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Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American Peopleby Helen ZiaISBN 0374147744 (0-374-14774-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People'Book summary:This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska salmon canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the L.A. riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotyping of Asian Americans, which has an impact on key issues concerning all Americans, from affirmative action and campaign finance to popular culture and national security.
Helen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in 1952, when there were only 150,000 Chinese Americans in the entire country, and she writes as a personal witness to the dramatic changes involving Asian Americans. [via]
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The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranesby Peter Matthiessen, Robert BatemanISBN 0374199442 (0-374-19944-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes'Book summary:Acclaimed writer Peter Matthiessen, a self-professed "craniac," has been observing and studying all kinds of birds most of his life, but his pursuit of cranes is closer to a spiritual quest than a naturalist's exercise. These majestic, mythic, and notoriously shy birds, capable of soaring at heights of 20,000 feet, are often fond of remote and rugged places, so just locating the birds can be difficult enough, determining an accurate number often impossible. Some locales, such as the breeding grounds on the Platte River in Nebraska, boast flocks half a million strong--"by far the greatest crane assemblies on earth"; other areas support only a precious few. Matthiessen's search for 15 different species of cranes has taken him to hidden corners of Siberia, China, Mongolia, Tibet, Sudan, and Australia (where Atherton cranes were not even discovered until 1961). Despite his many years of adventure and wide travels, each crane sighting is still a thrill for him, and his curiosity and contagious enthusiasm bring the book alive. But The Birds of Heaven also serves as an ecological warning: "Perhaps more than any other living creatures, they evoke the retreating wilderness, the vanishing horizons of clean water, earth, and air upon which their species--and ours, too, though we learn it very late--must ultimately depend for survival." --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportwriter's Sonby John Jeremiah SullivanISBN 0374172811 (0-374-17281-1)
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The Book for Normal Neuroticsby Allan FrommeISBN 0374115443 (0-374-11544-3)
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colorby Philip BallISBN 0374116792 (0-374-11679-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color'Book summary:The making of a painting relies on inspiration, craft, practice, and vision. But, observes the noted science writer Philip Ball, it also hinges on science: "For as long as painters have fashioned their visions and dreams into images, they have relied on technical knowledge and skill to supply their materials."
In this lively study, Ball examines some of the tools and materials that chemists have added to the palette over the centuries. He also takes his readers on a learned tour of what science has taught us about vision, the nature of light, and the physical and cultural factors that condition our perceptions of color (the ancient Romans, he notes, had no term for brown or gray, but that does not mean they didn't use earth pigments in their work). Whether writing of matters scientific or artistic, Ball is a technologist but not a determinist. In the end, he writes, art depends not on science but on artists, and "each artist makes his or her own contract with the colors of the time."
Readers with an interest in science, art, and the crossroads where they meet will relish Ball's erudite travels across the spectrum of light. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold Warby William E. BurrowsISBN 0374117470 (0-374-11747-0)
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Byron: Life and Legendby James H. Kunstler, Fiona MacCarthyISBN 0374186294 (0-374-18629-4)
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The Camera Age: Essays on Televisionby Michael ArlenISBN 0374118221 (0-374-11822-1)
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Cell Wars: The Immune System's Newest Weapons Against Cancerby Marshall GoldbergISBN 0374120102 (0-374-12010-2)
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Centenarians: The Story of the 20th Century by the Americans Who Lived Itby Bernard EdelmanISBN 0374176787 (0-374-17678-7)
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The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightingsby R. W. B. LewisISBN 0374124043 (0-374-12404-3)
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979by Elizabeth BishopISBN 0374127476 (0-374-12747-6)
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The Concise Book of Lyingby Evelin SullivanISBN 0374128685 (0-374-12868-5)
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The Conquest Of The Saharaby Douglas PorchISBN 0374128790 (0-374-12879-0)
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Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worldsby Stephen KinzerISBN 0374131430 (0-374-13143-0)
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Cults of Unreasonby Christopher EvansISBN 0374133247 (0-374-13324-7)
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Curzon: Imperial Statesmanby David GilmourISBN 0374133565 (0-374-13356-5)
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Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explainedby August KleinzahlerISBN 0374133778 (0-374-13377-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained'Book summary:Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place.[via]
These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns "poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect" (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.More editions of Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained:
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Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage With Barry Humphriesby John LahrISBN 0374134561 (0-374-13456-1)
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Deadline Poet Or, My Life As a Doggerelistby Calvin TrillinISBN 0374135525 (0-374-13552-5)
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The Devil's Horn : The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Coolby Michael SegellISBN 0374159386 (0-374-15938-6)
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The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Editionby Joan Acocella, Waslaw Nijinsky, Kyril FitzlyonISBN 0374139210 (0-374-13921-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition'Book summary:Vaslav Nijinsky spent the final six weeks before his permanent consignment to an insane asylum as something a madman in the attic. With his family--wife, young daughters and occasionally, mother-in-law--and household staff downstairs, the legendary dancer retreated to his room in a remote Swiss villa to tangle with his burgeoning psychosis. Fearful that his wife would (as she ultimately did) commit him, and highly suspicious of the physician-cum-amateur psychiatrist who daily came by to examine him, Nijinsky perceived the diary as the only safe haven for the rambling thoughts that were overtaking him. Throughout, the anxiety and anguish are palpable, as Nijinsky writes about his disillusionment with his mentor and lover, Ballets Russes director Serge Diaghilev; his alienation from and distrust of his closest family members; and his fear of insanity and its consequential confinement. His writing becomes more obscure as the weeks progress and he examines his relationship to God, writing "I am God" at one point, and later: "God said to me, 'Go home and tell your wife that you are mad.'" As his schizophrenia evolves, the pace and style of Nijinsky's prose changes radically--toward the end he writes in abstract verse--but he remains, with a dancer's sensibility, attuned to the cadences of his environment. The noises of the household, the ringing of the phone, footsteps down the hall, smatterings of conversations overheard are all registered as a sort of accompaniment to his dance with madness and function perhaps as a final tether to reality.
Nijinsky's wife stumbled upon the diary in a locked trunk some years after her husband disappeared into the abyss of madness and soon released it for publication to feed public interest in her famous mate--but not before she sanitized the manuscript to such a degree (removing references to his homosexuality, overblown ego, bizarre paranoia, and various obsessions with bodily functions and sex acts) that its essence was obscured. Now 80 years after it was written, 20 years after its renegade editor died, and six years after the copyright that Nijinsky's daughters held expired, the unexpurgated version of the diaries faithfully restores the fascinating record of a great artist's struggle for his life. [via]
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The Earth Is the Lord'sby Abraham J. HeschelISBN 0374146136 (0-374-14613-6)
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Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulaeby Gale E. ChristiansonISBN 0374146608 (0-374-14660-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae'Book summary:This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. [via]
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Encounters With the Archdruidby John A. McPheeISBN 0374148228 (0-374-14822-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encounters With the Archdruid'Book summary:Born in 1915, the mountaineer and outdoorsman David Brower has arguably been the single most influential American environmentalist in the last half of the 20th century; even his erstwhile foes at the Department of the Interior grudgingly credit him with having nearly single-handedly halted the construction of a dam in the heart of the Grand Canyon, and he has converted thousands, even millions, of his compatriots to the preservationist cause through his work with the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and other organizations.
Brower was in the thick of battle when John McPhee profiled him for the New Yorker in a piece that would evolve into Encounters with the Archdruid. McPhee follows Brower into unusually close combat as Brower faces down a geologist who is, it seems, convinced that there is no sight quite so elevating as that of a fully operational mine; a developer who (successfully, it turned out) sought to convert an isolated stretch of the Carolina coast into a resort for the moneyed few--and who provided the title for McPhee's book, wryly opining that conservationists are at heart druids who "sacrifice people and worship trees"; and, most formidable of all, former Interior Secretary Floyd Dominy, who oversaw the construction of a structure that for Brower stands as one of the most hated creations of our time, Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. McPhee offers up an engaging portrait of Brower, a man unafraid of a good fight in the service of the earth, making Encounters an important contribution to the history of the modern environmental movement. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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An End To Suffering: The Buddha In The Worldby Pankaj MishraISBN 0374148368 (0-374-14836-8)
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The Englishman's Daughterby Ben MacIntyreISBN 0374129851 (0-374-12985-1)
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Europeansby Jane Kramer, William ShawnISBN 0374149399 (0-374-14939-9)
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The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiographyby Philip RothISBN 0374152128 (0-374-15212-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography'Book summary:A rigorously unfictionalized narrative that protrays Roth unadorned -- as young artist, as student , as son, as lover, as husband, as American, as Jew -- and candidly examines how close the novels have been to, and how far from, autobiography.[via]More editions of The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography:
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Faustby Randall Jarrell, Peter Sis, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0374164770 (0-374-16477-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Randall Jarrell's translation of Goethe's classic, illustrated with extraordinary new drawings by Peter Sis[via]
Randall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook: "Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest"), and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he died, and the few lines that remained untouched--Gretchen's Spinning Song--were rendered into English by Robert Lowell.
This elegant new edition features numerous beautiful line drawings by the renowned Czech artist, Peter Sis, author of the award-winning books The Starry Messenger and Tibet: Through the Red Box.More editions of Faust:
Fever Trail in Search of the Cure for Malaria: In Search of the Cure for Malariaby Mark HonigsbaumISBN 0374154694 (0-374-15469-4)
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoirby Vivian GornickISBN 0374154856 (0-374-15485-6)
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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 to 2001by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374154961 (0-374-15496-1)
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Powerby Warren ZimmermannISBN 0374179395 (0-374-17939-5)
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Fishing with Johnby Edith IglauerISBN 0374155240 (0-374-15524-0)
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Flaubert, a Lifeby Geoffrey WallISBN 0374156271 (0-374-15627-1)
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The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyronby Roger ShattuckISBN 0374157553 (0-374-15755-3)
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The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Periodby Edmund Wilson, Leon EdelISBN 0374157626 (0-374-15762-6)
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The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf Warby Douglas PorchISBN 0374158533 (0-374-15853-3)
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George Eliot: The Last Victorianby Kathryn HughesISBN 0374161380 (0-374-16138-0)
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Giant Bluefinby Douglas WhynottISBN 0374162085 (0-374-16208-5)
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Grant And Sherman: The Friendship That Won The Civil Warby Charles Bracelen FloodISBN 0374166005 (0-374-16600-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grant And Sherman: The Friendship That Won The Civil War'Book summary:The lives of Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman are classic underdog stories. Both of these "obscure failures" experienced more disappointment than success prior to the start of the Civil War. By 1861, they had each resigned from the U.S. Army and failed in several civilian pursuits between them, including farming, real estate, retail, and banking. Further, Grant was known as a drunk and Sherman was labeled insane. But once they threw themselves into the war effort, their best traits and talents began to reveal themselves. Even their motives were similar--both men joined the war not to eradicate slavery but to hold the Union together, believing that secession was equal to treason. This dual biography gracefully reveals how the two men grew to be "as brothers," why their partnership proved essential to victory for the Union, and how well they complemented and helped each other in their lives and careers, despite some major differences. For instance, though he possessed tremendous talent, Sherman was insecure and initially asked Abraham Lincoln never to give him a superior command. Grant, on the other hand, never doubted his ability to lead, and he quickly, if quietly, moved up the chain of command. Once he recognized Sherman's abilities, Grant made sure to keep him close, and they grew to depend upon each other completely. Through their near-daily interaction, even when separated by distance, both men honed their skills and eventually came up with a winning strategy for the war, which they executed in a brilliant two-pronged assault.
The book also discusses Grant's and Sherman's marriages, their relationships with their soldiers, and their dealings with politicians to provide well-rounded and complete portraits of these fascinating leaders. Grant and Sherman is a thoughtful portrait of the two men who "other than Lincoln... would have more to do with winning the war that preserved the Union than anyone else." --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Greene on Capri: A Memoirby Shirley HazzardISBN 0374166757 (0-374-16675-7)
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The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlinby Gyorgy Dalos, Andrea Dunai, Antony WoodISBN 0374167273 (0-374-16727-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin'Book summary:In 1945 Isaiah Berlin, working in Russia for the British Foreign Office, met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one long November evening was a transformng experience for both, and has become a cardinal moment in modern literary history.[via]
For Akhmatova, Berlin was a "guest from the future," her ideal reader outside the nightmare of Soviet life and a link with a lost Russian world; he became a figure in her cryptic masterpiece "Poem without a Hero." For Berlin, this "most memorable" meeting with the beautiful poet of genius was a spur to his ideas on liberty and on history. But there were tragic consequences: the Soviet authorities thought Berlin was a British spy, Akhmatova became a suspected enemy, and until her death in 1966 the KGB persecuted her family. Though Akhmatova was convinced that she and Berlin had inadvertently started the Cold War, she remembered him gratefully and he inspired some of her finest poems.
György Dalos--who inteviewed Berlin and many others who knew Akhmatova well, and who examined hitherto-secret KGB and Poliburo files--tells the inside story of how Stalin and other Soviet leaders dealt with Akhmatova. He ends with the touching story of her posthumous rehabilitation, when Russians astronomers discovered a new star and name it after her.More editions of The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin:
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The Hours: A Novelby Michael CunninghamISBN 0374172897 (0-374-17289-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hours: A Novel'Book summary:The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to Mrs. Dalloway. In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant and unsettled, does her best to prepare for her husband's birthday, but can't seem to stop reading Woolf. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each keeps returning to. Clarissa is to eventually realize:
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.
As Cunningham moves between the three women, his transitions are seamless. One early chapter ends with Woolf picking up her pen and composing her first sentence, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." The next begins with Laura rejoicing over that line and the fictional universe she is about to enter. Clarissa's day, on the other hand, is a mirror of Mrs. Dalloway's--with, however, an appropriate degree of modern beveling as Cunningham updates and elaborates his source of inspiration. Clarissa knows that her desire to give her friend the perfect party may seem trivial to many. Yet it seems better to her than shutting down in the face of disaster and despair. Like its literary inspiration, The Hours is a hymn to consciousness and the beauties and losses it perceives. It is also a reminder that, as Cunningham again and again makes us realize, art belongs to far more than just "the world of objects." --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Hours: A Novel:
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The Iliadby Homer, Robert Fitzgerald, Andrew FordISBN 0374174415 (0-374-17441-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:Anger be now your song, immortal one,[via]
Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men-carrion
for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
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Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. Fitzgerald's work is accessible, ironic, faithful, written in a swift vernacular blank verse that "makes Homer live as never before" (Library Journal).
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Imagining Numbers: Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteenby Barry MazurISBN 0374174695 (0-374-17469-5)
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In My Placeby Charlayne Hunter-GaultISBN 0374175632 (0-374-17563-2)
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Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reichby Joachim C. Fest, Margot Bettauer DemboISBN 0374135770 (0-374-13577-0)
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Fest describes in riveting detail the final weeks of the war, from the desperate battles that raged night and day in the ruins of Berlin, fought by boys and old men, to the growing paranoia that marked Hitler's mental state--his utter disregard for the well being of both soldiers and civilians-- to his suicide and the efforts of his loyal aides to destroy his body before the advancing Russian armies reached Berlin. Inside Hitler's Bunker combines meticulous research with spellbinding storytelling and sheds light on events that, for those who survived them, were nothing less than the end of the world.More editions of Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich:
The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter And The Novelby James WoodISBN 0374177376 (0-374-17737-6)
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The Jameses: A Family Narrativeby R. W. B. LewisISBN 0374178615 (0-374-17861-5)
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Jay's Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Sideshow Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, popby Ricky JayISBN 0374178674 (0-374-17867-4)
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For the past four years, the multitalented Ricky Jay (sleight-of-hand artist, author, actor, film consultant, and scholar of the unusual) has published a unique and beautifully designed quarterly called Jay's Journal of Anomalies. Already a coveted collector's item, the complete set is gathered here for the first time. A brilliant excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments, the journal covered such subjects as dogs stealing acts from other dogs, an anthropological hoax involving the only survivors of a caste of ancient Aztec priests, and the ultimate diet: ingesting only air.In a delectably deadpan and winning style, Jay conveys his admiration and affection for the offbeat that characterized his bestselling Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women. He explains how wags since the sixteenth century have cheated at bowling; he explores the ancient relationship between conjuring and dentistry; and he chronicles the exploits of ceiling walkers and human flies. Crammed full of illustrations drawn from the author's massive personal archive, Jay's Journal of Anomalies will baffle, instruct, and, above all, delight.More editions of Jay's Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Sideshow Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, pop:
Just As I Thoughtby Grace PaleyISBN 0374180601 (0-374-18060-1)
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The Kindness of Womenby J.G. BallardISBN 0374181101 (0-374-18110-1)
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King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczakby Betty Jean LiftonISBN 0374181241 (0-374-18124-1)
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The Ladies' Oracleby Cornelius AgrippaISBN 0374182639 (0-374-18263-9)
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Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artistsby James FentonISBN 0374185050 (0-374-18505-0)
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The Letters Of Robert Lowellby Robert Lowell, Saskia HamiltonISBN 0374185468 (0-374-18546-8)
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Levels of the Gameby John McPheeISBN 0374185689 (0-374-18568-9)
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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Waterby Philip BallISBN 0374186286 (0-374-18628-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water'Book summary:Billed as "A Biography of Water," Life's Matrix would seem to have taken on a nearly insurmountable challenge. Yet author Philip Ball, science writer and consulting editor for Nature, covers the very interesting chemistry and physics of the substance and our species' long relationship with it without losing the reader--after all, each of us is mostly made of the wet stuff. From the ancients' conception of water as an element, recognizing its importance and primacy among terrestrial matter, to our current understanding of the intricate dance of hydrogen bonds that give water its unique, life-giving properties, Ball always finds the right angle to keep the story compelling. Chapters covering the nuts and bolts of water, which the reader might reasonably expect to be a bit dry, consistently remind us of its crucial role in so many aspects of our lives, from ocean currents to irrigation to tears. Some of the cutting-edge scientific reports are weirdly fascinating--the discovery of several different conformations of liquid and solid water and their odd behavior will provoke plenty of brow-furrowing, even if none of us will ever find ice-nine cubes in our cocktails at happy hour. The book closes with the now-obligatory look at what a mess we've made of the book's subject when seen as a natural resource, and offers potential short- and long-term solutions. Facing these issues is vital if we want to remember "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" as great poetry rather than apocalyptic prophecy. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Lights and Shadows of New York Life: Or, The Sights and Sensations of the Great Cityby James Dabney McCabeISBN 0374187436 (0-374-18743-6)
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Literary Terms: A Dictionaryby Karl Beckson, Arthur F. GanzISBN 0374188009 (0-374-18800-9)
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Bookby Walker PercyISBN 0374191654 (0-374-19165-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book'Book summary:The late Walker Percy's mordant contribution to the self-help book craze of the 1980s deals with the heavy abstraction of the Western mind and speculates about why writers may be the most abstracted and least grounded of all. (Before taking up novel writing, Percy was a medical doctor who became a patient in the very institution where he had worked.) The book disappeared for a time. Now it's back in print. Take the quizzes in it, then take a walk--you need to be back in the world before you write another word. [via]
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Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biographyby Martha SaxtonISBN 0374192103 (0-374-19210-3)
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The Love Affair As a Work of Artby Dan HofstadterISBN 0374192316 (0-374-19231-6)
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Love and Responsibilityby John Paul II, H.T. WillettsISBN 0374192472 (0-374-19247-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love and Responsibility'Book summary:Drawing from his own pastoral experience as a priest and bishop before he became Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla has produced a remarkably eloquent and resourceful defense of Catholic tradition in the sphere of family life and sexual morality. He writes in the conviction that science--biology, psychology, sociology--can provide valuable information on particular aspects of relations between the sexes, but that a full understanding can be obtained only by study of the human person as a whole. Central to his argument is the contrast between the personalistic and the utilitarian views of marriage and of sexual relations. The former views marriage as an interpersonal relationship, in which the well-being and self-realization of each partner are of overriding importance to the other. It is only within this framework that the full purpose of marriage can be realized. The alternative, utilitarian view, according to which a sexual partner is an object for use, holds no possibility of fulfillment and happiness. Wojtyla argues that divorce, artificial methods of birth control, adultery (pre-marital sex), and sexual perversions are all in various ways incompatible with the personalistic view of the sexual self-realization of the human person.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is that Wojtyla appeals throughout to ordinary, human experience, logically examined. He draws support for his views on the proper gratification of sexual needs, on birth control, and on other matters, from the findings of physiologists and psychologists. His conclusions coincide with the traditional teachings of the Church, which invoke scriptural authority. His approach ensures that non-Christians also can consider his arguments on their own merits. [via]
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Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Lifeby Nicholas RescherISBN 0374194289 (0-374-19428-9)
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Lytton Stracheyby Michael HolroydISBN 0374194394 (0-374-19439-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lytton Strachey'Book summary:"A triumphant success. . . . His prose is confident, clear . . . occasionally perfect." Dennis Potter, The Times (London)
"It is impossible to suppose that this Life' will ever be superseded . . . the best literary biography to appear for many years."John Rothenstein, New York Times "Written with vivacity and scrupulousness. . . . [Michael Holroyd] has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person."George Steiner, The New Yorker 30 b/w and 4 color photographs [via]More editions of Lytton Strachey:
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Loveby Óscar HijuelosISBN 0374201250 (0-374-20125-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love'Book summary:Inspired by their heroes Xavier Cugat and Desi Arnaz, brothers Cesar and Nestor Castillo come to New York City from Cuba in 1949 with designs on becoming mambo stars. Eventually they do--performing with Arnaz on "I Love Lucy" in 1955 and recording 78s with their own band, the Mambo Kings. In his second novel, Hijuelos traces the lives of the flashy, guitar-strumming Cesar and the timid, lovelorn Nestor as they cruise the East Coast club circuit in a flamingo-pink bus. Enriching the story are the brothers' friends and family members--all driven by their own private dreams. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. [via]
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The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenonby Patrick MarnhamISBN 0374201714 (0-374-20171-4)
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The Mass Psychology of Fascismby Wilhelm ReichISBN 0374203644 (0-374-20364-4)
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Me Againby Stevie SmithISBN 0374204942 (0-374-20494-2)
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Memoirsby Pablo NerudaISBN 0374206600 (0-374-20660-0)
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The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, the Torch in My Ear, the Play of the Eyesby Elias CanettiISBN 0374199507 (0-374-19950-7)
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Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of English Usageby Theodore M. BernsteinISBN 0374210438 (0-374-21043-8)
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Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essaysby Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah HeschelISBN 0374199809 (0-374-19980-9)
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A Moving Targetby William GoldingISBN 0374215731 (0-374-21573-1)
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Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clarkby Alan ClarkISBN 0374139172 (0-374-13917-2)
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My Belief: Essays on Life and Artby Hermann Hesse, Theodore ZiolkowskiISBN 0374216665 (0-374-21666-5)
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My Guru and His Discipleby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0374217025 (0-374-21702-5)
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Myself with Others: Selected Essaysby Carlos FuentesISBN 0374217505 (0-374-21750-5)
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The Mystery Guestby Gregoire Bouillier, lorin SteinISBN 0374185700 (0-374-18570-0)
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A New Time for Mexicoby Carlos Fuentes, Marina Gutman CastanedaISBN 0374221707 (0-374-22170-7)
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The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafkaby Ernst PawelISBN 0374222363 (0-374-22236-3)
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Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youthby Marjorie HeinsISBN 0374175454 (0-374-17545-4)
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From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, Internet filters to the V-chip, censorship exercised on behalf of children and adolescents is often based on the assumption that they must be protected from "indecent" information that might harm their development -- whether in art, in literature, or on a Web site. But where does this assumption come from, and is it true?
In Not in Front of the Children, Marjorie Heins explores the fascinating history of "indecency" laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth. From Plato's argument for rigid censorship, through Victorian laws aimed at repressing libidinous thoughts, to contemporary battles over sex education in public schools and violence in the media, Heins guides us through what became, and remains, an ideological minefield. With fascinating examples drawn from around the globe, she suggests that the "harm-to-minors" argument rests on shaky foundations.
There is an urgent need for informed, dispassionate debate about the perceived conflict between the free-expression rights of young people and the widespread urge to shield, protect, or censor them. Not in Front of the Children will spur this long-needed conversation. [via]
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Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives Of Middle Schoolersby Linda PerlsteinISBN 0374208824 (0-374-20882-4)
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Notes from Hampsteadby Elias Canetti, John HargravesISBN 0374223262 (0-374-22326-2)
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The Racketsby Thomas KellyISBN 0374177201 (0-374-17720-1)
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Sade: A Biographyby Maurice Lever, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0374202982 (0-374-20298-2)
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Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations With Palestinians in Israelby David Grossman, Haim WatzmanISBN 0374177880 (0-374-17788-0)
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Soul of the Age: The Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891-1962by Hermann Hesse, Theodore J. Ziolkowski, Mark Harman, Mark MarmanISBN 0374126127 (0-374-12612-7)
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Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyondby Pankaj MishraISBN 0374173214 (0-374-17321-4)
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In his new book, Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal. Traveling in the changing cultures of South Asia, Mishra sees the pressuresthe temptationsof Western-style modernity and prosperity, and teases out the paradoxes of globalization. A
visit to Allahabad, birthplace of Jawaharlal Nehru, occasions a brief history of the tumultuous post-independence politics Nehru set in motion. In Kashmir, just after the brutal killing of thirtyfive Sikhs, Mishra sees Muslim guerrillas playing with Sikh village children while the media ponder a (largely irrelevant) visit by President Clinton. And in Tibet Mishra exquisitely parses the situation whereby the Chinese governmentofficially atheist and strongly opposed to a free Tibethas discovered that Tibetan Buddhism can be packaged and sold to tourists.Temptations of the West is a book concerned with history still in the makingessential reading about a conflicted and rapidly changing region.More editions of Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, And Beyond:
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Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920'sby Ann DouglasISBN 0374116202 (0-374-11620-2)
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Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Ideaby George LakoffISBN 0374158282 (0-374-15828-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea'Book summary:[via]Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word freedom. The United States can strike preemptively because freedom is on the march. Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. In the 2005 presidential inaugural speech, the words freedom, free, and liberty were used forty-nine times.Freedom is one of the most contested words in American political discourse, the keystone to the domestic and foreign policy battles that are racking this polarized nation. For many Democrats, it seems that President Bushs use of the word is meaningless and contradictorydeployed opportunistically to justify American military action abroad and the curtailing of civil liberties at home. But in Whose Freedom?, George Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that in fact the right has effected a devastatingly coherent and ideological redefinition of freedom. The conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion.In a deep and alarming analysis, Lakoff explains the mechanisms behind this hijacking of our most cherished political ideaand shows how progressives have not only failed to counter the right-wing attack on freedom but have failed to recognize its nature. Whose Freedom? argues forcefully what progressives must do to take back ground in this high-stakes war over the most central idea in American life.More editions of Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea:
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