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Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairiesby Yvonne Gilbert, Katharine Mary BriggsISBN 0394508068 (0-394-50806-8)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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All Deliberate Speed: Reflections On The First Half-century Of Brown V. Board Of Educationby Charles J. OgletreeISBN 0393326861 (0-393-32686-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Alone of All Her Sex: Myth and Cult of Virgin Maryby Marina WarnerISBN 0394499131 (0-394-49913-1)
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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journeyby V. S. NaipaulISBN 0394509692 (0-394-50969-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey'Book summary:Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time."
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Another Way of Tellingby John Berger, Jean MohrISBN 0394512944 (0-394-51294-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Tasteby Geoffrey ScottISBN 0393730352 (0-393-73035-2)
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Authorityby Richard SennettISBN 0393310272 (0-393-31027-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Authority'Book summary:Analyzes the role of authority in personal and public life. From the French revolution to the present, the author explores what happens when our fear of and need for authority come into conflict, and why, in the act of rebelling, we become tied to those we struggle against. [via]
The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legendsby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393312089 (0-393-31208-9)
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Being Human: Core Readings In The Humanitiesby President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.)ISBN 0393926397 (0-393-92639-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being Human: Core Readings In The Humanities'Book summary:Being Human is the first humanities reader that focuses on humanity in the literal sensewhat its like to be human.
The Norton Edition of this widely praised collection brings the best writings in the humanities to a college audience. Each chapter presents a question or topic central to the human experience, among them "The Search for Perfection," "Are We Our Bodies?," "Vulnerability and Suffering," and "Human Dignity." To guide students as they read these influential works, every selection is prefaced by a concise headnote and thoughtful discussion questions.
How shall we promote and protect human flourishing in a world of ever-emerging technologies? At what point should we limit our quest for physical and mental perfection? Drawing on the insights of great thinkers throughout the ages, Being Human: Core Readings in the Humanities can help give readers a solid understanding of what it means to be human, both in the past and into the future. College courses, from Humanities to Bioethics to Freshman Composition, will benefit from this important collection. [via]More editions of Being Human: Core Readings In The Humanities:
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Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Educationby Gerald GraffISBN 0393311139 (0-393-31113-9)
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Higher education should by a battleground of ideas: the real problem, Gerald Graff says, is that students are not getting more out of the battle. In this lively book, Graff argues that the "culture wars" now being fought over multiculturalism and political correctness are actually a sign of the intellectual vitality of American educationbut they need to be used creatively, made part of the educational process itself.
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Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economyby Thomas Frank, Tom Frank, David MulcaheyISBN 0393324303 (0-393-32430-3)
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For a magazine dedicated to debunking the nation's business culture, the final years of the twentieth century overflowed with bounty. "It was the most spectacular outbreak of mass delirium that we are likely to see in our lifetimes," wrote the editors of The Baffler. What was for others the dawn of a "New Economy" was for The Baffler a cornucopia of absurdity the costliest political and financial hustle in living memory. Reporting from places far from the white-hot centers of the libertarian revolution, Baffler writers were the people of whom it was fashionable to say they just don't get it. While New Democrats turned somersaults for Wall Street and economic commentary became puffery, these bold, talented, and very funny writers observed the crescendo of folly with which the century turned. Here their best writings are selected, updated, and reaffirmed, to sharpen our wits and inoculate us against follies yet to come. [via]More editions of Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy:
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Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economyby Tom Frank, David MulcaheyISBN 0393057771 (0-393-05777-1)
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For a magazine dedicated to debunking the nation's business culture, the final years of the twentieth century overflowed with bounty. "It was the most spectacular outbreak of mass delirium that we are likely to see in our lifetimes," wrote the editors of The Baffler. What was for others the dawn of a "New Economy" was for The Baffler a cornucopia of absurdity the costliest political and financial hustle in living memory. Reporting from places far from the white-hot centers of the libertarian revolution, Baffler writers were the people of whom it was fashionable to say they just don't get it. While New Democrats turned somersaults for Wall Street and economic commentary became puffery, these bold, talented, and very funny writers observed the crescendo of folly with which the century turned. Here their best writings are selected, updated, and reaffirmed, to sharpen our wits and inoculate us against follies yet to come. [via]More editions of Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy:
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Artsby Roger ShattuckISBN 0393321118 (0-393-32111-8)
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Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Culturesby Marvin HarrisISBN 0394407652 (0-394-40765-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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China Menby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394424638 (0-394-42463-8)
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The Choking Dobermanby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393303217 (0-393-30321-7)
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Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that always happen to a "friend of a friend." [via]More editions of The Choking Doberman:
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920by Timothy J. GilfoyleISBN 0393311082 (0-393-31108-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Classby Jilly CooperISBN 0394514149 (0-394-51414-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Class'Book summary:Jilly Cooper challenges the assumption that England nowadays is a classless society, and sets out to show how snobbery is alive and well and at home in the English mind. She chronicles the social attitudes and lifestyles of Harry Stow-Crat and his peers, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, and Jen Teale and her husband Bryan, and makes characteristically wry observations on the courtship behaviour, choice of furnishings, appetites and ambitions of the "merry-tocracy", the "telly-stocracy", and many other inhabitants of castle, Victorian terrace and council flat. [via]
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College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, And Co-eds, Then And Nowby Lynn PerilISBN 0393327159 (0-393-32715-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College was a place where women found self-esteem, and yet images in popular culture reflected a lingering distrust of the educated woman. Thus such lofty cultural expressions as Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) and a raft of naughty pictorials in mens magazines.
As in Pink Think, Lynn Peril combines womens history and popular culturepeppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970sin an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step toward educational equity. [via]More editions of College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, And Co-eds, Then And Now:
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The Communist Manifestoby Frederic L. Bender, K. MarxISBN 0393956164 (0-393-95616-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party.
It will assist students making their first approach to Marx's thought as well as those ready to study the Manifesto in more depth. For beginning students, this edition provides a carefully annotated text of the Manifesto and two introductory sections by Frederic Bender, a "Chronology of Events Leading to the Communist Manifesto" and "Historical and Theoretical Backgrounds of the Communist Manifesto." More experienced students will benefit from selections on the sources of Marx's thought, the significance of the Manifesto in the history of Marxism, and recent interpretations of the work. [via]More editions of The Communist Manifesto:
Continuum Conceptby LiedloffISBN 0394413040 (0-394-41304-0)
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangersby Kwame Anthony AppiahISBN 039332933X (0-393-32933-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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We have grown accustomed in this anxious, post-9/11 era to constructing a world fissured by warring creeds and cultures. Much of humanity now seems separated by chasms of incomprehension. Kwame Anthony Appiah's landmark new work challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books such as Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of "Cosmopolitanism," a school of thought that dates to the Cynics of the fourth century bce, Appiah traces its influence on the ethical legacies of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Kant's dream of a "league of nations," and the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In doing so, Appiah shows how Western intellectuals and leaders, on both the left and the right, have wildly exaggerated the power of differenceand neglected the power of one. One world. One species. Challenging years of received wisdom, Cosmopolitanism is a resounding work of philosophy and global culture.
About the series: Issues of Our Time: "Aware of the competition for the attention of readers, W. W. Norton & Company and I have created the "Issues of Our Time" as a lucid series of highly readable books through which some of today's most thoughtful intellectuals seek to challenge the general reader to reexamine received truths and grapple with powerful trends that are shaping the world in which we live. The series launches with Anthony Appiah, Alan Dershowitz, and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen as the first of an illustrious group who will tackle some of the most plangent and central issues defining our society today through books that deal with such issues as sexual and racial identities, the economics of the developing world, and the concept of citizenship in a truly globalized twenty-first-century world culture. Above all else, these books are designed to be read and enjoyed."Henry Louis Gates Jr., W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University [via]More editions of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers:
The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenmentby Roy PorterISBN 0393322688 (0-393-32268-8)
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Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Cultureby Marvin HarrisISBN 0394412400 (0-394-41240-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in Americaby Burton J. BledsteinISBN 0393055744 (0-393-05574-4)
Hardcover, Norton
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Dictionary of Symbolsby Carl G. LiungmanISBN 0393312364 (0-393-31236-4)
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Doing Things With Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theoryby M. H. AbramsISBN 0393307476 (0-393-30747-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doing Things With Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory'Book summary:A collection of essays and literary reviews taken from over three decades of the author's work. The essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the new criticism to the much debated newsreading and new historicism. [via]
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The Dragons of Expectation: Reality And Delusion in the Course of Historyby Robert ConquestISBN 0393327590 (0-393-32759-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragons of Expectation: Reality And Delusion in the Course of History'Book summary:FROM THE AUTHOR OF "The Harvest of Sorrow and one of the world's most respected humanists comes this long-awaited work of history and philosophy. "The Dragons of Expectation--in the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's "The Crooked Timber of Humanity and George Orwell's "Essays--brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come to corrupt modern minds, to often-disastrous effects. From the onset of the Enlightenment to the excesses of democracy, Stalinism, and liberalism. Robert Conquest masterfully examines how false nostrums have infected academia, politicians, and the public, showing how their reliance on "isms" and the destructive concepts of "People, Nation, and Masses" have resulted in a ruinous cycle of turbulence and war. Including analyses of Russia's October Revolution, World War II, and the Cold War that challenge common historical views. "The Dragons of Expectation is one of the most important contributions to modern thought in recent years. [via]
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Education of the Senses: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freudby Peter GayISBN 0393319040 (0-393-31904-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Education of the Senses: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud'Book summary:In this work, Peter Gay draws on an array of primary sources to re-examine 19th-century sexual behaviour, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality. [via]
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The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Mindsby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0394527232 (0-394-52723-2)
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An Encyclopedia of Fairiesby Katharine Mary BriggsISBN 0394409183 (0-394-40918-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Encyclopedia of Fairies'Book summary:Perhaps she should have called it "Everything You Wanted to Know about Fairies, but Were Afraid to Ask." This book covers every type of "little people" from abbey lubbers to Young Tam Lin. Not just the tiny, translucent winged pixies of popular art, but brownies, goblins and bogies, even larger creatures like dragons and mermaids. Exhaustive in its coverage, while still entertaining. [via]
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Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indianby Michael Paul RoginISBN 0394482042 (0-394-48204-2)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0394464354 (0-394-46435-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,'Book summary:Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.
On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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The Feminization of American Cultureby Ann DouglasISBN 0394405323 (0-394-40532-3)
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The Freud Readerby Sigmund FreudISBN 0393314030 (0-393-31403-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Freud Reader'Book summary:The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.
What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific paperson the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysisbut also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture.
The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents. Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections help guide the reader's journey through each work.
Most of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words and phrases.
The Freud Reader contains a full array of explanatory material:- a substantial general introduction
- a full chronology
- introductions to each selection
- a selected bibliography
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0394425863 (0-394-42586-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Future Shock'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, family, and society. [via]
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Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0394412559 (0-394-41255-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gift from the Sea'Book summary:I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name inscribed inside the front cover and then again above the heading for chapter 3) made pencil marks on nearly every paragraph of the book, underlining a phrase, highlighting many passages with strong vertical marks, scratching out some words that she seems to have found superfluous and even x-ing out whole sections that apparently missed their mark with her altogether. Two rusting paper clips isolate several pages, absent any marking at all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's lyrical words are still relevant and presage so many of the themes of today's most popular books: simplicity, peaceful solitude, caring for the soul, a woman finding her place in society and life. I heard that the woman who had lived in the cabin had actually passed away some time before. Thank you, Eve, for your gift... from the sea. [via]
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The Greek Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393310779 (0-393-31077-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Way'Book summary:The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world."
A perennial favorite in many different editions, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievements of Greece in the fifth century B.C. A retired headmistress when she began her writing career in the 1930s, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable ability to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing that world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a "book of both cultural and critical importance."
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How the Mind Worksby Steven PinkerISBN 0393318486 (0-393-31848-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Mind Works'Book summary:Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvellously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science. Pinker argues that a combination of Darwin's theories and some canny computer programs are the key to understanding ourselves--but he also throws in apt references to Star Trek, Star Wars, The Far Side, history, literature, W.C. Fields, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, surrealism, experimental psychology and Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty and his 888 children. If How the Mind Works were a rock show, tickets would be scalped for $100. This book deserved its spot at the top of the bestseller lists. It belongs on a short shelf alongside such classics as Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett, and The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. Pinker's startling ideas pop out as dramatically as those hidden pictures in a Magic Eye 3D stereogram poster, which he also explains in brilliantly lucid prose. [via]
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How to Tell When You're Tired: A Brief Examination of Workby Reg TheriaultISBN 0393315576 (0-393-31557-6)
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India: Indiaby V.S. NaipaulISBN 039440291X (0-394-40291-X)
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The Kiss of Lamouretteby Robert DarntonISBN 0393307522 (0-393-30752-2)
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The Language of Clothesby Alison LurieISBN 0394513029 (0-394-51302-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of Clothes'Book summary:Considers why people wear what they wear. The author examines how clothes identify sex, age and class and how they can indicate the wearer's occupation, geographical origin, personality, opinions, tastes, sexual desires and current mood. [via]
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The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetryby Judith Ortiz CoferISBN 0393313131 (0-393-31313-1)
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The Liar's Tale: A History of Falsehoodby Jeremy CampbellISBN 0393323617 (0-393-32361-7)
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Lies are often so subtle, so deftly woven into easily acceptable truths, that we can fail to recognize them. Turning Sisela Bok's defense of truth in her book Lying on its head, Jeremy Campbell argues that deception should no longer be seen as artificial or deviant, but as a natural part of our world. Beginning with a study of evolutionary biology and the necessity (and ultimate value) of deceit in the animal kingdom, Campbell asks the difficult question of whether falsehood might, in fact, be instinctual. Guiding the reader through classical philosophy to more contemporary thinkers such as Freud and Nietzsche, Campbell links a multitude of disciplines and ideas in lucid and engaging prose. Unsettling some of our most firmly held beliefs about truth and ethics, The Liar's Tale is a riveting work of intellectual history. "This challenging romp through the underbelly of intellectual history...is fascinating and troublesome."New York Times Book Review "[A] beautifully written book....a crisp and remarkably readable discussion."John Frohnmayer, The Wilson Quarterly [via]More editions of The Liar's Tale: A History of Falsehood:
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Library: An Unquiet Historyby Matthew BattlesISBN 0393325644 (0-393-32564-4)
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On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age.
He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanishand in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia.
Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman. [via]More editions of Library: An Unquiet History:
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Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibilityby Keith ThomasISBN 039449945X (0-394-49945-X)
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the Worldby Simon GarfieldISBN 0393323137 (0-393-32313-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World'Book summary:Mauve? Not the butchest of colours perhaps; you might be forgiven for wondering whether, if a Longitude-style book had to be written about hues, Red, Blue or Yellow might not be the place to start instead. But Garfield has chosen his colour well: mauve and its 19th-century inventor William Perkin constitute a fascinating story. This book convincingly argues that Perkin's invention of this chemical dye became a major turning point in the history of Western science and industry. Purple had always been a royal colour, in part because it was so difficult (and hence expensive) to achieve a good shade out of the animal, mineral or plant raw materials from which all dyes were derived; it took 17,000 dried and crushed cactus insects to make one ounce of cochineal. Perkin found a cheap way to produce a synthetic purple; he made a fortune and prompted a craze for the colour in the fashion industry of his day. But more than this, Garfield argues, he kick-started chemistry from being a gentleman-amateur pastime into becoming the major world industry it is today. Mauve (the Victorians pronounced it "morv", apparently) really did change the world. Just as Perkins's colour was something wholly new, Garfield's Mauve represents a new sort of book, a more varied synthesis than the run-of-the-mill animal, mineral or plant books. In part it is a biography, in part a social and cultural history, and partly it is a meditation on the roles chemistry (and colour) play in our world. It even manages to function as a primer in inorganic chemistry. Garfield achieves this last without being either baffling or condescending; he breaks us in gently to the subject of, for instance, benzene rings by relating Friedrich Kekule's 1858 dream, dozing in front of the fire, "gambolling atoms in snake-like motion, one of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail: his benzene structure consisted of six carbon atoms, each attached to a hydrogen atom C6H6". The model for this integration of chemistry into everyday life is taken from the period itself--at one point we're told that "William Perkins Jnr wrote again, enquiring about the atomic structures of various synthetic perfumes and wishing his father a happy birthday". Presumably in that order. Garfield's book draws you into this world of dyes and dyers; the reader emerges a little mauver than when they started. --Adam Roberts [via]
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Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Healthby Ivan IllichISBN 0394402251 (0-394-40225-1)
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The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Timesby Christopher LaschISBN 0393302636 (0-393-30263-6)
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The Mismeasure of Manby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393314251 (0-393-31425-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mismeasure of Man'Book summary:How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it," and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition of the IQ industry, should be required reading. Gould's brilliant, funny, engaging prose dissects the motivations behind those who would judge intelligence, and hence worth, by cranial size, convolutions, or score on extremely narrow tests. How did scientists decide that intelligence was unipolar and quantifiable, and why did the standard keep changing over time? Gould's answer is clear and simple: power maintains itself. European men of the 19th century, even before Darwin, saw themselves as the pinnacle of creation and sought to prove this assertion through hard measurement. When one measure was found to place members of some "inferior" group such as women or Southeast Asians over the supposedly rightful champions, it would be discarded and replaced with a new, more comfortable measure. The 20th-century obsession with numbers led to the institutionalization of IQ testing and subsequent assignment to work (and rewards) commensurate with the score, shown by Gould to be not simply misguided--for surely intelligence is multifactorial--but also regressive, creating a feedback loop rewarding the rich and powerful. The revised edition includes a scathing critique of Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve, taking them to task for rehashing old arguments to exploit a new political wave of uncaring and belt tightening. It might not make you any smarter, but The Mismeasure of Man will certainly make you think. --Rob Lightner [via]
Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Moviesby Robert SklarISBN 0394483278 (0-394-48327-8)
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The Natural History of Nonsense,by Bergen EvansISBN 0394437772 (0-394-43777-2)
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Next: Young American Writers on the New Generationby Eric LiuISBN 0393311910 (0-393-31191-0)
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Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreamsby A. AlvarezISBN 0393314340 (0-393-31434-0)
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Oedipus Tyrannus; A New Translation. Passages from Ancient Authors. Religion and Psychologyby Sophocles, Luci Berkowitz, Theodore F. BrunnerISBN 0393098745 (0-393-09874-5)
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriagesby Phyllis Rose, David SchorrISBN 0394524322 (0-394-52432-2)
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Pleasure Warsby Peter GayISBN 0393318273 (0-393-31827-3)
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The Politics of Cultureby Antonin J. LiehmISBN 039447824X (0-394-47824-X)
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Portnoy's Complaintby Philip RothISBN 0394441982 (0-394-44198-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portnoy's Complaint'Book summary:Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.
With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition.
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The Republicby Plato, Richard W. Sterling, William C. ScottISBN 0393314677 (0-393-31467-7)
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The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracyby Christopher LaschISBN 0393313719 (0-393-31371-9)
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The Revolt of the Massesby Josey Ortega Y GassetISBN 0393310957 (0-393-31095-7)
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A Romantic Educationby Patricia HamplISBN 0393319059 (0-393-31905-9)
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The Sadeian Womanby Angela CarterISBN 0394505751 (0-394-50575-1)
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The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdomby Sandra MacKeyISBN 0393324176 (0-393-32417-6)
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The Savage God: A Study of Suicideby A. AlvarezISBN 0393306577 (0-393-30657-7)
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"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature. [via]More editions of The Savage God: A Study of Suicide:
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914by Peter GayISBN 0393323633 (0-393-32363-3)
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbolby Nell Irvin PainterISBN 0393317080 (0-393-31708-0)
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Son of the Revolutionby Heng Liang, Judith Shapiro, Jerome A. CohenISBN 039452568X (0-394-52568-X)
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Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblinsby Carol RoseISBN 0393317927 (0-393-31792-7)
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Star-Spangled Mannersby Judith MartinISBN 0393325016 (0-393-32501-6)
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadaversby Mary RoachISBN 0393324826 (0-393-32482-6)
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Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuriesfrom the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. [via]More editions of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers:
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Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Centuryby Graham RobbISBN 0393326497 (0-393-32649-7)
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The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay culture, and it was recognized throughout Europe and America. Graham Robb, brilliant biographer of Balzac, Hugo, and Rimbaud, examines how homosexuals were treated by society and finds a tale of surprising tolerance. He describes the lives of gay men and women: how they discovered their sexuality and accepted or disguised it; how they came out; how they made contact with like-minded people. He also includes a fascinating investigation of the encrypted homosexuality of such famous nineteenth-century sleuths as Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes himself (with glances forward in time to Batman and J. Edgar Hoover). Finally, Strangers addresses crucial questions of gay culture, including the riddle of its relationship to religion: Why were homosexuals created with feelings that the Creator supposedly condemns? This is a landmark work, full of tolerant wisdom, fresh research, and surprises.
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Studio A: The Bob Dylan Readerby Benjamin HedinISBN 0393058441 (0-393-05844-1)
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A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968by Paul BermanISBN 0393316750 (0-393-31675-0)
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The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropologyby Abraham Rosman, Paula G. RubelISBN 0394339991 (0-394-33999-1)
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A Thousand Years over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrancesby Laura SchenoneISBN 0393326276 (0-393-32627-6)
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Translating LA: A Tour of the Rainbow Cityby Peter TherouxISBN 0393313948 (0-393-31394-8)
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Walden and Resistance to Civil Governmentby Henry David Thoreau, Owen Thomas, William RossiISBN 0393959058 (0-393-95905-8)
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What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics And "Bias" in Higher Educationby Michael BerubeISBN 0393060373 (0-393-06037-3)
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When Harlem Was in Vogueby David Levering LewisISBN 0394495721 (0-394-49572-1)
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When the Mind Hears : A History of the Deafby Harlan LaneISBN 0394508785 (0-394-50878-5)
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Wisconsin Death Tripby Charles Van Schaick, Michael LesyISBN 0394483669 (0-394-48366-9)
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Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminismby Christopher Lasch, Elisabeth Lasch-QuinnISBN 0393316971 (0-393-31697-1)
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Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern Worldby Sheila RowbothamISBN 0394475453 (0-394-47545-3)
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World Civilizationsby Edward McNall Burns, Philip Lee RalphISBN 0393955192 (0-393-95519-2)
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World Civilizationsby Robert E. Lerner, Philip Lee Ralph, Edward McNall BurnsISBN 0393955176 (0-393-95517-6)
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The new Ninth Edition maintains the qualities that have made it a success, while incorporating new material that enriches the text's global coverage and comparative approach. The text also boasts an elegant new design that features full-color illustrations and maps throughout.
World Civilizations offers one of the premier learning resources with its new Homepage. Students and faculty can access a vast array of electronic sources on the World Wide Web. Thomas Pearcy offers students a media-laden review pedagogy, integrated with an investigative method that opens the textbook onto the Web.
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World Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture/Volume Cby Edward McNall BurnsISBN 0393955214 (0-393-95521-4)
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World Civilizations, Their History and Their Cultureby Edward McNall BurnsISBN 0393959155 (0-393-95915-5)
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