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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
by Susan Brownmiller

ISBN 0449908208 (0-449-90820-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books

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"The most comrpehensive study of rape ever offered to the public...It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime."
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As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, AGAINST OUR WILL stands as a unique document of the history of politics, the sociology of rape and the inherent and ingrained inequality of men and women under the law. In lucid, persuasive prose, Brownmiller has created a definitive, devastating work of lasting social importance.
Chosen by THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW as
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The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine, Moncure Daniel Conway

ISBN 0486433935 (0-486-43393-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION WITH SOME RESULTS OF RECENT RESEARCHES. [via]
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Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
by Jonathan Kozol

ISBN 0517799995 (0-517-79999-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

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The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. [via]
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The Amen Corner
by James Baldwin

ISBN 0440206626 (0-440-20662-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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One of James Baldwin's two plays produced on Broadway, The Amen Corner pulses with the music and energy of America's black church and bristles with the pain and anger of racial injustice. Ties in to the February mass market release of James Baldwin: Artist on Fire. HC: Doubleday. [via]
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Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
by Bruce Schneier

ISBN 0471117099 (0-471-11709-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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After a brief account of the history of cryptography, the latest data on encryption protocols and techniques are explained. Describes present-day applications ranging from electronic cash to anonymous messaging and current security concerns. The second section assumes fairly sophisticated knowledge of the C programming language and features numerous source code fragments. Practical implementations of the code are listed throughout the book's second half. [via]
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Aristotle-Metaphysics
by Aristotle

ISBN 0472060422 (0-472-06042-2)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr

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Aristotle's great work translated into English with an index giving Greek, Latin, and English forms of key terms
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
by William L. Simon, Kevin D. Mitnick

ISBN 0471237124 (0-471-23712-4)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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The Art of Deception is about gaining someone's trust by lying to them and then abusing that trust for fun and profit. Hackers use the euphemism "social engineering" and hacker-guru Kevin Mitnick examines many example scenarios.
After Mitnick's first dozen examples anyone responsible for organisational security is going to lose the will to live. It's been said before but people and security are antithetical. Organisations exist to provide a good or service and want helpful friendly employees to promote the good or service. People are social animals who want to be liked. Controlling the human aspects of security means denying someone something. This circle can't be squared.
Considering Mitnick's reputation as a hacker guru the least and last point of attack for hackers using social engineering are computers. Most of the scenarios in The Art of Deception work just as well against computer-free organisations and were probably known to the Pheonicians. Technology simply makes it all easier. Phones are faster than letters after all and large organisations mean dealing with lots of strangers.
Much of Mitnick's security advice sounds practical until you think about implementation, when you realise more effective security means reducing organisational efficiency: an impossible trade in competitive business. And anyway, who wants to work in an organisation where the rule is "Trust no one"? Mitnick shows how easily security is breached by trust, but without trust people can't live and work together. In the real world effective organisations have to acknowledge total security is a chimera--and carry more insurance. --Steve Patient [via]
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The Associated Press Stylebook
by Norm Goldstein

ISBN 046500489X (0-465-00489-X)
Softcover, Basic Books

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More people write for The Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and writers-nearly two million of them-have bought more copies of The AP Stylebook than of any other journalism reference. It provides facts and references for reporters, and defines usage, spelling, and grammar for editors. There are separate sections for journalists specializing in sports and business, and complete guidelines for how to write photo captions, file copy over the wire, proofread text, handle copyrights, and avoid libel. This edition of The AP Stylebook keeps pace with world events, common usage, and AP procedures. [via]
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STYLEBOOK AND BRIEFING ON MEDIA LAw
by Associated Press

ISBN 0465004881 (0-465-00488-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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More people write for the Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and writers have bought more copies of The AP Stylebook than of any other journalism reference. With this essential guide in hand, any writer can learn to communicate with the clarity and professionalism for which the Associated Press is famous. Fully revised and updated, this edition contains over 5,000 A to Z entries--including more than 50 new ones--laying out the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, and word and numeral usage. Comprehensive and easy to use, The AP Stylebook provides the facts and references necessary to write accurately about the world today: correct names of countries and organizations, Internet language and search techniques, language to avoid, common trademarks, and the unique guidelines for business and sports reporting. The final word on media law, The AP Stylebook also includes an invaluable section dedicated to crucial advice on how writers can guard against libel and copyright infringement. The veritable "journalist's bible," this is the one reference that working writers cannot afford to be without.With more than 50 new entries plus updates of more than 100 others, The AP Stylebook includes such features as:An A to Z listing of guides to capitalization, abbreviation, spelling, numerals, and usage* Internet guidelines* Sports guidelines and style* Business guidelines and style* A guide to punctuation* Supreme Court decisions regarding libel law* Summary of First Amendment rules* The right of privacy* Copyright guidelines* Proofreaders' marks [via]
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Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues
by Jim Bouton

ISBN 0440104157 (0-440-10415-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, Architect of Middle-Earth
by Daniel Grotta

ISBN 0448148374 (0-448-14837-4)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

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Book of the Dead
by E. A. Wallis Budge

ISBN 0517122839 (0-517-12283-9)
Hardcover, Grammercy

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Including the Hieroglyphic Transcript and English Translation of the Papyrus of Ani
Fascinating compendium of ancient Egyptian mythology, religious beliefs and magical practices. Includes spells, incantations, hymns, magical formulas and prayers. All explained by one of the most knowledgeable and respected Egyptologists of the early 20th century. B&W illustrations, photographs and hieroglyphics throughout. 704 pages. [via]
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The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum
by Budge E. A. Wallis

ISBN 048621866X (0-486-21866-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The sacred wisdom of the priests of ancient Egypt and the experiences of the soul after death: one of the most important books in Egyptian history. Includes full hieroglyphic text along with a transliteration of sounds, word-for-word translation, and a separate smooth translation.
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A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam
by Neil Sheehan

ISBN 051705597X (0-517-05597-X)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub

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Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction
by George Bain

ISBN 0486229238 (0-486-22923-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Churchill: A Biography
by Roy Jenkins

ISBN 0452283523 (0-452-28352-3)
Softcover, Plume

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Book buyers will never tire of reading about Winston Churchill, for "the greatest adventurer of modern political history" (RA Butler's verdict) led a life of action-packed drama and global significance. Roy Jenkins' Churchill is the latest biography of this great Briton, following closely in the tailwind of Geoffrey Best's Churchill: A Study in Greatness. Where Best restores altitude to Churchill's dipping reputation, seeing off academic critics of the last decade or so, Jenkins provides a jumbo-size old-fashioned biography, lauding his subject's achievements, sympathising with his quirks, and stepping lightly over his well-known mistakes. As he did in his earlier biographies of Dilke, Asquith and Gladstone, Jenkins sticks closely to the published record, utilising in particular the definitive researches of Martin Gilbert, but he brings the authority and the inside knowledge of British politics to his book, slipping in his own memories of Churchill, and his own comparable experience sat the Cabinet table. It is all here, from the Boer Wars to the nuclear bomb, from the hustings in Oldham to the diplomacy of Yalta, with due coverage of the big moments--at the Board of Trade and at the Admiralty in Asquith's peacetime and wartime cabinets, taking on the appeasers in the 1930s and Hitler in the 1940s. All the books are here, and all the political relationships tetchy and touchy alike, from Lloyd George to Baldwin, Smuts to Stalin, and of course, the British people. Like its subject the book is bulky and at times indulgent, but impossible not to enjoy.--Miles Taylor [via]
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Cinematherapy: The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Mood
by Beverly West, Nancy K. Peske

ISBN 0440508509 (0-440-50850-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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What can take the edge off a bad day at the office better than a movie where the boss gets his (9-5)? And, of course, that close-up of Antonio Banderas, wet and naked in a cage, is the best cure for the break-up blahs known to modern science (Never Talk to Strangers). Now, for the first time, Cinematherapy acknowledges what women have known for years, and provides a sage guide to the best movie medicine currently available for whatever ails you, whether it's a sudden hormonal shift, a bad-hair day, or a full-fledged identity crisis. [via]
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Confessions
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ISBN 0460008595 (0-460-00859-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The Consolation of Philosophy
by Boethius, Richard H. Green

ISBN 0486421635 (0-486-42163-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Landmark of Western thought written by a 6th-century Roman statesman and philosopher awaiting execution. Comprising a dialogue in alternating prose and verse between Boethius and his spiritual guardian, the book concerns happiness: how to achieve and maintain it amid life's inevitable pain. A cornerstone of medieval humanism.
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Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection
by Wendy Northcutt

ISBN 0452284015 (0-452-28401-5)
Softcover, Plume

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Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up
by Dave Barry

ISBN 0449909735 (0-449-90973-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The title, as Dave Barry admits, is not entirely accurate. To be sure, this collection of articles does contain what the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author calls "an unusually high (for me) level of factual content." But there is also an abundance of goofy reportage, fart jokes (see "It's A Gas"), and Barry's long-overdue thoughts on natural childbirth. [via]
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Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
by Dave Barry

ISBN 0449904067 (0-449-90406-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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A Greatest Hits package to die for, in which the inimitable, Pulitzer-packing humorist applies himself to taxes, toilets, airbags, baseball, beer commercials, and numerous other American artifacts. A typical bit, from a piece on legalized gambling: "Off-Track Betting parlors are the kinds of places where you never see signs that say, 'Thank You for Not Smoking.' The best you could hope for is, 'Thank You for Not Spitting Pieces of Your Cigar on My Neck.'" Happy? There's plenty more where that came from. [via]
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Elementary Differential Equations
by William E. Boyce

ISBN 0471135828 (0-471-13582-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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This revision of Boyce and DiPrima's text maintains its classic strengths: a contemporary approach with flexible chapter construction, clear exposition, and outstanding problems. Like previous editions, this revision is written from the viewpoint of the applied mathematician, focusing both on the theory and the practical applications of Differential Equations as they apply to engineering and the sciences. A perennial best seller designed for engineers and scientists who need to use Elementary Differential Equations in their work and studies.The CD-ROM includes: The award-winning ODE Architect software. The software's 14 modules enable you to build and solve your own ODEs, and to use simulations and multimedia to develop detailed mathematical models and concepts in a truly interactive environment, and the ODE Architect Companion. The Companion extends the ideas featured in each multimedia module. The web-based learning tools include: Review and Study Guidelines. The Chapter Review Guidelines will help you prepare for quizzes and exams; Online Review Quizzes. The quizzes enable you to test your knowledge of key concepts and provide diagnostic feedback that references appropriate sections in the text; PowerPoint Slides. You can print these slides out for in-class note taking; and, getting started with ODE Architect. This guide will help you get up-and-running with ODE Architect's simulations and multimedia. [via]
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Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems
by William E. Boyce, Richard C. Diprima

ISBN 0471078956 (0-471-07895-6)
Hardcover, Wiley

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This book covers all the essential topics on differential equations, including series solutions, Laplace transforms, systems of equations, numerical methods and phase plane methods. Clear explanations are detailed with many current examples. [via]
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Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems
by Richard C. Diprima, William Boyce, Charles W. Haines

ISBN 0471433403 (0-471-43340-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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This revision of Boyce & DiPrima's market-leading text maintains its classic strengths: a contemporary approach with flexible chapter construction, clear exposition, and outstanding problems. Like previous editions, this revision is written from the viewpoint of the applied mathematician, focusing both on the theory and the practical applications of Differential Equations as they apply to engineering and the sciences.

Student Solutions Manual:
Created as an integral learning aid to Boyce and DiPrima's Elementary Differntial Equations, 8E, this Solutions Manual provides worked out answers to select problems in the text. Using the Solutions Manual as you work your way through the course will ensure that you are doing the work right all along. [via]
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Elementary Differential Equations With Boundary Value Problems: Course Advantage Edition
by William E. Boyce, Richard C. Diprima

ISBN 0471307890 (0-471-30789-0)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Boyce & DiPrima's market-leading text maintains its classic strengths: a contemporary approach with flexible chapter construction, clear exposition, and outstanding problems. A reorganized structure helps to make concepts even clearer and easier to understand. An abundance of new problems have been added to the problem sets, with special attention paid to incorporating computer technology.
Like previous editions, this revision is written from the viewpoint of the applied mathematician, focusing both on the theory and the practical applications of Differential Equations as they apply to engineering and the sciences. The text is intended for a sophomore/junior level course in Ordinary Differential Equations that is taught in departments of mathematics and engineering with a calculus prerequisite.Take advantage of a valuable opportunity
When you purchase this new Course Advantage Edition of Boyce & Diprima's Elementary Differential Equations and Boudary Value Problems, 7/e, you'll have all the resources you need to succeed in your course. The Course Advantage Edition gives you a CD-ROM with powerful ODE Architect modeling software and a special registration password that connects you to an array of Web-based Learning tools.
The CD-ROM includes:
- The award-winning ODE Architect software. The software's 14 modules enable you to build and solve your own ODEs, and to use simulations and multimedia to develop detailed mathematical models and concepts in a truly interactive environment.
- The ODE Architect Companion. The Companion extends the ideas featured in each multimedia module.
- Student solutions Manual. This electronic solutions manual contains selected problems from th textbook.
- An electronic version of the entire Seventh Edition. The electronic version of the text features hyperlinks for navigation, as well as hyperlinks to the ODE Architect software and the Student Solutions Manual.
The Web-based learning tools include:
- Review & Study Outlines. The Chapter Review Outlines will help you prepare for quizzes and exams.
- Online Review Quizzes. The quizzes enable you to test your knowledge of key concepts and provide diagnostic feedback that references appropriate sections in the text.
- PowerPoint Slides. You can print these slides out for in-class note taking.
- Getting Started with ODE Architect. This guide will help you get up-and-running with ODE Architect's simulations and multimedia.
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Faith in Fakes: Essays
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 0436140888 (0-436-14088-8)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg

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Fat Girl: A True Story
by Judith Moore

ISBN 0452285852 (0-452-28585-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin

ISBN 0440325420 (0-440-32542-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s
by Hunter S. Thompson

ISBN 0517075040 (0-517-07504-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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God : A Biography
by Jack Miles

ISBN 0517195119 (0-517-19511-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
by Hunter S. Thompson

ISBN 0446314404 (0-446-31440-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
by Paul Theroux

ISBN 0449908585 (0-449-90858-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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"Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands."
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Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this trip in and around the lands of the Pacific may be his boldest, most fascinating yet. From New Zealand's rain forests, to crocodile-infested New Guinea, over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors, daring weather and coastlines, he travels by Kayak wherever the winds take him--and what he discovers is the world to explore and try to understand. [via]
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Having Our Say
by Sarah L. Delany

ISBN 0440220424 (0-440-22042-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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"I never thought I'd see the day that the world would want to hear what two old Negro women have to say," says Bessie Delany. But Bessie and her sister, Sadie, born in 1893 and 1891, saw plenty, by eating a low-fat, high-vegetable diet and outliving the "old Rebby [rebel] boys" who once almost lynched Sadie. This remarkable memoir was a long-running bestseller, spawning a Broadway play and adding to their list of seasoned acquaintances (Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Cab Calloway) such spring chickens as Hillary Clinton. Born to a former slave whose owners broke the law by teaching him to read, the sisters got a solid education. North Carolina was paradise--despite the Rebbies--until Jim Crow reared its hideous head. The girls had loved to ride in the front of the trolley because the wind in their hair made them feel free, but one day the conductor sadly ordered them to the back. The family moved to New York, where Bessie became the town's second black woman dentist and Sadie the first black woman home-ec teacher. They befriended everyone who was anyone in the Harlem Renaissance (their brother won the 1925 Congressional primary there), pursued careers instead of husbands, and lived peacefully together, despite their differences. Sadie was more peaceable, like Booker T. Washington, while Bessie was a W.E.B. Du Bois-style militant.
They're funny: Bessie notes that blacks must be sharp to get ahead, "But if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere." And they are wise: Sadie says, "Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet." [via]
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History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
by H. Harvard Arnason

ISBN 050023261X (0-500-23261-X)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson

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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
by Barbara Sher, Barbara Smith

ISBN 0440505003 (0-440-50500-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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"A life without direction is a life without passion," says motivational specialist, therapist, and career counselor Barbara Sher. In I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was, a sort of broader, less dense, and less intimidating version of What Color Is Your Parachute?, she reveals how to "recapture long lost goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams."
This is a perfect book for new college graduates or anyone sick and tired of languishing in a dead-end job or relationship--yet reluctant to make drastic life changes due to uncertainty about what would actually inspire them. I Could Do Anything combines the I'm-not-buying your-excuses inspiration of Dr. Laura Schlessinger with the soothing, analytic encouragement of Dr. Martin Seligman in his classic Learned Optimism. In other words, Sher will pick you up off your butt and get you moving. She's included enough self-analytical exercises in here to save you hundreds of dollars in therapy.
Whether you're looking to make improvements in your job or personal life, Sher will teach you how to determine what your goals are, and how to successfully reach them--even if right now the only thing you know is that you're vaguely to very unhappy and haven't the foggiest idea what to do with yourself. [via]
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The Iliad
by Homer, W. H. D. Rouse

ISBN 0451527372 (0-451-52737-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Focusing on the closing days of the Trojan War, this novel incorporates the same epic cast of gods and warriors from The Odyssey. From the kidnapping of Helen from her Greek home to the death of Achilles's companion, the battle rages between two warring nations and the gods which protect both sides. Thrilling in content, but literate and subtle in its meaning, The Iliad remains a classic among classics. [via]
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The Illiad: Homer
by Homer

ISBN 0486408833 (0-486-40883-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Introduction to Differential Equations
by William E. Boyce, Richard C. Diprima

ISBN 0471093386 (0-471-09338-6)
Hardcover, J. Wiley

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J.R.R.Tolkien
by Daniel Grotta-Kurska

ISBN 0446301116 (0-446-30111-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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J. R. R. Tolkien is one of the most beloved and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little is known about the personal life of the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. After a traumatic childhood, Tolkien experienced the bloody trenches of World War I, then lived most of his life as an Oxford scholar in a cloistered academic community. In this fascinating illustrated biography, author Daniel Grotta examines how much of Tolkien's personal experience fired his incredible imagination and led to the creation of Middle-earth and its inhabitants.
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The Last Lion: Alone, 1932-1940
by William Manchester

ISBN 0440500478 (0-440-50047-8)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by N. C. Wyeth, Elinore Pruitt Stewart

ISBN 0486451429 (0-486-45142-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England
by Antonia Fraser

ISBN 0520224604 (0-520-22460-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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This essential reference is a concise, accessible guide to the great dynasties of English royalty. A collection of biographical sketches that encompasses the period from the establishment of monarchical power by the early Norman kings through the reign of Elizabeth II, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England tells the stories of many monarchs and their colorful lives--some merry, some cruel, some heroic, others sinister. Antonia Fraser and a collection of distinguished contributors bring the people and events to life in this lavishly illustrated volume that is both engrossing history and an excellent reference tool.
This updated edition includes a new essay describing the recently tumultuous reign of the Windsors. Included are details of the weddings of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, and of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson; the acrimonious collapse of the marriages; the effect the media have had on the royal family's image; and the fire at Windsor Castle. Such recent events as Diana's tragic death, the decommissioning of the Royal Yacht Britannia, and the launching of Queen Elizabeth's own website are also discussed.
Accompanying the text are 175 contemporary illustrations and drawings of the royal coats of arms, with their significance explained by J.P. Brooke-Little, Richmond Herald of Arms. This is a dazzling story of a thousand years of English history, as told through the lives and deeds of the nation's sovereigns.
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Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
by Plutarch

ISBN 0460004093 (0-460-00409-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Master of Middle-Earth: The Achievement of J. R. R. Tolkien
by Paul H. Kocher

ISBN 0500010951 (0-500-01095-1)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson

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As is the case with all great works of art, J. R. R. Tolkiens masterpieces generously repay close attention and study. In this thoroughly entertaining and perceptive volume, winner of the prestigious Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award, Professor Kocher examines the sources that Tolkien drew upon in fashioning Middle-earth and its inhabitantsand provides valuable insights into the authors aims and methods. Ranging from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings to The Silmarillion and beyond, Master of Middle-earth opens the door to a deeper and richer appreciation of Tolkiens magnificent achievement. Inside you will discover

" Why Aragorn is the most misunderstood character in The Lord of the Rings . . . and its true hero.
" The origin of Sauronand the nature of evil in Tolkiens universe.
" The opposing forces of destiny and free will in Frodos quest.
" The Cosmology of Middle-earthis it our world at an earlier time, or does it exist in a fantastic Elsewhere?
" How Tolkiens ideas of morality, religion, and social order underlie every aspect of his lifes work.

Plus a fascinating look at such lesser-known works of Tolkiens as Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and many others! [via]
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Metaphysics
by Aristotle

ISBN 046001000X (0-460-01000-X)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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On The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.D.H. Cole

ISBN 0486426920 (0-486-42692-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Rousseau's influential 1762 work, in which he argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is based on a system of inequality. The philosopher proposes an alternative system for the development of self-governing, self-disciplined citizens.
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Operating System Concepts
by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin

ISBN 0471694665 (0-471-69466-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Another defining moment in the evolution of operating systems
Small footprint operating systems, such as those driving the handheld devices that the baby dinosaurs are using on the cover, are just one of the cutting-edge applications you'll find in Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne's Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition.
By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, this market-leading text has continued to define the operating systems course. This Seventh Edition not only presents the latest and most relevant systems, it also digs deeper to uncover those fundamental concepts that have remained constant throughout the evolution of today's operation systems. With this strong conceptual foundation in place, students can more easily understand the details related to specific systems.
New Adaptations
* Increased coverage of user perspective in Chapter 1.
* Increased coverage of OS design throughout.
* A new chapter on real-time and embedded systems (Chapter 19).
* A new chapter on multimedia (Chapter 20).
* Additional coverage of security and protection.
* Additional coverage of distributed programming.
* New exercises at the end of each chapter.
* New programming exercises and projects at the end of each chapter.
* New student-focused pedagogy and a new two-color design to enhance the learning process. [via]
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Operating System Concepts with JAVA
by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin

ISBN 0471250600 (0-471-25060-0)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Operating systems are large and complex, and yet must function with near-absolute reliability--that's why they're a class unto themselves in the field of software development. Since its first release 20 years ago, "the dinosaur book"--Operating System Concepts by Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne--has been a valuable reference for designers and implementers of operating systems. The newly released sixth edition of this book maintains the volume's authority with new sections on thread management, distributed processes, and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). There's also information on the workings of the latest crop of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows 2000, Linux, FreeBSD, and compact operating systems for handheld devices.
This book is concerned with the design of operating systems, which is to say it enumerates the problems that pop up in the creation of efficient systems and explores alternative ways of dealing with them, detailing the advantages and shortcomings of each. For example, in their chapter on scheduling CPU activity, the authors explain several algorithms (first-come, first-served, and round-robin scheduling, among others) for allocating the capacity of single and multiple processors among jobs. They highlight the relative advantages of each, and explain how several real-life operating systems solve the problem. They then present the reader with exercises--this book is essentially a university textbook--that inspire thought and discussion. --David Wall
Topics covered: The problems faced by designers of system software for electronic computers, and strategies that have been developed over the past 20 years to address (and, in some cases, solve ) them. Problems of CPU scheduling, memory allocation, paging, processes and threads, storage management, distributed processes and storage mechanisms, and security are all discussed thoroughly and with many authoritative references. [via]
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The Origin of Humankind
by Richard Leakey

ISBN 0465053130 (0-465-05313-0)
Softcover, Basic Books

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he world's foremost fossil hunter tells the story of the first humans and explains how and why modern humans developed social organization. [via]
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
by Gloria Steinem

ISBN 0451155009 (0-451-15500-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Plutarch's Lives
by John Dryden, Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough

ISBN 0460004077 (0-460-00407-7)
Hardcover, Dent

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Plutarch's Lives
by Plutarch

ISBN 0460004085 (0-460-00408-5)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey
by Rachel Simon

ISBN 0452284554 (0-452-28455-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her sister at long last-teaching her to slow down and enjoy the ride. Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, Riding the Bus with My Sister is "a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life" (Boston Herald) [via]
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Screenplay
by Syd Field

ISBN 0440576474 (0-440-57647-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script..

Here are easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the script that will succeed.

"Why are the first ten pages of your script crucially important?

"How do you collaborate successfully with someone else?

"How do you adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay?

"How do you market your script?

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The Social Contract and Discourses
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.D.H. Cole

ISBN 0460873571 (0-460-87357-1)
Softcover, Everyman

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Published in 1762, Rousseau's thinking is still relevant in these modern times. He believed that all citizens of a state fundamentally have a natural power of equality. This is the 'social contract' between the citizens of a state. Rousseau writes about liberty and law, freedom and justice. A declaration of democratic principles. A Collector's Edition. [via]
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Social Contract and Discourses
by J. Roussear

ISBN 0460016601 (0-460-01660-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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Published in 1762, Rousseau's thinking is still relevant in these modern times. He believed that all citizens of a state fundamentally have a natural power of equality. This is the 'social contract' between the citizens of a state. Rousseau writes about liberty and law, freedom and justice. A declaration of democratic principles. A Collector's Edition. [via]
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Students Solution Manual for Calculus
by William E. Boyce, Richard C. Diprima

ISBN 0471854506 (0-471-85450-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Provides clear, well organized presentation of calculus with applications to engineering and the sciences. Emphasizes the methods and applications of the calculus with some coverage of relevant theory, including functions, limits, continuity, differentiation, integrations in higher dimensions, and line and surface integrals. Pays particular attention to those aspects of calculus that are important in developing effective problem solving methods--often involving estimating errors or constructing numerical approximations. Supplies more thorough treatment of some major topics than most books, such as: comparison tests for improper integrals; use of power series representations for functions; and the relation between linear approximations and differentiation. Also covers elementary transcendental functions, infinite series, Taylor's approximation, polar coordinates, and vectors and three dimensional geometry. [via]
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The Subjection of Women
by John Stuart Mill

ISBN 0486296016 (0-486-29601-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The renowned and influential essay by the great English philosopher argues for equality in all legal, political, social and domestic relations between men and women. Carefully reasoned and clearly expressed with great logic and consistency, the work remains today a landmark in the important struggle for human rights.
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial And America's Continuing Debate over Science And Religion
by Edward J. Larson

ISBN 046507510X (0-465-07510-X)
Softcover, Basic Books

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If you haven't seen the film version of Inherit the Wind, you might have read it in high school. And even people who have never heard of either the movie or the play probably know something about the events that inspired them: The 1925 Scopes "monkey trial," during which Darwin's theory of evolution was essentially put on trial before the nation. Inherit the Wind paints a romantic picture of John Scopes as a principled biology teacher driven to present scientific theory to his students, even in the teeth of a Tennessee state law prohibiting the teaching of anything other than creationism. The truth, it turns out, was something quite different. In his fascinating history of the Scopes trial, Summer for the Gods, Edward J. Larson makes it abundantly clear that Truth and the Purity of Science had very little to do with the Scopes case. Tennessee had passed a law prohibiting the teaching of evolution, and the American Civil Liberties Union responded by advertising statewide for a high-school teacher willing to defy the law. Communities all across Tennessee saw an opportunity to put themselves on the map by hosting such a controversial trial, but it was the town of Dayton that came up with a sacrificial victim: John Scopes, a man who knew little about evolution and wasn't even the class's regular teacher. Chosen by the city fathers, Scopes obligingly broke the law and was carted off to jail to await trial.
What happened next was a bizarre mix of theatrics and law, enacted by William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense. Though Darrow lost the trial, he made his point--and his career--by calling Bryan, a noted Bible expert, as a witness for the defense. Summer for the Gods is a remarkable retelling of the trial and the events leading up to it, proof positive that truth is stranger than science. [via]
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The Superior Person's Book of Words
by Peter Bowler, David Godine

ISBN 0440204070 (0-440-20407-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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The avowed purpose of this witty little book is to equip the reader to be the superior person of the title by expanding the vocabulary of the rare and arcane ("Secret, hidden. An excellent example of a Superior Word of the first order, ie, one that is on the margin of recognition for most people, is known to many, but used by few."). You can then indulge in the arts of parisology ("The deliberate pursuit of ambiguity in one's language") or charientism ("An elegantly veiled insult"), using terms such as fungible ("Replaceable by, or acceptable as a replacement for, a similar item ... Your sister's latest boyfriend could be referred to as 'one of Belinda's fungibles."). Or challenge the pretentious who insist on using terms such as matrix, parameter or paradigm ("Model, pattern, or example. A pretentious and unnecessary word, normally found only in psychology theses. Never use this word yourself, but be prepared, when it is used by another, to lean forward intently, narrow your eyes, and say, 'Just a moment--do you really mean "paradigm" in that context?' When, somewhat bemused, he avers that he does, you merely raise your eyebrows and remain silent..."). You will also have a remarkable collection of words for minor but serious-sounding illnesses to get you out of doing chores, and be able to drive Scrabble players wild with words ranging from aeaeae ("magic") to zaftig ("desirably plump").
A nicely produced hardback, just the right size for dipping into in bed, this would make an excellent present for your favourite word-lover or word-game fanatic. --Julia Cresswell [via]
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Thirteen Days
by Robert F. Kennedy

ISBN 0452273919 (0-452-27391-9)
Hardcover, Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies

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A memoir on the threat and aversion of the world's first great nuclear crisis in October, 1962. [via]
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Two Treatises of Government
by John Locke

ISBN 0460017519 (0-460-01751-9)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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384pages. in8. Broché. [via]
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Ulysses Annotated
by Don Gifford

ISBN 0520067452 (0-520-06745-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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Here substantially revised and expanded, Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of Ulysses. Annotations in this edition are keyed both to the reading text of the new critical edition of Ulysses published in 1984 and to the standard 1961 Random House edition and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts.
Gifford has incorporated over 1,000 additions and corrections to the first edition. The introduction and headnotes to sections provide general geographical, biographical and historical background. The annotations gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, explain religious nomenclature and practices, trace literary allusions and references to other cultures.
The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail is a most important aspect of his literary method. The annotations in this volume illuminate details which are not in the public realm for most of us.
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
by Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman

ISBN 0520056396 (0-520-05639-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/the Subjection of Women/2 Books in 1
by John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft

ISBN 0460871730 (0-460-87173-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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When Rabbit Howls
by Truddi Chase

ISBN 0515103292 (0-515-10329-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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