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Torkel Brekke - Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century

Torkel Brekke - Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2003-02-20 | ISBN: 019925236X | PDF | 192 pages | 13.82 MB
This book examines religious transformation in South Asia in the 19th century, perhaps the most important period of religious change in the history of the region. By looking at some outstanding individuals from different religions the book sheds light on the questions that lie at the heart of later nationalist discourse: Who is a Hindu? Who is a Buddhist? What is the relationship between the religious communities of South Asia?
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Eboo Patel - Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation

Eboo Patel - Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Publisher: Beacon Press | 2007-07-11 | ISBN: 0807077267 | PDF | 189 pages | 10.27 MB
“Acts of Faith, a beautifully written story of discovery and hope, chronicles Dr. Eboo Patel’s struggle to forge his identity as a Muslim, an Indian, and an American. In the process, he developed a deep reverence for what all faiths have in common, and founded an interfaith movement to help young people to embrace their common humanity through their faith. This young social entrepreneur offers us a powerful way to deal with one of the most important issues of our time.” —President Bill Clinton
The lessons we learn when we are young, Eboo Patel writes, determine the commitments we carry the rest of our lives. Even so, many organizations only pay lip service to the importance of youth programs; few devote substantial time and effort to them.
But there is a segment of our world that fully understands that young people are a combustible combination of power and fragility. Preachers in the bigotry-driven Christian Identity movement pay special attention to young people. Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin was a twenty-five-year-old observant Jew. Muslim extremists run madrasas with the clear-cut goal of teaching youth that violence is the answer. Youth programs are the focus of the institutions created by these religious totalitarians and at the center of their strategies. All too often, young people are the perpetrators of the devastating acts of violence that define these groups.
Acts of Faith interweaves accounts of how religious totalitarian groups engage youth with Patel’s own story of growing up Muslim and angry in America. His unique understanding of the importance of positively engaging religious youth led him to found the Interfaith Youth Core, an energetic organization that seeks to counter religious totalitarianism by building an interfaith, pluralistic youth movement. Addressing the key questions of this emerging movement, Patel shows us how to engage religious conservatives and, most importantly, how to positively focus the fires of youth.
“Eboo Patel is an exciting new voice of a new America. Diverse but not divisive, hopeful but not utopian. He is an American Indian whose roots are not in South Dakota but in South Asia, and he speaks for all of us from a rising generation of bright, brown and bold Americans who have much to offer a country embarking on a new millennium and in need of new blood.” —Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, executive director of the Zaytuna Institute
“Eboo Patel has crafted an elegantly written and brilliantly argued manifesto -- a call to arms, really -- about the importance, not of interfaith dialogue, but of interfaith cooperation. His thesis is simple: children are not born to hate; hatred is taught to them. And in a time when religion is used increasingly to justify bigotry and violence, it is up to people of faith everywhere who believe in peace, and tolerance, and pluralism, to stand up to those who preach hatred in the name of God. Acts of Faith is more than a book, it is an awakening of the mind. It should be required reading for all Americans.” —Reza Aslan, author of No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
“Religious pluralism is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Acts of Faith is the inspiring story of Eboo Patel’s own life journey and his vision in creating an interfaith youth movement. He shows how educating a new generation to reject religious intolerance and work for the common good is the only way the world can avoid growing fanaticism and violence. This hopeful book shows the power that is waiting to be engaged for a better future. I highly commend it.” —Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
“A remarkable book by a young Muslim and a Rhodes Scholar with a vast spiritual vision: a future in which young people join hands in service across the lines of religion. Refreshing, honest, and hopeful, it will speak to the soul of a generation yearning for a new way ahead. Give it to eveery young person in your life—and to yourself.” —Diana Eck, author of A New Religious America: How a ‘Christian Country’ Has Become the World’s Most Religious Diverse Nation
Eboo Patel, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, an international nonprofit building the interfaith youth movement. His media appearances include CNN Sunday Morning, NPR’s Morning Edition, and the PBS documentary Three Faiths, One God. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Peter Meyler, David Meyler - A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint

Peter Meyler, David Meyler - A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books Toronto | 1999 | ISBN: 1896219551 | PDF | 144 pages | 10.40 MB
Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. The book begins in west Africa and his capture at age 16. It is believed he was purchased by the Pierpoint family of Connecticut, but escaped during the American Revolution to take up arms with Butler's Rangers, a British military force based at Fort Niagara. Following the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Pierpoint settled in Niagara. With the American invasion of the Canadas in 1812, Pierpoint once again took up arms in defence of his country. This well-researched and highly readable chronicle of Richard Pierpoint's life in Africa and North America?as a slave, a soldier, and as a pioneer in Upper Canada's wilderness?is an important contribution to African-American history.
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Encyclopedia of Literature

Encyclopedia of Literature
Publisher: Helicon Publishing | ISBN: N\A | edition 2006 | PDF | 1222 pages | 10,6 mb
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Literature is a reference book, with entries arranged in A–Z format. To go directly to a particular entry, click on the link in the
table of contents. There are also links between entries – click on any underlined word to jump to the related entry.
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Julius Caesar: The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history

Nic Fields, "Julius Caesar: The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history"
Osprey Publishing | 2010 | ISBN: 1846039282 | 64 pages | PDF | 10,1 MB
One of the greatest military commanders in history, Julius Caesar's most famous victory - the conquest of Gaul - was to him little more than a stepping stone to power. An audacious and decisive general, his victories over the Gauls allowed him to challenge for the political leadership of Rome. Leading a single legion across the Rubicon in 49 BC, Caesar launched a civil war which would end the Roman Republic and usher in the Roman Empire, with Caesar at its helm. This examination of the great general's life covers his great victories and few defeats, looking at the factors which lay behind his military genius.
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Josh Levine - David E. Kelley: The Man Behind Ally McBeal

Josh Levine - David E. Kelley: The Man Behind Ally McBeal
Publisher: Ecw Press | 1999-05-01 | ISBN: 1550223720 | PDF | 200 pages | 13.16 MB
Exploring the life of the man behind Ally McBeal, this book chronicles how David E. Kelly became one of the most exciting writer/creator/producers working in television today. Starting out as a young lawyer with almost no writing experience, Kelly ended up scripting some of the best episodes of L.A. Law before going on to create Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, and The Practice—and then went on to marry Michelle Pfeiffer. This biography also examines the phenomenon of a female character named Ally who became so popular, so loved, and so reviled that she graced the cover of Time magazine.
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Lily Xiao Hong Lee, A. D. Stefanowska, Sue Wiles - Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women

Lily Xiao Hong Lee, A. D. Stefanowska, Sue Wiles - Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through SUI, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe | 2007-04-23 | ISBN: 0765617501 | PDF | 405 pages | 10.99 MB
This new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of notoriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or scholarly accomplishment - all are to be found here. The editors have assembled the stories of women high born and low, representing the full range of female endeavor. The biographies are organized alphabetically within three historical groupings, to give some context to lives lived in changing circumstances over two millennia. A glossary, a chronology, and a finding list that identifies women of each period by background or field of endeavor are also provided.
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Edgar Schneider - Discovering My Autism: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (With Apologies to Cardinal Newman)

Edgar Schneider - Discovering My Autism: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (With Apologies to Cardinal Newman)
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers | 1999-02 | ISBN: 1853027243 | PDF | 123 pages | 5.59 MB
In 1978, under immense pressure at work, Edgar Schneider suffered a nervous breakdown. After convalescing, he returned to work, but within a few months he was again suffering from problems involving short-term memory and concentration. He was described as eccentric, tangential, illogical and hallucinatory; and misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. Sixteen years later, the chance reading of an article on autistic savants alerted Schneider to the possibility that he had been misdiagnosed. This proved to be the case: he is believed to be a high-functioning autistic, with attention deficit disorder (ADD). Suddenly, many apparently paradoxical or inexplicable elements of Schneider's life made sense. He calls the discovery of his autism 'liberating'. Schneider attributes his autism to brain damage caused by infectious diseases in early childhood. In Discovering My Autism, he reflects on his experiences and his memories of his childhood and teenage years as a clever and artistic loner. He explains how in order to experience 'emotions' such as grief, sympathy or desire, he must intellectualise or aestheticise them. Dispassionately, he examines his difficulties with relationships, his high pain threshold, his lack of concentration and his highly absorbant intelligence, all of which are related to his autism. He also describes the pleasure he derives from art, music and literature; the importance to him of his religious beliefs; and his work with parents' support groups. As an account of how it feels to be a high-functioning autistic, this book should be read by parents of autistic children, professionals working with them, and people with autism, Asperger's Syndrome, or ADD themselves.
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Joyce Barkhouse - George Dawson: The Little Giant

Joyce Barkhouse - George Dawson: The Little Giant
Publisher: Natural Heritage | 1989 | ISBN: 092047456X | PDF | 152 pages | 2.31 MB
An exceptional man, George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901) a tiny hunchback, may have contributed more than any other person to early knowledge of the geology, biology and ethnology of Canada's Northwest. Possessed of a brilliant mind, boundless enthusiasm, an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and a great love of the land, he made some of the most epic exploratory journeys in Canadian history. His maps and reports remain invaluable reference sources. Both Dawson City and Dawson Creek are named in his honour. This book tells the story of some of his life experiences and adventures.
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The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa

Sarah Harding, "The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa"
Snow Lion Publications | ISBN: 1559391944 | September 25, 2003 | 176 pages | PDF | 2.3 MB
Pema Lingpa's life story rounds outs a beautifully realized and translated masterpiece of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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Michael Wombacher - 11 Days at the Edge: One Man's Spiritual Journey into Evolutionary Enlightenment

Michael Wombacher - 11 Days at the Edge: One Man's Spiritual Journey into Evolutionary Enlightenment
Publisher: Findhorn Press | 2008-06-01 | ISBN: 1844091368 | PDF | 512 pages | 1.63 MB
If you have wanted to go away on an 11-day retreat with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen but haven't been able to do it, this book will serve as an excellent substitute. In the summer of 2005, the author went to Montserrat, Spain, where he spent 11 days with his spiritual teacher. Luckily for us, he transcribed what took place and was given permission to share it with us. This is a 498-page book filled with wisdom; wisdom that will challenge much of what you think and believe, even if you have been on your spiritual journey for awhile. The retreat addressed enlightenment on both a personal and collective level and Cohen went very deep with the students. What I like about the book is that it is written in such a way that the reader can feel they are actually present in the room, eavesdropping while students ask questions and the teacher gives very pointed answers. The author is very generous in sharing his own thoughts, doubts, insights, and feelings which adds to the depth of the material. Not so much a book to be read, 11 Days at the Edge is one to be experienced, pondered, and befriended. The information contained in the book has the potential to move the reader into a deeper understanding of life itself. --New Spirit Journal
Andrew Cohen is a controversial character. Enlightened teacher, evolutionary philosopher, revolutionary idealist and vocal cultural critic, he has sparked both rage and passion in the post-modern spiritual world. Uncompromising in his call for human transformation, people either love him or hate him. No one feels neutral. Why is it that Andrew Cohen has so angered some and so inspired others? Why is it that as a spiritual teacher with no tradition behind him he was invited to address the Parliament of World Religions in 2004? It is because of his ruthless deconstruction of cultural givens, his relentless quest to see things as they are and explore them in the light of liberated consciousness and his unyielding demand for integrity.In "Eleven Days at the Edge: A Journey into Evolutionary Enlightenment", you will join the author on a retreat with Andrew to find this out firsthand, and also to discover a radical new spiritual paradigm that reinterprets the traditional revelation of enlightenment in the context of an evolving universe. The emergence of this paradigm helps us to discover that intersection between our spiritual longing, and our care for the world, where both are radically empowered to reach heights that neither could reach alone.
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Transcendent Wisdom, Revised Edition

Dalai Lama, "Transcendent Wisdom, Revised Edition"
Snow Lion Publications | ISBN: 1559393297 | August 25, 2009 | 144 pages | PDF | 1.9 MB
This extraordinarily clear exposition on the wisdom section of the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life is based on an oral teaching given in India by His Holiness the Dalai Lama before an audience of thousands of Tibetans and Westerners in 1979. Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life is one of the most important texts in the Mahayana tradition of Buddhist practice. Its ninth chapter, the section on transcendent wisdom, is known among Buddhist scholars as a challenging exposition of Madhyamika philosophy, difficult to understand without a commentary. This invaluable volume, with its precise elucidation of core issues of Tibetan Buddhism, stands as a key work in Buddhist literature. In this book we have the Dalai Lama at full strength...a profound work. --Parabola
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he Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story - Richard Bach

The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story - Richard Bach
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (2006) | ISBN: 0061148482 | 400 Pages | PDF | Size: 1.53 MB
Bestselling author Richard Bach explores the meaning of fate and soul mates in this modern-day fairytale based on his real-life relationship with actor Leslie Parrish. "This is a story about a knight who was dying, and the princess who saved his life," Bach writes in his opening greeting. "It's a story about beauty and beasts and spells and fortresses, about death-powers that seem and life-powers that are." Yes, it is all that, and more. On the earthly plane this is about the riveting love affair between two fully human people who are willing to explore time travel and other dimensions together even as they grapple with the earthly struggles of intimacy, commitment, smothering, and whose turn it is to cook. Their love affair and happy ending inspired many enthusiastic fans. Years later, some of these fans were devastated to discover that this match made in heaven didn't manage to stick (the couple are no longer together). But in an interview, Bach explained that lovers don't have to stay married forever to be lifetime soul mates. Read this as a lesson about love's enchantments and possibilities, but don't count on this book to keep you and your mate on the bridge across forever.
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Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations

Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations By Jim Ellis
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press 2009 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0816653135 , 0816653127 | PDF | 2 MB
Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life of one of the most provocative, engaged, and important artists of the twentieth century.
Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations analyzes Jarman's work-including his famous films Caravaggio, Jubilee, Edward II, Blue, and Sebastiane-in relation to his critiques of the government and his activism in the gay community, from the liberationist movement to the AIDS epidemic. While others have frequently focused on Jarman's biography, Ellis looks at how his politics and aesthetics are intertwined to comprehend his most radical aspects, particularly in films such as War Requiem and The Last of England.
Here Jarman is revealed as an artist who keenly understood the role of history and mythology in creating a personal and national identity: as an activist, he sought to challenge old histories while producing new ones to carve out a space for alternative communities in Britain late in the twentieth century.
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Jim Ellis is associate professor of English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Sexuality and Citizenship: Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse.
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Rachel Shteir - Gypsy: The Art of the Tease (Icons of America)

Rachel Shteir - Gypsy: The Art of the Tease (Icons of America)
Publisher: Yale University Press | 2009-03-24 | ISBN: 0300120400 | PDF | 240 pages | 5.58 MB
A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first—and the only—stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans. Her outrageous blend of funny-smart sex symbol with the aura of high culture—she boasted that she liked to read Great Books and listen to classical music while taking off her clothes on-stage—inspired a musical, memoirs, a portrait by Max Ernst, and a species of rose. Gypsy is the first book about Gypsy Rose Lee’s life, fame, and place in America not written by a family member, and it reveals her deep impact on the social and cultural transformations taking shape during her life.
Rachel Shteir, author of the prize-winning Striptease, gives us Gypsy’s story from her arrival in New York in 1931 to her sojourns in Hollywood, her friendships and rivalries with writers and artists, the Sondheim musical, family memoirs that retold her history in divergent ways, and a television biopic currently in the making. With verve, audacity, and native guile, Gypsy Rose Lee moved striptease from the margins of American life to Broadway, Hollywood, and Main Street. Gypsy tells how she did it, and why.
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Xxx: A Woman's Right to Pornography

Xxx: A Woman's Right to Pornography
St. Martin's Press (1997) | English | 126 pages | ISBN 0312152451 | True PDF | 1 Mb
While unflinchingly and unapologetically debunking anti-pornography feminist arguments, McElroy builds a sensible and broad-minded testimony for tolerance, and for the right of women everywhere to enjoy their sexuality.
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E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX

E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX By Dmx, Smokey D. Fontaine
Publisher: It Books 2003 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0060934034 , 006018826X | PDF | 13 MB
With lyrics that balance an extremely bleak view of urban ghetto "thug life" with a deep spiritual yearning for communion with God, DMX (Earl Simmons) has produced four consecutive No. 1 releases over the past six years, making him one of the undisputed superstars in the hypercompetitive world of hip-hop. On the eve of his fifth release, DMX (with Fontaine, the former music editor of the leading hip-hop magazine, The Source) has chosen to tell his own version of his already well-publicized life story. Born to a single mother in the projects of Yonkers, N.Y., DMX led a life of "running, robbing, rapping" for his first 25 years, serving numerous jail terms until being discovered by the legendary rap record company Def Jam. But this is no quickie celebrity biography: the obvious model is Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, the classic tale of the rise and fall and redemption of a tough inner-city youth. Like Brown, DMX is unsparing in describing the details of his hard life, including the brutal beatings he experienced at the hands of his mother and her boyfriends and the ease with which he adapted to his incarcerations ("I was used to sleeping on hard surfaces, used to eating rotten food"). As successful as his best recordings ("It's Dark & Hell Is Hot") in describing the tension between the author's street and spiritual sides, this is a painfully honest account of how one individual overcame "a lifetime of suffering" by discovering and believing in his lyric talent.
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I Too Had a Love Story

I Too Had A Love Story - Ravinder Singh
Publisher: Srishti Publishers, 2009 | ISBN: 8188575704 | Pages: 214 | PDF | Size: 19.1 MB
Do love stories ever die? Can modern day gadgets like mobile phones and the ‘http://www’ era internet bring you the love of real life? You haven’t met her earlier, but commit to marry. Will you still call this a love marriage? And what if on the engagement day while you pull the ring out from your pocket, you realize what you planned was just a dream which never comes true…? How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, becomes your most precious possession and then one day goes away from you…forever? Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. Some stay incomplete. Yet they are beautiful in their own way. Ravin’s love story is one such innocent and beautiful story. He believes love stories seldom die. They are meant to stay for the generations yet to come and read them. And given that one chance to narrate his love story, this is how he began…
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Steidlmayer on Markets: A New Approach to Trading

J. Peter Steidlmayer, "Steidlmayer on Markets: A New Approach to Trading "
ohn Wiley & Sons | 1989 | ISBN: 0471621153 | 184 pages | PDF | 10,6 MB
A complete guide to Steidlmayer's new approach to markets, especially the futures markets. Part I provides background information based on Steidlmayer's experiences as a commodities trader, showing how he developed his ideas and learned to apply them to futures trading. Part II outlines his theory of markets, explains factors that determine prices, and describes the Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank systems. Part III provides detailed applications, showing how to read market activity, recognize both fundamental and technical factors underlying price movements, and make sound investment and trading decisions.
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Call Me Ted

Call Me Ted by Ted Turner
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (November 10, 2008) | ISBN: 160024422X | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64Kbps | 412 MB
I don't spend a lot of time dwelling on the past or thinking about myself, Turner claims, but the media tycoon turns out to have a pretty good memory—except for certain events, like the death of his younger sister, which he admits he's suppressed completely. After dropping out of college, Turner worked his way up from the bottom of his father's billboard company, which he inherited when his father committed suicide, and then slowly turned it into an international media empire—an uphill battle he records in entertaining detail (I don't think of myself as losing, he says of the occasional setbacks, drawing on his experiences as a champion sailor. I'm simply learning how to win). Turner's version of events is frequently interrupted by supplementary Ted Stories from those closest to him, including his children and business colleagues—even competitors. These commentaries are not always complimentary; in two passages, ex-wife Jane Fonda candidly discusses the psychological blocks she believes keep him from achieving full emotional and spiritual intimacy. There's little to challenge Turner's provocative reputation, but his reflections reveal the depth of calculation behind his career as a so-called loose cannon. (Nov. 11)Correction: The correct publisher of The Empathy Gap, reviewed Oct. 27, is Viking.
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"Turner's straightforward yet surprisingly charming delivery makes this a must hear." (Publishers Weekly )
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