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1943, the Victory That Never Wasby John GriggISBN 0809073773 (0-8090-7377-3)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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19Th-Century Artby Robert Rosenblum, H. W. JansonISBN 0810913623 (0-8109-1362-3)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '19Th-Century Art'Book summary:A history of the development of art from 1776 to 1900 includes discussions of the careers of distinguished artists such as David, Manet, Renoir, and Rodin. [via]
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The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939by Terry MartinISBN 0801486777 (0-8014-8677-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria RemarqueISBN 0791059235 (0-7910-5923-5)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'Book summary:Remarque's 1929 novel is among the finest antiwar literature written after the First World War.
The title, Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on Western Front, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on Western Front through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Erich Maria Remarque, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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American Art: History and Cultureby Wayne CravenISBN 0810919427 (0-8109-1942-7)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Art: History and Culture'Book summary:Here is the most thorough, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated study ever to examine American art from a cultural perspective. The author presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the styles, trends, and political climate that defined each important era.
He covers:
* Painting
* Sculpture
* Decorative arts
* Folk Art
* Architecture
* PhotographyHighlighted by more than 750 magnificent illustrations (165 in full color), this reference surveys American art from its beginnings in the colonial period through contemporary works, and charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture. [via]
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Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953by Arnold A. OffnerISBN 0804742545 (0-8047-4254-5)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Ageby Kevin BoyleISBN 0805079335 (0-8050-7933-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arc Of Justice: A Saga Of Race, Civil Rights, And Murder In The Jazz Age'Book summary:An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes.
And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.[via]Arc of Justice is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.More editions of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age:
Art Since 1940: Strategies of Beingby Jonathan FinebergISBN 0810919516 (0-8109-1951-6)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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The Autobiography of Malcolm Xby Alex Haley, Malcolm XISBN 0808501488 (0-8085-0148-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'Book summary:Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African Americans. And there's the vividness with which he depicts black popular culture--try as he might to criticize those lindy hops at Boston's Roseland dance hall from the perspective of his Muslim faith, he can't help but make them sound pretty wonderful. These are but a few examples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X limns an archetypal journey from ignorance and despair to knowledge and spiritual awakening. When Malcolm tells coauthor Alex Haley, "People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book," he voices the central belief underpinning every attempt to set down a personal story as an example for others. Although many believe his ethic was directly opposed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s during the civil rights struggle of the '60s, the two were not so different. Malcolm may have displayed a most un-Christian distaste for loving his enemies, but he understood with King that love of God and love of self are the necessary first steps on the road to freedom. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Back on the Road: A Journey to Latin Americaby Ernesto Guevara, Richard Gott, Patrick Camiller, Alberto GranadoISBN 0802139426 (0-8021-3942-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Being Jewish in the New Germanyby Jeffrey M. PeckISBN 0813537231 (0-8135-3723-1)
Hardcover, Rutgers University Press
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941by William Lawrence ShirerISBN 0801870569 (0-8018-7056-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941'Book summary:By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day, eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is now available in a new paperback edition.
CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930sspecifically those sections dealing with the collapse of the European democracies and the rise of Nazi Germany.
Berlin Diary first appeared in 1941, and the timing was perfect. The energy, the passion, the electricity in it were palpable. The book was an instant success, and it became the frame of reference against which thoughtful Americans judged the rush of events in Europe. It exactly matched journalist to event: the right reporter at the right place at the right time. It stood, and still stands, as so few books have ever donea pure act of journalistic witness.
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Black Elk Speaksby Black Elk, John G. NeihardtISBN 0803233019 (0-8032-3301-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'Book summary:The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish their way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]Beautifully told through the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elks profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elks world, a reset text with Lakota words reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
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Black Elk Speaksby Vine Deloria, Black Elk, John G. Neihardt, Lori Utecht, Alexis N. Petri, Standing BearISBN 0803283857 (0-8032-8385-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'Book summary:Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elks experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind.[via]When Black Elk received his great vision, white settlers were invading the Lakotas homeland, decimating buffalo herds, and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas way of life. The Lakotas fought fiercely to retain their freedom and way of life, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee. Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time, however. As related by Neihardt, Black Elks searing visions of the unity of humanity and the earth have made this book a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, a history of a Native nation, or an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This new edition features two additional essays by John G. Neihardt that further illuminate his experience with Black Elk; an essay by Alexis Petri, great-granddaughter of John G. Neihardt, that celebrates Neihardts remarkable accomplishments; and a look at the legacy of the special relationship between Neihardt and Black Elk, written by Lori Utecht, editor of Knowledge and Opinion: Essays and Literary Criticism of John G. Neihardt.
For more information on John G. Neihardt, visit www.neihardt.com
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Siouxby Black Elk, John G. NeihardtISBN 0803261705 (0-8032-6170-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux'Book summary:Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Siouxby John G. Neihardt, Deloria, Vine, Jr.ISBN 0803283598 (0-8032-8359-8)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux'Book summary:Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
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Bonnardby John Elderfield, Sarah WhitfieldISBN 0810940213 (0-8109-4021-3)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bonnard'Book summary:It seems somehow revolutionary that a turquoise-blue painting graces the cover of Bonnard, the catalog accompanying a 1998 exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The color of the endpapers--deep yellow--tells readers that even the book designers know with which end of the color spectrum most viewers associate this sensuous painter. The translucent-looking, sun-struck, golden woman in the bathtub--the artist's wife and favorite model--is so emblazoned on our memories that it takes an exhibition like the one documented in this book to remind viewers of Bonnard's extraordinary range as a colorist.
The early, intimate, Nabi paintings are often dark, with figures that stand out like candle flames in shadowy interiors. But Bonnard's use of umber, sienna, and various blacks--occasionally in the shape of a dachshund--is forever part of what makes those brilliant reds and oranges sing. Even 60 years into his career, the painter gave full range to his palette, balancing the most highly colored canvasses with others of pale, soft grays. Those readers who have been succored on the 1984 Phillips Collection catalogue will find MoMA's new one every bit as nourishing. [via]
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The Book of Laughter and Forgettingby Milan Kundera, Aaron AsherISBN 0809592010 (0-8095-9201-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900by Diana PrestonISBN 0802713610 (0-8027-1361-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900'Book summary:During the 19th century, rapacious colonial powers squeezed China mercilessly, seizing territory and extorting profits while missionaries sought souls. In the late 1890s, a virulently resentful peasant movement spread across northern China; foreigners nicknamed its adherents "Boxers" for the martial-arts exercises they practiced en masse. When the movement erupted into open violence in 1900, the imperial government supported attacks on foreigners that escalated into a siege of the foreign embassies in Peking. Diana Preston's The Boxer Rebellion is an account of the 55-day confrontation that alarmed the world. When Western and Japanese troops eventually routed the Boxers, soldiers and civilians looted the capital (to the benefit of Western museums) and extracted yet more concessions from China. The events of 1900 showed both sides at their colorful worst, and the author spares neither Chinese cruelty nor colonial pomposity and racism. Though this narrative history is told almost entirely from a Western viewpoint--of the 200 titles in the bibliography, not one is in Chinese--the many diaries and letters that Preston consulted ensure a lively portrayal of personalities and evocation of the times. She enjoys racy rumors, whether substantiated or not, and is so enamored of the charlatan Backhouse's salacious claims that he had an affair with the Dowager Empress that she details them twice. With little analysis but all the pace and immediacy of a popular novel, The Boxer Rebellion makes for absorbing reading. --John Stevenson [via]
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Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930by Terence YoungISBN 0801874327 (0-8018-7432-7)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Catch-22by Joseph HellerISBN 0808514024 (0-8085-1402-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch-22'Book summary:There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]More editions of Catch-22:
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Lifeby Jon Lee AndersonISBN 0802135587 (0-8021-3558-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life'Book summary:Even to those without Marxist sympathies, Che Guevara (1928-67) was a dashing, charismatic figure: the asthmatic son of an aristocratic Argentine family whose sympathy for the world's oppressed turned him into a socialist revolutionary, the valued comrade-in-arms of Cuba's Fidel Castro and a leader of guerilla warfare in Latin America and Africa. Journalist Jon Lee Anderson's lengthy and absorbing portrait captures the complexities of international politics (revolutionary and counter); his painstaking research has unearthed a remarkable amount of new material, including information about Guevara's death at the hands of the Bolivian military. [via]
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Cider With Rosieby Laurie LeeISBN 080943573X (0-8094-3573-X)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider With Rosie'Book summary:Paperback 1980 259p. 8.00"x5.25"x1.00 First Light;First Names;Village School;The Kitchen;Grannies in The Wainscot;Public Death,Private Murder;Mother;Winter and Summer and More. [via]
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Dali: Master of Fantasiesby Jean-Louis GailleminISBN 0810991020 (0-8109-9102-0)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dali: Master of Fantasies'Book summary:Salvador Dalí (1904-1988) was one of the most popular and most visible artists of the last century, known for his provocative works and his larger-than-life personality. He created an astoundingly diverse body of work, including paintings, drawings, prints, book illustration, films, and stage sets. Whatever the medium, his works were filled with dreamlike, fetishistic images rendered in a precise, hyperrealist style. In this fascinating account, art historian Jean-Louis Gaillemin focuses on the intimate details of Dalí's life, especially his intense relationship with his longtime partner Gala, and how his psychological views and state of mind influenced his work. [via]
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Darkness at Noonby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0808576364 (0-8085-7636-4)
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Diana in Search of Herself : Portrait of a Troubled Princessby Sally Bedell-SmithISBN 0812930304 (0-8129-3030-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Manby Robert S. McElvaineISBN 0807840998 (0-8078-4099-8)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Eastland: Legacy of the Titanicby George W. HiltonISBN 0804728011 (0-8047-2801-1)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Eisenhower Declassifiedby James F. Scheer, Virgil PinkleyISBN 0800710630 (0-8007-1063-0)
Hardcover, Revell
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The First World War: A Complete Historyby Martin GilbertISBN 0805047344 (0-8050-4734-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First World War: A Complete History'Book summary:The acclaimed British historian offers a majestic, single-volume work incorporating all major fronts-domestic, diplomatic, military-for "a stunning achievement of research and storytelling"[via]
(Publishers Weekly)
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would end officially almost five years later. Unofficially, it has never ended: the horrors we live with today were born in the First World War.
It left millions-civilians and soldiers-maimed or dead. And it left us with new technologies of death: tanks, planes, and submarines; reliable rapid-fire machine guns and field artillery; poison gas and chemical warfare. It introduced us to U-boat packs and strategic bombing, to unrestricted war on civilians and mistreatment of prisoners. Most of all, it changed our world. In its wake, empires toppled, monarchies fell, whole populations lost their national identities as political systems, and geographic boundaries were realigned. Instabilities were institutionalized, enmities enshrined. And the social order shifted seismically. Manners, mores, codes of behavior; literature and the arts; education and class distinctions-all underwent a vast sea change. And in all these ways, the twentieth century can be said to have been born on the morning of June 28, 1914.
"One of the first books that anyone should read in beginning to try to understand this war and this century."
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Franz Kafka : A Biographyby Max BrodISBN 0805200479 (0-8052-0047-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in Americaby Firoozeh DumasISBN 0812968379 (0-8129-6837-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America'Book summary:This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her fathers glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since.
Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumass wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot.
In a series of deftly drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American English (hot dogs and hush puppies?a complete mystery), American traditions (Thanksgiving turkey?an even greater mystery, since it tastes like nothing), and American culture (Firoozehs parents laugh uproariously at Bob Hope on television, although they dont get the jokes even when she translates them into Farsi).
Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. It is a book that will leave us all laughingwithout an accent. [via]More editions of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America:
Great Western Salt Works: Essays on the Meaning of Post-Formalist Artby Jack BurnhamISBN 0807607401 (0-8076-0740-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Guerilla Warfareby Che GuevaraISBN 0803270100 (0-8032-7010-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerilla Warfare'Book summary:Case studies that apply Che's theories on revolution to political situations in seven Latin American countries from the 1960s to the present. [via]
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Guerrilla Warfare: Che Guevaraby Ernesto GuevaraISBN 0803270755 (0-8032-7075-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts, Thomas P. WhitneyISBN 0813332893 (0-8133-3289-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2002by Simon SchamaISBN 0786868996 (0-7868-6899-6)
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The Fate of Empire tells the eventful and exhilarating story of Britains rise and fall as an imperial power, from the political turmoil of the 1770s to the struggle of present day leaders to find a way to make a different national future. The volume also examines the Romantic generation, the role of women in Victorian England, industrialization, and the liberal empire from Ireland to India, which promised material improvement, but delivered coercion and famine. As in the previous volumes, Schama vividly portrays the lives of extraordinary personalities Queen Victoria, Churchill, Dickens, and ordinary individuals including the author of the first British travel guide, and Elizabeth Anderson, the first woman doctor.
Finally, Schama asks an essential question: what kind of Britain can hold together when its island isolation and its imperial dominion have both vanished? An examination of the legacy of the British ideal of freedom is at the heart of this entertaining and well-researched book. With The Fate of Empire, Simon Schama has proven himself, again, as a masterful writer of narrative history. [via]More editions of A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2002:
Ho Chi Minh: A Lifeby William J. DuikerISBN 078688701X (0-7868-8701-X)
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How I Became Hettie Jonesby Hettie JonesISBN 0802134963 (0-8021-3496-3)
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In A New Land: A Comparative View Of Immigrationby Nancy FonerISBN 0814727468 (0-8147-2746-8)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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In the Shadow of F.D.R.: From Harry Truman to Bill Clintonby William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0801481236 (0-8014-8123-6)
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In the Shadow of F.D.R.: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reaganby William Edward LeuchtenburgISBN 080149303X (0-8014-9303-X)
Softcover, Cornell University Press
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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman toby William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0801439183 (0-8014-3918-3)
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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to George W. Bushby William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0801487374 (0-8014-8737-4)
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Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Developmentby Alexander De GrandISBN 0803266227 (0-8032-6622-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development'Book summary:On October 29, 1922, when Benito Mussolini completed the March on Rome and was appointed prime minister of Italy, the Fascist regime began in triumph. It ended some twenty-two years later with the execution of Mussolini and the collapse of the German-inspired Italian Social Republic. In this third edition of Italian Fascism Alexander De Grand maintains his disagreement with recent interpretations of the movement and regime as revolutionary and leftist. While not ignoring the importance of ideology, he sees Fascism in Italy as a bourgeois response to the challenge of proletarian revolution and an approach to the problem of conservative control in an era of mass politics.[via]For the third edition, De Grand has substantially revised the discussion of culture and ideology, the conclusion, and the bibliography. Incorporating the most recent interpretations and research, this introduction to Italian Fascism reinterprets an important development in modern history.
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The King's Coffer: Proprietors of the Spanish Treasury, 1565-1702by Amy BushnellISBN 0813006902 (0-8130-0690-2)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Living Out Loudby Anna QuindlenISBN 0804105278 (0-8041-0527-8)
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Loud and Clearby Anna QuindlenISBN 0812970276 (0-8129-7027-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Loud and Clear'Book summary:In this remarkable book, Anna Quindlen, one of Americas favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, once again gives us wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life. Always insightful, rooted in everyday experience and common sense...Quindlen is so good that even when you disagree with what she says, you still love the way she says it, said People magazine about her number one New York Times bestseller Thinking Out Loud, and the same can be said about Loud and Clear.
With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives, Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer, and a mother. In these pieces, first written for Newsweek and The New York Times, Loud and Clear takes on topics ranging from social change to raising children, from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values, from the impact on individuals of global events to the growth that can be gained by spending summer days staring into the middle distance. Grounding the public in the private, connecting people to each other and to the greater world, Quindlen encourages us to develop authentic lives, even as she serves as a catalyst for political and social change.
Anna Quindlens beat is life, and shes one hell of a terrific reporter, said Susan Isaacs, and Quindlens unique qualities of understanding and discernment, everywhere evident in her previous bestsellers, including A Short Guide to a Happy Life and Living Out Loud, can be found on every page of this provocative and inspiring book.
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Madame Mao: The White-Boned Demonby Ross TerrillISBN 0804729220 (0-8047-2922-0)
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The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil Warby Stephen EllisISBN 0814722199 (0-8147-2219-9)
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Maus a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0808598538 (0-8085-9853-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965by Ruth FeldsteinISBN 0801484383 (0-8014-8438-3)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Centuryby National GeographicISBN 0792270495 (0-7922-7049-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century: An Illustrated Historyby National GeographicISBN 0792280636 (0-7922-8063-6)
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0809073552 (0-8090-7355-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964by Timothy J. Naftali, Aleksandr FursenkoISBN 0788197584 (0-7881-9758-4)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Origins of the Marshall Planby John GimbelISBN 0804709033 (0-8047-0903-3)
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Other People's Blood: U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decadeby Robert S. KahnISBN 0813324467 (0-8133-2446-7)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold Warby Melvyn P. LefflerISBN 0804722188 (0-8047-2218-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchistby Alexander BerkmanISBN 0805202676 (0-8052-0267-6)
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Prompt And Utter Destruction: Truman And The Use Of Atomic Bombs Against Japanby J. Samuel WalkerISBN 080785607X (0-8078-5607-X)
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Prostitution and Prejudice: The Jewish Fight against White Slavery, 1870-1939by Edward J. BristowISBN 0805238662 (0-8052-3866-2)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century Americaby Ted MorganISBN 081297302X (0-8129-7302-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:In this landmark work, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Ted Morgan examines the McCarthyite strain in American politics, from its origins in the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Morgan argues that Senator Joseph McCarthy did not emerge in a vacuumhe was, rather, the most prominent in a long line of men who exploited the issue of Communism for political advantage.
In 1918, America invaded Russia in an attempt at regime change. Meanwhile, on the home front, the first of many congressional investigations of Communism was conducted. Anarchist bombs exploded from coast to coast, leading to the political repression of the Red Scare.
Soviet subversion and espionage in the United States began in 1920, under the cover of a trade mission. Franklin Delano Roosevelt granted the Soviets diplomatic recognition in 1933, which gave them an opportunity to expand their spy networks by using their embassy and consulates as espionage hubs. Simultaneously, the American Communist Party provided a recruitment pool for homegrown spies. Martin Dies, Jr., the first congressman to make his name as a Red hunter, developed solid information on Communist subversion through his Un-American Activities Committee. However, its hearings were marred by partisan attacks on the New Deal, presaging McCarthy.
The most pervasive period of Soviet espionage came during World War II, when Russia, as an ally of the United States, received military equipment financed under the policy of lend-lease. It was then that highly placed spies operated inside the U.S. government and in Americas nuclear facilities. Thanks to the Venona transcripts of KGB cable traffic, we now have a detailed account of wartime Soviet espionage, down to the marital problems of Soviet spies and the KGBs abject efforts to capture deserting Soviet seamen on American soil.
During the Truman years, Soviet espionage was in disarray following the defections of Elizabeth Bentley and Igor Gouzenko. The American Communist Party was much diminished by a number of measures, including its expulsion from the labor unions, the prosecution of its leaders under the Smith Act, and the weeding out, under Trumans loyalty program, of subversives in government. As Morgan persuasively establishes, by the time McCarthy exploited the Red issue in 1950, the battle against Communists had been all but won by the Truman administration.
In this bold narrative history, Ted Morgan analyzes the paradoxical culture of fear that seized a nation at the height of its power. Using Joseph McCarthys previously unavailable private papers and recently released transcripts of closed hearings of McCarthys investigations subcommittee, Morgan provides many new insights into the notorious Red hunters methods and motives.
Full of drama and intrigue, finely etched portraits, and political revelations, Reds brings to life a critical period in American history that has profound relevance to our own time.
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Sex & Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentinaby Donna J. GuyISBN 0803270488 (0-8032-7048-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Tales of San Franciscoby Samuel DicksonISBN 0804720975 (0-8047-2097-5)
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The Theory of Relativity (And Other Essays)by Albert EinsteinISBN 0806517654 (0-8065-1765-4)
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The Third Reich: A New Historyby Michael BurleighISBN 080909326X (0-8090-9326-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Reich: A New History'Book summary:Humans have a fascination with evil. We long to identify it, quantify it, and understand it. To this end, newspapers frequently splash photographs of murderers with the caption "The face of evil." Heading most lists of the 20th century's most evil people would be Adolf Hitler, but, as Michael Burleigh's tour de force makes clear, evil is not always as cut-and-dried as we would like. The Nazis could not have come to power and committed Germany to a policy of war and genocide without the tacit consent of the German people. This makes Germany as a whole responsible for the crimes committed in its name, but it is clearly wrong to label every German as evil. Through his painstaking research and direct prose, Burleigh slowly builds up a picture of a people desperate for identity and economic prosperity, who, bit by bit, closed off their conscience as the price of their dreams. There was no one cathartic moment when Germany, under the Third Reich, lapsed from goodness into badness; rather, there was an incremental realignment of a collective morality. Burleigh's explanation of this phenomenon is so simple, yet so obviously right, that you can only wonder that it didn't become the generally accepted currency years ago.
Instead of viewing Nazi Germany in purely social, political, and economic terms--though he doesn't ignore these spheres--Burleigh wraps them all into a picture of a country gripped in a religious, messianic fervor, and that which had previously felt inexplicable suddenly seems clear. If you want the nitty-gritty details of the Second World War and the genocide, they are here, retold as well as, if not better than, many of the other histories of this period. But it's Burleigh's take on the people of Germany that makes this book so special. Above all, with similar genocidal wars currently being fought in Kosovo, Rwanda, and Iraq, it makes you think, "Would I be able to resist becoming complicit in such regimes?" This is a must for every 20th-century historian. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical Historyby Bertram David WolfeISBN 0815411774 (0-8154-1177-4)
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Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Familyby Kate Field, Hermann FieldISBN 0804735905 (0-8047-3590-5)
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The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909by Josie Washburn, Sharon E. WoodISBN 0803297971 (0-8032-9797-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Visual Arts in the Twentieth Centuryby Edward Lucie-SmithISBN 0810939347 (0-8109-3934-7)
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The Wizards of Armageddonby Fred KaplanISBN 0804718849 (0-8047-1884-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museumby Michael Berenbaum, Arnold KramerISBN 080188358X (0-8018-8358-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from the New York Timesby Anthony LewisISBN 0805071784 (0-8050-7178-4)
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