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Stan Lauryssens
The Man Who Invented the Third Reich

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionWhen Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, Van den Bruck realized Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended and foresaw the horrors to come. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0750930543
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Don Bell
The Man Who Killed Houdini

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: More than two decades of research provide the basis for this true-life detective story of the mysterious man who stepped into Harry Houdini`s dressing room on an October night in 1926, delivered one fatal sucker punch, and then vanished from the public eye completely. Nine days after the incident, Houdini was dead, the victim of a ruptured appendix, and his killer, a Montreal student named J. Gordon Whitehead, was nowhere to be found. Up to now, this tale of a mistimed punch and an untimely death had become myth, with many questions still unanswered: What happened to the man who threw the fatal punch? Who were the two witnesses and how much did they know? Was Houdini`s death truly an accident? Interviews, affidavits, eyewitness reports of the night, and the only known photograph of Whitehead ever published all shed new light on an enduring mystery. Written with flair and wit, this tale of true crime gradually builds a riveting profile of the life of this intriguing but… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1550651870
Book size: —; Page extent: 260.

 

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Herbert Coleman
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir

2007 y.
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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ISBN: 0810859122
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David Leavitt
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a `Turing machine` did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis` Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies` victory in World War II. In so doing, Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, formulating the famous (and still unbeaten) Turing Test that challenges our ideas of human consciousness. But Turing`s postwar computer-building was cut short when, as an openly gay man in a time when homosexuality was officially illegal in England, he was apprehended by the authorities and sentenced to a `treatment` that amounted to chemical castration, leading to his suicide. With a novelist`s sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity?his… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0393052362
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David Leavitt
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

2006 y.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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ISBN: 0393329097
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Edgar Wallace
The Man Who Knew

2005 y.
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Description: 1918. Edgar Wallace established his reputation as a writer of detective thrillers, a genre in which he wrote more than 170 books, with the publication of The Four Just Men. The book begins: The room was a small one, and had been chosen for its remoteness from the dwelling rooms. It had formed the billiard room, which the former owner of Weald Lodge had added to his premises, and John Minute, who had neither the time nor the patience for billiards, had readily handed over this damp annex to his scientific secretary. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1417931175
Book size: —; Page extent: 344.

 

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Anne Shelby
The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Most tall tales are no taller than the teller. This one is taller than a tree - a great-great-grandaddy of a sycamore, just right for moving into, for settling down in and raising children and children and children.It`s a story starting way back in time about one man and something magical happening. Was it his doing? Or nature`s?With a storyteller`s lilt and a folk-artist`s eye, a writer and an illustrator have made something magical of an Appalachian legend. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0689861699
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Joshua Kendall
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget`s Thesaurus

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, a ?brisk and vivid?( Los Angeles Times) account of an obsessive scholar. Polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado, Peter Mark Roget had a host of female admirers, was one of the first to test the effects of laughing gas, invented the slide rule, and narrowly escaped jail in Napoleon?s France. But Roget is best known for making lists. After the tragic turmoil of his early life (both his mother and sister were institutionalized), Roget longed for order in his chaotic world. At the age of eight, he began his quest to put everything in its rightful place, one word at a time. This is the fascinating story of a driven man and a brilliant scholar?and the legacy he has left for generations. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0425225895
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Jonathan Lopez
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: It`s a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: a lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering, making a mockery of the Nazis. And it`s a story that`s been believed ever since. Too bad it just isn`t true. Jonathan Lopez has done what no other writer could--tracking down primary sources in four countries and five languages to tell for the first time the real story of the world`s most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges in The Man Who Made Vermeers as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush, who worked virtually his entire adult life making and selling fake Old Masters. Drawing upon extensive interviews with descendents of Van Meegeren`s partners in crime, Lopez also explores the networks of illicit commerce that operated across Europe between the wars. Not only was Van… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0547247842
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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Dan Rottenberg
The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance

— y.
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ISBN: 0812236262
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Jean Giono
The Man Who Planted Trees, 20th Anniversary

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Twenty years ago Chelsea Green published the first trade edition of The Man Who Planted Trees, a timeless eco-fable about what one person can do to restore the earth. The hero of the story, ElzA©ard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred acorns a day in a desolate, barren section of Provence in the south of France. The result was a total transformation of the landscape-from one devoid of life, with miserable, contentious inhabitants, to one filled with the scent of flowers, the songs of birds, and fresh, flowing water. Since our first publication, the book has sold over a quarter of a million copies and inspired countless numbers of people around the world to take action and plant trees. On National Arbor Day, April 29, 2005, Chelsea Green is releasing a special twentieth anniversary edition with a new foreword by Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the African Green Belt Movement. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1931498725
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Jean Giono
The Man Who Planted Trees

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1933392819
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Simon Winder
The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey into the Disturbing World of James Bond

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Bond. James Bond. The ultimate British hero—suave, stoic, gadget-driven—he was more than anything the necessary invention of a traumatized country whose self-image as a great power had just been shattered by the Second World War. Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, was an upper-class wastrel who had found purpose and excitement in the war, and to whom, like so many others, its end was a terrible disappointment—the elation of survival stifled by the reality of the new British impotence. In 1952 Fleming set out to repair this damage. By inventing the magical, parallel world of secret British greatness and glamour, he fabricated an icon that has endured long past its maker’s death. To grow up in England in the 1970s was to grow up with James Bond, and The Man Who Saved Britain is first of all the story of the author’s relationship with the “national religion.” Simon Winder lovingly and ruefully… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0374299382
Book size: —; Page extent: 312.

 

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Frederick Rowe Davis
The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0195310772
Book size: —; Page extent: 308.

 

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Andy Forrester
The Man Who Saw the Future: William Paterson`s Vision of Free Trade

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: This is the incredible story of one mans vision of world commerce. William Paterson was a businessman and economic thinker far ahead of his time, whose place in history is assured. He founded the Bank of England, he helped broker the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England and, above all else, he envisaged a world where nations could trade unencumbered by monopolies and restrictive practices, and companies could be funded with international investment. All more than 300 years ago. In an attempt to realise his dream he set off on a daring voyage across half the globe to establish a trading emporium for the world at Darien, Panama. In the tradition of Longitude, The Man Who Saw the Future is the exciting story of buccaneers, political intrigue, economic vision, failed dreams, warring countries and dogged determination in the face of adversity. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587991438
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Andy Forrester
The Man Who Saw the Future: William Patersons Vision of Free Trade

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description This is the incredible story of one man?s vision of world commerce. William Paterson was a businessman and economic thinker far ahead of his time, whose place in history is assured. He founded the Bank of England, he helped broker the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England and, above all else, he envisaged a world where nations could trade unencumbered by monopolies and restrictive practices, and companies could be funded with international investment. All more than 300 years ago. In an attempt to realise his dream he set off on a daring voyage across half the globe to establish a trading emporium for the world at Darien, Panama. In the tradition of Longitude, The Man Who Saw the Future is the exciting story of buccaneers, political intrigue, economic vision, failed dreams, warring countries and dogged determination in the face of adversity. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587991799
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Matthew Mohlke , Martin Strel
The Man Who Swam the Amazon: 3,274 Miles on the World`s Deadliest River

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1599213583
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Mordicai Gerstein
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

2007 y.
Publisher: Square Fish
Description: In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high -wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and - in two dramatic foldout spreads - the vertiginous drama of Petit`s feat. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0031236878
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Richard Wilson, James Mcluckie
The Man Who Was Robinson Crusoe: A Personal View of Alexander Selkirk

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: In February 2009 it will be the 300th anniversary of the rescue of Alexander Selkirk, the Fife mariner who became the inspiration for Daniel Defoe`s `Robinson Crusoe`. The story is told not only by the author but also through the words of those who knew Selkirk with three colourful contemporary accounts of Selkirk`s island experiences on Juan Fernandez - two by the sailors who rescued him from the island, 300 miles off the coast of Chile (Capt Edward Cooke and Capt Woodes Rogers) and one by Sir Richard Steele, who talked with Selkirk after his homecoming. Selkirk had spent four and a half years on the island. Wilson also delves into Defoe`s construction of Crusoe from Selkirk`s experiences and his youth in Fife. He also covers the dramatic circumstances of his abandonment on the island when he asked to be stranded rather than risk drowning in the unseaworthy Cinque Ports.Selkirk was right, the ship sank and the crew perished. Having been adopted as master of the ship that rescued him,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1906476020
Book size: —; Page extent: 176.

 

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G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

2007 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe`s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of `Thursday`. When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. Формат: 11 см х 18 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-141-03125-5
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Georges Simenon
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

2005 y.
Publisher: New York Review Books Classics, Reprint edition
Description: Kees Popinga is a solid Dutch burgher whose idea of a night on the town is a game of chess at his club. Or so it has always appeared. But one night this model husband and devoted father discover his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had looked on impassively as the trains to the outside world swept by, now he catches the first train he can to Amsterdam. Not long after that, he commits murder. Kees Popinga is tired of being Kees Popinga. He`s going to turn over a new leaf - though there will be hell to pay. Формат: 12,5 см x 20 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-59017-149-3
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Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King: &, Other Stories (Unabridged Classics)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Kipling drew upon his experiences in Anglo-Indian society for much of his fiction. This volume includes 5 of the author’s best early stories: `The Phantom Rickshaw,` `Wee Willie Winkie,` `Without Benefit of Clergy,` `The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes` and the title selection. Download DescriptionAlso includes `The Phanton Rickshaw.` [detailed...]

ISBN: 1400100461
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Marvin Kitman
The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O`Reilly

2007 y.
Publisher: St. Martin`s Press
Description: In the wake of the loss of TV`s top anchormen, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Ted Koppel, a seismic shift has occurred in broadcast news. A revolution had already been taking place on the Fox News Channel about the way news was being presented on TV. Bill O`Reilly has been the spearhead in that radical movement, masterminded by Roger Ailes, founding father of Fox News. To some, O’Reilly is a semi-demented cable TV talk show host, who can be an obnoxious, insufferable, opinionated, rude loudmouth whose views, the kinder ones say, are typical right wing drivel. But there is much more to O’Reilly than what meets eye. O`Reilly is the paradigm of idosyncrasy in television journalism. On the rough road to the top, O`Reilly learned how to give the public what it wants and thinks it needs. From his early education at the hands of nuns to an advanced degree in Public Policy from Harvard, from working at local televisions stations and rising through the ranks to network news,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312314353
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Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories

1994 y.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Limited
Description: This anthology of Rudyard Kipling`s greatest short stories contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he was an undisputed master. `The Man Who Would be King` is a classic tale of adventure as the opportunistic, renegade and vagabond pair of Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan attempt to establish themselves at the level of god and king over the primitive people of Kafiristan. Other famous short stories included are: `Only a Subaltern`, `The Phantom Rickshaw`, `Wee Willie Winkle`, and `Baa Baa, Black Sheep`. `The Man Who Would be King` was made into a popular film in 1975, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer and directed by John Huston. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-85326-209-9
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Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories

1994 y.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Description: Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) drew upon his experiences in Anglo-Indian Society for much of his writing. This volume presents five of Kipling`s best early stories, including `The Phantom `Rickshaw`` a psychological thriller, `Wee Willie Winkie,` a delightful display of love for children, `Without Benefit of Clergy,` the poignant story of an Englishman`s affair with an Islamic woman, `The Strange Ride of Morrowbic Jukes`, and the celebrated title story. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-486-28051-9
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Anthony Holden
The Man Who Wrote Mozart: The Extraordinary Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte

2007 y.
Publisher: Phoenix
Description: In June 1805 a 56-year-old Italian immigrant disembarked to Philadelphia carrying only a violin. Before dying in New York 23 years later, he would find New World respectability as the first Professor of Italian at Columbia University. For now, he set up shop as a grocer. There was always an air of mystery about the Abbe Lorenzo Da Ponte. A scholarly poet, teacher, and priest with a devoted wife, he also had a reputation as a womanizer. Da Ponte charmed all he met, pioneering the place of Italian music in American life. But his self-assurance also excited mistrust. When the first Italian opera was performed in New York in 1825, he had the nerve to claim he had written it. Like the memoirs he wrote to pay off more debts, the old man was constantly full of tall stories. The varied lives of Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist of Mozart`s three great operas - `The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni`, and `Cosi Fan Tutte` - begin in Venice, linger in Vienna and London, and end in New York, where… [detailed...]

ISBN: 075382180X
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Idries Shah
The Man With Bad Manners

2003 y.
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ISBN: 1883536308
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P. G. Wodehouse
The Man With Two Left Feet &, Other Stories - From the Manor Wodehouse Collection, a selection from the early works of P. G. Wodehouse

2008 y.
Publisher: Tark Classic Fiction
Description: Please visit www.ManorWodehouse.com to see the complete selection of P.G.Wodehouse books available in the Manor Wodehouse Collection. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1604500689
Book size: —; Page extent: 188.

 

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Ian Fleming, Yaroslav Horak, James Lawrence
The Man With the Golden Gun: The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond (Graphic Novels))

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Bond is back! 007, the world`s greatest secret agent, returns in a classic adventure! James Bond is dead! Or so his employers at MI5 believe… until he attempts to assassinate his boss, M ? because he`s been brainwashed by the KGB! With his conditioning removed, M sends Bond on a deadly mission, to track down Francisco Scaramanga ? `The Man with the Golden Gun`! But with a KGB agent and the usual quotient of beautiful, treacherous girls in his path, will Bond make it back? Also features the story, `The Living Daylights`, plus background on Bond creator, Ian Fleming, and a foreword by Ian Fleming`s niece, Lucy Fleming. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1840236906
Book size: —; Page extent: 80.

 

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Green
The Man With the Golden Torc

2007 y.
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ISBN: 978-0-451-46214-5
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Edwin Markham
The Man With the Hoe And Other Poems

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description1899. A collection of verse by the American poet, Markham, who is best known for his spirited protest against the exploitation of poor laborers in his poem The Man with a Hoe, which was inspired by Millet`s painting of the same name. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1417904801
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