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Aa Gill Is Awayby A.A. GillISBN 0743276671 (0-7432-7667-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affectionsby A. Edward Newton, B. George Ulizio, A. Edward Newton Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0804605777 (0-8046-0577-7)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Press
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The Americans: Fifty Talks on Our Life and Timesby Alistair CookeISBN 0816130892 (0-8161-3089-2)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Artificial Paradises: Baudelaire's Masterpiece on Hashishby Charles Baudelaire, Stacy DiamondISBN 0806514833 (0-8065-1483-3)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artificial Paradises: Baudelaire's Masterpiece on Hashish'Book summary:At the time of its release in 1860, Charles Baudelaire's "Artificial Paradises (Les Paradis Artificiels)" met with immediate praise. One of the most important French symbolists, Baudelaire led a debauched, violent, and ultimately tragic life, dying an opium addict in 1867. This book, a response to Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, serves as a memoir of Baudelaire's last years.
In this beautifully wrought portrait of the effects of wine, opium, and hashish on the mind, Baudelaire captures the dreamlike visions he experienced during his narcotic trances. These hallucinations, sometimes exquisite, sometimes disturbing, and the delusions of grandeur that often accompanied them, constitute the Paradis Artificiels, the gorgeous yet false worlds of ecstasy that eventually led to his ruin. Contrasting the effects of hashish and opium with those of wine, Baudelaire concludes that "wine exalts the will, hashish destroys it" and makes idlers of all those who use it.
This new translation of a controversial book provides fascinating reading as well as a key to the mind of a great writer. [via]
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Bella Tuscanyby Frances MayesISBN 076790284X (0-7679-0284-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bella Tuscany'Book summary:Following up on her bestselling novel, Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes returns to her beloved villa in the small hill town of Cortona, Italy. Welcomed back like an old friend, she is soon puttering in the garden, and as Mayes devotees might expect, busy in the kitchen as well. As Mayes rediscovers her taste for la dolce vita, she embarks on a journey of cultural awakening and embraces a newfound romance with the Italian language and people. "I came to Italy expecting adventure," reads Mayes. "What I never anticipated is the absolute sweet joy of everyday life."
Mayes is as generous a cook as she is a writer, flavoring her story with tasty descriptions of local gustatory delights--many of which are included in a small recipe book. She also serves as narrator, and the beguiling simplicity of her voice makes listening as enjoyable as spending an afternoon with a well-traveled favorite aunt. (Running time: 9 hours, 6 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life in Italyby Frances Mayes, Janet PedersenISBN 0767902831 (0-7679-0283-1)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life in Italy'Book summary:Work's still not completely finished on Bramasole, the Tuscan house that California-based poet and bestselling author Frances Mayes bought a decade ago and has been fixing up every summer since. Nevertheless, in Bella Tuscany, she goes out--in search of Italy and Italian life. The sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun is awash with sensual discovery, from Sicilian markets with "rainbows of shining fish on ice" to the aqueous dream of Venice "shimmering in the diluted sunlight." Wherever she is, Mayes celebrates everyday rituals, such as picking wild asparagus, "dark spears poking out of the dirt ... stalks as thin as yarn" and driving through country rains, as "the green landscape smears across the windshield" for buffalo mozzarella and demijohns of sfuso--bulk wine kept fresh with a slick of olive oil on top. Mayes also ventures into the world of the locals, some "bent as a comma" and others throwing six-hour communion feasts where half a dozen cooks in a barn continually send out heaping platters of pasta with wild boar sauce, roasted lamb, and even the thigh of a giant cow--wrapping up the festivities with honeyed vin santo, grappa, and dancing to the accordion. Capturing the details that enrich the commonplace, in Bella Tuscany Mayes appears less like a visitor and more like someone discovering in Tuscany a real home and a real life. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outsideby Edward AbbeyISBN 0805008209 (0-8050-0820-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside'Book summary:In this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico.[via]More editions of Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside:
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Lifeby Michael DirdaISBN 0805083383 (0-8050-8338-3)
Softcover, Owl Books
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The Book of Prefaces: A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Centuryby Alasdair GrayISBN 0747544433 (0-7475-4443-3)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Prefaces: A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century'Book summary:The preface usually contains one of four pleasures, says anthologist Alasdair Gray. There is the biographical snippet, full of gossipy details that "make us feel at home in earlier times." There is the author's attempt to forestall criticism (in first editions) or to answer it (in later ones). There is the report on the state of civilization, both favorable (see Walt Whitman) and unfavorable (see Karl Marx). And there is the attack on other writers or translators, sometimes bridging centuries and containing spears thrown at the long dead. All four pleasures are well represented in this 640-page treasury of English and American intros, which runs from an A.D. 675 translation of Genesis to the 1920 poems of Wilfred Owen. Why stop there? "The flow is stopped at 1920," admits Gray in his own disarmingly self-effacing preface, "by costs of using work still in copyright."
This is anything but anthology-on-the-cheap, however. Gray (Lanark and A History Maker) poured 16 years of research into The Book of Prefaces, and adds considerable value with his own running commentary, which straggles down the margins in brash red ink. Gray on the God of Genesis: "This God, with revenge in mind, first makes earth ugly as hell." Among God's anthologized fellows are Mark Twain, who defends his use of Southern dialect in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Lewis Carroll, who anticipates his critics' charges of writing nonsense in The Hunting of the Snark and proceeds to prove their case; and Charles Darwin, who recalls how the seeds of The Origin of Species were sown aboard the HMS Beagle. Gray mixes scholarly research with playful eccentricities: When was the last time you saw a book's typesetter, typist, and publisher memorialized in pen-and-ink drawings? And "with this in their lavatory," writes the cheeky author, "everyone else can read nothing but newspaper supplements and still seem educated." He may be right. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Brain Droppingsby George CarlinISBN 0786883219 (0-7868-8321-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brain Droppings'Book summary:George Carlin's been working the crowd since "the counterculture" became "the over-the-counter culture" around 1967 or so; his new book, Brain Droppings, surfs on three decades of touring-in-support. It's the purest version of book-as-candy that one could imagine, serving up humor in convenient, bite-sized packages. Snack on chewy one-liners like "A meltdown sounds like fun. Like some kind of cheese sandwich." Or: "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." Brain Droppings also contains highlights from Carlin's concert repertoire, and that more than makes up for the occasional spray of pointless nihilism. Tell us, George, what exactly were you going for with "Kill your pet" and "Satan is cool"? Quick--hide the paper before Daddy sees it! Still, if you're a fan of this sarcastic semanticist who's given Bad Attitude not necessarily a good name, but at least a comfy bank account, by all means rush out and snag Brain Droppings. Carlin's book melts in your mind, not in your hand. [via]
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Children Playing Before A Statue Of Herculesby David SedarisISBN 074327394X (0-7432-7394-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children Playing Before A Statue Of Hercules'Book summary:A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling author David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction.
David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when theyre his very favorite stories, hell fantasize about reading them in front of an audience and taking credit for them. The audience in these fantasies always loves him and gives him the respect he deserves.
David Sedaris didnt write the stories in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules . But he did read them. And he liked them enough to hand pick them for this collection of short fiction. Featuring such notable writers as Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules includes some of the most influential and talented short story writers, contemporary and classic.
Perfect for fans who suffer from Sedaris fever, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules will tide them over and provide relief. [via]
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Classics Revisitedby Kenneth RexrothISBN 0811209881 (0-8112-0988-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Confessionsby AugustineISBN 0785242252 (0-7852-4225-2)
Hardcover, STL
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:The premier line of Classic literature from the greatest Christian authors. The finest in quality and value.
Never underestimate the power of prayer. As Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, watched as her son and grandson were being baptized on that bright easter morning in A.D.387, she knew her lifelong prayers had been answered. Even though in his Confessions, Augustine wrote about his early life as an example of how sin grows and works within a person, he was looking back over those early years with the vision of a bishop of the church. Monica could not have known that those prayers would have presented to the church a man who would impact Christianity with the strength that Augustine did. [via]More editions of Confessions:
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Confessionsby Not AvailableISBN 0785242481 (0-7852-4248-1)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Never underestimate the power of prayer. As Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, watched as her son and grandson were being baptized on that bright easter morning in A.D.387, she knew her lifelong prayers had been answered. Even though in his Confessions, Augustine wrote about his early life as an example of how sin grows and works within a person, he was looking back over those early years with the vision of a bishop of the church. Monica could not have known that those prayers would have presented to the church a man who would impact Christianity with the strength that Augustine did. [via]More editions of Confessions:
The Confessions of Saint Augustineby Saint AugustineISBN 0804901902 (0-8049-0190-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Confessions of St. Augustineby Carolinne WhiteISBN 0802839282 (0-8028-3928-2)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine'Book summary:Augustine was one of the most remarkable figures of the early Christian church. Born in North Africa in A.D. 354, the son of a pagan farmer, he rose to become Bishop of Hippo and a hugely influential Christian writer, whose Confessions are still loved today for their humanity and spiritual depth.
In this gorgeously illustrated volume Oxford scholar Carolinne White presents fresh translations of choice passages from the Confessions. These extracts have been chosen to express Augustine's wisdom and his mystical yearning for God. Lively narrative and colorful anecdotes are interspersed with passages of great poetry in praise of God. In the process of describing his own failings, Augustine also gives relevant advice on how to live a Christian life.
In this first modern illustrated edition of the Confessions, Augustine's words are accompanied by beautiful medieval and Renaissance illuminations from manuscripts in the collection at the British Librarymaking this a volume to treasure for a lifetime. [via]
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby AugustineISBN 0800787242 (0-8007-8724-2)
Softcover, Fleming H Revell Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version'Book summary:Confessions is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood in Numidia, through his youth and early adulthood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan, readers will see Augustine as a human being, a fellow traveler on the road to salvation. Though staggering around potholes and roadblocks, all Chrisitians will find strength in Augustine's message: When the road gets rough, look to God! Previously released in 1977, this book invites readers to join Augustine in his quest that led him to be one of the most influential Christian thinkers in the history of the church. [via]
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Dancing Queen: The Bawdy Adventures of Lisa Crystal Carverby Lisa CarverISBN 0805043926 (0-8050-4392-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing Queen: The Bawdy Adventures of Lisa Crystal Carver'Book summary:Lisa Carver is America's horniest optimist. With Dancing Queen she writes an ode to all things that make her pants itch, whether it's a visit to the gynecologist, a look at Lawrence Welk's helmet-haired backup singers, or the pulsing of Fabio's surreal pecs. In essays entitled "Other Ladies' Bodies," "In Favor of Underwear," and "The Manifest Destiny of Anna Nicole Smith" she articulates self-consciously white-trash erotics drawn from images of America's popular culture. If you've enjoyed her self-produced zine, Rollerderby, you won't want to miss this, her first book; and if you've yet to discover her zine work, Dancing Queen serves as the perfect introduction to this self-proclaimed leader of "Generation L." [via]
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The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-Upby Dan ZevinISBN 0812967224 (0-8129-6722-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-Up'Book summary:Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we develop a disturbing new interest in lawn care; the day we order sauvignon blanc instead of Rolling Rock; the day we refuse to see any concert where we cannot sit down. Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we turn uncool.
Dan Zevin, who was never exactly Fonz-like to begin with, is having a hilariously hard time moving from his twenties to his thirties, and he confesses everything in these comic not-coming-of-age tales. As he shamefully employs his first cleaning lady, becomes abnormally attached to his dog, and commits flagrant acts of home improvement, Dans headed for an early midlife crisisand a better-late-than-never revelation: Growing up is really nothing to be reluctant about. In fact, its very cool. [via]More editions of The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-Up:
Devils Dictionary 365 Day Calendar 2006by Ambrose BierceISBN 0764931156 (0-7649-3115-6)
Softcover, Pomegranate Communications
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The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Centuryby Scott AdamsISBN 0752211617 (0-7522-1161-7)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century'Book summary:Move over, Faith Popcorn! Cartoonist Scott Adams is back in book form, and this time he gives Dilbert and his cronies a free hand to forecast the trends that just might drive business and society during the next millennium. In typical Adams fashion, The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century serves up a series of laugh-out-loud predictions on technology, marketing, work, jobs, gender relations, and even the future of democracy and capitalism. [via]
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Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Timesby Sara NicklesISBN 0811807843 (0-8118-0784-3)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times'Book summary:Here's to the three greatest pleasures in life: a cigarette before and a martini after. Drinking, Smoking & Screwing celebrates these less-than-holy pursuits and unlocks the sweet mystery of sin with a sordid selection of essays, stories, excerpts, and poetry from noted libertines such as Mark Twain, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Spalding Gray, and Dorothy Parker. Also deliciously wicked is the introduction, penned by Bob Shacochis, author of Swimming the Volcano and not one to shy away from a drink, a smoke, and a... Well, you get the point. He writes, "Not to defend smokers, drinkers, and fuckers would be a terrible mistake.... The world might be simple and clean, but it wouldn't be deliciously, fascinatingly, pathetically human, would it? Nor would it be much fun." And, damn, is this book fun. --Tod Nelson [via]
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Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Doby Gerald GrossISBN 0802132634 (0-8021-3263-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do'Book summary:An indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. In this classic handbook, top professionals write about the special demands and skills necessary for particular areas of expertise--mass market, romance, special markets, and more.[via]More editions of Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do:
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Edmund Burke: Speeches on the American War, and Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristolby Edmund Burke, Charles W. EliotISBN 0766182185 (0-7661-8218-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Burke: Speeches on the American War, and Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol'Book summary:1909. Contents: On Taste; On the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the French Revolution; A Letter to a Noble Lord. [via]
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Essays: Ancient & Modernby Bernard KnoxISBN 0801837898 (0-8018-3789-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Essays Ancient and Modernby Bernard KnoxISBN 0801841070 (0-8018-4107-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Essays English and American: Harvard Classics 1909by Charles W. EliotISBN 0766182134 (0-7661-8213-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays English and American: Harvard Classics 1909'Book summary:Jonathan Swift by William Thackeray. The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman. The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold; Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin. John Milton by Walter Bagehot. Science and Culture by Thomas Henry Huxley. Race and Language by Edward Freeman. Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys by Robert Louis Stevenson. On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing. The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe. Walking by Henry David Thoreau. Abraham Lincoln; Democracy by James Russell Lowell. [via]
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Existentialism and Human Emotionsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0806509023 (0-8065-0902-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism and Human Emotions'Book summary:[via]In this provocative philosophical analysis, Sartre refutes the idea that existentialism drains meaning from human life, by claiming that the philosophy instead gives man total freedom to achieve his own significance
Sartres Existentialism and Human Emotions is a stirring defense of existentialist thought, which argues that existence precedes essence. While attacks on existentialism claim that the philosophy leads to a kind of nihilistic gloom, Sartre contends that instead existentialism is the only path toward giving man meaning. Sartre ultimately argues that by the very absence of a priori meaning, an individual can discover and shape his or her own significance and place in the world.Sartre turns the typical nihilistic definition of existentialism on its head in this optimistic take on his best-known theory.More editions of Existentialism and Human Emotions:
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakotaby Chuck KlostermanISBN 0743406567 (0-7434-0656-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota'Book summary:Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is chuck klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in wyndmere, north dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like ace frehley's guitar, klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home mötley crüe's shout at the devil. The fifth-grade chuck wasn't quite ready to rock -- his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet -- but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for lita ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about guns n' roses. C'mon and feel his noize [via]
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Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine Confessionsby St. AugustineISBN 0813200210 (0-8132-0021-0)
Hardcover, Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
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Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine Letters Volume 5by Wilfrid ParsonsISBN 0813200326 (0-8132-0032-6)
Hardcover, Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
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The Firmament of Timeby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0803267398 (0-8032-6739-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Firmament of Time'Book summary:The quest to understand humankind's place in the universe is an old one, perhaps as old as the human species itself. That quest is tinged with science, but also with magic, for, writes the paleontologist Loren Eiseley (1907-1977), a human being "is both pragmatist and mystic. He has been so since the beginning, and it may well be that the quality of his inquiring and perceptive intellect will cause him to remain so till the end."
In this lively, literate set of essays, originally delivered in 1959 as a lecture series at the University of Cincinnati, Eiseley traces the history of science, giving special attention to the 18th and 19th centuries, which witnessed the rise of a kind of scientific inquiry that crossed narrow disciplines. Building on the ideas of Newton and Laplace, for instance, the Scottish scientist James Hutton developed the foundations of historical geology; Hutton's doctoral work had not been in physics but physiology, and his dissertation concerned the circulation of the blood, from which he evidently hit on the idea of considering the earth as a living organism. Eiseley moves on to discuss trends in evolutionary thought, putting in good words for such neglected figures as Jean Lamarck, a "much maligned thinker [who] glimpsed ecological change and adjustment before Darwin." Eiseley's explorations end with an admonition that our scientific understanding may well have outpaced our moral evolution, leading to the danger that "we have created an unbearable last idol for our worship"--namely, ourselves. His wise words remain compelling reading today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Gill Is Awayby A. A. GillISBN 0753816814 (0-7538-1681-4)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkianby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0743422007 (0-7434-2200-7)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian'Book summary:In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. "Could death be a quality? A place? Not an ending but an occurrence that changes those to whom it happens?"
As a "reporter on the afterlife," Vonnegut bravely allows himself to be strapped to a gurney by his friend Jack Kevorkian and dispatched round-trip to the Pearly Gates. Or at least that's what he claims in the introduction to these thirty-odd comic and irreverent "interviews" with the likes of William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler, and Clarence Darrow, bringing readers to an entirely new place -- a place to which only Vonnegut could bring us. [via]
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Horrorby Darryl Jones, Kim NewmanISBN 0786705523 (0-7867-0552-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horror'Book summary:First published in 1988, Horror: The 100 Best Books has remained the only book of its kind: a solid (and entertaining) annotated reading list spanning the range of horror fiction from the 16th to the 20th century. The device of asking 100 horror, fantasy,and science fiction writers to write about their favorite horror books might seem at first to capture an idiosyncratic sample, but through diplomacy and diligence, editors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman succeeded in obtaining short essays on most (if not all) of the well-known classics, as well as many more lesser-knowns that are well worth discovering. Readers who follow up on these recommendations will find tips about books by writers mostly known for other genres--such as Iain Banks, Robert Holdstock, Lisa Tuttle, and David Morrell.
Also valuable are write-ups on literary works not always acknowledged as horror, such as Kingsley Amis's The Green Man, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird, and John Gardner's Grendel. And the write-ups offer a fascinating peek into the minds of the contributors, who include just about all the top horror writers of the'60s-'80s. This 10th anniversary edition makes no changes in the list of 100 books, but updates the entries and includes a 9-page reading list of titles from 458 B.C. to 1997. --Fiona Webster [via]
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How We Want to Live: Narratives on Progressby Susan Richards Shreve, Porter Shreve, James RestonISBN 0807045101 (0-8070-4510-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Want to Live: Narratives on Progress'Book summary:In 17 thoughtful essays--edited by the novelist Susan Richards Shreve and her son, the writer and University of Michigan instructor Porter Shreve--How We Want to Live follows up their 1997 anthology, Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice in America, with another eclectic, distinguished collection of authors--this time, defining the concept of progress as it pertains to their lives. More often than not, each author concludes that Western culture's idea of progress actually leads to regression, as we lose touch with each other, hide behind our computer and TV screens and windshields, and rely on modern conveniences to shield us from intimacy. In his own contribution, "Made by You," Porter Shreve searches to find a birthday gift for his youngest sister. He walks down a block previously filled with independently owned stores, only to find an antiseptic mall. Deborah Tannen, author of the bestselling You Just Don't Understand, considers the benefits and the shortfalls of online communication when she begins an intimate e-mail correspondence with an old college friend dying of lung cancer. And Shawn Wong explains his struggle to assert his American identity as a U.S.-born Chinese man. The tone varies from the cynical (Ishmael Reed's essay "Progress: A Faustian Bargain") to the wonderfully poignant (Pearl Abraham's "Lost Souls"), but the essays are always well wrought, inspiring readers to extend the question of the meaning of progress to their own lives. --Kera Bolonik [via]
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Hunting for Hopeby Scott R. SandersISBN 0807064254 (0-8070-6425-4)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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I Rant, Therefore I Amby Dennis MillerISBN 076790575X (0-7679-0575-X)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Traditionby Twelve Southerners, Louis D. RubinISBN 0807103578 (0-8071-0357-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Image, Music, Textby Stephen Heath, Roland BarthesISBN 0809057409 (0-8090-5740-9)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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In Search of Duendeby Christopher Maurer, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Federico LorcaISBN 0811213765 (0-8112-1376-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Duende'Book summary:The notion of "duende" became a cornerstone of Federico Garcia Lorca's poetics over the course of his career.
In his lecture "Play and the Theory of Duende," he says, ". . .there are no maps nor disciplines to help us find the duende. We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we have learned. . . ." The duende is portrayed by Lorca as a demonic earth spirit containing irrationality, earthiness, and a heightened awareness of death. In Search of Duende gathers Lorca's writings about the duende and about three art forms most susceptible to it: dance, music, and the bullfight. A full bilingual sampling of Lorca's poetry is also included, with special attention to poems arising from traditional Spanish verse forms. The result is an excellent introduction to Lorca's poetry and prose for American readers. [via]More editions of In Search of Duende:
Italian Neighborsby Tim ParksISBN 0802140343 (0-8021-4034-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Italian Neighbors: Or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Veronaby Tim ParksISBN 0802115314 (0-8021-1531-4)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journeyby Salman RushdieISBN 0805053115 (0-8050-5311-5)
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Junk Mailby Will SelfISBN 0802170234 (0-8021-7023-4)
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The Know-it-all: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The Worldby A. J. JacobsISBN 0786271310 (0-7862-7131-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essaysby Robert Louis Stevenson, Jeremy TreglownISBN 0815410123 (0-8154-1012-3)
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Lectures in Americaby Gertrude SteinISBN 0807063533 (0-8070-6353-3)
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0804900558 (0-8049-0055-8)
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Literary Essaysby Jean-Paul SartreISBN 0806506474 (0-8065-0647-4)
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Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness 1926by Henry Van DykeISBN 0766144496 (0-7661-4449-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Magicby Isaac AsimovISBN 0788153676 (0-7881-5367-6)
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The Malcontentsby Joe QueenanISBN 0762416971 (0-7624-1697-1)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Malcontents: The Best Bitter, Cynical, and Satirical Writing in the Worldby Joe QueenanISBN 0762413441 (0-7624-1344-1)
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Realby William IrwinISBN 081269502X (0-8126-9502-X)
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My New Orleans: Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters and Loversby Rosemary JamesISBN 0743293126 (0-7432-9312-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sentimental, joyful, and witty, these essays by celebrated writers, entertainers, chefs, and fans honor the life of one of America's most beloved cities.
Paul Prudhomme writes about the emotional highs New Orleans inspires, Wynton Marsalis exalts his native city as soul model for the nation, while Walter Isaacson shares his vision for preserving his hometown's pentimento magic. Stewart O'Nan recalls the fantasy haze that enshrouded his first trip to the Big Easy when he was thirty and bowed to Richard Ford to receive his first literary prize. Poppy Z. Brite thanks New Orleans for helping her discover the simple pleasure of Audubon Park's egrets, and Elizabeth Dewberry explores what it means to work Bourbon Street as a stripper.
My New Orleans captures the spirit of the city that was -- and that will be again.
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No Uncertain Terms: More Writing from the Popular "on Language" Column in the New York Times Magazineby William SafireISBN 0743258126 (0-7432-5812-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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For many people, the first item on the agenda for Sunday morning is to sit down and read Safire's "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine, then to compose a "Gotcha" letter to the Times. Each of his books on language is a classic, to be read, re-read and fought over. Safire is the beloved, slightly crotchety guru of contemporary vocabulary, speech, language, usage and writing, as close as we are likely to get to a modern Samuel Johnson. Fans, critics and fellow language mavens eagerly await his books on language. This one is no exception.
William Safire has written the weekly New York Times Magazine column "On Language" since 1979. His observations on grammar, usage and etymology have led to the publication of fourteen "word books" and have made him the most widely read writer on the English language today. The subjects for his columns come from his insights into the current political scene, as well as from technology, entertainment and life in general. Known for his delight in catching people (especially politicians) who misuse words, he is not above tackling his own linguistic gaffes. Safire examines and comments on language trends and traces the origins of everyday words, phrases and clichés to their source. Scholarly, entertaining, lively and thoughtful, Safire's pointed commentaries on popular language and culture are at once provocative and enlightening.
Want the 411 on what's phat and what's skeevy? Here's the "straight dope" on everything from "fast-track legislation" to "the Full Monty," with deft and well-directed potshots at those who criticize, twist the usage of or misunderstand the meaning of such classic examples of American idiom as "grow'd like Topsy," "and the horse you rode in on," "drop a dime" (on someone), "go figure" and hundreds more, together with sharp, witty and passionately opinionated letters from both ordinary readers and equally irate or puzzled celebrities who have been unable to resist picking up a pen to put Mr. Safire in his place or to offer detailed criticism, additional examples or amusing anecdotes.
No Uncertain Terms is a boisterous and brilliant look at the oddities and foibles of our language. Not only "a blast and a half," but wise, clever and illuminating, it is a book that Mencken would have loved and that should be on the desk (or at the bedside) of everyone who shares Mr. Safire's profound love of the English language and his penchant for asking, "Where does that come from?"
This new collection is a joy that will spark the interest of language lovers everywhere. [via]
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The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks: Comprising the Diary, the Table Talk, and a Garland of Miscellaneaby Robertson DaviesISBN 0772515395 (0-7725-1539-5)
Hardcover, Irwin Pub
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Peace Killsby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0802141986 (0-8021-4198-6)
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The Poet in the Worldby Denise LevertovISBN 0811204928 (0-8112-0492-8)
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Practicalitiesby Marguerite DurasISBN 0802133118 (0-8021-3311-8)
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Practicalities: Marguerite Duras Speaks to Jerome Beaujourby Marguerite DurasISBN 0802110738 (0-8021-1073-8)
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Profiles in Courage/Large Printby John F. KennedyISBN 0816158878 (0-8161-5887-8)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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Queen Of The Turtle Derby And Other Southern Phenomenaby Julia ReedISBN 0812973615 (0-8129-7361-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 081297106X (0-8129-7106-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknownby Michael ShermerISBN 0805079149 (0-8050-7914-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown'Book summary:Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time[via]
A scientist pretends to be a psychic for a day-and fools everyone. An athlete discovers that good-luck rituals and getting into "the zone" may, or may not, improve his performance. A historian decides to analyze the data to see who was truly responsible for the Bounty mutiny. A son explores the possiblities of alternative and experimental medicine for his cancer-ravaged mother. And a skeptic realizes that it is time to turn the skeptical lens onto science itself.
In each of the fourteen essays in Science Friction, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores the very personal barriers and biases that plague and propel science, especially when scientists push against the unknown. What do we know and what do we not know? How does science respond to controversy, attack, and uncertainty? When does theory become accepted fact? As always, Shermer delivers a thought-provoking, fascinating, and entertaining view of life in the scientific age.More editions of Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown:
A Second Mencken Chrestomathyby H. L. MenckenISBN 0801885493 (0-8018-8549-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Selected Essays of William Carlos Williamsby W.C. WilliamsISBN 0811202356 (0-8112-0235-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Situationsby J. SartreISBN 0807602922 (0-8076-0292-2)
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Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers 1833-39by Charles Dickens, Michael Slater, George CruikshankISBN 0814206298 (0-8142-0629-8)
Hardcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day Peopleby Charles DickensISBN 0749308699 (0-7493-0869-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, J. H. Brumfitt, John C. Hall, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0760770212 (0-7607-7021-2)
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Southern Ladies and Gentlemenby Florence KingISBN 0812817737 (0-8128-1773-7)
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Book Of Loveby Connor Jill BrowneISBN 0762416211 (0-7624-1621-1)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Telephone Booth Indianby A. J. Liebling, Luc SanteISBN 0767917367 (0-7679-1736-7)
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Often referred to as Liebling lowlife pieces, the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. A. J. Liebling appreciated a good scam and knew how to cultivate the scammers. Telephone Booth Indians (entrepreneurs so impecunious that they conduct business from telephone booths in the lobbies of New York City office buildings) and a host of other petty nomads of Broadwaywith names like Marty the Clutch and Count de Penniesare the protagonists in this incomparable Liebling work. In The Telephone Booth Indian, Liebling proves just why he was the go-to man on New York lowlife and con culture; this is the master at the top of his form, uncovering scam after scam and writing about them with the wit and charisma that established him as one of the greatest journalists of his generation and one of New Yorks finest cultural chroniclers.More editions of The Telephone Booth Indian:
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blueby Leslie FeinbergISBN 0807079510 (0-8070-7951-0)
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0815201184 (0-8152-0118-4)
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Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing Worldby Eric FonerISBN 0809097052 (0-8090-9705-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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"History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."
Rarely has Baldwin's insight been more forcefully confirmed than during the past few decades. History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, or reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it?
In Who Owns History?, Eric Foner proposes his answer to these and other questions about the historian's relationship to the world of the past and future. He reconsiders his own earlier ideas and those of the pathbreaking Richard Hofstadter. He also examines international changes during the past two decades--globalization, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa--and their effects on historical consciousness. He concludes with considerations of the enduring, but often misunderstood, legacies of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This is a provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history--or should.More editions of Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World:
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Wisdom of the Heartby Henry MillerISBN 0811201163 (0-8112-0116-3)
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The Workshopby Iowa Writers' Workshop, Tom GrimesISBN 0786865032 (0-7868-6503-2)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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The Workshopby Tom GrimesISBN 0786886722 (0-7868-8672-2)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas L. ErskineISBN 0813519942 (0-8135-1994-2)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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