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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0684842378 (0-684-84237-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones, and society people "who dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence, turning Archer's world upside down.
This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order. [via]
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- The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684719258 (0-684-71925-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684146592 (0-684-14659-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684178184 (0-684-17818-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684197197 (0-684-19719-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684842378 (0-684-84237-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- The Age of Innocence: ISBN 0684719258 (0-684-71925-8)
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Among the Thugsby Bill BufordISBN 0679745351 (0-679-74535-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among the Thugs'Book summary:They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson. [via]
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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down : Kentucky, Texas Western, and the Game That Changed American Sportsby Frank FitzpatrickISBN 0684835517 (0-684-83551-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Deborah FelderISBN 0679854673 (0-679-85467-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:Anne (with an e of course) starts out as a mistake. The elderly Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had planned on adopting a boy to help Matthew with the chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. What are they to do with the red-haired, high-spirited girl who arrives instead?
Anne Shirley, with her boundless imagination and heart, slowly brings joy into the narrow lives of those around her, and into the lives of readers who have delighted in her adventures since Lucy Maud Montgomery began writing about her in 1905.
Annes courage, her enthusiasm, and her ability to love, have made her one of literatures most beloved characters in Canada and around the world.
This beautifully illustrated volume, with a foreword by Kate Butler MacDonald, one of L. M. Montgomerys grandchildren, is a treasure for those who find in Anne a familiar friend as well as for those who are discovering this kindred spirit for the first time.
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The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0681322608 (0-681-32260-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Press
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The Arabian Nightsby Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora A. Smith, Maxfield ParrishISBN 0684195895 (0-684-19589-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights'Book summary:For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman. [via]
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At the Owl Woman Saloonby Tess GallagherISBN 0684826933 (0-684-82693-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Being Digitalby Nicholas Negroponte, Marty AsherISBN 0679762906 (0-679-76290-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being Digital'Book summary:As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy of Being Digital, which is an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital."
Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologies. In the beginning, he describes the evolution of CD-ROMs, multimedia, hypermedia, HDTV (high-definition television), and more. The section on interfaces is informative, offering an up-to-date history on visual interfaces, graphics, virtual reality (VR), holograms, teleconferencing hardware, the mouse and touch-sensitive interfaces, and speech recognition.
In the last chapter and the epilogue, Negroponte offers visionary insight on what "being digital" means for our future. Negroponte praises computers for their educational value but recognizes certain dangers of technological advances, such as increased software and data piracy and huge shifts in our job market that will require workers to transfer their skills to the digital medium. Overall, Being Digital provides an informative history of the rise of technology and some interesting predictions for its future. [via]
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The Black Albumby Hanif KureishiISBN 0684825406 (0-684-82540-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Album'Book summary:Stuck in a lackluster community college after a less-than-ideal high-school career, music-loving Shadid Hasan strives to impress two incompatible camps in his conservative Muslim neighbors and radical lecturer Deedee Osgood. 30,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
Blues for Mister Charlie: A Playby James BaldwinISBN 0679761780 (0-679-76178-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Born for Liberty: A History of Women in Americaby Sara M. EvansISBN 0684834987 (0-684-83498-7)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America'Book summary:9 1/4"L/6"W 386 pages [via]
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By the Lakeby John McGahernISBN 0679744029 (0-679-74402-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Catch-22by Joseph HellerISBN 0684833395 (0-684-83339-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch-22'Book summary:There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]More editions of Catch-22:
The College Cookbookby Geri HarringtonISBN 0684133296 (0-684-13329-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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Cry, the Beloved Countryby Alan PatonISBN 0684155591 (0-684-15559-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cry, the Beloved Country'Book summary:Set in the troubled South Africa of the 1940s, this is the deeply moving story of a Zulu pastor, his son, and a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Passionately African, yet timeless and universal, it is a work of searing beauty. [via]
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Dance, Dance, Danceby Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki MurakamiISBN 0679753796 (0-679-75379-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dance, Dance, Dance'Book summary:In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.
As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. [via]More editions of Dance, Dance, Dance:
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Dead Man Walkingby Helen PrejeanISBN 0679751319 (0-679-75131-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Man Walking'Book summary:In 1982, sister helen prejean became the spiritual advisor to patrick sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of louisiana's angola state prison. In the months before sonnier's death, the roman catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. At the same time, she came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute him--men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing.out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Confronting both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the needs of a crime-ridden society and the christian imperative of love, dead man walking is an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating [via]
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679776443 (0-679-77644-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."
After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.
Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O'Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis.--Kerry Fried [via]
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East, Westby Salman RushdieISBN 0679757899 (0-679-75789-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'East, West'Book summary:From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence. [via]
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The Elephant Vanishesby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0679750533 (0-679-75053-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elephant Vanishes'Book summary:With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.
By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities -- and to come back bearing treasure. [via]More editions of The Elephant Vanishes:
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biographyby Stuart NicholsonISBN 0684196999 (0-684-19699-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biography'Book summary:Ella Fitzgerald, who died in 1996, came from a poverty-stricken background. She was abandoned by her father, possibly abused by her stepfather and lived on the streets as a teenager. As a club singer she had to contend with racism, sexism and advances from predatory men. But in the 1950s, just when Billie Holiday, from a similar background, was falling toward drug addiction and a sordid death, Fitzgerald escaped the seeming inevitability of that fate. Her songbook albums relaunched her career in a new direction, and she became a beloved figure in American jazz, known for her musical precision and luminous clarity. This biography offers an assessment of the emotional strength apparent in both her life and music. [via]
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679745203 (0-679-74520-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions-and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. [via]
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dreamby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679785892 (0-679-78589-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'Book summary:Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.
On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Fidelityby Wendell BerryISBN 0679748318 (0-679-74831-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fidelity'Book summary:"Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinISBN 067974472X (0-679-74472-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire Next Time'Book summary:It's shocking how little has changed between the races in this country since 1963, when James Baldwin published this coolly impassioned plea to "end the racial nightmare." The Fire Next Time--even the title is beautiful, resonant, and incendiary. "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" Baldwin demands, flicking aside the central race issue of his day and calling instead for full and shared acceptance of the fact that America is and always has been a multiracial society. Without this acceptance, he argues, the nation dooms itself to "sterility and decay" and to eventual destruction at the hands of the oppressed: "The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream."
Baldwin's seething insights and directives, so disturbing to the white liberals and black moderates of his day, have become the starting point for discussions of American race relations: that debasement and oppression of one people by another is "a recipe for murder"; that "color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality"; that whites can only truly liberate themselves when they liberate blacks, indeed when they "become black" symbolically and spiritually; that blacks and whites "deeply need each other here" in order for America to realize its identity as a nation.
Yet despite its edgy tone and the strong undercurrent of violence, The Fire Next Time is ultimately a hopeful and healing essay. Baldwin ranges far in these hundred pages--from a memoir of his abortive teenage religious awakening in Harlem (an interesting commentary on his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain) to a disturbing encounter with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. But what binds it all together is the eloquence, intimacy, and controlled urgency of the voice. Baldwin clearly paid in sweat and shame for every word in this text. What's incredible is that he managed to keep his cool. --David Laskin [via]
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoemby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0684843269 (0-684-84326-9)
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For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684803356 (0-684-80335-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'Book summary:For Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there: he has come to blow up a bridge on behalf of the antifascist guerrilla forces. He hopes he'll be able to rely on their local leader, Pablo, to help carry out the mission, but upon meeting him, Jordan has his doubts: "I don't like that sadness, he thought. That sadness is bad. That's the sadness they get before they quit or before they betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out." For Pablo, it seems, has had enough of the war. He has amassed for himself a small herd of horses and wants only to stay quietly in the hills and attract as little attention as possible. Jordan's arrival--and his mission--have seriously alarmed him.
"I am tired of being hunted. Here we are all right. Now if you blow a bridge here, we will be hunted. If they know we are here and hunt for us with planes, they will find us. If they send Moors to hunt us out, they will find us and we must go. I am tired of all this. You hear?" He turned to Robert Jordan. "What right have you, a foreigner, to come to me and tell me what I must do?"
In one short chapter Hemingway lays out the blueprint for what is to come: Jordan's sense of duty versus Pablo's dangerous self-interest and weariness with the war. Complicating matters even more are two members of the guerrilla leader's small band: his "woman" Pilar, and Maria, a young woman whom Pablo rescued from a Republican prison train. Unlike her man, Pilar is still fiercely devoted to the cause and as Pablo's loyalty wanes, she becomes the moral center of the group. Soon Jordan finds himself caught between the two, even as his own resolve is tested by his growing feelings for Maria.For Whom the Bell Tolls combines two of the author's recurring obsessions: war and personal honor. The pivotal battle scene involving El Sordo's last stand is a showcase for Hemingway's narrative powers, but the quieter, ongoing conflict within Robert Jordan as he struggles to fulfill his mission perhaps at the cost of his own life is a testament to his creator's psychological acuity. By turns brutal and compassionate, it is arguably Hemingway's most mature work and one of the best war novels of the 20th century. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Softcover, Simon & Schuster - For Whom the Bell Tolls: ISBN 0684102390 (0-684-10239-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - For Whom the Bell Tolls: ISBN 0684153165 (0-684-15316-5)
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Going to Meet the Manby James BaldwinISBN 0679761799 (0-679-76179-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going to Meet the Man'Book summary:"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.
By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its victims and its perpetrators--Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers. [via]More editions of Going to Meet the Man:
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Monica Kulling, Cindy AlvarezISBN 0679874666 (0-679-87466-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:Seven-year-old Pip is an orphan. He lives with his nasty older sister and works as a blacksmiths apprentice. Pip dreams of a better life, but has no idea how to turn his luck around. Then a mysterious stranger decides to make all of Pips dreams come true. Pips lonely life is about to change forever. Will his great expectations be realized? Or will he learn that money and power are worthless without love and friendship? [via]
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Hairs/Pelitosby Sandra Cisneros, Terry YbanezISBN 0679890076 (0-679-89007-6)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hairs/Pelitos'Book summary:This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us.
A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish.
A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year
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Un excelente constructor de vocabulario, con nombres de objetos en Inglés y en Español, acompañados por ilustraciones, agrupados por tópicos como colores, juguetes, animales y herramientas. [via]More editions of Hairs/Pelitos:
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami, Alfred BirnbaumISBN 0679743464 (0-679-74346-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall. [via]
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Heartburnby Nora EphronISBN 0679767959 (0-679-76795-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah GoldhagenISBN 0679772685 (0-679-77268-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust'Book summary:This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion."Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books"The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer [via]
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How to Survive Without Your Parents' Money : Making It from Collegeby Geoffrey Martz, John KatzmanISBN 0679769846 (0-679-76984-6)
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How to Survive Without Your Parents' Money: Making It from College to the "Real World"by Geoff MartzISBN 0679746269 (0-679-74626-9)
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Illiberal Education : The Politics of Race and Sex on Campusby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0679738576 (0-679-73857-6)
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequencesby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745580 (0-679-74558-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'Book summary:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
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In the Skin of a Lionby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679772669 (0-679-77266-9)
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0681103612 (0-681-10361-2)
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Krik? Krakby Edwidge DanticatISBN 067976657X (0-679-76657-X)
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LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Streetby Elena Poniatowska, Sandra CisnerosISBN 0679755268 (0-679-75526-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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The Laughing Policemanby Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, Alan BlairISBN 0679742239 (0-679-74223-9)
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A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest GainesISBN 0679741666 (0-679-74166-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lesson Before Dying'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty.
"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be..." So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.
As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is not always expressed through action--sometimes the simple act of resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for a lifetime. [via]
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Letting Goby Philip RothISBN 0679764178 (0-679-76417-8)
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The Longest Journeyby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679748156 (0-679-74815-6)
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 0679740945 (0-679-74094-5)
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History/Her My Troubles Began/Boxedby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679748407 (0-679-74840-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History/Her My Troubles Began/Boxed'Book summary:A boxed edition of the two paperback volumed of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival. Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust" ( The New York Times ). Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. [via]
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679739742 (0-679-73974-2)
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 0679781587 (0-679-78158-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha , we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction-at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful-and completely unforgettable. [via]
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The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammadby Karl EvanzzISBN 0679774068 (0-679-77406-8)
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The New Negroby Alain Leroy LockeISBN 0684838311 (0-684-83831-1)
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The Night in Questionby Tobias WolffISBN 0679781552 (0-679-78155-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night in Question'Book summary:Author most recently of a stunningly clear-eyed memoir, This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff's new collection of short stories maintains a similar steady gaze on his fictional creations. The author steels himself with a fine sense of irony and an awareness of moral ambiguity against the unjust suffering that is part of life. Wolff is a master at building tension, as in his description of the machinery threatening the little boy in the title story, or of a father's observing a dog attack his son in "Chain." His naturalistic, powerfully written stories explore the human response to the random and unexpected blows of fate. [via]
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No Telephone to Heavenby Michelle CliffISBN 0679739424 (0-679-73942-4)
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 0679743626 (0-679-74362-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O Pioneers!'Book summary:One of Americas greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novelthe first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by Americas Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cathers novel is a uniquely American epic.
Alexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her fathers farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cathers great heroinesall of them women of strong will and an even stronger desire to overcome adversity and succeed. But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cathers books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her: The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.
Willa Cather, perhaps more than any other American writer, was able to re-create the real drama of the pioneers, capturing for later generations a time, a place, and a spirit that has become part of our national heritage.
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Once upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett-Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battlesby William Prochnau, Edward KastenmeierISBN 0679772650 (0-679-77265-0)
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A Prayer for the Cityby H. G. BissingerISBN 0679744940 (0-679-74494-0)
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark TwainISBN 0684819082 (0-684-81908-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Radicalism of the American Revolutionby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0679736883 (0-679-73688-3)
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Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0679755330 (0-679-75533-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raisin in the Sun'Book summary:This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Sacrifice, trust and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration. Winner of the NY Drama Critic's Award as Best Play of the Year, it has been hailed as a "pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre." by Newsweek and "a milestone in the American Theatre." by Ebony. [via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, N. C. WyethISBN 0684179466 (0-684-17946-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0679783385 (0-679-78338-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time. As Kathryn Harrison points out in her Introduction, Hester is "the herald of the modern heroine." Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide [via]
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Separate Peaceby John KnowlesISBN 0684833662 (0-684-83366-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowless crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. [via]
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Sex on Campus : The Naked Truth about the Real Sex Lives of College Studentsby John Katzman, Cynthia Brantley, Leland ElliotISBN 0679746307 (0-679-74630-7)
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Snow Countryby Yasunari Kawabata, Edward SeidenstickerISBN 0679761047 (0-679-76104-7)
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Storiesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684804441 (0-684-80444-1)
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The Sound of the Mountainby Yasunari Kawabata, Edward SeidenstickerISBN 0679762647 (0-679-76264-7)
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Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhovby Stella AdlerISBN 0679746986 (0-679-74698-6)
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technologyby Neil PostmanISBN 0679745408 (0-679-74540-8)
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilionby Yukio MishimaISBN 0679752706 (0-679-75270-6)
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That Hideous Strengthby C. S. LewisISBN 0684833670 (0-684-83367-0)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Three Case Historiesby Sigmund Freud, Philip RieffISBN 0684829452 (0-684-82945-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electraby Eugene O'Neill, Luann WaltherISBN 0679763961 (0-679-76396-1)
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To the Weddingby John BergerISBN 0679767770 (0-679-76777-0)
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Twelve American Playsby Richard K. Corbin, Miriam BalfISBN 0684130025 (0-684-13002-5)
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Walking on the Wind: A Memoir of the Movementby John Lewis, Michael D'OrsoISBN 0684810654 (0-684-81065-4)
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Robert Reich ; Edited, With Notes, Marginal Summary, and Enlarged Index by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, Edwin CannanISBN 0679783369 (0-679-78336-9)
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Adam Smiths masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reichs Introduction both clarifies Smiths analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, Smiths mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth centuryjobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics.
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What to Study : 101 Fields in a Flashby Kaplan Educational Center Staff, Eric FreedmanISBN 0684843889 (0-684-84388-9)
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The Wizard of Ozby Charles Santore, L. Frank BaumISBN 0679887563 (0-679-88756-3)
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World's Fairby E.L. DoctorowISBN 067973628X (0-679-73628-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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