Soul Mountain [SOUL MOUNTAIN] [Paperback]

Soul Mountain

Literature & Fiction

Xingjian, Gao Trans. By Mabel Lee

Contemporary

Harper Collins, Inc.

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice! The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now -- in the words of the rhyme -- can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A. Christie

Mystery

Most people think of childless women as infertile married women. But women whose husbands do not want children, single women, lesbians, infertile women, & disabled women may also never be biological mothers. Here is a pioneering step-by-step program for healing & wholeness. Anton offers women without children an uplifting & practical plan for confronting grief, anger, & guilt; discovering alternative ways to mother ; & enjoying rich, fulfilling lives. Inspiring real-life stories explore grandmothering or aunting the children of others & describe the benefits of a self-help support group & how to form one.

Never to Be a Mother: A Guide for All Women Who Didn't -- Or Couldn't -- Have Children

Self-Help

Linda Hunt Anton

Self-Esteem

Design Rules for Letterheads: Over 75 Examples from the Simple to the Spectacular

Business & Money

Roger Walton

Marketing & Sales

For an extraordinary fifty-seven-year period, the chief executives of the International Business Machines Corporation were Thomas J. Watson and Thomas J. Watson, father and son. IBM bears the imprint of both men -- their ambitions and their strengths -- but it also bears the consequences of a family that was in near-constant conflict.Eminent historian Richard S. Tedlow explores the interplay between the personalities of these two extraordinary men and the firm they created. Both Watsons had deeply held beliefs about what a corporation is and should be. These ideas helped make "Big Blue" the bluest of blue-chip stocks during their tenure. These very ideals, however, also sowed the seeds for IBM's disasters in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the company had lost sight of the original meaning behind many of the practices each man put into place.

Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBMs Founding Father and Son

Biographies & Memoirs

Richard Tedlow

Professionals & Academics

John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the U.S. government, but his deeply felt memoir of family & war is not a political one & ends before his election to Congress. He learned about life & honor from his grandfather & father, both 4-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. This is a memoir about their lives, their heroism, & the ways their sons are shaped & enriched by their fathers. McCain Jr.'s was a naval aviator, & he was shot down over Hanoi in 1967 & seriously injured. McCain was tortured, held in solitary confinement, & imprisoned for 5-1/2 years. Here he tells what he learned from his grandfather & father, & how their example enable him to survive those hard years. Photos.

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

JOHN MCCAIN

The Red Cross was the inspiration -- the dream -- of Henri Dunant, a Swiss businessman appalled by the butchery & lack of medical care for injured soldiers at the battle of Solferino in 1859. He created an internat. org. which was to alter the fate of all those wounded in every war. Moorehead is the first writer to be granted unrestricted access to the extensive Red Cross archives in Geneva. Here she traces the origins of the org., & uncovers some startling truths about the Red Cross & its relationship with some of the most horrific & barbaric political regimes of the 20th cent. A moving & authoritative history of the politics of conflict by an author of real distinction which sheds light not just on the Red Cross but on the nature of humanity itself.Ó Illustrations

Dunants Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross

caroline-moorehead

Health, Fitness & Dieting

A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropyMeyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among  America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social circle of New York Jewish plutocrats, but unlike the others -- primarily merchants and financiers -- they made their money by extracting and refining copper, silver, lead, tin, and gold.The secret of their success, the patriarch believed, was their unity, and in the early years Meyer's seven sons, under the leadership of Daniel, worked as one to expand their growing mining and smelting empire. Family solidarity eventually decayed (along with their Jewish faith), but even more damaging was the paucity of male heirs as Meyer and the original set of brothers passed from the scene.In the third generation, Harry Guggenheim, Daniel's son, took over leadership and made the family a force in aviation, publishing, and horse-racing. He desperately sought a successor but tragically failed and was forced to watch as the great Guggenheim business enterprise crumbled.Meanwhile, "Guggenheim" came to mean art more than industry. In the mid-twentieth century, led by Meyer's son Solomon and Solomon's niece Peggy, the Guggenheims became the agents of modernism in the visual arts. Peggy, in America during the war years, midwifed the school of abstract expressionism, which brought art leadership to New York City. Solomon's museum has been innovative in spreading the riches of Western art around the world. After the generation of Harry and Peggy, the family has continued to produce many accomplished members, such as publisher Roger Straus II and archaeologist Iris Love.In The Guggenheims, through meticulous research and absorbing prose, Irwin Unger, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize in history, and his wife, Debi Unger, convey a unique and remarkable story -- epic in its scope -- of one family's amazing rise to prominence.

Guggenheims, The: A Family History

Arts & Photography

Irwin Unger

History & Criticism

Billy Tibble loves having his very own bedroom. He can play with his toys, read his books, ride his skateboard, & even bounce on his squeaky, creaky bed, without having to share with anyone. Until the day Billy's brother, Little Eric, moves in. Billy cannot imagine having to share his favorite place, least of all with his baby brother. So when Little Eric moves in, Billy Tibble moves out! Jan Fearnley's delightful story & boisterous art, depicting Billy & his family as cats, are perfect for anyone with a little brother or sister. This book will make everyone in the family feel better about sharing.

Billy Tibbles Moves Out!

Jan Fearnley

Children's Books

An astonishing story of bravery and honour: One man's quest-against incredible odds-to make a stand against crime...and to uncover the painful truths of his own background. From the sagging row houses of Paterson, New Jersey to the cocaine fields of Colombia, from the razor wire of Rikers Island to the streets of New York City, Bernard Kerik has dedicated his life to a single goal: to fight the injustice he sees around him. A jail warden with a black belt and a background in international security and anti-terrorism, he took a substantial pay cut to become a beat cop on the streets of Times Square in 1986. A fearless narcotics detective, he went undercover to buy drugs in Harlem, seized millions of dollars of cocaine from the druglords of the life of a fellow officer. In the 1990s, as the city's Commissioner of Correction, Cali cartel, and was awarded the Police Department's Medal of Valor for saving he ended the hellish violence at Rikers Island and transformed it into a model of its kind. Today, as Kerik directs the largest municipal police force in the world of 55,000, his battles continue. And yet Bernard Kerik's greatest battle was not pitched on tough city streets, but within himself. For, even as he was driven to seek justice in every corner of the world, this extraordinary man never looked back until he reached the top. And when he did, he faced the greatest unsolved case of his life-the tragic mystery of his own mother, who abandoned her young son forty-one years ago.

Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice

Bernard Kerik

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