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101 Questions Your Cat Would Ask Its Vetby Bruce Fogle, Lalla WardISBN 0785804390 (0-7858-0439-0)
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1776by David McCulloughISBN 0786276231 (0-7862-7623-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: '1776'Book summary:Esteemed historian David McCullough covers the military side of the momentous year of 1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative, adding new scholarship and a fresh perspective to the beginning of the American Revolution. It was a turbulent and confusing time. As British and American politicians struggled to reach a compromise, events on the ground escalated until war was inevitable. McCullough writes vividly about the dismal conditions that troops on both sides had to endure, including an unusually harsh winter, and the role that luck and the whims of the weather played in helping the colonial forces hold off the world's greatest army. He also effectively explores the importance of motivation and troop morale--a tie was as good as a win to the Americans, while anything short of overwhelming victory was disheartening to the British, who expected a swift end to the war. The redcoat retreat from Boston, for example, was particularly humiliating for the British, while the minor American victory at Trenton was magnified despite its limited strategic importance.
Some of the strongest passages in 1776 are the revealing and well-rounded portraits of the Georges on both sides of the Atlantic. King George III, so often portrayed as a bumbling, arrogant fool, is given a more thoughtful treatment by McCullough, who shows that the king considered the colonists to be petulant subjects without legitimate grievances--an attitude that led him to underestimate the will and capabilities of the Americans. At times he seems shocked that war was even necessary. The great Washington lives up to his considerable reputation in these pages, and McCullough relies on private correspondence to balance the man and the myth, revealing how deeply concerned Washington was about the Americans' chances for victory, despite his public optimism. Perhaps more than any other man, he realized how fortunate they were to merely survive the year, and he willingly lays the responsibility for their good fortune in the hands of God rather than his own. Enthralling and superbly written, 1776 is the work of a master historian. --Shawn Carkonen
The Other 1776
With his riveting, enlightening accounts of subjects from Johnstown Flood to John Adams, David McCullough has become the historian that Americans look to most to tell us our own story. In his Amazon.com interview, McCullough explains why he turned in his new book from the political battles of the Revolution to the battles on the ground, and he marvels at some of his favorite young citizen soldiers who fought alongside the remarkable General Washington. The Essential David McCullough
John Adams
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Mornings on Horseback
The Path Between the Seas
The Great Bridge
The Johnstown FloodMore Reading on the Revolution
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The Great Improvisation by Stacy Schiff
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
Washington's General by Terry Golway
Iron Tears by Stanley Weintraub
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The Age of Stonehengeby Colin BurgessISBN 0785815937 (0-7858-1593-7)
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Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years Through His Own Wordsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0785820450 (0-7858-2045-0)
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Alistair Cooke's Americaby Alistair CookeISBN 0786710365 (0-7867-1036-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alistair Cooke's America'Book summary:Classics stand the test of time, and Alistair Cookes history of America is a classic. Nearly three decades have passed since the original edition of Americabased on journalist-historian Cookes extraordinarily popular thirteen-part television seriessold more than a million copies. Yet Cookes view of Americas dynamic past and its impact upon the always-changing present continues to provide striking insights into the singular character of a nation. Those thirty years since award-winning America first rose to the top of best-seller lists have themselves wrought further dramatic changes. Presidents have been impeached, economies have toppled, empires have collapsed, and towers have fallen. In light of such events, Cooke has written for this new edition a compelling introduction and final chapter that bring his story of America up to date with the wisdom of the inimitably grand old man of correspondents. And what a story this book tells. From the discovery of America by European explorers to modern times; from the fighters for independence to the pioneers who tamed the West; from the slaves who fled to freedom to the huddled masses that sought a new life in the New World. And through it all, Cooke describes the essential forces that make America work so vitally. Updated in light of the September 11th tragedy, this new edition is complimented with full-color illustrations throughout. The first and maybe the finest, tribute to the nation. Newsweek A panoramic book, traveling fast and high, and the view it gives of our land and its people is exhilarating. Atlantic Monthly[via]More editions of Alistair Cooke's America:
Animals As Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflectionsby Susan Chernak McElroyISBN 0786211873 (0-7862-1187-3)
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Around the World with 80 Words: The 80 Key Words You Need to Communicate in 25 Languagesby Charles BerlitzISBN 078581826X (0-7858-1826-X)
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Attila King of the Huns: The Man and the Mythby Patrick HowarthISBN 0786709308 (0-7867-0930-8)
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Bad Landby Jonathan RabanISBN 0786214287 (0-7862-1428-7)
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The Birthday Boysby Beryl BainbridgeISBN 0786702079 (0-7867-0207-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birthday Boys'Book summary:In this stunning new novel, award-winning author Beryl Bainbridge offers a brilliantly fictionalized account of the doomed Antarctic expedition led by Captain Scott in 1912. At once hair-raising and beautiful, here is an astonishing tale of misguided courage and human endurance. The Birthday Boys of the title are Scott and four members of his team, each of whom narrates a section of the book. As the story progresses the reader discovers that these men may not be reliable reporters. Their cocky optimism is both ghastly and dangerous. Brought up to despise professional expertise, their enterprise is lunatic, amateur and gentlemanly. Beryl Bainbridge makes it hauntingly clear: the men are fatally doomed in their bravery, the very stuff of heroes. Captain Scott's poignant trek becomes, in this remarkable novel, an historical event which prefigures the terrible new world dawning in Europe. It was an inept rehearsal for the carnage of the first world war, the ultimate challenge for the arrogant generals who shared Scott's skewed notion of courage that led men qualmlessly into harm's way. Subtle, poetic and unforgettable, The Birthday Boys is impossible to read without experiencing that magical shiver up the spine which is caused when great writing touches the soul. [via]
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionageby Christopher Drew, Sherry Sontag, Annette Lawrence DrewISBN 0786218762 (0-7862-1876-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage'Book summary:Little is known--and less has been published--about American submarine espionage during the Cold War. These submerged sentinels silently monitored the Soviet Union's harbors, shadowed its subs, watched its missile tests, eavesdropped on its conversations, and even retrieved top-secret debris from the bottom of the sea. In an engaging mix of first-rate journalism and historical narrative, Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew describe what went on.
"Most of the stories in Blind Man's Bluff have never been told publicly," they write, "and none have ever been told in this level of detail." Among their revelations is the most complete accounting to date of the 1968 disappearance of the U.S.S. Scorpion; the story of how the Navy located a live hydrogen bomb lost by the Air Force; and a plot by the CIA and Howard Hughes to steal a Soviet sub. The most interesting chapter reveals how an American sub secretly tapped Soviet communications cables beneath the waves. Blind Man's Bluff is a compelling book about the courage, ingenuity, and patriotism of America's underwater spies. --John J. Miller [via]
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Blood Relations: Chosen Families In Buffy The Vampire Slayer And Angelby JES BATTISISBN 078642172X (0-7864-2172-X)
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Blood Sport: The President and His Adversariesby James B. StewartISBN 0786208260 (0-7862-0826-0)
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Boogers Are My Beatby Dave BarryISBN 0786261935 (0-7862-6193-5)
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Busting Vega$: The Mit Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Kneesby Ben MezrichISBN 0786283793 (0-7862-8379-3)
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Caesar Against the Celtsby Ramon L. JimenezISBN 0785814175 (0-7858-1417-5)
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The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Agesby Sean MartinISBN 0785821716 (0-7858-2171-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages'Book summary:Without lifting a sword, the Cathars posed a threat to Catholicism greater than the Muslims or Jewsor so the Church believed. The Cathars believed that matter was essentially evilespecially the human bodyand that the material world had to be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fasting, and nonviolence. Though they radically departed from certain traditional Christian beliefs, the Cathars still believed themselves to be the heirs of the true heritage of Christianity. They completely rejected the Catholic Church and all its opulent trappings, regarding it as the Church of Satan; Cathar services and ceremonies, by contrast, were held in fields, barns, and people's homes.[via]
The Cathars found widespread popularity among peasants and artisans. They respected women, who played a major role in the movement. Alarmed at the success of Catharism, the Church began the Inquisition and launched the Albigensian Crusade to exterminate the heresy. The Albigensian Crusade was the first Crusade to be directed against fellow Christians and was also the first European genocide. Today, the mystique surrounding the Cathars is as strong as ever. Their myths and complete history are examined here in The Catharsthe compelling true story of this once peaceful religious sect.More editions of The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages:
Chessby Graham BurgessISBN 0785815163 (0-7858-1516-3)
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0785795227 (0-7857-9522-7)
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Cry, the Beloved Countryby Alan PatonISBN 0785796266 (0-7857-9626-6)
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A bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance. The deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, is set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. [via]
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Cynic's Dictionaryby Richard BayanISBN 0785817131 (0-7858-1713-1)
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Daddy's Girl : The Campbell Murder Caseby Clifford Irving, Kensington Publishing Corporation StaffISBN 0786010568 (0-7860-1056-8)
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Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventuresby Daniel Defoe, Richard WestISBN 0786705574 (0-7867-0557-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures'Book summary:The strange and colorful life of Daniel Defoe has long baffled historians. Constantly running from his creditors, always struggling to feed his wife and six children, he became a consummate pamphleteer as well as the first great novelist in the English language, with such classics as Robinson Crusoe (the world bestseller of all time), Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year.
Drawing Defoe from the shadows where he preferred to live his life, West presents the enigmatic writer in all his gulses: the rebel against James II, the spy for Queen Anne, the bankrupt prison convict, and the first great English journalist, who created the lead story, the obituary, and the gossip and advice columns. [via]
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Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventuresby Richard WestISBN 0786706767 (0-7867-0676-7)
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians: Essays and Translationsby Robert EisenmanISBN 0785818855 (0-7858-1885-5)
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Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Lifeby Tyler PerryISBN 0786291079 (0-7862-9107-9)
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Drinking the Rainby Alix Kates ShulmanISBN 0786205431 (0-7862-0543-1)
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesiaby Elizabeth GilbertISBN 0786288132 (0-7862-8813-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India And Indonesia'Book summary:It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So, she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her. [via]
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Essential Koranby Thomas ClearyISBN 0785809023 (0-7858-0902-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Koran'Book summary:This collection of readings from the Quran is designed to help non-Muslim Westerners approach this sacred book and savor something of its amazing power through a selection of chapters and verses encapsulating some of its central ideas and essential beauties. A "rosary of readings and recitations," the excerpts chosen represent the "six aims" of the Quran (which range from knowledge of God to refutations of unbelievers' arguments), all of which point to the need for intelligent, considered faith in order for humans to come to a true knowledge of God. The selections, from hymns of praise to calls for compassion toward the most needy, reveal the majesty and poetry of this extraordinary text while illuminating its spiritual lessons. Cleary's graceful translation makes the ancient verses clear and accessible to the modern reader:
Worship nothing but God;
be good to your parents and relatives,
and to the orphan and the poor.
Speak nicely to people,
be constant in prayer,
and give charity.
The excellent linguistic notes, which Cleary calls an intrinsic part of the translation itself, amplify the meanings of untranslatable words through reference to their Arabic roots and related derivatives. The book is a first-rate introduction for non-Muslims both to the beauty of the Quran and to the core teachings of Islam, which have too often been misrepresented or misunderstood in the West. --Uma Kukathas [via]
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Essential Mysticsby Andrew HarveyISBN 078580904X (0-7858-0904-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Mystics'Book summary:Mystical experience, Andrew Harvey explains in his introduction to The Essential Mystics, is that "direct, unmediated experience of ... an almost unfathomable mystery," a mystery beyond name or form that draws the mystic toward its presence into a relationship of rapturous, awesome, ecstatic love. But this experience is not the exclusive domain of a few chosen beings; it is "always available--like the divine grace it is--to any who really want it." Harvey speaks of the urgent need for humans to look to this grace as the best hope for addressing pressing social problems. His collection, a "feast of the greatest and wisest mystical texts," presents the most precious testimonies to this divine relationship from all major world traditions. Included are teachings from Native American, Australian, and African visionaries as well as writings from Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and ancient Greek sources. Moving selections from Maori legends to the Upanishads, writings by Plato, and words of Mother Teresa reveal different approaches, but all echo the same longing of the soul to merge with the divine--and a simultaneous need to be fully engaged in the world to effect this union. Harvey pays special attention to the neglected role of the sacred feminine, saying that "without the balance of the knowledge of God as Mother as well as Father ... the human race will die out and take a large part of nature with it." The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, balance, and respect for life, he explains, must be invoked if humans are to overturn the damage wrought by centuries of adherence to a patriarchal vision--one that has left the external environment and our inner lives in serious need of repair. By understanding the divine in its complete masculine and feminine aspects and by looking to the great mystics, Harvey says, humans can initiate themselves into a fullness of the wisdom that inspires real action in the world. --Uma Kukathas [via]
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Eternally Badby Trina Robbins, Rachel PollackISBN 0785815651 (0-7858-1565-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eternally Bad'Book summary:In this wickedly funny, irreverent tribute to mythological bad girl goddesses from around the world, Trina Robbins tells 20 nasty, bitchy, utterly enjoyable tales. Her goddesses sleep with dwarves, slip drugs into drinks, have catfights with their sisters, kill, get even, and generally raise hell. Readers meet Innanna, the Sumerian goddess who plies the god of wisdom with beer so she can steal his powers; Norse goddess Freya, the original Snow White, who is after a diamond necklace; and Lilith, created by God to be Adams equal, but hungry for more. [via]
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Exploring Space: An Episode Guide and Complete History of the Mid-1970s Science Fiction Television Seriesby John Kenneth MuirISBN 0786422769 (0-7864-2276-9)
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Exploring Space, 1999: An Episode Guide and Complete History of the Mid-1970s Science Fiction Television Seriesby John K. MuirISBN 0786401656 (0-7864-0165-6)
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Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughterby Adeline Yen MahISBN 0786219149 (0-7862-1914-9)
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Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britainby Len DeightonISBN 0785812083 (0-7858-1208-3)
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Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favoriteby Erma BombeckISBN 078620947X (0-7862-0947-X)
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Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilizationby Andrew Collins, David RohlISBN 0786709634 (0-7867-0963-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization'Book summary:Historian Andrew Collins, after years of travel and research, has gathered convincing evidence that may establish not only that Atlantis did indeed exist but also that remnants of it survive today. His journey into the past follows the clues left by Plato, and they take him far beyond Crete and the Mediterranean, where scholars in recent times have located Atlantis. So do mummies in Egypt, Roman wreckage in the West Atlantic, the African features of great stone heads in Mexico, and the explosion of a comet 10,500 years ago. For two millennia the fate of Atlantis has fascinated historians, philosophers, and explorers who have debated its reality and searched in vain for a kingdom shrouded in myth and legend. Collins's final destination will shock the experts and amaze all readers. "A bold and imaginative attempt to understand the destruction of the legendary city of Atlantis."Kirkus Reviews "Probably the most substantial and well researched book on Atlantis since Ignatius Donnelly."Colin Wilson, author of From Atlantis to the Sphinx[via]More editions of Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization:
Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilizationby David Rohl, Andrew CollinsISBN 0786708107 (0-7867-0810-7)
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Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorkerby Thomas KunkelISBN 0786703237 (0-7867-0323-7)
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Grant Takes Commandby Bruce CattonISBN 0785812636 (0-7858-1263-6)
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Great Commanders and Their Battlesby Anthony LiveseyISBN 0785817190 (0-7858-1719-0)
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The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909by Ernest ShackletonISBN 0786706848 (0-7867-0684-8)
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With the same drama and adventure of Shackleton's later memoir, South, Heart of the Antarctic chronicles the first polar expedition he led himself, which lasted over a year and included triumph, defeat, and harrowing experiences. In 1906, Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton decided that he would make his own attempt to reach the South Pole, having been frustrated by his experiences on Captain Robert Scott's recent effort. His own expedition underwent such ordeals as the hazardous maneuvers to land on the icy Antarctic coast, the scaling of the 13,000-foot volcanic Mount Erebus, and wintering the polar blizzards before setting off for the South Pole. Shackleton's tension-filled account of his "Farthest South," reaching within 97 miles of his goal, is matched only by the return journey's race against time, an exhausted forced march back to camp before their ship sailed without them.
"A more interesting book of polar exploration . . . has yet to be written." - New York Times Book Review
"The book will takes its place among the great records of adventure . . . Shackleton has just the right combination of scientific interests and love of reckless adventure . . ." - SpectatorMore editions of The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909:
House of Secretsby Lowell CauffielISBN 0786018275 (0-7860-1827-5)
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An Introduction to Viking Mythologyby John GrantISBN 0785816100 (0-7858-1610-0)
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Is Your Cat Crazy?: Solutions from the Casebook of a Cat Therapistby John C. Wright, Judi Wright LashnitsISBN 0785808736 (0-7858-0873-6)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0786276002 (0-7862-7600-2)
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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murdersby Terry Sullivan, Peter MaikenISBN 0786014229 (0-7860-1422-9)
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Landing It: My Life on and Off the Iceby Lorenzo Benet, Scott HamiltonISBN 0786225327 (0-7862-2532-7)
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Landing It : My Life on and off the Iceby Scott Hamilton, Kensington Publishing Corporation StaffISBN 0786011491 (0-7860-1149-1)
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Last Stand!: Famous Battles Against All Oddsby Bryan PerrettISBN 0785816801 (0-7858-1680-1)
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Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equatorby Gianni Guadalupi, Antony ShugaarISBN 0786709014 (0-7867-0901-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator'Book summary:It extends 24,000 miles, farther and longer than any other measure on earth. Yet the equator is a wholly imaginary construct, a human idea that has fascinated and challenged explorers for three thousand yearsfrom the ancient Egyptian spice traders in search of the legendary land of Punt, to the fifteenth-century Portuguese who sought a route to the Indies, to the expeditions of Victorian naturalist Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands, off the Pacific coast of South America, at latitude zero. The equatorits location not only on the globe but also in the minds and exploits of navigators, travelers, poets, and dreamers since the dawn of civilizationis the magical thread on which the eminent Italian historian Gianni Guadalupi strings some of humankinds most intriguing lore and most amazing adventures in this original and riveting intellectual history. The mysterious source of the Nile and the enigma of the Congos swell, the perils of the Doldrums ( the living death in life in Coleridges phrase) and the vicissitudes of El Nino, the quest for the lost Eden and the search for Eldorado, all fall within the compass of Guadalupis extraordinary volume. So do the names of Columbus, Magellan, Don Lope de Aguirre, Sinbad the Sailor, Henry Stanley, Charles-Marie de la Condamine, and Dante Alighieri, who placed Purgatory on an island athwart the equator.[via]More editions of Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator:
Let Me Finishby Roger AngellISBN 0786288701 (0-7862-8870-1)
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Lobster Boyby Fred RosenISBN 078600133X (0-7860-0133-X)
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Madame Curieby Eve CurieISBN 078592194X (0-7859-2194-X)
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The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripperby Maxim Jakubowski, Nathan BraundISBN 0786706260 (0-7867-0626-0)
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The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Listsby Karl ShawISBN 078670537X (0-7867-0537-X)
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The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Centuryby Thomas BeerISBN 0786705019 (0-7867-0501-9)
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No Safe Placeby Bill G. CoxISBN 0786010371 (0-7860-1037-1)
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Mealsby Michael PollanISBN 078628952X (0-7862-8952-X)
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Winner of the James Beard Award
Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species. Packed with profound surprises, The Omnivore's Dilemma is changing the way Americans thing about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
Coming from The Penguin Press in 2013, Michael Pollans newest book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation--the story of our most trusted food experts culinary education
"Thoughtful, engrossing ... You're not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from."
-The New York Times Book Review
"An eater's manifesto ... [Pollan's] cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling. Be careful of your dinner!"
-The Washington Post
"Outstanding... a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits."
--The New Yorker
"If you ever thought 'what's for dinner' was a simple question, you'll change your mind after reading Pollan's searing indictment of today's food industry-and his glimpse of some inspiring alternatives.... I just loved this book so much I didn't want it to end."
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Outposts: A Catalog of Rare and Disturbing Alternative Informationby Russell KickISBN 0786702028 (0-7867-0202-8)
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A Perfect Husbandby Aphrodite JonesISBN 0786016949 (0-7860-1694-9)
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Power & Greed: A Short History of the Worldby Philippe GigantesISBN 0786710772 (0-7867-1077-2)
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The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neilby Ron SuskindISBN 0786265329 (0-7862-6532-9)
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Prisoner 1167 the Madman Who Was Jack the Ripper: The Madman Who Was Jack the Ripperby James TullyISBN 0786705434 (0-7867-0543-4)
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Real Kids Real Adventures: Apartment Fire / Trinity River Rescue / Runaway Balloonby Deborah MorrisISBN 0786280336 (0-7862-8033-6)
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The River War : An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudanby Winston L. S. ChurchillISBN 0786707518 (0-7867-0751-8)
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Roadsby Larry McMurtryISBN 0786229691 (0-7862-2969-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roads'Book summary:You couldn't find a blunter or more accurate title for Larry McMurtry's third work of nonfiction. Roads is indeed an automotive odyssey, in which the author traverses America on one highway after another. As such, the book has a long and honorable pedigree, stretching back to Tocqueville by way of Kerouac, and many readers will compare it to William Least Heat-Moon's bucolic ramble, Blue Highways. That, however, would be a mistake. The last thing McMurtry has in mind is a leisurely tour of small-town America--he's interested in the interstates themselves, "the great roads, the major migration routes that carry Americans long distances quickly." No wonder the speedometer seldom dips below 65 mph throughout the entire narrative. McMurtry is a man on the move, and even his meditative moments fly by in the linguistic equivalent of fourth gear.
Actually, there may be another reason the author is reluctant to apply the brakes: his distaste for various towns, villages, counties, and entire states. Planning a trip to the Texas hill country? McMurtry notes that "the soil is too stoney to farm or ranch, the hills are just sort of forested speed bumps, and the people, mostly of stern Teutonic stock, are suspicious, tightfisted, unfriendly, and mean." Missouri is "a place to get through as rapidly as possible," Ohio and Georgia "really aren't pleasant," and woe to the traveler who lingers in the one-horse towns of the West, "where it's not even wise to roll down one's windows--if you avoid getting murdered you might still breathe in some deadly desert germ."
This crankiness does have an undeniable comic appeal. Yet Roads turns out to be a sentimental journey after all, in the course of which McMurtry hopes to resurrect some of the élan vital he lost in the wake of his 1991 heart surgery. Driving, like reading itself, just may prompt some remembrance of things past:
As I prepared to drive those same overfamiliar roads again it occurred to me that my effort was obliquely Proustian, a retracing of my past that is analogous to the many rereadings I've done in the last few years, always of books I read before the surgery. In these rereadings and redrivings I'm searching, not for lost time, but for lost feelings, for the elements of my old personality that are still unaccounted for. I'm not anguished about these absentees, just curious and somewhat wistful.
Indeed, anguish is largely absent from McMurtry's account, and he doesn't dwell often on this scenario of loss and recovery. Still, it comes through particularly strongly at the end, when he compares his own, transient experience of place to his father's. These final chapters cast a sadder and more substantial light on the preceding ones--and make this circuitous, sometimes tetchy book a trip worth taking. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Roads:
Scott's Last Expedition : The Journalsby Robert Falcon Scott, Beryl Bainbridge, Clements R. MarkhamISBN 0786703822 (0-7867-0382-2)
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Serpentineby Thomas ThompsonISBN 0786707496 (0-7867-0749-6)
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Spells, Charms, Talismans and Amuletsby Pamela BallISBN 0785814108 (0-7858-1410-8)
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Spirits Rebelliousby Kahlil Gibran, Martin L. Wolf, Anthony Rizcallah FerrisISBN 0785810706 (0-7858-1070-6)
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Stanley Kubrick: A Biographyby John BaxterISBN 0786704853 (0-7867-0485-3)
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Stars Beneath the Sea: The Pioneers of Divingby Trevor NortonISBN 078670750X (0-7867-0750-X)
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Stirling Macoboy's What Flower Is Thatby Stirling MacOboyISBN 0785811877 (0-7858-1187-7)
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The Story of Artby Ernst Hans J. GombrichISBN 0785793429 (0-7857-9342-9)
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Suffer the Little Childrenby Barbara DavisISBN 0786006641 (0-7860-0664-1)
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Suicide and Attempted Suicideby Geo StoneISBN 0786709405 (0-7867-0940-5)
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Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequencesby Geo StoneISBN 0786704926 (0-7867-0492-6)
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The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Lifeby Laura Schlessinger, Stewart VogelISBN 0786217936 (0-7862-1793-6)
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The Tiger's Childby Torey HaydenISBN 0785797416 (0-7857-9741-6)
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The Ultimate Jack the Ripper: An Illustrated Encyclopediaby Stewart P. Evans, Keith SkinnerISBN 078670926X (0-7867-0926-X)
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The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion: An Illustrated Encyclopediaby Keith Skinner, Stewart P. EvansISBN 0786707682 (0-7867-0768-2)
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Valley of the Kingsby John RomerISBN 0785815880 (0-7858-1588-0)
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A Venom in the Bloodby Eric Van Hoffman, Kensington Publishing Corporation StaffISBN 0786006609 (0-7860-0660-9)
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Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolutionby Frank McLynnISBN 0786710888 (0-7867-1088-8)
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Voltaire in Loveby Nancy MitfordISBN 0786706414 (0-7867-0641-4)
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The Voyage of the Narwhalby Andrea BarrettISBN 0786217510 (0-7862-1751-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Narwhal'Book summary:In Andrea Barrett's extraordinary novel of Arctic and personal exploration, maps are deceitful, ice all-powerful, and reputation more important than truth or human lives. When the Narwhal sets sail from Philadelphia in May 1855, its ostensible goal is to find the crew of a long-vanished expedition--or at least their relics--and be home before winter. Of course, if the men can chart new coasts and stock up on specimens en route, so much the better. And then there's the keen prospect of selling their story, fraught with danger and discovery, to a public thirsting for excitement. Zeke Voorhees, the Narwhal's young commander, is so handsome that he makes women stare and men "hum with envy"--perhaps not the best qualification for his post--but he seems loved by all. Only his brother-in-law-to-be, a naturalist, quietly mistrusts him, though he's determined to stand by the youth for his sister Lavinia's sake. At 40, eternal low-profiler Erasmus Darwin Wells has one disastrous expedition behind him and is praying for another scientific chance. He is, however, familiar with the physical risks they're taking, as well as the "long stretches when nothing happened except that one's ties to home were imperceptibly dissolved and one became a stranger to one's life."
And what of the women left behind? Lavinia knows little of the dangers of ice (though she's well schooled in isolation) and lives only for Zeke's return. Her companion, Alexandra Copeland, is less sanguine. Even after she's been given a secret career break--ghosting for an ailing engraver--she knows how invisible she is and how threatening her family's "dense net of obligations" will always be. Though they get less page time, Barrett is in fact as concerned with these women as she is with her seafarers. Like the heroines of her National Book Award-winning
There is tyranny on board the Narwhal as well, as Zeke alternates between good will and paranoia, his closest companion an arctic fox he has "civilized" and who sits on his shoulder "like a white epaulet." (Alas, Sabine, like many of the men, is not to survive the journey.) Encounters with the Esquimaux--who might know more about the lost expedition than they're willing to share--not having gone according to plan, Zeke determines in late August to head for Smith Sound rather than home, despite the crew's protests. By mid-September, however, the craft is ice-locked, and it's clear they'll have to "winter over." At first the men make the best of their situation, magically sculpting cottages, castles, palaces, even a whale--and offering informal seminars in butchery, Bible studies, and basic navigation. However, as the weather worsens and Zeke grows increasingly despotic, morale plummets.
Barrett excels in both physical and social description, writing with a naturalist's precision and a passionate imagination. With quick strokes (backed up by intense research), she can fill us in on some sensible but threatening Esquimaux footgear: "All five were dressed in fur jackets and breeches, with high boots made from the leg skins of white bears. The men's feet, Erasmus saw, were sheltered by the bears' feet, with claws protruding like overgrown human toenails. Walking, the men left bear prints on the snow." The author also shines in panoramic scenes--her descriptions of the Arctic can only be called magnificent--and in small, precarious, personal moments. When Erasmus eventually returns to Philadelphia, minus his toes and his future brother-in-law, a grieving Lavinia takes to her bed. Eventually, however, she relents: "Lavinia stared straight ahead. Straight at Erasmus, her right hand tucked in her lap while her left turned a silver spoon back to front, front to back, the reflections melting, re-forming, and melting again.... Lavinia said softly, 'I forgive you.' Everyone knew she was speaking to Erasmus."
The Voyage of the Narwhal is full of blood-freezing surprises, a score of indelible characters, and heart-stopping mysteries. As Erasmus watches Alexandra draw landscapes he has seen before but missed something in, each pencil stroke is "like a chisel held to a cleavage plane: tap, tap, and the rock split into two sharp pieces, the world cracked and spoke to him." Readers of Andrea Barrett's novel will experience this sensation again and again. Packed with harsh truths about the not-always-true art of discovery, it is also among the most emotionally wrenching, subtle works of the century. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Witch Hunt: History of a Persecutionby Nigel CawthorneISBN 0785818588 (0-7858-1858-8)
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Working Sex: An Odyssey into Our Cultural Underworldby Marianne MacYISBN 0786702494 (0-7867-0249-4)
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World's Wisdomby P. NovakISBN 0785807187 (0-7858-0718-7)
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Bescherelle: LA Conjugaison Pour Tousby BescherelleISBN 0785992308 (0-7859-9230-8)
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