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All's Fair : Love, War, and Running for Presidentby Mary Matalin, James Carville, Peter KnoblerISBN 0679431039 (0-679-43103-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All's Fair : Love, War, and Running for President'Book summary:He's a little bit country, she's a little bit rock and roll. He's a lot Democrat, she's a lot Republican. The Donny and Marie of politics display a revealing x-ray of the presidential campaign. James Carville and Mary Matalin, themselves key players at the center of the political battles and election headlines that gripped America, tell in candid, stunning detail the day-by-day pressures, near disasters, and triumphs of campaign life. [via]
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American Tabloidby James EllroyISBN 0679403914 (0-679-40391-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Tabloid'Book summary:We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Deborah FelderISBN 0679854673 (0-679-85467-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi, Mahdi MushinISBN 0679413383 (0-679-41338-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.
The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based. [via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Or, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Nightby Bennett Alfred Cerf, Richard Francis BurtonISBN 0679602356 (0-679-60235-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Or, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night'Book summary:Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]More editions of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Or, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night:
Ashes of Glory: Richmond at Warby Ernest B. FurgursonISBN 0679746609 (0-679-74660-9)
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Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdieby Leonard W. LevyISBN 0679402365 (0-679-40236-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Blood : An Epic History of Medicine and Commerceby Douglas StarrISBN 067941875X (0-679-41875-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood : An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce'Book summary:Don't faint! Blood may be a highly charged substance, symbolic of our spirit and essential for life, but we can gain much from reflecting on its power over us. Science journalist Douglas Starr has examined the history of blood's medical uses, and his report is at once intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce covers the late 17th century to the present, detailing experiments with animal blood (one violent madman was briefly calmed by infused calf's blood), the long ban on transfusions, direct artery-to-vein suture between donor and recipient, and today's global blood-banking industry. It's a great story that shows the long climb from great risk and heroism to relative safety.
Our greatest stumble during this climb--the AIDS crisis of the 1980s--is the meat of the book. How could it have happened? Why were so many people given contaminated blood products after clear warnings about the risks of infection? Starr is unafraid to name names and lay bare the political and financial decisions that condemned so many thousands of hemophiliacs and surgical patients to early deaths. Those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it; Starr aims to help us keep the blood off of our hands. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Blood Meridianby Cormac McCarthy, Harold BloomISBN 0679641041 (0-679-64104-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Meridian'Book summary:"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence. [via]
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Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the Westby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0679728759 (0-679-72875-9)
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Bookby Karen Broofield, Laurence PordesISBN 0679840125 (0-679-84012-5)
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Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Livesby Frank J. SullowayISBN 0679758763 (0-679-75876-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives'Book summary:A landmark work that illuminates the crucial influence of birth order on personality and the far-reaching consequences of sibling competition--not only within individual families but on society as a whole.
At the heart of this pioneering inquiry is a fundamental insight into human behavior: that the personalities of first-born children differ from those of their younger siblings not because of cultural differences but because common human instincts play themselves out differently in the universal quest for parental favor. Frank Sulloway's most important finding--that eldest children support the status quo and youngest children rebel against it--provides the foundation for startling analyses of the Protestant Reformation, the French Revolution, and Darwin's theory of evolution.
Concerning first borns--Did you know that:
First borns are more frequently defenders of the status quo, more accepting of parental or conventional values.
In their support of authority they will use either brains or violence to resolve conflict.
More first borns--Albert Einstein, Ivan Pavlov, Linus Pauling--are Nobel Laureates.
First borns--like Stalin, Robespierre, and Carlos the Jackal--will not shy away from tactics of terrorism.
Concerning later-borns--Did you know that:
Most later-borns more frequently turn over convention and champion reform, revolution and upheaval.
Later-borns have been the catalysts of change supporting free speech, free worship, civil rights and women's rights.
They are the creators of revolutionary ideas--Voltaire, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson-- were all later-borns.
Those who pressed for the absolution of slavery--Frederick Douglass, John Brown and Harriet Tubman--were all later-borns.
Born to Rebel is a path-breaking study, a solid confirmation of the belief that a scientific, empirical basis exists for our understanding of human behavior. [via]More editions of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives:
A Byzantine Journeyby John AshISBN 0679409343 (0-679-40934-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian Westby Margaret R. MilesISBN 0679734015 (0-679-73401-5)
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Castleby Christopher Gravett, Geoff DannISBN 0679860002 (0-679-86000-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Castle'Book summary:Full-color photos. Take a look behind the walls of these fascinating fortresses and learn how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals; how a young boy rose from lowly page to noble knight; and what life was like for the castle residents. [via]
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The Chinese Century : The Photographic History of the Last Hundred Yearsby Jonathan D. Spence, Annping Chin, Colin Jacobson, Annabel Merullo, Endeavor GroupISBN 0679449809 (0-679-44980-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chinese Century : The Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years'Book summary:Jonathan Spence, a distinguished historian of China, and his wife Annping Chin, both teachers at Yale, have compiled an extraordinary collection of rare historic photographs documenting Chinese history through the century. The book has intimate portraits and large crowd shots, scenes of routine daily life and of dramatic events, famous people and anonymous citizens. The story of China in this century is a dramatic one--from waning imperial power through the Nationalist republic to the Communist revolution and the rise of the People's Republic and its gigantic swings in ideology. The pictures chosen for this collection tell part of that story on a human level, and the authors provide a supplementary text that illuminates the photographic history. [via]
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The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russiansby W. Bruce LincolnISBN 067941214X (0-679-41214-X)
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Cruel World: The Children Of Europe In The Nazi Webby Lynn H. NicholasISBN 067977663X (0-679-77663-X)
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Darwin for Beginnersby Jonathan MillerISBN 0679725113 (0-679-72511-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin for Beginners'Book summary:The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining."
-- Newsday
aking us through the upheavals in biological thought which made The Origins of Species possible, Jonathan Miller introduces us to that odd revolutionary, Charles Darwin -- a remarkably timid man who spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid riddled with doubts, fearing the controversy his theories might unleash; yet also the man who finally undermined belief in God's creation. Along the way we meet a fascinating cast of characters: Darwin's scientific predecessors, his contemporaries (including Alfred Russell Wallace, whose anticipation of natural selection forced Darwin to publish), his opponents, and his successors whose work in modern genetics provided necessary modifications to Darwin's own work.
Splendidly illustrated, this clever, witty, highly informative book is the perfect introduction to Darwin's life and thought. [via]More editions of Darwin for Beginners:
David Brinkleyby David BrinkleyISBN 0679765069 (0-679-76506-9)
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David Brinkley : 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing up in North Carolinaby David BrinkleyISBN 067940693X (0-679-40693-X)
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The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Valuesby Gertrude HimmelfarbISBN 0679764909 (0-679-76490-9)
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 067943593X (0-679-43593-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:"I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all....I was not even estranged by his naughty footnotes." In the two centuries since its completion, Gibbon's magnum opus--which encompasses some thirteen hundred years as it swings across Europe, North Africa, and Asia--has refused to go the way of many "classics" and grow musty on the shelves. "Gibbon is a landmark and a signpost--a landmark of human achievement: and a signpost because the social convulsions of the Roman Empire as described by him sometimes prefigure and indicate convulsions which shake the whole world today," wrote E.M. Forster. Never far below the surface of the magnificent narrative lies the author's wit and sweeping irony, exemplified by Gibbon's famous definition of history as "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
The third volume contains chapters forty-nine through seventy-one of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Villageby Serge SchmemannISBN 0679757074 (0-679-75707-4)
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Einstein for Beginnersby Joseph Schwartz, Michael McGuinnessISBN 0679725105 (0-679-72510-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein for Beginners'Book summary:One of the first in the series of For Beginners documentary comic books, Einstein for Beginners still holds up as a perfect introduction to the life and work of Albert Einstein. It has been said that only a small percentage of people really understand Einstein's theories, but this book goes a long way towards making them accessible to everyone. [via]
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Empireby Gore VidalISBN 0679602933 (0-679-60293-3)
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The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and Warby Alan BrinkleyISBN 0679753141 (0-679-75314-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679745203 (0-679-74520-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions-and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. [via]
The Executioner's Songby Norman MailerISBN 0679424717 (0-679-42471-7)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dreamby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679785892 (0-679-78589-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'Book summary:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the ne plus ultra of Hunter S. Thompson and the whole gonzo clan he spawned. Written in the lurid afterglow of the 1960s, Fear and Loathing is a loosely connected series of mad dashes across the desert, trashed hotel rooms, and goofs on the brutish, naïve, or merely unhip, perpetrated by Thompson and his mammoth Samoan attorney. The pair start out high on a medicine cabinet's worth of elixirs, powders, and pills, and stay that way for 200 pages. They careen through an unsettling landscape of paranoia and alienation, but that doesn't mean the book isn't a riot. Here's a small taste: "By this time, the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level. The room service waiter had a vaguely reptilian cast to his features, but I was no longer seeing huge pterodactyls lumbering around the corridors in pools of fresh blood."
Though somewhat dated (it appeared serially in Rolling Stone throughout November 1971), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a book of real vitality and Rabelaisian wit. A document of the counterculture after it was well past ripe and deep into rot, the book is a wild ride, a paranoid ramble that is thoroughly exhilarating and worth the trip. No pun intended. [via]
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Editionby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679602984 (0-679-60298-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Edition'Book summary:Dr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out. Thank God Thompson was there to explode the myth of "objective" journalism and help pave the way for the pens and voices that followed. [via]
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Follow the Drinking Gourdby Jeanette WinterISBN 0679819975 (0-679-81997-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Follow the Drinking Gourd'Book summary:Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions. Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean, primitive style enhanced by bold colors. The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling. A fine rendering of history in picturebook format."--(starred) Booklist. [via]
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The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930by Steven WatsonISBN 0679758895 (0-679-75889-5)
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The Haunted Wood : Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Eraby Allen Weinstein, Alexander VassilievISBN 0679457240 (0-679-45724-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunted Wood : Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era'Book summary:The Haunted Wood fills in a valuable part of cold war history: the Soviet Union's attempts to spy on the United States from the time of FDR's New Deal, through the Second World War, and into the 1950s. Allen Weinstein (author of a highly regarded history of the Hiss-Chambers case, Perjury) and Alexander Vassiliev (a KGB agent turned journalist) show that among the Americans caught in the Soviet orbit were many top government officials, including a Congressman from New York and a close advisor to President Roosevelt, as well as an American ambassador's daughter. Most of these early spies were leftists driven by ideology--as opposed to money, which seems to have motivated many of the later cold war traitors, such as Aldrich Ames. (The Congressman, interestingly, is an exception--he demanded so much compensation that the Soviets gave him the code name "Crook.") The greatest windfall for the U.S.S.R. during this period was the acquisition of atomic secrets, with contributions from agents like Ted Hall, Klaus Fuchs, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (the authors do not believe, however, that the scientist Robert Oppenheimer was a Soviet spook). Yet there were also notable failures, many brought on by Stalin's insatiable appetite for purges; defections by Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley also dealt several mortal blows. By the end of the 1940s, the Soviet spy ring in the United States was in serious breakdown. Weinstein and Vassiliev make use of both American sources and Soviet archives to deliver what will surely be an authoritative account for many years--or at least until more top-secret archives on both sides of the Atlantic become declassified. And don't expect that to happen anytime soon. --John J. Miller [via]
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Hearts Grown Brutal : Sagas of Sarajevoby Roger CohenISBN 0679452435 (0-679-45243-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Hirohito : Behind the Mythby Edward BehrISBN 0679731717 (0-679-73171-7)
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A History of the Jews in Americaby Howard M. SacharISBN 0679745300 (0-679-74530-0)
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Holidays in Hellby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0679724222 (0-679-72422-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays in Hell'Book summary:No doubt about it: P. J. O'Rourke has a bizarre sense of fun. "What I've ... been," he writes in his introduction to Holidays in Hell "is a Trouble Tourist--going to see insurrections, stupidities, political crises, civil disturbances and other human folly because ... because it's fun." Forget Hawaii or the Poconos--O'Rourke gets his jollies in places like war-torn Lebanon where he is greeted at the border by a gun barrel in his face, or Seoul, just in time for election-day violence. Wherever he goes, however, O'Rourke takes his quirky sense of humor, laser eye for detail, and artful way with words: a Philippine army officer is "powerful-looking in a short, compressed way, like an attack hamster," and the Syrian army is described as having "dozens of silly hats, mostly berets in yellow, orange and shocking pink, but also tiny pillbox chapeaux.... The paratroopers wear shiny gold jumpsuits and crack commando units have skin-tight fatigues in a camouflage pattern of violet, peach, flesh tone and vermilion on a background of vivid purple. This must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses."
O'Rourke's flip, sarcastic style isn't for everyone, of course; the concept that anyone could find sightseeing in the Beirut or El Salvador of the 1980s fun might prove offensive to more than a few readers right off the bat. But love him or hate him, P. J. O'Rourke knows how to tell a good story, and if you like your travel writing laced with more than a little cynicism, Holidays in Hell could be just the book you've been looking for. [via]
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Honor's Voice : The Transformation of Abraham Lincolnby Douglas L. WilsonISBN 067940788X (0-679-40788-X)
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Catherine Liu, Elizabeth McCrackenISBN 0679642579 (0-679-64257-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:The story and characters in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame have resonated with succeeding generations since its publication in 1831. It has tempted filmmakers, and most recently animators, who have exploited its dramatic content to good effect but have inevitably lost some of the grays that make the original text so compelling.
From Victor Hugo's flamboyant imagination came Quasimodo, the grotesque bell ringer; La Esmeralda, the sensuous gypsy dancer; and the haunted archdeacon Claude Frollo. Hugo set his epic tale in the Paris of 1482 under Louis XI and meticulously re-created the
day-to-day life of its highest and lowest inhabitants. Written at a time of perennial political upheaval in France, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is the product of an emerging democratic sensibility and prefigures the teeming masterpiece Les Misérables, which Hugo would write thirty years later.
He made the cathedral the centerpiece of the novel and called it Notre-Dame de Paris. (It received its popular English title at the time of its second translation in 1833.) Hugo wrote that his inspiration came from a carving of the word "fatality" in Greek that he had found in the cathedral. The inscription had been eradicated by the time the book was published, and Hugo feared that Notre-Dame's Gothic splendor might soon be lost to the contemporary fad for tearing down old buildings. Notre-Dame has survived as one of the great monuments of Paris, and Hugo's novel is a fitting celebration of it, a popular classic that is proving to be just as enduring.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.
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Jane Austenby Claire TomalinISBN 0679766766 (0-679-76676-6)
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While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events," Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village.More editions of Jane Austen:
Jane Austen: A Lifeby Claire TomalinISBN 0679446281 (0-679-44628-1)
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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianityby Paula FredriksenISBN 0679767460 (0-679-76746-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity'Book summary:The epigraph to Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews by Paula Fredriksen includes the following observation by Matteo Ricci: "[A]ll things (including those that at last come to triumph mightily) are at their beginnings so small and faint in outline that one cannot easily convince oneself that from them will grow matters of great moment." This little thought helps to explain Fredriksen's big one, that no one during Jesus' lifetime (including the man himself) considered Jesus to be the Messiah. That interpretation of his life, Fredriksen argues, was occasioned by his death: "Jesus' crucifixion as King of the Jews had come as a shock to his core followers. Their experiences of his continued presence after his death, on the evidence of the Gospels, surprised them, too. Seeking to understand what they had witnessed, they turned to Scripture." Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews makes its argument through careful reconstruction of Jesus' historical context, and dogged attention to the details of his crucifixion and to the fates of his immediate followers. The book's surprising arguments and its lucid style make this a valuable addition to the canon of popular Historical Jesus scholarship. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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John Brownby W. E. B. Du Bois, David R. RoedigerISBN 0679783539 (0-679-78353-9)
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Killing Mister Watsonby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0679734058 (0-679-73405-8)
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0679443606 (0-679-44360-6)
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Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Konin: A Questby Theo RichmondISBN 0679439692 (0-679-43969-2)
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LA Tabla De Flandes/the Chess Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 0679760903 (0-679-76090-3)
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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discoveryby Dayton Duncan, Ken BurnsISBN 0679454500 (0-679-45450-0)
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Cathy East DubowskiISBN 0679850902 (0-679-85090-2)
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Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendmentby Anthony LewisISBN 0679739394 (0-679-73939-4)
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The Making of Robert E. Leeby Michael FellmanISBN 0679456503 (0-679-45650-3)
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679406417 (0-679-40641-7)
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Maya, the Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilizationby Charles GallenkampISBN 0679504699 (0-679-50469-9)
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Mexicoby James A. MichenerISBN 0679416498 (0-679-41649-8)
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Mummyby Jim PutnamISBN 0679838813 (0-679-83881-3)
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Never Again: Britain, 1945-1951by Peter HennessyISBN 0679433635 (0-679-43363-5)
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Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Sonby James BaldwinISBN 0679744738 (0-679-74473-8)
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A Paper House: The Ending of Yugoslaviaby Mark ThompsonISBN 0679421874 (0-679-42187-4)
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A Passage to India: Library Editionby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679405496 (0-679-40549-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Passage to India: Library Edition'Book summary:What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends?
"It is impossible here," an Indian character tells his friend, Dr. Aziz, early in the novel.
"They come out intending to be gentlemen, and are told it will not do.... Why, I remember when Turton came out first. It was in another part of the Province. You fellows will not believe me, but I have driven with Turton in his carriage--Turton! Oh yes, we were once quite intimate. He has shown me his stamp collection.
Written while England was still firmly in control of India, Forster's novel follows the fortunes of three English newcomers to India--Miss Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding--and the Indian, Dr. Aziz, with whom they cross destinies. The idea of true friendship between the races was a radical one in Forster's time, and he makes it abundantly clear that it was not one that either side welcomed. If Aziz's friend, Hamidullah, believed it impossible, the British representatives of the Raj were equally discouraging."He would expect you to steal it now. Turton! But red-nosed boy will be far worse than Turton!
"I do not think so. They all become exactly the same, not worse, not better. I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. It is only the difference of a letter. And I give any Englishwoman six months. All are exactly alike."
"Why, the kindest thing one can do to a native is to let him die," said Mrs. Callendar.
Despite their countrymen's disapproval, Miss Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Mr. Fielding are all eager to meet Indians, and in Dr. Aziz they find a perfect companion: educated, westernized, and open-minded. Slowly, the friendships ripen, especially between Aziz and Fielding. Having created the possibility of esteem based on trust and mutual affection, Forster then subjects it to the crucible of racial hatred: during a visit to the famed Marabar caves, Miss Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of sexually assaulting her, then later recants during the frenzied trial that follows. Under such circumstances, affection proves to be a very fragile commodity indeed.
"How if he went to heaven?" asked Mrs. Moore, with a gentle but crooked smile.
"He can go where he likes as long as he doesn't come near me. They give me the creeps."Arguably Forster's greatest novel, A Passage to India limns a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst, and is remarkable for the complexity of its characters. Here the personal becomes the political and in the breach between Aziz and his English "friends," Forster foreshadows the eventual end of the Raj. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Race Mattersby Cornel WestISBN 0679749861 (0-679-74986-1)
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Cornel West is at the forefront of thinking about race. In Race Matters he addresses a range of issues, from the crisis in black leadership and the myths surrounding black sexuality to affirmative action, the new black conservatism, and the strained relations between Jews and African Americans. He never hesitates to confront the prejudices of all his readers?or wavers in his insistence that they share a common destiny. Bold in its thought and written with a redemptive passion grounded in the tradition of the African-American church, Race Matters is a book that is at once challenging and deeply healing. [via]More editions of Race Matters:
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revoltby Albert CamusISBN 0679733841 (0-679-73384-1)
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The Religion of Technology : The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Inventionby David F. NobleISBN 0679425640 (0-679-42564-0)
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Rights of Man and Common Senseby Thomas PaineISBN 0679433147 (0-679-43314-7)
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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regimeby Richard PipesISBN 0679761845 (0-679-76184-5)
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Saints Preserve Us!: Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You'll Ever Needby Sean Kelly, Rosemary RogersISBN 067975038X (0-679-75038-X)
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Salvadorby Joan DidionISBN 0679751831 (0-679-75183-1)
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The Secret Historyby Donna TarttISBN 0679410325 (0-679-41032-5)
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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
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Sex and Suitsby Anne HollanderISBN 0679430962 (0-679-43096-2)
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Shilohby Shelby FooteISBN 0679735429 (0-679-73542-9)
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essaysby Joan Didion, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0679640266 (0-679-64026-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essays'Book summary:Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. Her unblinking vision and deadpan tone have influenced subsequent generations of reporters and essayists, changing our expectations of style, voice, and the artistic possibilities of nonfiction.
"In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country."
In essay after essay, Didion captures the dislocation of the 1960s, the disorientation of a country shredding itself apart with social change. Her essays not only describe the subject at hand--the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion--but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.
Joyce Carol Oates has written, "Joan Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever. . . . She has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control." [via]More editions of Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essays:
The Sorrow of Warby Bao Ninh, Phan Thanh HaoISBN 0679439617 (0-679-43961-7)
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technologyby Neil PostmanISBN 0679745408 (0-679-74540-8)
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Theodore Rooseveltby Kathleen DaltonISBN 0679767339 (0-679-76733-9)
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Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Lifeby Kathleen DaltonISBN 067944663X (0-679-44663-X)
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The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0679723935 (0-679-72393-5)
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Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left After the Cold Warby Jorge G. CastanedaISBN 0679751416 (0-679-75141-6)
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Varieties of Religious Experienceby William JamesISBN 0679640118 (0-679-64011-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Varieties of Religious Experience'Book summary:"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0679735747 (0-679-73574-7)
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By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreaus account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanitys place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best. [via] -
Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biographyby David S. ReynoldsISBN 0679767096 (0-679-76709-6)
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Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society From Conquest and Colonization Through Reconstructionby David Brundage, Bruce Levine, Stephen Brier, Edward CountrymanISBN 0679726993 (0-679-72699-3)
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Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society : From the Gilded Age to the Presentby American Social History Project StaffISBN 0679730222 (0-679-73022-2)
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A World Made New : Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rightsby Mary Ann GlendonISBN 0679463100 (0-679-46310-0)
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Writers on World War II : An Anthologyby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0679742344 (0-679-74234-4)
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