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Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faithsby Bruce S. FeilerISBN 0060838663 (0-06-083866-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths'Book summary:At a time when conflicts among three of the world's major religions--Islam, Judaism, and Christianity--are in the global spotlight, Bruce Feiler offers a stunning biography of the one man who unites all three religions: Abraham. "The most mesmerizing story of Abraham's life--his offering a son to God--plays a pivotal role in the holiest week of the Christian year, at Easter," writes Feiler. "The story is recited at the start of the holiest fortnight in Judaism, on Rosh Hashanah. The episode inspires the holiest day in Islam, 'Id al-Adha,' the Feast of the Sacrifice, at the climax of the Pilgrimage. And yet the religions can't even agree on which son he tried to kill." Herein lies the irony and perfection of Feiler's timing. As we struggle to find a path to peace among these three religions, all warring in Jerusalem, near the stone where Abraham brought his son for sacrifice, this captivating biography speaks to Abraham as the metaphor he is: the historically elusive man who embodies three religions, a character who has shape-shifted over the millennia to serve the clashing goals and dogma of each religion.
Anyone seeking to understand the roots of tension in the Middle East need look no further than the final half of this book, where Feiler interprets the meaning of Abraham as seen through the prism of each religion. Surprisingly, the book is as entertaining as it is thoughtful: Feiler is a masterful writer with a warm, humorous voice, a dazzling way with metaphors, and an underlying intelligence that comes through in every passage. Abraham deserves the highest of recommendations. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbookby Alice B. ToklasISBN 0060913274 (0-06-091327-4)
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Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Angerby Bill LandisISBN 0060922141 (0-06-092214-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Aquinasby Frederick Charles CoplestonISBN 0140136746 (0-14-013674-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aquinas'Book summary:Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology work together in harmony), Aquinas was remarkable for the way in which he used and developed this legacy of ancient thoughtan achievement which led his contemporaries to regard him as an advanced thinker.[via]Father Copleston's lucid and stimulating book examines this extraordinary manwhose influence is perhaps greater today than in his own lifetimeand his trought, relating his ideas wherever possible to problems as they are discussed today.
Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plathby Paul AlexanderISBN 0060911751 (0-06-091175-1)
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Manby James Weldon Johnson, William L. AndrewsISBN 0140184023 (0-14-018402-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man'Book summary:With the possible exceptions of Dr. Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois, no African American excelled on as many different levels as James Weldon Johnson. Along This Way--the first autobiography by a person of color to be reviewed in The New York Times--not only chronicles his life as an educator, lawyer, diplomat, newspaper editor, lyricist, poet, essayist, and political activist but also outlines the trials and triumphs of African Americans from post-Reconstruction to the rise and fall of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Florida in 1871 to middle-class West Indian parents, Johnson recognized the challenges and absurdities of segregated America early on. But it was his experience as a tutor to rural blacks while a student at Atlanta University that was to alter the course of his life: "It was this period that marked the beginning of psychological change from boyhood to manhood," he writes. "It was this period that marked also the beginning of my knowledge of my own people as a race."
With a rare blend of pride and humility, Johnson recounts how he, among other accomplishments, became Florida's first black lawyer in 1898, a diplomat in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and lyricist for his brother Rosamond Johnson's famous song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Johnson's commentary on his epochal novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, as well as writings on his works of poetry--The Creation, God's Trombones, and Fifty Years and Other Poems--is priceless. Equally important are the logical and even-tempered opinions on race that he wrote for The New York Age, which offered comprehensive critiques of Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey, along with his analysis of the racial climate while serving as head of the NAACP. This remarkable man left a mark on the 20th century that goes beyond the boundary of race. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Basketball Diariesby Jim CarrollISBN 0140100180 (0-14-010018-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Benito Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duceby Christopher HibbertISBN 0140022392 (0-14-002239-2)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Bradbury, an Illustrated Life: A Journey to Far Metaphorby Jerry Weist, Ray Bradbury, Donn AlbrightISBN 0060011823 (0-06-001182-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Broken Cordby Michael DorrisISBN 0060916826 (0-06-091682-6)
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The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle With Fetal Alcohol Syndromeby Michael DorrisISBN 0060160713 (0-06-016071-3)
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The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Townby Steven OzmentISBN 0060977213 (0-06-097721-3)
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Charles Darwin, a Man of Enlarged Curiosityby Peter Ludwig BrentISBN 0060148802 (0-06-014880-2)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Charles Laughton, a Difficult Actorby Simon CallowISBN 0099589311 (0-09-958931-1)
Hardcover, Vintage
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Christabelby Christabel BielenbergISBN 0140121781 (0-14-012178-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Confessions of an Actor: An Autobiographyby Laurence OlivierISBN 0140068880 (0-14-006888-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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The Day Lincoln Was Shotby James Alonzo BishopISBN 0060800054 (0-06-080005-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadowby Tim Pat CooganISBN 009175030X (0-09-175030-X)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Businessby Dolly PartonISBN 0061092363 (0-06-109236-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Eagles Die:Franz Joseph, Elisabeth, and Their Austria: Franz Joseph, Elisabeth, and Their Austriaby George Richard MarekISBN 0060127880 (0-06-012788-0)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Eamon De Valera: The Man Who Was Irelandby Tim Pat CooganISBN 0060926902 (0-06-092690-2)
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The Early Churchillsby A. L. RowseISBN 0140030476 (0-14-003047-6)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Edward R. Murrow: An American Originalby Joseph E. PersicoISBN 0070494800 (0-07-049480-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidentsby Bonnie AngeloISBN 0060937114 (0-06-093711-4)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents'Book summary:Succinct and highly readable, this group portrait of the 11 women who gave birth to America's 20th-century presidents might just put a more favorable spin on the phrase "mama's boy." From Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, all these chief executives were devoted to their mothers (relations with Dad were often more problematic), and that devotion had a direct effect on their presidencies--for the most part, a positive one. Sara Delano Roosevelt's adoration gave her son the self-confidence necessary to champion the New Deal's more unpopular measures. Martha Truman's personal experiences of the Civil War's bitter aftermath inspired Harry's determination to lend a hand to the vanquished as well as the victorious after World War II. Ida Eisenhower's pacifism didn't prevent her from supporting Dwight's decision to pursue a military career, but it shaped him into that welcome rarity, "a military leader who hated war." Lillian Carter's defiance of Southern mores to espouse civil rights and her precedent-shattering stint in the Peace Corps (at age 68) affected Jimmy's emphasis on human rights as well as his post-presidential commitment to serve the less fortunate. Virginia Kelley gets slapped for imparting to Bill Clinton the sense that "rules were for other people," but she's also credited with instilling his famous ability to feel other people's pain. In First Mothers, Bonnie Angelo, a longtime correspondent for Time magazine, delineates 11 different lives with a journalist's gift for cogency and an ability to see underlying similarities. Many of the facts here are familiar, but her interpretations are fresh. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestlingby Mick FoleyISBN 0061032417 (0-06-103241-7)
Softcover, Regan Books
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A Fortunate Lifeby A.B. FaceyISBN 0140062254 (0-14-006225-4)
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynISBN 0060007761 (0-06-000776-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'Book summary:[This is the MP3CD audiobook format of VOLUME 2 in vinyl case.] **Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century** In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917. This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear. Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]
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The Gulag Archipelago, Part 1 & 2, Book 1by Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0060803320 (0-06-080332-0)
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The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biographyby Trevor N. Dupuy, David L. Bongard, Curt JohnsonISBN 0062700154 (0-06-270015-4)
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Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaohby Joyce TyldesleyISBN 0140244646 (0-14-024464-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Upby Bob ColacelloISBN 006092084X (0-06-092084-X)
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Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weissby Kenneth SilvermanISBN 006092862X (0-06-092862-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King & Prison Breakerby Kenneth SilvermanISBN 0060169788 (0-06-016978-8)
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The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848by Niall FergusonISBN 0140240845 (0-14-024084-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848'Book summary:Founded in the late 18th century by expatriate German Jews, the London-based House of Rothschild was within decades the largest banking enterprise in the world. Its principals controlled a vast portion of the industrial world's wealth--more so, Oxford historian Niall Ferguson writes, than any family has since--and as a result enjoyed tremendous political influence in the major capitals of Europe, counting as allies such important figures as Metternich and Wellington. That influence would provoke countless anti-Semitic tracts fulminating against Jewish usury and against the power of "Eastern potentates" in the empires of England and France. Although the Rothschilds were well aware of their power and not reluctant to use it, they operated fairly, Ferguson notes. For example, whereas lending rates in the textile industry, in which the Rothschilds got their start, were often 20 percent, the fledgling house charged 5 to 9 percent. Through shrewd, complex negotiations they helped promote peace and the beginnings of economic union throughout Europe.
Ferguson's sprawling history covers much ground and involves a cast of hundreds of players. At the outset he notes that his book was commissioned by the modern descendants of the House of Rothschild; even so, he approaches his task with careful balance and a critical eye, pointing out the Rothschilds' failings as well as successes. The result is a fine, solid contribution to economic history, one that, unlike so many books in the field, is eminently readable. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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In Search of History: A Personal Adventureby Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 0060145994 (0-06-014599-4)
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Jack: A Biography of Jack Londonby Andrew SinclairISBN 0060138998 (0-06-013899-8)
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Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hourby William C. DavisISBN 0060923261 (0-06-092326-1)
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Lady Sings the Blues/With a Revised Discographyby Billie Holiday, William DuftyISBN 0140067620 (0-14-006762-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lake Wobegon Daysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140131612 (0-14-013161-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lee and Grant: A Dual Biographyby Gene SmithISBN 0070584737 (0-07-058473-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Lenin for Beginnersby R. AppignanesiISBN 0049230824 (0-04-923082-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lenin for Beginners'Book summary:Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia. Is he chiefly to blame for opening the way to the totalitarian regime of Stalin? Readers will be able to judge for themselves. Lenin's career is depicted in this book from his obscure provincial origins to architect of the Bolshevik October Revolution, and his ideas, his genius for underground organization and strategies for agitation are explained. It is impossible to estimate the events in post-communist Russia and Eastern Europe today without some basic grasp of the Russian Revolution and Lenin's role in it. This book aims to make that history accessible and digestible. [via]
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Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo Da Vinciby Serge Bramly, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0060160659 (0-06-016065-9)
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Life Among the Savagesby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140267670 (0-14-026767-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Among the Savages'Book summary:Can this be the author of such chilling tales as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House? An ordinary housewife stuck in a big, shabby house with three marvelous, demanding children and a charming husband who takes detached interest in the chaos they generate? Yes, it's Shirley Jackson all right: the precision of her observations and prose is familiar, even if her humor is something of a surprise. Not until Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions in 1993 would another woman write with such honesty about the maddening multitude of trivial, essential chores that constitute a mother's life. But Jackson nailed it first, 40 years earlier, in her hilarious chronicle of life in a small Vermont town, where getting the kids to school on time requires the combined gifts of a drill sergeant and a lady's maid. The saga of her son's bumpy adjustment to kindergarten, frequently anthologized as Charles, is justly famous, but Jackson's account of the Department Store Trip from Hell (two kids, two toy guns, one doll carriage and doll, mayhem in revolving doors and escalators) is even funnier. Although her memoirs are as merciless as her ghost stories, you may not notice because you're laughing so hard. --Wendy Smith [via]
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A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowlesby Millicent DillonISBN 0030583179 (0-03-058317-9)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldmanby Candace Serena Falk, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0030436265 (0-03-043626-5)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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The Magic Lantern: An Autobiographyby Ingmar Bergman, Joan TateISBN 0140104690 (0-14-010469-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophyby Colin NcginnISBN 0060957603 (0-06-095760-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Lifeby John MortimerISBN 0140248005 (0-14-024800-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Mystery of Agatha Christieby Gwen RobynsISBN 0140052283 (0-14-005228-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Nancy Mitford: A Memoirby Harold Mario Mitchell ActonISBN 0060100184 (0-06-010018-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Nathaniel's Nutmegby Giles MiltonISBN 0140292608 (0-14-029260-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nathaniel's Nutmeg'Book summary:The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by the intrepid Nathaniel Courthope . The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland, but in return was given another small island, Manhattan. A brilliant adventure story of unthinkable hardship and savagery, the navigation of uncharted waters, and the exploitation of new worlds, Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a remarkable chapter in the history of the colonial powers. [via]
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Storyby Michael LewisISBN 0140296468 (0-14-029646-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story'Book summary:Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn health care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring the vast majority of the industry's transactions online. So why was he spending so much time on a computerized yacht, each feature installed because, as one technician put it, "someone saw it on Star Trek and wanted one just like it?"
Much of The New New Thing, to be fair, is devoted to the Healtheon story. It's just that Jim Clark doesn't do startups the way most people do. "He had ceased to be a businessman," as Lewis puts it, "and become a conceptual artist." After coming up with the basic idea for Healtheon, securing the initial seed money, and hiring the people to make it happen, Clark concentrated on the building of Hyperion, a sailboat with a 197-foot mast, whose functions are controlled by 25 SGI workstations (a boat that, if he wanted to, Clark could log onto and steer--from anywhere in the world). Keeping up with Clark proves a monumental challenge--"you didn't interact with him," Lewis notes, "so much as hitch a ride on the back of his life"--but one that the author rises to meet with the same frenetic energy and humor of his previous books, Liar's Poker and Trail Fever.
Like those two books, The New New Thing shows how the pursuit of power at its highest levels can lead to the very edges of the surreal, as when Clark tries to fill out an investment profile for a Swiss bank, where he intends to deposit less than .05 percent of his financial assets. When asked to assess his attitude toward financial risk, Clark searches in vain for the category of "people who sought to turn ten million dollars into one billion in a few months" and finally tells the banker, "I think this is for a different ... person." There have been a lot of profiles of Silicon Valley companies and the way they've revamped the economy in the 1990s--The New New Thing is one of the first books fully to depict the sort of man that has made such companies possible. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Nijinskyby Richard BuckleISBN 0140037829 (0-14-003782-9)
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The Pursuit of Happynessby Quincy Troupe, Chris Gardner, Mim Eichler RivasISBN 0060744871 (0-06-074487-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pursuit of Happyness'Book summary:The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street
At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city's working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, "HO-tels," soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station.
Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district.
More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.
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Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Moviesby Jami BernardISBN 0060951613 (0-06-095161-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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Reagan's Americaby Garry WillsISBN 0140105573 (0-14-010557-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PMby Don WatsonISBN 0091835178 (0-09-183517-8)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Red Scarf Girlby Ji-Li JiangISBN 0064462080 (0-06-446208-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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River Phoenix: A Short Lifeby Brian J. RobbISBN 006095132X (0-06-095132-X)
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Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 0140390103 (0-14-039010-3)
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The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincolnby Bernard WassersteinISBN 0140119469 (0-14-011946-9)
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Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennantby Philip HoareISBN 0140165320 (0-14-016532-0)
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Sherman: A Soldier's Lifeby Lee B. KennettISBN 0060930748 (0-06-093074-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherman: A Soldier's Life'Book summary:In the crowded battlefield of Civil War commanders, William Tecumseh Sherman stands apart. Others are often summed up in a few words: the stubborn, taciturn Grant; the gentlemanly, gifted Lee; the stomping, cursing Sheridan; and the flamboyant, boyish Stuart. But the enigmatic Sherman still manages to elude us. Probably no other figure of his day divides historians so deeply-leading some to praise him as a genius, others to condemn him as a savage.
Now, in Sherman, Lee Kennett offers a brilliant new interpretation of the general's life and career, one that embraces his erratic, contradictory nature. Here we see the making of a true soldier, beginning with a colorful view of Sherman's rich family tradition, his formative years at West Point, and the critical period leading up to the Civil War, during which Sherman served in the small frustrated peacetime army and saw service in the South and California, and in the Mexican War Trying to advance himself, Sherman resigned from the army and he soon began to distinguish hiniself as a general known for his tenacity, vision, and mercurial temper. Throughout the spirited Battles of Bull Run and Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg, and ultimately the famous march to the sea through Georgia, no one displayed the same intensity as did Sherman.
From the heights of success to the depths of his own depression, Sherman managed to forge on after the war with barely a moment of slowing down. Born to fight, he was also born to lead and to provoke, traits he showed by serving as commanding general of the army, cutting a wide swath through the western frontier, and finally writing his classic -- and highly controversial -- memoirs. Eventually Sherman would die famous, well-to-do, and revered -- but also deeply misunderstood.
By drawing on previously unexploited materials and maintaining a sharp, lively narrative, Lee Kennett presents a rich, authoritative portrait of Sherman, the man and the soldier, who emerges from this work more human and more fascinating than ever before. [via]
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Standing Firmby Dan QuayleISBN 0061093904 (0-06-109390-4)
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Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoirby Dan QuayleISBN 0060177586 (0-06-017758-6)
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Thomas Aquinasby Frederick CoplestonISBN 0064912779 (0-06-491277-9)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Seaby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0140390081 (0-14-039008-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Victoria R.I.by Elizabeth Harman Pakenham LongfordISBN 0060126728 (0-06-012672-8)
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 006080615X (0-06-080615-X)
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Walden on the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby PearsonISBN 0030093201 (0-03-009320-1)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden on the Duty of Civil Disobedience'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau's classic Walden is now available through Buki Editions! This edition includes both Walden and his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Includes a fully-functioning table of contents. [via]
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Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmithby Stephen Davis, AerosmithISBN 0060515805 (0-06-051580-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith'Book summary:From Aerosmith's heyday in the late 1970s, which they spent "gacked to the nines" (as lead singer Steven Tyler puts it), to the Aerosmith of today--clean, sober, and adored by millions--the band has a long, hard history. Walk This Way chronicles the whole story: drugs, booze, and all.
Prefaced with the now familiar rock-star "intervention," when Steven Tyler's loved ones cornered him in his manager's office in 1986, the autobiography traces Aerosmith's twisted road, from their New Hampshire roots to their success in Boston to the worldwide fame that they long craved and currently enjoy. Tyler kicks off this rock & roll exposé, briefly recounting the history of his ancestors in Italy and sharing incidents from his own Northeast childhood. The book is written in interview style, with all five band members talking candidly about the good times--and the bad. We also hear from girlfriends, wives, friends, and various hangers-on.
The story of Aerosmith and their constant ups, downs, and detours never fails to grab you and force you to read another page--if only to see what train wreck awaits around the next corner. Walk This Way is a must-read for devoted fans of Aerosmith as well as anybody who wants to live the full-on '70s rock-star life--without having to go through rehab. --Paul DeBruler [via]
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West from Homeby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger Lea MacBride, Almanzo WilderISBN 0064400816 (0-06-440081-6)
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West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco 1915by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger Lea MacBrideISBN 0060241101 (0-06-024110-1)
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Will Rogers, His Life and Timesby Richard M. KetchumISBN 0070344116 (0-07-034411-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will Rogers, His Life and Times'Book summary:Biography. He was also, as has often been said, the most beloved figure of his time. Americans became acquainted with him in a variety of ways---as a performer in vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies, in silent and talking pictures, and radio; a the newspaper columnist whose down to earth, spontaneous humor were the first words they turned to and chuckled over each morning. . . Deluxe Collector's Edition. Large Hardback, gilt-stamped brown spine over red bandana cloth with gilt-stamped illustrated leatherette slipcase which is slightly damaged. [via]
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Wordsworth: A Lifeby Juliet R.V. BarkerISBN 0060787317 (0-06-078731-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wordsworth: A Life'Book summary:Wordsworth was a large-boned, somewhat shambling, brilliant and big-nosed man, and Juliet Barker has written a biography to match him on every one of these points. Like its subject it is huge, nearly a thousand pages, and it contains multitudes of fascinating facts--a biographer can hardly go wrong with a subject who lived through such interesting times and knew such interesting people: revolutionary France (where Wordsworth travelled and fathered an illegitimate child), the Napoleonic wars, Coleridge, Southey, and writing a series of astonishing poems. Barker's easy style draws on an enormous wealth of research, but is never bogged down by it, and she manages to make her sometimes obstinate subject always human and likeable. This is an especial achievement in the later years, when Wordsworth's politics calcified into hang 'em and flog 'em Toryism; Barker manages to make even this grumpy old poet a figure you care about. The passages at the end of the book when Wordsworth's daughter Dora dies of tuberculosis, are genuinely moving. It is not a perfect book; like its subject, too it is a little dull. Its readings of the poetry itself (and the poetry is the reason why Wordsworth is so important, after all) are a little meagre; Barker limits herself to observations along the lines of "this is a great poem", "this is an important poem", "this sonnet is an exquisite work of art" and the like. Of the "Intimations Ode" ("the greatest William ever wrote") she limits herself to observing that, so familiar is it nowadays, "reading it is like going through a dictionary of quotations". Steven Gill's William Wordsworth, which has been the standard biography hitherto, does the job of critical reading of the verse much better. And like its subject Barker's book is big-nosed too, in several senses. For one thing, it traces the Wordsworthian "Roman" profile from father to children; Dora had a portrait painted of herself "with swept back black hair and large nose", and later travelled to the artist's London studio "to have my nose reduced a little". But Barker also sniffs haughtily at some of the modern attitudes to Wordsworth's life and times. To the notorious suggestion that Wordsworth had an incestuous relationship with his sister Dorothy, Barker snorts that people only think so because they view the couple "through Freud's distorting lens", and dismisses the--let's be honest, intriguing--notion as "prurient speculation". This said, however, this is nevertheless a noble biographical exercise, absorbing and solid. --Adam Roberts [via]
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The World of Charles Dickensby Angus WilsonISBN 0140034889 (0-14-003488-9)
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The Writing Lifeby Annie DillardISBN 0060919884 (0-06-091988-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Writing Life'Book summary:Annie Dillard has spent a lot of time in remote, bare-bones shelters doing something she claims to hate: writing. Slender though it is, The Writing Life richly conveys the torturous, tortuous, and in rare moments, transcendent existence of the writer. Even for Dillard, whose prose is so mellifluous as to seem effortless, the act of writing can seem a Sisyphean task: "When you write," she says, "you lay out a line of words.... Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. Is it a dead end, or have you located the real subject? You will know tomorrow or this time next year." Amid moving accounts of her own writing (and life) experiences, Dillard also manages to impart wisdom to other writers, wisdom having to do with passion and commitment and taking the work seriously. "One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place.... Something more will arise for later, something better." And, if that is not enough, "Assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients," she says. "That is, after all, the case.... What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?"
This all makes The Writing Life seem a dense, tough read, but that is not the case at all. Dillard is, after all, human, just like the rest of us. During one particularly frantic moment, four cups of coffee and not much writing down, Dillard comes to a realization: "Many fine people were out there living, people whose consciences permitted them to sleep at night despite their not having written a decent sentence that day, or ever." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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