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Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee
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In 1978, New Yorker science writer John
McPhee set out on a series of road trips with prominent geologists. In each
case, they remained close to Interstate 80, which spans the country at about the
40th parallel. McPhee's purpose was to write an... ( read more)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : a Savage Journey To the Heart of the American Dream (71 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... ( read more)
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
by Allison (ed.) Gregory (ed.) Gediman (ed.) Merrick (ed.)
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Featuring 80 Americans--from the famous to the unknown--this series of insightful observations completes the thought that the books title introduces. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they arrive at their own personal beliefs but also... ( read more)
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
by Hunter S Thompson
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"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and... ( read more)
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The Control of Nature
by John Mcphee
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The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.... ( read more)
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A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
by Bill Oreilly
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The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For... ( read more)
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About Alice
by Calvin Trillin
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In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's school play, the... ( read more)
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Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
by Tim Russert
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Now in paperback comes the #1 bestselling Father's Day book of 2004. Tim Russert, one of America's most watched and trusted news anchors, connects with readers in this critically acclaimed memoir about growing up in the 1950s and the special bond between... ( read more)
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Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media
by Michael Wolff
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Astute, brutally honest, and always provocative chronicler of assorted media-world implosions Michael Wolff has sorted through the wreckage of fallen media empires and fearlessly deconstructed the peculiar psychology behind the mess. A former media... ( read more)
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
by Hunter S Thompson
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Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced... ( read more)
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Rum Diary (98 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson
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Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and... ( read more)
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On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World
by P J Orourke
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In On The Wealth of Nations, America’s most provocative satirist, P. J. O’Rourke, reads Adam Smith’s revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don’t have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the... ( read more)
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This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
by Jay Allison
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A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventyfive essayistsranging from famous to previously unknowncompleting the thought that begins the... ( read more)
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
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Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD... ( read more)
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
by Toby Young
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In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan-Alistair Cooke then, Anna Wintour now-so why couldn't he? But things didn't quite go according to... ( read more)
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Audition: A Memoir
by Barbara Walters
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Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package."
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that... ( read more)
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Sex and the City
by Candace Bushnell
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Bushnell's "New York Times" bestseller that launched the HBO series that became a cultural phenomenon celebrates its tenth anniversary and is now available in mass-market paperback.... ( read more)
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The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century
by Mike Wallace
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The world is an uncertain place, which is why the future and the unknown absolutely fascinate us. Veteran television journalist Mike Wallace asked the question What will life be like 50 years from now? to sixty of the world's greatest minds. Their... ( read more)
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Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson
by William Mckeen
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Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When Thompson was on, there was no... ( read more)
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Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War
by Deborah Copaken Kogan
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Fresh out of college and passionate about photography, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris in 1988 and began knocking on photo agency doors, begging to be given a photojournalism assignment. Within weeks she was on the back of a truck in Afghanistan... ( read more)
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