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Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Adam Robinson
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 Osama bin Laden has presented himself to the world as a zealous freedom fighter and a deeply pious man, a de facto paragon for Muslims everywhere. Telling a far different story, this authoritative new biography lifts bin Laden's mask of moral purity as it recounts his transformation from dissolute rich kid into terrorist mastermind and delineates his long campaign to bring jihad to the United States. Based on reliable information provided by members of bin Laden's family and extensive independen... more info>>
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Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Steven Poole
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For many, videogames are still viewed as a minor form of entertainment, shallow at best, harmful at worst. In this groundbreaking book, Steven Poole draws on movies, painting, history, and literature to analyze what he calls the "inner life" of videogames. Traveling to Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Cannes, he interviews leading figures in the industry, including Jeremy Smith, head of Core Design (home of Lara Croft) and Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari. Tracing their history in order to predict where ... more info>>
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Only the Eyes Say Yes: A Love Story [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Stephane Vigand
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Philippe and Stéphane Vigand were a handsome, dashing couple in their early thirties with two beautiful young daughters. Philippe was a publishing executive with the French conglomerate Hachette, and his wife Stéphane was an advertising director. On a July morning almost ten years ago, Philippe, young and vigorous, was walking to work when he heard "a gigantic explosion." Strangely, no one else seemed fazed by it ... for the simple reason that the explosion was in his brain. He managed to summon... more info>>
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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Miklos Nyiszli
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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death"--Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capactity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish pri... more info>>
Category: History
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A Dog Called Perth: The True Story of a Beagle [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Peter Martin
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This heartwarming story of a truly remarkable dog who changed the lives of her owners forever will move and delight dog lovers everywhere. From the moment Peter and Cindy Martin spotted her as a puppy in a kennel and she came streaking toward them and staring with her intense gaze, they knew she was the one. Almost immediately, she became a central part of their household. Always left to run free, she became an indefatigable explorer, gone for hours, sometimes for entire days, but her infallible... more info>>
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Sunday's Children [Secure Adobe Reader 7]
by Ingmar Bergman
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Pu Bergman is eight years old when Mother rents Pastor Dahlberg's ramshackle house for the summer. Pu is a Sunday's child--one said to be endowed with special gifts of sensitivity, clairvoyance, and the ability to see ghosts. As the novel opens, his heart is full of anticipation as he goes to the train station to greet his father, who is to join them. But when Father arrives, he is strangely distant, melancholy, and severe. Over the next twenty-four hours, Pu's world is marked indelibly. In beau... more info>>
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Race Manners: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Bruce Jacobs
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The topic of race has turned so toxic that most Americans, black or white, are afraid to broach it--whites back away from racial issues because blacks seem "so sensitive"; blacks blow off racial discussion because they think whites "will never understand." Yet with talk-show vitriol now passing for social discourse and racial anger mounting in proportion to the insecurities of a downsized America, the need to communicate is more urgent than ever. Bruce Jacobs's Race Manners shows how we can begi... more info>>
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Destiny [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Tim Parks
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Christopher Burton, the protagonist of Tim Parks' masterful new novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton, while standing at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel in London's Knightsbridge, receives a phone call informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude... more info>>
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Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by David Levy
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Like Henry Petroski's The Pencil,David M. Levy's Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and as we move into the digital age. We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds--letters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages--yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as our reading and writi... more info>>
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