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Aldous Huxley's Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley, David RogersISBN 0871293579 (0-87129-357-9)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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American Foreign Policy since World War IIby John W. SpanierISBN 0871877279 (0-87187-727-9)
Hardcover, CQ Press
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Ancient + Modernby Cynthia Inions, Simon UptonISBN 0875969364 (0-87596-936-4)
Hardcover, Rodale Pr
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Atet, A.Dby Nathaniel MacKeyISBN 0872863824 (0-87286-382-4)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Baby Houstonby June ArnoldISBN 0877191247 (0-87719-124-7)
Softcover, Texas Monthly Pr
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Basquiatby Fred Hoffman, Marc Mayer, Jean Michel BasquiatISBN 0872731529 (0-87273-152-9)
Hardcover, Brooklyn Museum Bookshop
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Bay Area Wild : A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Areaby Galen A. Rowell, Michael SewellISBN 0871568829 (0-87156-882-9)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bay Area Wild : A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area'Book summary:Hunted for their meat and hides, Tule elk disappeared from much of California in the wake of the Gold Rush of 1849. Many varieties of waterfowl, grasses, fish, and reptiles once lived in tidal wetlands now swallowed up by metropolitan growth. Yet the elk are back in small numbers after a herd was reintroduced on the Point Reyes Peninsula; wetlands are being restored; and the area around San Francisco is benefiting from a growing awareness that its natural wealth has been needlessly squandered--and that something can be done about it. Wildlife photographers Galen Rowell and Michael Sewell document this story in a wonderful collection of plates, backed by a well-written, informative text. [via]
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The Best of Edward Abbeyby Edward AbbeyISBN 0871567865 (0-87156-786-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A Black Bridge: Poemsby Ralph Tejeda WilsonISBN 0874173604 (0-87417-360-4)
Softcover, Univ of Nevada Pr
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Black Elk Speaksby John G. NeihardtISBN 0871296152 (0-87129-615-2)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'Book summary:Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863 1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]
Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.More editions of Black Elk Speaks:
Breathe Something Niceby Emily HammondISBN 0874172934 (0-87417-293-4)
Softcover, Univ of Nevada Pr
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The Burroughs Fileby William S. BurroughsISBN 087286152X (0-87286-152-X)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burroughs File'Book summary:[via]Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his ""insurrectionary sense of America's underside, as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice.
Also included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: The Book of Hours, John Brady's Book, and The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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The Conquest of Happinessby Bertrand RussellISBN 0871401622 (0-87140-162-2)
Softcover, Liveright Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Conquest of Happiness'Book summary:The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russells recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of The Happy Man, this is popular philosophy, or even self-help, as it should be written.
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Coyote in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Wordsby Peter Quigley, Jim Stiles, Stewart CassidyISBN 0874805635 (0-87480-563-5)
Softcover, Univ of Utah Pr
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Charles KeepingISBN 0872261891 (0-87226-189-1)
Hardcover, Peter Bedrick Books
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The Dream of the Earthby Thomas BerryISBN 0871566222 (0-87156-622-2)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0874065755 (0-87406-575-5)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:This kindle book also includes bonus annotations:
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The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911.
Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of children's literature.
The main character of this story is Mary Lennox. She has been born to rich British parents that are currently living in India. Her parents were busy with extravagent parties and left Mary with her ayah for most of the time. Orphaned by an outbreak of cholera, she is sent back to England to be cared for by her mother's sister's husband, Archibald Craven, a reclusive widower. Craven's wife, Lilian, passed away ten years earlier. He is still mourning that loss. To escape his sad memories, he constantly travels abroad, leaving the entire manor, including Mary, to be cared for by his housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock. The only person who has any time for the little girl is the chambermaid Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about a locked up garden, surrounded by a wall that was the late Mrs. Craven's favorite place. No one has entered the garden since she died because Archibald locked its entrance and buried the key. He hasn't told anyone where it is.
Mary finds the key to the secret garden hidden in a box in the house. A robin shows her where the door is hidden beneath overgrown ivy. Once inside, she discovers that although the roses seem lifeless, some of the other flowers have survived. She decides to tend the garden herself. Mary wants to keep her new found garden a secret, but she knows she needs help tending it. She gets this help from Martha's brother Dickon. He seems to have a connection with all wild animals and plants. Mary gives him money to buy gardening implements and he shows her that the roses, though neglected, are not dead. When Mary's uncle briefly meets with her for the first time since her arrival, Mary asks him for permission to claim her own garden from any abandoned part of the grounds, and he acquiesces. Thanks to her new-found interests and activities, Mary herself begins to blossom, becoming more healthy looking and more pleasant to be around.
Some nights, Mary hears someone weeping in another part of the house. When she asks questions, the servants become evasive. They tell her that she is hearing things, like a servant with a toothache. Shortly after her uncle's visit, she goes exploring and discovers her uncle's son, Colin, a lonely, bedridden boy as petulant and disagreeable as Mary used to be. His father shuns him because the child closely resembles his mother. Mr. Craven is a mild hunchback, and both he and Colin are morbidly convinced that the boy will develop the same condition. The servants have been keeping Mary and Colin a secret from one another because Colin doesn't like strangers staring at him and is prone to terrible tantrums.
Mr. Craven has been traveling through Europe, but is inspired to rush home after hearing the voice of his dead wife in a dream and receiving a letter from Mrs. Sowerby (Martha's and Dickon's mother, who also knows the secret) telling him, "I think your lady would ask you to come if she was here." He arrives while the children are outdoors and finds himself drawn toward the secret garden. As he approaches nearer, he is astonished to hear their voices inside the walls; Colin bursts out of the garden door toward him, actually winning a footrace against Mary and Dickon. The story's heartwarming ending has Colin able to walk, Archibald smiling again, and Mary has a family and friends who love her. [via]More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
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Garmentsby James PurdyISBN 0872862399 (0-87286-239-9)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Garments'Book summary:[via]James Purdys new novel, Garments the Living Wear, is a vision of evil and dark salvation peopled with bizarre and memorable characters. Satirizing life in New York City in the 1980s, its themes include the scourge of AIDS, criminal conspiracies, the excesses of the superrich, modern evangelism, and love in its many forms.
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Garments the Living Wearby James PurdyISBN 0872862402 (0-87286-240-2)
Hardcover, City Lights Books
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Gary Snyder: Dimensions of a Lifeby Jon HalperISBN 0871566168 (0-87156-616-8)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Ageby Peter JonesISBN 0875522858 (0-87552-285-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co
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Halo of the Sun: Stories Told and Retoldby Noel Bennett, John RunningISBN 0873584376 (0-87358-437-6)
Softcover, Northland Pub
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Ham on Ryeby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876855575 (0-87685-557-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ham on Rye'Book summary:Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, Ham on Rye, is the semi-autobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. It is a finely written and honest account of the painful childhood of a boy marked out from his peers. Regularly beaten by his father, Chinaski is shown growing through his difficult and violent adolescence (struck with the worst case of acne his doctors have ever seen) through to the first jobs he can't and won't hold down. In this moving story of growing up Bukowski disciplines his muscular, concentrated writing and creates a novel that distils his poetry into the finest full-length piece of prose that he ever wrote. Bukowski is often good but in Ham on Rye he's great.
Sadly, best known as the alcoholic inspiration for the film Barfly (an experience he reflected on in his book Hollywood), it is as a poet, rather than a drunk, that Bukowski should be best remembered. His bitter, caustic, direct, humane, damaged poetry reflects a life dominated by poverty and booze. His poetry stretches over many, many volumes but Bukowski also wrote great novels: all of them have many faults but the first four books he wrote shine for similar reasons. Post Office and Factotum both dissect, quite brilliantly, the life of an angry, poor man forced to do mindless jobs, pushed around and considered mindless by the fools who force him to do them. Women, as Roddy Doyle points out in his short introduction, continues the themes but focuses on the numerous women who share his hero's bed and bottle. --Mark Thwaite [via]
The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970by Michael P. CohenISBN 0871567326 (0-87156-732-6)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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Hot Water Musicby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876855966 (0-87685-596-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Human Behavior in the Social Environmentby John F. LongresISBN 0875814263 (0-87581-426-3)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Behavior in the Social Environment'Book summary:This text provides an overview of human behavior combining the traditional concern for individual development with an examination of social systems. The author examines human behavior in the context of the larger social conflicts associated with class, race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and ability status. After describing the critical perspective, which gives primary attention to the structural origins of private troubles, and presenting an overview of the systems approach, the book focuses on communities, families, groups, and organizations as social systems. [via]
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In a Shallow Graveby James PurdyISBN 0872862348 (0-87286-234-8)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Indigenous: Growing Up Californianby Cris MazzaISBN 0872864227 (0-87286-422-7)
Softcover, City Lights Foundation
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0877207305 (0-87720-730-5)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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The Last Stand - The War Between Wall Street and Main Street over California's Ancient Redwoodsby David HarrisISBN 0871569442 (0-87156-944-2)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Stand - The War Between Wall Street and Main Street over California's Ancient Redwoods'Book summary:Here is a compelling American story--a tale of greed, fanaticism, and devotion--that ranges from the paneled boardrooms of Wall Street and Rodeo Drive to the banks of the Eel River that curve past the cavernous mills of Pacific Lumber, owner of the Headwaters Forest, the world's largest privately held stand of ancient redwoods. In this chronicle of takeover of Pacific Lumber by financier Charles Hurwitz, David Harris, brings his astonishing literary gifts, as well as his own moral passion, to the riveting and important story of the struggle to save the Headwaters Forest. Harris gives us a metaphor for the disappearance of an arguably more gentile, kinder capitalism--a capitalism that, in large measure, was responsible for an America now under siege. This is a book about how some people, often against their own will, end up killing the very thing that had long given them sustenance and shelter--the forest itself.
"Skillfully jumps from raider to resister, lawyer to logger, and weaves a compelling and very readable tale of capitalism at its modern-age rawest."--San Francisco Chronicle
"The Last Stand is provocative, and it's good entertainment. Harris' account challenges us to hold corporations to a higher standard."--Business Week [via]More editions of The Last Stand - The War Between Wall Street and Main Street over California's Ancient Redwoods:
Leaving Home: The Therapy of Disturbed Young Peopleby Jay HaleyISBN 0876308450 (0-87630-845-0)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Let It Come Downby Paul BowlesISBN 0876854803 (0-87685-480-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankindby Donella H. Meadows, Dennis MeadowsISBN 087663918X (0-87663-918-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papersby Joseph GibaldiISBN 0873525655 (0-87352-565-5)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer
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Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873521323 (0-87352-132-3)
Softcover, Modern Language Association of America - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873523792 (0-87352-379-2)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873525728 (0-87352-572-8)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873529766 (0-87352-976-6)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873529871 (0-87352-987-1)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer - Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: ISBN 0873525655 (0-87352-565-5)
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertationsby Walter S. Achtert, Modern Language Association of America, Joseph GibaldiISBN 0873520009 (0-87352-000-9)
Hardcover, Modern Language Association
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A New Name for Peace: International Environmentalism, Sustainable Development, and Democracyby Philip ShabecoffISBN 0874516889 (0-87451-688-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The New West of Edward Abbeyby Ann RonaldISBN 0874173574 (0-87417-357-4)
Softcover, Univ of Nevada Pr
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Night, Dawn, and Dayby Elie WieselISBN 0876688970 (0-87668-897-0)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night, Dawn, and Day'Book summary:Elie Wiesel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, brings together his first three books in this one volume. [via]
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The Old Ways: Six Essaysby Gary SnyderISBN 0872860914 (0-87286-091-4)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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The Pendragon Chroniclesby Michael AshleyISBN 0872262286 (0-87226-228-6)
Softcover, Peter Bedrick Books
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The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthurby Mike AshleyISBN 0872263355 (0-87226-335-5)
Hardcover, School Specialty Publishing
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Peter Weiss' the Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton: Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sadeby Geoffrey SkeltonISBN 0871295075 (0-87129-507-5)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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Philosophy of Logical Atomismby Bertrand Russell, David PearsISBN 0875484433 (0-87548-443-3)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Post Officeby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876850867 (0-87685-086-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Post Office'Book summary:Henry Chinaski is a low-life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and race tracks. First published in 1971, this was Charles Bukowski's debut novel. [via]
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The Problems of Philosophyby Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3d EarlISBN 0872200981 (0-87220-098-1)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Problems of Philosophy'Book summary:One of his great works, and a must-read for any student of philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy was written in 1912 as an introduction to Russell's thought. As an empiricist, Russell starts at the beginning with this question: Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This, according to Russell, is where the work of philosophy begins. He covers topics such as reality, the nature of matter, inductive reasoning, truth, and the limits of philosophical knowledge. As one of the greatest minds in Western philosophy, Russell's thoughts are profoundly informative and provocative and suitable for anyone wishing to expand his mind. British philosopher and mathematician BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL (1872-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Among his many works are Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), and My Philosophical Development (1959). [via]
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Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticismby John Tallmadge, Henry HarringtonISBN 0874806488 (0-87480-648-8)
Softcover, Univ of Utah Pr
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Resist Much, Obey Little : Remembering Ed Abbeyby James R. Hepworth, Gergory McNameeISBN 0871568799 (0-87156-879-9)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resist Much, Obey Little : Remembering Ed Abbey'Book summary:Ed Abbey was one of the most provocative and important writers on the American West. Since his death in 1989, his novels and numerous works of nonfiction have continued to attract, inspire, and influence an expanding audience. In this volume, 37 of Abbey's friends, students, and contemporaries remember his life and work. Resist Much, Obey Little is a fascinating memorial to an icon of the environmental movement who lived bravely and wrote with prophetic genius.
-- Ann Zwinger recalls Abbey's kindness on a river rafting trip;
-- Wendell Berry struggles to define a man who defied conventional labels;
-- Barbara Kingsolver remembers working with Abbey as a fiction contest judge;
-- Edward Hoagland solemnly describes Abbey's death and burial in the desert.Other contributors include: John Nichols, Gary Paul Nabhan, David Petersen, Terry Tempest Williams, Gary Snyder, Sam Hamill, Diane Wakoski, Robert Houston, Lawrence Clark Powell, Nancy Mairs, Luis Alberto Urrea, William Eastlake, Charles Bowden, Doug Peacock, and Dave Foreman, among others. [via]
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A Rulebook for Argumentsby Anthony WestonISBN 0872205525 (0-87220-552-5)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Barry Lopezby Scott SlovicISBN 0874803624 (0-87480-362-4)
Softcover, University of Utah Press
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Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End, plus Oneby Gary SnyderISBN 0877040036 (0-87704-003-6)
Hardcover
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Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utahby Edward Abbey, Philip HydeISBN 0871560518 (0-87156-051-8)
Hardcover, Sierra Club
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Social Welfare Policy, Programs, Practicalby Segal, Stephanie BrzuzyISBN 0875814115 (0-87581-411-5)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Social Work Research and Evaluationby Richard M. GrinnellISBN 0875813666 (0-87581-366-6)
Hardcover, F E Peacock Pub
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Social Work Research and Evaluation: Quantitative and Qualitative Approachesby Richard M. GrinnellISBN 0875814409 (0-87581-440-9)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Southwest Style: A Home-Lover's Guide to Architecture and Designby Linda Mason Hunter, Peter VitaleISBN 0873587677 (0-87358-767-7)
Hardcover, Northland Pub
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Speaking for Natureby Paul BrooksISBN 0871563320 (0-87156-332-0)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Spider's Houseby Paul BowlesISBN 0876855451 (0-87685-545-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Stars My Destinationby Alfred BesterISBN 0871358816 (0-87135-881-6)
Softcover, Marvel Enterprises
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U.S. Marines Close-Quarters Combat ManualISBN 0873648897 (0-87364-889-7)
Softcover, Paladin Pr
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Understanding the Bible: A Reader's Introductionby Stephen L. HarrisISBN 087484696X (0-87484-696-X)
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Unsettling of Americaby Wendell BerryISBN 0871561948 (0-87156-194-8)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agricultureby Wendell BerryISBN 0871568772 (0-87156-877-2)
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The War Against the Greensby David HelvargISBN 0871569078 (0-87156-907-8)
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The War Against the Greens: The "Wise-Use" Movement, the New Right, and Anti-Environmental Violenceby David HelvargISBN 0871564599 (0-87156-459-9)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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Water Witchesby Chris BohjalianISBN 0874516870 (0-87451-687-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Womenby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876853904 (0-87685-390-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.
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