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Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Paperback - Reprint)
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.

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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen W. Hawking (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen W. Hawking (Paperback - Reprint)
Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal million-copy hardcover best-seller A Brief History of Time. Bantam is proud to present the paperback edition of Dr. Hawkings first new book since that event, a collection of fascinating and illuminating essays, and a remarkable interview broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day, 1992. These fourteen pieces reveal Hawking variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and-always-the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Hawking's wit, directness of style, and absence of pomp characterize all of them, whether he is remembering his first experience at nursery school; calling for adequate education in science that will enable the public to play its part in making informed decisions on matters such as nuclear disarmament; exploring the origins of the future of the universe; or reflecting on the history of A Brief History of Time. Black Holes and Baby Universes is an important work from one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.

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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
 

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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
One of the "hundred most important books of the twentieth century" (New York Public Library), finally published in complete form.
The story of Helen Keller, the young girl who triumphed over deafness and blindness, has been indelibly marked into our cultural consciousness. That triumph, shared with her teacher Anne Sullivan, has been further popularized by the play and movie The Miracle Worker. Yet the astonishing original version of Keller's and Sullivan's story, first published in 1903, has been out of print for many years and lost to the public.
Now, one hundred years after its initial publication, eminent literary scholar Roger Shattuck, in collaboration with Keller biographer Dorothy Herrmann, has reedited the book to reflect more accurately its original composition. Keller's remarkable acquisition of language is presented here in three successive accounts: Keller's own version; the letters of "teacher" Anne Sullivan, submerged in the earliest edition; and the valuable documentation by their young assistant, John Macy. Including opening and closing commentary by Shattuck and notes by Hermann, this volume will stand for years as the definitive edition of a classic work. 10 b/w illustrations.

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Other Sheep I Have by Paul M. Washington (Paperback - Temple Univ Pr)
 

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Other Sheep I Have by Paul M. Washington (Paperback - Temple Univ Pr)
An inner-city Episcopal priest shares a lifetime of fighting for civil and women's rights in a heartfelt, moving autobiography. Father Washington's story is a window of insight into the struggles for justice and dignity in the latter half of the 20th century--an insightful, historically accurate personal memory of seven decades trying to make the world a better place for everyone.

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A Son of the Forest and Other Writings by William Apess (Paperback - Univ of Massachusetts Pr)
 

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A Son of the Forest and Other Writings by William Apess (Paperback - Univ of Massachusetts Pr)
This book brings together the best-known works of the 19th-century Indian writer William Apess, including the first extended autobiography by a Native American. The text is drawn from ON OUR OWN GROUND, which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book. This new edition of Apess's classic texts is designed for classroom use.

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The Other Side Of Israel by SUSAN NATHAN (Hardcover - Nan a Talese)
 

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The Other Side Of Israel by SUSAN NATHAN (Hardcover - Nan a Talese)

In 2003, Susan Nathan moved from her comfortable home in Tel Aviv to Tamra, an Arab town in the northern part of Israel. Nathan had arrived in Israel four years earlier and had taught English and worked with various progressive social organizations. Her desire to help build a just and humane society in Israel took an unexpected turn, however, when she became aware of Israel’s neglected and often oppressed indigenous Arab population. Despite warnings from friends about the dangers she would encounter, Nathan settled in an apartment in Tamra, the only Jew among 25,000 Muslims. There she discovered a division between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs as tangible as the concrete wall and razor-wire fences that surround the Palestinian towns of the West Bank and Gaza.

From her unique vantage point, Nathan examines the history and the present-day political and cultural currents that have created a situation little recognized in the ongoing debates about the future of Israel and the Middle East. With warmth, humor, and compassion, she portrays the daily life of her neighbors, the challenges they encounter, and the hopes they harbor. She introduces Arab leaders fighting against entrenched segregation and discrimination; uncovers the hidden biases that undermine even the most well-intentioned Arab-Jewish peace organizations; and describes the efforts of dedicated individuals who insist that Israeli Arabs must be granted the same rights and privileges as Jewish citizens.

Through her own courageous example, Nathan proves that it is possible for Jews and Arabs to live and work peacefully together. THE OTHER SIDE OF ISRAEL is more than the story of one woman’s journey: it is a road map for crossing a divide created by prejudices and misunderstandings.

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All Other Nights by Dara Horn (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
 

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All Other Nights by Dara Horn (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, struggles with difficult moral questions when he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who has been plotting an assassination attempt against president Lincoln; a situation that becomes more challenging when Jacob is subsequently directed to marry a suspected spy.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Edition by Hunter S. Thompson (Har
 

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Edition by Hunter S. Thompson (Har
First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompsons savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writers account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailers An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out."        This Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loath-ing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Deca-dent and Depraved."

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The Other by David Guterson (Hardcover - Alfred a Knopf Inc)
 

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The Other by David Guterson (Hardcover - Alfred a Knopf Inc)
Two boys from profoundly different backgrounds--John William Barry, the wealthy scion of two elite Seattle families, and the blue-collar Irish Neil Countryman--brought together by their fierce love of the natural world, grow up to pursue vastly different paths in life, Neil as a devoted schoolteacher, and John William, a recluse seeking refuge in the wilderness. 150,000 first printing.

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The Other Side of the Mountain by Thomas Merton (Paperback - Harper San Francisco)
 

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The Other Side of the Mountain by Thomas Merton (Paperback - Harper San Francisco)
Now in paperback, this final year of Thomas Merton's journals describes his trip to Southeast Asia, where he meets the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist and Catholic monks and discovers a rare and rewarding kinship with each.

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The Other Preacher in Lynchburg by John Killinger (Hardcover - Thomas Dunne Books)
 

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The Other Preacher in Lynchburg by John Killinger (Hardcover - Thomas Dunne Books)
A portrait of the iconic evangelist from the perspective of a Presbyterian minister who shared Falwell's territory in Lynchburg, Virginia describes the Moral Majority leader's deep-rooted influence, the author's disapproval of Falwell's style of theology, and the moral dilemmas the minister faced in his possession of controversial inside information.

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