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The Affair Of The Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, And Satanism At The Court Of Louis Xivby Anne SomersetISBN 0297842161 (0-297-84216-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Affair Of The Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, And Satanism At The Court Of Louis Xiv'Book summary:The Affair of the Poisons, as it was known, was a scandal at which 'all France trembled' and which 'horrified the whole of Europe' as it implicated a number of prominent persons at the court of the Sun King, King Louis XIV in the late 17th century. It began with the trial of Marie Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, who conspired with her lover, Godin de Sainte-Croix, an army captain, to poison her father and two brothers in order to secure the family fortune and to end interference in her adulterous relationship. The marquise fled abroad, but in 1676 was arrested at Liege. The affair greatly worked on the popular imagination, and there were rumours that she had tried out her poisons on hospital patients. She was beheaded and then burned. The Brinvilliers trial attracted attention to other mysterious deaths. Parisian society had been seized by a fad for spiritualist seances, fortune-telling, and the use of love potions. The most celebrated case was that of La Voisin, a midwife and fortune-teller whose real name was Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin and whose clientele included the marquise de Montespan, Olympe Mancini (niece of Cardinal Mazarin and mother of Prince Eugene of Savoy), and Marshal Luxembourg. No formal charges were made, and there is no evidence that they were seriously implicated, yet a permanent stain was left on their names. La Voisin was burned as a poisoner and a sorceress in 1680. A special court, the chambre ardente [burning court], was instituted to judge cases of poisoning and witchcraft, and the poison epidemic came to an end in France. The affair was sympomatic of the witchcraft trials of the period throughout Europe. This bizarre witchhunt, which embroiled the gilded denizens of Versailles with the most sordid dregs of Paris society, remains both a fascinating enigma and an utterly compelling story. [via]
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After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Orderby Emmanuel Todd, Michael Lind, C. John DeloguISBN 0231131038 (0-231-13103-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Timesby Thomas R. MartinISBN 0300069561 (0-300-06956-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Aristotle's Metaphysics Books Four, Five and Sixby AristotleISBN 0198720289 (0-19-872028-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aristotle's Metaphysics: Books m and Nby Aristotle, Julia Elizabeth AnnasISBN 0198721331 (0-19-872133-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Agesby Umberto Eco, Hugh BredinISBN 0300093047 (0-300-09304-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithmsby Donald E. KnuthISBN 0201896834 (0-201-89683-4)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms'Book summary:This magnificent tour de force presents a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of algorithms and the analysis of them. Now in its third edition, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume I: Fundamental Algorithms contains substantial revisions by the author and includes numerous new exercises.
Although this book was conceived several decades ago, it is still a timeless classic. One of the book's greatest strengths is the wonderful collection of problems that accompany each chapter. The author has chosen problems carefully and indexed them according to difficulty. Solving a substantial number of these problems will help you gain a solid understanding of the issues surrounding the given topic. Furthermore, the exercises feature a variety of classic problems.
Fundamental Algorithms begins with mathematical preliminaries. The first section offers a good grounding in a variety of useful mathematical tools: proof techniques, combinatorics, and elementary number theory. Knuth then details the MIX processor, a virtual machine architecture that serves as the programming target for subsequent discussions. This wonderful section comprehensively covers the principles of simple machine architecture, beginning with a register-level discussion of the instruction set. A later discussion of a simulator for this machine includes an excellent description of the principles underlying the implementation of subroutines and co-routines. Implementing such a simulator is an excellent introduction to computer design.
In the second section, Knuth covers data structures--stacks, queues, lists, arrays, and trees--and presents implementations (in MIX assembly) along with techniques for manipulating these structures. Knuth follows many of the algorithms with careful time and space analysis. In the section on tree structures, the discussion includes a series of interesting problems concerning the combinatorics of trees (counting distinct trees of a particular form, for example) and some particularly interesting applications. Also featured is a discussion of Huffmann encoding and, in the section on lists, an excellent introduction to garbage collection algorithms and the difficult challenges associated with such a task. The book closes with a discussion of dynamic allocation algorithms.
The clear writing in Fundamental Algorithms is enhanced by Knuth's dry humor and the historical discussions that accompany the technical matter. Overall, this text is one of the great classics of computer programming literature--it's not an easy book to grasp, but one that any true programmer will study with pleasure. [via]
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The Art of Memoryby YatesISBN 0226950018 (0-226-95001-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Memory'Book summary:One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century[via]
In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.More editions of The Art of Memory:
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The Autobiography of John Stuart Millby John Stuart MillISBN 0231085060 (0-231-08506-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837by Linda ColleyISBN 0300059256 (0-300-05925-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837'Book summary:In this book, Linda Colley recounts how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the Act of Union between England and Wales and Scotland in 1707. She describes how a succession of major wars with Catholic France, culminating in the conflict with Napoleon, served as both a threat and a tonic, forcing the diverse peoples of this Protestant culture into a closer union and reminding them of what they had in common. She also shows how their world-wide empire gave men and women from different ethnic and social backgrounds a powerful incentive to be British. In the process, she not only demonstrates how an over-arching British identity came to be superimposed onto much older regional and national identities but she also illuminates why it is that these same older identities - be it Scottishness or Welshness or Englishness or regionalism of one kind or another - have reemerged and become far more important in the late 20th century. The aspirations and ambitions of individual Britons form an integral part of Colley's story. She supplies vignettes of well-known heros and politicians such as Horatio Nelson and William Pit the Younger, patriots such as Thomas Coram and John Wilkes and artists and writers who helped forge our image of Britishness - William Hogarth, David Wilkie, J.M.W. Turner, Charlotte Bronte, Benjamin West and Walter Scott. Drawing on paintings, plays, cartoons, diaries, almanacs, sermons and songs she also brings to life an array of men and women who have previously been left out of the historical record, from the British army officers to working men and women. Throughout, she analyzes patriotism rather than assuming its existence and shows it to have been a diverse and often rational phenomenon. [via]
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Centuryby John BoswellISBN 0226067114 (0-226-06711-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay membersamong them priests, bishops, and even saintswhen it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
"What makes this work so exciting is not simply its contentfascinating though that isbut its revolutionary challenge to some of Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions."Jean Strouse, NewsweekMore editions of Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century:
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- Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century: ISBN 0226067106 (0-226-06710-6)
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Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Orderby Peter HallISBN 0297842196 (0-297-84219-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order'Book summary:Every golden age has been an urban age; throughout history, cities have provided a crucible for creativity. How do such belles époquescome about? Why should the creative flame burn so uniquely in cities and not in the countryside, and why does the creative and innovative spirit of one city inevitably yield to another? Cities in Civilization explores these issues and others related to the central role of cities, past and present, in the fostering of artistic, philosophical, scientific, and technological genius.
Peter Hall devoted 15 years of his life conceptualizing, researching, and writing Cities in Civilization. His extraordinary efforts are apparent in the analytical scope, historical depth, and sheer length of the book, which, including photographs and a bibliography, is well over 1,000 pages. Supporting his argument with ample reference to dates, historical figures, and citations of leading urban scholars, the book does not lend itself to casual, cover-to-cover reading. Despite the book's length, though, it remains easy to navigate through the case studies of individual cities. Hall systematically divides the text into five thematic chapters, further subdividing each chapter chronologically by city. The chapters explore themes of cultural creativity, technological and economic innovation, the urban fusion of art and technology, urban innovation, and the partnership of the private and public sector to promote urban development and regeneration.
Breaking from other leading scholars in the field, Hall does not consider the great city doomed. Instead, Cities in Civilization testifies to his confidence that cities of the 21st century, like the great cities of the past, will successfully work to solve their own problems and ameliorate their own ills. --Bertina Loeffler [via]
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The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi As Interpreted by Wang Biby Lao-Tzu, Pi Wang, Richard John LynnISBN 0231105800 (0-231-10580-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi As Interpreted by Wang Biby Richard John LynnISBN 0231105819 (0-231-10581-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Richard John Lynn, whose recent translation of the I Ching was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "the best I Ching that has so far appeared," presents here another fine translation. Like his I Ching, this volume includes the interpretive commentary of the third-century scholar Wang Bi (226-249), who wrote the first and most sophisticated commentary on the Tao-te Ching.
Lynn's introduction explores the centrality of Wang's commentaries in Chinese thought, the position of the Tao-te Ching in East Asian tradition, Wang's short but brilliant life, and the era in which he lived. The text consists of eighty-one short, aphoristic sections presenting a complete view of how the sage rules in accordance with the spontaneous ways of the natural world. Although the Tao-te Ching was originally designed to provide advice to the ruler, the Chinese regard its teachings as living and self-cultivation tools applicable to anyone. Wang Bi's commentaries, following each statement, flesh out the text so that it speaks to the modern Western reader as it has to Asians for more than seventeen centuries.
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Congo Journeyby Redmond O'HanlonISBN 0241133742 (0-241-13374-2)
Softcover, Hamish Hamilton
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The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lostby Jean LiedloffISBN 0201050714 (0-201-05071-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Doradoby Charles NichollISBN 0226580253 (0-226-58025-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Cromwell: Our Chief of Menby Antonia FraserISBN 0297818155 (0-297-81815-5)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cromwell: Our Chief of Men'Book summary:The central purpose of this book is the recreation of Cromwell's life and character, freed from the distortions of myth and Royalist propaganda. Of Cromwell's fitness for high office, the book leaves no doubt - under his rule English prestige abroad rose to a level unequalled since Elizabeth I. [via]
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The Crusades: A Historyby Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-SmithISBN 0300047002 (0-300-04700-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crusades: A History'Book summary:The Crusades: A History is a comprehensive, single-volume history of the Crusades, from their beginnings in the eleventh century through to their decline and eventual ending at the close of the eighteenth century. As well as providing an account of the major Crusades, the book describes the organization of a Crusade, the experience of crusading and the Crusaders themselves.[via]
In a new preface and afterword, Jonathan Riley-Smith surveys recent developments in the field and examines responses to the Crusades in different periods, from the Romantics to the Islamic world today. The book concludes with a challenge to a historiographical tradition that has often been fraught with controversy.
In a fully revised second edition, this remains the standard and authoritative account of the fascinating history of the Crusades.More editions of The Crusades: A History:
The Descent of Womanby Elaine MorganISBN 0285627007 (0-285-62700-7)
Softcover, Souvenir Pr Ltd
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Softwareby Ralph Johnson, Erich Gamma, John Vlissides, Richard HelmISBN 0201633612 (0-201-63361-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software'Book summary:Published in 1995, design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software has elicited a great deal of praise from the press and readers. The 23 patterns contained in the book have become an essential resource for anyone developing reusable software designs. In response to a great number of requests from readers of the book and from the object-oriented community as a whole, these designs patterns, along with the entire text of the book, are being made available on cd. This electronic version will enable students to install the patterns directly onto a computer and create an architecture for using and building reusable components. Produced in html format, the cd is heavily cross-referenced with numerous links to the online text [via]
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Dr. Johnson's London: Life in London 1740-1770by Liza PicardISBN 0297842188 (0-297-84218-8)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendomby Norman Rufus Colin CohnISBN 0226113078 (0-226-11307-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Guide for the Perplexedby E. F. SchumacherISBN 022401496X (0-224-01496-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Guide for the Perplexed'Book summary:E F Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and knowledge which exhibits the most important features of life in their proper prominence. The questions: How am I to conduct my life? What is the nature of art and nature? What is the meaning of religion? are restored to daylight on Schumacher's map of life by his maxim 'if in doubt show it prominently'. Science is therefore restored to its home territory and its growing imperialism over the fields is reserved. [via]
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Heroesby John PilgerISBN 0224023012 (0-224-02301-2)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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History of the Persian Empireby Arthur T. OlmsteadISBN 0226627772 (0-226-62777-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Persian Empire'Book summary:Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view.[via]
"The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."M. RostovtzeffMore editions of History of the Persian Empire:
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How Children Failby John Caldwell HoltISBN 0201484021 (0-201-48402-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Children Fail'Book summary:First published in the mid 1960s, How Children Fail began an education reform movement that continues today. In his 1982 edition, John Holt added new insights into how children investigate the world, into the perennial problems of classroom learning, grading, testing, and into the role of the trust and authority in every learning situation. His understanding of children, the clarity of his thought, and his deep affection for children have made both How Children Fail and its companion volume, How Children Learn, enduring classics.[via]More editions of How Children Fail:
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How Children Learnby John Caldwell HoltISBN 0201484048 (0-201-48404-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Children Learn'Book summary:This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, learning is as natural as breathing. In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how we can nurture and encourage these natural abilities in our children.[via]More editions of How Children Learn:
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How to Cheat in Photoshop: The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montagesby Steve CaplinISBN 0240517024 (0-240-51702-4)
Softcover, Butterworth-Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Cheat in Photoshop: The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montages'Book summary:Learn from a professional illustrator how best to make Photoshop work for you. Each section is divided into double page spreads on illustrative techniques, giving you bite size chunks with all you need to know in a highly visual, approachable format. Most of the original Photoshop files are provided on the free CD so you can then go on to try out the techniques for yourself.
What makes this book different is the fact that Steve Caplin shows you step-by-step how to work from the problem to the solution in creating photorealistic images, from the viewpoint of the illustrator who has been commissioned to create a job. This is both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration, packed full with new ideas that you will be dying to try! Benefit from Steve's invaluable time saving tips too, which he's included to make sure you meet your deadlines and get more work.
Push your artistic skills to the outer limits with this innovative and comprehensive guide to creating real world Photoshop montages.
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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systemsby Jef RaskinISBN 0201379376 (0-201-37937-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Centuryby Jonathan GloverISBN 0300087152 (0-300-08715-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:In Humanity, English ethicist Jonathan Glover begins with the now commonplace observation that the last 100 years were perhaps the most brutal in all history. But the problem wasn't that human nature suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse: "It is a myth that barbarism is unique to the twentieth century: the whole of human history includes wars, massacres, and every kind of torture and cruelty," he writes. Technology has made a huge difference, but psychology has remained the same--and this is what Glover seeks to examine, through discussions of Nietzsche, the My Lai atrocity in Vietnam, Hiroshima, tribal genocide in Rwanda, Stalinism, Nazism, and so on.
There is much history here, but Humanity is fundamentally a book of philosophy. In his first chapter, for instance, Glover announces his goal "to replace the thin, mechanical psychology of the Enlightenment with something more complex, something closer to reality." But he also seeks "to defend the Enlightenment hope of a world that is more peaceful and more humane, the hope that by understanding more about ourselves we can do something to create a world with less misery." The result is an odd combination of darkness and light--darkness because the subject matter of the 20th century's moral failings is so bleak, light because of Glover's earnest optimism, which insists that "keeping the past alive may help to prevent atrocities." He cites Stalin's bracing comment, made while signing death warrants: "Who's going to remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years' time? No one." At one level, Humanity is a book of remembrance. But it's more than that: it's also an attempt to understand what it is in the human mind that makes moral disaster always loom--and a prayer that this aspect of our psychology might be better controlled. --John J. Miller [via]
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- Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century: ISBN 0224052403 (0-224-05240-3)
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The Illustrated Odysseyby Homer, Tim Mercer, E. V. RieuISBN 0283985887 (0-283-98588-7)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Odyssey'Book summary:The most famous book in mythology, 251 pages of pure Grecian culture, gorgeous pictures of Greece, pottery, gods and goddesses throughout the book, easy read. [via]
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An Introduction to Database Systemsby Christopher J. DateISBN 020154329X (0-201-54329-X)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Database Systems'Book summary:The newest edition of the classic An Introduction to Database Systems incorporates the latest developments in relational databases, including semantic modeling, decision support, and temporal modeling. There's better information on distributed databases, security, and the mathematics of relational databases too. With the same strong coverage of fundamental theory that made its predecessors stand out, this book ranks as the definitive textbook for those studying database systems.
This is an extraordinarily academic book. In his preface, C.J. Date goes so far as to lament having to use Structured Query Language (SQL) in some of his examples because it's "so far from being a true embodiment of relational principles." What's more, he writes in a very academic style, peppering his heavily footnoted prose with mathematical expressions and words like relevar and tuple. The academic style and highbrow language isn't a bad thing, since this book deals with complicated, largely abstract phenomena in depth.
Be aware that An Introduction to Database Systems is a far cry from the highly graphical, problem-focused books that target the community of commercial database developers, and as such requires more careful study. This book is about theories, concepts, and ideals rather than problems, solutions, and specific implementations. Per se, it will enable you to become a better database programmer--but only if you supplement it with practical guides and hands-on experience. --David Wall [via]
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- An Introduction to Database Systems: ISBN 0201142015 (0-201-14201-5)
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An Introduction to Database Systemsby C. J. DateISBN 0201144743 (0-201-14474-3)
Hardcover, Pearson Education Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Database Systems'Book summary:An Introduction to Database Systems vol 2. C.J. Date. Copyright 1983, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. Hardcover in very good condition. Binding is secure, cover and spine are clean with minimal wear. NO writing or highlighting was observerd in text. Dust jacket in very good Shelved in Technology. The Bookman serving Colorado Springs since 1990. [via]
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Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Applicances Are the Solutionby Donald A. NormanISBN 0262640414 (0-262-64041-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Applicances Are the Solution'Book summary:Currently, computer users must navigate a sea of guidebooks, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and wizards to perform a task such as searching the Web or creating a spreadsheet. While Donald Norman acknowledges that the personal computer allows for "flexibility and power," he also makes its limitations perfectly clear. "The personal computer is perhaps the most frustrating technology ever," he writes. "It should be quiet, invisible, unobtrusive." His vision is that of the "information appliance," digital tools created to answer our specific needs, yet interconnected to allow communication between devices.
His solution? "Design the tool to fit so well that the tool becomes a part of the task." He proposes using the PC as the infrastructure for devices hidden in walls, in car dashboards, and held in the palm of the hand. A word of caution: some of Norman's zealotry leads to a certain creepiness (global positioning body implants) and goofiness (electric-power-generating plants in shoes). His message, though, is reasonably situated in the concept that the tools should bend to fit us and our goals: we sit down to write, not to word process; to balance bank accounts, not to fill in cells on a spreadsheet. In evenly measuring out the future of humanity's technological needs--and the limitations of the PC's current incarnation--Norman presents a formidable argument for a renaissance of the information appliance. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Iron Johnby Robert W. BlyISBN 0201570424 (0-201-57042-4)
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Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebridesby Pat RogersISBN 0300052103 (0-300-05210-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides'Book summary:In 1773 Samuel Johnson and James Boswell made their celebrated journey through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebrides. Johnson published his great account, the "Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland" in 1775, and it became one of the most acute - and popular - social commentaries of its age. The 33 year old Boswell composed his more anecdotal and high-spirited journal, "A Tour to the Hebrides", in 1786; it is chiefly a revelatory portrait of Johnson as he ventured into the unfamiliar regions of a remote part of Britain. This edition, in which the two accounts are presented side-by-side, page-by-page, makes it possible to compare both versions of a single experience. Johnson's text is presented in full, while Boswell's writing has been edited so that his narrative stands adjacent to the same portion of Johnson's text. Johnson's account is augmented by a selection of the letters written during the journey to his friend, Mrs Hester Thrale. The book is divided into sections covering the successive stages of the journey, so that each phase of the trip is allotted a chapter of its own. The book also contains an editorial introduction, a glossary of names, a note on the publishing history of the two narratives and scholarly notation. Numerous contemporary illustrations accompany the text, depicting the flavour of the region as the travellers encountered it more than two centuries ago. [via]
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotlandby Samuel JohnsonISBN 0300012519 (0-300-01251-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Jungleby James R. Barrett, Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0252014944 (0-252-01494-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0252014804 (0-252-01480-4)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural Historyby Mark GirouardISBN 0300058705 (0-300-05870-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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A Medieval Miscellanyby Judith HerrinISBN 029782483X (0-297-82483-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Medieval Underworldby Andrew McCallISBN 0241100186 (0-241-10018-6)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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Motherless Daughters : The Legacy of Lossby Hope EdelmanISBN 0201632888 (0-201-63288-8)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Motherless Daughters : The Legacy of Loss'Book summary:Edelman shares her own painful story and the stories of many other women who, as children or adults, lost their mothers. She explains the stages of grief and adjustment. She considers the secondary effects that can occur: the girl-child filling the lost mother's role at home for father and younger siblings. If you've lost your mother, you no longer have to face it alone. [via]
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The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleonby Francois Furet, Francoise Melonio, Alexis De Tocqueville, Alan S. KahanISBN 0226805336 (0-226-80533-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon'Book summary:One is sorely tempted to allow the marvelously lucid prose in Alan S. Kahan's new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the French Revolution speak for itself: "In 1789 the French made the greatest effort ever undertaken by any people to disassociate themselves from their past, and to put an abyss between what they had been and what they wished to become." But as Tocqueville found out when--with the hindsight of half a century--he examined the historical records, the revolution was really not so radical a turn of events. "True, it took the world by surprise, and yet it was the result of a very long process, the sudden and violent climax of a task to which ten generations had contributed." Thus the first volume of The Old Regime and the Revolution concerns itself with the state of affairs before 1798, getting beyond the "confused and often mistaken notions" of his contemporaries "about the manner in which business was conducted, the real practices of institutions ... the real basis of ideas and mores." Although many historians have taken on the French Revolution in the years since Tocqueville's analysis was first published, few have addressed the subject with as effective a combination of insight and clarity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Old Regime and the Revolution : The Complete Textby Alexis de Tocqueville, Alan S. Kahan, Francois Furet, Francoise MelonioISBN 0226805298 (0-226-80529-8)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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The Oxford Companion to English Literatureby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0198662335 (0-19-866233-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to English Literature'Book summary:When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Review, which praised it as "a wonderful, infuriating, amusing, and informative war horse of a book." Now comes the new Sixth Edition, thoroughly updated and greatly expanded by editor Margaret Drabble and a team of 140 distinguished contributors, who include Salmon Rushdie, Brian Aldiss, Penelope Fitzgerald, Ian Buruma, and Michael Holroyd.
Readers will find over 660 new entries, over a third of which were written by Drabble herself, including hundreds of new biographies (from Kathy Acker to Stefan Zweig) as well as new entries on genres, literary terms, critical schools, and much more. In total, the new edition offers over 7,000 alphabetically arranged entries, providing incomparable coverage of the classical works of English literature, and of European authors and works that have influenced the development of English literature. Its wide range of articles cover not only authors and their works, but also fictional characters, plot summaries, composers and artists, literary and artistic movements, historians, philosophers, and critics, as well as publishing history, literary societies, newspapers and periodicals, critical terms and theory. In addition, there are sixteen new feature essays covering everything from gay and lesbian literature to modernism and science fiction, plus a thousand-year chronology that sets key literary works in their historical context, and complete lists of poet laureates and literary prize winners.
Boasting a lightness of touch that makes the book a pleasure to read, the Sixth Edition is an indispensable volume for students, for teachers, and for everyone interested in English literature. [via]More editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature:
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Plato's Parmenidesby Plato, R.E. AllenISBN 0300066163 (0-300-06616-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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In this book, R. E. Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural analysis that procedes on the assumption that formal elements, logical and dramatic, are important to its interpretation and that the argument of the Parmenides is aporetic, a statement of metaphysical perplexities. Allen has revised his original translation of and commentary on the Parmenides, which were published in 1983 to great acclaim. [via]
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The Pleasure of the Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0224011871 (0-224-01187-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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Praise of Follyby Desiderius Erasmus, Clarence H. MillerISBN 0300023731 (0-300-02373-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Praise of Folly'Book summary:First published in Paris in 1511, The Praise of Folly has enjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day. The Folly has no rival, except perhaps Thomas More's Utopia, as the most intense and lively presentation of the literary, social, and theological aims and methods of Northern Humanism. Clarence H. Miller's highly praised translation of The Praise of Folly, based on the definitive Latin text, echoes Erasmus' own lively style while retaining the nuances of the original text. In his introduction, Miller places the work in the context of Erasmus as humanist and theologian. In a new afterword, William H. Gass playfully considers the meaning, or meanings, of folly and offers fresh insights into one of the great books of Western literature. Praise for the earlier edition: [via]
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0226500446 (0-226-50044-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new materials added for this edition, make it the definitive version of The Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and those interested in the dark art of politics.[via]
This revised edition of Mansfield's acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli's time.
"Of the other available [translations], that of Harvey C. Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability, as well as providing an excellent introduction and notes."Clifford Orwin, The Wall Street Journal
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The Princeby Carnes Lord, Niccolo Machiavelli, Hadley Arkes, Angelo M. Codevilla, William Barclay AllenISBN 0300064039 (0-300-06403-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:A classic of the western tradition, Machiavelli's "The Prince" has influenced political and philosophical thought since its publication four centuries ago. Political power, Machiavelli taught, has no limits. It leaves no room for the sacred, and it subordinates right and wrong to success. In this new edition of Machiavelli's book, Angelo Codevilla provides a translation faithful to the original and sensitive to the author's use of verbal imprecision, including puns, double meanings, and the subjunctive mood. The volume includes an introduction by Codevilla that places Machiavelli in the context of his own times, demonstrates his relevance to the history of political thought, and inquiries into the place of Machiavelli's ideas in modern debates. This edition also contains three essays that explore some of the most important ways "The Prince" clashes with the other main branch of western civilization - the Socratic and Judeo-Christian traditions: "Machiavelli's realism" by Carnes Lord, "Machiavelli and modernity" by W.B. Allen, and "Machiavelli and America" by Hadley Arkes. [via]
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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guideby David Thomas, Andrew HuntISBN 0201710897 (0-201-71089-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide'Book summary:"Big in Japan" was a pejorative term for failed pop musicians, but it accurately describes the Ruby language, designed by Yukihiro Matsumoto. The authors--who wrote The Pragmatic Programmer--feel it deserves a wider exposure in the English-speaking world.
Ruby is fully object oriented with a simple and consistent syntax. It is Open Source and freely available from ftp:ftp.netlab.co.jp/pub/lang/ruby as well as many mirrors. In Programming Ruby the authors set out to show that Ruby can and should replace languages such as Perl, Python, SmallTalk and C++; from which it takes all the best features--even Perl's excellent regular expression support.
The book is in four parts: a tutorial; a section on installing and running it in various environments; a section on the inner workings and interrelationships of the language; and, finally, a huge library reference. The authors make their case for the language's simplicity, predictability and flexibility. Unlike languages which have grown by accretion, such as Perl, it is remarkably clean.
Clearly a labour of love, Programming Ruby is equally clean and the authors' enthusiasm for it drips from the pages. Certainly, if you are passionate about efficient, error-free coding Ruby is hard to beat. There are, though, an awful lot of languages available already.
Ruby is certainly worth a look just to see how simple and accessible an object-oriented language can be when its author can draw on the best and throw away the rest. Working programmers will decide whether Ruby gains widespread acceptance but in Programming Ruby it has a powerful and convincing advocate. --Steve Patient [via]
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The Quest for Arthur's Britainby Geoffrey AsheISBN 0269992820 (0-269-99282-0)
Hardcover, Pall Mall P.
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The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophyby A. C. GraylingISBN 0297829351 (0-297-82935-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Selfish Geneby Richard DawkinsISBN 0199291152 (0-19-929115-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Spinoza: Ethicsby G.H.R. ParkinsonISBN 0198752148 (0-19-875214-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Worksby Erik Spiekermann, E. M. GingerISBN 0201703394 (0-201-70339-4)
Softcover, Adobe Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works'Book summary:This classic typography book, first published in 1993, is now updated with brand-new typefaces, fonts, and illustrations. Internationally renowned graphic designer Erik Spiekermann explains in everyday terms what typography is and offers design guidance in choosing type for legibility, meaning, and aesthetic appeal. Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works, 2nd Edition guides the reader through all aspects of typography, from the history and mechanics of type, to training the eye to recognize and choose typefaces. Uncover type's roots and placement within society and learn how to use space and layout to improve overall communication. This elegant guide for readers of all levels is revised and updated to discuss the particular design challenges of type on the Internet. Note: This title was originally announced in the October 2000 Pearson Technology Group catalog. [via]
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Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918by A.J.P. TaylorISBN 0198812701 (0-19-881270-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart MillISBN 0262630389 (0-262-63038-9)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Subjection of Women'Book summary:In seeking to explain his opinions on a timeless subject ;the relations between the sexes ;John Stuart Mill admits that he has undertaken an arduous task. For "there are so many causes tending to make the feelings connected with this subject the most intense and most deeply-rooted of all those which gather round and protect old institutions and customs, that we need not wonder to find them as yet less undermined and loosened than any of the rest by the progress of the great modern spiritual and social transition."Yet typically in this essay Mill assails a system of inequality which he feels supports and encourages the subjection of one individual by another and raises questions about the nature and relationship of power and liberty. He proposes to tap the existing climate of opinion that would admit to the great injustice of excluding half the human race from decent occupations and public function on the basis of sex. More than a classical theoretical statement of the case for women's suffrage, the book attacks the full range of social and cultural attitudes and customs that transform physical fact (often compared by Mill to slavery in its most extended form) to social sanction and legal decree. The book treats inequities of the marriage contract and property rights as well as the psychological effects (the "positive evil") that personal servitude and exclusion from public affairs have on women. Are marriage and motherhood socially useful and humane goals? Mill contends that these roles are not "natural" and not always desirable, asserting that their narrow definition prevents women from exercising a truly civilizing influence on family and society.Publication of The Subjection of Women in 1869 drew attention to the fact that despite the implacable opposition of Queen Victoria, a great many women refused to accept the conditions imposed upon them and had recorded their protests. (Had not Queen Victoria inherited the throne, Mill reasons, she would not have been entrusted with the smallest of political duties.) The liberal and enquiring nature of Mill's thesis on one of the great questions of his time easily spans the century and applies, despite legal modifications, to the same issues today.
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Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-Earthby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0261103075 (0-261-10307-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Tracksby Robyn DavidsonISBN 0224018612 (0-224-01861-2)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Twenty Years at Hull-Houseby Jane Addams, Norah HamiltonISBN 0252061071 (0-252-06107-1)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Years at Hull-House'Book summary:While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else.
Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Virgin Queenby Christopher HibbertISBN 0201608170 (0-201-60817-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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When I Was Puerto Ricanby Esmeralda SantiagoISBN 0201581175 (0-201-58117-5)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mindby George LakoffISBN 0226468046 (0-226-46804-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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You Are Here: A Dossierby John Bird, John Fortune, Rory BremnerISBN 0297847783 (0-297-84778-3)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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