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2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium: A 21st Century Survival Guideby Josh Freed, Terry Mosher, AislinISBN 0684867796 (0-684-86779-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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All America: The Catalogue of Everything Americanby Catherine BushISBN 0688071988 (0-688-07198-8)
Hardcover, W. Morrow
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All the President's Menby Carl Bernstein, Bob WoodwardISBN 0684863553 (0-684-86355-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the President's Men'Book summary:The 25th-anniversary edition of Bernstein and Woodward's classic of investigative journalism.
In what must be the most devastating political detective story of the century, two young "Washington Post" reporters whose brilliant investigative journalism smashed the Watergate scandal wide open tell the whole behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened.
The story begins with a burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. Bob Woodward, who was then working on the "Washington Post's" District of Columbia staff, was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story. Carl Bernstein, a Virginia political reporter on the "Post," was also assigned. The two men soon learned that this was not a simple burglary.
Following lead after lead, Woodward and Bernstein picked up a trail of money, secrecy and high-level pressure that led to the Oval Office and implicated the men closest to Richard Nixon and then the President himself. Over the months, Woodward met secretly with Deep Throat, now perhaps America's most famous still-anonymous source.
Here is the amazing story. From the first suspicions through the tortuous days of reporting and finally getting people to talk, the journalists were able to put the pieces of the puzzle together and produce the stories that won the "Post" a Pulitzer Prize. "All the President's Men" is the inside story of how Bernstein and Woodward broke the story that brought about the President's downfall. This is the reporting that changed the American presidency. [via]
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America Eats Out: An Illustrated History of Restaurants, Taverns, Coffee Shops, Speakeasies, and Other Establishments That Have Fed Us for 350 Yearsby John F. MarianiISBN 0688099963 (0-688-09996-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghostsby David ThomsonISBN 067977291X (0-679-77291-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Betty Book: A Celebration of a Capable Kind O' Galby Elizabeth AlbrightISBN 0684832143 (0-684-83214-3)
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got Thereby David BrooksISBN 0684853787 (0-684-85378-7)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There'Book summary:It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.
But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the countercultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties. These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They are bourgeois bohemians: Bobos.
Are you a Bobo?
Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature?
Does your newly renovated kitchen look like an aircraft hangar with plumbing? Did you select your new refrigerator on the grounds that mere freezing isn't cold enough?
Would you spend a little more for socially conscious toothpaste -- the kind that doesn't actually kill germs, it just asks them to leave?
Do you work for one of those hip, visionary software companies where everybody comes to work in hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a 400-foot wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot?
Do youthink your educational credentials are just as good as those of the shimmering couples on the "New York Times" weddings page?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are probably a member of today's new upper class. [via]
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The Book of Listsby Irving WallaceISBN 0688035744 (0-688-03574-4)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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Boring Postcards USAby Martin ParrISBN 0714840009 (0-7148-4000-9)
Hardcover, Phaidon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boring Postcards USA'Book summary:You know those old postcards that show the local meat-packing factory in all its cinder-block glory or the sickening colour scheme of a cheap 1970s motel room? Well, here they are. Beginning with panoramas of highways in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and other US states, Boring Postcards USA segues to truck stops, restaurants, motor inns, malls, airports, military bases, factories, tools and automobiles. Every image is certifiably boring, whether by dint of a photographer's ineptitude (dead-on views taken from too far away) or the sorry state of corporate architecture and interior design. And yet, as earnest advertisements for the American Way of Life they all radiate a sunny faith in the uniqueness and desirability of whatever they portray.
There's not a word of commentary in this book, but that part is up to you. Certain things begin to stand out as you flip through the pages. Like the always blue skies. (Positive thinking!) Or the potentially interesting details that are uniformly obliterated, thanks to those polite middle-distance views and the muddy qualities of cheap lithography. There's a weird tension between the blandly generic ("Fine Food" reads the only visible sign atop a low-slung white building) and the proudly local (according to the postcard caption, this is "The famous Blue Grill on U.S. 40, St. Elmo, Ill."). In its silently subversive way, Boring Postcards USA proposes that we look more closely at this hallowed form of marketing to see what it tells us about the values and standards of mainstream American culture. --Cathy Curtis [via]
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Brand. Newby Jane PavittISBN 069107061X (0-691-07061-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Brat Pack: Confidentialby Andrew Pulver, Steven Paul DaviesISBN 0713486856 (0-7134-8685-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Casefilesby Paul Ruditis, Diana G. Gallagher, Joss Whedon, David GreenwaltISBN 0689871457 (0-689-87145-7)
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Charles Kuralt's American Momentsby Charles Kuralt, Peter FreundlichISBN 0684863448 (0-684-86344-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Kuralt's American Moments'Book summary:"Time" magazine once hailed Charles Kuralt as "the laureate of the common man." and in this final collection. Kuralt once again portrays the people, the places, and the things that define our nation. Culled from his final project, a series of brief television essays in the spirit of his famous "On the Road" reports, "Charles Kuralt's American Moments" introduces a host of American characters and scenes, and imbues them with charm, simplicity, and elegance. From the dedication of the man who handcrafts the president's shoes to the quiet beauty of a covered bridge, they are all symbols of an American spirit that Kuralt spent his life chronicling, celebrating, and, most importantly, just noticing. [via]
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Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fiftiesby Laura McEnaneyISBN 0691001383 (0-691-00138-3)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Complete Guide to the Music of Leonard Cohenby Chris AllenISBN 0711975086 (0-7119-7508-6)
Hardcover, Omnibus Press
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The Consolations of Philosophyby Alain De BottonISBN 0679779175 (0-679-77917-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Consolations of Philosophy'Book summary:"It is common," Alain de Botton writes in The Consolations of Philosophy, "to assume that we are dealing with a highly intelligent book when we cease to understand it. Profound ideas cannot, after all, be explained in the language of children." While his easygoing exploration of philosophers from Socrates to Nietzsche isn't exactly written for the Blue's Clues set, few readers will cease to understand it. Furthermore, it's a joy to read. De Botton's 1997 How Proust Can Change Your Life forged a new kind of lit crit: an exploration of Remembrance of Things Past, delivered in the sweet-gummed envelope of an advice book. He returns to the self-help format here, this time plundering the great thinkers to puzzle out the way we ought to live.
What was stunning about the Proust book was de Botton's brazen annexing of a hallowed novelist to address lite emotional problems. That format is less arresting when applied to the philosophers, since which earnest philosophy major has not, from time to time, tried to apply the alpine heights of thought to his own humble worries? Usually, sophomoric attempts to turn to, say, Kant for advice on love tend to be unmitigated disasters. In de Botton's case, however, he is able to find consolation for a broken heart in Schopenhauer, consolation for inadequacy in Montaigne. Epicurus, usually associated with a love of luxury, is a solace for those of us without much money--and de Botton learns from him that "objects mimic in a material dimension what we require in a psychological one. We need to rearrange our minds but are lured towards new shelves. We buy a cashmere cardigan as a substitute for the counsel of friends."
Lest the reader become burdened by all this philosophizing, the book is peppered with illustrations--the section on Nietzsche of course includes a DC Comics drawing of Superman. And it's further leavened by the author's personal anecdotes and winning confessional tone. Early on, for instance, he admits his own gnawing need for popularity: "A desire to please led me to laugh at modest jokes like a parent on the opening night of a school play." Before he became a medicine man for the soul, de Botton was a first-rate novelist, and it shows in his writing. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidaysby Leigh Eric SchmidtISBN 0691017212 (0-691-01721-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebookby R. U. Sirius, St. Jude, Bart Nagel, St JudeISBN 0679762302 (0-679-76230-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Doo-Dah! : Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Cultureby Ken EmersonISBN 0684810107 (0-684-81010-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Double Snaps: For Advanced Snappers and Those Who Like the Dozens Raw... an All New Book of More Than 500 of the Funniest, Rudest, and Most Creative Snaps, Caps, and Insults for Playing the Dozensby James Percelay, Monteria Ivey, Stephen Dweck, Geneva SmithermanISBN 0688140114 (0-688-14011-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Your father is so stupid, he saw a sign that said wet floor, so he took a piss.
Your sister is so nasty, she has more clap than an auditorium.
Your mother is so fat, she can do the wave by herself.
Your mother is so fat, when she goes to the beach kids yell, "Free Willy! Free Willy!"
You're so ugly, your parents rent out your baby videos for horror films.
You're so White, you think Malcolm X's name is Malcolm the tenth.
Your mother's breath is so bad, she sucks on Odor-Eaters.
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Down And Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, And The Rise Of Independent Filmby Peter BiskindISBN 0684862581 (0-684-86258-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down And Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, And The Rise Of Independent Film'Book summary:It wasn't so long ago that the Sundance Film Festival was an inconsequential event somewhere in Utah, and Miramax was a tiny distributor of music documentaries and soft-core trash. Today, of course, Sundance is the most important film festival this side of Cannes, and Miramax has become an industry giant, part of the huge Disney empire. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell -- who once had to max out their credit cards to realize their visions on the screen -- are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman.
"Down and Dirty Pictures" chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines -- Sundance and Miramax -- that have powered them. As he did in his acclaimed "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls," Peter Biskind profiles the people who took the independent movement from obscurity to the Oscars, most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax an indie powerhouse. Biskind follows Sundance as it grew from a regional film festival to the premier showcase of independent film, succeeding almost despite the mercurial Redford, whose visionary plans were nearly thwarted by his own quixotic personality. He charts in fascinating detail the meteoric rise of the controversial Harvey Weinstein, often described as the last mogul, who created an Oscar factory that became the envy of the studios, while leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. As in "Easy Riders," Biskind's incisive account is loaded with vibrant anecdotes andoutrageous stories, all of it blended into a fast-moving narrative. Redford, the Weinsteins, and the directors, producers, and actors Biskind profiles are the people who reinvented Hollywood, making independent films mainstream. But success invariably means compromise, and it remains to be seen whether the indie spirit can survive its corporate embrace.
Candid, mesmerizing, and penetrating, "Down and Dirty Pictures" is a must-read for anyone interested in the film world and where it's headed.
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The Exesby Pagan KennedyISBN 0684854422 (0-684-85442-2)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Exes'Book summary:This charming novel charts the last days of rock as seen through the eyes of the four members of the Exes, a painfully hip Boston-area indie alterna-pop band. Each of the four chapters takes on the tale of the band's conception and fruition from the perspective of a different member, producing an omniscient Rashomon-like narrative that weaves pop reference and nerdy rock-geek sensibility into a combination Harlequin Romance/Celebrity Tell-All. Author Pagan Kennedy is best known for her zine Pagan's Head and her handbook of all things '70s, Platforms. She puts that subcultural know-how to work in this fast-moving story about rockers who love their own images more than the notes and tempos of the music they play. --James DiGiovanna [via]
Fandemoniumby Judy VermorelISBN 071191818X (0-7119-1818-X)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Fast Girls : Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slutby Emily WhiteISBN 0684867400 (0-684-86740-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Five-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classicsby Greg NaganISBN 0684867672 (0-684-86767-2)
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Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skiesby C. G. JungISBN 0691018227 (0-691-01822-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes Itby Mark PendergrastISBN 0684826798 (0-684-82679-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Televisionby Jerry ManderISBN 0688082742 (0-688-08274-2)
Softcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television'Book summary:A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever.
Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are "neutral," benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is thrown open to profound doubt. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, "as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns." [via]
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Furyby Salman RushdieISBN 0679783504 (0-679-78350-4)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fury'Book summary:Fury is a gloss on fin-de-siècle angst from the master of the quintuple entendre. Salman Rushdie hauls his hero, Malik Solanka, from Bombay to London to New York, and finally to a fictional Third World country, all in order to show off a preternatural ability to riff on anything from Bollywood musicals to revolutionary politics. Professor Solanka is propelled on this path by his strange love of dolls. He plays with them as a child; as an adult he quits his post at Cambridge in order to produce a TV show wherein an animated doll, Little Brain, meets the great thinkers of history. Little Brain becomes a smash hit, and perhaps inevitably, Solanka finds himself in America. (It's not only the show-biz version of manifest destiny that brings him to the New World: one night in London he finds himself standing over the sleeping figures of his beloved wife and child, frighteningly close to stabbing them. This intellectual puppeteer is, of course, fleeing himself.)
Now, in New York, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but his fury is a kind of Everyfury. It's road rage writ large--the natural reaction to an excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneously here: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennial Manhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a sense of Rushdie's reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories of childhood, he recalls "his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi." Here's a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist's soul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. If it sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent, it's that too. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Garden BookISBN 071483985X (0-7148-3985-X)
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Gone with the Windby Margaret MitchellISBN 0684826259 (0-684-82625-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century Americaby Richard SlotkinISBN 0689121636 (0-689-12163-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:Gunfighter Nation concludes Richard Slotkin's three-volume study, which began in 1973 with the publication of Regeneration Through Violence, of the significance of the frontier in the American imagination. Looking primarily at pulp novels and films, Slotkin takes a painstakingly thorough look at the relationship between imagery of the West in industrial mass culture and U.S. foreign policy during the 20th century. Specifically, he looks at how the previous century's "frontier aristocrat" served as the model diplomat for America's agenda of economic imperialism from the Spanish American War to the "police action" in Vietnam.
As the U.S. gained international stature, the archetype of the frontier aristocrat articulated the goals and ideals of the American populace. But Slotkin shows how, as time progressed, the increasing irrelevance of the frontier myth on foreign soil foiled the prowess of the U.S. war machine. At the book's conclusion, in which images of the My Lai Massacre are juxtaposed against the final shootout of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, the contradiction between faith and experience becomes painfully evident. Gunfighter Nation delivers the satisfaction of a historian with the acquired wisdom to address directly the issues that inspired his lifelong work. --John M. Anderson [via]
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Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Sagaby Stephen DavisISBN 0688045073 (0-688-04507-3)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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He's Just Not That into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guysby Greg Behrendt, Liz TuccilloISBN 068987474X (0-689-87474-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Hob Goblin and the Skeletonby Alice SchertleISBN 068800282X (0-688-00282-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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How Do They Do That?by Caroline Sutton, Duncan M. AndersonISBN 068801111X (0-688-01111-X)
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I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupieby Pamela Des BarresISBN 068806602X (0-688-06602-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in Americaby Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0689702809 (0-689-70280-9)
Softcover, Atheneum
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Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Streetby David McClintickISBN 068801349X (0-688-01349-X)
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John Lennon in His Own Writeby John LennonISBN 0684868075 (0-684-86807-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madolf Heatlump (who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn't pass -- much to my Aunties supplies. As a member of the most publified Beatles my (P, G, and R's) records might seem funnier to some of you than this book, but as far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've every ready.
God help and breed you all. [via]
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John Wayne's Americaby Garry WillsISBN 0684838834 (0-684-83883-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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John Wayne's America : The Politics of Celebrityby Garry WillsISBN 0684808234 (0-684-80823-4)
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The Last Great Dance on Earthby Sandra GullandISBN 0684856085 (0-684-85608-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679781498 (0-679-78149-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germanyby Maria TatarISBN 0691015902 (0-691-01590-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany'Book summary:In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place, both artistically and socially, in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder ("lustmord"), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present. Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent artistic expression. Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers - George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife - but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased. Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction. [via]
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United Statesby Bill BrysonISBN 068810312X (0-688-10312-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States'Book summary:Readers from Toad Suck, Arkansas, to Idiotsville, Oregon--and everywhere in between--will love Made in America, Bill Bryson's Informal History of the English Language in the United States. It is, in a word, fascinating. After reading this tour de force, it's clear that a nation's language speaks volumes about its true character: you are what you speak. Bryson traces America's history through the language of the time, then goes on to discuss words culled from everyday activities: immigration, eating, shopping, advertising, going to the movies, and others.
Made in America will supply you with interesting facts and cocktail chatter for a year or more. Did you know, for example, that Teddy Roosevelt's "speak softly and carry a big stick" credo has its roots in a West African proverb? Or that actor Walter Matthau's given name is Walter Mattaschanskayasky? Or that the supposedly frigid Puritans--who called themselves "Saints," by the way--had something called a pre-contract, which was a license for premarital sex? Made in America is an excellent discussion of American English, but what makes the book such a treasure is that it offers much, much more. [via]
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.by Sandra GullandISBN 0684856069 (0-684-85606-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990'sby John Naisbitt, Patricia AburdeneISBN 0688072240 (0-688-07224-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Storiesby Tim BurtonISBN 0688156819 (0-688-15681-9)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories'Book summary:This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level. [via]
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Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviorby Judith MartinISBN 0689112475 (0-689-11247-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Womenby Michael GrossISBN 0688126596 (0-688-12659-6)
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Mommie Dearestby Christina CrawfordISBN 0688033865 (0-688-03386-5)
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Mona in the Promised Landby Gish JenISBN 0679776508 (0-679-77650-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Naked Pictures of Famous Peopleby Jon StewartISBN 0688171621 (0-688-17162-1)
Softcover, Rob Weisbach Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Pictures of Famous People'Book summary:Sometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just has to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine is the last thing you need taking up valuable bookshelf space. Jon Stewart's book will come as an extremely pleasant surprise. He eschews the standard standup patter and instead gives us 18 short comic essays in a variety of styles that recall the prose work of Woody Allen, only with a few more references to genitals. Stewart proves himself a remarkably nimble humorist with a sharp eye for parody, whether he's writing "A Very Hanson Christmas" or "Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview."
HITLER: ...Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don't know ... I was a very angry guy.
KING: And this ... new Hitler?
HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will.... Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything it's very freeing.
Stewart is not afraid to flirt with bad taste, in fact, some of the pieces in this collection do for "flirting with bad taste" what Bill Clinton did for "not having sexual relations." But it's wonderful to see an edgy comedian taking on the traditionally cozy genre of the humorous essay, creating work that combines the wit of Robert Benchley with the energy and attitude of the best modern standup. Naked Pictures of Famous People proves that Jon Stewart is as comfortable, and accomplished, in front of a word processor as he is in front of an audience. --Simon Leake [via]
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The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soonby Nina AntoniaISBN 0711996032 (0-7119-9603-2)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World's Largest Atomic Complexby Paul LoebISBN 0698111044 (0-698-11104-4)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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On Bullshitby Harry G. FrankfurtISBN 0691122946 (0-691-12294-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Bullshit'Book summary:"One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit," Harry G. Frankfurt writes, in what must surely be the most eyebrow-raising opener in modern philosophical prose. "Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted." This compact little book, as pungent as the phenomenon it explores, attempts to articulate a theory of this contemporary scourge--what it is, what it does, and why there's so much of it. The result is entertaining and enlightening in almost equal measure. It can't be denied; part of the book's charm is the puerile pleasure of reading classic academic discourse punctuated at regular intervals by the word "bullshit." More pertinent is Frankfurt's focus on intentions--the practice of bullshit, rather than its end result. Bullshitting, as he notes, is not exactly lying, and bullshit remains bullshit whether it's true or false. The difference lies in the bullshitter's complete disregard for whether what he's saying corresponds to facts in the physical world: he "does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."
This may sound all too familiar to those of use who still live in the "reality-based community" and must deal with a world convulsed by those who do not. But Frankfurt leaves such political implications to his readers. Instead, he points to one source of bullshit's unprecedented expansion in recent years, the postmodern skepticism of objective truth in favor of sincerity, or as he defines it, staying true to subjective experience. But what makes us think that anything in our nature is more stable or inherent than what lies outside it? Thus, Frankfurt concludes, with an observation as tiny and perfect as the rest of this exquisite book, "sincerity itself is bullshit." --Mary Park [via]
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Once More, with Feeling : The Script Bookby Adam HughesISBN 068985918X (0-689-85918-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Once More, with Feeling : The Script Book'Book summary:Giles (to Buffy): "What did you sing about?"
Buffy: "I, uh...don't remember. But it seemed perfectly normal."
Xander: "But disturbing. And not the natural order of things and do you think it'll happen again? 'Cause I'm for the natural order of things."
Since she's been brought back from the dead (for the second time), Buffy the Vampire Slayer hasn't quite been feeling her calling. Sure, she still gives the underworld a run for its money, but her heart just isn't in the job. Luckily, she's been able to keep her lack of enthusiasm a somewhat secret.Until now. When someone accidentally summons a music-making demon named Sweet, Buffy finds herself belting out her most private emotions. And she's not the only one -- before the battle is done, each of the Scoobies will have uncovered -- through song and dance, for better or for worse, each others' most guarded thoughts -- prompting the question, "where do we go from here?"
Here, in one volume, find complete, uncut dialogue, song lyrics, sheet music, and a full-color photo insert. For the true fan, a complete, authorized guide to the smash hit musical episode! [via]
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Open Secret: Gay Hollywood, 1928-2000by David EhrensteinISBN 0688175856 (0-688-17585-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The People's Almanac #3by David Wallechinsky, Irving WallaceISBN 0688037518 (0-688-03751-8)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Peoples Almanac No 2by Irving WallaceISBN 0688033725 (0-688-03372-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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A Pictorial History of Striptease: 100 Years of Undressing to Musicby Richard WortleyISBN 0706404696 (0-7064-0469-6)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pictorial History of Striptease: 100 Years of Undressing to Music'Book summary:Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd (April 23, 1976) Language: English ISBN-10: 0706404696 ISBN-13: 978-0907407126 Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.3 x 1 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds [via]
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Popcornby Ben EltonISBN 0684816121 (0-684-81612-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europeby Peter BurkeISBN 0704505967 (0-7045-0596-7)
Softcover, Wildwood House
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Popular Culture, Past and Present: A Readerby Bernard Waites, Tony Bennett, Graham MartinISBN 0709919093 (0-7099-1909-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Quintessential Tarantinoby Edwin PageISBN 0714531162 (0-7145-3116-2)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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Ray Gun: Out of Controlby Dean Kuipers, Marvin Scott JarrettISBN 0684839806 (0-684-83980-6)
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The Real Science Behind the X Files: Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutationsby Anne Elizabeth SimonISBN 0684856174 (0-684-85617-4)
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The Real Science Behind the X-Filesby Anne Elizabeth SimonISBN 0684856182 (0-684-85618-2)
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Rentby Evelyn McDonnell, Larry Fink, Jonathan Larson, Stewart Ferebee, Kathy Silberger, Michael GriefISBN 0688154379 (0-688-15437-9)
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A Reporter's Lifeby Walter CronkiteISBN 0679774149 (0-679-77414-9)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Reporter's Life'Book summary:If you're looking for something in between Charles Dickens and James Thurber, try Walter Cronkite's A Reporter's Life. This humble but very exciting autobiography is full of interesting characters and lightly told anecdotes. (Early on in the narrative, young Cronkite recalls running from a cigar store, where he has surreptitiously memorized box scores, down the street to the radio station where he can report them over his daily news broadcast.) The full, even tones of Cronkite's voice rise to describe the best fight he'd ever seen on a movie screen and fall to recall the day John Kennedy died. A hundred years of American history are offered with refreshing color and candor, a tale many may only know as a semester-long drone in high school. The audio version of A Reporter's Life has the advantage of Cronkite's famously unassuming voice, perfectly suited to the weight and manner of prose that delights with understatement. Cronkite's affections, both for his wife and for his own success, are tempered with charming modesty. He delivers keen and respectful observations of U.S. presidents and other heads of state that he has worked with, as though they were simply colleagues he has known through the years. For example, when Walter Cronkite returned from Vietnam after the Tet Offensive, he announced on national television that he deemed the war to be a stalemate, after which President Johnson is said to have turned off the set and said, "Well, we've lost middle America." [via]
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Rock FashionISBN 071197733X (0-7119-7733-X)
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The Rules of Attractionby Bret Easton EllisISBN 067978148X (0-679-78148-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rules of Attraction'Book summary:Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.
Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. [via]More editions of The Rules of Attraction:
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The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgeraldby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph BruccoliISBN 068480445X (0-684-80445-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald'Book summary:Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted (and best-paid) writers of stories and novellas. In The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author's fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. Included are classic novellas, such as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks." These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer's career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context.
Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless. As Malcolm Cowley once wrote, "Fitzgerald remains an exemplar and archetype, but not of the 1920s alone; in the end he represents the human spirit in one of its permanent forms." This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature. [via]
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Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generationby Philip NormanISBN 0684830671 (0-684-83067-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Six Myths of Our Time : Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and Moreby Marina WarnerISBN 0679759247 (0-679-75924-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Myths of Our Time : Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More'Book summary:Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do our culture's most hallowed legends inform the current debates over single mothers, the men's movement, and animal rights?
In these six dazzlingly intelligent and provocative essays, the distinguished English novelist and critic Marina Warner weaves classical mythology, pop culture, and today's headlines into a potent work of cultural criticism that is both unsettling and entertaining. Ranging from Medeato Thelma and Louise and from myths of cannibalism to the politics of rape, Six Myths of Our Time is at once a celebration of the enduring power of fable and a welcome antidote to its more virulent manifestations in our public life. [via]More editions of Six Myths of Our Time : Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More:
Snapsby James Percelay, Monteria Ivey, Stephan DweckISBN 0688128963 (0-688-12896-3)
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The Story of Rock 'N' Rollby Pete FornataleISBN 0688062768 (0-688-06276-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Tales of Passion, Tales of Woeby Sandra GullandISBN 0684856077 (0-684-85607-7)
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The Trouser Press Guide to 90's Rockby Ira A. Robbins, David SpragueISBN 0684814374 (0-684-81437-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Visible Fictions: Cinema Television Videoby John EllisISBN 0710093047 (0-7100-9304-7)
Softcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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We're History!: The 20Th-Century Survivor's Final Examby Jaime O'NeillISBN 0684829223 (0-684-82922-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We're History!: The 20Th-Century Survivor's Final Exam'Book summary:The twentieth century is nearly history, and since you probably weren't born yesterday, you should at least remember a few things about the last one hundred amazing years. For old time's sake, take this short quiz to see what you remember and how much you may have forgotten:
- Which came first, Velcro, spandex, or polyester?
- What kind of a detective was Ace Ventura?
- True or False: Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
- What was going on in San Francisco on April 19, 1906?
- What do Laika, Belka, and Strelka have in common?
Surprised? And those five questions are just a sample of the people, places, and things that come flooding back in We're History!, a host of cleverly designed quizzes that celebrate and test your knowledge of the twentieth century. With more than 2,000 creatively phrased and organized questions (short answer, fill-in-the blanks, true/false, "which came first?" and "spot the anachronism") and seventeen chapters covering every conceivable twentieth-century theme, innovation, and icon, We're History! will sharpen your trivia skills, dust off your memory, and, most importantly, provide you with what may be your last whirlwind ride through a truly memorable century.
Answers: Velcro came first in 1948; Ace Ventura was a pet detective; true; San Francisco is burning after a great earthquake; they were dogs, and also the first animals in space. [via]
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hop-Hop Feminist Breaks It Downby Joan MorganISBN 068486861X (0-684-86861-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In this fresh, funky, and ferociously honest book, award-winning journalist Joan Morgan bravely probes the complex issues facing African-American women in today's world: a world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; and where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women who long for marriage that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than 40 percent of the African-American population. [via]
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life As a Hip-Hop Feministby Joan MorganISBN 0684822628 (0-684-82262-8)
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Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviewsby George PlimptonISBN 0679771298 (0-679-77129-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flatteryby Richard StengelISBN 0684854929 (0-684-85492-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Over the years, people have offered many different definitions of and opinions on flattery, and flattery itself has changed "from flattery as a technique for persuading a whole class of people to flattery as a technique for influencing a single person." Is it venal? Is it a victimless crime? Is it a diluted form of praise? Is it merely, as Lord Chesterfield suggested, "a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses"? Or is it just lying? In his book You're Too Kind, Richard Stengel ponders the meaning of flattery and charts a droll and whimsical history, starting with the Egyptians ("Laugh after he laughs, and it will be very pleasing to his heart," recommends Vizier Ptahhotep), and concluding with handy hints on how to flatter without getting caught: "Never be candid when a person asks you to be candid." In between, he asks questions such as "What is circumcision, really, but a kind of divinely enforced flattery?" in an irreverent discourse around the covenant with the Israelites, and looks at everyone from troubadours to Dale Carnegie, Puritans to Hollywood D-girls.
The dust jacket sports plaudits by impresario of flattery Jay Leno and spinmeister George Stephanopoulos, who vouch that You're Too Kind is indeed a diverting book for the reader--like yourself--with taste, discretion, and, ahem, humor. --J. Riches [via]
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