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Acquainted With The Night: Excursions Through The World After Darkby Christopher DewdneyISBN 1582345996 (1-58234-599-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acquainted With The Night: Excursions Through The World After Dark'Book summary:In twelve chapters corresponding to the twelve hours of night, Christopher Dewdney illuminates night's central themes, including sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, festivals of the night, fireworks, astronomy, nightclubs, sleep and dreams, the graveyard shift, the art of darkness, and endless nights. With infections curiosity, a lyrical, intimate tone, and an eye for nighttime beauties both natural and man-made, he paints a captivating portrait of our hours in darkness.[via]More editions of Acquainted With The Night: Excursions Through The World After Dark:
Angry Young Spacemanby Jim MunroeISBN 1568582080 (1-56858-208-0)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Area Woman Blows Gasket: And Other Tales From The Domestic Frontierby Patricia PearsonISBN 1582345368 (1-58234-536-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutanby Jamie ZeppaISBN 157322118X (1-57322-118-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Bird Artistby Howard NormanISBN 1568950942 (1-56895-094-2)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Waterby Tony Clarke, Maude BarlowISBN 1565848136 (1-56584-813-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 1561560944 (1-56156-094-4)
Softcover, Kidsbooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself. [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595459 (1-57759-545-9)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundryby Judy Fong BatesISBN 1582431884 (1-58243-188-4)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Chump Changeby David EddieISBN 1573227366 (1-57322-736-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Complete Butcher's Talesby Rikki DucornetISBN 1564782298 (1-56478-229-8)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Completely Pip and Nortonby Dave CooperISBN 1569716927 (1-56971-692-7)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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The Cooperman Variationsby Howard EngelISBN 1585672335 (1-58567-233-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Crash of Rhinos, a Party of Jays: The Wacky Ways We Name Animal Groupsby Diane Swanson, Mariko Ando SpencerISBN 1554510473 (1-55451-047-3)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Crumpleby Dave CooperISBN 1560973218 (1-56097-321-8)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Dan & Larryby Dave CooperISBN 1560974338 (1-56097-433-8)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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The End of Foodby Thomas F. PawlickISBN 1569803021 (1-56980-302-1)
Softcover, Barricade Books Inc
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The End of Gay (And the Death of Heterosexuality)by Bert ArcherISBN 1560256117 (1-56025-611-7)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Gay (And the Death of Heterosexuality)'Book summary:At the crux of Sex Without Borders is the question: Why do we persist in defining ourselves by our sexual behaviors? Written by a young man for a new generation of readersone with radically different formative experiencesthis book will be popular and controversial for its answer, and for its commonsensical defense of polymorphous sexual desire. Featuring gay and lesbian publications, this intriguing debut from columnist and reviewer Bert Archer is a timely, fun and healthy read.[via]More editions of The End of Gay (And the Death of Heterosexuality):
The Engineer of Human Soulsby Paul Wilson, Josef SkvoreckyISBN 1564781992 (1-56478-199-2)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell: A User Friendly Guide to World Dominationby J. D. Illiad FrazerISBN 156592861X (1-56592-861-X)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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The Fountains of Neptuneby Rikki DucornetISBN 1564781550 (1-56478-155-0)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Getting Away with Murderby Howard EngelISBN 1585671835 (1-58567-183-5)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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Grey Owl: The Many Faces of Archie Belaneyby Jane Billinghurst, Donald B. SmithISBN 1568362935 (1-56836-293-5)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Hippopotamus Marshby Pauline GedgeISBN 1569472203 (1-56947-220-3)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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A History of Canadian Literatureby W.H. NewISBN 1561310409 (1-56131-040-9)
Softcover, New Amsterdam Books
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Home Baking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the Worldby Jeffrey Alford, Naomi DuguidISBN 1579651747 (1-57965-174-7)
Hardcover, Artisan
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The Horus Roadby Pauline GedgeISBN 1569472602 (1-56947-260-2)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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House of Illusionsby Pauline GedgeISBN 1559212004 (1-55921-200-4)
Hardcover, Moyer Bell
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The Jade Cabinetby Rikki DucornetISBN 1564781739 (1-56478-173-9)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jade Cabinet'Book summary:The language and action are as lush and intricate as William Morris Victorian wallpaper. Memory, the sister of silent Etherea, tells the story of their childhood with an eccentric father who trades Etherea for a piece of jade to Radulph Tubbs, a despicable character who is Queen Victoria's Dragon of Industry (Dickens would have disliked him intensely). Etherea magically disappears from Tubbs' grasp after he brutally attacks her, and in Egypt, a hunger artist who speaks in tongues plans a revenge that will surprise everyone. [via]
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Labryinth of Desire: Women, Pasion, and Romantic Obsesseionby Rosemary SullivanISBN 1582432872 (1-58243-287-2)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labryinth of Desire: Women, Pasion, and Romantic Obsesseion'Book summary:"A beautifully woven tapestry of insightful corollaries and personal stories, offering fresh conjectures into the psyches of women and men in love." -- Elle . Think of torch songs and the tango. Think of films such as Casablanca and The English Patient , of novels such as Wuthering Heights and Rebecca . Think of romantic, obsessive love, the hot bed of passion we fall into, the emotion we call true love. This is the subject of Rosemary Sullivan's provocative and fascinating book. Beginning with her own telling of a fictional love story, she then, chapter by chapter, deconstructs it, skillfully pushing back the layers of meaning to look at what is really happening. Using literature, mythology, film, and personal anecdote; with graceful writing and an intimate knowledge of the subject, Rosemary Sullivan has written a brilliant exploration of our desire for romantic love as she attempts to answer the question, Why do women love as they do? [via]
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Latitudes of Meltby Joan ClarkISBN 1569473188 (1-56947-318-8)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Latitudes of Melt'Book summary:In the year 1912, a fisherman discovers an infant adrift on an ice floe in the North Atlantic. Back in the Newfoundland village of Drook she's considered a changeling, with her white hair and eyes of different colors. Her very survival shows that her life is charmed. Named Aurora, after the dawn of her rescue from the sea, she exhibits a singular nature as she grows to womanhood amid the austere beauty of the Newfoundland coast. She marries and has two children, but it is only after they are grown, and she is an old woman, that the mystery of Aurora's origins is solved.
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Lenny Bruce Is Deadby Jonathan GoldsteinISBN 158243347X (1-58243-347-X)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Life in the French Foreign Legion: How to Join and What to Expect When You Get Thereby Evan McGormanISBN 1555716334 (1-55571-633-4)
Softcover, L & R Pub
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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matchesby Sheila Fischman, Gaetan SoucyISBN 1559705884 (1-55970-588-4)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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Maisie Dobbsby Jacqueline WinspearISBN 1569473307 (1-56947-330-7)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maisie Dobbs'Book summary:Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into service as a maid at her ladyships Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under her wing and became her patron. She encouraged Maisie to study at Cambridge, and was aided in this by Maurice Blanche, a friend often retained as an investigator by the elite of Europe when discretion and results were required. It was he who first recognized Maisies intuitive gifts.
The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie left for France to train as a nurse, then served at the front, where she fell in love with a handsome young doctor.
After the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, Trade and Personal Investigations. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but turns up something else, a tombstone with only a first nameVincent. And then she finds another. The deceased had lived on a cooperative farm called The Retreat, a well-regarded convalescent refuge for those grievously wounded in the war, ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Lady Rowans son makes plans to join the reclusive community, Maisie hurriedly investigates and finds a disturbing mystery at its core whose resolution gives her the courage to confront the ghost that has haunted her for ten years. [via]More editions of Maisie Dobbs:
Making a Killingby Warren DunfordISBN 1555836577 (1-55583-657-7)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret Warby William StevensonISBN 158574154X (1-58574-154-X)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels through the Great Subcontinentby Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid, Richard JungISBN 1579652522 (1-57965-252-2)
Hardcover, Artisan
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Maritime Provinces: Off the Beaten Pathby Trudy FongISBN 1564408523 (1-56440-852-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Manby Marshall McLuhan, Philip B. MeggsISBN 1584230509 (1-58423-050-9)
Hardcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effectsby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 1584230703 (1-58423-070-3)
Softcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects'Book summary:The medium used to be the message. But in the "collide-oscopic" barrage of image and text that resulted from Marshall McLuhan's 1967 collaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, the medium becomes the massage. The basic premise of this playful popularization of McLuhan's theories of the electronic revolution will be familiar to readers of his other works: "Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments." But more than McLuhan's other work, The Medium Is the Massage also reflects the tumultuous decade in which it was produced, the 60s. It was a time when existentialism, the theatrr of the absurd, "happenings," and Eastern religions were all the rage in academic circles. Massage adds to that mix traces of utopianism ("We have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art"; a hint of radicalism (of electronic circuitry McLuhan says: "Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism. The old civic, state, and national groupings have become unworkable."); and a bracing pinch of paranoia ("Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance" have brought us "to a point where remedial control, born out of knowledge of media and their total effects on all of us, must be exerted."). True to its observation that "information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously," McLuhan and Fiore shower us with photographs, cartoons, newspaper headlines, backwards and upside-down writing, and other graphical innovations. The book is also packed with quotations from a motley collection of savants (in addition to McLuhan himself, of course): Alfred North Whitehead, James Joyce, Lao Tsu, John Dewey, John Cage, and Bob Dylan. The book's design and content aptly, and palpably, demonstrate the insights that have caused many highly stimulated readers to pronounce McLuhan a visionary, a veritable "oracle of the electronic age." --Russell Prather [via]
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Murder in Montparnasseby Howard EngelISBN 1585670944 (1-58567-094-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in Montparnasse'Book summary:Penzler Pick, January 2001: Howard Engel's Murder in Montparnasse, an intrigue-filled novel set in the Left Bank's glorious heyday in the 1920s, joins Stephen Glazier's The Lost Provinces and William Wiser's Disappearances as an outstanding example of this minigenre. Engel, an award-winning Canadian writer best known for his Benny Cooperman mystery series, makes his narrator a fellow countryman, Mike Ward. An expatriate supporting himself as a translator for a press agency on the Right Bank, Ward prefers to spend his time amid the colorful personalities who are permanent fixtures at the sidewalk cafes of the Left. One of his first acquaintances, J. Miller Waddington, is a sometime boxer and bullfight aficionado who's come to the City of Light intending to write the Great American Novel. Who does that remind you of?
Engel offers other characters both in and out of fictional disguise, and figuring out just who's who provides part of the entertainment value. The Fitzgeralds are on the scene, of course (as Wilson and Georgia O'Donnell), while another famous couple of the era, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, walk through the action as themselves.
But there's another celebrated figure on hand who, in every way possible, is distinctly out of place. Jack the Ripper, or at least a killer who resembles that British fiend, is stalking Montparnasse, the bohemian quarter of the city, and his knife has already left behind five corpses. Not prostitutes, as in London, the victims have been artists' models, although one dead woman was an up-and-coming young painter. Fear is in the streets and starting to seep behind tightly closed shutters, and even in the brightly lit brasseries and bistros there is only a hollow feeling of safety.
While others of his acquaintance watch and wait with the fatalism of the poets and artists that they are, Mike Ward keeps his journalist's instincts about him. It occurs to him to wonder, after the latest slaying, if someone with a grudge against a former lover might not take lethal initiative advantage of the cover provided by the unknown Jack de Paris in order to commit murder and avoid suspicion. One of the best passages, for those keeping an eye out for the celebrities in these pages, is the section where Ward discusses his theories with an engaging character--only very lightly disguised--based on the legendary crime novelist Georges Simenon.
Howard Engel has obviously enjoyed the jigsaw aspects of arranging this quasi- historic mise en scène, and so will those readers whose taste runs both to pastiche and pastis. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Niagara: A History of the Fallsby Pierre BertonISBN 1568361548 (1-56836-154-8)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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No Fat Chicks: How Big Business Profits Making Women Hate Their Bodies-How to Fight Backby Terry PoultonISBN 1559724234 (1-55972-423-4)
Hardcover, Carol Pub Group
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelersby Barbara HodgsonISBN 1580084419 (1-58008-441-9)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Press
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The Oasisby Pauline GedgeISBN 1569472386 (1-56947-238-6)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oasis'Book summary:In this second volume of the Lords of the Two Lands trilogy, Kamose, austere eldest son of the slain Tao prince Seqenenra, assumes leadership of the Egyptian rebellion against the foreign Hyksos rulers and begins a perilous sweep north, up the river Nile, toward the delta strongholds of his enemy, the Pharaoh Apepa. Supported by his brothers and the women of his family, Kamose makes a desperate effort to vanquish his powerfully entrenched enemies, to save his family, to liberate his country, and to restore the native gods of Egypt to their former glory. [via]
The Old Farmer's Almanac 1999by Old Farmer's AlmanacISBN 1571980865 (1-57198-086-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankindby Yves Coppens, Dominique Simonnet, Joel De Rosnay, Hubert ReevesISBN 1559704586 (1-55970-458-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Overbite: Drawings and Paintings of Mostly Pillowy Girls (Weasel #6)by Dave CooperISBN 1560975504 (1-56097-550-4)
Hardcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Overbite: Drawings and Paintings of Mostly Pillowy Girls (Weasel #6)'Book summary:Subtitled "Drawings and Paintings of Mostly Pillowy Girls," Overbite is a hardcover art book featuring forty of Cooper's gorgeous oil paintings, each focusing on the female form. Cooper's vibrant use of color in the lavish, textured rendering he uses to depict his favored body type"pillowy" is a particularly apt descriptivecalls to mind a more colorful and surreal version of R. Crumb's obsessive and sumptuous portraits of women.
This book also doubles as the sixth "issue" of Cooper's ongoing comic book series, Weasel, though as a stand-alone hardcover art book it bears little relation to the first five issues; it functions much better as a catalog for upcoming and recent exhibitions of Cooper's in Philadelphia, Ottawa, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
The book features an introduction by David Cross, of HBO's Mr. Show fame. [via]More editions of Overbite: Drawings and Paintings of Mostly Pillowy Girls (Weasel #6):
Patkau Architectsby Kenneth FramptonISBN 1580931693 (1-58093-169-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Personal Finance for Dummiesby Eric TysonISBN 156884378X (1-56884-378-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Plain Modern: The Architecture Of Brian Mackay-lyonsby Kenneth Frampton, Malcolm Quantrill, Brian Mackay-Lyons, Glenn MurcuttISBN 1568984774 (1-56898-477-4)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plain Modern: The Architecture Of Brian Mackay-lyons'Book summary:It's been our distinct pleasure over the past few years to publish monographs on a select group of young architects and firms whose work represents the best of contemporary design thinking while retaining a distinctive regional sensibility. The Nova-Scotian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons fits neatly into this distinguished list, which includes Marlon Blackwell in the Ozarks, Rick Joy in the Southwest, andMiller/Hull in the Northwest.
Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, commercial buildings, and public projects combine regional forms with local materials, technologies, and building practices to create works that are linked to their environments right down to their DNA.Peaked gables, shed roofs, and sliding doors are inspired by local barn types; corrugated metal cladding comes from the buildings used by the areas fishing industry; structural wooden frames are based on local ship-building traditions. These elements communicate a sense of place that is sophisticated, accessible, and free of sentimentality.
Novelist and historian Malcolm Quantrill weaves together an intimate portrait of MacKay-Lyons and his work, elucidating the "peculiar regionality" of his subject's architecture.
A New Voices monograph published with The Graham Foundation.
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Radical Gratitudeby Mary Jo LeddyISBN 1570754489 (1-57075-448-9)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Raven Questby Sharon StewartISBN 1575058944 (1-57505-894-4)
Hardcover, Lerner Pub Group
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Red, White, and Drunk All over: A Wine-soaked Journey from Grape to Glassby Natalie MacLeanISBN 1582346488 (1-58234-648-8)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Running Northby Ann Mariah CookISBN 1565122534 (1-56512-253-4)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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Running Out of Control: Dilemmas of Globalizationby R. Alan HedleyISBN 1565491513 (1-56549-151-3)
Softcover, Kumarian Pr
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Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friendby Mélanie WattISBN 1554531810 (1-55453-181-0)
Hardcover, Kids Can Press, Limited
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Seductions of Riceby Jeffrey Alford, Naomi DuguidISBN 1579652344 (1-57965-234-4)
Softcover, Artisan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seductions of Rice'Book summary:Chinese stir-frys, Spanish paellas, Japanese sushi, Indian thorans, Thai salads, Turkish pilafs, Italian risottos, Senegalese yassas, American gumbos: if rice isn't the heart and soul of all these diverse dishes, rice can be found piled right there at the side of the plate, or in a bowl. To say that Alford and Duguid, authors of the award-winning Flatbreads and Flavors, deliver the world of rice is much too simple an understatement. Your days of buying one rice to serve all purposes will end with even a cursory reading of this lovely book.
The authors are photographers as well as writers, but their greatest skill may be to travel the world at the level of the culture they visit. They seem able to drop away from Western culture and hunker right down with rice vendor or cook, no matter where.
Seductions of Rice opens with all the basics of rice, everything a reader would want to know and then some. Then on to the cultures of rice: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Central Asian, Mediterranean, Senegalese, and North American. Recipes either made from rice or to accompany rice range from Chinese Congee to Thai Green Papaya Salad to Japanese Quick Morning Miso Soup to South Indian Lentil Stew to Cuban Black Beans to Mexican Green Rice.
And in between? The authors fill in all the space between these diverse grains of rice with traveler's tales from the road. It is a luxurious book, a delicious book, a ripe combination of travel and taste. You leave off thinking that the world must be the shape of a rice ball. --Schuyler Ingle [via]
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The Silver Chaliceby Thomas Bertram CostainISBN 1568497024 (1-56849-702-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Soon to Be a Major Motion Pictureby Warren DunfordISBN 1555835821 (1-55583-582-1)
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Squirrels All Year Longby Melvin BergerISBN 1567840035 (1-56784-003-5)
Softcover, Doubleday Book & Music Clubs
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The Stowawayby Robert HoughISBN 1559707453 (1-55970-745-3)
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Suckleby Dave CooperISBN 1560973013 (1-56097-301-3)
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Swing Low: A Lifeby Miriam ToewsISBN 1559705876 (1-55970-587-6)
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The Sword of No-Sword: Life of the Master Warrior Tesshuby John StevensISBN 1570620504 (1-57062-050-4)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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Tales from Parc La Fontaineby Roslyn SchwartzISBN 1554510430 (1-55451-043-0)
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Tamarind Womanby Anita Rau BadamiISBN 1565123352 (1-56512-335-2)
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There Was an Old Womanby Howard EngelISBN 1585672556 (1-58567-255-6)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing book 3by R. Scott BakkerISBN 158567883X (1-58567-883-X)
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneedby John IrvingISBN 1559703237 (1-55970-323-7)
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The Twelfth Transformingby Pauline GedgeISBN 1559212594 (1-55921-259-4)
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Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fairby Charles De LintISBN 1561465178 (1-56146-517-8)
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Underbelly: Additional Observations On The Beauty/ugliness Of Mostly Pillowy Girlsby Dave CooperISBN 1560976152 (1-56097-615-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underbelly: Additional Observations On The Beauty/ugliness Of Mostly Pillowy Girls'Book summary:A collection of luscious oil paintings in tribute to pillowy female forms.
Subtitled "Additional Observations on the Beauty/Ugliness of Mostly Pillowy Girls," Underbelly is a hardcover art book featuring over 50 of Cooper's luminescent oil paintings and lush drawings, each focusing on the female form. Underbelly is the follow-up to Cooper's acclaimed first book of paintings, Overbite. Since the success (and immediate sell out) of Overbite, Cooper has been producing new work at a fevered pitch for gallery shows and patrons alike. Although much of the work in Underbelly appears to have slithered out of a similar same place as Overbite, this latest batch has a decidedly darker and more urban flavor.
Cooper's meticulous glazing method of oil painting lends an almost unsettling obsessiveness and depth to his subjects: primarily innocent, or vacant, or menacing, or predatory women wearing little or nothing, and writing around a variety of settings, all produced over the past two years for a number of gallery shows in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
Before devoting himself mostly to painting over the last two years, Cooper created several acclaimed graphic novels, including Ripple, Suckle, Dan & Larry and others. He also contributed designs to the Matt Groening television series Futurama, and has collaborated with comedian David Cross and Vice magazine founder Gavin McInnes. 48 full-color pages, 10" x 10". [via]
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Vikings: The North Atlantic Sagaby National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), William W. Fitzhugh, Elisabeth I. WardISBN 1560989955 (1-56098-995-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga'Book summary:In the early Middle Ages, driven by famine at home and the promise of wealth to be had in other lands, the Viking people exploded out of Scandinavia and set about conquering parts of England, Ireland, France, Russia, and even Turkey. Emboldened by their successes, the Vikings pushed ever farther outward, eventually crossing the North Atlantic and founding settlements in Iceland, Greenland, and eastern Canada.
In The Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, some three dozen scholars examine the growing archaeological evidence of the Viking presence in the New World--including such items as a Norse coin excavated in Maine, runic stones from the Canadian Arctic, and farming implements found in Newfoundland. The contributors consider the sometimes friendly, sometimes warlike history of Viking interactions with the native peoples of northeastern North America (whom the Norse called skraelings, or "screamers"); compare the archaeological record with contemporary sagas and other records of exploration; and argue for the need to better document the Viking contribution to New World history.
"As an historical and cultural achievement," write the editors, "the Viking Age and its North American medieval extension stand out as one of the most remarkable periods in human history." This oversized, heavily illustrated volume celebrates that little-understood time. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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War and Peace in the Global Villageby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 1584230746 (1-58423-074-6)
Softcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest". Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as extensions or "self-amputations of our own being", because technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhan's ideas and observations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable to the world in which we live.
War and Peace in the Global Village is a meditation on accelerating innovations leading to identity loss and war. [via]
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Well-Schooled Fish And Feathered Bandits: The Wondrous Ways Animals Learn from Animalsby Peter ChristieISBN 1554510457 (1-55451-045-7)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Wiccan Warriorby Kerr Cuhulain, Michael MaupinISBN 1567182526 (1-56718-252-6)
Softcover, Llewellyn Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wiccan Warrior'Book summary:We all have archetypes we model ourselves upon. In the Wiccan community these include Maiden, Healer, Mother, Bard, and others. In Wiccan Warrior by Kerr Cuhulain, you will learn of eight new yet traditional archetypes that Wiccans can model their lives and goals upon. You'll also find that they are completely appropriate for any person following a spiritual system.
These eight are:
- The Balanced Warrior, for whom all comes from the Divine and must be treated as such.
- The Creative Warrior, who masters myths and can use them to share wisdom.
- The Rational Warrior, who avoids all types of fundamentalism.
- The Energized Warrior, who can raise and direct energy. You'll learn to do this with toning, mantras, dance and drumming.
- The Dreaming Warrior, who knows how to alter consciousness. Here you will learn meditation, concentration and breathwork.
- The Magickal Warrior, who knows and can do magick.
- The Ritual Warrior, who helps revitalize rituals with knowledge, understanding, energy and love.
- The Initiated Warrior, who knows and shares the value of true initiation.
There are five cornerstones to the magick of being a Wiccan Warrior. These are the well-known To Dare, To Will, To Know and To Keep Silent. To these Cuhulain adds To Imagine. For "to imagine is to be able to clearly visualize your objective, to develop and use a creative imagination." The book is filled with ideas and insights that will guide you on your way to becoming a true Wiccan Warrior, a person freed from limitations.
This book is a must for Wiccan and Witches of all stripes. If one of the Warrior archetypes doesn't fit your needs, another (or several others) will. People who are not Wiccans will find much to admire and make use of, too.
Winner of the 2001 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Award for best Biographical/Personal Book
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Wilderness Motherby Deanna KawatskiISBN 1558217568 (1-55821-756-8)
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