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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Gerald Graff, James PhelanISBN 0312112254 (0-312-11225-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Like its popular predecessor, this critical edition is designed for "teaching the conflicts" surrounding Mark Twain's classic novel. It reprints the 1885 text of the first American edition (with a portfolio of illustrations) along with critical essays representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The novel and essays are supported by distinctive editorial material - including introductions to critical conflict in literary studies, to Twain's life and work, and to each critical controversy highlighted in this edition - that helps students grapple not only with the novel's critical issues but also with cultural debates about literature itself. In addition to several new critical essays, the second edition includes an appendix on how to argue about the novel so that students may more effectively enter the critical conversation about its issues. [via]
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The Age of McCarthyismby SchrickerISBN 0312083491 (0-312-08349-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documentsby Ellen SchreckerISBN 0312393199 (0-312-39319-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents'Book summary:Incorporating important recent scholarship, this popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the U.S. The volumes 95-page essay follows the campaign against domestic subversion from its origins in the 1930s through its escalation in the 1940s to its decline in the 1950s. The second part includes over 47 original documents (including 6 new sources) congressional transcripts, FBI reports, speeches, and letters that chronicle the anti-Communist crusade. The essay and documents have been thoroughly updated to reflect new scholarship and recently revealed archival evidence of Soviet spying in the U.S. Also included are headnotes to the documents, 15 black-and-white photographs, a glossary, a chronology of McCarthyism, a revised bibliographical essay, and an index.[via]More editions of The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents:
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Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents: ISBN 0312393199 (0-312-39319-9)
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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 0312282990 (0-312-28299-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'Book summary:Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship. In short order, Sam's talent for pulp plotting meets Joe's faultless, academy-trained line, and a comic-book superhero is born. A sort of lantern-jawed equalizer clad in dark blue long underwear, the Escapist "roams the globe, performing amazing feats and coming to the aid of those who languish in tyranny's chains!" Before they know it, Kavalier and Clay (as Sam Klayman has come to be known) find themselves at the epicenter of comics' golden age.
But Joe Kavalier is driven by motives far more complex than your average hack. In fact, his first act as a comic-book artist is to deal Hitler a very literal blow. (The cover of the first issue shows the Escapist delivering "an immortal haymaker" onto the Führer's realistically bloody jaw.) In subsequent years, the Escapist and his superhero allies take on the evil Iron Chain and their leader Attila Haxoff--their battles drawn with an intensity that grows more disturbing as Joe's efforts to rescue his family fail. He's fighting their war with brush and ink, Joe thinks, and the idea sustains him long enough to meet the beautiful Rosa Saks, a surrealist artist and surprisingly retrograde muse. But when even that fiction fails him, Joe performs an escape of his own, leaving Rosa and Sammy to pick up the pieces in some increasingly wrong-headed ways.
More amazing adventures follow--but reader, why spoil the fun? Suffice to say, Michael Chabon writes novels like the Escapist busts locks. Previous books such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys have prose of equal shimmer and wit, and yet here he seems to have finally found a canvas big enough for his gifts. The whole enterprise seems animated by love: for his alternately deluded, damaged, and painfully sincere characters; for the quirks and curious innocence of tough-talking wartime New York; and, above all, for comics themselves, "the inspirations and lucubrations of five hundred aging boys dreaming as hard as they could." Far from negating such pleasures, the Holocaust's presence in the novel only makes them more pressing. Art, if not capable of actually fighting evil, can at least offer a gesture of defiance and hope--a way out, in other words, of a world gone completely mad. Comic-book critics, Joe notices, dwell on "the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life." Indeed. --Mary Park [via]
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America the Unusualby John W. KingdonISBN 0312189710 (0-312-18971-0)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America the Unusual'Book summary:This book explores the uniqueness of the American system of government and how it acquired its distinctiveness. John Kingdon argues that America is fundamentally different from other industrialized countries and surveys diverse perspectives on American development in an effort to explain why America is so distinct. He then assesses what does and does not work in the American political system, arguing for a tempering of American doctrines and a return to pragmatism.[via]-
And the Band Played onby Randy ShiltsISBN 0312241356 (0-312-24135-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Band Played on'Book summary:In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examines the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first five years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, who he claims cut funding, ignored calls for action and deliberately misled Congress. Shilts doesn't stop there, wondering why more people in the gay community, the mass media and the country at large didn't stand up in anger more quickly. The AIDS pandemic is one of the most striking developments of the late 20th century and this is the definitive story of its beginnings. [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Walker, Nancy, A.ISBN 0312195753 (0-312-19575-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.
The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French phrases and information about New Orleans locales, customs, and lore, the Bayou region, and Creole culture. "Bibliographical and Historical Contexts", expanded and introduced by a new Editors Note, presents biographical, historical, and cultural documents contemporary with the novels publication. Included are a biographical essay by the acclaimed Chopin biographer Emily Toth, "An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler" with selections from the conduct books of the period in which Chopin lived and wrote, and period fashion plates from Harpers Bazar. A comprehensive "Criticism" section, introduced by a new Editors Note, contains expanded selections from hard-to-find contemporary reviews of the novel; two letters of mysterious origin written in response to the novel; and Chopins "Retraction," which followed The Awakenings negative reception. These are followed by twenty-seven interpretive essays, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, that provide a variety of perspectives on The Awakening, including essays by Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Nancy Walker, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Paula A. Treichler, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lee R. Edwards, Patricia S. Yaeger, Elizabeth Ammons, and Elaine Showalter. A Chronology of Chopins life and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included. [via] 
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truthby Joe ConasonISBN 0312315619 (0-312-31561-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Blinded by Might: Why the Religious Right Save America?by Cal Thomas, Ed DobsonISBN 0310238366 (0-310-23836-6)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Charles Dickens' Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0312080824 (0-312-08082-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Dickens' Great Expectations'Book summary:Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.[via]More editions of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations:
A Cigar Means Never Having to Say You're Sorryby Jeff MacNellyISBN 031202651X (0-312-02651-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Crashing the Party : How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for Presidentby Ralph NaderISBN 0312284330 (0-312-28433-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrenderby Ralph NaderISBN 0312302584 (0-312-30258-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to Americaby Michael Nava, Robert DawidoffISBN 0312117647 (0-312-11764-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Critical Pathby Richard Buckminster FullerISBN 0312174918 (0-312-17491-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Path'Book summary:R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern life and thought.
Critical Path is Fuller's master work--the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern--as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication in 1981. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation--at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, environmental, and ethical crises.
The crowning achievement of an extraordinary career, Critical Path offers the reader the excitement of understanding the essential dilemmas of our time and how responsible citizens can rise to meet this ultimate challenge to our future.
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Democracy for the Fewby Michael ParentiISBN 0312052332 (0-312-05233-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debateby Naomi Klein, Debra Ann LevyISBN 0312307993 (0-312-30799-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate'Book summary:Naomi Kleins No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.[via]
Named one of Ms Magazines Women of Year in 2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world, in Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a birds-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the anti-globalization movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food; free trade; or the development of the movement itself and its future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant activists and thinkers for a new generation.More editions of Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate:
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Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American Presidentby James HatfieldISBN 0312242689 (0-312-24268-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President'Book summary:Let's cut to the chase: yes, J.H. Hatfield alleges that, in 1972, George W. Bush was arrested for possession of cocaine and, with the help of his father, got the charges erased in exchange for performing community service. Other than that, however, Fortunate Son is a standard quickie biography of the Texas governor and frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the 2000 presidential race--and useful primarily because few people outside of Texas (for that matter, few people within Texas) know much about Bush's history and political record. It's all about connections, Hatfield says: if he'd had a different father, Bush "could be just another Texan who failed in the oil business and now operates a shrimp boat in the Gulf of Mexico." The bombshell doesn't even come until a short afterword, tacked onto the already completed manuscript at the last minute, complete with a "Deep Throat" within Bush's inner circle. (Said informant throws in an almost too perfectly worded attack on the governor's hypocrisy in vigorously fighting the war on drugs: "I've known George for several years and he has never accepted youth and irresponsibility as legitimate excuses for illegal behavior--except when it comes to himself.")
Bush has denied the allegations, however, and it seems that Hatfield has a few dark secrets in his past. Shortly after the publication of Fortunate Son, The Dallas Morning News reported that Hatfield was a paroled felon who had attempted to hire a hit man to kill his boss. The online magazine Salon went on to add that he may have lied about his history as a freelance journalist and invented a fictitious award for a previous book. Throw in the skepticism of many journalists at the afterword's heavy reliance on anonymous sources, and Hatfield's credibility is in serious jeopardy. For his part, the author maintains that the paroled felon is a different James H. Hatfield, born the same month and year and living in the same part of the country, and if public records say otherwise, he argues: "Doesn't it sound a little bit weird to you that all of a sudden, the guy that's accusing potentially the next president of the United States of having his record expunged, all of a sudden miraculously has a record himself in the state of Texas?" It should perhaps be noted that among Hatfield's previous books is an unauthorized guide to The X-Files. [via]
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Guevara, Also Known As Cheby Paco Ignacio TaiboISBN 0312155395 (0-312-15539-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guevara, Also Known As Che'Book summary:Taibo, whose extensive contacts within Latin American political activism have given him unprecedented access to hitherto untapped sources, probes Che Guevara's life with a storyteller's pen and an historian's judgment, investigating the mystery and myth surrounding Che's life, careers, and ideals. [via]
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Guevara, Also Known as Cheby Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II, Martin RobertsISBN 0312206526 (0-312-20652-6)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312114915 (0-312-11491-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:[via]Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.
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Heart of Darknessby Ross C. Murfin, Joseph ConradISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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Homeland Insecurity: Complete News Archivesby Rich Dahm, Amie Barrodale, Mike DiCenzo, Onion, Carol KolbISBN 030733984X (0-307-33984-X)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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Onion fans hear this! Homeland Insecurity is the largest collection of award-winning journalism from Americas Finest News Source ever released, and that means you must buy it! Featuring every brilliantly biting article printed in The Onion between November 2004 and December 2005, a time in our countrys history ripe for further examination by Americas Finest News Source, Homeland Insecurity collects all the news reporting you were too lazy to read when it first appeared, now delivered in a handy single volume that will fit perfectly on the bookshelf of your dorm, ward, or cell. Homeland Insecurity is Volume 17 in the always bestselling and always entertaining Onion series.
The Onion is the worlds most popular humor publication, with more than 3.8 million weekly visitors to its website (theonion.com) and a print circulation of more than 500,000. More than a million copies of its various books have been sold to date, beginning with Our Dumb Century, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. [via]More editions of Homeland Insecurity: Complete News Archives:
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How to Be Alone: Essaysby Jonathan FranzenISBN 0312422164 (0-312-42216-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Be Alone: Essays'Book summary:Jonathan Franzen is smart and brash, the kind of person you want as your social critic but not as a brother-in-law. Many of the 14 essays in How to Be Alone, by the author of the 2001 novel The Corrections, first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and elsewhere. A long, much-discussed rumination on the American novel, (newly) titled "Why Bother?", is included, as well as essays on privacy obsession, the U.S. post office, New York City, big tobacco, and new prisons. At his best, as in a piece on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's, Franzen can make the ordinary world utterly riveting. But at times, it can be difficult to discern where Franzen stands on any particular subject, as he often takes both sides of an argument. Valid attempts to reflect ambiguity sometimes lead to obfuscation, especially in his essays on privacy and tobacco, although his belief that small-town America of years gone by offered the individual little privacy certainly rings true. Franzen can write with panache, as in this comment after he watched, without headphones, a TV show during a flight: "(It) became an exposé of the hydraulics of insincere smiles." A few of the shorter pieces appear to be filler. Franzen shines brightest when he gets edgy and a little angry, as in "The Reader in Exile": "Instead of Manassas battlefield, a historical theme park. Instead of organizing narratives, a map of the world as complex as the world itself. Instead of a soul, membership in a crowd. Instead of wisdom, data." --Mark Frutkin [via]
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International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealthby Jeffry A. Frieden, David A. LakeISBN 0312189699 (0-312-18969-9)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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The Irish Famine : A Documentaryby Colm Toibin, Diarmaid FerriterISBN 0312300514 (0-312-30051-4)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Irish Famine : A Documentary'Book summary:The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s has been popularly perceived as a genocide attributable to the British government. In professional historical circles, however, such singular thinking was dismissed many years ago, as evidenced by the scathing academic response to Cecil Woodham-Smith's 1963 classic, The Great Hunger, which, in addition to presenting a vivid and horrifying picture of the human suffering, made strong accusations against the British government's failure to act.[via]
And while British governmental sins of omission and commission during the famine played their part, there is a broader context of land agitation and regional influences of class conflict within Ireland that also contributed to the starvation of more than a million people.
This remarkable book opens a door to understanding all sides to this tragedy with an absorbing history provided by novelist Colm Toibin that is supported by a collection of key documents selected by historian Diarmaid Ferriter. An important piece of revisionist thinking, The Irish Famine: A Documentary is sure to become the classic primer for this lamentable period of Irish history.More editions of The Irish Famine : A Documentary:
Looking Forward To It: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The American Electoral Processby Stephen ElliottISBN 0312424159 (0-312-42415-9)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Libertyby James BovardISBN 0312123337 (0-312-12333-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty'Book summary:From Justice Department officials seizing people's homes based on mere rumors to the IRS and its master plan to prohibit the nation's self-employed from working for themselves to the perpetrators of the Waco siege, government officials are tearing the Bill of Rights to pieces. Today's citizen is now more likely than ever to violate some unknown law or regulation and be placed at the mercy of an administrator or politician hungering for publicity. Unfortunately, the only way many government agencies can measure their "public service" is by the number of citizens they harass, hinder, restrain, or jail. Already a major issue in the deliberations of the Congress that took office in January of 1995, the power and size of government is certain to be a prominent factor in the 1996 presidential elections. Lost Rights provides a highly entertaining analysis of the bloated excess of government and the plight of contemporary Americans beaten into submission by a horrible parody of the Founding Fathers' dream.[via]More editions of Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty:
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Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albrightby Thomas BloodISBN 0312195052 (0-312-19505-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright'Book summary:No American envoy has ever burst on the diplomatic scene and grabbed center stage in the theater of foreign relations like Madeleine Albright. Navigating difficult terrain as few can, Thomas Blood provides exclusive interviews with, and revealing anecdotes from, politicians, friends, adversaries, and colleagues, including former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Senators Leahy, Mikulski, Kerrey, Helms, Reid, and Rockefeller, and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt.[via]
This unique biography reveals the dramatic story of the first woman U.S. Secretary of State. Rather than providing a simple chronology, Blood focuses on the defining moments in Madeleine Albright's life, identifying the periods that best open a window on the Secretary of State's uncanny ability to triumph over adversity, her unparalleled success in politics and her meteoric rise to dominance in the world of foreign policy.
From her family's thrilling escape from Czechoslovakia to her astounding rise to power to her victories and setbacks as the head of American foreign policy, Madeleine Albright's life unfolds like a major motion picture. An immensely readable biogrpahy that illuminates key experiences in Albright's career and personal life, Madam Secretary introduces us to Madeleine Albright the person, the politician, the policymaker-- a woman for our times.More editions of Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright:
The Modern Presidencyby James P. PfiffnerISBN 0312075065 (0-312-07506-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Music Lessonby Katharine WeberISBN 0312252854 (0-312-25285-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Music Lesson'Book summary:Patricia Dolan defines herself by her job as an art historian and her identity as an Irish American. When she is 41, the combination of the two proves explosive, leading her to a rough cottage in West Cork. In Ireland she has for company only her own words, one elderly neighbor, and "The Music Lesson," a beautiful Vermeer executed on wood. As she anticipates the arrival of Mickey, her distant relative and lover, Patricia slowly, tantalizingly reveals the events that have led to her isolation. Before Mickey had appeared one day outside her office at New York's Frick Museum, she had become inured to loss and death, a high-functioning depressive. But her 25-year-old third cousin once removed reawakens her. Alas, his interest is both personal and political, and she is soon involved in a plot to kidnap and ransom the Vermeer, property of the Queen. The painting, she tells herself fervently, "is an instrument of magic. Perhaps now it is also an instrument of change, a talisman, the charm that will force powerful people to pay attention and take decisive action at last."
The Music Lesson is far from your everyday, action-packed IRA saga. Instead, Katharine Weber's second novel is very much like the intimate portrait her heroine so lovingly describes--an exquisite miniature in which images, ideas, and deep emotions keep coming out of the woodwork. --Kerry Fried [via]
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People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisisby Charles DerberISBN 0312306709 (0-312-30670-9)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The Politics of International Economic Relationsby Joan E. SperoISBN 0312084765 (0-312-08476-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Princess Aliceby Carol FelsenthalISBN 031202536X (0-312-02536-X)
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Princess Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworthby Carol FelsenthalISBN 0312302223 (0-312-30222-3)
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A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fryby Andy MarinoISBN 0312267673 (0-312-26767-3)
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The Satanic Verses : A Novelby Salman RushdieISBN 0312270828 (0-312-27082-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Satanic Verses : A Novel'Book summary:No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner. [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312256930 (0-312-25693-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.[via] -
The Science of Star Warsby Jeanne CavelosISBN 0312263872 (0-312-26387-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Science of Star Wars'Book summary:Jeanne Cavelos says, "Star Wars fueled my interest in space exploration and the possibility of alien life," leading her to a career in astrophysics. While these movies have inspired her, she admits that may not have been their intention.
In creating the part science fiction/part fantasy/part myth that is Star Wars, George Lucas did not seek to create a futuristic universe that agreed perfectly with our current understanding of science.... How realistic, how possible, is this galaxy far, far away?
The answer when A New Hope first came out was "not at all." But a strange thing has happened in the years since Star Wars first came out. Science is beginning to catch up with George Lucas.
Cavelos looks at Lucas's planets, aliens, droids, technology, and Force with both rationality and affection. The droids R2-D2 and C-3P0, among others, become more interesting and almost credible after her consideration.
The element of Star Wars that is most true to science is the sense of wonder it calls forth, which has very little to do with how close it is to a possible future. Or, as Steve Grand, director of the Cyberlife Institute, said to Cavelos: "I never try to let scientific implausibility get in the way of a good story!" --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Science of Star Wars: An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets and Robots as Portrayed in the Star Wars Films and Booksby Jeanne CavelosISBN 0312209584 (0-312-20958-4)
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Shake the Hand, Bite the Tacoby Jeff MacNellyISBN 031203931X (0-312-03931-X)
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The Shoes of the Fishermanby Morris WestISBN 0312044216 (0-312-04421-6)
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Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide Americaby Larry ElderISBN 0312320175 (0-312-32017-5)
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The Sixties and the End of Modern Americaby David SteigerwaldISBN 0312090072 (0-312-09007-2)
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Sons of Fortuneby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0312313195 (0-312-31319-5)
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Steppenwolfby Hermann HesseISBN 0312278675 (0-312-27867-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steppenwolf'Book summary:With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesses best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literatures most poetic evocations of the souls journey to liberation[via]
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 meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic TheaterFor Madmen Only!
Originally published in English in 1929, Steppenwolf s wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature.More editions of Steppenwolf:
The Ten Things You Can't Say in Americaby Larry ElderISBN 0312284659 (0-312-28465-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ten Things You Can't Say in America'Book summary:From Rush Limbaugh to Howard Stern, America tunes in to its radio hosts both on the air and between covers, accepting them as truth-tellers without agendas, the perfect gadflies for the age of too much information. In an era where everyone seems bought and paid for, they cut through it all to tell it like it is. For Fall 2000--just in time to enter the fray for the presidential election season-St. Martin's is happy to present the most unfettered voice of all, Larry Elder. Larry Elder has been igniting passions and conversations for five years at the top of the competitive drive-time radio heap, KABC in Los Angeles-the "Sage from South Central" punctures pretensions, refuses to accept the accepted wisdom, and puts everyone on notice that the status quo needs to be shaken up. From his outrage over the entrenched "victicrat" society and how it keeps believers spinning their wheels, to his trenchant observations on work, leadership, race, special interests, politics and more, Larry is a clarion voice that cuts through what the usual suspects say and hear."Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care crisis, unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions." -- Larry ElderThe Ten Things You Can't Say In America:Blacks are More Racist than WhitesWhite Condescension is as Real as Black RacismThe Media Bias: It's Real, It's Widespread, It's DestructiveThe Glass Ceiling: Full of HolesAmerica's Greatest Problem: IllegitimacyThe Big Lie: Our Health Care CrisisThe Welfare State: Helping Us to DeathRepublican v. [via]
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Theory and Methods in Political Scienceby Gerry Stoker, David MarshISBN 0312127626 (0-312-12762-6)
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Too Old for Summer Camp and Too Young to Retire: A New Shoe Bookby Jeff MacNellyISBN 0312018223 (0-312-01822-3)
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Tune in Tomorrowby Tom TomorrowISBN 0312113447 (0-312-11344-7)
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass Worldby Eduardo Galeano, Jose Guadalupe Posada, Mark FriedISBN 0312420315 (0-312-42031-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World'Book summary:In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. 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 "The Right to Rave"he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness.[via]
We have accepted a "reality" we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed.More editions of Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World:
War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Landby Anton LA GuardiaISBN 031231633X (0-312-31633-X)
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip GourevitchISBN 0312243359 (0-312-24335-9)
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The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan [via]
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The White House Pantry Murder/an Eleanor Roosevelt Mysteryby Elliott RooseveltISBN 0312002025 (0-312-00202-5)
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Why Nations Go To Warby John G. StoessingerISBN 0312080352 (0-312-08035-2)
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Warby Max BrooksISBN 0307346617 (0-307-34661-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War'Book summary:Soon to be a major motion picture!
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, By excluding the human factor, arent we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnt the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as the living dead?
Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.
Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war
I found Patient Zero behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although hed rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was cursed. I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boys skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse. Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China
Shock and Awe? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy cant be shocked and awed? Not just wont, but biologically cant! Thats what happened that day outside New York City, thats the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnt shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyre not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid! Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers
Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth. General Travis DAmbrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe [via]More editions of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War:
The Wrath of Sparkyby Tom TomorrowISBN 0312137532 (0-312-13753-2)
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