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The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Timeby David H. LowenherzISBN 0812932773 (0-8129-3277-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time'Book summary:If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . .
Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Much the way light displays every color when passed through a prism, love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writers beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible.
Internationally renowned collector David Lowenherz sifted through hundreds and hundreds of historical and contemporary epistles and selected the most ardent, witty, whimsical, sexy, clever, and touching letters for this inspiring collection. Unlike interviews or biographies, these letters give us marvelous insight into the lives of some of historys most famous lovers and provide intimate glimpses into the hearts of some whose fervent or amusing expressions of devotion will come as a great surprise.
Zelda Fitzgerald to Scott Fitzgerald
Michelangelo Buonarroti to Vittoria Colonna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart toConstanze Mozart
Harry Truman to Bess Wallace
Khalil Gibran to Mary Haskell
Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon
Horatio Nelson to Emma Hamilton
George Bush to Barbara Pierce
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to George Barrett
Jack London to Anna Strunsky
Marc Chagall to Bella Chagall
Ernest Hemingway to Mary Welsh
Jack Kerouac to Sebastian Sampas
Alfred Dreyfus to Lucie Dreyfus
Marjorie Fossa to Elvis Presley
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West
Ludwig van Beethoven to the Immortal Beloved
Emma Goldman to Ben Reitman
Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera
Dylan Thomas to Caitlin Thomas
Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Bonaparte
Abigail Smith to John Adams
John Ruskin to Euphemia Ruskin
George Sand to Gustave Flaubert
Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren
Anaïs Nin to Henry Miller
Voltaire to Marie Louise Denis
James Thurber to Eva Prout
George Bernard Shaw to Stella Campbell
Sarah Bernhardt to Jean Richepin
Marcel Proust to Daniel Halevy
Frank Lloyd Wright to Maude Miriam Noel
Anne Sexton to Philip Legler
Elizabeth I to Thomas Seymour
Oscar Wilde to Constance Lloyd
Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Maury
Charles Parnell to Katherine OShea
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501 German Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tensesby Henry StrutzISBN 0812044339 (0-8120-4433-9)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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501 German Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses, Alphabetically Arrangedby Henry StrutzISBN 0812004345 (0-8120-0434-5)
Hardcover, Barron's Educational Series
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› Find signed collectible books: '501 German Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses, Alphabetically Arranged'Book summary:From `chzen (to groan) to ziehen (to pull), 501 of the most commonly used German verbs are presented alphabetically with translations. The arrangement is one verb per page in easy to comprehend table form. Each verb is listed with its principal parts and followed by complete conjugation in all tenses. Additional material includes tables of strong verbs arranged according to pattern of change, and a section on prefix verbs and model auxiliaries. An added feature in this edition is a set of 27 verb tests with answers explained. Language students will also find weather expressions as they are used with impersonal verbs, a selection of German idioms and proverbs, and a concise review of rules for verb tenses and moods. This book, with its emphasis on grammatical form, makes a fine classroom supplement for beginner, intermediate, and advanced courses in German. [via]
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60 Minute Gourmetby Pierre Franey, Craig ClaiborneISBN 0812908341 (0-8129-0834-1)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '60 Minute Gourmet'Book summary:Compiled from the pages of his popular NEW YORK TIMES culinary column, Pierre Franey has created a book of complete, delectable meals that can be prepared in an hour or less. There are dozens of choices to suit the palate of every gourmet, including : Chicken Breasts Veronique with Curried Rice Filet Mignon Sauce Madere with a Saute of Vegetables Fermiere, Parsleyed Rack of Lamb with Grilled Tomatoes Provencale, and more, as well as straightforward organization to provide maximum cooking convenience. [via]
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The Age of Shakespeareby Frank KermodeISBN 0812974336 (0-8129-7433-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Shakespeare'Book summary:In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeares England, vividly portraying Londons society, its early capitalism, its court, its bursting population, and its epidemics, as well as its artsincluding, of course, its theater. Then Kermode focuses on Shakespeare himself and his career, all in the context of the time in which he lived. Kermode reads each play against the backdrop of its probable year of composition, providing new historical insights into Shakspeares characters, themes, and sources. The result is an important, lasting, and concise companion guide to the works of Shakespeare by one of our most eminent literary scholars.
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria Remarque, A. W. WheenISBN 0821223127 (0-8212-2312-7)
Hardcover, Bulfinch Pr
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Anatomy of the Human Bodyby Henry Gray, Charles Mayo GossISBN 0812103777 (0-8121-0377-7)
Hardcover, Lea & Febiger
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One of the first and still one of the best. An invaluable help for biology,anat. phys. and pre-med. students. [via]
The Aquatic Apeby Elaine MorganISBN 0812828739 (0-8128-2873-9)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Landby David K. ShiplerISBN 081291273X (0-8129-1273-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land'Book summary:The correspondent for The New York Times in Jerusalem from 1979 to 1984, David K. Shipler brings a very American moral commitment to the problem of Arab-Jewish relations. The occupation of the West Bank was by then a static fact of life; many young Israelis and Palestinians had grown up knowing no other reality. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the massacres of Palestinians by Lebanese militiamen at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, which were under Israeli control, had shaken the consciences of many American Jews. Many of the voices in this book are American, from idealistic young secular Jews working for Arab-Jewish cooperation to the more fanatical followers of Meir Kahane. This work, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, gives Shipler's narrative the power of a terrible family argument. [via]
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The Atlas of Languagesby Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews, Maria PolinskyISBN 0816051232 (0-8160-5123-2)
Hardcover, Facts On File, Inc.
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The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the Worldby Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, Stephen MatthewsISBN 0816033889 (0-8160-3388-9)
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin Franklin, Peter Conn, Amy GutmannISBN 0812219295 (0-8122-1929-5)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity." The result is a classic of American literature.
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On the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the Autobiography for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together. For this occasion the University of Pennsylvania Press will publish a special edition of Franklin's Autobiography, including a new preface by University president Amy Gutmann and an introduction by distinguished scholar Peter Conn. The volume will also include four short essays by noted Penn professors as well as a chronology of Franklin's life and the text of Franklin's Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, a document resulting in the establishment of an institution of higher education that ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania.
No area of human endeavor escaped Franklin's keen attentions. His ideas and values, as Amy Gutmann notes in her remarks, have shaped the modern University of Pennsylvania profoundly, "more profoundly than have the founders of any other major university of college in the United States." Franklin believed that he had been born too soon. Readers will recognize that his spirit lives on at Penn today.
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The Bhagavad Gitaby DeutschISBN 0819119008 (0-8191-1900-8)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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The Biggest Game in Townby A. AlvarezISBN 0811834344 (0-8118-3434-4)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search For Truth In The Mass Graves Of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, And Kosovoby Clea KoffISBN 0812968859 (0-8129-6885-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search For Truth In The Mass Graves Of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, And Kosovo'Book summary:In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the Rwandan genocide. Over the next four years, Koffs grueling investigations took her across geography synonymous with some of the worst crimes of the twentieth century.
The Bone Woman is Koffs unflinching, riveting account of her seven UN missions to Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Rwanda, as she shares what she saw, how it affected her, who was prosecuted based on evidence she found, and what she learned about the world. Yet even as she recounts the hellish nature of her work and the heartbreak of the survivors, she imbues her story with purpose, humanity, and a sense of justice. A tale of science in service of human rights, The Bone Woman is, even more profoundly, a story of hope and enduring moral principles. [via]More editions of The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search For Truth In The Mass Graves Of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, And Kosovo:
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Book of Common PrayerISBN 081645101X (0-8164-5101-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Books in My Lifeby Henry MillerISBN 0811201082 (0-8112-0108-2)
Softcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Books in My Life'Book summary:To the World Review London, for permission to reprint the chapter on Blaise Cendrars ;to Survival, New York, for the chapter on Rider Haggard. Grateful acknowledgment is herewith made to the following publishers and individuals for their kind permission to quote from the following works: Blackie Son Ltd., for Life of G. A. Henty by G. Melville Fenn. Borden Publishing Co., for The History of Magic by EH phas Levi. Coward-M c Cann, I nc., for Hill of Destiny by Jean Giono. C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., for The Absolute Collective by Erich Gudcind. James Ladd Delkin for Zen by A lan W. Watts. Doubleday Co., I nc., for The Story of My Life by Helen Keller. Druid Press for The Obstinate Cytnric by J. C. Powys. E. P. Dutton Co., I nc., for Cosmic Conscioustiess by R. M. Bunche and Magicians, Seers and Mystics by Maurice Magre. Editions Bernard Grasset for Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars. Falcon Press for Babu of Montpamasse by C. L. Phi Hppe. Harcourt, Brace Co., I nc., for In Search of the Miraadous by P. D. Ouspensky. Hermann Hesse for his article which appeared in Horizon, Sept., 1946. Houghton Mifflin Co., Constable Co., Ltd., for Mont Saint Michel and Chartres by Henry A dams. Henry Holt Co., I nc., for Nature and Man by Paul Weiss. Alfred A. Knopf, I nc., for Men of Good Will by Jules Romain. John Lane The Bodley Head for Autobiography by J. C. Powys. Frieda Lawrence for Studies in Classic American Literature, and Apocalypse hotk by D. H. Lawrence. Le Cercle Du Livre for Krishnamurti by Carlo Suar. Les Jtions Denoel for LeL otissement du Ciel and Bourlinguer-- both by Blaise Cendrars. Litde, Brown Co., for Schliemann by Emil Ludwig. Longmans, Green Co., Ltd., and A. P. Watt Son for The Days of My Life by H. Rider Haggard.
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Breaking the Magic Spellby Jack David ZipesISBN 0813190304 (0-8131-9030-4)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breaking the Magic Spell'Book summary:This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence our popular beliefs and the ways they have been exploited by a corporate media network intent on regulating the mystical elements of the stories. He examines a range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Ernst Bloch, Tolkien, Bettelheim, and J.K. Rowling to demonstrate the continuing symbiotic relationship between folklore and literature.
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Bring on the Empty Horsesby David NivenISBN 0816163693 (0-8161-6369-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bring on the Empty Horses'Book summary:David Niven is remembered as one of Britain's best-loved actors. The archetypal English gentleman, he starred in over ninety films. He is also one of Hollywood's finest chroniclers. In this second volume, David Niven turns his attention to 'The Great Days of Hollywood' between 1935 and 1960. These were times of legendary film stars and despotic producers, of tycoons, of oddballs, and of classic movies. Rich in anecdote, and written in his inimitable humorous style, BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is perhaps the most acclaimed sequel to an autobiography ever written. [via]
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A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives Of American Writers And Artistsby Rachel CohenISBN 0812971299 (0-8129-7129-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Closed Chambers : The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Courtby Edward LazarusISBN 0812924029 (0-8129-2402-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Closed Chambers : The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court'Book summary:Edward Lazarus, a former Supreme Court clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun, spills the beans on an institution that values silence. Nobody is supposed to understand what happens behind the scenes of the high court--that's why the justices rarely speak to the media--but Lazarus tells all he knows from his time as a top aide to Blackmun in the Supreme Court's 1988 term. There's a lot of legal theory and history, but it's well presented and usually focuses on touchstone issues in U.S. politics; cases involving abortion, the death penalty, and racial preferences receive sustained treatment in these pages. There are gossipy bits, too, revealing unflattering details about several current justices. Sure to be one of the more controversial books of the year. --John J. Miller [via]
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Colossus of Maroussiby Henry MillerISBN 0811201090 (0-8112-0109-0)
Softcover, New Directions
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The Complete Guide to Night & Low-Light Photographyby Lee FrostISBN 0817450416 (0-8174-5041-6)
Softcover, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativityby Siva VaidhyanathanISBN 0814788076 (0-8147-8807-6)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity'Book summary:Copyright reflects far more than economic interests. Embedded within conflicts over royalties and infringement are cultural valuesabout race, class, access, ownership, free speech, and democracywhich influence how rights are determined and enforced. Questions of legitimacyof what constitutes intellectual property or fair use, and of how to locate a precise moment of cultural creationhave become enormously complicated in recent years, as advances in technology have exponentially increased the speed of cultural reproduction and dissemination.
In Copyrights and Copywrongs, Siva Vaidhyanathan tracks the history of American copyright law through the 20th century, from Mark Twains vehement exhortations for thick copyright protection, to recent lawsuits regarding sampling in rap music and the digital moment, exemplified by the rise of Napster and MP3 technology. He argues persuasively that in its current punitive, highly restrictive form, American copyright law hinders cultural production, thereby contributing to the poverty of civic culture.
In addition to choking cultural expression, recent copyright law, Vaidhyanathan argues, effectively sanctions biases against cultural traditions which differ from the Anglo-European model. In African-based cultures, borrowing from and building upon earlier cultural expressions is not considered a legal trespass, but a tribute. Rap and hip hop artists who practice such borrowing by sampling and mixing, however, have been sued for copyright violation and forced to pay substantial monetary damages. Similarly, the oral transmission of culture, which has a centuries-old tradition within African American culture, is complicated by current copyright laws. How, for example, can ownership of music, lyrics, or stories which have been passed down through generations be determined? Upon close examination, strict legal guidelines prove insensitive to the diverse forms of cultural expression prevalent in the United States, and reveal much about the racialized cultural values which permeate our system of laws. Ultimately, copyright is a necessary policy that should balance public and private interests but the recent rise of intellectual property as a concept have overthrown that balance. Copyright, Vaidhyanathan asserts, is policy, not property.
Bringing to light the republican principles behind original copyright laws as well as present-day imbalances and future possibilities for freer expression and artistic equity, this volume takes important strides towards unraveling the complex web of culture, law, race, and technology in today's global marketplace.
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Cultural Atlas of Japanby Marius Jansen, Martin Collcutt, Isao KumakuraISBN 0816019274 (0-8160-1927-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Cultural Atlas of the Viking Worldby R.I. Page, Helen Clarke, Colleen E. Batey, Neil S. Price, James Graham-CampbellISBN 0816030049 (0-8160-3004-9)
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A Dictionary of British Historyby J. P. KenyonISBN 0812829107 (0-8128-2910-7)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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Dictionary of Symbols: An Illustrated Guide to Traditional Images, Icons, and Emblemsby Jack TresidderISBN 081181470X (0-8118-1470-X)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asiaby Rene GroussetISBN 0813513049 (0-8135-1304-9)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magicby Martha BeckISBN 0812929802 (0-8129-2980-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendshipby Jon MeachamISBN 0812972821 (0-8129-7282-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship'Book summary:The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of historys towering leaders
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the Greatest Generation. In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique onea president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.
Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nationsyet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDRs affectionswhich was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aidesand Winston Churchill.
Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.
Meachams new sourcesincluding unpublished letters of FDRs great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchills joint companyshed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.
Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.
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From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: The Best of the Lucasfilm Archivesby Mark Cotta Vaz, Shinji HataISBN 0811809722 (0-8118-0972-2)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters And Reflectionsby Tom BrokawISBN 0812975308 (0-8129-7530-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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During a period of economic hardship and in a country united by the war effort, choices were simple; few people questioned why America was fighting Germany and Japan. Adversity brought out the best, especially in an optimistic culture like America's. As the soldier who found Beethoven's pianos in a Weimar house says after his unit is shelled, "Nothing like a close call to make the morning more beautiful." The greatest impression that war veterans seem to carry back from war is a sense of comradeship that, in spite of pain and loss, render their war years the most rewarding of all their life experiences. Modern life doesn't necessarily have the same certainties. The Greatest Generation Speaks is a healthy reminder of the foundations on which American society is built. --John Stevenson [via]
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Hobbes's Thucydidesby Thucydides, Richard Schlatter, Thomas HobbesISBN 0813507839 (0-8135-0783-9)
Softcover, Rutgers University Press
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How Institutions Thinkby Mary DouglasISBN 0815602065 (0-8156-0206-5)
Softcover, Syracuse Univ Pr
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Douglas forewarns us that institutions do not think independently, nor do they have purposes, nor do they build themselves. As we construct our institutions, we are squeezing each others ideas into a common shape in order to prove their legitimacy by sheer numbers. She admonishes us not to take comfort in the thought that primitives may think through institutions, but moderns decide on important issues individually. Our legitimated institutions make major decisions, and these decisions always involve ethical principles.
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I Stand Corrected : More on Languageby William Safire, Kimble MeadsISBN 0812910974 (0-8129-1097-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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In Retrospect : The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnamby Robert S. McNamara, Brian VandemarkISBN 0812925238 (0-8129-2523-8)
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In the Arts & Crafts Styleby Barbara Mayer, Rob Gray, Elaine Hirschl EllisISBN 0811856321 (0-8118-5632-1)
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Islam: A Short Historyby Karen ArmstrongISBN 081296618X (0-8129-6618-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islam: A Short History'Book summary:The picture of Islam as a violent, backward, and insular tradition should be laid to rest, says Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of Muhammad and A History of God. Delving deep into Islamic history, Armstrong sketches the arc of a story that begins with the stirring of revelation in an Arab businessman named Muhammad. His concern with the poor who were being left behind in the blush of his society's new prosperity sets the tone for the tale of a culture that values community as a manifestation of God. Muhammad's ideas catch fire, quickly blossoming into a political empire. As the empire expands and the once fractured Arabs subdue and overtake the vast Persian domain, the story of a community becomes a panoramic drama. With great dexterity, Armstrong narrates the Sunni-Shi'ite schism, the rise of Persian influence, the clashes with Western crusaders and Mongolian conquerors, and the spiritual explorations that traced the route to God. Armstrong brings us through the debacle of European colonialism right up to the present day, putting Islamic fundamentalism into context as part of a worldwide phenomenon. Islam: A Short History, like Bruce Lawrence's Shattering the Myth and Mark Huband's Warriors of the Prophet, introduces us to a faith that beckons like a minaret to those who dare to venture beyond the headlines. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphonyby Lewis ThomasISBN 0816137218 (0-8161-3721-8)
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Let Sleeping Vets Lieby James HerriotISBN 0816152187 (0-8161-5218-7)
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Letters to Jennyby Piers Anthony, Alan RiggsISBN 0812522826 (0-8125-2282-6)
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The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them Allby Gregory Bassham, Eric BronsonISBN 0812695453 (0-8126-9545-3)
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Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Wayby Richard BransonISBN 0812932293 (0-8129-3229-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Losing My Virginity: How I'Ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way'Book summary:"Oh, screw it, let's do it."
That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin Megastores), and nearly a hundred others, ranging from financial services to bridal wear, Branson has a track record second to none.
Losing My Virginity is the unusual, frequently outrageous autobiography of one of the great business geniuses of our time. When Richard Branson started his first business, he and his friends decided that "since we're complete virgins at business, let's call it just that: Virgin." Since then, Branson has written his own "rules" for success, creating a group of companies with a global presence, but no central headquarters, no management hierarchy, and minimal bureaucracy.
Many of Richard Branson's companies--airlines, retailing, and cola are good examples--were started in the face of entrenched competition. The experts said, "Don't do it." But Branson found golden opportunities in markets in which customers have been ripped off or underserved, where confusion reigns, and the competition is complacent.
And in this stressed-out, overworked age, Richard Branson gives us a new model: a dynamic, hardworking, successful entrepreneur who lives life to the fullest. Family, friends, fun, and adventure are equally important as business in Branson's life. Losing My Virginity is a portrait of a productive, sane, balanced life, filled with rich and colorful stories:
Crash-landing his hot-air balloon in the Algerian desert, yet remaining determined to have another go at being the first to circle the globe
Signing the Sex Pistols, Janet Jackson, the Rolling Stones, Boy George, and Phil Collins
Fighting back when British Airways took on Virgin Atlantic and successfully suing this pillar of the British business establishment
Swimming two miles to safety during a violent storm off the coast of Mexico
Selling Virgin Records to save Virgin Atlantic
Staging a rescue flight into Baghdad before the start of the Gulf War . . .
And much more. Losing My Virginity is the ultimate tale of personal and business survival from a man who combines the business prowess of Bill Gates and the promotional instincts of P. T. Barnum.
Also available in the UK from Virgin Publishing, and in Canada from General Publishing,
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Love and Desire: Photoworksby William A. EwingISBN 081182621X (0-8118-2621-X)
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The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalismby David FriedmanISBN 0812690699 (0-8126-9069-9)
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Among topics covered: how the U.S. would benefit from unrestricted immigration; why prohibition of drugs is inconsistent with a free society; why the welfare state mainly takes from the poor to help the not-so-poor; how police protection, law courts, and new laws could all be provided privately; what life was really like under the anarchist legal system of medieval Iceland; why non-intervention is the best foreign policy; why no simple moral rules can generate acceptable social policies -- and why these policies must be derived in part from the new discipline of economic analysis of law. [via]
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Markingsby Dag HammarskjoldISBN 081616441X (0-8161-6441-X)
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Cultureby David KushnerISBN 0812972155 (0-8129-7215-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture'Book summary:Doom, the video game in which you navigate a dungeon in the first person and messily lay waste to everything that crosses your path, represented a milestone in many areas. It was a technical landmark, in that its graphics engine delivered brilliant performance on ordinary PC hardware. It was a social phenomenon, with individuals and companies hooking up networks specifically for Doom tournaments and staying up for days to blast away on them (well before the Internet went big-time). The game's publisher, id Software, used an unusual shareware marketing strategy (give away the first levels, charge for the more advanced ones) that worked very well. On top of it all, the gore-filled game raised serious questions about decency in products meant for use by school-age kids. Masters of Doom explores the Doom phenomenon, as well as the lives and personalities of the two men behind it: John Carmack and John Romero.
This book manages, for the most part, to keep clear of the breathless techno-hagiography style that characterizes many books with similar subjects. He tells the story of Carmack, Romero, and id--which includes far more than Doom and its successors--in novel style, and he's done a good job of keeping the action flowing and the characters' motivations clear. Some of the quoted passages of dialog sound like idealized reconstructions that probably never came from the lips of real people, but this is an entertaining and informative book, of interest to anyone who's let rip with a nail gun. --David Wall
Topics covered: The biographies of John Carmack and John Romero, and of their company, id Software. The development and marketing of all major id games (including Wolfenstein, Doom, Doom II, and Quake) get lavish attention. [via]
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Memoirsby Tennessee Williams, John WatersISBN 0811216691 (0-8112-1669-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs'Book summary:For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by The New York Times Book Review. As it turns out, thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays.
And, of course, Memoirs is filled with Williams' amazing friends from the worlds of stage, screen, and literature as heoften hilariously, sometimes fondly, sometimes notremembers them: Laurette Taylor, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, Carson McCullers, Anna Magnani, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, and Tallulah Bankhead to name a few. And now film director John Waters, well acquainted with shocking the American public, has written an introduction that gives some perspective on the various reactions to Tennessee's Memoirs, while also paying tribute to a fellow artist who inspired many with his integrity and endurance. [via]More editions of Memoirs:
Mornings on Horsebackby David G. McCulloughISBN 0816133328 (0-8161-3332-8)
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The New York Times 60-Minute Gourmetby Pierre FraneyISBN 0812933028 (0-8129-3302-8)
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Nothin' but Good Times Ahead/Large Printby Molly IvinsISBN 0816159254 (0-8161-5925-4)
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Om Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practiceby Cyndi LeeISBN 0811835138 (0-8118-3513-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Om Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice'Book summary:Too busy to attend yoga class but can't be bothered to read the endless instructions in the latest yoga book? In OM Yoga: A Daily Practice, celebrated yoga instructor Cyndi Lee brings the rigors and reqards of yoga class to the home with a totally unique method of teaching. Instead of wordy directiosn and minimal pictures, each series of asanas is communicated entirely through easy-to-follow illustrations and tips. Designed in a practical, concealed Wire-O format that lays flat on the floor while being used, OM Yoga is organized in tabbed sections for each day of the week. Monday is devoted to the Sun Salutation to welcome the week's start. Thursday's practice focusses on sitting poses, when the week's energy is dwindling. When joined together, each day's recipe cultivates a yoga practice that is challenging, energizing, and restorative. Including sections on meditation, breathing, and do-it-yourself yoga "recipes" for all levels, OM Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice creates the possibility for a meaningful yoga practice in the privacy of the home. [via]
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On Languageby William SafireISBN 0812909372 (0-8129-0937-2)
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The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Needby Andrew P. TobiasISBN 0816166226 (0-8161-6622-6)
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The Organization Manby William Hollingsworth Whyte, Joseph NoceraISBN 0812218191 (0-8122-1819-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Organization Man'Book summary:Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologiestelevision, affordable cars, space travel, fast foodand lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family. William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming.
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As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status.
Since the time of the book's original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the 1990s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends. In fact this "new economy" appeared to have doomed Whyte's original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today's global market. This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. In an afterword Jenny Bell Whyte describes how The Organization Man was written.More editions of The Organization Man:
The Practical Archaeologist: How We Know What We Know About the Pastby Jane McIntoshISBN 081603950X (0-8160-3950-X)
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The Practice of the Presence of Godby Lawrence, Donald E. DemarayISBN 0818907703 (0-8189-0770-3)
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Primary Colors: A Novel of Politicsby Joe Klein, Klein, Joe (AFT)ISBN 0812976479 (0-8129-7647-9)
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The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worseby Gregg EasterbrookISBN 0812973038 (0-8129-7303-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse'Book summary:Ordinary middle-class Americans have often tried to assuage their jealousy of the rich by repeating the axiom "money can't buy happiness" to themselves. But according to New Republic senior editor Gregg Easterbrook, "the rich" are, in fact, those same ordinary middle-class Americans and no, they're not happy at all. Wages have soared over the past fifty years and regular citizens own large homes, new cars, and luxuries aplenty. Better still, the environment, with a few exceptions, is getting cleaner, crime is on the decline, and diseases are being wiped out as life span increases. So why do people report a sense that things are getting steadily worse and that catastrophe is imminent? Easterbrook presents a few psychological rationales, including "choice anxiety," where the vastness of society's options is a burden, and "abundance denial," where people somehow manage to convince themselves that they are deprived of material comforts. The sooner we accept how good we have it, the better off the whole world will be, he says, because if we would just realize that we have this wealth, we could be using it to alleviate hunger, provide health care for the millions who lack it, and otherwise address the ills that actually do exist. While at times the book's attempts to make the world a better place seem a bit of a stretch, it's admirable that Easterbrook is willing to make that stretch and not suggest people simply light up cigars and bask in their newly discovered joys. One might look a bit askance at some of Easterbrook's sunny perspectives on our societal fortunes--he celebrates rampant consumerism while skating past the rampant consumer debt that lies beneath it, for instance--but it's hard to deny that the pessimistic viewpoint is much more widely stated than that of optimists. Is the glass really half empty or should we, as Easterbrook indicates, enjoy the wonderful world in which we secretly live? --John Moe [via]
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Pulling Your Own Stringsby Wayne W. DyerISBN 0816166900 (0-8161-6690-0)
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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story Of A Whiz Kid And His Homemade Nuclear Reactorby Ken SilversteinISBN 0812966600 (0-8129-6660-0)
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Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. Following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental emergency that put his towns forty thousand suburbanites at risk. The EPA ended up burying his lab at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah. This offbeat account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris has the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller. [via]More editions of The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story Of A Whiz Kid And His Homemade Nuclear Reactor:
Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmetby Gourmet MagazineISBN 0812971930 (0-8129-7193-0)
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Russiansby Hedrick SmithISBN 0812905210 (0-8129-0521-0)
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Science and Its Fabricationby Alan ChalmersISBN 0816618887 (0-8166-1888-7)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols and Their Meaningsby David Fontana, Hannah FirminISBN 0811838218 (0-8118-3821-8)
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Sex And The Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer For The Buffy Fanby Lorna JowettISBN 0819567582 (0-8195-6758-2)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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The Silver Palate Cookbookby Michael McLaughlin, Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins, Silver Palate (Shop)ISBN 0816157650 (0-8161-5765-0)
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Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autismby Donna WilliamsISBN 0812925246 (0-8129-2524-6)
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St. Petersburg: Tales of the Cityby John Miller, Kirsten MillerISBN 0811808793 (0-8118-0879-3)
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The Thirty Years' Warby Theodore RabbISBN 0819117463 (0-8191-1746-3)
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Vets Might Flyby James HerriotISBN 0816152225 (0-8161-5222-5)
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Vieux Carreby Tennessee Williams, Robert BrayISBN 0811214605 (0-8112-1460-5)
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Virgil's Aeneidby Virgil, Kathleen O'NeillISBN 0812034007 (0-8120-3400-7)
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 081520115X (0-8152-0115-X)
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The Walk West: A Walk across America 2by Peter Jenkins, Barbara JenkinsISBN 081613460X (0-8161-3460-X)
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Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Iby David McCulloughISBN 0812932331 (0-8129-3233-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I'Book summary:For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied wars have in recent years gone unremembered. In Wars of the Irish Kings, David Willis McCullough has turned back to the earliest accounts of these struggles to present a rich tapestry of Ireland's fight for its identity.
Beginning with the legends of ancient wars and warriors, moving through a time when history and storytelling were not separate crafts, into a time when history was as much propaganda as fact, Wars of the Irish Kings tells of tribal battles, foreign invasions, Viking raids, family feuds, wars between rival Irish kingdoms, and wars of rebellion against the English.
This collection is peopled with familiar names: Cuchulain, Finn MacCool, Brian Boru, Mad King Sweeney, Strongbow, Edward and Robert Bruce, Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Essex, Hugh O'Donnell, and Hugh O'Neill.
Battles formed the legends and history of the land: the Da Dannan meet the Fir Bolgs near Sligo, Brian Boru faces the Vikings at Clontarf in Dublin Bay, High King Rory O'Connor confronts the English invaders near Waterford, O'Briens battle the English (and other O'Briens) at Dysert O'Dea near Limerick, guns are carried for the first time in battle at Knockdoe near Galway, the Bruces from Scotland and their Irish allies overwhelm the English at Connor in Ulster, and Hugh O'Neill ambushes General Bagenal near Armagh. The book ends near Cork in 1601 when the English defeat O'Neill and his Spanish allies at Kinsale.
Common people as well as kings appear in these pages. A foot soldier in the early days of gunpowder accidentally sets off a disastrous explosion, a harper's disembodied head is sent by error to the king of England, who displays it as that of the king of Ireland, and a Welsh camp follower named Alice is given the job of executing Irish captives during the English invasion.
The sources for these stories and many more range from ancient manuscripts telling of mythical battles to a seventeenth-century siege diary. There are excerpts from such Irish literary masterpieces as The Cattle Raid of Cooley (The Tain), the monumental Annals of the Four Masters, passages from Gerald of Wales's account of the English conquest in the twelfth century, pages from an Icelandic saga, and even a blistering letter from Queen Elizabeth I to her inept commander in Ireland ("You do but piece up a hollow peace . . . ").
The result is a surprisingly immediate and stunning portrait of an all-but-forgotten time that forged the Ireland to come. [via]More editions of Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I:
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Who's Who in the Middle Agesby John FinesISBN 0812860748 (0-8128-6074-8)
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The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Speciesby L. David MechISBN 0816610266 (0-8166-1026-6)
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