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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0877207011 (0-87720-701-1)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:The AMSCO Literature Series comprises quality unabridged editions of great literary works. They feature carefully prepared texts with large, readable type; quality paper; durable bindings; sturdy covers. A Reader's Guide is available with selected works. Written by master teachers, the guides feature explanations, questions, and activities to bring out the details of plot, characterization, theme, style, and vocabulary. [via]
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- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn With Reader's Guide: ISBN 0877208166 (0-87720-816-6)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0881030031 (0-88103-003-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0883434156 (0-88343-415-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0866119655 (0-86611-965-5)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0877207011 (0-87720-701-1)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn With Reader's Guide: ISBN 0877208166 (0-87720-816-6)
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The Anatomy of Dependenceby Takeo Doi, John BesterISBN 0870114948 (0-87011-494-8)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Dependence'Book summary:This work offers insights, not only into the character of Japan but into the nuances of dependancy relationships. It is an analysis of amae, the indulging, passive love which supports an individual within a group, and a key concept in Japanese psychology. [via]
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The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture and Control of Our Minds and Cultureby Robert Ornstein, James Burke, Ted DewanISBN 0874778565 (0-87477-856-5)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Cultureby David Jacobus BoschISBN 0852443331 (0-85244-333-1)
Hardcover, Trinity Press International
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture'Book summary:Professor Bosch begins with an analysis of the postmodern world, the legacy of the Enlightenment, and Christian faith in a postmodern age. He then sketches contours of a missiology of Western culture, including considerations of mission as social ethics, mission and the Third World, and God-talk in an Age of Reason. [via]
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Beyond Freedom & Dignityby Burrhus Frederic SkinnerISBN 0872206270 (0-87220-627-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Freedom & Dignity'Book summary:In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society.
Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved only by dealing much more effectively with human behavior, Skinner argues that our traditional concepts of freedom and dignity must be sharply revised. They have played an important historical role in our struggle against many kinds of tyranny, he acknowledges, but they are now responsible for the futile defense of a presumed free and autonomous individual; they are perpetuating our use of punishment and blocking the development of more effective cultural practices. Basing his arguments on the massive results of the experimental analysis of behavior he pioneered, Skinner rejects traditional explanations of behavior in terms of states of mind, feelings, and other mental attributes in favor of explanations to be sought in the interaction between genetic endowment and personal history. He argues that instead of promoting freedom and dignity as personal attributes, we should direct our attention to the physical and social environments in which people live. It is the environment rather than humankind itself that must be changed if the traditional goals of the struggle for freedom and dignity are to be reached.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity urges us to reexamine the ideals we have taken for granted and to consider the possibility of a radically behaviorist approach to human problems-one that has appeared to some incompatible with those ideals, but which envisions the building of a world in which humankind can attain its greatest possible achievements. [via]
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Black Elk Speaksby John G. NeihardtISBN 0871296152 (0-87129-615-2)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'Book summary:Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863 1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]
Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.More editions of Black Elk Speaks:
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Bleeding of the Evangelical Churchby David WellsISBN 0851516823 (0-85151-682-3)
Softcover, Banner of Truth
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A Book for Free Spiritsby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0879682027 (0-87968-202-7)
Hardcover, Gordon Press
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The Book Of Five Ringsby Miyamoto MusashiISBN 0879511532 (0-87951-153-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Five Rings'Book summary:Here is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for leaders in all professions, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. The Book of Five Rings which has become a well-known classic among American business people, studied for its insights into the Japanese approach to business strategywas composed in 1643 by the famed duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Unlike previous editions of The Book of Five Rings , Thomas Cleary's is an accessible translation, free of jargon, with an introduction that presents the spiritual background of the warrior tradition. Along with Musashi's text, Cleary translates another important Japanese classic on leadership and strategy: The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War by Yagyu Munenori, which highlights the ethical and spiritual insights of Taoism and Zen as they apply to the way of the warrior. [via]
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A Book of Five Ringsby Musashi MiyamotoISBN 0879510188 (0-87951-018-8)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Book of Five Rings'Book summary:To learn a Japanese martial art is to learn Zen, and although you can't do so simply by reading a book, it sure does help--especially if that book is The Book of Five Rings. One of Japan's great samurai sword masters penned in decisive, unfaltering terms this certain path to victory, and like Sun Tzu's The Art of War it is applicable not only on the battlefield but also in all forms of competition. Always observant, creating confusion, striking at vulnerabilities--these are some of the basic principles. Going deeper, we find suki, the interval of vulnerability, of indecisiveness, of rest, the briefest but most vital moment to strike. In succinct detail, Miyamoto records ideal postures, blows, and psychological tactics to put the enemy off guard and open the way for attack. Most important of all is Miyamoto's concept of rhythm, how all things are in harmony, and that by working with the rhythm of a situation we can turn it to our advantage with little effort. But like Zen, this requires one task above all else, putting the book down and going out to practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Book Of Five Ringsby Thomas Cleary, Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi MiyamotoISBN 0877739986 (0-87773-998-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Five Rings'Book summary:To learn a Japanese martial art is to learn Zen, and although you can't do so simply by reading a book, it sure does help--especially if that book is The Book of Five Rings. One of Japan's great samurai sword masters penned in decisive, unfaltering terms this certain path to victory, and like Sun Tzu's The Art of War it is applicable not only on the battlefield but also in all forms of competition. Always observant, creating confusion, striking at vulnerabilities--these are some of the basic principles. Going deeper, we find suki, the interval of vulnerability, of indecisiveness, of rest, the briefest but most vital moment to strike. In succinct detail, Miyamoto records ideal postures, blows, and psychological tactics to put the enemy off guard and open the way for attack. Most important of all is Miyamoto's concept of rhythm, how all things are in harmony, and that by working with the rhythm of a situation we can turn it to our advantage with little effort. But like Zen, this requires one task above all else, putting the book down and going out to practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architectureby Rip Georges, David Gebhard, Jim HeimannISBN 0877011710 (0-87701-171-0)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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Cities in Civilizationby Peter Geoffrey HallISBN 0880642505 (0-88064-250-5)
Softcover, Fromm Intl
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Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountainby Chet RaymoISBN 0863223311 (0-86322-331-1)
Hardcover, Brandon
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Death in the Cityby Francisa SchaefferISBN 0851103472 (0-85110-347-2)
Hardcover, Inter-Varsity P.
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Disciplined Life Styleby Richard S. TaylorISBN 0871231107 (0-87123-110-7)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in Americaby Tom LutzISBN 0865476500 (0-86547-650-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Eastern Philosophy for Beginnersby Jim Powell, Joe LeeISBN 0863162827 (0-86316-282-7)
Softcover, Writers & Readers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eastern Philosophy for Beginners'Book summary:Eastern philosophy is distinguished from other modes of thought by its concern with the entirety of human experience - not only intellectual questions. This explains why so many Eastern disciplines emphasize the nonintellectual art of meditation. The author draws upon his knowledge of Sanskrit and Chinese, as well as decades of meditation practice, in exploring the major tenets of Confucius, Lao Tzu, Patanjal, Buddha, and the Dalai Lama in this thoughtfully written guide. [via]
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Eat the Richby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0871137607 (0-87113-760-7)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eat the Rich'Book summary:A conservative, prosperous, American journalist gadding around the world laughing at all the ways less successful nations screw up their economy--this might not sound like the recipe for a great read, unless you're Rush Limbaugh, but if that journalist is P.J. O'Rourke you can be sure that you'll enjoy the ride even if you don't agree with the politics. Although Eat the Rich is subtitled A Treatise on Economics, O'Rourke spends relatively few pages tackling the complexities of monetary theory. He's much happier when flying from Sweden to Hong Kong to Tanzania to Moscow, gleefully recording every economic goof he can find. When he visits post-Communist Russia and finds a country that is as messed up by capitalism as it was by Communism, O'Rourke mixes jokes about black-market shoes with disturbing insights into a nation on the verge of collapse. P.J. O'Rourke is more than a humorist, he's an experienced international journalist with a lot of frequent-flyer miles, and this gives even his funniest riffs on the world's problems the ring of truth. [via]
Empireby James LaxerISBN 088899706X (0-88899-706-X)
Hardcover, Groundwood Books
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The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papersby John Jay, James Madison, David WoottonISBN 0872206556 (0-87220-655-6)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers'Book summary:Here, in a single volume, is a selection of the classic critiques of the new Constitution penned by such ardent defenders of states rights and personal liberty as George Mason, Patrick Henry, and Melancton Smith; pro-Constitution writings by James Wilson and Noah Webster; and thirty-three of the best-known and most crucial Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The texts of the chief constitutional documents of the early Republic are included as well.
David WoottonÂs illuminating Introduction examines the history of such "American" principles of government as checks and balances, the separation of powers, representation by election, and judicial independenceÂincluding their roots in the largely Scottish, English, and French "new science of politics." It also offers suggestions for reading The Federalist, the classic elaboration of these principles written in defense of a new Constitution that sought to apply them to the young Republic. [via]
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The Federalistby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, James McClellan, George Wescott CareyISBN 0865972893 (0-86597-289-3)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist'Book summary:By identifying all the historical references and literary allusions by which the Founders sought to amplify their arguments and convince their readersÂand by clarifying those important concepts (such as sovereignty, contract, separation of powers) which influenced the thinking of both the Founders and their opponentsÂrenowned historian J. R. Pole here sets The Federalist in the intellectual world inhabited by Hamilton, Madison and Jay. In reading PoleÂs annotation alongside the main text, students and scholars alike will gain a deeper understanding of the papersÂand of the time, needs, and circumstances that shaped them.
PoleÂs Introduction, a thematic index, a chronology of politically significant events from 1688 to 1791, and the inclusion of The Articles of Confederation and the U. S. Constitution further distinguish an edition priced for classroom use. [via]
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States Being a Collection of Essays Written in Support of the Constitution Agreed upon September 17, 1787, by the Federal Convention from the Original Text of Alexander Hamilton, John...by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James MadisonISBN 0883310791 (0-88331-079-1)
Hardcover, R. B. Luce
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Flim-Flamby James RandiISBN 0879751983 (0-87975-198-3)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Freedom and Cultureby John DeweyISBN 0879755601 (0-87975-560-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworldby Herbert Asbury, Perry R. Duis, Betty J. CraigeISBN 0875805345 (0-87580-534-5)
Softcover, Northern Illinois University Press
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God Emperor of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0881036358 (0-88103-635-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Emperor of Dune'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Leto II, God Emperor of Dune, trades his humanity for immortality and, as the magnificent sandworm of Dune, desperately attempts to save mankind. [via]
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0881030708 (0-88103-070-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Kim Palmer, John EscottISBN 0861129857 (0-86112-985-7)
Hardcover, Brimax Books, Limited
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Gulliver's Travelsby Angela WilkesISBN 0860206122 (0-86020-612-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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Gulliver's Travelsby Malvina G. Vogel, Johnathon Smith, Johathan SwiftISBN 0866119922 (0-86611-992-2)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:a wonderful children's book filled with great illustrations [via]
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Hex Files: The Goth Bibleby Mick MercerISBN 0879517832 (0-87951-783-2)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hex Files: The Goth Bible'Book summary:The vast Goth underground--with its dignified, melancholic graveyard aesthetic derived from such sources as Gothic horror novels, the Addams Family, Alice Cooper, and Anne Rice--is nothing short of an international phenomenon. The Hex Files offers a five-continent survey of what's out there and how to plug into the Goth scene worldwide. 200+ illustrations. [via]
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The Hidden Woundby Wendell BerryISBN 0865473587 (0-86547-358-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Wound'Book summary:In this beautifully written book-length essay, Berry explores the hidden wound of racism and its pernicious effects on white people in America. Rigorous, honest, and deeply felt, The Hidden Wound is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the problem of race in this country.[via]More editions of The Hidden Wound:
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Cultureby Johan HuizingaISBN 0851175015 (0-85117-501-5)
Hardcover, Maurice Temple Smith Ltd
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0850670675 (0-85067-067-5)
Hardcover, Folio Society
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0883017059 (0-88301-705-9)
Softcover, Academic Industries
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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In Search of Draculaby Radu Florescu, Raymond McNallyISBN 0883652706 (0-88365-270-6)
Hardcover, Galahad Books
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Insight Guide Russiaby Jane HutchingsISBN 0887291759 (0-88729-175-9)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Invaderby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886776872 (0-88677-687-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invader'Book summary:Nearly two centuries after a human colony is abandoned on an alien planet, the two races have reached a tenacious peace agreement, but when the human ship returns unexpectedly, both governments are thrown into chaos. [via]
J.D. Salingerby Harold BloomISBN 0877547165 (0-87754-716-5)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
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Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature, Culture, and Erosby Derrick JensenISBN 0871564173 (0-87156-417-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Lonely Planet Japanby Chris TaylorISBN 0864422377 (0-86442-237-7)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonely Planet Japan'Book summary:From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there, chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks for nearly 30 years and as a result, has the experience and know-how similar to an older sibling's "been there" advice. The original backpacker's bible, the LP series has recently widened its reach. While still giving insights for the low-budget traveler, the books now list a wide range of accommodations and itineraries for those with less time than money.
This thorough guide is the perfect companion for discovering the classical and contemporary delights of Japan. The more than 170 maps have keys in both English and Japanese script and there's a 30-page arts section covering everything from calligraphy to rock music and an enticingly descriptive guide to the joys of Japanese cuisine. Whether your interests lean toward culture and history or the great outdoors, this book will get you there. --Kathryn True [via]
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Lonely Planet Japanby John Ashburne, Mason Florence, Chris Rowthorn, Sara BensonISBN 0864426933 (0-86442-693-3)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lost Japan : Travel Literatureby Alex KerrISBN 0864423705 (0-86442-370-5)
Softcover, Lonely Planet Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Japan : Travel Literature'Book summary:Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, tells how he stumbled on a hidden valley that became his home...and exposes the environmental and cultural destruction that is the other face of contemporary Japan.
Winner of Japan's 1994 Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize.
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Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Lifeby Theodor AdornoISBN 0860917045 (0-86091-704-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Models of Contextual Theologyby Stephen B. BevansISBN 0883448149 (0-88344-814-9)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Modern Indian Psychologyby BrydeISBN 0882490273 (0-88249-027-3)
Softcover, Univ South Dakota Pr
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L.a. Gang Memberby Sanyika Shakur, Kody ScottISBN 0871135353 (0-87113-535-3)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Montaillouby LadurieISBN 0859674037 (0-85967-403-7)
Hardcover, Ashgate Publishing, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou'Book summary:This title presents an enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters. [via]
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My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Cultureby Philip Graham Ryken, C. Everett KoopISBN 0875525601 (0-87552-560-1)
Softcover, Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co
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New Golden Boughby James George FrazerISBN 0875990363 (0-87599-036-3)
Hardcover, S G Phillips
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0864864388 (0-86486-438-8)
Hardcover
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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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One-Way Street and Other Writingsby Walter BenjaminISBN 0860910148 (0-86091-014-8)
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 087788630X (0-87788-630-X)
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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]
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The Party's over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societiesby Richard HeinbergISBN 0865715297 (0-86571-529-7)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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Persian Postcards: Iran After Khomeiniby Fred A. ReedISBN 0889223513 (0-88922-351-3)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europeby Peter BurkeISBN 0851171508 (0-85117-150-8)
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farinaby David HajduISBN 086547642X (0-86547-642-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina'Book summary:David Hajdu, the prizewinning author of the magisterial jazz biography Lush Life, now steam-cleans the legend of the lost folk generation in Positively 4th Street. It's like an invitation to the wildest party Greenwich Village ever saw. You feel swept up in the coffeehouse culture that transformed ordinary suburban kids into ragged, radiant avatars of a traditional yet bewilderingly new music. Hajdu's socio-musical analysis is as scholarly as (though less arty than) Greil Marcus's work; he deftly sketches the sources and evolving styles of his ambitious, rather calculating subjects, proving in the process that genius is not individual--it's rooted in a time and place. Hajdu says Dylan heisted many early tunes: "Dylan [told] a radio interviewer that he felt as if his music had always existed and he just wrote it down ... [in fact], much of his early work had existed as other writers' melodies, chord structures or thematic ideas." But Dylan and company made it all their own, and Hajdu vividly evokes the scenes they made. evoke.
Positively 4th Street is very much a group portrait. When something amazing happens, Hajdu puts you right there: the unknown Baez barefoot in the rain, bedazzling the Newport Jazz Festival and becoming immortal overnight; the irresistibly irresponsible Fariña talking his folk-star wife out of shooting him dead with his own pistol; the "little spastic gnome" Dylan transmogrified into greatness onstage, bashing Joan with the searing lyrics of "She Belongs to Me". The book is as delectably gossipy as Vanity Fair (one of Hajdu's employers). Richard married the exceedingly young beauty Mimi and helmed their career, but he might have dumped her for big sister Joan, whose madcap humour and verbal wit harmonised with his--except that he ineptly killed himself on a motorcycle first. Bob mumblingly courted both sisters, but when he cruelly taunted the insecure Joan, Mimi yanked his hair back until he cried. The account of Bob and Joan's musical-erotic passion is first-rate music history and uproarious soap opera. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Postmodernism for Beginnersby James N. Powell, Joe LeeISBN 086316188X (0-86316-188-X)
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The Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Lifeby Paul L. WachtelISBN 0865711518 (0-86571-151-8)
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Lifeby Erving GoffmanISBN 0879510145 (0-87951-014-5)
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Rhapsody in Red: How Classical Music Became Chineseby Sheila Melvin, Jindong CaiISBN 0875861792 (0-87586-179-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rhapsody in Red: How Classical Music Became Chinese'Book summary:Western classical music has become as Chinese as Peking Opera, and it has woven its way into the hearts and lives of ordinary Chinese people. This lucidly written account traces the biographies of the bold visionaries who carried out this musical merger. Rhapsody in Red is a history of classical music in China that revolves around a common theme: how Western classical music entered China, and how it became Chinese. China's oldest orchestra was founded in 1879, two years before the Boston Symphony. Since then, classical music has woven its way into the lives of ordinary Chinese people. Millions of Chinese children take piano and violin lessons every week. Yet, despite the importance of classical music in China - and of Chinese classical musicians and composers to the world - next to nothing has been written on this fascinating subject. The authors capture the events with the voice of an insider and the perspective of a Westerner, presenting new information, original research and insights into a topic that has barely been broached elsewhere. "Every chapter is as exiting as it is revealing. The book is thoroughly researched, with superb bibliography. I am ecstatic; my students will be electrified." - Clive M. Marks, Chairman, The London College of Music, Trestee, Trinity College of Music and The London Philarmonic Orchestra [via]
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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: A Biblical Studyby Ronald J. SiderISBN 0877849773 (0-87784-977-3)
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Ageby Modris EksteinsISBN 0886192005 (0-88619-200-5)
Hardcover, Lester & Orpen Dennys
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Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limitsby Andrew RossISBN 0860915670 (0-86091-567-0)
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The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart MillISBN 087220054X (0-87220-054-X)
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Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds - On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guineaby Tim F. FlanneryISBN 0871137313 (0-87113-731-3)
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The Toughest Indian in the Worldby Sherman AlexieISBN 0871138018 (0-87113-801-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toughest Indian in the World'Book summary:Call Sherman Alexie any number of things--novelist, poet, filmmaker, thorn in the side of white liberalism--just don't call him "universal." Aside from his well-documented distaste for the word, its fuzziness misses the point. The Toughest Indian in the World, Alexie's second collection, succeeds as brilliantly as it does because of its particularity. These aren't stories about the Indian Condition; they're stories about Indians--urban and reservation, street fighters and yuppies, husbands and wives. "She understood that white people were eccentric and complicated and she only wanted to be understood as eccentric and complicated as well," thinks the Coeur d'Alene narrator of "Assimilation," who's married (unhappily) to a white man. And yet the issue of race has taken up permanent residence inside her house: the marriage survives, but it's love that's the most thorough assimilation of all.
Like The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, much of The Toughest Indian in the World combines deft psychological realism with the kind of narrative logic more commonly found in dreams. In "South by Southwest," a white drifter finds love on a "nonviolent killing spree" with an overweight Indian he calls Salmon Boy; in "Dear John Wayne," the cowboy actor falls in love with a young Spokane woman and proves himself a charmingly feminist hero. ("Oh, sons, you're just engaging in some harmless gender play," he tells his boys when he finds them trying on lipstick.) But for every bear hibernating on top of the Catholic church, there's also a GAP-wearing, Toyota-driving urban Indian on a quest for his roots. In both realist and surrealist modes, Alexie writes incantatory prose--as well as the kind of dialogue that makes even secondary characters leap into sudden focus: "'What?' asked Wonder Horse, as simple a question as could possibly be tendered, though he made it sound as if he'd asked Where's the tumor?"
Alexie is sometimes guilty of painting his white characters with too broad a brush. (Is any anthropologist truly as obtuse as the one in "Dear John Wayne"? Could any reader really want Mary Lynn, the narrator of "Assimilation," to stay with her boorish white husband?) Yet his kind of firebrand politics still has the power to shock. A harrowing fable about whites kidnapping Indians for the medical properties of their blood, "The Sin Eaters" could be dismissed as paranoid if it weren't so hauntingly written:
On that morning, the sun rose and bloomed like blood in a glass syringe. The entire Spokane Indian Reservation and all of its people and places were clean and scrubbed. The Spokane River rose up from its bed like a man who had been healed and joyously wept all the way down to its confluence with the Columbia River. There was water everywhere: a thousand streams interrupted by makeshift waterfalls; small ponds hidden beneath a mask of thick fronds and anonymous blossoms; blankets of dew draped over the shoulders of isolated knolls. An entire civilization of insects lived in the mud puddle formed by one truck tire and a recent rain storm. The blades of grass, the narrow pine needles, and the stalks of roadside wheat were as sharp and bright as surgical tools.
It's a hard story to read, and that's only right. The Toughest Indian in the World offers so many pleasures, who could deny it the power to disturb us as well? Funny, dreamlike, heartbreaking, angry--these are stories that could have been written by no one but Sherman Alexie. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Toughest Indian in the World:
Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sanseiby David MuraISBN 0871134314 (0-87113-431-4)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalogby James W. SireISBN 087784772X (0-87784-772-X)
Hardcover, InterVarsity Press
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Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethellby Peter Whiteford, Ursula BethellISBN 0864735049 (0-86473-504-9)
Softcover, Victoria Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell'Book summary:Ursula Bethell was a modernist poet who helped shape New Zealand's literary scene between the two world wars. This collection of letters tells the story of her early life of travel and social work in Europe and opens a window on her subsequent writerly life as she describes the origins of many of her poems.[via]More editions of Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell:
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Vindication of the Rights of Womenby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0879755253 (0-87975-525-3)
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Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong female voices spoke in favor of the social, political, educational, and economic rights of women. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in the late eighteenth century, is truly a classic in this venerable tradition. Railing against the stubborn social forces that confined women to an inferior station in the community, Mary Wollstonecraft declares war on the prevailing attitudes and customs that prevent women from realizing their individual potential. [via]More editions of Vindication of the Rights of Women:
Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third Worldby R. S. SugirtharajahISBN 0883447703 (0-88344-770-3)
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Within the Context of No Contextby George W. S. TrowISBN 0871136740 (0-87113-674-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Within the Context of No Context'Book summary:Long-time New Yorker writer George W. S. Trow first published the long title essay of this book in 1981, and it now appears with a companion piece, "Collapsing Dominant." Taken together, the two essays are a trenchant and often scathing examination of American culture. As Trow surveys the landscape, he observes that television has created a land of "no context," which it then gleefully chronicles. The many examples he cites of things he has witnessed in the mass media are alarming not for what he has seen--for we have all seen this stuff--but for the intense, and at times lacerating, insight with which he views the passing parade of frivolity. Within the Context of No Context is a slim book that does much to explain modern American society, and the thoughts in its pages will resonate for a long time. [via]
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Asedio De LA Mente/Mind Siegeby Tim F. Lahaye, David A. NoebelISBN 0881136751 (0-88113-675-1)
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