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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Kazin, Alfred (AFT)ISBN 0553210793 (0-553-21079-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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Softcover, Prentice Hall - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0582528240 (0-582-52824-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 059043389X (0-590-43389-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0553210793 (0-553-21079-3)
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0582420504 (0-582-42050-4)
All New Peopleby Anne LamottISBN 0553352784 (0-553-35278-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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All Things Wise and Wonderfulby James HerriotISBN 0553266055 (0-553-26605-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Things Wise and Wonderful'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Third volume in James Herriot's classic autobiographical renditions of life as a country veterinarian. [via]
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, B. M. Mooyaart-DoubledayISBN 0553296981 (0-553-29698-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic, quarrelsome intimacy with her parents, sister, a second family, and a middle-aged dentist who has little tolerance for Anne's vivacity. The diary's universal appeal stems from its riveting blend of the grubby particulars of life during wartime (scant, bad food; shabby, outgrown clothes that can't be replaced; constant fear of discovery) and candid discussion of emotions familiar to every adolescent (everyone criticizes me, no one sees my real nature, when will I be loved?). Yet Frank was no ordinary teen: the later entries reveal a sense of compassion and a spiritual depth remarkable in a girl barely 15. Her death epitomizes the madness of the Holocaust, but for the millions who meet Anne through her diary, it is also a very individual loss. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Awakeningsby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0525483500 (0-525-48350-0)
Softcover, E P Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awakenings'Book summary:It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it's qualities like sensitivity, craft, and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if nothing else, these qualities shine in books like Awakenings. This powerful set of case histories rises above its pathological foundation to find new literary territory, a medical-spiritual synthesis equally stimulating for the mind and the soul. It's no wonder Hollywood producers chose to turn it into a feature film--anyone can see the universal human struggle against bondage and despair in these pages.
The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s; his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner [via]
Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabiaby Tony HorwitzISBN 0525249605 (0-525-24960-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Better Living Through Bad Moviesby Scott Clevenger, Sheri ZollingerISBN 059540023X (0-595-40023-X)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Living Through Bad Movies'Book summary:Weve all heard that, you learn more from failure than you do from success. Which means that all those hours spent watching crappy movies wasnt a waste of your precious and ever-dwindling life span; it was an education! And Better Living Through Bad Movies can show you how to extract the profound, life-affirming lessons from films like Battlefield Earth, Coyote Ugly, and Indecent Proposal.
In over 50 hilarious reviews, the authors show how you can use the worst movies ever made to improve your sex life (it involves cardboard cutouts and clog dancing), Apocalypse-proof your home (using the following materials: John Travolta, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone and more Kevin Costner), and win omnipotence and a Happy Meal by solving Satans Junior Jumble. You will also discover how to forge a love that will last a lifetime (by dating the moribund), use films like Batman and Robin and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as grief counseling, and conquer the world using common fruit bats and dry cleaning fluid. And most important of all, youll learn Hollywoods Ultimate Secret: Why Beaches and Armageddon are actually the exact same movie. [via]More editions of Better Living Through Bad Movies:
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Burton on Burtonby Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Mark SalisburyISBN 0571229263 (0-571-22926-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burton on Burton'Book summary:A revised edition of the only book to explore the unique brilliance of director Tim Burton's work, including a new chapter on the making of Sleepy Hollow.[via]
Still only in his thirties, Tim Burton has established himself in the past fifteen years as one of the great visionaries of film. With the Batman films, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, and, most recently, Sleepy Hollow, he has continually broken new ground both visually and thematically, exploring the dark anguish--as well as the dark humor--that animates many of his characters while also creating a densely textured, sometimes bizarre look specific to each film.
In Burton on Burton, Burton talks to Mark Salisbury about his training as an animator at Disney, the importance of design in his films, and the recurring themes present in his work. In this revised edition, he also discusses the influence of 1950s sci-fi and 1970s disaster films on Mars Attacks! as well as how he conceived his highly stylized approach to the content and setting of Sleepy Hollow, his acclaimed retelling of the Washington Irving story that stars Johnny Depp, perhaps the actor most identified with Burton's work. Enhanced by stills from the films, storyboards, and illustrations of set designs for all his major films, Burton on Burton provides insights and information about the man and his work, throwing light on both his unique artistic vision and on the extraordinary films that have been the result. -
Burton on Burtonby Mark Salisbury, Johnny DeppISBN 0571205070 (0-571-20507-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Still only in his thirties, Tim Burton has established himself in the past fifteen years as one of the great visionaries of film. With the Batman films, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, and, most recently, Sleepy Hollow, he has continually broken new ground both visually and thematically, exploring the dark anguish--as well as the dark humor--that animates many of his characters while also creating a densely textured, sometimes bizarre look specific to each film.
In Burton on Burton, Burton talks to Mark Salisbury about his training as an animator at Disney, the importance of design in his films, and the recurring themes present in his work. In this revised edition, he also discusses the influence of 1950s sci-fi and 1970s disaster films on Mars Attacks! as well as how he conceived his highly stylized approach to the content and setting of Sleepy Hollow, his acclaimed retelling of the Washington Irving story that stars Johnny Depp, perhaps the actor most identified with Burton's work. Enhanced by stills from the films, storyboards, and illustrations of set designs for all his major films, Burton on Burton provides insights and information about the man and his work, throwing light on both his unique artistic vision and on the extraordinary films that have been the result.More editions of Burton on Burton:
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucerby Piero Boitani, Jill MannISBN 0521894670 (0-521-89467-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fictionby Edward James, Farah MendlesohnISBN 0521816262 (0-521-81626-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspectiveby Carl SaganISBN 0521783038 (0-521-78303-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective'Book summary:In 1973, Carl Sagan published The Cosmic Connection, a daring view of the universe, which rapidly became a classic work of popular science and inspired a generation of scientists and enthusiasts. This seminal work is reproduced here for a whole new generation to enjoy. In Sagan's typically lucid and lyrical style, he discusses many topics from astrophysics and solar system science, to colonization, terraforming and the search for extraterrestrials. Sagan conveys his own excitement and wonder, and relates the revelations of astronomy to the most profound human problems and concerns: issues that are just as valid today as they were thirty years ago. New to this edition are Freeman Dyson's comments on Sagan's vision and the importance of the work, Ann Druyan's assessment of Sagan's cultural significance as a champion of science, and David Morrison's discussion of the advances made since 1973 and what became of Sagan's predictions. Who knows what wonders this third millennium will reveal, but one thing is certain: Carl Sagan played a unique role in preparing us for them. [via]
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Casablancaby Michael MoorcockISBN 0575045280 (0-575-04528-0)
Hardcover, Victor Gollancz
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Chronicles of Bustos Domecoby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525475486 (0-525-47548-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200by Mary CarruthersISBN 0521795419 (0-521-79541-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Critical Observationsby Julian SymonsISBN 0571116884 (0-571-11688-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Curse of Lonoby Ralph Steadman, Hunter ThompsonISBN 0553013874 (0-553-01387-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Curse of Lono'Book summary:The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's ?coverage? of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter's oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy. Resurrected by TASCHEN in a bigger size with splendid, full-color illustrations and a foreword by Sean Penn, The Curse of Lono is now available in a special 1000-copy edition, numbered and hand-signed by Thompson and Steadman.[via]More editions of The Curse of Lono:
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The Dialogues of Platoby PlatoISBN 0553213717 (0-553-21371-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dialogues of Plato'Book summary:Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial and execution of Socrates-the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and forever altered the course of Western thought. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century b.c., and examine such timeless-and timely-issues as the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential. [via]
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editionby Anne FrankISBN 0553577123 (0-553-57712-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition'Book summary:Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about and tried to cope with her own sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when she went into the Secret Annex with her family. [via]
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Dr. Kookie, You're Right!by Mike RoykoISBN 0525248137 (0-525-24813-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on Writing and Politicsby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571214347 (0-571-21434-7)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on Writing and Politics'Book summary:This volume collects the best of the non-fiction writings by Hanif Kureishi since 1985. These include political essays, diaries of film-making collaborations, essays about his father, analyses of both the craft and the job of writing - and, above all, explorations of how the life of the mind expresses itself in creative endeavours. [via]
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Dusk of Dawnby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0527253057 (0-527-25305-7)
Hardcover, Kraus Intl Pubns
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End Papers: Essays, Letters, Articles of Faith, Workbook Notesby Breyten BreytenbachISBN 0571139442 (0-571-13944-2)
Hardcover, Faber
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The European Tribeby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0571198031 (0-571-19803-1)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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The Faber Book of Americaby Christopher B. Ricks, William L. VanceISBN 0571198260 (0-571-19826-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0553204432 (0-553-20443-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Feminist Papersby Alice S. RossiISBN 0553206036 (0-553-20603-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Frontiers: New Discoveries About Man and His Planet, Outer Space and the Universeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0525246622 (0-525-24662-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553277375 (0-553-27737-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Girls Guide to Chaosby Cynthia HeimelISBN 0573692386 (0-573-69238-6)
Hardcover, S. French, Inc.
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The Good Word & Other Wordsby Wilfrid SheedISBN 0525115927 (0-525-11592-7)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Great Short Works of Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0606020624 (0-606-02062-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0553212141 (0-553-21214-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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History and Hope: Essays on History and the English Civil Warby C. V. WedgwoodISBN 0525247408 (0-525-24740-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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I Have a Dreamby Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott KingISBN 059020517X (0-590-20517-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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In Cold Bloodby Truman CapoteISBN 0606207201 (0-606-20720-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Jaguars Ripped My Fleshby Tim CahillISBN 0553342762 (0-553-34276-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jaguars Ripped My Flesh'Book summary:`The strengths of this text are many. It has breadth and diversity in its content yet is presented in bite-size chapters. For those wishing to know more, it offers signposts to the relevant literature. The contributors have been carefully selected for their specific perspective yet these have been skilfully inter-related by the editors. It is now some 11 years since the first edition of this text was published. In my view, this second edition was worth the wait' - SCOLAG Journal
`This has been a ground-breaking book&and I whole-heartedly welcome a new edition'- Professor Len Barton, School of Education, The University of Sheffield
`It is a really well-structured book which has been very popular and widely used by students&Its great qualities are accessibility and diversity of contributors' -
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`This book would be a valuable resource to students of disability studies and to health and social care staff and other professionals who work with disabled people'- Disability and Rehabilitation
The Second Edition of this landmark text has been revised to provide an up-to-date accessible introductory text to the field of disability studies. In addition to analysing the barriers that disabled people encounter in education, housing, leisure and employment, the revised edition has new chapters on:
· international issues
· diversity among disabled people
· sexuality
· bioethics.
Written by disabled people who are leading academics in the field, the text comprises 45 short and engaging chapters, to provide a broad-ranging and accessible introduction to disability issues.
Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments is an invaluable resource for both students and practitioners alike. It is an ideal text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in disability studies, as well as disability courses in social work, education, health studies, sociology and social policy. [via]
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0553211161 (0-553-21116-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Over the course of Whitman's life, the book reappeared in many versions, expanded and transformed as the author's experiences and the nation's history changed and grew. Whitman's ambition was to creates something uniquely American. In that he succeeded. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character. From his solemn masterpieces "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" to the joyous freedom of "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "Song of the Open Road," Whitman's work lives on, an inspiration to the poets of later generations. [via]
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Literary Journalism: A Readerby William McKeen, Jean ChanceISBN 053452947X (0-534-52947-X)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Journalism: A Reader'Book summary:This first edition reader introduces students to 26 of our greatest literary journalists, from Ernie Pyle to Hunter S. Thompson. It is the most current and complete anthology of the best of literary journalism. [via]
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The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversationsby Wim Wenders, Michael HoffmanISBN 0571165176 (0-571-16517-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Meaning of Artby Herbert ReadISBN 0571096581 (0-571-09658-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 0553213695 (0-553-21369-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphosis'Book summary:"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man." [via]
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The Metamorphosis: Including Selections from Kafka's Letters and Diaries and Critical Essaysby Franz Kafka, Stanley CorngoldISBN 055321196X (0-553-21196-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Modern Criticism and Theory: A Readerby David LodgeISBN 0582494605 (0-582-49460-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Modern Criticism and Theory: A Readerby Nigel Wood, David LodgeISBN 0582312876 (0-582-31287-6)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader'Book summary:'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' (David Lodge)
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This new edition of David Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theory is fully revised and expanded to take account of the developments of theoretical and general interest in contemporary literary criticism since publication of the first edition in 1988.
Building on the strengths of the first edition, the volume is designed to introduce the reader to the guiding concepts of present literary and cultural debate by presenting substantial extracts from the period's most seminal thinkers.More editions of Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader:
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My Beautiful Laundretteby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571202543 (0-571-20254-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette'Book summary:Described by Stuart Hall as "one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years," My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Christine Geraghty considers it a crossover film: between television and cinema, realism and fantasy, and as an independent film targeting a popular audience. She deftly shows how it has remained an important and timely film in the 1990s and early 2000s, and her exploration of the film itself is an original and entertaining achievement.[via]More editions of My Beautiful Laundrette:
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My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writingsby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571177387 (0-571-17738-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Beautiful Laundrette & Other Writings'Book summary:Whitbread Prize winner Kureshi is one of a new generation of British writers whose experience is refracted through his Pakistani heritage. These collected screenplays and essays also include "My Son the Fanatic". [via]
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My Beautiful Laundrette and the Rainbow Signby Hanif KureishiISBN 0571139817 (0-571-13981-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guideby Mystery Science Theater 3000 Writers and Performers, Best Brains, Inc. StaffISBN 0553377833 (0-553-37783-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Myths to Live byby Joseph CampbellISBN 0586085289 (0-586-08528-9)
Softcover, Paladin
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Obedience, Struggle & Revolt: Lectures on Theatreby David HareISBN 0571228720 (0-571-22872-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institutionby Adrienne RichISBN 055320078X (0-553-20078-X)
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On Poetry and Poetsby T. S. EliotISBN 0571089836 (0-571-08983-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Open Sources 2.0by Chris Dibona, Mark Stone, Danese CooperISBN 0596008023 (0-596-00802-3)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Storyby Paul AurandtISBN 0553259628 (0-553-25962-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story'Book summary:Paul Harvey is the most listened-to radio personality in America. Millions of loyal listeners tune in every week to hear his unique blend of news and views. Now, in Paul Harvey's The Rest Of The Story you'll find eighty-two astonishing true stories of the famous and infamous, the outrageous and the unknown. Each unforgettable tale has for its startling punch line the wild and wonderful solution to a real-life mystery. The 1950's presidential candidate who killed a teenage girl. The governor of New York who dressed up like a woman--at taxpayer's expense. The queen whose secret photo collection--if exposed--would shock the world. The American founding father who kept his wife locked in the cellar. The best-selling mystery writer who tried to get away . . . with murder! From present-day shockers to historical puzzlers, Paul Harvey's The Rest Of The Story reveals the untold story behind some of history's strangest little-known facts. [via]
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The Place of Mindby Brian CooneyISBN 0534528252 (0-534-52825-2)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Questioning the Millennium : A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdownby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0609600761 (0-609-60076-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Root of Bitternessby Nancy F. CottISBN 0525473289 (0-525-47328-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Secondary Worldsby W. H. AudenISBN 0571132219 (0-571-13221-9)
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Slow Learnerby Thomas PynchonISBN 0553249622 (0-553-24962-2)
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Spirit of Place:Letters and Essays on Travelby Lawrence Durrell, Alan G. ThomasISBN 0571089941 (0-571-08994-1)
Hardcover, Faber
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States of Desire: Travels in Gay Americaby Edmund WhiteISBN 0525480684 (0-525-48068-4)
Softcover, E.P. Dutton
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Sylvia Plath: A Critical Studyby Tim KendallISBN 0571192351 (0-571-19235-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death.
In this new analysis, Tim Kendall seeks to redress the balance in his detailed and dispassionate examination of her poetry. Taking a roughly chronological structure, he traces the unique nature of Plath's poetic gift, finding-with reference to Letters Home, The Bell Jar, The Journals, and the stories and autobiographical reminiscences-an essential unity in her inspiration, tracing the evolution of recurring themes and at the same time exhibiting her accelerated development from the formal restraint of The Colossus through to the groundbreaking techniques of Ariel. In the process, Kendall shows that Plath was a poet constantly remaking herself, experimenting with different styles, forms, and subject matter, while at the same time firmly reinforcing her rightful place in the canon of world literature.More editions of Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study:
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, David M. BevingtonISBN 0553213075 (0-553-21307-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Toscanini's Fumble and Other Tales of Clinical Neurologyby Harold L. KlawansISBN 0553346628 (0-553-34662-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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True Tales of American Lifeby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Public Radio (U.S.), National Story Project (U.S.)ISBN 0571210708 (0-571-21070-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0525939210 (0-525-93921-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Vaclav Havel or Living in Truth: 22 Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havelby Jan VladislavISBN 0571144403 (0-571-14440-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-1998by Harold PinterISBN 0571195768 (0-571-19576-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Views And Values: Diverse Readings On Universal Themesby Kari SayersISBN 0534235689 (0-534-23568-9)
Softcover, Cengage Learning College
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A Virgil Thomson Readerby Virgil ThomsonISBN 0525481028 (0-525-48102-8)
Softcover, E.P. Dutton
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The Way We Areby Margaret VisserISBN 0571198856 (0-571-19885-6)
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Visser traces her interest in "the anthropology of everyday life" to a plastic packet of mustard she encountered when she first arrived in North America from Britain in 1964. She and her companion "sat and looked at the mustard missile, and knew that we had reached a foreign place, an unpredictable and infinitely weird environment." Since then, Visser has produced a string of best-selling, award-winning books including Much Depends on Dinner, The Rituals of Dinner, and The Geometry of Love, "focusing on small humble objects" to "tease out of them philosophies, choices, prejudices, causes, contradictions, tragedies, absurdities." Thus, in The Way We Are Visser re-envisions the heart--"a terrifying, bloody, pumping muscle that throbs and shudders inside us"--as a "multivalent metaphor": seat of courage for the ancient Greeks, of compassion for the modern North American, something that can be, depending on circumstances, "in the right place," "broken," "eaten out" or "worn on the sleeve." She exposes Santa Claus as a phallic symbol: "dressed in red, coming down the chimney, and leaving a present in the stocking." And in chewing gum she sees "an arresting symbol of modernity": "gum is cud-like and primitive, yet it is now impeccably technological." --Russell Prather [via]
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, Edwin CannanISBN 0553585975 (0-553-58597-5)
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What It's Like to Live Nowby Meredith MaranISBN 0553374931 (0-553-37493-1)
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In What It's Like To Live Now, Meredith Maran explores the gap between the dreams of the '60s and the realities of the '90s, in a book filled with uncommon insight--and her own wickedly subversive sense of humor. Reading What It's Like To Live Now is like having dinner with your funniest, most unshockable woman friend. You won't want it to end. [via]More editions of What It's Like to Live Now:
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essaysby David MametISBN 0571170765 (0-571-17076-5)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Writing to the Moment : Selected Critical Essays, 1980-1995by Tom PaulinISBN 0571175821 (0-571-17582-1)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays, 1980-1996by Tom PaulinISBN 0571175813 (0-571-17581-3)
Hardcover, Faber
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0553277472 (0-553-27747-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values'Book summary:In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Zen Art of Motorcycleby Robert PirsigISBN 055325748X (0-553-25748-X)
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Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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