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Abinger Harvestby E. M. ForsterISBN 0156026104 (0-15-602610-4)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abinger Harvest'Book summary:This collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems, written by the author of A Passage to India, contains such well-known pieces as "Notes on the English Character,' 'Adrift in India," and "Me, Them and You." Also collected are essays on literary figures whose work Forster especially admired.[via]More editions of Abinger Harvest:
The Age Of Anxiety: Mccarthyism To Terrorismby Haynes JohnsonISBN 015603039X (0-15-603039-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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AIA Guide to New York Cityby Elliot Willensky, Norval WhiteISBN 0156036002 (0-15-603600-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'AIA Guide to New York City'Book summary:Vast changes in the architectural fabric of Manhattan and its neighboring boroughs during the last ten years have necessitated a thorough reworking of this classic guidebook. The third edition is updated and generously illustrated. 4 3/4" by 10". [via]
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Aia Guide to Chicagoby Alice Sinkevitch, Laurie McGovern Petersen, Perry R. DuisISBN 0156029081 (0-15-602908-1)
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Airman's Odysseyby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Antoine St. ExuperyISBN 0156037335 (0-15-603733-5)
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All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927by C. S. LewisISBN 0156027968 (0-15-602796-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Analytic Geometryby Peter SelbyISBN 0156015250 (0-15-601525-0)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Lao-Tzu, Nagarjuna: From the Great Philosophers The Original Thinkersby Karl JaspersISBN 0156075008 (0-15-607500-8)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Animals In Translation: Using The Mysteries Of Autism To Decode Animal Behaviorby Catherine Johnson, Temple GrandinISBN 0156031442 (0-15-603144-2)
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Anthropology: Culture Patterns and Processesby Alfred L. KroeberISBN 0156078058 (0-15-607805-8)
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Applied Fourier Analysisby Hwei HsuISBN 0156016095 (0-15-601609-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Agesby Richard E. RubensteinISBN 0156030098 (0-15-603009-8)
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As I Was Going Down Sackville Streetby O. S. GogartyISBN 015609004X (0-15-609004-X)
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The Ascent to Truthby Thomas MertonISBN 0156027720 (0-15-602772-0)
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Aspects of the Novelby E. M. ForsterISBN 0156091801 (0-15-609180-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aspects of the Novel'Book summary:There are all kinds of books out there purporting to explain that odd phenomenon the novel. Sometimes it's hard to know whom they're are for, exactly. Enthusiastic readers? Fellow academics? Would-be writers? Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster's 1927 treatise on the "fictitious prose work over 50,000 words" is, it turns out, for anyone with the faintest interest in how fiction is made. Open at random, and find your attention utterly sandbagged.
Forster's book is not really a book at all; rather, it's a collection of lectures delivered at Cambridge University on subjects as parboiled as "People," "The Plot," and "The Story." It has an unpretentious verbal immediacy thanks to its spoken origin and is written in the key of Aplogetic Mumble: "Those who dislike Dickens have an excellent case. He ought to be bad." Such gentle provocations litter these pages. How can you not read on? Forster's critical writing is so ridiculously plainspoken, so happily commonsensical, that we often forget to be intimidated by the rhetorical landscapes he so ably leads us through. As he himself points out in the introductory note, "Since the novel is itself often colloquial it may possibly withhold some of its secrets from the graver and grander streams of criticism, and may reveal them to backwaters and shallows."
And Forster does paddle into some unlikely eddies here. For instance, he seems none too gung ho about love in the novel: "And lastly, love. I am using this celebrated word in its widest and dullest sense. Let me be very dry and brief about sex in the first place." He really means in the first place. Like the narrator of a '50s hygiene film, Forster continues, dry and brief as anything, "Some years after a human being is born, certain changes occur in it..." One feels here the same-sexer having the last laugh, heartily.
Forster's brand of humanism has fallen from fashion in literary studies, yet it endures in fiction itself. Readers still love this author, even if they come to him by way of the multiplex. The durability of his work is, of course, the greatest raison d'être this book could have. It should have been titled How to Write Novels People Will Still Read in a Hundred Years. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffensby Joseph Lincoln SteffensISBN 0156093952 (0-15-609395-2)
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The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens Vol. 2 : Muckraking/Revolution/Seeing America at Lastby Lincoln SteffensISBN 0156093960 (0-15-609396-0)
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Barbarian in the Gardenby Zbigniew HerbertISBN 0156106817 (0-15-610681-7)
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Basic Judaismby Milton SteinbergISBN 0156106981 (0-15-610698-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basic Judaism'Book summary:Rabbi Steinberg identifies seven strands that weave together to make up Judaism: God, morality, rite and custom, law, sacred literature, institutions, and the people. A classic work directed to both the Jewish and the non-Jewish reader.[via]More editions of Basic Judaism:
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The Beast in Me and Other Animals : A Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creaturesby James ThurberISBN 015610850X (0-15-610850-X)
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Becoming Mona Lisa : The Making of a Global Iconby Donald SassoonISBN 0156027119 (0-15-602711-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918by Leonard Sidney WoolfISBN 0156116804 (0-15-611680-4)
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The Best, Worst, Least and Mostby Clark S. JudgeISBN 0156118653 (0-15-611865-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Biographical Essaysby Lytton StracheyISBN 0156126168 (0-15-612616-8)
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Bland Ambition: From Adams to Quayle--The Cranks, Criminals, Tax Cheats, and Golfers Who Made It to Vice Presidentby Steve TallyISBN 0156131404 (0-15-613140-4)
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twentiesby Marion MeadeISBN 0156030594 (0-15-603059-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties'Book summary:In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers-Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber- whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.[via]
These literary heroines did what they wanted and said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. Here are the social and literary triumphs and inevitably the penances paid: crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, and finally, overdoses and even madness.
A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of a period that will forever intrigue and captivate us.More editions of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties:
Books & Portraitsby Virginia Woolf, Mary LyonISBN 0156135604 (0-15-613560-4)
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C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscencesby James T. ComoISBN 0156232073 (0-15-623207-3)
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Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of Americaby Steve AlmondISBN 0156032937 (0-15-603293-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America'Book summary:Picture a magical, sugar-fueled road trip with Willy Wonka behind the wheel and David Sedaris riding shotgun, complete with chocolate-stained roadmaps and the colorful confetti of spent candy wrappers flying in your cocoa powder dust. If you can imagine such a manic journey--better yet, if you can imagine being a hungry hitchhiker who's swept through America's forgotten candy meccas: Philadelphia (Peanut Chews), Sioux City (Twin Bing), Nashville (Goo Goo Cluster), Boise (Idaho Spud) and beyond--then Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, Steve Almond's impossible-to-put down portrait of regional candy makers and the author's own obsession with all-things sweet, would be your Fodor's guide to this gonzo tour.
With the aptly named Almond (don't even think of bringing up the Almond Joy bit--coconut is Almond's kryptonite), obsession is putting it mildly. Almond loves candy like no other man in America. To wit: the author has "three to seven pounds" of candy in his house at all times. And then there's the Kit Kat Darks incident; Almond has a case of the short-lived confection squirreled away in an undisclosed warehouse. "I had decided to write about candy because I assumed it would be fun and frivolous and distracting," confesses Almond. "It would allow me to reconnect to the single, untarnished pleasure of my childhood. But, of course, there are no untarnished pleasures. That is only something the admen of our time would like us to believe." Almond's bittersweet nostalgia is balanced by a fiercely independent spirit--the same underdog quality on display by the small candy makers whose entire existence (and livelihood) is forever shadowed by the Big Three: Hershey's, Mars, and Nestle.
Almond possesses an original, heartfelt, passionate voice; a writer brave enough to express sheer joy. Early on his tour he becomes entranced with that candy factory staple, the "enrober"--imagine an industrial-size version of the glaze waterfall on the production line at your local Krispy Kreme, but oozing chocolate--dubbing it "the money shot of candy production." And while he writes about candy with the sensibilities of a serious food critic (complimenting his beloved Kit Kat Dark for its "dignified sheen," "puddinglike creaminess," "coffee overtones," and "slightly cloying wafer") words like "nutmeats" and "rack fees" send him into an adolescent twitter.
...the Marathon Bar, which stormed the racks in 1974, enjoyed a meteoric rise, died young, and left a beautiful corpse. The Marathon: a rope of caramel covered in chocolate, not even a solid piece that is, half air holes, an obvious rip-off to anyone who has mastered the basic Piagetian stages, but we couldn't resist the gimmick. And then, as if we weren't bamboozled enough, there was the sleek red package, which included a ruler on the back and thereby affirmed the First Rule of Male Adolescence: If you give a teenage boy a candy bar with a ruler on the back of the package, he will measure his dick
Candyfreak is one of those endearing, quirky titles that defy swift categorization. One of those rare books that you'll want to tear right through, one you won't soon stop talking about. And eager readers beware: It's impossible to flip through ten pages of this sweet little book without reaching for a piece of chocolate. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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Celebrations and Attacksby Irving HoweISBN 0156162482 (0-15-616248-2)
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Chasing the Rodeo: On Wild Rides And Big Dreams, Broken Hearts And Broken Bones, And One Man's Search for the Westby W. K. StrattonISBN 0156031213 (0-15-603121-3)
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A Child Called Noah: A Family Journeyby Josh GreenfeldISBN 0156168626 (0-15-616862-6)
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospectsby Lewis MumfordISBN 0156180359 (0-15-618035-9)
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Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriageby David MoatsISBN 0156030039 (0-15-603003-9)
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A Client Called Noah: A Family Journey Continuedby Josh GreenfeldISBN 0156181681 (0-15-618168-1)
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College Algebraby John L. Van IwaardenISBN 015601520X (0-15-601520-X)
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028352 (0-15-602835-2)
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The Complete Poems of Cavafyby Rae Dalven, Constantine Cavafy, Konstantinos Petrou KabaphesISBN 0156198207 (0-15-619820-7)
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Condition of Manby Lewis MumfordISBN 0156215500 (0-15-621550-0)
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Confidential Clerk: A Playby T. S. EliotISBN 0156220156 (0-15-622015-6)
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The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity, 1812-1822by Harold George NicolsonISBN 015622061X (0-15-622061-X)
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Count Us in: Growing Up With Down Syndromeby Mitchell Levitz, Jason KingsleyISBN 015622660X (0-15-622660-X)
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Crises of the Republicby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156232006 (0-15-623200-6)
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Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friendby Janet Flanner, Natalia Danesi MurrayISBN 015623937X (0-15-623937-X)
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essaysby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156252341 (0-15-625234-1)
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Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Moneyby David S. BroderISBN 0156014106 (0-15-601410-6)
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The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260255 (0-15-626025-5)
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Diary of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260360 (0-15-626036-0)
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941by Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260409 (0-15-626040-9)
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1931-1935by Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260395 (0-15-626039-5)
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Dickens, Dali and Othersby George OrwellISBN 0156260530 (0-15-626053-0)
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The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature & Thoughtby Erich HellerISBN 0156261006 (0-15-626100-6)
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Do You Speak American?by William Cran, Robert MacNeilISBN 0156032880 (0-15-603288-0)
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These and other questions catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran, coauthors of the language classic The Story of English, on a journey that took them around the country in search of answers. Do You Speak American?, the companion volume to a PBS special, is the tale of the surprising discoveries they made while interviewing a host of native speakers and observing everyday verbal interactions across the country. Examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, MacNeil and Cran address highly emotional anxieties and assumptions about our language-and offer some unpredictable responses.
With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling follow-up to The Story of English that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language.More editions of Do You Speak American?:
Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Taleby 'Jen TryninISBN 0156032961 (0-15-603296-1)
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The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatiosby Yann MartelISBN 0156032457 (0-15-603245-7)
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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20sby Roger KahnISBN 0156014149 (0-15-601414-9)
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Flowers for Algernonby Daniel KeyesISBN 015603008X (0-15-603008-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flowers for Algernon'Book summary:Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.
Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:
I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.
I dint know mice were so smart.
Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he's as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...
Flowers for Algernon is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact. --David Langford [via]
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Herby Melanie RehakISBN 015603056X (0-15-603056-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her'Book summary:A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. In this century-spanning story, Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman. [via]
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Heart Earthby Ivan DoigISBN 0156031086 (0-15-603108-6)
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How I Grewby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156027887 (0-15-602788-7)
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Last Man Out : The Story of the Springhill Mine Disasterby Melissa Fay GreeneISBN 015602957X (0-15-602957-X)
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Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brainby Antonio DamasioISBN 0156028719 (0-15-602871-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain'Book summary:As he seeks to unlock the secrets of such things as joy and sorrow, Antonio Damasio pursues a unifying theory in Looking for Spinoza. Why Spinoza? The philosopher, whom Damasio calls a "protobiologist," firmly linked mind and body, paving the way for modern ideas of neurophysiology. Damasio examines this linkage, which ran counter to all scientific and religious thinking of Spinoza's day, and lays out the reasoning and evidence behind its truth. As he has in his previous books on the subject (Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens), Damasio is careful to use clear examples from life to explain the often dry and difficult science of the brain. When he wants readers to understand, for instance, brain stem control of emotions, he offers an Oliver Sacks-style case study of a man whose stroke left him unable to keep from bursting into tears or laughter at inappropriate times.
Damasio also defines his terms, which is crucial, as he means something very specific when he says feeling ("always hidden, like all mental images") instead of emotion ("actions or movements... visible to others as they occur in the face, in the voice, in specific behaviors"). Using an impressive array of biological and psychological research, Damasio makes a compelling case for his idea of the feeling brain as crucial for survival and sense of self. But this isn't just a book about brain science. It's a record of an intellectual journey, a diary of Damasio's musings about history, philosophy, and Spinoza's life, all wrapped up in a simply astonishing explanation of a subject most of us don't give a thought to--the feelings that we live by. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigoneby SophoclesISBN 015602764X (0-15-602764-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone'Book summary:English versions of Sophocles three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.[via]More editions of The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone:
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The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Needby Andrew P. TobiasISBN 0156029634 (0-15-602963-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need'Book summary:For more than twenty-five years, The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need has been America's favorite finance guide, winning the allegiance of more than a million readers across the country. Now this indispensable book has been fully revised and updated-covering all the new tax laws-and reorganized with a new user-friendly design. Concise, witty, and truly understandable, Andrew Tobias shows you how to use your money to your best advantage-no matter how much or how little you have.[via]
o How to spend smarter-and save $1,000 or more
o When to invest in stocks, and how
o The ins and outs of investing on the Internet
o Tax strategies, from tuition to retirement
o Whom-if anyone-you can trust to manage your money
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When to invest in stocks, and how
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The basics of life insurance
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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grewby Samuel FromartzISBN 0156032422 (0-15-603242-2)
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Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Withinby Barbara Demarco-BarrettISBN 0156029782 (0-15-602978-2)
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A Photographic Supplement to the Diary of Anais Ninby Anais NinISBN 0156260247 (0-15-626024-7)
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The Places in Betweenby Rory StewartISBN 0156031566 (0-15-603156-6)
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Popism: The Warhol Sixtiesby Andy Warhol, Pat HackettISBN 0156031116 (0-15-603111-6)
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Present Concernsby C. S. LewisISBN 0156027852 (0-15-602785-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Present Concerns'Book summary:Nineteen essays-on democratic values, threats to educational and spiritual fulfillment, literary censorship, and other topics all displaying Lewiss characteristic sanity and persuasiveness. Introduction by Walter Hooper.[via]More editions of Present Concerns:
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Queen Victoriaby Lytton StracheyISBN 0156027569 (0-15-602756-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Victoria'Book summary:This is the definitive biography of Britains greatest monarch, who was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness. One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.[via]More editions of Queen Victoria:
Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Livingby Mem FoxISBN 015607947X (0-15-607947-X)
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Regulusby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156014041 (0-15-601404-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regulus'Book summary:In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors.[via]
Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life.More editions of Regulus:
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030411 (0-15-603041-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism. [via]
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School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High Schoolby Edward HumesISBN 0156030071 (0-15-603007-1)
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Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthologyby Donna Jarrell, Ira SukrungruangISBN 0156030225 (0-15-603022-5)
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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentencesby Kitty Burns FloreyISBN 0156034433 (0-15-603443-3)
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Statistics I: Descriptive Statistics and Probabilityby Elliot A. TanisISBN 0156016168 (0-15-601616-8)
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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life Of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsonsby George PendleISBN 0156031795 (0-15-603179-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life Of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons'Book summary:ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION screamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of black magic.[via]
George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility. Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program. But Parsons's wild imagination also led him into the occult- for if he could make rocketry a reality, why not magic?
With a cast of characters including Howard Hughes,
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Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmerby Lynne CoxISBN 0156031302 (0-15-603130-2)
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A Tale Of Love And Darknessby Amos Oz, Nicholas De LangeISBN 015603252X (0-15-603252-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale Of Love And Darkness'Book summary:Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.[via]
It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide, a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen and joins a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel.
A story of clashing cultures and lives, of suffering and perseverance, of love and darkness.More editions of A Tale Of Love And Darkness:
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Three Guineasby Virginia Woolf, Jane Marcus, Mark HusseyISBN 0156031639 (0-15-603163-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Guineas'Book summary:Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.[via]
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Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Storiesby Daniel M. PinkwaterISBN 0156027151 (0-15-602715-1)
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Wind, Sand and Starsby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156027496 (0-15-602749-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wind, Sand and Stars'Book summary:Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière.[via]More editions of Wind, Sand and Stars:
Women and Writingby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156028069 (0-15-602806-9)
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Downby Alice WalkerISBN 015602862X (0-15-602862-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down'Book summary:Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love[via]
& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show
women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love,
lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the
rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.More editions of You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down:
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Der Kleine Prinzby Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Grete Leitgeb, Josef LeitgebISBN 0156252856 (0-15-625285-6)
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