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21st Century Goth
by Mick Mercer

ISBN 1903111285 (1-903111-28-5)
Softcover, Reynolds & Hearn

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The most complete single source of Goth and Gothrelated information ever published. [via]
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Always Coming Home
by Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Todd Barton, George Hersh

ISBN 006015456X (0-06-015456-X)
Softcover, Harperaudio

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Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is
by Robert Burton

ISBN 9022103013 (90-221-0301-3)
Hardcover, Walter J Johnson

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Angry Women
by Andrea Juno

ISBN 1890451053 (1-890451-05-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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Animal Farm
by Ian Woodldridge, George Orwell

ISBN 1854597892 (1-85459-789-2)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick

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Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 0060850523 (0-06-085052-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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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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The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0060506083 (0-06-050608-3)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco

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For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]
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The Complete Works of Hans R. Rookmaaker
by H. R. Rookmaaker

ISBN 190368904X (1-903689-04-X)
Hardcover, Piquant

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Lecture, articles, book reviews, published books, PhD thesis, sermons: around two-thirds of the material in these volumes are here available in English for the first time. Published in 2001-2002 to coincide with the commemoration of 25 years since the death of Hans R. Rookmaaker. The Complete Works are available as a 6-volume hardcover set of books. It is also available on CD-Rom as a searchable PDF. [via]
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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
by Anthony Bourdain

ISBN 0060012781 (0-06-001278-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A Cook's Tour is the written record of Anthony Bourdain's travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year-old knees after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of Kitchen Confidential as collateral, Mr. Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.
The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere, and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia, and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep's testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California's Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined kaiseki rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarymen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don't-try-this-at-home shots of the author in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.
You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Cult of MAC
by Leander Kahney

ISBN 1886411832 (1-886411-83-2)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace
by Douglas Rushkoff

ISBN 1903083249 (1-903083-24-9)
Softcover, Clinamen Pr Ltd

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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown

ISBN 7208050031 (7-208-05003-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Brand New [via]
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El Senor De Las Moscas
by William Golding

ISBN 8420634115 (84-206-3411-5)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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spanish fiction william golding novel [via]
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
by Charles MacKay, Norman Stone

ISBN 1853263494 (1-85326-349-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.

In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0. [via]
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury, Jacques Chambon, Henri Robillot

ISBN 2070415732 (2-07-041573-2)
Softcover, Gallimard

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
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Finland: A Cultural Encyclopedia
by Olli Alho

ISBN 9517178859 (951-717-885-9)
Softcover, Finnish Literature Society

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Flatland
by A. Square

ISBN 1883938775 (1-883938-77-5)
Softcover, Dry Bones Pr

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Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott

ISBN 1851680861 (1-85168-086-1)
Softcover, Oneworld Publications

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Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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The Flight Of The Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
by Richard Florida

ISBN 0060756918 (0-06-075691-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Research-driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high-value jobs from the USA.
Today's most valued workers are what economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. In his bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida identified these variously skilled individuals as the source of economic revitalisation in US cities. In that book, he shows that investment in technology and a civic culture of tolerance (most often marked by the presence of a large gay community) are the key ingredients to attracting and maintaining a local creative class.
In The Flight of the Creative Class, Florida expands his research to cover the global competition to attract the Creative Class. The USA once led the world in terms of creative capital. Since 2002, factors like the Bush administration's emphasis on smokestack industries, heightened security concerns after 9/11 and the growing cultural divide between conservatives and liberals have put the US at a large disadvantage. With numerous small countries, such as Ireland, New Zealand and Finland, now tapping into the enormous economic value of this class - and doing all in their power to attract these workers and build a robust economy driven by creative capital - how much further behind will USA fall? [via]
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The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought
by Alan Bullock, Oliver Stallybrass

ISBN 0002161494 (0-00-216149-4)
Hardcover, Collins

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Frakenstein
by Mary W. Shelly

ISBN 846630407X (84-663-0407-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 1853260231 (1-85326-023-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lynd Ward

ISBN 1850790701 (1-85079-070-1)
Hardcover, New Orchard Editions

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From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman

ISBN 0002150964 (0-00-215096-4)
Hardcover, Collins

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The Identity of France
by Fernand Braudel

ISBN 0006861695 (0-00-686169-5)
Hardcover, Fontana Press

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The last book written by the French social historian, Fernand Braudel. It is the second volume in a work which provides a perspective on his own life and his perception of the everyday world his readers share with him. It is the most personal of all his works. [via]
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The Identity of France: History and Environment
by Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds

ISBN 0060916435 (0-06-091643-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Illustrated Tao Te Ching
by Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay, Man-Ho Kwok, Kwok-Lap Chan

ISBN 1843336278 (1-84333-627-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Acknowledged to be one of the definitive versions of the influential Chinese classic, this new translation reveals the text in its full glory and recaptures the flow and power of the original writings. One of the most important books in Chinese literature, its significance has reverberated throughout the centuries since the Han dynasty. Its powerful effect on Western society is second to none in terms of non-Western books. Here the Tao Te Ching's 80 chapters of wise sayings and commentaries on the self and our relation to society are sumptuously illustrated with contemporary works of art and are viewed not only individually but as part of a unifying pattern. Text in both English and Chinese includes background on Lao Tzu, the recognized author of the Tao Te Ching, plus a brief history of Taoism. Essential reading for anyone--even those who have read previous translations--with an interest in ancient wisdom.
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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
by Roger Scruton

ISBN 1890318477 (1-890318-47-7)
Hardcover, St Augustine Pr Inc

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Introducing Cultural Studies
by Richard Appignanesi, Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon

ISBN 1874166986 (1-874166-98-6)
Softcover, Natl Book Network

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This text provides students and the general reader with an informative tour through the minefield of cultural studies, examining its origins in Britain and its adoption in the USA, Australia and South Asia, explaining the ideas of its leading exponents and offering a look at its uses around the world. The book traces the course of cultural studies from post-colonialism via feminism, queer theory, technoculture and the media to globalization. [via]
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Introducing Postmodernism
by Richard Appignanesi, Patrick Curry, Ziauddin Sardar, Chris Garratt

ISBN 1874166218 (1-874166-21-8)
Softcover, Natl Book Network

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What on earth is postmodernism? This is a guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept which is supposed to define the human cultural condition at the end of the 20th century. Postmodernism claims that "modernity" has collapsed, that the historical process which began with the enlightenment, industrialism, Darwin, Marx, Freud and so on has exhausted itself and there is no more "future", just an endlessly "contemporary" world full of endlessly contested meanings. This uncertainty has led to a postmodern culture which embodies parody, pastiche and cultural cross-over and claims as its own such diverse phenomena as Andy Warhol, neo-classical architecture and Mickey Mouse! This book takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, deconstruction, cyberspace and semiotics in the company of the essential postmodern icons from Adorno and Lacan to Foucault and Umberto Eco. [via]
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Life in a Medieval Castle
by Joseph Gies

ISBN 006090674X (0-06-090674-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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"The authors allow medieval man and woman to speak for themselves through selections from past journals, songs, even account books."--Time [via]
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Life in a Medieval City
by Joseph and Francis Gies

ISBN 0060908807 (0-06-090880-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and town government."--Choice [via]
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Life in a Medieval Village
by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies

ISBN 0060920467 (0-06-092046-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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A lively, detailed picture of village life in the Middle Ages by the authors of Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Castle. "A good general introduction to the history of this period."--Los Angeles Times [via]
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London: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd

ISBN 1856197166 (1-85619-716-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus

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When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing London: The Biography, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the "human body" that is this most fascinating of cities. And not just any human body either, but "envisaged in the form of a young man with his arms outstretched in a gesture of liberation ... it embodies the energy and exaltation of a city continually beating in great waves of progress and of confidence". Probably there is no one better placed than Ackroyd--the author of mammoth lives of Dickens and Blake, and novels such as Hawksmoor and Dan Leno and the Lime House Golem which set singular characters against the backdrop of a city constantly shifting in time--to write such a rich, sinewy account of "Infinite London". Ackroyd's London is no mere chronology. Its chapters take on such varied themes as drinking, sex, childhood, poverty, crime and punishment, sewage, food, pestilence and fire, immigration, maps, theatre, war. We learn that gin was "the demon of London for half a century", and that "it has been estimated that in the 1740s and 1750s there were 17,000 'gin-houses'". Fleet Street was an area known for its "violent delights" where "a fourteen-year-old boy, only eighteen inches high, was to be seen in 1702 at a grocer's shop called the Eagle and Child by Shoe Lane". By the mid 19th-century "London had become known as the greatest city on earth". By 1939 "one in five of the British population had become a Londoner".
Though the variousness of London's chapters mean that it can be dipped into at random, Ackroyd is employing a skilful and continuous theme throughout, which constantly links past and present--the similarities of children's games in Lambeth in 1910 and 1999; the obsession with time--"in twenty-first century London time rushes forward and is everywhere apparent", while in 18th-century London the church clock of Newgate "regulated the times of hanging". Above all, he insists that the "dark secret life" of the metropolis is as relevant today as it was in perhaps its most appropriate period, Victorian London. Again and again Ackroyd returns to the image of London as a living organism, hence his use of the word "biography" in the title. At once awed by and intimate with this "ubiquitous" city, he stresses that "it can be located nowhere in particular ... its circumference is everywhere". --Catherine Taylor [via]
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Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
by Frederik Schodt

ISBN 4770012527 (4-7700-1252-7)
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Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0060652926 (0-06-065292-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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In 1943 Great Britain, when hope and the moral fabric of society were threatened by the relentless inhumanity of global war, an Oxford don was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. Over half a century after the original lectures, the topic retains it urgency. Expanded into book form, Mere Christianity never flinches as it sets out a rational basis for Christianity and builds an edifice of compassionate morality atop this foundation. As Mr. Lewis clearly demonstrates, Christianity is not a religion of flitting angels and blind faith, but of free will, an innate sense of justice and the grace of God. [via]
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Mere Christianity
by Patricia Klein, C. S. Lewis

ISBN 006057562X (0-06-057562-X)
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In 1943 Great Britain, when hope and the moral fabric of society were threatened by the relentless inhumanity of global war, an Oxford don was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. Over half a century after the original lectures, the topic retains it urgency. Expanded into book form, Mere Christianity never flinches as it sets out a rational basis for Christianity and builds an edifice of compassionate morality atop this foundation. As Mr. Lewis clearly demonstrates, Christianity is not a religion of flitting angels and blind faith, but of free will, an innate sense of justice and the grace of God. [via]
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Mere Christianity: An Anniversary Edition of the Three Books
by Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0025705903 (0-02-570590-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Mortal Immortal
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN 1892391015 (1-892391-01-5)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns

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This collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and will hopefully shed much needed light on an author often credited with writing the first science fiction novel. Here you will find the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Englishmen and Romans newly thawed out of ice. In addition to several stories by Mary Shelley, this volume also features a brand new story by renowned science fiction author Michael Bishop. This work serves as a narrative introduction for this collection. Mary Shelley's considerable reputation rests squarely on the shoulders of her one great novel - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her own byline in 1831. Her powerful tale of blasphemous creation is perhaps more familiar to modern readers through its many film adaptations as it is from the book itself. From Boris Karloff's electrifying performance as Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's latest directorial rendering, the story has received numerous interpretations which have renewed interest in the book time and time again. However, Shelley's other works have not fared as well as Frankenstein. She wrote just a handful of novels, of which only The Last Man (1826) has remained sporadically in print, due to its great length and slow, ornate and often tedious use of language. A precursor to such disaster novels as George R. Stewart's Earth Abides and Richard Jeffries' After London, The Last Man follows its protagonist Lionel Verney through a distant future world which has been depopulated by plague. The shorter works of Mary Shelley have remained even more obscure. During her lifetime, she published just over two-dozen stories, only three of which were of interest to readers of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to these three supernaturally-themed stories, two additional stories were published after Shelley's death. "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman," was printed in a volume of reminisces by a magazine editor who had commissioned the story thirty years earlier. "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman," a story in a similar vein to "Roger Dodsworth," remained unpublished until 1976, when both stories were discovered by Charles E. Robinson, a Shelley scholar and professor of English at the University of Delaware. [via]
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The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought
by Stephen Trombley, Alan Bullock, Alf Lawrie

ISBN 0002558718 (0-00-255871-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers

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Phenomenological Psychology
by E. Husserl

ISBN 902471978X (90-247-1978-X)
Softcover, Kluwer Academic Pub

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Plowing in Hope: Toward a Biblical Theology of Culture
by David B. Hegeman

ISBN 1885767633 (1-885767-63-3)
Softcover, Canon Press

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Plowing in Hope seeks to affirm the power and glory of human culture within a clearly defined biblical theology. True culture, Hegeman writes, "is not an activity to keep mankind occupied until something else (presumably better) happens. It has a particular God-ordained end in view: the development of the earth into a global network of gardens and cities in harmony with nature--a glorious garden-city." Placing the development of human culture in a biblical context through a close examination of key words in Greek and Hebrew ("work," for example), the author explores the true importance of the labor we do upon the world, arguing that true work must involve the "threefold connotation of work, service, and worship.
Not all will agree with Hegeman's conclusions; he rejects the monastic ideal of celibacy, for example, as a "denial of the normative goodness of marriage and the culturative commandment to fill the earth," and assumes that much of "non-Christian art" is useful in that it "may be given over to God's people for their use and enjoyment." Nonetheless, the book will be helpful to Bible-focused Christians who are looking for an affirmation of human culture in a Christ-centered context. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farm
by George Orwell

ISBN 8423337332 (84-233-3733-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Esta es una fabula en la que la adjudicacion de las aflicciones y las necesidades humanas a los animales protagonistas vencio la resistencia nacional de los primeros lectores a mirar lo que no querian mirar. Lo que nos cuenta el autor ya estaba en los periodicos: la historia sobre los crimenes estalinistas en la Union Sovietica. [via]
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Room With a View
by Lucy Fur

ISBN 1932595163 (1-932595-16-3)
Hardcover, Feral House

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A motel, a camera and Lucy Fur. Dreamy.Jimmy McDonough, author of Shakey: Neil Youngs Biography and Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer
The young, buxom Burlesque Queen of Portland, Oregon, has begun a distinctive photographic career by posing in a vanishing breed of unique motel room environ-ments across the country.

Writes Lucy in her introduction, Room With a View is not merely a pin-up book: it is as much about the room as it is about me. I think of myself as a fixture in that room, like a lamp or a chair. The kind of motel rooms that particularly attracted me had wood paneling, forgotten 60s- and 70s-era oil paintings, strange lighting, fantasy themes, tiled bathrooms, wacky wallpaper, and no outside view. All the photo-graphs are in some way a reaction to the established lexicon of pin-up sexy.

Room With a View contains nearly one hundred of Lucy Furs photographs, bound handsomely with an inlaid photograph surrounded by an elegant embossed cloth binding.
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The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
by Virginia Postrel

ISBN 0060186321 (0-06-018632-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye among teenage boys, one thing is clear: we have entered the Age of Aesthetics. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work.
We expect every strip mall and city block to offer designer coffee, a copy shop with do-it-yourself graphics workstations, and a nail salon for manicures on demand. Every startup, product, or public space calls for an aesthetic touch, which gives us more choices, and more responsibility. By now, we all rely on style to express identity. And aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes.
In this penetrating, keenly observed book, Virginia Postrel shows that the "look and feel" of people, places, and things are more important than we think. Aesthetic pleasure taps deep human instincts and is essential for creativity and growth. Drawing from fields as diverse as fashion, real estate, politics, design, and economics, Postrel deftly chronicles our cultures aesthetic imperative and argues persuasively that it is a vital component of a healthy, forward-looking society.
Intelligent, incisive, and thought provoking, The Substance of Style is a groundbreaking portrait of the democratization of taste and a brilliant examination of the way we live now.
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Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu, Ralph Alan Dale, John Cleare

ISBN 1842930567 (1-84293-056-7)
Softcover, Duncan Baird Publishers

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Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into the nature of things forms the basis for a humane morality and vision of political utopia. The ideas in this work constitute one of the main shaping forces behind Chinese spirituality, art and science, so much so that no understanding of Chinese civilisation is possible without a grasp of Taoism. This edition presents the authoritative translation by Arthur Waley, with a new Introduction reflecting recent developments in the interpretation of the work. [via]
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Tao Te Ching: The New Translation
by Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay, Man-Ho Kwok

ISBN 1852303220 (1-85230-322-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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For more than 2,500 years, the Tao Te Ching has been the major underlying influence in Chinese thought and culture. This outstanding collector's edition is a completely fresh translation, meticulously drawn from the earliest known Chinese manuscript, and rendered into a powerful text by poet John Ramsay. Illustrated in full color with calligraphy and 14th-century Chinese paintings. [via]
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The Tao Te Ching: 81 Verses by Lao Tzu with Introduction and Commentary
by Watkins

ISBN 1842931237 (1-84293-123-7)
Hardcover, Duncan Baird Publishers

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The Tao Te Ching is universally renowned as a sublimely poetic spiritual teaching by the legendary sage, Lao Tzu. Its easily assimilated aphorisms provide a continuous source of spiritual nourishment, its insights on statesmanship are practical guides for our own time, and, in the West, the Taoist systems of the I Ching, Tai Chi, Qui Gong, and Feng Shui are becoming increasingly popular. Ralph Alan Dales brilliant translation uniquely captures, as never before, the essential meaning of this profound text.
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Tao Te Ching : The Cornerstone of Chinese Culture
by Lao Tzu, Abe Bellenteen

ISBN 9654941562 (965-494-156-2)
Softcover, Astrolog Publishing House

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Written nearly 2,500 years ago, this ancient text served as the basis for Chinese and other Eastern philosophies for generations, as well as for the I Ching. Meaning "the way that has to be followed," this version was translated in 2001 and is based on two scientific editions that were published in China at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as on the English translation rendered by the Buddhist Association in London. This version includes terms that are explained for and accessible to the modern reader. [via]
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Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, + Mysticism in the Age of Information
by Erik Davis

ISBN 1852427728 (1-85242-772-8)
Softcover, Serpents Tail

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The gap between the technological mentality and the mystical outlook may not be as great as it seems. Erik Davis looks at modern information technology--and much previous technology--to reveal how much of it has roots in spiritual attitudes. Furthermore, he explores how those who embrace each new technological advance often do so with designs and expectations stemming from religious sensibilities. In doing so, Davis both compares and contrasts the scientific attitude that we can know reality technologically and the Gnostic idea of developing ultimate understanding. Although organized into reasonable chapters, there's a strong stream-of-consciousness component to Davis's writing. His expositions may run, for example, from information theory to the nebulous nature of Gnosticism to the philosophical problem of evil-all in just a few pages. It's as if there are so many connections to make that Davis's prose has to run back and forth across time and space drawing the lines. But the result, rather than being chaotic, is a lively interplay of wide-ranging ideas. His style is equally lively and generally engaging--if sometimes straying into the hip. In the end, he succeeds in showing the spiritual side of what some may see as cold, technological thought. --Elizabeth Lewis [via]
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They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases
by Howard Rheingold

ISBN 1889330469 (1-889330-46-9)
Softcover, Sarabande Books

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Which came first: The worldview, or the words to describe it? Very possibly the latter, argues the author of They Have a Word for It. "Finding a name for something," says Howard Rheingold, "is a way of conjuring its existence." While collecting words for this book, Rheingold says he "became sympathetic to the idea that we think and behave the way we do in large part because we have words that make these thoughts and behaviors possible, acceptable, and useful." Rheingold's refusal to pull together words for entertainment value alone--though many of these words, and Rheingold's commentary on them, are highly entertaining--is what has given this book (previously out of print) a kind of cult following.
Hawaiian contributes a word (ho'oponopono) here that means "solving a problem by talking it out"; Japanese, a term (kyoikumama) for a "mother who pushes her children into academic achievement"; Indonesian, a word (kekaku) meaning "to awaken from a nightmare"; and Mayan (some things, it seems, are universal), a concise way to say "stupid in-laws" (bol). While it is the Asian and obscure linguistic groups that seem to come up with the most "powerful" ideas, German wins for packing a whole sentence's worth of meaning into one (albeit long) word. How much happier Strunk and White would rest if we could just say Torschlüsspanik when discussing "the frantic anxiety experienced by unmarried women as they race against the 'biological clock'"; Treppenwitz when referring to the "clever remark that comes to mind when it is too late to utter it"; and Schlimmbesserung when lamenting "a so-called improvement that makes things worse." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Levi-Strauss

ISBN 2266013947 (2-266-01394-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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"Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs" : la première phrase de Tristes tropiques donne le ton. Claude Lévi-Strauss, philosophe de formation, n'est ni un marchand d'exotisme ni un amateur d'anecdotes ; la longue confession qu'il nous livre ici relate l'histoire d'une conversion à l'ethnologie. Quelle est cette étrange passion pour l'altérité qui pousse un jeune homme, tout frais émoulu de l'université, à abandonner son "chez soi" pour aller s'immerger dans celui des autres ? Au-delà des pittoresques récits de voyages au Brésil mais aussi aux Antilles et en Asie, les chapitres sont hantés par cette interrogation sur l'exil volontaire et sur la solitude du voyageur au milieu d'autres peuples.
Réflexion sur le pouvoir et l'écriture, sur l'irréversibilité du temps qui emporte avec lui, aidé par l'Occident, des civilisations entières, sur le dur métier d'ethnologue... le domaine d'investigation de l'ouvrage est vaste. Le regard de Lévi-Strauss est sans concession mais jamais désabusé ni amer. La passion pour la vérité fait la force de l'explorateur intérieur. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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Utopia
by Thomas More

ISBN 1853264741 (1-85326-474-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau, Javier Alcoriza, Antonio Lastra

ISBN 8437622123 (84-376-2212-3)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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Walden; Or, Life in the Woods written by legendary author Henry David Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic on self reliance will surely attract a whole new generation of Henry David Thoreau readers. For many, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Henry David Thoreau is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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by Mark Kurlansky

ISBN 8423337065 (84-233-3706-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown, Juanjo Estrella

ISBN 8495618605 (84-95618-60-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Nº 1 en USA

¿ Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de Mona Lisa? Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad& hasta ahora.

Antes de morir asesinado, Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda del experto en simbología Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.

Un apasionante juego de claves escondidas, sorprendentes revelaciones, acertijos ingeniosos, verdades, mentiras, realidades históricas, mitos, símbolos, ritos, misterios y suposiciones en una trama llena de giros inesperados narrada con un ritmo imparable que conduce al lector hasta el secreto más celosamente guardado del inicio de nuestra era.

" Intriga y amenaza se mezclan en una de las mejores novelas de suspense que he leído jamás. Un sorprendente relato donde los enigmas se suceden a los secretos y éstos a las adivinanzas."

Clive Cussler.

" Un inteligente thriller lleno de enigmas y códigos que, sin duda, puede recomendarse con rotundo entusiasmo."

The New York Times
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code: El Illustrado / Illustraded
by Dan Brown, Juanjo Estrella

ISBN 8495618818 (84-95618-81-8)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano

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¿Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de la celebre Mona Lisa? Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad& hasta ahora.
Uno de los libros con mas tiempo en el tope de la lista de los Best Sellers del New York Times!.... El Código Da Vinci, ahora en un audiolibro narrado en español del bestseller internacional de Dan Brown, producido exclusivamente por FONOLIBRO, el cual no podrá dejar de escuchar hasta que llegue al inesperado final.
Mientras se encontraba en un viaje de negocios en Paris, Robert Langdon, experto en simbologia de la universidad de Harvard, recibe una llamada urgente a media noche. Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, ha sido asesinado en el museo del Louvre. Saunière antes de morir transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
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El Erotismo
by Georges Bataille

ISBN 8483105470 (84-8310-547-0)
Hardcover, Tusquets Editores

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Frakenstein
by Mary W. Shelly

ISBN 8440619537 (84-406-1953-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Que le Hicieron a mi Pais, Man? / Dude, Where's My Country?
by Michael Moore

ISBN 8466616845 (84-666-1684-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Intended to serve as a handbook for people with liberal opinions to take back their country from the conservative forces in power, this book skillfully makes use of Michael Moore's trademark brand of confrontational, exasperated humor to lambast the concocted threats and lies designed by the conservative right to stay rich and in control. On these pages no one is safe from Moore's sharp-tongued critiques: corporate barons who have bilked millions out of their employees' lifetime savings, legislators who have stripped away our civil liberties in the name of "homeland security," and even the ever-present right-wing brother-in-law who manages, year after year, through his babbling idiocy, to ruin Thanksgiving dinner.

Una sarcástica y despiadada cruzada, este libro tiene una clara misión: acabar de una vez por todas con el mandato de George W. Bush, el hombre que se coló en la Casa Blanca gracias a los compinches de su papá. Moore no deja títere con cabeza a invitar al lector a ponerse manos a la obra para tratar de salvar al mundo de uno de los hombres más poderosos y nocivos del planeta. Llena de su humor característica, nadie escape de sus críticas: ni los negociantes, ni los legisladores, ni el cuñado que maneja a arruinar cada cena de familia con sus opiniones idiotas e conservadoras.
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El Queso Y Los Gusanos
by Carlo Ginzburg

ISBN 9706512071 (970-651-207-1)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico

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Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farm
by G. Orwel

ISBN 9706438807 (970-643-880-7)
Softcover, Selector S.A. De C.V.

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El Senor De Las Moscas/ Lord of the Flies
by William Golding, Carmen Vergara

ISBN 8420666572 (84-206-6657-2)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Urdida en torno a la situacion limite de una treintena de muchachos en una isla desierta, El Senor de las Moscas es una magnifica novela que admite lecturas diferentes e incluso opuestas. En efecto, si algunos pueden ver en esta indagacion de William Golding en la condicion humana la ilustracion de que la agresividad criminal se halla entre los instintos basicos del hombre, otros podran considerarla como una parabola que cuestiona un tipo de educacion represiva que no hace sino incubar explosiones de barbarie prestas a estallar en cuanto los controles se relajan. [via]
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Vecinos Distantes: UN Retrato De Los Mexicanos/Distant Neighbors A Portrait of the Mexicans
by Alan Riding

ISBN 968270491X (968-27-0491-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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1985 Joaquin Mortiz/Planeta edition. Covers lightly soiled, pages tanned but are well preserved [via]
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De Gaulle 1944: Victoire De La Legitimite
by Rene Hostache

ISBN 2259003591 (2-259-00359-1)
Hardcover, Plon

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"Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs" : la première phrase de Tristes tropiques donne le ton. Claude Lévi-Strauss, philosophe de formation, n'est ni un marchand d'exotisme ni un amateur d'anecdotes ; la longue confession qu'il nous livre ici relate l'histoire d'une conversion à l'ethnologie. Quelle est cette étrange passion pour l'altérité qui pousse un jeune homme, tout frais émoulu de l'université, à abandonner son "chez soi" pour aller s'immerger dans celui des autres ? Au-delà des pittoresques récits de voyages au Brésil mais aussi aux Antilles et en Asie, les chapitres sont hantés par cette interrogation sur l'exil volontaire et sur la solitude du voyageur au milieu d'autres peuples.
Réflexion sur le pouvoir et l'écriture, sur l'irréversibilité du temps qui emporte avec lui, aidé par l'Occident, des civilisations entières, sur le dur métier d'ethnologue... le domaine d'investigation de l'ouvrage est vaste. Le regard de Lévi-Strauss est sans concession mais jamais désabusé ni amer. La passion pour la vérité fait la force de l'explorateur intérieur. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown

ISBN 2266144340 (2-266-14434-0)
Softcover, Presses Pocket

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POCKET Thriller (P) n° 12265 (2005) - Dan BROWN Da Vinci Code [via]
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

ISBN 3257208626 (3-257-20862-6)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG

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All books are shipped from Austria! [via]
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Tao-Te-King
by Lao-Tzu, Hans Knospe, Odette Brandli

ISBN 3257218753 (3-257-21875-3)
Hardcover, Diogenes

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Das Tao- Te- King von Lao Tse dürfte nach der Bibel das am weitesten verbreitete und meistübersetzte Buch sein. Und seitdem die Lehre vom Tao im Westen bekannt geworden ist, hat sie dort Menschen angesprochen und auch politische Wirkungen gezeigt. [via]
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L'Utopie De Thomas More
by Thomas More, Andre Prevost

ISBN 2728900892 (2-7289-0089-2)
Hardcover, Mame

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