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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975by George HerringISBN 0072536187 (0-07-253618-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975'Book summary:Comprehensive yet concise, Americas Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is not mainly a military history, but seeks to integrate military, diplomatic, and political factors in order to clarify Americas involvement and ultimate failure in Vietnam. While it focuses on the American side of the equation, it provides sufficient consideration of the Vietnamese side to make the events comprehensible. [via]
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Americas Longest War United States and Vietnam 1950-1975: ISBN 0075547953 (0-07-554795-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975: ISBN 0072536187 (0-07-253618-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Amityville Horrorby Jay AnsonISBN 0130325996 (0-13-032599-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amityville Horror'Book summary:In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in that house. But the property complete with boathouse and swimming pool and the price were too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, best-selling true story that gripped the nation, the story of a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. [via]
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Anna and the Kingby Margaret LandonISBN 0064408612 (0-06-440861-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna and the King'Book summary:"Are you the lady who is to teach the royal family?"
She inclined her head slightly. "I am."
"Have you friends in Bangkok?"
"I know no one in Bangkok at all."When Anna arrives on a crowded dock in Siam in 1862, she is afraid her friends might have been right: A country as "backward" as Siam is no place for a proper young Englishwoman. And when she meets the king, who is unbearably headstrong and arrogant, she is quite positive she has made a huge mistake.
But then Anna begins her post as governess to the royal children (all sixty-seven of them!), and it's not long before they taught her to love the beauty and excitement of this strange new land. Suddenly she has more friends than she could ever hope for. Yet in the kingdom of Siam, there are rules Anna cannot accept. And as her relationship with the king grows, the conflicts between them grow too. If they are to overcome their differences, Anna and the King will have to meet somewhere between East and West&.
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Anna and the King of Siamby Margaret Landon, Margaret AyerISBN 0060954884 (0-06-095488-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Art of the Novelby Milan KunderaISBN 0060972041 (0-06-097204-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Novel'Book summary:In this first work of nonfiction, Milan Kundera offers a "practitioner's confession" on the art of the novel. "Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is," Kundrea writes. "I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels." Kundrea brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on "perhaps the least known of all the great novelists of our time," Herman Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundrea's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel. His reflections on the state of the modern European novel in an era of "terminal paradoxes" are as witty, original, and far-reaching as his unique fiction. [via]
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Art: The History Of Painting, Sculpture, Architectureby Frederick HarttISBN 013046953X (0-13-046953-X)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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Auto Repair for Dummiesby Deanna SclarISBN 0070558752 (0-07-055875-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Bad Bloodby Lorna SageISBN 0060938080 (0-06-093808-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Townby Steven OzmentISBN 0060977213 (0-06-097721-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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By the Shores of Silver Lakeby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400050 (0-06-440005-0)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By the Shores of Silver Lake'Book summary:The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors' house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. The Ingallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over. [via]
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C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Tooby John DiamondISBN 0091816645 (0-09-181664-5)
Hardcover, Vermilion
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C: The Complete Referenceby Herbert SchildtISBN 0072121246 (0-07-212124-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'C: The Complete Reference'Book summary:Best-selling genius Herb Schildt covers everything from keywords, syntax, and libraries, to advanced features such as overloading, inheritance, virtual functions, namespaces, templates, and RTTIplus, a complete description of the Standard Template Library (STL). [via]
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media - C: The Complete Reference: ISBN 0078824761 (0-07-882476-1)
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C++:the Complete Reference: The Complete Referenceby Herbert SchildtISBN 0078816548 (0-07-881654-8)
Hardcover, Osborne McGraw-Hill
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Cartoon Guide to Physicsby Larry Gonick, Art HuffmanISBN 0062731009 (0-06-273100-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cartoon Guide to Physics'Book summary:It's been said that before physics students can fly with Feynman they need to walk with Halliday and Resnick. Those of us who are still toddling along, however, need Larry Gonick. Gonick's characteristically quirky drawings are teamed with physicist Art Huffman's prose to produce lessons like this: picture Sir Isaac Newton driving a Mack truck labeled "Big Inertia." Ike is talking into a CB radio, saying: "Breaker one nine: force overcomes inertia and produces acceleration. Do you read?" As the jacket copy says, "If you think a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit-card bill--if you imagine that Ohm's law dictates how long to meditate--if you believe that Newtonian mechanics will fix your car," here's the book for you. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Cartoon History of the United Statesby Larry GonickISBN 0062730983 (0-06-273098-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Cataloging and Classification: An Introductionby Lois Mai ChanISBN 0070105065 (0-07-010506-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Christ and Cultureby H. Richard NiebuhrISBN 0061300039 (0-06-130003-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christ and Culture'Book summary:Being fully God and fully human, Jesus raised an enduring question for his followers: what exactly was His place in this world? In the classic Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr crafted a magisterial survey of the many ways of answering that question--and the related question of how Christ's followers understand their own place in the world. Niebuhr called the subject of this book "the double wrestle of the church with its Lord and with the cultural society with which it lives in symbiosis." And he described various understandings of Christ "against," "of," and "above" culture, as well as Christ "transforming" culture, and Christ in "paradoxical" relation to it. This 50th anniversary edition of Christ and Culture, with a foreword by theologian Martin E. Marty, is not easy reading. But it remains among the most gripping articulations of what is arguably the most basic ethical question of the Christian faith: how is Christ relevant to the world in which we live now? --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Collapsing Universeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0091317703 (0-09-131770-3)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Collins Robert French English English French/New Standardby Beryl T. Atkins, Alain DuvalISBN 0062755137 (0-06-275513-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Collins Robert French English English French Dictionary: Indexedby Edwin Carpenter, Beryl T. Atkins, Alain Duval, Helene M. A. Lewis, Rosemary C. Milne, Francoise MorcelletISBN 0062755218 (0-06-275521-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Collins Robert French-English English-French Dictionary/Le Robert & Collins Dictionnaire Francais-Anglais Anglais-Francaisby Beryl T. Atkins, Alain DuvalISBN 0062755196 (0-06-275519-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Communion: The Female Search for Loveby Bell HooksISBN 0060938293 (0-06-093829-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Vyvyan HollandISBN 006096393X (0-06-096393-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:A unique one-volume anthology which includes all of Wilde's stories, plays, and poems. It also features a large portion of his essays and letters and an introduction by Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland. [via]
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Confederate Nation: 1861-1865by Emory M. ThomasISBN 0061319651 (0-06-131965-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Course in General Linguisticsby Ferdinand De SaussureISBN 0070165246 (0-07-016524-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Course in General Linguistics'Book summary:This book lays the foundation for modern studies in historical and descriptive linguistics. [via]
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Dare to Repair: A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing (Almost) Anything in the Homeby Julie Sussman, Stephanie Glakas-Tenet, Yeorgos LampathakisISBN 0060959843 (0-06-095984-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glutby David ShenkISBN 0062515519 (0-06-251551-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut'Book summary:It is said that information wants to be free, but most days on the net, don't you feel that all it wants to do is be in your face every last minute? Did you ever feel yourself go "tilt" when a search engine retrieves 30,000 possible hits to your query? Or downloads 50 pieces of new e-mail? Perhaps some relief will come when you know the Laws of Data Smog that frame this book, among them: Silicon circuits evolve much more quickly than human genes; Equifax is watching; Beware of stories that dissolve all complexity; Too many experts spoil the clarity. David Shenk is certainly going to stir controversy with his conclusions, especially that government should get involved in reducing the information glut. [via]
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A Death in Belmontby Sebastian JungerISBN 0061126667 (0-06-112666-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Death in Belmont'Book summary:Imagine how strange and frightening it would be to see a picture of yourself, not quite a year old, with your mother and two men, one of whom is a confessed serial killer. This is what happened to Sebastian Junger, and only a small part of what he recounts in A Death in Belmont.
The quiet suburb of Belmont, Massacuusetts, is in the grip of fear. The Boston Strangler murders have taken place nearby, and now there is another shocking sex crime, right in Belmont. The victim is Bessie Goldberg, a middle-aged woman who had hired a cleaning man to help out around the house on that fall day in 1963. He is a black man named Roy Smith. He did the appointed chores, collected his money and left a receipt on the kitchen table. Neighbors will say that he looked furtive when he walked down the street, that he was in a hurry, that he stopped to buy cigarettes, that he looked over his shoulder. They didn't see a black man in Belmont very often, so, of course, they noticed him. So the story went, and on these slender threads, and his own checkered history, Roy Smith is convicted of the Belmont murder and sent to prison.
On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvo, an Italian-American handyman, is also in Belmont, working as a carpenter in the Junger home, where the picture is taken. Two years after his work for the Jungers, he confesses in vivid detail to the crimes of which the Boston Strangler is accused, and sent to prison, where he is stabbed to death by an inmate. But he never confesses to the Bessie Goldberg murder. Could he have left the Junger home, committed the murder a few blocks away and calmly returned to finish his day's work? Could Roy Smith really have been the guilty party, even though his sentence was commuted after De Salvo confessed?
In the grand tradition of his bestselling The Perfect Storm, Junger tells a terrific story, lining up all the elements, asking all the pertinent questions, digging into the backgrounds of both men, retelling his mother's very strange encounter with Albert when she is home alone with Sebastian. He then asks the larger questions: Was Roy Smith convicted summarily because he was black? Was Albert De Salvo really the Boston Strangler?
Junger cannot answer all the questions, as no one can. Without DNA, there is no way to be certain of which of the two men might have committed the rape and murder of Bessie Goldberg, or if neither of them is guilty. While it is frustrating not to know for sure, the story is fascinating, reads like a tautly plotted mystery thriller, and Junger's close connection is downright creepy. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Dic Collins-Robert French-English, English-French Dictionaryby Beryl T. Atkins, Alain Duval, Helene M. A. Lewis, Rosemary C. MilneISBN 0062752537 (0-06-275253-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Coupleby Daniel PoolISBN 006098435X (0-06-098435-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Couple'Book summary:With publishing empires swallowing smaller house for breakfast and agents swiping authors left, right, and center, the modern book industry might seem an insider's paradise, an aspiring author's nightmare, a reader's Goldberg contraption. Alas, according to Daniel Pool, 'twas ever thus. Money, advertising, publicity, blurbs, and the author's charisma were just as central to Victorian bookselling as they are now. Focusing particularly on Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thackeray, the author builds up a portrait of cutthroat times and cutthroat measures. Readers will be particularly taken with the author's account of the rise of the serial novel--and Dickens's frustration with the form. (Something Flaubert quickly copped to. After finishing The Pickwick Papers, he commented to George Sand, "Some bits are magnificent, but what a defective structure.") And the quotations Daniel Pool presents, from the epigraphs to Virginia Woolf's assessment on the final page, make Dickens' Fur Coat essential social history. [via]
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Digging Dinosaursby John R. Horner, James GormanISBN 0060973145 (0-06-097314-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Digging Dinosaurs'Book summary:A reissue of the now-classic book that revolutionized the way we think about dinosaurs. "Popular-science writing at its best."--Los Angeles Times [via]
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The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberiaby Esther Hautzig, Jean-Francois PodevinISBN 006440577X (0-06-440577-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Essential Rumiby Coleman Barks, Jalal Al-Din Rumi, John MoyneISBN 0062509594 (0-06-250959-4)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Rumi'Book summary:No translator could do greater justice to the gorgeous simplicity of Rumi's poetry than Coleman Barks has done here. These exquisite renderings of the 13th-century Persian mystic's words into American free verse capture all the "inner searching, the delicacy, and simple groundedness" that characterize Rumi's poetry while remaining faithful to the images, tone, and spiritual message of the originals. Barks's introductions to each of the 27 sections (described as "playful palimpsests spread over Rumi's imagination," and "meant to confuse scholars who would divide Rumi's poetry into the accepted categories") are themselves wonderful achievements of a poetic imagination; searching explanations of unfamiliar concepts and funny stories provide colorful background and frame the selections as no dry historical exegesis could.
While Barks's stamp on this collection is clear, it in no way interferes with the poems themselves; Rumi's voice leaps off these pages with an ecstatic energy that leaves readers breathless. There are poems of love, rage, sadness, pleading, and longing; passionate outbursts about the torture of longing for his beloved and the sweet pleasure that comes from their union; amusing stories of sexual exploits or human weakness; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion. More than anything, Rumi makes plain the unbridled joy that comes from living life fully, urging us always to put aside our fears and take the risk to do so. As he says: "The way of love is not / a subtle argument. / The door there is devastation. / Birds make great sky-circles / of their freedom. / How do they learn it? / They fall, and falling, / they're given wings." --Uma Kukathas [via]
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Farmer Boyby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400034 (0-06-440003-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farmer Boy'Book summary:While laura ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, almanzo wilder is living on a big farm in new york state. Here almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town. This is laura ingalls wilder's beloved story of how her husband almanzo grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where laura lived [via]
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A First Rate Tragedy: Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditionsby Diana PrestonISBN 0094763801 (0-09-476380-1)
Hardcover, Constable
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Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestlingby Mick FoleyISBN 0061032417 (0-06-103241-7)
Softcover, Regan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling'Book summary:Not only is gap-toothed Mick Foley a heavy character in the World Wrestling Federation, he is the undisputed literary champion of the wrestling bestseller. It's amazing that there is such a thing as a "wrestling bestseller," and that fact owes largely to the No. 1 bestselling success of Foley's first book, Have a Nice Day! Now he's back with another memoir, Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling, and fans will not be disappointed by the jokes, the jibes at fellow WWF arm-twisters, and the genial charm of the literary behemoth of our time. [via]
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Frauds, Myths, And Mysteries: Science And Pseudoscience in Archaeologyby Kenneth L. FederISBN 0072869488 (0-07-286948-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runnerby Paul SammonISBN 0061053147 (0-06-105314-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner'Book summary:The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made.
Future Noir is the story of that triumph.
The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry.
A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic. [via]
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Growing up Bradyby Chris Kreski, Barry WilliamsISBN 0060965886 (0-06-096588-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Growing up Brady : I Was a Teenage Gregby Barry WilliamsISBN 0061091227 (0-06-109122-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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A Handbook to Literatureby C. Hugh Holman, William Harmon, William Flint ThrallISBN 0130127310 (0-13-012731-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Handbook to Literature'Book summary:For undergraduate/graduate-level literature courses. This comprehensive text is the definitive reference text on literature and literary criticism in English. The text itself is an alphabetical listing of the terms that pertain to literature in English. Now in its eighth edition, it has been used by more than one million students. [via]
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Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocksby Mick FoleyISBN 0061031011 (0-06-103101-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks'Book summary:Frankly, this literary critic didn't expect Mick Foley's memoir of his life as Mankind (and his other wrestling personas, Cactus Jack and Dude Love) to hit No. 1 on Amazon's hardcover non- fiction bestseller list in its first literary bout. The cover is cluttered and confusing and do we really need 500-plus pages of Foley's boasts? Yes. Foley gives his all for his calling and he burns to tell his adventures. Take the famous tale of how he lost most of his ear (the bloody result is depicted in the 16-page, colour photo section). It was in his 1994 bouts with Vader (Leon White), after getting a broken nose, a dislocated jaw, and 21 stitches in the first match, Foley did his "hangman" routine, wherein he catches his neck between the second and third ropes and spins them into a twist: "The end result is the illusion of a man being hanged by his neck while his body kicks and writhes in an attempt to get out ... the man actually is hanging by his neck and the body really does kick and writhe in an attempt to get out." Unfortunately, in the prior match, Too Cold Scorpio had had the officials tighten the ropes so Foley tore off his ear to avoid death by strangulation, like "a fox that chews off its paw to escape a trap." Foley also wrestles on 10,000-thumbtack mats with barb-wire ropes and C-4 explosives and earns the ultimate compliment: "The fans really like the way you bleed." Many fans also like the way his gory story reads. --Tim Appelo, Amazon.com [via]
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A History of the English Languageby Albert C. Baugh, Thomas CableISBN 0130151661 (0-13-015166-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the English Language'Book summary:Comprehensive and balanced, this classic exploration of the history of the English language combines internal linguistic history and external cultural history-from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis is on the political, social and cultural forces that affect language. Reflects the latest trends and statistics of the last ten years in a revised and updated chapter 1, English Present and Future. Provides a new section on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change in Chapter 10. Includes a thorough revision of Chapter 11, The English Language in America, including updated material on African American Vernacular English. Discusses Black English and varieties of English in Africa and Asia, as well as varieties in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Includes a map of American dialects. Provides examples of twentieth-century vocabulary. For multilingual readers or anyone who wishes to develop a well-rounded understanding of present-day English. [via]
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Home Cookingby Laurie Colwin, Anna ShapiroISBN 0060955309 (0-06-095530-9)
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How to Overthrow the Governmentby Arianna S. HuffingtonISBN 0060988312 (0-06-098831-2)
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of Americaby Jonathan RabanISBN 0060981075 (0-06-098107-5)
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freudby Peter WatsonISBN 0060935642 (0-06-093564-2)
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pitsby Erma BombeckISBN 0070064512 (0-07-006451-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits'Book summary:"See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud."
Art Buchwald
The enchanting lady of laughter has done it again--this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas.
"It's fun from cover to cover."
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Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Quaedaby John KeeganISBN 0091802296 (0-09-180229-6)
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0060956976 (0-06-095697-6)
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Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400018 (0-06-440001-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little House in the Big Woods'Book summary:Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest. Every chapter divulges fascinatingly intricate, yet easy-to-read, details about pioneer life in the Midwest in the late 1800s, from bear-meat curing to maple-tree sapping to homemade bullet making.
Wilder's autobiographical tales ring with truth and excitement. Readers will receive a perfectly painless history lesson, and in fact will clamor for more. Beloved illustrator Garth Williams spent years researching young Laura's pioneering family. His soft-line illustrations bring to life the full, simple days and nights in the family's log cabin. No one can read just one Little House book! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Little House on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400026 (0-06-440002-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiographyby Sidney PoitierISBN 0061357901 (0-06-135790-1)
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Michael Collins: A Biographyby Tim Pat CooganISBN 0091741068 (0-09-174106-8)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Michael Collins: A Biography'Book summary:When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.
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Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-birdsby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0061136050 (0-06-113605-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-birds'Book summary:Beyond croaking, "Nevermore," what exactly do ravens do all day? Bernd Heinrich, biology professor at the University of Vermont and author of Ravens in Winter, has spent more than a decade learning the secrets of these giants of the crow family. He has observed startlingly complex activities among ravens, including strong pair-bonding, use of tools, elaborate vocal communication, and even play. Ravens are just plain smart, and we can see much of ourselves in their behavior. They seem to be affectionate, cranky, joyful, greedy, and competitive, just like us. And in Mind of the Raven, Heinrich makes no bones about attributing emotions and intellect to Corvus corax--just not the kind we humans can understand. He mostly catalogs their behaviors in the manner of a respectful anthropologist, although a few moments of proud papa show through when he describes the pet ravens he hand-raised to adulthood.
Heinrich spends hundreds of loving hours feeding roadkill fragments to endlessly hungry raven chicks, and cold days in blinds watching wild ravens squabble and frolic. He is a passionate fan of his "wolf-birds," a name he gave them when he made the central discovery of the book: that ravens in Yellowstone National Park are dependent on wolves to kill for them. Mind of the Raven offers inspiring insight into both the lives of ravens and the mind of a truly gifted scientist. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The New American Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Formby Albert H. MoreheadISBN 0130452580 (0-13-045258-0)
Hardcover, Signet Book
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The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Nightby Elizabeth Pantley, William SearsISBN 0071381392 (0-07-138139-2)
Softcover, Contemporary Books
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Odysseyby Homer, Joanne Mattern, Sheila BlackISBN 0061064130 (0-06-106413-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odyssey'Book summary:By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and Charybdis; he extricates himself from the charms of Circe and Calypso. After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity. [via]
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On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400042 (0-06-440004-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Banks of Plum Creek'Book summary:The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.
And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920'sby Frederick Lewis AllenISBN 0060956658 (0-06-095665-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's'Book summary:Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals. Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise if post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against the colorful backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio, and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. Hailed as an instant classic, this is Frederick Lewis Allen's vivid and definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating decades, chronicling a time of both joy and terror--when dizzying highs were quickly succeeded by heartbreaking lows. [via]
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The Phenomenology of Mindby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelISBN 0061313033 (0-06-131303-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Poetic Meter and Poetic Formby Paul FussellISBN 0075536064 (0-07-553606-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms With the Suicide of Her Gay Sonby Leroy AaronsISBN 0062511238 (0-06-251123-8)
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The Price of Admiralty: War at Sea from Man of War to Submarineby John KeeganISBN 0091737710 (0-09-173771-0)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Price of Admiralty: War at Sea from Man of War to Submarine'Book summary:The aim of John Keegan's new book is to apply to warfare at sea the same technique he employed in his classic work The Face of Battle, so to discover how men have fought at sea, and to explore the nature of the indvidual's experience of combat over changing times. The conflicts Keegan has chosen begin with Trafalgar in 1805, a classic and well-documented example of ship-of-the-line battle. Next he turns to Jutland, posing very different problems for commander and seaman alike. Then to the Battle of Midway, where he examines the particular role played by the aircraft carrier, with its 'two societies', that of the ship itself and that of the 'air group' elite which supplied its raison d'etre. Finally he examines the Battle of the Atlantic, in which he recreates a picture both of everyday life and operational routine within the boat that saw the last great technical transformation of naval operations, and ultimately the most significant - the submarine. The book concludes with a survey of how naval warfare may be expected to evolve in the future - with surface navies disappearing altogether. [via]
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Privilege , Power, And Differenceby Allan G. JohnsonISBN 0072874899 (0-07-287489-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Sex With the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politicsby Eleanor HermanISBN 0061120758 (0-06-112075-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex With the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics'Book summary:This book is written by the bestselling author of "Sex with Kings". Featured on National radio interviews e.g., "Woman's Hour" and reviewed in national press e.g., "Daily Mail", it will appeal to readers of history, historical fiction, and of women's studies titles. In this follow-up to the bestselling "Sex with Kings", we discover the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of the Queen's boudoir. After all, Queen Victoria, that bastion of virtue, had nine children! You'll read about the notorious Catherine the Great, the passionately foolish Marie Antoinette, the destructively willful Tsarina Alexandra, and many more! Some Queens had numerous lovers, others seldom strayed, but all were full-blooded women who lived and loved under intense public scrutiny. And the men who loved these women sometimes gained riches, and sometimes lost their heads. Once again, Eleanor Herman has combined impeccable research while accessibly telling these fascinating stories. "Sex with the Queen" will both entertain and educate. [via]
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Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the Worldby Jenny DiskiISBN 0060957964 (0-06-095796-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World'Book summary:"I am not entirely content with the degree of whiteness in my life. My bedroom is white: white walls, icy mirrors, white sheets and pillowcases, white slatted blinds. It's the best I could do."
Jenny Diski's obsession with the cool purity of white began early in life, when as a small child, she was taken for weekly skating lessons at the local ice rink. Between practicing figure eights, she would watch the Zamboni move across the ice scraping away the pitted, blade-scored surface: "It was all taken away in minutes and underneath was pure, untouched surface again, gleaming milky white, virgin, immaculate ice." This gleaming, immaculate ice stands in stark contrast to Diski's dark and emotionally fraught home life with two abusive parents. Skating to Antarctica is an unusual blend of travel essay and personal memoir, one that uses the phases of a physical journey to trace the trajectory of the inner life. Both journeys begin for Diski when her 18-year-old daughter Chloe decides to search for the maternal grandmother she has never met. It has been 30 years since Diski last saw her mother, and she has no desire to find her; is it merely coincidence that she books her passage to Antarctica shortly after Chloe begins the hunt?
Weaving painful memories of a childhood spent entangled in her parents' vicious sexual psychodramas and an adolescence in and out of mental wards into an account of her slow journey south, Diski imbues both voyages of discovery with a resonance that comes largely from twinning these tales. Like all polar travelers, she has the experiences of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton before her; instinctively she rejects the "heroism" of Scott's pointless death in a blizzard, embracing, instead Shackleton's pragmatic rescue of his stranded crew. "The will to live was not strong in my family," Diski writes near the end of her book; Skating to Antarctica, however, is proof that this apple at least fell far, far from the tree. [via]
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Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Declineby Robert H. BorkISBN 0060987197 (0-06-098719-7)
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Tao Te Chingby Stephen Mitchell, Stephen A. MitchellISBN 0060955430 (0-06-095543-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tao Te Ching: New English Version'Book summary:In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao—the basic principle of the universe.
Stephen Mitchell's bestselling version has been widely acclaimed as a gift to contemporary culture.
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The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in Historyby Peter MaasISBN 0061014591 (0-06-101459-1)
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Thereby Hangs a Tale : Stories of Curious Word Originsby Charles E. FunkISBN 006272049X (0-06-272049-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Transformations of Myth Through Timeby Joseph CampbellISBN 0060964634 (0-06-096463-4)
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Understanding Moviesby Louis GiannettiISBN 0130408131 (0-13-040813-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writersby Anne Bernays, Pamela PainterISBN 0062720066 (0-06-272006-6)
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survivalby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0060957379 (0-06-095737-9)
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Works of Platoby Irwin EdmanISBN 007553651X (0-07-553651-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Harpercollins Robert French Unabridged Dictionaryby Beryl T. Atkins, Pierre-Henri Cousin, Marie-Noelle Lamy, Alain Duval, Rosemary Milne, Helene M. A. Lewis, Lorna A. Sinclair, Renee O. BirksISBN 0062708163 (0-06-270816-3)
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