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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society [MultiFormat]
by Dave Grossman
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 The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers is loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The psychological cost for soldiers, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The psychological cost for the rest of us is even more so: contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques and, ... more info>> (Published: 1995)
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Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft [MultiFormat]
by G. Pascal Zachary
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Showstopper! is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary Bruce Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Ki... more info>> (Published: 1994)
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Body Language [MultiFormat]
by Julius Fast
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Body Language helps you to understand the unconscious body movements and postures that provide intimate keys to what a person is really thinking and the secrets of their true inner selves. You will learn how to read the angle of shoulders, the tilt of a head, or the tap of a foot, in order to discern whether an individual is angry, frightened or cheerful. You will be able to use Body Language to discover the most--and least--important person in any group by the way others position themselves. Th... more info>> (Published: 1970) New York Times Best Seller List
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EMT: Rescue [MultiFormat]
by Pat Ivey
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These are the trying true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians that often are the only thing standing between anyone of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive first hand experiences and an unflinching eye for drama and detail to bring us the unheard tales of heroism and courage of the EMT units. She takes us into a hidden world of children in need, women seeking shelter from the storm of abuse and the realities of industrial accidents. A simple car crash turns into a Her... more info>> (Published: 1993)
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In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis [MultiFormat]
by Isaac Asimov
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Creation.The beginning of time.The origin of life. In our Western civilization, there are two influential accounts of beginnings. One is the Biblical account, compiled more than two thousand years ago by Judean writers who based much of their thinking on the Babylonian astronomical lore of the day. The other is the account of modern science, which, in the last century, has slowly built up a coherent picture of how it all began. Both represent the best thinking of their times, and in this line-by... more info>> (Published: 1980)
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Mind Over Golf [MultiFormat]
by Donald Sauers, Tom Nieporte
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There's an interesting point at which the psychological and technical sides of golf meet--and Tom Nieporte and Don Sauers discover this by talking with America's leading golf professionals. The tips provided in this book will help golfers of any level discover or regain confidence that will drop strokes off of every golfer's score. Any golfer must know how to master the eight major golfing skills, and from this book golfers will learn how easy it is to turn handicapping weaknesses into winning s... more info>> (Published: 1968)
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No, He's Not A Monkey, He's An Ape and He's My Son [MultiFormat]
by Hester Mundis
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This book answers the question that's on everybody's mind: "What's it like to raise a chimpanzee in Manhattan?" Hester Mundis's hilarious memoir NO, HE'S NOT A MONKEY, HE'S AN APE AND HE'S MY SON is the complete guide to raising a chimp in the heart of urban America. Join Hester, her husband, their terrifying attack dog Ahab, and the funniest monkey--excuse us, APE--ever to occupy an apartment on the Upper West Side of New York City in this true adventure of woman versus beast. (Published: 1976)
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The Fiction Writer's Toolkit [MultiFormat]
by Bob Mayer
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"From the first, original idea you have for your novel, through writing your manuscript, to the book on the shelf in the bookstore and making a career out of writing novels, the Fiction Writer's Toolkit takes the reader on the entire creative journey in a very practical manner. This book was written over the course of ten years as the author went from newly published to multiple best-selling novelist under several pen names. Topics covered range from idea into story, point of view, where to star... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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The Improbable Voyage [MultiFormat]
by Tristan Jones
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The Improbable Voyage is the account of master sailor and storyteller Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an oceangoing trimaran, Outward Leg. Continuing his round-the-world journey, Jones traveled from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and Danube. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, the indomitable Jones made his way through eight countries and emerged triumphant, if battered, bruised... more info>> (Published: 1986)
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Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?: The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938-1944 [MultiFormat]
by Haskell Lookstein
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A major work that explores in depth the American Jewish response to the Holocaust as it occurred. By examining contemporary Jewish press accounts of such events as Kristallnacht, the refusal to allow the refugee ship St. Louis to land in America, the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, and the deportation of the Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, Haskel Lookstein provides us with an important perspective on the way in which events are reported on, perceived and interpreted in their own time. (Published: 2004)
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A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea [MultiFormat]
by Tristan Jones
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Tristan Jones vividly and colorfully describes his childhood as a Welsh boy growing up by the sea. The story of his boyhood in pre-World War II England is strikingly charming and nostalgic. The challenges and adventures he encounters will have you seeing, smelling, feeling, hearing, and tasting the sea as you travel with him through this coming-of-age story. (Published: 1982)
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After the Madness: A Judge's Own Prison Memoir [MultiFormat]
by Sol Wachtler
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Driving down the Long Island Expressway in November of 1992, Sol Wachtler was New York's Chief Judge and heir apparent to the New York Governorship. Suddenly, three van loads of FBI agents swerved in front of him--bringing his car and his legal career to a halt. Wachtler's subsequent arrest, conviction and incarceration for harassing his longtime lover precipitated a media feeding frenzy, revealing to the world his struggles with romantic obsession, manic-depression and drug abuse. In this, his ... more info>> (Published: 1997)
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America's Longest War: Rethinking Our Tragic Crusade Against Drugs [MultiFormat]
by Stephen Duke
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America's war on drugs. It makes headlines, tops political agendas and provokes powerful emotions. But is it really worth it? That's the question posed by Steven Duke and Albert Gross in this groundbreaking book. They argue that America's biggest victories in the war on drugs are the erosion of our constitutional rights, the waste of billions of dollars and an overwhelmed court system. After careful research and thought, they make a strong case for the legalization of drugs. It's a radical idea,... more info>> (Published: 1982)
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An Edge in My Voice [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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At the beginning of the 1980's Harlan Ellison agreed to do a regular column for the LA WEEKLY on the condition that they publish whatever he wrote, without revising it or suggesting rewrites. This collection collects what he wrote under those conditions. He writes in a conversational voice, but he is impassioned, persuasive, abusive and hilarious by turns. (Published: 1985)
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Braving the Flames [MultiFormat]
by Peter A. Micheels
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[Total revenue from this eBook, from September 11th through October 11th, 2001, has been donated to the Widows and Children's Fund of the Uniformed Firefighters Association. The final amount donated is $1105.50. This donation was made by Fictionwise, ereads (the eBook publisher for this eBook), and the author. The author has told us that men interviewed in this book, as well as several sons of these men (who went on to join the fire department after the book was published), died helping people a... more info>> (Published: 1989)
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China to Me: A Partial Autobiography [MultiFormat]
by Emily Hahn
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A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily Hahn takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and non-fiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breath-taking journey through the China of the nineteen-thirties. Hahn investigates not so much the complicated issues of political blocs and party conflict, but the ordinary, or extraordinary, lives of Chinese residents and tourists. This includes taking us into... more info>> (Published: 1944)
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Double Feature: Discovering Our Hidden Fantasies in Film [MultiFormat]
by Herbert H. Stein
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a) What recent smash hit movie secretly depicted fear of the female breast? b) Name some recent films that were preoccupied with castration anxiety? c) Would you be surprised to know that reliving our childhood Oedipal fixations helps us better to understand adult-themed films? You'll find the answers to these and many similarly intriguing questions in Double Feature: Discovering Our Hidden Fantasies in Film by Herbert Stein, M.D. Dr. Stein, a highly respected Freudian psychiatrist and passionat... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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EMT: Beyond The Lights and Sirens [MultiFormat]
by Pat Ivey
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This book takes the reader to the front lines of medicine, from a serious automobile accident on a dark country road to a woman in cardiac arrest to a young man with near-fatal gunshot wounds. For these patients and countless others, treatment cannot wait until they are wheeled into a distant emergency room. If lives can be salvaged, care must begin with the life-saving skills of Emergency Medical Technicians. "I could never work on a rescue squad," is a statement the author has heard over and o... more info>> (Published: 1990)
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Fly Fishing [MultiFormat]
by Turhan Tirana
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Turhan Tirana celebrates the sport of fly-fishing as he shares with his readers his memorable experiences of his life in the sport. From Montana's Yellow River to faraway places like Macedonia and Sloveni, Tirhana relates his personal tales of fishing with his wife and children over the years. He chronicles fly-fishing's history and brings to life President Herbert Hoover's classic comment: "All men are equal before fishes." This native of Switzerland has been a fly-fisherman since he was a boy,... more info>> (Published: 1996)
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Ice! [MultiFormat]
by Tristan Jones
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Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm and without an adequate supply of food, he... more info>> (Published: 1978)
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Identity Card [MultiFormat]
by F. M. Esfandiary
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In a narrative where tragedy begs to be masked by comedy, F.M. Esfandiary conveys the consequences and realities of Iranian life. In an attempt to flee the underdeveloped, bureaucratic country, a Middle Easterner searches for every possible way to obtain an identity card that will allow him to leave Iran. In this comic masterpiece we follow this alienated man on a journey to freedom against the backdrop of a society dominated by ceremonious formalities, politeness, responsibility and confusion. ... more info>> (Published: 1966)
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Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans [MultiFormat]
by Stephen Pizzo, Mary Fricker, Paul Muolo
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It was a $500 billion scam--far exceeding the cost of rebuilding all of Western Europe after the Second World War plus ten years of air, land, and sea warfare during the Vietnam conflict. As huge as the Enron bankruptcy may be, it is dwarfed by the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s, which remains the worst collapse of a financial institution in American history. A trio of investigative reporters led by freelance journalist Stephen Pizzo plunged into the depths of these crimes and hauled up t... more info>> (Published: 1989) Investigative Reporters and Editors Best Book of the Year Award Winner
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Memos From Purgatory [MultiFormat]
by Harlan Ellison
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Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn's dangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a "bopping club." What he experienced (and the time ... more info>> (Published: 1961)
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Outward Leg [MultiFormat]
by Tristan Jones
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After having his left leg amputated and spending several years ashore, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out from San Diego in Outward Leg, a 36-foot trimaran, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail. Outward Leg chronicles the preparation for launch and the first part of that inspiring journey (continued in The Improbable Voyage). Tristan sailed down the western coast of Central America through... more info>> (Published: 1985)
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Over There [MultiFormat]
by Robert Vaughan
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Volume two of Robert Vaughan's stunning American Chronicles follows the tumult of American during the second decade of the twentieth century. The indestructible Titanic goes down in the cold arctic sea, millions of immigrants flood into the country, a bloody worker's revolution occurs in Russia, and in Sarajevo an assassination quickly ignites the flames of the First World War. It is 1912, and the Lady Lucinda Chetwynd-Dunleigh can hear the final strains of the ship's orchestra as the famous Tit... more info>> (Published: 1992)
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