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255 characters or less!To mark the upcoming 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Peabody Award-winning Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan offers an irresistible collection of the most entertaining and inspiring stories from the 70-year history of the Winter Olympics. These captivating sagas are related in an intimate style highlighting the finest qualities of the human spirit.
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors 
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 | The Book of Wooden Boats by Benjamin Mendlowitz, Maynard Bray
For 10 years, marine photographer Benjamin Mendlowitz, in collaboration with marine historian Maynard Bray, has celebrated the beauty of traditional wooden boats in the Calendar of Wooden Boats. Replaced annually, but too special to be discarded, the calendar is one of those memorable documents that encompasses an era, not a single year. Now 90 of the best images from the calendar are supplemented by more than 120 additional shots of the same boats in a stunning and permanent volume. Here are wooden sailboats, powerboats, working boats, open boats, and sailing yachts, the entire range presented in full color. What makes the work of Benjamin Mendlowitz so much different from that of other boating photographers? There are many answers, but a passion for the subject would have to be at the top of the list, followed closely by attention to detail, an understanding of the nature of light, the eye of an artist, technical mastery, and the ability to reveal the essence of a boat's soul. Careful study of the photographs in this book will reveal some or all of these elements. But to my mind not one is more representative of Mendlowitz's technical skill, artistic interpretation, aesthetics, and appreciation of the classical past than the photograph of the Nutshell pram and Downeast peapod on page 148. What a beautiful, elegant, eloquent portrait of two unpretentious small boats at peace by the edge of the sea! The photograph epitomizes the Benjamin Mendlowitz aesthetic. There is no time; it could be now, it could be then, it could be whenever the viewer wants it to be. Our boats, our coast, our scene. We are no longer looking at a photograph. We are looking into a scene; we are in a scene; it isour scene; we are there. That is what makes a photograph by Benjamin Mendlowitz different from all the others. AUTHOR: Benjamin Mendlowitz, Maynard Bray
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors
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 | The Last Step by Rick Ridgeway
Nearly all of the members of Rick Ridgeway's team reached the summit of K2, the second highest mountain peak in the world. This is the account of that incredibly difficult expedition, marking the first successful attempt by an American group. AUTHOR: Rick Ridgeway
PUBLISHER: Mountaineers Books, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors
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 | The World As I Found It
The World As I Found It centers around Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most powerfully magnetic philosophers of our time--brilliant, tortured, mercurial, forging his own solitary path while leaving a permanent mark on all around him.
CATEGORY: Travel
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 | Jack the Ripper by Keith Skinner, Stewart P. Evans
Description not available.Analyzes more than seven hundred communications by Jack the Ripper and others who claimed to be the notorious serial killer. AUTHOR: Keith Skinner, Stewart P. Evans
PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: True Crime
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 | The Kids Winter Handbook by Ann Love, Heather Collins, Jane Drake
Description not available.A wonderful guide is filled with an abundance of activities and ideas for winter fun, from enjoying an outdoor picnic on a blanket of snow to sewing up a pair of warm fleece mittens. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Ann Love, Heather Collins, Jane Drake
PUBLISHER: Kids Can Press, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Sports & Outdoors
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