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  The Los Angeles Diaries - A Memoir

  James Brown

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  Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises and despair. In The Los Angeles Diaries he reveals his struggle for survival, mining his past to present the inspiring story of his redemption. Beautifully written and limned with dark humor, these twelve deeply confessional, interconnected chapters address personal failure, heartbreak, the trials of writing for Hollywood, and the life-shattering events that finally convinced Brown that he must "change or die." 
  In "Snapshot," Brown is five years old and recalls the night his mother "sets fire to an apartment building down the street," an act that splinters the family, later leading to their destruction. In "The Facts," he is a young writer and professor "afraid to step out of the darkness" and confront his double life as an addict. In "Daisy," Brown purchases a Vietnamese potbellied pig for his wife to atone for his sins, only to find himself engaged in a furious battle of man versus beast—with the pig's bulk growing in direct proportion to the tensions in his marriage.

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  Vladimir Putin: Tsar Of The 21st...

  HISTORY FOREVER

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  ★ Do you want to know about Vladimir Putin’s mindset, relationships or inner circle? ★ 
  ★ Perhaps you want to discover what shaped Putin’s Narcissistic Behaviours, Greed & Vanity?★ 
  If your answer is yes, get this book now because it focuses on just that! 
  In this book you will discover; 
  ·       The Rise of Vladimir Putin – 1999 
  ·       How can a KGB agent become President 
  ·       The Truth About Vladimir Putin's Time In The KGB 
  ·       Dictatorship and Putin’s Regime 
  ·       Alexander Litvinenko's murder 
  ·       The Rise Of Vladimir Putin in Football 
  ·       Greed and Opulence 
  ·       Vladimir Putin’s Relationships 
  ·       Vladimir Putin’s Mindset 
  ·       Vladimir Putin’s Inner Circle 
  ·       Vladimir Putin’s Way to Deal with Opposition 
  ·       Military Power & Invading Ukraine 
  ·       Narcissistic Behaviours 
  ·       Putin is Russia 
  ·       Who might be Putin’s Successor? 
  ★ BUY THIS BOOK NOW AND DISCOVER PUTIN’S LIFE TODAY! ★

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  A Short History of World War II

  James L. Stokesbury

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  A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written and eminently readable, it is factual and accurate enough to satisfy professional historians. A Short History of World War II will appeal equally to the general reader, the veteran who fought in the War, and the student interested in understanding the contemporary political world.

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  Lincoln's Last Hours

  Dr. Charles Augustus Leale

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  “I grasped Mrs. Lincoln’s outstretched hand in mine while she cried piteously to me, “Oh, Doctor! Is he dead?  Can he recover? Will you take charge of him? Do what you can for him. Oh, my poor husband!”
  A young Union Army Doctor, attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865, is a witness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. He is the first doctor to reach the President’s side in an attempt to save his life.  
  Dr. Charles Augustus Leale  details every moment of the tragedy, from forcing open the door of the Presidential box, his words with Mrs. Lincoln, his decision to move the President from the theatre, to the final moments of President Lincoln’s life. 
  This remarkable first person true narrative places the listener in the middle of the tragedy, from beginning to end.  It has been lost and forgotten for over a hundred years and was recently rediscovered and made public.
  Public Domain (P)2014 Andre Stojka et.al

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  The Impossible Has Happened -...

  Lance Parkin

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  A biographer goes in search of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the world’s most successful science fiction franchise. 
   
  This book reveals how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce “Hornblower in space” —and ended up with Star Trek, an optimistic, almost utopian view of humanity’s future that has been watched and loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world. 
   
  Along the way, Lance Parkin examines some of the great myths and turning points in the franchise’s history, and Roddenberry’s particular contribution to them. He looks at the view that the early Star Trek advanced a liberal, egalitarian, and multi-racial agenda; charts the various attempts to resuscitate the show during its wilderness years in the 1970s; explores Roddenberry’s initial early involvement in the movies and spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as his later estrangement from both), and sheds light on the colorful personal life, self-mythologizing, and strange beliefs of a man who nonetheless gifted popular culture one if its most enduring narratives.

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  The Nature of Nature - Examining...

  Bruce Gordon, William Dembski

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  The intellectual and cultural battles now raging over theism and atheism, conservatism and secular progressivism, dualism and monism, realism and antirealism, and transcendent reality versus material reality extend even into the scientific disciplines. This stunning new volume captures this titanic clash of worldviews among those who have thought most deeply about the nature of science and of the universe itself.Unmatched in its breadth and scope, The Nature of Nature brings together some of the most influential scientists, scholars, and public intellectuals—including three Nobel laureates—across a wide spectrum of disciplines and schools of thought. Here they grapple with a perennial question that has been made all the more pressing by recent advances in the natural sciences: Is the fundamental explanatory principle of the universe, life, and self-conscious awareness to be found in inanimate matter or immaterial mind? The answers found in this book have profound implications for what it means to do science, what it means to be human, and what the future holds for all of us.

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