In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut's best-known works--his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all th
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Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real worldDeveloping and imp
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Praised for her “smart, funny, sexy, and refreshingly real” novels, author Whitney Gaskell delivers a warm, witty, and wise new story of four women coping with the challenges of motherhood, men, and e
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A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life fi
If you think a gang of real-life geeks can’t take on the world and win big . . . think again. And whatever you do, don’t sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. Jo
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In this unprecedented, all-encompassing, and thoroughly entertaining account of the movie business, acclaimed writer Edward Jay Epstein reveals the real magic behind moviemaking: how the studios make
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Michael Massing describes the war in Iraq as "the unseen war," an ironic reference given the number of reporters in Iraq and in Doha, Qatar, where the Coalition Media Center dispensed little real info
In summer, as Mary Oliver writes: "There are satisfactions beyond number; fishermen get their catch, the food is delicious and real, the sail has just enough wind; the children, in the country at leas
Provides an entertaining and thought-provoking look at some of the most hotly debated controversies in sports history, from who is the best quarterback of all time, to who would win in a confrontation
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For many performers, stage life and real life are separate identities. For master illusionist Harry Houdini, the two were inextricably linked. In this widely acclaimed biography, Ruth Brandon shows ho
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It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The
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Scheiber, a systems engineer, and Selby, the CEO of a corporation that develops high tech tools for teaching science, have collected 23 articles and studies on Therapeutic Touch (TT) by a variety of m
From Oscar Wilde to James Joyce, from Virginia Woolf to Frank McCourt: three centuries of Irish, English, and American writers in search of the real Ireland.From the editor of the outstandingly popula
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Two prominent economists lead a debate to redistribute wealth. In Recasting Egalitarianism, part of Verso's Real Utopias series, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current malais
Combining inspirational insights and dramatic stories of real people who have transformed their lives, this helpful guide explains how readers can identify their own true callings and how to meet the
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Explores a full range of New Age phenomena including channels, past-lives, shamans, healing, and much more. Grossinger distinguishes New Age marketing from real phenomena, and looks closely at both sc
