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If This Is a Man / The TruceBy Abacus |
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The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White HouseBy Simon & Schuster Ltd |
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The Shocking Story of How America Really Took Over the WorldBy Ebury Press |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of ChinaBy HarperPerennial |
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction)By Virago Press Ltd |
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Man DownBy Bantam Press |
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Eight Lives DownBy Corgi Books |
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Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'By Profile Books |
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Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)By Penguin Classics |
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DisgraceBy Secker & Warburg |
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Initial sales for Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, released under the Harper Collins imprint, are going through the roof. The demand for the former Alaska governor's political biography confirms what heartland conservatives have ...
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-going-rogue-book-tour-draws-crowds-and-controversy/
Palin biography makes waves | Naomi Wolf
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http://naomiwolf.org/2009/11/palin-biography-makes-waves/
RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Heroic Failures
I had only dipped into Louis Harlan's biography on Washington, and I can't remember what I used for Du Bois, as I haven't read David Levering Lewis's book. (Our Ed Blum has since furthered my understanding of Du Bois). ... Norrell's Up from History is expert political biography, occasionally prying inside Washington's often inscrutable mind but primarily performing the same sort of task for Washington as Michael Kazin did for William Jennings Bryan several years back. ...
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/11/heroic-failures.html
A. B. Yehoshua biography - Americans for Peace Now
A. B. Yehoshua biography. November 20, 2009 5:57 PM | No Comments. Abraham B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's most articulate moral voices. Born to a fifth-generation Jerusalem Sephardi family, Yehoshua has authored 15 books, as well as short stories, ... Rarely shy about his political views, Yehoshua is a vocal critic of the occupation and of West Bank settlements. He has long been a supporter of Peace Now. Click here to read "Why Peace Now?" a letter by A.B. Yehoshua. ...
http://peacenow.org/entries/a_b_yehoshua_biography
Mother India: A Political Biography of Indira Gandhi
Gupte's earlier books, “Mother India: A Political Biography of Indira Gandhi,” was the basis of a major television documentary on Lifetime Network, and received front-page reviews in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. ...
http://ptsbooksclub.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/mother-india-a-political-biography-of-indira-gandhi/
Book Review: The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his ...
At its core, The Raven King is a book about books. Although nearly half of the book is comprised of a more conventional biography of the king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus (r. 1458-90), the heart of Marcus Tanner's new monograph is ... This political and military success was made more remarkable by the fact that the previous king of Hungary had executed Corvinus's brother, and that Corvinus himself was imprisoned for several years before his surprise coronation in 1458. ...
http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/book-review-the-raven-king-matthias-corvinus-and-the-fate-of-his-lost-library/
Religio-Political Talk: Global Warming Scare Tactics -- Carbon ...
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men [or women], setting out in life, it is there only capital. ... ---I must post some biography here for the younger kinfolk who do not know who von Braun is--- Von Braun [1912-1977] was born in Wirsitz (now in Poland) and studied at Berlin and in Switzerland at Zurich. ...
http://religiopoliticaltalk.blogspot.com/2009/11/global-warming-scare-tactics-carbon.html
A walk 'with' Molly Ivins: Too bad she isn't alive to tell the ...
The late Molly Ivins raised a Texas-sized amount of hell in her time over political and social issues even though she grew up among members of the Lone Star. ... I don't need a resonant voice reading the Molly bio flawlessly, Jim Dale style —in this case I just want to follow the narrative. At the same time, I would rather not splurge on an audio book, and beyond that, I want to enjoy A Rebel Life on a screen, too (ideally someday on the Kindle in the standard ePub format) ...
http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/23/a-walk-with-molly-ivins-too-bad-she-isnt-alive-to-tell-the-authors-guild-off-about-text-to-speech/
WEreaders Book Club - WildEarth.TV
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Law Librarian Blog: SCOTUS Has Never Seen the Likes of Associate ...
SCOTUS Has Never Seen the Likes of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia: First Full-Scale Biography Published. From the book description of Joan Biskupic's American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Nov. 10, 2009): ... Combative yet captivating, infuriating yet charming, the outspoken jurist remains a source of curiosity to observers across the political spectrum and on both sides of the ideological divide. ...
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2009/11/scotus-has-never-seen-the-likes-of-associate-justice-antonin-scalia-first-fullscale-biography-publis.html
