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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwritingby William GoldmanISBN 0446391174 (0-446-39117-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated. [via]More editions of Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting:
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The Age of Missing Informationby Bill McKibbenISBN 0452269806 (0-452-26980-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Missing Information'Book summary:The author of "The End of Nature" asks an intriguing question: Which provides more "information," 103 cable channels showering viewers with beguiling factoids--or a weekend in the woods? [via]
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The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theologyby Thomas Paine, Moncure Daniel ConwayISBN 0486433935 (0-486-43393-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Another Day at the Frontby Ishmael ReedISBN 0465068928 (0-465-06892-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race Warby Ishmael ReedISBN 046506891X (0-465-06891-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Aristosby John FowlesISBN 0452260442 (0-452-26044-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aristos'Book summary:Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he posited of constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos, 'of a person or thing, the best or most excellent its kind'.'What I was really trying to define was an ideal of human freedom (the Aristos) in an unfree world,' wrote Fowles in 1965. He called a materialistic and over-conforming culture to reckoning with his views on a myriad of subjects - pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, Christianity, humanism, existentialism, socialism [via]
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At Largeby Ellen GoodmanISBN 0449201457 (0-449-20145-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen ZimmernISBN 048629868X (0-486-29868-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good and Evil'Book summary:One of the most popular of the 19th-century philosophers refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in a fascinating examination of human values and morality. This inexpensive, unabridged edition of one of Nietzsche's most important works offers a rich sampling of the philosopher's influential school of thought. Publisher's Introduction.[via]More editions of Beyond Good and Evil:
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Biographia Literariaby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nigel LeaskISBN 0460873326 (0-460-87332-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biographia Literaria'Book summary:Coleridge's work stands at the very heart of British Romantic Literature. Presenting a sketch of it's author's troubled life and opinions as the context for a series of virtuoso reflections on contemporary poetry and criticism, the "Biographia" embodies the Romantic quest for the unifying imagination. [via]
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Biographia Literaria: Chapters 1-4, 14-22; Prefaces and Essays on Poetry, 1800-1815by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0460100114 (0-460-10011-4)
Hardcover, J. M. Dent
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinionsby George Watson, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0460871080 (0-460-87108-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Bushworld: Enter at your own riskby Maureen DowdISBN 0425202763 (0-425-20276-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Cape Codby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0486434931 (0-486-43493-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cape Cod'Book summary:The great naturalist recounts his experiences during a series of beach-combing walking trips around Cape Cod in the early 1850s. His compelling account of the region's plants, animals, topography, weather, and people features captivating tales of exploration, settlement, and survival. [via]
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Civilization and Its Discontentsby Sigmund FreudISBN 0486282538 (0-486-28253-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization and Its Discontents'Book summary:In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all, doesn't repression of sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances of happiness? [via]
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Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwellby Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia OrwellISBN 0436350181 (0-436-35018-1)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Come Along With Meby Shirley JacksonISBN 0445085398 (0-445-08539-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Compleat Anglerby Izaak WaltonISBN 0460010700 (0-460-01070-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Compleat Angler'Book summary:For a book to stay in print for nearly 350 years, its merits must continually entice and satisfy. The Compleat Angler qualifies on both counts. On the most obvious level, it remains as good a primer on fishing as any angler would want. But its most enduring distinction is hinted at in the subtitle--"the Contemplative Man's Recreation." Izaak Walton's sometimes convoluted 17th-century grammar can still reel in our imaginations with his graceful evocations of a life free from hurly-burly in the company of friends intent on physical and moral sustenance. "He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit," suggests the master, "but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience.... Doubt not but Angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be like a virtue, a reward to itself." Just like Walton's magnificent literary catch. --Jeff Silverman [via]
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Complete Poems and Selected Essaysby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard GrayISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Concepts of Modern Artby Nikos StangosISBN 0500202680 (0-500-20268-0)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledgeby Karl R. PopperISBN 0415285941 (0-415-28594-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Dave Barry Slept Hereby Dave BarryISBN 0449904628 (0-449-90462-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry Slept Here'Book summary:Dave runs American history through the wringer, and comes up with some wonderfully warped formulations. (The Vikings, for example, "were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople...") Covering pre-Columbian days through the dawn of the Bush administration, Dave Barry Slept Here is the funniest thing to hit this great nation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930. [via]
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Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys: A Fairly Short Bookby Dave Barry, Joelle DelbourgoISBN 0449910261 (0-449-91026-1)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Richard D. HeffnerISBN 0451528123 (0-451-52812-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library - Democracy in America: ISBN 0451626974 (0-451-62697-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Democracy in America: ISBN 0451628012 (0-451-62801-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Democracy in America: ISBN 0451528123 (0-451-52812-3)
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Equalsby Adam PhillipsISBN 0465056806 (0-465-05680-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equals'Book summary:Adam Phillips's Equals attempts to relocate psychoanalysis as a natural part--and even a necessary part--of an engaged and unregimented life. Phillips is a politically aware writer. He is not a "party man" in any sense. But he has notions about democracy that inform, not just his view of psychoanalytic practice, but also his ideas about human freedom and happiness. Phillips reminds us that people suffer, not because they are in conflict with themselves, but because they have suppressed a conflict by imposing an unconscious authoritarian order over their thoughts and feelings.
The aim of psychoanalysis is to recreate emotional fluency. (One assumes the job of politics is to deal with the fallout.) Like democracy, psychoanalysis should recognise and legitimate conflict which an authoritarian (superegoistic) order would suppress. Drawing parallels between the idea of free association in democracy, and the practice of free association in psychoanalysis, Phillips writes: "hearing all those voices& may itself be a kind of happiness". Phillips's arguments are meticulous, and sometimes fussy. The general reader will find some passages obscure, but there is never the sense that Phillips is being deliberately obscurantist. His compassion--as a writer, as an analyst, and as a literary critic--is admirable. A child psychotherapist by training, his essay "Childhood Again" brings his strongest qualities together--ideological nous, close argument and compassion--in an entirely successful and memorable synthesis. --Simon Ings [via]
Essays of Five Decadesby J. B. PriestleyISBN 0434603562 (0-434-60356-2)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Essential Rousseauby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lowell Blair, Lowell BairISBN 0452010314 (0-452-01031-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartreby Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0452009308 (0-452-00930-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre'Book summary:[via]This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann.
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Fathers Playing Catch With Sonsby Donald HallISBN 0440324386 (0-440-32438-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers Playing Catch With Sons'Book summary:In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game - Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong. The essays are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations. [via]
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Femininityby Susan BrownmillerISBN 0449901424 (0-449-90142-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Femininity'Book summary:"Illuminating and informative....Essential reading."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Writing with great passion, warmth, and wit on a subject that's never been explored in these terms before, Susan Brownmiller draws on the many manifestations of femininity through the ages, and demonstrates in beautiful and telling detail the many powerful nuances of that one word.
"A positive joy to read!"
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For Keeps : 30 Years at the Moviesby Pauline KaelISBN 0452273080 (0-452-27308-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Four Past Midnightby Stephen KingISBN 0451213599 (0-451-21359-9)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Past Midnight'Book summary:NOW A BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE FROM COLUMBIA PICTURES STARRING JOHNNY DEPP[via]Based on Secret Window, Secret Garden, a novella in Stepen King's Four Past Midnight.
Mort Rainey is a best selling author whose imagination thrills his readers to the core. But one of his stories holds a secret that comes to life. A secret that even he can't imagine...
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The Frontier in American Historyby Frederick Jackson TurnerISBN 0486291677 (0-486-29167-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Gazer Withinby James Marshall, Andrew Miller, Larry Levis, John Venable, Mary C. FlinnISBN 0472067184 (0-472-06718-4)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Gazer Withinby Larry Levis, James Marshall, Andrew Miller, Mary C. Flinn, John VenableISBN 0472097180 (0-472-09718-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Usby Kate BornsteinISBN 0415908973 (0-415-90897-3)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us'Book summary:Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV (so to speak) talk shows. In her book, Bornstein covers the "mechanics" of her surgery, everything you've always wanted to know about gender (but were too confused to ask) addresses the place and politics of the transgendered and intterogates the questions of those who give the subject little thought, creating questions of her own. [via]
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Great Cat Massacreby Robert DarntonISBN 0465015565 (0-465-01556-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Cat Massacre'Book summary:In this dazzling series of essays, Robert Darnton exhumes the strange and wonderful world views of the ordinary and extraordinary people inhabiting the cities, towns, and countryside of France in what we like to call The Age of Enlightenment.[via]More editions of Great Cat Massacre:
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural Historyby Robert DarntonISBN 0465027008 (0-465-02700-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Heaven Is under Our Feet : A Book for Walden Woodsby Don Henley, Dave MarshISBN 0425135462 (0-425-13546-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heaven Is under Our Feet : A Book for Walden Woods'Book summary:This is the book that commanded America's attention--and spearheaded the fight to save the cradle of the American environmental movement. Filled with moving, personal essays by concerned celebrities and thinkers, edited by Don Henley and Dave Marsh, it is a call to arms for anyone who cares about the environment and the future of the earth. [via]
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Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987by Chinua AchebeISBN 0435910000 (0-435-91000-0)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellowby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0460003410 (0-460-00341-0)
Hardcover, Dent
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Language and Mythby Ernst CassirerISBN 0486200515 (0-486-20051-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Leaving Homeby Garrison KeillorISBN 0451821971 (0-451-82197-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington IrvingISBN 0451530128 (0-451-53012-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraqby Christopher HitchensISBN 0452284988 (0-452-28498-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaperby John Allen PaulosISBN 0465043623 (0-465-04362-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper'Book summary:In this book the author of Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences reveals the hidden mathematical angles in countless media stories. His real life perspective on the statistics we rely on and how they can mislead is for anyone interested in gaining a more accurate view of their world. The book is written with a humorous and knowledgeable style that makes it great reading. [via]
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Memos from Purgatoryby Harlan EllisonISBN 0441524389 (0-441-52438-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memos from Purgatory'Book summary:Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know." In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn's dangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a "bopping club." What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour-long TV dramas...This autobiography is a book whose message you won't be able to ignore or forget.
"Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read."
--Pete Hamill
"Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination."
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Michener Miscellany, 1950-1970by James A. MichenerISBN 0449225267 (0-449-22526-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Modern Artists on Artby Robert L. HerbertISBN 0486411915 (0-486-41191-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Modern Mannersby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0440560950 (0-440-56095-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Motherhood : The Second Oldest Professionby Erma BombeckISBN 0440159016 (0-440-15901-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Proseby Anne Sexton, Steven ColburnISBN 0472063669 (0-472-06366-9)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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On Moral Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0465052266 (0-465-05226-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Yearby Anne LamottISBN 044990928X (0-449-90928-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Year'Book summary:It seems no mother of a newborn has ever been more hilarious, more honest, or more touching than Ann Lamott is in OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. A single parent whose baby's father is out of the picture, Lamott struggles not only to support her little family by her wits and her writing, but to stay sober at the same time. Faith in God helps; so does her loyal band of helpers, from her childless best friend Pammy to her mother and "Aunt Dudu" to the folks at the La Leche League hotline. And between colic, wheat-free diets, and the triumph of solid food, Lamott learns that blessings and losses come together, and that as our capacity for joy increases, so does our capacity for grief. "An enormous triumph . . . Charming . . . Powerful . . . A gracious book, with dozens of lovingly drawn characters and a deep, infectious religiosity throughout. It is also funny." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Smart, funny and comforting . . . Lamott has a conversational style that perfectly conveys her friendly, self-deprecating humor." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review [via]
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Orphan Factory: Essays and Memorisby Charles SimicISBN 0472066633 (0-472-06663-3)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486437019 (0-486-43701-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representationsby Bell HooksISBN 0415389585 (0-415-38958-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Picked up Piecesby John UpdikeISBN 0449212033 (0-449-21203-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Post-Colonial Studies Readerby Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen TiffinISBN 0415345650 (0-415-34565-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhoodby Naomi WolfISBN 0449907643 (0-449-90764-3)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood'Book summary:Part memoir, part exposé, Promiscuities is Naomi Wolf's (author of The Beauty Myth and Fire with Fire) perspective on the confusion surrounding female sexuality. According to Wolf, promiscuous is "a word that holds within it the mixed message girls today are given about sex: 'You're promiscuous if you do anything, but you are a prude if you do nothing.'" Thus, still polarized on the spectrum between virgin and whore, adolescent girls are allowed little information and even fewer healthy outlets for their normal sexual desires. Wolf shatters the illusion that good girls and professional women are not sexual, and boldly embarks on redefining female sexuality outside of men's experience and assumptions. Wolf's own coming of age in the post-sexual revolution of Haight-Ashbury, serves as an evocative tool for revealing the naked and admirable truth of female sexuality. [via]
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The Promise of Spaceby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0425075656 (0-425-07565-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Aheadby Irving KristolISBN 0465068731 (0-465-06873-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Relativity: The Special and General Theoryby Albert Einstein, Robert Geroch, David C. Cassidy, Roger Penrose, Robert W. LawsonISBN 0452287847 (0-452-28784-7)
Softcover, Plume
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This new edition of Relativitythe first updated version in over fifty yearsincludes a wealth of original material written by some of todays foremost scientific authorities. Bestselling author and physicist Roger Penrose puts Einsteins work in historical context and details major developments in relativity theory over subsequent years. Relativity expert Robert Geroch provides commentary on key aspects of the special and general theories; and historian David Cassidy explores the profound impact of Einsteins ideas on our culture at large. Now, over ninety years after its first publication, this definitive edition brings a classic text into the new millennium. [via]More editions of Relativity: The Special and General Theory:
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Relativity: The Special and General Theoryby Robert W. Lawson, Albert EinsteinISBN 048641714X (0-486-41714-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Revenge of the Paste Eaters: Memoirs of a Misfitby Cheryl PeckISBN 0446693731 (0-446-69373-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Rights of Manby Thomas PaineISBN 0486408930 (0-486-40893-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Self-Reliance and Other Essaysby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0486277909 (0-486-27790-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Silent Springby Rachel CarsonISBN 0449200795 (0-449-20079-5)
Hardcover, Fawcett Crest
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Silent Springby Rachel Louise CarsonISBN 0449209385 (0-449-20938-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Simulacra and Simulationby Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria GlaserISBN 0472065211 (0-472-06521-1)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nationby Arlene SteinISBN 0452268877 (0-452-26887-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.by Washington IrvingISBN 046087151X (0-460-87151-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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A Small Placeby Jamaica KincaidISBN 0452262356 (0-452-26235-6)
Softcover, Plume
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So Many Books, So Little Timeby Sara NelsonISBN 0425198197 (0-425-19819-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'So Many Books, So Little Time'Book summary:Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described "readaholic" Sara Nelson. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, the result is a personal chronicle of insight, wit, and enough infectious enthusiasm to make a passionate reader out of anybody. [via]
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The Social Contract and Discoursesby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0460873571 (0-460-87357-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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Social Contract and Discoursesby J. RoussearISBN 0460016601 (0-460-01660-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Some of Us Did Not Die : New and Selected Essaysby June JordanISBN 0465036937 (0-465-03693-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Makingby David Hardman, Laura MacchiISBN 0471494577 (0-471-49457-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The book brings three of the important topics of thinking together - reasoning, judgment and decision making ??? and discusses key issues in each area. The studies described range from those that are purely laboratory based to those that involve experts making real world judgments, in areas such as medical and legal decision making and political and economic forecasting.
- International collection of original chapters by leading researchers in the field
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Today and Tomorrow and ..by Isaac AsimovISBN 0440159334 (0-440-15933-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Truth with Jokesby Al FrankenISBN 0452287677 (0-452-28767-7)
Softcover, 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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You Must Revise Your Lifeby William Edgar StaffordISBN 0472063715 (0-472-06371-5)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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