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Blossomby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679772618 (0-679-77261-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blossom'Book summary:In this savagely convincing novel, Burke finds himself in a fading Indiana mill town, trying to clear a boy charged with a series of sexually motivated shootings. He's intent on finding the real sniper--and his unlikely ally is a beautiful woman named Blossom, who has her own reasons for finding the murderer, as well as her own idea of vengeance.
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Blue Belleby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679761683 (0-679-76168-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Belle'Book summary:Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York Citys bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children.
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In Andrew Vachsss tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death. 
Burke : Pre-Revolutionary Writingsby Edmund Burke, Ian Harris, Raymond Geuss, Quentin SkinnerISBN 0521368006 (0-521-36800-6)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Choice of Evilby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0375706623 (0-375-70662-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Choice of Evil'Book summary:With the possible exception of James Ellroy, Andrew Vachss is the mystery writer with the darkest heart and the most troubled soul. Like his 10 other books about the enigmatic outlaw private eye called Burke, Choice of Evil deals with unpleasant subjects--ritual murder, pedophilia, sexual deviance--the full force of which are never dampened by attempts at tact or taste. Vachss is not an author to look away from the nasty, or try to soften any of life's lowest blows.
That said, his latest does start off on a light note when Burke's giant mastiff, Pansy, is grabbed in a police raid. Burke and his motley crew of helpers--people with names like Mole, Crystal Beth, and Max the Silent--stage a raid on the animal shelter, and in a zany scene worthy of Lawrence Block or Donald Westlake, set free a herd of caged canines. All too soon, however, darkness descends as Crystal Beth--Burke's main squeeze and an activist for abused women--is killed at an outdoor rally, apparently by someone who hates homosexuals. Following this atrocity, a vigilante calling himself Homo Erectus declares war on gay bashers, and also on pedophiles who seek to link their cause to gay rights. Burke is hired to find this vigilante and keep him safe before the cops nab him.
Mentioning pedophilia to Burke is like waving a red flag at a bull: he can (and does) go on for many pages about this particular evil as he and a friendly lesbian dominatrix link Homo Erectus to a supposedly long-dead killer from Burke's own past.
To absorb the full force of the Burke canon, read other books in the series: Safe House, Blossom, Blue Belle, and False Allegations. --Dick Adler [via]
Crusader's Crossby James Lee BurkeISBN 0743277201 (0-7432-7720-1)
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The Day the Universe Changedby James BurkeISBN 0316117048 (0-316-11704-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day the Universe Changed'Book summary:[via]When humans understood that the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Then, Galileo introduced his telescope. And with that single innovation, architecture, music, literature, science, politics--all of it changed, mirroring the new view of truth. This program is James Burke's examination of the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him.Few people are able to look at human history and see it not as a jumble of half-remembered names and dates, but as an intricate mosaic of neatly interlocking pieces. Fewer still can describe the patterns and explain the parts of the puzzle so that it not only makes sense, but so that it also fascinates and intrigues, excites and entertains. James Burke tells history like it's the plot of the most interesting mystery ever written.More editions of The Day the Universe Changed:
Dead and Goneby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0375725261 (0-375-72526-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Down Hereby Andrew H. VachssISBN 1400076110 (1-4000-7611-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Down in the Zeroby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679760660 (0-679-76066-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down in the Zero'Book summary:Andrew Vachss has reinvented detective fiction for an age in which guilty secrets are obsolete and murder isn't even worth a news headline. And in the person of his haunted, hell-ridden private eye Burke, Vachss has given us a new kind of hero: a man inured to every evil except the kind that preys on children.
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Now Burke is back, investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among teenagers of a wealthy Connecticut suburb. There he discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of an elite sadomasochistic underground, for whom pan and its accompanying rituals are a source of pleasureand power -
Dune: La Batalla De Corrinby Frank HerbertISBN 8470021818 (84-7002-181-8)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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Dune:La Yihad Butleriana / Dune:the Butlerian Yihad: La Yihad Butleriana/ the Butlerian Yihadby Brian Herbert, Random House Mondadori, Domingo SantosISBN 849759682X (84-9759-682-X)
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Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifulby Edmund Burke, J.T. BoultonISBN 0268000859 (0-268-00085-9)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Edmund Burke and the Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century: A Study of the Political and Social Thinking of Burke, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southeyby Alfred CobbanISBN 0404140068 (0-404-14006-8)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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False Allegationsby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679772936 (0-679-77293-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'False Allegations'Book summary:Vachss and his quasi-hero Burke are definitely not for the squeamish, dealing largely with stories about abused children. But he is a strong and angry writer who has carved himself out a unique territory in the dark landscape of the thriller. In his 11th Burke novel, Vachss uses the work of the real Dr. Bruce Perry, the Houston psychologist and pioneer researcher into recovered memory, to center the story about a shady lawyer who specializes in getting such cases thrown out of court. [via]
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Floodby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679781293 (0-679-78129-3)
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In Vachss's acclaimed first novel, we are introduced to Burke, the avenging angel of abused children. Burke's client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster -- so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted vigilante to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is a setup for a mugging and every tenement has something rotten in the basement. Fearfully knowing, buzzing with narrative tension, and written in prose as forceful as a hollow-point bullet, Flood is Burke at his deadliest -- and Vachss at the peak of his form.
An Interview with Andrew Vachss on Another Life, the Final Book in the Burke Series
Q: There has been some discussion that this might be the last novel in the Burke series. Do you see it that way? And if so, why?Andrew Vachss: I don't just "see" it that way, I wrote it that way. Another Life is the coda to the Burke novels, the final chapter in a series that has been running since 1985. The timing was no accident. If I was to keep faith to those who gone the distance with me, I had to be true to my original promise: unlike some series in which the protagonist never ages, I set out to have each book show the main characters not only aging, but changing as well. Even dying. This series is all about "Family of Choice." All the members of Burke's family share this truth: The most righteous of parents don't want their children to "follow in their footsteps," they want their children to walk past those footsteps. Burke's family have always walked the outlaw road, and can never walk another. But as the children reach adulthood, it is the family's blood obligation to fork that road for them. And that time has now come.
Q: This is the 18th volume in the Burke series. How has the series changed? How have the issues you address in the novels changed over the years?
AV: I am not sure the series has changed... because all the changes depicted throughout have been part of the original concept. Of all of the descriptions of my books, Sonny Mehta dubbing them "investigative novels" is the one I am proudest of, because I wanted the books to be Trojan horses, a platform from which I could show people a world known only to the "Children of The Secret." I didn't know there was a name for such an intent until I won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and a French reporter told me the Burke series was "littérature engageé." My goal was not to raise consciousness, but to raise anger. Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger. If you want proof of how that works, just take a look at how New York State finally closed the hated (and virtually unknown) incest exception. When I first wrote about predatory pedophiles modem-trafficking in kiddie porn, reviewers condemned the book as a product of my "sick imagination." Who would say that today? Time and time again what I have written about has "come true." This is not because I am prescient, it is that my work takes me places most citizens never see. So the issues never really change, but as more and more folks become aware of the foundational truth in my "fiction," those issues no longer flourish in the shadows. Years after the series launched, enough folks focused their rage at how children are seen as property in America to form the first PAC (Political Action Committee) solely devoted to child protection. Anyone who says "books don't change anything," or--more commonly--that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change--should take a closer look.
Q: Burke has a very close family of choice. What drew these people together, and what do you see is the future for them, beyond the series?
AV: It would be easy to say that everyone in Burke's family was a "Child of The Secret," but that would not be true. What they have most powerfully in common is a marrow-deep hatred of humans who prey on children. The rest of the question is actually answered within the book itself, and I'm not a fan of "spoilers."
Q: Over the years, you're consistently ahead of the curve in terms of spotting cultural, political, and criminal trends before they become headlines. How are you constantly able to do this? And is there anything in this new novel that you think is likely to be in tomorrow's headlines?
AV: It's no great trick to spot things you see with your own eyes, which is why I wrote about predatory pedophiles deliberately seeking work in day care centers, or organ trafficking, or cults practicing "baby-breeding"... it's a long list. Most folks had never even heard the word "piquerist" before my novel on the subject. And although it looks as if I "predicted" the use of the Internet to lure children, or what I called "noir vérité," etc., I was functioning far more as journalist than a novelist when I wrote about such things. Burke has two extraordinary skills which set him apart from his contemporaries: the "pattern-recognition software" inside his mind, and his ability to extract information. Another Life is going to showcase both of those skills far more than any previous book. As for "tomorrow's headlines," you have to remember that I wrote the book over a year ago... so some have already surfaced. Ask my scalpel-penciled editor--Edward Kastenmeier--if you doubt my word. Many times we have had to alter a manuscript because what I was "predicting" had just come to pass. I don't know how long it is going to take for some of the truth revealed in Another Life to reach public consciousness. It may be "tomorrow's headlines"... or it may be another year or two. But if you look at my track record, you'll know where to put your money down.
(Photo Credit National Association to Protect Children) [via] 
Flood: Mississippi 1927by Andrew VachssISBN 0671619055 (0-671-61905-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Footsteps of the Hawkby Andrew H. Vachss, Edward KastenmeierISBN 0679766634 (0-679-76663-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burkeby Conor Cruise O'BrienISBN 0226616517 (0-226-61651-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Hard Candyby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679761691 (0-679-76169-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Candy'Book summary:In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burkethe private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize childrenis up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes. But in doing so Burke becomes a target for an entire Mafia family, a whore with a heart of cyanide, and a contract killer as implacable as a heat-seeking missile. Written with Vachss's signature narrative overdriveand his unnerving familiarity with the sub-basement of American crimeHard Candy is vintage Burke.
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Hard Looksby Andrew VachssISBN 1569718296 (1-56971-829-6)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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Hard Looks: Adapted Storiesby Andrew VachssISBN 1569718318 (1-56971-831-8)
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In the Moon of the Red Poniesby James Lee BurkeISBN 158724778X (1-58724-778-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Jolie Blon's Bounceby James Lee BurkeISBN 1587242737 (1-58724-273-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jolie Blon's Bounce'Book summary:Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana cop who's easily one of the most complex and compelling protagonists in mystery fiction, confronts his own demons as well as a brutal adversary who might be the devil himself in this dark thriller. This is classic James Lee Burke, the master stylist, writing at the top of his game:
"I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past... on the tree-flooded alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time (and) all you had to do was release yourself from the prison of restraint, just snip loose the stitches that sewed your skin to the hairshirt of normalcy."
The plot hinges on a pair of murders that don't seem to be connected--a mobbed-up prostitute and a pretty young teenage girl--and the Cajun blues singer accused of both crimes. Robicheaux believes that Tee Bobby Hulin, the gifted musician whose original composition provides the title for this brilliantly realized Gothic crime novel, is innocent. Proving it puts him in the sights of a vicious old overseer named Legion, whose almost supernatural powers nearly drown Robicheaux in the swamp of his own addictions. The narrative proceeds slowly, but Burke's dedicated fans won't begrudge him one beautifully turned phrase, gloriously limned description, or insightful characterization: they just don't get any better than this one. --Jane Adams [via]-
Landmark Essays on Kenneth Burkeby Barry BrummettISBN 1880393050 (1-880393-05-0)
Softcover, Hermagoras Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Landmark Essays on Kenneth Burke'Book summary:In the inaugural series of "Landmark Essay" books, this is the only volume which focuses on the work of one scholar. Kenneth Burke -- poet, scholar, critic, iconoclast, eccentric, and Yankee crank -- is the major figure in American humanities in the twentieth century. He does not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor is he reducible to any simple set of principles and ideas. Scholars from many fields -- communication, English, history, sociology, and more -- have studied Burke's theories and critical methods which have spawned reams of commentary, extension, debate, and application. More than a single intellectual worker, he is the ore for a scholarly industry. This book contains a few outstanding examples of the products of that industry. Readers will find models of what it means to be Burkean, to study Burke, and to use Burke in developing an understanding of the human condition.
The essays in this volume show that one can borrow ideas from Burke, or one can become wholly immersed in him. However, his work cannot be reduced to or equated with any other figure, method, or school of thought. The reader may find some striking similarities among the papers in this book. Written by scholars from several disciplines, they nevertheless address many of the same themes during the course of their exposition. What is also striking is the fact that most of the essays enter that Burkean system of themes from different starting points. Thus, they are models of what Burke claims for any critical vocabulary -- including his own -- that they are cycles of terms, any one of which leads into another.
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Last Car to Elysian Fieldsby James Lee BurkeISBN 159413040X (1-59413-040-X)
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When police officer Robicheaux learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, has been the victim of a brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn't realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life - and into the lives of those around him - an ancestral evil that could destroy them all. [via]
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Mask Market: A Burke Novelby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0375424229 (0-375-42422-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Morning for Flamingosby James Lee BurkeISBN 1574901559 (1-57490-155-9)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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Only Childby Andrew VachssISBN 1400030986 (1-4000-3098-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Pain Managementby Andrew VachssISBN 0375726470 (0-375-72647-0)
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Pegasus Descendingby James Lee BurkeISBN 1597222674 (1-59722-267-4)
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifulby Edmund BurkeISBN 1425467997 (1-4254-6799-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'Book summary:The "Philosophical Enquiry" is a study of the relationship between strong feelings and forms of art, that considers the inspired persuasiveness of certain kinds of writing alongside experience of the natural landscape, and is gradually being recognized as an important work of aesthetic theory. This eloquent and sometimes erotic book was long considered to be a piece of Burke's juvenilia, published when he was only 28. But it is a precursor of his later political writings, and clearly deals with a fashionable topic of intellectual preoccupation in the 18th-century. This work is also one of the first major works in European literature on the sublime, a subject that was later to fascinate thinkers from Kant and Coleridge in the 18th-century, to contemporary philosophers and literary critics. Adam Phillips has also edited Charles Lamb's "Selected Prose" and Walter Pater's "The Renaissance", as well as writing a study of his own entitled "Winnicott". [via]
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Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste: And Several Other Additionsby Edmund BurkeISBN 0935005285 (0-935005-28-5)
Softcover, Lincoln Rembrandt Pub
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Pre-Revolutionary Writingsby Edmund Burke, Ian HarrisISBN 052136227X (0-521-36227-X)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund BurkeISBN 1420924974 (1-4209-2497-4)
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A Rhetoric of Motives.by Kenneth BurkeISBN 0520015460 (0-520-01546-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rhetoric of Motives.'Book summary:As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct.[via]
In A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950), Burke's conception of "symbolic action" comes into its own: all human activities--linguisitc or extra-linguistic--are modes of symbolizing; man is defined as the symbol-using (and -misusing) animal. The critic's job becomes one of the interpreting human symbolizing wherever he finds it, with the aim of illuminating human motivation. Thus the reach of the literary critic now extends to the social and ethical.
A Grammar of Motives is a "methodical meditation" on such complex linguistic forms as plays, stories, poems, theologies, metaphysical systems, political philosophies, constitutions. A Rhetoric of Motives expands the field to human ways of persuasion and identification. Persuasion, as Burke sees it, "ranges from the bluntest quest of advantage, as in sales promotion or propaganda, through courtship, social etiquette, education, and the sermon, to a 'pure' form that delights in the process of appeal for itself alone, without ulterior purpose. And identification ranges from the politician who, addressing an audience of farmers, says, 'I was a farm boy myself,' through the mysteries of social status, to the mystic's devout identification with the sources of all being."More editions of A Rhetoric of Motives.:
The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burkeby Ross WolinISBN 1570034044 (1-57003-404-4)
Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burkeby Gregory ClarkISBN 1570035393 (1-57003-539-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke'Book summary:At the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark's new study explores the rhetorical power connected with American tourism. Looking specifically at a time when citizens of the United States first took to rail and then highway to become sightseers in their own country, Clark traces the rhetorical function of a wide-ranging set of tourist experiences. He explores how the symbolic experiences Americans share as tourists have helped residents of a vast and diverse nation adopt a national identity. In doing so he suggests that the rhetorical power of a national culture is wielded not only by public discourse but also by public experiences.
Clark examines places in the American landscape that have facilitated such experiences, including New York City, Shaker villages, Yellowstone National Park, the Lincoln Highway, San Franciscos 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the Grand Canyon. He examines the rhetorical power of these sites to transform private individuals into public citizens, and he evaluates a national culture that teaches Americans to experience certain places as potent symbols of national community.
Invoking Burke's concept of "identification" to explain such rhetorical encounters, Clark considers Burke's lifelong study of symbolslinguistic and otherwiseand their place in the construction and transformation of individual identity. Clark turns to Burkes work to expand our awareness of the rhetorical resources that lead individuals within a community to adopt a collective identity, and he considers the implications of nineteenth- and twentieth-century tourism for both visual rhetoric and the rhetoric of display. [via]
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The Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 3829008988 (3-8290-0898-8)
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Sacrificeby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679764100 (0-679-76410-0)
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Safe Houseby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0375700749 (0-375-70074-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Safe House'Book summary:Safe House, the latest in Andrew Vachss's series of Burke novels, begins when Burke's "brother," Hercules, is paid to scare off a neo-nazi stalker and accidentally kills the wrong guy. Burke finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of white supremacists, stalkers, and safe house networks. What ensues is an intense rush to cover Hercules' tracks and, at the same time, bring down a New York City white supremacy ring.
Safe House offers up Vachss's repertoire of repeat characters. The most fascinating are Burke's prison "family," the Prof, Max the silent, the Mole, Michelle, Clarence, Mama, and, of course, Burke himself, who is as hard-edged as ever. The family's willingness to help one another, even die for one another, is the emotional string that ties the books together. There are also two new female characters, Vyra, the affluent Jewish housewife and Crystal Beth, half Inuit, half Irish safe house madam. Though not as believable as their male counterparts, Vyra and Crystal Beth have powerful secrets of their own and add a soft, human element to the story.
Like other Vachss novels, Safe House embraces the dirty, grim life of the ex-con for hire. The most compelling aspect of Safe House is Vachss's no-holds-barred writing style. He spares nobody's feeling and minces no words in this rough, gritty and often painfully raw crime story. --Mara Friedman [via]
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Select Works of Edmund Burke: A New Imprint of the Payne Edition Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; The Two Speeches on Americaby Edmund Burke, Francis Canavan, Edward John PayneISBN 086597165X (0-86597-165-X)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Select Works of Edmund Burke: A New Imprint of the Payne Edition Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; The Two Speeches on America'Book summary:Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne's notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords.[via]
Volume 2 consists of Burke's most renowned work, Reflections on the Revolution in France. In it, he excoriates French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. He attempts not only to explain the events of the new revolution to his readers but also to persuade them that the revolution menaces the civilization of Europe in general and that of Britain in particular. In addition, he articulates a coherent political countertheory that organizes his own beliefs about God, humanity, and society.
This is Burke's most famous work, for over two centuries read, discussed, and pondered by thousands of students and general readers as well as by professional scholars.Francis Canavan (1917-2009) was Professor of Political Science at Fordham University from 1966 until his retirement in 1988.
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Shellaby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679756817 (0-679-75681-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shella'Book summary:From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators.
He is called "Ghost" because he is so nondescript as to be invisible and because he slays with such reflexive ease that he might be one of the dead. Once he traveled with a woman who was called "Shella" -- because those who had treated her as a horrendously ill-used child had tried to make her come out of her shell. Now Shella has vanished in a wilderness of strip clubs and peep shows, and Ghost is looking for her, guided by a killer's instinct and the recognition that can only exist between two people who have been damaged past the point of no return. The result is Andrew Vachss's most compelling work to date, the thriller reimagined as a bleak romance of the damned. [via] -
Sparknotes Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 1586635107 (1-58663-510-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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Stregaby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679764097 (0-679-76409-7)
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Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Storiesby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 1880325055 (1-880325-05-5)
Hardcover, Borderlands Pr
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Two Classics of the French Revolution: Reflections on the Revolution in France/the Rights of Manby Edmund Burke, Thomas PaineISBN 0385265778 (0-385-26577-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Vindication of Natural Societyby Edmund BurkeISBN 0865970106 (0-86597-010-6)
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La Princesa Prometidaby William GoldmanISBN 8427030975 (84-270-3097-5)
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