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A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spiritby Jack L. Canfield, Mark Victor HansenISBN 1558743804 (1-55874-380-4)
Hardcover, Allen Publishers, Thomas
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A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spiritby Mark Victor Hansen, Jack CanfieldISBN 1558743790 (1-55874-379-0)
Softcover, Hci
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Acquired Tastesby Peter MayleISBN 1560545437 (1-56054-543-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 1566192951 (1-56619-295-1)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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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Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Alexander DumasISBN 1562542508 (1-56254-250-8)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself. [via]
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Alternating Currentby Octavio PazISBN 1559701366 (1-55970-136-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Anathemas and Admirationsby E.M. Cioran, Richard HowardISBN 1559704616 (1-55970-461-6)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anathemas and Admirations'Book summary:Instead of accumulating wisdom, he has shed certainties. Instead of reaching out to touch someone, he has fastidiously cultivated his exemplary solitude. If he is an aphorist, he's one who resembles Nietzsche, not Kahlil Gibran. Edmund White, The New York Times
In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluationswhich he calls "admirations"of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. In alternating sections of aphorismshis "anathemas"he delivers insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, mortality, God, and the lure of disillusion.
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Art on My Mind : Visual Politicsby bell hooksISBN 1565842634 (1-56584-263-4)
Softcover, New Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art on My Mind : Visual Politics'Book summary:In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary force within the black community. [via]
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As A Man Thinkethby James AllenISBN 1561380938 (1-56138-093-8)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Best of Mylesby Flann O'BrienISBN 1564782158 (1-56478-215-8)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essaysby William GoldmanISBN 1557834601 (1-55783-460-1)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays'Book summary:"The trouble with the Oscar show is that it's too short," William Goldman writes more than once in these infectiously droll essays about Hollywood stars, box office roulette, vintage movie years, and the illogic of Saving Private Ryan. Any other writer would be in deep ironical mode saying that, but the great screenwriter (All the President's Men, The Princess Bride) and giddy movie enthusiast is hardly a "prevailing view" kind of guy. Wouldn't we have gotten Brando himself at the 1973 Oscars, he argues, if he had unlimited time to defend Indian rights to a billion viewers? Would anything have been better than that? Writing irregularly for New York magazine between 1991 and 1999, Goldman promised to explain "the Hollywood mind" to the rest of us--with the mantra always in front of him that "nobody knows anything." Which leaves him open to occasional free association. Gungha Din is "the most important movie ever made," he writes not once but twice. If Miramax is successful it's because the Weinsteins "live above the store." What do you do with Universal giving Sylvester Stallone $60 million after thirteen duds like Tango and Cash? "How long do you think you'd hold if you had those thirteen movies played over and over in a locked room?" Goldman asks. But while there's ephemera galore here, and nothing so very lofty, the guy speed-typing his interior monologues loves movies, and when he runs through the dumb things in Good Will Hunting or the great things about (his "all-time favorite") Cary Grant, just try putting the book down. --Lyall Bush [via]
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 156000522X (1-56000-522-X)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.
"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."
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--Saturday Review of Literature"A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."
--Forum"It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art...This is surely Huxley's best book."
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Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provenceby Lawrence DurrellISBN 155970098X (1-55970-098-X)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Camping With the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africaby Thomas A. BassISBN 1559212063 (1-55921-206-3)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Camping With the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa'Book summary:Originally published in 1990, this book tells of Thomas Bass's two-year journey across Africa, from Timbuktu to the Zambezi River, during which he spent most of his time in the company of scientists. In the course of his travels, he met a Cambridge-educated Kenyan-biologist trying to link the African spirit world with Western scientific methods, a Nigerian virologist fighting a losing battle to vaccinate the children of his country, and many others. In this book Bass' challenging tales dispel the many stereotypes about Africa. [via]
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Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carverby Raymond Carver, Bob AdelmanISBN 1559702559 (1-55970-255-9)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver'Book summary:Raymond Carver's gritty texts, combined with Adelman's photographs of Carver's people and haunts, re-create the world of this major writer, bringing to life the bleak, blue-collar towns, people, and places that became the inspiration for much of his work. 113 duotone photos. [via]
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionaryby Eric S. RaymondISBN 1565927249 (1-56592-724-9)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary'Book summary:It may be foolish to consider Eric Raymond's recent collection of essays, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the most important computer programming thinking to follow the Internet revolution. But it would be more unfortunate to overlook the implications and long-term benefits of his fastidious description of open-source software development considering the growing dependence businesses and economies have on emerging computer technologies.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar takes its title from an essay Raymond read at the 1997 Linux Kongress. The essay documents Raymond's acquisition, re-creation, and numerous revisions of an e-mail utility known as fetchmail. Raymond engagingly narrates the fetchmail development process while elaborating on the ongoing bazaar development method he uses with the help of volunteer programmers. The essay smartly spares the reader from the technical morass that could easily detract from the text's goal of demonstrating the efficacy of the open-source, or bazaar, method in creating robust, usable software.
Once Raymond has established the components and players necessary for an optimally running open-source model, he sets out to counter the conventional wisdom of private, closed-source software development. Like superbly written code, the author's arguments systematically anticipate their rebuttals. For programmers who "worry that the transition to open source will abolish or devalue their jobs," Raymond adeptly and factually counters that "most developer's salaries don't depend on software sale value." Raymond's uncanny ability to convince is as unrestrained as his capacity for extrapolating upon the promise of open-source development.
In addition to outlining the open-source methodology and its benefits, Raymond also sets out to salvage the hacker moniker from the nefarious connotations typically associated with it in his essay, "A Brief History of Hackerdom" (not surprisingly, he is also the compiler of The New Hacker's Dictionary). Recasting hackerdom in a more positive light may be a heroic undertaking in itself, but considering the Herculean efforts and perfectionist motivations of Raymond and his fellow open-source developers, that light will shine brightly. --Ryan Kuykendall [via]
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Coincidance : A Head Testby Robert Anton WilsonISBN 1561840041 (1-56184-004-1)
Softcover, New Falcon Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coincidance : A Head Test'Book summary:No, the spelling of the title is not a mistake. Dance a mad dervish whirl of coincidence and synchronicity with Robert Anton Wilson and his dancing partners James Joyce, the Marquis de Sade, William S. Borroughs, Carl Jung, Timothy Leary, Bobbie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and a host of others.
Coincidance is one of Wilson's personal favorites. If you liked Prometheus Rising or Quantum Psychology, you will love Coincidance! [via]
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The Dalai Lama a Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings by and About the Dalai Lama/Winner of the Nobel Peace Prizeby Sidney Piburn, Claiborne PellISBN 1559390220 (1-55939-022-0)
Softcover, Snow Lion Pubns
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Drawn and Quarteredby E.M. Cioran, Richard HowardISBN 1559704632 (1-55970-463-2)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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Edgeworks - The Collected Ellison: An Edge in My Voice and Over the Edgeby Harlan Ellison, Jill BaumanISBN 1565049608 (1-56504-960-8)
Hardcover, White Wolf Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edgeworks - The Collected Ellison: An Edge in My Voice and Over the Edge'Book summary:The Edgeworks are a 20-volume projected series containing classic works of the world's most honored fantasist. Under the author's direct supervision, each book now contains the revised, sometimes expanded versions of the previously published work, as well as lengthy new introductions. The series begins with Over the Edge (1970), a collection of short stories, and An Edge in My Voice (1985), a collection of essays. Both the stories and the essays are standard Ellison. In a word: brilliant. Ellison is one of the few writers on the planet whose own life is often more amazing than most of his fiction. Even though several of the stories are from the very beginning of the author's career, they are still quite effective. The essays (which first appeared in such diverse publications as Future Life, the L.A. Weekly and the Comics Journal in the early 1980s) speak of truths and lies as relevant today as they were then. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Edgeworks 3by Harlan EllisonISBN 1565049624 (1-56504-962-4)
Hardcover, Psi
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Essays and Sketches of Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Stuart MillerISBN 1566198798 (1-56619-879-8)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966by Barney RossetISBN 156201045X (1-56201-045-X)
Softcover, Foxrock
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966'Book summary:First published in 1970, this provocative and comprehensive collection of writing combines erotic elements and true creative writing. [via]
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Exterminate All the Brutesby Sven Lindqvist, Joan TateISBN 1565843592 (1-56584-359-2)
Softcover, New Pr
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Force of Circumstance: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoirby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 1557785236 (1-55778-523-6)
Hardcover, Paragon House
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1561561428 (1-56156-142-8)
Softcover, Kidsbooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary . ShelleyISBN 1562548980 (1-56254-898-0)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation as it destroys everything Victor loves is a powerful story of love friendship and horror. Grades: 4 - 12. Level(s): Intermediate Middle School High School. Author: Mary Shelly. Binding: Paperback. Publishing Date: Jan 2005. Number of Pages: 61. Language: English. [via]
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Generation of Vipersby Philip WylieISBN 1564781461 (1-56478-146-1)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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The Great Comic Book Heroes: Jules Feifferby Jules FeifferISBN 1560975016 (1-56097-501-6)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalistby William F. BuckleyISBN 1558504710 (1-55850-471-0)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist'Book summary:In Happy Days Were Here Again, William F. Buckley Jr. offers a collection of his finest essays from the latter part of his long career. Sometimes celebrating, sometimes assailing, Buckley takes on opponents ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to Carl Sagan to Leonard Bernstein; reflects on the academic scene, the Gulf War, and the idea of sin; and offers appreciations of friends, both right and left. For everyone who appreciates the wit and style of Americas pre-eminent conservative, this is a must-have collection.[via]More editions of Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist:
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of Historyby Isaiah BerlinISBN 1566630193 (1-56663-019-3)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History'Book summary:"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This fragment of verse by the Greek poet Archilochus describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy, in which he underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a central, all embracing system. Tolstoy longed for a unitary vision, Sir Isaiah observes, but his marvelous perception of people, things, and the moments of history was so acute that he could not stop himself from writing as he saw, felt, and understood. He was by nature a fox who wanted to be a hedgehog. Since its first publication in 1953 Sir Isaiah's long essay has acquired the status of a small masterpiece. In its distillation of his profound knowledge of Russian thought and more general political philosophy, The Hedgehog and the Fox is a triumph of erudition and a superb entryway into an understanding of Tolstoy's work. "This little book is so entertaining, as well as acute, that the reader hardly notices that it is learned too."Arnold Toynbee. [via]
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Hegel in 90 Minutesby Paul StrathernISBN 1566631548 (1-56663-154-8)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hegel in 90 Minutes'Book summary:In Hegel in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hegel's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Hegel's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place Hegel within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy. [via]
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Hell and Backby Tim ParksISBN 1559706538 (1-55970-653-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hell and Back'Book summary:HELL AND BACK offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging, always provocative reflections on literature and the art of writing. The lead essay on Dante sets the tone for the entire collection: erudite, contemplative, witty, and meticulous, it constantly offers new insights into The Inferno. Mixing biographical background with astute literary detection, Parks writes also of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Henry Green, Salman Rushdie, Jose Saramago, Christina Stead, and a dozen others. ìWriterly Rancourîówhich Parks calls ìthe fizz of contradiction . . . at the heart of the writing endeavorîóis itself worth the price of admission. [via]
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Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdieby Tim ParksISBN 1559706104 (1-55970-610-4)
Hardcover, Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hell and Back: Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie'Book summary:Hell and Back offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging, always provocative reflections on literature and the art of writing. The lead essay on Dante sets the tone for the entire collection: erudite, contemplative, witty, and meticulous, it constantly offers new insights in The Inferno, that most celebrated of all poems. Mixing biographical background with astute literary detection, Parks writes also of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Henry Green, Salman Rushdie, Jose Saramago, Christina Stead, Giovanni Verga, and a dozen others. His essay on the art of translation--he is, among other things, an eminent translator from the Italian--is simply masterful. [via]
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 1565848373 (1-56584-837-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times'Book summary:While American military forces seek to defeat an enemy that has no nation and American citizens ponder a future inextricably linked to the threat of terrorism, legendary writer Studs Terkel steps forward with a remarkable volume of oral histories that sheds new light on fighting for a just cause in uncertain times. As the title of Hope Dies Last suggests, Terkel's interviews all deal with the notion of finding hope in difficult times and holding on to that hope (of a better job, a better life, justice, peace) despite often overwhelming odds. Terkel draws his subjects from an incredibly broad range of backgrounds: pardoned Illinois death row inmate Leroy Orange discusses the events of his life, 94-year-old famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith talks about Enron, undocumented Guatemalans tell of trying to merely survive in modern America. While each testimonial is compelling in its own way, they combine to form a mosaic of human tenacity. Often, as in the case of 1960s civil rights activists, the subjects' ideas are accepted in the long run, for others, including a resident of Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project, the struggle is only just beginning. Terkel, 91 years old at the time of this book's publication, draws from a wealth of human experience but is spry enough to take on new causes and skillfully profile youthful activists with emerging causes. And Hope Dies Last is still a Studs Terkel book, full of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's brand of blue-collar, rabble-rousing, union-card-waving brand of broad shouldered Chicago liberalism that makes the current wave of political writers seem a bit green and petty by comparison. For all of their success in selling books that accuse one another of being liars and idiots, those writers would do well to get out and meet even a few of the people that Studs Terkel has been talking to for years. --John Moe [via]
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Troubled Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 156584937X (1-56584-937-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Troubled Times'Book summary:The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre.
Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.
For Terkel, these interviews represent a change that has taken place in the last few years of uncertainty in America. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion, to the now-retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who hope for a better world. Terkel's subjects express with grace and warmth their secret hopes and dreams, combining to tell an inspiring story of optimism and persistence that resonates with the eloquence of conviction. [via]
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In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belongby Amin MaaloufISBN 1559705930 (1-55970-593-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong'Book summary:In the Name of Identity is as close to summer reading as philosophy gets. It is a personal, sometimes even intimate, account of identity-in-the-world, not a treatise on the thorny metaphysics of identity. A novelist by trade, Amin Maalouf is a fluid writer, and he is aided by Barbara Bray's award-winning translation. His aim is to illuminate the roots of violence and hatred, which he sees in tribalistic forms of identity. He argues that our convictions and notions of identity--whether cultural, religious, national, or ethnic--are socially habituated and frequently dangerous. We'd give them up, he argues, if we thought more closely about them.
Though the book has been heralded as radical and surprising, Maalouf essentially espouses an Enlightenment sensibility, a faith in the brotherhood of man. He is a believer in progress, arguing that "the wind of globalisation, while it could lead us to disaster, could also lead us to success." In fact, he envisions a globalized world in which our local identities are subordinated to a broader "allegiance to the human community itself." Maalouf wants us to retain our distinctiveness, but he wants it subsumed under the nave of common understanding. --Eric de Place [via]
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Land of Grass and Sky: A Naturalist's Praire Journeyby Mary Taylor YoungISBN 1565794311 (1-56579-431-1)
Softcover, Westcliffe Pub
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Language and Thoughtby Noam ChomskyISBN 1559210761 (1-55921-076-1)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language and Thought'Book summary:As a linguist, Noam Chomsky aims not only at making a technical contribution with his generative theory of language but also at integrating his linguistic theory into a wider view of the relationship between between language and the human mind. The crux of this view is the hypothesis that human beings are born with an innate knowledge of universal principles underlying the structure of human language.
Chomsky's ideas have exerted a powerful influence on the other disciplines by restoring language to a central position in cognitive psychology and in the philosophy of the mind. The wider impact on his redefinition of the subject gives him a permanent place in the intellectual history of the twentieth century. [via]
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Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Outby Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, Kenyon Farrow, Bernadine DohrnISBN 1560257474 (1-56025-747-4)
Softcover, Nation Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out'Book summary:Who will lead America in the years to come? Letters from Young Activists introduces America's bold, exciting, new generation of activists. These diverse authors challenge the common misconception that today's young people are apathetic, shallow, and materialistic. Aged ten to thirty-one, these atheist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, pagan, transgender, heterosexual, bisexual, metrosexual Americans are from every type of background and ethnicity, but are united by their struggle toward a common goal. They are the inheritors of their parents' legacy from the sixties, but also have the imagination and courage to embark on new paths and different directions. In letters addressed to their parents, to past generations, to each other, to the youth of tomorrow and to their future selves, each author articulates his or her vision for the world as they work towards racial, economic, gender, environmental and global justice. As the editors write in their introduction: "From globalization to the war on terrorism and beyond, our generation is compelled to action in the midst of a rapidly changing, and unique political moment Our challenge, and yours, is to live our lives in a way that does not make a mockery of our values."[via]More editions of Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out:
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
Hardcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'Book summary:A tenth anniversary commemorative hardcover edition of James w. Loewen's classic retelling of American history.
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should and could be taught to American students.
This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author. [via]
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Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essaysby Christopher HitchensISBN 1560255803 (1-56025-580-3)
Softcover, Nation Books
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Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Societyby Lucy R. LippardISBN 1565842480 (1-56584-248-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into five partsAround Here; Manipulating Memory; Down to Earth: Land Use; The Last Frontiers: Cities and Suburbs; and Looking Aroundthe book extends far beyond the confines of the art worlds, including issues of community, land use, perceptions of nature, how we produce the landscape, and how the landscape affects our lives. Praised by critics and readers alike, she consistently makes unexpected connections between contemporary art and its political, social, and cultural contexts. [via]More editions of Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society:
The Making of Schindler's List: Behind the Scenes of an Epic Filmby Franciszek PalowskiISBN 1559724455 (1-55972-445-5)
Hardcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Mentors, Masters and Mrs. Macgregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Differenceby Jane BluesteinISBN 1558743375 (1-55874-337-5)
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My American Centuryby Studs TerkelISBN 1565844696 (1-56584-469-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My American Century'Book summary:Now in his eighties, Studs Terkel brings us My American Century, a collection of his most memorable interviews from all eight classics. Robert Cole's foreword lays out a brief history of America's economic power, from the Great Depression on. The details that remain unchanging are the insecurities endured by working men and women. "Such a vulnerability informs the life of even those lucky to be hard at work, as anyone interested in talking with ordinary working people will soon enough learn. But precisely who has had such an interest?" Fans of Studs Terkel know the answer. A writer supremely in touch with his world, Terkel's gift is in transforming the raw clay of people's lives into a simultaneously respectful, curious, and kind narrative.
"My turf," says Terkel of this latest volume, "has been the arena of unofficial truth--of the noncelebrated one on the block, who is able to articulate the thoughts of his/her neighbors, inchoate, though deeply felt. I confess to never having been privy to highly reliable sources." And what an amazing and impartial approach to subject matter. This informative volume, full of personality, is a wonderful introduction to the work of Studs Terkel, a writer who, time and again, gives voice to the querulous, difficult questions--the ones that always threaten to get swept away in the rapids of the American Dream. [via]
A New Century of Biologyby Gary W. Barrett, W. John Kress, Ernst MayrISBN 1560989459 (1-56098-945-9)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The New Inquisition : Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Scienceby Robert A. WilsonISBN 1561840025 (1-56184-002-5)
Softcover, Phoenix Publishing, Incorporated
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New Olympia Reader, 1957-1966: The Best from the First Ten Years of America's Most Provocative, Most Controversial, Most Important Literary Magazineby Barney Rosset, Dick Seaver, Fred Jordan, Donald Allen, Mike ToppISBN 1562010468 (1-56201-046-8)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutesby Paul StrathernISBN 1566631211 (1-56663-121-1)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nietzsche in 90 Minutes'Book summary:In Nietzsche in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Nietzsche's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Nietzsche's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place Nietzsche within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy. [via]
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Only When I Laughby Elouise BellISBN 1560850132 (1-56085-013-2)
Softcover, Signature Books
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The Outlaw Bible Of American Literatureby Barney Rosset, Neil OrtenbergISBN 1560255501 (1-56025-550-1)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outlaw Bible Of American Literature'Book summary:The Outlaw Bible of American Literature will serve as a primer for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the writers, on-the-scene testimony, seminal underground articles never before collected, photographs, cartoons, drawings, interviews, and, above all, the writings. Beat, Punk, Noir, Prison, Porn, Cyber, Queer, Anarchist, Blue Collar, Pulp, Sci-Fi, Utopian, Mobster, Politicalall are represented. The Bible includes fiction, essays, letters, memoirs, journalism, lyrics, diaries, manifestoes, and selections from seminal film scripts, including Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, and Taxi Driver. The editors have brought together an extravagant, eclectic, searing, and unforgettable body of work, showcasing Hustlers, Mavericks, Contrarians, Rockers, Barbarians, Gangsters, Hedonists, Provocateurs, Hipsters, and Revolutionariesall in one raucous cauldron of rebellion and otherness. This prose companion to the best-selling award-winning Outlaw Bible of American Poetry features selections from Hunter S. Thompson, Exene Cervenka, Patti Smith, Dennis Cooper, Malcolm X, Sonny Barger, Maggie Estep, Lenny Bruce, Henry Miller, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Iceberg Slim, Gil Scott-Heron, Kathy Acker, Jim Carroll, Charles Mingus, Norman Mailer, and many others.[via]More editions of The Outlaw Bible Of American Literature:
Over the Edge: An Edge in My Voiceby Harlan EllisonISBN 1565048296 (1-56504-829-6)
Softcover, Psi
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A Passion for Booksby Terry W. GlaspeyISBN 1565077814 (1-56507-781-4)
Hardcover, Harvest House Pub
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Poeticsby Aristotle, Kenneth McLeishISBN 1559361700 (1-55936-170-0)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Prometheus Risingby Robert Anton WilsonISBN 1561840564 (1-56184-056-4)
Softcover, New Falcon Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prometheus Rising'Book summary:Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga; not to mention Christian Science, relativity, quantum mechanics, and many other approaches to understanding the world around us. That is exactly what Robert Anton Wilson does in Prometheus Rising. In short, this is a book about how the human mind works and what you can do to make the most of yours. [via]
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Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991by Minnie Bruce PrattISBN 1563410060 (1-56341-006-0)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The Riddle of Life And Death: Tell Me a Riddle / The Death of Ivan Illichby Leo Tolstoy, Tillie Olsen, Jules ChametzkyISBN 1558615369 (1-55861-536-9)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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The Rise of the Network Societyby Manuel CastellsISBN 1557866171 (1-55786-617-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of the Network Society'Book summary:The Rise of the Network Society, the first volume in a trilogy collectively known as the Information Age, has earned Manuel Castells comparisons to such illustrious social critics as Max Weber and Karl Marx. Just as they worked to make sense of industrial capitalism, so does Castells put forth a systemic analysis of the global informational capitalism that emerged in the last half of the 20th century. While many books have considered the development of increasingly sophisticated information technology, the shifting conditions of employment and responsibility within corporations, or the rise of corporations whose domains are spread out over several nation-states, Castells unites these topics in a comprehensive thesis, negotiating the tightrope between academic sociology and mainstream business analysis. [via]
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The River Is Usby Bill StokesISBN 1559712147 (1-55971-214-7)
Softcover, Northword Pr
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A Russian Journalby John Steinbeck, Robert CapaISBN 1557782253 (1-55778-225-3)
Softcover, Paragon House
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Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desireby Wade DavisISBN 1559633549 (1-55963-354-9)
Hardcover, Island Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire'Book summary:Renowned anthropologist Wade Davis shows us how preserving the diversity of the world's cultures and spiritual beliefs is just as important as preserving our endangered plants, insects, and animals. In this collection of personal essays, Davis tells of dramatic personal adventures during which he visits and often lives with indigenous communities in the remote regions of the world. He offers reports of toad-smoking shamanistic journeys in the Amazon forests, tracking an elusive cloud leopard in the mountains of Tibet, and a soulful lament for the lost American buffalo.
Although he has been called a modern-day Indiana Jones, Davis has far more integrity. His stories are not in service to self-glorification, but rather to one resounding theme:
If there is one lesson I have drawn from my travels, it is that cultural and biological diversity are far more than the foundation of stability; they are an article of faith, a fundamental truth that indicates the way things are supposed to be.... There is a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills, and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame and reinventing the poetry of diversity is the most important challenge of our times.
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Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Tasteby John WatersISBN 1560250925 (1-56025-092-5)
Softcover, Avalon Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shock Value : A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste'Book summary:To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. Thus begins John Waters's autobiography. And what a story it is. Opening with his upbringing in Baltimore ("Charm City" as dubbed by the tourist board; the "hairdo capital of the world" as dubbed by Waters), it covers his friendship with his muse and leading lady, Divine, detailed accounts of how Waters made his first movies, stories of the circle of friends/actors he used in these films, and finally the "sort-of fame" he achieves in America. Complementing the text are dozens of fabulous old photographs of Waters and crew. Here is a true love letter from a legendary filmmaker to his friends, family, and fans.[via]More editions of Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste:
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Silencesby Tillie OlsenISBN 1558614400 (1-55861-440-0)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silences'Book summary:[via]First published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continentthe writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments of Melville, the crushing weight of criticism on Thomas Hardy, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and struggles of Virginia Woolf, Olsens heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsens now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface.
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Some Horsesby Thomas McGuaneISBN 1558218912 (1-55821-891-2)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Something to Declareby Julia AlvarezISBN 1565121937 (1-56512-193-7)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something to Declare'Book summary:In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez takes us behind the scenes and shares the lessons she's learned on her way to becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her family fled the Dominican Republic. Her father participated in a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, and exile to the United States was the only way to save his life. The family settled in New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the business of assimilation--a lifelong struggle. Loss of her native land, language, culture, and extended family formed the thematic basis for two of Julia Alvarez's three best-selling novels--HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS and its sequel, YO! Her father's revolutionary ties inspired IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES, her historical novel about one of Trujillo's most infamous atrocities. SOMETHING TO DECLARE offers an extraordinary collection of essays that deal with the two big issues of Alvarez's life--growing up with one foot in each culture and writing. The twelve essays that make up "Customs," the first of two parts, examine the specific effects of exile on this writer. The essays are personal--how her maternal grandfather passed along his love of the arts, how the nuclear family-in-exile snuggled down every year to watch the Miss America contest from the parental bed, how Julia feared her family might disown her upon publication of her first novel. In the second half, "Declarations," are twelve essays about writing that range from confession of Alvarez's means of supporting her writing habit to the gritty details of her actual process. Every one of these essays is warm, open, honest, and generous. SOMETHING TO DECLARE will appeal not only to her many fans, but to students of writing at all levels. [via]
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The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Cultureby Leslie SavanISBN 1566392454 (1-56639-245-4)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Studs Terkel's Working: A Teaching Guideby Rick AyersISBN 1565846265 (1-56584-626-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Studs Terkel's Working: A Teaching Guide'Book summary:An invaluable educational resource for introducing Studs Terkel's classic work of oral history to today's students. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/journalist Studs Terkel is world famous for his oral histories, considered an innovator in modern ethnographic research. Working, Terkel's most popular book, provides a powerful and original perspective on one of the most basic components of human experience: work. The farmer, receptionist, college professor, mail carrier, stockbroker, athlete, and many others share their daily routines and dreams in their own words. Working has long been recognized as an ideal teaching tool, presenting provocative material certain to engage students, ignite classroom discussion, and inspire thoughtful writing. Now, helping educators discover a variety of approaches for using Working in the classroom, Rick Ayers presents a comprehensive teaching guide to this celebrated classic. With its 200 pages of classroom materials--including questions, topics for discussion, tips for taking oral histories, and a bibliography of related resources--Ayers' teaching guide is certain to be welcomed by educators everywhere. As an added bonus, it includes a new interview with Terkel himself, offering insight into the making of Working. [via]
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Toujours Provenceby Peter MayleISBN 1560542624 (1-56054-262-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkeby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557833788 (1-55783-378-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Trouble with Beingby E.M. Cioran, Richard HowardISBN 1559704624 (1-55970-462-4)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trouble with Being'Book summary:In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. In all his writing, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience. [via]
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneedby John IrvingISBN 1559703237 (1-55970-323-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitutionby Robert Anton WilsonISBN 1561841692 (1-56184-169-2)
Softcover, New Falcon Pubns
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Understanding Comicsby Scott McCloudISBN 1563895579 (1-56389-557-9)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Comics'Book summary:As all good card-carrying comic-book fans know, their sheer passion will never overcome narrow-minded critics and their baying cries of derision. There is far more to this perpetually underrated medium than a mix of art and prose. With this indispensable, spellbinding tome, writer/artist Scott McCloud rises to the challenge of dissecting what remains the most enigmatic of art forms. After all, says McCloud, "No other art form gives so much to its audience while asking so much from them as well". Over the course of 215 impeccably formed pages, McCloud joyously exposes and deconstructs a hidden world of icons in a most literate and valid manner. His charming guidance finds a place where Time and Space is effortlessly malleable and the reader is both a willing accomplice and necessary vessel for comics' singular magic. Cunningly presented in comic form, McCloud (or his comic equivalent) conducts a journey that spans thousands of years, taking in art from Prehistoric Man to the Egyptians to Van Gogh to Jack Kirby. Never has psychological and cultural analysis been so understandably clear, beautifully aided by clever visuals and his truly infectious love for the medium. By the end of this funny, charming, rare and exciting book, you'll not doubt the notion that a comic book "...is a vacuum into which our identity and awareness are pulled ... an empty shell that we inhabit which enables us to travel to another realm". A fine exchange for a little faith and a world of imagination. --Danny Graydon [via]
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The Way It Was and Other Writingsby Edna Acosta-Belen, Jesus Colon, Virginia Sanchez KorrolISBN 1558850570 (1-55885-057-0)
Softcover, Arte Publico Pr
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The Well-Tempered Gardenby Christopher LloydISBN 155821593X (1-55821-593-X)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing Through the Backlashby Juliet Mitchell, Ann OakleyISBN 1565843851 (1-56584-385-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing Through the Backlash'Book summary:Feminism was never intended to be monolithic or totalitarian, but all too often it gets cast that way. Who's Afraid of Feminism? takes a weighty, tough-minded look at backlash within--and outside of--the feminist movement, and its international contributors don't pull punches. Margaret Walters delivers scathing commentary on the mirror-image melodrama of Camille Paglia and Catharine MacKinnon squaring off over pornography. She notes dryly that the demonizing rhethoric spouted in this fight "offers far more excitement than the slow slog to get a better deal for women in the workplace, at home, in politics, or the equally slow struggle to explore the ambiguities of our own sexual feelings..." Susan Heath puts the lie to advances made by lesbians that are too often shredded by day-to-day homophobic realities. The book is no dirge, however, but a healthy shake-up that carefully examines and in some instances affirms what feminist values are and how they've sped and slowed our journey. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faithby Studs TerkelISBN 1565846923 (1-56584-692-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith'Book summary:Mustering more spunk and battery juice than his overworked tape recorder, 88-year-old Studs Terkel cranks out another eclectic treasury of oral histories in Will the Circle Be Unbroken? This time, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War takes on death, a universal experience that solicits plenty of speculation, caution, and emotion from his 60-plus interviewees. Regular folks--ranging from the deeply religious to the deeply atheistic--share their life stories and their hopes or suspicions about the afterlife. Some are well-known, such as author Kurt Vonnegut, radio journalist Ira Glass, and folksinger Doc Watson (who, incidentally, appears in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's classic bluegrass album Will the Circle Be Unbroken). Others, including parents, artists, medics, and clergymen, share equally compelling stories about losing family members, patients, and friends; personal encounters with heavenly voices; and apparitions. Terkel lies low throughout the book; his voice is only heard in the short intros to each speaker's story and in the chuckle-inducing introduction, which tells the story of an asthmatic boy--Studs, of course--who ironically outlives his family and dear wife Ida. The result is a vibrant tapestry of life's full process, sure to stir compassion and inspiration in adults at any point on the curve. --Liane Thomas [via]
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Wittgenstein's Tractatusby Ludwig Wittgenstein, Daniel KolakISBN 155934993X (1-55934-993-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Word: On Being a Woman Writerby Jocelyn Burrell, Suheir HammadISBN 1558614672 (1-55861-467-2)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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Workingby Studs TerkelISBN 1565843428 (1-56584-342-8)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Working'Book summary:Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives.... In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" (Chicago Daily News)--"a magnificent book . . .. A work of art. To read it is to hear America talking." (Boston Globe). [via]
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine HedgesISBN 1558611584 (1-55861-158-4)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition'Book summary:First published in 1892, The Yellow Wall-Paper is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. In the involuntary confinement of her bedroom, the hero creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, The Yellow Wall-Paper stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one womans descent into insanity, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women.[via]
Suggested for course use in:
Family studies
Feminist thought
History of medicine
19th-century U.S. literature
Psychology
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) was a feminist writer, lecturer, and activist. Her many other works include Herland and Women and Economics.More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition:
Youthful Writingsby Albert Camus, Paul ViallaneixISBN 155778387X (1-55778-387-X)
Hardcover, Paragon House
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