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45by Bill DrummondISBN 0349112894 (0-349-11289-4)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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Always Feel A Friendby Peter BiddlecombeISBN 0349116962 (0-349-11696-2)
Softcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Feel A Friend'Book summary:[via]Wittily and informatively, Peter Biddlecombe brings a unique businessman's perspective to his over 170 travel destinations. Unlike many other travel writers who can look in from the outside and paint a leisurely portrait of the sights and sounds of exotic places, Biddlecombe has to land running in order to survive. In Always Feel a Friend, the destinations include Cape Verde, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Mauritius, Samoa, and Fiji.More editions of Always Feel A Friend:
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The Amateur Marriage: A Novelby Anne TylerISBN 0345470613 (0-345-47061-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amateur Marriage: A Novel'Book summary:Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really long argument. Michael is a good boy from a Polish neighborhood in Baltimore; Pauline is a harum-scarum, bright-cheeked girl who blows into Michael's family's grocery store at the outset of World War II. She appears with a bloodied brow, supported by a gaggle of girlfriends. Michael patches her up, and neither of them are ever the same. Well, not the same as they were before, but pretty much the same as everyone else. After the war, they live over the shop with Michael's mother till they've saved enough to move to the suburbs. There they remain with their three children, until the onset of the sixties, when their eldest daughter runs away to San Francisco. Their marriage survives for a while, finally crumbling in the seventies. If this all sounds a tad generic, Tyler's case isn't helped by the characteristics she's given the two spouses. Him: repressed, censorious, quiet. Her: voluble, emotional, romantic. Mars, meet Venus. What marks this couple, though, and what makes them come alive, is their bitter, unproductive, tooth-and-nail fighting. Tyler is exploring the way that ordinary-seeming, prosperous people can survive in emotional poverty for years on end. She gets just right the tricks Michael and Pauline play on themselves in order to stay together: "How many times," Pauline asks herself, "when she was weary of dealing with Michael, had she forced herself to recall the way he'd looked that first day? The slant of his fine cheekbones, the firming of his lips as he pressed the adhesive tape in place on her forehead." Only in antogonism do Michael and Pauline find a way to express themselves. --Claire Dederer [via]
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American Splendorby Kevin Brown, Harvey Pekar, Gregory BudgettISBN 0345468309 (0-345-46830-9)
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The Art of Negotiatingby Gerard NierenbergISBN 0346122724 (0-346-12272-4)
Softcover, Cornerstone Library
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As If I Am Not Thereby Slavenka Drakulic, Marko IvicISBN 0349112622 (0-349-11262-2)
Hardcover, Abacus
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The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movementby Melanie PhillipsISBN 0349116601 (0-349-11660-1)
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Beyond Nab Endby William WoodruffISBN 0349116229 (0-349-11622-9)
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Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter With Marx and Freudby Erich FrommISBN 0349113440 (0-349-11344-0)
Softcover, Abacus
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Bloodlines: Real Lives in a Great British Hospitalby Andrew DavidsonISBN 0349108242 (0-349-10824-2)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloodlines: Real Lives in a Great British Hospital'Book summary:[via]Andrew Davidson goes behind the scenes at Britain's largest hospital trust and describes a year in the life of a hospital through the stories of those who work and pass through there. From the man who runs the mortuary to the Chief Executive who has "finished" an affair with the head of PR, to the patients with Multi Drug Resistant Infection and those who come in to have frozen fish removed from unlikely places, this book reveals the choices that doctors, nurses, administrators and patients must make each daydecisions that are often literally a matter of life and death.More editions of Bloodlines: Real Lives in a Great British Hospital:
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A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our Livesby Sophy BurnhamISBN 0345476964 (0-345-47696-4)
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Calligraphy in Ten Easy Lessonsby Eleanor Winters, Laurie Lico AlbaneseISBN 0346126347 (0-346-12634-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Touristby Tim MooreISBN 0349114641 (0-349-11464-1)
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The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Lorenzo CarcaterraISBN 0345483545 (0-345-48354-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, And About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADDby Edward HallowellISBN 0345482433 (0-345-48243-3)
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CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handing Your Fast-Paced Lifeby Edward HallowellISBN 0345482441 (0-345-48244-1)
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0345478843 (0-345-47884-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Centuryby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0345910907 (0-345-91090-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Every Secret Thing : My Family, My Countryby Gillian SlovoISBN 0349108560 (0-349-10856-0)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Folk Medicineby D.C. JarvisISBN 0345471741 (0-345-47174-1)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friendby Patricia McConnellISBN 0345477146 (0-345-47714-6)
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The Fortunate Pilgrimby Mario PuzoISBN 0345476727 (0-345-47672-7)
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French Lessons in Africa : Travels with My Briefcase through French Africaby Peter BiddlecombeISBN 034910509X (0-349-10509-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 0349103313 (0-349-10331-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation X'Book summary:A riotous, raunchy tale about three 'twenty somethings' who inhabit adjoining bungalows in Palm Springs. [via]
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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story Of The Mary Celeste And Her Missing Crewby Brian HicksISBN 0345466659 (0-345-46665-9)
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The Godfather Returnsby Mario Puzo, Mark WinegardnerISBN 0345478983 (0-345-47898-3)
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The Good Good Pigby Sy MontgomeryISBN 0345481372 (0-345-48137-2)
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwoodby Sy MontgomeryISBN 0345496094 (0-345-49609-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood'Book summary:Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am.
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A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourishand she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this peripatetic traveler with something she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventually weighing 750 pounds) to family and home.
The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire, where his boundless zest for life and his large, loving heart made him absolute monarch over a (mostly) peaceable kingdom. At first, his domain included only Sys cosseted hens and her beautiful border collie, Tess. Then the neighbors began fetching Christopher home from his unauthorized jaunts, the little girls next door started giving him warm, soapy baths, and the villagers brought him delicious leftovers. His intelligence and fame increased along with his girth. He was featured in USA Today and on several National Public Radio environmental programs. On election day, some voters even wrote in Christophers name on their ballots.
But as this enchanting book describes, Christopher Hogwoods influence extended far beyond celebrity; for he was, as a friend said, a great big Buddha master. Sy reveals what she and others learned from this generous soul who just so happened to be a piglessons about self-acceptance, the meaning of family, the value of community, and the pleasures of the sweet green Earth. The Good Good Pig provides proof that with love, almost anything is possible.
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Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White Houseby Sally Bedell SmithISBN 0345480821 (0-345-48082-1)
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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child: A Step-By-Step Program For a Good Night's Sleepby Marc WeissbluthISBN 0345486455 (0-345-48645-5)
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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child/Your Fussy Babyby Marc WeissbluthISBN 0345473027 (0-345-47302-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child/Your Fussy Baby'Book summary:Peace of mind for parents from renowned pediatrician Marc Weissbluth, M.D. This must-have boxed set contains the trade paperback editions of Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child, a step-by-step program for a good night's sleep, and Your Fussy Baby, how to soothe your newborn.
Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child
One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problems. Dr. Weissbluth outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. This distinguished pediatrician and father of four explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles.
Your Fussy Baby
If your new baby cries inconsolably for many hours a day, take heart. The soothing help you need is here.
Renowned pediatrician Dr. Marc Weissbluth knows firsthand how stressful life can be for a sensitive, fussy newbornnot to mention the childs frantic, exhausted parents. With this reassuring, down-to-earth guidance, you can help your fretful, fussy newborn to become the sweet, happy baby he or she was meant to be. [via]More editions of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child/Your Fussy Baby:
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Hearing Birds Fly : A Nomadic Year in Mongoliaby Louisa WaughISBN 034911580X (0-349-11580-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hearing Birds Fly : A Nomadic Year in Mongolia'Book summary:After two years of working in the capital of Mongolia, journalist Louisa Waugh moved to the remote village of Tsengel, in the extreme west of the country. This is the story of the year she spent there, living and working with the people who have made a home in the stark but beautiful landscape. The villagers and their culture vividly emerge as she shares her happiness, frustrations, and occasional extreme loneliness and fear.[via]More editions of Hearing Birds Fly : A Nomadic Year in Mongolia:
Hell Hath No Furyby Anna Holmes, Francine ProseISBN 034546544X (0-345-46544-X)
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Her Mother's Daughterby Marilyn FrenchISBN 0345910192 (0-345-91019-2)
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Elizabeth McCracken, Catherine LiuISBN 034547242X (0-345-47242-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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I Came I Saw I Lost My Luggageby Peter BiddlecombeISBN 0349108129 (0-349-10812-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn'tby William Wilson, Judy JonesISBN 0345468902 (0-345-46890-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't'Book summary:When it was originally published in 1987, An Incomplete Education became a surprise bestseller. Now this instant classic has been completely updated, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge on global affairs, popular culture, economic trends, scientific principles, and modern arts. Heres your chance to brush up on all those subjects you slept through in school, reacquaint yourself with all the facts you once knew (then promptly forgot), catch up on major developments in the world today, and become the Renaissance man or woman you always knew you could be!
How do you tell the Balkans from the Caucasus? Whats the difference between fission and fusion? Whigs and Tories? Shiites and Sunnis? Deduction and induction? Why arent all Shakespearean comedies necessarily thigh-slappers? What are transcendental numbers and what are they good for? What really happened in Platos cave? Is postmodernism dead or just having a bad hair day? And for extra credit, when should you use the adjective continual and when should you use continuous?
An Incomplete Education answers these and thousands of other questions with incomparable wit, style, and clarity. American Studies, Art History, Economics, Film, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, and World History: Heres the bottom line on each of these major disciplines, distilled to its essence and served up with consummate flair.
In this revised edition youll find a vitally expanded treatment of international issues, reflecting the seismic geopolitical upheavals of the past decade, from economic free-fall in South America to Central Africas world war, and from violent radicalization in the Muslim world to the crucial trade agreements that are defining globalization for the twenty-first century. And dont forget to read the section A Nervous Americans Guide to Living and Loving on Five Continents before you answer a personal ad in the International Herald Tribune.
As delightful as it is illuminating, An Incomplete Education packs ten thousand years of culture into a single superbly readable volume. This is a book to celebrate, to share, to give and receive, to pore over and browse through, and to return to again and again. [via]More editions of An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't:
Indian Summerby Will RandallISBN 0349116784 (0-349-11678-4)
Softcover, Abacus
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The Invention That Changed the World: The Story of Radar from War to Peaceby Robert BuderiISBN 0349110689 (0-349-11068-9)
Hardcover, Abacus
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Ireland: A Historyby Robert KeeISBN 0349116768 (0-349-11676-8)
Softcover, Abacus
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It's Superman!: A Novelby Tom De HavenISBN 0345493923 (0-345-49392-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Jewels: A Secret Historyby Victoria FinlayISBN 0345466942 (0-345-46694-2)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jewels: A Secret History'Book summary:Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth.
With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatras long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the worlds amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag.
Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earths mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects. [via]More editions of Jewels: A Secret History:
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Looking Glass Universe: The Emerging Science of Wholenessby John Briggs, F. David PeatISBN 0346125944 (0-346-12594-4)
Softcover, Cornerstone Library
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The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Filmby J. W. RinzlerISBN 0345494768 (0-345-49476-8)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film'Book summary:After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy movie unlike any ever produced. Lucas envisioned a swashbuckling SF saga inspired by the Flash Gordon serials classic American westerns, the epic cinema of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history, and how it was made is a story as entertaining and exciting as the movie that has enthralled millions for thirty yearsa story that has never been told as it was meant to be. Until now.
Using his unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives and its trove of never-before-published lost interviews, photos, production notes, factoids, and anecdotes, Star Wars scholar J. W. Rinzler hurtles readers back in time for a one-of-a-kind behind-the-scenes look at the nearly decade-long quest of George Lucas and his key collaborators to make the little movie that became a phenomenon. For the first time, its all here:
" the evolution of the now-classic story and charactersincluding Annikin Starkiller and a huge green-skinned monster with no nose and large gills named Han Solo
" excerpts from George Lucass numerous, ever-morphing script drafts
" the birth of Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects company that revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking
" the studio-hopping and budget battles that nearly scuttled the entire project
" the directors early casting saga, which might have led to a film spoken mostly in Japaneseincluding the intensive auditions that won the cast members their roles and made them legends
" the grueling, nearly catastrophic location shoot in Tunisia and the subsequent breakneck dash at Elstree Studios in London
" the whos who of young film rebels who pitched in to helpincluding Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and Brian DePalma
But perhaps most exciting, and rarest of all, are the interviews conducted before and during production and immediately after the release of Star Warsin which George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Sir Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, composer John Williams, effects masters Dennis Muren, Richard Edlund, and John Dykstra, Phil Tippett, Rick Baker, legendary production designer John Barry, and a host of others share their fascinating tales from the trenches and candid opinions of the film that would ultimately change their lives.
No matter how you view the spectrum of this thirty-year phenomenon, The Making of Star Wars stands as a crucial documentrich in fascination and revelationof a genuine cinematic and cultural touchstone. [via]More editions of The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film:
Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkienby Paul H. KocherISBN 0345465601 (0-345-46560-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Mercenaries: Soldiers Of Fortune, From Ancient Greece To Today's Private Military Companiesby MICHAEL LEE COL LANNINGISBN 0345469232 (0-345-46923-2)
Softcover, Presidio Pr
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My American Journey: An Autobiographyby Joseph E. Persico, Colin L. PowellISBN 0345466411 (0-345-46641-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My American Journey: An Autobiography'Book summary:The story of Colin Powell is the classic American story, or at least, it's what we like to think the classic American story should be. The son of hard-working Jamaican immigrants, Powell was born in Harlem, grew up in the racially integrated South Bronx, attended the City College of New York, joined the R.O.T.C. and discovered his passion for things military. After stints in Korea, Vietnam and Germany he made his most important marks in the Pentagon bureaucracy, cultivating civilian and military contacts and advancing above his colleagues on an express ride through the ranks. As the ultimate insider, Powell is coveted by both political parties, but questions his own ability to switch from military hero to politician. [via]
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Nansenby Roland HuntfordISBN 0349114927 (0-349-11492-7)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nansen'Book summary:[via]Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth centuryAmundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South, and Peary in the Northlooms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen, the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the leap into space began. A restless, unquiet Faustian spirit, Nansen was a Renaissance Man born out of his time in Norway. He was an adventurer, an artist and historian, and a diplomat who had dealings with Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin, and played a part in the Versailles Peace Conference.More editions of Nansen:
The New American Heart Association Cookbookby American Heart AssociationISBN 0345461819 (0-345-46181-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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New Ideas in Defensive Play in Bridgeby Helge VinjeISBN 0346124948 (0-346-12494-8)
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Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives Of Middle Schoolersby Linda PerlsteinISBN 0345475763 (0-345-47576-3)
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Rain Men: The Madness of Cricketby Marcus BerkmannISBN 0349107424 (0-349-10742-4)
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Saving Dinner Basics: How to Cook Even If You Don't Know Howby Leanne ElyISBN 0345485432 (0-345-48543-2)
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The Search for Shangri-la : A Journey into Tibetan Historyby Charles AllenISBN 0349111421 (0-349-11142-1)
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Secrets, Lies, Betrayals: How The Body Holds The Secrets Of A Life, And How To Unlock Themby Maggie ScarfISBN 0345481178 (0-345-48117-8)
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The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Billy CollinsISBN 0345472411 (0-345-47241-1)
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Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Irelandby Martin FletcherISBN 0349112517 (0-349-11251-7)
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Sirensby Eric LustbaderISBN 0345466853 (0-345-46685-3)
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Slipping Into Paradise: Why I Live In New Zealandby Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonISBN 0345466349 (0-345-46634-9)
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Soapsudsby Finola HughesISBN 0345470834 (0-345-47083-4)
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Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoirby Toby YoungISBN 0349118515 (0-349-11851-5)
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Sports In Americaby James A. MichenerISBN 0345483065 (0-345-48306-5)
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There is a crisis in American sports, and it's getting worse. Drugs, violence, and the corrupting effects of money and fame. Even before these problems made national headlines, master writer James A. Michener was growing concerned about the state of sports in America. Only Michener could tackle a subject so big and leave us amazed and apalled by what we've learned, yet still loving the games we grew up on.
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Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manualby Franz JosephISBN 0345495861 (0-345-49586-1)
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STARFLEET COMMAND
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UNITED FEDERATION REPRESENTATIVE
STARDATE 7512.02
To: Ballantine Books
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1. A printed Terran version of the Starfleet Technical Manual was approved by the Federation Council for release to civilians and civilian auxiliaries on your planet. We have reviewed copies of this version as printed by you, and wish to assure you and the others that these copies are precisely correct and complete as authorized. We believe some of your civilians are confused because they are unfamiliar with the system and arrangement of Technical Orders, therefore, we offer the following by way of clarification.
2. The print-out version of the Starfleet Technical Manual, as used by the Starfleet Academy, is a collection of only those Technical Orders necessary to the indoctrination of new cadets until such time as they become experienced in the use of the data read-out stations of Mastercom/SFHQ. Further, the Terran version contains even fewer Technical Orders because of the prohibition of the Prime Directive. Neither version is a book of pages as the questioners seem to thinknor do they contain all of the technical information stored in the data banks of Mastercom/SFHQ. Your civilians must understand these technical data banks contain all the knowledge presently known to the United Federation of Planets from all the member planets. If it were to be published in book form, the sum total would amount to more books than you now have stored in your libraries. Obviously, this cannot be done. It is equally obvious that you cannot have the galactic knowledge of future centuries given to your planet as a gift; you must earn it by your own efforts just as others have done.
3. In the Terran version, the General Index summarizes the subject area groupings by Technical Order number blocks as a part of the total system of classification. It does not give the total classification system, nor does it indicate whether or not such subject matter is available. The Introduction (T.0:00:00:06) for instance, is not included because it has not been authorized for release at this time. Each Section Index lists the Technical Orders currently approved for
each section, and shows the correct issue by authentication date (and amendment codeif required). Thus a Section Index shows whether or not a particular manual contains the correct issues. Those listed with an asterisk may become available in a future print-out from Mastercom/SFHQ. Other Technical Order numbers that are missing do not appear by reason of the prohibition of the Prime Directive, or they have not been approved for release at this time.
4. In as gentle and as diplomatic a manner as we may, we would like to point out that this confusion is just another example of the many primitive attributes of your planet that prevents its acceptance into the United Federation of Planets at this time in your current calendar. But be patient, the day will come when your planet will have finally overcome these obstacles, and take its place in the intergalactic community of intelligent life forms.
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Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien Speciesby Ann Margaret Lewis, Helen KeierISBN 034547760X (0-345-47760-X)
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Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Droidsby Daniel Wallace, Ian FullwoodISBN 0345477596 (0-345-47759-6)
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Star Wars: The New Essential Chronologyby Kevin J. Anderson, Daniel Wallace, Tommy Lee Edwards, Mark Chiarello, John Van FleetISBN 0345490533 (0-345-49053-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars: The New Essential Chronology'Book summary:At last, its the ultimate history of the spectacular Star Wars saga, expanded, lavishly illustrated, and in full color for the first time.
With the completion of Episodes I, II, and III, the epic story thats captivated millions can now be told in its entirety, from the dramatic adventures of the Knights of the Old Republic and the deadly Clone Wars to the birth of the Empire, from the destruction of the Death Star, to the birth of the New Jedi Order.
Beautifully illustrated by Mark Chiarello, Tommy Lee Edwards, and John Van Fleet, Star Wars: The New Essential Chronology offers the comprehensive and official chronicle of that extraordinary galaxy so far, far away. Herein youll find
" the climactic events from all epochs of Star Warsthose explosive turning points in the shaping of the galaxy
" a gripping account of the controversial Clone Warsthe treachery that fueled them and their terrifying aftermath
" profiles of key players in the history of the Star Wars galaxy, along with all the most popular heroes and infamous villains
" a full-color, carefully rendered and detailed map of the galaxy
Follow Anakin Solos perilous journey as he wrestles with the dark side; behold the black soul of each Dark Lord of the Sith, from Darth Sidious to Darth Vader; experience the fiery space battles that decided the fate of entire planets; and witness the ferocious invasion by the seemingly invincible Yuuzhon Vong.
The training of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the invasion of Naboo, the capture of Princess Leia, the Battle of Yavin, the lightsaber death duel between Organa Solo and Beldorion the Huttall of the key events are captured and preserved for all time in this drama-filled Stars Wars chronicle. [via]More editions of Star Wars: The New Essential Chronology:
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Subtle Knifeby Philip PullmanISBN 0345916417 (0-345-91641-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subtle Knife'Book summary:With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra's close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The dæmons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.
The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and separate them.
As the novel opens, Will's enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry's disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family's tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her dæmon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.
As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dæmon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra's father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can't quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.
Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be possible," Will demands. "Things have to be true!" It is Philip Pullman's gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful. --Kerry Fried [via]
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T'Ai Chi Ch'Uanby Sophia DelzaISBN 0346123291 (0-346-12329-1)
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessonsby Elaine Bruner, Phyllis Haddox, Siegfried EngelmannISBN 034612557X (0-346-12557-X)
Softcover, Cornerstone Library
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susan OrleanISBN 0345481224 (0-345-48122-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Paradise'Book summary:Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]
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A Thousand Days In Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventureby Marlena De BlasiISBN 0345481097 (0-345-48109-7)
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A Thousand Sighs, a Thousand Revolts : Journeys in Kurdistanby Christiane BirdISBN 0345469399 (0-345-46939-9)
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Timelineby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345468260 (0-345-46826-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timeline'Book summary:When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.
This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page!
Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Trump: Think Like A Billionaire Everything You Need To Know About Success, Real Estate, And Lifeby Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIverISBN 0345481402 (0-345-48140-2)
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Underground London: Travels Beneath The City Streetsby Stephen SmithISBN 0349115656 (0-349-11565-6)
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Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Womenby Maggie ScarfISBN 0345471733 (0-345-47173-3)
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Unto the Sonsby Gay TaleseISBN 0345463420 (0-345-46342-0)
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At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
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Up Northby Charles JenningsISBN 0349106851 (0-349-10685-1)
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Venice: Tales of the Cityby Michelle LovricISBN 034911899X (0-349-11899-X)
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Vermilion Gateby Aiping MuISBN 0349112851 (0-349-11285-1)
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Virgin Islands: A Dependency of United States Essays 1992-1997by Gore VidalISBN 0349110654 (0-349-11065-4)
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0345472403 (0-345-47240-3)
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The Way of the Heartby Henri NouwenISBN 0345463358 (0-345-46335-8)
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Inspired by the ancient teachings of St. Anthony and the Desert Fathers, The Way of the Heart clears before us a spiritual path consisting of three stepping-stones: Solitude (learning not to be alone but to be alone with God); Silence (the discipline by which the inner fire of God is tended and kept alive); and Prayer (standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart).
Distinguished theologian Henri Nouwen brilliantly illuminates each of these disciplines. In reflections that are beautifully clear and practical, as uplifting on the fourth reading as on the first, he helps us separate the wheat from the chaff in our spiritual livesand reconnects us with what truly matters.
Within this one small book lies the most relevant and inspiring challenge that we shall ever face: to surrender the compulsive noise of the world for the way of the heart that leads us to God. [via]More editions of The Way of the Heart:
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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnamby Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. GallowayISBN 0345472640 (0-345-47264-0)
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In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War.
How these men persevered--sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up--makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders. This devastating account rises above the specific ordeal it chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man's most heroic and horrendous endeavor.
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Why You Lose at Bridgeby SimonISBN 0346121213 (0-346-12121-3)
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Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Wantby Annie Gottlieb, Barbara SherISBN 0345465180 (0-345-46518-0)
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Wonderland Avenue : Tales of Glamour and Excessby Danny SugermanISBN 0349101752 (0-349-10175-2)
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Yoga System of Health and Relief from Tensionby VithaldasISBN 0346125006 (0-346-12500-6)
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