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The Aeneidby VirgilISBN 0679729526 (0-679-72952-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Arma virumque cano: "I sing of warfare and a man at war." Long the bane of second-year Latin students thrust into a rhetoric of sweeping, seemingly endless sentences full of difficult verb forms and obscure words, Virgil's Aeneid finds a helpful translator in Robert Fitzgerald, who turns the lines into beautiful, accessible American English. Full of betrayal, heartache, seduction, elation, and violence, the Aeneid is the great founding epic of the Roman empire. Its pages sing of the Roman vision of self, the Roman ideal of what it meant to be a citizen of the world's greatest power. The epic's force carries across the centuries, and remains essential reading. [via]
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Ake: The Years of Childhoodby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0679725407 (0-679-72540-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodesby Robert Hunt RhodesISBN 0679738282 (0-679-73828-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes'Book summary:All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union." [via]
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AMA Guide to Your Family's Symptomsby American Medical Association Staff, Carolyn B. MitchellISBN 0679741283 (0-679-74128-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'AMA Guide to Your Family's Symptoms'Book summary:You've got a nagging headache -- is it simple stress something more serious? Your little girl is listless and irritable -- do you need to rush her to the pediatrician? You'll find the answers in The American Medical Association Guide to Your Family's Symptoms, an easy-to-use guide to understanding both common and unusual symptoms of men, women, and children. Unique at-a-glance charts with simple yes-or-no questions will help you analyze hundreds of ailments and recognize when to treat at home, go to the doctor, or rush to the emergency room.
This unique guide is
-- Simple and easy to use
-- Illustrated with clear charts and drawings
-- Filled with practical home care information and advice on alleviating symptoms
-- Reassuring with its comprehensive emergency and first-aid section
-- An essential quick reference for problems from birth through adolescence, adulthood, and the later years [via]More editions of AMA Guide to Your Family's Symptoms:
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American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Churchby Charles MorrisISBN 0679742212 (0-679-74221-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church'Book summary:"A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the Roman Catholic Church was barely a thread in the American cloth. Twenty years later, New York City was home to more Irish Catholics than Dublin. Today, the United States boasts some sixty million members of the Catholic Church, which has become one of this country's most influential cultural forces.
In American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church, Charles R. Morris recounts the rich story of the rise of the Catholic Church in America, bringing to life the personalities that transformed an urban Irish subculture into a dominant presence nationwide. Here are the stories of rogues and ruffians, heroes and martyrs--from Dorothy Day, a convert from Greenwich Village Marxism who opened shelters for thousands, to Cardinal William O'Connell, who ran the Church in Boston from a Renaissance palazzo, complete with golf course. Morris also reveals the Church's continuing struggle to come to terms with secular, pluralist America and the theological, sexual, authority, and gender issues that keep tearing it apart. As comprehensive as it is provocative, American Catholic is a tour de force, a fascinating cultural history that will engage and inform both Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
"The best one-volume history of the last hundred years of American Catholicism that it has ever been my pleasure to read. What's appealing in this remarkable book is its delicate sense of balance and its soundly grounded judgments." --Andrew Greeley [via]More editions of American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church:
The American Revolution: A Historyby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0679640576 (0-679-64057-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Are You Two Together: A Gay and Lesbian Grand Tour of Europeby Lindsy Van GelderISBN 0679735992 (0-679-73599-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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At Home: Essays, 1982-1988by Gore VidalISBN 0679725288 (0-679-72528-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : And Selections from His Other Writingsby Benjamin Franklin, Stacy SchiffISBN 0679641033 (0-679-64103-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : And Selections from His Other Writings'Book summary:Franklins Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history, both personal and national, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed deep worldly wisdom and polished Italian tact, gleaming under an air of Arcadian unaffectedness. [via]
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The Best Little Boy in the World : 1998 Editionby John Reid, Andrew TobiasISBN 067960314X (0-679-60314-X)
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Best of the Old Farmer's Almanac: The First Two Hundred Yearsby Judson D. HaleISBN 0679742646 (0-679-74264-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Captive Mindby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0679728562 (0-679-72856-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captive Mind'Book summary:The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. [via]
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The Catholic Church : A Short Historyby Hans Kung, John BowdenISBN 0679640924 (0-679-64092-4)
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The City : A Global Historyby Joel KotkinISBN 0679603360 (0-679-60336-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City : A Global History'Book summary:If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our speciess ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old question: What makes a city great?
Despite their infinite variety, all cities essentially serve three purposes: spiritual, political, and economic. Kotkin follows the progression of the city from the early religious centers of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China to the imperial centers of the Classical era, through the rise of the Islamic city and the European commercial capitals, ending with todays post-industrial suburban metropolis.
Despite widespread optimistic claims that cities are back in style, Kotkin warns that whatever their form, cities can thrive only if they remain sacred, safe, and busyand this is true for both the increasingly urbanized developing world and the often self-possessed global cities of the West and East Asia.
Looking at cities in the twenty-first century, Kotkin discusses the effects of developments such as shifting demographics and emerging technologies. He also considers the effects of terrorismhow the religious and cultural struggles of the present pose the greatest challenge to the urban future.
Truly global in scope, The City is a timely narrative that will place Kotkin in the company of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and other preeminent urban scholars. [via]More editions of The City : A Global History:
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina: The Troublesome Reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (Born 10 B.C., Died A.D. 54), as Described by Himself, Also His Murder at the Hands of the Notorious Agrippina (Mother of the Emperor Nero) and His Subsequent Deification, as Describby Robert GravesISBN 0679725733 (0-679-72573-3)
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellisonby Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan, Saul BellowISBN 0679601767 (0-679-60176-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison'Book summary:Ellison was a believer in the hybrid nature of American culture, a position clearly articulated in the essay "What America Would Be Like Without Blacks." Elsewhere, he writes about the music of jazzmen Charlie Parker and Charlie Christian, the fiction of Richard Wright and Stephen Crane, and about the creation of his novel, Invisible Man that rocketed him to fame. This book brings together the contents of Ellison's Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory, as well as a dozen or so other essays and talks previously uncollected. [via]
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Communism: A Historyby Richard PipesISBN 0679640509 (0-679-64050-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Wordsby Graham Chapamn, Monty Python (Comedy troupe)ISBN 0679726470 (0-679-72647-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words'Book summary:The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes.
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Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch.
This first volume contains twenty-three classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.More editions of The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words:
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Crazy Saladby Nora Ephron, Steve MartinISBN 0679640355 (0-679-64035-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy Salad'Book summary:The classic Crazy Salad, by screenwriting legend and novelist Nora Ephron, is an extremely funny, deceptively light look at a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way we live now. In this distinctive, engaging, and simply hilarious view of a period of great upheaval in America, Ephron turns her keen eye and wonderful sense of humor to the media, politics, beauty products, and women's bodies. In the famous "A Few Words About Breasts," for example, she tells us: "If I had had them, I would have been a completely different person. I honestly believe that." Ephron brings her sharp pen to bear on the notable women of the time, and to a series of events ranging from Watergate to the Pillsbury Bake-Off. When it first appeared in 1975, Crazy Salad helped to illuminate a new American era--and helped us to laugh at our times and ourselves. This new edition will delight a fresh generation of readers. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679734503 (0-679-73450-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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Darwin for Beginnersby Jonathan MillerISBN 0679725113 (0-679-72511-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin for Beginners'Book summary:The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining."
-- Newsday
aking us through the upheavals in biological thought which made The Origins of Species possible, Jonathan Miller introduces us to that odd revolutionary, Charles Darwin -- a remarkably timid man who spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid riddled with doubts, fearing the controversy his theories might unleash; yet also the man who finally undermined belief in God's creation. Along the way we meet a fascinating cast of characters: Darwin's scientific predecessors, his contemporaries (including Alfred Russell Wallace, whose anticipation of natural selection forced Darwin to publish), his opponents, and his successors whose work in modern genetics provided necessary modifications to Darwin's own work.
Splendidly illustrated, this clever, witty, highly informative book is the perfect introduction to Darwin's life and thought. [via]More editions of Darwin for Beginners:
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Democracy in Americaby Daniel J. Boorstin, Phillips Bradley, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0679728252 (0-679-72825-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Democracy in America is the classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeeded in penning this penetrating study of America's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, "I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress."
In addition to a brilliant, perceptive outline of "the philosophical method of the Americans," Volume II of Democracy in America includes the oddly modern-sounding "Why the Americans Are So Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity," the surprising and provocative "How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes," and the more archaic "The Study of Greek and Latin is Peculiarly Useful in Democratic Communities." This edition--which many consider the best--contains the Henry Reeve text, revised by Francis Bowen, and further edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley. [via]
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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:Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr's book was the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic. [via]
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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of Chinaby Sterling Seagrave, Peggy SeagraveISBN 0679733698 (0-679-73369-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China'Book summary:The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861. [via]
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Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsiby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 067972074X (0-679-72074-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsi'Book summary:A remarkable re-creation of the life of k'ang-hsi, emperor of the manchu dynasty from 1661-1722, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index [via]
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Familiar Animal Tracksby John FarrandISBN 0679741488 (0-679-74148-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Familiar Animal Tracks'Book summary:National Audubon Society Pocket Guides 103823 By Liberty Mountain [via]
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The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perceptionby Don GiffordISBN 0679733329 (0-679-73332-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dreamby Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph SteadmanISBN 0679724192 (0-679-72419-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'Book summary:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the ne plus ultra of Hunter S. Thompson and the whole gonzo clan he spawned. Written in the lurid afterglow of the 1960s, Fear and Loathing is a loosely connected series of mad dashes across the desert, trashed hotel rooms, and goofs on the brutish, naïve, or merely unhip, perpetrated by Thompson and his mammoth Samoan attorney. The pair start out high on a medicine cabinet's worth of elixirs, powders, and pills, and stay that way for 200 pages. They careen through an unsettling landscape of paranoia and alienation, but that doesn't mean the book isn't a riot. Here's a small taste: "By this time, the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level. The room service waiter had a vaguely reptilian cast to his features, but I was no longer seeing huge pterodactyls lumbering around the corridors in pools of fresh blood."
Though somewhat dated (it appeared serially in Rolling Stone throughout November 1971), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a book of real vitality and Rabelaisian wit. A document of the counterculture after it was well past ripe and deep into rot, the book is a wild ride, a paranoid ramble that is thoroughly exhilarating and worth the trip. No pun intended. [via]
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Storiesby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679602984 (0-679-60298-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, Tie-In Edition'Book summary:Dr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out. Thank God Thompson was there to explode the myth of "objective" journalism and help pave the way for the pens and voices that followed. [via]
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United Statesby John Fay, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Robert SciglianoISBN 0679603255 (0-679-60325-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States'Book summary:The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papers stand as perhaps the most eloquent testimonial to democracy that exists. They describe the ideas behind the American system of government: the separation of powers; the organization of Congress; the respective positions of the executive, legislative, and judiciary; and much more. The Federalist remains essential reading for anyone interested in politics and government, and indeed for anyone seeking a foundational statement about democracy and America.
This new edition of The Federalist is edited by Robert Scigliano, a professor in the political science department at Boston College. His substantive Introduction sheds clarifying new light on the historical context and meaning of The Federalist. Scigliano also provides a fresh and definitive analysis of the disputed authorship of several sections of this crucial work. [via]More editions of The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States:
Game Over : How Nintendo Conquered the Worldby David SheffISBN 0679736220 (0-679-73622-0)
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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80'sby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0679722378 (0-679-72237-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's'Book summary:A running tally of the folly of the 80's, the decade known for men of "huge brains, small necks, weak muscles and fat wallets.." - NYT Book Review [via]
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The Gnostic Gospelsby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679724532 (0-679-72453-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gnostic Gospels'Book summary:Gnosticism's Christian form grew to prominence in the 2nd century A.D. Ultimately denounced as heretical by the early church, Gnosticism proposed a revealed knowledge of God ("gnosis" meaning "knowledge" in Greek), held as a secret tradition of the apostles. In The Gnostic Gospels, author Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon. Without a doubt: Gnosticism celebrates God as both Mother and Father, shows a very human Jesus's relationship to Mary Magdalene, suggests the Resurrection is better understood symbolically, and speaks to self-knowledge as the route to union with God. Pagels argues that Christian orthodoxy grew out of the political considerations of the day, serving to legitimize and consolidate early church leadership. Her contrast of that developing orthodoxy with Gnostic teachings presents an intriguing trajectory on a world faith as it "might have become." The Gnostic Gospels provides engaging reading for those seeking a broader perspective on the early development of Christianity. --F. Hall [via]
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Grant and Twain : The Story of a Friendship That Changed Americaby Mark PerryISBN 0679642730 (0-679-64273-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grant and Twain : The Story of a Friendship That Changed America'Book summary:In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would profoundly alter not only both their lives but the course of American literature. Over the next fifteen months, as the two men became close friends and intimate collaborators, Grant raced against the spread of cancer to compose a triumphant account of his life and timeswhile Twain struggled to complete and publish his greatest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.In this deeply moving and meticulously researched book, veteran writer Mark Perry reconstructs the heady months when Grant and Twain inspired and cajoled each other to create two quintessentially American masterpieces.
In a bold and colorful narrative, Perry recounts the early careers of these two giants, traces their quest for fame and elusive fortunes, and then follows the series of events that brought them together as friends. The reason Grant let Twain talk him into writing his memoirs was simple: He was bankrupt and needed the money. Twain promised Grant princely returns in exchange for the right to edit and publish the bookand though the writers own finances were tottering, he kept his word to the general and his family.
Mortally ill and battling debts, magazine editors, and a constant crush of reporters, Grant fought bravely to get the story of his life and his Civil War victories down on paper. Twain, meanwhile, staked all his hopes, both financial and literary, on the tale of a ragged boy and a runaway slave that he had been unable to finish for decades. As Perry delves into the story of the mens deepening friendship and mutual influence, he arrives at the startling discovery of the true model for the character of Huckleberry Finn.
With a cast of fascinating characters, including General William T. Sherman, William Dean Howells, William Henry Vanderbilt, and Abraham Lincoln, Perrys narrative takes in the whole sweep of a glittering, unscrupulous age. A story of friendship and history, inspiration and desperation, genius and ruin, Grant and Twain captures a pivotal moment in the lives of two towering Americans and the age they epitomized. [via]More editions of Grant and Twain : The Story of a Friendship That Changed America:
Guide to Artifacts of Colonial Americaby Ivor Noel HumeISBN 0679724605 (0-679-72460-5)
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The Guitar Handbookby Ralph Denyer, Isaac Guillory, Alastair M. CrawfordISBN 0679742751 (0-679-74275-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guitar Handbook'Book summary:A unique source book for the guitar player - amateur or professional, acoustic or electric, rock , blues, jazz, or folk. The essential encyclopedia for every guitar player. [via]
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Hard Courts : Real Life on the Professional Tennis Toursby John FeinsteinISBN 0679741062 (0-679-74106-2)
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The Harmless Peopleby Elizabeth Marshall ThomasISBN 067972446X (0-679-72446-X)
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Hell's Angelsby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 067960331X (0-679-60331-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hell's Angels'Book summary:"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson's book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell's Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.
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Hiroshimaby John HerseyISBN 0679721037 (0-679-72103-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiroshima'Book summary:When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could have anticipated its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortly after the explosion and, in 1946, Hiroshima was published, giving the world first-hand accounts from people who had survived it. The words of Miss Sasaki, Dr. Fujii, Mrs. Nakamara, Father Kleinsorg, Dr. Sasaki, and the Reverend Tanimoto gave a face to the statistics that saturated the media and solicited an overwhelming public response. Whether you believe the bomb made the difference in the war or that it should never have been dropped, "Hiroshima" is a must read for all of us who live in the shadow of armed conflict. [via]
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
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The History of the Conquest of Peruby William H. PrescottISBN 0679602992 (0-679-60299-2)
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"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day.
----"Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable des-
tiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature." [via]More editions of The History of the Conquest of Peru:
Hitler and the Holocaust: A Short Historyby Robert S. WistrichISBN 0679642226 (0-679-64222-6)
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Hype and Gloryby William GoldmanISBN 0679734783 (0-679-73478-3)
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Illiberal Education : The Politics of Race and Sex on Campusby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0679738576 (0-679-73857-6)
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In an Antique Landby Amitav GhoshISBN 0679727833 (0-679-72783-3)
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In the Realm of a Dying Emperor/Japan at Century's Endby Norma FieldISBN 0679741895 (0-679-74189-5)
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In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazonby Redmond O'HanlonISBN 0679727140 (0-679-72714-0)
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Infinite Ascent : A Short History of Mathematicsby David BerlinskiISBN 067964234X (0-679-64234-X)
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Invisible Manby Ralph EllisonISBN 0679732764 (0-679-73276-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Man'Book summary:A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, The Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Searching for a context in which to know himself, he exists in a very peculiar state. "I am an invisible man," he says in his prologue, "When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me." But this is hard-won self-knowledge, earned over the course of many years.
As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: "Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here?" Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that his former headmaster's recommendation letters are, in fact, letters of condemnation.
What ensues is a search for what truth actually is, which proves to be supremely elusive. The narrator becomes a spokesman for a mixed-race band of social activists called "The Brotherhood" and believes he is fighting for equality. Once again, he realises he's been duped into believing what hethought was the truth, when in fact it is only another variation. Of the Brothers, he eventually discerns: "They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves.... Here I thought they accepted me because they felt that colour made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either colour or men".
Invisible Man is certainly a book about race in America, andsadly enough, few of the problems it chronicles have disappeared even now. But Ellison's first novel transcends such a narrow definition. It's also a book about the human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees. None of us can ever be sure of the truth beyond ourselves, and possibly not even there. The world isa tricky place, and no one knows this better than the invisible man, who leaves us with these chilling, provocative words: "And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" --Melanie Rehak, Amazon.com [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0679602690 (0-679-60269-0)
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published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly
handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Brontë, a young woman from a bleak Yorkshire parsonage.
Time has served Jane Eyre well. Charlotte Brontë's social commentary still fascinates; the novel is still powerful, full of erotic tension, passion, and irony. It can be read as an astonishing paradigm of feminist writing. At its heart is the assertion that a woman has the right to be independent, and its insistence on that fact and on the equality of the sexes makes it a truly revolutionary work of art. Above all, Jane Eyre is a marvelous love story, as affecting as any in fiction.
Diane Johnson has provided a new Introduction to this Modern Library edition, which is the companion volume to the A&E television presentation. The Modern Library also publishes Charlotte Brontë's three other completed novels: The Professor, Shirley, and Villette.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via]More editions of Jane Eyre:
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Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Timeby Phyllis RoseISBN 0679731334 (0-679-73133-4)
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Killer Angelsby Michael ShaaraISBN 0679643249 (0-679-64324-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Angels'Book summary:This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels. There are also plenty of maps, which convey a complete sense of what happened July 1-3, 1863. Reading about the past is rarely so much fun as on these pages. [via]
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The Lady and the Monkby Pico IyerISBN 0679738347 (0-679-73834-7)
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A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest GainesISBN 0679741666 (0-679-74166-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lesson Before Dying'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty.
"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be..." So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.
As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is not always expressed through action--sometimes the simple act of resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for a lifetime. [via]
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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Pragueby Timothy Garton AshISBN 0679740481 (0-679-74048-1)
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Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendmentby Anthony LewisISBN 0679739394 (0-679-73939-4)
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Man Who Walked Through Timeby Colin FletcherISBN 0679723064 (0-679-72306-4)
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The Mask of Benevolence : Disabling the Deaf Communityby Harlan LaneISBN 067973614X (0-679-73614-X)
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The Memoirs of Catherine the Greatby Hilde Hoogenboom, Markus I. Cruse, CatherineISBN 0679642994 (0-679-64299-4)
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Military Misfortunes : The Anatomy of Failure in Warby Eliot A. Cohen, John GoochISBN 0679732969 (0-679-73296-9)
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The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whalesby Diane AckermanISBN 0679742263 (0-679-74226-3)
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Motoring With Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Seaby Eric HansenISBN 067973855X (0-679-73855-X)
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essaysby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 0679733736 (0-679-73373-6)
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Margaret WashingtonISBN 067974035X (0-679-74035-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth'Book summary:Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850, the narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's thirty years of bondage in upstate New York and to the mystical revelations that turned her into a passionate and indefatigable abolitionist.
In this new edition, which has been edited and extensively annotated by the distinguished scholar and biographer of Sojourner Truth, Margaret Washington, Truth's testimony takes on added dimensions: as a lens into the little-known world of northern slavery; as a chronicle of spiritual conversion; and as an inspiring account of a black woman striving for personal and political empowerment. [via]More editions of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth:
Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africaby Eddy L. HarrisISBN 0679742328 (0-679-74232-8)
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Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Ideaby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0679643354 (0-679-64335-4)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0679728139 (0-679-72813-9)
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The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbookby Henry Beard, Christopher CerfISBN 0679741135 (0-679-74113-5)
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The Palm at the End of the Mindby Wallace Stevens, Holly StevensISBN 0679724451 (0-679-72445-1)
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Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813by Simon SchamaISBN 0679729496 (0-679-72949-6)
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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum Southby Kenneth Milton StamppISBN 0679723072 (0-679-72307-2)
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Penn and Teller's How to Play with Your Foodby Penn JilletteISBN 0679743111 (0-679-74311-1)
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The Poet's Guide To Life: The Wisdom Of Rilkeby Rainer Maria Rilke, Ulrich BaerISBN 0679642927 (0-679-64292-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poet's Guide To Life: The Wisdom Of Rilke'Book summary:You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth centurys greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never-before translated correspondence.
The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by themefrom everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experience of loss, from dealing with adversity to the nature of inspiration, here are Rilkes thoughts on how to live life in a meaningful way:
Life and Living: How good life is. How fair, how incorruptible, how impossible to deceive: not even by strength, not even by willpower, and not even by courage. How everything remains what it is and has only this choice: to come true, or to exaggerate and push too far.
Art: The work of art is adjustment, balance, reassurance. It can be neither gloomy nor full of rosy hopes, for its essence consists of justice.
Faith: I personally feel a greater affinity to all those religions in which the middleman is less essential or almost entirely suppressed.
Love: To be loved means to be ablaze. To love is: to shine with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away; to love is to last.
Intimate, stylistically masterful, brilliantly translated, and brimming with the wonder and passion of Rilke, The Poets Guide to Life is comparable to the best works of wisdom in all of literature and a perfect book for all occasions. [via]More editions of The Poet's Guide To Life: The Wisdom Of Rilke:
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Politics of War : The Worldby Gabriel KolkoISBN 0679727574 (0-679-72757-4)
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victoriansby Gertrude HimmelfarbISBN 0679741739 (0-679-74173-9)
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The Random House Thesaurusby Jess Stein, Stuart Berg FlexnerISBN 0679727108 (0-679-72710-8)
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revoltby Albert CamusISBN 0679733841 (0-679-73384-1)
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The Renaissance: A Short Historyby Paul JohnsonISBN 067964086X (0-679-64086-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance: A Short History'Book summary:The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization; and, of course, producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. Perhaps no era in history was more revolutionary, and none has been more romanticized. What was it? In The Renaissance, the great historian Paul Johnson tackles that question with the towering erudition and imaginative fire that are his trademarks.
Johnson begins by painting the economic, technological, and social developments that give the period its background. But, as Johnson explains, "The Renaissance was primarily a human event, propelled forward by a number of individuals of outstanding talent, in some cases amounting to genius." It is the human foreground that absorbs most of the book's attention. "We can give all kinds of satisfying explanations of why and when the Renaissance occurred and how it transmitted itself," Johnson writes. "But there is no explaining Dante, no explaining Chaucer. Genius suddenly comes to life, and speaks out of a vacuum. Then it is silent, equally mysteriously. The trends continue and intensify, but genius is lacking." In the four parts that make up the heart of the book--"The Renaissance in Literature and Scholarship," "The Anatomy of Renaissance Sculpture," "The Buildings of the Renaissance," and "The Apostolic Successions of Renaissance Painting"--Johnson chronicles the lives and works of the age's animating spirits. Finally, he examines the spread and decline of the Renaissance, and its abiding legacy. A book of dazzling riches, The Renaissance is a compact masterpiece of the historian's art. [via]More editions of The Renaissance: A Short History:
Satisfaction Guaranteed : The Making of the American Mass Marketby Susan StrasserISBN 067972558X (0-679-72558-X)
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Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Natureby Lorraine AndersonISBN 0679733825 (0-679-73382-5)
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essaysby Joan Didion, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0679640266 (0-679-64026-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essays'Book summary:Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. Her unblinking vision and deadpan tone have influenced subsequent generations of reporters and essayists, changing our expectations of style, voice, and the artistic possibilities of nonfiction.
"In her portraits of people," The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country."
In essay after essay, Didion captures the dislocation of the 1960s, the disorientation of a country shredding itself apart with social change. Her essays not only describe the subject at hand--the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion--but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.
Joyce Carol Oates has written, "Joan Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever. . . . She has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control." [via]More editions of Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essays:
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Life Raft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a National Hero, Kissed by Beauty Queens, Made rich Through Publicity, aby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 067972205X (0-679-72205-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Life Raft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a National Hero, Kissed by Beauty Queens, Made rich Through Publicity, a'Book summary:Translated by Randolf Hogan. In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. [via]
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This Quiet Dust and Other Writingsby William StyronISBN 0679735968 (0-679-73596-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Quiet Dust and Other Writings'Book summary:[via]Profound and passionate essays from one of Americas greatest literary voices of the twentieth centuryThis Quiet Dust is a compilation of William Styrons nonfiction writings that confront significant moral questions with precision and vigor. He examines topics as diverse as the Holocaust, the American Dream, and the controversy that raged around his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner. In each entry, Styron expertly wields his powers of insight to slice through the most complex issues.This Quiet Dust offers a window into the philosophical underpinnings of Styrons greatest novels and is the ideal entry for readers seeking a greater understanding into the work of one of Americas most celebrated authors.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.More editions of This Quiet Dust and Other Writings:
Total War: Causes and Courses of the Second World Warby Peter CalvocoressiISBN 0679730990 (0-679-73099-0)
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U and Iby Nicholson BakerISBN 0679735755 (0-679-73575-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'U and I'Book summary:Nicholson Baker is most famous for Vox, the phone-sex novel Monica Lewinsky gave President Clinton, but the vastly superior U and I contains Baker's own dirty little secret: an obsession with John Updike. Not since Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus has one man's genius so publicly tormented another. Baker's ambition is a naked thing shivering with sensitivity, like a snail bereft of its shell. Yet his book about himself thinking about Updike is as hilariously self-knowing as it is excruciatingly sincere. And Baker is not mad (not quite). He does have a few things in common with his idol: fiction precociously published in The New Yorker, psoriasis, insomnia, a keen eye for everyday minutiae, and a mischievously felicitous prose style. He is, however, funnier. Hunting for Updike at The Atlantic's 125th anniversary party, he gets brutally snubbed by Miss Manners--U and I is a fine comedy of literary manners--and cheers up when Tim O'Brien chats with him. But when O'Brien mentions that he golfs with Updike, Baker is hurt:
It didn't matter that I hadn't written a book that had won a National Book Award, hadn't written a book of any kind, and didn't know how to golf: still, I felt strongly that Updike should have asked me and not Tim O'Brien.
He justifies this reaction with a remarkably intricate series of associations between his life and Updike's, starting with the major impact a golf joke in an Updike essay once had on him. When Baker reads in the paper that his local cops offer to X-ray kids' candy for razors, he plausibly imagines the droll "Talk of the Town" piece Updike might have spun from the item, glumly noting that Updike's piece would have been better. He even teasingly confesses that U and I constitutes "a little trick-or-treating of my own on Updike's big white front porch." By the time he actually meets his hero (at Rochester's Xerox Auditorium!) in 1981, Baker has transformed him into a character in a Baker story. Quite a trick--and a treat.
In his elegy for Yeats, Auden wrote that a great poet's words are modified in the guts of the living, but Baker proves what really happens: at best we misremember and mangle, shamelessly remaking the master in our own image. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0679723935 (0-679-72393-5)
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Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far Eastby Pico IyerISBN 0679722165 (0-679-72216-5)
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Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Centuryby Randall KenanISBN 067973788X (0-679-73788-X)
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. Eliot, Mary KarrISBN 0679641017 (0-679-64101-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."
As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays.
In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
Writers Dreamingby Naomi EpelISBN 0679741410 (0-679-74141-0)
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You Gotta Have Waby Robert WhitingISBN 067972947X (0-679-72947-X)
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