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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of The Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towersby Kevin FlynnISBN 0805080325 (0-8050-8032-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers'Book summary:In 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, New York Times writers Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn vividly recreate the 102-minute span between the moment Flight 11 hit the first Twin Tower on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the moment the second tower collapsed, all from the perspective of those inside the buildings--the 12,000 who escaped, and the 2,749 who did not. It's becoming easier, years later, to forget the profound, visceral responses the Trade Center attacks evoked in the days and weeks following September 11. Using hundreds of interviews, countless transcripts of radio and phone communications, and exhaustive research, Dwyer and Flynn bring that flood of responses back--from heartbreak to bewilderment to fury. The randomness of death and survival is heartbreaking. One man, in the second tower, survived because he bolted from his desk the moment he heard the first plane hit; another, who stayed at his desk on the 97th floor, called his wife in his final moments to tell her to cancel a surprise trip he had planned. In many cases, the deaths of those who survived the initial attacks but were killed by the collapse of the towers were tragically avoidable. Building code exemptions, communication breakdowns between firefighters and police, and policies put in place by building management to keep everyone inside the towers in emergencies led, the authors argue, to the deaths of hundreds who might otherwise have survived. September 11 is by now both familiar and nearly mythological. Dwyer and Flynn's accomplishment is recounting that day's events in a style that is stirring, thorough, and refreshingly understated. --Erica C. Barnett [via]
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The Abolition of Manby C. S. LewisISBN 0805420479 (0-8054-2047-9)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abolition of Man'Book summary:C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly political, religious, and philosophical. In the best of the book's three essays, "Men Without Chests," Lewis trains his laser-sharp wit on a mid- century English high school text, considering the ramifications of teaching British students to believe in idle relativism, and to reject "the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the universe is and the kinds of things we are." Lewis calls this doctrine the "Tao," and he spends much of the book explaining why society needs a sense of objective values. The Abolition of Man speaks with astonishing freshness to contemporary debates about morality; and even if Lewis seems a bit too cranky and privileged for his arguments to be swallowed whole, at least his articulation of values seems less ego-driven, and therefore is more useful, than that of current writers such as Bill Bennett and James Dobson. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Aclu Vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Valuesby Alan Sears, Craig OstenISBN 0805440453 (0-8054-4045-3)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0804115710 (0-8041-1571-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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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America as a Civilization: Life and Thought in the United States Todayby Max LernerISBN 0805005315 (0-8050-0531-5)
Hardcover, H. Holt
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America As a Civilization: Life and Thought in the United States Today With a Postscript Chapter, the New America, 1957-1987by Max LernerISBN 080500355X (0-8050-0355-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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American Freedom and the Radical Rightby Edward L. EricsonISBN 0804461414 (0-8044-6141-4)
Softcover, F. Ungar Pub Co
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The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy for Themartial Artistby Sun Tzu, Stephen F. KaufmanISBN 0804830800 (0-8048-3080-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dreamby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 0805081240 (0-8050-8124-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Through over three decades of journalism and activism and over a dozen books, Barbara Ehrenreich has been one of the most consistent and imaginative chroniclers of class in America, but it was her bestselling 2001 book, Nickel and Dimed, a undercover expose of the day-to-day struggles of the working poor, that has been the most influential work of her career. Now, with Bait and Switch, she has gone undercover again, this time as a middle-aged professional trying to get a white-collar job in corporate America. We asked her a few questions about what she found: Amazon.com: Your previous book, Nickel and Dimed, became a blockbuster bestseller with a classic "there but for the grace of God go I" liberal message just when the general political mood of the country seemed to be going in a very different direction. Why do you think it struck such a chord? What sorts of reactions have you gotten to it over the past four years?
Barbara Ehrenreich: A lot of Nickel and Dimed readers are people who regularly inhabit the low-wage work world, and many of them write to tell me that the book affirmed their experience and made them feel less alone and ignored. Other readers though, are affluent people who write to say I opened their eyes to a world they'd been unaware of. For those people, I think one appealing feature of Nickel and Dimed is that it's a personal narrative that gives them a look at lives lived at the margins of their own. The most gratifying response has been from people who tell me the book inspired them to become activists for things like a living wage or affordable housing.
Amazon.com: At what point did you realize that your new book, Bait and Switch, in which you went undercover again, this time to tell a story of working in corporate America, was instead becoming one of not working in corporate America? Is that the story you expected to tell?
Ehrenreich: My initial aim was not "to tell a story of working in corporate America" but to try to understand the human underside of corporate America--the job insecurity, the constant layoffs and downsizings that now occur even in the best of times. I expected to get a job and hence an inside view, but I always knew that that would be very difficult. After about 4-5 months of job searching, I began to get seriously discouraged, but I also came to understand that a fruitless search is in fact a very common experience. After all, today 44 percent of the long-term unemployed are white collar folks--an unusually high percentage. It's their world I entered, and their story that I tell in Bait and Switch.
Amazon.com: For someone with a white-collar career, you didn't have much experience in corporate culture before you attempted to join it for this book. What surprised you the most about what you found?
Ehrenreich: What surprised me most, right from day one of my job search, was the surreal nature of the job searching business. For example, everyone, from corporations to career coaches, relies heavily on "personality tests" which have no scientific credibility or predictive value. One test revealed that I have a melancholy and envious nature and, for some reason, was unsuited to be a writer! And what does "personality" have to do with getting the job done, anyway? There's far less emphasis on skills and experience than on whether you have the prescribed upbeat and likeable persona. I kept wondering: Is this any way to run a business? I was also surprised--and disgusted--by the constant victim-blaming you encounter among coaches, at networking events for the unemployed, and in the business advice books. You're constantly told that whatever happens to you is the result of your attitude or even your "thought forms"--not a word about the corporate policies that lead to so much turmoil and misery.
Amazon.com: You seemed to make much closer ties with your fellow workers in Nickel and Dimed than you did on the white-collar job hunt. What was different this time?
Ehrenreich: You're right--there is a difference. But it's not so much a matter of personalities as it is about two different worlds. There's a lot of camaraderie in the blue-collar world I entered in Nickel and Dimed. People help each other and look out for each other; they laugh together--often at the managers. The white-collar world doesn't encourage camaraderie, far from it. There it's all about competition and fear--of losing one's job, for one thing. Other people are seen as sources of contacts or tips, at best; as competitors or rivals, at worst. And among the unemployed add shame and a sense of personal failure, the constant message that it's all your own fault. All this discourages any solidarity with others or real openness.
Amazon.com: God forbid anyone would come to your book as a guide for finding a white-collar job, but what advice would you give to someone in the shoes you put yourself in: a middle-aged professional woman, in fear of falling irrevocably out of touch with the world of the regularly employed?
Ehrenreich: You don't think I'd make a good career coach? OK, but I have three pieces of advice for the middle-aged, middle-class job seeker anyway:
One, be very careful how you spend your money and time. Since the mid-90s, a whole industry has sprung up to help--or, depending on your point of view, prey upon--white-collar job seekers. The "professionals" in this business are usually entirely unlicensed and unregulated. Also, watch out for events billed as "networking" opportunities that really have another agenda--like recruiting you into expensive coaching or proselytizing you into a particular religion.
Two, don't count on the internet job sites to find you a job or even an interview. On any of these sites, your resume will be competing with hundreds of thousands of others, and most large companies today don't even bother reading online resumes; they have computer programs scan them for keywords (and you won't know what those keywords are.)
Three, and most important: stop believing that it's your own fault. That's the first step to recognizing the common problems facing white-collar workers and responding to them. I'd be thrilled if this book, like Nickel and Dimed, also inspires readers to get involved and become active in efforts to make life a little easier for the growing numbers of people who are unemployed, underemployed, or anxiously employed. What could they do? Lobby for universal health insurance that's not tied to a job, for example. Fight for extended unemployment benefits. Raise their voices to complain about corporate tax breaks and subsidies that are justified in terms of "job creation" but often go to companies that are busy laying people off. One major reason job loss is so catastrophic is that we just don't have much of a safety net in this country. That has to change, and who's going to make it change, if not people like those I met in Bait and Switch? I've got a new website, barbaraehrenreich.com, and I'd like to hear from readers--both their stories and their ideas for how to take action.
Classic Ehrenreich
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of WarMore editions of Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream:
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Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youthby Richard WrightISBN 0808510525 (0-8085-1052-5)
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Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictmenta poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 080850150X (0-8085-0150-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World Revisited'Book summary:Huxley looks backward and forward in this brilliant extended essay published a quarter of a century after his controversial, dark visionary novel. Analyzing America at mid-century against the tomorrow of the BRAVE NEW WORLD, Huxley finds some answers and asks more questions. [via]
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Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hareby Joe AdamsonISBN 0805011900 (0-8050-1190-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare'Book summary:This splendid biographical celebration shares the story of America's most popular animated television star on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. Backed by a huge Warner Bros. 200 illustrations. [via]
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Bugs Bunny : Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hareby Joe Adamson, Friz Freleng, Chuck JonesISBN 0805018557 (0-8050-1855-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bugs Bunny : Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare'Book summary:Now available for the first time in paperback is this gloriously illustrated edition commemorating Bugs Bunny's fiftieth birthday. This splendid volume gives the inside account of Bugs' creation, through his early stages of development, and into his prime. The saga of his life is shown via stop-action scenes, brilliant cels, and film-frame art. 400 illustrations, most in full color. [via]
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The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politicsby Simon LeysISBN 0805003509 (0-8050-0350-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Churchill: A Lifeby Martin GilbertISBN 0805023968 (0-8050-2396-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell And Political Philosophyby Andrew NorrisISBN 0804751323 (0-8047-5132-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell And Political Philosophy'Book summary:Stanley Cavell's unique contributions to the study of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, film, Shakespeare, and American philosophy have all received wide acclaim. But there has been relatively little recognition of the pertinence of Cavell's work to our understanding of political philosophy. The Claim to Community fills this gap with essays from a wide range of prominent American, English, French, and Italian philosophers and political theorists, as well as a lengthy response to the essays by Cavell himself. The topics covered include Cavell's understanding of political community, philosophical anthropology, moral perfectionism, the positivist distinction between fact and value, political friendship, the differences between political and aesthetic disagreement, political romanticism, "the pursuit of happiness," tragedy, and race. There are also evaluations of the ways Cavell's positions on these and other matters compare with those of Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Kant, John Stuart Mill, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Peter Winch, Wittgenstein, and Fred Astaire. This volume will be of great interest to political theorists and political philosophers, as well as to students of literature and film.[via]More editions of The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell And Political Philosophy:
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Collected Stories of Philip K. Dickby Philip K. DickISBN 0806512768 (0-8065-1276-8)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick'Book summary:Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.
This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964. These fascinating stories include Service Call, Stand By, The Days of Perky Pat, and many others.
"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection" -- Kirkus
"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring". -- The Washington Post
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds". -- Wall Street Journal [via]
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Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makersby Floyd HunterISBN 0807840335 (0-8078-4033-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Death of a Party Animalby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0805000739 (0-8050-0073-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Downtown Doonesburyby Gary B. TrudeauISBN 0805003541 (0-8050-0354-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Eisenhower and the Mass Media: Peace, Prosperity, & Prime-Time TVby Craig AllenISBN 0807820806 (0-8078-2080-6)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testby Tom WolfeISBN 0808501518 (0-8085-0151-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'Book summary:They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of "tootling the multitudes"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Eye of the Sibylby Philip K. DickISBN 0806513284 (0-8065-1328-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye of the Sibyl'Book summary:A collection of stories by the celebrated science fiction writer includes never-before-published selections as well as the author's standards--``The Little Black Box'' and ``The Pre-Person'' among them. By the author of The Man in the High Castle. Original. [via]
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracyby Noam ChomskyISBN 0805082840 (0-8050-8284-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against "failed states" around the globe. In this much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and thus a danger to its own people and the world.
"Failed states" Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and that suffer from a 'democratic deficit,' having democratic forms but with limited substance." Exploring recent U.S. foreign and domestic policies, Chomsky assesses Washington's escalation of the nuclear risk; the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; and America's self-exemption from international law. He also examines an American electoral system that frustrates genuine political alternatives, thus impeding any meaningful democracy.
Forceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis, and its policies and practices have recklessly placed the world on the brink of disaster. Systematically dismantling America's claim to being the world's arbiter of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focused--and urgent--critique to date.More editions of Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy:
Federalism: The Founders' Designby Raoul BergerISBN 0806120592 (0-8061-2059-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Fugitive Days : A Memoirby Bill AyersISBN 0807071242 (0-8070-7124-2)
Hardcover, Beacon Press
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The Godly Rebellion: Parisian CurGEs and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662by Richard M. GoldenISBN 0807814660 (0-8078-1466-0)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacyby William C. DavisISBN 0807121770 (0-8071-2177-0)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 080490068X (0-8049-0068-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0804901120 (0-8049-0112-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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History Will Absolve Meby Fidel CastroISBN 0806508523 (0-8065-0852-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Societyby Robert B. ReichISBN 0807043419 (0-8070-4341-9)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society'Book summary:"I don't like the basic philosophy that everyone is on their own, out for themselves, a kind of social Darwinism. It's bad for society, especially now. . . . Call me crotchety, but I can't help asking, whatever happened to the social contract?"With his characteristic humor, humanity, and candor, one of the nation's most distinguished advocates for working-and middle-class families delivers a fresh vision of politics by returning to basic American values: anyone who wants a job should have one; those who work should be able to lift themselves and their families out of poverty; and everyone should have access to an education that will better their chances in life.An insider who knows how the economy and government really work, Reich combines realistic solutions with democratic ideals: businesses do have civic responsibilities; government must stem a widening income gap that threatens to turn our nation into a two-tiered society. Arguing that Democrats and Republicans have strayed dangerously off track, Reich breaks the impasse of current politics and shows us the way to fulfill our nation's promise. [via]
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Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawalby Anthony ArnoveISBN 0805082727 (0-8050-8272-7)
Softcover, Metropolitan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal'Book summary:[via]"An urgent book."--Arundhati Roy
Three years after the start of the war in Iraq, violence and misery continue to plague the country, and conservatives and liberals alike are struggling with the question of when--and under what circumstances--U.S. and coalition forces should leave. In this cogent and compelling book, Anthony Arnove argues that the U.S. occupation is the major source of instability and suffering for the Iraqi people. Challenging the idea that George W. Bush was ever interested in bringing democracy to Iraq--and the view widely held across the political spectrum that it would be more damaging to leave prematurely--Arnove explores the real reasons behind the invasion. He shows why continuing the occupation is a wildly unrealistic and reckless strategy that makes the world a more dangerous place.Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal concludes by laying out a clear vision for the antiwar movement, one that engages soldiers, military families, and the many communities affected by the occupation, who together, Arnove argues, can build the coalition needed to bring the troops home.More editions of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal:
Jericho: Dreams, Ruins, Phantomsby Robert RubyISBN 0805027998 (0-8050-2799-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Killing Rage: Ending Racismby Bell HooksISBN 0805050272 (0-8050-5027-2)
Softcover, Owlet
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Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism the T'Ung-Chihby M.C. WrightISBN 0804704759 (0-8047-0475-9)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Last Stand of Chinese Conversations the T.Ung-Chih Restorationby WrightISBN 0804704767 (0-8047-0476-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Life and Major Writings of Thomas Paineby Philip S. FonerISBN 0806504145 (0-8065-0414-5)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Minority Reportby Philip K. DickISBN 0806521686 (0-8065-2168-6)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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The Minority Report and Other Classic Storiesby Philip K. Dick, James TriptreeISBN 0806523794 (0-8065-2379-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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One Dimensional Man: Studies in Ideology of Advanced Industrial Societyby Herbert MarcuseISBN 0807014176 (0-8070-1417-6)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Dimensional Man: Studies in Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society'Book summary:The work offers a wide-ranging critique of both contemporary capitalism and the Communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in both these societies, as well as the decline of revolutionary potential in the West. Marcuse argues that "advanced industrial society" created false needs, which integrated individuals into the existing system of production and consumption via mass media, advertising, industrial management, and contemporary modes of thought.
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One Shoe Fits Allby Jeff MacNellyISBN 0805001026 (0-8050-0102-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Origins of Totalitarianismby Hannah Arendt, Samantha PowerISBN 0805242252 (0-8052-4225-2)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of Totalitarianism'Book summary:The Origins of Totalitarianism is an indispensable book for understanding the frightful barbarity of the twentieth century. Suspicious of the inevitability so often imposed by hindsight, Hannah Arendt was not interested in detailing the causes that produced totalitarianism. Nothing in the nineteenth centuryindeed, nothing in human historycould have prepared us for the idea of political domination achieved by organizing the infinite plurality and differentiation of human beings as if all humanity were just one individual. Arendt believed that such a development marked a grotesque departure from all that had come before.
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt sought to provide an historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism: The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and he rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it. For Arendt, totalitarianism was a form of governance that eliminated the very possibility of political action. Totalitarian leaders attract both mobs and elites, take advantage of the unthinkability of their atrocities, target objective enemies (classes of people who are liquidated simply because of their group membership), use terror to create loyalty, rely on concentration camps, and are obsessive in their pursuit of global primacy. But even more presciently, Arendt understood that totalitarian solutions could well survive the demise of totalitarian regimes.
The Origins of Totalitarianism remains as essential a book for understanding our times as it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. [via]More editions of Origins of Totalitarianism:
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Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zeroby New York Times Staff, Howell Raines, Richard BernsteinISBN 0805074104 (0-8050-7410-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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This riveting, incisive, and authoritative account is destined to stand as the essential chronicle of this singular moment in our history.More editions of Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero:
Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001by Richard Bernstein, New York Times Staff, Howell RainesISBN 0805072403 (0-8050-7240-3)
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The Parlement of Paris, 1774-1789by Bailey StoneISBN 0807814423 (0-8078-1442-3)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The People's Doonesburyby Gary TrudeauISBN 0805010742 (0-8050-1074-2)
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmareby Philip ShortISBN 0805080066 (0-8050-8006-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Politics of Aristotleby Aristotle, Peter Simpson, Peter L. Phillips SimpsonISBN 0807846376 (0-8078-4637-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Politics of Aristotle'Book summary:A touchstone in Western debates about society and government, the Politics is Aristotle's classic work on the nature of political community. Here, he argues that people band together into political communities to secure a good and self-sufficient life. He discusses the merits and defects of various regimes or ways of organizing political communitydemocracy in particularand in the process examines such subjects as slavery, economics, the family, citizenship, justice, and revolution.
Peter Simpson offers a new translation of Aristotle's text from the ancient Greek. He renders the Politics into an English version that is accurate, readable, and in certain difficult passages, original. His innovative analytical division of the whole text, with headings and accompanying summaries, makes clear the progression and unity of the argumenta helpful feature for students or readers unfamiliar with Aristotle's studied brevity and often elliptical style. Books 7 and 8 are repositioneda move supported by Aristotle's own words and much scholarly opinionto restore the work's logical organization and coherence. Finally, Simpson places the Politics in its proper philosophical context by beginning the text with the last chapter of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which he sees as an introduction to what follows. [via]
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracyby Anna Politkovskaya, Arch TaitISBN 0805082506 (0-8050-8250-6)
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Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls on Rawls "a Theory of Justice"by Norman DanielsISBN 0804715033 (0-8047-1503-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Responsibility and Judgmentby Hannah Arendt, Jerome KohnISBN 0805211624 (0-8052-1162-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Responsibility And Judgment'Book summary:Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendts life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, Some Questions of Moral Philosophy, in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral truths as standards to judge what we are capable of doing and examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We also see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed.
Responsibility and Judgment is an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time. [via]More editions of Responsibility and Judgment:
Rights of Manby Thomas Paine, Philip S. FonerISBN 0806505486 (0-8065-0548-6)
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The Satanic Versesby Salman RushdieISBN 0805053093 (0-8050-5309-3)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0804900078 (0-8049-0007-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Sex Crimes: Ten Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaboratorsby Alice VachssISBN 0805035028 (0-8050-3502-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republicby Chalmers JohnsonISBN 0805077979 (0-8050-7797-9)
Softcover, Owl Books
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Spinoza's Critique of Religionby Leo Strauss, E. M. SinclairISBN 080520704X (0-8052-0704-X)
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Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzerby Brooke A. MastersISBN 0805079610 (0-8050-7961-0)
Hardcover, Times Books
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Steppenwolfby Hermann Hesse, Joseph MileckISBN 0805012478 (0-8050-1247-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steppenwolf'Book summary:Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meerts a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic Theaterfor mad men only.[via]
Steppenwolf is Hesses best-known and most autobiographical work. With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, it is one of literatures most poetic evocations of the souls journey to liberation. Originally published in English in 1929, the novels wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature. 
Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixtiesby Tariq AliISBN 0806512822 (0-8065-1282-2)
Softcover, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
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Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Modern Chinese Interpretationby Yuan Shibing, Tao HangzhangISBN 0806966394 (0-8069-6639-4)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0804900213 (0-8049-0021-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Tracks: A Novelby Louise ErdrichISBN 0805008950 (0-8050-0895-0)
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Breon MitchellISBN 0805209999 (0-8052-0999-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Twenty-One Selected Storiesby Ward JustISBN 0804108056 (0-8041-0805-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Upside Down : A Primer for the Looking-Glass Worldby Eduardo Galeano, Mark FriedISBN 0805063757 (0-8050-6375-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Eduardo Galeano, author of the incomparable Memory of Fire Trilogy, combines a novelist's intensity, a poet's lyricism, a journalist's fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian. Now his talents are richly displayed in Upside Down, an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious exposé of our first-world privileges and assumptions. In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Galeano takes the reader on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"--with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave"--he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a reality we should reject, Galeano teaches us, one where machines are more precious than humans, people are hungry, poverty kills, and children toil from dark to dark.
A work of fire and charm, Upside Down makes us see the world anew and even glimpse how it might be set right.
"Galeano's outrage is tempered by intelligence, an ineradicable sense of humor, and hope." -Los Angeles Times, front pageMore editions of Upside Down : A Primer for the Looking-Glass World:
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Bill McKibbenISBN 0807014230 (0-8070-1423-0)
Softcover, Beacon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition of Walden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant than ever. [via]
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We Can Remember It for You Wholesaleby Philip K. DickISBN 0806512091 (0-8065-1209-1)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale'Book summary:Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.
This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, The Cookie Lady, The World She Wanted, and many others.
"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection". -- Kirkus Reviews
"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring". -- The Washington Post
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds". -- Wall Street Journal [via]
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We're Eating More Beets!by G. B. TrudeauISBN 0805009329 (0-8050-0932-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Eraby Peggy NoonanISBN 0804107602 (0-8041-0760-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, And the Politics of Anxious Masculinityby Stephen J. DucatISBN 0807043451 (0-8070-4345-1)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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From the strenuous efforts by handlers to counter George H. W. Bush's "wimp factor" to the swaggering arrogance that led to the moral and military quagmire in U.S.-occupied Iraq, anxious masculinity has been a discernible subtext in politics. Ducat shows how this anxiety has been an underlying force in public life throughout the history of Western culture, and also explores why and how certain political issues get gendered. Analyzing various aspects of popular culture and drawing on pioneering research on the gender gap, The Wimp Factor is a fascinating exposé that will alter our understanding of contemporary politics. [via]More editions of The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, And the Politics of Anxious Masculinity:
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Michael HagueISBN 0805002219 (0-8050-0221-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Wizard of Ozby M. P. Hearn, L. Frank Baum, W. W. DenslowISBN 0805238123 (0-8052-3812-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Wizard of Oz : Celebrating the Hundredth Anniversaryby L. Frank Baum, Michael HagueISBN 0805064303 (0-8050-6430-3)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0804900698 (0-8049-0069-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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