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I slept with Joey Ramone : a family memoir
Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil.
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xii, 404 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Fast and frenetic in their leather jackets and torn jeans, the Ramones gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, influenced countless bands, and inspired the counterculture for decades to come.Born Jeffry Hyman of Queens, New York, Joey Ramone was the quirky, extraordinary lead singer and cofounder of the band. Hiding his face behind signature sunglasses and a mop of dark hair, he helped define punk's early image, and his two-decade-plus tenure as the Ramones' front man made him unforgettable. Told by Joey's brother, Mickey Leigh,I Slept with Joey Ramoneprovides an intimate look at the turbulent life of one of America's greatest -- and unlikeliest -- music icons.With honesty, humor, and grace, Mickey shares the fascinating, sometimes troubling story of growing up with an emotionally distressed brother who becomes a rock star and the effect it had on their family. He shows how Joey used music to cope with mental illness; embraced the glam nightlife of the New York scene; launched CBGB alongside bands like the Talking Heads and Blondie; and brought punk to Britain, clashing with the Sex Pistols and changing music history.Ultimately, betrayal and infighting would end the band. While the music lives on for new generations to discover,I Slept with Joey Ramoneis the enduring portrait of a man who struggled to find his voice and of the brother who loved him.
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Inside Obama's brain
Sasha Abramsky.
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278 p. ; 19 cm.
'Never has the world needed strong and wise American leadership more than it does now. Abramsky's eminently readable description of Obama's personal gifts makes it clear that he is remarkably suited to be the president the moment requires.' -Former New York Governor Mario M. CuomoFrom the moment he burst onto the national political scene, Barack Obama has fascinated people more than any politician in decades. Many biographers have already retold his story, but no previous book truly explains how his mind works, what passions drive him, or what makes him such an effective leader.This concise profile explores the ideas, inspirations, and experiences that have shaped the president. It quotes a wide network of sources, including many who broke long-standing vows of silence to offer their candid and surprising observations.Award-winning journalist Sasha Abramsky interviewed close to one hundred of Obama's current and former friends, colleagues, classmates, teachers, staff, mentors, basketball buddies, fellow Chicago activists, media consultants, editors, and even his next-door neighbors from Hyde Park. These people each know a part of Obama's life and career, which the author blends the pieces into a uniquely detailed analysis.Abramsky explains the origins of Obama's extraordinary poise, focus, and self-confidence; his powerful storytelling and speaking skills; and his empathetic listening style. He shows why Obama's experiences as a community organizer are widely misunderstood and more influential than many people realize. And he explores how Obama found a unique way to bridge America's racial divides.No previous book has delved so deeply into the events and people that helped make Barack Obama the man he is today.
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Istanbul step by step.
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v. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.
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Knack baby sign language : a step-by-step guide to communicating with your little one
Suzie Chafin ; photographs by Johnston Bell Grindstaff ; technical review by Anne E. Pidano.
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xiv, 242 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Few children can communicate effectively before eighteen months of age, but sign language can allow baby and parent to reduce the frustration up to a year earlier. With more than 450 full-color photos, text, and sidebars,Knack Baby Sign Languageprovides a user-friendly, efficient method to learn and teach a baby sign language. Organized by age, it provides signs appropriate to use with babies, with toddlers, and with older children for whom signing with games, songs, and rhymes is enriching. The signs can also be used with special needs children and those with delayed communication abilities.
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Knitted socks east & west : 30 designs inspired by Japanese stitch patterns
Judy Sumner ; photography by Yoko Inoue.
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144 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
InKnitted SocksEast and West,author Judy Sumner compares knitting a sock to writing a haiku: both challenge you to create something beautiful and original within a sparse, strict format. In this, her first book, she recounts how she came to study hundreds of exquisite Japanese stitch patters and then apply her new knowledge to the sock designs showcased here.nbsp; Whether short or long, fine or bulky, simple or complex, each of the 30 designs inKnitted SocksEast and Westis named afer an intriguing aspect of Japanese culture. For example, the leg of the Origami crew socks appears to fold in and out; the Sumo slipper socks are named after the heavy, organic movement of the cables in their thick yarn; and the Ikebana knee socks highlight a textural floral design. Step-by-step text and easy-to-read charts are included for each design, along with illustrated directions for the Japanese stitchwork introduced in the projects.
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Knives at dawn : the American quest for culinary glory at the legendary Bocuse d'Or competition
Andrew Friedman.
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xi, 304 p. : [8] p. of plates ; 24 cm.
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The last day of my life
Jim Moret.
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161 p. ; 20 cm.
If you had 24 hours to live...Should you finally forgive the one who hurt you the most and would you find the courage to apologize to the person you wronged? Who would you remember as your lifes greatest love? Could you recognize what you are truly grateful for? Jim Moret didnt fully understand the answers to those questions until he was literally a day away from ending his own life. This veteran television broadcaster and interviewer turns the camera on himself, taking the reader on an intimate journey. He moves beyond depression, tragedy, and self-doubt and grapples with his greatest decision: not simply whether to live but how to live. If you had only 24 hours left... what would you do? "This is a marvelous collection of the right way to do things. Jim Morets book belongs in every library." -- Larry King "I think everyone has asked the question of themselves, but very few have explored it the way Jim Moret has in this heartbreaking, heart-strengthening, universally recognizable foray into what goes into making us Whole as individuals and as people. The things that we must face in ourselves and put into balance, before we find ourselves in the darkness of no return. So take a page from Jims book. It may not be the answer, but it is certainly part of the conversation." -- Whoopi Goldberg "It is simple enough to say that contemplating death teaches one to live. Indeed, Jim Moret looked over that brink and determined that he should live. Rarely, however, does an author take a reader through the journey that brings one so vividly to that moment. Once there, he shares with us his evolution from despair toward miracles, unforeseen adventures and most importantly the deepening of the relationships that give life its meaning. Well done."-- Dr. Drew Pinsky "I loved this book and couldn't put it down. Jim Moret's touching memoir is based on a wide array of life experiences ranging from the heartwarming to the heartbreaking. This important book will definitely make a difference in your life. Not only will it leave you with plenty to think about, you'll have a new and reliable road map for your own successful journey. In fact, read "The Last Day of My Life" more than once...you'll be glad you did." -- J. Randy Taraborrelli "Jim Moret's book is required reading for anyone who's ever entertained the thought of being happy." -- Alan Zweibel. Saturday Night Live writing alum and Thurber Prize winner "Jim Morets The Last Day of My Life easily could have been titled Tuesdays with Moret. It's that kind of book--powerful, inspirational and memorable. Everyone who reads it will emerge stronger and smarter. Period."-Wolf Blitzer, CNN Anchor, The Situation Room "In THE LAST DAY OF MY LIFE, Jim Moret discovers that it is our connections with people, not the things we acquire, that are the true riches in life. Jims moving personal journey delivers a road map for anyone struggling with self doubt." -- Deborah Norville "Magnificent! Jim Moret is a born writer and a gifted storyteller. I fell in love with these skillful, heartfelt, useful pages. So impactful, and it left me wanting more! I related to every chapter and it is the most value Ive ever received from an inspirational, self-help book." -- Leeza Gibbons "A moving, magical memoir of the human capacity for renewal and rebirth. The Last Day of My Life can make every day of yours more powerful." -- Keith Ablow, MD, psychiatrist and Fox News Contributor "Everything in my life stopped as I read THE LAST DAY OF MY LIFE in one sitting. I know of no other person brave enough to so honestly reveal his personal demons, and happily, his redemption. This book overflows with heart and sage advice." -- Lisa Bloom, CNN anchor "I couldn't put it down! Absolutely wonderful and so full of life. I think I cried as many times as I smiled and laughed while reading."-- Beth Twitty, author ofLoving Natalee: A Mother's
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Literary life : a second memoir
Larry McMurtry.
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175 p. ; 24 cm.
McMurtry has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In "Literary Life, " the sequel to "Books, " McMurtry expounds on life on the private side: the trials and triumphs of being a writer.
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The looting of America : how Wall Street's game of fantasy finance destroyed our jobs, pensions, and prosperity, and what we can do about it
Les Leopold.
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xvii, 219 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"I loved this book. A worms'-eye dissection of the Wall Street crisis from a very sharp and very knowledgeable labor economist. Here's hoping that before the Washington consensus gets set in stone, policymakers will read it and reflect on the havoc the masters of the universe have wreaked on ordinary people." --Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash and Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes Happen How could the best and brightest (and most highly paid) in finance crash the global economy and then get us to bail them out as well? What caused this mess in the first place? Housing? Greed? Dumb politicians? What can Main Street do about it? InThe Looting of America, Leopold debunks the prevailing media myths that blame low-income home buyers who got in over their heads, people who ran up too much credit-card debt, and government interference with free markets. Instead, readers will discover how Wall Street undermined itself and the rest of the economy by playing and losing at a highly lucrative and dangerous game of fantasy finance. He also asks some tough questions: Why did Americans let the gap between workers' wages and executive compensation grow so large? Why did we fail to realize that the excess money in those executives' pockets was fueling casino-style investment schemes? Why did we buy the notion that too-good-to-be-true financial products that no one could even understand would somehow form the backbone of America's new, postindustrial economy? How do we make sure we never give our wages away to gamblers again? And what can we do to get our money back? In this page-turning narrative (no background in finance required) Leopold tells the story of how we fell victim to Wall Street's exotic financial products. Readers learn how even school districts were taken in by "innovative" products like collateralized debt obligations, better known as CDOs, and how they sucked trillions of dollars from the global economy when they failed. They'll also learn what average Americans can do to ensure that fantasy finance never rules our economy again. As the country teeters on the brink of what could be the next Great Depression, we should be especially wary of the so-called financial experts who got us here, and then conveniently got themselves out. So far, it appears they've won the battle, but The Looting of America refuses to let them write the historyor plan its aftermath.
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Louis D. Brandeis : a life
Melvin I. Urofsky.
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xiii, 955 p. : ill.. ports. ; 25 cm.
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court-- a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit. Louis Dembitz Brandeis had at least four "careers." As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he pioneered how modern law is practiced. He, and others, developed the modern law firm, in which specialists manage different areas of the law. He was the author of the right to privacy; led the way in creating the role of the lawyer as counselor; and pioneered the idea of pro bono publicowork by attorneys. As late as 1916, when Brandeis was nominated to the Supreme Court, the idea of pro bono service still struck many old-time attorneys as somewhat radical. Between 1895 and 1916, when Woodrow Wilson named Brandeis to the Supreme Court, he ranked as one of the nation's leading progressive reformers. Brandeis invented savings bank life insurance in Massachusetts (he considered it his most important contribution to the public weal) and was a driving force in the development of the Federal Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the law establishing the Federal Trade Commission. Brandeis as an economist and moralist warned in 1914 that banking and stock brokering must be separate, and twenty years later, during the New Deal, his recommendation was finally enacted into law (the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933) but was undone by Ronald Reagan, which led to the savings-and-loan crisis in the 1980s and the world financial collapse of 2008. We see Brandeis, who came from a family of reformers and intellectuals who fled Europe and settled in Louisville. Brandeis the young man coming of age, who presented himself at Harvard Law School and convinced the school to admit him even though he was underage. Brandeis the lawyer and reformer, who in 1908 agreed to defend an Oregon law establishing maximum hours for women workers, and in so doing created an entirely new form of appellate brief that had only a few pages of legal citation and consisted mostly of factual references. Urofsky writes how Brandeis witnessed and suffered from the anti-Semitism rampant in the early twentieth century and, though not an observant Jew, with the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, became at age fifty-eight head of the American Zionist movement. During the next seven years, Brandeis transformed it from a marginal activity into a powerful force in American Jewish affairs. We see the brutal six-month confirmation battle after Wilson named the fifty-nine-year-old Brandeis to the court in 1916; the bitter fight between progressives and conservative leaders of the bar, finance, and manufacturing, who, while never directly attacking him as a Jew, described Brandeis as "a striver," "self-advertiser," and "a disturbing element in any gentleman's club." Even the president of Harvard, A. Lawrence Lowell, signed a petition accusing Brandeis of lacking "judicial temperament." And we see, finally, how, during his twenty-three years on the court, this giant of a man and an intellect developed the modern jurisprudence of free speech, the doctrine of a constitutionally protected right to privacy, and suggested what became known as the doctrine of incorporation, by which the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states. Brandeis took his seat when the old classical jurisprudence still held sway, and he tried to teach both his colleagues and the public-- especially the law schools-- that the law had to change to keep up with the economy and society. Brandeis often said, "My faith in time is great." Eventually the Supreme Court adopted every one of his dissents as the correct
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Louisa May Alcott : the woman behind Little women
Harriet Reisen.
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xiv, 362 p. ; 25 cm.
A vivid, energetic account of the life of Louisa May Alcott that explores Alcott's life in the context of her works, all of which are to some extent autobiographical.
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Love & war : finding the marriage you've dreamed of
John and Stasi Eldredge.
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xi, 222 p. ; 25 cm.
The authors of the bestselling "Captivating" and "Wild at Heart" now tackle the topics of love and marriage. The Eldredges take turns sharing their perspectives on marriage, adding personal insights from the difficulties, and joys, of their own lives.
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