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The Age of Reasonby Thomas PaineISBN 0517091186 (0-517-09118-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reason'Book summary:EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION WITH SOME RESULTS OF RECENT RESEARCHES. [via]
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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexby Anne FrankISBN 055356983X (0-553-56983-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex'Book summary:Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel. Here, too, are portions of the diary originally withheld from publication by her father. By turns fantastical, rebellious, touching, funny, and heartbreaking, these writings reveal the astonishing range of Anne Frank's wisdom and imagination--as well as her indomitable love of life. Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex is a testaments to this determined young woman's extraordinary genius and to the persistent strength of the creative spirit. [via]More editions of Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex:
Art and Ardorby Cynthia OzickISBN 0525481176 (0-525-48117-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeareby Isaac Asimov, Rafael PalaciosISBN 0517268256 (0-517-26825-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenby Susan FaludiISBN 0517576988 (0-517-57698-8)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'Book summary:A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. [via]
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000by David Quammen, Burkhard BilgerISBN 0618082956 (0-618-08295-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000'Book summary:Editor David Quammen's approach with The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 is broad. So broad that he juxtaposes Mormon archaeology with wild African dogs, computer science with the origins of HIV. As a whole, the collection should be awkward, but it's not. Quammen's insistence that nature is bigger than we think, that science rests within culture, which rests within nature, allows each of these pieces to fit. The focus is on good writing, writing that might change your mind, or make you shout "YES!" or even make you angry. In narrowing the field, Quammen considered straight science reporting, book reviews and excerpts, and articles published in 1999.
One of the best pieces in the book is Natalie Angier's essay "Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin"--which became Woman: An Intimate Geography--a lucid and sharp challenge to the prevailing notions of evolutionary psychologists about what women want. Wendell Berry's "Back to the Land" praises the notion of an agrarian mindset in contrast to the prevailing industrialism and urges no less than a consumer revolt. Atul Gawande addresses the myth of the cancer cluster, Anne Fadiman recalls her reaction to a young boy's drowning, and Edward Hoagland imagines life in the third millennium in his elegant piece "That Sense of Falling":
Science is not sluggardly yet seems devoid of grief, because this would be a life without Mozart or other succulent choices at our fingertips, but oddly truncated, with so little sky and green and random sound or scent blowing in. We may need to grow not only hydroponic vitamins, but also oxygen, if the forests and oceanic vegetation are mauled beyond resuscitation: breathing units, to complement what may be denoted as affection units once the components of a child's emotional needs have been mapped precisely.
Millennialism drives several of the works, as a testament to our 1999 obsession with Y2K. Brief chronicles of the year's scientific revolutions are here, like Paul Ewald's work on microbiological evolution, as are more personal accounts like Peter Matthiessen's pure naturalist prose and Oliver Sacks' "Brilliant Light", telling of his childhood obsession with chemistry. Browsers will find wonderful excerpts from the two major schools of science and nature writing that Quammen calls "Stay Home and Observe with a Gentle Heart" and "Go Forth and Observe with a Probing Mind". This collection is a very worthy addition to Houghton Mifflin's Best American [via]More editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000:
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001by Edward O. WilsonISBN 0618153594 (0-618-15359-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001'Book summary:From abstract reflections on the nature of mathematical thought to an all-too-concrete tale of teetering on the edge of an active volcano, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001 delivers exactly what it promises. Editor Edward O. Wilson knows good writing when he sees it, and with names like David Berlinski, Barbara Kingsolver, and Jane Goodall in the table of contents, it's hard to know where to begin reading. All but the most diligent of readers will find something new herein--some topic, theory, or point of view that hasn't yet reached the mainstream. Stem cells, robots, cloning, and habitat loss all become more real thanks to the writers' vivid descriptions and imaginative explanations. The collection is a treat even for those with little background in science, as it provides an accessible overview of issues important to all informed world citizens. If only all science and nature writing were this appealing. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2006by Tim FolgerISBN 061872222X (0-618-72222-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2006'Book summary:In his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, Brian Greene writes that "science needs to be recognized for what it is: the ultimate in adventure stories."[via]
The twenty-five pieces in this year's collection take you on just such an adventure. Natalie Angier probes the origins of language, Paul Raffaele describes a remote Amazonian tribe untouched by the modern world, and Frans B. M. de Waal explains what a new breed of economists is learning from monkeys. Drake Bennett profiles the creator of Ecstasy and more than two hundred other psychedelic compounds -- a man hailed by some as one of the twentieth century's most important scientists.
Some of the selections reflect the news of the past year. Daniel C. Dennett questions the debate over intelligent design -- is evolution just a theory? --while Chris Mooney reports on how this debate almost tore one small town apart. John Hockenberry examines how blogs are transforming the twenty-first-century battlefield, Larry Cahill probes the new science uncovering male and female brain differences, Daniel Roth explains why the programmer who made it easy to pirate movies over the Internet is now being courted by Hollywood, and Charles C. Mann looks at the dark side of increased human life expectancy.
Reaching out beyond our own planet, Juan Maldacena questions whether we actually live in a three-dimensional world and whether gravity truly exists. Dennis Overbye surveys the continuing scientific mystery of time travel, and Robert Kunzig describes new x-ray images of the heavens, including black holes, exploding stars, colliding galaxies, and other wonders the eye can't see.More editions of The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2006:
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004by Philip Zaleski, Jack MilesISBN 0618443037 (0-618-44303-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best of Robert Benchley : 72 Timeless Stories of Wit, Wisdom and Whimsyby Robert Benchley, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517411393 (0-517-41139-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food and Flavorby Laura Esquivel, Stephen A. LytleISBN 0609608479 (0-609-60847-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food and Flavor'Book summary:"The return to the kitchen was not easy. I wanted my daughter to know her past, to eat what I had eaten in my childhood; however, I quickly realized that I no longer remembered my family's recipes....I forced myself to try and remember a recipe on my own. And that is how I discovered, as I had already known in my childhood, that it was possible to hear voices in the kitchen."
Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel leapt to international fame with Like Water for Chocolate. With millions of copies sold in hardcover and paperback, and with the phenomenal success of the movie, it is truly one of the most beloved stories of the last decade. In her latest book, Between Two Fires, Laura Esquivel continues to sustain us on levels beyond the physical.
Between Two Fires is a wonderful collection of the best of her passionate speeches, short writings, and recipes from the last decade or so, most never published in English. Funny, poignant, imaginative, and insightful, Esquivel muses on all the topics we have come to associate with her -- love, life, family, and of course, the importance of food in all aspects of the human experience -- while also giving us a rare look at what makes her tick. Beautifully illustrated with delightful drawings, this gem is the perfect gift book for her many fans, as well as for foodies and readers of Latin literature everywhere. [via]More editions of Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food and Flavor:
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Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith NormanISBN 0521779138 (0-521-77913-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good and Evil'Book summary:This is a major work by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings have been deeply influential on subsequent generations of philosophers. It is offered here in a new translation by Judith Norman, with an introduction by Rolf Peter Horstmann that places the work in its historical and philosophical context. [via]
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Borgesby Alastair Reid, Emir R. MonegalISBN 0525483268 (0-525-48326-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Borges, a Reader: A Selection from the Writings of Jorge Luis Borgesby Alastair Reid, Jorge Luis Borges, Emir Rodriguez-MonegalISBN 0525476547 (0-525-47654-7)
Softcover, Dutton
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Cannibals and Christiansby Norman MailerISBN 0523480148 (0-523-48014-8)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionaryby Eric S. RaymondISBN 0596001088 (0-596-00108-8)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary'Book summary:It may be foolish to consider Eric Raymond's recent collection of essays, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the most important computer programming thinking to follow the Internet revolution. But it would be more unfortunate to overlook the implications and long-term benefits of his fastidious description of open-source software development considering the growing dependence businesses and economies have on emerging computer technologies.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar takes its title from an essay Raymond read at the 1997 Linux Kongress. The essay documents Raymond's acquisition, re-creation, and numerous revisions of an e-mail utility known as fetchmail. Raymond engagingly narrates the fetchmail development process while elaborating on the ongoing bazaar development method he uses with the help of volunteer programmers. The essay smartly spares the reader from the technical morass that could easily detract from the text's goal of demonstrating the efficacy of the open-source, or bazaar, method in creating robust, usable software.
Once Raymond has established the components and players necessary for an optimally running open-source model, he sets out to counter the conventional wisdom of private, closed-source software development. Like superbly written code, the author's arguments systematically anticipate their rebuttals. For programmers who "worry that the transition to open source will abolish or devalue their jobs," Raymond adeptly and factually counters that "most developer's salaries don't depend on software sale value." Raymond's uncanny ability to convince is as unrestrained as his capacity for extrapolating upon the promise of open-source development.
In addition to outlining the open-source methodology and its benefits, Raymond also sets out to salvage the hacker moniker from the nefarious connotations typically associated with it in his essay, "A Brief History of Hackerdom" (not surprisingly, he is also the compiler of The New Hacker's Dictionary). Recasting hackerdom in a more positive light may be a heroic undertaking in itself, but considering the Herculean efforts and perfectionist motivations of Raymond and his fellow open-source developers, that light will shine brightly. --Ryan Kuykendall [via]
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A Certain World: A Commonplace Bookby W. H. AudenISBN 057109466X (0-571-09466-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Compleat Anglerby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517177838 (0-517-17783-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compleat Angler'Book summary:ca. 1975 (no date listed) 2nd printing Weathervane Books hardcover with dust jacket. Flying Fishing classic with beautiful color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Tight spine, clear crisp pages, no writing, no tears, unused bookplate inside front cover, smokefree. Jacket has light edgewear in new archival jacket cover. [via]
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Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carrollby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Edward GuilianoISBN 051738566X (0-517-38566-X)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carrollby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517371553 (0-517-37155-3)
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0606029818 (0-606-02981-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!by Dave BarryISBN 0609600672 (0-609-60067-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!'Book summary:Dave is back -- and he's not taking this sitting down!
What's been getting Dave Barry all worked up lately? What can possibly induce him to rise up -- yes, actually out of his chair -- in indignation? Well, lots of things. For instance:
The plague of low-flow toilets (very important!)
The monumental parent-misery quotient of school science fairs
How the U.S. Army "lost" a one-million-dollar missile launcher
The hidden dangers of wasabi
"Specialty" coffees
Celebrity low-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-everything diets
Disasters at the FearPlex movie theaters
His dangerous voyage through a cruise ship buffet
Yes, all that, plus the real skinny on the IRS, airlines, Donald Trump, and so much more. It's all here in this new collection of columns from the writer we know as "the funniest man in America."
From the Introduction
People often ask me: "Dave, what is the best thing about being a professional humor columnist?"
I always answer: "The best thing is that I can help others and make the world a better place."
Then everyone has a hearty laugh, because, of course, I am lying. In fact, that's one of the great things about being a humor columnist: You can lie! You get PAID to lie! What other profession can say that?
I have a wonderful job.
By any objective standard of measurement, there is no better profession than humor columnist. That is why so many people want my job. It looks so easy! In fact, as you read the columns in this book, you may find yourself thinking: "Hey, I could do this. Any random person could do this!"
That is where you are wrong, my friend. It takes a very special kind of random person to be a humor columnist. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession. After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade. [via]More editions of Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down!:
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Dave Barry Turns 50by Dave BarryISBN 0609603272 (0-609-60327-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry Turns 50'Book summary:"Many bad things happen when you turn 50. You can't see; you can't hear; you can read the entire Oxford English Dictionary in the time it takes you to go to the bathroom; and you keep meeting people your own age who look like Grandpa Walton (and those are the women)." Yep, Dave Barry is getting old, and the King of Humor may soon become the King Lear of Humor, but fear not, because Dave is not going quietly. Dave Barry Turns 50 is Barry at his best, mainly because it succeeds in being more than simply a collection of his newspaper columns. He examines the development of the baby boomer, from youth in the '50s ("an age so innocent that there could be a TV show featuring a main character called 'The Beaver'") to maturity in the '70s ("We ... basked in the reflected glory of Woodward and Bernstein: we were inspired by them; we kept a sharp eye out for any hint of corruption in the way our local school board purchased clarinets for the marching band"), before providing a self-help guide for those entering their second half century.
Barry could squeeze laughs out of a prostate exam (eventually he may have to, although the cover of this book proudly states that he refuses to even mention the word prostate), and Dave Barry Turns 50 provides him with ample opportunities to demonstrate the agile wit that has endeared him to millions of fans. Even in the final chapters, when he faces the inevitability of death, he manages to keep chuckling--after all, he is only 50, and this, he points out, "...is our glory time, this last decade or so before our powers decline and we start showing up for work with our pants on backwards." Let's hope that we'll be around for Dave Barry Turns 90. --Simon Leake [via]
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0606333649 (0-606-33364-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Democracy in Americaby Henry Reeve, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0553214640 (0-553-21464-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable productions of our time." Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was "possibly without rival."
For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the "almost royal prerogatives" of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are particularly prophetic. His profound insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember.
From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system Democracy in America enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. De Toqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. [via]More editions of Democracy in America:
The Dimension of the Present Moment: Essaysby Miroslav HolubISBN 0571143385 (0-571-14338-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls on: Observations Then and Nowby Frank ConroyISBN 061815468X (0-618-15468-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Einstein's Monstersby Martin AmisISBN 051756520X (0-517-56520-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Equalsby Adam PhillipsISBN 057120970X (0-571-20970-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Faber Book of Reportageby John CareyISBN 0571137164 (0-571-13716-4)
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The Faber Book of Scienceby John CareyISBN 0571163521 (0-571-16352-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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For Keepsby Pauline KaelISBN 0525938966 (0-525-93896-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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From Creation to Chaos: Classic Writings in Scienceby Bernard DixonISBN 0631149767 (0-631-14976-7)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Horseshoes, Cowsocks, and Duckfeet: More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet and Former Large Animal Veterinarianby Baxter BlackISBN 0609610902 (0-609-61090-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horseshoes, Cowsocks, and Duckfeet: More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet and Former Large Animal Veterinarian'Book summary:Baxter Black is good, but indescribably weird, observes the Dallas Morning News. The dean of cowboy bards, and the Art Buchwald of the Stetson-and-Levis crowd, raves the Christian Science Monitor. Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx, proclaims the Weekly Standard. But the authors mother has the last word: Baxters stories are just the right length.
The worlds bestselling cowboy poet, author of Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy, and public radios favorite former large animal veterinarian, Baxter Black is back in the saddle with a hilarious new roundup of essays, commentaries, and campfire verse that speaks to the cowboy soul in us all.
Drawn in part from Baxters wildly popular NPR commentaries and syndicated columns, Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet offers a generous helping of his tender yet irreverent, sage-as-sagebrush takes on everything from ranching, roping, Wrangler jeans, and rodeos to weddings and romance, the love of a good dog, dancing, parenting, cooking up trouble, and talking about the weather. If you havent ridden with Baxter before, find out what more than a million dedicated fans are laughing about inside and outside the corral. And with the help of the glossary at the back of the book, youll soon be conversing in fluent cowboy.
Illustrations by noted cowboy artists Bob Black, Don Gill, Dave Holl, and Charlie Marsh and a timely foreword by historic cowboy sympathizer Herman Melville will charm your chaps off.
The world according to Baxter Black
It is possible to drive from one end of the country to the other in your enclosed gas-powered cocoon and never smell air or touch dirt. However, on either side of the road, even in what appears to be desolate country, you can find homes, schools, roads, farms, and ranching communities thriving. And cowboys. Lots of em! The only thing is, friends, you just cant see em from the road! From The Cowboy Image
March is the castor oil of months. The collected drippings of winters oil change. The epic flush of the accumulated compaction of salted streets, sanded roads, gravelly snow, and frozen manure. It has its own ides. But what ides are they? I can tell you: fungicide, blindside, cyanide, vilified, terrified, stupefied, snide, hide, lied, cried, died, back you up against the wall and leave you flat and down, afoot and weak, and chapped and squinty-eyed ides. From March Madness
I have lived a fairly long time. I have been places. I have seen bears mate, boats sink, and Gila monsters scurry. I have danced till I couldnt stand up and stood up till I couldnt dance. Ive eaten bugs, broccoli, and things that crawl on the seafloor. I have seen as far back as Mayan temples, as far away as Betelgeuse, and as deep down as Tom Robbins. I have been on Johnny Carson, the cover of USA Today, and fed the snakes at the Dixie Chicken. I have held things in my hand that will be here a million years beyond my own existence. Yet, on that dance floor I felt a ripple in the universe, a time warp moment when the often unspectacular human race threw its head back and howled at the moon. From Cajun Dance [via]More editions of Horseshoes, Cowsocks, and Duckfeet: More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet and Former Large Animal Veterinarian:
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0553279378 (0-553-27937-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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Idle Worship: How Pop Empowers the Weak, Rewards the Faithful and Succours to the Needyby Chris RobertsISBN 0571198708 (0-571-19870-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Cultureby George SteinerISBN 0571096042 (0-571-09604-2)
Hardcover, Faber
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Into the Wildby Jon KrakauerISBN 0613033574 (0-613-03357-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Wild'Book summary:What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life. [via]
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The Island of the Colorblindby Oliver SacksISBN 0517278952 (0-517-27895-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Leaving Homeby Garrison KeillorISBN 0517685167 (0-517-68516-7)
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Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0517147815 (0-517-14781-5)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.
Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.
Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection. [via]
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Like I Was Sayin'by Mike RoykoISBN 0515084166 (0-515-08416-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writingsby Carson McCullers, Margarita G. SmithISBN 0618057056 (0-618-05705-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Murder Inkby OutletISBN 0517347857 (0-517-34785-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Ink'Book summary:Thoughtful and amusing articles about the mystery genre by authors, critics and fans. [via]
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Nietzsche : Untimely Meditationsby Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. ClarkeISBN 0521584582 (0-521-58458-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Operating Instructionsby Anne LamottISBN 051713778X (0-517-13778-X)
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The Painted Wordby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380656 (0-553-38065-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Painted Word'Book summary:In 1975, after having put radical chic and '60s counterculture to the satirical torch, Tom Wolfe turned his attention to the contemporary art world. The patron saint (and resident imp) of New Journalism couldn't have asked for a better subject. Here was a hotbed of pretension, nitwit theorizing, social climbing, and money, money, money--all Wolfe had to do was sharpen his tools and get to work. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. The painter, Wolfe writes, "had to dedicate himself to the quirky god Avant-Garde. He had to keep one devout eye peeled for the new edge on the blade of the wedge of the head on the latest pick thrust of the newest exploratory probe of this fall's avant-garde Breakthrough of the Century.... At the same time he had to keep his other eye cocked to see if anyone in le monde was watching."
The other bone Wolfe has to pick is with the proliferation of art theory, particularly the sort purveyed by postwar colossi like Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg, and Leo Steinberg. Decades after the heyday of abstract expressionism, these guys make pretty easy targets. What could be more absurd, after all, than endless Jesuitical disputes about the flatness of the picture plane? So most of them get a highly comical spanking from the author. It's worth pointing out, of course, that Wolfe paints with a broad (as it were) brush. If he's skewering the entire army of artistic pretenders in a single go, there's no room to admit that Jasper Johns or Willem DeKooning might actually have some talent. But as he would no doubt admit, The Painted Word isn't about the history of art. It's about the history of taste and middlebrow acquisition--and nobody has chronicled these two topics as hilariously or accurately as Tom Wolfe. --James Marcus [via]
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Past And Presentby Thomas Carlyle, Joel J. Brattin, D. J. Trela, Chris R. Vanden BosscheISBN 0520242505 (0-520-24250-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Past And Present'Book summary:Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian, cultural critic, and leading man of English letters during the Victorian era, published Past and Present, one of his most influential works, in 1843. Written as a response to the economic crisis of the 1840s--closure of factories, loss of jobs, the growth of slums in industrial centers, the starving poor--Past and Present aimed to lead readers toward a "conversion experience" in order to stimulate social reform. In this work, Carlyle provides a trenchant articulation of the political, social, religious, and economic climate of the mid-nineteenth century and a prophetic vision of the future.[via]
This volume, the fourth of the eight-volume Strouse Edition, includes an informative historical introduction and illustrations, along with complete notes and scholarly apparatus, and is the definitive modern scholarly edition.More editions of Past And Present:
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Peek-A-Pet!by Jorge Luis Borges, Stephanie PetersonISBN 0525473521 (0-525-47352-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peek-A-Pet!'Book summary:[via]With its oversize flaps and bright, bold illustrations, this follow-up to the highly successful Peek-a-Zoo! is sure to be a hit with young readers. On every page, kids play peek-a-boo with different pets. Each animal sound becomes part of the game: Guess who? "Peek-a-woof!" says the dog. Sweet and funny, this book will bring many hours of fun.
Pieces of My Mindby Andrew RooneyISBN 0517457474 (0-517-45747-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Pooh Perplex, a Freshman Casebook.by Frederick C. CrewsISBN 0525484116 (0-525-48411-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Portable Henry Jamesby Henry James, Morton Dauwen ZabelISBN 0670010553 (0-670-01055-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofskyby Louis ZukofskyISBN 0520043618 (0-520-04361-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Relativity: The Special and General Theoryby Albert EinsteinISBN 0517884410 (0-517-88441-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relativity: The Special and General Theory'Book summary:Redesigned inside and out to have a fresh, appealing look, this new edition of a classic Crown Trade Paperback is a collection of Einstein's own popular writings on his work and describes the meaning of his main theories in a way virtually everyone can understand.
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Romanticism: An Anthologyby Duncan WuISBN 0631191968 (0-631-19196-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romanticism: An Anthology'Book summary:This anthology provides the following works in addition to those offered in the first edition: Anna Laetitia Barbauld's "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"; Byron's "Don Juan", "Canto 2", "Stanzas to Augusta", "Epistle to Augusta", "When We Two Parted" and "Fare Thee Well"; John Clare's "The Badger" and "The Flitting"; canonical versions of S.T. Coleridge's "The Eolian Harp", "Dejection: An Ode", "Kubla Khan", "The Pains of Sleep", "This Lime-Tree Bower", "Frost at Midnight"; John Keats's "Lamia"; and William Wordsworth's "The Ruined Cottage", "The Brothers" and "Michael". A new introduction has been written designed specifically to help students orientate themselves in the field, and expanded introductory headnotes to the major writers are provided. [via]
Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Proseby William K. Wimsatt, Brady, Frank & Wimsatt, William K., EditorsISBN 0520035526 (0-520-03552-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Search for the Perfect Languageby Umberto Eco, James Fentress, Jacques Le GoffISBN 0631205101 (0-631-20510-1)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Search for the Perfect Language'Book summary:The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history.
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence.
The story that Umberto Eco tells ranges widely from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins. He demonstrates the initimate relation between language and identity and describes, for example, how and why the Irish, English, Germans and Swedes - one of whom presented God talking in Swedish to Adam, who replied in Danish, while the serpent tempted Eve in French - have variously claimed their language as closest to the original. He also shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority.
To this subtle exposition of a history of extraordinary complexity, Umberto Eco links the associated history of the manner in which the sounds of language and concepts have been written and symbolized. Lucidly and wittily written, the book is, in sum, a tour de force of scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European History.
The paperback edition of this book is not available through Blackwell outside of North America. [via]
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Seinlanguageby Jerry SeinfeldISBN 0553569155 (0-553-56915-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seinlanguage'Book summary:Seinlanguage could easily be subtitled The World According to Jerry. First published in 1993, when Seinfeld the sitcom was establishing itself as the funniest half-hour on television, this is a collection of Jerry's musings on everything from relationships to shushing in movie theatres. Observational comedy may have reached epidemic proportions recently, but Jerry Seinfeld was, and is, the master of his domain.
"I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'"
Eons hence, scholars may ponder the mysteries of this book in the same way that they now ponder the fragments of Heraclitus. Until then, Seinlanguage will continue to provide guaranteed chuckles in a neat and tidy package. Kind of like Jerry himself. --Simon Leake [via]
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Self-Reliance: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson As Inspiration for Daily Livingby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard WhelanISBN 051758512X (0-517-58512-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Silent Springby Rachel Carson, Wilson, Edward O. (AFT), Linda LearISBN 0618249060 (0-618-24906-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silent Spring'Book summary:Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson's book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough documentation, the book opened more than a few eyes about the dangers of the modern world and stands today as a landmark work. [via]
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0525026606 (0-525-02660-6)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social Contract'Book summary:Published in 1762, Rousseau's thinking is still relevant in these modern times. He believed that all citizens of a state fundamentally have a natural power of equality. This is the 'social contract' between the citizens of a state. Rousseau writes about liberty and law, freedom and justice. A declaration of democratic principles. A Collector's Edition. [via]
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The Stars in Their Coursesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0586041222 (0-586-04122-2)
Hardcover, Panther
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Studies in Wordsby C. S. LewisISBN 0521398312 (0-521-39831-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Studies in Words'Book summary:Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analysing their functions. It doubles as an absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language. [via]
Surfing the Zeitgeistby Gilbert AdairISBN 0571179916 (0-571-17991-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Tales from the Secret Annexby Anne FrankISBN 0553586386 (0-553-58638-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Hiding from the Nazis in the Secret Annex of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Annes story, however. This book rounds out the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Newly translated, complete, and restored to the original order in which Anne herself wrote them in her notebook, Tales from the Secret Annex is a collection of Anne Franks lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel, Cadys Life. [via]More editions of Tales from the Secret Annex:
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseasesby Mark Roberts, Jeff Vandermeer, Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, K. J. BishopISBN 0553383396 (0-553-38339-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases'Book summary:Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid youre afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn! Book Sense
You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembledeach disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isnt heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.
Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that cant go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you dont have Pentzlers Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection. [via]More editions of The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases:
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A Traveller in Romance: Uncollected Writings, 1901-1964by W. Somerset Maugham, John WhiteheadISBN 0517556189 (0-517-55618-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Truth: (with Jokes)by Al FrankenISBN 0525949062 (0-525-94906-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth: (with Jokes)'Book summary:Nearly a year after the presidential election of 2004, Al Franken is still checking facts, exposing lies, and trying to clear the record as he sees it. Sneering at President Bush's declaration of a mandate after a two-and-a-half percent victory, he deconstructs Bush's 2004 platform of "fear, smear, and queers," and explains how the president has done some flip-flopping of his own. He offers comment on well-known stories, including the Terri Shiavo case, and some more obscure, such as reports of forced prostitution, indentured servitude, and squalid conditions at clothing factories in Saipan (which is part of the American Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Franken focuses on Tom DeLay's connection to the territory and his efforts to prevent bills from being passed that would have required Saipan to follow U.S. labor laws. Iraq, too, is discussed, from its planning stages to the huge sum of money currently unaccounted for, including $8.8 billion missing from the Coalition Provisional Authority's coffers.
On the home front, Franken covers President Bush's attempt at Social Security reform, explaining how they came up with the projected shortfall figure of $11 trillion. For one thing, they adjusted life expectancy to 150 years, while leaving the retirement age at 67: "That's an eighty-three-year retirement. They're never gonna get to that without stem cell research." He also takes some wickedly funny swipes at Karl Rove, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pundits and hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert, and Sean Hannity, and, of course, President Bush. The Truth succeeds in providing ammunition to liberals and others dissatisfied with the current power base in Washington, D.C.--only this time (with jokes). --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Untimely Meditationsby R. J. Hollingdale, Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel BreazealeISBN 0521585848 (0-521-58584-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in Englandby T. S. EliotISBN 057105871X (0-571-05871-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr's Fresh Airby Geoffrey NunbergISBN 0618116036 (0-618-11603-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr's Fresh Air'Book summary:This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of Americas best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and phrases. From our metaphors for the Internet (Virtual Rialto ) to the perils of electronic grammar checkers (The Software We Deserve ), from traditional grammatical bugaboos (Sex and the Singular Verb ) to the ways we talk about illicit love (Affairs of State ), Geoffrey Nunberg shows just how much the language we use from day to day reveals about who we are and who we want to be.[via]More editions of The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr's Fresh Air:
What's Not to Love? : The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writerby Jonathan AmesISBN 0609605143 (0-609-60514-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, And Other Confusions Of Our Timeby Michael ShermerISBN 061391662X (0-613-91662-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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William Hazlitt: The Plain Speaker The Key Essaysby Duncan Wu, Hazlitt WilliamISBN 0631210571 (0-631-21057-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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- Provides the only edition of The Plain Speaker available outside libraries since 1928.
- Contains Hazlitt's seminal essays on plain speaking and the major romantic topics.
- Includes a brilliant introduction by Tom Paulin, the greatest poet-critic of his generation and the editorial expertise of Duncan Wu.
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Wizardry & Wild Romance: A Study Of Epic Fantasyby Michael MoorcockISBN 0575041471 (0-575-04147-1)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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Works of Henry David Thoreauby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517336308 (0-517-33630-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
A Plea for Captain John Brown
Walden
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