The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 (New York Review Books Classics)

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 (New York Review Books Classics)
Henry David Thoreau (Author), Damion Searls (Editor), John Stilgoe (Preface)
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Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing self. It is a treasure trove of some of the finest prose in English and, for those acquainted with it, its prismatic pages exercise a hypnotic fascination. Yet at roughly seven thousand pages, or two million words, it remains Thoreau’s least-known work.

This reader’s edition, the largest one-volume edition of Thoreau’s Journal ever published, is the first to capture the scope, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole. Ranging freely over the world at large, the Journal is no less devoted to the life within. As Thoreau says, “It is in vain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.”

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• Published on: 2009-11-24
• Released on: 2009-11-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x 1.30" w x 5.00" l, 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 704 pages

Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life

Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
Tim Russert (Author)
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Tim Russert's #1 New York Times bestseller -- now in paperback.

Now in paperback -- the #1 best-selling Father's Day book of 2004, with over half a million copies sold in hardcover. Tim Russert, one of America's most watched and trusted news anchors connected with readers across the nation with his critically acclaimed memoir about growing up in the 1950s and the special bond between fathers and sons.

• Rank: #8996 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-11
• Released on: 2005-05-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.00" w x 5.25" l, .70 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Darby Penney (Author), Peter Stastny (Author), Lisa Rinzler (Photographer), Robert Whitaker (Introduction)
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“The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad.  It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds of thousands of people lived out their lives. Darby Penney and Peter Stastny's careful historical (almost archaeological) and biographical reconstructions give us unique insight into these lives which would otherwise be lost and, indeed, unimaginable to the rest of us.”—Oliver Sacks, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University Artist, and author of Musicophilia

“The haunting thing about the suitcase owners is that it’s so easy to identify with them.”—Newsweek

“In their poignant detail the items helped rescue these individuals from the dark sprawl of anonymity.”—The New York Times

“[The authors] spent 10 years piecing together . . . the lives these patients lived before they were nightmarishly stripped of their identities.”—Newsday

More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a moving—and devastating—group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.

• Rank: #24191 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.90" h x .59" w x 5.91" l, .70 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

El hilo de lo invisible (Fabula (j.Vergara)) (Spanish Edition)

El hilo de lo invisible (Fabula (j.Vergara)) (Spanish Edition)
Laura y Tresniowski, Alex Schroff (Author), B de Books (Editor), Victoria Morera Garcia (Translator)

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Una tarde lluviosa, Laura Schroff pasó junto a un niño que mendigaba en una esquina de Nueva York. Siguió caminando, pero algo la hizo detenerse y volver sobre suspasos. Tras cambiar algunas palabras con el niño, lo invitó a comer en un McDonald’s. Continuó invitándolo durante los cuatro años siguientes. Con el tiempo, las vidas de ambos cambiaron, pero siguieron en contacto. Casi treinta años después, aquel niño, Maurice, está casado y tiene una familia propia. Ahora trabaja para cambiar las vidas de otros niños desvalidos como él.

• Rank: #200619 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-01-30
• Released on: 2013-06-us.html
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Breathless: An American Girl in Paris

Breathless: An American Girl in Paris
Nancy K. Miller (Author)

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In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties were preparing for marriage, children, and life in the suburbs.

Breathless is the story of a girl who represents those who rebelled against conventional expectations. Paris was a magnet for those eager to resist domesticity, and Nancy K. Miller was enamored of everything French. After graduating from Barnard College in 1961, Miller set out for a year in Paris, with a plan to take classes at the Sorbonne and live out a great romantic life inspired by the movies.

After a string of sexual misadventures, she gave up her short-lived freedom and married an American expatriate who promised her a lifetime of three-star meals and five-star hotels. But her husband turned out to be a con man whose promises were lies, and she had to leave Paris behind. In an era of Vietnam anti-war protests, student unrest, and sexual liberation, Miller returned to New York to become a new woman: autonomous and creative at a time when women were only expected to look pretty and smile.

This stunning memoir chronicles a young woman’s coming-of-age tale, and offers a glimpse into the intimate lives of girls before feminism.

• Rank: #605702 in Books
• Published on: 2013-11-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

The Tender Bar: Enhanced with Audio Selections

The Tender Bar: Enhanced with Audio Selections
J.R. Moehringer (Author)
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The moving, award-winning memoir, now available as an enhanced ebook, including audio clips narrated by the author, family photos, a new author Q&A, and an excerpt from Moehringer's debut novel, Sutton.

Full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, The Tender Bar is the story of a boy striving to become a man and his romance with a bar. J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first word. As a boy, he would press his ear to the radio, straining to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his anchor, he needed something else, something more, something he couldn't name.

At eight years old, suddenly unable to find the voice on the radio, he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York saloon that was a sanctuary for all types of men--cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums. The alphas along the bar--including J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear soundalike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler--taught him, tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood-by-committee.

When the time came for J.R. to leave home, the bar became a place to regroup during his journeys--from his entrance to Yale, to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine. Through it all, the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, and eventually from reality. Riveting, moving, and achingly funny, The Tender Bar is at once an evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man and a touching depiction of how some men, at heart, remain lost boys.

• Rank: #19940 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-08-14
• Released on: 2012-08-14
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)
David Remnick (Editor)
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One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirties, such as Henry Luce and Isadora Duncan, and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, this collection of New Yorker Profiles presents readers with a portrait gallery of some of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. These Profiles are literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, and are unrivalled in their range, their variety of style, and their embrace of humanity.

• Rank: #188018 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-15
• Released on: 2001-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.87" h x 1.10" w x 6.10" l, 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Past Year: The Best of the New York Times Obituaries, 2013 (Obits: The New York Times Annual)

The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Past Year: The Best of the New York Times Obituaries, 2013 (Obits: The New York Times Annual)
William McDonald (Editor)
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Returning for its second year but reimagined in a new impulse format, with a new title, new cover, new mission, and new sensibility, here is The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands, a pithier, quirkier collection of the 164 best page-turning obituaries from The New York Times.

Written by top journalists, each story is a gem of a bio, a full life in miniature. There’s the famous: Steve Jobs, including the story of how he was reunited with a sister he never knew, the novelist Mona Simpson. And the almost famous: Ruth Stone, a poet who worked in relative obscurity until she won the National Book Award at the age of 87. The behind-the-scenes, like Arch West, inventor of the Dorito, who pulled America’s snacks out of the 1950s doldrums and created a $5-billion-a-year product, and the out-there, like self-styled anarchist and maverick artist (and real estate mogul and museum director) Bob Cassilly, who died at the controls of his bulldozer while building “Cementland” in St. Louis. And because of the chronological organization of the book, the stories, one next to the other, make for an addictive-as-salted-peanuts book: Mark O. Hatfield, the celebrated antiwar Republican senator from Oregon, next to Nancy Wake of the title, the impoverished New Zealander who grew up to become a high-society hostess and heroine of the French Resistance—the socialite who did, indeed, kill a Nazi with her bare hands.

• Rank: #7484 in Books
• Published on: 2012-10-30
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Talking with Doctors

Talking with Doctors
David Newman (Author)
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Without any warning, in September 1999, David Newman was told he had a rare and life-threatening tumor in the base of his skull.  In the compressed space of five weeks, he consulted with leading physicians and surgeons at four major medical centers. The doctors offered drastically differing opinions; several pronounced the tumor inoperable and voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of any nonsurgical treatment. 

Talking with Doctors is the story of Newman's efforts, at a time of great stress and even impending death, to wend his way through the dense thicket of medical consultations in search of a physician and a treatment that offered the possibility of survival.  It is the story, especially, of the harrowing process of assessing conflicting "expert" opinions and, in so doing, of making sense of the priorities, personalities, and vulnerabilities of different doctors.  All too often, he found, the leading specialists to whom he was sent were strangers in the consulting room-and strangers who became stranger still, both cognitively and emotionally, when ambiguous findings pushed them to the outer limits of their training and experience. Newman writes poignantly of his sense of powerlessness and desperation, of the painstaking means by which he ascertained what could be known about his tumor, and of the fortuitous events that finally led him to life-saving help.
 
Talking with Doctors is a compelling, absorbing, unsettling story that touches a collective raw nerve about the experience of doctors and medical care when life-threatening illness leads us to subspecialists at major medical centers. Probing the nature of medical authority and the grounds of a trusting doctor-patient relationship, Newman illuminates with grace and power what it now means for a patient to participate in life-and-death medical decisions.

• Rank: #159463 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-05-13
• Released on: 2013-05-13
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
Sari Botton (Editor)

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Goodbye to All That is a collection of essays about loving and leaving the magical city of New York. Inspired by Joan Didion’s well-loved essay by the same name, this anthology features the experiences of 28 women for whom the magic of the city has worn offAwhether because of loneliness after many friends marry, have kids, and head to the suburbs; jadedness about their careers; or difficulty finding true love in a place where everyone is always looking to trade up to a better mate, a better job, a better apartment.

With contributions from authors such as Cheryl Strayed, Ann Hood, Dani Shapiro, and Emma Straub, this collection is relatable to anyone who arrived with stars in their eyes, hoping to make it. Each essay reveals the author’s own unique relationship with New York City, and together they encompass the complicated emotions all New Yorkers have about leaving.

• Rank: #370447 in Books
• Published on: 2013-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

The Girl Factory: A Memoir

The Girl Factory: A Memoir
Karen Dietrich (Author)

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It’s 1985 in a small factory town near Pittsburgh. Eight-year-old Karen’s parents are lifelong workers at the Anchor Glass plant, where one Saturday, an employee goes on a shooting spree, killing four supervisors, then himself. This event splits the young girl’s life open, and like her mother, she begins to seek comfort in obsessive rituals and superstitions.

• Rank: #138049 in Books
• Published on: 2013-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Toby Young (Author)
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In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan-Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now-so why couldn't he? But things didn't quite go according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city, and couldn't get a date for love or money. Even the local AA group wanted nothing to do with him. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is Toby Young's hilarious account of the five years he spent looking for love in all the wrong places and steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine editor to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys. But it's more than "the longest self-deprecating joke since the complete works of Woody Allen" (Sunday Times); it's also a seditious attack on the culture of celebrity from inside the belly of the beast. And there's even a happy ending, as Toby Young marries-"for proper, noncynical reasons," as he puts it-the woman of his dreams. "Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first."BEFORE PUBLICATION: "I'll rot in hell before I give that little bastard a quote for his book."-Julie Burchill AFTER PUBLICATION: "A relentlessly brilliant book-a What Makes Sammy Run for the twenty-first century…the funniest, cleverest, most touching new book I've read for as long as I can remember."-Julie Burchill, The Spectator

• Rank: #535925 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-03
• Released on: 2002-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages