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20 Minute Gardener : Garden of Your Dreams Without Giving up Your Life, Your Job, or Your Sanityby Marty Asher, Thomas ChristopherISBN 0375752668 (0-375-75266-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Advancement of Learningby Francis Bacon, Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0375758461 (0-375-75846-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Advancement of Learning'Book summary:While he didn't exactly invent science, Francis Bacon is its best-known early promoter. The Advancement of Learning is his 1605 argument in favour of natural philosophy and inductive reasoning, and is just as vigorous and cogent today. Though using the language of Shakespeare, the book is still largely accessible to modern readers--still, a bit of classical knowledge is helpful. Shaking off the centuries-old domination of Aristotle, Bacon advocated building scientific theories on facts and observations rather than pure reason; little has changed in our approach to understanding the world since then. Of greatest interest to historians and philosophers of science, the book will also appeal to those curious about the underpinnings of today's naturalistic thinking. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The American Woman's Cookbookby Ruth BerolzheimerISBN 0380001241 (0-380-00124-1)
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The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illnessby Jerome GroopmanISBN 0375757759 (0-375-75775-9)
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This profound exploration begins when Groopman was a medical student, ignorant of the vital role of hope in patients livesand it culminates in his remarkable quest to delineate a biology of hope. With appreciation for the human elements and the science, Groopman explains how to distinguish true hope from false hopeand how to gain an honest understanding of the reach and limits of this essential emotion. [via]More editions of The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness:
The Art of Loveby James Michie, Ovid, David MaloufISBN 0375761179 (0-375-76117-9)
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Asimov on Science Fictionby Isaac AsimovISBN 0380585111 (0-380-58511-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asimov on Science Fiction'Book summary:What was it like being one of the few struggling science fiction writers in the 30's? Who wrote the first true science fiction? What's the difference between sf and Sci-fi? Who, more than anyone else, changed and developed science fiction? How is Russian science fiction different from American science fiction? Why should you reread 1984? Who should be considered the Dean of Science Fiction? From Frankenstein to Heinlein to "Star Trek," Isaac Asimov knows everybody and everything in science fiction. And now he reveals the thoughts of a lifetime on the subject: from sf conventions to "Close Encounters," from writers to readers, from personalities to predictions of the future. Here are critiques, tips, anecdotes, information, and observations of every kind - a treasure trove for sf fans. [via]
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Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old Testamentby Isaac AsimovISBN 0380010321 (0-380-01032-1)
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black Americaby Philip DrayISBN 0375754458 (0-375-75445-8)
Softcover, Modern Library
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Franciscoby Marilyn ChaseISBN 0375757082 (0-375-75708-2)
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The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianismby John Stuart Mill, J. B. SchneewindISBN 0375759182 (0-375-75918-2)
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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned endnotes and commentary by Dale E. Miller, and an index. [via]More editions of The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism:
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Basic Writings of Kantby Immanuel Kant, Allen W. WoodISBN 0375757333 (0-375-75733-3)
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With translations by F. Max Müller and Thomas K. Abbott
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the relationship between the human mind and all that it encounters and remain the most important influence on our concept of knowledge. As renowned Kant scholar Allen W. Wood writes in his Introduction, Kant virtually laid the foundation for the way people in the last two centuries have confronted such widely differing subjects as the experience of beauty and the meaning of human history. Edited and compiled by Dr. Wood, Basic Writings of Kant stands as a comprehensive summary of Kants contributions to modern thought, and gathers together the most respected translations of Kants key moral and political writings. [via]More editions of Basic Writings of Kant:
Bellow: A Biographyby James AtlasISBN 0375759581 (0-375-75958-1)
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The Bermuda Triangleby Charels BerlitzISBN 0380004658 (0-380-00465-8)
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The Best of Lifeby David E. SchermanISBN 0380449099 (0-380-44909-9)
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The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas About the Origins of the Universeby John D. BarrowISBN 0375726098 (0-375-72609-8)
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It is a concept shot through with paradoxes: even innocent-looking phrases like "Nothing is real" flip their meanings as we ponder them, like those illusions that look like a vase one moment, and opposing faces the next. Nothing is fertile, too, as Barrow shows via a stunning trick that allows every number one can think of to be built out of nothing at all.
But his book is about far more than mind games. Arguably, the most important discovery of 20th-century physics is that there is no such thing as nothing: even the tightest vacuum is teeming with subatomic particles popping in and out of existence, according to the dictates of quantum theory. Now, many astronomers suspect that such "vacuum effects" may have triggered the Big Bang itself, filling our universe with matter. Indeed, the very latest observations suggest that vacuum effects will dictate the ultimate fate of the universe.
As an internationally respected cosmologist, Barrow does a fine job of explaining these new discoveries. The result is a book that is required reading for anyone who wants to understand why there will be much ado about Nothing among scientists in the years ahead. --Robert Matthews, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Bravest Dog Everby Natalie Standiford, Donald CookISBN 0375835776 (0-375-83577-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0375751475 (0-375-75147-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulfinch's Mythology'Book summary:For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known.
The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. He provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus; the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea; the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas; the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor; and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood.
The tales are eminently readable. As Bulfinch wrote, "Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. . . . Our book is an attempt to solve this problem, by telling the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement."
Thomas Bulfinch, in his day job, was a clerk in the Merchant's Bank of Boston, an undemanding position that afforded him ample leisure time in which to pursue his other interests. In addition to serving as secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History, he thoroughly researched the myths and legends and copiously cross-referenced them with literature and art. As such, the myths are an indispensable guide to the cultural values of the nineteenth century; however, it is the vigor of the stories themselves that returns generation after generation to Bulfinch. [via]More editions of Bulfinch's Mythology:
Chasing The Sea: Being a Narrative of a Journey Through Uzbekistan, Including Descriptions of Life Therein, Culminating with an Arrival at the Aral Sea, the World's Woby Tom BissellISBN 037572754X (0-375-72754-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Chinese Cook Bookby Sunset EditorsISBN 0376023023 (0-376-02302-3)
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The City: A Global Historyby Joel KotkinISBN 0375756515 (0-375-75651-5)
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Common Sense and Other Writingsby Thomas Paine, Gordon S. WoodISBN 0375760113 (0-375-76011-3)
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Complete Vegetarian Cookbookby Sunset Books and Sunset MagazineISBN 0376020504 (0-376-02050-4)
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Concise Columbia Encyclopediaby Columbia University PressISBN 0380633965 (0-380-63396-5)
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rightsby Kenji YoshinoISBN 0375760210 (0-375-76021-0)
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Decorative Paint and Faux Finishesby Sunset Books, Carol Spier, Linda J. SeldenISBN 0376013885 (0-376-01388-5)
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Diane Arbusby Patricia BosworthISBN 0380699273 (0-380-69927-3)
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Dispatchesby Michael HerrISBN 0380019760 (0-380-01976-0)
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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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Escape from Freedomby Erich FrommISBN 0380011670 (0-380-01167-0)
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Realityby Brian GreeneISBN 0375727205 (0-375-72720-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality'Book summary:As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that the hero triumphs "by relinquishing everything beyond immediate experience." After wrestling with this idea, however, Greene rejected Camus and realized that his true idols were physicists; scientists who struggled "to assess life and to experience the universe at all possible levels, not just those that happened to be accessible to our frail human senses." His driving question in The Fabric of the Cosmos, then, is fundamental: "What is reality?" Over sixteen chapters, he traces the evolving human understanding of the substrate of the universe, from classical physics to ten-dimensional M-Theory.
Assuming an audience of non-specialists, Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. For the most part, he succeeds. His language reflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating concepts into poetic images. When explaining, for example, the inability to see the higher dimensions inherent in string theory, Greene writes: "We don't see them because of the way we see&like an ant walking along a lily pad&we could be floating within a grand, expansive, higher-dimensional space."
For Greene, Rhodes Scholar and professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, speculative science is not always as thorough and successful. His discussion of teleportation, for example, introduces and then quickly tables a valuable philosophical probing of identity. The paradoxes of time travel, however, are treated with greater depth, and his vision of life in a three-brane universe is compelling and--to use his description for quantum reality--"weird."
In the final pages Greene turns from science fiction back to the fringes of science fact, and he returns with rigor to frame discoveries likely to be made in the coming decades. "We are, most definitely, still wandering in the jungle," he concludes. Thanks to Greene, though, some of the underbrush has been cleared. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Fantastic Imaginationby Robert BoyerISBN 0380009560 (0-380-00956-0)
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Fatal Flowersby Rosemary DaniellISBN 0380542544 (0-380-54254-4)
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Fate of the Earthby Jonathan SchellISBN 0380613255 (0-380-61325-5)
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United Statesby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Robert SciglianoISBN 0375757864 (0-375-75786-4)
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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.
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Final Daysby Bob Woodward, Carl BernsteinISBN 0380008440 (0-380-00844-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Final Days'Book summary:The Final Days is the classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon's fall from office -- one of the gravest crises in presidential history. [via]
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The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, And Other Identitiesby David Levithan, Billy MerrellISBN 0375832904 (0-375-83290-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, And Other Identities'Book summary:Teens are more aware of sexuality and identity than ever, and theyre looking for answers and insights, as well as a community of others. In order to help create that community, YA authors David Levithan and Billy Merrell have collected original poems, essays, and stories by young adults in their teens and early 20s. The Full Spectrum includes a variety of writersgay, lesbian, bisexual, straight, transitioning, and questioningon a variety of subjects: coming out, family, friendship, religion/faith, first kisses, break-ups, and many others.
This one of a kind collection will, perhaps, help all readers see themselves and the world around them in ways they might never have imagined. We have partnered with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and a portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to them. [via]More editions of The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, And Other Identities:
Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helixby James D. WatsonISBN 0375727159 (0-375-72715-9)
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Bernard ShawISBN 0375757015 (0-375-75701-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:Introduction by George Bernard Shaw Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations-until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters-including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy. "Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language," according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, "Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens's abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero." INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE [via]
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The Great Republicby Winston ChurchillISBN 0375754407 (0-375-75440-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Republic'Book summary:Drawn from uncollected speeches and articles as well as from the author's four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples, this anthology of the great statesman Winston Churchill's writings on American history highlights both its author's vigorous prose style and his commitment to the idea that the United States and the United Kingdom shared not only a common past but a common destiny.
As a young man, writes his namesake and grandson in his introduction, Churchill toured some of the battlefields of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and it is in writing of these two epochs and the expansionist years between them that Churchill is strongest. Of particular interest are his remarks on the ideological origins of the colonial revolution in such documents as the Magna Carta and the teachings of the Puritan elders, although, as an eminently practical politician, Churchill gives attention to less lofty causes of dissent--for instance, the English crown's logistical difficulty in governing an overseas empire with ideas of governance and resources of its own. Churchill's reflections on the Second World War are also of much value, and he provides an insider's view of the defeat of Nazism and the birth of the cold war.
Devotees of Churchill's work will not find much new here, but readers approaching him for the first time will find this volume to be a fine introduction to Churchill's writing and thought. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Greenhousesby Fiona GilsenanISBN 0376032642 (0-376-03264-2)
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History of the Conquest of Mexicoby James Lockhart, William H. PrescottISBN 0375758038 (0-375-75803-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Conquest of Mexico'Book summary:"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 destiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."
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Honkyby Dalton ConleyISBN 0375727752 (0-375-72775-2)
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Hope Against Hopeby Nadezhda Mandelshtam, Max HaywardISBN 0375753168 (0-375-75316-8)
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I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reaganby Nancy Reagan, Ronald ReaganISBN 0375760512 (0-375-76051-2)
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In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washingtonby Jacob Weisberg, Robert RubinISBN 0375757309 (0-375-75730-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington'Book summary:Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy; it also captured the essence of Rubin himself--short on formality, quick to get into the nitty-gritty.
From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a major figure at the center of the American financial system. He was a key player in the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. With In an Uncertain World, Rubin offers a shrewd, keen analysis of some of the most important events in recent American history and presents a clear, consistent approach to thinking about markets and dealing with the new risks of the global economy.
Rubin's fundamental philosophy is that nothing is provably certain. Probabilistic thinking has guided his career in both business and government. We see that discipline at work in meetings with President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, Newt Gingrich, Sanford Weill, and the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We see Rubin apply it time and again while facing financial crises in Asia, Russia, and Brazil; the federal government shutdown; the rise and fall of the stock market; the challenges of the post-September 11 world; the ongoing struggle over fiscal policy; and many other momentous economic and political events.
With a compelling and candid voice and a sharp eye for detail, Rubin portrays the daily life of the White House-confronting matters both mighty and mundane--as astutely as he examines the challenges that lie ahead for the nation. Part political memoir, part prescriptive economic analysis, and part personal look at business problems, In an Uncertain World is a deep examination of Washington and Wall Street by a figure who for three decades has been at the center of both worlds.
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The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplaceby W. Timothy GallweyISBN 0375758178 (0-375-75817-8)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Brontë, Diane JohnsonISBN 0375757600 (0-375-75760-0)
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The timeless story of Jane Eyre has arrived on Broadway as a spectacular new musical from an all-star production team, consisting of John Caird (Les Misérables, Nicholas Nickleby), who adapted and staged (with Scott Schwartz); composer Paul Gordon; designer John Napier (Cats, Les Misérables, Sunset Boulevard); costume designer Andreane Neofitou (Les Misérables, Miss Saigon); and lighting designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, six-time winners of the Tonytm Award.
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, And Seeded Civil Rightsby David S. ReynoldsISBN 0375726152 (0-375-72615-2)
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The Kidnapped Princeby Olaudah Equiano, Ann CameronISBN 0375803467 (0-375-80346-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kidnapped Prince'Book summary:Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.S., and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom. His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time. Cameron has modernized and shortened it while remaining true to the spirit of the original. It's a gripping story of adventure, betrayal, cruelty, and courage. In searing scenes, Equiano describes the savagery of his capture, the appalling conditions on the slave ship, the auction, and the forced labor. . . . Kids will read this young man's story on their own; it will also enrich curriculum units on history and on writing. [via]
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The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa'Udby Robert LaceyISBN 0380617625 (0-380-61762-5)
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The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbookby Paula H. DeenISBN 0375751114 (0-375-75111-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook'Book summary:From one of the most frequently visited restaurants in Savannah, The Lady & Sons, comes this collection of down-home Southern family favorites. Paula H. Deen, the owner and proprieter, has created a friendly cookbook filled with hundreds of quick and easy recipes. Perfect for home entertainment, family picnics, or Sunday dinners, The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook completes any kitchen.
"I tell Savannah-bound friends that if they want a short course in the meaning of Southern cooking--the flavors, the ambience, indeed the very heart of Southern cooking--they should drop in at The Lady & Sons."
--from the introduction by JOHN BEHRENDT, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
"The recipes in this book are so wonderful, I almost ate the book!"
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Lady Sings the Bluesby Billie HolidayISBN 0380004917 (0-380-00491-7)
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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000by Gore VidalISBN 037572639X (0-375-72639-X)
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The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jeffersonby Thomas Jefferson, William Peden, Adrienne KochISBN 0375752188 (0-375-75218-8)
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartlandby Tom BrokawISBN 0375759352 (0-375-75935-2)
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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt : The Astonishing and Unlikely True Story of One of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Paleontological Discoveriesby William NothdurftISBN 0375759794 (0-375-75979-4)
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Lost in America: A Journey With My Fatherby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0375727221 (0-375-72722-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in America: A Journey With My Father'Book summary:A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nulands Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death.
In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep. [via]More editions of Lost in America: A Journey With My Father:
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Major AppliancesISBN 0376019166 (0-376-01916-6)
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Man's Rise to Civilization, As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial Stateby Peter FarbISBN 0380014092 (0-380-01409-2)
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Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hopeby Gail SheehyISBN 0375761012 (0-375-76101-2)
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Missingby Thomas HauserISBN 0380490986 (0-380-49098-6)
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The Mountains of Californiaby John Muir, Bill McKibbenISBN 0375758194 (0-375-75819-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mountains of California'Book summary:When John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his lifes work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in the Sierra Nevadas, studying every crag, crook, and valley with great care and contemplation.
Bill McKibben writes in his Introduction that Muir "invents, by sheer force of his love, an entirely new vocabulary and grammar of the wild . . . a language of ecstasy and exuberance."
The Mountains of California is as vibrant and vital today as when it was written over a century ago.
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Murphy's Boyby Torey HaydenISBN 0380652277 (0-380-65227-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murphy's Boy'Book summary:His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He was afraid of water and wouldn't take a shower. He was afraid to be naked, to change his clothes. He was nearly 16.
Desperate to see change in the boy, the staff of Kevin's adolescent treatment center hired Hayden. As Hayden read to him and encouraged him to read, crawling down into his cage of chairs with him, Kevin talked. Then he started to draw and paint and showed himself to have a quick wit and a rolling, seething, murderous hatred for his stepfather.
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Neutrinoby Isaac AsimovISBN 0380004836 (0-380-00483-6)
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The Night Before Christmas : A Victorian Vision of the Christmas Classicby Clement C. Moore, Anita Lobel, Joan SlatteryISBN 0375810471 (0-375-81047-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Before Christmas : A Victorian Vision of the Christmas Classic'Book summary:"A snow-covered Victorian New York City is the location for Anita Lobel's version of this classic Christmas poem. The cozy interiors show a cat curled up under the tree; portraits of ancestors in every room; argyle, striped and polka-dotted stockings hanging empty on the mantle; children snug in bed with dolls and teddy bears. A jolly St. Nick arrives on schedule, leaving a wonderful array of toys before he flies over a majestic scene of the Brooklyn Bridge and city skyline under the watchful eye of the moon. Lobel's paintings are gentle and reassuring, filled with intricate detail and family love. From the soft endpaper illustrations to the detail of the wallpaper in the children's bedroom, she has captured with richness and simplicity the joy and love of the holiday season."--School Library Journal, Starred [via]
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, Anita LobelISBN 0375824146 (0-375-82414-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Before Christmas'Book summary:Whose tiny faces are peeking out from Santa's golden sleigh? Yikes! It's two of Santa's elves who are Christmas Eve stowaways. Beloved illustrator Jan Brett's version of The Night Before Christmas lets these two mischievous elves add their rambunctious spirit to this familiar 1823 rhyming story. Here, Santa and his reindeer land on the snowy roof of a Victorian mansion in New England. While Santa delivers the toys inside, the elves and the reindeer frolic around the lawn, as a pig (earmarked for a girl named Jan) and a few alphabet blocks spill out of sacks into the snow. Santa swiftly reins in the mischief-makers and "away they all flew like the down on a thistle." Brett's richly illustrated borders are lavishly decorated with antique toys, ornaments, and sweet treats, all surrounded with twisting golden ribbons. They also give us a window on the mansion's inhabitants, including the children watching Santa's departure in awe. A sugarplum of a Christmas story, just right for a reading before "a long winter's nap." (Click to see a sample spread. Illustrations ©1998 by Jan Brett. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers.) (Ages 3 to 6) --Marcie Bovetz [via]
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The Nine Nations of North Americaby Joel GarreauISBN 0380578859 (0-380-57885-9)
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On a Clear Day You Can See General Motorsby Patrick J. WrightISBN 0380517221 (0-380-51722-1)
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Oxford American Dictionaryby Eugene H. EhrlichISBN 0380607727 (0-380-60772-7)
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People of the Lakeby Richard E. Leakey, Roger LewinISBN 0380455757 (0-380-45575-7)
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Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Centuryby Laura Shapiro, Ruth Reichl, Michael SternISBN 0375756655 (0-375-75665-5)
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelierby Thaddeus CarhartISBN 0375758623 (0-375-75862-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier'Book summary:Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple signDesforges Pianoshe enters, only to have his way barred by the shops imperious owner. Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the proper introduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view. Luc, the ateliers master, proves an indispensable guide to the history and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of a musical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, their glorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, from amateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of a Paris not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening of a lost childhood passion.
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[Carharts] writing is fluid and lovely enough to lure the rustiest plunker back to the piano bench and the most jaded traveler back to Paris.
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Captivating . . . [Carhart] joins the tiny company of foreigners who have written of the French as verbs. . . . What he tries to capture is not the sight of them, but what they see.
The New York Times
Thoroughly engaging . . . In part it is a book about that most unpredictable and pleasurable of human experiences, serendipity. . . . The book is also about something more difficult to pin down, friendship and community.
The Washington Post
Carhart writes with a sensuousness enhanced by patience and grounded by the humble acquisition of new insight into music, his childhood, and his relationship to the city of Paris.
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Pieces of My Mindby Andrew RooneyISBN 0380698854 (0-380-69885-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pieces of My Mind'Book summary:Representing the very finest of his nationally syndicated newspaper columns from the last two years, the 132 essays in his new book offer witty, rueful, wise, and commonsensical commentaries on everything from elevators, underwear, and banks to lifestyles, computers, marriage, income tax, wastebaskets, newspapers, neighbors, politics, and procrastination. In all, it is another book of pure joy. [via]
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Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translationby Plutarch, Arthur Hugh CloughISBN 0375756779 (0-375-75677-9)
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The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. [via]More editions of Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translation:
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poeby Daniel HoffmanISBN 0380414597 (0-380-41459-7)
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The Portable Henry Rollinsby Henry RollinsISBN 0375750002 (0-375-75000-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Henry Rollins'Book summary:Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an L.A. punk rocker into a universal soldier. His enemies: slackers and hypocrites. His mission: to steel your soul and rock your world."
Rollins was frontman for the seminal punk band Black Flag, and since 1987 has led the Rollins Band, whose ninth album, Come In and Burn, was just released by DreamWorks.
As a spoken-word artist, he regularly performs at colleges and theaters worldwide and has released eight spoken-word audiotapes. His album Get in the Van won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for 1995. As an actor, he has appeared in The Chase, Johnny Mnemonic, Heat, and David Lynch's forthcoming film, Lost Highway.
From his days as front man for the band Black Flag and the current Rollins Band to his books and spoken-word audiotapes, Henry Rollins is the music, the attitude, and the voice that takes no prisoners. In his twelve books, he has led us on a hallucinatory journey through the decades--and his mind--with poems, essays, short stories, diary entries, and rants that exist at "the frayed edges where reality ends and imagination begins" (Publishers Weekly). For the first time, the best of his legendary, no-holds-barred writings are available. This collection includes new photos and works from such seminal Rollins books as:
High Adventure in the Great Outdoors
Art to Choke Hearts
Bang!
Black Coffee Blues
Get in the Van
Do I Come Here Often?
Solipsist
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San Franciscoby Jack McDowell, Dorothy KrellISBN 0376056622 (0-376-05662-2)
Hardcover, Lane Pub Co
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Nancy MilfordISBN 0375760814 (0-375-76081-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:Fans of Zelda, Nancy Milford's groundbreaking (and bestselling) biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tortured wife and muse, have been waiting impatiently since 1970 for Milford's promised follow-up about poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). It's finally here, and they will not be disappointed. Milford's vivid narrative limns an electric personality with psychological acuity while capturing the freewheeling atmosphere of America in the turbulent years following World War I. After "Renascence" was published (when she was only 20) and she moved to Greenwich Village, Millay was the queen of bohemia, taking lovers with zest and voicing the reckless gaiety of a generation in her famous lyric, "My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-- / It gives a lovely light." With her flame-red hair, milk-white skin, and a voice that thrilled audiences (making her poetry readings a welcome source of income), Millay was the archetypal "new woman": powerful, passionate, and not to be ignored. But Milford makes it clear that her first loyalty was to her mother and sisters, and her deepest commitment to her writing. This juicy chronicle has famous names aplenty--critic Edmund Wilson and Masses editor Floyd Dell were among the men devastated by her refusal to be faithful--and lots of dissipation: Millay drank heavily and became addicted to morphine. It also takes a perceptive look at how an artist draws material from her life and at the strategies she uses to protect the wellsprings of creativity. Brief passages interspersed throughout delineating Milford's interactions with Norma Millay, the poet's younger sister and literary executor, might have been self-indulgent and self-aggrandizing; instead they offer intriguing snapshots of the complex process by which biography is made. The resulting book is a tour de force, and wildly entertaining as well. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Sesame Street Dictionaryby Linda Hayward, Joseph MathieuISBN 0375828109 (0-375-82810-9)
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A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to a Quantum Computerby George JohnsonISBN 0375726187 (0-375-72618-7)
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The Snow Geese : A Story of Homeby William FiennesISBN 0375758577 (0-375-75857-7)
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The Spirit of St. Louisby Charles Augustus LindberghISBN 0380698552 (0-380-69855-2)
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Such a Strange Ladyby Janet HitchmanISBN 0380008076 (0-380-00807-6)
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Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Timeby Clark BlaiseISBN 0375727523 (0-375-72752-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time'Book summary:In the 1880s, a businessman traveling by train from New York to Boston needed, on arrival, to adjust his clock, moving it ahead by 12 minutes. The strange increment, writes Clark Blaise, was a matter of local interpretation, some enterprising Bostonian having determined that the rising sun touched the shore of Massachusetts a dozen minutes before warming Manhattan.
Such local interpretations of time made the job of establishing railroad schedules a matter of guesswork and hope, as the Canadian entrepreneur Sandford Fleming discovered when he missed a train in the west of Ireland in 1876. Frustrated, Fleming realized that a new system of universal time would need to be created if railroad travel were ever to realize its full potential. As Blaise writes, "the adoption of standard time for the world was as necessary for commercial advancement as the invention of the elevator was for modern urban development," and nations such as England that had a system of standard time in place owed much of their economic superiority to the predictability and reliability such a system put in place.
Fleming discovered that getting the world onto the same schedule required years of negotiating and browbeating, a nightmare that Blaise ably recounts. Fleming's efforts eventually paid off, and as Blaise writes, "Of all the inventions of the Industrial Age, standard time has endured, virtually unchanged, the longest." His entertaining account of how that came to be will be of appeal to readers who enjoyed Dava Sobel's Longitude, Henry Petroski's The Pencil, and other popular works in the history of technology. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Electionby Jeffrey ToobinISBN 0375761071 (0-375-76107-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election'Book summary:From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.
Packed with news-making disclosures and written with the drive of a legal thriller, Too Close to Call takes us inside James Baker's private jet, through the locked gates to Al Gore's mansion, behind the covered-up windows of Katherine Harris's office, and even into the secret conference room of the United States Supreme Court. As the scene shifts from Washington to Austin and into the remote corners of the enduringly strange Sunshine State, Toobin's book will transform what you thought you knew about the most extraordinary political drama in American history.
The Florida recount unfolded in a kaleidoscopic maze of bizarre concepts (chads, pregnant and otherwise), unfamiliar people in critically important positions (the Florida Supreme Court), and familiar people in surprising new places (the Miami relatives of Elián González, in a previously undisclosed role in this melodrama). With the rich characterization that is his trademark, Toobin portrays the prominent strategists who masterminded the campaigns--the Daleys and the Roves--and also the lesser-known but influential players who pulled the strings, as well as the judges and justices whose decisions determined the final outcome. Toobin gives both camps a treatment they have not yet received--remarkably evenhanded, nonpartisan, and entirely new.
The post-election period posed a challenge to even the most zealous news junkie: how to keep up with what was happening and sort out the important from the trivial. Jeffrey Toobin has now done this--and then some. With clarity, insight, humor, and a deep understanding of the law, he deconstructs the events, the players, and the often Byzantine intricacies of our judicial system. A remarkable account of one of the most significant periods in our country's history, Too Close to Call is endlessly surprising, frequently poignant, and wholly addictive.
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The Travel Detective: How to Get the Best Service and the Best Deal from Airlines, Hotels, Cruise Ships, and Car Rental Agenciesby Peter GreenbergISBN 0375756663 (0-375-75666-3)
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Travels in Alaskaby John Muir, Edward HoaglandISBN 0375760490 (0-375-76049-0)
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The Travels Of Marco Poloby Marco Polo, William Marsden, Manuel Komroff, Jason GoodwinISBN 0375758186 (0-375-75818-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels Of Marco Polo'Book summary:Marco Polos account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recorded customs, natural history, strange sights, historical legends, and much more. From the dazzling courts of Kublai Khan to the perilous deserts of Persia, no book contains a richer magazine of marvels than the Travels.
This edition, selected and edited by the great scholar Manuel Komroff, also features the classic and stylistically brilliant Marsden translation, revised and corrected, as well as Komroffs Introduction to the 1926 edition. [via]More editions of The Travels Of Marco Polo:
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The Twelfth Planetby Zecharia SitchinISBN 038039362X (0-380-39362-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twelfth Planet'Book summary:Zecharia Sitchen's The 12th Planet is the starting point on a quest that spans six books and 20 years worth of ancient aliens, genetic manipulation, and scrutiny of linguistic minutiae. If we trust Sitchen's translation abilities, we must be prepared for the imminent return of an alien race who created us some 3,600 years ago. The 12th Planet is perhaps the best written of Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series; full of example after example of ancient Sumerian passages, astronomical observations, archaeological finds, and technological coincidences supporting his theories. The price we pay for all this evidence is a bit of a dry read at times, but the ideas Sitchin proposes are more than scintillating enough to make up for the overtly scholastic tone of his text. --Brian Patterson [via]
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Up the Down Staircaseby Bel KaufmanISBN 0380015986 (0-380-01598-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Vegetarian CookingISBN 0376029129 (0-376-02912-9)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Vegetarian Cookingby Sunset EditorsISBN 0376029110 (0-376-02911-0)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjectsby Mary Wollstonecraft, Katha PollittISBN 0375757228 (0-375-75722-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects'Book summary:First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of "the rights of man," its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Woll-stonecraft's contemporaries. "Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real, challenging education," writes Katha Pollitt in the new Introduction. "But she was the first to connect the education of women to the transformation of women's social position, of relations between the sexes, and even of society itself. She was the first to argue that women's intellectual equality would and should have actual consequences. The winds of change sweep through her pages."
This classic work of early feminism remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft's contemporaries. This edition includes new explanatory notes.
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. EliotISBN 0375759344 (0-375-75934-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliots masterpiece, 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, Eliots poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a potent new poetic language. As Kenneth Rexroth wrote, Eliot articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression. As commanding as his verse, Eliots criticism also transformed twentieth-century letters, and this Modern Library edition includes a selection of Eliots most important essays. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
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What Should I Do With My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Questionby Po BronsonISBN 0375758984 (0-375-75898-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Should I Do With My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question'Book summary:In What Should I Do with my Life? Po Bronson manages to create a career book that is a page-turner. His 50 vivid profiles of people searching for "their soft spot--their true calling" will engage readers because Bronson is asking himself the same question. He explores his premise, that "nothing is braver than people facing up to their own identity," as an anthropologist and autobiographer. He tackles thorny, nuanced issues about self-determination. Among them: paradoxes of money and meaning, authorship and destiny, brain candy and novelty versus soul food. Bronsons stories, limited to professional people and complete with photos, are gems. They include a Los Angeles lawyer who became a priest, a Harvard MBA catfish farmer turned biotech executive, and a Silicon Valley real estate agent who opened a leather crafts factory in Costa Rica.
Bronson is a gifted intuitive writer, the bestselling author of The Nudist on the Late Shift, whose thoughtful, vulnerable voice emerges as the books greatest strength and challenge. He describes his subjects lives along with the ways they annoy, puzzle, and worry him. He frets about meddling with his questions, yet once, memorably and appropriately, he offers a talented man a top post in his publishing company. While this creates the juiciness of his portraits, it also can make Bronson the books most memorable character and the only one whose story is not resolved. Even so, this remarkable career chronicle sets the gold standard for the worth of the examined life. --Barbara Mackoff [via]
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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the Westby Wallace StegnerISBN 0375759328 (0-375-75932-8)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West'Book summary:Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegners most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With subjects ranging from the writers own migrant childhood to the need to protect what remains of the great western wilderness (which Stegner dubs the geography of hope ) to poignant profiles of western writers such as John Steinbeck and Norman Maclean, this collection is a riveting testament to the power of place. At the same time it communicates vividly the sensibility and range of this most gifted of American writers, historians, and environmentalists. [via]
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rightsby Mary Ann GlendonISBN 0375760466 (0-375-76046-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights'Book summary:Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the worlds first international bill of rights.
A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion.
A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelts life, and in world history.
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Zeldaby Nancy MilfordISBN 0380007843 (0-380-00784-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zelda'Book summary:Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own.
From years of exhaustive research, Nancy Milford brings alive the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda and clarifies as never before her relationship with` Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
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