites in the park. This volume goes beyond the typical guidebook, focusing on the little-known stories behind the battle. More than 270 color photographs are accompanied by color-coded maps showing where each photo was taken. Brief narratives then describe the sites and what took place in the immediate area.You may have visited the park, but do you know about the ten or so Confederates buried by accident in Gettysburg National Cemetery? One entry in the book explains how an embezzling general, when asked why he had no monument at Gettysburg, replied, \"Why, hell, the whole battlefield is my monument.\" Another tells whose dog is depicted in the 11th Pennsylvania Monument and why. Another explains what the Curious Rocks are. Still another tells why Gettysburg has two markers for the battle's first shot, and why they are in different locations.Through this book, readers and visitors will learn the fine points about Gettysburg and the human side of the battle." ]

[ "About the Author", "James and Suzanne Gindlesperger are the authors of", "So You Think You Know Gettysburg?", ", which was the bronze winner in the travel guide category for ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Award in 2010. James is a “Friend of the Field” at Gettysburg and the author of three books about the Civil War:", "Escape from Libby Prison", ",", "Seed Corn of the Confederacy", ", and", "Fire on the Water", ". Suzanne is the cofounder of Pennwriters, a professional organization of published and aspiring authors. The couple lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania." ]

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[ "Book by Garrison, Paul" ]

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[ "Though isolated conifer stands in Nevada have been the subject of active inquiry for the past 50 years, Dr. Charlet discovered many conifer locations that had never been recorded. This atlas documents his extensive field research to accurately identify the species and locations of the state's conifer stands, precisely maps the distribution of all the species, and significantly extends the known range of almost every species of pine, fir, spruce, juniper, and cedar in the state. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or." ]

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[ "The battle for human evolution begins now.", "Centuries ago, humans colonised Jørn, a lonely planet on the far side of the galaxy, only to discover that the planet was killing them. The culprit, a native spore, carried on every wind to every corner of the globe.Genetic engineering, blending Earth and Jørn DNA, saved their crops and livestock, but for humans there was no cure. Instead they took to the skies, turning their colony ships into cities that floated out of the spore's reach.Hero Regan is special, and not in a way she likes. She hears voices, voices in her head that other people can't. Surrounded by butlers, bodyguards and tutors, insulated from the outside world, her only solace is Fink, a six-hundred-kilogram, genetically engineered ruc-pard. They share lives, thoughts, triple-chocolate marshmallow ice-cream and the burning desire for freedom.Their chance comes when Hero is allowed to attend school in Cumulus City. Here Hero discovers she is an unwitting part of a master plan set into motion by the first colonists, a plan she must either help or hinder if she's ever to attain the freedom she craves.", "Hero", "is the first book in an action-packed YA sci-fi series perfect for fans of", "The Hunger Games", ", featuring genetically engineered companions, illegal street races and a kick-arse heroine who won't take no for an answer.", "Buy", "Hero", "and join the adventure today!" ]

[ "Review", "\"Illegal street racers, secret organisations, ancient AIs and psychic mutant animal companions...this YA sci fi novel moves with the ferocity of hungry 'pard at risk of missing lunch, and will not disappoint lovers of the genre.\"", "-- Nathan Phillips, Goodreads", "About the Author", "Physics makes Belinda's brain hurt, while quadratics cause her eyes to cross and any mention of probability equations will have her running for the door. Nonetheless, she loves watching documentaries about the natural world, biology, space, history and technology.She's also a sucker for a fast horse, a faster computer and superhero movies. When she's not doing the horse, computer or superhero thing, Belinda writes science fiction (emphasis on the", "fiction", "), where she loves to write about butt-kicking girls who blow stuff up." ]

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[ "Books", "Teen & Young Adult", "Literature & Fiction" ]

[ "Y.I.T.B.: It means Yours In The Bonds. It was how they signed their emails to each other. They were The Brothers of Zeta Chi, and they vowed decades earlier that their pledge meant more than having drinking buddies for life. When one of them is found dead at their thirtieth reunion, the medical examiner fails to find evidence of foul play, suggesting instead that the death was an accident, or even a suicide. As such, the police won't investigate. \"No way!\" the brothers say. \"If you won't investigate, we will.\" Who knew it would turn into a murder investigation, and that it would lead them into a showdown involving international terrorists, the police, the CIA, and the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes and Enforcement Network called FinCEN." ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

[ "i love the word impossible" ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Christian Living" ]

[ "War in the Tribal Zone", ", the 1991 anthropology of war classic, is back in print with a new preface by the editors. Their timely and insightful essay examines the occurrence of ethnic conflict and violence in the decade since the idea of the \"tribal zon\" originally was formulated. Finding the book's analysis tragically prophetic in identifying the key dynamics that have produced the kinds of conflicts recently witnessed globally--as in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Somalia--the editors consider the political origins and cultural meanings of 'ethnic' violence in our postcolonial world." ]

[ "Review", "An example of multiculturalism at its best. It merits a place in all public collections on the subject of war and society. --", "Multicultural Review", "The volume has wide intellectual implications. It is a demonstration of what a comparative anthropology can do for an enhanced understanding of the serious problems that best the world. The outcome is a quite remarkable presentation. --", "Eric R. Wolf" ]

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[ "Books", "Politics & Social Sciences", "Politics & Government" ]

[ "These authors understand what it takes to be successful in mathematics, the skills that students bring to this course, and the way that technology can be used to enhance learning without sacrificing math skills. As a result, they have a created a textbook with an overall learning system involving preparation, practice, and review to help students get the most out of the time they put into studying. In sum, Sullivan and Sullivan's Algebra and Trigonometry: Enhanced with Graphing Utilities gives students a model for success in mathematics." ]

[ "About the Author", "Mike Sullivan", "is a Professor of Mathematics at Chicago State University and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Illinois Institute of Technology. Mike has taught at Chicago State for over 30 years and has authored or co-authored over fifty books. Mike has four children, all of whom are involved with mathematics or publishing: Kathleen, who teaches college mathematics; Mike III, who co-authors this series and  teaches college mathematics; Dan, who is a Pearson Education sales representative; and Colleen, who teaches middle-school mathematics. When he's not writing, Mike enjoys gardening or spending time with his family, including nine grandchildren.", "Mike Sullivan III", "is a professor of mathematics at Joliet Junior College.  He holds graduate degrees from DePaul University in both mathematics and economics.  Mike is an author or co-author on more than 20 books, including a statistics book and a developmental mathematics series. Mike is the father of three children and an avid golfer who tries to spend as much of his limited free time as possible on the golf course." ]

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[ "Books", "Science & Math", "Mathematics" ]

[ "Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create animation that can be published on a variety of platforms and formats.", "Animate to Harmony guides you through Toon Boom’s Animate, Animate Pro and Harmony programs, teaching you how to create high-quality 2D animation of all complexities. The main text focuses onfeatures that are common across all three programs while \"Advanced Techniques\" boxes throughout the book elaborate on Pro and Harmony features, appealing to all levels of experience with any of the three main Toon Boom products." ]

[ "About the Author", "Working out of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia,?", "Adam Phillips", "is an independent animation professional, creator of the Brackenwood series, and publisher of Bitey Castle. Through his website, bitey.com, Adam hosts tutorials and courses in animation, 2D special FX, Flash, and Toon Boom animation software. Adam worked as an animator and effects supervisor with DisneyToon Studios, Australia for eleven years before going independent to concentrate on his popular internet series, Brackenwood. Independent now for over a decade, his showreel spans a huge range of personal and professional projects including illustrations, comics, short stories, album covers, music videos, animation and game cinematics, for clients such as Ween, Kellogg’s, Riot Games, BioWare San Francisco, Rumble Games (", "KingsRoad", "), Wizards of the Coast (", "Dungeons and Dragons", "), and Bento Box (", "Bob’s Burgers", ")", "." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Graphic Design" ]

[ "A revised, updated translation of the Koran. The clear, fluent, authoritative English rendering of this holiest of Muslim texts preserves the characteristic flavor and rhythm of the original, following the sequence of the Koranic suras." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Bible Study & Reference" ]

[ "Imagine a plague that incapacitates almost 1.7 million people - and now imagine a cure that is even worse..Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. 4% suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And 1% find themselves 'locked in' - fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. 1% doesn't seem like a lot. But in the US that's 1.7 million people 'locked in' - including the President's wife and daughter. Spurred by grief and the sheer magnitude of the suffering, America undertakes a massive scientific initiative. Nothing can fully restore the locked in. But then two new technologies emerge. One is a virtual-reality environment, 'The Agora', where the locked-in can interact with other humans, whether locked-in or not. The other is the discovery that a few rare individuals have brains that are receptive to being controlled by others, allowing those who are locked in to occasionally 'ride' these people and use their bodies as if they were their own. This skill is quickly regulated, licensed, bonded, and controlled. Nothing can go wrong. Certainly nobody would be tempted to misuse it, for murder, for political power, or worse ..." ]

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[ "If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! From mild to blistering, renowned author Jennifer Trainer Thompson offers 32 recipes for making your own signature hot sauces, as well as 60 recipes that use homemade or commercial hot sauces in everything from barbeque and Buffalo wings to bouillabaisse and black bean soup. Try making spicy chowders, tacos, salads, and seafood — even scorchingly delicious cocktails. Bring your own handcrafted heat to your next barbecue and feel the burn!" ]

[ "Review", "\"When the Smithsonian does an exhibition on hot sauces in America, let’s hope the curator is Jennifer Trainer Thompson. She’s the author, traveler, chef, shiitake-farmer and hot sauce creator who set it all in motion….she brought popularity and polish to an otherwise obscure hobby practiced by culinary eccentrics across the country.” Chile Pepper", "“We’re having a heat wave, and the weather has nothing to do with it. It’s because Jennifer Thompson wants to take us ‘mouth surfing’ through the world of hot sauces.” Minneapolis Star Tribune", "From the Back Cover", "How Do You Like Your Hot?Add a shot of hot sauce to your favorite dishes and spark a fire to thrill your taste buds. Make the hot sauce yourself and you can boost the heat, try out different vinegars, play up a favorite spiece, or adjust other ingredients to make a fiery condiment that's truly your own. Jennifer Trainer Thompson offers everything you need to know about making hot sauces, and then gets you started with 32 recipes that span every style, from a three-ingredient Louisiana hot sauce to a Caribbean concoction redolent of tropical fruits and ginger.", "About the Author", "Jennifer Trainer Thompson", "is the author of 18 books, including", "Fresh Fish", ",", "The Fresh Egg Cookbook,", "and", "Hot Sauce!", "Nominated for three James Beard Awards, she has been featured in", "Martha Stewart Living", "and", "Coastal Living", "magazines, and she has written for", "Yankee, Travel & Leisure,", "the", "Boston Globe,", "and", "the", "New York Times,", "among other publications. Thompson is the chef/creator of Jump Up and Kiss Me, an all-natural line of spicy foods. She splits her time between the Berkshires and Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Cookbooks, Food & Wine", "Cooking by Ingredient" ]

[ "BOOKS IN SPANISH" ]

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[ "Books", "Libros en español" ]

[ "Provides advice for curing or easing over 300 common health ailments including earache, flu, sore throat, dizziness, back pain, and insomnia." ]

[ "From the Publisher", "The Self-Care Advisor provides practical, easy-to-use advice on more than 300 common health problems. Each entry includes a list of symptoms, guidance on what you can do yourself, when to call the doctor, tips on prevention, and sources of more information. The book also includes a quick reference emergency and first aid guide, and an illustrated body atlas. * Both alphabetical and body system organization * Up-to-date lists of information sources, including web addresses, for all entries", "* Easy to use charts and self-assessment tests", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Chapter 1: Lifesaving Skills When something happens that’s a matter of life and death, you will need to know some basic emergency techniques. Don’t waste time worrying about doing every step perfectly. Just do the best you can. SIGNS OF LIFE IN DANGER -Severe bleeding -No breathing -Choking: The person can’t get air -Shock: Irregular pulse and breathing, cold skin. The person may be unconscious. WHAT TO DO The American Red Cross suggests 3 basic steps for any emergency: CHECK the scene and the person CALL 911 or your local emergency number CARE for the person Check the scene for things that could be a danger to the person or to you - fire, flood, traffic, spilled chemicals, or other threats. Don’t be a dead hero. If danger is extreme, wait for professionals - police, firefighters, paramedics - to deal with it. Check the person. Try to find out what’s wrong. Is it a life-threatening emergency? Don’t move a badly injured person unless he or she is about to be hurt even worse by something on the scene. In that case, move the person and yourself out of the way before starting treatment. Call for help. Shout if you’re alone with the person. If the person isn’t breathing or has no heartbeat, phone 911 or send someone to do it. Don’t start emergency treatment until you have called 911. Call on bystanders. See if anyone nearby has had more first-aid or CPR training than you have. Ask them to help. Care for the person. Treat the most serious problem first. Look for a medical alert tag on the person. If you find one, do what it says. Care for yourself. Protect yourself from a stranger’s blood and other bodily fluids. Wear gloves if you have them. Put cloth or plastic between the person’s body fluids and yourself, especially if you have open cuts or scrapes. While giving care, don’t touch your mouth, nose, or eyes, or eat or drink anything. Wash your hands, or use alcohol wipes, right after giving first aid." ]

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[ "Books", "Health, Fitness & Dieting", "Alternative Medicine" ]

[ "When four friends witness the mysterious disappearance of a much loved clown, they set out to find his captor in this thrilling adventurous children's story." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Mysteries & Detectives" ]

[ "It is the 147th century; the turning of the Amaranthine new year.In the provinces of the Old World, the giant Elatine's war of liberation has come to an impasse, leaving the wicked monarchy of the First in possession of the throne.In the Vaulted Lands of the Firmament, acolytes have risen up to execute their immortal masters. The opportunistic races of the Prism, intoxicated with greed, have arrived inside every Solar Satrapy to scavenge what's left.In the wild Investiture, on a forgotten water moon, a crew of shipwrecked Privateers come face to face with their greatest terror, and with it the most valuable treasure in all the galaxy.Jatropha, legendary Immortal, must escort his precious charge through the exotic Westerly Provinces, knowing all the world would steal her if they could.Sotiris, his mind fading fast, must set out to find his dear, drowned sister in a land previously unglimpsed by anyone but the dead.Lycaste, now far from home, must journey in strange company to the edge of a tempestuous sea, to the lair of someone so dangerous that even the legendary Amaranthine fear his name.Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a", "New York Times", "bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors." ]

[ "Review", "Praise for", "The Weight of the World", ":", "\"This extensive story of the 147th century is", "filled with spectacular ideas and adventure", "across the solar system and beyond. . . .", "a tour de force of universe building and characterization", ". . .", "splendid, outrageous and brilliant speculations", ". . . affording careful readers a complex tale of a possible far future.\"—", "Shelf Awareness", ", reviewed by Rob LeFebvre\"", "Deeply imagined, deliberately paced, and brain-breakingly opaque (in the best way)", ". . . while much remains a mystery, Toner's confident style—and the forceful impact on the reader when pieces do fall into place—give the sequel", "a heft and power that goes beyond the plot twists.", "\"—", "B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog", ", \"B&N Bookseller's Picks: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of January 2017\"“I was hooked from the very beginning . . . Tom Toner paints his characters and worlds beautifully, even when they’re at their ugliest. This is a", "clever, ambitious, inventive, wondrous series, brilliantly executed", ", that leaves me wanting more and soon. It might be only February but", "this is the science fiction novel to beat this year and it most certainly won’t be easy.", "”—", "For Winter Nights", "Praise for", "The Promise of the Child", ":", "“To call", "The Promise of the Child", "one of the most accomplished debuts of 2015 so far is to understate its weight—instead, let me moot that is", "among the most significant works of science fiction released in recent years.", "” —", "Tor.com", "“", "One of the most ambitious and epic-scale pieces of worldbuilding I’ve read.", "Reading", "The Promise of the Child", ", you feel you’re in the presence of", "an author at the height of his powers", ". If this is what Toner is like when he’s just getting started, I think we can expect great things from him.", "Utterly absorbing; a tremendous adventure.", "” —Karl Schroeder, author of", "Lockstep", "and", "Sun of Suns", "“", "Bold and intense", "from start to finish,", "The Promise of the Child", "is", "a master-class in innovative, evocative world-building. The entire book buzzes with imagination.”", "—Michael J. Martinez, author of", "The Daedalus Incident", "“An amazing debut—", "a colorful space opera in the post-human tradition of Iain M. Banks, combined with the razor-sharp plotting of Alastair Reynolds.", "It left me feverish with delight.” —Loren Rhoads, author of", "The Dangerous Type", "“", "Humming with energy, this is space opera like you've never seen it before. Absolutely brilliant.”", "—Adam Roberts, author of", "Salt", "and", "Jack Glass", "“", "A dizzying mash-up of science fiction and fantasy themes that are both mystifying and entertaining", ". . .will appeal to readers who enjoy the offbeat end of far-future sf. This is", "the kind of novel that could develop a cult following.", "” —", "Booklist Reviews", "“", "Ambitious", ". . .The several 147th-century cultures on display are fascinating. . .The pace picks up as the tale moves toward its end, but this is", "the kind of book that will most appeal to cerebral readers", "who can appreciate its characters’ many verbal interactions.” —", "Publisher's Weekly", "“This is", "the purest example of space opera we’ve seen in some time", ". . . .The book is", "challenging, ambitious, and rewarding", ", and it’s impossible not to admire Toner’s wild imagination and carefully constructed world. This thing is bonkers, no question. It’s also", "one helluva debut", ".” —", "Barnes & Noble, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog", "“", "Marvelous", ". . .a space opera of", "surpassing gracefulness, depth, complexity, and well, all-round weirdness.", "” —Paul Di Filippo,", "Locus", "“", "First rate", ". . .a clever and interesting world, with something new always coming across the horizon, more wonders as yet unreached.", "I ate it up with a spoon.", "” —Paul Weimer,", "SFSignal", "About the Author", "Tom Toner", "was born in Somerset, England, in 1986. After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from Loughborough University and the FHSH in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, he moved to Australia, teaching life drawing and working in an art gallery near Melbourne.", "The Weight of the World", "is the sequel to Toner's debut,", "The Promise of the Child", ". He currently lives in London." ]

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[ "Books", "Science Fiction & Fantasy", "Science Fiction" ]

[ "Practice recognition and learn new words with this bowtiful lift the flap word book! The words in this book are great for pre readers and beginner readers to find, say and talk about." ]

[ "About the Author", "With sold-out live shows, a top-rated TV series and a history of double-platinum CD sales,", "The Wiggles", "are a powerhouse brand for kids. Now showing on Netflix in 190 countries, their live show tour reaches 330k people every year and they have over 800 million views on YouTube." ]

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[ "Berne and Levy Physiology: with STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Physiology (Berne)) [Hardcover] Bruce M. Koeppen MD PhD (Author), Bruce A. Stanton PhD (Author)" ]

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[ "Books", "Medical Books", "Basic Sciences" ]

[ "A lively new twist on an old familiar fairy taleReaders young and old will enjoy this fresh look at the age-old tale in which an urban-dwelling Cinder-Elly used the help of a trash can, a copy machine, and even a glass sneaker to find her Prince Charming. With a jazzily rhthmic, rhyming text and quirky, funny illustrations, this version of hte familiar favorite is irresistible.:This ultracool version of the fairy tale . . . updates the classic with singular flair.\"--", "Publishers Weekly" ]

[ "About the Author", "Frances Minters is the author of several books for young readers, including", "Cinder-Elly", ",", "Sleepless Beauty", ", and", "Princess Fishtail", ". She lives in New York, NY.G. Brian Karas has illustrated numerous picture books, including", "Atlantic", "and", "On Earth", ", which he also wrote. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley. Learn more about him at www.gbriankaras.com." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Growing Up & Facts of Life" ]

[ "Reunited…by a murderer FBI agent Luke Campbell has never been more determined to catch the serial killer who's eluded him for two years. Because this time the monster is after Julie, the ex he walked out on when he returned from Iraq, emotionally scarred and burdened by a secret. Now Luke will do anything—even risk his life—to protect Julie and regain her trust. But it's a tense race against time. Defying FBI rules, Luke keeps Julie by his side throughout a harrowing chase. Once they're finally at a safe house, it's clear to him that the passion they once shared hasn't cooled. Can Luke redeem himself and keep evil away from the woman he refuses to let go of again?" ]

[ "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Luke Campbell bit back a groan. Why did Julie Campbell—correction, Julie", "Davis", "—have to interrupt a killer in the middle of one of his \"projects\"?His ex-wife's landscaping business had brought her to the doorstep of one of the most devious serial murderers in Luke's career. A knot tightened in his gut as he pulled in front of her small redbrick town house in a North Dallas suburb, the one they'd shared, and parked his truck.An emotion he refused to acknowledge kept him from opening the door and stepping into the frigid night. How many times had he wished he still lived in that house after he'd come home from active duty a wreck? How many times had he prayed he could go back and change the past since then? How many times had he missed the feel of her long silky legs wrapped around him, welcoming him home?", "Too many.", "Hell, he wasn't there for a reunion. She was in jeopardy, and his job was to protect society from national-security threats and major criminals. Keeping her safe was the least he could do after the way he'd hurt her.He stepped into the crisp evening air.A young detective with a thick build and sun-worn face approached. \"Evening, Special Agent Campbell. Not sure if you remember me, but I worked the Martin crime scene earlier.\"\"Detective Wells. Thank you. I appreciate the call.\" Luke shook the outstretched hand in front of him.\"I wouldn't normally bother you with something like this. My boss thought you'd be interested.\"The young guy reported to Detective Garcia. Garcia's judgment was dead-on. \"What do you have?\"He waved another detective over. \"This is Detective Reyes.\"Luke shook hands with the detective.\"Show him what was taped to Ms. Davis's window earlier,\" Detective Wells said.The officer used tongs to hold out a standard-size piece of white paper. The words", "I hope you enjoy your dance with the Devil. Be in touch soon, Rob", "were handwritten.\"Whoever wrote this has good penmanship.\" Luke noticed. He took note of the capitalization of the word", "Devil.", "The tension between his shoulder blades balled and tightened as he reread the name. His killer, Ravishing Rob, never left a clue as to whom he would target next. If this was him, why would he change his M.O.?One reason came to mind. Anger. Rob was meticulous. Julie had interrupted his ritual killing, which he'd described as more of a turn-on than sex. That might be enough to trigger a variation.Luke couldn't ignore another possibility. This could be a copycat. Julie's picture had been splashed all over the news and internet.Then again, Julie had black hair just like all Rob's targets.He examined the neat print. Cursive would give more clues to Rob's personality. With his high IQ he was smart enough to know that, too, which made the capitalization of", "Devil", "even more poignant. \"Whoever wrote this took his time.\"Luke pulled an evidence bag from his glove box and pointed at the note. \"I'll send this up for analysis.\" The detectives nodded.\"Can you spare one of your uniformed men for the night? I'd like someone to keep watch on the alley behind her house.\"\"Sure thing,\" Detective Wells said. \"I made some notes after interviewing Ms. Davis. Do you want to take a look?\"\"Absolutely.\" Luke studied the page. He focused on the word", "boyfriend.", "The knot tightened in his gut. The thought of another man's arms wrapped around Julie ignited his possessive instincts. He still wanted her, needed her. Those selfish emotions had caused him to stay at the town house to be near her when he'd returned from Iraq a broken man. The front-row seat he'd had to her pain—the hell he'd caused—when he pushed her away day after day had forced him to man up and leave before he permanently damaged her. Intelligent and beautiful, she deserved so much more than him. He glanced up at the detectives who were waiting for his response to the report. Not wanting to give away his bone-deep reaction to her, he skimmed the rest and handed it back. \"Good information. Send my office a copy of the report when it's filed.\"Detective Wells gave a satisfied smile. \"I'll keep a man outside tonight. Let me know if you need anything else.\"\"Will do.\" Luke turned and walked toward the house. A thought stopped him at the base of the stairs. What if she wasn't alone?The detective's notes said she'd been dating a dentist on and off. Was he here?Davis had been her maiden name, which meant she was still single. Even so, she might be", "on", "with the dentist again. After the day she'd had, he might be there with her in Luke's house.", "Old house,", "he corrected, ignoring the all-too-real tug of emotion at seeing the place again.Taking the couple of steps to her porch in quick strides, he clenched his fists.The thought of Ravishing Rob targeting Julie didn't do good things to Luke's head. He knocked on the door and his chest squeezed as he thought about seeing her again.The solid hunk of wood swung open, and suddenly, there she was, his ideal combination of beauty and grace, staring at him with a shocked look on her face. He could see those long legs where her bathrobe split, her taut hips where the robe cinched. A hunger roared from deep within him. The reality of why he was there chased it away.Her amber eyes stood out against pale skin. Even red-rimmed and puffy, their russet-coppery tint was every bit as beautiful as it had been the last time he'd seen her. Her shoulder-length hair was still inky black. His fingers itched to get lost in that curly abyss again. Muscle memory, he decided. Besides, the frown on her face and stress in her eyes said he was the last person she wanted to see.Under the circumstances, he was her best bet.She opened her mouth to speak, but her ringtone sounded. \"Dammit. Hang on.\"Bad sign. She only cursed when she was hanging on by a thread.\"May I?\" He motioned for permission to enter.Her gaze narrowed, but then she nodded and turned her back to him. She spoke directly into the phone. \"I'm okay. No. I promise. You don't need to come over right now. I'll see you when you get off work.\"Was she talking to her boyfriend? The last word stuck. Tasted bitter as hell, too.One step inside and he almost lost his footing. A wave of nostalgia slammed into him. The furniture was in exactly the same spot as when he'd left. The coffee-colored leather sofa against the wall to his right. The flat-screen directly across from it mounted on the wall to his left. He could see all the way to the back door from where he stood. Same black pedestal dining table with avocado-green chairs tucked around it. The place looked completely untouched, except all the pictures of the two of them had been removed. She'd probably enjoyed stomping on the frames.The town house might've looked the same, but it had a different air. Funny how out of place he felt in what used to be his own home.He folded his arms, parted his feet in an athletic stance and stood next to the door. He wasn't there for a reunion. This was business. And no matter how much Julie looked as if she'd rather crawl out of her skin than be in the same room with him, he had a job to do.She closed the call and whirled around on him, still wearing her angry expression. There was something else in her eyes there, too. Hurt? \"Why did they send", "you?\"", "\"I've been tracking this guy for the past two years. He's my case.\" He intentionally withheld the part about Ravishing Rob being the most ruthless killer Luke had come across so far in his FBI career.Her eyes narrowed to such slits he couldn't figure out if she could see him anymore. Then again, she probably wanted to block him out altogether, and he couldn't blame her. She'd pleaded with him to stay, but he couldn't stand watching her pain when he had no way to heal either one of them.With all the daggers shooting from her eyes, he couldn't tell if she was using anger to mask other emotions. Hurt? Fear? Regret?\"There's no one else they could've sent?\" The hollow sound in her voice practically echoed.\"I'm afraid not.\"\"So the note's from him? You're sure?\"\"I need to get a little more information from you to help me decide.\" Even though she'd already given her account to police and he'd read the jacket, he needed to hear her words. He needed to know what she thought she saw. Maybe she'd remember something that could help put this monster away or help Luke figure out if it was a copycat. \"Tell me what happened when you arrived at the scene of the murder this morning.\"She shivered, looked lost and alone. \"My client Annie Martin wanted to meet with me to discuss landscaping after her new pool was installed. I brought a rendering with me and planned to give my presentation. It was a big project that would start in the spring, so I broke all the planting down into zones.\" She glanced up at him curiously as if she realized he didn't know the first thing about plants or landscaping, or care. \"Sorry, I'm babbling. I'm sure you didn't come here to talk about the details of my business.\"\"I did,\" he said quickly. He covered a crime scene the same way, broke it down on a grid. \"I want to hear everything even if you don't think it's important. You never know what might spark a memory. Something you didn't think of before when you talked to the police.\" His hopes she'd be more comfortable talking to him had diminished the second he saw her. He wanted to ask her how she was doing, but decided not to, even though he found he still really wanted to know, needed to know. He'd left things broken between them, and thoughts of the sadness in her eyes every time she'd looked at him still haunted him. Outside of this case, he had no right to know anything about her. Why was he already reminding himself of the fact?\"As soon as I pulled up to her house, I heard a noise. Like a muffled cry or something. I couldn't make it out for sure. She'd asked me to come around back in case she was with contractors for the pool, so I ran to make sure she was okay. I thought maybe she tripped or was hurt. But there was no one out there. She screamed again and I ran to the front door. Someone bolted from around the side of the house about the same time. He killed her, didn't he?\"He locked gazes with her and wished like anything he could protect her from the truth. He felt pained that she'd had to witness this and his heart went out to her. \"Yes. You get a good look at him?\"\"No.\" She hugged her arms to her body. \"I didn't see anything. By then I heard an awful sound coming from inside. Sounded like an animal dying.\" She shivered.He pulled out a pad and scribbled notes. Not that he needed a piece of paper to remember the details of their conversation. His memory was sharper than a switchblade. He needed something to look at besides her fearful eyes. Old instinct kicked in and he wanted to maim the person who'd made her feel that way, offer comfort she would certainly reject. \"What happened next?\"\"You want to sit down?\" She moved to the couch and sat on the edge. She clasped her hands together and rocked back and forth. \"It was bad, Luke.\"The sound of his name rolling off her tongue was a bitter reminder of the comfort and connection he hadn't felt in a long time. He took a seat next to her but not too close.Tears spilled down her cheeks. \"I don't want to think about it again, let alone say the words out loud.\"\"I know how hard this is.\" Every muscle in his body tightened from wanting to reach out and comfort her. He didn't want to press further, but the information he gained could mean saving her life. \"It's important you tell me everything. Do you want a cup of tea or something?\" He made a move to stand.\"No. I'm fine.\" The uncertainty in her words made him freeze.\"Anything else you can give me might save another woman from going through this.\"\"We both know he's going to come after me next.\" Her voice shook with terror.\"I'm not certain it's him yet. Besides, I'll catch him first.\"The suggestion of depending on him for anything after the way he'd hurt her set her eyes to infernos. \"I didn't ask you to come.\"\"This is my territory. My guy. I know him better than anyone else.\"\"I didn't even know you were FBI.\" The exasperation in her voice made him clench his fists involuntarily.\"I didn't think it was appropriate to send you Christmas cards after your lawyer sent me papers.\" It was a low blow and he regretted saying the words as soon as they passed his lips. After all, he'd been the one to leave and force the divorce issue.She looked straight through him. \"I lost track of you after…\"This wasn't the time to talk about their past. It complicated the situation. He was professional enough to look beyond shared history and concentrate on doing his job. He focused his gaze on the opened laptop on the coffee table. There was a picture of Julie at the crime scene beneath the banner Breaking News. Damn. Another reminder that she'd been placed right there for the killer or any other lunatic to see.The last time the local newspaper printed a story with the headline The Metroplex Murderer Strikes Again, Rob went off. He'd left a message on Luke's cell complaining about how common that made him seem. Luke still hadn't figured out how the man got his number. The man calling himself Ravishing Rob—someone who captivated and then decapitated—had done his research. Efforts to trace the call were futile. He'd used a burn phone. Rob was thorough. He also knew how to play the media.Reporters had their uses. In this case, they might've issued Julie a death warrant. \"You said earlier you didn't get a good look at him. Any idea as to general information like height? Build? Race?\"She shook her head. \"I was so horrified. The whole thing shocked me. One minute I was planning to meet a client, like usual, and then I thought the worst-case scenario was that I'd walked into a robbery in progress. The next thing I know, I'm staring at a person whose throat had been slit. I'll never forget her eyes, pleading.\" She shivered again and tears streamed down her cheeks.Luke had to grip the pencil tighter to stop himself from wiping them away. He didn't like seeing her cry. He'd seen those tears enough for a lifetime. If it didn't mean saving her life, he'd stop questioning. \"When did you find the note?\"\"This evening. I'd just gotten home from spending the day at the police station answering questions.\"", "--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.", "About the Author", "USA TODAY Bestselling Author Barb Han lives in Texas with her adventurous family and beloved dogs. Reviewers have called her books \"heartfelt\" and \"exciting.\" When not writing or reading, she can be found exploring Manhattan, on a mountain, or swimming in her backyard.", "--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title." ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

[ "George Rodrigue's Blue Dog is one of the most recognizable images in the world of contempoary art. The", "Blue Dog 2016 Wall Calendar", "features 12 images that will appeal to both longtime and new fans and collectors.Steeped in the legends and Cajun myths of Rodregue's Louisiana upbringing, Blue Dog catapulted to worldwide fame in the early 1990's and has never looked back." ]

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[ "Books", "Calendars", "Animals" ]

[ "Book 1 in the Geraldine Woolkins Series.", "Young Geraldine longs to have adventures as thrilling as those in the Book of Tales, the book her papa reads to her and her brother Button at night. More than that, she wants to be brave--a seemingly impossible task in a world where ravens throw black shadows over the earth and wolves prowl barren lands in search of their prey. But Geraldine is a mouse. The weakest of ground things. Why was she, who wants so much to be brave, created by God to be small and quivering?", "The book’s ten stories follow the Woolkins family—Papa, Mama, Geraldine, and Button—from October to December, as they face their rather human trials and tribulations and Geraldine struggles to understand Very Very Big Hands, the creator of all, including ravens and wolves.", "Suitable for readers of most ages. Parents will want to read the book to younger children, preferably after making them a cup of cocoa.", "Books in the Geraldine Woolkins Series:", "Book 1: The Adventures of Geraldine Woolkins", "Book 1: The Adventures of Geraldine Woolkins", "Book 2: More Adventures of Geraldine Woolkins", "Book 2: More Adventures of Geraldine Woolkins", "Book 3: Springtime with Geraldine Woolkins", "Book 3: Springtime with Geraldine Woolkins", "Book 4: Book of Tales: Volume One", "Book 4: Book of Tales: Volume One", "Book 5: Summertime with Geraldine Woolkins (coming in 2023)", "Book 5: Summertime with Geraldine Woolkins (coming in 2023)" ]

[ "Review", "\"It's the type of book the reader soon considers to be a classic; it's that good.\"", "--Lisa's Kids' Book Reviews" ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Literature & Fiction" ]

[ "Devotion Journal for Today's Busy Woman. Written to the hearts of women whose desire is to know God's good, acceptable, and perfect will for their lives." ]

[ "About the Author", "Susan Shipe, a writer since the age of eight when she and her neighborhood friend wrote, edited, published, and distributed The Manor News. Things have changed since publishing with the five and dime stamp lettering set! Today, Susan enjoys blogging, writing short devotions and short stories from her home in the Appalachian Mountain Range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwestern North Carolina, which she shares with her husband of thirty years, Lowell, and their beloved dog, Sam." ]

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[ "Books", "Religion & Spirituality", "Worship & Devotion" ]

[ "Clarence was just a muddy pickup. One day, there was a big storm and Lightning zapped the car wash. Now Clarence has a secret: Water turns him into MIGHTY TRUCK!", "Everyone has a job to do in Axleburg. Stella’s job is to be a news chopper and fly high in the sky to loudly report what she sees. But Stella is loud all the time, and Clarence cannot stand it!", "Clarence and his friends teach Stella to use her inside voice by speaking", "wheely", "softly and only letting her engines purr. Stella learns to use her inside voice, only she uses it outside, too! When Stella is too quiet to report the traffic on the morning rush, there’s only one truck who can turn up the volume and save the day: Mighty Truck!", "Mighty Truck: Traffic Tie-Up", "is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences." ]

[ "About the Author", "Chris Barton really loves writing books such as the bestseller", "Shark vs. Train", ", the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book", "The Day-Glo Brothers", ", the Mighty Truck series, and", "Attack! Boss! Cheat Code! A Gamer's Alphabet", ". Chris and his family live in Austin, Texas.", "Troy Cummings has written and illustrated a number of books, including the Mighty Truck series,", "Giddy-Up, Daddy!,", "and the Notebook of Doom series. He lives in Greencastle, Indiana, with his nice family and mean cat." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Growing Up & Facts of Life" ]

[ "How did a world-famous dancer with no knowledge of the stock market, or of finance in general, make 2 million dollars in the stock market in 18 months starting with only $10,000? Darvas is legendary, and with good reason. Find out why." ]

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[ "Books", "Business & Money", "Investing" ]

[ "Expert recommendations, pragmatically applied.", "Automate system administration using Windows PowerShell best practices—and optimize your operational efficiency. With this practical guide, Windows PowerShell expert and instructor Ed Wilson delivers field-tested tips, real-world examples, and candid advice culled from administrators across a range of business and technical scenarios. If you’re an IT professional with Windows PowerShell experience, this book is ideal.", "Discover how to:", "Use Windows PowerShell to automate Active Directory tasks", "Use Windows PowerShell to automate Active Directory tasks", "Explore available WMI classes and methods with CIM cmdlets", "Explore available WMI classes and methods with CIM cmdlets", "Identify and track scripting opportunities to avoid duplication", "Identify and track scripting opportunities to avoid duplication", "Use functions to encapsulate business logic and reuse code", "Use functions to encapsulate business logic and reuse code", "Design your script’s best input method and output destination", "Design your script’s best input method and output destination", "Test scripts by checking their syntax and performance", "Test scripts by checking their syntax and performance", "Choose the most suitable method for running remote commands", "Choose the most suitable method for running remote commands", "Manage software services with Desired State Configuration", "Manage software services with Desired State Configuration" ]

[ "About the Author", "Ed Wilson, MCSE, CISSP, is a well-known scripting expert and author of \"Hey Scripting Guy!\", one of the most popular blogs on Microsoft TechNet. Ed has written six books on Microsoft Windows scripting for Microsoft Press, including three Windows PowerShell titles: Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices, Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide, and Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step by Step. He has delivered a popular Windows PowerShell workshop to Microsoft Premier customers worldwide, and has spoken at the Microsoft TechEd and TechReady conferences. Before coming to work for Microsoft, Ed was a senior consultant for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner where he specialized in Active Directory design and Exchange Server implementation." ]

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[ "Books", "Computers & Technology", "Networking & Cloud Computing" ]

[ "In this fully updated", "Eight Edition", "of", "Leadership: Theory and Practice", ", a new chapter on Followership examines the central role followers play in the leadership process and unpacks the characteristics of both effective and ineffective followers. The new edition also includes a new Ethical Leadership Style Questionnaire and new coverage on the dark side of leadership and destructive leadership.  Adopted at more than 1600 institutions in 89 countries and translated into 13 different languages, this market-leading text successfully combines an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with an accessible style and special emphasis on how leadership theory can inform leadership practice. Peter G. Northouse uses a consistent structure for each chapter, allowing students to easily compare and contrast the various theories. Case studies and questionnaires provide students with practical examples and opportunities to deepen their personal understanding of their own leadership.  The", "Interactive eBook*", "for", "Leadership: Theory and Practice, Eight Edition", "includes access to a broad array of multimedia tools and resources!", "Interactive Leadership Assessments: Readers receive an analysis of their questionnaire score and personalized, pragmatic feedback for further strengthening of their leadership abilities.", "Interactive Leadership Assessments", ": Readers receive an analysis of their questionnaire score and personalized, pragmatic feedback for further strengthening of their leadership abilities.", "VIDEO: Boost learning and bolster analysis with SAGE Premium Video! Recapping the fundamentals in every chapter, each video activity is tied to assessment via SAGE coursepacks.", "VIDEO", ": Boost learning and bolster analysis with SAGE Premium Video! Recapping the fundamentals in every chapter, each video activity is tied to assessment via SAGE coursepacks.", "AUDIO: Listen to engaging podcasts and audio resources that supplement and enrich key points within the text.", "AUDIO", ": Listen to engaging podcasts and audio resources that supplement and enrich key points within the text.", "JOURNAL ARTICLES: Access articles from SAGE’s influential journals offer important background and exposure to seminal work in your field of study.", "JOURNAL ARTICLES", ": Access articles from SAGE’s influential journals offer important background and exposure to seminal work in your field of study.", "SAGE BUSINESS CASES: Access real-world cases and discussions for additional in-depth analysis.", "SAGE BUSINESS CASES", ": Access real-world cases and discussions for additional in-depth analysis.", "OFFLINE READING: Using the VitalSource Bookshelf® platform, download your book to a personal computer and read it offline.", "OFFLINE READING", ": Using the VitalSource Bookshelf® platform, download your book to a personal computer and read it offline.", "SOCIAL SHARING AND FOLLOWING: Share notes and highlights with instructors and classmates who are using the same eBook, and \"follow\" friends and instructors as they make their own notes and highlights.", "SOCIAL SHARING AND FOLLOWING", ": Share notes and highlights with instructors and classmates who are using the same eBook, and \"follow\" friends and instructors as they make their own notes and highlights.", "ONLINE CONTENT: Access more online content via links to important data, relevant background, and profiles that enrich key concepts in the text.", "ONLINE CONTENT", ": Access more online content via links to important data, relevant background, and profiles that enrich key concepts in the text.", "*Note: the access code for this interactive eBook will be shipped to the address you indicate when you place your order." ]

[ "About the Author", "Peter G. Northouse", "is a professor emeritus of communication in the School of Communication at Western Michigan University. For more than 25 years he taught leadership and interpersonal and organizational communication at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to publications in professional journals he is the author of Leadership: Theory and Practice (9th ed.) and Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice (5th ed.) and co-author of Health Communication: Strategies for Health Professionals (3rd ed.). His scholarly and curricular interests include models of leadership, leadership assessment, ethical leadership, and leadership and group dynamics. He has worked as a consultant in a variety of areas, including leadership development, leadership education, conflict management, and health communication. He holds a doctorate in speech communication from the University of Denver and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in communication education from Michigan State University." ]

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[ "Books", "Business & Money", "Management & Leadership" ]

[ "The release of Denys Arcand's", "Le Déclin de l'empire américain", "(The Decline of the American Empire) in 1986 marked a major turning point in Quebec cinema. It was the first Québécois film that enjoyed huge critical and commercial success at home and abroad. Arcand's tragicomedy about eight intellectuals gathered around a dinner table relating sexy anecdotes became the top-grossing film of all time in Quebec and was the first Canadian feature to be nominated for an Oscar in the foreign-language category. Seventeen years later, Arcand won an Academy Award for the sequel,", "Les Invasions barbares", "(The Barbarian Invasions), where the amusing insouciance of the thirty-somethings talking dirty in Le Déclin is replaced by a sense of moral responsibility and serene resignation.", "In this engrossing study, André Loiselle presents the first in-depth analysis of both films within the context of Quebec culture. Through close readings and concise cultural analysis of two of the most important films in the history of Quebec cinema, Loiselle demonstrates the ways in which Arcand's work represents a snapshot of the evolution of the French Canadian film industry since 1980. The companion films trace the decline of Quebec's national dream and the Québécois' attempts to cling to their identity against the forces of barbaric globalization.", "The second title in the new Canadian Cinema series,", "Denys Arcand's \"Le Déclin de l'empire américain\" and \"Les Invasions barbares\"", "is essential reading for cinephiles, film critics, and anyone with an interest in cultural studies and Canadian and Quebec history." ]

[ "About the Author", "André Loiselle", "is a professor in the Film Studies program and assistant vice-president (Academic) at Carleton University." ]

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[ "Books", "Humor & Entertainment", "Movies" ]

[ "Ready to deepen your yoga practice or teaching? This book is for you!", "Yoga makes us look and feel great and is a powerful tool to improve our health. Over 25 million people in the U.S. alone currently practice yoga, and thousands are graduating yoga teacher training programs each year. This book is a resource to help you deepen your knowledge of yoga, and to apply that knowledge directly into your yoga practice or teaching.", "Here is what you will get in this book-", "A description & explanation of each chakra", "A description & explanation of each chakra", "Common symptoms of imbalance for each chakra", "Common symptoms of imbalance for each chakra", "A list of recommended yoga poses for each chakra", "A list of recommended yoga poses for each chakra", "A full hour yoga class designed for each chakra", "A full hour yoga class designed for each chakra", "A full music playlist to accompany each class", "A full music playlist to accompany each class", "And that's not all!", "As a thank you for downloading this book, at the end is a link to a FREE BONUS CHAPTER - \"Chakra Jam\" - a sequence and playlist incorporating all 7 chakras in one rocking class!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Kelly Jancski is a Yoga Alliance RYT 200 registered yoga instructor in New York with over 20 years of practice and nearly 10 of teaching.  She has completed an additional 200 hour certification with Lifepower Yoga, is certified in Core Strength Vinysasa Yoga, and has additional training in both prenatal and restorative yoga. Words can’t express the gratitude she has for her many teachers, including: Seane Corn, Shiva Rea, Natasha Rizopoulos, Rodney Yee, Kathryn Budig, Leslie Kaminoff, Cindy Lee, Tao Porchon –Lynch, Judith Lasater, Jason Crandall, Tara Stiles, Dana Flynn, Baron Baptiste and Eric Paskel.   Off the mat she enjoys mala/jewelry making, hiking, biking, and stand up paddle boarding and can most often be found hanging out with her son, husband and dog. Please visit www.fullbloomyoga.com to see her collection of handmade malas and other yoga jewelry." ]

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[ "Books", "Health, Fitness & Dieting", "Exercise & Fitness" ]

[ "With the busy pace of everyday life, journal writing seems like one more item on an impossible to-do list. But with warmth and wisdom, inspirational author Larry W. Tippetts reminds readers of the incomparable benefits of putting pen to paper—or fingers to keyboard. Among the greatest impacts discussed is the fact that as we recognize and record spiritual experiences, we can receive increased personal revelation.", "The pages of this interactive guidebook are enriched with insights and ideas designed to start readers on the path of regular record keeping, from discussion of the blessings that can come from journal writing to personal experiences, quotes, and sample journal entries. Readers will learn to record thoughts and spiritual experiences as a part of daily routine and are encouraged to utilize thought-provoking writing prompts designed to inspire entries. For seasoned writers and new journalers alike, there is no time like the present to get started on your story." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Christian Living" ]

[ "*2020 Nautilus Book Award Winner*Buckle up for a lyrical bedtime ride that guides little ones on a special, meditative journey aboard The Sweet Dreams Express. Soothing illustrations, lyrical bedtime rhymes, and practical meditative tools guide children through relaxing their bodies and minds in preparation for a restorative and refreshing night of sleep. Through breathwork, stress release, calming techniques, and imaginative relaxation tools that connect the body and mind, this book will help children develop positive sleep skills that they will be eager to incorporate as part of their bedtime routine. So, “Fluff your pillow, rest your head; feel your body sink down in bed.”Climb aboard The Sweet Dreams Express to transform your little ones into master sleepers. Print your own tickets at www.InnerCompassBooks.com" ]

[ "Review", "\"Grab your ticket and climb aboard! This book couldn't have arrived at a better time! My \"terrible sleeper\" toddler is undergoing a big transition in the sleep department and this book has helped us build such a beautiful and peaceful bedtime routine that he WANTS to be a part of because he thinks its FUN! It encourages such incredible body awareness and lets kids really get into tune with themselves, recognizing where things might not feel so good and giving them practical tools to help address them- a tool they can use not only before going to sleep, but at any time in their day. I also really appreciated that there was a really short summary of all the steps for quick and easy reference (if they should awake!).", "I love the romantic and dreamy images- rich, but soft, colors bring so much life to the page. And the images and colors really lend themselves to being a part of the transition from awake, to asleep to awake again. The cute little animal companions add such fun and comfort for kids--my little guy asked if we could get a sleepy animal like in the book to help with getting on the train.​", "This book has become a \"must-read\" as part of our nightly rotation- and truth be told, lots of the suggestions are ones that we as adults and parents should be practicing alongside our littles!\"", "- Stacy Wallace", "\"The Sweet Dreams Express", "is another must-have book for your bedtime collection. The soothing rhyming words make it fun to read for kids (and parents) of all ages. I love the steps to finding a deep breath to help them calm down and go inside themselves to let out their daytime worries. The reminder that they may need to 'repeat until the \"stuck\" is gone' is great for those kids that have a harder time settling at bedtime. As you travel through Sweet Dreams Express it is hard not to feel more calm and ready to snuggle in.\"", "-Teagan Knudsen, Mom and yoga teacher", "About the Author", "Kristin Pierce is a three-time award-winning children's author, a self-awareness educator, and the founder of Inner Compass Books. It is her mission to create mindfully crafted children's books that encourage kids to question their limits, pursue their passions, and dream bigger than belief. Inner Compass Books incorporate concepts and learning such as self-empowerment, growth mindset, self-reflection, thinking outside the box, dreaming big, following one's passion, and trusting one's inner knowing. The Sweet Dreams Express is her fourth book for children. To learn more visit www.InnerCompassBooks.com or find Kristin on Facebook & Instagram @InnerCompassBooks." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Literature & Fiction" ]

[ "Wolfe Caine and his cousin Lynx know the small town of Embers Ridge like the backs of their hands. They grew up here, started more than their fair share of trouble on these back roads. They’ve been called wild, untamable, even crazy at times. And they’re okay with that.Settling down has never been in Wolfe’s plan, but that was before they caught his eye. As far as Wolfe’s concerned, the two of them together … that’s his greatest temptation.Getting close to either of them is difficult. But when Wolfe gets them both in his grasp, he’s determined he’s going to hold on, no matter how hard that proves to be." ]

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[ "Books", "Romance", "Contemporary" ]

[ "Small town life in Deep Lake, Minnesota is once again disturbed. Trouble has come calling anew in the award-winning Deep Lake series, following Danger in Deep Lake, and Death in Deep Lake. The cozy mysteries are set in a small town in rural Minnesota, close to the metropolis of the state's Twin Cities. In Trouble in Deep Lake, McKenzie Ward is summoned back to New York City where she was a successful Commercial Realtor for many years. Her business and building are being cared for by staff, but a woman was found murdered in an empty office and loyalties are in question. To add to her worries, while McKenzie is away, her much-loved beau, Ethan, is accused of a heinous crime. How can she be in two places at once? Can her long-time friend, Otis, get Ethan out of jail? Trouble mounts and suspense grows as McKenzie's struggles escalate." ]

[ "About the Author", "Gloria VanDemmeltraadt, writing as Gloria Van, wrote the fictional series. Other books: Gloria VanDemmeltraadt’s first book, Musing and Munching, is both a memoir and a cookbook. Much of her work focuses on drawing out precious memories. As a hospice volunteer, she continues to hone her gift for capturing life stories and has documented the lives of dozens of patients. She refined this gift in Memories of Lake Elmo, a collection of remembrances telling the evolving story of a charming village. She continues her passion and has caught the essence of her husband’s early life in war-torn Indonesia. In Darkness in Paradise, Onno VanDemmeltraadt’s story is touchingly told amid the horrors of WWII. This work has been praised by Tom Brokaw and has also earned the New Apple Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing for 2017 as the Solo Medalist for Historical Nonfiction. The theme of legacy writing continues with a nonfiction booklet, a clear and concise how-to manual called Capturing Your Story: Writing a Memoir Step by Step. Gloria lives and writes in mid-Minnesota." ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Mystery" ]

[ "Book 1 in the Series. Priscilla Smucker finds herself receiving unwanted attention in the community over an upcoming charity event at the local Mennonite church. When jealousy turns to bullying, how will she ever begin to handle it? This Amish novella is a perfect read for young adults and adult readers who love Amish or Christian fiction. Includes discussion questions for book clubs or just private reflection." ]

[ "About the Author", "ABOUT THE AUTHOR The Preiss family emigrated from Europe in 1705, settling in Pennsylvania as the area's first wave of Mennonite families. Sarah Price has always respected and honored her ancestors through exploration and research about her family history and their religion. At nineteen, she befriended an Amish family and lived on their farm throughout the years. Twenty-five years later, she now splits her time between her husband and children in the NYC Metro area and a home that she shares with an Amish woman in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where she retreats to reflect and write. As a masterful storyteller, Sarah Price prides herself on presenting an authentic Amish experience for her readers and as a homage to her ancestors." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Literature & Fiction" ]

[ "Calling Paw Patrol fans and all dog lovers: follow the real life adventures of dogs with jobs as they help their communities and save the day.", "In this endearing read-aloud picture book, readers meet courageous canine Tiger and follow him as he spends an exciting day with the police in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. Gorgeous photography depicts brave Tiger's role as a police dog, and simple, lyrical text lets readers journey along as Tiger visits a police academy, trains to sniff out important items, patrols famous landmarks, and keeps us all safe. Young readers will fall in love with the witty tale, daring story of heroism, and", "aww", "-worthy photographs. Good dog, Tiger!" ]

[ "About the Author", "National Geographic Kids inspires young adventurers to explore the world through award-winning magazines, books, apps, games, toys, videos, events, and a website, and is the only kids brand with a world-class scientific organization at its core. This book and series is created by National Geographic contributors, including researchers, photographers, content experts, and educational specialists." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Animals" ]

[ "Kelsey was a bubbly ray of sunshine. It is impossible to comprehend how anyone could harm a child, much less have something happen when so many were watching so closely. The lesson from Kelsey's death is not only a cry to stop child abuse, but a reminder to cherish the little ones in our lives, and a warning to those embroiled in custody battles to take the focus off themselves and put it where it belongs, on the innocent children who did not ask to be a pawn in someone's game." ]

[ "About the Author", "Judge Craig Key began practicing law in 1992. He was sworn in as Associate District Judge of Lincoln County on January 13, 2003, and lost the re-election in 2006, due to the circumstances surrounding the death of a child, as detailed in A Deadly Game of Tug of War. Craig has gone back to practicing law in Lincoln County and has a wife, Dana, and a blended family with four daughters: Abbi (14), Macy (13), Sarah (12), and Kamryn (8)." ]

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[ "Books", "Biographies & Memoirs", "True Crime" ]

[ "Exploring fundamental ways in which verbal expression in worship relates to aesthetic expression, Clayton Schmit provides a vitally important book for all homiletics students and scholars. Schmit explains that worship isn't just a sequence of \"holy\" words, and he reflects theologically on the relationship between verbal and aesthetic expression, demonstrating the aesthetic significance of verbal liturgical expression and the aesthetic responsibility of those who preach, pray, and lead in public worship." ]

[ "About the Author", "Clayton J. Schmit", "is Arthur DeKruyter/Christ Church Oak Brook Associate Professor of Preaching and Academic Director of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Ministry & Evangelism" ]

[ "This resource, written by leading programming language textbook authors, explains the key technologies and their roles in developing multi-tier, Web-based, client-server applications for wireless devices. Topics include WAP/WML/WMLScript/VBScript, i-mode/cHTML, XML/XSLT/XHTML Basic, Palm OS/web clipping, Windows CE/.NET wireless/ASP, Java wireless J2ME/BREW, location-based technologies/GPS, Bluetooth/unicode/accessibility, WTLS/SSL/wireless security, m-Business/e-business/marketing, macromedia, Flash/Multimedia, WWAN/WPAN, LMDS, MMDS, W-CDMA/GSM/PCS/GPRS/EPOC/SMS, and mobile CRM/micropayments/m-wallets. Includes live-code programs with screen captures, Web and Internet resources, and numerous tips, recommended practices, and cautions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)" ]

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[ "Books", "Computers & Technology", "Networking & Cloud Computing" ]

[ "Seeking to destroy the Torch, an evil tool used for wanton destruction by the bloodthirsty leader of Vietnam's Floating City, Nicholas Linnear must confront his own personal demons in order to reach his target. 90,000 first printing." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Lustbader fans will herald the coming of this latest adventure in the astonishingly turbulent life of half-Asian, half-Caucasian, all-hero fighting machine Nicholas Linnear. Newcomers to the author's idiosyncratic work, however, may have trouble getting with this sequel to The Kaisho , which not only features the usual heaping doses of violence, sex and Japanese mysticism but requires pages of difficult exposition to recap the story thus far, which hooks on high-tech shenanigans. The novel opens with a trademark example of Lustbader's eroticized violence, as a Vietnam vet in 1983 Burma struggles to maintain his foothold among the nation's drug lords and exacts a deliciously nasty vengeance against a bitter enemy. Leap to the present and Linnear, soon trapped in Saigon's famed underground tunnels with only his \" tanjian eye \"--some sort of sensory enhancement that is mentioned all too often--to guide and protect him. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Linnear's old friend, ex-NYPD detective Lew Croaker, is also on the case, unleashing his prosthetic hand, complete with retractable claws and powered by lithium batteries, whenever the occasion arises. And so the wildly improbable but amazingly energetic action goes, from Washington to Tokyo and back to Vietnam, with periodic flashbacks thrown in, as well as a mobster nicknamed \"Bad Clams\" and a drug-lord named \"Rock,\" until it reaches not a conclusion but a setup for the next Linnear thriller (\" So it's not over , Vesper thought. It's just beginning \"). This is the kind of novel that fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles read when they grow up--and no one does it with more punch than Lustbader. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Library Journal", "Nicholas Linnear is back on a manhunt for the killer of Vincent Tinh, a director in his company, Sate International. At the same time, he is looking for his friend Okami, head of a Japanese underworld clan, who has asked for Linnear's help. Assisted by pal Lew Croaker, Linnear probes the underbelly of Southeast Asia, focusing on the Floating City, a secret empire where Tinh's murderer is hiding and where the key to Okami's trouble lies. In an action-packed finale, Linnear avenges Tinh's death and narrowly escapes a nuclear blast. Full of passages describing Japanese culture and history, this work continues the saga of Linnear, a man as comfortable in the East as he is in the West. The numerous Japanese terms will confound neophyte Lustbader readers, but veteran fans will appreciate this richly detailed, if slow-moving, novel. Public libraries of all sizes will want this best-selling author's latest offering.", "-- Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora", "Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From", "Booklist", "What do you get when you mix the Mafia, Yakuza, warlords of the Asian heroin industry, political scandal and economic disaster in Japan, ninjas and meganinjas, corrupt governments, stone killers left over from Vietnam, and even a bit of mysticism and telekinesis? An Eric Lustbader novel. Once again Nicholas Linnear and his private-eye buddy, Lew Croaker, dash around the globe attempting to thwart the murder of the Yakuza boss of bosses and stop the development of a terrible new weapon and a supercartel bent on world domination. Lustbader may have reasoned that borrowing a figurative page from Robert Ludlum, Mario Puzo, Trevanian, Paul Erdmann, Tom Clancy, and every other successful thriller writer of the last two decades is the recipe for best-sellers. Judging by the ubiquity of his books, he's been right, but", "Floating City", "isn't compelling. There are too many characters to keep track of and too much over-the-top, mystical-meganinja nonsense. There's also too little mayhem, and what there is is written more flatly than in earlier Linnears. Even so, Lustbader fans will come to the library seeking it, so you better have it.", "Thomas Gaughan", "From Kirkus Reviews", "The world's a perilous place indeed, full of moral ambiguity and inscrutable Asian mystique, in Lustbader's (Black Blade, 1993, etc.) second installation of the Kaisho series. While piecing together clues of an international criminal bombing plot, Nicholas Linnear must locate Mikio Okami, the Japanese Mafia godfather he finds morally reprehensible but has sworn to his father to protect. Okami is in hiding because most of the other characters want him dead. His closest Japanese associates want to move past petty business profits and arms sales into drug trafficking. American mobster ``Bad Clams'' Leonforte has an unhealthy interest in tracking Okami, possibly because he is the adversary of Okami's former partner, the brutally murdered Dominic Goldoni, or because he is involved with Senator Dedalus, who coordinates illegal arms trades from a Washington, DC, strip joint. Linnear pursues the Asian connection and, while there, an old flame, while his pal Lew Croaker sleuths in the States, a job that includes tailing Goldoni's sister, Margarite, with whom, if that don't beat all, he's in love. Occasional telephone conversations between Linnear and Croaker recap their progress in tracing Okami and digging up the details on Torch, a powerful, portable nuclear weapon scheduled to detonate in some unspecified city. Until then, it is housed with its creator, a Russian cyberneticist and defector, in Floating City, the Vietnamese stronghold of Rock, an American veteran who had too much fun firing his missile launcher to ever leave Vietnam. While mingling with these politicians and gangsters, the heroes rely upon their unique resources: Linnear upon his tanjian--a psychic discipline that converts thought into action--and Croaker upon his biomechanical, titanium-sheathed left hand. Honorable bad guys and elaborate secrets mingle with the usual senseless violence and sensual, exploited Asian women. Whoever makes it to the end of this entangled thriller will find that the loose ends make the next Linnear installment a must-read. --", "Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.", "Read more" ]

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[ "This coloring book is a collection of 22 unique freeform abstract compositions and geometrically calculated color schemes of square, triangular, and rectangular diagrams incorporated into color wheels that map natural color combinations. Natural color combinations create visual vibrations leading to a sense of nuture and well being. The geometric color schemes can also be used for as a guide for coloring in other coloring books. The book is educational in providing colored compositions with examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, warm colors, cool colors, contrast, flat dimension, gradation for depth, analogous, and complimentary colors. The abstract compositions are printed on 8.5” x 11” paper. Colored pencils or three millimeter fine tip markers are suggested coloring mediums. A collaboration between artist and colorist (you) is made especially personal by adding color. The colored compositions can be framed and would reflect your personal touch." ]

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[ "Today's broadcasting students need a well-balanced, hands-on, and relevant guide to the radio industry.", "Digital Radio Production", "provides exactly that, and more. Using a holistic approach, the author shares his 20 years of experience in the field and his extensive knowledge of sales, promotion, programming, announcing, and the web and their importance to the production person. Fully updated, the second edition enhances students' technical skills by providing easy-to-understand presentations regarding digital audio, recording, storage, manipulation, audio processing, and special effects. Helpful tips and invaluable insights on the production person's role in a radio station and a realistic approach of how to get a first job in radio are also highlighted.", "Digital Radio Production", "focuses on new technologies and trends with chapters that introduce students to core concepts vital to a successful career in radio. Each chapter features suggested activities to involve the student outside of class, industry websites for more information, and a chapter-by-chapter glossary of industry terms. The text includes a demonstration and music CD that features 93 audio examples of virtually every aspect of radio production, from microphone techniques to commercial production samples as well as an outstanding selection of production music and a custom studio-tracking session with suggested activities." ]

[ "Review", "\"This is a wonderful piece of work. I truly believe it has the potential to be the radio production text... against which all others will be measured.\" --David Sabiani, Indiana State University\"Simply the best textbook on the subject. Connelly covers all of the important topics that are relevant to today's radio student and does not waste paper or ink on outdated, insignificant material.\" --Brian Wardyga, Lasell College\"Don Connelly's book provides a valuable overview of the science, technology and techniques of sound and digital audio for students just entering the world of radio production. The companion CD has many sound illustrations that make concepts and theories easy to understand. The CD also includes numerous music beds and audio tracks that can be customized for production assignments.\" --Kevin Ankeny, SUNY, Adirondack Community College" ]

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[ "Ski Europe takes skiers step by step through planning the winter vacation of their dreams in the Alps in Austria, Italy, Switzerland or France as well as some resorts in Norway, Spain and Andorra. Just like here in the United States or Canada, every European resort has its quirks and specialties, notes Leocha. Seasoned skiers know that some resorts are better for singles, others better for families. Some offer cozy chalets, others feature modern hotels right on the slopes. And while one resort may be heaven for beginning skiers it may be boring for the expert. Ski Snowboard Europe organizes all the necessary information to make intelligent choices and provides the phone numbers to make reservations and plans. Over more than a decade Ski Europe has become known for its no-holds-barred, brutally honest reports on reality at ski resorts. Ski Europe takes no advertising, has no ax to grind, and, like Ski America and Canada, is written by Leocha together with an international team of prize-winning ski and snowboard journalists." ]

[ "About the Author", "Charlie Leocha lives in New England and has skied virtually every major North American and European resort. He is a black-diamond skier, but a double-diamond après-skier with great energy and dancing ability. He's knows which resorts have the best wine lists and the best bacon-and-eggs breakfasts." ]

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[ "The first in the historically rich, atmospheric mystery series featuring female exorcist Reverend Merrily Watkins", "The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish—or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a 17th-century clergyman accused of witchcraft, a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets. A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also—as Merrily Watkins and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover—a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries." ]

[ "Review", "Ancient history, violent deaths, feuds, intrigues and murder. A most original sleuth. The Times A thriller that calms spirits both quick and dead. Rich with shivers. Guardian First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night. Daily Mail A dark no man's land where murder mingles with superstition. Brilliant ANDREW TAYLOR Phil Rickman is one of my all-time favorites. I love everything he's done, from horror to mystery to supernatural thriller - often all in the same book. DIANA GABALDON Well-written, haunting. -- Jeff Abbott", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "From the Publisher", "Over the years, Phil Rickman has won high acclaim for his chilling supernatural tales, including Celtic thrillers as well as the", "Reverend Merrily Watkins Mysteries,", "featuring Britain’s first female exorcist. Meticulously researched, rich in historic detail, these atmospheric procedurals are all cracking–good reads.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "From Publishers Weekly", "In the U.S. release of Rickman's first title featuring Rev. Merrily Watkis and her teenage daughter, Jane, Rickman (Midwinter of the Spirit) moves farther away from the traditional horror genre to craft a first-rate thriller with supernatural overtones. When Merrily takes up residence as the newly appointed priest-in-charge in the picture-perfect community of Ledwardine, she discovers a pagan influence lurking beneath the town's sunny surface that links the community to a horrific, centuries-old murder. In resurrecting the 17th-century murder in the form of a play, tensions between the townsfolk come to a head, and it's up to Merrily to resolve their issues. Rickman deftly illuminates the intrigues of village life and the conflicts between new residents and well-established families; teenagers and older generations; and Merrily and the town's more conservative members. Throughout the story, apples and cider, which is \"the wine of angels,\" is the prevailing image, and it ties in nicely with the pagan traditions and superstitions that plague Ledwardine's past. Although this hefty novel trundles off to a slow start, quirky characters, an abundance of plot twists and an exhilarating conclusion ensure that readers will enjoy this tale.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "The Wine of Angels", "By Phil Rickman", "Atlantic Books Ltd", "Copyright © 1999 Phil RickmanAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-0-85789-009-2", "Contents", "PROLOGUE, Twelfth Night, Part One, 1 Third Floor, 2 Black-eyed Dog, 3 Local History, 4 Straight Shooter, 5 Buds, 6 Cold in the House of God, 7 Dirty Video, 8 The After-hours Social Club, 9 A Night in Suicide Orchard, 10 Mistress, 11 Pious Cow, 12 Sympathetic Magic, Part Two, 13 The Feudalist, 14 Grown Women, or What?, 15 Hazey Jane, 16 Like Lace, 17 Whiteout, 18 The Little Green Orchard, 19 The Nighthouse, 20 Hysterical Women, 21 Tears, 22 I, Merrily ..., 23 Black-eyed Dog II, 24 Uh-oh ..., 25 Carnival, 26 The Mondrian Walls, Part Three, 27 High Flier, 28 Our Kind of Record, 29 Cogs, 30 Affliction, 31 Accessory, 32 Bastard God, 33 Superstitious Crap, 34 Demarcation, 35 The Little Golden Lights, 36 Dancing Gates, 37 Wil's Play, 38 Winding Sheet, 39 Levels, 40 Bad Year for Apples, 41 Home Cooking, 42 The North Side, 43 Meant, Part Four, 44 Pink Moon, 45 The Eternal Bull, 46 Pretty Foul, 47 False Lover, 48 Thank You, Lord, 49 Badger Baiting, 50 Deep Offence, 51 Vision, 52 The Loft, 53 Watching, 54 Way to Blue, CHAPTER 1", "Third Floor", "Merrily had A recurring dream. She'd read somewhere that it was really quite a common dream, with obvious symbolism.", "By recurring ... well, she'd have it maybe once every few months, or the gaps might be even longer nowadays.", "There", "was", "a period, not long before Sean died, when it came almost nightly. Or even, in that intense and suffocating period, twice or three times the same night – she'd close her eyes and the dream would be waiting there like an empty train by a deserted platform. Sometimes it was merely puzzling, sometimes it seemed to open up exciting possibilities. Occasionally, it was very frightening and she awoke shredded with dread.", "What happened ... she was in a house. Not always the same house, but it was her own house, and she'd lived there quite some time without realizing. Or sometimes she'd just forgotten, she'd gone on living there, possibly for years, without registering that the house had ... a third floor.", "It was clear that she'd lived quite comfortably in this house, which was often bright and pleasant, and that she must have passed the extra staircase thousands of times, either unaware of it or because there was simply no reason to go up there.", "In the dream, however, she", "had", "to go up. With varying amounts of anticipation or cold dread. Because something up there had made its presence known to her.", "She'd nearly always awaken before she made it to the top of the stairs. Either disappointed or trembling with relief. Just occasionally, before her eyes opened, she would glimpse a gloomy, airless landing with a row of grey doors.", "In reality, if you excluded flats, she had never lived in a three-storey house.", "Now, however ...", "'Jesus,' Merrily said. 'We can't live in", "this.", "'", "'Yes, I suppose it is big,' Uncle Ted conceded. 'Didn't think about that. Never a problem for Alf Hayden. Six kids, endless grandchildren ...'", "It was big, all right. Seventeenth century, timber-framed, black and white. Seven bedrooms. Absolutely bloody huge if there was just the two of you. Very quaint, but also unexpectedly, depressingly grotty; nothing seemed to have altered since about the 1950s.", "'Of course, it's church policy these days to flog off these draughty old vicarages,' Uncle Ted said. 'Replace them with nice, modern boxes. Worth a lot of money, your old black and whites. Well ... not this one, at present, not in the state it's in after thirty-odd years of Alf and Betty.'", "There was quaint, Merrily thought, and there was horribly old-fashioned. Like the steel-grey four-bar electric fire blocking up the inglenook. Like a kitchen the size of a small abattoir with no real cupboards but endless open shelves and all the pipes coiled under the sink like a nest of cobras.", "'Besides,' Ted said, 'we haven't got any nice, modern boxes to spare. Three applications for housing estates've been turned down in as many years. Not in keeping.' He frowned. 'Conservation's a fine idea, but not when it turns a nice, old village into an enclave of the elite.'", "In his habitual cardigan and slippers, Ted Clowes, two years retired, didn't look at all like a lawyer any more. His face had gone ruddy, like a farmer's, and his body had thickened. He looked as seasoned and solid as one of the oak pillars holding up the vicarage walls.", "As senior church warden, Ted had made himself responsible for getting the vicarage into some kind of shape. Negotiating with builders and plumbers and decorators. But, well into April, the work had hardly begun; it looked as though Merrily was going to have to spend the first month of her ministry in a bed-and-breakfast.", "She was relieved, in a way. A place this size – it was ridiculous. And an unoccupied third floor, full of dust and echoes.", "She stood on the first-floor landing, miserably looking up. 'All these staircases.'", "'Yeah,' Jane said thoughtfully. 'This puts a whole new perspective on the entire scenario.'", "'It does?'", "Merrily watched warily as the kid took off up the stairs to the third storey. She'd been sulking, on and off, for three days. She'd quite enjoyed the two years in Birmingham while Merrily was at college, loved the time in Liverpool when Merrily was a curate. Big-city woman now. On the way here, she'd said that if Cheltenham was an old people's home, rural Herefordshire looked like premature burial.", "'", "Yes.", "' Jane paused halfway up, looking around.", "'You", "like", "this?'", "'At least we've cleared all those rooms now,' Ted said. 'Alf and Betty were generous enough to leave us a quarter of a century's worth of junk. Yellowing newspapers with pictures of the first moon-landing.'", "Jane had a forefinger placed pensively on her chin. 'Far more rooms than you'd need, Mum, right?'", "'Mmm ... yes.'", "'Even for all your Bible classes and parish meetings and visiting evangelists from Nigeria.'", "'Ye ... es. Unless, of course, they're travelling with their extended families.'", "'So this whole storey is, in effect, going spare.'", "'Conceivably.'", "Her daughter was starting to operate like a slick barrister. (The barrister Merrily might have become had it not been for God's unexpected little blessing. Would she still eventually have wound up in the Church if Jane hadn't come along?)", "'Don't look at me like that, Mum. All I'm saying is I could have a kind of group of rooms up here. Like a suite. Because ... be", "cause", "... if you think about it, those back stairs come off a separate entrance ... a third door, right?'", "Ted chuckled. He knew all about daughters.", "'Right,' Merrily said. 'And?'", "'So it would be kind of my own entrance. It would be ... in fact ... like", "my own flat.", "'", "'Oh. I see.'", "The third door with its own illuminated bell and a card under perspex:", "Flat One. Ms Jane Watkins.", "She was fifteen.", "'And you'd pay the heating bills for this, er, suite, would you?'", "'Oh God.' Jane glared down over the oak banister. 'Here we go. Mrs bloody Negative.'", "'Or maybe you could sub-let a couple of rooms.'", "Jane scowled and flounced off along the short passage. Oak floorboards creaked, a door rattled open. That empty sound.", "'Could be a double-bluff,' Merrily said, her daughter pacing bare boards overhead, probably working out where to put her stereo speakers for optimum sound. 'The picture she's feeding me is that she's going to be so bored here she'll have to invite half the young farmers' club over for wild parties. All these rural Romeos popping pills on the back stairs.'", "Ted laughed. 'Young farmers aren't pill-popping yet. Well ... none that I know of. Pressure job, now, though. Diminishing returns, EC on your back, quotas for this, quotas for that, a hundred forms to fill in, mad cow disease. Suicide figures are already ... Sorry. Bad memories.'", "'What? Oh.'", "'I seem to remember saying, \"If you want an informal picture of village life, why not pop along to this wassailing thing?\" Not quite what I had in mind. Awfully sorry, Merrily.'", "She looked through the landing window, down into a small, square rose garden, where the pink and orange of the soil seemed more exotic than the flowers. Over a hedge lay the churchyard with its cosy, sandstone graves.", "Oddly, that awful, public death hadn't given her a single nightmare. In her memory it was all too surreal. As though violent death had been an optional climax to the wassailing and, as the oldest shooter in the pack, Edgar Powell had felt obliged to take it.", "'You know, standing in that orchard, covered with that poor old bloke's blood, that was when I decided to go for it. I clearly remember thinking that nothing so immediate and so utterly shocking ever happened quite that close to me in Liverpool. That maybe, in some ways, this village could actually be the sharp end. I thought, am I going to wash off his blood and walk away?'", "'It always affects you more in the country.' Ted came to stand beside her at the window. 'Everything that happens. Because you know everybody.", "Every", "body. And you'll find, as minister, that you're regarded as more of a ... a", "key person.", "Births and deaths, you really have to", "be", "there. Even if nobody from the family's been to a church service since the war.'", "'That's fair enough. Far as I'm concerned, belonging to the Church doesn't have to involve coming to services.'", "'And you'll find that hills and meadows are far more claustrophobic than housing estates. You see somebody coming across a twelve-acre field towards you, you can't dodge into a bus shelter.'", "'Fine.'", "Ted raised a dubious eyebrow. 'And everybody gossips,' he said. 'For instance, they'll all tell you Edgar Powell'd been handling that shotgun since for ever.'", "'Making it suicide?'", "'What it looks like, but they haven't got a motive. Money worries? No more than the average farmer. Isolation? Hardly – not living on the edge of the village. Depression? Hard to say. Perhaps he'd just had enough. Or perhaps he simply wanted to ruin the Cassidys' olde English soirée. Been a spiteful old bugger in his time.'", "'You", "are", "kidding, aren't you?'", "'Anyway, Garrod Powell's insisting it was an accident. Came to consult me about it. He'll be telling the coroner the old chap was simply going soft in the head. Can't blame him. Who wants a family suicide? I suggested he have a word with young Asprey, get something medical. But it could even be an open verdict.'", "'What's that mean exactly, Uncle Ted?'", "Merrily turned to find Jane sitting on the top stair, elbows on knees, chin cupped in her hands.", "'Means they can't be entirely sure what happened, Jane,' Ted said.", "'Wish I'd been there.'", "Merrily rolled her eyes. Having made a point of leaving Jane at her mother's when she'd come to do her bit of undercover surveillance prior to applying – or not – for the post. The kid would've given them away in no time.", "'Do you get many suicides in the village?' Jane asked.", "'Not with audience-participation,' Ted said dryly.", "Merrily was thinking, half-guiltily, how she'd scrubbed and scrubbed at her face that night and had to throw away the old fake Barbour.", "They stayed the night at the Black Swan, sharing a room. On the third floor, as it happened, but it was different in a hotel. The Black Swan, like all the major buildings in Ledwardine – with the obvious exception of the vicarage – had been sensitively modernized; the room was ancient but luxurious.", "Jane was asleep about thirty seconds after sliding into her bed. Jane could slip into untroubled sleep anywhere. She'd accepted her father's death with an equanimity that was almost worrying. A blip. Sean had lived in the fast lane and that was precisely where he died. Bang. Gone.", "Sadder about the girl in the car with him. She could have been Jane in a few years' time. Or Merrily herself, ten years or so earlier.", "Too many thoughts crowding in, Merrily upended the pillow behind her, leaned into it and lit the last cigarette of the day. Through the deep, oak-sunk window, the crooked, picture-book roofs of the village snuggled into a soft and woolly pale night sky.", "Perfect. Too perfect, perhaps. If you actually lived here, with roses round the door, what was there left to dream of?", "'How are things financially, now?' Ted had asked in the lounge bar, after dinner.", "Jane had mooched off into the untypically warm April evening to check out the village. And the local totty, she'd added provocatively.", "'Oh' – Merrily drank some lager – 'we get by. Sean's debts weren't as awesome as we'd been led to believe. And a few of the debtors seem less eager to collect than they were at first. I think it was meeting me. In the dog collar. It was like ... you know ... dangling a sprig of garlic in front of Dracula. I'm glad I met them. I don't feel so bad about it now I know what kind of semi-criminal creeps they are. Jesus, what am I saying,", "semi", "?'", "'I won't ask. But I did think he was being a little overambitious setting up on his own. Why didn't you both come to me for some advice?'", "'You know Sean. Knew. Anyway, I blame myself. If I hadn't got pregnant instead of a degree, it was going to be Super-lawyer and Lois-thing, defending the poor, serving the cause of real justice. Zap. Pow. But ... there you go. He was on his own, and with the responsibility of a kid and everything, he was floundering, and he got a little careless about the clients he took on. It's a slippery slope. I wasn't aware of the way things were going. Too busy being Mummy.'", "'You blame yourself for letting him get you pregnant?' Ted raised helpless eyes to the ceiling. 'Blame yourself for anything, won't you, Merrily? Dangerous that, in a vicar.'", "'Priest-in-charge.'", "'Only a matter of time. Now Alf Hayden ... he never accepted the blame for anything. Act of God. Providence. His favourite words. Had us tearing our hair. But you can't get rid of a vicar, can you? Once they're in, they're in and that's that.'", "'Not any more. My contract's for five years.'", "'Red tape,' Ted said. 'Don't worry about it.'", "'Please, Uncle Ted. Don't do anything ... anything else.'", "'You're not feeling manipulated, are you?'", "'Of course not. Well ... maybe. A little.'", "As if having a woman priest in the family wasn't enough, her mother, from the safety of suburban Cheltenham, had been out of her mind when Merrily had gone as a curate to inner-city Liverpool, all concrete and drugs and domestic violence. Running youth clubs and refuges for prozzies and rent boys. Terrific, Jane had thought. Cathartic, Merrily had found.", "While her mother was putting out feelers.", "Good old Ted had come up with the goods inside a year. The vicar of Ledwardine was retiring. Beautiful Ledwardine, only an hour or so's drive from Cheltenham. And Ted was not only senior church warden but used to be the bishop's solicitor. No string-pulling, of course; she'd only get the job if she was considered up to it and the other candidates were weak ... which, at less than fifteen grand a year, they almost certainly would be.", "'You've had a stressful time,' Ted said. He'd never asked her why she'd abandoned the law for the Church. It was evidently taken for granted that this was some kind of reaction against Sean going bent. 'But you do feel right about this place now?'", "'I think so. And listen, don't imagine I'll be giving you an easy time.'", "'Ha. Alf was always far too apathetic to sustain a decent dispute. What did you have in mind?'", "'Well, you need toilets in that church for a start. I don't care if it", "is", "Grade One listed with five stars, a lot of people won't come to a place where they're scared of being taken short. Especially on winter mornings.'", "'Shouldn't be too much of a problem. If you can raise the money.'", "'I'm also into more streamlined services. No, streamlined's not the word exactly. Shorter and more ... intense. Fewer hymns. Less", "meaningless", "ritual. I mean, we won't be kicking people out afterwards. There'll be tea and biscuits and all that, though I won't ask for the espresso machine until I've been around for a while.'", "'What about the prayer book?'", "'Oh, strictly Book of Common Prayer. And no happy-clappy. Well, not much, anyway. Not for the grown-ups.'", "Ted Clowes twisted his brandy glass around, as if contemplating something. 'I shouldn't really be saying this, but a few people were a little wary about you at first. Big parish for ... for ...'", "'For a woman?'", "'Well, yes.' He looked uncomfortable. 'But there were other considerations. It's a mightily useful church, you see. Big. And with quite remarkable acoustics. Best concert hall for a good many miles.'", "'So I gather.'", "'And no shortage of people who recognize its qualities. People who've moved into the area. Dermot Child, the composer and early-music expert and your organist, of course. And Richard Coffey, the playwright.'", "'", "He", "lives here?'", "'Well, some of the time. With his young friend. An actor, not one you'd have heard of. And the Cassidys are very, er, cultured. Well, that's just the core of it, but there are lesser figures and acolytes and followers. And you have to take notice of these people because they bring bodies – and money – into the church. Into the diocese. And a certain ... cultural cachet. Can't be cynical about this sort of thing, Merrily.'", "(Continues...)", "Excerpted from", "The Wine of Angels", "by", "Phil Rickman", ". Copyright © 1999 Phil Rickman. Excerpted by permission of Atlantic Books Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "About the Author", "Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border with his wife Carol. He has worked as a BBC radio and TV reporter, and he writes and presents the book program \"Phil the Shelf\" on BBC Radio Wales. He is also the author of the internationally bestselling crime series featuring Merrily Watkins. He is the author of \"The Bones of Avalon\".", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctoras husband, a surgeon, and this makes her a aperson of interesta to the police, if not at outright suspect. But someone other than the cops is watching Cheryl Beth.The killing comes as former homicide detective Will Borders is just hours out of surgery. But as his stretcher is wheeled past the crime scene, he knows this is no random act of violence. Instead, it has all the marks of a serial killer case he supposedly solved years before.Rebuked by his former partner and unable even to walk, Borders starts to investigate. He teams up with Cheryl Beth, who is desperate to clear her name. But as the city teeters on the edge of violence and a killer grows closer, the two are running out of time to unlock the secrets of the murder and the brooding, old hospital.The Pain Nurse begins a new series by the author of the award-winning David Mapstone series." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "The author of the David Mapstone series set in Phoenix (", "Cactus Heart", ", etc.) puts an interesting twist on the detective solving a mystery while bed-ridden scenario in this tense, well-crafted whodunit. A brief glimpse of a horrific murder scene in Cincinnati Memorial Hospital is enough to tell Will Borders, an ex-homicide cop who's recovering from the removal of a spinal cord tumor, that the crime resembles those committed by the killer dubbed the Mount Adams Slasher. The man convicted of the slasher's crimes, however, was caught, tried and executed. Cheryl Beth Wilson, the pain nurse specialist who discovered the victim, Dr. Christine Lustig, becomes a suspect once the police learn she had an affair with Lustig's husband. Borders, one of Wilson's patients, isn't even ambulatory as the two start sharing information about the case. Talton's authentic depiction of hospital life lends heft, as do his searing descriptions of Borders's physical pain and mental anguish during recovery.", "(Apr.)", "Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "Review", "\"The author of the David Mapstone series set in Phoenix (", "Cactus Heart", ", etc.) puts an interesting twist on the detective solving a mystery while bed-ridden scenario in this tense, well-crafted whodunit. A brief glimpse of a horrific murder scene in Cincinnati Memorial Hospital is enough to tell Will Borders, an ex-homicide cop who's recovering from the removal of a spinal cord tumor, that the crime resembles those committed by the killer dubbed the Mount Adams Slasher. The man convicted of the slasher's crimes, however, was caught, tried and executed. Cheryl Beth Wilson, the pain nurse specialist who discovered the victim, Dr. Christine Lustig, becomes a suspect once the police learn she had an affair with Lustig's husband. Borders, one of Wilson's patients, isn't even ambulatory as the two start sharing information about the case. Talton's authentic depiction of hospital life lends heft, as do his searing descriptions of Borders's physical pain and mental anguish during recovery.\"  --", "Publishers Weekly", "of", "The Pain Nurse", ", 1/19/2009", "*STARRED REVIEW*", "“Talton, author of the award-winning David Mapstone (Cactus Heart) series, demonstrates his versatility in depicting the little-known world of the hospital pain nurse. A strong series launch, for all collections.” –", "Library Journal", "of", "The Pain Nurse", "“A nurse who understands pain, a cop who's got plenty of it and a cold case turned hot mesh smoothly in the latest from Talton (", "Cactus Heart", ", 2007, etc.)… Nicely done. Though she's a pain nurse, Cheryl Beth is a pleasure.” –", "Kirkus Reviews", "of", "The Pain Nurse", "From the Inside Flap", "Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Does her past affair make her the next victim?", "About the Author", "Author Jon Taltonas writing was developed over 20 years as a journalist, working for newspapers in San Diego, Denver, Dayton, Cincinnati, Charlotte, and Phoenix. Jonas columns have appeared in newspapers throughout North America. Before journalism, Jon worked as an ambulance medic in the inner city of Phoenix. He now lives in Seattle, WA.http://www.jontalton.com", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Mystery" ]

[ "Loved by children, parents, and teachers alike, this modern classic follows Theobald and Pepper Miller Moth on their first adventure to Scarlett's garden.", "An evening sky...a daring adventure", "Caught up in play, Theobald and Pepper Miller Moth lose track of time and nightfall is upon them. Will they be able to safely navigate as the lights begin to illuminate the path home?", "\"Can we go to Scarlett's garden and play?\"", "Theobald considered the question, and then he thought about Scarlett, the little girl at the end of the lane who had the most delightful garden. But it was getting late, and soon the silvery-white lights of the house dwellers would turn on, and he knew that porch lights are dangerous things for moths when the sun goes down.", "The vibrant illustrations will captivate young readers and help them learn about:", "Nighttime pollination", "Nighttime pollination", "Nocturnal creatures", "Nocturnal creatures", "Light pollution", "Light pollution", "This is a must-have book for:", "Children who love to read", "Children who love to read", "Teachers supporting environmental conservation", "Teachers supporting environmental conservation", "Parents and care providers who want to raise responsible and aware children", "Parents and care providers who want to raise responsible and aware children", "Targeted for children ages 3-11, this is the first in a series of books featuring the Adventures of Theobald and Pepper Miller Moth. Children are sure to learn about nighttime pollination and light pollution through these fun-to-read stories." ]

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[ "Real You Incorporated", "empowers women entrepreneurs. The book provides insights for women on how to discover and love their personal brand, and how to bring it into the market as a real business―unique and different. In the first section of the book, Find It Within You, readers will learn how to express internal personality, passions and essence to define the internal brand. In the second section, The Competitive Advantage, readers learn how to extend the internal message into the world―to their partners, employees and ultimately their customers.", "Part branding―the author is a nationally known marketing expert―and part business inspiration, Real You Incorporated includes case studies of real women entrepreneurs from a variety of industries: manufacturing, retail, restaurants, real estate, publishing and many more. Their stories bring the book to life, adding inspiration and role models. The book also includes a visualization tool in the form of a chart that women entrepreneurs can complete and keep with them, to remind them of their Real You, no matter what phase their business is in." ]

[ "From the Inside Flap", "It's a fact; every sixty seconds a womanstarts a business. And while women represent a dominant force in the ever-growing business economy, the demand to fit into the corporate \"boys club\" is still pervasive.In Real You Incorporated, Kaira SturdivantRouda reveals the secret to building a successful brand, and thus a successful busi-ness, by refusing to fit in. Being successful is all about being you—the real you.", "Real You Incorporated offers women a bold and refreshing message: for a brand to truly, deeply resonate with customers, it has to be based on something truly genuine—yourself. Building that personal, genuine brand means being true to yourself in every part of your business—from how you promote your talents to how you interact with the people in your office and everything else.", "Rouda's lively book provides readers with a helpful Real You Incorporated chart that captures the most essential elements of your business: you and your passions, brand, positioning, culture, customers, and gifts. Once you fully define your personal brand, Rouda shows you how to use it as a competitive advantage that will prove invaluable to your long-term success.", "Each chapter includes profiles of successful entrepreneurs and provides inspiration and cautionary tales for every business woman.", "Full of new ways to look at age-old problems—including handy tools like a \"Snark Scale\"—Real You Incorporated empowers you to join other women who are changing the face of business. It starts by discovering who you are and developing an authentic, unique personal brand, one based simply on being the real you.", "From the Back Cover", "Praise for", "Real You Incorporated", "\"What I admire about Kaira is her can-do attitude. She knows what it's like to be in a man's world, but still accomplish things her way. She's the real thing, and after reading this book, you'll feel more confident of being your real you too. Go for it.\" ―Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling author of", "Never Eat Alone", "\"Kaira Rouda empowers the woman entrepreneur by simply telling her to be herself. Where other books urge women to fit in with the boys,", "Real You Incorporated", "shows you how to create your own unique and wonderful brand. The secret is building it around the real you!\" ―Barbara Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Group and author of", "If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails", "\"Really simple and really smart rules for all women. Follow them, and you'll build your brand and find real success.\" ―Laura Ries, coauthor of", "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding", "\"", "Real You Incorporated", "is a courageous undertaking. Kaira Sturdivant Rouda is the kind of author who is uniquely suited for her subject―she is both a successful woman in business and completely unafraid to share her candid insights and advice. I can see this book being a blueprint for many youngfemale entrepreneurs.\" ―Justin McCarthy, Google", "\"Filled with keen insights, practical knowledge, and tactical tools to build your success,", "Real You Incorporated", "is a concise, friendly read for women who wantmore than just advice. They want answers, and this should be their first stop.\" ―Delia Passi, author of", "Winning the Toughest Customer: The Essential Guide to Selling to Women", "About the Author", "Kaira Sturdivant Rouda", "is a nationally recognized branding professional with more than twenty years of experience in marketing, brand building, and entrepreneurship. The 2008 Stevie Award Winner for Women in Business, Kaira believes in the power of women in the workforce and beyond. Her debut novel,", "HERE, HOME, HOPE, is a 2011 Indie Excellence Award Winner. Her first short story,", "A MOTHER'S DAY, was published in May. She lives in Southern California with her husband and their four children.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Business & Money", "Marketing & Sales" ]

[ "Who says dictionaries have to be dull? Berlitz's new Concise Dictionaries are a fun and effective tool for language learners. With approximately 50,000 entries, it is a comprehensive reference work. But that's where the similarity to other bilingual dictionaries ends. An exclusive 48-page bonus section, filled with word games and puzzles, challenges the user to hone vocabulary, spelling, grammar and comprehension skills while engaging in a popular, enjoyable pastime." ]

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[ "\"The story of the Bible is the story of God's developing plan to bring man into his royal inheritance as a king in His kingdom.\" In the first chapter of Genesis, the Bible reveals that God's intention was for man, the pinnacle of Creation, to reign with Him over the earth. Only by submitting completely to the Lord of the universe could man fulfill this destiny. But through an insidious trick of the Devil, man rebelled against his Creator. The rest of Scripture tells the tale of the Lord's magnificent work of Redemption, bringing those who are willing to repent of their rebellion into their royal inheritance. A Royal Destiny traces this theme from its beginning in the Garden of Eden to its glorious climax in the book of Revelation." ]

[ "About the Author", "Former dean of the School of Religion at Bob Jones University, Thurman Wisdom holds a doctor of philosophy degree in Old Testament Interpretation. he joined the faculty of BJU in 1961 and served there for thirty-nine years. Dr. Wisdom currently serves on the board of Frontline Missions International, which supports native biblical ministries in limited-access regions of the world, and he remains active in regular short-term missions work in Russia and the Ukraine." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Bible Study & Reference" ]

[ "A post-apocalypse sword fantasy : It is the new age of barbarism, hundreds of years after the collapse of civilization. Most of the vast knowledge that mankind had accumulated has been lost. The once great cities are either piles of blasted rubble or crumbling ruins. After society imploded, humanity turned on one another. Decades of war followed. The survivors banded together in tribes and clans. All the bullets and bombs have run out. It’s back to edged weapons and blunt instruments. Technology has taken an enormous step backwards, and so has humanity. He belongs to a band of wanderers, mainly peaceful people who gather and hunt. One day they suffer a raid by a group of warriors and in the aftermath, he finds himself alone. All his family and friends killed, and he left for dead. The only survivor was his little sister, which the raiders kidnapped. He vows to rescue her. After a night of mourning, he sets off to get back his sister, not yet a man and without any idea how to go about it. The shock of the raid and the grief that followed it fundamentally changed him. He surprises himself time and again as he tracks down his sister’s kidnappers and gets her back." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "A lavish hardback containing Orson Welles' Portfolio, much of which has never been seen before.", "Orson Welles, famous as an accomplished actor, writer, producer and visionary director, had originally aspired to become a musician or artist. Having studied at the Art Institute of Chicago for one summer, he continued to draw and paint throughout his life. The majority of his artwork, including costume and set designs and caricatures, has been unavailable to the public. Until now." ]

[ "Review", "“a treasure trove of previously unseen [work]” -  Flavorwire Gallery Feature“[a] fascinating new coffee table book” - The Daily Beast“an essential read for Welles fans...Welles was a fascinating man for various reasons, and more than anything, this book highlights just how one-of-a-kind and unique he truly was” - Film School Rejects “Wondrously illuminating” - The Film Stage", "About the Author", "Braund", "edited the book", "The Greatest Movies You'll Never See", "and writes on cinema for", "Empire", "magazine,", "The Sunday Times, Q Magazine, The Observer,", "and", "Time Out", "." ]

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[ "Books", "Humor & Entertainment", "Movies" ]

[ "A Communicator's Toolkit for Teaching the Old Testament Having the right resources gives you a powerful edge in communicating the message of the Old Testament effectively in this media-driven, sensory-intensive culture. You'll learn how to effectively connect with the minds, imaginations, and hearts of your listeners. Designed to maximize your connection and impact, it is a communicator's toolbox for teaching your congregation 32 life-changing messages from the Old Testament. It is a stand-alone resource that can also be used in conjunction with the Exploring the Old Testament Bible study series to facilitate a nine-month church wide study of the Old Testament. Based on Pastor John Ortberg's OTC series at the New Community services of Willow Creek Community Church, this teaching resource will enable churches to raise the level of biblical literacy and understanding among its congregation. * Historical, cultural, and geographical backgrounds unlock the meanings of Bible passages. Transport your listeners thousands of years into the past so they can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the ancient world. * Illustrations, humorous stories, and word pictures engage the imagination and emotions, bringing home the timeless message of the Old Testament with clarity and freshness. * Creative applications help listeners make the leap from learning Old Testament lessons to living the Christian life. The genius of this teaching guide is its flexibility. Customize your messages from a treasury of resources. This revolutionary tool provides up to 16 categories of material for each message. No need to spend countless hours doing research---a wealth of ideas and resources lies at your fingertips! The preaching and teaching guide includes: *Creative Message Ideas *Heart of the Message *Heart of the Messenger *Historical Context Notes *Illustrations *Interpretive Insights *Life Applications *Narrative on Life *Narrative on the Text *New Testament Connections *On the Lighter Side *Pause for Prayer *Pause for Reflection *Quotable Quotes *Significant Scriptures *Word Studies" ]

[ "About the Author", "John Ortberg is a pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California. He is the bestselling author of When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box; The Life You've Always Wanted; and If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat. He and his wife Nancy, have three children. SPANISH BIO: John Ortberg es pastor de la iglesia Presbiteriana de Menlo Park en la ciudad de Menlo Park, California. Es el autor de los exitos de venta: Dios esta mas cerca de lo que crees, La vida que siempre has querido, Todos son normales hasta que los conoces, Si quieres caminar sobre las aguas, tienes que salir de la barca, y Un amor mas alla de la razon. el y su esposa, Nancy, tienen tres hijos.Kevin and Sherry Harney serve together at Shoreline Community Church in Monterey, California. They are coauthors of Church You Can Love and Loving the Church You've Found, the Old Testament Challenge, and over fifty small group Bible study guides. SPANISH BIO: Kevin y Sherry Harney sirven en la Iglesia Shoreline Community en Monterey, California. Son coautores de Encuentra una iglesia que puedas amar, y ama la iglesia que encuentres y mas de cincuenta guias de estudio biblico para grupos pequenos." ]

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[ "Three years after the tragic sinking of the Titanic, another luxury liner went to a watery grave beneath the icy depths of the North Atlantic. The sinking of the Lusitania, torpedoed by a German U-boat in a sneak attack off the coast of Ireland, was one of the most pivotal and universally condemned acts of World War I.", "Diana Preston chronicles the shipboard experiences of three children who were on that fateful voyage. Eleven-year-old Frank Hook, a third-class passenger, was moving to England with his father and older sister. Twelve-year-old Avis Dolphin, a second-class passenger, was being sent to an English boarding school with a chaperone. And five-month-old Audrey Pearl was traveling in luxurious first class with her parents, three siblings, and two nannies.", "From different walks of life and varied circumstances, these three children shared a common bond-they all survived one of the most disastrous shipwrecks in history. Their stories, taken from firsthand accounts, personal interviews, and historical documents, provide a riveting look at one of the most tragic and significant events of World War I." ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "Grade 3-6-An account of the sinking of the Lusitania as seen through the eyes of the passengers and crew. Preston based this book on published interviews with survivors, the diary of the captain of the U-boat that torpedoed the passenger liner, other contemporary sources, and her adult title, Lusitania-An Epic Tragedy (Walker, 2002). In addition to describing the wartime setting, the transatlantic voyage, and the U-boat's patrol, the author follows up with details on many victims' post-Lusitania lives. However, so many characters are presented that some treatments are superficial. A few really shine through, though, such as a shipboard friendship between a man and a young girl, his efforts to save her, and their separation and eventual reunion. Informative black-and-white photos and diagrams enhance the text. An appendix meticulously lists and describes the sources used in re-creating the ship's last trip. Technical descriptions of its sinking, such as Robert Ballard's in Ghost Liners (Little, Brown, 1998), lack the personal details of Preston's book. Her focus on the experiences of children should appeal to young readers.", "Jeffrey A. French, Euclid Public Library, OH", "Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From", "Booklist", "Gr. 5-8. On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British passenger steamer", "Lusitania", "was hit by a torpedo fired from a German U-boat. Among the 1,201 killed were 128 Americans, and the tragedy helped propel the U.S. into war two years later. Preston, the author of", "Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy", "(2002) for adults, infuses her account with several touching human stories, giving a vivid and terrifying picture of the chaotic minutes before the ship went down and the harrowing search for survivors. Surprisingly, no mention is made of the murkier side of the", "Lusitania'", "s saga. Was it, for instance, carrying contraband arms? Preston dealt with such questions extensively in her adult book, and it is hard to understand why she left them out of this account for younger readers. Many black-and-white period photographs fill the pages, and back matter includes statistics about the ship, source notes, and suggestions for further reading. A spellbinding, if historically incomplete, look at an important event in World War I history.", "Todd Morning", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "About the Author", "Born and raised in London, Diana Preston studied Modern History at Oxford University, where she first became involved in journalism. After earning her degree, she became a freelance writer of feature and travel articles for national UK newspapers and magazines and has subsequently reviewed books for a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times. She has also been a broadcaster for the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and has been featured in various television documentaries.", "Eight years ago, her decision to write \"popular\" history led her to The Road to Culloden Moor: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the '45 Rebellion (Constable UK, 1995). It was followed by A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), The Boxer Rebellion (Walker & Company, 2000), and now, Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy (Walker & Company, 2002).", "In choosing her topics, Preston looks for stories and events which are both compelling in their own right and also help readers gain a wider understanding of the past. She is fascinated by the human experience-what motivates people to think and act as they doÐand the individual stories that comprise the larger historical picture. Preston spent over two years researching Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. She did a remarkable amount of original research for the book, and is the first author to make full use of the German archives and newly discovered papers that illuminate both the human tragedy and subsequent plots to cover up what really happened. Preston traveled to all the key locations of the tragedy, experiencing firsthand how cold the water off the Irish coast near Cobh would have been in early May when the Lusitania sank, and how eerie it was to stand inside what remains of the U-20 (now at the Strandingsmuseum in West Jutland, Denmark) where the U-boat captain watched the Lusitania through his periscope and gave the order to fire. Of the many artifacts she reviewed, it was her extensive reading of the diaries and memoirs of survivors that had the biggest impact on her. The experience of looking at photographs and touching the scraps of clothing of both survivors and those who died when the Lusitania sank provided her with chilling pictures: The heartbreaking image of a young girl whose sister's hand slipped away from her was one that kept Preston up at night. When not writing, Preston is an avid traveler with her husband, Michael. Together, they have sojourned throughout India, Asia, Africa, and Antarctica, and have climbed Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and Mount Roraima in Venezuela. Their adventures have also included gorilla-tracking in Zaire and camping their way across the Namibian desert. Diana and Michael Preston are currently working on a biography of the 17th-century British explorer, naturalist, scientist, pirate and buccaneer William Dampier, which is forthcoming from Walker & Company. They live in London, England.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "History" ]

[ "The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters―the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy, the agents of international terrorism―are familiar figures in the dream life that so often dominates American political consciousness. What are the meanings and sources of these demons? Why does the American political imagination conjure them up? Michael Rogin answers these questions by examining the American countersubversive tradition." ]

[ "Review", "\"Rogin provides examples sufficient to convince the reader that policies engineered to control subversion have been of major importance and have been a constant feature of American politics. . . . [An] important book.\"--Ralph Braccio, \"The Christian Science Monitor", "From the Inside Flap", "\"Fresh, provocative, and full of vitality, this is a first-rate contribution to the study of political culture. It should be read not only by political scientists, political theorists, and sociologists, but also by students of American studies and literature.\"―Sheldon Wolin, Princeton University", "From the Back Cover", "\"Fresh, provocative, and full of vitality, this is a first-rate contribution to the study of political culture. It should be read not only by political scientists, political theorists, and sociologists, but also by students of American studies and literature.\"―Sheldon Wolin, Princeton University", "About the Author", "Michael P. Rogin", "is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and author of", "Subversive Geneology: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville", "(California, 1985).", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Ronald Reagan The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology", "By Michael Rogin", "University of California Press", "Copyright 1988", "Michael Rogin All right reserved.", "ISBN: 0520064690", "Chapter I Ronald Reagan , the Movie", "\"The neatest Christmas gift of all!\" says Ronald Reagan. You can twist it. . . . You can twirl it. . . . You can bend it. . . . You can curl it. . . . The new revolutionary collar on Van Heusen Century shirts won't wrinkle . . . ever!Caption accompanying a picture of \"Ronald Reagan starring in Universal International's Law and Order, Color by Technicolor\"", "The year is 1940, Stalin and Hitler have signed their pact, and Europe is at war. Saboteurs are operating inside America as well, blowing up bridges and trains. The House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating sabotage and sedition, subpoenas Joe Garvey, the chairman of the Society of Loyal Naturalized Americans. Garvey speaks with a foreign accent; he insists that the purpose of his organization is simply to preserve American neutrality and keep the country out of war. When asked by HUAC's chairman if his organization's labor racketeering, unlawful assembly, and sabotage are the activities of loyal Americans, Garvey responds that such accusations are \"capitalistic\" lies. In truth, however, Garvey heads a ring of foreign spies.", "One of Garvey's saboteurs has been killed in a train wreck; the Secret Service sends an agent to impersonate him. To test the agent's identity, Garvey's toughs masquerade as policemen and knock him around; they accuse him of being a Wobbly and a Red. When they are satisfied that he is what they have charged him with being, an anti-American subversive, Garvey's men take him to their boss.", "America has invented a miraculous defensive weapon that paralyzes electric currents at their source. The inertia projector, as it is called, stops and destroys anything that moves. According to an American admiral, it will \"make America invincible in war and therefore be the greatest force for peace ever invented.\" When Garvey and another foreign spy fly off with the plans for the weapon, the secret agent follows.", "He turns the inertia projector on the spy plane; the plane stops in midair, catches fire, and plummets to the ground.", "The American agent has an assistant, Gabby Waters. While the fate of the country hangs in the balance, Gabby's girlfriend has been nagging him to marry her. Where the spies have failed, she is about to succeed in capturing her man when the secret agent and his boss turn the inertia projector on the car taking the couple to the altar. The secret weapon stops the car. As his girlfriend fumes helplessly, Gabby is rescued from female entrapment and \"save[d] for the service.\"", "Murder in the Air (1940), the movie I have been describing, is a minor piece in the 1940s politicization of Hollywood. It illustrates several tendencies that emerge in the course of that decade. Murder in the Air begins as if its theme is counterfeit money; the movie then shifts to spying and counterfeit identity, initiating the move from crime to countersubversion that characterizes 1940s Hollywood. Collapsing Communists into Fascists, Murder in the Air presages the turn from the anti-Nazi films of World War II to the anti-Communist films of the cold war. Male freedom in this movie is threatened by both a nagging woman and a foreign power; merging those dangers and then zapping the woman and the subversives, Murder in the Air also looks forward to the sexual politics of cold war movies.", "But Murder in the Air would remain forgotten, as it has until now, if the man who played the secret agent, Brass Bancroft, were not Ronald Reagan (see Fig. 1.1). The attack on subversion; the merging of Communism and Fascism; the flippancy about matters of life and death, peace and war; the obsession with intelligence agents as the means to national security; and, most striking, the existence of an airborne defensive superweapon that will make America invulnerableall these look forward beyond World War II to the Star Wars militarization of space and the Reagan presidency. Reagan's explanation for the unfinished security arrangements that allowed terrorists to kill American troops in Beirut\"Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it's never done as soon as you wish it would\"could be a quip from the movie. Reagan explained the terrorist success by the \"near destruction of our intelligence capacity . . . before we came here,\" thereby distinguishing the CIA under Carter from the wartime Secret Service. Believing there has never been a time in history \"when there wasn't a defense against some kind of threat,\" President Reagan intervened against his own scientific consultants and normal bureaucratic processes to write out in longhand the paragraphs of his March 1983", "speech advocating a ballistic missile defense system that \"holds the promise of changing the course of history.\" \"The Strategic Defense Initiative has been labelled Star Wars,\" the president said two years later. \"But it isn't about war. It is about peace. . . . If you will pardon my stealing a film linethe force is with us.\" In quoting a contemporary movie, was Reagan paying homage to its predecessor? Are we now being ruled by the fantasies of a 1940s countersubversive B movie?1", "This chapter investigates the making of Ronald Reagan in 1940s Hollywood. The presidential character, I shall argue, was produced from the convergence of two substitutions that generated cold war countersubversion in the 1940s and underlie its 1980s revivalthe political replacement of Nazism by Communism, from which the national-security state was born, and the psychological shift from an embodied self to its simulacrum on film. Reagan, I shall suggest, found out who he was through the roles he played on film. By responding to typecasting that either attracted or repelled him, by making active efforts to obtain certain roles and to escape others, Reagan merged his on- and offscreen identities. The confusion between life and film produced Ronald Reagan , the image that has fixed our gaze. In a deliberate imitation of the Reagan process, this chapter explores that confusion between life and film to bring the making of this president into view.", "I", "\"Movies are forever\" was the theme of the 1981 Academy Awards. President Ronald Reagan, the first Hollywood actor elevated to the presidency, was scheduled to welcome the academy from the White House. \"Film is forever,\" the president was to tell the academy. \"It is the motion picture that shows all of us not only how we look and sound butmore importanthow we feel.\" Hollywood movies, Reagan was suggesting, mirror back to us the feelings on the screen as if they were our own, as if we were not given those feelings by the movies themselves. As confirming evidence of the power of film, John W. Hinckley, Jr., imitating the plot of the movie Taxi Driver , deliberately shot the president on the day of the Academy Awards. Obsessed with Taxi Driver , Hinckley had seen it again and again and had cast himself in the role of its isolated, deranged, and violent protagonist. Like the character played by Robert De Niro, Hinckley became a gun freak. Like him, he determined to win the woman he lovedJody Foster in Hinckley's fantasy, the character she played in the movieby assassinating a political leader. Hinckley,", "like the De Niro character, failed as a political assassin. But he preempted the Academy Awards and postponed them for an evening. De Niro, nominated for an Oscar in 1976 for his performance in Taxi Driver , had been nominated again five years later. He had planned to absent himself from the 1981 ceremonies, but he appeared the night following the attempted assassination, accepted an award for his performance in Raging Bull , and told the audience that he loved everybody. De Niro was testifying that he was not really the character he and Hinckley had played.2", "In spite of De Niro's attempt to distance himself from his Taxi Driver role, Hinckley's act reinforced the president's interpretation of the power of film. Millions of Americans experienced the assassination attempt by watching it over and over again on television. The power of the film image confirmed the shooting; it also allowed Reagan to speak to the academy the next night as if the shooting had never happened. The television audience watching a screen saw a Hollywood audience watch another screen. One audience saw the other applaud a taped image of a healthy Reagan, while the real president lay in a hospital bed. Reagan was president because of film, hospitalized because of film, and present as an undamaged image because of film. The shooting climaxed film's ingestion of reality. In so doing, it climaxed, in an uncanny way, Reagan's personal project: the creation of a disembodied self that, by rising above real inner conflicts, would reflect back to the president and all the rest of us not only how he looked and sounded butmore importanthow he felt and who he was.", "At the same time that the assassination attempt dissolved the boundaries between film and real life, it allowed Reagan to exploit another boundary confusion. \"I have come to speak to you tonight about our economic recovery program,\" the president told a joint session of Congress several weeks after he was shot. But first he digressed \"for a moment\" to thank the millions of Americans who had offered him their \"expression of friendship and, yes, love\" after the assassination attempt. \"Now let's talk about getting spending and inflation under control and cutting your tax rates,\" Reagan continued. \"Thanks to some very fine people, my health is much improved. I'd like to be able to say that with regard to the health of the economy.\" The president was identifying the recovery of his mortal body with the health of the body politic, his own convalescence with his program to restore health to the nation. Reagan was presenting himself as the healer, laying his hands on the sick social", "body. He was employing a very old symbolism, one that merges the body of a political leader and the body of his realm.3", "The doctrine of the king's two bodies, as we shall see in chapter 3, developed in the sixteenth century to address the relationship between a ruler's mortal body and his body politic. That doctrine, which marked a shift in the locus of sacred power from the church to the state, derived from the two bodies of Christ. Theologically, the death of Christ's mortal body created a mystic body, the regenerate Christian community. Sixteenth-century political leaders sought, like divine kings, to reabsorb that mystic community into their own personal bodies. American presidents and their publics have also identified the president's welfare with the health of the body politic and have attributed magical, healing power to the presidential touch.4 But during Reagan's lifetime the locus of sacred value shifted from the church not to the state but to Hollywood. Reagan was born again to embody America through his sacrifice and rebirth on the screen.", "It was D. W. Griffith who made Reagan possible as a presence who feels real to himself and his audience because he is seen. As I shall argue in chapter 7, Griffith wanted to collapse the world into film. Heand the mass culture he foundedshifted the locus of the real in America from mythicized history to image by crystallizing demonological images and placing them on film. But Griffith's project was the inverse of the one in Reagan's Hollywood. Griffith saw film as a visionary alternative to the mundane. He was possessed by the newness of film technique, by his own inventive power, and then, in the 1920s, by the artificiality of his movies. Griffith called attention to the filmmaker and his instruments, to the camera eye and the film cut. By contrast, in Kevin Brownlow's words, \"the Hollywood aim was to perfect technique and thus render it imperceptible.\" The Hollywood movie in its classic yearsthe late 1930s through the 1950s, the years of Reagan's Hollywood careerblended the storyteller with the narrative and disguised the artfulness of film cuts. Dialogue and the moving camera made movies seem mimetic of quotidian reality. Hiding technique naturalized the fantasy nature of film content. For both filmgoers and participants in the making of films, reality lay neither in the process by which the movie was constructed nor in the outtakes on the cutting room floor, but rather in the final cut that eliminated all those shots, scenes, and versions of the plot where something had gone wrong.5", "Early cinema, whether in Eisenstein's social or in German expres-", "sionism's psychological mode (Griffith fathered them both), opened up an interiorized world. Hollywood naturalism, in which depth of focus gave the illusion of ordinary three-dimensionality, kept viewers on the surface of the image. The audience knew it was at a motion picture theater but was not led to ask whether what it was seeing was real.", "The classic Hollywood movie was overdone and improbable and, at the same time, continuous with ordinary life. Michael Wood has suggested that such films, with their overblown lines of dialogue and their references to one another, constituted a larger-than-life world of their own. Hollywood did not relax mundane constraints to obliterate daily life, however, but to allow its daydreams to take over. The stories and the methods of these movies broke down the barriers between fantasy and reality, heroes and ordinary people. Classic Hollywood films put realism in the service of fantasy, as if movies were mirroring the mundane. They encouraged confusion between \"day-dreams,\" as Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites call these films, and daily life. For many people, movies functioned as arenas for role playing, and they were the place where the role player who was to become president of the United States discovered his identity.6", "Griffith had contrasted the masses who worshiped stars to the thinking classes who preferred the artistic standard imposed by a great director. He prophesied the director-artist as the hero of the future, but he was wrong.7 The mass viewer would take as hero his or her ideal self, bigger than life, reflected in the star. And an actor who never reached the pinnacle of Hollywood stardom would use his confusion between \"day-dreams\" and reality to mediate between the mass public and the image of the ideal.", "\"It has taken me many years to get used to seeing myself as others see me,\" Reagan writes in his autobiography. \"Very few of us ever see ourselves except as we look directly at ourselves in a mirror. Thus we don't know how we look from behind, from the side, walking, standing, moving normally through a room. It's quite a jolt.\" But the actor, says Reagan, learns to see himself from the outside in as others see him, not from the inside out. He gives up the \"mental picture\" of the character he plays as separate from himself and becomes at once the viewer of the object and the object seen.8", "A mirror requires both a referent and its reflection; it is dependent on outside standards to supply a reality check. Movies have frequently used a mirror image to create a double of the self, a split of the ideal self from its dark reflection. But the screen also takes the place of a", "mirror. It obliterates the referent: a self who sees himself from all angles fragments and disappears into his image. Self-sufficient, the screen dispenses both with external history and with the historically formed human interior (for which the mirror reflection was often a symbol). When the camera brought Reagan's self inside the screen, to exist as an observed outside, it shattered the distinction between inside and outside to produce \"quite a jolt.\"9", "\"There are not two Ronald Reagans,\" Nancy Reagan assures us. In her words, \"There is a certain cynicism in politics. You look in back of a statement for what the man really means. But it takes people a while to realize that with Ronnie you don't have to look in back of anything.\" She is describing a man whose most spontaneous moments\"Where do we find such men?\" about the American D-day dead; \"I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green,\" during the 1980 New Hampshire primary debateare not only preserved and projected on film but also turn out to be lines from old movies. The president knows, in the words of a member of his staff, that \"all of us are deeply affected by a uniquely American art form: the movies.\" Responding to the charge that Reagan confuses the world depicted in movies with the world outside it, the presidential aide explained that cinema heightens reality instead of lessening it. Unwilling to acknowledge the conflation of movies and reality as a uniquely American contribution, the aide insisted that the president knew the difference between cinema and reality because he normally credited the lines he used.10", "Reagan has, to be sure, deliberately quoted movie lines to make himself the hero of American cultural myths. \"Go ahead. Make my day,\" the president told Congress, promising to veto a tax increase. He was repeating Clint Eastwood's dare in Sudden Impact that a hoodlum murder a woman hostage to free Eastwood to shoot the criminal. \"Boy, I saw Rambo last night,\" the president said in July 1985 after the thirty-nine hostages held in Lebanon had been released. \"Now I know what to do the next time this happens.\" At other times, however, Reagan has not only hidden from his audience the filmic origins of his words to create the appearance of spontaneity but concealed those origins from himself as well. CBS's \"Sixty Minutes\" has traced the process by which Reagan first credited the line \"Where do we find such men?\" to the movie admiral in Bridges at Toko-Ri , then assigned that line to a real admiral, and finally quoted it as if he had thought of it himself. The president has inadvertently called his dog \"Lassie\" in front of reporters. He has told a mass audience about the captain of a bomber who chose", "to go down with his plane rather than abandon a wounded crew member\"Congressional Medal of Honor, posthumous,\" concluded Reagan with tears in his eyesonly to have it revealed by a sailor who had seen the film aboard a World War II aircraft carrier that the episode was taken from Dana Andrews's A Wing and a Prayer . Reagan knew the Holocaust had happened, he told a gathering of survivors, because he had seen films of the camps. If there are not two Ronald Reagans, we owe his integration to film.11", "Like earlier countersubversives, Reagan has divided the world between the forces of good and an empire of evil and traced all troubles at home and abroad to a conspiratorial center. Unlike them, however, he seems neither internally driven nor possessed. As many commentators have noted, he combines political punitiveness with personal charm, right-wing principle, and political salesmanship. Speaking like a radio announcer or talk show host (Reagan has been both), he presents political events of his own making as if he were somehow not responsible for them. He represents valued qualities rather than acting on them. Reagan suggests not the producer self who makes things happen but the celebrity who shows them off.12", "Robert Dallek has explained the disjunction between the form and content of Reagan's politics by invoking the shift in the course of the twentieth century from idols of production to idols of consumption. The hero of production was a hard-working figure, admired for his achievements. The idol of consumption is a celebrity; his (or her) appeal comes from looks, not action. The idol of production made durable goods. The idol of consumption is a salesman or the object he sells. The former idol, like Reagan's rhetoric, acted on the supply side. The latter, like Reagan's tax cut, stimulates demand. The one flourishes in a manufacturing economy, the other in an economy based on service and information. Ordinary Americans can identify with the idol of consumption because he does not exercise authority over them or (like the traditional captain of industry) over employees at the workplace.13", "The idol of production rose on his merits; the idol of consumption rises through good fortune, from being in the right place at the right time. \"A miracle happened,\" Reagan has said of his first success in broadcasting; it could have happened to anyone. The idol of consumption is the chosen not the chooser, the product not the producer. He inhabits \"a world of dependency,\" writes Leo Lowenthal in his classic study of the heroes of popular biography, \"in which the average man is never alone and never wants to be alone.\" The president who urges a", "return to a time before Americans were \"robbed of their independence\" plays on the values of production but does not live them, for he was formed as an idol of consumption.14", "The idol of production was inner-directed, aggressive, and driven. He valued character, possessing a self-controlled ego that was divided between duty and desire, a superego, and an id. The celebrity displays personality. He pleases others; intimate before the mass audience, he plays at privacy in public. Neither a repressed interior nor an intractable reality exercise claims over the celebrity, for he exists in the eye of the beholder. Since he replaces reality by fantasy, his pleasure and reality principles do not collide. Freed from the reproaches of either the conscience or the unconscious, he gains a reassuring serenity.", "But the model of production and consumption is ambiguous. On the one hand, it contrasts superficial appearance with deeper source, a procedure endorsed by my concern with the production of Ronald Reagan . From that perspective the consumption idol is a fetish that can be demystified when we examine the process that produced it. On the other hand, the opposition of production to consumption implies a historical displacement of the former by the latter, so that distinctions between the way something looks and the way it really is are increasingly difficult to draw. From that perspective value is created not by work in production but by desire in exchange. The oppositions that traditionally organized both social life and social critiqueoppositions between surface and depth, the authentic and the inauthentic, the imaginary and the real, signifier and signifiedseem to have broken down. The dispersal of the subject in space, as Fredric Jameson has put it, replaces the alienation of the subject in time, and nostalgia for imitating historical surfaces replaces concern with the actual character of private and public history. From this point of view, Reagan's easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.15", "Ronald Reagan has a synchronic presence whose power is not reducible to its origins, but it has a history as well. Since people are not images, neither Reagan nor any other human being comes into the world as a pure idol of consumption. The category represents an ideal type, an aspiration. Consumption idols respond in part to economic and social imperatives. But they also mark the convergence of the personal and the political, which came together for this president on the movie screen.", "The desire to have one's identity scripted on film is not unmotivated.", "In this instance, movies allowed Reagan to disown aggression and to enact it at the same time. Called to violence in his films, Reagan acted out movie violence in offhand and derealized forms. His roles taught the actor how to insulate himself from experiencing aggression as his own. He played characters who buried anger in wisecracks, suffered from external attack, and employed violence in self-defense. The actor was directed to show the emotional effects of violence only when he was its victim. Otherwise, watching himself play one of the boys on-screen, Reagan observed a figure with no distinctive, individuating, inward-pointing signs. Buried, disturbing feelingsif there were anydissolved in the reassurance that Ronald Reagan was like everyone else.", "Reagan's detachment marks an important departure in the history of American countersubversion. Puritans deliberately twinned themselves with their Indian enemies, for savages were signs of their own fallen natures. War not only punished Indians; it also exorcised the devils within.16 Subsequent countersubversivesThe Birth of a Nation and cold war movies will be among our textsdenied the identity between themselves and their shadow sides. Nevertheless, the frenzied doubling in such documents revealed the connections that ideology tried to hide. The monster-hunter repressed his attachment to his prey. The repressed bond resurfaced in countersubversive hysteria. Repressive politics in these classic forms of countersubversion invited the analyst to psychoanalyze repression.", "But Reagan's affability, by insulating him from the subversive, seems to exclude the investigator as well. He seems not to register, even in a return of the repressed, the consequences of his wishes and politics. When Governor Reagan refused to visit a mental hospital to see the effects of his cuts in state aid, a psychiatrist suggested that he was under strain. \"If I get on that couch, it will be to take a nap,\" Reagan responded.17 He seems to have fulfilled Freud's lament (a lament that The Birth of a Nation should have dispelled until now) that Americans have no unconscious.", "When The Birth of a Nation was shown during the 1920s Klan revival, Reagan's father would not let him see it. As a Catholic Jack Reagan was a target of the revived Klan, and he also condemned the racism shown on the screen. Reagan recalled, \"In our household my father simply announced that no member of our family could see that picture because it was based on the Ku Klux Klan. And to this day I have never seen that great motion picture classic.\"18 The reminiscence praises both", "his father's humanitarianism and the racist film Reagan has not had to see.", "The difference between making The Birth of a Nation and shutting it out marks the shift from racial domination to avoidance. As Joel Kovel has written, \"The dominative racist, when threatened by the black, resorts to direct violence; the aversive racist, in the same situation turns away and walls himself off.\" Asked at the Great Wall of China if he would like a great wall of his own, President Reagan responded, \"Around the White House.\" The joke (and the wall it portended, with antitank barricades, ground-to-air missiles, and American flags) points beyond the president's desire for physical safety to his wish for insulation. Traditional countersubversives consciously or unconsciously doubled their political demons. Reagan aspires to a self in which, to recall Nancy Reagan's words, there would not be two Ronald Reagans, since the disowned, subversive part would have been lopped off. That wish for an amputated self was granted in Hollywood.\"19", "II", "An uncanny slippage between life and film marked Ronald Reagan's entry into the movies. Other aspiring stars were rebaptized in Hollywood, receiving stage names to replace their own. Reagan had been baptized Ronald, his mother's choice, but he was always called by the nickname his father gave him, Dutch. Dutch Reagan came to Hollywood and proposed Ronald Reagan as his stage name. \"Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan,\" repeated the head man, and the others around the table said it after him. \"I like it,\" the boss decided, and gave Ronald Reagan back his own name. That Hollywood ceremony freed Reagan from the name of his father and restored his mother's desire. \"That's my boy,\" Reagan's mother cried when she saw him in his first movie, Love Is on the Air (1937). \"That's the way he is at home. He's no Robert Taylor. He's just himself.\" Reagan was playing the role he had left behind to come to Hollywood, that of a popular sports announcer (cf. Figs. 1.2 and 1.3). His real radio station had fired him under sponsor pressure and then rehired him; his movie station followed suit. In life, the sports reporter Reagan invented play-by-play baseball games from minimal, ticker-tape reports. He made up the sports events for his listeners. Movie audiences could confirm Reagan's filmed on-the-spot reporting because they watched the staged sports events along with him.20", "Reagan met Jane Wyman on the set of another of his early movies, Brother Rat (1938). He dated her in the movie, married her in life, the studio cast them as husband and wife in An Angel from Texas (1940), and Warner Brothers and Louella Parsons publicized their romance and happy marriage (cf. Figs. 1.4 and 1.5). \"The Reagans' home life is probably just like yours, or yours, or yours,\" the studio quoted Reagan as saying. \"Mr. Norm is my alias,\" the actor wrote in a 1940s movie magazine, presenting himself as the average American. On camera even when he was offscreen, Reagan seemed to have nothing to hide, no self tucked away from public inspection. Asked what the electorate saw in him on the eve of his 1980 victory, Reagan replied, \"I think maybe they see themselves and that I'm one of them.\"21", "But, as he hinted in his allusion to \"Mr. Norm\" as his \"alias,\" Reagan's seamless merging of life and the movies in his first Hollywood years shut out an unacknowledged part of his past. The easy slippage between life and his early films meant, in William James's terminology, that in Hollywood Reagan was only once-born. James's once-born, healthy-minded individual has a happy consciousness. He turns into a divided self, torn between an ideal image and a dark, aggressive side, when he uncovers the loathsomeness within him and the destruction in the world. Reagan suffered death and violence, as we shall see, in his crucial, transformative movies; his film experience paralleled but did not duplicate the jamesian evolution from a once-born character to a divided self. By keeping his sense of evil doubly removed from his sense of selfremoved to the screen and removed from his roles on the screenReagan acquired an amputated self rather than a divided one. James's divided, sick soul is born again by recognizing that evil is not paralyzing and all-pervasive and by struggling against sin in the world.22 Reagan parodied that rebirth by imposing screen fantasies on the world in his battle with Hollywood Communism. We turn now where the president has invited us and trace his self-division and reunification through his roles on the screen.", "Murder in the Air anticipates the persona and worldview of the president. It is a long way, nonetheless, from the 1940s to the 1980s, from a B movie actor to the president of the United States. Even as Murder in the Air seems to collapse that distance, it exposes it. Ronald Reagan as Brass Bancroft is too brash, too aggressive, too hard-edged. He does not convey reassurance, and he is not a convincing actor. Distorted facial expressions and wooden gestures mar Reagan's performance in Love Is on the Air . He is less awkward in Murder in the Air , but even", "though he approaches a naturalistic performance, his cockiness is still exaggerated. Nothing seems to touch him. The shift from the air of radio to that of planes, the shift from love to war, was not sufficient to turn the actor into commander-in-chief. To acquire presidential stature, Reagan had to combine independence and dependence, power and loss, aggression and receptivity. He could not simply do damage to others; he had to appear to have damage done to him. As the hero he played opposite in The Hasty Heart (1950) would put it, he \"had to be hurt to learn.\" He had to learn to be seen not simply as the man who sent American boys to die in Lebanon but, like the image in the film clip shown at the 1984 Republican convention, as the mourner identified with those boys, who stands beside their coffins.", "Reagan's persona as a B movie crime fighter climaxed in a World War II film, Desperate Journey (1942). The movie perfectly exemplifies Bla Balzs's characterization of American World War II films \"in which the bloodiest catastrophe in world history is portrayed like an amusing rawhumored manly adventure.\"23 Although Reagan, as Johnny Hammond, is trapped behind enemy lines for most of the movie, the war has no internal impact on him. Reagan and the other members of his bombing crew, shot down over eastern Germany, perform miraculous acts of sabotage and escape as they work their way west. Although some crew members are killed, the characters portrayed by Reagan, Erroll Flynn, and Arthur Kennedy remain unharmed. In the climactic scene of mass destruction they steal a German plane, and Reagan, swiveling a machine gun in the bubble of the nose, mows down row after row of Germans as they rush to stop the aircraft from taking off. The slaughter is at once horrifying and painless, because the Germans have been portrayed as buffoons throughout the film. No one really gets hurt in Desperate Journey , since by not taking war seriously, the film turns war into a movie.", "But even when the rugged individualists that Reagan played in such films were organization men, they were not protective, reassuring figures. Although Brass Bancroft is knocked out and left to drown during his adventures, both he and Johnny Hammond remain emotionally untouched by what they have been through. Since they communicate so little feeling, the viewer does not feel cared for by them. For Reagan to gain presidential stature, he had to acquire a falsely vulnerable objectified self to stand in for the self missing in action. To become a successful idol of consumption, he had to move beyond the rugged individualist American past with which he wished to be identified. He did so by reconnecting through his film roles to the dependence in his personal", "history in order, finally, to find a substitute for that dependence and play at freedom.", "Warner Brothers was quick to spot the dependent side of Ronald Reagan. The studio allowed him to win in B movies, but it made him lose in the feature. Reagan was Bette Davis's playboy boyfriend in Dark Victory (1939) (Fig. 1.6). He is mostly drunk on-screen and is never seen without a glass in his hand. Davis is aggressive, Reagan is passive. She begins the movie as his girl and turns to him again in her refusal to face both her imminent death and her love for the fatherly doctor who operated (unsuccessfully) on her. Davis is a wired, cigarette-smoking projectile, a spoiled, independent young woman. Her destiny is to turn into a good girl-wife and to die. Although the film is all too clear about what it wants from women, Reagan is not the beneficiary. Glass in hand, he relinquishes Davis to George Brent (Dr. Steele). Reagan hated playing that scene and refused to do so in the effeminate manner called for by the director.24 But although his performance is stilted, Reagan's character is not unsympathetic. Dark Victory foreshadowed a future in which Reagan could acquire heroic stature not simply by playing a tough guy but by first enacting and then shedding his playboy persona.", "Worried that he would be stuck in B movies, Reagan introduced Warner Brothers to the idea of a film about Knute Rockne. Reagan had played football all through his youth; he got his first radio job, he reports, by simulating the end of a game his college had won in the last twenty seconds by using \"the old Rockne special.\" Reagan missed his block in the actual game, as he tells the story, and made it in the radio reconstruction. By pointing to the difference between real game failure and fictional success, the movie actor invoked the daydream in which the ordinary man replays events in his own life to turn failure into success. Reagan was a hero not on the real football field, but first in the radio and then in the Hollywood reenactments.25", "Reagan had been a real football player, to be sure, but for the movie of Knute Rockne he aspired higher than his college position on the line. He suggested Pat O'Brien for Rockne and himself for the legendary Notre Dame halfback, George Gipp. The studio cast O'Brien willingly but did not think Reagan looked like a football player. He only got the part, with O'Brien's help, after ten other actors failed screen tests and after he showed the studio pictures of himself in his college football uniform. A journeyman actor like Reagan normally had little to say", "about his parts, but Reagan initiated Knute Rockne because he wanted to play the Gipper. It is his favorite role, and the president invokes it again and again.26", "The part of the Gipper is a small one; Reagan is on-screen for barely fifteen minutes. \"I would give my right arm for a halfback who could run, pass, and kick,\" says Rockne, and he trips over the Gipper's feet. Reagan plays a rangy, good-looking, wisecracking young man who scores a touchdown on his first run from scrimmage and makes long gains rushing or passing in game after game. But the football star is an enigma. \"I don't like people to get too close to me\" on the field or off, he tells Rockne's wife. That admission comes in a moment of self-revelation when, in Rockne's absence and with his wife as mediator, the father-son love between the coach and his star is declared. As if the insulated, male, American hero cannot survive that self-revelation, the Gipper immediately gets a sore throat, Rockne sends him to the hospital, and he dies of viral pneumonia.", "But the Gipper lives onas every American now knowsan inspiration for Notre Dame and the country. Stricken by phlebitis years after Gipp's death, Rockne also faces defeatism on his team. He is wheeled to the annual ArmyNotre Dame game in a wheelchair; at halftime, with his players beaten and behind, Rockne repeats the Gipper's dying words. \"Someday when the team is in trouble,\" Gipp had told Rockne, \"tell them to win one for the Gipper.\" The inspired team members leap up and rush onto the field. \"That's for you, Gipp!\" says the player who scores the first of the many touchdowns that bring victory to Notre Dame.", "At the 1981 Notre Dame commencement, in his first public appearance after he was shot, President Reagan insisted that the movie line \"Win one for the Gipper!\" not be spoken \"in a humorous vein.\" \"Do it for the Gipper,\" Reagan told the U.S. Olympic athletes in the summer of 1984. \"Win those races for the Gipper!\" was how Reagan urged crowds to vote the straight Republican ticket during the fall campaign. But the Gipper (as played by Reagan) was dead when those words were spoken in the movie. If you elect Republicans, Reagan told the crowds, \"Wherever I am, I'll know about it, and it'll make me happy.\" The president spoke as if, playing the Gipper, he was witness to his own death and ascension.27", "After his defeat at the 1976 Republican convention, Reagan quoted lines he'd memorized as a child: \"Lay me down and bleed a while.", "Though I am wounded, I am not slain. I shall rise and fight again.\" Slain as George Gipp, Reagan rose to fight again, to invoke the spirit of the dead hero into whom he had dissolved.28", "Knute Rockne doubles the theme of regenerative sacrifice by having Rockne catch Gipp's martyrdom. The coach risks his life to attend the football game when he has phlebitis, speaks the Gipper's line from a wheelchair with a blanket over his legs, and dies in a plane crash soon after. A priest tells the mourners at Rockne's funeral, \"The spirit of Knute Rockne is reborn in the youth of today.\"", "\"It's like seeing a younger son I never knew I had,\" Reagan jokes when he watches reruns of Knute Rockne .29 The sacrifice of that son knit first the team and then the country together. But whereas Gipp's sacrifice preceded the sacrifice of the film father, Knute Rockne, it gave birth to the actor father, now president, Ronald Reagan. In real history fathers come before sons; in Reagan's film-mediated history the son (George Gipp) produced the father (President Reagan), a father who has replaced his real father by the image of his own younger self.", "The sacrifice of Reagan-Gipp, moreover, broke down the boundary not only between son and father, Gipp and Rockne, but also between human body and body politic. By shifting the source of personal identity from the living body of George Gipp to his spirit, Gipp's sacrifice turned the body mortal into the corpus mysticum . The Gipper's sacrifice, however, was mediated through film and not religious ceremony. Invoking the Gipper after he was shot, Reagan identified his own recovery with his economic recovery program for the nation. He could claim to embody the nation, exploiting the boundary confusion between the president's body and the body politic, because he had risen from the confusion between life and film.", "At the South Bend premiere of Knute Rockne in 1940, trainloads of celebrities joined a hundred thousand other visitors to the town. The governors of eight states declared a national Knute Rockne week, and a week of radio broadcasts climaxed with Kate Smith singing \"God Bless America\" and with Roosevelt's son delivering a personal message from his father. Reagan had played a radio announcer in Boy Meets Girl (1938) who broadcast movie premieres from Hollywood theaters. Two years later the actor joined the Knute Rockne premiere as one of the stars.30", "When Reagan and Pat O'Brien attended Knute Rockne 's opening at Notre Dame, Nelle Reagan asked her son to take his father with them. Reagan recalls the \"chilling fear\" he felt at that request, for Jack Reagan", "was an alcoholic. Reagan had brought his father to Hollywood to handle his fan mail, but that father-son role reversal did not suffice to keep the father under control. Although Nelle assured her son he could trust his father, Jack Reagan and Pat O'Brien went on an all-night drinking binge nonetheless. O'Brien thought Reagan's father hilarious, but Reagan's anxiety about how his father would behave at lunch the next day was not dispelled until the mother superior who had sat next to Jack \"informed me that my father was the most charming man she had ever met.\"31 Reagan's father and mother introduced anxiety; Pat O'Brien and the mother superior dispelled it. The story points to the personal sources of Reagan's need to move from home to Hollywood and also reveals the failure of Knute Rockne to enforce the break.", "Knute Rockne inverted Reagan's familial past, replacing an unreliable, dependent father with an idealized, strong one (Fig. 1.7) and transforming forbidden anger at the historical father into the filmed son's sacrifice. That sacrifice was a gift to the father, and Reagan's need to deny the conflicts in his personal history attracted him to the idealized father in Rockne . Idealization buried anger, and even though the idealized father was also sacrificed, Knute Rockne gave no room for negative feelings against authority. The film in which Reagan reinhabited his past to emancipate himself from it is King's Row (1942), the movie that made him a star, which he places at the center of his autobiography and which he has singled out as the film with the deepest personal significance for his life.", "III", "\"My face was blue from screaming, my bottom was red from whacking, and my father claimed afterward that he was white when he said shakily, 'For such a little bit of a fat Dutchman, he makes a hell of a lot of noise. . . .' 'I think he's perfectly wonderful,' said my mother weakly. 'Ronald Wilson Reagan.'\"", "Blue face, red bottom, white father: \"I have been particularly fond of the colors that were exhibited,\" announces the author, wrapping himself at birth in the American flag. We are on the first page of Ronald Reagan's autobiography, Where's the Rest of Me? \"In those early days I was sure I was living the whole life of Reagan,\" Reagan continues. \"It was not until thirty years later that I found that part of my existence was missing.\"", "The missing part of Reagan's existence was his legs, and he lost them", "in King's Row . Some people might find that loss troublesome, but it was the making of the actor's career. In his words, \"I took the part of Drake McHugh, the gay young blade who cut a swathe among the ladies.\" Drake romanced the town surgeon's daughter. When a railroad accident knocked him unconscious, the \"sadistic doctor\" took his revenge. He \"amputated both my legs at the hips.\" Reagan woke in a hospital bed to speak the line that made him a star: \"Where's the rest of me?\" (See Fig. 1.8.)", "Those five words, Reagan reports, presented him with the most challenging acting problem of his career. He had to become a legless man, or the line would not carry conviction. \"I rehearsed the scene before mirrors, in corners of the studio, while driving home, in the men's rooms of restaurants, before selected friends. At night I would wake up staring at the ceiling and automatically mutter the lines before I went back to sleep. I consulted physicians and psychologists; I even talked to people who were so disabled, trying to brew in myself the cauldron of emotions a man must feel who wakes up one sunny morning to find half of himself gone.\" When at last Reagan climbed into bed to shoot the scene, \"In some weird way, I felt that something horrible had happened to my body.\" Trying \"to reach for where my legs should be\" and twisting in panic, Reagan delivered in a single take the finest shot of his career. \"The reason was that I had put myself, as best I could, in the body of another fellow.\" But Drake McHugh was not simply \"another fellow,\" for Reagan made a discovery about himself in King's Row . Reagan learned by playing Drake McHugh \"that part of my existence was missing,\" and so he called his autobiography Where's the Rest of Me? King's Row taught Reagan that he was only \"half a man\" and made him search for what he lacked. But the film that pointed to something missing in the actor also made him a star. Why should the body of a legless man have possessed Reagan so personally and raised him to stardom?32", "Reagan begins Where's the Rest of Me? with his birth, switches to his rebirth in King's Row , and then returns to his father. Jack Reagan was a shoe salesman. \"He loved shoes. He sold them as a clerk . . . and spent many hours analyzing the bones of the foot.\" But Jack Reagan failed as a shoe salesman, and his son remembers, at age eleven, coming upon his father \"flat on his back on the front porch,\" \"his arms spread out as if he were crucified,\" passed out from drink. Jack Reagan had lost \"another bout with the dark demon of the bottle,\" and the son had to overcome \"the sharp odor of whiskey\" to drag his father into the house. Jack Reagan \"never lost the conviction that the individual must stand", "on his own feet,\" but he could not do so himself. He survived the depression by distributing relief checks for the WPA.33", "Like many another self-made man, this son who celebrates family had first to escape his own. How, if your father is a failed shoe salesman, do you avoid stepping into his shoes? The answer King's Row provided was this: by cutting off your legs. The Christian loses himself as body to find himself as spirit. Reagan was born again in Hollywood by relinquishing \"part of myself\" in King's Row .", "King's Row was set, a sign announces at the opening of the film, in \"a good clean town. A good town to live in, a good place to raise your children,\" like Tampico, Illinois, where Reagan was born, or Dixon, where he grew up. \"We all have spots we dream of and want to go home to,\" says the character Reagan plays in The Hasty Heart . \"For me it's a little place on the Duck River, Dixon, Illinois.\" But the American family in King's Row turns out to consist of sadistic fathers, demonic mothers, and daughters whose dangerous sexual desires place young men in jeopardy.", "\"The story begins with a closeup of a bottom,\" writes Reagan, introducing his birth in the first sentence of Where's the Rest of Me? King's Row opens on a country idyll, as a young girl and boy disrobe to swim in a pond. \"It's not so warm on the bottom,\" the boy tells the girl, and in the next shot the outline of her naked bottom is visible beneath the water. In the scenes that follow, the girl is given a birthday party to which no one comes; the boy and his best friend swing on the rings of an icehouse with a working-class girl so they can see her underpants; and the boy hears the cries of another friend's father, screaming because a doctor is operating on his legs. Preadolescent sexuality, punctuated by violence to destroy its innocence, introduces and concludes childhood in King's Row .", "This prologue defines the character of the film that made Reagan a star. King's Row is a classic in the American gothic form. The gothic sensibility has Christian roots (to which the label, gothic, points), and it reveals the dark underside of born-again Christianity. American gothic depicts a titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil, in which the world is under the devil's sway. American gothic art is an art of dualism, of haunted characters, violence, and horror. Although it claims to stand for good, it is fascinated by evil. Rebirth carries less conviction in the gothic imagination than the power of blackness does, and the regenerate remain filled with vengefulness against the world that has damaged them. King's Row illustrates the shift from the wisecrack-", "ing surface of 1930s Hollywood movies to 1940s psychological nightmares (and its director, Sam Wood, would become obsessed with the Communist penetration of Hollywood in the years after World War II).34", "The main portion of King's Row more than fulfills the gothic promise of the opening scenes. The film's protagonists, played by Reagan and Robert Cummings, are doubles in a movie of doubles. Both boys are wealthy orphans, in the course of the movie both lose the relatives who replace their parents, and both fall in love with doctors' daughters. Parris Mitchell (Cummings) is drawn (in the Tower family) into maternal insanity, implied father-daughter incest (explicit in the book), and the power of a father (Claude Rains) who kills his daughter and himself. Drake McHugh confronts (in the Gordon family) a monstrous mother (Judith Anderson), a sexually sadistic father, and the loss of his legs. Wolfenstein and Leites describe the hero and heroine of the typical 1940s movie romance as unbound by family ties. The young protagonists are homeless in such romances and jauntily self-sufficient. Menacing surrogate parents appear only in gothic melodramas, set far from the familiar world. King's Row collapses melodrama into romance. The boys may be orphans, but (to quote Wolfenstein and Leites) there is no \"escape of children from protracted involvement with their parents.\" The children in King's Row are trapped in the American family.35", "The classic American family in King's Row , with working father, housewife mother, and child, is a horror. There is incest in one doctor's family, sadism in the other. The Family Protection Act, sponsored by the born-again New Right, would punish departures from the classic American family. King's Row locates the desire and necessity for punishment within that family itself.", "Both doctor fathers take vengeance (murder and amputation) for their daughters' sexual desire. In the movie's iconography, however, mothers are to blame. The monstrous mothers drive their husbands to violence or embrace it themselves. They derange fathers and contaminate daughters. Because mature women in this movie endanger men, the young women Drake and Parris finally marry have benign, aged fathers and no mothers. Daughters who unite love with sexual desire are punished (Louise Gordon) or destroyed (Cassandra Tower). Randy Monaghan, the woman Drake marries, can survive because her lover becomes, as Parris says about Drake and Reagan about himself, \"half a man.\"36 The protection men need in King's Row is not the protection of family but protection from women.", "Brothers are rivals in the typical American movie romances Wolfenstein and Leites describe.37 There is no overt antagonism between Parris and Drake, yet the physical youth, Drake, is sacrificed so that his spiritual brother can become whole. The happiness of the intact young man is bought at the price of the legs of his double.", "Reagan underscores the connection between King's Row and his own youth. He calls the film \"a slightly sordid but moving yarn about antics in a small town, something that I had more than a slight acquaintance with.\" Then he describes the movie's \"accident in the railroad yards,\" in which a moving train that was supposed to be stationary cost Drake McHugh his legs, and a few pages later he reports an escapade in which his brother and he crawled under a train stopped at the town station, getting to the other side just before the train pulled out. Reagan's mother punished him for risking the bodily harm that he was to suffer as Drake. Using the word \"antics\" to connect his own childhood to King's Row , Reagan places himself within the movie by shutting out its horror. He is engaging in acknowledgment by denial.38", "The Towers and Gordons were hardly replicas of the Reagans. In spite of poverty, paternal alcoholism, and several moves from one town and one shoe salesman's job to another, Reagan remembers a happy childhood. That must be part of the story; yet the son who, influenced by his mother, \"could feel no resentment against\" his passed-out father39 is dissociated from his feelings. King's Row supplied a target for anger that could be placed outside the self. It provided the negative family from which Reagan had cut himself off. The movie reunited him to his problematic history in order, by amputation, to free him from it.", "Why did Reagan need to be free of his father? In her psychological study of the president, Betty Glad addresses the anger young Reagan was not allowed to feel; in his study Robert Dallek emphasizes Reagan's fear of helplessness. Dallek locates the president's political hostility to dependence in his need to separate himself from his dependent father. Reagan himself blames one of his father's drinking bouts on Jack Reagan's indignation over the \"narcotic\" of welfare; Dallek's analysis illuminates Reagan's resistance to playing the alcoholic role in Dark Victory . But Jack Reagan's \"dark demon\" pointed to both the father's helplessness and the son's in the face of the father. Reagan recalls that his father once \"lifted me a foot in the air with the flat side of his boot\" when he caught the boy fighting. The boy associated anger with dependence, Where's the Rest of Me? suggests, since dependence simultaneously filled him with anger and made him a target. Jack Reagan used", "his leg to punish the helpless son. Dr. Gordon became the punishing father, amputating the legs of a helpless young man.40", "By moving from King's Row to his father and connecting his youth to Drake McHugh's, Reagan made himself the victim. But Jack Reagan died between the filmings of Knute Rockne and King's Row . Reagan had married in January 1940, and his first child was born a year later. Within a few months of becoming a father, he lost his own father, who had kicked him but was himself a beaten man. King's Row mutilated the actor for any death wishes against his father or feelings of triumph over him. The president has trouble drawing hands and feet; in a doodle of himself in a football jersey, the limbs are missing (as if to merge the Gipper and Drake McHugh).41 King's Row did not end with mutilation, however. By both punishing the actor and giving him a target for anger, the movie allowed him to reexperience and conquer his helplessness.", "Drake McHugh feels defeated after his legs are cut off until he discovers who is to blame. \"Where did Doctor Gordon think I lived, in my legs?\" scoffs Drake when he learns that the doctor amputated his legs not to save his life but to turn him into \"a lifelong cripple.\" Drake's anger at Gordon frees him from self-pity, and he and his wife make their fortune in real estate. At the film's end they move into one of their new houses, in a suburb outside King's Row. In the final image on the screen, Drake, his wife, and his best friend approach their white house on the hill. The two films that made Reagan a star supplied him with an idealized authority he could sacrifice and a sadistic one he could be punished by and then overcome. Freed from the gothic small town, Reagan would reinhabit, as fantasy life for millions, an ideal version of the American past.", "Reagan appeals to an American dream past where, in his misquotation of Tom Paine, \"we have it in our power to begin the world over again.\" Drake McHugh resolves the struggle between good and evil by rising above the rooted body; upward mobility, in Reagan's images, saves us from the gothic nightmare of being trapped down below. This nightmare has personal resonance for Reagan, since he suffers from the American pioneer's disease, \"a lifelong tendency toward claustrophobia.\" The boy at the bottom of the football pile, he tells us in his autobiography, \"got frightened to the point of hysteria in the darkness under the mass of writhing, shouting bodies.\" To protect himself from claustrophobia during the filming of Hellcats of the Navy (1957), in which Reagan played a submarine commander, he rushed to the periscope between takes to watch the activity in the harbor. Upward mobility moved", "the actor from the bodies to the spectacle, from the bottom of the pile to the top, and he insists on the need to \"restore a . . . vertical structuring of society.\" Communism, Reagan charges, is \"the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars.\" His own long anti-Communist climb reached both movie stardom and the outer space of the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars). In the president's words, \"There is no left or right, only an up or down. Up to the maximum of individual freedom consistent with law or order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.\"42", "Upward mobility, in rugged individualist rhetoric, frees the self-made man from dependence. Filmed amputation did not, however, emancipate Reagan from his dependent father. It made Drake McHugh helpless and dependent, cared for by a maternal woman as Nelle Reagan had cared for Jack. That result may have constituted a happy ending in film and childhood fantasy, but it came at the price of manhood. Drake has a sexual romance with Randy Monaghan, his working-class Irish girlfriend, before he loses his money and his legs. Drake's poverty, which sends him to the railway station job and places him within an Irish family, brings him closer to Reagan's childhood. But when Drake marries Randy, as the movie makes explicit, he has lost his sexuality. King's Row freed Reagan from the father by placing him under female power.", "The happy family announced at the beginning of King's Row is promised again at the end. But Drake has been swallowed up by the gothic nightmare in between. He will raise no children. Drake's happy family, cut off from the past and the future, can only exist as a dream.", "Reagan still inhabits King's Row . He made it the center of his autobiography, he watched it again and again with Jane Wyman and their guests, he watches it with Nancy Reagan, and he chose its music as the fanfare for his 1980 inauguration. But the King's Row solution created a problem that plagued Reagan (he says in Where's the Rest of Me? ) for the remainder of his Hollywood career.43", "IV", "Reagan was in the army when King's Row appeared. Stationed in Hollywood, he made training, morale, and reenlistment movies for soldiers, defense workers, and the mass public. These movies, whatever their audience, confused entertainment with war. In This Is the Army (1943), Reagan played a corporal who stages an army variety show during World War II. His father, portrayed by George Murphy, had put on a", "soldier's show during the First World War and then lost the use of a leg. Reagan, who had played a legless hero the year before and who would follow Murphy into California politics two decades later, inherits the master of ceremonies role from his film father. Murphy's performers had marched off the stage into the trucks taking them to embark for France. By World War II war itself, as mass, militarized formations, had taken over the stage. The movie ends with a command performance of Reagan's show before the president of the United States.", "This Is the Army made war into entertainment; Reagan also made entertainment into war. Although never close to combat, Reagan reports that he participated in \"one of the better-kept secrets of the war, ranking up with the atom bomb project.\" \"Everyone who has ever seen a picture based on World War II,\" writes Reagan, will recognize the briefing in which he played a role. To prepare pilots to bomb Tokyo, Hollywood special effects men built a complete miniature of the city. They \"intercut their movies of the model with real scenes taken from flights over Tokyo,\" thereby creating a series of movies that enacted bombing runs. Reagan narrated the films, and each one concluded \"when my voice said, 'Bombs away.'\" Reagan's account of his wartime service slips from the Manhattan project to the moving picture theater, from real war to a mock-up of war. To make himself a participant, Reagan breaks down the distinction between real bombs and simulated bombing runs. As a result, none of the explosives in his account, from the bombs he narrates to the atom bomb, fall on real targets. When Reagan told crowds in his first campaign for governor that he served as an adjutant at an Air Force base, he did not mention that it was in the film community.44", "As if to compensate for taking care of Reagan during the war, Hollywood cast him in a series of postwar films that placed him in the wrong kind of danger. Before King's Row Reagan had played the young Custer in Santa Fe Trail (1940) and, in International Squadron (1941), a carefree RAF pilot who atones for his costly nonchalance by dying on a heroic mission. These roles, which he got from his success as the Gipper,45 joined heroism to sacrifice. But King's Row typecast the actor as a figure vulnerable not in combat but in romantic entanglements. The American playboy cannot be truly manly because his involvements are with women and masculinity is realized in relations among men. Reagan hoped that the trajectory from Dark Victory through King's Row would free him from female entanglements and prepare him to play a", "cowboy. But Warner Brothers drew a different box office lesson from the actor's Hollywood career. The characters Reagan played after the war were invaded by illness and by women.", "Reagan wanted a big-budget Western for his first postwar film. The studio cast him instead in the black-and-white Stallion Road (1947). The movie \"opened the door to finding another part of me,\" writes Reagan. He bought the horse he rode in the movie, changed its name to the name it bore in Stallion Road (Tarbaby), and imitating the character he played, acquired a horse ranch. But Reagan did not portray a western hero in Stallion Road . A veterinarian instead, he develops a serum that saves cattle from an anthrax epidemic and then catches the disease himself. Given up for dead, he is nursed back to health by Rory Teller (Alexis Smith). In Night unto Night (1949) the Reagan character, John, has epilepsy. He has lost the will to live and plans suicide but is saved by Ann's (Viveca Lindfors's) love. In The Hasty Heart (1950) (was it better or worse?) Richard Todd played the soldier dying of a fatal disease and Reagan was reduced to feigning illness in order to remain at his side; Todd won the Academy Award nomination. As Grover Cleveland Alexander in The Winning Team (1952), his last Warner Brothers film, Reagan makes a comeback from epilepsy. In Tennessee's Partner (1955), his penultimate Hollywood movie, Reagan's character is an unworldly cowboy humiliated by a woman, who dies saving the life of his best friend.46", "Reagan did not always sicken or die in his postwar films, but women invariably gave him trouble. He and Shirley Temple fall in love in That Hagen Girl (1947). The Reagan character is old enough to be the girl's father and, rumor has it, is. Reagan is harassed in Louisa (1950) by his mother's romances with two elderly men. To simulate a home for a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951), he hires a nurse to masquerade as his wife. Reagan plays a professor of psychology whose father was a criminal and who wants to prove (as if he were the chimp) that environment can triumph over heredity. Reagan also plays a professor in She's Working Her Way Through College (1952); this time his wife suspects him of being infatuated with the show-girl in his class (see Fig. 1.9). In The Voice of the Turtle (1947) and John Loves Mary (1949), Reagan plays a World War II veteran innocently caught between two women. Only in The Girl from Jones Beach (1949), where Reagan is a magazine illustrator who cuts up the bodies of twelve girls to make one perfect figure, does his character take charge of women. But he broke", "his tailbone on the set of that movie; he blames Eddie Arnold for bumping into him and knocking him down while Arnold was ogling the girls.47", "These romantic comedies, with their erratic women and emasculated leading man, exemplify the domestic anxieties on the postwar Hollywood screen. The films alsoto recall the president's wordstell us something not simply about how Reagan looked to casting directors but about how he felt as well. Resenting accusations that he \"never got the girl\" in his movies, Reagan once listed all the heroines he got. \"I always got the girl,\" he insisted, but as he knew at the time, the issue was not whether he got the girl but how. His list included girls he got by losing his legs, by nearly dying of epilepsy and anthrax, and by undergoing other forms of humiliation. He got the girl, like his father, by being dependent. Reagan did not like making these movies and left Warner Brothers because of them. \"I . . . put my foot down. Then the studio put its foot downon top of mine\" is the way he put it. Reagan found the roles particularly disturbing because they mirrored his private life.48", "Soon after he caught anthrax in Stallion Road , Reagan came down with viral pneumonia. That disease, which killed George Gipp, almost killed him, and Reagan reports lying in his hospital bed and wanting to die. Jane Wyman was several months pregnant and, under the strain from Reagan's illness, she gave premature birth to a stillborn baby. The next year, 1948, she filed for divorce. \"I was notified I was going to be a bachelor again,\" writes Reagan, and \"I came home from England and broke my leg in half a dozen places.\" As he had with viral pneumonia, Reagan spent weeks in bed. \"Free of any responsibility,\" in \"my warm cocoon,\" Reagan was imitating Drake McHugh. Even when he was on his feet again, the actor did not enjoy his bachelor years. \"I was footloose and fancy-free,\" Reagan recalls, \"and I guess down underneath miserable.\"49", "Reagan wanted domesticity, but Wyman preferred a more glamorous life. She \"couldn't stand,\" she complained, \"to watch that damn King's Row one more time.\"50 Wyman's career was rising while Reagan's was in decline. When she won an Academy Award for her role in Johnny Belinda (1948), Reagan quipped, \"I think I'll name Johnny Belinda as the co-respondent.\" Their separate careers, as Reagan saw it, had taken his wife from him. Reagan's career diverged from Wyman's, however, not because they both made movies butand this is the reason other than watching King's Row she gave for leaving himbecause he was turning from movies to anti-Communist politics.51", "\"An actor spends half his waking hours in fantasy,\" Reagan writes in his autobiography. \"If he is only an actor, I feel, he is much like I was in King's Row , only half a man.\" No line better speaks to an actor's condition, writes Reagan, than \"Where's the rest of me?\" It explains why he left Hollywood. As an actor Reagan had lost his \"freedom.\" He was \"a semi-automaton, 'creating' a character another had written.\" Deciding to \"find the rest of me . . . I came out of the monastery of movies into the world.\"52 Warner Brothers would not let Reagan play the traditional hero on-screen. The studio deprived him of the idealized self he wanted to enact and gave him parts that exposed his weakness instead. When Reagan shifted from film to reality, however, he cast reality in terms of make-believe. By standing up for America in another Hollywood drama, he sought to end Communist influence in the movies.", "V", "In 1946, five years after Drake McHugh asked, \"Where's the rest of me?\" writes Reagan, \"under different circumstances than make-believe, I had to ask myself the same question.\" Reagan answered it by leading the fight against \"the Communist plan . . . to take over the motion picture business.\" \"We had a weekly audience of about 500,000 souls. Takeover of this enormous plant and its gradual transformation into a Communist grist mill was a grandiose idea. It would have been a magnificent coup for our enemies.\" The actor emerged from his hospital bed and his filmed humiliations to enter the cold war. Reagan, as he tells it, recovered his legs in the struggle to prevent a Communist takeover of Hollywood.53", "\"Russ Imperialism Seen by Veteran,\" ran the headline over a 1950 story in the Los Angeles Times . \"A former captain of the Army Air Force,\" as the story identified him, \"Reagan portrayed the screen as the great purveyor of information about the American way of life. He said it was this that Red Russia cannot match, so it tried to take over. When it failed, he said, it tried various schemes to ruin the industry. 'The Russians sent their first team, their ace string, here to take us over,' he said. 'We were up against hard-core organizers.'\"54", "The fantasy of Communists taking over Hollywood was delusional, the stuff of a Hollywood movie. But two factors gave credence to that delusion and made it continuous with mundane life. The first was the presence of significant numbers of Communists in the motion picture", "business in the 1930s and 1940s. They influenced no movies, but they were not imaginary. The second was the widely shared belief in their conspiratorial power.55", "From 1935 to 1950, Hollywood may have been the most politicized community in America. Communists, other leftists, and liberals worked together in the popular front; they were united by the depression, by their hatred of Fascism, and by their loyalty to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Warner Brothers, known as the working man's studio, was the most pro-Roosevelt place to work in the industry. Reagan participated in progressive politics, and FDR was his hero. He joined the American Veterans Committee and HICCASP (The Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of Arts, Sciences, and Professions), popular-front organizations in which Communists were active.56", "Communists influenced no movies. Most Hollywood Communists were screenwriters, and their rare efforts to infiltrate progressive lines of dialogue were pathetic and futile. Warner Brothers produced a pro-Soviet film during World War II to give Roosevelt a movie that created sympathy for his Russian ally. Jack Warner made Mission to Moscow because of his ties to FDR, not because of the hidden influence of the screenwriter, Howard Koch. But Jack Warner led the search for hidden Communists when anti-Fascism turned into anti-Communism, and he blacklisted Koch.57", "Although Communists had no power over motion pictures, they were active in the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), which battled with the studios and with the International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) from 1945 to 1947 for control of the studio crafts. When the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating Communist influence in Hollywood in 1947, fears of a Communist takeover spread throughout the industry. In part those fears rationalized management's position in the industrial conflict. In part anti-Communist hysteria displaced anxiety over political interference from the proximate source, Washington, to Moscow. In part Hollywood was taken over by the cold war. But whatever the sources of the anti-Communist obsession, it was normalized by being so widely shared.58", "Roy Brewer, president of IATSE, told HUAC in 1947, \"The one potent force that stood between complete control of the industry by the Communists and their defeat at the crucial point in 1945 were the A.F. of L. unions\" (Brewer was Reagan's close friend in the late 1940s; after Reagan became president, he appointed Brewer to a federal job). Sam Wood, who had directed King's Row , formed the Motion Picture As-", "sociation for the Preservation of American ideals to fight Communist subversion. Wood carried a black book everywhere to write down the names of Communists whenever he found out about them. Wood's obsession deranged him, his daughter thinks, and contributed to his early death. The director internalized trouble that other anti-Communistsliberals and conservatives, management and laborsuccessfully extruded onto Reds.59", "Reagan remained a New Deal liberal when he turned against the Communists. He was a founder and national board member of Americans for Democratic Action, formed in 1947 as a liberal, anti-Communist organization. He campaigned for Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey in 1948 by attacking Wall Street as well as the Soviet Union.60 Reagan's cold war liberalism did not, however, make him soft on Communism, for liberals shared the universal hysteria. The actor was not pressured either to see his fear of subversion as one perspective among many or to repress acceptable political alternatives; his was the only legitimate point of view. Reagan's demonology was not marginal, a sign of personal disturbance. It was the norm.", "It was a norm, moreover, that spread from Hollywood around the country. HUAC's investigation of the motion picture industry, along with the Truman doctrine and the Hiss case, formed the consciousness of cold war America before the Rosenbergs and Joe McCarthy were household names. The hot war against Hitler and Japan slid easily into the cold war against Stalin and Asian Communism in the consciousness that formed Reagan's politics in the 1940s and that he brought to Washington. \"The real fight with this new totalitarianism belongs to the forces of liberal democracy,\" he wrote in 1951, \"just as did the battle with Hitler's totalitarianism.\"61 World War II signifies for Reagan more the first act in the struggle against Communism than the extermination of the Jews. Hence he used the fortieth anniversary of V-E day in 1985 to shore up the German-American anti-Soviet alliance by visiting Bitburg cemetery and equating Jewish victims of the Holocaust with the German soldiers buried there. Both, said Reagan, were \"victims\" of \"the awful evil started by one man.\"62", "Reagan's enlightenment about Communism in postwar Hollywood defines the founding moment of the politics in which we now all live. The president brought with him to Washington other men who had participated in intelligence work during World War II and then shifted to the anti-Soviet fight. There was a romance of World War II in 1940s America, denied to countries on whose soil the war was fought. Presi-", "dent Reagan has revived that romance, filtered it through Hollywood, and frozen it at the moment when Nazis turned into Communists (in theorywhile real ones went to work for American intelligence). Reagan learned that Communists were \"monsters,\" he told Robert Scheer in 1980, \"when they were trying to take over Hollywood.\" He learned then what he still believes, that \"the Soviet Union was the mother lode, the center, which controlled subversives around the world.\"63", "Isolationist Republicans shared Reagan's view of Soviet influence, but while they tried to withdraw from the alien world (at least in Europe), Reagan wanted to transform it. As a cold war Democrat, he never shared the parochial conservative opposition to increased military spending and a global, interventionist foreign policy. Reagan, unlike provincial conservatives, was and remains a statist. To combat Communist penetration, from 1940s Hollywood to 1980s Washington, Reagan has supported a militarized surveillance state.", "Hollywood anti-Communism, as Reagan understood it, restored his independence by freeing him from make-believe. But Communist influence was not the only fantasy Reagan took with him from the movies; he took the fantasy of independence as well. Reagan wore a gun during his battle against the Communists to protect himself from Red reprisals. As he put it, \"I mounted the holstered gun religiously every morning and took it off the last thing at night.\" Pioneer heroism and Indian war had moved from American history into Hollywood fantasy. \"We are for the free enterprise system,\" Reagan told the Los Angeles Rotary Club in 1948. \"We have fought our little Red brothers all along the line.\" Reagan meant Communists, but his phrase evoked Indians. Shifting from one red enemy to another, Reagan brought frontier individualism back into history again.64", "Reagan is fond of quoting Sterling Hayden's testimony before HUAC that the Communists were taking over Hollywood until \"we ran into a one-man battalion named Ronnie Reagan.\" But the lone man in Hollywood was actually a victim of corporate, countersubversive cooperation. HUAC, the motion picture industry, the unions, and private agencies like the American Legion all worked together, blacklisting those people who refused to name names. As president of the Screen Actors Guild, the one-man battalion joined a surveillance network that, as we shall see in chapter 2, imitated the enemy it was designed to destroy.65", "Reagan was drawn to the Screen Actor's Guild, he writes in his autobiography, because it was an avenue to the stars. When he walked into the union boardroom, he \"saw it crowded with the famous men of", "the business. I knew that I was beginning to find the rest of me.\" The statement unwittingly replaces the legs that rooted him to his failed father with the support of famous men. Reagan rejected the Left, he told Tom Hayden, when he discovered that it operated through secret caucuses in large, popular-front organizations. He had given the same testimony before HUAC decades earlier. Reagan innocently lent his name to a charitable cause, he told the committee, only to find out that the Communists were using him. The discovery that he was being \"spoonfed and steered\" transformed him from innocent victim to one-man battalion.66", "But Reagan prefers playing the one-man battalion to living it. \"He simply looks to someone to tell him what to do,\" says his former campaign manager, John Sears. \"He can be guided.\" Reagan agrees. When press spokesman Larry Speakes stepped in front of him to ward off a reporter's question about the reappointment of Anne Burford, the president quipped, \"My guardian says I can't talk.\" Asked on another occasion if he thought of Michael Deaver, the aide closest to him, as a son, Reagan replied, \"Gee, I always thought of him more as a father figure.\" Reagan has found the support his father had received but not given him at home.67", "The process of relying on behind-the-scenes support, which he made part of himself, climaxed during the Hollywood inquisition. Refusing to be manipulated as a front for the Communists, Reagan fronted instead for the powerful men in Hollywood who led the fight against Communist influence. He found the rest of him by playing a one-man battalion and hiding the rest of him, which guided that battalion, behind the scenes. Replacing the personal with the political, Reagan helped orchestrate a blacklist whose existence he denied.", "\"There was no blacklist in Hollywood. The blacklist in Hollywood, if there was one, was provided by the Communists,\" Reagan told Robert Scheer in 1980. But as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and member (and president for one year) of the Motion Picture Industry Council, Reagan enforced the blacklist. He supported a provision in the guild constitution barring Communists from membership. He acted as an informant for the FBI, naming actors and actresses who \"follow the Communist party line.\" Reagan told the actress Gail Sondergaard, after she took the Fifth Amendment before HUAC, that the union opposed a blacklist. \"On the other hand, if any actor by his actions outside of union activities has so offended public opinion that he has made himself unemployable at the box office, the Guild cannot and", "would not force any employer to hire him.\" Reagan refused to defend Sondergaard because she would not become an informer. But he met with repentant ex-radicals to help them cooperate with HUAC, name names, rehabilitate themselves, and continue to work in the movies.68", "When he joined the fight against Communism, Reagan put the Reds in Drake McHugh's place, for they became the sacrificial victims. By casting Communists from the body politic, Reagan directed his violence away from authority and outside the family circle. But whereas he presented the shift from Drake McHugh to anti-Communism as restoring his personal legs, he actually acquired institutional support to substitute for his family of origin. Reagan displaced his dependence onto othersthose ruled by the monstrous \"mother lode\"and punished them for his desire.", "VI", "Anti-Communism gave Reagan an explanation for and an alternative to his declining Hollywood career. It also, he tells us, supplied him with a new wife. Reagan met Nancy Davis when, as president of the Screen Actor's Guild, he established that she was not the Nancy Davis on a list of Communist sympathizers. \"That's the girl I've decided to marry,\" Drake McHugh says of the surgeon's daughter. But the surgeon cuts off his legs, and he ends up with a working-class woman instead. Reagan learned on their first date that Nancy's father \"was one of the world's truly great surgeons\"; the actor was on crutches because he had broken his leg. Reagan had lost Bette Davis in Dark Victory to a neurological surgeon old enough to be her father. He married the daughter of a neurological surgeon, a woman who, unlike Jane Wyman, would subordinate her career to his. As a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, Wyman had introduced Reagan to the union. Guild president Reagan appointed and reappointed Nancy Davis to the board. \"My life began when I got married. My life began with Ronnie,\" says Nancy Reagan. \"If Ronnie were a shoe salesman, I'd be out selling shoes.\" A 1950s photograph shows Reagan in his new, all-electric home, his wife seated on the floor at his feet.69 Reagan had traded in subordination to Knute Rockne as the Gipper for humiliation by the showgirl as the professor. Now his wife was the lower half of him (cf. Figs. 1.7, 1.9, and 1.10).", "Reagan had once been, as he put it, \"a near-hemophiliac liberal. I bled for 'causes': I had voted Democratic, following my father, in every election.\" He left behind Jack Reagan's politics when he married Loyal", "Davis's daughter, and he adopted the punitive, right-wing politics of the surgeon. Backed by the Movie Corporation of America (MCA), Reagan hosted the GE Television Theater in the 1950s, and TV Guide called him \"the ambassador of the convenience of things mechanical\" to America. Reagan spoke for General Electric around the country against \"the most dangerous enemy ever known to man,\" whose advance guard inside America was FDR's welfare state. As he attacked state socialism, Reagan profited from his ties to MCA, GE, and Twentieth-Century Fox to (like Drake McHugh) make his fortune in real estate. Together his new politics, his new wealth, and his new family made him whole. His autobiography ends with Clark Gable's reminder, \"The most important thing a man can know is that, as he approaches his own door, someone on the other side is listening for the sound of his footsteps.\" No passed-out father is in front of this doorstep, blocking access to mother and home. The actor has his legs back; his last sentence is \"I have found the rest of me.\"70", "Reagan's integration was not complete, however, for he had reentered the real world as the enemy of his own and his father's political past. Reagan had often ended his speeches for GE with the phrase Roosevelt had made famous, \"rendezvous with destiny.\" He used those words again in the 1964 speech for Goldwater that catapulted him onto the national political stage. But Reagan failed to acknowledge his indebtedness to Roosevelt in the 1950s and 1960s. To recover all the rest of him, he discovered as he approached the White House, he had to incorporate FDR as well. \"We have to be willing to be Roosevelt,\" asserted Reagan's adviser Richard Whalen during the 1980 primary campaign. Quoting FDR twice in his speech accepting the presidential nomination, Reagan cloaked himself in Roosevelt's mantle. At a time of economic and spiritual crisis comparable to the Great Depression, Reagan promised to restore the old Roosevelt coalition of middle-class, blue-collar, ethnic, and southern white Protestant voters and renew confidence in America.71", "Reagan's election in 1980 was the first defeat of an elected presidential incumbent since Roosevelt beat Hoover, and by a comparable landslide. Carter and Hoover were the two engineer presidents, out of touch with the country's political coalitions and with its emotional life. Carrying his party into power with him, Reagan promised to end the paralysis of American life. Like Roosevelt, he won landslide reelection to a second term, in a contest that not only confirmed the new directions in which the president was taking the country but may also have con-", "summated the first lasting electoral realignment since FDR's second term.", "Reagan had prepared himself to follow Roosevelt, for FDR was the young Reagan's first political hero. He learned passages of FDR's First Inaugural by heart, developed a convincing impersonation of the president, and began to use Roosevelt's words and gestures in the 1950s in his political presentation of himself. \"Roosevelt gave back to the people of this country their courage,\" said President Reagan. He was \"an American giant,\" \"one of history's truly monumental figures.\" Like Roosevelt, said Reagan in 1982, he was trying to save our system, not destroy it. But Roosevelt had merely offered government relief to middle- and working-class \"forgotten Americans\" like Jack Reagan. Ronald Reagan promised these same \"forgotten Americans\" \"the ladder of opportunity.\" The patrician Roosevelt did not offer that ladder, did not need it, and could not climb it. FDR had no legs.72", "Roosevelt, like Reagan, lost his legs on the road to the White House. His biographers picture him before he got polio as a rich playboy who did not take life seriously. He acquired presidential stature in the struggle against his affliction. The figure of the brave, crippled president entered popular culture in the 1930s, surely influencing the images of Knute Rockne in a wheelchair and Drake McHugh. But FDR-as-cripple was also a stock figure of right-wing caricature, for Roosevelt never got back the use of his legs. Reagan promises not merely to imitate his father's hero but to surpass him.", "Reagan did not slay his father and rise above him, however. Rather, by identifying with his father's wound and his mother's denial, he inherited both the father's need for support and the mother's cheerful blindness to internal trouble. Reagan's first marriage and his postwar movie roles had called attention to his dependency needs without gratifying them. His new marriage and new politics provided upward mobility based neither on the rugged independence of the self-made hero nor on ties to an actual past but based rather on corporate and domestic support. Even though he was fearful that dependence exposed the self to aggression, Reagan did not relinquish the need for care; he became an idol of consumption by finding caretakers he could trust. The president was silent in response to a reporter's question on arms control until he repeated aloud his wife's whisper, \"Doing all we can.\"73 Reagan has realized the dream of the American male, to be taken care of in the name of independence, to be supported while playing the man in charge.", "The president would have us believe that, having recovered his legs,", "he rules as the healed Drake McHugh. Reagan used the image of his own healing body to promote his economic recovery program. \"Vote against me and you will cut me off at the knees,\" he often tells Congress. He bought a new pair of boots after his 1981 Congressional budget victory, and he signed the bill sitting at his desk with his leg held high in the air. Asked what he would do after the signing ceremony, the president replied, \"Go out and cut the brush!\" \"Well, don't cut your leg off,\" joked a reporter. \"Where's the Rest of Me? \" interjected the president's wife. \"You shouldn't have mentioned that,\" said the president.74", "But Reagan is more than Drake McHugh with his legs back. He embodies national fears of helplessness and dependence in order to overcome them by punishing the enemies responsible for American weakness. It was by taking vengeance for evil that he found the rest of him, according to his autobiography. The man who married the surgeon's daughter as he recovered the rest of him combines Drake McHugh with Dr. Gordon.", "New Deal liberals like Thurman Arnold invoked political doctors to legitimate the welfare state. Dr. New Deal was Roosevelt's term for a government that cared for its people. But Dr. New Deal, complains Reagan, addicts the patient instead of curing him: \"President Roosevelt started administering medicine to a sick patient, but those people who then gathered around and became the structure of government had no intention of letting the patient get well and cut[ting] him off the medicine.\" Reagan wants to cut the patient off. He presents himself not as a pill doctor but as a surgeon.75", "Reagan compares \"cutting back on the runaway growth of government\" to \"performing surgery on a patient to save his life.\" (Surgeons find it hard, by contrast, to operate on Democrats and \"separate demagogic from solid tissue, without causing the death of the patient.\") To stop the \"spreading cancer\" of welfare, Reagan applies the \"welfare ax.\" \"Reagan readies the ax,\" Newsweek proclaimed early in the president's first term; Time put the ax on its cover. \"The howls of pain will be heard from coast to coast,\" Reagan promised, as Time praised his ability to \"inflict pain . . . with nerve and verve.\" Reagan and Budget Director David Stockman, operating against what Stockman called the \"fiscal hemorrhage,\" plunged an ax into the 1981 budget in front of the television camera. Four years later Reagan and Alabama senator Jeremiah Denton posed holding aloft a \"tax ax.\" Reagan also promised to \"amputate\" unnecessary government programs. The president would wield the ax and not be its victim, he insisted. Being a lame duck would not", "hinder his efforts to cut government spending, he told cabinet members at their first meeting after his reelection. \"I'll put a cast on that lame leg, and that will make a heck of a kicking leg.\" To prove independence, not so easy in a corporate world, Reagan punishes those dependent on him.76", "Reagan's surgical metaphors capitalize on the slippage between personal bodies and the body politic. The president wants that slippage to go in both directions, so that he can embody punishment and still claim that his programs have hurt no one. Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, by contrast, complained that the Democratic substitute for the 1981 budget was like \"cutting your legs off at the knees instead of the hips.\" \"It's like being told to amputate your own leg,\" agreed a House Education and Labor Committee aide. Although the Democrats want to call attention to the ordinary human beings hurt by Reagan's budget cuts, by adopting Reagan's metaphor they turn themselves into the victims. They thereby reinforce Reagan's self-image as the surgeon who causes symbolic pain and not real suffering.77", "Reagan's glorification of American life goes with his refusal to inhabit it. The people in his celluloid worldlike the Van Heusen shirt collar in the advertisement that introduced this chaptercan be twisted and twirled, bent and curled, without suffering damage, and since no real harm comes to anyone, the president appears benign. He is cut off from the effects of his political programs. To represent toughness it is best to operate in a symbolic universe protected from the real-world obstacles that might threaten that toughness or expose its punitive character. Symbolizing toughness and staying out of touch, far from being contradictory, are mutually reinforcing. But Reagan's dream of law and perfect order, deforming the world as it is to preserve it as a wrinkle-free ideal, has punishing consequences for sensate human beings down below.", "The president's uncanny mixture of invoked and derealized violence reaches a climax in his thoughts on Armageddon. The gothic sensibility looks forward to Christ's second coming but is obsessed by judgment day. It dwells less on the peaceable kingdom than on divine vengeance. Asked if he were concerned to preserve the wilderness for future generations, then-Secretary of the Interior James Watt replied, \"I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns.\" Watt's version of born-again Christianity, radically splitting our sojourn on earth from eternal life, justifies destroying the natural world. Reagan himself has said more than once that he believes literally", "in scriptural forecasts of a climactic struggle between the forces of light and darkness, that he expects that showdown to occur \"in our generation,\" that such events as the Communist takeover of Libya fulfill biblical prophecies, and that he expects the final conflict to break out in the Middle East.78", "These musings take operational force from the administration's belief in a winnable nuclear war. \"Reagan Enjoys Doomsday Ride\" was the headline when the president rose above the earth, participating in the planning to survive nuclear combat by defeating Soviet efforts to \"decapitate\" C3 I (the American center of command, control, communication, and intelligence). Although Reagan has imagined the coming of the biblical Armageddon and \"kind of thinks the Soviets are going to be involved in it,\" he insists that \"I have never seriously warned and said that we must plan according to Armageddon.\" But he acknowledges conversations with \"theologians\" for whom the American-Soviet struggle is evidence \"that the prophecies are coming together that portend\" judgment day. Reagan's cheerfulness collapses the last judgment into the millennium. By musing on world destruction and then denying he has done so seriously, the president is normalizing the end of the world.79", "Jerry Falwell, one of the theologians to whom Reagan referred, told his television audience in 1980 that the apocalypse prophesied in Revelations and the Book of Daniel was at hand. The Jews have returned to Israel, Falwell explained, as foretold in the Bible. A war will break out in the Middle East, and the Russian beast will invade. (To make the last judgment real to his audience, Falwell showed movies of himself inspecting the projected battlefield.) The Antichrist will unleash a nuclear war, Falwell went on to say, and 400 million people will die. The saved will not suffer, however. Uprooted from the earth, they will escape the violence that is to be visited on those down below \"and meet Christ in the air.\"80", "VII", "When D. W. Griffith lost his hold on film, as we shall see, his movies came back to haunt him. Reagan rose above film by taking his Hollywood identity to Washington. The Communists failed to capture Hollywood, he writes in his autobiography, but they initiated a series of costly studio strikes that caused the decline of Hollywood as the entertainment capital of the world. Reagan does not regret that decline for himself, he implies, for he writes that he only became whole when he", "stopped making movies. But the autobiography's final chapters comprise an elegy for a vanished Hollywood, suggesting that Reagan rescued the movie set by transferring it to Washington. Reagan's presidential identity did not develop completely outside film, in anti-Communism, remarriage, and the attack on the welfare state. After he left Warner Brothers the actor starred in several movies that form a bridge to the president.81", "These films were not box office successes, and they did not save his movie career. Perhaps that career ended because Reagan made World War II and cold war films in the 1950s when the country wanted relief from politics. Perhaps Reagan faced tougher competition from Hollywood stars than he did from political leaders, once the New Deal political system broke down. Perhaps Americans want something different from politicians than from stars, something more reassuring and more like themselves. Does failure in Hollywood succeed in politics by breaking down the disjunction between image and life more effectively than the bigger-than-life stars of the classic Hollywood movie can do? However we account for the disjunction between Hollywood decline and political triumph, we can watch Reagan become president in his final films.", "Reagan left Warner Brothers so he could choose his own roles. He wanted to make Westerns, and his first post-Warner Brothers film was The Last Outpost (1951). While fighting Communists offscreen, he fought Indians in front of the camera. Just as the Communist threat, Truman supporters hoped, would unite Democrats and Republicans, so the Apache danger in Last Outpost makes allies out of Union and Confederate soldiers. In Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) Reagan saves Barbara Stanwyck from Indians (see Fig. 1.11); the local reds are being manipulated by a white outlaw. Reagan plays a gunslinging sheriff in Law and Order (1953) who brings peace to a western town. He also made a Western set in Central America; an adventure movie with an anti-Communist backdrop set in Hong Kong; and the cold war parable Storm Warning (1951; see chapter 8), in which the Ku Klux Klan stands in for the Communist party.82", "Recalling his lawman persona, Reagan told an audience, \"I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty-minute show.\" The president also quotes Dirty Harry and Rambo. But when he invokes his own movie roles, he wants to be seen as the Gipper. Reagan mimed a cowboy", "firing his six-shooters after American planes shot down Libyan jets in 1981, but he did so in front of his aides and not the television cameras.83", "None of the movie stills chosen for Where's the Rest of Me? place Reagan on horseback; all three photographs put him in bed. He is without legs in King's Row , in the company of his wife and his best friend (Fig. 1.12). He had died in Knute Rockne and is being blessed by a priest and the Rocknes (Fig. 1.13). He is sitting back-to-back with Richard Todd, who will soon die of a fatal disease in The Hasty Heart (Fig. 1.14). These stills evoke redemptive suffering. They connect Reagan to victimhood, not aggression, and the merging of the two will bring his movie career to a close.", "Reagan plays Web Sloane, an army intelligence officer, in Prisoner of War (1954). He allows himself to be captured by the North Koreans to expose the brainwashing and torture in Communist POW camps. But after volunteering for danger, Web avoids it. He pretends to cooperate with the Communists to gather evidence against them. Although the movie audience is in on the secret (that Web is a loyal American), it nevertheless watches other Americans starved and hideously tortured while Web grows fat. Extended masochistic scenes of torture establish the Americans as victims, but Web is not one of them. Sinister, dehumanized Asian torturers, stereotypes that merge racism and anti-Communism, recur in movies from World War II on. But the Korean War never enjoyed the filmic popularity of its predecessor, and the peace treaty had been signed by the time Prisoner of War was released. No one went to see it. Reagan defends Prisoner's documentary accuracy, wishes the film were more widely viewed, and blames liberals for its bad box office.84 But the disturbing images of torture and identity confusion unsettle Reagan's aura of innocence more than the film intended.", "Reagan's movies played with hidden identity from the beginning (Accidents Will Happen [1938] and Murder in the Air ) to the end of his career (Cattle Queen of Montana and Prisoner of War ). He portrayed characters who joined criminal or subversive organizations in order to expose them, allowing the innocent actor to participate in forbidden activities. Although the theme of identity confusion was appropriate for an actor who found his identity through film, the process threatened to raise doubts about who Reagan actually was.", "Cold war ideology, as we shall see, required America simultaneously to imitate practices attributed to the enemy and to demonize the subversive in order to defend against the resulting breakdown of difference.", "But looked at from outside the demonological system, the mirroring process blended the subversive into his countersubversive reflection. President Reagan defends the motion picture itself for an analogous blurring process, for mirroring back our identities and telling us who we are. The desired self in that transfer is the one on the screen, for it is the self one wants to be, the commodity that acquires value from the viewers' desire. Therefore, the movie self, like the countersubversive, points to the definition of identity in doubling and to the absorption of identity in exchange.", "Throughout his entire Hollywood career, in over fifty movies, Ronald Reagan was never cast as the heavy. Reagan's image was so secure that he could play a foreign spy (Steve Svenko, alias Fred Coe) in Murder in the Air or the American turncoat in Prisoner of War and still seem Ronald Reagan, the innocent. There is, however, a danger of slippage between good and evil in such masquerades. As I will argue in chapter 8, cold war science fiction addressed anxieties about the loss of the self to its simulacrum, in contrast to cold war political films, which inadvertently undercut the distinction between subversive and countersubversive. Appropriately, it was a director of science fiction films who imagined the takeover of Reagan's identity. In 1964, the year Reagan entered national prominence in his Goldwater speech, Don Siegel cast him in The Killers as a criminal masquerading as a respectable businessman. Siegel had directed Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1956. In that movie pods possess innocent townspeople; since the viewer cannot tell the person from his or her pod, Body Snatchers questions whether the original character was really benign. In Reagan's previous masquerades, the good Reagan was always visible beneath the bad; in The Killers Siegel turned that image inside out. Reagan masterminds a robbery, uses Angie Dickinson as bait to lure an innocent racing car driver into the plot, and secretly had the driver killed. In what would become the movie's most lasting image because of the actor's emerging political career, Reagan dons a police uniform to rob a payroll truck.", "The Killers was Reagan's last film. Strictly speaking it was not a Hollywood movie, since Siegel made it for television. When it was judged too violent for family living rooms, it was shown in motion picture theaters instead. The Killers may have been only a movie. But Reagan regrets making it,85 for he does not want to be seen as orchestrating killings while wearing an all-American mask.", "Seven years before The Killers , in his final Hollywood motion picture, Reagan also played a man who comes under suspicion of murder.", "He portrayed a submarine commander accused of making military decisions for personal motives. This time the doubts about the actor's innocence are resolved by making him a victim. In Hellcats of the Navy (1957) Reagan successfully turned Dr. Gordon into Drake McHugh. I shall end where I began, with a World War II film.", "Hellcats opens with frogmen leaving a sub to bring back Japanese mines. Reagan (as the captain, Casey Abbott) submerges his vessel to escape a Japanese destroyer, thereby abandoning one frogman who has not yet returned. The frogman was romancing Abbott's former girlfriend, and the ship's lieutenant, Don Landon, thinks that is why the captain left him behind to die. Nurse Helen Blair, the woman in question, is played by Nancy Reagan (Fig. 1.15).", "Abbott won't risk the sub to save his rival. He risks it instead to chart a path through the underwater mines. The ship is sunk and sixty men die, riddled with bullets or trapped below. Landon accuses his captain of endangering the submarine for personal glory. But it is Landon not Abbott, the film tells us, who is confusing personal needs with military necessity.", "Abbott is trapped in a cable outside the sub in the movie's climactic scene. A Japanese destroyer is approaching, and Landon must decide whether to submerge the vessel. The men on the ship are your responsibility, Abbott tells Landon, advocating his own death. Like Abbott before him, Landon must be mature enough to sacrifice a rival for reasons not of personal hostility but national security. Miraculously, however, when the ship resurfaces Abbott is still alive. He has freed himself from the cable at the last minute. Although the conscious mind knows that Abbott survived by not submerging with the sub, the imagery suggests death and resurrection.", "Abbott had broken off his romance with Helen Blair to protect her from the risks of war. But she never stopped loving him, remaining loyal in the face of the suspicion that he deliberately killed the man who took his place. By reenacting his rival's sacrifice, Abbott frees himself from the charge of bad motives; he is now united with the men who died under his command. Since Abbott is above suspicion, he can have a personal life. At the movie's end he and Helen Blair prepare to wed. Reagan's final Hollywood movie, mixing life and film to the end, supplied him with the perfect marriage of military and familial authority. It is not the commander-in-chief (Fig. 1.16) who is contaminated by bad motives, says the film, but subordinates (Landon the junior officer, Rogin the critic) who cannot accept his authority.86", "The Nancy Reagan film shown at the 1984 Republican convention cut from shots of her among children and drug abusers to a scene from Hellcats of the Navy . Nancy Reagan, who had cried real tears while filming that scene, repeats her faith in the commander as he leaves on his climactic voyage. In cutting from life to the movie, the Republican National Committee may seem to have exposed the manufactured nature of its real-life image of the president's wife. But another film event suggests that the media men deliberately dissolved the boundary between life and image to offer us the reassurance of film. The president reelected in 1984 does not promote the telescreen as an instrument of surveillance and personal invasion on which big brother is watching you. Instead he offers freedom from public and private anxieties by allowing you to watch big brother. When Nancy Reagan spoke at the convention following the film of her life, Ronald Reagan watched her on television from their hotel suite. \"Make it one more for the Gipper,\" she urged, and the mass television audience (including him) saw her tiny figure turn with arms raised in support of an enormous image on the screen behind her, larger than her and larger than life (see Fig. 1.17). On camera in the hotel room, the image watched itself wave back, forming the truncated head and shoulders of her husband, the president of the United States.87", "Coda", "Talks were stalled at the 1985 Geneva Summit, as the White House tells the story, because of staff interference between the two heads of state. Reagan was particularly irritated with Georgi Arbatov, the leading Soviet Americanist, for describing him as a B-movie actor. \"Do one thing for me,\" Reagan told Gorbachev as the two men walked alone. \"Tell Arbatov they weren't all B movies.\" Gorbachev was prepared. \"The one I liked was the young man without the legs,\" he responded, and he asked Reagan what it was like to see himself in his old films. Reagan, now on familiar ground, used the line he had used so often before, \"It's like seeing the son you never had\"the imaginary son who had grown up to be president.88", "That colloquy, according to the White House, broke the ice between the two world leaders. Thanks to the personal relationship Reagan and Gorbachev established, the Russians agreed to a joint Soviet-American statement that did not repudiate Star Wars. One old movie, King's Row , had paved the way for SDI (named for another movie) to go into pro-", "duction. But George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars , insisted that the title was his private property. A group calling itself High Frontier was airing television commercials promoting Star Wars. \"I asked my daddy what this Star Wars stuff is all about,\" says a little girl's voice, as red-colored missiles fly toward and bounce off an invisible shield. \"My daddy's smart,\" says the little girl. The commercial associates the girl's daddy with the American president, us citizens with children in need of reassurance. The president of the United States is virtually alone, however, in claiming that Star Wars could actually provide a perfect defense like the one pictured on the television screen. Lucas, unwilling to be credited with Reagan's political fantasy, sued to remove his name from the product. But Judge Gerhard Gesell, sitting in federal court, decided the case against the filmmaker. Star Wars was a trademark, ruled the judge. It did not belong to its producer but to any consumer who wanted to use it. Star Wars was in the public domain.89", "Image not available.", "1.1.Reagan as Brass Bancroft, Murder in the Air (1940)", "Image not available.", "1.2.Reagan as a radio announcer, WHO", "Image not available.", "1.3.Reagan as a radio announcer, Love Is on the Air (1937)", "Image not available.", "1.4.Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, Brother Rat (1938)", "Image not available.", "1.5.Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman at home", "Image not available.", "1.6.Reagan and Bette Davis, Dark Victory (1939)", "Image not available.", "1.7.Ronald Reagan and Pat O'Brien, Knute Rockne, All American (1940)", "Image not available.", "1.8.\"Where's the rest of me?\"", "Image not available.", "1.9.Reagan and the show-girl, She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)", "Image not available.", "1.10.Ronald and Nancy Reagan at home", "Image not available.", "1.11.Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)", "Image not available.", "1.12.Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Ann Sheridan in King's Row (1942)", "Image not available.", "1.13.The Gipper's death scene, Knute Rockne", "Image not available.", "1.14.Reagan and Richard Todd, The Hasty Heart (1950)", "Image not available.", "1.15.Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Hellcats of the Navy (1957)", "Image not available.", "1.16.Ronald Reagan as commander-in-chief, Hellcats of the Navy", "Image not available.", "1.17.Ronald and Nancy Reagan, the Republican National Convention, 1984", "Continues...", "Excerpted from", "Ronald Reagan The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology", "by", "Michael Rogin", "Copyright 1988 by Michael Rogin. 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