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The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons from History's Great Explorersby Mick ConefreyISBN 0060849983 (0-06-084998-3)
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Age of Discontinuityby Peter Ferdinand DruckerISBN 0060905913 (0-06-090591-3)
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American Courage: Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery That Has Made Our Country Greatby Herbert W. WardenISBN 0060782404 (0-06-078240-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Courage: Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery That Has Made Our Country Great'Book summary:Here is the American adventure. This extraordinary volume captures a magnificent nation's spirit and the fortitude of those who helped to make it so. Drawn from remarkable firsthand accounts and historical writings, American Courage gives voice to the pilgrims, founding fathers, revolutionaries, pioneers, soldiers, and pilots, among other heroes, in a remarkable collection of harrowing tales, spanning from the Mayflower's landing througSeptember 11, 2001.
- A Plymoutcolonist is held captive during King Philip's War.
- George Washington crosses the Delaware.
- Davy Crockett reports from inside the Alamo.
- General Longstreet recounts Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.
- Sergeant York single-handedly captures 132 German soldiers.
- Charles Lindbergflies across the Atlantic.
- Nine Little Rock students desegregate Central HigSchool.
- Passengers on Flight 93 overpower hijackers on 9/11.
With more than forty thrilling true accounts of bravery, selflessness, and daring, the stories in American Courage reveal the heart and soul of our country.
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Arielby Sylvia PlathISBN 0060908904 (0-06-090890-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariel'Book summary:Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, and Robert Lowell describes them as written by "hardly a person at all ... but one of those super-real, hypnotic, great classical heroines." Even more remarkable, she wrote them during one of the coldest, snowiest winters (1962-63) Londoners have ever known. Snowbound, without central heating, she and her two children spent much of their time sniffling, coughing, or running temperatures (In "Fever 103°" she writes, "I have been flickering, off, on, off on. / The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss."). Pipes froze, lights failed, and candles were unobtainable.
As if these physical privations weren't enough, Plath was out in the cold in another sense--her husband, Ted Hughes, had left her for another woman earlier that year. Despite all this (or perhaps because of it), the Ariel poems dazzle with their lyricism, their surprising and vivid imagery, and their wit. Rather than confining herself to her bleak surroundings, Plath draws from a wide array of experience. In "Berck-Plage," for instance, clouds are "electrifyingly-coloured sherbets, scooped from the freeze." In "The Night Dances," the poet stands crib-side, reveling in her son's own brand of do-si-do: "Such pure leaps and spirals--Surely they travel / The world forever, I shall not entirely / Sit emptied of beauties, the gift / Of your small breath..."
Though at times they present the reader with hopelessness laid bare, these poems also teem with the brightest shards of a life, confounding those who merely look for the words of a gloomy, dispassionate suicide. Plath rose each morning in the final months of her life to "that still blue, almost eternal hour before the baby's cry" and left us these words like "axes/After whose stroke the wood rings..." [via]
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Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, And the Empires of A.D. 800by Jeff SypeckISBN 0060797061 (0-06-079706-1)
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Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed Historyby Laura LeeISBN 0060839821 (0-06-083982-1)
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060898526 (0-06-089852-6)
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Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe And the American Imperialism of 1853by George FeiferISBN 0060884320 (0-06-088432-0)
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Perry's cloaking of imperial impulse in humanitarian purpose was fully matched by Japanese selfdeception. High among the country's articles of faith was certainty of its protection by heavenly power. A distinguished Japanese scholar argued in 1811 that "Japanese differ completely from and are superior to the peoples of...all other countries of the world."
So began one of history's greatest political and cultural clashes.
In BREAKING OPEN JAPAN, George Feifer makes this drama new and relevant for today. At its heart were two formidable men: Perry and Lord Masahiro Abe, the political mastermind and real authority behind the Emperor and the Shogun. Feifer gives us a fascinating account of "sealed off" Japan and shows that Perry's aggressive handling of his mission had far reaching consequences for Japan and the United States well into the twentieth if not twentyfirst century.
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C.S. Lewis in a Time of War: The World War II Broadcasts That Riveted a Nation and Became the Classic Mere Christianityby Justin PhillipsISBN 0060881399 (0-06-088139-9)
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The Canterbury Papersby Judith Koll HealeyISBN 0060773324 (0-06-077332-4)
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Castle Storyby Sheila SanchaISBN 0060910496 (0-06-091049-6)
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Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Folliesby Lauren RednissISBN 0060853336 (0-06-085333-6)
Hardcover, Regan Books
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Traditionby Lee Lendelson, Antonia Felix, Bill Melendez, Timothy ShanerISBN 006076659X (0-06-076659-X)
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Cheaper by the Dozenby Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth CareyISBN 0060763132 (0-06-076313-2)
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Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Romeby Rodney StarkISBN 0060858427 (0-06-085842-7)
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The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Centuryby Brian Holden ReidISBN 0060851201 (0-06-085120-1)
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The Collected Letters Of C.S. Lewisby C. S. LewisISBN 006088228X (0-06-088228-X)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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Collins Atlas of Military Historyby Collins United Kingdom StaffISBN 0060849975 (0-06-084997-5)
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The Collins Big Book Of Art: From Cave Art To Pop Artby Ian ZaczekISBN 0060832851 (0-06-083285-1)
Hardcover, Harper Design Intl
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Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literatureby Lillian FederISBN 0060908025 (0-06-090802-5)
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The Cunning of Historyby Richard RubensteinISBN 0060905972 (0-06-090597-2)
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Death Be Not Proud: A Memoirby John GuntherISBN 0060809736 (0-06-080973-6)
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Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industryby Michael Dell, Catherine FredmanISBN 0060845724 (0-06-084572-4)
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Introduction by Irwin Edman First and Second Series Complete in One Volumeby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0060909064 (0-06-090906-4)
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Forbidden Faith: The Secret History Of Gnosticismby Richard SmoleyISBN 0060858303 (0-06-085830-3)
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Four Ways to Forgivenessby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 006076029X (0-06-076029-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Ways to Forgiveness'Book summary:Ursula K. Le Guin revisits her popular Hainish universe with four interconnected stories that together weave a tapestry of revolution and political turmoil. Le Guin tells the tale of two worlds where decades of slavery and class distinction are about to come to an end. She begins at the end with the story of a woman who survived the perilous times and now must face what comes after. Then in turn come tales of a naive envoy, an aloof observer forced to choose sides, and a young slave who wins freedom, only to confront the bonds of her own mind. [via]
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The French And Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North Americaby Walter R. BornemanISBN 0060761849 (0-06-076184-9)
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The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Libraryby Marvin MeyerISBN 006085832X (0-06-085832-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library'Book summary:The Meaning of the Nag Hammadi, now in paperback opens the with the thrilling adventure story of the discovery of the ancient Papyrii at Nag Hammadi. Muhammad Ali, the fellahin, discovered the sealed jar, he feared that it might contain a jinni, or spirit, but also had heard of hidden treasures in such jars. Greed overcame his fears and when he smashed open the jar, gold seemed to float into the air. To his disappointment, it was papyrus fragmenst, not gold, but for scholars around the world, it was invaluable.
Meyer then discusses the preChristian forms of wisdom that went onto influence what Christians believe today. In addition, some Nag Hammadi texts are attributed to Valentinus, a man who almost became Pope, and whose rejection changed the church in significant ways. Text by text, Meyer traces the history and impact of this great find on the Church, right up to our current beliefs and popular cultural fascination with this officially suppressed secret knowledge about Jesus and his followers.
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God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Nowby John Dominic CrossanISBN 0060843233 (0-06-084323-3)
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The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of Jesusby Marvin Meyer, Esther De Boer, Esther A. De BoerISBN 006083451X (0-06-083451-X)
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Graphic Novels: Everything You Need To Knowby Paul GravettISBN 0060824255 (0-06-082425-5)
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A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Songby Steve TurnerISBN 0060844094 (0-06-084409-4)
Softcover, Harper Resource
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song'Book summary:A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' lyrics.
Who was "just seventeen" and made Paul's heart go "boom"? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In A Hard Day's Write, music journalist Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating for the first time the ordinary people and events immortalized in the Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination.
Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new ground by exploring how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. Turner reveals that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was really a drawing by Julian Lennon of his childhood friend; Bungalow Bill was an all-American tiger hunter; Doctor Robert was a New York 'speech doctor'; and much more. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closet to the Beatles to unearth tales that have never before been made public. The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves.
Illustrated with over 200 photographs, A Hard Day's Write is a visually alluring and highly entertaining journey to the land stretching just beneath your conscious mind, mapped out with strawberry fields, fool-topped hills, and long and winding roads.
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Heat and Dustby Ruth Prawer JhabvalaISBN 0060806419 (0-06-080641-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heat and Dust'Book summary:Specially selected by Maura Healy, this series aims to offer an innovative and adventurous collection of texts that demonstrates the best of women's writing, both black and white. Complete texts reflecting a range of genres as well as different cultures and experiences are offered and the volumes contain study material and assignments at a range of levels to deepen pupils' enjoyment and understanding of literature. A reading log is also included with ideas for group and individual assignments to help pupils find their way around the texts. This story is about Olivia who, beloved by her dull husband and bored with her lifestyle in the small Indian town of Satipur, embarks on an affair with the glamorous but dangerous local prince. Many years later her step-granddaughter goes back to Satipur to find out the truth about the scandalous events which put Olivia outside the bands of conventional society. The series is intended for 14-16 year olds sitting GCSE English and English Literature and adults taking English examinations and overseas students. It is suitable for those taking GCSE-LEAG, NEA, SEG and MEG examinations. [via]
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Help: The Original Human Dilemmaby Garret KeizerISBN 0060816147 (0-06-081614-7)
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Hope Diamond: The Legendary History Of A Cursed Gemby Richard KurinISBN 0060873515 (0-06-087351-5)
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In Search of the Ivory-billed Woodpeckerby Jerome JacksonISBN 0060891556 (0-06-089155-6)
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Is It A Choice?: Answers To The Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay And Lesbian Peopleby Eric MarcusISBN 0060832800 (0-06-083280-0)
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In this newly revised and updated edition, Eric Marcus provides insightful, no-nonsense answers to hundreds of the most commonly asked questions about homosexuality. Offering frank insight on everything you've always wanted-and needed-to know about same-gender relationships, coming out, family roles, politics, and much more, including:
How do you know if you're gay or lesbian?
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What should you do if your child is gay or lesbian?
Do gay parents raise gay children?
If you think a friend is gay or lesbian, what should you say?
Why do gay men and women want to get married?
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Japan As Number Oneby Ezra F. VogelISBN 0060907916 (0-06-090791-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Japan As Number One'Book summary:Based on the most up-to-date sources, as well as extensive research and direct observation, Japan as Number One analyzes the island nation's development into one of the world's most effective industrial powers, in terms of not only economic productivity but also its ability to govern efficiently, to eduate its citizens, to control crime, to alleviate energy shortages, and to lessen pollution. Ezra Vogel employs criteria that America has traditionally used to measure success in his thoughtful demonstration of how and why Japanese institutions have coped far more effectively than their American counterparts. [via]
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Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraqby Jason Christopher HartleyISBN 0060843675 (0-06-084367-5)
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Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraqby Jason HartleyISBN 0060843667 (0-06-084366-7)
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King of the Vagabondsby Neal StephensonISBN 0060833173 (0-06-083317-3)
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The Last Templar: The First Knights Templar Mysteryby Michael JecksISBN 0060763442 (0-06-076344-2)
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The Last Word: Beyond The Bible Wars To A New Understanding Of The Authority Of Scriptureby N. T. WrightISBN 0060816090 (0-06-081609-0)
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The Last Word: Scripture and the Authority of God--Getting Beyond the Bible Warsby N. T. WrightISBN 0060872616 (0-06-087261-6)
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Letters from the Earthby Mark TwainISBN 0060803312 (0-06-080331-2)
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A Little House Christmas Treasury: Festive Holiday Storiesby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0060769181 (0-06-076918-1)
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The Lore of the Unicornby Odell ShepardISBN 0060907215 (0-06-090721-5)
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Love Medicineby Louise ErdrichISBN 0060786469 (0-06-078646-9)
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The Madonnas of Leningradby Debra DeanISBN 0060825316 (0-06-082531-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Madonnas of Leningrad'Book summary:Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memoriesthe details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchildyet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.
Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks' eventual return. As the Luftwaffe's bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her minda refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .
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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killby James L. SwansonISBN 0060853476 (0-06-085347-6)
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Map Of Bonesby James RollinsISBN 0060765240 (0-06-076524-0)
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During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a newborn savior . . . a treasure that could reshape the world.
With the Vatican in turmoil, Sigma Force under the command of Grayson Pierce leaps into action, pursuing a deadly mystery that weaves through sites of the Seven Wonders of the World and ends at the doorstep of an ancient, mystical, and terrifying secret order. For there are those with dark plans for the stolen sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind . . . when science and religion unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time. [via]
The Measure of God: History's Greatest Minds Wrestle With Reconciling Science and Religionby Larry WithamISBN 0060858338 (0-06-085833-8)
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The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaiseby Dorothy DinnersteinISBN 0060905875 (0-06-090587-5)
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Military Justice Is to Justice as Military Music Is to Musicby Robert SherrillISBN 0060802413 (0-06-080241-3)
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Mondo Lucha a Go-Go: The Bizarre And Honorable World of Wild Mexican Wrestlingby Dan MadiganISBN 0060855835 (0-06-085583-5)
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The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0060878118 (0-06-087811-8)
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Myth and Realityby Micrea EliadeISBN 0060904666 (0-06-090466-6)
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Napoleon's Pyramidsby William DietrichISBN 0060848324 (0-06-084832-4)
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One Soldier's Story: A Memoirby Bob DoleISBN 0060763426 (0-06-076342-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Soldier's Story: A Memoir'Book summary:Before he became one of America's most respected statesmen, Bob Dole was an average citizen serving heroically for his country. The bravery he showed after suffering near-fatal injuries in the final days of World War II is the stuff of legend. Now, for the first time in his own words, Dole tells the moving story of his harrowing experience on and off the battlefield, and how it changed his life.
Speaking here not as a politician but as a wounded G.I., Dole recounts his own odyssey of courage and sacrifice, and also honors the fighting spirit of the countless heroes with whom he served. Heartfelt and inspiring, One Soldier's Story is the World War II chronicle that America has been waiting for.
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Orient Expressby E.H. CookridgeISBN 0060907703 (0-06-090770-3)
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The Other Bible: Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Christian Apocrypha, Gnostic Scriptures, Kabbalah, Dead Sea Scrollsby Willis BarnstoneISBN 0060815981 (0-06-081598-1)
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Our Town: A Play in Three Actsby Thornton Niven WilderISBN 0060807792 (0-06-080779-2)
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Pascal's Wager: The Man Who Played Dice With Godby James A. ConnorISBN 0060766913 (0-06-076691-3)
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The Phantom of the Opera the Original Novelby Gaston LerouxISBN 0060809248 (0-06-080924-8)
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Portrait in Sepiaby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0060898488 (0-06-089848-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait in Sepia'Book summary:Isabel Allende has established herself as one of the most consummate of all modern storytellers, a reputation that is confirmed in her novel Portrait in Sepia. Allende offers a compelling saga of the turbulent history, lives, and loves of late 19th-century Chile, drawing on characters from her earlier novels, The House of Spirits and Daughter of Fortune.
In typical Allende fashion, Portrait in Sepia is crammed with love, desire, tragedy, and dark family secrets, all played out against the dramatic backdrop of revolutionary Chile. Our heroine Aurora del Valle's mother is a Chilean-Chinese beauty, while her father is a dissolute scion of the wealthy and powerful del Valle family. At the heart of Aurora's slow, painful re-creation of her childhood towers one of Allende's greatest fictional creations, the heroine's grandmother, Paulina del Valle. An "astute, bewigged Amazon with a gluttonous appetite," Paulina holds both the del Valle family and Allende's novel together as she presides over Aurora's adolescence in a haze of pastries, taffeta, and overweening love.
One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is Allende's decision to turn her heroine into a photographer: "through photography and the written word I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evanesce, to untangle the confusion of my past." There is little confusion in Allende's elegantly crafted and hugely enjoyable novel. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queensby Liz Goldwyn, Jennifer Augustyn, Frank LongoISBN 0060889446 (0-06-088944-6)
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Reinventing The Wheel: A Story Of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambitionby Steve KemperISBN 0060761385 (0-06-076138-5)
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The Secret Purposes: A Novelby David BaddielISBN 0060765836 (0-06-076583-6)
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Sex Warsby Marge PiercyISBN 0060789875 (0-06-078987-5)
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A Small Nation Of People: W. E. B. Du Bois And African American Portraits Of Progressby David Levering Lewis, Deborah WillisISBN 0060817569 (0-06-081756-9)
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Smithsonian Baseball: Inside The World's Finest Private Collectionsby Susan Einstein, Stephen WongISBN 0060838515 (0-06-083851-5)
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Soil and Civilizationby Edward S. HyamsISBN 0060904585 (0-06-090458-5)
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The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Traditionby Huston SmithISBN 0060858354 (0-06-085835-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition'Book summary:Huston Smith, dean of world religions, presents the essential teachings of Christianity, and, for the first time, his own profound Christian faith and convictions.
In this elegant and concise treatise, Huston Smith examines and puts forth what being a Christian has meant for him personally, how it has shaped his life and beliefs. In contrast to the misguided course of culturally rigid and intolerant evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity on the one hand, and the non-transcendent liberal Christianity of Marcus Borg, John Shelby Spong, et al. on the other, Smith presents a passionate and convincing argument for a vital alternative that is a deeper, authentic Christian faith that is both tolerant, respectful of people's and religious differences, yet substantial.
In part one, he relates his own story as a child of Christian missionaries in China, and how the beliefs they instilled in him resonated throughout his life. Using those beliefs, he argues that religion in general, and Christianity in particular, must find its way back into modern life for modern life to continue, and that the Christian world can co-exist, and in fact must co-exist with modernity.
Part two is an expanded and deeper version of the chapter on Christianity from The World's Religions.
And finally, in part three, Huston analyses and discusses the three main divisions in Christianity today.
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The Terror Timeline: Year By Year, Day By Day, Minute By Minute A Comprehensive Chronicle Of The Road To 9/11-- And America's Responseby Harlan TompsonISBN 0060783389 (0-06-078338-9)
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The Time of the Toad: A Study of Inquisition in America, and Two Related Pamphletsby Dalton TrumboISBN 0060802685 (0-06-080268-5)
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The Times Aviators: A History in Photographsby Michael J. H. TaylorISBN 0060819065 (0-06-081906-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Times Aviators: A History in Photographs'Book summary:On December 17, 1903, the World changed forever. The first powered flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, ushered in the era of powered flight which has transformed and shaped all aspects of modern life.
To mark the centenary of this momentous event, Aviators presents a photographic history of aviation, from the failed attempts of flying machines at the end of the 19th century, such as Lilienthals glider, through the Wright brothers and on to the pioneers who spread aviation throughout the world: Louis Blériot's first flight across the Channel in 1909, the first transatlantic crossing in 1919 by John Alcock and Whitten Brown and Amy Johnson's first flight to Australia in 1930. The book examines the rise of the first passenger airlines in the 1920s, too, and chronicles the beginnings of the jet era in the 1940s. The rise of great commercial airliners such as the Jumbo Jet, Concorde and the Airbus are also highlighted to give a comprehensive and absorbing account of the century of powered flight. [via]
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Viking Warriorby Judson RobertsISBN 006079996X (0-06-079996-X)
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Young Halfdan is a slave. He is crafty with a bow and arrow and wise in the ways of the animals, but he can only dream of a warrior's life. That is, until the dark day a Saxon's blows lay his father on his deathbed, and his mother makes a tragic bargain for Halfdan's freedom.
A boy's destiny can come at the most terrible price. Halfdan must suffer a grave loss in order to grasp what he most desires: to train by, to live by, and, if the fates decree it, to die by the force of his sword and the swiftness of his arrow. He is to be a warrior -- a great warrior.
Bloody, furiously paced, heart-wrenching, and unflinching, this is a story of a land where the destinies of boys and men are forged in the heat of battle. Young Halfdan shall come to know the glories of true brotherhood and the unspeakable horrors of true evil. In this first book in a saga teeming with thrilling details of the Viking world, young Halfdan emerges as a new hero . . . a new myth . . . a new legend.
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Viva La Repartee: Clever Comebacks And Witty Retorts From History's Great Wits And Wordsmithsby Mardy GrotheISBN 0060789484 (0-06-078948-4)
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Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air Warby Fred BranfmanISBN 0060903007 (0-06-090300-7)
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Walking The Bible: A Photographic Journeyby Bruce FeilerISBN 0060799048 (0-06-079904-8)
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War In The Air 1914-45by John Keegan, Williamson MurrayISBN 0060838566 (0-06-083856-6)
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The War Of The Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0060791241 (0-06-079124-1)
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Western Civilization to 1500by Walther KirchnerISBN 0060881623 (0-06-088162-3)
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Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Presentby Carol Neuls-BatesISBN 0060909323 (0-06-090932-3)
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Wordsworth: A Lifeby Juliet R.V. BarkerISBN 0060787317 (0-06-078731-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wordsworth: A Life'Book summary:Wordsworth was a large-boned, somewhat shambling, brilliant and big-nosed man, and Juliet Barker has written a biography to match him on every one of these points. Like its subject it is huge, nearly a thousand pages, and it contains multitudes of fascinating facts--a biographer can hardly go wrong with a subject who lived through such interesting times and knew such interesting people: revolutionary France (where Wordsworth travelled and fathered an illegitimate child), the Napoleonic wars, Coleridge, Southey, and writing a series of astonishing poems. Barker's easy style draws on an enormous wealth of research, but is never bogged down by it, and she manages to make her sometimes obstinate subject always human and likeable. This is an especial achievement in the later years, when Wordsworth's politics calcified into hang 'em and flog 'em Toryism; Barker manages to make even this grumpy old poet a figure you care about. The passages at the end of the book when Wordsworth's daughter Dora dies of tuberculosis, are genuinely moving. It is not a perfect book; like its subject, too it is a little dull. Its readings of the poetry itself (and the poetry is the reason why Wordsworth is so important, after all) are a little meagre; Barker limits herself to observations along the lines of "this is a great poem", "this is an important poem", "this sonnet is an exquisite work of art" and the like. Of the "Intimations Ode" ("the greatest William ever wrote") she limits herself to observing that, so familiar is it nowadays, "reading it is like going through a dictionary of quotations". Steven Gill's William Wordsworth, which has been the standard biography hitherto, does the job of critical reading of the verse much better. And like its subject Barker's book is big-nosed too, in several senses. For one thing, it traces the Wordsworthian "Roman" profile from father to children; Dora had a portrait painted of herself "with swept back black hair and large nose", and later travelled to the artist's London studio "to have my nose reduced a little". But Barker also sniffs haughtily at some of the modern attitudes to Wordsworth's life and times. To the notorious suggestion that Wordsworth had an incestuous relationship with his sister Dorothy, Barker snorts that people only think so because they view the couple "through Freud's distorting lens", and dismisses the--let's be honest, intriguing--notion as "prurient speculation". This said, however, this is nevertheless a noble biographical exercise, absorbing and solid. --Adam Roberts [via]
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The World War II Quiz and Fact Bookby Timothy B. BenfordISBN 0060909684 (0-06-090968-4)
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Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0060839872 (0-06-083987-2)
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Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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