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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Sensesby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden, Robert Shekter, Panchita LlonaISBN 0060175907 (0-06-017590-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Best Poems of the English Language : From Chaucer Through Frostby Harold BloomISBN 0060540419 (0-06-054041-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frostby Harold BloomISBN 0060540427 (0-06-054042-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost'Book summary:This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure2s contribution. There are also headnotes by Harold Bloom to every poet in the volume as well as to the most important individual poems. Much more than any other anthology ever gathered, this book provides readers who desire the pleasures of a sublime art with very nearly everything they need in a single volume. It also is regarded as his final meditation upon all those who have formed his mind.
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The Bhagavad-Gita: With an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation and Notesby S. RadhakrishnanISBN 0048910295 (0-04-891029-5)
Hardcover, Unwin Paperbacks
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A Blue Fire: Selected Writingsby Thomas Moore, James HillmanISBN 0060161329 (0-06-016132-9)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learnedby Kenneth C. DavisISBN 006019460X (0-06-019460-X)
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Feast from the Mideast: 250 Sun-Drenched Dishes from the Lands of the Bibleby Faye LevyISBN 0060093617 (0-06-009361-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. DubnerISBN 006073132X (0-06-073132-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'Book summary:Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
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Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, author and co-author of this season's bestselling quirky hit, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, graciously answered the Amazon.com Significant Seven questions that we like to run by every author.
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Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women over Fiftyby Jean Shinoda BolenISBN 006019152X (0-06-019152-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0048233862 (0-04-823386-2)
Hardcover, Unwin Hyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit or There and Back Again'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
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The Imitation of Christ: How Jesus Wants Us to Liveby William Griffin, a Kempis ThomasISBN 0060634006 (0-06-063400-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Imitation of Christ: How Jesus Wants Us to Live'Book summary:A beautifully produced gift edition of Thomas a Kempis's The Imitation of Christ, newly translated by William Griffin (a noted expert on C.S. Lewis) renders this timeless classic in a contemporary idiom. Imitation consists of four sections that deliver exactly what they promise: "The Spiritual Life: What It Is & How It Works," "The Interior Life: Where It Is & How to Find It," "Internal Consolation: How Jesus Describes It & How the Soul Experiences It," and "The Sacrament of the Altar: How to Prepare for It & What It Tastes Like." Richard Foster, in his introduction to this edition, observes that Griffin's translation abandons the smoothly spiritualized serenity of earlier English versions. Instead, Griffin renders Imitation in "the gusts and grunts and hiccups and heehaws of the common fun of the earth" (a phrase borrowed from the poet Dylan Thomas). Foster is right; there is lots of funny stuff here and lots of raw emotion: "All-nighters of roister-doistery lead only to mornings of hugger-muggery, that's to say, of sickness and sadness." Maybe you've never considered the intimate connection between roister- doistery and hugger-muggery before. You will now, and you'll be better for it. [via]
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The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0048230871 (0-04-823087-1)
Hardcover, Allen and Unwin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:Let's face it--even some adults find Tolkien's mammoth fantasy a daunting mouthful but children now have this special seven-book box set of The Lord of The Rings to make the epic tale just that bit easier to chew on. Split into its seven constituent parts, these slim volumes tell the ageless tale of young Frodo's quest to destroy The Ring and defeat the forces of evil. It's beautifully presented in a black presentation box with the movie logo and an illustration on the side and the spines of the books also form the movie logo. A contemporary look and plenty of "cool appeal" will grab kids' interest and ensure they don't miss out on reading this classic of the genre. --Jonathan Weir [via]
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Mediterranean Street Food: Stories, Soups, Snacks, Sandwiches, Barbecues, Sweets, and More from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle Eastby Anissa HelouISBN 0060195967 (0-06-019596-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mediterranean Street Food: Stories, Soups, Snacks, Sandwiches, Barbecues, Sweets, and More from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East'Book summary:In Mediterranean Street Food, Anissa Helou brings together some of the most memorable food in the world - everyday delicacies sold by street vendors or in simple shops. Interspersed with fascinating stories of her food adventures across the continents, Helou offers definitive recipes for favourites like Spanish tortilla, Italian panini, Morroccan tagines, Egyptian ful medammes, Turkish kebabs, and French pan bagnat. Brief introductions on the social and cultural histories of each country are followed by eight chapters divided by course or chief ingredient - recipes include soups, salads, and snacks, sandwiches, pizzas and breads, barbecues, one-pot meals, sweets and desserts and drinks. Each recipe in Mediterranean Street Food offers a delectable window into the rich food world of the Mediterranean, so that cooks as well as seasoned and armchair travellers alike can enjoy these unique culinary treats. [via]
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No Way Backby Michael CrowISBN 0060725877 (0-06-072587-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Way Back'Book summary:A rogue and ruthlessly effective weapon for justice and punishment, disgraced cop Luther Ewing could use something to occupy his time during his involuntary six-month "vacation" from the Baltimore P.D. narcotics squad. Luckily (or not), his reputation is well-known in wide, if covert, government circles -- and the CIA has a job that's right up Luther's alley: protecting a South Korean businessman who's involved in some shady dealings in Russia.
To do so, Luther needs a new name. He must master a new arsenal, learn Korean and Tae Kwon Do. Most importantly, he must bring the "package" back alive -- a relatively easy assignment requiring a sharp eye, smooth talk, and, hopefully, no bang bang. But the devil is always in the details and things rarely go as planned. And what an exposed and very far from home half-black, half-Vietnamese urban soldier doesn't know could effectively get him dead.
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060512822 (0-06-051282-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Revising Proseby Richard A. LanhamISBN 0023674407 (0-02-367440-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revising Prose'Book summary:This remarkable little book, intended as a supplement for any course that requires writing, models a clear, step-by-step system for creating straight-forward, concise, intelligible and readable prose.
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Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Backby Karyn BosnakISBN 0060558199 (0-06-055819-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Senseby N. T. WrightISBN 0060507152 (0-06-050715-2)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense'Book summary:Why do we expect justice? Why do we crave spirituality? Why are we attracted to beauty? Why are relationships often so painful? And how will the world be made right? These are not simply perennial questions all generations must struggle with, but, according to N. T. Wright, are the very echoes of a voice we dimly perceive but deeply long to hear. In fact, these questions take us to the heart of who God is and what He wants from us.
For two thousand years, Christianity has claimed to solve these mysteries, and this renowned biblical scholar and Anglican bishop shows that it still can today. Not since C. S. Lewis's classic summary of the faith, Mere Christianity, has such a wise and thorough scholar taken the time to explain to anyone who wants to know what Christianity really is and how it is practiced. Wright makes the case for Christian faith from the ground up, assuming that the reader has no knowledge of (and perhaps even some aversion to) religion in general and Christianity in particular.
Simply Christian walks the reader through the Christian faith step by step and question by question. With simple yet exciting and accessible prose, Wright challenges skeptics by offering explanations for even the toughest doubt-filled dilemmas, leaving believers with a reason for renewed faith. For anyone who wants to travel beyond the controversies that can obscure what the Christian faith really stands for, this simple book is the perfect vehicle for that journey.
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Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depressionby Nell CaseyISBN 0060007826 (0-06-000782-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression'Book summary:"A reader on melancholy," the editor calls this book: a collection of 22 modern essays about depression by writers (several well known) who know their subject intimately. Some face depression as a sudden interruption of a previously gratifying life; others have never known life without it. Their words wrestle to express their vision, their gloom, their attempts to cope, their interactions, their isolation, and, often, their reactions to medications. Some attempt to analyze their depression; others just want you to know what it's like. Besides the essays by writers who have experienced depression firsthand, editor Nell Casey (also a writer of one of the chapters) includes a few essays by their spouses and siblings about what it was like to live with a person suffering from depression.
The writers' descriptions of "dwelling in depression's dark wood" (William Styron) are disturbing and haunting, laden with vivid imagery. "My heart pumped dread," writes Lesley Dormen. David Karp describes his depression as sometimes a "grief knot" in his throat, sometimes chest pain like a heart attack, sometimes "an awful heaviness" in his eyes and head. From her teenage years, Darcey Steinke would wrap herself in an old comforter and lie in a fetal position on top of her shoes in the closet (her brother called this her "poodle bed"). Nancy Mairs describes being institutionalized: "Lock [a woman] into a drab and dirty space with dozens of other wayward souls, make sure that she is never alone, feed her oatmeal and bananas until her bowels are starched solid, drug her to the eyeballs so that she can scarcely read or speak, and threaten to shoot bolts of electricity through her brain." If you want to know depression from the inside, from thoroughly gifted writers, you'll find it here. --Joan Price [via]
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Vegetables Every Day: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Cooking Today's Produce, With More Than 350 Recipesby Jack BishopISBN 0060192216 (0-06-019221-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Writing Lifeby Annie DillardISBN 0060161566 (0-06-016156-6)
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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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Your Mirror to My Times: The Selected Autobiographies and Impressions of Ford Madox Fordby Ford Madox FordISBN 0030859719 (0-03-085971-9)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Your Mirror to My Times: The Selected Autobiographies and Impressions of Ford Madox Ford'Book summary:Description: xxi, 392 p. Illus. 24 cm. Subjects: Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939. Authors, English--20th century--Biography. Editors--Great Britain--Biography. [via]
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Bonifacio VIII, I Caetani E La Storia Del Lazio: Atti Del Convegno Di Studi Storici Roma, Palazzo Caetani, 30 Novembre 2000, Latina, Palazzo M, 1 Dicembre 2000, Sermoneta, Castello Caetani, 2 Dicembre 2000by Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Richard Gilly NixonISBN 0000000000 (0-00-000000-0)
Hardcover, L'Erma Di Bretschneider
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Afrodita: Cuentos, Recetas y Otros Afrodisíacosby Isabel AllendeISBN 0060175915 (0-06-017591-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Afrodita: Cuentos, Recetas y Otros Afrodisíacos'Book summary:"Me arrepiento de los platos deliciosos rechazados por vanidad, tanto como lamento las ocasiones de hacer el amor que he dejado pasar por ocuparme de tareas pendientes o por virtud puritana", ya que "la sexualidad es un componente de la buena salud, inspira la creación y es parte del camino del alma... Por desgracia, me demoré treinta años en descubrirlo". [via]
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