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The Advancement of Learningby Francis Bacon, G.W. KitchinISBN 046011719X (0-460-11719-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Advancement of Learning'Book summary:While he didn't exactly invent science, Francis Bacon is its best-known early promoter. The Advancement of Learning is his 1605 argument in favour of natural philosophy and inductive reasoning, and is just as vigorous and cogent today. Though using the language of Shakespeare, the book is still largely accessible to modern readers--still, a bit of classical knowledge is helpful. Shaking off the centuries-old domination of Aristotle, Bacon advocated building scientific theories on facts and observations rather than pure reason; little has changed in our approach to understanding the world since then. Of greatest interest to historians and philosophers of science, the book will also appeal to those curious about the underpinnings of today's naturalistic thinking. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Advice to Young Scientistby Peter Brian MedawarISBN 0465000924 (0-465-00092-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect New Shoesby Caroline KnappISBN 0452271215 (0-452-27121-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulationby Charles Dickens, Leonee Ormond, Marcus Stone, Samuel PalmerISBN 0460876856 (0-460-87685-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulation'Book summary:"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country.
"Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.
This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s. [via]
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Apologia Pro Vita Suaby William Oddie, John Henry NewmanISBN 046087232X (0-460-87232-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apologia Pro Vita Sua'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman" series, which has been totally re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type. The book includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, glossaries of Latin and Greek terms and a selection of criticism. Once a famous Anglican clergyman, Newman left his living in the 1840s, recanted his former criticism of the Roman Catholic Church, and entered the priesthood, becoming - ultimately - a cardinal. Framing his "Apologia" in reply to a "grave and gratuitous slander" which he felt Charles Kingsley had made against him, Newman overcame his characteristic shyness and produced one of the masterpieces of spiritual writing: honest, passionate, scrupulous and moving. [via]
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Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabiaby Tony HorwitzISBN 0452267455 (0-452-26745-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrongby Clay Davenport, Neil De Mause, James Click, Baseball Prospectus Team Of Experts, Jonah KeriISBN 0465005470 (0-465-00547-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong'Book summary:In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane, and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting, pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy.[via]More editions of Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong:
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Baseball Between the Numbers : Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrongby Jonah Keri, Nate Silver, Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts StaffISBN 0465005969 (0-465-00596-9)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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The Best of Technology Writing 2006by Brendan KoernerISBN 0472031953 (0-472-03195-3)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0486285154 (0-486-28515-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Books That Changed the Worldby Robert B. DownsISBN 0451529286 (0-451-52928-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Deanby Paul AlexanderISBN 0452278406 (0-452-27840-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Claims for Poetryby Donald HallISBN 0472063081 (0-472-06308-1)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paineby Thomas PaineISBN 0452009219 (0-452-00921-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Common Sense, the Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writingsby Thomas Paine, Sidney Hook, Jack FruchtmanISBN 0451528891 (0-451-52889-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Concerning the Spiritual in Artby Wassily KandinskyISBN 0486234118 (0-486-23411-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Cornel West Readerby Cornel WestISBN 0465091105 (0-465-09110-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cornel West Reader'Book summary:Cornel West is one of the nations premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly book or an article for Newsweek, whether he is speaking of Emerson, Gramsci, or Marvin Gaye, his work radiates a passion that reflects the rich traditions he draws on and weaves togetherÑBaptist preaching, American transcendentalism, jazz, radical politics. This anthology reveals the dazzling range of Wests work, from his explorations of Prophetic Pragmatism to his philosophizing on hip-hop.The Cornel West Reader traces the development of Wests extraordinary career as academic, public intellectual, and activist. In his essays, articles, books, and interviews, West emerges as Americas social conscience, urging attention to complicated issues of racial and economic justice, sexuality and gender, history and politics. This collection represents the best work of an always compelling, often controversial, and absolutely essential philosopher of the modern American experience.[via] -
Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmosby Jeremy BernsteinISBN 0465014496 (0-465-01449-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos'Book summary:This collection from the "Annals of Science" column in "The New Yorker" includes pieces from the last decade. Among the great scientists discussed in this volume are the cryptographer Alan Turing and the physicists Neil Bohr and Albert Einstein. [via]
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Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos: Writings on Scienceby Jeremy BernsteinISBN 046508897X (0-465-08897-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos: Writings on Science'Book summary:The celebrated New Yorker science writer talks about great scientists from Alan Turing to Primo Levi and also tells how he pioneered the much admired and imitated genre of scientific profiles. Here are some of his best pieces of the past decade, including two never before published. [via]
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Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romanticby Daniel HarrisISBN 0465028489 (0-465-02848-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic'Book summary:From his perch somewhere in Brooklyn, New York, essayist Daniel Harris launches a loquacious jeremiad against the way in which consumerism and its ideologies have insinuated themselves into our sense of self. Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic is a critical examination of the everyday things that surround us--from washing machines to vitamin supplements, reproduction antiques to supermodels. Taking aim at cuteness, quaintness, coolness, the romantic, zaniness, the futuristic, deliciousness, the natural, glamorousness, and cleanness, he seeks to expose just how tangled is the web we have woven, his goal being to show "how the aesthetics of consumerism are the lies we tell ourselves to preserve our individuality." Buying a four-by-four does not make us roughriders or adventurers, despite the names such vehicles bear. We know this as we drive our Wrangler or Jeep through the smooth streets of suburbia, yet the off-road ads still appeal. The perversity is the way in which attempts at iconoclasm are themselves domesticated into corporate opportunity: dirty denim, pick-up trucks as general vehicles, "wackiness."
Harris is not a man to mince his words. The reader sits almost breathless in the face of his vituperation. For example, discussing teenagers and coolness, he writes: "The romantic movement's cult of the child has created a foul-mouthed enfant terrible who has turned the playground into a necropolis, where prematurely aged Byronic figures stagger from the merry-go-round to the seesaw to the jungle gym, striking poses of misery and ennui, convinced that their solemnity lends them an air of sophistication and maturity."
The critique is scathing and often penetrating. Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic is a bracing read and a call to consciousness. Even the least sophisticated consumers know they are manipulated. Even the most sophisticated, Harris argues, do not really acknowledge how much they, too, are willing dupes.--J. Riches [via]
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Darwin's Wormsby Adam PhillipsISBN 046505675X (0-465-05675-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin's Worms'Book summary:Adam Phillips has been called the psychotherapist of the floating world and the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness. His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric.His new book, Darwins Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwins and Freuds lives to examine endingssuffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death. In each case, it is a death-story that uniquely illuminates the life story.[via]More editions of Darwin's Worms:
Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Storiesby Adam PhillipsISBN 0465056768 (0-465-05676-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Disturbing the Universeby Freeman J. DysonISBN 0465016774 (0-465-01677-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disturbing the Universe'Book summary:Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman, and his postgraduate work with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson has composed an autobiography unlike any other. Dyson evocatively conveys the thrill of a deep engagement with the world-be it as scientist, citizen, student, or parent. Detailing a unique career not limited to his groundbreaking work in physics, Dyson discusses his interest in minimizing loss of life in war, in disarmament, and even in thought experiments on the expansion of our frontiers into the galaxies.[via]More editions of Disturbing the Universe:
Don't Askby Philip LevineISBN 0472063278 (0-472-06327-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Dr. Kookie, You're Right!by Mike RoykoISBN 0452265150 (0-452-26515-0)
Hardcover, Plume Book
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Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms: 85 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poemsby David LehmanISBN 0472066331 (0-472-06633-1)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitters' Almanacby Elizabeth ZimmermannISBN 0486241785 (0-486-24178-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitters' Almanac'Book summary:150 page, softcover book with knitting projects for each month of the year. Sweater, shawl, socks, and MORE! [via]
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The Essential Erasmusby John P. DolanISBN 0452009723 (0-452-00972-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Essential Mcluhanby Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan, Frank ZingroneISBN 0465019951 (0-465-01995-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Mcluhan'Book summary:Given the profound influence that the writings and teachings of Marshall McLuhan have had in the Information Age, it is surprising how few people have read anything more than context-free excerpts printed in indecipherable day-glo fonts over a background guaranteed to induce vertigo. But once you actually get around to reading McLuhan's ideas about the Global Village, the history of print, and the rise of digital media, you realize that behind the hype he did indeed make many substantive and influential contributions.
Surprisingly, most of McLuhan's seminal books are still out of print (as of 1996). Luckily, this collection of articles and excerpts from his most important books is a comprehensive and accessible overview of the musings of the "Patron Saint of the Digerati". It includes substantial passages from my favorite McLuhan book The Gutenberg Galaxy (a brilliantly provocative academic treatise about the history and consequences of writing and printing), as well as many articles and interviews you wouldn't find in any of his previously published books anyway.
The main weaknesses of this volume are that it does not include excerpts from the hyper-kinetic and image-packed "The Medium is the Massage" -- his main contribution to pop culture of the late '60s -- and that the sources of each passage are noted only in an appendix. It would have been nice if sources were noted at the beginning or end of each linear text, and I hope this is addressed in future editions. Other than these minor editorial quibbles, this book is highly recommended. [via]
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Scienceby Martin GardnerISBN 0486203948 (0-486-20394-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science'Book summary:This fair and witty appraisal examines some of the crazes and quackeries that have masqueraded as science. Discussions include hollow earth theories; Charles Fort and the Fortean Society; Wilhelm Reich and orgone sex energy; dianetics; flying saucers; food and medical fads; much more. "A very able and even-tempered presentation." The New Yorker.[via]More editions of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science:
Female Tatlerby Fidelis MorganISBN 0460870742 (0-460-87074-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thoughtby Douglas HofstadterISBN 0465024750 (0-465-02475-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought'Book summary:Douglas Hofstadter, best known for his masterpiece Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, tackles the subject of artificial intelligence and machine learning in his thought-provoking work Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, written in conjunction with the Fluid Analogies Research Group at the University of Michigan. Driven to discover whether computers can be made to "think" like humans, Hofstadter and his colleagues created a variety of computer programs that extrapolate sequences, apply pattern-matching strategies, make analogies, and even act "creative." As always, Hofstadter's work requires devotion on the part of the reader, but rewards him with fascinating insights into the nature of both human and machine intelligence. [via]
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Frontiers: New Discoveries About Man and His Planet, Outer Space and the Universeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0452266343 (0-452-26634-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Great Speechesby Abraham LincolnISBN 0486268721 (0-486-26872-1)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.[via]More editions of The Heart of Darkness:
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Featuring a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, the author's two best-known stories tell of encounters with moral depravity in the wilds of the Congo and second selves on a voyage into the Gulf of Siam. Reprint." [via]
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Heart of Thoreau's Journalsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0486207412 (0-486-20741-2)
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How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Zby Ann MarloweISBN 0465031501 (0-465-03150-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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How to Writeby Gertrude SteinISBN 0486231445 (0-486-23144-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Interpretation of Dreamsby Sigmund FreudISBN 046503411X (0-465-03411-X)
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Jackie under My Skin : Interpreting an Iconby Wayne KoestenbaumISBN 0452276497 (0-452-27649-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Jonathan Swiftby Michael BruceISBN 0460879456 (0-460-87945-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Swift'Book summary:Vigour, wit and satirical inventiveness chracterise Swift's verses, which are among the most powerful of the 18th century. [via]
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Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen Kingby Tim Underwood, Chuck MillerISBN 0452258758 (0-452-25875-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Languageby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0465086454 (0-465-08645-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language'Book summary:In the fall of 1537, a child was confined to bed for some time. The French poet Clément Marot wrote her a get-well poem, 28 lines long, each line a scant three syllables. In the mid-1980s, the outrageously gifted Douglas R. Hofstadter--il miglior fabbro of Godel, Escher, Bach--first attempted to translate this "sweet, old, small elegant French poem into English." He was later to challenge friends, relations, and colleagues to do the same. The results were exceptional, and are now contained in Le Ton Beau De Marot, a sunny exploration of scholarly and linguistic play and love's infinity. Less sunny, however, is the tragedy that hangs over Hofstadter's book, the sudden death of his wife, Carol, from a brain tumor. (Her translation is among the book's finest.)
Marot's poem, in Hofstadter's initial translation (he is to compose many more), begins: "My sweet, / I bid you / A good day; / The stay / Is prison. / Health / Recover, / Then open / Your door ... "--a slim frame on which to hang 600 or so pages of text. But the book is far more than a compendium of translators' triumphs (with the occasional misstep). Most of the renderings are original and lively, some lovely, though Hofstadter often feels compelled to improve them. He lightly laments that Bill Cavnar's rendering, "though superb along so many dimensions at once, still seems to lack a bit of that intangible verbal sparkle that I associate with the deepest Maroticity."
Hofstadter's talents lie in linking his intoxication, erudition, and vision with humor, autobiography, and free association. His book takes on "rigidists," asks questions like, "Is plagiarism potentially creative?" and strives to define linguistic soul. Along the way, it accords the same level of respect to the seemingly trivial: sex jokes, Texas jokes, The Seven Year Itch, and the puzzle of how someone you love can hate a food that you adore. Throughout there is pun, ingenuity, and above all, love for language--which can compress distance and, through constraint, lead to freedom. [via]
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Peter Davison, Billy Collins, Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0451529731 (0-451-52973-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
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Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion/Essays/1964-1999by Martin DubermanISBN 0465017444 (0-465-01744-4)
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Letters for Literary Ladiesby Maria EdgeworthISBN 0460872508 (0-460-87250-8)
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Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Placeby John Meade HainesISBN 0472063332 (0-472-06333-2)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De Rerun Naturaby Hugh De Quehen, Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucy Apsley HutchinsonISBN 047210778X (0-472-10778-X)
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A Mary Wollstonecraft Readerby Solomon, Barbara H. and Berggren, Paula S., Paula S. BerggrenISBN 0451621956 (0-451-62195-6)
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Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanismaby Ana CastilloISBN 0452274249 (0-452-27424-9)
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Metaphysician in the Darkby Charles SimicISBN 047206830X (0-472-06830-X)
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The Michael Eric Dyson Readerby Michael Eric DysonISBN 0465017711 (0-465-01771-1)
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On SFby Thomas M. DischISBN 0472068962 (0-472-06896-2)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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"One of the most remarkably talented writers around."
---Washington Post Book World
"[Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene."
---Fantasy and Science Fiction
This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight Zone.
Disch's perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel, and often incendiary. The volume's opening essay, for example, characterizes writers of science fiction as "the provincials of literature." Other essays explore science fiction's roots-Poe, Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Vonnegut-as well as modern practitioners such as Stephen King, Philip Dick, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and William Gibson.
Disch entertains and provokes with essays on UFOs, Science Fiction as a Church, and Newt Gingrich's Futurist Brain Trust. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Madame Blavatsky also get the Disch treatment. Throughout, the writing is lively, agile, and irreverent, exhibiting an incisive honesty that is undiluted by Disch's own attachments as a sci-fi practitioner. On SF will appeal equally to lovers of science fiction and connoisseurs of the finest critical prose.-
Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar Wilde, Anthony FothergillISBN 0460876554 (0-460-87655-4)
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Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the Worldby Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant VoigtISBN 0472066218 (0-472-06621-8)
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Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poemsby Gregory OrrISBN 0472065254 (0-472-06525-4)
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Selected Proseby John Ashbery, Eugene RichieISBN 0472031392 (0-472-03139-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Prose'Book summary:"By the end of the book, Ashbery has laid out not only a course in contemporary poetics but a portrait of the artist teaching himself to become a thoroughly Modernist poet---in small bites, easy to savor, easy to digest."[via]
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"This is a marvelous book by one of our greatest poets. Reading John Ashbery's Selected Prose is like listening to a brilliant talker who not only keeps us entertained and laughing, but who also has wise things to say about all sorts of interesting subjects."
---Charles Simic
"At last! Many of the fugitive pieces collected in this volume---on Gertude Stein, on Frank O'Hara, on Marianne Moore or Adrienne Rich---published as many of them were in out-of-the way places, have already become collectors' items, providing fascinating---and often startling--- assessments of their subjects as well as new insight into Ashbery himself. Now here they are between two covers, along with many hitherto unknown pieces on subjects ranging from Michel Butor to Mary Butts, Jane Freilicher to Mark Ford. For anyone who cares about the contemporary poetry/art scene, this is an indispensable collection."
---Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
Selected Prose contains a broad selection of texts by internationally acclaimed poet and critic John Ashbery. This third collection of Ashbery's critical writings dramatically expands the terrain covered by the first two, Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-1987 and Other Traditions (first presented as the Norton Lectures at Harvard). These essays on writers, artists, filmmakers and the life of a poet provide insight into Ashbery's evolution as one of the major poets in English. Ashbery's criticism is as essential to the cultural history of the twentieth century as was that of T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. His unique sensibility has had a profound impact on the literature and arts of our time, and his influence is certain to be felt for decades to come. Editor Eugene Richie's introduction provides a meaningful context for fifty years' worth of critical and creative prose by one of America's finest poets. -
Self-Helpby Lorrie MooreISBN 0452258219 (0-452-25821-9)
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The Seven Lamps of Architectureby J. RuskinISBN 048626145X (0-486-26145-X)
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The Spectatorby Joseph AddisonISBN 0460001647 (0-460-00164-7)
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States of Desire: Travels in Gay Americaby Edmund WhiteISBN 0452266890 (0-452-26689-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Tale of a Tub, and Other Satiresby Jonathan Swift, Kathleen WilliamsISBN 0460103474 (0-460-10347-4)
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, Robert LangbaumISBN 0451527127 (0-451-52712-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
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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Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Backby Jim HightowerISBN 0452285658 (0-452-28565-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back'Book summary:Author, populist, and radio commentator Jim Hightower is nothing if not direct. In Thieves in High Places, Hightower lambastes the current American power structure and exhorts his readers to fight against it. Hightower's indignation runs deep in this "us versus them" exposé of corporate malfeasance, governmental abuse, the militarization of American society, and the Bush administration's empire building. In the first part of the book, Hightower illustrates how the Bush administration and Congress work with major corporations (including our nation's vast media conglomerates) to add to their obscene wealth at the expense of America's working class, our environment, and (most lamentably) our rights and liberties. "The elites have pulled off a slow-motion coup, radically wrenching America's power balance from a people's democracy to Kleptocrat Nation."
Hightower defines "Kleptocrat Nation" as "a body of people ruled by thieves...a government characterized by the practice of transferring money and power from the many to the few...[and] a ruling class of moneyed elites that usurps liberty, justice, sovereignty, and other, democratic rights from the people." His catalogue of corporate greed and governmental complicity is breathtaking in scope, and though he admits that the fusion of business and government is not new, he persuasively states that "never have so few done so much for so few." Unfortunately, Hightower's serious message is delivered in such a "down home" style, it may lose its impact on the more brainy among us. Also, one wishes there were more documentation for the copious examples and facts in the book. Still, Hightower's call to action is sincere, and his descriptions of the triumphs of average people over corporate power might give some fledgling activists some hope. Thieves in High Places urges Americans to reclaim control of our government--Hightower thinks we can with community organization and grass-roots movements. However, judging from his description of the current power structure, we are going to need all the help we can get. -- Silvana Tropea [via]More editions of Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back:
Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Musicby C. DebussyISBN 0486203204 (0-486-20320-4)
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452273404 (0-452-27340-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two or Three Things I Know for Sure'Book summary:Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.[via]
Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.
As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.More editions of Two or Three Things I Know for Sure:
The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetryby Charles SimicISBN 0472063596 (0-472-06359-6)
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The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirsby Charles SimicISBN 0472065696 (0-472-06569-6)
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Unto This Lastby John RuskinISBN 0460002163 (0-460-00216-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unto This Last'Book summary:First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers of unhindered industrialization he was strangely prophetic. This volume shows the astounding range and depth of Ruskin's work, and in an illuminating introduction the editor reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. In Ruskin's words, 'There is no Wealth but Life.' [via]
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Varieties of Religious Experiencesby William James, Peter Gomes, Jacques BarzunISBN 0451528786 (0-451-52878-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'Book summary:"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
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Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactualsby Niall FergusonISBN 0465023231 (0-465-02323-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals'Book summary:This meaty, scholarly collection of essays by gifted historian Niall Ferguson tackles the controversial topic of counterfactual questions: What if Hitler had invaded Britain in WWII? What if JFK had survived his assassination? What if there had been no Gorbachev to usher in the collapse of Communism? What if there had been no American Revolution? Ferguson points out that while questions such as these are a vital part of how we learn as individuals ("What if I had observed the speed limit, or refused that last drink?"), there remains a great deal of resistance--even hostility--to such musings among professional historians. "[I]n the dismissive phrase of E.H. Carr, 'counterfactual' history is a mere 'parlour game,' a 'red herring.'" E.P. Thompson is less charitable, calling counterfactual histories "'Geschichtswissenschlopff', unhistorical shit."
But Ferguson and his distinguished collaborators (many of whom are also Oxford fellows) lodge some convincing counterfactuals of their own to counter this arguably blinkered notion, this "idea that events are in some way preprogrammed, so that what was, had to be." In addition to the what-ifs above, Ferguson and his comrades tackle eight questions in all, including "What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War?", "What if Home Rule had been enacted [in Ireland] in 1912?", and "What if Britain had 'stood aside' in August 1914?" Virtual History makes for a stimulating and intellectually rigorous trip, with Ferguson's own delightful afterword as the collection's crowning jewel, a brilliant--and often bitingly clever--timeline tying together all the threads from 1646 to 1996. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Raceby Beverly Daniel TatumISBN 0465083617 (0-465-08361-7)
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The Wilderness Readerby Frank BergonISBN 0451619021 (0-451-61902-1)
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Wit and Humor of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0486206025 (0-486-20602-5)
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Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocationby William Edgar StaffordISBN 0472873008 (0-472-87300-8)
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