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1984, Spring: A Choice of Futuresby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0345313577 (0-345-31357-7)
Hardcover, Ballantyne Books
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Against Love: A Polemicby Laura KipnisISBN 0375719326 (0-375-71932-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Love: A Polemic'Book summary:Less against love than against the cultural constraints that leads us to create wrong-headed ideas of love, this is book is the perfect antidote to any lingering social guilt about being happily single. Against Love: A Polemic will both shock and irritate, especially when you find yourself nodding your head in agreement while laughing at another broken taboo. Laura Kipnis (author of Bound and Gagged, Ecstasy Unlimited) clearly enjoyed writing this; she lets her wit run rampage over classic married situations and human emotions with results that include comparing adulterers to freedom fighters (using sharpened spoons to tunnel out from under love's barbed wire fences) and referring to tearful confessions of cheating as "funny little couple rituals." These make it fun, but the iconoclastic beauty is in her questions. How did good relationships come to be considered work instead of play? Why, unlike most of history and many other modern cultures, do Americans assume love and marriage go hand-in-hand? What lead to infidelity committed by public figures becoming a source of outrage? Kipnis doesn't have answers. Although urging us to have more compassion for our own desires, she expects her readers are smart enough to supply their own in response to her ideas. That attitude itself is a treat--if you're prepared to keep up through a complex whirlwind of Freud, Marx, Gingrich, Wollstonecraft, and several generations of pop culture. Jill Lightner [via]
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Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectivesby Stanley CrouchISBN 0375701680 (0-375-70168-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives'Book summary:In Always in Pursuit iconoclastic essayist and columnist Stanley Crouch collects some of his best work from 1995 through 1997. His interests are far-reaching, but Crouch's central concern is how U.S. residents work to further American democracy. He takes heart that so few believed Susan Smith, the white South Carolina woman who murdered her children and then said a black man had done it; chides Jesse Jackson for failing to live up to his potential as a leader; and speaks out in support of affirmative action simply because no one has proposed a better solution. Sometimes outrageous, sometimes abstruse, Crouch is never anything less than interesting. [via]
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Always in Pursuit : Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997by Stanley CrouchISBN 0375401539 (0-375-40153-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always in Pursuit : Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997'Book summary:In Always in Pursuit iconoclastic essayist and columnist Stanley Crouch collects some of his best work from 1995 through 1997. His interests are far-reaching, but Crouch's central concern is how U.S. residents work to further American democracy. He takes heart that so few believed Susan Smith, the white South Carolina woman who murdered her children and then said a black man had done it; chides Jesse Jackson for failing to live up to his potential as a leader; and speaks out in support of affirmative action simply because no one has proposed a better solution. Sometimes outrageous, sometimes abstruse, Crouch is never anything less than interesting. [via]
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Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscience Topicsby Martin GardnerISBN 0393325725 (0-393-32572-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Between Boyfriends Book: A Collection of Cautiously Hopeful Essaysby Cindy ChupackISBN 031230904X (0-312-30904-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Cafe Europa: Life After Communismby Slavenka DrakulicISBN 0393040127 (0-393-04012-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Captive Mindby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0374957339 (0-374-95733-9)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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Cassandraby Christa WolfISBN 0374519048 (0-374-51904-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cassandra'Book summary:In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels and studies, Cassandra speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and a letter, Wolf describes the novel's genesis. Incisive and intelligent, the entire volume represents an urgent call to examine the past in order to insure a future.[via] 
Charles Kuralt's Americaby Charles KuraltISBN 0385485107 (0-385-48510-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Crime Waveby James EllroyISBN 037570471X (0-375-70471-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime Wave'Book summary:You wouldn't expect slick GQ to perform the greatest magazine service to hard-boiled crime writing since the heyday of Black Mask, but the evidence is before your eyes: Crime Wave, James Ellroy's collected GQ works circa 1993-99.
Though Crime Wave contains two stories in the exhilaratingly sleazy voice of the fictitious scandal rag Hush-Hush, and the novella-length "Hollywood Shakedown," a tale of sex, drugs, and murder starring '50s crooner-accordionist Dick Contino, the book is predominantly nonfiction. There's one flavorful piece, "Bad Boys in Tinseltown," about the day in 1967 when Ellroy--then a speed freak who broke into fancy houses to steal stuff and sniff women's underwear--read an article by Curtis Hanson raving about Bonnie and Clyde and was inspired. Then Ellroy flashes forward to 1996, when he visits Hanson as he directs the triumphant film version of L.A. Confidential.
GQ talked Ellroy into writing about the event that made him a maniac, and then an obsessive writer: his dissolute mother's unsolved murder in 1958, when he was 10. His investigation of her death began with the chilling GQ article "My Mother's Killer," which grew into the book My Dark Places. (If you haven't heard Ellroy read it on audiotape, you haven't shivered.) His investigation of another woman's murder, "Body Dumps," is in some ways better, because there's a suspect to eviscerate in prose. "Sex, Glitz, and Greed," written about O.J. during the trial, is an odd fit in this collection, but when Ellroy is on his own turf--L.A.'s seamy, undead past--nobody can touch him. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Dating Your Momby Ian FrazierISBN 0312421524 (0-312-42152-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venusby Dave BarryISBN 0345425782 (0-345-42578-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus'Book summary:"Booger." In case you're wondering, that's the title of a winning entry from a parody contest that Dave Barry's flagship paper, the Miami Herald, ran in 1989. There's more to Dave Barry than "boogers," of course--he's the McDonald's of American humor. One, nearly everybody likes him. Two, he's everywhere. Three--and this is the key--when you open one of his books, you know exactly what you're going to get: "Eugene is located in southwest Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything." "If you're looking for a hearty entree that (1) is related to spiders; (2) is descended from a worm; and (3) has mutant baby-poopers walking around on its lips; then you definitely want a lobster." This collection of columns--sure to serve billions and billions--is called Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus. (Strangely, it isn't a parody of John Gray's series, even though there's nobody better equipped to do one.) Inside you'll find the same genial, absurd fantasies, riffs on clippings that Barry insists he is not making up, and bizarre personal adventures that are his trademark. Do you like hamburgers? Of course--and you'll like this book, too. [via]
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Historyby Jonathan FranzenISBN 0374299196 (0-374-29919-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Disputed Questionsby Thomas MertonISBN 0374140618 (0-374-14061-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paperby Nicholson BakerISBN 0375726217 (0-375-72621-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper'Book summary:Since the 1950s, our countrys greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in which Nicholson Barker pleads the case for saving our recorded heritage in its original form while telling the story of how and why our greatest research libraries betrayed the public trust by auctioning off or pulping irreplaceable collections. The players include the Library of Congress, the CIA, NASA, microfilm lobbyists, newspaper dealers, and a colorful array of librarians and digital futurists, as well as Baker himself who eventually discovers that the only way to save one important newspaper is to buy it. Double Fold is an intense, brilliantly worded narrative that is sure to provoke discussion and controversy. [via]
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The Edward Said Readerby Edward W. Said, Andrew RubinISBN 0375709363 (0-375-70936-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edward Said Reader'Book summary:Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace and Its Discontents, and the seminal study Orientalism, have influenced not only our worldview but the very terms of public discourse.
The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said's books, from the groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad to his new memoir, Out of Place. Whether he is writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, music or the media, Said's uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes. The Edward Said Reader will prove a joy to the general reader and an indispensable resource for scholars of politics, history, literature, and cultural studies: in short, of all those fields that his work has influenced and, in some cases, transformed. [via]More editions of The Edward Said Reader:
The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologiesby Roland Barthes, Richard HowardISBN 0374521557 (0-374-52155-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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False Papersby Andre AcimanISBN 0312420056 (0-312-42005-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The Feel of Steelby Helen GarnerISBN 0330362895 (0-330-36289-5)
Hardcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feel of Steel'Book summary:Although I have been married three times, I have never been a 'bride'. What - me, in a big white dress? In a veil? The closest I ever got to the fantasy was back in the eighties, when I used to admire the white gypsophyla crowns that Susan Renouf wore to parties: I drew a curious satisfaction from their ethereal, circular, brow-pressing beauty. Twenty years later all that's left is the frisson I get from the coronet shape that salad leaves briefly take when I tip them out of the whizzer on to a tea towel.'Cities, friends, lost-loves, Antarctica, the joy of being a grandmother, weddings, fencing - such is the array of subjects in Helen Garner's second non-fiction collection. Some pieces were published in the Age, some are previously unpublished, but woven together they present as memoir, and offer a wonderfully personal portrait of an always unconventional talent.In word-perfect and often blindingly funny prose, Helen Garner reminds us of the human condition, in all its various guises. [via]
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The Feeling Child.by Arthur JanovISBN 0349118329 (0-349-11832-9)
Hardcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feeling Child.'Book summary:Bushnell's beat is that demi-monde of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and parties where the rich come into contact with the infamous, the famous with the wannabes and the publicity-hungry with the gossip-peddlers' EVENING STANDARD Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, SEX AND THE CITY blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through New York, as Candace Bushnell, columnist and social critic par excellence, trips on her Manolo Blahnik kitten heels from the Baby Doll Lounge to the Bowery Bar. An Armistead Maupin for the real world, she has the gift of assembling a huge and irresistible cast of freaks and wonders, while remaining faithful to her hard core of friends and fans: those glamorous, rebellious, crazy single women, too close to forty, who are trying hard not to turn from the Audrey Hepburn of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S into the Glen Close of FATAL ATTRACTION, and are - still - looking for love. [via]
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The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew up, Burned Out or Faded Awayby Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell, Francine ProseISBN 0385511868 (0-385-51186-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essaysby Edward W. SaidISBN 0375422870 (0-375-42287-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374522200 (0-374-52220-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987'Book summary:In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.[via]More editions of The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987:
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memoryby Patricia HamplISBN 0393320316 (0-393-32031-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work By The Legendary New Yorker Writerby A. J. Liebling, David RemnickISBN 0374104433 (0-374-10443-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work By The Legendary New Yorker Writer'Book summary:The restaurants of the Latin Quarter and the city rooms of midtown Manhattan; the beachhead of Normandy and the boxing gyms of Times Square; the trackside haunts of bookmakers and the shadowy redoubts of Southern politicians--these are the places that A.J. Liebling shows to us in his unforgettable New Yorker articles, brought together here so that a new generation of readers might discover Liebling as if for the first time.[via]
Born a hundred years ago, Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling was the first of the great New Yorker writers, a colorful and tireless figure who helped set the magazine's urbane style. Today, he is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing or as a "feeder" who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine. But as David Remnick, a Liebling devotee, suggests in his fond and insightful introduction, Liebling was a writer bounded only by his intelligence, taste, and ardor for life. Like his nemesis William Randolph Hearst, he changed the rules of modern journalism, banishing the distinctions between reporting and storytelling, between news and art. Whatever his role, Liebling is a most companionable figure, and to read the pieces in this grand and generous book is to be swept along on a thrilling adventure in a world of confidence men, rogues, press barons and political cronies, with an inimitable writer as one's guide.More editions of Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work By The Legendary New Yorker Writer:
Me Againby Stevie SmithISBN 0374204942 (0-374-20494-2)
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Men in the Off Hoursby Anne CarsonISBN 0375707565 (0-375-70756-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men in the Off Hours'Book summary:Yes, consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds--and minor poets. The major ones tend to operate in a trough-and-peak pattern, producing a dozen lesser works for every masterpiece. Still, Anne Carson pushes this tendency to extremes, and nowhere more markedly than in Men in the Off Hours, which contains some of the best and worst lyrics of her entire career.
First, the good news: nobody has written more acutely about perception--about the chaotic collision of our senses with the real world--since the glory days of Wallace Stevens. Not that Carson echoes the airborne rhetoric of her great predecessor. Her fractured, zigzagging lines deliberately avoid the kind of gravity that was his trademark, and she likes to deflect the grand manner by ratcheting her diction upward (into Delphic utterance) or downward (into baby talk, if the baby happens to be Gertrude Stein). Still, like Stevens, she makes us think about how we think. We comprehend things only in flux and, as Carson explains in "Essay on What I Think About Most", by mistake:
what we are engaged in when we do poetry is error, the wilful creation of error, the deliberate break and complication of mistakes out of which may arise unexpectedness.
Now for the bad news: Men in the Off Hours includes too ample a serving of Carson's weaker, semiprecious work--short lyrics in which she bends over backwards for an antipoetic poetic effect (if such a thing is possible). "Epitaph: Europe" is precisely the kind of freeze-dried surrealism she should avoid. Still, Carson's blazing successes easily overshadow her failures. And those who have found her too recondite, too forbidding, need only take a look at the concluding poem, "Appendix to Ordinary Time". This elegy to the poet's mother is touching, emotionally direct, and completely original: an instant (to use a phrase Carson would probably loathe) classic. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Men in the Off Hours:
Milosz's ABC'sby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0374527954 (0-374-52795-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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My Garden (Book)by Jamaica Kincaid, Jill FoxISBN 0374527768 (0-374-52776-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Garden (Book)'Book summary:Jamaica Kincaid, author of Annie John, writes of gardens and gardeners in her most insightful and engaging book to date.
In My Garden (Book), Jamaica gathers all she loves about gardening and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer, but not winter, which is so unremittingly white. She adores rhododendron Jane Grant and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily and dreams of ways to trap small plant-eating animals. The sources of her inspiration-seed catalogues (the glossy ones and, even better, the nonglossy ones), legendary gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll and Graham Stuart Thomas, famous gardens like Monet's at Giverny and Vita Sackville-West's at Sissinghurst-receive keen scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where one of her favorite school subjects was botany, and considers the implications of the English formal garden in colonized countries; and she visits historic English gardens on English soil.
My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the gardeners who tend them.
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Jamaica Kincaid's most recent book (as editor) is an anthology of writing on plants, My Favorite Plant (FSG, 1998). She lives in Vermont with her husband and children, and teaches at Harvard University. [via]
Myself With Others: Selected Essaysby Carlos FuentesISBN 0374522375 (0-374-52237-5)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Never Drank the Kool-aid: Essaysby ToureISBN 0312425783 (0-312-42578-3)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Meyer Howard AbramsISBN 0393151123 (0-393-15112-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:The Middle Ages, The Sixteenth Century, The Seventeenth Century and the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, all in the First Volume. [via]
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Norton Anthology of English Literatureby M. H. AbramsISBN 0393950514 (0-393-95051-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:This anthology covers writers and works of English literature. Among the major works included are the complete texts of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"; Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"; Beckett's tragicomic "Endgame"; and Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". The 7th edition features works by 60 women writers, 21 writers new to the "Norton Anthology", 20 represented with additional selections or reselected works. Fourteen new and expanded thematic clusters gather short texts that illuminate cultural, historical, and literary concerns within each period. Examining 20th-century literature in English, this edition reflects the global reach of literature in English with ten new authors - Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, V. S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Eavan Boland, and Paul Muldoon. "The Persistence of English", a new essay by Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, provides a lively exploration of the English language - its emergence and spread, and its apparent "triumph" as a world language. Visual materials are included from several periods - Hogarth's satiric "Marriage A-la-Mode", engravings by Blake, and illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Period introductions, author headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised, many completely rewritten, for the 7th Edition. New pedagogical features include timelines for each period and revised endpaper maps. The text is accompanied by 2 audio CDs. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. AbramsISBN 0393925323 (0-393-92532-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologiesthorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possibleThe Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool. [via]More editions of The Norton Anthology of English Literature:
Once More Around the Block: Familiar Essaysby Joseph EpsteinISBN 039330633X (0-393-30633-X)
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Out of the Everywhereby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385262019 (0-385-26201-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Power Of Delight: A Lifetime In Literature Essays 1962 2002by John Bayley, Leo CareyISBN 0393058409 (0-393-05840-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive Jamesby Clive JamesISBN 0330481304 (0-330-48130-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Rhetorical Considerations: Essays for Analysisby William Lutz, Harry BrentISBN 0316107832 (0-316-10783-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown
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The Rose & The Briar: Death, Love And Liberty in the American Balladby Sean Wilentz, Greil MarcusISBN 0393328252 (0-393-32825-2)
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Scandal Annual 1992ISBN 0312927827 (0-312-92782-7)
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Season Ticketby Roger AngellISBN 0345358147 (0-345-35814-7)
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Second Nature : A Gardener's Educationby Michael PollanISBN 0385312660 (0-385-31266-0)
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The Secret of the Universeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385416938 (0-385-41693-8)
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Selected Essaysby William Hazlitt, John R. NabholtzISBN 0390225916 (0-390-22591-6)
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Sex and the Cityby Candace BushnellISBN 0349111863 (0-349-11186-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writersby Sonia Maasik, J. Fisher SolomonISBN 0312431333 (0-312-43133-3)
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Silencesby Tillie OlsenISBN 038528893X (0-385-28893-X)
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The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guideby Robert PinskyISBN 0374526176 (0-374-52617-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide'Book summary:While it's hardly the most traveled of literary destinations, poetry has suffered from no shortage of guidebooks. Still, these poetic baedekers tend to get bogged down in terminology and historical hairsplitting, while the actual music gets lost in the shuffle. We should be thankful, then, for Robert Pinsky's brief, wonderfully readable volume, in which he zooms in on verse as acoustic artifact: "When I say to myself a poem by Emily Dickinson or George Herbert, the artist's medium is my breath. The reader's breath and hearing embody the poet's words. This makes the art physical, intimate, vocal, and individual."
Not that Poet Laureate Pinsky gets vague or touchy-feely on us. Poetry, like God, is in the details, and the author starts with the building blocks, the amino acids, of verse: accent and duration. Even the most jaded of readers will benefit from his syllable-by-syllable examination of Thomas Campion's "Now Winter Nights Enlarge" and Wallace Stevens's "Sunday Morning." Moving on through discussions of syntax and line, meter and rhyme (or lack thereof), Pinsky enlists both the usual suspects (Shakespeare, Frost, Hardy, Eliot, Bishop) and some less customary ones (Gilbert & Sullivan, Louise Gluck, and the splendid James McMichael) to make his points. These poems are, in some sense, teaching tools for the author. Yet even his on-the-fly commentary causes us to see them in a new light. Here he is, for example, on the near-monotonous minimalism of W.C. Williams's "To a Poor Old Woman": "The poem dramatizes the taking in of a supposedly ordinary experience, and the playful, almost hectoring repetitions are like an effective sermon in praise of simplicity." The Sounds of Poetry is no less effective a sermon. It leaves your ear (and your heart) attuned to the pleasurable play of poetic language and persuades you that hearing is, indeed, believing. --James Marcus [via]
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Spring 1984: A Choice of Futuresby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0345313585 (0-345-31358-5)
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The Summer Gameby Roger AngellISBN 0345341929 (0-345-34192-9)
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Tell Me a Riddleby Tillie OlsenISBN 0385290101 (0-385-29010-1)
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There's a Country in My Cellarby Russell BakerISBN 0380714515 (0-380-71451-5)
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Differenceby Malcolm GladwellISBN 0316346624 (0-316-34662-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference'Book summary:"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.
For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn't just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you've received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.
Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell's closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name. --Ron Hogan [via]
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To Criticize the Criticby T. S. EliotISBN 0374925313 (0-374-92531-3)
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Travelsby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345359321 (0-345-35932-1)
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True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontierby James Frenkel, Vernor VingeISBN 0312862075 (0-312-86207-5)
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True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontierby Vernor VingeISBN 0312944446 (0-312-94444-6)
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The View from Serendipby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0345314417 (0-345-31441-7)
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Woman: An Intimate Geographyby Natalie AngierISBN 0385498411 (0-385-49841-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman: An Intimate Geography'Book summary:Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, as far as the health care profession is concerned the standard operating design of the human body is male. So when a book comes along as beautifully written and endlessly informative as Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography, it's a cause for major celebration. Written with whimsy and eloquence, her investigation into female physiology draws its inspiration not only from scientific and medical sources but also from mythology, history, art, and literature, layering biological factoids with her own personal encounters and arcane anecdotes from the history of science. Who knew, for example, that the clitoris--with 8,000 nerve fibers--packs double the pleasure of the penis; that the gene controlling cellular sensitivity to male androgens, ironically enough, resides on the X-chromosome; or that stress hormones like cortisol and corticosterone are the true precursors of friendship?
The mysteries of evolution are not a new subject for Angier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biology writer for the New York Times whose previous books include The Beauty of the Beastly and Natural Obsessions. The strengths of Woman begin with Angier's witty and evocative prose style, but its real contribution is the way it expands the definition of female "geography" beyond womb, breasts, and estrogen, down as far as the bimolecular substructure of DNA and up as high as the transcendent infrastructure of the human brain. --Patrizia DiLucchio [via]
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The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematicsby Clifton Fadiman, Timothy FerrisISBN 0316281298 (0-316-28129-8)
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The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematicsby Timothy FerrisISBN 0316281336 (0-316-28133-6)
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An astonishing cast of more than ninety renowned writers provides thoughtful and lucid reflections on some of the major scentific topics of our time - from black holes and galaxies to artificial intelligence and chaos theory. Featuring essays, articles, and poems penned by notables in the worlds of both science and literature, this unique book will delight the science enthusiast and the inquisitive general reader alike. [via]
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Writings of Jonathan Swiftby Jonathan Swift, Robert Greenberg, William PiperISBN 0393094154 (0-393-09415-4)
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The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticismby Jonathan Swift, Robert A. Greenberg, William Bowman PiperISBN 0393042839 (0-393-04283-9)
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El profetaby Kahlil Gibran, Mauro ArminoISBN 0375701621 (0-375-70162-1)
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Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idiomas y ha dado inspiración a millones de lectores, quienes encuentran en sus palabras la expresión de los más profundos impulsos, la más profunda poesía, del corazón humano. Ilustrados con los dibujos místicos de Gibrán--comparados por Auguste Rodin a los de William Blake--El profeta es un volumen para disfrutar y al cual volver a lo largo de la vida. [via]More editions of El profeta:
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