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Alexander : The Ambiguity of Greatnessby Guy Maclean RogersISBN 1400062616 (1-4000-6261-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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All We Did Was Fly to the Moonby Dick Lattimer, James A. MichenerISBN 0961122803 (0-9611228-0-3)
Softcover, Whispering Eagle Pr
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The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750-1950by Roderick Kiracofe, Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff, Sharon RisedorphISBN 1400080967 (1-4000-8096-7)
Softcover, Clarkson Potter
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The American Religionby Harold BloomISBN 0978721004 (0-9787210-0-4)
Softcover, Atlasbooks Dist Serv
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Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: Our Goddess and Heroine Heritageby Merlin StoneISBN 096033520X (0-9603352-0-X)
Hardcover, New Sibylline Books
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And the Truth Shall Set You Freeby David IckeISBN 0952614715 (0-9526147-1-5)
Softcover, Bookworld Services
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And the Truth Shall Set You Free: 21st Century Editionby David IckeISBN 0953881059 (0-9538810-5-9)
Softcover, David Icke Books
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Apolloby Charles MurrayISBN 0976000806 (0-9760008-0-6)
Softcover, Cox & Murray Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo'Book summary:Out of print for fifteen years, this is the classic account of how the United States got to the moon. It is a book for those who were part of Apollo and want to recapture the experience and for those of a new generation who want to know how it was done. It is an opinon shared by many Apollo veterans. Republished in 2004 with a new Foreword by the authors. [via]
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Aristotle's MetaphysicsISBN 0960287000 (0-9602870-0-0)
Hardcover, Peripatetic Pr
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Aristotle's Metaphysicsby AristotleISBN 0960287019 (0-9602870-1-9)
Softcover, Peripatetic Pr
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Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamiltonby Flora FraserISBN 1400075149 (1-4000-7514-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton'Book summary:From her humble beginnings as the daughter of a countryside blacksmith, Emy Lyon went on to claim the undying love of naval hero Admiral Nelson, Englands most famous native son. She served as model and muse to eighteenth-century Europes most renowned artists, and consorted with kings and queens at the royal court of Naples. Yet she would end her life in disgraced exile, penniless and alone. In this richly drawn portrait, Flora Fraser maps the spectacular rise and fall of legendary eighteenth-century beauty Emma, Lady Hamiltonas she came to be calleda woman of abundant affection and overwhelming charm, whose eye for opportunity was rivaled only by her propensity for overindulgence and scandal. Wonderfully intimate and lavishly detailed, Beloved Emma brings to life the incomparable Lady Hamilton and the politics, passions, and enchantments of her day. [via]
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Best Little Stories from the Civil War/Varina: Forgotten First Ladyby C. Brian Kelly, Ingrid SmyerISBN 0962487570 (0-9624875-7-0)
Softcover, Cumberland House
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Best Little Stories from the White Houseby C. Brian Kelly, Smyer IngridISBN 0962487546 (0-9624875-4-6)
Softcover, Cumberland House
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Black Boyby Richard WrightISBN 0971075670 (0-9710756-7-0)
Hardcover, Everbind Anthologies
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The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulersby Robert G. MorkotISBN 0948695242 (0-948695-24-2)
Softcover, David Brown Book Co
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Book of Buckskinningby William H. ScurlockISBN 0960566600 (0-9605666-0-0)
Softcover, Scurlock Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Buckskinning'Book summary:Step back in time and learn how to relive the American frontier. First published in 1981, this bestseller is the standard against which other frontier living history books are judged! Ten authors bring their expertise to the subjects of: The Philosophy of Buckskinning, How to Get Started, Rendezvous & Shoots, The Lodge, The Guns, The Clothing, Accoutrements & Equipment, The Skills, Women in Buckskinning, and The Crafts. Timeless information and inspiration for modern-day frontiersmen and women! [via]
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The Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus, And the Secret Key to the Life of Jesusby Christopher Knight, Robert LomasISBN 1402735200 (1-4027-3520-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus, And the Secret Key to the Life of Jesus'Book summary:[via]It started as a personal quest to unearth the origins of their orders ancient ritualsbut 14 years after they began their search, Freemasons Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas have discovered much more. The Book of Hiram brings their mission to an amazing close, as it painstakingly rebuilds the long-forgotten story contained in the scattered rites and ceremonies of Freemasonry and puts forth explosive evidence drawn from the latest archeological discoveries, the Bible, and early versions of Masonic rituals. What it reveals is The Masonic Testament, a parallel narrative to the Bible, with events that go unmentioned or unnoticed in those sacred pagesincluding a secret science of astronomy that they find encoded in the Bible. The study concludes with the startling revelation: that a lost science that changed the world before, could change it once again.
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The Born - Einstein Letters: Friendship, Politics And Physics In Uncertain Times 1916 to 1955by Max Born, Albert Einstein, Hedwig BornISBN 1403944962 (1-4039-4496-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Boy Captive of Old Deerfieldby Mary P. SmithISBN 0961287659 (0-9612876-5-9)
Hardcover, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assn
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina And the Drowning of New Orleansby Jed HorneISBN 1400065526 (1-4000-6552-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Celtic Book of Living and Dying: The Illustrated Guide to Celtic Wisdomby Juliette WoodISBN 1402714181 (1-4027-1418-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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A Charming Place: Bath in the Life and Times of Jane Austenby Maggie LaneISBN 0948975148 (0-948975-14-8)
Hardcover, Millstream Books
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Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery In The Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast And ...by Robert C. DavisISBN 1403945519 (1-4039-4551-9)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Clerkenwell Talesby Peter AckroydISBN 1400075955 (1-4000-7595-5)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trailby Charles BahneISBN 0961570520 (0-9615705-2-0)
Softcover, Newtowne Pub
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Conspiracy of One: The Definitive Book on the Kennedy Assassinationby Jim MooreISBN 0962621951 (0-9626219-5-1)
Softcover, Summit Group
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and Warby Gioconda BelliISBN 1400032164 (1-4000-3216-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyssby Bradford MatsenISBN 1400075017 (1-4000-7501-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss'Book summary:In Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen brings to vivid life the famous deep-sea expeditions of Otis Barton and William Beebe. Beebe was a very well-connected and internationally acclaimed naturalist, with the power to generate media attention. Barton was an engineer and heir to a considerable fortune, who had long dreamed of making his mark on the world as an adventurer. Together, Beebe and Barton would achieve what no one had done before--direct observation of life in the blackness of the abyss. Here, against the back drop of the depression, is their riveting tale. [via]
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?by Toni Mcgee CauseyISBN 0974199516 (0-9741995-1-6)
Hardcover, Chin Music Pr
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Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockiesby Virginia CornellISBN 0962789658 (0-9627896-5-8)
Softcover, Manifest Pubns
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Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorismby Robert A. PapeISBN 1400063175 (1-4000-6317-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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E=mc2: The Great Ideas That Shaped Our Worldby Paul KriwaczekISBN 1402725329 (1-4027-2532-9)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Exploring Lost Hawaii: Places of Power, History, Mystery and Magicby Ellie CroweISBN 097128850X (0-9712885-0-X)
Softcover, Univ of Hawaii Pr
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The First Quarter: A 25-Year History of Video Gamesby Steven L. KentISBN 0970475500 (0-9704755-0-0)
Softcover, B W D Pr
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Above all, this book provides an intimate look into the lives of a group of brilliant and quirky people, and the sometimes serious and sometimes wacky way they ran their business. [via]
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The Flyers : In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wrightby Noah AdamsISBN 1400049121 (1-4000-4912-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flyers : In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright'Book summary:It takes only nineteen seconds to walk the distance of the first powered flight. But when I was there the wind was up and cold on my face, and I felt as if Id entered the black-and-white photograph Id been seeing all my life. The sand is light gray, theres a spill of surf in the distance. Wilbur, running at the right of the plane, and Orville, the pilot, are in dark suits. The propellers blur against the sky as the machine rises. . . .
So begins Noah Adamss adventure in search of Wilbur and Orville Wright, a journey that takes him across the country as he follows in the footsteps of the famous brothers in an attempt to know them more deeply, not just as inventors and pilots but as individuals as well.
Adams, one of our most distinctive and talented storytellers, traveled thousands of miles and interviewed scores of experts and individuals to piece together his story. He finds a local boat captain to ferry him to Kitty Hawk, along the same route that Wilbur took in 1900, and spends several days talking with descendants of the families who first welcomed the Wright brothers a century ago and helped them conduct their gliding experiments. To experience first-hand the thrill of being in the air, Adams himself goes hang-gliding in the Outer Banks.
To understand the aerodynamics of lift and drag and how the famous 1903 plane was constructed, he visits Ken Hyde, a Virginia pilot and vintage aircraft builder who is creating the worlds most accurate reproduction of the 1903 Wright Flyer. Adams goes to the prop shop and handles the tools and materials that the Wrights used to build their gliders and planes, and later he visits the wind tunnel at Langley Air Force Base where Hydes reproduction was tested for the first time.
He also travels to France to visit the old racetrack at Le Mans where Wilbur startled the European aviation community with his demonstration flights in 1908, and he spends a few days at Wisconsins Oshkosh Fly-in, where builders of experimental aircraft and owners of vintage planes gather every year to dazzle the crowds. Adams himself takes to the air in a restored Ford Tri-Motor, Americas first airliner, which took its maiden flight seventy years ago.
In Adamss book we encounter the Wright brothers in a way that no writer has introduced them before. Through the lens of his own experiences as well as original reporting, letters, diaries, and other primary source material, he helps us understand the talent and intensity of the brothers and their family, including the fascinating, deeply complex, and at times tragic bond between Orville and Katharine, his younger sister.
The Flyers is a wonderfully rich narrative that brings an unprecedented spirit of immediacy to one of historys most dramatic stories. [via]More editions of The Flyers : In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright:
The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bankby David PlotzISBN 1400061245 (1-4000-6124-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Greatest Game Ever Playedby Frost. MarkISBN 1401308120 (1-4013-0812-0)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Hidden History of the Human Raceby Richard L. Thompson, Michael A. CremoISBN 0963530968 (0-9635309-6-8)
Hardcover, Torchlight Pub
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The Hill with a Future: Seattle's Capitol Hill, 1900-1946by Jacqueline B. WilliamsISBN 0964417324 (0-9644173-2-4)
Softcover, CPK Ink
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A History of the Bahamasby Michael CratonISBN 0969256817 (0-9692568-1-7)
Softcover, San Salvador Press
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The House of the Spiritsby Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin, Christopher Hitchens, Madga BoginISBN 1400043182 (1-4000-4318-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Chilean writer Isabel Allendes classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American countrys turbulent history.
In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba familys passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nations history thrillingly to life, but also makes its peoples joys and anguishes wholly our own. [via]More editions of The House of the Spirits:
How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War--From Ancient Greece to the War on Terrorby Bevin AlexanderISBN 1400049482 (1-4000-4948-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 1400048044 (1-4000-4804-4)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History'Book summary:Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Goulds tenth and final collection based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazineexactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he has ever published, I Have Landed marks the end of a significant chapter in the career of one of the most acclaimed and widely read scientists of our time.
Gould writes about the themes that have defined his career, which his readers have come to expect and celebrate, casting new light upon them and conveying the ideas that science professionals exchange among themselves (minus the technical jargon). Here, of course, is Charles Darwin, from his centrality to any sound scientific education to little-known facts about his life. Gould touches on subjects as far-reaching and disparate as feathered dinosaurs, the scourge of syphilis and the frustration of the man who identified it, and Freuds evolutionary fantasy. He writes brilliantly of Nabokovs delicately crafted drawings of butterflies and the true meaning of biological diversity. And in the poignant title essay, he details his grandfathers journey from Hungary to America, where he arrived on September 11, 1901. It is from his grandfathers journal entry of that day, stating simply I have landed, that the books title was drawn. This landing occurred 100 years to the day before our greatest recent tragedy, also explored, but with optimism, in the concluding section of the book.
Presented in eight parts, I Have Landed begins with a remembrance of a moment of wonder from childhood. In Part II, Gould explains that humanistic disciplines are not antithetical to theoretical or applied sciences. Rather, they often share a commonality of method and motivation, with great potential to enhance the achievements of each other, an assertion perfectly supported by essays on such notables as Nabokov and Frederic Church.
Part III contains what no Gould collection would be complete without: his always compelling mini intellectual biographies, which render each subject and his work deserving of reevaluation and renewed significance. In this collection of figures compelling and strange, Gould exercises one of his greatest strengths, the ability to reveal a significant scientific concept through a finely crafted and sympathetic portrait of the person behind the science. Turning his pen to three key figuresSigmund Freud, Isabelle Duncan, and E. Ray Lankester, the latter an unlikely attendee of the funeral of Karl Marxhe highlights the effect of the Darwinian revolution and its resonance on their lives and work.
Part IV encourages the readerthrough what Gould calls intellectual paleontology to consider scientific theories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in a new light and to recognize the limitations our own place in history may impose on our understanding of those ideas. Part V explores the op-ed genre and includes two essays with differing linguistic formats, which address the continual tug-of-war between the study of evolution and creationism.
In subsequent essays, in true Gould fashion, we are treated to moments of good humor, especially when he leads us to topics that bring him obvious delight, such as Dorothy Sayers novels and his enduring love of baseball and all its dramas. There is an ardent admiration of the topsy-turvy world of Gilbert and Sullivan (wonderfully demonstrated in the jacket illustration), who are not above inclusion in all things evolutionary.
This is truly Goulds most personal work to date. How fitting that this final collection should be his most revealing and, in content, the one that reflects most clearly the complexity, breadth of knowledge, and optimism that characterize Gould himself. I Have Landed succeeds in reinforcing Goulds underlying and constant theme from the series commencement thirty years agothe study of our own scientific, intellectual, and emotional evolutionbringing reader and author alike to what can only be described as a brilliantly written and very natural conclusion.
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India: Indiaby V.S. NaipaulISBN 1400030757 (1-4000-3075-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indiansfrom a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for Bombays homelessNaipaul captures a vast, mysterious, and agonized continent inaccessible to foreigners and barely visible to its own people. He sees both the burgeoning space program and the 5,000 volunteers chanting mantras to purify a defiled temple; the feudal village autocrat and the Naxalite revolutionaries who combined Maoist rhetoric with ritual murder. Relentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of its prose, India: A Wounded Civilization is a work of astonishing insight and candor. [via]More editions of India: India:
Isle of Avalonby Nicholas R. MannISBN 0953663132 (0-9536631-3-2)
Softcover, Green Magic
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Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, the First Decade, 1607-1617by Edward Wright HaileISBN 0966471202 (0-9664712-0-2)
Hardcover, RoundHouse
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Katharine Graham's Washingtonby Katharine GrahamISBN 1400030595 (1-4000-3059-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Katharine Graham's Washington'Book summary:As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the nations capital.
To Russell Banks, it is a place where no one is in charge and no one, therefore, can be held responsible for the mess. To John Dos Passos, it is essentially a town of lonely people. Whatever your impressions of Washington, D.C., you will likely find them challenged here. Experience Christmas with the Roosevelts, as seen through the eyes of a White House housekeeper. Learn why David McCullough is happy to declare I love Washington, while The Washington Posts Sally Quinn wonders, Why Do They Hate Washington? Glimpse David Brinkleys depiction of the capital during World War II, then experience Henry Kissingers thoughts on Peace at Last, post-Vietnam. Written by a whos who of journalists, historians, First Ladies, politicians, and more, these varied works offer a wonderful overview of Katharine Grahams beloved city. [via]More editions of Katharine Graham's Washington:
The Lanahan Readings in the American Polityby Everett C. Ladd, Ann Gostyn SerowISBN 0965268772 (0-9652687-7-2)
Softcover, Lanahan Pub Inc
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas MaloryISBN 1401307809 (1-4013-0780-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Leadershipby Rudolph W. Giuliani, Ken KursonISBN 1401359280 (1-4013-5928-0)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern Americaby Karenna Gore SchiffISBN 1401360157 (1-4013-6015-7)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The women she's selected are as varied as they are inspirational. Ida B. wells-Barnett, who was born a slave and fought against lynching; Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who organized coal miners and campaigned against child labor; Alice Hamilton, who pushed for regulation of industrial toxins; Frances Perkins, who established our social secruity program; Virginia Durr, a high society Southern belle who fought the poll tax and segregation; Septima Clark, who helped to register black voters; Dolores Huerta, who organized farm workers; Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, an activist for reproductive rights; and Gretchen Buchenholz, currently one of the nation's leading child advocates.
Karenna Gore Schiff delivers an intimate and accessible account of the nine trail-blazing women who deserve not only to be honored but to have their example serve as a guiding light for activists and leaders of tomorrow. [via]
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Like No Other Time : The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Foreverby Tom Daschle, Michael D'OrsoISBN 1400049555 (1-4000-4955-5)
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Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siegeby Alan AdelsonISBN 0966044010 (0-9660440-1-0)
Hardcover, Jewish Heritage Project Inc
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Longbow: A Social and Military Historyby Robert HardyISBN 0964574136 (0-9645741-3-6)
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Louisbourg: From Its Foundation to Its Fall 1713-1758by J. S. McLennanISBN 0969017707 (0-9690177-0-7)
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A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in Americaby James H. MadisonISBN 1403961212 (1-4039-6121-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America'Book summary:Indiana University professor James H. Madison tells the story behind one of America's most infamous photographs: the image of two black teenagers dangling from a tree after a 1930 lynching in Marion, Indiana. The photo, reproduced on the cover, draws its power not only from the dead boys but also from the "shameless faces" of the white onlookers. The lynching itself involved three black teenagers accused of killing a white man and raping a white woman. Two of the alleged perpetrators were dragged from their jail cells shortly after they supposedly confessed to the crimes; the third, James Cameron, survived only because the crowd came to its senses. He was eventually convicted of voluntary manslaughter (but not murder or rape), served his time, went on to lead a productive life, and was pardoned by the governor in 1993. No member of the lynch mob, however, was ever brought to justice--even though their acts were captured on film and witnessed by thousands. There are holes in the story--whether Mary Ball really was raped "will likely never be known," says Madison--but A Lynching in the Heartland succeeds at providing a detailed look at a horrible incident and its aftermath. --John Miller [via]
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Memories of the Old Plantation Home: A Creole Family Albumby Laura Locoul Gore, Norman Marmillion, Sand MarmillionISBN 0970559100 (0-9705591-0-0)
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The Moral Consequences of Economic Growthby Benjamin M. FriedmanISBN 1400095719 (1-4000-9571-9)
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Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at Warby Rodric BraithwaiteISBN 1400044308 (1-4000-4430-8)
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The Myth of the Robber Baronsby Burton W. FolsomISBN 0963020315 (0-9630203-1-5)
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Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israel Conflictby Mitchell G. BardISBN 0971294518 (0-9712945-1-8)
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Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflictby Mitchell Geoffrey Bard, American-Israeli Cooperative EnterpriseISBN 097129450X (0-9712945-0-X)
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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Anotherby W. Travis Hanes, Frank SanelloISBN 1402201494 (1-4022-0149-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another'Book summary:In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 18391842 and 18561860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts.
Britain was also a nation addicted-to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years.
In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West.
"A fine popular account."-Publishers Weekly
"Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."-Booklist [via]More editions of The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another:
The Oresteiaby Aeschylus, George Derwent Thomson, Richard SeafordISBN 1400041929 (1-4000-4192-9)
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Othelloby William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, Barbara GainesISBN 1402201028 (1-4022-0102-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:The Sourcebooks Shakespeare brings the Shakespeare page to life. This remarkable edition of Othello is both the easiest way to understand the play and the best way to experience the full power and depth of the play.
This dynamic book includes an integrated audio CD that showcases key scenes from great performances past and present. You'll experience the play like never before-it's the next best thing to seeing the play performed live.
Each book offers:
* The full play, with line notes and a concurrent glossary
* Scholars and theatre producers discussing the play and popular culture
* Comments from every cast member of a current production.
This is also a very visual text, including:
* Photographs from great performances
* Costume designs and set renderings from different productions
* Production notes that take you inside the stage experience
Exclusive to The Sourcebooks Shakespeare and like no other edition of Othello, our audio CD and unique focus on the play as performed on the stage and on film brings the play to life.
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* One of the greatest Othellos of our time: Paul Robeson, from a 1944 production
* An 1890 private recording of Edwin Booth reciting Othello's speech to the Senate
* F. Scott Fitzgerald reciting Othellos speech to the Senate
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* About the seminal 1987 production in South Africa, in an essay written by the director herself, Janet Suzman
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* Photographs from the 1987 Johannesburg Othello
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The Pocket Book of Patriotismby George CourtauldISBN 1402729901 (1-4027-2990-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, David M. ShapardISBN 0974505307 (0-9745053-0-7)
Hardcover, Pheasant Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:This book represents the first annotated version ever of Jane Austen's most popular novel. It contains the complete text of the novel, along with more than 2300 annotations. These annotations provide historical background on the society and customs depicted in the novel, point out connections between its incidents and Jane Austen's own life, analyze the techniques and themes of the author, and define the many words in the novel that have become archaic or have shifted their meaning since the time it was published. The book also includes illustrations related to the period, as well as an introduction discussing the novel's overall structure, a chronology laying out the precise sequence of events in the story, and maps showing all the places mentioned in the text. [via]
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The Quilt That Walked To Golden: Women and Quilts in the Mountain West From the Overland Trail to Contemporary Coloradoby Povy Atchison Kendal, Nanette Simonds, Povy Kendal AtchisonISBN 0972121838 (0-9721218-3-8)
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The Romanovs: Love, Power & Tragedyby Manfred Knodt, Vladimir Oustimenko, Zinaida Peregudova, Lyubov Tyutyunnik, Alexander N. Bokhanov, A. N. Bokhanov, Lyudmila XenofontovaISBN 095216440X (0-9521644-0-X)
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Sarahby Marek HalterISBN 1400052785 (1-4000-5278-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah'Book summary:The first novel in a dazzling new trilogy about the women of the Old Testament by internationally bestselling author Marek Halter.
The story of Sarah--and of history itself--begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord, Sarah is raised in great luxury, but balks at the arranged marriage her father has planned for her. The groom is handsome and a nobleman, but on their wedding day, Sarah panics and impulsively flees to the vast, empty marshes outside the city walls. There she meets a young man, Abram, a member of a nomadic tribe of outsiders. Drawn to this exotic stranger, Sarah spends the night with him, but reluctantly returns to her fathers house. But on her return, still desperate to avoid another wedding, she drinks a poisonous potion that will make her barren and thus unfit for marriage.
Many years later, Abrams people return to Ur, and he discovers that the lost, rebellious girl from the marsh has been transformed into the most splendid and revered woman in Sumeria--the high priestess of the goddess Ishtar. But the memory of their night together has always haunted Sarah, and she gives up her exalted life to join Abram's tribe and follow the one true God, an invisible deity who speaks only to Abram. It is then that her journey truly begins--a journey that holds the key to her remarkable destiny as the mother of nations.
From the great ziggurat of Ishtar and the fertile valleys of Canaan to the bedchamber of the mighty Pharaoh himself, Sarahs story reveals an ancient world full of beauty, intrigue, and miracles. [via]
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disastersby Logan MarshallISBN 096652330X (0-9665233-0-X)
Hardcover, The Vision Forum Inc
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Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Designby Henry PetroskiISBN 1400032938 (1-4000-3293-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design'Book summary:Henry Petroski, Americas poet laureate of technology (Kirkus Reviews)author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Thingsnow gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and some possible futures, of familiar objects.
Chairs, lightbulbs, cup holders, toothbrushes, doorknobs, light switches, potato peelers, paper bags, duct tapeas ubiquitous as these may be, they are still works in progress. The design of such ordinary items demonstrates the simple brilliance of human creativity, while at the same time showing the frustration of getting anything completely right. Nothings perfect, and so the quest for perfection continues to continue.
In this engrossing and insightful book, Petroski takes us inside the creative process by which common objects are invented and improved upon in pursuit of the ever-elusive perfect thing. He shows us, for instance, how the disposable paper cup became a popular commercial success only after the public learned that shared water glasses could carry germs; how it took years, an abundance of business panache, and many discarded modelsfrom cups that opened like paper bags to those that came with pleatsfor the inventor of the paper cup to arrive at what we now use and toss away without so much as a thought for its fascinating history.
A trenchant, surprising evaluation of why some designs succeed and others dont, Small Things Considered is also an utterly delightful study of human nature.
Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University, lives in Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of ten previous books. [via]More editions of Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design:
The Story Of The World: The Modern Age, From Victoria's Empire to the Fall of the USSRby Susan Wise Bauer, Charlie ParkISBN 0972860355 (0-9728603-5-5)
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Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Responseby Aaron J. Klein, Mitch GinsburgISBN 1400064279 (1-4000-6427-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response'Book summary:The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli responsea lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign to track down the killers.
1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder eleven Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million people watch the crisis unfold on television, witnessing a tragedy that inaugurates the modern age of terror and remains a scar on the collective conscience of the world.
Back in Israel, Prime Minister Golda Meir vows to track down those responsible and, in Menachem Begins words, run these criminals and murderers off the face of the earth. A secret Mossad unit, code named Caesarea, is mobilized, a list of targets drawn up. Thus begins the Israeli responsea mission that unfolds not over months but over decades. The Mossad has never spoken about this operation. No one has known the real story. Until now.
Award-winning journalist Aaron Kleins incisive and riveting account tells for the first time the full story of Munich and the Israeli counterterrorism operation it spawned. With unprecedented access to Mossad agents and an unparalleled knowledge of Israeli intelligence, Klein peels back the layers of myth and misinformation that have permeated previous books, films, and magazine articles about the shadow war against Black September and other terrorist groups.
Spycraft, secret diplomacy, and fierce detective work abound in a story with more drama than any fictional thriller. Burning questions are at last answered, including who was killed and who was not, how it was done, which targets were hit and which were missed. Truths are revealed: the degree to which the Mossad targeted nonaffiliated Black September terrorists for assassination, the length and full scope of the operation (far greater than previously suspected), retributive acts against Israel, and much more.
Finally, Klein shows that the Israeli response to Munich was not simply about revenge, as is popularly believed. By illuminating the tactical and strategic purposes of the Israeli operation, Striking Back allows us to draw profoundly relevant lessons from one of the most important counterterrorism campaigns in history. [via]More editions of Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response:
Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Modern Chinese Interpretationby Yuan ShibingISBN 140271291X (1-4027-1291-X)
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The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Lifeby Michael G. TrachtmanISBN 1402741073 (1-4027-4107-3)
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Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritreaby Robert D. KaplanISBN 1400034523 (1-4000-3452-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea'Book summary:Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why theyre relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for Americas ongoing war on terrorism.
Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend on-the-ground reporting and cogent analysis, Robert D. Kaplan introduces us to a fascinating part of the world, one that it would behoove all of us to know more about. [via]More editions of Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea:
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Thirteen Moons: A Novelby Charles FrazierISBN 1400066395 (1-4000-6639-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thirteen Moons: A Novel'Book summary:Hardcover Limited Edition: Autographed by author; numbered and slipcased
This magnificent novel by one of Americas finest writers is the epic of one mans remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins for a brief moment a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Wills destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians including a Cherokee Chief named Bear he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokees homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that only desire trumps time.
Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a mans passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a mans destiny over the many moons of a life.
Fascinating&Reading Thirteen Moons is an intoxicating experience&This is 21st-century literary fiction at its very best.
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Thirteen Moons is rare in many ways and occupies a literary plane of such height that reviewing it is not really salient&.Thirteen Moons has the power to inspire great performances from succeeding generations of writers&.For those who simply value the literary experience, Thirteen Moons will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched&.Thirteen Moons belongs to the ages.
Los Angeles Times
Once again, we are in the hands of an assured writer who knows how to bring history to life&Gorgeous.
New Orleans Times Picayune
Magical&the history lesson in Thirteen Moons is fascinating and moving&You will find much to admire and savor in Thirteen Moons.
USA Today
Incredibly powerful.
Melissa Block on NPR All Things Considered
Verdict: A powerhouse second act&.a brilliant success&Frazier's second act should convince everyone that he's here to stay. It is a powerful, dramatic, often surprising and memorable novel.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Thirteen Moons is a boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition... Frazier is a natural storyteller, and throughout his picaresque tale are grand themes and eulogies
Boston Globe
Warm hearted&Frazier is a remarkably meticulous and tasteful writer& Thirteen Moons is a worthy successor to the first novel
and a highly readable book.
Seattle Times
Fiction of the highest order&Another indelible character. Charles Frazier has a knack for them.
Charlotte Observer
Splendidly written.
New York Daily News
What a story!... Frazier's creation, Will Cooper, is utterly charismatic&.Frazier's genius lies in his ability to convey emotions that feel pure and genuine&It was worth the wait.
Dayton Daily News
To Charles Frazier, words are playthings. Like very few other contemporary American novelists, he puts them together in such a way that they can transform an otherwise mundane moment, scene or conversation into one that is transcendent&.No sophomore jinx here. Reading a Frazier novel is like listening to a fine symphony. He's a maestro whose pen is his baton, beckoning the best that each sentence has to offer. And just as you wouldn't rush a conductor, you should take the time to savor Fraziers work, to take in each thought, to relish the turn of phrase or the imagery of a craftsman.
Denver Post
Two for two&Here is a book brimming with vivid, adventurous incident&Charles Frazier set himself a daunting challenge with this book. He set out to write a historical novel that was retrospective and meditative, yet still vibrant and immediate with life. Thirteen Moons succeeds in classy fashion.
Raleigh News & Observer
If current fiction is anything to go by, its hard for a novelist to make Santayana's puzzle pieces - lyricism, comedy, tragedy - fit together, as they do in real life and real history. Frazier has done it&Thirteen Moons makes you feel that change that happened so long before our own time, and makes you mourn it.
Newsday
[Thirteen Moons] is superbly entertaining, and it packs enough emotional heft to measure up to most readers high expectations.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Thirteen Moons is a fitting successor to Cold Mountain&fans of Frazier's debut will be cheered to discover that the new book is another compulsively readable work of historical fiction.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If there is any doubt that Frazier is an incredibly gifted storyteller - and not just a lucky name or a one-hit wonder - it will be put to rest with the publication of Thirteen Moons. Within 10 pages, this long-awaited new novel bears the reader swiftly out of the waking world into its own imagined universe like nothing else published this year.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Achingly beautiful descriptions of nature&Its rich, its beautiful.
Columbia State
Forget the sophomore jinx. Frazier demonstrates that Cold Mountain was no one-hit wonder with this fully realized historical novel again set in the South&.Again, Frazier shows himself a master of landscape and language, both often fresh and surprising in his telling.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Thirteen Moons contains achingly beautiful passages of snowfalls, fog-wrapped rivers and moonlit forests. There are ribald and hilarious events, too, including a description of the Cherokee Booger Dance that is a masterpiece of satire. The love affair between Cooper and Claire threads its way through this pseudo-historic epic like a brilliant, scarlet ribbon. There is also a melancholy refrain that celebrates a wondrous time and place that is gone and will never return.
Smoky Mountain News
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Ultimate Geography And Timeline Guideby Cindy Wiggers, Maggie HoganISBN 0966372204 (0-9663722-0-4)
Softcover, Appalachian Bible Co & Christian
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Union Station a Decorative History of Washington's Grand Terminalby Ted Landphair, Carol HighsmithISBN 096208770X (0-9620877-0-X)
Softcover, Chelsea Pub
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Unitarian Universalism: A Narrative Historyby David E. BumbaughISBN 0970247907 (0-9702479-0-7)
Softcover, Meadville Lombard Theological
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Who In The World Was The Secretive Printer?: The Story Of Johannes Gutenbergby Robert Beckham, Jed MickleISBN 0972860363 (0-9728603-6-3)
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Who Killed Daniel Pearl?by Bernard-Henri LevyISBN 0974960942 (0-9749609-4-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Killed Daniel Pearl?'Book summary:Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl? offers a harrowing look at Pearl's life and tragic death wrought with a unique blending of journalism, novelist's imagination, and autobiography. Levy--an acclaimed French philosopher and bestselling author in Europe--in 2002 launched a one-year journey to understand Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl and the circumstances that led to his murder in Pakistan; the briskly paced result traces a thread from Pearl's killers through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and, possibly, to Al-Quaida. In building his case, Levy takes none of the news stories on face value. At great personal risk, he follows the same steps that Pearl walked to the very farm house where the journalist was killed. He seems to question everything and provides bearing witness as the truth-telling reportage required in a nation like Pakistan that "has lost even the very idea of what a free press could be."
But Levy does not let his interrogative mind crush the emotional weight of his subject. He questions himself frequently, undermines his own assumptions, and continually returns to the man, Pearl: "a man who was ordinary and exemplary, normal and admirable." Ultimately, the book is a powerful work of compassion as much as a valuable bit of detective work. It is about a good man who died too soon as well as the terrible alliances that could perform such an act against him. Levy does not want Pearl's lessons to be lost to the world. He, like Pearl, seeks a "gentle Islam" that will resist the ring of blood and hate in what Levy calls "the beginning of the grand struggle of the century." --Patrick OKelley [via]More editions of Who Killed Daniel Pearl?:
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Why Do People Hate America?by Ziauddin Sardar, Merryl Wyn DaviesISBN 0971394253 (0-9713942-5-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Do People Hate America?'Book summary:The controversial bestseller that caused huge waves in the UK! The Independent calls it "required reading." Noam Chomsky says it "contains valuable information that we should know, over here, for our own good, and the world's." We call it our biggest book so far and will be backing it from day one with guaranteed co-op spending, a national publicity and review blitz, talk radio bookings, various retail sales aids including postcards, and of course the usual full court press on the Web and via email.
This is NOT just another 9/11 book: it is the book for those of us trying to understand why America--and Americans--are targets for hate. Many people do hate America, in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa, as well as in the Middle East. Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies explore the global impact of America's foreign policy and its corporate and cultural power, placing this unprecedented dominance in the context of America's own perception of itself. In doing so, they consider TV and the Hollywood machine as a mirror which reflects both the American Dream and the American Nightmare. Their analysis provides an important contribution to a debate which needs to be addressed by people of all nations, cultures, religions and political persuasions--and especially by Americans.
Described by The Times Higher Education Supplement as "packed with tightly argued points," the book is carefully researched and built to withstand the inevitable criticism that will be aimed at it. A book that some reviewers will love to hate and others will praise for its insights, it's guaranteed to cause a stir.
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The Woman Warrior China Menby Maxine Kingston, Mary GordonISBN 1400043840 (1-4000-4384-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Herefor the first time in one volumeare two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her familys past and her cultures stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is Kingstons disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have emigrated, a place inhabited by white ghosts, and the China of her mothers talk stories, a place haunted by the ghosts of the past. Her mother, who had been a doctor in China but in the United States is reduced to running a laundry, tells her daughter traditional tales of strong, wily women warriorstalesthat clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of Chinese women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mothers stories with stories of her own, engaging her familys past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.
China Men, a National Book Award winner for fiction, is Kingstons unforgettable imaginative journey into the hearts and minds of generations of Chinese men in America, from those who worked on the transcontinental railroad in the 1840s to those who fought in Vietnam. Mixing vivid fables and legends, personal stories from her own family, and details of the historical hardships faced by Chinese immigrants in different times and places, Kingston illuminates their long, arduous search for the Gold Mountain. [via]More editions of The Woman Warrior China Men:
Women of the Sierraby Anne SeagravesISBN 0961908815 (0-9619088-1-5)
Softcover, Wesanne Pubns
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World of Columbus and Sonsby Genevieve FosterISBN 0964380382 (0-9643803-8-2)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story Of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan, and the Revolution That Created the Constitutionby Charles CeramiISBN 1402202350 (1-4022-0235-0)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story Of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan, and the Revolution That Created the Constitution'Book summary:Seven years after the revolution, America was in crisis. The government didn't work, but the citizens didn't care-or were in a state of rebellion. Then two unknown men, Hamilton and Madison (unknown especially compared to the revered Founding Fathers), envisioned a plan that no one else thought could happen: a truly United States.
Against all odds, these men maneuvered and strategized to get the right men to agree on the right ideas. The result: the most brilliant political document ever and a powerful United States.
From New York Times bestselling author Charles Cerami, this gripping tale of young men founding a nation will captivate both history buffs and those who just love a great story. [via]
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El Club de la Buena Estrellaby Amy TanISBN 1400002370 (1-4000-0237-0)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club de la Buena Estrella'Book summary:En 1949, cuatro mujeres chinas emigradas a San Francisco se reunen regularmente para comer dim sum,jugar al mah-jong y hablar. Unidas por sentimientos de perdida y esperanza, se hacen llamar El Club de laBuena Estrella. Amy Tan explora la conexion entre las protagonistas y sus hijas, ya nacidas en Estados Unidos, un mundo totalmente distinto al suyo. [via]
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Fundacionby Isaac AsimovISBN 1400000823 (1-4000-0082-3)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundacion'Book summary:El hombre se ha dispersado por los planetas de la galaxia. La capital del Imperio es Trantor, centro de todas las intrigas y simbolo de la corrupcion imperial. Un psicohistoriador, Hari Seldon, preve, gracias a su ciencia fundada en el estudio matematico de los hechos historicos, el derrumbamiento del Imperio y el retorno a la barbarie por varios milenios. Seldon decide crear dos Fundaciones, situadas en cada extremo de la galaxia, a fin de reducir este periodo de barbarie a mil anos.. [via]
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