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“george crile”

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  • Charlie Wilson's War

    by George Crile ...
    The bestselling true story of a Texas congressman's secret role in the Afghan defeat of Russian invaders is "a tour de force of reporting and writing" (Dan Rather).A New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller.Charlie Wilson's penchant for cocktails and beauty-contest winners was well known, but in the early 1980s, the dilettante congressman quietly conducted one of the most ... Read more

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    Charlie Wilson’s War

    The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times

    by George Crile ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 28 min

    Charlie Wilson’s War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency’s history.In the early 1980s, after a Houston socialite turned Wilson’s attention to the ragged Afghan ... Read more

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    Charlie Wilson’s War

    The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times

    by George Crile ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Abridged

    12 hours 40 min

    Charlie Wilson’s War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency’s history.In the early 1980s, after a Houston socialite turned Wilson’s attention to the ragged Afghan ... Read more

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  • The Origin and Nature of the Emotions; Miscellaneous Papers

    by George Washington Crile ...
    "The Origin and Nature of the Emotions; Miscellaneous Papers" by George Washington Crile delves into the intricate relationship between emotions and physiological responses. Crile, a pioneering figure in the field of psychosomatic medicine, explores how emotions influence bodily functions and vice versa. His work emphasizes the importance of understanding emotional health in the context of overall ... Read more

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  • The Origin and Nature of the Emotions; Miscellaneous Papers

    by George Washington Crile ...
    In the Ether Day Address the phylogenetic key supplied by Darwin was utilized to formulate the principle that the organism reacts as a unit to the stimuli of physical injury, of emotion, of infection, etc.Pain, like other phenomena, was probably evolved for a particular purpose-- surely for the good of the individual; like fear and worry, it frequently is injurious. What then may be its purpose ... Read more

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  • The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers

    by George Washington Crile ...
    The scope of this paper may be explained by a concrete example. When a barefoot boy steps on a sharp stone there is an immediate discharge of nervous energy in his effort to escape from the wounding stone. This is not a voluntary act. It is not due to his own personal experience— his ontogeny—but is due to the experience of his progenitors during the vast periods of time required for the evolution ... Read more

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  • Lady Sings the Blues

    The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography

    by Billie Holiday, William Dufty ...
    Series series Harlem Moon Classics
    Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David RitzTaking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble ... Read more

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  • Anatomy of an Epidemic

    Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

    by Robert Whitaker ...
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  • The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

    by Eleanor Roosevelt ...
    A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable women in politics of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern ... Read more

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  • Under the Tuscan Sun

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    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword“This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved ... Read more

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  • What Should We Be Worried About?

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    by John Brockman ...
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    Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for ... Read more

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