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The $50 Dinner Party : 26 Dinner Parties That Won't Break Your Bank, Your Back, or Your Scheduleby Sally SampsonISBN 0684842289 (0-684-84228-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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9 1/2 Mystics: The Kabbala Todayby Herbert WeinerISBN 0684843250 (0-684-84325-0)
Softcover, Collier Books
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About Glamourby Len PrinceISBN 0684836238 (0-684-83623-8)
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0684842378 (0-684-84237-8)
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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down : Kentucky, Texas Western, and the Game That Changed American Sportsby Frank FitzpatrickISBN 0684835517 (0-684-83551-7)
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And the Waters Turned to Blood: The Ultimate Biological Threatby Rodney BarkerISBN 0684838451 (0-684-83845-1)
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Angela's Ashesby Frank McCourtISBN 068484267X (0-684-84267-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angela's Ashes'Book summary:"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy-exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling-does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors-yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance, and remarkable forgiveness.
Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. [via]
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The Assassination of the Black Male Imageby Earl Ofari HutchinsonISBN 0684836572 (0-684-83657-2)
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Becoming a Grandmother: A Life in Transitionby Sheila KitzingerISBN 068483538X (0-684-83538-X)
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Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury 1965-1970by Barney HoskynsISBN 0684841800 (0-684-84180-0)
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The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your Succulent Wild Lifeby SarkISBN 0684833778 (0-684-83377-8)
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I wish for this book to free the part of your soul that longs to write epic novels, recite Yeats by heart, play a musical instrument by magic, or perform in a play about your life that you create and design. Most of all, I want this book to give you a boost up over the fence that prevents you from moving forward and inward. [via]
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Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholderby David QuammenISBN 0684837285 (0-684-83728-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder'Book summary:David Quammen, a highly regarded popular-science writer (Song of the Dodo) and novelist, brings a range of qualities to his work as an interpreter of nature: a journalist's talent for finding a good story and telling it well, a scholar's conviction that facts matter, and an amateur naturalist's passion for learning about the way things work. For 15 years, Quammen put these qualities to good use in his Outside magazine column "Natural Acts." The Boilerplate Rhino gathers 26 of those columns between book covers, and to good purpose: every one of them is a keeper. Quammen writes of such matters as the entirely reasonable human fear of spiders (which he shares) and snakes (which he does not); of the work of such groundbreaking theoreticians and thinkers as E.O. Wilson and Henry David Thoreau; of the history of American lawns; the life of the durian fruit; the commodification of nature by way of television documentaries; the strange scholarly fortunes of Tyrannosaurus rex; and the landing patterns of cats in free fall. (Really.) A single theme underpins these scattered pieces: namely, how humans "in all their variousness, regard and react to the natural world, in all its variousness." Quammen explores this theme with good cheer and hard-won knowledge, and his essays teach his readers much about the world. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Born for Liberty: A History of Women in Americaby Sara M. EvansISBN 0684834987 (0-684-83498-7)
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Boundariesby Maya LinISBN 0684834170 (0-684-83417-0)
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Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humansby Lee A. DugatkinISBN 0684843412 (0-684-84341-2)
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Churchill: An Unruly Lifeby Rose NormanISBN 0684840340 (0-684-84034-0)
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Clara : A Novelby Janice GallowayISBN 0684844494 (0-684-84449-4)
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The Color Code: A New Way to See Yourself, Your Relationships, and Lifeby Taylor HartmanISBN 0684843765 (0-684-84376-5)
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economyby Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawISBN 068483569X (0-684-83569-X)
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Compassion and Self-Hate: An Alternative to Despairby Theodore Isaac RubinISBN 0684841991 (0-684-84199-1)
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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitorsby Michael E. PorterISBN 0684841487 (0-684-84148-7)
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More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors,, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing.
Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century. [via]
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The Conservative Revolution : The Movement That Remade America from Robert Taft to Newt Gingrichby Lee EdwardsISBN 0684835002 (0-684-83500-2)
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Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intelby Albert YuISBN 0684839881 (0-684-83988-1)
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckettby James KnowlsonISBN 0684836580 (0-684-83658-0)
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Dangerous Summerby Ernest Hemingway, James A. MichenerISBN 0684837897 (0-684-83789-7)
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Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-Eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Spaceby Michael R. TaylorISBN 0684841916 (0-684-84191-6)
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The De-Voicing of Society: Why We Don't Talk to Each Other Anymoreby John L. LockeISBN 0684843331 (0-684-84333-1)
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Deadly Feastsby Richard RhodesISBN 0684844257 (0-684-84425-7)
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Death: The Final Stage of Growthby Elisabeth Kubler-RossISBN 0684839415 (0-684-83941-5)
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Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept the death of a person close to us? How can we prepare for our own death?
Drawing on our own and other cultures' views of death and dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross provides some illuminating answers to these and other questions. She offers a spectrum of viewpoints, including those of ministers, rabbis, doctors, nurses, and sociologists, and the personal accounts of those near death and of their survivors.
Once we come to terms with death as a part of human development, the author shows, death can provide us with a key to the meaning of human existence. [via]
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Deeper: Adventures on the Netby John SeabrookISBN 0684838737 (0-684-83873-7)
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Discover What You're Best at: The National Career Aptitude System and Career Directoryby Barry GaleISBN 0684839563 (0-684-83956-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discover What You're Best at: The National Career Aptitude System and Career Directory'Book summary:Take the test -- and find the right career for you. Join the ranks of the more than half-million people who have discovered their true talents and made successful career choices with discover what you're best at. Now this bestselling career guide has been revised for the twenty-first century, including valuable new information on the skills in demand in electronic communications, medical technology, and other high-tech fields. The book's unique national career aptitude system enables you to identify not only your interests but also your innate talents and potential skills, and then to match your career strengths to dozens of the more than 1,100 jobs described in detail. Discover what you're best at enables you to set realistic and rewarding career goals based on your abilities. It gives you the edge you need to take on the job market and succeed in your chosen career. Discover what you're best at will help you: save money -- possibly thousands of dollars -- by heading you in the proper career direction before you choose a school or a course of study save time -- by allowing you to tailor your curriculum to your career objectives, without resorting to trial-and-error course samplings set realistic goals -- why be an office administrator when your interpersonal skills make you a natural for sales? learn about new areas -- with more than 1,100 career possibilities listed and described in detail, you could easily discover that you have an interest in and aptitude for an exciting position you never knew existed. Discover what you're best at could put you well on your way to success. It's the only career resource you'll ever need [via]
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The Division of Labor in Societyby Emile Durkheim, Lewis Coser, W.D. HallsISBN 0684836386 (0-684-83638-6)
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Dog Eat Dog: A Very Human Book About Dogs and Dog Showsby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0684838923 (0-684-83892-3)
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Dr. Atkins' Quick and Easy New Diet Cookbookby Robert C. Atkins, Veronica C. AtkinsISBN 0684837013 (0-684-83701-3)
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Lifeby Joseph LedouxISBN 0684836599 (0-684-83659-9)
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Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationshipsby Marianne WilliamsonISBN 068484219X (0-684-84219-X)
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The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Natureby I. Prigogine, Isabelle StengersISBN 0684837056 (0-684-83705-6)
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Engines of Tomorrow: How the World's Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs to Win the Futureby Robert BuderiISBN 0684839008 (0-684-83900-8)
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Ernie Pyle's War : America's Eyewitness to World War IIby James TobinISBN 0684836424 (0-684-83642-4)
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Fanny Kemble's Civil Warsby Catherine ClintonISBN 0684844141 (0-684-84414-1)
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Forgotten Heroesby Susan WareISBN 0684843757 (0-684-84375-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgotten Heroes'Book summary:Historians and biographers regularly come across stories of little-known or forgotten heroes, and this book provides a chance to rescue some of the best of them. In Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five of the country's leading historians recount their favorite stories of underappreciated Americans. From Stephen Jay Gould on deaf baseball player Dummy Hoy; to William Leuchtenburg on the truth behind the legendary Johnny Appleseed; to Christine Stansell on Margaret Anderson, who published James Joyce's Ulysses; these portraits can be read equally for delight, instruction, and inspiration. Forgotten Heroes includes nearly as many women as men, and nearly as many people from before 1900 as after. It expands the traditional definition of hero to encompass not only military figures and politicians who took risks for great causes, but also educators, religious leaders, reformers, labor leaders, publishers, athletes, and even a man who started a record company. [via]
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Fortune Is a River : Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine Historyby Roger D. MastersISBN 0684844524 (0-684-84452-4)
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Machiavelli and da Vinci devised a hydrological plan for the river that was extraordinarily promising, at least on paper. The flood-prone Arno, however, made the task an impossible challenge. The pair's chances of success were further reduced by poor design, bad timing, and undisciplined workers. Their failure brought official disfavor on Machiavelli and da Vinci alike. Leonardo transferred his studio to Milan and then Rome, where he would produce remarkable work, while Machiavelli retreated from public life for a time and used his forced leisure to write The Prince. Roger Masters crafts an epic tale out of a historical footnote. Although some of his conclusions are speculative in regards to Niccolò's and Leonardo's relationship, readers will likely find his narrative persuasive and deeply informed. [via]
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The Fragile Speciesby Lewis ThomasISBN 0684843021 (0-684-84302-1)
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Green Hills of Africaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 068484463X (0-684-84463-X)
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-- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip," the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement.
Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's classic travelogues. [via]
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Hugh Johnson's Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine 1998by Hugh JohnsonISBN 0684843803 (0-684-84380-3)
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Hungry Ghosts : Mao's Secret Famineby Jasper BeckerISBN 068483457X (0-684-83457-X)
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I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depressionby Terrence RealISBN 0684835398 (0-684-83539-8)
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I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Livesby Ellen Goodman, Patricia O'BrienISBN 0684842874 (0-684-84287-4)
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In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Wantby Iyanla VanzantISBN 0684841363 (0-684-84136-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want'Book summary:What is the meantime? According to author and inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant, being in the "meantime" means being in a state of limbo. "When you are not happy where you are and you are not quite sure if you want to leave or how to leave, you are in the meantime," she explains. Rather than wallow in confusion, Vanzant encourages you to use the meantime as an opportunity to prepare yourself for true love. The first order of business is to clean house, starting with the basement--the place in the psyche where you store your most destructive thoughts. Room by room, Vanzant takes you through a metaphorical cleaning of the soul. This way, when your meantime days are over and love finally comes knocking on the front door, you'll have a clean house to welcome love into. [via]
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The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolutionby Robert BuderiISBN 0684835290 (0-684-83529-0)
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The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Pastby Keith WindschuttleISBN 0684844451 (0-684-84445-1)
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Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the 30-Year Patent Warby Nick TaylorISBN 0684835150 (0-684-83515-0)
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Left Back : A Century of Failed School Reformsby Diane RavitchISBN 0684844176 (0-684-84417-6)
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Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civilby Thomas Hobbes, Michael Joseph OakeshottISBN 0684842955 (0-684-84295-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil'Book summary:Your most worthy Brother Mr SIDNEY GODOLPHIN, when he lived, was pleas'd to think my studies something, and otherwise to oblige me, as you know, with reall testimonies of his good opinion, great in themselves, and the greater for the worthinesse of his person. For there is not any vertue that disposeth a man, either to the service of God, or to the service of his Country, to Civill Society, or private Friendship, that did not manifestly appear in his conversation, not as acquired by necessity, or affected upon occasion, but inhaerent, and shining in a generous constitution of his nature. Therefore in honour and gratitude to him, and with devotion to your selfe, I humbly Dedicate unto you this my discourse of Common-wealth. I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favour it. For in a way beset with those that contend on one side for too great Liberty, and on the other side for too much Authority, 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded. But yet, me thinks, the endeavour to advance the Civill Power, should not be by the Civill Power condemned; nor private men, by reprehending it, declare they think that Power too great. Besides, I speak not of the men, but (in the Abstract) of the Seat of Power, (like to those simple and unpartiall creatures in the Roman Capitol, that with their noyse defended those within it, not because they were they, but there) offending none, I think, but those without, or such within (if there be any such) as favour them. That which perhaps may most offend, are certain Texts of Holy Scripture, alledged by me to other purpose than ordinarily they use to be by others. But I have done it with due submission, and also (in order to my Subject) necessarily; for they are the Outworks of the Enemy, from whence they impugne the Civill Power. If notwithstanding this, you find my labour generally decryed, you may be pleased to excuse your selfe, and say that I am a man that love my own opinions, and think all true I say, that I honoured your Brother, and honour you, and have presum'd on that, to assume the Title (without your knowledge) of being, as I am,
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Lost Discoveries : The Ancient Roots of Modern Science: From the Babylonians to the Mayaby Dick TeresiISBN 0684837188 (0-684-83718-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Discoveries : The Ancient Roots of Modern Science: From the Babylonians to the Maya'Book summary:Did Nicolas Copernicus steal his notion that the earth orbited the sun from an Islamic astronomer who lived three centuries earlier? "The jury is still out," writes Dick Teresi, whose intriguing survey of the non-Western roots of modern science offers several worthy arguments that Copernicus in fact ripped off Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Common belief is that Westerners have been the mainspring of most scientific and technical achievement, but in Lost Discoveries Teresi shows that other cultures had arrived at much of the same knowledge at earlier dates. The Babylonians were using the Pythagorean theorem at least 15 centuries before Pythagoras drew his first triangle, and in A.D. 200 a Chinese mathematician calculated an incredibly accurate value for pi. The Mayans and other Mesoamericans were outstanding sky watchers and stargazers. The greatest advances occurred in math and astronomy, though Teresi also devotes chapters to physics, geology, chemistry, technology, and even cosmology. Sometimes he is a bit overeager to ascribe great thoughts to long-dead people (he casually suggests that "many ancient cultures had inklings of quantum theory"), but on the whole his book is a reliable and fascinating guide to the unexplored field of multicultural science. --John J. Miller [via]
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Lost Laysenby Margaret MitchellISBN 0684837684 (0-684-83768-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Laysen'Book summary:Until 1995, Gone with the Wind--the 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner and perhaps the bestselling novel of all time--was the only published work of fiction credited to Margaret Mitchell. But 45 years after her death, the Road to Tara Museum unveiled what amounts to a national treasure--a novella written by America's most beloved storyteller. Lost Laysen is an exciting tale of love and honor on a South Pacific island. A rough-edged Irish boatsman is smitten with the feisty and independent Courtenay Ross. "Charley boy, I sure did love that little woman, I couldn't help it, tho I knew I never had a chance--she wasn't my kind. I wonder why it's always the little women that appeal to us big fellows?" Courtenay is engaged to a dapper young American who loves her so much, he follows her to the remote island of Laysen to persuade her to come home. What's so remarkable about this story is that Mitchell was just 16 when she put pen to paper and wrote the entire piece in less than a month's time.
Henry Love Angel, a close friend and likely admirer, was the recipient of the two notebooks in which the manuscript for Lost Laysen was written. It was Angel's grandson who discovered the amazing treasure that had been passed down to him--a box of photographs, negatives, correspondence from Mitchell to Angel, and the manuscript. "My dear--" begins one letter. "I was so proud of you, last time I saw you--proud of your love, your courage and resignation and most of all your self confidence. Don't let it drop my dear. I have prayed so hard that you would have it because without it you can never amount to much. With it and work, the world lies ahead. If ever you begin to get discouraged and lose confidence in your self--draw on my supply for I believe in you. Just set your mark and go to it." The never-before-seen photographs show Mitchell and a variety of friends goofing for the camera. This book provides charming insight into a brief period of Mitchell's life--one full of youthful folly, exuberance, and obvious joy. [via]
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Man Is the Measure: A Cordial Invitation to the Central Problems of Philosophyby Reuben AbelISBN 068483636X (0-684-83636-X)
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Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Greatby Bob Andelman, Albert DunlapISBN 0684844060 (0-684-84406-0)
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Michael and Natasha: The Love and Life of Michael Ii, the Last of the Romanov Tsarsby Donald Crawford, Rosemary CrawfordISBN 0684834308 (0-684-83430-8)
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Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Lineby William M. AdlerISBN 068483779X (0-684-83779-X)
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The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers: The Foolish Guide to Picking Stocksby David Gardner, Tom GardnerISBN 0684844001 (0-684-84400-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers: The Foolish Guide to Picking Stocks'Book summary:For the past eight years, the U.S. stock market has been on a bull run the likes of which few have ever seen, making and breaking records almost every quarter. And for the last four of those years, David and Tom Gardner's self-described market-crushing stock portfolios have made the market's own incredible performance pale by comparison. In their third book, The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers, the brothers reveal the methodology behind their stock-picking success, which is impressive. The Rule Breaker Portfolio (formerly known as the Fool Portfolio on their Web site) has risen some 650 percent since its inception in 1994, thanks to stocks such as America Online, McAfee, and Wal-Mart, while the Rule Maker Portfolio (formerly known as the Cash King Portfolio) has risen 440 percent on the backs of investments in Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and Intel. Fans of the Motley Fool, who with luck have prospered from the Gardners' timely advice, will no doubt love Rule Breakers, Rule Makers. The book is written in their usual humorous and self-congratulatory style--not only educational, but often aimed at making the pros on Wall Street wince, as they should. However, if you're new to the Motley Fool or to stock picking in general, you may do well by first considering one of their earlier books, You Have More Than You Think and The Motley Fool Investment Guide. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Gardenby Emily Whaley, William P. BaldwinISBN 0684843870 (0-684-84387-0)
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My Husband Said He Needed More Space, So I Locked Him Outside: Reflections on Life by Womenby Cynthia Walker McCulloughISBN 0684841894 (0-684-84189-4)
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My Storyby Jeff Coplon, Sarah Ferguson, Jane ScovellISBN 0684835819 (0-684-83581-9)
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The Poemsby W. B. Yeats, Richard J. FinneranISBN 0684839350 (0-684-83935-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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.
Though this edition has been reset and revised, the changes are not as shocking as the 1984 edition, which included 100 extra pages of notes, changes in language and punctuation, and, most significantly, a redefinition of the Last Poems. Richard Finneran has had the courage to reorder the poems according to notes that Yeats made shortly before his death. Readers may be surprised to find that "Under Ben Bulben," the poet's powerful and self-mythologizing epitaph, no longer ends the collection, as it has for more than 30 years. In its place they will discover the wistful "Politics": "How can I, that girl standing there, / My attention fix / On Roman or on Russian / Or on Spanish politics..." Yet devotees of either ending will agree that this is a truly necessary volume--indeed, one of the few. As Seamus Heaney writes, "All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster." [via]
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Rick Bayless Mexico: One Plate at a Timeby Rick Bayless, Jeanmarie Brownson, Deann Groen BaylessISBN 068484186X (0-684-84186-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Bayless Mexico: One Plate at a Time'Book summary:Rick Bayless is Mexican cooking's great American voice. An award-winning chef and author of bestselling Mexican cookbooks like Authentic Mexican, he's found a way to present honest recipes in a friendly, relaxed fashion that nonetheless touches every technical base. One Plate at a Time takes his approach a step further. Bayless offers more than 120 recipes, providing traditional versions of much-loved classics like Green Chile Chicken Tamales, modern renditions of the basic repertoire, and dish "anatomies." These detail what a given dish should taste and look like, when it's best served, and how American cooks should approach its preparation. This goofproof strategy will appeal to old cooking hands and culinary gringos alike.
Ranging from soups and starters to entrees, light meals, desserts, and drinks, the chapters present a wide range of dishes, from the simple (such as guacamole, updated with roasted poblanos, garlic, and tomatoes) to the more complex (a classic red mole with turkey, for one, followed by Roasted Cornish Game Hens with Apricot-Pine Nut Mole). Other winning recipes include Seafood in Mojo de Ajo (with toasted, slow-cooked garlic), Smoky Chipotle Beans with Wilted Spinach and Masa "Gnocchi," and, for dessert, a definitive vanilla flan with instructions for preparing it in three versions: light, creamy, and rich. Throughout, recipes are followed by paragraph-long "postmortems" (is Mexican vanilla worth searching out, for instance) that further extend reader understanding. With 32 pages of color photos and an extensive glossary, the book is an inspired place to start or continue a Mexican cooking journey. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment As a Basic Human Rightby John Cronin, Robert Francis KennedyISBN 0684839083 (0-684-83908-3)
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The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxietyby Michael Scott PeckISBN 0684835614 (0-684-83561-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety'Book summary:The potential danger in this book's title is the assumption that Peck is rehashing the same material he wrote in The Road Less Traveled. Thankfully, this isn't so. Although he touches upon the same themes that appear in most everything he writes--narcissism vs. self-love and good vs. evil--Peck is clearly speaking to the crucial dilemmas of the 1990s, such as overly simplistic thinking, institutionalized racism and sexism, as well as the media's despairing vision. Now that Peck has reached the maturity of 60, his narrative is less know-it-all than in the days of yore. Yet, ironically, his decades of research, writing, and human service give him more authority than ever. [via]
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The Roaring 2000's : Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in Historyby Dent, Harry S., Jr.ISBN 0684838184 (0-684-83818-4)
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Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leaderby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0684844281 (0-684-84428-1)
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Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Fortyby Barry S. StraussISBN 0684843218 (0-684-84321-8)
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The Rules of Civility : The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peaceby Richard BrookhiserISBN 0684837234 (0-684-83723-4)
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The Run of His Life: The People vs. O. J. Simpsonby Jeffrey ToobinISBN 0684842785 (0-684-84278-5)
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Scarlett Saves Her Family: The Heart-Warming True Story of a Homeless Mother Cat Who Rescued Her Kittens from a Raging Fireby Jane Martin, Jean-Claude SuaresISBN 0684842882 (0-684-84288-2)
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The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdomby Gerald L. SchroederISBN 0684837366 (0-684-83736-6)
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Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil Warby Larry J. DanielISBN 0684838575 (0-684-83857-5)
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The Short Storiesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684837862 (0-684-83786-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Short Stories'Book summary:Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, "The Short Stories," originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris, and such masterpieces as "Hills Like White Elephants, " "The Killers, " "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, " and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Set in the varied landscapes o Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style - from the plain, bald language of his first story, "Up in Michigan, " to the seamless prose and spare, eloquent pathos of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" to the expansive solitude of the Big Two-Hearted River stories. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century. [via]
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Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Lifeby Frederic Brussat, Mary Ann BrussatISBN 0684835347 (0-684-83534-7)
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Strange Death of Vincent Fosterby Christopher RuddyISBN 0684838370 (0-684-83837-0)
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Theory of Social & Economic Organizationby Max WeberISBN 0684836408 (0-684-83640-8)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. WestISBN 0684843781 (0-684-84378-1)
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Tiger Woods: The Making of a Championby John GarrityISBN 0684844621 (0-684-84462-1)
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To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandsonby Charlton HestonISBN 0684841169 (0-684-84116-9)
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The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicamentby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0684838915 (0-684-83891-5)
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An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelmby Hannah PakulaISBN 0684842165 (0-684-84216-5)
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The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Seaby William J. Broad, Dimitry SchidlovskyISBN 0684838524 (0-684-83852-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea'Book summary:Many people realize that the ocean covers some two-thirds of the earth's surface (the actual figure is 71 percent). But as William J. Broad points out in his entrancing The Universe Below, this hardly tells the story of the sea's dominance of our planet. The world's oceans are more than two miles deep on average and, contrary to long-held views, are richly populated with life all the way to the bottom. So, in fact, the sea probably makes up something like 97 percent of all inhabited space on Earth--we surface dwellers are almost an afterthought.
"This book is about the largest unexplored part of our planet, the deep sea," writes Broad in his prologue, "and how we are illuminating its dark recesses in a rush of discovery that is shattering old myths, rescuing lost treasures, and laying bare secrets of nature hidden since the beginning of geologic time." In seven chapters, each devoted to a different aspect of deep exploration and discovery, Broad weaves together scrupulous reporting and scientific explication (he has won two Pulitzers for his science writing for the New York Times) along with history and his own personal experiences, all told in vigorous, intelligent prose that often rises to a quiet poetry. The result is one of the most enthralling science books of the decade. --Nicholas H. Allison [via]
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Varieties of Religious Experienceby William JamesISBN 0684842971 (0-684-84297-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Varieties of Religious Experience'Book summary:"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
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Way Out There in the Blueby Frances FitzGeraldISBN 0684844168 (0-684-84416-8)
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Weird Like Usby Ann PowersISBN 0684838087 (0-684-83808-7)
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What Is a Jew?by Morris N. KertzerISBN 068484298X (0-684-84298-X)
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When Someone You Love Is Depressed: How to Help Your Loved One Without Losing Yourselfby Xavier F. Amador, Laura Epstein RosenISBN 0684834073 (0-684-83407-3)
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Wine With Foodby Joanna SimonISBN 0684835223 (0-684-83522-3)
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The Winning Way : The How What and Why of Opening Strategemsby Bruce PandolfiniISBN 0684839490 (0-684-83949-0)
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Madeby Walter Isaacson, Evan ThomasISBN 0684837714 (0-684-83771-4)
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With a Happy Eye but: America and the World, 1997-2002by George F. WillISBN 0684838214 (0-684-83821-4)
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurstonby Valerie BoydISBN 0684842300 (0-684-84230-0)
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Zen Guitarby Philip Toshio SudoISBN 068483877X (0-684-83877-X)
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