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The American Presidentsby David C. WhitneyISBN 0385185251 (0-385-18525-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technologyby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385177712 (0-385-17771-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Augustus John: The New Biographyby Michael HolroydISBN 0374102554 (0-374-10255-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Augustus John: The New Biography'Book summary:[via]Drawing on the mass of new material which has come to light since the first edition was published in 1974, this revised biography presents a detailed account of the passionate and unruly life of the bohemian British painter, Augustus John, and his circle.More editions of Augustus John: The New Biography:
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Heartsby Julian RubinsteinISBN 0316010731 (0-316-01073-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Belle And Sebastian: Just A Modern Rock Storyby PAUL WHITELAWISBN 0312341377 (0-312-34137-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Bernsteinby Joan PeyserISBN 0345352963 (0-345-35296-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608by Mary S. LovellISBN 0316724823 (0-316-72482-3)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Blue Highwaysby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0316353299 (0-316-35329-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Highways'Book summary:Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published. [via]
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Blue Highways: A Journey into Americaby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0316353957 (0-316-35395-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Highways: A Journey into America'Book summary:First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."
Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, "whose cap told me what fertilizer he used" to Scott Chisholm, "a Canadian citizen ... [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn't admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first 'came over' that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love." Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon's literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored. [via]
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Beforeby Tony HorwitzISBN 0312422601 (0-312-42260-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before'Book summary:Captain James Cook's three epic 18th-century explorations of the Pacific Ocean were the last of their kind, literally completing the map of the world. Yet despite his monumental discoveries, principally in the South Pacific, Cook the man has remained an enigma. In retracing key legs of the circumnavigator's journey, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the cultural and environmental havoc wrought by the captain's opening of the unspoiled Pacific to the West, as well as the alternately indifferent and passionate reactions Cook's name evokes during the writer's journeys through Polynesia, Australia, the Aleutians, and the explorer's native England. Horwitz skillfully weaves a biography and travel narrative with warm humor that is natural and human-scale, and his restless inquisitiveness quickly infects the reader. While striking dichotomies abound throughout that journey--Maori toughs who adopt Nazi imagery to symbolize their own fight against white domination, millennia-old Polynesian sexual mores that would shame the Reeperbahn, a sense that Christianity decimated native cultures at least as effectively as Western venereal diseases did--few are more poignant than the ones that abound in Cook's own life. This fine work is an adventurous reminder that answers to historical riddles are elusive at best--and seldom as compelling as the myriad new questions they pose. --Jerry McCulley [via]
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Caravaggioby Helen LangdonISBN 0374118949 (0-374-11894-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caravaggio'Book summary:Seventeenth-century painter Nicolas Poussin once said that Caravaggio came into the world to destroy painting. Helen Langdon's marvelous biography suggests that rather than destroying painting, the Milanese artist gave it a new lease on life. Upon his arrival in Rome, Caravaggio ended a tradition of Italian Renaissance painting with his radically new naturalistic style, which continues to dazzle and influence viewers today. Beautifully poised between biographical scholarship and artistic appreciation, Langdon's book provides the reader with a complex, fascinating portrait of Caravaggio, still the rebel and outsider of the popular imagination, but also immersed in the Roman world of art, politics, and patronage. Some of the finest sections of the book vividly evoke the streets and brothels of early 17th-century Rome, which provided Caravaggio with the inspiration for many of his early works. By contrast, the later sections--which deal with Caravaggio's exile and commissions in Naples, Malta, and Sicily--seem rather brief and truncated, giving the final third of the book a rather unbalanced feel. This is, however, partly due to the elusiveness of Caravaggio himself--with little direct contemporary documentation on the painter, he often slips into the shadows, evading the scrutiny of even the most persistent biographer.
Langdon's achievement here is to produce a compelling portrait of the artist that throws new light on his paintings. Here is a painter who was proud, difficult, and arrogant, yet highly intellectual in his appreciation of the changing face of both Catholicism and scientific enquiry. Written with great historical clarity, and supplemented by 42 magnificent color illustrations, Helen Langdon's Caravaggio is a worthy contribution to scholarly study of this artist. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Cat Who Came for Christmasby Cleveland Amory, Edith AllardISBN 0316058211 (0-316-05821-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Charlemagneby Derek A. WilsonISBN 0385516703 (0-385-51670-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlemagne'Book summary:Charlemagne is seen by historians as the bridge between ancient and modern Europe. His Holy Roman Empire was the embodiment of an ideal that inspired leaders as different as Charles V, Napoleon, and Hitler, each of whom sought to make a unified Europe a reality again in his own time.
In this new biography, the first major study of Charlemagne in more than twenty-five years, Derek Wilson provides an absorbing and lively account of his life, character, and accomplishments. Charlemagne transcends every notion we have of the traditional historical hero. A military strategist of Julius Caesars caliber, he had no knowledge of classical history. A ruler with the sagacity of Marcus Aurelius, he ordered summary executions more reminiscent of Caligula or Nero. A devout believer who ensured the survival of Christianity in the West, he considered himself above the Church, sired numerous bastard children, and generated accusations of incest.
As Wilson describes a Church divided between the Latin West, with its capital in Rome, and the Greek Church of the East, with its capital in Constantinople, we see not only the emergence of Europe but the trials of a Church in flux. The politics of the day were in constant play and were mastered by Charlemagne with cunning and force. By marrying the military might of his army to the spiritual might of the Church in Rome, Charlemagne dominated his world and forged Western Christendom.
Written by one of Englands most respected biographers, Charlemagne is a masterful, multidimensional portrait of a great historical figurea man whose earthly passions were surpassed only by his religious devotion, and whose religious devotion was exceeded only by his will to power. [via]More editions of Charlemagne:
Charles Darwin: A New Lifeby John BowlbyISBN 0393029409 (0-393-02940-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Wellesby Frank BradyISBN 0385267592 (0-385-26759-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Damien the Leperby John FarrowISBN 0385265123 (0-385-26512-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damien the Leper'Book summary:The great adventure of Damien the Leper began quietly over a century ago. Since then, his remarkable story has become legend throughout the world.
Joseph De Veuster left his secure life in Belgium, thrusting aside all thoughts of personal danger and spending the rest of his days as Father Damien comforting the sick and the dying. Though virtually entombed among the living dead of a leper colony on the island of Molokai, Father Damien managed to find beauty and enchantment in the lush surroundings. His extraordinary journey of the spirit comes to life in John Farrow's splendid biography, which has become a classic over the years and is sure to endure as long as people thrill to deeds of valor and pay homage to the great spiritual truths so perfectly reflected in this unforgettable story of courage, sacrifice, and devotion. [via]-
Desert Solitaireby Edward AbbeyISBN 0345326490 (0-345-32649-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desert Solitaire'Book summary:a passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty."the new york times bookreviewedward abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at moab, utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again [via]
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Dickens: A Biographyby Fred KaplanISBN 0380708965 (0-380-70896-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Embroideriesby Marjane SatrapiISBN 0375714677 (0-375-71467-7)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embroideries'Book summary:From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjanes tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.
As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake ones virginity, how to escape an arranged marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to delight in being a mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, keep a man or, most importantly, keep up appearances.
Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers and will strike us as at once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhereand to teach us all a thing or two. [via] 
Emma's Warby Deborah ScrogginsISBN 0375703772 (0-375-70377-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Emma's War : An Aid Worker, a Warlod, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Story of Love and Death in Sudanby Deborah ScrogginsISBN 0375403973 (0-375-40397-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Enduranceby Caroline AlexanderISBN 0375404031 (0-375-40403-1)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Endurance'Book summary:Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley, The Endurance by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent. But their ship, Endurance, was trapped in the drifting pack ice, eventually to splinter, leaving the expedition stranded on floes--a situation that seemed "not merely desperate but impossible."
Most skillfully Alexander constructs the expedition's character through its personalities--the cast of veteran explorers, scientists, and crew--with aid from many previously unavailable journals and documents. We learn, for instance, that carpenter and shipwright Henry McNish, or "Chippy," was "neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant," and that Mrs. Chippy, his cat, was "full of character." Such firsthand descriptions, paired with 170 of Frank Hurley's intimate photographs, which are comprehensively assembled here for the first time, penetrate the hulls of the Endurance and these tough men. The account successfully reveals the seldom-seen domestic world of expedition life--the singsongs, feasts, lectures, camaraderie--so that when the hardships set in, we know these people beyond the stereotypical guise of mere explorers and long for their safety.
Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about. The Endurance is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Readers will possess a newfound respect for these daring souls, know better their unthinkable toil and half-forgotten realm of glory. --Byron Ricks [via]
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A Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian Bounty Mutineerby Glynn ChristianISBN 0316140635 (0-316-14063-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Freud for Beginnersby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar ZarateISBN 037571460X (0-375-71460-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freud for Beginners'Book summary:The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday
Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id -- but somehow it slipped your mind.
Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life and thought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionized our attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex, and culture. This documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world of late-nineteenth-century Vienna in which Freud grew up. We explore his early background in science, his work as a therapist, his encounter with cocaine, and his theories on the unconscious, dreams, the Oedipus Complex, and sexuality.
We meet his family, his friend and enemies, and his patients -- The Rat Man, Anna O., Little Hans -- and we get an insider's view as the psychoanalytic movement is launched. The zany art and probing text do an extraordinary job of simplifying Freud without trivializing him. [via]More editions of Freud for Beginners:
George Washingtonby Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'AulaireISBN 0385241070 (0-385-24107-0)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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George's Ghosts: A New Life of W.B. Yeatsby Brenda MaddoxISBN 0330376527 (0-330-37652-7)
Hardcover, Picador
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Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Familyby William St. ClairISBN 039302783X (0-393-02783-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family'Book summary:This is a biography of one of the most influential families in the history of ideas. William Godwin's treatise on liberalism, "Political Justice", brought the ideas of the French Revolution to Britain. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" by his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, marked the start of the modern women's movement. At a time when Godwin's early achievements had been largely pushed aside, the poet Shelley ran off with his daughter, Mary Godwin, who wrote "Frankenstein". The book is based on an exploration of the vast family archives. Amongst other discoveries, the author has decoded a secret diary recording Godwin's sexual relationship with his wife. In the case of a family who in their writings advocated greater sexual freedom, this information has more than a personal interest. [via]
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Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhoodby Martin BoothISBN 0312426267 (0-312-42626-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood'Book summary:At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet. His father was posted there in 1952, and this memoir is his telling of that youth, a time when he had access to the corners of a colony normally closed to a "Gweilo," a "pale fellow" like him.[via]
His experiences were colorful and vast. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learned Cantonese, sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs, and participated in vibrant festivals. He even entered the forbidden Kowloon Walled City, wandered into a secret lair of Triads, and visited an opium den.
From the plink-plonk man with his dancing monkey to the Queen of Kowloon (a crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin Booth saw it all---but his memoir illustrates the deeper challenges he faced in his warring parents: a broad-minded mother who embraced all things Chinese and a bigoted father who was enraged by his family's interest in "going native."
Martin Booth's compelling memoir, the last book he completed before dying, glows with infectious curiosity and humor and is an intimate representation of the now extinct time and place of his growing up.More editions of Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood:
The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabiaby Lawrence JamesISBN 0349106738 (0-349-10673-8)
Softcover, Abacus
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolutionby Steven LevyISBN 0385312105 (0-385-31210-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hackers : Heroes of the Computer Revolution'Book summary:Steven Levy's classic book explains why the misuse of the word "hackers" to describe computer criminals does a terrible disservice to many important shapers of the digital revolution. Levy follows members of an MIT model railroad club--a group of brilliant budding electrical engineers and computer innovators--from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. These eccentric characters used the term "hack" to describe a clever way of improving the electronic system that ran their massive railroad. And as they started designing clever ways to improve computer systems, "hack" moved over with them. These maverick characters were often fanatics who did not always restrict themselves to the letter of the law and who devoted themselves to what became known as "The Hacker Ethic." The book traces the history of hackers, from finagling access to clunky computer-card-punching machines to uncovering the inner secrets of what would become the Internet. This story of brilliant, eccentric, flawed, and often funny people devoted to their dream of a better world will appeal to a wide audience. [via]
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Hammett: A Life at the Edgeby William NolanISBN 0312922817 (0-312-92281-7)
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Hawthorne: A Lifeby Brenda WineappleISBN 0375400443 (0-375-40044-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hawthorne: A Life'Book summary:Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. Deep as Dante, Herman Melville said.
Hawthorne himself declared that he was not one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. He always puts himself in his books, said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, he cannot help it. His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow.
In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner and Gertrude and Leo Stein ( Luminous Richard Howard), brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with themhe was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls.
Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual.
Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time.
Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthornes fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and childrens books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit. [via]More editions of Hawthorne: A Life:
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscanyby Bill BufordISBN 0385662572 (0-385-66257-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heat: An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany'Book summary:Bill Buford's funny and engaging book Heat offers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali's kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant business? We asked Anthony Bourdain to read Heat and give us his take. We loved it. So did he. Check out his review below. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel's No Reservations, executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreaking Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, A Cook's Tour, Bone in the Throat, and many others. His latest book, The Nasty Bits will be released on May 16, 2006.
Heat is a remarkable work on a number of fronts--and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook--but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York's three star Babbo provides further sado-masochistic fun. Buford not only accurately and hilariously describes the painfully acquired techniques of the professional cook (and his own humiations), but chronicles as well the mental changes--the "kitchen awareness" and peculiar world view necessary to the kitchen dweller. By end of book, he's even talking like a line cook.Secondly, the book is a long overdue portrait of the real Mario Batali and of the real Marco Pierre White--two complicated and brilliant chefs whose coverage in the press--while appropriately fawning--has never described them in their fully debauched, delightful glory. Buford has--for the first time--managed to explain White's peculiar--almost freakish brilliance--while humanizing a man known for terrorizing cooks, customers (and Batali). As for Mario--he is finally revealed for the Falstaffian, larger than life, mercurial, frighteningly intelligent chef/enterpreneur he really is. No small accomplishment. Other cooks, chefs, butchers, artisans and restaurant lifers are described with similar insight.
Thirdly, Heat reveals a dead-on understanding--rare among non-chef writers--of the pleasures of "making" food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food--but as importantly, who cooks--and why. I can't think of another book which takes such an unsparing, uncompromising and ultimately thrilling look at the quest for culinary excellence. Heat brims with fascinating observations on cooking, incredible characters, useful discourse and argument-ending arcania. I read my copy and immediately started reading it again. It's going right in between Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Zola's The Belly of Paris on my bookshelf. --Anthony Bourdain
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Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her Worldby Barbara GuestISBN 0385131291 (0-385-13129-1)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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Holidays on Iceby David SedarisISBN 0316779237 (0-316-77923-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate Peopleby Toby YoungISBN 0316857912 (0-316-85791-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Irving Stone's Jack London, His Life, Sailor on Horsebackby Jack London, Irving StoneISBN 0385127979 (0-385-12797-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Is That It?by Bob Geldof, Paul VallelyISBN 0345351975 (0-345-35197-5)
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Jack London: Sailor on Horsebackby Irving StoneISBN 0385140843 (0-385-14084-3)
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Jackie Robinsonby Arnold RampersadISBN 034542655X (0-345-42655-X)
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James Dean: The Mutant Kingby David DaltonISBN 0312439598 (0-312-43959-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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John Keatsby Aileen WardISBN 0374982287 (0-374-98228-7)
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John Keats: The Making of a Poetby Aileen WardISBN 0374520291 (0-374-52029-1)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Keats: The Making of a Poet'Book summary:Format: Trade Paper ISBN-10: 0374520291 ISBN-13: 9780374520298 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux488 pages Language: English [via]
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John Singer Sargent, His Portraitby Stanley OlsonISBN 0312444567 (0-312-44456-7)
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Karl Marx; His Life and Thoughtby David McLellanISBN 0333122704 (0-333-12270-4)
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The Knox Brothersby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0333194268 (0-333-19426-8)
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Life of Mozartby Edward HolmesISBN 0313222835 (0-313-22283-5)
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Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harrimanby Chris OgdenISBN 0316633763 (0-316-63376-3)
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Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorkerby David RemnickISBN 0375757511 (0-375-75751-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker'Book summary:Way back in 1926 the founding editor of The New Yorker suggested that the title Profiles be registered with the copyright bureau. Harold Ross had ample reason, for though he didn't invent the word itself, he certainly invested it with new significance. Over the years, New Yorker Profiles came to represent a new kind of biography: concise, well-researched, and impeccably written sketches of personalities who were often famous--but just as often not. Take for example "Mr. Hunter's Grave," Joseph Mitchell's 1956 Profile of George H. Hunter, the 87-year-old chairman of the board of trustees of the African Methodist church on Staten Island. This delightful piece leads off a select group of Profiles culled from The New Yorker's first 75 years and collected in Life Stories, edited by David Remnick. More a study of a place and a way of life than of a particular man, Mitchell's Profile stretched the parameters of the form.
The very next piece, Mark Singer's "Secrets of the Magus," is a prime example of what The New Yorker does best. In Ricky Jay, "perhaps the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive," Singer has hit on a quirky, eccentric, and fascinating subject--one that offers plenty of scope for writer and reader alike to dip into an arcane and little-known world of magicians, mountebanks, card handlers, and confidence men. Alva Johnston achieves similar success in "The Education of a Prince," his 1932 Profile of con man Harry F. Gerguson, who spent years masquerading as the lost Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff:
The Prince had a glittering career in New York, Boston, Newport, on Long Island, in high-caste settlements along the Hudson, and among the aristocracies of a dozen American cities. Twice he swept over Hollywood in a confetti shower of bad checks. He was repeatedly exposed, but exposure does not embarrass him greatly. He is widely admired today, not for his title but for his own sake. He has convinced a fairly large public that a good imposter is preferable to the average prince.
Of course The New Yorker covered plenty of household names, as well, and Life Stories contains sketches of such celebrities as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Johnny Carson, Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando. The arts are well represented by pieces on Ernest Hemingway, Anatole Broyard, and David Salle, and even the contributors are stellar, including such well-known scribes as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Truman Capote, and John McPhee.But where is that famous Profile of the sea by Rachel Carson, you ask? Pauline Kael's piece on Cary Grant or Janet Malcolm's controversial study of psychoanalyst Aaron Green? In his introduction Remnick acknowledges the many great Profiles that did not make it into this volume, explaining that he decided to publish pieces only in full. "I wanted the reader to get the real thing--no excerpts, no snippets," he writes. "As a result the reader will have to go elsewhere for a range of long or multipart Profiles." What's here is choice, though, and die-hard New Yorker aficionados who turn to the Profiles even before perusing the cartoons won't be disappointed by what they find. All in all, Life Stories makes a fine 75th anniversary bouquet for the magazine's many devoted readers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Louisa Mayby Martha SaxtonISBN 0380408813 (0-380-40881-3)
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Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biographyby Martha SaxtonISBN 0374524602 (0-374-52460-2)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Lucia Joyce: To Dance In The Wakeby Carol Loeb ShlossISBN 0312422695 (0-312-42269-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucia Joyce: To Dance In The Wake'Book summary:Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain. James Joyce, 1934[via]
Most accounts of James Joyces family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But in this important new book, Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different, more dramatic truth: her father loved Lucia, and they shared a deep creative bond.
Lucia was born in a paupers hospital and educated haphazardly across Europe as her penniless father pursued his art. She wanted to strike out on her own and in her twenties emerged, to Joyces amazement, as a harbinger of expressive modern dance in Paris. He described her then as a wild, beautiful, fantastic being whose mind was as clear and as unsparing as the lightning. The familys only reader of Joyce, she was a child of the imaginative realms her father created, and even after emotional turmoil wrought havoc with her and she was hospitalized in the 1930s, he saw in her a life lived in tandem with his own.
Though most of the documents about Lucia have been destroyed, Shloss painstakingly reconstructs the poignant complexities of her lifeand with them a vital episode in the early history of psychiatry, for in Joyces efforts to help her he sought the help of Europes most advanced doctors, including Jung. In Lucias world Shloss has also uncovered important material that deepens our understanding of Finnegans Wake, the book that redefined modern literature.More editions of Lucia Joyce: To Dance In The Wake:
Lyndon: An Oral Biographyby Merle MillerISBN 0345345290 (0-345-34529-0)
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Mandela : The Authorized Biographyby Anthony SampsonISBN 0375400192 (0-375-40019-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mandela : The Authorized Biography'Book summary:The life of Nelson Mandela is one of the most extraordinary epics of the twentieth century. An almost-forgotten prisoner on Robben Island twenty years ago, apparently doomed to a helpless existence as a victim of apartheid, he not only survived but almost single-handedly saved South Africa from potential chaos, to become one of the most widely admired leaders in the world. Mandela's myth is dazzling; in this magnificent biography Anthony Sampson penetrates it to show us the man himself.
Sampson has known Mandela since 1951. He was given Mandela's complete cooperation, including access to twenty-seven years' worth of unpublished correspondence from prison and many other private documents--even the original draft of Mandela's prison autobiography, long thought to be lost. He interviewed virtually every significant living figure associated with Mandela, from childhood schoolmates to Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie, to former president F. W. de Klerk. Mandela himself checked and annotated the manuscript, but Sampson was left free to make his own judgments about the man, which he has done with refreshing candor. The result is wonderfully revealing and objective.
Mandela is filled with new insights and information. We see how prison, which he and his fellow inmates turned into a kind of unofficial university, gradually transformed Mandela from a headstrong activist into a reflective and consummately skilled statesman. We learn how British and American diplomats cold-shouldered him when support was desperately needed, and about the political infighting, sometimes vicious, that went on between anti-apartheid factions. Particularly fascinating is Sampson's narrative of the incredible negotiations leading to Mandela's release from prison and the eventual collapse of the white regime, when his colleagues feared that he was selling out to the government.
At every turn, this book sheds fresh light on the moral dilemmas that Mandela was forced to face again and again in his personal and public lives. In the struggle for freedom for South African blacks, he paid a tragic price, becoming alienated from his wife and remote from his children. Yet he famously retained his humanity, and while Sampson does not conceal Mandela's failings--his stubbornness, his fixed loyalties, his princely manners and detachment--the man who emerges is authentically heroic.
Broadly based, painstakingly researched, elegantly written, Mandela is a fitting complement to Mandela's celebrated autobiography. It will stand as an exemplar of the biographer's art at its most masterly and, even more, as a moving testament to the power of the human spirit in adversity. [via]More editions of Mandela : The Authorized Biography:
Morning, Noon and Nightby Spalding GrayISBN 0374299854 (0-374-29985-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morning, Noon and Night'Book summary:The hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, by the author of It's a Slippery Slope[via]
In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Spalding comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of "a wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Spalding time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness: "Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?" Cosmic questions that for Gray are reinforced by the view from his bedroom window-a seventeenth-century graveyard-a cold reminder to the author of the impermanence of things, the transient nature of his life, the strange calling of his profession, which brilliantly confirms Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father to the man.
A richly comic work about parenthood , about adults who don't grow up and children who do, that stands as Spalding Gray's most mature work to date.More editions of Morning, Noon and Night:
My Trade: A Short History of British Journalismby Andrew MarrISBN 0330411926 (0-330-41192-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism'Book summary:[via]How do you decide what is a "story" and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? The purpose of this insider's account is to provide an answer to all these questions and more. Andrew Marr's brilliantly funny book is a guide for those of us who read newspapers, or who listen to and watch news bulletins but want to know more.More editions of My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism:
The Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clintonby Joe KleinISBN 0385506198 (0-385-50619-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Never Cry Wolfby Farley MowatISBN 0316881791 (0-316-88179-1)
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News from No Man's Land: Reporting the Worldby John SimpsonISBN 0333905741 (0-333-90574-1)
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Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelliby Maurizio Viroli, Antony ShugaarISBN 0374528004 (0-374-52800-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Not Without My Daughterby Betty MahmoodyISBN 0312925883 (0-312-92588-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Not Without My Daughter'Book summary:In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child...[via]
Now the true story of this courageous woman and her breathtaking odyssey bursts upon the screen in the Pathe Entertainment production starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!
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Picassoby Arianna Stassinopoulos HuffingtonISBN 0380707551 (0-380-70755-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso'Book summary:Packed with juicy gossip and lurid sexual details, this is the explosive bestselling biography of one of the greatest artistic geniuses of our time. This controversial expose reveals in shocking detail the torments and passions of a man in love with life and art. Picasso has already spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is a BOMC featured selection. Includes 32 rare personal photos. HC: Simon & Schuster. (Nonfiction) [via]
Pushkin's Buttonby Serena VitaleISBN 0374239355 (0-374-23935-5)
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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactorby Ken SilversteinISBN 037550351X (0-375-50351-X)
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For David to get so far, Silverstein shows, he had to be the victim of carelessness and neglect at all levels of society. David Hahn's parents were divorced, and David used the separate households to conceal the magnitude of his work. His school teachers paid little heed when David, nicknamed Glow Boy by fellow students, suggested he was collecting radioactive substances. Most alarmingly, corporations and government agencies blithely supplied David with the materials and information he needed to expand his work to dangerous levels. Interspersed with his account of David, Silverstein exposes the culture of deceit surrounding the history of nuclear power, a culture that easily seduced an aspiring young scientist. David was left with little in the way of mentorship other than such one-sided testaments to the benefits of science as his trusted Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments.
The book, which grew out of Silverstein's 1998 story in Harper's Magazine reads like a suspense novel blended with breezy accounts of America's history with the atom. It is, in some ways, a coda for the nuclear age. In his final pages, Silverstein shows that power production from nuclear reactors has slowly ebbed over the last decades, breeder reactors world-wide have been shut down, and public apprehension has finally out-stripped naïve scientific exuberance for atomic energy. But is the danger truly receding? Surprisingly, The Radioactive Boy Scout does not address any changes in security that have evolved from David's incident. In fact, Silverstein hints that David himself may still be dabbling with radioactive materials. In the post 9/11 era, the prospect is even more frightening. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Road to Taraby Anne EdwardsISBN 0340323485 (0-340-32348-5)
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Rock Hudson: His Storyby Rock Hudson, Sara DavidsonISBN 0380702924 (0-380-70292-4)
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A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Poundby Humphrey CarpenterISBN 0385299966 (0-385-29996-6)
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Shot in the Heartby Mikal GilmoreISBN 0385478003 (0-385-47800-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shot in the Heart'Book summary:"I have a story to tell. It is a story of murder told from inside the house where murder is born. It is the house where I grew up, a house that, in some ways, I have never been able to leave."
Mikal Gilmore is a Rolling Stone writer and the youngest brother of murderer Gary Gilmore, who became, in 1977, the first person to be executed in the United States after a 10-year hiatus, a case which was subsequently recounted in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. This brave and eloquent book is the story that only Mikal Gilmore knows: the violence in multiple generations of his family, what the Gilmore house was like as he was growing up, his relationship with his brother, and his experience of the dramatic events surrounding Gary Gilmore's determination to be executed as planned, without appeal. Shot in the Heart pulls off the rare feat of conveying intense emotion without sentimentality or self-pity. The author's struggle is to set himself apart from the lurid true-crime fraternity of his father and brothers yet remain able to understand why he feels both guilty and lonely over his exclusion from his family's violent history. --Fiona Webster [via]
Soldier's Storyby Omar Nelson Bradley, A. J. LieblingISBN 0375754210 (0-375-75421-0)
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 038533379X (0-385-33379-X)
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By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man. [via]More editions of Soul on Ice:
Spike Milligan: The Biographyby Humphrey CarpenterISBN 0340826118 (0-340-82611-8)
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Such a Strange Ladyby Janet HitchmanISBN 0380008076 (0-380-00807-6)
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The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biogrpahy of a Man and an Ideaby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 0380699915 (0-380-69991-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Those Who Loveby Irving StoneISBN 0385001576 (0-385-00157-6)
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Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Familyby Stephen J. DubnerISBN 038072930X (0-380-72930-X)
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An Unfinished Womanby Lillian Hellman, Lillian HellanISBN 0316352853 (0-316-35285-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Unfinished Woman'Book summary:Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth". Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years later, Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world -- and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own. Wendy Wasserstein's introduction to this new edition provides a fascinating literary and historical context for reexamining Lillian Hellman's life and achievement. [via]
A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsleyby Kathrine FrankISBN 0345348303 (0-345-34830-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley'Book summary:[via]Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day. At the age of 31, she sailed on a cargo ship along the coast from Sierra Leone to Angola and then traveled inland from Guinea to Nigeria, studying African customs and beliefs. On her second journey, she ventured into remote parts of Gabon and the French Congo--the first European to do so. She encountered cannibals and crocodiles, studied the religious customs of the reclusive Fang tribe, climbed Mount Cameroon and explored the Ogowe River, trading cloth for ivory and rubber to fund her trip. She returned only once to Africa, during the Boer War, when she worked as a nurse and journalist. Tragically, she died of typhoid in 1900, only 38 years old.More editions of A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley:
Walter Lippmann and the American Centuryby Ronald SteelISBN 0316811904 (0-316-81190-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grantby Richard E. GrantISBN 033034434X (0-330-34434-X)
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The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica 1910-13by Apsley Cherry GarrardISBN 0330481355 (0-330-48135-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica 1910-13'Book summary:As Apsley Cherry-Garrard states in his introduction to the harrowing story of the Scott expedition to the South Pole, "Polar Exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. The youngest member of Scott's team, the author was later part of the rescue party that eventually found the frozen bodies of Scott and three men who had accompanied Scott on the final push to the Pole. These deaths would haunt Cherry-Garrard for the rest of his life as he questioned the decisions he had made and the actions he had taken in the days leading up to the Polar Party's demise.
Prior to this sad denouement, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment. Each participant in the Scott expedition is brought fully to life. Cherry-Garrard's recollections are supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other teammates. Despite the sad fate of Scott, the reader will grudgingly agree with the closing words of The Worst Journey in the World: "Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." [via]
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