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  Maybe You Never Cry Again

  Bernie Mac

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  The film, television, and comedy legend tells the hilarious and moving story of how tough love, and a sense of humor made him the man he is todayBy the tender age of five, Bernie Mac had found his calling: making others laugh. He has since become the star and cocreator of Fox’s hit sitcom The Bernie Mac Show; a stand-up legend; and a hit movie star in Head of State and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Now this amazing comedian delves deep down inside to retell the poignant and hilarious story of his childhood and the people who helped shape him into the comedian—and the strong and self-reliant man—he is today. When young Bernie Mac lost his beloved mother to breast cancer, and faced an astounding number of other hardships, he remembered the &#8220Mac-isms&#8221 she taught him: You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish. If you want a helping hand, look at the end of your arm. These tough-love lessons gave him an inner strength that led him to choose hope over despair, and to follow his dreams. Maybe You Never Cry Again is a powerful testament to how a mother’s love made everything possible for Bernie Mac by teaching him to believe in himself.

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  JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate...

  John Stuart Mill

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  John Stuart Mill is considered to be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, who contributed greatly to social theory, political theory and political economy. This meticulously edited collection covers all areas of the author's interests and clearly represents his work and principal ideals: hierarchy of pleasures in Utilitarianism, liberalism and early liberal feminism.
  Contents:   
  The Autobiography
  Utilitarianism 
  The Subjection of Women 
  On Liberty 
  Principles of Political Economy 
  A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive 
  Auguste Comte and Positivism 
  Three Essays on Religion 
  Considerations on Representative Government 
  England and Ireland 
  Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy 
  Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews 
  Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years 
  Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy 
  Socialism 
  Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment 
  The Contest in America 
  The Slave Power 
  Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform 
  A Few Words on Non-Intervention

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  Hanging in There - One Man and...

  Jon R. Chambers

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  The Red Bull X-Alps is the world's most extreme race. With only a paraglider and a pair of hiking boots athletes attempt to cross the Alps from Salzburg in Austria to Monaco. In this book, British athlete Jon Chambers brings you even closer to the action and reveals his personal story of his 2011 race. In doing so he reveals the harsh reality of what it takes to compete in this uniquely demanding challenge: the physical and mental hardship, equipment, extreme conditions, strategic thinking and lucky escapes.

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  On the Frontlines of the...

  Yasutsune Hirashiki

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  “The eyewitness accounts of the many phases of the war in this memoir bring events to life as if they had happened yesterday” (Vietnam Veterans of America Book Reviews).  On the Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune “Tony” Hirashiki’s ten years in Vietnam—beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera, but without a job or the slightest grasp of English, and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in 1975, when he was literally thrown on one of the last flights out.   His memoir has all the exciting tales of peril, hardship, and close calls of the best battle memoirs, but it is primarily a story of very real and yet remarkable people: the soldiers who fought, bled, and died, and the reporters and photographers who went right to the frontlines to record their stories and memorialize their sacrifice. If this was truly the first “television war,” then it is time to hear the story of the cameramen who shot the pictures and the reporters who wrote the stories that the average American witnessed daily in their living rooms.   An award-winning sensation when it was released in Japan in 2008, this book has been completely recreated for an international audience.   “Tony Hirashiki is an essential piece of the foundation on which ABC was built . . . Tony reported the news with his camera and in doing so, he brought the truth about the important events of our day to millions of Americans.” —David Westin, former President of ABC News

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  Super Jack - The Jack Grealish...

  Simon Goodyear

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  Manchester City have signed England midfielder Jack Grealish from Aston Villa for a British record £100m.
  The 25-year-old joins the Premier League champions on a six-year contract and will wear the number 10 shirt recently vacated by Sergio Aguero.
  The fee surpasses the £89m Manchester United paid to re-sign midfielder Paul Pogba from Juventus in 2016.
  "City are the best team in the country with a manager considered to be the best in the world," said Grealish. "It's a dream come true to be part of this club."
  Jack Grealish has the world at his feet but it hasn't been all plain sailing for the 25-year-old super-talented midfielder.
  He has come a long way since his loan spell with lowly Notts County in 2013 as a skinny 18-year-old. After making his Villa debut in the 2014/2015 season, Jack came to life in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool and helped his side progress to the final. However, Villa were relegated from the Premier League in the following season.
  Playing under the radar in the Championship for three seasons, Jack found his talents were mainly hidden from wider world; however, the Villa faithful all knew he was a 24-carat diamond in the making. Becoming captain in March 2019 was the making of him as Jack led Villa to a record 10 straight wins and the club back into the big-time.
  England beckoned and eventually came, making his debut in September 2020, and the country was astonished that our best player didn't play more minutes in England's run to the Euro 2020 Final against Italy.
  Obviously Man City boss Pep Guardiola has more faith in him than England manager Gareth Southgate as was evident when he made him Britain's most expensive footballer ever in early August 2021.

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  The Trials of Madame Restell -...

  Nicholas L. Syrett

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  For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. “Restellism” became the term her detractors used to indict her. Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work, greater sexual freedoms, changing views of the roles of motherhood and childhood, and fewer children being born to white, married, middle-class women, Restell came to stand for everything that threatened the status quo. From 1829 onward, restrictions on abortion began to put Restell in legal jeopardy. For much of this period, she prevailed—until she didn’t. A story that is all too relevant to the current attempts to criminalize abortion in our own age, The Trials of Madame Restell paints an unforgettable picture of the changing society of nineteenth-century New York and brings Restell to the attention of a whole new generation of women whose fundamental rights are under siege.

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