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Published by Brand: Broadway Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 0767904001ISBN 13: 9780767904001
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. On the morning of July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum--forty-two-years old, newly married, at the top of his profession as one of British publishing's most admired editors, and in what he thought was the full bloom of health--awoke to find himself totally paralyzed on the left side, the victim of a stroke brought on by a massive cerebral hemorrhage. In My Year Off, McCrum takes readers through his own education about strokes and the frustrating reality that medical science can neither pinpoint the cause of his stroke nor offer any guarantee of recovery. He poignantly writes about his life being irrevocably changed, and, in a new afterword, how his book has touched others. McCrum's recovery is beset by anger and depression, but also marked by the love of his wife, Sarah Lyall, a love that proves equal to their dismaying circumstances. With excerpts from both their journals sprinkled throughout, My Year Off is much more than a story of recovery: It is a love story of the most realistic--and hence, inspiring--kind.
Published by Brand: Broadway, 2002
ISBN 10: 0767907590ISBN 13: 9780767907590
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The world remembers Edison, Ford, and the Wright Brothers. But what about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, an innovation that did as much as any other to shape the twentieth century? That question lies at the heart of The Boy Genius and the Mogul, Daniel Stashower's captivating chronicle of television's true inventor, the battle he faced to capitalize on his breakthrough, and the powerful forces that resulted in the collapse of his dreams.The son of a Mormon farmer, Farnsworth was born in 1906 in a single-room log cabin on an isolated homestead in Utah. The Farnsworth family farm had no radio, no telephone, and no electricity. Yet, motivated by the stories of scientists and inventors he read about in the science magazines of the day, young Philo set his sights on becoming an inventor. By his early teens, Farnsworth had become an inveterate tinkerer, able to repair broken farm equipment when no one else could. It was inevitable that when he read an article about a new idea -- for the transmission of pictures by radio waves--that he would want to attempt it himself. One day while he was walking through a hay field, Farnsworth took note of the straight, parallel lines of the furrows and envisioned a system of scanning a visual image line by line and transmitting it to a remote screen. He soon sketched a diagram for an early television camera tube. It was 1921 and Farnsworth was only fourteen years old.Farnsworth went on to college to pursue his studies of electrical engineering but was forced to quit after two years due to the death of his father. Even so, he soon managed to persuade a group of California investors to set him up in his own research lab where, in 1927, he produced the first all-electronic television image and later patented his invention. While Farnsworth's invention was a landmark, it was also the beginning of a struggle against an immense corporate power that would consume much of his life. That corporate power was embodied by a legendary media mogul, RCA President and NBC founder David Sarnoff, who claimed that his chief scientist had invented a mechanism for television prior to Farnsworth's. Thus the boy genius and the mogul were locked in a confrontation over who would control the future of television technology and the vast fortune it represented. Farnsworth was enormously outmatched by the media baron and his army of lawyers and public relations people, and, by the 1940s, Farnsworth would be virtually forgotten as television's actual inventor, while Sarnoff and his chief scientist would receive the credit.Restoring Farnsworth to his rightful place in history, The Boy Genius and the Mogul presents a vivid portrait of a self-taught scientist whose brilliance allowed him to "capture light in a bottle." A rich and dramatic story of one mans perseverance and the remarkable events leading up to the launch of television as we know it, The Boy Genius and the Mogul shines new light on a major turning point in American history.
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 1998
ISBN 10: 0767902890ISBN 13: 9780767902892
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Broadway Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 0767925866ISBN 13: 9780767925860
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Broadway Play Pub, 2000
ISBN 10: 0881451533ISBN 13: 9780881451535
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. this collection contains three full-length plays: DARK RAPTURE, IN PERPETUITY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, & ON THE VERGE.
Published by Brand: Broadway, 2005
ISBN 10: 0767918533ISBN 13: 9780767918534
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Jones, Susann (illustrator). Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Broadway Books, 2003
ISBN 10: 0767912764ISBN 13: 9780767912761
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 1998
ISBN 10: 0767901312ISBN 13: 9780767901314
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 1999
ISBN 10: 0767903641ISBN 13: 9780767903646
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2004
ISBN 10: 0767914023ISBN 13: 9780767914024
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 1996
ISBN 10: 0553069403ISBN 13: 9780553069402
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2003
ISBN 10: 0767910230ISBN 13: 9780767910231
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Published by Brand: Broadway Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 0767901118ISBN 13: 9780767901116
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2001
ISBN 10: 0767906748ISBN 13: 9780767906746
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Published by Brand: Broadway Books, 2005
ISBN 10: 0767922573ISBN 13: 9780767922579
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2002
ISBN 10: 0767906799ISBN 13: 9780767906791
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2006
ISBN 10: 0767920716ISBN 13: 9780767920711
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2004
ISBN 10: 0767906888ISBN 13: 9780767906883
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2004
ISBN 10: 0767914163ISBN 13: 9780767914161
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2001
ISBN 10: 0767908252ISBN 13: 9780767908252
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2001
ISBN 10: 0767904508ISBN 13: 9780767904506
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2006
ISBN 10: 0767904206ISBN 13: 9780767904209
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Published by Brand: Broadway Books, 2003
ISBN 10: 0767912802ISBN 13: 9780767912808
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2003
ISBN 10: 076791175XISBN 13: 9780767911757
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2001
ISBN 10: 0767907566ISBN 13: 9780767907569
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 1998
ISBN 10: 0767901967ISBN 13: 9780767901963
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2001
ISBN 10: 076790625XISBN 13: 9780767906258
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Published by Brand: Broadway Books, 1999
ISBN 10: 0767903587ISBN 13: 9780767903585
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2003
ISBN 10: 0767909054ISBN 13: 9780767909051
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Published by Brand: Broadway, 2003
ISBN 10: 0767914155ISBN 13: 9780767914154
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