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Investigating the way one breaks through taboos and becomes a self-realized adult, this memoir traces the author's childhood in rural Arizona, his relationship with a physically shrinking father, his eccentric teenage friendships, and his growing...

This is a rich and many-faceted personal and business biography of the main figure in the third generation of Weyerhaeusers, who led the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company through the difficult and decisive years from 1933 to 1956. Although Phil Weyerhaeuser...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259924692Author Samuel MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259866596Author Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259797999Author American Legion National HeadquartersFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259790426Author Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259997849Author American LegionFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 64g

". . . some 10 years of painstaking enquiry are presented with sustained energy . . . Ezenwa-Ohaeto has completed a remarkable feat . . ." -West Africa". . . a gold mine of a source for future researchers." -The Literary Griot" . . . in this meticulously...

First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand...

Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States...

Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support, represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business...

Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of change in twentieth century America. The first female president of a local chapter of the United...

In Baring Witness , Welker and thirty-six Mormon women write about devotion and love and luck, about the wonder of discovery, and about the journeys, both thorny and magical, to humor, grace, and contentment. They speak to a diversity of life...

Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in American music including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bill...

This is the first full-length introduction to the life and works of significant American composer Marga Richter (born 1926), who has written more than one hundred works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance, opera, voice, chorus, piano, organ, and...

Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen literature (Zen Classics and The Zen Canon) and two...

Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Margaret Thatcher. The second daughter of a provincial grocer, Margaret Roberts Thatcher was not born to privilege or power. She was not an original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143422754Author Habib TanvirFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143101932Author Manna DeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143031727Author Sandeep GoyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin Books India Pvt LtdPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

They started off as hysteria-inducing pop stars playing to audiences of screaming teenage fans and ended up as musical sages considered responsible for ushering in a new era. The year that changed everything for the Beatles was 1966—the year of their...

Blending Kitchen Confidential, Blood, Bones & Butter, and Breaking Bad, a culinary memoir that illuminates the highs and lows of addiction, anxiety, and ambition in the world of haute cuisine. Thirty-one-year-old Jesse Schenker has rocketed to the top of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062259578Author Claudia WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 265g

This book is the first in a series which will feature the colonels of the Union Army in the Civil War. Most of them were citizen soldiers from a wide variety of backgrounds. Motivated by patriotic enthusiasm and personal ambition but often lacking any...

Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But when he got to 1600, that distinction turned out to be double-bladed. As president, Obama hoped to mount a second campaign, one for the heart of the Democratic Party...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905087143Author Gary JeffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614571124Author Stephen FifeFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Cune Press,USPublisher Cune Press,USWeight(grams) 418g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Iowa Teen Award 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780380791415Author Bernice SparksFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

The aim of this new and important book is to put together under one cover various types of laboratory practices that pair clinical practice with research using standard operating procedures (SOP'S) in evaluations and interventions. The Internet has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062888334Author Jessica HendraFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 218g

Arthur's greatest success was in cutting the surplus, although it was a modest reduction, maintaining the protectionist tariff system, achieving civil service reform, and rebuilding the navy. Like every president he did disappoint and he carefully...

Over the past three decades, Alec Baldwin has established himself as one of Hollywood's most gifted, hilarious, and controversial leading men. From his work in popular movies, including Beetlejuice, Working Girl, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cooler, and...

In this absorbing and surprising memoir, one of the biggest names of classic Hollywood-the star of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie-tells her story, including never-before-revealed experiences on the set of some of the biggest cult films of all...

Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through...

Libraries are filled with volumes containing recipes for growing old gracefully. Most of them are based on mountains of research and statistics. Career correspondent and author Roy Rowan read many of these books, and found in them some good advice. ...

Shailene Woodley and Theo James are two stars on the rise. Playing Tris Prior and Tobias 'Four' Eaton respectively, they are set to take Hollywood by storm on the release of Divergent, the fantasy film based on the internationally best-selling novel by...

A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and...

The strongest voices in Christian history regarding the place of women in religious and secular society gave them only a very limited role, but there have always been those who disagreed with that view and with much other church orthodoxy. Often reviled...

Stephen Neill (1900-1984) was a towering figure of twentieth-century global Christianity, but was in many ways a broken man who faced profound and crippling struggles. A Worldly Christian charts the extraordinary but often tragic life of a global...

This candid political memoir captures Barbara Lee's extraordinary life and political career from her early upbringing in El Paso, Texas through her years in Oakland, California with the Black Panther Party to her service in the U.S. Congress. In a new...