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Hartog, Leo De Genghis Khan Conqueror of the World
Barnes Noble 1-Jan-99 760711925 N Paperback
From Library Journal&newline;Genghis Khan was the first in history to unite the various Central Asian tribes into a single Mongol nation and then set in motion the creation of the largest single empire the world has ever known. As such, he deserves better treatment than is usually accorded him by Hollywood and popular writers who inevitably dwell on Mongol savagery. De Hartog has written a scholarly study, impressively grounded in a rich variety of sources drawn from many countries. Unfortunately, however, the author's style (at least in translation) does not match his erudition. The reader is drowned in detail and proper names which will be unfamiliar to all but the most dedicated Mongol historian. This book does not replace Rene Grousset's classic Conqueror of the World: The Life of Chingis-Khan (LJ 11/15/66).&newline;- John Boyle, California State Univ., Chico&newline;Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;Genghis Khan's armies breached the Great Wall of China, captured Beijing, and crushed all resistance in Afghanistan, Persia and Southern Russia by ruthless massacres and pillage. His armies also invaded Europe. Yet until now no historically reliable book about him has been written for a popular audience. This book analyses how Genghis Khan was able to unite the primitive Mongol tribes of the harsh Siberian steppes and organize them into highly mobile and disciplined troops. It shows how he created a regime so strong that his son was able to extend the conquests after the death of Genghis Khan himself. Leo de Hartog pays particular attention to the little-studied Mongol invasion of Europe and explores Europe's contacts with the great Khan. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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1902 |
Haruf, Kent Eventide
New York Knopf 4-May-04 375411585 N Hardcover 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong, one of the most beloved novels in recent years, has wisely continued the franchise in Eventide, another foray into the prairie town of Holt, Colorado. We meet some of the same people--the McPheron brothers, Tom Guthrie and Maggie Jones, Victoria and her daughter Katie, and are introduced to new ones. Once again, the quirky bachelors Harold and Raymond McPheron, short on conversation and long on heart, form the sweet center of the book. The constants here are the brothers, the landscape--by turns hostile, demanding and renewing--and a few of the locals, whom we meet in varying degrees of their travails and redemption.&newline;&newline;Victoria, the young pregnant woman the brothers took in in Plainsong, has gone off to college at Fort Collins, leaving the brothers standing at the kitchen counter, &doublequote;drinking coffee and talking about how Victoria Roubideaux was doing a hundred and twenty-five miles away from home ... while they themselves were living as usual in the country in Holt County ... with so much less to account for now that she was gone, and a wind rising up and starting to whine outside the house.&doublequote; Much as Seinfeld was called the TV show about nothing, Haruf's books are so low-key and straightforward that a careless reader might miss the fact that they are about everything that life has to offer: love, sorrow, malice, understanding, and the connections that make and keep us human, to name a few.&newline;&newline;DJ is an 11-year-old living alone with his grandfather, when he befriends two young girls whose father left for Alaska and decided not to return. Their mother is mired in grief and the three children, abandoned by the adults in their lives, find refuge in an old shed they make habitable. &doublequote;So for a while the two sisters and the boy lay on the floor under the blankets, reading books in the dim candlelight, with the sun falling down outside in the alley, the three of them talking a little softly, drinking coffee from a thermos, and what was happening in the houses they'd come from, seemed, for that short time, of little importance.&doublequote; One of Haruf's particular gifts is in showing us people who give and take solace wherever it may be found. &newline;&newline;An unfortunate disabled couple, parents of two young children, are trying to make their way in a world they cannot fathom. They are assisted by Rose Tyler, their caseworker, who is a friend of Maggie Jones. aggie, who drew Tom Guthrie out of his depression in Plainsong, is once again a catalyst for change when she introduces Rose to Raymond. There is no doubt more to come, as life in Holt, Colorado, continues to evolve and Kent Haruf keeps us informed. --Valerie Ryan &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;Haruf's follow-up to the critically acclaimed and bestselling Plainsong is as lovely and accomplished as its predecessor. The aging bachelor McPheron brothers and their beloved charges, Victoria and her daughter, Katie, return (though Victoria quickly heads off to college), and Haruf introduces new folks-a disabled couple and their children, an old man and the grandson who lives with him-in this moving exploration of smalltown lives in rural Holt, Colo. Ranchers Raymond and Harold McPheron have spent their whole lives running land that has been in their family for many generations, so when Harold is killed by an enraged bull, worn-out Raymond faces a void unlike any he has ever known. His subsequent first-ever attempts at courtship and romance are almost heartbreaking in their innocence, but after some missteps, he finds unexpected happiness with kind Rose Tyler. Rose is the caseworker for a poor couple struggling so dimly and futilely to better their lives that it becomes painful to witness. Children play crucial roles in the novel's tapestry of rural life, and they are not spared life's trials. But Haruf's characters, such as 11-year-old orphan DJ Kephart, who cares for his retired railroad worker grandfather, and Mary Wells, whose husband abandons her with two young girls, maintain an elemental dignity no matter how buffeted by adversity. And while there is much sadness
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1903 |
Harwood, John The Ghost Writer
Harvest Books 1-Jun-05 156032325 Paperback 7.9 x 5.2 x 1 inches
The Cornish prayer: From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! is an appropriate invocation when reading The Ghost Writer, John Harwood's debut novel. It is a rousing good ghost story, with many twists and turns, rather like taking apart a Russian matryoshka nesting doll. Gerard Freeman, at age ten, sneaks into his mother's room and unlocks a secret drawer, only to find a picture of a woman he has never seen before, but one that he will find again and again. His mother discovers him and gives him the beating of his life. Why this excessive reaction? She is a worried, paranoid, thin, and fretful type with an anxious, haunted look. By tale's end, we know why. Phyllis Freeman, Gerard's mother, was happiest when speaking fondly of Staplefield, her childhood home, where there were things they didn't have in Mawson [Australia], chaffinches and mayflies and foxgloves and hawthorn, coopers and farriers and old Mr. Bartholomew who delivered fresh milk and eggs to their house with his horse and cart. It's the sort of childhood idyll that the timid and lonely Gerard believes in and longs for. He strikes up a correspondence with an English penfriend, Alice Jessel, when he is 13 and a half, living in a desolate place with a frantic mother and a silent father. She is his age, her parents were killed in an accident and she has been crippled by it. She now lives in an institution, whose grounds she describes as much the way Staplefield looked. They go through young adulthood together, in letters only, thousands of miles apart, eventuallydeclaring their love for one another. Interwoven with the narrative of Alice and Gerard's letters are real ghost stories, the creation of Gerard's great-grandmother, Viola. At first, they seem to be scary Victorian tales of the supernatural. Then, we see that they have a spooky way of mirroring, or preceding, events in real life, off the page. Gerard comes upon them, one by one, in mysterious ways, but clearly something, or someone, is leading him. The stories seem to implicate his mother in some nefarious goings-on, but the truth is far worse than Gerard imagines. Any more would be telling too much. Turn on all the lights in the house when you settle down with this one, and plan to spend a long time reading because you will be lost in the story immediately. --Valerie Ryan --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Sly nods to spooky literary spinsters--Henry James's Miss Jessel and Dickens's Miss Havisham--set the tone for this confident debut, a gothic suspense novel with a metatextual spin. Gerard Freeman grows up on the windswept southern coast of Australia in the late 20th century with a controlling mother strangely silent about the details of her childhood in England. His only solace is steadfast English pen friend, Alice, to whom he confides everything. What was Gerard's mother, Phyllis, hoping to escape when she left England? The protagonist slowly pieces together his mother's past with the aid of short stories written by his great-grandmother, Viola. These cunning tales, filled with supernatural occurrences and séances, are seamlessly embedded in the main narrative, offering Gerard--and readers--enticing clues into his troubled family's history. After Phyllis's death, her newly liberated son travels to England, hoping to learn more and to pursue elusive Alice. As he searches through the country house his mother inhabited long ago, Gerard finds past and present fusing in horrifying fashion. In the hands of a lesser novelist, sustaining several plot lines might have been difficult. But the novel links textual investigation and sublimated passion, building to a satisfying, unexpected ending. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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1904 |
Hathaway, Sandee Eisenberg What to Expect When You're Expecting
New York Workman Publishing Co Inc 1984 894807692 N Paperback 8.8 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Eighteen years after it first hit the shelves and having sold more than 10 million copies, What to Expect When You're Expecting is still on nearly every mother-to-be's reading list. This completely revised and updated edition is packed with answers to hundreds of questions and worries expectant parents may have. The information is presented in a month-by-month format starting with planning a pregnancy and choosing a practitioner, and follows through to six weeks after delivery. Each chapter begins with an explanation of what to expect at a particular month's prenatal visit and a brief description of how mom and baby are growing and changing before getting to the heart of the matter: What You May Be Concerned About. Topics are presented as questions ranging from &doublequote;Should I be taking vitamins?&doublequote; to &doublequote;What if I forget everything I learn in childbirth education class?&doublequote; to &doublequote;Will I be able to breastfeed?&doublequote; The answers are generally reassuring and provide enough information to soothe a worried mom between prenatal visits. Despite the reassuring answers, however, the sheer volume of worries discussed may alarm an otherwise calm mom-to-be. &newline;&newline;The book also features a complete nutrition plan (though many women may find it difficult to follow), a special chapter just for expectant dads, and extensive information about dealing with minor illnesses, chronic conditions, and pregnancy complications. What to Expect has guided countless women through their pregnancies and makes an informative addition to the mainstream pregnancy and childbirth bookshelf. --Jennifer Lindsay --This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;This revised third edition of the popular pregnancy guide offers the authoritative yet reassuring advice that parents have come to rely on from all the titles in the What to Expect series. The book is arranged by month, from pregnancy test through labor and delivery. Each section offers answers to frequently asked questions, along with features such as &doublequote;What You May Be Feeling&doublequote; and &doublequote;What You May Be Concerned About.&doublequote; Every imaginable issue is addressed, including the small but nagging subjects that women may not want to discuss with their doctors, such as how their bodies will look at seven months, or why some pregnant women &doublequote;glow&doublequote; while others have acne. While readers who already own this book won't have to rush to buy the new edition, the revised volume does offer a number of excellent expanded sections and illustrations, including a more detailed discussion of postpartum depression. There are also new illustrations and more text on breast-feeding, with diagrams showing different feeding positions. The travel section offers specific suggestions for &doublequote;jettisoning jet lag&doublequote; in addition to standard advice on traveling while pregnant. This book remains an indispensable guide for pregnant women and their partners. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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1905 |
Hauser, Thomas Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
New York Simon & Schuster 1991 671688928 N Hardcover 25 cm.
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Draft dodger, rebel, poet and Third World supporter, boxing champ Muhammad Ali symbolizes different things to different people. To many an icon of black pride and empowerment, the Kentucky-born heavyweight is viewed by others as a separatist who embraced the divisive Black Muslim religion, by still others as the victim of a brutalizing sport. Diverse opinions are represented in this hefty, generally admiring compendium that seems less like an authorized biography (though it is) than a forum where rivals, trainers, friends, enemies, ex-wives, sportswriters and associates air their views. The roster of interviewees includes Archie Moore, Howard Cosell, Floyd Patterson, A. J. Liebling, Betty Shabazz (Malcolm X's widow), Ted Kennedy, Dick Gregory, Arthur Ashe and dozens of others. A feast for fans, this composite portrait bristles with insights, jabs and tributes. Hauser's books include The Black Lights . Photos. &newline;Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Kirkus Reviews&newline;A detailed, if hagiographic, account of Ali's public career and private life. Hauser (author of one of the best books ever on the fight game, 1985's Black Lights) is an obvious and uncritical fan of Ali's, whom he apotheosizes early on as ``the most recognizable person on earth.'' In aid of what might be called oral biography, Hauser draws on over 200 sources--acquaintances, associates, opponents, friends, enemies, blood relations, and celebrity observers of the sometime title-holder--to create a composite portrait that's longer on sympathetic assertions than reflective insight. The ranks of the commentators include the oddly coupled likes of: Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. (Ali's dad); Joe Martin (the Louisville cop who taught Ali to box); Olympic teammates; Atallah Shabazz (the daughter of Malcolm X who helped convert Ali to the Nation of Islam); trainer Angelo Dundee; Jimmy Carter; Leon Spinks; George Plimpton; Sylvester Stallone; referee Arthur Mercantee; Chuck Wepner (a human punching bag widely known as ``The Bayonne Bleeder''); and Carl Walker (the black assistant attorney general who tried to make the federal case against Ali for draft evasion). Overall, Hauser does a good job of marshaling a wealth of facts into a cohesive whole and providing behind-the-scenes glimpses of a ring lion in the autumn, if not winter, of his years. Throughout, however, the author makes almost no attempt to conceal the genuine regard and admiration he feels for his subject. A walkover for Ali but a disappointment for those with even a passing interest in the sweet science's grittier realities. (Twenty-four pages of photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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1906 |
Hausman, Patricia The Healing Foods: The Ultimate Authority on the Curative Power of Nutrition
Emmaus, Pa. Rodale Pr Aug-89 878578129 N Hardcover 9.2 x 6.9 x 1.7 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Sometimes nutrition just seems too complicated for the average person to learn, like thinking you'll take up calculus when you can barely figure a 15-percent tip (that's why so many of us eat at fast-food outlets--no math required). Daily press reports on the latest amazing discoveries or conflicting research results only further our determination to take up better nutrition--next year. But long-time collaborators Patricia Hausman and Judith Benn Hurley make healthful eating easy. The Healing Foods is laid out in their standard A-Z format with headings for recommended foodstuffs (&doublequote;Apples,&doublequote; &doublequote;Apricots,&doublequote; &doublequote;Artichokes&doublequote;) and common ailments that can be improved by eating right (&doublequote;Cholesterol,&doublequote; &doublequote;Colds,&doublequote; &doublequote;Constipation&doublequote;).&newline;&newline;The information is presented in plain language, and the short, informative chapters (usually two to four pages) are easily digestible. The healing foods themselves are items common to any grocery store. Each food chapter gives a brief explanation of the food's intrinsic value, suggestions on purchasing the best produce, tips for storage, and an &doublequote;Accent on Enjoyment&doublequote; section that offers ideas for dressing up plain fruits and vegetables to be more appetizing. The recipes that conclude each of these chapters are flavorful and simple to prepare (Sautéed Chicken with Prunes and Shallot, Cauliflower with Mustard Sauce and Dill). Most recipes serve four and take under half an hour to prepare. Even the dietary changes suggested in the chapters on conquering specific health problems are easily accommodated (they are not lifestyle changes, only menu ideas) by the average person. This is not nutritional calculus; it's basic math accessible to everyone. --Brenda Pittsley &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;Hausman ( The Calcium Bible ) and Hurley, food columnist for Prevention magazine, have written an alphabetical compendium of more than 100 foods (from bulgar to carrots) and the diseases or physical conditions that are helped or hindered by diet. The authors identify scientific and quasi-scientific links between food and disease-prevention, and offer helpful buying, preparation and cooking tips. Also provided are easy-to-understand nutritional charts, lists of food sources for vitamins and minerals, recipes and menu plans. In exalting the benefits to health of variety in eating, however, the authors neglect certain considerations. For example, they make no mention of the potential dangers in eating pollution-contaminated fish (especially swordfish or tuna), or the risk of hepatitis in eating raw clams, and dismiss too quickly the potential health hazards of estrogen replacement therapy when discussing ways to prevent osteoporosis in pre-menopausal women. A suggested reading list and citations for studies discussed here would have been useful to readers hungry for more information or left less than convinced. Illustrations not seen by PW. &newline;Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1907 |
Hautzig, Deborah The Nutcracker Ballet
New York Random House Books for Young Readers 13-Oct-92 679823859 Paperback 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
Children who are exposed to the ballet every Christmas will enjoy reading it on their own.--School Library Journal. Children who are exposed to the ballet every Christmas will enjoy reading it on their own.--School Library Journal.
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1908 |
Hawke, Ethan The Hottest State
New York Vintage 30-Sep-97 679781358 Paperback 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
Yes, it's that Ethan Hawke. Ethan Hawke the actor. In this slim debut novel, he tells a coming-of-age tale of a fairly unpleasant young actor from Texas named William who lives in Manhattan and is working his way through an ugly little relationship with a singer/songwriter named Sarah. William's parents married young and split up early and he's not too happy with the world at large. Sarah can't quite make heads or tails of her mother. The pair has sex in the bathroom and talks quite a bit about their relationship. It all has a certain ring of truth, but at this point it's probably safe to say that Hawke's movie agent will probably make a better living off the young actor/writer than Hawke's literary agent. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Player of confused but adorable Gen X Romeos in films like Reality Bites and Before Sunrise, Hawke, 25, is easily conjured up as a stand-in for 21-year-old William Harding, the disaffected narrator of this slim first novel, a boy-meets-girl, girl-dumps-boy saga set in a grungy New York of aspiring actors, writers and singers. That William, a college dropout and budding actor, falls fast and hard for Sarah Wingfield, who fronts a band, teaches preschool and is a bit funny looking, comes as a revelation to him, given his history of using his good looks for quick sex. Sarah casts William's sexual yearnings?and his white trash boyhood?into sharp relief by reading Adrienne Rich, toting a list of rape statistics and refusing to sleep with him. Their doomed romance is intercut with William's memories of his parents' breakup, of talks with his best friend and of his overheated teen relationship with Samantha, who still flits in and out of his life. When Sarah suddenly, inexplicably rejects him after William returns from making a movie in Paris, he descends into self-loathing and homosexual panic?and trashes his apartment. His callow cynicism about women and his flattened out, '90s rendition of Holden Caulfield (Samantha wanted to have sex. She wasn't doing me any goddamn favors) grow wearisome. But Hawke's emotionally raw account of a world inescapably contracted is oddly affecting and sure to make many a teenage heart go pit-a-pat. Paperback rights to Vintage; audio rights to Time Warner AudioBooks; author tour. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1911 |
Hawking, Stephen A Brief History of Time
New York Bantam 1-Sep-98 553380168 Paperback 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of the mind of God. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal A new edition?with pictures?for those who couldn't fathom the original. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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1912 |
Hawking, Stephen W A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Bantam Dell Pub Group 1988 055305340X N Hardcover 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Book Description&newline;Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed, A Brief History of Time is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. &newline;&newline;From the Inside Flap&newline;Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed, A Brief History of Time is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.
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1913 |
Hawking, Stephen W. The Nature of Space and Time
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 8-Jan-96 691037914 Hardcover 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
Who doesn't love a good argument? When physics heavyweights Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose delivered three sets of back-and-forth lectures capped by a final debate at Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute, the course of modern cosmological thinking was at stake. As it happens, The Nature of Space and Time, which collects these remarks, suggests that little has changed from the days when Einstein challenged Bohr by refusing to believe that God plays dice. The math is more abstruse, the arguments more refined, but the argument still hinges on whether our physical theories should be expected to model reality or merely predict measurements. Hawking, clever and playful as usual, sides with Bohr and the Copenhagen interpretation and builds a strong case for quantum gravity. Penrose, inevitably a bit dry in comparison, shares Einstein's horror at such intuition-blasting thought experiments as Schrödinger's long-suffering cat--and scores just as many points for general relativity. The math is tough going for lay readers, but a few leaps of faith will carry them through to some deeply thought-provoking rhetoric. Though no questions find final answers in The Nature of Space and Time, the quality of discourse should be enough to satisfy the scientifically curious. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to the Paperback edition. This volume contains a series of lectures delivered in 1994 by Hawking (A Brief History of Time) and Penrose (The Emperor's New Mind), renowned professors at Cambridge and Oxford, respectively. The overall topic is how mathematical physics might best represent the realities of the universe. The lectures assume a rather sophisticated knowledge of physics and mathematics. The authors present alternative views on approaching a formulation that fully accommodates both quantum and gravitational (general relativity) theories in physics. One question, for example, is whether parameters in a quantum description of matter can have definite (real) values before they are measured. The issues extend to cosmological implications and have intriguing philosophical as well as technical aspects. Although well done, the treatment in this book is not for the general reader. Illustrations. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1914 |
Hawks, John Twelve The Traveler
Vintage 18-Jul-06 1400079292 Paperback 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
Starred Review. Twelve Hawks's much anticipated novel is powerful, mainstream fiction built on a foundation of cutting-edge technology laced with fantasy and the chilling specter of an all-too-possible social and political reality. The time is roughly the present, and the U.S. is part of the Vast Machine, a society overseen by the Tabula, a secret organization bent on establishing a perfectly controlled populace. Allied against the Tabula are the Travelers and their sword-carrying protectors, the Harlequins. The Travelers, now almost extinct, can project their spirit into other worlds where they receive wisdom to bring back to earth--wisdom that threatens the Tabula's power. Maya, a reluctant Harlequin, finds herself compelled to protect two naïve Travelers, Michael and Gabriel Corrigan. Michael dabbles in shady real estate deals, while Gabriel prefers to live off the Grid, eschewing any documentation--credit cards, bank accounts--that the Vast Machine could use to track him. Because the Tabula has engineered a way to use the Travelers for its own purposes, Maya must not only keep the brothers alive, but out of the hands of these evil puppet-masters. She succeeds, but she also fails, and therein lies the tale. By the end of this exciting volume, the first in a trilogy, the stage is set for a world-rending clash between good and evil. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Bookmarks Magazine First in a projected trilogy called The Fourth Realm, The Traveler impressed all critics. Twelve Hawks presents big ideas about free will and determinism, good versus evil, social control, and alternate dimensions, all while impressing with knowledge ranging from the New Testament to string theory. Although reviewers compared the novel to the films Kill Bill, Star Wars, and The Matrix-with echoes of authors Dan Brown, Stephen King, George Orwell, and Michael Crichton thrown in-they called it wholly original. Given its complexity, the author (a mysterious entity living off the Grid who's unknown even to his agent and editor) could have fumbled anywhere. But he didn't, from the sophisticated plot to the compelling heroine. If you're happy with the status quo, you'd probably regard the novel as hippie/trippy New Age Nonsense, notes the Washington Post. For everyone else, the novel's a stunner (People). Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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1915 |
Hawks, John Twelve The Traveler
New York Doubleday 28-Jun-05 038551428X Hardcover 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
Starred Review. Twelve Hawks's much anticipated novel is powerful, mainstream fiction built on a foundation of cutting-edge technology laced with fantasy and the chilling specter of an all-too-possible social and political reality. The time is roughly the present, and the U.S. is part of the Vast Machine, a society overseen by the Tabula, a secret organization bent on establishing a perfectly controlled populace. Allied against the Tabula are the Travelers and their sword-carrying protectors, the Harlequins. The Travelers, now almost extinct, can project their spirit into other worlds where they receive wisdom to bring back to earth--wisdom that threatens the Tabula's power. Maya, a reluctant Harlequin, finds herself compelled to protect two naïve Travelers, Michael and Gabriel Corrigan. Michael dabbles in shady real estate deals, while Gabriel prefers to live off the Grid, eschewing any documentation--credit cards, bank accounts--that the Vast Machine could use to track him. Because the Tabula has engineered a way to use the Travelers for its own purposes, Maya must not only keep the brothers alive, but out of the hands of these evil puppet-masters. She succeeds, but she also fails, and therein lies the tale. By the end of this exciting volume, the first in a trilogy, the stage is set for a world-rending clash between good and evil. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Bookmarks Magazine First in a projected trilogy called The Fourth Realm, The Traveler impressed all critics. Twelve Hawks presents big ideas about free will and determinism, good versus evil, social control, and alternate dimensions, all while impressing with knowledge ranging from the New Testament to string theory. Although reviewers compared the novel to the films Kill Bill, Star Wars, and The Matrix-with echoes of authors Dan Brown, Stephen King, George Orwell, and Michael Crichton thrown in-they called it wholly original. Given its complexity, the author (a mysterious entity living off the Grid who's unknown even to his agent and editor) could have fumbled anywhere. But he didn't, from the sophisticated plot to the compelling heroine. If you're happy with the status quo, you'd probably regard the novel as hippie/trippy New Age Nonsense, notes the Washington Post. For everyone else, the novel's a stunner (People). Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter
Barnes & Noble Sep-03 760748691 N Hardcover
The Barnes & Noble Review&newline;&newline;&newline;Hawthorne's masterpiece about Hester Prynne, hapless victim of sin, guilt and hypocrisy in Puritan New England. &newline;&newline;Publisher Review&newline;&newline;&newline;When it first appeared in 1850, The Scarlet Letter enjoyed scandalous success. New England critics condemned its passionate subject matter. One critic complained that Nathaniel Hawthorne invested adultery with all the fascination of genius, and all the charms of a highly polished style. My preliminary chapter, wryly noted the author, has caused the greatest uproar that has happened here since witch-times.&newline;&newline;&newline;As she emerges from the prison of a Puritan New England town, Hester Prynne defies the dark gloom much as the rose blooms against the prison door. With her illegitimate baby, Pearl, clutched in her arms and the letter A-the mark of an adulteress-embroidered in scarlet thread on her breast, Hester holds her head high as she faces the malice and scorn of the townsfolk. Her powerful, bittersweet story is an American classic that continues to touch the hearts of modern readers with its timeless themes of guilt, passion and repentance.&newline;&newline;&newline;&newline;Synopsis&newline;&newline;&newline;The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an aging scholar, arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honor.&newline;&newline;For the next seven years the participants in this bizarre love triangle privately suffer the consequences of betrayal, cowardice, and humiliation. Slowly but surely, the need for redemption grows in each as the story hastens toward its dramatic close. The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece.&newline;&newline;The handsome volumes in The Collectors Library present great works of world literature in a handy hardback format. Printed on high-quality paper and bound in real cloth, each complete and unabridged volume has a specially commissioned afterword, brief biography of the author and a further-reading list. This easily accessible series offers readers the perfect opportunity to discover, or rediscover, some of the world's most endearing literary works.&newline;&newline;The volumes in The Collector's Library are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and to treasure.More Reviews and Recommendations&newline;&newline;Biography&newline;&newline;&newline;&doublequote;Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them,&doublequote; Nathaniel Hawthorne once reflected. Hawthorne's own words indeed had an undeniable power. Author of The Scarlet Letter and originator of the American short story, Hawthorne left an indelible impression on literature that would influence his fellow writers into the next century.More From the Author
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1919 |
Hayashi, Heather To Save the World: The Arhka Chronicles, Volume I
Synergy Books 15-Sep-06 193353835X Hardcover 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Stephanie is a tomboy who loves adventure stories. She never expects one to occur in her life, much less with her mother and her best friend along for the ride. However, their accidental arrival on Arhka sparks the chain of events that sweep the world into chaos. As wars wage, the three of them must decide where their loyalties lie. About the Author Heather Hayashi's love of epic science fiction and fantasy adventures inspired the creation of her debut novel. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she continues to write The Arhka Chronicles.
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1920 |
Hayes, Louis D. Introduction to Japanese Politics
New York Paragon House Publishers Mar-92 1557784485 N Paperback 23 cm.
From the Publisher&newline;&newline;&newline;&doublequote;American ambivalence towards Japan stems not only from reactions to Japanese behavior in the world arena, but also from a fundamental lack of knowledge about that country's history, culture, and distinctive approach to politics and economics. This text offers an even-handed, forthright attempt to explain the political life of Japan as well as the forces that shape it. It demystifies this complex society by explaining: the historical background for modern Japan; the political process, its formal structure, the party system, and citizen participation; the social order and the domestic economy; Japan's role in international politics with emphasis on U.S.-Japanese relations and the international economy. The revised and updated Third Edition covers the new ground of 1995-1999, a period during which Japan experienced extraordinary political and economic change.&doublequote;--BOOK JACKET.&newline;&newline;&newline;&newline;Synopsis&newline;&newline;&newline;This broad-ranging text offers students and appraisal of the success and failures of this much scrutinized society. The third edition covers the new ground of 1995-1999, a period during which Japan has experienced extraordinary political and economic change.More Reviews and Recommendations
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Haynes, John M. Mediation: Positive Conflict Management
Albany State University of New York Press Jul-04 791459527 Paperback 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
This mediation how-to manual brings together the collective wisdom of two of the field's most renowned founders, John Michael Haynes and Larry Sun Fong. The book not only covers a range of mediation cases, but also uniquely provides feedback from the clients as they reflect on the sessions and report on what worked best for them. Beginning with a review of the theoretical underpinnings of the Haynes model of mediation, the book then presents six case studies with each demonstrating one or more of the organizing principles of mediation. The sessions examined reflect the different mediation areas currently being practiced-business, employment, neighborhood, adoption, education, and family. The book goes beyond simply reporting what mediators experience as it shares the insights and motivations of Fong and Haynes. This well-rounded approach includes the exploration of the clients' thoughts, helping readers to incorporate successful organizing principles into their own mediation practices. About the Author John Michael Haynes (1932-1999) was President of Haynes Mediation Training Institute, Founding President of the Academy of Family Mediators, and served as a consultant to court systems throughout the world. He appeared on numerous national television shows and authored several books, including The Fundamentals of Family Mediation, also published by SUNY Press. Gretchen L. Haynes, now retired, was Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York. Larry Sun Fong is a psychologist in private practice, a chartered mediator, and a registered family mediator.
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Haynes, John M. The Fundamentals of Family Mediation
Albany State University of New York Press May-94 791420361 Paperback 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
Although there are a number of mediation books, none provide a step-by-step description of each stage in the process. This book, designed as a mediator's handbook, can be used by the practicing mediator to solve almost any problem. It can also be used by trainers to provide more basic information to trainee mediators, thus allowing them more time for practicing the skill in training. The book will also be of interest to students and practitioners of family therapy, to social workers, and counselors. Booknews A handbook for family mediators describing the process step-by- step. Can also be used by trainers to provide the basic information to trainees. The issues dealt with include managing the budget and support session, dividing the property, future parenting, and starting and building a mediation practice. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis Although there are a number of mediation books, none provide a step-by-step description of each stage in the process. This book, designed as a mediator's handbook, can be used by the practicing mediator to solve almost any problem. It can also be used by trainers to provide more basic information to trainee mediators, thus allowing them more time for practicing the skill in training. The book will also be of interest to students and practitioners of family therapy, to social workers, and counselors. Booknews A handbook for family mediators describing the process step-by- step. Can also be used by trainers to provide the basic information to trainees. The issues dealt with include managing the budget and support session, dividing the property, future parenting, and starting and building a mediation practice. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) More Reviews and Recommendations
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Haynes, Melinda Mother of Pearl
Hyperion 2-Jun-99 786866276 N Hardcover 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1999: Twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade is a black man who was orphaned as a child; 15-year-old Valuable Korner is a white girl who might as well have been. Petal, Mississippi, circa 1956, seems an unlikely spot for these two to connect, but it soon becomes apparent in Mother of Pearl that a friendship across race lines is just one of many miracles waiting to happen in this small Southern town. Melinda Haynes's remarkable debut novel begins in a hot August, when young Val's lifelong friendship with Jackson McClain is starting to change into something more profound, and Even is falling crazy in love with Joody Two Sun, a mixed-race woman with amazing powers.&newline;&newline;Woven in and around these two central love stories are myriad other characters, other tales. There is 16-year-old Joleb Green, for example, whose mother was incapacitated by a stroke when he was born, and who was raised by the black housekeeper, Grace. There is Even's friend Canaan, an older black man who spends his time reading Greek tragedy and writing his work &doublequote;The Reality of the Negro&doublequote;; Valuable's mother, Enid, the town whore; and Neva and Bea, a lesbian couple who have helped to raise the girl. Until this year, blacks and whites have occupied separate universes, for the most part; then Joleb Green suffers a terrible accident, and it is Joody Two Sun who saves his life and Grace who restores his soul. At the same time, a pregnant Val arrives on Joody and Even's doorstep, hungry for the understanding and acceptance she cannot find at home. Though at first Even is resistant, Val's humanity soon transcends her color in his mind: Even chuckled and shook his head, happy for a reason he couldn't distinguish other than at that moment of Canaan's near-perfect cast, all seemed right with the world, as right as a thing can be what with a white girl camped out in the middle of the Quarter with no plans of leaving. Gradually, without really intending it, Joleb, Val, Even, Joody, Grace, and Canaan form something that looks suspiciously like a family--a relationship that will soon be tested to the limit when Val's baby is born.&newline;&newline;Melinda Haynes has taken on a Herculean task, crafting a multicharacter story that reaches across racial barriers to encompass an entire community. She doesn't shy away from the ugliness in life--bigotry of every stripe, mean-spiritedness, betrayal, thoughtless cruelty, and death--but what interests her is the potential of the human heart to find space within itself for the most unexpected people. With its strong, lyrical language and fully realized characters, Mother of Pearl is a fine novel and a terrific introduction to a new literary voice. --Alix Wilber &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;In prose both rugged and beautiful, Haynes plumbs the secrets of the South in her stunning debut novel. Set in Petal, Miss., across the Leaf River from Hattiesburg, the narrative opens in the summer of 1956, shortly after Even Grade, a 27-year-old black man, has met Joody Two Sun, a seer whos known as a witch, and not long after Valuable Korner, the 14-year-old daughter of the towns one loose woman, gets her Blessing of Blood, as Joody Two Sun calls it. Evenso named from the note his mother left when she abandoned him at a Memphis orphanageis a decent man, kindheartedly building a family of friends; while Valuable, the daughter of a dying Southern line, an orphan of sorts herself, is deeply in need of family. Valuable and Jackson McLain, the boy down the street, fall in love, and Haynes captures that phenomenon delicately and persuasively. In a heartbeat Valuable is pregnant, and as Jackson is forced to move away, Valuable turns to Joody and Even for support as she carries the baby she comes to think of as Pearl. Despite Evens help, Valuable, whose family hides secrets far darker than this pregnancy, seems doomed to pay for the sins of the past. Indeed, Hayness capacious novel is very much about the justice wrought by destiny, but it is also about finding family, people who nurture, forgive and care for each other; in the novels
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Hazan, Giuliano How to Cook Italian
Scribner 25-Oct-05 743244362 Hardcover New 9.3 x 6.8 x 1.4 inches
When Marcella Hazan, Giuliano Hazan's mother and the woman credited with introducing Americans to authentic Italian cooking, published her first cookbook in 1973, Americans had little access to good olive oil and real Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. Times certainly have changed, and this work reflects that in a section on ingredients that calls for items such as bottarga and imported San Marzano tomatoes. But Giuliano's recipes don't differ much from his mother's or those found in the many other general Italian cookbooks, and that's the flaw in this completely competent, utterly unsurprising primer. It's perfect for absolute Italian beginners still looking for recipes for Pasta e Fagioli and Spaghetti with Clams. Hazan, who lives in Florida, works hard to translate Italian dishes for the American marketplace, and he does a particularly good job in his chapter on fish and seafood main courses, suggesting numerous possible species for use in dishes like Red Snapper with Mussels, and Baked Cod with Tomatoes and Red Onions. A chapter on rice includes 15 different risotto recipes, but its most valuable asset is the step-by-step general instructions for making risotto. Such technique sections, especially the one on making pasta by hand, are useful, but just not hefty enough to make this volume indispensable. Photos. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Over the past decade, Americans have grown more sophisticated about Italian cooking. No one any longer bats an eye at pesto, and risotto appears on menus everywhere. Hazan reaches out to this audience with simple Italian recipes that reflect much more than the ordinary array of customary dishes but that can still be produced by cooks with limited experience. His soups, besides the expected bean and pasta classic, include a Sardinian lentil soup with mustard greens. Pasta sauces feature several with fragrant mint, a fairly common Italian potherb, but one not often used in America. Swordfish appears in a simple tomato-based pasta sauce. Although Italians eat veal regularly, reproducing these recipes will be difficult in many American regions where veal is not only rare but also expensive. Braised-beef dishes include one Veronese specialty that calls for six hours of quiet bubbling on the stovetop. Hazan's instructions are clear and helpful to the starting cook, who will find plenty of encouragement here. Mark Knoblauch Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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1928 |
Hazinga, Cynthia Van Flower Gardening Secrets: Sensible Advice from Seasoned Gardeners
[Alexandria, VA] Time-Life Books Sep-97 783549369 N Paperback 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
From the Publisher&newline;&newline;&newline;The Old Farmer's Almanac has entertained and educated its readers with tried-and-true gardening tips for more than 200 years. Flower Gardening Secrets brings together the best of that material for backyard gardeners.&newline;&newline;&newline;&newline;Synopsis&newline;&newline;&newline;The Old Farmer's Almanac has entertained and educated its readers with tried-and-true gardening tips for more than 200 years. Flower Gardening Secrets brings together the best of that material for backyard gardeners.
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1929 |
Heacox, Kim The Pacific: Alaska and Hawaii
Random House 2-May-95 679761551 N Paperback 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
Book Description&newline;Featuring glorious full-color photos and maps throughout, this new addition to the Smithsonian Guides to Natural America covers the parks, wilderness preserves, nature sanctuaries, and scenic wonders to be found in the rugged and remote areas of Alaska and Hawaii. Over 150 color photos. &newline;&newline;Inside Flap Copy&newline;Featuring glorious full-color photos and maps throughout, this new addition to the Smithsonian Guides to Natural America covers the parks, wilderness preserves, nature sanctuaries, and scenic wonders to be found in the rugged and remote areas of Alaska and Hawaii. Over 150 color photos.
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1930 |
Heap, Sue (Illustrator) Four Friends in the Garden
Cambridge, Mass. Candlewick 3-Jun-04 763623717 Hardcover New 10.7 x 9.6 x 0.5 inches
PreS–Though it lacks the internal cohesion and satisfying conclusion of Four Friends Together (Candlewick, 2003), this follow-up tale nonetheless holds lots of appeal, thanks to Heap's bold, playful acrylic illustrations and lovable characters. Florentina, a great big flowery bear; Rachel, a rabbit; Seymour, a sheep; and a little girl named Mary Clare enjoy the outdoors. When a butterfly lands on Florentina's foot, she calls everyone over to see it, but it flies away before they have a chance. The companions race around the garden chasing it, but the butterfly only comes to see them once they sit still and remain quiet–and by then, Florentina has disappeared. All ends happily, however, as she appears just in time to serve lemonade to her friends and greet the butterfly, which lands on her nose. The interactions among the characters are real and caring, and the simple text and colorful illustrations will work well in toddler storytimes.–Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Maryland School for the Deaf, Columbia Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The creator of FOUR FRIENDS TOGETHER revisits her colorful crew in the garden as they find that patience is the secret to luring a new fluttery friend. It's a sunny day, and Mary Clare, Rachel the rabbit, Seymour the sheep, and Florentina the big flowery bear are all in the garden. Suddenly a butterfly lands on Florentina's foot, and she can't wait to show the others. But off it flies, and around and around they run, trying to catch a glimpse of it. Could it be that sitting quietly might lead to better results?
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1931 |
Hearne, Keith Understanding Dreams
New Holland 30-Jun-01 1853688762 N Paperback 10.1 x 9 x 0.4 inches
Book Description&newline;Gain greater insight into your waking life by exploring your dreams. Understand the basics of sleeping and dreaming, and see how to use sleep imagery as a tool for problem solving. Examine the phenomena of precognition, dream telepathy, and sleep paralysis. Methods are included to alleviate sleep disorders such as insomnia, sleepwalking, sleep-talking, and night terrors. Find out how lucid dreaming (when you are asleep yet fully aware of dreaming) can be used to initiate precognitive dreams, administer healing, lower stress, enhance creativity, and more. Learn to transform nightmares into more pleasant experiences, and discover techniques for uncovering the hidden meanings in particularly significant dreams. As you explore the enigmatic world of dreams, you will develop a greater understanding of your own inner universe.
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1932 |
Heat-Moon, William Least PrairyErth
Boston Houghton Mifflin 23-Oct-91 395486025 N Hardcover 9.8 x 6.5 x 2 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Whereas Blue Highways dealt with Heat-Moon's auto trip across America, PrairyErth (an old term for heartland soils) records a journey mostly on foot across the tallgrass prairies and grasslands of Chase County, Kans. In a great cornucopia of a book, a majestic, healing hymn to America's potential, Heat-Moon attempts to penetrate the spirit of the land, a land which explorer Zebulon Pike and later white settlers stole from the Kansa (Kaw) Indians. There are now only six full-blood Kaw survivors, most of whom live on a reservation in Oklahoma. Heat-Moon writes of a feminist rancher who hires women primarily, of a farm couple swept aloft by a tornado, of abolitionists who wanted slaves free but not equal. He pauses to ponder fence posts, arrowheads and the nesting habits of pack rats. He talks to conservationists and coyote hunters, excerpts pioneer diaries and recreates the 1931 airplane crash that killed football hero Knute Rockne. Each chapter is prefaced by a map and by pages of quotations ranging from Thoreau to Frank Lloyd Wright. First serial to the Atlantic; BOMC selection. &newline;Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;This new work from the author of Blue Highways ( LJ 11/1/82) is an immersion into the past, present, and future of Chase County in south central Kansas. Located in the heart of the Flint Hills, the sparsely populated area contains one of the best remaining tracts of tallgrass prairie that once covered much of the Midwest. (&doublequote;PrairyErth&doublequote; is an old geologic term for prairie soils). Having spent six years engaging in &doublequote;participatory history,&doublequote; Heat-Moon creates a feel for the land and a rural way of life that seems to be dead or dying across America. Dividing his book into quadrangles, he presents a verbal map that examines the county's geological, natural, and human history. This is a fascinating book that could be improved only with the addition of an index. Highly recommended, especially for local, natural, and Western history collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/91; BOMC selection.&newline;- Tim Markus, Evergreen State Coll. Lib., Olympia, Wash.&newline;Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1934 |
Hecht, Julie Do the Windows Open?
Penguin 1-Feb-98 140271457 Paperback 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
Do the Windows Open? is a smashing debut by short-story writer Julie Hecht. Bound together by the insight and wit of her neurotic narrator, Hecht's short stories document the mania of the modern day in devastating detail. Hecht's narrator, a forty-something photographer, moves through the world burdened by the mundane and tawdry incidentals of contemporary existence. Taking in fertility clinics, hairpieces, obnoxious speech patterns and omnipresent consumer demographics, nothing escapes her eye or avoids her comment. The intelligence of her judgment negates the inanity of much of what she sees, and her stories become a tragicomic critique of her affluent and stifling social milieu. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. It's surprising that Hecht, a longtime contributor to the New Yorker and a winner of the O. Henry Prize, hasn't published a book before this. These nine stories are all narrated by the same bracingly neurotic heroine, a 40-ish photographer named Isabelle who has a lot to say on virtually everything from the intricacies of macrobiotic cooking to whether or not her optician is or was a Nazi, the son of Nazis, a neo-Nazi or, at the very least, a Nazi sympathizer. When she's not working on her idiosyncratic photo-essays (flowers in decline, reproductive surgeons and their dogs), Isabelle spends an inordinate amount of time chasing down objects essential for her daily life, like organic vegetables and reversible alpaca coats from England. Meanwhile, she keeps up a barrage of exceedingly manic diatribes on such pressing subjects as the greenhouse effect, the passage of time and how annoying Swedish people can be?all expressed in borderline hysterical, impeccably crisp diction, like Miss Manners with the wrong prescription. The best of these stories are hilariously funny, filled with the horrors of modern life (bad architecture, traffic jams, the smell of peanuts on the bus) and wacky exchanges with her loudmouthed reproductive surgeon, Dr. Loquesto, her careless floor sander, the guy at the Discount Drugs or her neighbors in Nantucket and East Hampton. Some of the stories may remind the reader of a long phone conversation with a batty, obsessed neighbor who doesn't know when to hang up. You may breathe a little sigh of relief when they're over?but then again, her point of view is so entertaining, you can't wait for her to call back. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1935 |
Heckscher, Melissa Date Him or Dump Him?: The No-Nonsense Relationship Quiz
Philadelphia, PA Quirk Books 1-Apr-05 1594740380 Paperback 5.9 x 4.5 x 0.8 inches
Is he still in love with his ex? Is he a string-along type? Does he want a long-term relationship or just a fling? Should you Date Him or Dump Him? A comprehensive relationship advice book in a fun, easy-to-use format, Date Him or Dump Him? picks up where Cosmo s quiz left off. Combining the knowledge of a professional with the insight of someone who s been there, this illustrated flip-through guide encourages you to address the questions and concerns of your current relationship and predict its future. Date Him or Dump Him? begins with questions such as: When did his last relationship end? and How often does he call you? and follows up with ore in-depth queries, ultimately leading the reader to an honest analysis and genuinely helpful advice for moving forward. Cheaper than a therapist, more reliable than a palm-reader, and more fun hat any other self-help book on the market, Date Him or Dump Him? gives the final word on any relationship. About the Author Melissa Heckscher is a writer and columnist living in Los Angeles. She likes hiking, candlelit dinners, and long walks on the beach.
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1936 |
Heerden, Ivor van The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
Penguin 31-Jul-07 143112139 Paperback 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
Starred Review. This serious, scientific explanation of what exactly happened in the hours-and years-leading up to Hurricane Katrina's devestation of New Orleans brings a fresh perspective to a tragedy that has generated remarkably similar news accounts over the past eight months. Van Heerden, Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, gives a passionate, rigorous account of what went wrong in New Orleans that, if admittedly non-objective, is a noble and credible call for truth and accountability Long recognized by FEMA as one of the three most likely and dangerous disasters threatening the country, the possibility of a hurricane like Katrina was ignored by corrupt politicians and discounted by residents tired of past evacuations (George, Floyd, Ivan, and Rita) that in hindsight seemed unnecessary. Technical details threaten at times to overwhelm readers interested in the human story of the storm, but van Heerden manages to navigate the narrow path that fuses scientific data with a gripping narrative worthy of a Tom Clancy thriller. Informative and emotional, Van Heerden's book sheds new light on one of the most destructive-and important-natural disasters to hit the U.S. in modern history, and is a must-read for anyone truly interested in the facts behind Hurricane Katrina. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Anderson Cooper, CNN He's truly one of the heroes of Hurricane Katrina.
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1937 |
Hegi, Ursula Intrusions
Touchstone 1-Mar-97 684844818 Paperback 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
Mary Mackey San Francisco Chronicle Hegi has a real genius for the material of personal existence, for the world seen close up...fascinating. Robert Sorensen Minneapolis Tribune A delightful and perceptive novel about the creative process and the nature of reality. Robin Morgan Ursula Hegi has given us a lively first novel about the layered realities of a woman's life. It's funny, and sad, and an old-fashioned good read. Victoria Kohl Los Angeles Herald Examiner Hegi's sharp perceptions, humor and talent...have created a unique and satisfying read about the burden of being responsible for ourselves. Victoria Kohl Los Angeles Herald Examiner Hegi's sharp perceptions, humor and talent...have created a unique and satisfying read about the burden of being responsible for ourselves.
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1938 |
Hegi, Ursula Salt Dancers
Touchstone 1-Mar-97 684844826 Paperback 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
Ursula Hegi follows her masterful and critically acclaimed novel Stones from the River with a dramatic contemporary tale of one woman's journey back to her childhood through layers of memory, fear, longing, and love. Unmarried and pregnant at forty-one, Julia returns home to a father she hasn't seen in twenty-three years, and to the memories of secrecy, betrayal, abuse and abandonment that haunt her still. Haunting and lyrical, beautiful and harrowing, Salt Dancers fulfills the promise of Hegi's earlier work. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Readers of Floating in My Mother's Palm and Stones from the River, Hegi's impressive sagas of life in a fictional German village, are acquainted with her storytelling skill, her sinewy yet lyrical prose and her strong moral imagination. In comparison with those page-hefty books, this is a slim volume, but it lacks none of the psychological insights and emotional impact of the earlier novels. For almost a decade of Julia Ives's life in Spokane, Wash., her father was a protective, nurturing presence. He taught her the salt dance, a ritual to help her leave everything she feared behind a line of salt, and he gave her the trouble people, dolls that can solve your troubles while you sleep. Ironically, these have become metaphors for the emotional safety Julia lost one day when she was nine and her brother Travis a year younger, when her mother left them all without a word and vanished from their lives. Stunned and aching with loneliness, Julia then had to endure her father's frequent drunken assaults; he beat her, demanding that she declare her love for him. College was Julia's passport out of Spokane. Now, 24 years later, pregnant but unmarried at 41, she comes from her home in Vermont to confront her father with her memories, to see her brother, who also bears emotional scars from their childhood, and to try to fathom the mystery of her mother's disappearance. Hegi uses Julia's quest to explore the selective power of memory and the ambiguities that cloud family relationships. She evokes the varied landscape of Washington and the emotional landscape of Julia's memories with equal facility, though she sometimes overindulges in Julia's fantasies of finding her mother. Yet, there is both poignancy and suspense in Julia's journey through her past, and the surprises she encounters in herself as well as others lead to a healing resolution that has the open-ended feel of real life. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1939 |
Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River
Simon & Schuster 1-Mar-95 068484477X Paperback 8 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1997: Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum; her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. To its credit, Stones does not wilt from the comparison. Hegi's book has a distinctive, appealing flavor of its own. Stone's characters are off-center enough to hold your attention despite the inevitable dominance of the setting: There's Trudi's mother, who slowly goes insane living in an earth nest beneath the family house; Trudi's best friend Georg, whose parents dress him as the girl they always wanted; and, of course, Trudi herself, whose condition dooms her to long for an impossible normalcy. Futhermore, the reader's inevitable sympathy for Trudi, the dwarf, heightens the true grotesqueness of Nazi Germany. Stones from the River is a nightmare journey with an unforgettable guide. Amazon.com Author Profile Read about the author.
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1940 |
Heilbroner, Robert The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
New York Touchstone 15-Sep-72 671213261 N Paperback 347 p. 22 cm.
Review&newline;Paul Samuelson Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith inspired several readers to become Nobel laureates in biology. Robert Heilbroner's new edition of The Worldly Philosophers will inspire a new generation of economists. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas -- namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works. It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing economic headlines.&newline;&newline;In a bold new concluding chapter entitled &doublequote;The End of the Worldly Philosophy?&doublequote; Heilbroner reminds us that the word &doublequote;end&doublequote; refers to both the purpose and limits of economics. This chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly &doublequote;scientific&doublequote; economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics. Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future.&newline;&newline;--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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1941 |
Heilbronn, Charles The Sun, the Moon, and the Gardener's Son
New York Harry N. Abrams 1-Jun-01 810950251 Hardcover 12.2 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
A warm story about cooperation for the very young What would the world be like if the Sun refused to rise? Angry at being eclipsed by the Moon, the Sun walks off the job one morning. With the grass and trees and flowers all crying for warmth and light, the Gardener's Son knows he has to do something. Can he make peace between the Sun and the Moon? A world of color, darkness, and light comes to life in this enchanting tale. Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: French
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1942 |
Heimel, Cynthia Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye
New York Atlantic Monthly Pr Jun-93 871135388 N Hardcover 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Amazon.com&newline;One of Heimel's most trenchant and incisive books: she wrangles with feminism, family values, these modern times, shopping, and the battle of the sexes in her inimitable no-holds-barred assault on complacency. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;It's no surprise that the author of If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet ? ( LJ 4/15/91), Sex Tips for Girls ( LJ 6/15/83), and But Enough About You (S. & S., 1986) has come up with another snappy eyebrow-raising title. Her brief essays here reflect the same satirical feminist wit that graces the pages of the Village Voice and Playboy magazine. Among the weighty issues Heimel tackles are boyfriends (&doublequote;a woman needs a man like a fish needs a net&doublequote;), dysfunctional family values (&doublequote;PBS would be bankrupt if its fund-raisers didn't feature hours of John Bradshaw explaining to sobbing audiences how our families fill us with toxic shame and make it impossible for us to have anything other than lives of agony&doublequote;), and living in L.A. (&doublequote;Out here I have a car, and I don't know if anyone in Manhattan knows this, but a car is just a moving, giant handbag!&doublequote;). Brash, hip, and very, very funny, Heimel is essential for all humor collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/93.&newline;- Wilda Williams, &doublequote;Library Journal&doublequote;&newline;Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1943 |
Heimel, Cynthia If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet
New York, NY Atlantic Monthly Pr Apr-91 871134446 N Hardcover 22 cm.
From Library Journal&newline;Reading Heimel is like listening to a standup comic. Her delivery is snappy with zinger after zinger; her topics are contemporary and her language is hip. Author of Sex Tips for Girls ( LJ 6/15/83) and But Enough About You (S. & S., 1986), Heimel writes about codependency, PMS, and the eternal conflict between men and women. Her humor is cutting, and her language, to put it mildly, is strong. For these reasons, she may have less of a broad appeal than Erma Bombeck. Still, her spoofs of the modern human condition are right on target, so this is a book to consider carefully. Libraries that already have her other books may want this one as well.&newline;- Carol Spiel man Lezak, General Learning Corp., Northbrook, Ill.&newline;Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;In this hysterical, piercing completely on-target collection of essays, Cynthia Heimel lets loose once again on all her favorite subjects. From &doublequote;The New Coldness&doublequote; (pretty people eating frozen radicchio mousse while starving children outside claw at the window) to &doublequote;PMS and Outfits&doublequote; (self-explanatory), each of these pieces offers a welcome antidote to modern culture (which, Heimel tells us, is too kind a word for what we live in). Here's Heimel on: &newline;&newline;Women...I know what kind of man I must look for: a guy who will be my pal, who approves of me and supports me, and who is not afraid of his feelings. I know this is right, because I feel the same aversion that I feel about eating bean sprouts. &newline;&newline;Men...The boy disease is when everything's just great and you're having a wonderful time and then he suddenly becomes very weird and disappears. It's epidemic nowadays. &newline;&newline;Men and Women...If he's the wrong man, you can turn yourself inside out with smiles and perfume and French maid's outfits and nothing will work. If he's the right man, you can have greasy hair, spinach in your teeth, and your skirt on inside out, and he'll still be entranced and follow you to the ends of the earth. &newline;&newline;Life, etc...Being a mother of a teenager is a strange and precarious exercise. You both know about sex, but nobody's talking. Better to talk about cannibalism. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1944 |
Helen Walsh Irish Cooking
New York Exeter Books 1986 0-671-08609-X Hard Cover Fine Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
64 pp. w index. Recipies for tipsy cake, pheasant, Irish rarebit, and so much more traditional Irish fare. Full color photographs and descriptions of categories of food like soup, seafood, meats and sweets. Minor tear on DJ headband
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1945 |
Hellenga, Robert The FALL OF A SPARROW: A NOVEL
Scribner 6-Jul-99 684850273 Paperback 8 x 5.2 x 1 inches
Robert Hellenga's superb debut, The Sixteen Pleasures, took the reader to 1960s Florence--a place of floods, fine art, and erotic discovery. His new novel, The Fall of a Sparrow, also opens in Italy, now transformed by the onslaught of terrorism. By 1980, this state of emergency even reaches the U.S., destroying one Midwestern family. Seven years later, Alan Woody Woodhull, popular classics teacher at a small Midwestern college, has yet to recover from the loss of his daughter Cookie in a Bologna train station bombing. Under financial pressure from his estranged wife (who's about to enter a convent) and in increasing professional peril (thanks to a high level of self-destructive behavior), he decamps for Italy, intent on bearing witness at the trial of his daughter's killers. The proceedings don't come off as Woody had planned. He does, however, encounter a series of richly drawn Italians--including the father of one terrorist--who are quick to share the benefits of their classical, sensual culture. (Caveat lector, this is a big, big book, and any attempt at synopsis conceals rather than discloses its ample treasures.) The Fall of a Sparrow is a study in narrative, cultural, and psychological chaos. Woody does his level best to make meaning out of senselessness--in particular, the death of his daughter, but also the subsequent breakup of his family: Cookie's death was like a cable, binding us to the past, he thinks. Sometimes we'd think we'd slipped the cable and were running free, but then we'd be brought up short, like a dog that forgets it's on a chain. Again and again, he strives to break free, through literature, music (the blues), sex, and the strength of love. But what he has to learn, and what the book ultimately imparts, is that the past is not to be forgotten or surmounted but absorbed. In addition to his subtle psychological portraits of Woody and his remaining daughters, Hellenga also excels when it comes to the large scale. With his widescreen vision, he creates memorable, almost inhabitable slices of Italian--and American--life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Woody Woodhull, a middle-aged professor of Latin and Greek at a small Illinois college, struggles to rebuild his family, devastated by a deadly terrorist attack in Bologna, Italy, in 1980 that killed Woody's eldest daughter and 85 others. Woody's wife breaks down, regroups, and becomes a nun. His two surviving daughters grow to precocious womanhood. As Woody heads toward a new life, matter-of-factly accepting the consequences of an affair with one of his students, he is determined to see justice done for the lost child for whom he never stops grieving. In Italy, finally, he seeks release from his exhausting rage when the terrorists are brought to a court of law. Hellenga has written a masterly follow-up to his widely acclaimed The Sixteen Pleasures (LJ 4/1/94) that is steeped in the sophistication of 1980s Italy and the rich atmosphere of academia, where the multilingual characters effortlessly slip in and out of several languages as they quote from the classics in their day-to-day conversations. A perfect choice for book clubs. -ABeth E. Andersen, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1947 |
Hellmuth, Phil Play Poker Like the Pros
New York Collins 6-May-03 60005726 Paperback 8.7 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Hellmuth is to poker players what Tiger Woods is to golfers. A seven-time World Series of Poker winner, he knows his craft and has now decided to pass a little of his wisdom on to less-skilled players. As the introduction stresses, this is not a book to be perused casually; rather, you read it like a textbook, a training manual for effective poker playing, at both beginning and advanced levels. As in Bellin's Poker Nation [BKL Mr 15 02], where the author explores the logic behind successful strategy, Hellmuth details card combinations and analyzes situations with the precision of a surgeon. And in both books the art of reading other players receives in-depth analysis. What's unique here is the breadth of coverage, focusing not only on traditional table play but also on online gaming, at which many high-end players now prosper. An extensive glossary makes for entertaining reading on its own, as does the impressive listing of Hellmuth's top-50 wins. A must for any gaming collection. Mary Frances Wilkens Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Phil Hellmuth, Jr., the Tiger Woods of Poker, demonstrates exactly how to play and win––even if you have never played poker before–– the modern games of poker, including: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Seven–Card Stud, and Razz. Play Poker Like the Pros is the perfect introduction to the world of poker, including tournaments, home games, and Online play as Hellmuth begins by laying how to set–up and play the games and then moves on to basic and advanced strategy. Phil teaches exactly which hands to play, when to bluff, and when to raise, and when to fold. In addition, Hellmuth provides techniques for reading other players and avoid going on tilt–––poker speak for staying cool under pressure. There are also special chapters for advanced players on how to beat Online games and an inside look at tournament play.
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1948 |
Hellriegel, Don Management: A Competency Based Approach
Cincinnati, Ohio Thomson South-Western Mar-01 324055587 N Hardcover 11.3 x 8.9 x 1.1 inches
Book Description&newline;MANAGEMENT: A COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH presents theory, relevant applications, and innovation. The authors continue to place emphasis on six managerial competencies?self-management, strategic action, planning and administration, global awareness, teamwork, and communication?and have carefully woven examples of each into every chapter. The authors chose these six competencies after surveying hundreds of managers in all types and sizes of businesses. The integrated, interactive Self-Assessment helps learners understand and develop their own management potential. This unique focus on competencies, combined with new theories and fresh examples, will engage the readers while applying the content. This text will set the standard for content that merges the concerns of managers, with the managerial competencies that foster excellence. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. &newline;&newline;About the Author&newline;Don Hellriegel is Professor of Management and holds the Bennett Chair in Business within Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. and M.B.A. from Kent State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Dr. Hellriegel has been a member of the faculty at Texas A&M since 1975 and has served on the faculties of the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Colorado. His research interests include corporate entrepreneurship, effect of organizational environments, and organizational innovation and strategic management processes. His research has been published in a number of leading journals. Professor Hellriegel served as President, Vice President and Program Chair of the Academy of Management. He was also elected to a three-year term as Dean of the Fellows Group of the Academy of Management. He served a term as Editor of the Academy of Management Review and served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. Dr. Hellriegel has occupied many other leadership roles, among which include President, Eastern Academy of Management; Division Chair, Organization and Management Theory Division; President, Brazos County United Way; Co-Consulting Editor, West Series in Management; Head, Department of Management (TAMU); Executive Associate Dean and Interim Dean, Mays Business School (TAMU); and Interim Executive Vice Chancellor (TAMUS). He has consulted with a variety of groups and organizations, including 3DI, Sun Ship Building, Penn Mutual Life Insurance, Texas A&M University System, Ministry of Industry and Commerce (Nation of Kuwait), Ministry of Agriculture (Nation of Dominican Republic), American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, and Texas Innovation Group. Susan E. Jackson is Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, where she also serves as Graduate Director for the Doctoral Program in Industrial Relations and Human Resources. Prior to joining Rutgers, she taught on the faculties of New York University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Maryland. She received her B.A. in psychology and sociology from the University of Minnesota and her Master's and Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary area of expertise is the strategic management of human resources, and her special interests include managing team effectiveness, workforce diversity, and the design of human resource management systems to support knowledge-based organizations. She has authored or co-authored over 100 articles on these and related topics. In addition, she authored or co-authored several books, including Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage: Designing Strategies for Effective Human Resource Management, Managing Human Resources in Cross-border Alliances, Human Resources: A Partnership Perspective, Strategic Human Resource Management, Diversity in the Workplace: Human Resource Initiatives, and Creating Tomorrow's Organizations: A Handbook for Future Research in Organizational Behavior. She currently serves as a member of the e
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Helmer, Marilyn Three Tales of Enchantment
Kids Can Press, Ltd. 10-Jul-01 1550748432 Hardcover New 11.3 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
The bewitching retellings of these enchanting tales -- Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast -- will whisk children away to imaginary lands where all is not as it seems, and magical spells can change the world in a wink.
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1950 |
Heloise Heloise Hnt Planet Pa
New York, NY Perigee Trade 23-Apr-90 399516255 N Paperback 7 x 5 x 1 inches
From Library Journal&newline;Heloise gives hints on how to recycle, reuse, and be resourceful around the home, office, school, and while traveling. Not surprisingly, most of the hints are for around the home, a reflection of the author's newspaper columns. Many of the hints are good, but do we really need three pages of uses for old pantyhose? Heloise talks about uses for disposable diaper boxes, but not about not using disposable diapers. A chapter about the safe disposal of hazardous wastes, such as batteries, paint, etc., is rather cursory. Readers would probably do better with 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Earth (EarthWorks Group, 1989), Rosemary Will's Shopping for a Better World (Council on Economic Priorities, 1989), and Norm Crampton's Complete Trash ( LJ 8/89). The hints provided here are sensible for the most part, and the book will be in demand because of Heloise's popularity, but one wonders if she's trying to be paid twice for the same information--carrying recycling a little far. Not essential.&newline;- Patty Miller, New Hampshire Technical Coll. Lib., Laconia&newline;Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1952 |
Helprin, Mark A Soldier of the Great War
San Diego Harcourt 6-May-91 151836000 Hardcover 9.3 x 6.1 x 2.2 inches
With energetic, often lyrical prose capable of poetic images of great intensity, coupled with an antic imagination unleashed in scenes of high adventure and bizarre and droll events, Helprin's ( Winter's Tale ) dramatic, sweeping narrative focuses on one man's experiences during a turbulent period of history. Septuagenarian Alessandro Giuliani, scion of a cultured Roman family, looks back on a life whose direction was irrevocably altered and thereafter shadowed by WW I. Idealistic Alessandro first sees action in the Tyrol (giving Helprin the opportunity to display his knowledge of mountain climbing), is part of a phantom unit sent to Sicily to capture deserters, becomes a deserter himself and later a prisoner sentenced to death--in short, undergoes experiences that encapsulate war's many horrors, ironies and tragedies. As counterpoint to brutal battle scenes, there is dark comedy in the character of the demented dwarf Orfeo Quatta, who pursues his awesome responsibilities at the Ministry of War with capricious mania. Helprin uses Giorgioni's painting La Tempesta to convey the novel's message: that women, with the promise of love and new life, are civilization's salvation in the aftermath of war. The author himself again demonstrates his ability to create vivid settings: magnificent landscapes teeming with activity and colored by extremes of weather, illuminated with the clarity of a classical painting . While the plot early on sometimes seems padded and digressive, the reader will soon find Alessandro's story a gripping, poignant and universally relevant moral fable. 125,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; paperback rights to Avon; author tour. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In summer 1964, a distinguished-looking gentleman in his seventies dismounts on principle from a streetcar that was to carry him from Rome to a distant village, instead accompanying on foot a boy denied a fare. As they walk, he tells the boy the story of his life. A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alesandro Giuliani found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of World War I. The war led to an onerous tour of duty, inadvertent desertion, near-execution, forced labor, service high in the Italian Alps that took advantage of his (and Helprin's) skill at mountain climbing, capture by the enemy, and return home, dispossessed of most of his friends and family. Along the way, he gains, loses, and eventually rediscovers love. This rousingly good story of survival is all the more remarkable in the telling. The language is rich without cloying, complex yet luminous in Helprin's best style. In a number of thoughtful philosophical passages as engaging as any adventure story, Alesandro struggles to reconcile his appreciation of beauty and his religious faith with the horror around him. That he finally persuades us to believe in a God without any hope, in a God of splendor and terror is testimony to the indomitable human spirit. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/91. -Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1956 |
Hemingway, Ernest Green Hills of Africa
Collier Books Jan-30 684717999 N Paperback
From AudioFile&newline;Fans of Ernest Hemingway will certainly enjoy the story of the author's month-long safari in East Africa in 1933 with his wife, Pauline. Replete with tales about the thrill of chasing big game, the joys of the kill, and the lushness of the scenery, this is truly classic Hemingway. It also serves as further proof that you either love his unique style or you don't. Narrator Josh Lucas clearly understands the author and delivers the material with a resonance and assurance that add to Hemingway's confident and passionate tone. Lucas has a fine sense of timing, along with a deft ability to add subtle yet distinct emphasis to key scenes. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in -- and fascination with -- big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway also looks inward, seeking to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa. Yet Green Hills of Africa is also an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.&newline;&newline;Hemingway's rich description of the beauty and strangeness of the land and his passion for the sport of hunting combine to give Green Hills of Africa the freshness and immediacy of a deeply felt personal experience that is the hallmark of the greatest travel writing.&newline;&newline;--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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1957 |
Hemingway, Ernest In Our Time
New York Scribner 31-Jan-96 684822768 Paperback 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
No writer has been more efficiently overshadowed by his imitators than Ernest Hemingway. From the moment he unleashed his stripped-down, declarative sentences on the world, he began breeding entire generations of miniature Hemingways, who latched on to his subtractive style without ever wondering what he'd removed, or why. And his tendency to lapse into self-parody during the latter half of his career didn't help matters. But In Our Time, which Hemingway published in 1925, reminds us of just how fresh and accomplished his writing could be--and gives at least an inkling of why Ezra Pound could call him the finest prose stylist in the world. In his first commercially published book (following the small-press appearance of Three Stories and Ten Poems in 1924), Hemingway was still wearing his influences on his sleeve. The vignettes between each story smack of Gertrude Stein, whose minimalist punctuation and clodhopping rhythms he was happy to borrow. My Old Man sounds like Huck Finn on the Grand Tour: Well, we went to live at Maisons-Lafitte, where just about everybody lives except the gang at Chantilly, with a Mrs. Meyers that runs a boarding house. Maisons is about the swellest place to live I've ever seen in all my life. But in the The Battler or Indian Camp or Big Two-Hearted River, Hemingway finds his own voice, shunning the least hint of rhetorical inflation and sticking to just the facts, ma'am. His reluctance to traffic in high-flown abstraction has often been chalked up to postwar disillusion--as though he were too much of a simpleton to make deliberate stylistic decisions. Still, nobody can read Soldier's Home without drawing a certain connection between the two. Returning home to Oklahoma, the hero finds that his tales of combat are now a bankrupt genre: Even his lies were not sensational at the pool room. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to machine guns in the Argonne forest and who could not comprehend, or were barred by their patriotism from interest in, any German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories. If we are to believe Michael Reynolds and Ann Douglas, this passage reflects the author's own dreary homecoming as a member of the lost generation. It's also a fine example of a surprisingly rare phenomenon, at least at this point in his career: Hemingway being funny. --James Marcus THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories Indian Camp, The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife, The Three Day Blow, and The Battler, and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose -- enlivened by an car for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart. Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway's later works.
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1958 |
Hemingway, Ernest Islands in the Stream
Scribner 10-Dec-97 684837870 Paperback 7.9 x 5 x 1.1 inches
A LATER CLASSIC FROM AMERICA'S PREMIER FICTION WRITER First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale. Download Description A LATER CLASSIC FROM AMERICA'S PREMIER FICTION WRITER - First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer - a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale.
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1959 |
Hemingway, Ernest The Garden of Eden
New York Scribner May-86 684186934 N Hardcover 22 cm.
From Publishers Weekly&newline;An edited version of a narrative abandoned by the Nobel laureate, The Garden of Eden is about a young American couple in Europe on an extended honeymoon. PW stated that while the manuscript is of scholarly interest, it does not hold up as a &doublequote;bona fide Hemingway novel.&doublequote; &newline;Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;A few shards survive in the sandy ruins of Hemingway's garden of Eden: the pastoral and sensual delights of loving and swimming in Provence and Spain; the pleasure the hero, a novelist, feels when he writes &doublequote;truly&doublequote; about his father and hunting in Africa. The rest is madness, cruelty, and corruption. Unfortunately, neither the joy nor the terror profoundly engages the reader. The bisexual grotesqueries that bind David Bourne, his antic wife, and their complaisant woman lover are for the most part silly or banal, not even sufficiently bizarre to shock. What we have here is juiceless gossip. As fiction, the book utterly failsclumsily plotted, thematically vague and indecisive, the characters unfleshed caricatures. Even Hemingway's lyrical eloquence is stripped to frayed cliches. How then to justify publishing an edited version of a manuscript Hemingway labored over unsuccessfully for 15 years? Arthur Waldhorn, English Dept., City Coll., CUNY&newline;Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1960 |
Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and The Sea
New York Scribner 5-May-95 684801221 Paperback 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame: Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air. If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: The old man was dreaming about the lions. Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus From Library Journal These dual Hemingways are the latest volumes in the Scribner Paperback Fiction series (Classic Returns, February 15, p. 187). They offer quality trade size editions, featuring attractive covers and easily readable type size. Two of the greats. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1961 |
Hemingway, Ernest To Have and Have Not
New York Scribner 20-Mar-96 684818981 Paperback 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
First things first: readers coming to To Have and Have Not after seeing the Bogart/Bacall film should be forewarned that about the only thing the two have in common is the title. The movie concerns a brave fishing-boat captain in World War II-era Martinique who aids the French Resistance, battles the Nazis, and gets the girl in the end. The novel concerns a broke fishing-boat captain who agrees to carry contraband between Cuba and Florida in order to feed his wife and daughters. Of the two, the novel is by far the darker, more complex work. The first time we meet Harry Morgan, he is sitting in a Havana bar watching a gun battle raging out in the street. After seeing a Cuban get his head blown off with a Luger, Morgan reacts with typical Hemingway understatement: I took a quick one out of the first bottle I saw open and I couldn't tell you yet what it was. The whole thing made me feel pretty bad. Still feeling bad, Harry heads out in his boat on a charter fishing expedition for which he is later stiffed by the client. With not even enough money to fill his gas tanks, he is forced to agree to smuggle some illegal Chinese for the mysterious Mr. Sing. From there it's just a small step to carrying liquor--a disastrous run that ends when Harry loses an arm and his boat. Once Harry gets mixed up in the brewing Cuban revolution, however, even those losses seem small compared to what's at stake now: his very life. Hemingway tells most of this story in the third person, but, significantly, he brackets the whole with a section at the beginning told from Harry's perspective and a short, heart-wrenching chapter at the end narrated by his wife, Marie. In between there is adventure, danger, betrayal, and death, but this novel begins and ends with the tough and tender portrait of a man who plays the cards that are dealt him with courage and dignity, long after hope is gone. --Alix Wilber From Library Journal It's not often that this column gets to cite something by a truly classic author, but here it is: Hemingway's last work, written after he returned from his 1953 safari and edited by his son, Patrick, in time for this July's centennial celebration. Hemingway even stars in this fictional memoir, running the safari camp in the absence of friend and lead hunter Pop even as hostile tribes gather to attack. But he still has time to sneak in an affair with an African girl. Along with this work, Scribner will publish three new hardcover editions of Hemingway classics: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (ISBN 0-684-86221-2. $25), Death in the Afternoon (ISBN 0-684-85922-X. $35), and To Have and Have Not (ISBN 0-684-85923-8. $25). Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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1965 |
Henderson, Lauren Don't Even Think About It
New York Downtown Press 2-Nov-04 743464699 Paperback 8.1 x 5 x 1 inches
When Londoners Katie and Michael meet in New York, it's love at first sight. Michael's ex-girlfriend, Sally, isn't worried. Michael frequently jumps from woman to woman, and his relationships never seem to last for very long. But Sally's best friend, Jude, knows that Sally is still carrying a torch for Michael and schemes to get them back together. Her handsome coworker, Paul, figures in Jude's plan: he is obviously interested in Sally, and his attentions to her might inspire Michael to dump Katie. Jude herself is dating Scott, who seems to be more involved with his job than he is with her. But when the group comes together to celebrate Katie's birthday, a bit of unexpected news throws a big monkey wrench into Jude's plans, with major repercussions for the whole group. Henderson's latest is a delightful romantic comedy with several unexpected twists and turns. In a genre that can be formulaic, it's particularly refreshing to find a romance in which the reader can't predict the outcome by the second chapter. Kristine Huntley Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Three's company.... Best chums Sally, Jude, and Michael are living the single life in cool flats a mere stone's throw apart in London. But the girls find the sitcom life they love taking an unexpected twist when Michael's new girlfriend, Katie, moves in with him. Michael's a notorious womanizer -- he broke it off with Sally years ago -- and the girls have gotten used to his endless parade of brunettes. Sally acts like she's over Michael; Jude prides herself on knowing better; and they're both sure Katie's not going to last. Four's a crowd. Katie's not particularly thrilled that Michael's ex and her best friend live right across the street, but she makes the best of it. After all, things with Michael are going brilliantly, and he seems determined to commit to their future. But when another brunette from Michael's past arrives from Paris and Katie begins to fear that she's just another notch on Michael's bedpost, the girls realize that they're all just playing parts in Michael's drama. So what will his reaction be when they try to break free? Don't even think about it!
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1966 |
Hendler, Sheldon Saul Doctor's Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia
New York Simon & Schuster 15-May-90 067166784X N Hardcover 9.4 x 7.7 x 1.3 inches
From Library Journal&newline;This is not just another vitamin and mineral guide; it is a comprehensive volume that also describes and evaluates acids, lipids and their derivatives, herbs, and other nutritional supplements on which there is little information for laypersons. Well organized and logically arranged, the book is divided into three parts. There is a brief introduction to &doublequote;micronutrition&doublequote; (the study of the health-giving components of food); an extensive encyclopedic section that provides a complete analysis of 160 supplements; and a listing of specific supplement formulas recommended for different needs. Hendler's information is objective and well documented; his book is similar to but more thorough than Dominick Bosco's The People's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals (LJ 6/15/80; 1989. rev. ed.). Hendler is the author of The Oxygen Breakthrough (LJ 4/15/89). His latest book is essential for all public libraries.&newline;-Linda Chopra, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio&newline;Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;Review&newline;Joe Graedon author of The People's Pharmacy By far the best book on vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs that I have ever read. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1968 |
Hendrickson, Robert The Ocean Almanac
Garden City, N.Y. Main Street Books 17-Jan-84 385140770 Paperback 9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
As expansive as the ocean itself, this entertaining, informative almanac offers hundreds of fascinating essays, anecdotes, facts, legends, and mysteries concerning the sea, its amazing inhabitants--both real and apocryphal--and the men and ships who have sailed it through the ages. From the Publisher As expansive as the ocean itself, this entertaining, informative almanac offers hundreds of fascinating essays, anecdotes, facts, legends, and mysteries concerning the sea, its amazing inhabitants--both real and apocryphal--and the men and ships who have sailed it through the ages.
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1969 |
Hendrix, Harville Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
New York Harper Perennial Feb-90 60972920 N Paperback 8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
Amazon.com&newline;When Harville Hendrix writes about relationships, he discusses them not just as an educator and a therapist, but as a man who has himself been through a failed marriage. Hendrix felt the sting of his divorce intensely because he believed it signaled not only his failure as a husband but also his failure as a couples counselor. Investigating why his marriage dissolved led him to start looking into the psychology of love. Marriage, he ultimately discovered, is the &doublequote;practice of becoming passionate friends.&doublequote;&newline;&newline;As a result of his research, Hendrix created a therapy he calls Imago Relationship Therapy. In it, he combines what he's learned in a number of disciplines, including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, to name just a few. He expounds upon this approach in Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. His purpose in writing the book, he says, is &doublequote;to share with you what I have learned about the psychology of love relationships, and to help you transform your relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship.&doublequote;&newline;&newline;Divided into three sections, the book covers &doublequote;The Unconscious Marriage,&doublequote; which details a marriage in which the remaining desires and behavior of childhood interfere with the current relationship; &doublequote;The Conscious Marriage,&doublequote; which shows a marriage that fulfils those childhood needs in a positive manner; and a 10-week &doublequote;course in relationship therapy, &doublequote; which gives detailed exercises for you and your partner to follow in order to learn how to &doublequote;replace confrontation and criticism ... with a healing process of mutual growth and support.&doublequote; The text is occasionally dry and technical; however, the information provided is valuable, the case studies are interesting, and the exercises are revealing and helpful. By utilizing his program, Hendrix hopes you too will be able to solve your marital difficulties without the expense of a therapist. --Jenny Brown &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;For 17 years the author and his wife have been writing about how couples can express frustrated childhood needs constructively, instead of acting them out and poisoning any chance for happiness. Providing exercises that get everyone's cards on the table, his approach to marital communication is widely used across the country. In a clear abridgment, Dr. Hendrix covers the essentials of long-term relationships and what it takes to get past the most common forms of relationship dysfunction. The author's resonant baritone and utter lack of pretense would serve all personal growth audios, regardless of authorship. These ideas won't save every marriage, but they're worthwhile tools that anyone can understand and try. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1970 |
Henrick, Richard P. Nightwatch
New York William Morrow 8-Jun-99 380974231 N Hardcover 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Although not as well-known as the Clancys, Cusslers, and Coontzes of the bestseller lists, Richard P. Henrick has written 17 riveting military technothrillers--including Crimson Tide and Flight of the Condor. The common theme in his books is how ordinary people respond to exceptional pressure under what-if circumstances.&newline;&newline;The premise behind Henrick's 18th book--one of his best in terms of timeliness and sheer nervous energy--is what would happen if somebody wanted the reigns of power in America badly enough to kill anyone who stood in the way. &newline;&newline;En route to a top-secret meeting in the Crimea, the president's convoy is attacked and he is killed. At the same moment, a black helicopter blasts the Missouri town where the vice president is fishing. Only the actions of secret service special agent Vince Kellogg keep him alive--at least for the moment. Meanwhile, up in the stratosphere, a specially modified 747 called Nightwatch becomes the new seat of power for the beleaguered American government. Navy commander Brittany Edwards is one of five officers on board with the authority to launch a nuclear attack--but who, exactly, is the government fighting?&newline;&newline;Henrick's characters are interesting and varied, and even the villains have enough depth to make readers understand--if not sympathize--with them. But it's the giant flying fortress itself that is his best creation: he gives it so much personality that we share the pain when a missile explodes nearby and almost destroys the Nightwatch. --Dick Adler &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;A good story lurks somewhere beneath the machismo posturing, wooden dialogue, confused plotting and acronym-heavy prose of Henrick's (Crimson Tide; Attack on the Queen) new military thriller. All that clutter gets in the way of a wild adventure that otherwise would have the firepower of a bazooka. For starters, the president of the U.S. is assassinated while on a diplomatic mission to the Crimea. Soon after, a mysterious group of thugs kidnaps the vice-president during a river rafting trip in Missouri. Then, an ICBM leaves Russian soil, heading for the West. It soon becomes apparent that an overthrow of the U.S. government is underway. The leaders of the coup carry out their plot from aboard Nightwatch, a high-tech 747 that follows the president wherever he goes, ensuring communication with the nation's capital. The militants, led by Admiral Trent Warner, stay in contact with their cohorts aboard a nuclear sub off the coast of the eastern seaboard and in the rough terrain of the Missouri Ozarks, where the vice-president and his bodyguard have been taken hostage, first by a family of local hicks, then by the forces plotting the government overthrow. The coup leaders' main gripe is that old saw: The government has gone soft politically and panders to too many special interests. A large cast of disposable and unmemorable characters move in and out of the story. They are led, nominally, by two brothers, Vince Kellogg, who guards the vice-president, and Thomas Kellogg, who leads the search party for the v-p. The dialogue throughout is tough and labored, and the military jargon often becomes overwhelming. An 80-item glossary of abbreviation emphasizes that this book will best appeal to those obsessed with the fighting forces. Film rights optioned to Jerry Bruckheimer, coproducer of Crimson Tide. (June) &newline;Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1971 |
Henry Drummond The Greatest Thing in the World
New York H. M. Caldwell Co. Publishers nd c. 1918 VG small
Off-white paper boards half covered with pastdown of blue flower posies, gold gilt title in elaborate frame on cover, no wording on spine, cover is soiled with what looks like mild foxing stains. Spine is tight, straight, 66 supple pages, small volume regarding the supreme value of love in the Christain Faith.
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1972 |
Henry Gilbert King Arthur's Knights: The Tales re-told for boys & girls
Edinburgh & London T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd nd (1911?) VG+ 8vo
Decorated grey cloth boards with bright, full color pastedown on cover, detailed spine in black. 16 Color plates by Walter Crane, with no foxing except a few spots on smooth fore edge, none to pages' interior; binding is tight. Virtually no evidence of shelfwear, acquired from a collector of Victorian Childrens Books. Verson contains quote from the Canterbury Tales and Printed in Great Britain by Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.
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1973 |
Henry James A Landscape Painter
New York Scott and Seltzer 1919 First Near Fine 12mo
Original publisher's dark green ribbed boards, faded gilt lettering on tight, straight spine. No DJ. 12mo at 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 No owner marks. Edges barely worn, pages browning, else clean crisp copy of first American edition of four stories, The Landscape Painter, Poor Richard, A Day of Days, and A Most Extraordinary Case.
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1974 |
Henry James The Princess Casamassima
London Macmillan and Co. 1886 First VG 4vo
Black to very dark green cloth boards, unadorned cover, wobbly spine simpy embossed with title & author. Head & tail are worn to frays, edges mildly bumped, front & back higes are broken in spots, pages browning, still supple. 596 pp. plus 32 pages of adverts dated for September 1887 for Belles Lettres series. Property of Metropolitan Club New York stamped on title page, and their attractive bookplate is also affixed on front endpaper. Bookseler notations 42 on Book One header page. Colophon on free endpaper verso. Printed by R.R. & Clark, Edinburgh
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1975 |
Henry Mayer A Trip to Toyland
New York / London E.P. Dutton & Co. / Grant Richards 1900 G+ 32x24cms
Green cloth boards with quarter red linen spine. Rough, very rough edges, spine is tattered, hinges broken, binding stitches showing, pages are of thick heavy paper holding up well despite. Delighful illustrations are often full page, full color, in landscape format. A Picture Story told by Henry Mayer, illustrations unattributed, but appear to bear the signature of the story-teller, Mayer.
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1976 |
Henry Miller Sunday After the War
Norfolk, Connecticut New Directions 1944 First VG 8vo
Tan cloth boards are unadorned. Spine is tight, minor browning to hinge area, and cover has been around the block, not soiled or worn, but around for a few years....pages supple. Both former owners signature on front free endpaper, booksellers notation on half-title page 5-15 or S-15 are in pencil, else, not a mark to be had. in this wonderful diatrabe.
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1977 |
Henry Wiencek and Vance Muse The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America Southern New England and Northern New England
New York Stewart, Tabori and Chang 1989 155670-051-2 First Edition Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Two Volumes. Both clean and tight bindings. Southern New England (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island) authored by Wiencek, 415 pp. 175 color photographs, 25 historical paintings, engravings and photographs, 13 specially commissioned color maps, Northern New England (Vermont, New Hapshire, Maine) authored by Vance Muse, 294 pp. contains 122 color photographs, 16 historical paiintings, engravings and photographs, 9 specially commisioned color maps. Both contain an illustrated architectural guide, addresses, phone numbers and hours and fees.
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1978 |
Hepburn, Katharine Me: Stories of My Life
New York Knopf 1-Sep-91 679400516 N Hardcover 9.2 x 6.4 x 5.2 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Beloved actress Hepburn's episodic autobiography spent 24 weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list and was a BOMC main selection in cloth. &newline;Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From School Library Journal&newline;YA-- Katherine Hepburn is, at 84, still the positive, feisty, upper-class lady she portrayed in The Philadelphia Story . Her autobiography, clearly not ghostwritten, tells some stories of her life but not all--she comes from a class that didn't let it all hang out. Her 27-year affair with Spencer Tracy is discussed with fond memories (the years together were to her ``absolute bliss'')--the idea that it was scandalous at the time doesn't seem to cross her mind, and she is surprised to find that Tracy's wife thought the affair was only a rumor. She seems to remember almost everyone fondly--her wonderful parents; her loving, supportive husband, whom she admits she treated badly; the numerous beaus, directors, and fellow actors with whom she worked. More than 160 black-and-white photos lend credibility to her enduring beauty, but it's the somewhat breathless, positive prose that makes Hepburn come alive as herself or as she wishes to be seen--an uncomplaining, stalwart, lucky, admired, and ``classy'' lady. --Diana C. Hirsch, Prince George's County Memorial Library System, MD&newline;Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1979 |
Herbert, Brian Dune House Harkonnen
New York Bantam Books 3-Oct-00 553110721 N Hardcover 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Don't even think about reading House Harkonnen without reading its predecessor Dune: House Atreides; anyone who does so risks sinking in the sands between Frank Herbert's original Dune and this prequel trilogy by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson. The purist argument that had Frank Herbert wanted to go backwards he would have done so is, at least in part, negated by the sheer narrative verve, and by the fact that Anderson and Brian Herbert manage to pull some genuine surprises out of this long-running space-opera. House Harkonnen is a massive book, and there are places where it becomes plot heavy, but in following the story of Duke Leto Atreides and the conflicts with House Harkonnen, the authors succeed in spinning a gripping adventure while going off in some unexpected directions. Anderson, who has written many successful Star Wars novels, has noted his particular admiration for The Empire Strikes Back, and his desire to emulate that film's dark take on the genre. In House Harkonnen, the conflict encompasses the tragedy of nuclear war, marked by grief and horror, vengeance and torment, and all while the complex intrigues continue to unfold. As one character puts it:&newline;&newline;Everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make--and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.&newline;&newline;Ultimately this is the theme of a compelling game of consequences, choices, and responsibility, a study of Leto's growth into power and the price of politics and love. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;As the young Duke Leto Atreides seeks to live up to his late father's expectations, his rivals plot to bring about the downfall of House Atreides. Plots and counterplots involving the debauched Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, his Bene Gesserit enemies, and the treacherous schemers of the enigmatic Bene Tleilax escalate the tension among factions of a fragile galactic empire. Though power seems to reside in the hands of the emperor and his elite armies, the fate of many worlds hinges on the destiny of a single planetDthe desert world known as Arrakis, or Dune. Continuing the story begun in Dune: House Atreides (LJ 10/15/99), coauthors Herbert and Anderson reveal the prehistory of the late Frank Herbert's classic Dune novels. Strong characterizations, consistent plotting, and rich detail provide this second of a trilogy of prequels with the same evocative power of the original novels. Libraries should anticipate a demand from old series fans as well as newcomers to the world of Dune. Highly recommended. &newline;Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1980 |
Herblock Bella and Me: Life in the Service of a Cat
Chicago Bonus Books Oct-95 1566250528 N Hardcover 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
Publisher Review&newline;&newline;&newline;He found her under a bush...and his life was never the same. This is the story of Bella, who took up residence with the famous cartoonist.&newline;&newline;Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Herblock has written and illustrated their life together.&newline;&newline;This is a book for adults, for children, for cat people and for non-cat people.&newline;&newline;Bella may well take her place in literature alongside Archy, Mehitabel, and Thurber's dogs.&newline;&newline;&newline;&newline;Synopsis&newline;&newline;&newline;He found her under a bush...and his life was never the same. This is the story of Bella, who took up residence with the famous cartoonist.&newline;&newline;Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Herblock has written and illustrated their life together.&newline;&newline;This is a book for adults, for children, for cat people and for non-cat people.&newline;&newline;Bella may well take her place in literature alongside Archy, Mehitabel, and Thurber's dogs.
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1981 |
Herd, Meg Learn and Play in the Garden
Hauppauge, N.Y. Barron's Educational Series Mar-97 812097807 Paperback 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.4 inches
It's hands-on activity fun and natural science all in one bright, profusely illustrated book of garden projects for boys and girls of early school age. Children can learn how to make a scarecrow, grow strawberries, make a worm farm--and even create art out of leaves collected in autumn. Children's Literature Gardening will become a favorite activity after trying some of easy garden games, crafts and activities that fill this 100-page book . The activities and planting suggestions are arranged according to the seasons. The projects use easily accessible materials and are not difficult. For example, to make a caterpillar all that is needed is an egg carton, scissors, nontoxic paint, paintbrush, a pipe cleaner, two plastic eyes, glue and a red felt pen. Then follow the step-by-step instructions. There is even a set of instructions for children to help them start their own garden. This is a perfect book for kids who like the outdoors and for parents and teachers who are looking for nature related projects. Children's Literature This information-packed book encourages children of all ages to participate in games, crafts, and activities in the garden and nature. Organized by season, this title features activities such as gardening tasks, recipes, experiments, imaginative play, and fun games to enjoy in the fresh air. It is brimming with illustrations and bright photography that display children actively participating in the projects. The book is very well written and easy to understand. It would be a wonderful addition to the library of parents, teachers, or grandparents. Anyone who loves children and nature will be well pleased with this delightful book. Also included are a parent guide and glossary. Synopsis It's hands-on activity fun and natural science all in one bright, profusely illustrated book of garden projects for boys and girls of early school age. Children can learn how to make a scarecrow, grow strawberries, make a worm farm--and even create art out of leaves collected in autumn. Children's Literature Gardening will become a favorite activity after trying some of easy garden games, crafts and activities that fill this 100-page book . The activities and planting suggestions are arranged according to the seasons. The projects use easily accessible materials and are not difficult. For example, to make a caterpillar all that is needed is an egg carton, scissors, nontoxic paint, paintbrush, a pipe cleaner, two plastic eyes, glue and a red felt pen. Then follow the step-by-step instructions. There is even a set of instructions for children to help them start their own garden. This is a perfect book for kids who like the outdoors and for parents and teachers who are looking for nature related projects. More Reviews and Recommendations
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1983 |
Herman Hesse Peter Camenzind
London Peter Owen : Vison Press 1961 VG/VG
Pale blue cloth boards in fine shape, dust jacket is price clipped, else slighty shelfworn, all in all, a fine copy of this classic, Nobel Prize winning novelist's first novel, a story of youth and educational issues translated from the German by W.J. Strachan, originally pubished in 1904.
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1984 |
Herriot, James James Herriot's Cat Stories [ILLUSTRATED]
New York St. Martin's Press 15-Sep-94 312113420 Hardcover 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
Viewers of Herriot's TV series All Creatures Great and Small will find themselves in familiar territory here. We meet Olly and Ginny, feral kittens who disdained indoor life. Frisks's spells were a puzzle until Herriot learned that the cat licked the medicine saucer of its owner, a terminal cancer patient. Oscar, an injured stray was notable for attending public meetings. Moses, a black kitten, joined a litter of pigs and was accepted by the sow. These heartwarming stories should make an ideal gift for cat lovers. Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Books by the beloved Yorkshire veterinarian, best-selling author of such titles as All Creatures Great and Small, Every Living Thing, and James Herriot's Dog Stories, are always welcome. Cat lovers in particular will cheer this collection of favorite cat tales from Herriot's veterinary practice. Retired after over 50 years in practice, Herriot continues to entertain young and old alike with his storytelling ability. His current collection includes Alfred, the Sweet-Shop Cat, Boris and Mrs. Bond's Cat Establishment, Moses Found Among the Rushes, and others. Guaranteed to warm the hearts of readers of all ages, this book is sure to be in demand. --Edell Marie Schaefer, Brookfield P.L., Wis. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1985 |
Herrnstein, Richard The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
New York Free Press 1-Sep-94 29146739 N Hardcover 9.2 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches
Book Description&newline;The ability to manipulate information has become the single most important element of success. High intelligence is an increasingly precious raw material. But despite decades of fashionable denial, the overriding and insistent truth about intellectual ability is that it is endowed unequally. In this audio presentation of The Bell Curve, author Charles Murray explores the ways that low intelligence, independent of social, economic, or ethnic background, lies at the root of many of our social problems. He also discusses another taboo subject: that intelligence levels differ among ethnic groups. According to the authors, only by facing up to these differences can we accurately assess the nation's problems and make realistic plans to address them. However, if we accept that there are intelligence differences among groups, we must learn to avoid prejudicial assumptions about any individual of a given group whose intelligence level may be anywhere under the bell curve. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. &newline;&newline;Simon & Schuster&newline;The ability to manipulate information has become the single most important element of success. High intelligence is an increasingly precious raw material. But despite decades of fashionable denial, the overriding and insistent truth about intellectual ability is that it is endowed unequally. In this audio presentation of The Bell Curve, author Charles Murray explores the ways that low intelligence, independent of social, economic, or ethnic background, lies at the root of many of our social problems. He also discusses another taboo subject: that intelligence levels differ among ethnic groups. According to the authors, only by facing up to these differences can we accurately assess the nation's problems and make realistic plans to address them. However, if we accept that there are intelligence differences among groups, we must learn to avoid prejudicial assumptions about any individual of a given group whose intelligence level may be anywhere under the bell curve. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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1986 |
Hersey, John The Conspiracy
New York Random House Mar-72 394479297 N Hardcover 274 p. 22 cm.
Book Description&newline;Nero's secret police believe they have come on the first hints of a plot against the emperor's life. Once a promising and gifted friend of poets, pupil of the great Seneca, Nero has bloodied himself and grown fat on power. Crass, mediocre men--the military and the secret police--now have his ear. While he and his court give themselves to pleasures increasingly perverse and dissipated, the secret police close in on (or do they foment, or imagine?) the conspiracy of the men of letters. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From the Publisher&newline;8 1-hour cassettes --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1987 |
Hershon, Joanna Swimming
Ballantine Books 25-Jun-02 345442768 Paperback 8 x 5.4 x 1 inches
In her first novel, Swimming, Joanna Hershon juggles a number of heady themes, from fraternal rivalry to fate to the perilous nature of desire. A layered narrative, this tale of familial struggle begins in the 1960s and ends three decades later, evoking such authors as Carolyn See or Carol Anshaw. Like them, Hershon painstakingly investigates the psychological innards of her characters, as if hoping to find what's hidden in their minds. Slowly and carefully she teases out motivations and misgivings, filling in the picture piece by piece. At the heart of Swimming are the Wheeler brothers, Aaron and Jack, locked in a fierce competition. Aaron's handsome and successful, but repressed. Jack's an outlaw and a drifter, but seems to possess a freedom that eludes his more conventional brother. The boys grew up in the woods with a hippie mother and a stern, elusive father. The isolated house with its hidden pond has a curious power--it's the place where each character meets his or her ultimate test. The water itself becomes the symbol of the Wheeler family's soul, a cloudy medium in which some drown and some float. And indeed, the fallout from one tragic evening on the shores of the pond occupies most of the second half of Swimming. Hershon has mastered the art of the group scene, and her novel contains many well-wrought dinners, beer bashes, and restaurant meals--forced encounters, in which the Wheelers are nudged out of their shells. And she's got a fine eye for detail: at one dinner, for instance, Aaron notes that his mother, though animated, looked exhausted, like someone who stayed up all night turning lights on and off. Such vivid observations, combined with accessible, well-delineated characters, make Swimming an absorbing read. --Ellen Williams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Brother kills brother, and a younger sister makes their story her own in this lush but unsteady modern-day Cain and Abel tale by first-timer Hershon. On a beautiful summer weekend, Aaron Wheeler brings his college girlfriend, Suzanne, home to meet his family in New Hampshire. Golden boy Aaron is a few years older than his volatile, difficult brother, Jack; their little sister, Lila, is eight. The visit is pleasant if tense, as Suzanne finds herself drawn to Jack against her better judgment. Late one night after a party, Suzanne and Jack end up swimming alone together at the lake behind the house. As Jack makes it back to shore, naked, Aaron is waiting for him. Jack's death is made to look like an accident--it is said that he fell on the rocks--and Aaron disappears, dropping out of college. When Hershon picks up the narrative 10 years later, the story is resumed from Lila's point of view. Now living in New York City and teaching private English classes, she stumbles through her daily life, glimpsing Aaron or Jack in all the men she sees. A chance encounter with Suzanne focuses her determination to discover what really happened that night in New Hampshire and to find Aaron again. Hershon's carefully worked prose aspires to hothouse perfection, but overworked metaphors and forced turns of phrase undermine its effectiveness. At moments, the narrative invites readers to sink beneath its surface, but Hershon fails to sustain the dark, atmospheric morass she cultivates. (Feb. 1)Forecast: Strong in-house support, a five-city author tour and a dreamy jacket will give this novel a head start, but mixed reviews might stall its progress. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1988 |
Hess, Joan Maggody in Manhattan
New York Dutton Adult 1-Oct-92 525935193 N Hardcover 20 x 20 x 20 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Some of the hardier citizens of Maggody, Ark., take on Manhattan and triumph. Ruby Bee Hanks visits New York for the finals of the Krazy KoKo-Nut cook-off, but ends up in jail for shooting a naked man in her bed. Daughter Arly (last seen in Mortal Remains in Maggody ) grudgingly comes to the rescue, even though doing so means returning to the scene of her failed marriage. Arly finds the food fest to be considerably less exciting than the promotional literature promised; held in the seedy and almost empty Chadwick Hotel, it proves a chaotic disappointment to both the contestants and the young people organizing it at the orders of their superiors, now conveniently out of the country. A teenage nymphomaniac, murder, drugs, a disappearing body, two love affairs and some unsporting shenanigans among the contestants make for confusion that only Arly can untangle, somewhat to the dissatisfaction of the local cops. Hess's risky decision to take her characters out of the Arkansas setting that has worked so well in five previous mysteries pays off with rousing success in one of the best &doublequote;country hicks vs. city slickers&doublequote; stories in a long time. &newline;Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Kirkus Reviews&newline;Arly Hanks, Police Chief of Maggody, Arkansas, is forced out of her sleepy everyday routine after Ruby Bee, her diner-owner mom, wins a trip to New York as a finalist in the Krazy Koko-Nut cooking contest. Ruby's frantic call from jail brings Arly to New York's Chadwick hotel, ostensibly in the process of renovation, where the finalists are staying. Turns out that Durmond Pilverman, another contestant, was found naked and slightly injured in Ruby's bed, and Ruby was arrested and briefly held in the ensuing commotion. But that's just a start to the jumble of goings-on at the Chadwick--as a body turns up in the dumpster outside; another is found in the raunchy club where contestant Gaylene dances; teen-aged contestant Catherine seems to be a drunken nymphomaniac; cartons of Krazy Koko-Nut are laced with cocaine; and the mob is running the hotel. Woven through all this is Arly's hot affair with Durmond--plus scandalous news from home. The fine line between farce and shambles is thoroughly breached in this new chapter (Malice in Maggody, etc. etc.), which starts promisingly but winds up massively overdosed on absurdity and silly plot complications. Die-hard fans will probably love it. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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1989 |
Hesse, Hermann (Translator) Siddhartha
New Directions Publishing Corporation 1-Jan-51 081120068X Paperback 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahmin, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other child people, dragged around by his desires. Like Hermann Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. In this translation Sherab Chodzin Kohn captures the slow, spare lyricism of Siddhartha's search, putting her version on par with Hilda Rosner's standard edition. --Brian Bruya --This text refers to the Paperback edition. From Library Journal Siddhartha's life takes him on a journey toward enlightenment. Afire with youthful idealism, the Brahmin joins a group of ascetics, fasting and living without possessions. Meeting Gotama the Buddha, he comes to feel this is not the right path, though he also declines joining the Buddha's followers. He reenters the world, hoping to learn of his own nature, but instead slips gradually into hedonism and materialism. Surfeited and disgusted, he flees from his possessions to become a ferryman's apprentice, learning what lessons he can from the river itself. Herman Hesse's 1922 Bildungsroman parallels the life of Buddha and seems to argue that lessons of this sort cannot be taught but come from one's own struggle to find truth. Noted actor Derek Jacobi interprets this material wonderfully, and the package, despite abridging a Nobel prize winner's prose, can be highly recommended.AJohn Hiett, Iowa City P.L. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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1990 |
Hesselbein Leader to Leader : Enduring Insights on Leadership from the Drucker Foundation's Award-Winning Journal (Dale Carnegie Custom Edition)
Jossey-Bass 7-Jan-00 787953490 N Hardcover 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
Book Description&newline;&doublequote;The manager's job is to make human strength effective and human weakness irrelevant.&doublequote;&newline;&newline;--Peter F. Drucker&newline;&newline;&doublequote;I am often asked by management students and middle managers, 'How can we make the changes you talk about if we are not at the top?' I reply, 'You can begin where you are, whatever your job. You can bring new insight, new leadership, to your team, your group.&doublequote;&newline;&newline;--Frances Hesselbein&newline;&newline;&doublequote;As they say, 'None of us is as smart as all of us.' That is good because the problems we face are too complex to be solved by any one person or any one discipline.&doublequote;&newline;&newline;--Warren Bennis&newline;&newline;These are just a few of the insights collected in Leader to Leader, an inspiring examination of mission, leadership, values, innovation, building collaborations, shaping effective institutions, and creating community. Management pioneer Peter F. Drucker, Southwest Airlines CEO Herb Kelleher, best-selling authors Warren Bennis, Stephen R. Covey, and Charles Handy, Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harvard professors Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Regina Herzlinger, and learning organization expert Peter Senge are among those who share their knowledge and experience in this essential resource. Their essays will spark ideas, open doors, and inspire all those who face the challenge of leading in an ever-changing environment.&newline;&newline;For a reader's guide, see www.leaderbooks.org --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. &newline;&newline;Book Info&newline;Collection of articles from the journal by the same name bringing together the classic, timely wisdom of world-renown leaders, best-selling writers, and highly regarded business philosophers and thinkers. DLC: Leadership. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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1991 |
Hiaasen, Carl Nature Girl
New York Knopf 14-Nov-06 307262995 Hardcover 9.2 x 6.7 x 1.4 inches
Starred Review. Old fans and newcomers alike should delight in Hiaasen's 11th novel (after 2004's Skinny Dip), another hilarious Florida romp. The engaging and diverse screwball cast includes Boyd Shreave, a semicompetent telemarketer; Shreave's mistress and co-worker, Eugenie Fonda; Honey Santana, a mercurial gadfly who ends up on the other end of one of Shreave's pitches for Florida real estate; and Sammy Tigertail, half Seminole, who at novel's start must figure out what to do with the body of a tourist who dies of a heart attack on Sammy's airboat after being struck by a harmless water snake. When Santana cooks up an elaborate scheme to punish Shreave for nasty comments he made during his solicitation call, she ends up involving her 12-year-old son, Fry, and her ex-husband in a frantic chase that enmeshes Tigertail and the young co-ed Sammy accidentally has taken hostage. While the absurd plot may be less than compelling, Hiaasen's humorous touches and his all-too-human characters carry the book to its satisfying close. 600,000 first printing; author tour. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Carl Hiaasen fills his novels with some of the strangest characters in fiction--and makes them work. NATURE GIRL is set in the Florida beyond Miami and Disney World, where people like Honey Santana and half-Seminole Sammy Tigertail live quiet, peculiar existences. Night telemarketer Boyd Shreave has insulted Honey with a real estate phone pitch, and she plots a bizarre revenge that brings the three characters together. Narrator Lee Adams adeptly performs the many roles in the book and makes them all seem real, though her teenager is a bit over the top in vapidness. Listeners will hate and love the appropriate people, all the time rooting for the quirky losers. M.S. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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1993 |
Hicks, Robert The Widow of the South
New York Grand Central Publishing 30-Aug-05 446500127 Hardcover 9 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
In an Author's Note at the end of his book The Widow of the South, Robert Hicks tells us that when Oscar Wilde made his infamous tour of America in 1882, he told his hosts that his itinerary should include a visit to 'sunny Tennessee to meet the Widow McGavock, the high priestess of the temple of dead boys.' Carrie McGavock, The Widow of the South, did indeed take it upon herself to grieve the loss of so many young men in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, which took place on November 30, 1864. Nine thousand men lost their lives that day. She and her husband John eventually re-buried on their own land 1,481 Confederate soldiers killed at Franklin, when the family that owned the land on which the original shallow graves had been dug decided to plow it under and put it into cultivation. Before the battle begins, Carrie's house is commandeered for a field hospital and all normal life is suspended. Carrie is anything but normal, however. She has buried three children, has two living children she pays little attention to, has turned the running of the house over to her slave, Mariah, and spends her time dressed in black walking around in the dark or lying down lamenting her loss. She is a morbid figure from the outset but becomes less so as the novel progresses. The death going on all around her shakes her out of her torpor, but death is definitely her comfort zone. One of the soldiers who is treated at the house is Zachariah Cashwell, who loses his leg when Carrie sends him to surgery rather than watch him die. They are inextricably bound in some kind of a spiritual dance from then on. Their reasons for being drawn to each other are inexplicable, apparently, because they remain unexplained, and when Cashwell tells Carrie he loves her, she beats him nearly to death because she loves him too. At least, that is the reason Hicks gives. He violates that first caveat given to all writers: show us, don't tell us. There is doubtless something deeply flawed in Carrie and screamingly symbolic about her behavior; it is surely elusive. Too bad, because Carrie was a real person whom Hicks lauds for her compassion and ability to grieve without end. Then, he throws in this gratuitous love story and confuses the issue. Carrie's relationship with her husband and children remains unexamined. Hicks is better at describing death and the stink of war than he is at life. If you read War and Peace and loved all the war parts and were bored senseless by the peace parts, this is your cup of tea. --Valerie Ryan Hicks's big historical first novel, based on true events in his hometown, follows the saga of Carrie McGavock, a lonely Confederate wife who finds purpose transforming her Tennessee plantation into a hospital and cemetery during the Civil War. Carrie is mourning the death of several of her children, and, in the absence of her husband, has left the care of her house to her capable Creole slave Mariah. Before the 1864 battle of Franklin, Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest commandeers her house as a field hospital. In alternating points of view, the battle is recounted by different witnesses, including Union Lt. Nathan Stiles, who watches waves of rebels shot dead, and Confederate Sgt. Zachariah Cashwell, who loses a leg. By the end of the battle, 9,000 soldiers have perished, and thousands of Confederates are buried in a field near the McGavock plantation. Zachariah ends up in Carrie's care at the makeshift hospital, and their rather chaste love forms the emotional pulse of the novel, while Carrie fights to relocate the buried soldiers when her wealthy neighbor threatens to plow up the field after the war. Valiantly, Hicks returns to small, human stories in the midst of an epic catastrophe. Though occasionally overwrought, this impressively researched novel will fascinate aficionados. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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1994 |
Hieronymi, Otto Economic Policies for the New Hungary: Proposals for a Coherent Approach
Columbus, Ohio Battelle Pr Nov-90 935470603 Paperback 23 cm.
An analysis of the Hungarian economy and of the challenges and opportunities it is currently facing. The book contains a set of detailed recommendations which were presented to Hungarians and to OECD governments and international organizations. The recommendations outline economic, monetary and financial policies to be followed by Hungary and its Western partners to assure the successful transformation of the Hungarian economy in a world market economy. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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1995 |
Higgins, George V. Sandra Nichols Found Dead: A Novel
New York Henry Holt & Co May-96 805037470 N Hardcover 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
From Library Journal&newline;Much-respected criminal defense attorney Jerry Kennedy is coerced into becoming the legal guardian of the three surviving children of Sandra Nichols, the murdered wife of the wealthy, unscrupulous Peter Wade. Kennedy has been living the life of a recluse, allowing nothing to touch him since his divorce. Now, on behalf of the children, he goes after Wade, who may have had his wife killed for the sake of convenience. As lawyers go, Kennedy is one smart mensch. He cleverly manages to tie all the facts of the case into a neat little legal bundle that Wade cannot undo. Higgins (Swan Boats at Four, LJ 7/95) is a grandmaster of the written word. Through Kennedy's running dialog with those around him, he creates an intimacy between the reader and his characters and offers great insight into the way an attorney works for a client. This nugget of legal machination should be purchased by all public libraries.&newline;Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio Hill, David. Sacred Dust.&newline;Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Booklist&newline;George V. Higgins keeps upping the ante. He's proved again and again that he can write novels driven solely by dialogue--not snappy exchanges between people who are engaged in doing something (like the characters in Pulp Fiction, for example) but conversations between individuals reporting on events that have already happened. It's no easy trick to make such reportorial talk compelling, but Higgins has mastered it. Here he goes one step further. He's written a novel in which the lion's share of the &doublequote;action&doublequote; comprises lawyer Jerry Kennedy reading the transcripts of a cop's testimony at an inquest. We read over Jerry's shoulder, and suddenly this veteran Boston cop's monologue unlocks a multifaceted family drama about a white-trash woman with guts and dignity who endures a series of bad relationships before parlaying her sexual gusto into marriage with a genuine New England blue blood. Unfortunately, the blue blood is also a lout who eventually chooses to have his wife killed rather than pay off on a prenuptial contract. His alibi is airtight, but Kennedy is enlisted to put together a wrongful-death civil suit (shades of O. J.). The most amazing thing about this novel is that it works at all. It's as if Andre didn't show up for dinner, and his friend simply read the paper while he ate. Face it: Higgins isn't a novelist, he's a magician. Bill Ott
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1996 |
Higgins, Jack Dark Justice
New York Putnam Adult 19-Aug-04 399151788 N Hardcover 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Many of Higgins's thrillers have told one continuing saga, involving the efforts of Gen. Charles Ferguson (head of the British PM's &doublequote;Private Army&doublequote;) and his staff to fend off various threats to queen and country. Here the timely challenge is Arab terrorism, but wobbly focus makes this a mediocre entry in a generally first-rate series. An attempt on the American president's life leads Ferguson--who alerted the Secret Service to the threat--and his main man, legendary hit man and former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon, to Josef Belov, an associate of Vladimir Putin (who appears in a cameo) and a Russian oil billionaire who's intent on world domination and who along the way is funneling would-be jihadists from Britain into terrorist training camps in the Middle East. Instead of concentrating on the promising terrorist angle, Higgins traces Dillon and Ferguson's pursuit of Belov and his goons, a race that leads to violent shootouts in Iraq and elsewhere. Ferguson takes a bullet, and Supt. Hannah Bernstein is seriously hurt. The story climaxes in a vengeful, bloody foray by Dillon and old sidekick Billy Salter into Belov's castle stronghold in Ireland. Higgins's action has always been clipped, but here some scenes are positively rushed, and there's much that's overly familiar. Still, the author's high-speed narration and the mesmerizing hard edges of heroes and villains alike should sustain fans' perhaps grudging interest. &newline;Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;The Jack Higgins name is synonymous with action and adrenaline-laced suspense. In DARK JUSTICE an assassination is thwarted. As the murderer bites down on his cyanide-laced molar, he warns that all should &doublequote;beware the wrath of Allah.&doublequote; Michael Page provides unique voices for Russian military officers, KGB officials, Arabic-speaking nationals, and Sean Dillon, a stone-cold killer and ex-IRA enforcer. Turning stone-cold himself, Page introduces &doublequote;the basement,&doublequote; where law and civility are abandoned to Presidential Warrant. Taking over are a computer capable of unfettered surveillance and conceptual thought and a debased network of agents with the intention of creating pervasive terror. K.A.T. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1997 |
Higgins, Robert C. Analysis for Financial Management
Homewood, Ill. Richard D Irwin Oct-88 256068992 N Paperback 9.2 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
Book Description&newline;Analysis of Financial Management 7e is a paperback text and has been written to present standard techniques and modern developments in a practical and intuitive manner. It is intended for non-financial managers and business students interested in the practice of financial management. Emphasis is on the managerial applications of financial analysis. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;Book Info&newline;Text introduces standard techniques and recent advances in financial management for nonfinancial executives and business students. Includes index, glossary, and chapter problems. Previous edition: c2000. Softcover. DLC: Corporations--Finance. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1999 |
Highsmith, Patricia The Talented Mr. Ripley
New York Vintage 1-Sep-92 679742298 N Paperback 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
Amazon.com&newline;One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction, Ripley works on two levels. First, it is the story of a young man, Tom Ripley, whose nihilistic tendencies lead him on a deadly passage across Europe. On another level, the novel is a commentary on fictionmaking and techniques of narrative persuasion. Like Humbert Humbert, Tom Ripley seduces readers into empathizing with him even as his actions defy all moral standards.&newline;&newline;The novel begins with a play on James's The Ambassadors. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but Mr. Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie's world and soon finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication transcends moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf--at all costs.&newline;&newline;Unlike many modernist experiments, The Talented Mr. Ripley is eminently readable and is driven by a gripping chase narrative that chronicles each of Tom's calculated maneuvers of self-preservation. Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lecter. --Patrick O'Kelley &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;Michael Hayden is a convincing monster in this famously misanthropic mystery. Highsmith's Tom Ripley is frightening, not simply owing to his murderous actions, but also because he exists totally without conscience. The chameleon-like Tom is sent by a rich American to retrieve his dilettante son, Dickie Greenleaf, from Italy. When Tom cannot win Dickie over, he kills him and assumes his identity. Hayden gives vivid internal life to this sociopath. The fascination of the performance is that Hayden has you marveling at the character's perception and intelligence while you are at the same time repelled by him. The experience is like watching a spider move toward his helpless prey. You can hardly bear it, but you cannot possibly turn away. M.O. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2000 |
Hightower, Elaine Lewis & Clark Expedition Card Game
U.S. Games Systems Nov-03 1572814217 Cards 7.1 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches
From the Manufacturer The lewis and clark card game is an exciting rummy-like game of exploration! Follow the footsteps of lewis and clark using this 56 card deck of oversized exploration cards. Join the historical expedition and learn all about the discoveries they made on their journey west! Includes instructions for two simple card games each with their own unique challenges. Contents of lewis and clark card game 56 exploration cards trail map poster 18 inches x 24 inches stickers instructions ages 8 and up 2-4 players
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