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The American Constitution: Its Origins and Developmentby Alfred Hinsey Kelly, Winfred Audif HarbisonISBN 0393091767 (0-393-09176-7)
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Annotated Aliceby Martin Gardner, Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0393048470 (0-393-04847-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annotated Alice'Book summary:"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations!"
Readers who share Alice's taste in books will be more than satisfied with The Annotated Alice, a volume that includes not only pictures and conversations, but a thorough gloss on the text as well. There may be some, like G.K. Chesterton, who abhor the notion of putting Lewis Carroll's masterpiece under a microscope and analyzing it within an inch of its whimsical life. But as Martin Gardner points out in his introduction, so much of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is composed of private jokes and details of Victorian manners and mores that modern audiences are not likely to catch. Yes, Alice can be enjoyed on its own merits, but The Annotated Alice appeals to the nosy parker in all of us. Thus we learn, for example, that the source of the mouse's tale may have been Alfred Lord Tennyson who "once told Carroll that he had dreamed a lengthy poem about fairies, which began with very long lines, then the lines got shorter and shorter until the poem ended with fifty or sixty lines of two syllables each." And that, contrary to popular belief, the Mad Hatter character was not a parody of then Prime Minister Gladstone, but rather was based on an Oxford furniture dealer named Theophilus Carter.
Gardner's annotations run the gamut from the factual and historical to the speculative and are, in their own way, quite as fascinating as the text they refer to. Occasionally, he even comments on himself, as when he quotes a fellow annotator of Alice, James Kincaid: "The historical context does not call for a gloss but the passage provides an opportunity to point out the ambivalence that may attend the central figure and her desire to grow up." And then follows with a charming riposte: "I thank Mr. Kincaid for supporting my own rambling." There's a lot of information in the margins (indeed, the page is pretty evenly divided between Carroll's text and Gardner's), but the ramblings turn out to be well worth the time. So hand over your old copy of Lewis Carroll's classic to the kids--this Alice in Wonderland is intended entirely for adults. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Art of Courtly Loveby Andreas CapellanusISBN 0393098486 (0-393-09848-6)
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The Art of Literary Researchby Richard Daniel AltickISBN 0393092275 (0-393-09227-5)
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The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Methodby Marilyn Vos Savant, Joan ReillyISBN 0393049035 (0-393-04903-5)
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At Day's Close: Night in Times Pastby A. Roger EkirchISBN 0393050890 (0-393-05089-0)
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Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builderby Mary S. LovellISBN 039306221X (0-393-06221-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder'Book summary:From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history.
Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, built the great house at Chatsworth, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history.
In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more capricious and bloody, only to be followed by the indomitable and ruthless Gloriana, Elizabeth I. It could not have been more hazardous a period for an ambitious woman; by the time Bess's first child was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded.
Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the dukes of Devonshire, Rutland, and Portland, and, on the American side, Katharine Hepburn. [via]More editions of Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder:
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fallby Andrew MeierISBN 0393051781 (0-393-05178-1)
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Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Designby Richard DawkinsISBN 0393304485 (0-393-30448-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design'Book summary:Richard Dawkins is not a shy man. Edward Larson's research shows that most scientists today are not formally religious, but Dawkins is an in-your-face atheist in the witty British style:
I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence.
The title of this 1986 work, Dawkins's second book, refers to the Rev. William Paley's 1802 work, Natural Theology, which argued that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Dawkins: "All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way... it is the blind watchmaker."
Dawkins is a hard-core scientist: he doesn't just tell you what is so, he shows you how to find out for yourself. For this book, he wrote Biomorph, one of the first artificial life programs. You can check Dawkins's results on your own Mac or PC. [via]
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The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923by Edward Hallett CarrISBN 0393301958 (0-393-30195-8)
Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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The Boston Massacreby Hiller B. ZobelISBN 0393053768 (0-393-05376-8)
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The Century of Revolution 1603-1714by Christopher HillISBN 0393300161 (0-393-30016-1)
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The Choking Dobermanby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393303217 (0-393-30321-7)
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Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that always happen to a "friend of a friend." [via]More editions of The Choking Doberman:
Chosen Poems, Old and Newby Audre LordeISBN 039330017X (0-393-30017-X)
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The Continental Edition of World Masterpiecesby Maynard MacKISBN 0393093190 (0-393-09319-0)
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Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, With Recipesby Amanda Hesser, IzakISBN 039305196X (0-393-05196-X)
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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalismby Richard SennettISBN 0393046788 (0-393-04678-8)
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenmentby Roy PorterISBN 0393048721 (0-393-04872-1)
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Gibian, Jessie Senior CoulsonISBN 0393092925 (0-393-09292-5)
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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazonby Patrick TierneyISBN 0393049221 (0-393-04922-1)
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Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculusby Harry Moritz ScheyISBN 0393093670 (0-393-09367-0)
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweisby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0393052990 (0-393-05299-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis'Book summary:A great medical detective story, by the author of the best-selling How We Die. SURGEON, SCHOLAR, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, Sherwin B. Nuland is one of our finest chroniclers of the history of medicine. Obsessed for twenty-five years with Ignac Semmelweis's strange story. Nuland tells it with the urgency and insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignac Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately, they also threatened the medical establishment and so undid the passionate but selfdestructive Semmelweis that he failed to overturn the status quo, leaving it to later medical giants--Pasteur, Lister, and Koch--to establish conclusively the germ theory of disease. The Doctors' Plague is a riveting, revealing narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history. [via]
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The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943, Pearl Harbor Through Guadalcanalby Alan Morris SchomISBN 0393049248 (0-393-04924-8)
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Eco-Economy: Building a New Economy for the Environmental Ageby Lester R. BrownISBN 0393051099 (0-393-05109-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eco-Economy: Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age'Book summary:Lester Brown, "the guru of the global environmental movement" (The Telegraph of Calcutta), argues that, like the Sumerian and Mayan civilizations, our economy is fast destroying its environmental support systems, threatening future generations. The challenge is to restructure the global economy, replacing our fossil fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy with a new one that is environmentally sustainable. Brown outlines his vision of the new economy. It will be powered not with fossil fuels but with solar and wind energy. Its urban transport systems will be centered not around the automobile but around light rail and the bicycle. It will not be a throwaway economy but will be a reuse/recycle economy with a stable population. And building this new economy represents the greatest investment opportunity in history. There is no middle ground. Either we build an economy that is environmentally sustainable or stay with our existing economy until environmental deterioration leads to economic decline. [via]
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Ecrits: The First Complete Edition In Englishby Jacques Lacan, Bruce FinkISBN 0393061159 (0-393-06115-9)
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Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. This new translation of his complete works offers welcome, readable access to Lacan's seminal thinking on diverse subjects touched upon over the course of his inimitable intellectual career. [via]More editions of Ecrits: The First Complete Edition In English:
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Timeby Michio KakuISBN 039305165X (0-393-05165-X)
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Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papersby Joseph P. LashISBN 0393074595 (0-393-07459-5)
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Feminine Sexualityby Juliet MitchellISBN 0393302113 (0-393-30211-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feminine Sexuality'Book summary:Jacques Lacan is arguably the most controversial psychoanalyst of our time.
Psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most contested areas of debate within feminism. This book presents articles on feminine sexuality by Lacan and members of the école freudienne, the school of psychoanalysis that Lacan directed in Paris from 1964 to 1980.
The question of feminine sexuality has divided the psychoanalytic movement since the 1920s. Despite their opposition to each other, contemporary psychoanalysis and feminism both reject Freud's phallocentrism. This book forcefully reasserts the importance of the castration complex in Freud's work and of the phallus in the work of Lacan, offering them not as a reflection of a theory based on male supremacy and privilege but as the terms through which any such privilege is exposed as a fraud. Lacan's rereading of Freud is seen here to reveal, in a way that no other account has been able to do, the arbitrary and fictional nature of both male and female sexual identity and, specifically, the fantasy behind the category "woman" as the dominant fetish of our culture. These texts reveal that women constantly exceed the barriers of the definition to which they are confined. [via]More editions of Feminine Sexuality:
The Finest Kind: The Fishermen of Gloucesterby Kim BartlettISBN 0393087972 (0-393-08797-2)
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393303756 (0-393-30375-6)
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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soulby Roy Porter, Simon SchamaISBN 0393050750 (0-393-05075-0)
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The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks At Early Americaby Edmund S. MorganISBN 0393059200 (0-393-05920-0)
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Getting Organized: The Easy Way to Put Your Life in Orderby Stephanie WinstonISBN 0393087867 (0-393-08786-7)
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Globalization and Its Discontentsby Joseph E. StiglitzISBN 0393051242 (0-393-05124-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Globalization and Its Discontents'Book summary:Due to massive media coverage, many people are familiar with the controversy and organized resistance that globalization has generated around the world, yet explaining what globalization actually means in practice is a complicated task. For those wanting to learn more, this book is an excellent place to start. An experienced economist, Joseph Stiglitz had a brilliant career in academia before serving for four years on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors and then three years as chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. His book clearly explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization--the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization--along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. He strongly believes that globalization can be a positive force around the world, particularly for the poor, but only if the IMF, World Bank, and WTO dramatically alter the way they operate, beginning with increased transparency and a greater willingness to examine their own actions closely. Of his time at the World Bank, he writes, "Decisions were made on the basis of what seemed a curious blend of ideology and bad economics, dogma that sometimes seemed to be thinly veiling special interests.... Open, frank discussion was discouraged--there was no room for it." The book is not entirely critical, however: "Those who vilify globalization too often overlook its benefits," Stiglitz writes, explaining how globalization, along with foreign aid, has improved the living standards of millions around the world. With this clear and balanced book, Stiglitz has contributed significantly to the debate on this important topic. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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God's Funeralby A. N. WilsonISBN 0393047458 (0-393-04745-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Funeral'Book summary:God's Funeral is A.N. Wilson's account of the decline of orthodox Christianity in Victorian Britain. The most popular explanation for this widely-recognized phenomenon is the acceptance by intellectuals of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. To disprove the notion that Darwin singlehandedly committed deicide, Wilson describes a host of secularizing predecessors and accomplices such as Hume, Gibbon, John Stuart Mill, Hegel, Marx, and Carlyle. All play major roles in Wilson's brilliantly staged reconstruction of the so-called death of God. God's Funeral also takes account of the pain and confusion these intellectuals brought upon themselves when their great achievements helped erode the social and intellectual foundations of their lives. Furthermore, Wilson shows how their crises of faith relate to our own. Like our Victorian forebears, contemporary readers still must ask, "Is our personal religion that which links us to the ultimate reality, or is it the final human fantasy...?" and, "Is there a world of value outside ourselves, or do we, collectively and individually, invent what we call The Good?" God's Funeral helps readers learn to ask these questions in smarter and sharper ways by giving them a clearer sense of how Western society reached its current state of confusion. [via]
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story Of Myth, Madness, And Greedby John VaillantISBN 0393058875 (0-393-05887-5)
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Centuryby Paul KrugmanISBN 0393058506 (0-393-05850-6)
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A History of Narrative Filmby David A. CookISBN 0393090221 (0-393-09022-1)
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In Defense of Historyby Richard J. EvansISBN 0393046877 (0-393-04687-7)
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863by Edward L. AyersISBN 0393057860 (0-393-05786-0)
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Incompleteness: The Proof And Paradox Of Kurt Godelby Rebecca GoldsteinISBN 0393051692 (0-393-05169-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incompleteness: The Proof And Paradox Of Kurt Godel'Book summary:Kurt Gödel is often held up as an intellectual revolutionary whose incompleteness theorem helped tear down the notion that there was anything certain about the universe. Philosophy professor, novelist, and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Goldstein reinterprets the evidence and restores to Gödel's famous idea the meaning he claimed he intended: that there is a mathematical truth--an objective certainty--underlying everything and existing independently of human thought. Gödel, Goldstein maintains, was an intellectual heir to Plato whose sense of alienation from the positivists and postmodernists of the 1940s was only ameliorated by his friendship with another intellectual giant, Albert Einstein. As Goldstein writes, "That his work, like Einstein's, has been interpreted as not only consistent with the revolt against objectivity but also as among its most compelling driving forces is ... more than a little ironic."
This and other paradoxes of Gödel's life are woven throughout Incompleteness, with biographical details taking something of a back seat to the philosophical and mathematical underpinnings of his theories. As an introduction to one of the three most profound scientific insights of the 20th century (the other two being Einstein's relativity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle), Incompleteness is accessible, yet intellectually rigorous. Goldstein succeeds admirably in retiring inaccurate interpretations of Gödel's ideas. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central Americaby Walter LafeberISBN 0393302121 (0-393-30212-1)
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An Introduction to Quantum Physicsby A.P. FrenchISBN 0393091066 (0-393-09106-6)
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In Historyby William SafireISBN 0393059316 (0-393-05931-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History'Book summary:The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expandedwith a new preface on what makes a speech "great."
An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. This third edition is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Gore. A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas; what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster; and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech. [via]More editions of Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History:
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Letters to a Fiction Writerby Frederick BuschISBN 0393047350 (0-393-04735-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Fiction Writer'Book summary:"As a writer," says Andre Dubus, "you are constantly in training. Day after day, alone at your desk, with no one watching you or even depending on you, you take your position on the playing field." Letters to a Fiction Writer, which was inspired by Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, is a reminder that there is actually a whole community out there sharing your Sisyphean task. These 33 letters are written by authors such as Ann Beattie, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tobias Wolff. Lee K. Abbott (Living After Midnight) addresses the obligation of the fiction writer to "write it all goddamn down." Raymond Carver ponders the relationship between writing and alcoholism (upon recovering from it, he says, "I was so grateful to have my health back, and my life back, that it really didn't matter to me in one large way if I ever wrote anything again or not"). David Bradley discusses the difficulty of being an as-yet unpublished writer: "Most professions," he says, "pay bright prospects to develop their skills.... There are no such positions in writing."
Trying to make it as a writer is discouraging, yes. "If you can stop," recommends Reynolds Price, "you probably should. Try cabinet-making." But if you're all thumbs with a band saw, clasp this book to your breast and don't let go. For in it there are words of wisdom, wit, encouragement, and enticement that are sure to help you through that "strange and particular torture" that comes, according to Nicholas Delbanco, "after four hours of sitting with a paragraph you know to be poor." Of course, the true key to being a writer, say many of the authors included in this anthology, is writing. "Show up for work as dutifully and with as little fanfare as any civil servant," says Rosellen Brown. "Stop thinking of becoming an author," says Stanley W. Lindberg, editor of The Georgia Review, "and work instead to become a writer." And finally, intones Janette Turner Hospital (The Ivory Swing), "When rejection slips or rotten reviews come in ... have one stiff drink, say five Hail Mary's and ten Fuck-You's, and get back to work." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The Lie That Tells a Truthby John DufresneISBN 0393057518 (0-393-05751-8)
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The Life and Times of Mexicoby Earl ShorrisISBN 039305926X (0-393-05926-X)
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A Little More About Meby Pam HoustonISBN 0393048055 (0-393-04805-5)
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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Formsby Mark Strand, Eavan BolandISBN 0393049167 (0-393-04916-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms'Book summary:The Making of a Poem is among the best how-to-read-poetry titles. Edited by two of our greatest living poets, one Irish and female, the other American and male, it is both an exploration of poetic forms and an anthology. Eavan Boland and Mark Strand each offer an introduction and then give us a series of chapters devoted to particular verse forms--the sonnet, the ballad, the sestina, the villanelle, blank verse, the stanza--as well as a long section devoted to what they somewhat vaguely call shaping forms. This refers to poetic structures established not by a specific rhyme and/or metrical pattern but by content: the elegy, for example, or the pastoral or ode. The book then concludes with a section on open forms. Each chapter is conveniently subdivided, each topic simply defined: a single page gives "The Ballad at a Glance" (or, for that matter, the pantoum) as a quick overview of the form's structure. A page or two on the history of the form follows, along with a brief comment on "the contemporary context." Then a chronological anthology of poems demonstrates the particular form. In the sonnet's case, for instance, we are treated to 23 brilliantly chosen examples--everything from Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" to Seamus Heaney's "The Haw Lantern" to Mary Jo Salter's playful "Half a Double Sonnet." The section then concludes with another brief analysis of one example. In this spot, the villanelle features Elizabeth Bishop's classic heartbreaker, "One Art," and blank verse gives us far too brief a take on Robert Frost's tantalizing "Directive." Itself worth the price of admission, the poem begins:
Back out of all this now too much for us,
One can readily see both the advantages and the limitations of such a format: definitions are kept lean, at times approaching the sound bite, and the short sentences and brief paragraphs often seem designed for a readership more accustomed to journalism than to the complexities of Dante (see, for example, the one-page history of the sestina). All of this looks like an attempt to reach an audience of both college students and general readers. While more information might help (brief comments on why certain poems in the anthology are defined as odes, pastorals, or elegies, for example), the bottom line is that The Making of a Poem does an excellent job of taking the inexperienced reader inside the mystery of poetic form. In these terms the volume succeeds, giving us a way into the history of poetry, along with an excellent anthology as a starting point for a deeper exploration of the glories of the genre. --Doug Thorpe [via]
Back in a time made simply by the loss
of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more than a house
Upon a farm that is no more than a farm
And in a town that is no more than a town.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And the Invention of the Computerby David LeavittISBN 0393052362 (0-393-05236-2)
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To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies' victory in World War II. In so doing, Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, formulating the famous (and still unbeaten) Turing Test that challenges our ideas of human consciousness. But Turing's postwar computer-building was cut short when, as an openly gay man in a time when homosexuality was officially illegal in England, he was apprehended by the authorities and sentenced to a "treatment" that amounted to chemical castration, leading to his suicide.
With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanityhis eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candorwhile elegantly explaining his work and its implications. [via]More editions of The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing And the Invention of the Computer:
Mathematics for the Millionby Lancelot Thomas HogbenISBN 0393063615 (0-393-06361-5)
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, And Art In Fifteenth-century Florenceby Tim ParksISBN 0393058271 (0-393-05827-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, And Art In Fifteenth-century Florence'Book summary:THEIR NAME is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen the Medicis build their fortune on banking--specifically, on lending money at interest. Banking in the fifteenth century, even at the height of the Renaissance, meant running afoul of the Catholic Church's prohibition against usury. It required more than merely financial skills to make a profit, and the legendary Medicis--most famously Cosimo and Lorenzo ("the Magnificent")--were masterly in wielding the political, diplomatic, military, and even metaphysical tools that were needed to maintain their family's position. In this brisk and witty narrative. Tim Parks uncovers the intrigues, dodges, and moral qualities that gave the Medicis their edge. Vividly evoking the richness of the Florentine Renaissance and the Medicis' glittering circle, replete with artists, popes, and kings, "Medici Money is a brilliant look into the origins of modern banking and its troubled relationship with art and religion. [via]
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Mr. Kipling's Armyby Byron FarwellISBN 0393304442 (0-393-30444-2)
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This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling conditions under which they lived have gone largely unrecorded. Byron Farwell explores here the lives of officers and men, their foibles, gallantry, and diversions, their discipline and their rewards. [via]More editions of Mr. Kipling's Army:
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The Muslim Discovery of Europeby Bernard LewisISBN 0393302334 (0-393-30233-4)
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The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is one of the great sagas of world history. 30 black and white illustrations [via]More editions of The Muslim Discovery of Europe:
The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italyby Paul MacKendrickISBN 0393301192 (0-393-30119-2)
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Scienceby Charles WheelanISBN 0393049825 (0-393-04982-5)
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Naval Warfare in the Age of Sailby Bernard IrelandISBN 0393049833 (0-393-04983-3)
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The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Scienceby David M. RaupISBN 0393304094 (0-393-30409-4)
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Storyby Michael LewisISBN 0393048136 (0-393-04813-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story'Book summary:Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn health care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring the vast majority of the industry's transactions online. So why was he spending so much time on a computerized yacht, each feature installed because, as one technician put it, "someone saw it on Star Trek and wanted one just like it?"
Much of The New New Thing, to be fair, is devoted to the Healtheon story. It's just that Jim Clark doesn't do startups the way most people do. "He had ceased to be a businessman," as Lewis puts it, "and become a conceptual artist." After coming up with the basic idea for Healtheon, securing the initial seed money, and hiring the people to make it happen, Clark concentrated on the building of Hyperion, a sailboat with a 197-foot mast, whose functions are controlled by 25 SGI workstations (a boat that, if he wanted to, Clark could log onto and steer--from anywhere in the world). Keeping up with Clark proves a monumental challenge--"you didn't interact with him," Lewis notes, "so much as hitch a ride on the back of his life"--but one that the author rises to meet with the same frenetic energy and humor of his previous books, Liar's Poker and Trail Fever.
Like those two books, The New New Thing shows how the pursuit of power at its highest levels can lead to the very edges of the surreal, as when Clark tries to fill out an investment profile for a Swiss bank, where he intends to deposit less than .05 percent of his financial assets. When asked to assess his attitude toward financial risk, Clark searches in vain for the category of "people who sought to turn ten million dollars into one billion in a few months" and finally tells the banker, "I think this is for a different ... person." There have been a lot of profiles of Silicon Valley companies and the way they've revamped the economy in the 1990s--The New New Thing is one of the first books fully to depict the sort of man that has made such companies possible. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Norton Introduction to Literatureby C. Bain, Jerome Beaty, J. Paul HunterISBN 0393093344 (0-393-09334-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Introduction to Literature'Book summary:Offering 59 stories, 458 poems, and 15 plays, this anthology provides a wider range of classic and contemporary works than any other three-genre anthology. Three new "Critical Contexts" casebooks introduce readers to examples of professional literary criticism, and editorial commentary throughout encourages readers to read thoughtfully, analytically, and creatively. [via]
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The Norton Introduction to Literatureby Jerome Beaty, J. Paul Hunter, C. BainISBN 0393091198 (0-393-09119-8)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Meyer Howard AbramsISBN 0393151123 (0-393-15112-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:This seventh edition's thoroughly revised text incorporates recent scholarly developments while retaining the elements that have made the anthology useful in the past. New features includes a broader representation of women writers of all historical periods such as Marie de France, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and Eavan Boland; a richer treatment of post-Colinial writers such as Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee and Paul Mundoon; and a new set of cultural and thematic "Issues" such as "The Literature of the Sacred", "The Science of Self and World", "Slavery and Freedom", "Revolution, Rights and Liberation" and "The Rise and Fall of Empire". The period introductions, author headnotes, annotations and bibliographies have been revised and many have been rewritten for this edition. The highlight of this edition is a new verse translation of "Beowulf" by Seamus Heaney. [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, Albert Spaulding CookISBN 0393099717 (0-393-09971-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War. [via]
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0393092526 (0-393-09252-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty'Book summary:First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is an exhaustive exploration of social and civic liberty, its limits, and its consequences. Mill's work is a classic of political liberalism that contains a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state. Drawing upon the empiricism of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume and the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, On Liberty defends the representative democracy as the culmination of society's progression from lower to higher stages, even as it recognizes one of the unique dangers of this type of government-namely, the "tyranny of the majority."Central to Mill's ideology is the harm principle-the idea that individual liberties should only be curtailed when they harm or interfere with the ability of others to exercise their own liberties. Unlike other liberal theorists, Mill did not rely upon theories of abstract rights to support his ideology, but rather grounded his philosophy in ideas of utility. As relevant to modern audiences as it was to Mill's Victorian readership, On Liberty is an enduring classic of political thought. [via]
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Orchestrationby Walter PistonISBN 0393097404 (0-393-09740-4)
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Out Of Gas: The End Of The Age Of Oilby David GoodsteinISBN 0393058573 (0-393-05857-3)
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Our rate of oil discovery has reached its peak and will never be exceeded; rather, it is certain to declineperhaps rapidlyforever forward. Meanwhile, over the past century, we have developed lifestyles firmly rooted in the promise of an endless, cheap supply. In this book, David Goodstein, professor of physics at Caltech, explains the underlying scientific principles of the inevitable fossil fuel shortage we face. He outlines the drastic effects a fossil fuel shortage will bring down on us. And he shows that there is an important silver lining to the need to switch to other sources of energy, for when we have burned up all the available oil, the earth's climate will have moved toward a truly life-threatening state.
With its easy-to-grasp explanations of the science behind every aspect of our most urgent environmental policy decisions, Out of Gas is a handbook for the future of civilization. Charts, graphs, photographs. [via]
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Part of My Soul Went With Himby Winnie MandelaISBN 0393302903 (0-393-30290-3)
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Pathfinders: A Global History of Explorationby Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoISBN 0393062597 (0-393-06259-7)
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The Plot: The Secret Story Of The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zionby Umberto Eco, Will EisnerISBN 0393060454 (0-393-06045-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plot: The Secret Story Of The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion'Book summary:A work more disturbing than fiction from "the father of graphic novels" (The New York Times). "The ultimate illustration of how absurdly comical and cancerous The Protocols has been to mankind."Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms around the globe. Purported to be the actual blueprints by Jewish leaders to take over the world, the Protocols, first published in 1902, have become gospel truth to international millions. Presenting a pageant of historical figures from nineteenth-century Russia to today's ideologues, including Tsar Nicholas II, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler, Will Eisner unravels and dispels one of the most devastating hoaxes of the twentieth century. [via]More editions of The Plot: The Secret Story Of The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion:
Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamyby Dorothy Allred SolomonISBN 0393049469 (0-393-04946-9)
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Departmentby Dean AchesonISBN 0393304124 (0-393-30412-4)
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"The period covered in this book was one of great obscurity to those who lived through it," Acheson wrote at the beginning of his memoirs, first published in 1969. "The period was marked by the disappearance of world powers and empires ... and from this wreckage emerged a multiplicity of states, most of them new, all of them largely underdeveloped politically and economically. Overshadowing all loomed two dangers to all--the Soviet Union's new-found power and expansive imperialism, and the development of nuclear weapons." Present at the Creation is a densely detailed account of Acheson's diplomatic career, delineated in intricately eloquent prose. Going over the origins of the cold war--the drawing of lines among the superpowers in Europe, the conflict in Korea--Acheson discusses how he and his colleagues came to realize "that the whole world structure and order that we had inherited from the nineteenth century was gone," and that the old methods of foreign policy would no longer apply. Among the accolades Acheson garnered for his candid self-assessment was the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for history. [via]
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Proust's Wayby Roger ShattuckISBN 0393049140 (0-393-04914-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Proust's Way'Book summary:For many years, Roger Shattuck has been mesmerised by one write. First came "Proust's Binoculars", a short, brilliant study published in 1964. Then came "Marcel Proust", commissioned by Frank Kermode for the Modern Masters series, which won the National Book Ward in 1974. A series of essays, lectures and reviews followed. Now, like Richard Ellmann, whose constant outpourings on Joyce resulted in his triumphant biography "James Joyce", Roger Shattuck has revisited his earlier writings and musings on Proust, and used them as a springboard to write a new and definitive work. Devoting particular attention to Proust's masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time", Shattuck laments his subject's defencelessness against zealous editors, praises some translations, examines Proust's place on the path of aesthetic decadence blazed by Baudelaire and Wilde, and presents him as a novelist whose philosophical gifts were matched by his irrepressible comic sense. This book is the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship; it should delight and enthral readers, and serve as the next generation's guide to Proust. [via]
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Puerto Rico: A Political and Cultural Historyby Arturo Morales CarrionISBN 0393301931 (0-393-30193-1)
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Queen Victoria's Little Warsby Byron FarwellISBN 0393302350 (0-393-30235-0)
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Recovering: A Journalby May SartonISBN 039330339X (0-393-30339-X)
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Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914by Peter GayISBN 0393048934 (0-393-04893-4)
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The Search for the Panchen Lamaby Isabel HiltonISBN 0393049698 (0-393-04969-8)
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A Secret History of the Iraby Ed MoloneyISBN 0393051943 (0-393-05194-3)
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Settlements to Society, 1607-1763: A Documentary History of Colonial Americaby Greene, Jack P., EdISBN 0393092321 (0-393-09232-1)
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Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Futureby Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Vali NasrISBN 0393062112 (0-393-06211-2)
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Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophyby Christopher PhillipsISBN 0393049566 (0-393-04956-6)
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Statisticsby David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger PurvesISBN 0393090760 (0-393-09076-0)
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Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poetby Elaine FeinsteinISBN 0393049671 (0-393-04967-1)
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Tennyson's Poetry; Authoritative Texts, Juvenilia and Early Responses, Criticism.by Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0393099539 (0-393-09953-9)
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Terror and Liberalismby Paul BermanISBN 0393057755 (0-393-05775-5)
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Titanic: Destination Disasterby John EatonISBN 0393304922 (0-393-30492-2)
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Treasures of Britain and Treasures of Irelandby Automobile Association Great BritainISBN 0393087433 (0-393-08743-3)
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Until the Sun Diesby Robert JastrowISBN 0393064158 (0-393-06415-8)
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Vindication of the Rights of Womenby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0393092135 (0-393-09213-5)
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We Reach the Moonby John N. WilfordISBN 0393063747 (0-393-06374-7)
Hardcover, Norton
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What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel Further Adventures In Kitchen Scienceby Robert L. Wolke, Marlene ParrishISBN 0393058697 (0-393-05869-7)
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When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex- and Sex Education- Since the Sixtiesby Kristin LukerISBN 0393060896 (0-393-06089-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex- and Sex Education- Since the Sixties'Book summary:There's a sexual revolution coming to a schoolroom near you, but it's not the one you remember.
When Sex Goes to School explores the ideas and values behind the fight over sex education through the lives of parents, its most passionate participants. Distinguished sociologist Kristin Luker spent over twenty years talking to people in ordinary communities about sex and how, if at all, it should be taught. Luker argues that Americans are now deeply divided over sex, largely as a legacy of the 1960s. She traces sex education from its birth in 1913 to its more politicized modern incarnation, examining in detail the marriage-minded 1950s and the sexual and gender revolutions of the 1960s. She explores how our parents' sexual attitudes have influenced us and, in turn, how our sexual choices affect the way we teach our children about sex. Her conclusions are unexpected, and after reading this book it is impossible to look at the intersection of the intimate and the political in the same way. [via]More editions of When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex- and Sex Education- Since the Sixties:
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Women Seeing Women: A Pictorial History of Women's Photography from Julia Margaret Cameron to Annie Leibovitzby Lothar Schirmer, Naomi RosenblumISBN 039305778X (0-393-05778-X)
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Women have been making photographs since the medium's invention, for scientific purposes, to earn a living through portraiture or journalistic activities, and for artistic expression. For almost that long, they have been turning their cameras on other women: at first taking the easiest models available to themtheir mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, and servantsand later choosing feminist standpoints or investigating the conditions of femininity in their own cultures. This compendium of camera work by and of women embraces a chronological survey of the medium as well as an emotional journey through women's relationships caught on film. Photographers like Julia Margaret Cameron and Gertrude Kasebier share space with Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, and Cindy Sherman. These well-known photographers in turn sit side by side with lesser known, sometimes virtually anonymous women who have left behind an invaluable record of the way they viewed the world. 159 duotone photographs. [via]More editions of Women Seeing Women: A Pictorial History of Women's Photography from Julia Margaret Cameron to Annie Leibovitz:
World Masterpiecesby Maynard MacKISBN 0393096165 (0-393-09616-5)
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