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America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Mattersby Joel Rogers, Ruy A. TeixeiraISBN 0465083994 (0-465-08399-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Analectsby Confucius, William Edward SoothillISBN 0486284840 (0-486-28484-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Analects'Book summary:Rich distillation of the timeless precepts of extremely influential Chinese philosopher and social theorist. Includes "Concerning Fundamental Principles," "Concerning Government," "The Eight Dancers: Concerning Manners and Morals," "Concerning Virtue," "Concerning Certain Disciples and Others," "Concerning Certain Disciples and Other Subjects," "Concerning the Master Himself," and much more. Footnotes. [via]
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Antigoneby SophoclesISBN 0486278042 (0-486-27804-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antigone'Book summary:When Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, chooses to obey the law of the gods rather than an unconscionable command from Creon, ruler of Thebes, she is condemned to death. How the gods take their revenge on Creon provides the gripping denouement to this compelling tragedy, still one of the most frequently performed of classical Greek dramas. Footnotes.[via]More editions of Antigone:
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby Aristotle, D. P. ChaseISBN 0486400964 (0-486-40096-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv'Book summary:This enduringly profound treatise was first used by the students of Aristotle's famous Athenian school, the Lyceum; since then it has exercised a lasting effect on Western philosophy and continues to resonate for modern readers. Aristotle identifies the goal of life as happiness and discusses its attainment through the contemplation of philosophic truth.[via]More editions of Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv:
Astronomyby Dinah L. Moche, George LoviISBN 0471097136 (0-471-09713-6)
Softcover, Wiley
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Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guideby Dinah L. MocheISBN 0471265187 (0-471-26518-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide'Book summary:Feel at home among the stars with this acclaimed astronomy self-teaching guide . . .
"A lively, up-to-date account of the basic principles of astronomy and exciting current fields of research."-Science Digest
"One of the best ways by which one can be introduced to the wonders of astronomy."-The Strolling Astronomer
"Excellent . . . provides stimulating reading and actively involves the reader in astronomy."-The Reflector
From stars, planets, and galaxies to the mysteries of black holes, the Big Bang, and the possibility of life on other planets, this new edition of Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide brings the fascinating night sky to life for every student and amateur stargazer.
With a unique self-teaching format, Astronomy clearly explains the essentials covered in an introductory college-level course. Written by an award-winning author, this practical guide offers beginners an easy way to quickly grasp the basic principles of astronomy.
To help you further appreciate the wonders of the cosmos, this book also includes:
* Star and Moon maps that identify objects in the sky
* Objectives, reviews, and self-tests that monitor your progress
* Simple activities that help you to test basic principles at your own pace
Updated with the latest discoveries, new photographs, and references to the best astronomy Web sites, this newest edition of Astronomy imparts an extraordinary appreciation of the elegant beauty of the universe.
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Basilby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486240150 (0-486-24015-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basil'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. [via]
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Bhagavadgitaby Bhagavadgita, Edwin ArnoldISBN 0486277828 (0-486-27782-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavadgita'Book summary:Paperback Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC. (1994) Language: English [via]
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The Castle of Otrantoby Horace WalpoleISBN 0486434125 (0-486-43412-5)
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The Chemical History of a Candleby Michael FaradayISBN 0486425428 (0-486-42542-8)
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Confucius: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Meanby ConfuciusISBN 0486227464 (0-486-22746-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confucius: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean'Book summary:Entire text of the Analects of Confucius in large, readable characters, and beneath this Legge's full translation, which has been accepted as the definitive, standard English version. Full chinese text, standard English translation on same page. Finest edition anywhere of one of world's finest thinkers.[via]More editions of Confucius: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean:
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The Cornel West Readerby Cornel WestISBN 0465091105 (0-465-09110-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cornel West Reader'Book summary:Cornel West is one of the nations premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly book or an article for Newsweek, whether he is speaking of Emerson, Gramsci, or Marvin Gaye, his work radiates a passion that reflects the rich traditions he draws on and weaves togetherÑBaptist preaching, American transcendentalism, jazz, radical politics. This anthology reveals the dazzling range of Wests work, from his explorations of Prophetic Pragmatism to his philosophizing on hip-hop.The Cornel West Reader traces the development of Wests extraordinary career as academic, public intellectual, and activist. In his essays, articles, books, and interviews, West emerges as Americas social conscience, urging attention to complicated issues of racial and economic justice, sexuality and gender, history and politics. This collection represents the best work of an always compelling, often controversial, and absolutely essential philosopher of the modern American experience.[via] 
Crome Yellowby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0486436632 (0-486-43663-2)
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Daisy Millerby Henry JamesISBN 0486287734 (0-486-28773-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Miller'Book summary:Famous novella chronicles a young american girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, james contrasts american customs and values with european manners and morals in a narrative rich in psychological and social insight [via]
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0486436659 (0-486-43665-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Based on the author's own tumultuous journey from boy to man, this epic traces young David's progress from his mother's sheltering arms to the miseries of boarding-school and sweatshop and the rewards of friendship, romance, and self-discovery in his vocation as a writer. A cherished favorite with generations of readers.[via]More editions of David Copperfield:
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0486426823 (0-486-42682-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of 19th-century Russia. A work of great symbolism, it continues to inspire 21st-century authors and readers.[via]More editions of Dead Souls:
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Thea KlirosISBN 0486295672 (0-486-29567-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula. A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, the blood-curdling tale still continues to hold readers spellbound a century later. -
Dublinersby James JoyceISBN 0486268705 (0-486-26870-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Declared by their author to be a chapter in the moral history of Ireland, this much-acclaimed collection of 15 tales features timeless insights into the human condition. A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th-century's most influential writers, it includes a masterpiece of the short-story genre, "The Dead."[via] 
The Economics of Povertyby Alan B. BatchelderISBN 0471055654 (0-471-05565-4)
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The Elements of Styleby William StrunkISBN 0486447987 (0-486-44798-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style'Book summary:This classic reference is a must-have for any student or writer. In this brief handbook, Strunk identifies the principal requirements of proper American English style and concentrates on the most often violated rules of composition. Authoritative and engagingly written, this is simply the greatest book of its kind.[via]More editions of The Elements of Style:
The End of Equalityby Mickey KausISBN 0465098290 (0-465-09829-0)
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486400735 (0-486-40073-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:Against the background of the liberation of Russia's serfs during the 1860s, a generational conflict flares between older aristocrats and radical youths. Quarrels, romance, and misunderstandings ensue when an outspoken young nihilist accompanies a school friend home for an extended visit. One of the truly great 19th-century Russian novels, available in an inexpensive edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Fathers and Sons:
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thea KlirosISBN 0486280241 (0-486-28024-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0486282112 (0-486-28211-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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The Genealogy of Moralsby Friedrich Nietzsche, Horace Barnett SamuelISBN 0486426912 (0-486-42691-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Genealogy of Morals'Book summary:Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last two centuries, deals with master/slave morality and modern man's current moral practices; the evolution of man's feelings of guilt and bad conscience; and how ascetic ideals help maintain human life under certain conditions. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0486264645 (0-486-26464-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:A dark allegorical masterpiece based on the author's own traumatic experiences in the Belgian Congo, recounts the voyage of Marlow up the Congo River in search of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz a white trader whose domination of the local natives had transformed him into a depraved and abominable tyrant. Large print format.[via]More editions of The Heart of Darkness:
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0486408825 (0-486-40882-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:Greedy, piratical Colonel Pyncheon builds his mansion on ill-gotten ground, setting the stage for generations of suffering. Years later, a country cousin and an enigmatic young boarder attempt to reverse the tide of misfortunes surrounding the house in Hawthorne's evocative blend of mystery and romance.[via]More editions of House of the Seven Gables:
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. RiisISBN 0486220125 (0-486-22012-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York'Book summary:This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive. [via]
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Robert Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486285642 (0-486-28564-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:A retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed. [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 0486264785 (0-486-26478-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of The Importance of Being Earnest:
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Joseph Andrewsby Henry FieldingISBN 0486415880 (0-486-41588-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joseph Andrews'Book summary:Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby's advances, she discharges him, and Joseph and his old tutor, Parson Adams (one of the great comic figures of literature), sets off to visit his sweetheart, Fanny. Along the way, they meet with a series of adventures in which, through their own innocence and honesty, they expose the hypocrisy and affectation of others.[via]More editions of Joseph Andrews:
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0486419231 (0-486-41923-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page.[via]More editions of The Jungle:
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486445089 (0-486-44508-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 0486280586 (0-486-28058-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en/Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark, and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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LA Vita Nuovaby Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel RossettiISBN 0486419150 (0-486-41915-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Vita Nuova'Book summary:This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.[via]More editions of LA Vita Nuova:
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Lady Audley's Secret,by Mary Elizabeth Braddon MaxwellISBN 0486230112 (0-486-23011-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Audley's Secret,'Book summary:Great Victorian mystery classic, beautifully plotted, suspenseful; praised by Thackeray, Boucher, Starrett, others. What happened to beautiful, vicious Lady Audleys husband? New introduction by Norman Donaldson. "...a real find for the mystery buff."Savannah (GA) News.[via]More editions of Lady Audley's Secret,:
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486291715 (0-486-29171-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:When Sara's privileged status at her boarding school comes to an abrupt end, the former favorite finds herself penniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress. This Victorian-era tale's use of imagination and generosity to make the best of life and losses remains a source of inspiration and enchantment.[via]More editions of A Little Princess:
London Labour and the London Poorby Henry MayhewISBN 0486219348 (0-486-21934-8)
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0486292576 (0-486-29257-6)
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Measure for Measureby William ShakespeareISBN 0486408892 (0-486-40889-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Measure for Measure'Book summary:A dark and difficult play, Measure for Measure has been a popular play since the latter half of the 20th century for its prescient dramatisation of the issues of sexual and political hypocrisy, and the ways in which the state interferes in the private lives of its citizens. Set in Duke Vincentio's Vienna, where poverty, disease and prostitution are rife, Claudio and his fiancée Juliet are arrested for having sex before marriage, and Claudio is sentenced to death. Angelo, the Duke's deputy, who stands in for the Duke whilst he ostensibly goes off on a pilgrimage, enthusiastically endorses the sentence. In fact the Duke remains behind the scenes, watching Angelo as he falls for Claudio's sister Isabella, who comes to beg for her brother's life. Angelo is a wonderful creation, loathsome yet fascinating as he struggles with the double standards of his enforcement of draconian laws whilst lusting after the sister of the man he is prepared to execute, debating "The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?".
No one is spared Shakespeare's withering look at the mores of early 17th-century life, not even the pimps and madams who try to get by in the midst of the Duke's bizarre and coercive disguises and performances. The deeply ambiguous ending of Measure for Measure confirms it as one of Shakespeare's most ambivalent and arguably despairing plays. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Medeaby Euripides, Rex WarnerISBN 0486275485 (0-486-27548-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Euripides' masterwork centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea - whom he marries and eventually abandons. Authoritative Rex Warner translation. [via]
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The Merchant of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0486284921 (0-486-28492-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" Shylock's impassioned plea in the middle of The Merchant of Venice is one of its most dramatic moments. After the Holocaust, the play has become a battleground for those who argue that the play represents Shakespeare's ultimate statement against ignorance and anti-Semitism in favour of a liberal vision of tolerance and multiculturalism. Other critics have pointed out that the play is, after all, a comedy that ultimately pokes fun at a 16th-century Jew. In fact, the bare outline of the plot suggests that the play is far more complex than either of these characterisations. Bassanio, a feckless young Venetian, asks his wealthy friend, the merchant Antonio, for money to finance a trip to woo the beautiful Portia in Belmont. Reluctant to refuse his friend (to whom he professes intense love), Antonio borrows the money from the Jewish moneylender. If he reneges on the deal, Shylock jokingly demands a pound of his flesh. When all Antonio's ships are lost at sea, Shylock calls in his debt, and the love and laughter of the first scenes of the play threaten to give way to death and tragedy. The final climactic courtroom scene, complete with a cross-dressed Portia, a knife-wielding Shylock, and the debate on "the quality of mercy" is one of the great dramatic moments in Shakespeare. The controversial subject matter of the play ensures that it continues to repel, divide but also fascinate its many audiences. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Metamorphosis and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Stanley Appelbaum, Franz KaftaISBN 0486290301 (0-486-29030-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories'Book summary:Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety, and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story - considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work - plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 048627067X (0-486-27067-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486424510 (0-486-42451-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:Stolen from the forehead of a Hindu idol, the dazzling gem known as "The Moonstone" resurfaces at a birthday party in an English country home with an enigmatic trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail. Laced with superstitions, suspicion, humor, and romance, this 1868 mystery draws readers into a compelling tale with numerous twists and turns.[via]More editions of The Moonstone:
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Much Ado About Nothingby William ShakespeareISBN 0486282724 (0-486-28272-4)
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0486282406 (0-486-28240-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Mysteries Of Udolphoby Ann Ward RadcliffeISBN 0486440338 (0-486-44033-8)
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Not to People Like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriagesby Susan WeitzmanISBN 0465090745 (0-465-09074-5)
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0486424537 (0-486-42453-7)
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, John A. HimesISBN 048644287X (0-486-44287-X)
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Passingby Nella LarsenISBN 0486437132 (0-486-43713-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passing'Book summary:The heroine of Passing takes an elevator from the infernal August Chicago streets to the breezy rooftop of the heavenly Drayton Hotel, "wafted upward on a magic carpet to another world, pleasant, quiet, and strangely remote from the sizzling one that she had left below." Irene is black, but like her author, the Danish-African American Nella Larsen (a star of the 1920s to mid-1930s Harlem Renaissance and the first black woman to win a Guggenheim creative-writing award), she can "pass" in white society. Yet one woman in the tea room, "fair and golden, like a sunlit day," keeps staring at her, and eventually introduces herself as Irene's childhood friend Clare, who left their hometown 12 years before when her father died. Clare's father had been born "on the left hand"--he was the product of a legal marriage between a white man and a black woman and therefore cut off from his inheritance. So she was raised penniless by white racist relatives, and now she passes as white. Even Clare's violent white husband is in the dark about her past, though he teases her about her tan and affectionately calls her "Nig." He laughingly explains: "When we were first married, she was white as--as--well as white as a lily. But I declare she's getting darker and darker." As Larsen makes clear, Passing can also mean dying, and Clare is in peril of losing her identity and her life.
The tale is simple on the surface--a few adventures in Chicago and New York's high life, with lots of real people and race-mixing events described (explicated by Thadious M. Davis's helpful introduction and footnotes). But underneath, it seethes with rage, guilt, sex, and complex deceptions. Irene fears losing her black husband to Clare, who seems increasingly predatory. Or is this all in Irene's mind? And is everyone wearing a mask? Larsen's book is a scary hall of mirrors, a murder mystery that can't resolve itself. It sticks with you. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Politicsby Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett, H.W.C. DavisISBN 0486414248 (0-486-41424-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics'Book summary:Intellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Both heavily influenced by and critical of Plato's Republic and Laws, Politics is the distillation of a lifetime of thought and observation. The great Benjamin Jowett translation.[via]More editions of Politics:
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Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Tasteby Herbert J. GansISBN 0465097170 (0-465-09717-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste'Book summary:Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?
In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding that popular and high culture have converged to some extent over the twenty-five years since he wrote the book, Gans holds that the choices of typical Ivy League graduates, not to mention Ph.D.s in literature, are still very different from those of high school graduates, as are the movie houses, television channels, museums, and other cultural institutions they frequent.
This new edition benefits greatly from Gans's discussion of the "politicization" of culture over the last quarter-century. Popular Culture and High Culture is a must read for anyone interested in the vicissitudes of taste in American society. [via]
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Norma H. ThompsonISBN 0486272745 (0-486-27274-5)
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486293831 (0-486-29383-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:Treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socio-economic worlds of 16th-century England, focuses on two young look-alikes Edward, the Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street beggar. When both youngsters decide to trade clothes and roles, they find their lives drastically altered. This timeless tale of transposed identities remains one of Twain's best-loved novels.[via]More editions of The Prince and the Pauper:
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 048640787X (0-486-40787-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark TwainISBN 048640885X (0-486-40885-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Switched at birth by a female slave who fears for her infant son's life, a light-skinned child changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise underlies Twain's engrossing 19th-century tale of reversed identities, an eccentric detective, a horrible crime, and a tense courtroom scene. [via]
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The Republicby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486411214 (0-486-41121-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:Famous philosophical treatise of the 4th century BC concerns itself chiefly with the idea of justice, as well as such Platonic theories as that of ideas, the criticism of poetry, and the philosopher's role. Source of the famous cave myth and prototype for other imaginary commonwealths, including those of Cicero, St. Augustine, and More. Benjamin Jowett translation. [via]
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justiceby Jeffrey ReimanISBN 0471890294 (0-471-89029-4)
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The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Tolerationby John LockeISBN 0486424642 (0-486-42464-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration'Book summary:[via]The first of these two highly influential documents refutes the concept of monarchy's divine right. The second argues for a broad acceptance of alternative religious convictions. The basis of social and political philosophy for generations, these books laid the foundation of the modern democratic state in England and abroad.More editions of The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration:
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Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0486264661 (0-486-26466-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness that have delighted and impressed generations of poetry lovers. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
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Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dreamby Arthur RackhamISBN 0486428338 (0-486-42833-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Shakespeare's romantic comedy takes on a new and vivid life with these brilliant images by one of the 20th century's leading illustrators. This faithful reprint rivals the limited and first editions of 1908. Includes the complete text of the play, along with 40 full-color and numerous black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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Siddharthaby Hermann Hesse, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486404374 (0-486-40437-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents an original view of man and culture, and the arduous process of self-discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony, and peace. [via]
Something Newby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0486414043 (0-486-41404-3)
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experienceby William BlakeISBN 0486270513 (0-486-27051-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience'Book summary:Two classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable corruption by a harsh and unjust world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience:
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0486280411 (0-486-28041-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Symposium and Phaedrusby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486277984 (0-486-27798-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Symposium and Phaedrus'Book summary:Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into mystical and aesthetic aspects of Platonic doctrine. Symposium attempts to find the ultimate manifestation of the love that controls the world, leading to mystic union with eternal and supercosmic beauty. Phaedrus discusses the psychology of love, resulting in the concept of the familiar Platonic "forms" as objects of transcendental emotion.[via]More editions of Symposium and Phaedrus:
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0486406512 (0-486-40651-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" it was the tumultuous era of the French Revolution. Rich in drama and romance, this deftly plotted tale of adventure and courage by the most popular of English novelists bristles with suspense, culminating in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine.[via]More editions of A Tale of Two Cities:
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Tartuffeby MoliereISBN 0486411176 (0-486-41117-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tartuffe'Book summary:This timeless comedy by one of France's greatest playwrights follows the outrageous activities of a penniless scoundrel and religious pretender. Invited to live in his benefactor's house, he wreaks havoc among family members by breaking off the daughter's engagement, attempting to seduce his hostess, and resorting to blackmail and extortion. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Tartuffe:
Thinking About Crimeby James WilsonISBN 0465085490 (0-465-08549-0)
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0486280594 (0-486-28059-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:The first of Gertrude Stein's publications, this accessible 1909 volume was an experiemntal work for its time and established the author's reputation as a master of language and a voice for women. In three separate tales, Stein invests the lives of three working class women with extraordinary insights into race, sex, gender, and other feminist issues. [via]
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0486284727 (0-486-28472-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'Book summary:[via]Classic science-fiction novel recounts the adventures of a hypothetical Time-Traveler who journeys into the future. While the novel is underpinned with both Darwinian and Marxist theory and offers fascinating food for thought about the world of the future, it also succeeds as an exciting blend of adventure and pseudo-scientific romance.More editions of Time Machine:
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Trial and Death of Socratesby PlatoISBN 0486270661 (0-486-27066-1)
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Brokeby Eliz Warren, Amelia Warren TyagiISBN 0465090826 (0-465-09082-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke'Book summary:More than two decades ago, the women's movement flung open the doors of the workplace. Although this social revolution created a firestorm of controversy, no one questioned the idea that women's involvement in the workforce was certain to improve families' financial lot. Until now.In this brilliantly argued book, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and business consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are suffering from an unprecedented and totally unexpected economic meltdown. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but actually has less discretionary income once their fixed monthly bills are paid.How did this happen? Warren and Tyagi provide convincing evidence that the culprit is not "overconsumption," as many critics have charged. Instead, they point to the ferocious bidding war for housing and education that has quietly engulfed America's suburbs. Stay-at-home mothers once provided a financial safety net if disaster struck; their move into the workforce has left today's families chillingly at risk. The authors show why the usual remedies--child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women--won't solve the problem, and propose a set of innovative solutions, from rate caps on credit cards to open-access public schools, to restore security to the middle class. [via]
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Brokeby Eliz Warren, Amelia Warren TyagiISBN 0465090907 (0-465-09090-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke'Book summary:In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable to financial disaster than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but has 25% less discretionary income to cover living costs. This is "the rare financial book that sidesteps accusations of individual wastefulness to focus on institutional changes," raved the Boston Globe. Warren and Tyagi reveal how the ferocious bidding war for housing and education has silently engulfed America's suburbs, driving up the cost of keeping families in the middle class. The authors show why the usual remedies-child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women-won't solve the problem. But as the Wall Street Journal observed, "The book is brimming with proposed solutions to the nail-biting anxiety that the middle class finds itself in: subsidized day care, school vouchers, new bank regulation, among other measures." From Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Dr. Phil to Bill Moyers, The Two-Income Trap has created a sensation among economists, politicians, and families-all those who care about America's middle-class crisis.[via]More editions of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke:
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0486424448 (0-486-42444-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Ulysses remained banned in the United States until 1933. Drawing upon a complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature, the novel employs experimental narrative techniques to chronicle an ordinary day in the lives of three Dubliners. [via]
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0486295060 (0-486-29506-0)
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0486424588 (0-486-42458-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:A sequel to Lawrence's earlier The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen sisters in the coal-mining town of Beldover. Based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen, the tale is charged with intense feelings and psychological insights.[via]More editions of Women in Love:
The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486298574 (0-486-29857-4)
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El Jardin Secretoby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Aurora Ulsamer, Rafael Diaz Santander, Thea KlirosISBN 0486291995 (0-486-29199-5)
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