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The Beautiful Maps of Stuart Allan.

Map maker Stuart Allan. Allan is the principal mapmaker of Raven Maps & Images of Medford, Oregon, a company that specializes in wall-sized maps that are both visually striking and technically accurate.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, June 17, 1988: Interview with Connie Bruck; Interview with BeauSoleil; Interview with Stuart Allan; Review of the home video series of films "."
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Connie Bruck Chronicles the King of Junk Bonds.

Financial writer Connie Bruck. Her first book, The Predators' Ball: The Junk Bond Raiders and the Man who Staked Them, is a profile of the controversial junk bond financier Michael Milken, and the junk bond department of the investment firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Milken's financing schemes, and Drexel Burnham's resources, have been the engine behind many of the hostile takeovers and mergers that have rocked Wall Street over the last six years. Bruck is a reporter for The American Lawyer magazine.

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Former Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings charts what he calls "the wide, weird world of geography" in his latest book, Maphead. He profiles Google Maps engineers, geocachers, imaginary mapmakers, map collectors, geography bee contestants and "road geeks."

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