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The Anti-Christ: Fragments from a Shattering Mindby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 1840680938 (1-84068-093-8)
Softcover, Creation Books
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The Antichristby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, H. L. MenckenISBN 1596056819 (1-59605-681-9)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Antichrist'Book summary:The Christian concept of a god-the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit-is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world... In him nothingness is deified, and the will to nothingness is made holySee Sharp Press; Tuscon, AZ -from The Anti-Christ He's one of the most debated thinkers of the 19th century: Nietzsche and his works have been by turns vilified, lauded, and subjected to numerous contradictory interpretations, and yet he remains a figure of profound import, and his works a necessary component of a well-rounded education. The Anti-Christ, first published in German in 1895, is absolutely vital to any meaningful understanding of Nietzsche the man and Nietzsche the philosopher. An insightful and entertaining indictment of Christianity, it has enraged and inspired generations of readers, and this 1920 translation, by H. L. Mencken, considered the best available, is almost as controversial as the work itself, highlighting the darkest side of Mencken's cynicism. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Nietzsche's The Use and Abuse of History. German psychologist and philosopher FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) was appointed special professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the precocious age of 24, but soon found himself dissatisfied with academic life and created an alternative intellectual society for himself among friends including composer Richard Wagner, historian Jakob Burckhardt, and theologian Franz Overbeck. Among his philosophical works are Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Ecce Homo. [via]
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Atonement for a 'sinless' Society: Engaging With an Emerging Cultureby Alan MannISBN 1842273558 (1-84227-355-8)
Softcover, Stl Distribution North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atonement for a 'sinless' Society: Engaging With an Emerging Culture'Book summary:"Sin doesn't really exist as a serious idea in modern life," wrote the journalist Bryan Appleyard. He is not alone in his views. Sin has become just as tainted, polluted and defiled in the postmodern mind as the world itself indicates.Atonement for a 'Sinless' Society is about an encounter between two stories: the story of the postmodern, post-industrialized, post-Christian 'sinless' self and the story of Atonement played out in the Passion Narrative. Alan Mann charts a way through the apparent impasse between a story that supposedly relies on sin and guilt to become meaningful and one that fails to recognize the plight of humanity as portrayed in this way. He shows that the biblical narrative needs to be reread in the light of this emerging story so that it can speak meaningfully and sufficiently to an increasingly 'sinless' society. [via]
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Boomeritisby Ken WilberISBN 1590300084 (1-59030-008-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular Culture and Public Affairsby Rodney ClappISBN 1587430037 (1-58743-003-7)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Borderlands/LA Fronteraby Gloria AnzalduaISBN 1879960567 (1-879960-56-7)
Softcover, Aunt Lute Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borderlands/LA Frontera'Book summary:Second edition of Gloria Anzaldúa's major work, with a new critical introduction by Chicano Studies scholar and new reflections by Anzaldúa.[via]More editions of Borderlands/LA Frontera:
Burnt: A Novelby Lance Olsen, Aavid MemmottISBN 1877655201 (1-877655-20-1)
Softcover, Wordcraft of Oregon
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Castle Waitingby Linda MedleyISBN 1888963077 (1-888963-07-7)
Softcover, Diamond Comic Distributors
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The Coming of the Son of Man: New Testament Eschatology for an Emerging Churchby Andrew PerrimanISBN 1842272993 (1-84227-299-3)
Softcover, Stl Distribution North Amer
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Leftby Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Ernesto LaclauISBN 185984278X (1-85984-278-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Cultural Turnby Fredric JamesonISBN 1859841821 (1-85984-182-1)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Dancing Boyby Ronald HimlerISBN 1595720200 (1-59572-020-0)
Hardcover, Star Bright Books
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Darwin and Fundamentalismby Merryl Wyn DaviesISBN 1840461772 (1-84046-177-2)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattanby Rem KoolhaasISBN 1885254008 (1-885254-00-8)
Softcover, Monacelli Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan'Book summary:In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are revealed in a brilliant new light. "Manhattan," Koolhaas writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Filled with fascinating facts, as well as photographs, postcards, maps, watercolors, and drawings, the vibrancy of Koolhaas's poignant exploration of Gotham equals the heady, frenetic energy of the city itself. Anyone who loves New York will want to own this book. [via]
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Dionysus in Exile: On the Repression of the Body and Emotionby Rafael Lopez-Pedraza, Rafael Lopez PedrazaISBN 1888602104 (1-888602-10-4)
Softcover, Chiron Pubns
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Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraISBN 1853267953 (1-85326-795-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Don Quixoteby Tobias George Smollett, Miguel De CervantesISBN 1593080468 (1-59308-046-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:[via]Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Widely acknowledged as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantess Don Quixote features two of the most famous characters ever created: Don Quixote, the tall, bewildered, and half-crazy knight, and Sancho Panza, his rotund and incorrigibly loyal squire. The comic and unforgettable dynamic between these two legendary figures has served as the blueprint for countless novels written since Cervantess time.
An immediate success when first published in 1604, Don Quixote tells the story of a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. Seated upon his lean nag of a horse, and accompanied by the pragmatic Sancho Panza, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain seeking glory and grand adventure. Along the way the duo meet a dazzling assortment of characters whose diverse beliefs and perspectives reveal how reality and imagination are frequently indistinguishable.
Profound, powerful, and hilarious, Don Quixote continues to capture the imaginations of audiences all over the world.
Features illustrations by Gustave Doré.Carole Slade specializes in late medieval and early modern European literature.Her publications include St. Teresa of Avila: Author of a Heroic Life and Approaches to Teaching Dantes Divine Comedy . She teaches Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De LA Manchaby Tom LathropISBN 158977003X (1-58977-003-X)
Softcover, Juan De LA Cuesta
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Manchaby Miguel Cervantes SaavedraISBN 1589770242 (1-58977-024-2)
Softcover, Linguatext Ltd
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El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Jim-Enez-Fajardo, James A. ParrISBN 1889818119 (1-889818-11-9)
Hardcover, Pegasus Press
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Eye Screamby Henry RollinsISBN 1880985322 (1-880985-32-2)
Softcover, 2 13 61
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye Scream'Book summary:"Work on Eye Scream started in 1986. I was crossing America constantly and[via]
experiencing the morality shifts, attitudes, and rituals in different parts
of the country - the difference in the way people were in the Bible Belt as
opposed to New York City, the way blacks and whites interfaced, the
intolerance of homosexuality, the morality plays. I started to become aware
of how brutal the country is and how much ferocity, cruelty, and oppression
are inherent in the culture and how much of it was in me. I wanted to
document it and create a book that brought the whole thing to a boil and see w
here it left me off. In the summer of 1995, I finished the book and started
to edit. Re-reading the manuscript over and over, I realized all the things I
had picked up over a decade of playing Devil's advocate and it was inspiring
because it clearly defined who my enemies are. As an American, I feel it
impossible not to be infuriated by the way things are and have been. I refuse
to be happy about the day-to-day and go along with it. There's too much
spitting in my face and too much spitting in the faces of people who don't
know any other way of life. This book is brutal, and at times, funny. I know
that I will probably get a ton of shit for Eye Scream. Enjoy, or better
yet... don't." ---- Henry RollinsMore editions of Eye Scream:
Fireworksby Angela CarterISBN 185089244X (1-85089-244-X)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Foucault and Queer Theoryby Tamsin SpargoISBN 184046092X (1-84046-092-X)
Softcover, Totem Books
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The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?by Slavoj ZizekISBN 1859843263 (1-85984-326-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?'Book summary:"From now on, even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way; everything old has passed away, see, everything has become new!" Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts the revolutionary logic of a radical break with the past - with it, the age of cosmic balance and similar pagan babble is over. What does it mean to return to this stance in the modern world. The "Fragile Absolute" asserts that Christianity and Marxism should fight together against the onslaught of new spiritualism. The subversive core of the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. This book offers a contribution from a Marxist to the 2000th anniversary of one who was well aware that to practice love in our world is to bring in the sword and fire. [via]
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Frank O. Gehry: Individual Imagination and Cultural Conservatismby Robert Maxwell, Charles Jencks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Frank O. GehryISBN 1854904086 (1-85490-408-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Hermeneutics Of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, And Postmodern Faithby James K. A. Smith, James H. Olthuis, Henry Isaac VenemaISBN 1587431130 (1-58743-113-0)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group
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I Listen: A Document of Digital Voyeurismby The SpacewurmISBN 1888277106 (1-888277-10-6)
Softcover, Incommunicado Pr
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In Persuasion Nationby George SaundersISBN 159448242X (1-59448-242-X)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Persuasion Nation'Book summary:George Saunders has earned enthusiastic acclaim and a devoted cult-following with his first two story collections and the recent novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. With his new book, In Persuasion Nation, Saunders ups the ante in every way, and is poised to break out to a wide new audience.
The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow,"about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in The Best American Short Stories 2005. His new book includes both unpublished work, and stories that first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Esquire. The stories in this volume work together as a whole whose impact far exceeds the simple sum of its parts. Fans of Saunders know and love him for his sharp and hilarious satirical eye. But In Persuasion Nation also includes more personal and poignant pieces that reveal a new kind of emotional conviction in Saunders's writing.
Saunders's work in the last six years has come to be recognized as one of the strongest-and most consoling-cries in the wilderness of the millennium's political and cultural malaise. In Persuasion Nation's sophistication and populism should establish Saunders once and for all as this generation's literary voice of wisdom and humor in a time when we need it most. [via]More editions of In Persuasion Nation:
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Introducing Baudrillardby Chris Horrocks, Zoran Jevtic, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840460873 (1-84046-087-3)
Softcover, Totem Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Baudrillard'Book summary:Cuts beneath the controversy of misunderstood intellect, Jean Baudrillard, to present his radical claims that reality has been replaced by a simulated world of images and events ranging from TV news to Disneyland. [via]
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Introducing Lacanby Darian Leader, Judy GrovesISBN 1840466693 (1-84046-669-3)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Introducing Media Studiesby Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840467185 (1-84046-718-5)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Introducing Postfeminismby Rebecca Wright, Sophia PhocaISBN 1840460105 (1-84046-010-5)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Kabukiby David MackISBN 1887279997 (1-887279-99-7)
Softcover, Diamond Comic Distributors
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Lifestyle Evangelismby Joseph AldrichISBN 1590527542 (1-59052-754-2)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lifestyle Evangelism'Book summary:Finding common ground and earning the right to be heard is the secret to lifestyle evangelism. In this classic bestseller, now released as a mass-market paperback, Dr. Joe Aldrich shows us how we can build genuine, caring relationships with nonbelievers that will open their hearts to the gospel message. The author's approach is biblical, practical, and natural. Lifestyle Evangelism is the definitive work in introducing people to the Savior in a way that displays God's authentic love for the lost. [via]
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The Limits of Visionby Robert IrwinISBN 1585674605 (1-58567-460-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Limits of Vision'Book summary:Finally available again in the United States, The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt. Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities-having the girls over for coffee, tidying the house, making dinner-it becomes increasingly clear that her sanity is unraveling at an alarming rate. Irwin is at his creative best here, as he describes Marcia's conversations with Mucor, the "mouthpiece for the Dirt, the Empire of Decay and Ruin, the Principle of Evil," as well as such scientists and artists of the past as William Blake, Charles Dickens, Leonardo da Vinci, and Charles Darwin.[via]More editions of The Limits of Vision:
Literature, Culture, and Societyby Andrew MilnerISBN 1857280962 (1-85728-096-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Live to Tell: Evangelism for a Postmodern Ageby Brad J KallenbergISBN 1587430509 (1-58743-050-9)
Softcover, Brazos Pr
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The Lovely Bones: A Novelby Alice SeboldISBN 159413023X (1-59413-023-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones: A Novel'Book summary:On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.
As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]
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Malcolmby James PurdyISBN 1852423684 (1-85242-368-4)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Maldoror and the Complete Worksby Alexis Lykiard, Comte De Lautreamont, LautreamontISBN 187897212X (1-878972-12-X)
Softcover, Exact Change
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maldoror and the Complete Works'Book summary:Andre Breton described Maldoror as "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846) and early death in Paris (1870). Lautreamont bewildered his contemporaries, but the Surrealists modeled their efforts after his black humor and poetic leaps of logic, exemplified by the oft-quoted line, "As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella." Maldoror 's shocked first publisher refused to bind the sheets of the original edition--and perhaps no better invitation exists to this book, which warns the reader, "Only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger." This is the only complete annotated collection of Lautreamont's writings available in English, in Alexis Lykiard's superior translation. For this latest edition, Lykiard updates his introduction to include recent scholarship. [via]
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The Matrixby Joshua CloverISBN 1844570452 (1-84457-045-2)
Softcover, British Film Inst
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Matrix'Book summary:[via]The Matrix (1999) was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the American Zeitgeist, and a prognosis for the future of big-budget Hollywood filmmaking. Starring Keanu Reeves as Neo, a computer programmer transformed into a messianic freedom fighter, The Matrix blends science fiction with conspiracy thriller conventions and outlandish martial arts created with groundbreaking digital techniques. A box-office triumph, the film was no populist confection: its blatant allusions to highbrow contemporary philosophy added to its appeal as a mystery to be decoded.
Joshua Clover undertakes the task of decoding the film. Examining The Matrix's digital effects and how they were achieved, he shows how the film represents a melding of cinema and video games (the greatest commercial threat to have faced Hollywood since the advent of television) and achieves a hybrid kind of immersive entertainment. He also unpacks the movie's references to philosophy, showing how The Matrix ultimately expresses the crisis American culture faced at the end of the 1990s.More editions of The Matrix:
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Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World And the Way We Live in Itby THOMAS DE ZENGOTITAISBN 1596910321 (1-59691-032-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effectsby Jerome Agel, Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 188886902X (1-888869-02-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects'Book summary:The medium used to be the message. But in the "collide-oscopic" barrage of image and text that resulted from Marshall McLuhan's 1967 collaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, the medium becomes the massage. The basic premise of this playful popularization of McLuhan's theories of the electronic revolution will be familiar to readers of his other works: "Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments." But more than McLuhan's other work, The Medium Is the Massage also reflects the tumultuous decade in which it was produced, the 60s. It was a time when existentialism, the theatrr of the absurd, "happenings," and Eastern religions were all the rage in academic circles. Massage adds to that mix traces of utopianism ("We have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art"; a hint of radicalism (of electronic circuitry McLuhan says: "Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism. The old civic, state, and national groupings have become unworkable."); and a bracing pinch of paranoia ("Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance" have brought us "to a point where remedial control, born out of knowledge of media and their total effects on all of us, must be exerted."). True to its observation that "information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously," McLuhan and Fiore shower us with photographs, cartoons, newspaper headlines, backwards and upside-down writing, and other graphical innovations. The book is also packed with quotations from a motley collection of savants (in addition to McLuhan himself, of course): Alfred North Whitehead, James Joyce, Lao Tsu, John Dewey, John Cage, and Bob Dylan. The book's design and content aptly, and palpably, demonstrate the insights that have caused many highly stimulated readers to pronounce McLuhan a visionary, a veritable "oracle of the electronic age." --Russell Prather [via]
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The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effectsby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 1584230703 (1-58423-070-3)
Softcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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The Message :Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Languageby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1600060021 (1-60006-002-1)
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The Metamorphosis and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Donna Freed, Jason BakerISBN 1593080298 (1-59308-029-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories'Book summary:[via]The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka is now one of the worlds most widely read and discussed authors. His nightmarish novels and short stories have come to symbolize modern mans anxiety and alienation in a bizarre, hostile, and dehumanized world. This vision is most fully realized in Kafkas masterpiece, The Metamorphosis, a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature.
Bringing together some of Kafkas finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the authors artistry. The Judgment, which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and The Stoker, which became the first chapter of his novel Amerika, are here included. These two, along with The Metamorphosis, form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as The Sons, and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.
Also included are In the Penal Colony, a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and A Hunger Artist, about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. Kafkas lucid, succinct writing chronicles the labyrinthine complexities, the futility-laden horror, and the stifling oppressiveness that permeate his vision of modern life.
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 1853261912 (1-85326-191-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empireby Antonio Negri, Michael HardtISBN 1594200246 (1-59420-024-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernityby Marc Auge, John HoweISBN 1859840515 (1-85984-051-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Outsiderby Albert CamusISBN 1857151399 (1-85715-139-9)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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Paradiseby Fiona FrenchISBN 1845070070 (1-84507-007-0)
Hardcover, Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:Paradise showcases Fiona French's distinctive artwork that combines the flowing organic lines of Art Nouveau with the colorful luminous look of Louis Comfort Tiffany's stained glass. Twelve kaleidoscopic tableaux, accompanied by a straightforward, easy-to-understand narrative, portray the Old Testament story of creation seven momentous days in which God creates the world: light and dark, sky and earth, fishes, birds, animals and finally man and woman. French returns to perhaps the most compelling text of the many available the Authorized King James version of the Bible to bring the Book of Genesis in all of its timeless drama into glowing perspective for young readers.[via]More editions of Paradise:
The Penelopiadby Margaret AtwoodISBN 1841957178 (1-84195-717-8)
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Poemsby Andrew Marvell, Peter WashingtonISBN 1841157619 (1-84115-761-9)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf
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Popcoby Scarlett ThomasISBN 1841157635 (1-84115-763-5)
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Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technologyby Albert BorgmannISBN 1587430584 (1-58743-058-4)
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The Red Tent: Reader's Companionby Anita Diamant'SISBN 1586638602 (1-58663-860-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Tent: Reader's Companion'Book summary:The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery.
"Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mother and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges," Anita Diamant writes in the voice of Dinah. "They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember." Remembering women's earthy stories and passionate history is indeed the theme of this magnificent book. In fact, it's been said that The Red Tent is what the Bible might have been had it been written by God's daughters, instead of her sons. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Rings of Saturnby W. G. SebaldISBN 1860463991 (1-86046-399-1)
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The Roaches Have No Kingby Daniel Evan WeissISBN 1852427469 (1-85242-746-9)
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Shopgirlby Steve MartinISBN 1587240122 (1-58724-012-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Natureby Donna Jeanne HarawayISBN 1853431397 (1-85343-139-7)
Softcover, Free Assn Books
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Six Characters in Search of an Authorby Luigi Pirandello, Stephen MulrineISBN 1854590898 (1-85459-089-8)
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A Smuggler's Bibleby Joseph McElroy, Richard HowardISBN 158567351X (1-58567-351-X)
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The System of Objectsby Jean Baudrillard, James BenedictISBN 1844670538 (1-84467-053-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The System of Objects'Book summary:Published for the first time in English, this is Jean Baudrillard's earliest book, written in 1968, at a time when (as the author would put it later), "The society of the spectacle and its denunciation were still the focal point of semiological, psychoanalytical and sociological arguments". Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, this book offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the "new technical order" as functional, non-functional and metafunctional. He contrasts "modern" and "traditional" functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of non-functional or "marginal" objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the "schizofunctional". Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life. This book is an in-depth study of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of "expenditure" and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's "lonely crowd" and the "technological society" of Jacques Ellul; the struturalism of Roland Barthes in "The System of Fashion"; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle. [via]
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'Brien, SparkNotes StaffISBN 1586638270 (1-58663-827-0)
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The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontologyby Slavoj ZizekISBN 1859842917 (1-85984-291-7)
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The Ticklish Subject confronts Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heideggerians, feminists and New Age obscurantists by unearthing a subversive core to this elusive spectre, and finding in this core the indispensable philosophical point of reference of any genuinely emancipatory politics. [via]More editions of The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology:
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To the Hermitageby Malcolm BradburyISBN 1585672564 (1-58567-256-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Hermitage'Book summary:In October 1993, a novelist is invited to go to Stockholm and Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Project. In Stockholm he is joined by various other members of the project-including an academic, a lustful opera singer, and a Swedish diplomat. On the journey to Russia more is revealed about the great Enlightenment writer Denis Diderot-the son of a knife maker in Langres, who went to Paris and compiled the Encyclopedia, a book that changed the world.
In alternating narratives, Bradbury brilliantly recreates the climate of the eighteenth century-as Diderot journeys to Russia at the behest of Catherine the Great for discussions on the nature of the late-18th-century world-as well as the twentieth century academic milieu.
"An exuberant, enchanting literary valedictory." (Washington Times)
"To the Hermitage reads like a love letter to the life of the mind from a man who, in his work as a writer, critic, academic and teacher has done much to contribute to the dizzying circulation of ideas." (The Independent on Sunday) [via] 
Trilogyby Samuel BeckettISBN 1857152360 (1-85715-236-0)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 1874675996 (1-874675-99-6)
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Umberto Eco and Footballby Peter Pericles TrifonasISBN 1840462809 (1-84046-280-9)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aestheticsby School of Visual Arts (New York, N.Y.), David Shapiro, Bill BeckleyISBN 1880559900 (1-880559-90-0)
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Vertigoby W. G. SebaldISBN 1860466249 (1-86046-624-9)
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A Voidby Georges Perec, Gilbert AdairISBN 1860460984 (1-86046-098-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Wind, Master Cherry, the Windby Larissa SzporlukISBN 1882295390 (1-882295-39-0)
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With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology Being Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of St. Andrews in 2001by Stanley HauerwasISBN 1587430169 (1-58743-016-9)
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Woman's World: A Novelby Graham RawleISBN 1843543672 (1-84354-367-2)
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestizaby Not AvailableISBN 1879960745 (1-879960-74-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza'Book summary:Cultural Writing. Essays. Latino/Latina Studies. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldua's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remapped our understanding of what a "border" is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This twentieth-anniversary edition features new commentaries from prominent activists, artists, and teachers on the legacy of Gloria Anzaldua's visionary work. [via]
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