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Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture and Architecturesby Frederick HarttISBN 0137962444 (0-13-796244-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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- Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Renaissance, Baroque, Modern World: ISBN 0130473820 (0-13-047382-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture and Architectures: ISBN 0130524328 (0-13-052432-8)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall - Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture and Architectures: ISBN 0137962444 (0-13-796244-4)
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Art: The History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architectureby Frederick HarttISBN 013047374X (0-13-047374-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Direct
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art: The History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture'Book summary:A comprehensive, definitive, extensively illustrated introduction to the history of world art and architecture - from ancient to modern times - this bestselling, authoritative survey provides an understanding of art as art, and art achievements as a factor in human cultural history. Co-published with Harry N. Abrams Inc., the 4 color reproduction quality is better than ever. [via]
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- Art: The History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture: ISBN 0130524166 (0-13-052416-6)
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Softcover, Prentice Hall - Art: The History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture: ISBN 0130486388 (0-13-048638-8)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall - Art: The History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture: ISBN 013047374X (0-13-047374-X)
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- Art: The History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture: ISBN 0130524166 (0-13-052416-6)
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Autobiographyby John Stuart Mill, John RobsonISBN 0140433163 (0-14-043316-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography'Book summary:An autobiography of John Stuart Mill (1806-73). This title describes the pressures placed on him by his childhood, the mental breakdown he suffered as a young man, his struggle to understand a world of feelings and emotions far removed from his father's strict didacticism, and the later development of his own radical beliefs. [via]
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bayby William W. WarnerISBN 0140170049 (0-14-017004-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay'Book summary:This book is a way to easily learn more science and lore about the blue crab. Everyone from the crabber to the scientist shares their knowlegde in an easy to read book. [via]
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The Browser's Book of Beginnings : Origins of Everything under and Including the Sunby Charles PanatiISBN 0140276947 (0-14-027694-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Browser's Book of Beginnings : Origins of Everything under and Including the Sun'Book summary:Obsessed with the origins of things, Charles Panati has dug up enough beginnings and firsts for any barroom sage, or academician, to fend off the most troublesome trivia queries. Ranging from the beginnings of galaxies, the emergence of bacteria, and from bony fish to soap, loaded dice, ethnic slurs, hypnosis, comic strips and much more, The Browser's Book of Beginnings is a fascinating read--sampled randomly or digested whole. Illustrated with more than 100 drawings, diagrams, and archival photographs, and including comprehensive bibliographies and an index, The Browser's Book of Beginnings is a most readable and concise quick-reference book. [via]
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Buddhist Scripturesby Edward ConzeISBN 0140440887 (0-14-044088-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buddhist Scriptures'Book summary:Striving to understand the truth of the human condition and determining the path to spiritual enlightenment is the fundamental nature of Buddhism. Lighting this path is the Buddha, committed to guiding human beings to pure and happy lives. This beautiful hardcover gift book is the ideal introduction to the amazing ideals and beliefs of Buddhism. Containing dozens of selected Buddhist teachings, quotes and commentaries, this book offers guiding words of wisdom on how to find peace, harmony and happiness within yourself. Discover the meaning of truth, love and hate, and learn to find tranquility and contentment in your everyday life. With messages of inspiration and insight from canonical Buddhist texts on every page, Buddhist Scriptures is your first step on the road to spiritual enlightenment. [via]
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Waterby Marc ReisnerISBN 0140178244 (0-14-017824-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water'Book summary:The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. This is the story of the early settlers, lured by promises of paradise. The author documents the rivalry between government giants and other institutions, in the competition to transform the West. [via]
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Chronicles of the Crusadesby G De VillehardouinISBN 0140441247 (0-14-044124-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Cider With Rosieby Laurie LeeISBN 0140016821 (0-14-001682-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider With Rosie'Book summary:A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life as it comes into contact with murder, rape, suicide and depression. [via]
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Confessionsby St. AugustineISBN 014044114X (0-14-044114-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:[via]As a youth & I had prayed to you for chastity and said Give me chastity and continence, but not yet
The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and worldviews. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, the Confessions also address fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity today.
In his introduction R. S. Pine-Coffin discusses Saint Augustines intentions in writing his Confessions and issues of translation. This edition also includes a list of dates of events recorded in the Confessions.
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Crypto : Secrecy and Privacy in the New Code Warby Steven LevyISBN 0140244328 (0-14-024432-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crypto : Secrecy and Privacy in the New Code War'Book summary:Author Steven Levy, deservedly famous for his enlightening Hackers, tells the story of the cypherpunks, their foes, and their allies in Crypto; if the National Security Agency (NSA) had wanted to make sure that strong encryption would reach the masses, it couldn't have done much better than to tell the cranky geniuses of the world not to do it.
From the determined research of Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman, in the face of the NSA's decades-old security lock, to the commercial world's turn-of-the-century embrace of encrypted e-commerce, Levy finds drama and intellectual challenge everywhere he looks. Although he writes, "Behind every great cryptographer, it seems, there is a driving pathology", his respect for the mathematicians and programmers who spearheaded public key encryption as the solution to Information Age privacy invasion shines throughout. Even the governmental bad guys are presented more as hapless control fetishists who lack the prescience to see the inevitability of strong encryption as more than a conspiracy of evil.
Each cryptological advance that was made outside the confines of the NSA's Fort Meade complex was met with increasing legislative and judicial resistance. Levy's storytelling acumen tugs the reader along through mathematical and legal hassles that would stop most narratives in their tracks--his words make even the depressingly silly Clipper chip fiasco vibrant. Hardcore privacy nerds will value Crypto as a review of 30 years of wrangling; those readers with less familiarity with the subject will find it a terrific and well-documented launching pad for further research. From notables like Phil Zimmerman to obscure but important figures like James Ellis, Crypto dishes the dirt on folks who know how to keep a secret. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Discoverersby Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0140080546 (0-14-008054-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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English Society in the Eighteenth Centuryby Roy PorterISBN 0140138196 (0-14-013819-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Society in the Eighteenth Century'Book summary:This is a portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. [via]
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The Ethicsby Benedictus De SpinozaISBN 0140435719 (0-14-043571-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ethics'Book summary:[via]Published shortly after his death in 1677, Ethics is undoubtedly Spinozas greatest worka fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding, moving from a consideration of the eternal to speculate upon humanitys place in the natural order, freedom, and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Edwin Curley's translation is considered definitive
- Inlcudes an introduction outlining Spinoza's philosophy and placing it in context
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An Evil Cradling/the Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostageby Brian KeenanISBN 0140236414 (0-14-023641-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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An Exaltation of Larks: Or, The Venereal Gameby James LiptonISBN 0140045368 (0-14-004536-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Exaltation of Larks: Or, The Venereal Game'Book summary:For word lovers everywhere, a classic anthology of collective nouns--now vastly expanded and with a new introduction. Infectious in spirit, beautifully illustrated with over 250 witty engravings by Granville, Durer, and other artists, this work is a word lover's garden of delights. [via]
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An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Editionby James LiptonISBN 0140170960 (0-14-017096-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition'Book summary:[via]An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards," a "parliament of owls," an "ostentation of peacocks," a "smack of jellyfish," and a "murder of crows"! For those who have ever wondered if the familiar "pride of lions" and "gaggle of geese" were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided the definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, and often poetic, terms unearthed by Mr. Lipton in the Books of Venery that were the constant study of anyone who aspired to the title of gentleman in the fifteenth century. When Mr. Lipton's painstaking research revealed that five hundred years ago the terms of venery had already been turned into the Game of Venery, he embarked on an odyssey that has given us a "slouch of models," a "shrivel of critics," an "unction of undertakers," a "blur of Impressionists," a "score of bachelors," and a "pocket of quarterbacks." This ultimate edition of An Exaltation of Larks is Mr. Lipton's brilliant answer to the assault on language and literacy in the last decades of the twentieth century. In it you will find more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions to that most endangered of all species, our language, in a setting of 250 witty, beautiful, and remarkably apt engravings.
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europeby Hilda Roderick Ellis DavidsonISBN 0140136274 (0-14-013627-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gods and Myths of Northern Europe'Book summary:This title surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic people. It provides an introduction to this subject, giving basic outlines to the sagas and stories, and helps identify the character traits of not only the well known but also the lesser gods of the age. [via]
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The Grail Treeby Jonathan GashISBN 0140230157 (0-14-023015-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Great Plainsby Ian FrazierISBN 0140131701 (0-14-013170-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Plains'Book summary:With his distinctive blend of intrepidity and wide-eyed wonder, Frazier relates the tale of his 25,000-mile drive across the Great Plains states. In the tradition of Mark Twain's Roughing It , Great Plains is a heartfelt expedition through western America. (Travel) [via]
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The Greek Mythsby Robert GravesISBN 0140010262 (0-14-001026-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Myths'Book summary:Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths.[via]
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, George CruikshankISBN 0140366962 (0-14-036696-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:With a full-cast dramatization, realistic sound effects, and composed music, this collection includes Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Hansel & Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin and The Fisherman & His Wife. 4 cassettes. [via]
History of Modern France: Old Regime and Revolution, 1715-1799by Alfred CobbanISBN 0140138250 (0-14-013825-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, David WomersleyISBN 0140433953 (0-14-043395-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, "Decline & Fall" is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the reader to acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement. [via]
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A History of the English Languageby Albert C. Baugh, Thomas CableISBN 0133892395 (0-13-389239-5)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the English Language'Book summary:The standard work on the history of the English language, written primarily for university students. [via]
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horseby Peter MathhiessenISBN 0140144560 (0-14-014456-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Spirit of Crazy Horse'Book summary:"A giant of a book. Indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent."The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Matthiessen's chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists in 1975.[via]More editions of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse:
Indiaby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0140156801 (0-14-015680-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969by Ann ChartersISBN 0140296158 (0-14-029615-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969'Book summary:The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, and the day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tells Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editorsamong them Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, and Malcolm Cowley. Documenting his continuing development as a writer and his travels, love affairs, and complicated family life, the letters also reveal Kerouac's amazing courage in the force of criticism and his never-ending quest to be the best writer possible.[via]Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957-1969 offers unparalleled insight into the life and mind of this giant of the American landscape.
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Java: How To Programby Paul J. Deitel, H. M. Deitel, P. J. DeitelISBN 0132634015 (0-13-263401-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Java: How To Program'Book summary:Revised to cover the features in the 1.1 release of the Java Developer's Kit, this work looks at learning how to program in Java. Covering all facets of Java, it includes object-orientation, multi-threading, exception handling, the new event model, the graphics capabilities of the Abstract Windowing Toolkit, and the new enterprise APIs (Beans, JDBC, RMI, and so forth). [via]
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Lettersby John SteinbeckISBN 0140144188 (0-14-014418-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematicsby William DunhamISBN 014014739X (0-14-014739-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland/the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides/2 Books in 1by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Peter LeviISBN 0140432213 (0-14-043221-3)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0140390316 (0-14-039031-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, this book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. [via]
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Life in the English Country Houseby Mark GirourardISBN 0140054065 (0-14-005406-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in the English Country House'Book summary:The English country house has flourished over the centuries because of its ability to adapt to the changes in English society. This book is an account of the ways in which the upper-class life style were reflected in the houses in which the wealthy and powerful lived. First published in 1978, this is a history of the English country house from the point of view of its owners and users. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the world of Evelyn Waugh, the author also discusses and illustrates how the life of the upper classes shaped their country hosues, how they entertained and were served, how they ran the country and their estates and how they reconciled personal privacy and public display. [via]
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Listening to Prozacby Peter D. KramerISBN 0140266712 (0-14-026671-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Listening to Prozac'Book summary:Psychiatrist Peter Kramer's book Listening to Prozac created a sensation when it was released in 1993, and it remains the most fascinating look at the new generation of antidepressants. Kramer found that the changes in brain chemistry brought about by Prozac had a wide variety of effects, often giving users greater feelings of self-worth and confidence, less sensitivity to social rejection, and even a greater willingness to take risks. He cites cases of mildly depressed patients who took the drug and not only felt better but underwent remarkable personality transformations--which he (along with many of the book's readers) found disconcerting, leading him to question whether the medicated or unmedicated version was the person's "real" self. Kramer has been criticized for seeming to advocate Prozac over psychotherapy or as a way of achieving personality changes not directly related to the disease of depression, such as improving one's social confidence or job performance. In fact, he makes no such recommendations; he was simply the first popular writer to suggest that these changes might occur. (He answers those critics in the afterword to this 1997 edition.) For anyone considering taking antidepressants or wanting a better understanding of the effects these drugs are having on our society, Listening to Prozac is a very important book. [via]
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The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Booksby Robertson DaviesISBN 014027586X (0-14-027586-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Natural History of Selborneby Gilbert White, Richard Mabey, Anthony PyeISBN 0140431128 (0-14-043112-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Natural History of Selborne'Book summary:Gilbert White's beautifully written evocation of the natural world of Selborne based on his correspondence with two distinguished naturalists of the day has endured in popularity since its first publication in 1788-9. Suggesting that the lives of birds and animals have their own richness and rhythm, White's book, more than any other, has shaped our everyday view of the relations between humans and nature. [via]
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889by Frederic MortonISBN 014005667X (0-14-005667-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889'Book summary:On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.[via]Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling Rothschilds, deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the span of only ten months, "the Western dream started to go wrong." In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talentsand all as frustrated as the Prince. Among them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose La Ronde was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler.
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The Odysseyby Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walker KnoxISBN 0140268863 (0-14-026886-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:This book describes the epic journey of Odysseus, the hero of Ancient Greece...After ten years of war, Odysseus turns his back on Troy and sets sail for home. But his voyage takes another ten years and he must face many dangers - Polyphemus the greedy one-eyed giant, Scylla the six-headed sea monster and even the wrath of the gods themselves - before he is reunited with his wife and son. [via]
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The Other America: Poverty in the United Statesby Michael HarringtonISBN 0140213082 (0-14-021308-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other America: Poverty in the United States'Book summary:This powerful account draws on research by sociologists and economists to reveal the depth of the poverty crisis, analyzing why such "invisible" citizens as the elderly, children, and minorities are not given adequate opportunities. Originally published in 1962, Harrington's classic work on the plight of the poor in the midst of plenty remains all too relevant today. [via]
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The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbersby David WellsISBN 0140261494 (0-14-026149-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers'Book summary:First published in 1986, this mind-boggling and entertaining dictionary, arranged in order of magnitude, exposes the fascinating facts about certain numbers and number sequences - very large primes, amicable numbers and golden squares to give but a few examples. [via]
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Portable Jungby Joseph Campbell, Carl Gustav JungISBN 0140150706 (0-14-015070-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portable Jung'Book summary:Includes a wide range of Jung's writings, including his works on the collective unconscious, dreams and synchronicity. [via]
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The Practice of Writingby David LodgeISBN 0140261060 (0-14-026106-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice of Writing'Book summary:English author, literary critic, and Birmingham professor David Lodge has given us a thoughtful collection of essays on writing, serving as an end-of-century bookend for E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel. But given the particular century in which Lodge writes, he doesn't stop with prose but also considers stage and television work--he adapted Martin Chuzzlewit for the BBC-- giving the book its greatest strength. Lodge's range runs from academic musings to television scripts, a breadth worthy of any scribe here on the disparate, millennial cusp. [via]
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The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfareby John KeeganISBN 0140096507 (0-14-009650-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare'Book summary:Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: The Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. [via]
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, George Anthony BullISBN 0140441077 (0-14-044107-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Prozac Diaryby Lauren SlaterISBN 0140263942 (0-14-026394-2)
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Psychoanalysis and Feminismby Juliet MitchellISBN 0140217703 (0-14-021770-3)
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Queen Victoriaby Lytton StracheyISBN 0140183930 (0-14-018393-0)
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Ring of Bright Waterby Gavin MaxwellISBN 0140039236 (0-14-003923-6)
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Sailing Alone Around the Worldby Tom Philbin, Joshua Slocum, George Varian, Thomas Fogarty, Thomas PhilbrickISBN 0140437363 (0-14-043736-3)
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Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chessby Fred WaitzkinISBN 0140230386 (0-14-023038-6)
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Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journeyby Fergal KeaneISBN 0140247602 (0-14-024760-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey'Book summary:Fergal Keane, an Irish journalist, formerly BBC correspondent in South Africa, was sent in 1994 to cover the war in Rwanda that had left one million Tutsis dead, most of them gruesomely hacked to death by their Hutu neighbors. The power of this account lies in Keane's profound emotional shock at barely imaginable cruelty, and in the personal testimony of the survivors he interviewed. Keane also searches for meaning. Like many familiar with Africa, he rejects the too easy explanation of "tribal hatred," with its assumption that the problem is intractable and internal. He emphasizes instead the economic and class disparities driving a political bloodlust, reminiscent perhaps of revolutionary France. Even though understanding such atrocity seems out of reach, Keane bears eloquent witness to evil. [via]
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Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin De Siecleby Elaine ShowalterISBN 0140115870 (0-14-011587-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin De Siecle'Book summary:An exploration of the paralells between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in art, literature and film, this book asks whether the approaching millenium signals a beginning or points grimly to an end, and whether the ends of centuries are merely imaginery borderlines in time, or cycles, such as the crises of the "fin de siecle" and the sense of ending so ominously present in the works of contemporary writers and artists. The novelist George Gissing remarked that the 1880s and 1890s were decades of sexual anarchy, when the notions of gender that governed sexual identity and behaviour were being constantly eroded. It was a time when the words "feminism" and "homosexuality" came into use, redefining accepted ideas of masculine and feminine, and a time when the "emancipated woman" was viewed as a threat to family stability. That was nearly 100 years ago, and in this book the author points out the similarity between that time and this time. The sexual abuse of children and the increasing frequency of rape; the censoring of art and the banning of pornography; anti-abortion campaigns and the AIDs epidemic - these late-20th-century crises are, the author suggests, comparable to their "fin de siecle" counterparts. Elaine Showalter is also the author of "A Literature of Their Own: Women Writers from Bronte to Lessing" and "The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830 - 1980". [via]
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The Snow Leopardby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0140255087 (0-14-025508-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snow Leopard'Book summary:In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture on earth." Their voyage was in quest of one of the world's most elusive big cats, the snow leopard of high Asia, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical; Schaller was one of only two Westerners known to have seen a snow leopard in the wild since 1950.
Published in 1978, The Snow Leopard is rightly regarded as a classic of modern nature writing. Guiding his readers through steep-walled canyons and over tall mountains, Matthiessen offers a narrative that is shot through with metaphor and mysticism, and his arduous search for the snow leopard becomes a vehicle for reflections on all manner of matters of life and death. In the process, The Snow Leopard evolves from an already exquisite book of natural history and travel into a grand, Buddhist-tinged parable of our search for meaning. By the end of their expedition, having seen wolves, foxes, rare mountain sheep, and other denizens of the Himalayas, and having seen many signs of the snow leopard but not the cat itself, Schaller muses, "We've seen so much, maybe it's better if there are some things that we don't see."
That sentiment, as well as the sense of wonder at the world's beauty that pervades Matthiessen's book, ought to inform any journey into the wild. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Sun Kingby Nancy MitfordISBN 0140239677 (0-14-023967-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sun King'Book summary:This work takes as its subject Louis XIV at Versailles - from the moment he decided to transform his father's hunting lodge into the greatest palace in Europe to his death there 54 years later. It covers the daily life of the king, the court and the government during the period of France's apogee in military power and artistic achievement. The book discusses the plans for and the building of the palace, and the creation of remarkable elaborate works of art with which it was filled. The book reconstructs the course of Louis's love affairs, culminating in his secret marriage to Madame de Maintenon, episodes such as the affair of the poisons, the creation of the School for Girls at Saint-Cyr, Lord Portland's embassy and the marriage of the Duchess of Bourgogne. [via]
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The Tao of Poohby Benjamin HoffISBN 0140067477 (0-14-006747-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao of Pooh'Book summary:Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living. [via]
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Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tzu, D. C. Lau, Lao TzuISBN 014044131X (0-14-044131-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tao Te Ching'Book summary:Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551-479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. The moral code it encourages is based on modesty and self-restraint, and the rewards reaped for such a life are harmony and flow of life. [via]
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Tao Te Ching: The Book of Meaning and Lifeby Lao Tzu, Richard WilhelmISBN 0140190600 (0-14-019060-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tao Te Ching: The Book of Meaning and Life'Book summary:No other work of Chinese literature has attracted as much attention as Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching". It has been translated more often than any other book except the Bible and more commentaries have been written on it than any other Chinese classic. Both philosophical speculation and mystical reflection, the "Tao Te Ching" is about the harmony and flow of life and the necessity for affinity to it. [via]
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The Tarot: The Origin, Meaning and Uses of the Cardsby Alfred DouglasISBN 0140192395 (0-14-019239-5)
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Test Your Cultural Literacyby Diane Zahler, Kathy A. ZahlerISBN 0139037586 (0-13-903758-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Test Your Cultural Literacy'Book summary:A runaway smash hit in its first edition, this fascinating quiz book dared Americans to prove their knowledge of Western and global culture--and wound up a national bestseller. Now it's back to challenge and entertain a new crop of readers and to offer brand-new coverage of the key events and ideas that are reshaping today's world. Photographs and locator maps. [via]
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This Is Your Brain on Musicby LevitinISBN 0131862642 (0-13-186264-2)
Hardcover, Pearson P T R
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Understanding Moviesby Louis GiannettiISBN 0131890980 (0-13-189098-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Movies'Book summary:Helps readers understand how the many languages of film work together to create meaning. Louis Giannetti organizes Understanding Movies around the key elements of filmmaking, including cintematography, Mise en Scène, movement, editing, sound, acting, drama, casting, story, screenwriting, ideology, and theory. He synthesizes every element through a complete case study: Citizen Kane. This book's ideas are illuminated with hundreds of high-quality still photos, more than 70 in full color, taken from movies such as The Matrix, Almost Famous, jackass the movie, Chicago, Lord of the Rings, Mystic River, and Traffic. New in this edition: a full section on contemporary special effects and computer generated imagery (CGI); up-to-the-minute information on new developments in film technology; more coverage of recent films and filmmakers; more ethnic diversity (including new material on the Islamic cinema); and more lavish use of color and high-quality paper. An updated Companion Website contains animations, video clips from interviews with movie professionals, and Research Navigator access to New York Times film reviews. For everyone who wants to understand the artistry and meaning of the movies.
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The Undertakingby Thomas LynchISBN 0140276238 (0-14-027623-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Undertaking'Book summary:"...I had come to know that the undertaking that my father did had less to do with what was done to the dead and more to do with what the living did about the fact of life that people died," Thomas Lynch muses in his preface to The Undertaking. The same could be said for Lynch's book: ostensibly about death and its attendant rituals, The Undertaking is in the end about life. In each case, he writes, it is the one that gives meaning to the other. A funeral director in Milford, Michigan, Lynch is that strangest of hyphenates, a poet-undertaker, but according to Lynch, all poets share his occupation, "looking for meaning and voices in life and love and death." Looking for meaning takes him to all sorts of unexpected places, both real and imagined. He embalms the body of his own father, celebrates the rebuilt bridge to his town's old cemetery, takes issue with the Jessica Mitfords of this world, and envisages a "golfatorium," a combination golf course and cemetery that could restore joy to the last rites. In "Crapper," Lynch even contemplates the subtleties of the modern flush toilet and its relationship to the messy business of dying: "Just about the time we were bringing the making of water and the movement of bowels into the house, we were pushing the birthing and marriage and sickness and dying out." Death and fatherhood, death and friendship, death and faith and love and poetry--these are the concerns that power Lynch's undertaking. Throughout, Lynch pleads the case for our dead--who are, after all, still living through us--with an eloquence marked by equal parts whimsy, wit, and compassion. In the last essay, "Tract," he envisions almost wistfully the funeral he'd choose for himself, and then relinquishes that, too. Funerals, after all, are for the living. The dead, he reminds us, don't care. --Mary Park [via]
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0140390510 (0-14-039051-0)
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140421998 (0-14-042199-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass'Book summary:This is the original and complete 1855 edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, including Whitman's own introduction to the work. [via]
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Webster's New World Dictionary of American Englishby Victoria Neufeldt, David B. GuralnkikISBN 0139797661 (0-13-979766-1)
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Hardcover, Webster's New World - Webster's New World Dictionary of American English/Third College Edition: ISBN 0139492984 (0-13-949298-4)
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Woodswomanby Anne LabastilleISBN 0140153349 (0-14-015334-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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