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100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the Worldby John TirmanISBN 0061133019 (0-06-113301-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Accidental President: How 413 Lawyers, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 5,963,110 Floridians Landed George W. Bush in the White Houseby David A. KaplanISBN 0066212839 (0-06-621283-9)
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The American Presidentsby David C. Whitney, Robin Vaughn WhitneyISBN 0130285986 (0-13-028598-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, And the Danger to Us Allby Tom FentonISBN 0060853956 (0-06-085395-6)
Softcover, Regan Books
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Bel Cantoby Ann PatchettISBN 0060838728 (0-06-083872-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bel Canto'Book summary:In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. His hosts hope that Mr. Hosokawa can be persuaded to build a factory in their Third World backwater. Alas, in the opening sequence, just as the accompanist kisses the soprano, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.
Among the hostages are not only Hosokawa and Roxane Coss, the American soprano, but an assortment of Russian, Italian, and French diplomatic types. Reuben Iglesias, the diminutive and gracious vice president, quickly gets sideways of the kidnappers, who have no interest in him whatsoever. Meanwhile, a Swiss Red Cross negotiator named Joachim Messner is roped into service while vacationing. He comes and goes, wrangling over terms and demands, and the days stretch into weeks, the weeks into months.
With the omniscience of magic realism, Ann Patchett flits in and out of the hearts and psyches of hostage and terrorist alike, and in doing so reveals a profound, shared humanity. Her voice is suitably lyrical, melodic, full of warmth and compassion. Hearing opera sung live for the first time, a young priest reflects:
Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven.
Joined by no common language except music, the 58 international hostages and their captors forge unexpected bonds. Time stands still, priorities rearrange themselves. Ultimately, of course, something has to give, even in a novel so imbued with the rich imaginative potential of magic realism. But in a fractious world, Bel Canto remains a gentle reminder of the transcendence of beauty and love. --Victoria Jenkins [via] -
Bend Sinisterby Vladimir NabokovISBN 007045728X (0-07-045728-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bend Sinister'Book summary:The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and com- pelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the countrys foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the gov- ernment attempts to co-opt Krugs support in order to validate the new regime. One of the twentieth centurys master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically. John Updike [via]
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Benjamin Franklinby Carl Van DorenISBN 0140152601 (0-14-015260-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:Carl Van Doren received the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for this work. It contains the most extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, much of which was long out-of-print. Also included are some fifty letters written by Franklin that was never published before. [via]
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Brave New World Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060901012 (0-06-090101-2)
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Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. "Brave New World Revisited" is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late. [via]
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The Castle: Classic Collectionby Franz Kafka, Idris Parry, J. A. UnderwookISBN 0140185046 (0-14-018504-6)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Castle: Classic Collection'Book summary:They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.
One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach. [via]
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Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin Americaby Tina RosenbergISBN 0140172548 (0-14-017254-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Comediansby Graham GreeneISBN 0140184945 (0-14-018494-5)
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Confessions of a Conservativeby Garry WillsISBN 0140055630 (0-14-005563-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Devil's Advocateby John HumphrysISBN 009180048X (0-09-180048-X)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survivalby Anderson CooperISBN 0061136689 (0-06-113668-9)
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Doonesburyby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0070652945 (0-07-065294-5)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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The Economic Consequences of the Peaceby John Maynard Keynes, Robert LekachmanISBN 0140188053 (0-14-018805-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Fail Safeby Eugene BurdickISBN 0070089272 (0-07-008927-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fail Safe'Book summary:Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow.
In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake.
First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missle crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond.
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The Formation of the British Liberal Party, 1857-1868by John Russell VincentISBN 0064972135 (0-06-497213-5)
Hardcover, Harvester Press
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940by William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0061330256 (0-06-133025-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940'Book summary:When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United Statesand explains how the social fabric of American life was forever altered. It offers illuminating lessons on the challenges of economic transformationfor our time and for all time.
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Lifeby Jacques BarzunISBN 0060928832 (0-06-092883-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life'Book summary:At the outset of Jacques Barzun's colossal book From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, the author admits that when asked by friends how long he has been writing his book, he can only answer--a lifetime. The book is worth the wait for its extraordinary energy and intellectual range. Barzun begins by arguing that "by tracing in broad outline the evolution of art, science, religion, philosophy and social though during the last 500 years, I hope to show that during this span the peoples of the West offered the world a set of ideas and institutions not found earlier elsewhere." In the process Barzun adroitly guides the reader from Luther's Ninety-five Theses and the religious revolution of the 16th century, through what he calls "the monarchical, liberal and social" revolutions of the subsequent 400 years that have shaped the culture of the modern Western world. All of Western life and thought can be found somewhere in From Dawn to Decadence. Portraits of Martin Luther, Shakespeare, Descartes, Florence Nightingale and James Joyce jostle alongside snapshots of cities at turning points in history--"The View from Venice Around 1650", "The View from Paris Around 1830", and finally "A View from New York Around 1995". Barzun's central argument is that "after a time, the Western mind was set upon by a blight: it was Boredom." This does lead Barzun to some more curmudgeonly comments towards the end of the book, where he deals with the cultural exhaustion of the last decades of the 20th century, but over 800 pages he offers more than enough insight into an incredible sweep of history to make this a riveting and rewarding book. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Getting Ready to Negotiate: The Getting to Yes Workbookby Roger Fisher, Danny ErtelISBN 0140235310 (0-14-023531-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving inby Roger Fisher, William UryISBN 0140157352 (0-14-015735-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in'Book summary:We're constantly negotiating in our lives, whether it's convincing the kids to do their homework or settling million-dollar lawsuits. For those who need help winning these battles, Roger Fisher has developed a simple and straightforward five-step system for how to behave in negotiations. Narrated soothingly by NPR announcer Bob Edwards, Fisher adds the meaty portions of the material with a sense of playfulness. The blend of voices makes this tape easy to listen to, especially the real-life negotiating scenarios, in which negotiating examples are given. This is a must-have tape for every businessperson's car. (Running time: one hour, one cassette) --Sharon Griggins [via]
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God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0060977493 (0-06-097749-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God of Small Things'Book summary:The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family -- their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. [via]
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The Government and Politics of Franceby Vincent WrightISBN 0091522714 (0-09-152271-4)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Government by the Peopleby Burns, Thomas E. Cronin, J.W. PeltasonISBN 013093920X (0-13-093920-X)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Government by the People: Bill of Rights Edition, National Versionby James MacGregor Burns, Thomas E. Cronin, J.W. PeltasonISBN 0133619990 (0-13-361999-0)
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Government by the People: National Editionby James MacGregor BurnsISBN 013361378X (0-13-361378-X)
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Government by the People: National Versionby James MacGregor Burns, Thomas E. Cronin, J.W. Peltason, David MaglebyISBN 0133012921 (0-13-301292-1)
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Government by the People/Bicentennial Edition 1987-1989/National Editionby James MacGregor Burns, Thomas E. Cronin, J.W. PeltasonISBN 0133616436 (0-13-361643-6)
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Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Iii-IVby Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. WhitneyISBN 006092103X (0-06-092103-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Iii-IV'Book summary:[This is the MP3CD audiobook format of VOLUME 2 in vinyl case.]
**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Iii-IV:
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A History of Civilizationsby Fernand BraudelISBN 0140124896 (0-14-012489-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A History of the Middle Eastby Peter MansfieldISBN 0140125388 (0-14-012538-8)
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Hitler: A Study in Tyrannyby Alan BullockISBN 0060920203 (0-06-092020-3)
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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991by Salman RushdieISBN 0140140360 (0-14-014036-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Povertyby Paul HarrisonISBN 0140172173 (0-14-017217-3)
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Introduction to International Political Economyby Michael Veseth, David N. BalaamISBN 0130183490 (0-13-018349-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journeyby Salman RushdieISBN 0140109269 (0-14-010926-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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King of Attoliaby Megan Whalen TurnerISBN 006083577X (0-06-083577-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King of Attolia'Book summary:By scheming and theft, the Thief of Eddis has become King of Attolia. Eugenides wanted the queen, not the crown, but he finds himself trapped in a web of his own making. Attolia's barons seethe with resentment, the Mede emperor is returning to the attack, and the king is surrounded by the subtle and dangerous intrigue of the Attolian court.
When a naive young guard expresses his contempt for the king in no uncertain terms, he is dragged by Eugenides into the center of the political maelstrom. Like the king, he cannot escape the difficulties he makes for himself. Poor Costis knows he is the victim of the king's caprice, but he discovers a reluctant sympathy for Eugenides as he watches the newly crowned king struggle against his fate.
Fans of the Newbery Honor Book The Thief and The Queen of Attolia will recognize Megan Whalen Turner's signature plot twists and turns in the third exquisitely crafted tale about Eugenides.
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The Lions Of Al-rassanby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0061056219 (0-06-105621-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Making of the President 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biographyby Marvin KitmanISBN 0060919922 (0-06-091992-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Memoirs, 1925-1950by George Frost KennanISBN 009085800X (0-09-085800-X)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Modern Dictators: Third World Coup Makers, Strongmen, and Populist Tyrantsby Barry RubinISBN 0070541612 (0-07-054161-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Monkey Wrench Gangby Edward AbbeyISBN 0060956445 (0-06-095644-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'Book summary:Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert. --Gregory McNamee [via]
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and Whiteby Joseph LelyveldISBN 0140093265 (0-14-009326-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The New Spaniardsby John HooperISBN 0140131914 (0-14-013191-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Yearsby J. Anthony LukasISBN 0140112294 (0-14-011229-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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No Full Stops in Indiaby Mark TullyISBN 0140104801 (0-14-010480-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Playing Politicsby Michael LaverISBN 0140222286 (0-14-022228-6)
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Political Ideologies and the Democratic Idealby Terence Ball, Richard DaggerISBN 0065023560 (0-06-502356-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Politics In States And Communitiesby Thomas R. DyeISBN 0130206806 (0-13-020680-6)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Politics In States And Communitiesby Susan A. MacManus, Thomas R. Dye, Brittany L. PenberthyISBN 0131930796 (0-13-193079-6)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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The Politics of Congressional Electionsby Gary C. JacobsonISBN 0065000757 (0-06-500075-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, Martin Seymour-SmithISBN 0140180966 (0-14-018096-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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State and Local Politics: Government by the Peopleby Thomas E. Cronin, J.W. Peltason, David M. O'Brien, Paul Charles LightISBN 0130287903 (0-13-028790-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Strategic Atlas: A Comparative Geopolitics of the World's Powersby Gerard ChaliandISBN 006273153X (0-06-273153-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Surveys from Exileby Karl Marx, David FernbachISBN 0140216030 (0-14-021603-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0140187952 (0-14-018795-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Time for Truthby William E. Simon, Clare Boothe LuceISBN 0070573786 (0-07-057378-6)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Press
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0060933275 (0-06-093327-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Twelve Caesarsby SuetoniusISBN 0140054162 (0-14-005416-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Uncivil Libertiesby Calvin TrillinISBN 0140102558 (0-14-010255-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Voters, Parties and Leaders: The Social Fabric of British Politicsby Jean BlondelISBN 0140206388 (0-14-020638-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Web Of Deceit: Britain's Real Role In The Worldby Mark CurtisISBN 0099448394 (0-09-944839-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005by William KristolISBN 0060882859 (0-06-088285-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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With All Disrespect: More Uncivil Libertiesby Calvin TrillinISBN 0140088199 (0-14-008819-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Works of Platoby Irwin EdmanISBN 007553651X (0-07-553651-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 0060951303 (0-06-095130-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Realidades: Level aby James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0133610225 (0-13-361022-5)
Hardcover, Pearson Prentice Hall
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