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The Age of Capitalby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0679772545 (0-679-77254-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Capital'Book summary:In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the origins of the world in which we now live. [via]
Age of Capital: Eighteen Forty-Eight to Eighteen Seventy-Fiveby E. J. HobsbawnISBN 0452006961 (0-452-00696-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Age of Capital, 1848-1875by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0684144506 (0-684-14450-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Age of Revolutionby Eric HobsbawmISBN 0679772537 (0-679-77253-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Revolution'Book summary:This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes. [via]
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Age of Revolution 1789 1848by Eric J. HobsbawnISBN 0451627202 (0-451-62720-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jeffersonby Joseph J. EllisISBN 0679764410 (0-679-76441-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson'Book summary:Well timed to coincide with Ken Burns's documentary (on which the author served as a consultant), this new biography doesn't aim to displace the many massive tomes about America's third president that already weigh down bookshelves. Instead, as suggested by the subtitle--"The Character of Thomas Jefferson"--Ellis searches for the "living, breathing person" underneath the icon and tries to elucidate his actual beliefs. Jefferson's most ardent admirers may find this perspective too critical, but Ellis's portrait of a complex, sometimes devious man who both sought and abhorred power has the ring of truth. [via]
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0670886955 (0-670-88695-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bountyby Caroline AlexanderISBN 067003133X (0-670-03133-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty'Book summary:More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty . Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers who were captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in England. This fresh perspective wonderfully revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christian's breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course: Bligh and his loyalists on the historic open boat voyage that revealed him to be one of history's great navigators; Christian on his restless exile; and the captured mutineers toward their day in court. As the book unfolds, each figure emerges as a full-blown character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. And as Alexander shows, it was in a desperate fight to escape hanging that one of the accused defendants deliberately spun the mutiny into the myth we know today-of the tyrannical Lieutenant Bligh of the Bounty . Ultimately, Alexander concludes that the Bounty mutiny was sparked by that most unpredictable, combustible, and human of situations-the chemistry between strong personalities living in close quarters. Her account of the voyage, the trial, and the surprising fates of Bligh, Christian, and the mutineers is an epic of ambition, passion, pride, and duty at the dawn of the Romantic era. [via]
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Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Womenby Alexa AlbertISBN 0449006581 (0-449-00658-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women'Book summary:A journey into a fascinating subculture, Alexa Albert's exploration of Nevada's infamous cathouses began as a public-health study into the safe-sex practices of these legal working girls and the effectiveness of condom requirements in preventing sexually transmitted diseases. It took her three years to gain access to the brothels, and when her project was eventually approved by the head of the Nevada Brothel Association, she was surprised to be invited to stay at Mustang Ranch, among the women of the brothel, for the duration of her research. She learned that despite the legalization of prostitution in several counties of Nevada, the working girls still faced restrictive local ordinances and work regulations that kept them virtual prisoners inside the brothel compound. Outside, they encountered the same social stigma that has always haunted sex workers. In her compassionate, engaging first book, Albert answers all the questions you might ever have about prostitutes, providing a rich and nuanced depiction of a largely hidden world. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Climbby Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DewaltISBN 0613125797 (0-613-12579-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Climb'Book summary:The Climb is Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev's account of the harrowing May 1996 Mount Everest attempt, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of eight people. The book is also Boukreev's rebuttal to accusations from fellow climber and author Jon Krakauer, who, in his bestselling memoir, Into Thin Air, suggests that Boukreev forfeited the safety of his clients to achieve his own climbing goals. Investigative writer and Climb coauthor G. Weston DeWalt uses taped statements from the surviving climbers and translated interviews from Boukreev to piece together the events and prove to the reader that Boukreev's role was heroic, not opportunistic. Boukreev refers to the actions of expedition leader Scott Fischer throughout the ascent, implying that factors other than the fierce snowstorm may have caused this disaster. This new account sparks debate among both mountaineers and those who have followed the story through the media and Krakauer's book. Readers can decide for themselves whether Boukreev presents a laudable defense or merely assuages his own bruised ego. [via]
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Coming of Age in Mississippiby Anne MoodyISBN 0440314887 (0-440-31488-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'Book summary:The autobiography of Anne Moody growing up in the rural south during the Civil Rights Movement. [via]
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The Darwin Awardsby Wendy Northcutt, Wendy NothcuttISBN 0452283442 (0-452-28344-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darwin Awards'Book summary:www.DarwinAwards.com is the legendary website that commemorates the remains of people who have improved our gene pool by killing themselves in really stupid ways. The site honours those people for whom warnings such as "This Superman cape does not enable the wearer to fly" were made. Here are over 180 true stories that will make you glad to be alive. [via]
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Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - The Darwin Awards: ISBN 0525947736 (0-525-94773-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - The Darwin Awards: ISBN 0452283442 (0-452-28344-2)
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Dispatchesby Michael HerrISBN 0679735259 (0-679-73525-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dispatches'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herrs unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.
Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. [via] -
Dk Eyewitness Parisby Dorling KindersleyISBN 075661547X (0-7566-1547-X)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dk Eyewitness Paris'Book summary:The Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you to get the most out of your trip with minimum difficulties. The opening section Introducing Paris locates the city geographically, sets modern Parisian its historical context and explains how Parisian life changes through the years. Paris At a Glance is an overview of the city's specialties. The main sightseeing section of the book is Paris Area by Area. It describes all the main sights with maps, photographs and detailed illustrations. Get to know Paris with The Eyewitness Travel Guide. [via]
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food And the Supersizing of Americaby Morgan SpurlockISBN 0425210235 (0-425-21023-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food And the Supersizing of America'Book summary:The literary debut of the funniest and most incisive new voice to come along since Michael Moore-and the acclaimed director of the film phenomenon of the year.
Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary won him resounding applause and a worldwide release that broke box-office records. Audiences were captivated by Spurlock's experiment, during which he gained twenty-five pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared.
But this story goes far beyond Spurlock's good-humored "Mc-Sickness." He traveled across the country-into schools, hospitals, and people's homes -to investigate school lunch programs, the marketing of fast food, and the declining emphasis on health and physical education. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive, and what Americans can do to turn the rising tide of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes that have accompanied its ever-growing popularity. He interviewed experts in twenty U.S. cities-from surgeon generals and kids to lawmakers and marketing gurus-who share their research, opinions, and "gut feelings" on our ever-expanding girth and what we can all do to offset a health crisis of supersized proportions.
In this groundbreaking, hilarious book, "benevolent muckraker" Morgan Spurlock debuts a wry investigative voice that will appeal to anyone interested in the health of our country, our children, and ourselves. [via]More editions of Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food And the Supersizing of America:
E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0425181642 (0-425-18164-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation'Book summary:E=mc2. Just about everyone has at least heard of Albert Einstein's formulation of 1905, which came into the world as something of an afterthought. But far fewer can explain his insightful linkage of energy to mass. David Bodanis offers an easily grasped gloss on the equation. Mass, he writes, "is simply the ultimate type of condensed or concentrated energy," whereas energy "is what billows out as an alternate form of mass under the right circumstances."
Just what those circumstances are occupies much of Bodanis's book, which pays homage to Einstein and, just as important, to predecessors such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier, who are not as well known as Einstein today. Balancing writerly energy and scholarly weight, Bodanis offers a primer in modern physics and cosmology, explaining that the universe today is an expression of mass that will, in some vastly distant future, one day slide back to the energy side of the equation, replacing the "dominion of matter" with "a great stillness"--a vision that is at once lovely and profoundly frightening.
Without sliding into easy psychobiography, Bodanis explores other circumstances as well; namely, Einstein's background and character, which combined with a sterling intelligence to afford him an idiosyncratic view of the way things work--a view that would change the world. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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E=McP2s: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0753156075 (0-7531-5607-5)
Softcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Softwareby Steven JohnsonISBN 0684868768 (0-684-86876-8)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software'Book summary:An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidity in Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Starting with the weird behavior of the semi-colonial organisms we call slime molds, Johnson details the development of increasingly complex and familiar behavior among simple components: cells, insects, and software developers all find their place in greater schemes.
Most game players, alas, live on something close to day-trader time, at least when they're in the middle of a game--thinking more about their next move than their next meal, and usually blissfully oblivious to the ten- or twenty-year trajectory of software development. No one wants to play with a toy that's going to be fun after a few decades of tinkering--the toys have to be engaging now, or kids will find other toys.
Johnson has a knack for explaining complicated and counterintuitive ideas cleverly without stealing the scene. Though we're far from fully understanding how complex behavior manifests from simple units and rules, our awareness that such emergence is possible is guiding research across disciplines. Readers unfamiliar with the sciences of complexity will find Emergence an excellent starting point, while those who were chaotic before it was cool will appreciate its updates and wider scope. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Evolution of Useful Thingsby Henry PetroskiISBN 0679740392 (0-679-74039-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Useful Things'Book summary:This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork's history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski travels from prehistoric times to Texas barbecue to Cardinal Richelieu to England's Industrial Revolution to the American Civil War--and beyond. Each item described offers a cultural history lesson, plus there's plenty of engineering detail for those so inclined. [via]
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The Fall of Berlin 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0670030414 (0-670-03041-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Berlin 1945'Book summary:By December 1944, many of the 3 million citizens of Berlin had stopped giving the Nazi salute, and jokes circulated that the most practical Christmas gift of the season was a coffin. And for good reason, military historian Antony Beevor writes in this richly detailed reconstruction of events in the final days of Adolf Hitler's Berlin. Following savage years of campaigns in Russia, the Nazi regime had not only failed to crush Bolshevism, it had brought the Soviet army to the very gates of the capital. That army, ill-fed and hungry for vengeance, unloosed its fury on Berlin just a month later in a long siege that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. But as Beevor recounts, the siege was also marked by remarkable acts of courage and even compassion. Drawing on unexplored Soviet and German archives and dozens of eyewitness accounts, Beevor brings us a harrowing portrait of the battle and its terrible aftermath, which would color world history for years to follow. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553277375 (0-553-27737-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Future Shock'Book summary:Paperback. [via]
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He's Just Not That into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guysby Greg Behrendt, Liz TuccilloISBN 068987474X (0-689-87474-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'He's Just Not That into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys'Book summary:Based on an episode of "Sex and the City," offers a lighthearted, no-nonsense look at dead-end relationships, with advice for letting go and moving on. [via]
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Holidays in Hellby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0679724222 (0-679-72422-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays in Hell'Book summary:No doubt about it: P. J. O'Rourke has a bizarre sense of fun. "What I've ... been," he writes in his introduction to Holidays in Hell "is a Trouble Tourist--going to see insurrections, stupidities, political crises, civil disturbances and other human folly because ... because it's fun." Forget Hawaii or the Poconos--O'Rourke gets his jollies in places like war-torn Lebanon where he is greeted at the border by a gun barrel in his face, or Seoul, just in time for election-day violence. Wherever he goes, however, O'Rourke takes his quirky sense of humor, laser eye for detail, and artful way with words: a Philippine army officer is "powerful-looking in a short, compressed way, like an attack hamster," and the Syrian army is described as having "dozens of silly hats, mostly berets in yellow, orange and shocking pink, but also tiny pillbox chapeaux.... The paratroopers wear shiny gold jumpsuits and crack commando units have skin-tight fatigues in a camouflage pattern of violet, peach, flesh tone and vermilion on a background of vivid purple. This must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses."
O'Rourke's flip, sarcastic style isn't for everyone, of course; the concept that anyone could find sightseeing in the Beirut or El Salvador of the 1980s fun might prove offensive to more than a few readers right off the bat. But love him or hate him, P. J. O'Rourke knows how to tell a good story, and if you like your travel writing laced with more than a little cynicism, Holidays in Hell could be just the book you've been looking for. [via]
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian Englandby Judith FlandersISBN 0393327639 (0-393-32763-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England'Book summary:"[Flanders] knows what we want to know and is thoroughly engaging, undidactic company."--Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe
Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such drudgery was routine for the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Following the daily life of a middle-class Victorian house from room to room; from childbirth in the master bedroom through the kitchen, scullery, dining room, and parlor, all the way to the sickroom; Judith Flanders draws on diaries, advice books, and other sources to resurrect an age so close in time yet so alien to our own. 100 illustrations, 32 pages of color. [via]More editions of Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England:
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Java In A NutshellISBN 0596007736 (0-596-00773-6)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
Find This BookBook summary:With more than 700,000 copies sold to date, Java in a Nutshell from O'Reilly is clearly the favorite resource amongst the legion of developers and programmers using Java technology. And now, with the release of the 5.0 version of Java, O'Reilly has given the book that defined the "in a Nutshell" category another impressive tune-up. In this latest revision, readers will find Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition, does more than just cover the extensive changes implicit in 5.0, the newest version of Java. It's undergone a complete makeover--in scope, size, and type of coverage--in order to more closely meet the needs of the modern Java programmer. To wit, Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition now places less emphasis on coming to Java from C and C++, and adds more discussion on tools and frameworks. It also offers new code examples to illustrate the working of APIs, and, of course, extensive coverage of Java 5.0. But faithful readers take comfort: it still hasn't lost any of its core elements that made it such a classic to begin with. This handy reference gets right to the heart of the program with an accelerated introduction to the Java programming language and its key APIs--ideal for developers wishing to start writing code right away. And, as was the case in previous editions, Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition is once again chock-full of poignant tips, techniques, examples, and practical advice. For as long as Java has existed, Java in a Nutshell has helped developers maximize the capabilities of the program's newest versions. And this latest edition is no different. [via]
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Java in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Referenceby David FlanaganISBN 0596002831 (0-596-00283-1)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Java in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference'Book summary:The release of Java 1.1 brings many new features to the Java language. Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, a worthy successor to the author's bestselling first edition of the book, offers an excellent way to keep up with most of them.
You'll find that the second edition carries over many strong points from the original, including a quick-start introduction to Java for C or C++ programmers and the handy quick-reference format. It also details the many new features of Java 1.1, including extensions to the object model and the new release of the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT), Inner Classes, Java Beans, and Java ARchive (JAR) files. The book does not attempt to cover "enterprise" application programming interfaces (API), such as Java's new commerce-related security features, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Remote Method Invocation (RMI). The author plans to document these features in a separate volume.
The second half of Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, is a quick reference to all the packages that comprise the Java API. In the course of over 300 pages, the author introduces each package with a summary and a graphical hierarchy diagram. He then documents each package's component classes and interfaces in detail. For cases where you know the name of a class, but not its package, an index of classes, methods, and fields provide a useful cross-reference to the packages that contain them. This edition removes some of the example code of the previous edition, but provides many samples that cover new language features. [via]
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Joy of Cookingby Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, Maria Guarnaschelli, Laura Hartman MaestroISBN 0684818701 (0-684-81870-1)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joy of Cooking'Book summary:Irma Rombauer collected recipes from friends for the first Joy of Cooking, and published it herself. For this sixth edition, the All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking, Ethan Becker, grandson of Irma and son of Marion Rombauer Becker, worked with Maria Guarnaschelli, senior editor and vice president at Scribner's. Together, they called on top food professionals to produce a Joy that reflects the way we eat today.
Five new chapters satisfy today's love of pasta, pizza, noodles, burritos, grains, and beans, including soy. The roughly 3,000 recipes, most revised from earlier editions, give the food processor and microwave their due. Interest in ethnic flavors, grazing, leaner meats, more fish, and less fat are reflected, and old standbys such as Tuna Noodle Casserole and Fried Chicken are updated. Information on canning, jams, pickles, and preserves is replaced by expanded material on grilling, barbecuing, flavored oils, and vinegars. Also gone is the personal voice of the old Joy. The new Joy of Cooking is comprehensive for today's cooks. Time will tell if it remains the long-loved, dog-eared kitchen companion and teacher Joy has been since 1931. [via]
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 0618127496 (0-618-12749-6)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: 3 Tenant Families: ISBN 0395957710 (0-395-95771-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families: ISBN 0395489016 (0-395-48901-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families: ISBN 0618127496 (0-618-12749-6)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby James Agee, Webster's II DictionariesISBN 039529696X (0-395-29696-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthyby Thomas J. Stanley, William D. DankoISBN 0671015206 (0-671-01520-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America' s Wealthy'Book summary:How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over $1 million)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in this book, but plenty of wallboard manufacturers--particularly ones who take cheap, infrequent vacations. Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society. "You aren't what you drive," admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is smiling. --This text refers to the hardcover edition. [via]
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Miraclesby C. S. LewisISBN 0684823799 (0-684-82379-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miracles'Book summary:Can God Intervene in Our Lives?
C.S. Lewis trains his impeccable logic on the question of miracles, setting up a philosophical framework for the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. Focusing his inquiry on the feasibility of miracles in general, rather than on anecdotal evidence for specific miracles, Lewis builds a solid and compelling argument for the acceptance of divine intervention. [via]
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More Utopiaby Thomas More, Robert M. Adams, George M. LoganISBN 0521525403 (0-521-52540-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Utopia'Book summary:This revision incorporates the many refinements to the translation of Utopia undertaken in 1995. George Logan has also updated the editorial commentary and introduction to take into account the scholarship published since the first Cambridge Texts edition of Utopia appeared in 1989. This edition is the most accessible and student-friendly version of Utopia currently available. [via]
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Negotiating with the Deadby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 0521662605 (0-521-66260-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Negotiating with the Dead'Book summary:Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing may be saddled with an ominous, academic, and vaguely morbid title, but it is really a droll, rambling, and readerly sort of book. The six essays printed here are distillations of lectures that Atwood presented at Cambridge University in 2000. They range through most of the major dilemmas of the art of writing and probe the various perceived duties of the writer--from political apologist to vatic poet.
Atwood fans who are aching for personal revelation will be disappointed by the lectures; only one of them is directly autobiographical, and it reads like a synopsis of the first third of Cat's Eye. Most of Negotiating with the Dead examines the representation of writers (and painters, and musicians, and other creative types) in world literature. The lectures form an impressively comprehensive list of writerly neuroses and allegiances, although there is little here that hasn't been said before. But if this territory will be instantly recognizable to any serious writer, it may surprise hardened readers, prompting a reappraisal of what these strange book-producing creatures really do with their lives. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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The Nine Parts Of Desire: The Hidden World Of Islamic Womenby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0606300023 (0-606-30002-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Nothing Like It in the Worldby Stephen AmbroseISBN 0613501349 (0-613-50134-9)
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869by Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0743203178 (0-7432-0317-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869'Book summary:Abraham Lincoln, who had worked as a riverboat pilot before turning to politics, knew a thing or two about the problems of transporting goods and people from place to place. He was also convinced that the United States would flourish only if its far-flung regions were linked, replacing sectional loyalties with an overarching sense of national destiny.
Building a transcontinental railroad, writes the prolific historian Stephen Ambrose, was second only to the abolition of slavery on Lincoln's presidential agenda. Through an ambitious program of land grants and low-interest government loans, he encouraged entrepreneurs such as California's "Big Four"--Charles Crocker, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Leland Stanford--to take on the task of stringing steel rails from ocean to ocean. The real work of doing so, of course, was on the shoulders of immigrant men and women, mostly Chinese and Irish. These often-overlooked actors and what a contemporary called their "dreadful vitality" figure prominently in Ambrose's narrative, alongside the great financiers and surveyors who populate the standard textbooks.
In the end, Ambrose writes, Lincoln's dream transformed the nation, marking "the first great triumph over time and space" and inaugurating what has come to be known as the American Century. David Haward Bain's Empire Express, which covers the same ground, is more substantial, but Ambrose provides an eminently readable study of a complex episode in American history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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On Warby Michael Howard, Carl Von Clausewitz, Peter ParetISBN 0691018545 (0-691-01854-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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On Warby Carl Von Clausewitz, F. N. Maude, Colonel J. J. GrahamISBN 0415350387 (0-415-35038-7)
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On Warby F. N. Maude, Karl Von Clausewitz, Jan Willem Honig, J. J. GrahamISBN 0760755973 (0-7607-5597-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On War'Book summary:Carl von Clausewitz's "On War" has been called, 'not simply the greatest, but the only truly great book on war'. It is an extraordinary attempt to construct an all-embracing theory of how war works. Its coherence and ambition are unmatched by other military literature. "On War" is full of sharp observation, biting irony, and memorable phrases, the most famous being, 'war is a continuation of politics by other means'. [via]
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Operating Instructionsby Anne LamottISBN 051713778X (0-517-13778-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Yearby Anne LamottISBN 044990928X (0-449-90928-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Year'Book summary:The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to lean on. She responds to the changes, exhaustion, and love Sam brings with aplomb or outright insanity. The book rocks from hilarious to unbearably poignant when Sam's burgeoning life is played out against a very close friend's illness. No saccharine paean to becoming a parent, this touches on the rage and befuddlement that dog sweeter emotions during this sea change in one's life. [via]
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstanceby Henry PetroskiISBN 0394574222 (0-394-57422-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance'Book summary:Like most other human artifacts, the common pencil, made and sold today by the millions, has a long and complex history. Henry Petroski, who combines a talent for fine writing with a deep knowledge of engineering and technological history, examines the story of the pencil, considering it not only as a thing in itself, but also as an exemplar of all things that are designed and manufactured.
Petroski ranges widely in time, discussing the writing technologies of antiquity. But his story really begins in the early modern period, when, in 1565, a Swiss naturalist first described the properties of the mineral that became known as graphite. Petroski traces the evolution of the pencil through the Industrial Revolution, when machine manufacture replaced earlier handwork. Along the way, he looks at some of pencil making's great innovators--including Henry David Thoreau, the famed writer, who worked in his father's pencil factory, inventing techniques for grinding graphite and experimenting with blends of lead, clay, and other ingredients to yield pencils of varying hardness and darkness. Petroski closes with a look at how pencils are made today--a still-imperfect technology that may yet evolve with new advances in materials and design. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Profiles in Courageby John F. KennedyISBN 0606302409 (0-606-30240-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage'Book summary:The Illustrated Edition: The Pulitzer-Prize winning account of men of principle, integrity and bravery in American politics is now available in a handsome, illustrated format . Eight men who served in the United States Senate were selected by John F. Kennedy as models of virtue and courage under pressure. [via]
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Schott's Food & Drink Miscellanyby Ben SchottISBN 0747566542 (0-7475-6654-2)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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Seinlanguageby Jerry SeinfeldISBN 0553569155 (0-553-56915-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seinlanguage'Book summary:Seinlanguage could easily be subtitled The World According to Jerry. First published in 1993, when Seinfeld the sitcom was establishing itself as the funniest half-hour on television, this is a collection of Jerry's musings on everything from relationships to shushing in movie theatres. Observational comedy may have reached epidemic proportions recently, but Jerry Seinfeld was, and is, the master of his domain.
"I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'"
Eons hence, scholars may ponder the mysteries of this book in the same way that they now ponder the fragments of Heraclitus. Until then, Seinlanguage will continue to provide guaranteed chuckles in a neat and tidy package. Kind of like Jerry himself. --Simon Leake [via]
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Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joyby Sarah Ban BreathnachISBN 0446519138 (0-446-51913-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy'Book summary:This book features 366 essays penned from a woman's perspective. Sample topics include gratitude, harmony, self-nurturing, positive body image, the importance of scented linen closets, and many others. Each essay sports a pithy quote from (surprise!) the likes of Kahlil Gibran. Viewed uncritically, it's hard to argue with Simple Abundance's earnest admonitions to appreciate life, in all its messy imperfect excellence. And the fact that serenity and happiness are each in dreadfully short supply can excuse some of the treacly writing. But Breathnach sometimes lapses into what can only be described as her "Martha Stewart on Prozac" voice, and the results are aggravating to the extreme: "If you've been hesitant to strike up a reciprocal relationship with your guardian angel, don't be." Fans of guardian angels will greet these feel-good essays every morning with the rising sun, a cup of mint tea, and a bluebird chirping on the windowsill, and be happy. Skeptics will prefer their coffee very black. [via]
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIIIby David StarkeyISBN 069401043X (0-694-01043-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII'Book summary:No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. What could make him marry six times? In this remarkable new study, David Starkey argues that the king was not a depraved philanderer, but someone seeking happiness -- and a son. Knowingly or not, he empowered a group of women to extraordinary heights and changed the way a nation was governed.
Henry took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was seventeen. They lasted twenty-four years together, but Catherine suffered through many miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir. Henry then fell in love with Anne Boleyn, the mother of Elizabeth I. Their relationship transformed England forever, but Henry had Anne beheaded and married his next wife, Jane Seymour, on the very day of Anne's execution. At last, Seymour gave birth to Henry's longed-for son, Edward VI. What followed was a farcical beauty contest which ended in the King's brief marriage to the "mare of Flanders," Anne of Cleves. Finally, there were the two Catherines: Catherine Howard, the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the aging king and who was the second bride to lose her head; and Catherine Parr, the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him.
Six Wives is a masterful work of history that intimately examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court. Weaving new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama surrounding Henry's six marriages, David Starkey reveals the central role that the queens played in determining policy. With an equally keen eye for romantic and political intrigue, he brilliantly recaptures the story of Henry's wives and the England they ruled.
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Six Wives :the Queens of Henry VIII: The Queens of Henry VIIIby David StarkeyISBN 0701172983 (0-7011-7298-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Wives :the Queens of Henry VIII: The Queens of Henry VIII'Book summary:Six Wives is a masterful work of history that intimately examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy, and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court. Weaving new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama surrounding Henry's six marriages, David Starkey reveals the central role that the queens played in determining policy. With an equally keen eye for romantic and political intrigue, he brilliantly recaptures the story of Henry's wives and the England they ruled. [via]
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Skipping Toward Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in Americaby Dan SavageISBN 0452284163 (0-452-28416-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America'Book summary:Dan Savage is irreverent, irrepressible, and opinionated. He's held his own on Politically Incorrect, told tales on This American Life, continues to write a beloved nationally syndicated column-and he's had it up to here (my hand is higher than my head) with the moral, conservative scolds who proclaim America is slouching towards Gomorrah (to use Robert Bork's phrase). Are we really that bad?
Yes, we are! And in Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates those cynics as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them:
Greed: Gamblers reveal secrets behind outrageous fortune.
Lust: "We're swingers!"-you won't believe who's doing it.
Gluttony: Dan meets gluttons with attitude at a pro-fat conference.
Sloth: Leave it to Dan to find a way to celebrate this sin that will get him in trouble with his mother.
Anger: Texans shoot off some rounds and then listen to Dan fire off on his own about guns, control, and the Second Amendment.
Envy: Meet the rich-then be glad you're not one of them.
Pride: You'll never look at a gay pride parade the same way again.
Couple all this sinning with a unique history of the Seven Deadly Sins, a new interpretation of the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, and enough Bork, Bennett, Buchanan, et al, bashing to more than make up for their incessant carping, and you've got the most provocative book of the fall. [via]More editions of Skipping Toward Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America:
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002by Salman RushdieISBN 0679783490 (0-679-78349-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002'Book summary:To cross a frontier is to be transformed....The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we cant avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the worlds harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontiers windowless halls, we see things as they are.
In Salman Rushdies latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to step across this line with him.
The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdies intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writers psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous Step Across This Line, a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.
Rushdies first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for the 1980s. Step Across This Line does the same and more for the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. [via]More editions of Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002:
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Tender at the Bone : Growing up at the Tableby Ruth ReichlISBN 0679449876 (0-679-44987-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender at the Bone : Growing up at the Table'Book summary:New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl shares lessons learned at the hands (and kitchen counters) of family members and friends throughout her life, from growing up with her taste-blind mother to the comfort of cream puffs while away at boarding school on "Mars" (Montreal seemed just as far away) to her most memorable meal, taken on a mountainside in Greece.
Her stories shine with the voices and recipes of those she has encountered on the way, such as her Aunt Birdie's maid and companion, Alice, who first taught Reichl both the power of cooking and how to make perfect apple dumplings; the family's mysterious patrician housekeeper, Mrs. Peavey, who always remembered to make extra pastry for the beef Wellington; Serafina, the college roommate with whom Reichl explored a time of protest and political and personal discovery; and, finally, cookbook author Marion Cunningham, who, after tales of her midlife struggles and transformation, gave Reichl the strength to overcome her own anxieties.
Reichl's wry and gentle humor pervades the book, and makes readers feel as if they're right at the table, laughing at one great story after another (and delighting in a gourmet meal at the same time, of course). Reichl's narrative of a life lived and remembered through the palate will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. [via]
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There Are No Children Hereby Alex KotlowitzISBN 0613024540 (0-613-02454-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There Are No Children Here'Book summary:There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war zone on Chicago's West Side, literally learning how to dodge bullets the way kids in the suburbs learn to chase baseballs. "If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver," says Lafeyette at one point. That's if, not when--spoken with the complete innocence of a child. The book's title comes from a comment made by the brothers' mother as she and author Alex Kotlowitz contemplate the challenges of living in such a hostile environment: "There are no children here," she says. "They've seen too much to be children." This book humanizes the problem of inner-city pathology, makes readers care about Lafeyette and Pharoah more than they may expect to, and offers a sliver of hope buried deep within a world of chaos. [via]
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Utopiaby Thomas More, Robert M. AdamsISBN 0393961451 (0-393-96145-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Sixteenth-century classic by brilliant humanist, churchman and scholar envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed, and vice were nonexistent. Forerunner of many later attempts at establishing "Utopias" both in theory and in practice.[via]More editions of Utopia:
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Utopia: And Other Essential Writings of Thomas Moreby John P. Dolan, Greene, James J. and Dolan, John P.ISBN 0452009200 (0-452-00920-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteriaby Beverly Daniel TatumISBN 061370648X (0-613-70648-X)
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Raceby Beverly Daniel TatumISBN 0465083617 (0-465-08361-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race'Book summary:Anyone who's been to a high school or college has noted how students of the same race seem to stick together. Beverly Daniel Tatum has noticed it too, and she doesn't think it's so bad. As she explains in this provocative, though not-altogether-convincing book, these students are in the process of establishing and affirming their racial identity. As Tatum sees it, blacks must secure a racial identity free of negative stereotypes. The challenge to whites, on which she expounds, is to give up the privilege that their skin color affords and to work actively to combat injustice in society. [via]
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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain Englishby Patricia T. O'ConnerISBN 0399141960 (0-399-14196-0)
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Woman: An Intimate Geographyby Natalie AngierISBN 0395691303 (0-395-69130-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Trotz wissenschaftlicher gegenteiliger Belege, ist das Standard-Design des menschlichen Körpers, jedenfalls was den Berufsstand im Gesundheitswesen betrifft, männlicher Natur. Wenn also plötzlich ein Buch daherkommt, so wunderbar geschrieben und so unglaublich informativ wie Natalie Angiers Woman: An Intimate Geography, dann ist das ein Grund zum Feiern.Ihre mit Esprit und Eloquenz geschriebene Studie über die weibliche Physiologie bezieht ihre Inspiration nicht nur aus wissenschaftlichen und medizinischen Quellen, sondern auch aus der Mythologie, der Geschichte, aus Kunst und Literatur. Dabei beschichtet sie biologische Fakten mit ihren eigenen persönlichen Begegnungen und obskuren Anekdoten aus der Geschichte der Wissenschaft. Wer hätte zum Beispiel gewußt, daß die Klitoris -- mit 8000 Nervenfasern -- ein doppelt so großes Vergnügen wie der Penis ermöglicht; daß das Gen, das die Sensibilität der Zellen hinsichtlich der Androgenwirkung kontrolliert, ironischerweise auf dem X-Chromosom liegt; oder daß Streßhormone wie Hydrocortison und Kortikosteron die wahren Vorboten der Freundschaft sind?
Die Geheimnisse der Evolution sind kein neues Betätigungsfeld für Angier -- einer Biologieschriftstellerin für die New York Times, die den Pulitzerpreis gewann und zu deren früheren Büchern auch The Beauty of the Beastly and Natural Obsessions gehört. Die Stärken der Frau zeigen sich in Angiers spitzfindigem und evokativem, prosaischen Stil, aber ihr wirklicher Beitrag ist die Art und Weise, wie sie die Definition der weiblichen "Geographie" jenseits von Gebärmutter, Brüsten und Östrogen ausdehnt, bis hinab zur bimolekularen Substruktur der DNA und so hoch hinauf bis zur transzendenten Infrastruktur des menschlichen Gehirns. --Patrizia DiLucchio [via]
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0679721886 (0-679-72188-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:'A brilliant memoir ...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire; its crises are the crises of a heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it ...Maxine Hong Kingston writes with bitter and relentless love. Her voice, now, is as clear as the voice of Ts'ai Yen, who sang her sad, angry songs of China to the barbarians. It is as fierce as a warrior's voice, and as eloquent as any artist's' Jane Kramer, New York Times Book Review 'This is a delightful book ...tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it's like simply to be alive' Victoria Radin, New Society 'A strange, enchanting book ...As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one's own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable' Clancy Sigal, Guardian 'As a dream -- of the "female avenger" -- it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword ...reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God' John Leonard, New York Times 'A book of fierce clarity and originality' Newsweek [via]
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghostsby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394400674 (0-394-40067-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts'Book summary:The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain. [via]
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Workingby Studs TerkelISBN 0394478843 (0-394-47884-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Working'Book summary:Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day, by Terkel, Studs [via]
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Doby Studs TerkelISBN 0394729536 (0-394-72953-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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