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45 Master Charactersby Victoria SchmidtISBN 1582970696 (1-58297-069-6)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '45 Master Characters'Book summary:Every novelist, screenwriter and oral storyteller faces the challenge of creating original and exciting characters, Archetypes - mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate - provide a solid foundation upon which to fashion new and vastly different story people. 45 Master Characters explores the most common male and female archetypes, provides instructions for using them to create your own original characters, and gives examples of how other authors have brought such archetypes to life in novels, film and television. Worksheets are then included for writers to develop and map the lives of their own characters. [via]
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The Age of Fablesby Thomas BulfinchISBN 1576469522 (1-57646-952-2)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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Autobiography Of A Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life And Times In A Racist Imperialist Societyby Inga MuscioISBN 1580051197 (1-58005-119-7)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography Of A Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life And Times In A Racist Imperialist Society'Book summary:It's just called history, asserts Inga Muscio in her newest book. In fact, the controversial author continues, the so-called history we learn in school is no more than a brand, developed by white men who, often unjustly, won the right to spin their stories as hard facts. With Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil, it's Muscio's turn and she's taking it in order to hip the masses to the truth about the American history they think they know. Whose country is it? Has democracy ever really existed? Why does our culture celebrate certain figures and ignore others? Do schools teach kids to perpetuate white supremacist ideologies? Muscio delves deep to answer these questions, marveling at how personal history is to everyone, while challenging people to expand their thinking on America's past and encouraging them to consider how their own histories might read.[via]More editions of Autobiography Of A Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life And Times In A Racist Imperialist Society:
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Bare: The Naked Truth about Strippingby Elisabeth EavesISBN 1580051219 (1-58005-121-9)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bare: The Naked Truth about Stripping'Book summary:Her curiosity began as a teenager, with an awareness of her body and the reaction other people had to it. It continued with the realization that women's bodies often gave them a strange power over men. As an adult, it became a fascination with professional sex workers, leading to a plunge into their world. Bare follows the authora young feminist journalism majorand her fellow dancers through Seattle strip clubs and bachelor parties, exploring in riveting detail Eaves' own motivations and behavior, as well as those of her coworkers, as they make their way through the sometimes exhilarating, often disturbing world of stripping. This compelling, revealing memoir exposes the reader to that world behind the flashing lights, and offers illuminating insights into the reasons women take up this workand how it affects their identities and lives off the job. In its unstinting honesty, Bare demands that we take a closer look at the way sexuality is viewed in our culture; what, if anything, constitutes "normal" desire; the ethics of swapping moneyor anything elsefor sex; and how women and men navigate the perilous contradictions and double standards that make up today's socio-sexual conversation.[via]More editions of Bare: The Naked Truth about Stripping:
Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Imageby Ophira EdutISBN 1580051081 (1-58005-108-1)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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The Book of the Damnedby Charles FortISBN 1573926833 (1-57392-683-3)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Damned'Book summary:Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you. [via]
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Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principleby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1573922021 (1-57392-202-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and opponent of injustice. "Civil Disobedience" (1849), composed following Thoreau's imprisonment for refusing to pay his taxes in protest against slavery and the Mexican War, is an eloquent declaration of the principles that make revolution inevitable in times of political dishonour. "Solitude", from his masterpiece, "Walden" (1854), poetically describes Thoreau's oneness with nature and the companionship solitude offers to those who want to be rid of the travails of the world to discover themselves. "Life without Principle" (posthumously published 1863) decries the way in which excessive devotion to business and money coarsens the fabric of society: in merely making a living, the meaning of life gets lost. [via]
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Code Breaking: A History and Explorationby Rudolph KippenhahnISBN 1585670898 (1-58567-089-8)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Code Breaking: A History and Exploration'Book summary:The achievements of cryptography--the art of writing and deciphering coded messages--have become a part of everyday life, especially in our age of electronic banking and the Internet. In this provocative work, Rudolf Kippenhahn offers readers both an exciting chronicle of cryptography and a lively exploration of the cryptographer's craft. Rich with vivid anecdotes from a history of coding and decoding, Code Breaking brings the often abstruse art of deciphering coded messages to the general reader and reveals the relevance of codes to our everyday high-tech society. A stylishly written, meticulously researched adventure, it will enthrall everyone who wants to know more about the ways in which communication can be obscured and, like magic, made clear again.
A Selection of Doubleday's Library of Science Book Club
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Daily Life in Medieval Times: A Vivid, Detailed Account of Birth, Marriage and Death; Food, Clothing and Housing; Love and Labor in the Middle Agesby Frances Gies, Joseph GiesISBN 1579120695 (1-57912-069-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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This book takes readers into the fascinating world of medieval life through historic pictures, period illustrations and detailed text that describes everything from castle-storming techniques to villagers' hair styles.
Three real medieval places - a castle in Chepstow on the Welsh border, the city of Troyes in the country of Champagne and the village of Elton in the English East Midlands - are the jumping - off point for this thorough exploration of 13th and 14th century life in Europe.
The authors use recent archeloogical discoveries and historic and contemporary documents in conjunction with diagrams and dramatic photographs to give readers a full understanding of what it was truly like to live 700 years ago. [via]
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Dictionary of Economicsby Graham Bannock, R. E. Baxter, Evan DavisISBN 1576601463 (1-57660-146-3)
Hardcover, Bloomberg Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of Economics'Book summary:This new edition of the Dictionary of Economics has been extensively revised and expanded and now contains more than fifteen hundred entries covering common and less usual economic terms, the contributions made by noted economists such as Ricardo, Marx, Keynes, Galbraith, Hayek, and Friedman, and the historical development of economics over the years.
With its comprehensive cross-referencing, this authoritative yet concisely written dictionary is an essential source of reference for anyone who needs to understand this large and growing subject. [via]
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Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex: Make Over Your Love Life With One Of The World's Great Sex Expertsby Annie SprinkleISBN 1585424129 (1-58542-412-9)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking With 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mindby Steve AllenISBN 1573922374 (1-57392-237-4)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Empire of Tea: The Remarkable History of the Plant That Took over the Worldby Alan MacFarlane, Iris MacfarlaneISBN 1585674931 (1-58567-493-1)
Hardcover, Overlook Press, The
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The Empire of Tea also incorporates personal stories of the people whose lives have been affected by their contact with the global obsession with tea, including the elegantly detailed account of Iris MacFarlane about her life on a tea estate in the Indian province of Assam, the worlds center of tea cultivation. A fascinatingly tour of the worlds great tea culturesJapan, China, India, France, the United Kingdom, and othersThe Empire of Tea brings into sharp focus one of the forces that have shaped history. [via]
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Parisby Edmund WhiteISBN 1582341354 (1-58234-135-4)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris'Book summary:If a place is best known by its particulars, then Edmund White is an expert on Paris. Fortunately, he's generous with his secrets: he reveals a Paris not found in any other guide in this first book in the Writer and the City series. White's Paris is seen on foot, as a flâneur, a stroller who aimlessly loses himself in a crowd, going wherever curiosity leads him and collecting impressions along the way. Paris is the perfect city for the flâneur, as every quartier is beautiful and full of rich and surprising delights. But this is no typical tour of monuments and museums; it is much more intimate and surprising. As a flâneur of Paris for 16 years, White knows where to find the very best of everything--silver, sheets, plum slivovitz. He can tell you where to get Tex-Mex surrounded by a dance rehearsal hall, where to rent an entire castle for a party, or even where to get Skippy peanut butter. He eschews the pearl-gray city built by Napoleon and roams the places where the real vitality lives, the teaming quartiers inhabited by Arabs and Asians and Africans, the strange corners, the markets where you can find absolutely anything in this city that accommodates all tastes. White's Paris is a place rich in history with a passion for novelty and distractions. So a walk through the Jewish ghetto leads to the history of the little-known Musée Nissim de Camondo, with its impressive collection of Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, created by a family of Jewish bankers ultimately killed in the Holocaust. White shares other favorite and obscure museums, such as the Hôtel du Lauzun, where writers like Balzac and Charles Baudelaire and the painter Edouard Manet met for long evenings of music and hashish-induced hallucinations. Reminiscences in Montmartre reach back to the thriving jazz culture created by African Americans in the years between the world wars and include stories about Josephine Baker, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin. While White may ignore Notre Dame, he has fascinating tidbits to share about kings and queens and their heirs who still fight for the throne. The variety of Paris, White remarks, is matched by the voraciousness and passion of its people. With his own remarkable flair, he reveals a thriving and alluring city where tourists rarely tread. --Lesley Reed [via]
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The Garden Primerby Barbara DamroschISBN 1579548776 (1-57954-877-6)
Hardcover, Rodale
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Good News Bible: With Deuterocanonicals/Apocryphaby American Bible SocietyISBN 1585160687 (1-58516-068-7)
Softcover, Amer Bible Society
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Good News Bible With Deuterocanonicals/apocrypha-tevby Not AvailableISBN 1585161578 (1-58516-157-8)
Softcover, Amer Bible Society
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Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Foreverby John Beck, Mitchell WadeISBN 1578519497 (1-57851-949-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient Worldby Adrienne MayorISBN 158567608X (1-58567-608-X)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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Handknit Holidays: Knitting Year-Round for Christmas, Hanukkah, And Winter Solsticeby Melanie Falick, Betty Christiansen, Susan PittardISBN 1584794542 (1-58479-454-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Handknit Holidays: Knitting Year-Round for Christmas, Hanukkah, And Winter Solstice'Book summary:For many people, the best part of the winter holidays is the anticipation: planning the perfect gifts, decorating the house, looking forward to seeing family and friends. Holidays can be particularly special for knitters, whose preparations often start months in advance and involve their own creations. In Handknit Holidays best-selling knitting author Melanie Falick presents an eclectic collection of more than 50 original gifts, decorations, and clothing pieces for Christmas, Hanukkah, and the winter solstice, providing year-round inspiration for knitters of all levels.
Created by top knitwear designers, the projects include colorful ornaments; funky and classic Christmas stockings; a wire-and-bead menorah; sparkly ribbon scarves; a poncho and matching dog sweater; and a range of super-quick projects for that last-minute holiday rush, from a Santa hat, to elf caps, to flower pins. Rounding out the volume are a few grand projects-an Aran tree skirt, a patchwork afghan, a lace shawl-destined to become family heirlooms, plus features on such topics as the origin of the Christmas stocking, the meaning of the winter solstice, knitting for charities, strategies for finishing holiday knitting (on schedule!), and even a delicious recipe for festive crescent cookies.
Beautifully photographed by Susan Pittard, Handknit Holidays is a creative celebration of the holiday season and a treasure for all knitters who seek to bring more of their own handwork-and artistry-into their daily lives and their holiday festivities. [via]More editions of Handknit Holidays: Knitting Year-Round for Christmas, Hanukkah, And Winter Solstice:
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Holy Bible With Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha: Contemporary English Versionby American Bible Society StaffISBN 1585160210 (1-58516-021-0)
Softcover, Amer Bible Society
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religionby Joseph CampbellISBN 1577312090 (1-57731-209-0)
Hardcover, New World Library
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Joy of Musicby Leonard BernsteinISBN 1574671049 (1-57467-104-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of All Agesby Melanie Falick, Kristin Nicholas, Chris HartloveISBN 1579652417 (1-57965-241-7)
Softcover, Artisan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of All Ages'Book summary:Storey Publishing-Kindergarten-Grade 6 Appealing Full-Color Photographs And A Dynamic Layout Will Draw Readers To This Book But The Careful Crafting Of Instructions Will Make Them Successful Knitters. Beautiful Photos Show A Group Of Young People Having Fun Making And Wearing Attractive Hats Socks And Sweaters. Not Only Are Projects And Skills Arranged In An Orderly Progression Of Difficulty But The Directions Also Explain Explicitly And Gradually Move Toward The Standard Abbreviations Used In Commercial Patterns. Good Information On Proper Blocking And Laundering Of Finished Garments Dyeing Wood With Kool-Aid Making Wooden Needles Wool Sewing Knitting Bags The Multicultural Aspects Of Knitting And (Most Importantly) Finding Other Knitters To Help With The Inevitable Confusions Of Acquiring A New Skill. Paperback: 128 Pages. [via]
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 1573920401 (1-57392-040-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:In his quest for a truly native idiom, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) incarnated the American geography and its people in a new and transcendent poetic form. His monumental work, Leaves of Grass, celebrates sexuality, gender equality, and the astonishing beauty of the everyday. For Whitman, "The true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science and to common lives, endowing them with glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to real things, and to real things only."
This complete edition of Leaves of Grass, which includes "Sands at Seventy" (from November Boughs) and "Good-bye My Fancy," contains those poems that have become part of the great American literature, including "Song of Myself," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "O Captain, My Captain." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
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Living With Booksby Alan PowersISBN 157959073X (1-57959-073-X)
Softcover, Soma Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living With Books'Book summary:When entering a house, you can quickly ascertain a person's attitude towards books - in a true booklover's home, there are no rooms that do not contain books. While some people succumb to towering piles in every corner, storing books can be achieved with more graceful and ingenious design solutions. Living with books means learning how to incorporate them into your home without letting them take over. This is a beautiful book of full-color photographs, with chapters devoted to books in different rooms, from traditional libraries and dens to kitchens, bathroom s, and hallways. It addresses all aspects: storage, display, the use of books as structural elements and furniture, and advice on custom-building bookshelves (including step-by-step instructions for five different projects). [via]
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The Malleus Maleficarum Of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprengerby Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger, Henricus Institoris, Montague SummersISBN 1585090980 (1-58509-098-0)
Softcover, Book Tree
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Malleus Maleficarum Of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger'Book summary:The Notorious Handbook Once Used to Condemn and Punish "Witches", by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. This is one of the most notorious books in history. Thousands of innocent people, especially women, lost their lives at the expense of this book. It was first published around 1489, shortly after the invention of the printing press and five years after a papal bull was issued legitimizing the belief in witches. It went through at least 30 printings and became the handbook for witch hunters, both Protestant and Catholic. It gave permission to bishops and secular authorities to prosecute witches if there were no representatives from the Inquisition around, giving full directions. After the witch trials swept through Europe, some villages were left with as few as two women. So if this book is so bad, why should one read it? Because there are lessons to be learned, both psychologically and historically, and there is an ignorance to overcome. This is a fascinating study of mass hysteria, greed, and delusional behavior. [via]
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Maximum Security: A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Networkby AnonymousISBN 1575212684 (1-57521-268-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maximum Security: A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Network'Book summary:Written by an anonymous hacker, Maximum Security details hundreds of ways in which invaders may be able to penetrate your system and the steps that you can take to stop them. Before he was arrested, the author used his considerable talents to crack ATMs. Drawing on his vast experience, the author takes you on a journey of the tools that crackers have at their disposal, the ways in which they exploit holes in popular operating systems, and what protective measures are available for each.
At nearly 900 pages, this volume is not only an excellent reference source, but also a testimony to the sheer volume of techniques available to those who wish to illicitly gain access to systems. If you're a system administrator, this book will, quite simply, scare you silly--and it should. It will also help you take preventative steps that will ultimately allow you a well-deserved peace of mind. An included CD-ROM contains a selection of security utilities, such as SAFEsuite, a demo of PORTUS Secure Firewall, and the famous SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks), which are all discussed within the book. [via]
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Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in Itby Thomas De ZengotitaISBN 1582343578 (1-58234-357-8)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Just when you thought there was nothing new to say about the media, along comes a book that transcends the conventional wisdom with an original vision, one that unites our most intimate personal concerns with far-reaching historical trends in an accessible way. From Princess Diana's funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics in distant lands, from high school cliques to marital therapy, from hip-hop nation to climbing Mt. Everest, from blogs to reality TV to the Weather Channel, Mediated takes us on a tour of every department of our media-saturated society. And at every turn we see ourselves as we are, immersed in options, surrounded by representations, driven to unprecedented levels of self-consciousness-and obliged by these circumstances to transform our very lives into performances.
Sophisticated, satirical, sometimes searing, ultimately forgiving, Mediated tackles everything we take for granted and reintroduces us to it all as if for the first time. You'll laugh, you'll squirm, you'll agree, you'll object-but you'll find more Aha! moments packed into fewer pages than you've ever come across before.More editions of Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It:
Menciusby David HintonISBN 1582430209 (1-58243-020-9)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary Languageby Eugene PetersonISBN 1576834506 (1-57683-450-6)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary Language'Book summary:Gods Word was meant to be read. But more than that, it was meant to be understood. It was first written in the language of the peopleof fishermen, shopkeepers, and carpenters. The Message Remix gets back to that: You can read it and understand it.
In The Message Remix, there are new verse-numbered paragraphs that will help you study and find favorite passages. Or, you can just read it like a book and let the narrative speak to you. After all, it is Gods story, with its heroes and villains, conflicts and resolutions. Either way, its Gods Wordthe Truthin a user-friendly form. [via]
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The Message Remix: New Testament In Contemporary Language, Redby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1576838641 (1-57683-864-1)
Softcover, Think
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The Message Remix: Bible in Contemporary language Duo Tone Red and Beigeby Eugene PetersonISBN 1576837971 (1-57683-797-1)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message Remix: Bible in Contemporary language Duo Tone Red and Beige'Book summary:Gods Word was meant to be read. But more than that, it was meant to be understood. It was first written in the language of the peopleof fishermen, shopkeepers, and carpenters. The Message Remix gets back to that: You can read it and understand it.
In The Message Remix, there are new verse-numbered paragraphs that will help you study and find favorite passages. Or, you can just read it like a book and let the narrative speak to you. After all, it is Gods story, with its heroes and villains, conflicts and resolutions. Either way, its Gods Wordthe Truthin a user-friendly form. [via]
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The Message Remix: Purple Pocket Editionby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1576838676 (1-57683-867-6)
Softcover, Think
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message Remix: Purple Pocket Edition'Book summary:Gods Word was meant to be read. But more than that, it was meant to be understood. It was first written in the language of the peopleof fishermen, shopkeepers, and carpenters. The Message Remix gets back to that: You can read it and understand it.
In The Message Remix, there are new verse-numbered paragraphs that will help you study and find favorite passages. Or, you can just read it like a book and let the narrative speak to you. After all, it is Gods story, with its heroes and villains, conflicts and resolutions. Either way, its Gods Wordthe Truthin a user-friendly form. [via]
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The Message Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Languageby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1576834344 (1-57683-434-4)
Hardcover, NavPress Publishing Group
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The Message Remix: Vintage Brown & Navyby Eugene PetersonISBN 157683798X (1-57683-798-X)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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The Message the Bible in Contemporary Language: Genuineleather/Dark Navy/Slimline Editionby Eugene PetersonISBN 1576834808 (1-57683-480-8)
Softcover, Navpress
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The Message// Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Language, Mustardby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1576838242 (1-57683-824-2)
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The Message//Remix: Pause A Daily Reading Bibleby Eugene H. Peterson, Mark TabbISBN 1576838439 (1-57683-843-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message//Remix: Pause A Daily Reading Bible'Book summary:This Book is God's Word. Experience Him more deeply through daily readings that will take you through the Bible in one year, two years, or four years.With a book-at-a-time reading plan that immerses you in an Old Testament and a New Testament passage daily, this daily reading Bible also gives you time to pause with a time of reflection on the seventh day.Includes reflection questions as well as Eugene H. Peterson's introduction to the Bible and to each individual book. These introductions set the stage for the book and help you understand that book's unique message.Text taken from the best-selling The Message//REMIX. [via]
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The Message//Remix: The Bible In Contemporary Language, Pink, Hypercolor!by Gugene H. PetersonISBN 1576838811 (1-57683-881-1)
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The Message//Remix, The Bible in Contemporary Language: Hypercolor Blue Bubbleby Eugene PetersonISBN 1576839192 (1-57683-919-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message//Remix, The Bible in Contemporary Language: Hypercolor Blue Bubble'Book summary:The Message//REMIX is The Message with book introductions written in today's language for today's students.[via]
Features:
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A New Introduction to Bibliographyby Philip GaskellISBN 1584560363 (1-58456-036-3)
Hardcover, Oak Knoll Pr
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The New Moosewood Cookbookby Mollie KatzenISBN 1580081304 (1-58008-130-4)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Chronicles of the Crossby Max LucadoISBN 1576733882 (1-57673-388-2)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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No Wonder They Call Saviorby Max LucadoISBN 1576737640 (1-57673-764-0)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheresby Nicolaus CopernicusISBN 1573920355 (1-57392-035-5)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grantby Ulysses S. GrantISBN 1582181896 (1-58218-189-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant'Book summary:Known as the "savior of the Union" during the Civil War, General Grant went on to serve as the 18th president of the United States from 1869-1877. This second volume of his memoirs was completed just days prior to his death from throat cancer in 1885. [via]
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Philosophy of Rightby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, S. W. DydeISBN 157392105X (1-57392-105-X)
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Plot & Structure: (Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips REaders From Start to finish)by James Scott BellISBN 158297294X (1-58297-294-X)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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The Practice of the Presence of Godby LawrenceISBN 1577482433 (1-57748-243-3)
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Psychic Self-Defenseby Dion FortuneISBN 1578631513 (1-57863-151-3)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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Queen Victoria : An Eminent Illustrated Biographyby Lytton StracheyISBN 1579120024 (1-57912-002-4)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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The Ralph Nader Readerby Ralph NaderISBN 1583220577 (1-58322-057-7)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ralph Nader Reader'Book summary:In a pop media culture dominated by dismissive irony and cloying sentimentalism, how do we talk about a true American political hero? The answer is, we don't. After 40 years in the trenches, Ralph Nader, the standard-bearer in the battle for the rights of the disenfranchised and the consummate American citizen, is still being ignored by the mass media. Reading The Ralph Nader Reader may lead one to view that oversight as less than accidental.
Nader has tilted against injustice wherever he has found it, and he has found it in spades in corporate America. Beginning with his crusade against the auto industry in the early 1960s, Nader went on to fight for the rights of workers by helping create the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as for a citizen's right for access to government documents in the creation of the Freedom of Information Act. He has often stood resolute before the juggernaut--and more often than not, the juggernaut has flinched. His investigation of corporate crime led him to see a far-reaching problem of accountability. Corporations are supposed to be accountable to the people and laws of America, but what happens when the government exempts corporations from these responsibilities? Nader gives one of many shocking examples: "Of America's 250 most profitable corporations in 1988, 45 reduced their tax liability to less than 10%, 6 received refunds." This and countless other examples of corporate-government malfeasance have led Nader to focus increasingly on reestablishing democracy in America. He advocates citizen groups at the local level to be watchdogs for their own interests--be it as voters, taxpayers, workers, consumers, or shareholders. "It is time for a civic rebellion, Jeffersonian style," he writes.
So is there an effort to keep Nader out of the media? When you realize, as Nader points out repeatedly, that one corporation owns 800 radio stations across the U.S., that a handful of corporations control the vast majority of television networks, and that The New York Times owns The Boston Globe, you see that he has ticked off the wrong people if he wants his voice to be heard in America. But his voice speaks clearly in this book, and gives us all an ideal of citizenship and democratic action to strive for. But beware The Ralph Nader Reader--once you take the red pill, you'll have to see how deep the rabbit hole goes, and once you see, you may find yourself doing something about it. --Steve Andersen [via]
Really Bad Girls of the Bible: More Lessons from Less-Than-Perfect Womenby Liz Curtis HiggsISBN 1578561264 (1-57856-126-4)
Softcover, Waterbrook Pr
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Rocks, Gems, & Minerals: A Guide to Familiar Minerals, Gems, Ores, and Rocksby Paul R. Shaffer, Herbert Spencer Zim, Raymond PerlmanISBN 1582381321 (1-58238-132-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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- Origins and geologic significance
- Gems and semiprecious stones
- How to find and collect specimens
Illustrated in full color throughout, Rocks, Gems and Minerals is a gem of a guide for rockhounds and mineral collectors! [via]
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Roget's Superthesaurusby Marc McCutcheonISBN 1582972540 (1-58297-254-0)
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Secrets of the Vine : Breaking Through to Abundanceby Bruce WilkinsonISBN 1576738760 (1-57673-876-0)
Hardcover, WaterBrook Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secrets of the Vine : Breaking Through to Abundance'Book summary:No one said it would be easy. In the first installment of his BreakThrough series, Dr. Bruce H. Wilkinson urged Christians to find the abundant life through following a simple prayer. In Secrets of the Vine, his follow-up to the bestselling The Prayer of Jabez, the president of Walk thru the Bible Ministries explores compelling images from Bible verse John 15 in support of his message that asking for God's blessings may result in suffering and difficult circumstances. Through Jesus' symbolic portrayal of himself as the vine, the Father as vinedresser, and his followers as the branches, Wilkinson believes that Christians can better understand God's methods for ensuring personal fulfillment, and find a closer walk with him.
Grapes need pruning--and so do Christians, Wilkinson writes. God's "pruning" is painful, but Wilkinson argues that this pruning away of "self" is necessary to gain desirable results. He notes, "Pruning will intensify as God's shears cut closer to the core of who you are." Wilkinson urges Christians not to confuse "pruning" with "discipline," and offers a helpful chart to distinguish between the two. He discusses four levels of fruit bearing, from "no fruit" to "much fruit," and the connection between God's pruning and an abundant harvest.
Wilkinson's warm, personable writing style helps him come across as a confidant and mentor. Even though he admits, "I assure you that I possess no special knowledge in these matters," millions of readers seem to think he does. He lays down the challenge: "If you don't know and apply Jesus's vineyard teachings, you'll never experience the abundant life you long for. There is simply no other way." Christians aspiring to maturity in their spiritual lives will likely sit up and take notice. --Cindy Crosby [via]
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The Shakespeare Miscellanyby David Crystal, Ben CrystalISBN 1585677167 (1-58567-716-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide: The Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foodsby Arthur AgatstonISBN 1579549586 (1-57954-958-6)
Softcover, Rodale Press, Incorporated
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All fats and carbohydrates aren't created equal. The good kinds nourish your body as they help you lose weight. The bad kinds--found in sugary, fatty foods like doughnuts, snack foods, and fast-food meals--damage your body's ability to burn off what you eat. Worse, eating them actually triggers cravings and makes you even hungrier!
On the South Beach Diet, by best-selling author and Miami Beach cardiologist Arthur Agatston, M.D., you eat plenty of good carbs and good fats--delicious, healthy foods that crush cravings, curb overeating, and leave you satisfied rather than starving. And now, with The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide, you have all the information you'll need to make the right meal choices--anytime, anywhere.
This Guide Does All the Work--More Than 1,200 Food Listings at Your Fingertips
You'll know at a glance if a food is compatible with the South Beach Diet--each entry lists its carbohydrate, sugar, and fat grams, plus all the foods are ranked "Good," "Limited," "Very Limited," or "Avoid," according to the nutritional principles Dr. Agatston explains in his introduction. Packed with essential information, food lists, shopping tips, meal makeovers, a Dining-Out Guide to stay on track at your favorite restaurants, and more, The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide is your key to lifelong health and weight loss.More editions of The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide: The Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods:
Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatiseby Benedictus De SpinozaISBN 1585101125 (1-58510-112-5)
Hardcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itselfby Andrew X. WeilISBN 157490034X (1-57490-034-X)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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The Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horrorby Christopher Golden, Stan Wiater, Hank WagnerISBN 1580631606 (1-58063-160-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Story Structure Architect: a writer's guide to building dramatic situations & compelling charactersby Victoria SchmidtISBN 1582973253 (1-58297-325-3)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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Sweetsby Tim RichardsonISBN 1582343071 (1-58234-307-1)
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Theologico-Political Treatiseby Benedictus De Spinoza, Martin D. YaffeISBN 1585100854 (1-58510-085-4)
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Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1576466280 (1-57646-628-0)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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Trees of North Americaby David Challinor, Rebecca Merrilees, Jonathan P. Latimer, Karen Stray Nolting, Christian Frank Brockman, Herbert Spencer ZimISBN 1582380929 (1-58238-092-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trees of North America'Book summary:Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heat-activated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Search for the Sugar Maple, whose foliage blazes red and yellow in autumn. North America's trees rank among nature's most awesome creations. This premier field guide features all characteristics-tree shape, bark, leaf, flower, fruit and twig-for quick identification, making it a superior choice for trail walks, creating displays, and scientific or commercial needs.[via]
-All of North America in one volume
-Over 730 species in 76 families and 160 range maps
-Native species and important introduced foreign varieties
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-Common and scientific names
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Tulipby Anna PavordISBN 1582341303 (1-58234-130-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tulip'Book summary:In an auction held in Holland in February 1637, 99 lots of tulip bulbs fetched a staggering 90,000 guilders, more than $3.5 million in today's money. Tulipomania had reached its height, and its story is told in just one of the fascinating sections of Anna Pavord's wonderful book on this most seductive of flowers.
Pavord's passion for the flower is evident from the opening pages of the book, where she tells of scrambling across the hillsides of Crete in search of an obscure, indigenous purple tulip. The story of the discovery of this tulip leads into Pavord's extraordinary history of this beautiful, enigmatic flower. As with all the best love stories, Pavord's is told from the perspective of the object of affection--in this case, the tulip--from its adoption by the Ottoman sultans of Istanbul in the 18th century to its present cultivation by the Wakefield Tulip Society.
Along the way, incredible stories of people's investments in the flower emerge, the result, as Pavord explains, of a unique feature of the tulip. Its variegated colors are produced by a small parasitic aphid, which weakens the plant but produces its gorgeous hues. The tulipomania that gripped 17th-century Europe was a form of futures trading, as people purchased tulip bulbs at increasingly inflated prices with the hope that they would flower into the most beautiful and kaleidoscopic colors imaginable. Tulip is an extraordinary book, beautifully illustrated and offering a fascinating story of our obsession with the most ephemeral of objects. Buying tulip bulbs will never be the same again. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runnerby Dean KarnazesISBN 1585424803 (1-58542-480-3)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitmentby Ethan WattersISBN 1582342644 (1-58234-264-4)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment'Book summary:The numbers can't be ignored: the current generation of young Americans is delaying marriage longer than any other generation in history. But while the media trumpets this fact in a way that seems designed to scare us, until now no one has really taken the time to understand what people are doing instead.[via]
Driven by his personal desire to understand why his single life stretched far into his thirties, Ethan Watters explores the cultural and social forces that have steered his generation away from the altar-and discovers many reasons to be optimistic about the course his generation has chosen. Central to his thinking is the idea of Urban Tribes: the closely knit communities of friends that spring up during the ever-increasing period of time between college and married life. Tribes are revealed to be the key to understanding this generation, explaining not only why its members are putting off marriage, but also why singles often live outside of families so happily. In the end, Watters makes the case that the tribe years engender the self-respect critical to successful partnerships.
A funny, deeply insightful, and compulsively readable book that dares to suggest that the generation in question just might be interested in more than buying the latest SUV and drinking lattes at the local coffeehouse, Urban Tribes is destined to become one of the most talked-about books of the year.
"This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Urban Tribes redefines the debate over the nature of community and social cohesion in society today. Ethan Watters provides powerful insight into the rise of new kinds of cities and support structures for the growing class of creative, single people inhabiting leading urban centers in the United States and around the world." -Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday LifeMore editions of Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment:
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Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family?by Ethan WattersISBN 1582344418 (1-58234-441-8)
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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matterby Peter SingerISBN 157954889X (1-57954-889-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter'Book summary:A thought-provoking look at how what we eat profoundly affects all living things--and how we can make more ethical food choices[via]
Five Principles for Making Conscientious Food Choices
1. Transparency: We have the right to know how our food is produced.
2. Fairness: Producing food should not impose costs on others.
3. Humanity: Inflicting unnecessary suffering on animals is wrong.
4. Social Responsibility: Workers are entitled to decent wages and working conditions.
5. Needs: Preserving life and health justifies more than other desires.
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist who "may be the most controversial philosopher alive" (The New Yorker), now sets his critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it's produced, and whether it was raised humanely. Teaming up once again with attorney Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, Singer explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment.
In The Way We Eat, Singer and Mason examine the eating habits of three American families with very different diets. They track down the sources of each family's food to probe the ethical issues involved in its production and marketing. What kinds of meat are most humane to eat? Is "organic" always better? Wild fish or farmed? Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make the best food choices. As they point out: "You can be ethical without being fanatical."More editions of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter:
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Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War in Iraqby Sheldon Rampton, John C. StauberISBN 1585422762 (1-58542-276-2)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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- "The First Casualty": Lies that were told related to the Iraq war.
- Euphemisms and jargon related to the Iraq war, e.g. "shock and awe," "Operation Iraqi Freedom," "axis of evil," "coalition of the willing," etc.
- "War as Opportunity": How the war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have been used as marketing hooks to sell products and policies that have nothing to do with fighting terrorism.
- "Brand America": The efforts of Charlotte Beers and other U.S. propaganda campaigns designed to win hearts overseas.
- "The Mass Media as Propaganda Vehicle": How news coverage followed Washington's lead and language.
The book includes a glossary "Propaganda: A User's Guide" and resources to help Americans sort through the deceptions to see the strings behind Washington's campaign to sell the Iraq war to the public.
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With Bold Knife and Forkby Mary Frances Kennedy FisherISBN 1582431876 (1-58243-187-6)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of Americaby Mystery Writers of America, Jan Burke, Sue Grafton, Barry ZemanISBN 1582971021 (1-58297-102-1)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America'Book summary:The mystery, like other stories, relies on believable characters, a strong narrative, and crisp prose. But it is also "a way of examining the dark side of human nature," says Writing Mysteries editor Sue Grafton. The book's 37 contributors ponder everything from brainstorming ideas to dealing with editors. Jeremiah Healy jump-starts the book with a piece that considers the unwritten "rules" of mystery writing. Stuart Kaminsky discusses research--experts, it turns out, are just waiting for you to contact them--and Sandra Scoppettone discusses vivid villains. Sara Paretsky contemplates the pitfalls of using a recurring hero, and Michael Connelly contributes a fine piece on characterization. "The best crime novels," Connelly says, "are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective." Other chapters focus on amateur sleuths, convincing dialogue, depiction of violence, and specialty genres. The book's short chapters form a sort of mystery writer's antipasti plate. Some won't resonate, while others will leave you wishing you had a larger serving. An ideal primer for mystery writers. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Writing the Breakout Novelby Donald Maass, Anne PerryISBN 158297182X (1-58297-182-X)
Softcover, Writers Digest Books
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Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller lists.
Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace.
You'll learn to:
- establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place
- weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story
- create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page
- explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers
- sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish
- develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition
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Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Helpfor Making Your Movel Stand Out and Succeedby Donald MaassISBN 158297263X (1-58297-263-X)
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