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An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawISBN 0375505814 (0-375-50581-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation'Book summary:Tom Brokaw has turned his popular book The Greatest Generation into a trilogy. After that first success came The Greatest Generation Speaks. Now there's An Album of Memories, a collection of letters and photos sent to Brokaw by readers who grew up during the Depression and came of age during World War II.
An Album of Memories simply overflows with nostalgia. "We were privileged to grow up in a time when honor, truth, loyalty, duty, and patriotism were real and meant something," writes Robert Cromer. Another correspondent, Douglas G. Fish, describes his own wartime experience--and that of many others--with an elegant simplicity: "I went in the service as a boy and came out a man." There are poignant letters from the dead. One reader submitted this one, sent home in 1942: "Dear Mom, I got your package and Dot's letter today. Boy, the cookies were swell, all the boys send their thanks. Not a one of them was crushed either." Almost exactly a year later, the writer was killed on a bombing run. Another man shares "the last letter my father wrote, three days before he died." It reads: "Tomorrow is D-Day at Iwo Jima--right on Japan's front doorstep--we will go in and lay nets sometime during the assault.... I have faith in God to help us through to victory but am prepared to die for America and face our Lord if He so wills it." The son who sent this letter to Brokaw wasn't even born until after his father had been killed: "I read [this letter] every year on Memorial Day, cry a lot, and think of what a hero he was," he writes.
It's hard not to agree with that assessment, and it applies to so many of those who fought bravely in Europe or the Pacific, as well as those who maintained the home front. All of them have their say in this attractive volume. --John J. Miller [via]
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American Music: Photographsby Annie LeibovitzISBN 0375505075 (0-375-50507-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Music: Photographs'Book summary:It looks like a gorgeous nostalgia trip to judge by the cover image alone. The photo is of an old school record player that lies unplugged, a white label test-pressing waiting on the turntable, while a band of paper wrapped around the cover announces the title in ye olde woodblock-looking type, American Music. A reading of the small type on the back cover reveals the image to be the very record and turntable left in Elvis Presleys bedroom the day he died, and the mind reels, thinking about whether the King listened to this record on that day or not, and who are the Stamps, anyway? An excellent selection of musician portraits interspersed with crumbly wooden jook joints and wide open fields in the South, American Music covers a wide gamut of jazz, blues, punk, country, hip-hop, rock and roll, folk and gospel musicians. And while most of the pictures were shot between 1999 and 2002, some go back to the early 1970s, when Leibovitz first became Rolling Stone magazine's chief photographer. Some of the artists are very well-known (Michael Stipe, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan) and some of them are not (Jessie Mae Hemphill, Other Turner, Carlos Coy). Leibovitz really has a way of relaxing her performers, and this is a great part of her gift. Even when the pictures are so posed as to be ridiculous (like, what's Michael Stipe doing on that bedbug-ridden mattress-the guy's a billionaire?), she catches her subjects at their most "real." They are lost in their music, or just doing some "real person" thing (look, there is Beck in his cardoes Beck really drive his own car?). The presentation may be a little hokey, but this book is sure to please most any music fan. --Mike McGonigal [via]
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The Art of the Tart: Savory and Sweetby Tamasin Day-LewisISBN 0375504923 (0-375-50492-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Tart: Savory and Sweet'Book summary:Tamasin Day-Lewis writes so beautifully, so eloquently, and so descriptively that it's almost impossible to choose which of her exceptional, delectable tarts to begin with. Her tone is warm, friendly, and generous, and her attitude towards food and cooking will make you nod and smile and want to read this cookbook aloud to anyone who'll listen. She laments that the "current speed-addicted climate" has pushed so many of us to give up cooking from scratch. We have been convinced to make questionably nutritious fast food instead of relishing the relaxation, pleasure, enjoyment of not just preparing good food, but of eating it in the way it is meant to be eaten--by savoring it slowly.
Early childhood memories of standing on a kitchen chair, cuffs covered with flour, making her first tarts, and then impatiently biting into a hot jam tart and the sweetly searing pain that results inspired Day-Lewis to write this book. Tarts, she argues, are superior fast food. With practice, the dough can be made quickly and in batches large enough that there's no need to make the dough every time. Fillings can be as simple as the onions, eggs and cream necessary for the Onion Tart. And longer recipes are just longer, not any more complicated or difficult to follow. "Anyone reading this book," says Day-Lewis, "should not doubt his or her ability to achieve every one of the recipes." She assumes "basic skills and competence," and a bit of curiosity. Many of these recipes are remakes of old favorites, but because Day-Lewis is writing in the U.K. and Ireland, most of those old favorites are brand new in America. The Leek, Potato, and Oatmeal Tart is a substantial cold-weather dish made with oatmeal crust filled with garlic, leeks, potatoes, and cheddar. Treacle Tart is "gloopy, gooky, toothachingly sweet," best served with "a solid spoonful of clotted cream slipping deliquescent from the slice, turning buttery at the edges as it slides." How can anyone read that and not start checking the kitchen for ingredients?
Divided by the chapters "Savory Tarts," "Sweet Tarts," and "Other People's Tarts" (try Nigel Slater's Broccoli, Blue Cheese, and Crème Fraiche Tart and Richard Corrigan's Banana Tart), the book is sprinkled with vibrant color photographs of lusciousness such as the Peach, Vanilla, and Amaretti Tarte Tatin ("amber-hued ... speckled with vanilla and sticky with caramel") and the bright yellow Corn and Scallion Tart with a Polenta Crust. Day-Lewis is inventive, as is evident with recipes such as Monkfish Tart with Bearnaise, Tomato, Goat's Camembert, and Herb Tart; Rhubarb, Honey, and Saffron Tart; and Brûléed Black Currant or Blueberry Tart. If your taste buds (or those of your audience) are less adventurous, you can start with Asparagus Tart, Potato, Garlic, and Parsley Torte, or Quiche Lorraine. And no one will ever turn down a "state-of-the-art" Lemon Tart, a Strawberry Tart ("voluptuous ... and glazed to gloopy perfection"), or Simon Hopkinson's Chocolate Tart ("If there is a heaven, this is it," says Day-Lewis). Whatever your time frame, your kitchen comfort level, or your palate, Day-Lewis will leave you with your cuffs in flour, composing a thank-you note in your head to this most delightful author. --Leora Y. Bloom [via]
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As I Lay Dyingby William FaulknerISBN 0375504524 (0-375-50452-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Lay Dying'Book summary:Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see. [via]
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The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetitesby Adam PhillipsISBN 0375700471 (0-375-70047-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites'Book summary:If you are disturbed by the idea that to grow up is to learn to live with disillusionment, if you are fascinated by the perplexity of child-rearing, or if you fear you were more creative as a child, The Beast in the Nursery offers an illuminating and possibly life-changing experience.
In four interrelated essays, Adam Phillips arrives at startling new insights into issues that preoccupied Freud, showing in the process that far from having lost its relevance, psychoanalysis is still one of our most incisive tools for the exploration of the human psyche and its possibilities. Phillips transforms the genre of the essay into an instrument for intellectual investigation of the most absorbing kind. [via]More editions of The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites:
The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Townby Dale BumpersISBN 0375505210 (0-375-50521-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Best of Gourmet : Featuring the Flavors of Sicilyby Gourmet Magazine StaffISBN 0375504311 (0-375-50431-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of Gourmet : Featuring the Flavors of Thailand'Book summary:Nowadays, everyone who entertains is looking for outstanding casual fare that will allow them to spend more time with their guests. Dishes must be quick and easy to prepare (or able to be made ahead) and filled with the purest ingredients for optimum flavor. The Best of Gourmet, Featuring the Flavors of Thailand is filled with twenty-eight such menus-most are very relaxed, all are absolutely delicious.
For example, after a chilly day on the slopes, you may want to treat your houseguests to A Ski House Dinner. Begin the evening around the fire with champagne and a large platter of ever-so-tender smoked salmon with cilantro cream. Later, roasted veal chops with shallots, tomatoes, and olive jus nestled on pillows of soft polenta make a rich, indulgent entrée. And before everyone retires, a heavenly warm chocolate raspberry pudding cake, made the day before and reheated, is served with a glass of cognac.
When the summer heats up, why not spend A Weekend at the Shore with friends? You'll have three clever menus in hand that take advantage of the season's abundant fresh produce, include plenty of make-ahead dishes, and satisfy hearty seaside appetites. On Saturday morning you can serve Breakfast on the Beach with buttery-rich baked blueberry-pecan French toast. Lunch Indoors includes a serve-yourself composed salad of classic favorites and a lovely rhubarb rice pudding. Then, after a long day in the sun, Dinner on the Deck promises a seafood meal to remember with curry-marinated mussels, followed by grilled lobster with Southeast Asian dipping sauce.
Or perhaps a last-minute Beyond Backyard Basics dinner is closer to what you had in mind? This little gem of a menu features ratatouille with penne-a heavenly jumble of roasted eggplants, onions, yellow squash, and red bell peppers, with plum tomatoes, garlic, thyme, parsley, and basil. For dessert, multicolored grapes perched atop pastry cream in puff pastry shells make a scrumptious and ever-so-pretty choice.
So which menu will you try first? You'll find more than eighty pages of exquisite full-color photographs to help you decide. Altogether, this volume holds more than 350 recipes-including the very best recipes that appeared in Gourmet's food columns during 1999. There are hundreds of dishes that can be made in forty-five minutes or less (look for the clock symbol ð); plenty of leaner and lighter selections (look for the feather symbol F); seasonal ideas for everything from apples to zucchini; and an impressive array of tempting sweets and snacks.
This year's Cuisines of the World section turns to the intriguing flavors of Thailand with a traditional dinner for eight and a collection of Thai snacks. Dishes such as steamed red snapper with ginger, grilled beef salad, fish cakes, and coconut ice cream demonstrate the sweet, sour, hot, and salty tastes of this fascinating country. Informative primers and exquisite full-color photos add further insight.
Twenty-four more brand-new recipes appear in a special section featuring Unusual Pastas and Grains. From fresh rice noodles to Israeli couscous to wheat berries, and much more, these unique pantry items will undoubtedly expand your palette of flavors.
Just when you thought you had tasted it all, along comes a cookbook that opens up a world of new possibilities-The Best of Gourmet [via]More editions of The Best of Gourmet : Featuring the Flavors of Sicily:
Blizzard of One: Poemsby Mark StrandISBN 0375701370 (0-375-70137-0)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Breaking Cleanby Judy BluntISBN 0375701303 (0-375-70130-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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By the Sword : A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Championsby Richard A. CohenISBN 0375504176 (0-375-50417-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By the Sword : A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions'Book summary:Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who would cross swords with Bess after school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christs divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was off to get spaghetti, their code to avoid alarming the children.
By the Sword is an epic history of sword fightinga science, an art and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing alternative history of the world.
Sword fighting was an entertainment in ancient Rome, a sacred rite in medieval Japan, and throughout the ages a favorite way to settle scores. For centuries, dueling was the scourge of Europe, banned by popes on threat of excommunication, and by kings who then couldnt keep themselves from granting pardonsin the case of Louis XIV, in the thousands. Evidence of this passion is all around us: We shake hands to show that we are not reaching for our sword. A gentleman offers a lady his right arm because his sword was once attached to his left hip. Men button their jackets to the right to give them swifter access to their sword.
In his sweeping narrative, Cohen takes us from the training of gladiators to the tricks of the best Renaissance masters, from the exploits of musketeers to swashbuckling Hollywood by way of the great moments in Olympic fencing. A young George Patton competed in the 1912 Olympics. In 1936, a Jewish champion fenced for Hitler. Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone were ardent swordsmen. We meet their coaches and the man who staged the fight scenes in Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and James Bonds Die Another Day.
Richard Cohen has the rare distinction of being both a compelling writer and a champion sabreur. He lets us see swordplay as graceful and brutal, balletic and deadly, technically beautiful and fiercely competitivethe most romantic of martial arts. By the Sword is a virtuoso performance that is sure to beguile history lovers, sports fans, military buffs, and anyone who ever dreamed of crossing swords with Darth Vader. [via]More editions of By the Sword : A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions:
Cliffs of Despair: A Journey to the Edgeby Tom HuntISBN 0375507159 (0-375-50715-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 0375700757 (0-375-70075-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic American Odyssey--hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. [via]More editions of Cold Mountain:
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thiefby Bill Mason, Lee GruenfeldISBN 0375508392 (0-375-50839-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Count and the Confession : A True Mysteryby John TaylorISBN 0375505385 (0-375-50538-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Count and the Confession : A True Mystery'Book summary:Do you believe that the gentlest and
most courteous person you know
is capable of murder?
The count in John Taylors beguiling true story is Roger de la Burde, a wealthy scientist and art collector, who wore ascots, claimed he was a Polish nobleman, bowed to womenand then routinely propositioned them. In 1992, Burde was found dead on his Virginia estate, with a single bullet wound in his forehead. The Count and the Confession explores the layers of mystery surrounding this strange mans death. Did he, as the local deputies at first assumed, commit suicide? Or had he, as a state police investigator later decided, been killed? And if so, by whom? The longtime girlfriend? The pregnant mistress? A cuckolded husband? A disgruntled business associate?
At the center of this mystery is Beverly Monroe, who becomes the lead suspect in Burdes death. Monroe is an improbable murderer. Burdes companion for twelve yearshe called her Mouse she is an unfailingly genteel Southern lady, affluent, highly educated, and a mother of three childrenand prior to her indictment, she had never even received a parking ticket. But Monroe did have an apparent motive. She was also the last person to see Burde alive. And in a controversial interview with an ingeniously manipulative state police investigator, she changed her initial story and said that she had been present when Burde killed himself.
Critically acclaimed author John Taylors recon-struction of this riveting case is narrative nonfiction at its best. Meticulously reported, artfully written, rich in psychological complexity, Gothic detail, and dramatic suspense, The Count and the Confession will make you marvel at the peculiarities of human motivation and force you to grapple with an array of irresistible questions, the most dramatic being Did she or didnt she? [via]More editions of The Count and the Confession : A True Mystery:
A Death in the Familyby James AgeeISBN 0375701230 (0-375-70123-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Death of the Banker: The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investorby Ron ChernowISBN 0375700374 (0-375-70037-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Devil's Playground : A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Squareby James TraubISBN 0375507884 (0-375-50788-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Diane Arbus Revelationsby Doon ArbusISBN 0375506209 (0-375-50620-9)
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhoodby Alexandra FullerISBN 0375507507 (0-375-50750-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood'Book summary:Dont Lets go to the Dogs Tonight is a wonderfully evocative memoir of Alexandra Fullers African childhood. Fuller regards herself "as a daughter of Africa", who spent her early life on farms in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia throughout the turbulent 1970s and 80s, as her parents "fought to keep one country in Africa white-run", but "lost twice" in Kenya and Zimbabwe. This is a profoundly personal story about growing up with a pair of funny, tough, white African settlers, and living with their "sometimes breathlessly illogical decisions", as they move from war-torn Zimbabwe to disease and malnutrition in Malawi, and finally the "beautiful and fertile" land of Zambia.
Central to Fullers book is the intense relations between herself and her parents, a chain-smoking father able to turn round any farm in Africa, her glamorous older sister Vanessa, and the character who sits at the heart of the book, Fullers "fiercely intelligent, deeply compassionate, surprisingly witty and terrifyingly mad" mother.
Fuller weaves together painful family tragedy with a wider understanding of the ambivalence of being part of a separatist white farming community in the midst of Black African independence. The majority of the book focuses on Fullers early years in war-torn Zimbabwe, with "more history stuffed into its make-believe, colonial-dream borders than one country the size of a very large teapot should be able to amass." This is the most successful dimension of the book, as Fuller describes growing up on farm where her father is away most nights fighting "terrorists", and stripping a rifle takes precedence over school lessons. The sections on Malawi and Zambia are more prosaic, but this is a lyrical and accomplished memoir about Africa, which is "about adjusting to a new world view" and the authors "passionate love for a continent that has come to define, shape, scar and heal me and my family." --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Double Fold : Libraries and the Assault on Paperby Nicholson BakerISBN 0375504443 (0-375-50444-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Fold : Libraries and the Assault on Paper'Book summary:Since the 1950s, our countrys greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in which Nicholson Barker pleads the case for saving our recorded heritage in its original form while telling the story of how and why our greatest research libraries betrayed the public trust by auctioning off or pulping irreplaceable collections. The players include the Library of Congress, the CIA, NASA, microfilm lobbyists, newspaper dealers, and a colorful array of librarians and digital futurists, as well as Baker himself who eventually discovers that the only way to save one important newspaper is to buy it. Double Fold is an intense, brilliantly worded narrative that is sure to provoke discussion and controversy. [via]
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Empires of Light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the Worldby Jill JonnesISBN 0375507396 (0-375-50739-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empires of Light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World'Book summary:Jill Jonnes's compelling Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World offers a multi-sided tale of America's turn-of-the-20th-century quest for cheap, reliable electrical power. Along the way, the book profiles key personalities in both the science and industry of electrification and dramatizes the transformation of American society that accompanied the technological revolution. As her sub-title suggests, Jonnes's focus is on the three great personalities behind the building of the electricity industry. But, as she makes clear, the electrification of America was much more than a pathbreaking scientific quest. The genius of such poet-scientists as Nikola Tesla depended on the more finely tuned business skills of George Westinghouse and the towering capital of J.P. Morgan to achieve actualization. And even Thomas Edison and Westinghouse--innovative industrial combatants in the war between AC and DC current--were victims of the far more powerful and conservative financial forces of Wall Street. Indeed, for Jonnes, the story of electricity is as much about the legions of patent attorneys and bankers who controlled the flow of industry as it is about the circulation of current. Her sophisticated portrait of Gilded Age science, business, and society brings new light to the forces that underlie technological revolutions. As she reveals, it is not so much the great public men of science who directed the destiny of America's eventual empire of light; rather, the path was solidified by those men behind the scenes who were wise enough (and perhaps ruthless enough) to impose their legal, financial, and political dominance onto the scientific innovation--a valuable message for all eras. --Patrick OKelley [via]
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Enduring Patagoniaby Gregory CrouchISBN 0375504346 (0-375-50434-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and About Groucho Marxby Groucho Marx, Stefan KanferISBN 037570213X (0-375-70213-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and About Groucho Marx'Book summary:Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived. Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from The New Yorker to the Saturday Evening Post, the choicest ad-libs and quips from his long-running game show, You Bet Your Life, and selected letters, including his classic correspondence with T. S. Eliot. It's all here-the finest and funniest work by this century's most influential comedian, that man of whom Woody Allen said, "He is simply unique in the same way Picasso and Stravinsky are, and I believe his outrageous, unsentimental disregard for order will be equally funny a thousand years from now. In addition to all this, he makes me laugh."
In the words of Groucho Marx:
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he go in my pajamas I don't know.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. [via]More editions of The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and About Groucho Marx:
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The Executioner's Songby Norman MailerISBN 0375700811 (0-375-70081-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Executioner's Song'Book summary:The Executioner's Song is a work of unprecedented force. It is the true story of Gary Gilmore, who in 1977 became the first person executed in the United States since the reinstitution of the death penalty. Gilmore, a violent yet articulate man who chose not to fight his death-penalty sentence, touched off a national debate about capital punishment. He allowed Norman Mailer and researcher Lawrence Schiller complete access to his story. Mailer took the material and produced an immense book with a dry, unwavering voice and meticulous attention to detail on Gilmore's life--particularly his relationship with Nicole Baker, whom Gilmore claims to have killed. What unfolds is a powerful drama, a distorted love affair, and a chilling look into the mind of a murderer in his countdown with a firing squad. [via]
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Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wildernessby Thomas P. SlaughterISBN 0375700714 (0-375-70071-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Feeding a Yen : Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzcoby Calvin TrillinISBN 0375508082 (0-375-50808-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feeding a Yen : Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco'Book summary:Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the continental cuisine palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa Housenor of their successors, the trendy spots he calls sleepy-time restaurants, where everything is served on a bed of something else. What he treasures is the superb local specialty. And he will go anywhere to find one.
As it happens, some of Trillins favorite dishespimientos de Padrón in northern Spain, for instance, or pan bagnat in Nice or posole in New Mexicocant be found anywhere but in their place of origin. Those dishes are on his Register of Frustration and Deprivation. On gray afternoons, I go over it, he writes, like a miser who is both tantalizing and tormenting himself by poring over a list of people who owe him money. On brighter afternoons, he calls his travel agent.
Trillin shares charming and funny tales of managing to have another go at, say, fried marlin in Barbados or the barbecue of his boyhood in Kansas City. Sometimes he returns with yet another listing for his Registeras when he travels to Ecuador for ceviche, only to encounter fanesca, a soup so difficult to make that it should appear on an absolutely accurate menu as Potage Labor Intensive.
We join the hunt for the authentic fish taco. We tag along on the boudin blitzkrieg in the part of Louisiana where people are accustomed to buying boudin and polishing it off in the parking lot or in their cars ( Cajun boudin not only doesnt get outside the state, it usually doesnt even get home ). In New York, we follow Trillin as he roams Queens with the sort of people who argue about where to find the finest Albanian burek and as he tries to use a glorious local specialty, the New York bagel, to lure his daughters back from California ( I understand that in some places out there if you buy a dozen wheat-germ bagels you get your choice of a bee-pollen bagel or a ginseng bagel free ).
Feeding a Yen is a delightful reminder of why New York magazine called Calvin Trillin our funniest food writer. [via]More editions of Feeding a Yen : Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco:
Fierce Pajamas : An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorkerby David Remnick, Henry FinderISBN 0375504753 (0-375-50475-3)
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The First Americans : In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mysteryby James Adovasio, Jake PageISBN 0375505520 (0-375-50552-0)
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Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterflyby Sue HalpernISBN 037570194X (0-375-70194-X)
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Franklin and Winston : An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendshipby Jon MeachamISBN 0375505008 (0-375-50500-8)
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The Future of Ideas : The Fate of the Commons in a Connected Worldby Lawrence LessigISBN 0375505784 (0-375-50578-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Ideas : The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World'Book summary:If The Future of Ideas is bleak, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Author Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and keen observer of emerging technologies, makes a strong case that large corporations are staging an innovation-stifling power grab while we watch idly. The changes in copyright and other forms of intellectual property protection demanded by the media and software industries have the potential to choke off publicly held material, which Lessig sees as a kind of intellectual commons. He eloquently and persuasively decries this lopsided control of ideas and suggests practical solutions that consider the rights of both creators and consumers, while acknowledging the serious impact of new technologies on old ways of doing business. His proposals would let existing companies make money without using the tremendous advantages of incumbency to eliminate new killer apps before they can threaten the status quo. Readers who want a fair intellectual marketplace would do well to absorb the lessons in The Future of Ideas. --Rob Lightner [via]
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A General Theory of Loveby Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard LannonISBN 0375503897 (0-375-50389-7)
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Girl Walks into a Bar : A Memoirby Strawberry SaroyanISBN 037550611X (0-375-50611-X)
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Gourmet's Five Ingredients : More Than 175 Easy Recipes for Every Dayby Gourmet Magazine StaffISBN 037550866X (0-375-50866-X)
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Grace and Power : The Private World of the Kennedy White Houseby Sally Bedell-SmithISBN 0375504494 (0-375-50449-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grace and Power : The Private World of the Kennedy White House'Book summary:In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made available for the first time, Smith paints a richly detailed picture of the personal relationships behind the high purpose and poiltical drama of the twentieth century's most storied presidency.
At the dawn of the 1960s, a forty-three-year-old president and his thirty-one-year-old first lady the youngest couple ever to occupy the White House captivated the world with their easy elegance and their cool conviction that anything was possible. Jack and Jackie Kennedy gathered around them an intensely loyal and brillant coterie of intellectuals, journalists, diplomats, international jet-setters and artists. Perhaps as never before, Washington was sharply divided between the ins and the outs.
In his public life, JFK created a New Frontier, stared down the Soviets, and devoted himself to his wife and children. As first lady, Jackie mesmerized foreign leaders and the American people with her style and sophistication, creating a White House renowned for its beauty and culture. Smith brilliantly recreates the glamorous pageant of the Kennedy years, as well as the daily texture of the Kennedys marriage, friendships, political associations, and, in Jacks case, multiple love affairs.
Smiths striking revelations include new information about what drew Jack to his numerous mistresses and what effects the relationships ultimately had on the women; about the rivalries and resentments among Kennedys advisers; and about the poignant days before and after Kennedys assassination.
Smith has fashioned a vivid and nuanced portrait not only of two extraordinary individuals but of a new age that sprang to life around them. Shimmering with intelligence and detail, GRACE AND POWER is history at its finest. [via]More editions of Grace and Power : The Private World of the Kennedy White House:
Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marxby Stefan KanferISBN 0375702075 (0-375-70207-5)
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The Hacker Ethic : And the Spirit of the Information Ageby Pekka Himanen, Manuel Castells, Linus TorvaldsISBN 0375505660 (0-375-50566-0)
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*In the original meaning of the word, hackers are enthusiastic computer programmers who share their work with others; they are not computer criminals. [via]More editions of The Hacker Ethic : And the Spirit of the Information Age:
Heavy Water and Other Storiesby Martin AmisISBN 037570115X (0-375-70115-X)
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History of the Present : Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990sby Timothy Garton AshISBN 0375503536 (0-375-50353-6)
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Hold the Enlightenment : More Travel, Less Blissby Tim CahillISBN 0375507663 (0-375-50766-3)
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The Hunt for Bin Laden : Task Force Dagger: On the Ground with the Special Forces in Afghanistanby Robin MooreISBN 0375508619 (0-375-50861-9)
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If... Questions for Teensby Evelyn McFarlane, James SaywellISBN 0375505555 (0-375-50555-5)
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The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island: And, Cycad Islandby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0375700730 (0-375-70073-0)
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Drawn to the Micronesian island of Pingelap by reports of a community of people born totally colorblind, Dr. Sacks set up a clinic in a one-room dispensary. There he listened to patients describe their colorless world in terms rich with pattern and tone, luminance and shadow. Then, in Guam, he investigated a puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis, making housecalls amid crowing cockerels, cycad jungles, and the remains of a colonial culture. The experience affords Sacks an opportunity to elaborate on such personal passions as botany and history and to explore the meaning of islands, the dissemination of species, the birth of disease, and the nature of deep geologic time. [via]
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King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Heroby David RemnickISBN 0375702296 (0-375-70229-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero'Book summary:"Succeeds more than any previous book in bringing Ali into focus . . . as a starburst of energy, ego and ability whose like will never be seen again." -The Wall Street Journal"Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" -Time"Penetrating . . . reveal[s] details that even close followers of [Ali] might not have known. . . . An amazing story." -The New York TimesOn the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali then known as Cassius Clay stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism. No one has captured Ali--and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated--with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb and editor of The New Yorker . In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters; of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson; of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time."Nearly pulse-pounding narrative power . . . an important account of a period in American social history." -Chicago Tribune"A pleasure . . . haunting . . . so vivid that one can imagine Ali saying, 'How'd you get inside my head, boy?'" -Wilfrid Sheed, Time [via]
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The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Electionby Zachary KarabellISBN 0375700773 (0-375-70077-3)
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Law in America: A Short Historyby Lawrence M. FriedmanISBN 0375506357 (0-375-50635-7)
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading : Finding and Losing Myself in Booksby Maureen CorriganISBN 0375504257 (0-375-50425-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading : Finding and Losing Myself in Books'Book summary:As book reviewer for NPRs Fresh Air and contributor to many publications, Maureen Corrigan literally reads for a living. For as long as she can remember, books have been at the center of her life, a never-failing source of astonishment, hard truths, new horizons, and welcome companionship. Now Corrigan has added a volume of her own to the shelf of classics, by reading her life of reading with all the attention to complexity, wit, and intelligence that any good bookor lifedeserves.
Part memoir, part coming-of-age story, and part reflection on favorite and influential books, Leave Me Alone, Im Reading views the world through an open book. From her unpretentious girlhood in the working-class neighborhood of Sunnyside, Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, Corrigan has always had a book at her side.
We read this life in reverse as Corrigan begins the book as a professional reader always conscious of the many people, like her own mother, who dont get the power of reading, and we end up as a fly on the wall of this only child in Queens, transported to exciting yet threatening worlds beyond her small apartment, a block from the #7 subway.
Corrigans references range from Richard Wright to Philip Roth to Chekhov, but certain themes emerge. Corrigan subverts the classic man conquers mountain or ocean or battlefield genre by juxtaposing it with what she calls female extreme adventure novels books such as Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre, the Collected Poems of Stevie Smith, and Anna Quindlens Black and Blue, which feature women quietly fighting for their lives.
Hard-boiled detective stories that cloak social criticisms of work and family beneath their protagonists trench coat-Dashiell Hammetts The Maltese Falcon, Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers, Sara Paretskys mysteriesare another abiding passion. More surprising, and perhaps more revealing, is her taste for tales of Catholic martyrs and secular saints, a holdover from her days in parochial school that left an indelible impression.
Moving from page to life and back again, Corrigan writes ultimately of fashioning a complicated, sometimes contradictory self out of her class background, her classroom teaching, and her own classics of literature; a list of favorite books is also included. In Leave Me Alone, Im Reading, Maureen Corrigan invites us to accompany her on the journey of a lifetime. [via]More editions of Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading : Finding and Losing Myself in Books:
The Lessons of Terror : A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Againby Caleb CarrISBN 0375508430 (0-375-50843-0)
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The Life and Times of the Last Kid Pickedby David BenjaminISBN 0375507280 (0-375-50728-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked'Book summary:Awjeezma! was the universal dissent, whinedrepeatedly if necessaryat an unreasonable mother who wanted the vacuuming done now-not-next-year or a pile of encrusted dishes washed or the sputtering heater refueled.
Awjeezma! Do I gotta?
If I have to tell you one more time
Awjeezma! Awright! Jeez!
Through the telling of his own madcap childhood, David Benjamin pays homage to the exuberance of countless untamed boys who grew up in Middle America in the 1950s. Whether hes stalking frogs through the bogs of Tomah, Wisconsin, playing four-kid baseball with his bothersome little brother and two favorite cousins, or sneaking into the theater to watch Saturday afternoon Westerns, Benjamin is the kind of little kid who eagerly would have fallen in with the redoubtable Tom Sawyer.
His talesincluding one about a truly sorry incident with Snappy, the snapping turtle, and another about a run-in with a particularly fiendish squirrelare by turns hysterically funny, caustic, aggrieved, and movingly sincere. Traversing the nooks and crannies of kidhood, from ballfields to swimming holes, The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked captures a moment in twentieth-century American life, as Benjamin magically recalls the myriad scrapes, intrepid adventures, and wanderlust that once made childhood such an exhilarating enterprise. [via]More editions of The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked:
Life Is So Goodby George Dawson, Richard GlaubmanISBN 037550396X (0-375-50396-X)
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Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorkerby David RemnickISBN 0375503552 (0-375-50355-2)
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Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biographyby William Lee MillerISBN 0375701737 (0-375-70173-7)
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Locked in the Cabinetby Robert B. ReichISBN 0375700617 (0-375-70061-7)
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The Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Farby Philip K. HowardISBN 0375504222 (0-375-50422-2)
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Love by the Glass : Tasting Notes from a Marriageby Dorothy J. Gaiter, John BrecherISBN 0375505601 (0-375-50560-1)
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The Loverby Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray, Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0375700528 (0-375-70052-8)
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Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.
Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.
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The Majesty of the Law : Reflections of a Supreme Court Justiceby Sandra Day O'ConnorISBN 0375509259 (0-375-50925-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Majesty of the Law : Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice'Book summary:In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, OConnor sheds new light on the basics, and through personal observation she explores the development of institutions and ideas we have come to regard as fundamental.
OConnor discusses notable cases that have shaped American democracy and the Court as we know it today, and she traces the turbulent battle women have fought for a place in our nations legal system since Americas inception. Straight-talking, clear-eyed, inspiring, The Majesty of the Law is more than a reflection on OConnors own experiences as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court; it also contains a discussion of how the suffrage movement changed the lives of womenin voting booths, jury boxes, and homes across the country.
In The Majesty of the Law, Sandra Day OConnor reveals some of what she has learned and believes about American law and life, insights gleaned over her years as one of the most powerful and inspiring women in American history. [via]More editions of The Majesty of the Law : Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice:
Manhattan Unfurledby Matteo PericoliISBN 0375504915 (0-375-50491-5)
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Masters of Doom : How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Cultureby David KushnerISBN 0375505245 (0-375-50524-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of Doom : How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture'Book summary:To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniusesand it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way. Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in historyDoom and Quakeuntil the games they made tore them apart.
Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industrys greatest story, written by one of the mediums leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistrya powerful and compassionate account of what its like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. [via]More editions of Masters of Doom : How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture:
The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on Americaby Roger Morris, Sally DentonISBN 0375701265 (0-375-70126-5)
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Monsoon Diary : A Memoir with Recipesby Shoba NarayanISBN 0375507566 (0-375-50756-6)
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My Life So Farby Jane FondaISBN 0375507108 (0-375-50710-8)
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My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-1998by George W. S. TrowISBN 0375701389 (0-375-70138-9)
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicideby Kay R. JamisonISBN 0375701478 (0-375-70147-8)
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Noodles: The New Wayby Sri Owen, Gus FilgateISBN 0375504362 (0-375-50436-2)
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Now and Thenby Joseph HellerISBN 0375700552 (0-375-70055-2)
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The Number : How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate Americaby Alex BerensonISBN 0375508805 (0-375-50880-5)
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Old Schoolby Tobias WolffISBN 0375701494 (0-375-70149-4)
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The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Ordersby Barbara Ann KipferISBN 0375701648 (0-375-70164-8)
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Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the Worldby Margaret MacMillan, Richard HolbrookeISBN 0375508260 (0-375-50826-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World'Book summary:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is a colourful, epic history of the momentous days after World War I that saw U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the other Allied leaders reshape the world. Wilson arrived in France to referee the Paris Peace Conference only a month after the war's end, sailing into a French port past an avenue of British, U.S., and French battleships. The world, horrified by the millions of war deaths, was desperate for peace and embraced Wilson's call for a League of Nations and self-determination for all peoples. Enthusiastic European crowds greeted the U.S. president and posters bearing his face lined the streets.
It was a conference unlike any other in history: attendees redrew borders, rewrote international relations, and tried--unsuccessfully--to contain German militarism. It unfolded in the midst of massive social upheaval as Europeans awoke to widespread hunger and the inequalities of their age. In the pressure cooker of Paris, this bubbling stew of social and political forces boiled over, and many of Wilson's dreams were dashed. The world lives with the legacy of these few months. Not only did the conference produce a new map of Europe and the Middle East, it led to the infamous Versailles Treaty, often blamed for provoking World War II. MacMillan, a University of Toronto history professor, argues that the Allied leaders did their best, and to blame World War II on them is to absolve Hitler and his appeasers. MacMillan could perhaps be accused of bias: her great-grandfather was British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, one of the main political players in 1919. However, her book has been acclaimed by historians and has won Britain's richest nonfiction award. Complete with backroom intrigue, personal drama, and vivid characters, Paris 1919 is a vital contribution to our understanding of the last century and the current one. --Alex Roslin [via]
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Phenomenal Womanby Linda Sunshine, Maya Angelou, Paul GauguinISBN 0375504060 (0-375-50406-0)
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The Quotable Felineby Jim Dratfield, Paul CoughlinISBN 0375702148 (0-375-70214-8)
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Race, Crime, and the Lawby Randall KennedyISBN 0375701842 (0-375-70184-2)
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Random House Webster's Student Notebook Dictionaryby Random HouseISBN 0375701656 (0-375-70165-6)
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Reading in the Darkby Seamus DeaneISBN 0375700234 (0-375-70023-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading in the Dark'Book summary:The Derry of poet Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark is a perilous place. Ghosts haunt the stairwells of apartment buildings, a curse follows two families down through the generations, close friends turn out to be police informers, and the police are as likely to persecute an innocent man as protect him. And hovering over all the violence, poverty, and despair of 1940s Northern Ireland is the specter of the "Troubles." The hero of the novel is an unnamed young man whose life turns upside down when a policeman frames him. Deception becomes his only means of self-defense. But the initial lie on the part of the policeman and the narrator's corresponding trickery are only part of the tangled web Deane weaves here. Early in the novel we learn that Uncle Eddie, an Irish Republican Army gunman, was blown up in the town distillery in 1922. In addition to sorting out his own problems, the narrator seeks the truth about his uncle's death.
Reading in the Dark sounds grim, and in some respects it is, yet leavening is provided by infusions of the Irish folktales and legends that inform the characters' daily life. And then there is the language. Deane is a poet, and his prose shows it: sex is like fire, "glinting with greed and danger"; ice snores and candles are swathed in a "thick drapery of wax." Readers looking for a thoughtful, serious, and beautifully written novel will find one in Reading in the Dark. [via]
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The Right Man : The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bushby David FrumISBN 0375509038 (0-375-50903-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Man : The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush'Book summary:According to former White House speechwriter David Frum, George W. Bush is "a good man who is not a weak man. He is impatient, quick to anger; sometimes glib, even dogmatic, often uncurious, and as a result ill-informed." All the same--well, look at the book's title. Frum chronicles a tenure spent serving a president whom he comes to admire more after the events of September 11, 2001. It is after working with Bush in times of war that Frum says of Bush "outweighing the faults are his virtues: decency, honesty, rectitude, courage, and tenacity." The Right Man creates an arc in that Frum is originally dubious of Bush's leadership capacity and ends up sold on Bush as commander-in-chief. But in truth, Frum never has far to go. He's impressed with Bush from the start and when war comes, he's more impressed. And while the book is as much about the author as the president, sections, such as an argument with Barbra Streisand and a Washington Post gossip storm may strike the reader as somewhat petty. Fortunately, there are entertaining helpings of candor: the stringent White House dress code, infighting among cabinet members, and unbelievably cool Air Force One trips. Also of particular interest are events surrounding the controversial phrase "axis of evil": Frum helps coin it, his wife boasts of that fact in an e-mail to friends, the e-mail is widely forwarded, and, soon after, Frum resigns. While both he and the White House deny he was fired, Frum is so insistent on the fact that he quit on his own that it really makes you wonder. The Right Man is a multifaceted glimpse at the life of a White House insider and a president in a time of crisis; it should appeal to readers curious to learn about the inner workings of the American presidency. --John Moe [via]
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The Rule of St. Benedict: In Englishby Benedict, Timothy FryISBN 037570017X (0-375-70017-X)
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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bushby Molly Ivins, Lou DuBoseISBN 0375503994 (0-375-50399-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush'Book summary:"Youthful political reporters are always told there are three ways to judge a politician," write Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose in Shrub. "The first is to look at the record. The second is to look at the record. And third, look at the record." The record under scrutiny in this brief, informative book belongs to one George W. Bush--dubbed "Shrub" by Ivins--governor of Texas and 2000 presidential hopeful. These two veteran journalists know how politics are played in Texas and they've done their homework, writing a comprehensive examination of Bush's professional and political life that's a lively read, to boot. And if the title alone doesn't convey their particular slant, perhaps the following caveat from the introduction will: "If, at the end of this short book, you find W. Bush's political résumé a little light, don't blame us. There's really not much there. We have been looking for six years."
Beginning with his admission to the Texas National Guard during the Vietnam War (where he bypassed a waiting list of about 100,000), the authors go on to deconstruct his losing congressional bid, his failed career as an oil executive, and his role as managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, revealing how he was helped every step of the way by wealthy and influential friends of the family. Ever popular, Dubya has always been good at rounding up powerful players to bankroll a variety of ventures, including political campaigns. For this reason, explain the authors, along with his lineage and social status, Bush's primary allegiance is to the business community. While his speeches may deal with the "entertainment issues" of "God, guns, and gays," Bush is a "wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America," they write. They further point out that Texas ranks near the bottom of the nation in terms of a number of social categories, such as poverty, health insurance for children, and pollution, spearing the governor for his less-than-compassionate conservatism.
Shrub is not a complete Bush whacking, though. The authors laud the governor's record on education, in which he has managed to raise standards, push local control of schools, and launch a successful reading campaign. They also cite his wooing of the Hispanic vote and his ability to bridge the gap between the Christian right and the economic conservatives within the Republican party as evidence of true political acumen, though they maintain he lacks a penchant for actual governing: "From the record, it appears that he doesn't know much, doesn't do much and doesn't care much about governing." Bush has admitted that he dislikes reading, particularly about policy issues, and that he hates meetings and briefings, causing the authors to wonder, "The puzzle of Bush is why someone with so little interest in or attention for policy, for making government work, would want the job of president, or even governor."
Love him or leave him, Shrub leaves much to consider about the man who would be president. And it can be read in about a day. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and Warby Deborah Copaken KoganISBN 0375503641 (0-375-50364-1)
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering LewisISBN 0375509119 (0-375-50911-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, And Three Centuries Of Enduring Perfectionby Toby FaberISBN 0375508481 (0-375-50848-1)
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The Studioby John Gregory DunneISBN 0375700080 (0-375-70008-0)
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The Tale of the Rose : The Passion That Inspired the Little Princeby Consuelo De Saint-Exupery, Esther AllenISBN 0375505644 (0-375-50564-4)
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Tepper Isn't Going Out : A Novelby Calvin TrillinISBN 0375506764 (0-375-50676-4)
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The Threatening Storm : The Case for Invading Iraqby Kenneth M. PollackISBN 0375509283 (0-375-50928-3)
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The Trial: A History, From Socrates To O. J. Simpsonby Sadakat KadriISBN 0375505504 (0-375-50550-4)
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The Ultimate Guitar Bookby Tony Bacon, Paul DayISBN 0375700900 (0-375-70090-0)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0375507949 (0-375-50794-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Virginia Woolfby Hermione LeeISBN 0375701362 (0-375-70136-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virginia Woolf'Book summary:"A majestic literary biography, a truly new, surprisingly fresh portrait. --
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"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and contradictions intact. Such issues as sexual abuse, mental illness, and suicide are brought into balance with the immensity of her literary achievement, her heroic commitment to her work, her generosity and wit, and her sanity and strength.
It is not often that biography offers the satisfactions of great fiction--but this is clearly what Hermione Lee has achieved. Accessible, intelligent, and deeply pleasurable to read, her Virginia Woolf will undoubtedly take its place as the standard biography for years to come.
"One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful as both literary and social history."
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Warrior Politics : Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethosby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0375505636 (0-375-50563-6)
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World War 3.0 : Microsoft and Its Enemiesby Ken AulettaISBN 0375503668 (0-375-50366-8)
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Worth the Fighting Forby John McCain, Mark SalterISBN 0375505423 (0-375-50542-3)
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Random House Webster's Pocket Italian Dictionaryby Robert A. HallISBN 0375701591 (0-375-70159-1)
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El profetaby Kahlil Gibran, Mauro ArminoISBN 0375701621 (0-375-70162-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El profeta'Book summary:La obra maestra de Kahlil Gibrán es uno de los más queridos clásicos de nuestra época, un repositorio rico en sabiduría y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de lectores. Con poesía frugal y bellamente resonante, El profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, del amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida.
Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idiomas y ha dado inspiración a millones de lectores, quienes encuentran en sus palabras la expresión de los más profundos impulsos, la más profunda poesía, del corazón humano. Ilustrados con los dibujos místicos de Gibrán--comparados por Auguste Rodin a los de William Blake--El profeta es un volumen para disfrutar y al cual volver a lo largo de la vida. [via]More editions of El profeta:
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