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Almost Historyby Christopher BramISBN 0452269660 (0-452-26966-0)
Softcover, Plume
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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975by George HerringISBN 0471015474 (0-471-01547-4)
Softcover, Wiley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975'Book summary:Widely recognized as a major contribution to the study of American involvement in Vietnam, this comprehensive and balanced account analyzes the ultimate failure of the war, and the impact of the war on US foreign policy. The book seeks to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical perspective and to offer answers to vital questions. This new edition has been necessitated not only by the development in the field, but also by dramatic change in the world in the time since the last edition. [via]
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The American Nightby Jim MorrisonISBN 0517086832 (0-517-08683-2)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Night'Book summary:THE AMERICAN NIGHT presents Morrison's previously unpublished work in its truest form. WIth their nightmarish images, bold associative leaps, and volcanic power of emotion, these works are the unmistakable artifacts of a great, wild voice and heart.
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And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoirby Joan BaezISBN 0451167449 (0-451-16744-9)
Softcover, Signet
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Be Here Nowby Lama Foundation EditorISBN 0517543052 (0-517-54305-2)
Softcover, Crown Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Be Here Now'Book summary:It's easy to dismiss Be Here Now as the relic of a whacked-out '60s acid tripper. Paging through the center section of the book, with its inch-high print and psychedelic drawings, you come across lines like:
Magic Theatre
Then you turn to the first page of the book, and you are suddenly sucked into the story of a Harvard psychiatrist who has reached the pinnacle of success, discovers the mind-expanding powers of acid, and ends up trooping through India with a 23-year-old holy man from Laguna Beach, California. In the story, you see all the trappings of your own life and begin to wonder if India might hold the answers after all. Before booking your ticket, turn to the last section of the Be Here Now, "Cookbook for a Sacred Life." Ram Dass saves you the trouble by proffering a sober introduction to the basics of Hindu religion. Although he still can't resist CAPITAL LETTERS, he has done his homework, presenting a whole range of concepts and practices having to do with yoga postures, meditation, renunciation, dying, and sexual energy. So, for the most part, Be Here Now stands the test of time, and if you can entertain the center section in a retro kind of a spirit, it might be just what you're looking for: "The opposite of craving is saying, baby, this is the way it is, yeah, OK, here and now, this is it. I ACCEPT THE HERE & NOW FULLY." --Brian Bruya [via]
For madmen only
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Best Evidence : Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedyby David S. LiftonISBN 0451175735 (0-451-17573-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard GriffinISBN 0451192036 (0-451-19203-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Like Me: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.
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Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbiaby Robert FishmanISBN 0465007473 (0-465-00747-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnamby Neil SheehanISBN 051705597X (0-517-05597-X)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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Cities under Siege: An Anatomy of the Ghetto Riots, 1964-1968by Peter H. Rossi, David BoeselISBN 0465011357 (0-465-01135-7)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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The Complete Beatles Chronicleby Mark LewisohnISBN 0517581000 (0-517-58100-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984by Henri Michaux, David BallISBN 0520212290 (0-520-21229-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984'Book summary:Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux "genius," and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux's work "is without equal in the literature of our time." This anthology contains substantial selections from almost all of Michaux's major works, most never before published in English, and allows readers to explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a twentieth-century visionary.[via]More editions of Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984:
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Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schoolsby Jonathan KozolISBN 0452262925 (0-452-26292-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Disarmed and Dangerous : The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berriganby Murray Polner, Jim O'GradyISBN 046503084X (0-465-03084-X)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Placesby Truman CapoteISBN 0452259096 (0-452-25909-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Double Helixby James D. WatsonISBN 0451624769 (0-451-62476-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double Helix'Book summary:"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won Nobel Prizes for their work, and their names are memorized by biology students around the world. But as in all of history, the real story behind the deceptively simple outcome was messy, intense, and sometimes truly hilarious. To preserve the "real" story for the world, James Watson attempted to record his first impressions as soon after the events of 1951-1953 as possible, with all their unpleasant realities and "spirit of adventure" intact.
Watson holds nothing back when revealing the petty sniping and backbiting among his colleagues, while acknowledging that he himself was a willing participant in the melodrama. In particular, Watson reveals his mixed feelings about his famous colleague in discovery, Francis Crick, who many thought of as an arrogant man who talked too much, and whose brilliance was appreciated by few. This is the joy of The Double Helix--instead of a chronicle of stainless-steel heroes toiling away in their sparkling labs, Watson's chronicle gives readers an idea of what living science is like, warts and all. The Double Helix is a startling window into the scientific method, full of insight and wit, and packed with the kind of science anecdotes that are told and retold in the halls of universities and laboratories everywhere. It's the stuff of legends. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNAby James D. Watson, Lawrence BraggISBN 0451627873 (0-451-62787-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA'Book summary:"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won Nobel Prizes for their work, and their names are memorized by biology students around the world. But as in all of history, the real story behind the deceptively simple outcome was messy, intense, and sometimes truly hilarious. To preserve the "real" story for the world, James Watson attempted to record his first impressions as soon after the events of 1951-1953 as possible, with all their unpleasant realities and "spirit of adventure" intact.
Watson holds nothing back when revealing the petty sniping and backbiting among his colleagues, while acknowledging that he himself was a willing participant in the melodrama. In particular, Watson reveals his mixed feelings about his famous colleague in discovery, Francis Crick, who many thought of as an arrogant man who talked too much, and whose brilliance was appreciated by few. This is the joy of The Double Helix--instead of a chronicle of stainless-steel heroes toiling away in their sparkling labs, Watson's chronicle gives readers an idea of what living science is like, warts and all. The Double Helix is a startling window into the scientific method, full of insight and wit, and packed with the kind of science anecdotes that are told and retold in the halls of universities and laboratories everywhere. It's the stuff of legends. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Enquiryby Dick FrancisISBN 0515128678 (0-515-12867-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Familyby Ed SandersISBN 0451165632 (0-451-16563-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Fan Manby William KotzwinkleISBN 0517515032 (0-517-51503-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Fashion Sourcebooks 1960sby John PeacockISBN 0500280401 (0-500-28040-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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For Keeps : 30 Years at the Moviesby Pauline KaelISBN 0452273080 (0-452-27308-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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For Kicksby Dick FrancisISBN 0515123862 (0-515-12386-2)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffmanby Jonah RaskinISBN 0520213793 (0-520-21379-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Four Playsby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451529146 (0-451-52914-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960sby Robert Cohen, Reginald E. ZelnikISBN 0520233549 (0-520-23354-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s'Book summary:This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent history of American higher education. The contributors--whose perspectives range from that of FSM leader Mario Savio to University of California president Clark Kerr---shed new light on such issues as the origins of the FSM in the civil rights movement, the political tensions within the FSM, the day-to-day dynamics of the protest movement, the role of the Berkeley faculty and its various factions, the 1965 trial of the arrested students, and the virtually unknown "little Free Speech Movement of 1966."[via]More editions of The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s:
The Garrick Yearby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452262828 (0-452-26282-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Getting Saved from the Sixtiesby Steven TiptonISBN 0520052285 (0-520-05228-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accentsby Julia AlvarezISBN 0452268060 (0-452-26806-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood. [via]
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I Never Promised You a Rose Gardenby Joanne GreenbergISBN 0451160312 (0-451-16031-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'Book summary:Aided by a brilliant psychiatrist, and accompanied by her deeply concerned-and terrified-parents, Deborah must undertake a three-year struggle to resist the allure of madness, and rejoin the real world. Poignant and compelling, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a "convincing and emotionally gripping"* read that introduces an unforgettable young heroine-and stands as a modern classic on the topic of mental illness. [via]
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If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Leftby Maurice IssermanISBN 0465031978 (0-465-03197-8)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenzby Jaime Saenz, Forrest Gander, Kent JohnsonISBN 0520230485 (0-520-23048-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Backgroundby Denys HayISBN 0521291046 (0-521-29104-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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JFK: Conspiracy of Silenceby Charles Crenshaw, Jens Hansen, J. Gary ShawISBN 0451403460 (0-451-40346-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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John F. Kennedyby Zachary KentISBN 0516013904 (0-516-01390-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Kaffir Boyby Mark MathabaneISBN 0452259436 (0-452-25943-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africaby Mark MathabaneISBN 0452264715 (0-452-26471-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Kinflicksby Lisa AltherISBN 0452276772 (0-452-27677-2)
Softcover, Plume
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Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwandaby A. H. Halsey, Rosamond Halsey CarrISBN 0452282020 (0-452-28202-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda'Book summary:If you enjoyed Out of Africa and West with the Night, here's another amazing woman's story of her adventurous African life. Rosamond Halsey Carr left her job as a young New York City fashion illustrator in the 1940s to join her hunter-explorer husband in the Belgian Congo; after their divorce, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower plantation. For the next 50 years she lived an extraordinary life, witnessing the fall of colonialism, the loss of her friend Dian Fossey, and the relentless clashes between the Hutus and the Tutsis. Although this book includes a poignant insider's account of the events surrounding the horrific 1994 genocide, it also provides a beautiful portrait of the Rwanda that was--and still is. After being evacuated during the genocide, Carr returned to Rwanda and, at age 82, rebuilt her home from the ground up, intent on opening a home for some 100 orphaned children.
Carr's humble tenacity and bold strength animate her historical, cultural, and personal accounts. Arriving in Africa in 1949, she witnesses the traditions of the royal Tutsi dynasty, sails up the Congo to camp in pygmy villages, encounters leopards, mingles with European aristocrats, finds and loses love, and lives through Congo independence and civil war. Her passion for the country and its people makes for a life story that is both tragic and hopeful, and full of interesting details that animate the spirit of Rwanda. --Kathryn True [via]
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The Last Unicornby Peter S. Beagle, Mel GrantISBN 0451450523 (0-451-45052-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Unicorn'Book summary:The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:
The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.
The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician--whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended--when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.
This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runnerby Alan SillitoeISBN 0452269083 (0-452-26908-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Looking Glass Warby John Le CarreISBN 0517395495 (0-517-39549-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Lutherby John OsborneISBN 0452273552 (0-452-27355-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Oppositionby Theodore RoszakISBN 0520201221 (0-520-20122-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition'Book summary:When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels--and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy--the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. He traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman. In a new introduction, Roszak reflects on the evolution of counter culture since he coined the term in the sixties.[via]
Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, "If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society--all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian."More editions of The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition:
Making of the President, 1964by Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 045161190X (0-451-61190-X)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Maos Revolution and the Chinese Political Cultureby Richard H. SolomonISBN 0520022505 (0-520-02250-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Marc Chagallby Mike VeneziaISBN 0516270419 (0-516-27041-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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The Master and Margaritaby Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovISBN 0452008999 (0-452-00899-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master and Margarita'Book summary:Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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The Militant Dissentersby Stanton Arthur CoblentzISBN 0498077098 (0-498-07709-8)
Hardcover, A. S. Barnes
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The Millstoneby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0452261260 (0-452-26126-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965by Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0452262321 (0-452-26232-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jonesby Ann HeadISBN 0451163192 (0-451-16319-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The New American Poetry, 1945-1960by Donald Merriam AllenISBN 0520209532 (0-520-20953-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Nigger; An Autobiography,by Dick GregoryISBN 0525166971 (0-525-16697-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451527097 (0-451-52709-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Ralph Parker, Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451523105 (0-451-52310-5)
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One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Societyby Barry A. Kosmin, Seymour P. LachmanISBN 0517882183 (0-517-88218-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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One Nation under God : Religion in Contemporary American Societyby Seymour Lachman, Barry A. KosminISBN 0517587890 (0-517-58789-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Opposing the Systemby Charles A. ReichISBN 0517597772 (0-517-59777-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Picassoby Mike VeneziaISBN 0516422715 (0-516-42271-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso'Book summary:This series meets National Curriculum Standards for: Social Studies: Culture [via]
Pop Artby Lucy R. LippardISBN 0500200521 (0-500-20052-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Rosemary's Babyby Ira LevinISBN 0451194004 (0-451-19400-4)
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The Sandbox and the Death of Bessie Smithby Edward AlbeeISBN 0452260833 (0-452-26083-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Sea of Tranquillityby Paul RussellISBN 0452273110 (0-452-27311-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Secrets: The Cia's War at Homeby Angus MacKenzie, David WeirISBN 0520219554 (0-520-21955-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Silent Miaow : A Manual for Kittens, Strays and Homeless Catsby Paul Gallico, Suzanne SzaszISBN 0517556839 (0-517-55683-9)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Special Opsby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515132489 (0-515-13248-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Stonewallby Martin DubermanISBN 0452272068 (0-452-27206-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Tales for the Son of My Unborn Child: Berkeley, 1966-1969by Thomas FarberISBN 0525213651 (0-525-21365-1)
Hardcover, Dutton
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledgeby Carlos CastanedaISBN 0520217578 (0-520-21757-8)
Softcover, University of California Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Teachings of Don Juan - A Yaqui Way of Knowledge'Book summary:Thirty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands.[via]
In a series of fascinating dialogues, Castaneda sets forth his partial initiation with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian shaman from the state of Sonora, Mexico. He describes don Juan's perception and mastery of the "non-ordinary reality" and how peyote along with other plants sacred to the Mexican Indians were used as gateways to the mysteries of "dread," "clarity," and "power." The Teachings of Don Juan is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world.
"For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking, looking breathlessly."--Don Juan
"Carlos Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan, takes us through the moment of twilight, through the crack in the universe between daylight and dark into a world not merely other than our own, but of an entirely different order of reality."--Walter Goldschmidt, from the ForewordMore editions of The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge:
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Softcover, Univ of California Pr - The Teachings of Don Juan; A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.: ISBN 0520002172 (0-520-00217-2)
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Teenagers: An American Historyby Grace PalladinoISBN 046500766X (0-465-00766-X)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Tennessee Williams: Four Plays - Summer and Smoke/Orpheus Descending/Suddenly Last Summer/Period of Adjustment/4 Plays in 1 Bookby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451525124 (0-451-52512-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Thirteen Daysby Robert F. KennedyISBN 0452273919 (0-452-27391-9)
Hardcover, Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thirteen Days'Book summary:A memoir on the threat and aversion of the world's first great nuclear crisis in October, 1962. [via]
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Three by Flannery O'Connorby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0451525140 (0-451-52514-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Trial Begins and on Socialist Realismby Abram TertzISBN 0520046773 (0-520-04677-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Twist And Shout Murder: A Murder A-go-go Mysteryby Rosemary MartinISBN 0451218191 (0-451-21819-1)
Softcover, Signet
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The Velveteen Rabbitby Margery WilliamsISBN 0517618133 (0-517-61813-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Velveteen Rabbit'Book summary:A stuffed toy rabbit (with real thread whiskers) comes to life in Margery Williams's timeless tale of the transformative power of love. Given as a Christmas gift to a young boy, the Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys, waiting for the day when the Boy (as he is called) will choose him as a playmate. In time, the shy Rabbit befriends the tattered Skin Horse, the wisest resident of the nursery, who reveals the goal of all nursery toys: to be made "real" through the love of a human. "'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'" This sentimental classic--perfect for any child who's ever thought that maybe, just maybe, his or her toys have feelings--has been charming children since its first publication in 1922. (A great read-aloud for all ages, but children ages 8 and up can read it on their own.) [via]
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A Very Private Eyeby Barbara PymISBN 0452269202 (0-452-26920-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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