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Arthur C. Clarke's Chronicles of the Strange and Mysteriousby Arthur C. Clarke, John Fairley, Simon WelfareISBN 0002176181 (0-00-217618-1)
Hardcover, Collins
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The Beautiful and Damnedby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0020199708 (0-02-019970-8)
Softcover, Collier Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beautiful and Damned'Book summary:F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, first published in 1922. It chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux riches and New York's nightlife of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. (from back cover) [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0030544572 (0-03-054457-2)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:Vibrant, black-and-white illustrations complement London's classic adventure story about the relationship between humans and dogs, focusing on Buck, a dog that becomes a sled dog during the Klondike gold rush and, later, the leader of a wolf pack. [via]
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The Call Of The Wild Adventure Classicby Jack LondonISBN 0060728035 (0-06-072803-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Collins Measurements & ConversionsISBN 000716551X (0-00-716551-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This BookBook summary:Systems of measurement were created to quantify natural phenomena and to allow us to deal more effectively with everyday life, and have been used since the earliest times. From those early measurements, many other units have been developed, each designed for a particular purpose. This book covers units used both in everyday life and in scientific subjects, complete with explanations, conversion equations and conversion tables.[via]More editions of Collins Measurements & Conversions:
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver Mxby David KarlinsISBN 0028643305 (0-02-864330-5)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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Coralineby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKeanISBN 0060575913 (0-06-057591-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coraline'Book summary:Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.
What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Cryptonomiconby Neal StephensonISBN 0060512806 (0-06-051280-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cryptonomicon'Book summary:Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big, Cryptonomicon is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It's the hip, readable heir to Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its real duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed.... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."
All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.
Cryptonomicon is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it's exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose. Cryptonomicon is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you'll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation). --Therese Littleton [via]
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Don Quixoteby Edith Grossman, Harold Bloom, Miguel De Cervantes SaavedraISBN 0060188707 (0-06-018870-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read Don Quixote.
"Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman's version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose. The Knight and Sancho are so eloquently rendered by Grossman that the vitality of their characterization is more clearly conveyed than ever before. There is also an astonishing contextualization of Don Quixote and Sancho in Grossman's translation that I believe has not been achieved before. The spiritual atmosphere of a Spain already in steep decline can be felt throughout, thanks to her heightened quality of diction.
Grossman might be called the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note. Reading her amazing mode of finding equivalents in English for Cervantes's darkening vision is an entrance into a further understanding of why this great book contains within itself all the novels that have followed in its sublime wake."
From the Introduction by Harold Bloom
Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor's prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.
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Grand Inquisitor on the Nature of Manby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0023406003 (0-02-340600-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0020517602 (0-02-051760-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCRd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0030957648 (0-03-095764-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before strange and unnerving events occur in the house and Jane is forced to leave Thornfield to pursue her future. [via]
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, David FramptonISBN 0060232943 (0-06-023294-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly that Stamped." [via]
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The Metaphysical Elements of Justice: Part I of the Metaphysics of Moralsby Immanuel Kant, John LaddISBN 0023671009 (0-02-367100-9)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, Roy C. FlannaganISBN 002338235X (0-02-338235-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and imagery, Milton tells the story of Man's creation, fall and redemption - to "justify the ways of God to men". Milton produced characters which have become embedded in the consciousness of English literature - the frail, human pair, Adam and Eve; the terrible cohort of fallen angels; and Satan, tragic and heroic in his unremitting quest for revenge. The tale unfolds from the aftermath of the great battle between good and evil to the moving departure of Adam and Eve from Eden, with human and eternal auguish intertwined in magnificent resonance. With music by Williams Lawes. [via]
The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0030098602 (0-03-009860-2)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby Elizabeth B. BrowningISBN 0060105550 (0-06-010555-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Steppenwolfby Hermann Hesse, Joseph MileckISBN 0030121353 (0-03-012135-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steppenwolf'Book summary:Rare 1966 5th Printing Hardcover Edition in Very Good Condition Great boards, tight spine, clear, crisp pages. Dust jacket shows slight bump marks on corners/edges. Ships same day as payment [via]
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0020199201 (0-02-019920-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Unbearable Lightness of Beingby Milan Kundera, Michael Henry HeimISBN 0060597186 (0-06-059718-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'Book summary:A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful loverthese are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 006080615X (0-06-080615-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Walden on the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby PearsonISBN 0030093201 (0-03-009320-1)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden on the Duty of Civil Disobedience'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau's classic Walden is now available through Buki Editions! This edition includes both Walden and his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Includes a fully-functioning table of contents. [via]
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Walden, or Life in the Woods, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Charles R. AndersonISBN 002054720X (0-02-054720-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The War Of The Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0060791241 (0-06-079124-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0030514894 (0-03-051489-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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