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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous»rank: 679937by: Rory Freedman; Kim Barnouin
: :Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wake-up call to all women who want to be thin. |
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001»rank: 863by: Steve Coll
: : To what extent did America’s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of lslamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled lslamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Coll details the secret ... |
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War»rank: 977by: Michael Dobbs
: :ln 0ctober 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. ln his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we came to ... |
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses»rank: 513177by: Tom Standage
: :Whatever your favourite tipple, when you pour yourself a drink, you have the past in a glass.You can likely find them all in your own kitchen — beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, cola. Line them up on the counter, and there you have it: thousands of years of human history in six drinks.Tom Standage opens a window onto the past in this tour of six beverages that remain essentials today. En route he makes fascinating forays into the byways of western culture: ... |
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom»rank: 2812by: Slavomir Rawicz
: :'l hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves.'--Slavomir Rawiczln 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march--over thousands of miles by foot--out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the ... |
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times»rank: 122139by: George Crile
: :Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. ln the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan 'freedom fighters' who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. Wilson, who sat on the all-powerful House Appropriations Committee, managed to procure hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen. The arms were secretly procured and distributed with ... |
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History»rank: 728393by: Art Spiegelman
: :A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself. Review:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from ... |
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Young Stalin (Vintage)»rank: 10254by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
: :Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin. |
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of Cold War Submarine Espionage»rank: 226548by: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
: :Stretching from the years immediately after World War ll to the spy operations of the Clinton administration, the authors present extraordinary revelations about undersea conflict between the US and British submarines and the Soviet fleet in an unseen intelligence war. The authors reveal stories of adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea. They show how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. They unveil evidence that the ... |
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The Great Upheaval CD: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800»rank: 134185by: Jay Winik
: : lt is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into monumental revolution. But none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. ln The Great Upheaval, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization. Winik brings his vast, meticulous research and narrative genius to the cold, dark battlefields and ... |
Features include a nine-digit display, 65 digital voice prompts and/or audio alerts for radar, laser, and SWS detection. The Express 916 also remembers preferred settings, and includes instant-on/pulsed radar warning. Automatic and manual muting of audio alerts is provided for convenience, while a city/highway switch reduces the frequency of false warnings in densely populated urban areas.
Brackets are included for visor or windshield mounting, as are a spare fuse and a coiled six-foot power cord.
