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American Heroby Larry BeinhartISBN 0679427260 (0-679-42726-0)
Hardcover, Pantheon
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Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethicsby H. RackhamISBN 0674990811 (0-674-99081-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics'Book summary:Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.
Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.
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The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixonby Anthony Summers, Robbyn SwanISBN 0670871516 (0-670-87151-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon'Book summary:Anthony Summers is the past master of scandal, the man who brought you Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe and that unforgettable (alleged) eyewitness account of J. Edgar Hoover in a flouncy black dress. Greater experts than I must rule on Summers's exhaustively researched portrait of Richard Nixon, The Arrogance of Power, but it sure is one racy read. Summers depicts a Nixon stoned out of his mind on Seconal, single-malt Scotch, Dilantin, speed, and clinical paranoia, pummeling his wife, Pat (who was rumored to have once been rescued by the Secret Service from drunkenly drowning in a bathtub). Summers's Nixon apparently took Mickey Cohen Mob money to fund his anti-Semitic, salacious smear campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas to get his Senate start; framed Alger Hiss with a fake typewriter; traded gold for POWs with Vietcong; and issued orders to bomb Damascus and Jordan and nuke Vietnam and Korea (orders that were ignored until Nixon sobered up in the morning). His favorite limo was the SS100X that JFK died in. Nixon's shrink reportedly also treated Rita Hayworth, spoke like Dr. Strangelove, and used "Pavlovian technique" to "brainwash Nixon into becoming a better person." No luck.
Summers's Nixon favored the Greek generals who tortured pro-democracy types, and took a bribe from Göring's pal Nicolae Malaxa, who, thanks to Nixon, traded his Romanian mansion (in which thousands of Jews were tortured and killed) for a posh Manhattan apartment. Summers's most fascinating stuff concerns the Howard Hughes/Castro/Watergate connection. Did Nixon order CIA/Mafia plots to kill Castro? Did Robert Maheu (said to have inspired Mission: Impossible) arrange "sex services" and "assassination planning" for the CIA, and spy on Jean Peters and Ava Gardner for Howard Hughes? Did Hughes give big money to Nixon under the guise of saving the fast-food "Nixonburger" franchise of Richard's brother Donald Nixon (whom Richard had the FBI spy on)? Did the Castro plot get JFK killed, as Haldeman suspected? Was the Watergate break-in (one of perhaps 100 Nixon break-ins) intended to seize information about Nixon's Hughes loans and Castro plots?
Summers tries to assess his massive data while he's presenting it, and he doesn't credit every wild tale equally. Still, without him, I would never have heard about Castro's alleged ex-girlfriend, "the Mata Hari of the Caribbean," hired by future Watergate burglars to re-seduce Castro and slip two poison pills in his coffee. But she hid the pills in her cold-cream jar, and when she took them out in their Havana Hilton bathroom, they'd melted. Besides, her close encounter with the leader left her "torn by feelings of love." The Arrogance of Power won't give you this feeling. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Natureby Steven PinkerISBN 0670031518 (0-670-03151-8)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature'Book summary:Our conceptions of human nature affect everything aspect of our lives, from child-rearing to politics to morality to the arts. Yet many fear that scientific discoveries about innate patterns of thinking and feeling may be used to justify inequality, to subvert social change, and to dissolve personal responsibility.
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature and instead have embraced three dogmas: The Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), The Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society), and The Ghost in the Machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology). Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them.
Pinker provides calm in the stormy debate by disentangling the political and moral issues from the scientific ones. He shows that equality, compassion, responsibility, and purpose have nothing to fear from discoveries about an innately organized psyche. Pinker shows that the new sciences of mind, brain, genes, and evolution, far from being dangerous, are complementing observations about the human condition made by millennia of artists and philosophers. All this is done in the style that earned his previous books many prizes and worldwide acclaim: irreverent wit, lucid exposition, and startling insight on matters great and small. [via]More editions of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature:
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The Book of Laughter and Forgettingby Milan KunderaISBN 0571203876 (0-571-20387-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting'Book summary:In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant. [via]
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The Captive Mindby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0679728562 (0-679-72856-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captive Mind'Book summary:The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. [via]
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Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflictby William ShawcrossISBN 068483233X (0-684-83233-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel Foucault, Alan SheridanISBN 0679752552 (0-679-75255-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'Book summary:Discipline and Punish lays out Foucault's thoughts on how the elite in society dominate and control the rest of society. Foucault believed no societal advancements have occurred since the Renaissance, only technology has grown, further enslaving the human spirit. [via]
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Dispatchesby Michael HerrISBN 0679735259 (0-679-73525-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dispatches'Book summary:Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr's book was the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic. [via]
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Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onionby Robert SiegelISBN 0609808346 (0-609-80834-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion'Book summary:Dave Eggers, Matt Groening, Ken Burns, and Conan O'Brien agree: The Onion, that scrappy mag ruthlessly satirizing madcap modern life and earnest newspaper journalism, is funnier than reality. Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of the Onion carries on the proud, shameless tradition of Our Dumb Century, which won the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. If a real, dumb newspaper wrote a feature story about hell, you bet its headline would be the boosterish one imagined by the maniacs at the Onion: "Tenth Circle Added to Rapidly Growing Hell." When one reads in this book the headline "Arabs, Israelis Sign 'Screw Peace' Accord," one wonders whether The Onion has not, alas, anticipated the news. Their style of yuks is not for softies: the headline "Loved Ones Recall Local Man's Cowardly Battle with Cancer" may not strike the funny bone of the recently bereaved, but it's a dead-on parody of the sort of sentimental slop that cops major journalism awards in our dumb news era. If you can laugh at the preposterous world around you, and muster the courage to tear down without building up, this book is for you. [via]
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Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation With Karel Hvizdalaby Vaclav Havel, Karel HvizdalaISBN 0679734023 (0-679-73402-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation With Karel Hvizdala'Book summary:An intimate history of Czechoslovakia under communism; a meditation on the social and political role of art, and a triumphant statement of the values underlying all the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe. [via]
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Do It; Scenarios of the Revolutionby Jerry RubinISBN 067120601X (0-671-20601-X)
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Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? : Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hitsby Bill MaherISBN 0679456279 (0-679-45627-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Outby Mike GrayISBN 0679435336 (0-679-43533-6)
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The Education of Henry Adamsby Henry Adams, Donald HallISBN 0618056661 (0-618-05666-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Education of Henry Adams'Book summary:Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry, born in Boston in 1838, was destined for a walk-on role in his nation's history--and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact from the time he was an adolescent.
It gets worse. For the author could neither match his exalted ancestors nor dismiss them as dusty relics--he was an Adams, after all, formed from the same 18th-century clay. "The atmosphere of education in which he lived was colonial," we are told,
revolutionary, almost Cromwellian, as though he were steeped, from his greatest grandmother's birth, in the odor of political crime. Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged.
Here, as always, Adams tells his story in a third-person voice that can seem almost extraplanetary in its detachment. Yet there's also an undercurrent of melancholy and amusement--and wonder at the specific details of what was already a lost world.Continuing his uphill conquest of the learning curve, Adams attended Harvard, which didn't do much for him. ("The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.") Then, after a beer-and-sausage-scented spell as a graduate student in Berlin, he followed his father to Washington, D.C., in 1860. There he might have remained--bogged down in "the same rude colony ... camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads"--had not the Civil War sent Adams père et fils to London. Henry sat on the sidelines throughout the conflict, serving as his father's private secretary and anxiously negotiating the minefields of English society. He then returned home and commenced a long career as a journalist, historian, novelist, and peripheral participant in the political process--a kind of mouthpiece for what remained of the New England conscience.
He was not, by any measure but his own, a failure. And the proof of the pudding is The Education of Henry Adams itself, which remains among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. It contains thousands of memorable one-liners about politics, morality, culture, and transatlantic relations: "The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest." There are astonishing glimpses of the high and mighty: "He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism..." (That would be Abraham Lincoln; the "melancholy function" his Inaugural Ball.) But most of all, Adams's book is a brilliant account of how his own sensibility came to be. A literary landmark from the moment it first appeared, the Autobiography confers upon its author precisely that prize he felt had always eluded him: success. --James Marcus [via]
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The End of Racismby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0684825244 (0-684-82524-4)
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Ender's Shadowby Orson Scott CardISBN 0613337549 (0-613-33754-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender's Shadow'Book summary:Ender's Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game. By "parallel," Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.
Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of Shadow, and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.
Although it may seem like Shadow is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous Ender's Game, that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of Ender's Game hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, Shadow manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that Shadow, like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The Enigma of Japanese Powerby Karel Van WolferenISBN 0679728023 (0-679-72802-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enigma of Japanese Power'Book summary:Few Americans have examined carefully the nation whose economy and industry is bound up with their own, whose future will inescapably shape theirs--Japan, that is. Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen does the job, and very well indeed, depicting a Japan alternately awed and disgusted by the world beyond its shores, governed by a puppet emperor in the service of the zaikaijin, a gerontocracy of businessmen who control the national economy, just as they have done for generations. Their hierarchy is reinforced by the fear that, as in 1945, hostile powers will not only overpower the Japanese economy but denature the Japanese people, introducing foreign concepts of democracy and even the specter of an "impure race." Although Van Wolferen balances his account by highlighting what he regards as positive Japanese traits, including thrift, respect for elders, industriousness, and self-control, The Enigma of Japanese Power remains a controversial text in the nation it assays to describe with discomforting accuracy. [via]
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The Final Daysby Carl Bernstein, Bob WoodwardISBN 0671894404 (0-671-89440-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Final Days'Book summary:The Final Days is the classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon's fall from office -- one of the gravest crises in presidential history. [via]
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Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Centuryby Naomi WolfISBN 067942718X (0-679-42718-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century'Book summary:Most women embrace equality, but reject "feminism." In clear and brilliant prose, the author of the best-selling The Beauty Myth shows how this rift came about, and how to close it. A practical and inspiring road map for personal and political equality in our time. [via]
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The First Circleby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0553246232 (0-553-24623-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Circle'Book summary:A major literary event 50 years in the making:In the First Circle is the first complete English translation of Nobel Prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns best novel (Washington Post). With an introduction by Edward Erickson, this work by the author of The Gulag Archipelago is the story of a brilliant mathematician who finds himself locked in a Moscow prison filled with the countrys brightest minds and must decide whether to aid Stalins repressive state. [via]
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The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progressby Virginia PostrelISBN 0684827603 (0-684-82760-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress'Book summary:Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future. Do they aim to control it, as many conservative reactionaries and liberal planners want to do? Or do they embrace it, even though they can't know what lies ahead? Postrel (editor of Reason magazine) firmly places herself in this latter category--the dynamists, she calls her happy tribe--and urges the rest of us to sign up. The future of economic prosperity, technological progress, and cultural innovation depends upon embracing principles of choice and competition. The downside of this philosophy, Postrel readily notes, is that it doesn't allow us to manage tomorrow by acting today. And that's exactly the point: we shouldn't want to. A future constructed by an infinite number of individual decisions, made privately, is one she believes we should encourage. The Future and Its Enemies is at once intellectually sweeping and reader-friendly; it has the potential to join a pantheon of books about freedom that includes works by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. --John J. Miller [via]
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553144316 (0-553-14431-6)
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The God Delusionby Richard DawkinsISBN 0618680004 (0-618-68000-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The God Delusion'Book summary:A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.[via]
With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.More editions of The God Delusion:
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0670347914 (0-670-34791-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Hitlerby Ian KershawISBN 0582437563 (0-582-43756-3)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler'Book summary:How could such an unprepossessing figure as Adolf Hitler gain control of the machinery of a complex modern state? Why -- contrary to all expectations -- was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints? This innovative study of Hitler's political life addresses these problems by focusing directly upon the nature and mechanics, the character and exercise of Hitler's dictatorial power. This is a powerful piece of analysis that belies its relatively modest dimensions. It will be invaluable to students and teachers of German and world history, and politics, as well as the interested general reader. [via]
Imperiumby Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara GlowczewskaISBN 067974780X (0-679-74780-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In the Time of the Butterfliesby Julia AlvarezISBN 0613023897 (0-613-02389-7)
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John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0671006924 (0-671-00692-4)
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Justice As Fairness: A Restatementby John Rawls, Erin KellyISBN 0674005112 (0-674-00511-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justice As Fairness: A Restatement'Book summary:Few philosophers have made as much of a splash with a single book as John Rawls did with the 1971 publication of A Theory of Justice. Thirty years later, Justice as Fairness rearticulates the main themes of his earlier work and defends it against the swarm of criticisms it has attracted. Throughout the book, Rawls continues to defend his well-known thought experiment in which an "original position"--a sort of prenatal perspective ignorant of our race, class, and gender--provides the basis for formulating ethical principles that result in a harmonious liberal state. In addition, he supplies carefully worked-out responses and, in some cases, reformulations of his theory. Those coming to Rawls for the first time will find a lucid portrayal of his position; those embroiled in the ongoing debate will encounter a closely argued and subtle rejoinder to his adversaries. Readers will be pleased that the daunting volumes of Rawls's previous work have been distilled to a digestible 214 pages. --Eric de Place [via]
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Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a Presidentby Jimmy CarterISBN 0553050230 (0-553-05023-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Kissinger: A Biographyby Walter IsaacsonISBN 0671872362 (0-671-87236-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Law of Peoplesby John RawlsISBN 0674005422 (0-674-00542-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Law of Peoples: With "the Idea of Public Reason Revisited"by John RawlsISBN 067400079X (0-674-00079-X)
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"The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls's most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine--such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls's own "Justice as Fairness," presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).
The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an "outlaw society," and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions.
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Leadersby Richard M. NixonISBN 0671706187 (0-671-70618-7)
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Machiavelli in Hellby Sebastian DegraziaISBN 0679743421 (0-679-74342-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 0553211803 (0-553-21180-3)
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Middlemarch : A Study of Provincial Lifeby George EliotISBN 067960118X (0-679-60118-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Nixon off the Record : His Candid Commentary on People and Politicsby Monica CrowleyISBN 0679456813 (0-679-45681-3)
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 0670045276 (0-670-04527-6)
Hardcover, Viking Canada
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0679444653 (0-679-44465-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Processby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679767258 (0-679-76725-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A People's History of the Supreme Courtby Peter H. IronsISBN 0670870064 (0-670-87006-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Trumanby Merle MillerISBN 0575018410 (0-575-01841-0)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Max WeberISBN 0684164892 (0-684-16489-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Reveille for Radicalsby Saul D. AlinskyISBN 0679721126 (0-679-72112-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politicsby Matthew DallekISBN 068484320X (0-684-84320-X)
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Rights of Man and Common Senseby Thomas PaineISBN 0679433147 (0-679-43314-7)
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Robert Kennedy and His Timesby Arthur SchlesingerISBN 0618219285 (0-618-21928-5)
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Robert's Rules of Orderby Henry M. RobertISBN 0673387356 (0-673-38735-6)
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Robert's Rules of Orderby William EisnerISBN 0553225987 (0-553-22598-7)
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Robert's Rules of Order : 1990 Editionby Henry M. Robert, Sarah C. Robert, William J. Evans, James W. ClearyISBN 0673387364 (0-673-38736-4)
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The Scott, Foresman Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revisedby Henry M. Robert, Sarah Corbin RobertISBN 0673154718 (0-673-15471-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scott, Foresman Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised'Book summary:Originally published as a slim document in 1896, General Henry M. Robert's classic guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings has sold close to five million copies in nine editions. The only book containing the completely developed Robert's Rules of Order subject matter, this latest edition will continue the book's reputation as the gold standard of meeting procedure for parliamentarians and novice club presidents and members alike. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the past decade's technological advances and usage, this tenth edition contains new information on how to conduct meetings over the Internet, on phone and video conference calls, and with members in absentia. The best book from which to learn all about running and taking an effective part in meetings, General Robert's gift of order is as indispensable now as it was a century ago.[via]More editions of The Scott, Foresman Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised:
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papersby Daniel EllsbergISBN 0670030309 (0-670-03030-9)
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Shameby Salman RushdieISBN 0679722041 (0-679-72204-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Spirit of Democratic Capitalismby Michael NovakISBN 0671431544 (0-671-43154-4)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officerby Peter WrightISBN 0670820555 (0-670-82055-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Cultureby Katha PollittISBN 0679783431 (0-679-78343-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Take Back Your Government : A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizenby Robert A. Heinlein, Jerry PournelleISBN 0671721577 (0-671-72157-7)
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Telling the Truth: Why Our Culture and Our Country Have Stopped Making Sense--And What We Can Do About Itby Lynne V. CheneyISBN 0684811014 (0-684-81101-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 0553212680 (0-553-21268-0)
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Third Waveby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553246984 (0-553-24698-4)
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The Tower Commission Report: The Full Text of the President's Special Review Boardby Brent Scowcroft, Edmund S. Muskie, John Tower, John G. Tower, R.W. AppleISBN 0553269682 (0-553-26968-2)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alfred KazinISBN 0553212184 (0-553-21218-4)
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Vietnam: A Historyby Stanley KarnowISBN 0670746045 (0-670-74604-5)
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The War Against Boys : How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Menby Christina Hoff SommersISBN 0684849569 (0-684-84956-9)
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The WAR ON CHOICE: THE RIGHT-WING ATTACK ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND HOW TO FIGHT BACKby Laura Fraser, Gloria FeldtISBN 0553382926 (0-553-38292-6)
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With the White House acting in anti-choice lockstep with the majorities in both House and Senate, religious extremists are now in key decision-making posts, our federal judiciary is filled with recent appointees whose values are drastically out of step with the pro-choice sentiments of the majority of the American people, abstinence-only sex education is now the rule, ideology has trumped science in domestic and global health policy, and the Supreme Court balance in favor of reproductive freedoms is perilously close to toppling. But while many of the individual facts are known, no one until now has connected all the dots and drawn the Big Picture that shows exactly how radical and how successful this quiet revolution has been.
Judge by judge, law by law, and appointee by appointee, The War on Choice speaks the truth about what is happening, and also tells the stories of some of the women whose lives have been affected by these court decisions and federal policies. A keen analysis of current events, combined with a hands-on plan of action for those who want to raise their voices in protest, this book will be riveting reading.
And there is no one better equipped to write about the insidious, step-by step chipping away of rights, or about what we can do to fight back, than Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Her thirty years of work with the organization combined with her personal experience - as a woman who came out of the same West Texas political landscape as did George W. Bush but faced a very different economic and social reality as the mother of three children by the age of 20 make her the ideal spokeswoman for those who are alarmed by the current political climate.?
This book will be a wake-up call, describing in jaw-dropping detail the story of what the anti-choice movement is doing to the rights to birth control, abortion and privacy.? [via]More editions of The WAR ON CHOICE: THE RIGHT-WING ATTACK ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND HOW TO FIGHT BACK:
With a Happy Eye but: America and the World, 1997-2002by George F. WillISBN 0684838214 (0-684-83821-4)
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The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalismby Robert B. ReichISBN 0679736158 (0-679-73615-8)
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A World Transformedby Brent Scowcroft, George BushISBN 0679752595 (0-679-75259-5)
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A World Transformedby George Herbert Walker Bush, Brent ScowcroftISBN 0679432485 (0-679-43248-5)
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A World Transformed is divided into three voices: Bush, his coauthor and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, and the collective "we" of the National Security Council (supplying vital background information and a wider view of the events discussed). Overall, this formula works--Bush's tone is particularly warm and chatty, his narrative peppered with telling anecdotes that reveal the personalities and emotions behind the bold-faced headlines. His remarks are mostly to the point, gratifyingly lucid, and often compelling. Diary excerpts supply many memorable insights, if few truly shocking revelations. For instance, at the end of the Persian Gulf War, he wrote: "Isn't it a marvelous thing that this little country will be liberated.... The big news, of course, is this high performance of our troops--the wonderful job they've done; the conviction that we're right and the others are wrong. We're doing something decent, and we're doing something good; and Vietnam will soon be behind us.... It's surprising how much I dwell on the end of the Vietnam syndrome."
In describing his interaction with other world leaders, Bush emerges as a skillful negotiator and statesman, fostering a personal, first-name-basis style of diplomacy that proved especially effective with Mikhail Gorbachev and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Scowcroft, the consummate support man and workaholic, focuses more on the nuts and bolts, balancing out their presentation of how crises are dealt with at the highest level. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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