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"I read In The Wings with great fascination. I learned things about myself that I never knew and things about Michael that he never told me. It's an intriguing, well-written book. She will be hearing from my lawyers soon." -Kirk Douglas

"Diana Douglas's In The Wings is the most staggeringly beautiful biography I have ever read. It is overwhelmingly honest, heartbreaking. I laughed, I wept-it is simply extraordinary."-Patricia Neal

If opposites attract, there were few attractions stronger than the one between Diana Dill and Kirk Douglas. Both were students at New York's Academy of the Dramatic Arts, and an affinity quickly developed. Their marriage was a storybook union-but after Kirk's emergence as a major star with the film version of Champion, their lives went in different directions, leading to their separation and eventual divorce.

Sometime later, while continuing her acting career, Diana met the great love of her life.Actor, producer, and successful novelist Bill Darrid was exactly the right man for her after the mercurial Douglas. The two remained happily married for some thirty-seven years until his death in 1992.

In The Wings is Diana's answer to her son Michael's request for her personal memoir for his son Cameron. It recounts her long and lively life, with all the blemishes included. Now, having finished a new film and entering a new marriage at a time of life when she expected to be comfortably retired, Diana offers her personal philosophy to her grandson: "Be courageous, be compassionate, and, for God's sake, have fun!" ... Read more

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Could Have Been Better
I liked this book, but I wasn't compelled by it.DDD's claim to fame is that she was married to Kirk Douglas for 6 years and with him bore Michael Douglas.The rest of her story has mostly to do with her long acting career and her happy second marriage to Bill Darrid that lasted until his death after 37 years together.While she had a prolific stint as a thesbian, it was not marked by big hits or famous costars so her "war stories" are a bit on the tame side.Apparently Kirk (whom she called Doug) was a womanizer who had mood swings--not the easiest man to be married to.And her other son Joel was the problem child compared to Michael, with three wives and a drinking problem.Diana comes across as stable and decent, though not sensational.But she married a third husband when approaching 80, so give the girl some credit!(That wasn't in her book--I found it through Google.)

Getting to Know You
Reading "In the Wings" is an exciting discovery. This is not your run-of-the-mill Hollywood celebrity puff piece, although the cares and joys of the celebrity life are all there. Rather, Bermuda-born Diana Douglas Darrid chronicles the life of a working actress who was married to a superstar, Kirk Douglas, and give birth to another, Michael Douglas. After her divorce from Kirk, she was a single mother of two boys, Michael and Joel, whom she raised alone for some years while continuing her career in film, theater and television. This is a real page-turner, an honest and candid look into the life of a marvelous woman, the kind of person you would wish to have as a friend. ... Read more

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In Plants and the K-T Boundary, two of the world's leading experts in palynology and paleobotany provide a comprehensive account of the fate of land plants during the 'great extinction' about 65 million years ago. They describe how the time boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene Periods (the K-T boundary) is recognized in the geological record, and how fossil plants can be used to understand global events of that time. There are case studies from over 100 localities around the world, including North America, China, Russia and New Zealand. The book concludes with an evaluation of possible causes of the K-T boundary event and its effects on floras of the past and present. This book is written for researchers and students in paleontology, botany, geology and Earth history, and everyone who has been following the course of the extinction debate and the K-T boundary paradigm shift. ... Read more

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From a Palynologist's point of view.
This is an outstanding book which can be used by both the student and professor/researcher.Just as the tag suggests, the book covers paleobotany, history of science, paleontology, fossil plants, and paleobiology.I was able to use the book for references in my dissertation on the K-Pg Boundary.I would give it a thumbs up for accuracy and research involved in the producing of this book.
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WOW!
Great shipping time, great book!The book was a little worn, but that's to be expected with an ex-library edition. Love it!

morbid
I liked it although it was morbid. Ending was alright but you should really read it for yourself. ... Read more

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Growing up in Munich in the 1930s, young Moishe loves to hear his sister, Rachel, read him his favorite story: a fairy tale about an evil mirror broken and scattered by Satan. He wonders whether shards of that mirror, which have the power to turn people's hearts to ice, still exist. A few years later, when the Nazis imprison his family in a concentration camp, he knows that they do.

By the end of the war, Moishe is the only one of his family still alive, and he no longer wants to be Jewish. He tells the American liberators he is a Gypsy named Danny and is sent to a Catholic orphanage. When his best friend at the orphanage is adopted, Moishe is unable to bear yet another loss in his short life. He runs away. Yet when all seems utterly hopeless, he learns that the light of Sabbath candles is warm enough to melt the ice that has formed in his own heart.

In this moving story of a young boy's flight from his past, legendary actor and acclaimed author Kirk Douglas reminds us that sometimes we must embrace our most painful memories to uncover a brighter future. He tells a timeless tale of loss of faith and its recovery. ... Read more

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The Boken Mirror
The Broken Mirror is a very sad book.It's about a boy, Moishe, who loses everything including his older sister, Rachel, whom he loves more than anything.She always told him a story about Satan's mirror.

In the beginning of the book him and his family are force to move to his fathers farm where a man, who later becomes engaged to Rachel, named David showed up and told Moishe's family that Nazis were close and looking for Jews.David was a student of Moishe's father.The family would have gotten away and lived happily if the well-paid help around the farm hadn't told the Nazis about them.So the family and David were shipped to a concentration camp where all were killed but Moishe.He is rescued by a kind African American.Moishe tells the man his name is David, and a German.

"David" is then sent to an orphanage where he befriends a boy named Roy.Roy gets adopted.David is crushed.He can't even tell anyone he's Jewish because he decided he didn't want to be a Jew.So he runs away.He runs until he can't run anymore.He goes into a Church where he breaks down and tells a Rabbi his horrid story.Then he is adopted by this man and he lives happily.

The Broken Mirror
This is a book meant for younger readers, but is a good read for any age group, and a good starter book about the Holocaust.

Moishe is the only survivor after his family is taken away to the death camps. He is taken to a Catholic orphanage, where he denies he's Jewish, and calls himself Danny in an effort to forget the past. He runs away from the orphanage after his best friend is adopted. He is taken in by a rabbi and his family after Moishe hears a familiar song coming from a synagogue, and goes to investigate--bringing him full circle.

Good short story
A novella written by the actor, Kirk Douglas. It is the story of a young German-Jewish boy during WWII. The story is told through the young man's eyes, as he tries to figure out who the Nazis are, his family's hiding, their concentration camp days, and his life afterwards. The book is told in two parts, after young Moishe decides he wants to hide his Jewish identity, he assumes the name Danny, and calls himself a gypsy. A sweet story about returning to love. The story is simple, and seems to be geared towards children/young teens, but adult readers will be able to enjoy the book just as much.

IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A GOOD QUICK READ...
This book by Kirk Douglas is perhaps one the best and shortest books I have read. It is very accuarte and extremely emotional. It is a book that you will cherish and read over and over many times.

WOW!
I suggest this book to anyone of any age. A quick read, but you'll want to read it again and again! The story is about Moische, a young Jewish boy who lives during the Holocaust. He doesn't understand why he's being punished for being Jewish, and decides he just won't be a Jew anymore. This book is in 2 parts, one told by Moische and one by Danny -- who is not Jewish but holds the memories of Moische and the horrors of the Holocaust. It sounds better than this review, I promise! ... Read more

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The Future Perfect is the hot new satire of the future.A funny, imaginative, provocative look a things to come.

San Francisco TV reviewer Joe Soko called it one of the best satires ever. It's a brilliant portrait of mankind - for anyone, sci-fi fan or not, who loves to laugh at or explore the absurdity, magic and mystery of human existence.

It's been called the next Brave New World, with a touch of Kurt Vonnegut and a hint of Douglas Adams. You won’t be able to put it down. ... Read more

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A must read!
This book is an absolutely fantastic, humorous and dark satirical look at a dystopian future where humankind simultaneously wages war against nature while pining for its renewal, glories in a shallow sterile consumerist society obsessed with dreams of true happiness, computer simulated immortality and the eradication of all danger via technology. Society has lost sight of the very things that make life worth living, hilariously and inevitably driving itself to the brink of extinction (and/or extinction).I wish I could find this book in print format because I would love to loan it to friends. If for nothing else, The Future Perfect makes a Kindle worth owning.

Hilarious vision of the future
Both hilarious and frightening, The Future Perfect presents a world where technology has taken over humanity, often in amusing, comic ways. I really enjoyed Kirk Mustard's humorous vision of a dystopian futuristic society. I highly recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys satire and science fiction.

Best satire ever.
This novel is funny, clever, super-imaginative, and extremely relevant. It has a great plot, and it just keeps getting better as it goes along. It's really a portrait of the mind of man, our addiction to fiction over reality. It's all about using science, especially computer technology, to create a perfect world. It's also about man's true relationship with nature and the planet. There's some marvelous characters, too. It's destined to be a classic. ... Read more

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Chapters: Noam Chomsky, Irving Berlin, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Meyer Lansky, Leonard Chess, Immanuel Velikovsky, David Sarnoff, Larry King, David Dubinsky, Hyman Minsky, Yosef Tunkel, Alexander Orlov, Louis B. Mayer, Saul Lieberman, Eugene Lyons, Simon Kuznets, Ralph Lauren, David Pinski, Oscar Zariski, Albert Glotzer, Shepard Broad, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Leon Kobrin, Seymour Lubetzky, Morris Raphael Cohen, Ida Rosenthal, Moshe Koussevitzky, Phil Chess, Bella Rosenfeld, Bernhard Baron, Joel Douglas. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 224. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history. His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous. The song sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Russia, which also "flung itself into the ragtime beat with an abandon bordering on mania." Over the years he was known for writing music and lyrics in the American vernacular: uncomplicated, simple and direct, with his aim being to "reach the heart of the average American" whom he saw as the "real soul of the country." He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him "a legend" before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including "Easter Parade", "White Christmas", "Happy Holiday", "This is the Army, Mr. Jones", and "There's No Business Like Show Business". His Broadway musical and 1942 film, This is the Army, with Ronald Reagan, had Kate Smith singing Berlin's "God Bless America" which was first ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48351 ... Read more

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Chapters: Noam Chomsky, Kirk Douglas, J. Michael Straczynski, Michael Douglas, Lisa Kudrow, Leon Czolgosz, Michael Mukasey, Murder of Russel Timoshenko, Janice Dickinson, Gary Vaynerchuk, Martin Berkofsky, Natalia Mishkutenok, Alexander Artemev, Max Kahn, Radasłaŭ Astroŭski, Andrei Gotsmanov, Jan Stankievič, Jazep Sažyč, Jan Zaprudnik, Belarusian American, Nikolai Sudzilovsky, Ivan Yermachenka, Metropolitan Iziaslav, Debbie Dickinson, Vladimir Artemev, Dimitry Elyashkevich,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 149. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Avram Noam Chomsky (pronounced or /ˌnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics, and a major figure of analytic philosophy. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist, referring to himself as a libertarian socialist. In the 1950s, Chomsky began developing his theory of generative grammar, which has undergone numerous revisions and has had a profound influence on linguistics. His approach to the study of language emphasizes "an innate set of linguistic principles shared by all humans" known as universal grammar, "the initial state of the language learner," and discovering an "account for linguistic variation via the most general possible mechanisms." He elaborated on these ideas in 1957's Syntactic Structures, which then laid the groundwork for the concept of transformational grammar. He also established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. In 1959, Ch...http://booksllc.net/?id=21566 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! To Catch a Spy is a 1971 comedy spy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Richard Pearson, Garfield Morgan, Angharad Rees and Robert Raglan. It was written by Clement and Ian La Frenais. It was a co-production been Britain, the United States and France, which was filmed in Bucharest, Romania. It was also released as Catch Me a Spy.A young British schoolteacher heads to the Eastern Bloc to try and locate her husband who has gone missing, and soon turns out to have been detained by Soviet intelligence as a spy. ... Read more

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Chapters: Winston Churchill, Jacques Chirac, Larry Flynt, Sharon Stone, Cary Grant, Kirk Douglas, Evel Knievel, Barry White, Nell Carter, Isaac Hayes, Bret Hart, J. R. Richard, Bob Barker, Michael Castle, Ed Koch, Dick Clark, Oliver Hazard Perry Morton, Tim Johnson, Della Reese, Tedy Bruschi, Rick James, Jim Ricks, Don Zimmer, Patricia Neal, Nate Dogg, Agnes de Mille, Paul Zimmerman, Ronald Isley, Richard O'sullivan, Robert Guillaume, Frank Watson, John Bardon, Jeff Garlin, Bob Holness, Ronnie Rees, Mark Roth, Mikhail Rusyayev, Mark Mcewen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 379. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 1874 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first person to be recognised as an honorary citizen of the United States. During his army career, Churchill saw military action in India, the Sudan and the Second Boer War. He gained fame and notoriety as a war correspondent and through contemporary books he wrote describing the campaigns. He also served briefly in the British Army on the Western Front in World War I, commanding the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. At the forefront of the political scene for almost fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty as part ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33265 ... Read more