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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0694015849 (0-694-01584-9)
Softcover, Harperfestival
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Avonlea'Book summary:This delightful Charming Classics book and charm set includes a paperback edition of Anne of Green Gables, the heartwarming story of a talkative, redheaded, freckle-faced orphan named Anne Shirley, and a gold-tone necklace with a heart-shaped locket. Rediscover L.M. Montgomery's classic novel and the irrepressible Anne in this gem of a package.
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Deborah FelderISBN 0679854673 (0-679-85467-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she surprises everyone: first of all, she is a girl. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, had specifically asked for an orphan boy. She has bright red hair that won't manage and a mouth that won't shut. Nothing will ever be the same at Green Gables!
A favorite story of generations of girls ever since it was first published in 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic story of one girl's profound effect on a small Canadian community has stayed in print for nearly one hundred years and has been made into a popular TV series and even a musical. [via]
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Softcover, Harperfestival - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0679994289 (0-679-99428-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0681007702 (0-681-00770-2)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0679854673 (0-679-85467-3)
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- Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0689846223 (0-689-84622-3)
Anne Sexton: A Biographyby Diane Wood MiddlebrookISBN 0679741828 (0-679-74182-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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An Anthropologist on MarsISBN 0679767177 (0-679-76717-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Talesby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0679756973 (0-679-75697-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales'Book summary:The works of neurologist Oliver Sacks have a special place in the swarm of mind-brain studies. He has done as much as anyone to make nonspecialists aware of how much diversity gets lumped under the heading of "the human mind."
The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the classic tales of Berton Roueché in The Medical Detectives. Sacks's stories are of "differently brained" people, and they have the intrinsic human interest that spurred his book Awakenings to be re-created as a Robin Williams movie.
The title story in Anthropologist is that of autistic Temple Grandin, whose own book Thinking in Pictures gives her version of how she feels--as unlike other humans as a cow or a Martian. The other minds Sacks describes are equally remarkable: a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, a painter who loses color vision, a blind man given the ambiguous gift of sight, artists with memories that overwhelm "real life," the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, and a man with memory damage for whom it is always 1968.
Oliver Sacks is the Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould of his field; his books are true classics of medical writing, of the breadth of human mentality, and of the inner lives of the disabled. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictoral Representationby E. H. GombrichISBN 0691070008 (0-691-07000-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representationby Ernst Hans Josef GombrichISBN 0691017506 (0-691-01750-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation'Book summary:Considered a great classic by all who seek for a meeting ground between science and the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines many ideas on the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments he ranges over the history of art, noticing particularly the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks, and the visual discoveries of such masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, as well as the impressionists and the cubists. Gombrich's triumph in Art and Illusion arises from the fact that his main concern is less with the artists than with ourselves, the beholders.
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Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideasby Mortimer J. AdlerISBN 0684804204 (0-684-80420-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0684841967 (0-684-84196-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Bear Huntby Anthony BrowneISBN 0689307330 (0-689-30733-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Being Digitalby Nicholas Negroponte, Marty AsherISBN 0679762906 (0-679-76290-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being Digital'Book summary:As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy of Being Digital, which is an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital."
Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologies. In the beginning, he describes the evolution of CD-ROMs, multimedia, hypermedia, HDTV (high-definition television), and more. The section on interfaces is informative, offering an up-to-date history on visual interfaces, graphics, virtual reality (VR), holograms, teleconferencing hardware, the mouse and touch-sensitive interfaces, and speech recognition.
In the last chapter and the epilogue, Negroponte offers visionary insight on what "being digital" means for our future. Negroponte praises computers for their educational value but recognizes certain dangers of technological advances, such as increased software and data piracy and huge shifts in our job market that will require workers to transfer their skills to the digital medium. Overall, Being Digital provides an informative history of the rise of technology and some interesting predictions for its future. [via]
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Blake, Prophet Against Empire: A Poet's Interpretation of the History of His Own Timesby David V. ErdmanISBN 069106010X (0-691-06010-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0701107928 (0-7011-0792-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fullerby Hugh KennerISBN 0688051413 (0-688-05141-3)
Softcover, Morrow
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The Cat in the Hatby Dr. SeussISBN 0679891110 (0-679-89111-0)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Cat in the Hat Party Editionby SeussISBN 0679863486 (0-679-86348-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Christmas Ornaments to Make: 101 Sparkling Holiday Trimsby Better Homes and Gardens Books, Carol Field Dahlstrom, Susan BankerISBN 0696214296 (0-696-21429-6)
Softcover, Meredith Books
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Creating a Beautiful Home: From Starting Fresh to Freshening Up - Inspiring Ideas to Help You Turn Your House into a Warm and Welcoming Homeby Alexandra StoddardISBN 0688109349 (0-688-10934-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creating a Beautiful Home: From Starting Fresh to Freshening Up - Inspiring Ideas to Help You Turn Your House into a Warm and Welcoming Home'Book summary:Tapping her wealth of professional secrets, the McCall's columnist offers a practical guide to creating a beautiful home that combines inventive and imaginative design solutions to fit every pocketbook and lifestyle. 50,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Creative Dreaming: Plan and Control Your Dreams to Develop Creativity, Overcome Fears, Solve Problems, and Create a Better Selfby Patricia L. GarfieldISBN 0684801728 (0-684-80172-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art and Musicby Philip SandblomISBN 0714529419 (0-7145-2941-9)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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The Design of Advertisingby Roy Paul NelsonISBN 0697043274 (0-697-04327-4)
Hardcover, W. C. Brown Co
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Dynamics of Creationby Anthony StorrISBN 0689707002 (0-689-70700-2)
Softcover, Atheneum
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Elephants Can Paint Too!by Katya ArnoldISBN 0689869851 (0-689-86985-1)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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The Evolution of Useful Thingsby Henry PetroskiISBN 0679740392 (0-679-74039-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Useful Things'Book summary:This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork's history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England's Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there's plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined. [via]
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Feeling at Home: Defining Who You Are and How You Want to Liveby Alexandra StoddardISBN 0688159052 (0-688-15905-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Gifted Boss: How to Find, Create and Keep Great Employeesby Dale DautenISBN 0688168779 (0-688-16877-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Greeting Cardsby Creative Craft Series StaffISBN 068140955X (0-681-40955-X)
Hardcover, Salamander Books, Limited
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The Harmony Guide to Knitting StitchesISBN 0711100136 (0-7111-0013-6)
Softcover, Susan Bates
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Hello Midnight: An Insomniac's Literary Bedside Companionby David Levy, Deborah BishopISBN 0684848341 (0-684-84834-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekendby Cynthia Rylant, Sucie StevensonISBN 0689808852 (0-689-80885-2)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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Hero With A Thousand Facesby Joseph CampbellISBN 0691017840 (0-691-01784-0)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'Book summary:Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary. And while our own life's journey must always be ended alone, the travel is undertaken in the company not only of immediate loved ones and primal passion, but of the heroes and heroines -- and myth-cycles -- that have preceded us. [via]
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Home Comforts: The Art And Science Of Keeping Houseby Cheryl Mendelson, Harry BatesISBN 068481465X (0-684-81465-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home Comforts: The Art And Science Of Keeping House'Book summary:Virtually everyone enjoys a crisply ironed dress shirt, clean sheets on a well-made bed, and a savory home-cooked meal. Yet housekeeping today stands as a somewhat neglected, if not maligned, job. But as author Cheryl Mendelson points out in Home Comforts, keeping house well can be a rewarding position--it allows you to provide for the physical and emotional comfort of loved ones. It's also not an easy job--there's much to be learned about properly managing a home, and Mendelson has set out to provide a guide to doing just that.
Mendelson, a homemaker, lawyer, and mother, learned about housekeeping from an early age from her grandmothers, one Appalachian, the other Italian. The two grandmothers taught her that although different ways of keeping house can be appropriate, there are generally smarter, faster, and more creative ways of housekeeping that make it less of a chore and more of an art. In a practical, authoritative tone, Mendelson discusses the ins and outs of homemaking, such as washing dishes, recommended cleaning methods for various surfaces, housekeeping for those with pets or allergies, and emergency preparedness and safety procedures.
Mendelson's well-researched book includes meticulous sections on food (for example, which foods belong in the fridge versus the pantry, food storage times, picking the freshest fruits and vegetables, and keeping your kitchen and food sanitary) as well as laundry (caring for various fabrics, how to read--and read between the lines of--clothing care labels, and removing stains). Mendelson covers a lot of ground, and as she herself points out, readers shouldn't feel required to do everything mentioned in the book--simply pick the activities that seem appropriate for your particular home. This is a comprehensive reference book that should serve homemakers well and induce a greater appreciation for the effort and specialized knowledge that go into keeping house. --Kris Law [via]
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The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto For Writersby Frank L. CioffiISBN 0691122903 (0-691-12290-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Intimate Philosophy of Artby John ArmstrongISBN 0713994053 (0-7139-9405-3)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard BachISBN 0684846845 (0-684-84684-5)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'Book summary:"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Journal of a Solitudeby May SartonISBN 0704328674 (0-7043-2867-4)
Hardcover, Women's Press
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Knitting without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-To-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizesby Elizabeth ZimmermannISBN 0684135051 (0-684-13505-1)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knitting Without Tears; Basic Techniques and Easy-To-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes.'Book summary:Do you love to knit -- and hate to purl? Have you ever started a sweater without enough yarn from the same dye lot to finish it? When you cast on, do you end up with a tail of yarn that's maddeningly too long or too short? Elizabeth Zimmermann comes to the rescue with clever solutions to frustrating problems and step-by-step instructions for brilliant, timeless designs.
In Knitting Without Tears, you'll find elegant designs for:
- Color-pattern Norwegian ski sweaters
- Seamless patterned-yoke sweaters
- Hooded garter-stitch jackets for babies
- Watch caps, socks, slippers, mittens, and more!
This classic and influential book is poised to inspire a whole new generation of knitters who have yet to discover the joys and comforts of knitting. As the lady herself once put it, "properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either." [via]
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Leadership Is the Key: Unlocking Your Effectiveness in Ministryby Herb MillerISBN 0687013755 (0-687-01375-5)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Leese Websterby Ursula Le Guin, James BrunsmanISBN 0689307152 (0-689-30715-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Making Your Own Days: The Pleasure of Reading and Writing Poetryby Kenneth KochISBN 0684824388 (0-684-82438-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Your Own Days: The Pleasure of Reading and Writing Poetry'Book summary:Ordinary mortals and poet scholars alike will find something to love in Koch's down-to-earth approach to making sense of that most head scratching of literary genres. Asserting that "poetry ... is a separate language," he steers clear of the stodgy, hidden-meaning school of deciphering poems (wherein the reader digs through the poem "for some elusive and momentous significance") and takes us instead on a tour through the tonal, rhythmical, and metrical aspects of poetry. Yes, it's about the music: "The sound of words is raised to an importance equal to that of their meaning, and also to the importance of grammar and syntax." But rather than asking us to simply take his word for it, Koch provides lively and insightful examples (including many rarely anthologized poems). For instance, why does "two and two are rather green" have little or no meaning, while "two and two / Are rather blue" smacks of the truth? Why does "I don't know whether or not to commit suicide" plop from the mouth like so much cold oatmeal, while "To be or not to be, that is the question" is so pleasing to the ears? Resonance, says Koch. "Poetry lasts because it gives the ambiguous and ever-changing pleasure of being both a statement and a song."
Moving from poetry's music to its methods (comparisons, personifications, and apostrophe, to name a few), Koch continues to offer up an amusing and edifying array of excerpts and analogies to clarify his point that with poetry, "as with baseball ... one has to understand a little in order to enjoy it...." Insightful, yet never patronizing, Making Your Own Days is for anyone who's ever read a poem and wished it were more "like a newspaper article." Though Koch can't tell us why Wallace Stevens wrote "I placed a jar in Tennessee," or why "So much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow" (William Carlos Williams), he helps us listen to--and savor--that sometimes bewildering conglomeration of words otherwise known as poetry. --Martha Silano [via]
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Mary Engelbreit Wrap It Up Gifts to Make Wrap and Giveby Mary EngelbreitISBN 0696209276 (0-696-20927-6)
Hardcover, Meredith Books
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Matthew's Dreamby Leo LionniISBN 067987318X (0-679-87318-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Max Strategy: How a Businessman Got Stuck at an Airport and Learned to Make His Career Take Offby Dale A. DautenISBN 0688144020 (0-688-14402-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Micawberby John Lithgow, C. F. PayneISBN 0689835426 (0-689-83542-6)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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The Remarkable Farkle McBride
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Mieko and the Fifth Treasureby Eleanor Coerr, H. Cecil UyeharaISBN 0698119908 (0-698-11990-8)
Softcover, Puffin
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Milton a Poem: And the Final Illuminated Works The Ghost of Abel/on Homers Poetryby William Blake, Robert N. Essick, Joseph ViscomiISBN 0691033935 (0-691-03393-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Milton a Poem and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel/on Homers Poetry (And) on Virgil/Laocoonby William Blake, Robert N. Essick, Joseph ViscomiISBN 0691001480 (0-691-00148-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Most Wonderful Egg in the Worldby Helme HeineISBN 0689711174 (0-689-71117-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The New Fun Encyclopedia Setby Bob Sessoms, E.O. HarbinISBN 0687277590 (0-687-27759-0)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Open Your Eyes: 1,000 Simple Ways to Bring Beauty into Your Home and Life Each Dayby Alexandra StoddardISBN 0688159044 (0-688-15904-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Open Your Eyes: 1,000 Simple Ways to Bring Beauty into Your Home and Life Each Day'Book summary:For thirty-seven years and in nineteen previous books, Alexandra Stoddard has shared her keen eye for design and sure sense of style. Now this renowned decorator and lifestyle philosopher takes readers to a new level of visual awareness, showing how to achieve the discerning eye that is the key to creating beautiful environments for living.
In Open Your Eyes, Alexandra Stoddard shows us how to see with the expertise and clarity of professional designers, creating a home that reflects our individual sense of beauty, refined to its best expression. She reveals how to use daily awareness to educate our eye, sharing examples from the masters and her own extensive training and personal experience. These visual epiphanies can happen anywhere, once we become attuned-perhaps as we set a pretty table, straighten a linen closer, stroll in a park or garden, or browse in a thrift shop.
Through Stoddard's anecdotes and a rich array of ideas, tips, and techniques, we learn hundreds of ways to see and solve problems of proportion, pattern, color, and composition through simple, pleasing changes. These may be as subtle as rearranging treasured objects on a table, altering a lamp shade, or moving a chair-but they have dramatic results: a home that is more beautiful, more comfortable, and more useful, reflecting our unique sense of life. Each day becomes a visual feast as we deepen our understanding not only of what makes something beautiful but of what makes something beautiful to us.
Filled with the warmth, encouragement, and down-to-earth solutions that have helped hundreds of thousands to seek and find their own personal style, Alexandra Stoddard's Open Your Eyes provides essential tools to elevate our understanding of what makes our house a home and transform our surroundings into personal works of art. For thirty-seven years and in nineteen previous books, Alexandra Stoddard has shared her keen eye for design and her sure sense of elegant style. Now this renowned decorator takes readers to a new level of visual awareness, showing how to achieve the discerning view that is the key to creating beautiful environments of professional quality.
Open Your Eyes teaches, step by step, the principles of proportion, scale, order, symmetry, balance, space, form, composition, material, and more that provide the basis for true beauty. Stoddard shows how to use daily awareness to educate our eye, sharing examples from visual mentors and from her own training and experience. Each day becomes a visual feast as we hone our sensitivity to beauty and our understanding of what makes something beautiful.
The author invites us to open our eyes and really see: How many colors are in a sunset? A glass of water? The soap bubbles in the sink? Why does one room look cramped and inharmonious, while another gives the impression of light and space? And how can we use this new vision to create a pleasing, comfortable personal world? In the process of learning to train our eye, Alexandra Stoddard enables us to become the artists of life. With this book in hand, we have all the essential tools to begin transforming our homes and our surroundings into personal works of art.
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The Paradise Gardenby Colin ThompsonISBN 0679890769 (0-679-89076-9)
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A Piece of Heavenby Sharon Dennis WyethISBN 0679885358 (0-679-88535-8)
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The Practice of Writingby David LodgeISBN 0713991739 (0-7139-9173-9)
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The Purpose of Your Life: Finding Your Place in the World Using Synchronicity, Intuition, and Uncommon Senseby Carol AdrienneISBN 0688166253 (0-688-16625-3)
Softcover, Eagle Brook
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purpose of Your Life: Finding Your Place in the World Using Synchronicity, Intuition, and Uncommon Sense'Book summary:Spirituality, optimism, career planning, and self-help neatly blend together in this highly useful guidebook on living one's true purpose. Step by step, Adrienne shows readers how to discover one's calling (learning how to take advantage of synchronicity, intuition, and "uncommon sense") and organize life accordingly. This coauthor of The Celestine Prophecy does not promise a payoff of material wealth or worldly fame. Rather, she suggests that "writing your own job description" and "doing the dream" will result in a more spiritual and meaningful life. Her most impressive leadership comes in the section called "Deep Water," where she addresses the obstacles and suffering that frequently block the path to enlightenment. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Purpose of Your Life Workbook: The Proven Exercises to Help You Find Your Way in the Worldby Carol AdrienneISBN 0688167144 (0-688-16714-4)
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The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledgeby William PoundstoneISBN 0688039758 (0-688-03975-8)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imaginationby John Livingstone LowesISBN 0691014213 (0-691-01421-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Same River Twiceby Alice WalkerISBN 0684814196 (0-684-81419-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Seeing in the Dark: A Vision of Creativity & Spiritualityby Beverly J. ShamanaISBN 0687091063 (0-687-09106-3)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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The Sexual State of the Unionby Susie BrightISBN 0684838508 (0-684-83850-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sexual State of the Union'Book summary:Susie Bright is a sexual liberationist of the highest order. The Sexual State of the Union includes essays about dirty pictures and porn, lesbian marriage and lesbian murder, lesbian men and switching genders, vibrators, and the longevity of feminism. The writing is crisp, intelligent, and provocative; there is sure to be something that will make you cheer as well as something that will deeply offend you. Much of Bright's writing is personal, based on conversations and relationships with queer friends of different genders and sexualities. One of her most impressive strengths is her ability to forthrightly ask obvious questions--Why did you want to change your gender? Why do you want to be hurt?--without presupposing either judgement or an answer. Bright's mind is open and fertile, curious, and eager. [via]
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Simply Handmade: 365 Easy Gifts & Decorations You Can Makeby Carol Field Dahlstrom, Better Homes and Gardens BooksISBN 0696207826 (0-696-20782-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simply Handmade: 365 Easy Gifts & Decorations You Can Make'Book summary:Open this idea-packed volume completely at random and you'll come up with a great project every time. Besides great holiday-related crafts--lots of marvelous Christmas decorations, some fun Halloween items, lovely Valentine's Day keepsakes, Easter goodies--there are loads of wonderful objects for year-round use (frames, vases, lampshades, napkin rings, candleholders, table settings, and so much more). Everything is very easy to make, from simple step-by-step projects that require a modicum of time and materials to quickly made pieces that need only a very few supplies and even less time, to instant crafts that you can throw together out of almost nothing in almost no time. (Try this glittering centerpiece, for instance: fill lots of mismatched glasses and goblets with water, add sprinkles of confetti, and float a candle in each.) Even if you've never crafted before, you can handle nearly any project in the book, but each one is so appealing that experienced crafters with fairly sophisticated tastes will also find much to enjoy here. --Amy Handy [via]
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Stones from the Muse: Runes for the Creative Processby Emily Herman, Jennifer Richard JacobsonISBN 0684839555 (0-684-83955-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic Worldby Dudley Lynch, Paul L. KordisISBN 0688084818 (0-688-08481-8)
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Susie Bright's Sexual State of the Unionby Susie BrightISBN 0684800233 (0-684-80023-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life With Autismby Temple GrandinISBN 0679772898 (0-679-77289-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Thinking on Paperby V. A. Howard, J. H. BartonISBN 0688077587 (0-688-07758-7)
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To Do Doing Done!: A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters Mostby Joyce Wycoff, G. Lynne SneadISBN 0684818876 (0-684-81887-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In this book are proven techniques for bringing any project to a successful and satisfying conclusion. The techniques provided in To Do...Doing...Done! are based on Franklin Quest's highly successful Planning for Results seminar, which has boosted the productivity of thousands of employees in corporations across the country, as well as in Europe and Asia. [via]
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The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizationsby Thomas J. PetersISBN 0679754938 (0-679-75493-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Treasury of Knitting Patternsby Barbara G. WalkerISBN 068417314X (0-684-17314-X)
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The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Bookby Lisa Campbell ErnstISBN 0689856857 (0-689-85685-7)
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An Unquiet Mindby Kay R. JamisonISBN 0679763309 (0-679-76330-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Unquiet Mind'Book summary:In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells of her own manic depression, the bitter costs of her illness, and its paradoxical benefits: "There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness.... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality." This is one of the best scientific autobiographies ever written, a combination of clarity, truth, and insight into human character. "We are all, as Byron put it, differently organized," Jamison writes. "We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities." Jamison's ability to live fully within her limitations is an inspiration to her fellow mortals, whatever our particular burdens may be. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Virginia Woolfby Hermione LeeISBN 0701165073 (0-7011-6507-3)
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Write It Down, Make It Happen : A Practical and Inspirational Guide to Identifying What You Want and Getting It!by Henriette A. KlauserISBN 068485001X (0-684-85001-X)
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Using case studies and writing exercises, Dr Klauser illustrates how people's lives can change just by being able to identify what they want, and where they want to be in the future. In one of her early examples she cites Jim "The Grinch" Carrey, who as an impoverished actor wrote a cheque to himself for 10 million dollars and carried it around with him for years. Now an A-list Hollywood movie star, Carrey commands circa 20 million dollars per film: his dream has come true.
Not all of Klauser's case studies are in the fairy-tale realm. She also cites day-to-day stories--men and women whose lives improved after they started to write down/identify what their goals were--to move house, change career or go travelling. This is the crux of Dr Klauser's book; it is about working out what you want and structuring your life to make those goals attainable or as close to attainable as possible.
Write It Down, Make It Happen is a very American book, and if you can work past some of the Oprah-type case studies, Klauser's message is clear: be proactive--take control of your life, and dreams can come true. --Aruna Vasudevan [via]
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Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want and Getting Itby Henriette Anne KlauserISBN 0684850028 (0-684-85002-8)
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Using case studies and writing exercises, Dr Klauser illustrates how people's lives can change just by being able to identify what they want, and where they want to be in the future. In one of her early examples she cites Jim "The Grinch" Carrey, who as an impoverished actor wrote a cheque to himself for 10 million dollars and carried it around with him for years. Now an A-list Hollywood movie star, Carrey commands circa 20 million dollars per film: his dream has come true.
Not all of Klauser's case studies are in the fairy-tale realm. She also cites day-to-day stories--men and women whose lives improved after they started to write down/identify what their goals were--to move house, change career or go travelling. This is the crux of Dr Klauser's book; it is about working out what you want and structuring your life to make those goals attainable or as close to attainable as possible.
Write It Down, Make It Happen is a very American book, and if you can work past some of the Oprah-type case studies, Klauser's message is clear: be proactive--take control of your life, and dreams can come true. --Aruna Vasudevan [via]
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Writers Dreamingby Naomi EpelISBN 0679741410 (0-679-74141-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Year of the Griffinby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0688178987 (0-688-17898-7)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0688032079 (0-688-03207-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'Book summary:In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0688002307 (0-688-00230-7)
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Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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