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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0877207011 (0-87720-701-1)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:The AMSCO Literature Series comprises quality unabridged editions of great literary works. They feature carefully prepared texts with large, readable type; quality paper; durable bindings; sturdy covers. A Reader's Guide is available with selected works. Written by master teachers, the guides feature explanations, questions, and activities to bring out the details of plot, characterization, theme, style, and vocabulary. [via]
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Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0883434156 (0-88343-415-6)
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The Art Of Warby Sun Tzu, Thomas F. ClearyISBN 0877734526 (0-87773-452-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Of War'Book summary:The Art of War is the Swiss army knife of military theory--pop out a different tool for any situation. Folded into this small package are compact views on resourcefulness, momentum, cunning, the profit motive, flexibility, integrity, secrecy, speed, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, responsibility, and practicality. Thomas Cleary's translation keeps the package tight, with crisp language and short sections. Commentaries from the Chinese tradition trail Sun-tzu's words, elaborating and picking up on puzzling lines. Take the solitary passage: "Do not eat food for their soldiers." Elsewhere, Sun-tzu has told us to plunder the enemy's stores, but now we're not supposed to eat the food? The Tang dynasty commentator Du Mu solves the puzzle nicely, "If the enemy suddenly abandons their food supplies, they should be tested first before eating, lest they be poisoned." Most passages, however, are the pinnacle of succinct clarity: "Lure them in with the prospect of gain, take them by confusion" or "Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent." Sun-tzu's maxims are widely applicable beyond the military because they speak directly to the exigencies of survival. Your new tools will serve you well, but don't flaunt them. Remember Sun-tzu's advice: "Though effective, appear to be ineffective." --Brian Bruya [via]
Autobiography Of Mother Jonesby Mary Jones, Mary Field PartonISBN 0882861662 (0-88286-166-2)
Softcover, Charles H Kerr Pub Co
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The Battle for Gaulby Julius Caesar, Anne Wiseman, Peter WisemanISBN 0879235616 (0-87923-561-6)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle for Gaul'Book summary:Julius Caesar was for a few years the undisputed master of the Roman world -- devoted to expanding Roman supremacy and his own fame. THE BATTLE FOR GAUL contains seven books of Caesar's Commentaries on his campaign in Gaul from 58 to 50 B.C. in their original narrative sequence. These unparalleled accounts of war in Western Europe in the closing years of the Roman republic are clear and exciting. We feel the immediacy of the moment as we listen to Caesar's dramatic story of his daring expedition into Germany and unprecedented bridging of the Rhine, the decimation of two Roman legions in a forest ambush, and the heroic last defense of 80,000 Gauls in central France. [via]
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companiesby James C. Collins, Jerry I. PorrasISBN 0887307396 (0-88730-739-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies'Book summary:Built to Last became an instant business classic. This audio abridgement is read by the authors, who alternate chapters. Collins is a bit breathlessly enthusiastic, but clear and interesting; Porras, unfortunately, is poorly inflected and wooden. They set out to determine what's special about "visionary" companies--the Disneys, Wal-Marts, and Mercks, companies at the very top of their game that have demonstrated longevity and great brand image. The authors compare 18 "visionary" picks to a control group of "successful-but-second-rank" companies. Thus Disney is compared to Columbia Pictures, Ford to GM, and so on.
A central myth, according to the authors, is that visionary companies start with a great product and are pushed into the future by charismatic leaders. Usually false, Collins and Porras find. Much more important, and a much more telling line of demarcation between a wild success like 3M and an also-ran like Norton, is flexibility. 3M had no master plan, little structure, and no prima donnas. Instead it had an atmosphere in which bright people were not afraid to "try a lot of stuff and keep what works."
If you listen to this audiocassette on your daily commute, you may discover whether you are headed to a "visionary" place of work--and, if so, whether you are the kind of employee who fits your employer's vision. (Running time: two hours, two cassettes) --Richard Farr [via]
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By Any Means Necessaryby Malcolm XISBN 0873487540 (0-87348-754-0)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By Any Means Necessary'Book summary:The imperialists know the only way you will voluntarily turn to the fox is to show you a wolf. In eleven speeches and interviews, Malcolm X presents a revolutionary alternative to this reformist trap, taking up political alliances, women's rights, U.S. intervention in the Congo and Vietnam, capitalism and socialism, and more. [via]
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By Any Means Necessary: Speeches, Interviews and a Letterby Malcolm X, George BreitmanISBN 0873481453 (0-87348-145-3)
Hardcover, Pathfinder Pr
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Che Guevara Talks to Young Peopleby Ernesto Guevara, Mary-Alice WatersISBN 087348911X (0-87348-911-X)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Che Guevara Talks to Young People'Book summary:A Pathfinder upgraded edition. In eight talks from 1959 to 1964, the Argentine-born revolutionary challenges youth of Cuba and the world to study, to work, to become disciplined. To join the front lines of struggles, small and large. To politicize their organizations and themselves. To become a different kind of human being as they strive together with working people of all lands to transform the world. And, along this course, to revel in the spontaneity and joy of being young.
Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, 12-page photo section and other photos, glossary, index. Now with enlarged type.
Also available in: Greek; Spanish [via]
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China's Satellite Partiesby James D. SeymourISBN 0873324129 (0-87332-412-9)
Hardcover, M E Sharpe Inc
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A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Womenby Marilyn Arnold, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Kristen TracyISBN 0877458111 (0-87745-811-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Iowa Pr
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Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanityby Robert JensenISBN 0872864324 (0-87286-432-4)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Clash of Civilizations?: The Debateby Samuel P. HuntingtonISBN 0876091648 (0-87609-164-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister by the Right Hon. James Hacker M. P.by Jonathan Lynn, Antony JayISBN 0881622729 (0-88162-272-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Covenant with Black Americaby Tavis SmileyISBN 0883782774 (0-88378-277-4)
Softcover, Third World Pr
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0877207054 (0-87720-705-4)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mindby Gustave Le BonISBN 0877971684 (0-87797-168-4)
Softcover, Cherokee Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind'Book summary:One of the greatest and most influential books of social psychology ever written, brilliantly instructive on the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much more. A must-read volume for students of history, sociology, law and psychology. [via]
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Cuckoo's Eggby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886773717 (0-88677-371-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 0881030171 (0-88103-017-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of AmericaISBN 0878401431 (0-87840-143-1)
Softcover, Georgetown Univ Pr
Find This BookBook summary:Never in history have 1,322 words held out such extraordinary determination to be free as those found in the Declaration of Independence. In 1787, "We the people" were the three words that not only engendered a new and cohesive nation; they went on to change the face of the world as well. In 1791, the first ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, known to us as the Bill of Rights introduced the world to the concept of those singular rights that ought to belong to every free individual.
In one compact volume, the full texts of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America with all ratified twenty-seven Amendments to the Constitution are side by side -- along with another of America's seminal documents, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, an additional world-changing statement that codified for the first time that one cannot be required by law to support or prefer any belief or be punished for those one does profess -- and the basis for what we have come to know as the "wall of separation" between church and state.
Who we are and what we are free to be as citizens of the United States of America is contained between these covers. Cass R. Sunstein prefaces the volume with a succinct history and interpretation of the place and meaning of both the Declaration and the Constitution in American life. Enhanced by an index and suggestions for further reading, this volume, small in size but overwhelming in the impact of its contents, belongs in the home of every citizen of the United States.
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Decline and Fall of Practically Everybodyby Will CuppyISBN 0879235144 (0-87923-514-4)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody'Book summary:So you think you know most of what there is to kow aboyt people like Nero and Cleopatra, Allexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godica and Miles Standish? You say there's nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you'll find Will Cuppy footloose in the footnotes of history. He transforms these luminaries into human beings, not as we knew them from history books, but as we would have known them Cuppy-wise: foolish, fallible, and very much our common ancestors.
When it was first published in 1950, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody spent four months on The New York Times best-seller list, and Edward R. Murrow devoted more than two-thirds of one of his nightly CBS programs to a reading from Cuppy's historical sketches, calling it "the history book of the year." The book eventually went through eighteen hardcover printings and ten foreign editions, proof of its impeccable accuracy and deadly, imperishable humor. [via]More editions of Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody:
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbledby Will Cuppy, Fred Feldkamp, William SteigISBN 088029809X (0-88029-809-X)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled'Book summary:Ever wonder what Nero did before he began fiddling about in Rome, or wanted the bare facts about Lady Godiva? Maybe you've found the story of Lucrezia Borgia a bitter pill to swallow, or wanted the straight skinny on corpulent King Henry the Eighth, but you haven't the stomach for stuffy history books. Now these and twenty-two more of history's most famous personages are brought brilliantly to life, in this collection of unfailingly accurate yet undeniably hilarious biographies. You'll laugh while you learn about the very real people behind the legendary names, including why Montezuma was so vengeful, and why Catherine was so Great. You'll even finally lay to rest the rumor that Charlemagne was called "Chuck" by his friends.[via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled:
Democracyby Joan DidionISBN 0886190541 (0-88619-054-1)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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The Diary of Anne Frankby Anne Frank, Linda A. CadrainISBN 0883013088 (0-88301-308-8)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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Dragon Princeby Melanie RawnISBN 0886774500 (0-88677-450-0)
Softcover, Daw Books
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The Dragon Tokenby Melanie RawnISBN 0886775426 (0-88677-542-6)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragon Token'Book summary:In the sequel to Stronghold, as Rohan's son and heir, Pol, rallies his forces in a desperate bid to halt the advance of the invaders, ancient rivalries weaken his alliance. Reprint. [via]
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Earth Angels: Migrant Children in Americaby Nancy BuirskiISBN 0876540744 (0-87654-074-4)
Softcover, Pomegranate
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Elegy for the Departureby Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana CarpenterISBN 0880016191 (0-88001-619-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo: Apology ; Crito ; Phaedoby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0879754966 (0-87975-496-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo: Apology ; Crito ; Phaedo'Book summary:As the indisputable father of western philosophy, socrates stands as the archetype of free inquiry and intellectual honesty throughout history. He dared to explore the minds of men, to analyze the content of cherished beliefs, and to distinguish knowledge and truth from opinion. This philosophical gadfly irritated the people of athens, who tried him for corrupting their youth, and subsequently sentenced him to death for his "crime."in these four short works by plato, we come to experience the full range of socrates' penetrating mind. In the euthyphro, socrates searches after the truth about the nature of piety, even as he makes his way to athens to answer an indictment leveled against him.the apology recounts socrates' attempt to defend himself against the charge of impiety. Once condemned, socrates finds himself imprisoned to await death.the crito captures his views on his relationship with the state and what each has a right to expect from the other.finally, the phaedo recalls the death scene as socrates discusses the nature of the soul and immortality just before succumbing to the hemlock [via]
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Exilesby Melanie RawnISBN 0886776686 (0-88677-668-6)
Softcover, Daw Books
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First World, Ha Ha Ha!: The Zapatista Challengeby Elaine KatzenbergerISBN 0872862941 (0-87286-294-1)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Gatherer of Cloudsby Sean RussellISBN 0886775361 (0-88677-536-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0881033677 (0-88103-367-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
Great Expectations With Readers Guideby Charles DickensISBN 087720800X (0-87720-800-X)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0883017059 (0-88301-705-9)
Softcover, Academic Industries
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Initiate Brother Book Oneby Sean RussellISBN 0886774667 (0-88677-466-7)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Inside the Company: CIA Diaryby Philip AgeeISBN 0883730286 (0-88373-028-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Invaderby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886776872 (0-88677-687-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invader'Book summary:Nearly two centuries after a human colony is abandoned on an alien planet, the two races have reached a tenacious peace agreement, but when the human ship returns unexpectedly, both governments are thrown into chaos. [via]
Jews Without Moneyby Michael GoldISBN 0881840262 (0-88184-026-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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John Locke: Second Treatise of Governmentby John LockeISBN 0882951246 (0-88295-124-6)
Hardcover, Harlan Davidson
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The Mageborn Traitorby Melanie RawnISBN 0886777313 (0-88677-731-3)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mageborn Traitor'Book summary:The second novel in a stunning new fantasy series by the bestselling author of the "Dragon Prince" and "Dragon Star" trilogies. The Mage Guardians have survived the war and now Mage Captal Cailet and her sister Sarra struggle to rebuild their society. Though defeated, their enemies, the Malerissi, have not been destroyed, and once again start weaving a web with which to entangle the entire world. [via]
Murrow: His Life and Timesby A.M. SperberISBN 0881910082 (0-88191-008-2)
Hardcover, Freundlich Books
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolutionby Peter KropotkinISBN 0875580246 (0-87558-024-6)
Softcover, Porter Sargent Pub
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National Identityby Anthony D. SmithISBN 0874172047 (0-87417-204-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nevada Pr
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Origin of the Family, Private Property and the Stateby Friedrich EngelsISBN 0873482611 (0-87348-261-1)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State'Book summary:How the emergence of class-divided society gave rise to repressive state bodies and family structures that protect the property of the ruling layers and enable them to pass along wealth and privilege. Engels discusses the consequences for working people of these class institutions -- from their original forms to their modern versions.
Introduction by Evelyn Reed, notes, name index, subject index. Now with enlarged type.
Also available in: French; Spanish, Indonesian [via]
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Politicsby Aristotle, Carnes LordISBN 0879753463 (0-87975-346-3)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics'Book summary:Building upon the foundations of his seminal discussion of the good life, virtue, happiness, and the golden mean in the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle now turns his attention to man as a political being and to the nature of the state. How do human relationships mirror specific political associations? What is the nature of political man? What is the proper purpose of the state with respect to those it governs? Who should rule, and what are the characteristics of those who govern well? Can anyone make the laws for the society, or is this function best suited to certain members of the community? How should a regime rule in order to achieve the purpose of government? These questions are addressed by Aristotle within the context of his description and analysis of the political societies of his time. The result is a penetrating discussion of rational ideals combined with practical political reality. [via]
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Post-Scarcity Anarchismby Murray BookchinISBN 087867005X (0-87867-005-X)
Hardcover, Ramparts Press
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Power Governments Cannot Suppressby Howard ZinnISBN 0872864758 (0-87286-475-8)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power Governments Cannot Suppress'Book summary:"Thank you, Howard Zinn. Thank you for telling us what none of our leaders are willing to: The truth. And you tell it with such brilliance, such humanity. It is a personal honor to be able to say I am a better citizen because of you."[via]
-- Michael Moore, director of the film Fahrenheit 9/11, and author of the New York Times bestseller, Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
"This strong, incisive book by Howard Zinn provides us with a penetrating critique of current U.S. policies and embraces the sweep of history. Zinn's inspired voice sets him apart & which is why so many of us look to Howard as a modern-day Thoreau. As always with Zinn's work, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress leaves us with the faith that citizens have what it takes to confront power and to reverse the dangerous and unjust acts of our government."
-- Jonathan Kozol, author of The Shame of The Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
"Find here the voice of the well-educated and honorable and capable and human United States of America, which might have existed if only absolute power had not corrupted its third-rate leaders so absolutely."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, author of A Man Without a Country
"Howard Zinn is a unique voice of sanity, clarity and wisdom who reads history not only to understand the present but to shape the future. &Profoundly insightful& A Power Governments Cannot Suppress should be read by every American, over and over again."
-- Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine, author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right
This brilliant new booklike Howard Zinns presence, and his whole life, is the best possible antidote to political despair. Read it, and rejoin the struggle for a human world and a foreign policy thats good for children.
Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and is author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, is a major new collection of essays on American history, class, immigration, justice, and ordinary citizens who have made a difference. Zinn addresses America's current political/ethical crisis using lessons learned from our nations history. Zinn brings a profoundly human, yet uniquely American perspective to each subject he writes about, whether its the abolition of war, terrorism, the Founding Fathers, the Holocaust, defending the rights of immigrants, or personal liberties. Written in an accessible, personal tone, Zinn approaches the telling of U.S. history from an active, engaged point of view. "America's future is linked to how we understand our past, writes Zinn; "For this reason, writing about history, for me, is never a neutral act."
Zinn frames the book with an opening essay titled "If History is to be Creative," a reflection on the role and responsibility of the historian. "To think that history-writing must aim simply to recapitulate the failures that dominate the past," writes Zinn, "is to make historians collaborators in an endless cycle of defeat." "If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, and occasionally win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the pasts fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare."
Buzzing with stories and ideas, Zinn draws upon fascinating, little-known historical anecdotes spanning from the Declaration of Independence to the USA PATRIOT Act to comment on the most controversial issues facing us today: government dishonesty, how to respond to terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loss of our liberties, immigration, and the responsibility of the citizen to confront power for the common good.
Considered a "modern-day Thoreau" by Jonathon Kozol, Zinn's inspired writings address the reader as an active participant in history making. "We live in a beautiful country, writes Zinn, in the books opening chapter. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back."
Featuring essays penned over an eight-year period, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is Howard Zinns first writerly work in several years, an invaluable post-9/11-era addition to the themes that run through his bestselling classic, A Peoples History Of the United States.
Howard Zinn is a veteran of World War II and author of many books and plays, including the million-selling classic, A Peoples History of the United States. For more information about Howard and his speaking schedule see www.citylights.comMore editions of Power Governments Cannot Suppress:
The Presidentby Miguel Angel Asturias, Frances PartridgeISBN 0881339512 (0-88133-951-2)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Prolife Answers to Prochoice Argumentsby Randy C. AlcornISBN 0880704721 (0-88070-472-1)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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The Revolution Betrayedby Leon TrotskyISBN 0873482263 (0-87348-226-3)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergateby Leon JaworskiISBN 0883491028 (0-88349-102-8)
Hardcover
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Rights of Manby Thomas PaineISBN 087975379X (0-87975-379-X)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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The Ruins of Ambraiby Melanie RawnISBN 0886776198 (0-88677-619-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilbert J. LevyISBN 0877208085 (0-87720-808-5)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Second Treatise of Governmentby John LockeISBN 0879753374 (0-87975-337-4)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Skybowlby Melanie RawnISBN 0886775957 (0-88677-595-7)
Softcover, Daw Books
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The Star Scrollby Melanie RawnISBN 0886773490 (0-88677-349-0)
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 0881032476 (0-88103-247-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]
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Strongholdby Melanie RawnISBN 0886774829 (0-88677-482-9)
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Sunrunner's Fireby Melanie RawnISBN 0886774039 (0-88677-403-9)
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Superpatriotismby Michael ParentiISBN 0872864332 (0-87286-433-2)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Henry I. ChristISBN 0877208131 (0-87720-813-1)
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Threads of History: Americana Recorded on Cloth 1775 to the Presentby Herbert Ridgeway CollinsISBN 0874743265 (0-87474-326-5)
Hardcover, Smithsonian Institution Press
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Troublesby J.G. JarrellISBN 0881842699 (0-88184-269-9)
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Understanding Our Centuryby E. FoellISBN 087510147X (0-87510-147-X)
Hardcover, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy
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Utilitarianismby John Stuart MillISBN 0879753765 (0-87975-376-5)
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0879050934 (0-87905-093-4)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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Walden, or Life in the Woods : Selections from the American Classicby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0877736855 (0-87773-685-5)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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War Is a Racketby Smedley D. ButlerISBN 0877001537 (0-87700-153-7)
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Why I Am Not a Muslimby Ibn WarraqISBN 0879759844 (0-87975-984-4)
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 087449883X (0-87449-883-X)
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Women, a Feminist Perspectiveby Jo FreemanISBN 0874842905 (0-87484-290-5)
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Los De Abajo: Novela de la Revolucion Mexicanaby Mariano Azuela, John Englekirk, Lawrence KiddleISBN 0881336629 (0-88133-662-9)
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