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The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapiesby Barrie R. CassilethISBN 0393318168 (0-393-31816-8)
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The American Woman 1999-2000: A Century of Change-What's Next?by Cynthia Costello, Women's Research & Education Institute, Anne J. Stone, Shari E. MilesISBN 0393318621 (0-393-31862-1)
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Anatomy of Anorexiaby Steven LevenkronISBN 0393321010 (0-393-32101-0)
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Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Timeby Eddie Epstein, Rob NeyerISBN 0393320081 (0-393-32008-1)
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Beowulf: An Illustrated Editionby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0393320979 (0-393-32097-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition'Book summary:In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,
After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
sand churned in the surf, warriors loaded
a cargo of weapons, shining war-gear
in the vessel's hold, then heaved out,
away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.
Over the waves, with the wind behind her
and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird...Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from here
In Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried [via]
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch
above a mere; the overhanging bank
is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.
At night there, something uncanny happens:
the water burns. And the mere bottom
has never been sounded by the sons of men.
On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:
the hart in flight from pursuing hounds
will turn to face them with firm-set horns
and die in the wood rather than dive
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Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challengeby Lester R. Brown, Gary T. Gardner, Brian HalweilISBN 0393319067 (0-393-31906-7)
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The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Filmby Tricia Cooke, William Preston Robertson, John Todd Anderson, Rafael SanudoISBN 0393317501 (0-393-31750-1)
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Text and illustrations combine to reveal the Coens' combination of quirkiness and craft, and the ways that the singular (or is it binary?) vision of the brothers combines with actors and crew in the group effort necessary to produce a finished film. This book doesn't attempt a critical analysis of the work of Joel and Ethan Coen--the complexity of their vision resists such an approach. Instead, we're treated to a fly-on-the-wall view of the creative process, and it's enough to get the most casual film lover to grab a notebook, rent a camera, and start making movies! --Simon Leake [via]
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The Blacksmith: Ironworker and Farrierby Aldren A. WatsonISBN 039332057X (0-393-32057-X)
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Blue Guide Florenceby Alta MacAdamISBN 0393318710 (0-393-31871-0)
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Blue Guide Istanbulby John FreelyISBN 0393317463 (0-393-31746-3)
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Blue Guide Northern Italy: From the Alps to Bolognaby Paul BlanchardISBN 039332141X (0-393-32141-X)
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Blue Guide Romeby Alta MacAdamISBN 0393318044 (0-393-31804-4)
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Blue Guide Rome: City Guideby Alta MacAdamISBN 0393321460 (0-393-32146-0)
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The Body Silentby Robert F. MurphyISBN 0393320421 (0-393-32042-1)
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Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the Amazon: a tumor of the spinal cord that progressed slowly and irreversibly into quadriplegia. In this gripping account, Murphy explores society's fears, myths, and misunderstandings about disability, and the damage they inflict. He reports how paralysislike all disabilitiesassaults people's identity, social standing, and ties with others, while at the same time making the love of life burn even more fiercely. [via]More editions of The Body Silent:
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Book of Jobby Raymond P. ScheindlinISBN 0393319008 (0-393-31900-8)
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One of the most powerful and unsettling Bible stories, The Book of Job undermines the claim that our world is governed by justice and meaning. It does so through a poetry of unsurpassed beauty captured in Raymond Scheindlin's superb new translation. Scheindlin's Job is not a patient sufferer but a defiant man who eloquently demands an argument with God. Job's words land like a fist, but he is left speechless by God's reply from the storm a commanding survey of creation and a challenge to man's place in it. Job's acceptance of God's power comes with a dignity and freshness that makes it compelling even today. In Scheindlin's vivid translation an ancient text speaks to us directly of timeless questions and passions. A selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Jewish Book Club [via]More editions of Book of Job:
The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earthby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393321568 (0-393-32156-8)
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Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasyby Jeremy Foster, Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson, Leigh Heather WilsonISBN 0393317323 (0-393-31732-3)
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Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Artsby Roger ShattuckISBN 0393321118 (0-393-32111-8)
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Car: A Drama of the American Workplaceby Mary WaltonISBN 0393318613 (0-393-31861-3)
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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Mindsby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 039331989X (0-393-31989-X)
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Charles Ives: A Life With Musicby Jan SwaffordISBN 0393317196 (0-393-31719-6)
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Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factoryby Cathy N. Davidson, William BambergerISBN 0393319229 (0-393-31922-9)
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Bill Bamberger took his revealing and powerful photographs during the last four months of operation on the factory floor, working side by side with the White employees. Cathy Davidson's text focuses on six people who represent every economic level in the American workforce: CEO, executive assistant, middle manager, supervisor, skilled artisan, and manual laborer. 31 full-color and 61 black-and-white photographs [via]More editions of Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory:
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilationby Steven LevenkronISBN 0393319385 (0-393-31938-5)
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Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Missionby Richard HarrisISBN 0393320324 (0-393-32032-4)
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The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetryby Rafael CampoISBN 0393317714 (0-393-31771-4)
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The Devil in the Shape of a Womanby Carol F. KarlsenISBN 0393317595 (0-393-31759-5)
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Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange Fits" and fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events in Salem took place. More than three hundred years later the question still haunts us: Why were these and other women likely witches? Why were they vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft? In this work Carol Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society. [via]More editions of The Devil in the Shape of a Woman:
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Diaries of a Young Poetby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0393318508 (0-393-31850-8)
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In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet twenty-three, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. The project quickly expanded to include not only thoughts on life, history, and artistic genius, but also unguarded moments of revulsion, self-doubt, and manic expectation. The result is an intimate glimpse into the young Rilke, already experimenting brilliantly with language and metaphor. "For the lover of Rilke, this superb translation of the poet's early diaries will be a watershed. Through Edward Snow's and Michael Winkler's brilliantly supple and faithful translation . . . a new and more balanced picture of Rilke will emerge."Ralph Freedman Illustrations, photographs, maps. [via]More editions of Diaries of a Young Poet:
Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom Historyby Charles M. SevillaISBN 0393319288 (0-393-31928-8)
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The Diversity of Life: With a New Introductionby Edward O. WilsonISBN 0393319407 (0-393-31940-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diversity of Life: With a New Introduction'Book summary:Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy born of intimacy" with nature, but also our very sanity. In The Diversity of Life, Wilson takes a sweeping view of our planet's natural richness, remarking on what on the surface seems a paradox: "almost all the species that ever lived are extinct, and yet more are alive today than at any time in the past." (Wilson's elegant explanation is a scientific education in itself.) This great variety of species is, of course, threatened by habitat destruction, global climate change, and a host of other forces, and Wilson revisits his oft-stated call for the protection of wilderness and undeveloped land, noting that "wilderness has virtue unto itself and needs no extraneous justification." We should, he continues, regard every species, "every scrap of biodiversity," as precious and irreplaceable, without attempting to quantify that regard with utilitarian measures such as "bio-economics." In short, Wilson offers with this book a simple, workable environmental ethic that extends the work of Aldo Leopold and other conservationists. A remarkably productive and influential scientist, Wilson is also a fine writer, and his survey of biodiversity makes for welcome and instructive reading. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbeby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0393320103 (0-393-32010-3)
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Behind this decision lay another. Whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the British and American armies, chose to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army. Could he have beaten the Russians to Berlin? If so, why didn't he? If he had, would the Berlin question have arisen? Would Germany have been divided as it was? Would the Cold War have assumed a direction more favorable to the West? In a narrative of steady fascination, Stephen E. Ambrose describes both the political and the military aspects of the situation, sketches the key players, explains the alternatives, and considers the results. The result is a sharply focused light on an important question of the postwar world. This paperback edition features a new introduction by the author. Maps [via]More editions of Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe:
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIby John W. DowerISBN 0393320278 (0-393-32027-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II'Book summary:Embracing Defeat tells the story of the transformation of Japan under American occupation after World War II. When Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allied Forces in August 1945, it was exhausted; where America's Pacific combat lasted less than four years, Japan had been fighting for 15. Sixty percent of its urban area lay in ruins. The collapse of the authoritarian state enabled America's six-year occupation to set Japan in entirely new directions.
Because the victors had no linguistic or cultural access to the losers' society, they were obliged to govern indirectly. Gen. Douglas MacArthur decided at the outset to maintain the civil bureaucracy and the institution of the emperor: democracy would be imposed from above in what the author terms "Neocolonial Revolution." His description of the manipulation of public opinion, as a wedge was driven between the discredited militarists and Emperor Hirohito, is especially fascinating. Tojo, on trial for his life, was requested to take responsibility for the war and deflect it from the emperor; he did, and was hanged. Dower's analysis of popular Japanese culture of the period--songs, magazines, advertising, even jokes--is brilliant, and reflected in the book's 80 well-chosen photographs. With the same masterful control of voluminous material and clear writing that he gave us in War Without Mercy, the author paints a vivid picture of a society in extremis and reconstructs the extraordinary period during which America molded a traumatized country into a free-market democracy and bulwark against resurgent world communism. --John Stevenson [via]
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Erik Erikson Readerby Robert ColesISBN 039332091X (0-393-32091-X)
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Erik H. Erikson is recognized as one of the worlds leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. His ideas about the stages of development, the sources of identity, and the interdependence of individual growth and historical change revolutionized our understanding of the nature and course of psychological growth. Erikson, whose work first described the now familiar concepts of "identity crisis" and "life cycle," provided an unprecedented framework for considering the individual psyche within society and culture. Unveiling a dynamic process of psychological development, he emphasized the tendency toward growth and the integration of multiple influencesthe biological, social, psychological, cultural, and historical. With writings from Eriksons entire career, including major work from Childhood and Society, Insight and Responsibility, Young Man Luther, and Gandhis Truth, this invaluable reader charts the influence of Eriksons thinking in the areas of child psychology, development through the lifespan, leadership, and moral growth. [via]More editions of Erik Erikson Reader:
Essays Before A Sonataby Charles IvesISBN 0393318303 (0-393-31830-3)
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Faces and Masksby Eduardo GaleanoISBN 0393318060 (0-393-31806-0)
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A unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in 1985 it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement, original research, and literary form. [via]More editions of Faces and Masks:
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Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sistersby Kathleen RaganISBN 0393320464 (0-393-32046-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters'Book summary:One hundred great folk tales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines.
A definitive sourcebook of folktales and fairytales and the first of its kind to feature a variety of multicultural heroines. Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines: courageous mothers, clever young girls, and warrior women who save villages from monsters, rule wisely over kingdoms, and outwit judges, kings, and tigers. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines. In "The Mirror of Matsuyama," we see the power of a mother's love overcome even the silence imposed by death. In "Moremi and the Egunguns," a fearless girl faces messengers from the land of the dead. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters is for all women who are searching to define who they are, to redefine the world and shape their collective sensibility. It is for men who want to know more about what it means to be a woman. It is for our daughters and our sons, so that they can learn to value all kinds of courage, courage in battle and the courage of love. It is for all of us to help build a more just vision of woman. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters breaks new ground by reexamining our notions about heroism. This book will appeal to parents who want to foster positive role models for their children. An invaluable resource of multicultural heroines for any school library. [via]More editions of Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters:
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Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Upby Lawrence E. WalshISBN 0393318605 (0-393-31860-5)
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With Ronald Reagan's knowledge and support, the United States attempted to trade arms for hostages held by Iranian terrorists; some of the secret money then funded the guerrilla activities of the Nicaraguan Contras, a counter-revolutionary group that Congress had specifically forbidden the administration to support. In this historic, first-person account, the independent counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation exposes the extraordinary duplicity of the highest officials of the Reagan administration and the paralyzing effects of the cover-up. "An important, perhaps singular, contribution. . . . For patient students of accountability in government, the book's extraordinary detail makes for must reading."Scott Armstrong, Washington Post "Not simply an important public accounting of an egregiously misconceived policy, but a cautionary tale of power."August Richard Norton, Boston Sunday Globe "We would never have known the truth about Iran-Contra without the tenacious seven-year struggle by the independent counsel in the affair, Lawrence Walsh, to get to the bottom of it. . . . Of first-rate historical importance."Doug Ireland, Nation [via]More editions of Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up:
Forgiveness and Other Acts of Loveby Stephanie DowrickISBN 0393318206 (0-393-31820-6)
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Francais Parleby AdrienneISBN 0393318117 (0-393-31811-7)
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Genesisby Eduardo GaleanoISBN 0393317730 (0-393-31773-0)
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A unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in 1985 it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement, original research, and literary form. [via]More editions of Genesis:
Hemingway: The 1930sby Michael ReynoldsISBN 0393317781 (0-393-31778-1)
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Hemingway: The Final Yearsby Michael S. ReynoldsISBN 0393320472 (0-393-32047-2)
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Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubrisby Ian KershawISBN 0393320359 (0-393-32035-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris'Book summary:Noted for his excellent structural explanation of the Third Reich's political culture in The Hitler Myth, eminent historian Ian Kershaw shifts approach in this innovative biography of the Nazi tyrant. The first of a two-volume study, Hubris is far from a simple rehearsal of "great man" history, impressively exploring the historical forces that transformed a shiftless Austrian daydreamer into a dictator with immense power.
In his forthright introduction, Kershaw acknowledges that, as a committed social historian, he did not include biography in his original intellectual plans. However, his "growing preoccupation" with the structures of Nazi domination pushed him toward questions about Hitler's place and considerable authority within that system. He argues that the sources for Hitler's power must be sought not only in the dictator's actions but also (and more importantly) in the social circumstances of a nation that allowed him to overstep all institutional and moral barriers. In a comprehensive treatment of Hitler's life and times up through the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, Kershaw draws from documents recently made available from Russian archives and benefits from a rigorous source criticism that has discredited many records formerly understood to be reliable. Hubris thus supplants Alan Bullock's classic Hitler: A Study in Tyranny as the definitive account of a man who, with characteristic smugness, indicated that it was a divinely inspired history that made him: "I go with the certainty of a sleep walker along a path laid out for me by Providence." Kershaw's penetrating analysis of how such a certain path could emerge from the dire circumstances of post World War I Germany is the abiding strength of Hubris. --James Highfill [via]
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How the Mind Worksby Steven PinkerISBN 0393318486 (0-393-31848-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Mind Works'Book summary:Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvellously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science. Pinker argues that a combination of Darwin's theories and some canny computer programs are the key to understanding ourselves--but he also throws in apt references to Star Trek, Star Wars, The Far Side, history, literature, W.C. Fields, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, surrealism, experimental psychology and Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty and his 888 children. If How the Mind Works were a rock show, tickets would be scalped for $100. This book deserved its spot at the top of the bestseller lists. It belongs on a short shelf alongside such classics as Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett, and The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. Pinker's startling ideas pop out as dramatically as those hidden pictures in a Magic Eye 3D stereogram poster, which he also explains in brilliantly lucid prose. [via]
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I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memoryby Patricia HamplISBN 0393320316 (0-393-32031-6)
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The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnsonby Michael Les BenedictISBN 0393319822 (0-393-31982-2)
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In Brief: Short Takes on the Personalby Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier JonesISBN 0393319075 (0-393-31907-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal'Book summary:An exciting new anthology by the editors of the popular In Short, about which Publishers Weekly said: "Even readers skeptical of short-attention-span publishing will find these shorts addictive."
In their previous collection Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones coined the term "short" for those creative nonfiction pieces literary rather than informational, and characteristically short that are attracting our finest writers. Now, with a more introspective focus, this new collection emphasizes the personal as "a way of seeing the world, of expressing an interior life. It is intimate without being maudlin, it is private without being secret." From Harriet Doerr's recollection of a halcyon time to Josephine Jacobsen's reverie on memory, In Brief offers vivid glimpses into the ways experience can be shaped in language that is fresh and inventive. The seventy-two authors here include the known John McPhee, Cythia Ozick, James Salter as well as remarkable new writers. Essays (all under 2000 words) range from Frank McCourt's search for his father in the pubs of Limerick to William Maxwell's thoughts about growing old; from Charles Baxter's early experience of reading to Brady Udall's confession as a liar. Patricia Hampl recalls meals at her grandmother's house, while Jane Brox contemplates the meaning of bread. In each piece, imagination becomes a way to explore reality. The real world we are fortunate enough to live in is revealed as endlessly rich and deep. [via]More editions of In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal:
Italiano Parlatoby Adrienne, Teresa Powell-Smith BonvecchiatoISBN 0393318125 (0-393-31812-5)
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Latinos: A Biography of the Peopleby Earl ShorrisISBN 0393321908 (0-393-32190-8)
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Letters to a Fiction Writerby Frederick BuschISBN 0393320618 (0-393-32061-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Fiction Writer'Book summary:"As a writer," says Andre Dubus, "you are constantly in training. Day after day, alone at your desk, with no one watching you or even depending on you, you take your position on the playing field." Letters to a Fiction Writer, which was inspired by Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, is a reminder that there is actually a whole community out there sharing your Sisyphean task. These 33 letters are written by authors such as Ann Beattie, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tobias Wolff. Lee K. Abbott (Living After Midnight) addresses the obligation of the fiction writer to "write it all goddamn down." Raymond Carver ponders the relationship between writing and alcoholism (upon recovering from it, he says, "I was so grateful to have my health back, and my life back, that it really didn't matter to me in one large way if I ever wrote anything again or not"). David Bradley discusses the difficulty of being an as-yet unpublished writer: "Most professions," he says, "pay bright prospects to develop their skills.... There are no such positions in writing."
Trying to make it as a writer is discouraging, yes. "If you can stop," recommends Reynolds Price, "you probably should. Try cabinet-making." But if you're all thumbs with a band saw, clasp this book to your breast and don't let go. For in it there are words of wisdom, wit, encouragement, and enticement that are sure to help you through that "strange and particular torture" that comes, according to Nicholas Delbanco, "after four hours of sitting with a paragraph you know to be poor." Of course, the true key to being a writer, say many of the authors included in this anthology, is writing. "Show up for work as dutifully and with as little fanfare as any civil servant," says Rosellen Brown. "Stop thinking of becoming an author," says Stanley W. Lindberg, editor of The Georgia Review, "and work instead to become a writer." And finally, intones Janette Turner Hospital (The Ivory Swing), "When rejection slips or rotten reviews come in ... have one stiff drink, say five Hail Mary's and ten Fuck-You's, and get back to work." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Timeby Nicolas Slonimsky, Peter SchickeleISBN 039332009X (0-393-32009-X)
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The Life Cycle Completedby Erik H. EriksonISBN 0393317722 (0-393-31772-2)
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Life's Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hipby Andrew BoydISBN 0393318702 (0-393-31870-2)
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The Mandarinsby Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0393318834 (0-393-31883-4)
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In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desires and her public life. "Much more than a roman à clef . . . a moving and engrossing novel." New York Times [via]More editions of The Mandarins:
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Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Scienceby Robert KunzigISBN 0393320634 (0-393-32063-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science'Book summary:A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader.
The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's climate, but we do not really understand how. The sea is still the frontier, and yet it seems so familiar that we sometimes forget how little we know about it. Just as we are poised on the verge of exploiting the sea on an unprecedented scalemining it, fertilizing it, fishing it outthis book reminds us of how much we have yet to learn. More than that, it chronicles the knowledge explosion that has transformed our view of the sea in just the past few decades, and made it a far more interesting and accessible place. From the Big Bang to that far-off future time, two billion years from now, when our planet will be a waterless rock; from the lush crowds of life at seafloor hot springs to the invisible, jewel-like plants that float at the sea surface; from the restless shifting of the tectonic plates to the majestic sweep of the ocean currents, Kunzig's clear and lyrical prose transports us to the ends of the Earth.
Originally published in hardcover as The Restless Sea. "Robert Kunzig is a creator of what oceanographer Harry Hess once referred to as 'geopoetry.' He covers vast tracts of time and space and makes his subjects electrifying."Richard Ellis, The Times [London] "The Restless Sea immediately surfaces at the top of the list of journalistic treatments of oceanography. . . .The book opened my eyes to numerous wonders."Richard Strickland, American Scientist "When you head for the coast this summer, leave that trashy beach novel at home. Instead, pack Robert Kunzig's book. Because just beyond your rental cottage lies the restless sea, where three-mile-tall mountain ranges criss-cross the ocean floor, and deep trenches harbor mysterious creatures. . . . The book is easy to read, and will bring you up to date on the startling discoveries oceanographers have made during the past few decades."Phillip Manning, The News and Observer [Raleigh, North Carolina] ] "Anyone who loves the sea should read this book."Sebastian Junger 8 pages of color, 20 black-and-white illustrations [via]More editions of Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science:
Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalismby Walter LafeberISBN 0393320375 (0-393-32037-5)
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Minnesota: A Historyby William LassISBN 0393319717 (0-393-31971-7)
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The Muslim Discovery of Europeby Bernard LewisISBN 0393321657 (0-393-32165-7)
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New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitutionby Nelson W. Polsby, Alan Brinkley, Kathleen M. SullivanISBN 0393317374 (0-393-31737-4)
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One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945by David ReynoldsISBN 0393321088 (0-393-32108-8)
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Over There : The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918by Byron FarwellISBN 0393320286 (0-393-32028-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Over There : The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918'Book summary:A wonderfully concise history of America's first conflict overseas, Over There successfully balances a great body of scholarship with the need to tell a good story. It starts out in 1914, with the United States unprepared (both physically and politically) to fight, then tells how, in 1917, the country quickly created a combat force that helped break a long stalemate on the Western front of Europe. Farwell, a veteran author of military history, offers important insights into the nature of the Great War: "Strategy was replaced by logistics and battles were fought with strange, unfamiliar weapons of previously unimagined frightfulness," such as tanks, planes, and flame-throwers. Despite these technological advances, other aspects of the war were strikingly primitive. Officers on the front sometimes relied on carrier pigeons to send messages to headquarters, even releasing these poor birds in the middle of intense combat.
Farwell has the good sense to populate his narrative with cameo appearances by familiar figures such as Harry Truman, who fought with an artillery company, and Dwight Eisenhower, who narrowly missed seeing combat and regretted the war's end because, as a West Point-trained trooper, he desperately wanted to fight. Farwell also offers a glossary of soldier slang (to "read a shirt" was to inspect it for lice, for example). An appendix describes the exploits of "rough-cut hillbilly hero" Sergeant York, as well as the famed "Lost Battalion," which was trapped behind enemy lines without food for more than 100 hours, suffered terrible casualties, and refused to surrender. In all, Over There is hard to beat as introduction to the American role in the First World War. --John J. Miller [via]
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Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internetby Margaret WertheimISBN 0393320537 (0-393-32053-7)
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Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcyclesby Melissa Holbrook PiersonISBN 0393318095 (0-393-31809-5)
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Pleasure Warsby Peter GayISBN 0393318273 (0-393-31827-3)
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Police Brutality: An Anthologyby Jill NelsonISBN 0393321630 (0-393-32163-0)
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Proximity to Deathby William S. McFeelyISBN 0393321045 (0-393-32104-5)
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Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Warsby Margaret WertheimISBN 0393317242 (0-393-31724-2)
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A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burtonby Mary S. LovellISBN 0393320391 (0-393-32039-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton'Book summary:More than a century after their deaths, Richard and Isabel Burton are legend. Sir Richard Burton was a prolific writer, an insatiable explorer, a linguist, and a translator who pursued controversy and risk as surely as adventure. In 1853, disguised as an Afghani doctor, he became one of the first Europeans to enter the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He later led an expedition to discover the source of the Nile--whether he got there first was later protractedly disputed. He spoke dozens of languages and translated the erotic works The Arabian Nights, The Kama Sutra, and The Perfumed Garden into English, making him fall afoul of the National Vigilance Society and the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Isabel, for her part, defied her upper-crust family to marry Richard and lead the "wild, roving, vagabond life" she had dreamed of as a stifled young lady. She was her husband's collaborator, editor, and most vehement advocate. She defended his oft-besmirched reputation, promoted his writing, successfully campaigned to make him knighted--even arranged a dinner with the queen. After Richard's death, Isabel came under fire for burning his papers, including the Kama Sutra translation. This double biography by Mary S. Lovell (biographer, too, of Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, and Jane Digby) attempts to dispel many of the myths that have grown up around the pair of famous Victorians. She defends Isabel's burning her husband's papers as an act designed to protect his reputation and privacy. Lovell points out that even after their being burned, more of Richard's papers remained than were left by many of his contemporaries. And she cites them as primary source material for the book. Lovell also strenuously contradicts the long-held belief that Richard was gay--his interest in and writings about male sexuality, she believes, were borne purely of anthropological research. The Burtons, she assures readers, had an ideal marriage in every way, but she offers little supporting material to prove her claim. Lovell's views seem sometimes to be colored by her adoration for her subjects. But the obvious breadth of her research and her narrative skill make Rage to Live one of the more distinguished biographies of late. [via]
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Rosalind Franklin and DNAby Anne SayreISBN 0393320448 (0-393-32044-8)
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Shackleton's Boat Journeyby Frank Arthur WorsleyISBN 0393318648 (0-393-31864-8)
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Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living With Invisible Chronic Illnessby Mary E. Siegel, Paul J. DonoghueISBN 0393320650 (0-393-32065-0)
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Sketches from a Lifeby George F. KennanISBN 0393321398 (0-393-32139-8)
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Beginning with his first foreign service post in 1927 and ending seven decades later, Kennan's account is rich with the insight of a major historical participant. Whether relating the perils of Hitler's Germany or revisiting Kennan's days as ambassador to the Soviet Union, Sketches from a Life is as riveting as great literature, and one of the most invaluable documents of our time. [via]More editions of Sketches from a Life:
Slavery and Freedom: An Interprepation of the Old Southby James OakesISBN 0393317668 (0-393-31766-8)
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century Worldby John Robert McNeillISBN 0393321835 (0-393-32183-5)
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Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New Westby Patricia Nelson LimerickISBN 0393321029 (0-393-32102-9)
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State of the World 2000by Lester BrownISBN 0393319989 (0-393-31998-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'State of the World 2000'Book summary:State of the World 2000 provides national leaders and concerned citizens with a comprehensive framework for the global debate about our future in the new century. This annual survey by the award-winning Worldwatch Institute has become an invaluable analysis of negative environmental trends and a guide to emerging solutions.
The book shows how our current fossil-fueled auto-centered, throwaway economy is steadily destroying the very ecosystems that form the foundations of our lives. The great challenge we face in the next century is making the transition to a sustainable economy that reuses and recycles materials is powered by renewable energy sources and has a stable population The authors argue that meeting this challenge will offer some of the greatest investment opportunities in history.
Written in clear and concise language with easy-to-read charts and tables, State of the World 2000 presents a view of our changing world that we, and our leaders cannot afford to ignore. [via]
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State of the World 2001: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Societyby Lester R. BrownISBN 0393320820 (0-393-32082-0)
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Still Life in Milfordby Thomas LynchISBN 0393319733 (0-393-31973-3)
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Strange Behavior: Tales of Evolutionary Neurologyby Harold KlawansISBN 0393321843 (0-393-32184-3)
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As a sympatheticand brilliantbrain detective, Harold Klawans treated people with a huge array of troubles, all of which boiled down to one complaint: something was wrong with their brains. From the woman suffering from "painful foot and moving toe syndrome" to the Indiana farmer who contacted a variant of mad cow disease from his herds of livestock, Klawans deduced a great deal from his patients, not only about the immediate causes of their ailments, but about the evolutionary underpinnings of their behavior. [via]More editions of Strange Behavior: Tales of Evolutionary Neurology:
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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940by Marc BlochISBN 0393319113 (0-393-31911-3)
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Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the penetrating analysis of a first-rate historian" (Christian Science Monitor). Bloch takes a close look at the military failures he witnessed, examining why France was unable to respond to attack quickly and effectively. He gives a personal account of the battle of France, followed by a biting analysis of the generation between the wars. His harsh conclusion is that the immediate cause of the disaster was the utter incompetence of the High Command, but his analysis ranges broadly, appraising all the factors, social as well as military, which since 1870 had undermined French national solidarity. "Much has been, and will be, written in explanation of the defeat of France in 1940, but it seems unlikely that the truth of the matter will ever be more accurately and more vividly presented than in this statement of evidence." P. J. Philip, New York Times Book Review "The most wisdom-packed commentary on the problem set [before] all intelligent and patriotic Frenchmen by the events of 1940." D. W. Brogan, Spectator [via]More editions of Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940:
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brainby Terrence W. DeaconISBN 0393317544 (0-393-31754-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain'Book summary:Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species begins with a question posed by a 7-year-old child: Why can't animals talk? Or, as Deacon puts it, if animals have simpler brains, why can't they develop a simpler form of language to go with them? Thus begins the basic line of inquiry for this breathtakingly ambitious work, which attempts to describe the origins of human language and consciousness.
What separates humans from animals, Deacon writes, is our capacity for symbolic representation. Animals can easily learn to link a sound with an object or an effect with a cause. But symbolic thinking assumes the ability to associate things that might only rarely have a physical correlation; think of the word "unicorn," for instance, or the idea of the future. Language is only the outward expression of this symbolic ability, which lays the foundation for everything from human laughter to our compulsive search for meaning.
The final section of The Symbolic Species posits that human brains and human language have coevolved over millions of years, leading Deacon to the remarkable conclusion that many modern human traits were actually caused by ideas. Deacon's background in biological anthropology and neuroscience makes him a reliable companion through this complicated multidisciplinary turf. Rigorously researched and argued in dense but lively prose, The Symbolic Species is that rare animal, a book of serious science that's accessible to layman and scientist alike. [via]
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Tall Trees, Tough Menby Robert PikeISBN 0393319172 (0-393-31917-2)
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisisby Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0393318346 (0-393-31834-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis'Book summary:"A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes the hour-by-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a foreword to this edition, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light from the former Soviet Union. Illustrated [via]
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Tolstoyby A. N. WilsonISBN 0393321223 (0-393-32122-3)
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Twice As Less: Black English and the Performance of Black Students in Mathematics and Scienceby Eleanor Wilson OrrISBN 0393317412 (0-393-31741-2)
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The Twilight of American Cultureby Morris BermanISBN 039332169X (0-393-32169-X)
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The Ugly Americanby William J. Lederer, Eugene BurdickISBN 0393318672 (0-393-31867-2)
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Victor Hugoby Graham RobbISBN 0393318990 (0-393-31899-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victor Hugo'Book summary:It's easy to see why Victor Hugo won the 1997 Whitbread Biography Award. Unintimidated by the epic sweep of Victor Hugo's life (1802-85), British scholar Graham Robb analyzes it with intelligence, wit, and enormous verve. The author wears his learning lightly as he cherry-picks the vast Hugo archives to cogently chronicle his subject's evolution from leading poet of the Romantic revolution (Hernani) to passionate novelist of the downtrodden (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) to majestic political exile (The Chastisements), thundering against the tyranny of Louis-Napoleon from the Channel Islands. Victor Hugo is a stimulating, opinionated reassessment of France's most monumental writer. [via]
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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We Seeby Donald David HoffmanISBN 0393319679 (0-393-31967-9)
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Waiting to Forgetby Margaret MoormanISBN 0393317838 (0-393-31783-8)
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Were You Always an Italian: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian Americaby Maria LaurinoISBN 0393321959 (0-393-32195-9)
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Characterby Ralph Leighton, Richard P FeynmanISBN 0393320928 (0-393-32092-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound. [via]
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What the Living Doby Marie HoweISBN 0393318869 (0-393-31886-9)
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Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Natureby Hampton Sides, Jason SchneiderISBN 0393321509 (0-393-32150-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature'Book summary:Join longtime Outside editor and contributor Hampton Sides as he rollicks through the fascinating, quirky questions readers ask about the world around them.
Do beavers ever get squashed by the trees they're gnawing down? Why are there so many worms writhing on the sidewalk after a storm? What good are goosebumps? Why do llamas spit? What is the oldest living creature on earth? Focusing on natural history and outdoor lore, this collection ranges from the gothic to the comic to the cosmic. It includes the sorts of questions that most of us stopped asking (at least out loud) when we were eight years old. "The Wild File" is what question-and-answer columns should be but seldom are: an often surprising, sometimes zany, always insightful and informative back-and-forth between a devoted readership and its publication. The result is an enchanting and enriching collection of answers that open windows to more questions.
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Wild Fruitsby Henry David Thoreau, Bradley P. Dean, Abigail RorerISBN 0393321150 (0-393-32115-0)
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Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lakeby Anne LabastilleISBN 0393320596 (0-393-32059-6)
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