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Achilles in the Quantum Universe : The Definitive History of Infinityby Richard MorrisISBN 0805047794 (0-8050-4779-4)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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African Exodus : The Origins of Modern Humanityby Christopher Stringer, Robin McKieISBN 0805058141 (0-8050-5814-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African Exodus : The Origins of Modern Humanity'Book summary:Ever since Darwin first suggested that humans are descended from apes, the theory of evolution has engendered a firestorm of controversy. But the schism between creationism and evolution is by no means the only source of disagreement; even within the evolutionist camp there are fierce divisions. Are all humans part of a single species comprised of many different varieties? Or is each race a separate species? Even Darwin had no easy answer for that one. Some scientists, including Carleton Coon, believe that Homo erectus began in Africa, then migrated to different locations in the world, where it evolved into Homo sapiens at different rates--Europeans and Asians evolved quickly, while other races remained more "primitive." Others, such as author Christopher Stringer, agree that Homo erectus spread across Asia and Europe, but became extinct everywhere but in Africa, where they continued to evolve. Eventually, a new and improved Homo sapiens swept once more out of Africa--this time to stay.
There's plenty of paleontological and genetic evidence to support Stringer's point of view, and he argues it convincingly. Short of the invention of a time machine, African Exodus is the next best way to revisit the origins of modern man. [via]
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America 1900: The Dramatic Story of a Pivotal Year in the Life of a Nationby Judy CrichtonISBN 0805053654 (0-8050-5365-4)
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America 1900 : The Turning Pointby Judy CrichtonISBN 0805054359 (0-8050-5435-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America 1900 : The Turning Point'Book summary:Judy Crichton, a documentary producer known for her work with PBS's The American Experience, has written a companion book for a PBS documentary about a momentous year in American history--a book that's just as great a read on its own merits. As the United States entered the 20th century, American manufacturing was conquering the globe, problems with rebels in the Philippines and the Boxer Rebellion in China were vexing, and American scientists were experimenting with therapeutic x-rays even as the automobile and the telephone gradually became commonplace. By the end of 1900, William McKinley would be reelected as president with a new running mate, Theodore Roosevelt, who would himself occupy the White House within a year.
The characters and colossal events of 1900 are presented in a style both laden with facts and dramatically engaging, as Crichton presents a narrative that can rival that of a historical novel. Not only are the major figures--including William Jennings Bryan, J.P. Morgan, and Admiral Dewey--portrayed in full, rich characterizations, common Americans, from doomed miners to a Missouri teenager obsessed with books by the name of Harry Truman, are also vividly depicted. America 1900's account of what the United States was, and what it as about to become, is both a pleasure to read and a welcome illumination of a pivotal time in American history. --Robert McNamara [via]
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American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Centuryby Christine StansellISBN 0805048472 (0-8050-4847-2)
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Among the Gently Mad : Perspectives and Strategies for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Centuryby Nicholas A. BasbanesISBN 0805051597 (0-8050-5159-7)
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From the author of A Gentle Madness-a book with more than seventy thousand copies in print that delighted bibliophiles everywhere-comes a twenty-first-century guide to book collecting that deals with both the traditional methods of acquisition and the electronic tools now available on the Internet.
Sharing the superb insight he has gathered from booksellers over the years, Nicholas 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 importance 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 having a focus. Then he takes a long look at the pros and cons of Internet buying, 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 : Perspectives and Strategies for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century:
Arkansas Mischief : The Birth of a National Scandalby Jim McDougal, Curtis WilkieISBN 0805058087 (0-8050-5808-7)
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Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit: A Guide to Restoring Emotional and Mental Balance Through Essential Oilsby Gabriel MojayISBN 0805044965 (0-8050-4496-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Bam Bam Bamby Eve Merriam, Dan YaccarinoISBN 080505796X (0-8050-5796-X)
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Beating the Flank Openingsby Vassilios KotroniasISBN 080504731X (0-8050-4731-X)
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The Biology of Doom: The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Projectby Ed RegisISBN 0805057641 (0-8050-5764-1)
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The Black Shipby Dudley PopeISBN 0805055665 (0-8050-5566-5)
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The Brain Explorer: Puzzles, Riddles, Illusions, and Other Mental Adventuresby Pat Murphy, Exploratorium (Organization), Jason GorskiISBN 0805045384 (0-8050-4538-4)
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?by Bill Martin, Eric CarleISBN 0805047905 (0-8050-4790-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?'Book summary:The gentle rhyming and gorgeous, tissue-paper collage illustrations in this classic picture book make it a dog-eared favorite on many children's bookshelves. On each page, we meet a new animal who nudges us onward to discover which creature will show up next: "Blue Horse, Blue Horse, What do you see? I see a green frog looking at me." This pattern is repeated over and over, until the pre-reader can chime in with the reader, easily predicting the next rhyme. One thing readers might not predict, however, is just what kinds of funny characters will make an appearance at the denouement! Children on the verge of reading learn best with plenty of identifiable images and rhythmic repetition. Eric Carle's good-humored style and colorful, bold illustrations (like those in The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug, and Have You Seen My Cat?) have earned him a prominent place in the children's book hall of fame. (Baby to Preschool) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Storiesby Angela Carter, Salman RushdieISBN 0805044620 (0-8050-4462-0)
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Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Gardenby Quentin Bell, Alen MacWeeneyISBN 0805055851 (0-8050-5585-1)
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Chasing the Dragonby Christopher R. CoxISBN 080505507X (0-8050-5507-X)
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The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightingsby R. W. B. LewisISBN 0805046305 (0-8050-4630-5)
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In this deeply personal and learned labor of love, R.W.B. Lewis provides a new look at the glories of Florence, the smallish Tuscan city which has been a prime source for modern Western culture and which has also been his second home for fifty years. With a scholar's eye and a lover's passion, he invites us to share his vision of a city and the way of life it has engendered and inspired.More editions of The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings:
The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russiaby David KingISBN 080505295X (0-8050-5295-X)
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Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burialby Penny ColmanISBN 0805050663 (0-8050-5066-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Crossing Over : A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trailby Ruben Martinez, Joseph RodriguezISBN 0805049088 (0-8050-4908-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossing Over : A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail'Book summary:Not since Ted Conover's Coyotes has a book revealed the underground culture of illegal immigration from Mexico as well as Crossing Over by Rubén Martínez. This up-and-coming author writes of what he calls "a Mexican Manifest Destiny" that continually pierces the southern borderline of the United States--a "line [that] is still more an idea than a reality." Martínez begins with the awful story of the three Chávez brothers, all killed when a truck carrying them and some two dozen other illegal aliens tried to outrace border patrol agents and flipped. Martínez learns of their fate and travels to their peasant hometown in southern Mexico to distil the motives of migrants. Then he follows the rest of the family north as they fan into the United States. Crossing Over is written in the first person and is highly anecdotal, but Martínez constantly makes observations that break free from these narrow confines. "Mexicans have always had an uncanny instinct for finding the soft spots of the American labor economy," he notes at one point, explaining how it is that millions of poor people who barely speak English can thrive, in their way, north of the border. Crossing Over is an outstanding book, and required reading for anyone interested in Hispanics and the new America. --John Miller [via]
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Dancing on the Graveby Nigel BarleyISBN 0805048243 (0-8050-4824-3)
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Dawn Powell : A Biographyby Tim PageISBN 080505068X (0-8050-5068-X)
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Drinking the Sea at Gazaby Amira Hass, Elana Wesley, Maxine Kaufman LacustaISBN 0805057404 (0-8050-5740-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drinking the Sea at Gaza'Book summary:In what is sure to be a controversial book, Israeli reporter Amira Hass offers a rare portrait of the Palestinians in Gaza. Very few journalists have lived in that troubled region; Jewish ones are rarer still. "To most Israelis," Hass writes, "my move seemed outlandish, even crazy, for they believed I was surely putting my life at risk." But Israelis desperately need to understand the plight of the Palestinian people, she writes, and few of them read the unvarnished truth in the Jerusalem press. This has made most of them ignorant of what goes on right next door, and inspired unduly "harsh" attitudes toward Gaza and its one million residents. Hass even quotes the late Yitzhak Rabin, who wished that Gaza "would just sink into the sea," shortly before he signed the Oslo Accords. Wishing away the problem, however, is no solution, and Hass delivers a detailed--and highly opinionated--diagnosis of what's wrong with Israeli policy toward Gaza. Strong supporters of Israeli will say that Hass is nothing but a mouthpiece for the Palestinians. Indeed, this book's subtitle could apply as much to Israel, surrounded by bitter enemies, as it does to Gaza. Yet it would be wrong to ignore Hass: the scene in Gaza is woefully unreported. The book is not likely to change many minds--this is one of those subjects where passions run deep and fierce. Those who already sympathize with Hass's pro-Palestinian views will find Drinking the Sea at Gaza an invigorating book. --John J. Miller [via]
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Drinking the Sea at Gaza : Days and Nights in a Land under Siegeby Amira Hass, Maxine Nunn, Elana WesleyISBN 0805057390 (0-8050-5739-0)
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Eisenhower: A Soldier's Lifeby Carlo D'EsteISBN 0805056874 (0-8050-5687-4)
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Endgame Magicby John D. Beasley, T. G. WhitworthISBN 0805047271 (0-8050-4727-1)
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Essaysby Siri HustvedtISBN 0805050116 (0-8050-5011-6)
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Fish Facesby Norbert WuISBN 0805053476 (0-8050-5347-6)
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle Eastby William DalrympleISBN 0805058737 (0-8050-5873-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East'Book summary:In 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps.[via]
Dalrymple's pilgrimage takes him through a bloody civil war in eastern Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the vicious tensions of the West Bank, and a fundamentalist uprising in southern Egypt, and it becomes an elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the peoples that have kept its flame alive. From the Holy Mountain is a rich and gripping bl of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, threaded through with Dalrymple's unique sense of black comedy.More editions of From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East:
Frugal Indulgents : How to Cultivate Decadence When Your Age and Salary Are under 30by Kera Bolonik, Jennifer GriffinISBN 0805047182 (0-8050-4718-2)
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The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Work, from Antiquity to the Presentby Claude J. SummersISBN 0805050094 (0-8050-5009-4)
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The Genius of the System : Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Eraby Thomas G. Schatz, Steven BachISBN 0805046666 (0-8050-4666-6)
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The Go Ask Alice Book of Answers: A Guide to Good Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Healthby Columbia University's Health Education ProgramISBN 0805055703 (0-8050-5570-3)
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failureby Paul AusterISBN 0805054898 (0-8050-5489-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure'Book summary:It's no wonder that Paul Auster (The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo) creates such singular characters. While his youth comprised a series of failures too unbelievable for fiction, it also equipped him with a range of experiences to draw from that most fiction writers only dream of. He worked with Bowery bums at a summer camp, had a childhood friend join the Weather Underground, and was a student at Columbia in 1968 at the height of the student uprisings there (and at which point, he boasts, he knew seven of the FBI's ten most wanted men). He worked on an oil tanker, for a French Mafia-style film producer in Paris, and for a rare-book organization in New York. He translated the North Vietnamese constitution from French into English (don't ask). His work brought him in contact to varying extents with Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jerzy Kosinski, Sartre, Foucault, and John Lennon. The encounters and experiences must have been fascinating, failure aside, but Auster's prose here, sadly, lacks the tightness and luster of his fiction. The remainder--and major portion--of the volume consists of three plays, a baseball card game, and a detective novel, all written during this time. [via]
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Homophobia: A Historyby Byrne FoneISBN 0805045597 (0-8050-4559-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homophobia: A History'Book summary:The first comprehensive history of homophobia-from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress-this bold, original work is certain to become a classic.[via]
It is the last acceptable prejudice. In an age when racial and ethnic name-calling are viewed with distaste, and physical epithets are frowned upon, hatred of homosexuals remains rife. Now, in a tour de force of historical and literary research, Byrne Fone chronicles the evolution of homophobia through the centuries. Delving into literary sources as diverse as Greek philosophy, the Bible, Elizabethan poetry, and the Victorian novel, as well as historical texts and propaganda from the French Revolution to the Moral Majority, Fone finds that same-sex desire has always been the object of legal, social, and religious persecution. Fone shows how the biblical story of Sodom became the primary source for later prohibitions against homosexuality. He charts the subtle shifts in public attitudes and law, from Anglo-Saxon edicts that imposed death by burning upon "confess'd sodomytes," to Victorian decrees that punished sodomy with "forfeiture of all rights, including procreation" (i.e., castration). Sifting the evidence of our own times, including Reader's Digest articles and TV talk-show transcripts, Fone demonstrates that homophobia remains one of the central tenets of law, science, faith, and literature, and defines the very essence of what it means to be male or female. Written by an acclaimed expert in gay and lesbian history, Homophobia is the best sort of history: lively, accessible, and enlightening.More editions of Homophobia: A History:
A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in Americaby Elinor LangerISBN 0805050981 (0-8050-5098-1)
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Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famineby Jasper BeckerISBN 0805056688 (0-8050-5668-8)
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A Hunter's Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sportby David PetersenISBN 0805055304 (0-8050-5530-4)
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Idiom Savant: Slang As It Is Slungby Jerry DunnISBN 0805050930 (0-8050-5093-0)
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If Aristotle Ran General Motors: The New Soul of Businessby Tom MorrisISBN 0805052534 (0-8050-5253-4)
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The International Adoption Handbook: How to Make an Overseas Adoption Work for Youby Myra AlpersonISBN 0805045791 (0-8050-4579-1)
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Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapesby Greil MarcusISBN 0805058427 (0-8050-5842-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Republic : Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes'Book summary:While focusing on a select group of musicians performing privately in a brief window of time, noted music and culture writer Greil Marcus cuts to the core of the American musical legacy to study it as a slightly blurred snapshot, full of shadow and mystery. Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes centers around the now legendary recordings made by Bob Dylan and The Band in 1967, and how this music signaled a change in American music by capturing the essence of the moment within the context of a rich folk tradition. During these casual sessions they recorded more than 100 songs, some originals, but most borrowed from barely remembered folk, blues, and country musicians.
This music they derived from had been part of the American fabric in an anonymous way that can only be explained as folklore and myth, and they breathed new life into it while adhering to its legacy. Though never intended for release, these recordings molded into the tradition of music as oral history, and appropriately, a few tapes were passed hand to hand, then some were pressed as bootleg records, which then spread like rumors. This folk revival conjured up a collection of timeless stories that many had heard in a slightly different form without ever knowing who started them. Just as Dylan did with the Basement Tapes, Marcus's exhilarating book extends beyond music and into the psyche of America, making the present more clear by putting the past into focus. [via]
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It Happened in America : True Stories from the Fifty Statesby Lila Perl, I. B. OhlssonISBN 0805047077 (0-8050-4707-7)
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The Last Barbarians : The Discovery of the Source of the Meking in Tibetby Michel PeisselISBN 0805045341 (0-8050-4534-1)
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The Lost Tribe : A Harrowing Passage into New Guinea's Heart of Darknessby Edward MarriottISBN 0805053182 (0-8050-5318-2)
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Mirrorworkby Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth WestISBN 0805057102 (0-8050-5710-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mirrorwork'Book summary:"Put India in the Atlantic Ocean," Salman Rushdie writes in his introduction to this anthology of Indian writers, "and it would reach from Europe to America; put India and China together and you've got almost half the population of the world. It's high time Indian literature got itself noticed, and it's happening." It's no accident that Mirrorwork comprises Indian literature produced during the 50 years between 1947 and 1997; timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Indian independence, this collection is, above all, a celebration of the marriage of English language and Indian culture. Rushdie rather provocatively states that "the prose writing--both fiction and non-fiction--created in this period by Indian writers writing in English is proving to be a stronger and more important body of work than most of what has been produced in the 16 'official languages' of India; the so-called 'vernacular languages,' during the same time." One might (and certainly many will) quibble with this premise, but no one can argue that the works included in Mirrorwork aren't top-drawer.
Many of the authors included in this collection are known to Western readers--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, for example, Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, and of course Rushdie himself, to name just a few. Others, such as Saadat Hasan Manto (the only author here to appear in translation) or G.V. Desani, may be welcome new reading experiences. The anthology is a fascinating mix of nonfiction (Nehru's famous "Tryst with Destiny" speech, in which he uttered the immortal words "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom," or Nayantara Sahgal's "With Pride and Prejudice") and fiction that ranges from the "Stendhalian realism of a writer like Rohinton Mistry" to Rushdie's own wild flights of fantasy. In all its diversity of styles, themes, and approaches, Mirrorwork is a reflection of the wonderful bedfellows the English language and the Indian sensibility truly make. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Mirrorwork : 50 Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997by Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth WestISBN 0805057099 (0-8050-5709-9)
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My Veniceby Harold BrodkeyISBN 0805048332 (0-8050-4833-2)
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A Nation on Trial : The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truthby Norman G. Finkelstein, Ruth Bettina BirnISBN 0805058729 (0-8050-5872-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Nation on Trial : The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth'Book summary:Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners was one of the most acclaimed nonfiction books of 1996 ... in the mainstream press, that is. Some historians who specialize in World War II-era Germany and the Holocaust have had considerably less kind things to say about Goldhagen's hypothesis that, rather than an aberrant anomaly perpetrated by Nazi archvillains, the Holocaust was an atrocity in which ordinary Germans at all levels of society, motivated by underlying anti-Semitic cultural assumptions, willingly took part. A Nation on Trial is a reprinting and expansion of two scholarly articles published in 1997 which directly challenged Goldhagen's thesis and research techniques.
Norman Finkelstein considers Goldhagen's book "a monument to question-begging" that is "worthless as scholarship." He attacks what he describes as Goldhagen's overemphasis on "eliminationist antisemitism," which raises every anti-Semitic sentiment in German history to murderous intent. "How many white Americans do not harbor any negative stereotypes about black people?" Finkelstein asks rhetorically. "If Goldhagen is correct, we are all closet racial psychopaths." To debunk that notion, Finkelstein analyzes at length Goldhagen's consideration of the pre-Holocaust social segregation of the Jews, which Goldhagen identifies as "the maximum feasible eliminationist option possible given the existing opportunities and constraints," ultimately concluding that it "barely differed from the Jim Crow system in the American South." Although this is clearly intended to undermine Goldhagen's argument about the intensity of Germany's desire to kill the Jews in its midst, it is not exactly reassuring. One can easily flip the idea around so that "the Jim Crow system barely differed from pre-Holocaust Germany's treatment of the Jews," and while that might not make America precisely a nation of "closet racial psychopaths," it certainly does not--and should not--provide any comfort for American readers.
Ruth Bettina Birn pronounces an equally harsh verdict: "His treatment of these matters is naïve and does not meet accepted scholarly standards." At one point, she even accuses him of deploying irony in a sarcastic manner "wholly undignified" in an academic work. Like Finkelstein, she raises important questions about the methods by which Goldhagen selected the source material from which he extrapolated his conclusions, and about the risk Hitler's Willing Executioners runs of succumbing to the pornography of violence to drive home its theoretical points. And Birn shares Finkelstein's conclusion that "Goldhagen wants to graft an ahistorical and monocausal thesis onto a body of historical and multicausal scholarship."
One of the most important questions A Nation on Trial must address is why Hitler's Willing Executioners was able to capture so much attention. Birn is content to credit the "professional American marketing strategy" behind the book for its public success. Finkelstein jumps into a much more dangerous minefield by delineating a distinction between "holocaust scholarship" and "Holocaust literature," identifying the latter as "in effect the Zionist account of the Nazi holocaust," a genre of writing that positions the Holocaust as a historically unique incident in which only the suffering of the Nazi's Jewish victims merits substantial consideration. In making this categorization, he essentially labels Goldhagen's work an act of propaganda, "touted as the ultimate testament to the Nazi Holocaust... [which] fundamentally diminishes its moral significance."
Goldhagen does have a tendency toward the hyperbolic, as indicated in statements such as, "The extent and virulence of the verbal violence assaulting the Jews from their own countrymen have no parallel in modern history," a point which African Americans, Pakistanis in England, and a host of others might care to debate. But while he argues that "Germans' antisemitic beliefs about Jews were the central causal agent of the Holocaust," he also freely admits, in the introduction to the German edition, that "[n]o adequate explanation for the Holocaust can be monocausal," and that anti-Semitism accounts only for the motivation of "the will to kill Jews." And while both authors accuse Goldhagen of blaming the entire German nation for the Holocaust, Goldhagen (again, in the German edition) explicitly rejects collective guilt, stating that "we must recognize that individual Germans were not will-less cogs in a machine, were not automatons, but were responsible actors, were capable of making choices, and were ultimately the authors of their own actions." The debate certainly does not end with this book; both Goldhagen and Finkelstein have created Web sites to which they routinely post responses to the ongoing criticism of their work. If you want to understand the controversy surrounding Hitler's Willing Executioners, however, A Nation on Trial is a necessary point of reference. --Ron Hogan [via]
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On The Wild Edge: In Search Of A Natural Lifeby David PetersenISBN 0805047743 (0-8050-4774-3)
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One Palestine, Complete : Jews and Arabs under the British Mandateby Tom Segev, Haim WatzmanISBN 0805048480 (0-8050-4848-0)
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Paint : Choosing, Mixing and Decorating with Water-Based Paintsby John SutcliffeISBN 0805047395 (0-8050-4739-5)
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Passionate Marriage: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationshipsby David SchnarchISBN 0805058265 (0-8050-5826-5)
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Paul McCartneyby Barry MilesISBN 0805052496 (0-8050-5249-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul McCartney'Book summary:If you think John Lennon was the smart, arty Beatle while Paul was an empty head twittering prettily, this book will hip you to the facts. While John sat in the suburbs getting stoned to numb the pain of his imminent divorce, bachelor Paul was feeding his head by immersion in the London avant-garde. He pioneered the Beatles' experimental stuff, though his witty song-by-song account proves that it really was a 50-50 partnership--and some of the best innovations, like the snarling 1964 feedback intro to "I Feel Fine," happened by pure accident. Paul's insight into John's genius, which sprang from howling paranoia and a stark childhood, is still deeper than his insight into himself, but the book's true glory is its inside info on all those songs--the six tunes about John's marriage on A Hard Day's Night; Paul's heist of the "I Saw Her Standing There" bass line from Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You" (found on Berry's The Chess Box); the true meanings of "Norwegian Wood" (pine paneling, which the song's narrator burns to avenge the girl's refusal to have sex with him), "Got to Get You into My Life" ("you" is marijuana), and "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" ("life goes on" in Yoruba). This book is even better than A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song and Revolution in the Head. Here is the last word on the Beatles, inevitably slanted toward McCartney but generally more convincing than Lennon's own recollections. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Paul McCartney : Many Years from Nowby Barry MilesISBN 0805052488 (0-8050-5248-8)
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The Personal Feng Shui Manual : How to Develop a Healthy and Harmonious Lifestyleby Lam KamchuenISBN 0805055584 (0-8050-5558-4)
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Plotting Hitler's Death : The Story of the German Resistanceby Joachim C. Fest, Bruce LittleISBN 0805056483 (0-8050-5648-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plotting Hitler's Death : The Story of the German Resistance'Book summary:The only large-scale German resistance to Nazism came from the Communists, who received little credit for it after the war, with Europe divided on Cold War lines. Indeed many post-war Germans at first were reluctant to acknowledge that any wartime resistance had been heroic, given the contrast with their own active or passive support for the Nazis. Later, however, a loose grouping of disaffected German liberals who had plotted Hitler's assassination were adopted as saviors of Germany's soul, as proof that there was another, moral, Germany. Fest's book, published first in Germany in 1994 on the 50th anniversary of the failed attempt by von Stauffenberg to blow up the Fuhrer, is a compelling, fair-minded account of these plotters. Fest avoids canonizing them as redeemers of Germany, but acknowledges the bravery and integrity of their efforts. [via]
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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?by Bill Martin, Eric CarleISBN 0805053883 (0-8050-5388-3)
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The Power of Reiki: An Ancient Hands-On Healing Techniqueby Tanmaya HonervogtISBN 0805055592 (0-8050-5559-2)
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Prehistoric Life Explained: A Beginner's Guide to the World of the Dinosaursby Jinny JohnsonISBN 0805048715 (0-8050-4871-5)
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The Price of Citizenship : Redefining the American Welfare Stateby Michael B. KatzISBN 0805052089 (0-8050-5208-9)
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The Reading List : Contemporary Fiction: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works of 125 Authorsby David RubelISBN 0805055274 (0-8050-5527-4)
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Reggie's Face Painting : Emmy Award-Winning Make-Up Artist Reveals His Beauty Secrets for African-American Womenby Reggie Wells, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, Karen PughISBN 080505216X (0-8050-5216-X)
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflictby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805055762 (0-8050-5576-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict'Book summary:From the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central Asia, Resource Wars looks at the growing impact of resource scarcity on the military policies of nations.[via]
International security expert Michael T. Klare argues that in the early decades of the new millennium, wars will be fought not over ideology but over access to dwindling supplies of precious natural commodities. The political divisions of the Cold War, Klare asserts, have given way to a global scramble for oil, natural gas, minerals, and water. And as armies throughout the world define resource security as a primary objective, widespread instability is bound to follow, especially in those areas where competition for essential materials overlaps with long-standing territorial and religious disputes. In this clarifying view, the recent explosive conflict between the United States and Islamic extremism stands revealed as the predictable consequence of consumer nations seeking to protect the vital resources they depend on.
A much-needed assessment of a changed world, Resource Wars is a compelling look at warfare in an era of rampant globalization and intense economic competition.More editions of Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict:
The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstoneby Thomas McNameeISBN 0805057927 (0-8050-5792-7)
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplinby Alice EcholsISBN 0805053948 (0-8050-5394-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin'Book summary:To call Janis Joplin the Judy Garland of the Woodstock set is in some sense a fair characterization. The brassy, carnal, extravagant, and ultimately pitiable queen of psychedelic rock is indeed a cultural icon. And while Joplin reveled in her own ballsy, boozy legend, its needy, inebriated, real-life equivalent was a shadow that darkened her short life and, in the decades since her 1970 drug-induced death, has come to eclipse the party-girl persona.
To her great credit, author Alice Echols reconciles the two faces of Joplin in this ambitious, thoroughly readable biography. She does so by tracing Joplin from her youth as a natural-born libertine in dreary Port Arthur, Texas, to her emergence as the sole female rock superstar of her era--a period when beneath-the-surface sexism hampered Joplin's progress even while women's liberation was being widely touted. The author does not shy away from sordid sex-and-drugs episodes, and there's plenty of raw material---the singer was promiscuous, bisexual, and, at various times, an alcoholic, a speed freak, and a junkie. Echols, however, elevates this biography above run-of-the-mill rock profiles by painting her subject against an elaborate and ever-changing cultural backdrop. Here is Joplin the aspiring folksinger, the white-picket-fence wannabe, the wayward daughter, the hit-and-miss recording artist, and, finally, the ill-starred spirit with nothing left to lose. --Steven Stolder [via]
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Science Explorerby Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, Linda Shore, Exploratorium (Organization), Jason GorskiISBN 0805045368 (0-8050-4536-8)
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The Seasons of Rome: A Journalby Paul HofmannISBN 0805055975 (0-8050-5597-5)
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The Shadow of Kilimanjaroby Rick RidgewayISBN 0805053905 (0-8050-5390-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shadow of Kilimanjaro'Book summary:Known for such feats as being the first climber to reach the summit of K2 without bottled oxygen, climbing Antarctica's highest mountain, and leading a team to the top of a formidable 2,000-foot granite tower in the most remote corner of the Amazon's Orinoco jungle, Rick Ridgeway, in his latest book, takes a walk. Of course, it's no ordinary stroll. Accompanied by park officers, Ridgeway treks unprotected among lions and elephants, rhinos and oryxes.
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro is as much a search for answers to an adventurer's most soul-searching questions as an account of a thrilling journey. In the introduction Ridgeway writes,
Henry David Thoreau did not write that in wilderness is the preservation of the world, as he is oft misquoted, but that "In wildness is the preservation of the world." There is a difference, and it is significant. A wildness is intact. In wildness, all the original pieces are there. My own backyard mountains in California, from the Coastal Range through the Sierras, are in many places wilderness, but none of it is wildness because the grizzly is gone. We may have the grizzly on the state flag; having it there, however, is not a celebration of our heritage but a burlesque of what we have done to the most noble patriarch ever to walk the land.
Starting at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and ending at the Indian Ocean, Ridgeway's aim during this adventure is less to get there and more to be there. During his weeks on foot, he thoughtfully considers the effects of colonial expansion on Africa's indigenous peoples, its landscape, and its awe-inspiring animals--all the while contemplating with a conservationist's heart Africa's uncertain future. --Kathryn True [via]More editions of The Shadow of Kilimanjaro:
Time on Fire : My Comedy of Terrorsby Evan HandlerISBN 0805050671 (0-8050-5067-1)
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the Peopleby Jonathan SchellISBN 0805044574 (0-8050-4457-4)
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At times of global crisis, Jonathan Schells writings have presented influential alternatives to conventional, dead-end thinking. His classic bestseller, The Fate of the Earth, was hailed by The New York Times as an event of profound historical moment. Now as the world stands once more on the brink of upheaval, Schell reenters the fray with a lucid, impassioned, and provocative book that points the way out of the unparalleled devastation of the twentieth century toward another, more peaceful path.
Tracing the relentless expansion of violence to its culmination in nuclear stalemate, Schell uncovers a simultaneous but little-noted history of nonviolent action at every level of political life. His historical journey turns up seeds of nonviolence even in the bloody revolutions of America, France, and Russia, as well as in the peoples wars of China and Vietnam. And his investigations into the great nonviolent events of modern timesfrom Gandhis independence movement in India to the explosion of civic activity that brought about the surprising collapse of the Soviet Unionsuggest foundations of an entirely new kind on which to construct an enduring peace.
As Schell makes clear, all-out war, with its risk of human extinction, must cease to play the role of final arbiter. The Unconquerable World is a bold book of global significance; far from being utopian, it offers the only realistic hope of safety.More editions of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People:
Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colonyby Robert H. RubyISBN 0805052143 (0-8050-5214-3)
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The Veterinarian's Touch : Profiles of Life among Animalsby Lee GutkindISBN 0805058117 (0-8050-5811-7)
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The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architectureby Rachel CarleyISBN 0805045635 (0-8050-4563-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture'Book summary:[via]Architectural historian Rachel Carley offers a richly detailed guide to 500 years of American home design. More than 600 precisely detailed illustrations show readers how to identify and describe a house of a particular style. Every element that may be found on a Beaux Arts townhouse, a Navajo hogan, or a Craftsman bungalow is displayed. An essential reference for American homeowners, restorers, and old-house buffs who, by the year 2000, will spend more on home renovation and restoration than on new-home construction.More editions of The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture:
The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscienceby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0805055193 (0-8050-5519-3)
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Wild Minds: What Animals Really Thinkby Marc D. HauserISBN 0805056696 (0-8050-5669-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think'Book summary:What's that squirrel thinking as it runs across the street? Behavioral neuroscientist Marc D. Hauser asks big questions about little brains in Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. While his subjects aren't accessible for interviews, he believes that we can gain insight into their interior lives by examining their behavior in the context of their social and physical environments. Thus, while comparing the actions of chimps, rats, honeybees, and human infants, he is careful to keep in mind that each of them has different needs that require different kinds of intelligence and emotion and ought not be judged by the same criteria. Looking at counting, mapmaking, self-understanding, deception, and other intelligent activities, Hauser shows that the birds and the bees have more on their minds than we've come to believe. Acknowledging the vast gulf of language that separates our species from all others, he still maintains that this tool is but one of many and is no better an indication of "superior" intelligence than is the bat's fantastically well-developed echolocation system. In the last chapter, Hauser looks at moral behavior and decides that animals can be "moral patients but not moral agents"--that is, their inability to attribute mental states to others keeps them blameless for their actions but their sensitivity to suffering earns them fair treatment from the rest of us. Whether or not you agree with that, you're sure to find Wild Minds a refreshing look at the thoughts of our mute cousins. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Words to Outlive Us : Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghettoby Michal Grynberg, Philip BoehmISBN 0805058338 (0-8050-5833-8)
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Wormholes : Essays and Occasional Writingsby John FowlesISBN 0805058672 (0-8050-5867-2)
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The Writer's Home Companion: An Anthology of the World's Best Writing Advice from Keats to Kunitzby Joan BolkerISBN 0805048936 (0-8050-4893-6)
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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesisby Joan BolkerISBN 080504891X (0-8050-4891-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis'Book summary:"Fifteen minutes!" you say. "That's too good to be true!" Okay, author Joan Bolker admits she gave her book the title Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day to get the reader's attention. And she admits that it's unlikely you'll actually finish a dissertation at that speed. As she tells her clients, however, a mere 15 minutes is much better than no writing at all when they're stuck. As a clinical psychologist who cofounded the Harvard Writing Center, Bolker has helped hundreds of writers complete their dissertations. She offers suggestions on how to create a writing addiction so that you feel incomplete if you don't write every day and stresses the need to set reasonable goals and deadlines for yourself to keep from getting discouraged. She also offers strategies for dealing with both internal and external distractions and for fending off writer's block. Even more important is the advice on some of the more awkward issues related to dissertation writing, such as how to choose your adviser carefully. (For example, when faced with the tradeoff between a famous advisor who is inaccessible and a less famous advisor who is willing to make time for you, Bolker advises, "If choosing a politically advantageous, famous advisor makes it unlikely that you'll complete your degree, it's clearly not worth it.") The book even includes a helpful appendix for advisers that could become the basis for an honest discussion of what student and adviser can expect from each other. Throughout this excellent book, Bolker acts as a therapist, cheerleader, and drill sergeant, all rolled into one.
While some of the book's advice is of interest only to dissertation writers, much of the information--on battling writer's block, for instance--is valuable to anybody engaged in writing. Rather than being filled with rules defining how to become a great writer, Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day is about finding the process by which you can be the most productive--it's a set of exercises that you can use to find out more about you and the way you write. Along the way, you'll do a bit of writing. And that's what matters, especially when you experience writer's block--as Bolker says, "Write anything, because writing is writing." With its helpful advice and supportive tone, Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day should be required reading for anyone considering writing a dissertation. --C.B. Delaney [via]
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