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The Accidental President: How 413 Lawyers, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 5,963,110 Floridians Landed George W. Bush in the White Houseby David A. KaplanISBN 0066212839 (0-06-621283-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Advanced Calculusby R. Creighton Buck, Ellen F. BuckISBN 0070087288 (0-07-008728-8)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Advanced Calculus'Book summary:New publisher! Corrected version! Demonstrating analytical and numerical techniques for attacking problems in the application of mathematics, this well-organized, clearly written text presents the logical relationship and fundamental notations of analysis. Buck discusses analysis not solely as a tool, but as a subject in its own right. This skill-building volume familiarizes students with the language, concepts, and standard theorems of analysis, preparing them to read the mathematical literature on their own. The text revisits certain portions of elementary calculus and gives a systematic, modern approach to the differential and integral calculus of functions and transformations in several variables, including an introduction to the theory of differential forms. The material is structured to benefit those students whose interests lean toward either research in mathematics or its applications. [via]
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Amazon.Com: Get Big Fastby Robert SpectorISBN 0066620422 (0-06-662042-2)
Softcover, Harperbusiness
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American Heritage History of Railroads in Americaby Oliver JensenISBN 007032526X (0-07-032526-X)
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Ancient Mysteriesby Rupert FurneauxISBN 007022630X (0-07-022630-X)
Hardcover, School Specialty Pub
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Another Planet: A Year in the Life of a Suburban High Schoolby Elinor BurkettISBN 0066211484 (0-06-621148-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversityby Conrad Phillip KottakISBN 0070356165 (0-07-035616-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Arby Robert HenriISBN 0064301389 (0-06-430138-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Artsby Duane Preble, Sarah PrebleISBN 0065008340 (0-06-500834-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguisticsby Jean AitchisonISBN 0070007365 (0-07-000736-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Automotive Brake Systemsby Richard K. Dupuy, Michael CalkinsISBN 0065007611 (0-06-500761-1)
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Batman Animatedby Paul Dini, Chip KiddISBN 0067575315 (0-06-757531-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wildby Susan McCarthyISBN 0066209242 (0-06-620924-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Beginner's German Dictionaryby Harper CollinsISBN 0062737538 (0-06-273753-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Best American Science Writing 2003by Oliver SacksISBN 0066211638 (0-06-621163-8)
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This year, Peter Canby travels into the heart of remote Africa to track a remarkable population of elephants; Atul Gawande shows us the way doctors learn their skills by performing supposedly routine procedures on unsuspecting patients. With candor and tenderness, Floyd Sklootobserves the toll Alzheimer's disease is taking on his ninety-one-year-old mother, and is fascinated by the memories she retains. Marcelo Gleiser asks: If we are the universe's sole intelligent species, then what must we do to be good citizens of the cosmos? Natalie Angier writes about the challenge of traveling to distant stars. Gunjan Sinha explores the mating behavior of the common prairie vole and what it reveals about the human pattern of monogamy. Michael Klesius attempts to solve what Darwin called "an abominable mystery": How did flowers originate? Lawrence Osborne tours a farm where a genetically modified goat produces the silk of spiders in its milk. Joseph D'Agnese visits a home for retired medical research chimps. And in the collection's final piece, Richard C. Lewontin and Richard Levins reflect on how the work of Stephen Jay Gould demonstrated the value of taking a radical approach to science.
As this series firmly attests, science writing has achieved a central place in our culture, and one can posit that the reason why has to do with the special thrill of discovery that a cogent piece of science writing can elicit. As Dr. Sacks writes of Stephen Jay Gould -- to whose memory this year's anthology is dedicated -- an article of his "was never predictable, never dry, could not be imitated or mistaken for anybody else's." The same can be said of all of the writing contained in contributions to this diverse collection "that can be enjoyed by laymen, scientists, and writers alike" (Nature).
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A Boat in Our Baggage: Around the World With a Kayakby Maria CoffeyISBN 0070115478 (0-07-011547-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Botany Coloring Bookby Paul G. YoungISBN 0064603024 (0-06-460302-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Civil Warby Bruce CattonISBN 0070102651 (0-07-010265-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Dic Harpercollins French Dictionary French English English Frenchby HarpercolinsISBN 0062760564 (0-06-276056-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Early Greeksby R.J. HopperISBN 0064929787 (0-06-492978-7)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdomby Cyril AldredISBN 0070009953 (0-07-000995-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The Worldby Nicholas OstlerISBN 0066210860 (0-06-621086-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The World'Book summary:The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it.
Yet the history of the world's great languages has been very little told. Empires of the Word, by the wide-ranging linguist Nicholas Ostler, is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations in education, culture, and diplomacy devised by speakers of Sumerian and its successors in the Middle East, right up to the Arabic of the present day; the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions; the charmed progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the engaging self-regard of Greek; the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe; and the global spread of English.
Besides these epic ahievements, language failures are equally fascinating: Why did German get left behind? Why did Egyptian, which had survived foreign takeovers for three millennia, succumb to Mohammed's Arabic? Why is Dutch unknown in modern Indonesia, though the Netherlands had ruled the East Indies for as long as the British ruled India?
As this book splendidly and authoritatively reveals, the language history of the world shows eloquently the real character of peoples; and, for all the recent tehnical mastery of English, nothing guarantees our language's long-term preeminence. The language future, like the language past, will be full of surprises.
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Encounters: Readings and the Worldby Robert Diyanni, Pat C. HoyISBN 0070306397 (0-07-030639-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Engineering Formulasby Reiner Gieck, Kurt GieckISBN 0070234558 (0-07-023455-8)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Engineering Formulas'Book summary:A comprehensive revision of the famed pocked guide giving engineers, scientists and other specialists a wide range of technical and mathematical formulas in a handy format. Now including a new section on control engineering, this edition is updated throughout and includes 50 additional pages. This perennial best-seller puts engineering formulas most used on the job at the user's fingertips. Thoroughly practical and authoritative, it brings together in one source thousands of formulas and hundreds of diagrams to simplify all engineering and technical calculations. Comprehensive section cover: Units, Areas, Solid Bodies, Arithmetic, Functions of a Circle, Analytical Geometry, Statistics, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus, Differential Equations, Statics, Kinematics, Dynamics, Hydraulics, Heat, Strength, Machine Parts, Production Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Radiation Physics, Chemistry, Tables. [via]
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Engineering Formulasby Kurt GieckISBN 0070232199 (0-07-023219-9)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Familyby Erma BombeckISBN 0070064601 (0-07-006460-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between Women and Menby Paula S. Rothenberg, A. JaggarISBN 0070322511 (0-07-032251-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between Women and Menby A. Jaggar, Paula Rothenberg StruhlISBN 0070322503 (0-07-032250-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Film History: An Introductionby Kristin Thompson, David BordwellISBN 0070064458 (0-07-006445-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0064635732 (0-06-463573-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
From Caterpillar to Butterflyby Deborah Heiligman, Bari WeissmanISBN 0064451291 (0-06-445129-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk DictionaryISBN 0064640663 (0-06-464066-3)
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Gaudi: A Biographyby Gijs van HensbergenISBN 0066210658 (0-06-621065-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Centuryby Emile Male, Dora NusseyISBN 0064300323 (0-06-430032-3)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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Gregg Shorthandby John Robert GreggISBN 0070246246 (0-07-024624-6)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Group Theoryby C.B. Baumslag, B. ChandlerISBN 0070041245 (0-07-004124-5)
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Handbook of Mathematical Tables and Formulasby Richard Stevens BuringtonISBN 0070090157 (0-07-009015-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Hannibalby Ernle BradfordISBN 0070070644 (0-07-007064-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Harley Hahn's Student Guide to Unixby Harley HahnISBN 0070254923 (0-07-025492-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
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Harper Collins French Dictionary/French-English English-French: College EditionISBN 006276506X (0-06-276506-X)
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How to Make Built-in Furnitureby Mario Dal FabbroISBN 0070151814 (0-07-015181-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Ideas of the Great Philosophersby William S. SahakianISBN 0064632180 (0-06-463218-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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In Search of Ancient Astronomiesby E.C. KruppISBN 0070355568 (0-07-035556-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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In Search of the Double Helix: Quantum Physics and Lifeby John R. GribbinISBN 0070247404 (0-07-024740-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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In The Rose Garden Of The Martyrs: A Memoir Of Iranby Christopher de BellaigueISBN 0066209803 (0-06-620980-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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An Indian Summerby James CameronISBN 0070096732 (0-07-009673-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Introduction to Algorithmsby Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford SteinISBN 0070131511 (0-07-013151-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
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Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worthby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0066209889 (0-06-620988-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Televisionby Evan I. SchwartzISBN 0066210690 (0-06-621069-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Many men have laid claim to the title "The Father of Television" but Philo T. Farnsworth is the true genius behind what may be the most influential invention of our time. Farnsworth may have ended up a footnote in history, yet he was the first to demonstrate an electronic process for scanning, transmitting and receiving moving images, a discovery that changed the way we live.
Growing up on a small farm in Idaho, Farnsworth was fascinated by anything scientific, especially the newest thing on the market -- radio. Wouldn't it be even more miraculous to project images along with the sound? Driven by his obsession, Farnsworth found a local philanthropist willing to fund his dream. By the age of twenty, in 1926, Farnsworth was operating his own laboratory above a garage in San Francisco and filing his first patent applications. The resulting publicity brought him to the attention of David Sarnoff, the celebrated founder of the NBC radio network, whose own RCA laboratories soon began investigating -- without much success -- a way to transmit a moving image. Determined to control television the way he monopolized radio -- by owning all the royalty producing patents--Sarnoff, from the lofty heights of his office in a New York skyscraper, devised a plan to steal credit for Farnsworth's designs.
Vividly written, and based on original research, including interviews with surviving members of the Farnsworth family The Last Lone Inventor is the story of the epic struggle between two equally passionate adversaries and how their clash symbolized a turning point in the culture of creativity.
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A Light in the Atticby Shel SilversteinISBN 0066236177 (0-06-623617-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Light in the Attic'Book summary:Last night while I lay thinking here
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic is now available in a special edition containing the classic hardcover book and a CD of highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album.
Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.
From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.
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Marcella Says: Italian Cooking Wisdom from the Legendary Teacher's Master Classes With 120 of Her Irresistible New Recipesby Marcella HazanISBN 0066209676 (0-06-620967-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Mark Twain an American Prophetby Maxwell GeismarISBN 0070230811 (0-07-023081-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Medieval Artby Marilyn StokstadISBN 006430132X (0-06-430132-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Motherhood: The Second Oldest Professionby Erma BombeckISBN 0070064547 (0-07-006454-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Music: An Appreciationby Roger KamienISBN 0070335680 (0-07-033568-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music: An Appreciation'Book summary:When it comes to writing a text for non-music majors, Kamien knows the score. With the care you would expect from the concert pianist he is, Kamien introduces the musical elements and repertoire thoroughly and clearly, without assumptions of prior knowledge but also without condescension. As a teacher at Queens (NY) College, Kamien developed the concept of the Listening Outline, which he incorporated into the first edition of Music: An Appreciation and which he has refined and enhanced in every subsequent edition. This is a text with which students of all levels and backgrounds can feel comfortable. [via]
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Public & Private Families: an Introductionby Andrew J. CherlinISBN 0070106320 (0-07-010632-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Revolt of the Netherlands, 1555-1609by Pieter GeylISBN 0064923835 (0-06-492383-5)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Roman Women: Their History and Habitsby J.P.V.D. BalsdonISBN 0064640620 (0-06-464062-0)
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Romanticismby Hugh HonourISBN 0064300897 (0-06-430089-7)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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Russian for Beginnersby Charles DuffISBN 0064632873 (0-06-463287-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russian for Beginners'Book summary:A simplified introduction to grammar, with basic 4,000-word vocabulary and 42 lessons in the basic principles of the languages. It also includes advanced material which exemplifies and elaborates upon the fundamentals. Also included are folk tales, anecdotes, and extracts from classical and Soviet authors; readings are accompanied by translations, annotations, and explanations, and even a few Russian cartoons. [via]
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Science Fiction Handbookby L. Sprague Decamp, Catherine Crook DecampISBN 0070161984 (0-07-016198-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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A Short History of Wineby Roderick PhillipsISBN 0066212820 (0-06-621282-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Sleeping With Cats: A Memoirby Marge PiercyISBN 0066211158 (0-06-621115-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleeping With Cats: A Memoir'Book summary:A stirring memoir from the acclaimed writer praised by Thomas Pynchon for having "the guts to go into the deepest core of herself, her time, her history, and risk more than anybody else has so far, just out of a love for the truth and a need to tell it."
Called "breathtakingly ambitious" by the New York Times for her novels' forays into war, history, the lives of the homeless, and the minds of cyborgs, Marge Piercy, one of the few writers of our time to be highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her lens inward for the first time as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She revisits the people and places that have shaped her experiences and inspired her work. And she pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed: her beloved cats.
With searing honesty Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, however, Sleeping with Cats is also a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her views on aging, creativity, and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself. A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life, Sleeping with Cats is a deeply intimate, unforgettable story.
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A Student's Guide to Unixby Harley HahnISBN 0070255113 (0-07-025511-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature With Critical Theoryby Steven LynnISBN 0065000994 (0-06-500099-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Musicby Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne, Allan SchindlerISBN 0070358745 (0-07-035874-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Understanding Human Sexualityby Janet S. HydeISBN 0070315582 (0-07-031558-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction To Theory And Historyby Joseph S. NyeISBN 0065007204 (0-06-500720-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sistersby Anne De CourcyISBN 0066210615 (0-06-621061-5)
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The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sailby Derek LundyISBN 0066210127 (0-06-621012-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail'Book summary:Derek Lundy's follow-up to his bestseller Godforsaken Sea is yet another well-told, tension-filled sailing adventure. Based on scraps of information the author has pieced together about his seafaring great-great uncle, The Way of a Ship imagines a trip aboard a massive square-rigger, the Beara Head, hauling coal from Liverpool, England, to Valparaíso, Chile, in 1885. While Lundy knows that his uncle was indeed a seaman on such a trip, the details are provided solely from the author's imagination, based on his obviously vast knowledge of the subject matter.
Though there are challenges throughout the journey, it is Cape Horn, at the tip of South America, that provokes the most fear: "The crew of the Beara Head have been working the ship off the Horn for 39 days, trying to get past this most troublesome of capes. In this austral winter of 1885, the westerly gales have come on them one after the other, no breathers in between. The six-week campaign has changed the men." The narrative of the voyage is also filled with detailed descriptions of life aboard a working square-rigger--descriptions that paint a miserable picture. It was a hard life with few monetary rewards. To better understand this hardship, Lundy sails around Cape Horn himself, encountering the horrific weather and personal privations that come with life at sea. While the interspersed chapters that detail Lundy's own experiences provide additional context for his tale, they also break up the continuity of it. Nonetheless, The Way of a Ship successfully conveys the allure and excitement--even in the face of tremendous hardship--that sailing offers the human spirit. --Adem Tepedelen [via]
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The Ways of Religionby Roger EastmanISBN 0063825953 (0-06-382595-3)
Hardcover, Canfield Press
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What Would Machiavelli Do?: The Ends Justify the Meannessby Stanley BingISBN 0066620112 (0-06-662011-2)
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Wolvesby Seymour SimonISBN 0064461769 (0-06-446176-9)
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World Civilizations: The Global Experienceby Peter N. Stearns, Stuart B. Schwartz, Michael AdasISBN 0065002601 (0-06-500260-1)
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Writing a Novelby J. BraineISBN 0070071128 (0-07-007112-8)
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Writing from the Inner Selfby Elaine Farris HughesISBN 0065018907 (0-06-501890-7)
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Harpercollins French Dictionary: French-English English -Frenchby Harper CollinsISBN 0062737414 (0-06-273741-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harpercollins French Dictionary: French-English English -French'Book summary:The HarperCollins Rack Dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of today's language with over 40,000 entries and 70,000 translations. The easy-to-use format contains commonly used phrases and idioms, plus irregular verb forms, and the most common abbreviations, acronyms, and geographic names.
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