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1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbusby Charles C. MannISBN 1400032059 (1-4000-3205-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus'Book summary:A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:
? In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
? Certain cities-such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital-were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
? The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
? Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."
? Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it-a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.
? Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. [via]More editions of 1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus:
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Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 086611968X (0-86611-968-X)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:The classic tale of shipwrecked adventure, Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" is the fictional autobiography of its title character. When cast ashore upon a tropical island, Robinson Crusoe must use his survival skills to find food and shelter and evade the native cannibals. A captivating tale of action and adventure, based in part on the real life adventures of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived more than four years on an island in the Pacific, "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded by some as the first novel of the English language. [via]
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African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, And Globalizationby Neville Wallace HoadISBN 0816649162 (0-8166-4916-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialismby Noenoe K. SilvaISBN 082233349X (0-8223-3349-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Archives of Empire: The Scramble for Africaby Barbara Harlow, Mia CarterISBN 0822331896 (0-8223-3189-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archives of Empire: The Scramble for Africa'Book summary:A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts that track the debates over imperialism in the ranks of the military, the corridors of political power, the lobbies of missionary organizations, the halls of royal geographic and ethnographic societies, the boardrooms of trading companies, the editorial offices of major newspapers, and far-flung parts of the empire itself. Focusing on a particular region and historical period, each volume in Archives of Empire is organized into sections preceded by brief introductions. Documents including mercantile company charters, parliamentary records, explorers accounts, and political cartoons are complemented by timelines, maps, and bibligraphies. Unique resources for teachers and students, these volumes reveal the complexities of nineteenth-century colonialism and emphasize its enduring relevance to the global markets of the twenty-first century.[via]While focusing on the expansion of the British Empire, The Scramble for Africa illuminates the intense nineteenth-century contest among European nations over Africas land, people, and resources. Highlighting the 1885 Berlin Conference in which Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy partitioned Africa among themselves, this collection follows British conflicts with other nations over different regions as well as its eventual challenge to Leopold of Belgiums rule of the Congo. The reports, speeches, treatises, proclamations, letters, and cartoons assembled here include works by Henry M. Stanley, David Livingstone, Joseph Conrad, G. W. F. Hegel, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and Arthur Conan Doyle. A number of pieces highlight the proliferation of companies chartered to pursue Africas gold, diamonds, and oilparticularly Cecil J. Rhodess British South Africa Company and Frederick Lugards Royal Niger Company. Other documents describe debacles on the continentsuch as the defeat of General Gordon in Khartoum and the Anglo-Boer Warand the criticism of imperial maneuvers by proto-human rights activists including George Washington Williams, Mark Twain, Olive Schreiner, and E.D. Morel.
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Best Loved ClassicsISBN 0895772884 (0-89577-288-4)
Softcover, Reader's Digest Association
Find This BookBook summary:Box set contains 10 paperback books as follows: [1] The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain -- [2] Oliver Twist / by Charles Dickens -- [3] Little women / by Louisa May Alcott -- [4] Treasure Island / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- [5] The red badge of courage / by Stephen Crane -- [6] The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain -- [7] The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- [8] David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens -- [9] The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe -- [10] Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Bronte?. [via]
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Black Looks: Race and Representationby Bell HooksISBN 0896084337 (0-89608-433-7)
Softcover, South End Pr
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The Black Man's Burden : Africa and the Curse of the Nation-Stateby Basil Risbridger DavidsonISBN 0812922107 (0-8129-2210-7)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyreby Harold BloomISBN 0791040925 (0-7910-4092-5)
Softcover, Facts on File
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Colonial Empires and Armies 1815-1960by V. G. KiernanISBN 0773517677 (0-7735-1767-7)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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The Colonial Haremby Malek AlloulaISBN 0816613842 (0-8166-1384-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Orderby Timothy J. KeeganISBN 0813917360 (0-8139-1736-0)
Softcover, University Press of Virginia
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The Conquest of the Saharaby Douglas PorchISBN 0880640618 (0-88064-061-8)
Softcover, Fromm International Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Conquest of the Sahara'Book summary:In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century. Focusing on the conquest of the Ahaggar Tuareg, a Berber people living in a mountain area in central Sahara, he goes on to describe the bizarre exploits of the desert's explorers and conquerors and the incompetence of the French military establishment. Porch summons up a world of oases, desert forts and cafés where customers paid the dancer by licking a one-franc piece and sticking it on her forehead.[via]
The Conquest of the Sahara reveals the dark side of France's "civilizing mission" into this vast terrain, and at the same time, weaves a rich tale of extravagant hopes, genius and foolhardiness.More editions of The Conquest of the Sahara:
Cracking Indiaby Bapsi Sidhwa, R. W. ScholesISBN 0915943565 (0-915943-56-5)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cracking India : A Novel'Book summary:The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting with the large group of admirers that Ayah draws. It is in the company of these working class characters that Lenny learns about religious differences, religious intolerance, and the blossoming genocidal strife on the eve of Partition. As she matures, Lenny begins to identify the differences between the Hindus, Moslems, and Sikhs engaging in political arguments all around her. Lenny enjoys a happy, privileged life in Lahore, but the kidnapping of her beloved Ayah signals a dramatic change. Soon Lennys world erupts in religious, ethnic, and racial violence. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, the domestic drama serves as a microcosm for a profound political upheaval.[via]-
Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illnessby Megan VaughanISBN 0804719713 (0-8047-1971-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness'Book summary:Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination of medical discourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature, highlights its use in the creation of the colonial subject in Africa, and explores the conflict between its pretensions to scientific neutrality and its political and cultural motivations.
The book includes chapters on the history of psychiatry in Africa, on the treatment of venereal diseases, on the memoirs of European 'Jungle Doctors', and on mission medicine. In exploring the representations of disease as well as medical practice, Curing their Ills makes a fascinating and original contribution to both medical history and the social history of Africa. [via]More editions of Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness:
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0877549486 (0-87754-948-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialismby Ranjana KhannaISBN 0822330679 (0-8223-3067-9)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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A Division of the Spoils: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 0816138478 (0-8161-3847-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0771068867 (0-7710-6886-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.
A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient garnered the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. The poet and novelist has also written In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; two collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. [via]
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The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideasby Mahatma Gandhi, Louis FischerISBN 1400030501 (1-4000-3050-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas'Book summary:Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma ( great soul ), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nations own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhis writings throughout his life, The Essential Gandhi introduces us to his thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, non-violence, civil disobedience, and his own life. The pieces collected here, with explanatory head notes by Gandhi biographer Louis Fischer, offer the clearest, most thorough portrait of one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known.
Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. . . . We may ignore him at our own risk. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
With a new Preface drawn from the writings of Eknath Easwaran
In the annals of spirituality certain books stand out both for their historical importance and for their continued relevance. The Vintage Spiritual Classics series offers the greatest of these works in authoritative new editions, with specially commissioned essays by noted contemporary commentators. Filled with eloquence and fresh insight, encouragement and solace, Vintage Spiritual Classics are incomparable resources for all readers who seek a more substantive understanding of mankind's relation to the divine. [via]More editions of The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas:
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Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840by Alan MooreheadISBN 093518077X (0-935180-77-X)
Softcover, Booklines Hawaii Ltd
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The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behaviour Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918by Rudi BleysISBN 0814712657 (0-8147-1265-7)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behaviour Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918'Book summary:Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of Perversion and Desire is the first historical study to demonstrate convincingly that the representation cultural otherness, as found in European thought from the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely interrelated with modern constructions of homosexual identity. Travel reports and early ethnographic accounts of cross-gender roles in the Americas, Africa, and Asia corroborated the 18th century construction of the sodomite identity. Similarly, the late 19th-century construction of the third sex provoked much anthropological speculation on to genetic versus societal nature of male-to-male sexual relations, a precursor of current essentialist versus constructionist debates. An invaluable contribution to the ongoing debates on cultural and sexual otherness, this volume unravels how the categories of the modern sodomite and later homosexual were inextricably intertwined with essentialist definitions of racial identity. In encyclopedic detail, Bleys traces how cross-cultural records were collected, created, structured, manipulated, excerpted, reformulated, and omitted in interaction with changing beliefs about male-to-male sexuality. Focusing in such subjects as puritanism, sodomy, and ethnicity in colonial North America; cross-gender behavior and hermaphrodditism; the semiotics of genitalia; and the parameters of sexual science, The Geography of Perversion and Desire is a breathtakingly thorough, cross cultural history of sexual categories.
Drawing on travel reports and early ethnographic accounts, The Geography of Perversion and Desire presents the first historical study to demonstrate convincingly that the representation of cultural otherness, as found in European thought from the Enlightenment to modern times, is closely interrelated with modern constructions of homosexual identity.
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle Eastby Robert FiskISBN 1400075173 (1-4000-7517-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East'Book summary:During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city at the time) to the Iran-Iraq War, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israels invasions of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq. Now he brings his knowledge, his firsthand experience and his intimate understanding of the Middle East to a book that addresses the full complexity of its political history and its current state of affairs.
Passionate in his concerns about the region and relentless in his pursuit of the truth, Fisk has been able to enter the world of the Middle East and the lives of its people as few other journalists have. The result is a work of stunning reportage. His unblinking eyewitness testimony to the horrors of war places him squarely in the tradition of the great frontline reporters of the Second World War. His searing descriptions of lives mangled in the chaos of battle and of the battles themselves are at once dreadful and heartrending.
This is also a book of lucid, incisive analysis. Reaching back into the long history of invasion, occupation and colonization in the region, Fisk sets forth this information in a way that makes clear how a history of injustice has condemned the Middle East to war. He lays open the role of the West in the seemingly endless strife and warfare in the region, traces the growth of the Wests involvement and influence there over the past one hundred years, and outlines the Wests record of support for some of the most ruthless leaders in the Middle East. He chronicles the ever-more-powerful military presence of the United States and tracks the consequent, increasingly virulent anti-Westernand particularly anti-Americansentiment among the regions Muslim populations.
Fisk interweaves this history with his own vividly rendered experiences in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Israel, Palestine and Lebanonon the front lines; behind the scenes; in the streets of cities and villages; and inside military headquarters, the hideouts of guerrillas, the homes of ordinary citizens. Here, too, are indelible portraits of Osama bin Laden, Ayatollah Khomeini and Yassir Arafat, among othersall of whom he has met face-to-facerevelatory in their apprehension of the individuals and the ideologies they represent.
Finally, The Great War for Civilisation is the story of journalists in war: of their attempts to report the first, impartial drafts of history, to monitor the centers of power, to challenge authority ( especially . . . when governments and politicians take us to war ) and to battle an increasingly partisan worldwide media in their determination to report the truth.
Unflinching, provocative, brilliantly writtena work of major importance for todays world. [via]More editions of The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East:
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The Heart of the Matterby Graham GreeneISBN 0884116549 (0-88411-654-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of the Matter'Book summary:In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man's conflict between passion and faith. The Heart of the Matter is one of Graham Greene's most enduring and tragic novels.
A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his colonial responsibilities and for his wife, whom he deeply pities but no longer loves. Passed over for a promotion, he is forced to borrow money in order to send his despairing wife away on a holiday. When in her absence he develops a passion for a young widow, the scrupulously honest Catholic finds himself giving way to deceit and dishonor. Enmeshed in love and intrigue, he will betray everything he believes in, with tragic consequences. [via]More editions of The Heart of the Matter:
The Heart of the Matter: Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Gloryby Graham GreeneISBN 0905712013 (0-905712-01-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Octopus
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Hidden Face of Eveby Nawal ElsaadawiISBN 0807067016 (0-8070-6701-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab Worldby NawÈAl SaìDÈAwÈIISBN 0905762517 (0-905762-51-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World'Book summary:This is a personal and often disturbing account of growing into womanhood in the Islamic world. The author ranges over a host of topics and relates women's position in the Middle East to the struggles between the left and right in Islam, and shows how the political priorities of Western and Third World women differ. [via]
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstoneby Martin DugardISBN 0767910745 (0-7679-1074-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 1416500243 (1-4165-0024-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0821916459 (0-8219-1645-9)
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Jane Eyreby Diana StewartISBN 0817216618 (0-8172-1661-8)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Raintree
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The Jewel in the Crownby Paul ScottISBN 0816138443 (0-8161-3844-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Kanthapuraby R. RaoISBN 0811201686 (0-8112-0168-6)
Softcover, New Directions
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The Loverby Marguerite DurasISBN 0816140529 (0-8161-4052-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Man Who Would Be Kingby Rudyard KipingISBN 1406503177 (1-4065-0317-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlanticby Marcus Rediker, Peter LinebaughISBN 0807050075 (0-8070-5007-5)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic'Book summary:Globalism is nothing new, argue leftist historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. Centuries ago, European trade concerns, such as the Dutch East Indies Company and the Virginia Company, sought to create an overseas empire owned by corporations, not governments. Backed by governments all the same, these companies found themselves opposed only by a congeries of revolutionary sailors, artisans, farmers, and smallholders, who formed a "many-headed hydra" of resistance.
Arguing that this history of resistance to globalism has been unjustly overlooked, Linebaugh and Rediker delineate key episodes. When, for instance, a group of English sailors and common laborers were shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda en route to America, they created their own communal government, which was so pleasant to them that they refused to be "rescued" and had to be removed to the colonies by force. Their ideological descendants later banded with runaway slaves and other discontents to form multi-ethnic, multilingual pirate navies that hindered the transatlantic traffic in metals, jewels, and captive humans. Some of the men and women involved in these pirate bands, this "Atlantic proletariat," put their skills at the service of the American Revolution, which, in the author's view, "ended in reaction as the Founding Fathers used race, nation, and citizenship to discipline, divide, and exclude the very sailors and slaves who had initiated and propelled the revolutionary movement." The fire of rebellion soon spread all the same, they note, to such places as Haiti, Ireland, France, even England, helped along by these peripatetic and unsung rebels.
Linebaugh and Rediker's book is provocative and often brilliant, opening windows onto little-known episodes in world history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Companyby MultatuliISBN 0870233602 (0-87023-360-2)
Softcover, University of Massachusetts Press
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie CollinsISBN 1404319352 (1-4043-1935-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:T.S. Eliot called `The Moonstone the first and greatest English detective novel. The novel is worthy of such praise.
The story begins with a brief prologue describing how the famous yellow diamond was captured during a military campaign in India by a British officer in 1799. The action moves quickly to 1848 England, where, according to the British officers will, the diamond has been given to one of the soldiers young relatives, Rachel Verinder. Yet only hours after the diamond arrives at the Verinder estate, it disappears. Was it stolen by a relative? A servant? And who are these three Indian men who keep hanging around the estate?
`The Moonstone is told from the point of view of several characters. The first portion of the tale is told by Gabriel Betteredge, house steward of the Verinder estate, who has been working for the family practically his entire life. Betteredges account holds the readers interest as he introduces the main players and the crime itself. The next account, by distant Verinder relative Miss Clack, is humorous and somewhat important. But after Miss Clacks account, things really take off at breakneck speed.
Readers who latch onto the T.S. Eliot quote expecting a modern detective tale will be sorely disappointed. You arent going to see anything resembling Jeffrey Deaver, James Patterson, Sue Grafton, or even Mary Higgins Clark. You also wont see Mickey Spillane, Dashiel Hammett, or Raymond Chandler. Nor will you see Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, or Martha Grimes. You wont even see Arthur Conan Doyle. But you WILL see the novel that influenced them all.
Youll also see something else. Something that modern mystery/detective writers have for the most part lost. Characters. Oh sure, modern writers have characters, but for the most part, the reader only learns enough about the character to forward the plot. In our time, plot is King. When `The Moonstone was published (1868), [via]
Old Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacre and the Indian Mutiny of 1857by Andrew WardISBN 0805024379 (0-8050-2437-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandateby Tom SegevISBN 0805065873 (0-8050-6587-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Piano Tunerby Daniel MasonISBN 1400030382 (1-4000-3038-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Tuner'Book summary:Daniel Mason's debut novel, The Piano Tuner, is the mesmerizing story of Edgar Drake, commissioned by the British War Office in 1886 to travel to hostile Burma to repair a rare Erard grand piano vital to the Crown's strategic interests. Eccentric Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll has brokered peace with local warlords primarily through music, a free medical clinic, and the "powers" of common scientific instruments, much to the dismay of warmongering officers suspect of such unorthodox methods. Drake is an introspective, well-mannered soul who, once there, falls in love with Burma and stays long past the piano-fixing to aid Carroll's political agenda. Drake's arduous journey to reach the outpost, however, takes far too long (nearly half the book) and the plotting is rather heavy-handed at times (one night, Drake learns of a mysterious "Man with One Story" who rarely speaks, and the very next morning the Man tells all to Drake). The story is ambitious, the language florid and sure to please, but the dialogue and melodrama are sometimes tedious. While out on the town with Carroll's love interest, Khin Myo (who enchants Drake), Mason offers the townspersons' view of Drake:
It is only natural that a guest be treated with hospitality, the quiet man who has come to mend the singing elephant is shy, and walks with the posture of one who is unsure of the world, we too would keep him company to make him feel welcome, but we do not speak English.... They say he is one of the kind of men who has dreams, but tells no one.
Drake's complexity is thin; perhaps the beauty of Burma takes over any real need for introspection. Despite these quibbles, The Piano Tuner is a memorable achievement. --Michael Ferch [via]More editions of The Piano Tuner:
Puerto Rico: Us Colony in the Caribbeanby Jose G. PerezISBN 0873483804 (0-87348-380-4)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 094526027X (0-945260-27-X)
Hardcover, Choice Pub
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0804900221 (0-8049-0022-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:I cast my eyes to the stranded vessel, when the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far off, and considered, Lord! how was it possible I could get on shore? After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done, and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dreadful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me, neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hunger, of being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was that I had no weapon either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs. In a word, I had nothing about me but a knife, a tobacco-pipe, and a little tobacco in a box. This was all my provision; and this threw me into terrible agonies of mind, that for a while I ran about like a madman. Night coming upon me, I began, with a heavy heart, to consider what would be my lot if there were any ravenous beasts in that country, seeing at night they always come abroad for their prey. [via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Deanna McFadden, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726643 (1-4027-2664-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Season of Migration to the Northby Tayeb Salih, Denys Johnson-DaviesISBN 0894101994 (0-89410-199-4)
Softcover, Lynne Rienner Pub
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The Sword And The Cross: Two Men And An Empire Of Sandby Fergus FlemingISBN 0802141730 (0-8021-4173-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87by Thomas Sankara, Samantha AndersonISBN 0873485262 (0-87348-526-2)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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The Towers of Silence: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 081613846X (0-8161-3846-X)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Travels in the Congoby Andre GideISBN 0880013656 (0-88001-365-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 1404336877 (1-4043-3687-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Upside Down : A Primer for the Looking-Glass Worldby Eduardo Galeano, Mark FriedISBN 0805063757 (0-8050-6375-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Eduardo Galeano, author of the incomparable Memory of Fire Trilogy, combines a novelist's intensity, a poet's lyricism, a journalist's fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian. Now his talents are richly displayed in Upside Down, an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious exposé of our first-world privileges and assumptions. In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Galeano takes the reader on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"--with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave"--he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a reality we should reject, Galeano teaches us, one where machines are more precious than humans, people are hungry, poverty kills, and children toil from dark to dark.
A work of fire and charm, Upside Down makes us see the world anew and even glimpse how it might be set right.
"Galeano's outrage is tempered by intelligence, an ineradicable sense of humor, and hope." -Los Angeles Times, front pageMore editions of Upside Down : A Primer for the Looking-Glass World:
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History: And Other Events in Filipino Historyby Vicente L. RafaelISBN 082232542X (0-8223-2542-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Year 501by Noam ChomskyISBN 0896084442 (0-89608-444-2)
Softcover, South End Pr
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