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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writingsby Marquis SadeISBN 0802130127 (0-8021-3012-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture and the Shaping of a Generationby Charles KaiserISBN 0802135307 (0-8021-3530-7)
Softcover, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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3 Screenplaysby Richard PriceISBN 0802136699 (0-8021-3669-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story Of The Arab News Channel That Is Challenging The Westby Hugh MilesISBN 0802117899 (0-8021-1789-9)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through Indiaby Jonah BlankISBN 0802137334 (0-8021-3733-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India'Book summary:The three-thousand-year-old epic Ramayana chronicles Lord Rama's physical voyage from one end of the Indian subcontinent to the other and his spiritual voyage from Man to God. In Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, anthropologist and journalist Jonah Blank gives a new perspective to this Hindu classic -- retelling the ancient tale while following the course of Rama's journey through present-day India and Sri Lanka. Ultimately, Blank's journey -- like that of Lord Rama -- evolves into a quest: to understand the chimerical essence of India itself, in all its overwhelming beauty and paradox. "Quite possibly the most perceptive book that I have come across on India since the British Raj ended." -- Pranay Gupte, The Washington Post; "What Hollywood attempted on the big screen with casts of thousands in Gandhi and A Passage to India, Jonah Blank has achieved in 350 stylistically rich pages." -- Los Angeles Times; "This informative and entertaining book is something to be thankful for." -- The New York Times Book Review[via]More editions of Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India:
Artemisiaby Alexandra Lapierre, Liz HeronISBN 0802138578 (0-8021-3857-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Back on the Road: A Journey to Latin Americaby Ernesto Guevara, Richard Gott, Patrick Camiller, Alberto GranadoISBN 0802139426 (0-8021-3942-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963by Barry MilesISBN 0802138179 (0-8021-3817-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Behind Closed Doorsby Alina Reyes, David WatsonISBN 0802135056 (0-8021-3505-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Black Springby Henry MillerISBN 0802131824 (0-8021-3182-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Book of Job: Authorized King James VersionISBN 0802136125 (0-8021-3612-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
Find This BookBook summary:The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with hte spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.[via]More editions of The Book of Job: Authorized King James Version:
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The Books of the BibleISBN 0802136095 (0-8021-3609-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Cultureby John LukacsISBN 0802132502 (0-8021-3250-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI Historyby David A. ViseISBN 0802139515 (0-8021-3951-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Central America Inside Out: The Essential Guide to Its Societies, Politics, and Economiesby Tom BarryISBN 080213260X (0-8021-3260-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0802130208 (0-8021-3020-8)
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Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity, 1812-1822by Harold George NicolsonISBN 080213744X (0-8021-3744-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Conversations with Stoppardby Mel Gussow, Tom StoppardISBN 0802134688 (0-8021-3468-8)
Softcover, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Millerby Erica JongISBN 0802133916 (0-8021-3391-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Doctor Dealerby Mark BowdenISBN 0802137571 (0-8021-3757-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicineby Jonathan KaplanISBN 0802139620 (0-8021-3962-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoplesby Tim FlanneryISBN 0802138888 (0-8021-3888-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples'Book summary:Reading The Eternal Frontier might be the closest you'll get to taking a class from Tim Flannery--and that alone makes it an opportunity just too good to pass up. This ambitious retelling of North America's dramatic ecological history grew out of a course that Flannery taught at Harvard surveying the continent's ancient past up to its tumultuous near-present: from the extraterrestrial "death-dealing visitor" that struck 65 million years ago all the way through to the tidal invasions, adaptations, and extinctions that have washed over North America since, each idiosyncratically influenced by an ever-changing geology, geography, and climate.
Flannery admirably balances his twin roles as scientist and storyteller. As a thoughtful teacher, he employs memorable and effective examples to illustrate broader topics, but he's also willing to commit to theoretical explanations (with fair warning) when necessary to thread together the narrative. But Flannery's greatest strength might simply be the empathy he inspires as a fellow human being trying to sort out an intricate, often richly beautiful puzzle. It's hard not to identify with his curiosity and enthusiasm, whether he's recalling memories of late nights spent as a child reading the How and Why Book of Prehistoric Mammals (and the uintathere nightmares that followed) or just marveling over the vast American West from his window seat on a plane.
The Eternal Frontier certainly leaves you with a solid outline of the how, why, and when of North America's enigmatic ecology, and what the implications of a dwindling frontier have for our future. But don't be surprised when what you remember best are Flannery's countless details--worthy of repeating at any self-respecting pub--from marsupial sperm that swim in pairs to the reason that Native American cultures might owe their very existence to squirrels' taste in nuts. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Everything Is Permitted: The Making of Naked Lunchby Ira SilverbergISBN 0802133037 (0-8021-3303-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Evita-First Lady: A Biography of Eva Peronby John BarnesISBN 0802134793 (0-8021-3479-3)
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Exploration of the Valley of the Amazonby Lardner Gibbon, William Lewis Herndon, United States Navy Dept, Gary KinderISBN 0802137040 (0-8021-3704-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontierby Tim F. FlanneryISBN 0802137199 (0-8021-3719-9)
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A Fate Worse Than Debt: The World Financial Crisis and the Poorby Susan GeorgeISBN 0802131212 (0-8021-3121-2)
Softcover, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Four Plays: Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop and the Dark at the Top of the Stairsby William IngeISBN 080213209X (0-8021-3209-X)
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From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fictionby Janet Burroway, Robert Olen ButlerISBN 0802117953 (0-8021-1795-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writingsby Gandhi, Homer A. JackISBN 0802131611 (0-8021-3161-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Gould's Book of Fishby Richard FlanaganISBN 0802139590 (0-8021-3959-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gould's Book of Fish'Book summary:With a title such as Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan's Commonwealth Prize-winning third novel, expect something wonderfully slippery and self-conscious from one of the finest talents to have emerged from Australia since Peter Carey. Like Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, Flanagan has written a history of a lost colonial voice--that of William Buelow Gould, a "pathetick forger, this drunkard trying his best to be on the make" who in the 1820s was sentenced to hard labour on the brutal penal colony of Sarah Island, "a silver sea monster of fable rearing its terrible head" off the coast of Van Dieman's Land--present-day Tasmania.
Finding himself at the mercy of a brutal and insane colonial regime that indulges its bizarre fantasies whatever the cost to the inmates, Gould finds himself commissioned to paint fish indigenous to the island. Gould's beautiful book of fish survives to this day, and his pictures are part of the exquisite design of Flanagan's book, which attempts to reproduce the original feel of Gould's book. But this is the novel's last connection to reality. Gould's fish, with their "coloring & surfaces & translucent fins suggest the very reason and riddle of life". Gould begins to realise that "a fish is a truth", and gradually his own pictures become a point of resistance to the ruthless classification and surveillance that characterises life on the penal colony. The book is a picaresque fantasy that encompasses art, science, empire and commerce, as well as sex, murder, liberation, castration, bestiality and a whole host of even more unlikely topics. The writing is extraordinary--luminous, sinewy, at times hilarious, often gruesome. Sometimes Flanagan goes too far, as his linguistic pyrotechnics feel like a parody of Sterne or Rabelais, but there can be no doubt that Gould's Book of Fish is a marvellously ambitious novel from a writer with enviable raw talent. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Meccaby Michael WolfeISBN 0802135862 (0-8021-3586-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Hellfireby Nick ToschesISBN 0802135668 (0-8021-3566-8)
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Born in Louisiana to a family legacy of great courage and greater wildness, Jerry Lee was torn throughout his life between a demanding Pentecostal God and the Devil of alcohol, drugs, and the boogie-woogie piano. At fourteen he began performing publicly, and at twenty-two he recorded "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", which propelled him to stardom. But almost immediately, news of his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin nearly destroyed his career. Over the next twenty years, Jerry Lee would rise again as a country star, and lose it all to his addictions to alcohol, drugs, and his own fame. Hellfire is an audacious, artful look directly into the soul of a rock 'n' roll legend. [via]
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The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchyby Shere HiteISBN 0802134513 (0-8021-3451-3)
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Holidays in Hellby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0802137016 (0-8021-3701-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays in Hell'Book summary:No doubt about it: P. J. O'Rourke has a bizarre sense of fun. "What I've ... been," he writes in his introduction to Holidays in Hell "is a Trouble Tourist--going to see insurrections, stupidities, political crises, civil disturbances and other human folly because ... because it's fun." Forget Hawaii or the Poconos--O'Rourke gets his jollies in places like war-torn Lebanon where he is greeted at the border by a gun barrel in his face, or Seoul, just in time for election-day violence. Wherever he goes, however, O'Rourke takes his quirky sense of humor, laser eye for detail, and artful way with words: a Philippine army officer is "powerful-looking in a short, compressed way, like an attack hamster," and the Syrian army is described as having "dozens of silly hats, mostly berets in yellow, orange and shocking pink, but also tiny pillbox chapeaux.... The paratroopers wear shiny gold jumpsuits and crack commando units have skin-tight fatigues in a camouflage pattern of violet, peach, flesh tone and vermilion on a background of vivid purple. This must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses."
O'Rourke's flip, sarcastic style isn't for everyone, of course; the concept that anyone could find sightseeing in the Beirut or El Salvador of the 1980s fun might prove offensive to more than a few readers right off the bat. But love him or hate him, P. J. O'Rourke knows how to tell a good story, and if you like your travel writing laced with more than a little cynicism, Holidays in Hell could be just the book you've been looking for. [via]
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Financeby Ron ChernowISBN 0802138292 (0-8021-3829-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance'Book summary:The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written," the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.[via]More editions of The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance:
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Selection from Samuel Beckett's Workby Samuel Beckett, Richard W. SeaverISBN 0802132871 (0-8021-3287-1)
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Imperial Masqueradeby Lewis LaphamISBN 0802132448 (0-8021-3244-8)
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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowiczby Amy ScholderISBN 0802136710 (0-8021-3671-0)
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Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixtiesby Allen GinsbergISBN 0802133479 (0-8021-3347-9)
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Kidsby Larry Clark, Harmony KorineISBN 0802134386 (0-8021-3438-6)
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Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockeyby Frank Broughton, Bill BrewsterISBN 0802136885 (0-8021-3688-5)
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, James GrauerholzISBN 0802137784 (0-8021-3778-4)
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The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Marinerby Tim FlanneryISBN 0802137466 (0-8021-3746-6)
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Lonesome Travelerby Jack KerouacISBN 0802130747 (0-8021-3074-7)
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The Making of the President 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biographyby Marvin KitmanISBN 0802137350 (0-8021-3735-0)
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statementsby George BreitmanISBN 0802132138 (0-8021-3213-8)
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Marie and Bruce: A Playby Wallace ShawnISBN 0802130186 (0-8021-3018-6)
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Womanby Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar PaulISBN 0802139094 (0-8021-3909-4)
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"Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work." -- The New Republic
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Master And Margaritaby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0802130119 (0-8021-3011-9)
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Monkey/Folk Novel of Chinaby Cheng'En Wu, Arthur WaleyISBN 0802130860 (0-8021-3086-0)
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My Traitor's Heartby Rian MalanISBN 0802136842 (0-8021-3684-2)
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Naked Angels : The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generationby John TytellISBN 0802132472 (0-8021-3247-2)
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Naked Lunchby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802132952 (0-8021-3295-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'Book summary:"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
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The Neon Bibleby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0802132073 (0-8021-3207-3)
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O: The Intimate History Of The Orgasmby Jonathan MargolisISBN 0802117864 (0-8021-1786-4)
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One in Three: A Son's Journey into the History And Science of Cancerby Adam WishartISBN 0802118402 (0-8021-1840-2)
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimageby Michael WolfeISBN 0802135994 (0-8021-3599-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage'Book summary:A journey to Mecca, the Hajj, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, an undertaking that every Muslim should attempt at least once in his or her life. By leaving their homes and possessions and taking to the road to travel to the birthplace of Islam, Muslims are reminded that all humans are equal before God. It's no wonder, then, that the Hajj has been a central theme of Islamic travel-writing since the 7th century, A.D.
One Thousand Roads to Mecca is a collection of more than 20 accounts of the Hajj spanning ten centuries. The writers collected in this anthology reflect the geographic diversity of Islam. These pilgrims come from all over the world: Morocco, India, Persia, England, Italy, and the United States. They travel by boat and camel, on foot and horseback and, most recently, by airplane; many suffered all the hardships and dangers attached to a long pilgrimage of months or even years through deserts and over mountains, across lands populated by brigands and thieves. But along with the hazards are descriptions of of Cairo and Damascus at the height of their glory during the medieval period and anecdotes and observations that render the cosmopolitan nature of the pilgrims. In addition to the writings of Muslim pilgrims, there are also several accounts by non-Muslim westerners who, by hook or by crook, gained access to the forbidden city of Mecca and then wrote about it. One Thousand Roads to Mecca is both classic travel literature at its best and a wonderful introduction to the tenets and practices of a frequently misunderstood religion. [via]
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Painted Birdby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 080213422X (0-8021-3422-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Painted Bird'Book summary:Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird, for the sheer creepiness in its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern Europe during and after World War II, trying to survive. His experiences and actions occur at and beyond the limits of what might be called humanity, but Kosinski never averts his eyes, nor allows us to. [via]
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Passing byby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 0802134238 (0-8021-3423-8)
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Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illnessby Ben WattISBN 0802135838 (0-8021-3583-8)
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Pot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Cultureby Brian PrestonISBN 0802138977 (0-8021-3897-7)
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A Pound of Flesh : Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywoodby Art LinsonISBN 080213551X (0-8021-3551-X)
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Practicalitiesby Marguerite DurasISBN 0802133118 (0-8021-3311-8)
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Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regencyby Saul DavidISBN 0802137032 (0-8021-3703-2)
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The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monumentsby Miroslav Verner, Steven RendallISBN 0802139353 (0-8021-3935-3)
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Raymond Chandler: A Biographyby Tom HineyISBN 0802136370 (0-8021-3637-0)
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom StoppardISBN 0802132758 (0-8021-3275-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'Book summary:Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worms-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeares play. In Tom Stoppards best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.[via]
Tom Stoppard was catapulted into the front ranks of modem playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967. Its subsequent run in New York brought it the same enthusiastic acclaim, and the play has since been performed numerous times in the major theatrical centers of the world. It has won top honors for play and playwright in a poll of London Theater critics, and in its printed form it was chosen one of the Notable Books of 1967 by the American Library Association.More editions of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead:
Saint Joan of Arc: Born, January 6th, 1412, Burned As a Heretic, May 30th, 1431, Canonised As a Saint, May 16th, 1920by Vita Sackville-WestISBN 0802138160 (0-8021-3816-0)
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Samuel Beckett The Grove Centenary Edition: Poems, Short Fiction, Criticismby Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0802118208 (0-8021-1820-8)
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Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpoxby Jonathan B. TuckerISBN 0802139396 (0-8021-3939-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox'Book summary:A Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Scourge provides a definitive account of the dramatic story of smallpox by a leading "expert on biological and chemical weapons" (The New York Times). Jonathan B. Tucker traces the history of the smallpox virus from its first recorded outbreak around 3700 B.C. through its use as the first biological warfare agent in human history, and draws some decisively important lessons for the future. In a timely debate, Tucker addresses the ever-growing concerns about the proliferation of the deadly smallpox virus and its use by terrorist organizations. Explaining how the eradication of the disease in the late 1970s encouraged military research and production of the virus, he exposes the failure of the Russian government to secure its remaining cold-war stockpiles, and evaluates the past and present measures undertaken by the United States to counter the existing dangers of a smallpox attack. Ultimately, he passionately argues for the strengthening of the existing legal ban on the development and possession of biological weapons. Impeccably researched, Scourge is as arresting as it is indispensable, and as William Beatty in Booklist raves, Tucker "has a sense of ... history that helps him make the story of smallpox as disease and ... weapon fascinating and frightening." Scourge has been acclaimed as "a concise, suspenseful and scientifically accurate narrative." -- The New York Times Book Review" Tucker's fascinating, revealing book affords the reader a sobering look at this new type of warfare...." -- Chris Patsilelis, Houston Chronicle -- "[Tucker] reports the debate evenhandedly and with telling detail." -- David Brown, The Washington Post Book World[via]More editions of Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox:
The Secret Raptureby David HareISBN 0802131751 (0-8021-3175-1)
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Selections from the Book of Psalmsby BonoISBN 0802136753 (0-8021-3675-3)
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Seven Centuries of English Cooking: A Collection of Recipesby Maxime De LA Falaise, Arabella BoxerISBN 0802132960 (0-8021-3296-0)
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Sex and Racism in America: With a New Introductionby Calvin C. HerntonISBN 0802130895 (0-8021-3089-5)
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Shine: Screenplayby Jan Sardi, Scott HicksISBN 0802135080 (0-8021-3508-0)
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Simone Weil: An Anthologyby Sian MilesISBN 0802137296 (0-8021-3729-6)
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Slamby Kim Wozencraft, Richard H. Stratton, Richard StrattonISBN 0802135757 (0-8021-3575-7)
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The Soft Machineby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133290 (0-8021-3329-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soft Machine'Book summary:In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.[via]More editions of The Soft Machine:
St. Petersburgby John Cournos, Andrey BielyISBN 0802131581 (0-8021-3158-1)
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Storming Heaven: Lsd and the American Dreamby Jay StevensISBN 0802135870 (0-8021-3587-0)
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Subterraneansby Jack KerouacISBN 0802131867 (0-8021-3186-7)
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Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945by Ruth BrandonISBN 080213727X (0-8021-3727-X)
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Talleyrandby Duff CooperISBN 0802137679 (0-8021-3767-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talleyrand'Book summary:Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's gifts to France arguably outvalued the vast personal fortune he amassed in her service. Once a supporter of the Revolution, after the fall of the monarchy, he fled to England and then to the United States. Talleyrand returned to France two years later and served under Napoleon, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna. Duff Cooper's classic biography contains all the vigor, elegance, and intellect of its remarkable subject.[via]More editions of Talleyrand:
Terminal Paradox: The Novels of Milan Kunderaby Maria Nemcova BanerjeeISBN 0802132332 (0-8021-3233-2)
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To the Elephant Graveyardby Tarquin HallISBN 0802138357 (0-8021-3835-7)
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Tolstoyby Henri Troyat, Nancy AmphouxISBN 0802137687 (0-8021-3768-7)
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Toward the African Revolution: Political Essaysby Frantz FanonISBN 0802130909 (0-8021-3090-9)
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Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Realityby Not AvailableISBN 0802118259 (0-8021-1825-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality'Book summary:What do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them "evaluativedescriptive terms." Others talk of "terministic screens" or discuss the way debates are "framed." Author Steven Poole calls them Unspeak . Unspeak represents an attempt by politicians, interest groups, and business corporations to say something without saying it, without getting into an argument and so having to justify itself. At the same time, it tries to unspeak in the sense of erasing or silencing any possible opposing point of view by laying a claim right at the start to only one way of looking at a problem. Recalling the vocabulary of George Orwell's 1984, as an Unspeak phrase becomes a widely used term of public debate, it saturates the mind with one viewpoint while simultaneously makes an opposing view ever more difficult to enunciate.[via]
In this fascinating book, Poole traces modern Unspeak and reveals how the evolution of language changes the way we think.More editions of Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality:
Vietnam and America: A Documented Historyby H. Bruce Franklin, Marvin E. Gettleman, Jane Franklin, Marilyn B. YoungISBN 0802133622 (0-8021-3362-2)
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Visitby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0802130666 (0-8021-3066-6)
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Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leighby Alexander WalkerISBN 0802132596 (0-8021-3259-6)
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Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation With Stig Bjorkmanby Stig Bjorkman, Woody AllenISBN 0802134254 (0-8021-3425-4)
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Word Virusby William S. Burroughs, Ira Silverberg, James GrauerholzISBN 080213694X (0-8021-3694-X)
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World Hunger: Twelve Mythsby Peter Rosset, Joseph Collins, Frances Moore Lappe, Institute for Food and Development Policy (Oakland, Calif.), Joseph CollinISBN 0802135919 (0-8021-3591-9)
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