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Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdomby John O'DonohueISBN 0060182792 (0-06-018279-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom'Book summary:Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom offers an exploration of the secret universe we all carry inside us, the connections we forge with the worlds of our friends and loved ones, and the products of our worlds reflected in the things we create outside of ourselves. Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," is an ancient journey down a nearly forgotten path of wisdom into what it means to be human. Drawing on this age-old perspective, John O'Donohue helps us to see ourselves as the Celts did: we're more than just flesh, blood, and bone; we comprise individual worlds. The comprehension of the sublime architecture of the worlds we are born with will engender a new appreciation for the outside world and the way we contribute to its evolution. [via]
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Art: A New Historyby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060530758 (0-06-053075-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art: A New History'Book summary:In Art: A New History, Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a world historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, he draws our attention to a number of neglected artists and styles, especially in Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and the Americas.
Paul Johnson puts the creative originality of the individual at the heart of his story. He pays particular attention to key periods: the emergence of the artistic personality in the Renaissance, the new realism of the early seventeenth century, the discovery of landscape painting as a separate art form, and the rise of ideological art. He notes the division of 'fashion art' and fine art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and how it has now widened.
Though challenging and controversial, Paul Johnson is not primarily a revisionist. He is a passionate lover of beauty who finds creativity in many places. With 300 colour illustrations, this book is vivid, evocative and immensely readable, whether the author is describing the beauty of Egyptian low-relief carving or the medieval cathedrals of Europe, the watercolours of Thomas Girtin or the utility of Roman bridges ('the best bridges in history'), the genius of Andrew Wyeth or the tranquility of the Great Mosque at Damascus, the paintings of Ilya Repin or a carpet-page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. The warmth and enthusiasm of Paul Johnson's descriptions will send readers hurrying off to see these wonders for themselves.
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Audreystyleby Pamela Keogh Clarke, Pamela Clark KeoghISBN 0060193298 (0-06-019329-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Audreystyle'Book summary:In 1953, When Audrey Hepburn burst onto the screen in Roman Holiday, she forever changed the international ideal of elegance, grace, and beauty. Suddenly, glamour and even sexiness seemed attainable for women everywhere; Audrey was uncommonly beautiful, but she was real--hers was a look anyone could aim for, but few could pull off as effortlessly or effectively. By mixing a few classic elements of "Audrey style"--the little black dress, ballet flats with slim capri pants, bold hats and sunglasses--suburban housewives became more Hollywood than Hoboken in an instant.
Here author Pamela Clarke Keogh introduces us to the woman behind the clothes, using words from friends, fellow actors, and designers who dressed her to paint a picture of a truly remarkable woman. A humanitarian, artist, friend, and above all, survivor, Audrey inspired women and men alike to approach life with spirit, grace, and simplicity. The nearly 100 color and black-and-white photographs, paired with original sketches from such fashion luminaries as Givenchy, Manolo Blahnik, and Vera Wang, show that Audrey was much more than a beautiful, well-dressed personality; her courage and individuality come shining through in every page. --Leah Ball [via]
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of Rjr Nabiscoby John Helyar, Bryan BurroughISBN 0060536357 (0-06-053635-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of Rjr Nabisco'Book summary:Over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and pulicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms, giving us not only an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. As compelling as a novel, Barbarians at the Gate is must reading for everyone interested in the way today's world really works.
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005by James Ellroy, Otto PenzlerISBN 0060815515 (0-06-081551-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Crime Writing 2005'Book summary:The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable "ode to bar fights" written by Jonathan Miles for Men's Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party. But this year's edition includes a bonus -- an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his fascination with Joseph Wambaugh and how it fed his obsession with crime -- even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Wambaugh's books. Smart, entertaining, and controversial, The Best American Crime Writing is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast's bookshelf.
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Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murderby Steve HodelISBN 0060589957 (0-06-058995-7)
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Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Starsby Ray BradburyISBN 0060585692 (0-06-058569-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars'Book summary:He is an American treasure, a clear-eyed fantasist without peer, and a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. On subjects as diverse as fiction, the future, film, famous personalities, and more, Ray Bradbury has much to say, as only he can say it.
Collected between these covers are memories, ruminations, opinions, prophecies, and philosophies from one of the most influential and admired writers of our time. As unique, unabashed, and irrepressible as the artist himself, here is an intimate portrait, painted with the master's own words, of the one and only Ray Bradbury far more revealing than any mere memoir, for it opens windows not only into his life and work but also into his mind and heart.
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Collins German-English English German Dictionaryby Veronika Schnorr, Roland Breitsprecher, Wendy V. A. SmithISBN 0060733810 (0-06-073381-0)
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Cracks In My Foundation: Bags, Trips, Make-up Tips, Charity, Glory And The Darker Side Of The Storyby Marian KeyesISBN 0060787031 (0-06-078703-1)
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Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wivesby Katie HickmanISBN 0060188626 (0-06-018862-6)
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Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalismby Sean HannityISBN 0060750391 (0-06-075039-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism'Book summary:Nearly three years have passed since that tragic day in september. Since then, our wounds have healed, but our senses and memories have dulled. At first, the nation rallied behind its leader. But by the time the confrontation with iraq presented itself, our courage and moral certainty seemed to fade in the face of partisan bickering and posturing. Now the political left and the democratic party are trying to use the demanding aftermath of the war to exploit our national cause for their own political advantage. How could we allow ourselves to forget so soon? --from deliver us from evil sean hannity's first blockbuster book, the new york times bestseller let freedom ring, cemented his place as the freshest and most compelling conservative voice in the country. As the host of the phenomenally successful hannity & colmes on the fox news channel and the sean hannity show on abc radio, hannity has won a wildly devoted fan base. Now he brings his plainspoken, take-no-prisoners style to the continuing war on terror abroad -- and liberalism at home -- in deliver us from evil. "evil exists," hannity asserts. "it is real, and it means to harm us." and in these pages he revisits the harsh lessons america has learned in confronting evil in the past and the present, to illuminate the course we must take in the future. Tracing a direct line from adolf hitler and joseph stalin through saddam hussein and osama bin laden, he reminds us of the courage and moral clarity of our great leaders. And he reveals how the disgraceful history of appeasement has reached forward from the days of neville chamberlain and jimmy carter to corrupt the unrepentant leftists of the modern democratic party -- from howard dean and john kerry to bill and hillary clinton. As americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, sean hannity reminds us that we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home. [via]
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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angelby Anne De CourcyISBN 0060565330 (0-06-056533-0)
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Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelistsby Daniel PoolISBN 0060183659 (0-06-018365-9)
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The Divine Milieu: An Essay on the Interior Lifeby De Chardin Pier TeilhardISBN 0060904879 (0-06-090487-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Milieu: An Essay on the Interior Life'Book summary:A spiritual treasure for every religion bookshelf. De Chardin, geologist and priest, probes the ultimate meaning of all physical exploration and the fruit of his own inner life. "Extraordinary."--Karl Stern [via]
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hellby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060595183 (0-06-059518-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell'Book summary:Sometimes a writer has to revisit the classics, and here we find that "gonzo journalism"--gutsy first-person accounts wherein the author is part of the story--didn't originate with Hunter S. Thompson or Tom Wolfe. Aldous Huxley took some mescaline and wrote about it some 10 or 12 years earlier than those others. The book he came up with is part bemused essay and part mystical treatise--"suchness" is everywhere to be found while under the influence. This is a good example of essay writing, journal keeping, and the value of controversy--always--in one's work. [via]
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Doveby Robin Lee Graham, Derek L.T. GillISBN 0060920475 (0-06-092047-5)
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Ducks Don't Get Wetby Augusta Goldin, Helen K. DavieISBN 006027882X (0-06-027882-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ducks Don't Get Wet'Book summary:Why don't ducks get wet? Ducks dip and dive, but they stay dry because they spread oil over their feathers to make them waterproof. Learn more inside and get to know different kinda of ducks.Have you ever wondered how ducks spend the whole day in the water and never get wet? Did you know that they can dive 100 feet deep, and still come up dry? Meet ten different kinds of ducks in this classic text featuring stunning new watercolor illustrations and a new "Find Out More" page.
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The Encyclopedia of Bad Tasteby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0060921218 (0-06-092121-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste'Book summary:America's premiere scholars of popular culture present a hilarious tribute to the all-time highs of lowbrow taste. The Sterns offer the definitive sourcebook of the world's favorite cultural extremes and faux pas. 350 photos, 50 in full-color. [via]
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Askby David R. ReubenISBN 0060192674 (0-06-019267-4)
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Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchantedby Annie HawesISBN 0060198508 (0-06-019850-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted'Book summary:Fed up with cold, foggy London and the high cost of real estate, Annie Hawes is persuaded by her sister Lucy to travel to Italy and graft roses for the winter. The sisters arrive in rural Liguria with some formal Italian, no knowledge of rose grafting, and visions of Mediterranean men and sun. What they find is a town full of hard-working, wary olive growers smack in the middle of an olive oil depression who think these two young Englishwomen are nuts. Extra Virgin tells the story of the sisters' acclimation--theirs to Liguria and Liguria to them--and how they fell in love with a crumbling farmhouse in the hills.
Annie quickly finds that though they are only two miles from the Italian Riviera, it might as well be a hundred. Liguria is an old town full of time-honored peculiarities, especially in regard to espresso consumption (never, ever, after lunch; it will close your stomach) and swimming before summertime officially starts. "Seawater at the wrong time of year is even worse for your health than coffee at the wrong time of day, and the beach is only deserted because, as far as the citizens are concerned, if you put so much as a toe into the water before June you are certain to die within the week from exposure or pneumonia or both," says Hawes. Eventually, the sisters are accepted by the townsfolk, though they find the idea of the women buying the farmhouse and running it themselves (there are 50 olive trees on the land) fantastical.
Extra Virgin draws you in to the heart of Liguria and its inhabitants. Hawes has a knack for drawing characters and especially for describing the luscious meals that they are served--and eventually learn to cook. "Lucy and I are kindly allowed to make the tomato-and-basil salad," Hawes says, "and do our best not to be offended by being complemented on how like a proper tomato-and-basil salad it is." Pour yourself an espresso (as long as it's before lunch) or a grappa (aids the digestion), and then sit down to enjoy Extra Virgin. --Dana Van Nest [via]
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The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRSby Neal Boortz, John LinderISBN 0060875410 (0-06-087541-0)
Hardcover, Regan Books
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The Faith of a Writerby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0060565543 (0-06-056554-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Faith of a Writer'Book summary:A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method
Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential questions about what makes a story striking, a novel come alive, a writer an artist as well as a craftsman.
In The Faith of a Writer, Oates discusses the subjects most important to the narrative craft, touching on topics such as inspiration, memory, self-criticism, and "the unique power of the unconscious." On a more personal note, she speaks of childhood inspirations, offers advice to young writers, and discusses the wildly varying states of mind of a writer at work. Oates also pays homage to those she calls her "significant predecessors" and discusses the importance of reading in the life of a writer.
Oates claims, "Inspiration and energy and even genius are rarely enough to make 'art': for prose fiction is also a craft, and craft must be learned, whether by accident or design." In fourteen succinct chapters, The Faith of a Writer provides valuable lessons on how language, ideas, and experience are assembled to create art.
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Family, Sex and Marriage in England, Fifteen Hundred to Eighteen Hundred Abr. Ed. Illus.by Lawrence StoneISBN 0060907355 (0-06-090735-5)
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The Film Encyclopediaby Ephraim Katz, Fred Klein, Ronald Dean NolenISBN 0060742143 (0-06-074214-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Film Encyclopedia'Book summary:This is the basic reference guide to the international cinema. Put it next to your TV and VCR and you'll be able to answer the questions that inevitably arise when you watch a movie: "What other films has she been in?"; "Haven't I heard that director's name before?"; and "What in tarnation is a gaffer?" The Film Encyclopedia contains biographies and filmographies of actors, directors, producers, and cinematographers, as well as screenwriters, editors, musical directors, production designers, and critics. You can look up films by nationality and find a history of a given country's contribution to the art. Technical data is also indexed, so you can read not only about film stock and the apparatus of the camera, but also about the duties of the gaffer, the key grip, and the best boy. The book's introduction states that Ephraim Katz, who died in 1992, set out to write "the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia of world cinema ever published in the English language." The Film Encyclopedia contains more information than any other single-volume film reference and is also the best written movie guide of its kind. Because most of the entries were written by Katz himself, reading this book is like talking to a witty and learned film historian who has devoted his life to understanding--and loving--the cinema. [via]
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Finding Fishby Mim Eichler Rivas, Antwone FisherISBN 0060539860 (0-06-053986-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Fish'Book summary:Thank goodness Antwone Fisher's story has a happy ending--otherwise, his searing memoir would be nearly unbearable to read. His father was killed by a gunshot blast shortly before he was born in 1959; his 17-year-old mother gave him up for foster care. Unfortunately for Antwone, his foster mother was as successful at browbeating and demeaning her many wards as she was at lying to the Child Welfare authorities. His working-class African American neighborhood in Cleveland became purgatory for a sensitive, intelligent boy who quickly turned into a withdrawn underperformer at school. In Fisher's blow-by-blow account of his childhood, his sexual abuse at the hands of a female neighbor is hardly more horrifying than his foster mother's relentless cruelty--especially because respectable, churchgoing Mrs. Pickett justifies it all as due to the boy's wicked faults. Readers will be relieved when she dumps 15-year-old Antwone back at the Child Welfare office, even though he will endure homelessness and a scary spell of criminal employment, before an 11-year stint in the Navy provides him with a way forward. Grim though his tale is, Fisher displays throughout it the grit and stubborn integrity that kept him sane. He musters up some understanding (not forgiveness) for the dreadful Mrs. Pickett, and his eventual meeting with his burned-out mother is painfully poignant. He certainly deserves the beautiful wife and cute two-year-old daughter, cooking pancakes for him in the book's closing and redemptive scene. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticismby Kurt RudolphISBN 0060670185 (0-06-067018-5)
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The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Againby Peter BeinartISBN 0060841613 (0-06-084161-3)
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The Grrl Genius Guide to Life: A Twelve-Step Program on How to Become a Grrl Genius According to Me!by Cathryn MichonISBN 006019698X (0-06-019698-X)
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Heloise & Abelard: A New Biographyby James BurgeISBN 0060816139 (0-06-081613-9)
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Peter Abelard was arguably the greatest poet, philosopher, and religious teacher in all of twelfth-century Europe. In an age when women were rarely educated, Heloise was his most gifted young student. Their private tutoring sessions inevitably turned to passion, and their moments apart were spent writing love letters. Astoundingly, a few years ago a young scholar identified 113 new love letters between the pair which, combined with the latest scholarship, present us with the richest telling yet of the couple's clandestine passion -- a story that is erotic, poignant, and at times even funny.
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The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives: For the Extraordinarily Literateby Eugene EhrlichISBN 0060186364 (0-06-018636-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives: For the Extraordinarily Literate'Book summary:Adjectives have long suffered from bad press. For many years, English teachers have been fond of telling students that "adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of everything else."
While it's still advisable to heed your English teacher's advice on most other matters, The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate proves that breaking certain rules can make written and spoken language that much livelier, adding much-needed color, style, and adornment. With this addition to the popular Highly Selective series, the "golden" adjective, at last, gets the star treatment it deserves. From adventitious to zaftig, renowned lexicographer Eugene Ehrlich has collected more than 850 of the most interesting and engaging adjectives in the English language and has provided concise definitions and instructive usage examples. Whether you're a writer, a speaker, or a word buff, this compendious, trenchant, laudable, and all-around fantabulous volume will help you put panache back into your prose.
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A History of the Jewsby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060915331 (0-06-091533-1)
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How to Talk to Your Catby Jean Craighead George, Paul MeiselISBN 0060279680 (0-06-027968-0)
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Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950by Charles A. MurrayISBN 006019247X (0-06-019247-X)
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The Human Story: Our History, From The Stone Age To Todayby James C. DavisISBN 0060516208 (0-06-051620-8)
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of Americaby Jonathan RabanISBN 0060182091 (0-06-018209-1)
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"In an era of jet tourism, [Jonathan Raban] remains a
traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis Stevenson."
--The New York Times Book Review
In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur--"Heartbreak" in English--wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, arrived in Crèvecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for succeeding generations of newcomers. The result is an exhilarating, often deliciously funny book that is at once a travelogue, a social history, and a love letter to the United States.
In the course of Hunting Mr. Heartbreak, Raban passes for homeless in New York and tries to pass for a good ol' boy in Alabama (which entails "renting" an elderly black lab). He sees the Protestant work ethic perfected by Korean immigrants in Seattle--one of whom celebrates her new home as "So big! So green! So wide-wide-wide!"--and repudiated by the lowlife of Key West. And on every page of this peerlessly observant work, Raban makes us experience America with wonder, humor, and an unblinking eye for its contradictions.
"Raban delivers himself of some of the most memorable prose ever written
about urban America." --Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times
"When Raban describes America and Americans, he is unfailingly witty
and entertaining." --Salman Rushdie
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In Siberiaby Colin ThubronISBN 0060195436 (0-06-019543-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Siberia'Book summary:In Siberia explores a region of astonishments, where "white cranes dance on the permafrost, where a great city floats lost among the ice floes, where mammoths sleep under glaciers." Colin Thubron's latest chronicle also delivers its subject from rumor into reality. An expanse larger than the entire United States, Siberia is undoubtedly a country of contrasts, which elicits from the author both awe and melancholy. Here on one hand is a northern wilderness "shattered into a jigsaw of ponds and streams," and on the other a "black detritus of factories and ruins." No less memorable than the landscape are the people that Thubron encounters. He gathers their stories like rough jewels, showing us a self-proclaimed descendant of Rasputin, an isolated Jewish community, and a parade of "indestructible babushkas."
Woven among the often bitter and eroding memories of a Siberian past is a sense of new freedom. After all, this is the first time in Russia's history when foreigners can travel freely throughout the region--and its inhabitants can comment openly about their government without fear of reprisal. Thubron coaxes an institute official at the Akademgorodok Praesidium to speak his mind:
His face was heavy with anger. "We have one overriding problem here. Money. We receive no money for new equipment, hardly enough for our salaries. There are people who haven't been paid for six months." Then his anger overflowed. He was barking like a drill sergeant. "This year we requested funds for six or seven different programmes! And not one has been accepted by the government! Not one!"
Thubron's portrait is as elegant as it is evocative. But just as notably, his journey to the east manages to break the long and destructive Siberian silence. --Byron Ricks [via]
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religionby Joseph CampbellISBN 0060551526 (0-06-055152-6)
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Intellectualsby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060916575 (0-06-091657-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intellectuals'Book summary:Conservative historian Paul Johnson wears his ideology proudly on his sleeve in this often ruthless dissection of the thinkers and artists who (in his view) have shaped modern Western culture, having replaced some 200 years ago "the old clerisy as the guides and mentors of mankind." Taking on the likes of Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Lillian Hellman, and Noam Chomsky in turn, Johnson examines one idol after another and finds them all to have feet of clay. In his account, for instance, Ernest Hemingway emerges as an artistic hero who labored endlessly to forge a literary style unmistakably his own, but also as a deeply flawed man whose concern for the perfect phrase did not carry over to a concern for the women who loved him. Gossipy and sharply opinionated, Johnson's essay in cultural history spares no one.
Does it really matter that Henrik Ibsen was vain and arrogant, that Jean-Paul Sartre was incontinent? In Johnson's view, it does: these all-too-human foibles disqualify them, and other thinkers, from presuming to criticize the shortcomings of society. "Beware intellectuals," he concludes (though, given the subjects of his book, it seems he means intellectuals only of the left). "Not only should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice." Whether one agrees or not, Johnson's profiles are frequently amusing and illuminating, as when he suggests that the only proletarian Karl Marx ever knew in person was the poor maid who worked for him for decades and was never paid, except in room and board, for her labors. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in Americaby John D'Emilio, Estelle B. FreedmanISBN 0060915501 (0-06-091550-1)
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Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desertby Jason KerstenISBN 0060184701 (0-06-018470-1)
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The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphsby Lesley Adkins, Roy AdkinsISBN 0060194391 (0-06-019439-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs'Book summary:Jean-François Champollion's biography is neatly interwoven with Napoleonic history and the functions of Egyptian hieroglyphs in The Keys of Egypt. A gifted bookseller's son born in Revolutionary France, Champollion was to become "gripped by energetic enthusiasm" for Egypt. By the age of 12, he was studying several ancient languages, and, amid a "wave of Egyptomania," he would beat rivals to discover the key to deciphering hieroglyphs. If this was a race, it was a marathon. The breakthrough came after "20 years of obsessive hard work," not through the quick-fix solution often thought to have been provided by the Rosetta stone. The Keys of Egypt details Champollion's life and work, which were hampered by politics, poverty, and an almost hypochondriacal series of health problems. Its sources include letters and journals, the authors having undertaken researches in major libraries and museums. Chapters on Champollion's travels in Italy and Egypt include a good smattering of excerpts from his writings. Although no bibliography is given, there is a helpful passage on various levels of further reading. Highly instructive and fast-paced, The Keys of Egypt is perhaps less dramatic than it might be in portraying troubled times and groundbreaking discovery. It is, however, a clearly expressed and wide-ranging book explaining the complexity of hieroglyphic interpretation and revealing the man whose achievements "meant the discovery of a whole new civilization." --Karen Tiley, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiographyby Chris CrutcherISBN 0060502517 (0-06-050251-7)
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Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World Historyby Richard Shenkman, George J. McKeonISBN 0060922559 (0-06-092255-9)
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Life Togetherby Dietrich BonhoefferISBN 0060608528 (0-06-060852-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Together'Book summary:After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness in the hearts of Christians around the world. His Letters and Papers from Prison became a prized testimony to Christian faith and courage, read by thousands. Now in Life Together we have Pastor Bonhoeffer's experience of Christian community. This story of a unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years reads like one of Paul's letters. It gives practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups. The role of personal prayer, worship in common, everyday work, and Christian service is treated in simple, almost biblical, words. Life Together is bread for all who are hungry for the real life of Christian fellowship.
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Life Together: A Discussion of Christian Fellowship/Leaders Guideby Dietrich BonhoefferISBN 0060608617 (0-06-060861-7)
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Life Together/the Classic Exploration of Faith in Communityby Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John W. DobersteinISBN 0060608536 (0-06-060853-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Together/the Classic Exploration of Faith in Community'Book summary:A beautiful gift edition of Bonhoeffer's classic work on the meaning and importance of Christian community. This inspiring account of a unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years in Germany reads like one of Paul's letters and gives timeless advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups. [via]
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The Lifetime Reading Planby Clifton FadimanISBN 006055066X (0-06-055066-X)
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Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexualityby John Shelby SpongISBN 0060675071 (0-06-067507-1)
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Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Practices and Principlesby Peter F. DruckerISBN 0060851147 (0-06-085114-7)
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A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Centuryby Tania BayardISBN 006092182X (0-06-092182-X)
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Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip Secondby Fernand BraudelISBN 0060905670 (0-06-090567-0)
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The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaiseby Dorothy DinnersteinISBN 0060905875 (0-06-090587-5)
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Miss Americaby Howard SternISBN 0060391677 (0-06-039167-7)
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden Cityby Alexandra David-Neel, Diana N. Rowan, Dalai Lama XIVISBN 0060596554 (0-06-059655-4)
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Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale Of How Magic Is Transforming Americaby Christine WickerISBN 0060726784 (0-06-072678-4)
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Not in Kansas Anymore: Dark Arts, Sex Spells, Money Magic, and Other Things Your Neighbors Aren't Telling Youby Christine WickerISBN 0060741155 (0-06-074115-5)
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Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, and Where We Are Goingby Marvin HarrisISBN 0060919906 (0-06-091990-6)
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Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmithsby Mardy GrotheISBN 0060536993 (0-06-053699-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths'Book summary:ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true. See also oxymoron, paradox.examples:"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."Victor Hugo"To lead the people, walk behind them." Lao-tzu"You'd be surprised how much it coststo look this cheap."Dolly PartonYou won't find the word "oxymoronica" in any dictionary (at least not yet) because Dr. Mardy Grothe introduces it to readers in this delightful collection of 1,400 of the most provocative quotations of all time. From ancient thinkers like Confucius, Aristotle, and Saint Augustine to great writers like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and G. B. Shaw to modern social observers like Woody Allen and Lily Tomlin, Oxymoronica celebrates the power and beauty of paradoxical thinking. All areas of human activity are explored, including love, sex and romance, politics, the arts, the literary life, and, of course, marriage and family life. The wise and witty observations in this book are as highly entertaining as they are intellectually nourishing and are sure to grab the attention of language lovers everywhere. [via]
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Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justiceby Howard ZinnISBN 0060557672 (0-06-055767-2)
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Howard Zinn brings to Passionate Declarations the same astringent style and provocative point of view that led more than a million people to buy his book A People's History of the United States. He directs his critique here to what he calls "American orthodoxies" -- that set of beliefs guardians of our culture consider sacrosanct: justifications for war, cynicism about human nature and violence, pride in our economic system, certainty of our freedom of speech, romanticization of representative government, confidence in our system of justice. Those orthodoxies, he believes, have a chilling effect on our capacity to think independently and to become active citizens in the long struggle for peace and justice.
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Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianityby David LimbaughISBN 0060732075 (0-06-073207-5)
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Phenomenon of Manby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 006090495X (0-06-090495-X)
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Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern Americaby Martin J. Smith, Patrick J. KigerISBN 0060535326 (0-06-053532-6)
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Veteran journalists Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger make the offbeat their beat, revealing the odd, surprising, and amusing origins of inexplicable cultural phenomena. From slam dunks to rock 'n' roll punks, permanent press to pantyhose, black velvet painting to point-click culture, high-tech diapers to low-brow entertainment -- they cover sports, business, music, media, film, fashion, and science, and explain a lot about why life today is so weird:
- If homeowners hate yardwork, why do most suburban homes have lawns?
- In the best-fed country on earth, how did thin become "in"?
- When did the "convenience" of convenience food become more important than the food?
- Was the sexual revolution really sparked by the disastrous honeymoon of a science geek?
- Why are today's multimillion-dollar design and marketing plans for cars based on the biggest failure in automotive history?
- How did the invention of air conditioning radically rebalance political power and affect the paths of presidents?
The untold, unexpected, sometimes unholy stories are here, providing instant inside knowledge and richly entertaining insights into how and why we live as we do.
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The Pursuit of Happynessby Quincy Troupe, Chris Gardner, Mim Eichler RivasISBN 0060744871 (0-06-074487-1)
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At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city's working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, "HO-tels," soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station.
Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district.
More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, And the Hunt for a Missing Masterpieceby Edward DolnickISBN 0060531185 (0-06-053118-5)
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The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever.
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbageby Cullen Murphy, William RathjeISBN 0060922281 (0-06-092228-1)
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The Sadeian Womanby Angela CarterISBN 0060907681 (0-06-090768-1)
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacyby Jane LeavyISBN 0060195339 (0-06-019533-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy'Book summary:In an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore. As a human being, he aspired to be the one thing his talent and his fame wouldn't allow: a regular guy. A Brooklyn kid, he was the product of the sedate and modest fifties who came to define and dominate baseball in the sixties. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, former award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy delivers an uncommon baseball book, vividly re-creating the Koufax era, when presidents were believed and pitchers aspired to go the distance.
He was only a teenager when Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley proclaimed him "the Great Jewish Hope" of the franchise. But it wasn't until long after the team had abandoned Brooklyn that the man became the myth. Old-fashioned in his willingness to play when he was injured and in his acute sense of responsibility to his team, Koutax answered to an authority higher than manager Walter Alston. When he refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, he inadvertently made himself a religious icon and an irrevocably public figure. A year later, he was gone -- done with baseball at age thirty. No other sports hero had retired so young, so well, or so completely.
Despite Sandy Koufax's best efforts to protect his privacy, his legend has grown larger ever since. Part biography, part cultural history, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy gets as close to that legend as he will allow. Through meticulous reporting and interviews with five hundred of his friends, teammates, and opponents, Leavy penetrates the mythology to discover a man more than worthy of myth.
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustaceanby Trevor Corson, Jim SollersISBN 0060555599 (0-06-055559-9)
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In revelations from the laboratory and the sea that are by turns astonishing and humorous, the lobster proves itself to be not only a delicious meal and a sustainable resource but also an amorous master of the boudoir, a lethal boxer, and a snoopy socializer with a nose that lets it track prey and paramour alike with the skill of a bloodhound.
The Secret Life of Lobsters is a rollicking oceanic odyssey punctuated by salt spray, melted butter, and predators lurking in the murky depths. [via]
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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyondby Denis JohnsonISBN 0060187360 (0-06-018736-0)
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Sex With the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, And Passionate Politicsby Eleanor HermanISBN 0060846739 (0-06-084673-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex With the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, And Passionate Politics'Book summary:In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers.
She was the queen, living in an opulent palace, wearing lavish gowns and dazzling jewels. She was envied, admired, and revered. She was also miserable, having been forced to marry a foreign prince sight unseen, a royal ogre who was sadistic, foaming at the mouth, physically repulsive, mentally incompetent, or sexually impotentand in some cases all of the above.
How did queens find happiness? In courts bristling with testosteroneswashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinalsmany royal women had love affairs.
Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.
Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered, and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.
Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine.
Empress Alexandra of Russia found emotional solace in the mad monk Rasputin. Her behavior was the spark that set off the firestorm of the Russian revolution.
Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love affairs, which tragically led to her early death.
When a queen became sick to death of her husband and took a lover, anything could happenfrom disgrace and death to political victory. Some kings imprisoned erring wives for life; other monarchs obligingly named the queen's lover prime minister.
The crucial factor deciding the fate of an unfaithful queen was the love affair's implications in terms of power, money, and factional rivalry. At European courts, it was the politicsnot the sexthat caused a royal woman's tragedyor her ultimate triumph.
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Sex With the Queen: Nine Hundred Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politicsby Eleanor HermanISBN 0060846747 (0-06-084674-7)
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- Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.
- Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.
- Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine.
- Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love affairs, which tragically led to her early death.
In this impeccably researched, scandalously readable follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what has historically gone on behind the closed door of the queen's boudoir.
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A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877by Eric FonerISBN 0060551828 (0-06-055182-8)
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Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939by Frederick L. AllenISBN 0060913223 (0-06-091322-3)
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Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Educationby Roger KimballISBN 0060920491 (0-06-092049-1)
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.by Martin Luther King, James Melvin WashingtonISBN 0060646918 (0-06-064691-8)
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Truck: A Love Storyby Michael PerryISBN 0060571179 (0-06-057117-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truck: A Love Story'Book summary:The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track.
"All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman. . . ." Truck: A Love Story recounts a year in which Perry struggles to grow his own food ("Seed catalogs are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than Enron and Penthouse combined"), live peaceably with his neighbors (one test-fires his black powder rifle in the alley; another's best Sunday shirt reads 100 PERCENT WHUP-ASS), and sort out his love life. But along the way, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, takes a date to the fire department chicken dinner, and proposes marriage to a woman in New Orleans. As with Population: 485, much of the spirit of Truck: A Love Story may be found in the characters Perry meets: a one-eyed land surveyor, a paraplegic biker who rigs a sidecar so that his quadriplegic pal can ride along, a bartender who refuses to sell light beer, an enchanting woman who never existed, and half the staff of National Public Radio.
By turns hilarious and heartfelt, a tale that begins on a pile of sheep manure, detours to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and returns to the deer-hunting swamps of northern Wisconsin, Truck: A Love Story becomes a testament to the surprising and unintended consequences of love.1006
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A Voyage for Madmenby Peter NicholsISBN 0060197641 (0-06-019764-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Voyage for Madmen'Book summary:Rich with excitement, accomplished, gripping and authoritative, A Voyage for Madmen is the story of the yachting tournament from hell written by a man who is himself a gifted sailor as well as writer.
Peter Nichols' previous book, Sea Change, was the telling account of his own crossing of the Atlantic in a ridiculously small wooden boat. Now he's taken the skills he employed in that much-praised slice of autobiography to relay another quixotic tale. The subject this time is the infamous Golden Globe yacht race of 1968, when nine men, some French, some English, all bonkers (hence the title), undertook the most challenging adventure of their lives. The goal was to sail around the world solo, a feat no one had yet achieved; to make matters just that extra bit tricky some of the sailors were total novices.
The book analyses the fate of each sailor in turn. Using polished, craftsman-like, clear and sometimes moving prose, Nichols describes how the nine fought through storms and collisions, through the roaring 40s and the furious 50s, and how each man experienced those moments of solitary despair, lonely disappointment and occasional mystical elation that are unique to long-haul solo sailing. One of the most commendable features of the book is the way Nichols discusses the technical side of yachtsmanship with verve and passion without ever turning into an anorak. This is a fine and absorbing true-life tragicomedy, suitable for landlubbers and sea dogs alike. --Sean Thomas [via]
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We'll Always Have Paris: Sex And Love in the City of Lightby John BaxterISBN 0060832886 (0-06-083288-6)
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Witness to Hopeby George WeigelISBN 0060732032 (0-06-073203-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witness to Hope'Book summary:Witness To Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel is as comprehensive a biography of its subject as can be hoped for while the Pope still lives. Weigel, a journalist who came to the Pope's attention after the publication of his book, The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, wrote Witness To Hope with his subject's encouragement and assistance. Weigel had unprecedented access to the Pope's correspondence (with, among others, world leaders including Mikhail Gorbachev). He reports lengthy conversations with many members of the Pope's inner circle, and he occasionally reveals vivid details of the Pope's daily life (for example, at the beginning of each day, the Pope's adviser's hear moans and groaning from John Paul's solitary prayers in his private chapel).
According to Weigel, the Pope told him that other biographies "try to understand me from outside. But I can only be understood from inside." Unfortunately, Weigel's method for understanding the Pope "from inside" depends on psychological conjecture ("It may help to begin by thinking of Karol Wojtyla as a man who grew up very fast") and is weakened by his extreme eagerness to praise his subject ("the man with arguably the most coherent and comprehensive vision of the human possibility in the world ahead"). More troubling, Weigel does not ask some of the really difficult questions about this Pope--regarding his involvement with sects such as Opus Dei, for example, or the relationship between his innovative "theology of the body" and his conservative stance on homosexuality, or even the vicissitudes of prayer life. Witness To Hope is a valuable book because it reports many facts that others have not reported. But for incisive analysis of this Pope's theological and political significance, or for insight into his spiritual life, readers will have to wait until the principals in his life story are free to speak more frankly with some future biographer. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
Writings from The New Yorker, 1927-1976by E. B. White, Rebecca M. DaleISBN 0060921234 (0-06-092123-4)
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Writings on an Ethical Lifeby Peter SingerISBN 0060198389 (0-06-019838-9)
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The Zone: A Dietary Road Map to Lose Weight Permanently Reset Your Generic Code Prevent Disease Achieve Maximum Physical Performanceby Barry Sears, Bill LawrenISBN 0060391502 (0-06-039150-2)
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