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American Way of Deathby Jessica Mitford, Isabelle MitfordISBN 0449215067 (0-449-21506-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Way of Death'Book summary:Before the turn of the century, the American funeral was simple "to the point of starkness," says Jessica Mitford, the acclaimed muckraking journalist who published this investigation of the country's funeral business in 1963. That the country went on to develop a tendency for gross overspending on funerals Mitford puts down to the greed and ingenuity of undertakers, whom she regards as salesmen guilty of pressuring families into agreeing to their excessive standards for burial. Mitford, who died recently, delivers facts and criticism in a forthright and humorous manner. She would certainly appreciate that her assessment of the American way of death endures after her own passing. [via]
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The Art of Practicing : A Guide to Making Music from the Heartby Madeline BruserISBN 0517708221 (0-517-70822-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Practicing : A Guide to Making Music from the Heart'Book summary:This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that transforms a sometimes frustrating, monotonous, and overly strenuous labor into an exhilarating and rewarding experience. Acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and meditative principles to help musicians release physical and mental tension and unleash their innate musical talent. She offers practical techniques for cultivating free and natural movement, a keen enjoyment of sounds and sensations, a clear and relaxed mind, and an open heart and she explains how to
Prepare the body and mind to practice with ease
Understand the effect of posture on flexibility and expressiveness
Make efficient use of the hands and arms
Employ listening techniques to improve coordination
Increase the range of color and dynamics by using less effort
Cultivate rhythmic vitality
Perform with confidence, warmth, and freedom
Photographs show essential points of posture and movement for a variety of instruments.
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At Home With Books: How Booklovers Live With and Care for Their Librariesby Caroline Seebohm, Estelle Ellis, Christopher Simon SykesISBN 0517595001 (0-517-59500-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Home With Books: How Booklovers Live With and Care for Their Libraries'Book summary:For the bibliophile anxious to enhance the home library, At Home with Books presents both practical advice and divine inspiration. Chapters on starting a collection, organizing the library, and caring for books offer useful information on categorizing, editing, storage, and space-saving--"break down the books into categories by subject matter ... and compare their quantities to the available shelf space. If necessary, measure. Consider the book's height as well as its width. You may need to adjust your shelves to optimize your space." "Library Lighting," "The Art of the Bookshelf," and "Library Ladders" further encourage collectors to create a personal space suitable for its intended purpose, yet reflective of one's passion--"shelf lighting can draw attention to cherished objects and volumes; track lights can highlight certain areas of your room." Interspersed throughout these highly helpful chapters are interviews with noteworthy bibliophiles, including Keith Richards, Loren and Frances Rothschild, Bill Blass, and Paul Getty, whose "literary lairs"--ranging from the classic book-lined walls to books in the kitchen and the bathroom--are beautifully photographed, making At Home with Books not only a valuable resource for the dedicated collector, but a beautiful addition to any collection. [via]
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Blowing My Cover: My Life As A Cia Spyby Lindsay MoranISBN 0425205622 (0-425-20562-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blowing My Cover: My Life As a CIA Spy'Book summary:In Lindsay Moran's Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy, the author comes across is an amusingly candid cross between Bridget Jones and James Bond, with a little Gloria Steinem thrown in to remind readers of the inherent sexism that runs rampant both in the US government and abroad. Moran, a few years out of Harvard and fresh from a Fulbright scholarship in Bulgaria, decides to follow her childhood dream of becoming and spy and, after a grueling interview process that involves several polygraphs and an abandoned foreign boyfriend, goes to work for the CIA. What follows is a surprisingly honest behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to become a real-life CIA agent, signal-sites and all.
Yet more than an insider's guide to the life and times of an undercover agent, Blowing My Cover is a story about a highly educated, obviously intelligent yet occasionally insecure young woman trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and who she wants to have beside her. As we follow Moran to the "Farm", a six-month training camp where new recruits are forced into alarmingly real POW situations and asked to perform death-defying car chases reminiscent of old Dukes of Hazard episodes, we also witness her extreme loneliness at being cut off from her friends and family and her fear that she'll never meet "the one" and settle down. One of the most poignant scenes happens early on in Moran's training, when she meets up with some friends in New York at a party and realizes she can't even tell her closest confidents what she does for a living.
For anyone who's ever wondered what it really means to be a CIA agent, Moran's tale is a worthwhile read. Better yet, for anyone who's ever wondered what she wants to be when she grows up (even at age 30), Blowing My Cover is an ultimately hopeful story of possibilities. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Bushworld: Enter at your own riskby Maureen DowdISBN 0425202763 (0-425-20276-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Civil War: A Narrative Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattoxby Shelby FooteISBN 0394749138 (0-394-74913-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civil War: A Narrative Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattox'Book summary:This beautifully written trilogy of books on the American Civil War is not only a piece of first-rate history, but also a marvelous work of literature. Shelby Foote brings a skilled novelist's narrative power to this great epic. Many know Foote for his prominent role as a commentator on Ken Burns's PBS series about the Civil War. These three books, however, are his legacy. His southern sympathies are apparent: the first volume opens by introducing Confederate President Jefferson Davis, rather than Abraham Lincoln. But they hardly get in the way of the great story Foote tells. This hefty three volume set should be on the bookshelf of any Civil War buff. --John Miller [via]
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The Classic Slave Narrativesby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0451528247 (0-451-52824-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic Slave Narratives'Book summary:These autobiographical narratives are the first texts in which black slaves began to proclaim themselves as human beings. The literature forms an intriguing personal tapestry, encompassing varied stories but inevitably depicting the horrors of human bondadge. [via]
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Closing the Ringby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395410592 (0-395-41059-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Closing the Ring'Book summary:The drive to victory between June 1943 and July 1944, as the Allies consolidate their achievements, with enormous difficulty and great divergence of opinion.[via] 
Communionby Whitley StrieberISBN 0517057565 (0-517-05756-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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A Complete Guide to the Tarotby Eden GrayISBN 0517500132 (0-517-50013-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Crossing the Threshold of Hopeby John Paul IIISBN 0517168057 (0-517-16805-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nationby Bede the Venerable, John StevensISBN 0460004794 (0-460-00479-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation'Book summary:The venerable Bede (AD 672-735) was not the first historian of the British Isles, but he was the first to to list and master his documentary and oral sources. For a man who travelled little, he showed a great depth of understanding about the outside world, informing himself by commissioning others to copy documents in the Papal Regista and various episcopal and monastic archives. This new edition has been carefully revised by Gerrish Gray and is beautifully typeset in Bembo type. [via]
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Edie: An American Biographyby George Plimpton, Jean SteinISBN 0440130034 (0-440-13003-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0486451364 (0-486-45136-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Fat Is a Feminist Issueby Susie OrbachISBN 0425099202 (0-425-09920-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Is a Feminist Issue'Book summary:Orbach's non-dieting approach to weight loss shows women how to get off the diet/binge merry-go-round and lose weight through self acceptance. "It is more essential than ever that (it) be read by every American woman".--Susan Faludi, bestselling author of Backlash. [via]
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Fat Is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-Diet Guide to Permanent Weight Lossby Susie OrbachISBN 0425141454 (0-425-14145-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Fingerprints of the Godsby Graham HancockISBN 0517887290 (0-517-88729-0)
Softcover, Crown Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fingerprints of the Gods'Book summary:The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts. [via]
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Fingerprints of the Gods : The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilizationby Graham HancockISBN 0517593483 (0-517-59348-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fingerprints of the Gods : The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization'Book summary:The author of the best-selling The Sign and the Seal takes readers along on a quest for proof of the existence of an ancient advanced civilization--not Atlantis--that predates Egyptian, Hittite, and Chinese cultures. An irresistible mixture of historical detective work, hard science, and recent discoveries in ancient places.Black-and-white photographs. [via]
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The Frugal Gourmetby Jeff SmithISBN 0517203650 (0-517-20365-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Gay Scienceby Friedrich Nietzsche, Common, Thomas (RTL)ISBN 0486452468 (0-486-45246-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gay Science'Book summary:"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.." This is the book in which Nietzsche put forth his boldest declaration. It is also his most personal, featuring some of the author's most important discussions of art, morality, knowledge, and, ultimately, truth.[via]More editions of The Gay Science:
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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Usby Kate BornsteinISBN 0415908973 (0-415-90897-3)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us'Book summary:Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV (so to speak) talk shows. In her book, Bornstein covers the "mechanics" of her surgery, everything you've always wanted to know about gender (but were too confused to ask) addresses the place and politics of the transgendered and intterogates the questions of those who give the subject little thought, creating questions of her own. [via]
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identityby Judith ButlerISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity'Book summary:In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The book was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender Trouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex. A primer in gender studies--and sexy reading for college cafés. --Regina Marler [via]
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Softcover, Routledge - Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity: ISBN 0415900425 (0-415-90042-5)
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Glass Teatby Harlan EllisonISBN 0441289886 (0-441-28988-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0486424928 (0-486-42492-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:An expert in myth and religion, the author spent over a quarter-century assembling this study of the cults, rites, and myths of antiquity. Frazer's definitions of "magic," "religion," and "science" were useful to his successors in social anthropology, and his explications of ancient legends influenced generations of writers and poets.[via]More editions of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion:
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Great Dialogues of Platoby PlatoISBN 0451625226 (0-451-62522-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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"There has been no adequate translation of Plato since Jowett...and I think Rouse has done it." --Dudley Fitts
* Rouse is one of the world's most respected classical scholars [via]More editions of Great Dialogues of Plato:
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Great Dialogues of Platoby W.H.D. RouseISBN 0451628276 (0-451-62827-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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"There has been no adequate translation of Plato since Jowett...and I think Rouse has done it." --Dudley Fitts
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Great Dialogues of Plato : Complete Texts of the Republic, Apology, Crito Phaido, Ion and Menoby W. H. D. Rouse, Eric H. Warmington, Philip G. RouseISBN 0451527453 (0-451-52745-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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"There has been no adequate translation of Plato since Jowett...and I think Rouse has done it." --Dudley Fitts
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 0446393924 (0-446-39392-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Arab Peoples'Book summary:Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, political, and cultural institutions of Arab history through 13 centuries. [via]
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History of the English Speaking People: Birth of Britain, 55 B.C. to 1485by Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0396038417 (0-396-03841-7)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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History of the English Speaking Peoplesby Winston ChurchillISBN 0396082750 (0-396-08275-0)
Softcover, Dodd Mead
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Birth of Britainby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0396082718 (0-396-08271-8)
Softcover, Dodd Mead
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Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIIIby A.F. GarvieISBN 0521338409 (0-521-33840-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII'Book summary:This is the first self-contained edition of Books VI-VIII of the Odyssey--the account of Odysseus' time among the Phaeacians, and a popular introduction to Homer. While not neglecting matters of language and formulaic composition, the Commentary aims to provide guidance on questions of literary and narrative technique and poetic artistry. The Introduction deals with the problem of Homeric composition in general, and with the place of the Phaeacian books in the poem as a whole. There are also brief sections on Homeric meter and the text. [via]
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How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Foodby Arthur Boehm, Nigella LawsonISBN 0471348309 (0-471-34830-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food'Book summary:"Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next," says British food writer Nigella Lawson. "It's about developing an understanding of food, a sense of assurance in the kitchen, about the simple desire to make yourself something to eat." Lawson is not a chef, but "an eater." She writes as if she's conversing with you while beating eggs or mincing garlic in your kitchen. She explains how to make the basics, such as roast chicken, soup stock, various sauces, cake, and ice cream. She teaches you to cook more esoteric dishes, such as grouse, white truffles (mushrooms, not chocolate), and "ham in Coca-Cola." She gives advice for entertaining over the holidays, quick cooking ("the real way to make life easier for yourself: cooking in advance"), cooking for yourself ("you don't have to belong to the drearily narcissistic learn-to-love-yourself school of thought to grasp that it might be a good thing to consider yourself worth cooking for"), and weekend lunches for six to eight people. Don't expect any concessions to health recommendations in the recipes here--Lawson makes liberal and unapologetic use of egg yolks, cream, and butter. There are plenty of recipes, but the best parts of How to Eat are the well-crafted tidbits of wisdom, such as the following:
- "Cook in advance and, if the worse comes to the worst, you can ditch it. No one but you will know that it tasted disgusting, or failed to set, or curdled or whatever."
- On the proper English trifle: "When I say proper I mean proper: lots of sponge, lots of jam, lots of custard and lots of cream. This is not a timid construction ... you don't want to end up with a trifle so upmarket it's inappropriately, posturingly elegant. A degree of vulgarity is requisite."
- "Too many people cook only when they're giving a dinner party. And it's very hard to go from zero to a hundred miles an hour. How can you learn to feel at ease around food, relaxed about cooking, if every time you go into the kitchen it's to cook at competition level?"
--Joan Price [via]
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How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Foodby Nigella LawsonISBN 0471257508 (0-471-25750-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food'Book summary:"Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next," says British food writer Nigella Lawson. "It's about developing an understanding of food, a sense of assurance in the kitchen, about the simple desire to make yourself something to eat." Lawson is not a chef, but "an eater." She writes as if she's conversing with you while beating eggs or mincing garlic in your kitchen. She explains how to make the basics, such as roast chicken, soup stock, various sauces, cake, and ice cream. She teaches you to cook more esoteric dishes, such as grouse, white truffles (mushrooms, not chocolate), and "ham in Coca-Cola." She gives advice for entertaining over the holidays, quick cooking ("the real way to make life easier for yourself: cooking in advance"), cooking for yourself ("you don't have to belong to the drearily narcissistic learn-to-love-yourself school of thought to grasp that it might be a good thing to consider yourself worth cooking for"), and weekend lunches for six to eight people. Don't expect any concessions to health recommendations in the recipes here--Lawson makes liberal and unapologetic use of egg yolks, cream, and butter. There are plenty of recipes, but the best parts of How to Eat are the well-crafted tidbits of wisdom, such as the following:
- "Cook in advance and, if the worse comes to the worst, you can ditch it. No one but you will know that it tasted disgusting, or failed to set, or curdled or whatever."
- On the proper English trifle: "When I say proper I mean proper: lots of sponge, lots of jam, lots of custard and lots of cream. This is not a timid construction ... you don't want to end up with a trifle so upmarket it's inappropriately, posturingly elegant. A degree of vulgarity is requisite."
- "Too many people cook only when they're giving a dinner party. And it's very hard to go from zero to a hundred miles an hour. How can you learn to feel at ease around food, relaxed about cooking, if every time you go into the kitchen it's to cook at competition level?"
--Joan Price [via]
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Immanuel Kant-Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Scienceby Immanuel Kant, Gary HatfieldISBN 0521828244 (0-521-82824-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Immanuel Kant-Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science'Book summary:This new, revised edition of Kant's Prolegomena, the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought clearly through careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's central arguments (including famous sections of the Schematism and Analogies), and in which Kant himself explains his special terminology. The first reviews of the Critique, to which Kant responded in the Prolegomena, are included in this revised edition. First Edition Hb (1997): 0-521-57345-9 First Edition Pb (1997): 0-521-57542-7 [via]
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0451528042 (0-451-52804-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page.[via] 
Last Lion: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932by William ManchesterISBN 0440546818 (0-440-54681-8)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankindby Donald C. Johanson, Maitland Armstrong EdeyISBN 0446370363 (0-446-37036-3)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
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Making of the President 1960by Theodore H. WhiteISBN 0451627164 (0-451-62716-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaperby John Allen PaulosISBN 0465043623 (0-465-04362-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper'Book summary:In this book the author of Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences reveals the hidden mathematical angles in countless media stories. His real life perspective on the statistics we rely on and how they can mislead is for anyone interested in gaining a more accurate view of their world. The book is written with a humorous and knowledgeable style that makes it great reading. [via]
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Mommie Dearestby Christina CrawfordISBN 0425098443 (0-425-09844-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Music for Chameleonsby Truman CapoteISBN 0451161807 (0-451-16180-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music for Chameleons'Book summary:In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time.
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Nietzsche: The Gay Scienceby Bernard Williams, Adrian Del Caro, Josefine NauckhoffISBN 0521636450 (0-521-63645-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkersby Phil FarrandISBN 0440505712 (0-440-50571-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Odysseyby Homer, W. H. D. RouseISBN 0451527364 (0-451-52736-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a fantastic cast of adversaries Cyclops, the one-eyed giant; the enchantress Circe; plus cannibals, sirens, and many other monstrous creatures. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of The Odyssey:
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The Odyssey of Homerby Allen MandelbaumISBN 0520070216 (0-520-07021-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:The most popular epic of Western culture springs to life in Allen Mandelbaum's magnificent translation.
Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan Wara journey of ten years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years.
Mandelbaum's robust, romantic, lyrical translation has an openness and immediacy unsurpassed by any other. Read aloud, it is a wonderful way to experience this enduring classic. [via]More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:
On Moral Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0465052266 (0-465-05226-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486437019 (0-486-43701-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World Viewby Richard TarnasISBN 0517577909 (0-517-57790-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Philosophy: Who Needs Itby Ayn RandISBN 0451138937 (0-451-13893-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: Explore'r, Naturalist, and Buccanee'r The LIfe of William Dampierby Michael Preston, Diana PrestonISBN 042520037X (0-425-20037-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: Explore'r, Naturalist, and Buccanee'r The LIfe of William Dampier'Book summary:[via]Seventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailed around the world three times when crossing the Pacific was a major feat, was the first explorer to visit all five continents, and reached Australia eighty years before Captain Cook. His exploits created a sensation in Europe. Swift and Defoe used his experiences in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Darwin incorporated his concept of "sub-species" into the theory of evolution. Dampier's description of breadfruit was the impetus for Captain Bligh's voyage on the Bounty. He was so influential that today he has more than one thousand entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, including such words as chopsticks, barbecue, and kumquat. Anthropologists still use his work.
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reasonby Immanuel Kant, Gary HatfieldISBN 0521535352 (0-521-53535-2)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund BurkeISBN 0486445070 (0-486-44507-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Richest Man in Babylonby George S. ClasonISBN 0451205367 (0-451-20536-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Richest Man in Babylon'Book summary:Hailed as a modern-day classic, this celebrated bestseller offers an understanding of--and a solution to--personal financial problems. Based on the success secrets of ancient "Babylonian parables", it is the most inspiring book on wealth ever written.[via] 
Second World Warby Winston L. ChurchillISBN 0395410568 (0-395-41056-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second World War: Their Finest Hour'Book summary:"After the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in the world. This heart's desire of all the peoples could easily have been gained by steadfastness in righteous convictions, and by reasonable common sense and prudence."
But we all know that's not what happened. As Britain's prime minister for most of the Second World War, Winston Churchill--whose career had to that point already encompassed the roles of military historian and civil servant with a proficiency in both that few others could claim--had a unique perspective on the conflict, and as soon as he left office in 1945, he began to set that perspective down on paper. To measure the importance of The Second World War, it is worth remembering that there are no parallel accounts from either of the other Allied leaders, Roosevelt and Stalin. We have in this multivolume work an account that contains both comprehensive sweep and intimate detail. Almost anybody who compiles a list of such works ranks it highly among the nonfiction books of the 20th century.In the opening volume, The Gathering Storm, Churchill tracks the erosion of the shaky peace brokered at the end of the First World War, followed by the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and their gradual spread from beyond Germany's borders to most of the European continent. Churchill foresaw the coming crisis and made his opinion known quite clearly throughout the latter '30s, and this book concludes on a vindicating note, with his appointment in May 1940 as prime minister, after which he recalls that "I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial."
Their Finest Hour concerns itself with 1940. France falls, and England is left to face the German menace alone. Soon London is under siege from the air--and Churchill has a few stories of his own experiences during the Blitz to share--but they persevere to the end of what Churchill calls "the most splendid, as it was the most deadly, year in our long English and British history." They press on in The Grand Alliance, liberating Ethiopia from the Italians and lending support to Greece. Then, when Hitler reneges on his non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union (the very signing of which had proved Stalin and his commissars "the most completely outwitted bunglers of the Second World War"), the Allied team begins to coalesce. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese makes the participation of the United States in the war official, and this is of "the greatest joy" to Churchill: "How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at that moment care. Once again in our long island history we should emerge, however mauled or mutilated, safe and victorious."
But as the fourth volume, The Hinge of Fate, reveals, success would not happen overnight. The Japanese military still held strong positions in the Pacific theater, and Rommel's tank corps were on the offensive in Africa. After a string of military defeats, Churchill's opponents in Parliament introduced a motion for a censure vote; this was handily defeated, and victory secured in Africa, then Italy. By this time, Churchill had met separately with both Roosevelt and Stalin; the second half of volume 5, Closing the Ring, brings the three of them together for the first time at the November 1943 conference in Teheran. This book closes on the eve of D-day: "All the ships were at sea. We had the mastery of the oceans and of the air. The Hitler tyranny was doomed."
And so, in the concluding volume, Triumph and Tragedy, the Allies push across Europe and take the fight to Berlin. President Roosevelt's death shortly before final victory against Germany affected Churchill deeply, "as if I had been struck a physical blow," and he would later regret not attending the funeral and meeting Harry Truman then, instead of at the Potsdam conference after Germany's defeat. Churchill himself would not be there for the conclusion to the war against Japan; in July of 1945, a general election in Britain brought in a Labor government (or, as he refers to them, "Socialists"), and he resigned immediately, for "the verdict of the electors had been so overwhelmingly expressed that I did not wish to remain even for an hour responsible for their affairs." [via]
Self-Reliance and Other Essaysby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0486277909 (0-486-27790-9)
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Their Finest Hourby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 039507536X (0-395-07536-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Tolkien Bestiaryby David DayISBN 0517120771 (0-517-12077-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tolkien Bestiary'Book summary:Here is the comprehensive reference guide for the millions of fans of the Hobbit and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. All of the imaginary beasts, monsters, fauna, and flora of J.R.R. Tolkien's lush fantasy worlds of the Middle-Earth and the Undying Lands are presented in more that 100 black-and-white illustrations and 36 full color paintings. A Chronology of all the historical ages, a general index, genealogies of the races of men, maps, and a special index referring to Tolkien's original works are also included. [via]
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0451527542 (0-451-52754-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Slavery: An Autobiography'Book summary:Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. [via]
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Up from Slavery : An Authoritative Text, Contexts and Composition History, Criticismby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0517091224 (0-517-09122-4)
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The Upanishadsby Frederick Manchester, PrabhavanandaISBN 0451528484 (0-451-52848-4)
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The principal texts selected and translated from the original Sanskrit, Upanishad means "sitting near devotedly", which conjures images of the contemplating student listening with rapt attention to the teachings of a spiritual master. These are widely considered to be philosophical and spiritual meditations of the highest order.More editions of The Upanishads:
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The Upanishadsby PrabhavanandaISBN 0451626079 (0-451-62607-9)
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The Waning of the Middle Agesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0486404439 (0-486-40443-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waning of the Middle Ages'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
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Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Languageby David B. GuralnikISBN 044638240X (0-446-38240-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language'Book summary:Unknown Binding: 696 pages Publisher: Popular Library (1977) Language: English [via]
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What Evolution Isby Ernst MayrISBN 0465044263 (0-465-04426-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Evolution Is'Book summary:Gathering insights from his seven-decade career, the renowned biologist Ernst Mayr argues that evolution is now to be considered not a theory but a fact--and that "there is not a single Why? question in biology that can be answered adequately without a consideration of evolution."
Mayr, emeritus professor of zoology at Harvard University, has long been one of the world's foremost researchers in genetic and evolutionary theory. In this overview of past and current scientific thought, he discusses key concepts and terms, among them the origin of species, the (somewhat metaphorical) "struggle for existence," and agents of micro- and macroevolution. Somewhat against the grain, he argues against reduction and for the study of evolution at the phenotypic, not genetic, level. In his concluding pages, Mayr offers a careful overview of human evolution, adding his view that humankind is indeed unique--though "it has not yet completed the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal life in all of its structures."
Advanced students of the life sciences, as well as readers looking for a survey of current evolutionary theory, will find Mayr's book a useful companion. --Gregory McNamee [via]
Wind, Sand and Starsby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0434181013 (0-434-18101-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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