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This gripping historical analysis of cold war and detente relations between the West, particularly the United States and the Soviet Union, is based on declassified Western archival sources. ... Read more

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In his most enthralling novel since the acclaimed Tupelo Nights, John Ed Bradley tells a scorching story of sex and death in sultry New Orleans.

After years as an “actress” in California, Juliet Beauvais is drawn back to town with the promise of a big inheritance. But she finds her “dying” mother all too healthy and making other plans. Fortunately for Juliet, Sonny LaMott has been carrying a torch for her all these years, and he’s easily lured into a scheme that’s sure to get Juliet what she deserves. Twisted, gothically atmospheric, and replete with surprise, My Juliet is a deliciously dark and mordantly funny tale.Amazon.com Review
In John Ed Bradley's well-wrought page-turner, doom hovers over every encounter. Sonny LaMott is a down-and-out painter in New Orleans, selling bad portraits to tourists for $40 a pop. Years ago the city seemed romantic and important to him, a place fit for a Tennessee Williams backdrop. These days all that has turned into cliché. Everything he paints looks like something from a gift shop postcard. The real reason for Sonny's cynicism becomes clear in a scene where he watches a porn video starring the object of his adolescent desire: 15 years later, Juliet Beauvais, his femme fatale and first love, has gone into hardcore. When she returns to New Orleans unexpectedly, Sonny falls quickly under her spell again. The novel's tension resides with Juliet and her wild appeal: she can make men grovel at her feet, even kill for her. Determined to whack her mother and collect her inheritance, Juliet manipulates Sonny, trying to convince him that he's not really a cheesy artist--he's a glamorous hit man. And she's not really a drug-addled porn star, she's the woman who will save his life.

With My Juliet John Ed Bradley (Tupelo Nights, Love and Obits) proves he has a gift for crazy women. While most hard-boiled writers of this genre, including masters like James Ellroy, tend to dodge the interior lives of their screwed-up ladies, he paints a rich portrait of a woman on the edge--narcissistic, deeply damaged, unable to find peace or pleasure. She's also funny, complaining to herself that it's "oppressively, stupidly hot," and thumbing through a self-help book she finds on an airplane, "she reads half a page before encountering a trash can on the main concourse and throwing it away." Juliet doesn't believe in self-help or redemption; she believes in money, sex, her own powers of persuasion. Bradley makes her chillingly believable, and she's the one who propels this novel's atmosphere of guilt, doom, and dark pleasure. --Emily White ... Read more

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Interesting
Normally, I am not really a fan of mysteries. I am however, a New Orleanean who loves to read books pertaining to the area and in that regard, this is one of the best I have ever come across. The story itself is more than decent, but the rich descriptions of the city are what more than held me captive. You want to feel sorry for the main character, Sonny due to his undying love for a crazed woman who keeps breaking his heart over and over again, but mid-way through the novel you want to scream at him "WAKE UP!!!"This is book I would highly recommend to other readers.

memories ofhome
i read this one because i haven't been down south in three years and lately i've been reading southern books, just out of sentimentality....this story is ruthless. it's a bout a man's obsession with a woman who has him pegged; he knows she is bad for him, but he loves her anyway. every man has had at least one woman in his life who was that way( and probably yearns for another ) sonny is one of those artists who probably knows he bad, but he does it because he doesn't know how to do any thing else...he makes for an interesting psychological profile.

but the book is all about juliet....

man, this woman is the epitome of the psychowoman from hell...the things she says and does freaked me out totally...if the story was just about the realtionship between sonny and juliet, i would have given it five stars...but mr bradley, had to do a james m. cain, and give us a crime story... i wasn't that impressed...

still the book was cool, just to " see " new orleans again...sometimes, i do miss it......

Loved the start
This book has a fantastic beginning!For me, there is nothing than a good novel from the American south, and this book starts out just that way!The characters are astounding!Juliet has it all!The things that drive us and the characters in the book to her and the same things that drive us away.What a powerful start!About midway, the book takes a turn towards a mundane murder mystery.As a police mystery, the book was not nearly as interesting as it was as a Southern novel.The ending was even weaker.I enjoyed it, but wished that Bradley had continued his write to his strengths to the end.

LOVED this book!
"My Juliet" by John Ed Bradley is a departure for me.It's not really a book that I would be drawn too, but I was so wrong.It was dramatic, emotional, harsh, and crafty.I was fascinated by this tale of two people who are wildly drawn to each other.Their love is dangerous and not healthy.But, you can't stop reading...just like you can't help but look at a car accident.It was tumultuous read, and I was absorbed by these people.Almost obsessively so.I think that if you're a "real" reader with patience and a knowledge of good literature you'll appreciate what the author was trying to do.He was successful and I was enchanted.Wonderful Book!

Hot New Orleans Nights!
Wow! What a woman! This Juliet is unlike any character I've ever encountered in life or in fiction. This novel is like New Orleans itself;gorgeous and fun loving on the outside, steamy, sexy, and decaying on theinside. Poor Sonny LaMott!He has the bad luck to fall in love withJuliet, a person of almost no morals and no interest inanything butherself and her own pleasure.Like 'Tupelo Nights,' 'My Juliet' is aterrific read. It is a dark and twisted womanwho leads us down a dark andtwisted path. A path that is ultimately satisfying because the writing isso wonderful, the characters unforgettable, and the story so seductive. ... Read more

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A reference book for every gardener throughout the gardening year, this provides information on planting and caring for flowers, fruits and vegetables, and trees and shrubs. This encyclopedia opens with garden planning, followed by chapters on bulbs, corms and tubers, annuals and biennials, roses and rose-growing, hardy perennials, favourite garden flowers, trees and shrubs. Also included are sections dealing with rock gardens and garden pool, greenhouse, house plants, fruit, herbs, vegetables and salads. Finally, there is a useful gardener's glossary and a month-by-month account of the gardener's year. ... Read more

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Sooner or later most men find themselves groaning under the weight of civilization; yearning to escape the ambitions, obligations, and repressions of human society. They find themselves searching for something that was lost when their ancestors abandoned the wilderness to the animals. When opportunity comes they instinctively return to their homeland of an eon ago, and in an animal's world seek the peace their own world withholds.-"Farewell Thou Busy World" Bradley, who was the publisher of Ginn & Co., wrote "Farewell Thou Busy World" in 1935 as a loving elegy for a natural world and an American West that he saw rapidly disappearing. Without rancor, without strident advocacy, he simply provides a wonderful window into nature that lured him from the world of business and anxiety and back into the wild. "Farewell Thou Busy World" may be one of the most loving and elegantly written nature books ever produced. ... Read more

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A celebration of nature and the American West
John Hodgdon Bradley's "Farewell Thou Busy World" is a collection of seven essays that range from memories of a boyhood spent discovering and interacting with nature to a lament about the fast pace of visits west made by Easterners and Midwesterners who fail to get off the interstate and see the real beauty. (And this book was first published in 1935!) In total, the seven essays are less than 100 pages.

But within those few pages is an engaging and polished writing style and a genuine love of nature (and of fishing). These are not the writings of someone who romanticizes nature so much as they are the thoughts of someone with an abiding appreciation of and respect for the wild. For some readers, the author's fond, perhaps roseate, recollections of his childhood might be a bit too Mayberryish, but I found the essays to be charming reads and took them leisurely, reading one every day or so, as seems to befit the pace of life described within the book's covers.
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Part of a series looking at places which feature most prominently in the news. This book considers the historical development, major personalities, the central issues and the future prospects for Eastern Europe. The books are aimed at providing the foundation for informal discussion and analysis of significant development and issues in today's world. ... Read more

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This book provides a detailed review of diagnostic tests used in the investigation and management of patients with renal disease. The book is aimed at postgraduate doctors, but the diversity of topics covered means that, in addition to nephrologists, it would be useful to doctors practising in a number of specialities involved in the diagnosis of renal disease, including immunology, radiology and pathology, and other health workers (e.g. nurses, dieticians) in renal units. The aim is to provide a reference book for libraries and departments, as well as individual doctors. The book is divided into two parts: in the first a detailed description of tests used in nephrology, and the interpretation of abnormal results, is given. The second part describes how these tests are used in the investigation of specific renal disorders. The emphasis in the first part is on the principles underlying the test, understanding how it is performed, and the interpretation of abnormal results. The second part describes indications for the tests, and their use in clinical practice. ... Read more

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This comprehensive survey of perestroika by seventeen leading specialists covers key domestic and international aspects of the Soviet Union's reform movement. ... Read more

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Henry James remained throughout his life focused on his boyhood and early manhood, and correspondingly on younger boys and men, and John R. Bradley illustrates how it is in the context of such narcissism that James consistently dealt with male desire in his fiction. He also traces a more subtle but related trajectory in James's writing from a Classical to a Modernist gay discourse, which in turn is shown to have been paralleled by a shift in James's fiction from naturalistic beginnings to later stylistic evasion and obscurity. This radical book, which covers the whole of James's career, will quickly be recognized as a defining text in this emerging field of James studies. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Part of a series which provides the foundation for informal discussions and presents a look at those places which feature most prominently in the news. Each book considers the historical development, major personalities, central issues and the future prospects for the area concerned. ... Read more

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Clinical immunology has expanded rapidly as a clinical specialty around the world, corresponding to exciting developments in molecular medicine in recent years. This book includes focused but comprehensive coverage of the field of immunology in the developed and developing world from a clinical point of view. The book emphasizes human disease which is mediated by the immune system. The majority of autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivity disorders and infectious diseases are included. This book covers the up-to-date molecular aspects of immunopathogenesis as well as the management, treatment, and monitoring of disease. There are over 250 full-colour illustrations. ... Read more