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September 11, 2001, will be eternally frozen in our memories. Where we were; what we thought; what we felt; what we heard; and especially what we saw will stay with us forever. It was a day -- defined for each of us in an instant -- that we will share with our children and our grandchildren in the years to come. In words and images -- and on a full-length DVD -- What We Saw captures those moments.
Dan Rather's Introduction sets the stage for an introspective look at the catastrophic events of September 11. What We Saw follows a day that started out like any other but ended in silence and sorrow -- from the first interviews by phone with eyewitnesses to a plane crashing into Tower 1 of the World Trade Center to the Towers of Light tribute, six months later.
As the world came to a halt that September morning, Dan Rather and his colleagues at CBS News worked tirelessly to provide detailed, accurate coverage of that day and the days that followed. Not only are the events that shook America's biggest city and its capital closely documented, but the tragedies that occurred elsewhere are also examined, from the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to the repercussions felt in a small New Jersey commuter town.
Among the contributors are Jules Naudet, a French filmmaker who was working on a documentary about New York City firefighters when his subjects were called into service that September morning; Newsweek's Anna Quindlen, whose thoughts turn to a young family likely headed on vacation aboard United Airlines Flight 175, The New Republic's David Grann, who captures the feeling of hopelessness felt by the families searching for missing loved ones; and CBS's Ed Bradley, who describes the volunteers who flocked to Manhattan with an overwhelming desire to help.
Each moment of September 11 and its aftermath is portrayed with candor and honesty by the CBS News correspondents, photographers, camera operators, and journalists who were there. What We Saw is an invaluable documentary of a day that changed our world forever.
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"America-it's not something you get for free;it's something you have to fight for.".......2006-12-08
"And from the ruins,that yellow cloud,made of pain and death and
religious zealotry,created by twisted minds and hardened hearts,kept
rising over the city.The stentch of it poisoned the air.Sirens wailed
their terrible song. But that sinister cloud would not prevail. The
world's God-sick party of death would not win. There on the ground,on
the day after our worst calamity,were the toughest people anywhere on
Earth. They would remove that smoke from our sky. And when it was
gone,they would work,as they always do,for life itself. They would
drink. They would sing. They would dance."
There have been many books published on the Terrorist attack on America on 9/11;and I have several. However; if one wants to have one book that covers it as well as any,I strongly recommend this book and the excellent DVD that is included with it.The DVD is a full-length account lasting approximately 90 minutes.It is one thing to read the personal accounts of those who took part in the firefighting,policing,search and rescue, volunteering and particularly those who lost friends and loved ones;but,is the only way to hear it asnd in their own words . It is the only way to appreciate the love,heartbreak,and determination to continue with their lives.
Everyone should own a copy of this package;re-read and re-listen to it often.This declaration of war by Terrorists ,and the people who sympathize
with them, is only the early stage of a long time onslaught on Democracy,Freedom and Liberty that will continue for years. As long and terrible that this will be,the one thing that is for sure is; Good will win out over Evil-- it will not be easy,but nothing worthwhile ever is.
The people you hear from in this book and DVD took the first big hit in this war and are all heros.Here we see Americans at their very best.
As I wrire this review,I am reminded that today is the 65th anniversity
of of that infamous day on December 7,1941 ; when another evil empire attacked Pearl Harbor. Good won over Evil and will do so again.
A great reminder of what happened........2006-09-07
The text in the book is not that great, the pictures on the other hand make up for everything the text lacks. If pictures are worth 1000 words then these are the Proverbial "Encyclopedia Britanica" of Sept. 11, 2001. They find and illuminate the wide range of feelings and reactions that were brought out in the aftermath from horror to pain to fear to pride in out emergency service workers and even those who were not emergency service workers but showed up to volunteer. The DVD in my opinion is the real gem here, I have the DVDs 9/11 intended to be a documentary about a rookie fire fighter that caught the only existing footage of the first plane hitting the trade center, CNN Tribute - America Remembers - The Events of September 11th (Commemorative Edition)which is a collection of video from cnn coverage of the attacks and interviews done afterwards, and then there is the What We Saw DVD, this one is similar to the CNN DVD but does something different, it brings the loved and lost into our hearts and reminds us of the heavy price that we paid that day. Like both of the before mentioned DVDs this one brought me to tears, but there is something different about this one. It is painful to watch but its our duty to see it, because we need to be reminded so we don't let it happen again.
a fine dvd and book about 9/11.......2006-05-04
while i admit the dvd included here isn't as good as the cnn one,it's still good but the book is the thing here.
the book is wonderful and when my boys ask about this i'll use this book and the other dvd's to help them understand just how big and sad that day was. everyone should have this in their collection.
AMERICANS SHOULD REMEMBER 9/11.......2006-04-03
In the months following this horrific events, Americans have proved that they can be easily controlled by fear and more than eager to give up freedoms to be free. Americans need to take a hard look of how they have allowed america to desintigrate by the hands of an illegitimate president, because Bush has garanteed america many more 9/11s by his illegal war in Iraq
wake up America before you find yourself in a dictatorship
a must for all americans,so we never forget.......2006-02-10
i bought this book and dvd and i am so glad i did. this was one of the worst days in american history and this print and video record is very much needed. it catches all the angles of this horriable day. a must for every american.
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Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
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“A ground-breaking history of RFE-RL that is both erudite and a delight to read. . . . Should help rescue the radios from the `memory hole' to which their detractors are attempting to consign them.”—American Spectator
“Useful to anyone interested in the minutiae of American foreign policy in Eastern Europe after World War II.”—Washington Post Book World
“A fine telling of a little known U.S. project that prevented the evil empire from exercising a monopoly on news and opinion.”—First Things
“No one measure won the Cold War—but Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty should be in the first rank of those getting the highest medals. Puddington tells the story with style and grace.”—R. James Woolsey
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hen war broke out in Iraq, every major U.S. network pulled its correspondents from the scene. Despite the risk, Richard Engel stayed. As our tanks entered Baghdad in April 2003, he was there, bringing the Iraqi war into American homes as a stringer for ABC news.Determined to deliver the whole Middle East story, Engel moved to Cairo in 1996 after graduating from Stanford to learn 'street' Arabic. Then to dig even deeper into the complicated powder-keg of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he settled in Jerusalem. Now as Iraq enters its post-war phase and the Gulf region continues to dominate our nation's consciousness, more and more Americans will come to know and trust Richard Engel- especially in his current role as a correspondent for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Both analytical and anecdotal, this book leads us through the war in Iraq, dissecting a myriad of Middle East issues, all from the vantage point of someone who is 'on the ground and in the streets' to get the real story.
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Written from the Baghdad streets leading up to, during and following the war, this book, from the publishers of the New York Times bestseller THE CELL, will examine from street level the impact of the recent war as well as critical assessments for the future of the Gulf region.
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A good story that deserves a richer telling.......2006-08-19
Despite my giving this book a rather lukewarm rating, it does have several things to recommend it. Of these, the strongest is Richard Engel himself. His own story is a pretty impressive one. Fresh out of college, he decided the next frontier of journalism was going to be the Middle East. So he moved to Cairo and taught himself to speak and read Arabic (that right there puts him head-and-shoulders above probably 95 percent of the Americans reporting from the Mideast). With war in Iraq imminent, he made the effort to get to -- and remain in -- Baghdad when most other reporters were getting out. He was rewarded for this by becoming, after Peter Arnett was fired, the only western reporter still in the city as the bombs were falling. So I can't fault Engel at all for his bravery, his foresight, or his commitment to "telling the story."
Another thing Engel should be credited for is his decision while in Baghdad not to watch what other reporters or networks were saying about what was happening around him. (In part, he admits, this was due to the lack of functioning televisions during the bombing campaign. But that reinforced more than prompted his decision.) Engel's coverage therefore avoided the circular nature of reporting-on-what-other-reporters-are-saying that becomes so common during big news events. It also gives the central portion of this book a sort of claustrophobic immediacy -- like most other Iraqis, Engel is only aware of what's happening around him, not what larger picture may be unfolding around him. It's this that makes for the most interesting and evocative part of the book. On the other hand, when the author pulls his focus back -- like the clichéd technique at the end of movies -- to discuss The Big Questions about Iraq's future, the book becomes rather less interesting. Some 30 months after it was published, it's also now obviously fairly dated.
If all that makes for a generally positive review, what I kept coming back to as I was reading "A Fist in the Hornet's Nest" is that the writing itself -- the actual prose -- is fairly pedestrian. I suppose you could propose some theory about television reporters, whose primary medium is visual, not having cause to develop descriptive writing skills, and you might have something to that. At any rate, I thought the narrative here was often flat, the metaphors frequently tired, and many scenes that could have justified some vivid descriptive writing instead ended up lacking the emotional punch they deserved. But as a snapshot of the war (as opposed to whatever you want to call the period we're in now), "A Fist in the Hornet's Nest" still may be worth a look.
Incredible from start to finish.......2006-07-27
As I plowed through Richard Engel's experiences, a line from the (crappy) movie Armageddon kept ringing in my ears, "...scariest environment imaginable...."
And to think so many brave reporters have literally put their lives on the line to bring us their stories from these tattered war zones. Bottom line, Richard Engel's book is stellar in every way, and I thoroughly enjoyed my read. I found myself wishing the book was longer, thus spreading out my reading as I didn't want it to end. It was not only informative, but so well written. I don't think I've read a more intimate story, and told in such a descriptive manner, without losing the story's momentum.
Surprisingly, I found myself laughing out loud numerous times. Engel has a knack for phrasing/wording certain passages with comedic flair, which helped soften the hard edges of the ugliness of war and all of it's brutalities.
As stated in a previous review, I think Hollywood should snatch up the rights to Engel's book as it would make for an amazing theatrical film. Heck, they made that horrid novel Jarhead into a movie-- directed by Sam Mendes of all people. By those standards, Terrence Malik, Steven Soderberg or Micheal Winterbottom (who directed the incredible movie 'Code 46' and 'The Road to Guantanamo') should direct 'A Fist in the Hornet's Nest'.
With the current debacle in Lebanon/Israel well under way, I'm wondering if Engel will have a chance to write another book based on his current experiences covering the conflict.
dated and weak analysis, racist?.......2005-12-31
Engel's book provides an interesting look at what it was like to report on the beginning of the war, however the book shows its age and bias right in the title. Engel seemed to think in 2004 that the war was actually over when we can see today (and I'd think he could have seen at the time) the the war was really just starting. Engel's analysis relies heavily on statements from the US military and discounts Iraqi sources and what he had to be seeing. This book is really heavily pro-war and pro-Israel. Background about his time in Palestine relates events during the Intifada as if the Israeli forces were always forced to respond to Palestinian attacks and fails to see the real situation of brutality and occupation by Israel as causing much of the violence. Engel sees the Iraq War in the same light. The Iraqis are painted as stupid, uncivilized, simple, savages and the US soldiers are just young heros doing their duty. Racist really when you think about it. Anyway, interesting reading if you want to know what it was like for him reporting the war, if you can ignore his analysis and bias.
Excellent and Timely Insights!.......2005-12-27
One of the most impressive (though not explicit) topics in the book is Engel's initiative and fortitude in becoming a mid-East reporter - without any initial contract, contacts, or local language ability.
An early observation by the author was the wide-spread and intense hatred of Israel. Arabs noted that Israel repeatedly ignored U.N. resolutions that it disagreed with - and the U.S. did nothing, while using Hussein's violation of U.N. direction as an excuse to invade.
Just prior to the U.S. taking Baghdad Baath party members set up control points at major intersections - purportedly to defend the city. The acclaimed Republican Guard had been disbanded into homes on the outside of the city - the plan was that they would then come out and encircle the Americans who entered Baghad. It didn't happen.
Pre-invasion "minders" for press personnel generally could not "see" (report) reality - would deny events occuring in front of them such as people fleeing the city.
Iraqi's did not believe Americans with their high-tech weapons accidently hit civilians - thus, this advantage became somewhat of a liability. The blackout caused by U.S. bombing led to another wave of refugees and the initiation of widespread looting. The looters then compounded the electricity problem by stealing wires, etc., leaving citizens with unrealistic expectations for the Americans to resume electrical service.
Shortly after the U.S. takeover, Engel left for ten weeks. Upon returning he found many buying CDs or tapes of torture during Hussein's reign - not because they were voyeurs or sympathetic but because it provided insight into the reality they hadn't known. Numerous newspapers and political parties arose in Saddam's absence.
With their new freedom, many took the opportunity to settle old scores - murder soared to a rate 14X that of New York City. Price controls ended, many renters were forced out into the street, and many had difficulty affording daily living due to the combination of inflation and loss of their government-supplied job.
Engels estimated that there were only 50-75 groups antagnostic to the Americans, focused in the Sunni area. The groups would hire others to do their dirty work. Unfortunately the struggle attracted others from outside Iraq to come in and fight the Americans. Engels did believe that the Iraqi Governing Council, appointed by Bremer, was not a rubber-stamp group. However, while Engels is optimistic at the end, subsequent events have not proven very positive.
A waste of time never to be repeated again!.......2005-03-06
First of all, I would like to advice all that this wasn't just a waste of money but a HUGE! waste of time, Richard keeps talking with a pro-kurd point of view and defends iran despite it is part of the Axis of evil! And under which circumstances did he give himself the RIGHT! to make sunnis 20% though they are 32-37% according to the CIA factbook and 60%! according to the Absolute truth! [...]
A Fist in the Hornet's Nest is a book to stay away from if you want to know the truth because it expresses the opinion of a pro-kurd and an iran sympathizer! For the truth we will need a Neutral point of view!
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Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments and for his Academy Award-winning performance in the 1959 classic Ben-Hur. Throughout his long career, Heston used his cinematic status as a powerful moral force to effect social and political change. "From My Cold, Dead Hands" examines how Heston evolved into a major American political figure.
Heston has campaigned for both Democratic and Republican candidates, marched in support of black civil rights, served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild, helped shape policy for the National Endowment for the Arts, and served as president of the National Rifle Association. Disillusioned with the Democrats, Heston formally registered with the Republican Party in the 1980s, but he argued that the decision was in keeping with his longtime advocacy of individual rights.
"From My Cold, Dead Hands" is far more than a biography--it is a chronicle of the resurgence of American conservative thought and, in particular, the birth of neoconservatism. Emilie Raymond convincingly argues that conservatives owe a great deal to Heston: his image of morality, individualism, and masculinity lent their movement credibility with a larger public, and he effectively campaigned for conservative candidates and causes. Meanwhile, Heston paved the way for many of today's Hollywood activists, using his popularity and image to fuel and legitimize his political activities.
A balanced study of Charlton Heston and his work offscreen, "From My Cold, Dead Hands" neither glorifies nor maligns Heston but provides an engaging account of how he propelled his personal beliefs into the political mainstream of America.
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Praise for a man who is obviously demented.........2007-02-28
I thought C. heston was one of the great actors in the world, and I still like Ben-Hur and El Cid and the 10 Commnadments very much..but Heston's stands on issues such as the NRA and gay rights are fascist at the very best.
He took a turn in his life thinking he could be an intellectual..a huge mistake..he was a good actor, he knew that much about himself, that he could dsraw aude=iences in with his swagger and heroic gesturing. But when he stepped out of the screen's protective proceniums, he showed his low voltage mind.
His Altzheimer's Disease is very sad, but the latter part of his life, beyond Touch of Evil, and Will Penny is even sadder.
A tragic case.
The making of a cultural conservative.......2007-01-01
Raymond's book is an excellent example of the study of a star formed by his cultural circumstances and historical forces. Heston has often been unjustifiably vilified in the recent past for his unpopular views to the detriment of his acting achievements. This book reveals that Heston was not alone in his rightward swing since it reveals him, along with Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, as liberal conservatives who belonged to the Democratic Party until historical forces changed their alignment. In many ways, they remained true to their beliefs while the Democratic Party changed from its conservative Eisenhower-Kennedy roots into Johnson Great Society that these people could not accept.
For those interested in social change in American society, this book is a very revealing treatment and explains much of what has happened during the last forty years. My only complaint is that Raymond has focussed on a limited amount of Heston films and has not examined others such as the Cold War western ARROWHEAD (1952) and THE CALL OF THE WILD where the Heston character undergoes a crisis of masculinity in one scene. It is easy to denigrate the actor as Michael Moore did unfairly in his interview in BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE where he appeared oblivious to the actors failing health and his recent operation. During Whoopi Goldberg's unjustly short-lived TV talk show, she did not take the easy option of making the actor look like a fool but spoke to him in a meaningful conversation without having any hidden agenda. It is a shame Raymond does not cite this in the book which is a valuable cultural study of a star who engaged in activist neo-conservative politics. While it is easy to sneer at his now outmoded roles and jeer at his Alzheimer's diagnosis as did George Clooney, it is much more challenging to understand the man and his beliefs in an objective manner. Raymond has risen to the challenge in a book which has several significant insights but could have been much better if more of the star's films had been covered against the background of the changing social and historical forces documented in this valuable work.
A true American who would fit right in with our Founders.......2006-11-10
Anyone who thinks of Himself/Herself a Patriot needs to read this book. Anyone who doesn't needs to read it to find out why they need to be. This is the greatest country in the world, and if we wish it to stay great and free, we have to get involved, or what we take for granted will slip away. The modern media blames America first, finds fault, and betrays all that countless patriots who have given their all that we might live we do today. Why do peoples of the world see us as the beacon of hope, and risk everything to come here? You'll find the answers in Mr. Heston's book, and what we must do to pass what we have, on to our children, and generations to come.
almost TOO fair.......2006-10-02
Ms. Raymond goes all out to prove Heston a "principled" conservative -- and yes, they do exist, even in this day of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush and Foley. Much of the information is very interesting. Amazingly, though, she does not seem to know of the use Michael Moore made of Heston in his film "Bowling for Columbine," which is the indelible image that most of us have in mind when we think of Charlton Heston. Was this ignorance, or just kindness to an old man suffering from dementia?
Indeed, Raymond does not seem to wonder whether Heston's whole NRA shill was a product of early Alzheimer's, a topic that it would seem to me needs addressing, if only to shoot it down.
For the most part, this is a strong book. But the omissions show.
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The Media and Peace: From Vietnam to the 'War on Terror'
Graham Spencer
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Much is known about the media's role in conflict, but far less is known about the media's role in peace. Graham Spencer's study addresses this deficiency by providing a comparative analysis of reporting conflicts from around the world and examining media receptiveness to the development of peace. This book establishes an argument for the need to rethink journalistic responsibility in relation to peace and interrogates the consequences of news coverage that emphasizes conflict over peace.
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Freedom of the Air and the Public Interest: First Amendment Rights in Broadcasting to 1935
Louise M Benjamin
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A unique and definitive study of freedom of expression rights in electronic media from the 1920s through the mid-1930s, Louise M. Benjamin’s Freedom of the Air and the Public Interest: First Amendment Rights in Broadcasting to 1935 examines the evolution of free speech rights in early radio.
Drawing on primary resources from sixteen archives plus contemporary secondary sources, Benjamin analyzes interactions among the players involved and argues that First Amendment rights in radio evolved in the 1920s and 1930s through the interaction of many entities having social, political, or economic interests in radio. She shows how free speech and First Amendment rights were defined and perceived up to 1935.
Focusing on the evolution of various electronic media rights, Benjamin looks at censorship, speakers’ rights of access to the medium, broadcasters’ rights to use radio as they desired, and listeners’ rights to receive information via the airwaves. With many interested parties involved, conflict was inevitable, resulting in the establishment of industry policies and government legislation—particularly the Radio Act of 1927. Further debate led to the Communications Act of 1934, which has provided the regulatory framework for broadcasting for over sixty years. Controversies caused by new technology today continue to rage over virtually the same rights and issues that Benjamin deals with.
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Freedom's Pioneer: John McGrath's Work in Theatre, Film and Television (Exeter Performance Studies)
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John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many University and Further Education departments and yet despite recognition of the central importance of McGrath's work, very little has been written about him. This is the first full-length study of his work. Freedom's Pioneer illuminates the importance of John McGrath's role in the development of theatre, film and television in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Through play and script-writing, through directing, producing and co-ordinating work, and through his critical, political and philosophical reflections, McGrath exerted a powerful influence over developments and innovations in all three art forms. The contributors include film and television directors, actors, designers, writers, university researchers and journalists, many of whom worked with McGrath. Questions of day-to-day working practice are addressed alongside broader political and aesthetic concerns, and the question of McGrath's relationship to and influence on the arts in Scotland receives careful consideration.
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Richard Durham's Destination Freedom: Scripts From Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-50 (Media and Society Series)
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The discrimination and stereotyping that black Americans have experienced in the popular arts in the twentieth century is a familiar story to students of popular culture. In literature, music, film, and television the barriers to black characterization and talent created pervasive distortions and stereotypes; yet in no artistic field was the racist pressure against blacks more prevalent than in radio, and into this cultural dimension the least amount of scholarship has been directed. In the light of such discriminatory traditions, the appearance in the late 1940s of the program Destination Freedom represents a striking incongruity. Broadcast for over two years over WMAQ, the Chicago affiliate of NBC, Destination Freedom was a provocative half-hour Sunday feature that probed with candor the achievements and careers of eminent blacks. Through dramatic sketches from Afro-American history, the series maturely illustrated the methods by which such black achievers as Sojourner Truth, Lena Horne, Joe Louis and Langston Hughes managed to cope successfully with bigotry in American society. During its run from 1948 to 1950, the one hundred and five scripts produced for the series were the creations of the writer Richard Durham. To the present day, Richard Durham is considered to be the most significant Afro-American dramatists in broadcasting history, and his achievement is stunning, especially when set against the history of blacks in radio. This volume consists of the fifteen most important Destination Freedom scripts, each introduced with a short history of the subject matter and consideration of the script within Durham's intellectual world view. This incisive work also includes an introductory chapter by MacDonald, a noted scholar on the history of radio broadcasting, which traces Durham's professional history, the history of blacks in radio, and the place of Destination Freedom in the current of late 1940s politics. Providing a rare opportunity for greater understanding of this important literary figure, the book will be a valuable resource in black studies, drama, and the history of broadcasting.
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This digital document is an article from Military Review, published by U.S. Army CGSC on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1847 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The 101st Airborne Division in Iraq: televising freedom.
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- You Don't Have to Take it Anymore: Turn Your Resentful, Angry, or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One
- A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature
- Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays: Fundamentals and Applications
- Aim for the Heart
- Aim for the Heart
- Alaska: A Light in the Window/Destiny's Road/Iditarod Dream/Christmas Dream (Heartsong Novella Collection)
- All the Pretty Horses
Books Index
Books Home
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- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Coping with Prednisone
- Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
- Complete CIMA Foundation CD-ROM, Second Edition: CIMA Inter@ctive CD-ROM
- Two Cheers for Capitalism
- Black Seraph
CNN Tribute - America Remembers - The Events of September 11th (Commemorative Edition)
One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001
9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition
September 11, 2001
Afterwords: Stories and Reports from 9/11 and Beyond
