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Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming Americaby Adam PertmanISBN 0465056512 (0-465-05651-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Anarchy, State, And Utopiaby Robert NozickISBN 0465051006 (0-465-05100-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anarchy, State, And Utopia'Book summary:Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement, Anarchy, State and Utopia remains one of the most theoretically trenchant and philosophically rich defenses of economic liberalism to date, as well as a foundational text in classical libertarian thought. With a new introduction by the philosopher Thomas Nagel, this revised edition will introduce Nozick and his work to a new generation of readers.[via]More editions of Anarchy, State, And Utopia:
As I Lay Dying: Meditations upon Returningby Richard John NeuhausISBN 0465049311 (0-465-04931-1)
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The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden Warby Greg Marinovich, Joao SilvaISBN 0465044131 (0-465-04413-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War'Book summary:Ask any foreign editor on a national paper what part of the job gives them the most grief, and you'll almost certainly be told, "the foreign correspondents". Almost without exception, the reporters who bring back the best stories from war zones are neurotic, dysfunctional, paranoid and almost impossible to deal with. And if The Bang-Bang Club is anything to go by, you can include war photographers in the same category. The Bang-Bang Club was the name given to four South African photo-journalists, Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Ken Oosterbroek and Kevin Carter, who made a name for themselves going into the townships to capture first-hand the violence that erupted in South Africa between ANC supporters and the predominantly Zulu Inkhata party after the release of Nelson Mandela and prior to the first democratic elections. As a guide to the different factions and as a record of brutality, the book cannot be faulted. The British media predictably only ever reported the more sensational atrocities, and The Bang-Bang Club is a potent reminder of the ever-present violence and hatred that have dominated South African life since the early 1990s. Where the authors are on shakier ground is in the analysis of their own condition. Marinovich writes of the "addiction to adrenaline" in his pursuit of the story, and we do get to hear the downside of the booze, drugs and failed relationships that were a by-product of this addiction. But though Marinovich admits to questioning his motivation in getting up close and personal to the violence, he rather lets himself and the others off the hook with the notion that everything is justified by the importance of the story. This is as maybe, but another interesting line of enquiry might have been to ask whether the photographers' sublimated their own violent urges through their work. In other words, they let the death squads act out their feelings, while still retaining a moral high ground. The Bang-Bang Club exacted a high price of membership; Oosterbroek was killed by a stray bullet, Carter committed suicide and Marinovich was badly wounded and it's certainly not a club I would have been keen to join myself. But whatever you might think of the authors' psychiatric condition, you have to give them credit for exposing the stories that other journalists refused to touch. As The Bang-Bang Club might have said, "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it." --John Crace [via]
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The Beloved Community : How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Todayby Charles MarshISBN 0465044158 (0-465-04415-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beloved Community : How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today'Book summary:Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr.- then a young minister only two years out of divinity school - declared that their common goal was not simply the end of segregation as an institution. Rather, the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the end is the creation of the beloved community. Kings words reflect the strong religious impetus behind the civil rights movement in the South in its early days. Consciously emphasizing the Judeo-Christian roots of their convictions, civil rights leaders at the time saw their ultimate purpose as building a beloved community on earth. In their quest for social justice, the radical idea of Christian love, specifically through the practice of nonviolence, would transform the social and political realities of twentieth-century America. By the end of the 1960s, that exuberant vision of the beloved community had come apart, lost to disillusionment and secular radicalism. But as noted theologian Charles Marsh shows, the same spiritual vision that animated the civil rights movement remains a vital-and growing-source of moral energy today. In moving prose, Marsh traces the history of this vision over the past four decades, from the racial reconciliation movement in American cities to the intentional communities that church groups have founded. His portraits of faith-based social justice initiatives-including Eugene Rivers Azusa Christian Community in Boston and Koinonia Farm in Georgia-offer a stark contrast to the usual media portrayal of Christian activism. Despite the odds against it, the pursuit of the beloved community continues to foster racial unity and civic responsibility in a divided American culture. With The Beloved Community, Marsh lays out a exuberant new vision for Christian progressivism, and simultaneously reclaims the centrality of faith in the quest for social justice.[via]More editions of The Beloved Community : How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today:
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumfordby Casey N. BlakeISBN 0465044166 (0-465-04416-6)
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The Birth Of The Mind: How A Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thoughtby Gary MarcusISBN 0465044069 (0-465-04406-9)
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What's amazing is how little of the overall scheme for embryonic development is special to the brain. Although thousands of genes are involved in brain development, a large number of them are shared with (or have close counterparts in) genes that guide the development of the rest of the body.
With plenty of evidence supporting the notion of multi-function "housekeeping genes," Marcus concludes that our hopes for finding single genes responsible for various brain disorders are likely unfounded. The Birth of the Mind offers an engaging and often witty look at how our genetic code can be simple enough to make basic proteins and complicated enough to help us learn languages. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addiction to Creditby Robert D. ManningISBN 0465043674 (0-465-04367-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addiction to Credit'Book summary:No interest for one year! No annual fee! No minimum payments for six months! And, if you want to believe Robert Manning, there's no way out of the debt that we find ourselves in, as individuals and as a country. Credit Card Nation combines debt of every kind--consumer, corporate, and governmental--and creates a vast landscape of profit-spewing lenders and struggling debtors present at every level of economics. Appalling statistics set readers off on a depressing journey: the years between 1980 and 1994 saw annual consumer charges skyrocket from $170 billion to $581 billion, with the average household carrying over $4,000 in revolving debt. Accompanied by the erasure of nearly $100 billion in corporate debt and tremendous tax cuts for ever-merging conglomerates, the end of the 20th century seems to be just the beginning of an overwhelming cycle. While Manning's book is extensively researched, it is also extremely readable. Individual stories of junk bondsmen, corporate raiders, and middle-class consumers are threaded throughout the pages of charts and statistics, with a few surprises. While most media would have us believe that students who rack up charge accounts are totally irresponsible, the reality is that some of these students are helping their families with cash-advance loans to make mortgage or insurance payments. Emphasis is also placed on the tremendous advertising budgets of credit card companies: Manning comments on "how quickly the cultural norms have changed in the Credit Card Nation," we see a poster insisting "money can't buy you love, but a credit card can get you started." This is not a self-help book, and Manning has no 12-step program for debtors at any level. Credit Card Nation simply tells it as it is. --Jill Lightner [via]
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Thingsby Donald NormanISBN 0465051367 (0-465-05136-7)
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Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thoughtby Douglas HofstadterISBN 0465051545 (0-465-05154-5)
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A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnoldby Ian HamiltonISBN 0465044212 (0-465-04421-2)
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Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusementsby David NasawISBN 0465070302 (0-465-07030-2)
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A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnamby Robert MannISBN 0465043704 (0-465-04370-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam'Book summary:A Grand Delusion is the first comprehensive single-volume American political history of the Vietnam War. Spanning the years 1945 to 1975, it is the definitive story of the well-meaning but often misguided American political leaders whose unquestioning adherence to Cold War dogma led the nation into its tragic misadventure in Vietnam. At the center of this narrative are seven such men-Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, J. William Fulbright, Mike Mansfield, and George McGovern. During their careers, each occupied center-stage in the nation's debate over Vietnam policy.Mann focuses in particular on the role played by leading members of Congress, including senators' Mansfield and Kennedy's shaping of American policy toward Vietnam in the 1950s; Congress's acquiescence in the 1950s to the Eisenhower administration's support of the American-backed Diem government; and the blank check that Congress gave to Lyndon Johnson with the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution.Mann considers as well the evolution of opposition to the war, including pivotal hearings conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1966 to 1968; the small band of war opponents led by senators Fulbright, McGovern, and Wayne Morse; Mansfield's quiet-but-persistent lobbying campaign to dissuade his friend Lyndon Johnson from escalating the war in 1965; the bitter political feud that erupted between Fulbright and Johnson-erstwhile friends-over the war; McGovern and Hatfield's determined effort to force Richard Nixon to withdraw American forces from Vietnam; and Congress's assertion of its Constitutional role in war making in the early 1970s, culminating in the passage of the War Powers resolution in 1973. [via]
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In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Sparked the Big Bang of Evolutionby Andrew ParkeISBN 0465054382 (0-465-05438-2)
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The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings A Five-Generation History of the Ultimate Irish-Catholic Familyby Thomas MaierISBN 0465043186 (0-465-04318-6)
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The Last Days of the Renaissance: And the March to Modernityby Theodore K. RabbISBN 0465068014 (0-465-06801-4)
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The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universeby P. C. W. DaviesISBN 0465048927 (0-465-04892-7)
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Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thoughtby Louis A. SassISBN 0465043127 (0-465-04312-7)
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The Making of Modern Advertisingby Daniel PopeISBN 0465043259 (0-465-04325-9)
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The Making of the Modern Familyby Edward ShorterISBN 0465043275 (0-465-04327-5)
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The Malady of Islamby Meddeb AbdelwahabISBN 0465044352 (0-465-04435-2)
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The Man With a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Woundby A.R. LuriaISBN 0465043712 (0-465-04371-2)
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A Mathematician Plays the Stock Marketby John Allen PaulosISBN 0465054811 (0-465-05481-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market'Book summary:Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom.In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market, best-selling author John Allen Paulos employs his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles to address every thinking reader's curiosity about the market--Is it efficient? Is it random? Is there anything to technical analysis, fundamental analysis, and other supposedly time-tested methods of picking stocks? How can one quantify risk? What are the most common scams? Are there any approaches to investing that truly outperform the major indexes?But Paulos's tour through the irrational exuberance of market mathematics doesn't end there. An unrequited (and financially disastrous) love affair with WorldCom leads Paulos to question some cherished ideas of personal finance. He explains why "data mining" is a self-fulfilling belief, why "momentum investing" is nothing more than herd behavior with a lot of mathematical jargon added, why the ever-popular Elliot Wave Theory cannot be correct, and why you should take Warren Buffet's "fundamental analysis" with a grain of salt.Like Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street, this clever and illuminating book is for anyone, investor or not, who follows the markets--or knows someone who does.[via]More editions of A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market:
Memoirs of an Unregulated Economistby George Joseph StiglerISBN 0465044425 (0-465-04442-5)
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Merchants of Debt: Kkr and the Mortgaging of American Businessby George AndersISBN 0465045235 (0-465-04523-5)
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The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Reportby Walter Charles LangerISBN 0465046207 (0-465-04620-7)
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Mind, Language and Society : Doing Philosophy in the Real Worldby John R. SearleISBN 0465045197 (0-465-04519-7)
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Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real Worldby John R. SearleISBN 0465045219 (0-465-04521-9)
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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Rewardby Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. HudsonISBN 0465043577 (0-465-04357-7)
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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masqueradeby Gary KatesISBN 0465047629 (0-465-04762-9)
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A Mood Apart: Depression, Mania, and Other Afflictions of the Selfby Peter C. WhybrowISBN 0465047254 (0-465-04725-4)
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Nature's Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligenceby Michael S. GazzanigaISBN 0465048633 (0-465-04863-3)
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Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germansby Eric A. JohnsonISBN 0465049087 (0-465-04908-7)
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Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalismby William H. ChafeISBN 0465049850 (0-465-04985-0)
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The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporationby Charles C. HeckscherISBN 0465050980 (0-465-05098-0)
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Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologiesby Charles PerrowISBN 0465051421 (0-465-05142-1)
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These are matters of common sense, applied to simple questions of cause and effect. But what happens, asks systems-behavior expert Charles Perrow, when common sense runs up against the complex systems, electrical and mechanical, with which we have surrounded ourselves? Plenty of mayhem can ensue, he replies. The Chernobyl nuclear accident, to name one recent disaster, was partially brought about by the failure of a safety system that was being brought on line, a failure that touched off an unforeseeable and irreversible chain of disruptions; the less severe but still frightening accident at Three Mile Island, similarly, came about as the result of small errors that, taken by themselves, were insignificant, but that snowballed to near-catastrophic result.
Only through such failures, Perrow suggests, can designers improve the safety of complex systems. But, he adds, those improvements may introduce new opportunities for disaster. Looking at an array of real and potential technological mishaps--including the Bhopal chemical-plant accident of 1984, the Challenger explosion of 1986, and the possible disruptions of Y2K and genetic engineering--Perrow concludes that as our technologies become more complex, the odds of tragic results increase. His treatise makes for sobering and provocative reading. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil Warby Gavin WrightISBN 0465051944 (0-465-05194-4)
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Englandby Steven MarcusISBN 0465053866 (0-465-05386-6)
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OUR FINAL HOUR: A Scientist's warning How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century--On Earth and Beyondby Martin ReesISBN 0465068634 (0-465-06863-4)
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What happens here on Earth, in this century, could conceivably make the difference between a near eternity filled with ever more complex and subtle forms of life and one filled with nothing but base matter.
For many technological debacles, Rees places much of the blame squarely on the shoulders of the scientists who participate in perfecting environmental destruction, biological menaces, and ever-more powerful weapons. So is there any hope for humanity? Rees is vaguely optimistic on this point, offering solutions that would require a level of worldwide cooperation humans have yet to exhibit. If the daily news isn't enough to make you want to crawl under a rock, this book will do the trick. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jewsby Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Neil M. CowanISBN 0465054269 (0-465-05426-9)
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Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption and Incompetence on the Benchby Max BootISBN 0465053750 (0-465-05375-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption and Incompetence on the Bench'Book summary:Max Boot, who wrote the excellent "Rule of Law" editorial column in the Wall Street Journal for several years, has written what he admits to be a polemic. Polemic; need not be a derogatory word when the book is informative and entertaining. Out of Order is aimed at the evils of judges. Some of those evils--corruption and drug dealing--are obvious. Others--such as broad constitutional interpretations, desegregation of Virgina Military Institute, and application of the Miranda doctrine--are debatable, though Boot mostly sidesteps those debates.
Having foresworn objective analysis, Boot also admits to a lack of solutions to the problems he identifies. While he proposes a handful of reforms that do little to address what he criticizes, he rejects a wide variety of radical proposals with a few sentences each. Boot suggests more scrutiny of judges through lawyers' reports and public debate. Left unspoken is the fact that the most prominent public debate of judicial decision-making in the last 12 years involved the author of his introduction, Judge Robert Bork, and came to a result Boot disliked. And Boot's endorsement of rating judges by lawyers ignores that such ratings have as often resulted in unfair criticism of judges (including one Boot singles out as a good egg) for holding lawyers to strict standards as it has to expose incompetence that remains unaddressed.
So what's left is a long list of anecdotes, loosely organized by them, tied together only by their common desire to criticize. Thus, Judge Ito should not have let the Simpson trial be overrun by publicity, but a Chicago judge is hit for earthily barring attorneys from talking to the press.
In one chapter, judges have too much power and abuse it; in another, incompetents fill the judiciary because smart lawyers can have more influence by refusing appointments. The reader is to assume that the mere fact Boot has held these judges up to criticism should be enough.
For a more reasoned analysis of the judicial system, see Richard Posner's The Federal Courts (1996). Those wishing for the polemic can read either Robert Bork's The Tempting Of America (1991) or Ralph Nader's No Contest (1996), depending on your preconceived political bent. --Ted Frank [via]
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Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thoughtby George LakoffISBN 0465056741 (0-465-05674-1)
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Parts of Philosophy in the Flesh retrace the ground covered in the authors' earlier Metaphors We Live By, which revealed how we deal with abstract concepts through metaphor. (The previous sentence, for example, relies on the metaphors "Knowledge is a place" and "Knowing is seeing" to make its point.) Here they reveal the metaphorical underpinnings of basic philosophical concepts like time, causality--even morality--demonstrating how these metaphors are rooted in our embodied experiences. They repropose philosophy as an attempt to perfect such conceptual metaphors so that we can understand how our thought processes shape our experience; they even make a tentative effort toward rescuing spirituality from the heavy blows dealt by the disproving of the disembodied mind or "soul" by reimagining "transcendence" as "imaginative empathetic projection." Their source list is helpfully arranged by subject matter, making it easier to follow up on their citations. If you enjoyed the mental workout from Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, Lakoff and Johnson will, to pursue the "Learning is exercise" metaphor, take you to the next level of training. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happenedby Rosalyn Baxandall, Elizabeth EwenISBN 0465070132 (0-465-07013-2)
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Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Serviceby Fitzhugh MullanISBN 0465057799 (0-465-05779-9)
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Poor Support: Poverty in the American Familyby David T. EllwoodISBN 0465059953 (0-465-05995-3)
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The Populist Persuasion: An American Historyby Michael KazinISBN 0465059988 (0-465-05998-8)
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Pr!: A Social History of Spinby Stuart EwenISBN 0465061796 (0-465-06179-6)
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Prisoners of Childhoodby Alice MillerISBN 0465063470 (0-465-06347-0)
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Psychedelic Drugs Reconsideredby Lester GrinspoonISBN 0465064507 (0-465-06450-7)
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Rampage: The Social Roots Of School Shootingsby Katherine S. Newman, Wendy Roth, David J. Harding, Cybelle Fox, Jal MehtaISBN 0465051030 (0-465-05103-0)
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The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIby Iris ChangISBN 0465068359 (0-465-06835-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II'Book summary:China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago. [via]
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The Republican War on Scienceby Chris MooneyISBN 0465046762 (0-465-04676-2)
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The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-And the Rest of Us-Can Harness the Power of True Partnershipby Roger MartinISBN 0465044115 (0-465-04411-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-And the Rest of Us-Can Harness the Power of True Partnership'Book summary:Are you a heroic leader? Or are you a passive follower? Chances are you act like one or the other, and it's doing serious damage to your company, your customers, and your colleagues. The reason behind your harmful behavior? The fear that you'll be held responsible for any failures -which often makes failure the inevitable outcome. Management guru Roger Martin calls this fear of failure and the behavior it causes "The Responsibility Virus." With lively case studies based on real business practice, he shows how the Virus "infects" corporations and nonprofit organizations large and small. No message could be more urgent in today's business climate.Martin lays out a wholly original way of understanding group dynamics. His impassioned belief in the "power of one" will be required reading for any of us who think about how we function in organizations, from the boardroom to the mail room.[via]More editions of The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-And the Rest of Us-Can Harness the Power of True Partnership:
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The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: U.S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Centuryby Joseph A. Pratt, Louis GalambosISBN 0465070299 (0-465-07029-9)
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The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: U.S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Centuryby Louis Galambos, Joseph PrattISBN 0465070280 (0-465-07028-0)
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Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America 1790 to the Presentby Joseph F. KettISBN 0465070442 (0-465-07044-2)
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Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentionsby Clyde V. PrestowitzISBN 0465062806 (0-465-06280-6)
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Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmasby Deborah Anna LuepnitzISBN 0465042864 (0-465-04286-4)
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Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas Five Stories of Psychotherapyby Deborah LuepnitzISBN 0465042872 (0-465-04287-2)
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Second Drafts Of Historyby Lance MorrowISBN 0465047505 (0-465-04750-5)
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The Soft Cage: Srveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terrorby Christian ParentiISBN 0465054854 (0-465-05485-4)
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Success Is Never Final: Empire, War, and Faith in Early Modern Europeby Geoffrey ParkerISBN 0465054773 (0-465-05477-3)
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Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the Eastby Clyde PrestowitzISBN 0465062822 (0-465-06282-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth And Power to the East'Book summary:By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U.S. as a hyperpower, to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented in world history, and to assume that American dominance would continue at least throughout our lifetimes. It is conventional wisdom that America will have no serious rivals for at least a generation. But the American position is far more fragile and ephemeral than much of the world believes.Clyde Prestowitz shows the powerful yet barely visible trends that are threatening to end the six-hundred-year run of Western domination of the world. The trends include Americas increasingly unsustainable trade deficits; the equally unsustainable (and dangerous) buildup of massive dollar reserves in places like Japan and China; the end of Americas position as the worlds premier center for invention and technological innovation; the sudden entrance of 2.5 billion people in India and China into the worlds skilled job market; the role of the World Wide Web in permitting many formerly localized jobs to be done anywhere in the world; and the demographic meltdown of Europe, Japan, Russia, and, in later decades, even China.Three Billion New Capitalists is a clear-eyed and profoundly unsettling look at Americas and the worlds economic future, from an author with a history of predicting the important trends long before they become apparent to others.[via]More editions of Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East:
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asiaby Karl Meyer, Sharleen Blair BrysacISBN 0465045766 (0-465-04576-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia'Book summary:Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, the Russian and British Empires played out a chess game of diplomacy, espionage, and military thrusts into Central Asia to protect their expanding interests. When play began, the frontiers of their empires lay 2,000 miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, they were separated by only 20 miles. Karl E. Meyer of The New York Times and Shareen Blair Brysac, documentary filmmaker for CBS, update and significantly expand earlier studies of the imperial rivalry, notably Peter Hopkirk's pioneering The Great Game. Tournament of Shadows reads like a racy adventure story, yet there is no need for the authors to embellish their well-researched facts. The region attracted a host of bizarre characters, each with his own idiosyncratic goals. The authors begin with the journey to Bokhara of an ambitious horse doctor, hired by the East India Company in 1806 to improve its breeding stock, and end with the CIA's assistance to anti-Chinese guerrillas in Tibet during the cold war. American participants in the opening of Central Asia have not previously received much attention, but Tournament of Shadows introduces adventurers such as William Rockhill, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1880s to explore Tibet, and William McGovern, who, to the chagrin of the British, reached Lhasa in 1923. The wealth and instability of Central Asia continue to keep the region in the headlines, motivating the Soviet Union's disastrous 10-year intervention in Afghanistan and fueling an international race for resources--especially oil--today. --John Stevenson [via]
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The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Selfby Alice Miller, Andrew JenkinsISBN 0465045855 (0-465-04585-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self'Book summary:More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving The Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers everywhere, and her book soon achieved cult status and became a backlist bestseller.In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues. Miller's vivid true stories reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial. This denial, necessary for the child's survival, leads to emotional blindness and finally to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations, warns Miller-a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of "child disciplinarians" like James Dobson and other religion-driven psychologists. The Truth Will Set You Free will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject.[via]More editions of The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self:
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The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushimaby Constan PleshakovISBN 0465057926 (0-465-05792-6)
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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbsby David R. RoedigerISBN 0465070744 (0-465-07074-4)
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A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Valuesby John R. GillisISBN 0465054145 (0-465-05414-5)
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