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The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebearby Walter Moers, John BrownjohnISBN 0099285320 (0-09-928532-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 014036675X (0-14-036675-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140433171 (0-14-043317-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 015202199X (0-15-202199-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0140367411 (0-14-036741-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0142500925 (0-14-250092-5)
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Arbeitsbuch: Treffpunkt Deutschby Fritz T. Widmaier, E. Rosemaire WidmaierISBN 0134432843 (0-13-443284-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Assoziationen: Deutsch Fur Die MittlestufeISBN 0075573644 (0-07-557364-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Library Editionby Barbara Robinson, Judith Gwyn BrownISBN 0064402754 (0-06-440275-4)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Library Edition'Book summary:The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, and hit little kids. So no one is prepared when this outlaw family invades church one Sunday and decides to take over the annual Christmas pageant. None of the Herdmans has ever heard the Christmas story before. Their interpretation of the tale -- the Wise Men are a bunch of dirty spies and Herod needs a good beating -- has a lot of people up in arms. But it will make this year's pageant the most unusual anyone has seen and, just possibly, the best one ever. [via]
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The Black Obeliskby Erich Maria RemarqueISBN 0151131813 (0-15-113181-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Obelisk'Book summary:Life in a small German town during the great inflation in 1923. A continuation of "The Road back." Entertaining, philosophical and funny: Remarque at his best. [via]
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The Bridgeby Iain BanksISBN 0061053589 (0-06-105358-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Brothers Lionheartby Astrid Lindgren, J. K. LambertISBN 0140319557 (0-14-031955-7)
Softcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 0140445684 (0-14-044568-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories. [via]
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz Kafka, Idris Parry, J. A. UnderwookISBN 0140185046 (0-14-018504-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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Cat and Mouseby Gunter GrassISBN 0156028220 (0-15-602822-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Clownby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 014018726X (0-14-018726-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clown'Book summary:Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he wont marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his lifethe loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to save Germany from the Jews, then worked for reconciliation
afterwards.
Heinrich Bölls gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealismhow to find something to believe ingives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one. [via]More editions of The Clown:
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones, K. MarxISBN 0140447571 (0-14-044757-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:[via]The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0140444785 (0-14-044478-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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The Compass Roseby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0061056073 (0-06-105607-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compass Rose'Book summary:North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness...South to discover Antarctica with three ladies from Chile...West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death...and onward to all points on and off the compass. Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin that carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom. [via]
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Crabwalkby Gunter Grass, Krishna WinstonISBN 0156029707 (0-15-602970-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crabwalk'Book summary:With Crabwalk, a book that has enjoyed tremendous success in Germany, Günter Grass proves yet again that he is one of the most formidable figures in modern European literature, and anyone who believes that the glory days of The Tin Drum are behind him will find this remarkable novel quite as ambitious and penetrating as its great predecessor (even if, at 234 pages, it's considerably more concise than his earlier masterpiece). Political engagement has always been the force that motivates Grass's books, and the legacy of the past as it affects the present remains the fulcrum of all his work. Needless to say, like all great writers, his work is universal; you do not need to be German to appreciate such books as The Flounder and this new novel.
Here Grass tackles a subject that still causes unease among his countrymen: the problems of the German nation during World War Two. The central incident of the book is the sinking in 1945 (by a Soviet submarine) of the Willem Gustloff, a ship that had been converted into a refugee carrier. The loss of life in this sinking was immense, and this incident in the Baltic Sea remains the worst of all maritime disasters. The narrative is carried by Paul, a survivor of the sinking, who is now a journalist living in Berlin; his mother, Tulla, gave birth to him in a lifeboat on the doomed ship. As Paul attempts to place the disaster in the context of life in Germany today, his mother finds herself unable to shake off the crushing resonance of the incident. The generational theme is carried further by Paul's young son Konrad, who has been seduced by far-right elements in Germany which are attempting to rewrite history.
This is Grass at his considerable best: a powerful, significant theme is handled trenchantly, while the multi-generational problems of his characters are balanced against a lucid picture of the society in which they live. And despite the seriousness of his subject, Grass remains immensely readable. His books may be shorter these days, but their impact is no less forceful for that. --Barry Forshaw [via]
Dance on My Graveby Aidan Chambers, John PalencarISBN 0064405796 (0-06-440579-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Danzig Trilogyby Gunter GrassISBN 0151238170 (0-15-123817-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass: A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Yearsby John ReddickISBN 0151238162 (0-15-123816-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass: A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years'Book summary:A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelming evidence that Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are part of a unified structure begun by The Tin Drum and that they continue to explore the same key figures, themes, and symbols. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.[via]More editions of The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass: A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years:
Death in Veniceby Thomas MannISBN 0075536692 (0-07-553669-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Death in Venice and Other Talesby Thomas Mann, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0141181737 (0-14-118173-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Tales'Book summary:Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this new collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals his artistic evolution. In this new, widely acclaimed translation that restores the controversial passages that were cut out of the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor. Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay.[via]
Also included in this volume are eleven other stories by Mann: "Tonio Kroger," "Gladius Dei," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "The Will for Happiness," "Little Herr Friedmann," "Tobias Mindernickel," "Little Lizzy," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," "The Wunderkind," and "Harsh Hour." All of the stories collected here display Mann's inimitable use of irony, his subtle characterizations, and superb, complex plots.
@GustavaelJackson While walking in the hotel lobby, saw a little kid dressed in a sailors uniform. Went from six to midnight. No Viagra needed.
I worry that his parents have noticed me. They might issue an amber alert if the child goes missing. Look out for gondola and child.
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Deutsch :Na Klar!: An Introductory German Courseby Michael Busges, Lida Daves-SchneiderISBN 0070137080 (0-07-013708-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deutsch :Na Klar!: An Introductory German Course'Book summary:Labratory Manual NEW all fill in pages untouched, however, tips of book may be tiny bit dog eared from shelf storage, Guaranteed lowest price for NEW. We ship worldwide from San Francisco bay area. [via]
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The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0061054887 (0-06-105488-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dispossessed'Book summary:Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
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Early Writingsby Karl MarxISBN 0140445749 (0-14-044574-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Writings'Book summary:Marx was barely 25 when he produced this astonishing rich body of workincluding economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and On the Jewish Question.[via]More editions of Early Writings:
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Early Writings [of] Karl Marxby Karl MarxISBN 0140216685 (0-14-021668-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Writings [of] Karl Marx'Book summary:Marx was barely 25 when he produced this astonishing rich body of workincluding economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and On the Jewish Question.[via]More editions of Early Writings [of] Karl Marx:
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Foundation's Triumphby David BrinISBN 0061056391 (0-06-105639-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Triumph'Book summary:Isaac Asimov's 1951-53 Foundation trilogy is a rough-hewn classic of far future SF, honored with a unique 1965 Hugo for Best All-Time Series. It begins with "psychohistorian" Hari Seldon mapping the best possible course for humanity's next millennium, after the fall of the doomed Galactic Empire. Late in life Asimov revisited the series and awkwardly linked it with his popular robot stories--introducing vast conspiracy theories to explain the Empire's total lack of visible robots.
Asimov's estate authorized three SF notables to fill out Seldon's life in the Second Foundation Trilogy, which David Brin here wraps up after Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear and Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos. Chaos is the new keyword, because chaos theory seemingly makes nonsense of psychohistorical prediction. Whole planetary populations can lapse into chaotic rebellion despite secret mind-controlling agencies behind the scenes. So Seldon makes his last interstellar journey, harried, lectured, and even kidnapped by the warring factions of robots and not-quite-robots that have long manipulated humanity. The robots' dilemma:
"We are loyal, and yet far more competent than our masters. For their own sake, we have kept them ignorant, because we know too well what destructive paths they follow, whenever they grow too aware."
Brin does his best with Asimov's overcrowded legacy, skillfully steering Seldon to an insight about the much-foretold future that satisfies both the old man and the reader, with a spark of human free will and constructive chaos shining through the grayness of predestination. Asimov would have approved. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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From Annaby Jean LittleISBN 0064400441 (0-06-440044-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Anna'Book summary:Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family. Somehow she can never do anything right! She bumps into tables, and she can't read the blackboard at her school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her "Awkward Anna." When Papa announces that the family is moving from Germany to Canada, Anna's heart sinks. How can she learn English when she can't even read German? Nothing could be worse than this!
But when the Soldens arrive in Canada, Anna learns that there is a reason for her clumsiness. And suddenly, wonderfully, her whole world begins to change.
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Moralsby Immanuel KantISBN 0061311596 (0-06-131159-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'Book summary:Considered one of the most profound, influential, and important works of philosophy, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals introduces the famous Categorical Imperative and lays down a foundation for all of Immanuel Kant's writings. In it, Kant illuminates the basic concept that is central to his moral philosophy and, in fact, to the entire field of modern ethical thought: the Categorical Imperative, the supreme principle of morality, stating that all decisions should be made based on what is universally acceptable. Featuring the renowned translation and commentary of Oxford's H. J. Paton, this volume has long been considered the definitive English edition of Kant's classic text. "Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals," Paton writes in his preface, "is one of the small books which is truly great: it has exercised on human thought an influence almost ludicrously disproportionate to its size."
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Group Portrait With Ladyby Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0140187278 (0-14-018727-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Group Portrait With Lady'Book summary:Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the crown of Heinrich Bölls work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the storypast and presentof one of Bölls most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow.
At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germanys dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism. [via]More editions of Group Portrait With Lady:
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Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926-1969by Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, Lotte Kohler, Hans SanerISBN 0151078874 (0-15-107887-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926-1969'Book summary:The correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers begins in 1926, when the twenty-year-old Arendt studied philosophy with Jaspers in Heidelberg. It is interrupted by Arendt's emigration and Jaspers's "inner emigration, " and it is resumed immediately after World War II. The initial teacher-student relationship develops into a close friendship, in which Jasper's wife, Gertrud, is soon included and then Arendt's husband, Heinrich Blucher. These letters show not only the way both philosophers lived, thought, and worked but also how they experienced the postwar years. Since neither ever dreamed that this correspondence would be published, and each had absolute trust in the other, they reveal themselves here - for the first time - in a personal and spontaneous way. Brilliant, vulnerable, forthright, Arendt speaks about America, her adopted country. About American universities, American politics from McCarthyism to Kennedy, American urban decay. She speaks about Germany, the country she left: its anti-Semitism, its guilt for the Holocaust, its politics. And about Israel, which she always supported as a Jew but also criticized, especially in her controversial book about the trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. In his dialogue with Arendt, the thoughtful, generous, concerned Jaspers considers the question of the German essence, and of the Jewish character. He speaks about philosophers past and present - Spinoza, Heidegger. About old age and retirement. Corrupt journalism. Suicide. Man's future on this planet. Here is a fascinating dialogue between a woman and a man, a Jew and a German, a questioner and a visionary, both uncompromising in their examination of our troubledcentury.[via]More editions of Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926-1969:
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Homo Faberby Max FrischISBN 0140034285 (0-14-003428-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homo Faber'Book summary:The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life. [via]
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The Iliad/the Odysseyby Robert Fagles, Bernard KnoxISBN 0147712556 (0-14-771255-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.
@RageAgainstTheAchaean Pissed. I am so, so very pissed.
First I have to go to this beach. Then I have to kill all these dudes. And NOW now! This prick stole my biscuit. Who does that? Am I right?
Cant resolve this problem on my own calling Mom!
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@IthacaStateOfMind Uh oh. This cave is a giants lair. He has a taste for cheese, and my companions. He also has only one eye. Trying to keep from laughing.
Got him drunk. Put a hot poker in his ONE EYE when he blacked out. That will show him if he could see. LOL. Time to leave.
Damn. Poseidon pissed. How was I supposed to know One-Eye was his son? What Olympian whore did he sleep with to get an issue like that?
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Irish Journal.by Heinrich B”OllISBN 0070064156 (0-07-006415-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Karl Marx Early Writingsby Karl MarxISBN 0070406715 (0-07-040671-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Klaro!: A Practical Guide to German Grammarby Susan TebbuttISBN 0071387439 (0-07-138743-9)
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Lelia: The Life of George Sandby Andre MauroisISBN 0140043543 (0-14-004354-3)
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Letters : 1925-1975by Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Andrew Shields, Ursula LudzISBN 0151005257 (0-15-100525-7)
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Barry MoserISBN 0151042306 (0-15-104230-6)
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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr: Together With a Fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paperby Anthea Bell, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Jeremy D. AdlerISBN 0140446311 (0-14-044631-1)
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Mischievous Megby Astrid Lindgren, Gerry Bothmer, Janina DomanskaISBN 0140319549 (0-14-031954-9)
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My Centuryby Gunter Grass, Michael Henry HeimISBN 0156011417 (0-15-601141-7)
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The Name of the Roseby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156001314 (0-15-600131-4)
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Nibelungenliedby A.T. HattoISBN 0140441379 (0-14-044137-9)
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Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993by Gunter Grass, Michael HamburgerISBN 0156003317 (0-15-600331-7)
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On Revolutionby Hannah ArendtISBN 014018421X (0-14-018421-X)
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Orsinian Talesby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0061001821 (0-06-100182-1)
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Parzivalby A.T. Hatto, WolframISBN 0140443614 (0-14-044361-4)
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The Phenomenology of Mindby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelISBN 0061313033 (0-06-131303-3)
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A Practical Review of German Grammarby Gerda DippmannISBN 0139381430 (0-13-938143-0)
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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Womanby Hannah ArendtISBN 0151758506 (0-15-175850-6)
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Ronia, the Robber's Daughterby Astrid Lindgren, Alfred LindgrenISBN 0140317201 (0-14-031720-1)
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Siddharthaby Joachim Neugroschel, Hermann HesseISBN 0142437182 (0-14-243718-2)
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Sketchbook 1946-1949by Max FrischISBN 0151828938 (0-15-182893-8)
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Stonehengeby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061091944 (0-06-109194-4)
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The Swiss Family Robinsonby J.D. Wyss, W.H.G. KingstonISBN 0140367187 (0-14-036718-7)
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The Tellingby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0151005672 (0-15-100567-2)
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With quiet linguistic humor (Dovza citizens are passionate about their hot bitter beverage, akakafi--the ubiquitous Corporation brand is called Starbrew), dark references to the dangers of restricted cultural, political, and social freedom, and beautifully visualized worlds, award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin pens her latest in the Hainish cycle, which includes The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness. Le Guin explores her characters and societies with such care, such thoughtfulness, her novels call out for slow, deep attention. --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Third Manby Graham GreeneISBN 0140286829 (0-14-028682-9)
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The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 015602943X (0-15-602943-X)
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Treffpunkt Deutsch Arbeitsbushby Widmaier, Prentice-Hall, IncISBN 0130953474 (0-13-095347-4)
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Treffpunkt Deutsch: Grundstufeby Fritz T. Widmaier, Fritz WidmaierISBN 0130953458 (0-13-095345-8)
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Treffpunkt Deutsch Grundstufeby Widmaier, E., Rosemarie, Fritz T. WidmaierISBN 013040991X (0-13-040991-X)
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Two Lives of Charlemagneby Einhard, and Nofker Stammerer Einhard, Balbulus Notker, Lewis G. M. ThorpeISBN 0140442138 (0-14-044213-8)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 014003000X (0-14-003000-X)
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Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Christopher RicksISBN 0156005344 (0-15-600534-4)
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White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0140366679 (0-14-036667-9)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0140366946 (0-14-036694-6)
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@HeathBar The house is now mine. Since the neighbor has Catherine, Ill seduce his sister. Well see how brave he is when shes got Heathcock in her.
Girl is preggers. Catherine is dead. My world is over. Ive become an evil, evil man. Naming my son Heathcliff Jr.
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Deutsch: Na Klar! An Introductory German Courseby Jeanine BriggsISBN 0072492511 (0-07-249251-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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German Dictionary Plus Grammarby Dagmar FortschISBN 0062736841 (0-06-273684-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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