Frank McCourt

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

26 Stories of Love and Rivalry

"The next best thing to not having a brother (as I do not) is to have Brothers." —Gay Talese Here is a tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers. In this book, some of our finest authors take an unvarnished look at how brothers admire and admonish, revere and revile, connect and compete, love and war with each other. With hearts and minds wide open, and, in some cases, with laugh-out-loud humor, the writers tackle a topic that is as old as the Bible and yet has been, heretofore, overlooked. Contributors range in age from twenty-four to eighty-four, and their stories from comic to tragic. Brothers examines and explores the experiences of love and loyalty and loss, of altruism and anger, of competition and compassion—the confluence of things that conspire to form the unique nature of what it is to be and to have a brother. “Brother.” One of our eternal and quintessential terms of endearment. Tobias Wolff writes, “The good luck of having a brother is partly the luck of having stories to tell.” David Kaczynski, brother of “The Unabomber”: “I’ll start with the premise that a brother shows you who you are—and also who you are not. He’s an image of the self, at one remove . . . You are a ‘we’ with your brother before you are a ‘we’ with any other.” Mikal Gilmore refers to brotherhood as a “fidelity born of blood.” We’ve heard that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But where do the apples fall in relation to each other? And are we, in fact, our brothers’ keepers, after all? These stories address those questions and more, and are, like the relationships, full of intimacy and pain, joy and rage, burdens and blessings, humor and humanity.

Brothers

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Michigan

This volume is the third in a peer-reviewed series of Proceedings Volumes from the Calgary History of Medicine Days conferences, produced by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The History of Medicine Days is a two day, national conference held annually at the University of Calgary, Canada, where undergraduate and early graduate students from across Canada, the US, UK, and Europe give paper and poster presentations on a variety of topics from the history of medicine and health care.The selected 2011 conference papers assembled in this volume particularly comprise insights into the histories of Women, Health and Reproduction, Institutes and Deinstitutionalization, the Brain, Mind, and Mindlessness, as well as a special section including Communications in the history of medicine. The 2011 keynote address was delivered by Dr George Weisz, the Cotton-Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine from the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, Montrèal. Dr Weisz's presentation, which paralleled his article "The Reinvention of Chronic Disease in the 20th Century", is reprinted in the current volume with permission from the author and editors of the American Journal of Public Health. This volume also includes the abstracts of all 2011 conference presentations and is well-illustrated with diagrams and images pertaining to the history of medicine.

The Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary History of Medicine Days Conference 2011

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oklahoma

Lucky penny / Linda Barnes -- The problem of the Boston Common / Edward D. Hoch -- The dipping of the candlemaker / Hayden Howard -- It was an awful shame / Charlotte MacLeod -- The Massachusetts peep-o'night / S.S. Rafferty -- Muldoon and the numbers game / Robert L. Fish -- Never shake a family tree / Donald E. Westlake -- The scarlet thread / Jacques Futrelle -- The man who went to Taltavul's / David Alexander -- The running man / David Ely -- A case of Chivas Regal / George V. Higgins -- The swan-boat murder / Phoebe Atwood Taylor -- Seed of suspicion / George Harmon Coxe.

Murder and Mystery in Boston  3470

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California

How Robots Will Change Us

The director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab speculates about the future of humankind as it explores the relationship between humans and technologically engineered robots and examines the vast capabilities of such machines. 60,000 first printing.

Flesh and Machines

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Louisiana

Organizes by subject over twenty thousand quotations ranging from familiar sayings and poetry to the comments of current political and literary figures.

Random House Webster's Quotationary

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"There are thirteen nightmares here, one for each state of Dixie. Dark visions, these, by such authors as John D. MacDonald, the best-selling mystery writer; Jesse Stuart, one of the nation's best regional writers; Karl Edward Wagner, a psychiatrist whose knowledge of the abysses of the mind gives his tales a terror of solid conviction; and William Gilmore Simms, full-grown when Madison was President, one of whose works Poe himself called the best ghost story he'd ever read. These nightmares concern us all. For this is not merely a regional anthology. These stories are set not only in the South, but in the dark heart of man."--Page 4 of cover.

Nightmares in Dixie

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Slightly bent corners (see picture). #health #wellness #neuroscience #psychology #behavior #biopsychosocial #psychiatry #behavioralscience #healthcare

Missouri

A clearly structured, compact text on the behavioral sciences for medical and other health professions, including practical features such as chapter review questions and an annotated practice exam. The brand new edition of this easy-to-use text presents succinct information about the wide variety of neurological, social, and psychological sciences that interact with the biological sciences in contributing to health and illness. Based around but expanding on the Integrated Sciences Model, and focusing on the Institute of Medicine's key themes for medical training, this new edition is organized in sections covering: * Brain Systems * Homeostatic Systems and Disorders * Individual-Environment Interaction * Development Through the Life Cycle * Social and Cultural Issues * Societal and Behavioral Health Challenges * The Health Care System, Policy, and Economics * The Clinical Relationship * Psychopathology New chapters deal with Physician Health, Impairment, and Misconduct; the Psychiatric Evaluation, Principles of Psychotherapy; Nutrition, Metabolism, and Feeding Disorders; Somatization and Somatoform Disorders; Adjustment Disorders, Bereavement, and Demoralization; and a new look at the U.S. Health Care System. Clear appendices review principles of epidemiology and bio-statistics. Each chapter begins with guidance questions and ends with current recommended readings and review questions. A complete 350+ question-and-answer multiple choice-type review section not only allows readers to assess how well they have learned the material, but also highlights important points and adds additional specific information to supplement the text. The authors of this text are experienced teachers and researchers drawn from the membership of the Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education (ABSAME) as well as other health care educators who are national and international experts in the behavioral sciences.

The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care

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#hardcover #nonfiction #autobiography #marktwain 

The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

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Pennsylvania

And Other Southern Ghost Stories

This is a haunting collection of personal encounters with the spirit world as they appeared in FATE magazine. These are tales handed down over the years that have their basis in the horrors of the Civil War.

Phantom Army of the Civil War

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#hardcover #nonfiction #civilwar #ghoststories #southernstates

Florida

Craft and the Writing Life from the Iowa Writers' Workshop

One of the oldest & most distinguished writing programs in the nation, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has produced some of the greatest American writers of this century. Now for the first time, the author gathers together essays on writing from 25 of the workshop's celebrated faculty & students. Contributors include Charles D'Ambrosio, T Coraghessan Boyle, Ethan Canin, Justin Cronin, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Tom Grimes, Doris Grumbach, Barry Hannah, James Hynes, William Lashner, Margot Livesey, Elizabeth McCracken, Chris Offut, Jayne Anne Phillips, Susan Power, Francine Prose, James Salter, Scott Spencer, Marilynne Robinson, Abraham Verghese, & Geoffrey Wolff. An eclectic mix of essays on both craft & living the writing life, this book is essential reading on writing from the best in the business.

The Eleventh Draft

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Massachusetts

From the wharves of Gloucester to the sugar maple groves of New Hampshire, from the orchards of Vermont to the bustle of downtown Boston, these volumes of collected articles - reproduced with illustrations from the original turn-of-the-century magazines in which they first appeared - bring the past magic of New England and its beloved coast to life.

Tales of Old New England

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West Virginia

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Illinois

In great condition minus some underlining. From pet and smoke-free home. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Utah

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen, comedians and the contexts within which they worked have not always received their due in scholarly discussions of cinema culture. Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader seeks to fill this gap, combining distinguished work on comedian comedy produced since the early 1980s together with more recent material that explores the genre's contemporary revival.
This reader provides a comprehensive guide to a range of comedians, contexts and issues: from the silent films of Chaplin and Keaton to the early sound comedy of Mae West and the Marx Brothers, and from the gender dynamics of Hope and Crosby, Lucille Ball and Jerry Lewis to contemporary comedians such as Jim Carrey and Chris Rock. In addition to exploring issues of genre, narrative, stardom and performance, the reader also traces how comedian films manage representations of otherness that are defined through ethnicity, race, class, gender and the body.
Articles are grouped in thematic sections, each exploring a central issue to the study of comedian comedy, and featuring an editor's introduction outlining the context of issues and debates. Sections include:
*Genre, narrative and performance
*Approaches to silent comedy
*Sound comedy, the vaudeville aesthetic and ethnicity
*Comedian comedy and gender
*Post-classical comedian comedy


Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader

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New Hampshire

#Hardcover #newengland #seastories #firstedition. Pages tanned with age but crisp and like new in condition

Come along on a fascinating journey back to Turn of the Century New England; to Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, Old York, the Great Shell Mounds of Damariscotta, Newport, Old Saybrook, Cuttyhunk and dozens of other areas.

Reproduced with illustrations from the actual turn-of-the-century New England magazines in which they first appeared, these articles by the well-known authors of that era bring the magic of the New England Coast to life as no modern-day author can achieve.

Sail on into "living" history with Tales of the New England Coast.


Tales of the New England Coast

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Georgia

The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison

Wilderness

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Texas

Reform in the Crime Victim Movement

Under the banner of rights of crime victims, a social movement that started in the late 1970s now promotes new laws and social services in the victims' behalf. Like many previous American reform movements, this one is diverse, sometimes reactionary, filled with borrowed ideas, and permeated with self-serving elements. It has already changed our concept of justice, by defining a role for crime victims (and their family members) beyond the evidentiary need of the prosecution in a court of law. It demands that the law, standing in for society as a whole, use its authority to demonstrate the triumph of good over evil rather than to bear out the bureaucratic process.

Weed portrays the victims' rights movement as having developed out of a confluence of very different agendas for social action: the national conservative crusade for law and order on one side, and the feminist movement's concern with violent crimes against women on the other. As the movement has gained momentum it has acquired a complex organizational system of national centers and grass roots groups.

Certainty of Justice takes an inside look at this system - at some of the people who run these groups, and at the issues promoted by their agenda. It also examines some of the consequences of the work of the movement, reflected in recent changes in state and federal laws enacted and decisions rendered in the name of "victims' rights."

Certainty of Justice

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Printed in 1952. Has seen better days but still very readable. There are over 1100 pages of great titles. Images are listed of some of the contents. #hardcover #masterpieces #masterplots 

Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form

Big Trouble at Tokyo Tower

Geobreeders Book 5

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Ohio

Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement

This set of standards-based reproducible activity pages is basic, not boring. In U.S. History, students will bring history to life as they look in on some of the great triumphs, tragedies, surprises, and changes in U. S. history. An assessment and a valuable glossary and timeline are included.

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Brothers

Aleksandra Loewenau (Editor); Kelsey Lucyk (Editor); Frank W. Stahnisch

The Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary History of Medicine Days Conference 2011

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Murder and Mystery in Boston 3470

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Flesh and Machines

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Random House Webster's Quotationary

Martin Greenberg (Editor); Frank D. McSherry (Editor); Charles G. Waugh (Editor); Byron Taylor (Illustrator)

Nightmares in Dixie

Olle-Jane Sahler (Editor); John E. Carr (Editor); Julia Frank (Editor); João Nunes (Editor)

The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care

Mark Twain; Harriet E. Smith (Editor); Benjamin Griffin (Editor); Victor Fischer (Editor); Michael Barry Frank (Editor); Sharon K. Goetz (Editor); Leslie Diane Myrick (Editor); Robert Hirst (Editor)

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

Mark Twain; Harriet E. Smith (Editor); Benjamin Griffin (Editor); Victor Fischer (Editor); Michael Barry Frank (Editor); Sharon K. Goetz (Editor); Leslie Diane Myrick (Editor); Robert Hirst (Editor)

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

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Phantom Army of the Civil War

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Phantom Army of the Civil War

Frank Conroy (Editor)

The Eleventh Draft

Frank Oppel (Editor)

Tales of Old New England

Frank Spaeth (Editor)

Phantom Army of the Civil War

Frank Spaeth (Editor)

Phantom Army of the Civil War

Frank Spaeth (Editor)

Phantom Army of the Civil War

Frank Krutnik (Editor)

Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader

Frank Conroy (Editor)

The Eleventh Draft

Frank Oppel (Editor)

Tales of the New England Coast

Jim Morrison; Frank Lisciandro (Editor); Columbus Courson

Wilderness

Frank Weed (Editor)

Certainty of Justice

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Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form

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Geobreeders Book 5

Imogene Forte; Marjorie Frank; Anna Quinn (Editor); Kathleen Bullock (Illustrator)

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