![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The author Jimmy Carter has personally signed this book with his own hand. Signature Authenticity: Bantam Books guarantees the signature to be authentic. Carter shares with Martin Luther King, Jr., the distinction of being the only native Georgians to be so honored. President, after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, to be awarded the Prize. In 2002, President Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development through The Carter Center. A wonderful signed first edition to showcase in your presidential library - beautiful navy cloth binding in matching cloth slipcase. Personally hand signed by President Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, on a special dedication page. ![]() First Edition, First Printing with a full number line on the copyright page as required. A rare original and highly collectible signed presidential volume. Personally hand signed by President Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, on a special dedication page.Ī wonderful signed first edition to showcase in your presidential library - beautiful navy cloth binding in matching cloth slipcase. ![]()
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Click to buy > Every Shallow Cut Synopsis ![]() ![]() Major publications that followed include Hunter’s Horn (1949), The Dollmaker (1954), Seedtime on the Cumberland (1960), Flowering of the Cumberland (1963), The Weedkiller’s Daughter (1970), The Kentucky Trace (1974), and Old Burnside (1977). In 1947, they and their two children, Marcella and Tom, moved to a farm outside of Ann Arbor. In 1944, the Arnows moved to Michigan where Harold worked as a reporter for The Detroit News. In 1939 she married Harold Arnow and they moved to Pulaski County where they lived five years writing and farming. ![]() Writing as Harriette Simpson while in Cincinnati, she produced several essays and two novels, Mountain Path (1936) and Between the Flowers, which didn’t come to print until 1999. 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I am not a frequent consumer of this genre that might be called “business self-help”-books that revolve around business, but shade, to a greater or lesser degree, into advice for people in their daily lives. I’m not sure I learned anything new, but I was inspired to regularize some of my thinking about my favorite topic, myself, and now I will share it with the world. ![]() I picked this book because John is my favorite regular on Shark Tank, a show I watch intermittently, and I was bored in the airport, looking for something to read. Like David Byrne, I too ask myself, how did I get here, with my beautiful house, and my beautiful wife, and large automobile? Such thoughts bounce around my mind, but they have crystallized after reading Daymond John’s Rise and Grind. People often ask me, as I stride the halls of power in my custom Zegna suits wove with thread of gold, how I became so rich and successful. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This book is an irresistible way to raise cultural literacy. ![]() Winning illustrations of words reveal important and too-often-unrecognized connections between our cultures, such as the delicious gift of sugar we received from the Arab world. Simple stick-figure cartoons show you how to draw and remember each letter. Sugar Comes from Arabic is an exciting entry into the language of more than twenty countries and more than 300 million people. Color photographs and explorations of individual words reveal important and often unrecognized connections between the West and the Arab world, such as the delicious gift of sugar. Look up matching letters, follow the directions, and soon you'll be writing your own name in Arabic!Ĭlear, concise illustrations show how to draw and remember each letter. No other Arabic alphabet book demystifies the letters in such a comfortable way, by introducing them in English alphabetical order of the Roman alphabet and using the spelling of English names and words as a way to learn the Arabic. Paul Beran, Director, The Outreach Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University ![]() ![]() "This book makes the Arabic alphabet much more approachable for the complete beginner, and can generate enthusiasm for expanded study of the language." A user-friendly Arabic alphabet-and-culture book for complete beginners ![]() ![]() does have a different section of the website called the Review Team, which offers free books in exchange for review. Bookshelves is not for downloading or buying books directly. ![]() Similarly, books are not available to purchase directly from. One important thing to note is that books are generally not available to download directly from Bookshelves, and nowhere on our website do we represent they are. 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