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After Shock: September 11, 2001, Global Feminist Perspectivesby Susan Hawthorne, Bronwyn WinterISBN 1551926571 (1-55192-657-1)
Softcover, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Shock: September 11, 2001, Global Feminist Perspectives'Book summary:In the tidal wave of commentary following 9/11, feminist perspectives were nobody missing. This book addresses that uncover the connections between war, terrorism, fundamentalism, racism, global capitalism, and male violence. Including immediate reactions essays, speeches, letters to the U.N. and to George Bush, emails, and poetry. [via]
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Ahha Kapehuhaby L.N. TolstoiISBN 2877142647 (2-87714-264-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ahha Kapehuha'Book summary:Novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in installments between 1875 and 1877 and considered one of the pinnacles of world literature.
This Version on russian language.
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All Around the World Cookbookby Sheila LukinsISBN 1563052377 (1-56305-237-7)
Softcover, Wordsmith
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American Foreign Policy Since World War IIby John W. Spanier, Steven W. HookISBN 1568028180 (1-56802-818-0)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Foreign Policy Since World War II'Book summary:Written by two renowned political scientists, this is the only available booklength treatment of U.S. foreign policy from 1945 to the present. Spanier and Hook analyze the behavior of the United States as a world power both during the Cold War and in its turbulent aftermath in order to identify recurring patterns and consider their implications. [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Leo TolstoyISBN 1404360719 (1-4043-6071-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoys Anna Karenina one of the greatest love stories in world literature. Matthew Arnold claimed it was not so much a work of art as a piece of life. Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity.
Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russian society and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover. Condemned and ostracized by her peers and prone to fits of jealousy that alienate Vronsky, Anna finds herself unable to escape an increasingly hopeless situation.
Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin, a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. While Anna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. Surrounding these two central plot threads are dozens of characters whom Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together, creating a breathtaking tapestry of nineteenth-century Russian society.
From its famous opening sentenceHappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way to its stunningly tragic conclusion, this enduring tale of marriage and adultery plumbs the very depths of the human soul.[via]Amy Mandelker, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel and coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina.
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- Anna Karenina: ISBN 1593080271 (1-59308-027-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Anna Karenina: ISBN 1853262714 (1-85326-271-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Anna Karenina: ISBN 1593081774 (1-59308-177-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Anna Karenina: ISBN 8441409285 (84-414-0928-5)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas - Anna Karenina: ISBN 1404360719 (1-4043-6071-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
- Anna Karenina: ISBN 1593080271 (1-59308-027-1)
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The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Homeby Mark BittmanISBN 0767906721 (0-7679-0672-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home'Book summary:With his million-copy bestseller How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman made the difficult doable. Now he makes the exotic accessible.
In this highly ambitious, accomplished, globe-spanning work, Bittman gathers the best recipes that people from dozens of countries around the world cook every day. And when he brings his distinctive no-frills approach to dishes that were once considered esoteric, America's home cooks will eagerly follow where they once feared to tread.
In more than a thousand recipes, Bittman compellingly demonstrates that there are many places besides Italy and France to which cooks can turn for inspiration. In addition to these favorites, he covers Spain, Portugal, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans, Germany, and other European destinations, giving us easy ways to make dishes like Spanish Mushroom and Chicken Paella, Greek Roast Leg of Lamb with Thyme and Orange, Russian Borscht, and Swedish Äppletorte.
Asian food now rivals European cuisines popularity, and this book reflects that: Its the first to emphasize European and Asian cuisines equally, with easy-to-follow recipes for favorites like Vietnamese Stir-Fried Vegetables with Nam Pla, Pad Thai, Japanese Salmon Teriyaki, Chinese Black Bean and Garlic Spareribs, and Indian Tandoori Chicken. Nor is the rest of the world ignored: there are hundreds of recipes from North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South America, too. All will be hits with home cooks looking to add exciting new tastes and cosmopolitan flair to their everyday repertoire.
Shop locally, cook globallyMark Bittman makes it so easy:
" Hundreds of recipes that can be made ahead or prepared in under 30 minutes
" Informative sidebars and instructional drawings explain unfamiliar techniques and ingredients
" Fifty-two international menus, an extensive International Pantry section, and much more make this an essential addition to any cooks shelf
The Best Recipes in the World is destined to be a classic that will change the way Americans think about everyday food. Its simply like no other cookbook in the world. [via]More editions of The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home:
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The Breadwinnerby Deborah EllisISBN 0888994168 (0-88899-416-8)
Softcover, Groundwood Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Breadwinner'Book summary:Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from attending school, shopping at the market, or even playing in the streets of Kabul, the heroine of Deborah Ellis's engrossing children's novel The Breadwinner is trapped inside her family's one-room home. That is, until the Taliban hauls away her father and Parvana realizes that it's up to her to become the "breadwinner" and disguise herself as a boy to support her mother, two sisters, and baby brother. Set in the early years of the Taliban regime, this topical novel for middle readers explores the harsh realities of life for girls and women in modern-day Afghanistan. A political activist whose first book for children, Looking for X, dealt with poverty in Toronto, Ellis based The Breadwinner on the true-life stories of women in Afghan refugee camps.
In the wily Parvana, Ellis creates a character to whom North American children will have no difficulty relating. The daughter of university-educated parents, Parvana is thoroughly westernized in her outlook and responses. A pint-sized version of Offred from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Parvana conceals her critique of the repressive Muslim state behind the veil of her chador. Although the dialogue is occasionally stilted and the ending disappointingly sketchy, The Breadwinner is essential reading for any child curious about ordinary Afghans. Like so many books and movies on the subject, it is also eerily prophetic. "Maybe someone should drop a big bomb on the country and start again," says a friend of Parvana's. "'They've tried that,' Parvana said, 'It only made things worse.'" (Ages 9 to 12) --Lisa Alward [via]
Canadian Development Report, 1999: Civil Society and Global Changeby Anne Chevalier, Rowena Beamish, Michelle HiblerISBN 1896770274 (1-896770-27-4)
Softcover, Renouf Pub Co Ltd
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Diplomacyby Henry KissingerISBN 0671510991 (0-671-51099-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diplomacy'Book summary:In this brilliant, controversial, and monumental book, former Secretary-of-State Henry Kissinger explains, based on his own experience, what diplomacy is, and why, historically, Americans, from our presidents down to the man in the street, have always distrusted the whole idea. 30 photos. 6 maps. Index. [via]
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El amor en los tiempos del coleraby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 9681315472 (968-13-1547-2)
Softcover, Editorial Diana S.A. De C.V.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El amor en los tiempos del colera'Book summary:La historia de amor entre Fermina Daza y Florentino Ariza, en el escenario de un pueblecito portuario del Caribe y a lo largo de mas de sesenta anos, podria parecer un melodrama de amantes contrariados que al final vencen por la gracia del tiempo y la fuerza de sus propios sentimientos, ya que Garcia Marquez se complace en utilizar los mas clasicos recursos de los folletines tradicionales. Pero este tiempo -por una vez sucesivo, y no circular-, este escenario y estos personajes son como una mezcla tropical de plantas y arcillas que la mano del maestro modela y fantasea a su placer, para al final ir a desembocar en los territorios del mito y la leyenda. Los zumos, olores y sabores del tropico alimentan una prosa alucinatoria que en esta ocasion llega al puerto oscilante del final feliz. [via]
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El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 987113813X (987-1138-13-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:La historia de amor entre Fermina Daza y Florentino Ariza, en el escenario de un pueblecito portuario del Caribe y a lo largo de mas de sesenta anos, podria parecer un melodrama de amantes contrariados que al final vencen por la gracia del tiempo y la fuerza de sus propios sentimientos, ya que Garcia Marquez se complace en utilizar los mas clasicos recursos de los folletines tradicionales. Pero este tiempo -por una vez sucesivo, y no circular-, este escenario y estos personajes son como una mezcla tropical de plantas y arcillas que la mano del maestro modela y fantasea a su placer, para al final ir a desembocar en los territorios del mito y la leyenda. Los zumos, olores y sabores del tropico alimentan una prosa alucinatoria que en esta ocasion llega al puerto oscilante del final feliz. [via]
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El Fantasma De Anilby Michael OndaatjeISBN 8423333787 (84-233-3378-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbookby Joetta Handrich Schlabach, Kristina Mast BurnettISBN 083613561X (0-8361-3561-X)
Softcover, Herald Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook'Book summary:Extending the Table calls itself "a world community cookbook," but it is far more than that. Yes, there are recipes here from all over the globe: Sesame Spinach Salad from Korea, Hunter's Stew from Poland, and Watermelon Jan from Botswana. There are myriad rice dishes, lots of recipes featuring beans and lentils, and an array of delicious beverages--from Philippine Punch to a Ginger Cooler from the Ivory Coast. But what makes this cookbook so special is its social conscience: following the lead of Doris Janzen Longacre, author of the More-with-Less Cookbook, Extending the Table invites readers to reduce their own levels of consumption and share resources with others around the world. Even more, it encourages us to learn from the global community. In addition to the recipes, there are stories about both individuals and whole cultures, explanations of the importance of certain types of food in different lands, and the rituals that surround particular meals. Extending the Table is the work of the Mennonite Central Committee, and many of the contributors are missionaries whose faith in the values of humility, community, and respect for others imbues the pages of this thought-provoking book. Extending the Table is truly food for the body and soul! [via]
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God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 8186939008 (81-86939-00-8)
Hardcover, Indiaink
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Indecisionby Benjamin KunkelISBN 1400063450 (1-4000-6345-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indecision'Book summary:Benjamin Kunkels brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our timea pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.
Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but hes having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are not especially conducive to wisdom.
And a few sessions of psychoanalysis conducted by his sister have distinctly failed to help with his biggest problem: a chronic inability to make up his mind.
Encouraged by one of his roommates to try an experimental pharmaceutical meant to banish indecision, Dwight jumps at the chance (not without some meditation on the hazards of jumping) and swallows the first fateful pill. And when all at once he is pfired from Pfizer and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams, he finds himself on the brink of a new life.
The troublewell, one of the troublesis that Dwight cant decide if the pills are working. Deep in the jungles of the Amazon, in the foreign country of a changed outlook, his would-be romantic escape becomes a hilarious journey into unbidden responsibility and unwelcome knowledge.
How to affirm happiness without living in constant denial of the ways of the world? How to commit, and to what? At once funny and poignant, gentle and outrageous, finely intelligent and proudly silly, Indecision rings with a voice of great energy and originality, while its deeper inquiries reflect the concerns and style of a generation.
"Heres what Indecision gives you: sustained social and intellectual comedy, possibly the last but certainly the funniest Superfluous Man in modern literature, drive-by satire, plus detailed set-piece send-ups of Young Adult colgrads at work and play. The mockery is
humane. The tale of Dwight Wilmerding is told with style and care. And theres a surprising ending. Benjamin Kunkel, welcome!"
Norman Rush, author of Mating [via]More editions of Indecision:
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Artby Shizuo TsujiISBN 0870113992 (0-87011-399-2)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art'Book summary:When it was first published, Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art changed the way the culinary world viewed Japanese cooking, moving it from obscure ethnic food to haute cuisine.
Twenty-five years later, much has changed. Japanese food is a favorite of diners around the world. Not only is sushi as much a part of the Western culinary scene as burgers, bagels, and burritos, but some Japanese chefs have become household names. Japanese flavors, ingredients, and textures have been fused into dishes from a wide variety of other cuisines. What hasn't changed over the years, however, are the foundations of Japanese cooking. When he originally wrote Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art, Shizuo Tsuji, a scholar who trained under famous European chefs, was so careful and precise in his descriptions of the cuisine and its vital philosophies, and so thoughtful in his choice of dishes and recipes, that his words--and the dishes they help produce--are as fresh today as when they were first written.
The 25th Anniversary edition celebrates Tsuji's classic work. Building on M.F.K.Fisher's eloquent introduction, the volume now includes a thought-provoking new Foreword by Gourmet Editor-in-Chief Ruth Reichl and a new preface by the author's son and Tsuji Culinary Institute Director Yoshiki Tsuji. Beautifully illustrated with eight pages of new color photos and over 500 drawings, and containing 230 traditional recipes as well as detailed explanations of ingredients, kitchen utensils, techniques and cultural aspects of Japanese cuisine, this edition continues the Tsuji legacy of bringing the Japanese kitchen within the reach of Western cooks. [via]More editions of Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art:
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Karby Orhan PamukISBN 9754709610 (975-470-961-0)
Softcover, Iletisim
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kar'Book summary:On iki yildir Almanya'da sürgün olan sair Ka Türkiye'ye dönüsünden dört gün sonra, bir röportaj için Kars sehrinde bulur kendini. Agir agir ve hiç durmadan yagan karin altinda sokak sokak, dükkan dükkan bu hüzünlü ve güzel sehri ve insanlari tanimaya çalisir. Kars'ta agzina kadar issizlerle dolu çayhaneler, disaridan gelmis ve kardan mahsur kalmis gezgin bir tiyatro kumpanyasi, intihar eden ve türban direnisi yapan kizlar, çesitli siyasal gruplar, dedikodular, söylentiler, Karpalas Oteli ve sahibi Turgut Bey ile kizlari Ipek ve Kadife ve Ka için bir ask ve mutluluk vaadi vardir.
"O ne bir ideolog, ne bir siyasetçi, ne de bir gazeteci. Orhan Pamuk büyük bir romanci."
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The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 1594480001 (1-59448-000-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner'Book summary:The New York Times bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies. A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic. [via]
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- The Kite Runner: ISBN 1594481776 (1-59448-177-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books - The Kite Runner: ISBN 1573222453 (1-57322-245-3)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books - The Kite Runner: ISBN 1594489602 (1-59448-960-2)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books - The Kite Runner: ISBN 1585473634 (1-58547-363-4)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub - The Kite Runner: ISBN 1594480001 (1-59448-000-1)
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- The Kite Runner: ISBN 1594481776 (1-59448-177-6)
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The Kite Runner: Bookclub-in-a-box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novelby Khaled HosseiniISBN 1417640391 (1-4176-4039-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner: Bookclub-in-a-box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel'Book summary:The "kite runner" of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir as a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward [via]
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Love in the Time of Choleraby Gabriel García Márquez, Edith GrossmanISBN 140003468X (1-4000-3468-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Time of Cholera'Book summary:In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises--joyful, melancholy, enriching, ever surprising. [via]
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Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarianby Madhur JaffreyISBN 0609809237 (0-609-80923-7)
Softcover, Clarkson Potter
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian'Book summary:The author of seven previous cookbooks, including the classic Indian Cooking, Madhur Jaffrey is among today's most influential and authoritative food writers. Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian, a meticulously researched collection of more than 750 meatless dishes from around the globe, presents its author in superlative form, culling the best vegetarian home-style dishes from virtually every culture and cooking tradition. Jaffrey's book, filled with delicious, approachable recipes, has universal appeal, and should be part of every cook's library.
Divided into sections on beans, grains, and vegetables, and including chapters on vegetables, soups, salads, and sauces, among other topics, the book brilliantly juxtaposes recipes grouped by ingredient to reveal, finally, the way that ingredient is approached globally to make food. Thus, for example, Jaffrey's section on rice offers Persian Pilaf with Lima Beans, Palestinian Rice with Lentils and Browned Onions, and Risotto with Fried Porcini Mushrooms, among other pitch-perfect dish choices in this and other chapters. Less familiar ingredients like spelt, millet, and soybeans are removed from the realm of dubious interest and presented in compelling recipes, such as Spicy Soybean Patties with Mint. Throughout, Jaffrey provides definitive notes on ingredients (her full investigation of couscous types is one of many examples) and techniques, as well as a truly comprehensive glossary. Jaffrey also offers a small but charming section on drinks; her Fresh Lime and Ginger Syrup from India, to be mixed with ice and soda water, is a simple but marvelous summertime treat, and one more example of Jaffrey at excitingly full throttle. A ten-page section of color photos rounds out this expert collection. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian : More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the Globeby Madhur JaffreyISBN 0517596326 (0-517-59632-6)
Hardcover, Fraser University Library, Simon
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian : More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the Globe'Book summary:The author of seven previous cookbooks, including the classic Indian Cooking, Madhur Jaffrey is among today's most influential and authoritative food writers. Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian, a meticulously researched collection of more than 750 meatless dishes from around the globe, presents its author in superlative form, culling the best vegetarian home-style dishes from virtually every culture and cooking tradition. Jaffrey's book, filled with delicious, approachable recipes, has universal appeal, and should be part of every cook's library.
Divided into sections on beans, grains, and vegetables, and including chapters on vegetables, soups, salads, and sauces, among other topics, the book brilliantly juxtaposes recipes grouped by ingredient to reveal, finally, the way that ingredient is approached globally to make food. Thus, for example, Jaffrey's section on rice offers Persian Pilaf with Lima Beans, Palestinian Rice with Lentils and Browned Onions, and Risotto with Fried Porcini Mushrooms, among other pitch-perfect dish choices in this and other chapters. Less familiar ingredients like spelt, millet, and soybeans are removed from the realm of dubious interest and presented in compelling recipes, such as Spicy Soybean Patties with Mint. Throughout, Jaffrey provides definitive notes on ingredients (her full investigation of couscous types is one of many examples) and techniques, as well as a truly comprehensive glossary. Jaffrey also offers a small but charming section on drinks; her Fresh Lime and Ginger Syrup from India, to be mixed with ice and soda water, is a simple but marvelous summertime treat, and one more example of Jaffrey at excitingly full throttle. A ten-page section of color photos rounds out this expert collection. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Noticia De Un Secuestro / News of a Kidnappingby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 8401427576 (84-01-42757-6)
Softcover, Diana/Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Noticia De Un Secuestro / News of a Kidnapping'Book summary:The Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude probes the 1990 kidnapping of journalists in Colombia by Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin drug cartel. [via]
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- Noticia De Un Secuestro / News of a Kidnapping: ISBN 9500711427 (950-07-1142-7)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc - Noticias de un secuestro: ISBN 9681329244 (968-13-2924-4)
Softcover, Diana/Mexico - Noticia De Un Secuestro / News of a Kidnapping: ISBN 8401427576 (84-01-42757-6)
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- Noticia De Un Secuestro / News of a Kidnapping: ISBN 9500711427 (950-07-1142-7)
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The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Aloneby Joseph S. NyeISBN 0195161106 (0-19-516110-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone'Book summary:Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the impending threat of the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran, that power is not enough to solve global problems--like terrorism, environmental degradation, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction--without involving other nations. Here Joseph S. Nye, Jr. focuses on the rise of these and other new challenges and explains clearly why America must adopt a more cooperative engagement with the rest of the world. [via]
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 1417687703 (1-4176-8770-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Purple Hibiscusby Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieISBN 1400076943 (1-4000-7694-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purple Hibiscus'Book summary:Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at homea home that is silent and suffocating.
As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their fathers authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom. [via] -
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 081297106X (0-8129-7106-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Controlby Betsy HartmannISBN 0896084914 (0-89608-491-4)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Rootsby Alex Haley, Michael Eric DysonISBN 1593154496 (1-59315-449-6)
Softcover, Vanguard Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots'Book summary:One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadnt been seen since the publication of Uncle Toms Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of Americas past.[via]
Over the years, both Roots and Alex Haley have attracted controversy, which comes with the territory for trailblazing, iconic books, particularly on the topic of race. Some of the criticism results from whether Roots is fact or fiction and whether Alex Haley confused these two issues, a subject he addresses directly in the book. There is also the fact that Haley was sued for plagiarism when it was discovered that several dozen paragraphs in Roots were taken directly from a novel, The African, by Harold Courlander, who ultimately received a substantial financial settlement at the end of the case.
But none of the controversy affects the basic issue. Roots fostered a remarkable dialogue about not just the past, but the then present day 1970s and how America had fared since the days portrayed in Roots. Vanguard Press feels that it is important to publish Roots: The 30th Anniversary Edition to remind the generation that originally read it that there are issues that still need to be discussed and debated, and to introduce to a new and younger generation, a book that will help them understand, perhaps for the first time, the reality of what took place during the time of Roots.
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Rough Guide World Music Africa, Europe and the Middle Eastby Simon BroughtonISBN 1858286352 (1-85828-635-2)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rough Guide World Music Africa, Europe and the Middle East'Book summary:The world music scene has grown so massively in the last five years, that The Rough Guide to World Music has had to split into two volumes to maintain its role as the most authoritative guide. Within the two volumes the book is now arranged alphabetically by country. Each fully updated article includes an overview of the country's music, presenting the story behind every genre, band and artist, with its accompanying discographies, and offering illuminating insights into the countries today. [via]
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Seductions of Riceby Jeffrey Alford, Naomi DuguidISBN 1579652344 (1-57965-234-4)
Softcover, Artisan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seductions of Rice'Book summary:Chinese stir-frys, Spanish paellas, Japanese sushi, Indian thorans, Thai salads, Turkish pilafs, Italian risottos, Senegalese yassas, American gumbos: if rice isn't the heart and soul of all these diverse dishes, rice can be found piled right there at the side of the plate, or in a bowl. To say that Alford and Duguid, authors of the award-winning Flatbreads and Flavors, deliver the world of rice is much too simple an understatement. Your days of buying one rice to serve all purposes will end with even a cursory reading of this lovely book.
The authors are photographers as well as writers, but their greatest skill may be to travel the world at the level of the culture they visit. They seem able to drop away from Western culture and hunker right down with rice vendor or cook, no matter where.
Seductions of Rice opens with all the basics of rice, everything a reader would want to know and then some. Then on to the cultures of rice: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Central Asian, Mediterranean, Senegalese, and North American. Recipes either made from rice or to accompany rice range from Chinese Congee to Thai Green Papaya Salad to Japanese Quick Morning Miso Soup to South Indian Lentil Stew to Cuban Black Beans to Mexican Green Rice.
And in between? The authors fill in all the space between these diverse grains of rice with traveler's tales from the road. It is a luxurious book, a delicious book, a ripe combination of travel and taste. You leave off thinking that the world must be the shape of a rice ball. --Schuyler Ingle [via]
Sisterhood Is Global: Dialogues in the Philippinesby Rosario A. GarcellanoISBN 9718824022 (971-8824-02-2)
Hardcover, Circle Publications
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Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthologyby Robin MorganISBN 1558611606 (1-55861-160-6)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology'Book summary:[via]Sisterhood Is Global has been revered as the essential feminist text on the international women's movement since its first appearance, when it was hailed as "a historic publishing event." The anthology features original essays Morgan commissioned from a deliberately eclectic mix of women both famous and less known-grass-roots activisits, politicians, scholars, querillas, novelists, social scientists, and journalists-representing 70 countries, from every region and political system, with particular emphasis on the Global South. These truth-telling, impassioned essays celebrate the diversity as well as the similarity of women's experience; they also reveal shared female rage, vision, and pragmatic strategies for worldwide feminist solidarity and political transformation.
Each country's essay is preceded by a statistical preface containing carefully researched and referenced data on the status of women, including: population, birth rate, infant mortality, life expectancy, contraception and abortion (both laws and practices); percentage of women in education, government, and labor force; laws and practices regarding women's religious, secular, educational, and employment rights (including marriage, divorce, motherhood, custody, sexual preference, welfare, prostitution, rape, battery, sexual harrasment, and traditional/cultural practices); "herstory"; "mythography"; and more. Despite dramatic geopolitical changes since the book's first publication, much of the data on women remains virtually the same.
The first such international collection, Sisterhood Is Global became an instant classic and remains unequalled in its breadth and comprehensiveness. The book covers Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (as well as the status of women in the United Nations itself), and includes moving essays from such distinguished writers as Marjorie Agosin (Chile), Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Shulamit Aloni (Israel), Peggy Antrobus (Caribbean), Simone de Beauvoir (France), Lidia Falcon (Spain), Hema Goonatilake (Sri Lanka), Fatima Mernessi (Morocco), Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt), Ana Titkow (Poland), Marilyn Waring (New Zealand), and Xiao Lu (China).
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Snowby Orhan Pamuk, Maureen FreelyISBN 0375706860 (0-375-70686-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow'Book summary:From the award-winning author of 'My Name is Red' comes this political thriller. After 12 years in Germany, a poet Ka returns to Istanbul for his mother's funeral. In a dangerous political atmosphere, the truth concerning the poet and the snow-covered old world city of Kars is revealed. [via]
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The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return To Her Lost Homelandby Saira ShahISBN 1400031478 (1-4000-3147-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return To Her Lost Homeland'Book summary:Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born in London, your family in exile, and that you have never seen Afghanistan in peacetime.
These are but the starting points of Saira Shahs memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably heartbreaking, in which she explores her familys history in and out of Afghanistan. As an accomplished journalist and documentarianher film Beneath the Veil unflinchingly depicted for CNN viewers the humiliations forced on women under Taliban ruleShah returned to her familys homeland cloaked in the burqa to witness the pungent and shocking realities of Afghan life. As the daughter of the Sufi fabulist Idries Shah, primed by a lifetime of listening to her fathers stories, she eagerly sought out, from the mouths of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the rich and living myths that still sustain this battered culture of warriors. And she discovered that in Afghanistan all the storytellers have been menuntil now. [via]More editions of The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return To Her Lost Homeland:
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Sundays at Moosewood Restaurantby Moosewood CollectiveISBN 0671679902 (0-671-67990-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant'Book summary:In Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant, 18 of the Moosewood Collective's chefs each contribute a chapter of vegetarian recipes from a different regional cuisine. Recipes are straightforward, and sources (and substitutes!) are given for hard-to-find ingredients. In addition to the Asian cuisine one might expect to find in an international vegetarian cookbook, there are some surprising and tasty options from Eastern Europe, Armenia, and the Middle East, as well as both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish recipes. The suggested menus encourage mixing; tomorrow's dinner could include Sopa de Ajo (garlic soup) from Chile, Spinach Nori Rolls from Japan, and Mango with Yogurt from India. The main dishes are so hearty that your guests may not notice they're meatless. [via]
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Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant/Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurantby Moosewood CollectiveISBN 0671679899 (0-671-67989-9)
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip GourevitchISBN 0312243359 (0-312-24335-9)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda'Book summary:"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.
The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan [via]
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0312425074 (0-312-42507-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century'Book summary:The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century [Paperback] [via]
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0374292795 (0-374-29279-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century'Book summary:When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists. [via]
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World Music: Salsa to Soukous, Cajun to Calypsoby Brian Priestley, Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Simon Broughton, Mark EllinghamISBN 1858280176 (1-85828-017-6)
Softcover, Rough Guides, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Music: Salsa to Soukous, Cajun to Calypso'Book summary:Once you start flipping through World Music, there's no stopping. Unlike other genres, world music spans so huge a territory (the world) that there are surprises and new pleasures for everyone. The table of contents sets the tone. Laid out as a map of the world, the chapters are located directly on the map. This is followed, however, by a traditional table of contents, laid out in linear 1 to 13 format for those who don't go for the visual approach. However you chose your dive-in point, you won't be disappointed. A tremendous amount of work has gone into this guide, covering a remarkable number of subgenres and groups. Search for a group you've heard of, read up on a specific genre like klezmer or flamenco, get CD recommendations, or troll for new finds like Altan, the Irish band of the '90s, and Ibrahim Tatlises, the premier Kurdish performer. There's a wealth of sounds out there that Rough Guide makes accessible. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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El Amor en Los Tiempos de Coleraby Gabriel García MárquezISBN 1400034671 (1-4000-3467-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Amor en Los Tiempos de Colera'Book summary:La historia de amor entre Fermina Daza y Florentino Ariza, en el escenario de un pueblecito portuario del Caribe y a lo largo de mas de sesenta anos, podria parecer un melodrama de amantes contrariados que al final vencen por la gracia del tiempo y la fuerza de sus propios sentimientos, ya que Garcia Marquez se complace en utilizar los mas clasicos recursos de los folletines tradicionales. Pero este tiempo -por una vez sucesivo, y no circular-, este escenario y estos personajes son como una mezcla tropical de plantas y arcillas que la mano del maestro modela y fantasea a su placer, para al final ir a desembocar en los territorios del mito y la leyenda. Los zumos, olores y sabores del tropico alimentan una prosa alucinatoria que en esta ocasion llega al puerto oscilante del final feliz. [via]
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El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera/Love in the Times of Angerby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 9500703203 (950-07-0320-3)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera/Love in the Times of Anger'Book summary:La historia de amor entre Fermina Daza y Florentino Ariza, en el escenario de un pueblecito portuario del Caribe y a lo largo de mas de sesenta anos, podria parecer un melodrama de amantes contrariados que al final vencen por la gracia del tiempo y la fuerza de sus propios sentimientos, ya que Garcia Marquez se complace en utilizar los mas clasicos recursos de los folletines tradicionales. Pero este tiempo -por una vez sucesivo, y no circular-, este escenario y estos personajes son como una mezcla tropical de plantas y arcillas que la mano del maestro modela y fantasea a su placer, para al final ir a desembocar en los territorios del mito y la leyenda. Los zumos, olores y sabores del tropico alimentan una prosa alucinatoria que en esta ocasion llega al puerto oscilante del final feliz. [via]
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Ana Kareninaby Leon TolstoiISBN 8426133975 (84-261-3397-5)
Softcover, Juventud
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ana Karenina/ Ana Karenina'Book summary:The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Dante, Dumas, Hugo, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach.[via] -
LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara Kingsolver, Damian AlouISBN 8484530256 (84-8453-025-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Del Bronce
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase. [via]
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Cometas En El Cielo / The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 8478888470 (84-7888-847-0)
Hardcover, Oceano De Mexico
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El Fantasma De Anilby Michael OndaatjeISBN 8423329917 (84-233-2991-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Interprete De Emociones / Interpreter of Maladiesby Jhumpa Lahiri, Antonio PadillaISBN 848453961X (84-8453-961-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8476696310 (84-7669-631-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Leer Lolita En Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8496333159 (84-96333-15-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Leon Tolstoiby Leon TolstoiISBN 8484036472 (84-8403-647-2)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leon Tolstoi'Book summary:The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes Anna Karenina and The Cossacks.
Las obras clásicas de literatura en cada volumen son una representación de los mejores y más famosos escritos de los autores. Una introducción maravillosa a la literatura universal, esta serie hermosamente diseñada pone las obras de los autores mundialmente conocidos al alcance de todos. [via]
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Nieveby Orhan PamukISBN 9707701595 (970-770-159-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nieve'Book summary:A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings for love, art, power and God. Following years of lonely political exile in Germany, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mothers funeral. Strange news of a wave of suicides lead him to Kars, a remote Turkish town where political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Pamuk creates a stark picture of a too-little known part of the world, illuminating the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. Description in Spanish: En pleno invierno, un poeta y periodista regresa a su ciudad natal, la remota ciudad de Kars en la frontera de Turquía, después de largos años de exilio político en Europa Occidental. La ciudad que encuentra es un lugar conflictivo: hay una ola de suicidios de chicas a las que se les ha prohibido llevar las cabezas cubiertas a la escuela, los islamistas van a ganar las elecciones locales, y el jefe de los servicios de inteligencia es de una eficiencia brutal. La nueva novela del premiado y prestigioso autor de Me llamo Rojo es un thriller político que retrata las más diversas formas de la ambición -el amor, el arte, el poder, la religión- y desenmascara las contradicciones que aprisionan el corazón humano en muchos lugares del mundo islámico. [via]
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Noticia De Un Secuestro / News of a Kidnappingby G. Garcia MarquezISBN 9871138121 (987-1138-12-1)
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La Tierra Es Plana / The World Is Flat: Breve Historia del Mundo Globalizado del Siglo XXI / A Brief History of the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas FriedmanISBN 8427032226 (84-270-3222-6)
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Vida De Pi / Life of Piby Yann Martel, Bianca SouthwoodISBN 8423335127 (84-233-3512-7)
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Il Dio Delle Piccole Coseby Arundhati RoyISBN 8850200005 (88-502-0000-5)
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