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1918: War and Peaceby Gregor DallasISBN 1585673196 (1-58567-319-6)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: '1918: War and Peace'Book summary:On the night of November 7, 1918, out of the fog of "No Man's Land," French troops perceived the vague form of a white flag. Within four days Germany had signed the armistice at the forest outside Compigne.
Renowned historian Gregor Dallas traces the transition from war to peace across Europe from the perspective of five capitals: Berlin, Paris, Washington, London, Moscow. In Berlin the cabarets and beer halls are open, while there is shooting in the streets. In Paris, the peacemakers have assembled to draft the Treaty of Versailles and create the League of Nations. Washington is divided between those who want to open America to the world and those who would prefer the world to go away. A new theater season opens in London, where David Lloyd George holds new elections and reorganizes the War Cabinet and John Maynard Keynes worries about the debt. Moscow, still reeling from the Revolution of 1917, is a scene of desolation, but Lenin insists on setting up the Third International.
The silencing of the guns led to the collapse and disappearance of the German, Austria-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman empires; to revolution and civil disorder; to poverty and disease. The face of Europe was changed forever and the consequences of the peace in that autumn of 1918 would bear fruit twenty years later-when new horrors would await a new generation. [via]
The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 1582019703 (1-58201-970-3)
Hardcover, Classic Books
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Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius Whose Cruden's Concordance Unwrote the Bibleby Julia KeayISBN 1585678015 (1-58567-801-5)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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The American Civil War - Co-ed: 1861-1863by Gary Gallagher, Stephen EngleISBN 158159299X (1-58159-299-X)
Hardcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Anarchy: An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earthby Peter GlassgoldISBN 1582430403 (1-58243-040-3)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Ancient Greeceby Furio DurandoISBN 1586637584 (1-58663-758-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drugby Diarmuid JeffreysISBN 1582346003 (1-58234-600-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Best Little Stories from the White Houseby C. Brian Kelly, Ingrid SmyerISBN 1581824661 (1-58182-466-1)
Softcover, Cumberland House
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The Black Hole of Calcutta: A Reconstructionby Noel BarberISBN 1585790079 (1-58579-007-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Hole of Calcutta: A Reconstruction'Book summary:A bare, low-ceilinged dungeon with two barred air-holes, the cell known as the Black Hole prison, in the British East India Companys Fort William, was intended to hold at most a couple of prisoners. But on the terrible night of June 20, 1756, at the end of a four-day battle of astonishing ferocity which saw a vast Indian horde overwhelm the Forts defenders, 145 men and one woman were cruelly herded into the Black Hole. Only twenty-three survived the ten horriÞc hours till their release at dawn. The siege of Calcutta and the night of the Black Hole together comprise one of the most dramatic episodes of British Imperial history, and Noel Barbers detailed reconstruction is so gripping and well-written that I do not hesitate to class his book as history at its compellingly readable best. [via]
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The Book of Prefacesby Alasdair GrayISBN 1582340374 (1-58234-037-4)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Prefaces'Book summary:The preface usually contains one of four pleasures, says anthologist Alasdair Gray. There is the biographical snippet, full of gossipy details that "make us feel at home in earlier times." There is the author's attempt to forestall criticism (in first editions) or to answer it (in later ones). There is the report on the state of civilization, both favorable (see Walt Whitman) and unfavorable (see Karl Marx). And there is the attack on other writers or translators, sometimes bridging centuries and containing spears thrown at the long dead. All four pleasures are well represented in this 640-page treasury of English and American intros, which runs from an A.D. 675 translation of Genesis to the 1920 poems of Wilfred Owen. Why stop there? "The flow is stopped at 1920," admits Gray in his own disarmingly self-effacing preface, "by costs of using work still in copyright."
This is anything but anthology-on-the-cheap, however. Gray (Lanark and A History Maker) poured 16 years of research into The Book of Prefaces, and adds considerable value with his own running commentary, which straggles down the margins in brash red ink. Gray on the God of Genesis: "This God, with revenge in mind, first makes earth ugly as hell." Among God's anthologized fellows are Mark Twain, who defends his use of Southern dialect in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Lewis Carroll, who anticipates his critics' charges of writing nonsense in The Hunting of the Snark and proceeds to prove their case; and Charles Darwin, who recalls how the seeds of The Origin of Species were sown aboard the HMS Beagle. Gray mixes scholarly research with playful eccentricities: When was the last time you saw a book's typesetter, typist, and publisher memorialized in pen-and-ink drawings? And "with this in their lavatory," writes the cheeky author, "everyone else can read nothing but newspaper supplements and still seem educated." He may be right. --Claire Dederer [via]
Boudica: The Life of Britain's Legendary Warrior Queenby Vanessa CollingridgeISBN 1585677787 (1-58567-778-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Call of Duty : The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Leeby J. Steven WilkinsISBN 1581823347 (1-58182-334-7)
Softcover, Cumberland House Publishing
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Cecileby Mary Casanova, Jean-Paul TibblesISBN 1584855185 (1-58485-518-5)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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The Christian Almanac: A Dictionary of Days Celebrating History's Most Significant People and Eventsby George Grant, Gregory WilburISBN 1581820615 (1-58182-061-5)
Softcover, Cumberland House Publishing
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 1582790841 (1-58279-084-1)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub
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The Companyby Robert LittellISBN 1585671975 (1-58567-197-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Cross Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jby Robert SullivanISBN 1582345279 (1-58234-527-9)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Crude: The Story Of Oilby Sonia ShahISBN 1583227237 (1-58322-723-7)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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The Cruel Seaby Nicholas MonsarratISBN 1580800467 (1-58080-046-7)
Softcover, Burford Books
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The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Codeby Sandra Miesel, Carl E. OlsonISBN 1586170341 (1-58617-034-1)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Daring and Suffering: A History of the Andrews Railroad Raidby William Pittenger, James G. BogleISBN 1581820348 (1-58182-034-8)
Softcover, Cumberland House
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The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History Of Hospitalityby Jesse BrownerISBN 1582344434 (1-58234-443-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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When we think of hospitality- to "give food to eat, beer to drink, grant what is requested, provide for and treat with honor"-we generally like to picture it as a simple expression of generosity. In truth, something far darker and more elemental often lurks behind a host's best intentions.
Partisan, witty, and laced with astonishing historical detail, The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down is dedicated to a new understanding of the art of hospitality. Jesse Browner leads the way back through Western civilization, from a present-day poker game where Browner's devastatingly delicious sandwiches leave the best players penniless, to the ancient Greeks, whose gods punished or exalted the mortals according to their excellence as hosts. On the way, we visit Hitler at his summer home (a staunch vegetarian, he liked to lecture his guests on the horrors of the slaughterhouse); Gertrude Stein (a marvelously successful hostess) in Paris and Lady Ottoline Morrell (a dismal failure) in England; Louis XIV at Versailles (whose opulent feasts and parties were matched only by his regulation of his courtiers' behavior, controlling even who was allowed to sit down); and the Roman emperors (for whom classic dinner-table entertainment was a good poisoning).
As delightful and edifying as an evening in favored company, The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down is a must-read for everyone who's ever accepted an invitation-or wonders why they keep sending them out.More editions of The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History Of Hospitality:
E=Mc2: The Great Ideas That Shaped Our Worldby Pete MooreISBN 1586636995 (1-58663-699-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jerseyby Charlotte D. MeldrumISBN 1585490547 (1-58549-054-7)
Softcover, Heritage Books
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The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600by Antony WildISBN 1585740594 (1-58574-059-4)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600'Book summary:Here is a historical chronicle of the most powerful corporation in world history, beautifully illustrated with full-color paintings, photographs, and maps. Established by Royal Charter in 1600, the East India Company was, and remains to this day, the largest and most powerful multinational business the world has ever seen. It controlled over half the world's trade and a quarter of its population. It singlehandedly ruled India, raised its own army and navy, minted its own currency, and traded with every corner of the globe. It also trafficked in opium, greed, and brutal oppression, sowing the seeds that would lead to its downfall-and absorption by the British Crown.
The East India Company describes how "the Honourable Company" created its extraordinary trading empire by introducing an exotic cache of tea, silks, porcelain, cashmere, and spices to a luxury-starved England. It also explains how the company conducted its day-to-day business at home and in the East, through colorful figures such as Captain James Skinner and John Nicholson; how the opulent daily life of East India Company rulers amongst the ruled led to "the Mutiny"; and why India's first war of independence spelled an end not only to the company itself, but, eventually, to an entire empire. [via]
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Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfumeby Mandy AftelISBN 1586857029 (1-58685-702-9)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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Exploring Church Historyby James P. EckmanISBN 158134368X (1-58134-368-X)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925by Wallace AkinISBN 158574607X (1-58574-607-X)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925'Book summary:Wallace Akin was two years old when the Tri-State Tornado picked up his house-with him and his mother inside-and dropped it atop two other collapsed buildings. Across town, his father lay unconscious near his auto shop, close to death, and Akin's brother managed to crawl from beneath the collapsed shop. All survived. Many others were not as fortunate: Earlier that afternoon, a supercell thunderstorm had spawned a tornado so deadly that it set records against which we still measure all other twisters. The storm ripped through southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwest Indiana, killing 695 people and wounding 2,000, in a record-breaking 219-mile, three-and-a-half-hour path of destruction. Akin's hometown was the worst hit, losing 243 people to the tornado.
Using first-person accounts from his family and neighbors, newspaper stories, and diaries, Akin offers a blow-by-blow account of the storm from its first sighting to its final minutes. He also attempts to explain how it began-and how it changed his life.
As a young adult, Akin realized that the weather service could have warned its victims; research on tornado prediction had ceased for no apparent reason. This, combined with his upbringing in a town traumatized by weather, led him to choose a career in geography, specializing in climate. In The Forgotten Storm he explains in clear language why tornadoes happen and how we may now be making these storms more severe and more frequent. The result is a book both thrilling and horrific, one that adds to our understanding of the battle between humans and nature. (6 x 9, 224 pages, photos)
Wallace Akin was for many years a professor of geography at Drake University. He received a research Fulbright in 1961 at the University of Copenhagen and has traveled widely studying climate and related human activities. He is the author of several academic books that include material on weather and climate. [via]
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From Bannockburn to Flodden: Wallace, Bruce, and the Heroes of Medieval Scotlandby Scott, Walter, Sr., George GrantISBN 1581821271 (1-58182-127-1)
Softcover, Cumberland House Publishing
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From Gileskirk to Greyfriars: Mary Queen of Scots, John Knox & the Heroes of Scotland's Reformationby Walter Scott, George GrantISBN 158182128X (1-58182-128-X)
Softcover, Cumberland House
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A God-Entranced Vision of All Things: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwardsby John Piper, Justin TaylorISBN 1581345631 (1-58134-563-1)
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Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospitalby Alex BeamISBN 1586481614 (1-58648-161-4)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Highlights of Templar History: Includes the Knights Templar Constitutionby Paul Tice, William Moseley Brown, Simeon B. ChaseISBN 1585092304 (1-58509-230-4)
Softcover, Book Tree
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Highlights of Templar History: Includes the Knights Templar Constitution'Book summary:The Knights Templar is a secret society that has existed for many centuries. Few books have been written about them from an insiders point of view. This book was originally released by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, United States of America, after seven years of historical research by an assigned committee. The author, Brown, was a member of that committee and their purpose was to provide Templars with an accurate history of their organization. It was for members only and much of the information is not found elsewhere. We've also added, from another source, their Constitution and Abbreviated By-Laws as a service for potential members or for those who desire a better knowledge of the inner workings of the Templars. These two works, combined together, will hopefully shed new light on an interesting and sometimes mysterious organization. [via]
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Historical Atlas Of The Napoleonic Eraby Angus KonstamISBN 1585748676 (1-58574-867-6)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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A History of Capitalism: 1500-2000by Michel Beaud, Tom Dickman, Anny LefebvreISBN 1583670416 (1-58367-041-6)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The Worldby Francis WheenISBN 158648348X (1-58648-348-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World'Book summary:In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.[via]
What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World:
I'll Met by Moonlightby William Stanley MossISBN 1580800602 (1-58080-060-2)
Softcover, Burford Books
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The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Ageby Edmund Blair BollesISBN 1582431019 (1-58243-101-9)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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The Ice Finders is the story of some of the discoveries and arguments behind the great Ice Age debate. The story is told by American popular science writer Edmund Blair Bolles who also wrote Galileo's Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing. He interweaves the separate lives of three main characters--an American naval surgeon turned Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, an English barrister turned geologist Sir Charles Lyell and a Swiss medic turned geologist Louis Agassiz. The connecting cloth is the gathering evidence for the existence of a great Ice Age which swept out of the Alps and Scandinavia and fundamentally altered the landscape of northern Europe.
Kane's two-year-long (1853-5) Greenland expedition was in search of Sir John Franklin and to check on the possibility of an open Arctic Ocean. Bolles uses the narrative of Kane's expedition to break up the more complicated technical arguments between Lyell, Agassiz and many other scientists about the nature of glacial phenomena such as erratics, parallel roads and scratched rock surfaces. Eventually the strands are pulled together when Kane returns to civilisation and publishes an account of travels and observations.
The result is an interesting read and good introduction for the general reader to many of the main characters of 19th-century earth science and their disputations. It also contains notes, a bibliography and index to assist the reader. Historians of science will doubtless argue that too much is factionalised in the interest of popularisation. --Douglas Palmer [via]
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Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Senseby Francis WheenISBN 1586482475 (1-58648-247-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense:
In Tasmaniaby Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 1585677205 (1-58567-720-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransportby Deborah Oppenheimer, Mark Jonathan Harris, David Cesarani, Richard AttenboroughISBN 1582341621 (1-58234-162-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport'Book summary:Between December 1938 and the outbreak of war in August 1939, some 10,000 children, the vast majority of them Jews, from Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia were evacuated to Great Britain. The stories of 18 witnesses to this Kindertransport--children, parents, and rescuers--are recounted in Into the Arms of Strangers.
These first-person accounts are woven into a loose narrative of life before the Nazi era, the transport, and life in their new homes. The editors wisely remain in the background, allowing the survivor testimony to shine through. Their experiences were diverse: some stayed behind, such as Norbert Wollheim, a Kindertransport organizer who refused a number of chances to escape from Germany, knowing that if he did, the transports would be stopped. Lory Cahn was actually on a train when her father pulled her off; he was unable to let her go. Those who made it to England found challenges of their own: some remained in hostels for the remainder of the war; some were taken in by families to work as cheap servant labor; still others were taken in by loving families, but then had to deal with "survivor's guilt."
Years after the war, Vera Gissing asked her foster father why he and his family had taken her in. He answered, "I knew I could not save the world. I knew I could not stop the war from starting. But I knew I could save one human life." Into the Arms of Strangers is a moving tribute to this remarkable event. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransportby Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah OppenheimerISBN 158234101X (1-58234-101-X)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Jeb Stuart : The Last Cavalierby Burke DavisISBN 1580800750 (1-58080-075-0)
Softcover, Burford Books
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The Life of Mary Jemison: The White Woman of the Genesseeby James E. SeaverISBN 1582182337 (1-58218-233-7)
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Lords of the Atlas: Morocco, the Rise and Fall of the House of Glaouaby Gavin MaxwellISBN 1585746339 (1-58574-633-9)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippinesby Richard ConnaughtonISBN 1585673943 (1-58567-394-3)
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There's no news in that assessment--MacArthur was infamous long before the Japanese attack for his imperious manner and sense of infallibility, and during the siege of Corregidor he earned the nickname "Dugout Doug" for secluding himself in a bunker far from his troops. What does come as news is in Connaughton's in-depth analysis of MacArthur's multifaceted failings as commander of American forces in the Philippines, which include his refusal to accept intelligence reports on the whereabouts and strength of his enemy, his failure to integrate Filipino forces effectively, and his strategically inept forward defense--all of which afforded an undersize Japanese invading force a comparatively easy victory.
Connaughton, a retired colonel in the British Army, has no particular stake in defending or disparaging MacArthur, around whom stands a lively literature both pro and con. In fairness, he observes, the American defense of the Philippines was doomed in any event; and, he adds, "MacArthur made monstrous blunders but it was not all his fault; he had a lot of help." His book throws new light on a crucial episode in the history of World War II, and it is likely to excite debate among students of military history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Medieval Europeby Neil GrantISBN 1583402543 (1-58340-254-3)
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Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expeditionby Sheila NickersonISBN 1585421332 (1-58542-133-2)
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The Murder of Napoleonby David HapgoodISBN 1583481508 (1-58348-150-8)
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 1583485090 (1-58348-509-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Namedby Marianne CurleyISBN 1582349134 (1-58234-913-4)
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Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules That Changed Historyby Jay Burreson, Penny Le CouteurISBN 1585423319 (1-58542-331-9)
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The Negroby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 1587159783 (1-58715-978-3)
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A New Introduction to Bibliographyby Philip GaskellISBN 1584560363 (1-58456-036-3)
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Not A Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C.S. Lewis And the Chronicles of Narniaby Terry GlaspeyISBN 1581824831 (1-58182-483-1)
Softcover, Cumberland House
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Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabweby Martin MeredithISBN 158648186X (1-58648-186-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe'Book summary:In 1980, Zimbabwe was the great hope of Africa, a place where blacks were supposed to realize their postcolonial destinies under the enlightened leadership of Robert Mugabe. But now the country formerly known as Rhodesia is an international basket case with a wrecked economy and a dim future. In this disturbing book by Martin Meredith, a British journalist with extensive experience in southern Africa, Mugabe transforms into a villain. "Year by year, he acquired ever greater power, ruling the country through a vast system of patronage, favoring loyal aides and cronies with government positions and contracts and ignoring the spreading blight of corruption," writes Meredith. "Power for Mugabe was not a means to an end, but the end itself." His reign has been so wretched, in fact, that some of the most sympathetic people in Our Votes, Our Guns are the white farmers who once supported apartheid-style rule but decided not to flee when Mugabe came to power. They were promised multiracial harmony; what they got instead was a racist dictator who thought nothing of using violence against them. Admirers of Philip Gourevitch--or, indeed, anyone with an interest in African politics--will appreciate Meredith's depressing but important story. --John Miller [via]
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The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern Americaby Gus RussoISBN 1582342792 (1-58234-279-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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A Pelican in the Wildernessby Isabel ColegateISBN 1582432384 (1-58243-238-4)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pelican in the Wilderness'Book summary:"Few books contain a cast of characters as fascinating as those who populate A Pelican in the Wilderness , Isabel Colegate's charming meander through the history of hermits and solitaries. Elegantly written...a small gem of a book."-- Wall Street Journal . From Lao-tse and the Buddha, St. Anthony and the early Celtic hermits, through Rousseau, Thoreau, Ruskin and down to the present day, certain gifted persons, each in his own way, have shown a vocation for living alone and apart, finding in simplicity and attention to Nature a spiritual space to be explored and rejoiced in. Others, retreating from the world in scorn or cut off from it by scandal, have found that solitude is Hell, a pit of melancholy and morbid fancy. In this, her first work of nonfiction, novelist Isabel Colegate gives us the lives of the solitaries--male and female, medieval and modern, divinely inspired and patently fraudulent. But this is no mere gallery of saints and sinners, poets and misanthropes. It is also a re-valuation of solitude for our times, and a reminder that it is in solitude that the soul meets itself, refreshes itself, and from there goes out to join the communal dance. [via]
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A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Reclusesby Isabel ColegateISBN 1582431213 (1-58243-121-3)
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Power and Terror: Post 9-11 Talks and Interviewsby Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei MasakazuISBN 1583225900 (1-58322-590-0)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 1582790329 (1-58279-032-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle With a Deadly Industryby David KesslerISBN 1586481215 (1-58648-121-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle With a Deadly Industry'Book summary:This is the David-and-Goliath story of how an American bureaucrat took on the tobacco industry--and helped topple it. David Kessler, head of the Food and Drug Administration for seven years under Presidents Bush and Clinton, earned the nickname "Eliot Knessler" from The Washington Post--a pun meant to evoke the memory of the Prohibition-era gangbuster--because he rejuvenated a moribund agency. The FDA regulated, in Kessler's words, "one quarter of every dollar Americans spent--from the food they eat to the drugs they take to the cosmetics they wear." Yet it lacked the courage to take on the country's most lethal product: cigarettes. So did Kessler, at least initially. He agreed with aides and others that Big Tobacco was too powerful a force in Washington, D.C. "The industry perceived threats everywhere, and responded to them ferociously," he writes. Moreover, challenging the industry would waste important resources that could have a more tangible benefit for consumers if they were spent elsewhere. Even before making the choice to go after cigarettes, Kessler was a figure of controversy, and this only intensified when he became one of the few Republican holdovers in the Clinton administration.
Much of the book deals with the routine business of the FDA: orange-juice seizures, a fight to restrict the sale of body tissues from foreign sources, how he responded to complaints that syringes were found in Pepsi cans, and so on. But the driving force behind Kessler's narrative is how he slowly woke up to the possibility of regulating cigarettes. "It is too easy to be swayed by the argument that tobacco is a legal product and should be treated like any other," he writes. "A product that kills people--when used as intended--is different. No one should be allowed to make a profit from that." His story is a lesson in Washington power politics--a game he played with naiveté when he started but was expert at by the end of his tenure.
To say Kessler and his team of FDA regulators "defeated" Big Tobacco is an overstatement: they were part of a broader effort that included trial lawyers, consumer groups, and crusading journalists, and the industry hasn't exactly gone away. But they were instrumental in forcing tobacco companies to admit that nicotine is addictive and cigarettes cause cancer, and in bringing about a sea change in the industry's legal and popular standing. Kessler now believes in regulation so tight it will strangle Big Tobacco forever: "If our goal is to halt this manmade epidemic," he writes, "the tobacco industry, as currently configured, needs to be dismantled." A Question of Intent is a well-told muckraker. It unfolds deliberately, like a good detective story. Admirers of Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action, especially those with a taste for public policy, won't be disappointed. --John J. Miller [via]
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Radical Walking Tours of New York Cityby Bruce Kayton, Pete SeegerISBN 1583225544 (1-58322-554-4)
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Salammboby Gustave FlaubertISBN 1582871043 (1-58287-104-3)
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Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrodby Beau RiffenburghISBN 1582344884 (1-58234-488-4)
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The Sledge Patrol: Wwii Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victoryby David HowarthISBN 1585742899 (1-58574-289-9)
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The Spiritual Legacy of C.S. Lewisby Terry W. GlaspeyISBN 1581822162 (1-58182-216-2)
Softcover, Cumberland House
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Stories in Stone : The Complete Guide to Cemetery Symbolismby Douglas KeisterISBN 158685321X (1-58685-321-X)
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The Tarot: History, Symbolism And Divinationby Robert Michael PlaceISBN 1585423491 (1-58542-349-1)
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Ten Thousand Eyes: The Amazing Story of the Spy Network That Cracked Hitler's Atlantic Wall Before D-Dayby Richard CollierISBN 1585742945 (1-58574-294-5)
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Terrorism and Warby Howard Zinn, Anthony ArnoveISBN 1583224939 (1-58322-493-9)
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Touched With Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That Made Themby James M. PerryISBN 1586482904 (1-58648-290-4)
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The Trouble With Tom: The Strange Afterlife And Times of Thomas Paineby Paul CollinsISBN 1582345023 (1-58234-502-3)
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Usborne Book of World History Datesby Jane ChisholmISBN 1580861148 (1-58086-114-8)
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Vanilla: A Cultural History Of The World's Most Popular Flavor And Fragranceby Patricia RainISBN 1585423637 (1-58542-363-7)
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1586632116 (1-58663-211-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Other Writings'Book summary:The quintessential back-to-nature book, Walden is an account of Thoreau's attempt to find a spiritual awakening by returning to a simple life in the Massachusetts woodlands. Thoreau's rejection of the values of the then-burgeoning Industrial Revolution still reverberates for contemporary readers. His quest for something deeper and more meaningful than materialism created a work that gave form to some of man's deepest yearnings. Walden, or Life in the Woods, is an attempt to awaken the "sleepers" of society to the potential for greatness within each of them. Written with poetry and fire, it remains one of literature's greatest road maps to the divine. [via]
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Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Huntby Michael J. YbarraISBN 1586420917 (1-58642-091-7)
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Wonders of the World: 100 Great Man-Made Treasures of Civilizationby Richard Cavendish, Rosemary BurtonISBN 1586637517 (1-58663-751-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonders of the World: 100 Great Man-Made Treasures of Civilization'Book summary:What city claims to be the world's oldest? What is the largest construction ever built by human hands? The answers to these and many other questions are here, revealed in fascinating detail and shown in remarkable photographs of the world's most spectacular sights. There are enigmatic megaliths such as Stonehenge and the Easter Island statues that have not yet yielded their age-old secrets. Exquisite edifices, such as St. Peter's in Rome, rub shoulders with the surreal structure of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The stark outline of the Great Pyramid at Giza contrasts with the extravagant opulence of Hearst's castle at San Simeon. Feats of engineering are represented with the Trans-Siberian Railway and Japan's Seto Ohashi Suspension Bridge. Each entry includes location details, a description of the site, a panel of additional information, and large color pictures. For easy reference, everything is broken up by continent with its own location map and introductory feature, and arranged chronologically.[via]More editions of Wonders of the World: 100 Great Man-Made Treasures of Civilization:
Yemen: The Unknown Arabiaby Tim MacKintosh-Smith, Martin YeomanISBN 1585671398 (1-58567-139-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yemen: The Unknown Arabia'Book summary:Englishman Tim Mackintosh-Smith was studying Arabic at Oxford when he visited Yemen, a forgotten country at the heel of the Arabian peninsula, and became obsessed with the place and its language. He's lived there since 1982, and this book--marketed as travel writing but more a blend of personal memoir and national history--is the result. There are certainly travel episodes, such as a trip to the remote island of Susqatra where the Gulf of Aden meets the Indian Ocean. Yet Yemen is more the product of a man gone native than a visitor with an itinerary. Indeed, Mackintosh-Smith offers a forthright defense of the country's lotus-like drug culture, which centers on qat, a leaf that produces a narcotic effect when chewed. "We qat chewers, if we are to believe everything that is said about us, are at best profligates, at worst irretrievable sinners," he writes. Although international health officials have warned against the drug, Mackintosh-Smith assures us this is all "quasi-scientific poppycock." The leaf, he says, helps its users to "think, work, and study." Yemen is surely an exotic land, and one of its charms--fully revealed in Mackintosh-Smith's digressive prose--is the way it has remained quaintly Arabic and seemingly immune to the modern forces transforming its neighbors. Well-received upon its initial publication in the United Kingdom, Yemen may come to be recognized as a small classic. --John J. Miller [via]
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