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IDEO Eyes Open London : a field guide for the curious
Fred Dust + IDEO.
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50 p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm.
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IDEO Eyes Open New York : a field guide for the curious
Fred Dust + IDEO.
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50 p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm.
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In the blood : a memoir of my childhood
Andrew Motion.
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326 p. ; 22 cm.
William Faulkner's character Quentin in The Sound and the Fury repeatedly observes that "temporary" is "the saddest word of all." Despair over human impermanence and the desire to preserve what has been known and felt, even grief, reverberate at the heart of British Poet Laureate Motion's memoir of his childhood and adolescence in rural postwar England. A p?an to his family, and the secret hollows of his beloved home, this memoir evokes a whole world long disappeared. The book begins in December of 1968, hours before his mother's foxhunting accident and subsequent coma from which she never recovers. this memoir is far more than a guide to the life behind the poems; it is a stand against the ineluctability of time's passing, an insistence that what has been "felt in the blood, and felt in the blood, and felt along the heart," is, as the epigraph from Wordsworth suggests, an integral substance of our anatomy, a part that can be neither taken from us nor lost.
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An incomplete and inaccurate history of sport
Kenny Mayne.
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xvii, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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An interrupted life : the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork
Etty Hillesum ; translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans ; foreword by Eva Hoffman ; introduction and notes by Jan G. Gaarlandt.
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xxiv, 376 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Into the fire : Ploesti : the most fateful mission of World War II
Duane Schultz.
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xix, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Offers a popular history of the World War II aerial attack on Hitler's oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.
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It's not about the money : unlock your money type to achieve spiritual and financial abundance
Brent Kessel.
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xxi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Pure Goldwater
[assembled by] John W. Dean, Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.
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xiv, 399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation
Cokie Roberts.
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xxiii, 481 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Almost every quotation here is written by a woman, to a woman, or about a woman. From first ladies to freethinkers, educators to explorers, this exceptional group includes Abigail Adams, Margaret Bayard Smith, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Catherine Adams, Eliza Hamilton, Theodosia Burr, Rebecca Gratz, Louisa Livingston, Rosalie Calvert, Sacajawea, and others.--From publisher description.
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The library at night
Alberto Manguel.
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373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"Alberto Manguel's The History of Reading, a beautifully rendered meditation on the meaning of libraries through history, from Alexandria through the virtual library of Google, is his most important book since then. A humanist's journey, The Library at Night asks why we insist on collecting books and putting them on shelves, alphabetizing them or defiantly using other systems of organization, all of them "arbitrary.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Looking at Atget
Peter Barberie ; with an essay on the photographic materials by Beth A. Price and Ken Sutherland.
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ix, 125 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
A unique look at the work of one of the great photographers of the twentieth century, whose unequaled records of Paris inspired generations of photographers
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Losing it : and gaining my life back one pound at a time
Valerie Bertinelli.
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viii, 277 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
The actress recalls the challenges of maintaining a healthy self-image while coping with the stress of celebrity, her twenty-year marriage to rock star Eddie Van Halen, her battle with depression and weight, motherhood, and her determination to take control of her own life.
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