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In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then a trip to Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in the developing world.

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An Italian psychoanalyst and raconteur reflects on life and the common experiences that make us human. These ten essays tell stories from his life, from encounters with a Giant Caucasian Sheepdog and a martial arts master to a journey through a remote Italian village, and draws out the meaning of these experiences for himself and his readers.

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The final part of Helen Forrester's autobiography continues the story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool.

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The second volume of Helen Forrester's four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression.

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In 2004, Brent Jeffs filed the first sexual abuse lawsuit against Warren Jeffs, his uncle, the president and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the polygamous Mormon sect. Lost Boy shows how cults like FLDS control their members, how their absolute power corrupts their leaders, and how hard it is to escape.

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When mother and daughter meet, Sue thinks she has finally reached the end of her journey. Then Sue discovers she wasn't the only baby her mother gave away...

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This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and others. His masterpiece, the 1925 essay The Gift, on reciprocity and gif

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The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century. Mead has special appeal to teens because of her work with and theories on this age group.

Readers will be inspired by Mead's individualism and career in anthropology in its golden age.

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A devastating first-hand testimony exposing the cruel and widespread practice of forced marriage.

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Melanie Klein was probably the most controversial and influential figure on the British psychoanalytic scene. She pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis. This work assesses her work, life and influence.

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Mighty be their Powers chronicles the unthinkable violence Leymah Gbowee has faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped to broker by empowering her country women and others around the world to take action and change History.

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At the pinnacle of his boxing career during the 1960s and early 1970s, Muhammad Ali seemed to be a cultural symbol of the times. This book describes Ali's life from his birth, with an emphasis on his career through 1975. It covers such topics as his boxing matches, his religious conversion to Islam, and his efforts to promote world peace.

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This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history.

Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans.

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David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in care and suffered appalling sexual abuse. But no-one knew. But a call from the abuser's wife, 30 years on, proved he was living in a house of cards.

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This volume presents biographical essays on 59 women from around the world who have made significant contributions to mathematics. Designed for secondary schools and the general public, each profile describes major life events, obstacles faced and overcome, and career milestones.

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Notable Women in the Physical Sciences features substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant contributions to the physical sciences from antiquity to the present.

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In this fascinating book, Darwish speaks out against the dark side of her native culture--women abused by Islamic traditions, the poor and uneducated mistreated by the elites, and bribery and corruption as a way of life. She calls on the Arab world to embrace the values of democracy, respect for women, and tolerance for all religions.

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How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childhood. She didn't stand a chance. All too soon hope turned to fear and she knew she'd have to run again.

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Roy Douglas ("Pansy") Wright was one of the great Australians of the 20th century. Born on a hill-country farm, he became a medical scientist and a builder of institutions such as the Australian National University. This biography reveals the many contradictions in this complex man.

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Her work changed the image of the Chinese people in the American mindultimately facilitating the 1943 repeal of the 61-year-old Chinese Exclusion Act and arousing Americans' support of the Chinese resistance against the Japanese aggression in World War II.

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The selections are geographically representational of the broad railroad network.

There is renewed interest in the Underground Railroad, exemplified by the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and energized scholarly inquiry.

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Star Parker tells the inspirational story of how she turned her life around from a world of drugs, crime, and welfare to success as an entrepreneur, founder of the Coalition on Urban Affairs, and spokesperson for African-American conservatives. Reprint.

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The harrowing true story of one boys experiences in a brutal approved school for young offenders in 50s London, run by Catholic monks where violence and abuse were rife.