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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

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A shocking expose of the process by which the mental-health elite judge us all.

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Now in paperback: The often incredible exploits of America's "secret warriors" of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II, as told by a former agent.

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"Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915--1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such gre"

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"In 1864 the Philadelphia Press commissioned Thomas Morris Chester, son of an ex-slave to cover the activities of black troops on the Virginia front. The only black correspondent for a major daily duri"

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A re-creation of the American Revolution from the British point of view --and a dramatically different picture of the birth of our nation.

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Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included "Cherokee", "Pompton Turnpike", and "Skyliner". In this book, he writes of his whiskey and marijuana habits, of his whorehouse visits and his half-dozen marriages.

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Melinda Camber Porter has interviewed the most prominent Parisian cultural figures of the '70s and '80s. The dominant trends in French artistic and political thought emerge vividly from an array of portraits and dialogues. As a whole, Through Parisian Eyes creates a seamless and revealing depiction of French culture.

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On March 9, 1862, the ""battle of the century"" took place at Hampton Roads. The U.S.S. Monitor, the world's first all-iron fighting ship, repulsed the Confederate ironclad Merrimack.

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A revealing, behind-the-scenes account of the 1984 NBA draft, considered the greatest ever, as general managers, coaches, and players describe what really went down

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A German survivor of the Allied air campaign in World War II provides a unique and thought-provoking perspective on strategic, wide-area bombing

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When should futile medical treatment be stopped When and how can death be hastened How can each of us keep control of these decisions

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The Parallel Lives of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain & Edward Porter Alexander

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"Fears, feeding, and sleep problems, croup and tantrums, stomachaches, asthma: these are some of the problems that every parent worries about at one time or another. According to Dr. Brazelton, most of"

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The first biography of the elusive musician who influenced an entire generation of country songwriters as his tragic life became the stuff of legend

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"When on July 20, 1944, a bomb--boldly placed inside the Wolf's Lair (Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia) by the German Anti-Nazi Resistance--exploded without killing the Fuhrer, the subsequent coup d"