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Product Description: Michael Gross is the preeminent chronicler of America’s rich and powerful, most recently in 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery.Now, he goes west to uncover the very secret history of Los Angeles, specifically those wealthiest and most private of enclaves— Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, and Beverly Park—through their most mind-boggling estates, and the fascinating, fabulous folks who created and populate them...read more
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9780767932653 | Broadway Books, November 1, 2011, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Michael Gross is the preeminent chronicler of America’s rich and powerful, most recently in 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery.

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9780767932677 | Broadway Books, November 6, 2012, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Michael Gross is the preeminent chronicler of America’s rich and powerful, most recently in 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery.

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Product Description: The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning young women and rich, lascivious men...read more
By Michael Gross (narrator)
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9781578150021 | Media Books Llc, September 1, 1998, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning young women and rich, lascivious men.
9781561004270 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In the last twenty years, modeling has grown from a small business conducted by a select elite to a huge industry whose stars are the world's most famous faces.

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Product Description: Informed by new planetary discoveries and the findings from recent robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, scientists are rapidly replacing centuries of speculation about potential extraterrestrial habitats with real knowledge about the possibility of life outside our own biosphere—if it exists, and where...read more
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9781421400952 | 2 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 26, 2011), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Informed by new planetary discoveries and the findings from recent robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, scientists are rapidly replacing centuries of speculation about potential extraterrestrial habitats with real knowledge about the possibility of life outside our own biosphere—if it exists, and where.
9780801883668 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 15, 2006, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Astrobiology—the study of the intimate relationship between life and the cosmos—is a fast-growing field that touches on aspects of cosmology, astrophysics, and chemistry.

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9781421400969 | 2 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 26, 2011), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Informed by new planetary discoveries and the findings from recent robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, scientists are rapidly replacing centuries of speculation about potential extraterrestrial habitats with real knowledge about the possibility of life outside our own biosphere—if it exists, and where.
9780801883675 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 11, 2006, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Astrobiology—the study of the intimate relationship between life and the cosmos—is a fast-growing field that touches on aspects of cosmology, astrophysics, and chemistry.

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Product Description: “Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art...read more
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9780767924887 | Broadway Books, May 5, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: “Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.

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Product Description: “Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art...read more
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9780767924894 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, May 11, 2010), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: “Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.

Miscellaneous:

9780767931458 | Broadway Books, May 5, 2009, cover price $16.99

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Product Description: Breathtaking scientific innovations and findings wrapped in a big portion of humour by an excellent science journalist. Written by a well-known author, Michael Gross who is a passionate writer in science, a scientist and an experienced book and magazine author, each story has an introductory paragraph explaining what makes it unique...read more
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9783527322879 | 1 edition (Vch Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh, July 15, 2008), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Breathtaking scientific innovations and findings wrapped in a big portion of humour by an excellent science journalist.

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Provides a close-up look at one of the world's most coveted addresses, the apartment building at 740 Park Avenue that was constructed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's grandfather and has housed many of the rich and famous.
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9780385512091 | Broadway Books, October 18, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Provides a close-up look at one of the world's most coveted addresses, the apartment building at 740 Park Avenue that was constructed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's grandfather and has housed many of the rich and famous.

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9780767917445 | Broadway Books, October 10, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Provides a close-up look at one of the world's most coveted addresses, the apartment building at seventy-four Park Avenue that was constructed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's grandfather and has housed the Bouviers, Rockefellers, Saul Steinberg, Ronald O.

Miscellaneous:

9780307418760 | Broadway Books, December 18, 2007, cover price $16.95

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This sourcebook is a comprehensive, visual guide to planning, designing, and fabricating effective wayside exhibits, information signs, and trails. Over 400 photographs from interpretive sites around the world illustrate effective techniques for connecting visitors to site resources. The book is a valuable reference for interpretive professionals, site managers, architects, and students.
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9780932310484 | 3 rev upd edition (Univ Wisconsin Stevens Point, May 30, 2006), cover price $37.00 | About this edition: This sourcebook is a comprehensive, visual guide to planning, designing, and fabricating effective wayside exhibits, information signs, and trails.

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9780932310477 | 3 rev upd edition (Univ Wisconsin Stevens Point, June 30, 2006), cover price $25.00

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Product Description: The growing popularity of selling options is undeniable, yet it remains one of the least understood concepts in the trading world. This clear and engaging guide helps you enter the market with the confidence you need and generate profits with a consistency that may surprise you...read more
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9780071622370 | 2 edition (McGraw-Hill, July 22, 2009), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The growing popularity of selling options is undeniable, yet it remains one of the least understood concepts in the trading world.
9780071442084 | McGraw-Hill, December 30, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Selling naked options, long considered profitable for professional traders but too risky for most investors, has been surging in popularity.

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By Michael Gross (editor)
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9781898998822 | Erotic Print Society, June 1, 2004, cover price $33.95

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Product Description: The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning young women and rich, lascivious men...read more
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9780688126599 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An expose of the modeling industry recounts the stories of the top models and reveals the ugly convergence of sex, wealth, drugs, obsession, and death behind the glamour

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9780062067906 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 27, 2011), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The definitive story of the international modeling business—and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling—Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning young women and rich, lascivious men.
9780060541637 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2004, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Model is the definitive story of the international modeling business -- and its evil twin: legalized flesh peddling.
9780446603461 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, May 1, 1996), cover price $7.50 | About this edition: With reference to the most popular models in the industry today, a fashion insider goes beyond modeling's carefully constructed facade to expose the scandal, rape, sex, and drugs that permeate the seemingly glamorous business.

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Product Description: The behind-the-scenes story of the making of one of the most popular and influential science fiction films of all time. Including over 200 sketches, working photographs and interviews, the text provides an insight into the creative processes behind "Alien".
By Michael Gross (illustrator) and Paul Scanlon
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9781852864835 | Titan Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The behind-the-scenes story of the making of one of the most popular and influential science fiction films of all time.

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Traces the origins and rise of the self-made fashion tycoon, describing his disadvantaged Bronx childhood, his early tie designs, the secrets of his success, and the scandals that marked his career and private life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780756784089 | Diane Pub Co, September 30, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Everyone knows the name Ralph Lauren.
9780060199043 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 2003), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Traces the origins and rise of the self-made fashion tycoon, describing his disadvantaged Bronx childhood, his early tie designs, the secrets of his success, and the scandals that marked his career and private life.

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9780060958480 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 2004), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Traces the origins and rise of the self-made fashion tycoon, describing his disadvantaged Bronx childhood, his early tie designs, the secrets of his success, and the scandals that marked his career and private life.

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Product Description: Light, more than any other physical phenomenon, lies at the heart of almost every aspect of life. To give just one example: photosynthesis, which converts sunlight into usable energy, creates the calories that sustain you, the oxygen you breathe, even the ozone layer that protects you from dangerous radiation...read more
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9780198564805 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 31, 2003, cover price $41.00 | About this edition: Light, more than any other physical phenomenon, lies at the heart of almost every aspect of life.

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Product Description: In July 1977, "Ender's Game" appeared as a novelette in Analog magagzine. The science fiction community immediately embraced it, nominating it for a Hugo Award, and when Orson Scott Card turned it into a novel in 1985, it won both the Hugo and Nebula Award...read more
By Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle De Cuir (narrator), Michael Gross (narrator) and Stefan Rudnicki (narrator)
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9781574535402 | Unabridged edition (Audio Literature, March 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In July 1977, "Ender's Game" appeared as a novelette in Analog magagzine.

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Product Description: Here are masterpieces by a New York Times bestselling author, a past and present master of the short forms in fantasy, science fiction, and horror. This collection includes original unpublished stories, "The Elephants of Posnan" and "Feed the Baby of Love;" classics like "Unaccompanied Sonata" and "Fat Farm;" as well as the original short versions of "The Lost Boys" and "Ender's Game" -- rated, in its longer version, one of the best-loved books of all time...read more
By Scott Brick (narrator), Orson Scott Card, Robert Forster (narrator), Michael Gross (narrator) and Roddy Macdowall (narrator)
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9781574534580 | Unabridged edition (Audio Literature, November 1, 2001), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Here are masterpieces by a New York Times bestselling author, a past and present master of the short forms in fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

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A 'biography' of the nation's largest and most influencial generation looks at all the major movements, stages, and consumer fetishes that have influenced the development of 75 million 'boomers' from TM to the miniskirt. Originally titled: My Generation. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780060931247 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 2001), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A 'biography' of the nation's largest and most influencial generation looks at all the major movements, stages, and consumer fetishes that have influenced the development of 75 million 'baby boomers.

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Product Description: Our lives are about to be changed by new technologies that operate on a scale too small to be seen by even the most powerful optical microscopes. Devices measured in nanometers-billionths of a meter-have set off a nanotechnology revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780306460081 | Plenum Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Our lives are about to be changed by new technologies that operate on a scale that is smaller than can be seen by the most optical microscopes.

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9780738204444 | Basic Books, February 7, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Our lives are about to be changed by new technologies that operate on a scale too small to be seen by even the most powerful optical microscopes.

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Product Description: Can life exist in the Antarctic ice, in the deep subsurface, in dilute sulfuric acid, in hot springs-even on Mars? What degree of high or low temperature, pressure, or salt concentration can living cells tolerate? In recent years, scientists have discovered many single-cell creatures that exist in-in fact, are perfectly adapted to-extreme environments that were considered uninhabitable just one or two decades ago...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780306457869 | Plenum Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Describes life on Earth not by the rules but by the exceptions, looking at the most hostile habitats and their inhabitants, analyzes survival strategies, and discusses research on related topics

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9780738204451 | Basic Books, January 24, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Can life exist in the Antarctic ice, in the deep subsurface, in dilute sulfuric acid, in hot springs-even on Mars?

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A 'biography' of the nation's largest and most influencial generation looks at all the major movements, stages, and consumer fetishes that have influenced the development of 75 million 'boomers' from TM to the miniskirt. Original. (view table of contents)
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9780060175948 | Cliff Street Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A 'biography' of the nation's largest and most influencial generation looks at all the major movements, stages, and consumer fetishes that have influenced the development of 75 million 'baby boomers.

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Product Description: In short review-like entries, this book covers a full range of legal resources on the Internet, from constitutional and copyright law, to family and tax law. All the major Internet resources are discussed. The first part of the book provides orientation, telling the reader what the Internet is, how to get there and what the customs are...read more
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9780782117929 | Sybex Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: In short review-like entries, this book covers a full range of legal resources on the Internet, from constitutional and copyright law, to family and tax law.

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Product Description: A comprehensive command reference for all of the programs that comprise the Norton Utilities. The Norton Utilities 7 contains a number of new programs and features: a floppy disk copier, a memory manager, comprehensive system diagnostics, movable windows and drop-down lists in the interface...read more
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9780782112122 | 3 edition (Sybex Inc, May 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive command reference for all of the programs that comprise the Norton Utilities.

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Product Description: This easy-to-use guidebook has been a longtime standard for training interpreters how to deliver effective presentations and walks. It is also an excellent refresher for professionals in the field. The guidebook emphasizes cultural and natural history interpretation through examples from zoos, aquaria, historic sites, museums, parks and nature centers...read more
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9780932310170 | Schmeeckle Reserve, May 1, 1992, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This easy-to-use guidebook has been a longtime standard for training interpreters how to deliver effective presentations and walks.

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Product Description: "Up & Running with the Norton Utilities 6" is an introduction to the constituent programmes of the Norton Utilities. It is a tutorial organized into 20 steps, treating approximately one programme per step, though in a few steps programmes are grouped together where it makes sinse to do so...read more
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9780895888747 | Sybex Inc, November 1, 1991, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: "Up & Running with the Norton Utilities 6" is an introduction to the constituent programmes of the Norton Utilities.

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Product Description: This alphabetically-organized referene provides a descriptive summary, exact syntax, command line options, brief explanations, and helpful examples for each entry.
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9780895888655 | 2 sub edition (Sybex Inc, October 1, 1991), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This alphabetically-organized referene provides a descriptive summary, exact syntax, command line options, brief explanations, and helpful examples for each entry.

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