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The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essayby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525484442 (0-525-48444-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hardcover, E. P. Dutton - The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay: ISBN 0525484442 (0-525-48444-2)
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The American Nightby Jim MorrisonISBN 0517086832 (0-517-08683-2)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Night'Book summary:THE AMERICAN NIGHT presents Morrison's previously unpublished work in its truest form. WIth their nightmarish images, bold associative leaps, and volcanic power of emotion, these works are the unmistakable artifacts of a great, wild voice and heart.
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Another Roadside Attractionby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553349481 (0-553-34948-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Roadside Attraction'Book summary:It's clear that when Robbins sits down to write, he has one thing on his mind: having himself some fun. I read Another Roadside Attraction, years ago, then immediately went back to the beginning of the book and read it again. Robbins holds nothing back in this, his first novel. It's a perfect introduction to the Robbins oeuvre of oddness. [via]
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Architecture After Modernismby Diane GhirardoISBN 050020294X (0-500-20294-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Architecture After Modernism'Book summary:An examination of the architectural world and its theories since the late 1960s in the context of social and political issues. It looks at a broad survey of buildings, but focuses on specific "megaprojects" as examples for discussion: the Disney empire and its amusement parks in the context of public space and the IBA in Berlin in the context of domestic space.
Its discussion of the reshaping of urban environment focuses on London's Dockland, the most ambitious and politically sensitive development in postwar Britain. It also considers the work of lesser-known designers and women architects as well as famous international stars. [via]More editions of Architecture After Modernism:
Bellefleurby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525063021 (0-525-06302-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspectiveby Arthur C. DantoISBN 0520216741 (0-520-21674-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Cambridge Companion To Foucaultby Gary GuttingISBN 0521600537 (0-521-60053-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0553149660 (0-553-14966-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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The Catcher in the Ryeby Not AvailableISBN 055311722X (0-553-11722-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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A Confederacy of Dunces : A Novelby John Kennedy Toole, Walker PercyISBN 0517122707 (0-517-12270-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces : A Novel'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernityby Michael E. ZimmermanISBN 0520209079 (0-520-20907-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Design After Modernism: Beyond the Objectby John ThackaraISBN 0500275106 (0-500-27510-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950by Martin JayISBN 0520204239 (0-520-20423-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Diamond Ageby Neal StephensonISBN 0553380966 (0-553-38096-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diamond Age'Book summary:John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change. [via]
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The Diamond Age/Or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primerby Neal StephensonISBN 0553573314 (0-553-57331-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Doctor Brodie's Reportby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525475419 (0-525-47541-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Brodie's Report'Book summary:This collection of 11 short stories includes "The Gospel According to Mark", "The Unworthy Friend", "The Duel", "The End of the Duel", "Rosendo's Tale", "The Intruder", "The Meeting", "Juan Mruana", "The Elder Lady", "Guayaquil" and "Doctor Brodie's Report". [via]
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The Dust Off Their Feet: Lessons from the First Churchby Chris Seay, Brian McLarenISBN 0529123460 (0-529-12346-0)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Presentby Arthur C. DantoISBN 0520208463 (0-520-20846-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present'Book summary:Danto's absorbing essays probe the meaning and inspiration behind the work of some of the 20th century's most influential artists, including Georges Braque, Gustav Klimt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Broader themes emerge within each essay. In his discussion of Warhol, for example, Danto declares, "[T]he significant art of this extraordinary period . . . has to be assessed as much on grounds of speculative theory as on those of aesthetic discrimination." He goes on to characterize the art of the 20th century as "a collective investigation by artists into the philosophical nature of art." Encounters & Reflections won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990. [via]
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The End of Artby Donald B. KuspitISBN 0521832527 (0-521-83252-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The End Of Artby Kuspit DonaldISBN 052154016X (0-521-54016-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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End of the Roadby John BarthISBN 0553242768 (0-553-24276-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Even Cowgirls Get the Bluesby Tom RobbinsISBN 055334949X (0-553-34949-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'Book summary:Free-spirited hitchhiker sissy henshaw makes her way across the confused and paranoid america of the 1970s, gathering knowledge and experience, friends and lovers, and all sorts of unusual acquaintances. Reissue. Movie tie-in [via]
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Gojiroby Mark JacobsonISBN 0553297430 (0-553-29743-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517542099 (0-517-54209-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:Don't panic! You're not timetripping! It's the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!
By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.
For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who've read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams's unique universe -- remember -- don't panic, don't forget to bring a towel, and don't forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Humumentby Tom PhillipsISBN 0500285519 (0-500-28551-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Hundred Brothersby Donald AntrimISBN 0517703106 (0-517-70310-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Ageby David B. MorrisISBN 0520226895 (0-520-22689-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517599244 (0-517-59924-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:State-of-the-art, digitally generated graphic images and tricky visual puns accompany the complete text of the cult classic story of one young man's zany adventures in outer space. 50,000 first printing. [via]
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Illywhackerby Peter CareyISBN 0571132073 (0-571-13207-3)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Indian Inkby Tom StoppardISBN 0571175562 (0-571-17556-2)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 051713764X (0-517-13764-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0517642727 (0-517-64272-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0517388081 (0-517-38808-1)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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London Fieldsby Martin AmisISBN 0517577186 (0-517-57718-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art Worldby Arthur C. DantoISBN 0520230027 (0-520-23002-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World'Book summary:The Madonna of the Future finds Danto at the point where all the vectors of the art world intersect: those of traditional painting, Pop art, mixed media, and installation art; those of art and philosophy; those of the specialist who brings theory to bear on the work and the viewer who appreciates it primarily visually.[via]More editions of The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World:
A Man Jumps Out of an Airplaneby Barry YourgrauISBN 0517587173 (0-517-58717-3)
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The Moor's Last Sighby Salman RushdieISBN 0517199513 (0-517-19951-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Music of Changeby Paul AusterISBN 0571203035 (0-571-20303-5)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageographyby Martin W. Lewis, Karen E. WigenISBN 0520207432 (0-520-20743-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography'Book summary:If you consider geography an objective science, think again. According to Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, even the concept of continents is open to interpretation. Why, for example, do Europeans consider their little peninsula a whole continent while the vast territories of India and China are mere subcontinents? Contrast this worldview with that of the Indian mapmakers who depicted South Asia as the world's largest land mass and Europe as marginalized "hat-wearing islands." During the Cold War, the world was even further divided, this time into first, second, and third worlds. But how you classify the various regions of the world, Lewis and Wigen posit in The Myth of Continents, depends very much on where you happen to be standing at the time.
Having bravely exposed the ethnocentrism at the heart of geography, Lewis and Wigen then offer up their own division of the globe based on "world regions" rather than continents. Under such a scheme, Europe would become Western Eurasia, while the Western Hemisphere would become North America, Ibero-America, and African-America (divisions based on linguistic, cultural, and/or racial criteria). Whether or not you agree with the authors' division of the world, The Myth of Continents is a lively and thought-provoking exploration of a subject many of us take for granted. After reading this book, you'll never look at a map of the world in quite the same way. [via]
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The Neverending Storyby Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim, Roswitha QuadfliegISBN 0525457585 (0-525-45758-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Neverending Story'Book summary:The Neverending Story When it was published more than a decade ago, this special story within a story captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers worldwide. A lonely boy named Bastian is drawn into a beautiful but doomed world. Only Bastian can save this enchanted place of dragons, giants, monsters, and mysteries . . . but will he have to stay there forever? This beautifully repackaged hardcover classic Full description [via]
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Neveryonaby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 055324177X (0-553-24177-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Neveryona, orby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 055301434X (0-553-01434-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neveryona, or'Book summary:In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback.
The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame. [via]More editions of Neveryona, or:
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Nymphomationby Jeff NoonISBN 0552999067 (0-552-99906-7)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nymphomation'Book summary:Imagine living in a city where the lottery has become the most important thing in everyone's life. Imagine that the lottery is based on dominoes, which only form their winning or losing combination as the Friday night draw is made. Imagine that people will kill to obtain winning dominoes. Imagine adverts exhorting you to play the lottery as they fly around in the air. Now set all that in Manchester in 1999.
Nymphomation presents an alternate reality in which Manchester has become a test bed for the new game and its sinister undertones. The story is driven by characters recognisable as real people--students, street dwellers, musicians, waiters. They get caught up in what becomes for some of them a fight to the death to defeat the controlling power of the lottery and its head, Mr Million.
Noon writes with an accomplished mix of wit and darkness, and manages to invent a whole dictionary of new words along the way. Whoompy burgers sponsor the police and control the Net, blurbflies carry the adverts around the streets and the nymphomania itself tries to control but has to be controlled. The upshot is an imaginative and disturbing horror/cyberpunk/science fiction mix with plenty of harsh reality and social comment thrown in. --Sandra Vogel [via]
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Outline of a Theory of Practiceby BourdieuISBN 052129164X (0-521-29164-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outline of a Theory of Practice'Book summary:Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power. [via]
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Pascal's Penseesby Blaise PascalISBN 0525470182 (0-525-47018-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Performance Art: From Futurism to the Presentby Roselee GoldbergISBN 0500203393 (0-500-20339-3)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry From Fin-De-Siecle to Negritudeby University of California (System), University of California Press, Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre JorisISBN 0520072278 (0-520-07227-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry From Fin-De-Siecle to Negritude'Book summary:As we come to the beginning of a new century, we find that the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of contemporary poetry. International in its coverage, these volumes bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. Volume 2 offers a dazzling chronicle of the second "great awakening" of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. Ranging from the period of World War II through the cold war to the onset of the twenty-first century, this volume presents two "galleries" of individual poets such as Holan, Olson, Rukeyser, Jabès, Celan, Mac Low, Pasolini, Bachmann, Finlay, Ginsberg, Adonis, Rich, U Tam'si, Baraka, Takahashi, Waldman, and Bei Dao. There are also samplings of local and international movements: the Beats, the Vienna Group, the Cobra poets and artists, the Arabic-language Tammuzi poets, the creators of a new "Concrete Poetry," the "postwar poets" of Japan, the Italian Novissimi and Avan-Guardia, the Chinese Misty Poets, and the North American Language Poets. In addition, an extended section is devoted to examples of the "art of the manifesto" and two smaller groupings of traditional "oral poets" and of experimenters with machine art and cyberpoetics. Poet-editors Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris provide informative and irreverent commentaries throughout. They challenge old truths and propose alternative directions, in the tradition of the manifestos that have marked the art and poetry of the twentieth century. The result is both an essential resource for experiencing the full range of contemporary poetic possibilities and an arresting statement on the future of poetry in the millennium ahead.[via]More editions of Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry From Fin-De-Siecle to Negritude:
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Portable James Joyceby James Joyce, Harry LevinISBN 0517618877 (0-517-61887-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Portable James Joyce, edited and with an introduction by Harry Levin, includes four of the six books on which Joyce's astonishing reputatuion is founded: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man; his Collected Poems (including Chamber Music); Exiles, Joyce's only drama; and his volume of short stories, Dubliners. In addition, there is a generous sampling from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, including the famous "Anna Livia Plurabelle" episode.
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Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derridaby Allan MegillISBN 0520060288 (0-520-06028-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Querelle of Brestby Jean GenetISBN 0571203671 (0-571-20367-1)
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Rachel Papersby Martin AmisISBN 0517567776 (0-517-56777-6)
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Remembering Babylonby David MaloufISBN 0517165481 (0-517-16548-1)
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The Robber Brideby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0553569058 (0-553-56905-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Robber Bride'Book summary:Exploring the paradox of female villainy, this tale of three fascinating women is another peerless display of literary virtuosity by the supremely gifted author of Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale. Roz, Charis and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulent center of her own neverending saga. She entered their lives in the sixties, when they were in college. Over the three decades since, she has damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three women -- with much relief -- attend her funeral. But as The Robber Bride begins, Roz, Charis and Tony have come together at a trendy restaraunt for their monthly lunch when in walks the seemingly resurrected Zenia... In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes with her characteristic well-crafted prose, rich and devious humor, and compassion. [via]
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The Seventh Horse and Other Talesby Leonora CarringtonISBN 0525483845 (0-525-48384-5)
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Slaves of New Yorkby Tama JanowitzISBN 0517561077 (0-517-56107-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaves of New York'Book summary:In Tama Janowitz's story collection of mid-1980s manners, it's all about real estate. Her coterie of New York artists and grad students, junkies and collectors dwells in walk-ups and covets lofts. The occasional socialite wafts through, characterized tersely by statements of fact; for example, "Millie owned her own co-op." But, for the most part, these are the also-rans of Manhattan life, literally looking for a toehold in the city. The main character who emerges is shabby Eleanor, an appealing heroine who appears in several linked stories. A jewelry maker, she lives with an artist named Stash and a treasure-trove of insecurities. Much is made of the squalor of their apartment. In Eleanor, Janowitz finds a channel for her vulnerability--a nice counterpoint to her affectless prose, which attempts and occasionally achieves a deadpan humor.
Intertwined with the Eleanor stories are the unreliable first-person narratives of Marley Mantello. Marley, too, has serious real estate issues: "My apartment, the sublet from which I was being evicted, looked just as terrible as when I had gone out earlier--worse, even, for there was a foul reek of something fecund and feline, like the stench of old lion spoor upon the veldt."
The rest of the stories are brief thumbnails, which Janowitz calls "modern saints" and "case histories." Stabbing at experimentalism, they showcase her shortcomings--the lazy satire, the easy laugh. This author's prose seemed of-the-moment when it came out, and time has not been altogether kind. "I was startled to find him so far uptown, knowing how he usually refused to travel above Fourteenth Street, claiming it led to mental decay," says the narrator of "In and Out of the Cat Bag." This kind of observation may have seemed edgy in 1985, but has little staying power. At its best, Slaves effervesces a bittersweet nostalgia for a time when artists could still afford to live in Manhattan. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Snow Crashby Neal StephensonISBN 0553380958 (0-553-38095-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Crash'Book summary:From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. [via]
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Sources of the Self : The Making of the Modern Identityby Charles TaylorISBN 0521429498 (0-521-42949-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of the Self : The Making of the Modern Identity'Book summary:'Most of us are still groping for answers about what makes life worth living, or what confers meaning on individual lives', writes Charles Taylor in Sources of the Self. 'This is an essentially modern predicament.' Charles Taylor's latest book sets out to define the modern identity by tracing its genesis, analysing the writings of such thinkers as Augustine, Descartes, Montaigne, Luther, and many others. This then serves as a starting point for a renewed understanding of modernity. Taylor argues that modern subjectivity has its roots in ideas of human good, and is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and attain the good. The modern turn inwards is far from being a disastrous rejection of rationality, as its critics contend, but has at its heart what Taylor calls the affirmation of ordinary life. He concludes that the modern identity, and its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, is far richer in moral sources that its detractors allow. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defence of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics. [via]
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Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sandby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 055325149X (0-553-25149-X)
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Tales of Neveryonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553228420 (0-553-22842-0)
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The Tetherballs of Bougainvilleby Mark LeynerISBN 0517701014 (0-517-70101-4)
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseasesby Mark Roberts, Jeff Vandermeer, Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, K. J. BishopISBN 0553383396 (0-553-38339-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases'Book summary:Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid youre afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn! Book Sense
You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembledeach disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isnt heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.
Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that cant go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you dont have Pentzlers Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection. [via]More editions of The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases:
Theopolitical Imaginationby William CavanaughISBN 0567088774 (0-567-08877-4)
Softcover, T&t Clark Ltd
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Time's Arrowby Martin AmisISBN 0517112698 (0-517-11269-8)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub
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Time's Arrow : Or the Nature of the Offenseby Martin AmisISBN 0517585154 (0-517-58515-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time's Arrow : Or the Nature of the Offense'Book summary:Amis attempts here to write a path into and through the inverted morality of the Nazis: how can a writer tell about something that's fundamentally unspeakable? Amis' solution is a deft literary conceit of narrative inversion. He puts two separate consciousnesses into the person of one man, ex-Nazi doctor Tod T. Friendly. One identity wakes at the moment of Friendly's death and runs backwards in time, like a movie played in reverse, (e.g., factory smokestacks scrub the air clean,) unaware of the terrible past he approaches. The "normal" consciousness runs in time's regular direction, fleeing his ignominious history. [via]
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Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Traditionby Richard Keller SimonISBN 0520222237 (0-520-22223-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition'Book summary:Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode?[via]
Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing?
Star Wars as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene?
The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of the past. In television, movies, magazines, and advertisements we are exposed to many of the same stories as those critics who study the great books of Western literature, but we have simply been encouraged to look at those stories differently.
In Trash Culture, Richard K. Simon examines the ways in which the great literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for today's consumer society, with supermarket tabloids such as The National Enquirer and celebrity gossip magazines like People serving as contemporary versions of the great dramatic tragedies of the past. Today's advertising repeats the tale of the Golden Age, but inverts the value system of a classic utopia; the shopping mall combines bits and pieces of the great garden styles of Western history, and now adds consumer goods; Playboy magazine revises Castiglione's Renaissance courtesy book, The Book of the Courtier; and Cosmopolitan magazine revises the women's coming-of-age novels of Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Edith Wharton.
Trash Culture concludes that the great books are alive and well, but simply hidden from the critics. It argues for the linking of high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and the importance of teaching popular culture alongside books of the great tradition in order to understand the critical context in which the books appear.More editions of Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition:
Travestiesby Tom StoppardISBN 057110682X (0-571-10682-X)
Hardcover, Faber
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Tritonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553229796 (0-553-22979-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Villa Incognitoby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553382195 (0-553-38219-5)
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Virtual Lightby William GibsonISBN 0553566067 (0-553-56606-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual Light'Book summary:The author of Neuromancer takes you to the vividly realized near future of 2005. Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pick-pocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash. [via]
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The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 0525237704 (0-525-23770-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Zeitgeistby Bruce SterlingISBN 0553576410 (0-553-57641-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zeitgeist'Book summary:"Like Tom Clancy on PCP." That's how Bruce Sterling describes his fin-de-siècle head trip, Zeitgeist, a typically Sterling spectacle packed with verbal flash and digerati wit, along with the expected rail-gun-steady stream of well-thought-out ideas and references. His self-appraisal, as it turns out, is right on. This is a guy widely considered "another, hipper Alvin Toppler" (in the words of cyberpunk godfather John Shirley), an effortlessly intelligent master of both style and substance.
Fans will recognize Zeitgeist's antihero protagonist Leggy Starlitz from Sterling stories "Hollywood Kremlin," "Are You for 86?" and "The Littlest Jackal." The well-connected, world-class fixer is part mystic, part sleaze--sort of Uncle Enzo meets Templeton "Faceman" Peck--and his latest hustle is plying the Third World with merchandise from his all-fake, all-girl band, G-7. (Its seven talentless, Wonderbra-wearing members are known simply as the American One, the French One, the German One, etc.)
Starlitz makes use of a shady, flamboyantly weird network of state officials, bodyguards, photographers, and other assorted players to push the merchandise--action figures, lip gloss, shoes, you name it--on what one of G-7's savvier members calls the "Moslem hillbillies." But things get surreal as G-7 girls start dying, characters start explicitly referring to their purpose in the narrative, and one of Leggy's associates conspires to break G-7's most sacred rule: that the whole enterprise must end by Y2K. --Paul Hughes [via]
Zuckerman Boundby Philip RothISBN 0517664445 (0-517-66444-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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