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Adventures of a Verbivoreby Richard LedererISBN 0671709429 (0-671-70942-9)
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An American Life: The Autobiographyby Ronald Reagan, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671746685 (0-671-74668-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Life: The Autobiography'Book summary:Ronald Reagans autobiography is a work of major historical importance. Here, in his own words, is the story of his lifepublic and privatetold in a book both frank and compellingly readable.
Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in ways that are both fundamental and lasting, than Ronald Reagan. Certainly no president has more dramatically raised the American spirit, or done so much to restore national strength and self-confidence.
Here, then, is a truly American success storya great and inspiring one. From modest beginnings as the son of a shoe salesman in Tampico, Illinois, Ronald Reagan achieved first a distinguished career in Hollywood and then, as governor of California and as president of the most powerful nation in the world, a career of public service unique in our history.
Ronald Reagans account of that rise is told here with all the uncompromising candor, modesty, and wit that made him perhaps the most able communicator ever to occupy the White House, and also with the sense of drama of a gifted natural storyteller.
He tells us, with warmth and pride, of his early years and of the elements that made him, in later life, a leader of such stubborn integrity, courage, and clear-minded optimism. Reading the account of this childhood, we understand how his parents, struggling to make ends meet despite family problems and the rigors of the Depression, shaped his belief in the virtues of American lifethe need to help others, the desire to get ahead and to get things done, the deep trust in the basic goodness, values, and sense of justice of the American peoplevirtues that few presidents have expressed more eloquently than Ronald Reagan.
With absolute authority and a keen eye for the details and the anecdotes that humanize history, Ronald Reagan takes the reader behind the scenes of his extraordinary career, from his first political experiences as president of the Screen Actors Guild (including his first meeting with a beautiful young actress who was later to become Nancy Reagan) to such high points of his presidency as the November 1985 Geneva meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, during which Reagan invited the Soviet leader outside for a breath of fresh air and then took him off for a walk and a man-to-man chat, without aides, that set the course for arms reduction and charted the end of the Cold War.
Here he reveals what went on behind his decision to enter politics and run for the governorship of California, the speech nominating Barry Goldwater that first made Reagan a national political figure, his race for the presidency, his relations with the members of his own cabinet, and his frustrations with Congress.
He gives us the details of the great themes and dramatic crises of his eight years in office, from Lebanon to Grenada, from the struggle to achieve arms control to tax reform, from Iran-Contra to the visits abroad that did so much to reestablish the United States in the eyes of the world as a friendly and peaceful power. His narrative is full of insights, from the unseen dangers of Gorbachevs first visit to the United States to Reagans own personal correspondence with major foreign leaders, as well as his innermost feelings about life in the White House, the assassination attempt, his familyand the enduring love between himself and Mrs. Reagan.
An American Life is a warm, richly detailed, and deeply human book, a brilliant self-portrait, a significant work of history. [via]
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The Amityville Horrorby Jay AnsonISBN 0671727397 (0-671-72739-7)
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Anna and the King of Siamby Margaret LandonISBN 0671810316 (0-671-81031-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna and the King of Siam'Book summary:"Anna and the King of Siam" is a wonderful blend of old-fashioned fiction writing and the meticulously researched true story of the young English woman who was the tutor to the children of King Mongkut of Siam during the 1860s. Her most important pupil was the prince who would become Thailand's most progressive king. It was Anna who taught him about Abraham Lincoln and the Western ideals which would later influence his reign and the transformation of Thailand from a feudal state to a modern progressive society. [via]
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Arco Test Your Cultural Literacyby Diane Zahler, Kathy A. ZahlerISBN 0671847163 (0-671-84716-3)
Softcover, Petersons
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arco Test Your Cultural Literacy'Book summary:A runaway smash hit in its first edition, this fascinating quiz book dared Americans to prove their knowledge of Western and global culture--and wound up a national bestseller. Now it's back to challenge and entertain a new crop of readers and to offer brand-new coverage of the key events and ideas that are reshaping today's world. Photographs and locator maps. [via]
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C++ Primer Plusby Stephen PrataISBN 0672326965 (0-672-32696-5)
Softcover, Sams
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› Find signed collectible books: 'C++ Primer Plus'Book summary:If you are new to C++ programming, C++ Primer Plus, Fifth Edition is a friendly and easy-to-use self-study guide. You will cover the latest and most useful language enhancements, the Standard Template Library and ways to streamline object-oriented programming with C++. This guide also illustrates how to handle input and output, make programs perform repetitive tasks, manipulate data, hide information, use functions and build flexible, easily modifiable programs. With the help of this book, you will:
- Learn C++ programming from the ground up.
- Learn through real-world, hands-on examples.
- Experiment with concepts, including classes, inheritance, templates and exceptions.
- Reinforce knowledge gained through end-of-chapter review questions and practice programming exercises.
C++ Primer Plus, Fifth Edition makes learning and using important object-oriented programming concepts understandable. Choose this classic to learn the fundamentals and more of C++ programming.
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China: A New Historyby John King FairbankISBN 0674116712 (0-674-11671-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'China: A New History'Book summary:Bringing to bear 60 years of research, travel, and teaching, Fairbank weaves a detailed history that reaches from China's neolithic days to its troubled present. He depicts a country ever-changing and yet constant in its effort to achieve a cohesive identity, an enormous and enormously complex nation perpetually balancing between the imperatives of force and the power of ideas. Here are the Chinese autocrats in their various times and guises, maintaining Confucian civility and order through - paradoxically - the perpetual threat of irrational imperial violence. Here is the intellectual class, revered for its wisdom and counsel and yet - as events from the Cultural Revolution to the massacre in Tiananmen Square demonstrate - eminently expendable. And here are China's farmers engaged in a never-ending backbreaking attempt to tame their temperamental countryside only to face repeated famine as China's agrarian-based economy fails to develop. At the centre of all stands the Chinese family, until recently the model for both obedience and tyranny in society at large. Fairbank traces the growth of a civilization that could embrace so many contradictions and disruptions and yet retain a strong sense of its identity. Following China's ambivalent relations with the West and with the forces of modernization, he identifies, even in the great leap forward signaled by the Communist Revolution, the assumptions that have informed Chinese society for thousands of years. From the influences of Buddhism through the flowering of Song China to the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, this illustrated history unfolds in the style thst is quintessentially Fairbank. [via]
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China: A New Historyby Merle Goldman, John King FairbankISBN 0674018281 (0-674-01828-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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China : A New Historyby John K. Fairbank, Merle GoldmanISBN 0674116720 (0-674-11672-0)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. This book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman has brought the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period and a new preface and epilogue. She provides a detailed account of the wide array of changes--social, economic, cultural, and even political--that have taken place in China over the past two decades.
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Clement Wood's Unabridged Rhyming Dictionaryby Clement WoodISBN 0671530984 (0-671-53098-4)
Softcover, Simon and Schuster
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The Collapsing Universeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0671632337 (0-671-63233-7)
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Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Second Seriesby Alfred R. Ferguson, Jean Ferguson CarrISBN 0674139909 (0-674-13990-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Second Series'Book summary:Emerson's second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one. It includes eight essays--"The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts," "Nature," "Politics," and "Nominalist and Realist"--and one address, the much misunderstood "New England Reformers." Essays: Second Series has a lightness of tone and an irony absent from the earlier writings, but it is no less memorable: "a sermon to me," Carlyle wrote, "a real word."
The present edition, drawing on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last forty years, incorporates all the textual changes Emerson made or demonstrably intended to make after 1844. It records variant wordings and recounts the development of the text before and after publication. A list of parallel passages makes it possible to trace Emerson's extensive use of material from his journals, notebooks, and lectures. Endnotes provide information about people, events, and now-obscure terms. A brief historical introduction places the book in the context of the years during which it was written, the time of Brook Farm, The Dial, and the death of Emerson's five year-old son.
Historical Introduction and Notes by Joseph Slater
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. 2 : Essays: First Seriesby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Slater, Alfred R. Ferguson, Jean F. CarrISBN 0674139801 (0-674-13980-1)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol. 2 : Essays: First Series'Book summary:Some of Emersons finest and most famous essays, such as Self-Reliance, Compensation, and The Over-Soul, appeared in his Essays of 1841, published when he was thirty-seven years old. Preceded by the slim volume Nature, it was his first full-length book.
The present edition provides for the first time an authoritative text of the Essays, together with an introduction, notes, and supplementary material of great value for the study of Emersons creative processes. A list of hundreds of parallel passages in his earlier journals and lectures makes it possible to examine in detail how he drew upon those manuscripts (now published), especially the voluminous journals, as grist for the twelve essays. His subsequent alterations of the essays, particularly in the revised edition of 1847, give evidence of the evolution of his thought and style at this stage of his career. While the text incorporates his revisions, so as to represent his final intention, the earlier versions are given at the end of the book.
Introduction and Notes by Joseph Slater
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Coming Furyby Bruce CattonISBN 0671543083 (0-671-54308-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming Fury'Book summary:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award! A thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces conspiring to tear apart the United States--with the disintegrating political processes and rising tempers finally erupting at Bull Run. "...a major work by a major writer, a superb re-creation of the twelve crucial months that opened the Civil War."--The New York Times.[via]More editions of Coming Fury:
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaosby M. Mitchell WaldropISBN 0671872346 (0-671-87234-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos'Book summary:A look at the rebellious thinkers who are challenging old ideas with insights into ways countless elements of complex systems interact to produce spontaneous order out of confusion discusses politics, economics, and biology. 40,000 first printing. [via]
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Cosmic Trigger Final Secret of Illmntiby WilsonISBN 0671452185 (0-671-45218-5)
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Crazy Englishby Richard Lederer, Elaine PfefferblitISBN 067168907X (0-671-68907-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy English'Book summary:One of the most unforgettable moments of my youth was learning the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I was in third grade. So what if Richard Lederer has come up with a chemical compound that consists of 1,913 letters? Owning a word like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is empowering at any age. If you have ever been completely wowed by the power you can have over language, or its power over you, Richard Lederer is your patron saint. His oft-reprinted introduction to Crazy English, which was originally published in 1989, claims that English is "the most loopy and wiggy of all tongues." And then he demonstrates: "In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? ... Why do they call them apartments when they're all together?" And so on. Lederer's pace is frenetic. He alights on oxymorons ("pretty ugly," "computer jock"), redundancies, confusing words (are you sure you know the meaning of enormity?), phobias, contronyms, heteronyms, retroactive terms (acoustic guitar, rotary phone), and a host of other linguistic delights.
Though English may be one of the crazier languages--Lederer claims that about 80 percent of our words are not spelled phonetically--they are all, he says, a little crazy. "That's because language is invented ... by boys and girls and men and women, not computers. As such, language reflects the creative and fearful asymmetry of the human race, which, of course, isn't really a race at all." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Languageby Richard LedererISBN 0671689061 (0-671-68906-1)
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Delta of Venusby Anais NinISBN 0671742493 (0-671-74249-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delta of Venus'Book summary:Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a stunning collection of sexual encounters from the queen of literary erotica. From Mathilde's lust-filled Peruvian opium den to the Hungarian baron driven insane by his insatiable desire, the passions and obsessions of this dazzling cast of characters are vivid and unforgettable. Delta of Venus is a deep and sensual world that evokes the very essence of sexuality. [via]
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Dialogues of Platoby Justin D. KaplanISBN 0671525247 (0-671-52524-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialogues of Plato'Book summary:"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's "Dialogues" still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial execution of Socrates--the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and so altered the course of Western though. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century B.C., and examine the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential. [via]
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Diana: Vrai Histoire/ Diana Her True Storyby Andrew MortonISBN 0671798782 (0-671-79878-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diana: Vrai Histoire/ Diana Her True Story'Book summary:Diana: Her True Story was originally published in 1992 under the guise of a quasi-authorized biography, with mostly unnamed courtiers and royalty as the accredited sources. It instantly became a sizzling, international bestseller that lanced the boil of Windsor family dysfunction, triggering a chain of events that led to Charles and Diana's divorce. After her tragic death in 1997, Morton revealed that Diana had not only been the main source for the book, but had also edited his original drafts for accuracy. In return for this gold mine of information, Diana wanted complete anonymity for fear of retaliation from the queen--a fear that seems reasonably justified after reading the icy, inhuman portrayal of Her Majesty. Beyond the racy and irregular royals, Diana: Her True Story gives a full account of the princess's rocky childhood, her bouts with bulimia, the rejection she felt by Charles and the royal family, and her tenacious ability to overcome adversity. Included are two sections of full-color photographs. [via]
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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emersonby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jean Ferguson Carr, Alfred Riggs FergusonISBN 0674267206 (0-674-26720-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Examined Life: Philosophical Meditationsby Robert NozickISBN 0671725017 (0-671-72501-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations'Book summary:An original work from a preeminent professor of philosophy at Harvard University, in which happiness, dying, creativity, religious faith, sexuality, good and evil, the ideal and the real, are explored in the grand Socratic tradition. Now in paperback, this bestseller will appeal to anyone concerned with inner transformation and personal growth. [via]
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers GrimmISBN 0671437925 (0-671-43792-5)
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A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases: And Other True Casesby Ann RuleISBN 0671793551 (0-671-79355-1)
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscapeby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0671888250 (0-671-88825-0)
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German English DictionaryISBN 0671477587 (0-671-47758-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Handbook to Literatureby C. Hugh Holman, William Flint ThrallISBN 0672630486 (0-672-63048-6)
Softcover, Odyssey Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Handbook to Literature'Book summary:For undergraduate/graduate-level literature courses. This comprehensive text is the definitive reference text on literature and literary criticism in English. The text itself is an alphabetical listing of the terms that pertain to literature in English. Now in its eighth edition, it has been used by more than one million students. [via]
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A Handbook to Literature: Based on the Original Edition by William Flint Thrall and Addison Hibbardby C. Hugh Holman, William Flint ThrallISBN 0672614413 (0-672-61441-3)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Education Pub
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In a Different Voiceby Carol GilliganISBN 0674445449 (0-674-44544-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development'Book summary:This is the little book that started a revolution. First published almost twenty years ago, it made women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than three-quarters of a million copies sold around the world. In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate-and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.
Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women--their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.
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It's Always Somethingby Gilda RadnerISBN 0671638688 (0-671-63868-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Langenscheidt's German-English English-German Dictionaryby Langenscheidt Editorial StaffISBN 067186419X (0-671-86419-X)
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankindby Donald JohansonISBN 0671724991 (0-671-72499-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind'Book summary:The story of one of the most important fossil finds in man's search for his ancestors - the 60per cent complete female hominid skeleton nicknamed "Lucy". Confirming beyond doubt the early bipedal nature of human ancestors, she was discovered in 1973 in Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by Johanson. [via]
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Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freudby Thomas LaqueurISBN 0674543491 (0-674-54349-1)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freudby Thomas Walter LaqueurISBN 0674543556 (0-674-54355-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud'Book summary:This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Thomas Laqueur's story--the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm--but we will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activists, literary figures, and theorists of every stripe.
Laqueur begins with the question of why, in the late eighteenth century, woman's orgasm came to be regarded as irrelevant to conception, and he then proceeds to retrace the dramatic changes in Western views of sexual characteristics over two millennia. Along the way, two "masterplots" emerge. In the one-sex story, woman is an imperfect version of man, and her anatomy and physiology are construed accordingly: the vagina is seen as an interior penis, the womb as a scrotum, the ovaries as testicles. The body is thus a representation, not the foundation, of social gender. The second plot tends to dominate post-Enlightenment thinking while the one-sex model is firmly rooted in classical learning. The two-sex story says that the body determines gender differences, that woman is the opposite of man with incommensurably different organs, functions, and feelings. The two plots overlap; neither ever holds a monopoly. Science may establish many new facts, but even so, Laqueur argues, science was only providing a new way of speaking, a rhetoric and not a key to female liberation or to social progress. Making Sex ends with Freud, who denied the neurological evidence to insist that, as a girl becomes a woman, the locus of her sexual pleasure shifts from the clitoris to the vagina; she becomes what culture demands despite, not because of, the body. Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice.
This is a powerful story, written with verve and a keen sense of telling detail (be it technically rigorous or scabrously fanciful). Making Sex will stimulate thought, whether argument or surprised agreement, in a wide range of readers.
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Miamiby Joan DidionISBN 067166820X (0-671-66820-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miami'Book summary:It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south.
As Didion follows Miami's drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence. [via]-
Momentous Events, Vivid Memoriesby David B. PillemerISBN 0674004183 (0-674-00418-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Momentous Events, Vivid Memories'Book summary:The bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger: every generation has unforgettable events, the shared memory of which can create fleeting intimacy among strangers. These public memories, combined with poignant personal moments--the first day of college, a baseball game with one's father, praise from a mentor--are the critical shaping events of individual lives.
Although experimental memory studies have long been part of empirical psychology, and psychotherapy has focused on repressed or traumatizing memories, relatively little attention has been paid to the inspiring, touching, amusing, or revealing moments that highlight most lives. What makes something unforgettable? How do we learn to share the significance of memories?
David Pillemer's research, brought together in this gracefully written book, extends the current study of narrative and specific memory. Drawing on a variety of evidence and methods--cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries--Pillemer elaborates on five themes: the function of memory; how children learn to construct and share personal memories; memory as a complex interactive system of image, emotion, and narrative; individual and group differences in memory function and performance; and how unique events linger in memory and influence lives. A provocative last chapter, full of striking examples, considers potential variations in memory across gender, culture, and personality. Momentous Events, Vivid Memories is itself a compelling and memorable book.
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Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Dayby Moosewood CollectiveISBN 0671679929 (0-671-67992-9)
Softcover, Fireside
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Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilderby Samuel Wilson FussellISBN 0671701959 (0-671-70195-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Mythic Tarotby Juliet Sharman-Burke, Liz GreeneISBN 0671618636 (0-671-61863-6)
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The Mythic Tarot sweeps the medieval dust off the Tarot and brings it into the twentieth century in a form accessible to everyone. Now even the layperson can explore the secrets of the unconscious to find its bearing on his or her personal life and growth.
This package contains everything the beginning card user needs: a newly designed Tarot deck based on the Greek myths; an illustrated, 224-page book explaining how to use the cards; and a silky cloth on which to lay them out.
THE CARDS: Elegant, full color, the design of these cards is based on the Greek myths. These familiar, evocative images make it easy to remember the specific meaning and nuances of each card.
THE BOOK: Clearly and simply presented from a Western point of view, this illustrated book explains the origins of the Tarot, how the Tarot works, the meaning of each card, and how to read the cards.
THE CLOTH: Made of a silky, wrinkle-proof material and imprinted with card outlines for the Celtic Cross spread, the black cloth shows you where to lay out the cards and serves as a protective wrapping for the cards when not in use.
Used intelligently and sensitively, The Mythic Tarot will stimulate an innate curiosity about yourself as well as provide the first step toward developing intuition -- the hallmark of the regular Tarot reader. [via]
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The Mythic Tarot Workbookby Juliet Sharman-Burke, Liz GreeneISBN 0671658425 (0-671-65842-5)
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Necessary Lossesby Judith ViorstISBN 0671456555 (0-671-45655-5)
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The Odysseyby HomerISBN 0671745824 (0-671-74582-4)
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The Odyssey of Homerby HomerusISBN 0672614154 (0-672-61415-4)
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americasby Paul TherouxISBN 0671688944 (0-671-68894-4)
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On Histories and Stories: Selected Essaysby A. S. ByattISBN 0674008332 (0-674-00833-2)
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Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914by David Willis McCulloughISBN 0671244094 (0-671-24409-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914'Book summary:On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia.
All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the Panama Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To build a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an easy matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to involve the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually those workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to build a pyramid a mile high. In the early years, they toiled under the direction of French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who went bankrupt while pursuing his dream of extending France's empire in the Americas. The United States then entered the picture, with President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrating the purchase of the canal--but not before helping foment a revolution that removed Panama from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.
The story of the Panama Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough's long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Plutarch's LivesISBN 0674991125 (0-674-99112-5)
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0671826573 (0-671-82657-3)
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The Puritan Dilemma: The Story Of John Winthropby Edmund Sears MorganISBN 067339347X (0-673-39347-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Puritan Dilemma: The Story Of John Winthrop'Book summary:In 1630, along with hundreds of other settlers, John Winthrop left England for the New World. Because of his ardent Puritan beliefs and natural talent for government and politics, he was appointed governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He became the foremost political leader in the colony for nearly 20 years, including twelve nonconsecutive terms as governor. When Winthrop and these new settlers arrived in the New World, they were aiming to create their own utopia, but they encountered difficulty and dissent.
In The Puritan Dilemma: John Winthrop, biographer Edmund Morgan helps us understand the motivations behind Puritan migration to America and the ideological and political difficulties they faced once they arrived. What does freedom mean? What is the proper role of the individual in society? Alongside the unfolding drama of a developing country, Morgan explores the life of John Winthrop and the core question of what level of responsibility people owe to their community and society. [via]
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Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyricsby Gavin Edwards, Chris KalbISBN 0671501283 (0-671-50128-3)
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Six Memos for the Next Milleniumby Italo CalvinoISBN 0674810406 (0-674-81040-6)
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Star Trek Chronologyby Michael Okuda, Denise OkudaISBN 0671536109 (0-671-53610-9)
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Star Trek Insurrectionby J. M. Dillard, J. M. DillarISBN 0671511491 (0-671-51149-1)
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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Worksby Erik Spiekermann, E. M. GingerISBN 0672485435 (0-672-48543-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works'Book summary:Frederic Goudy, American type designer, once said, "Anyone who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep." To most people, this comment only adds to the perception that type inhabits a mysterious world with intricate terminology and elaborate rules; added to this are thouasands of type faces out there that all seem to look alike. Until now, Spiekerman and Ginger shepherd their decades of typograhpic experience into a unique and lively guidebook which shows that type is easy to use, easy to understand, and in the hands of a savvy user, a powerful communications tool. You need no previous knowledge of typography to enjoy Stop Stealing Sheep. It makes no difference what kind of computer you work on, what type of software you use, or what you do for a living, because as the authors show- type, good type -reaches across all boundaries, computer platforms, and professional distinctions. [via]
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The Story of Civilization Pt. 1: The Life of Greeceby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671418009 (0-671-41800-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Civilization Pt. 1: The Life of Greece'Book summary:The Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest. This is the second volume of the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning series. [via]
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Tarot Made Easyby Nancy GarenISBN 0671670875 (0-671-67087-5)
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This Is My Godby Herman WoukISBN 0671493531 (0-671-49353-1)
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This Is My God: The Jewish Way of Lifeby Herman WoukISBN 0671622587 (0-671-62258-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Is My God: The Jewish Way of Life'Book summary:This Is My God is Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism completely updated and revised with a new chapter, "Israel at Forty." A miracle of brevity, it guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion with all the power, clarity and wit of Wouk's celebrated novels. [via]
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To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Suluby George TakeiISBN 0671536230 (0-671-53623-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Stars : The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu'Book summary:This is the autobiography of one of Star Trek's most popular stars, George Takei. It tells of his triumph over adversity and of his huge success, despite an inauspicious start in a wartime US Asian relocation camp. In his lifetime, he has become an actor, a successful businessman, a writer, and a man deeply involved in politics and the democratic process. His story also includes his early days as an actor when he had brushes with greats like Alec Guinness, Burt Lancaster and Bruce Lee, as well as his first meeting with a writer/producer named Gene Roddenberry. The story continues with his days as Mr Sulu on Star Trek, with tales of what really went on behind the scenes, and a look at the production of the original TV series and the feature films. [via]
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The Very Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide Worldby Bruce LanskyISBN 0671561138 (0-671-56113-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Very Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World'Book summary:MORE COMPLETE, MORE HELPFUL, AND MORE FUN THAN ANY OTHER BABY NAME BOOK!
* over 30,001 boys' and girls' names complete with origins, meanings, variations, and famous namesakes * the latest baby name popularity poll rankings, including the most popular names for African-American and Hispanic-American children * survey results on stereotypes of commonly used names * 15 steps to selecting the best name for your baby * advice on changing names, plus famous people who did * fascinating facts about names * advice from "Dear Abby" about using "Jr."
It really is the very best name book you can buy! [via]
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War Against Womenby Marilyn FrenchISBN 0671661574 (0-671-66157-4)
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Webster's New World Dictionaryby Victoria E. Neufeldt, Michael Agnes, Andrew N. SparksISBN 0671519824 (0-671-51982-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Webster's New World Dictionary'Book summary:Over 60,000 entries-- covering business, computer, and scientific terms; colloquial, idiomatic, and current slang expressions; and more.
Updated and revised biographical and geographical database-- with 1,600 additional entries.
Simple alphabetical listing for all entries-- including prefixes and suffixes, abbreviations, foreign words and phrases, and biographical and geographical names.
Concise, easy-to-understand definitions-- many revised to reflect the latest research on usage and meaning.
Precise and comprehensive pronunciation key-- located on inside of back cover for quick, convenient reference.
Updated page design and layout-- modern, clear type appeals to the eye and makes for an easier-to-read reference tool.
Complete A to Z preparation by the permanent lexicographical staff of "Webster's New World Dictionary"-- the word pros who prepared the acclaimed Third College Edition. [via]
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- Webster's New World Dictionary of American English/1994/College Edition: ISBN 0671882430 (0-671-88243-0)
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Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference - Webster's New World Dictionary of American English/College Edition/Leatherkraft: ISBN 0671885723 (0-671-88572-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference - Webster's New World Dictionary: ISBN 0671519824 (0-671-51982-4)
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- Webster's New World Dictionary of American English/1994/College Edition: ISBN 0671882430 (0-671-88243-0)
What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writersby Anne Bernays, Pamela PainterISBN 0673990028 (0-673-99002-8)
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Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Womenby Christina Hoff SommersISBN 0671794248 (0-671-79424-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women'Book summary:Philosophy professor Christina Sommers has exposed a disturbing development: how a group of zealots, claiming to speak for all women, are promoting a dangerous new agenda that threatens our most cherished ideals and sets women against men in all spheres of life. In case after case, Sommers shows how these extremists have propped up their arguments with highly questionable but well-funded research, presenting inflammatory and often inaccurate information and stifling any semblance of free and open scrutiny. Trumpeted as orthodoxy, the resulting "findings" on everything from rape to domestic abuse to economic bias to the supposed crisis in girls' self-esteem perpetuate a view of women as victims of the "patriarchy." Moreover, these arguments and the supposed facts on which they are based have had enormous influence beyond the academy, where they have shaken the foundations of our educational, scientific, and legal institutions and have fostered resentment and alienation in our private lives. Despite its current dominance, Sommers maintains, such a breed of feminism is at odds with the real aspirations and values of most American women and undermines the cause of true equality. Who Stole Feminism? is a call to arms that will enrage or inspire, but cannot be ignored. [via]
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Why Americans Hate Politicsby E. J. DionneISBN 0671778773 (0-671-77877-3)
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"At the heart of Why Americans Hate Politics is the view that ideas shape politics far more than most accounts of public life usually allow. I believe ideas matter not only to elites and intellectuals, but also to rank and file voters. Indeed, I often think that the rank and file see the importance of ideas more clearly than the elites, who often find themselves surprised by the rise of the movements that arise from the bottom up and shape our politics." [via]
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among Usby Robert D. Hare, Judith ReganISBN 0671732617 (0-671-73261-7)
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Women Who Love Too Muchby Robin NorwoodISBN 0671708627 (0-671-70862-7)
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Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Changeby Robin NorwoodISBN 0671733419 (0-671-73341-9)
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You Belong to Me and Other True Casesby Ann RuleISBN 0671793543 (0-671-79354-3)
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