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An Academic Questionby Barbara PymISBN 0452259967 (0-452-25996-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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As She Climbed Across the Tableby Jonathan LethemISBN 0375700129 (0-375-70012-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As She Climbed Across the Table'Book summary:Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table. The tale echoes Alice in Wonderland in its mad tumble through a rearranged reality. Narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void--a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry--and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice. As Alice's unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.
Here the language of physics becomes the language of love: describing physics' "observer problem," Alice says, "Some people think the observer's consciousness determines the spin or even the existence of the electron." Later, as he stumbles to explain Alice's importance to him, Phillip tells her, "I'm not sure I really exist except under your observation." In this memorable little book, Lethem explores the cosmic possibilities of love. [via]
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Binge: What Your College Student Won't Tell Youby Barrett SeamanISBN 0471491195 (0-471-49119-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The British Museum Is Falling Downby David LodgeISBN 0140124195 (0-14-012419-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Classby Erich SegalISBN 0553270907 (0-553-27090-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniusesby Noel Gilroy Annan AnnanISBN 0226021084 (0-226-02108-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Emotionally Weirdby Kate AtkinsonISBN 031227999X (0-312-27999-X)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emotionally Weird'Book summary:Readers who survive the first 20 pages of this dense and playful novel, with its three different openings, constant jokes, and crowded cast of characters, will find themselves rewarded with a leisurely postmodern romp through the student ferment and bodily indulgences of the early 1970s. Although the publisher has called Emotionally Weird a comic novel, it is essentially unclassifiable, both further-reaching and less "meaningful" than it first appears. Kate Atkinson's book begins with chapter 1 of a bad murder mystery being written by Effie Andrews for a creative-writing course at the University of Dundee in 1972. But the action soon shifts to a wintry island in the Hebrides, where Effie is trying to elicit the story of her parentage from her single mother, Nora, while spinning a humorous first-person narrative of her college life. Only near the end of the book does she finally wrench the story from her mother: Effie's bizarre origins; the identity of her father; and the whole unlikely tale of her mother's family.
Like a Borgesian labyrinth, with other stories thrown in, including a laughably convenient introduction of magic realism, it is impossible to know what to take seriously--or "jocoseriously," to paraphrase another of Atkinson's influences: the Joyce of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In her third novel, much of Atkinson's humor is incidental, even parenthetical. (We are told in passing, for example, that Effie's dissertation is called "Henry James: Man or Maze?") She is at her best when introducing her eccentric characters, such as the elderly Professor Cousins, who is sometimes lucid, sometimes not. "As with anyone in the department," Effie explains, "it wasn't always easy to distinguish between the two states. The university's strict laws of tenure dictated that he had to be dead at least three months before he could be removed from behind his desk." Professor Cousins, like the author, enjoys word games along the order of those in Alice in Wonderland, and Atkinson's use of Scottish idiom comes to function as a sort of word game. She also brings in a few killjoys (a militant feminist, a militant Christian, a literary theorist) to complicate an already loopy narrative and to spike the punch.
Janice smelt of piety and coal tar soap. She had recently become a Christian, a neophyte of a student Christian fellowship whose members roamed the corridors of Airlie, Belmont and Chalmers Halls looking for likely converts (the afraid, the alone, the abandoned) and those who needed to use the Bible to fill in the spaces where their personalities should have been.
As Emotionally Weird develops, Atkinson relies more and more on the postmodern gag of characters commenting on the unfolding action. There is no telling how she finally draws these disparate threads onto a single spool, but in the end, even the slightest subplots are neatly tied up and the most transient characters accounted for. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of Emotionally Weird:
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The Emperor of Ocean Parkby Stephen L. CarterISBN 0375712925 (0-375-71292-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor of Ocean Park'Book summary:A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter's engaging debut novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park. After the funeral of his powerful father (a federal judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court became a public scandal), Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father left behind. Armed with fortitude and familial devotion--though paranoid of his wife's fidelity--Talcott soon finds himself in an investigation that entangles him with a number of questionable Washington, D.C., denizens, including attorneys and government officials, law professors, the FBI, shady underworld figures, chess masters, and friends and family. All the while Talcott tries not to hurt his attorney wife's chance for a judicial nomination--and their fragile marriage--but the closer he comes to unraveling his father's dark secrets, the more dangerous things become.
Clocking in at over 650 pages, the novel could easily have been streamlined; many of Talcott's thoughts are unnecessarily repeated. But Carter's storytelling skills are adept: tension builds, surprises are genuine, clues are not handed out freely. The prose, while somewhat meandering, can be crisp and insightful, as demonstrated in Carter's description of the misguided paths of young attorneys who sacrifice
all on the altar of career... at last arriving... at their cherished career goals, partnerships, professorships, judgeships, whatever kind of ships they dream of sailing, and then looking around at the angry, empty waters and realizing that they have arrived with nothing, absolutely nothing, and wondering what to do with the rest of their wretched lives.
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Enderbyby Anthony BurgessISBN 0140059571 (0-14-005957-1)
Softcover, Penguin
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The Fall of the Kingsby Delia Sherman, Ellen KushnerISBN 0553585940 (0-553-58594-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the Kings'Book summary:This stunning follow-up to Ellen Kushners cult-classic novel, Swordspoint, is set in the same world of labyrinthine intrigue, where sharp swords and even sharper wits rule. Against a rich tapestry of artists and aristocrats, students, strumpets, and spies, a gentleman and a scholar will find themselves playing out an ancient drama destined to explode their societys smug view of itselfand reveal that sometimes the best price of uncovering history is being forced to repeat it&.
The Fall of the Kings
Generations ago the last king fell, taking with him the final truths about a race of wizards who ruled at his side. But the blood of the kings runs deep in the land and its people, waiting for the coming together of two unusual men, Theron Campion, a young nobleman of royal lineage, is heir to an ancient house and a modern scandal. Tormented by his twin duties to his family and his own bright spirit, he seeks solace in the University. There he meets Basil St. Cloud, a brilliant and charismatic teacher ruled by a passion for knowledgeand a passion for the ancient kings. Of course, everyone now knows that the wizards were charlatans and the kings their dupes and puppets. Only Basil ins not convincednor is he convinced that the city has seen its last king&
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The Fall of the Kingsby Ellen Kushner, Delia ShermanISBN 0553381849 (0-553-38184-9)
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Scienceby Jean Bricmont, Alan D. SokalISBN 0312204078 (0-312-20407-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science'Book summary:In 1996, an article entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the cultural studies journal Social Text. Packed with recherché quotations from "postmodern" literary theorists and sociologists of science, and bristling with imposing theorems of mathematical physics, the article addressed the cultural and political implications of the theory of quantum gravity. Later, to the embarrassment of the editors, the author revealed that the essay was a hoax, interweaving absurd pronouncements from eminent intellectuals about mathematics and physics with laudatory--but fatuous--prose.
In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal, the author of the hoax, and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more insidious form of epistemic relativism. When Sokal and Bricmont expose Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear that these virtuosi are babbling.
Their discussion of epistemic relativism--roughly, the idea that scientific and mathematical theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions--is less convincing, however, in part because epistemic relativism is not as intrinsically silly as, say, Regis Debray's maunderings about Gödel, and in part because the authors' own grasp of the philosophy of science frequently verges on the naive. Nevertheless, Sokal and Bricmont are to be commended for their spirited resistance to postmodernity's failure to appreciate science for what it is. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Foreign Affairsby Alison LurieISBN 0380709902 (0-380-70990-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Galatea 2.2by Richard PowersISBN 0312423136 (0-312-42313-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galatea 2.2'Book summary:Cognitive neurologist and well-known writer team up to produce a machine that can pass a comprehensive exam in English literature, with predictably unpredictable results. Like The Gold Bug Variations, this is another of Powers' wild, unforgettable novels encompassing science, philosophy, and the frailty of mankind. [via]
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Groupby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156372088 (0-15-637208-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Group'Book summary:Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars.
Mary McCarthys most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as the group. An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult livestraveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group. [via]
Handbook for Academic Authorsby Beth LueyISBN 0521891981 (0-521-89198-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertationby David SternbergISBN 0312396066 (0-312-39606-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation'Book summary:Mastering these skills spells the difference between "A.B.D." and "Ph.D."[via]
-refuting the magnum opus myth
-coping with the dissertation as obsession (magnificent or otherwise)
-the fine art of selecting a topic
-writing the dissertation with publication in mind
-when to stand your ground and when to prudently retreat if the committee's conception of your thesis differs substantially from your own
-dealing with obstructive committee members, and keeping the fences mended
-how to reconsider "negative" findings as useful data
-reviewing your progress, and getting out of the "dissertation dumps"
-defending your paper successfully-distinguishing between mere formalities and a serious substantive challenge
-exploiting the career potential of your dissertation
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Idea of a Universityby Frank M. Turner, John Henry Newman, George M. Marsden, Sara Castro-Klaren, Martha McMackin Garland, George P. LandowISBN 0300064047 (0-300-06404-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Idea of a Universityby George M. Marsden, Frank M. Turner, Sara Castro-Klaren, John Henry Newman, Martha McMackin Garland, George P. LandowISBN 0300064055 (0-300-06405-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idea of a University'Book summary:Since its publication almost 150 years ago, "The Idea of a higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised - the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and professional education, the character of the academic community, the cultural role of literature, the relation of religion and science - have provoked discussion from Newman's time to our own. This edition of "The Idea of a University" includes the full text of "University Teaching" and four selections from "University Subjects", together with five essays by leading scholars that explore the background and the present day relevance of Newman's themes. In the essays Martha Garland discusses the character and organization of the early 19th-century English universities upon which Newman based much of his vision; Frank M. Turner traces the impact of Newman's influence during the vast expansion of higher education since World War II; George Marsden investigates how the decreasing emphasis on religion has affected higher education; Sara Castro Klaren examines the implication of Newman's views on education and literature for current debates between proponents of a curriculum based on western civilization and one based on multiculturalism; and George Landow considers what the advent of electronic communication will mean to university teaching, research and community. To aid accessibility, the edition also includes an analytical table of contents, a chronology and biographical sketch of Newman's life, questions for discussion, expanded notes, and a glossary of names, all of which should help make this the standard teaching text of Newman's work. [via]
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The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated I. in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin. Ii. in Occasional Lectures and Essayby Newman, John Henry, CardinalISBN 0198118961 (0-19-811896-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin in Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of theby Martin J. Svaglic, John Henry NewmanISBN 0268011508 (0-268-01150-8)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin in Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the'Book summary:The Idea of a University is an eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman's] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none . . . Only one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high." from the Introduction by Martin J. Svaglic [via]
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The Idea of Indiaby Sunil KhilnaniISBN 0374525919 (0-374-52591-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idea of India'Book summary:The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of the recent revelations of its nuclear capabilities. Sunil Khilnani's exciting, timely study addresses the paradoxes and ironies of this, the world's largest democracy. Throughout his penetrating, provocative work, he illuminates this fundamental issue: Can the original idea of India survive its own successes?[via]More editions of The Idea of India:
Intuitionby Allegra GoodmanISBN 0385336101 (0-385-33610-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Musicby James JoyceISBN 051708239X (0-517-08239-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Music'Book summary:An eclectic volume of works by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century includes a short story collection, his most famous novel, and an early sequence of poems. [via]
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Just a Couple of Daysby Tony VigoritoISBN 0156031221 (0-15-603122-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just a Couple of Days'Book summary:You are invited to the party at the end of time...
An ambitious and exuberant antidote to the end-of-the-world blues, Just a Couple of Days has established itself as the underground classic of this generation. Hilarious, poignant, and delightfully subversive, this visionary satire of the apocalypse has been called "a Dr. Strangelove for the biotech century."
If words could dance, this is the story they would tell. [via]
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Less Than Angelsby Barbara PymISBN 0452268966 (0-452-26896-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Modern Literary Theory: A Readerby Philip Rice, Patricia WaughISBN 0340761911 (0-340-76191-1)
Softcover, Hodder Arnold
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Murther and Walking Spiritsby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140168842 (0-14-016884-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universitiesby Ellen W. SchreckerISBN 0195056639 (0-19-505663-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Old Schoolby Tobias WolffISBN 0375701494 (0-375-70149-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old School'Book summary:Tobias Wolff's Old School is at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art. Set in a New England prep school in the early 1960s, the novel imagines a final, pastoral moment before the explosion of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the suicide of Ernest Hemingway.
The unnamed narrator is one of several boys whose life revolves around the school's English teachers, those polymaths who seemed to know "exactly what was most worth knowing." For the boys, literature is the center of life, and their obsession culminates in a series of literary competitions during their final year. The prize in each is a private audience with a visiting writer who serves as judge for the entries.
At first, the narrator is entirely taken with the battle. As he fails in his effort to catch Robert Frost's attention and then is unable--due to illness--to even compete for his moment with Ayn Rand, he devotes his energies to a masterpiece for his hero, Hemingway. But, confronting the blank page, the narrator discovers his cowardice, his duplicity. He has withheld himself, he realizes, even from his roommate. He has used his fiction to create a patrician gentility, a mask for his middle class home and his Jewish ancestry. Through the competition for Hemingway, fittingly, all of his illusions about literature dissolve.
Old School is a small, neatly made book, spare and clear in its prose. Each chapter is self-contained and free of anything extraneous to the essentials of plot, mood, and character. Near the end of the novel, the narrator, now a respected writer, imagines that he might one day write about his school days. But he is daunted. "Memory," he says, "is a dream to begin with, and what I had was a dream of memory, not to be put to the test." Old School enters this interplay between dreams and the adult interrogation of memory. Risking sentimentality, Wolff confronts a golden age that never was. From the confrontation, he distills a powerful novel of failed expectations and, ultimately, redemptive self-awareness. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Oxfordby Jan MorrisISBN 0192820656 (0-19-282065-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford'Book summary:Jan Morris has given us an exploration the history, architecture, geography, and culture of Oxford. [via]
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The Oxford Book of Oxfordby Jan MorrisISBN 0192804073 (0-19-280407-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Parasites Like Usby Adam JohnsonISBN 0142004774 (0-14-200477-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Parasites Like Usby Lisa Berger, Adam JohnsonISBN 0670032409 (0-670-03240-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parasites Like Us'Book summary:In this groundbreaking and important book, Dr. Barry Gordon, one of the world's leading authorities on memory, and Lisa Berger offer a bold new synthesis of the two essential components of the human mind: intelligence and memory. Gordon and Berger argue that "intelligent memory" is the key to our ability to solve problems, learn from experience, associate, and innovate. As critical to the creation of works of genius as it is to navigating the complexities of daily life, intelligent memory is not an innate gift but a skill that we can learn, hone, and actually improve with age-no matter how old or absentminded we might be.
Gordon and Berger provide a concise, compelling overview of how intelligent memory functions in the brain as the "engine" for dynamic thought, enabling us to focus our attention, make connections, and store and retrieve information. Combining cutting-edge science with practical hands-on guidance and featuring daily exercises and self-administered tests, Intelligent Memory is an essential volume for readers of any age who want to sharpen and expand their intellectual powers. [via]More editions of Parasites Like Us:
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Poetic Justiceby Amanda CrossISBN 0449007030 (0-449-00703-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poetic Justice'Book summary:Student riots have ravaged the distinguished New York City university where Kate Fansler teaches. In the ensuing disarray, the survival of the university's plebeian stepchild, University College, seems doubtful. President Jeremiah Cudlipp is snobbishly determined to ax it; and as sycophantic professors fall in line behind him, the rally of Kate and few rebellious colleagues seems doomed. It is a fight to the death, and only a miracle--or perhaps a murder--can save their beloved institution. . . . [via]
The Pooh Perplex, a Freshman Casebook.by Frederick C. CrewsISBN 0226120589 (0-226-12058-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Porterhouse Blueby Tom SharpeISBN 0436458020 (0-436-45802-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Porterhouse Blue'Book summary:A reissue of a classic comic novel, presenting a Rabelaisian portrait of a college and the ancient traditions of the university, set in Porterhouse College, world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, and its academic mediocrity. [via]
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Chester G. AndersonISBN 0140155031 (0-14-015503-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom. James Joyce's highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce's book would "remain a permanent part of English literature, " while H.G. Wells dubbed it "by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing." A remarkably rich study of a developing young mind, "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" made an indelible mark on literature and confirmed Joyce's reputation as one of the world's greatest and lasting writers. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 0393926796 (0-393-92679-6)
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Softcover, Signet Classic - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 0486280500 (0-486-28050-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 0553214047 (0-553-21404-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 0312061706 (0-312-06170-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 0451525442 (0-451-52544-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 022461181X (0-224-61181-X)
Hardcover, Cape - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 0312089872 (0-312-08987-2)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 0586044752 (0-586-04475-2)
Hardcover, Triad - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: ISBN 0140155031 (0-14-015503-1)
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from contemporary Critical Perspectiveby James Joyce, R.B. KershnerISBN 0312408110 (0-312-40811-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from contemporary Critical Perspective'Book summary:This critical edition of Joyce's classic novel presents the 1964 text, corrected by Chester G. Anderson, along with critical essays that read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from contemporary psychoanalytic, feminist, cultural studies, and postcolonial perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. For the second edition, three of the five essays have been revised, and two new ones have been added. Also new is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.[via]More editions of A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from contemporary Critical Perspective:
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)by James Joyce, Christopher HansonISBN 0631978100 (0-631-97810-0)
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Quieter Than Sleepby Joanne DobsonISBN 0553576607 (0-553-57660-7)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 0375504907 (0-375-50490-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Road from Coorainby Jill Ker ConwayISBN 0394574567 (0-394-57456-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road from Coorain'Book summary:In A Memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood -- a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart.
She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents' thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a "man's job" of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. She loved (and makes us see and feel) the vast unpeopled landscape, beautiful and hostile, whose uncertain weathers tormented the sheep ranchers with conflicting promises of riches and inescapable disaster. She adored (and makes us know) her large-visioned father and her strong, radiant mother, who had gone willingly with him into a pioneering life of loneliness and bone-breaking toil, who seemed miraculously to succeed in creating a warmly sheltering home in the harsh outback, and who, upon her husband's sudden death when Jill was ten, began to slide -- bereft of the partnership of work and love that had so utterly fulfilled her -- into depression and dependency.
We see Jill, staggered by the loss of her father, catapulted to what seemed another planet -- the suburban Sydney of the 1950s and its crowded, noisy, cliquish school life. Then the heady excitement of the University, but with it a yet more demanding course of lessons -- Jill embracing new ideas, new possibilities, while at the same time trying to be mother to her mother and resenting it, escaping into drink, pulling herself back, striking a balance. We see her slowly gaining strength, coming into her own emotionally and intellectually -and beginning the joyous love affair that gave wings to her newfound self.
Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place -- or to a dream -- can at once liberate and imprison. It is a story of childhood as both Eden and anguish, and of growing up as a journey toward the difficult life of the free. [via]More editions of The Road from Coorain:
Staggerfordby Jon HasslerISBN 0345333756 (0-345-33375-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Sweet Death, Kind Deathby Amanda CrossISBN 0345467639 (0-345-46763-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The University: An Owner's Manualby Henry RosovskyISBN 0393307832 (0-393-30783-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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What's Bred in the Boneby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140097112 (0-14-009711-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Edward AlbeeISBN 0451158717 (0-451-15871-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Winning the Games Scientists Playby Carl J. SindermannISBN 0306410753 (0-306-41075-3)
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