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Published by A Deivision of Simon & Schuster, New York, New York 2004
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Writing on past down front end paper. Eric Fuentecilla, Lisa Chovnick (illustrator).
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Published by A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc, New York, New York 2004
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good Condition small stain on inside of jacket and and some damage to top of spine. Eric Fuentecilla, and many more (illustrator).
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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015
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Published by Perennial/ An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York 2001
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Perennial Ed Pub 2001. 278 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Very light damage to bottom of spine. Eric Fuentecilla (Cover Design) (illustrator).
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Published by Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, London, Toronto, ON, Canada, et al. 2004
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8th Printing. 304 pp. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Eric Fuentecilla (Jacket Design); Susan Steinkamp/Corbis, Brooks Craft/Corbis, Wally NcNamee/Corbis (Jacket Photos); AFP/Corbis (Author Photo); Lisa C…hovnick (Design) (illustrator).
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Published by HarperPerennial/ An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York 2002
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Perennial Edition/1st Printing. 241 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Eric Fuentecilla (Cover Design); Mark Sink/Graphistock (Cover Photo); Marion Erlinger (Author Photo); Betty Lew (Design) (illustrator).
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Published by Harper Perennial / An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, New York 2003
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Perennial Ed Publ. 2003, 1st Print. 479 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate wear. Clean text. Small tear on top of front cover page, near spine. Eric Fuentecilla (Cover Design); Hulton Archive (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 196 pp. Solidly bound showing minimal signs of wear. Only wear present is on bottom edge of DJ. Eric Fuentecilla (Jacket Design); Davina Mock (Designer) (illustrator).
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Published by The Free Press, New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney 2005
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 207 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Eric Fuentecilla (Jacket Design); Karolina Harris (Design) (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 382 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy and dj with crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's note on second front end page. Eric Fuentecilla (Jacket Design); Naum Kazhdam (Author Photograph); Susan Hood (Book Design) (illustrator).
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Published by William Morrow/Harper Collins, New York 2003
Series: Detective Jane Candiotti, Book 3 of 4. Book 3 of 4 - Detective Jane Candiotti
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Sacrifice by Clyde Phillips (First Edition) A sharp, tight, copy. A bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. The third book of the Jane Candiotti series. A Bestselling Author. Stated, "First Edition." First printing with a full number line 1- 10. Eric Fuenteci…lla(Jacket Design) (illustrator). BOOK.
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Published by Pantheon Books/ A Division of Random House, Inc., New York 1999
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: 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 (Design)… (illustrator).
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Published by Quill/An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York 2003
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Trade Paperback With Attached. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Quill Edition Published: 2003. 269 + xv + pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy and attached dust jacket with moderate overall wear and use. Copy with clean text. Attached dust jacket shows minor wear all around. Jessica Shatan (Design); Eric… Fuentecilla (Cover Design); Patricia Eagan (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 222 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dust jacket with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Eric Fuentecilla (Jacket Design); Gregory Heisler (Jacket Photo); Miki Duisterhof (Authors Photo); Richard Oriolo (Design) (illustrator).
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Published by University of Illinois Press 2013
Series: Asian American Experience, Book 11 of 34. Book 11 of 34 - Asian American Experience
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Published by University of Illinois Press 2013
Series: Asian American Experience, Book 11 of 34. Book 11 of 34 - Asian American Experience
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Published by University of Chicago press 2013
Series: Asian American Experience, Book 11 of 34. Book 11 of 34 - Asian American Experience
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Top corners slightly bumped on book & DJ. Inscribed by the author on half-title page: "To _____ with hope you find grace in your life. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, Jan 23, 2004." 272 pp with 8 pages of black and white photographs. "In her widely acclaimed, bestselling memoir,… The Sweeter the Juice, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip asked us to redefine our concepts of race and family by examining her biracial heritage - how different gradations of dark and light skin led to a split in her mother's nuclear family, and how various relatives have been reunited many years later, some of them previously unaware of their layered racial makeup. In this eloquent, moving and eagerly awaited continuation of her story, Haizlip pushes further into the fascinating terrain of family, race, and racial passing. Just over ten years ago, Haizlip's African American mother was reunited with her sister, who had spent her whole life passing for white; both women were in their eighties and had not seen or heard anything about each other since early childhood. Now Haizlip answers the many questions that linger from the previous book: What happened between these long-separated sisters after their reunion? What did they learn about each other, and about themselves? Is it possible to heal the wounds caused by such a rift? . . . These women and other members of the author's extended family come vividly, achingly to life in these pages, turning this astute cultural investigation into a poignant, delightful, and highly personal narrative."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author. Illustrated by Fuentecilla, Eric [cover] (illustrator).
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Published by MO - University of Illinois Press 2013
Series: Asian American Experience, Book 11 of 34. Book 11 of 34 - Asian American Experience
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Published by Simon and Schuster, New York 2001
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. New condition light silver boards, black spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a near fine condition illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Judith Miller and William Broad; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by William Shakespeare; Pre…face; Conclusions; Notes; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Authors. A 1 inch blemish along the upper front jacket edge; otherwise the jacket is in as new condition (see photographs). "Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomblets spewing anthrax spores over battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square - these are the poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons of mass destruction that can be made in a simple laboratory. In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Judith, Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad of The New York Times uncover the truth about biological weapons and show why bio-warfare and bio-terrorism are fast becoming our worst national nightmare. Among the startling revelations in Germs: How the CIA secretly built and tested germ bomblets, alarming officials who felt the work violated the treaty banning biological weapons; How the Pentagon embarked on a secret effort to make a superbug; Details about the Soviet Union's massive hidden program to produce biological weapons, including new charges that germs were tested on humans; How Moscow's scientists made an untraceable germ that instructs the body to destroy itself; The Pentagon's chaotic efforts to improvise defenses against Iraq's biological weapons during the 1991 Persian Gulf War; How a religious cult in Oregon in the 1980s sickened hundreds of Americans in a bio-terrorism attack that the government played down to avoid panic and copycat strikes; Plans by the U.S. military in the 1960s to attack Cuba with germ weapons. Germs also shows how a small group of scientists and senior officials persuaded President Bill Clinton to launch a controversial multibillion-dollar program to detect a germ attack on U.S. soil and to aid its victims - a program that, so far, is struggling to provide real protection. Based on hundreds of interviews with scientists and senior officials, including President Clinton as well as on recently declassified documents and on-site reporting from the former Soviet Union's sinister bio-weapons labs, Germs shows us bio-warriors past and present at work at their trade. There is the American scientist who devoted his professional life to perfecting biological weapons, and the Nobel laureate who helped pioneer the new biology of genetically modified germs and is now trying to stop its misuse. We meet former Soviet scientists who made enough plague, smallpox, and anthrax to kill everyone on Earth and whose expertise is now in great demand by terrorists, rogue states, and legitimate research labs alike. A frightening and unforgettable narrative of cutting-edge science and spycraft, Germs shows us why advances in biology and the spread of germ weapons expertise to such countries as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea could make germs the weapon of the twenty-first century." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Fuentecilla, Eric (jacket design); Kazhdam, Naum (author photograph) (illustrator).
Published by Free Press, New York 2008
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. The Mylar-protected dust-jacket, book binding, and interior are spotless. 240 pgs. This book sold new for $25.00 in the U.S.A. Eric Fuentecilla (jacket design) (illustrator).
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Published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, New York 2004
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine unread condition beige boards, blue spine and gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Eugene Robinson; Author Dedication; Introduction: Drum… Roll; Appendix: A Listener's Guide to Cuba; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself - yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba. To more fully understand the future of America's near neighbor, veteran reporter Eugene Robinson knew exactly where to look - or rather, to listen. In this provocative work, Robinson takes us on a sweaty, pulsating, and lyrical tour of a country on the verge of revolution, using its musicians as a window into its present and future. Music is the mother's milk of Cuban culture. Cubans express their fondest hopes, their frustrations, even their political dissent, through music. Most Americans think only of salsa and the Buena Vista Social Club when they think of the music of Cuba, yet those styles are but a piece of a broad musical spectrum. Just as the West learned more about China after the Cultural Revolution by watching From Mao to Mozart, so will readers discover the real Cuba - the living, breathing, dying, yet striving Cuba. Cuban music is both wildly exuberant and achingly melancholy. A thick stew of African and European elements, it is astoundingly rich and influential to have come from such a tiny island. From rap stars who defy the government in their lyrics to violinists and painists who attend the world's last Soviet-style conservatory to international pop stars who could make millions abroad yet choose to stay and work for peanuts, Robinson introduces us to unforgettable characters who happily bring him into their homes and backstage discussions. Despite Castro's attempts to shut down nightclubs, obstruct artists, and subsidize only what he wants, the musicians and dancers of Cuba cannot stop, much less behave. Cubans move through their complicated lives the way they move on the dance floor, dashing and darting and spinning on a dime, seducing joy and fulfillment and next week's supply of food out of a broken system. Then at night they take to the real dance floors and invent fantastic new steps. Last Dance in Havana is heartwrenching, yet ultimately as joyous and hopeful as a rocking club late on a Saturday night." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Fuentecilla, Eric, (jacket design); Corbis (jacket photographs) (illustrator).
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Published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, New York 2008
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine condition blue boards/red spine/silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedications; Prologue; and About the Authors. AIso includes a fine condition 2012 USA Olympi…cs lenticular bookmark. Illustrated with a section of color photographic plates. The lower half of the right front cover edge is lightly rubbed (see photographs). The volume is otherwise in fine condition with all pages in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding in exceedingly square and tight unread condition (see photographs). "So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits." - from the rear outer jacket. " "When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there." Michael Phelps is one of the greatest competitors the world has ever seen. From teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenom in Athens, he is now -- after the Beijing Games -- a living Olympic legend. With an unprecedented eight gold medals and world record times in seven events, his performance at the 2008 Games set a new standard for success. He ranks among the most elite athletes in the world, and is both an inspiration and a role model to millions. The incredible focus he exhibits in practice and during competition propels him forward to his unrivaled excellence. In No Limits, Michael Phelps reveaals the secrets to his remarkable success, from his training regimen to his mental preparation and, finally, to his performance in the pool. Behind Phelps's tally of Olympic gold medals lies a consistent approach to competition, a determination to win, and a straightforward passion for his sport. Like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, he has learned to filter out distractions and deliver stellar performance under pressure. The road has not always been easy: From the very beginning, Phelps had to overcome physical setbacks and emotional trials. When he was younger, he was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; other kids bullied him; even a teacher said he would never be successful. Later, he had to work through injuries that jeopardized his career. In this book, Phelps talks for the first time about how he has overcome these and other challenges - about how to develop the mental attitude needed to persevere, not just in athletic competition but in life. His success is imbued with the perspective of overcoming the obstacles that come your way and believing in yourself no matter the odds. No Limits explores the hard work, commitment, and sacrifice that go into reaching any goal. Wheter it is on the starting block during an Olympic swim meet or in the weight room on a typical day, Phelps's dedication has led him to unparalleled excellence. Filled with anecdotes from family members, friends, teammates, and his coach, No Limits gives a behind-the-scenes look at the makings of a real champion. One of Phelps's mottos is "Performance Is Reality," and it typifies his attitude toward achieving his goals. It's easy to get bogged down by doubt or to lose focus when a challenge seems out of reach, but Phelps believes that you can accomplish anything if you fully commit yourself to it. Using the eight final swims of the Beijing Olympics as a model, No Limits is a step-by-step guide to realizing one's dream." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Fuentecilla, Eric (jacket design) (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Univ of Illinois Pr 2013
Series: Asian American Experience, Book 11 of 34. Book 11 of 34 - Asian American Experience
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Language: English
Published by University of Illinois Press, Baltimore 2013
Series: Asian American Experience, Book 11 of 34. Book 11 of 34 - Asian American Experience
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, Jose V. Fuentecilla describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in this victory, acting as… the overseas arm of the opposition to help return their country to democracy. A member of one of the major U.S.-based anti-Marcos movements, Fuentecilla tells the story of how small groups of Filipino exiles--short on resources and shunned by some of their compatriots--arrived and survived in the United States during the 1970s, overcame fear, apathy, and personal differences to form opposition organizations after Marcos's imposition of martial law, and learned to lobby the U.S. government during the Cold War. In the process, he draws from multiple hours of interviews with the principal activists, personal files of resistance leaders, and U.S. government records revealing the surveillance of the resistance by pro-Marcos White House administrations. The first full-length book to detail the history of U.S.-based opposition to the Marcos regime, Fighting from a Distance provides valuable lessons on how to persevere against a well-entrenched opponent. Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by University of Illinois Press 2013
Series: Asian American Experience, Book 11 of 34. Book 11 of 34 - Asian American Experience
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Condition: New. Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 184 pages, 9 black and white photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 3JJPN; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV; JF…FN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302. . 2013. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .
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Published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, New York 2009
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition gold boards, black spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preface; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Author.… "From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her newsbreaking warnings of a crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool's Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the heart of the 2008 meltdown. Drawing on exclusive access to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and a tightly bonded team of bankers known on Wall Street at the "Morgan Mafia," as well as in-depth interviews with dozens of other key players, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Tett brings to life in gripping detail how the Morgan team's bold ideas for a whole new kind of financial alchemy helped to ignite a revolution in banking, and how that revolution escalated wildly out of control. The deeply reported and lively narrative takes readers behind the scenes to the inner sanctums of elite finance and to the secretive reaches of what came to be know as the "shadow banking" world. The story begins with the intense Morgan brainstorming session in 1994 beside a pool in Boca Raton, where the team cooked up a dazzling new idea for the exotic financial product known as credit derivatives. That idea would rip around the banking world, catapult Morgan to the top of the turbocharged derivatives trade, and fuel an extraordinary banking boom that seemed to have unleashed banks from ages-old constraints of risk. But when the Morgan team's derivatives dream collided with the housing boom, and was perverted - through hubris, delusion, and sheer greed - by titans of banking that included Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, and the thundering herd at Merrill Lynch - even as J.P. Morgan itself stayed well away from the risky concoctions otehrs were peddling - catastrophe followed. Tett's access to Dimon and the J.P. Morgain leaders who so skillfully steered their bank away from the wild excesses of others sheds invaluable light not only on the untold story of how they engineered their bank's escape from carnage but also on how possible it was for the larger banking world, regulators, and rating agencies to have spotted, and heeded, the terrible risks of a meltdown. A tale of blistering brilliance and willfully blind ambition, Fool's Gold is both a rare journey deep inside the arcane and wildly competitive world of high finance and a vital contribution to understanding how the worst economic crisis sicne the Great Depression was perpetrated." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Fuentecilla, Eric, (jacket design); Puetzer, Steven (jacket photograph) (illustrator).
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