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20th Century Journey: A Memoir of a Life and the Times The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940by William L. ShirerISBN 0553253336 (0-553-25333-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Acquired Tastesby Peter MayleISBN 0553371835 (0-553-37183-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acquired Tastes'Book summary:The author of A Year in Provence samples the best that life can offer, from handmade shoes and limousine etiquette, to the art of keeping a mistress in style and the world's best caviar, in a whimsical look at the lifestyles of the rich. [via]
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Better Than Sexby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0552996386 (0-552-99638-6)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Than Sex'Book summary:Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better Than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again - without leaving home - yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign, in all its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received from candidate Clinton's top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man, beast, or Thompson. [via]
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The Bloodingby Joseph WambaughISBN 055376330X (0-553-76330-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blooding'Book summary:Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found. [via]
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The True Story of How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Timeby David Edmonds, John EidinowISBN 0571214118 (0-571-21411-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The True Story of How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time'Book summary:Since 1948, the USSR had dominated the World Chess Championships - evidence, Moscow claimed, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But then came Bobby Fischer. A dysfunctional genius, Fischer was uniquely equipped to take on the Soviets. His every waking hour was devoted to the game and he had steamrollered all opposition to reach the championship. When he became increasingly volatile, Henry Kissinger telephoned Fischer and urged him on to fight for his country. Against him was Boris Spassky: complex, sensitive, the most un-Soviet of champions. As the authors reveal, when Spassky began to lose, the KGB decided to help him to fight back. [via]
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Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553380168 (0-553-38016-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief History of Time'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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Burton on Burtonby Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Mark SalisburyISBN 0571229263 (0-571-22926-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burton on Burton'Book summary:A revised edition of the only book to explore the unique brilliance of director Tim Burton's work, including a new chapter on the making of Sleepy Hollow.[via]
Still only in his thirties, Tim Burton has established himself in the past fifteen years as one of the great visionaries of film. With the Batman films, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, and, most recently, Sleepy Hollow, he has continually broken new ground both visually and thematically, exploring the dark anguish--as well as the dark humor--that animates many of his characters while also creating a densely textured, sometimes bizarre look specific to each film.
In Burton on Burton, Burton talks to Mark Salisbury about his training as an animator at Disney, the importance of design in his films, and the recurring themes present in his work. In this revised edition, he also discusses the influence of 1950s sci-fi and 1970s disaster films on Mars Attacks! as well as how he conceived his highly stylized approach to the content and setting of Sleepy Hollow, his acclaimed retelling of the Washington Irving story that stars Johnny Depp, perhaps the actor most identified with Burton's work. Enhanced by stills from the films, storyboards, and illustrations of set designs for all his major films, Burton on Burton provides insights and information about the man and his work, throwing light on both his unique artistic vision and on the extraordinary films that have been the result. -
Burton on Burtonby Mark Salisbury, Johnny DeppISBN 0571205070 (0-571-20507-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Still only in his thirties, Tim Burton has established himself in the past fifteen years as one of the great visionaries of film. With the Batman films, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, and, most recently, Sleepy Hollow, he has continually broken new ground both visually and thematically, exploring the dark anguish--as well as the dark humor--that animates many of his characters while also creating a densely textured, sometimes bizarre look specific to each film.
In Burton on Burton, Burton talks to Mark Salisbury about his training as an animator at Disney, the importance of design in his films, and the recurring themes present in his work. In this revised edition, he also discusses the influence of 1950s sci-fi and 1970s disaster films on Mars Attacks! as well as how he conceived his highly stylized approach to the content and setting of Sleepy Hollow, his acclaimed retelling of the Washington Irving story that stars Johnny Depp, perhaps the actor most identified with Burton's work. Enhanced by stills from the films, storyboards, and illustrations of set designs for all his major films, Burton on Burton provides insights and information about the man and his work, throwing light on both his unique artistic vision and on the extraordinary films that have been the result.More editions of Burton on Burton:
Cider With Rosieby Laurie LeeISBN 0582233593 (0-582-23359-3)
Hardcover, Longman
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0553212389 (0-553-21238-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Jack David Zipes, John B. GruelleISBN 0553382160 (0-553-38216-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby John B. Gruelle, Jack ZipesISBN 0553371010 (0-553-37101-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of once upon a time, the fairly tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. [via]
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Culpeper's Complete Herbalby Nicholas CulpeperISBN 0572002033 (0-572-00203-3)
Hardcover, Foulsham & Co Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culpeper's Complete Herbal'Book summary:For more than 300 years, Culpeper's Complete Herbal has been the standard in the field of herbal remedies. It contains a comprehensive description of nearly all herbs, along with descriptions of their medicinal properties and instructions on preparing and using them to treat many different illnesses. Includes precise botanical illustrations to aid in identification. [via]
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Delia's How to Cook: Book 1by Delia SmithISBN 0563384301 (0-563-38430-1)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delia's How to Cook: Book 1'Book summary:[via]In this simple-to-follow cookery course for people of all ages and abilities, Delia returns to the very roots of cooking to look at the techniques and the staple ingredients which underline the best traditions of British cookery. Delia sees it as an answer to an urgent need. There are more recipes than ever on television and yet it seems that many of us have forgotten how to put together a wholesome, nutritious meal that doesn't come ready-made in a packet. Delia is convinced from the questions she receives that people are no longer handed down the basics. In a world where people have less time than ever, they feel intimidated by the thought of cooking. How to Cook: Book One covers the staple ingredients which form the basis of the worlds foodsrice, flour, potatoes, pasta, and eggs. With her unique powers of communication Delia removes the fear and mystique from cooking both the simplest and quickest and the more advanced dishes with these essential tools of the trade. Perfect sponge cakes, fail-safe pastry, and Delia's guide to the Great British Breakfast rub shoulders with an everlasting souffle and tempura prawns. For the health conscious there are chips that you don't have to fry and Delia's amazing no-fat white sauce. And, if you can't even boil an egg, Delia will show you how to do that as well, in this complete guide to cookery for the 21st century.More editions of Delia's How to Cook: Book 1:
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Delia's Vegetarian Collectionby Delia SmithISBN 056349364X (0-563-49364-X)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delia's Vegetarian Collection'Book summary:[via]In response to her millions of followers, Delia Smith has amassed her best-ever vegetarian recipes in one volume. Here are 250 delectable recipes for all occasions, including Tunisian Eggplant Salad, Soba Noodles with Soy and Citrus Dressing, Wild Mushroom Stroganoff, Oven-Roasted Ratatouille, Mozzarella strudel with Parmesan and Pecans, Lemon Pasta with Herbs and Cracked Pepper, and Apricot Hazelnut Meringue. Beautifully illustrated with 200 color photos, and presented in Delias friendly, inimitable style, this is a book that all cooks will want to own.More editions of Delia's Vegetarian Collection:
Delta of Venusby Anais NinISBN 0553269119 (0-553-26911-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Dialogues of Platoby PlatoISBN 0553213717 (0-553-21371-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dialogues of Plato'Book summary:Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found 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 and execution of Socrates-the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and forever altered the course of Western thought. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century b.c., and examine such timeless-and timely-issues as 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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Dickens :Public Life and Private Passion: Public Life and Private Passionby Peter AckroydISBN 0563534737 (0-563-53473-7)
Hardcover, BBC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dickens :Public Life and Private Passion: Public Life and Private Passion'Book summary:In this remarkable new biography, Peter Ackroyd offers a different view of Dickens to that presented in his earlier study of the author. In that book, Ackroyd's attempts to mimic the voice of the great writer were highly controversial, though some saw the book as a radical re-invention of the biography form. There is no arguing with the brilliant achievement of the more straightforward Charles Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion, however; the picture of Dickens and his complicated private life that emerges is fastidiously detailed and powerfully evocative, while Ackroyd's customary skill at creating a panoply of the city of London is as dazzling as ever (London, is, in fact, the subject of another biography by the author, who is unquestionably the keenest chronicler of the city's colourful history). Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose love life was as complicated (and unconventional) as any modern writer. Dickens had everything--fame, success and riches--but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial character, had enormous vitality and humour, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. Like many eminent Victorians, he led a double life: although he insisted that nothing in the newspapers he edited should upset his middle-class readers, he regularly indulged in dubious night-time escapades with fellow author Wilkie Collins, and, for the last 13 years of his life, kept a secret mistress.
While presenting a warm but astringent portrait of the man who (along with George Eliot) can be classed as the greatest writer of his age, Ackroyd also masterfully recreates the relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, a strong and intelligent woman (herself the subject of a biography by Claire Tomalin, The Inviisble Woman who, like her lover, outwardly observed the proprieties while living her real life behind closed doors. Ackroyd also vividly conjures the reality of Victorian life, the issues that sparked Dickens' fervent call for social reform, and the great landmarks of the time, which profoundly affected his life and work. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Selfby Alice MillerISBN 0571131638 (0-571-13163-8)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreatby James MorrisISBN 0571086462 (0-571-08646-2)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Fragrant Pharmacyby Valerie Ann WorwoodISBN 0553403974 (0-553-40397-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fragrant Pharmacy'Book summary:A Home and Health Care Guide to Aromatherapy and Essential Oils Aiming to open the way to a world of fresh opportunities, this book approaches nature through one of its most powerful forms - fragrant essential oils, drawn from flowers and grasses, trees and roots, leaves and fruit. Essential oils have many properties which are explained in this guide. Remedies for sports injuries, sunburn and stress, are described alongside preparations for health and beauty, for pregnancy and childbirth and for general well-being. There are chapters on how essential oils can be used throughout the home - for cooking and even in petcare. Valerie Ann Worwood is the author of ""Aromantics"". From the Back CoverThe Fragrant Pharmacy opens the way to a whole world of fresh possibilities. It is a new approach to nature through one of its most powerful forms - those fragrant ''essential oils'' drawn from flowers and grasses, trees and roots, leaves and fruit, that remain the great untapped resources of our planet. The Fragrant Pharmacy shows how each essential oil can offer many diverse benefits. One of the most holistic of all systems of medicine, the oils can alleviate symptoms, prevent many illnesses and disorders and help in their healing process. But more than that, they can provide all of us - our families, our homes, even our pets - with the protections and pleasures we need...without the chemical pollution of our bodies or our envirnment. This illuminating and imaginative book of aromatherapy is the household manual of the future. It is a treasury of information about precious life- and health-enhancing liquids that work in complex harmony with people and planet alike. Here is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of ''medicines out of the earth'', those miracles of creation which revitalise and rejuvenate, enhance our emotions and help our work and play. It charts out for all of us a fragrant way to family health and home delights. [via]
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Gather Together in My Nameby Maya AngelouISBN 0553260669 (0-553-26066-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gather Together in My Name'Book summary:In Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou continues her stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings us along in her struggle and dance through life.
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Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrectionby John ManISBN 0593053265 (0-593-05326-5)
Softcover, Bantam Press
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Ralph Manheim, Jacob GrimmISBN 0575025077 (0-575-02507-7)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Groovy Greeksby Terry DearyISBN 0590031554 (0-590-03155-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Groovy Greeks'Book summary:Terrible tales about horrible heroes, savage Spartan soldiers, foolish philosophers and suffering slaves Terry Deary and Martin Brown s brilliant books about the nastiest periods in history have now with the help of some astounding actors been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas. Featuring new, extra material not found anywhere in the books, these sound spectaculars are just as thrilling and spilling, funny and fast as their printed counterparts. Horrible Histories are guaranteed to bring you history with the nasty bits left in! The Groovy Greeks claim to have inspired the doctors of today. But if your teacher wants you to become a doctor, thank your lucky stars you weren t born in Ancient Greece, because they had to examine their patients earwax, vomit, tears, and rotting flesh by tasting them! So, the people of this time were not that civilised, unless, like the Spartans, you call deliberately teaching children to lie, steal, fight and kill civilized. Even the Greek gods were pretty ghastly. Know what Zeus s dad ate? Well he ate his own Sorry, there are limits, you know. Except on a Horrible Histories audio! History has never been so horrible! [via]
A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louisby R.H.C. DavisISBN 0582014042 (0-582-01404-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louisby R.I. Moore, R.H.C. Davis, Joanna HuntingtonISBN 058278462X (0-582-78462-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Home Cookingby Laurie Colwin, Anna ShapiroISBN 0553348078 (0-553-34807-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt & Live Prosperouslyby Jerrold MundisISBN 0553283960 (0-553-28396-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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I and Thouby Martin Buber, Ronald Gregor SmithISBN 0567220605 (0-567-22060-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I and Thou'Book summary:I and Thou, Martin Buber's classic philosophical work, is among the 20th century's foundational documents of religious ethics. "The close association of the relation to God with the relation to one's fellow-men ... is my most essential concern," Buber explains in the Afterword. Before discussing that relationship, in the book's final chapter, Buber explains at length the range and ramifications of the ways people treat one another, and the ways they bear themselves in the natural world. "One should beware altogether of understanding the conversation with God ... as something that occurs merely apart from or above the everyday," Buber explains. "God's address to man penetrates the events in all our lives and all the events in the world around us, everything biographical and everything historical, and turns it into instruction, into demands for you and me." Throughout I and Thou, Buber argues for an ethic that does not use other people (or books, or trees, or God), and does not consider them objects of one's own personal experience. Instead, Buber writes, we must learn to consider everything around us as "You" speaking to "me," and requiring a response. Buber's dense arguments can be rough going at times, but Walter Kaufmann's definitive 1970 translation contains hundreds of helpful footnotes providing Buber's own explanations of the book's most difficult passages. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0553279378 (0-553-27937-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Clubby Laurie NotaroISBN 0595159540 (0-595-15954-0)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Immediate Actionby Andy McNabISBN 0593037820 (0-593-03782-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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In Search of the Dark Agesby Michael WoodISBN 0563534311 (0-563-53431-1)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of the Dark Ages'Book summary:Accompanying the TV series of the same name, this is Michael Wood's account of what happened in Europe, and especially Britain, during the dark ages: Saxons, Vikings, Boudicea, Offa and Arthur are all covered. [via]
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Infinity and the Mindby Rudy RuckerISBN 0553255312 (0-553-25531-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Introduction to Physical Anthropology: Alternate Editionby Robert JurmainISBN 0534767656 (0-534-76765-6)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Introduction To Physical Anthropology With Infotracby Lynn Kilgore, Wendy Trevathan, Robert JurmainISBN 0534644228 (0-534-64422-8)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction To Physical Anthropology With Infotrac'Book summary:This mainstream, full-color physical anthropology text is the best-selling text in the market! While it continues to present a comprehensive, well-balanced introduction to the field of physical anthropology, this is a major revision and the book has shifted emphases in critical areas of biology, including molecular biology and genetics, to reflect the field as it stands today. Now, as a Media Edition, INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY automatically comes with the new BASIC GENETICS CD which responds to growing interest in genetic variation driven by advances in molecular biology enhance. [via]
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Introduction to the Theory of Computationby Michael SipserISBN 0534950973 (0-534-95097-3)
Hardcover, Course Technology Ptr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to the Theory of Computation'Book summary:"Intended as an upper-level undergraduate or introductory graduate text in computer science theory," this book lucidly covers the key concepts and theorems of the theory of computation. The presentation is remarkably clear; for example, the "proof idea," which offers the reader an intuitive feel for how the proof was constructed, accompanies many of the theorems and a proof. Introduction to the Theory of Computation covers the usual topics for this type of text plus it features a solid section on complexity theory--including an entire chapter on space complexity. The final chapter introduces more advanced topics, such as the discussion of complexity classes associated with probabilistic algorithms. [via]
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Jaguars Ripped My Fleshby Tim CahillISBN 0553342762 (0-553-34276-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jaguars Ripped My Flesh'Book summary:`The strengths of this text are many. It has breadth and diversity in its content yet is presented in bite-size chapters. For those wishing to know more, it offers signposts to the relevant literature. The contributors have been carefully selected for their specific perspective yet these have been skilfully inter-related by the editors. It is now some 11 years since the first edition of this text was published. In my view, this second edition was worth the wait' - SCOLAG Journal
`This has been a ground-breaking book&and I whole-heartedly welcome a new edition'- Professor Len Barton, School of Education, The University of Sheffield
`It is a really well-structured book which has been very popular and widely used by students&Its great qualities are accessibility and diversity of contributors' -
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`This book would be a valuable resource to students of disability studies and to health and social care staff and other professionals who work with disabled people'- Disability and Rehabilitation
The Second Edition of this landmark text has been revised to provide an up-to-date accessible introductory text to the field of disability studies. In addition to analysing the barriers that disabled people encounter in education, housing, leisure and employment, the revised edition has new chapters on:
· international issues
· diversity among disabled people
· sexuality
· bioethics.
Written by disabled people who are leading academics in the field, the text comprises 45 short and engaging chapters, to provide a broad-ranging and accessible introduction to disability issues.
Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments is an invaluable resource for both students and practitioners alike. It is an ideal text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in disability studies, as well as disability courses in social work, education, health studies, sociology and social policy. [via]
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James Herriot's Yorkshire : A Guided Tour with the Beloved Veterinarian Through the Land of All Creatures Great and Small and Every Living Thing, Gloriously Photographed and Memorably Describedby James HerriotISBN 0553259814 (0-553-25981-4)
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Java Examples in a Nutshell: A Tutorial Companion to Java in a Nutshellby David FlanaganISBN 0596000391 (0-596-00039-1)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Java Examples in a Nutshell: A Tutorial Companion to Java in a Nutshell'Book summary:David Flanagan looks to be trying to corner the market in Java titles. Java Examples in a Nutshell is his fourth and is designed to be read in conjunction with the earlier books in which he says, it proved impossible to include all the example code he would have liked.
Like all good coding books it starts with "Hello world", used in this case to illustrate how to correctly set up your Java environment. After a few more basic examples there is a set of exercises which test your grasp of the material. From then on Flanagan tends to refer you to other books in the series to provide background and reference material relevant to the examples under discussion--a great marketing tool. In practice, any basic Java reference will provide this information. What they won't do is provide so many or such well thought out code examples for you to play with.
After the first few chapters you will be glad all the code is available for download as the examples become longer and more complex with ever less text between them. The simple Web browser example alone goes on for many pages.
Despite starting at the absolute beginning Java Examples In A Nutshell goes to the limits with sections on using RMI, JDBC, XML, servlets, JSP and lots more. It covers GUI programming, sound, encryption, internationalisation and other technologies essential for creating practical programs--all with exercises to ensure you really do understand.
While Java code is available from many Net sites the combination of organisation, examples and exercises make this a massively useful book for any budding or working Java programmer. --Steve Patient [via]
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The Jungleby Upton Beall Sinclair, Morris DicksteinISBN 0553212451 (0-553-21245-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle , a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change. [via]
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Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Graphics, and Animationby Richard Koman, Jennifer NiederstISBN 0596000367 (0-596-00036-7)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Graphics, and Animation'Book summary:In Learning Web Design, the author of a top-rated web authoring guide (Web Design in a Nutshell) now turns her hand to a beginner's tutorial. The result is a foundation course in HTML, and an ideal starting point for learning how to build web pages.
The book does not attempt to cover every aspect of web authoring, and you should look elsewhere for coverage of technologies like Flash multimedia, Javascript or XML. Instead, Learning Web Design offers sound and thorough coverage of the fundamentals, presented in a friendly and informal style, and underpinned by the author's in-depth knowledge and professionalism.
Some Web authors use design tools, while others prefer to work directly with HTML code. This title takes a balanced view, with how-to explanations for Dreamweaver, GoLive and FrontPage, along with the equivalent HTML. For graphics, Photoshop, Fireworks and Paint Shop Pro are specifically covered.
The book is structured as four parts. The first is an overview, explaining the Web design process. Next comes an HTML tutorial, tackling page formatting, how to include graphics, tables, frames and colours. The third part is a detailed guide to Web graphics, showing how to optimise both appearance and performance. The final section is about usability and design, showing how to create pages to professional standards. There is also a peek at more advanced techniques, showing where to go for more information. The wide-margin layout gives plenty of space for illustrations, some in colour, and there are plentiful tips and references in side-panels. --Tim Anderson [via]
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0553211161 (0-553-21116-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift . . . the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Over the course of Whitman's life, the book reappeared in many versions, expanded and transformed as the author's experiences and the nation's history changed and grew. Whitman's ambition was to creates something uniquely American. In that he succeeded. His poems have been woven into the very fabric of the American character. From his solemn masterpieces "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" to the joyous freedom of "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "Song of the Open Road," Whitman's work lives on, an inspiration to the poets of later generations. [via]
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Legacyby Michael WoodISBN 0563364297 (0-563-36429-7)
Hardcover, Network Books
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Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Referenceby Stephen Spainhour, Jessica P. Hekman, Stephen Figgins, Ellen SieverISBN 0596000251 (0-596-00025-1)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference'Book summary:Linux has command line utilities, boy does it have them. Linux In A Nutshell lists around 200 basic utilities beginners should find immediately useful in the first few pages. This is a little odd as it really isn't a book aimed at beginners. Rather, it is for the competent or even expert Linux user. The sad truth is no one has a brain large enough to keep all these commands and utilities instantly available, hence the need for quick references.
Around half the book is devoted to command line utilities: what they do, how to invoke them and the various options they take. Naturally, it is the options causing problems. While -c says to send stuff to the standard output in some utilities, in others it doesn't. For example it tells mke2fs to scan a device for bad blocks. It also covers boot issues, various shells, emacs, vi, sed, gawk and pattern matching. CVS and RCS for version control get good coverage. Gnome and KDE get a short chapter each and oddly, so does fvwm2. Some of these choices seem arbitrary. For Perl you are referred elsewhere, PHP isn't mentioned and neither is python.
In practice, the Linux man pages usually provide more information. Many of the book entries provide no more information than you would get from the usage instructions provided by the -h (or --help) option or by entering a nonsense option. The other complaint is inconsistency. Some of the commands have a usage example but most don't.
The problem with Linux In A Nutshell is that if you are actually at your desk using Linux, it is quicker to reference the system itself for the information but the book is rather too large to carry around to reference when you might need it (though why do you need it if you aren't using Linux at the time? Pub quizzes perhaps?).
Given that Linux commands comes with usage instructions, man pages and info pages as well as often having extra documentation, how-tos and source code--all for the versions you're using--it is hard to see quite what purpose its authors intended this book to serve. --Steve Patient [via]
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Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in Americaby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553373153 (0-553-37315-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Agesby C. H. LawrenceISBN 0582404274 (0-582-40427-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages'Book summary:Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world from which they drew recruits. This Third Edition contains new thoughts and perspectives throughout.
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My Losing Seasonby Pat ConroyISBN 0553381903 (0-553-38190-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Losing Season'Book summary:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Pat Conroy, one of Americas premier novelists, has penned a deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketballand life itself. During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his lifeand a crucible for becoming his own man.
With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 196667 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated.
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Nightby Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway, François Mauriac, Robert McAfee BrownISBN 0553272535 (0-553-27253-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night'Book summary:Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography. Like Wiesel himself, the protagonist of Night is a scholarly, pious teenager racked with guilt at having survived the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. [via]
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The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940 : A Memoir of a Life and the Timesby William L. ShirerISBN 0553341790 (0-553-34179-0)
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The Odyssey of Homerby Homer, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0553213997 (0-553-21399-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. Favorite of the gods, Odysseus embodies the energy, intellect, and resourcefulness that were of highest value to the ancients and that remain ideals in out time.In this new verse translation, Allen Mandelbaum--celebrated poet and translator of Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy --realizes the power and beauty of the original Greek verse and demonstrates why the epic tale of The Odyssey has captured the human imagination for nearly three thousand years. [via]
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The Peter Principleby Raymond Hull, Peter, Laurence & Hull, RaymondISBN 0553244159 (0-553-24415-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peter Principle'Book summary:This book caused a storm when first published in 1969, battering up the bestseller list to #1, charming readers from Topeka to Timbuktu, and finally, brilliantly, blessedly giving the world an answer to a question that nags us all: Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The book and the phrase it defined are now considered comedic-yet-classic cornerstones of organizational thought, and in honor of the book's fortieth anniversary, Robert I. Sutton has written a foreword introducing the book to a new generation of readers.
The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Laurence Peter coined, explains that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Everyonefrom the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation's presidentwill inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence, if it hasn't happened already. Dr. Peter's glorious revelation explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to dowhy schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias.
With the wit of James Thurber or Mark Twain, the psychological and anthropological acuity of Sigmund Freud or Margaret Mead, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton or Copernicus, Dr. Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull's brilliant book explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.
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Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translationby Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough, John DrydenISBN 0553585959 (0-553-58595-9)
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Pole to Poleby Michael PalinISBN 0563362839 (0-563-36283-9)
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0553212788 (0-553-21278-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who held the aforementioned office with the tongue-twisting title was none other than Niccolò Machiavelli, who, suddenly finding himself out of a job after 14 years of patriotic service, followed the career trajectory of many modern politicians into punditry. Unable to become an on-air political analyst for a television network, he only wrote a book. But what a book The Prince is. Its essential contribution to modern political thought lies in Machiavelli's assertion of the then revolutionary idea that theological and moral imperatives have no place in the political arena. "It must be understood," Machiavelli avers, "that a prince ... cannot observe all of those virtues for which men are reputed good, because it is often necessary to act against mercy, against faith, against humanity, against frankness, against religion, in order to preserve the state." With just a little imagination, readers can discern parallels between a 16th-century principality and a 20th-century presidency. --Tim Hogan [via]
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The Pump House Gangby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380613 (0-553-38061-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pump House Gang'Book summary:Tom Wolfe's second collection (1968) takes it title from a redoubtable surfing elite, many of whom abandoned the beach for the psychedelic indoor sports of the late sixties. Wolfe here continues his fieldwork among noble savages, from La Jolla to London.[via]More editions of The Pump House Gang:
The Rising Sunby John TolandISBN 0553264354 (0-553-26435-4)
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The Snow Leopardby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0553206516 (0-553-20651-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snow Leopard'Book summary:In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture on earth." Their voyage was in quest of one of the world's most elusive big cats, the snow leopard of high Asia, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical; Schaller was one of only two Westerners known to have seen a snow leopard in the wild since 1950.
Published in 1978, The Snow Leopard is rightly regarded as a classic of modern nature writing. Guiding his readers through steep-walled canyons and over tall mountains, Matthiessen offers a narrative that is shot through with metaphor and mysticism, and his arduous search for the snow leopard becomes a vehicle for reflections on all manner of matters of life and death. In the process, The Snow Leopard evolves from an already exquisite book of natural history and travel into a grand, Buddhist-tinged parable of our search for meaning. By the end of their expedition, having seen wolves, foxes, rare mountain sheep, and other denizens of the Himalayas, and having seen many signs of the snow leopard but not the cat itself, Schaller muses, "We've seen so much, maybe it's better if there are some things that we don't see."
That sentiment, as well as the sense of wonder at the world's beauty that pervades Matthiessen's book, ought to inform any journey into the wild. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Wayby Lao Tzu, Victor H. MairISBN 0553070053 (0-553-07005-3)
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Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Wayby Victor H. Mair, Lao TzuISBN 055334935X (0-553-34935-X)
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The Tarot: The Origin, Meaning and Uses of the Cardsby Alfred DouglasISBN 0575014288 (0-575-01428-8)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Thunder and Lightningby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553374966 (0-553-37496-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Thunder and Lightning : Cracking Open the Writer's Craftby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553095285 (0-553-09528-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thunder and Lightning : Cracking Open the Writer's Craft'Book summary:More musings from Natalie Goldberg on writing as a spiritual path, as "an authentic Zen way." Goldberg has some nice things to say about the importance of the process of writing. She recommends her students spend two years at writing "practice" before undertaking a specific project, so that they can "get in touch with their wild minds." The most inspired writing, she says, comes when one's conscious mind gets out of the way. Still, we are puzzled by Thunder and Lightning: is it really meant to show us how to turn "our flashes of inspiration ... into a polished piece of work," as the book jacket touts? It comes off more as a collection of Goldberg's ruminations on writing and reading. Goldberg tells us about her friend Julie's writing process. Another pal, Kate, talks about plot. We study Styron with Goldberg's workshop students and take a road trip through the South to try to figure out just how some of the poorest states in the union managed to produce so many great writers. There are some good stories here, and it's vaguely interesting to know what Nat likes to order when she does her café writing or lunches with her editors, but we end up desiring a little less wandering and a little more focus. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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True Tales of American Lifeby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Public Radio (U.S.), National Story Project (U.S.)ISBN 0571210708 (0-571-21070-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Tales of American Life'Book summary:Chosen by Paul Auster out of 4000 stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide an illuminating portrait of America in the 20th century. The selection requirement of the stories was that they should be true and not previously published. [via]
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The Twilight Zone Companionby Marc ZicreeISBN 0553347446 (0-553-34744-6)
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0553115200 (0-553-11520-0)
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The Vicious Vikingsby Terry DearyISBN 0590498495 (0-590-49849-5)
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What Do You Say After You Say Hello?by Eric BerneISBN 0553258222 (0-553-25822-2)
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What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business Schoolby Mark McCormackISBN 0553345834 (0-553-34583-4)
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What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School : Notes from a Street-Smart Executiveby Mark H. McCormackISBN 0553051016 (0-553-05101-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School : Notes from a Street-Smart Executive'Book summary:Listen to Mark McCormack as he tells you how to read people, create the right first impression, and take the leading edge and run meetings. Based on his proven method of applied people sense to get things done, McCormack presents powerful street-smart insights into successful selling. McCormack shares his experience, technique, and wisdom in a practical, how-to manner. [via]
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William L. Shirer: 20th Century Journey, a Memoir of a Life and the Times The Start 1904-1930/the Nightmare Years 1930-1940by William L. ShirerISBN 0553323350 (0-553-32335-0)
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