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The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caringby Parker J. PalmerISBN 0060664576 (0-06-066457-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Active Life: Wisdom of Work, Creativity and Caringby Parker J. PalmerISBN 0060664584 (0-06-066458-4)
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The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayonby Crockett JohnsonISBN 006029129X (0-06-029129-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Anne Of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Laura F. MarshISBN 0060791470 (0-06-079147-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert planned to adopt a boy to help out around the farm, but waiting at the train station is a frecklefaced, redheaded elevenyearold orphan named Anne Shirley. From the minute Anne sets foot in Matthew's buggy, Green Gables will never be the same! Anne is overflowing with spunk and dreams, but at heart what she wants most of all is a place to call home.
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0060758597 (0-06-075859-7)
Softcover, Harperfestival
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The Anti-Coloring Book for Adults Onlyby Susan StrikerISBN 0030586240 (0-03-058624-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Autobiography and Other Writingsby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0027887901 (0-02-788790-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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Becoming Adult Becoming Christian: Adult Development and Christian Faithby James FowlerISBN 0060628413 (0-06-062841-3)
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Benjamin Franklin:a Biography in His Own Words: A Biography in His Own Wordsby Benjamin Franklin, Thomas J. FlemingISBN 0060112867 (0-06-011286-7)
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The Biographer's Craftby Milton LomaskISBN 0060155345 (0-06-015534-5)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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The Biographer's Craft/Practical Advice on Gathering, Writing, Shaping and Polishing Biographical Materialby Milton LomaskISBN 0060913878 (0-06-091387-8)
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060850523 (0-06-085052-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:When the novel "Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.
Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. "Brave New World Revisited" is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late. [via]
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Bringing Out the Best in Your Baby: Introducing Discovery Playby Art Ulene, Steven P. ShelovISBN 0026208806 (0-02-620880-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Cheese Monkeysby Chip KiddISBN 0060507403 (0-06-050740-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cheese Monkeys'Book summary:After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college novel that takes place over a tightly written two semesters. The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, has decided to major in art, much to his parents dismay. It is an autobiographical, coming-of-age novel which tells universally appealing stories of maturity, finding a calling in life, and being inspired by a loving, demanding, and highly eccentric teacher.
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Coloring Outside the Lines: Raising a Smarter Kid by Breaking All the Rulesby Roger C. SchankISBN 0060192992 (0-06-019299-2)
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Coloring Outside the Lines : Raising Smarter Kidsby Roger SchankISBN 0060930772 (0-06-093077-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Wellby Laurie RozakisISBN 0028636945 (0-02-863694-5)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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Craftivity: 40 Projects for the Diy Lifestyleby Tsia CarsonISBN 0060841303 (0-06-084130-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Crafty Chica's Art De La Soul: Glittery Ideas to Liven Up Your Lifeby Kathy Cano-Murillo, John Samora, Patrick MurilloISBN 0060789425 (0-06-078942-5)
Softcover, Rayo
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Creating and Knitting Your Own Designs for a Perfect Fitby Montse StanleyISBN 0060150548 (0-06-015054-8)
Hardcover, Harper & Row Limited
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earthby Matthew FoxISBN 0060629177 (0-06-062917-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Creative Sufferingby Paul TournierISBN 0060682965 (0-06-068296-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days Of Insight And Motivation For Getting The Right Things Doneby Joseph A. MacIariello, Peter Ferdinand DruckerISBN 0060742445 (0-06-074244-5)
Hardcover, Harperbusiness
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The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation, to outsourcing, providing useful insights for each day of the year. These 366 daily readings have been harvested from Drucker's lifetime of work. At the bottom of each page, the reader will find an action point that spells out exactly how to put Drucker's ideas into practice. It is as if the wisest and most action-oriented management consultant in the world is in the room, offering his timeless gems of advice. The Daily Drucker is for anyone who seeks to understand and put to use Drucker's powerful words and ideas.
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Directing the Movies of Your Mindby A. BryISBN 0060105283 (0-06-010528-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Directing the Movies of Your Mind'Book summary:In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire.
This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.
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The Dragon's Robeby Deborah Nourse LattimoreISBN 0060237198 (0-06-023719-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Education of the Heart: Readings and Sources for Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and the Re-Enchantment of Everyday Lifeby Thomas MooreISBN 0060928603 (0-06-092860-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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Emergenetics: Tap into the New Science of Successby Geil BrowningISBN 0060585358 (0-06-058535-8)
Softcover, Harperbusiness
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emergenetics: Tap into the New Science of Success'Book summary:Who you are today is a result of certain characteristics that have emerged from your life experiences, plus the genetics with which you were born. This interplay between nature and nurture is the foundation of Emergenetics®, a brain-based approach to personality profiling that gives you the keys you need to discover not only your own natural strengths and talents, but also those of others. You will discover your thinking style (Conceptual, Social, Analytical, or Structural) and your behavioral set points (your degree of Expressiveness, Assertiveness, and Flexibility). These insights will help you recognize how you approach new situations, how you get things done, how others see you, how to enhance relationships, and how to communicate with people who are not like you.
Applying Emergenetics® to the workplace will enable you to make optimal career decisions, boost your creativity and performance, increase profits, make better decisions, assemble "brain trust" teams, write effective performance reviews, make presentations that appeal to everyone, sell to all kinds of customers, and motivate all kinds of employees.
Emergenetics® offers invaluable insights instantly, and paves the way to personal growth, satisfaction, and success.
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The Faith of a Writerby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0060565543 (0-06-056554-3)
Softcover, Ecco Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Faith of a Writer'Book summary:A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method
Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential questions about what makes a story striking, a novel come alive, a writer an artist as well as a craftsman.
In The Faith of a Writer, Oates discusses the subjects most important to the narrative craft, touching on topics such as inspiration, memory, self-criticism, and "the unique power of the unconscious." On a more personal note, she speaks of childhood inspirations, offers advice to young writers, and discusses the wildly varying states of mind of a writer at work. Oates also pays homage to those she calls her "significant predecessors" and discusses the importance of reading in the life of a writer.
Oates claims, "Inspiration and energy and even genius are rarely enough to make 'art': for prose fiction is also a craft, and craft must be learned, whether by accident or design." In fourteen succinct chapters, The Faith of a Writer provides valuable lessons on how language, ideas, and experience are assembled to create art.
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Fear of Flyingby Erica JongISBN 0030107318 (0-03-010731-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Femininity Lost and Regainedby Robert A. JohnsonISBN 0060920637 (0-06-092063-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Finding Joyby Charlotte Davis KaslISBN 0060925884 (0-06-092588-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Womenby Jean Shinoda BolenISBN 006091291X (0-06-091291-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women'Book summary:Just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they may also be unconscious of powerful forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among women. Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen believes that an understanding of these inner patterns and their interrelationships offers reassuring, true-to-life alternatives that take women far beyond such restrictive dichotomies as masculine/feminine, mother/lover, careerist/housewife. And she demonstrates how understanding them can provide the key to self-knowledge and wholeness. Dr. Bolen introduces these patterns in the guise of seven archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women will identify. Goddesses in Everywoman shows readers how to identify their ruling goddesses (from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing Demeter and the creative Aphrodite), how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become better "heroines" in their own life stories. [via]
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Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Livesby Jean Shinoda BolenISBN 0060572841 (0-06-057284-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen's career soared in the early 1980s when Goddesses in Everywoman was published. Thousands of women readers became fascinated with identifying their own inner goddesses and using these archetypes to guide themselves to greater selfesteem, creativity, and happiness.
Bolen's radical idea was that just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they were also unconscious of powerful archetypal forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among them. Bolen believes that an understanding of these inner patterns and their interrelationships offers reassuring, truetolife alternatives that take women far beyond such restrictive dichotomies as masculine/feminine, mother/lover, careerist/housewife. And she demonstrates in this book how understanding them can provide the key to selfknowledge and wholeness.
Dr. Bolen introduced these patterns in the guise of seven archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women could identify, from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing Demeter and the creative Aphrodite, and explains how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become a better "heroine" in one's own life story.
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A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Songby Steve TurnerISBN 0060844094 (0-06-084409-4)
Softcover, Harper Resource
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Who was "just seventeen" and made Paul's heart go "boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In A Hard Day's Write, music journalist Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating for the first time the ordinary people and events immortalized in the Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination.
Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new ground by exploring how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. Turner reveals that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was really a drawing by Julian Lennon of his childhood friend; Bungalow Bill was an all-American tiger hunter; Doctor Robert was a New York 'speech doctor'; and much more. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closet to the Beatles to unearth tales that have never before been made public. The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves.
Illustrated with over 200 photographs, A Hard Day's Write is a visually alluring and highly entertaining journey to the land stretching just beneath your conscious mind, mapped out with strawberry fields, fool-topped hills, and long and winding roads.
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Harold and the Purple Crayonby Crockett JohnsonISBN 0060229357 (0-06-022935-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harold and the Purple Crayon'Book summary:"One night, after thinking it over for some time, Harold decided to go for a walk in the moonlight." So begins this gentle story that shows just how far your imagination can take you. Armed only with an oversized purple crayon, young Harold draws himself a landscape full of beauty and excitement. But this is no hare-brained, impulsive flight of fantasy. Cherubic, round-headed Harold conducts his adventure with the utmost prudence, letting his imagination run free, but keeping his wits about him all the while. He takes the necessary purple-crayon precautions: drawing landmarks to ensure he won't get lost; sketching a boat when he finds himself in deep water; and creating a purple pie picnic when he feels the first pangs of hunger.
Crockett Johnson's understated tribute to the imagination was first published in 1955, and has been inspiring readers of all ages ever since. Harold's quiet but magical journey reminds us of the marvels the mind can create, and also gives us the wondrous sense that anything is possible. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Harold at the North Poleby Crockett JohnsonISBN 0060586281 (0-06-058628-1)
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Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekendby Cynthia Rylant, Sucie StevensonISBN 0027780139 (0-02-778013-9)
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Holy the Firmby Annie DillardISBN 0060915439 (0-06-091543-9)
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Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Whyby Ellen DissanayakISBN 0029078857 (0-02-907885-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950by Charles A. MurrayISBN 0060929642 (0-06-092964-2)
Softcover, Perennial
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"At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.'
So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciencesa total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence.
The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography.
Straightforwardly and undogmatically, Charles Murray takes on some controversial questions. Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? He presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously. Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the continuing common quest of humans everywhere to discover truths, create beauty, and apprehend the good.
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Innovation And Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principlesby Peter F. DruckerISBN 0060851139 (0-06-085113-9)
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This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures need to know and do to succeed in today's economy.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principlesby Peter Ferdinand DruckerISBN 0060154284 (0-06-015428-4)
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Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneurby Gifford PinchotISBN 0060913355 (0-06-091335-5)
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Jennie's Hatby Ezra Jack KeatsISBN 0060231149 (0-06-023114-9)
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fictionby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060924128 (0-06-092412-8)
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The Lions Of Al-rassanby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0060733497 (0-06-073349-7)
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The exiled adviser, in turn, travels to the court of King Badir of Ragosa, where he finds an instant connection with Rodrigo, a connection that is at the very heart of Kay's novel. Rodrigo and Ammar are also drawn together by Jehane bet Ishak, a Kindath physician who is friend, companion, healer, and lover to each of the two men at one time or another. The Lions of Al-Rassan is a big, juicy fantasy novel of the kind that we've come to expect from Kay, drawing brilliantly on history, but always on Kay's own uniquely imaginative terms. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Winby William Taylor, Polly G. LaBarreISBN 0060779616 (0-06-077961-6)
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Media for Our Time: An Anthologyby Dennis DeNittoISBN 0030847001 (0-03-084700-1)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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The Mystery of Love: Saints in Art Through the Centuriesby Wendy BeckettISBN 0060606797 (0-06-060679-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Painting from the Source: Awakening the Artist's Soul in Everyoneby Elena Oumano, Aviva GoldISBN 0060952725 (0-06-095272-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Paris Apartment: Romantic Decor on a Flea Market Budgetby Claudia StrasserISBN 0060391693 (0-06-039169-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Pete's a Pizzaby William SteigISBN 0060527544 (0-06-052754-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creekby Annie DillardISBN 0060912790 (0-06-091279-0)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern Americaby Martin J. Smith, Patrick J. KigerISBN 0060535326 (0-06-053532-6)
Softcover, Harper Resource
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Veteran journalists Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger make the offbeat their beat, revealing the odd, surprising, and amusing origins of inexplicable cultural phenomena. From slam dunks to rock 'n' roll punks, permanent press to pantyhose, black velvet painting to point-click culture, high-tech diapers to low-brow entertainment -- they cover sports, business, music, media, film, fashion, and science, and explain a lot about why life today is so weird:
- If homeowners hate yardwork, why do most suburban homes have lawns?
- In the best-fed country on earth, how did thin become "in"?
- When did the "convenience" of convenience food become more important than the food?
- Was the sexual revolution really sparked by the disastrous honeymoon of a science geek?
- Why are today's multimillion-dollar design and marketing plans for cars based on the biggest failure in automotive history?
- How did the invention of air conditioning radically rebalance political power and affect the paths of presidents?
The untold, unexpected, sometimes unholy stories are here, providing instant inside knowledge and richly entertaining insights into how and why we live as we do.
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Process and Realityby Alfred N. WhiteheadISBN 0029345707 (0-02-934570-7)
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Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmologyby Alfred North WhiteheadISBN 0029345804 (0-02-934580-4)
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Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Planby Hillary CarlipISBN 0060878835 (0-06-087883-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Quiet Noisy Bookby Margaret Wise Brown, Leonard WeisgardISBN 0060208457 (0-06-020845-7)
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The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Lifeby Thomas MooreISBN 0060928247 (0-06-092824-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Rear-View Mirrorsby Paul FleischmanISBN 0060218665 (0-06-021866-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Respect for Actingby Uta HagenISBN 0025473905 (0-02-547390-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Singing at the Top of Our Lungs: Women. Love, and Creativityby Claudia Bepko, Jo Ann KrestanISBN 0060924993 (0-06-092499-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Soul's Religionby Thomas MooreISBN 0060930195 (0-06-093019-5)
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The Soul's Religion: Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Lifeby Thomas MooreISBN 0060192860 (0-06-019286-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Storyby Robert McKeeISBN 0060391685 (0-06-039168-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story'Book summary:Writing for the screen is quirky business. A writer must labor meticulously over his or her prose, yet very little of that prose is ever heard by filmgoers. The few words that do reach the audience, in the form of the characters' dialogue, are, according to Robert McKee, best left to last in the writing process. ("As Alfred Hitchcock once remarked, 'When the screenplay has been written and the dialogue has been added, we're ready to shoot.' ") In Story, McKee puts into book form what he has been teaching screenwriters for years in his seminar on story structure, which is considered by many to be a prerequisite to the film biz. (The long list of film and television projects that McKee's students have written, directed, or produced includes Air Force One, The Deer Hunter, E.R., A Fish Called Wanda, Forrest Gump, NYPD Blue, and Sleepless in Seattle.) Legions of writers flock to Hollywood in search of easy money, calculating the best way to get rich quick. This book is not for them. McKee is passionate about the art of screenwriting. "No one needs yet another recipe book on how to reheat Hollywood leftovers," he writes. "We need a rediscovery of the underlying tenets of our art, the guiding principles that liberate talent." Story is a true path to just such a rediscovery. In it, McKee offers so much sound advice, drawing from sources as wide ranging as Aristotle and Casablanca, Stanislavski and Chinatown, that it is impossible not to come away feeling immeasurably better equipped to write a screenplay and infinitely more inspired to write a brilliant one.--Jane Steinberg [via]
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Susan Sometimesby Phyllis KrasilovskyISBN 002751160X (0-02-751160-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Thinking Betterby David Lewis, James GreeneISBN 0030641675 (0-03-064167-5)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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This Is Orson Wellesby Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan RosenbaumISBN 006092439X (0-06-092439-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Is Orson Welles'Book summary:In 1992, the first publication of This Is Orson Welles brought a priceless document to light. In the late '60s and early '70s, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich had conducted extensive interviews with Welles, but a number of circumstances--including the director's decision to compose an autobiography that he never got around to writing--kept the interviews out of the public eye. Edited and annotated by Jonathan Rosenbaum, these conversations give wonderful insights into Welles's craft and personality. He discusses his forays into acting, producing, and writing as well as directing, his confidences and insecurities, and his plans for film projects that were either never made or only partially completed. He also offers insights into the triumph of Citizen Kane and later masterpieces like The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight. His defense of his controversial adaptation of Kafka's The Trial is so fascinating that readers might want to rush out and rent the film.
While the book is worth owning just for this 322-page interview, it is also full of other material that is equally revealing. Rosenbaum presents a meticulous chronology of Welles's life, closely following his day-to-day activities from his birth in 1915 to his death in 1985. Anyone who thinks that Welles was an essentially lazy and profligate artist will be astonished at how hard he worked and how much he accomplished, even after the completion of Citizen Kane. Another treat found in the book is a detailed description--complete with rare photographic stills--of the original Magnificent Ambersons, Welles's impressive follow-up to Kane, which can now be seen only in a tragically truncated version.
This 1998 reissue of the volume contains a fond new introduction by Bogdanovich and another crucial piece of Welles minutia, excerpts from his 58-page memo to Universal Pictures about the editing of Touch of Evil. Forty years after its composition, the material in this memo has been used to create a restored "director's cut" of the film. With such grand material between two covers, This Is Orson Welles is the most informative and entertaining book available on one of the 20th century's greatest artists. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing That Inspired My Ideasby Robert FulghumISBN 0060932228 (0-06-093222-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing That Inspired My Ideas'Book summary:Robert Fulghum, the part-time Unitarian minister whose gentle and humorous stories have made him a bestselling author many times over (beginning with All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten), pays tribute to the writers who inspired him in Words I Wish I Wrote. He confesses that at one particularly low moment in the late '50s, he was dredged up from the Slough of Despond by reading the works Albert Camus, whose gaze over a deeper abyss gave Fulghum hope. It was that experience that led Fulghum to seek out writings with uplifting messages. The result is this compilation of brief passages from the likes of Wallace Stevens ("After the final no there comes a yes"), Tom Robbins ("Real courage is risking one's clichés"), and Buckminster Fuller ("God is a verb"). [via]
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The Writing Bookby Kate GrenvilleISBN 0044421249 (0-04-442124-9)
Softcover, Paul & Co Pub Consortium
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Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Lifeby Bonnie FriedmanISBN 0060922001 (0-06-092200-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Year of the Griffinby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0060291583 (0-06-029158-3)
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Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0060589469 (0-06-058946-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen And the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values'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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