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100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amorby Pablo Neruda, Stephen TapscottISBN 0292760280 (0-292-76028-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor'Book summary:If you've ever wished for a fresh and imaginative way of saying "I love you" to your beloved, peruse Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets. This intimate bilingual collection overflows with the master poet's signature sensuality and inventive imagery. Written in the 1950s for his cherished wife Matilde Urrutia, Neruda's earnest adoration leaps off the page in poem after poem: "Your heart is a clay toy shaped like a dove"; "Your kisses are clusters of fruit, fresh with dew." Thanks to translator Stephen Tapscott, Neruda's dreamy images carry over vividly from the Spanish and dance in the mind for days after they're read.
Neruda pays only loose tribute to the sonnet by employing a 14-line structure for each poem. As he says, his sonnets are made of wood, rather than the "silver, or crystal, or cannonfire" of a more refined sonnet. Neruda's humility is apparent as he refers again and again to the natural landscape of Isla Negra (the Pacific island where he and his wife lived) to describe his simple dedication to Matilde: "...I am like a scorched rock / that suddenly sings when you are near, because it drinks / the water you carry from the forest, in your voice."
Journeying from the erotic celebration of the body to the spiritual depths of eternal union, 100 Love Sonnets shows why "two happy lovers make one bread" and "waking, they leave one sun empty in their bed." [via]
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Aeschylus I: Oresteiaby AeschylusISBN 0226307786 (0-226-30778-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus I: Oresteia'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic[via]
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Aeschylus I: Oresteia:
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Aeschylus IIby David Grene, Richmond LattimorISBN 0226307948 (0-226-30794-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of Aeschylus II:
Aristophanes Birdsby Nan DunbarISBN 0198150830 (0-19-815083-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Ars Rhetoricaby Aristotl, David RossISBN 0198145578 (0-19-814557-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithmsby Donald E. KnuthISBN 0201896834 (0-201-89683-4)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms'Book summary:This magnificent tour de force presents a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of algorithms and the analysis of them. Now in its third edition, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume I: Fundamental Algorithms contains substantial revisions by the author and includes numerous new exercises.
Although this book was conceived several decades ago, it is still a timeless classic. One of the book's greatest strengths is the wonderful collection of problems that accompany each chapter. The author has chosen problems carefully and indexed them according to difficulty. Solving a substantial number of these problems will help you gain a solid understanding of the issues surrounding the given topic. Furthermore, the exercises feature a variety of classic problems.
Fundamental Algorithms begins with mathematical preliminaries. The first section offers a good grounding in a variety of useful mathematical tools: proof techniques, combinatorics, and elementary number theory. Knuth then details the MIX processor, a virtual machine architecture that serves as the programming target for subsequent discussions. This wonderful section comprehensively covers the principles of simple machine architecture, beginning with a register-level discussion of the instruction set. A later discussion of a simulator for this machine includes an excellent description of the principles underlying the implementation of subroutines and co-routines. Implementing such a simulator is an excellent introduction to computer design.
In the second section, Knuth covers data structures--stacks, queues, lists, arrays, and trees--and presents implementations (in MIX assembly) along with techniques for manipulating these structures. Knuth follows many of the algorithms with careful time and space analysis. In the section on tree structures, the discussion includes a series of interesting problems concerning the combinatorics of trees (counting distinct trees of a particular form, for example) and some particularly interesting applications. Also featured is a discussion of Huffmann encoding and, in the section on lists, an excellent introduction to garbage collection algorithms and the difficult challenges associated with such a task. The book closes with a discussion of dynamic allocation algorithms.
The clear writing in Fundamental Algorithms is enhanced by Knuth's dry humor and the historical discussions that accompany the technical matter. Overall, this text is one of the great classics of computer programming literature--it's not an easy book to grasp, but one that any true programmer will study with pleasure. [via]
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At Swim-Two-Birdsby Flann O'BrienISBN 0246108908 (0-246-10890-8)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
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Aunts Aren't Gentlemenby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0214200477 (0-214-20047-7)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster retires to the village of Maiden Eggesford for some rest and quiet, but the presence of Aunt Dahlia shatters the peace as a confused situation develops. From the author of JEEVES IN THE OFFING and FEUDAL SPIRIT. [via]
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Bacchaeby E.R. DoddsISBN 0198721250 (0-19-872125-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae'Book summary:"Using to the full the last half century's great accessions to the comparative study of religion, [Dodds] has given a coherent and convincing reconstruction of the Dionysiac background--and, indeed, foreground--of the play, illustrating it with many instructive non-Greek and modern parallels.... Equally instructive and stimulating is the acute analysis of the play's dramatic elements, its characters, scenes, conflicts, actions, speeches.... This edition far surpasses its predecessors in vitality, sympathy, and scope."--W.B. Stanford, Hermathena LXV. Including a comprehensive discussion of the play's background and an incisive assessment of its dramatic structure, this edition makes an outstanding contribution to Euripides scholarship. [via]
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Ben Jonson Volponeby Ben JonsonISBN 0300001398 (0-300-00139-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Jonson Volpone'Book summary:Renaissance comedy, first performed in 1605. Includes complete text in modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition. [via]
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Catullus: A Commentaryby C.J. Fordyce, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0198721471 (0-19-872147-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus: A Commentary'Book summary:This edition of eighty poems of Catullus is designed for college students. An introduction deals with the life of Catullus, his indebtedness to Alexandrian poetry, and the later history of the poems. The commentary interprets the poems in the light of modern linguistic and literary scholarship. The Latin text comes from the Oxford Classical Text edition edited by Roger Mynors. [via]
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Catullus (Gai Valeri Catulli Veronensis Liber)by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Louis Zukofsky, Celia Thaew ZukofskyISBN 0206614497 (0-206-61449-7)
Hardcover, Cape Goliard P.
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Complete Greek Tragediesby EuripideISBN 0226307727 (0-226-30772-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylusby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307646 (0-226-30764-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus'Book summary:The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.[via]
For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.
All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.More editions of The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus:
The Complete Poetical Worksby Jerome J. McGann, Barry Weller, George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 0198118902 (0-19-811890-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Complete Poetry of Catullusby David D. Mulroy, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0299177742 (0-299-17774-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry of Catullus'Book summary:A wild young poet in Julius Caesar's Rome
Catullus life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesars Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consuls wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus.
David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroys lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar. [via]
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 0307277674 (0-307-27767-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's father's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself.
Brown (Angels and Demons) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald Dahl, Jill BennettISBN 0224012010 (0-224-01201-0)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danny the Champion of the World'Book summary:"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Double Helix:a Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNAby James D. WatsonISBN 0297760424 (0-297-76042-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double Helix:a Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA'Book summary:"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won Nobel Prizes for their work, and their names are memorized by biology students around the world. But as in all of history, the real story behind the deceptively simple outcome was messy, intense, and sometimes truly hilarious. To preserve the "real" story for the world, James Watson attempted to record his first impressions as soon after the events of 1951-1953 as possible, with all their unpleasant realities and "spirit of adventure" intact.
Watson holds nothing back when revealing the petty sniping and backbiting among his colleagues, while acknowledging that he himself was a willing participant in the melodrama. In particular, Watson reveals his mixed feelings about his famous colleague in discovery, Francis Crick, who many thought of as an arrogant man who talked too much, and whose brilliance was appreciated by few. This is the joy of The Double Helix--instead of a chronicle of stainless-steel heroes toiling away in their sparkling labs, Watson's chronicle gives readers an idea of what living science is like, warts and all. The Double Helix is a startling window into the scientific method, full of insight and wit, and packed with the kind of science anecdotes that are told and retold in the halls of universities and laboratories everywhere. It's the stuff of legends. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Duke's Childrenby Anthony Trollope, Hermione LeeISBN 0195209001 (0-19-520900-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Equusby Peter ShafferISBN 0233965432 (0-233-96543-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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George's Marvellous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0224019015 (0-224-01901-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene S. Porter, Gene Stratton-Porter, Wladyslaw T. BendaISBN 0253133203 (0-253-13320-3)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Girl of the Limberlost'Book summary:Of all the books written by Hoosier writers, Gene Stratton-Porters A Girl of the Limberlost is unquestionably the most cherished: the timeless story of an impoverished young girl, Elnora Comstock, growing up on the edge of the Limberlost swamp. Elnora Comstock has served as a role model for successive generations of independent young readers.
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene Stratton-Porter, Wladyslaw T. BendaISBN 0253203317 (0-253-20331-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Goblin Marketby Christina Georgina Rossetti, Arthur RackhamISBN 0245598847 (0-245-59884-7)
Hardcover, Harrap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goblin Market'Book summary:One hundred years ago, Rossetti was Britain's most popular poet, described by Virginia Woolf as "the first of our English Poetesses". 'Goblin Market' is her best-known poem. [via]
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Greek Tragediesby David Grene, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226307751 (0-226-30775-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Tragedies'Book summary:In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.[via] -
Greek Tragediesby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307778 (0-226-30777-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Tragedies'Book summary:In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.[via]More editions of Greek Tragedies:
The Harvesterby Gene Stratton-PorterISBN 0253204577 (0-253-20457-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soonby David ElkindISBN 0201039672 (0-201-03967-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon'Book summary:In 1971 the single parent family started to force bloom children. This book tells the story. [via]
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The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge And His Hangman And Suspicionby Friedrich Durrenmatt, Joel Agee, Sven BirkertsISBN 0226174441 (0-226-17444-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge And His Hangman And Suspicion'Book summary:This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished. In The Judge and His Hangman, Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. And in Suspicion, Barlach pursues a former Nazi doctor by checking into his clinic with the hope of forcing him to reveal himself. The result is two thrillers that bring existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzling convergence.[via]More editions of The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge And His Hangman And Suspicion:
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Introduction to Algorithmsby Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. LeisersonISBN 0262531968 (0-262-53196-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Algorithms'Book summary:Aimed at any serious programmer or computer science student, the new second edition of Introduction to Algorithms builds on the tradition of the original with a truly magisterial guide to the world of algorithms. Clearly presented, mathematically rigorous, and yet approachable even for the maths-averse, this title sets a high standard for a textbook and reference to the best algorithms for solving a wide range of computing problems.
With sample problems and mathematical proofs demonstrating the correctness of each algorithm, this book is ideal as a textbook for classroom study, but its reach doesn't end there. The authors do a fine job at explaining each algorithm. (Reference sections on basic mathematical notation will help readers bridge the gap, but it will help to have some maths background to appreciate the full achievement of this handsome hardcover volume.) Every algorithm is presented in pseudo-code, which can be implemented in any computer language, including C/C++ and Java. This ecumenical approach is one of the book's strengths. When it comes to sorting and common data structures, from basic linked list to trees (including binary trees, red-black and B-trees), this title really shines with clear diagrams that show algorithms in operation. Even if you glance over the mathematical notation here, you can definitely benefit from this text in other ways.
The book moves forward with more advanced algorithms that implement strategies for solving more complicated problems (including dynamic programming techniques, greedy algorithms, and amortised analysis). Algorithms for graphing problems (used in such real-world business problems as optimising flight schedules or flow through pipelines) come next. In each case, the authors provide the best from current research in each topic, along with sample solutions.
This text closes with a grab bag of useful algorithms including matrix operations and linear programming, evaluating polynomials and the well-known Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) (useful in signal processing and engineering). Final sections on "NP-complete" problems, like the well-known traveloling salesmen problem, show off that while not all problems have a demonstrably final and best answer, algorithms that generate acceptable approximate solutions can still be used to generate useful, real-world answers.
Throughout this text, the authors anchor their discussion of algorithms with current examples drawn from molecular biology (like the Human Genome project), business, and engineering. Each section ends with short discussions of related historical material often discussing original research in each area of algorithms. In all, they argue successfully that algorithms are a "technology" just like hardware and software that can be used to write better software that does more with better performance. Along with classic books on algorithms (like Donald Knuth's three-volume set, The Art of Computer Programming), this title sets a new standard for compiling the best research in algorithms. For any experienced developer, regardless of their chosen language, this text deserves a close look for extending the range and performance of real-world software. --Richard Dragan [via]
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An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Careby Avedis Donabedian, Rashid BashshurISBN 0195158091 (0-19-515809-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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An Introduction to the Theory of Numbersby G. H. Hardy, Edward M. WrightISBN 0198531710 (0-19-853171-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jane Austen's Lettersby Jane Austen, Deirdre Le FayeISBN 0198117647 (0-19-811764-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Letters'Book summary:Jane Austen famously labeled her literary ambit a "little bit (two inches wide) of ivory." Luckily, her personal travels and those of her family were slightly more extensive, otherwise we should be without her letters. Not only should every Janeite possess them, but also every connoisseur of correspondence. Austen's wit is ubiquitous--even though some protest it edges into waspishness. E. M. Forster, for example, described the letters between Austen and her beloved sister, Cassandra, as "the whinnying of harpies."
On September 18, 1796, she tells Cassandra, "What dreadful Hot weather we have!--It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.--If Miss Pearson should return with me, pray be careful not to expect too much Beauty..." The dashes and capitalization alone make one long for the days before stylistic rules had so cemented. As for the sentiments! Austen paces her monologues to perfection, making the comic and ironic most out of the smallest incidents. Still, her frustration does occasionally emerge. "I am forced to be abusive," she implodes to Cassandra, "for want of a subject, having nothing really to say." Jane Austen has more than enough to say for lovers of literature and the cultural pinprick. [via]
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Joy in the Morningby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0257659714 (0-257-65971-4)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joy in the Morning'Book summary:Bertie Wooster is trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh with a cast of characters he would rather not be with, but the biggest blot on the landscape is Edwin, the boy scout whose acts of kindness resemble those of utter malevolence. From the author of RIGHT HO JEEVES and CARRY ON JEEVES. [via]
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The Keeper of the Beesby Gene Stratton-PorterISBN 025320691X (0-253-20691-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Lady's Not for Burning, a Phoenix Too Frequent and an Essay an Experience of a Criticby Christopher FryISBN 0195199162 (0-19-519916-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Long After Midnightby Ray BradburyISBN 0246109866 (0-246-10986-6)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
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The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Storiesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 021465334X (0-214-65334-X)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Mary Queen of Scotsby Antonia FraserISBN 0297177737 (0-297-17773-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Midwich Cuckoosby Pauline Francis, John WyndhamISBN 0237526891 (0-237-52689-1)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group
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Minna Von Barnhelm; A Comedy in Five Actsby Gotthold Ephraim LessingISBN 0226473414 (0-226-47341-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The "Miscellanies"by Jonathan Edwards, Thomas A. SchaferISBN 0300060599 (0-300-06059-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The "Miscellanies"'Book summary:This book begins the publication of Jonathan Edwards' personal theological notebooks, called collectively the "Miscellanies." The entries in Volume 13 span the early years of Edwards' ministry (1722-31) and range widely in subject matter. They record Edwards' initial thoughts on some of his most characteristic ideas, for example, original sin, free will, the Trinity, and God's end in creation. Many entries, however, relate to doctrinal and polemical subjects not included in the corpus of Edwards' published writings. The volume also contains Edwards' alphabetical index to the entire "Miscellanies"; this "Table" is a theological document in its own right and reveals the interrelationship among the various components of Edwards' theological system. [via]
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Mr. Sammler's Planetby Saul BellowISBN 0297000403 (0-297-00040-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineeringby Frederick Phillips BrooksISBN 0201835959 (0-201-83595-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourseby Aristotle, George A. KennedyISBN 0195305094 (0-19-530509-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Pearlby Mary GordonISBN 0198126751 (0-19-812675-1)
Softcover, Clarendon Pr
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The Play of Hadrian VIIby Frederick Rolfe, Peter LukeISBN 0233961038 (0-233-96103-8)
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The Pledgeby Friedrich Durrenmatt, Joel AgeeISBN 0226174379 (0-226-17437-9)
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One of Dürrenmatts most diabolically imagined and constructed novels, The Pledge was adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.More editions of The Pledge:
The Poems of Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Lee GuyISBN 0198147430 (0-19-814743-0)
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The Poky Little Puppyby Janette Sebring Lowrey, Gustaf TenggrenISBN 0307021343 (0-307-02134-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Poky Little Puppyby Golden Books, Janette Sebring Lowrey, Gustaf TenggrenISBN 0307103285 (0-307-10328-5)
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Presumptionby Julia BarrettISBN 0226038130 (0-226-03813-0)
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Rape of the Lockby Alexander PopeISBN 0198319584 (0-19-831958-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rape of the Lock'Book summary:Alexander Pope's classic poem "The Rape of the Lock," edited and with an introduction by Thomas Marc Parrott.
Perhaps no other great poet in English Literature has been so differently judged at different times as Alexander Pope. Accepted almost on his first appearance as one of the leading poets of the day, he rapidly became recognized as the foremost man of letters of his age. He held this position throughout his life, and for over half a century after his death his works were considered not only as masterpieces, but as the finest models of poetry. With the change of poetic temper that occurred at the beginning of the nineteenth century Pope's fame was overshadowed. The romantic poets and critics even raised the question whether Pope was a poet at all. And as his poetical fame diminished, the harsh judgments of his personal character increased. It is almost incredible with what exulting bitterness critics and editors of Pope have tracked out and exposed his petty intrigues, exaggerated his delinquencies, misrepresented his actions, attempted in short to blast his character as a man.
Both as a man and as a poet Pope is sadly in need of a defender to-day. And a defense is by no means impossible. The depreciation of Pope's poetry springs, in the main, from an attempt to measure it by other standards than those which he and his age recognized. The attacks upon his character are due, in large measure, to a misunderstanding of the spirit of the times in which he lived and to a forgetfulness of the special circumstances of his own life. Tried in a fair court by impartial judges Pope as a poet would be awarded a place, if not among the noblest singers, at least high among poets of the second order. And the flaws of character which even his warmest apologist must admit would on the one hand be explained, if not excused, by circumstances, and on the other more than counterbalanced by the existence of noble qualities to which his assailants seem to have been quite blind. [via]
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, Frank M. Turner, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Alan Wolfe, Jack N. Rakove, Darrin M. McMahonISBN 0300099797 (0-300-09979-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'Book summary:"Reflections on the Revolution in France" was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This new edition of the "Reflections" presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank Turner and four critical essays by leading scholars. The volume sets the "Reflections" in the context of Western political thought, highlights its ongoing relevance to contemporary debates, and provides abundant critical notes, a glossary and a glossary-index to ensure its accessibility. Contributors to the book examine various provocative aspects of Burke's thought. Conor Cruise O'Brien explores Burke's hostility to "theory", Darrin McMahon considers Burke's characterization of the French Enlightenment, Jack Rakove contrasts the views of Burke and American constitutional framers on the process of drawing up constitutions, and Alan Wolfe investigates Burke, the social sciences, and liberal democracy. [via]
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine ChildersISBN 0246130393 (0-246-13039-3)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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Rimbaudby Arthur Rimbaud, Wallace Fowlie, Seth Adam WhiddenISBN 0226719774 (0-226-71977-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rimbaud'Book summary:The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose.[via]
The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966, Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated geniusamong them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works.
Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems, adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, Rimbaud remains the most authoritativeand now, completely up-to-dateedition of the young master's entire poetic ouvre.More editions of Rimbaud:
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Rimbaud Complete Works: Selected Lettersby Wallace FowlieISBN 0226719731 (0-226-71973-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rimbaud Complete Works: Selected Letters'Book summary:Wallace Fowlie's prose translations accompany the original French texts in this, the first complete bilingual edition of Rimbaud's work in prose and poetry.[via]
"This handsome edition, which makes France's most remarkable poet readily available in the U.S., may well be a literary landmark comparable to Baudelaire's introduction of Edgar Allan Poe in France a century earlier."--Anna Balakian, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Rimbaud Complete Works: Selected Letters:
Road to Yesterdayby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0207956464 (0-207-95646-4)
Hardcover, Angus and Robertson
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The Saggy Baggy Elephantby K. Jackson, Byron Jackson, Gustaf TenggrenISBN 0307021106 (0-307-02110-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Sea Around Usby Rachel L. CarsonISBN 0195147014 (0-19-514701-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea Around Us'Book summary:Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us was a phenomenal success. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times bestseller list, where it remained on top for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It stayed on the list for more than a year and a half and ultimately sold well over a million copies, has been translated into 28 languages, inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary, and won both the 1952 National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal. This commemorative edition has over 130 beautiful, full color illustrations from all over the world--everything from breaching whales, Christmas Tree worms and phosphorescent shrimp, to fur seals, flashlight fish, and giant squid. The volume features a foreword by Carl Safina, a founder of the Blue Ocean Institute; an introduction by explorer Robert D. Ballard, renowned for his role in finding the Titanic as well as for his discovery of life around deep-sea hydrothermal vents; and an afterword by Brian J. Skinner, an eminent geologist and former president of the Geological Society of America. The book itself remains as fresh today as when it first appeared. Carson's writing teems with stunning, memorable images--the newly formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast sky; the centuries of nonstop rain that created the oceans; incredibly powerful tides moving 100 billion tons of water daily in the Bay of Fundy. Quite simply, she captures the mystery and allure of the ocean with a compelling blend of imagination and expertise. For anyone who loves to wander the shore, sail the ocean, or ponder what lies beneath the waves, this illustrated special edition of The Sea Around Us will make a perfect gift. [via]
Slapstickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224013424 (0-224-01342-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Sleeping Beautyby Michael Teitelbaum, Ron DiasISBN 0307020258 (0-307-02025-8)
Hardcover, Golden Books
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Stone Angelby Margaret LaurenceISBN 0226469360 (0-226-46936-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Angel'Book summary:The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation.[via]
In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant.
"This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses."Robertson Davies, New York Times
"It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."Honor Tracy, The New Republic
"Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."Atlantic
"[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincingand the most touchingportraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth."Time
"Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."Granville Hicks, Saturday Review
"The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old."Paul Pickrel, Harper'sMore editions of Stone Angel:
Story of the Stoneby Cao XuequinISBN 0253192625 (0-253-19262-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Theogonyby HesiodISBN 0198141696 (0-19-814169-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Tragediesby William Shakespeare, Stanley WellsISBN 0198182740 (0-19-818274-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tragedies'Book summary:This is the complete set of Shakespeare's tragedies taken from the First Folio of 1623. The plays include: Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; The First Part of Henry the Sixth; The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI); Hamlet; Henry V; Henry VIII; The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text; Julius Caesar; King Lear: The Folio Text; King Lear: The Quarto Text; Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus; Othello; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra; The Tragedy of Coriolanus; The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; The Tragedy of Julius Caesar; The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice; and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI). [via]
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Trinityby Leon UrisISBN 0233968342 (0-233-96834-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lessonby Mitch AlbomISBN 0307275639 (0-307-27563-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson'Book summary:No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. It's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling.
The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old teacher, friend, and "coach" at a time when Albom, a successful sportswriter, was struggling to define dissatisfactions with his own life and career. Morrie, on the other hand, after a rich life filled with friends, family, teaching, and music, was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, a crippling illness that diminished his activities daily. Albom was one of hundreds of former students and acquaintances who traveled great distances to visit Morrie in the final months of his life.
The 14 Tuesday visits that followed their reunion took Albom--and will take listeners with him--on a journey of reawakening to life's best rewards. The story is told in a journalistic style that never crosses into pathos. That a professional writer can write well is not surprising, but Albom also reads well, with clear enunciation and a talent for mimicry. Another reader might have interpreted the professor's aphorisms as droll humor or wrung a wrong note at an inappropriate moment, making the story a maudlin tearjerker; instead it is read for what it is, a tribute to a remarkable teacher. (Running time: four hours, three cassettes) --Brenda Pittsley [via]
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Twenty Years at Hull-Houseby Jane Addams, Norah HamiltonISBN 0252061071 (0-252-06107-1)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Years at Hull-House'Book summary:While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else.
Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Two New Sciences, Including Centers of Gravity & Force of Percussionby Galileo Galilei, Stillman DrakeISBN 0299064042 (0-299-06404-2)
Softcover, University of Wisconsin Press
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Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Tolerationby John Locke, Ian Shapiro, John Dunn, Ruth W. GrantISBN 0300100183 (0-300-10018-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration'Book summary:Two of Locke's most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays have been combined here in one volume. Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" and "A Letter Concerning Toleration" remain vital to political debates more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts are accompanied by interpretive essays by three prominent Locke scholars. Ian Shapiro's introduction places Locke's political writings in historical and biographical context. John Dunn explores both the intellectual context in which Locke wrote the "Two Treatises of Government" and "A Letter Concerning Toleration" and the major interpretive controversies surrounding their meaning. Ruth Grant offers a comprehensive discussion of Locke's views on women and the family, and Shapiro contributes an essay on the democratic elements of Locke's political theory. Taken together, the texts and essays in this volume offer insights into the history of ideas and the enduring influence of Locke's political thought. [via]
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Waverleyby Walter Scott, Claire LamontISBN 0198126433 (0-19-812643-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Wouldbegoodsby E. NesbitISBN 0233992375 (0-233-99237-5)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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Yvainby Chretien De TroyesISBN 0300038380 (0-300-03838-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Yvain: The Knight of the Lionby Chretien, Burton RaffelISBN 0300038372 (0-300-03837-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Birds: Greek Textby Aristophanes, Nan DunbarISBN 0198721773 (0-19-872177-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Birds : With Introduction and Commentaryby Aristophanes, Nan DunbarISBN 0198149344 (0-19-814934-4)
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Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bonesby Aurora Echevarria, Alice SeboldISBN 0307209431 (0-307-20943-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bones'Book summary:From her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by a murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously,we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive and then some.
But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. [via]More editions of Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bones:
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