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Bob Marley left a legacy of politically and religiously charged songs of lyrical power and social significance that has changed the history of popular music. In addition to exploring the experiences behind Marley's best work, Chris Welch reveals the significance of the superb singles and albums delivered by Bob Marley and the Wailers from the early '60s to Marley's untimely death in May 1981. AUTHOR: Chris Welch
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Journals of Lewis & Clark by Bernard A. De Voto, Stephen E. Ambrose
In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank - not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national Voyage of Discovery must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. AUTHOR: Bernard A. De Voto, Stephen E. Ambrose
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | A Simple Monk by Alison Wright, Robert A. Thurman, Tom Morgan
This coffee-table book includes photographs by Alison Wright of the Dalai Lama and his fellow Tibetans-in-exile, as well as essays about the Dalai Lama by Orville Schell, Robert Thurman, Diki Tsering (the Dalai Lama's mother), and others. AUTHOR: Alison Wright, Robert A. Thurman, Tom Morgan
PUBLISHER: New World Library
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Kitchen Congregation by Nora Seton
Nora Seton writes about her late mother, the novelist Cynthia Propper Seton, and particularly the kitchen where she spent much of her time before she died when Nora was 10. Other kitchens are included, among them that of a 94-year-old psychotherapist and mentor, and the kitchen of the author's friend Laura, who never cooks. AUTHOR: Nora Seton
PUBLISHER: Picador
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Lyndon Johnson's War by Larry Berman
Lyndon Johnson`s war focuses on the repercussions from President Johnson`s failure to address the fundamental incompatibility between his political objectives at home and his military objectives in Vietnam. AUTHOR: Larry Berman
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Uncertainty by David C. Cassidy
This is David Cassidy's compelling portrait of this brilliant, ambitious, and controversial scientist. It is the definitive Heisenberg biography, as well as a striking evocation of the development of quantum physics, the rise of Nazism, and the dawn of the atomic age. AUTHOR: David C. Cassidy
PUBLISHER: Freeman, W. H. & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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