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This volume is an invaluable one-stop reference book for anyone wanting a brief and accurate account of the life and work of those who created science from its beginnings to the present day. The alphabetically organized, illustrated biographical dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated, co... More

In March 2003, during a missile strike in southern Baghdad, twelve-year-old Ali Abbas sustained terrible burns and lost not only his arms, but his family. From the moment his photo appeared in newspapers, this appealing young boy became an international symbol of suffering, and his courage and resil... More

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In this book, a retired California police officer hired by DynCorp as an international police trainer presents a vivid account of the challenges of training the Iraqis to handle their own security.... More

For almost thirty years, David Thomson's "Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely "the finest reference book ever written about movies" (Graham Fuller, "Interview), not merely the "desert island book" of art critic David Sylvester, not merely "a great, crazy masterpiece" (Geoff Dyer, "Th... More

She was a beautiful doelike child, with an intense, graceful fragility. In her first year, she picked up words, smiled and laughed, and learned to walk. But then Anne-Marie began to turn inward. And when her little girl lost some of the words she had acquired, cried inconsolably, and showed no inter... More

THE THINKERS, THE THOUGHTS, AND THE THEORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.With The Dictionary of Important Ideas and Thinkers, you can get to the bottom of the big bang theory; find out where Freud's ideas were coming from, and where Einstein's might take us; demystify surreal... More

In 1928, 19-year-old Glassco escaped to Montparnasse, the haunt of geniuses and a legendarily limitless source of sex and booze. Ultimately, this memoir is less a tale of a particular time and place than it is a delightful hymn to a life of abandon in a never-never land of effortlessly fulfilled des... More

This convenient and affordable little reference provides essential information about the world's most influential men and women. It includes nearly 7,000 entries covering people from all eras and nations. The book also covers major historical and contemporary figures, providng the spelling and pronu... More

- This is the first paperback edition of this important work, which sold 7,500 copies in the cloth edition- The Muslim population of the U.S. is on a strong growth curve. It is estimated that there are now between 4 and 7 million Muslims in the U.S.This is the definitive, objective biography of the ... More

People have the potential to heal themselves and each other. Dr. Daniel Benor, a wholistic psychiatrist, explains how mind-body and body-mind interactions promote health or cause illness. Clear and concise explanations of a large body of research, clinical examples, and a variety of theory explain h... More

Meet three men who would not accept defeat. Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Hall, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery may not have considered themselves remarkable, but each one worked to develop his God-given gifts to make a difference. Rickenbacker is best known as America's legendary Ace of Aces of the famed ... More

I was born in 1956 in Kansas City, Kansas, at KU Medical Center. I have had around 100 broken bones and most of them were from just turning or moving the wrong way. You see, with OI (osteogenesis imperfecta, brittle bones), it does not take much at all to break a bone. I was raised in the greater Ka... More

The late James Mahoney went overseas in the spring of 1944 as the leader of one of the four bomb squadrons in a B-24 bomb group (the original 492nd) which endured extraordinary losses for 89 days of operation before being disbanded. The enduring mystery of why such an exceptionally well qualified an... More