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Today is the deed.We will account for it tomorrow.The past we are leaving behind as carrion.The future we leave to the fortune-tellers.We take the present day.

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Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Painters" to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists

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"Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners. The Trouble They Seen departs from this ap"

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From popular and acclaimed New York Times travel writer Matt Gross (The Frugal Traveller Getting Lost), a captivating case for recovering our ability to be independent travellers, told through a series of beautifully written reflections on the rigors and joys of traveling outside the recommendations (and constraints) of travel guides.

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Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk" is told with expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage.

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A comprehensive, authoritative guide to everything you need to know about feeding your pet-including homemade food, the BARF diet, and conventional food-from a veteran trainer and pet book author

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"During World War I 370,000 African Americans labored, fought, and died to make the world safe for a democracy that refused them equal citizenship at home. The irony was made more bitter as black troop"

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This text examines the strategy, battles and consequences of the Virginia Campaign. It provides a dissection of alternative plans of campaigns and includes analyses into the battles of Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Court House, Cold Harbour, the siege of Petersburg and the capture of Richmond.

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What really hurts America's children and what we can do about it.

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One of the most dramatic battles of the Indian Wars is described in a revised edition with new material including official army reports and recent archaeological evidence.

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Renowned historian and military commentator Albert A. Nofi brings together for the first time in paperback a series of hard-hitting essays on World War II's most pivotal campaigns clear, concise and packed with information.

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The incredible battle waged against Nazi troops by half a million Allied men in the mountains of Italy after VE Day.

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June 1815

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The author of the best-selling Transitions turns inward, revealing how personal tragedy can yield growth and rejuvenation

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"The Wicked City is an account of Chicago's vice, crime, capitalism, and corruption from Pierre the Mole, who sold whiskey to the Indians, through Jonny Torrio and Al Capone, who bootlegged a Great La"

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"Whatever your goal, The Winner's Brain offers accessible, thought-provoking, immediately applicable strategies for success."--Frances Cole Jones, author of How to Wow

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Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, possesses a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford." -- Elmore Leonard

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A fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest composer-performers in his own words and the words of the musicians he played with.

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"The life of Paul Gauguin (1848--1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art wor"

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"In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make love. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the writings of Marcel Duchamp, who fashioned some of th"

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The wide gamut of films that turn us on, as judged by the most distinguished group of movie critics in America

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"Theodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history--not even Jefferson--had so many opinions and intellectual interests, beli"

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An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates)- a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B.C. has been hailed ever since as an outstanding example of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.

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A fabulous book...one of the better volumes written on the battle in many years.-Civil War News