|
|
|
Lights of Winter: Winter Celebrations Around the World
Children's picture book about winter celebrations around the world: Solstice, Yule, Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukkah, Teng Chieh, Diwali, Soyal, Las Posadas, Zagmuk, Saturnalia For ages 3-9. Thirteen color illustrations Book Size: 9.25" x 7.5".
Price: $6.79
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy (Star Trek)
In the forty-year history of Star Trek®, none of the television show's actors are more beloved than DeForest Kelley. His portrayal of Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the southern physician aboard the Starship Enterprise™, brought an unaffected humanity to the groundbreaking space frontier series. Jackson DeForest Kelley came of age in Depression-era Georgia. He was raised on the sawdust trail, a preacher's kid steeped in his father's literal faith and judgment. But De's natural artistic gifts called him to a different way, and a visit to California at seventeen showed a bright new world. Theater and radio defined his early career -- but it was a World War II training film he made while serving in the Army Air Corps that led to his first Paramount Studios contract. After years of struggle, his lean, weathered look became well known in notable westerns and television programs such as You Are There and Bonanza. But his work on several pilots for writer-producer Gene Roddenberry changed his destiny and the course of cultural history. This thoroughly researched actor's life is about hard work and luck, loyalty and love. It is a journey that takes us all...from sawdust to stardust..
Price: $4.06
[Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation
Set in the vibrant Industrial Age and filigreed with family drama and epic ambition, Crosley chronicles one of the great untold tales of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1800s into a humble world of dirt roads and telegraphs, Powel and Lewis Crosley were opposites in many ways but shared drive, talent, and an unerring knack for knowing what Americans wanted. Their pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them both wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds. But as their fortunes grew, so did Powel’s massive ego, which demanded he own eight mansions and seven yachts at the height of the Great Depression. Rich with detailed reminiscences from surviving family members, Crosley is both a powerful saga of a heady time in American history and an intimate tale of two brilliant brothers navigating triumph and tragedy. .
Price: $6.40
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
Carolyn's Journey: From Parkinson's Disease to a Nearly Normal Life After Deep Brain Stimulation
A first-hand account of fighting Parkinson's from the viewpoint of both patient and caregiver "Carolyn's Journey" shares the journey of Carolyn Anderson and her diagnosis with Parkinson's Disease through the eyes of her husband and primary caregiver, Victor Anderson. It is a straightforward look at the challenges of diagnosing Parkinson's disease, dealing with the doctors and insurance companies, and current prognosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease. It also shares some of the hopeful new medical paractices such as Deep Brain Stimulation that have allowed Carolyn to enjoy a nearly normal life. This book will help you: 1) Learn the symptoms and early warning signs of Parkinson's disease; 2) Gain insights from both the viewpoint of the caregiver and the patient; 3) Explore treatment options; 4) Follow the progression of Parkinson's from early symptoms through near recovery; and 5) Gain basic information and background about Parkinson's disease..
Price: $14.95
[ Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
Revisiting the Shadows: Memoirs from War-Torn Poland to the Statue of Liberty
"Don’t forget the way they will have me die! Don’t forget that we tried to stand up to them until the last moment! Don’t forget what they are doing to us here! Don’t forget! Swear to me that you will tell the world!" Golda Lipkies’s words shouted to Irene before Golda’s execution at Auschwitz This is the true story of Irene (Rena Hass), a Jewish teenager involved in the 1941-1943 resistance movement and uprising of the Bialystok Ghetto, which was second in historical significance only to the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto. Irene is one of the very few survivors of the 60,000 massacred Bialystok Jews. She survived the horrors of three concentration camps: Blizyn, Majdanek and Auschwitz. Irene’s father, a virtuoso violinist, was forced to perform before his own execution with the orchestra at the extermination camp of Majdanek in Poland. Her mother was a schoolteacher who suffered with Irene the horrors of the concentration camps until she died just before the end of the war at the Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany. Revisiting the Shadows was written so that we will not forget. The atrocity of killing three and a half million Jews during the Holocaust from Poland alone (almost ten per cent of the country’s population)—similar to murdering 25 million Americans today—reminds us that some are still seeking ethnic cleansing, or genocide, in present-day forms of the Final Solution. "Germans are different people now—I have German friends who carry the guilt of the war on their shoulders—the Germans helped us. No people, no nation has only bad people."
Ms. Shapiro as quoted by Laurie Sullivan in the Scarsdale Inquirer.
Price: $16.95
[Notify me when price goes down.]
|
|
Golden Dreams
|
|
|
|
|