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The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers and the Defeat of Japanby Ronald LewinISBN 0140064710 (0-14-006471-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Aquinasby Frederick Charles CoplestonISBN 0140136746 (0-14-013674-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aquinas'Book summary:Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology work together in harmony), Aquinas was remarkable for the way in which he used and developed this legacy of ancient thoughtan achievement which led his contemporaries to regard him as an advanced thinker.[via]Father Copleston's lucid and stimulating book examines this extraordinary manwhose influence is perhaps greater today than in his own lifetimeand his trought, relating his ideas wherever possible to problems as they are discussed today.
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Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle, 17-26 Septemberby Martin MiddlebrookISBN 0140143424 (0-14-014342-4)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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As I Saw Itby Dean RuskISBN 0140153918 (0-14-015391-8)
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Assassination of Federico Garcia Lorcaby Ian GibsonISBN 0140064737 (0-14-006473-7)
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Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalismby Thomas BoyleISBN 0140139753 (0-14-013975-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diariesby Thomas MallonISBN 014008665X (0-14-008665-X)
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0140089179 (0-14-008917-9)
Softcover, Puffin
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The Burger Years: Rights and Wrongs in the Supreme Court, 1969-1986by Herman SchwartzISBN 0140108181 (0-14-010818-1)
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0140106499 (0-14-010649-9)
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 014010934X (0-14-010934-X)
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Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America--The Catholic Church in Conflict With U.S. Policyby Penny LernouxISBN 0140153853 (0-14-015385-3)
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The Death and Life of Dith Pranby Sydney SchanbergISBN 0140084576 (0-14-008457-6)
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Death in Ancient Egyptby A. Jeffrey SpencerISBN 0140136894 (0-14-013689-4)
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Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910by Richard J. EvansISBN 014012473X (0-14-012473-X)
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Death in the Rice Fields: An Eyewitness Account of Vietnam's Three Wars 1945-1979by Peter Scholl-LatourISBN 0140086420 (0-14-008642-0)
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Disappearing Through the Skylightby O.B. HardisonISBN 014011582X (0-14-011582-X)
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Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixtiesby Geoffrey O'BrienISBN 0140103627 (0-14-010362-7)
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A Dry White Seasonby André BrinkISBN 0140068902 (0-14-006890-2)
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Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1933by Blanche Wiesen CookISBN 0140094601 (0-14-009460-1)
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Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly Worldby Jonathan KwitnyISBN 0140080937 (0-14-008093-7)
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Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europeby Eva HoffmanISBN 0140145494 (0-14-014549-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990by Clayborne CarsonISBN 0140154035 (0-14-015403-5)
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Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speechby Richard PolenbergISBN 0140117369 (0-14-011736-9)
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Fiorello H. LA Guardia and the Making of Modern New Yorkby Thomas KessnerISBN 0140143580 (0-14-014358-0)
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The Flight of Ikaros: Travels in Greece During a Civil Warby Kevin AndrewsISBN 0140095314 (0-14-009531-4)
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Fools Crowby James WelchISBN 0140089373 (0-14-008937-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fools Crow'Book summary:[via]The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation.
"A major contibution to Native American literature." Wallace Stegner.
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The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United Statesby Peter N. Carroll, David W. NobleISBN 0140165401 (0-14-016540-1)
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Freuds Interpretation of Dreamsby A. BrillISBN 0140137947 (0-14-013794-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freuds Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Garibaldi and His Enemies: The Clash of Arms and Personalities in the Making of Italyby Christopher HibbertISBN 0140079718 (0-14-007971-8)
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The General in His Labyrinthby Garcia MarquesISBN 0140148590 (0-14-014859-0)
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The Goebbels Diaries, 1939-1941by Fred Taylor, Joseph GoebbelsISBN 0140069321 (0-14-006932-1)
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Going Soloby Roald DahlISBN 0140103066 (0-14-010306-6)
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Granta 31: The Generalby Isabel HiltonISBN 014013431X (0-14-013431-X)
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Granta 64by Ian JackISBN 0140141561 (0-14-014156-1)
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The Great Indian Novelby Shashi TharoorISBN 0140120491 (0-14-012049-1)
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Handbook of Greek Mythologyby H.J. RoseISBN 0140153470 (0-14-015347-0)
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A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988by Paul GinsborgISBN 0140124969 (0-14-012496-9)
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Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990by P. F. ClarkeISBN 0140148302 (0-14-014830-2)
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If Not Now, When?by Primo LeviISBN 0140084924 (0-14-008492-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Not Now, When?'Book summary:Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army. A compelling tale of action, resistance and epic adventure, it also reveals Levi's characteristic compassion and deep insight into the moral dilemmas of total war. It ranks alongside "The Period Table" and "If This is a Man" as one of the rare authentic masterpieces of our times. [via]
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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991by Salman RushdieISBN 0140140360 (0-14-014036-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991'Book summary:A record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. The 75 essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover a range of subjects - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. [via]
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In Patagoniaby Bruce ChatwinISBN 014011291X (0-14-011291-X)
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In the Skin of a Lionby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0140113096 (0-14-011309-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Skin of a Lion'Book summary:Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion uses its Toronto setting in the way that Martin Amis's London Fields uses London or Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz uses Montreal. In Skin, Toronto is a main character, although it's a character few of us have seen before. Set in the 1920s and '30s, the novel replaces the official history of Toronto's industrial adolescence, a history of commissioned architecture and suited politicians with ceremonial shovels, with an immigrant's history of crushing labour, repressive laws, a new language gleaned from matinee plays, and crowded apartment buildings where "a bottle of fruit whiskey" could often be found on summer nights dangling on "a long piece of twine" from fire escape to fire escape for all to share.
A quartet of vibrant characters animates Ondaatje's reclaimed Toronto. Farm-boy Patrick Lewis relocates to Toronto with a dual inheritance: a habit of solitude and a marketable skill with dynamite. Nicholas Temelcoff is a daredevil builder on the Bloor St. Viaduct eager for the most dangerous and acrobatic jobs. Alice Gull transforms the dedication of an early vocation into the passions of an actress and a political revolutionary. Italian thief David Caravaggio robs "the mean rich, the soft rich" and (literally) paints his way out of prison.
Virtuosos in isolation, the characters are beset by forces beyond their control. Ondaatje's tale ends up questioning the very abilities that it so delights in depicting: might the "solitary" strength of a hero be a curse rather than a blessing? Rewriting as it does the history of a growing, multicultural metropolis, In the Skin of a Lion plays with public history and private passion to examine the very fabric of community. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horseby Peter MathhiessenISBN 0140144560 (0-14-014456-0)
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Indiaby Ian Jack, GrantaISBN 0140141472 (0-14-014147-2)
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Insurgent Mexicoby John ReedISBN 0140068813 (0-14-006881-3)
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Islamby Alfred GuilaumeISBN 0140135553 (0-14-013555-3)
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journeyby Salman RushdieISBN 0140109269 (0-14-010926-9)
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Judaismby Isidore EpsteinISBN 0140135529 (0-14-013552-9)
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Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle without Endby Ranginui WalkerISBN 0140132406 (0-14-013240-6)
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Living With War: A Belfast Yearby Sally BelfrageISBN 0140112928 (0-14-011292-8)
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Languageby Eva HoffmanISBN 0140127739 (0-14-012773-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language'Book summary:The condition of exile is an exaggeration of the process of change and loss that many people experience as they grow and mature, leaving behind the innocence of childhood. Eva Hoffman spent her early years in Cracow, among family friends who, like her parents, had escaped the Holocaust and were skeptical of the newly imposed Communist state. Hoffman's parents managed to immigrate to Canada in the 1950s, where Eva was old enough to feel like a stranger--bland food, a quieter life, and schoolmates who hardly knew where Poland was. Still, there were neighbors who knew something of Old World ways, and a piano teacher who was classically Middle European in his neurotic enthusiasm for music. Her true exile came in college in Texas, where she found herself among people who were frightened by and hostile to her foreignness. Later, at Harvard, Hoffman found herself initially alienated by her burgeoning intellectualism; her parents found it difficult to comprehend. Her sense of perpetual otherness was extended by encounters with childhood friends who had escaped Cracow to grow up in Israel, rather than Canada or the United States, and were preoccupied with soldiers, not scholars. Lost in Translation is a moving memoir that takes the specific experience of the exile and humanizes it to such a degree that it becomes relevant to the lives of a wider group of readers. [via]
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Mathematics : The New Golden Ageby Keith J. DevlinISBN 0140135510 (0-14-013551-0)
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Memoires d Hadrienby Marquerite YourcenarISBN 0140087648 (0-14-008764-8)
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Men of Zeal: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran Contra Hearingsby George J. Mitchell, William S. CohenISBN 0140110895 (0-14-011089-5)
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Middle Eastern Mythologyby S. H. HookeISBN 0140136878 (0-14-013687-8)
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Most Beautiful House in the Worldby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0140105662 (0-14-010566-2)
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Neropolisby Hubert MonteilhetISBN 0140081704 (0-14-008170-4)
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No Full Stops in Indiaby Mark TullyISBN 0140104801 (0-14-010480-1)
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Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsbergby Carolyn CassadyISBN 014015390X (0-14-015390-X)
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On the Roadby Jack Kerouac, Scott DonaldsonISBN 0140155112 (0-14-015511-2)
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Our Languageby Simeon PotterISBN 0140134948 (0-14-013494-8)
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Our Villageby Mary Russell MitfordISBN 0140102787 (0-14-010278-7)
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetryby Jon SilkinISBN 0140080325 (0-14-008032-5)
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The Penguin Book of English Madrigals: For Four Voicesby Denis StevensISBN 0140116052 (0-14-011605-2)
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Penguin Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0140090029 (0-14-009002-9)
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Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizationsby Arthur CotterellISBN 0140114343 (0-14-011434-3)
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The Penguin Short History of English Literatureby Stephen CooteISBN 0140125310 (0-14-012531-0)
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Personal Impressionsby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0140063137 (0-14-006313-7)
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Pioneers Of Modern Design: From William Morris To Walter Gropiusby Nikolaus PevsnerISBN 0140137149 (0-14-013714-9)
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The Portable Age of Reason Readerby Crane BrintonISBN 0140150633 (0-14-015063-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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The Portable Conservative Readerby Russell KirkISBN 0140150951 (0-14-015095-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Portable Darwinby Duncan M. Porter, Peter W. Graham, Charles DarwinISBN 0140151095 (0-14-015109-5)
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The Portable North American Indian Readerby Turner, Frederick W., 3rdISBN 0140150773 (0-14-015077-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Portable Stephen Craneby Stephen CraneISBN 0140150684 (0-14-015068-4)
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The Portable Victorian Readerby Gordon S. HaightISBN 0140150692 (0-14-015069-2)
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Portugueseby KaplanISBN 0140113525 (0-14-011352-5)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raidersby Connie BruckISBN 0140120904 (0-14-012090-4)
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Reillyby Robin Bruce LockhartISBN 0140068953 (0-14-006895-3)
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Revolution in the Third Worldby Gerard Chaliand, Diana JohnstoneISBN 0140118454 (0-14-011845-4)
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Roman Literature and Societyby R.M. OgilvieISBN 0140152946 (0-14-015294-6)
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Running in the Familyby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0140069666 (0-14-006966-6)
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Part travelogue, part family memoir (complete with photographs), part collection of poems, Running is also a poignant autobiography/biography that reimagines the alcoholism of Ondaatje's father Mervyn and the eventual (inevitable?) divorce of his parents. In telling these tall tales, Ondaatje is affectionate and insightful toward a father who was clearly difficult to accommodate in life. Driving intoxicated over a rickety wooden bridge no one else would trust in any condition, Mervyn turns to young Michael to wink and claim, "God loves a drunk."
Running marks the commencement of Ondaatje's growing interest in migration (does running run in the family?). The expatriate characters of Ondaatje's later novels are here presaged by a generation of Ceylonese steaming off to England for education and an enduring love of cricket. Salman Rushdie knows that "the past is a country from which we are all migrants." In Running in the Family, Ondaatje reaches back, inwards, and abroad to map that most treasured and troubled of places, the human heart. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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Schweinfurt-Regensberg Mission: American Raids on 17 August 1943by Martin MiddlebrookISBN 0140066780 (0-14-006678-0)
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Shoot-Down: Flight 007 and the American Connectionby R.W. JohnsonISBN 0140094741 (0-14-009474-1)
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A Short History of African Artby Werner GillonISBN 0140136118 (0-14-013611-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippinesby David H. BainISBN 0140089926 (0-14-008992-6)
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Somerville and Rossby Gifford LewisISBN 014008262X (0-14-008262-X)
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The Spaniards: A Portrait of the New Spainby John HooperISBN 0140098089 (0-14-009808-9)
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Time of Passion: America, 1960-1980by Charles R. MorrisISBN 0140086439 (0-14-008643-9)
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To the Promised Land: A History of Zionist Thought from Its Origins to the Modern State of Israelby David J. GoldbergISBN 0140125124 (0-14-012512-4)
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Tristes Tropiquesby John Weightman, Claude Levi-Strauss, Doreen WeightmanISBN 0140165622 (0-14-016562-2)
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Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968by Heda KovalyISBN 0140126430 (0-14-012643-0)
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The Unicornby Nancy HathawayISBN 0140063285 (0-14-006328-5)
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Ways of Seeingby John BergerISBN 0140135154 (0-14-013515-4)
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West of Eden: The End of Innocence at Apple Computerby Frank RoseISBN 0140093729 (0-14-009372-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots As Witnessed by Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Familyby Marq De VilliersISBN 0140102701 (0-14-010270-1)
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Wolf Willowby Wallace StegnerISBN 0140134395 (0-14-013439-5)
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Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Birth Control in Americaby Linda GordonISBN 0140131272 (0-14-013127-2)
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Years With Rossby James ThurberISBN 0140073809 (0-14-007380-9)
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