The Outlaws Inc.: Under the Radar and on the Black Market with the World’s Most Dangerous Smugglers by: Matt Potter (Author) Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Publication Date: 2011-08-31 Language: English Print Length: 336 pages ISBN-10: ISBN-13: 9781608195305 Book Description This riveting account reveals the secret corners of our supposedly flat world: black markets where governments are never seen but still spend outrageous amounts of money. Journalist Matt Potter tells the story of Yuri and h...
Character by: Robert L. Dilenschneider (Author) Publisher: Kensington Publication Date: 2025-03-25 Language: English Print Length: 209 pages ISBN-10: 0806543124 ISBN-13: 9780806543123 Book Description From leadership expert Robert L. Dilenschneider, author of Decisions and Nailing It, a business inspirational title addressing the need for character as a vital dimension in public and private life, based on thirty-one iconic historical figures who embodied such qualities of character.Whether in po...
Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by: Brad Kessler (Author) Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 2010-06-08 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 978142 ISBN-13: 9781416561002 Book Description Goat Song is the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres in Vermont and raise Nubian goats. In poetic, reverent detail, Brad Kessler explores our ancient...
Swanson on Swanson by: Gloria Swanson (Author) Publisher: Pocket Publication Date: 1981-12-01 Language: English Print Length: 549 pages ISBN-10: 0671433547 ISBN-13: 9780671433543 Book Description The star of the screen throughout the 1920s presents a candid look at her long life, chronicling the story of her six husbands and many lovers and her experiences with studio heads, Zukor, Lasky, DeMille, and Schenck Editorial Reviews The star of the screen throughout the 1920s presents a candid look at...
From the Rez to the Runway: Forging My Path in Fashion by: Christian Allaire (Author), Jeanne Beker (Foreword) Publisher: Collins Publication Date: 2025-03-25 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 1443470627 ISBN-13: 9781443470629 Book Description Growing up on the Nipissing First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario, Christian Allaire wanted to work in the fashion industry, a future that seemed like a remote, and unlikely, dreamHe was first introduced to style and design through his ...
When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines by: Graydon Carter (Author), James Fox Publisher: Penguin Press Publication Date: 2025-03-25 Language: English Print Length: 432 pages ISBN-10: 0593655907 ISBN-13: 9780593655900 Book Description An Instant New York Times BestsellerFrom the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of...
First Women of Hollywood: Female Pioneers in the Early Motion Picture Business by: Mary Mallory (Author) Publisher: Lyons Press Publication Date: 2025-03-25 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1493089307 ISBN-13: 9781493089307 Book Description Largely created by immigrants, the film industry evolved over its first few decades thanks to the work of people outside the traditional ruling class— immigrants, people of color, women—partly as a result of elites denigrating the fledgling ...
The Railroad Photography of Phil Hastings (Railroads Past and Present) by: Tony Reevy (Author) Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication Date: 2023-05-30 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 0253066492 ISBN-13: 9780253066497 Book Description The Railroad Photography of Phil Hastings explores the life and influential work of Dr. Philip R. “Phil” Hastings (1925–1987). Along with his contemporaries, Hastings changed the way we look at the North American railroad. Inf...
Off Izaak Walton Road: The Grace That Comes Through Loss (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) by: Laura Julier (Author) Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 0826367712 ISBN-13: 9780826367716 Book Description Loss and sorrow can overwhelm even the strongest person, forcing them to reckon with their emotions whether they want to or not. In this extraordinary debut, Laura Julier recounts her reckoning, which too...
Fallosophy: My Trip through Life with MS by: Ardra Shephard (Author) Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 1771624302 ISBN-13: 9781771624305 Book Description Award-winning writer, podcaster, disability advocate, and TV fashion show host Ardra Shephard tells her story of living with Multiple Sclerosis ina debut memoir full of witty humor and hard-won wisdom. Twenty-three-year-old Ardra Shephard is sleeping with the wrong ...
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