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The Abandonment of the Jewsby David S. WymanISBN 0394740777 (0-394-74077-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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About Lookingby John BergerISBN 0394739078 (0-394-73907-8)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence Systemby Frank J. DonnerISBN 0394747712 (0-394-74771-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Alice, Let's Eatby Calvin TrillinISBN 0394741714 (0-394-74171-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice, Let's Eat'Book summary:Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.
New York magazine
In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of something decent to eat. Across time zones and cultures, and often with his wife, Alice, at his side, Trillin shares his triumphs in the art of culinary discovery, including Dungeness crabs in California, barbecued mutton in Kentucky, potato latkes in London, blaff doursins in Martinique, and a $33 picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami. His eating companions include Fats Goldberg, the New York pizza baron and reformed blimp; William Edgett Smith, the man with the Naughahyde palate; and his six-year-old daughter, Sarah, who refuses to enter a Chinese restaurant unless she is carrying a bagel ( just in case ). And though Alice has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day, on the road she proves to be a serious eaterdespite seemingly uncontrollable attacks of moderation. Alice, Let Eat amply demonstrates why The New Republic called Calvin Trillin a classic American humorist.
One of the most brilliant humorists of our times . . . Trillin is guaranteed good reading.
Charleston Post and Courier
Read Trillin and laugh out loud.
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The American Economy Poster and Fact Bookby Stephen J. Rose, Dennis LivingstonISBN 0394743903 (0-394-74390-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eaterby Calvin TrillinISBN 0394741722 (0-394-74172-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The American Profile Poster: Who Owns What, Who Makes How Much, Who Works Where, and Who Works with Whomby Stephen J. RoseISBN 039474389X (0-394-74389-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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As I Lay Dyingby William Faulkner, Noel PolkISBN 0394747453 (0-394-74745-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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At the Bottom of the Riverby Jamaica KincaidISBN 0394736834 (0-394-73683-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Authorityby Richard SennettISBN 0394746554 (0-394-74655-4)
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Baryshnikov at Work: Mikhail Baryshnikov Discusses His Rolesby Mikhail BaryshnikovISBN 0394735870 (0-394-73587-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slaveryby Leon F. LitwackISBN 0394743989 (0-394-74398-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."
Contents
1. "The Faithful Slave"
2. Black Liberators
3. Kingdom Comin'
4. Slaves No More
5. How Free is Free?
6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About
7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions
8. Back to Work: The New Dependency
9. The Gospel and the Primer
10. Becoming a People [via]More editions of Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery:
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Behavior and Evolutionby Jean PiagetISBN 0394735889 (0-394-73588-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil Warby Ronald FraserISBN 0394738543 (0-394-73854-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Born in Tibetby Chogyam TrungpaISBN 0394742192 (0-394-74219-2)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thoughtby Nancy Wilson RossISBN 0394747542 (0-394-74754-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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By the Bomb's Early Light : American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Ageby Paul BoyerISBN 0394747674 (0-394-74767-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Capitalism for Beginners: A Pantheon Documentary Comic Bookby Robert Lekachman, Borin Van LoonISBN 0394738632 (0-394-73863-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knightsby Raymond M. SmullyanISBN 0394748697 (0-394-74869-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Chinese Art of Teaby John BlofeldISBN 0394737997 (0-394-73799-7)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Cultureby Marvin HarrisISBN 0394744268 (0-394-74426-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ecology for Beginnersby Stephen Croall, William RankinISBN 0394748727 (0-394-74872-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Economists for Beginnersby Bernard CanavanISBN 0394739396 (0-394-73939-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Einstein for Beginnersby Joseph SchwartzISBN 0394738012 (0-394-73801-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Emily Dickinsonby Helen McNeilISBN 0394747666 (0-394-74766-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Familiar Flowers of North America: Eastern Regionby Richard Spellenberg, William NieringISBN 0394748433 (0-394-74843-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Familiar Trees of North America: Eastern Regionby Jerry FranklinISBN 0394748514 (0-394-74851-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Cultureby Carl E. SchorskeISBN 0394744780 (0-394-74478-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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"Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."
-- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review
"Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument."
-- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic
"A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review
"Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books
"A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing."
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The Firefighter's Cookbookby John SinenoISBN 0394744292 (0-394-74429-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Freud for Beginnersby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar ZarateISBN 0394738004 (0-394-73800-4)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern Worldby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0394744853 (0-394-74485-3)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Gateway to Wisdom: Taoist and Buddhist Contemplative and Healing Yogas Adapted for Western Students of the Wayby John Eaton Calthrope BlofeldISBN 0394738780 (0-394-73878-0)
Hardcover, Shambhala
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Giving up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879by Noel PerrinISBN 0394739493 (0-394-73949-3)
Hardcover, Shambhala
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Go East, Young Man: The Early Years the Autobiography of William O. Douglasby William Orville DouglasISBN 0394749014 (0-394-74901-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Greek Vegetarian Cookingby Jack Santa-MariaISBN 0394741978 (0-394-74197-8)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Timeby Howard M. SacharISBN 0394736796 (0-394-73679-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Hour of Our Deathby Philippe AriesISBN 0394751566 (0-394-75156-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hour of Our Death'Book summary:This remarkable bookthe fruit of almost two decades of studytraces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature.
Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Ariès shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Ariès identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Ariès shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own centuryhow it has been nearly banished from our daily livesand points out what may be done to re-tame this secret terror.
The richness of Ariès's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the historyindeed the pathologyof our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death. [via]More editions of The Hour of Our Death:
Ideology and Popular Protestby George F. E. Rud±EISBN 0394739663 (0-394-73966-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Inside Prime Timeby Todd GitlinISBN 0394737873 (0-394-73787-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Irish Folk Talesby Henry GlassieISBN 0394746376 (0-394-74637-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The It's a Wonderful Life Bookby Jeanine BasingerISBN 0394747194 (0-394-74719-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Italian Folktalesby Italo CalvinoISBN 039474909X (0-394-74909-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon
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Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valorby Bill D. RossISBN 0394742885 (0-394-74288-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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L' Amante Anglaiseby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394750225 (0-394-75022-5)
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Lenin for Beginnersby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate, Michael AppignanesiISBN 0394737156 (0-394-73715-6)
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0394741048 (0-394-74104-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Low Intensity Warfare: Counterinsurgency, Proinsurgency, and Antiterrorism in the Eightiesby Michael T. Klare, Peter KornbluhISBN 0394746538 (0-394-74653-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Mao for Beginnersby Rius, Michael AppignanesiISBN 0394738861 (0-394-73886-1)
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The Map Catalog: Every Kind of Map and Chart on Earth and Even Some above Itby Joel Makower, Laura BergheimISBN 0394746147 (0-394-74614-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Mathematical Circusby Martin GardnerISBN 0394747127 (0-394-74712-7)
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Max Headroom/20 Minutes into the Futureby Steve RobertsISBN 0394747798 (0-394-74779-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Memory of Fire: Genesisby Eduardo GaleanoISBN 0394747305 (0-394-74730-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies--British, French, and Dutch--In the West Indies and South Americaby Vidiadhas Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0394746740 (0-394-74674-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mind Benders: Games of Shapeby Ivan MoscovichISBN 0394747720 (0-394-74772-0)
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New England Reflections: 1882-1907by Alan NewmanISBN 039474912X (0-394-74912-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Toolsby Stewart BrandISBN 0394739515 (0-394-73951-5)
Hardcover, Point
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Nicaragua: Revolution in the Familyby Shirley ChristianISBN 0394744578 (0-394-74457-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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No Boundary : Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growthby Ken WilberISBN 0394748816 (0-394-74881-6)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Nuclear Disaster in the Uralsby Medvedev, Zhores, A.ISBN 0394744454 (0-394-74445-4)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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October Lightby John GardnerISBN 0394740580 (0-394-74058-0)
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The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adamsby Pauline MaierISBN 039475073X (0-394-75073-X)
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Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grassby Isak DinesenISBN 0394742117 (0-394-74211-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass'Book summary:Out of Africa is Karin Blixen's love letter to the country she called home for nearly 20 years. Arriving in British East Africa (now Kenya) from Denmark in 1914, Blixen--Isak Dinesen was her pen name--was immediately seduced by the landscape of the Ngong hill country, not to mention the animals and people who inhabited it. Her descriptions bring this wonderland alive for readers: out on safari, she recalls the movements of a group of giraffes, "in their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness, as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare, long-stemmed, speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing." Blixen laces into her reverie the account of her coffee plantation--which ultimately succumbed to high altitude, droughts, and tumbling international coffee prices--and tales of her friendships with other colonials in Nairobi. But one should read her memoir for the stories she tells of cooking with her Kikuyu chef (who almost never ate any of the European delicacies he so expertly created), adopting an abandoned infant antelope, flying over the countryside in her lover's plane--"the greatest, most transporting pleasure of my life on the farm"--and watching the children of her tenant farmers collect at her house each day at noon for the spectacle of her cuckoo clock.
Though some of her references to native Africans will likely make today's readers uncomfortable, Blixen can also be perceptive, particularly in her articulation of the differences between European and African culture and her excitement over what she learns from "her" Africans. It is not long before she is attuned to the rhythms of nature: she can foresee when the rains will come, can spot the new moon before anyone else on the farm, and knows exactly what the silence of night should sound like. Though her sorrow is almost unbearably palpable when at last--after the collapse of the farm, the loss of her lover, and the war looming--Blixen leaves Africa, the reader will close the book richer for her sojourn. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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The Question of Palestineby Edward W. SaidISBN 0394745272 (0-394-74527-2)
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Reading the Newsby Robert K. Manoff, Michael SchudsonISBN 039474649X (0-394-74649-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading the News'Book summary:We take our news for granted: that it will inform us about the significant people and cite the authoritative ones, reflect the world the way it is, and tell us why something happens as it does.
Now, six working journalists, press critics, and scholars at the leading edge of media criticism have been specially commissioned to make the familiar act of reading the news into a fresh and revealing event. Taking the famous "five W's and an H" (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How), the authors turn these questions back on journalism for the first time to show us exactly what to make of the press.
Leon V. Sigal
Who? Sources Make the News
Carlin Romano
What? Grisly Truth about Bare Facts
Michael Schudson
When? Deadlines, Datelines, and History
Where? Cartography, Community, and the Cold War
James W. Carey
Why And How? The Dark Continent of American Journalism
Robert Karl Manoff
Writing the News (By Telling the "Story")
For everyone who reads the newspaper, for the journalist, and for the media critic alike, these essays offer fresh, provocative insights into a centerpiece of American culture, the news. [via]More editions of Reading the News:
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The Recorder Bookby Kenneth WollitzISBN 0394749995 (0-394-74999-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Redundant Male: Is Sex Irrelevant in the Modern Worldby Jeremy Cherfas, John R. GribbinISBN 039474005X (0-394-74005-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Redundant Male: Is Sex Irrelevant in the Modern World'Book summary:Cherfas and Gribbin explore the possibility of doing without the human male by examining the benefits of sexual reproduction. They discuss the biological implications of the chromosome mixture that results from the joining of sperm and egg and emphasize the possibilities of genetic change and adaptation through this method of reproduction. Male-female reproduction allows mutation to occur much more rapidly than female-only reproduction, and the mutations have a much greater chance of surviving several generations until their usefulness, if any, to the species becomes apparent. THE REDUNDANT MALE is an educational book, without the dreariness that adjective often implies. Its friendly exploration of the "why" of reproduction is more concerned with why sexual reproduction is biologically important, or unimportant, to life on this planet, than with human social or sexual interaction. Despite its title, it is not flippant; it is a serious look at an important and misunderstood subject. [via]
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Reel Facts: The Movie Book of Recordsby Cobbett SteinbergISBN 0394747585 (0-394-74758-5)
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Roadfoodby Jane SternISBN 039473873X (0-394-73873-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roadfood'Book summary:The authors of the incomparable Encyclopedia of Bad Taste present an updated edition of the classic guide to America's best diners, small-town cafes, BBQ joints, and other eateries serving great, inexpensive regional foods. [via]
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Roadfood and Goodfood: Jane and Michael Stern's Coast-To-Coast Restaurant Guidesby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0394743962 (0-394-74396-2)
Softcover, Knopf
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Robert Frank: The Americansby Robert FrankISBN 0394742567 (0-394-74256-7)
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The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Rollby Jim MillerISBN 0394739388 (0-394-73938-8)
Softcover, Rolling Stone
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll'Book summary:Paperback: 474 pages Publisher: Random House (November 12, 1980) Language: English ISBN-10: 0394739388 ISBN-13: 978-0394739380 [via]
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Saul Steinbergby Harold Rosenberg, Saul Steinberg, Whitney Museum of American ArtISBN 0394735919 (0-394-73591-9)
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School Is Hell: A Cartoon Bookby Matt GroeningISBN 0394750918 (0-394-75091-8)
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The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospelsby Marvin Meyer, Marvin W. MeyerISBN 0394744330 (0-394-74433-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels'Book summary:In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings of a mystical religious movement we call Gnosticism (from the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge"). The texts are also, with few exceptions, Christian documents, and thus they provide us with valuable new information about the character of the early church, and about the Gnostic Christians within the church.
In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and the Secret Book of John. [via]More editions of The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels:
Sex, Drink and Fast Carsby Stephen BayleyISBN 0394750462 (0-394-75046-2)
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Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry, with Essays on Reading and Writingby Kenneth Koch, Kate FarrellISBN 0394743644 (0-394-74364-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Solitaire : Aces up and 399 Other Card Gamesby David ParlettISBN 0394738683 (0-394-73868-3)
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The Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 0394747747 (0-394-74774-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound and the Fury'Book summary:The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family.
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:
Square Mealsby Michael Stern, Jane & Michael SternISBN 0394741625 (0-394-74162-5)
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Staying Found: The Complete Map and Compass Handbookby June Fleming, Wendy WallinISBN 0394751523 (0-394-75152-3)
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Stretchingby Bob AndersonISBN 0394738748 (0-394-73874-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stretching'Book summary:Anderson started running and cycling during the salad days of the fitness boom, when the goal was simply to go farther and farther. No one knew what all those miles would do for a body--or do to a body. One day he realized he could barely reach past his knees while sitting on the floor in a straight-legged position. His tight muscles thus revealed, he began a lifelong quest to figure out the secrets of flexibility.
His main discovery--and his core message to readers--is this: "Stretching feels good when done correctly," he writes. "You do not have to push limits or attempt to go further each day. It should not be a personal contest to see how far you can stretch."
The world of sports may have shifted away from Anderson's style of "static" stretching--holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds or longer--but in the everyday world, it's still considered the safest and easiest way for people to become more flexible.
The key to successful stretching, Anderson says, is not trying to do too much. "It's better to understretch than overstretch," he writes. The point of flexibility exercise, after all, is to protect yourself from injury or immobility. The worst thing you can do is hurt and ultimately immobilize yourself while trying to prevent those consequences.
Stretching contains hundreds of exercises, simply and clearly drawn by Jean Anderson, the author's wife. (In an eccentric twist, most of the figures in the drawings are shown wearing wool hats, which Mrs. Anderson designs and sells.) Routines are shown for getting up in the morning, for before and after walking or sitting, and for watching TV. Sport-specific routines include programs for weight training, basketball, golf, running, and many others. All are simple, safe, and as easy as you're willing to let them be. --Lou Schuler [via]
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The Success and Failure of Picassoby John BergerISBN 0394739000 (0-394-73900-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Success and Failure of Picasso'Book summary:At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolizedand wholly isolated.
In this stunning critical assessment, John Bergerone of this century's most insightful cultural historianstrains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shpaed his life and work. Writing with a novelist's sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism, from the creation of Guernica to the pained etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picasso's triumphs and an unsparing reckoning of their costin exile, in loneliness, and in a desolation that drove him, in his last works, into an old man's furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create. [via]More editions of The Success and Failure of Picasso:
Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spainby Penelope CasasISBN 0394742354 (0-394-74235-4)
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The Thousand Mile Summerby Colin FletcherISBN 0394746317 (0-394-74631-7)
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Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrerby Tom LehrerISBN 0394749308 (0-394-74930-8)
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Trotsky for Beginnersby Tariq Ali, Phil Evans, Robert LekachmanISBN 0394738853 (0-394-73885-3)
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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stonesby Stanley BoothISBN 0394741102 (0-394-74110-2)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0394743121 (0-394-74312-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society. [via]
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Waitingby Vincent CrapanzanoISBN 0394743261 (0-394-74326-1)
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Watching Television: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Cultureby Todd GitlinISBN 0394746511 (0-394-74651-1)
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Women Writing about Menby Jane MillerISBN 039474425X (0-394-74425-X)
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Working Lives: The Southern Exposure History of Labor in the Southby Marc S. MillerISBN 0394739655 (0-394-73965-5)
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Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthroughby William G. CrookISBN 0394747003 (0-394-74700-3)
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Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistusby Walter ScottISBN 0394742257 (0-394-74225-7)
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