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Albert Einstein : Out of My Later Yearsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0517093804 (0-517-09380-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Albert Einstein : Out of My Later Years'Book summary:Albert Einstein, among the greatest scientists of all time, was also a man of profound thought and deeply humane feelings. His collected essays offer a fascinating and moving look at one of the twentieth century's leading minds.
Covering a fifteen year period from 1934 to 1950, the contents of this book have been drawn from Einstein's articles, addresses, letters and assorted papers. Through his words, you can understand the man and gain his insight on social, religious, and educational issues. [via]More editions of Albert Einstein : Out of My Later Years:
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Art & Liesby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679441816 (0-679-44181-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art & Lies'Book summary:One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling yet strangely satisfying."--Newsday.
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Bad Tripsby Keath FraserISBN 0679729089 (0-679-72908-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002by Natalie Angier, Tim FolgerISBN 0618134786 (0-618-13478-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Travel Writing 2004by Jason Wilson, Pico IyerISBN 0618341250 (0-618-34125-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Travel Writing 2004'Book summary:In his thought-provoking and witty introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2004, Pico Iyer explores American travel writing from the viewpoint of a non-American. He writes, "For many Americans, living in a country that borders few others and at a time when only one in three fellow citizens holds a passport, travel is the only way to get a living, human sense of the world around us . . . The best American travel writing is still lit up, I think, by that spirit of transcendence less visible abroad." Iyer has chosen twenty-six pieces that revel in rich discovery and brave experience both near and far away. Roger Angell remembers a sense of adventure during childhood car trips in New York (one taken with E. B. White, his future stepfather). Tim Cahill describes the joy of trekking in Patagonia, his "new favorite place on earth." Heather Eliot writes of a fevered love affair in the South Pacific, and Tad Friend hilariously tells of introducing Segways to Paris. George Packer recalls his time as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa and the swirl of political unrest there.[via]
These varied and fascinating travel pieces show that the search for understanding is alive and well in this country, and that Americans are more eager than ever to search for, as Iyer writes, "something deeper and more lasting."More editions of The Best American Travel Writing 2004:
The Best American Travel Writing 2004by Pico Iyer, Jason WilsonISBN 0618341269 (0-618-34126-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Captive Mindby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0679728562 (0-679-72856-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captive Mind'Book summary:The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. [via]
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The Closing of the American Mindby Allan BloomISBN 0671657151 (0-671-65715-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Closing of the American Mind'Book summary:THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT
In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites.
Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Blooms argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. [via]
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The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Studentsby Allan BloomISBN 0671479903 (0-671-47990-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students'Book summary:THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind , an appraisal of contemporary America that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" ( The New York Times ) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom's argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. [via]
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The Complete Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679417400 (0-679-41740-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabrehis genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representin contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanthe other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.More editions of The Complete Stories:
Complete Collected Essaysby V. S. PritchettISBN 0679411127 (0-679-41112-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Complete Edgar Allan Poe Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517336340 (0-517-33634-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Complete Prose of Marianne Mooreby Marianne Moore, Patricia C. WillisISBN 0670804517 (0-670-80451-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Sixty-Seven Tales, One Complete Novel and Thirty-One Poemsby Edgar Allan Poe, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051745372X (0-517-45372-X)
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Confessionsby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Furbank P.N. RousseauISBN 067940998X (0-679-40998-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention to his startlingly alive autobiography. But the Confessions is also among the greatest self-portraits in world literature -which suggests, even more than the impact of Rousseau's thought, the extent to which the very high opinion he had of himself was ultimately justified. [via]More editions of Confessions:
Dave Barry in Cyberspaceby Dave BarryISBN 0517595753 (0-517-59575-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venusby Dave BarryISBN 0609600664 (0-609-60066-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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De Profundisby Oscar WildeISBN 0486293084 (0-486-29308-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Din in the Head: Essaysby Cynthia OzickISBN 0618470506 (0-618-47050-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Down The Riverby Edward AbbeyISBN 0525476768 (0-525-47676-8)
Softcover, Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down The River'Book summary:"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.
Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes a hard look at the MX missile system, slated for the American West. "For 23 years now I've been floating rivers. Always downstream, the easy and natural way. The way Huck Finn and Jim did it, LaSalle and Marquette, the mountain men, and Major Powell."
"Abbey's the original fly in the ointment. Give him money and prizes. Don't let anything happen to him." --Thomas McGuane [via]
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Downsize This! : Random Threats from an Unarmed Americanby Michael MooreISBN 051770739X (0-517-70739-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Edgar Allan Poe : Selected Worksby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0517053586 (0-517-05358-6)
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The Eiffel Tower: And Other Mythologiesby Roland Barthes, Richard HowardISBN 0520209826 (0-520-20982-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0486451364 (0-486-45136-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
Enthusiasmsby Bernard LevinISBN 051755352X (0-517-55352-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishers
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Friendship: An Exposéby Joseph EpsteinISBN 0618872159 (0-618-87215-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essaysby Willard V. QuineISBN 0674323513 (0-674-32351-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Goldby Isaac AsimovISBN 0614155452 (0-614-15545-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essaysby Mary GordonISBN 0670825670 (0-670-82567-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writingsby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571147968 (0-571-14796-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Heart's Desire: The Best of Edward Hoagland Essays from Twenty Yearsby Edward HoaglandISBN 0671747444 (0-671-74744-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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I Six Non Lecturesby E. E. CummingsISBN 0674440102 (0-674-44010-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Is There a Nutmeg in the House?: Essays on Practical Cooking with More Than 150 Recipesby Elizabeth David, Jill NormanISBN 0670030333 (0-670-03033-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is There a Nutmeg in the House?: Essays on Practical Cooking with More Than 150 Recipes'Book summary:If you care about food, you must read Elizabeth David. Author of nine definitive books, including Italian Food and French Provincial Cooking, her writings famously helped reawaken the postwar British palate while educating, through authentic recipes and compelling investigation, a generation of cooks about food and its joys. Is There a Nutmeg in the House?--a second posthumous anthology (David died in 1992)--contains previously uncollected essays, journalism, and correspondence, plus 150 recipes, all of which reveal the author at her wonderfully informative best. Readers will delight in her opinionated yet embracing sensibility, her unerring sense of what makes food not only good but genuine--true to itself and the people who make it.
The book is divided into course-based chapters that net David's wide-ranging essays and recipes. The essays explore, among other topics, the story of bouillon cubes; the virtues of nutmeg; the uselessness of garlic presses; the nature of the ideal kitchen (keep refrigerators far away from stoves, she advises); and the best way to poach an egg (David quotes an historical source on the subject, with whom she agrees that if the eggs aren't fresh, "it is not in the power of the best cook in the Kingdom to poach [them] handsome"). The recipes run the gamut from a brilliant pizza quartet (Roman, Provençal, Armenian, and Genovese variations) to Beans in the Tuscan Bean Jar (a flasklike container that ensures even cooking) to ice creams and other tempting desserts like the Victorian Lemon and Brown Sugar Cake. With woodcuts and other illustration, the book is a treasure. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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The Language of Inquiryby Lyn HejinianISBN 0520217004 (0-520-21700-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of Inquiry'Book summary:Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address.[via]
Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.
Looking Around: A Journey Through Architectureby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0670844217 (0-670-84421-7)
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Man's Search for Meaningby Viktor E. FranklISBN 0671023373 (0-671-02337-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Search for Meaning'Book summary:Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips." [via]
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Meditations from a Movable Chairby Andre DubusISBN 0679751157 (0-679-75115-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays'Book summary:In his first book of essays, Broken Vessels, Andre Dubus uses experiences such as baseball games and sheep herding as occasions for insight. His second essay collection, Meditations from a Movable Chair, is about the people who have meant the most to him. The book conjures a cloud of witnesses--Dubus's father, his sister, Norman Mailer, Liv Ullmann, a gay military officer--so vividly that their gifts to Dubus become gifts to the reader, as well. Many of these people helped Dubus understand the holiness, even sacramentality, of everyday life, which he describes in explicitly Catholic terms. Meditations from a Movable Chair is a rare and wonderful thing--a book written out of love, whose richness of heart is expressed by an exacting and challenging mind. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Worksby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0486287599 (0-486-28759-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works'Book summary:If you read this in high school (as many of us did), it may have shocked you--not bad for a tract written in 1729. It wouldn't be fair to those of you who haven't come across A Modest Proposal to reveal the particulars of the piece; suffice it to say that Saturday Night Live has nothing on Jonathan Swift! Swift's discussion of what Great Britain should do for his native impoverished Ireland is a model of political satire, absolutely consistent in tone and even now still sparkling in its clarity. The balance between, on the one hand, the utter seriousness of the matter in question and, on the other, the outrageousness of the remedy suggested is exquisite. A Modest Proposal is short and comes bound in this edition with several of Swift's other writings. This volume is an excellent introduction to the author of Gulliver's Travels (itself a masterwork) and to one of the world's premier satirical minds. What are you waiting for? --Michael Gerber [via]
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The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whalesby Diane AckermanISBN 0679742263 (0-679-74226-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Most of S.J. Perelmanby Sidney Joseph PerelmanISBN 0671418718 (0-671-41871-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Most of the Most of S. J. Perelmanby S. J. Perelman, Steve MartinISBN 0679640371 (0-679-64037-1)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman'Book summary:This book includes many of the greatest hits from 1930 to 1958--available only in this edition--by the devastatingly witty Perelman, the leading figure of The New Yorker magazine's golden age of humor and one of the most popular American humorists ever. In these hilarious pieces, the charmingly cranky Perelman turns his scathing attention to books, movies, New York socialites, the newspaper business, country life, travel, Hollywood, the publishing industry, and, last but not least, himself. His self-portrait: "Under a forehead roughly comparable to . . . Piltdown Man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence. . . . Before they made S. J. Perelman, they broke the mold." Sophisticated and supremely mischievous, Perelman is an acrobat of language who turns a phrase and then, before the reader has time to finish admiring his agility, turns it again. [via]
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder : Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technologyby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 0679439986 (0-679-43998-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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My Kind of Place : Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhereby Susan OrleanISBN 0679462937 (0-679-46293-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Kind of Place : Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere'Book summary:Susan Orlean has been called a national treasure by The Washington Post and a kind of latter-day Tocqueville by The New York Times Book Review. In addition to having written classic articles for The New Yorker, she was played, with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden Globe Awardwinning performance in the film Adaptation.
Now, in My Kind of Place, the real Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinoisand even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality.
With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cubas Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyones favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled its known as Horror High ; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world.
Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orleans writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of Americas premier literary journalists. [via]More editions of My Kind of Place : Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere:
On the Art of Writingby Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchISBN 048645004X (0-486-45004-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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One Writer's Beginningsby Eudora WeltyISBN 0674639278 (0-674-63927-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Othernessby David BrinISBN 0553295284 (0-553-29528-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otherness'Book summary:From multiple award-winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays of the near and distant future, as humans and aliens encounter the secrets of the cosmos--and of their own existence. In "Dr. Pak's Preschool" a woman discovers that her baby has been called upon to work while still in the womb. In "NatuLife" a married couple finds their relationship threatened by the wonders of sex by simulation. In "Sshhh . . . " the arrival of benevolent aliens on Earth leads to frenzy, madness . . . and unimaginable joy. In "Bubbles" a sentient starcraft reaches the limits of the universe--and dares to go beyond. These are but a few of the challenging speculations in Otherness, from the pen of an author whose urgent and compelling imaginative fiction challenges us to wonder at the shape and the nature of the universe--as well as at its future. [via]
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Out of My Later Yearsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0517694174 (0-517-69417-4)
Hardcover, Bonanza Books
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Passing By: Selected Essays, 1970-1991by Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0679413898 (0-679-41389-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Pecked to Death by Ducksby Tim CahillISBN 0679749292 (0-679-74929-2)
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The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomyby Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Arthur MacHenISBN 0486422534 (0-486-42253-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy'Book summary:You can't properly call yourself a gourmand (or even a minor foodie) until you've digested Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's delectable 1825 treatise, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. Brilliantly and lovingly translated in 1949 by M.F.K. Fisher (herself the doyenne of 20th-century food writing), the book offers the Professor's meditations not just on matters of cooking and eating, but extends to sleep, dreams, exhaustion, and even death (which he defines as the "complete interruption of sensual relations"). Brillat-Savarin, whose genius is in the examination and discussion of food, cooking, and eating, proclaims that "the discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star."
Chocoholics will be satisfied to know that "carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant ... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work...." He examines the erotic properties of the truffle ("the truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac; but it can, in certain situations, make women tenderer and men more agreeable"), the financial influence of the turkey (apparently quite a prize in 19th-century Paris), and the level of gourmandise among the various professions (bankers, doctors, writers, and men of faith are all predestined to love food). Just as engrossing as the text itself are M.F.K. Fisher's lively, personal glosses at the end of every chapter, which make up almost a quarter of the book. These two are soulmates separated by centuries, and Fisher's fondness for the Professor comes through on every page. As she notes at the end, "I have yet to be bored or offended, which is more than most women can say of any relationship, either ghostly or corporeal." --Rebecca A. Staffel [via]
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imaginationby Toni MorrisonISBN 0679745424 (0-679-74542-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination'Book summary:Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest."
Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell--are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of Huckleberry Finn. A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction.
Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
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Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysisby Adam PhillipsISBN 0571209734 (0-571-20973-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 064626642X (0-646-26642-X)
Softcover, Phone Media
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The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writingsby Janet MalcolmISBN 0679748105 (0-679-74810-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ralph Waldo Emersonby Robert D. RichardosnISBN 0553213881 (0-553-21388-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lecturesby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679761276 (0-679-76127-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Representations of the Intellectual: The Reith Lecturesby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679435867 (0-679-43586-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Rousseau : Confessionsby Peter France, J. P. SternISBN 052131500X (0-521-31500-X)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockhby Thomas Carlyle, Mark Engel, Rodger L. TarrISBN 0520209281 (0-520-20928-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh'Book summary:Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834, it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838. By the 1840s, largely on the strength of Sartor Resartus, Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in Britain.[via]
Sartor Resartus became one of the important texts of nineteenth-century English literature, central to the Romantic movement and Victorian culture. At the time of Carlyle's death in 1881, more than 69,000 copies had been sold. The post-Victorian influence continued and extends to writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, Willa Cather and Ernest Hemingway.
This edition of Sartor Resartus is the first publication of the work that uses all extant versions to create an accurate authorial text. This volume, the second in an eight-volume series, includes a complete textual apparatus as well as a historical introduction and full critical and explanatory annotation.More editions of Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh:
Scribble, Scribbleby Nora EphronISBN 0553122754 (0-553-12275-4)
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Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emersonby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0671441485 (0-671-44148-5)
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Sense of Sightby John Berger, Lloyd SpencerISBN 0679737227 (0-679-73722-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sex Tips for Girlsby Cynthia HeimelISBN 0671477250 (0-671-47725-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interviewby Thomas GunnISBN 0472095412 (0-472-09541-2)
Hardcover, University of Michigan Press
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Snobbery: The American Versionby Joseph EpsteinISBN 0618340734 (0-618-34073-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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So This Is Depravityby Russell BakerISBN 0671551779 (0-671-55177-9)
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The Sound of Mountain Waterby Wallace StegnerISBN 0525476318 (0-525-47631-8)
Softcover, Dutton
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The Summer Gameby Roger AngellISBN 0670681644 (0-670-68164-4)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Unionby June JordanISBN 0679747621 (0-679-74762-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The View from Serendipby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0575023031 (0-575-02303-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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What the Dogs Have Taught Me, and Other Amazing Things I'Ve Learnedby Merrill MarkoeISBN 0670843105 (0-670-84310-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What the Dogs Have Taught Me, and Other Amazing Things I'Ve Learned'Book summary:Merrill Markoe, the creator of "Stupid Pet Tricks," won four Emmy awards for her work on the David Letterman show. In these sidesplitting essays--from "The Wacky World of Men" to "An Insider's Guide to the American Woman" to "Showering with Your Dog"--she reveals what she's learned about life from "dogs, celebrities, bachelors, and other beasts."
In Markoe's words, "I pick dogs that remind me of myself--scrappy, mutt-faced, with a hint of mange. People look for a reflection of their own personalities or the person they dream of being in the eyes of an animal companion. That is the reason I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies."
Following a collection of sparkling chapters on cultural phenomena--from the "Creeping Gabor Syndrome" (the terror of turning into Zsa Zsa Gabor) to what happens to you when you live alone (and the eight things you can do because there's no one there to stop you)--the last chapter outlines the many lessons Markoe has learned from her dogs: "If you see something you want, and all your other attempts at getting it have failed, it is only right to grovel shamelessly. As a second tactic, stare intently at the object of your desire, allowing long gelatinous drools to leak like icicles from your lips." [via]
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Where I Was fromby Joan DidionISBN 0679752862 (0-679-75286-2)
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In Where I Was From, Didion turns what John Leonard has called her sonar ear, her radar eye onto her own work, as well as that of such California writers as Frank Norris and Jack London and Henry George, to examine how the folly and recklessness in the very grain of the California settlement led to the California we know todaya state mortgaged first to the railroad, then to the aerospace industry, and overwhelmingly to the federal government, a dependent colony of those political and corporate owners who fly in for the annual encampment of the
Bohemian Club. Here is the one writer we always want to read on California showing us the startling contradictions in itsand in Americascore values.
Joan Didions unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers.
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Works of Edgar Allan Poeby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517486555 (0-517-48655-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The World of Mathematicsby James Roy NewmanISBN 0486432688 (0-486-43268-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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