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This is the most comprehensive and authoritative biography to date of Mao Zedong, enriched by much new information only recently made available in China. AUTHOR: Ross Terrill
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
When this novel was first published in 1936, it was awarded the Prix Femina and the Grand Prix for literature by the Academie Francaise. It traces the life of an unnamed priest in a small French village and his bitter struggle against the darkness of corruption, indifference, and sin that afflicts the community. It is one of the most moving testimonies to personal heroism in modern literature and one of the greatest expressions of Catholic faith in the novel form. AUTHOR: Georges Bernanos
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Black Whitness by Robert Burleigh, Walter L. Krudop
In 1934, Admiral Richard Byrd spent a season by himself in a small cabin in Antarctica, recording the weather and confronting life, completely alone, in harsh conditions. Robert Burleigh's text is supplemented with excerpts from Admiral Byrd's firsthand account of how he survived, and dramatic illustrations capture the courage of Byrd's amazing ordeal. Full color. AUTHOR: Robert Burleigh, Walter L. Krudop
PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Deborah E. McDowell, Frederick Douglass, Peter J. Gomes
Description not available.The famous biography of the former slave who became an outstanding orator, minister, and leader offers an eloquent indictment of America's peculiar institution, exposing the conditions of slavery on the plantations of the antebellum South. Reprint. AUTHOR: Deborah E. McDowell, Frederick Douglass, Peter J. Gomes
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Biography of Sir Grahame Clark by Fagan
To chronicle intellectual life of Grahame Clark (1907-1995) is to participate in the history of archaeology, which Clark--almost single-handedly at first--transformed from an antiquarian pastime based largely on artifact classification into a sophisticated study of the human past based on collaborations among scientists from many disciplines. Noted archaeology writer Brian Fagan, himself a former student of Clark's at Cambridge University, assesses Clark's pioneering efforts in economic and environmental prehistory. Out of the stultifying atmosphere of dull museum display cases, Clark redefined prehistoric archaeology as the study of ancient communities ceaselessly adapting to ever-changing environments. His famous excavation of the Stone Age hunter-gatherer site of Star Carr was a tour de force of environmental archaeology. Clark also broke British prehistory out of its entrenched provincialism to consider Britain within the context of Mesolithic Europe and, eventually, global prehistory. During Clark's exceptionally long career, spanning well over half a century, the generations of students he trained colonized the world of archaeology and reshaped the discipline in Clark's image. AUTHOR: Fagan
PUBLISHER: Westview Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Battered Stars by Howard Coffin
Description not available.Draws from letters, records, diaries, and newspaper accounts to provide a history of Vermont's role during Grant's Overland Campaign. AUTHOR: Howard Coffin
PUBLISHER: Countryman Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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