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  • Step by Step

    A Memoir of Hope, Friendship, Perseverance, and Living the American Dream

    by Bertie Bowman ...
    A great American story of an ordinary man who is living an extraordinary life, Step by Step is the inspiring personal account of Bertie Bowman’s remarkable rise from farmer’s son in the Jim Crow South to hearing coordinator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the U.S. Capitol.In 1944, Bertie Bowman–a poor, impressionable thirteen-year-old kid, the fifth of fourteen siblings–heard South ... Read more

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    Step By Step

    A Memoir of Hope, Friendship, Perserverance and Living the American Dream

    by Bertie Bowman ...
    Narrated by Bob Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    From sharecropper's son in Depression-era South Carolina to hearing coordinator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bowman shares his inspiring life story. Born in Summerton, S.C., in 1931, young Bertie was raised by his stepmother and strict father to do his share of the farm work, in the spirit of molding a man's character by "hard work, determination, and keeping your word," as taught ... Read more

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  • Rush and Philosophy

    Heart and Mind United

    by Jim Berti, Durrell Bowman ...
    Series Book 57 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, which was released in the summer of 2010 has been universally well received. They had a cameo in the movie I Love You Man. Their seven-part song 2112” was included in a version of Guitar Hero” released in 2010. The group even appeared on The Colbert Report ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Shall We Tell the President?

    by Jeffrey Archer ...
    Narrated by Lorelei King ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 17 min

    Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer keeps the pace sizzling in this final installment in the Kane and Abel trilogy, Shall We Tell the President?*, a daring political thriller where treason and betrayal threaten to topple an American dynasty.*After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Pink Floyd and Philosophy

    Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!

    Edited by George A. Reisch ...
    Series Book 30 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    With their early experiments in psychedelic rock music in the 1960s, and their epic recordings of the 1970s and '80s, Pink Floyd became one of the most influential and recognizable rock bands in history. As "The Pink Floyd Sound," the band created sound and light shows that defined psychedelia in England and inspired similar movements in the Jefferson Airplane's San Francisco and Andy Warhol's New ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • White House Confidential

    The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

    by Gregg Stebben, Austin Hill ...
    An irreverent look at Presidential foibles, follies, fibs, and moral failuresWere past presidents smarter, more honest, and better behaved that those we elect today? Don’t bet on it! White House Confidential shows that commanders-in-chief have been lying, cheating, stealing, and womanizing from the days of the Founding Fathers. Focusing on the qualities that never made it into White House press ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    In the President's Secret Service

    Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect

    by Ronald Kessler ...
    Narrated by Alan Sklar ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 50 min

    Secret Service agents, acting as human surveillance cameras, observe everything that goes on behind the scenes in the president's inner circle. Ronald Kessler reveals what they have seen, providing startling, previously untold stories about the presidents, from John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as about their families, Cabinet officers, and White House ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Radiohead and Philosophy

    Fitter Happier More Deductive

    Edited by Brandon W. Forbes, George A. Reisch ...
    Since their breakthrough hit "Creep" in 1993, Radiohead has continued to make waves throughout popular and political culture with its views about the Bush presidency (its 2003 album was titled Hail to the Thief), its anti-corporatism, its pioneering efforts to produce ecologically sound road tours, and, most of all, its decision in 2007 to sell its latest album, In Rainbows, online with a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The President's House

    1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home

    by Margaret Truman ...
    As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized. In this splendid blend of the personal and historic, Margaret ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music

    A Critical History of Industrial Music

    by S. Alexander Reed ...
    Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups that combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and abrasive style of punk rock. In Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre, charting its trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Those Bones Are Not My Child

    A Novel

    by Toni Cade Bambara ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s.Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Led Zeppelin and Philosophy

    All Will Be Revealed

    Edited by Scott Calef ...
    Series Book 44 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980. They exasperated critics and eluded classification, synthesizing blues, rock, folk, rockabilly, funk, classical, country, Indian, and Arabic techniques. They performed the alchemical trick of transmuting base led into gold-and platinum-and ... Read more

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