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1688: A Global Historyby John E. WillsISBN 039304744X (0-393-04744-X)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0393091465 (0-393-09146-5)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Sculley Bradley, Mark Twain, E. Hudson Long, Thomas Cooley, Richmond Croom BeattyISBN 0393044548 (0-393-04454-8)
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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earthby James LovelockISBN 0393312399 (0-393-31239-9)
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American Gothic: A Life Of America's Most Famous Paintingby Steven Biel, Grant WoodISBN 039305912X (0-393-05912-X)
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Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscience Topicsby Martin GardnerISBN 0393057429 (0-393-05742-9)
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Army Life in a Black Regimentby Thomas Wentworth HigginsonISBN 0393301575 (0-393-30157-5)
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At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995by George F. KennanISBN 0393038823 (0-393-03882-3)
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: Essaysby Thomas LynchISBN 0393049272 (0-393-04927-2)
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 039330857X (0-393-30857-X)
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Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivorsby Stephen TaylorISBN 0393050858 (0-393-05085-8)
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Castles Burning: A Child's Life in Warby Magda DenesISBN 0393039668 (0-393-03966-8)
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Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Lifeby Lyndall GordonISBN 0393037223 (0-393-03722-3)
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Childhood and Societyby Erik H. EriksonISBN 039331068X (0-393-31068-X)
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Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New Englandby Stephen InnesISBN 0393035840 (0-393-03584-0)
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787by Gordon S. WoodISBN 039331040X (0-393-31040-X)
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Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Orderby Mark Crispin MillerISBN 0393059170 (0-393-05917-0)
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The Cry for Mythby Rollo MayISBN 0393027686 (0-393-02768-6)
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The Dawn's Early Lightby Walter LordISBN 0393054527 (0-393-05452-7)
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Deathby Laurence GonzalesISBN 0393052761 (0-393-05276-1)
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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burtonby Fawn McKay BrodieISBN 0393301664 (0-393-30166-4)
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Starting in a hollowed log of woodsome thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!"
So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of the lower Congo in 1863, wrote to Monckton Milnes from the African kingdom of Dahomey. His answer, "the Devil drives," applies not only to his geographical discoveries but also to the whole of his turbulent life.
Burton was a true man of the Renaissance. He was soldier, explorer, ethnologist, archaeologist, poet, translator, and one of the two or three great linguists of his time. He was also an amateur physician, a botanist, a geologist, a swordsman, and a superb raconteur. He penetrated the sacred Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina at great risk and explored the forbidden city of Harar in Somaliland. He searched for the sources of the White Nile and discovered Lake Tanganyika.
Burton's passion was not only for geographical discovery but also for the hidden in man. His enormous erudition on the sexual customs of the East and Africa, long confined by the pruderies of his time, finally found expression in the notes and commentary to his celebrated translation of the unexpurgated Arabian Nights.
For this major biography of one of the most baffling heroes of any era, Fawn M. Brodie has drawn on original sources and a newly discovered collection of letters and papers. [via]More editions of The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton:
Dictionary of Symbolsby Carl G. LiungmanISBN 0393312364 (0-393-31236-4)
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The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissanceby Anthony GottliebISBN 0393049515 (0-393-04951-5)
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Gottlieb is an admirable guide through the little-understood pre-Socratic philosophers of ancient Greece, giving fair measure to philosophers who are too often simplified or lampooned. His account of Plato and Aristotle is good too, as is his treatment of the later Hellenistic schools, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism. Gottlieb's treatment of medieval philosophy, particularly Thomist and Arabic philosophy, is lean, as the author chooses to focus more heavily on antiquity and the modern era (to be continued in a second volume), and the narrative history that bridges the two. Ever enthusiastic, Gottlieb's storytelling voice and character-driven approach make The Dream of Reason compelling reading. It is an ideal book for nonexperts interested in an appealing and informative history of philosophy as well as for students looking for a lucid and comprehensive account of premodern thinkers. --Eric de Place [via]
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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living Worldby Linda HoganISBN 0393037843 (0-393-03784-3)
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Ecrits: The First Complete Edition In Englishby Jacques Lacan, Bruce FinkISBN 0393061159 (0-393-06115-9)
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Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. This new translation of his complete works offers welcome, readable access to Lacan's seminal thinking on diverse subjects touched upon over the course of his inimitable intellectual career. [via]More editions of Ecrits: The First Complete Edition In English:
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Ecrits: A Selectionby Jacques Lacan, Bruce FinkISBN 0393050580 (0-393-05058-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecrits: A Selection'Book summary:Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. Ecrits is his most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between 1936 and 1966. Following its first publication in 1966, the book gained Lacan international attention and exercised a powerful influence on contemporary intellectual life. To this day, Lacan's radical, brilliant and complex ideas continue to be highly influential in everything from film theory to art history and literary criticism. Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence on contemporary thought and culture. [via]
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Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theoryby Brian GreeneISBN 0393058581 (0-393-05858-1)
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Superstring theory has been called "a part of 21st-century physics that fell by chance into the 20th century." In other words, it isn't all worked out yet. Despite the uncertainties--"string theorists work to find approximate solutions to approximate equations"--Greene gives a tour of string theory solid enough to satisfy the scientifically literate.
Though Ed Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study is in many ways the human hero of The Elegant Universe, it is not a human-side-of-physics story. Greene's focus throughout is the science, and he gives the nonspecialist at least an illusion of understanding--or the sense of knowing what it is that you don't know. And that is traditionally the first step on the road to knowledge. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The End of the European Era, 1890-Presentby Felix GilbertISBN 0393090205 (0-393-09020-5)
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science Of Evo Devo And The Making Of The Animal Kingdomby Sean B. CarrollISBN 0393060160 (0-393-06016-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science Of Evo Devo And The Making Of The Animal Kingdom'Book summary:"Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new science of "evo devo"--or evolutionary developmental biology--examines the relationships between those two processes, embryonic development and evolutionary changes, despite their radically different time scales. Carroll first offers a recap of how genes express themselves in a growing embryo, then peers into the life histories of real-life examples to explain how those genes have changed (or not changed) over millions of years of evolution. Paraphrasing Thomas Huxley, he asks us to consider evolution and development as two sides of the same coin.
We may marvel at the process of an egg becoming an adult, but we accept it as an everyday fact. It is merely then a lack of imagination to fail to grasp how changes in this process that assimilated over long periods of time, far longer than the span of human experience, shape life's diversity."
The book's second half is where Carroll really gets at the meat of evo devo, explaining how regulatory genes control such mysteries as individual and population changes in butterfly's spots, jaguar fur, and hominid skulls. Evo devo is one of the hottest areas of study in 21st-century biology, and Carroll's outline of the field is a great place to start understanding it. --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science Of Evo Devo And The Making Of The Animal Kingdom:
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The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listeningby Joseph MacHlisISBN 039309118X (0-393-09118-X)
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Falling: How Our Greatest Fear Became Our Greatest Thrill--A Historyby Garrett SodenISBN 0393054136 (0-393-05413-6)
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Foreign Babes In Beijing: Behind The Scenes Of A New Chinaby Rachel DeWoskinISBN 0393059022 (0-393-05902-2)
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Frederick Douglassby William S. McFeelyISBN 0393028232 (0-393-02823-2)
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From So Simple A Beginning: The Four Great Books Of Charles Darwinby Charles Darwin, Edward O. WilsonISBN 0393061345 (0-393-06134-5)
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Never before have the four great works of Charles DarwinVoyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin's death, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has written an introductory essay for the occasion, while providing new, insightful introductions to each of the four volumes and an afterword that examines the fate of evolutionary theory in an era of religious resistance. In addition, Wilson has crafted a creative new index to accompany these four texts, which links the nineteenth-century, Darwinian evolutionary concepts to contemporary biological thought. Beautifully slipcased, and including restored versions of the original illustrations, From So Simple a Beginning turns our attention to the astounding power of the natural creative process and the magnificence of its products. 101 illustrations [via]More editions of From So Simple A Beginning: The Four Great Books Of Charles Darwin:
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Grant: A Biographyby William S. McFeelyISBN 0393300463 (0-393-30046-3)
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The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography." Justin Kaplan, The New Republic Illustrations [via]More editions of Grant: A Biography:
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Hernando Cortes : Five Lettersby J. Bayard Morris, Hernando CortesISBN 039309877X (0-393-09877-X)
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The House by the Sea: A Journalby May SartonISBN 0393075184 (0-393-07518-4)
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How Great Generals Winby Bevin AlexanderISBN 039303531X (0-393-03531-X)
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Iris and Her Friendsby John BayleyISBN 039304856X (0-393-04856-X)
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It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United Statesby Seymour M. Lipset, Gary Wolfe MarksISBN 0393040984 (0-393-04098-4)
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Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smellby Lyall WatsonISBN 0393049086 (0-393-04908-6)
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The Making of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the Worldby Tom McGregorISBN 0393058654 (0-393-05865-4)
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Making Shapely Fictionby Jerome SternISBN 0393029298 (0-393-02929-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Shapely Fiction'Book summary:A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction--what makes it work and what can make it fail.
Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page--whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. Jerome Stern maintains that learning to write spontaneously is the first step to writing well. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions. [via]More editions of Making Shapely Fiction:
Manhood at Harvard: William James and Othersby Kim TownsendISBN 0393039390 (0-393-03939-0)
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Mummies of Urumchiby E. J. W. BarberISBN 0393045218 (0-393-04521-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mummies of Urumchi'Book summary:The 2000-year-old mummies of Ürümchi, found in central Asia along the famed Silk Road trading route, are so well preserved as to show clearly that they seem to be of Caucasoid origin. Where did these people come from? Where did they go? You can find their pale-skinned, light-haired descendents among the people of the region, but the story of their presence in this forbidding land leaves more mysteries than it answers. Mass migrations during the Bronze Age scattered many peoples across Europe and Asia, and these startlingly lively-looking mummies may help answer some questions about this period of human history. Their intact, fantastically colored and patterned clothing captures much of author Elizabeth Wayland Barber's attention--she is an expert on prehistoric textiles. Her enthusiastic descriptions of the sewing skills of these migrant people, while focusing on details, lend an immediacy to this fascinating tale. Black-and-white as well as color photos, maps, and diagrams illustrate Barber's colorful tale of anthropology. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Scienceby Charles WheelanISBN 0393049825 (0-393-04982-5)
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great Westby William CrononISBN 0393308731 (0-393-30873-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West'Book summary:Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog companies, and patterns of property on the design of development of the entire inland United States to this date. Although focused on Chicago and the U.S., the general lessons it teaches are of global significance, and a rich source of metaphors for the ways in which colonization of physical space operates differently from, and similarly to, colonization of cyberspace. This is a compelling, wise, thorough--and thoroughly accessible--masterpiece of history writ large. Very Highest Recommendation. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Meyer Howard AbramsISBN 0393151107 (0-393-15110-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:This seventh edition's thoroughly revised text incorporates recent scholarly developments while retaining the elements that have made the anthology useful in the past. New features includes a broader representation of women writers of all historical periods such as Marie de France, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and Eavan Boland; a richer treatment of post-Colinial writers such as Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee and Paul Mundoon; and a new set of cultural and thematic "Issues" such as "The Literature of the Sacred", "The Science of Self and World", "Slavery and Freedom", "Revolution, Rights and Liberation" and "The Rise and Fall of Empire". The period introductions, author headnotes, annotations and bibliographies have been revised and many have been rewritten for this edition. The highlight of this edition is a new verse translation of "Beowulf" by Seamus Heaney. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of Poetryby Arthur M. EastmanISBN 0393099164 (0-393-09916-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of Poetry'Book summary:The fourth edition of this standard work contains 1800 poems by 300 poets, with 600 poems and 100 poets newly included. The anthology offers more poetry by women (40 new poets), with special attention to early women poets. The book also includes a greater diversity of American poetry, with double the number of poems by African American, Hispanic, native American and Asian American poets. There are 26 new poets representing the Commonwealth literature tradition: now included are more than 37 poets from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Caribbean, South Africa and India. A reconsideration of many classic poets, from Shakespeare and Bradstreet to Larkin and Rich has been added in this edition, together with a wider representation of the beginnings of poetry in English: the Anglo-Saxon "Caedmon's Hymn" and selections from "Beowulf", as well as Middle English lyrics, popular riddles, romance, allegory, and the verse tales of Chaucer and Langland, are now included. The collection also includes short biographical sketches and a system of annotation. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of Poetryby Alexander W. Allison, Arthur M. EastmanISBN 0393092453 (0-393-09245-3)
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry: Revised Shorter Editionby Not AvailableISBN 0393092518 (0-393-09251-8)
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The Norton Anthology of Poetryby W. W. NortonISBN 0393092402 (0-393-09240-2)
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964by Timothy J. Naftali, Aleksandr FursenkoISBN 0393040704 (0-393-04070-4)
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Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali have taken advantage of recent unrestricted access to Soviet records and performed painstaking detective work to fill the gaps in the historical record. Some of the tension of the narrative is lost, because we know the outcome; even so, they give penetrating insights as they reconstruct the drama step by step. We learn that the Kremlin did seriously consider launching a nuclear attack on the U.S.: the appropriate orders were discussed and Khrushchev spent the night of October 22 in his office so he could be on hand to cable his authorization. Some of the most interesting facts to emerge, however, are those concerning John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. JFK had always previously been portrayed as something of a parochial gung-ho type, but this, it emerges, was merely a public persona designed to appease the Pentagon hawks. At the same time JFK was talking about a Cuban invasion, he and his brother were engaging in a more secret policy of appeasement through the Soviet ambassador. Fortunately for all of us, diplomacy won the day. In recent years, JFK has been somewhat discredited as a leader for his unpleasant sexual carryings-on and corruption. It may just be that this view is as incomplete as his portrayal as the saintly "King of Camelot". If so, One Hell of a Gamble could be the first stage in his partial rehabilitation. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Paul: The Mind of the Apostleby A. N. WilsonISBN 0393040666 (0-393-04066-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul: The Mind of the Apostle'Book summary:A.N. Wilson, who has written revisionist biographies of Jesus, Tolstoy, and C.S. Lewis, trains his critical eye on the first self-identified Christian writer in Paul: The Mind of the Apostle. Wilson's book may purport to be a biography of Paul, but it is really an argument about the origin and nature of Christianity. His premise is that "Jesus was a devoted Jew who did not seek to found a new religion, but to call his followers to a stricter observance of Judaism." It was Paul, not Jesus, who exemplified the central tensions of Christianity. ("Jewish or non-Jewish? Roman or anti-Roman? Apocalyptic or practical?") And according to Wilson, it was Paul who first claimed Jesus' divinity and called Jesus the messiah. Wilson's argument, though heterodox, is no hatchet-job. Paul may be "widely regarded as someone who distorted the original message of Christianity, by adding 'theology' to the supposedly simple message of love Jesus preached," but Wilson sees Paul as "a prophet of liberty, whose visionary sense of the importance of the inner life anticipates the Romantic poets more than the rule-books of the Inquisition." Wilson concludes that Christianity is "an institutionalised distortion of Paul's thought, the inevitable consequence of the world having lasted ... more than nineteen hundred years longer than he predicted." Wilson's prose is just this lively and provocative throughout, and his observations are always skeptical and forgiving: "Paul did not imagine that there would be such a thing as Christianity, or Christian civilization, any more than Jesus did." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internetby Margaret WertheimISBN 039304694X (0-393-04694-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet'Book summary:In Pythagoras' Trousers, science writer and feminist Margaret Wertheim took an astute look at the social and cultural history of physics. She explored how the development of physics became intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both of these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community. Now she has turned her attention to virtual reality, looking at similarities between how we view it today and how art and religion was viewed in medieval times. Her assertion is that rather than carrying us forward into new and fabulous other worlds, virtual reality is actually carrying us backwards--to essentially medieval dreams. Beginning with the medieval view, with its definition of the world as spiritual space, Wertheim traces the emergence of modern physics' emphasis on physical space. She then presents her thesis: that cyberspace, which is an outgrowth of modern science, posits the existence of a genuine yet immaterial world in which people are invited to commune in a nonbodily fashion, just as medieval theology brought intangible souls together in heaven. The perfect realm awaits, we are told, not behind the pearly gates but the electronic gateways labeled .com and .net. How did we get from seeing ourselves in soul space (the world of Dante and the late medievals) to seeing ourselves as purely in body space (the world of Newton and Einstein)? This crucial transition and the new shift propelled by the Internet are convincingly described in this challenging book. [via]
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The Phantom Empireby Geoffrey O'BrienISBN 0393035492 (0-393-03549-2)
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The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Centuryby Geoffrey O'BrienISBN 0393312968 (0-393-31296-8)
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Pollution, Resources, and the Environmentby A. Myrick Freeman, Alain C. EnthovenISBN 0393099334 (0-393-09933-4)
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The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independenceby David Fisher, Anthony ReadISBN 0393045943 (0-393-04594-3)
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Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musketby Richard HolmesISBN 0393052117 (0-393-05211-7)
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Reflections on a Ravaged Centuryby Robert ConquestISBN 0393048187 (0-393-04818-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on a Ravaged Century'Book summary:How can humankind avoid another century like the 20th? Blind devotion to obscene ideologies--Communism, Nazism--made the final hundred years of the millennium the bloodiest in human history. As Robert Conquest, author of Reflections on a Ravaged Century, notes, "Over this century the human race has survived experiences that, to put it mildly, should have been instructive. Scores of millions have been slaughtered, and it cannot be said that the avoidance of the even worse catastrophe of nuclear war was foreordained." Might it happen again? As Conquest is the author of The Great Terror, a devastating account of Stalin's crimes (and widely regarded as one of the 20th century's most important and influential works of history), any reflections he may have are worth noting. He's clearly worried, quoting, for example, the astonishing statement by Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm in 1994 that the construction of a Communist utopia can justify the murder of 20 million people.
Reflections on a Ravaged Century is primarily focused on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, but he remains consistently forward-looking. "The power of fanaticism and of misunderstanding is by no means extinct," warns Conquest. The 20th century will be a prelude to even greater evils unless intellectuals engage in "a careful consideration of what needs to be learned, and unlearned." This book, both wise and accessible, is a good start. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Return of Depression Economicsby Paul R. KrugmanISBN 039304839X (0-393-04839-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of Depression Economics'Book summary:What do babysitting coops and liquidity traps have in common? Lots, according to Paul Krugman. In The Return of Depression Economics, the MIT professor looks at the alarming string of financial crises that plagued various economies around the globe in the 1990s, especially the Asian contagion, and sees an "eerie resemblance to the Great Depression." Instead of the "new world order" promised by the triumph of capitalism over socialism, "the world economy has turned out to be a much more dangerous place than we imagined."
Krugman uses the example of a Washington, D.C., babysitting coop to explain the dynamics of recession and inflation. He examines the remarkable emergence of Asia and the precursors to the Asian mess--the Tequila Effect of the mid-'90s that began in Mexico and Japan's fall in the early '90s into an economic malaise. He then analyzes the underlying reasons for the collapse of the Thai baht and other Asian currencies as well as the subsequent actions of the IMF and the murky role of hedge funds. In the end, Krugman sees the return of depression economics, which "means that for the first time in two generations, failures on the demand side of the economy--insufficient private spending to make use of the available productive capacity--have become the clear and present limitation on prosperity for a large part of the world." It's the same problem that was at the root of the 1930s depression. And while it took a world war to solve that problem, Krugman sees solutions that are far less dramatic but that do require a willingness to chuck obsolete doctrines and think about old problems in new ways.
Over the years, Krugman has earned a well-deserved reputation for translating the jargon that economists speak into something that anyone with an interest--not necessarily a Ph.D.--can understand. The Return of Depression Economics is another timely testament to Krugman's ability to read and interpret the tea leaves of today's global economy. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Riding With Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles And Booksby Ted BishopISBN 0393062619 (0-393-06261-9)
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Ted Bishop took one last ride before the fall term. When he tried to pass a tractor-trailer at 80 miles per hour, his motorcycle began to vibrate out of control. Bishop was flung into a ditch, breaking his back in two places, shattering a wrist and ankle, and collapsing his lungs. Left with time to write and reflect, Bishop produced Riding with Rilke, an account of the epic motorcycle trip he had completed just before the crash. Here, Bishop takes readers from Edmonton to Austin, through the classic landscapes of the American West, and to a few of America and Europe's most famous cities as he reconciles what it means to be both a road dog and a researcher. Whether describing the shock of holding Virginia Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising small American towns on his Ducati, Bishop meditates with wit and honesty on the tangled interplay of life, work, and art. [via]More editions of Riding With Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles And Books:
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincolnby Sean WilentzISBN 0393058204 (0-393-05820-4)
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The Roman Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393310787 (0-393-31078-7)
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Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery Through World Philosophyby Christopher PhillipsISBN 0393051579 (0-393-05157-9)
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The Study of American Folklore: An Introductionby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393090485 (0-393-09048-5)
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirtiesby Noel Riley FitchISBN 0393302318 (0-393-30231-8)
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Telling the Truth About Historyby Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob, Lynn HuntISBN 0393312860 (0-393-31286-0)
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Till Death Us Do Partby Vincent BugliosiISBN 0393088219 (0-393-08821-9)
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On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evidence suggested a connection between the two murders.
In the Palliko-Stockton trial, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi offered a brilliant summation that synthesized for the jury the many inferences and shades of meaning in the testimony, fitting all the pieces together in a mosaic of guilt. But will the jury be persuaded? [via]More editions of Till Death Us Do Part:
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legendsby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393047342 (0-393-04734-2)
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writingby Richard HugoISBN 0393309339 (0-393-30933-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing'Book summary:Richard Hugo's The Triggering Town, originally published in 1979, remains one of the freshest and most refreshing treatises on the writing of poetry. While you won't find formality or nicety here, Hugo has the unusual quality of being highly opinionated and yet not at all convinced that what works for him will work for you. Hugo doesn't believe that he can teach you how to write; he believes he can teach you how he writes, and by doing so, teach you "how to teach yourself how to write." And while most writing instructors claim that one can't be a good writer without being a good reader, Hugo claims "that one learns to write only by writing." Hugo's essays are strong-willed and funny and by turns full of bluster and cloaked in modesty. While "a good teacher can save a young poet years by simply telling him things he need not waste time on, like trying to will originality or trying to share an experience in language or trying to remain true to the facts," he writes, "ultimately the most important things a poet will learn about writing are from himself in the process." Above all, Hugo stresses that creative writing is creative because it is a creative act: "if one is writing the way one should, one does not know what will be on the page until it is there." So, he warns, "If you want to communicate, use the telephone." And "Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism." [via]
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True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Criticsby Christopher LaschISBN 0393307956 (0-393-30795-6)
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Twilight of American Culture: Morris Bermanby Morris BermanISBN 0393048799 (0-393-04879-9)
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Up Frontby Bill Mauldin, Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0393050319 (0-393-05031-9)
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Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixonby Stanley KutlerISBN 0393308278 (0-393-30827-8)
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Warwick the Kingmakerby Paul Murray KendallISBN 0393303802 (0-393-30380-2)
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What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933by Joseph Roth, Michael J. Hoffmann, Michael BienertISBN 0393051676 (0-393-05167-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933'Book summary:"[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers." Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its "nonstop brilliance, irresistible charm and continuing relevance" (Jeffrey Eugenides, The New York Times Book Review). As if anticipating Christopher Isherwood, the book re-creates the tragicomic world of 1920s Berlin as seen by its greatest journalistic eyewitness. In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political essays that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Translated and collected here for the first time, these pieces record the violent social and political paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy that was the Weimar Republic. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants: the war cripples, the Jewish immigrants from the Pale, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the dangers posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty; a memorable portrait of a city and a time of commingled hope and chaos. What I Saw, like no other existing work, records the violent social and political paroxysms that compromised and ultimately destroyed the precarious democracy that was the Weimar Republic. [via]More editions of What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933:
A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrationsby May SartonISBN 0393305007 (0-393-30500-7)
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Writing a Woman's Lifeby Carolyn G. HeilbrunISBN 0393026019 (0-393-02601-9)
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