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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
: :Amazon Best of the Month, February 2008: From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic's story, but from the ...
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Game Over Press Start To Continue
:Book Description:The riveting story of Nintendo's conquest of the interactive entertainment industry offering true tales filled with cocky arrogance, confidence and international intrigue that rival any novel. Whether it is recounting the struggles over the game'Tetris,' offering blow-by-blow narrative of Nintendo's bitter legal warfare or its see-saw competition with other companies for market leadership, Game Over is a masterful piece of business journalism and technical reportage-a book both cautionary and hugely entertaining.
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Crystal Meth Addiction
:Book Description:The riveting story of Nintendo's conquest of the interactive entertainment industry offering true tales filled with cocky arrogance, confidence and international intrigue that rival any novel. Whether it is recounting the struggles over the game'Tetris,' offering blow-by-blow narrative of Nintendo's bitter legal warfare or its see-saw competition with other companies for market leadership, Game Over is a masterful piece of business journalism and technical reportage-a book both cautionary and hugely entertaining.
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All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
from: St. Martin's Griffin
: :John Lennon could be angry, as he is in Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970, and nasty, as proven by Albert Goldman's brilliant, scathing The Lives of John Lennon. But he could also be charming, smart, and extraordinarily witty, as he is in his last interview, published in book form as All We Are Saying. Co-interviewee Yoko Ono is charm-free but valuable, because she sparks the conversation and brings up fascinating stuff that Lennon wished she hadn't, like ...
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Last Interview
: :John Lennon could be angry, as he is in Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970, and nasty, as proven by Albert Goldman's brilliant, scathing The Lives of John Lennon. But he could also be charming, smart, and extraordinarily witty, as he is in his last interview, published in book form as All We Are Saying. Co-interviewee Yoko Ono is charm-free but valuable, because she sparks the conversation and brings up fascinating stuff that Lennon wished she hadn't, like ...
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The Playboy Interviews With John Lennon and Yoko Ono
: :John Lennon could be angry, as he is in Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970, and nasty, as proven by Albert Goldman's brilliant, scathing The Lives of John Lennon. But he could also be charming, smart, and extraordinarily witty, as he is in his last interview, published in book form as All We Are Saying. Co-interviewee Yoko Ono is charm-free but valuable, because she sparks the conversation and brings up fascinating stuff that Lennon wished she hadn't, like ...
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China Dawn: Culture and Conflict in China's Business Revolution
: :'In China, I feel the explosive combination of forces aligning to create the kind of change that alters the course of history,' writes David Sheff in the introduction to China Dawn, his book on the entrepreneurs who are trying to spark a social transformation and make a mint as they bring the latest information technology to the planet's most populous country. The idealistic heroes of this story are Bo Feng and Edward Tian, both friends of the author. Feng is a ...
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Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children
: :'In China, I feel the explosive combination of forces aligning to create the kind of change that alters the course of history,' writes David Sheff in the introduction to China Dawn, his book on the entrepreneurs who are trying to spark a social transformation and make a mint as they bring the latest information technology to the planet's most populous country. The idealistic heroes of this story are Bo Feng and Edward Tian, both friends of the author. Feng is a ...
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The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono
: :'In China, I feel the explosive combination of forces aligning to create the kind of change that alters the course of history,' writes David Sheff in the introduction to China Dawn, his book on the entrepreneurs who are trying to spark a social transformation and make a mint as they bring the latest information technology to the planet's most populous country. The idealistic heroes of this story are Bo Feng and Edward Tian, both friends of the author. Feng is a ...
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Boyz II Men: Us II You
:Book Description:Boyz II Men, called the 'best-selling vocal group in the world' by the New York Times, is captured in full-color in the authorized photographic biography, Boyz II Men: Us II You. Containing more than 100 never-before-seen photographs of the band, the color shots are accompanied by text written by the group members themselves. They reveal their thoughts on fame, their hopes for the future, their love of God, their strong family ties and much more. From July through September 1995, ...
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