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Affirmative Acts: Political Essaysby June JordanISBN 0385492251 (0-385-49225-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Alphabet Treeby Leo LionniISBN 0394810163 (0-394-81016-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alphabet Tree'Book summary:When a fierce wind threatens to blow all the little letters out of the alphabet tree, they must band together in wordsand then sentencesto create a message thats even stronger than the wind: peace on earth. With their newfound knowledge, there's nothing the letters can't do in this gentle parable about the power of the written word. [via]
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An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Usby James CarrollISBN 039585993X (0-395-85993-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Anatomy of Revolutionby Clarence Crane BrintonISBN 0394700449 (0-394-70044-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Revolution'Book summary:A comparative history of the English, American, French and Russian revolutions. Bibliographical appendix, index. [via]
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Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversationsby Adrienne RichISBN 0393323129 (0-393-32312-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations'Book summary:These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others.
"I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes, arrogance, and despair," Adrienne Rich writes.
The essays in Arts of the Possible search for possibilities beyond a compromised, degraded system, seeking to imagine something else. They call on the fluidity of the imagination, from poetic vision to social justice, from the badlands of political demoralization to an art that might wound, that may open scars when engaged in its work, but will finally suture and not tear apart.
This volume collects Rich's essays from the last decade of the twentieth century, including four earlier essays, as well as several conversations that go further than the usual interview. Also included is her essay explaining her reasons for declining the National Medal for the Arts. [via]More editions of Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations:
Audubon Ark: A History of the National Audubon Societyby Frank GrahamISBN 0394581644 (0-394-58164-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenceby David J. GarrowISBN 0394756231 (0-394-75623-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Chokeby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0385720920 (0-385-72092-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Choke'Book summary:We can more or less deduce the following of the main protagonist in Choke; Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a medical school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzehimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.
"Art never comes from happiness" says Mancini's mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son's life would be chock full of nothing but art. Alas, that's not the case--in the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn't quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he's trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he's settling for the Heimlich.
Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palanhiuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot but suffice to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction, a little bit of Don DeLillo's The Day Room and, well, a little bit of Fight Club. Just as with that book and the other two novels under Palahniuk's belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, such as this sceptical slight on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around."
Whether this is the novel that will break Palanhiuk into the mainstream is hard to say. For a fourth book, in fact, the ratio of iffy, "dude"-intensive dialogue to interesting and insightful passages is a little higher than we might wish. In the end though, the author's nerve and daring pull the whole thing off--just. And what's next for Victor Mancini's creator? Leave the last word to him, declaring as he does on the final pages: "Maybe it's our job to invent something better ... What it's going to be, I don't know." --Bob Michaels, Amazon.com [via]
Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise, and Sustainable Developmentby Alan IrwinISBN 0415130107 (0-415-13010-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalismby Richard SennettISBN 0393319873 (0-393-31987-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism'Book summary:In the brave new world of the "flexible" corporation, Richard Sennett observes, workers at all levels are regarded as wholly disposable, and they have responded in kind, ceasing to think in terms of any long-term relationship with the organizations they work for. This, he argues, has tremendous negative consequences for workers' emotional and psychological well-being. Even in menial jobs, we extract much of our self-image from the idea of a "career"--a life narrative rendered intelligible by specific loyalties, which is to some degree self-invented but also in some respects predictable. Innovations like "flextime" and bureaucratic "de-layering" seem to promise more freedom to define one's career, but in fact they create jobs in which there's less freedom than ever to be had. The Corrosion of Character is a short, anecdotal book, and while one might wish that it included a discussion of the social and psychological costs of the sheer increase of work time in the average worker's week, Sennett has created a pithy, disturbing picture of the cost of the corporate world's much-vaunted new efficiencies. --Richard Farr [via]
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The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotionby Stephen L. CarterISBN 0385474989 (0-385-47498-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion'Book summary:The Culture Of Disbelief has been the subject of an enormous amount of media attention from the first moment it was published. Hugely successful in hardcover, the Anchor paperback is sure to find a large audience as the ever-increasing, enduring debate about the relationship of church and state in America continues. In The Culture Of Disbelief , Stephen Carter explains how we can preserve the vital separation of church and state while embracing rather than trivializing the faith of millions of citizens or treating religious believers with disdain. What makes Carter's work so intriguing is that he uses liberal means to arrive at what are often considered conservative ends. Explaining how preserving a special role for religious communities can strengthen our democracy, The Culture Of Disbelief recovers the long tradition of liberal religious witness (for example, the antislavery, antisegregation, and Vietnam-era antiwar movements). Carter argues that the problem with the 1992 Republican convention was not the fact of open religious advocacy, but the political positions being advocated. [via]
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Defending Pornography : Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women's Rightsby Nadine StrossenISBN 038548173X (0-385-48173-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdalaby Václav Havel, Paul WilsonISBN 0394584414 (0-394-58441-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala'Book summary:On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, Vaclav Havel looks back on his life in the theatre, the literary politics of his early years and the stagnation that followed the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Havel also discusses his part in his country's struggle to restore morality and civic responsibility to public life and the price he has paid for this. Havel spent several years in prison, faced constant harassment by the police, and had his plays banned. Despite this, the account is lacking in bitterness. Czechoslovakia's leading playwright emerges as a man of profound moral conviction and clarity, a master of "absurd theatre" who, paradoxically, was in 1989 elected president of his country. [via]
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spiritby Al GoreISBN 0395578213 (0-395-57821-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit'Book summary:What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote:
I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environment crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude that I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take more political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments.
And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.
When Earth in the Balance first came out, it caused quite a stir--and for good reason. It convincingly makes the case that a crisis of epidemic proportions is nearly upon us and that if the world doesn't get its act together soon and agree to some kind of "Global Marshall Plan" to protect the environment, we're all up a polluted creek without a paddle. Myriad plagues are upon us, but the worst include the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of the ozone layer, the slash-and-burn destruction of rainforests, and the onset of global warming. None of this is new, of course, nor was it new in 1992. But most environmentalists will still get a giddy feeling reading such a call to action as written by a prominent politician.
The book is arranged into three sections: the first describes the plagues; the second looks at how we got ourselves into this mess; and the final chapters present ways out. Gore gets his points across in a serviceable way, though he could have benefited from a firmer editor's hand; at times the analogies are arcane and the pacing is odd--kind of like a Gore speech that climaxes at weird points and then sinks just as the audience is about to clap. Still, at the end you understand what's been said. Gore believes that if we apply some American ingenuity, the twin engines of democracy and capitalism can be rigged to help us stabilize world population growth, spread social justice, boost education levels, create environmentally appropriate technologies, and negotiate international agreements to bring us back from the brink. For example, a worldwide shift to clean, renewable energy sources would create huge economic opportunities for companies large and small to design, build, and maintain solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other ecofriendly innovations.
Gore doesn't mince words when describing just how hard it will be to get out of this jam. Real hope is contingent on a swelling up of concern among the public--and fast. A year into the vice presidency, in an interview with writer Bill McKibben, Gore paraphrased a key passage in his book, "The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible." Ah, a political out. Some readers will ask of Gore: what has he done since publishing his book to advance the political feasibility of decisive environmental action? --Chip Giller [via]
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The Fall of Public Manby Richard SennettISBN 0393308790 (0-393-30879-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Feminism: The Essential Historical Writingsby Miriam SchneirISBN 0394717384 (0-394-71738-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Feminist Revolutionby RedstockingsISBN 0394732405 (0-394-73240-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fight Clubby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0393327345 (0-393-32734-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fight Club'Book summary:The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard's characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk's yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let's just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon.
But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn't happy unless he's first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it's about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club's protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you'll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you're not likely to forget the book's author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels [via]
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Frederick Douglassby William S. McFeelyISBN 039331376X (0-393-31376-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frederick Douglass'Book summary:A former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer, and revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Douglass was a towering figure, at once consumately charismatic and flawed. In this biography, fresh and incisive in its research and interpretation, Freeley captures the many sides of this great and complex American, and recreates the high drama of a turbulent era. [via]
Free Schoolsby Jonathan KozolISBN 0395136067 (0-395-13606-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Future of Freedomby Fareed ZakariaISBN 0393324877 (0-393-32487-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Freedom'Book summary:A work of tremendous originality and insight. ... Makes you see the world differently. Washington Post
A modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essential reading for anyone worried about the promotion and preservation of liberty." Hailed by the New York Times as "brave and ambitious...updated Tocqueville," it enjoyed extended stays on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller lists and has been translated into eighteen languages. Prescient in laying out the distinction between democracy and liberty, the book now contains a new afterword on the United States's occupation of Iraq."Intensely provocative and valuable," according to BusinessWeek, with an easy command of history, philosophy, and current affairs, The Future of Freedom calls for a restoration of the balance between liberty and democracy and shows how politics and government can be made effective and relevant for our time.
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Globalization and Its Discontentsby Joseph E. StiglitzISBN 0393324397 (0-393-32439-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Globalization and Its Discontents'Book summary:Due to massive media coverage, many people are familiar with the controversy and organized resistance that globalization has generated around the world, yet explaining what globalization actually means in practice is a complicated task. For those wanting to learn more, this book is an excellent place to start. An experienced economist, Joseph Stiglitz had a brilliant career in academia before serving for four years on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors and then three years as chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. His book clearly explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization--the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization--along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. He strongly believes that globalization can be a positive force around the world, particularly for the poor, but only if the IMF, World Bank, and WTO dramatically alter the way they operate, beginning with increased transparency and a greater willingness to examine their own actions closely. Of his time at the World Bank, he writes, "Decisions were made on the basis of what seemed a curious blend of ideology and bad economics, dogma that sometimes seemed to be thinly veiling special interests.... Open, frank discussion was discouraged--there was no room for it." The book is not entirely critical, however: "Those who vilify globalization too often overlook its benefits," Stiglitz writes, explaining how globalization, along with foreign aid, has improved the living standards of millions around the world. With this clear and balanced book, Stiglitz has contributed significantly to the debate on this important topic. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Grant: A Biographyby William S. McFeelyISBN 0393323943 (0-393-32394-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography." Justin Kaplan, The New Republic Illustrations [via] 
The Hidden Injuries of Classby Richard Sennett, Jonathan CobbISBN 039331085X (0-393-31085-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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How Much Is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earthby Alan DurningISBN 039330891X (0-393-30891-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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It discusses the use of resources, pollution, and the distortions created in the economies of both wealthy industrialized nations and Third World countries. [via]More editions of How Much Is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth:
In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forest and the New Tyranny of Ecologyby Alston ChaseISBN 0395608376 (0-395-60837-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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In Another Place, Not Hereby Dionne BrandISBN 0394281586 (0-394-28158-6)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
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Issues in Feminism: A First Course in Women's Studiesby Sheila RuthISBN 0395286913 (0-395-28691-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United Statesby Seymour M. Lipset, Gary Wolfe MarksISBN 0393040984 (0-393-04098-4)
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The Jungleby Upton Beall Sinclair, Clare Virginia EbyISBN 039397779X (0-393-97779-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:The Jungle's influence has been extraordinary for a literary work. Upton Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is widely credited with awakening the public fury that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation.
This story of the immigrant experience in the harrowing Chicago stockyards has drawn comment from historians, policymakers, and literary critics, and it is a widely assigned teaching text. The novel is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations.
"Contexts and Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of The Jungle's disparate social, historical, political, and literary dimensions. Included are autobiographical selections by the author; contemporary perspectives on the meatpacking industry, including writings by Theodore Dreiser, Adolphe Smith, and J. Ogden Armour; and commentary on the living conditions of immigrant workers. Historical studies by Jimmy Skaggs, Rick Halpern, James Barrett, Robert M. Crunden, John Braeman, William Cronon, and Eric Schlosser address the central issues: slaughterhouse abuses, protectionism and The Beef Trust, muckraking, Progressivism, and consumer rights.
"Criticism" collects eight provocative readings of The Jungle as a literary text, as a historical document in its own right, as a contribution to Progressive-era muckraking, and as an important work in urban, economic, and labor history. Contributions include Jack London, Edward Clark Marsh, Winston Spencer Churchill, Walter Rideout, June Howard, Scott Derrick, Michael Brewster Folsom, and Christopher P. Wilson.
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Kids on Strikeby Susan Campbell BartolettiISBN 0395888921 (0-395-88892-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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King Leopold's Ghost : A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africaby Adam HochschildISBN 0395759242 (0-395-75924-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
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Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Prattby Jack OlsenISBN 0385493681 (0-385-49368-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Lifeby Sissela BokISBN 0394413709 (0-394-41370-9)
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statementsby George Breitman, Malcolm XISBN 0394171144 (0-394-17114-4)
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A Map to the Next Worldby Joy HarjoISBN 0393320960 (0-393-32096-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from Americas brutal history into a poetic whole. [via] -
Middlemarchby George Eliot, Bert G. HornbackISBN 0393974529 (0-393-97452-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, . Her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 187172 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 183032. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (187172), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. [via]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticismby Frederick Douglass, William L. Andrews, William S. McFeelyISBN 0393969665 (0-393-96966-5)
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In addition to its far-reaching impact on the antislavery movement in the United States and abroad, Douglasss fugitive slave narrative won recognition for its literary excellence, which has since earned it a place among the classics of nineteenth-century American autobiography. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the 1845 first edition of Douglasss compelling work. Explanatory annotations accompany the text.
A rich selection of "Contexts" provides the reader with contemporary perspectives. Included are the little-known preface that Douglass wrote in 1846 for the second Irish edition; a public exchange of letters between A. C. C. Thompson, a former slaveholder, and Douglass; three autobiographical portraits of Douglass's parents; Douglasss account of his escape from slavery, which he chose not to include in the 1845 Narrative; samples of Douglasss use of his slave experience in two of his most influential antislavery speeches; and reminiscences by James Monroe Gregory and Elizabeth Cady Stanton of Douglass as both orator and friend.
"Criticism" collects six essential assessments of the Narratives historical and literary aspects, by William S. McFeely, Peter Ripley, Robert B. Stepto, William L. Andrews, Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Deborah E. McDowell. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included. [via]More editions of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism:
The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual As a Social Typeby Christopher LaschISBN 0393316963 (0-393-31696-3)
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Of Love and Shadowsby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0394549627 (0-394-54962-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Love and Shadows'Book summary:Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk.
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracyby Thomas FrankISBN 0385495048 (0-385-49504-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'Book summary:After nearly a decade of bull markets, Americans have come to equate free markets with democracy. Never one for mincing words, social critic Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler and author of The Conquest of Cool, challenges this myth. With his acerbic wit and contempt for sophistry, he declares the New Economy a fraud. Frank scours business literature, management theory, and marketing and advertising to expose the elaborate fantasies that have inoculated business against opposition. This public relations campaign joins an almost mystical belief in markets, a contempt for government in any form, and an "ecstatic" confusion of markets with democracy. Frank traces the roots of this movement from the 1920s, and sees its culmination in market populism as a fusion of the rebellious '60s with the greedy '80s. The overarching irony is the swapping of roles--suddenly Wall Street is no longer full of stodgy moneygrubbers, but cool entrepreneurs "leaping on their trampolines, typing out a few last lines on the laptop before paragliding, riding their bicycles to work, listening to Steppenwolf while they traded." Meanwhile, "Americans traded their long tradition of electoral democracy for the democracy of the supermarket, where all brands are created equal and endowed by their creators with all sorts of extremeness and diversity." Frank's close reading of the salesmen of market populism nails such financial gurus as George Gilder, Joseph Nocera, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas Friedman. Their writings, he contends, have served to make "the world safe for billionaires" by winning the cultural and political battle--legitimizing the corporate culture and its demands for privatization, deregulation, and non-interference. Frank's incisive prose verges on brilliant at times, though his yen for repetition can be exasperating. In either case, his boisterous reminder that markets are fundamentally not democracies is worth repeating as the level of wealth polarization in America reaches heights not seen since the 1920s. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Part of My Soul Went With Himby Winnie MandelaISBN 0393302903 (0-393-30290-3)
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Peers, Queers, and Commons: The Struggle for Gay Law Reform from 1950 to the Presentby Stephen Jeffrey-PoulterISBN 0415057604 (0-415-05760-4)
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The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Homeby Melissa Holbrook PiersonISBN 0393329283 (0-393-32928-3)
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Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activismby Mady Schutzman, Jan Cohen-CruzISBN 0415086086 (0-415-08608-6)
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The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critiqueby David KairysISBN 0394711106 (0-394-71110-6)
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Promising the Earthby Robert LambISBN 0415144442 (0-415-14444-2)
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A Question of Choiceby Sarah WeddingtonISBN 0399137904 (0-399-13790-4)
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Radical Street Performance: An International Anthologyby Jan Cohen-CruzISBN 0415152313 (0-415-15231-3)
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The Radical Tradition: Revolutionary Saints in the Battle for Justice and Human Rightsby Gilbert MarkusISBN 0385471823 (0-385-47182-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Rainbow of Desire: The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapyby Augusto Boal, Adrian JacksonISBN 0415103495 (0-415-10349-5)
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Reinventing the Enemy's Languageby Gloria Bird, Joy Harjo, Beth Cuthand, Valerie Martinez, Patricia BlancoISBN 0393040291 (0-393-04029-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reinventing the Enemy's Language'Book summary:A collection of poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoirs that shed light on what it means to be an Indian woman at the end of the century, when many people are wrestling with questions of identity and place. [via]
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Reinventing the Enemy's Languageby Joy HarjoISBN 0393318281 (0-393-31828-1)
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Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girlsby Mary PipherISBN 0399139443 (0-399-13944-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls'Book summary:At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small, crowded spaces." Many lose spark, interest, and even IQ points as a "girl-poisoning" society forces a choice between being shunned for staying true to oneself and struggling to stay within a narrow definition of female. Pipher's alarming tales of a generation swamped by pain may be partly informed by her role as a therapist who sees troubled children and teens, but her sketch of a tougher, more menacing world for girls often hits the mark. She offers some prescriptions for changing society and helping girls resist. [via]
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The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, And Transgender Rightsby Deborah RudacilleISBN 0385721978 (0-385-72197-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, And Transgender Rights'Book summary:When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why.
Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angleshistorical, sociological, psychological, medicalRudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing ones gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years, and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain.
Informed not only by meticulous research, but also by the authors interviews with prominent members of the transgender community, The Riddle of Gender is a sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man, a woman, and a human being. [via]More editions of The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, And Transgender Rights:
Save the Earth! Things to Know, Things to Do; An Ecology Handbook for Kids.by Betty Miles, Claire A. NivolaISBN 0394826582 (0-394-82658-2)
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Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales and Sealsby Warren Rogers, Paul Watson, Joseph NewmanISBN 0393014991 (0-393-01499-1)
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Significant Sisters : The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839-1939by Margaret ForsterISBN 0394541537 (0-394-54153-7)
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Soon to Be a Major Motion Pictureby Abbie HoffmanISBN 0399505032 (0-399-50503-2)
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Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevensby Wallace Stevens, Holly Bright StevensISBN 039448715X (0-394-48715-X)
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Square Dancing in the Ice Ageby Abbie HoffmanISBN 0399127011 (0-399-12701-1)
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The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Lifeby George KatsiaficasISBN 0391040138 (0-391-04013-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life'Book summary:George Katsiaficas provides a unique portrayal of direct-action European social movements in Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Denmark from 1968 to 1996. Paying special attention to the role of autonomous feminist movements, he traces the effect of squatters and feminists on the disarmament movement and on efforts to shut down nuclear power, and also discusses antifascist social movements developed in response to the neo-Nazi upsurge.
In addition to providing a rare depiction of these often overlooked movements, Professor Katsiaficas develops a specific notion of autonomy from the statements and aspirations of these movements. Autonomy is seen as a type of freedom transcending neo-Kantian individualism and postmodern consumerism--as the political form appropriate to contemporary societies. Drawing from the practical actions of social movements, his analysis is extended into a universal standpoint of the species, a perspective he develops by uncovering the partiality of Antonio Negri's workerism, Seyla Benhabib's feminism, and notions of uniqueness of the German nation.
A sequel to Professor Katsiaficas's THE IMAGINATION OF THE NEW LEFT: A GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF 1968 (South End Press, 1986), this book updates and expands his understanding of antisystemic social movements in the advanced capitalist societies. [via]
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To Die for the Peopleby Huey P. NewtonISBN 0394718348 (0-394-71834-8)
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Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got Thereby Noam ChomskyISBN 0394749448 (0-394-74944-8)
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Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberationby Urvashi VaidISBN 0385472994 (0-385-47299-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation'Book summary:Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions: Where should the movement go? What do we want? In Virtual Equality, veteran activist Urvashi Vaid tackles these questions with a unique combination of visionary politics and hard-earned pragmatism. [via]
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Virtual Equality/the Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberationby Urvashi VaidISBN 0385472986 (0-385-47298-6)
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The Wasp Factoryby Iain BanksISBN 0395362962 (0-395-36296-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wasp Factory'Book summary:"I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me."
Those lines begin one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. The narrator, Frank Cauldhame, is a weird teenager who lives on a tiny island connected to mainland Scotland by a bridge. He maintains grisly Sacrifice Poles to serve as his early warning system and deterrent against anyone who might invade his territory.
Few novelists have ever burst onto the literary scene with as much controversy as Iain Banks in 1984. The Wasp Factory was reviled by many reviewers on account of its violence and sadism, but applauded by others as a new and Scottish voice--that is, a departure from the English literary tradition. The controversy is a bit puzzling in retrospect, because there is little to object to in this novel, if you're familiar with genre horror.
The Wasp Factory is distinguished by an authentically felt and deftly written first-person style, delicious dark humor, a sense of the surreal, and a serious examination of the psyche of a childhood psychopath. Most readers will find that they sympathize with and even like Frank, despite his three murders (each of which is hilarious in an Edward Gorey fashion). It's a classic of contemporary horror. --Fiona Webster [via]
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William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionaryby E.P. ThompsonISBN 0394411366 (0-394-41136-6)
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The Woman Who Watches over the World: A Native Memoirby Linda HoganISBN 0393323056 (0-393-32305-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Who Watches over the World: A Native Memoir'Book summary:The powerful story of one woman's family and the way in which tribal history informs her own past. "I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love," says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her own difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen with an older man, the legacy of alcoholism, and the troubled history of the two daughters she adopted. She shows how historic and emotional pain are passed down through generations while revealing her own struggles with physical pain, and she blends personal history with stories of important Indian figures of the past such as Lozen, the woman who was the military strategist for Geronimo, and Ohiyesha, the Santee Sioux medical doctor who witnessed the massacre at Wounded Knee. Ultimately, Hogan sees herself and her people whole again and gives us an illuminating story of personal spiritual triumph. [via]
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Women, Race and Classby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0394713516 (0-394-71351-6)
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