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24/7 : Living It up and Doubling down in the New Las Vegasby Andres MartinezISBN 0375501819 (0-375-50181-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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An Album of Memories : Personal Histories from the Greatest Generationby Tom Brokaw, Julie GarwoodISBN 0375431349 (0-375-43134-9)
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The Amateur Marriage: A Novelby Anne TylerISBN 0375433368 (0-375-43336-8)
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The Autograph Man : A Novelby Zadie SmithISBN 037550186X (0-375-50186-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autograph Man : A Novel'Book summary:When Alex-Li Tandem is 12 years old, his father takes him and his friends Adam and Rubinfine to a wrestling match at the Albert Hall in London. By the end of the evening, the pivotal events of Alex-Li's youth have occurred: he has met Joseph Klein, a boy whose fascination with autographs proves infectious; his friendships with Adam and Rubinfine are cemented; and his father has dropped dead. This is enough action for an entire book, and in fact things slow down dramatically after page 35 of Zadie Smith's sophomore novel The Autograph Man. When we meet Alex again, he is a grown man, an autograph dealer and devoted slacker, suffering the physical and spiritual after-effects of a three-day romance with a drug called "Superstar." While under its malign influence, Alex has managed to wreck his sports car, alienate his girlfriend Esther, and--possibly--forge the rare autograph of his idol, the 1950s movie star Kitty Alexander. Will his friends save him from the embarrassment of trying to sell this suspect autograph? Will they pull him together in time to perform Kaddish on the 15th anniversary of his father's death? Although not as enthralling or politically resonant as White Teeth, Smith's hallowed debut, The Autograph Man amply demonstrates her ability to juggle several main characters, several themes, and a host of plots and subplots, with the occasional purely comic episode thrown up in the air beside them like a chainsaw or a cheesecake. Readers will want to step away to a safe distance during the chaotic final scenes. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Bear and the Dragonby Tom ClancyISBN 0375430695 (0-375-43069-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bear and the Dragon'Book summary:Power is delightful, and absolute power should be absolutely delightful--but not when you're the most powerful man on earth and the place is ticking like a time bomb. Jack Ryan, CIA warrior turned U.S. president, is the man in the hot seat, and in this vast thriller he's up to his nostrils in crazed Asian warlords, Russian thugs, nukes that won't stay put, and authentic, up-to-the-nanosecond technology as complex as the characters' motives are simple. Quick, do you know how to reprogram the software in an Aegis missile seekerhead? Well, if you're Jack Ryan, you'd better find someone who does, or an incoming ballistic may rain fallout on your parade. Bad for reelection prospects. "You know, I don't really like this job very much," Ryan complains to his aide Arnie van Damm, who replies, "Ain't supposed to be fun, Jack."
But you bet The Bear and the Dragon is fun--over 1,000 swift pages' worth. In the opening scene, a hand-launched RPG rocket nearly blows up Russia's intelligence chief in his armored Mercedes, and Ryan's clever spooks report that the guy who got the rocket in his face instead was the hoodlum "Rasputin" Avseyenko, who used to run the KGB's "Sparrow School" of female prostitute spies. Soon after, two apparent assassins are found handcuffed together afloat in St. Petersburg's Neva River, their bloated faces resembling Pokémon toys.
The stakes go higher as the mystery deepens: oil and gold are discovered in huge quantities in Siberia, and the evil Chinese Minister Without Portfolio Zhang Han San gazes northward with lust. The laid-off elite of the Soviet Army figure in the brewing troubles, as do the new generation of Tiananmen Square dissidents, Zhang's wily, Danielle Steel-addicted executive secretary Lian Ming, and Chester Nomuri, a hip, Internet-porn-addicted CIA agent posing in China as a Japanese computer salesman. He e-mails his CIA boss, Mary Pat "the Cowgirl" Foley, that he intends to seduce Ming with Dream Angels perfume and scarlet Victoria's Secret lingerie ordered from the catalog--strictly for God and country, of course. Soon Ming is calling him "Master Sausage" instead of "Comrade," but can anybody master Ming?
The plot is over the top, with devastating subplots erupting all over the globe and lurid characters scaring the wits out of each other every few pages, but Clancy finds time to insert hard-boiled little lessons on the vileness of Communism, the infuriating intrusions of the press on presidential power, the sexual perversions of Mao, the poor quality of Russian pistol silencers ("garbage, cans loaded with steel wool that self-destructed after less than ten shots"), the folly of cutting a man's throat with a knife ("they flop around and make noise when you do that"), and similar topics. Naturally, the book bristles like a battlefield with intriguingly intricate military hardware.
When you've got a Tom Clancy novel in hand, who needs action movies? --Tim Appelo [via]
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Bernard Shaw : The One-Volume Definitive Editionby Michael HolroydISBN 0375500499 (0-375-50049-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bernard Shaw : The One-Volume Definitive Edition'Book summary:When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. This is the quintessence of Shaw. The narrative has a new verve and pace, and the light and shade of Shaw's world are more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.
Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up there, a lonely child in an unsettling ménage à trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, had turned to drink, and his mother was muse to a Svengali-like music teacher whom she followed to London. The young Shaw, anxious to escape his heritage, also left for London to reinvent himself as the legendary G.B.S.--novelist, lover, politician, music critic, and finally playwright. From his first passionate affair with a beautiful middle-aged widow, he moved on to flirtations and liaisons with young actresses and socialists before finally settling into marriage in 1898.
At the turn of the century, Shaw was in his prime, a theatrical impresario and author of those great campaigning plays--Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and John Bull's Other Island--that used laughter as an anesthetic for the operation he performed on British society. By 1914 the author of Pygmalion was the most popular writer in England, and increasingly recognized throughout Europe and America. Though ready with advice to others on how to stay married, he fell painfully in love with two of the most dazzling actresses of the age, Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
The reluctant recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award for his screenplay for Pygmalion, Shaw became an international icon between the two world wars, feted from China and Soviet Russia to India and New Zealand, though still contriving to provoke the establishment in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland. In old age he was vigorous and prolific, espousing many new and quixotic causes. He revealed himself increasingly as conjurer, fabulist, and seer through his powerful late works, including Saint Joan, the Chekhovian Heartbreak House, the modernist fantasy Back to Methuselah, and the imaginative dream plays and political extravaganzas.
Covering almost a century, from 1856 to 1950, this unparalleled life of Shaw presents the magnificent double portrait of an age and of a man who was born fifty years too soon. Holroyd magically captures the essence of Shaw's protean genius in a tragicomedy that [via]More editions of Bernard Shaw : The One-Volume Definitive Edition:
The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Upby Andrew TobiasISBN 0375501118 (0-375-50111-8)
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The Best of Outside : The First 20 Yearsby Outside Magazine Editors, Edward AbbeyISBN 0375500642 (0-375-50064-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of Outside : The First 20 Years'Book summary:For two decades Outside magazine has remained committed to good writing, publishing feature articles from well-known authors on a variety of topics connected (in sometimes obscure yet fascinating ways) to the outdoors, adventure, travel, and just about anything else that happens beyond the confines of the mall. The most memorableof these pieces are collected in a single anthology, The Best of Outside: Tom McGuane offers compelling reasons to hunt; Jonathan Raban discusses life on the open ocean; Barry Lopez considers the graceful and beleaguered flocks of snow geese that once filled the skies. Also included are the original articles from Jon Krakauer and Sebastian Junger that would expand into their bestselling books Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, respectively. [via]
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Big Russ and Me: Father and Son Lessons of Lifeby Tim RussertISBN 0375433570 (0-375-43357-0)
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Bonjour Laziness: Jumping off the Corporate Ladderby Corinne Maier, Sophie HawkesISBN 0375423737 (0-375-42373-7)
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The Botany of Desire : A Plant's-Eye View of the Worldby Michael PollanISBN 0375501290 (0-375-50129-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Botany of Desire : A Plant's-Eye View of the World'Book summary:Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is unique. The result is a fascinating and engaging look at the true nature of domestication.
In making his point, Pollan focuses on the relationship between humans and four specific plants: apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes. He uses the history of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) to illustrate how both the apple's sweetness and its role in the production of alcoholic cider made it appealing to settlers moving west, thus greatly expanding the plant's range. He also explains how human manipulation of the plant has weakened it, so that "modern apples require more pesticide than any other food crop." The tulipomania of 17th-century Holland is a backdrop for his examination of the role the tulip's beauty played in wildly influencing human behavior to both the benefit and detriment of the plant (the markings that made the tulip so attractive to the Dutch were actually caused by a virus). His excellent discussion of the potato combines a history of the plant with a prime example of how biotechnology is changing our relationship to nature. As part of his research, Pollan visited the Monsanto company headquarters and planted some of their NewLeaf brand potatoes in his garden--seeds that had been genetically engineered to produce their own insecticide. Though they worked as advertised, he made some startling discoveries, primarily that the NewLeaf plants themselves are registered as a pesticide by the EPA and that federal law prohibits anyone from reaping more than one crop per seed packet. And in a interesting aside, he explains how a global desire for consistently perfect French fries contributes to both damaging monoculture and the genetic engineering necessary to support it.
Pollan has read widely on the subject and elegantly combines literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific references with engaging anecdotes, giving readers much to ponder while weeding their gardens. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Brinkley's Beat : People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Timeby David BrinkleyISBN 0375432221 (0-375-43222-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brinkley's Beat : People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time'Book summary:From one of Americas most revered journalistsa richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nations capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century.
Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider himself could have given us: Franklin D. Roosevelt counting out enough cigarettes to get through a half-hour debriefing with the press; May Craig, the first female reporter to penetrate Roosevelts inner sanctum, who never failed to remind the president that his wife was a newspaper writer, too; Theodore Bilbo, a Mississippi senator and race baiter who effectively became mayor of Washington at a time when it was a segregated provincial town; Jimmy Hoffa, the popular and ill-fated union leader; Lyndon Johnson, whom Brinkley describes as the most impressive and appalling figure he encountered; and Ronald Reagan, whom he found to be the most mysterious of the eleven presidents he covered. Here is also Brinkleys account of President Kennedys assassination and a poignant remembrance of D-day.
David Brinkley was there and saw it all. In the sour-lovable manner (Mark Feeney, Boston Globe) of storytelling that he perfected, and in a narrative style that is both hilarious and instructive (George Will), Brinkleys Beat gives us his vivid recollections and the intelligence, acuity, and clear-sightedness on which his unimpeachable reputation rested for more than half a century. [via]More editions of Brinkley's Beat : People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time:
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The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Beliefby James WoodISBN 0375502173 (0-375-50217-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Broken Estate : Essays on Literature and Belief'Book summary:For James Wood, great fiction is always a venture into danger--a journey to the farthest shores. By extension, great criticism too should demand and risk all. And his first collection, The Broken Estate, does so again and again. Since Wood graduated from Cambridge in the 1980s and began reviewing for The Guardian, his name has been preceded by phrases such as enfant terrible and followed by adjectives such as fierce, fearless, and occasionally far worse. Few critics have such an urgent relation to their reading, and it is this, combined with his all-encompassing intellect and verbal velvet, that makes Wood so terrifying--and so tender.
In his introduction to The Broken Estate he writes, "The gentle request to believe is what makes fiction so moving" (gentle, as both adjective and verb, and its adverbial form, seem key terms), and this is what Wood is drawn to explore in the Russian greats and the English, European, and American moderns, among others. Many of these essays originally appeared in the London Review of Books and The New Republic, where he is a senior editor, but his book is far from a bundle of accident. Wood's contention is that in the mid-19th century, the "distinctions between literary belief and religious belief" began to blur (or, depending on the writer, shimmer), causing a crisis for the likes of Melville, Gogol, and Flaubert, and leading to "a skepticism toward the real as we encounter it in the narrative." I suspect, however, that some will head straight for the pieces on their literary loves and not be so concerned with Wood's overarching thesis, at least initially. No matter. Each essay also stands on its own, whether the author is positing Jane Austen as "a ferocious innovator" more radical than Flaubert, Melville as the ultimate linguistic spendthrift, or Gogol as "a defensive fantasist."
In a brilliant take on Virginia Woolf--Wood makes even the much-discussed new--he declares (admits?) that "the writer-critic, wanting to be both faithful critic and original writer," is caught "in a flurry of trapped loyalties." But he himself almost always works his way out of such snares, one of the many joys of this book. In his analysis of the several sides of Thomas More, for example, Wood first reads Utopia as a comedy but then suggests we read it "more tragically--not as a Lucianic satire but as a darkly ironic vision of the impossible." The aphorisms and aperçus come thick and strong. (Keepers of commonplace books should start a separate volume just for Wood.) For example, "Leslie Stephen acted like a genius but he thought like a merely gifted man." Or, "Hemingway has a reputation as a cold master of repetition, an icicle formed from the drip of style, while Lawrence is most often seen as a hothead who fell over himself, verbally." And he also has a gift for the telling domestic detail: Gogol "irritated others by playing card games he had invented and then changing the rules during play. He became rather selfishly involved with undercooked macaroni cheese, a dish he made again and again for guests." But Wood will dislike being complimented on his sentences as much as he claims Woolf did. His art, too, must be measured in chapters.
Wood is a great lover, and this makes him if not a great hater then one who gets hot under the critical collar, his ardor turning to irritation and intemperance in pieces on Morrison, Pynchon, and Murdoch. But in his finest discussions--among them one on Chekhov and another on late-20th-century treasure W.G. Sebald--he instantly quickens writers, books, and readers into being. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Brothel : Mustang Ranch and Its Womenby Alexa AlbertISBN 0375503315 (0-375-50331-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothel : Mustang Ranch and Its Women'Book summary:A journey into a fascinating subculture, Alexa Albert's exploration of Nevada's infamous cathouses began as a public-health study into the safe-sex practices of these legal working girls and the effectiveness of condom requirements in preventing sexually transmitted diseases. It took her three years to gain access to the brothels, and when her project was eventually approved by the head of the Nevada Brothel Association, she was surprised to be invited to stay at Mustang Ranch, among the women of the brothel, for the duration of her research. She learned that despite the legalization of prostitution in several counties of Nevada, the working girls still faced restrictive local ordinances and work regulations that kept them virtual prisoners inside the brothel compound. Outside, they encountered the same social stigma that has always haunted sex workers. In her compassionate, engaging first book, Albert answers all the questions you might ever have about prostitutes, providing a rich and nuanced depiction of a largely hidden world. --Regina Marler [via]
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Brothers in Arms : The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Herosby Kareem Abdul-JabbarISBN 0375433643 (0-375-43364-3)
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Buffalo for the Broken Heart : Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranchby Dan O'BrienISBN 0375503250 (0-375-50325-0)
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Cherry : A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrardby Sara WheelerISBN 0375503285 (0-375-50328-5)
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Comfort Me with Apples : More Adventures at the Tableby Ruth ReichlISBN 0375501959 (0-375-50195-9)
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The Constants of Nature : From Alpha to Omega - The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universeby John D. BarrowISBN 0375422218 (0-375-42221-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Constants of Nature : From Alpha to Omega - The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe'Book summary:A major contribution to our understanding of the basic laws of the universe -- from the author of The Book of Nothing.
The constants of nature are the fundamental laws of physics that apply throughout the universe: gravity, velocity of light, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. They encode the deepest secrets of the universe, and express at once our greatest knowledge and our greatest ignorance about the cosmos.
Their existence has taught us the profound truth that nature abounds with unseen regularities. Yet while we have become skilled at measuring the values of these constants, our frustrating inability to explain or predict their values shows how much we have still to learn about inner workings of the universe.
What is the ultimate status of these constants of nature? Are they truly constant? And are there other universes where they are different?
John D. Barrow, one of our foremost mathematicians and cosmologists, discusses the latest thinking about these and many more dramatic issues in this accessible and thought-provoking book. [via]More editions of The Constants of Nature : From Alpha to Omega - The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe:
Cork Boatby John D. PollackISBN 0375422579 (0-375-42257-9)
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Critical Condition: How Health Care In America Became Big Business-- And Bad Medicineby Donald L. Barlett, James B. SteeleISBN 0375434151 (0-375-43415-1)
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Culture Warriorby Bill O'ReillyISBN 0375435050 (0-375-43505-0)
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Darwin's Ghost : The Origin of the Species Updatedby Steve JonesISBN 0375501037 (0-375-50103-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin's Ghost : The Origin of the Species Updated'Book summary:Biologists have a dirty little secret: while practically everyone knows of The Origin of Species (and owes much to it), almost nobody has read it. British geneticist Steve Jones wants to make the arguments contained in that great text accessible to modern audiences, and succeeds with the delightful Darwin's Ghost. Approximating the structure of Darwin's opus, Jones uses the original chapter headings and summaries as a scaffolding to build an up-to-date demonstration of the power of a few simple ideas. Heredity, variation, and natural selection are all you need to infer evolution over time, and now that Jones can fill in the gaps in Darwin's pre-Mendelian understanding of genetics, the case becomes airtight.
More than a polemic, though, Darwin's Ghost is nearly as pleasurable a read as its ancestor is--one suspects that part of Jones's mission is to inspire today's readers to turn back to the grand but humble Origin of Species. While he may not be able to quite match Darwin's vast erudition or hawk's eye for detail, he still makes the theory of evolution shudder and breathe on the page. Dog breeding, mass extinctions, and weird fossils of tiny elephants all march to his drumbeat and--just when you least expect it--return to the main point that all living things share a common ancestor. Whether you're one of the elite who's had the pleasure of Darwin's literary company or you'd like a taste of what you're missing, Darwin's Ghost will bring the spirit of the great man back into your world of ideas. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Death in the Haymarket : A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age Americaby James GreenISBN 0375422374 (0-375-42237-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in the Haymarket : A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America'Book summary:On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. Coming in the midst of the largest national strike Americans had ever seen, the bombing created mass hysteria and led to a sensational trial, which culminated in four controversial executions. The trial seized headlines across the country, created the nations first red scare and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover.
Death in the Haymarket brings these remarkable events to life, re-creating a tempestuous moment in American social history. James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life the epic twenty-year battle for the eight-hour workday. He shows how the movement overcame numerous setbacks to orchestrate a series of strikes that swept the country in 1886, positioning the unions for a hard-won victory on the eve of the Haymarket tragedy.
As he captures the frustrations, tensions and heady victories, Green also gives us a rich portrait of Chicago, the Midwestern powerhouse of the Gilded Age. We see the great factories and their wealthy owners, including men such as George Pullman, and we get an intimate view of the communities of immigrant employees who worked for them. Throughout, we are reminded of the increasing power of newspapers as, led by the legendary Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill, they stirred up popular fears of the immigrants and radicals who led the unions.
Blending a gripping narrative, outsized characters and a panoramic portrait of a major social movement, Death in the Haymarket is an important addition to the history of American capitalism and a moving story about the class tensions at the heart of Gilded Age America. [via]More editions of Death in the Haymarket : A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America:
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Diana : Her Life and Her Legacyby Anthony HoldenISBN 0375501398 (0-375-50139-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diana : Her Life and Her Legacy'Book summary:For those interested in a personal slide show of the late Princess of Wales, royal commentator Anthony Holden's full-color photo essay, with more than 150 images from Diana's life, might be the closest you'll get. Thick, glossy, and laden with moving quotes from her famous, eclectic mix of friends--Henry Kissinger, Elton John, and Mother Teresa, among others--Her Life & Her Legacy is a polished and engaging tribute to the princess. Said Nelson Mandela: "She was an ambassador for victims of landmines, war orphans, the sick and needy throughout the world. She was undoubtedly one of the best ambassadors of Great Britain." [via]
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Disarming Iraqby Hans BlixISBN 0375423028 (0-375-42302-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disarming Iraq'Book summary:The war against iraq divided opinion throughout the world and generated a maelstrom of spin and counterspin. The man at the eye of the storm, and arguably the only key player to emerge from it with his integrity intact, was hans blix, head of the un weapons inspection team.this is dr. Blix's account of what really happened during the months leading up to the declaration of war in march 2003. In riveting descriptions of his meetings with tony blair, jacques chirac, colin powell, condoleezza rice, and kofi annan, he conveys the frustrations, the tensions, the pressure and the drama as the clock ticked toward the fateful hour. In the process, he asks the vital questions about the war: was it inevitable? why couldn't the u.s. And uk get the backing of the other member states of the un security council? did iraq have weapons of mass destruction? what does the situation in iraq teach us about the propriety and efficacy of policies of preemptive attack and unilateral action?free of the agendas of politicians and ideologues, blix is the plainspoken, measured voice of reason in the cacophony of debate about iraq. His assessment of what happened is invaluable in trying to understand both what brought us to the present state of affairs and what we can learn as we try to move toward peace and security in the world after iraq [via]
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Dr. Folkman's War : Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancerby Robert Cooke, C. Everett KoopISBN 0375502440 (0-375-50244-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Folkman's War : Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer'Book summary:Early in 1998, New York Times science reporter and author Gina Kolata happened to be seated at a banquet next to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson. When Kolata asked Watson what was new in the world of science, he replied, "Judah Folkman and angiogenesis, that's what's new. Judah is going to cure cancer in two years."
Folkman, a longtime physician and medical researcher at Harvard University and Children's Hospital, was caught off guard by the excited news reports that followed Watson's remark, but there was good reason for excitement. For nearly four decades, when not busy doing such things as inventing the heart pacemaker and attending to hundreds of patients, Folkman had been puzzling out a peculiarity of tumors: at some point during their formation, they sent forth chemical signals that in effect "recruited" blood vessels to feed them. If those signals could be intercepted through well-targeted drugs, Folkman reasoned, and the blood supply to cancerous formations thus interrupted, then the tumors themselves might be starved to death, or at least to dormancy.
In this book, Newsday writer Robert Cooke offers an accessible account of Folkman's work on angiogenesis, or the formation of blood vessels, which may well point the way to new treatments for cancer and related illnesses. Following Folkman's roundabout trail, one marked by considerable resistance on the part of doubtful colleagues, readers will gain a sense of how medical research is conducted--and, almost certainly, a sense of wonder at the medical breakthroughs that, as James Watson hinted, are just around the corner. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wildby Ellen MeloyISBN 0375422161 (0-375-42216-1)
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Facing the Wind : A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliationby Julie SalamonISBN 0375500227 (0-375-50022-7)
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Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight And the Consequences of Free Trade - Lessons from Shanghaiby Andrew RossISBN 037542363X (0-375-42363-X)
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Fat Man in a Middle Seat : Forty Years of Covering Politicsby Jack W. GermondISBN 0375500987 (0-375-50098-7)
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Flophouse : Life on the Boweryby David Isay, Stacy Abramson, Harvey WangISBN 0375503226 (0-375-50322-6)
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Franklin and Winston : An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendshipby Jon MeachamISBN 0375432280 (0-375-43228-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin and Winston : An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship'Book summary:The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of historys towering leaders
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the Greatest Generation. In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique onea president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.
Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nationsyet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDRs affectionswhich was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aidesand Winston Churchill.
Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.
Meachams new sourcesincluding unpublished letters of FDRs great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchills joint companyshed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.
Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age. [via]More editions of Franklin and Winston : An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship:
Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transitionby Mary Catherine BatesonISBN 0375501010 (0-375-50101-0)
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Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! : Writers on Comicsby Sean HoweISBN 0375422560 (0-375-42256-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! : Writers on Comics'Book summary:In Give Our Regards to the Atom-smashers!, some of our most intriguing and creative contemporary writers weigh in on the world of comics: the ones they love versus the ones they hate, the comics they devoured as kids and still can't live without, and the comics that have influenced them in their work and their lives.
Here is Jonathan Lethem on childhood friendships, comic books, and the genius of artist Jack Kirby . . . Brad Meltzer on spending a summer vacation with the New Teen Titans. . . Glen David Gold on the obsessive nature of collecting . . . Myla Goldberg writing about the disturbed visions of Chris Ware and Renée French . . . Steve Erickson riffing on the perverse patriotism of American Flagg. Here, too, are Luc Sante on Tintin, Aimee Bender on Yummy Fur, Greil Marcus on Uncle Sam, Lydia Millet on Little Nemo in Slumberland, and many others. Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! is a quirky, thrilling, and compulsively readable celebration of the unique alchemy of words and drawings that forms the language of comic books. It is a book that will delight the seasoned comics reader and invite everyone else into a whole new world. [via]More editions of Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! : Writers on Comics:
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The Good Women of China : Hidden Voicesby Xinran Xue, Esther TyldesleyISBN 0375422013 (0-375-42201-3)
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For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran hosted a radio program in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze became famous throughout the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern China. Centuries of obedience to their fathers, husbands and sons, followed by years of fear under Communism, had made women terrified of talking openly about their feelings. Xinran won their trust and, through her compassion and ability to listen, became the first woman to hear their true stories.
This unforgettable book is the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through the vivid intimacy of her writing, these women confide in the reader, sharing their deepest secrets. Whether they are the privileged wives of party leaders or peasants in a forgotten corner of the countryside, they tell of almost inconceivable suffering: forced marriages, sexual abuse, separation of parents from their children, extreme poverty. But they also talk about love -- about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the urge to nurture and cherish remains. Their stories changed Xinrans understanding of China forever. Her book will reveal the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before. [via]More editions of The Good Women of China : Hidden Voices:
The Great Republic : A History of Americaby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 037550320X (0-375-50320-X)
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The Great Wave : Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japanby Christopher BenfeyISBN 0375503277 (0-375-50327-7)
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In The Great Wave, Benfey tells the story of the tightly knit group of nineteenth-century travelersconnoisseurs, collectors, and scientistswho dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving Old Japan. As Benfey writes, A sense of urgency impelled them, for they were convincedDarwinians that they werethat their quarry was on the verge of extinction.
These travelers include Herman Melville, whose Pequod is shadowed by hostile and mysterious Japan ; the historian Henry Adams and the artist John La Farge, who go to Japan on an art-collecting trip and find exotic adventures; Lafcadio Hearn, who marries a samurais daughter and becomes Japans preeminent spokesman in the West; Mabel Loomis Todd, the first woman to climb Mt. Fuji; Edward Sylvester Morse, who becomes the worlds leading expert on both Japanese marine life and Japanese architecture; the astronomer Percival Lowell, who spends ten years in the East and writes seminal works on Japanese culture before turning his restless attention to life on Mars; and President (and judo enthusiast) Theodore Roosevelt. As well, we learn of famous Easterners come West, including Kakuzo Okakura, whose The Book of Tea became a cult favorite, and Shuzo Kuki, a leading philosopher of his time, who studied with Heidegger and tutored Sartre.
Finally, as Benfey writes, his meditation on cultural identity seeks to capture a shared mood in both the Gilded Age and the Meiji Era, amid superficial promise and prosperity, of an overmastering sense of precariousness and impending peril. [via]More editions of The Great Wave : Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan:
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The Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawISBN 0375502025 (0-375-50202-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greatest Generation'Book summary:Veteran reporter and NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw went to France to make a documentary marking the 40th anniversary of D-day in 1984. Although he was thoroughly briefed on the historical background of the invasion, he was totally unprepared for how it would affect him emotionally. Flooded with childhood memories of World War II, Brokaw began asking veterans at the ceremony to revisit their past and talk about what happened, triggering a chain reaction of war-torn confessions and Brokaw's compulsion to capture their experiences in what he terms "the permanence a book would represent."
After almost 15 years and hundreds of letters and interviews, Brokaw wrote The Greatest Generation, a representative cross-section of the stories he came across. However, this collection is more than a mere chronicle of a tumultuous time, it's history made personal by a cast of everyday people transformed by extraordinary circumstances: the first women to break the homemaker mold, minorities suffering countless indignities to boldly fight for their country, infantrymen who went on to become some of the most distinguished leaders in the world, small-town kids who became corporate magnates. From the reminiscences of George Bush and Julia Child to the astonishing heroism and moving love stories of everyday people, The Greatest Generation salutes those whose sacrifices changed the course of American history. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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The Happy Bottom Riding Club : The Life and Times of Pancho Barnesby Lauren KesslerISBN 037550124X (0-375-50124-X)
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Hard Eightby Janet EvanovichISBN 0375431705 (0-375-43170-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Eight'Book summary:In Hard Eight, Stephanie Plum picks up a case a little nastier than anything the wisecracking bounty hunter's seen before. Evelyn Soder and her young daughter have gone on the run, leaving an angry ex-husband who's planning to collect on a child custody bond that will leave Evelyn's grandmother homeless. Stephanie's first clue that there's more to it than that comes in the form of Eddie Abruzzi, a shady local businessman who warns her to butt out of the case. Stephanie doesn't scare easily, but when Abruzzi's henchmen leave a bag of snakes on her doorknob and tarantulas in her car, she has no choice but to call Ranger, the hunky man of mystery whom she already owes too many favors. Steph knows that Ranger will soon be calling in his marker, but with her ex- fiancé Joe Morelli out of the picture, that should be OK--shouldn't it? In the meantime, she's got other fugitives to catch, aided by the usual band of misfits, plus a bumbling correspondence-school lawyer who's developed the hots for Stephanie's sister, Valerie. And Steph's in for a surprise from her mother, who proves she's not above wielding a dangerous weapon to save her daughter's life.
Author Janet Evanovich has made a bold move in using a soupçon of child jeopardy to pull this series out of the comfortable but formulaic pattern it was threatening to fall into. It's still funny, and yes, some cars are destroyed, but now there's a real edge of darkness under the humor. Fans needn't fear, though: Jersey girl Stephanie is still full of sass and Tastykakes. --Barrie Trinkle [via]
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Hillary's Choiceby Gail SheehyISBN 0375503447 (0-375-50344-7)
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How Far Will You Go?: Questions to Test Your Limitsby Evelyn McFarlane, James Saywell, Diana StezalskiISBN 0375502424 (0-375-50242-4)
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How I Came into My Inheritance : And Other True Storiesby Dorothy GallagherISBN 0375503463 (0-375-50346-3)
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I Ain't Got Time to Bleed : Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Upby Jesse VenturaISBN 0375503323 (0-375-50332-3)
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In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Centuryby Geert MakISBN 0375424954 (0-375-42495-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century'Book summary:Geert Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result is mesmerizing: Maks rare double talent as a sharp-eyed journalist and a hugely imaginative historian makes In Europe a dazzling account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adrinana Warno in Poland, with her job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau.
But Mak is above all an observer. He describes what he sees at places that have become Europes wellsprings of memory, where history is written into the landscape. At Ypres, he hears the blast of munitions from the Great War that are still detonated there twice a day. In Warsaw, he finds the point where the tram rails that led to the Jewish ghetto come to a dead end in a city park. And in an abandoned nursery school near Chernobyl, where tiny pairs of shoes still stand in neat rows, he is transported back to the moment time stood still in the dying days of the Soviet Union.
Mak combines the larger story of twentieth-century Europe with details that give it a face, a taste and a smell. His unique approach makes the reader an eyewitness to a half-forgotten past, full of unknown peculiarities, sudden insights and touching encounters. In Europe is a masterpiece; it reads like the epic novel of Europes most extraordinary century. [via]More editions of In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century:
In Ruinsby Christopher WoodwardISBN 0375421998 (0-375-42199-8)
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Lifeby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 037542234X (0-375-42234-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life'Book summary:Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawms The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures. Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible short century which is the subject of Age of Extremes, his most widely read book, Hobsbawm has, for eighty-five years, been committed to understanding the interesting times through which he has lived.
Hitler came to power as Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He was a member of the Apostles at Kings College, Cambridge, took E.M. Forster to hear Lenny Bruce, and demonstrated with Bertrand Russell against nuclear arms in Trafalgar Square. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest and an evening at home with Mahalia Jackson in Chicago. He saw the body of Stalin, started the modern history of banditry and is probably the only Marxist asked to collaborate with the inventor of the Mars bar.
Hobsbawm takes us from Britain to the countries and cultures of Europe, to America (which he appreciated first through movies and jazz), to Latin America, Chile, India and the Far East. With Interesting Times, we see the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants, the incisiveness of whose views we cannot afford to ignore in a world in which history has come to be increasingly forgotten. [via]More editions of Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life:
Isaac Newtonby James GleickISBN 0375422331 (0-375-42233-1)
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Julia's Kitchen Wisdom : Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime in Cookingby Julia Child, David NussbaumISBN 0375430938 (0-375-43093-8)
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King of the World : Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Heroby David RemnickISBN 0375500650 (0-375-50065-0)
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The Language of Baklava : A Memoirby Diana Abu-JaberISBN 0375423044 (0-375-42304-4)
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Like No Other Time : The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Foreverby Tom DaschleISBN 0375432833 (0-375-43283-3)
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Lives of Moral Leadershipby Robert ColesISBN 0375501088 (0-375-50108-8)
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A Look over My Shoulder : A Life in the Central Intelligence Agencyby Richard Helms, William Hood, Henry A. KissingerISBN 037550012X (0-375-50012-X)
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoirby Lauren SlaterISBN 0375501126 (0-375-50112-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir'Book summary:One has good reason to be suspicious of a book that calls itself a "metaphorical memoir." If a metaphor substitutes one thing for another to which it's not ordinarily related, and a memoir relates the personal experiences of the author, then a metaphorical memoir would be... well, lying, if we're going to get technical about it. Or it could be Lying, in which case, hold that judgment and lay all categories aside: here is a book so stunningly contrary it deserves a whole genre to itself.
Lauren Slater may have grown up with epilepsy. Or she may have Munchausen syndrome, "also called factitious illness," also called lying. Or, quite possibly, she has never had any of the above, and all her exquisite evocations of auras and grand mal seizures are merely well-researched symbolic descriptions of her psychic state. In a chapter that's disguised as an extended letter to her editor (and impishly titled "How to Market This Book") she defends her decision to call the work nonfiction:
Why is what we feel less true than what is? Supposing I simply feel like an epileptic, a spastic person, one with a shivering brain; supposing I have chosen epilepsy because it is the most accurate conduit to convey my psyche to you? Would this not still be a memoir, my memoir?
Slater is peering down a slippery slope here, and for all its manifest brilliance, the pyrotechnics of its prose, reading Lying can be an unnerving experience--sort of like hanging out with a compulsive liar, actually. (It's no help to find out that "after all, a lot, or at least some, or at least a few, of the literal facts are accurate.")But if Slater is playing with our heads, she's not doing so for fashionable postmodern reasons. Lying's bag of tricks emerges from some complex and deeply felt ideas about form, reality, and consciousness itself--and what's more, it's an extraordinary memoir, "true" or not. A field full of nuns, their windblown habits tipping them over into the snow; an electric brain stimulator that makes a patient see colors and taste her own words; Slater rolling in mounds of Barbadian sugar and then running back to her mother, coated like candy--who cares whether any of these actually happened? In the end, Lying is fundamentally true, just as a great novel or indeed any great work of art is true: in a way that has nothing to do with fact. --Mary Park [via]
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Madam Secretaryby Madeleine AlbrightISBN 0375432159 (0-375-43215-9)
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The Marriage of Sense and Soul : Integrating Science and Religionby Ken WilberISBN 0375500545 (0-375-50054-5)
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Merde : Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Socio-Historical Coprologyby Ralph A. LewinISBN 0375501983 (0-375-50198-3)
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The Minority Reportby Philip K. DickISBN 0375421874 (0-375-42187-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Minority Report'Book summary:In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses "precogs"--people with the power to see into the future--to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive him as the next criminal. But Anderton knows he has never contemplated such a thing, and this knowledge proves the precogs are fallible. Now, whichever way he turns, Anderton is doomed--unless he can find the precogs's "minority report"--the dissenting voice that represents his one hope of getting at the truth in time to save himself from his own system.
A film version of The Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, will be released this summerfurther proof of the enduring appeal of Philip K. Dick's visionary fiction. [via]More editions of The Minority Report:
Moanin' at Midnight : The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolfby James Segrest, Mark HoffmanISBN 0375422463 (0-375-42246-3)
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My Life So Farby Jane FondaISBN 0375435026 (0-375-43502-6)
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Nancy Silverton's Pastries from the LA Brea Bakeryby Nancy Silverton, Teri Gelber, LA Brea Bakery, Steven RothfeldISBN 0375501932 (0-375-50193-2)
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New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guideby Elizabeth LesserISBN 0375500103 (0-375-50010-3)
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The Ongoing Momentby Geoff DyerISBN 0375422153 (0-375-42215-3)
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. . . photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles, Dyer looks at the ways in which such canonical figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston, among others, have photographed the same things (barber shops, benches, hands, roads, and signs, for example). In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographersmany of whom never metconstantly encounter one another.
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the nonfiction work of art. [via]More editions of The Ongoing Moment:
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The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, And Future Of The United Nationsby Paul KennedyISBN 0375501657 (0-375-50165-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, And Future Of The United Nations'Book summary:With all its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, the UN still represents mans best-organized hope to substitute the conference table for the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
The signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 was an unprecedented development in the history of humankind. For the first time, the worlds most powerful sovereign nation states came together to create an autonomous organization designed to, in the Charters words, save succeeding generations from the scourge of war [and] reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights. Sixty years later, the UN still doggedly pursues that mandate, albeit not without difficulty and certainly not without criticism.
In The Parliament of Man, the distinguished scholar Paul Kennedy gives a thorough and timely history of the United Nations that explains the institutions roots and functions while also casting an objective eye on the UNs effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead.
Building on expertise he gained in drafting official reports for the UNs fiftieth anniversary on how to improve the organizations performance, Kennedy makes sense of the many commissions and committees, and how its six main operating bodiesGeneral Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (UNESCO), Trusteeship Council, Secretariat, and International Courtoperate and interact. Citing examples from the UNs history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Councilthe United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and Franceon numerous occasions overcame political antagonisms to spearhead military supervision of aid in humanitarian crises, and how lack of cooperation among the great powers has hamstrung such initiatives as the control of greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbated the deleterious effects of globalization on developing nations economies.
As a body, the UN emerges here for what it is: fallible, human-based, oftentimes dependent on the whims of powerful national governments or the foibles of individual senior UN administrators, but utterly indispensable. In The Parliament of Man, Kennedy ably proves that it is difficult to imagine how much more riven and ruinous our world of six billion people would be if there had been no UN social, environmental, and cultural agendasand no institutions to attempt to put them into practice on the ground. [via]More editions of The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, And Future Of The United Nations:
The Pen Commandments : A Guide for the Beginning Writerby Steven FrankISBN 0375422285 (0-375-42228-5)
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Persepolisby Marjane SatrapiISBN 0375423966 (0-375-42396-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persepolis'Book summary:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with Iraq have on her home, family and school.
Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal.
Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive black-and-white artwork), young Marjane learns about her family history and how it is entwined with the history of Iran, and watches her liberal parents cope with a fundamentalist regime that gets increasingly rigid as it gains more power. Outspoken and intelligent, Marjane chafes at Iran's increasingly conservative interpretation of Islamic law, especially as she grows into a bright and independent teenager. Throughout, Marjane remains a hugely likeable young woman
Persepolis gives the reader a snapshot of daily life in a country struggling with an internal cultural revolution and a bloody war, but within an intensely personal context. It's a very human history, beautifully and sympathetically told. --Robert Burrow [via]
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Returnby Marjane SatrapiISBN 0375422889 (0-375-42288-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return'Book summary:Picking up the thread where her debut memoir-in-comics concluded, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return details Marjane Satrapi's experiences as a young Iranian woman cast abroad by political turmoil in her native country. Older, if not exactly wiser, Marjane reconciles her upbringing in war-shattered Tehran with new surroundings and friends in Austria. Whether living in the company of nuns or as the sole female in a house of eight gay men, she creates a niche for herself with friends and acquaintances who feel equally uneasy with their place in the world.
After a series of unfortunate choices and events leave her literally living in the street for three months, Marjane decides to return to her native Iran. Here, she is reunited with her family, whose liberalism and emphasis on Marjane's personal worth exert as strong an influence as the eye-popping wonders of Europe. Having grown accustomed to recreational drugs, partying, and dating, Marjane now dons a veil and adjusts to a society officially divided by gender and guided by fundamentalism. Emboldened by the example of her feisty grandmother, she tests the bounds of the morality enforced on the streets and in the classrooms. With a new appreciation for the political and spiritual struggles of her fellow Iranians, she comes to understand that "one person leaving her house while asking herself, 'is my veil in place?' no longer asks herself 'where is my freedom of speech?'"
Satrapi's starkly monochromatic drawing style and the keenly observed facial expressions of her characters provide the ideal graphic environment from which to appeal to our sympathies. Bereft of fine detail, this graphic novel guides the reader's attention instead toward a narrative rich with empathy. Don't be fooled by the glowering self-portrait of the author on the back flap; its nearly impossible to read Persepolis 2 without feeling warmth toward Marjane Satrapi. --Ryan Boudinot [via]
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The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interactby Colin McGinnISBN 0375423176 (0-375-42317-6)
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Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performanceby James B. Maas, Meagan L. Wherry, Barbara Hogan, David J. AxelrodISBN 0375500952 (0-375-50095-2)
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Reading People : How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior - Anytime, Anyplaceby Jo-Ellan DimitriusISBN 0375501460 (0-375-50146-0)
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Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hateby Alberto ManguelISBN 0375503021 (0-375-50302-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate'Book summary:Reading Pictures looks at the work of great artistsfrom the intensely familiar to the undiscoveredand examines the stories behind them, tracing the passage of life into art. Pablo Picasso torments his mistress Dora Maar and then paints brilliant studies of her grief-crumpled face; these evolve into the weeping woman in his great indictment of fascism, Guernica. Manguel untangles what this story, and countless others, shows us of our twin impulses toward creation and destruction. A tour of the psyche more than of the museum, this book dares to ponder, with contagious wonder, why we create.
Not since John Bergers influential Ways of Seeing has an essayist so eloquently examined what happens when we are moved by profound works of art and how we decode a wordless language that touches us so intimately. Richly illustrated, Reading Pictures shows us that there is no limit to the stories we may find if we look with care and delight. [via]More editions of Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate:
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Roget's Desk Thesaurusby Enid Pearsons, Joyce O'ConnorISBN 0375425691 (0-375-42569-1)
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The Running Mateby Joe KleinISBN 0375430741 (0-375-43074-1)
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Saturday : A Novelby Ian McEwanISBN 0375435328 (0-375-43532-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saturday : A Novel'Book summary:From the pen of a master the #1 bestselling, Booker Prizewinning author of Atonement comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before.
On this particular Saturday morning, Perownes day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perownes professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive. [via]More editions of Saturday : A Novel:
Seafaring Women : Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wivesby David CordinglyISBN 0375500413 (0-375-50041-3)
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Shakespeare after Allby Marjorie GarberISBN 0375421904 (0-375-42190-4)
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The Shakespeare Wars: The Battle to Explain the Bardby Ron RosenbaumISBN 0375503390 (0-375-50339-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shakespeare Wars: The Battle to Explain the Bard'Book summary:[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.
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In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood about a vital subject and renews our sense of excitement and urgency. He gives us a Shakespeare book like no other. Rather than raking over worn-out fragments of biography, Rosenbaum focuses on cutting-edge controversies about the true source of Shakespeares enchantment and illuminationthe astonishing language itself. How best to unlock the secrets of its spell?
With quicksilver wit and provocative insight, Rosenbaum takes readers into the midst of fierce battles among the most brilliant Shakespearean scholars and directors over just how to delve deeper into the Shakespearean experiencedeeper into the mind of Shakespeare.
Was Shakespeare the one-draft wonder of Shakespeare in Love? Or was he ratheras an embattled faction of textual scholars now arguesa different kind of writer entirely: a conscientious reviser of his greatest plays? Must we then revise our way of reading, staging, and interpreting such works as Hamlet and King Lear?
Rosenbaum pursues key partisans in these debates from the high tables of Oxford to a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop in a strip mall in the Deep South. He makes ostensibly arcane textual scholarship intensely seductiveand sometimes even explicitly sexual. At an academic Pleasure Seminar in Bermuda, for instance, he examines one scholars quest to find an orgasm in Romeo and Juliet. Rosenbaum shows us great directors as Shakespearean scholars in their own right: We hear Peter Brookperhaps the most influential Shakespearean director of the past centurydisclose his quest for a secret play hidden within the Bards comedies and dramas. We listen to Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as he launches into an impassioned, table-pounding fury while discussing how the means of unleashing the full intensity of Shakespeares language has been lostand how to restore it. Rosenbaums hilarious inside account of the Great Shakespeare Funeral Elegy Fiasco, a man-versus-computer clash, illustrates the iconic struggle to define what is and isnt Shakespearean. And he demonstrates the way Shakespearean scholars such as Harold Bloom can become great Shakespearean characters in their own right.
The Shakespeare Wars offers a thrilling opportunity to engage with Shakespeares work at its deepest levels. Like Explaining Hitler, this book is destined to revolutionize the way we think about one of the overwhelming obsessions of our time. [via]More editions of The Shakespeare Wars: The Battle to Explain the Bard:
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fanby Lisa SeeISBN 0375435247 (0-375-43524-7)
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Lily is haunted by memoriesof who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu ( womens writing ). Some girls were paired with laotongs, old sames, in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments.
With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become old sames at the tender age of seven. As the years pass, through famine and rebellion, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their lifelong friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship. [via]More editions of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan:
The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire : Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidenceby Deepak ChopraISBN 0375432205 (0-375-43220-5)
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Taste : One Palate's Journey Through the World's Greatest Dishesby David RosengartenISBN 0375500111 (0-375-50011-1)
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There Are No Shortcuts : How an Inner-City Teacher--Winner of the American Teacher Award--Inspires His Students and Challenges Us to Rethink the Way We Educate Our Childrenby Rafe EsquithISBN 0375422021 (0-375-42202-1)
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The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Lifeby Edward MendelsonISBN 0375424083 (0-375-42408-3)
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Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans : Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Proby Tim McCarver, Danny PearyISBN 0375500855 (0-375-50085-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans : Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro'Book summary:On the surface, baseball looks like such an easy game--you throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball, and you run around the bases--but there are so many beautiful and hidden facets to the diamond. If anyone knows the game's on-field secrets, it's Tim McCarver. He caught in the Majors for 21 seasons, handling such Hall of Fame hurlers as Bob Gibson and Steve Carlton. Since hanging up his spikes almost two decades ago, he's been one of the game's most visible, thoughtful, and instructive analysts.
McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons is just that: a packed, at times densely penned, manual for smart and inquisitive fans, written up to their hunger for good, solid, challenging insight into the game's tactics, strategies, and maneuverings. McCarver goes into impressively thorough detail, which is his ultimate strength and occasional weakness; he assumes you've already got at least a baseball B.A. If you don't know a cut fastball from a four-seamer, you might consider applying elsewhere until you do, but if you are indeed up to the demands of a provocative graduate seminar, McCarver's quite a professor. He's an engaging storyteller, he never hides his biases, and while he's naturally strong on his perceptions into the game's most primal relationship of pitcher and catcher, he's never less than major league everywhere else around the diamond. [via]
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To End a War : Sarajevo to Daytonby Richard HolbrookeISBN 037550057X (0-375-50057-X)
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Trivia Lovers' Lists of Nearly Everything in the Universe: 50,000+ Big & Little Things Organized by Type And Kindby Barbara Ann KipferISBN 037542606X (0-375-42606-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trivia Lovers' Lists of Nearly Everything in the Universe: 50,000+ Big & Little Things Organized by Type And Kind'Book summary:This gargantuan gift book for trivia lovers is packed with lists of nearly everything imaginable: from card games, guns, mental states, and shapes to greetings, mushrooms, citrus fruits, artificial sweeteners, and stars. The casual browser will love this impulse buy for its unexpected treasuressuch as the 22 types of animals that camouflage themselves and the 25 highest-scoring Scrabble words. Fact-finders will love it for its practical A-Z format and thorough index.
" Special oversized gift book package
" More than 1,200 lists containing more than 50,000 items
" A great resource for writers, journalists, researchers, and puzzle-solvers
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Barbara Ann Kipfer is a lexicographer, archaeologist, and the author of more than 25 books, including How it Happens, 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About and The Order of Things. [via]More editions of Trivia Lovers' Lists of Nearly Everything in the Universe: 50,000+ Big & Little Things Organized by Type And Kind:
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolutionby Victor SebestyenISBN 037542458X (0-375-42458-X)
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The Unending Mystery : A Journey Through Labyrinths and Mazesby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0375423060 (0-375-42306-0)
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War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Quaedaby Jonathan B. TuckerISBN 0375422293 (0-375-42229-3)
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What I Know for Sure : My Story of Growing up in Americaby Tavis Smiley, David RitzISBN 0375433961 (0-375-43396-1)
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When Hollywood Had a King : The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influenceby Connie BruckISBN 0375501681 (0-375-50168-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Hollywood Had a King : The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence'Book summary:In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.
The Music Corporation of America was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Dr. Jules Stein, an ophthalmologist with a gift for booking bands. Twelve years later, Stein moved his operations west to Beverly Hills and hired Lew Wasserman. From his meager beginnings as a movie-theater usher in Cleveland, Wasserman ultimately ascended to the post of president of MCA, and the company became the most powerful force in Hollywood, regarded with a mixture of fear and awe.
In his signature black suit and black knit tie, Was-serman took Hollywood by storm. He shifted the balance of power from the studioswhich had seven-year contractual strangleholds on the starsto the talent, who became profit partners. When an antitrust suit forced MCAs evolution from talent agency to film- and television-production company, it was Wasserman who parlayed the control of a wide variety of entertainment and media products into a new type of Hollywood power base. There was only Washington left to conquer, and conquer it Wasserman did, quietly brokering alliances with Democratic and Republican administrations alike.
That Wassermans reach extended from the underworld to the White House only added to his mystique. Among his friends were Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa, mob lawyer Sidney Korshak, and gangster Moe Dalitzalong with Presidents Johnson, Clinton, and especially Reagan, who enjoyed a particularly close and mutually beneficial relationship with Wasserman. He was equally intimate with Hollywood royalty, from Bette Davis and Jimmy Stewart to Steven Spielberg, who began his career at MCA and once described Wassermans eyeglasses as looking like two giant movie screens.
The history of MCA is really the history of a revolution. Lew Wasserman ushered in the Hollywood we know today. He is the link between the old-school moguls with their ironclad studio contracts and the new industry defined by multimedia conglomerates, power agents, multimillionaire actors, and profit sharing. In the hands of Connie Bruck, the story of Lew Wassermans rise to power takes on an almost Shakespearean scope. When Hollywood Had a King reveals the industrys greatest untold story: how a stealthy, enterprising power broker became, for a time, Tinseltowns absolute monarch. [via]More editions of When Hollywood Had a King : The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence:
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction And Economicsby Paul OrmerodISBN 0375424059 (0-375-42405-9)
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Wired : A Romanceby Gary WolfISBN 0375502904 (0-375-50290-4)
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Womenby Annie Leibovitz, Susan SontagISBN 0375500200 (0-375-50020-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women'Book summary:Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together, these "photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women (and living in America at the end of the twentieth century), all--well almost all--fully clothed," writes Susan Sontag in the book's preface, form "an anthology of destinies and disabilities and new possibilities." Leibovitz, who in her years working for Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Vanity Fair magazines has photographed hundreds of celebrities, turns her lens on a wide range of ordinary and extraordinary female subjects: coal miners, socialites, first ladies, artists, domestic-violence victims, an astronaut, a surgeon, a maid. What she creates is a reflection of contemporary American womanhood that mirrors both women's accomplishments and the challenges they still face individually and as a group.
Leibovitz demonstrates her own range as a photographer in this body of work, shooting in the studio and natural settings and working in both black-and-white and color film. She depicts model Jerry Hall wearing a little black dress, a fur coat, and high heels, staring frankly at the viewer from a velvet chair in a plush red parlor while her naked infant son nurses from her exposed right breast. Schoolteacher Lamis Srour's eyes--the only part of her face visible behind her heavy black veil--illuminate a dark black-and-white portrait. Leibovitz frames actress Elizabeth Taylor and her dog Sugar by their shocks of snow-white hair. She captures four Kilgore College Rangerettes, a drill team, at the apex of their kicks--white-booted legs pointing up, obscuring their faces and revealing the red underpants beneath their blue miniskirts. There are many more wonderful and unexpected images here, over 200 in all. The delight in discovering them awaits readers. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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