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900 Shows a Year: A Look at Teaching from a Teacher's Side of the Deskby Stuart B. PalonskyISBN 039434118X (0-394-34118-X)
Softcover, Random House
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The Alphabet Bookby P. D. EastmanISBN 0394828186 (0-394-82818-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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America: A Narrative History Single-volumeby David E. Shi, George Brown TindallISBN 0393978125 (0-393-97812-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America: A Narrative History Single-volume'Book summary:With nearly a million copies sold over five editions, America: A Narrative History is distinguished by its clear, colorful narrative and balanced incorporation of political history with social, cultural, and economic events. Retaining these classic strengths, the Sixth Edition introduces a new themethe role of work in American lifeand explores its social, political, and cultural dimensions. With an updated ancillary package that includes the new Norton Map Workbook in American History, America remains a superb choice for the US history survey. [via]
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Lifeby Richard HofstadterISBN 0394703170 (0-394-70317-0)
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The Art of Conductingby Donald Hunsberger, Roy E. ErnstISBN 0394328353 (0-394-32835-3)
Softcover, Knopf
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The Art of Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0394725441 (0-394-72544-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writersby John GardnerISBN 0394504690 (0-394-50469-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Beyond Freedom & Dignityby Burrhus Frederic SkinnerISBN 0394425553 (0-394-42555-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Big Uby Neal StephensonISBN 0394723627 (0-394-72362-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Black English: Its History and Usage in the United Statesby J. L. DillardISBN 0394718720 (0-394-71872-0)
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Blind Watchmaker 1.2: An Evolution Simulation/Mac Versionby Richard DawkinsISBN 0393993418 (0-393-99341-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Presentby Helen L. HorowitzISBN 039454997X (0-394-54997-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, David WrightISBN 039470293X (0-394-70293-X)
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Charlie Brown's Second Super Book of Questions and Answers: About the Earth and Space .. from Plants to Planets! Based on the Charles M. Schulz Charactersby Charles M. SchulzISBN 0394834917 (0-394-83491-7)
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Cityby David MacaulayISBN 039519492X (0-395-19492-X)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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City of Godby Marcus Dods, AugustineISBN 0394603974 (0-394-60397-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of God'Book summary:Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrote this book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit of earthly pleasures: "grasping for praise, open-handed with their money; honest in the pursuit of wealth, they wanted to hoard glory." Augustine contrasts his condemnation of Rome with an exaltation of Christian culture. The glory that Rome failed to attain will only be realized by citizens of the City of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem foreseen in Revelation. Because City of God was written for men of classical learning--custodians of the culture Augustine sought to condemn--it is thick with Ciceronian circumlocutions, and makes many stark contrasts between "Your Virgil" and "Our Scriptures." Even if Augustine's prose strikes modern ears as a bit bombastic, and if his polarized Christian/pagan world is more binary than the one we live in today, his arguments against utopianism and his defense of the richness of Christian culture remain useful and strong. City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinkingby Theodore RoszakISBN 0394751752 (0-394-75175-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Does Anybody Give a Damn?: On Educationby Nat HentoffISBN 0394409337 (0-394-40933-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Dr. Seuss's ABCby SeussISBN 0394897846 (0-394-89784-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Einstein for Beginnersby Joseph SchwartzISBN 0394738012 (0-394-73801-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Mindsby Ariel Dorfman, Clark HansenISBN 0394714865 (0-394-71486-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Freud for Beginnersby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar ZarateISBN 0394738004 (0-394-73800-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freud for Beginners'Book summary:The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday
Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id -- but somehow it slipped your mind.
Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life and thought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionized our attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex, and culture. This documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world of late-nineteenth-century Vienna in which Freud grew up. We explore his early background in science, his work as a therapist, his encounter with cocaine, and his theories on the unconscious, dreams, the Oedipus Complex, and sexuality.
We meet his family, his friend and enemies, and his patients -- The Rat Man, Anna O., Little Hans -- and we get an insider's view as the psychoanalytic movement is launched. The zany art and probing text do an extraordinary job of simplifying Freud without trivializing him. [via]More editions of Freud for Beginners:
Groups:Theory and Experience: Theory and Experienceby Rodney Napier, Matti K. GershenfeldISBN 0395126584 (0-395-12658-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A History of the Western Educational Experienceby Gerald L. GutekISBN 0394313550 (0-394-31355-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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A Home for the Heartby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394483774 (0-394-48377-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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How to Change the Schools: A Parents' Action Handbook on How to Fight the Systemby Ellen LurieISBN 0394419200 (0-394-41920-0)
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The Imperfect Panacea: American Faith in Education, 1865-1976by Henry J. PerkinsonISBN 0394312163 (0-394-31216-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Invisible Manby Ralph EllisonISBN 0394525493 (0-394-52549-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:We rely, in this world, on the visual aspects of humanity as a means of learning who we are. This, Ralph Ellison argues convincingly, is a dangerous habit. A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Searching for a context in which to know himself, he exists in a very peculiar state. "I am an invisible man," he says in his prologue. "When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me." But this is hard-won self-knowledge, earned over the course of many years.
As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: "Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here?" Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that his former headmaster's recommendation letters are, in fact, letters of condemnation.
What ensues is a search for what truth actually is, which proves to be supremely elusive. The narrator becomes a spokesman for a mixed-race band of social activists called "The Brotherhood" and believes he is fighting for equality. Once again, he realizes he's been duped into believing what he thought was the truth, when in fact it is only another variation. Of the Brothers, he eventually discerns: "They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves.... Here I thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either color or men."
Invisible Man is certainly a book about race in America, and sadly enough, few of the problems it chronicles have disappeared even now. But Ellison's first novel transcends such a narrow definition. It's also a book about the human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees. None of us can ever be sure of the truth beyond ourselves, and possibly not even there. The world is a tricky place, and no one knows this better than the invisible man, who leaves us with these chilling, provocative words: "And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" --Melanie Rehak [via]
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James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Ageby James HershbergISBN 0394579666 (0-394-57966-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Learning Mystique : A Critical Look at "Learning Disabilities"by Gerald ColesISBN 0394548981 (0-394-54898-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Lifeby Sissela BokISBN 0394413709 (0-394-41370-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Robert S. MiolaISBN 0393977862 (0-393-97786-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:The Norton Critical Edition of Macbeth, Shakespeare's terrifying depiction of a man and woman's fall into evil, derives from the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The edition includes an introduction, annotations, and textual notes.
A rich Sources and Contexts section provides readers with an understanding of Macbeths origins from earlier texts, specifically the works of the Roman playwright Seneca, the Tudor historian Raphael Holinshed, and a medieval drama The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the Death of Herod. The contexts for the play include contemporary debates on predestination vs. free will (Martin Luther vs. Erasmus), witchcraft as fiction or fact (Reginald Scot vs. King James I), the ethics of regicide (an Elizabethan homily vs. Juan de Mariana, S.J.), and a treatise on equivocation (Henry Garnet, S.J.). This edition also features adaptations--Davenant's moralistic Macbeth, some travesties, and Welcome Msomi's recent South African retelling, uMabatha.
Seventeen carefully chosen essays represent four hundred years of critical and theatrical interpretations, from the early observations of Simon Forman and Samuel Johnson to the Romantic readings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, and Thomas De Quincey, to recent essays by Janet Adelman and Stephen Orgel. Sarah Siddons and Derek Jacobi remember performing Macbeth, and Peter Holland surveys film interpretations.
A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]More editions of Macbeth:
Math, Writing and Games in the Open Classroomby H.R. KohlISBN 0394709950 (0-394-70995-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 0395051517 (0-395-05151-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mill on the Floss'Book summary:The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg's, England. Intelligent and passionate, Maggie yearns to develop her mind and break free of the constraints of her provincial village. Though she loves her brother above anyone else, Tom's rigid, pragmatic personality often conflicts with Maggie's headstrong nature, with increasingly tragic consequences.A classic novel of development, The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's most autobiographical work. Through the characters of Tom and Maggie, Eliot examines themes of gender, education, and personality formation, and her portrayal of the town of St. Ogg's is both a brilliant depiction of provincial narrow-mindedness and constraining social norms and an intelligent commentary on the changes to rural life brought about by the forces of industrialization.The Mill on the Floss is an enduring portrait of love, family, and individuals striving to create their own destinies, one whose words and characters resonate as vividly today as they did for Eliot's first readers.[via]More editions of The Mill on the Floss:
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0395083567 (0-395-08356-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Regionby Elbert Luther LittleISBN 0394507606 (0-394-50760-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region'Book summary:More than 300 species of trees are found in the United States and Canada west of the Rocky Mountains, some introduced from other continents but many native to the region. This handsome guidebook covers them all, with photographs that enable identification by easily discernible characteristics: by, for example, the shape of the leaf or needle, by the fruit, or by the flower or cone. The photographs are linked to texts that describe a tree's physical characteristics, habitat, and range. Some of the trees covered in this volume are exceedingly rare, such as the Monterey pine; others are locally abundant but limited in range, such as the Joshua tree; still others, such as the quaking aspen, are widespread. This guidebook is an essential addition to any western outdoor enthusiast's collection. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Regionby Richard SpellenbergISBN 0394504313 (0-394-50431-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region'Book summary:Covering the vast region from Alaska to California and east to the Great Plains, this well-produced, compact guidebook contains color plates depicting more than 650 wildflower species grouped by flower color to suit the needs of inexperienced enthusiasts. The plates are keyed to texts that offer physical descriptions of the flowers and their leaves and, where applicable, fruit, along with notes on habitat and range and, often, further notes on the flower's name (e.g., "The common name, Clammyweed, refers to the sticky, moist glands on the surface of this plant"). Expertly written and photographed, this guide is just the book to have on hand when traversing western wildflower country. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Studyby Kimon NicolaidesISBN 0395205484 (0-395-20548-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, Meyer Howard AbramsISBN 039397569X (0-393-97569-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:Beginning with Seamus Heaney's brilliant new translation of Beowulf, and continuing through ten centuries of remarkable literature to the contemporary works of Derek Walcott, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Salman Rushdie, the new Major Authors edition is a library between two covers--an indispensable addition to the family bookshelf. [via]
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The Norton Field Guide To Writingby Richard BullockISBN 0393977765 (0-393-97776-5)
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The Nose Bookby Roy McKie, Al PerkinsISBN 0394806239 (0-394-80623-9)
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On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapyby Carl Ransom RogersISBN 0395084091 (0-395-08409-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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On Learning and Social Changeby Michael RossmanISBN 0394480821 (0-394-48082-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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On Learning to Read: The Child's Fascination with Meaningby Bruno Bettelheim, Karen ZelanISBN 0394711947 (0-394-71194-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Orientalismby Edward W. SaidISBN 039474067X (0-394-74067-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orientalism'Book summary:For generations now, Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American cultural critic and author, born in Jerusalem and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include "The Question of Palestine", "Culture and Imperialism" and "Out of Place: A Memoir". If you enjoyed "Orientalism", you might like Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious". ("Observer"). "Beautifully patterned and passionately argued". ("New Statesman"). "Very exciting ...his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive". (John Leonard, "New York Times"). "Magisterial". (Terry Eagleton). [via]
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstanceby Henry PetroskiISBN 0394574222 (0-394-57422-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance'Book summary:Like most other human artifacts, the common pencil, made and sold today by the millions, has a long and complex history. Henry Petroski, who combines a talent for fine writing with a deep knowledge of engineering and technological history, examines the story of the pencil, considering it not only as a thing in itself, but also as an exemplar of all things that are designed and manufactured.
Petroski ranges widely in time, discussing the writing technologies of antiquity. But his story really begins in the early modern period, when, in 1565, a Swiss naturalist first described the properties of the mineral that became known as graphite. Petroski traces the evolution of the pencil through the Industrial Revolution, when machine manufacture replaced earlier handwork. Along the way, he looks at some of pencil making's great innovators--including Henry David Thoreau, the famed writer, who worked in his father's pencil factory, inventing techniques for grinding graphite and experimenting with blends of lead, clay, and other ingredients to yield pencils of varying hardness and darkness. Petroski closes with a look at how pencils are made today--a still-imperfect technology that may yet evolve with new advances in materials and design. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Poetics of the New American Poetryby Donald M. Allen, Warren TallmanISBN 0394488202 (0-394-48820-2)
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Prego!: An Invitation to Italianby Graziana Lazzarino, Antonella Pease, Luigi Romeo, Annamaria KellyISBN 0394336305 (0-394-33630-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Princeton Review College Admissions Cracking the Systemby Adam Robinson, John KatzmanISBN 0394751892 (0-394-75189-2)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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Princeton Review: SAT/PSAT 1986by John Katzman, Adam RobinsonISBN 0394743423 (0-394-74342-3)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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The Random House College DictionaryISBN 0394436008 (0-394-43600-8)
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The Random House Handbookby Frederick CrewsISBN 0394310659 (0-394-31065-9)
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Read On, Write Onby Rayna Kline, Georgia-Mae Gallivan, Stanley SpicerISBN 0394303261 (0-394-30326-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Bookby Richard ScarryISBN 0394826817 (0-394-82681-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane Austen, Claudia L. JohnsonISBN 039397751X (0-393-97751-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon, however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr Willoughby, a new neighbour. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behaviour begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. misfortunes and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber, Amazon.com [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
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Shellby Alex Arthur, Dave King, Colin Keates, Andreas EinsiedelISBN 0394822560 (0-394-82256-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Shock of the Newby Robert HughesISBN 0394513789 (0-394-51378-9)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry, with Essays on Reading and Writingby Kenneth Koch, Kate FarrellISBN 0394743644 (0-394-74364-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Tales of Canterbury: Completeby Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. PrattISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Talks to Teachers: A Festschrift for N.L. Gageby David C. Berliner, Barak V. RosenshineISBN 0394356446 (0-394-35644-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Ten Apples Up on Top!by Theodore Le SiegISBN 0394800192 (0-394-80019-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Testing and Measurement in the Classroomby Dale Paul ScannellISBN 0395186080 (0-395-18608-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Theories of Adolescenceby Rolf Eduard Helmut MuussISBN 0394318676 (0-394-31867-6)
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Toward a History of Needsby Ivan D. IllichISBN 0394735013 (0-394-73501-3)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0395051614 (0-395-05161-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Western Civilization, Images and Interpretationsby Dennis ShermanISBN 0394352076 (0-394-35207-6)
Softcover, Knopf
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What Is History?by Edward Hallett CarrISBN 039470391X (0-394-70391-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Workingby Studs TerkelISBN 0394478843 (0-394-47884-3)
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Doby Studs TerkelISBN 0394729536 (0-394-72953-6)
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Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Fiveby Penelope LeachISBN 0394407555 (0-394-40755-5)
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Each developmental stage--newborn, settled baby, older baby, toddler, and young child--is discussed in terms of feeding, teeth and teething, growing, excreting, crying, sleeping, playing, and everyday care. For each stage, an additional set of appropriate topics is discussed, including muscle power, speech, child care, and appropriate toys. Colorful and expressive photos display infant, childhood, and toddler behavior. With her common-sense, child-positive approach, Leach carefully dispels negative parenting attitudes, and teaches readers how to stop, listen, and learn from their children. --Ericka Lutz [via]
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