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Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Vealby Daniel Defoe, Manuel SchonhornISBN 0404701159 (0-404-70115-9)
Softcover, Ams Pr Inc
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An Adaptation of the Rover (The Banished Cavaliers)by John Barton, Aphra Behn, Simon Trussler, Royal Shakespeare CompanyISBN 0413405508 (0-413-40550-8)
Softcover, Methuen
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Carol J. SingleyISBN 0395980798 (0-395-98079-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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All She Was Worthby Miyuki Miyabe, Alfred BirnbaumISBN 0395966582 (0-395-96658-2)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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All's Well That Ends Wellby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026792 (0-415-02679-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, John WildersISBN 0415011035 (0-415-01103-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:John Wilders brings to life the range of approaches that have bee taken to the play's performance throughout its history, together with the insights and changing views which critics have offered. Commentary on the play provides invaluable guidance to the play's classical references and short biographies are given of the play's historical characters. The edition also includes an accessible discussion of the decisions involved in establishing an edited text, opening up Arden's scholarship to the general reader. [via]
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Archaeology of Knowledgeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0415287537 (0-415-28753-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology of Knowledge'Book summary:In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas. [via]
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The Best American Short Stories, 1999by Amy Tan, Katrina KenisonISBN 039592684X (0-395-92684-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories, 1999'Book summary:A great story gets its hooks into you right from the start; you know you're in the hands of a good writer when the very first sentence transports you wholly into another world. "Mother preferred Zulu servants." "It must be, Ruth thought, that she was going to die in the spring." "Who would have thought that a war of such proportions would bother to turn in its fury against the fools of Chelm?"
The 21 fictions featured in The Best American Short Stories 1999 have very little in common--but whether they're about ranchers or commuters, romantic seekers or New Age pilgrims, what they do share is a sense of urgency. In each of them, there's a kind of voice that announces its need to be heard. "I'm not a bad guy," pleads the narrator of "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars," and even though he cheats on his girlfriend, by the end of Junot Díaz's story you might be tempted to agree anyway. (Especially considering the charming way he turns Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener into a verb--as in, "A lot of the time she Bartlebys me, says, 'No, I'd rather not.'") "Real Estate," by that master of bittersweet comedy Lorrie Moore, starts by repeating "Ha! Ha! Ha!" for two solid pages but becomes a rueful take on marriage, house-hunting, and even death: "The body, hauling sadnesses, pursued the soul, hobbled after. The body was like a sweet dim dog trotting lamely toward the gate as you tried slowly to drive off, out the long driveway. Take me, take me too, barked the dog."
Other standouts in this collection include Alice Munro's "Save the Reaper," a kind of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" where no one is killed or saved; Rick Bass's haunting evocation of winter in the north country, "The Hermit's Story"; and Tim Gautreax's "The Piano Tuner," about a manic-depressive Creole princess playing cocktail piano in a motel lounge. (This is one tale that truly does end with a bang, not a whimper.) Taken together, they are ample evidence that the American short story is alive, well, and eminently able to--in the words of guest editor Amy Tan--"help us live interesting lives." --Chloe Byrne [via]
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowermentby Partricia Hill CollinsISBN 0415905974 (0-415-90597-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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Blood Weddingby Federico Garcia Lorca, Gwynne EdwardsISBN 0413708705 (0-413-70870-5)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Wedding'Book summary:[via]Written in 1932, this is the first of Lorcas rural trilogy and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which Lorca's international reputation was founded.
Blood Wedding is about a bride who, on her wedding day, elopes to the forest with a previous lover, Leonardo, who was linked to the killing of her new father-in-law. Hunted down in the forest, the groom and Leonardo fight and both are killed. The bride emerges from the forest, her dress stained with blood, and, we guess, on her way to be sacrificed for her sins. It is a poetic and highly symbolic play, with the frequent allusion to orange blossoms representing the sanctity of wedding vows, and the azahar flower symbolizing virginity. As with his other plays, Blood Wedding considers the restrictions placed on the individual by society; the Bride must curb her love for another man because an arrangement has been made for a marriage for her.
Methuen Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As well as the complete text of the play itself, the volume contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of the various interpretations; notes on individual words and phrases in the text; and photographs from stage productions.
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Businessby William PrideISBN 039595746X (0-395-95746-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Calculus: Early Transcendental Functionsby Bruce H. Edwards, Robert P. Hostetler, David E. Heyd, Ron LarsonISBN 039593320X (0-395-93320-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Calculus: Early Transcendental Functionsby Ron LarsonISBN 0395933218 (0-395-93321-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Calculus of a Single Variableby Bruce H. Edwards, Robert P. Hostetler, David E. HeydISBN 0395885787 (0-395-88578-7)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. MillerISBN 0397005741 (0-397-00574-1)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'Book summary:Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The College Success Readerby Robert HolkeboerISBN 0395904684 (0-395-90468-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0404028209 (0-404-02820-9)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Doctor Faustusby Christopher MarloweISBN 0415039606 (0-415-03960-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Faustus'Book summary:CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, the author of the earliest dramatic version of the Faust legend, was the son of a shoemaker in Canterbury, where he was born in February, 1564, some two months before Shakespeare. After graduating as M.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1587, he seems to have settled in London; and that same year is generally accepted as the latest date for the production of his tragedy of -Tamburlaine,- the play which is regarded as having established blank verse as the standard meter of the English Drama. -Doctor Faustus- probably came next in 1588, followed by -The Jew of Malta- and -Edward II.- Marlowe had a share in the production of several other plays, wrote the first two sestiads of -Hero and Leander,- and made translations from Ovid and Lucan. He met his death in a tavern brawl, June 1, 1593.
Of Marlowe personally little is known. The common accounts of his atheistical beliefs and dissipated life are probably exaggerated, recent researches having given ground for believing that his heterodoxy may have amounted to little more than a form of Unitarianism. Some of the attacks on his character are based on the evidence of witnesses whose reputation will not bear investigation, while the character of some of his friends and their manner of speaking of him are of weight on the other side.
The most striking feature of Marlowe-s dramas is the concentration of interest on an impressive central figure dominated by a single passion, the thirst for the unattainable. In -Tamburlaine- this takes the form of universal power; in -The Jew of Malta,- infinite riches; in -Doctor Faustus- universal knowledge. The aspirations of these dominant personalities are uttered in sonorous blank verse, and in a rhetoric which at times rises to the sublime, at times descends to rant. -Doctor Faustus,- though disfigured by poor comic scenes for which Marlowe is probably not responsible, and though lacking unity of structure, yet presents the career and fate of the hero with great power, and contains in the speech to Helen of Troy and in the dying utterance of Faustus two of the most superb passages of poetry in the English language. [via]More editions of Doctor Faustus:
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik Ibsen, Michael MeyerISBN 0413544702 (0-413-54470-2)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:[via]A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on stage. The play ushered in a new social era and "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life".
The Student Edition contains these exclusive features:
· A chronology of the playwright's life and work
· An introduction giving the background of the play
· Commentary on themes, characters. language and style
· Notes on individual words and phrases in the text
· Questions for further study
· Bibliography for further reading.
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Elementary Linear Algebraby Bruce H. Edwards, Ron LarsonISBN 0395967171 (0-395-96717-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elementary Linear Algebra'Book summary:Designed specifically for the introductory course, this text's uniquely motivating approach helps math or science and engineering majors truly understand how linear algebra works. Balancing theory with examples, applications, and geometrical interpretation, Elementary Linear Algebra also includes opportunities to incorporate technology.
In response to users' requests, the Fourth Edition has been streamlined to seven chapters, with material from previous chapters 810 (Complex Vector Spaces, Linear Programming, and Numerical Methods) now available on the accompanying web site. In addition, all MATLAB exercises have been moved from the text to the web site.
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Elementary Linear Algebraby Ron LarsonISBN 0395967198 (0-395-96719-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603by Susan DoranISBN 0415073529 (0-415-07352-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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An Enemy of the Peopleby Henrik Ibsen, Michael Leverson MeyerISBN 0413294706 (0-413-29470-6)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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Everyday Life in Ancient Romeby F.R. CowellISBN 0399200525 (0-399-20052-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Fair and Tender Ladiesby Lee SmithISBN 0399133828 (0-399-13382-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0395977894 (0-395-97789-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppressionby Sandra Lee BartkyISBN 0415901863 (0-415-90186-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Gandhi Reader: A Source Book of His Life and Writingsby Homer A. JackISBN 040403540X (0-404-03540-X)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identityby Judith ButlerISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity'Book summary:In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The book was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender Trouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex. A primer in gender studies--and sexy reading for college cafés. --Regina Marler [via]
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Godel's Proofby Ernest Nagel, NewmanISBN 0415355281 (0-415-35528-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Godel's Proof'Book summary:'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' The Guardian
In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was partly based on propositions not provable within the mathematical system. The importance of Godel's Proof rests upon its radical implications and has echoed throughout many fields, from maths to science to philosophy, computer design, artificial intelligence, even religion and psychology. While others such as Douglas Hofstadter and Roger Penrose have published bestsellers based on Godels theorem, this is the first book to present a readable explanation to both scholars and non-specialists alike. A gripping combination of science and accessibility, Godels Proof by Nagel and Newman is for both mathematicians and the idly curious, offering those with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to satisfy their intellectual curiosity.
Kurt Godel (1906 1978) Born in Brunn, he was a colleague of physicist Albert Einstein and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
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The Grad School Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Getting in and Succeedingby Richard Jerrard, Margot JerrardISBN 0399524169 (0-399-52416-9)
Softcover, Perigee
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 039608687X (0-396-08687-X)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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History of Western Philosophyby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415325056 (0-415-32505-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection With Political & Social Circumstancesby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415078547 (0-415-07854-7)
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Homesteadby Rosina LippiISBN 0395977711 (0-395-97771-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homestead'Book summary:The setting for this poignant novel is Rosenau, an isolated Austrian Village, and the story encompasses generations of villagers and their intimate lives. The magic of the novel lies in the author's ability to make the faraway seem familiar, even when it is tragic or brutal. Structured as short stories told from the viewpoints of different members of the village, the novel follows their intertwined lives from 1909 through 1977, layering story upon story to develop the village and the characters.
Lippi's characters are nothing short of wonderful. There is, for example, Johanna, whose heart is torn between her love for Francesco--a soldier hiding in the Austrian Alps--and her sister Angelika, who hides her dependence upon Johanna behind not-so-subtle reminders of familial duty. And there is Katharina, whose impulsiveness causes her to betray her two half-brothers for a ride in a Nazi motorcar, and Stante, who proves his worth not only in the Wainwright's workshop but also by his courage withstanding the Nazis. The character portrayals are based upon Lippi's own experiences living in Austria for four years. You'll hate for these stories to end. [via]
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The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: The Philosophy of Religious Argumentby Jacob Neusner, Bruce ChiltonISBN 0415153999 (0-415-15399-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Intermediate Algebra: An Integrated Approachby Richard N. Aufmann, Joanne S. LockwoodISBN 039588831X (0-395-88831-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Interpreter of Maladies: Library Editionby Jhumpa Lahiri, Janet SilverISBN 039592720X (0-395-92720-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition'Book summary:Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and Shukumar, the young couple in "A Temporary Matter" whose marriage is crumbling in the wake of a stillborn child. Or Miranda in "Sexy," who is involved in a hopeless affair with a married man. But Mr. Kapasi has problems enough of his own; in addition to his regular job working as an interpreter for a doctor who does not speak his patients' language, he also drives tourists to local sites of interest. His fare on this particular day is Mr. and Mrs. Das--first-generation Americans of Indian descent--and their children. During the course of the afternoon, Mr. Kapasi becomes enamored of Mrs. Das and then becomes her unwilling confidant when she reads too much into his profession. "I told you because of your talents," she informs him after divulging a startling secret.
I'm tired of feeling so terrible all the time. Eight years, Mr. Kapasi, I've been in pain eight years. I was hoping you could help me feel better; say the right thing. Suggest some kind of remedy.
Of course, Mr. Kapasi has no cure for what ails Mrs. Das--or himself. Lahiri's subtle, bittersweet ending is characteristic of the collection as a whole. Some of these nine tales are set in India, others in the United States, and most concern characters of Indian heritage. Yet the situations Lahiri's people face, from unhappy marriages to civil war, transcend ethnicity. As the narrator of the last story, "The Third and Final Continent," comments: "There are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept." In that single line Jhumpa Lahiri sums up a universal experience, one that applies to all who have grown up, left home, fallen in or out of love, and, above all, experienced what it means to be a foreigner, even within one's own family. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition:
Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendasby Joel Krieger, Mark Kesselman, William A. JosephISBN 0395937043 (0-395-93704-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Introductory Real Analysisby Frank Dangello, Michael SeyfriedISBN 0395959330 (0-395-95933-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Jane Austen Book Clubby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0399151613 (0-399-15161-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jane Austen Book Club'Book summary:Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love..."I was enchanted. A charming and intelligent read, with the best appendix I've come across since Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"" - Kate Long, author of "The Bad Mother's Handbook". [via]
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0399134204 (0-399-13420-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy Luck Club'Book summary:Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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King Henry Vby William Shakespeare, T. W. CraikISBN 041501414X (0-415-01414-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Life Cycles in England 1560-1720: Cradle to Graveby Mary AbbottISBN 0415108438 (0-415-10843-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Life in Ancient Romeby F.R. CowellISBN 0399503285 (0-399-50328-5)
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Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, E. L. EpsteinISBN 0399501487 (0-399-50148-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Madness and Civilizationby M. FOUCAULTISBN 0415253853 (0-415-25385-3)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madness and Civilization'Book summary:In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself. [via]
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The Mathematical Experienceby Philip J. Davis, Reuben HershISBN 0395929687 (0-395-92968-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Measure for Measureby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026970 (0-415-02697-0)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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The Merchant of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027519 (0-415-02751-9)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" Shylock's impassioned plea in the middle of The Merchant of Venice is one of its most dramatic moments. After the Holocaust, the play has become a battleground for those who argue that the play represents Shakespeare's ultimate statement against ignorance and anti-Semitism in favour of a liberal vision of tolerance and multiculturalism. Other critics have pointed out that the play is, after all, a comedy that ultimately pokes fun at a 16th-century Jew. In fact, the bare outline of the plot suggests that the play is far more complex than either of these characterisations. Bassanio, a feckless young Venetian, asks his wealthy friend, the merchant Antonio, for money to finance a trip to woo the beautiful Portia in Belmont. Reluctant to refuse his friend (to whom he professes intense love), Antonio borrows the money from the Jewish moneylender. If he reneges on the deal, Shylock jokingly demands a pound of his flesh. When all Antonio's ships are lost at sea, Shylock calls in his debt, and the love and laughter of the first scenes of the play threaten to give way to death and tragedy. The final climactic courtroom scene, complete with a cross-dressed Portia, a knife-wielding Shylock, and the debate on "the quality of mercy" is one of the great dramatic moments in Shakespeare. The controversial subject matter of the play ensures that it continues to repel, divide but also fascinate its many audiences. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Moon Is a Harsh Mistressby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399105565 (0-399-10556-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, A.R. HumphreysISBN 0415027004 (0-415-02700-4)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Naomiby Jun Ichiro TanizakiISBN 0399512861 (0-399-51286-1)
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The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulyssesby Harry BlamiresISBN 0415138582 (0-415-13858-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses'Book summary:Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve.
The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time.
To ensure that Blamires' classic work will remain useful to new readers, this third edition contains the page numbering and references to three commonly read editions of Ulysses: the Oxford University Press 'World Classics' (1993), the Penguin 'Twentieth-Century Classics' (1992), and the Gabler 'Corrected Text' (1986) editions.
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Pale Fireby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0399504583 (0-399-50458-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Fire'Book summary:Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo [via]
Public Policymaking: An Introductionby James AndersonISBN 0395961041 (0-395-96104-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Purity and Dangerby Mary DouglasISBN 0415066085 (0-415-06608-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Tabooby Mary DouglasISBN 0415289955 (0-415-28995-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Taboo'Book summary:In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most important role is to offer each reader a new explanation of why people behave in the way they do. With a specially commissioned introduction by the author which assesses the continuing significance of the work thirty-five years on, this Routledge Classics edition will ensure that Purity and Danger continues to challenge and question well into the new millennium. [via]
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Relativity: The Special and General Theoryby Robert W. Lawson, Albert EinsteinISBN 0415253845 (0-415-25384-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relativity: The Special and General Theory'Book summary:How better to learn the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity than directly from their creator, Albert Einstein himself? In Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einstein describes the theories that made him famous, illuminating his case with numerous examples and a smattering of math (nothing more complex than high-school algebra). Einstein's book is not casual reading, but for those who appreciate his work without diving into the arcana of theoretical physics, Relativity will prove a stimulating read. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 0413619109 (0-413-61910-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Roverby Aphra BehnISBN 0413668800 (0-413-66880-0)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rover'Book summary:Aphra Behn was among the wittiest and most prolific playwrights of her day[via]
The Rover is the most popular of Behn's plays, a comedy set in a 17th century Spanish colony during carnival time. Scenes of infidelity, elopement and seduction are juxtaposed with images of elaborate sword play creating a mood of frantic, endless celebration.
In The Rover, Behn recreates a male-dominated society but responds with clear-sighted and sympathetic portrayal of the female predicament. The female voice gave the play a distinctiveness in its time and portrays "the fine line drawn and doodled around between the brutality of rape and the art of seduction" (Michael Coveney, Financial Times).
The Rover was revived by the RSC in 1986, directed by John Barton with Jeremy Sams and Imogen Stubbs in the lead roles. This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play and a glossary of difficult words and phrases."Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common&All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn." (Virginia Woolf on Aphra Behn)
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Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theoryby Toril MoiISBN 0415280125 (0-415-28012-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory'Book summary:What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?
Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two main strands in feminist criticism, the Anglo-American and the French, paying particular attention to the works of Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva. In the years since publication this book has rightly attained the status of a classic. Written for readers with little knowledge of the subject, Sexual/Textual Politics nevertheless makes its own intervention into key debates, arguing provocatively for a commitedly political and theoretical criticism as against merely textual or apolitical approaches.
With a new afterword in this edition, Sexual/Textual Politics is a must-read for all those interested in feminist literary theory. [via]More editions of Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory:
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Snow Countryby Yasunari KawabataISBN 0399505253 (0-399-50525-3)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Country'Book summary:Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages - a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness. [via]
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Social Psychologyby S. BrehmISBN 0395980151 (0-395-98015-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Social Psychologyby Saul M. Kassin, Steven Fein, S. BrehmISBN 0395909228 (0-395-90922-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Sophocles 2by SophoclesISBN 0413628809 (0-413-62880-9)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles 2'Book summary:Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton[via]
Includes the surviving complete plays: Ajax which plots the downfall of Odysseus's greatest Trojan enemy - who slaughters a whole herd of cattle before killing himself; Women of Trachis in which the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her womanising husband Heracles; in Electra the son and daughter of the ill-starred Agamemnon plan their revenge on their usurping stepfather and mother and finally Philoctetes in which Sophocles brilliantly explores the themes of pain, love and the betrayal of trust.More editions of Sophocles 2:
The Sound of the Mountainby Yasunari KawabataISBN 039950527X (0-399-50527-X)
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Special Relativityby Anthony Philip FrenchISBN 0412343207 (0-412-34320-7)
Softcover, Chapman & Hall
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Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novelby Anthony Horowitz, John BlackfordISBN 0399236201 (0-399-23620-1)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel'Book summary:Spies are great currency for exciting storylines, but few authors manage to successfully concoct realistic scenarios for a willing readership expecting chases, gunshots and thrills aplenty. In the first of what could easily become his most memorable series of novels to date, Anthony Horowitz has added a tongue-in-cheek quality to Stormbreaker that lifts it above several others in the same genre.
Horowitz knows that his main character, 14-year-old Alex Rider, is a normal teenager and he never forgets this when he thrusts his young hero into the thick of several truly edge-of-seat scenarios. There is humour alongside the action too--some great characters and cutting one-liners--that helps to ensure that entertainment is high on the agenda throughout.
Orphan Alex thought he knew his Uncle Ian Rider--until the elusive banker is killed in a tragic car accident. Immediately, Alex's life starts to get stranger by the day as his guardian's friends and colleagues start showing up and contradicting everything Alex thought he knew about the man he'd called Dad for so long. Maybe Ian Rider was not a banker after all? Surely the bullet holes in his Uncle's totalled car reveal that he had not died in an accident, but was murdered? Everything is explained when Alex decides to track down Ian Rider's real employers, but Alex is in for a surprise when they decide to contact him. The truth is hard to take, but maybe by following in his uncle's secret footsteps he might get the chance for revenge.
Apart from a slightly over-the-top finale involving a helicopter and the roof of London's Science Museum, Stormbreaker is a refreshingly energetic yarn that is required reading for fans of the contemporary thriller. --John McLay [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0396085350 (0-396-08535-0)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilionby Yukio MishimaISBN 0399504885 (0-399-50488-5)
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The Theatre of Meyerhold: Revolution and the Modern Stageby Edward BraunISBN 0413411206 (0-413-41120-6)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Sandra KempISBN 0415016630 (0-415-01663-0)
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusby Ludwig Wittgenstein, Brian McGuinness, David Francis Pears, Bertrand RussellISBN 0415254086 (0-415-25408-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'Book summary:Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable. He famously summarized the book in the following words: 'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.' David Pears and Brian McGuinness received the highest praise for their meticulous translation. The work is prefaced by Bertrand Russell's original introduction to the first English edition. [via]
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, T.S. DorschISBN 0415026849 (0-415-02684-9)
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Understanding Media; The Extension of Manby M. McLuhanISBN 0415253977 (0-415-25397-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media; The Extension of Man'Book summary:When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril. [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0396085342 (0-396-08534-2)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Walt Whitman, Ezra GreenspanISBN 041527544X (0-415-27544-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition'Book summary:This sourcebook includes the full text of Song of Myself.
Since 1855, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an American.
This sourcebook and critical edition provides easy access to:
*information on the contexts of Whitman's work, including biographical details and a chronology
*an overview of the critical reception of the poem and extracts from important criticism, reprinted with clear introductory headnotes
*key passages from the original 1855 edition, with commentary and annotation
*the full 'final' 1881 edition of the poem.
Cross-references link the critical, contextual and textual sections of the volume, encouraging an integrated understanding of this creative and controversial text. Complementing a wealth of material with suggestions for further reading, this volume is ideal for readers with no knowledge of the poem, or for those returning anew to a favourite text. [via]More editions of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition:
Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment Since 1560by David D. Roberts, Barry S. Strauss, William B. Cohen, Thomas F. X. Noble, Duane J. Osheim, Kristen B. NeuschelISBN 0395870690 (0-395-87069-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0399506438 (0-399-50643-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Golding's Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare, J.H.P. PaffordISBN 0415027101 (0-415-02710-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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