Published by Carroll & Graf, 1998
ISBN 10: 0786704624 ISBN 13: 9780786704620
Seller: Orion Tech, Kingwood, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Good.
Published by Carroll & Graf February 1993, 1993
ISBN 10: 0881843717 ISBN 13: 9780881843712
Seller: Eagle Eye Books, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condition: Used.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786718684 ISBN 13: 9780786718689
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. In the first biography of Joan Crawford to give the full, uncensored story, bestselling author David Bret tells Crawford's rags to riches climb, from working in a Kansas City laundry to collecting an Oscar for her defining role in Mildred Pierce, and on to her devotion to Christian Science and reliance on vodka. He discusses the star's legendary relationship with Clark Gable, her countless love affairs, her marriages ? three of them to gay men ? and her obsession with rough sex. Bret divulges what really happened that led her to disinherit two of her four children, earning her the nickname "Mommie Dearest," as well as how her loathed mother forced Crawford to work as a prostitute, appear in pornographic films, and sleep her way to the top.Bret analyzes Crawford's films, many of which were constructed purely as vehicles where actress and character were often indistinguishable. Overtly generous towards her coterie of gay friends, she was heartless towards her enemies, particularly Bette Davis, her co-star in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, with whom she shared a lifelong feud.Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material and interviews, David Bret presents a unique, fascinating portrait of a single-minded, uncompromising woman.
Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005
ISBN 10: 0786714417 ISBN 13: 9780786714414
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ultimate Sacrifice reveals, for the first time, John and Robert Kennedy's plan for a coup in Cuba on December 1, 1963 ? a plan that involved a U.S. military invasion. Unique, distinctly different, and far more advanced than any previously disclosed operation, this plan is corroborated by many declassified military and CIA documents that have never been quoted in any book before. It provides the missing piece of the puzzle regarding JFK's murder, and explains why Bobby Kennedy told close associates that the Mafia was behind his brother's assassination.The Mafia had managed to infiltrate the Kennedys' intended coup. Ultimate Sacrifice describes and documents an attempt they made to kill JFK in a motorcade several days prior to Dallas. This attempt had more than a dozen parallels to Dallas.Building on the work of the seven governmental committees that investigated aspects of JFK's assassination, the four million documents that were declassified in the 1990s, and exclusive interviews with many Kennedy insiders, the authors are able to tell the full story of these incidents.? Ultimate Sacrifice Makes News with Kennedy's Cuba Coup Plan? New History Reveals Previously Unknown CIA Code Name ? As Well As Linked Assassination Attempt.
Published by CARROLL & GRAF, 2005
ISBN 10: 0786715472 ISBN 13: 9780786715473
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A brilliant, sobering, highly readable, and utterly fascinating rumination on the hubris at the heart of human development and the pitfalls we still may have time to avoidEach time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. We live at a time of runaway growth in human numbers, consumption, and technology. The great question we now face is how, and whether, this can go on. Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament, though new in scale, is as old as humankind.A Short History of Progress is nothing less than a concise history of the world since Neanderthal times, elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly clear in its warming to us now. Wright shows how human beings have a way of walking into \"progress traps,\" beginning with the worldwide slaughter of big game in the Stone Age. The same pattern of overconsumption then took a new form as many of the world\'s most creative civilizations--Mesopotamia, the Maya, the Roman Empire--fell victim to their own success.Only by understanding our pattern of progress and disaster, Wright contends, can we hope to change our ways and ensure that civilization has a longterm future.\"[Ronald Wright] is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures.\"--Jan Morris\"A wise, timely, and brilliant book.\"--Toronto Globe and Mail.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1993
ISBN 10: 0881848840 ISBN 13: 9780881848847
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. A thrilling tale of a struggle to save Earth from Armageddon, written by one of the crucial authors of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Disaster is quickly approaching and the only ones who know of it are Allison Stephens and a group of ancient sinister aliens. Now the aliens plan to abandon Earth and seek a new home. \"Packed with unexpected surprises.\"--SF Booklist.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 0881846015 ISBN 13: 9780881846010
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Against the backdrop of the early part of World War II and the arrival of energetic refugees from Eastern Europe, the English gentry try to find love and happiness.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2004
ISBN 10: 0786714565 ISBN 13: 9780786714568
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Tea came late to England?after its arrival in Portugal, Holland, and France?but quickly became a national obsession. Tea gardens and shops sprang up everywhere in seventeenth-century England. Demand soon spread to the colonies, where the heavy taxation on tea led to smuggling on a massive scale and, in the New World, cost England her American empire. Tea drove the British to war with China, to guarantee the supply of pekoe, and it prompted colonists to clear jungles in India, Ceylon, and Africa for huge tea plantations. In time, the cultivation of tea would subject more than one million laborers to wretched working conditions. Hundreds of thousands of them would die for the commodity that for four centuries propelled Britain\'s economy and epitomized the reach of its empire. With the same colorful detail and narrative skill that pushed The Great Hedge of India to international success, author Roy Moxham, once a tea planter himself, maps the impact of a monumental and imperial British enterprise. In this new volume, he offers a fully fascinating, and frequently shocking tale of England\'s tea trade?of the lands it claimed, the people it exploited, the profits it garnered, and the cups it filled.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786717939 ISBN 13: 9780786717934
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would ?own? him. Forced to remain silent about his rape by a convict code among inmates (one in which informers are murdered), Parsell?s experience that first night haunted him throughout the rest of his sentence.In an effort to silence the guilt and pain of its victims, the issue of prisoner rape is a story that has not been told. For the first time Parsell, one of America?s leading spokespeople for prison reform, shares the story of his coming of age behind bars. He gives voice to countless others who have been exposed to an incarceration system that turns a blind eye to the abuse of the prisoners in its charge. Since life behind bars is so often exploited by television and movie re-enactments, the real story has yet to be told. Fish is the first breakout story to do that.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786718560 ISBN 13: 9780786718566
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. From ?Longing,? ?Wonder,? ?Beauty,? and ?Love? to ?Grief,? ?Vanity,? and ?Pride,? Sister Wendy Beckett collects and comments on the poems and lines from poems that move her most and speak directly to her and our hearts. Speaking to the Heart: 100 Favorite Poems includes her thoughts and meditations on the different themes that organize the book, and her comments illuminate the poetry and describe the lives of the poets.
Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1999
ISBN 10: 0842308245 ISBN 13: 9780842308243
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face of astounding obstacles. A bestseller since it was first published in 1959, Alfred Lansing\'s Endurance now features a foreword and afterword from Dr. James Dobson--inspiring every reader to persevere no matter how impossible the challenge.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786717548 ISBN 13: 9780786717545
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. This is the revised and expanded edition of the most sought-after guide for everyone seeking grants: nonprofits, state and local governments, universities, school administrators, teachers, artists, and those seeking funds for scholarly and cultural enterprises. Written by two authors who have won millions of dollars in grants ? and updated to include vital information and advice accumulated since The Only Grant-Writing Book You?ll Ever Need first appeared ? this new edition provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for grant writers, demystifying the process while offering indispensable advice from funders and grant recipients. It includes the following.? Guidance on developing a realistic, cost-effective, collaborative program? Concrete suggestions (with practice exercises and examples) for approaching each section of a grant so that the proposal is absolutely clear to the funder? A glossary of terms with any word, phrase, or concept a grant writer may need, plus fifty tips for writing a winning proposal? Funders roundtables put you inside the minds of the people who award grants.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1993
ISBN 10: 0881848905 ISBN 13: 9780881848908
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Margery Allingham, the ever popular master of detective fiction, offers readers a feast of exotic and entertaining adventures starring her beloved sleuth Albert Campion, hero of a PBS Mystery! series. \"All impeccably written and gripping\".--Manchester Evening News.
Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003
ISBN 10: 0786710691 ISBN 13: 9780786710690
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Combining classic stories with never-before-published work, The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road travels along exotic as well as familiar pathways, covering territory from the erotic and romantic, to the chilling, adventurous, and humorous. From trails carved through dense jungle to six-lane superhighways, these travelers? tales comprise cops and robbers barrelling down mean streets, summer roadtrip vacations gone wildly wrong, sentimental journeys made in hope and despair, wandering wise men, and post-apocalyptic road warriors. Created by master anthologist Maxim Jakubowski, this Mammoth collection features a mixture of legendary road stories plus a selection of brand-new, especially commissioned pieces. Includes excerpts from classics such as Kerouac?s On the Road, Steinbeck?s Travels with Charley, and James Ellroy?s Killer on the Road. There are also complete reprints of favorite stories such as John Hughes?s ?Vacation ?58? and hidden gems by the likes of Ed McBain, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, Lee Child, and Michael Dibden. The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road also picks up new works from contemporary authors such as Alex Garland, Thomas S. Roche, Matt Thorne, Stella Duffy, and many others.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2002
ISBN 10: 0786711256 ISBN 13: 9780786711253
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A tan to the pages.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1998
ISBN 10: 0786705744 ISBN 13: 9780786705740
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. A compendium of articles and interviews about film noir and its spin-offs--novels, TV and radio shows, and comic books--pays homage to the leading actors and writers of the genre and includes an essay by Stephen King. Original. 20,000 first printing.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2002
ISBN 10: 0786710292 ISBN 13: 9780786710294
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. The action is violent, the characters are tough, the atmosphere?s dark, the tone impersonal, the speech colloquial, and the voice of the author, whatever his origins or background, authentically American. Hard-boiled crime fiction, which captured the national imagination in the bitter, hard-bitten 1930s and flourished for many decades after, is a leading example of endemically American literary prose. Certainly, in the work of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald, which featured maverick, independent-minded private eyes like Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Lew Archer, emerges a distinctively American kind of hero. Amply illustrated with personal photographs and with reproductions of manuscript pages, letters, print ads, movie promotions, dust jackets, and paperback covers, this volume provides a documentary chronicle of the life beyond and the work behind the creation of some of the most masterly detective novels in popular American literature. Correspondence and interviews record the literary tastes and intents of Chandler, Hammett, and Macdonald as well as their responses to judgments of their work in reviews of their books and the movies based on them. A generous selection of the reviews themselves conjure the larger literary climate of the times and provide the evaluations of influential contemporary critics?among them, the distinguished writer Eudora Welty, who initiated a reappraisal of the entire Macdonald canon. In all, this engaging, informative look at Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald and their hard-boiled detective novels offers in a single volume a wide variety of resources by which to view afresh a singularly American literary accomplishment.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 2004
ISBN 10: 078671476X ISBN 13: 9780786714766
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. The author of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner presents more than forty pieces of short fiction encompassing the author\'s entire career, mostly celebrating working class life in America. Reprint.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1993
ISBN 10: 088184988X ISBN 13: 9780881849882
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Anthony Brydon, a young British lawyer, intervenes when he sees a teenager being beaten by two men outside the town\'s new recreation center and discovers a world of secret corruption.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1996
ISBN 10: 0786703539 ISBN 13: 9780786703531
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Craig Bellman and his wife Effie purchase a derelict old mansion with a terrifying history of tragedy and death, and despite efforts to rid the mansion of evil vibrations via a local spiritualist, it appears that the spirit of the original owner, Jack Belias, is still with them.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2010
ISBN 10: 1593155824 ISBN 13: 9781593155827
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. You don??t need to have been born under a lucky star, or with incredible wealth, or with terrific contacts and connections, or even special skills.but what you do need to succeed in any of your life goals is self-discipline. Unfortunately, most people give in to the two worst enemies of success: they take the path of least resistance (in other words, they??re lazy) and/or they want immediate gratification: they don??t consider the long-term consequences of the actions they take today.No Excuses! shows you how you can achieve success in all three major areas of your life:1. Your personal goals.2. Your business and money goals.3. Your overall happiness.Each of the 21 chapters in this book shows you how to be more disciplined in one aspect of your life, with end-of-chapter exercises to help you apply the ?no excuses?? approach to your own life. With these guidelines, you can learn how to be more successful in everything you do?inste.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 0881846333 ISBN 13: 9780881846331
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Ed Jenkins pursues his own brand of justice in a quartet of stories--\"The Wax Dragon,\" \"Grinning Gods,\" \"Yellow Shadows,\" and \"The Blonde in Lower Six\"--all written in the 1920s.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1985
ISBN 10: 0881841889 ISBN 13: 9780881841886
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Gathers stories and real-life anecdotes about spies, spying, unusual encounters, disguises, and espionage techniques.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2004
ISBN 10: 0786713305 ISBN 13: 9780786713301
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bob Cooley was the Chicago Mafia?s fixer of court cases. During the 1970s and ?80s, Cooley bribed judges, juries, and cops to keep his Mob clients out of jail. Paid handsomely for his services, he lived fast and enjoyed the protection of the men he served. Yet, by the end of the ?90s, without a pending conviction, he became the star witness in nine federal trials that took down the most powerful Mafia family in the history of organized crime. When Corruption Was King is the story of a Mob lawyer turned mole with a million-dollar contract on his head who went back and forth between sin and sainthood?a turbulent youth, a stint on Chicago?s police force, law school, and then the inner sanctum of Chicago?s wiseguys. He dined with Mob bosses and shared ?last suppers? with friends before their gangland executions. In a startling act of conscience, Cooley walked into the office of the U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force and agreed to wear a wire on the very same Mafia overlords who had made him a player. This book, including eight pages of memorable photographs, reveals the personal story behind the federal government?s most successful Mafia investigation.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 10: 1450845800 ISBN 13: 9781450845809
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Against the backdrop of the early part of World War II and the arrival of energetic refugees from Eastern Europe, the English gentry try to find love and happiness.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786717785 ISBN 13: 9780786717781
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Apocalyptic, lyrical, and erotically charged, Sor Juana or the Breath of Heaven is a novel of genius, obsession, and mystery surrounding the Baroque-era Mexican nun, Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz. When she died in 1695, she was arguably the greatest writer working in any European tongue, though she never lived outside her native Mexico.Juana was a child prodigy whose beauty and wit provoked a sensation at the vice-regal court in Mexico City. At nineteen, though still a royal favorite, she chose to enter a convent. In the twenty years that followed, Juana created plays, theological arguments, and graceful, often sensuous poetry ? insisting upon a life of the mind for women, while jousting with the enforcers of the Inquisition. Then, at forty, Juana signed a vow of silence in her own blood, five years before succumbing to plague.This book plumbs the mystery of why such a gifted writer silenced herself. In his remarkable debut, Anderson unfolds three intimate journeys: a great poet?s withdrawal from the world; a man?s forced march to self-knowledge; and a mystic?s pilgrimage into modern Mexico, where the bones of the past continually intrude into a present built on the ruins of the vanquished.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 0881845795 ISBN 13: 9780881845792
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. VG/Vg+ condition, pages tight in creaseless spine.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1993
ISBN 10: 0786700262 ISBN 13: 9780786700264
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Book jacket/from back: Anthony Burgess has long been regarded as one of the most original and daring writers of our time. In Earthly Powers, Burgess has writtena book rich with astonishing powers and surprising events.
Published by Carroll & Graf Pub, 1992
ISBN 10: 0881848662 ISBN 13: 9780881848663
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Examines the reasons for the ongoing tension in America and criticizes government programs for isolating and alienating Blacks.
Published by Carroll & Graf, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786717955 ISBN 13: 9780786717958
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. In Just One More Thing Peter Falk ? award-winning actor ? takes us behind-the-scenes into his professional and private life. Starting in Hartford, where he worked as a management analyst for the Connecticut State Budget Bureau., Falk was no more successful than at an earlier attempt to work with the CIA. He then turned to an old college interest: acting. Falk came to prominence in 1956 in the successful Off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh. Although he worked continuously for the next three years, a theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of his glass eye. Surgeons had removed his right eye, along with a malignant tumor, when he was three years old.But in 1958, Falk landed his first movie, Murder Incorporated, and was nominated for an Oscar. A Pocketful of Miracles garnered his second Oscar nomination, but it was through his collaboration with filmmaker John Cassavetes that Falk entered into his most creative period in 1970 when movies such as A Woman Under the Influence helped launch the independent film movement.Through television, however, Falk reached his widest audience ? portraying the inimitable Lieutenant Columbo throughout the 1970s and winning four Emmys.