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High Steel The Daring Men Who Built The World's Greatest Skyline 1881 To The Present
Step out onto a narrow steel beam 800 feet in the air and join the rarest breed of worker you'll ever meet. From the violence-prone, half-mad 'roughnecks' that built America's first steel bridges and buildings -- often dying in the process -- to the roaming Mohawks and 'boomers' raising its skyscrapers today, they are the rogues and heroes, the anything-but-average Average Joes of High Steel. For anyone who ever wondered about the origins of America's steel icons -- its suspension bridges, its skyscrapers -- here's the untold story of the men who risked their lives to build them. Rich in history and personality, soaring from stunning tragedy to monumental achievement, High Steel is the most original and significant account of workers in America since Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed. This is nonfiction that will make your heart beat a little faster, and show you the world from a place you've never been. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461504173
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Redcoat
It is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun. On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. The young Redcoat Sam Gilpin has seen his brother die. Now he must choose between duty to a distant king and the call of his own conscience. And for the men and women of the prosperous Becket family, the Revolution brings bitter conflict between those loyal to the crown and those with dreams of liberty. Soon, across the fields of ice and blood in a place called Valley Forge, history will be rewritten, changing the lives and fortunes of these men and women forever. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461504397
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The Spider's House
Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles's remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing-vintage Bowles. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461504528
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Don't Ever Wonder
Three very different African-American men and best friends--Nathan Montgomery, a reformed womanizer transformed by tragedy; Brendan Shue, recovering from a devastating break-up; and Cory Dandridge, the perfect husband and father coping with his attraction to a former flame--search for love, sex, intimacy, and the perfect relationship. Original. 40,000 first printing. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461504559
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Good Family
Returning to her family summer home near Lake Michigan after an eleven-year absence, Maddie Addison struggles to reconnect with people she has long avoided, including a mother whose life was compromised by her husband's rigid mores. By the author of The Water Dancers. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461504626
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Conducting Favourite Concert Pieces
This collection of essays on the interpretation of twenty-two unusual concert pieces was assembled partly with a view to more imaginative program planning. There are many composers who may have written only one or two masterpieces, yet failed to leave a worthy oeuvre; these sadly are often forgotten or overlooked when conductors assemble programs. This compilation spans a little over a hundred years from the 19th and 20th centuries and all the works are colorful and attractive. The essays range from Russia to Spain, from Schoenberg to KodBly, from Wolf to Poulenc, with such established favorites as the overture to La Forza del Destino with its unexpected tricky moments and the Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes for which Del Mar offers suggestions from Brittel himself, with whom he worked for years. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461403483
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Pension Fund Capitalism
Pension fund assets are truly astronomical. But little is known about their functions, structures, and modes of decision making. This book fills the gap through a theoretically informed account of Anglo-American pension funds, set in context with current debates about the role of government policy and the roles and responsibilities of pension funds. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461403561
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Intervention in Contemporary World Politics
This book examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. It focuses primarily on the Cold War and post-Cold War eras and the differences between them. It contests the notion that there is an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention in international politics, arguing that political interests remain essential to the practice of intervention. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461403699
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Strategic Implications of HIV AIDS
This book argues that the growing AIDS pandemic not only has important health and development ramifications, but is rapidly evolving into an international security issue as well. Drawing primarily on examples from Africa and Asia, the study contends that they only mark the beginning of a more pervasive challenge that is likely to unfold over several decades unless greater international efforts to address the pandemic are taken. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461403723
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Desk Reference Atlas
The prefect reference for any student or office desk in a handy size and affordable format. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461403322
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Rain of Iron and Ice
Discusses the very real threat of comet and asteroid bombardment. Author presents the full range of scientific evidence for past and possibly future dangers. DLC: Comets - Environmental aspects. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461404110
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Taking Charge & Letting Go
Charts the successes and failures of key managers and their strategies as they sought to transform their firms into world-class horizontal competitors. DLC: Strategic planning. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461504119
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Pilgrim
On April 15, 1912 -- ironically, the date of the sinking of the Titanic -- Pilgrim fails, once again, to commit suicide. His heart miraculously begins to beat five hours after he is found hanging from a tree. Admitted to the Burgholzi Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich by his dear friend Lady Sybil Quartermaine, Pilgrim -- at first, stubbornly mute -- begins a battle of psyche and soul with Carl Jung, self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious and slave to his own sexual appetite. Populated with a fascinating parade of historical characters, including Jung, Oscar Wilde, Leonardo da Vinci, Henry James, and Gertrude Stein, Pilgrim is a richly layered story of a man's sesarch for his own destiny and an absorbing, fascinating novel that explores ageless questions about humanity and consciousness. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461504245
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An Independent Woman
An Independent Woman continues the story of Barbara Lavette, the charismatic heroine of Second Generation, The Establishment, The Legacy, and The Immigrant's Daughter. Gently aging but as strong-willed as ever, she has become the matriarch of the large and powerful Lavette clan, whom everyone turns to for guidance and for the strength of her faith in the human spirit. After years as a liberal journalist, Barbara discovers the joys of a real love when she meets and marries Philip Carter, a Unitarian minister. Yet upon their return home to San Francisco from a romantic honeymoon in Europe and Israel, Barbara faces a test that proves to be more challenging and harrowing than anything that has come before. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461507481
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