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Year after year, climbers
return to the world's most difficult mountains. At these
places, even the most cautious climber is vulnerable to
mistakes, bad weather and bad luck, which often leads to
death. This collection offers harrowing accounts of extreme
mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences. |
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The White Witch, Aslan, fauns
and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good
and evil—these have become a part of our collective
imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Yet who was the man who created this world? This
audio book attempts to unearth the making of the first Narnian, C. S. Lewis himself. One of the intellectual giants
of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential
religious writer of his day, Lewis was also an Oxford don
and a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate
philosophy at his local pub.
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Illness came calling when
Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. A young
television news producer with expectations of a limitless
future, his foreboding that his health was not quite right
turned into the harsh reality that something was very wrong
when diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. For thirty years
Cohen has done battle with MS only to be ambushed by two
bouts of colon cancer at the end of the millennium. And yet,
he has written a hopeful book about celebrating life and
coping with chronic illness. |
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Jack Welch knows how to win.
During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the
company to year-after-year success around the globe, in
multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest,
be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in
business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork, and
profits. Welch's optimistic, no excuses, get-it-done
mind-set is riveting. Packed with personal anecdotes and
written in Jack's distinctive no-b.s. voice, Winning is a
great read and a great business book. It offers deep
insights, original thinking, and nuts-and-bolts advice that
are bound to change the way people think about work. |
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Hampered, as he sees it, by a
family that never manages to be quite like other families,
he recounts his early years in Leeds - 'a place where one
learned early on the quite useful lesson that life is
generally something that happens elsewhere': there is hiking
every Sunday, trips into town and teas in cafes. It's an
ordinary childhood; Bennett's father's a butcher, his mother
a reader of women's magazines who dreams of coffee mornings
and cocktail parties and life 'Down South'.
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Based on newly released
personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson
explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk - a
struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a
teaching job or a doctorate - became the mind reader of the
creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the
atom and universe. His success came from questioning
conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck
others as mundane. This left him to embrace a morality and
politics based on respect for free minds, freee spirits, and
free individuals. |
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Gael Greene , the highly
respected restaurant critic for New York magazine, whose
fierce wit and sensuous prose changed the way Americans
think about food, and the author of the sensational
bestseller Blue Skies , and No Candy , lifts the lid on her
most provocative subject yet— herself. And oh, what a
pot-au-feu it is, bubbling over with piquant humor, saucy
erotic adventures, and some of the most lovingly described
meals in literature {at Le Pavillon, Lutece, Troisgros, Tour
d'Argent, La Pyramitle, Girardet, Le Bernardin). From
Manhattan's snootiest boites to the gourmand shrines of
France and Italy, this is the story of a woman who invented
a fabulous career out of dining on someone else's dollar.
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