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It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...
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Brighten your day with a memory and a smile!
Retired educator and jack-of-all-trades, Dr. Michael Harris offers short, entertaining stories that will evoke memories of your childhood and remind you of a simpler, less politically correct time in life.
From clothes shopping to picking out a birthday present; from the uselessness of grits to surviving a road trip in the backseat of the family car in the 1970s, there are few subjects Dr. Harris is not...
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Falling Down Getting Up is about an incredible journey in life. It begins with a personal and revealing story of the author, Michael Harris, and his falling down in life. There were a few big falls like losing more than half of his liver in an accident at twelve years old, becoming an alcoholic by sixteen, and nearly losing his legs from vascular disease at twenty-seven. Once Michael gets you through the gory details of the mess he found himself in,...
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The author, Michael Harris, discusses his intellectual exploration, which has taken him from seeing a UFO land to exploring the enigmas of telepathy and time travel. He encourages us to join him on his journey for greater knowledge by presenting difficult questions about the nature of reality and our role in the universe. People have scoured ancient books for hidden clues and mysteries throughout history. Scholars, theologians, and seekers of all...
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"Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for the Year" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" Michael Harris is professor of mathematics at the Université Paris Diderot and Columbia University. He is the author or coauthor of more than eighty mathematical books and articles, and has received a number of prizes, including the Clay Research Award,...
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What does it mean that our most popular modern myth is a radical left story about fighting corporate authoritarianism? From its roots in the 1960s new left, Star Wars still speaks to millions of people today. By design, the saga mirrors our own time and politics. A real empire of corporate domination has arisen within weakened and corrupted republics. Now it threatens our existence on a planetary scale. But the popularity of Star Wars also suggests...
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"Farley and Claire is a love story, a biography, a Tale of Two Farleys, or perhaps three: the public one, the private one, and the secret one."-Margaret Atwood
The tumultuous, enduring love story between iconic writer Farley Mowat and his wife Claire, including excerpts from their passionate letters, published here for the first time.
When Farley Mowat met Claire Wheeler in August 1960, the attraction was immediate, and within days they were lovers,...
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When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But, The Hunger Games was always more political. It's since, become the defining story for a generation that's grown up with economic crisis and never ending war. An uber-rich ruling class gorge themselves in their gleaming high-tech Capitol, while working people, are left, behind to survive in exploited districts. Revolution is a forgotten...
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Georgia's oldest city plays hostess to a bevy of ghostly guests whose stories are wrapped up in its rich southern history. As one of America's most haunted cities, Savannah, Georgia, has a long list of stories of the supernatural, such as the story of the first two people hanged in colonial Savannah for the murder of their abusive master. Or James Stark, a tempestuous planter, and Dr. Philip Minis, who settled their dispute with a duel and still hang...
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A timely indictment of a prime minister determined to remake Canada. In Party of One, Investigative journalist Michael Harris gives us an intimate look at Stephen Harper, and draws a portrait of a Prime Minister whose policies and instincts, Harris believes, are a clear and present danger to Canada's democracy. Fueled by the election victory of May 2011, unchecked by the opposition, the staggering gap between Stephen Harper's stated political principles...
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Today, Germantown is a busy neighborhood in Philadelphia. On October 4, 1777, it was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital whose surrounding fields and streets witnessed one of the largest battles of the American Revolution. The bloody battle represented George Washington's attempt to recapture Philadelphia, but has long been overshadowed by better-known events like Brandywine, Saratoga, and Valley Forge.
General Sir William Howe...
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With a foreword by Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize–finalist The Shallows. Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely crowded isolation: we are always linked, but only shallowly so. The capacity to be alone, properly alone, is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a...
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Long overshadowed by the stunning American victory at Saratoga, the complex British campaign that defeated George Washington's colonial army and led to the capture of the capital city of Philadelphia was one of the most important military events of the war. Michael C. Harris's impressive Brandywine is the first full-length study of this pivotal engagement in many years.
Though the bitter fighting around Brandywine Creek drove the Americans from the...