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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Scott McKowenISBN 1402726007 (1-4027-2600-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn includes a Preface, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Keith Neilson.
Breezy, outrageous, thrilling from first page to last, Huckleberry Finn is the most widely read and universally loved work in American fiction. It is also the most imitated. "All modern American literature," according to Ernest Hemingway, "comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."More editions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0938819003 (0-938819-00-3)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0895980126 (0-89598-012-6)
Softcover, Andor Pub Co - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0894718800 (0-89471-880-0)
Hardcover, Courage Books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0895772523 (0-89577-252-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0971075603 (0-9710756-0-3)
Hardcover, Everbind Anthologies - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 1402726007 (1-4027-2600-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0938819003 (0-938819-00-3)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Oliver Ho, Dan AndreasenISBN 1402724993 (1-4027-2499-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:[via]We said there was no home like a raft. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery but you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim. Twains beloved tale, with its folksy language, creates an indelible image of antebellum America with its sleepy river towns, con men, family feuds, and a variety of colorful characters.
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Age of Wondersby David G. HartwellISBN 0893661635 (0-89366-163-5)
Hardcover, Washington Ave Books Inc
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America's Fascinating Indian Heritageby James A. MaxwellISBN 0895770199 (0-89577-019-9)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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America's Fascinating Indian Heritageby Reader's DigestISBN 0895773724 (0-89577-372-4)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Fascinating Indian Heritage'Book summary:Brings the whole story into focus-as it really happened. Meet these men and women, the memory of whom still haunts America-and get acquainted with an integral part of our heritage-in this honest and informative celebration of the American Indian. [via]
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0931771021 (0-931771-02-1)
Softcover, Hill House, Publishers
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The American Religionby Harold BloomISBN 0978721004 (0-9787210-0-4)
Softcover, Atlasbooks Dist Serv
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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Cultureby Hal FosterISBN 0941920011 (0-941920-01-1)
Softcover, Bay Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture'Book summary:For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. The Anti-Aesthetic is a touchstone volume for postmodern debate and theory. Though the cultural stakes and terms have changed over the last decade, this collection still illuminates--perhaps now even more lucidly--a vital current in contemporary criticism. Contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jrgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Edward Said, and Gregory Ulmer. [via]
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Apocalypse Cultureby Adam ParfreyISBN 0922915059 (0-922915-05-9)
Softcover, Feral House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalypse Culture'Book summary:For years I've been a little leery of this book. First published in 1987, this anthology of doomster essays has become a fixture on the bookshelves of every Tom, Pierced Dick, and Harry. After finally reading it, I have to admit that my prejudice against those who think that being cool means reading lots of ReSearch magazines kept me away from what is actually a fascinating volume, wherein the most absurd, inexcusable positions are defended with calm intelligence and witty rationality. With essays ranging from the sexual liberation of necrophiliacs to strong cases against art and agriculture, editor Adam Parfrey's collection is one that Tristan Tzara would enjoy, if he were to rise from his mouldy grave in search of good bathroom reading. [via]
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Apocalypse Culture IIby Adam ParfreyISBN 0922915571 (0-922915-57-1)
Softcover, Feral House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalypse Culture II'Book summary:When it was published in 1987, Apocalypse Culture was the first of its kind. No other book examined such disturbing cultural extremes, and no other book looked at the dark sides of society within the framework of the apocalypse. In the intervening 12 years, it has become clear that Apocalypse Culture inspired a new genre of cultural commentary that has been embraced by both independent and large mainstream publishers and eagerly sought after by the culture at large. Among its fans is X-Files creator Chris Carter.
Now Adam Parfrey offers a follow-up to that first book. Apocalypse Culture II is an entirely new collection of essays that reflect the most recent revelations of the New World Order. Through the extremes of postmodern culture it details the moral disintegration of the old world. Essays cover biological warfare, taboo art, sexual fetishism, mind control for corporate gain, government sex-slavery, creepy superstars, and more. [via]
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Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusionby KreeftISBN 0898704227 (0-89870-422-7)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Black Looks: Race and Representationby Bell HooksISBN 0896084337 (0-89608-433-7)
Softcover, South End Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Looks: Race and Representation'Book summary:In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences of contemporary representations of race and ethnicity within a white supremacist culture.[via]More editions of Black Looks: Race and Representation:
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Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Fronteraby Gloria AnzalduaISBN 0933216254 (0-933216-25-4)
Softcover, Spinsters/Aunt Lute
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera'Book summary:Experimental, inventive, provocative and above all visionary, Gloria Anzaldúa's work is widely recognized among scholars of Chicano/Latino, Gay and Lesbian, Women's, Postcolonial, Ethnic and Cultural Studies as a foundational elaboration of the politics and poetics of cultural hybridity. Both Borderlands/La Frontera and Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras are all about understanding the complex and competing social, political and cultural forces that shape-sometimes quite brutally-the experiences of women of color in the U.S., and they are all about taking that understanding and mobilizing it toward creative and revisionary efforts for making social change.
"One of the 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century"-Hungry Mind Review (Spring 1999)
"Anzaldúa's voyage of discovery, focused on the border and the new mestiza, is a preparation for the future. The border is a bundle of contradictions and ambiguities... This hybrid crossroads is just the right kind of training ground. It is fertile area for mutations and transformations. In Borderlands/ La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa is our guide with an all-encompassing vision to charge the border with meaning."-The Americas Review
"[She] explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence of those living on the frontier between cultures and languages. . . .she meditates on the conditions of Chicanos in Anglo culture, women in Hispanic culture, and lesbians in the straight world. ...a powerful document."-Library Journal
A "Best of 1987" Library Journal selection.
"Anzaldúa's vision encompasses spiritual and experiential aspects of female power, as well as the day-to-day courage and struggle that has characterized Chicano survival."-The San Francisco Chronicle [via]More editions of Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera:
Breaking Breadby Bell HooksISBN 0896084140 (0-89608-414-0)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Lifeby bell hooks, Cornel WestISBN 0896084159 (0-89608-415-9)
Hardcover, Pluto Press
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0899669751 (0-89966-975-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Cat (Kat), N. ..by B. KlibanISBN 0911104542 (0-911104-54-2)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat (Kat), N. ..'Book summary:Its the mother of all cat books. The book that gave new meaning to wacka-wacka and forever redefined it.
Cat is the classic that started it all. It gave a voice to catmaniacs around the country and launched an entire genre in publishing and licensing. Everybody went crazy.
Neither cute nor mysterious but instead simply and irreverently, even raucously, very funny. Village Voice. [via] -
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob BurckhardtISBN 1404343660 (1-4043-4366-0)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'Book summary:"None of his successors not even Cesare Borgia rivalled the colossal guilt of Ezzelino " proposes the author. [via]
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The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. AuelISBN 0896214389 (0-89621-438-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'Book summary:When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.
Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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Coming Home Crazy/an Alphabet of China Essaysby Bill HolmISBN 0915943425 (0-915943-42-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming Home Crazy/an Alphabet of China Essays'Book summary:Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Writing about traditions that endure in rural areas as well as the absurdities of bureaucracy experienced by an American teacher and traveler in the 1980s, the essays cover such topics as dumpling making, bound feet, Chinglish, night soil, and banking. A new afterword reacts to recent changes in China. [via]
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Contending for the Faith: The Church's Engagement With Cultureby Ralph C. WoodISBN 091895486X (0-918954-86-X)
Softcover, Baylor Univ Pr
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The Decline of the Westby Oswald Spengler, Helmut Werner, Arthur Helps, Charles Francis AtkinsonISBN 1400097002 (1-4000-9700-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline of the West'Book summary:Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations.
This abridgment presents the most significant of Oswald Spenglers arguments, linked by illuminating explanatory passages. It makes available in one volume a masterpiece of grand-scale history and far-reaching prophesy that remains essential reading for anyone interested in the factors that determine the course of civilizations. [via]More editions of The Decline of the West:
The Degenerate Modernsby E. Michael JonesISBN 0898704472 (0-89870-447-2)
Softcover, Ignatius Press
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Discovering America's Past: Customs, Legends, History & Lore of Our Great NationISBN 0895775204 (0-89577-520-4)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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Faction Paradox: This Town Will Never Let Us Goby Lawrence MilesISBN 0972595929 (0-9725959-2-9)
Softcover, Mad Norwegian Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faction Paradox: This Town Will Never Let Us Go'Book summary:Faction Paradox: A group of time-travelling ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers -- essentially, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults. The Faction seeks to subvert history to its own ends, preferably by letting its rivals kill each other off, then swooping in to seize whatever's left -- presuming the Universe survives...An examination of ritual and suburban horror, This Town Will Never Let Us Go features the 19-year-old Inangela, a city-dweller who's under observation by Faction Paradox's elders and archons. Before this story's done, Inangela's going to encounter the Great Urban Horror--an unidentified force seeking to tunnel its way out of the ground and feed on the surface world. [via]
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States A Collection of Essaysby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, John C. HamiltonISBN 0895263033 (0-89526-303-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The Federalist Papersby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James MadisonISBN 0899666957 (0-89966-695-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Papers'Book summary:"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties." So wrote John Jay, one of the revolutionary authors of The Federalist Papers, arguing that if the United States was truly to be a single nation, its leaders would have to agree on universally binding rules of governance--in short, a constitution. In a brilliant set of essays, Jay and his colleagues Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explored in minute detail the implications of establishing a kind of rule that would engage as many citizens as possible and that would include a system of checks and balances. Their arguments proved successful in the end, and The Federalist Papers stand as key documents in the founding of the United States. [via]
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The Federalist Papersby John Jay, James Madison, Alexander HamiltonISBN 1404302301 (1-4043-0230-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Papers'Book summary:"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties." So wrote John Jay, one of the revolutionary authors of The Federalist Papers, arguing that if the United States was truly to be a single nation, its leaders would have to agree on universally binding rules of governance--in short, a constitution. In a brilliant set of essays, Jay and his colleagues Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explored in minute detail the implications of establishing a kind of rule that would engage as many citizens as possible and that would include a system of checks and balances. Their arguments proved successful in the end, and The Federalist Papers stand as key documents in the founding of the United States. [via]
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The Federalist Papers: In Modern Language Indexed for Today's Political Issuesby Mary E. WebsterISBN 0936783214 (0-936783-21-4)
Softcover, Merril Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Papers: In Modern Language Indexed for Today's Political Issues'Book summary:The Federalist Papers are among the most important Founding Documents in the birth of the United States of America. The whole original debate over the Constitution is laid out here in detail for all to see. But most Americans have never read them. Why? Because they were written in the florid and complex language of 18th century politics. Now the Federalist Papers have been translated into modern American English. If you can read a newspaper, you can now read the Federalist Papers. See how the Founding Fathers foresaw the problems of impeachment, of corruption in government, of representation and all the other headline-grabbing issues we read about today! This new edition is indexed for today's political issues, a feature found no where else! The Clinton Impeachment? Regulatory excess? Bumbling bureaucracy? Gun control? Just see the index and find out what the Federalist Papers say about it! A publishing event of major importance! [via]
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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of Experts' Advice to Womenby Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre EnglishISBN 1400078008 (1-4000-7800-8)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voicesby Xinran Xue, Esther TyldesleyISBN 1400030803 (1-4000-3080-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices'Book summary:When Deng Xiaopings efforts to open up China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, Words on the Night Breeze sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history. [via]
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0895773872 (0-89577-387-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Great Evangelical Disasterby Francisa SchaefferISBN 0891073086 (0-89107-308-6)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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A provocative and challenging bookbut one that is tempered by Dr. Schaeffer's deep commitment to Christ and love for the church.
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0891906797 (0-89190-679-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Martina Selway, C. E. BrockISBN 0890093040 (0-89009-304-0)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:A retelling of the classic fantasy adventure, illustrated in colour by Gennady Spirin. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Martin Woodside, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726627 (1-4027-2662-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:[via]Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swifts unforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined. Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliver seems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, the opposite, where the natives are giants and Gulliver puny; the ruined yet magical country of Laputa; and the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior to the ugly humanoid Yahoos who share their universe.
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The Hacker Crackdownby Bruce SterlingISBN 1404306404 (1-4043-0640-4)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontierby Bruce SterlingISBN 1404306412 (1-4043-0641-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Hidden Persuadersby Vance Packard, Mark Crispin MillerISBN 097884310X (0-9788431-0-X)
Softcover, Ig Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Persuaders'Book summary:[via]"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising."--Salon
"Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating."--The New York Times Book Review
"A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the American mind into a kind of catatonic dough that will buy, give or vote at their command--The New Yorker
Originally published in 1957 and now back in print to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, The Hidden Persuaders is Vance Packards pioneering and prescient work revealing how advertisers use psychological methods to tap into our unconscious desires in order to "persuade" us to buy the products they are selling.
A classic examination of how our thoughts and feelings are manipulated by business, media and politicians, The Hidden Persuaders was the first book to expose the hidden world of motivation research, the psychological technique that advertisers use to probe our minds in order to control our actions as consumers. Through analysis of products, political campaigns and television programs of the 1950s, Packard shows how the insidious manipulation practices that have come to dominate todays corporate-driven world began. Featuring an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, The Hidden Persuaders has sold over one million copies, and forever changed the way we look at the world of advertising.
Vance Packard (1914-1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and best-selling author. Among his other books were The Status Seekers, which described American social stratification and behavior, The Waste Makers, which criticizes planned obsolescence, and The Naked Society, about the threats to privacy posed by new technologies.
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The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observedby Norman LewisISBN 0907871488 (0-907871-48-8)
Softcover, Eland & Sickle Moon Books
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How Movies Helped Saved My Soulby Gareth Higgins, Tony CampoloISBN 0971457697 (0-9714576-9-7)
Softcover, Strang Communications Co
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In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art, and Literatureby Christopher WoodwardISBN 1400030862 (1-4000-3086-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Incredibly Strange Musicby Andrea Juno, V. ValeISBN 0940642212 (0-940642-21-2)
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Japan and the United States in the Developing Worldby Economic Growth Center at Yale University, Research Institute for Economics and Business at Kobe University, Gustav RanisISBN 0965693015 (0-9656930-1-5)
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John SteinbeckISBN 0905712706 (0-905712-70-6)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:5 stories in one the grapes of wrath the moon is down cannery row east of eden of mice and men [via]
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 0905712064 (0-905712-06-4)
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Letters on Englandby VoltaireISBN 1404313451 (1-4043-1345-1)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Mark Twainby Mark TwainISBN 0940450070 (0-940450-07-0)
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A Million Little Piecesby James FreyISBN 1400031087 (1-4000-3108-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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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.
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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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Minima Moraliaby Theodor W. AdornoISBN 0902308955 (0-902308-95-5)
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Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritualby V. ValeISBN 094064214X (0-940642-14-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual'Book summary:Modern Primitives': An anthropological inquiry into a contemporary social enigma--the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decoration practices such as symbolic/deeply personal tattooing, multiple piercings, and ritual scarification. 'Primitive' actions which rupture conventional confines of behavior and aesthetics are objectively scrutinized. In context of the death of global frontiers, this volume charts the territory of the last remaining underdeveloped source of first-hand experience: the human body." *** CONTENTS: * Introduction * Fakir Musafar * Tattoo Mike * Man Woman * Don Ed Hardy * Captain Don * Jane Handel * Wes Christensen -- Mayan Culture * Anton Lavey * Leo Zulueta * Roelyn Gallina * Bill Salmon * Sheree Rose * Lyle Tuttle * Vaughn * Vyvyn Lazonga * Monte Cazazza * Dan Thome * Hanky Panky * Charlie Cartwright * Greg Kulz * Heather McDonald * David Levi Strauss * Jim Ward * Genesis & Paul P-Orridge * Miscellaneous * Quotations * Sources * Index [via]
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Moyers On America: A Journalist And His Timesby Bill Moyers, Julie Leininger PyciorISBN 1400095360 (1-4000-9536-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The New Tower of Babel: Modern Man's Flight from Godby Dietrich Von HildebrandISBN 0918477220 (0-918477-22-0)
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 1400031346 (1-4000-3134-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'Book summary:Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, who's their full-fledged heir.
It's the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invariably penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. If Miss Marple were fat and jolly and lived in Botswana--and decided to go against any conventional notion of what an unmarried woman should do, spending the money she got from selling her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies' Detective Agency--then you have an idea of how Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. Once the clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious enjoys a pleasingly successful series of cases.
But the edge of the Kalahari is not St. Mary Mead, and the sign Precious orders, painted in brilliant colors, is anything but discreet. Pointing in the direction of the small building she had purchased to house her new business, it reads "THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT."
The solutions she comes up with, whether in the case of the clinic doctor with two quite different personalities (depending on the day of the week), or the man who had joined a Christian sect and seemingly vanished, or the kidnapped boy whose bones may or may not be those in a witch doctor's magic kit, are all sensible, logical, and satisfying. Smith's gently ironic tone is full of good humor towards his lively, intelligent heroine and towards her fellow Africans, who live their lives with dignity and with cautious acceptance of the confusions to which the world submits them. Precious Ramotswe is a remarkable creation, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency well deserves the praise it received from London's Times Literary Supplement. I look forward with great eagerness to the upcoming books featuring the memorable Miss Ramotswe, Tears of the Giraffe and Morality for Beautiful Girls, soon to be available in the U.S. --Otto Penzler [via]
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None Dare Call It Education: What's Happening to Our Schools & Our Children?by John StormerISBN 0914053124 (0-914053-12-4)
Hardcover, Liberty Bell Pr
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Oath of Fealtyby Larry Niven, Jerry PournelleISBN 0932096123 (0-932096-12-3)
Hardcover, Phantasia Press
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On the Roadby Jack KerouacISBN 0899661343 (0-89966-134-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earthby R.Buckminster FullerISBN 089190235X (0-89190-235-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'Book summary:In this essay on man Mr. Fuller expresses what may well be his penultimate view of the human condition. Here, in a mood at once philosophical and involved, Mr. Fuller traces man s intellectual evolution and weighs his capability for survival on this magnificent craft, this Spaceship Earth, this superbly designed sphere of almost negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
Mr. Fuller is optimistic that man will survive and, through research and development and increased industrialization, generate wealth so rapidly that he can do very great things. But, he notes, there must be an enormous educational task successfully accomplished right now to convert man's tendency toward oblivion into a realization of his potential, to a universe-exploring advantage from this Spaceship Earth.
It has been noted that Mr. Fuller spins ideas in clusters, and clusters of his ideas generate still other clusters. The concept spaceship earth is Mr. Fuller's, and though used by Barbara Ward as the title of a work of her own the idea was acknowledged by her there as deriving from Mr. Fuller. The brilliant syntheses of some fundamental Fuller principles given here makes of this book a microcosm of the Fuller system. [via]More editions of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth:
Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1404323066 (1-4043-2306-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
ORTHODOXYby Not AvailableISBN 0977616746 (0-9776167-4-6)
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A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Loveby Caroline KennedyISBN 1401307671 (1-4013-0767-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love'Book summary:Now available in paperback, the New York Times bestseller. When John F. Kennedy called America "the land we love" more than 42 years ago, he was reminding us of the lofty ideals on which our country was founded. But what are those ideals, and how have Americans defined them Is America the land of George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who rallied the country's spirits for unity in wartime, or is it a land of dissent, a land in which Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. remind us of our duty to protect our most fundamental freedoms? Are we defined by the speeches of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan or by the humor of H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain? Caroline Kennedy's answer in A Patriot's Handbook is that we are all of those things and more. The poems, songs, speeches, letters, and historical documents that Caroline Kennedy has chosen for this remarkable collection remind us of the foundations on which America was built. But they also ask us to examine what it truly means to be a "patriot," even if our assumptions are challenged along the way, because it is only by doing so that America can "truly be our own." Voices as diverse as the nation itself: --Thomas Jefferson--Cole Porter--Chief Red Jacket--Amy Tan--Betty Friedan--Albert Einstein--George W. Bush--Loretta Lynn--John F. Kennedy--Martin Luther King, Jr.--Bob Dylan--Cesar Chavez--Toni Morrison--Groucho Marx--and many more [via]
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Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christiansby David LimbaughISBN 0895261111 (0-89526-111-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sexby Patrick Califia-RiceISBN 0939416891 (0-939416-89-1)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Re-Search: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristleby V. ValeISBN 0940642050 (0-940642-05-0)
Softcover, Re-Search Pubns
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Re/Search #12: Modern Primitivesby V. ValeISBN 0965046931 (0-9650469-3-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Re/Search #12: Modern Primitives'Book summary:Modern Primitives is the Bible of Body Modification, including tattoo, piercing, and scarification. An amazing 30-page interview with Fakir Musafar, as well as in-depth interviews with Ed Hardy, Lyle Tuttle, Leo Zulueta, Bill Salmon, Vyvyn Lazonga and other tattoo giants is featured. This book describes non-tribal people who felt and responded to strong "primitive" urges. A classic; this is the first book to chart out all the basic ways to creatively express one's individuality using the body as a canvas, especially emphasizing the need to find something rooted in one's own personal experiences and mythology. Inspiring and wide-ranging, Modern Primitives provides a vast anthropological context for implementing a truly unique body-decoration expression. An illuminating section of quotations rounds out this volume.[via]More editions of Re/Search #12: Modern Primitives:
Re/Search #4/5: W.S. Burroughs, Brion Bysin, Throbbing Gristleby V. ValeISBN 0965046915 (0-9650469-1-5)
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Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminismby John Piper, Wayne A. GrudemISBN 0891075860 (0-89107-586-0)
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Redeemed: The Unauthorized Guide to Angelby Lars Pearson, Christa DicksonISBN 0972595937 (0-9725959-3-7)
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The Russian's World: Life and Languageby Genevra GerhartISBN 0893572934 (0-89357-293-4)
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Excerpt from the Special Achievement Award conferred upon the second edition of THE RUSSIAN'S WORLD by the Publications Committee of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) in December 1993. [via]
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Semiotextby Fleming, Peter Lamborn WilsonISBN 0936756470 (0-936756-47-0)
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speechesby Audre LordeISBN 0895941414 (0-89594-141-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches'Book summary:Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. . . .
Reviews"...it's been almost a quarter of a century since Audre Lorde's essays and speeches in Sister Outsider made an indelible mark on 20th-century literature. But the words of the black lesbian feminist poet seem as lyrical and unforgettable, and, sadly, as relevant today as when she first tackled everything from racism and homophobia to ageism and class dichotomies. A must-have book that every lesbian should read."Curve Editor's Pick Lorde was a brilliant feminist poet and intellectual whose theories on the power of embracing our internal contradictions as well as the differences between people and groups is the way to powerful coalition building and social progress. New York Post, Sunday Poet and librarian Lorde collected 15 of her finest essays and speeches in this 1984 volume. With her poet's command of language, she addresses sexism, racism, black women, black lesbians, eroticism, and more. Still powerful. Library Journal, Starred Review Audre Lorde is a passionate sage. I say is' and not was' because her keen insights continue to provoke and sustain us and give us courage. The reissue of this book is a gift to longtime admirers and to new readers who have yet to discover the power and grace and splendid audacity of Audre Lorde. Valerie Miner, author of After Eden and professor of feminist studies at Stanford University [Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware. New York Times
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Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretationby Jerome H. NeyreyISBN 0943575486 (0-943575-48-6)
Hardcover, Hendrickson Pub
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Tar Babyby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400033446 (1-4000-3344-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Third Time Around: The History of the Pro-Life Movement from the First Century to the Presentby George GrantISBN 0943497655 (0-943497-65-5)
Softcover, Legacy Communications
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Transforming A Rape Cultureby Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher, Martha RothISBN 0915943069 (0-915943-06-9)
Hardcover, Milkweed Editions
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Twilight of a Great Civilization: The Drift Toward Neo-Paganismby Carl F. H. HenryISBN 0891074910 (0-89107-491-0)
Hardcover, Crossway Books
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Where Angels Fear to Treadby E. M. ForsterISBN 1404358951 (1-4043-5895-1)
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0893401307 (0-89340-130-7)
Hardcover, J. Curley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:'A brilliant memoir ...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire; its crises are the crises of a heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it ...Maxine Hong Kingston writes with bitter and relentless love. Her voice, now, is as clear as the voice of Ts'ai Yen, who sang her sad, angry songs of China to the barbarians. It is as fierce as a warrior's voice, and as eloquent as any artist's' Jane Kramer, New York Times Book Review 'This is a delightful book ...tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it's like simply to be alive' Victoria Radin, New Society 'A strange, enchanting book ...As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one's own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable' Clancy Sigal, Guardian 'As a dream -- of the "female avenger" -- it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword ...reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God' John Leonard, New York Times 'A book of fierce clarity and originality' Newsweek [via]
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The Woman Warrior China Menby Maxine Kingston, Mary GordonISBN 1400043840 (1-4000-4384-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior China Men'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Herefor the first time in one volumeare two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her familys past and her cultures stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is Kingstons disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have emigrated, a place inhabited by white ghosts, and the China of her mothers talk stories, a place haunted by the ghosts of the past. Her mother, who had been a doctor in China but in the United States is reduced to running a laundry, tells her daughter traditional tales of strong, wily women warriorstalesthat clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of Chinese women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mothers stories with stories of her own, engaging her familys past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.
China Men, a National Book Award winner for fiction, is Kingstons unforgettable imaginative journey into the hearts and minds of generations of Chinese men in America, from those who worked on the transcontinental railroad in the 1840s to those who fought in Vietnam. Mixing vivid fables and legends, personal stories from her own family, and details of the historical hardships faced by Chinese immigrants in different times and places, Kingston illuminates their long, arduous search for the Gold Mountain. [via]More editions of The Woman Warrior China Men:
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do Itby Geoff DyerISBN 1400031672 (1-4000-3167-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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