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Across the Wireby Luis Alberto Urrea, John Lueders-BoothISBN 0385425309 (0-385-42530-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Across the Wire'Book summary:Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the bordera world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and "official translator" of a crew of relief workers that provided aid to the many refugees hidden just behind the flashy tourist spots of Tijuana. His account of the struggle of these people to survive amid abject poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and the legal and political chaos that reign in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey "across the wire" into the United States.
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More than just an expose, Across the Wire is a tribute to the tenacity of a people who have learned to survive against the most impossible odds, and returns to these forgotten people their pride and their identity.More editions of Across the Wire:
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhoodby Maria AranaISBN 0385319630 (0-385-31963-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood'Book summary:From her father's genteel Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet from her mother's American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken's neck for dinner.
Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American, an individual whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who "was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An American chica."
Through Arana's eyes the reader will discover not only the diverse, earthquake-prone terrain of Peru, charged with ghosts of history and mythology, but also the vast prairie lands of Wyoming, "grave-slab flat," and hemmed by mountains.
In these landscapes resides a fierce and colorful cast of family members who bring her historia vividly to life, among them Arana's proud paternal grandfather, Victor Manuel Arana Sobrevilla, who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs; her dazzling maternal grandmother, Rosa Cisneros y Cisneros, "clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage"; Grandpa Doc, her maternal grandfather, who, by example, taught her about the constancy of love.
But most important are Arana's parents, Jorge and Marie. He a brilliant engineer, she a talented musician. For more than half a century these two passionate, strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and, finally, to prevail. [via]More editions of American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood:
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The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America's Leading Design Firmby Jonathan Littman, Tom Kelley, Tom PetersISBN 0385499841 (0-385-49984-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America's Leading Design Firm'Book summary:IDEO, the world's leading design firm, is the brain trust that's behind some of the more brilliant innovations of the past 20 years--from the Apple mouse, the Polaroid i-Zone instant camera, and the Palm V to the "fat" toothbrush for kids and a self-sealing water bottle for dirt bikers. Not surprisingly, companies all over the world have long wondered what they could learn from IDEO, to come up with better ideas for their own products, services, and operations. In this terrific book from IDEO general manager Tom Kelley (brother of founder David Kelley), IDEO finally delivers--but thankfully not in the step-by-step, flow-chart-filled "process speak" of most how-you-can-do-what-we-do business books. Sure, there are some good bulleted lists to be found here--such as the secrets of successful brainstorming, the qualities of "hot teams," and, toward the end, 10 key ingredients for "How to Create Great Products and Services," including "One Click Is Better Than Two" (the simpler, the better) and "Goof Proof" (no bugs).
But The Art of Innovation really teaches indirectly (not to mention enlightens and entertains) by telling great stories--mainly, of how the best ideas for creating or improving products or processes come not from laboriously organized focus groups, but from keen observations of how regular people work and play on a daily basis. On nearly every page, we learn the backstories of some now-well-established consumer goods, from recent inventions like the Palm Pilot and the in-car beverage holder to things we nearly take for granted--like Ivory soap (created when a P&G worker went to lunch without turning off his soap mixer, and returned to discover his batch overwhipped into 99.44 percent buoyancy) and Kleenex, which transcended its original purpose as a cosmetics remover when people started using the soft paper to wipe and blow their noses. Best of all, Kelley opens wide the doors to IDEO's vibrant, sometimes wacky office environment, and takes us on a vivid tour of how staffers tackle a design challenge: they start not with their ideas of what a new product should offer, but with the existing gaps of need, convenience, and pleasure with which people live on a daily basis, and that IDEO should fill. (Hence, a one-piece children's fishing rod that spares fathers the embarrassment of not knowing how to teach their kids to fish, or Crest toothpaste tubes that don't "gunk up" at the mouth.)
Granted, some of their ideas--like the crucial process of "prototyping," or incorporating dummy drafts of the actual product into the planning, to work out bugs as you go--lend themselves more easily to the making of actual things than to the more common organizational challenge of streamlining services or operations. But, if this big book of bright ideas doesn't get you thinking of how to build a better mousetrap for everything from your whole business process to your personal filing system, you probably deserve to be stuck with the mousetrap you already have. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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As It Happened: A Memoirby Williams PaleyISBN 0385146396 (0-385-14639-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenby Susan FaludiISBN 0385425074 (0-385-42507-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'Book summary:A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. [via]
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Bad Newsby Esquire Magazine EditorsISBN 038085712X (0-380-85712-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds Criticismby Benjamin Franklin, Paul M. Zall, J. A. Leo LemayISBN 0393017370 (0-393-01737-0)
Hardcover, Norton
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Berlin Journal, 1989-1990by Robert DarntonISBN 0393029700 (0-393-02970-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Best of Rolling Stone: 25 Years of Journalism on the Edgeby Rolling StoneISBN 0385425805 (0-385-42580-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best of Rolling Stone: 25 Years of Journalism on the Edge'Book summary:A twenty-fifth anniversary collection features some of the most influential articles from the magazine that redefined journalism, with works by Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, Chet Flippo, Ellen Hopkins, and others. [via]
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Bird, Kansasby Tony ParkerISBN 0380711370 (0-380-71137-0)
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant'S-Eye View of the Worldby Michael PollanISBN 0375760393 (0-375-76039-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Botany of Desire: A Plant'S-Eye View of the World'Book summary:Working in his garden one day, The Botany of Desire author Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is unique. The result is a fascinating and engaging look at the true nature of domestication.
In making his point, Pollan focuses on the relationship between humans and four specific plants: apples, tulips, marijuana and potatoes. He uses the history of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) to illustrate how both the apple's sweetness and its role in the production of alcoholic cider made it appealing to settlers moving west, thus greatly expanding the plant's range. He also explains how human manipulation of the plant has weakened it, so that "modern apples require more pesticide than any other food crop". The tulipomania of 17th-century Holland is a backdrop for his examination of the role the tulip's beauty played in wildly influencing human behaviour to both the benefit and detriment of the plant (the markings that made the tulip so attractive to the Dutch were actually caused by a virus).
His excellent discussion of the potato combines a history of the plant with a prime example of how biotechnology is changing our relationship to nature. As part of his research, Pollan visited the Monsanto company headquarters and planted some of their NewLeaf brand potatoes in his garden--seeds that had been genetically engineered to produce their own insecticide. Though they worked as advertised, he made some startling discoveries, primarily that the NewLeaf plants themselves are registered as a pesticide by the EPA and that federal law prohibits anyone from reaping more than one crop per seed packet. And in a interesting aside, he explains how a global desire for consistently perfect French fries contributes to both damaging monoculture and the genetic engineering necessary to support it.
Pollan has read widely on the subject and elegantly combines literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific references with engaging anecdotes, giving readers much to ponder while weeding their gardens. --Shawn Carkonen, Amazon.com [via]
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Case Closedby Gerald PosnerISBN 0385474466 (0-385-47446-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Cocaine Warsby Paul Eddy, Sara Walden, Hugo SabogalISBN 0393025799 (0-393-02579-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0385074077 (0-385-07407-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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Confessions of a Conservativeby Garry WillsISBN 0385089775 (0-385-08977-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Confessions of an S.O.B.by Al NeuharthISBN 038524942X (0-385-24942-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Contents Under Pressureby Edna BuchananISBN 0380722607 (0-380-72260-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contents Under Pressure'Book summary:Britt Montero is an ace crime reporter who sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside -- and who can't keep off a hot story, even if the book has already been closed.Miami is her turf, with it's sweltering nights and seething passions that can erupt without warning into mind-numbing violence. Now a black ex-football star and beloved local hero is dead after an alleged high-speed police chase -- and Britt's city explodes around her. The facts are hidden somewhere among the deadly lies, official cover-ups, and the vigilante crimes of rogue night shift cops. And Britt's determined to pursue the truth through the smoking tropical wreckage -- even as it leads her perilously close to unexpected revelations of conspiracy and corruption that could burn her to the bone. [via]
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Critical Condition : How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicineby Donald L. Barlett, James B. SteeleISBN 0385504543 (0-385-50454-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Dave Barry's Bad Habits: A 100% Fact-free Bookby Dave BarryISBN 0385189540 (0-385-18954-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Desperate Networksby Bill CarterISBN 0385514409 (0-385-51440-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffsby Michael Novacek, Ed HeckISBN 0385477759 (0-385-47775-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs'Book summary:One of the fields of study opened up by the collapse of Communism is, oddly enough, that of the distant past: Western archeologists have for the first time in six decades been allowed to explore the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. This is the region explored in the 1930s by the famed Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History. It is also the region wonderfully described in this stirring book by Michael Novacek, the current curator of the museum's department of vertebrate paleontology, who led the recent expeditions onto the high desert and into the heart of the Cretaceous Period in Asia. In 1993, Novacek's expedition found an astonishing trove of fossils in a wasteland called Ukhaa Tolgod, not too far from the Flaming Cliffs where Andrews made his most important finds. But, as with all great travel adventure stories, getting to Ukhaa Tolgod is the real tale. [via]
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Dish: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Showby Jeannette WallsISBN 038081045X (0-380-81045-X)
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Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossipby Jeannette WallsISBN 0380978210 (0-380-97821-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip'Book summary:Love it or hate it, create it or repeat it, America is obsessed with gossip. Here is a fascinating look at five decades of dish: a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the personalities that control what we read and see; the unholy and unchanging trinity of celebrity, publicist and reporter that has stoked the American appetite for gossip from the salad days of silver-screen magazines to the instantaneous communication of the scoop-filled Internet.
Insider Jeannette Walls delivers a tantalizing tell-all that features not only gossip itself, but its history, its movers and shakers (including quite a few tony Ivy Leaguers), high and low points, and the watershed events and personalities--like Elvis, Diana, Michael Jackson and O. J.--that altered it forever. Here is the famous formula for People, the astonishing magazine that began amid sneers and snipes but went on to become one of the publishing industry's greatest success stories. Here too is the incredible truth behind explosive material that didn't see the light of day.
From the humble beginnings of the National Enquirer, aided by the avuncular beneficence of crime kingpin Joe Costello, to the lurid Hollywood trial of Confidential magazine, where the "libeled" stars were proved more guilty than not of the salacious episodes the publication revealed, Jeannette Walls expertly traces the formation and development of the hush-hush industry. She shows us that tabloid TV shows are nothing new: they were preceded in the Fifties by the wildly successful Night Beat, hosted by none other than Mike Wallace, who turned the show into a forum for sex and scandal with his relentless prying and probing into the lives of celebrated figures.
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Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Womenby Elsa WalshISBN 038548447X (0-385-48447-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The DNA of God : The True Story of the Scientist Who Reestablished the Case for the Authenticity of the Shroud of Turin and Discovered Its Incredible Secretsby Leoncio A. Garza-ValdesISBN 0385488505 (0-385-48850-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Driving Mr. Albertby Michael PaternitiISBN 038533303X (0-385-33303-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Driving Mr. Albert'Book summary:Driving Mr. Albert chronicles the adventures of an unlikely threesome--a freelance writer, an elderly pathologist, and Albert Einstein's brain--on a cross-country expedition intended to set the story of this specimen-cum-relic straight once and for all.
After Thomas Harvey performed Einstein's autopsy in 1955, he made off with the key body part. His claims that he was studying the specimen and would publish his findings never bore fruit, and the doctor fell from grace. The brain, though, became the subject of many an urban legend, and Harvey was transformed into a modern Robin Hood, having snatched neurological riches from the establishment and distributed them piecemeal to the curious and the faithful around the world.
The brain itself has seen better days, its chicken-colored chunks floating in a smelly, yellow, formaldehyde broth, yet its beatific presence in the book, riding serenely in the trunk of a Buick Skylark, encased in Tupperware, reflects the uncertainty of Einstein's life. Was he a sinner or a saint, a genius or just lucky? Harvey guards the brain as if it were his own. From time to time, he has given favored specialists a slice or two to analyze, but the results have been mixed. Physiologically, Einstein's brain may have been no different from anyone else's, but plenty of people would like the brain to be more than it is, including Paterniti:
I want to touch the brain. Yes, I've admitted it. I want to hold it, coddle it, measure its weight in my palm, handle some of its fifteen billion now-dormant neurons. Does it feel like tofu, sea urchin, bologna? What, exactly? And what does such a desire make me? One of a legion of relic freaks? Or something worse?
Traversing America with Harvey and his sacred specimen, Paterniti seems to be awaiting enlightenment, much as Einstein did in his last days. But just as the great scientist failed to come up with a unifying theory, Paterniti's chronicle dissolves at times into overly sincere efforts to find importance where there may be none, and it walks a fine line between postmodern detachment and wide-eyed wonderment. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book offers an engrossing portrait of postatomic America from what may be the ultimate late-20th-century road trip. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Driving Mr. Albert : A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brainby Michael PaternitiISBN 0385333005 (0-385-33300-5)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountainsby Jon KrakauerISBN 0385488181 (0-385-48818-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains'Book summary:No matter what the actual temperature may be, several pages into Eiger Dreams you will begin to shiver. Halfway through you will acquire a new appreciation for your fingers, toes, and the fact that you still have a nose. And by the end of this collection, you'll define some commonly used phrases in an entirely different way. The understated "catch some air" and the whimsical "log some flight time" are climbers' euphemisms for falling, while "crater" refers to what happens when you log some flight time all the way to the ground. "Summiting," the term for reaching the top of a mountain, seems almost colorless in comparison. The various heroes, risk-takers, incompetents, and individualists Krakauer captures are more than colorful, whether they summit or not. The author is more interested in exploring the addiction of risk--the intensity of effort--than mere triumph. There's the mythical minimalist climber, John Gill, whose fame "rests entirely on assents less than thirty feet high," and the Burgess brothers--freewheeling, free-floating English twins who seem to make all the right decisions when it counts, and hence most often fail to reach the top. Of course, they are alive. Over these and other talented climbers hangs a malignant, endlessly creative nature--its foehn winds can make people crazy and its avalanches do far worse. Eiger Dreams is an adrenaline fest for the weary, an overdue examination of a stylish, brave subculture. As one of the heroes Krakauer outlines says of his occupation, "It's sort of like having fun, only different." [via]
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reasonby Sam HarrisISBN 0393035158 (0-393-03515-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason'Book summary:Sam Harris cranks out blunt, hard-hitting chapters to make his case for why faith itself is the most dangerous element of modern life. And if the devil's in the details, then you'll find Satan waiting at the back of the book in the very substantial notes section where Harris saves his more esoteric discussions to avoid sidetracking the urgency of his message.
Interestingly, Harris is not just focused on debunking religious faith, though he makes his compelling arguments with verve and intellectual clarity. The End of Faith is also a bit of a philosophical Swiss Army knife. Once he has presented his arguments on why, in an age of Weapons of Mass Destruction, belief is now a hazard of great proportions, he focuses on proposing alternate approaches to the mysteries of life. Harris recognizes the truth of the human condition, that we fear death, and we often crave "something more" we cannot easily define, and which is not met by accumulating more material possessions. But by attempting to provide the cure for the ills it defines, the book bites off a bit more than it can comfortably chew in its modest page count (however the rich Bibliography provides more than enough background for an intrigued reader to follow up for months on any particular strand of the author' musings.)
Harris' heart is not as much in the latter chapters, though, but in presenting his main premise. Simply stated, any belief system that speaks with assurance about the hereafter has the potential to place far less value on the here and now. And thus the corollary -- when death is simply a door translating us from one existence to another, it loses its sting and finality. Harris pointedly asks us to consider that those who do not fear death for themselves, and who also revere ancient scriptures instructing them to mete it out generously to others, may soon have these weapons in their own hands. If thoughts along the same line haunt you, this is your book.--Ed Dobeas [via]
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Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmetby Ruth Reichl, Gourmet MagazineISBN 0375759921 (0-375-75992-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet'Book summary:Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, part of the Modern Library Food series, is a fascinating compendium of Gourmet magazine food and travel pieces spanning six decades--a collection that mirrors our dining habits over the years but is timeless in its underlying theme: we are what we eat. The assembled cast is tops: James Beard on pasta; Elizabeth David lauding epicure Edouard de Pomaine; M.F.K. Fisher on her favorite Swiss inns; Paul Theroux writing about crossing the Rockies; Anita Loos evoking cocktail parties of the 1920s. Compiled by Gourmet editor-in-chief (and series editor) Ruth Reichl, and with recipes from the contributors' pieces--including hobotee, North Carolina's famed meat custard, and Katherine Hepburn's brownies--the book will delight armchair and meal-chasing foodies alike.
Most readers will discover new voices among the more familiar. Present, as noted, is M.F.K. Fisher, offering one of her most splendid sun-and-shadow portraits, but there's also the underread (and magnificently dry) Ruth Harkness providing glimpses of a World War II winter spent in a crumbling Tibetan Lamasery, where she devoured $10,000 worth of rare pheasants; the drolly avuncular Joseph Wechsburg on Austria's legendary patisserie, Demel's ("the loudest sound you hear there is the breaking of crisp strudel dough"); crusty Maine poet Robert P. Coffin on Down East breakfasts and lobstering ("a night like a night of marriage"); and the reportorial, unblinking Jay Jacobs on Beard himself ("the man remembers in minute detail every one of the eighty-seven-thousand-odd meals he has eaten since his birth"). The quality of the essays varies, of course, but the book overwhelmingly gladdens in its rich breadth of time and place and evocative storytelling. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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The Fact Checker's Bible: A Guide to Getting It Rightby Sarah Harrison SmithISBN 0385721064 (0-385-72106-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fairways and Greens: The Best Golf Writing of Dan Jenkinsby Dan JenkinsISBN 0385474261 (0-385-47426-1)
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The Fanciest Dive: What Happened When the Giant Media Empire of Time/Life Leaped Without Looking into the Age of High-Techby Christopher ByronISBN 0393022617 (0-393-02261-7)
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Fermat's Enigmaby Simon SinghISBN 0385493622 (0-385-49362-2)
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"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years. In Fermat's Enigma--based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics. [via]More editions of Fermat's Enigma:
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorkerby David Remnick, Henry FinderISBN 0375761276 (0-375-76127-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fletch's Fortuneby Gregory McDonaldISBN 0380379783 (0-380-37978-3)
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He hadnt been a practicing journalist for years, although people remembered him and he still has a few contacts. And hes pretty sure he hasnt paid his dues to the American Journalism Alliance anytime recently. But somebody has.
Fletchs Fortune
Enjoying himself on the French Riviera, developing a killer tan, and sleeping with the neighbors wife, Fletch is feeling pretty flush. But when agents Eggers and Fabens show up with a little more information about Fletch than is comfortable and an invitation to the A.J.A. convention, how could he refuse?
Fletchs Fortune
So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, theres a murder. And almost everybodys a suspect. Because a lot of people were employed by Walter March, and most of them had a reason to hate him. [via]More editions of Fletch's Fortune:
Fly On The Wallby Tony HillermanISBN 038044156X (0-380-44156-X)
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary Franceby Robert DarntonISBN 0393037207 (0-393-03720-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Storiesby Jack FinneyISBN 0385177216 (0-385-17721-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Great Divideby Studs TerkelISBN 038070854X (0-380-70854-X)
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The Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawISBN 0385334621 (0-385-33462-1)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared M. DiamondISBN 0393038912 (0-393-03891-2)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Hazardous Duty: One of America's Most Decorated Soldiers Reports from the Front With the Truth About the U.S. Military Todayby Tom Mathews, David H. HackworthISBN 0380727420 (0-380-72742-0)
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Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burningby George MonbiotISBN 0385662211 (0-385-66221-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday of Canada
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How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (And Found Inner Peace)by Harry SteinISBN 038533396X (0-385-33396-X)
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I'Ve Seen the Best of It: Memoirsby Joseph W. Alsop, Adam PlattISBN 0393029174 (0-393-02917-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0385267053 (0-385-26705-3)
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The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Storiesby Marion Elizabeth RodgersISBN 0385262086 (0-385-26208-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolutionby Susan BrownmillerISBN 0385318316 (0-385-31831-6)
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In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographersby William Manchester, Fred Ritchin, Jean Lacouture, American Federation of Arts, Eastman Kodak Company, Minneapolis Institute of ArtsISBN 0393027678 (0-393-02767-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers'Book summary:"This stirring volume of extraordinary photographs, presenting our times in all their elegance, squalor, courage, hope, betrayal, agony, sacrifice, heroism, and majesty, is as unsparing of its audience as it was unsparing of its photographers. . . . These pictures demand involvement." William Manchester, from the text
From the grandly historic to the poignantly human, from battlefield violence to the gentle pleasures of peace, In Our Time captures the past fifty years of the world in over three hundred memorable photographs, including many in color.As the distinguished historian William Manchester explains in his provocative text, the book is a distinctive blend of reporting and art that inevitably engages the heart and mind of the viewer.
Each picture is a comment upon our experience of the twentieth century.The photographers represented here all belong to Magnum, a collective founded in 1947 to give photojournalists artistic freedom and control over the rights to their work.
Magnum's archives are a repository of the masterpieces of photography of the past half-century.Not since the landmark photographic exhibition "The Family of Man" have so many brilliant photographs documented such a range of human experience. [via]More editions of In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers:
It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, but Didn't We Have Fun?: Esquire in the Sixtiesby Carol PolsgroveISBN 0393037924 (0-393-03792-4)
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionismby Ross KingISBN 0385661037 (0-385-66103-7)
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The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural Historyby Robert DarntonISBN 0393027538 (0-393-02753-8)
Hardcover, Norton
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Kolyma Talesby Varlam ShalamovISBN 039300077X (0-393-00077-X)
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Kontinent 4: Contemporary Russian Writersby George BaileyISBN 0380811820 (0-380-81182-0)
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Laughing in the Darkby Patrice GainesISBN 038548027X (0-385-48027-X)
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Liar's Pokerby Michael LewisISBN 0393027503 (0-393-02750-3)
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In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.
With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairman Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar's poker for one million dollars; around the world in London, Tokyo, and New York, bright young men like Michael Lewis, connected by telephones and computer terminals, swap gross jokes and find retail buyers for the staggering debt of individual companies or whole countries.
The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition and badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis's job, simply described, was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed. In doing so, he generated tens of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers, and earned for himself a ringside seat on the greatest financial spectacle of the decade: the leveraging of America. [via]More editions of Liar's Poker:
Live from Baghdad: Gathering News at Ground Zeroby Robert WienerISBN 0385421656 (0-385-42165-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartlandby Tom BrokawISBN 0375759352 (0-375-75935-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Looking for Troubleby Leslie CockburnISBN 0385483198 (0-385-48319-8)
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town Americaby Bill BrysonISBN 0385658613 (0-385-65861-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America'Book summary:A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.
With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside, The Lost Continent is an amusing book. Here's Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it's a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don't know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self-inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked."
Yes, Bill, but be honest: what do you really think? [via]
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Lunch Withby Jan WongISBN 0385259824 (0-385-25982-4)
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The Monkey Wrench Gangby Edward AbbeyISBN 038000741X (0-380-00741-X)
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Mother Nightby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385334141 (0-385-33414-1)
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New Emperors: China...by Harrison SalisburyISBN 0380720256 (0-380-72025-6)
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New Grub Streetby George Gissing, Francine ProseISBN 0375761101 (0-375-76110-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Grub Street'Book summary:Hailed as Gissings finest novel, New Grub Street portrays the intrigues and hardships of the publishing world in late Victorian England. In a materialistic, class-conscious society that rewards commercial savvy over artistic achievement, authors and scholars struggle to earn a living without compromising their standards. Even as the novel chills us with its still-recognizable portrayal of the crass and vulgar world of literary endeavor, writes Francine Prose in her Introduction, its very existence provides eloquent, encouraging proof of the fact that a powerful, honest writer can transcend the constraints of commerce.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1891 first edition. [via]More editions of New Grub Street:
New World, New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolutionby Robert Ornstein, Paul EhrlichISBN 0385239408 (0-385-23940-8)
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Next: The Future Just Happenedby Michael LewisISBN 0393020371 (0-393-02037-1)
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Not Just Another Pretty Faceby Peter FilichiaISBN 0380752441 (0-380-75244-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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One Man's San Franciscoby Herb CaenISBN 0385014279 (0-385-01427-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Other Shoeby Jeff MacNellyISBN 0380753413 (0-380-75341-3)
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Overdrive: A Personal Documentaryby William F. BuckleyISBN 0385182694 (0-385-18269-4)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Overdrive: A Personal Documentary'Book summary:Inscribed & SIGNED by William F. Buckley, Jr. Doubleday & Co, First Edition (1983) stated, see our photos. Hardbound, black cloth spine, grey boards, gilt spine, 260 pages. Personal family copy. Book was never read, binding sound, pages bright & clean, other than DC the book is in brand new condition. The dust jacket is rubbed near tops of flaps & the head & tail of spine. Fine book in a very good dust wrapper. Inscribed & signed by William F. Buckley, Jr. to "my father-in-law" on a book label mounted on the front endpaper. From a smoke-free home, next day shipping, free insurance, 100% refund if not fully satisfied. [via]
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Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and Whiteby Brent StaplesISBN 0380724758 (0-380-72475-8)
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Paris after the Liberation, 1944-1949by Antony Beevor, Artemis CooperISBN 0385471955 (0-385-47195-5)
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Parting With Illusions: The Extraordinary Life and Controversial Views of the Soviet Union's Leading Commentatorby Vladimir PoznerISBN 0380713497 (0-380-71349-7)
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The Pillars of the Post: The Making of a News Empire in Washingtonby Howard BrayISBN 0393013138 (0-393-01313-8)
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Sparring with Charlie : Motorbiking down the Ho Chi Minh Trailby Christopher HuntISBN 0385481284 (0-385-48128-4)
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Storiesby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0385722222 (0-385-72222-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories'Book summary:Chuck Palahniuks world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything. [via]
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The Theocons: Secular America Under Siegeby Damon LinkerISBN 0385516479 (0-385-51647-9)
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There's a Country in My Cellarby Russell BakerISBN 0380714515 (0-380-71451-5)
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Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Electionby Jeffrey ToobinISBN 0375761071 (0-375-76107-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election'Book summary:From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.
Packed with news-making disclosures and written with the drive of a legal thriller, Too Close to Call takes us inside James Baker's private jet, through the locked gates to Al Gore's mansion, behind the covered-up windows of Katherine Harris's office, and even into the secret conference room of the United States Supreme Court. As the scene shifts from Washington to Austin and into the remote corners of the enduringly strange Sunshine State, Toobin's book will transform what you thought you knew about the most extraordinary political drama in American history.
The Florida recount unfolded in a kaleidoscopic maze of bizarre concepts (chads, pregnant and otherwise), unfamiliar people in critically important positions (the Florida Supreme Court), and familiar people in surprising new places (the Miami relatives of Elián González, in a previously undisclosed role in this melodrama). With the rich characterization that is his trademark, Toobin portrays the prominent strategists who masterminded the campaigns--the Daleys and the Roves--and also the lesser-known but influential players who pulled the strings, as well as the judges and justices whose decisions determined the final outcome. Toobin gives both camps a treatment they have not yet received--remarkably evenhanded, nonpartisan, and entirely new.
The post-election period posed a challenge to even the most zealous news junkie: how to keep up with what was happening and sort out the important from the trivial. Jeffrey Toobin has now done this--and then some. With clarity, insight, humor, and a deep understanding of the law, he deconstructs the events, the players, and the often Byzantine intricacies of our judicial system. A remarkable account of one of the most significant periods in our country's history, Too Close to Call is endlessly surprising, frequently poignant, and wholly addictive.
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lessonby Mitch AlbomISBN 0385484518 (0-385-48451-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson'Book summary:This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much they meant to us, maybe even resume the mentorship? Plus, we meet Morrie Schwartz--a one of a kind professor, whom the author describes as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Christmas elf. And finally we are privy to intimate moments of Morrie's final days as he lies dying from a terminal illness. Even on his deathbed, this twinkling-eyed mensch manages to teach us all about living robustly and fully. Kudos to author and acclaimed sports columnist Mitch Albom for telling this universally touching story with such grace and humility. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Turn of the Centuryby Kurt AndersonISBN 0385335040 (0-385-33504-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Century'Book summary:Everyone will compare Kurt Andersen's scathingly funny first novel to Tom Wolfe's fictional debut, The Bonfire of the Vanities. Like Wolfe, Andersen is a merry terrorist, a status-attuned assassin with liquid nitrogen in his veins, a prose style with the cool purr of an Uzi, and the entire society in his crosshairs. And like the Man in White's protagonist, Sherman McCoy, Andersen's George Mactier is a master of the contemporary universe--not just Manhattan, but decadent post fin-de-siècle Hollywood, the globe-gobbling, infotainment-tainted news media, and cyberspace from Seattle to Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley.
Turn of the Century opens in February 2000, in a bizarro world with just a tangy twist of futuristic extrapolation. George has parlayed a Newsweek writing job into a PBS documentary into a $16,575-a-week job as a producer at the sinister MBC network. His series, NARCS, is a veritable Cuisinart of fact and fiction in which the actors get to participate in real drug busts and get all the best lines, since they're working from scripts. In the most notorious episode, the dealer they arrest turns out to be an Actors Equity member (thanks to Rent), so he gets union scale and a recurring role.
As George stumbles into a Wolfesque calamity spiral, his wife, Lizzie Zimbalist, ascends to power. Lizzie is a brilliant software entrepreneur: her "force-feedback technology" alternative-history game can sense players' fear. "If you travel to 1792 Paris, for instance, you are designated a besotted peasant or a frightened aristocrat or an angry sansculotte according to your heart rate, blood pressure, and skin conductance; too many twitches, the wrong sort of palpitation, and you're a marquess (or marchioness) headed for the guillotine." Needless to say, her insights into the year 2000 earn her bigtime interest from George's boss and Microsoft. Lizzie is a character at least as vivid as George, and their hectic family life is uncloying and acutely observed.
Andersen's plot (involving Bill Gates's potential death) has more hairy turns than the Hana Highway--read carefully or you'll go off the road. But you're guaranteed a wild ride with amazing characters: an irreverent investor inspired by James Cramer, a hilarious MBC toady, Timothy Featherstone--who's as marvelous a creation as Tony Curtis in The Sweet Smell of Success--and worlds' worth of social caricatures. Kurt Andersen has an uncanny ear for the way we talk now and Turn of the Century is sharp, knowing, and subversive. Let's all pray that it isn't prescient as well. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Turning Pointsby Ellen GoodmanISBN 0385098146 (0-385-09814-6)
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Up Frontby Bill MauldinISBN 0393030539 (0-393-03053-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up Front'Book summary:Throughout World War II, cartoonist Bill Mauldin documented the adventures and misadventures of dogfaces Willie and Joe, symbols of the hard-pressed infantry, "the group which gives more and gets less than anybody else." In Up Front, recently reissued as a 50th-anniversary volume, Mauldin joins an absorbing narrative account of just how hellish combat is to a selection of those cartoons. Reading through this powerful book, one sees why Mauldin, in demythologizing the war, was often accused of undoing the efforts of the morale officers and politicians who assured the home front that our boys were having a fine time of it in Europe. No, Mauldin replied through Willie and Joe, our boys are being maimed and killed every day. For his honesty, the troops loved him -- and Mauldin loved them= back. [via]
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A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailby Bill Bryson, Philip KerrISBN 0385257155 (0-385-25715-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail'Book summary:Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson's reading of A Walk in the Woods may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you'll be hooked.
When Bryson speaks for the many Americans he encounters along the way--in various shops, restaurants, airports, and along the trail--he launches into his American accent, which is whiny and full of hard r's. And his southern intonations are a hoot. He's even got a special voice used exclusively when speaking for his somewhat surprising trail partner, Katz. In the 25 years since their school days together, Katz has put on quite a bit of weight. In fact, "he brought to mind Orson Welles after a very bad night. He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of 20 yards." Katz often speaks in monosyllables, and Bryson brings his limited vocabulary humorously to life. One of Katz's more memorable utterings is "flung," as in flung most of his provisions over the cliff because they were too heavy to carry any farther.
The author has thoroughly researched the history and the making of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson describes the destruction of many parts of the forest and warns of the continuing perils (both natural and man-made) the Trail faces. He speaks of the natural beauty and splendor as he and Katz pass through, and he recalls clearly the serious dangers the two face during their time together on the trail. So, A Walk in the Woods is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man's desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it's also a plea for the conservation of America's last wilderness. Bryson's telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure. (Running time: 360 minutes, four cassettes) --Colleen Preston [via]
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