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    A Baptist Preacher's Buddhist Teacher

    In this inspiring, soul-stirring memoir, Lawrence E. Carter Sr., founding dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, shares his remarkable quest to experience King's "beloved community" and his surprising discovery in mid-life that King's...
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    TIHKAL

    TiHKAL: The Continuation is the sequel to PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story but can stand alone to any reader. Where PiHKAL focuses on a class of compounds called phenethylamines, TiHKAL is written about a family of psychoactive drugs known as tryptamines...
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    PIHKAL

    Alexander (better known as "Sasha") and Ann Shulgin's foundational work in the genre was the first book to fully impart the how-to chemistry, and convey the effects, of many of the entheogenic drugs that are currently being studied and used to heal...
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    Sir Joseph Banks
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    Sir Joseph Banks

    Fourteen papers drawing together the many threads of Banks's wide ranging interests and the worldwide influence he had on the progress and development of science, technology, horticulture, agriculture, trade and politics. Includes 45 illustrations.
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    Builders of the Pacific Coast
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    Builders of the Pacific Coast

    A continuation of Lloyd Kahn's journeys into the creative processes of owner-built homes - their innovative techniques, use of sustainable materials, and essential dedication to the natural elements surrounding their designs...
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    Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories
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    Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories

    In 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. In the soon-legendary Wisconsin Death Trip he combined 1890s photographs and newspaper clippings to evoke a devastatingly tragic epoch, the real-world antithesis of the...
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    Traveling Soul
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    Traveling Soul

    Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era, and his music played a vital role in the civil rights movement: People Get Ready was the black anthem of the time. In Traveling Soul , Todd Mayfield tells his...
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    The Bear is My Father
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    The Bear is My Father

    The Bear Is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Caretaker of Sacred Ways is considered a love story between Bear Heart and a community that stretches across the globe. This book celebrates the life, teachings and legacy of Marcellus Bear...
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    Cook County ICU
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    Cook County ICU

    An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin.Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a...
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    Five Chimneys
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    Five Chimneys

    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book...
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    Using Power Well
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    Using Power Well

    The compelling biography of former British Columbia cabinet minister Bob Williams weaves his political and economical insights with the story of his unconventional life.In Using Power Well, former provincial politician Bob Williams tells his atypical...
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    In the Company of Strangers

    Mary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a "semi-documentary" National Film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim. Meigs spent two years writing this...
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    Mandela and the General
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    Mandela and the General

    Will the freedom struggle end in a bloodbath? Only two men can avert it.Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and first leader of the new South Africa, is an international symbol of the power of a popular movement to fight structural racism. But that...
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    You Carried Me
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    You Carried Me

    What happens when an abortion survivor finds her birth mother, who never knew her daughter was alive?Winner, 2018 Christianity Today Book Award, CT WomenSilver Medal Winner, 2018 Illumination Book Awards, Biography & MemoirMelissa Ohden is fourteen...
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    A Quilt for David
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    A Quilt for David

    This book is a page turner. The story's emotional charge brings the reader to a specific historical moment, keeps the pace of a mystery, and tells a larger narrative. A Quilt for David will appeal to a wide-range of readers as Reigns' prose-poetry...
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    Tosh

    The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist.Tosh is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of...
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    Culture Gap

    Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley tells the story of a two year sojourn at the Camelsfoot Commume in a remote valley in BC, Canada. The challenges and privations, the joys and adventures of rural communal living, form the backdrop to...
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    The Clean Money Revolution
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    The Clean Money Revolution

    Ride the $40 trillion wave of "clean money" changing the face of investment, business, and the world for good.By 2050, $40 trillion will change hands in North America alone. From Boomers to Millennials, the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in...
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    Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship

    Over the fourteen centuries of its existence, Islamic scholarship has produced numerous individuals who have acquired broad knowledge and deep insight. This work summarizes the thought of ten key personalities whose influence encompasses the vast...
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    Muhammad: His Character and Conduct

    An accessible text looking at the character of the Prophet Presents the Prophet in many different ways, including as a father, husband, leader and negotiator Thematically organised so readers can refer to the different noble traits he had Unique in that...
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    Muhammad: Man and Prophet

    The Prophet Muhammad initiated one of the most significant religious and cultural developments in human history, bringing the religion of Islam to the world. Adil Salahi's compelling biography traces the life of the Prophet Muhammad from his birth and...
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    Being Benedict Cumberbatch
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    Being Benedict Cumberbatch

    A humorous, informative guide to the life and career of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the unlikely heartthrob it's okay to be obsessed with. Follow today's hottest actor on his journey from Cumberboy to Cumberbabe. He's made...
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    The Crime of Jean Genet
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    The Crime of Jean Genet

    Dominique Edd met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. 'His presence', she writes, 'gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated and precise [...] Genet's movements mimicked...
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    Of Walking in Ice

    In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed...
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    Jokowi and the New Indonesia
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    Jokowi and the New Indonesia

    In 2014, Joko Widodo - popularly known as Jokowi - was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year term in 2019. Raised amid poverty in a riverside slum and with a background in the furniture export...
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    A House in Bali
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    A House in Bali

    "It remains one of the most penetrating and illuminating books on the island's elusive, alluring culture." - National GeographicA House in Bali tells the fascinating story of renowned writer and composer Colin McPhee's obsession with Balinese gamelan...
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    Finding a Life of Harmony and Balance
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    Finding a Life of Harmony and Balance

    This authorized biography of contemporary Taoist expert Wang Liping (1949-), an 18th generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, tells the true story of his apprenticeship in Taoist wizardry, as well as the specialized body of knowledge, mystical...
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    Bruce Lee Artist of Life
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    Bruce Lee Artist of Life

    Named one of TIME magazine's 100 Greatest Men of the Century, Bruce Lee's impact and influence has only grown since his untimely death in 1973. Part of the seven-volume Bruce Lee Library, this installment of the famed martial artist's private notebooks...
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    Bruce Lee Words of the Dragon

    Words of the Dragon is an anthology of newspaper and magazine interviews from 1958 to 1973 revealing Bruce Lee's own fascinating words and explanations about Bruce himself, his art and philosophy. Interesting and insightful, Words of the Dragon provides...
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    Ask A North Korean
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    Ask A North Korean

    The weekly column "Ask a North Korean" published by NK News invites readers from around the globe to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these provocative interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic, first-person...
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  • At Home in Japan
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    At Home in Japan

    What would it be like to move to Japan, leaving everyone you know behind, to become part of a traditional Japanese household? At Home in Japan tells an extraordinary true story of a foreign woman who goes through an amazing transformation, as she makes a...
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  • Bruce Lee Letters of the Dragon
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    Bruce Lee Letters of the Dragon

    So much has been written about Bruce Lee-the martial arts superstar whose combination of strength, agility and charisma are legendary. But seldom are we able to peel back the veneer of Lee's public image to view his true character...
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    If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!

    Cynthia Heimel has been described by the Chicago Tribune as "perhaps our funniest war correspondent on the war between the sexes"; her wisdom on dating includes such gems as: "My new rule is to never believe a person is interested until you feel his...
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    The Comedians

    Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Louis CK-comedy historian Kliph...
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    The Demons of Leonard Cohen
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    The Demons of Leonard Cohen

    'With my jingle in your brain, allow the Bridge to arch again'. How are we to understand Leonard Cohen's plea? Who speaks to whom in this oeuvre spanning six decades? Francis Mus considers the different guises or 'demons' that the Canadian...
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    Finding Nemon
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    Finding Nemon

    `I greatly admire the art of Mr Oscar Nemon, whose prowess in the ancient classical realm of sculpture has won such remarkable appreciation in our country.' - Winston ChurchillHis talent was classical sculpture, but his gifts lay in capturing the...
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    In the Shadow of the Dreamchild
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    In the Shadow of the Dreamchild

    This is the most significant biographical work on the author of Alice In Wonderland  to be published in recent years. Karoline Leach's study contends that Carroll was far from being emotionally  and sexually obsessed...
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  • The Strength to Say No
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    The Strength to Say No

    An inspiring true life story that will resonate amongst those who decry the oppression of women and girls in some areas of the Third World.  In a remote village in Bengal, 11-year-old Rekha and her large family live by rolling handmade...
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    Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Eccentricity of Tyrants
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    Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Eccentricity of Tyrants

    A penetrating and incisive study of the fanaticism and foibles of some of history's most illustrious names. From Assad to Nero, Gaddafi to Ivan the Terrible, this volume investigates the minds of some of the most powerful...
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    Anywhere out of the world
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    Anywhere out of the world

    By the time of his death in 1989 at the age of 48, Bruce Chatwin had become one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. Though his career spanned merely twelve years, his impact and influence was profoundly felt; Chatwin's first book In...
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    Julian Barnes
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    Julian Barnes

    Now available in paperback, Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but...
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    Refractions of Bob Dylan
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    Refractions of Bob Dylan

    Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have informed and productively re/shaped certain images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan...
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    The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes
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    The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes

    This study examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes' art, from the critical realism of his early novels to his highly experimental novels of the late sixties, and to his novels from the eighties where national identities are playfully evoked and largely...
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    The age of Obama
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    The age of Obama

    Drawing on collaborative research from a distinguished team at Harvard and Manchester universities, The age of Obama asks how two very different societies are responding to the tide of diversity that is being felt around the rich world. Guardian...
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    Joss Whedon
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    Joss Whedon

    This book assesses Joss Whedon's contribution to US television and popular culture. Examining everything from his earliest work to his most recent tweets and activist videos, it explores his complex and contradictory roles as both cult outsider and...
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    Paul Auster
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    Paul Auster

    Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By...
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    J.G. Ballard
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    J.G. Ballard

    This book offers a comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, regarded by critics as one of the most significant fiction writers of recent times. Ballard's early science fiction writing earned him plaudits as one of the most innovative and...
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    Trevor Griffiths
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    Trevor Griffiths

    Trevor Griffiths has been a critical force in British television writing for over three decades. His successes have included the series Bill Brand (1976), his adaptations of Sons and Lovers and The Cherry Orchard (1981) and his television plays, The...
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