false 16328 29036 0143036491 9780143036494 391 <![CDATA[The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167959919m/29036.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167959919s/29036.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29036.The_Great_Influenza_The_Epic_Story_of_the_Deadliest_Plague_in_History 3.79 1493 The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. John M. Barry has written a new afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the terrible threat of the avian flu and suggest ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic.]]> 16328 3.87 1934 509 2005 49376 0684840022 9780684840024 99 <![CDATA[Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358675m/49376.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358675s/49376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49376.Rising_Tide_The_Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927_and_How_It_Changed_America 4.18 377 Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.

]]> 16328 3.87 1934 509 1997 250937 0831783028 9780831783020 1 <![CDATA[The Ambition and the Power: The Fall of Jim Wright : A True Story of Washington]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250937.The_Ambition_and_the_Power_The_Fall_of_Jim_Wright_A_True_Story_of_Washington 4.00 3 16328 3.87 1934 509 1989 1428423 0399137491 9780399137495 0 <![CDATA[The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183509216m/1428423.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183509216s/1428423.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1428423.The_Transformed_Cell_Unlocking_the_Mysteries_of_Cancer 3.50 2 672311 3.50 6 0 16328 3.87 1934 509 1992 496925 157806404X 9781578064045 0 <![CDATA[Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175233652m/496925.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175233652s/496925.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/496925.Power_Plays_Politics_Football_and_Other_Blood_Sports 0.0 0 Barry tells the compelling inside story of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's rise to power, and the subsequent fall of Speaker Jim Wright. Vice President Dick Cheney, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, and House Democratic whip David Bonior all play major roles in this story. Barry, a former Washington journalist who has written for the New York Times and the Washington Post, offers a deep and original analysis of the media as well, providing a provocative view of its inner workings and of the pressures on journalists and on all those who compete.

But Barry also sees power in broader terms. In chapters that range from the isolating triumphs of world record-holding hurdler Renaldo Nehemiah, to the raw physical might of an Olympic weightlifter, to the weight of a culture bearing down upon a young man sent to Vietnam, Barry looks at individuals struggling against both the world and themselves. Based on his own experiences as a major college football coach, he also profiles players he coached who pursued their dreams of succeeding in the National Football League. His is an uncommon perspective on sport and on the price of winning and losing.

]]> 16328 3.87 1934 509 2001 496927 0872493849 9780872493841 0 <![CDATA[Natural Vegetation of South Carolina]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/496927.Natural_Vegetation_of_South_Carolina 0.0 0 16328 3.87 1934 509 1980 585901 0960345663 9780960345663 0 <![CDATA[Nautical Research Journal, Index of Volumes 1-40]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/585901.Nautical_Research_Journal_Index_of_Volumes_1_40 0.0 0 16328 3.87 1934 509 1996 496928 155664048X 9781556640483 0 <![CDATA[Manual of Nephrology]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/496928.Manual_of_Nephrology 0.0 0 277151 0.0 0 0 16328 3.87 1934 509 1990