The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives describes how he led the fight in Congress against Reagan and Bush's Central American policies and negotiated directly with Sandinistas and other Central American leaders. 25,000 first printing.

Worth It All: My War For Peace

Politics & Social Sciences

Wright, Jim

Politics & Government

Potomac Books Inc.

A biography of the Philadelphia Phillies player who, after being the worst hitter in the major leagues, becames home-run champion three years in a row.

Mike Schmidt: Baseball's Young Lion (Putnam Sport Shelf)

Biographies & Memoirs

Putnam Pub. Group

Celebrate the environmental restoration of the Meadowlands. For decades, New Jersey's Meadowlands have been known as mostly the home of the NFL's Giants and Jets, the place where Jimmy Hoffa is purportedly buried, or a wasteland that you passed through on your way somewhere else. Until recently, that reputation was deserved. The land was blighted with unregulated landfills and the Hackensack River so polluted that barnacles couldn't survive. Today, though, the 30.4-square-mile region has made a remarkable comeback. Located in Bergen and Hudson Counties and just five miles from Manhattan, the Meadowlands is a prime destination for birders, kayakers, and other nature lovers. In words and images, The Nature of the Meadowlands illuminates the region's natural and unnatural history, from its darkest days of a half-century ago to its amazing environmental revival. This is a great resource and beautiful keepsake for residents and visitors, tourists of New Jersey, nature lovers, and history buffs.

The Nature of the Meadowlands

History

Americas

Schiffer

Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything I've had my James Bond do. --Ian Fleming James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and . . . identity-theft victim? When James Bond published his landmark book, Birds of the West Indies, he had no idea it would set in motion events that would link him to the most iconic spy in the Western world and turn his life upside down. Born into a wealthy family but cut off in his early twenties, James Bond took off to the West Indies in search of adventure. Armed with arsenic and a shotgun, he took months-long excursions to the Caribbean to collect material for his iconic book, Birds of the West Indies, navigating snake-infested swamps, sleeping in hammocks, and island-hopping on tramp steamers and primitive boats. Packed with archival photos, many never before published, and interviews with Bond's colleagues, here is the real story of the pipe-smoking, ruthless ornithologist who introduced the world to the exotic birds of the West Indies.

The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue, and Ian Fleming

Humor & Entertainment

In the past twenty years, big-time stock-car racing has become America’s fastest growing spectator sport. Winston Cup races draw larger audiences—at the tracks and on television—than any other sport, and drivers like Dale Jarrett, Jeff Gordon, and Mark Martin have become cultural icons whose endorsements command millions. What accounts for NASCAR’s surging popularity? For years a “closeted” NASCAR fan, Professor Jim Wright took advantage of a sabbatical in 1999 to attend stock-car races at seven of the Winston Cup’s legendary venues: Daytona, Indianapolis, Darlington, Charlotte, Richmond, Atlanta, and Talladega. The “Fixin’ to Git Road Tour” resulted in this book—not just a travelogue of Wright’s year at the races, but a fan’s valentine to the spectacle, the pageantry, and the subculture of Winston Cup racing. Wright busts the myth that NASCAR is a Southern sport and takes on critics who claim that there’s nothing to racing but “drive fast, turn left,” revealing the skill, mental acuity, and physical stamina required by drivers and their crews. Mostly, though, he captures the experience of loyal NASCAR fans like himself, describing the drama in the grandstands—and in the bars, restaurants, parking lots, juke joints, motels, and campgrounds where race fans congregate. He conveys the rich, erotic sensory overload—the sights, the sounds, the smells, the feel—of weekends at the Winston Cup race tracks.

Fixin to Git: One Fan's Love Affair with NASCAR's Winston Cup

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Duke University Press Books

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Carver, a top tabloid photographer, is drawn into circumstances beyond his control after an accidentally taken photograph leads to a car chase, a ransacked apartment, and a bizarre mystery

The Last Frame

Literature & Fiction

United States

Carroll & Graf Pub.

Baseball Card and Collectibles Dealer Directory

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Mecklermedia

Presents a collection of photographs showcasing the plant and animals found at the Celery Farm Natural Area.

In the Presence of Nature: The Celery Farm Natural Area, Allendale, New Jersey

Barrack, Jerry

Travel

Camino Books

Alternative Truths is a look at the post-election America that is, or will be, or could be. We attach no manacles to truth that bind it to our visions. Instead we free it to find its own way through the minds of the two dozen writers who have shared their vision of the future in either sensitively written allegorical tales such as Relics by Louise Marley, a woman who grew up bucking hay in Montana and moved on to a talented musical performer and successful novelist; or the raw humor of Adam Troy-Castro in his Q &amp; A, which takes on the verbal veracity of Donald J. Trump. This collection includes a thoughtful foreword by Rick Dunham other work by some of fandoms best loved writers

Alternative Truths (Alternatives)

Brown, Bob

Hauer, Diana

Marley, Louise

Macdonald, Susan Murrie

Hammond, Paula

Featherston, Bobby Lee

Radford, Irene

Ewy, Joel

Castro, Adam-Troy

Genre Fiction

B Cubed Press

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