Nine minutes later he returned to life. What he experienced would change him forever.

    Her recollections make a sparse and searing book, fragments of remembered feelings and occurrences that evoke perhaps better than most works something unfathomable.

    This is Sheila Hocken's own story. A story of a young blind girl who sets out to fight for the right to live fully and to see again. Sheila's account of the events and people that transformed her life is moving and inspiring. Sheila introduces Emma, her beautiful chocolate-brown labrador, whose devotion and intelligence as a guide dog are inspiring. We also meet Don, who brings romance into Sheila's life - through a radio program. And furthermore, Mr Shearing, the skilled surgeon who performs the miracle which gives Sheila a whole new world.

    New 16-page photo section and illustrations by Joni.Originally published in 1978, A Step Further is Joni Eareckson Tada's response to thousands of letters she received from people puzzled about the "whys" of suffering. Joni answers these questions by taking a personal look at how God has used circumstances, people, and events in her own life and the lives of others.A Step Further has been used by individuals, in hospitals and rehab centers, and in scores of countries overseas to bring comfort and peace to those who are suffering. It is available in over 30 different languages.

    Black Bolshevik is the autobiography of Harry Haywood, the son of former slaves who became a leading member of the Communist Part USA and a pioneering theoretician on the Afro-American struggle.The author’s first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the Scottsboro Boys’ defense, communist work in the South, the Spanish Civil War, the battle against the revisionist betrayal of the Party, and other history-shaping events are must reading for all who are interested in Black history and the working class struggle.

    In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and country music, he invented, almost single-handedly, what became known as soul. And throughout a career spanning more than a half century, Ray Charles remained in complete control of his life and his music, allowing nobody to tell him what he could and couldn't do.As the Chicago Sun-Times put it, Brother Ray is "candid, explicit, sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, always warm, touching and deeply human-just like his music."

    "An enchanting portrait of a girl's constant search for herself" (Library Journal). Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell; Index; photographs and drawings. Translated by Jean L. Sherman.

    This is a marvelous rags-to-riches autobiography, thoughtful, dramatic and funny, filled with perceptive details about events and personalities. In his parade of people and events, we meet Douglas MacArthur, both as outcast and conqueror; listen to a troubled Eisenhower preparing to lay aside his uniform and plunge into politics; visit Mao Tse-tung in his cave in Henan; and trace the power-curve of America's greatness across the glory years at home and abroad.Prologue: The StorytellerBoston: 1915-38Asia: 1938-45 Europe: 1948-53 America: 1954-63Epilogue: Outward BoundAcknowledgmentsIndex

    The police found the whip in an attache case left in a railway cloakroom by Neville George Cleverly Heath.Another notorious killer, John George Haigh, boasted that the murder of Mrs Durand-Deacon could not be proved without the body, which he though he had totally destroyed in a bath of sulphuric acid. Keith Simpson probed in the gravel where the sludge had been tipped and picked out a stone with polished facets. 'A lucky find,' commented a police officer when laboratory tests confirmed it was a human gallstone. 'I was looking for it,' answered the pathologist. Haigh's victim had suffered from gallstones, which are covered with acid-resistant fat.Keith Simpson's life as Home Office Pathologist is the inside story of forty years of sensational murders, including the cases of the Luton sack murder, the Chalkpit murder, both Heath and Haigh, Hanratty and the A6 murder, the Kray Gang murder at the 'Blind Beggar', and the mystery of Lord Lucan and the murdered nanny. With his acute powers of deduction, aided by an eye for the minutest detail, Professor Simpson has helped to prove the guilt, and sometimes the innocence, of hundreds of people charged with murder. He has also travelled abroad widely, and his overseas cases include the murder of King Ananda of Siam, and a number in a Caribbean including that of Gale Benson, who was executed at the orders of the Black Power leader Michael X.

    At the age of 29, he left behind a young widow, a baby daughter, and volumes of personal journals written over many years. In 1978, Revell published the complete and unabridged journals, edited by his widow, Elisabeth, and the journals have stayed in print ever since. And it's no wonder-Jim Elliot was an intelligent thinker and strong writer in these personal, yet universal, musings about faith, work, and love. The Journals of Jim Elliot is a wonderful account of the life of a man who yearns to know God's plan for his life, details his fascinating missions work, and loves Elisabeth-first as a single man, then as a happily married one. The Journals of Jim Elliot will intrigue fans of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, readers interested in missions, and young people struggling to find God's plan for their lives.

    Introduction • (1978) • essay by Betty BallantineDracula Meets the Wolfman • (1966) • interior artSwords of Mars • (1975) • interior art (variant of Cover: Swords of Mars/Synthetic Men of Mars)Girl Bathing • (1969) • interior art Bloodstone • (1975) • interior art (variant of Cover: Bloodstone)Aros • (1968) • interior art (variant of Cover: The Serpent)Bran Mak Morn • (1969) • interior art (variant of Cover: Bran Mak Morn)Nightstalker • (1970) • interior art Tarzan sketches • interior art Serpent • (1973) • interior art (variant of Cover: Ardor on Aros)Caveman sketches • interior artSketches • interior artCaveman & cavewoman sketches • interior artBlack Panther • (1973) • interior art (variant of Cover: The Land of Hidden Men)Autumn People • (1965) • interior art (variant of Cover: The Autumn People)Tanar of Pellucidar • (1973) • interior art (variant of Cover: Tanar of Pellucidar)Fire Demon • (1977) • interior art (variant of Cover: Swords Against Darkness)Rogue Roman • (1965) • interior art (variant of Rogue Roman cover)From the portfolio for Kubla Khan • interior art (variant of Kubla Khan Portfolio Plate 2 1977)Lioness Watching Cabin • (1977) • interior artGirl & Black Horse • interior art (variant of Cover: Women of the Ages Portfolio 1977)"I ran my sword through his heart from behind..." • (1975) • interior artThe Night They Raided Minsky's movie poster art • (1968) • interior artTarzan & the Ant Men • interior art (variant of Tarzan & the Ant Men proposal for cover art 1998)Girl with Sword • interior artIndian with the Long Rifle • interior art Nude with Dagger Raised • interior art Nude Holding Sword • interior artBear Watching Caveman Threaten Cub • (1969) • interior artGirl Observed by Undressed Man with Hat • (1969) • interior artIndian with Bow • interior art (variant of The Archer 1994)Nude in Pond • interior art (variant of Silent Breeze 1994)Animal sketches • interior artMonster Entering Space Vehicle • (1954) • interior art (variant of Famous Funnies #213 cover art)Attack • (1954) • interior art (variant of Famous Funnies #214 cover art)The Fastest Guitar in the World • (1968) • interior art by Frazetta & Jack Davis (variant of The Fastest Guitar Alive record cover) Roman Chariot • (1972) • interior artTarzan & the Jewels of Opar • (1963) • interior art (variant of Cover: Tarzan & the Jewels of Opar)Land of Terror • (1964) • interior art (variant of Cover: Land of Terror)Lost Continent • (1963) • interior art (variant of Cover: The Lost Continent)Female nude sketches • interior art Torture Garden • (1965) • interior art (variant of Cover: The Torture Garden)Kane on the Golden Sea • (1978) • interior art (variant of Cover: Darkness Weaves)Warrior with Ball & Chain • (1973) • interior art (variant of Cover: Flashing Swords! #1)Flashman on the Charge • interior art (variant of Flashman at the Charge, revised 1984)From the portfolio for Lord of the Rings • interior art (variant of Lord of the Rings Portfolio Plate 4 1975)Orcs—from the portfolio for Lord of the Rings • interior art (variant of Lord of the Rings Portfolio Plate 6 1975)Nightwinds (detail) • interior art

    With startling candor, Nixon reveals his beliefs, doubts, and behind-the-scenes decisions, shedding new light on his landmark diplomatic and domestic initiatives, political campaigns, and historic decision to resign from the presidency.Memoirs, spanning Nixon’s formative years through his presidency, reveals the personal side of Richard Nixon. Witness his youth, college years, and wartime experiences, events which would shape his outward philosophies and eventually his presidency—and shape our lives. Follow his meteoric rise to national prominence and the great peaks and depths of his presidency.Throughout his career Richard Nixon made extensive notes about his ideas, conversations, activities, meetings. During his presidency, from November 1971 until April 1973 and again in June and July 1974, he kept an almost daily diary of reflections, analyses, and perceptions. These notes and diary dictations, quoted throughout this book, provide a unique insight into the complexities of the modern presidency and the great issues of American policy and politics.

    Lerner, one of America’s most acclaimed and popular lyricists. Large-hearted, humorous, and often poignant in its reverence for a celebrated era in the American theater, this is the story of what Lerner calls "the sundown of wit, eccentricity, and glamour." Try as he might to keep himself out of these pages, Lerner reveals himself to be a man of great talent, laughter, and love. Along the way, we meet a sensational supporting cast: Moss Hart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, and Maurice Chevalier, to name a few. They are seen in moments of triumph and disaster, but all are professionals at the creation of theater. And the creation of theater is the matrix of this wonderful book. Included are the complete lyrics to My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot.

    You'll fall in love with her like everybody else."-Humphrey Bogart

    In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading in the deserts north of Reno, west of Sutcliffe on Pyramid Lake. Her ailing husband said, welcoming her to their new home, "There, old lady. There’s your home, and it’s damn near in the heart of Egypt." Olds tells of the hardships, frustrations, poverty, and other tribulations her family suffered from shortly after the turn of the century until well into the Great Depression. Through it all, however, runs a thread of humor, cheerfulness, and the ability to laugh at adversity. The foreword is by her daughter, Leslie Olds Zurfluh, the fourth of Sarah and A. J. Olds's six children.

    Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City--playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure.

    This expanded edition includes an all-new chapter with recent photos documenting Robin’s return to television as part of the new series produced by Mammoth Screen on behalf of the BBC and Masterpiece/PBS, with Aiden Turner as the new Poldark.First broadcast in the 1970s, this saga of thwarted love, passion and swashbuckling adventure set against hard times in 18th century Cornwall became an international sensation, popular in over 40 countries around the world.The memoir also describes the behind-the-scenes story of the original BBC/Masterpiece Theater series, the ongoing effect of ‘Poldark perks’ on Robin’s life, and his transformation into a cookbook author.Making Poldark is also available as an audiobook, read by the author.

    Beloved Swami Rudrananda outlines the concept of spiritual work, describes his life of disciplined yoga practices, puts into perspective the relationship of human beings to one another, and explores our basic need to grow--and the role played by the guru in fostering this development.

    It was an accident which altered his army career, a mistake which launched him into films. This second volume charts the ups and downs Bogarde experienced on the way to becoming one of the finest cinema actors of our time. It is also about the people who helped him in this game of 'snakes and ladders' - family and friends, actors and actresses, directors and producers, including Judy Garland.

    . .* What Isaac Asimov was like at 19.* The truth behind the great World SF Convention War of 1939.* How a teenager became a mover and shaker in the bizarre world of the pulp magazines.* The strange mating rites of the sf community.* How to represent most of the best sf writers and go broke.* The dreams of new worlds and universes behind a body of completely original writing that has enlarged the horizons of three generations of readers . . . and netted the writers ½¢ to 3¢ a word.From the moment he attended the first meeting of the Brooklyn chapter of the Science Fiction League, Fred Pohl was hooked. He and his friends founded and disbanded fan clubs with dizzying speed, then organized the fabled Futurians. At 19, he became editor of Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories, and, except for the war and a brief fling in the advertising business, has been almost totally involved in science fiction ever since.As an agent, he created the market for hardcover sf; as editor of Galaxy in the 60s, he shaped the field for most of a decade; his Star Science Fiction series pioneered the concept of original anthologies; and along with all that he produced a number of truly outstanding works of sf, including: The Space Merchants (with Cyril Kornbluth) and, most recently Man Plus and Gateway, voted the Best Novels of 1976 and 1977, respectively.It's been a long road, from the scruffy Ivory Tower where the Futurians denned to a time when much that was science fiction is now reality—and Fred Pohl retraces it with candor, wit, and abiding love.

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    The rat is "the unheralded game-animal of Great Britain," so much so that its proponents are feared and reviled as not quite "right." But from the time D. Brian Plummer received his first rat terrier at the age of 10, he dedicated himself to the sport of rat-catching using either dogs or ferrets. He actually enjoys killing rats and is pleased to share his techniques. Thank goodness for Plummer's wit and charm, which make the experience of reading about such nasty creatures a delight.

     It was the period of the “good” German, going along with the regime, controlled by the strident coercion of state propaganda or the brutality of the SS, overcome by lethargy or convinced that Hitler and his juggernaut were Germany’s destiny. But not all Germans. A few belonged, in the words of Winston Churchill, to the “greatest and most noble group in the political history of our times”. This is the story of these few who tried, by their own hand, to change the course of history by assassinating Hitler. Beginning in 1938, with a kidnap plan by General Ludwig Beck and Colonel Hans Oster, one desperate attempt followed another. At first, the motivation was to prevent the outbreak of another world war, later to stave off the ruination of Germany, and finally to salvage what little was left of personal honour. The would-be assassins included Wehrmacht officers, hardened company commanders led by Captain Freiherr Georg von Boeselager, noblemen such as Count Claus von Stauffenberg, a meek cabinetmaker, the patient Georg Elser, and Maurice Bavard, a drop-out from a French seminary. As one failure followed another — sometimes because of technical malfunctions, more often because of Hitler’s legendary animal instinct for danger — new assassins arose, driven to try again. In To Kill Hitler Herbert Molloy Mason investigates what it was that drove the would-be assassins on. His minute-by-minute descriptions of how they stalked the world’s biggest game make gripping reading, as events move inexorably from the first sparks of resistance to the Götterdämmerung of 1944 and 1945, when Hitler exacted his terrible revenge. Herbert Molloy Mason (1927-2013) was a noted writer of military history, and has written sixteen books, including The Lafayette Escadrille and The Rise of the Luftwaffe. He lived in San Antonio, Texas with his wife who was an artist.

    Ziglar's autobiography exclaims those born-again need not wander through life with long faces and short funds.

    The love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children are expressed here with power and simplicity. In the epilogue, Lynn Spradley as a teenager reflects upon being deaf, her education, her struggle to communicate, and the discovery that she was the focus of her father's and uncle's book. At once moving and inspiring, Deaf Like Me is must reading for every parent, relative, and friend of deaf children everywhere.

    

    One of the true classics of voyaging literature. Maps, photos.