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Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Mother and Daughter in the Gilded Age
Published: 2006-09-04
Paperback: 608 pages
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A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother -- then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette. Consuelo Vanderbilt was one of the greatest heiresses of the late 19th-century, a glittering prize for suitors on both sides...
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age (P.S.)
Published: 2007-01-09
Paperback: 640 pages
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When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York society—forcing a heartbroken Consuelo ...
The Consulting Room and Beyond: Psychoanalytic Work and Its Reverberations in the Analyst's Life (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)
Published: 2008-09-10
Paperback: 168 pages
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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
Published: 2007-03-19
Hardcover: 320 pages
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A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society.An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consu...
Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life
Published: 2000-04
Paperback: 288 pages
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Laced with delicious secret recipes passed from generation to generation, Consuming Passions is Michael Lee West's delightfully quirky memoir of an adventurous food-obsessed life.By watching a multitude of relatives cook, squabble, and carry on tradition, West went from a noncooking sytude...
Consumption: A novel
Published: 2007-08-07
Hardcover: 400 pages
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In Rankin Inlet, a small town bordering the Arctic Ocean, the lives of the Inuit are gradually changing. The caribou and seals are no longer plentiful, and Western commerce has come to the community through a proposed diamond mine. Victoria Robertson wakes to a violent storm, her three chi...
Contact
Published: 1997-07-01
Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
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In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.
Contagion
Published: 1996-12-01
Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
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One of Cook's most successful--and timely—bestsellers. Contagion is a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as a deadly epidemic is spread not merely by microbes—but by sabotage...
Containment
Published: 2012-08-07
Paperback: 304 pages
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The colony on Venus was not built because the destruction of Earth was possible, but because it was inevitable? A brilliant young scientist and one of the first humans born on Venus, Arik works tirelessly to perfect the science of artificial photosynthesis, a project crucial to the futu...
Contra el viento del norte (Love Virtually) (Spanish Edition)
Published: 2010-11-15
Paperback: 260 pages
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Leo Leike receives a message from an unknown woman named Emmi. Even though it was sent to him by mistake, Leo, an educated and courteous man, answers. Attracted by his response, she writes to him again, and once their dialogue begins, it is only a questio
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