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The Adversaryby Julian MayISBN 0395344107 (0-395-34410-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adversary'Book summary:[via]The fourth and culminating volume in Julian May's dazzling quartet of science-fiction novels brings to a climax the struggle for the Many-Colored Landthe Earth six million years agoand completes the series that has become an international best-seller and multiple award nominee.
Human time-travelers from the sophisticated Galactic Milieu of the twenty-second century came to the Pliocene Epoch seeking a Garden of Eden. What they found was slavery under the knightly Tanu race, who had been exiled to Earth from a far galaxy. Freed by the usurper Aiken Drum, the humans enjoy a brief period of dominance. But now King Aiken's rule is threatened by the dwarfish Firvulag, who scheme to destroy both humans and Tanu in the nightfall War, a ritual Gotterdammerung that had been postponed when Tanu and Firvulag were banished to Pliocene Earth. This menace becomes almost incidental when Aiken discovers that his realm is about to be invaded by another human who possesses metapsychic powers even greater than Aiken's own. He is Marc Remillard, the Adversary, instigator of the Metapsychic Rebellion, who nearly conquered the Milieu, and then fled through the time-gate after his defeat. Marc and his surviving followers come against Aiken when it seems that a new time-gate is about to be builtone that will provide a two-way portal between the Many-Colored Land and the future world of the Milieu.The Adversary, like its predecessors (The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Tore, and The Nonborn King), combines science and fantastic imagery with rousing adventure, humor, and an optimistic view of the human character as it contends against mental and physical perils.
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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earthby James LovelockISBN 0393312399 (0-393-31239-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth'Book summary:Lovelock elaborates on his startling theory of life proposed in 1979 called Gaia. Much scientific work has confirmed Lovelock's theory that Earth is a single organism controlling its own environment, its life sustained by life. Drawings. [via]
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Alias Graceby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385490445 (0-385-49044-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alias Grace'Book summary:In the astonishing new novel by the author of the bestsellers The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum, Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders.
Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story, from her family's difficult passage out of Ireland into Canada, to her time as a maid in Thomas Kinnear's household. As he brings Grace closer and closer to the day she cannot remember, he hears of the turbulent relationship between Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, and of the alarming behavior of Grace's fellow servant, James McDermott. Jordan is drawn to Grace, but he is also baffled by her. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend, a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she a victim of circumstances?
Alias Grace is a beautifully crafted work of the imagination that reclaims a profoundly mysterious and disturbing story from the past century. With compassion, an unsentimental lyricism, and her customary narrative virtuosity, Margaret Atwood mines the often convoluted relationships between men and women, and between the affluent and those without position. The result is her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale--in short, vintage Atwood. [via] -
Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0395796776 (0-395-79677-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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The Cat Who Walks Through Wallsby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399131035 (0-399-13103-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls'Book summary:Framed for murder, married to the exquisite Gwen Novak, fleeing for his life in the Wild West free enterprise zones of the moon, Colonel Colin Campbell (23rd century writer, traveller and bon viveur) is pursued by mysterious forces. Heinlein is also the author of "Stranger in a Strange Land". [via]
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The Cat Who Walks through Walls: A Comedy of Mannersby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399131167 (0-399-13116-7)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Cat's Eyeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491026 (0-385-49102-6)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Eye'Book summary:Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. [via]
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Chapterhouse Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0399130276 (0-399-13027-6)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapterhouse Dune'Book summary:The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.Here is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death. A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever... [via]
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Children of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0399116974 (0-399-11697-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of Dune'Book summary:[via]The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions--but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens...More editions of Children of Dune:
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The Computer Connectionby Alfred BesterISBN 0399114815 (0-399-11481-5)
Hardcover
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Computer Connection'Book summary:A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess, with the group's help, gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They plan to rid Earth of political repression and to further Guess's researches-which may lead to a great leap in human evolution to produce a race of supermen. But Extro takes over Guess instead and turns malevolent. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for the future of Earth. [via]
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The Cycles of American Historyby Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0395957931 (0-395-95793-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cycles of American History'Book summary:Schlesinger traces the cyclical rhythms of American politics, observing how the values of one generation influence future public policies and the electorate. [via]
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The Cycles of American Historyby Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.ISBN 0395378877 (0-395-37887-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Damiaby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0399136487 (0-399-13648-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damia'Book summary:In the sequel to The Rowan, Damia and Afra must find a way to save their planet when Deneb's early-warning system detects an incoming alien armada. 100,000 first printing. $90,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Damia's Childrenby Anne McCaffreyISBN 039913817X (0-399-13817-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damia's Children'Book summary:Although damia had used her inherited psychic talent to deflect most of the alien invasion on the human worlds, she did not exterminate the enemies, leaving her children to confront the danger in an intense final battle of powers. 100,000 first printing. $80,000 ad/promo [via]
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Dancing Girlsby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491093 (0-385-49109-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing Girls'Book summary:This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses, or even different worlds. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition--and dramatically demonstrate why Margaret Atwood is one of the most important writers in English today. [via]
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Changeby Victor PapanekISBN 0394470362 (0-394-47036-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change'Book summary:Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivolous, the useless product, once again providing a blueprint for sensible, responsible design in this world which is deficient in resources and energy. [via]
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Dream-Weaverby Louise LawrenceISBN 0395928648 (0-395-92864-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dream-Weaver'Book summary:An intricately woven and brilliantly conceived novel dealing with the confrontation between gentle, nature-loving psychics of the planet Arbroth of another solar system and the technically superior invaders from Earth en route to colonize Arbroth.[via] -
The Edible Womanby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491069 (0-385-49106-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edible Woman'Book summary:Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten. Marian ought to feel consumed with passion, but she really just feels...consumed. A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor, The Edible Woman is an unforgettable masterpiece by a true master of contemporary literary fiction. [via]
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The Emerging Order: God in the Age of Scarcityby Jeremy Rifkin, Ted HowardISBN 0399123199 (0-399-12319-9)
Hardcover, Putnam
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The Essential Gandhiby Louis Fischer, Mahatma GandhiISBN 0394714660 (0-394-71466-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Gandhi'Book summary:Gandhi's thoughts on such topics as civil disobedience, non-violence,liberty, socialism and communism, and how to enjoy jail. [via]
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Essential Gandhiby M.K. GandhiISBN 0394702255 (0-394-70225-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489318 (0-395-48931-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth -- home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis -- a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms. [via]
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Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fellowship of the Ring: ISBN 039564738X (0-395-64738-X)
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, J. Paul Hunter, Paul J. HunterISBN 0393964582 (0-393-96458-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Victor Frankenstein learns the secret of producing life, and so, by putting together parts of various corpses, he creates the Frankenstein monster. The monster is huge and disformed, but he means no harm to anyone--until constant ill treatment drives him to murder and revenge. This easy-to-read version of Mary Shelley's long-standing masterpiece easily captures the sadness and horror of the original. [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0385487320 (0-385-48732-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Freedom's Challengeby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0399143971 (0-399-14397-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Challenge'Book summary:Deportees from many worlds, the colonists of Freedom's Landing have made a new home for themselves on the planet where they were abandoned. Now they have the technology they need to go back to war with the deadly Eosi--with a surprise strike at enslaved planet Earth itself! Kris Bjornson has come a long way since the day alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others. Dropped on an apparently uninhabited world with the rest, she has fallen in love with Zainal, a renegade Cattani, and has worked for years to make this fertile planet, Botany, into a home. Now she has a house of sorts, a child she adores, and a respected place in the community. But she still feels a soldier's duty to escape and rejoin the struggle. The Eosi overlords have tight control of many worlds; as they continue to drop their captives on Botany, however, the original colonists learn that there are freedom fighters on every captured world. There are rebels even among the warlike Cattani, and Earth is full of pockets of resistance. Now that the settlers on Botany are well-fed, and have technology stolen from visiting Cattani warships, they might be able to help. The trip to Earth will be heartbreaking, they realize. All of Earth's major cities are in ruins. Humans with technical ability have been enslaved, or mind-wiped. Crops and animals have been herded into spaceships for the use of alien overlords, while Earth's people starve. But the colonists of Botany can load their stolen ship with grain and supplies to help the resistance fighters. Most important, they can bring hope: it is possible to fight back against the Eosi and their Cattani enforcers. Earth can again be free! [via]
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Freedom's Choiceby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0399142703 (0-399-14270-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Choice'Book summary:A group of slaves, brought to an uninhabited planet by their catenni masters, who have taken over earth, must learn to survive in their new surroundings, but some struggle with calling their new planet home and consider a rebellion in order to return to their true home [via]
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Freedom's Landingby Anne McCaffreyISBN 039914062X (0-399-14062-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated With a New Chapterby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0385413726 (0-385-41372-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated With a New Chapter'Book summary:Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called "a sparkling intellectual guidebook... an engrossing journey not to be missed." Now with a new chapter that brings the ever-changing history of the conflict in the Middle East up to date, this seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." -- Seymour Hersh. "From Beirut To Jerusalem is the most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read." -- New York Times Book Review. [via]
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The Future of Freedomby Fareed ZakariaISBN 0393324877 (0-393-32487-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Freedom'Book summary:A work of tremendous originality and insight. ... Makes you see the world differently. Washington Post
A modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essential reading for anyone worried about the promotion and preservation of liberty." Hailed by the New York Times as "brave and ambitious...updated Tocqueville," it enjoyed extended stays on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller lists and has been translated into eighteen languages. Prescient in laying out the distinction between democracy and liberty, the book now contains a new afterword on the United States's occupation of Iraq."Intensely provocative and valuable," according to BusinessWeek, with an easy command of history, philosophy, and current affairs, The Future of Freedom calls for a restoration of the balance between liberty and democracy and shows how politics and government can be made effective and relevant for our time.
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The Future of Manby Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Teilhard Pierre De Chardin, Norman DennyISBN 0385510721 (0-385-51072-1)
Softcover, Image Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Man'Book summary:The Future of Man is a magnificent introduction to the thoughts and writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, one of the few figures in the history of the Catholic Church to achieve renown as both a scientist and a theologian. Trained as a paleontologist and ordained as a Jesuit priest, Teilhard de Chardin devoted himself to establishing the intimate, interdependent connection between scienceparticularly the theory of evolutionand the basic tenets of the Christian faith. At the center of his philosophy was the belief that the human species is evolving spiritually, progressing from a simple faith to higher and higher forms of consciousness, including a consciousness of God, and culminating in the ultimate understanding of humankinds place and purpose in the universe. The Church, which would not condone his philosophical writings, refused to allow their publication during his lifetime. Written over a period of thirty years and presented here in chronological order, the essays cover the wide-ranging interests and inquiries that engaged Teilhard de Chardin throughout his life: intellectual and social evolution; the coming of ultra-humanity; the integral place of faith in God in the advancement of science; and the impact of scientific discoveries on traditional religious dogma. Less formal than The Phenomenon of Man and The Divine Milieu, Teilhard de Chardins most renowned works, The Future of Man offers a complete, fully accessible look at the genesis of ideas that continue to reverberate in both the scientific and the religious communities.
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The Futurists.by Toffler, Alvin, CompISBN 0394317130 (0-394-31713-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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God Emperor of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0399125930 (0-399-12593-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Emperor of Dune'Book summary:More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall ... [via]
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The Golden Torcby Julian MayISBN 0395312612 (0-395-31261-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Torc'Book summary:Exiled beyond the time-portal into the world of six million years ago, the misfits of the 22nd century are enmeshed in the age-old war of two alien races. In this strange world, each year brings the ritual combat between the Firvulag and the Tanu. This is the sequel to "The Many-Coloured Land". [via]
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Heretics Of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0399128980 (0-399-12898-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics Of Dune'Book summary:With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love... [via]
How Real Is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, Communicationby Paul WatzlawickISBN 0394722566 (0-394-72256-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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If the Universe Is Teeming With Aliens...Where Is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Lifeby Stephen WebbISBN 0387955011 (0-387-95501-1)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If the Universe Is Teeming With Aliens...Where Is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life'Book summary:In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations must be present. But one of the four, Enrico Fermi, asked, "If these civilizations do exist, where is everybody?" Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 million stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 million galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14 billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. Webb discusses in detail the 50 most cogent and intriguing solutions to Fermi's famous paradox. [via]
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Interventionby Julian MayISBN 0395437822 (0-395-43782-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Just a Dreamby Chris Van AllsburgISBN 0395533082 (0-395-53308-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just a Dream'Book summary:Young Walter litters and refuses to sort trash for recycling, until he dreams of an overcrowded and polluted future which terrifies him into taking care of the earth.[via]More editions of Just a Dream:
Killobyteby Piers AnthonyISBN 0399137815 (0-399-13781-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 0385660073 (0-385-66007-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner'Book summary:The "kite runner" of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir as a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward [via]
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The Last Immortalby J.O. JeppsonISBN 0395289491 (0-395-28949-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Lyon's Prideby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0399139079 (0-399-13907-9)
Hardcover, Ace Books
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaperby John Allen PaulosISBN 038548254X (0-385-48254-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Messengerby Lois LowryISBN 0385732538 (0-385-73253-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Messenger'Book summary:Lois Lowrys Messenger continues the quartet beginning with the quintessential dystopian novel, The Giver, and Gathering Blue, followed by Son.
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For the past six years, Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man, known for his special sight. Village was a place that welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself.More editions of Messenger:
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Millennium: A Novel about People and Politics in the Year 1999by Ben BovaISBN 0394494210 (0-394-49421-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Millennium: A Novel about People and Politics in the Year 1999'Book summary:The second book of "The Kinsman Saga", which also includes "Kinsman" and "Colony". The story of a man driven to create the future, and forced to save two worlds from the death throes of the millennium. Other science fiction titles by the author include "Orion" and "Voyagers". [via]
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Motel of the Mysteriesby David MacaulayISBN 0395284252 (0-395-28425-2)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Motel of the Mysteries'Book summary:It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.[via]More editions of Motel of the Mysteries:
O-Zoneby Paul TherouxISBN 0399131868 (0-399-13186-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Other Side of Tomorrowby Roger Elwood, Herbert DanskaISBN 0394824687 (0-394-82468-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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Out Of Gas: The End Of The Age Of Oilby David GoodsteinISBN 0393326470 (0-393-32647-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out Of Gas: The End Of The Age Of Oil'Book summary:Science tells us that an oil crisis is inevitable. Why and when? And what will our future look like without our favorite fuel?
Our rate of oil discovery has reached its peak and will never be exceeded; rather, it is certain to declineperhaps rapidlyforever forward. Meanwhile, over the past century, we have developed lifestyles firmly rooted in the promise of an endless, cheap supply. In this book, David Goodstein, professor of physics at Caltech, explains the underlying scientific principles of the inevitable fossil fuel shortage we face. He outlines the drastic effects a fossil fuel shortage will bring down on us. And he shows that there is an important silver lining to the need to switch to other sources of energy, for when we have burned up all the available oil, the earth's climate will have moved toward a truly life-threatening state.
With its easy-to-grasp explanations of the science behind every aspect of our most urgent environmental policy decisions, Out of Gas is a handbook for the future of civilization. Charts, graphs, photographs. [via]
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The Pesthouseby Jim CraceISBN 0385520751 (0-385-52075-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrectionby Frank J. TiplerISBN 0385467990 (0-385-46799-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pixel Juiceby Jeff NoonISBN 0385408595 (0-385-40859-5)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pixel Juice'Book summary:A selection of 50 stories from Jeff Noon's imagination, each one strange, telling, disturbing or just weird. From the breakdown zones of the mediasphere and the margins of dance culture, Noon samples the image mix. Subjects include product recalls, adverts for mad gadgets, and urban fairytales. [via]
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The Return of the Kingby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 039548930X (0-395-48930-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the King'Book summary:In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins. [via]
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Robber Brideby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491034 (0-385-49103-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robber Bride'Book summary:Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Charis, and Roz. All three "have lost men, spirit, money, and time to their old college acquaintance, Zenia. At various times, and in various emotional disguises, Zenia has insinuated her way into their lives and practically demolished them. To Tony, who almost lost her husband and jeopardized her academic career, Zenia is 'a lurking enemy commando.' To Roz, who did lose her husband and almost her magazine, Zenia is 'a cold and treacherous bitch.' To Charis, who lost a boyfriend, quarts of vegetable juice and some pet chickens, Zenia is a kind of zombie, maybe 'soulless'" (Lorrie Moore, New York Times Book Review). In love and war, illusion and deceit, Zenia's subterranean malevolence takes us deep into her enemies' pasts. [via]
The Robot and Rebeccaby Jane Yolen, Jurg ObristISBN 0394844882 (0-394-84488-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Rowanby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0399135707 (0-399-13570-7)
Hardcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rowan'Book summary:Trapped under tons of mud following a huge mud slide, a three-year-old girl screams out telepathically for help. Every resource on her planet is used in her rescue mission, for she is no ordinary girl, but a Prime, and possessor of one of the most powerful minds in the Nine Star League. [via]
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Ageby Duncan J. WattsISBN 0393325423 (0-393-32542-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age'Book summary:You may be only six degrees away from Kevin Bacon, but would he let you borrow his car? It depends on the structures within the network that links you. When the power goes out, when we find that a stranger knows someone we know, when dot-com stocks soar in price, networks are evident. In Six Degrees, sociologist Duncan Watts examines networks like these: what they are, how they're being studied, and what we can use them for. To illustrate the often complicated mathematics that describe such structures, Watts uses plenty of examples from life, without which this book would quickly move beyond a general science readership. Small chapters make each thought-provoking conclusion easy to swallow, though some are hard to digest. For instance, in a short bit on "coercive externalities," Watts sums up sociological research showing that:
"Conversations concerning politics displayed a consistent pattern .... On election day, the strongest predictor of electoral success was not which party an individual privately supported but which party he or she expected would win."
Six Degrees attempts to help readers understand the new and exciting field of networks and complexity. While considerably more demanding than a general book like The Tipping Point, it offers readers a snapshot of a riveting moment in science, when understanding things like disease epidemics and the stock market seems almost within our reach. --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age:
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Slapstickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385334230 (0-385-33423-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slapstick'Book summary:Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, centenarian, the last President of the United States, King of Manhattan, and one-half (along with his sister, Eliza) of the most powerful intelligence since Einstein, is penning his autobiography. He occupies the first floor of a ruined Empire State Building and lives like a royal scavenger with his illiterate granddaughter and her beau. Buffeted by fluctuating gravity, the U.S. has been scourged by not one, but two lethal diseases: the Green Death and the Albanian Flu. Consequently, the country has fallen into civil war. (Super-intelligent, miniaturized Chinese watch the West self-destruct from the sidelines.) Swain stayed at the White House until there were no citizens left to govern, then moved to deserted New York City, where he writes a thoughtful missive before death.
In Slapstick, Vonnegut muses on war, man's hubris, and the awful, crippling loneliness humans are freighted with--but, miraculously, the book still manages to delight and amuse. Absurd, knowing, never depressing, Slapstick kindles hope--for the possibility of wisdom, perhaps; for human resiliency, surely.
It's best to end with a quote from the prologue wherein the author discourses on The Meaning of It All, or at least This Book: "Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go off looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please--a little less love, and a little more common decency.'"
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State of the World 2000by Lester BrownISBN 0393319989 (0-393-31998-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'State of the World 2000'Book summary:State of the World 2000 provides national leaders and concerned citizens with a comprehensive framework for the global debate about our future in the new century. This annual survey by the award-winning Worldwatch Institute has become an invaluable analysis of negative environmental trends and a guide to emerging solutions.
The book shows how our current fossil-fueled auto-centered, throwaway economy is steadily destroying the very ecosystems that form the foundations of our lives. The great challenge we face in the next century is making the transition to a sustainable economy that reuses and recycles materials is powered by renewable energy sources and has a stable population The authors argue that meeting this challenge will offer some of the greatest investment opportunities in history.
Written in clear and concise language with easy-to-read charts and tables, State of the World 2000 presents a view of our changing world that we, and our leaders cannot afford to ignore. [via]
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Surfacingby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491050 (0-385-49105-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surfacing'Book summary:Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole. [via]
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Tekwarby William ShatnerISBN 0399134956 (0-399-13495-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Third Millenium: A History of the World A. D. 2000-3000by David Langford, Brian M. StablefordISBN 039474151X (0-394-74151-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Thriving on Chaos : Handbook for a Management Revolutionby Tom PetersISBN 0394567846 (0-394-56784-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thriving on Chaos : Handbook for a Management Revolution'Book summary:The co-author of In Search of Excellence and A Passion for Excellence now gives readers a program of 50 specific courses of action essential to corporate survival in today's (and tomorrow's) turbulent economic/political world. Line drawings. [via]
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Time Enough for Loveby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399111514 (0-399-11151-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489334 (0-395-48933-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Until the Sun Diesby Robert JastrowISBN 0393064158 (0-393-06415-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The View from Serendipby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0394417968 (0-394-41796-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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Vital Signs 1999: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Futureby Michael Renner, Linda Starke, Janet N. Abramovitz, Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute, Lester Russell BrownISBN 0393318931 (0-393-31893-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Vital Signs 2006-2007: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Futureby Worldwatch InstituteISBN 0393328724 (0-393-32872-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Woman on the Edge of Timeby Marge PiercyISBN 0394499867 (0-394-49986-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog?by Theo Lesieg, Roy McKieISBN 0394831284 (0-394-83128-4)
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