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Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biographyby Peter GreenISBN 0520071662 (0-520-07166-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography'Book summary:There's no shortage of biographies available on Alexander the Great, but Peter Green's Alexander of Macedon is one of the finest. The prose is crisp and clear, and within a few pages readers become absorbed in the world that made Alexander, and then the story of how Alexander remade it. Green writes, "Alexander's true genius was as a field-commander: perhaps, taken all in all, the most incomparable general the world has ever seen. His gift for speed, improvisation, variety of strategy; his cool-headedness in a crisis; his ability to extract himself from the most impossible situations; his mastery of terrain; his psychological ability to penetrate the enemy's intentions--all these qualities place him at the very head of the Great Captains of history." [via]
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Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Societyby Bertell OllmanISBN 0521212812 (0-521-21281-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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American Homo: Community and Perversityby Jeffrey EscoffierISBN 0520206339 (0-520-20633-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Asphalt Nation : How the Automobile Took over America and How We Can Take It Backby Jane H. KayISBN 0517587025 (0-517-58702-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took over America, and How We Can Take It Backby Jane Holtz KayISBN 0520216202 (0-520-21620-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took over America, and How We Can Take It Back'Book summary:Commuters, here's some food for thought: collectively, Americans spend more than 8 billion hours each year stuck in traffic. This is just one of the horrifying statistics mentioned in Jane Holtz Kay's Asphalt Nation, an eye-opening look at the relationship between Americans and their cars. Kay asserts that the automobile is destroying our communities, our environment, and our economic competitiveness, and her supporting arguments are pretty persuasive. In addition to the billions of hours wasted in gridlock, Kay notes that our daily drives are becoming longer and more frequent, and that increased mileage has nullified any advances in emission controls. Asphalt Nation is comprised of three parts: the first, "Car Glut: A Nation in Lifelock," examines the impact of the automobile culture on life in the United States today. "Car Tracks: The Machine That Made the Land" traces the history of cars from Henry Ford to the present, while "Car Free: From Dead End to Exit" imagines a happier future without automobile dependency.
What makes Asphalt Nation far more interesting than the typical anti-auto diatribe is Kay's discussion of the cultural mores that helped create America's current car glut--namely, our attitudes toward land use and growth management; her comparisons between American and European practices in these areas are particularly interesting. Others have written about the American love affair with the automobile, but Holtz revisits the discussion with lively writing and a dramatic narrative. [via]
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Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of Historyby Norman FinkelsteinISBN 0520249895 (0-520-24989-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History'Book summary:In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict.[via]
Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
Finkelstein also scrutinizes the proliferation of distortion masquerading as history. Recalling Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial, published to great fanfare in 1984 but subsequently exposed as an academic hoax, he asks deeply troubling questions here about the periodic reappearance of spurious scholarship and the uncritical acclaim it receives. The most recent addition to this genre, Finkelstein argues, is Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's bestseller, The Case for Israel.
The core analysis of Beyond Chutzpah sets Dershowitz's assertions on Israel's human rights record against the findings of the mainstream human rights community. Sifting through thousands of pages of reports from organizations such as Amnesty International, B'Tselem, and Human Rights Watch, Finkelstein argues that Dershowitz has misrepresented the facts.
Thoroughly researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah lifts the veil of controversy shrouding the Israel-Palestine conflict.More editions of Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History:
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The Book of the Courtierby Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte, Leonard Eckstein OpdyckeISBN 0486427021 (0-486-42702-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Courtier'Book summary:An insider's view of court life and culture during the Renaissance, here is the handiwork of a 16th-century diplomat who was called upon to resolve the differences in a war of etiquette among the Italian nobility. The ultimate resource on aristocratic manners, it remains the most definitive account of life among the Renaissance nobility.[via]More editions of The Book of the Courtier:
British Constitution Made Simpleby Colin Frank PadfieldISBN 049100852X (0-491-00852-X)
Softcover, W. H. Allen
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Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837by Linda ColleyISBN 0517136163 (0-517-13616-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Chechnya: Life In a War-Torn Societyby Valerii Aleksandrovich Tishkov, Mikhail S. GorbachevISBN 0520238885 (0-520-23888-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Romeby Christopher ScarreISBN 0500050775 (0-500-05077-5)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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The Common Lawby Oliver W. HolmesISBN 0486267466 (0-486-26746-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Common Law'Book summary:Only paperback edition of great legal classic by noted Supreme Court Justice. Lucid, accessible coverage, from a historical perspective, of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, many other aspects of civil and criminal law. Indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, interested general readers.[via]More editions of The Common Law:
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The Complete Book of U.S. Presidentsby William A. Degregorio, Connie Jo DickersonISBN 0517183536 (0-517-18353-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents'Book summary:This is the consummate guide to the political and personal lives of every U. S. president through Bill Clinton. Arranged chronologically, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents elaborates not only on the major accomplishments and events of their terms, but also on less well-known details such as personalities, careers before the presidency, Supreme Court appointments, hobbies, ethnic backgrounds, and even extramarital affairs. Well-organized and packed with details, the book also includes a bibliography on each executive, including books written by and about them, along with useful and entertaining appendixes on the political composition of every Congress, presidential curiosities (such as the uncanny similarities between the lives and deaths of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy), and a ranking of presidents. Whether you want to know the opponent of James Monroe in the election of 1816 or read some of Harry S. Truman's more memorable quotes, this is a most complete and thorough reference to each commander in chief. [via]
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Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty, 1400-1800by DickensISBN 0500250502 (0-500-25050-2)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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Culture and Anarchyby Matthew ArnoldISBN 0521091039 (0-521-09103-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Anarchy'Book summary:Manifesting the special intelligence of a literary critic of original gifts, Culture and Anarchy is still a living classic. It is addressed to the flexible and the disinterested, to those who are not committed to the findings of their particular discipline, and it assumes in its reader a critical intelligence that will begin its work with the reader himself. Arnold employs a delicate and stringent irony in an examination of the society of his time: a rapidly expanding industrial society, just beginning to accustom itself to the changes in its institutions that the pace of its own development called for. Coming virtually at the end of the decade (1868) and immediately prior to W. E. Forster's Education Act, Culture and Anarchy phrases with a particular cogency the problems that find their centre in the questions: what kind of life do we think individuals in mass societies should be assisted to lead? How may we best ensure that the quality of their living is not impoverished? Arnold applies himself to the detail of his time: to the case of Mr Smith 'who feared he would come to poverty and be eternally lost', to the Reform agitation, to the commercial values that working people were encouraged to respect, and to the limitations of even the best Rationalist intelligence. The degree of local reference is therefore high, but John Dover Wilson's introduction and notes to this edition supply valuable assistance to a reader fresh to the period. [via]
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Dante's Divine Comedy: 15th-Century Manuscriptby Dante Alighieri, Sergio Samek Ludovici, Nino RavennaISBN 0517282879 (0-517-28287-9)
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Democracy and Educationby DeweyISBN 0486433994 (0-486-43399-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy and Education'Book summary:In this landmark work on public education, Dewey discusses methods of providing quality public education in a democratic society. First published close to 90 years ago, it sounded the call for a revolution in education, stressing growth, experience, and activity as factors that promote a democratic character in students.[via]More editions of Democracy and Education:
Disclosureby Michael CrichtonISBN 0517157624 (0-517-15762-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United Statesby Jacob S. HackerISBN 0521013283 (0-521-01328-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486411273 (0-486-41127-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:Sublime poetic masterpiece recounting the poet's allegorical journey through the afterlife follows Dante through the infernal regions of Hell, where punishment is determined by gravity of sinner's transgressions, through Purgatory where souls are atoning for their misdeeds and to the entrance to Paradise, where he meets his beloved Beatrice.[via]More editions of The Divine Comedy:
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandingby David HumeISBN 0486434443 (0-486-43444-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Villageby William HintonISBN 0520210409 (0-520-21040-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village'Book summary:More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential source for those fascinated with China's continual process of rural reform and social change. This edition will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China's complex social processes, and to those who wish to rediscover and re-experience this classic volume again.[via]More editions of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village:
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954by Lee D. BakerISBN 0520211685 (0-520-21168-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Gay Rights and American Lawby Daniel R. PinelloISBN 0521012147 (0-521-01214-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gay Rights and American Law'Book summary:Daniel Pinello's exhaustive study analyzes how federal and state appellate courts treated the civil rights claims of lesbians and gay men between 1981 and 2000. Pinello examines 1,439 votes by 849 appellate judges in 398 decisions and opinions from 87 courts in all federal jurisdictions and 47 states. His investigation reveals that legal variables; judges' personal attributes; environmental factors (juridical ideology, consensual sodomy statutes, and gay civil rights laws); institutional determinants (judicial selection method and term length); and time and interest group participation were significant forces in judicial policymaking. [via]
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The Gay Scienceby Friedrich Nietzsche, Common, Thomas (RTL)ISBN 0486452468 (0-486-45246-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gay Science'Book summary:"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.." This is the book in which Nietzsche put forth his boldest declaration. It is also his most personal, featuring some of the author's most important discussions of art, morality, knowledge, and, ultimately, truth.[via]More editions of The Gay Science:
The Good Societyby R. BellahISBN 0517131714 (0-517-13171-4)
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Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing Youby James B. Steele, Donald BarlettISBN 0520236106 (0-520-23610-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0486272788 (0-486-27278-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0486419207 (0-486-41920-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Classic 1845 novel offers a powerful indictment of the dehumanizing effects of mid-19th-century industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a sterile atmosphere of strict practicality. With no guiding principles, the young Gradgrinds sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim backdrop of Coketown, a wretched industrial community.[via]More editions of Hard Times:
Hegel's Theory of the Modern State.by Shlomo AvineriISBN 0521098327 (0-521-09832-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Eraby Micheline IshayISBN 0520234979 (0-520-23497-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517542099 (0-517-54209-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:Don't panic! You're not timetripping! It's the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!
By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.
For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who've read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams's unique universe -- remember -- don't panic, don't forget to bring a towel, and don't forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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Hitchhikers Trilogy Omnibus Edby CrownISBN 0517552000 (0-517-55200-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitchhikers Trilogy Omnibus Ed'Book summary:Contains The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, The Restaurant at the endof the Universe, and life, the universe and everything [via]
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Human, All-too-humanby Helen Zimmern, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul V. Cohn, J. M. KennedyISBN 0486445666 (0-486-44566-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human, All-too-human'Book summary:The philosopher reviews his usual morality, religion, government, society with his characteristic depth of perception, unflinching honesty, and iconoclastic wit. But Nietzsche's manner of expression takes a new, aphoristic turn. More than 1,400 incisive and poetic aphorisms appear here, expressing many themes developed in Nietzsche's later works.[via]More editions of Human, All-too-human:
The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840by Richard HofstadterISBN 0520017544 (0-520-01754-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, And the Politics of Knowledgeby Steven EpsteinISBN 0520214455 (0-520-21445-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, And the Politics of Knowledge'Book summary:In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty is constructed or deconstructed," leading us through the views of medical researchers, activists, policy makers, and others to discover how knowledge about AIDS emerges out of what he calls "credibility struggles."[via]
Epstein shows the extent to which AIDS research has been a social and political phenomenon and how the AIDS movement has transformed biomedical research practices through its capacity to garner credibility by novel strategies. Epstein finds that nonscientist AIDS activists have gained enough of a voice in the scientific world to shape NIH-sponsored research to a remarkable extent. Because of the blurring of roles and responsibilities, the production of biomedical knowledge about AIDS does not, he says, follow the pathways common to science; indeed, AIDS research can only be understood as a field that is unusually broad, public, and contested. He concludes by analyzing recent moves to democratize biomedicine, arguing that although AIDS activists have set the stage for new challenges to scientific authority, all social movements that seek to democratize expertise face unusual difficulties.
Avoiding polemics and accusations, Epstein provides a benchmark account of the AIDS epidemic to date, one that will be as useful to activists, policy makers, and general readers as to sociologists, physicians, and scientists.More editions of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, And the Politics of Knowledge:
Inside the Third Reichby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517385791 (0-517-38579-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Musicby James JoyceISBN 051708239X (0-517-08239-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce : Dubliners, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Chamber Music'Book summary:An eclectic volume of works by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century includes a short story collection, his most famous novel, and an early sequence of poems. [via]
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The John F. Kennedys: A Family Albumby Mark ShawISBN 0517424002 (0-517-42400-2)
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King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 0486280586 (0-486-28058-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en/Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark, and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Language Warby Robin LakoffISBN 0520232070 (0-520-23207-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language War'Book summary:Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political correctness, the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady, O. J. Simpson's murder trial, the Ebonics controversy, and the Clinton sex scandal--Lakoff shows that the struggle for power and status at the end of the century is being played out as a war over language. Controlling language is a basis for all power, she says, and therefore it is worth fighting for. As a result, newly emergent groups, especially blacks and women, are contending with middle- to upper-class white men for a share in "language rights."[via]
Lakoff's introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet what she calls the UAT (Undue Attention Test). As the stories became the subject of talk-show debates, late-night comedy routines, Web sites, and magazine articles, they were embroidered with additional meanings, depending on who was telling the story. Race, gender, or both are at the heart of these stories, and each one is about the right to construct meanings from languagein short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we are connected to one another, who has power and who does not, the stories reflect the language war.
We use language to analyze what we call "reality," the author argues, but we mistrust how language is used today--witness the "politics of personal destruction" following the Clinton impeachment. Yet Lakoff sees in the struggle over language a positive goal: equality in the creation of our national discourse. Her writing is accessible and witty, and her excerpts from the media are used to great effect. 
Last Chance to Seeby Douglas Adams, Mark CarwardineISBN 051710976X (0-517-10976-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Chance to See'Book summary:The best-selling science fiction humorist Douglas Adams accompanies a world-class zoologist on an around-the-world trip in search of exotic, endangered creatures. By turns hilarious and poignant, this is a treat for Adams fans and anyone who cares about Earth's wildlife. [via]
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0486278026 (0-486-27802-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares. [via]
Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency 1972-1976by Jules WitcoverISBN 0517293161 (0-517-29316-1)
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Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Traditionby Lucy G. BarberISBN 0520242157 (0-520-24215-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip IIby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0520203089 (0-520-20308-9)
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The Moor's Last Sighby Salman RushdieISBN 0517199513 (0-517-19951-3)
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolutionby Petr Alekseevich KropotkinISBN 0486449130 (0-486-44913-0)
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. ChestertonISBN 048626551X (0-486-26551-X)
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in Historyby Thomas Carlyle, Michael K. GoldbergISBN 0520075153 (0-520-07515-3)
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Parliamentary Reform 1640-1832by John Ashton CannonISBN 0521097363 (0-521-09736-3)
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grantby Ulysses S. GrantISBN 0486285871 (0-486-28587-1)
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Plato: Five Great Dialogues Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republicby Plato, Louise Ropes LoomisISBN 0517146800 (0-517-14680-0)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 0486280500 (0-486-28050-0)
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The Principles of Political Economy and Taxationby David Ricardo, F. W. KolthammerISBN 0486434613 (0-486-43461-3)
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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in Americaby Jonathan KozolISBN 051756730X (0-517-56730-X)
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There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly in any city you can name. RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN is an unforgettable record for humanity, of the desperate voices of the men, women, and especially children, and their hourly struggle for survival, homeless in America.
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Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American Westby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0520220668 (0-520-22066-8)
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Senator Joe McCarthyby R. Rovere, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0520204727 (0-520-20472-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Senator Joe McCarthy'Book summary:Richard Rovere, a longtime New Yorker staff writer who died in 1979, combined three all-too-rare journalistic traits--legwork, style, and bravery--to create this 1959 J'accuse, which Walter Lippman called "the definitive job." Rovere had a handle on the particulars, as illustrated by his surgical disassembly of Joe McCarthy's fantastic autobiography, and the abstract principles, as illustrated by his comment that McCarthy's victories were mostly in "matters of an almost cosmic insignificance." His causes celebres were causes ridicules. The University of California Press is to be congratulated for this paperback reissue. After all, even if anticommunism is on sabbatical, demagoguery is not, and it pays to stay up on the tricks of the trade. [via]
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Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics 1500-1700by Wayne Philip Te Brake, Wayne Ph. Te Brake, Wayne Te BrakeISBN 0520213181 (0-520-21318-1)
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Social and Political Thought of Karl Marxby Shlomo AvineriISBN 0521096197 (0-521-09619-7)
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A Song for Arbonneby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0517593122 (0-517-59312-2)
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Stealing Jesus : How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianityby Bruce BawerISBN 0517706822 (0-517-70682-2)
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The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart MillISBN 0486296016 (0-486-29601-6)
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A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life And Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangyeby William R. Siebenschuh, Melvyn Goldstein, Dawei SherapISBN 0520249925 (0-520-24992-5)
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The Timetables of History: A Chronology of World Eventsby Bernard Grun, Werner SteinISBN 0500250480 (0-500-25048-0)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0486268764 (0-486-26876-4)
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guideby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517124858 (0-517-12485-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide'Book summary:It's safe to say that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war--stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly.
This omnibus edition begins with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction. Then in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur and his new friends travel to the end of time and discover the true reason for Earth's existence. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, the gang goes on a mission to save the entire universe. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish recounts how Arthur finds true love and "God's Final Message to His Creation." Finally, Mostly Harmless is the story of Arthur's continuing search for home, in which he instead encounters his estranged daughter, who is on her own quest. There's also a bonus short story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," more of a vignette than a full story, which wraps up this completist's package of the Don't Panic chronicles. As the series progresses, its wackier elements diminish, but the satire of human life and foibles is ever present. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Under Western Eyes: Library Editionby Joseph ConradISBN 0486431649 (0-486-43164-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Western Eyes: Library Edition'Book summary:Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin[via]his close friend he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.More editions of Under Western Eyes: Library Edition:
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Understanding American Governmentby Susan Welch, Susan M. Rigdon, John Gruhl, John ComerISBN 0495098698 (0-495-09869-8)
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0486287386 (0-486-28738-6)
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Up from Slavery : An Authoritative Text, Contexts and Composition History, Criticismby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0517091224 (0-517-09122-4)
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Vietnamese Tradition on Trial 1920-10945by David G. MarrISBN 0520050819 (0-520-05081-9)
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary EdmondsISBN 0517399938 (0-517-39993-8)
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While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathyby Arthur D. MorseISBN 0517621797 (0-517-62179-7)
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