The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal
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The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal
Frederic M. Hudson
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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The Adult Years is a compelling look at adulthood as an opportunity for continual revitalization, reorientation, and positive change. In this revised edition, Frederic Hudson updates and refines his vision, reflecting the extraordinary challenges we all face in today's fast-paced, ever-changing society. Whether you are eighteen or eighty-eight, this classic best-selling guide will inspire you to unlock the power of personal renewal.

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"The most compelling book ever written on personal transition and transformation. If you are concerned about your own renewal and the renewal of our planet, you must read this book."--James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge, Second Edition

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5 out of 5 stars I strongly recommend this book to all who are interested in the quality of life & peak performance in life's remaining years!.......2006-07-20

Together with Richard Leider's books (particularly, Life Skills, The Power of Purpose & The Inventurers) & Richard Bolles' Parachute book, this book has been most pivotal in helping me to navigate my mid-life transition during the early 90's.

It has been beautifully crafted with warmth, passion, clarity & mastery of content. It provides a refreshingly optimistic perspective on mid-life transition & self-renewal. Best of all, it is solidly backed by several decades of research & consulting work at the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, California.

I remember vividly when I first encountered this book in the early 90's, it was actually the back page of the book which attracted my attention: "Designing a rich adult life for a world in transition." followed by a quotation: "The Adult Years will help you to think about your life - & to stay vital all your life."

At that point in time, I was pondering about what I wanted to do with the second half of my life. I was 43 years old & a corporate rat then. I was working in quiet desperation.

Frankly, I was looking damned good...but actually going nowhere!

So, I started a frantic search for all kinds of seminars, workshops, books, magazines & resources to fuel my mind. I was very glad to bump into this book by chance. I particularly liked what the author has said in the book: "...adulthood is a cyclical experience that can be a ripening of our strengths rather than dull repetition or a dizzling merry-go-round....it is possible in a culture that glamourises youth more than it values maturity, to design a coherent, mature life that is resilient enough not only to survive but to be visionary & regenerating...by unleashing our own personal forces of self renewal, we can bring forth ideas & leadership for social renewal."

The author has masterfully protrayed the cycles of self-renewal through the various chapters of the book, as follows:

Part I: The Emerging Adult
1 The Adult Dilemma
2 Finding Possibilities in Cyclical Lives

Part II: The Cycle of Change - Life Structures & Transitions
3 The Patterns of Change
4 From Dreaming to Restructuring
5 from Disengaging to Cocooning
6 From Self renewal to New Beginnings

Part III: The Life Cycle
7 Meaning & Mission Across the Life Cycle
8 The Twenties & Thirties
9 The Forties & Fifties
10 The Sixties & seventies
11 Getting from Here to There: Six Principles of Life Cycle Change

Part IV: Adults & Global Change
12 Valueing the Global Context
13 The Self Renewing Adult, the Self Renewing Society

Over the many years since my first encounter with the book, I have often gone back to read some of the passages to seek further insights about empowerment throughout my adult years.

Every busy profesional would benefit from this marvellous book when coming of age. It is intelligently crafted & extremely helpful in providing a sensible framework for understanding - & appreciating - adult transitions & personal change.

In concluding this review, I enthusiastically recommend this book to all who are interested in the quality of life & peak performance in life's remaining years!

5 out of 5 stars describes common feelings of being 40 years and older.......2004-07-30

When I got my first grey hairs I started feeling so many different things about life and the process of aging. This book explained the different feelings I was having. It was a great relief to realize my feelings were so common. The words are easy to understand. The stories about others who have their own issues as they age are good ones to learn from. I recommend this book for any one feeling a bit perplexed about the aging process.

5 out of 5 stars New Beginnings for the Young at Heart.......2001-11-27

This is the best conceputalizaton of the second half of life that I have ever read.It puts theory into practice and teaches that one can stay young and continually evolving with the proper attitute, learning and social environments tempered with an active healthy life style. The concept of retirement is no longer valid in the 21st century. We must think of
'protirement'now that can live to be centegenarians.
We must entrepreneur our futures and proactively build
on the new or retooled skills of the previous years. Our tasks become:redefining values,renewing our life's purpose, continually training to stay ahead in the ever-changing world and transition gracefully with our wisdom into new and exciting terrain. Along with the challenge of growth and change,
we bring the wisdom of the years.

Coaches will help us with change and transition, for they are not
simply 'change agents', but 'change masters' trained to accompany up on our journey,to help guide our vision of the
life we long for before we say 'adieu'.

5 out of 5 stars The Adult Years - Great Resource and Compelling Reading.......2000-01-29

Lot's of valuable information. Written in a conversational style that is easy to read. Helpful insights and practical advice. A real resource to help you understand the life you are living.
Years of Renewal
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Years of Renewal
Henry Kissinger
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There is an old joke that Henry Kissinger is so full of himself he once wrote a book called Famous People Who Have Met Me. That strong sense of self is on full display in this third volume of memoirs (the other two are White House Years and Years of Upheaval). Kissinger, a national security advisor and secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, is a foreign-policy maestro fond of describing the difficult subtleties of his job. He is also, at times, generous with his praise--especially with this whopper: "I am certain the time will come when it is recognized that the Cold War could not have been won had not Gerald Ford, at a tragic point of America's history, been there to keep us from losing it." Years of Renewal begins during Nixon's final days, and provides a few key insights into the man Kissinger calls "perhaps [the] most complex President of the twentieth century." One eye opener is the revelation that Nixon ordered the bombing of the Damascus airport in 1969 during a hijacking incident "to impress his pals." (It was called off the next morning.) The bulk of the book (and bulk is the right word--there are nearly 1,100 pages of text before the footnotes) focuses on Ford, who comes across as much more statesmanlike than the popular image of him as a bungling caretaker. The portraits of contemporary world leaders are also valuable. Kissinger combines detail and clarity to deliver an important chronicle of American diplomacy during the 1970s. --John Miller

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Perhaps the best-known American diplomatist of this century, Henry Kissinger is a major figure in world history, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and arguably one of the most brilliant minds ever placed at the service of American foreign policy, as well as one of the shrewdest, best-informed, and most articulate figures ever to occupy a position of power in Washington.

The eagerly awaited third and final volume of his memoirs completes a major work of contemporary history. It is at once an important historical document and a brilliantly told narrative of almost Shakespearean intensity, full of startling insights, unusual (and often unsparing) candor, and a sweeping sense of history. It begins with the resignation of Richard Nixon -- including Kissinger's final assessment of Nixon's tortured personality and the self-inflicted tragedy that ended his presidency and made Kissinger, for a time, the most powerful man in American government, as well as an intimate and definitive portrait of the man whom Kissinger knew perhaps more closely than anyone -- and then takes the reader through the years of Gerald Ford's administration, in which Kissinger continued to play a decisive role, both as Secretary of State and as the symbol of the continuity of American foreign policy. It shows us a moving and admiring picture of President Ford as a man of decency, shrewd judgment, courage, and decisiveness who led the country through a period of renewal.

Kissinger details the agony of the final U.S. extrication from Vietnam -- with the rise of an increasingly hostile Congress determined to micromanage American foreign policy and the evisceration of the American intelligence community and its consequences for American power -- and takes us inside the White House to show our leaders in a time of crisis.

Indeed, crisis is what this book abounds in: the fall of Cambodia and South Vietnam, the Mayaguez incident and the conflict between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, the origins of the war in Lebanon -- above all the continuing crisis of the Cold War at its perilous height. Here are brilliant scenes, as only an insider could write them, of the shaping of American foreign policy in the Ford era: the famous shuttle diplomacy by which Kissinger brought a wary Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat together to begin the return of the Sinai to Egypt and usher in the final reconciliation of Egypt and Israel, the Vladivostok meeting with Leonid Brezhnev that advanced the process of nuclear limitation, the uneasy dialogue with China, the tragedy of the Kurds, the search for European security and freedom -- all the major decisions, conferences, and crises that shaped the world we live in, and that still, in many cases, remain major areas of engagement for the United States.

Kissinger recounts in detail his visits to Africa, which led to major initiatives in Southern Africa, including the historic decision of the white settler government of Rhodesia to accept majority rule, and tells the story of U.S. policy in the Americas, including revealing accounts of policies toward Cuba and Chile in the 1970s.

Above all, here are intimate, candid, and sharply intelligent portraits of world leaders, from Mao Zedong teasing Kissinger with a characterist mixture of brutality and acerbic subtlety, to Leonid Brezhnev, confused, unwell, desperately trying to conceal the Soviet Union's growing difficulties with a facade of blustering bravado, as well as a galaxy of European, Middle Eastern, Asian, Latin American, and African leaders.

Here is a work of scholarship, wisdom, and history, written not by desk-bound academic historian, but by the man who shaped much the history about which he writes, and who perhaps more than any other helped to form the post-Cold War world in which we live, and define America's relationship to the world as the last superpower.

No work of history about the Cold War or the inner workings of government and diplomacy is as revealing, thought-provoking, and far-reaching as this. Years of Renewal is the triumphant conclusion of a major achievement and a book that will stand the test of time as a historical document of the first rank.

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5 out of 5 stars how the world was run in the ford administration.......2004-01-19

kissinger details how the white house was run after nixon resigned and ford came into power--the photographs are excellent and the text is inciteful----kissinger has been accused of some very bad decisions inhis time that caused many innocent lives--this book gives the reader for why he made those decisions

5 out of 5 stars "In The Moment of Victory, Button Your Chin Strap!".......2000-10-04

Henry Kissinger's book, "Years of Renewal," is a complete review of U.S. foreign policy initiatives while he was Secretary of State under President Gerald R. Ford. In it, he details how they built upon the foreign policy successes of the Nixon Administration and laid the foundation for the resurgence of the American spirit seen during the Reagan Administration. From a diplomatic standpoint, this may have been America's finest hour.

With the possible exception of Lincoln, no U.S. president has inherited a nation as severely divided as Gerald R. Ford. Immediately after assuming office, he faced one international crisis after another with a hostile, "McGovernite Congress," and an emasculated intelligence gathering system that made effective response to even the most extreme provocations virtually impossible. Kissinger says throughout, Ford made decisions solely on what was best for the nation, not on what was politically expedient. His reward for such selfless service: defeat in the next election.

Like Kissinger's other works, this book can be read either in individual chapters or be taken as a whole. In each segment he details, what they did, what their options were, the assumptions their actions were based upon, and if unsuccessful, what their fall back plan was to be. In spite of seemingly insurmountable odds, they were able to hold the Atlantic Alliance together, strengthen our ties to the Peoples Republic of China, and keep the Soviets out of both the Middle East and Africa.

The Chinese war philosopher, Sun Tsu said, "In the moment of victory, button your chin strap." History has proven the Soviets should have listened. Given our national paralysis following Vietnam/Watergate, it seemed they could not be stopped. In the international chess game--that is diplomacy at the highest levels--they were stopped through the efforts of a few, dedicated statesmen who blocked them at every turn. The fall of the Soviet Union and Communism was the ultimate result.

This book is a textbook on how to conduct foreign policy. Enlightening and informative, it has inspired me to read Kissinger's other works, "White House Years," and "Years of Upheaval." I highly recommend it to any serious student of the era.

5 out of 5 stars An excellent historic book........2000-07-09

I have admired Henry Kissinger for many years. I think he is one of those limited intellectual diplomacies who really have, not only limited to one's word, a long term vision. It's really enjoyable when you read his book and share his thoughts.

5 out of 5 stars A Remarkable Tour de Force!.......2000-06-10

Dr. Kissinger, for all of his hubris and arrogance will truly go down in history as a great statesman. His intimate and sometimes self-deprecating writing style will keep the reader at the edge of their seat especially during the end of the Vietnam War and the crisis with Cyprus. All three volumes could very well serve as textbooks for anyone interested in the finer points of statecraft.

1 out of 5 stars The dirty secrects are hidden.......2000-06-07

The book does not mention the effect that many of his decisions had on the "little" people , the common , insignificant people , the families destroyed in the blaze of war as a result of many of his decisions while playing geopolitical chess games with the Russians and the British and the Chinese. During his reign as secretary of state , antiamerican feeligs soared in Cyprus .A folk song was being played on the radio right after the 1974 war there. It talked about the great powers of the world who treat people's lives as a whim of the moment. It said that the singer wanted to set the "Embassy of Death" on fire.Can you imagine? The American embassy won the nickname Embassy of Death! .It should have been embassy of life . What Mr.Kissinger forgets to mention in his book is that he masterminded a coup d'etat in Cyprus , installed a dictator , and then invited the Turks to invade there and capture half the island because he did not like the elected democratic president.(He thought that being a non-aligned country was like inviting the communists to take control of a crucially strategic island ). The horror of that war was beyond imagination. Mr. Kissinger is still afraid to visit either Greece or Cyprus because the people with missing parents or children might lynch him.There were many demonstrations agaist his person , which surprised and brought him down to reality as to what happenned to real people with every decision he made. Even now as we speak ,25 years after the events , an American forensic team is unearthing and DNA identifying missing persons bodies .Cyprus had more missing persons than the USA had in the Vietnam war. Unfortunately the American people have absolutely no idea how many people died or lost their homes so that the multinational companies would have more oil , more control ,more raw materials, more wealth etc.They see what Hollywood shows them .
Century Of The Holy Spirit 100 Years Of Pentecostal And Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001
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Century Of The Holy Spirit 100 Years Of Pentecostal And Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001
Vinson Synan
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An in-depth look at a movement that now includes 500 million persons.

A definitive history for Pentecostals and Charismatics.

An intriguing ready reference for persons outside the movement.

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4 out of 5 stars Quailty Textbook.......2007-06-29

An in-depth textual history of the pentacostal movement of the 20th century. Intresting with lots of detail and yet not boring. Well documented.

5 out of 5 stars century of the Holy Spirit 100 years of Pentecostal and charismatic renewal, 1901-2001.......2007-06-08

this is a great book for the pentecostal it is truly a must to read to know your spiritual heritage as a pentecostal beliver

5 out of 5 stars This book is FUN!.......2006-12-07

I have yet to read all the way through Vinson Synan's book because I keep jumping from page to page... the stories! The pictures! If you were there in the charismatic days, you may find it striking you the way it strikes me...it's like looking at a yearbook! It is such a valuable memoir of great days in which I was privileged to participate.
I only got the book a few days ago but already have been telling friends about it. And I must say that people & events of whom I have some personal knowledge ring true in the way they are presented here.
Although there may be some points left out, it's staggering to see how much material Vinson Synan has tackled. If you don't agree with every single point he makes, you have to admire his effort. And there is much documentation of all his points.
One structural problem with the book is repetition, as in: several biographies of Aimee Semple McPherson; one in a chapter in the chronological rundown of events, and another in a chapter on women of significance during the century.
The one thing surprising is that there is no mention of the Messianic Jewish movement. I'm not sure how much of that was Pentematic, but at least some of it had to be.
Also another great point about this book is there is much, much material about events leading up to the 20th century. This book filled in so many holes I had in church history.

4 out of 5 stars An Overall Good History Though Shallow At Points.......2006-05-28

One of the major failures of Pentecostalism - for all of its unargued successes - is the lack of biblical scholarship in defense of their views. In essence, there are only three genuine Pentecostal scholars of any significance in the entire century of the Holy Spirit: Gordon Fee, Wayne Grudem, and the author of this book, Dr Vinson Synan.

Synan has written a very good history of Pentecostalism's journey from the back of the sticks to the large numbers of stadiums filled beyond capacity with multiplied hundreds of thousands of attendees. And Synan doesn't gloss over ALL of the problems within Pentecostalism including the heretical Oneness Pentecostals (Sabellians who deny the Trinity) or the televangelism scandals that rocked the religious world in the late 1980s.

One of the major accomplishments that must be acknowledged in Pentecostalism is its healing of racial barriers, especially those one hundred years ago. I forget who said it, but one Pentecostal argued that 'the white and black was washed away in the blood.' If only many of our mainline conservative denominations could be just as harmonious as opposed to Martin Luther King's observation that "Sunday morning at eleven is the most segregated hour in America."

Pentecostalism has suffered from an excess of excess as well, and Synan doesn't bury these flaws though in some cases he seems to become an apologist for some persons. Yet the book on the whole is objective and well-written as well as well-organized.

My only doctrinal consideration of the book is that Synan seems to take the classic Pentecostal position of ordination of women, a flat out denial of Paul's words to Timothy. Otherwise, it is a fine book and a good history.

5 out of 5 stars Concise, Readable, and Valuable History of a Movement.......2001-11-16

Vinson Synan has compiled a concise, readable, and valuable volume tracing the one hundred-year history of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement. The book is a partisan overview of the key events and most significant personalities that contributed to this century-long religious phenomenon. Synan provides outstanding coverage of the enormous contributions of African Americans, and Hispanics, as well as females within the movement. Among other subjects, many pages are devoted to Pentecostalism's holiness roots, charismatic renewal among both Roman Catholics and the mainline Protestant denominations, along with a chapter devoted to faith healers and televangelists.

The book does contain weaknesses. Despite Gary McGee's excellent chapter on global expansion, Synan fails to include a full global prospective, which is actually the most impressive aspect of Pentecostalism. Though I appreciate much of the work of David Barrett in the final chapter, I found his statistical evaluation too inclusive and some of his futuristic predictions a bit bizarre.

This 492-page hardcover work contains an abundance of photographs, vignettes, and a colorful pullout timeline of key events. In addition to Synan, there are nine exceptional guest authors who contribute to the book. This is a well-done presentation that should be on the shelf of every enthusiast of Pentecostal and Charismatic history.
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5 out of 5 stars Daily meditations to ground and focus.......2007-05-27

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5 out of 5 stars A blessing to read and to reflect.......1999-12-31

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      The True Story of God's Covenantal Faithfulness

      Hold onto your seats. This recording reviews the entire history of the world — millennia by millennia. The listener will discover that history is about God's love for His elect, and that it is a record, not merely of nation states, but of family generations. Compact Disc. Approx. 60 mins.
      Running on Plenty at Work Calendar:  A Year of Renewal Strategies
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        Running on Plenty at Work Calendar: A Year of Renewal Strategies
        Ph.D. & Suzanne Adele Schmidt, Ph.D. Krista Kurth
        Manufacturer: Renewal Resources Press
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Calendar
        ASIN: B0009PEWAK
        Release Date: 2004-12-01

        Product Description

        From the authors of Running on Plenty at Work comes a unique daily reference guide for those looking for a roadmap to renewal. The Running on Plenty at Work Calendar serves as a daily reminder that renewal is good for you and your work. The authors have carefully selected the best suggestions from their book. Each day you will find a tip aimed at renewing at least one aspect of your being. This must-have perpetual calendar will assist you in making each year one of working with ease and calm.
        Battery Park City: The Early Years
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • How To Create A City - Great Reading!
        Battery Park City: The Early Years
        Charles , J. Urstadt , and Gene Brown
        Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Paperback

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        ASIN: 1413460429

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        Battery Park City is a special place, and superlatives have come easily to those who have written about it. It is one of the most significant "new towns" ever built in America, constructed by private developers on landfill, with an infrastructure inanced by the sale of bonds by a state-created public benefit corporation.Its successful mix of attractive office and residential buildings has been the major contributor to the revitalization of New York City's downtown. It's also paid off literally. The Battery Park City Authority, the public benefit corporation that was the driving force behind the entire development is in the black and, indeed, generates more than $100 million a year in profit without the City or State having a cent invested in the venture.The development is even rich culturally. It's bookended on its south end by The Museum of Jewish Heritage, which has the most important collection memorializing the Holocaust outside of Washington D. C.'s Holocaust Museum, and on the north by the new home of Stuyvesant High School, which most years sends more graduates to Harvard than any other high school in America. Amidst parks, sculpture and apartments providing homes for almost 10,000 people, most of whom walk to work, stands the New York Mercantile Exchange and the imposing World Financial Center. Within the shouting distance of young children on scooters and adolescents on skateboards are long town cars, waiting to whisk executives to their next appointment. But if anything truly merits superlatives, it's the public amenities that grace this "city" extending out into the water from lower Manhattan. On a summer Sunday, its long and graceful esplanade hosts thousands of bikers, hikers and people out for a stroll along the Hudson River. The area is thronged at lunchtime. And after work on any pleasant afternoon, Battery Park City's yacht cove is ringed with workers unwinding after a busy day and its harbor side restaurants are crowded with diners enjoying the spectacular view.The city's financial powerhouses charter yachts with names such as "Royal Princess" and "Excalibur," anchored in the cove, for business-promoting cocktail and dinner parties. But you don't have to be rich and powerful to enjoy what the development has to offer. The indoor concerts under the high-arching crystal vault filled with palm trees and bright flowers, part of the World Financial Center just behind the cove, are free and open to the public. Imagine as well that this potential project, in the eyes of some, is meant to cure or stave off a series of economic and social problems as well as turn a profit - possibly conflicting aims that could infinitely complicate the task of even getting the land created. Conjure up such a project in which the engineering difficulties begin with the fact that the "land" on which it will be built is still submerged, the financing is a huge question mark, and political, bureaucratic and environmental obstructions that must be navigated are enough to make a pilot boat captain's hands shake at the till.

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        5 out of 5 stars How To Create A City - Great Reading!.......2007-01-12

        This is a must read for any city lover. Here, Charles Urstadt describes the creation of an entire area of New York City, land and all. In all my years of reading about the creation of great cities, I've never seen one so well written.
        Favorite detail: Governor Nelson Rockefeller blowing up an old pier to make way for New York City landfill and television reporter Gabe Pressman's reaction. I don't want to give anything else away.
        6000 Years of Earth History (Vision Forum Family Renewal Tape Library)
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          6000 Years of Earth History (Vision Forum Family Renewal Tape Library)
          Vision Forum
          Manufacturer: The Vision Forum, Inc.
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Audio Cassette

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          ASIN: 1929241089

          Book Description

          The True Story of God's Covenantal Faithfulness

          Hold onto your seats. This tape reviews the entire history of the world -- millennia by millennia. The listener will discover that history is about God's love for His elect, and that it is a record, not merely of nation states, but of family generations. Approx. 60 min. on one audiocassette.
          The Awakening Church: 25 Years of Liturgical Renewal
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            The Awakening Church: 25 Years of Liturgical Renewal

            Manufacturer: Liturgical Pr
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback

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            ASIN: 0814620310

            Books:

            1. The Bedford Reader, Ninth Edition
            2. The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)
            3. The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life After the White House
            4. The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
            5. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)
            6. The Opium of the Intellectuals
            7. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe
            8. The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy
            9. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
            10. The Seventeen Traditions

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