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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, David BevingtonISBN 052161287X (0-521-61287-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Richard Madelaine explains how the challenging complexity of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the past twenty years. His introduction and commentary, presented alongside the New Cambridge edition of the text, provide the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare. [via]
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- Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0521629047 (0-521-62904-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0553212893 (0-553-21289-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0582527430 (0-582-52743-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0521848334 (0-521-84833-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0521094690 (0-521-09469-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 052161287X (0-521-61287-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
- Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0521629047 (0-521-62904-7)
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Antony and Cleopatraby David BevingtonISBN 0521272505 (0-521-27250-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:In this edition of the play David Bevington shows how the theatrical design and imaginative vision of Antony and Cleopatra make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. A substantial critical introduction synthesises the best criticism of the play and presents a fresh consideration of its erotic and political complexities. The edition is throughout attentive to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeare's shaping of his source material in Plutarch's Lives. [via]
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Antony and Cleopatraby Mary Berry, Michael ClampISBN 0521445841 (0-521-44584-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Antony and Cleopatra has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed. [via]
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Arcadioby William GoyenISBN 0525481303 (0-525-48130-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Australia Reshaped : 200 Years of Institutional Transformationby Francis G. Castles, Geoffrey BrennanISBN 0521520754 (0-521-52075-4)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 055321330X (0-553-21330-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening , Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. [via]
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Bastard Out of Carolinaby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0525934251 (0-525-93425-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bastard Out of Carolina'Book summary:Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright familyrough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furiousuntil their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back. [via]
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Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Cultureby Daniel BoyarinISBN 0520203364 (0-520-20336-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Cloud Nineby Caryl ChurchillISBN 0573618747 (0-573-61874-7)
Hardcover, Samuel French Trade
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Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Communityby Faye D. GinsburgISBN 0520217357 (0-520-21735-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Conundrumby Jan MorrisISBN 0571103375 (0-571-10337-5)
Hardcover, Faber
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Cosmic Coincidences: Dark Matter, Mankind and Anthropic Cosmologyby John Gribbin, Martin ReesISBN 0553057308 (0-553-05730-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmic Coincidences: Dark Matter, Mankind and Anthropic Cosmology'Book summary:What happened "in the beginning", 15 billion years ago? Is the universe only one of its kind or are there others? Is it just a coincidence that life evolved on Earth? This book explores the chain of cosmic events that led to intelligent life on Earth. Scientists cannot explain the distribution of galaxies, and the voids between them, without concluding that at least 90% of the universe consists of so-called "dark matter". The authors here aim to provide a readable account of the leading theories and latest advances in understanding the nature of dark matter, the controlling force in the dynamics structure and the eventual fate of the universe. John Gribbin's previous books include "The Hole in the Sky" and "Hothouse Earth". [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Barry Moser, Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0520201795 (0-520-20179-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'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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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0521587026 (0-521-58702-6)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0553212478 (0-553-21247-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Frankenstein: ISBN 0582426987 (0-582-42698-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Frankenstein: ISBN 0590486179 (0-590-48617-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Frankenstein: ISBN 0520201795 (0-520-20179-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
- Frankenstein: ISBN 0521587026 (0-521-58702-6)
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Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Barry MoserISBN 0520089421 (0-520-08942-1)
Softcover, Texas Bookman
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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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Frankenstein, Stage 3by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Turvey, Per DahlbergISBN 0582541549 (0-582-54154-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipationby Amy Dru StanleyISBN 0521635268 (0-521-63526-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Bondage to Contract : Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation'Book summary:This book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections between abolition in the South and industrial capitalism in the North and linking labor relations to home life. Integrating the fields of gender and legal, intellectual and social history, it reveals how abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, laborers, lawmakers and others drew on contract to condemn chattel slavery and to measure the virtues of free society. [via]
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- From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation: ISBN 0521414709 (0-521-41470-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - From Bondage to Contract : Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation: ISBN 0521635268 (0-521-63526-8)
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Geishaby Liza Crihfield DalbyISBN 0520204956 (0-520-20495-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geisha'Book summary:In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district, trailing behind "older sisters" bemused by this long-legged Westerner intent on learning their arts and customs. In Geisha, this observant ethnographer paints an intoxicating picture of the "flower and willow world" to which she gained entry. "Why are you studying geisha?" asks one slightly belligerent older sister. "Geisha are no different from anybody else." Not quite, says Dalby dryly, pointing out that geisha and wives play utterly divergent, though complementary, roles in traditional Japanese society. "Geisha are supposed to be sexy where wives are sober, artistic where wives are humdrum, and witty where wives are serious." While hardly feminists, they reap freedoms unknown to other women. Dalby illustrates broader cultural differences, too, with a million tiny details about boisterous customers, how many hundred-weight of tabi (split-toed socks) geishas go through, what defines iki (chic), why maiko (young apprentices) are drawn to the life, and what geisha wear, from the skin out. Acknowledging that her growing personal stake in the masquerade prevented objectivity, Dalby frees the reader to enjoy a fluid and fascinating look at one aspect of Japanese culture. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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Gender Basics: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Menby Anne MinasISBN 0534528392 (0-534-52839-2)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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A History of Women in Americaby Carol Hymowitz, Michaele WeissmanISBN 0553269143 (0-553-26914-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0553212087 (0-553-21208-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Howards End [Paperback] E.M. Forster (Author) [via]
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The Innocence of the Devilby Nawal Sadawi, Sherif HetataISBN 0520216520 (0-520-21652-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Invention of Heterosexualityby Jonathan Ned KatzISBN 0525938451 (0-525-93845-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feelingby Arlie Russell HochschildISBN 0520239334 (0-520-23933-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling'Book summary:In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotional work," just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commercial purposes? Hochschild examines the cost of this kind of "emotional labor." She vividly describes from a humanist and feminist perspective the process of estrangement from personal feelings and its role as an "occupational hazard" for one-third of America's workforce.[via]More editions of The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling:
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 0553213288 (0-553-21328-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Formby Marina WarnerISBN 0520227336 (0-520-22733-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form'Book summary:Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.[via]More editions of Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form:
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identityby Sarah Banet-WeiserISBN 0520217918 (0-520-21791-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of Indiaby Serena NandaISBN 0534509037 (0-534-50903-7)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Othelloby William Shakespeare, Scott McMillinISBN 0521535174 (0-521-53517-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:This new edition of Othello is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of Othello, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour section and an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters, performance, history and language. [via]
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- Othello: ISBN 0521618762 (0-521-61876-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Othello: ISBN 0553213024 (0-553-21302-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Othello: ISBN 0582097193 (0-582-09719-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Othello: ISBN 0582527481 (0-582-52748-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Othello: ISBN 0521395763 (0-521-39576-3)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press - Othello: ISBN 0521094925 (0-521-09492-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge U.P. - Othello: ISBN 0521223393 (0-521-22339-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Othello: ISBN 0521535174 (0-521-53517-4)
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- Othello: ISBN 0521618762 (0-521-61876-2)
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Othelloby Norman SandersISBN 0521294541 (0-521-29454-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. However, his ensign Iago harbours an obscure hatred against his general, and when Othello secretly marries the beautiful daughter of the Venetian senator Brabanzio, Iago begins his subtle campaign of vilification which will inevitably lead to the deaths of more than just Othello and Desdemona.
An extraordinary play, both for its dramatic economy and power as well as its remarkable language, from Othello's bombastic "traveller's history" to Desdemona's elegiac "willow song", the play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing problems of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. Particularly fascinated with the question of what it means to "see", Othello also contains one of the greatest tragic death scenes in all of Shakespeare, with Othello's final identification with "a malignant and a turbaned Turk". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japanby Anne AllisonISBN 0520219902 (0-520-21990-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Pornography: Men Possessing Womenby Andrea DworkinISBN 0525485171 (0-525-48517-1)
Hardcover, E.P. Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pornography: Men Possessing Women'Book summary:This volume presents a study of the damaging effect of pornography and its ramifications on society. [via]
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0553211277 (0-553-21127-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:Isabel Archer is an independent, intelligent young woman without much money. When her father dies, her rich aunt takes her to Europe, where Isabel has to make important decisions about money, love and happiness. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
The Privilege of the Swordby Ellen KushnerISBN 0553382683 (0-553-38268-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Privilege of the Sword'Book summary:Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's host and uncle, Alec Campion, aka the Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge hereand to him, rules are made to be broken. When Alec decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage, her world changes forever. Blade in hand, it's up to Katherine to navigate a maze of secrets and scoundrels and to gain the self-discovery that comes to those who master: the privilege of the sword.
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Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920by Barbara Young WelkeISBN 0521649668 (0-521-64966-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athensby Eva C. KeulsISBN 0520079299 (0-520-07929-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Genderby Nancy ChodorowISBN 0520221559 (0-520-22155-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0553213342 (0-553-21334-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via] -
Sense And Sensibilityby Cherry Gilchrist, Jane AustenISBN 0582416892 (0-582-41689-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspectiveby Victoria De Grazia, Ellen FurloughISBN 0520201973 (0-520-20197-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 055320517X (0-553-20517-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Swordspointby Ellen KushnerISBN 0553585495 (0-553-58549-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swordspoint'Book summary:The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories.
Hailed by critics as a bravura performance (Locus) and witty, sharp-eyed, [and] full of interesting people (Newsday), this classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected humor, takes fantasy to an unprecedented level of elegant writing and scintillating wit. Award-winning author Ellen Kushner has created a world of unforgettable characters whose political ambitions, passionate love affairs, and age-old rivalries collide with deadly results.
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On the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword. Even the nobles on the Hill turn to duels to settle their disputes. Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St. Vier is the undisputed master, as skilled as he is ruthless--until a death by the sword is met with outrage instead of awe, and the city discovers that the line between hero and villain can be altered in the blink of an eye. [via]More editions of Swordspoint:
Tales of Neveryonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553228420 (0-553-22842-0)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Perry Mills, Michael Fynes-Clinton, Rex GibsonISBN 0521425050 (0-521-42505-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:The story of Katherina and her marriage to Petruchio has been popular in the theater for four centuries, but the joke of taming an unruly woman has long been growing increasingly controversial. This edition examines how theater directors and performers have explored the complexities of Katherina's story and that of Christopher Sly, the poor man whose story frames hers. It surveys productions in the English-speaking world, reviewing precise details of the stage action in a social and political context. [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby Ann ThompsonISBN 052129388X (0-521-29388-X)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0553211684 (0-553-21168-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is edited by Rex Gibson, Director, Shakespeare and Schools Project. [via]
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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, George SkillanISBN 0573001219 (0-573-00121-9)
Hardcover, French
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0525939210 (0-525-93921-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two or Three Things I Know for Sure'Book summary:An autobiographical narrative by the author of Bastard out of Carolina explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred while illuminating the rural poverty of the South. 50,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0553214624 (0-553-21462-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:Becky Sharpe is very clever but she has no family and no money. Her friend, Amelia, comes from a rich family and is in love with an army officer. Can Becky marry well and be happy? What will the future hold for these two strong young women? A classic novel of the nineteenth century. [via]
War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versaby Joshua S. GoldsteinISBN 0521001803 (0-521-00180-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Women and Gender in Early Modern Europeby Merry E. WiesnerISBN 0521778220 (0-521-77822-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe'Book summary:This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the female life cycle, literacy, women's economic role, artistic creation, female piety--and witchcraft--and the relationship between gender and power. Accessible, engrossing, and lively, this book will be of central importance for those interested in gender history, early modern Europe, and comparative history. [via]
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Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approachby Martha C. NussbaumISBN 0521003857 (0-521-00385-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach'Book summary:Proposing a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international, Martha Nussbaum argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. In this book, Nussbaum argues that international political and economic thought must be sensitive to gender difference as a problem of justice, and that feminist thought must begin to focus on the problems of women in the third world. Taking as her point of departure the predicament of poor women in India, she shows how philosophy should undergird basic constitutional principles that should be respected and implemented by all governments, and used as a comparative measure of quality of life across nations. Nussbaum concludes by calling for a new international focus to feminism, and shows through concrete detail how philosophical arguments about justice really do connect with the practical concerns of public policy. HB ISBN (2000): 0-521-66086-6 [via]
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Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920sby Kathleen M. BleeISBN 0520078764 (0-520-07876-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Women Writing Cultureby Ruth Behar, Deborah A. GordonISBN 0520202082 (0-520-20208-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women Writing Culture'Book summary:Conceived partly in homage to the diversity of This Bridge Called Our Backs and partly in umbrage at the mostly male musings on anthropology in Writing Culture, this rewarding collection redefines anthropology through feminist and multicultural eyes. At its heart is the "poetics and politics" of ethnography, an uneasy marriage of art and science that attempts to distill the essence of another person's culture.
Editor Ruth Behar, who wrote in depth about her comadre Esmeralda (and more fleetingly of her own father's rage) in Translated Woman, contributes a wrenching piece on the betrayal implicit in marking down another person's life. "Foolish, foolish is the anthropologist who mixes up the field with her life," she mourns. Other essays consider such issues as how gender and racism play out in anthropology, how women in the field undermine themselves, and what women bring to the odd dance between narrator and observer. In a light essay that contrasts cultures, Lila Abu-Lighod, who researched the lives of Bedouin women, speaks of their pity for her childless state. While they assume she is "searching for children" unsuccessfully, she assumes their infertility remedies are wondrous fodder for field notes. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Storiesby Lila Abu-LughodISBN 0520083040 (0-520-08304-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories'Book summary:In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. She witnessed striking changes, both cultural and economic, and she recorded the stories of the women. Writing Women's Worlds is Abu-Lughod's telling of those stories; it is also about what happens in bringing the stories to others.[via]
As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation.More editions of Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories:
Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontëISBN 0553196332 (0-553-19633-2)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature. [via]
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