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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhoodby Jay MacLeodISBN 081331514X (0-8133-1514-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood'Book summary:I aint goin to college. Who wants to go to college? Id just end up gettin a shitty job anyway. So said Freddie Piniella, an eleven-year-old boy from Clarendon Heights low-income housing project, to Jay MacLeod, his counselor in a youth program. MacLeod was struck by the seeming self-defeatism of Freddie and his friends. How is it that in America, a nation of dreams and opportunities, a boy of eleven can feel trapped in a position of inherited poverty?The author immersed himself in the teenage underworld of Clarendon Heights. The Hallway Hangers, one of the neighborhood cliques, appear as cynical self-destructive hoodlums. The other group, the Brothers, take the American Dream to heart and aspire to middle-class respectability. The twist is that the Hallway Hangers are mostly white; the Brothers are almost all black. Comparing the two groups, MacLeod provides a provocative account of how poverty is perpetuated from one generation to the next.Part One tells the story of the boys teenage aspirations. Part Two follows the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers into adulthood. Eight years later the author returns to Clarendon Heights to find the members of both gangs struggling in the labor market or on the streets. Caught in the web of urban industrial decline, the Hallway Hangersundereducated, unemployed, or imprisonedhave turned to the underground economy. But cocaine capitalism only fuels their desperation, and the Hallway Hangers seek solace in sexism and racism. The ambitious Brothers have fared little better. Their teenage dreams in tatters, the Brothers demonstrate that racism takes its toll on optimistic aspirations.This edition retains the vivid accounts of friendships, families, school, and work that made the first edition so popular. The ethnography resonates with feeling and vivid dialogue. But the book also addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. MacLeod links individual lives with social theory to forge a powerful argument about how inequality is created, sustained, and accepted in the United States.[via]More editions of Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood:
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The American Revolution: A Historyby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0812970411 (0-8129-7041-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Revolution: A History'Book summary:"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years." -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had. No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood's mastery of his subject, and of [via]
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The Annals & the Histories: And the Historiesby Cornelius Tacitus, Moses Hadas, Shelby Foote, Alfred J. Church, Jackson BrodribbISBN 0812966996 (0-8129-6699-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Insideby Katrina FirlikISBN 0812973402 (0-8129-7340-2)
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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil Warby Charles B. DewISBN 081392104X (0-8139-2104-X)
Softcover, University Press of Virginia
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Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Studyby Joe SachsISBN 0813521920 (0-8135-2192-0)
Softcover, Rutgers University Press
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The Arrogance of Powerby J. William FulbrightISBN 0812992628 (0-8129-9262-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Battle: A History of Combat and Cultureby John A. LynnISBN 0813333725 (0-8133-3372-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle: A History of Combat and Culture'Book summary:Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the conduct of warfare. Drawing its examples from Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and America, John A. Lynn challenges the belief that technology has been the dominant influence on combat from ancient times to the present day. In battle, ideas can be more far more important than bullets or bombs. Carl von Clausewitz proclaimed that war is politics, but even more basically, war is culture. The hard reality of armed conflict is formed by - and, in turn, forms - a culture's values, assumptions, and expectations about fighting. The author examines the relationship between the real and the ideal, arguing that feedback between the two follows certain discernable paths. Battle rejects the currently fashionable notion of a "Western way of warfare" and replaces it with more nuanced concepts of varied and evolving cultural patterns of combat. After considering history, Lynn finally asks how the knowledge gained might illuminate our understanding of the war on terrorism.[via]More editions of Battle: A History of Combat and Culture:
Beauty Before Comfort: A Memoirby Allison GlockISBN 0812972678 (0-8129-7267-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Boys on the Busby Timothy Crouse, Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0812968204 (0-8129-6820-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boys on the Bus'Book summary:Political spin-doctoring has become something of an art form in the last few decades. It was less artful in the early years of the information age, and Crouse's entertaining look at the attempts of both the Nixon and McGovern '72 campaign staffs to control the media seems almost comical, so poor were they at the image-and-sound bite manipulation that now defines our politics. Crouse is a serious-minded journalist, however, and his firsthand report on how political news is made and shaped remains important reading. Check out Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 for a more madcap view of the same matters. [via]
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Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transitionby Lenard J. CohenISBN 0813324777 (0-8133-2477-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition'Book summary:Struggling against high odds, Yugoslavia managed to survive from its inception in 1918 until the early 1990s. But now, tragic ethnic and regional conflicts have irrevocably fragmented the country. In his timely book, Lenard Cohen explores the original conception and motives underlying the Yugoslav idea, looking at the states major problems, achievements, and failures during its short and troubled history.Cohen answers a broad range of questions concerning contemporary Yugoslavia: How did the state plunge from its position as a positive model to an essentially negative case of socialist reform? What measures for recovery were proposed by the countrys ethnically and regionally segmented one-party elite? What were the reasons for the eventual abandonment of reform socialism, the elimination of the single partys monopoly, and the rapid delegitimation of the countrys federal political institutions? What programs have been offered by the noncommunist and born again communist leaders elected to power during the revival of multiparty pluralism in 1990? How did their efforts to achieve regional and ethnic sovereignty place the country in such a precarious and ultimately fatal position?The concluding chapters of the book offer an analysis of the causes and horrifying consequences of the military conflict and civil war from 1991 to 1994, including a discussion of the impotent efforts at peacekeeping, the dynamics of the complex and savage struggle in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and an examination of the problems faced by Yugoslavias successor states.[via]More editions of Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition:
The Broken Spell: A Cultural and Anthropological History of Preindustrial Europeby Pieter C. SpierenburgISBN 0813516765 (0-8135-1676-5)
Softcover, Rutgers University Press
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Caravaggio: A Lifeby Helen LangdonISBN 0813337941 (0-8133-3794-1)
Softcover, Westview Press
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The Catholic Church: A Short Historyby Hans KungISBN 0812967623 (0-8129-6762-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellisonby Ralph Ellison, John F. CallahanISBN 0812968263 (0-8129-6826-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Communism: A Historyby Richard PipesISBN 0812968646 (0-8129-6864-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Communism: A History'Book summary:As Harvard University professor Richard Pipes shows in Communism: A Brief History, the tragedy of Communism is that its history was anything but brief. For most of the 20th century, it held much of the globe in its fatal grip: The utopian ideology is responsible for nearly 100 million deaths, which is 50 percent more than the number of people killed in the two world wars combined. "Communism was not a good idea that went wrong; it was a bad idea," writes Pipes, who is also the author of The Russian Revolution and Property and Freedom.
This compelling little book is a devastating critique of Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, and everything else that fits under the awful rubric of Communism. It begins by tracing Communism's philosophical origins (it has antecedents in Plato) and then outlines the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Next comes the story of why Communism took root in Russia and not the industrial West, where Marx himself believed it would sprout (answer: the traditions of property rights and the rule of law were too strong). Even in Russia, Communism was not the product of popular demand (in fact, it has never been the product of popular demand anywhere). Instead, it was a top-down revolution imposed on the whole country by a small minority of elites, led by Lenin. The Communists claimed to represent workers, but few workers were actually a part of their movement. Thus, "the Communists had to rule despotically and violently; they could never afford to relax their authority." And they were capable of incredible cruelty: "The so-called purges of the 1930s were a terror campaign that in indiscriminate ferocity and number of victims had no parallel in world history." In 1937 and 1938, for instance, the Soviet rulers of Russia executed an average of 1,000 people per day; the tsarist regime they supplanted, which was often criticized as inhumane, executed less than 4,000 people for political crimes over an 85-year period.
Though Pipes appropriately spends much time discussing the Soviet Union, he also examines Communism's reception in the West and in developing countries. The book is a concise tour de force. As the cold war fades into history, it is critical not to forget the monstrous legacy of Communism, whose horrible record Pipes lays out on these pages. This is a magnificent book, a wonderful primer on a topic whose importance is difficult to overstate. --John Miller [via]
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Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Readerby Victor VillanuevaISBN 0814109764 (0-8141-0976-4)
Softcover, Natl Council of Teachers
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Diary of William Harveyby Jean Hamburger, Barbara WrightISBN 0813518261 (0-8135-1826-1)
Softcover, Rutgers University Press
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A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Meby Jon KatzISBN 0812966902 (0-8129-6690-2)
Softcover, Random House, Incorporated
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The Family on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Love and Courageby Elizabeth CohenISBN 0812966635 (0-8129-6663-5)
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The Family on Beartown Road is Elizabeth Cohens true and moving portrait of love and courage.
Elizabeth, a member of the sandwich generation those caught in the middle, simultaneously caring for their children and for their aging parentsis the mother of baby Ava and the daughter of Daddy, and responsible for both. In this story full of everyday triumphs, first steps, and an elders confusion, Ava finds each new picture, each new word, each new song, something to learn greedily, joyfully. Daddy is a man in his twilight years, for whom time moves slowly and lessons are not learned but quietly, frustratingly forgotten. Elizabeth, a suddenly single mother with a career and a mortgage and a hamperful of laundry, finds her world spiraling out of control. Faced with mounting disasters, she chooses to confront life head-on, and to see the unique beauty in each and every moment.
Imbued with an unquenchable spirit, The Family on Beartown Road takes us on a journey through the remarkable landscape that is family. [via]More editions of The Family on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Love and Courage:
Fields of Athenry: A Journey Through Irish Historyby James Charles RoyISBN 0813338603 (0-8133-3860-3)
Hardcover, Westview Press
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First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universeby Richard PrestonISBN 0812991850 (0-8129-9185-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Freedom Summerby Sally Belfrage, Robert P. MosesISBN 0813912997 (0-8139-1299-7)
Softcover, University Press of Virginia
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A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalizationby John Micklethwait, Adrian WooldridgeISBN 0812966805 (0-8129-6680-5)
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoirby Janice ErlbaumISBN 0812974565 (0-8129-7456-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir'Book summary:At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangerous home life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her familys Brooklyn apartment and didnt look back. From her first frightening night at a shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. But it was still better than living at home. As Janice slipped further into street life, she nevertheless attended high school, harbored crushes, and even played the lead in the spring musical. She also roamed the streets, clubs, bars, and parks of New York City with her two best girlfriends, on the prowl for hard drugs and boys on skateboards. Together they scored coke at Danceteria, smoked angel dust in East Village squats, commiserated over their crazy mothers, and slept with one anothers boyfriends on a regular basis.
A wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, and underdressed in 1980s New York City, Girlbomb provides an unflinching look at street life, survival sex, female friendships, and first loves.
A fast and engrossing read in the spirit of Girl, Interrupted.
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Gripping . . . a wry, compelling memoir of what it means to stand up for yourself, especially when no one else will.
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How satisfying to watch Erlbaum survive adolescence and produce a smart, engaging book.
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Erlbaums survival is hard-won, the journey rendered with page-turning intensity.
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A fast and engrossing read in the spirit of Girl, Interrupted.
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Gritty . . . perversely riveting. You want her to survive.
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Going up the River: Travels in a Prison Nationby Joseph HallinanISBN 0812968441 (0-8129-6844-1)
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In Going up the River, Hallinan comprehensively chronicles America's prisons, investigating how prison authority has passed from hard-nosed wardens to the federal court system, a change that simultaneously improved the treatment of prisoners while making inmate rehabilitation and safety more difficult to attain. He also addresses the prison boom: facilities quickly built for economic reasons, resulting in poor prison conditions and a system "so lucrative its founders have become rich men." This immense financial gain is ironically juxtaposed with the fact that most people view prisons as a terrible waste of money.
Hallinan also relays the stories of current wardens, guards, inmates, and even townspeople living in the shadow of a prison. He also focuses on the many challenges prisoners face, including gangs, fighting, and rape, as well as the sensitivity of controversial issues such as conjugal visits. The book makes obvious that America's prison system is in disarray, though neither the source nor the solution can be easily isolated. Hallinan does not offer answers or personal opinions; instead, he presents all angles and leaves the reader to consideration. --Jacque Holthusen [via]
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Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africaby David Long, Bernard ReichISBN 0813321263 (0-8133-2126-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynISBN 0813332893 (0-8133-3289-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956'Book summary:The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyns attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulags victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyns own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.[via]More editions of Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956:
Hawthorne: A Lifeby Brenda WineappleISBN 0812972910 (0-8129-7291-0)
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Hitler and the Holocaustby Robert S. WistrichISBN 0812968638 (0-8129-6863-8)
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In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islamby Milton ViorstISBN 0813339022 (0-8133-3902-2)
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Irish Fairy and Folk Talesby W. B. Yeats, Paul MuldoonISBN 0812968557 (0-8129-6855-7)
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Jefferson and His Timeby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923581 (0-8139-2358-1)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson and the Ordeal of Libertyby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923573 (0-8139-2357-3)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson and the Rights of Manby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923565 (0-8139-2356-5)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson the President, Second Term, 1805-1809by Dumas MaloneISBN 081392359X (0-8139-2359-X)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson the Virginianby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923557 (0-8139-2355-7)
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Jefferson the Virginianby Jefferson MaloneISBN 0813923611 (0-8139-2361-1)
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Volume 1. Jefferson the VirginianThis first volume explores the early phases of Jeffersons life, from his youth, education, legal career, and marriage, to the building of Monticello, writing of the Declaration of Independence and his highly contentious governorship.
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Jeffersonian Legaciesby Peter S. OnufISBN 0813914639 (0-8139-1463-9)
Softcover, University Press of Virginia
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The authors consider Jefferson's career as a slave owner, his ambigious and controversial testimony on the institution of slavery, and his significance for the civil rights movement and contemporary race relations. Jeffersonian Legacies provides the next generation of students, scholars, and citizens a better understanding not only of Jefferson in his own world but also his influence in the shaping of ours.
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Legislating the French Family : Feminism, Theater and Republican Politics: 1870-1920by Jean Elisabeth PedersenISBN 0813532795 (0-8135-3279-5)
Hardcover, Rutgers University Press
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The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdiniby Ruth BrandonISBN 081297042X (0-8129-7042-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Long Detour: The History and Future of the American Leftby James WeinsteinISBN 0813342511 (0-8133-4251-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Detour: The History and Future of the American Left'Book summary:The Long Detour is an intellectually engaging overview of the history of socialism in the United States and of the continuing relevance of socialist principles today. Historian and journalist James Weinstein, a lifelong socialist and one-time Communist, takes readers from the movement's early years of utopian communities, through the heyday of engagement with the makers of corporate America, and into the future of a de-industrializing era. He contends that socialism as a political movement was sidetracked when Communist domination of the American left stifled creative social thought and diverted the traditional left into sterile disputes over the true nature of the Soviet Union. And he argues that while real existing socialism which is what the Soviets called their system is dead, the humane social principles articulated by Marx and the leaders of the pre-1917 socialist movement remain vitally important to those on the left who seek to realize the promise of American democracy.[via]More editions of The Long Detour: The History and Future of the American Left:
The Lost Oasis: The Desert War and the Hunt for Zerzuraby Saul KellyISBN 0813341035 (0-8133-4103-5)
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The Lost Oasis: The True Story Behind the English Patientby Saul KellyISBN 0813342589 (0-8133-4258-9)
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Medieval Artby Marilyn StokstadISBN 0813341140 (0-8133-4114-0)
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Memoirsby David RockefellerISBN 0812969731 (0-8129-6973-1)
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The Memoirs of Catherine the Greatby Hilde Hoogenboom, Catherine, Markus CruseISBN 0812969871 (0-8129-6987-1)
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Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Powerby Gerald PosnerISBN 0812974689 (0-8129-7468-9)
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Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagleby Thomas W. WalkerISBN 0813338824 (0-8133-3882-4)
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No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islamby Reza AslanISBN 0812971892 (0-8129-7189-2)
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Lifeby Tom ReissISBN 0812972767 (0-8129-7276-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life'Book summary:A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reisss panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as Essad Bey, became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Levs story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surrealand sometimes as heartbreakingas his subjects life.
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics and Censorship in Japanby Anne AllisonISBN 0813316987 (0-8133-1698-7)
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The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and Americaby Kenneth PollackISBN 0812973364 (0-8129-7336-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America'Book summary:In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm, bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both informed and defined the national debate about Iraq. Now, in The Persian Puzzle, published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, he examines the behind-the-scenes story of the tumultuous relationship between Iran and the United States, and weighs options for the future.
Here Pollack, a former CIA analyst and National Security Council official, brings his keen analysis and insider perspective to the long and ongoing clash between the United States and Iran, beginning with the fall of the shah and the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Pollack examines all the major events in U.S.-Iran relationsincluding the hostage crisis, the U.S. tilt toward Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-Contra scandal, American-Iranian military tensions in 1987 and 1988, the covert Iranian war against U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf that culminated in the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, and recent U.S.-Iran skirmishes over Afghanistan and Iraq.
He explains the strategies and motives from American and Iranian perspectives and tells how each crisis colored the thinking of both countries leadership as they shaped and reshaped their policies over time. Pollack also describes efforts by moderates of various stripes to try to find some way past animosities to create a new dynamic in Iranian-American relations, only to find that when one side was ready for such a step, the other side fell short.
With balanced tone and insight, Pollack explains how the United States and Iran reached this impasse; why this relationship is critical to regional, global, and U.S. interests; and what basic political choices are available as we deal with this important but deeply troubled country.
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The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelationby Barbara R. RossingISBN 0813343143 (0-8133-4314-3)
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Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormalby Joe NickellISBN 0813122104 (0-8131-2210-4)
Hardcover, University Press of Kentucky
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Editionby Edward Fitzgerald, Christopher DeckerISBN 0813916895 (0-8139-1689-5)
Hardcover, University Press of Virginia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Edition'Book summary:Edward FitzGeralds translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem and certainly one of the most popular poems in the English language, poses formidable challenges to an editor. FitzGerald compulsively revised his work, alternately swayed by friends advice, importuned by his publishers commercial interests, and encouraged by public acclaim. In consequence, the editor is faced with four published editions as well as manuscript and proof versions of the poem. Christopher Deckers critical edition of the Rubáiyát is the first to publish all extant states of the poem and to unearth a full record of its complicated textual evolution.
Decker supplies a rich interpretive context for the Rubáiyát that reveals how its composition was so often a collaborative enterprise. His view of poetic creativity comprehends recent theories of the sociology of texts and challenges the common assumption that the desired product of a critical edition is a single unified text of a literary work. He illuminates the complex process of revision by providing a textual appendix in which a comparative printing lays down each stratum of FitzGeralds composition. Biographical and textual introductions, making imaginative use of FitzGeralds correspondence, trace the history of the poem and pay special attention to FitzGeralds motives for revising, for creating a variously beautiful work in verse.
This definitive edition of the Rubáiyát will be of special interest to scholars and students of Victorian poetry, publishing history, verse translation, literary imitation, and revision. And readers for whom the poem is an old acquaintance will here find fresh ways to appreciate its strengths and finesse.
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Sadomasochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessnessby Lynn S. ChancerISBN 0813518083 (0-8135-1808-3)
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The Sage of Monticelloby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923662 (0-8139-2366-2)
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Volume 6. The Sage of Monticello
This final volume provides an all-encompassing account of Jeffersons accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties in his last seventeen years, revealing his shift from the realm of politics to his roles as family man, architect, and educational enthusiast. Describing Jeffersons retirement from Washington, this volume recounts the events that formed Jeffersons final years, particularly the founding of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia, in which he played a major role.
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Scarlett's Women: Gone with the Wind and Its Female Fansby Helen TaylorISBN 0813514967 (0-8135-1496-7)
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventorsby John R. GribbinISBN 0812967887 (0-8129-6788-7)
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Serpent in the Bosom: The Rise and Fall of Slobodan Milosevicby Lenard J. CohenISBN 0813340233 (0-8133-4023-3)
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Seven Military Classics of Ancient Chinaby Ralph D. SawyerISBN 0813312280 (0-8133-1228-0)
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Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blueby Jane PauleyISBN 0812971531 (0-8129-7153-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue'Book summary:Truth arrives in microscopic increments, and when enough has accumulatedin a moment of recognition, you just know. You know because the truth fits. I was the only member of my family to lack the gene for numbers, but I do need things to add up. Approaching midlife, I became aware of a darkening feelingwas it something heavy on my heart, or was something missing? Grateful as I am for the opportunities Ive had, and especially for the people who came into my life as a result, I couldnt ignore this feeling. I had the impulse to begin a conversation with myself, through writing, as if to see if my fingers could get to the bottom of it. It was a Saturday morning eight or ten years ago when I began following this impulse to find the answers to unformed questions. Skywriting is what I call my personal process of discovery.
And so begins this beautiful and surprising memoir, in which beloved broadcast journalist Jane Pauley tells a remarkable story of self-discovery and an extraordinary life, from her childhood in the American heartland to her three decades in television.
Encompassing her beginnings at the local Indianapolis station and her bright debutat age twenty-five on NBCs Today and later on DatelinePauley forthrightly delves into the ups and downs of a fantastic career. But there is much more to Jane Pauley than just the famous face on TVs. In this memoir, she reveals herself to be a brilliant woman with singular insights. She explores her roots growing up in Indiana and discusses the resiliency of the American family, and addresses with humor and depth a subject very close to her heart: discovering yourself and redefining your strengths at midlife. Striking, moving, candid, and unique, Skywriting explores firsthand the difficulty and the rewards of self-reinvention.
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Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities Changing Menby Lynne SegalISBN 081351620X (0-8135-1620-X)
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The Spooky Artby Norman MailerISBN 0812971280 (0-8129-7128-0)
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That Complex Whole: Culture and the Evolution of Human Behaviorby Lee CronkISBN 0813337054 (0-8133-3705-4)
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Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Yearsby Bruce SterlingISBN 0812969766 (0-8129-6976-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years'Book summary:Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isnt just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human history. -Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century
Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business.
Time calls Bruce Sterling one of Americas best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre. Tomorrow Now is, as Sterling wryly describes it, an ambitious, sprawling effort in thundering futurist punditry, in the pulsing vein of the futurists Ive read and admired over the years: H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alvin Toffler; Lewis Mumford, Reyner Banham, Peter Drucker, and Michael Dertouzos. This book asks the future two questions: What does it mean? and How does it feel?
Taking a cue from one of William Shakespeares greatest soliloquies, Sterling devotes one chapter to each of the seven stages of humanity: birth, school, love, war, politics, business, and old age. As our children progress through Sterlings Shakespearean life cycle, they will encounter new products; new weapons; new crimes; new moral conundrums, such as cloning and genetic alteration; and new political movements, which will augur the way wars of the future will be fought.
Here are some of the authors predictions:
" Human clone babies will grow into the bitterest and surliest adolescents ever.
" Microbes will be more important than the family farm.
" Consumer items will look more and more like cuddly, squeezable pets.
" Tomorrows kids will learn more from randomly clicking the Internet than they ever will from their textbooks.
" Enemy governments will be nice to you and will badly want your tourist money, but global outlaws will scheme to kill you, loudly and publicly, on their Jihad TVs.
" The future of politics is blandness punctuated with insanity.
The future of activism belongs to a sophisticated, urbane global network that can make moneythe Disney World version of Al Qaeda.
Tomorrow Now will change the way you think about the future and our place in it.
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The Travel Detective: How to Get the Best Service and the Best Deals from Airlines, Hotels, Cruise Ships, and Car Rental Agenciesby Peter GreenbergISBN 0812973801 (0-8129-7380-1)
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance aand the Reality of Life among the Piratesby David CordinglyISBN 081297722X (0-8129-7722-X)
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Universals: An Opinionated Introductionby D. M. ArmstrongISBN 0813307635 (0-8133-0763-5)
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The Victorian World Pictureby David NewsomeISBN 0813527589 (0-8135-2758-9)
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The Victorian World Picture: Perceptions and Introspections in an Age of Changeby David NewsomeISBN 0813524547 (0-8135-2454-7)
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Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and Americaby Stephen M. FjellmanISBN 0813314720 (0-8133-1472-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Virginia: The New Dominion, a History from 1607 to the Presentby Virginius DabneyISBN 0813910153 (0-8139-1015-3)
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Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Timeby Katha PollittISBN 081297638X (0-8129-7638-X)
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The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War Iby Edward M. CoffmanISBN 0813109558 (0-8131-0955-8)
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What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Eraby Peggy NoonanISBN 0812969898 (0-8129-6989-8)
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Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Knownby Molly IvinsISBN 0812973070 (0-8129-7307-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known'Book summary:Veteran columnist Molly Ivins, a rare and highly irreverent Texas liberal, is back with a collection of columns gathered from a rich and varied career covering some of the best source material a writer with a knack for whimsy could wish for: politicians. In Who Let the Dogs In, Ivins offers her thoughts on politicos from the Reagan era through the administration of George W. Bush (whom she first nicknamed "Shrub" way back in his early Texas days). While Ivins is of the lefty persuasion, she is far from doctrinaire, which helps separate her from the scores of lockstep pundits on either side: she credits Bill Clinton with being a brilliant politician and condemns the policies of Bush as being terrible for average Americans, but also presents stinging criticisms of Clinton's failed initiatives and defends Bush as being smarter than most give him credit for. Her words are strong, her writing is clear, and her thoughts are well organized. Of course, most people remember a Molly Ivins column for the humor, and we get to witness her firing missiles at low-flying targets like Newt Gingrich and Ross Perot and describing Bush's puzzling lead over Al Gore among men in the 2000 campaign, "One guy played football, went to Vietnam, and is notoriously emotionally distant. The other guy was a cheerleader who got into a National Guard unit through family influence, lost money in the oil business, traded Sammy Sosa and is now sliding through a presidential race on charm. Do I not get American men, or what?" Who Let the Dogs In lacks some of the focus of her Shrub and Bushwhacked simply because it's about a whole generation of political characters as opposed to one memorable Texan, but such broader perspective also affords an opportunity to better understand America's recent history and maybe get a few laughs while doing it. --John Moe [via]
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Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sonsby Tim RussertISBN 081297543X (0-8129-7543-X)
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