Barbara m bachman (34 resultados)
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Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de AmericaDon's Book Store
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Hard Back. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition First Printing Stated. 364 Pages. Glossy laminated boards. Back endpaper has a 3 inch corner crease that is now straightened. No other defects noted. Interior text is faultless. Dust jacket price $26 is unclipped. When it comes to violent crime…, the Las Vegas cops and casino owners thought they had seen it all. But they had never witnessed anything like Jose Vigoa. Born in Cuba, a child of Fidel Castro's revolution, Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle hardened in the killing fields of Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under fire. A brilliant military career lay ahead of him. Then, in 1980, Castro opened Cuba's floodgates in the Mariel boatlift, and Vigoa, like so many of his countrymen and -women, braved chaos and hardship to start a new life in America's promised land. But involvement with the drug trade brought his dreams crashing down. Years of prison followed. On his release, Vigoa was determined to take revenge on what he perceived as the corrupt power structure of Las Vegas. On September 20, 1998, the former Spetsnaz lieutenant launched what would be the most audacious and ruthless series of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that Las Vegas had ever seen. In a brazen sixteen-month-long reign of terror, he and his tightly disciplined crew would hit the crème de la crème of Vegas hotels: the MGM, the Desert Inn, the New York-New York, the Mandalay Bay, and the Bellagio. They struck hard and fast, then vanished without a trace. Millions of dollars were stolen. Two brave men were gunned down in cold blood; others were wounded. And yet the robberies were so well planned and executed that the police the stupids, as Vigoa contemptuously referred to them were all but helpless. Not Lt. John Alamshaw. The twenty-three-year veteran, in charge of robbery detectives, was not giving up so easily. For him, Vigoa's rampage was a personal affront. And he would do whatever it took, even risk his badge, to bring Vigao down. With exclusive access to all the major players, including Vigoa and Alamshaw, veteran journalist and network producer John Huddy is the perfect man to tell the gripping never-before-told story of this harrowing true-crime drama that will leave readers breathless. Illustrated with maps and photographs throughout. Bachman, Barbara M. - Design (ilustrador).
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Librería: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, CHICO-CA, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaWONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. first edition,5ptg; 68975pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT COPY; RED METALIC SPINE TITLES ON BLACK HARD COVERS.; 192 pages; INCLUDES.COUNTRY; ABSENCE; LOVE, OBITUARIES; TODAY; TIPING POINT.MANY OTHERS. Illustrated by Bachman, barbara m. book design (ilustrador).
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Librería: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, CHICO-CA, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaWONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. first edition,5ptg; 68975pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S21.95) DUST JACKET. CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT COPY IN SIMILAR DUST JACKET; RED METALIC SPINE TITLES ON BLACK HARD COVERS.ATTRACTIVE DJ HAS TITLE & PHOTOS OF 9 WHITE HORSES HEADS.IN VARIOU…S STAGES OF LIFE & DEATH? INNER BACK DJ FLAP HAS 4X5" PHOTO OF AUTHOR & BIOGS ; 192 pages; INCLUDES.COUNTRY; ABSENCE; LOVE, OBITUARIES; TODAY; TIPING POINT.MANY OTHERS. Illustrated by Bachman, barbara m. book design (ilustrador).
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Modern Library Books/ The Modern Library, New York and Toronto, 2002
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Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de Americagearbooks
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Mod. Library Ppbk Ed., 2002/1st Printing. 772 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dog-eared top corners on both covers. Gabrielle Bordwin (Cover Design); John Singer (Cover Painting); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (ilustrador).
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 316 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Minimal external wear. Slight burn on bottom edge of spine. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design); Honi Werner (Jacket Design); Stern Imaging (Jacket Photo); Jane Sobel (Author's Photo) (ilustrador).
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Random House Trade Paperbacks/ A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, et al., 2006
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Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de Americagearbooks
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Like New. 474 pp. Flawless book and dj save for minimal external use and slight tear on back cover. Barbara M. Bachman (Design); Bech Sivan (Cover Design) (ilustrador).
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Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de Americagearbooks
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 312 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal use. Water stains on edging. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design); Andy Carpenter & Barbara De Wilde (Design); MAry Javorek (Photo) (ilustrador).
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Random House Trade Paperbacks/A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2004
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. Copyright © 2004. 249 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Creased front cover. Light scuffing on front cover. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design) (ilustrador).
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback/Ballantine Books/An Imprint of The Random House Publishing Group/A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2007
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Like New. 6th Printing. 294 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Lynn Buckley (Cover Design & Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (ilustrador).
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1st Norton Ppbk Publication, 2004. 395 + pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. A great study/work/reading copy. Light creasing on covers and spine. Light foxing on page edges. Writing on inside of front cover page. Alexander Walter (Cover Photo); Bas…il Childers (Author Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design) (ilustrador).
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Simon & Schuster, Inc., Sydney, NSW, Australia, Tokyo, Japan, New York, 1989
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 5th Printing. 269 pp. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear. Clean text on bright and crisp pages. Small stain on fore-edge. Patricia Manzone (Jacket Design); Michael O'Neill (Front Jacket Photo); Ralph Gatti (Back Jacket… Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (ilustrador).
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Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de Americagearbooks
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. 1st Edition. 250 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Chin Yee Lai (Jacket Design); Rene Margritte (Jacket Art); Jana Curcio (Author Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (Design) (ilustrador).
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Broadway Books, New York & Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK, 1999
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Like New. 252 pp. Flawless copy. Barbara M. Bachman (Designer);; Meri Simon (Frontispiece Photograph); Andrea Thomas (Cover Design); Bill Westheimer (Cover Photograph) (ilustrador).
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Pantheon Books/ A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1999
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 278 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stated first edition and first printing. Culver Pictures (Jacket Image); Eric Fuentecilla (Jacket Design); Brian Smith (Author Photo); Barbara M. Bachman (De…sign) (ilustrador).
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. 1st Edition. 329 + pp. Stated first edition! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design); A…rchie Ferguson (Jacket Design); David Stork (Jacket Photo); Jerry Bauer (Photo) (ilustrador).
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. 1st Edition. 313 pp. Stated second printing of the first edition! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Allison Saltzm…an (Jacket Design); Brown Brothers, Bettmann/CORBIS, Jake Rajs/Getty Images (Front, Spine & Back Jacket Photos); Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design) (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Random House, New York, 1999
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Librería: The Archives, Manassas, VA, Estados Unidos de AmericaThe Archives
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of Bronson's defining chronicle of Silicon Valley at the height of the late-1990s dot-com boom. Expanding upon reporting originally published in Wired and Forbes ASAP, Bronson profiles entrepreneurs, programmers, venture capitalis…ts, and IPO hopefuls during one of the most speculative and transformative moments in American business history. Issued just prior to the 2000 market collapse, the work stands as a contemporary primary account of pre-crash tech culture rather than a retrospective narrative. Book is Near Fine: tight and square binding; clean green cloth spine and blue boards; corners sharp; no ownership marks, writing, or remainder marks observed; pages clean and bright throughout. Dust jacket is Near Fine, unclipped, retaining the original U.S.A. $25.00 / Canada $38.00 price; light surface rubbing and mild edge wear; no tears or significant creasing; strong color and presentation. A handsome copy. Edition/Printing Diagnostics: Copyright page dated 1999 with Random House first-printing indicator consisting of a solitary '9' at the foot of the page; no additional printings stated. Correct first-issue dust jacket with matching ISBN and original printed price intact. All points consistent with a true First Edition, First Printing. Po Bronson (b. 1964) is an American journalist and author known for chronicling Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial culture. A longtime contributor to Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Magazine, Bronson gained national attention with his novels Bombardiers (1995) and The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (1997). The Nudist on the Late Shift established him as one of the leading narrative voices documenting the rise of late-20th-century tech culture. Book design by Barbara M. Bachman (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010
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Librería: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de AmericaVero Beach Books
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition cream boards, red cloth spine and copper spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Praise for Juliet; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Shakespeare; The Prologue; Auth…or's Note and About the Author. First Canadian edition, first printing. "Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly interwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail, all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away." -- Sara Gruen, author. "A magnificent contemporary take on the greatest loves story of all time. Epic, sensual, and fast-paced, Anne Fortier's Juliet will leave you stunned -- wideeyed and breathless, with the dust of 14th century Siena on yur brow. A truly astonishing debut." -- Tish Cohen, author. "A high-flying debut . Fortier navigates around false clues and twists, resulting in a . love story that reads like a Da Vinci Code for the smart modern woman." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review). "Ingenious, intriguing, a thrilling story that keeps you turning the pages. This is a wonderfully textured novel of history and imagination that brings Italy, past and present, beautifully to life." -- Kate Mosse, author. "Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key -- one carried by her mother on the day she hereself died -- to a safety deposit box in Siena, Italy. This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life forever -- a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor Giulietta Tolomei. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she met a young man named Romeo. Their ill-fated love turned medieval SIena upside down and went on to inspire generations of poets and artists, the story reacching its pinnacle in Shakespeare's famous tragedy. But six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and Julie begins to discover that here, in this ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart. The deeper she delves into the history of Romeo and Giulietta, and the closer she gets to the treasure they allegedly left behind, the greater the danger surrounding her -- superstitions, ancient hostilities, and personal vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families involved in the unforgettable blood feud, she begins to fear that the notorious curse -- "A plague on both your houses!" -- is still at work, and that she is destined to be its next target. Only someone like Romeo, it seems, could save her from this dreaded fate, but his story ended long ago. Or did it? Frm Anne Fortier comes a sweeping, beautifully written novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied -- for better or worse -- to literatures's greatest star-crossed lovers." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flap. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Soudant, Shasti O'Leary (jacket design and illustrations); Henderson, David (author photograph) (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994
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Librería: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de AmericaVero Beach Books
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Very good condition blue boards/white cloth spine/black spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Christopher Andersen; Author Dedication; Author's Note; Epilogue;…Notes and Sources; Acknowledgments; Index and Photo Credits. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. Some rubbing at the upper front cover edge (see photographs); the volume is otherwise in fine condition. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square practically unread condition (see photograhs). "Michael Jackson was the most talked-about, written-about, and rumored-about pop star of all time even before headline-grabbing child sex-abuse charges threatened to end his career. That he is at the epicenter of the show-business scandal of the century seems only fitting: Michael Jackson is, after all, generally conceded to be the greatest entertainer of our time. Reclusive, enigmatic, and utterly fascinating, he is also the man for whom the word "bizarre" might have been invented. Now bestselling author Christopher Andersen strips away the mystique with the first comprehensive, uncompromising biography of the most controversial person - male or female - on the planet. Interviewing countless friends, advisers, family members, teachers, coworkers, business partners, neighbors, intimates, and employees, Andersen paints a mesmerizing, often shocking, portrayal of the Man in the Mirror. Michael Jackson Unauthorized is packed with startling revelations, including: New deatils of his relationships with Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Onassis, Brooke Shields, Tatum O'Neal, Prince, Kate Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Madonna - as well as sisters La Toya and Janet; Michael's fascination with the occult and the Mafia; The true extent of his plastic surgery, and the strange reasons behind Jackson's desperate efforts to remake himself; A rare behind-the-scenes glimpse inside Jackson's billion-dollar business empire as well as his schemes for creating controversies to keep him in the public eye - and how that strategy backfired spectacularly; From his "family" of mannequins, his hyperbaric chamber, and the Elephant Man's bones to the single glove and the surgical masks - why Michael cultivated his image as the Wizard of Odd; Michael's history of panic attacks and breakdowns - and how drug addiction pushed him to the brink of suicide; The full, untold story of Michael and his "special friends" - what really happened between this modern Pied Piper and his followers. Here is Michael Jackson in all his brilliance and complexity: the crotch-grabbing sex symbol who at thirty-six remains a virgin; the preening narcissist who hates his face so much he transforms it through plastic surgery; the diehard promoter of family virtues who resents his own; the man who never had a childhood - and the child who never grew up. As compelling and provocative as its subject, Michael Jackson Unauthorized chronicles in searing detail the meteoric rise and astonishing fall of the world's greatest living pop culture icon." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Corsillo/Manzone (jacket design); Gunderson, Gary (author photograph) (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Random House, New York, 2017
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Librería: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de AmericaVero Beach Books
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, red spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Robert D. Kaplan; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Hart Cra…ne, "To Brooklyn Bridge" 1930; Invocation; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Some Works Relevant to the Text; Notes; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with preliminary page map and black-and-white photograph. "At a time when there is little consensus about who we are and what we should be doing with our power overseas, a return to the elemental truths of the American landscape is urgently needed. From Robert D. Kaplan, one of the world's most influential geopolitical thinkers and the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts, comes an incisive portrait of the continent from the thinly soiled Great Plains to the river system of the Midwest. Earning the Rockies shows how geography will always determine America's role in the world. As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. There was a specific phrase from Kaplan's childhood that captured this perspective: A westward traveler must "earn the Rockies" by driving - not flying - across the flat Midwest and Great Plains. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Traveling west, in the same direction as the pioneers, Kaplan traverses a rich and varied landscape that remains the primary source of American power. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline - increasingly cosmopolitan cities that thrive on globalization, impoverished towns denuded by the loss of manufacturing - and paints a bracingly clear picture of America today. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light - as a story not just of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain, a frontier experience that bent our national character toward pragmatism. Kaplan shows how the great midcentury works of geography and geopolitics by Bernard DeVoto, Walter Prescott Webb, and Wallace Stegner are more relevant today than ever before. Concluding his journey at Naval Base San Diego, Kaplan looks out across the Pacific Ocean to the next frontier: China, India, and the emerging nations of Asia. And in the final chapter, he provides a gripping description of an anarchic world and explains why America's foreign policy response ought to be rooted in its own geographical situation. In this short, intense meditation on the American landscape, Robert D. Kaplan reminds us of an overlooked source of American strength: the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once. Earning the Rockies is a reminder of how a nation's geography still foreshadows its future, and how we must reexamine our own landscape in order to confront the challenges that lie before us." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bordwin, Gabrielle (jacket design); Bachman, Barbara M. (book design) (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Random House, New York, 2015
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Librería: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de AmericaVero Beach Books
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, white spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by David Brooks; Author Dedication; Introduction: Adam II; Acknowledgments; N…otes; Permission Credits; Index and About the Author. "I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it." - from the Introduction and inner front jacket flap. "With the wisdom, humor, curiousity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our "resume virtues" - achieving wealth, fame, and status - and our "eulogy virtues," those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, or faithfulness, focusing on what kind of relationships we have formed. Looking to some of the world's greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade. Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth. "Joy," David Brooks writes, "is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); White, Eric (jacket design); Wiseman, Ben (jacket illustration) (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Crown, New York, 2020
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Librería: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de AmericaVero Beach Books
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition dark gray boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Erik Larson; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Winston Churchill;… A Note to Readers; Epilogue; Sources and Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a preliminary page black-and-white map and black-and-white photographic frontispiece. "Fresh, fast and deeply moving." - Candice Millard, The New York Times Book Review. "Fascinating.The entire book comes at the reader with breakneck speed." - Minneapolis Star Tribune. "Spectacular.a fast-moving, immensely readable, and even warmhearted account of the battle to save Britain." - The Christian Science Monitor. "Erik Larson has done it again. [He] has once more captured an iconic historical moment and brought it vividly to life." - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny. "The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of leadership in a time of crisis. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-mimisterial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brighest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports - some released only recently - Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and those closest to him: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents' wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela's illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill's "Secret Circle," to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the VIle takes readers out of today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when - in the face of unrelenting horror - Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and family, together." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Ward, Jeffrey L. (map); Brand, Christopher (jacket design) (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Crown, New York, 2024
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition blue boards, black spine and copper spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Erik Larson; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Abraham L…incoln etc.; Dark Magic (A Note To Readers); Sources and Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Notes; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white map. "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile plunges us into the simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the flunky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passion of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Sumter - a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trilas of these five months were "so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them." At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter's commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable - one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink - a dark reminder that we often don't see a cataclysm coming until it's too late." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Kochman, Anna (jacket design); O'Brien, Tim (jacket illustration; Subin, Nina (author photograph) (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Random House, 2023
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, gold spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Lynne Olson; Author Dedication; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibli…ography; Photo Credits; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white photographic frontispiece and preliminary page map. "Empress of the Nile is an exhilarating in-depth look at a woman whose courage never faltered, whether she was facing Nazi interrogators, back-stabbing archaeologist colleagues, or the imminent destruction of the Egyptian monuments and artifacts she held most dear. Lynne Olson's richly detailed, heart-stopping biography takes the reader on a magnificent ride." - Fiona Davis, author. "The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: Fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs' rule, from drowning in the floodwaters of the massive new Aswan High Dam. But the extensive press coverage at the time overlooked the daring French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples would now be at the bottom of a vast reservoir. Their rescue was an unimaginably large and complex project requiring that the fragile sandstone temples be dismantled, stone by stone, and rebuilt on higher ground. A willful real-life version of Indiana Jones, Desroches-Noblecourt refused to be cowed by anyone or anything. During World War II she joined the French Resistance and was held by the Nazis; in her fight to save the temples she challenged two of the postwar world's most daunting leaders, Egypt's President Nasser and France's President de Gaulle. As she told a reporter, "You don't get anywhere without a fight, you know." Yet Desroches-Noblecourt was not the only woman who played an essential role in the historic endeavor. The other was Jacqueline Kennedy, who persuaded her husband to call on Congress to help fund the rescue effort. After years of Western plunder of Egypt's ancient monuments, Desroches-Noblecourt did the opposite. She helped preserve a crucial part of Egypt's cultural heritage, and made sure it remained in its homeland." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ".[the book] is a tonic for our times and a reminder that one unstoppable woman can bend history to her will." - Kati Marton, author. "Chrisiane Desroches-Noblecourt was one of the leading Egyptologists of the twentieth century, yet her remarkable achievements have received little attention. Lynne Olson has done her justice with this comprehensive biography." - Toby Wilkinson, author. "Empress of the Nile is the best sort of micro-history: both an intimate portrait of a groundbreaking woman and a whirlwind tour through major events and personalities of the twentieth century." - Lauren Willig, author. "Lynne Olson had found yet another fascinating unsung heroine: a French archaeologist with the moxie to take on the Egyptians, The Americans, and the French to save historic Egyptian temples." - Meryl Gordon, author. "A well-documented and sensitive portrait of a remarkable woman who shared her passion for Egypt and inspired so many others, myself included, to find their calling, while at the same time helping to reinvigorate the Louvre." - Henri Loyrette, honorary president and director of the Louvre Museum. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Allen, Victoria (jacket design); Archives Nationales de France, Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt (jacket images); Smith, Tamzin B. (author photographs) (ilustrador).
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: Random House Trade Paperbacks/An Imprint of The Random House Publishing Group/A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2005
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Like New. 2005 Random House Trade Paperback Editio. 363 + xvii + pp. Virtually flawless copy. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Peter Serling (Photo); Beck Stvan (Cover Design); Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images (Cover Photos); Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design) (ilustrad…or).
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Editorial: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2017
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Librería: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de AmericaVero Beach Books
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, black spine with gold spine lettering, and gold front cover Liveright Publishing "100 Years" decoration contained in an as new condition non price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by William…J. Cooper; Author Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white plate drawings plus black-and-white engraved frontispiece of John Quincy Adams. "Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Long relegated to the sidelnies of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) has never basked in the historical spotlight. Remembered, if at all, as an ineffective president during an especially rancorous time, Adams was humiliated in office after the contested election of 1824, viciously assailed by populist opponents for being both slippery and effete, and then resoundingly defeated by the western war hero Andrew Jackson, whose 1828 election ushered in an era of unparalleled expansion. Aware of this reputation yet convinced that Adams deserves a reconsideration, award-winning historian William J. Cooper has refraned the sixth president's life in an entirely original way, demonstrating that Adams should be considered our lost Founding Father, his morality and political philosophy the final link to the great visionaries who created our nation. As Cooper demonstrates, no one else in his generation - not Clay, Webster, Calhoun, or Jackson - ever experienced Europe as young Adams did, who at fourteen translated from French at the court of Catherine the Great. In fact, Adams's very exposure to the ideas of the European Enlightenment that had so influenced the Founding Fathers, including their embrace of reason, were hardly shared by his contemporaries, particularly those who could not countenance slaves as equal human beings. Such differences, as Cooper narrates, became particularly significant after Adams's failed presidency, when he, along with his increasingly reclusive wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, returned to Washington as a Massachusetts congressman in 1831. With his implacable foe Andrew Jackson in the White House, Adams passionately took up the antislavery cause. Despite raucous opposition from southern and northern politicians, Adams refused to relent, his protests so vehement that Congress enacted the gag rule in the 1830s specifically to silence him. With his impassioned public pronouncements and his heroic arguments in the Amistad trial, a defiant Adams was no longer viewed as a failed president but as a national, albeit curmudgeonly, hero, who finally collapsed on the floor of the House chamber in 1848 and died in the capital three days later. Ironically, Adams's death and the extraordinary obsequies produced an outpouring of national, and bipartisan, grief never before seen in the nineteenth century, as if the country had truly lost its last Founding Father. Now, in another fractious age, the courageous life of John Quincy Adams suddenly takes on renewed vigor and meaning, as Cooper's momentous biography so eloquently affirms." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Sainsbury, Jonathan (jacket design); Durand, A.B. (jacket engraving - source painting by T. Sully) (ilustrador).
Mary Diana Dods, a Gentleman and a Scholar : [The Astonishing Revelation of a Daring 170-Year -Old Deception]
Bennett, Betty T. [jacket design, Barbara M. Bachman; photo, Chad Evans Wyatt; art, H. B. Hall, Reginald Easton, Amelia Curran, Nagel and Weingaetner, Simon Jacques Rochart; book design, M. C. Demaio]
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991., 1991
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 303 pp. : illustrated ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0688087175 ; LCCN: 90-13473 ; OCLC: 22310692 ; sea green and red cloth with gold lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; "This is a story about tracking--and sidetracking. It began in 1973, when…I decided to edit the letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to better understand that author, who at nineteen wrote the novel Frankenstein.two men who appeared toward the end of the volume, David Lyndsay, a writer, and Walter Sholto Dougla s, the husband of Mary Shelley's dear friend Isabella Robinson Douglas.Buried in the letters referring to Lyndsay and Douglas was a tale of its own." [David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas were the same person, and despite historical and legal evidence to the contrary, that person was a woman]-- from the introduction and dustjacket. ; FINE/FINE. Book.
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition beige boards, blue spine, and copper spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Dr. Bob Rotella; Author Dedication; Introduction; Appendix A: Rotella's… Rules; Appendix B: Your Improvement Program and Acknowledgments. "My father spent many years teaching me to play golf, but when I reached the PGA Tour we realized that a poor short game was holding me back. My father suggested that Dr. Bob Rotella could help me reach my potential as a tournament golfer. Bob taught me a steady routine and has given me the confidence in my game to play at the highest level of competition." -- Davis Love III. "During the last thirteen years with Dr. Rotella's instruction, I have consistently improved my game, my scoring average, my skills, and my place on the money list on the PGA tour. If you follow his direction you will greatly enhance the chances of improving your own golf game." -- Brad Faxon, Top 10 Player on the PGA Tour and two -time member of the U.S. Ryder Cup Team. "Bob Rotella understands the importance of discipline and dedication to a well-thought-out plan for improvement. Patience, persistence, and trust are required, but progress will follow if you honor your committment to the plan he outlines. Doing so will bring tremendous feelings of satisfaction and pride." -- Tom Kite, 1992 U.S. Open Champion and 1997 U.S. Ryder Cup Captain. "Fifteen years ago, the average American male golfer's handicap was 16.2. The average female golfer's handicap was 29. Today, the average American male golfer's handicap is 16.2 and the average female golfer's is 29. American golfers have not gotten any better. World-renowned performance consultant and sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella . has written The Golf of Your Dreams for the golfer who is determined to get better but hasn't figured out how to go about it. Building on his success with golfers, Dr. Rotella now teaches and details a plan for lowering your handicap, ensuring your improvement if you follow his plan. His program for success in playing the golf of your dreams is based on strategies found to be successful with tour players such as Tom Kite, Brad Faxon, Pat Bradley, and Davis Love III, and is similar to approaches used by Rotella's other clients who are top athletes in a variety of different sports. . The Golf of Your Dreams offers a programmatic guide for getting down to scratch or single digits. It is an approach that Dr. Rotella and his clients have tested for over twenty years, one that has been proven to work consistently with all levels of golfers. Dr. Rotella knows that if you want to play your best golf ever, you must admit to yourself that you want to be good and that you have the necessary talent to play well. But that's not all. You must commit yourself to a process that will improve your game. In [the book] Dr. Rotella provides tips on how to: Choose the right teaching professional; Communicate your dreams and goals to your teacher; Get your teacher to teach you as a student serious about improving; Make a plan for improvement with your teacher and stay committed; Sustain and honor your commitment; Break old habits and develop new ones; Practice efficiently and effectively so you can take your learning from the practice are to the golf course. Dr. Rotella also discusses a piece of very good news for any golfer: Great physical ability is not required in order to play exceptional golf. Rotella demonstrates how characteristics such as desire, patience, and persistence, more than physical talent, enable golfers to improve their performance dramatically. When these characteristics are combined with a proven plan for success, modest talent is more than enough. " -- excerpt from the front and rear jacket flaps. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design) (ilustrador).
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 419 pp. Stated first edition and third printing! Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal ext…ernal wear, crisp pages and clean text. Book's pages slightly warped cover to cover. Barbara M. Bachman (Jacket Design); E.K. Waller (Jacket Photo & Author Photo); Richard Oriolo (Design) (ilustrador).
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Editorial: Random House, New York, 2002
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition gold boards, red spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Note and Photo Credits. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "If you had to give A…merica a voice, it's been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson's. For more than fifty years, he's taken the stuff of his life - the good and the bad - and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of our musical heritage and kept us company through the good and the bad of our own lives. Long before he became famous as a performer, Willie Nelson was known as a songwriter, keeping his young family afloat by writing songs - like "Crazy" - that other people turned into hits. So it's fitting, and cause for celebration, that he has finally set down in his own words a book that does justice to his great gifts as a storyteller. In The Facts of Life, Willie Nelson reflects on what has mattered to him in life and what hasn't. He also tells some great dirty jokes. The result is a book as wise and hilarious as its author. It's not meant to be taken seriously as an instruction manual for living, but you could do a lot worse." - from the inner front jacket flap. Carpenter, ANdy (jacket design); Bachman, Barbara M. (book design) (ilustrador).
