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Age of Fableby Thomas BulfinchISBN 0460004727 (0-460-00472-7)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Age of Fable or Beauties of Mythologyby Thomas BulfinchISBN 0451628144 (0-451-62814-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trekby Dave MarinaccioISBN 0517883864 (0-517-88386-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek'Book summary:How to win at poker. The power of a business's mission statement. If you can dial a telephone, you can do anything. These are the lessons to be learned from "Star Trek." First a hit television show, and then a pop culture phenomenon, "Star Trek" is now the basis for inspiration and guidance in our daily lives. ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM WATCHING STAR TREK is an anthology of valuable lessons that can be found within the episodes of "Star Trek." Discover why its dangerous to wear a plain red shirt, why Captain Kirk was such a superb leader, and why you should always help people in need. [via]
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- All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek: ISBN 0517223562 (0-517-22356-2)
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American Heritage Picture History of the Civil Warby Bruce CattonISBN 0517385562 (0-517-38556-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulationby Charles Dickens, Leonee Ormond, Marcus Stone, Samuel PalmerISBN 0460876856 (0-460-87685-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulation'Book summary:"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country.
"Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.
This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s. [via]
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Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practiceby Colin Renfrew, Paul G. BahnISBN 0500284415 (0-500-28441-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice'Book summary:For the Fourth Edition, new theoretical approaches, such as agency, materiality, and engagement theory, are added and earlier approaches analyzed afresh. Field methods and scientific techniques have been updated throughout, and new emphasis is placed on climate change and its impact on human affairs. The latest information on topics as varied as the Iceman, Pleistocene extinctions, and Ilama domestication is included, along with the most up-to-date material on GIS and surveying technology. New topics will be introduced to emphasize the ever-changing face of modern archaeology, and additional special box features will be included, as well as discussion of the archaeological techniques needed to study the material culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A key component of the new edition will be the introduction of a dedicated Web site and study guide to accompany the textbook itself. [via]
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice: ISBN 0500050791 (0-500-05079-1)
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Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practiceby Paul Bahn, Colin Renfrew, Paul G. BahnISBN 0500281475 (0-500-28147-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice'Book summary:The third edition of this best-selling introduction to what archaeologists do and how they do it has been entirely revised and updated in the light of new views, discoveries, and data. Developments in the technology and scope of archaeology are reflected in an increased emphasis on aspects ranging from GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and information on the Internet to gender archaeology and the latest thinking on post-processualism and cognitive archaeology. The profound impact of advances in genetics and linguistics is assessed, and some sections of the book -- the dating of rock art, for example -- have been totally rewritten in the light of recent events. [via]
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeareby Isaac Asimov, Rafael PalaciosISBN 0517268256 (0-517-26825-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicagoby Mike RoykoISBN 0452261678 (0-452-26167-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fableby Thomas BulfinchISBN 0486411079 (0-486-41107-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable'Book summary:Vivid, classic retellings of the myths of Greece and Rome, along with stories of the Norse gods and heroes. Zeus and Hera, Apollo, Jason and the golden fleece, the wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas, the deeds of Thor, many more seminal stories underlying Western culture.[via]More editions of Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable:
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0517274159 (0-517-27415-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulfinch's Mythology'Book summary:Here are the world's most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today's readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch's has been heralded for more than a century, it has never been published in so beautiful and accessible a format. Evocative four-color illustrations, many full-page, bring to life key events and characters of these universal tales and sagas -- from the Greek and Roman pantheon of gods to the heroes of the Crusades, from the exploits of Robin Hood to the feats of Richard the Lionheart. As enjoyable now as when Bulfinch first assembled them, these selections come from a variety of works -- Ovid's classic Metamorphoses, Egyptian myths, Eastern mythology, and Hindu, Norse, and Celtic sources. Together they form a remarkable tapestry of human endeavor: dreams, illusions, adventures, loves lost and loves found. In this handsome series, they speak to us afresh, across the ages, vivified through Caselli's inspired art. Original footnotes, indexes, and prefaces make this series not only entertaining, but completely authoritative as well. [via]
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Complete Textsby Thomas BulfinchISBN 051722688X (0-517-22688-X)
Hardcover, Gramercy
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Civil Disobedience and Other Essaysby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0486275639 (0-486-27563-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Clever Maids: The Secret History of The Grimm Fairy Talesby Valerie ParadizISBN 0465054919 (0-465-05491-9)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Dave Barry Talks Backby Dave Barry, Jeff MacNellyISBN 0517588684 (0-517-58868-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dave Barry Talks Back'Book summary:Contains the absolute best from Barry, along with his readers' comments on topics ranging from traffic cops, dentists, and Congress. 2 cassettes. [via]
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0460004352 (0-460-00435-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciencesby Galileo GalileiISBN 0486600998 (0-486-60099-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Ageby Simon SchamaISBN 0520061470 (0-520-06147-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Epistemology of the Closetby Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0520078748 (0-520-07874-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epistemology of the Closet'Book summary:Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual life of the U.S. This has been, to no small degree, due to the popularity of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers--including Herman Melville, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde--Sedgwick delineates a historical moment in which sexual identity became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries.
Sedgwick's literary analysis, while provocative and often startling (you will never read Billy Budd or The Picture of Dorian Gray the same way again), is simply the basis for a larger project of examining and analyzing how the categories of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" continue to shape almost all aspects of contemporary thought. Epistemology of the Closet is a sometimes-dense work, but one filled with wit and empathy. Sedgwick writes with great intelligence and an eye for irony, but always makes clear that her theories and critical acumen are in the service of a politic that seeks to make the world a better and more humane place for everyone. An extraordinary book that reshapes how we think about literature, sexuality, and everyday life. --Michael Bronski [via]
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A Reappraisalby Michael GrantISBN 0517524481 (0-517-52448-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosaby Joan Jacobs BrumbergISBN 0452263271 (0-452-26327-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universeby Steven WeinbergISBN 0465024378 (0-465-02437-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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From Cradle to Graveby Joyce EggintonISBN 0515103012 (0-515-10301-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrativeby Herbert Mason, John H. MarksISBN 0451627180 (0-451-62718-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative'Book summary:Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original. [via]
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God : A Biographyby Jack MilesISBN 0517195119 (0-517-19511-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Great Dialogues of Platoby W.H.D. RouseISBN 0451628276 (0-451-62827-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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"There has been no adequate translation of Plato since Jowett...and I think Rouse has done it." --Dudley Fitts
* Rouse is one of the world's most respected classical scholars [via]More editions of Great Dialogues of Plato:
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The Greening of Americaby Charles A. ReichISBN 0517886367 (0-517-88636-7)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greening of America'Book summary:The 25th Anniversary of the Groundbreaking Classic. "If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today....I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is not at war with human beings or nature, and we can get from here to there by democratic means."--from the new Preface by Charles A. Reich. [via]
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Imitation of Christby Thomas A. KempisISBN 0460014846 (0-460-01484-6)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imitation of Christ'Book summary:The Thomas à Kempis fan club includes St. Ignatius, Thomas Merton, Thomas More, and even Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. (She reads a chapter of The Imitation of Christ every night before sleep.) Imitation has exerted immense influence on Christian worship, ethics, and church structure, because it gives specific yet broad-minded guidance about the central task of Christian life--learning to live like Jesus. Better to read this book a little here and there, now and then, than to try gobbling it cover to cover. Imitation is no triumph of orderly thinking, but it's a great monument and incentive to deep living. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematicaby Isaac Newton, Alexandre Koyre, I. Bernard CohenISBN 0521079608 (0-521-07960-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Key to the Name of the Rose: Including Translations of All Non-English Passagesby Robert J. White, Jane G. White, Adele J. HaftISBN 0472086219 (0-472-08621-9)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousnessby Daniel DennettISBN 0465073506 (0-465-07350-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness'Book summary:In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett embarks on the audacious task of explaining human consciousness. He sets his sights even higher for Kinds of Minds, attempting to provide a more general explanation of consciousness. But don't be put off: the book is short, easy to read, and makes a good introduction to Dennett's richly interdisciplinary oeuvre. While beginners will appreciate Dennett's appeals to intuitive moral considerations to emphasize the importance of investigating consciousness, there is much in the book to hold the attention of readers already familiar with his previous work.
At the beginning of Kinds of Minds Dennett asks, "What kinds of minds are there? And how do we know?" These two questions--the first ontological, the second epistemological--set the agenda for the book. Intuitions untutored by theory are not capable of answering these questions, Dennett argues, making it necessary to pursue insight from the evolutionary point of view. Accordingly, subsequent chapters are devoted to phylogenetic speculations about agency and intentionality, sensitivity and sentience, and perception and behavior. Particularly charming is the series of squiggly amoebas--the Darwinian, Skinnerian, Popperian, and Gregorian creatures--that illustrates the hierarchy of cognitive power. In the final chapter, Dennett returns to the original two questions, ending not with their answers, but, he hopes, with "better versions of the questions themselves." --Glenn Branch [via]
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Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousnessby Daniel Clement DennettISBN 0465073514 (0-465-07351-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness'Book summary:In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett embarks on the audacious task of explaining human consciousness. He sets his sights even higher for Kinds of Minds, attempting to provide a more general explanation of consciousness. But don't be put off: the book is short, easy to read, and makes a good introduction to Dennett's richly interdisciplinary oeuvre. While beginners will appreciate Dennett's appeals to intuitive moral considerations to emphasize the importance of investigating consciousness, there is much in the book to hold the attention of readers already familiar with his previous work.
At the beginning of Kinds of Minds Dennett asks, "What kinds of minds are there? And how do we know?" These two questions--the first ontological, the second epistemological--set the agenda for the book. Intuitions untutored by theory are not capable of answering these questions, Dennett argues, making it necessary to pursue insight from the evolutionary point of view. Accordingly, subsequent chapters are devoted to phylogenetic speculations about agency and intentionality, sensitivity and sentience, and perception and behavior. Particularly charming is the series of squiggly amoebas--the Darwinian, Skinnerian, Popperian, and Gregorian creatures--that illustrates the hierarchy of cognitive power. In the final chapter, Dennett returns to the original two questions, ending not with their answers, but, he hopes, with "better versions of the questions themselves." --Glenn Branch [via]
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Life and Work of Sigmund Freudby Ernest Jones, Lionel L. Trilling, Steven MarcusISBN 0465097006 (0-465-09700-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveriesby Ernest JonesISBN 0465040160 (0-465-04016-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: The Last Phase 1919-1939by Ernest JonesISBN 0465040187 (0-465-04018-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: Years of Maturity,1800-1919by Ernest JonesISBN 0465040179 (0-465-04017-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Lifeby Albert-Laszlo BarabasiISBN 0452284392 (0-452-28439-2)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life'Book summary:How is the human brain like the AIDS epidemic? Ask physicist Albert-László Barabási and he'll explain them both in terms of networks of individual nodes connected via complex but understandable relationships. Linked: The New Science of Networks is his bright, accessible guide to the fundamentals underlying neurology, epidemiology, Internet traffic, and many other fields united by complexity.
Barabási's gift for concrete, nonmathematical explanations and penchant for eccentric humor would make the book thoroughly enjoyable even if the content weren't engaging. But the results of Barabási's research into the behavior of networks are deeply compelling. Not all networks are created equal, he says, and he shows how even fairly robust systems like the Internet could be crippled by taking out a few super-connected nodes, or hubs. His mathematical descriptions of this behavior are helping doctors, programmers, and security professionals design systems better suited to their needs. Linked presents the next step in complexity theory--from understanding chaos to practical applications. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850by Brian M. FaganISBN 0465022723 (0-465-02272-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850'Book summary:"Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will mean unless we know something about its effects in the past: "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". And Fagan's story of the last thousand years, centered on the "Little Ice Age," reminds us of what we could end up repeating: flood, fire, and famine--acts of God exacerbated by acts of man.
For all that he takes a broad--a very broad--view of European history, Fagan's writing is laced with human faces, fascinating anecdotes, and a gift for the telling detail that makes history live, very much in the style of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror. When Fagan talks about the voyages of Basque fishermen to American shores (probably landing before Columbus sailed), he puts in the taste of dried cod and the terrifying suddenness of fogs on the Grand Banks. The Great Fire of London, what it was like when the Dutch dikes broke, the Irish Potato Famine, the year without a summer, ice fairs on the Thames, and volcanoes in the South Pacific--Fagan makes history a ripping yarn in which we are all actors, on a stage that has always been changing. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Taleby Catherine OrensteinISBN 0465041264 (0-465-04126-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapyby Irvin D. YalomISBN 0465042805 (0-465-04280-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy'Book summary:Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. 270pp. Previous owner's name on front end page. The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, the author provides aglimpse into their personal desires and motivations and his own struggles to reconcile his all-too human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist. [via]
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Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De Rerun Naturaby Hugh De Quehen, Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucy Apsley HutchinsonISBN 047210778X (0-472-10778-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mindby Katharine HepburnISBN 0452261457 (0-452-26145-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Meaning of Liffby Douglas Adams, John LloydISBN 0517553473 (0-517-55347-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Liff'Book summary:In life and, indeed, in liff, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. This text uses place names to describe some of these meanings. [via]
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Myths of the Greeks and Romansby Michael GrantISBN 0452011620 (0-452-01162-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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On the Nature of Thingsby Lucretius, William Ellery LeonardISBN 048643446X (0-486-43446-X)
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The Oregon Trailby Francis ParkmanISBN 0486424804 (0-486-42480-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oregon Trail'Book summary:[via]Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western wildlife; and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture. A classic of American frontier literature.More editions of The Oregon Trail:
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The Origin of the Universeby John D. BarrowISBN 0465053149 (0-465-05314-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of the Universe'Book summary:There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow, who has been at the cutting edge of research in this area and has written extensively about it, guides us on a journey to the beginning of time, into a world of temperatures and densities so high that we cannot recreate them in a laboratory. With new insights, Barrow draws us into the latest speculative theories about the nature of time and the inflationary universe, explains wormholes, showing how they bear upon the fact of our own existence, and considers whether there was a singularity at the inception of the universe. Here is a treatment so up-to-date and intellectually rich, deaing with ideas and speculation at the farthest frontier of science, that neither novice nor expert will want to miss what Barrow has to say. The Origin of the Universe is In the Beginning for beginnersthe latest information from a first-rate scientist and science writer.[via]More editions of The Origin of the Universe:
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Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisureby Juliet B. SchorISBN 046505434X (0-465-05434-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Personal Finance for Dummiesby Consumer DummiesISBN 0470038322 (0-470-03832-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grantby Ulysses S. GrantISBN 0486285871 (0-486-28587-1)
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The Portable Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy ParkerISBN 0517478552 (0-517-47855-2)
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Prick Up Your Earsby John LahrISBN 0520226666 (0-520-22666-6)
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematicsby John DerbyshireISBN 0452285259 (0-452-28525-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics'Book summary:Bernhard Riemann was an underdog of sorts, a malnourished son of a parson who grew up to be the author of one of mathematics' greatest problems. In Prime Obsession, John Derbyshire deals brilliantly with both Riemann's life and that problem: proof of the conjecture, "All non-trivial zeros of the zeta function have real part one-half." Though the statement itself parses as nonsense to anyone but a mathematician, Derbyshire walks readers through the decades of reasoning that led to the Riemann Hypothesis in such a way as to clear it up perfectly. Riemann himself never proved the statement, and it remains unsolved to this day. Prime Obsession offers alternating chapters of step-by-step math and a history of 19th-century European intellectual life, letting readers take a breather between chunks of well-written information. Derbyshire's style is accessible but not dumbed-down, thorough but not heavy-handed. This is among the best popular treatments of an obscure mathematical idea, inviting readers to explore the theory without insisting on page after page of formulae.
In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who could prove the Riemann Hypothesis, but luminaries like David Hilbert, G.H. Hardy, Alan Turing, André Weil, and Freeman Dyson have all tried before. Will the Riemann Hypothesis ever be proved? "One day we shall know," writes Derbyshire, and he makes the effort seem very worthwhile. --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics:
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The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Phisosophyby Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne WhitmanISBN 0520088174 (0-520-08817-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'Book summary:In his monumental 1687 work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our space vehicles.[via]
This completely new translation, the first in 270 years, is based on the third (1726) edition, the final revised version approved by Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms.
Newton's principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon, planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation. It set forth the fundamental three laws of motion and the law of universal gravity, the physical principles that account for the Copernican system of the world as emended by Kepler, thus effectively ending controversy concerning the Copernican planetary system.
The illuminating Guide to the Principia by I. Bernard Cohen, along with his and Anne Whitman's translation, will make this preeminent work truly accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.More editions of The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Phisosophy:
Printing Revolution Early Modern Europeby Elizabeth L. EisensteinISBN 0521258588 (0-521-25858-8)
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The Republicby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486411214 (0-486-41121-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent European thinking about these subjects owes its character, directly or indirectly, to this most famous (and most accessible) of the Platonic dialogues. Although he describes a society that looks to some like the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, in the course of his description Plato raises enduringly relevant questions about politics, art, education, and the general conduct of life.Translated by A. D. Lindsay [via]
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The Republicby John Hall, Plato, Terence IrwinISBN 0460873822 (0-460-87382-2)
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The Republic of Platoby Plato, Allan David BloomISBN 0465069347 (0-465-06934-7)
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Revelations of Divine Loveby Julian of Norwich, Roger HudlestonISBN 0486452441 (0-486-45244-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revelations of Divine Love'Book summary:One of medieval mysticism's most original works, this book was written by a 14th-century anchoress whose fervent prayers triggered intense visions. Her message of God's love written in immediate, compelling terms continues to influence modern Christian thought. This edition features both the short text and a later, more complex rendering.[via]More editions of Revelations of Divine Love:
The Secret Historyby ProcopiusISBN 0472087282 (0-472-08728-2)
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Selected Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0517227223 (0-517-22722-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:This new addition to the elegant Library of Classic Poets series features selections from one of the best-loved poets of the early twentieth century. Elegantly packaged in a handsome edition with a satin ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addition to any poetry library. From the prolific T.S. Eliot, a pioneer of modernism, here are his most groundbreaking works, including:
" "The Wasteland"
" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
" "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service" [via]More editions of Selected Poems:
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Silent Nightby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0452283671 (0-452-28367-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silent Night'Book summary:History is peppered with oddments and ironies, and one of the strangest is this. A few days before the first Christmas of that long bloodletting then called the Great War, hundreds of thousands of cold, trench-bound combatants put aside their arms and, in defiance of their orders, tacitly agreed to stop the killing in honor of the holiday.
That informal truce began with small acts: here opposing Scottish and German troops would toss newspapers, ration tins, and friendly remarks across the lines; there ambulance parties, clearing the dead from the barbwire hell of no man's land, would stop to share cigarettes and handshakes. Soon it spread, so that by Christmas Eve the armies of France, England, and Germany were serenading each other with Christmas carols and sentimental ballads and denouncing the conflict with cries of "Á bas la guerre!" and "Nie wieder Krieg!" The truce was, writes Stanley Weintraub, a remarkable episode, and, though "dismissed in official histories as an aberration of no consequence," it was so compelling that many who observed it wrote in near-disbelief to their families and hometown newspapers to report the extraordinary event.
In the end, writes Weintraub, the truce ended with a few stray bullets that escalated into total war, and that would fill the air for just shy of four more Christmases to come; further, isolated attempts at informal peacemaking would fail. But what, Weintraub wonders at the close of this inspired study, would have happened if the soldiers on both sides had refused to take up arms again? His counterfactual scenarios are intriguing, and well worth pondering. -- Gregory McNamee [via]
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Sir Isaac Newton's: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the Worldby Florian CajoriISBN 0520009274 (0-520-00927-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: Motion of Bodiesby Isaac NewtonISBN 0520009282 (0-520-00928-2)
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry An Space-Timeby Richard Feynman, Roger PenroseISBN 0465023932 (0-465-02393-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry An Space-Time'Book summary:No twentieth-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (19181988)physicist, teacher, author, and cultural icon. His autobiographies and biographies have been read and enjoyed by millions of readers around the world, while his wit and eccentricities have made him the subject of TV specials and even a theatrical film. The spectacular reception of the book and audio versions of Feynmans Six Easy Pieces (published in 1995) resulted in a worldwide clamor for More Feynman! More Feynman! The outcome is these six additional lectures, drawn from the celebrated three-volume Lectures on Physics. Though slightly more challenging than the first six, these lectures are more focused, delving into the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einsteins Theory of Relativity. No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einsteins discovery of relativity. The notions that the flow of time is not a constant, that the mass of an object depends on its velocity, and that the speed of light is a constant no matter what the motion of the observer, at first seemed shocking to scientists and laymen alike. But, as Feynman shows so clearly and so entertainingly in the lectures chosen for this volume, these crazy notions are no mere dry principles of physics, but are things of beauty and elegance. No onenot even Einstein himselfexplained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Richard Feynman.[via]More editions of Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry An Space-Time:
Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucasby Dale PollockISBN 0517546779 (0-517-54677-9)
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experienceby William BlakeISBN 0486270513 (0-486-27051-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience'Book summary:Two classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable corruption by a harsh and unjust world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience:
Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officerby Peter WrightISBN 0517014378 (0-517-01437-8)
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Stephen Hawking : A Life in Scienceby Michael James Denham White, John GribbinISBN 0452269881 (0-452-26988-1)
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Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Backby Jim HightowerISBN 0452285658 (0-452-28565-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back'Book summary:Author, populist, and radio commentator Jim Hightower is nothing if not direct. In Thieves in High Places, Hightower lambastes the current American power structure and exhorts his readers to fight against it. Hightower's indignation runs deep in this "us versus them" exposé of corporate malfeasance, governmental abuse, the militarization of American society, and the Bush administration's empire building. In the first part of the book, Hightower illustrates how the Bush administration and Congress work with major corporations (including our nation's vast media conglomerates) to add to their obscene wealth at the expense of America's working class, our environment, and (most lamentably) our rights and liberties. "The elites have pulled off a slow-motion coup, radically wrenching America's power balance from a people's democracy to Kleptocrat Nation."
Hightower defines "Kleptocrat Nation" as "a body of people ruled by thieves...a government characterized by the practice of transferring money and power from the many to the few...[and] a ruling class of moneyed elites that usurps liberty, justice, sovereignty, and other, democratic rights from the people." His catalogue of corporate greed and governmental complicity is breathtaking in scope, and though he admits that the fusion of business and government is not new, he persuasively states that "never have so few done so much for so few." Unfortunately, Hightower's serious message is delivered in such a "down home" style, it may lose its impact on the more brainy among us. Also, one wishes there were more documentation for the copious examples and facts in the book. Still, Hightower's call to action is sincere, and his descriptions of the triumphs of average people over corporate power might give some fledgling activists some hope. Thieves in High Places urges Americans to reclaim control of our government--Hightower thinks we can with community organization and grass-roots movements. However, judging from his description of the current power structure, we are going to need all the help we can get. -- Silvana Tropea [via]More editions of Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back:
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusby Ludwig Wittgenstein, C.K. OgdenISBN 0486404455 (0-486-40445-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'Book summary:In this 1921 opus, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis. Beginning with the principles of symbolism, the author applies his theories to traditional philosophy, and more. Introduction by Bertrand Russell.[via]More editions of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus:
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A Treatise of Human Natureby David Hume, Robert Stecker, John P. Wright, Gary FullerISBN 0460882244 (0-460-88224-4)
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452273404 (0-452-27340-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two or Three Things I Know for Sure'Book summary:Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.[via]
Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.
As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.More editions of Two or Three Things I Know for Sure:
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Uncommon Groundsby Mark PendergrastISBN 0465054676 (0-465-05467-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncommon Grounds'Book summary:Since its discovery in an Ethiopian rainforest centuries ago, coffee has brewed up a rich and troubled history, according to Uncommon Grounds, a sweeping book by business writer Mark Pendergrast. Over the years, the beverage has fomented revolution, spurred deforestation, enriched a few while impoverishing the many, and addicted millions with its psychoactive caffeine. Coffee is now the world's second most valuable legal commodity, behind oil, according to Pendergrast, who is also author of For God, Country, and Coca-Cola.
"A good cup of coffee can turn the worst day tolerable, can provide an all-important moment of contemplation, can rekindle a romance," he writes. "And yet, poetic as its taste may be, coffee's history is rife with controversy and politics." For example, coffee bankrolled Idi Amin's genocidal regime in Uganda and the Sandinistas' revolution in Nicaragua. Uncommon Grounds provides some fascinating tidbits. Did you know that coffeehouses helped spawn the French and American revolutions? Or that coffee supplanted alcohol as a favorite breakfast drink in Britain in the late 1600s, and later became a patriotic American beverage after the Boston Tea Party? Pendergrast also details the rise and fall of regional coffee brands in the United States, the role of advertising in the industry, the global economic impact of coffee prices, and the recent emergence of specialty-coffee retailers--Starbucks, for example. Finally, he explores the social and environmental ramifications of coffee and highlights recent attempts to encourage a livable wage and environmental protection in coffee-producing nations such as Brazil. Pendergrast also includes an appendix on "how to brew the perfect cup." This wide-ranging book is a good read for those curious about the history and context behind that morning cup of coffee, as well as for those strictly interested in the business side of the industry. --Dan Ring [via]
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Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Surveyby Alison GernsheimISBN 0486242056 (0-486-24205-6)
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Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactualsby Niall FergusonISBN 0465023231 (0-465-02323-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals'Book summary:This meaty, scholarly collection of essays by gifted historian Niall Ferguson tackles the controversial topic of counterfactual questions: What if Hitler had invaded Britain in WWII? What if JFK had survived his assassination? What if there had been no Gorbachev to usher in the collapse of Communism? What if there had been no American Revolution? Ferguson points out that while questions such as these are a vital part of how we learn as individuals ("What if I had observed the speed limit, or refused that last drink?"), there remains a great deal of resistance--even hostility--to such musings among professional historians. "[I]n the dismissive phrase of E.H. Carr, 'counterfactual' history is a mere 'parlour game,' a 'red herring.'" E.P. Thompson is less charitable, calling counterfactual histories "'Geschichtswissenschlopff', unhistorical shit."
But Ferguson and his distinguished collaborators (many of whom are also Oxford fellows) lodge some convincing counterfactuals of their own to counter this arguably blinkered notion, this "idea that events are in some way preprogrammed, so that what was, had to be." In addition to the what-ifs above, Ferguson and his comrades tackle eight questions in all, including "What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War?", "What if Home Rule had been enacted [in Ireland] in 1912?", and "What if Britain had 'stood aside' in August 1914?" Virtual History makes for a stimulating and intellectually rigorous trip, with Ferguson's own delightful afterword as the collection's crowning jewel, a brilliant--and often bitingly clever--timeline tying together all the threads from 1646 to 1996. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The World of Order and Organization : How Things are Arranged into Hierarchies, Structures and Pecking Ordersby Barbara Ann KipferISBN 0517208687 (0-517-20868-7)
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