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Africans and Their Historyby Joseph E. HarrisISBN 0452011817 (0-452-01181-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africans and Their History'Book summary:Africa has witnessed the birth of many important developments in history. Human evolution, including the use of fire, food production via plant cultivation and animal domestication, as well as the creation of sophisticated tools and hunting weapons from iron took place in Africa. Other historical events such as the slave trade, which played a critical role in Western economic power, the rise of Islam as one of the world?s dominant religions, and colonization and struggles for independence occurred on African soil. Africans and Their History chronicles in fascinating detail African history from prehistoric times through the present. This concise and authoritative overview of the diverse peoples and societies of Africa now covers recent events, including the emergence of a free South Africa and its landmark enactment of a constitution that recognizes even more rights than the American constitution. The dynamic history and the relationship Africans have with the rest of the world is revealed in Africans and Their History, exposing and shattering ugly stereotypes that for too long have dominated Western thought.[via]
- Africans and Their History has been updated to reflect the past decade of African events.
- Ever growing number of African Studies departments on college campuses insures a constant audience for this book.
- Africans and Their History has a long and steady backlist life--first published in 1972.
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All Under Heaven: A Complete History Of Chinaby Rayne KrugerISBN 0470865342 (0-470-86534-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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American Primerby Daniel Joseph BoorstinISBN 0452009227 (0-452-00922-7)
Softcover, Plume
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0451528824 (0-451-52882-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Arabian Nightsby Jack ZipesISBN 0451525426 (0-451-52542-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'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 Arabian Nights:
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Richard Francis Burton, Jack David ZipesISBN 0451527496 (0-451-52749-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Adapted from Sir Richard F. Burton's lavish unexpurgated translation, this volume illuminates the sensual mystery and lushness of the original Arabic tales. It includes a wide variety of tales--from magic fairy tales to torrid erotic tales--that reveal a great deal about what life was like in the Middle East during the Medieval period.
* The companion volume to the popular Signet Classic edition of Arabian Nights (8/91), also edited by Jack Zipes
* Jack Zipes is the author of several books of fairy tales and is the editor of the Signet Classic edition of The Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde (5/96)
* These volumes offer the uncensored, erotic versions of the tales, not the rewritten fairy tales for children [via]
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Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroesby Ian BurumaISBN 0452007380 (0-452-00738-0)
Softcover, New American Library
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The Black Arrowby Robert Louis Stevenson, Gary HoppenstandISBN 0451529162 (0-451-52916-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Books That Changed the Worldby Robert B. DownsISBN 0451529286 (0-451-52928-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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A Brief History of the Smileby Angus TrumbleISBN 0465087795 (0-465-08779-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Burma, the Longest War, 1941-45by Louis AllenISBN 0460043633 (0-460-04363-3)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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The Concise Jewish Encyclopediaby Cecil RothISBN 0452005264 (0-452-00526-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0451529588 (0-451-52958-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England, facing a world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance. In this acclaimed tour de force, Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire, from the pure joy of wild high jinks to deeply probing insights into the nature of man. Considered by H. L. Mencken to be "the most bitter critic of American platitude and delusion...that ever lived," Twain enchants readers with a Camelot that strikes disturbingly contemporary notes. With an introduction by Leland Krauth And an afterword by Edmund Reiss [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0460004743 (0-460-00474-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451529391 (0-451-52939-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:In this final volume in the Leatherstocking saga, the Indian-raised Deerslayer has become a man of courage and moral certainty-and he emerges from tribal warfare with nobility as pure and proud as the wilderness whose fierce beauty and freedom have claimed his heart. [via]
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Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Centerby Eric DartonISBN 0465017274 (0-465-01727-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center'Book summary:When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudsons edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly astonishing. Divided We Stand reveals the coming together and eruption of four volatile elements: super-tall buildings, financial speculation, globalization, and terrorism. The Trade Center serves as a potent symbol of the disastrous consequences of undemocratic planning and development.This book is a history of that skyscraping ambition and the impact it had on New York and international life. It is a portrait of a building complex that lives at the convergence point of social and economic realities central not only to New York City but to all industrial cities and suburbs. A meticulously researched historical account based on primary documents, Divided We Stand is a contemporary indictment of the prevailing urban order in the spirit of Jane Jacobss mid-century classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities.[via]More editions of Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center:
Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Culturesby Anthony F. AveniISBN 046501951X (0-465-01951-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Essaysby Francis Bacon, Michael J. HawkinsISBN 0460874330 (0-460-87433-0)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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The Eye in the Doorby Pat BarkerISBN 0452272726 (0-452-27272-6)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eye in the Door'Book summary:The Eye in the Door is the second installation of Pat Barker's acclaimed and haunting historical fiction trilogy about British soldiers traumatized by World War I trench warfare and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to treat them. As with the other two, the book was recognized with awards, winning the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize. Here, Lieutenant Billy Prior is tormented by figuring out which side of several coins does he live -- coward or hero, crazy or sane, homosexual or heterosexual, upper class or lower. He represents the upheaval in Britain during the war and the severe trauma felt by its soldiers. The writing is sparse yet multilayered; Barker uses the lives of a few to capture an entire society during a tumultuous period. [via]
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Fanny Hill : Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John Cleland, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451526287 (0-451-52628-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Flashman's Ladyby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0452264898 (0-452-26489-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman's Lady'Book summary:Volume VI of THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1842-45, reissued in B format paperback, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of Flashman.[via] 
Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature in Modern Americaby Jennifer PriceISBN 0465024866 (0-465-02486-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Flight Maps: Encounter With Nature in Modern Americaby Jennifer PriceISBN 0465024858 (0-465-02485-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment/#1499748by Cyrus GordonISBN 046502484X (0-465-02484-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783by Stanley WeintraubISBN 0452285321 (0-452-28532-1)
Softcover, Plume
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George Washington: Man and Monumentby Marcus CunliffeISBN 0451626443 (0-451-62644-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africaby Bill BerkeleyISBN 0465006426 (0-465-00642-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Great Baseball Feats, Facts And Firstsby David NemecISBN 0452259258 (0-452-25925-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Walter J. CobbISBN 0451527887 (0-451-52788-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description. [via]
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In The Footsteps Of Churchillby Richard HolmesISBN 0465030831 (0-465-03083-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in Americaby Michael B. KatzISBN 0465032109 (0-465-03210-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Jeffersonby Saul K. PadoverISBN 0451627970 (0-451-62797-0)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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Kaffir Boyby Mark MathabaneISBN 0452259436 (0-452-25943-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Kaffir Boy : The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africaby Mark MathabaneISBN 0452264715 (0-452-26471-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Raymond CarneyISBN 0451525493 (0-451-52549-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
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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King Learby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 0460873334 (0-460-87333-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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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]
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The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of Chinaby Keith LaidlerISBN 0470848804 (0-470-84880-4)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lynne Sharon SchwartzISBN 0451525094 (0-451-52509-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:[via]Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school treat Sara as if she truly were a princess. But when Captain Crewe's fortune is sadly lost, Sara's luck changes. Suddenly she is treated no better than a scullery maid. Her own fierce determination to maintain her dignity and remain a princess inside has intrigued and delighted readers for almost a hundred years, even inspiring a recent popular feature film. 
Lives of St. Thomas Moreby Nicholas Harpsfield, Roper, William and Harpsfield, NicholasISBN 0460000195 (0-460-00019-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Looking Backwardby Edward BellamyISBN 0451527631 (0-451-52763-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward'Book summary:Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is the most widely read novel of its time. A young Boston gentleman is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century--from a world of war and want to one of peace and plenty. This brilliant vision became the blueprint of utopia that stimulated some of the greatest thinkers of our age. [via]
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Lust for Lifeby Irving StoneISBN 0452262496 (0-452-26249-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lust for Life'Book summary:The book captures the atmosphere of the Paris of the Post-Impressionists and reconstructs the development of Van Gogh's art. [via]
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, John F. AndrewsISBN 046087182X (0-460-87182-X)
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Man Makes Himselfby V. Gordon ChildeISBN 0452006244 (0-452-00624-4)
Softcover, New American Library
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The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israelby Thomas ThompsonISBN 0465006493 (0-465-00649-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel'Book summary:One of the great controversies surrounding the Bible in the last 20 years centers on whether it is a historical document and therefore literally "true." Thomas L. Thompson has spent his academic career steeped in this controversy, researching the archaeological histories of Israel and Palestine, and has concluded that the Bible is not a historical document. Thompson contends however, that understanding the Bible as fictive does not have to undermine its truth and integrity. Currently a professor of the Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen, Thompson's The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel aims to separate the Bible from history in order to understand it on its own terms, in the context its authors intended. While parts of The Mythic Past value research and analysis over readability, it is arranged to help aspiring scholars negotiate the vast and complex history of biblical understanding. Thompson believes that "How the Bible is related to history has been badly misunderstood. As we have been reading the Bible within a context that is certainly wrong, and as we have misunderstood the Bible because of this, we need to seek a context more appropriate. As a result, we will begin to read the Bible in a new way." --Jodie Buller [via]
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Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germansby Eric A. JohnsonISBN 0465049087 (0-465-04908-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Ominous Parallelsby Leonard PeikoffISBN 0452011175 (0-452-01117-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ominous Parallels'Book summary:Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism. Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial ?truth,? the public good, doing one?s duty--these are among the seductive catch-phrases that Leonard Peikoff dissects, examining the kind of philosophy they symbolize, the type of thinking that lured Germany to its doom and that he says is now prevalent in the United States. Here is a frightening look at where America may be heading, a clarion call for all who are concerned about preserving our right to individual freedom.[via]More editions of Ominous Parallels:
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The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in Americaby Leonard PeikoffISBN 0451622103 (0-451-62210-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Origins of Historyby Herbert ButterfieldISBN 0465053440 (0-465-05344-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Oxford History of the American People Vol. 3: 1869 Through the Death of John F. Kennedyby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0452011329 (0-452-01132-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Poet and the Murderer : A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgeryby Simon WorrallISBN 0452284023 (0-452-28402-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Regenerationby Pat BarkerISBN 0452270073 (0-452-27007-3)
Softcover, Plume
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Rural Ridesby William CobbettISBN 046000638X (0-460-00638-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Short History of South East Asiaby Peter ChurchISBN 0470821280 (0-470-82128-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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A Short History of South-east Asiaby Church PeterISBN 0470821817 (0-470-82181-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Socialism: Past and Futureby Michael Harrington, Irving HoweISBN 0451628543 (0-451-62854-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Soft Cage: Srveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terrorby Christian ParentiISBN 0465054854 (0-465-05485-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soft Cage: Srveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror'Book summary:On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge historian and journalist Christian Parenti points out, these everyday intrusions on privacy, while harmless in themselves, are part of a relentless (and clandestine) expansion of routine surveillance in American life over the last two centuries-from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice and tracking immigrants. Parenti explores the role computers are playing in creating a whole new world of seemingly benign technologies-such as credit cards, website "cookies," and electronic toll collection-that have expanded this trend in the twenty-first century. The Soft Cage offers a compelling, vitally important history lesson for every American concerned about the expansion of surveillance into our public and private lives.[via]More editions of The Soft Cage: Srveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror:
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomasby Jane Mayer, Jill AbramsonISBN 0452274990 (0-452-27499-0)
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The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam, 1945-1975by Michael MacLearISBN 0458951706 (0-458-95170-6)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinal: His Life and Deathby George CavendishISBN 0460041436 (0-460-04143-6)
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asiaby Karl Meyer, Sharleen Blair BrysacISBN 0465045766 (0-465-04576-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia'Book summary:Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, the Russian and British Empires played out a chess game of diplomacy, espionage, and military thrusts into Central Asia to protect their expanding interests. When play began, the frontiers of their empires lay 2,000 miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, they were separated by only 20 miles. Karl E. Meyer of The New York Times and Shareen Blair Brysac, documentary filmmaker for CBS, update and significantly expand earlier studies of the imperial rivalry, notably Peter Hopkirk's pioneering The Great Game. Tournament of Shadows reads like a racy adventure story, yet there is no need for the authors to embellish their well-researched facts. The region attracted a host of bizarre characters, each with his own idiosyncratic goals. The authors begin with the journey to Bokhara of an ambitious horse doctor, hired by the East India Company in 1806 to improve its breeding stock, and end with the CIA's assistance to anti-Chinese guerrillas in Tibet during the cold war. American participants in the opening of Central Asia have not previously received much attention, but Tournament of Shadows introduces adventurers such as William Rockhill, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1880s to explore Tibet, and William McGovern, who, to the chagrin of the British, reached Lhasa in 1923. The wealth and instability of Central Asia continue to keep the region in the headlines, motivating the Soviet Union's disastrous 10-year intervention in Afghanistan and fueling an international race for resources--especially oil--today. --John Stevenson [via]
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The Tragedy of King Learby Russell A. Fraser, William ShakspeareISBN 0451526937 (0-451-52693-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of 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]
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Tragedy of Macbethby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451526775 (0-451-52677-5)
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Understanding Media: The Extension of Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0451627652 (0-451-62765-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media: The Extension of Man'Book summary:When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril. [via]
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Varieties of Religious Experiencesby William James, Peter Gomes, Jacques BarzunISBN 0451528786 (0-451-52878-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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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The Vision of Piers Plowmanby William LanglandISBN 0460115715 (0-460-11571-5)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vision of Piers Plowman'Book summary:One man's dream of a better society...PIERS PLOWMAN stands at the centre of medieval English literature along with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, which in many ways it complements. A weary wanderer falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a deep dungeon, and in between the whold of humanity pursuing its business and pleasure...but his dream becomes a profound vision of redemption, in which the corruptions and injustices that occur daily are laid open with passionate truthfulness in poetry that combines vigorous realism and probing argument with moments of epic sublimity and lyrical beauty. Edited by AVC Schmidt of Balliol College, Oxford, this is the B-Text. 'A marvel of comprehension' Derek Pearsall [via]
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0460871595 (0-460-87159-5)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent
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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"by Henry David ThoreauISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry. [via]
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Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 046087635X (0-460-87635-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexualityby Jared M. DiamondISBN 0465031269 (0-465-03126-9)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality'Book summary:Many of us pursue fitness because we want to remain attractive to partners and potential partners, and we stay healthy so we can continue to have sex with those partners. But why do people care so much about sex? This book, written by an evolutionary biologist, explains how all the weird quirks of human sexuality came to be: sex with no intention of procreation, invisible fertility, sex acts pursued in private--all common to us, but very different from most other species. Why Is Sex Fun? asks us to look at ourselves in a brand-new way, and richly rewards us for doing so. [via]
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