Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest ...
 In August 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a little-known 32-year old mathematician, presented a paper to the Berlin Academy titled: "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." In the middle of that paper, Riemann made an incidental ... [... more]
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Creator of Nazi Death Camps: The Life of Odilo Globocnik
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Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and ...
Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from ... [... more]
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Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty
First published on Veteran's Day 2003 to glowing reviews ("Powerful"-Seattle Post-Intelligencer), energetic cross-country events, and instant national bestseller status, Medal of Honor has now been revised, updated, and augmented into an even ... [... more]
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Audrey Hepburn, Elegant Spirit
A Son Loves His Mother...Who Happens to Be Audrey Hepburn If there is a polar opposite to Christina Crawford's scathing poor-me memoir, Mommie Dearest, it has to be this loving tribute to Audrey Hepburn from her eldest son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer. Rather ... [... more]
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I Believe I Can Fly: The Amazing Life of Aaron Stephenson
This book is to celebrate the amazing life of Aaron Stephenson. Aaron was born with an extremely rare syndrome but defied the odds to lead a full and active childhood. Diagnosed with a muscle wasting condition at 7 years old, he ignored all the doctors ... [... more]
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Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain ...
"Who in 1943 could have foreseen that a Lutheran pastor from rural eastern Pennsylvania would be blessed to live and tell such a tale?" In October 1943, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain Israel Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th ... [... more]
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What It Used to Be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to ...
Raymond Carver's wife of twenty-five years powerfully reveals the evolution of their lives together, through love and separation andlove again, as Carver rose to prominence as one of the greatest American writers in the twentieth century I t all began ... [... more]
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SURVIVING GENERAL MOTORS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: ...
For years, I was a proud employee of General Motors. I loved my work as a Journeyman Electrician. Unfortunately, my work was transformed into a horror story when I was assigned to Pontiac Assembly Center. There, I was routinely bullied, harassed, and ... [... more]
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Roger Ball!: The Odyssey of John Monroe "Hawk" Smith ...
"Roger Ball is a magnificent read about a great and distinguished 'life well lived.' John Monroe Smith is a living legend in Naval Aviation: an all American boy living his dream.a dream of becoming the best fighter pilot and carrier aviator in the ... [... more]
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Mao: The Unknown Story
In the epilogue to her biography of Mao Tse-tung, Jung Chang and her husband and cowriter Jon Halliday lament that, "Today, Mao's portrait and his corpse still dominate Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital." For Chang, author of ... [... more]
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Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958
When Algerian nationalists launched a rebellion against French rule in November 1954, France was forced to cope with a varied and adaptable Algerian strategy. In this volume, originally published in 1963, David Galula reconstructs the story of his highly ... [... more]
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