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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0375761381 (0-375-76138-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0393958043 (0-393-95804-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0393099776 (0-393-09977-6)
Softcover, W. W. Norton - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0393043436 (0-393-04343-6)
Hardcover, W. W. Norton - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 0375761381 (0-375-76138-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0393958043 (0-393-95804-3)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Jenny ThorneISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:, 292 pages including Prefatory Notes at rear, illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations within the text [via]
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The American Heritage DictionaryISBN 0385335768 (0-385-33576-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This BookBook summary:The latest edition of the American Heritage Dictionary is out, and that's hot news--not just for the resolute followers of lexicographical minutiae, but for the general reading and writing public as well. Why? Because the American Heritage is a long-standing favorite family dictionary (never underestimate the value of pictures) and one of the prime dictionary references for magazines, newspapers, and dot.com content providers. For scads of writers and editors across the U.S., it sets the standard on matters of style and lexicographical authority.
So this new edition is exciting and noteworthy, but how good is it? In its favor, the fourth edition is as current a dictionary as you can get. It's six years fresher than the 1994 version, with 10,000 words and definitions you won't find in the still venerable but now slightly dated third edition. For example, unlike its predecessor (and also unlike the 1996 Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary), this fourth edition covers dot-com, e-commerce, and soccer mom, Ebonics, Viagra, and a surf definition for cruising television channels and the Internet.
Its panel of special consultants includes authorities on anthropology, architecture, cinema, and law, plus military science, music, religion, and sports, and that is reflected in an impressively comprehensive coverage of the arts, culture, and technology. Sadly, however, there are no medical consultants on the panel, and that loss is felt in some substandard medical definitions. Other flaws: there's a greater than usual tendency to define a word with a form of the same word--for example, fuzzy, whose first two definitions are "1. covered with fuzz." and "2. of or resembling fuzz." And some definitions seem needlessly wordy, such as the entry for furious, which is "full of or characterized by extreme anger; raging." Compare that with the more succinct Oxford Encyclopedic entry: "1. extremely angry. 2. full of fury."
On the other hand, there are valuable entries throughout the dictionary supplying additional information on synonyms, usage, or word history, and these extras, such as the history of diatribe and the usage notes on discomfit, are interesting. The layout is easy on the eyes, with dark blue/green bold type setting the words apart from their definitions, and 4,000 color photographs, maps, and illustrations that are both useful and delightful. On one page, the margin provides color depictions of Francis Bacon, bacterium, and a Bactrian camel. Theodore Roosevelt and a rooster share another margin, while a third page offers Isak Dinesen, a dingo, and dinoflagellate. It is a fascinating book to peruse, and a compellingly scholarly addition to the American Heritage Dictionary line. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Wordsby Deborah TannenISBN 0345407512 (0-345-40751-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words'Book summary:Do Americans argue too much? Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand and That's Not What I Meant!, is an expert on miscommunication. In The Argument Culture she posits that misunderstanding is endemic in our culture because we tend to believe that the best way to a common goal is by thrashing out all our differences as loudly as possible along the way. Thus we are treated to a whole array of confrontational public forums, from congressional partisan politics to media circuses à la Jerry Springer and Jenny Jones, all based on a metaphor of war. What gets lost in all the shouting, Tannen says, is thoughtful debate and real understanding. Perhaps it's time to consider other methods of communication, she suggests. In addition to outlining what she considers the worst excesses of our argument culture, Tannen revisits some of the territory covered in You Just Don't Understand as she discusses the different ways in which young boys and girls express disagreement or aggression. Finally, she offers a survey of other, mostly non-Western ways of dealing with conflict, including the use of intermediaries and rituals. After reading The Argument Culture you might never again look at the evening news in the same way. [via]
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The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Methodby Marilyn Vos Savant, Joan ReillyISBN 0393322084 (0-393-32208-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method'Book summary:The national bestseller from Parade's "Ask Marilyn" columnistthe definitive book for anyone who cares about spelling.
Like The Elements of Style and On Writing Well, The Art of Spelling has emerged as a writing manual for the ages, the backlist volume that will tell us everything we will ever want to know about spelling. Begun as a spelling survey in the "Ask Marilyn" column of Parade magazine, The Art of Spelling dispels the myth that good spelling is simply a measure of intelligence or education. With her trademark no-nonsense wit, vos Savant shows where good (and bad) spelling originates, provides personality portraits of all kinds of spellers, and offers the most effective methods of spelling improvement known. Also included are lively chapters on the turbulent history of English spelling and the pitfalls of computer spell-checkers and other writing tools. The Art of Spelling will appeal to scholars, students, and language lovers of all ages. [via]More editions of The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method:
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
beneath its surface. That is no good place.More editions of Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition:
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Beowulfby E. Talbot DonaldsonISBN 0393096874 (0-393-09687-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The greatest and most important of the Anglo-Saxon epic poems, the 1200-year-old Beowulf is one of the earliest pieces of literature in the English language. Though English, the story is set in Scandinavia, where the Anglo-Saxon races lived before migration to England. It tells of the hero, Beowulf, who kills the monster Grendel after the dragonlike beast terrorizes the mead-halls, carrying off and eating the Thanes that are under Beowulf's protection. Fascinating for its story, the echoes of myth and early religion, Beowulf is critical reading for anyone interested in the blend of the Pagan and Christian traditions among the Anglo-Saxons. This edition is a readable prose translation. [via]
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Beowulf : A Dual Language Editionby Howell D. ChickeringISBN 0385062133 (0-385-06213-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf : A Dual Language Edition'Book summary:This presentation of the translation and the Old English Text on facing pages allows the reader to approach the first major poem in English literature in a fresh and exciting new way. Includes a Guide to Reading Aloud, Introduction, Commentary and notes for translation from the original. [via]
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Beyond the Basicsby John ColvilleISBN 0393304116 (0-393-30411-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazineby Lisa Jervis, Andi ZeislerISBN 0374113432 (0-374-11343-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Book of Lost Talesby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345375211 (0-345-37521-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Lost Tales'Book summary:This second part of THE BOOK OF LOST TALES includes the tale of Beneren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, Necklace of the Dwarves, and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay, together with the texts of associated poems, as well as information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages. [via]
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The Cat's Elbow: And Other Secret Languagesby Alvin Schwartz, Margot ZemachISBN 0374410542 (0-374-41054-2)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Children's Mindsby Margaret DonaldsonISBN 0393951014 (0-393-95101-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children's Minds'Book summary:How and when does a child begin to make sense of the world? Why does a lively preschool child so often become a semiliterate and defeated school failure?
Developmental psychologist Margaret Donaldson shows that much of the intellectual framework on which we base our teaching is misleading. We both underestimate the astonishing rational powers of young children and ignore the major stumbling block that children face when starting school.
Given a setting and a language that makes sense to them in human terms, very young children can perform tasks often thought to be beyond them. The preschool child learns everything in a human situation. Only in school is he asked to acquire skillsreading, writing, arithmeticisolated from a real-life context. This transition is difficult.
The author suggests a range of strategies that parents and schools can adopt to help children. She argues that reading is even more important than we have thought it to be, since learning to read ca actually speed children through the crucial transition.
This book is an essential source of guidance for parents and all who contribute to a child's education.
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Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby John TennielISBN 0370005074 (0-370-00507-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Concise Book of Lyingby Evelin SullivanISBN 0374128685 (0-374-12868-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Deutsch Mit Emilby Helga TiltonISBN 0393951111 (0-393-95111-1)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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A Dictionary of Maqiaoby Han Shaogong, Julia LovellISBN 0385339356 (0-385-33935-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Maqiao'Book summary:From the daring imagination of one of Chinas greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originalitythe story of a young man displaced to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold inventionand a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.
Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, superstitions, and especially the odd logic in their use of languagewhere the word for beginning is the same as the word for end ; little big brother means older sister; to be scientific means to be lazy; and streetsickness is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful charactersfrom a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite himA Dictionary of Maqiao is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language. [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Maqiao:
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The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0380003821 (0-380-00382-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dispossessed'Book summary:The ideas of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist world of Anarres are being stifled by jealous colleagues. So he goes to the hell-planet Urras, seeking a different kind of freedom - and finds himself embroiled in deadly intrigue and bloody revoulution. [via]
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligenceby Carl SaganISBN 0345346297 (0-345-34629-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence'Book summary:Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight."
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Elements of Semiologyby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521468 (0-374-52146-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of Semiology'Book summary:"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction[via]More editions of Elements of Semiology:
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Enchantmentby Orson Scott CardISBN 0345416880 (0-345-41688-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enchantment'Book summary:Enchantment is the story of a Ukraine-born, American grad student who finds himself transported to the ninth century to play the prince in a Russian version of Sleeping Beauty. Early in the story, he muses that in a French or English retelling of the tale, the prince and princess would live happily ever after. But, "only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale."
Although his fears turn out to be warranted, as he and his cursed princess contend with the diabolical witch Baba Yaga--easily Russia's best pre-Khrushchev villain--to save the princess's kingdom, Enchantment is ultimately a sweet story. Mixing magic and modernity, the acclaimed Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) has woven threads of history, religion, and myth together into a convincing, time-hopping tale that is part love story, part adventure. Enchantment's heroes, "Prince" Ivan and Princess Katerina, must deal with cross-cultural mores, ancient gods, treacherous kinsmen (and fianceés), and ultimately Baba Yaga herself.
Card has a knack for coming across like your nerdy dad at times, when he runs on too long or makes some particularly wince-inducing observation or reference ("Daaad, Bruce Cockburn is not cool!"). But, as you might expect of a good dad, as uncool as he might be, Card still manages to tell a good bedtime story. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The F Wordby Jesse Sheidlower, Random House StaffISBN 0375706348 (0-375-70634-8)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The F Word'Book summary:There's something special about a lexicon in which more than half the entries begin with the same letter. The F-Word earned its title the hard way: editor Jesse Sheidlower and the staff of Random House combed vast numbers of books, magazines, films, and other works for references to the most beloved, least printable word in the English language and all its variations. There's some great reading here among the hundreds of citations, from the colorful dialogue of Gore Vidal to the military's creative use of intensifiers to boost morale. Of special interest are the acronyms and abbreviations incorporating the Word; after reading the entry for "BUFF," you might think twice before complimenting your gym-going friends.
The care and attention each entry receives makes The F-Word a pleasure to use or browse, whether looking up an obscure phrase from an Iceberg Slim book or finding new insults for your next flame war. Ross MacDonald's illustrations are cute and funny (but not pornographic) and help to defuse some of the tension that might result from exposure to undiluted profanity. The F-Word throws much-needed light on one of the most-used English words; if you want to learn to swear correctly, RTFM--Read the [ahem] Manual. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Feminine Sexualityby Juliet MitchellISBN 0393302113 (0-393-30211-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feminine Sexuality'Book summary:Jacques Lacan is arguably the most controversial psychoanalyst of our time.
Psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most contested areas of debate within feminism. This book presents articles on feminine sexuality by Lacan and members of the école freudienne, the school of psychoanalysis that Lacan directed in Paris from 1964 to 1980.
The question of feminine sexuality has divided the psychoanalytic movement since the 1920s. Despite their opposition to each other, contemporary psychoanalysis and feminism both reject Freud's phallocentrism. This book forcefully reasserts the importance of the castration complex in Freud's work and of the phallus in the work of Lacan, offering them not as a reflection of a theory based on male supremacy and privilege but as the terms through which any such privilege is exposed as a fraud. Lacan's rereading of Freud is seen here to reveal, in a way that no other account has been able to do, the arbitrary and fictional nature of both male and female sexual identity and, specifically, the fantasy behind the category "woman" as the dominant fetish of our culture. These texts reveal that women constantly exceed the barriers of the definition to which they are confined. [via]More editions of Feminine Sexuality:
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Finite and Infinite Gamesby James CarseISBN 0345419022 (0-345-41902-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook GerzinaISBN 0393926354 (0-393-92635-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries claim her as their own. The Secret Garden, her best-known work, became an instant modern classic and world-wide bestseller upon its publication in 1911. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" illuminate important aspects of Burnetts life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations point to Burnetts prominence in popular culture.
"Criticism" includes fourteen contemporary reviews and nine recent critical views of The Secret Garden, including Jerry Phillipss sociopolitical interpretation and Phyllis Bixlers comparative analysis of the Broadway musical adaptation of the novel.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries, 1939-1955by John Rupert ColvilleISBN 0393022234 (0-393-02223-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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German; a Structural Approachby Walter F. W. Lohnes, Friedrich Wilhelm StrothmannISBN 0393098796 (0-393-09879-6)
Hardcover, Norton
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Gilgameshby David FerryISBN 0374523835 (0-374-52383-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh'Book summary:This is one of the more recent translations of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, about the hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia whose adventures--searching for eternal life, surviving a worldwide deluge in an ark filled with animals, to name a couple--make up one of oldest pieces of literature on record. David Ferry's version attempts to provide the most readable rendering of the epic, artfully finding a poetic voice that's particularly accessible to the modern ear, as well as working to smooth over the gaps in the poem caused by the fragmentary record of the original clay tablets. [via]
Homegrown English : How Americans Invented Themselves and Their Languageby Jeffrey McQuainISBN 0375719814 (0-375-71981-4)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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Honey for the Bearsby Anthony BurgessISBN 0393314413 (0-393-31441-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Illness as Metaphorby Susan SontagISBN 0374520739 (0-374-52073-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illness as Metaphor'Book summary:Brimming with humane and original ideas about a disease and the modern condition, this classic essay and its sequel -- written 10 years later -- are compassionate exhortations and a liberating event. "Taken together, the two essays are an exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face of the lethal metaphors of fear." -- The Nation [via]
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- Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors: ISBN 0385267053 (0-385-26705-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Illness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors: ISBN 0374102570 (0-374-10257-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Illness as Metaphor: ISBN 0374174431 (0-374-17443-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Illness as Metaphor: ISBN 0374520739 (0-374-52073-9)
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In the Eye of the Sunby Ahdaf SoueifISBN 0385720378 (0-385-72037-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Meg Rutherford, Robert MathaisISBN 0382092996 (0-382-09299-6)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies: From Spare Ribs to Humble Pie-A Lightearted Look at How Food Got Their Namesby Martha BarnetteISBN 0375702989 (0-375-70298-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Language in Primatesby H. De LuceISBN 0387907998 (0-387-90799-8)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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The Language Maven Strikes Againby William SafireISBN 0385412991 (0-385-41299-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learnby Diane RavitchISBN 0375414827 (0-375-41482-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn'Book summary:The impulse in the 1960s and 70s to achieve fairness and a balanced perspective in our nations textbooks and standardized exams was undeniably necessary and commendable. Then how could it have gone so terribly wrong? Acclaimed education historian Diane Ravitch answers this question in her informative and alarming book, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. Author of 7 books, Ravitch served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993. Her expertise and her 30-year commitment to education lend authority and urgency to this important book, which describes in copious detail how pressure groups from the political right and left have wrested control of the language and content of textbooks and standardized exams, often at the expense of the truth (in the case of history), of literary quality (in the case of literature), and of education in general. Like most people involved in education, Ravitch did not realize "that educational materials are now governed by an intricate set of rules to screen out language and topics that might be considered controversial or offensive." In this clear-eyed critique, she is an unapologetic challenger of the ridiculous and damaging extremes to which bias guidelines and sensitivity training have been taken by the federal government, the states, and textbook publishers.
In a multi-page sampling of rejected test passages, we discover that "in the new meaning of bias, it its considered biased to acknowledge that lack of sight is a disability," that children who live in urban areas cannot understand passages about the country, that the Aesop fable about a vain (female) fox and a flattering (male) crow promotes gender bias. As outrageous as many of the examples are, they do not appear particularly dangerous. However, as the illustrations of abridgment, expurgation, and bowdlerization mount, the reader begins to understand that our educational system is indeed facing a monumental crisis of distortion and censorship. Ravtich ends her book with three suggestions of how to counter this disturbing tendency. Sadly, however, in the face of the overwhelming tide of misinformation that has already been entrenched in the system, her suggestions provide cold comfort. --Silvana Tropea [via]More editions of The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn:
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The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend before The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0345406850 (0-345-40685-0)
Softcover, Del Rey
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Edited by Christopher Tolkien
INKLINGS OF GREATNESS . . .
J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were friends and fellow members of the literary circle known as The Inklings. It is hardly surprising that, at one point, these talented gentlemen embarked on a challenge: Lewis was to write on "space-travel" and Tolkien on "time-travel."
Lewis' novel, Out of the Silent Planet, became the first book of a science fiction trilogy. Tolkien's unfinished story, The Lost Road, chronicles the original destruction of Númenor, a pivotal event of the Second Age of Middle-earth.
In this fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien brings Middle-earth to its state at the writing of The Lord of the Rings. Entertaining and informative, THE LOST ROAD AND OTHER WRITINGS offers fresh insights into the evolution of one of the world's most enduring fantasies. [via]More editions of The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend before The Lord of the Rings:
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Man and His Symbolsby C. G. JungISBN 0385052219 (0-385-05221-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Otherby Walker PercyISBN 0374513384 (0-374-51338-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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More Anguished Englishby Richard Lederer, Bill ThompsonISBN 038531017X (0-385-31017-X)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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A New Invitation to Linguisticsby Joseph Harold GreenbergISBN 0385075502 (0-385-07550-2)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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Next of Kin: My Conversations With Chimpanzeesby Stephen Tukel Mills, Roger RoutsISBN 0380728222 (0-380-72822-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essaysby G. HarmanISBN 0385037651 (0-385-03765-1)
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Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness : A Dictionarrativeby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0375401989 (0-375-40198-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Oxford American Dictionaryby Eugene H. EhrlichISBN 0380607727 (0-380-60772-7)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Phantom Tollboothby Norton JusterISBN 0375806709 (0-375-80670-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Lifeby Erving GoffmanISBN 0385094027 (0-385-09402-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Random House Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionaryby Margaret H. Raventos, David L. GoldISBN 0345405471 (0-345-40547-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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The Random House Thesaurusby Jess Stein, Stuart Berg FlexnerISBN 0345377788 (0-345-37778-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Random House Webster's College DictionaryISBN 0375407413 (0-375-40741-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Random House Webster's College Dictionaryby Random House Dictionary StaffISBN 0375425608 (0-375-42560-8)
Hardcover, Random House Information Group
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Readers of all generations will appreciate the numerous tutorials, such as "Guide for Writers" and "Avoiding Offensive Language," as well as the latest political and geographical updates. Including the computer lingo and trendy slang is definitely edgy ("adj. daringly innovative; on the cutting edge"). But, when it comes to being a solid reference tool, it's the sophisticated definitions, line drawings, maps, charts, essays, and usage advice that make Webster's dictionary unequivocally candy ("slang. someone or something that is excellent. pleasing or pleasurable"). --Gail Hudson [via]
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Random House Webster's College Dictionaryby Random House StaffISBN 0375425616 (0-375-42561-6)
Hardcover, Random House Information Group
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Readers of all generations will appreciate the numerous tutorials, such as "Guide for Writers" and "Avoiding Offensive Language," as well as the latest political and geographical updates. Including the computer lingo and trendy slang is definitely edgy ("adj. daringly innovative; on the cutting edge"). But, when it comes to being a solid reference tool, it's the sophisticated definitions, line drawings, maps, charts, essays, and usage advice that make Webster's dictionary unequivocally candy ("slang. someone or something that is excellent. pleasing or pleasurable"). --Gail Hudson [via]
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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionaryby Random House StaffISBN 0375425667 (0-375-42566-7)
Hardcover, Random House Information Group
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Random House Webster's Word Menuby Stephen GlazierISBN 0375700838 (0-375-70083-8)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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Glazier's critically acclaimed Random House Webster's Word Menu is the definitive language reference for anyone who reads, writes creatively or simply loves to explore linguistic relationships.
This rich storehouse of language organizes the vocabulary of English by subject matter, reflecting the way we actually look at the world around us. A totally new kind of language resource, Random House Webster's Word Menu combines the virtues of an entire shelf of reference works:
Full dictionary, thesaurus and almanac
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Multiple glossaries: find just the right terms for foods and finery, weather and weapons, romance and relativity [via]More editions of Random House Webster's Word Menu:
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Random House Word Menuby Stephen GlazierISBN 0345414411 (0-345-41441-1)
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--L. A. Weekly
The RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER'S WORD MENU is a revolutionary reference that organizes language by subject matter, the way we understand and use it. More than a dictionary, the WORD MENU is also
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A Treasury of Glossaries, with nearly 800 divisions and more than 75,000 entries
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A Thesaurus that helps you learn the terminology of an unfamiliar field, technical terms and jargon, and different ways of saying the same thing
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Signposts in a Strange Landby Walker Percy, Patrick H. SamwayISBN 0374523452 (0-374-52345-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Slam Dunks and No-Brainers : Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whateverby Leslie SavanISBN 0375402470 (0-375-40247-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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With dazzling wit and acuity, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan dissects contemporary language to discover what our most popular idioms reveal about America today. She traces the paths that words and expressions travel from obscurity to ubiquity. She describes how real people create slang and colorful phrases (I dont think so; Bring it on!; Dude; Outside the box); how the media, advertising, politics, and business mine the language for these phrases in order to better sell products, ideas, and personalities; and how these expressions, now that theyve hit the big time, then burst out of our mouths as celebrity words, newly glamorous and persuasive.
Words like Duh! and Whatever have become such an indispensable form of communication that theyre replacing our need to articulate any real thought. Whether its George Tenet convincing George W. Bush that finding WMD in Iraq would be a slam dunk or Microsoft telling you that its latest software is a no-brainer, this bright, snappy language affects us allup close and personal.
Smart, dynamic, and great fun, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers isfor everyone who loves the mysteries and idiosyncrasies of languagewell, a no-brainer. [via]More editions of Slam Dunks and No-Brainers : Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever:
Slam Dunks and No-brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, And, Like... Whateverby Leslie SavanISBN 0375702423 (0-375-70242-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Speech Chainby Peter B. Denes, Elliot N. PinsonISBN 0385042388 (0-385-04238-8)
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Star Anchored, Star Angeredby Suzette Haden ElginISBN 0385135645 (0-385-13564-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Unlocking the English Languageby Robert BurchfieldISBN 0374523398 (0-374-52339-8)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good Englishby Eric Partridge, Janet WhitcutISBN 0393317099 (0-393-31709-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brainby John J. RateyISBN 0375701079 (0-375-70107-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Vicious Vocabularyby Random HouseISBN 0375720413 (0-375-72041-3)
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The Water-Method Manby John IrvingISBN 0345367421 (0-345-36742-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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"Three or four times as funny as most novels."
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionaryby Random HouseISBN 0375425993 (0-375-42599-3)
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In an elegant classic binding, the deluxe edition of the popular
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This is the deluxe edition of our popular Random House Unabridged Dictionarythe most definitive single-volume reference of the English language. This compendium of traditional vocabulary and specialized terms offers authoritative factual and encyclopedia information, which, along with the deluxe cloth binding, makes this the perfect gift for word lovers of all ages.
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Words Apart: A Dictionary of Northern Ireland Englishby Loreto ToddISBN 0389209163 (0-389-20916-3)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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Writing Degree Zeroby Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Annette LaversISBN 0374521395 (0-374-52139-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connectionby Nancy Yaw DavisISBN 0393322300 (0-393-32230-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Did a group of thirteenth-century Japanese merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography. Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan. In a book with groundbreaking implications, Dr. Nancy Yaw Davis examines the evidence underscoring the Zuni enigma and suggests the circumstances that may have led Japanese on a religious questsearching for the legendary "middle world" of Buddhismacross the Pacific to the American Southwest more than seven hundred years ago. 72 black and white illustrations and 17 maps [via]More editions of The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection:
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Spanish Made Simpleby Eugene Jackson, Antonio Rubio, Robert D. VandersliceISBN 0385188188 (0-385-18818-8)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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