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Bilbo, Le Hobbit
by John R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 2253049417 (2-253-04941-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Bilbo Sacquet, paisible et respectable petit hobbit aux pieds laineux, a invité le magicien Gandalf boire le thé, accompagné de treize nains barbus. Cette invitation se révèle être une folle imprudence. Prologue de la trilogie du«Seigneur des anneaux». [via]
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Carter Beats the Devil
by Glen David Gold

ISBN 0786886323 (0-7868-8632-3)
Softcover, Hyperion Books

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In Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold subjects the past to the same wondrous transformations as the rabbit in a skilled illusionist's hat. Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician Charles Carter executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. Harding as a volunteer. Shortly afterwards, Harding dies mysteriously in his San Francisco hotel room, and Carter is forced to flee the country. Or does he? It's only the first of many misdirections in a magical performance by Gold. In the course of subsequent pages, Carter finds himself pursued by the most hapless of FBI agents; falls in love with a beautiful, outspoken blind woman; and confronts an old nemesis bent on destroying him. Throw in countless stunning (and historically accurate) illusions, some beautifully rendered period detail, and historical figures like young inventor Philo T. Farnsworth and self-made millionaire Francis "Borax" Smith, and you have old-fashioned entertainment executed with a decidedly modern sensibility.
Gold has written for movies and TV, so it's no surprise that he delivers snappy, fast-paced dialogue and action scenes as expertly scripted as anything that's come out of Hollywood in years. Carter Beats the Devil has a mustachioed villain, chase scenes, a lion, miraculous escapes, even pirates, for God's sake. Yet none of this is as broadly drawn as it might sound: Gold's characters are driven by childhood sorrows and disappointments in love, just like the rest of us, and they're limned in clever, quicksilver prose. By turns suspenseful, moving, and magical, this is the historical novel to give to anyone who complains that contemporary fiction has lost the ability to both move and entertain. --Mary Park [via]
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- Carter Beats the Devil: ISBN 0786867345 (0-7868-6734-5)
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The Confusion
by Neal Stephenson

ISBN 0060733357 (0-06-073335-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.

Meanwhile, back in Europe ...

The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child.

While ...

Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
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The Confusion Ltd
by Neal Stephenson

ISBN 0060599340 (0-06-059934-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended. [via]
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Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson

ISBN 0060512806 (0-06-051280-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big, Cryptonomicon is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It's the hip, readable heir to Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its real duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed.... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."
All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.
Cryptonomicon is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it's exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose. Cryptonomicon is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you'll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation). --Therese Littleton [via]
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El Alquimista
by Paulo Coelho

ISBN 9700508609 (970-05-0860-9)
Softcover, Giron Spanish Books Distributors

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La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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El Alquimista / The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho

ISBN 9685957843 (968-5957-84-3)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori

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La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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El Hobbit / the Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 1594130051 (1-59413-005-1)
Softcover, Large Print Pr

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Smaug parecia profundamente dormido cuando Bilbo espio una vez mas desde la entrada. Pero fingia estar dormido! Â¡Estaba vigilando la entrada del tunel!... Sacado de su comodo agujero-hobbit por Gandalf y una banda de enanos, Bilbo se encuentra de pronto en medio de una conspiracion que pretende apoderarse del tesoro de Smaug el Magnifico, un enorme y muy peligroso dragon...Todos los que aman esos libros para ninos que pueden ser leidos y releidos por adultos han de tomar buena cuenta de que una nueva estrella ha aparecido en esa constelacion. [via]
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El Hombre Mas Rico De Babilonia / The Richest man in Babylon
by George S. Clason

ISBN 8477203717 (84-7720-371-7)
Softcover, Obelisco

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En este libro encontrara los principios fundamentales que necesita para triunfar en el terreno financiero y que le permitiran engrosar su bolsillo, aumentar su cuenta bancaria y asegurarse el exito economico que todos anhelamos, aprendiendo a conservarlo y a hacerlo fructificar. Se trata de una guia perfecta tanto para graduados y especialistas como para profamos en el tema. [via]
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Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0345339703 (0-345-33970-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The prequel to The Lord of the Rings- The Hobbit- is now a major motion picture directed by Peter Jackson THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths are searching for a Hobbit. Frodo Baggins knows that they are seeking him and the Ring he bears-the Ring of Power that will enable evil Sauron to destroy all that is good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it can be destroyed: Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron's realm. Thus begins J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King . [via]
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Gold of Africa: Jewellery and Ornaments from Ghana, Cote d Ivoire, Mali and Senegal in the Collection of the Barbier-Mueller Museum
by Timothy F. Garrard

ISBN 3791309145 (3-7913-0914-5)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub

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Goldfinger
by Ian Fleming

ISBN 1567310516 (1-56731-051-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars and his women dressed only in gold paint. After smuggling tons of gold out of Britain into secret vaults in Switzerland, this powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history-robbing all the gold in Fort Knox. That is, unless Secret Agent 007 can foil his plan. In one of Ian Fleming's most popular adventures, James Bond tracks this most dangerous foe across two continents and takes on two of the most memorable villains ever created-a human weapon named Oddjob and a luscious female crime boss named Pussy Galore. REVIEW; A superlative thriller from our foremost literary magician. (The New York Herald Tribune)

Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars and his women dressed only in gold paint. After smuggling tons of gold out of Britain into secret vaults in Switzerland, this powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history-robbing all the gold in Fort Knox. That is, unless Secret Agent 007 can foil his plan. In one of Ian Fleming's most popular adventures, James Bond tracks this most dangerous foe across two continents and takes on two of the most memorable villains ever created-a human weapon named Oddjob and a luscious female crime boss named Pussy Galore. REVIEW; A superlative thriller from our foremost literary magician. (The New York Herald Tribune)

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The Great Train Robbery
by Michael Crichton

ISBN 1568492685 (1-56849-268-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century -- the daring theft of a fortune in gold.

But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive. Based on remarkable fact, and alive with the gripping suspense, surprise, and authenticity that are his trademark, Michael Crichton's classic adventure is a breathtaking thrill-ride that races along tracks of steel at breakneck speed.
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Greek Jewellery: 6,000 Years of Tradition Thessaloniki, Villa Bianca, 21 December 1997-21 February 1998
by Greece, Euangelia Kypraiou

ISBN 9602141743 (960-214-174-3)
Hardcover, Archaeological Receipts Fund

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Guide to Antiques & Fine Art
by Bernasconi

ISBN 1853263435 (1-85326-343-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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This guide to antiques and fine arts looks at furniture, silver, gold, pewter, porcelain, pottery, glass, clocks and watches, paintings, jewellery, fabrics, carpets, coins, medals, arms and armour, and musical instruments. It contains an alphabetical list of artists and craftsmen. [via]
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The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien

ISBN 1560600543 (1-56060-054-3)
Softcover, Eclipse Books

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"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.
The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Hobbit: A 3-D Pop-Up Adventure
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0694014362 (0-694-01436-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers

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Delve into the incredible world of hobbits, wizards, and dragons in this exceptional visual adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy epic The Hobbit. This innovative pop-up book transports hero Bilbo Baggins, a small, quiet hobbit, through five adventures from the novel. Featuring beautiful illustrations, intricate paper engineering, and pull-out scrolls with excerpts, this unique edition is the perfect introduction to Tolkien's timeless tale and a must-have collectible for Hobbit fans of all ages. [via]
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The Hobbit or There and Back Again
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0345339681 (0-345-33968-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Hardcover printing of the Hobbit by Houghton Mifflin copyright 1966 [via]
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Hot Money
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0449212408 (0-449-21240-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million pounds without making enemies. Nor did he expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home - but after five marriages and nine children, that still leaves the field wide open. When he finds his own life in danger, Pembroke entrusts his safety to his estranged son, Ian, an amateur jockey; and through him discovers a compulsive new outlet for his financial expertise. Soon he's playing the international bloodstock market for incredible stakes. Not the safest bet for a man on the run from avaricious relatives. Particularly when one of them got a bomb... [via]
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Ian Fleming's Goldfinger
by Ian Fleming

ISBN 0425081656 (0-425-08165-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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J.R.R. Tolkien
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0345340426 (0-345-34042-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Four book set includes the Hobbit and Complete Lord of the Rings; the Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of The King. [via]
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James Bond 007: Goldfinger
by John McLusky, Henry Gammidge

ISBN 1840239085 (1-84023-908-5)
Softcover, Titan Books

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The legend continues! Stand by for more adventures with the world's greatest secret agent, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever! Modern-day King Midas, Auric Goldfinger, plans on ruining the economies of the Free World and using his own vast hoard of gold to control the planet. Bond must use all his rugged charms and brutal skills to stop Goldfinger before he brings western civilisation to its knees! This new edition also collects Risico, From A View To A Kill, For Your Eyes Only and Thunderball! No only that, it also features an new introduction by Shirley Eaton and background material created exclusively for this series! [via]
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A James Bond Omnibus
by Ian Fleming

ISBN 1567311601 (1-56731-160-1)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Born in London in 1908, Ian Fleming worked variously as a banker and journalist before serving in the British Naval Intelligence during World War II. He published his first novel, "Casino Royale" in 1953 and thus started the astoundingly successful James Bond novels and films. Fleming died in 1964.This omnibus collection includes the 3 quintessential stories in this series . While these are the 5th, 6th, and 7th books, they are at the apex of his popularity, the actual cold war and were the first 3 turned into movies as well . In "From Russia With Love (1957)", SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance, of interrogation, torture and death. James Bond is dedicated to the destruction of its agents wherever he finds them. Then the cold eye of SMERSH focuses on Bond and far away in Moscow a trap is laid for him. In "Doctor No (1958)", M calls this case a soft option. Bond can't quite agree. The tropical island is luxurious, the seductive Honey Rider is beautiful and willing. However, they are both part of the empire of Dr No. His obsession is power, and his gifts are pain-shaped. In "Goldfinger (1959)", a friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked and a beautiful girl ends up dead. In Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal - useful lessons are learned. [via]
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LA Isla Del Tesoro / Treasure Island
by Lewis Stevenson

ISBN 9583007455 (958-30-0745-5)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800
by Robin Blackburn

ISBN 1859841953 (1-85984-195-3)
Softcover, Verso Books

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At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive, why did they sponsor the construction of racial slavery in their new colonies? Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch, and finds that the stigmatization of the ethno-religious Other was given a callous twist by a new culture of consumption, freed from an earlier moral economy. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought - successfully - to batten on this commerce, and - unsuccessfully - to regulate slavery and race. Successive chapters of the book consider the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Each are shown to have contributed something to the eventual consolidation of racial slavery and to the plantation revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is shown that plantation slavery emerged from the impulses of civil society rather than from the strategies of the individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, premised on the killing toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West. [via]
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- The Making of New World Slavery : From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800: ISBN 1859848907 (1-85984-890-7)
  Hardcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
- The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800: ISBN 1859841953 (1-85984-195-3)
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Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier
by Charlie Angus, Louie Palu

ISBN 1896357490 (1-896357-49-0)
Softcover, Between the Lines

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The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
by Peter L. Bernstein

ISBN 0471003786 (0-471-00378-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson

ISBN 0060593083 (0-06-059308-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The System Of The World
by Neal Stephenson

ISBN 0060750863 (0-06-075086-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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'Tis done.
The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.
No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.
Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse's manufactory.
Everything that was will be changed forever ... The System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion. [via]
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald Fraser

ISBN 1860467067 (1-86046-706-7)
Softcover, Harvill Pr

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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
by B. Traven

ISBN 0809001608 (0-8090-0160-8)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub

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The Treasure of Sierra Madre is the literary masterpiece for America's pop mythology of the Wild West. A savagely ironic novel, it follows the rugged adventure of three Americans hunting for gold in the mountains of Mexico who find themselves caught in a morality tale of greed and betrayal. Originally published in 1935, the book has captivated millions of readers, including the director John Huston, who immortalized it in his 1948 film starring Humphrey Bogart. This is a timeless story that has much to teach us, for, as we all know, finding the treasure is always secondary to the hunt.
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El Alquimista
by Paulo Coehlo

ISBN 9700513866 (970-05-1386-6)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc

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El Alquimista / The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho

ISBN 8408022938 (84-08-02293-8)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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Carter Engana Al Diablo
by David Gold Glen

ISBN 842533814X (84-253-3814-X)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori

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El Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Dixon, Sean Deming, Lorenzo Diaz, Dixon & Wenzel

ISBN 1594970718 (1-59497-071-8)
Hardcover, Public Square Books

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DESCRIPTION: Nota: En los titulos y nombres de autores, los marcos ortograficos han sido omitidos para facilitar las busquedas de Internet.
Description del libro en espanol: El dia en que Bilbo Bolson recibe la visita inesperada del mago Gandalf y de un grupo de enanos, su placida existencia de hobbit cambia radicalmente. Elfos, dragones y un anillo magico se cruzaran en la aventura mas fantastica de toda su vida. . .Charles Dixon y David Wenzel adaptan al comic preludio de El Senor de los Anillos, la obra maestro de J.R.R. Tolkien.
Book Description in English: First published in the United States more than sixty years ago, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has become one of the best-loved books of all time. Tolkien's fantasy was then adapted into a fully painted graphic novel, which became a classic in its own right...
The enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit is the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented hobbit whose life is turned upside down when he joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on their quest to reclaim the dwarves' stolen treasure. It is a journey fraught with danger - and in the end it is Bilbo alone who must face the guardian of this treasure, the most dreaded dragon in all of Middle-earth. [via]
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El Hobbit / the Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien, Manuel Figueroa

ISBN 8445071416 (84-450-7141-6)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Smaug parecia profundamente dormido cuando Bilbo espio una vez mas desde la entrada. Pero fingia estar dormido! Â¡Estaba vigilando la entrada del tunel!... Sacado de su comodo agujero-hobbit por Gandalf y una banda de enanos, Bilbo se encuentra de pronto en medio de una conspiracion que pretende apoderarse del tesoro de Smaug el Magnifico, un enorme y muy peligroso dragon...Todos los que aman esos libros para ninos que pueden ser leidos y releidos por adultos han de tomar buena cuenta de que una nueva estrella ha aparecido en esa constelacion. [via]
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El Hobbit/ the Hobbit
by Not Available

ISBN 8445070371 (84-450-7037-1)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Smaug parecia profundamente dormido cuando Bilbo espio una vez mas desde la entrada. Pero fingia estar dormido! Â¡Estaba vigilando la entrada del tunel!... Sacado de su comodo agujero-hobbit por Gandalf y una banda de enanos, Bilbo se encuentra de pronto en medio de una conspiracion que pretende apoderarse del tesoro de Smaug el Magnifico, un enorme y muy peligroso dragon...Todos los que aman esos libros para ninos que pueden ser leidos y releidos por adultos han de tomar buena cuenta de que una nueva estrella ha aparecido en esa constelacion. [via]
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Rumpelstilskin
by Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm Brothers

ISBN 842612187X (84-261-2187-X)
Hardcover, Juventud

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Bilbo, Le Hobbit
by John R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 2010199073 (2-01-019907-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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L'effet Pervers: Le Naufrage Des Democraties
by Michel Collin

ISBN 2910188132 (2-910188-13-2)
Hardcover, Editions A. Carriere

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253pages. 13,1cm x 20,6cm x 2,1cm. Broché. L'Alchimiste est le récit d'une quête, celle de Santiago, un jeune berger andalou parti à la recherche d'un trésor enfoui au pied des Pyramides. Dans le désert, initié par l'Alchimiste, il apprendra à écouter son coeur, à lire les signes du destin et, par-dessus tout, à aller au bout de son rêve. Destiné à l'enfant que chaque être cache en soi, L'Alchimiste est un merveilleux conte philosophique, que l'on compare souvent au Petit Prince, de Saint-Exupéry, et à Jonathan Livingston le Goéland, de Richard Bach. Le levant s'était mis à souffler. Il amenait les Maures sans doute, mais il apportait aussi l'odeur du désert. Il apportait la sueur et les songes des hommes qui étaient partis en quête de l'Inconnu, en quête d'or, d'aventures, et de pyramides. Alors le jeune berger andalou se prit à envier la liberté du vent et comprit qu'il pourrait, comme lui, traverser les pays et trouver sa Légende personnelle. Destiné à l'enfant que chaque être cache en lui, L'Alchimiste est un merveilleux conte philosophique qui nous guide sur la voie d'un trésor oublié. Et des terres noires andalouses aux mystères de l'Egypte, déchiffrant les augures du ciel, le lecteur trouvera lui aussi le secret de l'Alchimie. [via]
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O Hobbit/ The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien, Moises Rodriguez Barcia

ISBN 8483024950 (84-8302-495-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial

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