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Apocalypseby Richard Aldington, D. H. LawrenceISBN 0434407380 (0-434-40738-0)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Aroma: The Cultural History of Smellby Anthony Synnott, Constance Classen, David HowesISBN 041511473X (0-415-11473-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through Indiaby Jonah BlankISBN 0395562678 (0-395-56267-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Autobiography of a Faceby Lucy GrealyISBN 0395657806 (0-395-65780-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nceby James JohnsonISBN 0393972860 (0-393-97286-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Betrayed by Rita Hayworthby Manuel PuigISBN 0394746597 (0-394-74659-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Captains Daughter and Other Storiesby Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0394707141 (0-394-70714-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back!by SeussISBN 0394800028 (0-394-80002-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Cat in the Hat Party Editionby SeussISBN 0394892186 (0-394-89218-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Hardcover, Random House Espanol - The Cat in the Hat Party Edition: ISBN 0394900014 (0-394-90001-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - The Cat in the Hat Party Edition: ISBN 0394892186 (0-394-89218-6)
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Chasing the Monsoonby Alexander FraterISBN 0394583108 (0-394-58310-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Complete Fawlty Towersby John Cleese, Connie BoothISBN 0413183904 (0-413-18390-4)
Hardcover, Methuen
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The Compromiseby Sergei DovlatovISBN 0394528557 (0-394-52855-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern Worldby John H. Gagnon, Richard G. ParkerISBN 0415909287 (0-415-90928-7)
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The Crooked Lineby Ismat Chugtai, Tahira NaqviISBN 0435950894 (0-435-95089-4)
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Darknessby Bharati MukherjeeISBN 0449220990 (0-449-22099-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness'Book summary:At once sly and tragic, these twelve extraordinary stories chart the complex and shifting lives of the new immigrants to America--some helpless, some hopeless, others ambitious, beautiful, all striving for something they can't quite name, something more....
"Mukherjee writes with beautiful precision...neaty needlepointing a malevolent world."
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The Devil at Large : Erica Jong on Henry Millerby Erica JongISBN 0394584988 (0-394-58498-8)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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Dispatchesby Michael HerrISBN 0394417887 (0-394-41788-7)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herrs unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.
Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. [via]More editions of Dispatches:
Dogeatersby Jessica HagedornISBN 0394574982 (0-394-57498-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Dogs Bark: Private Places and Public Peopleby Truman CapoteISBN 0394487516 (0-394-48751-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Early Work: 1970-1979by Patti SmithISBN 0393313018 (0-393-31301-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Early Work 1970-79by Patti SmithISBN 0393036138 (0-393-03613-8)
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Fantasia an Algerian Cavalcadeby Assia Djebar, Dorothy S. BlairISBN 0435086219 (0-435-08621-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Feminine Mystiqueby Betty Friedan, Anna QuindlenISBN 0393322572 (0-393-32257-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feminine Mystique'Book summary:First published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique ignited a revolution that profoundly changed our culture, our conciousness, and our lives. Today it newly penetrates to the heart of isuues determining our lives -- and sounds a call to arms against the very real dangers of a newe feminine mystique in the economic and political turbulence of the 1990s.
Three decades later, the underlying issues raised by Betty Friedan strike at the core of the problems women still face at home and in the marketplace. As women continue to struggle for equality, to keep their hard-won gains, to find fulfillment in their careers, marriage and family, The Feminine Mystique remains the seminal conciousness-raising work of our times. [via]More editions of The Feminine Mystique:
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Softcover, Dell Publishing - The Feminine Mystique: ISBN 0393017753 (0-393-01775-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Feminine Mystique: ISBN 0393040496 (0-393-04049-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Feminine Mystique: ISBN 0393084361 (0-393-08436-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Feminine Mystique: ISBN 0393086852 (0-393-08685-2)
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Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrenceby Anthony BurgessISBN 0434098183 (0-434-09818-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinityby Dana BreenISBN 0415091640 (0-415-09164-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449206777 (0-449-20677-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Going after Cacciatoby Tim O'BrienISBN 0440214394 (0-440-21439-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going after Cacciato'Book summary:"In October, near the end of the month, Cacciato left the war."
In Tim O'Brien's novel Going After Cacciato the theater of war becomes the theater of the absurd as a private deserts his post in Vietnam, intent on walking 8,000 miles to Paris for the peace talks. The remaining members of his squad are sent after him, but what happens then is anybody's guess: "The facts were simple: They went after Cacciato, they chased him into the mountains, they tried hard. They cornered him on a small grassy hill. They surrounded the hill. They waited through the night. And at dawn they shot the sky full of flares and then they moved in.... That was the end of it. The last known fact. What remained were possibilities."
It is these possibilities that make O'Brien's National Book Award-winning novel so extraordinary. Told from the perspective of squad member Paul Berlin, the search for Cacciato soon enters the realm of the surreal as the men find themselves following an elusive trail of chocolate M&M's through the jungles of Indochina, across India, Iran, Greece, and Yugoslavia to the streets of Paris. The details of this hallucinatory journey alternate with feverish memories of the war--men maimed by landmines, killed in tunnels, engaged in casual acts of brutality that would be unthinkable anywhere else. Reminiscent of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Going After Cacciato dishes up a brilliant mix of ferocious comedy and bleak horror that serves to illuminate both the complex psychology of men in battle and the overarching insanity of war. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Softcover, Dell Publishing - Going After Cacciato: ISBN 0440029481 (0-440-02948-1)
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Going to Meet the Manby James BaldwinISBN 0440329310 (0-440-32931-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Hite Reportby Shere HiteISBN 0440136903 (0-440-13690-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Hite Report on Male Sexualityby Shere HiteISBN 039441392X (0-394-41392-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Human Zooby Desmond MorrisISBN 0440339138 (0-440-33913-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Landscape Painted with Teaby Milorad Pavic, Christina Pribicevic-ZoricISBN 0394582179 (0-394-58217-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Leonardo Da Vinciby Sigmund FreudISBN 0415253861 (0-415-25386-1)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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Leonardo Da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexualityby Sigmund FreudISBN 0394701321 (0-394-70132-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhoodby Sigmund Freud, James StracheyISBN 0393001490 (0-393-00149-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Love's Mansionby Paul WestISBN 0394587340 (0-394-58734-0)
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Mapsby Nuruddin FarahISBN 0394755480 (0-394-75548-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maps'Book summary:This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity.[via] 
Marble Skinby Slavenka Drakulic, Greg MosseISBN 0393034771 (0-393-03477-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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My Guru and His Discipleby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0413469301 (0-413-46930-1)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fishby SeussISBN 0394892240 (0-394-89224-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish'Book summary:"Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?" Such are the profound, philosophical queries posed in this well-loved classic by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. While many rhymes in this couplet collection resemble sphinx-worthy riddles, Seuss's intention is clear: teach children to read in a way that is both entertaining and educational. It matters little that each wonderful vignette has nothing to do with the one that follows. (We move seamlessly from a one-humped Wump and Mister Gump to yellow pets called the Zeds with one hair upon their heads.) Children today will be as entranced by these ridiculous rhymes as they have been since the book's original publication in 1960--so amused and enchanted, in fact, they may not even notice they are learning to read! (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Passive Intruderby Michael UpchurchISBN 0393038653 (0-393-03865-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Post-Colonial Studies Readerby Gareth Griffiths, Bill Ashcroft, Helen TiffinISBN 0415096227 (0-415-09622-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Post-Colonial Studies Reader'Book summary:The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics, featuring nearly ninety of the discipline's most widely read works.
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The Reader's 90 extracts are designed to introduce the major issues and debates in the field of post-colonial literary studies. This field itself, however, has become so varied that no collection of readings could encompass every voice which is now giving itself the name "post-colonial." The editors, in order to avoid a volume which is simply a critical canon, have selected works representing arguments with which they do not necessarily agree, but rather which above all stimulate discussion, thought and further exploration.
Post-colonial "theory" has occurred in all societies into which the imperial force of Europe has intruded, though not always in the official form of theoretical text. Like the description of any other field the term has come to mean many things, but this volume hinges on one incontestable phenomenon: the "historical fact"of colonialism, and the palpable consequences to which this phenomenon gave rise. The topic involves talk about experience of various kinds: migration, slavery, suppression, resistance, representation, difference, race, gender, place, and reaction to the European influence, and about the fundamental experiences of speaking and writing by which all these come into being. In compiling this reader, the editors have sought to stimulate people to ask: "How might a genuinely post-colonial literary enterprise proceed?"
The fourteen sections include: Issues and Debates; Universality and Difference; Textual Representation and Resistance; Postmodernism and Post-Colonialism; Nationalism; Hybridity; Ethnicity and Indigenity; Feminism and Post-Colonialism; Language; The Body and Performance; History; Place; Education; and Production and Consumption.
Contributors include many of the leading post-colonial theorists and critics--such as Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabba, Derek Walcott, Edward Said, and Trinh T. Minh-ha--in addition to a number of the discourse's newer voices. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader will prove an authoritative compilation, representing an invaluable contribution to the study of post-colonial theory and criticism.More editions of The Post-Colonial Studies Reader:
The Post-Colonial Studies Readerby Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen TiffinISBN 0415345650 (0-415-34565-0)
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Purity and Dangerby Mary DouglasISBN 0415066085 (0-415-06608-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Tabooby Mary DouglasISBN 0415289955 (0-415-28995-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Taboo'Book summary:In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most important role is to offer each reader a new explanation of why people behave in the way they do. With a specially commissioned introduction by the author which assesses the continuing significance of the work thirty-five years on, this Routledge Classics edition will ensure that Purity and Danger continues to challenge and question well into the new millennium. [via]
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Quartetby Rabindranath TagoreISBN 043595086X (0-435-95086-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0394604911 (0-394-60491-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Ravishing of Lol Steinby Marguerite Duras, Richard SeaverISBN 0394743040 (0-394-74304-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Red Azaleaby Anchee MinISBN 0425147762 (0-425-14776-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Azalea'Book summary:This New York Times Notable Book tells the true story of what it was like growing up in Mao's China, where the soul was secondary to the state, beauty was mistrusted, and love could be punishable by death. Newsweek calls Anchee Min's prose "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting." [via]
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Roughneckby Jim ThompsonISBN 0445406739 (0-445-40673-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roughneck'Book summary:Roughneck is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors. Follow Thompson through the Great Depression, his young adulthood, marriage and family but with the apocryphal dark wit that is his trademark. He goes from riding the rails in the 30's to getting drunk while working in a morgue only to move on to odd jobs as a baker, a collector, even as a writer of labor history for the W.P.A. Absurd scenarios swirl around this man like [via]
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Running in the Familyby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0393016374 (0-393-01637-4)
Hardcover, W.W. Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running in the Family'Book summary:Picture The Great Gatsby with heat, tea plantations, and even more gin and you've got part of Michael Ondaatje's 1982 Running in the Family. Set in Ondaatje's native Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Running begins with the champagne shenanigans of competitively romantic upper-class youths swept up in that first global trend, the Jazz Age: "They all went swimming again with just the modesty of the night. An arm touched a face. A foot touched a stomach. They could have almost drowned or fallen in love." The main characters to emerge from this frolicking set of dancers and drinkers are Ondaatje's parents, and it is upon them that the book turns from moonlit serenades to financial and emotional ruin.
Part travelogue, part family memoir (complete with photographs), part collection of poems, Running is also a poignant autobiography/biography that reimagines the alcoholism of Ondaatje's father Mervyn and the eventual (inevitable?) divorce of his parents. In telling these tall tales, Ondaatje is affectionate and insightful toward a father who was clearly difficult to accommodate in life. Driving intoxicated over a rickety wooden bridge no one else would trust in any condition, Mervyn turns to young Michael to wink and claim, "God loves a drunk."
Running marks the commencement of Ondaatje's growing interest in migration (does running run in the family?). The expatriate characters of Ondaatje's later novels are here presaged by a generation of Ceylonese steaming off to England for education and an enduring love of cricket. Salman Rushdie knows that "the past is a country from which we are all migrants." In Running in the Family, Ondaatje reaches back, inwards, and abroad to map that most treasured and troubled of places, the human heart. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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Scavenger's Sonby Pillai, Thakazhi, SivasankaraISBN 0435950827 (0-435-95082-7)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scavenger's Son'Book summary:First published in India in 1947, this novel is set in rural Kerala and illustrates the author's use of black comedy and macabre humour. Ruthlessly determined to improve his lot for the sake of his son, Chudalamuttu gains a semblance of dignity but sacrifices his humanity in the process. [via]
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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duckby Rory NugentISBN 0395505526 (0-395-50552-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck : A Journey into the Himalayas and down the Brahmaputraby Rory NugentISBN 0395669944 (0-395-66994-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asiaby Peter HopkirkISBN 0393019438 (0-393-01943-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia'Book summary:Amid the sand and rock of Central Asia, Russia and England spent much of the 19th century playing what historians have come to call the Great Game: the struggle for control over transcontinental routes from Europe to the Far East. When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, Lenin continued to press Russian--now Soviet--claims to faraway, fabled places such as Samarkand and Hotan. The intrigues of his agents and their British counterparts, swashbucklers all, could come from a modern spy novel, and they make for fascinating reading in Peter Hopkirk's vivid account. [via]
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Seven Sixes Are Forty-Threeby Kiran Nagarkar, Shubda SleeISBN 0435950886 (0-435-95088-6)
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Sir Vidia's Shadowby Paul TherouxISBN 0395907284 (0-395-90728-4)
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A Sportsman's Sketchesby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0404019080 (0-404-01908-0)
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Stepsby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0394757165 (0-394-75716-5)
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadaversby Mary RoachISBN 0393324826 (0-393-32482-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers'Book summary:"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."Entertainment Weekly
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuriesfrom the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. [via]More editions of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers:
Swamiby Doug BoydISBN 0394496035 (0-394-49603-5)
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 039551598X (0-395-51598-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Things They Carried'Book summary:"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0394701534 (0-394-70153-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:Consists of three character studies of women; "The Good Anna"--a kind but domineering German servingwoman; "Melanctha"--an uneducated but sensitive black girl; "The Gentle Lena"--a pathetically feebleminded young German maid. [via]
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Tropic of Cancerby Henry Miller, Anais NinISBN 0394604350 (0-394-60435-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's Historyby Vicki Ruiz, Ellen Carol DuboisISBN 0415925177 (0-415-92517-7)
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's Historyby Ellen Carol Dubois, Vicki RuizISBN 0415908922 (0-415-90892-2)
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The Vice-Consulby Marguerite Duras, Eileen EllenbogenISBN 0394750268 (0-394-75026-8)
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Vox : A Novelby Nicholson BakerISBN 0394589955 (0-394-58995-5)
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Voyage in the Darkby Jean RhysISBN 0393311465 (0-393-31146-5)
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0385487347 (0-385-48734-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:The erotic sequel to The Rainbow chronicles the lives, loves, obsessions, and struggles of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their lovers, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, as they search for fulfillment in post-World War I society. Reprint. [via]
Yonnondio from the Thirtiesby Tillie OlsenISBN 0440398819 (0-440-39881-9)
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