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The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Comeby Frances CareyISBN 0802083250 (0-8020-8325-0)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Are We 'Person's ' Yet: Law and Sexuality in Canadaby Kathleen A. LaheyISBN 0802080626 (0-8020-8062-6)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Artby Raymond B. WaddingtonISBN 0802088147 (0-8020-8814-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Art of the Novelby Milan KunderaISBN 0802100112 (0-8021-0011-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Novel'Book summary:Landmark collection of essays on subject. The first appearance of the title in English. The artistic manifesto of the greatest living "postmodern" novelist. Written with a strong philosophical and aesthetic background, the book's greatest value is as the perfect antidote to the countless, dreary "critical theory" studies churned out by unimaginative and mediocre university professor/hacks. One of the most eloquent books on the novelist's art, it is indispensable to a greater understanding of Milan Kundera's roots, influences and very deeply held beliefs as a novelist as well as to the very possibilities of the novel itself as an art form. Wise, tender, poetic, intelligent and witty, as is to be expected from Kundera's novels, and to be found in these essays, too. The question is no longer whether Kundera deserves to win the Nobel Prize but whether the award is worthy of him. © 2005, ModernRare.com [via]
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Au Revoir Les Enfants/Goodbye, Childrenby Louis MalleISBN 080213114X (0-8021-3114-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Au Revoir Les Enfants/Goodbye, Children'Book summary:[via]Winner of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for 1987, Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants has been acclaimed as a masterpiece wherever it has been shown. One of the great filmmakers of our time, Malle both wrote and directed this delicate and heartbreaking portrait of a friendship -- between Julian, a Catholic boy, and his schoolmate Jean, one of several Jewish children being sheltered at a boarding school during the Nazi occupation of France. It is once a moving, unforgettable story and an evocation of a deeply personal formative experience in Malle's life.More editions of Au Revoir Les Enfants/Goodbye, Children:
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The Battleby Will Hobson, Patrick RambaudISBN 0802116620 (0-8021-1662-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle'Book summary:The winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise, The Battle is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat. The battle of Essling has long been overlooked by historians and novelists, but Rambaud, relying on research notes compiled by Honore de Balzac, has re-created the confrontation with exceptional skill. Balzac had always wanted to write this novel, but he never moved past the research stage. Picking up where his predecessor left off, Rambaud renders the epic battle in all its pageantry, violence, and chaos.
The Battle opens on May 16, 1809, as Napoleon's forces confront the assembled armies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Essling, near Vienna. Angered by the Austrians' challenge to his rule over their land, Napoleon is determined to crush the enemy troops with the quick troop maneuvers that won so many previous battles. Yet the French soon find that the wide-open Austrian plains are not conducive to their techniques, as the enemy's sheer manpower begins to overwhelm them. [via]
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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963by Barry MilesISBN 080211668X (0-8021-1668-X)
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Blood on the Hills: The Canadian Army in the Korean Warby David J. BercusonISBN 0802085164 (0-8020-8516-4)
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The Book of Songsby Arthur WaleyISBN 0802130216 (0-8021-3021-6)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Book of Songsby Joseph R. Allen, Arthur WaleyISBN 0802134777 (0-8021-3477-7)
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The Book of the Just: The Unsung Heroes Who Rescued Jews from Hitlerby Eric SilverISBN 0802113478 (0-8021-1347-8)
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The Book of the Penisby Maggie PaleyISBN 0802116485 (0-8021-1648-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Penis'Book summary:The almighty penis (a.k.a. dick, schlong, pecker, rod, tool, johnson, etc.) has long been a major object of adoration, revulsion, ridicule, amazement, joy, pride, and even frustration. Novelist, playwright, and journalist Maggie Paley completely submerged herself in the obsessive world of this most forthright of organs for well over a year. She researched scholarly volumes, anthropology texts, and sex-shop glossies; interviewed sex workers, transsexuals, and connoisseurs; attended male strip shows and a Hindu lingam ceremony; visited Web sites where men share masturbation techniques; and even searched out a New York City urologist rumored to be in possession of Napoleon's penis. And, yes, she objectively addresses the big question: "Does size matter?" Along the way, we encounter deliciously entertaining and highly informative chapters - with delightful illustrations - on penis worship, fellatio, and men who are famous for their dicks, as well as the penis in art, fashion, literature, films, and much more. This handsomely designed bedside companion, complete with witty chapter-opening illustrations, virtually erupts with facts, fallacies, fantasies, and amazing adventures, and is the perfect gift for women and men, straight and gay. It's certain to develop classic stature. [via]
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Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby-Boom Generationby Doug OwramISBN 0802080863 (0-8020-8086-3)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and Techniquesby P. J. M. MarksISBN 0802081762 (0-8020-8176-2)
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Broken for Youby Stephanie KallosISBN 0802117791 (0-8021-1779-1)
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Canada's Army: Waging War And Keeping The Peaceby J.L. GranatsteinISBN 0802086969 (0-8020-8696-9)
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The Cap: The Price of a Lifeby Roman Frister, Hillel HalkinISBN 0802116590 (0-8021-1659-0)
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Charlemagneby Roger CollinsISBN 0802082181 (0-8020-8218-1)
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City of Nightby John RechyISBN 0802130836 (0-8021-3083-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Night'Book summary:John Rechy, recipient of the Publishing Triangles William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote City of Night in 1963. This radical and daring work, which launched Rechys reputation as one of Americas most courageous novelists, remains the classic document of the garish neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and men on the make who inhabited the homosexual underground of the early sixties.[via]More editions of City of Night:
Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950by Constance BackhouseISBN 0802082866 (0-8020-8286-6)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Coming of the Nightby John RechyISBN 0802116507 (0-8021-1650-7)
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Commander of the Exodusby Seymour Simckes, Yoram KaniukISBN 0802116647 (0-8021-1664-7)
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Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960by Christopher Sawyer-LaucannoISBN 0802113710 (0-8021-1371-0)
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Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960by Richard HarrisISBN 0802084281 (0-8020-8428-1)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylanby Howard SounesISBN 0802116868 (0-8021-1686-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan'Book summary:Featuring a wealth of new information, Down the Highway is likely to be hailed as the definitive biography of Bob Dylan. Acclaimed biographer Howard Sounes has spent three years researching the book and has interviewed more than 250 people important in Dylan's life -- many of whom have never before given interviews -- and sifted through documentary evidence unavailable to previous biographers. With this unprecedented access, Sounes dispels many myths, reveals major discoveries, and uncovers the secret life of the mysterious singer, while giving a full appreciation of Dylan's artistic achievements and significance to American culture. Sounes's prodigious research has led to many significant revelations about every aspect of Dylan's life. For years there has been speculation about Dylan's marital life and children, and Sounes has uncovered the complete, fascinating story of his family life, which will completely change the public's perception of the singer. Sounes has interviewed a key witness to Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident, a turning point in his career. The witness has never before spoken publicly, and Sounes provides the clearest picture yet of the accident and the subsequent "lost years" in Woodstock, New York. He also gives inside accounts of the important recording sessions and concert tours, the creation of every album and the most celebrated songs, Dylan's labyrinthine love life, his heart illness in 1997, and much more. These inside accounts come directly from Sounes's extensive interviews of girlfriends, family members, former personal assistants, fellow music stars and friends, members of touring and session bands, producers, club owners and concert promoters, and many others. Candid and refreshing, Down the Highway is also a sincere appreciation of Dylan's seminal place in postwar American cultural history and an essential book for the millions of people who have enjoyed Dylan's music over the years. [via]
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First Lightby Peter AckroydISBN 0802134815 (0-8021-3481-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Light'Book summary:First Light is not the darkest of Peter Ackroyd's novels (Hawksmoor has that honor), but fans of the macabre will relish its exhilarating combination of cosmic awe, ancient beings, and creepy underground tunnels, in a humorous suspense story as cleverly paced as a Hitchcock thriller. The story is that the excavation of a neolithic, astronomically aligned grave under the pastoral hills of Dorset, England, coincides with the startling reappearance of ancient stars (including H. P. Lovecraft's Aldebaran) in the night sky. A group of deliciously eccentric characters--archaeologists, astronomers, a stuffy civil servant, a stand-up comic, and vaguely menacing local villagers--converge at the site and collide with each other. As Gabriele Annan wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph, "Ackroyd is such a master of mood, of tension, angst, foreboding, frisson, but also of tenderness and exultation, that one is drawn into his tale as by a magus." [via]
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The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Mythsby Erich FrommISBN 080213050X (0-8021-3050-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Fur Trade in Canadaby Harold A. Innis, Arthur J. RayISBN 0802081967 (0-8020-8196-7)
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The German Right, 1860v1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imaginationby James RetallackISBN 0802091458 (0-8020-9145-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The German Right, 1860v1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination'Book summary:Before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Germany was undergoing convulsive socioeconomic and political change. With unification as a nation state under Bismarck in 1871, Germany experienced the advent of mass politics, based on the principle of one man, one vote. The dynamic, diverse political culture that emerged challenged the adaptability of the 'interlocking directorate of the Right.' To serve as a bulwark of the authoritarian state, the Right needed to exploit traditional sources of power while mobilizing new political recruits, but until Emperor Wilhelm II's abdication in 1918 these aims could not easily be reconciled.
In The German Right, 1860-1920, James Retallack examines how the authoritarian imagination inspired the Right and how political pragmatism constrained it. He explores the Right's regional and ideological diversity, and refuses to privilege the 1890s as the tipping point when the traditional politics of notables gave way to mass politics. Retallack also challenges the assumption that, if Imperial Germany was modern, it could not also have been authoritarian. Written with clear, persuasive prose, this wide-ranging analysis draws together threads of reasoning from German and Anglo-American scholars over the past 30 years and points the way for future research into unexplored areas.
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A Good & Wise Measure: The Struggle for the Canadian-American Border 1783-1842by Francis M. CarrollISBN 0802083587 (0-8020-8358-7)
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Governing from the Centre : The Concentration of Power in Canadian Politicsby Donald J. SavoieISBN 0802082521 (0-8020-8252-1)
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Guitar: An American Lifeby Tim BrookesISBN 0802117961 (0-8021-1796-1)
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Had A Good Time: Stories From American Postcardsby Robert Olen ButlerISBN 0802117775 (0-8021-1777-5)
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Heineby Ritchie RobertsonISBN 0802131484 (0-8021-3148-4)
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History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studiesby Dominick LA CapraISBN 0802082009 (0-8020-8200-9)
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The History of Greek Philosophy: The Pre-Socraticsby Luciano De CrescenzoISBN 0802110746 (0-8021-1074-6)
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How I Became Hettie Jonesby Hettie JonesISBN 0802134963 (0-8021-3496-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How I Became Hettie Jones'Book summary:Jones' atmospheric prose brings the Beat era to life with more gusto than any previous memoir, thanks to homely details like eating potato pancakes at the Second Avenue Deli and wearing Ukrainian scarves and black tights. She looks back on her marriage to LeRoi Jones with tenderness, even as she delineates the cultural forces that eventually ripped them apart. Famous friends like Allen Ginsberg make appearances, but Jones' focus is on family (her two daughters are lovingly described) and individual growth. Evocative and touching. [via]
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Immortalityby Milan Kundera, Peter KussiISBN 0802111114 (0-8021-1111-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Immortality'Book summary:Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence. [via]
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In the Shape of a Boarby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0802117015 (0-8021-1701-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shape of a Boar'Book summary:Lawrence Norfolk's third novel takes the boar hunt as its central metaphor to discuss love, betrayal, fear and the annihilation of war. The first section begins in Ancient Greece with the hunt for the boar of Kalydon, then moves to Paris in the 1970s, where the poet, Sol Memel's life echoes the mythological prototypes.
When King Oeneus neglects to sacrifice animals to Artemis at the festival of First Fruits, she sends a boar of gigantic proportions and ferocious strength to destroy the land. The king's son, Meleager, gathers prize hunters to kill it. They form "a new, earth-bound constellation" as they converge around Mount Aracynthus, already "one another's quarry in a bloodless preparatory hunt". Their roll call creates "a palace of sound".
Norfolk's beautifully compelling prose establishes a phenomenal pace, mirroring the characters' charged drive towards their foretold destiny. He creates a dense geography of paths of sumac and oak, wild pear trees, brushwood, sedge, spurge, lentisc, wild olives and myrtle, until Greece itself emerges as a recurrent and potent character. The three strongest hunters, Meleager, Atalanta and her cousin Meilanion form a powerful triangle of desire, for victory and each other. As they move into the terrain of the boar, the narrative is as tense as any urban thriller chase. When victims of the boar are discovered gored by branches of a tree, Norfolk luxuriates in the violence, as though exorcising a part of himself. As Sol Memel suggests about the horrors of the Second World War: "Memories were violent from the inside out. People made them up because they had to."
In the second section, the three mythic hunters are re-created in Sol and his two best friends, Ruth and Jakob, who've each escaped the Jewish ghetto in different ways. Here, the purpose of Norfolk's excessive classical footnotes becomes clear when Sol's masterpiece, Die Keilerjagd--The Hunt of the Boar is published with obsessive annotations by his old rival, Jakob, undermining Sol's integrity. Although the second half of the book is less clotted, the intensity of the hunt is diffused and much less gripping. In the Shape of a Boar is an ambitiously layered novel, in which the reader becomes complicit in the hunt for truth and the creation of evil. --Cherry Smyth [via]
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In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaosby Richard Lloyd ParryISBN 0802118089 (0-8021-1808-9)
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Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984by Steven HighISBN 0802085288 (0-8020-8528-8)
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Into Tibet: The Cia's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasaby Thomas LairdISBN 0802117147 (0-8021-1714-7)
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The Iroquois in the War of 1812by Carl BennISBN 0802081452 (0-8020-8145-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iroquois in the War of 1812'Book summary:Until now, the story of Iroquois participation in the War of 1812 has not received detailed examination, and there have consequently been major gaps in our understanding of the Iroquois, their relations with Euroamerican society, and the course of the war itself. The Iroquois in the War of 1812 proves that, in fact, the Six Nations' involvement was 'too significant to ignore.'
Benn explores this involvement by focusing on Iroquois diplomatic, military, and cultural history during the conflict. He looks at the Iroquois' attempts to stay out of the war, their entry into hostilities, their modes of warfare, the roles they played in different campaigns, their relationships with their allies, and the effects that the war had on their society. He also details the military and diplomatic strength of the Iroquois during the conflict, despite the serious tensions that plagued their communities.
This account reveals how the British benefited more than the Americans from the contributions of their Iroquois allies, and underscores how important the Six Nations were to the successful defence of Canada. It will appeal to general readers in both Canada and the United States and will have relevance for students and scholars of military, colonial, and Native history.
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An Italian Renaissance Sextetby Lauro Martines, Murtha BacaISBN 0802086500 (0-8020-8650-0)
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Julietteby Marquis De Sade, Austryn WainhouseISBN 0802130852 (0-8021-3085-2)
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Justice Not Vengeance: Recollectionsby Simon Wiesenthal, Ewald OsersISBN 0802112781 (0-8021-1278-1)
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0802133347 (0-8021-3334-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, James GrauerholzISBN 0802116574 (0-8021-1657-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs'Book summary:Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Last Words is a complex portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death. While laid out as simple diary entries of the last nine months of his life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns - his rants on U.S. drug policy, his contempt for the state of the human race, his love for his cats - permeate the book. Burroughs breaks into classic "routines" and provides frequent commentary on whatever he is reading - from high literature to low-brow thrillers. Whether occupied with the banalities of life (housekeeping, dealing with doctors) or the glories (shooting a video with U2, opening a museum show of his paintings), the "Old Man" emerges as frequently comical, sometimes meditative, and always engaged-a commentator on the state of the world and the self. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most brutally personal prose Burroughs has ever written. His reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary provide a window onto the preparations Burroughs was making for his own death - a quest for absolution marked by a profound sense of guilt and loss. Last Words is unlike anything else in the oeuvre of William S. Burroughs. It is the purest, most personal work ever presented by this writer, and a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process-one that never quit, even in the shadow of death. [via]
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Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850by Florence NightingaleISBN 0802115322 (0-8021-1532-2)
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Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Spaceby Michael Collins, James DeanISBN 0802131883 (0-8021-3188-3)
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The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistanby Jon Lee AndersonISBN 0802117236 (0-8021-1723-6)
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Anderson is a top-class veteran foreign correspondent with a cool, detached yet engaging literary style. But what makes The Lions Grave genuinely enlightening, what makes it a valuable book, are the interviews and conversations Anderson conducts and records along the way. Anderson's interviews with Taliban and Northern Alliance fighters, students, intellectuals, government officials, ordinary villagers, are also miniature life histories. They are stories about the how and why a very diverse set of individuals came to be where they are today. It is largely by means of these stories that Anderson relates the now fully humanised recent history and politics of Afghanistan.
The one person Anderson doesn't talk to, the most important figure in the book, is Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir. During the 1980s Massoud led a band of mujaheddin in fighting off seven major offensives by Soviet forces before defeating the regime the Soviets had left in power, becoming Defence minister and eventually vice-president of the new Islamic State of Afghanistan. After the coming of the Taliban Massoud led the coalition of tribal-based guerrilla forces called the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, or as they are more familiarly known, the Northern Alliance.
The inclusion of e-mail exchanges between Anderson and his New Yorker editor lets the reader in on the practical problems that go with the job of war correspondent but they also function as a more immediate and sometimes dramatic counterpoint to the main narrative. In the final section of the book Anderson gives a detailed description of the circumstances of Massoud's death--Massoud was killed by suicide bombers posing as journalists two days before the planes hit the World Trade Centre--and investigates the events and allegations leading up to and surrounding the assassination itself. Also included are some reflections of life in Afghanistan after the melting away of the Taliban and a discussion of the future prospects for the country. Overall this is an undemanding yet superb and highly educative set of despatches. --Larry Brown [via]
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Made in U.S.A.: The Secret Histories of the Things That Made Americaby Phil PattonISBN 0802112765 (0-8021-1276-5)
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Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studiesby Michael M. Sheehan, James K. FargeISBN 0802081371 (0-8020-8137-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies'Book summary:The family has become a subject of increasing scrutiny in recent years, giving special relevance to this work by the late Michael Sheehan. Collected here for the first time, Sheehan's papers contain the fruits of a forty-year-long career of archival research and interpretation of documents on property, marriage, family, sexuality, and law in medieval Europe. Marked by an early orientation and developing focus on the status of women in the Middle Ages, the work of Michael Sheehan displays a unique tapestry of the social and legal realities of medieval marriages and family life.
Sheehan's research focused on the parallel study and interpretation of Church law and cases drawn from ecclesiastical court registers. By analysing the emergence of the last will as a legal and social document, he brought a new interpretation to the definition and codification of Christian marriage and the family and how these institutions functioned in society. Although his approach was largely by way of canon law, he was invariably at pins to incorporate solid support from such related fields as theology, the social and popular history of religion, and the history of sexuality and sexual behaviour. As a result, these essays throw light on many social realities in medieval Europe and illustrate the development of a methodology for others to follow.
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A Mass for Arrasby Andrzej SzczypiorskiISBN 0802134025 (0-8021-3402-5)
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Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalterby Janet BackhouseISBN 0802083994 (0-8020-8399-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalter'Book summary:The Luttrell Psalter is one of the best-known English manuscripts. Written and illuminated in the early 14th century for Sir Geoffey Luttrell, it is celebrated for its long series of attractive marginal illustrations showing scenes of life in medieval England. The most celebrated sequence of pictures represents the annual cycle of growing crops including plouging, sowing, weeding, harvesting, threshing, and the delivery of the grain. Animal illustrations include domestic boars, geese, pigs, cattle, ferrets, rabbits, birds, cats and mice. Sports, pastimes, entertainers and musicians are all represented, showing the reader that rural life did have a lighter side beyond the routine of work. Janet Backhouse's entertaining study reminds us that although The Luttrell Psalter was created to provide a reflection of the status of the Luttrell family, its preservation has given us a supremely emotive pictorial source for the daily life of rural England.
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Medieval Women in Their Communitiesby Diane WattISBN 0802081223 (0-8020-8122-3)
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The volume is a significant contribution to a fast developing field and should appeal not only to medieval specialists but all those with an interest in women's history and writing.
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Monkey/Folk Novel of Chinaby Cheng'En Wu, Arthur WaleyISBN 0802130860 (0-8021-3086-0)
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The Monstrous Middle Agesby Robert Mills, Bettina BildhauerISBN 0802086675 (0-8020-8667-5)
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Moon Tigerby Penelope LivelyISBN 0802135331 (0-8021-3533-1)
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Music in Medeival Manuscriptsby Nicolas BellISBN 080208432X (0-8020-8432-X)
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Naked Angels : The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generationby John TytellISBN 0802132472 (0-8021-3247-2)
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The New England Knight: Enrichment, Advancement and the Life of Sir William Phips, 1651-1695by Emerson W. BakerISBN 0802081711 (0-8020-8171-1)
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Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canadaby Mona GleasonISBN 0802082599 (0-8020-8259-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada'Book summary:Homemaker mom, breadwinning dad who played hockey with his son on the weekends, one brother or sister, this was normal Canadian life in the fifties, right? Well, not quite, but author Mona Gleason argues that Canadian psychologists were in part responsible for this fiction of normalcy.
Postwar insecurity about the stability of family life became a platform on which to elevate the role of psychologists in society. Moving outside the universities with radio shows and child-rearing manuals, these figures of authority changed the tenor of parental and familial concern from physical to mental health. Influential psychologists like Samuel Laycock and William Blatz spread their own vision of life as the healthy goal for which society should strive. Their ideal of 'normal' reflected and helped entrench the dominant white, Anglo-Celtic, patriarchal vision of life. Those who did not fit the model due to skin colour, class, or ethnicity were marginalized or silenced, and, as Gleason's innovative feminist approach emphasizes, whether male or female, simply trying to fit within the prescribed gender roles inevitably led to alienation.
This history of psychology and its effects asks new and necessary questions about the role of the social sciences in shaping the private experiences of ordinary Canadians.
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Ohitika Womanby Mary Brave BirdISBN 0802114369 (0-8021-1436-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ohitika Woman'Book summary:Confronting the contrasts, agonies, and triumphs of her life, a Sioux activist continues her story, begun in the best-selling Lakota Woman, detailing the powerful history of her people as it mixes with her own troubled life. 30,000 first printing. [via]
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On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871by Adele PerryISBN 0802083366 (0-8020-8336-6)
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimageby Michael WolfeISBN 0802135994 (0-8021-3599-4)
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca is a collection of more than 20 accounts of the Hajj spanning ten centuries. The writers collected in this anthology reflect the geographic diversity of Islam. These pilgrims come from all over the world: Morocco, India, Persia, England, Italy, and the United States. They travel by boat and camel, on foot and horseback and, most recently, by airplane; many suffered all the hardships and dangers attached to a long pilgrimage of months or even years through deserts and over mountains, across lands populated by brigands and thieves. But along with the hazards are descriptions of of Cairo and Damascus at the height of their glory during the medieval period and anecdotes and observations that render the cosmopolitan nature of the pilgrims. In addition to the writings of Muslim pilgrims, there are also several accounts by non-Muslim westerners who, by hook or by crook, gained access to the forbidden city of Mecca and then wrote about it. One Thousand Roads to Mecca is both classic travel literature at its best and a wonderful introduction to the tenets and practices of a frequently misunderstood religion. [via]
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, Waspby Steve MartinISBN 0802135234 (0-8021-3523-4)
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Remember Meby Trezza AzzopardiISBN 0802117678 (0-8021-1767-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remember Me'Book summary:Set in England against the backdrop of World War II, the much anticipated second novel by the Booker Prize finalist and national best-selling author of The Hiding Place is a story of pursuit: of stolen goods, of missing years, and of one womans forgotten history
The only debut novel to be short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2001, The Hiding Place became a national bestseller and established Trezza Azzopardi as an international sensation. With her second novel, Remember Me, Azzopardi delivers a harrowing, elegant, and vivid portrait of a lost life at last reclaimed.
Seventy-two-year-old Winniehomeless and abandoned time and again by those shes trustedwould say shes no trouble. She is content to let the days go by, minding her own business, bothering no one. Winnie would rather not recall the past and at her age doesnt see much point in thinking about the future. But she is catapulted out of her exile when a young girl robs her of her suitcase and her wigWinnies only material possessions. With nothing else to show for her life, these few pieces are irreplaceable to her; she wants them back.
Winnie then embarks on a journey to find the thief, and what begins as a search for stolen belongings becomes the rediscovery of a stolen life. Forced to take stock of how events long buried have brought her to a derelict house on the edge of nowhere, she relives the secrets of a past she had disowned. From her childhood in the 1930s and the upheaval caused by a feuding family, to the dislocation caused by World War II, and finally to the days leading up to her "fall," Winnie recalls a series of revelations and betrayals so disturbing it is no wonder she was driven out of normal society and onto the streets.
As she pieces together the fragments of her life, her once secluded world begins to fill with peopleincluding her devoted father, the haunting figure of her mother, and her domineering grandfatherand Winnie recognizes that she is no longer simply on a hunt for stolen goods. After all these years, she has not escaped from her life at all: she has been circling it, and must now come to terms with it. [via]
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Repression And Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960by Ross LambertsonISBN 0802089216 (0-8020-8921-6)
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom StoppardISBN 0802132758 (0-8021-3275-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'Book summary:Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worms-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeares play. In Tom Stoppards best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.[via]
Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the Notable Books of 1967 by the American Library Association.More editions of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead:
The Rosendorf Quartetby Nathan ShahamISBN 0802133169 (0-8021-3316-9)
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The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government Innewfoundland, 1699-1832by Jerry BannisterISBN 0802086136 (0-8020-8613-6)
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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.by Catherine Millet, Adriana HunterISBN 0802117163 (0-8021-1716-3)
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The Siegeby Helen DunmoreISBN 0802117007 (0-8021-1700-7)
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Sisters or Strangers: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canada Historyby Frances Swyripa, Franca Iacovetta, Marlene EppISBN 0802086098 (0-8020-8609-8)
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Stalin's Prosecutor: The Life of Andrei Vyshinskyby Arkady Vaksberg, Jan ButlerISBN 0802113338 (0-8021-1333-8)
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Strangers at the Gate: The Boat People's First Ten Years in Canadaby Morton BeiserISBN 0802081177 (0-8020-8117-7)
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They're Cows, We're Pigsby Carmen Boullosa, Leland H. ChambersISBN 0802116108 (0-8021-1610-8)
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Timebends: A Lifeby Arthur MillerISBN 0802100155 (0-8021-0015-5)
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Tomby Lyle LeverichISBN 0802112900 (0-8021-1290-0)
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The Twentieth Train: The True Story of the Ambush of the Death Train to Auschwitzby Marion Schreiber, Shaun Whiteside, Paul SpiegelISBN 080211766X (0-8021-1766-X)
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Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada the Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canadaby Peter Baskerville, Eric W. SagerISBN 0802081444 (0-8020-8144-4)
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Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchidby Tim EcottISBN 0802117759 (0-8021-1775-9)
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Vera Brittain: A Feminist Lifeby Deborah GorhamISBN 0802083390 (0-8020-8339-0)
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The Vietnam Plays: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel Sticks and Bonesby David RabeISBN 0802133134 (0-8021-3313-4)
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In this, the first of two volumes of The Vietnam Plays, Pavlo Hummel is paired with the equally intense Sticks and Stones, in which a blinded Vietnam veteran returns home numbed by the war and is astonished by his familys inability to comprehend their countrys politics and his rage.More editions of The Vietnam Plays: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel Sticks and Bones:
Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trailsby Frank McLynnISBN 0802117317 (0-8021-1731-7)
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White Tie and Decorations: Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934-1936by John Hope Simpson, Peter NearyISBN 0802080855 (0-8020-8085-5)
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William Osler: A Life in Medicineby Michael BlissISBN 0802085415 (0-8020-8541-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Osler: A Life in Medicine'Book summary:In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This new, definitive biography by Michael Bliss is the first full-scale life of Osler to appear since 1925. An award-winning medical historian, Bliss draws on many untapped sources to recreate Osler's life and medical times for a new generation of readers.Born at Bond Head, north of Toronto, Osler rose from obscurity to become the greatest medical teacher and writer in three countries. At Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as regius professor at Oxford, Osler was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners, for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. His quest was to bring high standards and scientific methods into general practice in the medical world and to give teaching hospitals a solid place in the education of doctors. The publication of his book, The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), established him as the authority of modern medicine, a position he held well into the new century.Osler was revered as the high priest of the advent of twentieth-century medicine. In this fine biography, Michael Bliss animates the epic quality of Osler's life - not only in telling his personal story, but in setting that story against the dramatic backdrop of the coming of modern medicine.Winner of the Jason A. Hannah Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of Canada and the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine [via]
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The Wise Wound: Myths, Realities, and Meanings of Menstruation/112001by Penelope Shuttle, Peter RedgroveISBN 080211136X (0-8021-1136-X)
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Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the Worldby Donna R. Gabaccia, Franca IacovettaISBN 0802084621 (0-8020-8462-1)
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World of the Buddha: An Introduction to Buddhist Literatureby Lucien StrykISBN 080213095X (0-8021-3095-X)
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