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Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasionby Elliot Aronson, Anthony R. PratkanisISBN 0805074031 (0-8050-7403-1)
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American Mafia: A History Of Its Rise To Powerby Thomas ReppettoISBN 0805077987 (0-8050-7798-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Organized crimethe Italian American kindhas long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's risefrom the 1880s to the post-WWII erathat is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative.
Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia. It wasn't until the 1920s, thanks to Prohibition, that the Mafia assumed what we now consider its defining characteristics, especially its octopuslike tendency to infiltrate industry and government. At mid-century the Kefauver Commission declared the Mafia synonymous with Union Siciliana; in the 1960s the FBI finally admitted the Mafia's existence under the name La Cosa Nostra.
American Mafia is a fascinating look at America's most compelling criminal subculture from an author who is intimately acquainted with both sides of the street.More editions of American Mafia: A History Of Its Rise To Power:
American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Ageby Pete DaviesISBN 0805072977 (0-8050-7297-7)
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American Son : A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.by Richard BlowISBN 0805070516 (0-8050-7051-6)
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Among the Gently Mad : Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Centuryby Nicholas A. BasbanesISBN 0805074414 (0-8050-7441-4)
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Sharing the superb insight he has gathered from booksellers over the years, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a refresher course on the fundamentals that endure, while questioning certain practices of doubtful validity. Topics include how to determine if a book is a first edition, how to spot book club editions, the significance of dust jackets, scouting the flea markets, how to work the book fairs, and the importance of handling the goods, as well as discussing less tangible issues like spotting trends and shaping a focus. Then he takes a careful look at Internet buying, pro and con, illuminating how you can use these electronic tools to your advantage, and making this the book no modern collector will want to be without.More editions of Among the Gently Mad : Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century:
Answering Only to God : Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iranby Geneive Abdo, Jonathan LyonsISBN 0805072993 (0-8050-7299-3)
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Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed Americaby Thurston ClarkeISBN 0805072136 (0-8050-7213-6)
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Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependencyby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805073132 (0-8050-7313-2)
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In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer.
Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement.
With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.More editions of Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency:
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Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worldsby Patricia Lynne DuffyISBN 0805071873 (0-8050-7187-3)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Sometimes described as a blending of perceptions, synesthesia occurs when only one of the fives senses is aroused but two respond. Journalist Patricia Lynne Duffy draws from her own struggles and breakthroughs with synesthesia to help us better understand the condition, while describing some of the major theories surrounding it.
An illuminating examination of the world of synesthetes, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens is a must-read for science and health buffs, as well as for artists, writers, and creative thinkers-or anyone generally intrigued by the brain, the senses, and perception.More editions of Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds:
Breaking the Headache Cycle: A Proven Program for Treating and Preventing Recurring Headachesby Ian Livingstone, Donna NovakISBN 0805072217 (0-8050-7221-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Companyby James R. MellowISBN 0805073515 (0-8050-7351-5)
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The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europeby Paula FoxISBN 0805078061 (0-8050-7806-1)
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Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Lawby Martin GarbusISBN 080507287X (0-8050-7287-X)
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The Day the War Ended: May 8, 1945--Victory in Europeby Martin GilbertISBN 0805075275 (0-8050-7527-5)
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A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemptionby Dina Temple-RastonISBN 0805072772 (0-8050-7277-2)
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The Dependent Gene: The Fallacy of Nature Vs. Nurtureby David S. MooreISBN 0805072802 (0-8050-7280-2)
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Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islamby Robert DreyfussISBN 0805076522 (0-8050-7652-2)
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Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empireby Walden Bello, Tom EngelhardtISBN 0805074023 (0-8050-7402-3)
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Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israelby Tom Segev, Haim WatzmanISBN 0805072888 (0-8050-7288-8)
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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Lifeby Paul EkmanISBN 0805072756 (0-8050-7275-6)
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A renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Paul Ekman led a revolution in our scientific understanding of emotions. In Emotions Revealed, he assembles his research and theories to provide a comprehensive look at the evolutionary roots of human emotions, including anger, sadness, fear, disgust, and happiness.
Drawing on decades of fieldwork, Ekman shows that emotions are deeply embedded in the human species. In the process, he answers such questions as: What triggers emotions and can we stop them? How does our body signal to others whether we are slightly sad or anguished, peeved or enraged? Can we learn to distinguish between a polite smile and the genuine thing? Can we ever truly control our emotions? Unique exercises and photographs help readers identify emotions in themselves and others.
Emotions Revealed is a practical, mind-opening, and potentially life-changing exploration of science and self.
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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Ageby Bill McKibbenISBN 0805075194 (0-8050-7519-4)
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We are on the verge of crossing the line from born to made, from created to built. Sometime in the next few years, a scientist will reprogram a human egg or sperm cell, spawning a genetic change that could be passed down into eternity. We are sleepwalking toward the future, argues Bill McKibben, and its time to open our eyes.
In The End of Nature, nearly fifteen years ago, McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alterand endangerour environment on a global scale. Now he turns his eye to an array of technologies that could change our relationship not with the rest of nature but with ourselves. He explores the frontiers of genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnologyall of which we are approaching with astonishing speedand shows that each threatens to take us past a point of no return. We now stand at a critical threshold, poised between the human past and a post-human future.
Ultimately, McKibben offers a celebration of what it means to be human, and a warning that we risk the loss of all meaning if we step across the threshold. His wise and eloquent book argues that we cannot forever grow in reach and powerthat we must at last learn how to say, Enough.More editions of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age:
The Fall of Freddie the Leafby Leo BuscagliaISBN 0805071954 (0-8050-7195-4)
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Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Mediaby Eric KlinenbergISBN 0805078193 (0-8050-7819-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media'Book summary:[via]A groundbreaking investigative work by a critically acclaimed sociologist on the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans
For the residents of Minot, North Dakota, Clear Channel Communications is synonymous with disaster. Early in the morning of January 18, 2002, a train derailment sent a cloud of poisonous gas drifting toward the small town. Minot's fire and rescue departments attempted to reach Clear Channel, which owned and operated all six local commercial radio stations, to warn residents of the approaching threat. But in the age of canned programming and virtual DJs, there was no one in the conglomerate's studio to take the call. The people of Minot were taken unawares. The result: one death and more than a thousand injuries.
Opening with the story of the Minot tragedy, Eric Klinenberg's Fighting for Air takes us into the world of preprogrammed radio shows, empty television news stations, and copycat newspapers to show how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Klinenberg argues that the demise of truly local media stems from the federal government's malign neglect, as the agencies charged with ensuring diversity and open competition have ceded control to the very conglomerates that consistently undermine these values and goals.
Such "big media" may not be here to stay, however. Fighting for Air delivers a call to action, revealing a rising generation of new media activists and citizen journalists--a coalition of liberals and conservatives--who are demanding and even creating the local coverage they need and deserve.More editions of Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media:
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Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good For Gays, Good For Straights, And Good For Americaby Jonathan RauchISBN 0805078150 (0-8050-7815-0)
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The Genie in the Bottle: 67 All New Digestible Commentaries of the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Lifeby Joe SchwarczISBN 0805071385 (0-8050-7138-5)
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The Gluten-free Bible: The Thoroughly Indispensable Guide To Negotiating Life Without Wheatby Jax Peters Lowell, Anthony J. DimarinoISBN 0805077464 (0-8050-7746-4)
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Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-experimenters In Science And Medicineby Mel Boring, Leslie A. Dendy, C. B. MordanISBN 0805073167 (0-8050-7316-7)
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Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigadeby Terry BrightonISBN 0805077227 (0-8050-7722-7)
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In October 1854, with the Crimean War just under way and British and French troops pushing the tsar's forces back from the Black Sea, seven hundred intrepid English horsemen charged a mile and a half into the most heavily fortified Russian position. In the seven minutes it took the cavalry to cross this distance, more than five hundred of them were killed. Celebrated in poetry and legend, the charge of the Light Brigade has stood for a century and a half as a pure example of military dash and daring. Until now, historical accounts of this cavalry charge have relied upon politically motivated press reports and diaries kept by the aristocratic British generals who commanded the action.
In Hell Riders, noted historian and Crimean War expert Terry Brighton looks, for the first time, to the journals recorded by survivors-the soldiers who did the fighting. His riveting firsthand narrative reveals the tragically inept leadership on the part of the British commander in chief, Lord Raglan, whose orders for the charge were poorly communicated and misinterpreted, and an unfathomable indifference on the part of British officers to the men who survived the battle and were left to tend their wounds and bury the dead in the freezing cold. While the charge overran the Russians, it gained nothing and the war continued for another two years. In finally capturing the truth behind the charge of the Light Brigade, Brighton offers a stirring portrait of incredible bravery in the service of a misguided endeavor.More editions of Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade:
Homicide Specialby Miles CorwinISBN 0805076948 (0-8050-7694-8)
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How Race Is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apartby Correspondents of the New York Times, Joseph LelyveldISBN 0805070842 (0-8050-7084-2)
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Human Nature : A Blueprint for Managing the Earth--By People, for Peopleby James TrefilISBN 0805078487 (0-8050-7848-7)
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I Am A Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, And Their World Of Storiesby Sam SwopeISBN 0805078517 (0-8050-7851-7)
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A few years back, children's-book writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in Queens. So enchanted was he with his twenty-eight students that he "adopted" the class for three years, teaching them to write stories and poems. Almost all were new Americans (his class included students fom twenty-one countries) and Swope was drawn deep into their real and imaginary lives, their problems, hopes, and fears. I Am a Pencil is the story of his years with this very special group of students. It is as funny, warm, heartbreaking, and hopeful as the children themselves.
Swope follows his colorful troop of resilient writers from grades three to five, coaxing out their stories, watching talents blossom, explode, and sometimes fizzle, holding his breath as the kids' families brave new lives in a strange big city. We meet Susie (whose mom was a Taoist priestess), Alex (who cannot seem to tell the truth), and Noelia (a wacky Dominican chatterbox). All of the children have big dreams. Some have big problems: Salvador, an Ecuadorian boy, must cope with a strict Pentecostal father; Soo Jung mystifies Swope with sudden silences-until he discovers that her mother has left the family. Preparing his students for a world of adult dangers, Swope is astonished by their courage, humanity, but most of all by their strength.More editions of I Am A Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, And Their World Of Stories:
If I Get to Five : What Children Can Teach Us about Courage and Characterby Fred Epstein, Joshua HorwitzISBN 080507144X (0-8050-7144-X)
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If I Get to Five: What Children Can Teach Us About Courage and Characterby Joshua Horwitz, Fred EpsteinISBN 0805075178 (0-8050-7517-8)
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The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industial Complexby Maureen OrthISBN 0805078479 (0-8050-7847-9)
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivorsby Doug StantonISBN 0805073663 (0-8050-7366-3)
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Captain McVay was quickly court-martialed for having failed to follow evasive maneuvers, "the first captain in the history of the U.S. Navy," Doug Stanton observes, "to be court-martialed subsequent to losing his ship in an act of war." Although the sailors under his command would insist that McVay had been scapegoated, and although I-58's commander testified before the court that "he would have sunk the Indianapolis no matter what course she was on," McVay was never able to clear his name. He committed suicide in 1968.
Stanton captures the drama of these events in his vigorous narrative, which augments and updates Richard Newcomb's Abandon Ship!. Stanton observes that although McVay was exonerated by an act of Congress in 2000, the conviction still stands in Navy records. Stanton's book makes a powerful case for why that conviction should be overturned, and why the captain and crew of the Indianapolis deserve honor. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combatby Rick AtkinsonISBN 0805077731 (0-8050-7773-1)
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The Italian Boy: A Tale Of Murder And Body Snatching In 1830s Londonby Sarah WiseISBN 0805078495 (0-8050-7849-5)
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Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945by Catherine MerridaleISBN 0805074554 (0-8050-7455-4)
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Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistanby Ann JonesISBN 0805078843 (0-8050-7884-3)
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The Last Men Out: Life On The Edge At Rescue 2 Firehouseby Tom DowneyISBN 0805078444 (0-8050-7844-4)
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The Living Unknown Soldier : A Story of Grief and the Great Warby Jean-Yves Le Naour, Penny AllenISBN 0805075224 (0-8050-7522-4)
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The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroeby Sarah Bartlett ChurchwellISBN 0805078185 (0-8050-7818-5)
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There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and tragic loner. Indeed, the writing and rewriting of this endlessly intriguing icon's life has produced more than six hundred books, from the long procession of "authoritative" biographies to the memoirs and plays by ex-husband Arthur Miller and the works by Norman Mailer and Joyce Carol Oates. But even as the books have multiplied, myth, reality, fact, fiction, and gossip have become only more intertwined; there is still no agreement about such fundamental questions as Marilyn's given name, the identity of her father, whether she was molested as a child, and how and why she died.
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe reviews the unreliable and unverifiable-but highly significant-stories that have framed the greatest Hollywood legend. All the while, cultural critic Sarah Churchwell reveals us to ourselves: our conflicted views on women, our tormented sexual attitudes, our ambivalence about success, our fascination with self-destruction.
In incisive and passionate prose, Churchwell uncovers the shame, belittlement, and anxiety that we bring to the story of a woman we supposedly adore. In the process, she rescues a Marilyn Monroe who is far more complicated and credible than the one we think we know.More editions of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe:
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Memory: From Mind to Moleculesby Larry R. SquireISBN 0805073450 (0-8050-7345-0)
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha : Two Years in the Heart of an African Villageby Sarah ErdmanISBN 0805073817 (0-8050-7381-7)
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When Sarah Erdman, a Peace Corps volunteer, arrived in Nambonkaha, she became the first Caucasian to venture there since the French colonialists. But even though she was thousands of miles away from the United States, completely on her own in this tiny village in the West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, she did not feel like a stranger for long.
As her vivid narrative unfolds, Erdman draws us into the changing world of the village that became her home. Here is a place where electricity is expected but never arrives, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women grinding corn with pestles rings out in the mornings like church bells. Rare rains provoke bathing in the streets and the most coveted fashion trend is fabric with illustrations of Western cell phones. Yet Nambonkaha is also a place where AIDS threatens and poverty is constant, where women suffer the indignities of patriarchal customs, where children work like adults while still managing to dream.
Lyrical and topical, Erdman's beautiful debut captures the astonishing spirit of an unforgettable community.More editions of Nine Hills to Nambonkaha : Two Years in the Heart of an African Village:
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Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbineby Elliot AronsonISBN 0805070990 (0-8050-7099-0)
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In Elliot Aronson's Nobody Left to Hate, on of our nation's leading social psychologists argues that the negative atmosphere in our schools--the exclusion, taunting, humiliation, and bullying--played a major role in triggering the pathological behavior of the shooters. At the very least, such an atmosphere makes schools an unpleasant experience for most normal students.
But it doesn't have to be. Nobody Left to Hate offers concise, practical, and easy-to-apply strategies for creating a more supportive, stimulating, and compassionate environment in our schools. Based on decades of scientific research and classroom testing, these strategies explain how students can be taught to control their own impulses, how to respect others, and how to resolve conflicts amicably. In addition, they show teachers how to structure classes to promote cooperation, rather than competition, without sacrificing academics. On the contrary, education is greatly enhanced.
For parents, teachers, or anyone concerned with what is happening in our schools, Nobody Left to Hate provides a simple and effective plan of action that will make their children's school not only a safe place, but a more humane place of learning.More editions of Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine:
Nutrition for Women: How Eating Right Can Help You Look and Feel Your Bestby Elizabeth SomerISBN 0805070818 (0-8050-7081-8)
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Off Ramp : Adventures and Heartaches in the American Elsewhereby Hank StueverISBN 0805075739 (0-8050-7573-9)
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Open Wide: Tooth School Insideby Laurie KellerISBN 0805072683 (0-8050-7268-3)
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Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zeroby New York Times Staff, Howell Raines, Richard BernsteinISBN 0805074104 (0-8050-7410-4)
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This riveting, incisive, and authoritative account is destined to stand as the essential chronicle of this singular moment in our history.More editions of Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero:
Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001by Richard Bernstein, New York Times Staff, Howell RainesISBN 0805072403 (0-8050-7240-3)
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraqby Stephen KinzerISBN 0805078614 (0-8050-7861-4)
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"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the latest, though perhaps not the last, example of the dangers inherent in these operations.
In Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer tells the stories of the audacious politicians, spies, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers. He also shows that the U.S. government has often pursued these operations without understanding the countries involved; as a result, many of them have had disastrous long-term consequences.
In a compelling and provocative history that takes readers to fourteen countries, including Cuba, Iran, South Vietnam, Chile, and Iraq, Kinzer surveys modern American history from a new and often surprising perspective.More editions of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq:
Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grandby James BarronISBN 0805078789 (0-8050-7878-9)
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Plague: A Story of Science, Rivalry, and the Scourge That Won't Go Awayby Edward MarriottISBN 0805075151 (0-8050-7515-1)
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Primo Leviby Ian ThomsonISBN 0805073434 (0-8050-7343-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Primo Levi'Book summary:Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining until his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the last. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson unravels the strands of a life as improbable as it was influential, the story of the most modest of men who became a universal touchstone of conscience and humanism.[via]
Drawing on exclusive access to family members and previously unseen correspondence, Thomson reconstructs the world of Levi's youth-the rhythms of Jewish life in Turin during the Mussolini years-as well as his experience in Auschwitz and difficult reintegration into postwar Italy. Thomson presents Levi in all his facets: his fondness for Louis Armstrong and fast cars, his insomnia and many near-catastrophic work accidents. Finally, he explores the controversy and isolation of Levi's later years, along with the increasing tensions in his life-between his private anguish and gift for friendship; his severe bouts of depression and passion for life and ideas; his pervasive dread and reasoned, pragmatic ethic.
Praised in Britain as "the best sort of history" and "a model of its kind," Primo Levi: A Life is certain to take its place as the standard biography and a necessary companion to the works themselves.More editions of Primo Levi:
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The Quark and the Jaguar: The Quark and the Jaguarby Murray Gell-MannISBN 0805072535 (0-8050-7253-5)
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Rising From The Rails: Pullman Porters And The Making Of The Black Middle Classby Larry TyeISBN 0805078509 (0-8050-7850-9)
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The Road Not Taken: An Introduction to Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer, John O'Hara CosgraveISBN 0805069836 (0-8050-6983-6)
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No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes.
Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers.
In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.More editions of The Road Not Taken: An Introduction to Robert Frost:
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Rosaby Nikki Giovanni, Bryan CollierISBN 0805071067 (0-8050-7106-7)
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Amazon.com's Significant Seven
Nikki Giovanni graciously agreed to answer the questions we like to ask every author: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.
Q: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?
A: No single book. The poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks was an impact, however.
Q: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?
A: Sula by Toni Morrison, Great American Spirituals, and The Godfather.
Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
A: "You're the best."
Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.
A: A cup of coffee, my rocking chair, the sun just rising through my left window.
Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
A: "I tried."
Q: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
A: Lorraine Hansberry
Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A: I would fly.
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Science Friction : Where the Known Meets the Unknownby Michael ShermerISBN 0805077081 (0-8050-7708-1)
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A scientist pretends to be a psychic for a day-and fools everyone. An athlete discovers that good-luck rituals and getting into "the zone" may, or may not, improve his performance. A historian decides to analyze the data to see who was truly responsible for the Bounty mutiny. A son explores the possiblities of alternative and experimental medicine for his cancer-ravaged mother. And a skeptic realizes that it is time to turn the skeptical lens onto science itself.
In each of the fourteen essays in Science Friction, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores the very personal barriers and biases that plague and propel science, especially when scientists push against the unknown. What do we know and what do we not know? How does science respond to controversy, attack, and uncertainty? When does theory become accepted fact? As always, Shermer delivers a thought-provoking, fascinating, and entertaining view of life in the scientific age.More editions of Science Friction : Where the Known Meets the Unknown:
Sex: A Natural Historyby Joann Ellison RodgersISBN 0805072810 (0-8050-7281-0)
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Strange Universe : The Weird and Wild Science of Everyday Life--on Earth and Beyondby Bob BermanISBN 0805075836 (0-8050-7583-6)
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The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spiritby Melvin KonnerISBN 0805072799 (0-8050-7279-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit'Book summary:A vital updating of a seminal work of science[via]
First published to great acclaim twenty years ago, The Tangled Wing has become required reading for anyone interested in the biological roots of human behavior. Since then, revolutions have taken place in genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. All of these innovations have been brought into account in this greatly expanded edition of a book originally called an "overwhelming achievement" by The Times Literary Supplement.
A masterful synthesis of biology, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, The Tangled Wing reveals human identity and activity to be an intricately woven fabric of innumerable factors. Melvin Konner's sensitive and straightforward discussion ranges across topics such as the roots of aggression, the basis of attachment and desire, the differences between the sexes, and the foundations of mental illness.More editions of The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit:
Telegram!: Modern History As Told Through More Than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegramsby Linda RosenkrantzISBN 0805071016 (0-8050-7101-6)
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Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Scienceby Deborah CadburyISBN 0805070877 (0-8050-7087-7)
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Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany 1933-1939by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Jefferson ChaseISBN 080507452X (0-8050-7452-X)
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Today Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to an economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, shocking as it may seem, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Now, Wolfgang Schivelbusch investigates the shared elements of these three "new deals" to offer a striking explanation for the popularity of Europe's totalitarian systems.
Returning to the Depression, Schivelbusch traces the emergence of a new type of state: bolstered by mass propaganda, led by a charismatic figure, and projecting stability and power. He uncovers stunning similarities among the three regimes: the symbolic importance of gigantic public works programs like the TVA dams and the German autobahn, which not only put people back to work but embodied the state's authority; the seductive persuasiveness of Roosevelt's fireside chats and Mussolini's radio talks; the vogue for monumental architecture stamped on Washington, as on Berlin; and the omnipresent banners enlisting citizens as loyal followers of the state.
Far from equating Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini or minimizing their acute differences, Schivelbusch proposes that the populist and paternalist qualities common to their states hold the key to the puzzling allegiance once granted to Europe's most tyrannical regimes.More editions of Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany 1933-1939:
To Hell and Backby Audie Murphy, Tom BrokawISBN 0805070869 (0-8050-7086-9)
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The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophyby Bryan MageeISBN 080507189X (0-8050-7189-X)
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The Triumph of Evolution : And the Failure of Creationismby Niles EldredgeISBN 0805071474 (0-8050-7147-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Triumph of Evolution : And the Failure of Creationism'Book summary:Is evolution a religious belief? Is Genesis a scientific report? These are two of the tacks taken by "scientific creationists" to reach their goal of stopping the teaching of evolution in public schools, a goal palaeontologist Niles Eldredge claims is purely political. In The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism, Eldredge exposes the deep flaws in creationists' arguments and calls for those who love and respect the scientific process of gathering knowledge to engage their opponents in the culture war wholeheartedly. This brief but powerful book by one of our leading evolutionary theorists is careful not to dehumanise the intellectual and political adherents to "intelligent design theory" and focus on the importance of teaching all children in our society how science and technology works; in order to do this, he tells us that we must not muddy the waters by agreeing that science and religion have overlapping domains. Skilfully explaining the theory and the most popular arguments against it, Eldredge arms the reader for battle with creationists. Three appendices offer information on recent court decisions and means to get involved in the continuing struggle for proper science education. It's time to take the creationists seriously, and The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism is a great place to start. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Tycoons : How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomyby Charles R. MorrisISBN 0805075992 (0-8050-7599-2)
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour Of Mankind's Greatest Inventionby Guy DeutscherISBN 0805079076 (0-8050-7907-6)
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Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning?
Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, Deutscher exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving us fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. He traces the evolution of linguistic complexity from an early "Me Tarzan" stage to such elaborate single-word constructions as the Turkish sehirlilestiremediklerimizdensiniz ("you are one of those whom we couldn't turn into a town dweller"). Arguing that destruction and creation in language are intimately entwined, Deutscher shows how these processes are continuously in operation, generating new words, new structures, and new meanings.
As entertaining as it is erudite, The Unfolding of Language moves nimbly from ancient Babylonian to American idiom, from the central role of metaphor to the staggering triumph of design that is the Semitic verb, to tell the dramatic story and explain the genius behind a uniquely human faculty.More editions of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour Of Mankind's Greatest Invention:
Victory At Yorktown: The Campaign That Won The Revolutionby Richard M. KetchumISBN 0805073965 (0-8050-7396-5)
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in Americaby Peniel E. JosephISBN 0805075399 (0-8050-7539-9)
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War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitutionby Peter IronsISBN 0805075933 (0-8050-7593-3)
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Washington's General: Nathanael Greene And The Triumph Of The American Revolutionby Terry GolwayISBN 0805070664 (0-8050-7066-4)
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Nathanael Greene is a revolutionary hero who has been lost to history. Although places named in his honor dot city and country, few people know his quintessentially American story as a self-made, self-educated military genius who renounced his Quaker upbringing-horrifying his large family-to take up arms against the British. Untrained in military matters when he joined the Rhode Island militia in 1774, he quickly rose to become Washington's right-hand man and heir apparent. After many daring exploits during the war's first four years (and brilliant service as the army's quartermaster), he was chosen in 1780 by Washington to replace the routed Horatio Gates in South Carolina.
Greene's southern campaign, which combined the forces of regular troops with bands of irregulars, broke all the rules of eighteenth-century warfare and foreshadowed the guerrilla wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His opponent in the south, Lord Cornwallis, wrote, "Greene is as dangerous as Washington. I never feel secure when I am encamped in his neighborhood. He is vigilant, enterprising, and full of resources." Greene's ingenious tactics sapped the British of their strength and resolve even as they "won" nearly every battle. Terry Golway argues that Greene's appointment as commander of the American Southern Army was the war's decisive moment, and this bold new book returns Greene to his proper place in the Revolutionary era's pantheon.More editions of Washington's General: Nathanael Greene And The Triumph Of The American Revolution:
What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal: A Novelby Zoe HellerISBN 0805073337 (0-8050-7333-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal: A Novel'Book summary:Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them. Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an affair with 15-year-old pupil Connolly; part of what is admirable about this novel is that there is no real attempt to extenuate this--it's wrong and she knows this from the start, enough to lie to herself and others about it. It's an abuse of her very limited power--he is one of the few of her pupils interested in art, not interested in perpetually disrupting her lessons.
Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcersby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0805073698 (0-8050-7369-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers'Book summary:Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with nearly 90,000 copies in print[via]
Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress.
As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear-and the ones that plague us now-are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer. When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal's does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way-through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick.
Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical advice, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet.More editions of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers:
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered Cityby Anonymous, Philip BoehmISBN 0805075402 (0-8050-7540-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City'Book summary:An astonishing find-the landmark journal of a woman living though the Russian occupation of Berlin-which has already earned comparisons to diaries by Etty Hillesum and Victor Klemperer[via]
For six weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman, alone in the city, kept a daily record of her and her neighbors' experiences, determined to describe the common lot of millions.
Purged of all self-pity but with laser-sharp observation and bracing humor, the anonymous author conjures up a ravaged apartment building and its little group of residents struggling to get by in the rubble without food, heat, or water. Clear-eyed and unsentimental, she depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. And with shocking and vivid detail, she tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject: the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity. Through this ordeal, she maintains her resilience, decency, and fierce will to come through her city's trial, until normalcy and safety return.
At once an essential record and a work of great literature, A Woman in Berlin not only reveals a true heroine, sure to join other enduring figures of the twentieth century, but also gives voice to the rarely heard victims of war: the women.More editions of A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City:
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Timesby John DarntonISBN 0805070850 (0-8050-7085-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times'Book summary:After 30 years as a journalist, John Darnton decided to try his hand at writing a novel. If he wrote 1,000 words a day, he discovered, he'd have a book in a matter of months. But wouldn't it be nice to learn a few tricks of the trade from other writers as well? Thus was born The New York Times's Monday-morning Writers on Writing series. In embarking on the series, says Darnton, he learned that the writers he most wanted to hear from were not necessarily the same ones who most wanted to hear from him. But there couldn't have been too many who turned him down. The 46 columns collected in Writers on Writing are by the likes of Saul Bellow, Mary Gordon, David Mamet, Annie Proulx, Carol Shields, and Paul West. Though many of them have not much more than the occupation "writer" in common, Darnton says that in one way he found them all to be alike: "They wanted to hear, right away, what you thought of their work."
Here, Richard Ford explains why he finds not writing to be a terrific thing. Alice Hoffman describes the effect illness (her own and that of others) has had on her work. Barbara Kingsolver grapples with writing an "unchaste" novel. Louise Erdrich explores the effect a second language, Ojibwe in her case, can have on one's involvement with the first. And Russell Banks learns the hard way that "when you meet a witness to your distant past, your memory tends to improve." The most hilarious piece is Carolyn Chute's "How Can You Create Fiction When Reality Comes to Call?" In it, she describes one day, in which "X-rated stuff happens," the cuckoo clock goes off incessantly, dirty dishes beckon, political cohorts come calling, a dog has a couple of seizures, laundry needs doing, and guests constantly arrive. Once Chute finally does get down to writing, the "n" breaks off the daisy wheel. But at least the phone doesn't ring. "Its bell is broken. It never rings. Thank heavens." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Writers on Writing Vol. II: More Collected Essays from the New York Timesby New York Times Staff, Jane SmileyISBN 0805073612 (0-8050-7361-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writers on Writing Vol. II: More Collected Essays from the New York Times'Book summary:Todays most celebrated writers explore the literary life in a second collection of inspiring and eye-opening essays[via]
In a second volume of original essays drawn from the long-running New York Times column, Writers on Writing brings together another group of contemporary literatures finest voices to muse on the challenges and gifts of language and creativity.
The pieces ranges from taciturn, hilarious advice for aspiring writers to thoughtful, soul-wrenching reflections on writing in the midst of national tragedy. William Kennedy talks about the intersecting lives of real and imagined Albany politics; Susan Isaacs reveals her nostalgia for a long-retired protaganist; and Elmore Leonard offers pithy rules for letting the writing, and not the writer, take charge. Writers on Writing offers an uncommon and revealing view of the writers world.
Contributors include Diane Ackerman, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Geraldine Brooks, Frank Conroy, Chitra Divakaruni, Allegra Goodman, Kathryn Harrison, Mary Karr, Patrick McGrath, Arthur Miller, P. J. ORourke, Anna Quinlan, Amy Tan, and Edmund White.More editions of Writers on Writing Vol. II: More Collected Essays from the New York Times:
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