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Against the Tideby Noel BrowneISBN 0717114589 (0-7171-1458-9)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media
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The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980by Steven F. HaywardISBN 076151337X (0-7615-1337-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980'Book summary:The Age of Reagan brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan's ascent to the White House. Based on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had to endure since the decade before the Civil War. Overseas, we were embroiled in a war we couldn't win; at home our streets had become battlefields; and in Washington, the old liberal order was collapsing under the weight of a long string of failed policies. "It seemed that an era of American optimism and progress had come to a close," Hayward writes. "The concatenation of Vietnam, Watergate, the recurrent energy crisis, the swooning economy, the increasingly disorderly world scene, and the failed presidencies associated with these events robbed Americans of their native optimism for the future."
Meanwhile, from out of the West arose a new conservative movement led by Ronald Reagan, a one-time Hollywood actor whose speech in 1964 in support of the doomed candidacy of Barry Goldwater not only electrified a national television audience but also created a political star who would change the course of history.
With meticulous detail, Hayward captures an America at war with itselfand an era whose reverberations we feel to this very day. He brings new insight into the profound failure of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the oddly liberal nature of Richard Nixon's administration, the significance of Reagan's years as California's governor, and the sudden-death drama of his near defeat of Gerald Ford in the 1976 Republican primary, the listlessness of Jimmy Carter's leadership, and the political earthquake that was Reagan's victorious presidential campaign in 1980.
Provocative, authoritative, and majestic in scope, The Age of Reagan is an unforgettable account of the rebirth and triumph of the American spirit. [via]More editions of The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980:
The Almanac of American Politics 2000by Michael Barone, Grant UjifusaISBN 0812931947 (0-8129-3194-7)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Almanac of American Politics 2000'Book summary:How was the 1998 election different from all other elections? Not in party strength: Republicans and Democrats won almost exactly the same percentages of the vote and number of House seats as in 1996. Nor was there any great mandate for change: Only a handful of incumbents were defeated. Turnout was unchanged, too, staying for the most part within the same 36 percent to 40 percent range of all off-year elections in the past quarter century.
The difference was a fundamental change in mood. In 1998, Americans voted against what a classic 1988 editorial in The Economist called "crunchiness" and for what the magazine called "sogginess." Crunchy choices are binary; the light switch is either off or on, with clearly distinct consequences. Soggy choices represent only a marginal, perhaps imperceptible change. In the prosperous, peaceful late 1990s, Americans were comfortable with the incorrigibly soggy Bill Clinton--and deeply uncomfortable with the aggressive crunchiness of the most visible congressional Republican, Newt Gingrich. The 1998 elections--and elections are always a crunchy process--saw no significantly different partisan balance. But they did produce very different outcomes for the two party leaders.
The Almanac of American Politics 2000, which very much tends to the crunchy side, is a vital tool in assessing today's increasingly soggy political scene. No other book offers so much information plus such a clear road map to our political present and future (be it crunchy or soggy). In addition to a provocative new Introduction by Michael Barone, this completely updated edition includes:
H Insightful, colorful profiles and photographs of all 535 members of Congress and all 50 governors
H Voting records on important legislation
H Revealing descriptions of each state and congressional district with historical, economic, social, and political background information
H Congressional ratings by National Journal and a dozen influential interest groups
H Updated maps showing each congressional district, including recent redistricting changes
H 1998 election results for each member of Congress and presidential results by congressional district
H Exclusive election forecasts for every 2000 race from Washington's foremost political handicapper, Charlie Cook
H Access to the Almanac Web Edition, providing up-to-date information on key votes of the 106th Congress, results from special and interim elections, and more [via]More editions of The Almanac of American Politics 2000:
American Gospel: God, The Founding Fathers, And The Making Of A Nationby Jon MeachamISBN 0739326678 (0-7393-2667-8)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Usby Steven EmersonISBN 0743234359 (0-7432-3435-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us'Book summary:Some have said that the events of September 11 took every American by surprise. That's not true. There were Cassandras among us warning about the dangers of Islamic terrorism--and one of their leaders was American Jihad author Steven Emerson, who must be ranked among the most fearless reporters in the world. As a self-made expert on Islamic terrorism, he has invited the hatred of violent murderers. (At least one group has marked him for assassination; he was offered enrolment in the federal witness protection program, but refused). For more than 10 years, Emerson has soldiered on, studying groups that operate in the United States for the express purpose of funding and managing deadly organisations.
American Jihad summarises what he has learned, and it isn't comforting. Emerson shows how the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has grown an extensive network in the United States, how the group Islamic Jihad set up shop at the University of South Florida, and how an Islamic centre in Tucson helped recruit two of Osama bin Laden's top deputies. He also provides circumstantial evidence that bin Laden himself once applied for an American visa--"even the possibility is tantalizing, and chilling", he concludes. He urges Americans to fight back, but worries that time is short: "We are still vulnerable". This is an important book, and a sobering one. --John Miller, Amazon.com [via]
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The Arabsby Peter MansfieldISBN 0713905018 (0-7139-0501-8)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Bad Presidentby R.D. Rosen, James Friedman, Harry Prichett, Rob BattlesISBN 0761146202 (0-7611-4620-2)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Ninetiesby Richard S. MorrisISBN 0786211024 (0-7862-1102-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Being Thereby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0802136346 (0-8021-3634-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being There'Book summary:A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever. [via]
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Blood And Oil: The Dangers And Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleumby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805079386 (0-8050-7938-6)
Softcover, Owl Books
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Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependencyby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805073132 (0-8050-7313-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency'Book summary:From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad[via]
In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer.
Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement.
With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.More editions of Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency:
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Bushisms: The First Term in His Own Special Wordsby Jacob WeisbergISBN 0743262522 (0-7432-6252-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bushisms: The First Term in His Own Special Words'Book summary:The Bush era has been a special time -- for the deficit (back, and larger than ever), for the countries formerly known as our allies, and for the English language. Here it all is, straight from the horse's, er, mouth.
With new Bushisms coming fast and furious in this election season, ace Bushism editor Jacob Weisberg offers a must-read compendium and "explanation" of the first term. Read President Bush's eye-popping description of his economic policy:
"See, without the tax relief package, there would have been a deficit, but there wouldn't have been the commiserate -- not 'commiserate' -- the kick to our economy that occurred as a result of the tax relief."
Got that? How about this analysis of the weapons proliferation problem, from the man with his finger on the Button:
"Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
Or his belief in the importance of staying connected to us all:
"[A]s you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say."
The Deluxe Edition also includes reality checks: coherent Bush statements about major issues that bear no relation to the truth.
The Deluxe Election-Edition Bushisms is essential reading for everyone still wondering what the past four years have all been about. [via]
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Christian Perspectives on Politicsby J. Philip WogamanISBN 0800620844 (0-8006-2084-4)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Lettersby Edith Hamilton, Huntington CairnsISBN 0691097186 (0-691-09718-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade Americaby Lee EdwardsISBN 0743247027 (0-7432-4702-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyby Karl MarxISBN 0717800415 (0-7178-0041-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy'Book summary:The present translation has been made from the second edition of the Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie published by Karl Kautsky in 1897 with slight changes from the original edition of 1859; changes that had been indicated by Marx on the margins of his own copy of the book. As will be seen from the authors preface, the work was originally issued as the first instalment of a complete treatise of political economy. As he went on with his work, however, Marx modified his plans and eight years after the appearance of the Zur Kritik he published the first volume of his Capital, whose scope was intended to cover the entire field of political economy. The plan to which Marx alludes in the preface to the present work was thus abandoned in its formal as pects, but not in substance. The subject matter treated here was reproduced or rather summarized, as Marx himself puts it, in Capital. But that was done in so far as was necessary to secure continuity of treatment. On the other hand, many important matters are treated here more thoroughly than in Capital, especially the part devoted to the discussion of money.
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787by Gordon S. WoodISBN 0807847232 (0-8078-4723-2)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787'Book summary:Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of American history at Brown University--had no idea what he was getting into when he began this 653-page book. Innocently, he wanted to write a "monographic analysis of constitution-making in the Revolutionary era." Little did he know he would discover an intellectual world where a complete transformation of political thought was occurring, one that would create "a distinctly American system of politics." As Wood explains, "Beneath the variety and idiosyncrasies of American opinion there emerged a general pattern of beliefs about the social process--a set of common assumptions about history, society, and politics that connected and made significant seemingly discrete and unrelated ideas. Really for the first time I began to glimpse what late eighteenth-century Americans meant when they talked about living in an enlightened age." This original study of the American political system is a strong contribution to the scholarly studies of the events surrounding the nation's independence. [via]
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The Creation of the American Republic, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six Thru Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Sevenby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0807811041 (0-8078-1104-1)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Margaret BrantleyISBN 074348763X (0-7434-8763-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Enduring literature illuminated by practical scholarship dostoyevsky's penetrating study of a man for whom the distinction between right and wrong disappears, and a riveting portrait of guilt and retribution. Each enriched classic edition includes: a concise introduction that gives readers important background information a chronology of the author's life and work a timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context an outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations detailed explanatory notes critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction a list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience enriched classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in enriched classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by cynthia brantley johnson [via]
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Critique of Pure Toleranceby Robert P. WolffISBN 0807015598 (0-8070-1559-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Infernoby Carol Forman, Alighieri DanteISBN 0812034112 (0-8120-3411-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Inferno'Book summary:A guide to reading "The Inferno" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Dante's Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Marcus SandersISBN 0811842134 (0-8118-4213-4)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno'Book summary:A faithful yet totally original contemporary spin on a classic, Dante's Inferno as interpreted by acclaimed artist Sandow Birk and writer Marcus Sanders is a journey through a Hell that bears an eerie semblance to our own world. Birk, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of "realism's edgier, more visionary painters," offers extraordinarily nuanced and vivid illustrations inspired by Gustave Dore's famous engravings. This modern interpretation depicts an infernal landscape infested with mini-malls, fast food restaurants, ATMs, and other urban fixtures, and a text that cleverly incorporates urban slang and references to modern events and people (as Dante did in his own time). Previously published in a deluxe, fine-press edition to wide praise, and accompanied by national exhibitions, this striking paperback edition of Dante's Inferno is a genuinely provocative and insightful adaptation for a new generation of readers. [via]
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The Dialogues of Platoby Plato, R. M. Hare, D. A. Russell, Benjamin JowettISBN 0722143265 (0-7221-4326-5)
Hardcover, Sphere
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0691018952 (0-691-01895-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
Duke 2000: Whatever It Takes A Doonesbury Bookby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0740706071 (0-7407-0607-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844by Karl MarxISBN 0717800539 (0-7178-0053-9)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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The Fate of the Earth and the Abolition: And, the Abolitionby Jonathan SchellISBN 0804737029 (0-8047-3702-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fate of the Earth and the Abolition: And, the Abolition'Book summary:Now combined in one volume, these two books helped focus national attention in the early 1980s on the movement for a nuclear freeze. The Fate of the Earth painted a chilling picture of the planet in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, while The Abolition offered a proposal for full-scale nuclear disarmament. With the recent tensions in India and Pakistan, and concerns about nuclear proliferation around the globe, public attention is once again focused on the worldwide nuclear situation. The author is at the forefront of the discussion. In February 1998, his lengthy essay constituted the centerpiece of a special, widely distributed issue of The Nation dealing with the nuclear arms race. The relevance of his two books for today's debates is undeniable, as many experts assert that the nuclear situation is more dangerous than ever.[via]
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"This is a work of enormous force. There are moments when it seems to hurtle almost out of control, across an extraordinary range of fact and thought. But in the end, it accomplishes what no other work has managed to do in the years of the nuclear age. It compels usand compel is the right wordto confront head on the nuclear peril."
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"There have been thousands of commentaries on what this new destructive power of man means; but my guess is that Schell's book . . . will become the classic statement of the emerging consciousness."
Max Lerner, New Republic
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"As always, Schell is interesting and ingenious, eloquent and sometimes moving. He presents his case with clarity, and with candor about its possible shortcomings."
New Republic
"A reasoned argument. . . . As this work will do much to stimulate the ongoing nuclear debate, it is highly recommended."
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From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625by Oliver O'DonovanISBN 0802842097 (0-8028-4209-7)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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From the second century to the seventeenth, from Irenaeus to Grotius, this unique reader provides a coherent overview of the development of Christian political thought. The editors have collected readings from the works of over sixty-five authors, together with introductory essays that give historical details about each thinker and discuss how each has contributed to the tradition of Christian political thought. Complete with important Greek and Latin texts available here in English for the first time, this volume will be a primary resource for readers from a wide range of interests. [via]More editions of From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625:
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The Gay Militantsby Donn TealISBN 0812813731 (0-8128-1373-1)
Hardcover, Stein and Day
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Gladstone: A Biographyby Roy JenkinsISBN 0812966414 (0-8129-6641-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0802060412 (0-8020-6041-2)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man'Book summary:Movable type, as much if not more than any meaningful arrangement of that type, transformed Renaissance consciousness--just as electronic circuitry is transforming us now. That is the basic premise of Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy. New technologies create new human environments, and "technological environments are not merely passive containers & but are active processes that reshape people and other technologies alike." McLuhan's second book, The Gutenberg Galaxy was published in 1962, won the Canadian Governor General's Medal that same year, and pushed McLuhan toward international prominence. Like most of McLuhans's other work--Understanding Media or The Global Village, for example--The Gutenberg Galaxy is a rich, dense text that draws freely, almost frantically, from works of philosophy, economics, political theory, history, and especially literature. There are liberal doses of Shakespeare--text and commentary--sprinkled throughout, as well as trenchant appropriations from Rabelais, Cervantes, Leibnitz, Blake, Joyce, and many others. Attempting to match his medium to his metaphors, McLuhan structures his book using what he calls "a mosaic or field approach" and ends up producing more than 100 short sections separated by pithy glosses in large bold type, such as "Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy," or " Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society." Today's reader might find the "mosaic of perpetually interacting forms" into which the author organizes his data and quotations distinctly Web-like. Indeed, one could say of McLuhan and his complex rhetorical circuitry what McLuhan himself says about Shakespeare: "His insights appear so richly in his lines that it is very difficult to select among them." --Russell Prather [via]
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Hellby Steve Ellis, Alighieri DanteISBN 0701161272 (0-7011-6127-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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History Will Absolve Meby Fidel CastroISBN 0806508523 (0-8065-0852-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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In Search of Enemies: A CIA Storyby John StockwellISBN 0735100128 (0-7351-0012-8)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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The Infernoby Alighieri Dante, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0812970063 (0-8129-7006-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An informative introduction and commentary accompany this classic translation of Dante's epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led by Virgil through the nine circles of hell, available in a dual-language edition. [via]
The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Charles Southward SingletonISBN 0710069960 (0-7100-6996-0)
Hardcover, Routledge and K. Paul
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Infernoby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Pearl, Lino PertileISBN 0812967216 (0-8129-6721-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'Book summary:In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dantes literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the way Dante encounters and describes in vivid detail the various types of sinners in the throes of their eternal torment. [via]
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Inside the Company: CIA Diaryby Philip AgeeISBN 0713909854 (0-7139-0985-4)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 0747566992 (0-7475-6699-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner'Book summary:The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca [via]
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Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorderby Vladimir LeninISBN 0717801071 (0-7178-0107-1)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Centuryby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0802142494 (0-8021-4249-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalismby David FriedmanISBN 0812690699 (0-8126-9069-9)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Among topics covered: how the U.S. would benefit from unrestricted immigration; why prohibition of drugs is inconsistent with a free society; why the welfare state mainly takes from the poor to help the not-so-poor; how police protection, law courts, and new laws could all be provided privately; what life was really like under the anarchist legal system of medieval Iceland; why non-intervention is the best foreign policy; why no simple moral rules can generate acceptable social policies -- and why these policies must be derived in part from the new discipline of economic analysis of law. [via]
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Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boomby Bob WoodwardISBN 0743205626 (0-7432-0562-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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More profoundly, Greenspan is a maestro, a conductor, exquisitely attuned to every instrument in the political and economic orchestra. He rules by consensus, but with a firm hand and notoriously inscrutable words. Marvelously, Woodward relates that Greenspan had to propose twice to his wife, the violinist-turned-TV news star Andrea Mitchell, before she understood: "His verbal obscurity and caution were so ingrained that Mitchell didn't even know that he had asked her to marry him." Woodward gives us the inside story of what Greenspan really thinks and how he outmaneuvered the most ruthless politicians on earth in some of the hairiest times imaginable, from the 1987 stock market crash to the 1994-95 Mexican crisis to the stomach-churning turn of the century. It turns out that for all his awesome knowledge of monetary minutiae, the Fed chief literally relies on "a pain in the pit of my stomach" to make decisions. "At times, he found his body sensed danger before his head," writes Woodward. The Fed chief also adapts Einstein's technique to economics, hunting for discrepancies as keys to deeper theories. Einstein made breakthroughs out of bent light; Greenspan deduced productivity gains that government statisticians had overlooked for years. (The gains appeared when Greenspan made the statisticians calculate productivity by business sector, the way it's done in the real world.)
Woodward's prose is cool and rational, not exuberant. But if you're into economics and politics, you'll find a rich gossip trove here. Who knew Reagan had a draft of a presidential order to shut down Wall Street trading at hand in 1987? Scary! Reading Maestro is better than sitting with Greenspan in his famous tub as he charts your future--it's like being right there inside his head. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statementsby George BreitmanISBN 0802132138 (0-8021-3213-8)
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Maus a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0808598538 (0-8085-9853-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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The Modern American Presidencyby Lewis L. Gould, Richard Norton SmithISBN 0700613307 (0-7006-1330-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Muslim Politicsby Dale F. Eickelman, James P. PiscatoriISBN 0691120536 (0-691-12053-6)
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The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asiaby Lutz KlevemanISBN 0802141722 (0-8021-4172-2)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 0809594684 (0-8095-9468-4)
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Ominous Parallelsby Leonard PeikoffISBN 081282850X (0-8128-2850-X)
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On the Take: Crime, Corruption, and Greed in the Mulroney Yearsby Stevie CameronISBN 0770427081 (0-7704-2708-1)
Hardcover, Seal Books
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Political Man: The Social Bases of Politicsby Seymour Martin LipsetISBN 0801825229 (0-8018-2522-9)
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"Lipset has once again demonstrated his preeminence in the fields of both sociology and political science."--Commentary.
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The Political Unconsciousby Fredric JamesonISBN 080149222X (0-8014-9222-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Political Unconscious'Book summary:Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement or auxiliary to other methods current today.
Jameson supports his thesis by looking closely at the nature of interpretation. Our understanding, he says, is colored by the concepts and categories that we inherit from our culture's interpretive tradition and that we use to comprehend what we read. How then can the literature of other ages be understood by readers from a present that is culturally so different from the past? Marxism lies at the foundation of Jameson's answer, because it conceives of history as a single collective narrative that links past and present; Marxist literary criticism reveals the unity of that uninterrupted narrative.
Jameson applies his interpretive theory to nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts, including the works of Balzac, Gissing, and Conrad. Throughout, he considers other interpretive approaches to the works he discusses, assessing the importance and limitations of methods as different as Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, dialectical analysis, and allegorical readings. The book as a whole raises directly issues that have been only implicit in Jameson's earlier work, namely the relationship between dialectics and structuralism, and the tension between the German and the French aesthetic traditions.
The Political Unconscious is a masterly introduction to both the method and the practice of Marxist criticism. Defining a mode of criticism and applying it successfully to individual works, it bridges the gap between theoretical speculation and textual analysis.
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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Actby Fredric JamesonISBN 0801412331 (0-8014-1233-1)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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The Rehnquist Choiceby John W. DeanISBN 0743233204 (0-7432-3320-4)
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The Rehnquist Choice : The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Courtby John W. DeanISBN 0743226070 (0-7432-2607-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charityby Michael MarenISBN 0743227867 (0-7432-2786-7)
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Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulfby Judith Miller, Laurie MylroieISBN 0812919211 (0-8129-1921-1)
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Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqiby Salam PaxISBN 0802140440 (0-8021-4044-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi'Book summary:Salam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept during the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postings together in print for the first time, Salam Pax provides one of the most gripping accounts of the Iraq conflict and will be the subject of global media attention. In September 2002, twenty-nine-year-old Iraqi architect calling himself "Salam Pax" began posting daily accounts of everyday life in Baghdad onto the Internet. Salam daily risked retribution from Saddam's regime, as more than 200,000 people went missing under Saddam, many for far lesser crimes than the open criticism of the regime that Salam voiced in his diary. Salam Pax's sharp, candid, and often dryly funny articles soon attracted a worldwide readership. In the months that followed, as a huge American-led force gathered to destroy Saddam's hated regime, Salam's Internet diary became a unique record of the anticipation, anger, resentment, humor, and sheer terror felt by an ordinary man living through the final days of Saddam Hussein's twenty-five-year dictatorship, and the aftermath of its destruction.[via]More editions of Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi:
Sayings of Confucius: A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analectsby Lionel GilesISBN 0804818479 (0-8048-1847-9)
Hardcover, Tuttle Publishing
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Shadow of the Giantby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812571398 (0-8125-7139-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow of the Giant'Book summary:Bean, Ender Wiggins' former right-hand man, has shed his reputation as the smallest student at Battle School. He has completed his military service for the Hegemon, acting as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire that attacked Earth. Now he and his wife, Petra, yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known. Yet no such place exists on Earth, a world riddled with Bean's enemies from the past. Once again he must follow in Ender's footsteps and look to the stars. [via]
Shadow of the Giant 10-copy Cartonby Orson Scott CardISBN 0765314754 (0-7653-1475-4)
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Shadow Puppetsby Orson Scott CardISBN 0765340054 (0-7653-4005-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Puppets'Book summary:In Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of Shadow of the Hegemon, following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow has dissipated.
Foremost among these whiz kids is the brilliant Bean who, in Shadow of the Hegemon, rescued his comrades from his nemesis--the dastardly Achilles. Now, the down-but-not-out evil genius is again scheming towards global domination and vengeance against the irrepressible Bean. It's up to Bean and his newfound love, Petra, to outwit the young psychopath and save the world. Meanwhile, the other Battle School children are called to serve again as an expansionist China threatens the stability of post-Bugger War Earth.
Shadow Puppets is, for better or worse, exactly what readers have come to expect from Card. There are thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Unfortunately, many of these furnishings are looking a little frayed around the edges, but fans will enjoy an exciting, fast-paced plot and a suspense-filled conclusion. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
The Star Scrollby Melanie RawnISBN 0756403049 (0-7564-0304-9)
Softcover, Daw Books
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The Starr Report : The Official Report of the Independent Counsel's Investigation of the Presidentby Kenneth Starr, Starr Commission StaffISBN 0761519602 (0-7615-1960-2)
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State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Centuryby Francis FukuyamaISBN 0801442923 (0-8014-4292-3)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century'Book summary:Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states. The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of the world's most serious problems," he believes. He traces what we know-and more often don't know-about how to transfer functioning public institutions to developing countries in ways that will leave something of permanent benefit to the citizens of the countries concerned. These are important lessons, especially as the United States wrestles with its responsibilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. Fukuyama begins State-Building with an account of the broad importance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be a science of public administration, and discusses the causes of contemporary state weakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of weak states for international order, and the grounds on which the international community may legitimately intervene to prop them up. [via]
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Sunrunner's Fireby Melanie RawnISBN 0756403057 (0-7564-0305-7)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New Worldby Sarah VowellISBN 0743205405 (0-7432-0540-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracyby Anthony GiddensISBN 0745622674 (0-7456-2267-4)
Softcover, Polity Press
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To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidentsby Society of American Historians, James M. McPherson, David RubelISBN 0789481561 (0-7894-8156-1)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents'Book summary:From the beginning, Americans have loved and hated their presidents, and memorialized them both for their achievements and their foibles. In this collection of essays, written by members of the prestigious Society of American Historians, we're gifted with a lively interpretive history of the 41 presidents to date with an emphasis on their dominant themes and achievements as influenced by their personalities and ideologies.
With the focus on presidential style, Joseph J. Ellis examines the ironies in Thomas Jefferson's ideals and actions, as well as his inveterate shyness (imagine a modern-day president who only spoke at his inauguration and presented all legislative proposals in writing). Robert Dallek discusses Lyndon B. Johnson's contradictions as evidenced in his significant domestic achievements and the terrible failure of the Vietnam War. And in the pieces on also-rans like Grant and Coolidge and the disgraced such as Nixon, these historians often use the benefit of hindsight and scholarship to focus on the more redeeming features of each man. The most recent president covered does not get off so lightly, however, as Evan Thomas devotes an inordinate amount of space to Bill Clinton's philandering and slams him with such adjectives as "calculating, shrewd and slovenly."
The book is packed with photographs, illustrations, inaugural addresses, and memorable quotes ("When Theodore attends a wedding, he wants to be the bride, and when he attends a funeral, he wants to be the corpse"). A light sense of humor is even displayed, as in a photograph of William Howard Taft's mammoth bathtub, specially built after the 355-pound man got stuck in an ordinary tub, and the story of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign captured in two campaign photos--one of a sexy, bare-chested JFK in his PT-109 and the other of a stiff Nixon in his Navy dress blues. It's also a treasure trove of presidential trivia--which presidents proposed to their wives on the first date? Who were the only three vice presidents to be successfully promoted by election? This is a terrific reference book--an informative, revealing, and fun way to learn about America's chosen few. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Tolstoy's Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violenceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0720687012 (0-7206-8701-2)
Hardcover, Owen
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Tools for Convivialityby Ivan IllichISBN 0714509744 (0-7145-0974-4)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook Americaby Keith W. OlsonISBN 0700612513 (0-7006-1251-3)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate And What It Means For Life On Earthby Tim FlanneryISBN 0802142923 (0-8021-4292-3)
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With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-dots approach for a reading public who has received patchy or misleading information on the subject. Pulling on his expertise as a scientist to discuss climate change from a historical perspective, Flannery also explains how climate change is interconnected across the planet.This edition includes an new afterword by the author.[via]More editions of The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate And What It Means For Life On Earth:
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What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretationby Charles MurrayISBN 0767900391 (0-7679-0039-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation'Book summary:Charles Murray first got famous for his book Losing Ground's argument that welfare programs actually hamper the progress of poor people. Then he got even more famous for saying (along with his co-author Richard Herrnstein) in The Bell Curve that genetically-based IQ deficits also hamper their progress. This little book is worth the read because we get to see what he thinks the government should really do about all this: not much. On the plus side, Murray is a very clear writer. So we get, for instance, a nicely drawn discussion of the nature of public goods. But although this book is offered in the spirit of the Revolutionary pamphleteers, when it gets down to cases, Murray comes across as a man who's lost his common sense. For example, he claims that if all businesses were allowed to opt out of the current government regulatory scheme, provided that they display prominent signs saying UNREGULATED, "just about every small business will want to be unregulated. ... No more building inspectors, elevator inspectors, or restaurant inspectors. Owners of unregulated small businesses will have to answer to no one but their customers." He doesn't seem to notice that those customers will be running at top speed away from those clearly marked buildings, elevators, and restaurants. [via]
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What The L?by Kate ClintonISBN 0786715448 (0-7867-1544-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Radical, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Liveby Catherine Whitney, Kellyanne ConwayISBN 0743273826 (0-7432-7382-6)
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When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?by George CarlinISBN 0786273461 (0-7862-7346-1)
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Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Actby Great Britain, Edward Palmer ThompsonISBN 0713909919 (0-7139-0991-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Zodiacby Neal StephensonISBN 0802143156 (0-8021-4315-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zodiac'Book summary:Believe it or not, some readers find Zodiac even more fun than Neal Stephenson's defining 1990s cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash. Zodiac is set in Boston, and hero Sangamon Taylor (S. T.) ironically describes his hilarious exploits in the first person. S. T. is a modern superhero, a self-proclaimed Toxic Spiderman. With stealth, spunk, and the backing of GEE (a non-profit environmental group) as his weapons, S. T. chases down the bad guys with James Bond-like Zen.
Cruising Boston Harbor with lab tests and scuba gear, S. T. rides in with the ecosystem cavalry on his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. His job of tracking down poisonous runoff and embarrassing the powerful corporations who caused them becomes more sticky than usual; run-ins with a gang of satanic rock fans, a deranged geneticist, and a mysterious PCB contamination that may or may not be man-made--plus a falling-out with his competent ("I adore stress") girlfriend--all complicate his mission.
Stephenson/S. T.'s irreverent, facetious, esprit-filled voice make this near-future tale a joy to read. [via]
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