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    <![CDATA[Word Power Made Easy]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;ul type=&quot;disc&quot;&gt;<p>     &lt;li&gt;Do You Always Use the Right Word?<p>     &lt;li&gt;Can You Pronounce It -- and Spell It -- Correctly?<p>     &lt;li&gt;Do You Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions?<p>     &lt;li&gt;Do You Speak Grammatically, Without Embarrassing Mistakes?<p><p><p>If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you ought to read <em>Word Power Made Easy.</em> Now thoroughly revised to eliminate outmoded references and to to reflect current idioms, it remains the best and quickest means to a better vocabulary in the English language.<p><p>Each chapter ends with review. Each section ends with a progressive check. Numerous tests will help you increase and retain the knowledge you acquired. <em>Word Power Made Easy</em> does more than just ass words to you vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening knowledge as an integral part of the vocabulary building process.<p><p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The most popular of Lewis&#8217;s twenty-seven books, Naples &#8217;44 is a landmark poetic study of the agony of wartime occupation and its ability to bring out the worst, and often the best, in human nature. In prose both heartrending and comic, Lewis describes an era of disillusionment, escapism, and hysteria in which the Allied occupiers mete out justice unfairly and fail to provide basic necessities to the populace while Neapolitan citizens accuse each other of being Nazi spies, women offer their bodies to the same Allied soldiers whose supplies they steal for sale on the black market, and angry young men organize militias to oppose &#8220;temporary&#8221; foreign rule. Yet over the chaotic din, Lewis sings intimately of the essential dignity of the Neapolitan people, whose traditions of civility, courage, and generosity of spirit shine through daily. This essential World War II book is as timely a read as ever.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1978</published>
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    <![CDATA[30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary]]>
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  <ratings_count>17</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Achieve a powerful, more effective, more successful vocabulary in just a month. All it takes is 15 minutes a day and this highly effective mini-course. Start boosting communication skills with a simple 12-minute quiz that highlights your current proficiency. Keep the pencil ready and go through the workbook which guides you in writing, saying, and using new words continually until they become second nature. Find out how to identify the etymology of a word, memorize odd words, use verbs and adjectives with remarkable power, choose a synonym, and create a personalized plan for vocabulary growth. It will increase your potential for success.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Wilfred Funk]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>45</ratings_count>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1981</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam]]>
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    <![CDATA[A DRAGON APPARENT, describes Norman Lewis's journeys in the Far East at a time when the countries he visited were passing out of the reach of the ordinary traveler, never again be seen as they were then.  <p>&quot;Henry Kissinger said that the dominoes were falling, so now it was the turn of Cambodia and Laos. The holocaust visited on them consumed not the present, but the past; it obliterated their culture and values even more than physical things. From the ashes that remained no phoenix would ever rise. Not enough survived even to recreate the memory of what the world had lost.&quot;  <p>&quot;Lewis saw ancient civilizations, when they were still protected by their remoteness and the dense rain-forests and mountain ranges. He has preserved them for us in this rare and beautiful book.&quot; (Publisher's Source)</p></p>]]>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>1982</published>
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    <![CDATA[Voices of the Old Sea]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. <em>Voices of the Old Sea</em> describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolved around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade's bar, and satisfying feuds with neighboring villages.<br/><br/>It's lucky Lewis was there when he was. Soon after, Spain was discovered by its neighbors in a more prosperous northern Europe, and the tourist tide that ensued flowed inexorably over the old ways of the town and its inhabitants.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1984</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;While the rumblings of oncoming war shook a divided Spain, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja traveled through the Spanish countryside to the family tomb in Seville. Nearly seventy years later, in prose that is witty, understated, and poignant, Lewis describes the duo&#8217;s travels first to Madrid, then through the bloody insurrection of October &#8217;34, and finally via the length of Portugal to Seville. Once there, they find the Corvaja tomb, but it is nothing like they expected.<br/><br/>In this, his last book before his death in 2003, Lewis conjures up the country he returned to time and again in his writing, and displays the spirit of pure fascination that has inspired generations of readers. He recalls covering a hundred miles on foot, sleeping in caves, dodging sniper fire, and attempting to dissuade the communist-leaning Eugene from joining the People&#8217;s Army. Yet Lewis&#8217;s sweetly infectious enthusiasm for the sights and sounds of a country holding on to its glorious past in the face of a violent future never wanes.<br/><br/>For the avid and the new Norman Lewis reader alike, <em>The Tomb in Seville</em> is a vibrantly fresh tale of a historic time and place.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Golden Earth: Travels in Burma]]>
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  <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;a simple blueprint for Utopia&quot; - the best travel book on Burma since World War II - despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation on the horizon and strangers are treated with an overwhelming friendliness - an overnight best-seller when first published - revisits the tragic Burma road, treked by so many refugees fleeing Burma before the Japanese advance in 1942]]>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1984</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[In Sicily]]>
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  <average_rating>3.27</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the course of his long career, he has come back to Sicily.  From his first, wartime visit - to a land untouched since the Middle Ages - through his frequent returns, he has watched the island and its people as they have changed over the years. In 1998 he returned yet again to write this book, the result of a sixty-year-long fascination with all things Sicilian.<br/><br/><em>In Sicily</em> reveals this fascination on every page.  Throughout there is the Mafia, and Lewis's friendships with policemen, journalists and men of respect.  But more, he writes of landscape and language, of his memories of his first father-in-law (professional gambler, descendant of princes and member of the Unione Siciliana), of Sicily's changing sexual mores, of the effects of African immigration, of Palermo and its ruined palaces - and of strange superstitions, of witches and bandits and murder. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2001</published>
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        <book>
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  <isbn>0330354450</isbn>
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    <![CDATA[The Missionaries: God Against the Indians]]>
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    <![CDATA[Based on his experiences with missionaries in Southeast Asia and Central and Latin America, Lewis has written a scathing account of how some missionary sects deal with indigenous peoples in their bid for the conquest of souls. He cites the creation of fear and the establishment of dependency upon goods which, without becoming wage-earners, the Indians could not procure. As native peoples are hurried through the process of acculturation, Indian customs and ways of life, ceremonies, art, music, and dance are often lost only to be replaced by illness, apathy, and forced labor. This volume combines autobiography, travel writing, and social commentary. No index or bibliography. Recommended for public libraries. - Publishers Weekly]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1989</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[New Rogets Thesaurus]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578684.New_Rogets_Thesaurus</link>
  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
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    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1976</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed]]>
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  <average_rating>3.17</average_rating>
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        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India]]>
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  <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
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    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1992</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">3623350</id>
  <isbn>0907871453</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780907871453</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3623350.Naples_44_An_Intelligence_Officer_in_the_Italian_Labyrinth</link>
  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1983</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">511396</id>
  <isbn>0330350730</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780330350730</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The World the World]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175395237m/511396.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175395237s/511396.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/511396.The_World_the_World</link>
  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[From Graham Greene and Anthony Burgess to Pico Iyer, the world of letters heaps praise on Norman Lewis's deserving head, while the general readership discovers his books with amazement and joy. His memoir begins on a train to Rome in 1937, and continues, unabatedly readable for the next 60 years. He travels to remote nooks in Cuba, Guatemala, Vietnam, Burma, India, and Spain, and recalls war experiences, his publishing history with Jonathan Cape, and encounters with Ian Fleming and Ernest Hemingway. He writes with the finesse of a master, his observant eye and finely crafted prose providing the humor, detail, and absorbing narrative that all travel writers aspire to but few attain.  ]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1996</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">294727</id>
  <isbn>0330334077</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780330334075</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[An Empire of the East]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173473758m/294727.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173473758s/294727.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294727.An_Empire_of_the_East</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Graham Greene called Lewis &quot;one of the best&quot;; Pico Iyer said he's &quot;one of the world's last unguarded secrets&quot;; and Anthony Burgess said &quot;his prose is almost edible.&quot;  And yeah, he's pretty good.  Lewis visits deep into the leafy and political jungles of Sumatra and East Timor, describing the lurking perils of Indonesian restaurants that cook their food once a week and political land mines as well. &quot;Empire&quot; is a scholarly and well-written treatment of Indonesia.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1993</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">518571</id>
  <isbn>0330370472</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780330370479</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Happy Ant-heap]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175474867m/518571.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175474867s/518571.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/518571.The_Happy_Ant_heap</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[This retrospective collection from Norman Lewis is culled from over 70 years of  travel. Containing new as well as previously published work, it recalls some of his most  memorable journeys throughout Europe, South America, Asia and the Pacific. With such an  astonishing reach, both in terms of time and distance, Lewis convincingly provides the reader not  only with a magical diversity of geography, but also with a comprehensive slice of history. His  vast experience inevitably means that one story sparks off another. Investigating aphrodisiacs in  Liberia reminds him of Ernest Hemingway's impotence for instance, and this discursive approach,  along with his unquenchable human interest in his subjects, is one of the great pleasures and  strengths of the book. Whether he is charting the despoliation of a Spanish fishing village by the  arrival of mass tourism, chronicling the trials of Mafioso in Sicily or claiming to be one of the  few people to have been tipped by a taxi driver in Burma--&quot;an unforgettable moment of  illumination between the cultural and spiritual divide between east and west&quot;--his responses  remain fresh and undulled. And all this despite the fact Lewis, more than anyone, can legitimately  claim to have &quot;been there, seen it&quot; a hundred times over. Although one, of course, doubts that he  ever bought the T-shirt. --<em>Nick Wroe</em>]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1999</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">3526283</id>
  <isbn>0881842524</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780881842524</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Day of the Fox]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3526283.The_Day_of_the_Fox</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1986</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1785066</id>
  <isbn>0907871410</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780907871415</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A View of the World: Selected Journalism]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188318566m/1785066.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188318566s/1785066.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1785066.A_View_of_the_World_Selected_Journalism</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Includes the piece of journalism Norman was most proud of, an article on the devastation of Amerindian populations in Brazil, which resulted in the establishment of Survival International, which campaigns to protect tribal people and their environments. Travel writing that makes you laugh, but also brings home the world's hurt in glorious understatement.]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1986</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">2327762</id>
  <isbn>0099605309</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780099605300</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Volcanoes Above Us (Arena Books)]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2327762.The_Volcanoes_Above_Us</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1989</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">4435724</id>
  <isbn>0330334662</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780330334662</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[I Came, I Saw: An Autobiography]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4435724.I_Came_I_Saw_An_Autobiography</link>
  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1785070</id>
  <isbn>8187572183</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Better English]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1785070.Better_English</link>
  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1978</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">644431</id>
  <isbn>0140087273</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780140087277</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/644431.Jackdaw_Cake_An_Autobiography</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1987</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">4626615</id>
  <isbn>2859404287</isbn>
  <isbn13>9782859404284</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Naples 44]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4626615.Naples_44</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1996</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1463170</id>
  <isbn>0394722949</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780394722948</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Flight from a Dark Equator]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1463170.Flight_from_a_Dark_Equator</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1972</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">644433</id>
  <isbn>0451166477</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780451166470</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">2</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Instant Word Power]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176684505m/644433.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176684505s/644433.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/644433.Instant_Word_Power</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1982</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">3526281</id>
  <isbn>0451158199</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780451158192</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[20 Days to Better Spelling]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3526281.20_Days_to_Better_Spelling</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1989</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">317289</id>
  <isbn>0690416385</isbn>
  <isbn13 nil="true"></isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[How to Read Better and Faster]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317289.How_to_Read_Better_and_Faster</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
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  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Cuban Passage]]>
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    <![CDATA[Word Power Made Easy: The Most Effective Vocabulary Builder in the English Language]]>
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    <![CDATA[New &amp; Revised Word Power Made Easy<br/>2007 paperback edition<br/>686 pages]]>
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    <![CDATA[30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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  <isbn13>9780241116890</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Jackdaw Cake]]>
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    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Rsvp Reading Spelling Vocabulary Pronunciation]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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  <isbn13>9780440202776</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Correct Spelling Made Easy]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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        <book>
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  <isbn13>9780241111789</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[A Suitable Case for Corruption]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[New power with words]]>
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    <id>4436</id>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Bioengineering and Molecular Biology of Plant Pathways, Volume 1 (Advances in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Series) (Advances in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)]]>
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    <![CDATA[The increased knowledge about the structure of genomes in a number of species, about the complexity of transcriptomes, and the rapid growth in knowledge about mutant phenotypes have set off the large scale use of transgenes to answer basic biological questions, and to generate new crops and novel products.  This volume includes twelve chapters, which to variable degrees describe the use of transgenic plants to explore possibilities and approaches for the modification of plant metabolism, adaptation or development.  The interests of the authors range from tool development, to basic biochemical know-how about the engineering of enzymes, to exploring avenues for the modification of complex multigenic pathways, and include several examples for the engineering of specific pathways in different organs and developmental stages.<br/><br/>* Prologue by Paul K. Stumpf and Eric E. Conn<br/>* Incorporates new concepts and insights in plant biochemistry and biology<br/>* Provides a conceptual framework regarding the challenges faced in engineering pathways<br/>* Discusses potential in engineering of metabolic end-products that are of vast economical importance including genetic engineering of cellulose, seed storage proteins, and edible and industrial oils]]>
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    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Dictionary of Word Power ; Headword, Pronunciation,Definitions.Word Family, Etymologies &amp; Common Errors]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[To Run Across the Sea]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Naples '44]]>
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    <![CDATA[The author was a young intelligence officer when the Allies occupied Naples late in 1943. He kept a diary of his experiences and 30 years later published it as this story.    <p>It plunges us into the heart of a city devastated by war: hunger and plague stalk the streets; mothers turn prostitute for food, soap or cigarettes; black markets are a way of life. Even nature goes haywire: Vesuvius erupts.    <p>Through it all, the Neapolitans -- ingenuous, indomitable, full of life, in the midst of death -- adapt, and survive. NAPLES `44 is above all a tribute to their spirit, and their city.</p></p>]]>
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    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1990</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">511392</id>
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  <isbn13>9780330337809</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Norman Lewis Omnibus: A Dragon Apparent; Golden Earth; &amp; A Goddess in the Stones]]>
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    <![CDATA[Three works of travel literature in one volume. In &quot;Golden Earth&quot; Norman Lewis travels to Burma and in &quot;A Dragon Apparent&quot; he goes to Indo-China during the last years of the French colonial regime. In &quot;Goddess in the Stones&quot;, Lewis undertakes a jouney of 2500 miles in search of the old India.]]>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1995</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">511393</id>
  <isbn>0890622418</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780890622414</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Norman Lewis, from the Harlem Renaissance to Abstraction: May 7, 1989-June 25, 1989, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/511393.Norman_Lewis_from_the_Harlem_Renaissance_to_Abstraction_May_7_1989_June_25_1989_Kenkeleba_Gallery_New_York</link>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1989</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6320853</id>
  <isbn>1592281664</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781592281664</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Naples 44]]>
  </title>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
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    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">3623347</id>
  <isbn>0224051717</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780224051712</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[The Happy Ant-heap and Other Pieces]]>
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    <![CDATA[This retrospective collection from Norman Lewis is culled from over 70 years of  travel. Containing new as well as previously published work, it recalls some of his most  memorable journeys throughout Europe, South America, Asia and the Pacific. With such an  astonishing reach, both in terms of time and distance, Lewis convincingly provides the reader not  only with a magical diversity of geography, but also with a comprehensive slice of history. His  vast experience inevitably means that one story sparks off another. Investigating aphrodisiacs in  Liberia reminds him of Ernest Hemingway's impotence for instance, and this discursive approach,  along with his unquenchable human interest in his subjects, is one of the great pleasures and  strengths of the book. Whether he is charting the despoliation of a Spanish fishing village by the  arrival of mass tourism, chronicling the trials of Mafioso in Sicily or claiming to be one of the  few people to have been tipped by a taxi driver in Burma--&quot;an unforgettable moment of  illumination between the cultural and spiritual divide between east and west&quot;--his responses  remain fresh and undulled. And all this despite the fact Lewis, more than anyone, can legitimately  claim to have &quot;been there, seen it&quot; a hundred times over. Although one, of course, doubts that he  ever bought the T-shirt. --<em>Nick Wroe</em>]]>
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    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1998</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6408428</id>
  <isbn>0002165562</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780002165563</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Naples '44]]>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1978</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6408429</id>
  <isbn>0394723007</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780394723006</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Naples '44]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6408429-naples-44</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1985</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1536430</id>
  <isbn>0335096328</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780335096329</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Inner City Regeneration: The Demise of Regional and Local Government]]>
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  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1536430.Inner_City_Regeneration_The_Demise_of_Regional_and_Local_Government</link>
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  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1992</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">5671391</id>
  <isbn>2859405216</isbn>
  <isbn13>9782859405212</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[L'île aux chimères]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5671391.L_le_aux_chim_res</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1998</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">5134052</id>
  <isbn>0907871704</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780907871705</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The changing sky: Travels of a novelist]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5134052.The_changing_sky_Travels_of_a_novelist</link>
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  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[&quot;Travel came before writing. There was a time when I felt that all I wanted from life was to be allowed to remain a perpetual spectator of changing scenes. I managed my meager supply of money as to be able to surrender myself as much as possible to this addiction, and charged with a wonderful ignorance I went abroad by third class train, country bus, on foot, by canoe, by tramp steamer and by Arab dhow.&quot;  <p>With this as credo Norman Lewis took off for places far removed from our world. He sojourned in Belize, a surviving Caribbean colony of the last century; Guatemala, the last home of the unmodernized native--the Mayan Indian; and Ibiza, where men who wear shorts are arrested. His adventures are of the highest order.</p>]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1984</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6388965</id>
  <isbn>8183070760</isbn>
  <isbn13>9788183070768</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Dictionary of Pronunciation ; Say it Right!]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6388965-dictionary-of-pronunciation-say-it-right</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">11093</id>
  <isbn>0399126783</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780399126789</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[The New Read-aloud Handbook]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11093.The_New_Read_aloud_Handbook</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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  <description>
    <![CDATA[When the correct word or phrase is hanging just out of reach, this alphabetical thesaurus will inevitably come to the rescue. Over 17,000 entries steer the reader through a maze of synonyms, antonyms, and related concepts. In addition, the book functions as a major vocabulary-booster--just watch those awed expressions the next time you drop &quot;dimidiate&quot; or &quot;ewer&quot; into a conversation.]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1982</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6379818</id>
  <isbn>0671813617</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780671813611</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary]]>
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  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6379818-30-days-to-a-more-powerful-vocabulary</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>12797</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Wilfred Funk]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>45</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>8</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1977</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">644436</id>
  <isbn>0314256970</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780314256973</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Civil Rights Law and Practice (Hornbook Series)]]>
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  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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  <description>
    <![CDATA[Tracks the materials surveyed in a number of widely used civil rights casebooks. Includes the principal Reconstruction Acts, related criminal provisions, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. Section 1982, Title VIII of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, Voting Rights Acts, and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Cites several recent cases, including <em>Buckhannon</em>, <em>Alexander v. Sandoval</em>, <em>Wilson v. Layne</em>; <em>Hafer v. Melo</em>, <em>United States v. Lanier</em>, <em>Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n</em>, and <em>Suter v. Artist</em>.]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>50128</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Harold S., Jr. Lewis]]></name>
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    <author>
    <id>4436</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Norman Lewis]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4436.Norman_Lewis]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>246</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>57</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>50127</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth J. Norman]]></name>
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