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McHenry, Beth I Had Illusions The Henkle Company 1935 hardcover. Book has surface tears to inside of front cover.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Weak binding. Yellowing from age. Remnant of sticker removal. Ex-Library. Some staining to page edges. Book #or711001. (keywords: nurse nursing) (filed under: Biography ) *
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McHenry, Beth I Had Illusions The Henkle Company 1935 hardcover. Book has surface tears to inside of front cover.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Weak binding. Yellowing from age. Remnant of sticker removal. Ex-Library. Some staining to page edges. Book #or711001. (keywords: nurse nursing) (filed under: Biography ) *
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MCMILLEN(Subject); Hayes, Bill; Thomas, Jennifer Triumphs And Tragedies: A True Story Of Wealth And Addiction: The Life Of Karl B. McMillen Jr. 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033150. ISBN #0988412624 / 9780988412620. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MCMILLEN(Subject); Hayes, Bill; Thomas, Jennifer Triumphs And Tragedies: A True Story Of Wealth And Addiction: The Life Of Karl B. McMillen Jr. 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033150. ISBN #0988412624 / 9780988412620. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hermosa Beach, California, in the mid-1960s. Sun, surf, swanky sand castles along The Strand, and a soundtrack of "Fun, Fun, Fun." But the hang-loose life of the locals would soon be drowned out and painted black. The social storm brewing could turn even the most perfect wave into a brutal riptide. Karl McMillen, Jr., deserved a piece of the Pacific paradise. He'd plumbed his way up from screw-fittings and sweat into mega-business ownership and multi-millions. He'd earned the azure-awesome view that he woke to every magical morning. And he'd earned the ideal family at his side. A dynamic wife and two bright, talented sons with sky's-the-limit potential. But that storm... He never saw it coming. It hit hard and it hit fast. The grinding gales of addiction ripped apart everything he had. How do you go from planning exotic family vacations and evaluating real estate investments to planning prison visits and evaluating rehab centers and criminal defense pleas? How do you watch your surfer-champion sons transform into drug lords? Inmates? How do you watch your entire family die, one by one? And yet never stop fighting. What does it take to look in the mirror and search for the meaning of enabler? To face that you're sacrificing your own livelihood for Scotch? To ride a sheer, pounding wave of triumphs and tragedies, and then pull out and paddle back for more? It takes a rare and special person: Karl McMillen. Triumphs and Tragedies opens with a feral panorama of early twentieth century California; a last-gasp look at the West before it was "settled." When hard work was still a fundamental, and "entitlement" just meant you were entitled to work your tail off. Karl's success epitomizes that the cleanest hands in business are the ones that smeared the most elbow grease on their way up. Karl worked, and the system worked. Karl was said to have the "Golden Touch." But some systems break down; especially social systems. California and all of America changed as the wild wave of the 1960s swept so much of the country's youth into the deep murkiness of drugs. Plenty of adults were plunged into realms over their heads, too. Karl encountered something his never-say-die work ethic and Golden Touch could not conquer: Addiction. But Karl fought to apply his abilities to this strange new subject. Working hard now meant gathering data about the destructive force of drugs and analyzing treatments. It was a task he had the unique mental resolve and physical resources to undertake. And he uncovered so much. Triumphs and Tragedies: A True Story of Wealth and Addiction explores the down-and-dirty psychology of addiction through live "voices from the street." It probes the essence of enabling and the value of "rehabs" neither of which were common concepts in the sixties. It chronicles top-of-the-world success juxtaposed against a downside of life no one should have to abide. A side which proves that some things, money cannot buy.
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Mehta, Ved Parkash Face to Face Oxford University Press 1978 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148393. ISBN #0195200144 / 9780195200140. (keywords: BLIND BIOGRAPHY HEALTH FITNESS VISION India United States) (filed under: Biography ) *
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MEHTA, VED(Subject); Mehta, Ved Daddyji Oxford University Press 1972 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Yellowing from age. Book #or1161481. ISBN #0195026195 / 9780195026191. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MEHTA; Mehta, Ved Sound-Shadows of the New World W.W. Norton & Company 1985 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1158124. ISBN #0393022250 / 9780393022254. (keywords: Biography; Blind) (filed under: Biography ) *
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MENCKEN, H.L.; (Subject); Hobson, Fred Mencken: A Life The Johns Hopkins University Press 1995 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1180171. ISBN #0801852382 / 9780801852381. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MENCKEN; (Subject); Bode, Carl (Collectected by) The Young Mencken: The Best of His Work The Dial Press 1973 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168848. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MERCOURI(Subject); Mercouri, Melina I Was Born Greek hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035736. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MILLE(Subject); Mille, Agnes de Speak to Me, Dance with Me hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1025933. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MILLET(Subject); Millet, Catherine The Sexual Life of Catherine M. Grove Press 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068381. ISBN #1852428112 / 9781852428112. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MILLET(Subject); Millet, Catherine The Sexual Life of Catherine M. Grove Press 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068381. ISBN #1852428112 / 9781852428112. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Called "a fantastic breakthrough into the dark content of female desire" France-Soir , The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the literary success of the year in France, selling over 300,000 copies and becoming the most controversial book on sexuality since The Story of O. Catherine Millet, the prominent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life -- from alfresco encounters in Italy to a gang bang on the edge of the Bois du Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chichi Parisian restaurant. A graphic account of a life of physical gratification, the book is also a relentlessly honest look at the consequences of sex stripped of sentiment -- including the joys and sorrows of her open marriage -- and a completely fearless unmasking of the fallacies we cling to and the often shocking, sometimes disturbing truths of female sexuality. The French press was equally admiring and appalled by Millet's daring, but Le Nouvel Observateur certainly spoke for them all when it wrote, "Sex is this woman's continent, which she explores tirelessly. No one has ever described it like this." Now American audiences will have the opportunity to take home Catherine M. "This is the most explicit book about sex ever written by a woman." -- Edmund White " Her aloof, gracefully crystalline style is as elegant as any French pornography since Sade." -- Francine du Plessix Gray, Vogue " A stylistic tour de force recounting three decades of sexual exploits ... This book's pleasures are first and foremost literary." -- Saul Anton, Bookforum " Millet relates her sexual life without trembling, and allows us to share her pleasures." -- Daniel Bougnoux, Le Monde
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MOON(Subject); Moon, Sun Myung As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051812. ISBN #0615393772 / 9780615393773. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MOON(Subject); Moon, Sun Myung As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051812. ISBN #0615393772 / 9780615393773. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of The Washington Times, is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. The year also marks the release of his autobiography, "As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen," published by The Washington Times Foundation. A best-seller in his native Korea, the book, now translated into English, gives Western readers an opportunity to learn more about a man whose deeds and goals have been the subject of international attention for decades. In the book's foreword, the Rev. Moon writes about his wish to "bring about a world of peace" but adds that his pursuit of that goal over a long life has not been without setbacks. He writes, "I am a controversial person. ...The world ... has associated many different phrases with my name, rejected me and thrown stones at me." He adds: "I have been unjustly imprisoned six times in my life - by imperial Japan, in Kim Il Sung's North Korea, by South Korea's Syngman Rhee government, and even in the United States - and at times I was beaten so hard that the flesh was torn from my body. Today, though, not even the slightest wound remains in my heart." Nevertheless, he notes, "Recently, a growing number of people have been seeking to know more about me. For the sake of those who are curious, I have looked back on my life and recorded my candid recollections in this volume." 18 pages of photos have been added to the 2010 English Edition.
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MORRIS(Subject); Morris, Robert T. Fifty Years a Surgeon hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Cracked Hinge / still useable. Book #or1127923. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MORSE(Subject); Morse, William G. Pardon My Harvard Accent hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1124339. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MORTON; Sellers, Coleman (Prepared By) Biographical Notice Of Pres't Henry Morton, PH.D: Of The Stevens Institute Of Technology Engineering Press 1892 hardcover. Inscribed by SUBJECT. Book is inscribed by Henry Morton. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096264. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MOSS(Subject); Moss, Barbara Robinette Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062849. ISBN #074320218X / 9780743202183. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MOSS(Subject); Moss, Barbara Robinette Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062849. ISBN #074320218X / 9780743202183. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober, captured his children's timid awe, but when more often drunk, roused them from bed for severe punishment or bizarre all-night poker games. Their mother was their angel: erudite and stalwart -- her only sin her inability to leave her husband for the sake of the children. Unlike the rest of her family, Barbara bore the scars of this abuse and neglect on the outside as well as the inside. As a result of childhood malnutrition and a complete lack of medical and dental care, the bones in her face grew abnormally "like a thin pine tree" , and she ended up with what she calls "a twisted, mummy face." Barbara's memoir brings us deep into not only the world of Southern poverty and alcoholic child abuse but also the consciousness of one who is physically frail and awkward, relating how one girl's debilitating sense of her own physical appearance is ultimately saved by her faith in the transformative powers of artistic beauty: painting and writing. From early on and with little encouragement from the world, Barbara embodied the fiery determination to change her fate and achieve a life defined by beauty. At age seven, she announced to the world that she would become an artist -- and so she did. Nightly, she prayed to become attractive, to be changed into "Zeus's daughter," the goddess of beauty, and when her prayers weren't answered, she did it herself, raising the money for years of braces followed by facial surgery. Growing up "so ugly," she felt the family's disgrace all the more acutely, but the result has been a keenly developed appreciation for beauty -- physical and artistic -- the evidence of which can be seen in her writing. Despite the deprivation, the lingering image from this memoir is not of self-pity but of the incredible bond between these eight siblings: the raucous, childish fun they had together, the making-do, and the total devotion to their desperate mother, who absorbed most of the father's blows for them and who plied them with art and poetry in place of balanced meals. Gracefully and intelligently woven in layers of flashback, the persistent strength of Barbara Moss's memoir is itself a testament to the nearly lifesaving appreciation for literature that was her mother's greatest gift to her children.
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MUDD, ROGER(Subject); Mudd, Roger Place To Be : Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News Public Affairs 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Slight lean to spine. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1181636. ISBN #1586485768 / 9781586485764. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MUNTHE(Subject); Munthe, Axel Story Of San Michele hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056225. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MUNTHE(Subject); Munthe, Gustaf; Uexkull, Gudrun Story Of Axel Munthe hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1107481. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MURROW, EDWARD(Subject); Sperber, A. M. Murrow: His Life and Times Freundlich Books 1986 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176525. ISBN #055334384X / 9780553343847. (filed under: Biography ) *
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MURROW, EDWARD(Subject); Sperber, A. M. Murrow: His Life and Times Freundlich Books 1986 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176525. ISBN #055334384X / 9780553343847. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Murrow is the biography of America's foremost broadcast journalist, Edward R. Murrow. At twenty-nine, he was the prototype of a species new to communications-an eyewitness to history with power to reach millions. His wartime radio reports from London rooftops brought the world into American homes for the first time. His legendary television documentary See It Now exposed us to the scandals and injustices within our own country. Friend of Presidents, conscience of the people, Murrow remained an enigma-idealistic, creative, self-destructive. In this portrait, based on twelve years of research, A. M. Sperber reveals the complexity and achievements of a man whose voice, intelligence, and honesty inspired a nation during its most profound and vulnerable times.
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NADER(Subject); Nader, Ralph The Seventeen Traditions Harper 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117798. ISBN #0061238279 / 9780061238277. (filed under: Biography ) *
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NADER(Subject); Nader, Ralph The Seventeen Traditions Harper 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117798. ISBN #0061238279 / 9780061238277. (filed under: Biography ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary My boyhood in a small town in Connecticut was shaped by my family, my friends, our neighbors, my chores and hobbies, the town's culture and environment, its schools, libraries, factories, and businesses, their workers, and by storms that came from nowhere to disrupt everything. . . . Yet childhood in any family is a mysterious experience. . . . What shapes the mind, the personality, the character? So begins this unexpected and extraordinary book by Ralph Nader. Known for his lifetime of selfless activism, Nader now looks back to the earliest days of his own life, to his serene and enriching childhood in bucolic Winsted, Connecticut. From listening to learning, from patriotism to argument, from work to simple enjoyment, Nader revisits seventeen key traditions he absorbed from his parents, his siblings, and the people in his community, and draws from them inspiring lessons for today's society. Warmly human, rich with sensory memories and lasting wisdom, it offers a kind of modern-day parable of how we grow from children into responsible adults a reminder of a time when nature and community were central to the way we all learned and lived.
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