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Adventures of a Mathematicianby S.M. UlamISBN 0520071549 (0-520-07154-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of a Mathematician'Book summary:The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some of the most dramatic changes of the postwar world. He was among the first to use and advocate computers for scientific research, originated ideas for the nuclear propulsion of space vehicles, and made fundamental contributions to many of today's most challenging mathematical projects.[via]
With his wide-ranging interests, Ulam never emphasized the importance of his contributions to the research that resulted in the hydrogen bomb. Now Daniel Hirsch and William Mathews reveal the true story of Ulam's pivotal role in the making of the "Super," in their historical introduction to this behind-the-scenes look at the minds and ideas that ushered in the nuclear age. An epilogue by Françoise Ulam and Jan Mycielski sheds new light on Ulam's character and mathematical originality.More editions of Adventures of a Mathematician:
Any Given Day: The Life and Times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveauxby Jessie Lee Brown FoveauxISBN 0446523437 (0-446-52343-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel As Historyby Norman MailerISBN 0452272793 (0-452-27279-3)
Softcover, Plume
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Autobiographiesby R.S. Thomas, Jason Walford DaviesISBN 0460876392 (0-460-87639-2)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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Bad As I Wanna Beby Dennis RodmanISBN 0440222664 (0-440-22266-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bad As I Wanna Be'Book summary:A wild ride inside the glowing head of Dennis Rodman--the NBA's greatest rebounder and America's most outspoken and outrageous athlete.
When Sports Illustrated put the man they call "America's most provocative athlete" on their cover, they sold more copies than any other issue they had sold in a decade (except the swimsuit issue). Why? Because Dennis Rodman, superstar basketball player who joined the Chicago Bulls for the 1996 season, has more in common with Mick Jagger than with his new teammate Michael Jordan. With his body-covering tattoos and ever-changing fluorescent hair, Rodman's sideline antics and celebrated benchings have captivated sports fans as much as his record-breaking on-court performances and earned him a reputation as a rebel with the same penchant for shocking behavior as his on-again off-again squeeze, Madonna. In Bad as I Wanna Be he shares his surprising and candid opinions on everything from fame, money, and race relations, to sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll--and he'll talk about his life, from going to prison for stealing watches to his daughter, the light of his life.
At a time when most celebrities and professional athletes try to control their public personas like politicians and refrain from expressing their true beliefs, Dennis Rodman is a refreshingly unique, uncompromising individual who both transcends his world and refuses to conform to it. Bad as I Wanna Be is as candid, intriguing, and unforgettable as he is. [via]More editions of Bad As I Wanna Be:
Bad Boyby Jim ThompsonISBN 0445407131 (0-445-40713-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Bastard Out of Carolinaby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452269571 (0-452-26957-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bastard Out of Carolina'Book summary:[via]Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright familyrough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furiousuntil their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.More editions of Bastard Out of Carolina:
Beyond the World of Pooh: Selections from the Memoirs of Christopher Milneby A. R. Melrose, Christopher MilneISBN 0525458883 (0-525-45888-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Bondwoman's Narrativeby Henry Louis Gates, Hannah CraftsISBN 0446690295 (0-446-69029-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bondwoman's Narrative'Book summary:Few events are more thrilling than the discovery of a buried treasure. Some years ago, when scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was leafing through an auction catalog, he noticed a listing for an unpublished, clothbound manuscript thought to date from the 1850s: "The Bondwoman's Narrative, by Hannah Crafts, a Fugitive Slave, Recently Escaped from North Carolina." Gates realized that, if genuine, this would be the first novel known to have been written by a black woman in America, as well as the only one by a fugitive slave. He bought the manuscript (there was no competing bid) and began the exhilarating task of confirming the racial identity of the author and the approximate date of composition (circa 1855-59). Gates's excited descriptions of his detective work in the introduction to The Bondwoman's Narrative will make you want to find promising old manuscripts of your own. He also proposes a couple candidates for authorship, assuming that Hannah Crafts was the real or assumed name of the author, and not solely a pen name.
If Gates is right (his introduction and appendix should convince just about everyone), The Bondwoman's Narrative is a tremendous discovery. But is it a lost masterpiece? No. The novel draws so heavily on the conventions of mid-19th-century fiction--by turns religious, gothic, and sentimental--that it does not have much flavor of its own. The beginning of chapter 13 is a close paraphrase (virtually a cribbing) of the opening of Dickens's Bleak House. This borrowing seems to have escaped Gates, although he does quote the assessment of one scholar, the librarian Dorothy Porter Wesley, who had owned the manuscript before he acquired it, that "the best of the writer's mind was religious and emotional and in her handling of plot the long arm of coincidence is nowhere spared." Although not a striking literary contribution, The Bondwoman's Narrative is well worth reading on historical grounds, especially since it was never published. As Gates argues, these pages provide our first "unedited, unaffected, unglossed, unaided" glimpse into the mind of a fugitive slave. --Regina Marler [via]
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Bubblesby Beverly SillsISBN 0448120437 (0-448-12043-7)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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C'mon, Get Happy : Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Busby David Cassidy, Chip DeffaaISBN 0446395315 (0-446-39531-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Charles Darwin's Beagle Diaryby Richard Darwin KeynesISBN 0521003172 (0-521-00317-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary'Book summary:Here is a fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made. This work constitutes an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelog that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy. [via]
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Clara : The Story of the Pug Who Ruled My Lifeby Margo KaufmanISBN 0452281369 (0-452-28136-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Clinton Warsby Sidney BlumenthalISBN 0452285275 (0-452-28527-5)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clinton Wars'Book summary:The title of journalist turned-embattled-White House aide Sidney Blumenthal's memoir/history of his tumultuous years inside the Clinton presidency is both literal and figurative, if something of an understatement; "apocalypse" would seem more to the point. Erudite and fiercely unapologetic, Blumenthal belatedly provides the overwrought saga's protagonists what they so often publicly lacked in its historical context: passionate advocacy and precious perspective. No mere presidential history, the battles chronicled here transcend politics as usual, bitter partisan campaigns whose roots Blumenthal forcefully argues extend beneath lingering class and generational resentments into the darkest heart of America's Southern racist past. Hillary Clinton's accusations of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" garnered cynical chuckles in its heyday; Blumenthal (whose own teasing White House nickname was "Grassy Knoll") merely cuts its treachery down to size, documenting the usual suspects, dates, and places with amply footnoted vengeance. There's irony to burn, from unexpected early Clinton supporters (former GOP standard bearer Barry Goldwater) and the blatant moral hypocrisy of his Congressional accusers to the Supreme Court's sole dissenting voice in arguments to reinstate the Special Prosecutor statute, Justice Scalia (who presciently warned it could easily become the tool of political witch hunts), and the heretical notion that the Clintons may have been the least cynical players in the entire drama; they certainly seem it's most tragically human. It's hardly surprising that much of the Washington news establishment has attacked Blumenthal's tome with equal ferocity; in Blumenthal's telling, the D.C. press corps that zealously safeguarded democracy during Watergate had by the advent of Clinton devolved into an insular faux aristocracy resentful of perceived carpetbaggers (especially from Arkansas) and suckers for any politically-motivated leak, rumor, or innuendo that might give them a leg up on the competition. The media's inept handling of the story is even more ironic considering much of what Blumenthal does here derives from the simple advice Watergate informer "Deep Throat" gave reporters during that crisis: "Follow the money." --Jerry McCulley [via]
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Communionby Whitley StrieberISBN 0517057565 (0-517-05756-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show and Other Sketchesby M. Thomas Inge, Sam WatkinsISBN 0452281245 (0-452-28124-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Confessionby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer MaudeISBN 0486438511 (0-486-43851-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Cures: A Gay Man's Odysseyby Martin DubermanISBN 0452267803 (0-452-26780-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Daddy, We Hardly Knew Youby Germaine GreerISBN 0449905616 (0-449-90561-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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De Profundisby Oscar WildeISBN 0486293084 (0-486-29308-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Profundis'Book summary:While jailed for homosexual offenses, Wilde wrote this long, bitter letter of recrimination to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. It offers fascinating insights into Wilde's life in prison and the background and psychology of a notorious affair, but its eloquence, passion and literary excellence make it a universal statement about love, injustice and suffering.[via]More editions of De Profundis:
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Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Goghby Jean Stone, Vincent Van Gogh, Irving StoneISBN 0452275040 (0-452-27504-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh'Book summary:Van Gogh's brother Theo was his confidant and companion, and, in his letters to him, Van Gogh reveals himself as artist and man. Even more than if he had purposely intended to tell his life story, Van Gogh's letters lay bare his deepest feelings, as well as his everyday concerns and his views of the world of art. [via]
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Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0451152751 (0-451-15275-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dharma Bums'Book summary:One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. [via]
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1666by Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William A. Armstrong, William Matthews, Oliver Millar, T. F. Reddaway, MacDonald EmslieISBN 0520226984 (0-520-22698-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1668-1669by Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William Matthews, William A. Armstrong, Oliver Millar, T. F. Reddaway, MacDonald EmslieISBN 0520227018 (0-520-22701-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1668-1669'Book summary:Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions--until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet.[via]
The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history. Pepys witnessed the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. He was a patron of the arts, having himself composed many delightful songs and participated in the artistic life of London. His flair for gossip and detail reveals a portrait of the times that rivals the most swashbuckling and romantic historical novels. In none of the earlier versions was there a reliable, full text, with commentary and notation with any claim to completeness. This edition, first published in 1970, is the first in which the entire diary is printed with systematic comment. This is the only complete edition available; it is as close to Pepys's original as possible.More editions of The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1668-1669:
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companionby Robert Latham, William MatthewsISBN 0520020979 (0-520-02097-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Diary Of Samuel Pepys: Selected Passagesby Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William MatthewsISBN 0520015754 (0-520-01575-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys-Companion: A New and Complete Transcription Companionby Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William MatthewsISBN 0520227158 (0-520-22715-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Education of Little Treeby Forrest CarterISBN 044002319X (0-440-02319-X)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press/E. Friede
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Education of Little Tree'Book summary:Orphaned in the 1930s at the age of five, Forrest Carter went to live with his Cherokee grandparents in the mountains of Tennessee. The education he describes in this book was not formal instruction, but an ancient native wisdom and a way of life that is not to be found in the institutions of the modern world. From his grandparents' reverence for the land and for all living creatures, "Little Tree" learns an awareness of the great cycles of the natural world (from seasonal changes to the spiral of life and death) and a sense of honour combined with humour. [via]
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Enigmas of Chance: An Autobiographyby Mark KacISBN 0520059867 (0-520-05986-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Every Secret Thingby Patricia HearstISBN 0523419562 (0-523-41956-2)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Fat Girl: A True Storyby Judith MooreISBN 0452285852 (0-452-28585-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0446313645 (0-446-31364-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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First Lady from Plainsby Rosalynn W. CarterISBN 0449128288 (0-449-12828-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Flight : My Life in Mission Controlby Chris KraftISBN 0452283043 (0-452-28304-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flight : My Life in Mission Control'Book summary:Flight: My Life in Mission Control is the feisty memoir of Chris Kraft, head of mission control ground crew on the famous Eagle mission of 1969. On July 20, 1969, near the end of a great decade of near-space exploration, a small craft called Eagle landed on the moon's surface. As anyone who watched the televised broadcast of the landing might recall, the astronauts aboard Eagle were guided to their objective by a capable ground crew headed by Chris Kraft, whom his colleagues had long called "Flight". Kraft was unflappable on the surface, but, as he writes in this memoir, the Eagle's landing had moments of drama that gave him pause, and that few outside NASA knew about--including baleful alarms from the ship's on-board computer that warned of imminent disaster.
For Kraft, frightening moments were part of his job as director of Mission Control. He encountered many of them in the early years of the space programme, when failures were commonplace and all too often caused not by mechanics but politics. We learn of many in Kraft's pages. One such failure was the Soviet Union's Sputnik launch, on which Kraft thunders, "We should have beaten them.... We were stopped by anonymous doctors in the civilian world who didn't know what they were talking about, by a bureaucrat in the White House who'd been stung when JFK shot down his position on manned space flight, and by our friend the German rocket scientist who got cold feet when he should have been bold."
Plenty of other contemporaries, including John Glenn and Richard Nixon, come in for a scolding in Kraft's fiery account, which offers a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the challenging work of astronautics--work that, Kraft writes hopefully, is only beginning. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Freak Like Me: Inside the Jim Rose Circus Sideshowby Jim Rose, Melissa RossiISBN 0440507448 (0-440-50744-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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From the Deep Woods to Civilizationby Charles A. EastmanISBN 048643088X (0-486-43088-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From the Deep Woods to Civilization'Book summary:In the sequel to Indian Boyhood, Eastman tells of his departure from the reservation at age 15 to receive his education among whites, his experiences as a reservation physician at the Wounded Knee massacre, and of his time in Washington, D.C., where he held a succession of government positions.[via]More editions of From the Deep Woods to Civilization:
The Ghost Light: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasyby Fritz LeiberISBN 044128602X (0-441-28602-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Gielgud: An Actor and His Timeby John GielgudISBN 0517541793 (0-517-54179-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific Warby William ManchesterISBN 0440329078 (0-440-32907-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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House of the Deadby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486434095 (0-486-43409-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Intimate Journalsby Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. AudenISBN 0486447782 (0-486-44778-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intimate Journals'Book summary:Dismissed as a vulgar drug addict who wrote about sex and death, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) went largely unrecognized until the 20th century. This collection of the notorious poet's essays transcends the squalor of his financial ruin and the torture of physical decline to offer compelling thoughts on his world, society, and philosophy.[via]More editions of Intimate Journals:
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Join Meby Danny WallaceISBN 0452285011 (0-452-28501-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Join Me'Book summary:How could you refuse the polite invitation of begoggled Danny Wallace in Join Me? You don't know what you could be missing out on. It's all about living for the moment in this quirky, seemingly pointless yet addictive narrative. Finding himself with too much time on his hands after quitting his BBC job, Danny revels in "sitting around in his pants" and generally taking a break from the responsibilities of working life. Danny attends the funeral of his great uncle Gallus and finds out that he had set up a commune of like-minded people to escape Swiss small town small-mindedness in the 1940s. Intrigued by this idea, on his return to London Danny places a cryptic advert in the classified ads paper Loot and gets some surprising results.
His Norwegian radio-producer girlfriend Hanne is bemused and infuriated that this has become more than a transient interest; it takes over his life--and hers. The number of "joinees"--people replying to his ad--escalates as word gets out about this new "happy cult", but without a clue about what he wants to achieve, or do with all his newfound friends, Danny has to think fast as dissent rises in the ranks. Now the reluctant leader of a troop of random hopefuls, he maintains their interest with obscure e-mails and watches as his joinees meet and bond.
Whatever he had created, it was bigger than he had anticipated. From an initially puerile idea, it had grown into something of a social experiment--why were people willing to take the risk of replying to the advert? What was lacking in their lives that they thought they might get out of contacting a stranger? Taking risks, no matter how big or small, is the essential crux of the matter here, and, of course, nothing ventured, nothing gained. --Angela Boodoo [via]
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountainsby Isabella L. BirdISBN 0486428036 (0-486-42803-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Lawrence : Sons and Loversby Michael H. Black, J. P. SternISBN 052136924X (0-521-36924-X)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lawrence : Sons and Lovers'Book summary:This is the first critical study of Sons and Lovers to engage with the new Cambridge edition, which prints for the first time the whole text that Lawrence wrote, restoring the sustantial cuts made by the first editor. Michael Black gives special attention to the genesis of the book--the writing and editing processes, where Jessie Chambers and then Edward Garnett made decisive interventions. He analyzes Sons and Lovers in detail, relates it to Lawrence's other works, and traces the history of its reception. Historical context and a guide to further reading are also provided. [via]
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Life on the Color Lineby Gregory Howard WilliamsISBN 0452275334 (0-452-27533-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lillian Gish:the Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me: The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Meby Lillian Gish, Ann PinchotISBN 0491001037 (0-491-00103-7)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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Long Time Goneby David Crosby, Carl GottliebISBN 0440502705 (0-440-50270-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientistby Richard FeynmanISBN 0465023940 (0-465-02394-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist'Book summary:In this series of lectures originally given in 1963, which remained unpublished during Richard Feynman's lifetime, the Nobel-winning physicist thinks aloud on several "meta"--questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age?
Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend. "In case you are beginning to believe," he says at the start of his final lecture, "that some of the things I said before are true because I am a scientist and according to the brochure that you get I won some awards and so forth, instead of your looking at the ideas themselves and judging them directly...I will get rid of that tonight. I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make." Rare, perhaps. Irreverent, sure. But ridiculous? Not even close. [via]
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Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865 Comprising His Travels in Germany Italy Russia and England: From 1803 to 1865, Comprising His Travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and Englandby Ernest Newman, Hector BerliozISBN 0486215636 (0-486-21563-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Never Too Lateby John HoltISBN 0440066417 (0-440-06641-7)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Too Late'Book summary:If I could learn to play the cello well, as I thought I could, I could show by my own example that we all have greater powers than we think; that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn; that our lives and our possibilities are not determined and fixed by what happened to us when we were little, or by what experts say we can or cannot do. Best known for his brilliant insight into the way children learn, John Holt was also an intrepid explorer of adult learning. At the age of forty, with no particular musical background, he took up the cello. His touching and hilarious account of his passionate second career demolished the myth that one must start an instrument (or a sport, or a language) in early childhood, and will inspire any reader who dreams of taking up a new skill.[via]More editions of Never Too Late:
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486437019 (0-486-43701-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Owls in the Familyby Farley MowatISBN 0440413613 (0-440-41361-3)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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The Path to Romeby Hilaire BellocISBN 048644001X (0-486-44001-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Pavarotti: My Own Storyby Luciano PavarottiISBN 0446301795 (0-446-30179-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Period Pieceby Gwendolen Mary Darwin RaveratISBN 0472064754 (0-472-06475-4)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Permanent Midnight: A Memoirby Jerry StahlISBN 0446517941 (0-446-51794-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Permanent Midnight: A Memoir'Book summary:Now a motion picture starring Ben Stiller, this is the autobiography of Jerry Stahl, a former television writer. Stahl was an aspiring fiction writer who arrives in L.A. and lands a job penning what he considers to be crappy but lucrative TV scripts, and descends into quasi-functional heroin addiction. Available now. [via]
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccaby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0486212173 (0-486-21217-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Cuddon J.A.ISBN 0460874713 (0-460-87471-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Rudyard Kipling: Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writingsby Thomas PinneyISBN 052140584X (0-521-40584-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Save Me the Waltzby Zelda FitzgeraldISBN 0451056035 (0-451-05603-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamedby Woody GuthrieISBN 0525199365 (0-525-19936-5)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Sleeping Arrangementsby Laura Shaine CunninghamISBN 0452265576 (0-452-26557-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Small Placeby Jamaica KincaidISBN 0452262356 (0-452-26235-6)
Softcover, Plume
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Sons and Loversby D. H. Lawrence, Jackson, Dennis (AFT)ISBN 0451530004 (0-451-53000-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons And Lovers'Book summary:[via]Torn between his passion for two women as well as his abiding attachment to his mother, Paul Morel struggles with his desire to please everyone particularly himself. Lawrence's highly autobiographical novel unfolds against the backdrop of his native Nottinghamshire coal fields, amidst a working-class family dominated by a brutish father and a loving but overbearing mother.More editions of Sons and Lovers:
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South: The Endurance Expeditionby Ernest ShackletonISBN 0451198808 (0-451-19880-8)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'South: The Endurance Expedition'Book summary:In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a ploar ice floe.[via]In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive.
What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance.
This is their story, as told by the man who led them.
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The Spy Wore Redby Aline RomanosISBN 0515106534 (0-515-10653-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spy Wore Red'Book summary:1943: Beautiful young American model Aline Griffith is recruited as a spy, trained, and flown to Spain, with her mission to infiltrate the highest echelons of Spanish society and uncover secret links to the Nazis.
Under the code name ''Tiger,'' this remarkable woman probed the depths of the Nazi underground, risking her life -- and her love -- in a glittering world of high intrigue far more exciting than any fictionalized thriller.
The Spy Wore Red is a harrowing first-hand account of the dangers and adventures she experienced as an undercover agent. [via]More editions of The Spy Wore Red:
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Spy/counterspy: The Autobiography of Dusko Popovby Dusko PopovISBN 0448116065 (0-448-11606-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in Americaby Mel WhiteISBN 0452273811 (0-452-27381-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. Scott MontcrieffISBN 0486421236 (0-486-42123-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:[via]The first volume of the 7-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and narrator. Its focus then shifts to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in 19th-century Paris and a victim of an agonizing romance.More editions of Swann's Way:
Three Weeks With My Brotherby Nicholas Sparks, Micah SparksISBN 0446694851 (0-446-69485-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The True Joy of Positive Livingby Norman Vincent PealeISBN 0449208338 (0-449-20833-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0460111043 (0-460-11104-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voyage of the Beagle'Book summary:Inviting in its lavish detail, this is Darwin's fascinating account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the now famous Galapagos Archipelago. One of the most important voyages of the 19th century, this is where Darwin made the observations that led to his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, which emerged two decades later. The Voyage of the Beagle (1840-43) has delighted and enlightened millions because of Darwin's loving and insightful observations of the plants, animals, people, and locations he explored. These journals provide striking examples of the great scientist's reasoning ability and intriguing glimpses into his thought processes. They are the precursor to The Descent of Man (1871, 1874), a controversial leap in evolutionary theory from nature to humanity. [via]
The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Darwin, Walter SullivanISBN 0452011639 (0-452-01163-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Way I See Itby Patti DavisISBN 0515110892 (0-515-11089-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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What I Saw at the Revolution : A Political Life in the Reagan Eraby Peggy NoonanISBN 0449001008 (0-449-00100-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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When Heaven & Earth Changed Placesby Jay Wurts, Le Ly HayslipISBN 0452271681 (0-452-27168-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Heaven & Earth Changed Places'Book summary:A memoir of the Vietnam war from a woman's point of view - seen through the eyes of a child who survived the horror. Le Ly Hayslip, the inspiration for the musical "Miss Saigon", tells the story of a young peasant girl's struggle to survive. Pressed into service at the age of 12 by the Vietcong, Le Ly Hayslip was captured and tortured by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American soldier and after affairs with several GIs, she fled to America to escape the horrors of the war. But as the traumas of the war years lingered on in painful nightmares, Le Ly Hayslip returned to her homeland in 1986. Horrified and shocked to discover the country and the people still profoundly scarred by the war, she took the biggest decision of her life - selling her property to start a foundation dedicated to building health clinics jointly staffed by Americans and Vietnamese. [via]
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When Rabbit Howlsby Truddi ChaseISBN 0515103292 (0-515-10329-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Againby Julia PhillipsISBN 0451170725 (0-451-17072-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Zoo Vet: Adventures of a Wild Animal Doctorby David TaylorISBN 0440199034 (0-440-19903-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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