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The 80-20 Individual : How to Accomplish More by Doing Lessby Richard KochISBN 038550957X (0-385-50957-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 80-20 Individual : How to Accomplish More by Doing Less'Book summary:A new 21st century individualism is overtaking corporation-as-king capitalism, transforming the way we work and live. Today, real power rests in the hands of creative individuals like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg, who are changing the world one great idea at a time. In THE 80/20 INDIVIDUAL, Richard Koch reveals the secret of their success: they discovered what they do better than anyone else and rode it for all its worth.
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In this inspiring sequel to his classic bestseller THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, Koch shows how to maximize success in your career and life by using the proven principle that 80 percent of changes in the world result from the most powerful 20 percent of actions and ideas. Hell show how to use your own powerful 20 percent spike your most creative ideas and unique skills to measure the amount of value you bring to your employer, clients or customers. For most people, there is a huge disparity between their intrinsic value and the compensation they receive for their efforts. THE 80/20 INDIVIDUAL shows how to narrow that gap.
Drawing from his own success as an entrepreneur, as well as from the stories of scores of companies and individuals who have flourished as a result of an 80/20 mind-set, Koch offers a step-by-step method to remodeling a career or existing business, or creating a new one one that most benefits you. He provides valuable insights on finding 80/20 partners, hiring 80/20 employees, and running an 80/20 business.
By building a team that supports your efforts and excels in areas where you lack experience or knowledge, youll be able to focus your time and energy on your strengths. Productivity and profits will soar because youll be doing what you do best and enjoy the most. By using the 80/20 strategies outlined in the book, you can take control of your career and financial future.More editions of The 80-20 Individual : How to Accomplish More by Doing Less:
The 80/20 Individual: How To Build On The 20% Of What You Do Bestby Richard KochISBN 0385509758 (0-385-50975-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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America's Secret War : Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and Its Enemiesby George FriedmanISBN 0385512457 (0-385-51245-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body Revealedby Barry Werth, Alexander TsiarasISBN 0385509294 (0-385-50929-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body Revealed'Book summary:A glorious, unparalleled view of the human body . . . Revolutionary computer images from the creator of From Conception to Birth reveal the wonders and complexities of every system in the male and female bodies.
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The human body is a marvel of engineering. From the muscular and skeletal systems of the hand working in concert to allow us to type, eat, and caress, to the circadian rhythms of the heart and digestive system keeping things moving despite our consciousness being elsewhere, our bodies are far more complex and awe inspiring than any man-made creation. Not since Andreas Vesaliuss On the Fabric of the Human Body, illustrated by the scholar in the mid-16th century, has there been a work examining human anatomy for both the scientific and lay communities. The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman is the ultimate illustrated look at the internal structures and processes that sustain us as living, thinking, social beings.
Using the most advanced medical and computer technologyincluding body scans, ultrapowerful microscopes, and molecular surveillance toolsAlexander Tsiaras, founder of a widely acclaimed medical-imaging company, hones in on the bodys intricately constructed systems and isolates structures that have never been seen before. In more than 500 astonishing images, he dismantles each system, highlights the anatomical difference between men and women, and rebuilds the body from the molecular level on up. Barry Werths lyrical, informative text enhances the power of the images, providing an array of startling and fascinating facts.
The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman is a milestone in science, art, and technology. As Werth writes in the Introduction, For the first time we see the body not like something, or represented by human hands, or as a grainy negative or video, but very nearly as it is.More editions of Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body Revealed:
Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgeryby Alex KuczynskiISBN 0385508530 (0-385-50853-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellanyby Graeme GibsonISBN 0385514832 (0-385-51483-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Bloodletting and Miraculous Curesby Vincent LamISBN 0385661444 (0-385-66144-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures'Book summary:Winner of the 2006 Giller Prize, Lam has assembled a collection of short stories that follows four characters from their student days, through medical school and into their careers as doctors. Ming is a perfectionist with a dark past and overbearing traditional parents. When she starts dating Fitz, she must keep it a secret from her family. Meanwhile, Chen and Sri, their closest colleagues, join them in cutting up cadavers as they learn the fragile mysteries of the human body. Lams prose reads as smoothly as a scalpel slicing flesh (despite a plethora of technical jargon) as he reveals the realities of operating and emergency rooms, air ambulance flights and maternity wards. Lam is capable of fine descriptions (the "melon color" of afternoon light) as well as striking awkwardness ("Entering the exam hall&from the whipping chaos of the snowstorm was to be faced with a void.") The power of these stories is his ability to allow the reader to empathize with both victim and healer. Although a few of the stories feel like scenes from ER, several work extremely well. A harrowing story about the SARS epidemic ("Contact Tracing"), set in a Toronto hospital, gives the reader an intimate, inside view, while a story that explores the mind of a psychotic ("Winston") can leave the reader feeling unnerved and groundless. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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The Bubble and the Bear: How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dreamby Doug HunterISBN 0385659180 (0-385-65918-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bubble and the Bear: How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream'Book summary:At the start of the new millennium, Enron dominated the business news in the U.S., but it was Nortel that grabbed the Canadian headlines by the throat. The saga of the telecommunications giant may have lacked Enron's element of venal criminality, but Nortel's own sorry story has proved equally important. The seemingly invincible behemoth--once the stock of choice for a vast number of mutual funds and pension plans--came tumbling down in 2001, affecting millions of Canadian investors, large and small, in the process. Douglas Hunter's account of the rise and fall is subtitled How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream, and that's not an exaggerated claim. The crucially important Nortel story is told clearly and effectively by Hunter, an experienced business journalist who previously authored a biography of Canada's largest family brewer, Molson: The Birth of a Business Empire.
The author tells this "cautionary tale of stock market mania" via interviews with investors, Nortel employees, and stock analysts. He's especially critical of analysts and the business media (termed "the chattering classes") for getting caught up in all the hype, boosting Nortel stock to giddy heights during the tech stock boom of the late '90s before, inevitably, it crashed and burned. In dollar terms, share value went from a high of $124.50 (U.S.) in July 2000 to a low of well under $1.00 (U.S.) by September 2002. In his preface, Hunter notes that "the pathologies of the analyst industry are so vast that they deserve a book of their own," but his critique is a good start.
"A hot stock behaves like a hurricane, generating its own weather," Hunter writes, showing his knack for a well-turned phrase. After following the devastation of Hurricane Nortel, investors who read The Bubble and the Bear may just want to keep their money under the mattress. --Kerry Doole [via]
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The Bully of Bentonville : The High Cost of Wal-Mart's Everyday Low Pricesby Anthony BiancoISBN 0385513569 (0-385-51356-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Dayby Meredith GouldISBN 0385519079 (0-385-51907-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Code of Love: An Astonishing True Tale of Secrets, Love, and Warby Andro LinklaterISBN 0385720653 (0-385-72065-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Code of Love: An Astonishing True Tale of Secrets, Love, and War'Book summary:This affecting story of an English couple's struggle to keep their love alive despite the damage inflicted by the husband's years as a POW reminds us that real-life traumas are more terrible and less easily resolved than those in war movies. Beautiful, vivacious Pamela Kirrage and quiet, intense RAF pilot Donald Hill fell in love in March 1939, less than four months before Donald was shipped out to Singapore. Captured during the fall of Hong Kong, he spent three and a half years in a Japanese camp, where he subsisted on miniscule rations and saw his companions tortured and killed for their part in an underground operation he had also joined. He recorded his experiences in an encoded diary that came to symbolize for Pamela, who married him in 1946, the crippling sorrows he was unable to share with her. The psychological legacy of Donald's imprisonment, particularly his fits of anger and emotional distance, prompted the Hills to quarrel and Pamela to drink. Unable to live together, miserable apart, they divorced in 1978, but remarried a year before Donald's death in 1985. Only when a British mathematician finally cracked the secret code of Donald's diary (keyed to the letters in his and Pamela's names) in 1996 could she wholly understand his private hell. Veteran nonfiction author Andro Linklater ably interweaves three distinct stories: Pamela and Donald's star-crossed romance, the tragic drama of his wartime suffering and endurance, and the gripping, step-by-step adventure of cracking the diary's code. His sad, moving book acknowledges the agony of a generation haunted by wartime horrors it could never discuss, while honoring the power of love to assuage, if not eliminate, emotional pain. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Copenhagenby Michael FraynISBN 0385720793 (0-385-72079-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Cubs Nation: 162 Games. 162 Stories. 1 Addictionby Gene WojciechowskiISBN 0385513003 (0-385-51300-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Timeby Mark HaddonISBN 0385659806 (0-385-65980-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'Book summary:Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christophers carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbors dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christophers mind.
And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddons choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read. [via]More editions of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time:
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Desert Royalby Jean SassonISBN 0385600011 (0-385-60001-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Development As Freedomby Amartya Kumar SenISBN 0385720270 (0-385-72027-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Do as I Say (Not as I Do) : Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisyby Peter SchweizerISBN 0385513496 (0-385-51349-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Do You Speak American?: A Companion To The PBS Television Seriesby William Cran, Robert MacNeilISBN 0385511981 (0-385-51198-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Do You Speak American?: A Companion To The PBS Television Series'Book summary:Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations?
These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cranthe authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of Englishacross the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American Englishif a standard existsis changing quickly and dramatically.
On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses.
With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language.
Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of
1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle?
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2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer?
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3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle?
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4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio?
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5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan?
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6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral?
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moorsby Reston, James, Jr.ISBN 0385508484 (0-385-50848-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bangby Paul J. Steinhardt, Neil G. TurokISBN 0385509642 (0-385-50964-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religionby Barbara J. KingISBN 0385511043 (0-385-51104-3)
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The Fabulous Girl's Code Red: A Guide to Grace Under Pressureby Kim Izzo, Ceri MarshISBN 0385659695 (0-385-65969-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers And Companies - And How To Overcome Themby Robert HerboldISBN 0385510683 (0-385-51068-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers And Companies - And How To Overcome Them'Book summary:Turf wars and bureaucracy can undermine even the strongest corporate strategies. Drawing on lessons learned throughout his distinguished career, Bob describes innovative and practical ways to tackle this pervasive problem and beat The Fiefdom Syndrome. --Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
"A vitally important business book. As Bob Herbold, longtime COO of Microsoft makes clear, the battles over territory and turf stem from basic human behavior. Uncontrolled, they can be incredibly destructive, yet they are inherent in every organization. In The Fiefdom Syndrome, Herbold shows how fiefdoms can hamstring a company's operations, and how to break through them. I strongly urge people of all organizations, large and small, profit and non-profit to read this book." --John Chambers, President and CEO, Cisco Systems
The turf battles and territorial fiefdoms that undermine so many companiesand how to break through them, by long-term Microsoft COO Robert J. Herbold
There is a potentially infectious condition inside virtually all organizations that can cause more damage than economic downturns, management upheavals, and global business shifts. Until now it has had no name. But it has impacted some of the worlds leading companies, including Procter & Gamble, IBM, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft.
Robert J. Herbold, the COO who brought corporate discipline to a young Microsoft organization and helped to transform it into a mature global giant, calls it the Fiefdom Syndrome. And it happens at organizations large and small, profit and nonprofit, at the individual level as well as the group and divisional level. It can undercut a companys effectiveness, and in extreme cases it has shaken entire industries and taken down major corporations.
The problem begins when individuals, groups, or divisionsout of fearseek to make themselves vital to their organizations and, unconsciously or sometimes deliberately, try to protect their turf and others perceptions of them. It is a natural human tendency, dating back to the origins of our species, but if it isnt managed properly, the damage caused by these fiefdoms can spell the death knell of what should have been a strong and vital organization.
People who create fiefdoms can become dangerously insular, losing perspective on what is happening in the world outside their own control. They hoard resources. They are determined to do things in their own way, often duplicating or complicating what should be streamlined throughout the company, leading to runaway costs, increased bureaucracy, and a loss of agility and speed.
In The Fiefdom Syndrome, Bob Herbold exposes the myriad ways such fiefdoms can compromise a companys effectivenessas well as show what managers, companies, and individuals can do to break up fiefdoms and conquer the turf wars. Illustrated with countless examples from Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, IBM, and other corporations, The Fiefdom Syndrome is an essential tool in every managers toolkit. [via]More editions of The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers And Companies - And How To Overcome Them:
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The Fifth Disciplineby Peter SengeISBN 0385517254 (0-385-51725-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fifth Discipline'Book summary:Completely Updated and Revised This revised edition of Peter Senge's bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline , is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book's ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline , many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people's ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices. In The Fifth Discipline , Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations-ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire. The updated and revised Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. It features a new Foreword about the success Peter Senge has achieved with learning organizations since the book's inception, as well as new chapters on Impetus (getting started), Strategies, Leaders' New Work, Systems Citizens, and Frontiers for the Future. Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will: ? Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them ? Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity ? Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets ? Teach you to see the forest and the trees ? End the struggle between work and personal time [via]
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From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroadby Hettie Jones, Jacqueline L. TobinISBN 038551431X (0-385-51431-X)
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The Future of Manby Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Teilhard Pierre De Chardin, Norman DennyISBN 0385510721 (0-385-51072-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Man'Book summary:The Future of Man is a magnificent introduction to the thoughts and writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, one of the few figures in the history of the Catholic Church to achieve renown as both a scientist and a theologian. Trained as a paleontologist and ordained as a Jesuit priest, Teilhard de Chardin devoted himself to establishing the intimate, interdependent connection between scienceparticularly the theory of evolutionand the basic tenets of the Christian faith. At the center of his philosophy was the belief that the human species is evolving spiritually, progressing from a simple faith to higher and higher forms of consciousness, including a consciousness of God, and culminating in the ultimate understanding of humankinds place and purpose in the universe. The Church, which would not condone his philosophical writings, refused to allow their publication during his lifetime. Written over a period of thirty years and presented here in chronological order, the essays cover the wide-ranging interests and inquiries that engaged Teilhard de Chardin throughout his life: intellectual and social evolution; the coming of ultra-humanity; the integral place of faith in God in the advancement of science; and the impact of scientific discoveries on traditional religious dogma. Less formal than The Phenomenon of Man and The Divine Milieu, Teilhard de Chardins most renowned works, The Future of Man offers a complete, fully accessible look at the genesis of ideas that continue to reverberate in both the scientific and the religious communities.
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Ghosting: A Double Lifeby Jennie ErdalISBN 0385514263 (0-385-51426-3)
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The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired Into Our Genesby Dean H. HamerISBN 0385720319 (0-385-72031-9)
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Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Watersby Derek LundyISBN 0385720009 (0-385-72000-9)
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Gone Boy: A Walkaboutby Gregory GibsonISBN 0385720041 (0-385-72004-1)
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The Gospel According to John I-XIIby Raymond E. BrownISBN 0385520956 (0-385-52095-6)
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Guts! : Companies That Blow the Doors off Business-as-Usualby Kevin Freiberg, Jackie FreibergISBN 0385509618 (0-385-50961-8)
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Haunted: A Novelby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0385509480 (0-385-50948-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haunted: A Novel'Book summary:Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youll ever encountersometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined Writers Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months, and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of real life that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But here turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside worldand where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they telland the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.
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Haunted is on one level a satire of reality televisionThe Real World meets Alive. It draws from a great literary traditionThe Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, Frankensteinto tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finestwhich means his most extreme and his most provocative.More editions of Haunted: A Novel:
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscanyby Bill BufordISBN 0385662572 (0-385-66257-2)
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Guest Reviewer: Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel's No Reservations, executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreaking Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, A Cook's Tour, Bone in the Throat, and many others. His latest book, The Nasty Bits will be released on May 16, 2006.
Heat is a remarkable work on a number of fronts--and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook--but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York's three star Babbo provides further sado-masochistic fun. Buford not only accurately and hilariously describes the painfully acquired techniques of the professional cook (and his own humiations), but chronicles as well the mental changes--the "kitchen awareness" and peculiar world view necessary to the kitchen dweller. By end of book, he's even talking like a line cook.Secondly, the book is a long overdue portrait of the real Mario Batali and of the real Marco Pierre White--two complicated and brilliant chefs whose coverage in the press--while appropriately fawning--has never described them in their fully debauched, delightful glory. Buford has--for the first time--managed to explain White's peculiar--almost freakish brilliance--while humanizing a man known for terrorizing cooks, customers (and Batali). As for Mario--he is finally revealed for the Falstaffian, larger than life, mercurial, frighteningly intelligent chef/enterpreneur he really is. No small accomplishment. Other cooks, chefs, butchers, artisans and restaurant lifers are described with similar insight.
Thirdly, Heat reveals a dead-on understanding--rare among non-chef writers--of the pleasures of "making" food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food--but as importantly, who cooks--and why. I can't think of another book which takes such an unsparing, uncompromising and ultimately thrilling look at the quest for culinary excellence. Heat brims with fascinating observations on cooking, incredible characters, useful discourse and argument-ending arcania. I read my copy and immediately started reading it again. It's going right in between Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Zola's The Belly of Paris on my bookshelf. --Anthony Bourdain
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Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Loveby Linda CarrollISBN 0385512473 (0-385-51247-3)
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How the Republicans Stole Christmas : The Republican Party's Declared Monopoly on Religion and What Democrats Can Do to Take It Backby Bill PressISBN 0385516053 (0-385-51605-3)
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How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Zby Ann MarloweISBN 0385720165 (0-385-72016-5)
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Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in Americaby Scott Poulson-BryantISBN 0385510020 (0-385-51002-0)
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If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizardsby Tom MorrisISBN 0385517548 (0-385-51754-8)
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The Immortal Cell : One Scientist's Daring Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Agingby Michael WestISBN 0385509286 (0-385-50928-6)
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In My Handsby Jennifer Armstrong, Irene Gut OpdykeISBN 0385720327 (0-385-72032-7)
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern Indiaby Edward LuceISBN 0385514743 (0-385-51474-3)
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India Unboundby Gurcharan DasISBN 0385720742 (0-385-72074-2)
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It's Not What You Say...It's What You Do: How Following Through At Every Level Can Make Or Break Your Companyby LAWRENCE HAUGHTONISBN 0385510411 (0-385-51041-1)
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It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planetby Linda McQuaigISBN 0385660103 (0-385-66010-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet'Book summary:When Linda McQuaig started writing her new book, It's the Crude, Dude, in 2002, she thought it would be old hat by the time it came out. She was sure everyone would be talking about how oil was the real reason U.S. President George W. Bush invaded Iraq. But the Toronto Star columnist and author discovered that she needn't have worried. Oil, McQuaig argues, is still virtually a taboo subject in U.S. media discussions of the motivations for the Iraq war: "Oil remained strangely offstage, obscured, invisible, hidden in plain sight."
In It's the Crude, Dude, McQuaig's seventh book, she investigates what she calls "the big elephant in the room": oil. The result is a spirited and timely inquiry into a super-powerful industry that she suggests played a central role in plunging the U.S. into a quagmire in Iraq. Before the conflict, she writes, U.S. companies had long salivated over Iraq's "virtually endless" oil fields. One Wall Street analyst she cites calls the country "the most sought-after real estate on the face of the earth. It is the superstar of the future." Talk in the White House about what to do with Iraq started well before the 9/11 attacks, McQuaig writes. She cites internal U.S. government records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act that suggest U.S. officials were already discussing action against Iraq within weeks of Bush's inauguration in January 2001. McQuaig makes a convincing case that the world has become dangerously dependent on dwindling oil supplies, which are at the ! heart of not only a great deal of conflict but also pollution that is disrupting global weather. --Alex Roslin [via]
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Joshua in a Troubled Worldby Joseph GirzoneISBN 0385511833 (0-385-51183-3)
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The Joy of Writing: A Guide for Writers, Disguised as a Literary Memoirby Pierre BertonISBN 0385659970 (0-385-65997-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy of Writing: A Guide for Writers, Disguised as a Literary Memoir'Book summary:Pierre Berton's The Joy of Writing is a joy to read. Breezy, humourous, and surprisingly blunt in its appraisal of the author's own shortcomings--right down to a savage critique of an early draft of The Mysterious North by Berton's editor--the book feels like a return to form, especially on the heels of the curveball that was Cats I Have Known and Loved. Yet as its subtitle suggests, the book is intended as much for students of Berton's work as those yearning for a professional writing career. Berton scavenges his bibliography for examples of dos and don'ts, and fans of titles like Klondike, Vimy, and The Last Spike are rewarded with juicy insights into his inimitable research process, his labyrinthine filing system, and how exactly he makes long-dead politicians seem so darn interesting. Berton even includes sample pages of early drafts and other tidbits, some in his own hand. But whether his 30 rules for triumphant nonfiction writing--which form the book's narrative arc--will transform wannabes into winners is debatable. Really, you've either got it or you don't, as any beleaguered editor will attest. Still, Berton's tips--"know and understand your audience," "don't give up your day job," "read some good stuff before you begin," "don't use a ten-dollar word when a 50 cent one will do"--are sound. And with some exceptions (how to handle an autograph session for instance) they're universal enough to be relevant to everyone from students to secretaries. In fact, The Joy of Writing celebrates one of its own tenets--"master the art of recycling"--a necessary skill for an author who is as wildly prolific and versatile as Berton. --Kim Hughes [via]
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Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-five Women over Fortyby Kim Barnes, Claire DavisISBN 0385515413 (0-385-51541-3)
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The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 0385660073 (0-385-66007-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner'Book summary:The "kite runner" of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir as a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward [via]
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Leadership Is an Artby Max De PreeISBN 0385512465 (0-385-51246-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leadership Is an Art'Book summary:LEADERSHIP IS AN ART has long been a must-read not only within the business community but also in professions ranging from academia to medical practices, to the political arena. First published in 1989, the book has sold more than 800,000 copies in hardcover and paperback. This revised edition brings Max De Prees timeless words and practical philosophy to a new generation of readers.De Pree looks at leadership as a kind of stewardship, stressing the importance of building relationships, initiating ideas, and creating a lasting value system within an organization. Rather than focusing on the hows of corporate life, he explains the whys. He shows that the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality and the last is to say thank you. Along the way, the artful leader must:
" Stimulate effectiveness by enabling others to reach both their personal potential and their institutional potential
" Take a role in developing, expressing, and defending civility and values
" Nurture new leaders and ensure the continuation of the corporate culture
LEADERSHIP IS AN ART offers a proven design for achieving success by developing the generous spirit within all of us. Now more than ever, it provides the insights and guidelines leaders in every field need. [via]More editions of Leadership Is an Art:
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins And the Missing Agents of Wwiiby Sarah HelmISBN 038550845X (0-385-50845-X)
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Live Like You're Blessed: Simple Steps For Making Balance, Love, Energy, Spirit, Success, Encouragement, and Devotion Part of Your Lifeby Suzan Johnson CookISBN 038551719X (0-385-51719-X)
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Making Love: A Conspiracy of the Heartby Marius BrillISBN 0385605234 (0-385-60523-4)
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Money Changes Everything: Twenty-two Writers Break the Final Taboo With Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortuneby Jenny Offill, Elissa SchappellISBN 038551669X (0-385-51669-X)
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecherby Debby ApplegateISBN 0385513976 (0-385-51397-6)
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Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miraclesby RAYMOND ARROYOISBN 0385510934 (0-385-51093-4)
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My Struggle With Faithby Joseph GirzoneISBN 0385517122 (0-385-51712-2)
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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipelineby Lisa MargonelliISBN 0385511450 (0-385-51145-0)
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Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonellis desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchanges crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle.
In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit.
Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.More editions of Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline:
Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Churchby John L. AllenISBN 0385514492 (0-385-51449-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church'Book summary:For readers of The Da Vinci Code, John Allen's book on Opus Dei may be something of a revelation. One opens it expecting to find at the very least GPS coordinates pinpointing albino monk training camps. Or perhaps full disclosure of untold wealth flowing through offshore bank accounts. Instead one finds exhaustive research, interviews and careful analysis that reveal a group alive with ideas and purpose, but a bit short on sinister plans. Removing the sense of mystery surrounding Opus Dei may not serve future thriller writers well, but the journey is fascinating in its own right. Allen's biography of Opus Dei is also necessarily a brief biography of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, born in Spain in 1902, whose vision of the sanctification of work gave birth to Opus Dei, or "The Work" as its members call it. The idea of finding sanctification through work was not original to Escrivá, but the power of his vision certainly brought it to a fuller realization within the Catholic church. Allen explores this central idea that "one can find God through the practice of law, engineering or medicine, by picking up the garbage or by delivering the mail, if one brings to that work the proper Christian spirit." For Escrivá sanctification flowed in equal measure both in and outside the walls of the church. Much of Allen's own work getting to know Opus Dei is done with numerous, wide-ranging personal interviews, from the halls of the Vatican, to Africa, to U.S. suburbs. Allen is also careful to include voices of ex-members. He recognizes the best way to dispel the aura of mystery surrounding Opus Dei is to shine a bright light on it, and with a remarkable degree of cooperation from Opus Dei itself, that is exactly what he does. His aggressiveness in countering conspiracy theory with information reaches its apex in the only slow-going chapter in the entire book, a survey of Opus Dei's financial holdings and activities where a double-shot of cappuccino is recommended before attacking the endless lists detailing financial information. Ultimately, Allen's work comes across as a balanced, perceptive inquiry into a group that, while perhaps not preferring the center stage limelight, does not suffer greatly when exposed to it.--Ed Dobeas [via]
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Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19th Centuryby John Julius NorwichISBN 0385509049 (0-385-50904-9)
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The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes Of My Lifeby Pat Conroy, Suzanne Williamson PollakISBN 0385514131 (0-385-51413-1)
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the Westby Tom HollandISBN 0385513119 (0-385-51311-9)
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Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006by Gore VidalISBN 0385517211 (0-385-51721-1)
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Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupidby Joe KleinISBN 0385510276 (0-385-51027-6)
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Few people are more qualified to deal with both questions than Joe Klein.
There are many loud and opinionated voices on the political scene, but no one sees or writes with the clarity that this respected observer brings to the table. He has spent a lifetime enmeshed in politics, studying its nuances, its quirks, and its decline. He is as angry and fed up as the rest of us, so he has decided to do something about itin these pages, he vents, reconstructs, deconstructs, and reveals how and why our leaders are less interested in leading than they are in the permanent campaign that political life has become.
The book opens with a stirring anecdote from the night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination. Klein re-creates the scene of Robert Kennedys appearance in a black neighborhood in Indianapolis, where he gave a gut-wrenching, poetic speech that showed respect for the audience, imparted dignity to all who listened, and quelled a potential riot. Appearing against the wishes of his security team, it was one of the last truly courageous and spontaneous acts by an American politicianand it is no accident that Klein connects courage to spontaneity. From there, Klein begins his analysiscampaign by campaignof how things went wrong. From the McGovern campaign polling techniques to Roger Ailess combative strategy for Nixon; from Reagans reinvention of the Republican Party to Lee Atwaters equally brilliant reinvention of behind-the-scenes strategizing; from Jimmy Carter to George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton to George W.as well as inside looks at the losing sideswe see how the Democrats become diffuse and frightened, how the system becomes unbalanced, and how politics becomes less and less about ideology and more and more about how to gain and keep power. By the end of one of the most dismal political runs in historyKerrys 2004 campaign for presidentwe understand how such traits as courage, spontaneity, and leadership have disappeared from our political landscape.
In a fascinating final chapter, the author refuses to give easy answers since the push for easy answers has long been part of the problem. But he does give thoughtful solutions that just may get us out of this messespecially if any of the 2008 candidates happen to be paying attention. [via]More editions of Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid:
The Politics of Jesus : Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corruptedby Hendricks, Obery M., Jr.ISBN 0385516649 (0-385-51664-9)
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Focusing on a powerful but little-examined aspect of the Gospels, Hendricks portrays Jesus as a political revolutionary whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom from the tyranny of principalities and unjust rulers in highand lowplaces. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus employs various tactics to address the social, economic, and political conditions of his day and exposes the terrible effects of oppression and poverty on the mind, body, and soul.
In an in-depth examination of Christianitys history, from its foundation through the time of Paul to the reign of Constantine to the present day, Hendricks traces how the church became a hierarchical structure, protective of the powerful and intent on maintaining the status quo. THE POLITICS OF JESUS recaptures the revolutionary implications of Christianity, and calls on Christians to embrace anew the core values of Jesus message and restore his fight to alleviate the suffering of underprivileged and abused peoples. [via]More editions of The Politics of Jesus : Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted:
The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindnessby Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval, Jay LenoISBN 0385518927 (0-385-51892-7)
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Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and societyby Betty S. Flowers, Peter M. Senge, Joseph Jaworski, C. OTTO SCHARMERISBN 038551624X (0-385-51624-X)
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The Prester Questby Nicholas JubberISBN 0385607024 (0-385-60702-4)
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Prisoners of the Northby Pierre BertonISBN 0385660464 (0-385-66046-4)
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A Profound Secret: May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Edward Burne-Jonesby Josceline DimblebyISBN 0385603231 (0-385-60323-1)
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Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies - and What It Means to Be Humanby Joel GarreauISBN 0385509650 (0-385-50965-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies - and What It Means to Be Human'Book summary:In Radical Evolution, bestselling author Joel Garreau, a reporter and editor for the Washington Post, shows us that we are at an inflection point in history. As you read this, we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information and nanotechnologies, we are altering our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progenyand perhaps our very souls.
Taking us behind the scenes with today's foremost researchers and pioneers, Garreau reveals that the super powers of our comic-book heroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the country -- from the revved up reflexes and speed of Spider-Man and Superman, to the enhanced mental acuity and memory capabilities of an advanced species.
Over the next fifteen years, Garreau makes clear, these enhancements will become part of our everyday lives. Where will they lead us? To heavenwhere technologys promise to make us smarter, vanquish illness and extend our lives is the answer to our prayers? Or will they lead us, as some argue, to hell where unrestrained technology brings about the ultimate destruction of our entire species? With the help and insights of the gifted thinkers and scientists who are making what has previously been thought of as science fiction a reality, Garreau explores how these developments, in our lifetime, will affect everything from the way we date to the way we work, from how we think and act to how we fall in love. It is a book about what our world is becoming today, not fifty years out. As Garreau cautions, it is only by anticipating the future that we can hope to shape it. [via]More editions of Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies - and What It Means to Be Human:
Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age With Hillary's Class-Wellesley '69by Miriam HornISBN 0385720181 (0-385-72018-1)
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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happinessby Steven K. Scott, Gary SmalleyISBN 0385516665 (0-385-51666-5)
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Steve Scott flunked out of every job he held in his first six years after college. He couldnt succeed no matter how hard he tried. Then Dr. Gary Smalley challenged him to study the book of Proverbs, promising that in doing so he would achieve greater success and happiness than he had ever known. That promise came true, making Scott a millionaire many times over.
In The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, Scott reveals Solomons key for winning every race, explains how to resolve conflicts and turn enemies into allies, and discloses the five qualities essential to becoming a valued and admired person at work and in your personal life. Scott illustrates each of Solomons insights and strategies with anecdotes about his personal successes and failures, as well as those of such extraordinary people as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, and Steven Spielberg.
At once inspiring and instructive, THE RICHEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED weaves the timeless truths of one of our greatest works of literature into a detailed roadmap for successful living today.More editions of The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness:
Saturdayby Ian McEwanISBN 0385511809 (0-385-51180-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saturday'Book summary:From the pen of a master - the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement - comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perowne's professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him - with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive. [via]
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Searching for Sofia: A Balkan Odysseyby John NadlerISBN 0385658249 (0-385-65824-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Lost Its Wayby Michael ZielenzigerISBN 0385513038 (0-385-51303-8)
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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyrannyby Victor Davis HansonISBN 0385720599 (0-385-72059-9)
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Startup Nation: America's Leading Entrepreneurial Experts Reveal The Secrets to Building a Blockbuster Businessby JEFFREY SLOAN, Rich SloanISBN 0385512481 (0-385-51248-1)
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Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in Our Historyby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 0385658494 (0-385-65849-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in Our History'Book summary:History informs, but rarely touches. Its language is that of actualities--of numbers and places and names--not of the heart. Story of a Nation is an attempt to make historical facts more real through the use of fiction, with 12 pieces, some by heavy-hitters like Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findley, and some by young mavericks like Hal Niedzviecki and Michael Turner. Four of the most compelling stories reduce--or elevate--a period of history to a love story. Roch Carriers "Gold and Sawdust," a tale set during the Klondike gold rush of two brothers and the woman both love, ends in horribly ironic tragedy. David McFarlane's "The First of July" shares with its protagonist the revelation of history being, in the end, about real people: a series of love letters proves that the old, scary woman down the road was once a young Newfoundland woman in love with a soldier who met a brutal end in the First World War. American expat Michelle Berry's attempts to come to terms with her adopted country's national obsession results in "Henderson Has Scored for Canada!", a story in which she folds the historic Canada/Russia hockey games of 1972 into a tense domestic drama. Dionne Brand's "One Down" reveals how a single act of racism, in this instance in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946, can come between two people. "Jack is not with you now, he is not in that photograph at the Hi-Hat Club on Columbus Avenue in Boston," writes Brand, who has pieced together the story of Viola Desmond and her battle with the racist Roseland Theatre using photographs and newspaper accounts. "Good as he was, a distance opened up between you that Friday in November 1946 when the Dodge broke down. Not right away, but little by little."
There are other fine tales in Story of a Nation that dont touch on love at allNiedzviecki's "Very Nice, Very Nice" combines two of the author's obsessions, filmmaker Arthur Lipsett and Toronto commune Rochdale. And Thomas King's "Where the Borg Are" tells of a young Native boy's attempts to understand government aboriginal policy in terms of Star Trek. Not all of the stories are as successful as these are, but more often than not this beautifully designed, heavily illustrated book finds the perfect pitch between the cold facts of history and the yearnings of the human heart. --Shawn Conner [via]
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The Tibetan Book of Yoga: Ancient Buddhist Teachings on the Philosophy and Practice of Yogaby Michael Roach, Geshe Michael RoachISBN 0385508379 (0-385-50837-9)
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962: Transcripts from the Original Manuscripts at Smith Collegeby Sylvia Plath, Karen V. KukilISBN 0385720254 (0-385-72025-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962: Transcripts from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College'Book summary:In the decades that have followed Sylvia Plath's suicide in February 1963, much has been written and speculated about her life, most particularly about her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes and her last months spent writing the stark, confessional poems that were to become Ariel. And the myths surrounding Plath have only been intensified by the strong grip her estate--managed by Hughes and his sister, Olwyn--had over the release of her work. Yet Plath kept journals from the age of 11 until her death at 30. Previously only available in a severely bowdlerized edition, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath have now been scrupulously transcribed (with every spelling mistake and grammatical error left intact) and annotated by Karen V. Kukil, supervisor of the Plath collection at Smith College.
The journals show the breathless adolescent obsessed with her burgeoning sexuality, the serious university student competing for the highest grades while engaging in the human merry-go-round of 1950s dating, the graduate year spent at Cambridge University where Plath encountered Ted Hughes. Her version of their relationship (dating is definitely not the appropriate term) is a necessary, and deeply painful, complement to Birthday Letters. On March 10, 1956, Plath writes:
Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw myself at him with loudness or hysterical yelling; calmly, gently, easy baby easy. He is probably strutting the backs among crocuses now with seven Scandinavian mistresses. And I sit, spiderlike, waiting, here, home; Penelope weaving webs of Webster, turning spindles of Tourneur. Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: I am here; I wait; and he plays on the banks of the river Cam like a casual faun.
Plath's documentation of the two years the couple spent in the U.S. teaching and writing explicitly highlights the dilemma of the late-1950s woman--still swaddled in expectations of domesticity, yet attempting to forge her own independent professional and personal life. This period also reveals in detail the therapy sessions in which Plath lets loose her antipathy for her mother and her grief at her father's death when she was 8--a contrast to the bright, all-American persona she presented to her mother in the correspondence that was published as Letters Home. The journals also feature some notable omissions. Plath understandably skirted over her breakdown and attempted suicide during the summer of 1953, though she was to anatomize the events minutely in her novel The Bell Jar.Fragments of diaries exist after 1959, which saw the couple's return to England and rural retreat in Devon, the birth of their two children, and their separation in late 1962. An extended piece on the illness and death of an elderly neighbor during this period is particularly affecting and was later turned into the poem "Berck-Plage." Much has been made of the "lost diaries" that Plath kept until her suicide--one simply appears to have vanished, the other Hughes burned after her death. It would seem rapacious to wish for more details of her despair in her final days, however. It is crystallized in the poems that became Ariel, and this is what the voice of her journals ultimately send the reader back to. Sylvia Plath's life has for too long been obfuscated by anecdote, distorting her major contribution to 20th-century literature. As she wrote in "Kindness": "The blood jet is poetry. There is no stopping it." --Catherine Taylor [via]
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View from the Summitby Edmund HillaryISBN 0385600208 (0-385-60020-8)
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Wal-Mart :The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Everyday Low Prices Is Hurting Americaby Anthony BiancoISBN 0385513577 (0-385-51357-7)
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying The West From Withinby Bruce BawerISBN 0385514727 (0-385-51472-7)
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Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western Historyby David KlinghofferISBN 0385510225 (0-385-51022-5)
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You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Differenceby Mark SanbornISBN 0385517475 (0-385-51747-5)
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