In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. "A Beautiful Mind" traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowin...
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

By: Sylvia Nasar

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: December 2001

Seller ID: 136443

ISBN: 0743224574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who -- thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades o...
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A Bubbe Meise, a Grandmother's True Story

By: Hinda Miller

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Hinda MIller: August 2014

Seller ID: 131638

ISBN: 0578142171

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Circle of Quiet

By: Madeleine L'Engle

Price: $7.50

Publisher: HarperOne: November 1986

Seller ID: 266910

ISBN: 0062545035

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Dangerous Liaison: One Woman's Journey into a World of Aristocracy, Depravity, and Obsession

By: Sheri De Borchgrave

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Dutton Adult: September 1993

Seller ID: 164813

ISBN: 0525936378

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Hand to Guide Me

By: Denzel Washington

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Meredith Books: October 2006

Seller ID: 183748

ISBN: 0696230496

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In his debut as an author, Denzel Washington shares his personal story of the mentors who helped guide his life.Washington pens the introduction for the stories of more than 70 of America's leading personalities in theatre, sports, business, and politics as they tell their life-changing stories of mentorship.Contributors include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Antwone Fisher, Bonnie Raitt, Cal Ripken, Alex Rodriguez, Dick Vitale, Whoopie Goldberg and more.A portion of the book's proceeds benefit 4.5 million children currently involved in the "Boys & Girls Clubs of America,"
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage)

By: Dave Eggers

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Vintage: February 2001

Seller ID: 254592

ISBN: 0375725784

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

National Bestseller The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperba...
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

By: Adam Makos, Larry Alexander

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Berkley Trade: May 2014

Seller ID: 47743

ISBN: 0425255735

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber's tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler--and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger... What happened next would defy imagination and later be called "the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II." The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened be...
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A House in the Sky: A Memoir

By: Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Scribner: June 2014

Seller ID: 205469

ISBN: 1451645619

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Kind of Genius: Herb Sturz and Society's Toughest Problems

By: Sam Roberts

Price: $5.95

Publisher: PublicAffairs: March 2009

Seller ID: 192171

ISBN: 1586484710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In "A Kind of Genius," Sam Roberts offers a window onto Herb Sturz's extraordinary life's work. Sturz began his long career in social entrepreneurship by reforming the bail system and founding the Vera Institute of Justice. He served as New York City's Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice under Ed Koch and then as Chairman of the City Planning Commision. He moved on to establish affordable inner-city housing and programs for at-risk individuals. But Sturz has, to date, largely eschewed the public's eye.Roberts pays tribute to Sturz's inspirational legacy of accomplishment. His initiatives have...
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A Life In Our Times - Memoirs

By: John Kenneth Galbraith

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: January 1981

Seller ID: 222682

ISBN: 0233973834

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

clean copy, dj included, some wear from use
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A Life Well Lived: Maxwell Jones - A Memoir (Community, Culture and Change)

By: Dennie Briggs

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers: November 2002

Seller ID: 127515

ISBN: 1843107406

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones' death in 1990, "A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to the established practices that exist today.
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Ishmael Beah

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: August 2008

Seller ID: 239968

ISBN: 0374531269

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

""My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a war.""You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?""Yes, all the time.""Cool."I smile a little."You should tell us about it sometime.""Yes, sometime."""This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. ...
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A Matter of Opinion

By: Victor S. Navasky

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: May 2005

Seller ID: 157020

ISBN: 0374299978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Victor S. Navasky is the renowned editor, writer, and teacher who has been at the helm of "The Nation" for almost thirty years. "A Matter of Opinion," a scintillating reflection on his journalistic experiences, is also an extraordinary political document-a spirited, provocative argument for independent journals of opinion as vital to the health of democracy. Whether at the satirical magazine "Monocle" (which he founded when he was in law school), or at "The New York Times," or finally at "The Nation," Navasky's commitment to political engagement and to the social and intellectual values of...
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A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Anchor: September 2005

Seller ID: 244472

ISBN: 0307276902

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop using or die before he reached age 24. This is Frey's acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab.
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A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: September 2005

Seller ID: 267560

ISBN: 0307276902

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Anchor: September 2005

Seller ID: 267602

ISBN: 0307276902

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney (Radcliffe Biography Series)

By: Susan Quinn

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Perseus Books: January 1989

Seller ID: 20369

ISBN: 0201155737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Scribner: April 1996

Seller ID: 121438

ISBN: 068482499X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Published posthumously in 1964, "A Moveable Feast" remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
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A new life of Anton Chekhov

By: Ronald Hingley

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Knopf: December 1975

Seller ID: 110372

ISBN: 0394490584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty

By: Edmund Wilson

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: December 1999

Seller ID: 259611

ISBN: 0374526710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

By: Ayelet Waldman

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Anchor: January 2018

Seller ID: 242672

ISBN: 1101973722

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother

By: Janny Scott

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover: April 2011

Seller ID: 198974

ISBN: 1594487979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Watch a videoA major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story. Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional pap...
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A Small Place

By: Kincaid, Jamaica

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: April 2000

Seller ID: 270160

ISBN: 0374527075

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of "Annie John" ""If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."" So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us wh...
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

By: Maya Angelou

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bantam: April 2003

Seller ID: 58351

ISBN: 0553382039

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." "A Song Flung Up to Heaven"opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even cond...
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (FSG Classics)

By: Peter Handke

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: October 2012

Seller ID: 248882

ISBN: 0374533644

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"The Sunday edition of the "Karntner Volkszeitung "carried the following item under 'Local News' 'In the village of A. (G. township), a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday night by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.'"So opens "A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, "the eminent Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke's reckoning with his mother's life--which spanned the rise of the Nazis, World War II, and postwar suffering--and death. Both stark and lyrical, full of love, anger, admiration, and a keen sense of history, this slim book reveals Handke at his most lucid and direct. It...
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A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

By: Anjelica Huston

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Scribner: November 2013

Seller ID: 246179

ISBN: 1451656297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - LikeNew

A Three Dog Life

By: Abigail Thomas

Price: $7.95

Publisher: N/A: September 2007

Seller ID: 169253

ISBN: 0156033232

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the...
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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir

By: Norris Church Mailer

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Random House: April 2010

Seller ID: 10397

ISBN: 1400067944

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer's greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husband's--and every bit as engaging. Growing up a strict Free Will Baptist in the South of the 1950s, Norris Church, christened Barbara Jean Davis, was crowned "Little Miss Little Rock" at the age of three and always knew that life had more to offer her than the comforts of small-town Arkansas. But she could never have guessed th...
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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Vintage)

By: Carl Bernstein

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Vintage: January 2008

Seller ID: 167919

ISBN: 0307388557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with colleagues, friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Carl Bernstein offers a complex and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversial figures of our time: Hillary Clinton. He has given us a book that enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistently--even obsessively--asking: What is her character? What is her political philosophy? Who is she? What can we expect from her?
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A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany

By: Sigrid MacRae

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 2015

Seller ID: 228502

ISBN: 0143127489

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A Writer's Life

By: Gay Talese

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: July 2007

Seller ID: 265786

ISBN: 0812977289

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, light discoloration to edges.
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AAMA in America

By: Broughton Coburn

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Doubleday: April 1995

Seller ID: 204247

ISBN: 0385474172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Abigail Adams: A Life

By: Woody Holton

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Atria Books: June 2010

Seller ID: 243770

ISBN: 1416546812

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Bancroft Prize"" "The New York Times Book Review," Editor's ChoiceAmerican Heritage, Best of 2009 In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of the founding era, Bancroft Award-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams's life story and of women's roles in the creation of the republic. Using previously overlooked documents from numerous archives, Abigail Adams shows that the wife of the second president of the United States was far more charismatic and influential than historians have realized. One of t...
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About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

By: David H. Hackworth

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Touchstone: April 1990

Seller ID: 14387

ISBN: 0671695347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Penguin Lives)

By: Thomas Keneally

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: December 2008

Seller ID: 223004

ISBN: 0143114751

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In this outstanding biography, award-winning author Thomas Keneally follows Lincoln from his impoverished birth through his education and presidency. From the development of his political philosophy to his troubled family life and his actions during the Civil War, "Abraham Lincoln" is an incis...
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Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

By: Simone De Beauvoir

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Pantheon: February 1985

Seller ID: 81729

ISBN: 039472898X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Simone de Beauvoir's account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre's life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre's last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of astonishing frankness that illuminates one of the most famous and complex relationships of the twentieth century.
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