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13th Gen : Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?by William Strauss, Neil Howe, Ian Williams, R. J. MatsonISBN 0679743650 (0-679-74365-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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About Lookingby John BergerISBN 0679736557 (0-679-73655-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Age of Reasonby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0679738959 (0-679-73895-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reason'Book summary:The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense. [via]
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America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbusby Frederick E. Hoxie, Alvin M. JosephyISBN 0679743375 (0-679-74337-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus'Book summary:When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, spoke as many as two thousand different languages, and lived in groups that varied from small bands of hunter-gatherers to the sophisticated and dazzling empires of the Incas and Aztecs. This brilliantly detailed and documented volume brings together essays by fifteen leading scholars field to present a comprehensive and richly evocative portrait of Native American life on the eve of Columbus's first landfall.
Developed at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin M. Josehpy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable work that combines the insights of historians, anthropologists, and students of art, religion, and folklore. Its dozens of illustrations, drawn from largely from the rare books and manuscripts housed at the Newberry Library, open a window on worlds flourished in the Americas five hundred years ago. [via]More editions of America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus:
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photosby John BergerISBN 0679736565 (0-679-73656-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Art of Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0679734031 (0-679-73403-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Fiction'Book summary:This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writersand will continue to do so for many years to come.
John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardners lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topicsfrom the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardners book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to writer should begin here. [via]More editions of The Art of Fiction:
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As I Lay Dyingby William FaulknerISBN 067973225X (0-679-73225-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Lay Dying'Book summary:Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see. [via]
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The Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Skyby Mark R. ChartrandISBN 067973354X (0-679-73354-X)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf
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A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy: Seventy-One Basic Economic Concepts That Will Change the Way You See the Worldby Randy Charles EppingISBN 0679736719 (0-679-73671-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bernard Shaw Vol. 2: The Pursuit of Power (1898-1918)by Michael HolroydISBN 0679731326 (0-679-73132-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Black Iceby Lorene CaryISBN 0679737456 (0-679-73745-6)
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Black Women in White America: A Documentary Historyby Gerda LernerISBN 0679743146 (0-679-74314-6)
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Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fameby Benita EislerISBN 0679740856 (0-679-74085-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame'Book summary:"Obscured by the freedom fighter, fashion leader, fallen angel, and literary bad boy, Byron the great poet has tended to be forgotten," writes Benita Eisler in the closing chapter of her monumental biography, which goes a long way toward depicting George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) in a more balanced fashion. Even in his own era, when the first edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage sold out in three days, whispers of incest, homosexuality, and--far worse in Tory England--political radicalism grew so insistent that they drove Byron out of his homeland. Eisler's comprehensive narrative does ample justice to the impassioned love affairs that made him notorious, from his voluptuous half-sister, Augusta Leigh, to the erratic and vengeful Lady Caroline Lamb, who famously described him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Let's face it, those juicy stories are half the reason we want to read about Byron, but Eisler gives us the other half, too, reminding her readers with lengthy quotes and intelligent exegesis that Don Juan is one of the greatest poems in English, and Byron one of the most influential and important poets. Her impeccably researched text is lucid about Byron's beliefs, candid about his faults, and persuasively ardent about his genius. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Civil War: An Illustrated Historyby Geoffrey C. WardISBN 0679742778 (0-679-74277-8)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Civil War Dictionaryby Mark Mayo BoatnerISBN 0679733922 (0-679-73392-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003by Kevin StarrISBN 0679740724 (0-679-74072-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Coming Out : An Anthology of International Gay and Lesbian Writingsby Stephan LikoskyISBN 0679740546 (0-679-74054-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Crime and Punishmentby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679734503 (0-679-73450-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Anthony Burgess, Edmond RostandISBN 0679734139 (0-679-73413-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dead Certaintiesby Simon SchamaISBN 0679736131 (0-679-73613-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Certainties'Book summary:Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination. [via]
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Dictionary of Contemporary Slangby Tony ThorneISBN 0679737065 (0-679-73706-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Aim archie at the armitage brownie hound cassava dingleberries el ropo four-by-two get Chinese have the painters in idiot dancing jam sandwich kangaroo it lip service meathooks necktie party Ozzie and Harriet pearl diver quiche out rough end of the pineapple surfboard tray-bits under velcrohead write one's name on the lawn x-rated yodel in the canyon zippersniffer.
There is a linguistic riot going on the English-speaking world over, in the form of energetic, informal speech, extraordinary for its wit, quirkiness, and biting satire. The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the most comprehensive guide to slang, gathers more than 5,000 colloquialisms, puns, similes, metaphors, and double entendres -- from sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll; to fads, fashion, and cults; to taboos, obscenities, and euphemisms -- that have enriched our language for the past forty years. Most entries have multiple definitions that are enlivened by examples of usage. [via]More editions of Dictionary of Contemporary Slang:
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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of Chinaby Sterling Seagrave, Peggy SeagraveISBN 0679733698 (0-679-73369-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Emperor's Last Islandby Julia BlackburnISBN 0679739378 (0-679-73937-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ernie's America: The Best of Ernie Pyle's 1930's Travel Dispatchesby David NicholsISBN 0679731776 (0-679-73177-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Every Employee's Guide to the Law : Everything You Need to Know about Your Rights in the Workplace - And What to Do If They Are Violatedby Joel, Lewin G., IIIISBN 0679743235 (0-679-74323-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independenceby Bernard BailynISBN 0679736239 (0-679-73623-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Societyby John Edgar WidemanISBN 0679737510 (0-679-73751-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Federico Garcia Lorca : A Lifeby Ian GibsonISBN 0679731571 (0-679-73157-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0679731369 (0-679-73136-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'Book summary:Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot, anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself?
On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple, where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale."
What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian confrere--soon devolves into something obscure and worrisome, the exploration of an arcane Braithwaite obsession that is perhaps even pathological. The first hint we have that all is not as it seems comes almost halfway into the book, when after a humorously cantankerous account of the inadequacies of literary critics, Braithwaite closes a chapter by saying, "Now do you understand why I hate critics? I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment; but they are far too discoloured with rage." And from that point, things just get more and more curious, until they end in the most unexpected bang.
One passage perhaps best describes the overall effect of this extraordinary story: "You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally, you would say that it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string." Julian Barnes demonstrates that it is possible to catch quite an interesting fish no matter how you define the net. --Andrew Himes [via]
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Freud's Vienna and Other Essaysby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0679731881 (0-679-73188-1)
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The Geography of the Imagination : Forty Essaysby Guy DavenportISBN 0679738592 (0-679-73859-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Georgia O'Keeffe : One Hundred Flowersby Georgia O'KeeffeISBN 067973323X (0-679-73323-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Getting Stronger: Weight Training for Men and Women Sports Training, General Conditioning, Bodybuildingby Bill Pearl, Gary T. MoranISBN 0679732691 (0-679-73269-1)
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Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 0679732411 (0-679-73241-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gift from the Sea'Book summary:In this inimitable, beloved classic-graceful, lucid and lyrical-Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh's musings on the shape of a woman's life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. And by recording her thoughts during a brief escape from everyday demands, she helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives.With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking, best-selling work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers. With a new introduction by Lindbergh's daughter Reeve, this fiftieth-anniversary edition will give those who are revisiting the book and those who are coming upon it for the first time fresh insight into the life of this remarkable woman.The sea and the beach are elements that have been woven throughout Anne Morrow Lindbergh's life. She spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in 1929, she accompanied him on his survey flights around the North Atlantic to launch the first transoceanic airlines. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books and raised their family. [via]
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The Glenn Gould Readerby Glenn GouldISBN 0679731350 (0-679-73135-0)
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God & the American Writerby Alfred KazinISBN 0679733418 (0-679-73341-8)
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The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwestby Timothy EganISBN 0679734856 (0-679-73485-6)
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Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Cultureby Frank R. WilsonISBN 0679740473 (0-679-74047-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture'Book summary:The hand is, among other things, a complex symbol, representing both the creative and the prosaic. This blending of the spiritual and the mundane is what makes the hand unique, as it in turn makes us unique among animals. Neurologist Frank R. Wilson has taken on a heroic task: to explain the hand on both of these levels and to show us how we use these marvelous instruments to find and create meaning in our lives.
Anthropology, neuroscience, music, and puppetry all figure prominently in The Hand, which effortlessly guides the reader through its million-year biography. Brains and thumbs growing and changing to accommodate each other, discovering tools and language together, kicked us out of the monkey house for good. While there is still controversy over whether we are the brainiest animals on the planet, it is abundantly clear that we are the handiest.
This manipulative ability is our greatest strength and our most terrible flaw. Without hands we would have no Louvre but also no nerve gas. But, Wilson says, our situation is more complex. Our access to far greater means to achieve our ends gives us a greater hunger for meaning. We long to use our hands to satisfy our needs--whether spiritual or down-to-earth. This creation of meaning from nothing may be our greatest achievement. In the end, The Hand is brightly optimistic, showing that our reach truly does exceed our grasp. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Heart and Blood: Living With Deer in Americaby Richard NelsonISBN 0679736867 (0-679-73686-7)
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Hole in the Sky: A Memoirby William KittredgeISBN 0679740066 (0-679-74006-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939by Donald C. WattISBN 0679730931 (0-679-73093-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapterby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0679742441 (0-679-74244-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter'Book summary:New Edition: With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life careA runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones.Shewin Nuland's masterful How We Die is even more relevant than when it was first published. [via]
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Idiom's Delight: Fascinating Phrases and Linguistic Eccentricities Spanish-French-Italian-Latinby Suzanne BrockISBN 0679734104 (0-679-73410-4)
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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prisonby Jack Henry AbbottISBN 0679732373 (0-679-73237-3)
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In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Headsby George JohnsonISBN 0679737596 (0-679-73759-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Ageby Barry SandersISBN 0679742859 (0-679-74285-9)
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James A. Michener's Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishingby James A. MichenerISBN 0679741267 (0-679-74126-7)
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Last Places : A Journey in the Northby Lawrence MillmanISBN 0679734562 (0-679-73456-2)
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Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky-His Life and Legacyby Sanford D. HorwittISBN 067973418X (0-679-73418-X)
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Looking for Osman : One Man's Travels Through the Paradox of Modern Turkeyby Eric LawlorISBN 0679738223 (0-679-73822-3)
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Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendmentby Anthony LewisISBN 0679739394 (0-679-73939-4)
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Makes Me Wanna Hollerby Nathan McCallISBN 0679740708 (0-679-74070-8)
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The Map Catalog : Every Kind of Map and Chart on Earth and Even Some above Itby Joel MakowerISBN 0679742573 (0-679-74257-3)
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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonyby Roberto Calasso, Tim ParksISBN 0679733485 (0-679-73348-5)
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679739742 (0-679-73974-2)
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Me: Stories of My Lifeby Katharine HepburnISBN 067974245X (0-679-74245-X)
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A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year
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Memoirsby Andrei D. SakharovISBN 067973595X (0-679-73595-X)
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Metaphor and Memoryby Cynthia OzickISBN 0679734252 (0-679-73425-2)
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Migrations to Solitudeby Sue HalpernISBN 0679742417 (0-679-74241-7)
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The Mind of the Southby Wilbur Joseph CashISBN 0679736476 (0-679-73647-6)
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Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"by Alan LomaxISBN 0679740643 (0-679-74064-3)
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The Mountain of Names: A History of the Human Familyby Alex ShoumatoffISBN 0679731903 (0-679-73190-3)
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A Natural History of the Sensesby Diane AckermanISBN 0679735666 (0-679-73566-6)
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The Neanderthals: Changing the Image of Mankindby Erik TrinkausISBN 0679732993 (0-679-73299-3)
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The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons/Miniature EditionISBN 067974276X (0-679-74276-X)
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No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congoby Redmond O'HanlonISBN 0679737324 (0-679-73732-4)
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Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer--an American friend and animal behaviorist, a man of imperfect health and brave decency--he enters the unmapped swamp-forests of the People's Republic of the Congo, in search of a dinosaur rumored to have survived in a remote prehistoric lake.
The flora and fauna of the Congo are unrivalled, and with matchless passion O'Hanlon describes scores of rare and fascinating animals: eagles and parrots, gorillas and chimpanzees, swamp antelope and forest elephants. But as he was repeatedly warned, the night belongs to Africa, and threats both natural (cobras, crocodiles, lethal insects) and supernatural (from all-powerful sorcerers to Samalé, a beast whose three-clawed hands rip you across the back) make this a saga of much fear and trembling. Omnipresent too are ecological depredations, political and tribal brutality, terrible illness and unnecessary suffering among the forest pygmies, and an appalling waste of human life throughout this little-explored region.
An elegant, disturbing and deeply compassionate evocation of a vanishing world, extraordinary in its depth, scope and range of characters, No Mercy is destined to become a landmark work of travel, adventure and natural history. A quest for the meaning of magic and the purpose of religion, and a celebration of the comforts and mysteries of science, it is also--and above all--a powerful guide to the humanity that prevails even in the very heart of darkness.
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Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoplesby Howard NormanISBN 0679740368 (0-679-74036-8)
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard PevearISBN 067973452X (0-679-73452-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevskys most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of mans essentially irrational nature.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
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The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Bookby Angela CarterISBN 0679740376 (0-679-74037-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book'Book summary:Fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour created our world."
-- From the Introduction
There was a time when fairy tales weren't meant just for children -- they were part of an oral folklore tradition passed down through generations. This volume of sixty enchanting and enduring tales, collected by master storyteller Angela Carter, revives the industry, eccentricity, spirit, and worldly wisdom of women in preindustrial times. Drawn from narrative traditions all around the world -- from ancient Swahili legends to Appalachian tall tales to European spirit stories and more -- these tales together comprise a unique feminine mythology.
Angela Carter (1940-1992) was widely known for her novels, short stories, and journalism. Her many books include The Magic Toy Shop, The Sadeian Woman, Nights at the Circus, Fireworks, and Saints and Strangers. [via]More editions of The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book:
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U. S. Governmentby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0679737898 (0-679-73789-8)
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Passions of the Mind: Selected Writingsby A. S. ByattISBN 0679736786 (0-679-73678-6)
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The Photographer's Handbookby John HedgecoeISBN 0679742042 (0-679-74204-2)
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The Plumed Serpentby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0679734937 (0-679-73493-7)
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Possessionby A. S. ByattISBN 0679735909 (0-679-73590-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Possession'Book summary:National Bestseller Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire-from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. [via]
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed Americaby Nicholas LemannISBN 0679733477 (0-679-73347-7)
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The Question of Palestineby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679739882 (0-679-73988-2)
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The Random House Book of Perennials 2 vols.: Late Perennialsby Roger Phillips, Martyn E. RixISBN 0679737987 (0-679-73798-7)
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The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Propheciesby Robert B. ReichISBN 0679731520 (0-679-73152-0)
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The Riverkeeperby Alec WilkinsonISBN 0679741348 (0-679-74134-8)
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The Road to San Giovanniby Italo CalvinoISBN 0679743480 (0-679-74348-0)
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The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Musicby Holly George-Warren, Anthony Decurtis, James Henke, Jim MillerISBN 0679737286 (0-679-73728-6)
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The Russian Revolutionby Richard PipesISBN 0679736603 (0-679-73660-3)
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Sambaby Alma GuillermoprietoISBN 067973256X (0-679-73256-X)
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Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompsonby Robert PolitoISBN 0679733523 (0-679-73352-3)
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Selected Poemsby Mark StrandISBN 0679733019 (0-679-73301-9)
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essaysby Camille PagliaISBN 0679741011 (0-679-74101-1)
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Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneoby Tracy JohnstonISBN 0679740104 (0-679-74010-4)
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So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayasby Barbara CrossetteISBN 0679743634 (0-679-74363-4)
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The Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 0679732241 (0-679-73224-1)
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If Benjy's section is the most daringly experimental, Jason's is the most harrowing. "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say," he begins, lacing into Caddy's illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character.
Notoriously "difficult," The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkner's more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis:
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis' voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo.
What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secures his place in what Edmund Wilson called "the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust." --David Laskin [via]More editions of The Sound and the Fury:
The Success and Failure of Picassoby John BergerISBN 0679737251 (0-679-73725-1)
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Toujours Provenceby Peter MayleISBN 0679736042 (0-679-73604-2)
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Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledgeby Mike BryanISBN 0679742654 (0-679-74265-4)
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The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europeby Timothy Garton AshISBN 0679731997 (0-679-73199-7)
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Voyage to the Great Attractor : Exploring Intergalactic Spaceby Alan DresslerISBN 0679732985 (0-679-73298-5)
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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Familyby Ron ChernowISBN 0679743596 (0-679-74359-6)
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Woody Allen : A Biographyby Eric LaxISBN 0679738479 (0-679-73847-9)
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Word Smart II: How to Build a More Educated Vocabularyby Adam Robinson, Princeton ReviewISBN 0679738630 (0-679-73863-0)
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