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Chasing the Wind: The Autobiography of Steve Fossett
Californian Steve Fossett – a world record holder in ballooning, speed sailing and aviation – is at the pinnacle of extreme sporting achievements In 2005, Steve Fossett completed the first solo, non-stop, non-refuelled circumnavigation of the world at the helm of the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer. But what makes someone like Steve give up a secure, well-paid job for the romantic, yet dangerous, world of the adventurer? In his dynamic autobiography, Steve shares his inspirational stories in a personal, intimate voice. He candidly recounts the milestones, challenges and victories that have made up his much-heralded career and paved the way to his numerous world records. .
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Operative Neurosurgical Anatomy
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The House Behind the Cedars (Modern Library Classics)
The House Behind the Cedars, which many consider Charles Chesnutt’s finest novel, tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers. As Werner Sollors writes, “William Dean Howells did not overstate his case when he compared Chesnutt’s works with those by Turgenev, Maupassant, and James . . . and [Chesnutt] has become one of the most important ‘crossover’ authors from the African-American tradition.”.
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Illuminated Darkness: Slavery and Its Shadow in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cultural Studies of the United States)
In Illuminated Darkness, Judith Fossett analyzes the shadow as a rhetorical and visual device deeply connected to slavery, race, and representations of the self in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe and the Americas. The shadow, she suggests, helps us understand the economic, cultural, and psychological effects of slavery. Combining literature, history, art history, and philosophy, Fossett assembles an archive of tropes that examine the shadow as a manifestation of the social death and invisibility engendered by slavery, as well as the repressed recognition of black humanity in the white racial unconscious. Through a series of critical readings of works by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Thomas Dixon, W. E. B. DuBois, and William Faulkner, Fossett reveals how the shadowy specter of chattel slavery haunts American literature. Relying on the close relationship of white and black, light and dark, the shadow powerfully represents the phenomenological force of race in American society, Fossett argues, and is perhaps the quintessential New World trope..
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Heartbrokers
Heartbrokers takes a rational approach to romantic love and intimate relationships. This book is both controversial and practical Many individuals have attested to the dramatic effects the application of Heartbroker's principles have had in their marriages. Heartbrokers covers practically all aspects of personal relationships. Specifically, Heartbrokers includes chapters on love addiction, sex, cheating, breaking up, closure, compromise, selfishness, and much more. Heartbrokers also explores how technology is destroying our intimate relationships. Heartbrokers investigates non-conventional, yet rational, ways of responding when your lover is unfaithful, logical ways to approach sex, and how to gain closure to a previous breakup. Additionally, this book shows us how compromise eventually erodes an otherwise happy union. The readers of Heartbrokers will learn to, not only feel love, but to think love also. Those who apply the principles contained in Heartbrokers will have the necessary tools to help them avoid most relationship pitfalls and possibly prolong their relationships. Heartbrokers is more than a self-help book. Heartbrokers is a book that will prompt self-revelation and self-actualization..
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Marriagebrokers: A Rational Look at Marriage in Today's Society
Marriagebrokers challenges the age-old myths and the so-called realities of the traditional institution of marriage in America Charles forces the reader to critically analyze and question their core beliefs about love and marriage and he boldly asks the hard questions and presents even harder answers concerning the social forces that drive our marital choices. Marriagebrokers: A Rational Look at Marriage in Today's Society... Shows you how to handle marital conflict Examines the distribution of power between a husband and wife Questions the traditional marriage roles Suggests workable alternatives to conventional marriages Explains the right time to get out of a bad marriage Offers advice on obtaining contentment without marriage and much more....
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