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The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffeby Jan G. Castro, James O'HoretonISBN 051755058X (0-517-55058-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Beethovenby Denis MatthewsISBN 0460031783 (0-460-03178-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Beethoven: A Documentary Studyby H. C. Robbins LandonISBN 0500201404 (0-500-20140-4)
Softcover, Thames and Hudson
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Beethoven:a Documentary Study: A Documentary Studyby J.Z. YoungISBN 0500010587 (0-500-01058-7)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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Black Dog of Fate: A Memoirby Peter BalakianISBN 046500704X (0-465-00704-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirateby Angus KonstamISBN 047175885X (0-471-75885-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Butler's Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the Yearby Alban ButlerISBN 048644399X (0-486-44399-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Butler's Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the Year'Book summary:For more than two centuries, Butler's has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.[via]More editions of Butler's Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the Year:
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Chopin: The Man and His Musicby James G. HunekerISBN 048621687X (0-486-21687-X)
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Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915by Ted MorganISBN 0517410419 (0-517-41041-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Complete Beatles Chronicleby Mark LewisohnISBN 0517581000 (0-517-58100-0)
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Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twainby Ron PowersISBN 046507670X (0-465-07670-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Daughter of China: A True Story of Love and Betrayalby Larry Engelmann, Meihong XuISBN 0471390194 (0-471-39019-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Derek Jarman's Gardenby Derek Jarman, Howard SooleyISBN 0500016569 (0-500-01656-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Edison: A Life of Inventionby Paul IsraelISBN 0471362700 (0-471-36270-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havocby Arthur I. MillerISBN 0465018602 (0-465-01860-2)
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Fridaby Barbara MujicaISBN 0452283035 (0-452-28303-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einsteinby George GamowISBN 0486257673 (0-486-25767-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Greatest Story Ever Toldby Fulton OurslerISBN 0517187167 (0-517-18716-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World With Wordsby John ManISBN 0471218235 (0-471-21823-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Heisenberg Probably Slept Hear: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Centuryby Richard P. BrennanISBN 047129585X (0-471-29585-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hidden Hitlerby Lothar MachtanISBN 0465043097 (0-465-04309-7)
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Hollywood Babylonby Kenneth AnglerISBN 0517344084 (0-517-34408-4)
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The Horizon Book of the Age of Napoleonby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0517551969 (0-517-55196-9)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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Humphrey Bogartby Alan G. BarbourISBN 0515029300 (0-515-02930-0)
Hardcover, Pyramid Publications
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I'm Eveby Chris C. Sizemore, Elen S. PittilloISBN 0515075140 (0-515-07514-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germanyby Martin GoldsmithISBN 0471078646 (0-471-07864-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany'Book summary:Writing this book must have required enormous courage; reading it is overwhelming, especially for anyone personally connected to the events it describes. Martin Goldsmith, best known as the host of NPR's Performance Today, is the American-born son of two German-Jewish musicians who escaped the Holocaust. He anchors the Holocaust to the story of his own family, whom he never knew because most of them perished in Hitler's death camps. Goldsmith accompanies them through their lives in Nazi Germany, with its ever-tightening persecution and repression of the Jews, and on their nightmarish journey to the gas chambers. He follows his parents through their early musical training, their blossoming love, courtship, and marriage--making them seem like a normal, happy young couple--to their miraculous rescue and escape to America.
The book's linchpin is the Jewish Culture Association ("Jüdische Kulturbund"), in whose Berlin orchestra his parents met. Established by prominent Jewish leaders in 1933, after a "purge" of all Jewish Civil Servants, the Kulturbund flourished for eight years, with the permission and under the constant, increasingly repressive surveillance of the Nazis, who exploited it as a propaganda tool. Spreading from Berlin to other cities, its musical and theatrical presentations, lectures, and films offered employment to thousands of Jewish artists and the only cultural oasis to its Jewish audiences. In 1941, Germany's preoccupation with the war and the "Final Solution" rendered it superfluous, and it was dissolved.
But Goldsmith also furnishes the proper historical context for his uniquely individual, human account of the 20th century's most inhuman period. After a chillingly detailed description of the grass-roots rise of Nazism, he focuses on particularly horrifying events: the infamous 1935 Nuremberg Laws and the devastating 1938 pogrom, "Kristallnacht." The tragedy of the 937 refugees, including Goldsmith's grandfather and uncle, who were refused disembarkation first in Cuba, then in Miami, illustrates the world's customary indifference to "other" people's misfortunes. Nobody paid attention when, as early as 1922, Hitler declared that his first priority on coming to power would be the extermination of the Jews.
Goldsmith's factual, reportorial style increases the sickening horror, and he reminds us frequently that he is writing about his own family. Though his story's outcome is never in doubt, he generates real suspense--a measure of his skill, despite his unfortunate habit of hinting at the future. The Kulturbund has been accused of encouraging the Jews to ignore the desperate circumstances outside the theater, and therefore the imminence of their danger. Goldsmith refutes this. For most of them, emigration was impossible because, apart from the natural fear of pulling up roots, leaving everything behind, and starting a new life, they had nowhere to go. Moreover, how could anyone foresee the depth of the impending horror? It was, and still is, beyond the human imagination.
Goldsmith writes with insight and aching honesty about the survivors' guilt and its numbing effect even upon the next generation. But his parents also taught him to love music and appreciate its meaning in people's lives, and he talks about it with real knowledge and understanding. (However, someone should have corrected his opening reference to Siegmund's sword in Die Walküre, which is made of steel, not gold.) This is a brilliantly written, important, unforgettable book. --Edith Eisler [via]
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Interviews With Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Factby David SylvesterISBN 0500274754 (0-500-27475-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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J. S. Bachby Albert SchweitzerISBN 0486216314 (0-486-21631-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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Jasper Johns: Privileged Informationby Jill JohnstonISBN 0500017360 (0-500-01736-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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John Buchan and His Worldby Janet Adam SmithISBN 0500130671 (0-500-13067-1)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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John Coltrane: His Life and Musicby Lewis PorterISBN 047208643X (0-472-08643-X)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Coltrane: His Life and Music'Book summary:John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force whose following continues to grow. This new biography, the first by a professional jazz scholar and performer, presents a huge amount of never-before-published material, including interviews with Coltrane, photos, genealogical documents, and innovative musical analysis that offers a fresh view of Coltrane's genius.Compiled from scratch with the assistance of dozens of Coltrane's colleagues, friends, and family, John Coltrane: His Life and Music corrects numerous errors from previous biographies. The significant people in Coltrane's life were reinterviewed, yielding new insights; some were interviewed for the first time ever.The musical analysis, which is accessible to the nonspecialist, makes its own revelations--for example, that some of Coltrane's well-known pieces are based on previously unrecognized sources. The Appendix is the most detailed chronology of Coltrane's performing career ever compiled, listing scores of previously unknown performances from the 1940s and early 1950s.Coltrane has become a musical inspiration for thousands of fans and musicians and a personal inspiration to as many more. For all of these, Porter's book will become the definitive resource--a reliable guide to the events of Coltrane's life and an insightful look into his musical practices.". . . well researched, musically knowledgeable, and enormously interesting to read. Porter is a jazz scholar with deep knowledge of the tradition he is studying, both conceptually and technically." --Richard Crawford, University of Michigan"Lewis Porter is a meticulous person with love and respect for Afro-American classical music. I applaud this definitive study of my friend John Coltrane's life adn achievements." --Jimmy Heath, jazz saxophonist, composer, educatorLewis Porter is Associate Professor of Music, Rutgers University in Newark. A leading jazz scholar, he is the author of Jazz Readings from a Century of Change and coauthor of Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present. He was a project consultant on The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Historical Reissue, and an editor and assisting author of the definitive Coltrane discography by Y. Fujioka.[via]More editions of John Coltrane: His Life and Music:
The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings A Five-Generation History of the Ultimate Irish-Catholic Familyby Thomas MaierISBN 0465043186 (0-465-04318-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Last Wishby Betty RollinISBN 0517149354 (0-517-14935-4)
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The Life of William Blakeby Alexander GilchristISBN 0460019716 (0-460-01971-6)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of William Blake'Book summary:Of William Blake, William Wordsworth said, "There is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott." Blake was, after all, known to report on his "conversations" with such dead notables as the great Milton. He felt no constraint in sharing the bold content of his vivid imagination. "Once [he] was walking down Cheapside with a friend," Alexander Gilchrist writes. "Suddenly he took off his hat and bowed low. 'What did you do that for?' 'Oh! that was the Apostle Paul.'" This full-length study of the visionary artist and poet, first published in 1863, is credited with bringing to light not only the unique genius of William Blake, but his body of work.
When Gilchrist wrote this critical biography, the world was largely ignorant of William Blake (1757-1827). Most of his works--visual and poetic--were "never published at all ... [and] Blake's poems were ... not even printed in his life-time; simply engraved by his own laborious hand." The first-edition printing of Songs of Innocence and Experience, for example, consisted of slightly more than 20 copies. Nevertheless, Blake was not spared the ironic fate of so many posthumously honored artists. At the time of Gilchrist's writing, "Blake drawings, Blake prints fetch prices which would have solaced a life of penury, had their producer received them."
Of course, it's no surprise that The Life of William Blake is drenched in the style peculiar to the late 19th century, as if proclaimed in an echo chamber where lofty and pious tones vie with the sentimental. Still, who isn't drawn into the central tragedy of Blake's life? He had the capacity to become a great public and religious poet, but instead turned in upon himself, gaining neither reputation nor a following. Blake was simply not of his time, "partly by choice; partly from the necessities of imperfect education."
Although in paperback, this volume suggests antiquity--the type fonts are reminiscent of those used in the dusty, old tomes found in Grandma's attic. Chapter titles reflect the 19th-century sensibility ("A Boy's Poems," "Struggle and Sorrow," "Mad or Not Mad?"). The 39 chapters also reveal Gilchrist's exhaustive study of Blake's life. His report of Blake's first vision at the age of 8 reveals the 19th-century tone: "Sauntering along, the boy looks up and sees a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars." Unabridged and illustrated with 40 black-and-white photographs of Blake's engravings, this first critical biography will interest the Blake scholar wishing to add a more period feel to his or her body of research (100 years separate Gilchrist from his subject), as well as the Blake fan in the mood for a courtly and doting guide. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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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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Lives of Lee Millerby Antony PenroseISBN 0500275092 (0-500-27509-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Living My Lifeby Emma GoldmanISBN 0486225445 (0-486-22544-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living My Life'Book summary:Volume 2 of the candid, no-holds-barred account by foremost American anarchist Goldman continues with the fascinating story of her life. Includes eye-opening information on the anarchist movement, details on the author's famous contemporaries, their ideas and their worldwide impact. An amazing read, and a must for history and political science buffs.[via]More editions of Living My Life:
Locked in the Cabinetby Robert B. ReichISBN 0517288982 (0-517-28898-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Louisa May Alcottby Louisa May Alcott, Ednah D. CheneyISBN 0517124246 (0-517-12424-6)
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Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Penby Katie WhitakerISBN 0465091644 (0-465-09164-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Mark Twain Himselfby Milton MeltzerISBN 0517012480 (0-517-01248-0)
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Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding a Biographyby Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence GordonISBN 0465005497 (0-465-00549-7)
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Gaining fame and stirring controversy in the 1960s with his proposal that television was creating a "global village" and that the medium itself, not the messages it carried, was influencing the public, McLuhan was idolized by some and vilified by others. Those who truly knew and understood his work predicted that it would take ten to twenty years to be fully appreciated, and today's debate bears that out, as his predictions and prescriptions continue to be vindicated as history unfolds. [via]
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Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understandingby Terrence W. GordonISBN 0465044174 (0-465-04417-4)
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Mary Cassattby Mike Venezia, Sarah Mollman UnderhillISBN 0516422782 (0-516-42278-2)
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Michelangeloby Mike VeneziaISBN 0516422936 (0-516-42293-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mike believes the best way to introduce children to art and artists is through fun. If children can look at art in a fun way, and think of artists as real people, the exciting world of art will be open to them for the rest of their lives. [via]
Michelangeloby Linda MurrayISBN 0500201749 (0-500-20174-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Michelangelo: His Life, Work and Timesby Linda MurrayISBN 0500013152 (0-500-01315-2)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michelangelo: His Life, Work and Times'Book summary:Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 - 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, the versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian, Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo's works in every field was prodigious. When the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, he also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of Saint Peter's Basilica In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime. Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one").One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance. [via]
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Mother Teresa: In My Own Wordsby Teresa, Jose Luis Gonzalez-BaladoISBN 0517201690 (0-517-20169-0)
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My Dear Cassandra: The Letters of Jane Austenby Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-HallettISBN 0517583127 (0-517-58312-7)
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Sojourner Truth, Olive GilbertISBN 048629899X (0-486-29899-X)
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Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journalby Paul GauguinISBN 0486248593 (0-486-24859-3)
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Ordealby Linda LovelaceISBN 0517427915 (0-517-42791-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Oregon Trailby Francis ParkmanISBN 0486424804 (0-486-42480-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oregon Trail'Book summary:[via]Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western wildlife; and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture. A classic of American frontier literature.More editions of The Oregon Trail:
Paul Scottby Anderson, Hilary SpurlingISBN 0517143704 (0-517-14370-4)
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0460018949 (0-460-01894-9)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. [via]
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Persuasionby Pat RogersISBN 0460875299 (0-460-87529-9)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect. [via]
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The Poet and the Murderer : A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgeryby Simon WorrallISBN 0452284023 (0-452-28402-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Geniusby Lawrence JacksonISBN 0471354147 (0-471-35414-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonaldby Michael WreszinISBN 046506857X (0-465-06857-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparteby Robert AspreyISBN 0465004822 (0-465-00482-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte'Book summary:Between the years 1805 and 1815, the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte conquered most of continental Europe, establishing their leader, if but briefly, as "a new Charlemagne." In the second part of his two volumes on the life of the emperor, military historian Robert Asprey examines the armies' triumphs and eventual defeat, following in their footsteps from Spain to Russia, and on to Waterloo.
Bonaparte, Asprey writes, aspired to forge and lead a united, peaceful Europe, a quest that required much blood to be shed. A former U.S. marine officer, Asprey is a reliable commentator on matters of battlefield strategy and tactics, and his book's greatest strength is his power to invoke the feel of bloody engagements, which include the Battle of Borodino, where more than 40,000 Russians fell in a single day (cut down, he notes, by the more than 2 million rounds that French muskets fired); Wagram, where French forces managed to eke out victory over their Austrian foes despite a series of costly blunders; Corunna, where the French forces, having marched 15 and more miles a day, proved "that there have probably been no tougher soldiers in the world"; and the decisive action at Waterloo, where French, Belgian, German, and English armies clashed amid thunderstorms and confusion to an end that was anything but inevitable.
Other books do a better job of treating Napoleon as a political being, but Asprey's is one of the better recent books on Napoleon as general, and students of military history will learn much from his account. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Report from Engine Company 82by Dennis SmithISBN 0517420635 (0-517-42063-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Richard Strauss: An Intimate Portraitby Kurt Wilhelm, Mary Whittall, Paul SessnerISBN 0500281599 (0-500-28159-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Richard Wagner: A Biographyby Derek WatsonISBN 046003166X (0-460-03166-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baronby Peter KilduffISBN 0471120332 (0-471-12033-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journeyby Rachel SimonISBN 0452284554 (0-452-28455-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey'Book summary:Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her sister at long last-teaching her to slow down and enjoy the ride. Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, Riding the Bus with My Sister is "a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life" (Boston Herald) [via]
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Robert Burns and His Worldby David DaichesISBN 0500130345 (0-500-13034-5)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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School Teacher of Old Alaskaby J. Jacobs, Hannah BreeceISBN 051719712X (0-517-19712-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Secret Historyby ProcopiusISBN 0472087282 (0-472-08728-2)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legendby Kate Fullbrook, Edward FullbrookISBN 0465078281 (0-465-07828-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend'Book summary:He was France's best-known philosopher and chief arbiter of intellectual fashions during the postwar era. She was the most influential forerunner of today's feminist movement, who nonetheless seemed to live in the shadow of the great man. So goes one of the great cultural legends of today. The only problem, Kate and Edward Fullbrook argue, is that it is wrong. This biography of de Beauvoir and Sartre uses newly available documentary evidence in diaries and letters to shed new light on precisely who was the dominant partner in this peculiar relationship. The book shows that both intellectually and sexually, de Beauvoir led and Sartre followed. [via]
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Statesman and Saintby Jasper RidleyISBN 0517484862 (0-517-48486-2)
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Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinal: His Life and Deathby George CavendishISBN 0460041436 (0-460-04143-6)
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To Sir, With Loveby Edward Ricardo BraithwaiteISBN 0515105198 (0-515-10519-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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A Tramp Abroadby Mark TwainISBN 0486424456 (0-486-42445-6)
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Vernon Can Read!: A Memoirby Vernon E. Jordan, Annette Gordon-ReedISBN 046503697X (0-465-03697-X)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Virginia Woolf and Her Worldby John LehmannISBN 0500130515 (0-500-13051-5)
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Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0460111043 (0-460-11104-3)
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Walker Evansby James R. MellowISBN 0465090788 (0-465-09078-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walker Evans'Book summary:Before his death in 1997, James Mellow left one last gracefully written, sensitively nuanced biography to add to a shelf containing National Book Award winner Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times and a remarkable trilogy on seminal figures of the Lost Generation. Mellow's biography of photographer Walker Evans (1903-1977) is just as nimble in making connections between an individual life and the cultural trends it reflected and affected. Although he will always be best remembered for the austere images of Depression-era poverty that accompanied James Agee's prose in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Evans was a nondidactic social realist. "I love to find American vernacular," he once remarked, and Mellow's subtle analysis of Evans's work shows his fastidiously uninflected photographic style being mistaken for a "documentary." In fact, the images' psychological intensity and formal sophistication make the photographs far more than simple records of a time or place. Mellow does not neglect Evans's turbulent personal life, including two divorces and a drinking problem, and is astute about the role in his success of collaborators like Agee, "more ambitious, more hard-headed, more informed about opportunities and better placed to make use of them." Each page and elegantly turned sentence proclaims Mellow's mastery of the biographical craft; he will be sorely missed. --Wendy Smith [via]
Whatever Became Of...by Richard LamparskiISBN 0517548550 (0-517-54855-0)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysisby Richard WebsterISBN 0465091288 (0-465-09128-8)
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