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American History: A Surveyby Alan BrinkleyISBN 0072490535 (0-07-249053-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American History: A Survey'Book summary:This survey aims to balance social and cultural with the political and diplomatic history. It aims to help instructor to organize his or her course in many different ways confident that the text will support both the topics discussed in class and provide students with the ideal book for self-study. Every chapter begins with a summary of major themes and ends with a boxed chronology entitled "Significant Events", noting the major events discussed in the chapter. "Where Historians Disagree" essays describe major histographical debates. Greater attention is given to native American history, and there are revised sections on women's history. [via]
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American History: A Survey to 1877by Alan BrinkleyISBN 007303391X (0-07-303391-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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American History: A Survey/With Mapby Alan BrinkleyISBN 0079121144 (0-07-912114-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Americans: The National Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 007553701X (0-07-553701-X)
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Anthology of American Literature: Realism to the Presentby Leo Marx, George McMichael, Frederick C. Crews, J. C. Levenson, David E. SmithISBN 0133734579 (0-13-373457-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Augustus Carp, Esqby Henry H. BashfordISBN 0140098577 (0-14-009857-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Beyond the Hundreth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the Westby Wallace StegnerISBN 0140159940 (0-14-015994-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond the Hundreth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West'Book summary:In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.[via]"This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." Ivan Doig
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Bismarckby Edward CrankshawISBN 0140063447 (0-14-006344-7)
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The Bride of Scienceby Benjamin WoolleyISBN 0071388605 (0-07-138860-5)
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Church in an Age of Revolutionby Alexander Roper VidlerISBN 0140137629 (0-14-013762-9)
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The Complete Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 014009766X (0-14-009766-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Father Brown'Book summary:Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. [via]
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The Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Alexander WoollcottISBN 0140105425 (0-14-010542-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll'Book summary:Everything that Lewis Carroll ever published in book form appears in this volume. In addition, at least ten of the shorter pieces have never appeared in print except in their original editions. Included are: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" "Through the Looking-Glass" "Sylvie and Bruno" "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded" "The Hunting of the Snark" & all of the poetry, essays, phantasmagoria along with a substantial collection of the miscellaneous writings. [via]
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Death, Dissection and the Destituteby Ruth RichardsonISBN 0140228624 (0-14-022862-4)
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The Diary of a Nobodyby George Grossmith, Weedon GrossmithISBN 0140005102 (0-14-000510-2)
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The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavariaby Wilfrid BluntISBN 0140036067 (0-14-003606-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria'Book summary:Art, German Studies, German History, European Studies [via]
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Early Writings [of] Karl Marxby Karl MarxISBN 0140216685 (0-14-021668-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Writings [of] Karl Marx'Book summary:Marx was barely 25 when he produced this astonishing rich body of workincluding economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and On the Jewish Question.[via]More editions of Early Writings [of] Karl Marx:
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Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroadby David Haward BainISBN 0140084991 (0-14-008499-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroad'Book summary:On the morning of May 10, 1869, a gang of Irish immigrants met a party of Chinese laborers on a windy bluff northwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. Tired to the bone, the two groups laid down the last of countless wooden ties, bought at the exorbitant cost of six dollars apiece, and thus joined two great rail lines, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, to form a single transcontinental route. That rail line made possible the mass settlement of the West, and, as those who conceived it well knew, it changed the course of American history.
David Haward Bain's superb narrative of westward rail history, weighing in at 800 pages, ends not with this great achievement but with the political and financial scandal that would almost overshadow it. Along the way Bain looks closely at the entrepreneurial men who foresaw the possibilities of a vast nation joined by a steel ribbon--most memorably the hit-and-miss businessman Asa Whitney, who proposed to Congress an ingenious scheme to fund the building of the railroad through commercializing the right of way. Some of the men who came after Whitney, such as Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford, amassed great fortunes in realizing this dream. Others died penniless and nearly forgotten in the wake of political maneuverings and bad deals. Bain's vigorous, well-written narrative does much to restore those overlooked actors to history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Enemy Womenby Paulette JilesISBN 0066214440 (0-06-621444-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enemy Women'Book summary:From critically acclaimed, award-winning poet and memoirist Paulette Jiles comes a debut novel of startling power and savage beauty -- an extraordinary story of survival and love in the midst of a torn nation's bitter agony.
For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War Between the States is a plague that threatens devastation despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare seen at its most terrible on the day the Union Militia arrives to set her house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and dragging her widowed father away, beaten and bloodied. Left to care for two young sisters, Adair sees no road but the one that leads away, as they start out on foot into the winter mountains in search of a safe haven.
Even the least of hopes is doomed, however, in a world forever changed, as the treachery of a fellow traveler brings about Adair's arrest on charges of enemy collaboration. Torn from her terrified sisters, the girl suddenly finds herself consigned to a living hell, caged with the criminal and the deranged in a filthy women's prison in St. Louis.
But young Adair is sustained by a strong heart, and love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and she finds herself returning her feelings despite herself. The major vows to return for her when the fighting is over, and before he returns to war, he leaves her with a last precious gift: freedom.
Weakened in body but not in spirit, Adair must now travel alone through dangerous, unknown territory -- an escaped enemy woman surrounded by perils and misery on all sides.She makes her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise, seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.
Based on a little known chapter in America's bloodiest epoch, Paulette Jiles's poignant, powerful, and exquisitely rendered novel about war's collateral victims is masterful work, captivating and authentic -- a lyrical, memorable tale of endurance and sacrifice that will stand alongside Cold Mountain and other classic Civil War era-set literature for decades to come. [via]
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Europe Since Napoleonby David ThomsonISBN 0075535572 (0-07-553557-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980by Elaine Showalter, James R. RothausISBN 0140101691 (0-14-010169-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980'Book summary:In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeutic practices that were used to bring women 'to their senses', she draws on diaries and narratives by inmates, and fiction from Mary Wollstonecraft to Doris Lessing, to supply a cultural perspective usually missing from studies of mental illness. [via]
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0140076158 (0-14-007615-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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Fools Crowby James WelchISBN 0140089373 (0-14-008937-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fools Crow'Book summary:[via]The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation.
"A major contibution to Native American literature." Wallace Stegner.
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Freuds Interpretation of Dreamsby A. BrillISBN 0140137947 (0-14-013794-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freuds Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980by Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0140062793 (0-14-006279-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980'Book summary:In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participantsthe writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionsists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of this century. By skillfully combining literary materials with more conventional sources of political and social history, Spence provides an unparalleled look at China and her people and offers valuable insight into the coninuing conflict between the implacable power of the state and the strivings of China's artists, writers, and thinkers.[via]More editions of The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980:
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The Great Plainsby Ian FrazierISBN 0140131701 (0-14-013170-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Plains'Book summary:With his distinctive blend of intrepidity and wide-eyed wonder, Frazier relates the tale of his 25,000-mile drive across the Great Plains states. In the tradition of Mark Twain's Roughing It , Great Plains is a heartfelt expedition through western America. (Travel) [via]
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Greenmantleby John BuchanISBN 0140011323 (0-14-001132-3)
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The Habsburgs: Embodying Empireby Andrew WheatcroftISBN 0140236341 (0-14-023634-1)
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Hawthorne: A Collection of Critical Essaysby A. N. KaulISBN 0133843211 (0-13-384321-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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History of Modern Artby H.H. Arnason, Marla F. PratherISBN 0131830562 (0-13-183056-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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History of Modern Art: Painting Sculpture Architecture Photographyby H.H. Arnason, Peter KalbISBN 013184069X (0-13-184069-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Modern Art: Painting Sculpture Architecture Photography'Book summary:Authoritative and insightful, Arnason's History of Modern Art remains the definitive source of information on the art of the Modern Era from modernism's mid-nineteenth century European beginnings to today's divergent art trends. Now full-color throughout, this Fifth Edition has been completely redesigned to make it even more elegant and easy-to-use. New heads, subheads, and a glossary have been added to help the reader navigate the material and quickly identify areas of interest. [via]
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History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architectureby H. Harvard ArnasonISBN 0133903516 (0-13-390351-6)
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History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photographyby H. Harvard ArnasonISBN 0132273233 (0-13-227323-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography'Book summary:History of Modern Art has long been recognized as the authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. Revising author Marla F. Prather's contributions to the new Fourth Edition include:
-- More biographical information about each artist.
-- An entirely new chapter on Cubism.
-- A lively sense of social and historical context.
-- Coverage of work in nontraditional mediums. such as video, installation, and performance art.
-- More than 30% new illustrations and text and nearly twice the number of color illustration as in previous editions.
-- A culturally diverse selection of artists and a much broader selection of works by women.
-- Chronological reorganization of the text, an updated bibliography, and a complete index. [via]More editions of History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography:
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A History of Russia: To 1917by Walter MossISBN 0070434808 (0-07-043480-8)
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0140187294 (0-14-018729-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Journals of Lewis and Clarkby Frank Bergon, William Clark, Meriwether LewisISBN 0140170065 (0-14-017006-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of Lewis and Clark'Book summary:[Traditional paperback edition of this title is 680 pages.]
The journals of Lewis and Clark have been called a national treasure. The Corps of Discovery helped to open the Louisiana Purchase to hundreds of thousands of pioneering settlers.
We're proud to bring this recreation of those handwritten texts to a new generation of readers, learners, and historians.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery as a scientific and military expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. The expedition's goal was stated by Jefferson in a letter dated June 20, 1803, to Lewis: "to explore the Missouri River and such principal stream of it as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river that may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purpose of commerce".[6] In addition, the expedition was to learn more about the Northwest's natural resources, inhabitants and possibilities for settlement;[7] as well as evaluating the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well established in the area.
Jefferson selected U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewishis aide and personal friendto lead the Corps of Discovery. Lewis selected William Clark as his partner. Because of bureaucratic delays in the U.S. Army, Clark officially only held the rank of Second Lieutenant at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain".
They began their historic journey on May 14, 1804. They soon met up with Lewis in Saint Charles, Missouri, and the corps followed the Missouri River westward. Soon they passed La Charrette, the last caucasian settlement on the Missouri River. The expedition followed the Missouri through what is now Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska. On August 20, 1804, the Corps of Discovery suffered its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd died, apparently from acute appendicitis. He was buried at Floyd's Bluff, in what is now Sioux City, Iowa. During the final week of August, Lewis and Clark had reached the edge of the Great Plains, a place abounding with elk, deer, bison, and beavers.
The expedition continued to follow the Missouri to its headwaters and over the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass via horses. In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon. At this point,[clarification needed] Lewis spotted Mount Hood, a mountain known to be very close to the ocean. On a big pine, Clark carved
Clark had written in his journal, "Ocean in view! O! The Joy!". One journal entry is captioned "Cape Disappointment at the Entrance of the Columbia River into the Great South Sea or Pacific Ocean". By that time the expedition faced its second bitter winter during the trip, so the group decided to vote on whether to camp on the north or south side of the Columbia River. The party agreed to camp on the south side of the river (modern Astoria, Oregon), building Fort Clatsop as their winter quarters. While wintering at the fort, the men prepared for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife, and interacting with the native tribes.
The explorers began their journey home on March 23, 1806. Lewis and Clark used four dugout canoes they bought from the Native Americans, plus one that they stole in "retaliation" for a previous theft.
Lewis and Clark separated until they reached the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers on August 11. Clark's team had floated down the rivers in bull boats. Once reunited, the Corps was able to return home quickly via the Missouri River. They reached St. Louis on September 23, 1806. [via]More editions of The Journals of Lewis and Clark:
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Karl Marx Early Writingsby Karl MarxISBN 0070406715 (0-07-040671-5)
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Karl Marx Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophyby Karl MarxISBN 0070406723 (0-07-040672-3)
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. SaidISBN 0140183523 (0-14-018352-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883by Simon WinchesterISBN 0066212855 (0-06-621285-5)
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Ladies and Not So Gentle Women : Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Vanderbilt, and Their Timesby Alfred A. LewisISBN 0140241736 (0-14-024173-6)
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. BraddonISBN 0140161856 (0-14-016185-6)
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Michael SquiresISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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The Lair of the White Wormby Bram StokerISBN 0099094800 (0-09-909480-0)
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Lark Rise to Candlefordby Flora ThompsonISBN 0140117563 (0-14-011756-3)
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The Legend of Sheby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0140052976 (0-14-005297-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legend of She'Book summary:Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.
Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." [via]
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Lord Jim : A Taleby Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson, Cedric P. WattsISBN 0140180923 (0-14-018092-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim : A Tale'Book summary:When Lord Jim first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (One critic in The Academy complained that the narrator "was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours.") Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires no defense--it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timeless exploration of morality.
The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat, which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster. The Patna, however, manages to stay afloat. The foundering vessel is towed into port--and since the officers have strategically vanished, Jim is left to stand trial for abandoning the ship and its 800 passengers.
Stripped of his seaman's license, convinced of his own cowardice, Jim sets out on a tragic and transcendent search for redemption. This may sound like the bleakest of narratives. But Lord Jim is also touching, elevating, and often funny. Here, for example, the narrator describes the ship's captain (proving that clothes do indeed make the man):
He made me think of a trained baby elephant walking on hind-legs. He was extravagantly gorgeous too--got up in a soiled sleeping suit, bright green and deep orange vertical stripes, with a pair of ragged straw slippers on his bare feet, and somebody's cast-off pith hat, very dirty and two sizes too small for him, tied up with a manilla rope-yarn on the top of his big head. You understand a man like that hasn't a ghost of a chance when it comes to borrowing clothes.
This is formidable prose by any standard. But when you consider that Conrad was working in his third language, the sublime after-dinner story that is Lord Jim seems even more astonishing an accomplishment. --Teri Kieffer [via]More editions of Lord Jim : A Tale:
A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States To 1877by Melvin I. UrofskyISBN 0075544482 (0-07-554448-2)
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Mastro-Don Gesualdoby Giovanni VergaISBN 0140031685 (0-14-003168-5)
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Miss Marjoribanksby Mrs. OliphantISBN 0140161899 (0-14-016189-9)
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Modernism: 1890-1930by Malcolm Bradbury, James Walter McFarlaneISBN 0140219331 (0-14-021933-1)
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Nanaby Emile ZolaISBN 0140061282 (0-14-006128-2)
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Nineteenth Century European Artby Petra Ten-Doesschate ChuISBN 0131886436 (0-13-188643-6)
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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 014018371X (0-14-018371-X)
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The Penguin Book of Vampire Storiesby Alan RyanISBN 0140124454 (0-14-012445-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories'Book summary:They're lurking under the cover of darkness & and between the covers of this book. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring.[via]Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and other masters of the macabre. Carefulthey are all crafty enough to steal their way into your imagination and steal away your hopes for a restful sleep.
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The Portable Darwinby Duncan M. Porter, Peter W. Graham, Charles DarwinISBN 0140151095 (0-14-015109-5)
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The Portable Emersonby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl BodeISBN 0140150943 (0-14-015094-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Emerson'Book summary:This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including "History," "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," and "The Poet"; Emerson's first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including "Uriel," "The Humble-Bee," and "Give All to Love"; orations, including "The American Scholar," "The Fugitive Slave Law," and "John Brown"; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others. [via]
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The Portable Margaret Fullerby Mary Kelley, Margaret FullerISBN 0140176659 (0-14-017665-9)
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Portable Nietzscheby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0140150625 (0-14-015062-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portable Nietzsche'Book summary:The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the worlds leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, Few writers in any age were so full of ideas, and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted.[via]The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmanns definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsches four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsches development, versatility, and inexhaustibility.
In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature. Newsweek
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The Portable Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0140150935 (0-14-015093-5)
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Includes the following works: NovelsThe Portrait of Dorian Gray; PlaysSalome and The Importance of Being Earnest; WritingsDe Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.
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The Portable Walt Whitmanby Walt Whitman, Mark Van Doren, Malcolm Cowley, Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0140150781 (0-14-015078-1)
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark TwainISBN 0137030274 (0-13-703027-4)
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Realismby Linda NochlinISBN 0140132228 (0-14-013222-8)
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The Rector and the Doctor's Familyby Margaret OliphantISBN 0140161511 (0-14-016151-1)
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Selected Poetryby Douglas Bush, Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0075536439 (0-07-553643-9)
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Shelley: The Pursuitby Richard HolmesISBN 0140158804 (0-14-015880-4)
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Shelley; A Collection of Critical Essays.by Ridenour, George M., EdISBN 0138087415 (0-13-808741-5)
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140058559 (0-14-005855-9)
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0140187952 (0-14-018795-2)
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Three Men in a Boatby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0140012133 (0-14-001213-3)
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Twentieth Century Interpretations of Coleridge: A Collection of Critical Essayby Kathleen CoburnISBN 0131395688 (0-13-139568-8)
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Vampire Storiesby Ryan AllanISBN 0140109870 (0-14-010987-0)
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Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915by Thomas J. SchlerethISBN 0065023692 (0-06-502369-2)
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W. B. Yeats: Collected Poemsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0099723506 (0-09-972350-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'W. B. Yeats: Collected Poems'Book summary:William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles. There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?" There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931 "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."
Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse, sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"). And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion, attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of the mind. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Waldo Emersonby Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0140062785 (0-14-006278-5)
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William Dean Howells' the Rise of Silas Laphamby William Dean HowellsISBN 0130245895 (0-13-024589-5)
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William Wordsworthby Mark Van DorenISBN 0075536358 (0-07-553635-8)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 0140023208 (0-14-002320-8)
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Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Communityby Spencer KlawISBN 0140239308 (0-14-023930-8)
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140042601 (0-14-004260-1)
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The World of Charles Dickensby Angus WilsonISBN 0140034889 (0-14-003488-9)
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Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tetherby Joseph Conrad, John LyonISBN 0140185135 (0-14-018513-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Youth, Heart of Darkness, the End of the Tether'Book summary:Conrad's aim was 'by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see' Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of 'seeing,' its relativity and shifting compromise. Portraying a young man's first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, an unenlightened maturity in Heart of Darkness, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme - the 'Ages of Man' - and in their scepticism. Conrad's vision has influenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges and Werner Herzog, and continues to draw critical fire. In his stimulating introduction John Lyon discusses the links between these three stories, the critiques of Chinua Achebe and Edward Said, and the ebb and flow of Conrad's magnificent narrative art.[via]
@JungleFever Heading down to Africa on a boat. Too hot! I get the creeping sense this job isnt going to be as cushy as they made it sound.
The natives seem unhappy. Some are even violent! Why dont they appreciate how much weve done for them? Ungrateful welfare leeches, I say!
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