Rabu, 15 Juni 2005

23 Days in July: Inside the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong s Record Breaking Victory

23 Days in July: Inside the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong s Record Breaking Victory

23 Days in July: Inside the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong s Record Breaking Victory

Taking place over twenty-three days in July and across more than 2,100 miles of smooth blacktop, rough cobblestones, and punishing mountain terrain, the Tour de France is the most grueling sports event in the world. And in 2004, five-time champion Lance Armstrong set out to achieve what no other cyclist in the 100-year history of the race had ever done: win a sixth Tour de France.Armstrong had four serious challengers who wanted nothing more than to deny the man the French call Le Boss from achieving his goal. The major threat among them was the only other former Tour de France champion in last year's race, Germany's Jan Ullrich- The Kaiser. But when the race was over, Lance Armstrong once again wore the yellow jersey of victory.

ISBN: 0306814552
Author: John Wilcockson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Rating: 3.69

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Rabu, 01 Juni 2005

Where Cross the Crowded Ways: Prayers of a City Pastor

Where Cross the Crowded Ways: Prayers of a City Pastor

Where Cross the Crowded Ways: Prayers of a City Pastor

ISBN: 0802829813
Author: Ernest T. Campbell
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Rating: 3.25

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Selasa, 19 April 2005

The Deeper Meaning of Liff

The Deeper Meaning of Liff

The Deeper Meaning of Liff

Does the sensation of Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a Naugatuck(3) without causing a Toronto(4)? Will you suffer from Kettering(5) this summer?

Probably. You are almost certainly familiar with all these experiences but just didn’t know that there are words for them. Well, in fact, there aren’t—or rather there weren’t, until Douglas Adams and John Lloyd decided to plug these egregious linguistic lacunae(6). They quickly realized that just as there are an awful lot of experiences that no one has a name for, so there are an awful lot of names for places you will never need to go to. What a waste. As responsible citizens of a small and crowded world, we must all learn the virtues of recycling(7) and put old, worn-out but still serviceable names to exciting, vibrant, new uses. This is the book that does that for you: The Deeper Meaning of Liff—a whole new solution to the problem of Great Wakering(8)


1—The feeling of aluminum foil against your fillings.

2—The way people stand when examining other people’s bookshelves.

3—A plastic packet containing shampoo, mustard, etc., which is impossible to open except by biting off
the corners.

4—Generic term for anything that comes out in a gush, despite all your efforts to let it out carefully, e.g., flour into a white sauce, ketchup onto fish, a dog into the yard, and another naughty meaning that we can’t put on the cover.

5—The marks left on your bottom and thighs after you’ve been sitting sunbathing in a wicker chair.

6—God knows what this means

7—For instance, some of this book was first published in Britain twenty-six years ago.

8—Look it up yourself.

ISBN: 0307236013
Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Rating: 3.91

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Senin, 01 November 2004

7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

ISBN: 1417656646
Author: Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Rating: 3.97

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Selasa, 26 Oktober 2004

Sentimental Education

Sentimental Education

Sentimental Education

Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau’s life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century.

ISBN: 0140447970
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Rating: 3.87

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Selasa, 29 Juni 2004

The Portable John Adams

The Portable John Adams

The Portable John Adams

In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from his rich correspondence with this wife, Abigail, Thomas Jefferson, and others. The Portable John Adams also features his most important political works: “A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law,” “Thoughts on Government,” “A Defense of Constitutions,” “Novanglus,” and “Discources in Davila.” There is no finer introduction to the protean genius of this seminal American philosopher.First time in Penguin Classics

 

ISBN: 0142437786
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Penguin Books
Rating: 4.18

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Kamis, 10 Juni 2004

Murder at Ford s Theatre (Capital Crimes, #19)

Murder at Ford s Theatre (Capital Crimes, #19)

Murder at Ford s Theatre (Capital Crimes, #19)

The body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for Senator Bruce Lerner - and who volunteered at Ford's - is discovered in the alley behind the theatre. Soon a pair of mismatched cops - young, studious Rick Klayman and gregarious veteran Moses "Mo" Johnson - start digging into the victim's life, and find themselves confronting an increasing cast of suspects.

There's Virginia Senator Lerner himself, rumored to have had a sexual relationship with Nadia - and half the women in D.C. under ninety...Clarice Emerson, producer/director of Ford's Theatre and ex-wife of the senator, whose nomination to the head of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is now threatened by the scandal...Jeremiah Lerner, her aimless, hot-tempered son, said to have been sleeping with Nadia when his famous father wasn't... Bernard Crowley, the theatre's controller, whose emotions overflow at the mention of the crime... faded British stage star Sydney Bancroft, desperate for recognition and a comeback, and armed with damning information about Clarise Emerson...and other complex characters from both sides of the footlights.

ISBN: 1593351321
Author: Margaret Truman
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Rating: 3.65

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