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The Actualby Saul BellowISBN 0670860751 (0-670-86075-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Alexander's Bridgeby Willa CatherISBN 0486424502 (0-486-42450-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander's Bridge'Book summary:Construction engineer Bartley Alexander is a troubled, middle-aged man torn between his cold American wife and an alluring mistress in London who has helped him recapture his youth and sense of freedom. A fascinating study of a man's growing awareness of the breach in his integrity, this book is essential reading for fans of this great American novelist.[via] -
Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994by Sylvia NasarISBN 0571197183 (0-571-19718-3)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994'Book summary:Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.
Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Beckett: Waiting for Godotby Lawrence GraverISBN 0521549388 (0-521-54938-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The epic poem of war and adventure.
Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death.
* Burton Raffel's modern language translation from the original Old English remains the most celebrated introduction of the poem to students and the general reader alike
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Beowulfby Beowulf, R.K. GordonISBN 0486272648 (0-486-27264-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden. Narrative combines mythical elements, Christian and pagan sensibilities, actual historical figures and events to create a striking work of great power and beauty. Genealogies.[via]More editions of Beowulf:
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Beowulfby Edwin MorganISBN 0520008812 (0-520-00881-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same. [via]
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poemsby Constance R. HieattISBN 0553213474 (0-553-21347-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf and Other Old English Poems'Book summary:Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic worldsomber, vast, and magnificent. [via]
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The Black Swanby Thomas Mann, Willard R. TraskISBN 0520070097 (0-520-07009-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Book Of Imaginary Beingsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525475389 (0-525-47538-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Imaginary Beings'Book summary:In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to life with art commissioned specifically for this volume, The Book of Imaginary Beings will delight readers of classic fantasy as well as Borges's many admirers.[via]More editions of The Book Of Imaginary Beings:
Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivagoby Angela LivingstoneISBN 0521316987 (0-521-31698-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Call of the Toadby Gunter GrassISBN 0613212797 (0-613-21279-7)
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Cancer Wardby Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0553206559 (0-553-20655-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Certificateby Isaac Bashevis Singer, Leonard WolfISBN 0452270928 (0-452-27092-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoplesby Winston Churchill, Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0517422832 (0-517-42283-2)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples'Book summary:An authoritative survey of the history of English-speaking peoples throughout the world combines intriguing biographical profiles--of Alfred the Great, Victoria, Lincoln, and other notables--with an account of the key events and issues of the era. [via]
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The Cocktail Partyby T. S. Eliot, Nevill CoghillISBN 057110472X (0-571-10472-X)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cocktail Party'Book summary:A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. An authentic modern masterpiece (New York Post). Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry (Stephen Spender).[via]-
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliotby T. S. EliotISBN 0571088570 (0-571-08857-0)
Hardcover, Faber
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Enemiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0451166639 (0-451-16663-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Enigma of Arrivalby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0670815764 (0-670-81576-4)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enigma of Arrival'Book summary:Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another, and is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet alongside this he weaves a rich and complex web of invention and observation. Finding depth and pathos in the smallest moments -- the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate's gardener -- Naipaul also comprehends the bigger picture -- watching as the old world is lost to the gradual but permanent changes wrought on the English landscape by the march of 'progress'. This is a moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion and candour. 'Written with the expected beauty of style ...Instead of diminishing life, Naipaul ennobles it' Anthony Burgess, Observer 'The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction -- of dreams, of reality -- is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers.' Time [via]
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantryby W. B. YeatsISBN 0486269418 (0-486-26941-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesseby Hermann Hesse, Jack David ZipesISBN 0553377760 (0-553-37776-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse'Book summary:A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an author. [via]
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Field Workby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571114334 (0-571-11433-4)
Softcover, Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Field Work'Book summary:At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death. "Throughout the volume Heaney's outstanding gifts, his eye, his ear, his understanding of the poetic language are on display - this is a book we cannot do without". (Martin Dodsworth, "Guardian"). [via]
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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571210805 (0-571-21080-5)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001'Book summary:"How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and to his contemporary world?" These are the questions addressed by Seamus Heaney in this collection of his critical prose. There are essays from three previous collections of prose and from "The Place of Writing", a series of lectures delivered in 1988 at Emory University. Also included are several pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to more extended lectures and contributions to books, including "Place and Displacement" (1984), only available previously as a pamphlet, and "Burns's Art Speech", written for the bicentennial of Robert Burns's death. [via]
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The First Circleby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0553246232 (0-553-24623-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Circle'Book summary:A major literary event 50 years in the making:In the First Circle is the first complete English translation of Nobel Prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns best novel (Washington Post). With an introduction by Edward Erickson, this work by the author of The Gulag Archipelago is the story of a brilliant mathematician who finds himself locked in a Moscow prison filled with the countrys brightest minds and must decide whether to aid Stalins repressive state. [via]
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Heartbreak Houseby Bernard ShawISBN 0486292916 (0-486-29291-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartbreak House'Book summary:Written at the height of the first World War in Europe, an impassioned satire of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century bourgeoisie offers a scathing portrait of a household of independent eccentrics. Reissue. [via]
Isaac Bashevis Singer : 3 Complete Novelsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517385805 (0-517-38580-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Istanbul: A Life And A Cityby Orhan PamukISBN 0571218326 (0-571-21832-6)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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John Steinbeck : Acts of King Arthurby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517368366 (0-517-36836-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck : Acts of King Arthur'Book summary:The first book John Steinbeck read as a child was the Caxton Morte d'Arthur, and he considered it one of the most challenging tasks of his career to modernize the stories of King Arthur. "These stories are alive even in those of us who have not read them. And, in our day, we are perhaps impatient with the words and the stately rhythms of Malory. I wanted to set the stories down in meaning as they were written, leaving out nothing and adding nothing."
Also included are the letters John Steinbeck wrote to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, and to Chase Horton, the editor of this volume, about his work on King Arthur.John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was the author of many books, including Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath (which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939). In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.The first book John Steinbeck read as a child was the Caxton Morte d'Arthur, and he considered it one of the most challenging tasks of his career to modernize the stories of King Arthur. As the author notes in his introduction to The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights: "These stories are alive even in those of us who have not read them. And, in our day, we are perhaps impatient with the words and the stately rhythms of Malory. I wanted to set the stories down in meaning as they were written, leaving out nothing and adding nothing."
Also included in this edition are the letters Steinbeck wrote to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, and to Chase Horton, the editor of this volume, about his work and thought concerning the Arthurian legends."[Steinbeck] embellishes Malory's spare legend with a richness of detail that transforms the visions, making it no one but Steinbeck's."John Gardner, The New York Times Book Review[via]More editions of John Steinbeck : Acts of King Arthur:
John Steinbeck : America and Americans and Selected Nonfictionby John Steinbeck, Susan Shillinglaw, Jackson J. BensonISBN 0670030627 (0-670-03062-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid UndsetISBN 0553240366 (0-553-24036-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Long Valleyby John SteinbeckISBN 0553128248 (0-553-12824-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Madame Curieby Eve Curie, Vincent SheeanISBN 0613181271 (0-613-18127-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Major Barbaraby Bernard ShawISBN 0486421260 (0-486-42126-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Major Barbara'Book summary:[via]When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.More editions of Major Barbara:
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The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientistby Richard FeynmanISBN 0465023940 (0-465-02394-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist'Book summary:In this series of lectures originally given in 1963, which remained unpublished during Richard Feynman's lifetime, the Nobel-winning physicist thinks aloud on several "meta"--questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age?
Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend. "In case you are beginning to believe," he says at the start of his final lecture, "that some of the things I said before are true because I am a scientist and according to the brochure that you get I won some awards and so forth, instead of your looking at the ideas themselves and judging them directly...I will get rid of that tonight. I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make." Rare, perhaps. Irreverent, sure. But ridiculous? Not even close. [via]
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Meeting at Telgteby Gunter GrassISBN 0449245047 (0-449-24504-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meeting at Telgte'Book summary:A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty Years' War comes to an end. Afterword by Leonard Forster. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Meeting at Telgte:
Naked Masks: Five Playsby Luigi Pirandello, Eric BentleyISBN 0452010829 (0-452-01082-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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New Selected Poems, 1966-1987by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571143725 (0-571-14372-5)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Selected Poems, 1966-1987'Book summary:An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet. [via]
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Nick Adams Storiesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0553200720 (0-553-20072-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Nightby Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway, François Mauriac, Robert McAfee BrownISBN 0553272535 (0-553-27253-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night'Book summary:Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography. Like Wiesel himself, the protagonist of Night is a scholarly, pious teenager racked with guilt at having survived the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. [via]
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Peer Gyntby Henrik IbsenISBN 0486426866 (0-486-42686-6)
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Platero and Iby Antonio De NicolasISBN 0595003451 (0-595-00345-1)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Platero and I'Book summary:: One of the great classics of modern Spanish literature. Sheer descriptive magic. Time An exquisite bookrich, shimmering, truly incomparable. The New Yorker This enchanting dialogue, or is it a monologue, between a man and his burro has been translated with great skill and sympathy. Winthrop Sargeant In this translated Spanish classic, Juan Ramón Jiménez tells his burro Platero about their native Andalusian village of Moguer. Their dialogue creates an evanescent portrait of provincial Spainits streets, homes, animals, children, and eccentrics. With the pure-hearted, silent burro sometimes a witness, sometimes a participant, the routines of daily life take on a certain poignancy. Jiménez anxiously searches for and removes the long green thorn from Plateros hoof, and the donkey tenderly nuzzles him. On their way home one evening, Platero brays to his girlfriend burro in a field and trots hesitatingly, unwillingly past. Together Platero and his master make friends with the parrot, belonging to a local French doctor, whose sole and frequent pronouncement is Ce nest rien. Both prolific and profound, Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) wrote over seventy books, winning the 1956 Nobel Prize in literature. He has been hailed by The New Republic as not only the dean of Hispanic poets, but a pioneer and the source of all those who wrote in the Spanish tongue after him. The translator, poet and scholar, Antonio de Nicolás, received his education in Spain, India and the United States. A prolific writer, he has contributed to learned journals, magazines and book reviews and has published a number of books. [via]
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Platero and I/Platero Y Yo: Platero Y Yo A Dual-Language Book / Juan Ramon Jimenez ; Edited and Translated by Stanley Appelbaumby Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486435652 (0-486-43565-2)
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Platero Y Yo/Platero and Iby Juan Ramon JimenezISBN 0618378383 (0-618-37838-3)
Softcover, Clarion Books
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The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynmanby Richard P Feynman, Jeffrey Robbin S, Freeman DysonISBN 0465023959 (0-465-02395-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman'Book summary:Why do we do science? Beyond altruistic and self-aggrandizing motivations, many of our best scientists work long hours seeking the electric thrill that comes only from learning something that nobody knew before. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, a collection of previously unpublished or difficult-to-find short works by maverick physicist Richard Feynman, takes its title from his own answer. From TV interview transcripts to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, we see his quick, sharp wit, his devotion to his work, and his unwillingness to bow to social pressure or convention. It's no wonder he was only grudgingly admired by the establishment during his lifetime--read his "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry" to see him blowing off political considerations as impediments to finding the truth.
Feynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weapons. Though one or two pieces are a bit hard to follow for the nontechnical reader, for the most part the book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level. Freeman Dyson's foreword and editor Jeffrey Robbins's introductions to each essay set the stage well and are respectful without being worshipful. Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology; like any great scientist, he asked more questions than he answered, to give future generations the pleasure of finding things out. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Portable Bernard Shawby George Bernard Shaw, Stanley WeintraubISBN 0670639451 (0-670-63945-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Prizeby Irving WallaceISBN 0451137590 (0-451-13759-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Red Ponyby John SteinbeckISBN 0553278363 (0-553-27836-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Pony'Book summary:The Red Pony is the story of a boy who dreamed great dreams, of the sorrel colt that was the focus of those dreams, of the land that nourished them, of the mountains that hid their fulfillment [via]
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The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lecturesby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571175627 (0-571-17562-7)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures'Book summary:The lectures in this book were delivered by Seamus Heaney when he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The subjects include Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", Clare's vernacular writing, Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", and work by Elizabeth Bishop, Yeats, Larkin and Dylan Thomas. [via]
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Relativity: The Special and General Theoryby Albert Einstein, Robert Geroch, David C. Cassidy, Roger Penrose, Robert W. LawsonISBN 0452287847 (0-452-28784-7)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relativity: The Special and General Theory'Book summary:How better to learn the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity than directly from their creator, Albert Einstein himself? In Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einstein describes the theories that made him famous, illuminating his case with numerous examples and a smattering of math (nothing more complex than high-school algebra). Einstein's book is not casual reading, but for those who appreciate his work without diving into the arcana of theoretical physics, Relativity will prove a stimulating read. [via]
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Relativity: The Special and General Theoryby Robert W. Lawson, Albert EinsteinISBN 048641714X (0-486-41714-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relativity: The Special and General Theory'Book summary:This book contains the great physicist's own explanation of both the special and general theories of relativity. Written for readers interested in the theory but not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics, it presents the ideas in their simplest, most intelligible form.[via]More editions of Relativity: The Special and General Theory:
Requiem for a Nunby William FaulknerISBN 0606192182 (0-606-19218-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godotby Lawrence GraverISBN 0521355133 (0-521-35513-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godotby Samuel Beckett, Lawrence GraverISBN 0521357756 (0-521-35775-6)
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Scumby Isaac Bashevis Singer, Rosaline Dukalsky SchwartzISBN 0452267862 (0-452-26786-2)
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The Search for Solutionsby Horace Freeland JudsonISBN 0517327201 (0-517-32720-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Seeing Thingsby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571144691 (0-571-14469-1)
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Seize The Dayby Saul Bellow, Cynthia OzickISBN 0606310924 (0-606-31092-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Can one man come to terms with his past in one of the greatest short novels ever written?
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as ''the type that loses the girl''); and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding and offers him one last hope. [via]More editions of Seize The Day:
Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play.by Saul BellowISBN 0670000914 (0-670-00091-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Selected Storiesby L.N. AndreyevISBN 0631018107 (0-631-01810-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Selected Poems, 1965-1975by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0571116175 (0-571-11617-5)
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Short Novels of John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 0670641383 (0-670-64138-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Six Characters in Search of an Authorby Luigi Pirandello, Eric Bentley, Erice BentleyISBN 0451526880 (0-451-52688-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folkloreby W. B. Yeats, Claire BoossISBN 051748904X (0-517-48904-X)
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Tree of Manby Patrick WhiteISBN 0670728756 (0-670-72875-6)
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The Trial Begins and on Socialist Realismby Abram TertzISBN 0520046773 (0-520-04677-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0451526066 (0-451-52606-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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" "The Turn Of The Screw" seems to have proved more fascinating to the general reading public than anything else of James's except "Daisy Miller.""--Edmund Wilson [via]
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fictionby Henry JamesISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Twenty Years at Hull-Houseby Jane AddamsISBN 0451527399 (0-451-52739-9)
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Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Twyborn Affairby Patrick WhiteISBN 0670737895 (0-670-73789-5)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Unbearable Lightness of Beingby Milan KunderaISBN 057113209X (0-571-13209-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Helen Hennessy VendlerISBN 0451526848 (0-451-52684-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0486400611 (0-486-40061-1)
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In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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Wisdom of the Westby Bertrand RussellISBN 0517690411 (0-517-69041-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reisby Jose SaramagoISBN 0613176189 (0-613-17618-9)
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Young Winstonby Winston ChurchillISBN 0670795151 (0-670-79515-1)
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesseby Jack D. Zipes, David Frampton, Hermann HesseISBN 0553100238 (0-553-10023-8)
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