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Against the Currentby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0140060499 (0-14-006049-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Current'Book summary:Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life. Roger Hausheer's introduction surveys Berlin's whole oeuvre, and the full bibliography of his pubication has been updated for this Pimlico edition. [via]
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, Ralph SteadmanISBN 0151002177 (0-15-100217-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Animal Farm With Connectionsby George OrwellISBN 0030554349 (0-03-055434-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm With Connections'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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The Arabists: The Romance of an American Eliteby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0028740238 (0-02-874023-8)
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Balkan Odysseyby David OwenISBN 0151002215 (0-15-100221-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Battle for Scotlandby Andrew MarrISBN 0140246398 (0-14-024639-8)
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Between Marx and Muhammad: The Changing Face of Central Asiaby Dilip HiroISBN 000638367X (0-00-638367-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Child of All Nationsby Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0140256334 (0-14-025633-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Crises of the Republicby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156232006 (0-15-623200-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience on Violence, Thoughts on Politics, and Revolutionby Hannah ArendtISBN 0151230951 (0-15-123095-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Dog Yearsby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015626112X (0-15-626112-X)
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Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empireby Richard B. FrankISBN 0141001461 (0-14-100146-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchyby Tom NairnISBN 0091729556 (0-09-172955-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Error Patterns in Computation: Using Error Patterns to Improve Instructionby Robert B. AshlockISBN 0130270938 (0-13-027093-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Europe and RussiaISBN 0134336933 (0-13-433693-3)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Europe Since Napoleonby David ThomsonISBN 0075535572 (0-07-553557-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Europeansby Luigi BarziniISBN 0140071504 (0-14-007150-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Flounderby Gunter GrassISBN 0151314861 (0-15-131486-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Flounderby Ralph Manheim, Gunter GrassISBN 0156319357 (0-15-631935-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flounder'Book summary:It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Flounder:
Footstepsby Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0140256342 (0-14-025634-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Forbidden Coloursby Yukio MishimaISBN 0140033149 (0-14-003314-9)
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The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkansby Simon WinchesterISBN 0060954949 (0-06-095494-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans'Book summary:Simon Winchester, a British newspaper reporter for 30 years and the author of 13 books (including The Professor and the Madman), has turned his attention to the Balkans, an area he visited years ago on a road trip from Vienna to Istanbul--a journey he retraced in the spring of 1999. The Fracture Zone describes both of those trips, concentrating on the history and character of the region more than the recent war and its aftermath. Winchester has spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent, but his more recent occupations as historian and a writer for Condé Nast Traveler are in evidence here. Winchester's angle on the Balkans is unique and well written: those who have been bewildered at best and bored at worst by the Balkan conflict may find that The Fracture Zone captures their interest better than hundreds of news accounts of war atrocities. "Why is there, and seemingly always has been, this dire inevitability about the Balkans being so fractious and unsettled a corner of the world?" Winchester wonders aloud. That eternal question continues to plague world statesmen and, though not fully answered here, affords the opportunity for an interesting exploration. [via]
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The Fragile Speciesby Lewis ThomasISBN 002054555X (0-02-054555-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Freedom at Midnightby Larry Collins, Dominique LapierreISBN 0002160552 (0-00-216055-2)
Hardcover, Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom at Midnight'Book summary:The subject of this narrative is the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. Key players include Nehru, Jinnah, Mountbatten--and, of course, the gentle revolutionary Gandhi. 16 cassettes. [via]
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God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong And the Left Doesn't Get Itby Jim WallisISBN 0060834471 (0-06-083447-1)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong And the Left Doesn't Get It'Book summary:Secular liberals and religious conservatives will find things to both comfort and alarm them in Jim Wallis's God's Politics. That combination is actually reason enough to recommend the book in a time when the national political and theological discourse is dominated by blanket descriptions and shortsightedness. But Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, offers more than just a book that's hard to categorize. What Wallis sees as the true mission of Christianity--righting social ills, working for peace--is in tune with the values of liberals who so often run screaming from the idea of religion. Meanwhile, in his estimation, religious vocabulary is co-opted by conservatives who use it to polarize. Wallis proposes a new sort of politics, the name of which serves as the title of the book, wherein these disparities are reconciled and progressive causes are paired with spiritual guidance for the betterment of society. Wallis is at his most compelling when he puts this theory into action himself, letting his own beliefs guide him through stinging criticisms of the war in Iraq. In his view, George W. Bush's flaw lies in the assumption that the United States was an unprecedented force of goodness in a fight against enemies characterized as "evil." Indeed, although both the right and left are criticized here, the idea is that the liberals, if they would get religion, are the more redeemable lot. Wallis's line between religion and public policy may be drawn a little differently than most liberals might feel comfortable with, and while he pays some lip service to other faiths most of his prescription for America seems to come from the Bible. Still, for a party having just lost a presidential election where "moral issues" are said to have factored heavily, God's Politics is a sermon worth listening to. --John Moe [via]
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The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalismby Robert KeeISBN 0140291652 (0-14-029165-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Green Flag: Ourselves Aloneby Robert KeeISBN 014014756X (0-14-014756-X)
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The Green Flag: The Bold Fenian Menby Robert KeeISBN 0140147608 (0-14-014760-8)
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The History of the Franksby Lewis ThorpeISBN 0140442952 (0-14-044295-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Franks'Book summary:Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539 594) is a fascinating exploration of the events that shaped sixth-century France. This volume contains all ten books from the work, the last seven of which provide an in-depth description of Gregory's own era, in which he played an important role as Bishop of Tours. With skill and eloquence, Gregory brings the age vividly to life, as he relates the exploits of missionaries, martyrs, kings and queens including the quarrelling sons of Lothar I, and the ruthless Queen Fredegund, third wife of Chilperic. Portraying an age of staggering cruelty and rapid change, this is a powerful depiction of the turbulent progression of faith at a time of political and social chaos. [via]
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History of the Kings of Britainby Geoffrey of Monmouth, Lewis ThorpeISBN 0140441700 (0-14-044170-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Kings of Britain'Book summary:Completed in 1136, "The History of the Kings of Britain" traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was questioned by other medieval writers. But Geoffrey of Monmouth's powerful evocation of illustrious men and deeds captured the imagination of subsequent generations, and his influence can be traced through the works of Malory, Shakespeare, Dryden and Tennyson. [via]
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House of Glassby Max Lane, Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0140134212 (0-14-013421-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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House of Glassby Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0140256792 (0-14-025679-2)
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Idea of Nationalismby Hans KohnISBN 0020736606 (0-02-073660-6)
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The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslaviaby Brian HallISBN 0140249230 (0-14-024923-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essaysby Clifford GeertzISBN 009122800X (0-09-122800-X)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asiaby Ahmed RashidISBN 0142002607 (0-14-200260-7)
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Kosovo: A Short Historyby Noel Malcolm, New York University Press StaffISBN 0060977752 (0-06-097775-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Life of the Mindby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156519925 (0-15-651992-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Life of the Mind: Thinkingby Hannah ArendtISBN 0151518955 (0-15-151895-5)
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Los Macheteros: The Wells Fargo Robbery and the Violent Struggle for Puerto Rican Independenceby Ronald FernandezISBN 0139500561 (0-13-950056-1)
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0140132708 (0-14-013270-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Monstrous Regimentby Terry PratchettISBN 0060013168 (0-06-001316-8)
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And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers on the small, insufferably arrogant, strictly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on it's ability to beat up on its neighbors for even the tiniest imagined slight. This time, however, it's Borogravia that's getting its long overdue comeuppance, which has left the country severely drained of young men.
Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess,her family's inn -- even though the revered national deity Nuggan has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination (with, among others, oysters, rocks, and the color blue). To keep The Duchess in the family, Polly must find her missing sibling. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and sets out to join him in this man's army.
Despite her rapid mastery of belching, scratching, and other macho habits (and aided by a well-placed pair of socks), Polly is afraid that someone will immediately see through her disguise; a fear that proves groundless when the recruiting officer, the legendary and seemingly ageless Sergeant Jackrum, accepts her without question. Or perhaps the sergeant is simply too desperate for fresh cannon fodder to discriminate -- which would explain why a vampire, a troll, a zombie, a religious fanatic, and two uncommonly close "friends" are also eagerly welcomed into the fighting fold. But marching off with little (read: no) training, Polly (now called "Oliver") finds herself wondering about the myriad peculiarities of her new brothers-in-arms. It would appear that Polly "Ozzer" Perks is not the only grunt with a secret. There is no time to dwell on such matters, however.Duty calls. The battlefield beckons. There's a tide to be turned.
And sometimes -- in war as in everything else -- the best man for the job is a woman.
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The Most Distressful Countryby Robert KeeISBN 0140147586 (0-14-014758-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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My War Gone By, I Miss It Soby Anthony LoydISBN 0140298541 (0-14-029854-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Nationalism in the Middle Agesby C.L. TiptonISBN 0030841577 (0-03-084157-7)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle Eastby Kemal KarpatISBN 0030576083 (0-03-057608-3)
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocideby Samantha PowerISBN 0060541644 (0-06-054164-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide'Book summary:During the three years (1993-1996) Samantha Power spent covering the grisly events in Bosnia and Srebrenica, she became increasingly frustrated with how little the United States was willing to do to counteract the genocide occurring there. After much research, she discovered a pattern: "The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred," she writes in this impressive book. Debunking the notion that U.S. leaders were unaware of the horrors as they were occurring against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Rwandan Tutsis, and Bosnians during the past century, Power discusses how much was known and when, and argues that much human suffering could have been alleviated through a greater effort by the U.S. She does not claim that the U.S. alone could have prevented such horrors, but does make a convincing case that even a modest effort would have had significant impact. Based on declassified information, private papers, and interviews with more than 300 American policymakers, Power makes it clear that a lack of political will was the most significant factor for this failure to intervene. Some courageous U.S. leaders did work to combat and call attention to ethnic cleansing as it occurred, but the vast majority of politicians and diplomats ignored the issue, as did the American public, leading Power to note that "no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on." This powerful book is a call to make such indifference a thing of the past. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Puckoonby Spike MilliganISBN 0140023747 (0-14-002374-7)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Puckoon'Book summary:"Puckoon", Spike Milligan's first novel bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border. It's 1924 and the Boundary Commission is deciding on the new line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. With much pushing and shoving, the border finds it's way down the middle of Puckoon, dividing house from outhouse, man from wife, and pub chairs from bars. Something must be done! "Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar". ("Sunday Times"). "Milligan is the Great God to all of us". (John Cleese). "The Godfather of Alternative Comedy". (Eddie Izzard). "That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man". (Stephen Fry). Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary "Goon Show". Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories. [via]
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Rob Royby Walter ScottISBN 0140435549 (0-14-043554-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rob Roy'Book summary:This novel, first published in 1817, achieved a huge success and helped establish the historical novel as a literary form. In rich prose and vivid description, Rob Roy follows the adventures of a businessman's son, Frank Osbaldistone, who is sent to Scotland and finds himself drawn to the powerful, enigmatic figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, the romantic outlaw who fights for justice and dignity for the Scots. This is an incomparable portrait of the haunted Highlands and Scotland's glorious past. [via]
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Seaby Yukio MishimaISBN 0140028668 (0-14-002866-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea'Book summary:"The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'ojectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part and react violently. [via]
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Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslaviaby Alex N. DragnichISBN 0156806630 (0-15-680663-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Shadow Linesby Amitav GhoshISBN 0140118357 (0-14-011835-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Lines'Book summary:major novel on India, award-winning. on India in 1940s and 1950s, widely used as text. excellent reviews [via]
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The Spanish Civil Warby Hugh ThomasISBN 0060142782 (0-06-014278-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spanish Civil War'Book summary:With a keen eye for detail and unparalleled insight, Thomas reassembles the dramatic chain of events that tore apart a nation and led to the tragedy of a civil war that captured the emotions of an entire world. "A full, vivid, and deeply serious treatment of a great subject".--New York Times Book Review. Maps. [via]
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Srebrenica: Record of a War Crimeby Norbert Both, Jan Willem HonigISBN 0140266321 (0-14-026632-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Star Called Henryby Roddy DoyleISBN 0143034618 (0-14-303461-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Star Called Henry'Book summary:Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts his early years of reckless heroism and adventure.
At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's.
A New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, New York Post, and Independent bestseller
A Star Called Henry--one of only four works of fiction--was chosen by the editor's of The New York Times Book Review as one of the eleven Best Books of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, Esquire, Newsday, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution
An American Library Association Notable Book
Nominated for Best Fiction of 1999, the New Yorker Book Awards [via] 
States of Irelandby Conor Cruise O'BrienISBN 0091131006 (0-09-113100-6)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Study of Historyby Arnold Joseph ToynbeeISBN 0070651299 (0-07-065129-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Study of History'Book summary:Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. Originally published in 1947 and 1957, these two volumes are themselves a great historical achievement.
Volume 1, which abridges the first six volumes of Toynbee's study, includes the Introduction, The Geneses of Civilizations, and The Disintegrations of Civilizations. Volume 2, an abridgement of Volumes VII-X, includes sections on Universal States, Universal churches, Heroic Ages, Contacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time, Law and Freedom in History, The Prospects of the Western Civilization, and the Conclusion.
Of Somervell's work, Toynbee wrote, "The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer's outlook and purpose." [via]More editions of Study of History:
Study of Historyby Jane Caplan, Arnold Joseph ToynbeeISBN 0192152548 (0-19-215254-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press; Thames and Hudson
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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nationby Paul GilroyISBN 0009167951 (0-00-916795-1)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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This Earth of Mankindby Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max LaneISBN 0140256350 (0-14-025635-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Earth of Mankind'Book summary:Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.[via]More editions of This Earth of Mankind:
The Voice of the Past: Oral Historyby Paul Richard ThompsonISBN 0192158333 (0-19-215833-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Vossby Patrick WhiteISBN 0140186239 (0-14-018623-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voss'Book summary:Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for one another. [via]
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Wartimeby Milovan DjilasISBN 0156947129 (0-15-694712-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wartime'Book summary:An account of the partisan campaign in Yugoslavia during World War II, written from the author's unique perspective-as a key leader of Tito's forces. Index; photographs. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.[via] -
Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968by Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Blucher, Ltte Kohler, Peter ConstantineISBN 0151003033 (0-15-100303-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968'Book summary:Here is the life story of two exceptional people, two Germans who fled their country for different reasons. It is the story of their life in exile in Paris and in New York, their dependence on each other and deepening love, their continued exchange of ideas, Arendt's teaching and writing, her involvement with Jewish life in Europe and in Israel, and Blucher's years at The New School and at Bard College. It is also an important document of the '30s in Germany and France, of World War II, and the post-war life in ravaged European cities. Meanwhile, there is love of food and drink, and of friendship-both intellectual and affectionate-with Karl Jaspers, Mary McCarthy, Alfred Kazin, and the complex relationship with Martin Heidegger and his wife. Within Four Walls is an extraordinary personal and historical record.[via]More editions of Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968:
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Yugoslavia: Death of a Nationby Laura Silber, Allan LittleISBN 0140262636 (0-14-026263-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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