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Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Carl Gustav Jung A Biography Frank McLynn St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Nietzsche in Turin An Intimate Biography Lesley Chamberlain Picador During 1888 in Turin, Italy, Nietzsche wrote three of his most important works--Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist. In this accessible,...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	The Legacy of Dr. Lamaze The Story of the Man Who Changed Childbirth Caroline Gutmann St. Martin's Press "In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children," commands the Bible, and for centuries childbirth pain was judged woman's inescapable burden. Then in the 1950s...

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The Last Man on the Moon

Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space

Gene Cernan and Don Davis St. Martin's Griffin

Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of spaceflight. His career spanned the entire...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Carl Sagan A Life in the Cosmos William Poundstone Holt Paperbacks In this compelling life of Carl Sagan, award-winning science writer William Poundstone details the transformation of a bookish young astronomer obsessed with...

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Where the Roots Reach for Water

A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia

Jeffery Smith North Point Press

Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manager when...

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Edgar Cayce

An American Prophet

Sidney D. Kirkpatrick; Read by William David Griffth Macmillan Audio

The extraordinary story of America’s most influential and revered psychic Born in 1877, Edgar Cayce grew up in poverty with only an eighth grade...

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Dr. Laura

The Unauthorized Biography

Vickie L. Bane St. Martin's Paperbacks

Get The Real Story On The Woman America Loves To Hate Quick with comebacks, slinging zingers and dispensing advice, Dr. Laura is today's hottest radio...

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Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic

Osho St. Martin's Griffin

An indispensable work for understanding the life and teachings of one of the most unusual mystics and philosophers of our time. Ten years have past since,...

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Bill W.

A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson

Francis Hartigan St. Martin's Griffin

When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Queen's Conjurer The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I Benjamin Woolley Holt Paperbacks Although his accomplishments were substantial-he became a trusted confidante to Queen Elizabeth I, inspired the formation of the British Empire, and plotted...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Schliemann of Troy Treasure and Deceit David A. Traill St. Martin's Griffin

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The Headmaster

Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with...

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	Messages From My Father A Memoir Calvin Trillin Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Calvin Trillin, the celebrated New Yorker writer, offers a rich and engaging biography of his father, as well as a literate and entertaining fanfare for the...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice Morton J. Horwitz Hill and Wang The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The men who made up the...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Isaiah Berlin A Life Michael Ignatieff A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in Riga in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. Biographer...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Frantz Fanon A Biography David Macey Picador Born in Martinique, then as now a departement of France, Frantz Fanon (l925-61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyons before taking up a post in colonial Algeria....

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Making of a Country Lawyer An Autobiography Gerry Spence St. Martin's Griffin The Making of a Country Lawyer is the firsthand account of a beloved American attorney, a modern-day folk hero, a man who has devoted his life's work to the...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	A Record of Friendship Herberto Padillia and Wilhelm Reich Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Walking Out on the Boys Frances K. Conley, M.D. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks In May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	Bertrand Russell A Political Life Alan Ryan Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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Longitude

The True Story of the Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel; Read by Jane Jacobs Macmillan Audio

An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....

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One Giant Leap

Neil Armstrong's Stellar American Journey

Leon Wagener Forge Books

On July 20, 1969, the whole world stopped. It was the day when a man who grew up on a farm without electricity announced, "One small step for a man, one giant...

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Bakunin

The Creative Passion

Mark Leier Thomas Dunne Books

“Bakunin not only reassesses this fascinating and important character but also provides the biography of the forgotten ideology of anarchism itself.” —Simon...

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