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The Activist's Handbook: A Primerby Randy ShawISBN 0520229282 (0-520-22928-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Activist's Handbook: A Primer for the 1990s and Beyondby Randy ShawISBN 0520203178 (0-520-20317-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0394563190 (0-394-56319-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nationby Jonathan KozolISBN 0517799995 (0-517-79999-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation'Book summary:The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. [via]
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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politicsby Cynthia EnloeISBN 0520229126 (0-520-22912-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics'Book summary:This radical new analysis of international politics reveals the crucial role of women in implementing governmental foreign policies, be it Soviet Glasnost, Britain's dealings in the EEC, or the NATO alliance. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes--governments restricting imported goods, bankers negotiating foreign loans, soldiers serving overseas--and shows that the real landscape is less exclusively male.[via]
Bananas, Beaches and Bases shows how thousands of women tailor their marriages to fit the demands of state secrecy; how foreign policy would grind to a halt without secretaries to handle money transfers or arms shipments; and how women are working in hotels and factories around the world in order to service their governments' debts.
Enloe also challenges common assumptions about what constitutes "international politics." She explains, for example, how turning tacos and sushi into bland fast foods affects relations between affluent and developing countries, and why a multinational banana company needs the brothel outside its gates. And she argues that shopping at Benneton, wearing Levis, working as a nanny (or employing one) or planning a vacation are all examples of foreign policy in action.
Bananas, Beaches and Bases does not ignore our curiosity about arms dealers, the President's men or official secrets. But it shows why these conventional clues are not sufficient for understanding how the international political system works. In exposing policymakers' reliance on false notions of "feminity" and "masculinity," Enloe dismantles a seemingly overwhelming world system, exposing it to be much more fragile and open to change than we are usually led to believe.More editions of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics:
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Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economyby Thomas Frank, Tom Frank, David MulcaheyISBN 0393324303 (0-393-32430-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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For a magazine dedicated to debunking the nation's business culture, the final years of the twentieth century overflowed with bounty. "It was the most spectacular outbreak of mass delirium that we are likely to see in our lifetimes," wrote the editors of The Baffler. What was for others the dawn of a "New Economy" was for The Baffler a cornucopia of absurdity the costliest political and financial hustle in living memory. Reporting from places far from the white-hot centers of the libertarian revolution, Baffler writers were the people of whom it was fashionable to say they just don't get it. While New Democrats turned somersaults for Wall Street and economic commentary became puffery, these bold, talented, and very funny writers observed the crescendo of folly with which the century turned. Here their best writings are selected, updated, and reaffirmed, to sharpen our wits and inoculate us against follies yet to come. [via]More editions of Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy:
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Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economyby Tom Frank, David MulcaheyISBN 0393057771 (0-393-05777-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy'Book summary:Salvos of sane and humorous dissent from the worship of the almighty market.
For a magazine dedicated to debunking the nation's business culture, the final years of the twentieth century overflowed with bounty. "It was the most spectacular outbreak of mass delirium that we are likely to see in our lifetimes," wrote the editors of The Baffler. What was for others the dawn of a "New Economy" was for The Baffler a cornucopia of absurdity the costliest political and financial hustle in living memory. Reporting from places far from the white-hot centers of the libertarian revolution, Baffler writers were the people of whom it was fashionable to say they just don't get it. While New Democrats turned somersaults for Wall Street and economic commentary became puffery, these bold, talented, and very funny writers observed the crescendo of folly with which the century turned. Here their best writings are selected, updated, and reaffirmed, to sharpen our wits and inoculate us against follies yet to come. [via]More editions of Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy:
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do Itby James Q. WilsonISBN 0465007856 (0-465-00785-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 039472657X (0-394-72657-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital. [via]
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Capitalism, Socialisby J. SchumpeterISBN 0613913434 (0-613-91343-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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City of Godby AugustineISBN 0606310711 (0-606-31071-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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City of Godby Marcus Dods, AugustineISBN 0394603974 (0-394-60397-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of God'Book summary:Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrote this book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit of earthly pleasures: "grasping for praise, open-handed with their money; honest in the pursuit of wealth, they wanted to hoard glory." Augustine contrasts his condemnation of Rome with an exaltation of Christian culture. The glory that Rome failed to attain will only be realized by citizens of the City of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem foreseen in Revelation. Because City of God was written for men of classical learning--custodians of the culture Augustine sought to condemn--it is thick with Ciceronian circumlocutions, and makes many stark contrasts between "Your Virgil" and "Our Scriptures." Even if Augustine's prose strikes modern ears as a bit bombastic, and if his polarized Christian/pagan world is more binary than the one we live in today, his arguments against utopianism and his defense of the richness of Christian culture remain useful and strong. City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The City of God Against the Pagansby R.W. Dyson, AugustineISBN 0521468434 (0-521-46843-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of God Against the Pagans'Book summary:This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought and late antiquity. [via]
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0393312836 (0-393-31283-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwellby Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia OrwellISBN 0436350181 (0-436-35018-1)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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The Confusionby Neal StephensonISBN 0434012386 (0-434-01238-6)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion'Book summary:Thrown back into a web of international intrigue, Eliza must contend with all manner of characters, including buccaneers, poisoners, Jesuits, financial manipulators, and ever the stray cryptographer or two.-In this hugely ambitious, profoundly compelling adventure, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery - men and women whose exploits defined an age known as the Baroque. [via]
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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the Worldby Edward W. SaidISBN 0394748085 (0-394-74808-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectationsby Christopher LaschISBN 0393307387 (0-393-30738-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations'Book summary:When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century.
The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, "The Culture of Narcissism Revisited." [via]More editions of Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations:
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Dead Rightby David FrumISBN 0465098258 (0-465-09825-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Right'Book summary:A forbes columnist discusses the ideological breakdown of the republican party, its failure to diminish the deficit or the size of government in twelve years of control, and outlines a plan for renewal through a return to basic issues.part reportage, part manifesto, dead right leads readers on a witty and opinionated tour through the chaos of post-reagan conservatism. It explains why the "religious right" is a phony menace ... why president reagan failed to eliminate even one major spending program ... why the 1992 republican convention, originally conceived as a cunning ploy, backfired ... and much more. David frum analyzes the conservative movement's turn away from the economic issues that dominated the 1980s to a new preoccupation with race, ethnicity, and sex. He explains how and why conservatives decided to stop fighting big government and start using it. And he warns that a conservatism that loses its anti-big government faith is doomed to futility. Dead right dissects the new conservative position on issues ranging from education to workfare, immigration to enterprise zones, and ruthlessly scrutinizes the leadership of the conservative movement. Always lively and provocative, this is the one book that conservatives and their critics must read to understand the past and future of the american right [via]
The Demon Lover on the Sexuality of Terrorismby Robin MorganISBN 0393306771 (0-393-30677-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Demon Lover on the Sexuality of Terrorism'Book summary:In the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon called "terrorism", Robin Morgan views the core of the problem as the sexual charisma that violence exudes, and she traces terrorism through its multiple contexts, including the political, cultural, and mythic. [via]
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Distractionby Bruce SterlingISBN 0553576399 (0-553-57639-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Distraction'Book summary:It's the year 2044, and America has gone to hell. A disenfranchised U.S. Air Force base has turned to highway robbery in order to pay the bills. Vast chunks of the population live nomadic lives fueled by cheap transportation and even cheaper computer power. Warfare has shifted from the battlefield to the global networks, and China holds the information edge over all comers. Global warming is raising sea level, which in turn is drowning coastal cities. And the U.S. government has become nearly meaningless. This is the world that Oscar Valparaiso would have been born into, if he'd actually been born instead of being grown in vitro by black market baby dealers. Oscar's bizarre genetic history (even he's not sure how much of him is actually human) hasn't prevented him from running one of the most successful senatorial races in history, getting his man elected by a whopping majority. But Oscar has put himself out of a job, since he'd only be a liability to his boss in Washington due to his problematic background. Instead, Oscar finds himself shuffled off to the Collaboratory, a Big Science pork barrel project that's run half by corruption and half by scientific breakthroughs. At first it seems to be a lose-lose proposition for Oscar, but soon he has his "krewe" whipped into shape and ready to take control of events. Now if only he can straighten out his love life and solve a worldwide crisis that no one else knows exists. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Powerby Niall FergusonISBN 0465023290 (0-465-02329-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power'Book summary:Niall Ferguson's compelling tour de force, Empire, was published to coincide with a British TV series. Ferguson, author of The Pity of War and The Cash Nexus, does not so much provide a synoptic survey of the British empire since the 17th century, as an arresting argument about why it arose, and how it fell. Ferguson's emphasis throughout is on the pursuit of economic profit and military might.
Piracy overseas and a taste for sugar and spice at home combined with an unerring ability to vanquish rival European powers, such as the Dutch and French, in the dash for stash and status across the globe. But Ferguson is also alive to the peculiarities of British dominion: the manly and Christian civil service--less than a thousand strong--who ruled India, missionaries such as Livingstone, who explored and mapped as they preached, and the barons of empire--Rhodes, Curzon, and Kitchener--who found in empire an outlet for their homoeroticism.
The book is brilliant and persuasive on trade and buccaneering before 1750, on India, on the late Victorian imperial mentalité, and on the two world wars, but less convincing on the empire of white settlement, and strangely silent on the most difficult colony of all, Ireland. In the end, Ferguson's penchant for polemic gets the upper hand--the book closes with a controversial balance sheet of the gains and losses of the British imperial experience--but he provides a riveting read nonetheless. --Miles Taylor [via]
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The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibilty for 9/11by Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0385510128 (0-385-51012-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performativeby Judith ButlerISBN 0415915880 (0-415-91588-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Expanded Universeby Robert HeinleinISBN 0441218830 (0-441-21883-0)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Expanded Universe'Book summary:The Wit and Wisdom of Robert A. Heinlein, author of multiple New York Times best sellers, on subjects ranging form Crime and Punishment to the Love life of the American Teenager; from Nuclear Power to the Pragmatics of Patriotism; from Prophecy to Destiny; from Geopolitic to Post-Holocaust America; fro the Nature of Courage to the Nature of Reality; it's all here and it's all great-straight from the mind of the finest science fiction writer of them all. But beware: after reading it, you too will occupy an Expanded Universe! [via]
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A Feast for Crowsby George R.R. MartinISBN 055358202X (0-553-58202-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Feast for Crows'Book summary:GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.
Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martins monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . . only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.
A FEAST FOR CROWS
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kings Landing. Robb Starks demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still existor they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.
But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising facessome familiar, others only just appearingare seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.
It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guestsbut only a few are the survivors. [via] -
Feminist Papersby Alice S. RossiISBN 0553206036 (0-553-20603-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Fooled Againby Mark Crispin MillerISBN 0465045790 (0-465-04579-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reformby Mark Crispin MillerISBN 0465045804 (0-465-04580-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Forty Signs Of Rainby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553585800 (0-553-58580-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Gathering Stormby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0553132717 (0-553-13271-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gathering Storm'Book summary:Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed substantial literary talents. These two factors combine to make The Gathering Storm a unique work. The first volume of Churchill's memoirs, this selection is broken into two parts. The first, "From War to War," consists of Churchill's critical observations on the settlement of World War I and its place in the causes of the Second World War. The second volume contains letters and memoranda from the British government--of which Churchill was part--as the country plunged unprepared into war. This stands as the best of history: written as it was made, by the man who made it. [via]
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Hope Was Hereby Joan BauerISBN 0399231420 (0-399-23142-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Was Here'Book summary:Here's a book that's as warm and melty as a grilled Swiss on seven-grain bread, and just as wholesome and substantial. Ever since the boss promoted her from bus girl two and a half years ago when she was 14, Hope has been a waitress--and a darn good one, too. She takes pride in making people happy with good food, as does her aunt Addie, a diner cook extraordinaire. The two of them have been a pair ever since Hope's waitress mother abandoned her as a baby, and now they have come to rural Wisconsin to run the Welcome Stairways café for G.T. Stoop, who is dying of leukemia. But he's not dead yet, as the kindly and greathearted restaurant owner demonstrates when he decides to run for mayor against the wicked and corrupt Eli Millstone.
As old-fashioned goodness lines up against the bad guys, the campaign leads Hope in exciting new directions: a boyfriend who is a great grill man, a new sense of herself and her mission as a waitress, and--when Addie and G.T. finally realize that they are meant for each other--the father she has always wanted. And all of it backed up with stuffed pork tenderloin, butterscotch cream pie, and the rhythm of the short-order dance.
Joan Bauer, who won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Rules of the Road, has served up a delicious novel in Hope Was Here, full of delectable characters, tasty wit, and deep-dish truth. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Invisible Manby Ralph EllisonISBN 0451038142 (0-451-03814-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Man'Book summary:We rely, in this world, on the visual aspects of humanity as a means of learning who we are. This, Ralph Ellison argues convincingly, is a dangerous habit. A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Searching for a context in which to know himself, he exists in a very peculiar state. "I am an invisible man," he says in his prologue. "When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me." But this is hard-won self-knowledge, earned over the course of many years.
As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: "Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here?" Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that his former headmaster's recommendation letters are, in fact, letters of condemnation.
What ensues is a search for what truth actually is, which proves to be supremely elusive. The narrator becomes a spokesman for a mixed-race band of social activists called "The Brotherhood" and believes he is fighting for equality. Once again, he realizes he's been duped into believing what he thought was the truth, when in fact it is only another variation. Of the Brothers, he eventually discerns: "They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves.... Here I thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either color or men."
Invisible Man is certainly a book about race in America, and sadly enough, few of the problems it chronicles have disappeared even now. But Ellison's first novel transcends such a narrow definition. It's also a book about the human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees. None of us can ever be sure of the truth beyond ourselves, and possibly not even there. The world is a tricky place, and no one knows this better than the invisible man, who leaves us with these chilling, provocative words: "And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" --Melanie Rehak [via]
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It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planetby Linda McQuaigISBN 0385660103 (0-385-66010-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet'Book summary:When Linda McQuaig started writing her new book, It's the Crude, Dude, in 2002, she thought it would be old hat by the time it came out. She was sure everyone would be talking about how oil was the real reason U.S. President George W. Bush invaded Iraq. But the Toronto Star columnist and author discovered that she needn't have worried. Oil, McQuaig argues, is still virtually a taboo subject in U.S. media discussions of the motivations for the Iraq war: "Oil remained strangely offstage, obscured, invisible, hidden in plain sight."
In It's the Crude, Dude, McQuaig's seventh book, she investigates what she calls "the big elephant in the room": oil. The result is a spirited and timely inquiry into a super-powerful industry that she suggests played a central role in plunging the U.S. into a quagmire in Iraq. Before the conflict, she writes, U.S. companies had long salivated over Iraq's "virtually endless" oil fields. One Wall Street analyst she cites calls the country "the most sought-after real estate on the face of the earth. It is the superstar of the future." Talk in the White House about what to do with Iraq started well before the 9/11 attacks, McQuaig writes. She cites internal U.S. government records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act that suggest U.S. officials were already discussing action against Iraq within weeks of Bush's inauguration in January 2001. McQuaig makes a convincing case that the world has become dangerously dependent on dwindling oil supplies, which are at the ! heart of not only a great deal of conflict but also pollution that is disrupting global weather. --Alex Roslin [via]
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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secretsby Curt GentryISBN 0393321282 (0-393-32128-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration in Focusby John Locke, Susan Mendus, John HortonISBN 0415060826 (0-415-06082-6)
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Several essays are reprints of the most important articles on the Letter, but there is also new material , specially commissioned for the volume and published here for the first time.
Given the importance of Locke's Letter on Toleration, this volume will be welcomed by both students and teachers of political philosophy, the history of political thought, as well as philosophy and politics generally. [via]More editions of John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration in Focus:
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A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraqby Christopher HitchensISBN 0452284988 (0-452-28498-8)
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The Master and Margaritaby Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovISBN 0452008999 (0-452-00899-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master and Margarita'Book summary:Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Realityby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0521439612 (0-521-43961-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Nine Nations of North Americaby Joel GarreauISBN 0395291240 (0-395-29124-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451527097 (0-451-52709-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Ralph Parker, Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451523105 (0-451-52310-5)
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One-Dimentional Man; Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Societyby H. MARCUSEISBN 0415289777 (0-415-28977-7)
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Politics in the Ancient Worldby Moses I. FinleyISBN 0521275709 (0-521-27570-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Possessedby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrew R. MacAndrew, Marc SlonimISBN 0451524861 (0-451-52486-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Possessed'Book summary:The Possessed (In Russian: 5AK, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Possessed is an extremely political book, and is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the Slavophil movement of Dostoevsky's day, is seen to have continued on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels focusing on the idea that utopias and positivist ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and unobtainable. The book has five primary ideological characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov. Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political chaos seen in 19th-Century Russia. [via]
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0434008931 (0-434-00893-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:Quicksilver is a massive, exuberant and wildly ambitious historical novel that's also Neal Stephenson's eagerly awaited prequel to Cryptonomicon--his pyrotechnic reworking of the 20th century, from World War II codebreaking and disinformation to the latest issues of Internet data privacy.
Quicksilver, "Volume One of the Baroque Cycle", backtracks to another time of high intellectual ferment: the late 17th century, with the natural philosophers of England's newly formed Royal Society questioning the universe and dissecting everything that moves. One founding member, the Rev John Wilkins, really did write science fiction and a book on cryptography--but this isn't history as we know it, for here his code book is called not Mercury but Cryptonomicon. And although the key political schemers of Charles II's government still have initials spelling the word CABAL, their names are all different...
While towering geniuses like Newton and Leibniz decode nature itself, bizarre adventures (merely beginning with the Great Plague and Great Fire) happen to the fictional Royal Society member Daniel Waterhouse, who knows everyone but isn't quite bright enough for cutting-edge science. Two generations of Daniel's family appear in Cryptonomicon, as does a descendant of the Shaftoes who here are soldiers and vagabonds. Other links include the island realm of Qwghlm with its impossible language and the mysterious, seemingly ageless alchemist Enoch Root.
As the reign of Charles II gives way to that of James II and then William of Orange, Stephenson traces the complex lines of finance and power that form the 17th-century Internet. Gold and silver, lead and (repeatedly) mercury or quicksilver flow in glittering patterns between centres of marketing and intrigue in England, Germany, France and Holland. Paper flows as well: stocks, shares, scams and letters holding layers of concealed code messages. Binary code? Yes, even that had already been invented and described by Francis Bacon.
Quicksilver is crammed with unexpected incidents, fascinating digressions and deep-laid plots. Who'd believe that Eliza, a Qwghlmian slave girl liberated from a Turkish harem by mad Jack Shaftoe (King of the Vagabonds) could become a major player in European finance and politics? Still less believable, but all too historically authentic, are the appalling medical procedures of the time--about which we learn a lot. There are frequent passages of high comedy, like the lengthy description of a foppish earl's costume which memorably explains that someone seemed to have been painted in glue before "shaking and rolling him in a bin containing thousands of black silk doilies".
This is a huge, exhausting read, full of rewards and quirky insights that no other author could have created. Fantastic or farcical episodes sometimes clash strangely with the deep cruelty and suffering of 17th-century realism. Recommended, though not to the faint-hearted. --David Langford [via]
The Radical Center: The Future of American Politicsby Michael Lind, Ted HalsteadISBN 0385720297 (0-385-72029-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph over Communismby Peter SchweizerISBN 0385722281 (0-385-72228-1)
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Bringing to light previously secret information obtained from archives in the United States, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Russiaincluding Reagans KGB fileSchweizer offers a compelling case that Reagan personally mapped out and directed his war against communism, often disagreeing with experts and advisers. An essential book for understanding the Cold War, Reagans War should be read by open-minded readers across the political spectrum. [via]More editions of Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph over Communism:
Resistance, Rebellion, and Deathby Albert CamusISBN 0394719662 (0-394-71966-2)
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Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentionsby Clyde V. PrestowitzISBN 0465062806 (0-465-06280-6)
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Second World Warby Winston ChurchillISBN 039541055X (0-395-41055-X)
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But we all know that's not what happened. As Britain's prime minister for most of the Second World War, Winston Churchill--whose career had to that point already encompassed the roles of military historian and civil servant with a proficiency in both that few others could claim--had a unique perspective on the conflict, and as soon as he left office in 1945, he began to set that perspective down on paper. To measure the importance of The Second World War, it is worth remembering that there are no parallel accounts from either of the other Allied leaders, Roosevelt and Stalin. We have in this multivolume work an account that contains both comprehensive sweep and intimate detail. Almost anybody who compiles a list of such works ranks it highly among the nonfiction books of the 20th century.In the opening volume, The Gathering Storm, Churchill tracks the erosion of the shaky peace brokered at the end of the First World War, followed by the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and their gradual spread from beyond Germany's borders to most of the European continent. Churchill foresaw the coming crisis and made his opinion known quite clearly throughout the latter '30s, and this book concludes on a vindicating note, with his appointment in May 1940 as prime minister, after which he recalls that "I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial."
Their Finest Hour concerns itself with 1940. France falls, and England is left to face the German menace alone. Soon London is under siege from the air--and Churchill has a few stories of his own experiences during the Blitz to share--but they persevere to the end of what Churchill calls "the most splendid, as it was the most deadly, year in our long English and British history." They press on in The Grand Alliance, liberating Ethiopia from the Italians and lending support to Greece. Then, when Hitler reneges on his non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union (the very signing of which had proved Stalin and his commissars "the most completely outwitted bunglers of the Second World War"), the Allied team begins to coalesce. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese makes the participation of the United States in the war official, and this is of "the greatest joy" to Churchill: "How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at that moment care. Once again in our long island history we should emerge, however mauled or mutilated, safe and victorious."
But as the fourth volume, The Hinge of Fate, reveals, success would not happen overnight. The Japanese military still held strong positions in the Pacific theater, and Rommel's tank corps were on the offensive in Africa. After a string of military defeats, Churchill's opponents in Parliament introduced a motion for a censure vote; this was handily defeated, and victory secured in Africa, then Italy. By this time, Churchill had met separately with both Roosevelt and Stalin; the second half of volume 5, Closing the Ring, brings the three of them together for the first time at the November 1943 conference in Teheran. This book closes on the eve of D-day: "All the ships were at sea. We had the mastery of the oceans and of the air. The Hitler tyranny was doomed."
And so, in the concluding volume, Triumph and Tragedy, the Allies push across Europe and take the fight to Berlin. President Roosevelt's death shortly before final victory against Germany affected Churchill deeply, "as if I had been struck a physical blow," and he would later regret not attending the funeral and meeting Harry Truman then, instead of at the Potsdam conference after Germany's defeat. Churchill himself would not be there for the conclusion to the war against Japan; in July of 1945, a general election in Britain brought in a Labor government (or, as he refers to them, "Socialists"), and he resigned immediately, for "the verdict of the electors had been so overwhelmingly expressed that I did not wish to remain even for an hour responsible for their affairs." [via]
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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorismby Robert Baer, Seymour M. HershISBN 0609609874 (0-609-60987-4)
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Robert Baer [was] one of the most talented Middle East case officers of the past twenty years. Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Atlantic Monthly
In See No Evil, one of the CIAs top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington politics sabotaged the CIAs efforts to root out the worlds deadliest terrorists.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the world witnessed the terrible result of that intelligence failure with the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the wake of those attacks, Americans were left wondering how such an obviously long-term, globally coordinated plot could have escaped detection by the CIA and taken the nation by surprise. Robert Baer was not surprised. A twenty-one-year veteran of the CIAs Directorate of Operations who had left the agency in 1997, Baer observed firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the postcold war world and refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East and elsewhere.
A throwback to the days when CIA operatives got results by getting their hands dirty and running covert operations, Baer spent his career chasing down leads on suspected terrorists in the worlds most volatile hot spots. As he and his agents risked their lives gathering intelligence, he watched as the CIA reduced drastically its operations overseas, failed to put in place people who knew local languages and customs, and rewarded workers who knew how to play the political games of the agencys suburban Washington headquarters but not how to recruit agents on the ground.
See No Evil is not only a candid memoir of the education and disillusionment of an intelligence operative but also an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism. Baer reveals some of the disturbing details he uncovered in his work, including:
* In 1996, Osama bin Laden established a strategic alliance with Iran to coordinate terrorist attacks against the United States.
* In 1995, the National Security Council intentionally aborted a military coup detat against Saddam Hussein, forgoing the last opportunity to get rid of him.
* In 1991, the CIA intentionally shut down its operations in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, and ignored fundamentalists operating there.
When Baer left the agency in 1997 he received the Career Intelligence Medal, with a citation that says, He repeatedly put himself in personal danger, working the hardest targets, in service to his country. See No Evil is Baers frank assessment of an agency that forgot that service to country must transcend politics and is a forceful plea for the CIA to return to its original missionthe preservation of our national sovereignty and the American way of life.
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This book is a memoir of one foot soldiers career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks. Its a story about places most Americans will never travel to, about people many Americans would prefer to think we dont need to do business with.
This memoir, I hope, will show the reader how spying is supposed to work, where the CIA lost its way, and how we can bring it back again. But I hope this book will accomplish one more purpose as well: I hope it will show why I am angry about what happened to the CIA. And I want to show why every American and everyone who cares about the preservation of this country should be angry and alarmed, too.
The CIA was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism, and much more. At a time when terrorist threats were compounding globally, the agency that should have been monitoring them was being scrubbed clean instead. Americans were making too much money to bother. Life was good. The White House and the National Security Council became cathedrals of commerce where the interests of big business outweighed the interests of protecting American citizens at home and abroad. Defanged and dispirited, the CIA went along for the ride. And then on September 11, 2001, the reckoning for such vast carelessness was presented for all the world to see. [via]More editions of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism:
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Shah of Shahsby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0394740742 (0-394-74074-2)
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of Historyby Philip BobbittISBN 0385721382 (0-385-72138-2)
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Snowby Orhan Pamuk, Maureen FreelyISBN 057121830X (0-571-21830-X)
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 044021128X (0-440-21128-X)
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Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the Worldby Walter Russell MeadISBN 0415935369 (0-415-93536-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World'Book summary:"God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America."--Otto von Bismarck
America's response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted many of the country's longstanding goals on the world stage: to protect liberty at home, to secure America's economic interests, to spread democracy in totalitarian regimes and to vanquish the enemy utterly.
One of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, Walter Russell Mead, argues that these diverse, conflicting impulses have in fact been the key to the U.S.'s success in the world. In a sweeping new synthesis, Mead uncovers four distinct historical patterns in foreign policy, each exemplified by a towering figure from our past.
Wilsonians are moral missionaries, making the world safe for democracy by creating international watchdogs like the U.N. Hamiltonians likewise support international engagement, but their goal is to open foreign markets and expand the economy. Populist Jacksonians support a strong military, one that should be used rarely, but then with overwhelming force to bring the enemy to its knees. Jeffersonians, concerned primarily with liberty at home, are suspicious of both big military and large-scale international projects.
A striking new vision of America's place in the world, Special Providence transcends stale debates about realists vs. idealists and hawks vs. doves to provide a revolutionary, nuanced, historically-grounded view of American foreign policy. [via]More editions of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World:
Stone Canalby Ken MacLeodISBN 0606209271 (0-606-20927-1)
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The Virtue of Selfishnessby Ayn RandISBN 0451163931 (0-451-16393-1)
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Virtue SelfishnessISBN 0451173988 (0-451-17398-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This BookBook summary:Ayn Rand, author of "The Fountainhead" was the founder of "Objectivism", an extremely right wing ideology which focuses on selfishness. "The Virtue of Selfishness" is the key philosophy in Ayn Rand's writings. [via]
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Why We Can't Waitby King, Martin Luther, Jr.ISBN 0451627547 (0-451-62754-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why We Can't Wait'Book summary:Written nearly thirty years ago, an impassioned work by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., shares a heartfelt argument for equality and an end to racial discrimination that explains why the civil rights struggle is vital to the United States. Reissue. [via]
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Why We Can't Waitby Martin Luther King, Jackson, Jesse L., (AFT)ISBN 0451527534 (0-451-52753-4)
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Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, Wait. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim&when you see the vast majority of twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cant go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky&when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you&when&your wife and mother are never given the respected title Mrs.&when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodinessthen you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
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Women, Culture, and Politicsby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0394569768 (0-394-56976-8)
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Women, Race and Classby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0394713516 (0-394-71351-6)
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The Zero Gameby Brad MeltzerISBN 0446612111 (0-446-61211-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Zero Game'Book summary:The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Wash-ington, D.C., with the story of an insider's game that turns deadly. Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine Zero Game. It starts out as good fun-a simple wager between friends. But when someone close to them ends up dead, Harris and Matthew realize the game is far more sinister than they ever imagined-and that they're about to be the game's next victims. On the run, they turn to the only person they can trust: a 16-year-old Senate page who can move around the Capitol undetected. As a ruthless killer creeps closer, this idealistic page not only holds the key to saving their lives, but is also determined to redeem them in the process. Come play The Zero Game-you can bet your life on it. [via]
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