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Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguisticsby Jean AitchisonISBN 0070007365 (0-07-000736-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola: With Related Documentsby IgnatiusISBN 0061391700 (0-06-139170-0)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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The Cartoon Guide to Geneticsby Larry Gonick, Mark WheelisISBN 0062730991 (0-06-273099-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cartoon Guide to Genetics'Book summary:Having trouble deciphering your genetic code? Do dominant genes make you feel recessive? Let reigning nonfiction cartoonist Larry Gonick and microbiologist Mark Wheelis ease your way through Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, and the basics of genetic engineering. Gonick's drawings range from a moderately detailed look at ribosomes in action to loony pictures of dancing scientists, talking peas, and opinionated fruit flies. Matthew Meselson, co-discoverer of the "one gene-one protein" principle, says, "it puts textbooks to shame"--and he's right. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Cat Among the Pigeonsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061002844 (0-06-100284-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Causes of the English Revolution: 1529-1642by Lawrence StoneISBN 0061316784 (0-06-131678-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Futureby Riane EislerISBN 0062502891 (0-06-250289-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future'Book summary:Some books are like revelations, they open the spirit to unimaginable possibilities. The Chalice and the Blade is one of those magnificent key books that can transform us and...initiate fundamental changes in the world. With the most passionate eloquence, Riane Eisler proves that the dream of peace is not an impossible utopia. -- Isabelle Allende, author of The House of the Spirits [via]
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Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousnessby Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth EwenISBN 0070198489 (0-07-019848-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Classical Mythology: Images and Insightsby Stephen L. Harris, Gloria PlatznerISBN 0072818492 (0-07-281849-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Creative Storytellingby Jack MaguireISBN 0070395128 (0-07-039512-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Artby James HallISBN 0064301001 (0-06-430100-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Doonesburyby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0070652945 (0-07-065294-5)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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Environmental Economics: An Introductionby Barry C. Field, Martha K. FieldISBN 0072429216 (0-07-242921-6)
Softcover, Irwin Professional Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Environmental Economics: An Introduction'Book summary:Barry Fields Environmental Economics, 3e, examines all the facets of the connection between environmental quality and the economic behavior of individuals and groups of people. The book contains 21 chapters covering Cost and Benefits of Environmental Policy, Environmental Analysis, Policy Analysis, US Policy (Air Pollution, Toxic Wastes, State and Local Issues), and International Environmental Issues. Barry Fields other text with McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Natural Resource Economics (©2001), may be packaged with Environmental Economics, 3e, at a discount. [via]
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Environmental Policy and Politics: Toward the Twenty-First Centuryby Michael E. KraftISBN 0065012062 (0-06-501206-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Equal Ritesby Terry PratchettISBN 0061020699 (0-06-102069-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Rites'Book summary:Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...
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The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and Other Essaysby Hugh Redwald Trevor-RoperISBN 0061314161 (0-06-131416-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Experiencing the Worlds Religions: Tradition Challenge and Changeby Michael MolloyISBN 0072835060 (0-07-283506-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Feminist Theory: A Readerby Frances Bartkowski, Wendy K. KolmarISBN 007282672X (0-07-282672-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Film Encyclopediaby Ephraim KatzISBN 0062730894 (0-06-273089-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film Encyclopedia'Book summary:When I reviewed the second, 1994 edition of The Film Encyclopedia, I called it the basic reference guide to international cinema. Most film encyclopedias are hybrid works, compromised by an editorial staff that must make compromises to satisfy competing sensibilities. The Film Encyclopedia was written by a single individual, editor Ephraim Katz, and his personality and charm, his vast knowledge and love of cinema shone through every entry. Alas, Katz died in the early nineties, but this third edition, which retains most of his original prose, remains true to his vision. It thus holds on to its exalted place in the vast universe of movie reference guides, even as its new editors have updated the relevant entries through the end of 1997.
Well-written, user-friendly, and bursting with essential data, famous stories, and terrific trivia, this book is the most intelligent and accessible film companion available, a must for every movie lover. Its chief assets are its in-depth entries on actors, directors, writers, cinematographers, composers, and editors, which come complete with date and place of birth as well as an extensive filmography. You can also read the cinematic history of every major film-producing country; look up technical terms like "boom," "dolly," and "Steadicam"; and find the meaning of those illusive phrases that appear so often in movie credits, assignations like "gaffer," "key grip," and "best boy." Whatever the extent of your movie knowledge, whether you're a burgeoning cineaste or a long-time expert, you'll find yourself turning to this superb volume again and again. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volumeby Ephraim Katz, Fred Klein, Ronald Dean NolenISBN 0062737554 (0-06-273755-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume'Book summary:This is the basic reference guide to the international cinema. Put it next to your TV and VCR and you'll be able to answer the questions that inevitably arise when you watch a movie: "What other films has she been in?"; "Haven't I heard that director's name before?"; and "What in tarnation is a gaffer?" The Film Encyclopedia contains biographies and filmographies of actors, directors, producers, and cinematographers, as well as screenwriters, editors, musical directors, production designers, and critics. You can look up films by nationality and find a history of a given country's contribution to the art. Technical data is also indexed, so you can read not only about film stock and the apparatus of the camera, but also about the duties of the gaffer, the key grip, and the best boy. The book's introduction states that Ephraim Katz, who died in 1992, set out to write "the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia of world cinema ever published in the English language." The Film Encyclopedia contains more information than any other single-volume film reference and is also the best written movie guide of its kind. Because most of the entries were written by Katz himself, reading this book is like talking to a witty and learned film historian who has devoted his life to understanding--and loving--the cinema. [via]
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Film History: An Introductionby Kristin Thompson, David BordwellISBN 0070384290 (0-07-038429-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film History: An Introduction'Book summary:Written by two of the leading film scholars, Film History: An Introduction, is the long-awaited, comprehensive survey that not only acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other U.S. sources, but broadens its scope to examine filmmaking internationally. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art, Fifth Edition, concepts and events are illustrated with actual frame enlargements, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that use publicity stills. Any serious film scholar -- professor, undergraduate, or graduate student -- will want to see and keep Film History. [via]
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Film Viewer's Guideby BordwellISBN 0072388242 (0-07-238824-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film Viewer's Guide'Book summary:Packaged free with each copy of Film Art, this new guide by David Bordwell explains how to analyze and write about films. [via]
Financial Markets and Corporate Strategyby Mark Grinblatt, Sheridan TitmanISBN 0072294337 (0-07-229433-7)
Hardcover, Irwin Professional Pub
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 0061245135 (0-06-124513-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'Book summary:Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
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Freakonomics Intl Pb: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 0061131326 (0-06-113132-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articlesby George EconomouISBN 0070189684 (0-07-018968-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don'tby James C. CollinsISBN 0066620996 (0-06-662099-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't'Book summary:Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Fannie Mae, Gillette, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success. Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management, or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. Peppered with dozens of stories and examples from the great and not so great, the book offers a well-reasoned road map to excellence that any organization would do well to consider. Like Built to Last, Good to Great is one of those books that managers and CEOs will be reading and rereading for years to come. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the World ofby Ian Philip McGrealISBN 0062700855 (0-06-270085-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haikuby Penny Harter, William J. HigginsonISBN 0070287864 (0-07-028786-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Handbook Of Fixed Income Securitiesby Frank J. Fabozzi, Steven V. MannISBN 0071440992 (0-07-144099-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handbook Of Fixed Income Securities'Book summary:For nearly two decades, individual and institutional investors have relied on The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities as the worlds leading reference for fixed income information. This new edition continues to define the field, while broadening its focus with new chapters on derivatives, a greater focus on structured finance and international markets, and more emphasis on applied material for todays time-pressed practitioner. Influential editor Frank J. Fabozzi and todays top fixed income authorities address the latest developments, financial instruments, and portfolio strategies. Money managers and institutional investors will turn to this thoroughly revised edition for: " Strategies for managing corporate bond portfolios " Expanded coverage on asset backed securities " Techniques for hedging risk in emerging markets [via]
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Hickory Dickory Dockby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003727 (0-06-100372-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hickory Dickory Dock'Book summary:When Miss Lemon, his tried-and-true secretary, presents him with an error-ridden letter, Hercule Poirot senses that something is seriously wrong. Reprint. [via]
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Html & Xhtml: The Complete Referenceby Thomas A. PowellISBN 0072129514 (0-07-212951-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Html & Xhtml: The Complete Reference'Book summary:Most HTML books don't bother to give beginners an introduction to the workings of the World Wide Web because the Web doesn't directly influence writing HTML documents. Powell provides this information because it eventually makes it easier for readers to understand why their HTML Web sites behave as they do. The result is a book well suited to beginning, intermediate, and advanced readers. Beginners learn HTML from the very basics. Intermediate users will gain the knowledge to become advanced, and even old pros will discover new details and updated information.
Powell begins the book with introductory chapters that discuss HTML and Web background and set the limits of what HTML coding alone can accomplish. From there he moves into lessons in basic HTML and progresses chapter by chapter to such high-end topics as advanced layout techniques, how to standardize Web-page presentation among browsers with style sheets, programmed Web pages, and client-side scripting and programming. The six appendices finish the book with a wealth of easy-to-use quick-reference information. --Elizabeth Lewis [via]
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Html the Complete Referenceby Thomas A. PowellISBN 0072119772 (0-07-211977-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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An Introduction to Data Structures With Applicationsby Jean-Paul Tremblay, P. G. SorensonISBN 0070651507 (0-07-065150-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Data Structures With Applications'Book summary:This book is an outgrowth of notes used in a two-semester course given at the University of Saskatchewan which introduced the student to concepts and terminology used in later courses. Chapter topics include a discussion of the nature of information; string manipulation; linear data structures such as arrays, stacks, queues, etc.; storage representation of linear data structures based on linked storage allocation; description of nonlinear structures and their sequential and linked representations in storage; internal searching and sorting techniques; and a comprehensive description of external files. [via]
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An Introduction to Data Structures With Applicationsby Paul G. Sorenson, Jean-Paul Tremblay, P. G. SorensonISBN 0070651574 (0-07-065157-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Katastropheby Randall BoyllISBN 0061097500 (0-06-109750-0)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Kontakte: A Communicative Approachby Tracy D. TerrellISBN 0070646449 (0-07-064644-9)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kontakte: A Communicative Approach'Book summary:This best-selling German text is based on the Natural Approach, pioneered by Tracy D. Terrell. Students learn German through communicative contexts with an emphasis on the four skills and cultural competence, with grammar functioning as an aid to language learning and not an end in itself. In the Natural Approach, students develop language in stages, with the comprehension stage preceding the production stage. For that reason, Kontakte focuses first on the receptive skills (listening and reading) before asking students to produce the language (speaking and writing). [via]
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Kontakte: A Communicative Approachby Brigitte Nikolai, Tracy D. Terrell, Erwin P. TschirnerISBN 0072309687 (0-07-230968-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Last Continentby Terry PratchettISBN 0061059072 (0-06-105907-2)
Softcover, Harper Prism
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Continent'Book summary:Something is seriously amiss at Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning.
A professor is missing--and not just any professor. The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography. Also the University Librarian, who transmuted (you know how things change!) into an ape (a handy configuration for a librarian, don't you think?) so long ago that no one exactly remembers his name, least of all himself.
But fear not, the search is on! The Lecturer in Recent Runes and the Chair of Indefinite Studies, as well as the Dean and the Archchancellor, will follow the trail wherever it leads--even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction.
Imagine a magical land as bald as a baby's bottom, where there are no trees; where rain is but a myth; where there are precious few animals (and few of them precious). You have just imagined Fourecks (EcksEcksEcksEcks) where even the ordinary is strange (the four legged duck, for example,) as though evolution is being hurried up with the intention of sorting things out as soon as possible.
Experience the terror as the University's bold would-be rescuers encounter the cowardly Wizard Rincewind, a Mad Dwarf armed with a crossbow, Death, Death of Rats, and even a Creator or two.
Feel the passion as the bizarre denizens of the Last Continent learn what happens when rain falls out of the sky and rivers actually fill with water. (It utterly spoils regattas, for one thing.)
Thrill to the promise of next year's regatta, in remote, rustic Didjabringabeeralong. It'll be absolutely gujeroo. [via]
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Lords and Ladiesby Terry PratchettISBN 0061056928 (0-06-105692-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lords and Ladies'Book summary:Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel reveals our true character and nature.
It's a dreamy midsummer's night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren't the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won't be only champagne that's flowing through the streets ...
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Medieval Europe: A Short Historyby C. Warren HollisterISBN 0070297290 (0-07-029729-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Medieval Peopleby Eileen PowerISBN 0064806944 (0-06-480694-4)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Lessby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0061007358 (0-06-100735-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Principles of Neural Scienceby KandelISBN 0071390111 (0-07-139011-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Principles of Neural Science'Book summary:Now updated: the definitive neuroscience resourcefrom Eric R. Kandel, MD (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2000); James H. Schwartz, MD, PhD; Thomas M. Jessell, PhD; Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD; and A. J. Hudspeth, PhD
900 full-color illustrations
Deciphering the link between the human brain and behavior has always been one of the most intriguingand often challengingaspects of scientific endeavor. The sequencing of the human genome, and advances in molecular biology, have illuminated the pathogenesis of many neurological diseases and have propelled our knowledge of how the brain controls behavior.
To grasp the wider implications of these developments and gain a fundamental understanding of this dynamic, fast-moving field, Principles of Neuroscience stands alone as the most authoritative and indispensible resource of its kind.
In this classic text, prominent researchers in the field expertly survey the entire spectrum of neural science, giving an up-to-date, unparalleled view of the discipline for anyone who studies brain and mind. Here, in one remarkable volume, is the current state of neural science knowledgeranging from molecules and cells, to anatomic structures and systems, to the senses and cognitive functionsall supported by more than 900 precise, full-color illustrations. In addition to clarifying complex topics, the book also benefits from a cohesive organization, beginning with an insightful overview of the interrelationships between the brain, nervous system, genes, and behavior. Principles of Neural Science then proceeds with an in-depth examination of the molecular and cellular biology of nerve cells, synaptic transmission, and the neural basis of cognition. The remaining sections illuminate how cells, molecules, and systems give us sight, hearing, touch, movement, thought, learning, memories, and emotions.
The new fifth edition of Principles of Neural Science is thoroughly updated to reflect the tremendous amount of research, and the very latest clinical perspectives, that have significantly transformed the field within the last decade.
Ultimately, Principles of Neural Science affirms that all behavior is an expression of neural activity, and that the future of clinical neurology and psychiatry hinges on the progress of neural science. Far exceeding the scope and scholarship of similar texts, this unmatched guide offers a commanding, scientifically rigorous perspective on the molecular mechanisms of neural function and diseaseone that youll continually rely on to advance your comprehension of brain, mind, and behavior.
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- The cornerstone reference in the field of neuroscience that explains how the nerves, brain, and mind function
- Clear emphasis on how behavior can be examined through the electrical activity of both individual neurons and systems of nerve cells
- Current focus on molecular biology as a tool for probing the pathogenesis of many neurological diseases, including muscular dystrophy, Huntington disease, and certain forms of Alzheimers disease
- More than 900 engaging full-color illustrationsincluding line drawings, radiographs, micrographs, and medical photographs clarify often-complex neuroscience concepts
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- Helpful appendices highlight basic circuit theory; the neurological examination of the patient; circulation of the brain; the blood-brain barrier, choroid plexus, and cerebrospinal fluid; neural networks; and theoretical approaches to neuroscience/ul> [via]
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Reaper Manby Terry PratchettISBN 0061020621 (0-06-102062-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Renaissance and Renascences in Western Artby Erwin PanofskyISBN 0064300269 (0-06-430026-9)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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Renaissance Thoughtby Oscar KristellerISBN 0061310484 (0-06-131048-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Billy Aronson, Lars Hokanson, Frances Cichetti, Kathryn YinglingISBN 0061064157 (0-06-106415-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Logicby Dennis Rohatyn, John NoltISBN 0070536287 (0-07-053628-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Irelandby Mary CondrenISBN 0062501569 (0-06-250156-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion, and Power in Celtic Ireland'Book summary:Using Ireland as a case study, this book provides an account of the decline of matriarchal power in Western civilizations and analyzes its implications for today's women and today's Catholic Church. From the age of Eve to the age of Brigit to the age of Mary, the author traces the rise of patriarchial consciousness. Mary Condren is a former editor of Student Christian Movement Publications and the author of articles on men written for feminist liberation theory. The author has taught in the Women in Religion Program at Harvard University. [via]
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Shaums Outlines of Theory and Problems of Biologyby George Fried, George J. HademenosISBN 0070224056 (0-07-022405-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.
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Social Cognitionby Susan T. Fiske, Shelley E. TaylorISBN 0070211914 (0-07-021191-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Social Cognition'Book summary:This is a revision of a market leader in social cognition written by two well-known and respected authors. The text is designed to provide a critical overview of the theories and methods in the newly emerging field of social cognition. The major theme of the book is that normal cognitive processes account for much of how people understand themselves and others. In basic research, social cognition theories of attribution, psychological control, social schemata, attention, person memory, and social inference have become central to the field. In a recent poll, social psychologists predicted that topics within a cognitive approach would be the most popular research area in the coming decade. [via]
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Social Psychologyby David MyersISBN 0070442738 (0-07-044273-8)
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Sourceryby Terry PratchettISBN 0061020672 (0-06-102067-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sourcery'Book summary:Sourcery, a hilarious mix of magic, mayhem, and Luggage, is the fifth book in Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy Discworld series.
Rincewind, the legendarily inept wizard, has returned after falling off the edge of the world. And this time, hes brought the Luggage. But thats not all& Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasnt complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son a wizard squared (thats all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic a sourcerer.
Will the sourcerer lead the wizards to dominate all of Discworld? Or can Rincewinds tiny band stave off the Apocalypse?
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Statistical Analysis in Psychology and Educationby George A. FergusonISBN 0070204829 (0-07-020482-9)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Taking Sidesby James Wm NollISBN 0072410337 (0-07-241033-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Teach Yourself 101 Key Ideas Literatureby Brenda DownesISBN 0071396683 (0-07-139668-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Teach Yourself Film Studiesby Warren BucklandISBN 0071419616 (0-07-141961-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Teach Yourself Latinby Gavin BettsISBN 0071421599 (0-07-142159-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teach Yourself Latin'Book summary:Learn Latin with little effort!
You can use Teach Yourself Latin to learn the language at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. It is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston, Gates, Henry Louis (AFT), Edwidge DanticatISBN 0061120065 (0-06-112006-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'Book summary:At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]
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They Do It With Mirrorsby Agatha ChristieISBN 006100376X (0-06-100376-X)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty Smith, Anna QuindlenISBN 0061120073 (0-06-112007-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'Book summary:Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0070454361 (0-07-045436-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man'Book summary:Though he was once proclaimed "the oracle of the electronic age," perhaps the world was not quite ready for Marshall McLuhan when he came to prominence in the 1960s. With the advent of digital technology, the Internet, and the global economy, however, there can be little doubt that he is relevant now. Understanding Media is one of McLuhan's most popular books, offering some of his more pungent and provocative insights on our need to adapt from a relatively slow, fragmented mechanical age to a high-speed, highly integrated electronic one. McLuhan's formidable intelligence and imagination make it both enlightening and fun to read. Northrop Frye, McLuhan's colleague at the University of Toronto, once identified "the use of paradox and the pretence of naïveté" as the two primary tactics of teaching. From his own bag of tricks McLuhan adds obscurity ("Our world has become compressional by dramatic reversal"); hyperbole ("We have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time"); tautology ("TV is environmental and imperceptible, like all environments"); and the occasional dash of absurdist whimsy ("As extension of man the chair is a specialist ablation of the posterior, a sort of ablative absolute of backside, whereas the couch extends the integral being"). McLuhan also has a flare for the catchy phrase, and in Understanding Media the reader will find his famous dictum "the medium is the message" as well as the distinction between "hot" and "cool" media discussed at length.
After setting forth a few general principles, Understanding Media conjures a fly's-eye view of late-20th-century culture, with short sections on writing, speech, comics, telephones, television, money, movies, weapons, and much more. And while the discussion is rippling with uncanny, sometimes visionary, insight, its author remains an earnest humanist at heart. "The aspiration of our time for wholeness, empathy and depth of awareness," McLuhan says, "is a natural adjunct of electronic technology.& There is a deep faith to be found in this new attitude." --Russell Prather [via]
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Web Design: The Complete Referenceby Thomas A. PowellISBN 0072122978 (0-07-212297-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetryby John Frederick NimsISBN 0070465746 (0-07-046574-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Wheelock's Latinby Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LafleurISBN 0064671798 (0-06-467179-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wheelock's Latin'Book summary:The classic single-volume introductory Latin textbook, revised and updated for today's students. [via]
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Wheelock's Latin Grammarby Frederic M. WheelockISBN 0064671445 (0-06-467144-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wheelock's Latin Grammar'Book summary:Inclodes: Introduction, the postition of the Latin Language in linguistic history, a brief survey of Latin literature, the alphabet & pronunciation, 40 chapter lessons, loci antiqui, loci immutati, self-tutorial exercises, etymological aids, supplementary syntax, & summary of forms. This classical book on Latin gramar also includes exercises with anser jeys, English-Latin/Latin-English dictionary, original Latin texts, & full index. [via]
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Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0072435194 (0-07-243519-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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World Religions: 03/04by Ramdas LambISBN 0072548681 (0-07-254868-1)
Softcover, Dushkin Pub Group
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