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Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biographyby Peter GreenISBN 0520071662 (0-520-07166-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography'Book summary:There's no shortage of biographies available on Alexander the Great, but Peter Green's Alexander of Macedon is one of the finest. The prose is crisp and clear, and within a few pages readers become absorbed in the world that made Alexander, and then the story of how Alexander remade it. Green writes, "Alexander's true genius was as a field-commander: perhaps, taken all in all, the most incomparable general the world has ever seen. His gift for speed, improvisation, variety of strategy; his cool-headedness in a crisis; his ability to extract himself from the most impossible situations; his mastery of terrain; his psychological ability to penetrate the enemy's intentions--all these qualities place him at the very head of the Great Captains of history." [via]
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- Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography: ISBN 0140216901 (0-14-021690-1)
Hardcover, Penguin - Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography: ISBN 0520071654 (0-520-07165-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography: ISBN 0520071662 (0-520-07166-2)
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- Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography: ISBN 0140216901 (0-14-021690-1)
Anais Nin: A Biographyby Deirdre BairISBN 0140255257 (0-14-025525-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anais Nin: A Biography'Book summary:The National Book Award-winning author of Samuel Beckett draws on unprecedented access to unpublished archives and journals to provide an incisive portrait of the controversial author, her literary work, and her complex personal life. [via]
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Courtney Love: The Real Storyby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 0684848007 (0-684-84800-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Courtney Love the Real Story'Book summary:Poppy Z. Brite, better known for her punk-gothic horror and dreadful taste in clothing (the jacket photo shows her looking like a reject from a 1985 audition for a Cure video) here gets her hands on something much scarier than club-hopping vampires: the life of Courtney Love. Born Love Michelle Harrison, Courtney's childhood combines the worst of doped-up hippie parenting with her innate autism to produce a life that could only lead to rock-and-roll stardom. Starting with her first acid trip at age 4, administered by her father, a paragon of parental responsibility, Courtney went on to four name changes, two years in juvenile detention, a trip to Japan courtesy of a white slave ring, living with gloom rockers in Liverpool, and a melange of drugs and sexual experiments all prior to leaving her teens. This makes for quite the page-turner--in a guilty sort of way and in spite of Poppy Z.'s occasionally cutesy-teen prose: "Courtney Love has always been surrounded by chaos, triumph, pain, and glamour." Still, in spite of the taboo of reading celebrity bios, this one stands out because of the truly odd and, perhaps, innovative life of its subject. Not simply a rock-and-roll musical bedrooms romp, Love's life is far enough out of the mainstream, or even the alternate streams, to offer challenges to many of the values we take for granted in living our lives. Things such as safety, stability, and even hygiene are thrown out the window in a life that reads like the outsider fiction of Hesse or Kerouac, only with more electric guitars. [via]
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Crazy Horse: A Lifeby Larry McMurtryISBN 0143034804 (0-14-303480-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy Horse: A Life'Book summary:In writing his superb life of Crazy Horse, Larry McMurtry faced the same obstacle as every previous biographer of the Oglala Sioux icon: a notable paucity of facts. This didn't inhibit such chroniclers as Mari Sandoz or Stephen Ambrose (whose dual portrait of Crazy Horse and George Custer featured a certain amount of authorial ventriloquism). In this case, however, the shortage of documentation actually works to the reader's advantage. Unencumbered by reams of scholarly detail, McMurtry's book has the shapeliness and inevitability of a fine novella. The author may describe it as an "exercise in assumption, conjecture, and surmise"--but his phrase does scant justice to this elegant, admirably scrupulous portrait.
As McMurtry recounts, Crazy Horse was born around 1840 in what is now South Dakota. Already the arrival of white settlers--who brought with them such mixed blessings as metal tools, firearms, and smallpox--had begun to transform the culture of the Plains Indians. But soon a more ominous note crept into the relationship: "The Plains Indians were beginning to be seen as mobile impediments; what they stood in the way of was progress, a concept dear to the American politician." As whites sought to remove these impediments with increasing brutality, Crazy Horse led his people in a sporadic and ultimately doomed resistance, which peaked at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Within a year the young warrior (and occasional visionary) had surrendered to the United States Army. Four months later he was dead, stabbed in a highly suspicious scuffle with white and Indian policemen, and the Sioux resistance died with its legendary leader.
McMurtry's powers of compression are formidable. In no more than a few rapid paragraphs, he gives a sense of how this "prairie Platonist" divided the world into transient things and eternal, invisible spirits. He also conveys his opinion of Caucasian double-dealing with fine, acerbic efficiency: "In August, Custer emerged and described the beauties of the Black Hills in mouthwatering terms. In another life he would have made a wonderful real-estate developer. In this case he sold one of the most beautiful pieces of real estate in the West to a broke, depressed public who couldn't wait to get into those hills and start scratching up gold." McMurtry's Crazy Horse is the leanest and least rhetorical version yet of this American tragedy--which makes it, oddly enough, among the most moving. --James Marcus [via]
Danteby R. W. B. LewisISBN 0670899097 (0-670-89909-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Down and Out in Paris and Londonby George OrwellISBN 015626224X (0-15-626224-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down and Out in Paris and London'Book summary:What was a nice Eton boy like Eric Blair doing in scummy slums instead of being upwardly mobile at Oxford or Cambridge? Living Down and Out in Paris and London, repudiating respectable imperialist society, and reinventing himself as George Orwell. His 1933 debut book (ostensibly a novel, but overwhelmingly autobiographical) was rejected by that elitist publisher T.S. Eliot, perhaps because its close-up portrait of lowlife was too pungent for comfort.
In Paris, Orwell lived in verminous rooms and washed dishes at the overpriced "Hotel X," in a remarkably filthy, 110-degree kitchen. He met "eccentric people--people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent." Though Orwell's tone is that of an outraged reformer, it's surprising how entertaining many of his adventures are: gnawing poverty only enlivens the imagination, and the wild characters he met often swindled each other and themselves. The wackiest tale involves a miser who ate cats, wore newspapers for underwear, invested 6,000 francs in cocaine, and hid it in a face-powder tin when the cops raided. They had to free him, because the apparently controlled substance turned out to be face powder instead of cocaine.
In London, Orwell studied begging with a crippled expert named Bozo, a great storyteller and philosopher. Orwell devotes a chapter to the fine points of London guttersnipe slang. Years later, he would put his lexical bent to work by inventing Newspeak, and draw on his down-and-out experience to evoke the plight of the Proles in 1984. Though marred by hints of unexamined anti-Semitism, Orwell's debut remains, as The Nation put it, "the most lucid portrait of poverty in the English language." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Herby Melanie RehakISBN 015603056X (0-15-603056-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her'Book summary:A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. In this century-spanning story, Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman. [via]
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The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerdby John PiperISBN 1581342470 (1-58134-247-0)
Hardcover, Crossway Books
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Hitler: A Study in Tyrannyby Alan BullockISBN 0060920203 (0-06-092020-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler: A Study in Tyranny'Book summary:This book covers the whole of Hitler's life, from his obscure beginnings through his advance to supreme absolute power and then his final decline and suicide in the bunker as Russian shells fell around him. Bullock divides the narrative into three main sections. The first deals with Hitler's early life, his rise to party leader in the years following the First World War, and his gaining of the Chancellorship in 1933. The second part describes how he consolidated his position and extended his power once he was in office. The third and final part is about his actions in the Second World War. [via]
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Livesby Alan BullockISBN 0679729941 (0-679-72994-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives'Book summary:Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by chapter, often paragraph by paragraph, as Bullock has done...a triumph of organization, lucidity and perspective.' John Campbell, The Times 'Compulsive reading. The sweep is broad and the information concisely conveyed without any sign of pedantry...a titanic narrative history.' Zara Steiner, Financial Times 'An astonishing feat of organization, brilliantly illuminating the tragic history of the twentieth century.' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'If you knew nothing about the twentieth century and were allowed one book to bone up on it, this would have to be it.' Alex Campbell, Daily Mail [via]
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Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secretby Gregg Lewis, Hudson Taylor, Geraldine TaylorISBN 0929239202 (0-929239-20-2)
Softcover, Discovery House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret'Book summary:Discover Hudson Taylor, a pioneer missionary to China, who suffered tribulation, hardship, poverty, and misunderstanding. But at his heart, he loved the Chinese people and learned through his misfortunes to trust God completely. Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret is a stirring biography that challenges you to live a life of faith. [via]
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Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secretby Hudson TaylorISBN 0802400299 (0-8024-0029-9)
Softcover, Moody Pub
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I Am Spockby Leonard NimoyISBN 0786889101 (0-7868-8910-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am Spock'Book summary:Filled with behind-the-scenes anecdotes about his years on the Star Trek television series as the remorselessly logical Dr. Spock, the actor and director reflects on his relationship to his hugely popular character. National ad/promo. Tour. [via]
The Illustrated Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0712624058 (0-7126-2405-8)
Hardcover, Cresset Press
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 1406510017 (1-4065-1001-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" was one of the first of the personal slave narratives. At the time this book was first published Harriet Jacobs was living as an escaped slave in the North, a precarious position given the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Originally published under the pseudonym Linda Brent, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a gripping first hand account of the brutality endured by slaves and one of the few ever written by a woman. [via]
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Softcover, Harcourt - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ISBN 0195066707 (0-19-506670-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ISBN 0451527526 (0-451-52752-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ISBN 0486419312 (0-486-41931-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ISBN 0195052439 (0-19-505243-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ISBN 0674002784 (0-674-00278-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself: ISBN 067444745X (0-674-44745-X)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ISBN 1406510017 (1-4065-1001-7)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Contexts, Criticismby Nellie Y. McKay, Harriet Jacobs, Frances Smith FosterISBN 0393976378 (0-393-97637-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Contexts, Criticism'Book summary:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America.
The text is that of the 1861 first edition. Contexts includes contemporary responses to Incidents, selections from Jacobs's other published writings, and extracts from her correspondence. Criticism includes eleven important assessments of the narrative, contributed by Jean Fagan Yellin, Ann Taves, Valerie Smith, Nellie Y. McKay, Harryette Mullen, Michelle Burnham, Nell Irvin Painter, Frances Smith Foster, Sandra Gunning, Elizabeth V. Spelman, and Christine Accomando. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. [via]More editions of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Contexts, Criticism:
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herselfby John Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, John S. JacobsISBN 0674002717 (0-674-00271-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself'Book summary:THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.
This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Importantly, it presents the people, places, and events Harriet Jacobs wrote about from the different perspective of a male narrator. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. She has also brought her Introduction up to date.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: Written by Herselfby L.Maria Child, Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 0674447468 (0-674-44746-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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It Doesn't Take a Heroby H.Norman SchwarzkopfISBN 0553563386 (0-553-56338-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Karl Marx: His Life and Environmentby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0195103262 (0-19-510326-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Karl Marx: His Life and Environment'Book summary:First published over fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin's compelling portrait of the father of socialism has long been considered a classic of modern scholarship and the best short account written of Marx's life and thought. It provides a penetrating, lucid, and comprehensive introduction to Marx as theorist of the socialist revolution, illuminating his personality and ideas, and concentrating on those which have historically formed the central core of Marxism as a theory and practice. Berlin goes on to present an account of Marx's life as one of the most influential and incendiary social philosophers of the twentieth century and depicts the social and political atmosphere in which Marx wrote.
This edition includes a new introduction by Alan Ryan which traces the place of Berlin's Marx from its pre-World War II publication to the present, and elucidates why Berlin's portrait, in the midst of voluminous writings about Marx, remains the classic account of the personal and political side of this monumental figure. [via]More editions of Karl Marx: His Life and Environment:
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La Prisonniere: Twenty Years in a Desert Goalby Ros Schwartz, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Malika Oufkir, Michele FitoussiISBN 0553813021 (0-553-81302-1)
Hardcover, Bantam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Prisonniere: Twenty Years in a Desert Goal'Book summary:La Prisonniere topped the French bestseller lists for many weeks, selling well over 100,000 copies, but one's initial reaction is that something must have got lost in the translation. The style is dour, to say the least, and the opening chapters contain a catalogue of unnecessary family information that may have the reader nodding off. Curiously, though, as the pace of the action heats up, the deadness of the prose comes into its own. This is not a story that needs to be oversold and reads all the better for its minimalist delivery. The bare bones of the book are classic derring-do adventure, and Hollywood almost certainly has its eyes on the film rights--complete with American cast.
Malika Oufkir was born into a well-connected Moroccan family and when she was five years old she was chosen to be the special companion of Lalla Mina, King Muhammad V's daughter. Malika was taken away from her family and remained confined within the palace at Rabat for 14 years. She then had two years of vague normality before her father, General Oufkir, was implicated in an assassination attempt on Muhammad's successor, King Hassan II. The General was executed and Malika and the rest of her family were slung into a remote desert gaol where they remained for 15 years. Their release was only secured after they tunnelled their way out of the prison and remained at liberty for five days. The resulting furore after their recapture led to the family being transferred to house arrest and it was not until 1996 that the they were able to leave the country.
If the action drives the narrative, it is the clashes between Middle-Eastern and Western culture that are the most telling. Even in the 1960s, it was de rigueur for the King to have a harem full of concubines, and throughout the book one senses the tension between the materialistic, hedonistic indulgence of the ruling elite and their conformity to Muslim culture. Oufkir is a keen observer of her own injustices, but is rather slower on the uptake when it comes to the wider injustices of a despotic regime. --John Crace [via]
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Letters from Africa 1914-1931by Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson, Anne BornISBN 0226153118 (0-226-15311-8)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'Book summary:"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out of Africa (1937). They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world."Bruce Allen, Christian Science Monitor[via]
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Lucky Man: A Memoirby Michael J. FoxISBN 0786888741 (0-7868-8874-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky Man: A Memoir'Book summary:The same sharp intelligence and self-deprecating wit that made Michael J. Fox a star in the Family Ties TV series and Back to the Future make this a lot punchier than the usual up-from-illness celebrity memoir. Yes, he begins with the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the incurable illness that led to his retirement from Spin City (and acting) in 2000. And yes, he assures us he is a better, happier person now than he was before he was diagnosed. In Fox's case, you actually might believe it, because he then cheerfully exposes the insecurities and self-indulgences of his pre-Parkinson's life in a manner that makes them not glamorous but wincingly ordinary and of course very funny. ("As for the question, 'Does it bother you that maybe she just wants to sleep with you because you're a celebrity?' My answer to that one was, 'Ah...nope.'") With a working-class Canadian background, Fox has an unusually detached perspective on the madness of mass-media fame; his description of the tabloid feeding frenzy surrounding his 1988 wedding to Tracy Pollan, for example, manages to be both acid and matter-of-fact. He is frank but not maudlin about his drinking problem, and he refreshingly notes that getting sober did not automatically solve all his other problems. This readable, witty autobiography reminds you why it was generally a pleasure to watch Fox onscreen: he's a nice guy with an edge, and you don't have to feel embarrassed about liking him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the Worldby Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0374528888 (0-374-52888-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World'Book summary:In the late 1700s, five gifted inventors and amateur scholars in Birmingham, England, came together for what one of them, Erasmus Darwin, called "a little philosophical laughing." They also helped kick-start the industrial revolution, as Jenny Uglow relates in the lively The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. Their "Lunar Society" included Joseph Priestley, the chemist who isolated oxygen; James Watt, the Scottish inventor of the steam engine; and Josiah Wedgwood, whose manufacture of pottery created the industrial model for the next century. Joined by other "toymakers" and scholarly tinkerers, they concocted schemes for building great canals and harnessing the power of electricity, coined words such as "hydrogen" and "iridescent," shared theories and bank accounts, fended off embezzlers and industrial spies, and forged a fine "democracy of knowledge." And they had a fine time doing so, proving that scholars need not be dullards or eccentrics asocial.
Uglow's spirited look at this group of remarkable "lunaticks" captures a critical, short-lived moment of early modern history. Readers who share their conviction that knowledge brings power will find this book a rewarding adventure. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Leeby Charles J. ShieldsISBN 0805083197 (0-8050-8319-7)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee'Book summary:"A fine, well-rounded portrait of Harper Lee. Mockingbird is good reading."Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)
To Kill a Mockingbirdthe twentieth century's most widely read American novelhas sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite her book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee, has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields brings to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable charactersAtticus Finch and his daughter, Scout.
At the center of Shields's evocative, lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel, but her colorful life contains many highlightsher girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Truman Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of In Cold Blood. Mockingbirdunique, highly entertaining, filled with humor and heartis a wide-ranging, idiosyncratic portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.
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Mozart: A Lifeby Maynard SolomonISBN 0060190469 (0-06-019046-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart: A Life'Book summary:Perhaps the most important Mozart biography ever written, this book is subtle, rich-textured, endlessly stimulating and provocative -- just like the man's music. [via]
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Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophetby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0062508865 (0-06-250886-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Muhammad : A Biography of the Prophet'Book summary:FROM THE BACK COVER: "NOW IN PAPERBACK FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HOLY WAR AND A HISTORY OF GOD, A FRESH, EVENHANDED BIOGRAPHY OF THE FOUNDER OF ISLAM, THE RELIGION THAT CONTINUES TO HAVE A DRAMATIC EFFECT ON THE WORLD TODAY. "A METICULOUS QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL MUHAMMAD....THIS SYMPATHETIC, ENGROSSING BIOGRAPHY PORTRAYS MUHAMMAD AS A PASSIONATE, COMPLEX, FALLIBLE HUMAN BEING--A CHARISMATIC LEADER POSSESSED OF POLITICAL AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND A PROPHET WHOSE MONOTHEISTIC VISION INTUITIVELY ANSWERED THE DEEPEST LONGINGS OF HIS PEOPLE."---PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "RESPECTFUL WITHOUT BEING REVERENTIAL, KNOWLEDGABLE WITHOUT BEING PEDANTIC, AND ABOVE ALL, READABLE. IT SUCCEEDS BECAUSE (ARMSTRONG) BRING MUHAMMAD TO LIFE AS A FULLY ROUNDED HUMAN BEING."--THE ECONOMIST "THIS PORTRAYAL OF THE PROPHET OF ISLAM AND THE SETTING FROM WHICH HE EMERGED WILL CAPTIVATE AND ENLIGHTEN GENERAL READERS WITH A NEWFOUND UNDERSTANDING OF MODERN EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST."--LIBRARY JOURNAL "A FRESH, WELL-WRITTEN, AND OFTEN INSIGHTFUL ACCOUNT WHOSE TEN CHAPTERS GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS, EXPERIENCES, AND MOTIVATIONS OF MUHAMMAD."--CHOICE." [via]
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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Timeby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0060598972 (0-06-059897-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0679600213 (0-679-60021-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa'Book summary:This is an illustrated memoir of Karen Blixen's life in Kenya, where she ran a coffee plantation at Ngong, initially with her husband until their divorce in 1921, and then on her own until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931. Fully illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs as well as drawings by a present-day Kenyan artist, the book is a portrait of day to day life on a struggling coffee plantation, eccentric European settlers, the Africans and the beauty and wildness of the land. "Out of Africa" was released as a feature film in 1985, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack. Other works by Karen Blixen published under her pen name Isak Dinesen include "Seven Gothic Tales", "The Angelic Avengers", "Winter's Tales", "Anecdotes of Destiny", "Shadows on the Grass", "Ehrengard" and a collection of her letters, "Letters from Africa". [via]
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- Out of Africa: ISBN 0394717406 (0-394-71740-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Out of Africa: ISBN 0809435985 (0-8094-3598-5)
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Hardcover, Random House Inc - Out of Africa: ISBN 0712610162 (0-7126-1016-2)
Hardcover, Century - Out of Africa: ISBN 0809435977 (0-8094-3597-7)
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Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grassby Isak DinesenISBN 0679724753 (0-679-72475-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass'Book summary:With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. [via]
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Queen Victoria: From Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consortby Smith Woodham, Cecil BlancheISBN 0917657950 (0-917657-95-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Queen Victoria:Her Life and Times: Her Life and Timesby Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham SmithISBN 0241022002 (0-241-02200-2)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Queen Victoria, from Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consortby Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham SmithISBN 039448245X (0-394-48245-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughesby Janet MalcolmISBN 0679751408 (0-679-75140-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Spiritual Secret of Hudson Taylorby Howard TaylorISBN 0883689502 (0-88368-950-2)
Softcover, Whitaker House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spiritual Secret of Hudson Taylor'Book summary:It is possible to live a life that is totally dependent on Christ for everything. The many miraculous answers to prayer that missionary Hudson Taylor experienced are exciting testimonies of God¿s gracious provision. Discover how you, too, can overcome hardships, experience miracles, and enjoy a life of contagious faith and joy. [via]
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jailby Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi, Ros SchwartzISBN 0786886307 (0-7868-8630-7)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail'Book summary:A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller--the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and remarkable life. Born in 1953, Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide. Adopted by the king at the age of five, Malika spent most of her childhood and adolescence in the seclusion of the court harem, one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom, surrounded by luxury and extraordinary privilege. Then, on August 16, 1972, her father was arrested and executed after an attempt to assassinate the king. Malika, her five younger brothers and sisters. and her mother were immediately imprisoned in a desert penal colony. After fifteen years, the last ten of which they spent locked up in solitary cells, the Oufkir children managed to dig a tunnel with their bare hands and make an audacious escape. Recaptured after five days, Malika was finally able to leave Morocco and begin a new life in exile in 1996. A heartrending account in the face of extreme deprivation and the courage with which one family faced its fate, Stolen Lives is an unforgettable story of one woman's journey to freedom. [via]
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Tolstoyby Henri Troyat, Nancy AmphouxISBN 0802137687 (0-8021-3768-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Tolstoy Pby Henri TroyatISBN 0517540924 (0-517-54092-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Two Livesby Vikram SethISBN 0060599677 (0-06-059967-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Lives'Book summary:Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living writers, Vikram Seth -- author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy -- tells the heartrending true story of a friendship, a marriage, and a century. Weaving together the strands of two extraordinary lives -- Shanti Behari Seth, an immigrant from India who came to Berlin to study in the 1930s, and Helga Gerda Caro, the young German Jewish woman he befriended and later married -- Two Lives is both a history of a violent era seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of a complex, abiding love.
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The Virgin Queenby Christopher HibbertISBN 0201608170 (0-201-60817-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin Queen'Book summary:An intimate portrait of history's most fascinating monarch. Christopher Hibbert's Elizabeth I is a revelation--a genius and world leader, presiding over one of Europe's most glittering ages, singing, riding to the hunt, composing verse, summoning armadas, dealing coldly with traitors. "A well-rounded and well-written study . . . an excellent introduction to a remarkable woman".--The Observer. Four-color insert. [via]
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Yearsby Brian BoydISBN 0691024707 (0-691-02470-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years'Book summary:This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of 20th-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of "Lolita." In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, Nabokov's education at Cambridge, and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee, with wife and son, to the U.S.
This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokov's Russian years and Russian worlds, pre-revolutionary and emigre. In the course of his 10 years' work on the biography, Boyd traveled along Nabokov's trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress, he also interviewed at length Nabokov's family and scores of his friends and associates.
For the general reader, Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man, his works, and his world. For the specialist, he provides a basis for all future research on Nabokov's life and art, as he dates and describes the composition of all Nabokov's works, published and unpublished. Boyd investigates Nabokov's relation to and his independence from his time, examines the special structures of his mind and thought, and explains the relations between his philosophy andhis innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction, dramas, memoirs, and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar, while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between Nabokov's life and the themes and subjects of his art. [via]
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Yeagerby Leo Janos, Chuck YeagerISBN 0553050931 (0-553-05093-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yeager: An Autobiography'Book summary:General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff.
Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before.
The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wondeful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him best. It is the personal and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero.
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Yeager: An Autobiographyby Chuck YeagerISBN 0553256742 (0-553-25674-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before.
The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wondeful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him best. It is the personal and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero. [via]More editions of Yeager: An Autobiography:
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La Prisonniereby Malika Oufkir, Michele FitoussiISBN 2246528313 (2-246-52831-3)
Hardcover, Grasset
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Prisonniere'Book summary:Août 1972, un coup d'État est tenté contre le roi du Maroc Hassan II. Son ministre le plus fidèle, le Général Oufkir, est alors impliqué dans l'attentat et trouve la mort dans de mystérieuses circonstances. Commence alors pour sa femme et ses cinq enfants un calvaire qui durera près de quinze ans. Assignés à résidence, emprisonnés, séparés les uns des autres et isolés de tout contact avec le monde, ils parviennent malgré tout à survivre et à s'échapper. L'aînée des enfants du Général, Malika Oufkir, adoptée à l'âge de cinq ans par le roi Mohammed V - père de Hassan II - aura connu la cage dorée des honneurs et des fastes de la vie royale, privée de sa vraie famille. Mais elle aura aussi connu le cachot, l'isolement, la faim, la survie et l'humiliation des exclus, entourée des siens, en châtiment d'un crime qui n'est pas le sien.
Grâce à l'aide et l'amitié de Michèle Fitoussi, écrivain et journaliste, Malika Oufkir nous ouvre sa mémoire, ses souvenirs d'enfant chérie de la cour ou de "bannie", n'omettant rien des souffrances de sa famille. Le combat, le courage, la fierté, apparaissent à chaque ligne de ce témoignage poignant d'une femme au destin hors du commun, qui a reçu en 1999 le prix des Maisons de la presse. --Marine Segalen [via]
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LA Prisonniereby Malika OukfirISBN 0385601638 (0-385-60163-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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