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The 48 Laws of Powerby Joost Elffers, Robert GreeneISBN 0140280197 (0-14-028019-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989by Bruce Chatwin, Jan Borm, Matthew GravesISBN 0140256989 (0-14-025698-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Lifeby Francine Du Plessix GrayISBN 0140286772 (0-14-028677-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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It seems even a sadist can love, and in his own way, the Marquis de Sade loved his wife. Even more remarkable is that Pélagie apparently returned his affection devotedly for many years, despite frequent scandals, jailings, and even an affair with her own sister. Gray draws extensively on letters written by Sade, his wife, and his mother-in-law to paint a vibrant picture of an unorthodox marriage, a period of great political upheaval, and a complicated bond between mother and daughter. Gray also places the Marquis's writing in a context that, while forthrightly characterizing it as "the crudest, most repellent fictional dystopia ever limned, the creation of a borderline psychotic whose scatological fantasies have grown all the more deranged in the solitude and rage of his jail cell," also acknowledges its "recklessness and daring" as well as its influence on later writers from Swinburne and Baudelaire to Octavio Paz and Luis Buñuel. Sex, art, religion, and politics--At Home with the Marquis de Sade addresses them all with the intelligence and insight one has come to expect from Francine du Plessix Gray. [via]
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Autobiography, and Other Writingsby Benjamin Franklin, Kenneth SilvermanISBN 0140390529 (0-14-039052-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography, and Other Writings'Book summary:OTHER WRITINGS INCLUDE: A RECEIPT TO MAKE A NEW ENGLAND FUNERAL ELEGY; ADVICE TO A FRIEND ON CHOOSING A MISTRESS; THE SPEECH OF MISS POLLY BAKER; HOW TO SECURE HOUSES, &C. FROM LIGHTNING; THE KITE EXPERIMENT; THE WAY TO WEALTH; AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA; THE MORALS OF CHESS (EXCERPT); THE ELYSIAN FIELDS; INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO WOULD REMOVE TO AMERICA (EXCERPT); AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; A MISCELLANY OF FRANKLIN'S OPINIONS. [via]
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Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica 1699-1839by Alan GurneyISBN 0140272607 (0-14-027260-7)
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Between Heaven and Hell : The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russiaby W. Bruce LincolnISBN 0140267735 (0-14-026773-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Bone Ladyby Mary H. ManheinISBN 014029192X (0-14-029192-X)
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Civil War Soldiersby Reid MitchellISBN 0140263330 (0-14-026333-0)
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0140275010 (0-14-027501-0)
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Cod, Mark Kurlanskys third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world's folly?A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood cook or fishing monomaniac. But in the last analysis, its a bitter ecological fable for our time. Los Angeles TimesEvery once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the case of Mark Kurlansky and the codfish. David McCulloughOne of the 25 Best Books of the Year. The New York Public Library[via]
Mark Kurlansky is the author of many books including Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, and The Big Oyster. His newest book is Birdseye.More editions of Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World:
The Crusadesby Terry JonesISBN 0140257454 (0-14-025745-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Deng Xiaoping : And the Making of Modern Chinaby Richard EvansISBN 0140267476 (0-14-026747-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Desert Places : A Woman's Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desertby Robyn DavidsonISBN 0140267972 (0-14-026797-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Diary of Alice Jamesby Leon Edel, Alice JamesISBN 0140390111 (0-14-039011-1)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Yet, within the pages of the journal she kept during the last four years of her life, Alice James emerges neither as a downtrodden casualty of her era nor as merely an interesting footnote to the illustrious James family saga, but rather as a formidable and triumphant individual in her own right. Far from displaying any wholesale acceptance of the ruling assumptions about her gender-or, for that matter, about anything else-James's diary reveals a vigorously opinionated, intellectually curious, extremely gifted writer renegotiating her position within the discourses of her time.
Long unavailable to students, scholars, and the general reader, this volume reprints Leon Edel's 1964 edition, which is widely accepted as the most faithful reproduction of the original diary. A new introduction by Linda Simon draws extensively on recent scholarship to illuminate James's role both in the context of her family and nineteenth-century culture. [via]More editions of The Diary of Alice James:
The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education That Every Child Deservesby Howard GardnerISBN 0140296247 (0-14-029624-7)
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Drinking the Rainby Alix Kates ShulmanISBN 0140255842 (0-14-025584-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Eastern Front, 1914-1917by Norman StoneISBN 0140267255 (0-14-026725-5)
Softcover, Penguin Global
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The Efficient Society: Why Canda Is As Close to Utopia As It Getsby Joseph HeathISBN 0140292489 (0-14-029248-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Fable of the Beesby Bernard Mandeville, Phillip HarthISBN 0140400168 (0-14-040016-8)
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Fascism : A Historyby Roger EatwellISBN 0140257004 (0-14-025700-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices: How to Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot, Edit, and Promote a Feature-Lenth Movie for Less Than $15,000by Rick SchmidtISBN 0140291849 (0-14-029184-9)
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A Field Guide to Cows: How to Identify and Appreciate America's 52 Breedsby John PukiteISBN 0140273883 (0-14-027388-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Storyby Kim NeelyISBN 0140276424 (0-14-027642-4)
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Loveby Dava SobelISBN 0140280553 (0-14-028055-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love'Book summary:Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").
While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam Warby Denise ChongISBN 0140280219 (0-14-028021-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Linda JenningsISBN 0140366814 (0-14-036681-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western Worldby Charles FreemanISBN 014029323X (0-14-029323-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World'Book summary:The idea of an entity called Greece is a modern one, which a Thracian of Homer's time or an Athenian of the age of Pericles would not have recognized. Ancient Greek politics was organized along the lines first of family, then of clan, then of neighborhood, and then finally of town or city; the concept of nationhood, the existence of a nation called Greece, scarcely entered the discussion.
But if there was no Greece in ancient times, there is more than one ancient Greece. One, writes the noted classical historian Charles Freeman, can be found symbolized in the Parthenon of Athens, its graceful architecture and statuary bespeaking ideals of freedom, citizenship, truth. But another, Freeman continues, can be found early in the pages of Thucydides, who writes of, among other atrocities, the Athenians' slaughtering the citizens of Melos upon their surrender after a long siege. "Whatever the achievements of the Greeks might have been," he writes, "they developed against the backdrop of a real world, one in which human beings were degraded by disease and where brutality was an everyday part of life."
Freeman traces both the real and the ideal Greek world in this comprehensive survey of ancient history, which opens with an up-to-date assessment of the Greek peninsula's Bronze Age cultures and closes with a view of the survival of classical customs and ways of thought in the Western tradition. Gracefully written, Freeman's fine history will find a welcome place on classicists' bookshelves. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debtby John Steele GordonISBN 0140270159 (0-14-027015-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hip Hop Americaby Nelson GeorgeISBN 0140280227 (0-14-028022-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hip Hop America'Book summary:Although it's been part of the cultural soundscape for over 25 years, hip-hop has been the focus of very few books. And when those books do pop up, they tend to be either overtly scholarly, as if the writer in question has just landed on some alien planet, or a bit too much like a fanzine. If there's anyone qualified to write a solid, informative, and entertaining tome on the culture, politics, and business of hip-hop, it's Nelson George. A veteran journalist, George is one of the smartest and most observant chroniclers of African American pop culture. Much as he broke down and illuminated R&B with his acclaimed book The Death of Rhythm and Blues, George now tackles hip-hop with the clarity of a reporter and the enthusiasm of a fan--which is fitting, because George is both. A Brooklyn native, he began writing about rap back in the late 1970s, when the beats and the lifestyle were not only foreign to most white folks, they were still underground in the black communities. Hip Hop America is filled with George's memories of the scene's nascent years, and it tells the story of rap both as an art form and a cultural and economic force--from the old Bronx nightclub the Fever to the age of Puffy. Highlighting both the major players and some of the forces behind the scenes, George gives rap a historical perspective without coming off as too intellectual. All of which makes Hip Hop America a worthwhile addition to any fan's collection. --Amy Linden [via]
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Hippocratic Writingsby John Chadwick, Hippocrates, G.E.R. Lloyd, W. N. MannISBN 0140400311 (0-14-040031-1)
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Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XIIby John CornwellISBN 0140296271 (0-14-029627-1)
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The Hundred Years Warby Desmond SewardISBN 0140283617 (0-14-028361-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Years War'Book summary:From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare; the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London; Charles V, who very nearly overcame England; and the enigmatic Charles VII, who at last drove the English out. Desmond Seward's critically-acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict.[via]More editions of The Hundred Years War:
In Praise of the Potatoby Lindsey BarehamISBN 0140270930 (0-14-027093-0)
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In Search of the Big Bang: The Life and Death of the Universeby John R. GribbinISBN 0140269894 (0-14-026989-4)
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In the Slick of the Cricket: A Shark Odysseyby Russell DrummISBN 0140274359 (0-14-027435-9)
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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophyby Roger ScrutonISBN 0140275169 (0-14-027516-9)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0140366784 (0-14-036678-4)
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Language Mythsby Peter Trudgill, Laurie BauerISBN 0140260234 (0-14-026023-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Myths'Book summary:The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can't speak or write properly anymore." Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from experts in the fields of language and language development. In this book Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill have invited nineteen respected linguists from all over the world to address these "language myths"--showing that they vary from the misconceived to the downright wrong. With essays ranging from "Women Talk Too Much" and "In the Appalachians They Speak Like Shakespeare" to "Italian Is Beautiful, German Is Ugly" and "They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City," Language Myths is a collection that is wide-ranging, entertaining, and authoritative.[via]More editions of Language Myths:
Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heartby Fergal KeaneISBN 014026289X (0-14-026289-X)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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Letters from Burmaby Aung San Suu Kyi, Aung Suu Kyi, Heinn HtetISBN 0140264035 (0-14-026403-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from Burma'Book summary:For the last fiftenn years of Burma's traumatic history, Aung San Suu Kyi has been the inspirational leader of attempts to restore democracy to her country. In these fifty-two pieces she paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. She evokes the country's seasons and scenery, customs and festivities, and describes an inspirational pilgrimage to the Buddhist abbot of Thamanya. She celebrates the courageous army officers, academics and actors who have supported the National League for Democracy, often at great personal risk, and she sets out a comprehensive programme for economic reform. A passionate advocate of better health care and education, and the need for ethical foreign investment in Burma's future, Aung San Suu Kyi reveals an acute insight into the impact of political decisions on ordinary people's lives. She examines the terrible traumas inflicted on children of imprisoned dissidents - children allowed to see their parents for fifteen minutes every fortnight - the effect of inflation on the national diet and of state repression on traditions of hospitality. One woman's vision, humanity and commitment to political and ethnic harmony won her party an overwhelming victory in the elections of May 1990; every facet of her personality is powerfully displayed here. [via]
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The Little Book of Calmby Paul WilsonISBN 014026065X (0-14-026065-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life With David Helfgottby Gillian Helfgott, Alissa TanskayaISBN 0140266445 (0-14-026644-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblingsby Clea SimonISBN 0140274340 (0-14-027434-0)
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Making Waves: Essaysby Mario Vargas Llosa, John KingISBN 0140275568 (0-14-027556-8)
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The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn'tby Susan MaushartISBN 0140291784 (0-14-029178-4)
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Mont-Saint Michel and Chartresby AdamsISBN 0140390545 (0-14-039054-5)
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The Mountains of Californiaby John MuirISBN 0140266615 (0-14-026661-5)
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My War Gone By, I Miss It Soby Anthony LoydISBN 0140298541 (0-14-029854-1)
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Storyby Michael LewisISBN 0140296468 (0-14-029646-8)
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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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New Penguin Bk Guardian Crossby PerkinISBN 0140262679 (0-14-026267-9)
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The New Penguin English Dictionaryby R.E. AllenISBN 0140293108 (0-14-029310-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Penguin English Dictionary'Book summary:Lexicographers have been arguing for centuries--since Dr Johnson produced his authoritative Dictionary of the English Language in 1755--about whether dictionaries should be arbiters of correctness or describers of living language. Refreshingly forward-looking and impressively comprehensive, The Penguin English Dictionary inclines to the latter.
In it you'll find definitions of "dot com company" as well as "dot com fever". Also there amongst the burgeoning computer and Internet vocabulary and its spin-off metaphors are "people carrier," "ring-fence" and "zero tolerance". But that is not to say this large, single-volume dictionary is not also strong and clear on standard English and English of earlier periods as well as on scientific and specialist terms--all with scholarly derivations. "Fugacious" ("lasting a short time, fleeting"--from Latin fugac--fugac from fuger to flee) is there along with "ollgoclase" ("a common feldspar mineral of the plagioclase series found in many rocks eg granite"--from German Oligoklas, from Greek OLIGO + klasis breaking").
Two features distinguish this attractive dictionary. First, like larger multi-volume rivals, it quotes from writers past and present--and people in the news today--to illustrate established, changing and modern language usage. Thus Shakespeare and John Locke rub shoulders with Eric Cantona and Germaine Greer. Second, the dictionary is liberally supplied with inset usage notes, which explain the complexities of, for example, shall and will, supplement and complement, effect and affect. There are also editorial notes and occasional very entertaining word histories. It makes for engrossing browsing. The (signed) editorial notes give supplementary information and have been written by a team of experts. Thus you get a useful elucidatory extra paragraph about film noir by film writer David Thomson, a comment about equality by Helena Kennedy QC and, by BBC economics correspondent Evan Davis, a piece about monetarism.
The New Penguin English Dictionary is being marketed as a dictionary "with attitude" and it's certainly that--firmly in the Johnsonian tradition, although the range of opinions makes it a much more multi-faceted dictionary than anything we've seen before. --Susan Elkin [via]
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Notes from the Hyena's Belly: Memories of My Ethiopian Boyhoodby Nega MezlekiaISBN 0140285822 (0-14-028582-2)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walker KnoxISBN 0140268863 (0-14-026886-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:This book describes the epic journey of Odysseus, the hero of Ancient Greece...After ten years of war, Odysseus turns his back on Troy and sets sail for home. But his voyage takes another ten years and he must face many dangers - Polyphemus the greedy one-eyed giant, Scylla the six-headed sea monster and even the wrath of the gods themselves - before he is reunited with his wife and son. [via]
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On Libertyby John Stuart Mill, Gertrude HimmelfarbISBN 0140400281 (0-14-040028-1)
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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]More editions of On Liberty:
Only Way I Knowby Mike Bryan, Cal RipkenISBN 0140266267 (0-14-026626-7)
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetryby Jon SilkinISBN 0140422552 (0-14-042255-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry'Book summary:The recent PBS 8-part miniseries THE GREAT WAR sparked renewed interest in the First World War. More than photographs or eyewitness reports, the poetry written during the embedded the horror of the war in our consciousness. Now, supplemented with five new poems, the works of 38 British, European, and American writers collected here include some of the most outstanding and poignant poems of this century. [via]
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The Penguin History of the Second World Warby Peter Calvocoressi, John Pritchard, Guy WintISBN 0140285024 (0-14-028502-4)
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The Penguin History of Europeby J. M. RobertsISBN 0140265619 (0-14-026561-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin History of Europe'Book summary:Since its publication twenty years ago, J. M. Roberts's monumental History of the World has remained the "unrivaled World History of our day" (A. J. P. Taylor), selling more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Now in an equally masterful performance, Roberts displays his consummate skills of exposition in telling the tale of the European continent, from its Neolithic origins and early civilizations of the Aegean to the advent of the twenty-first century. A sweeping and entertaining history, The Penguin History of Europe comprehensively traces the development of European identity over the course of thousands of years, ranging across empires and religions, economics, science, and the arts. Roberts's astute and lucid analyses of the disparate spheres of learning that have shaped European civilization and our understanding of it make The Penguin History of Europe a remarkable journey through the last two centuries.[via]More editions of The Penguin History of Europe:
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creationby John Phillip SantosISBN 0140292020 (0-14-029202-0)
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Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkinsby W.H. GardnerISBN 0140420150 (0-14-042015-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins'Book summary:Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The "Penguin Classics" edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Poems and Prose" is selected and edited with an introduction by W.H. Gardner. Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Jesuit order the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'. The poems, letters and journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life, and published posthumously in 1918. His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was born in Essex, the eldest son of a prosperous middle-class family. He was educated at Highgate School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Classics and began his lifelong friendship with Robert Bridges. In 1866 he entered the Roman Catholic Church and two years later he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1877 he was ordained and was priest in a number of parishes including a slum district in Liverpool. From 1882 to 1884 he taught at Stonyhurst College and in 1884 he became Classics Professor at University College, Dublin. In his lifetime Hopkins was hardly known as a poet, except to one or two friends; his poems were not published until 1918, in a volume edited by Robert Bridges. If you enjoyed Hopkins' "Poems and Prose", you might like John Clare's "Selected Poems", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Queen of Whale Cayby Kate SummerscaleISBN 0140276130 (0-14-027613-0)
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Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Authorby Edward John TrelawnyISBN 0140430881 (0-14-043088-1)
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The Rest of Us : Dispatches from the Mother Shipby Jacquelyn MitchardISBN 0140274979 (0-14-027497-9)
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Richard III: England's Black Legendby Desmond SewardISBN 0140266348 (0-14-026634-8)
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938by Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas G. BrinkleyISBN 0140268316 (0-14-026831-6)
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Rural Ridesby William CobbettISBN 0140430237 (0-14-043023-7)
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The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authorsby Dwight L. Garner, Laura Miller, Adam BegleyISBN 014028088X (0-14-028088-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors'Book summary:Selling itself as a handbook for readers who consume books "for pleasure," The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors hopes to fill a perceived gap on the reference shelf. Its editor, Laura Miller, declares in the preface: "We didn't imagine an audience of researchers or scholars or critics or prize committees or members of the publishing industry, even if some of those people still do occasionally read a book with the hopes of enjoying it." The chief irony of this claim is that this Baedeker originated at Salon.com--a den of insiders, merciless critics, and juicy gossip. And there's plenty here that the "pure" reader wouldn't need to know: the dirt on big advances, whose career went into a tailspin, what the reviewers said. If Miller's aim was to escape the careerists of the publishing world, she has nevertheless assembled a book they'll eat like catnip.
And a highly original book it is, too. Like Salon.com itself, it collapses the distance between highbrow and lowbrow. Stephen King and Mario Puzo coexist with Lydia Davis and Donald Antrim; as a result, the game quickly becomes one of who is not included and who is. To Miller's credit, the answers continually surprise (though several omissions are regrettable). Loosely limiting authors to those who have some "contemporary" presence, entries attempt to place these writers in their time, to argue for their importance and influence. The entries themselves often suffer from bad writing; here's a metaphor that should be blocked: "If you could grab hold of one of O'Brien's images and wrestle it up from the page, you'd find long roots sunk deep into the earth. There's blood coursing through her exquisite prose, balancing its seeming delicacy with solidity and weight." Or, my favorite moment of exasperating silliness: "Are you sure you hate Bret Easton Ellis as much as you hate yourself?" A more limited pool of reviewers would have diminished a feeling of unevenness that undermines the book's authoritative posture. The best writing comes from Miller herself, who has emerged as the Pauline Kael of the book scene. Her prose is effortlessly provocative.
Often an entry about a writer's work will be followed by an essay by that author. These added essays and digressions are wonderfully varied and idiosyncratic: David Gates on "Breaking Up with the Beats," Dorothy Allison on why "Every Novel Is a Lesbian Novel," and though Calvin Trillin isn't assessed, he is allowed to write about "Books That Made Me Laugh." Combined with the guide's primary information, these additions allow the reader a glimpse into the chatter of famous authors--an imaginary tea party free of mercenaries and showoffs, of course, where pure-hearted readers hold forth about the joy of books and everybody has a turn. --Ellen Williams [via]
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Selected Essaysby Larzer Ziff, Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0140390138 (0-14-039013-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Essays'Book summary:Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that an appreciation of its vast natural resources would become the foundation of American culture. His assertion that human thought and actions proceed from nature, was a radical departure from the traditional European emphasis on domesticating nature to suit human needs. His philosophy is rich in common natural scenes of daily life, and expresses the inherent harmony between man and nature. This collection brings together 15 of Emerson's most significant essays, including "Nature", "The American Scholar", "Self-reliance" and "The Transcendentalist", as well as his assessments of Montaigne, Napoleon and Thoreau. [via]
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Selected Poems: Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Ian HamiltonISBN 0140421726 (0-14-042172-6)
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Servants of the Peopleby Andrew RawnsleyISBN 0140278508 (0-14-027850-8)
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Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Womenby Deborah BlumISBN 0140263489 (0-14-026348-9)
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Shakespeare's Wordsby David Crystal, Ben CrystalISBN 0140291172 (0-14-029117-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Words'Book summary:[via]One of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, and the actor Ben Crystal, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary of nearly 14,000 words and meanings that are frequently misunderstood byor incomprehensible tothe modern reader. Every entry is supported by at least one illustrative quote to help the student, the teacher, the actor, the scholar, and the general reader grasp the depth and beauty of the Bard's language. Shakespeare's Words includes:
- Complete listings of all the French, Latin, Spanish, and Italian words, as well as Welsh, Scottish, and Irish dialects Shakespeare used
- Easy-to-read diagrams that represent the relationships between the characters and places for each play
- A conventional plot synopsis and list of dramatis personae for all the plays
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Shaking a Leg : Collected Journalism and Writingsby Angela Carter, Jenny Uglow, Joan SmithISBN 0140276955 (0-14-027695-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shaking a Leg : Collected Journalism and Writings'Book summary:Angela Carter died in 1992, but her novels, short story collections, and essays live on, attracting new generations of readers to her often dark, always quirky worldview. Perhaps best known for her fiction (Wise Children, Nights at the Circus, Burning Your Boats, Saints and Strangers, among other titles), Carter was also a gifted and prolific essayist. Two earlier collections, Nothing Sacred and Expletives Deleted, contained much of her journalism and nonfiction; in this latest collection, editor Jenny Uglow has followed Carter's lead, categorizing her work in offbeat, provocative ways. Divided into five main sections ("Self"; "Body Languages"; "Home and Away"; "Looking"; "Stories and Tellers") and many subsections, Uglow has presented essays that range from the early 1960s right up until her death.
Carter certainly wears her convictions on her sleeve; in the 1984 essay "An Omelette and a Glass of Wine and Other Dishes" she decries the "widespread and unashamed cult of conspicuous gluttony" that has sprouted up among yuppie "foodies" in England--people for whom "food is a cornerstone of this hysterical new snobbery." After describing an article in a gourmet magazine that subtly threatens dire consequences for the ignorant host who cannot tell a factory-made brie from a farm-made one, she observes dryly: "This mincing and finicking obsession with food opens whole new areas of potential social shame. No wonder the British find it irresistible." She brings the same laserlike analysis to her 1975 discussion of women's cosmetics, "The Wound in the Face": "[Manufacturers] do not understand their own imagery, any more than the consumer who demonstrates it does. I'm still working on the nature of the imagery of cosmetics. I think it scares me."
Whether she's discussing feminism, her own life history, travel to far-flung corners of the world, or the work of other writers such as Grace Paley or F. Scott Fitzgerald, Angela Carter does so with both precision, intelligence, great wit, and occasional flashes of lyricism. Consider this meditation on the London zoo: "When darkness falls and the crowds are gone and the beasts inherit Regent's Park, I should think the mandrills sometimes say to one another: 'Well, taking all things into consideration, how much better off we are here than in the wild! Nice food, regular meals, no predators, no snakes, free medical care, roofs over our heads... and, after all this time, we couldn't really cope with the wild again, could we?' So they console themselves, perhaps. And, perhaps, weep." And so readers may console themselves with this fine collection of essays. Something to remember Angela Carter by. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern Warby Samuel Lynn HynesISBN 0140261540 (0-14-026154-0)
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Sorcerer's Apprenticeby Tahir ShahISBN 0140285717 (0-14-028571-7)
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The Sound of Mountain Waterby Wallace StegnerISBN 0140266747 (0-14-026674-7)
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Speaking with Strangersby Mary CantwellISBN 0140283609 (0-14-028360-9)
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Talking Peace : A Vision for the Next Generationby Jimmy CarterISBN 014037440X (0-14-037440-X)
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Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Loverby Jancis RobinsonISBN 0140270019 (0-14-027001-9)
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Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat--Not a Sour Pussby Pam Johnson-BennettISBN 0140288546 (0-14-028854-6)
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Travels in Alaskaby John Muir, Richard NelsonISBN 0140268324 (0-14-026832-4)
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The Vikingsby Else RoesdahlISBN 0140252827 (0-14-025282-7)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 014040029X (0-14-040029-X)
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The Virgin Homeowner: The Essential Guide to Owning, Maintaining, and Surviving Your Homeby Janice PapolosISBN 0140274766 (0-14-027476-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin Homeowner: The Essential Guide to Owning, Maintaining, and Surviving Your Home'Book summary:Janice Papolos describes her own first-home experience this way: "Part of the problem was that I had a mystified awe of the house. I swear there were times when I viewed it as more intelligent and powerful than we were.... There was a time or two in which I felt the house was being downright vindictive."
Ranked as "Most Useful to Homeowners" by The Wall Street Journal, Papolos's humorous and helpful book is the definitive guide for the first-time homeowner. Few experiences in life are more intimidating and complicated than one's first home purchase, especially when the new homeowner is perhaps a bit inexperienced with home repair and maintenance, as many (if not most) are. Starting with the basics of what you need to know to make sense of the initial, prepurchase home inspection, Papolos heads right into the "Inner Mysteries"--the plumbing and electrical systems--then on to heating and cooling, septic systems, insects and other pests, security concerns and measures, proper ventilation, child-proofing, and much, much more, topping it all off with an annual calendar of seasonal maintenance, advice on paint colors, and a thorough index for easy reference.
The goal is to remove the intimidation for the homeowner, and at the very least, permit him or her to talk knowledgeably with home-repair professionals, as necessary, without coming across like an idiot. This is a great reference book for any new homeowner, and probably would open the eyes of many longtime homeowners, as well. --Mark A. Hetts [via]
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Voyages and Discoveriesby Richard HakluytISBN 0140430733 (0-14-043073-3)
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The Wealth of Nations/Books I-IIIby Adam SmithISBN 0140400125 (0-14-040012-5)
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By pin-pointing the 'division of labour' as a major explanation of economic growth, Adam Smith laid the foundations of economic theory in general and of 'classical' economics in particular. But Andrew Skinner shows in his introduction to this edition that the real sophistication of The Wealth of Nations lies less in its overall picture of a vast analytical system - a capitalist economy - in which all the parts can be seen simultaneously interacting with each other. Moreover, he stresses that Smith's view of society was mot a merely economic one, and that The Wealth of Nations is for from being an apologia for unregulated business enterprise: Smith was at pains to show that economic advance can have undesirable social consequences, and that labour which is economically unproductive can be beneficial to society at large. [via]More editions of The Wealth of Nations/Books I-III:
When Harlem Was in Vogueby David L. LewisISBN 0140263349 (0-14-026334-9)
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With Chatwin : Portrait of a Writerby Susannah ClappISBN 0140276459 (0-14-027645-9)
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You Can Do the Cubeby Patrick BossertISBN 0140314830 (0-14-031483-0)
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Yugoslavia: Death of a Nationby Laura Silber, Allan LittleISBN 0140262636 (0-14-026263-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation'Book summary:"The most authoritative account in English or any other language about how the war began."The Washington Post Book World. "An essential resource for anyone of the conflict."The New York Times Book Review.[via]More editions of Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation:
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