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American Government: Readings And Casesby Peter WollISBN 0673520315 (0-673-52031-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The American Way of Deathby Jessica MitfordISBN 0671244159 (0-671-24415-9)
Softcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Way of Death'Book summary:Before the turn of the century, the American funeral was simple "to the point of starkness," says Jessica Mitford, the acclaimed muckraking journalist who published this investigation of the country's funeral business in 1963. That the country went on to develop a tendency for gross overspending on funerals Mitford puts down to the greed and ingenuity of undertakers, whom she regards as salesmen guilty of pressuring families into agreeing to their excessive standards for burial. Mitford, who died recently, delivers facts and criticism in a forthright and humorous manner. She would certainly appreciate that her assessment of the American way of death endures after her own passing. [via]
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessby Neil PostmanISBN 0670804541 (0-670-80454-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Angels of Albionby RobinsonISBN 0670846708 (0-670-84670-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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The Art of Seductionby Robert GreeneISBN 0670891924 (0-670-89192-4)
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The Art of Seduction is a masterful synthesis of the work of thinkers such as Freud, Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Einstein, as well as the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history. From Cleopatra to John F. Kennedy, from Andy Warhol to Josephine Bonaparte, The Art of Seduction gets to the heart of the character of the seducer and his or her tactics, triumphs and failures. The seducer's many faces include: the Siren, the Rake, the Ideal Lover, the Dandy, the Natural, the Coquette, the Charmer, and the Charismatic. Twenty-four maneuvers will guide readers through the seduction process, providing cunning, amoral instructions for and analysis of this fascinating, all-pervasive form of power. Just as beautifully packaged and every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion and offers the best lessons on how to take what you want from whomever you want or how to prevent yourself from being taken. [via]More editions of The Art of Seduction:
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Awakeningsby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0671648349 (0-671-64834-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awakenings'Book summary:It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it's qualities like sensitivity, craft, and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if nothing else, these qualities shine in books like Awakenings. This powerful set of case histories rises above its pathological foundation to find new literary territory, a medical-spiritual synthesis equally stimulating for the mind and the soul. It's no wonder Hollywood producers chose to turn it into a feature film--anyone can see the universal human struggle against bondage and despair in these pages.
The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s; his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Book of Virtuesby William John BennettISBN 0671683063 (0-671-68306-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Virtues'Book summary:Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.
William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together. [via]
Born on the Fourth of Julyby Ron KovicISBN 0671681494 (0-671-68149-4)
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The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1929-1961by Jeff KisseloffISBN 0670864706 (0-670-86470-6)
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The Brontes: A Life in Lettersby Juliet R.V. BarkerISBN 0670872121 (0-670-87212-1)
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Captain Dreyfusby Nicholas HalaszISBN 0671200291 (0-671-20029-1)
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The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to Jonbenet Ramsey, the Fbi's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Awayby John E. Douglas, Mark OlshakerISBN 0671017063 (0-671-01706-3)
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Chronicles of King Arthurby Andrea HopkinsISBN 0670852325 (0-670-85232-5)
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Civil War Soldiersby Reid MitchellISBN 0671686410 (0-671-68641-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80sby Paul SlanskyISBN 0671673394 (0-671-67339-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Crazy Horse: A Lifeby Larry McMurtryISBN 0670882348 (0-670-88234-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy Horse: A Life'Book summary:In writing his superb life of Crazy Horse, Larry McMurtry faced the same obstacle as every previous biographer of the Oglala Sioux icon: a notable paucity of facts. This didn't inhibit such chroniclers as Mari Sandoz or Stephen Ambrose (whose dual portrait of Crazy Horse and George Custer featured a certain amount of authorial ventriloquism). In this case, however, the shortage of documentation actually works to the reader's advantage. Unencumbered by reams of scholarly detail, McMurtry's book has the shapeliness and inevitability of a fine novella. The author may describe it as an "exercise in assumption, conjecture, and surmise"--but his phrase does scant justice to this elegant, admirably scrupulous portrait.
As McMurtry recounts, Crazy Horse was born around 1840 in what is now South Dakota. Already the arrival of white settlers--who brought with them such mixed blessings as metal tools, firearms, and smallpox--had begun to transform the culture of the Plains Indians. But soon a more ominous note crept into the relationship: "The Plains Indians were beginning to be seen as mobile impediments; what they stood in the way of was progress, a concept dear to the American politician." As whites sought to remove these impediments with increasing brutality, Crazy Horse led his people in a sporadic and ultimately doomed resistance, which peaked at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Within a year the young warrior (and occasional visionary) had surrendered to the United States Army. Four months later he was dead, stabbed in a highly suspicious scuffle with white and Indian policemen, and the Sioux resistance died with its legendary leader.
McMurtry's powers of compression are formidable. In no more than a few rapid paragraphs, he gives a sense of how this "prairie Platonist" divided the world into transient things and eternal, invisible spirits. He also conveys his opinion of Caucasian double-dealing with fine, acerbic efficiency: "In August, Custer emerged and described the beauties of the Black Hills in mouthwatering terms. In another life he would have made a wonderful real-estate developer. In this case he sold one of the most beautiful pieces of real estate in the West to a broke, depressed public who couldn't wait to get into those hills and start scratching up gold." McMurtry's Crazy Horse is the leanest and least rhetorical version yet of this American tragedy--which makes it, oddly enough, among the most moving. --James Marcus [via]
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Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the 60'sby Peter Collier, David HorowitzISBN 0671701282 (0-671-70128-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditionsby Charles Gallenkamp, Michael J. NovacekISBN 0670890936 (0-670-89093-6)
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The Dream Machine : J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personalby M. Mitchell WaldropISBN 0670899763 (0-670-89976-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Einstein in Love : A Scientific Romanceby Dennis OverbyeISBN 0670894303 (0-670-89430-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Empire of the Sunby J. G. BallardISBN 0671648772 (0-671-64877-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places: The Life and Legends of Ancient Sites Around the Worldby Philip Wilkinson, Robert R. IngpenISBN 0670827940 (0-670-82794-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places: The Life and Legends of Ancient Sites Around the World'Book summary:This is a guided tour taking us deep into 41 places around the world that for a variety of reasons have remained clouded in mystery - forgotten cities, vast temples and enigmatic monuments that have piqued our curiosity and fired our imaginations. EUROPE: Tarxien, Skara Brae, Stonehenge, Knossos, Mycenae, Biskupin, Delphi, Epidauros, Rhodes, Hagia Sophia, Mistra, Topkapi. ASIA: Catal Huyuk, Mohenjo-daro, Ur, Boghazkoy, Troy, Khorsabad, Babylon, Persepolis, Petra, Great Wall of China, Yoshingari, Ellora, Nara, Angkor, Peking, Taj Mahal. AFRICA: Saqqara, Karnak, Abu Simbel, Alexandria, Leptis Magna, Great Zimbabwe. NEW WORLD: Copan, Chitchen Itza, Tenochtitlan, Pueblo Bonito, Machu Picchu, Easter Island. [via]
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The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in Americaby Wyn Craig WadeISBN 0671414763 (0-671-41476-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys/an American Sagaby Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN 0671231081 (0-671-23108-1)
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Flights of Passageby Samuel Hynes, Paul McCarthyISBN 0671674102 (0-671-67410-2)
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Four Hours in My Laiby Michael Bilton, Kevin SimISBN 0670842966 (0-670-84296-6)
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From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literatureby Malcolm Bradbury, Richard RulandISBN 0670835927 (0-670-83592-7)
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From the Jaws of Victoryby Charles M. FairISBN 0671209973 (0-671-20997-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Generations: An American Familyby John EgertonISBN 067162833X (0-671-62833-X)
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The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, Whose Image Altered the Course of the Vietnam Warby Denise ChongISBN 067088040X (0-670-88040-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Storyby Denise ChongISBN 0670868175 (0-670-86817-5)
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Haigs Command: A Reassessmentby Denis WinterISBN 0670802255 (0-670-80225-5)
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The Harvest of Hellenism: A History of the Near East from Alexander the Great to the Triumph of Christianityby F. E. PetersISBN 0671206583 (0-671-20658-3)
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Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Communityby Christopher AndrewISBN 0670809411 (0-670-80941-1)
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Highlanders: A History of the Scottish Clansby Fitzroy MacleanISBN 067086644X (0-670-86644-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Hip Hop Americaby Nelson GeorgeISBN 0670871532 (0-670-87153-2)
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A Hole in the Heart of the World : Being Jewish in Eastern Europeby Jonathan KaufmanISBN 0670867470 (0-670-86747-0)
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India Unboundby Gurcharan DasISBN 0670882658 (0-670-88265-8)
Hardcover, New York, NY
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Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everythingby Steven LevyISBN 0670852449 (0-670-85244-9)
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Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbulby John FreelyISBN 0670878391 (0-670-87839-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Yeby David Powers, Odonnell, Kenneth P. and Powers, DavidISBN 0671824376 (0-671-82437-6)
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722727 (0-671-72272-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumaniaby Hannah PakulaISBN 0671622463 (0-671-62246-3)
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Janet Allison Brown, Graham RustISBN 0670899135 (0-670-89913-5)
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0671042874 (0-671-04287-4)
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The Maneaters of Tsavoby J. H. PattersonISBN 0671003062 (0-671-00306-2)
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Maya, the Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilizationby Charles Gallenkamp, Albuquerque MuseumISBN 0670803871 (0-670-80387-1)
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Melbourneby David CecilISBN 0672520389 (0-672-52038-9)
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Monarch Notes on Shakespeare's King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 0671005154 (0-671-00515-4)
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Monarch Notes on Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Charles LeavittISBN 067100879X (0-671-00879-X)
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Mosby's Rangersby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0671747452 (0-671-74745-2)
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New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discoveryby William H. GoetzmannISBN 0670810681 (0-670-81068-1)
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Oedipus and Akhnatonby Immanuel VelikovskyISBN 0671831933 (0-671-83193-3)
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Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Warsby David RobertsISBN 0671885561 (0-671-88556-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Op. JBby Christopher CreightonISBN 0671855654 (0-671-85565-4)
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The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscienceby William ShawcrossISBN 0671606409 (0-671-60640-9)
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The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience #08390by William ShawcrossISBN 0671440225 (0-671-44022-5)
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Regenerationby Pat BarkerISBN 0670828769 (0-670-82876-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regeneration'Book summary:Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear -- the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing -- it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road. [via]
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Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassasby John J. HennessyISBN 0671889893 (0-671-88989-3)
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RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixonby Richard M. NixonISBN 0671707418 (0-671-70741-8)
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The Road Aheadby Bill GatesISBN 0670859133 (0-670-85913-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road Ahead'Book summary:Love him or loathe him, Mr. Microsoft is certainly an influential voice in the modern business world and The Road Ahead is definitely an important addition to any business library. Gates' description of the beginnings of the information age, while somewhat over-emphasizing his own contributions and downplaying those of his competitors, is nonetheless as clear and enlightening as any in print today. Likewise, his view of the digital future--from hardware to software and education to entertainment--should be read and studied by all who use technology in their business today or plan to use it on the road ahead. [via]
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The Road from Los Alamosby Hans A. BetheISBN 0671740121 (0-671-74012-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Rockefellers: An American Dynastyby Peter Collier, David HorowitzISBN 0671674455 (0-671-67445-5)
Softcover, Summit Books
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Sacred Rage: The Crusade of Modern Islamby Robin B. WrightISBN 067160113X (0-671-60113-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islamby Robin WrightISBN 0671628119 (0-671-62811-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam'Book summary:For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative.
Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, Sacred Rage combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington.
Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows. [via]
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Salvadorby Joan DidionISBN 0671668803 (0-671-66880-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Season of Blood : A Rwandan Journeyby Fergal KeaneISBN 0670862053 (0-670-86205-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Cultureby Walter KendrickISBN 067081363X (0-670-81363-X)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Shah's Last Rideby William ShawcrossISBN 067168745X (0-671-68745-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Shah's Last Ride: The Fate of an Allyby William ShawcrossISBN 0671552317 (0-671-55231-7)
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A Shovel of Stars: The Making of the American West - 1800 to the Presentby Ted MorganISBN 0671794396 (0-671-79439-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Slouching Towards Bethlehemby Joan DidionISBN 0671248065 (0-671-24806-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem'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:
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A Star Called Henryby Roddy DoyleISBN 0670887579 (0-670-88757-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Star Called Henry'Book summary:A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Barrytown Trilogy and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
When Roddy Doyle introduced a lively ten-year-old hero from north Dublin named Paddy Clarke, he captivated reviewers and audiences around the world. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha captured the 1993 Booker Prize, garnered passionate reviews, and became a phenomenal bestseller. Carolyn See of The Washington Post, called it "one of the great modern Irish novels." Doyle followed that success with The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, a unanimously and ecstatically acclaimed novel with a narrator critics compared to Joyce's Molly Bloom. Now the finest Irish writer of his generation enchants us once again with his most prodigious novel to date--A Star Called Henry.
With his trademark sharp-edged wit and breathtaking prose, Roddy Doyle introduces Henry Smart--adventurer, IRA assassin, and lover. Narrated by its protagonist, A Star Called Henry takes us through Henry's early years of reckless heroism and adventure, from the courtship of his young mother and one-legged father to his own celebrated birth and his childhood on the streets of Dublin; from his role as a valiant soldier fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising to that of a young father and rebel.
At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, both past and present, A Star Called Henry is a tour de force told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's. [via]More editions of A Star Called Henry:
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Stones from the Riverby Ursula HegiISBN 0671780751 (0-671-78075-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stones from the River'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1997: Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum; her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. To its credit, Stones does not wilt from the comparison. Hegi's book has a distinctive, appealing flavor of its own. Stone's characters are off-center enough to hold your attention despite the inevitable dominance of the setting: There's Trudi's mother, who slowly goes insane living in an "earth nest" beneath the family house; Trudi's best friend Georg, whose parents dress him as the girl they always wanted; and, of course, Trudi herself, whose condition dooms her to long for an impossible normalcy. Futhermore, the reader's inevitable sympathy for Trudi, the dwarf, heightens the true grotesqueness of Nazi Germany. Stones from the River is a nightmare journey with an unforgettable guide. [via]
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Tales from the Arabian Nights Selected from the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Nightby Richard BurtonISBN 0671808036 (0-671-80803-6)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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The Timetables of American Historyby Laurence UrdangISBN 0671252461 (0-671-25246-1)
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The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technologyby Alexander Hellemans, Bryan H. BunchISBN 0671769189 (0-671-76918-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technologyby Bryan H. Bunch, Alexander HellemansISBN 067188767X (0-671-88767-X)
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The Tragedy of King Learby Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. Lamar, William ShakspeareISBN 067148852X (0-671-48852-X)
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The Troubles: Ireland, 1912-1922by Ulick O'ConnorISBN 0672517515 (0-672-51751-5)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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The U. S. Navy: An Illustrated Historyby Nathan MillerISBN 0671229842 (0-671-22984-2)
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The Unfinished Legacy: A Brief History of Western Civilizationby Patricia O'Brien, Mark Kishlansky, Patrick GearyISBN 0673466043 (0-673-46604-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Waterlooby Bernard CornwellISBN 0670808687 (0-670-80868-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japaneseby Elizabeth M. NormanISBN 0671787187 (0-671-78718-7)
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Woodrow Wilsonby Louis AuchinclossISBN 0670889040 (0-670-88904-0)
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