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Academies, Museums and Canons of Artby Colin Cunningham, Gillian PerryISBN 0300077432 (0-300-07743-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Adorno: A Political Biographyby Lorenz JagerISBN 0300105843 (0-300-10584-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Against the American Grainby Dwight MacDonaldISBN 0306802058 (0-306-80205-8)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: The Courage of Kings, the Goodness of Saints and the Romance of English Historyby Anne SavageISBN 0312037406 (0-312-03740-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Agesby Umberto Eco, Hugh BredinISBN 0300093047 (0-300-09304-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Art of the Avant-Gardes: Art of the 20th Centuryby Paul WoodISBN 0300102305 (0-300-10230-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Assaults on Convention: Essays on Lesbian Transgressorsby Sheridan Nye, Nicola Godwin, Belinda HollowsISBN 0304328839 (0-304-32883-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through Historyby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0312087012 (0-312-08701-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History'Book summary:From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare now sweeping Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy.
This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient passions and intractable hatreds for outsiders. For as Kaplan travels among the vibrantly-adorned churches and soul-destroying slums of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, he allows us to see the region's history as a time warp in which Slobodan Milosevic becomes the reincarnation of a fourteenth-century Serbian martyr; Nicolae Ceaucescu is called "Drac," or "the Devil"; and the one-time Soviet Union turns out to be a continuation of the Ottoman Empire. [via]
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Black Musicby Amiri Imamu BarakaISBN 0306808145 (0-306-80814-5)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Music'Book summary:This scintillating collection by Amiri Imamu Baraka, published in 1968 under his birth name Leroi Jones, covers a wide range of jazz writings from 1959 to 1967. Baraka's engaging and prophetic portraits of Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Bradford, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Roy Haynes, Don Cherry, and John Coltrane (whom he called "the heaviest spirit") beam with an electric and fluid language that mirrors those artists' speed-of-light improvisations. In "Jazz and the White Critic," which blasts white critics who judge jazz by European, rather than African American, standards, Jones wrote, "As Western people, the sociocultural thinking of 18th-century Europe comes to us as history and legacy that is a continuous and organic part of the 20th-century West. The sociocultural philosophy of the Negro in America ... is no less specific and no less important for any intelligent critical speculation about the music that came out of it." His analysis of the burgeoning avant-garde scene in "Apple Cores #1-6," "New York Loft and Coffee Shop Jazz," and "The Jazz Avant-Garde" accurately depicts the artistic promise and peril of that period in the words of a literary genius who was there and helped create it. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Body Invaders: Panic Sex in Americaby Arthur Kroker, Marilouise KrokerISBN 0312013809 (0-312-01380-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939by John R. StilgoeISBN 0300048661 (0-300-04866-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fableby Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Adrian RoomISBN 0304353817 (0-304-35381-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fableby Adrian RoomISBN 0304358711 (0-304-35871-1)
Softcover, Cassell P L C
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable'Book summary:If you like Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and other word lovers' guides, you'll adore this. Adrian Room, the editor of recent editions of Brewer's, has gathered together over 8,000 words, names and phrases that "resonate in the collective memory of English-speaking people all over the world". It's a wonderful smorgasbord. The highs and lows of 20th-century culture are cheerfully ransacked for their gems. In a way, this book is a fascinating bite-by-bite history of the last century, with excursions into the 1800s and the beginning of the third millennium. (If you want to round out the picture, try The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, which makes an interesting companion volume to this one.) The range of categories covered is almost endless, including Mathematics and mechanics, Play titles, Famous People, Alternative and New Age topics, and so many more. Slang, jargon, metaphors, catch phrases, quotations, sayings and slogans all take their bow, with fascinating "general entries" going into detail about instances of a theme such as Fakes, and "list entries" on topics such as Advertising Slogans of the 20th Century, Commercial Inventions, Programming Languages and String Quartets. What other book could explain "Jargonaut: a punning term for someone who uses an excessive amount of jargon"; the computer language Java; the origins of the phrase "Jaw-jaw"; the fact that the title of the film Jaws was a last-minute inspiration (it might have been called Leviathan Rising, or half a dozen other titles); the story of jazz-and all without turning a page? Open the book anywhere else and you'd have a similar range. It's a dream book for intellectual and cultural magpies, all written with the wit, learning and playfulness for which Brewer's is renowned. Dr Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (Blessings on his name) remains the presiding spirit, and there can be no greater compliment than that.--David Pickering [via]
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Building Cross-Cultural Competence: How to Create Wealth from Conflicting Valuesby Fons Trompenaars, Charles M. Hampden-Turner, David LewisISBN 0300084978 (0-300-08497-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Bullets over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture from the Silents to "The Sopranos"by John McCartyISBN 0306813017 (0-306-81301-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Cassell's Dictionary of Word Historiesby Adrian RoomISBN 0304363839 (0-304-36383-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Chanelby Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, Olivier Saillard, Rhonda K. Garelick, Karl LagerfeldISBN 0300107137 (0-300-10713-7)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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China: Dawn Of A Golden Age (200-750 Ad).by James C.Y. Watt, Prudence Oliver HarperISBN 0300104871 (0-300-10487-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Comparing Cultures: Readings on Contemporary Japan for American Writersby Sylvan Barnet, Merry I. WhiteISBN 0312106203 (0-312-10620-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Corset: A Cultural Historyby Valerie SteeleISBN 0300099533 (0-300-09953-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Culture Of Fear: Risk-Taking And The Morality Of Low Expectationby Frank FurediISBN 030433751X (0-304-33751-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Daring to Dissent: Lesbian Culture from Margin to Mainstreamby Liz GibbsISBN 0304327948 (0-304-32794-8)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Dialogues of Plato: The Republicby Plato, R.E. AllenISBN 0300114508 (0-300-11450-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcriptsby James C. ScottISBN 0300056699 (0-300-05669-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Elvis Reader: Texts and Sources on the King of Rock 'N' Rollby Kevin QuainISBN 0312069669 (0-312-06966-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyondby Jon SavageISBN 0312087748 (0-312-08774-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond'Book summary:Englands Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive interviews, and rare photographs. This fully revised and updated edition of the book covers the legacy of punk twenty-five years later and provides an account of the Pistols' 1996 reunion as well as a freshly updated discography and a completely new introduction.[via]More editions of England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond:
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The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950by Roy PorterISBN 0300062214 (0-300-06221-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950'Book summary:This study presents a detailed and scholarly analysis of the creation of sexual knowledge in Britain. Surveying the period between the late 17th and the mid-20th centuries, it examines the major texts which established and authorized sexual knowledge and sexual practices. Porter and Hall then explore the various kinds of backgrounds without which these texts are unintelligible - sexual, moral, religious, scientific, medical, domestic, social and cultural. And they examine their authors (some famous, some obscure, some anonymous), their careers, and the motives for involvement in medico-moral campaigns that were often thought unsavoury and commonly led to criticism and censure. The book also attempts to assess the wider impact of the publication of sexual knowledge and especially of sex advice literature, and explores the interplay between expertise, therapy, social mores and behaviour. Chapters on the 19th and 20th century discuss prostitution, contagious diseases and gender relations and consider debates on sexual issues and associated revelations of personal experience. The authors draw extensively upon the archives of Marie Stopes and of organizations promoting sexual knowledge in the 20th century, as well as making use of a wide range of medical, moral and polemical literature. Considerable attention is paid not only to modern classics such as Marie Stopes's "Married Love" but also to such earlier bestsellers as Nicolas Venette's "Mysteries of Conjugal Love Reveal'd" and Aristotle's "Master-Piece" - demonstrating that the genre of sexual advice has roots at least as far back as the 17th century. This study reveals in detail the formation of sexual discourses in Britain. It seeks to challenge and overturn received assumptions and to engage with powerful historiographical traditions, not least the work of Michel Foucault, and hoary myths of the Victorians. And it sets our understanding of the history, of British sexuality on a sound footing. [via]
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Family Life in the Twentieth Centuryby David I. Kertzer, Marzio BarbagliISBN 0300094949 (0-300-09494-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Frame Work: A Cultural Storytelling and College Writingby Gary Colombo, Bonnie Lisle, Sandra ManoISBN 0312103344 (0-312-10334-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frame Work: A Cultural Storytelling and College Writing'Book summary:The first writing text to combine a process-oriented, revision-centered approach with the current thinking on the impact culture has on writing. Designed specifically for students who have struggled under traditional methods, it enlists the power of stories to enable beginning college writers to move successfully into the academic world.[via]More editions of Frame Work: A Cultural Storytelling and College Writing:
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Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 031205436X (0-312-05436-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation X'Book summary:Generation X should feel dated--its title is no longer a part of the zeitgeist, and the generation it defined has been irrevocably changed. Gen Xers--the post-boomers born in the 1960s and even the late '50s--are no longer the socially terrified twentysomethings that populate Douglas Coupland's first and finest novel. The economic boom of the late 1990s dragged them out of their McJobs and back into the corporate world, transforming them into younger versions of the yuppies that Coupland lampoons so well. Surprisingly, though, the culture that is described in Generation X has not changed all that much; it has simply been passed on, in an Internet-friendly form, to the latest crop of bright young things.
Those who missed Generation X when it first appeared may be surprised to find that most of the associations that have been tacked on to its catchphrase title are not present in the novel. Coupland's characters--Dag, Claire, and Andy, three young neurotics from "good" upper-middle-class homes--are not financially ambitious, but they are not slackers either. Rather than drearily complaining that there is nothing worth doing, they are trying very hard to make sense of their lives and their culture. They do this by telling stories to each other, desperately and sincerely. Andy likens his friends' need for storytelling to the proceedings of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting:
"Never be afraid to cough up a bit of diseased lung for the spectators," said a man who sat next to me at a meeting once, a man with skin like a half-cooked pie crust and who had five grown children who would no longer return his phone calls: "How are people ever going to help themselves if they can't grab onto a fragment of your own horror? People want that little fragment, they need it. That little piece of lung makes their own fragments less scary." I'm still looking for a description of storytelling as vital as this.
Storytelling is an ancient invention; Coupland simply restates its importance in a world of short attention spans and jump-cutting media. This side of Generation X hasn't aged at all and isn't likely to. And the other, better-known side of the novel--Coupland's razor-sharp cultural field guide--will remain relevant as long as university graduates still have to choose between economic uncertainty and corporate monoculture and still respond by refusing to grow up in conventional ways. Anyone who has avoided Generation X because of its unfortunate association with a few demographic buzzwords should consider giving Coupland a second look. --Jack Illingworth [via] -
The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood, Valerie MartinISBN 0307264602 (0-307-26460-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.
Like Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant. [via]More editions of The Handmaid's Tale:
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noirby Geoffrey O'BrienISBN 0306807734 (0-306-80773-4)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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A History of Celibacyby Elizabeth AbbotISBN 0306810417 (0-306-81041-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Celibacy'Book summary:Celibacy is a worldwide practice that is often adopted, rarely discussed. Now, in Elizabeth Abbott's fascinating and wide-ranging history, it is examined in all its various forms: shaping religious lives, conditioning athletes and shamans, surfacing in classical poetry and camp literature, resonating in the voices of castrati, and permeating ancient mythology. Found in every society of the past, practiced by both the anonymous and the legendary (St. Catherine, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth I, Gandhi), celibacy has as many stories as adherents, and Abbott weaves them into a provocative, seamless tapestry that brings history alive.[via]More editions of A History of Celibacy:
The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theoryby Arthur Kroker, Marilouise KrokerISBN 0312052979 (0-312-05297-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classesby Jonathan RoseISBN 0300098081 (0-300-09808-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Iron Johnby Robert W. BlyISBN 0306813769 (0-306-81376-9)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron John'Book summary:In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man.Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which the narrator, or "Wild Man," guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron John is a rare work that will continue to guide and inspire men-and women-for years to come.[via]More editions of Iron John:
Jewish Women And Their Salons: The Power Of Conversationby Emily D. Bilski, Shira Brisman, Emily Braun, Leon BotsteinISBN 030010846X (0-300-10846-X)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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John Dryden and His Worldby James Anderson WinnISBN 0300045913 (0-300-04591-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodiesby Arthur Kroker, Marilouise KrokerISBN 0312096828 (0-312-09682-8)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Layman's Guide to Studying the Bibleby Walter A. HenrichsenISBN 0310376319 (0-310-37631-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationby Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan GubarISBN 0300084587 (0-300-08458-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Making Sense of Church: Eavesdropping on Emerging Conversations About God, Community, and Cultureby Spencer Burke, Colleen Pepper, Stanley J. GrenzISBN 031025499X (0-310-25499-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Sense of Church: Eavesdropping on Emerging Conversations About God, Community, and Culture'Book summary:Samplings of online discussions about God, truth, and church---from theOoze.com Our culture is rapidly changing and people are searching for new models and paradigms to find meaning in their lives. As in all transitional periods, this search takes place in grass-roots conversations where the 'new' is taking form. No other place so uniquely captures this struggle more than the message boards at theOoze.com, the premier melting pot of emerging spiritual conversation. Making Sense of Church is a snapshot of this 'community conversation' as it tries to make sense of God in the emerging worldview. It represents a gathering of individuals with different points of view, theologies, life contexts, and feelings. Author Spencer Burke, creator of theOoze.com, provides the framework writing for each chapter and acts as a 'guide' to the accompanying e-mail postings that supplement the chapters. Subjects discussed include: * Authentic Community * Experiential Worship * The Internet and God * Art as a Vehicle for Communicating Truth * Spirituality and Sexuality * What Is the Church? * What Is Postmodernism? [via]
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Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in Americaby Colleen McDannellISBN 0300074999 (0-300-07499-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Changeby Stanley LiebersonISBN 0300083858 (0-300-08385-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Medieval Childrenby Nicholas OrmeISBN 0300097549 (0-300-09754-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 0307275167 (0-307-27516-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:The first thing you notice about the audio version of Memoirs of a Geisha is that Arthur Golden's 428-page novel has been reduced to a scant two cassettes. But dismay quickly gives way to mounting pleasure as Elaina Erika Davis (Contact, As the World Turns) begins her delicate rendering of geisha culture in the years before World War II. Davis reads the abbreviated story of Sayuri with an authentic-sounding Japanese accent--one mixed with a magical combination of Asian reserve and theatrical energy. As Sayuri ages from a 9-year-old peasant girl to a popular geisha in her late 20s, Davis directs her voice gently away from curious youth to a tone that reflects Sayuri's uphill life.
From start to finish, the listener is absorbed in the elegant spirit of Davis's performance, eager to hear the next chapter of Sayuri's transformation into one of the most famous geishas of the century. How unfortunate, then, to learn that book readers not only get the basic story, but a fascinating look at the intricate rules and rituals of geisha culture. Here, for example, is one of the many revelations omitted from the cassette: "Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a woman's legs.... In fact, a geisha leaves a tiny margin of skin bare all around the hairline, causing her makeup to look even more artificial.... When a man sits beside her, he becomes that much more aware of the bare skin beneath."
We're also denied several subplots--the aborted friendship between Sayuri and a geisha named Pumpkin, for example, or much of the story involving the man Sayuri is secretly in love with. But what remains is as precious as a traditional Japanese kimono--at once artistic, suggestive, and moving. --Ann Senechal [via]
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Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden, Pilar VazquezISBN 0307275302 (0-307-27530-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:Una sensación literaria y bestseller internacional presenta con perfecta autenticidad y exquisito lirismo las fieles confesiones de una de las geishas más famosas de Japón.
En Memorias de una geisha entramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desdeñado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción única y triunfal al mismo tiempo romántica, erótica y de suspenso absolutamente inolvidable. [via]More editions of Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha:
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A Million Little Piecesby James FreyISBN 0307276902 (0-307-27690-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesnt matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true. A nonfiction book should adhere to the facts as the author knows them.It is, however, Doubleday and Anchor's policy to stand with our authors when accusations are initially leveled against their work, and we continue to believe this is right and proper. A publisher's relationship with an author is based to an extent on trust. Mr. Frey's repeated representations of the book's accuracy, throughout publication and promotion, assured us that everything in it was true to his recollections. When the Smoking Gun report appeared, our first response, given that we were still learning the facts of the matter, was to support our author. Since then, we have questioned him about the allegations and have sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.
We bear a responsibility for what we publish, and apologize to the reading public for any unintentional confusion surrounding the publication of A Million Little Pieces.
Note: The following editorial reviews were written before the recent revelations by James Frey and the publisher.
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The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.
One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.
The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960sby James Sampson MeyerISBN 0300081553 (0-300-08155-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960s'Book summary:What is minimalism? The answer to this simple question has defied simple answers. In this highly readable history of minimalist art James Meyer argues that 'minimalism' was not a coherent movement but a field of overlapping and sometimes opposed practices. He traces in comprehensive detail the emergence of six figures associated with the development - Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris and Anne Truitt - and how the notion of minimalism came to be constructed around their art in the 1960s. Despite distinctive differences in method and points of view, Meyer shows how these artists became equated in a series of important exhibitions and texts that led to their designation as minimalists. Beginning with the first reviews of minimalist shows, the book tracks the development of an art that critics dubbed Cool Art, ABC Art, and Primary Structures before settling on the deprecating label 'minimal art'. Suggesting that such work was overly reduced in form and facture, this term implied that the new abstraction was barely legible as fine art to some viewers. Meyer describes the heated polemic that unfolded in response to these practices, the differing claims of the artists and the sometimes intense rivalries that developed within a highly competitive, fashion-minded New York art scene. The book culminates with an analysis of minimalism's canonisation in the late sixties, its reception in Europe and its discrediting by leftist viewers who associated the new art with American capitalist-imperialism of the Vietnam War. [via]
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Minimalism: Art And Polemics In The Sixtiesby James MeyerISBN 0300105908 (0-300-10590-8)
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0307261581 (0-307-26158-1)
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Off Center: The Republican Revolution And the Erosion of American Democracyby Paul Pierson, Jacob S. HackerISBN 0300119755 (0-300-11975-5)
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The Onion Presents Our Dumb Century: 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Sourceby Todd Hanson, Robert Siegel, Onion, John Krewson, Maria SchneiderISBN 0307393577 (0-307-39357-7)
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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essaysby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0306802791 (0-306-80279-1)
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Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Sceneby Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David CookISBN 0312024770 (0-312-02477-0)
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Paradoxes of Genderby Judith LorberISBN 0300064977 (0-300-06497-7)
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A Post-Modern Readerby Charles JencksISBN 031207896X (0-312-07896-X)
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Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940sby Michael LejaISBN 0300070829 (0-300-07082-9)
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Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650by Claire FaragoISBN 0300062958 (0-300-06295-8)
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The Republic: Platoby Reginald E. Allen, PlatoISBN 0300114516 (0-300-11451-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic: Plato'Book summary:[via]R. E. Allens highly regarded translations of the dialogues of Plato have been praised for their faithfulness and readability. Many years in the making, his translation of The Republic has been eagerly awaited. It comes now to crown a distinguished classicists efforts to make Platos works available in readable and accurate translations. This new, lucid translation of Platos greatest dialogue is the first major translation in English since the publication of F. M. Cornfords and G. M. A. Grubes renditions more than a generation ago. It is likely to be the standard translation for years to come.
This edition, intended for the student and general reader, is accompanied by Allens notes and introduction. The Republic is, of course, many things: metaphysics and epistemology, moral psychology and ethics, educational theory and aesthetics, and poetry and eschatology. In his introduction, Allen takes up its threshold questionthe politicaland argues that its particular formulation by Plato had a direct and profound influence on the Founding Fathers and the development of American constitutional law.More editions of The Republic: Plato:
Resilience And Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaustby Nechama TecISBN 0300105193 (0-300-10519-3)
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A Select Body: The Gay Dance Party Subculture and the HIV-AIDS Pandemicby Michael W. Ross, Lynette A. LewisISBN 0304335118 (0-304-33511-8)
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The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslaviaby Tim JudahISBN 0300085079 (0-300-08507-9)
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Sesame and Liliesby Jan Marsh, John Ruskin, Seth Koven, Deborah Epstein Nord, Elizabeth HelsingerISBN 0300092598 (0-300-09259-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sesame and Lilies'Book summary:John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, stands as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early 20th century. This volume reunites the two halves of the work: "Of Kings' Treasuries", in which Ruskin critiques Victorian manhood, and "Of Queens' Gardens", in which he counsels women to take their places as the moral guides of men and urges the parents of girls to educate them to this end. Feminist critics of the 1960s and 1970s regarded "Of Queens' Gardens" as an exemplary expression of repressive Victorian ideas about femininity, and they paired it with John Stuart Mill's more progressive "Subjection of Women". This volume, by including the often ignored "Of Kings' Treasuries", offers readers full access to Ruskin's complex and sometimes contradictory views on men and women. The accompanying essays place "Sesame and Lilies" within historical debates on men, women, culture and the family. Elizabeth Helsinger examines the text as a meditation on the pleasures of reading; Seth Koven gives a wide-ranging account of how Victorians read "Sesame and Lilies"; and Jan Marsh situates the work within controversies over educational reform. [via]
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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politicsby Bruce J. SchulmanISBN 030681126X (0-306-81126-X)
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Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Educationby Jeffrey Peter HartISBN 0300087047 (0-300-08704-7)
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The Stones Of Veniceby John Ruskin, J. G. LinksISBN 030681286X (0-306-81286-X)
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The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaningby James E. YoungISBN 0300059914 (0-300-05991-4)
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Topping from Belowby Laura ReeseISBN 0312120001 (0-312-12000-1)
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Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy, and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the New Psychiatryby Peter R. BregginISBN 0312113668 (0-312-11366-8)
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Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900by Maria Antonella PelizzariISBN 0300098960 (0-300-09896-0)
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailby Bill BrysonISBN 0307279464 (0-307-27946-4)
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Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, And the United Statesby Jacqueline AtkinsISBN 0300109253 (0-300-10925-3)
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Weird Like Us: My Bohemian Americaby Ann PowersISBN 0306810247 (0-306-81024-7)
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What Is Post-Modernism?by Charles JencksISBN 0312039883 (0-312-03988-3)
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Women's Magazines 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the Popular Pressby WalkerISBN 0312102011 (0-312-10201-1)
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Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden, Pilar VazquezISBN 0307275310 (0-307-27531-0)
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En Memorias de una geisha entramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desdeado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción única y triunfal al mismo tiempo romántica, erótica y de suspenso absolutamente inolvidable. [via]More editions of Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha:
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