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Against Love: A Polemicby Laura KipnisISBN 0375421890 (0-375-42189-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Love: A Polemic'Book summary:Less against love than against the cultural constraints that leads us to create wrong-headed ideas of love, this is book is the perfect antidote to any lingering social guilt about being happily single. Against Love: A Polemic will both shock and irritate, especially when you find yourself nodding your head in agreement while laughing at another broken taboo. Laura Kipnis (author of Bound and Gagged, Ecstasy Unlimited) clearly enjoyed writing this; she lets her wit run rampage over classic married situations and human emotions with results that include comparing adulterers to freedom fighters (using sharpened spoons to tunnel out from under love's barbed wire fences) and referring to tearful confessions of cheating as "funny little couple rituals." These make it fun, but the iconoclastic beauty is in her questions. How did good relationships come to be considered work instead of play? Why, unlike most of history and many other modern cultures, do Americans assume love and marriage go hand-in-hand? What lead to infidelity committed by public figures becoming a source of outrage? Kipnis doesn't have answers. Although urging us to have more compassion for our own desires, she expects her readers are smart enough to supply their own in response to her ideas. That attitude itself is a treat--if you're prepared to keep up through a complex whirlwind of Freud, Marx, Gingrich, Wollstonecraft, and several generations of pop culture. Jill Lightner [via]
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Amy and Isabelle : A Novelby Elizabeth StroutISBN 0375501347 (0-375-50134-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Anatomy of Bibliomaniaby Holbrook JacksonISBN 0374941289 (0-374-94128-9)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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Anil's Ghostby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0375410538 (0-375-41053-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anil's Ghost'Book summary:With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
The time is our own time. The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India, a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition--and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself.
Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island.
Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed 'Sailor.' What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past--all propelled by a riveting mystery.
Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder--the most powerful novel we have yet had from Michael Ondaatje. [via]More editions of Anil's Ghost:
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The Architecture of Happinessby Alain De BottonISBN 0375424431 (0-375-42443-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Architecture of Happiness'Book summary:One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be, and it argues that it is architectures task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential.
Whereas many architects are wary of openly discussing the word beauty, this book has at its center the large and naïve question: What is a beautiful building? It is a tour through the philosophy and psychology of architecture that aims to change the way we think about our homes, our streets and ourselves. [via]More editions of The Architecture of Happiness:
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Being Perfectby Anna QuindlenISBN 0375505490 (0-375-50549-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being Perfect'Book summary:A few times in your life, someone will tell you something so right, so deeply true that it changes you forever. That is what Anna Quindlen, author of the timeless bestseller A Short Guide to a Happy Life, does here.
In Being Perfect, she shares wisdom that, perhaps without knowing it, you have longed to hear: about the perfection trap, the price you pay when you become ensnared in it, and the key to setting yourself free. Quindlen believes that when your success looks good to the world but doesnt feel good in your heart, it isnt success at all.
She asks you to set aside your friends advice, what your family and co-workers demand, and what society expects, and look at the choices you make every day. When you ask yourself why you are making them, Quindlen encourages you to give this answer: For me. Because they are what I want, or wish for. Because they reflect who and what I am. . . . That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart.
At the core of this beautiful book lies the secret of authentic success, the inspiration to embrace your own uniqueness and live the life that is undeniably your own, rich in fulfillment and meaning. [via]More editions of Being Perfect:
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The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxietyby Wilhelm Reich, Marion Faber, Derek Jordan, Inge JordanISBN 0374517282 (0-374-51728-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety'Book summary:The Biological Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety is composed of three essential contributions from the period: "The Orgasm as an Electrophysical Discharge," "Sexuality and Anxiety" and "The Bioelectrical Function of Sexuality and Anxiety,"Reich's detailed report on the physiological experiments in which he sought proof for his orgasm theory.[via]More editions of The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety:
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The Biographer's Taleby A. S. ByattISBN 0375411143 (0-375-41114-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Biographer's Tale'Book summary:A.S. Byatt chronicles the life of the mind with the immediacy other novelists bring to the physical world. So when the graduate-student hero of The Biographer's Tale announces that he needs "a life full of things," we take his words with a grain of salt. Yes, Phineas G. Nanson has renounced the "cross-referenced abstractions" of life as a postmodern literary theorist, and vows to ground himself in what he warily calls the "facts" (the quotation marks are definitely in order). Yet he first forays into empiricism by reading a three-volume life of the Victorian traveler, writer, and diplomat Elmer Bole--then immediately undertakes a biography of Bole's biographer, Scholes Destry-Scholes.
Things, as Nanson discovers, can prove just as slippery as ideas. His research quickly leapfrogs beyond the biographer to his other subjects: scientist Carl Linnaeus, playwright Henrik Ibsen, and eugenicist Francis Galton, all of whom Destry-Scholes chronicled in three unpublished, unfinished, and, as it turns out, well-embroidered accounts. Meanwhile, our hero continues his forays into the real world. He takes a part-time job with a pair of gay travel agents, who arrange some very specialized vacations, and meets up with a Swedish bee taxonomist named Fulla, who wants to save the world. He also unearths a perplexing series of Destry-Scholes's index cards, full of sketches, facts, quotations, and unattributed lines of verse. These he attempts to shuffle into some kind of order, even as the enigmatic figure of the biographer himself seems to appear and disappear from view.
There are echoes here of Byatt's Booker Prize-winning Possession, another detective story for the MLA set. Yet The Biographer's Tale is an altogether odder--and chillier--sort of book. It is, in fact, almost terrifyingly learned, and wears its research about as lightly as a pair of Fulla's Ecco sandals. The mystery here is nothing less than the nature of mind, so it's no criticism to say that her characters have little life outside the ideas they represent. What's surprising is that the result is so readable, even beautiful at times. Here, for instance, is Nanson on truth and beauty:
There are a very few human truths and infinite variations on them. I was about to write that there are very few truths about the world, but the truth about that is that we don't know what we are not biologically fitted to know, it may be full of all sorts of shining and tearing things, geometries, chemistries, physics we have no access to and never can have. Reading and writing extend--not infinitely, but violently, but giddily--the variations we can perceive on the truths we thus discover.
The index cards themselves can be painful to read (remember the ersatz Victorian poetry in Possession?). But persevere, dear reader--meaning emerges through the play of one esoteric piece of information against another, just as it does in real life. Byatt extends her philosophical variations as far as she giddily can, and in The Biographer's Tale, she has constructed an elaborate, glittering labyrinth at the center of which lie surprisingly simple truths. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Biographer's Tale:
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The Bion Experiments on the Origin of Lifeby Wilhelm ReichISBN 0374514461 (0-374-51446-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Blind Assassinby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0375430857 (0-375-43085-7)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blind Assassin'Book summary:The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood's most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we're reminded of just how complicated the familial game of hide-and-seek can be:
What had she been thinking of as the car sailed off the bridge, then hung suspended in the afternoon sunlight, glinting like a dragonfly, for that one instant of held breath before the plummet? Of Alex, of Richard, of bad faith, of our father and his wreckage; of God, perhaps, and her fatal, triangular bargain.
Meanwhile, Atwood immediately launches into an excerpt from Laura Chase's novel, The Blind Assassin, posthumously published in 1947. In this double-decker concoction, a wealthy woman dabbles in blue-collar passion, even as her lover regales her with a series of science-fictional parables. Complicated? You bet. But the author puts all this variegation to good use, taking expert measure of our capacity for self-delusion and complicity, not to mention desolation. Almost everybody in her sprawling narrative manages to--or prefers to--overlook what's in plain sight. And memory isn't much of a salve either, as Iris points out: "Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them." Yet Atwood never succumbs to postmodern cynicism, or modish contempt for her characters. On the contrary, she's capable of great tenderness, and as we immerse ourselves in Iris's spliced-in memoir, it's clear that this buttoned-up socialite has been anything but blind to the chaos surrounding her. --Darya Silver [via]More editions of The Blind Assassin:
The Boy in the Burning Houseby Tim Wynne-JonesISBN 0374408874 (0-374-40887-4)
Softcover, Sunburst
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boy in the Burning House'Book summary:From its opening scene, in which a teenage girl overhears her stepfather's creepy confessions, to its terrifying conclusion in a deserted mine shaft, Tim Wynne-Jones's The Boy in the Burning House has the magnetic energy of a well-crafted made-for-television thriller, without pausing for commercial breaks. Like the best of the TV thrillers, The Boy in the Burning House features a smiling, unredeemable villain: Father Fisher, who leads the Church of the Blessed Transfiguration in a remote farming community.
Fourteen-year-old Jim Hawkins's father, Hub, has disappeared, and Ruth Rose, the pastor's stepdaughter, tries to convince him that Fisher killed Hub. If that possibility isn't unsavory enough, Jim discovers that his dad and Fisher were both involved in a fire that killed another teenage boy 30 years before. It is the unraveling of this long-hidden mystery that gives The Boy in the Burning House its page-turning edginess. As Jim investigates his father's past, his memories of a gentle and morally upright father are twisted out of shape. "He felt like he was burning up," Wynne-Jones writes, "and there was a boy inside him hammering to get out into the air."
As the novel roars towards its conclusion, some of its psychological richness and narrative consistency are sacrificed to fast-paced action sequences. Fisher's midnight stalking of Jim and Ruth Rose is as terrifying as Jack Nicholson's frenzied house crawl in The Shining, but Wynne-Jones never fully explains how Fisher became a monster. The Boy in the Burning House is a great read, but one that starts to wobble like a house of cards once the thrills are over. --Lisa Alward [via]
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Call It Sleep: A Novelby Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin, Hana Wirth-NesherISBN 0374522928 (0-374-52292-8)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call It Sleep: A Novel'Book summary:When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world.[via]More editions of Call It Sleep: A Novel:
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The Cancer Biopathyby Wilhelm Reich, Chester M. Raphael, Andrew WhiteISBN 0374510148 (0-374-51014-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cancer Biopathy'Book summary:A Shrinking Disease Due to Chronic Sexual Starvation[via]
What is Cancer? Traditionally, medical science has thought of it as an invasive tumor arising spontaneously in an otherwise healthy organism. In contrast, Wilhelm Reich defines cancer not as a tumor--the tumor is merely a late manifestation of the disease--but a systemic disease due to chronic thwaring of natural sexual functioning. In this radically different scientific investigation of a process that ends, literally, in the putrefaction of the living body due to chronic suffocatin of the tissues, Reich has arrived at the conclusion that "cancer is the most significant somatic expression of biophysiological effect of sexual stasis." If this is so, there is a far greater possibility for prevention of cancer than for its treatment.
The Cancer Biopathy is Volume II of The Discovery of the Orgone. Volume I is The Function of the Orgasm.More editions of The Cancer Biopathy:
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Citadel on the Mountainby Richard WertimeISBN 0374529140 (0-374-52914-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Citadel on the Mountain'Book summary:A warped dream, an overbearing father, and his son[via]
A handsome, brilliant man, the author's father-irascible, strong-willed, a compulsive womanizer-stands at the center of this strangely compelling story.
In the mid-1970s, after a life in government service, which was shadowy in its depths, Ted Wertime built a fortress-like house on a mountaintop in south-central Pennsylvania. He had forged for himself a secondary career as a highly respected historian of ancient science and technology, and was convinced that it was his fate to lead a sweeping revolution that would cleanse the United States of energy abuse, political corruption, and an odd assortment of social ills. His "citadel" would serve as his revolutionary headquarters. He, his wife, and Joan, the last and most troubled of his succession of mistresses, lived in the house together in a bizarre ménage à trois. His dream was to recruit his four sons to take part in his cause.
The author, Richard Wertime, is the second-oldest son. Citadel on the Mountain is the story of his struggle to escape from a domineering and, at times, hypnotizing father who sought to control the sexual and professional lives of his offspring.More editions of Citadel on the Mountain:
Cliffs of Despair: A Journey to the Edgeby Tom HuntISBN 0375507159 (0-375-50715-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Cold Heartby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375432051 (0-375-43205-1)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought, 1890-1930by Henry Stuart HughesISBN 0374940304 (0-374-94030-4)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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The Conspiracy Clubby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375432361 (0-375-43236-1)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Conspiracy Club'Book summary:Over the course of twenty acclaimed novels of suspense, most recently The Murder Book and A Cold Heart, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman has pitted psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware against adversaries as disturbed and dangerous as Delaware is clever and compassionate. Now in Kellermans gripping new novel, a different hero will hold the reader spellbound: a dedicated young psychologist, unschooled in the ways of violent crime and incalculable eviluntil his life is irreversibly touched by both . . . and he is thrust into a chilling hunt for a twenty-first-century Jack the Ripper.
When his brief, passionate romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, Dr. Jeremy Carrier is left emotionally devastated, haunted by his lovers grisly demise and warily eyed by police still seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved slaying. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work as staff psychologist at City Central Hospitalonly to be drawn deeper into a waking nightmare when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn Banks . . . and the suspicion surrounding Jeremy intensifies. Now, the only way to prove his innocence and put his torment to rest is to follow the trail of a cunning psychopath.
Spurring on Jeremys investigation is Dr. Arthur Chess, an enigmatic pathologist who specializes in examining the dead, but harbors a keen fascination with the darker deeds committed by the living. Arthurdraws Jeremy into an unexpected friendship, and into the confidence of a cryptic society devoted to matters unknown and unspoken. When he suddenly slips away, Jeremy is left to contend with an onslaught of anonymous cluesand the growing realization that a harrowing game of cat and mouse has been set in motion.
But who besides Jeremy is playingand who is making the rules? Before the killer strikes again, Jeremy races to connect the disturbing puzzle pieces being fed to him. Yet his search for answers only seems to yield more questions. And deepening the mystery is the undeniable presence of someone watching it alland guiding Jeremys investigation from behind the scenes. As the game intensifies, Jeremy must decide if a secret ally is setting him on the right path . . . or a sadistic enemy is setting him up for a fate far beyond even the most twisted imagination.
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The Control of Natureby John McPheeISBN 0374522596 (0-374-52259-6)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Control of Nature'Book summary:Master how-it-works writer John McPhee has instructed his readers in the arcana of how oranges are commercially graded, how mountains form, how canoes are built and oceans crossed. In The Control of Nature he turns his attention once more to geology and the human struggle against nature. In one sketch, he explores the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' unrealized plan to divert the flow of the Mississippi River into a tributary, the Atchafalaya, for flood control; in another, he looks at the ingenious ways in which an Icelandic engineer saved a southern harbor on that island from being destroyed by a lava flow; in a third, he examines a complex scheme to protect Los Angeles from boulders ejected from mountains by compression and tectonic movement. As always, McPhee combines a deep knowledge of his subject with a narrative approach that is wholly accessible; you may not have thought you were interested in earthquakes and flood control, but he gently leads you to take a passionate concern in such matters. [via]
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Anotherby Philip BallISBN 0374530416 (0-374-53041-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another'Book summary:Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society.[via]
Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this idea from different political perspectives. Little by little, however, social and political philosophy abandoned a "scientific" approach. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, political and economic sciences. Ball shows how much we can understand of human behavior when we cease to try to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions-whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict-can have on our laws, institutions and customs.
Lively and compelling, Critical Mass is the first book to bring these new ideas together and to show how they fit within the broader historical context of a rational search for better ways to live.More editions of Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another:
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Crowds and Powerby Elias Canetti, Carol StewartISBN 0374518203 (0-374-51820-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crowds and Power'Book summary:Elias Canetti's 1981 Nobel Prize was awarded mainly on the basis of this, his masterwork of philosophical anthropology about la condition humaine on an overpopulated planet.
Ranging from soccer crowds and political rallies to Bushmen and the pilgrimage to Mecca, Canetti exhaustively reviews the way crowds form, develop, and dissolve, using this taxonomy of mass movement as a key to the dynamics of social life. The style is abstract, erudite, and anecdotal, which makes Crowds and Power the sort of work that awes some readers with its profundity while irritating others with its elusiveness. Canetti loves to say something brilliant but counterintuitive, and then leave the reader to figure out both why he said it and whether it's really true. --Richard Farr [via]
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Curious Minds: How A Child Becomes A Scientistby John BrockmanISBN 0375422919 (0-375-42291-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Diving Bell and the Butterflyby Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy LeggattISBN 0375701214 (0-375-70121-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'Book summary:In December of 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, 43 year old editor in chief of Elle magazine in France, suffered a stroke which severely damaged his brain stem. After several weeks in a coma, he woke to find that he was one of the rare victims of a condition called "locked-in syndrome" or LIS, which had left his mind functioning but his body almost completely paralyzed. In a perverse sense he actually got fairly lucky because, unlike most victims, he was still able to move one eyelid. This allowed him to work out, with a speech therapist, a system of communication which entailed winking as someone slowly read through the alphabet. By using this code, he could painstakingly spell out words, sentences, paragraphs and, finally, this memoir. The title of the book refers to the metaphors he uses to describe his situation. The physical paralysis leaves him feeling as if he was trapped within a diving bell, as if there is constant pressure pinning his body into immobility. However, at the same time, his mind remains as free as a butterfly and it's flights are as random. In fact, he calls the chapters of this book his "bedridden travel notes" and, indeed, they eloquently relate his journey through memory. [via]
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The Emperor of Scent : A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Sensesby Chandler BurrISBN 0375507973 (0-375-50797-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Ether, God and Devil and Cosmic Superimpositionby Wilhelm Reich, Therese PolISBN 0374509913 (0-374-50991-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Family Historyby Dani ShapiroISBN 0375415475 (0-375-41547-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Family History'Book summary:From the author of the best-selling memoir slow motion ("chilling . . . Her vision is unblinking"-new york times book review; "riveting . . . A breathtaking combination of candor and bravado"-san francisco chronicle), a ferociously paced new novel about a woman losing control of her life, her marriage, and her kids, and discovering that you can do everything right and still find the world you've made slipping away.rachel jensen has it all: a husband she adores, challenging work in art restoration, a terrific teenage daughter, and a new baby on the way. Then her infant son is injured in an accident in her daughter's arms, and that accident begets a terrifying lie. Set in a small massachusetts town, family history is about a family spiraling toward disintegration, the terrible force of guilt in children, and a mother's nightmarish realization that she cannot protect her own child. As the life the jensens have so carefully built begins its slow collapse, we see with excruciating clarity the frailty of our strongest allegiances and the precarious ledge upon which our most vital relations-marriage, parenthood-are balanced. Family history blazes through this intimate and highly charged territory with stunning velocity, and marks a bold new step forward for the prodigiously gifted dani shapiro [via]
Final Analysisby Lois GouldISBN 0374521077 (0-374-52107-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Flesh and Bloodby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375431292 (0-375-43129-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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French Lessons: Adventures With Knife, Fork, and Corkscrewby Peter MayleISBN 0375405909 (0-375-40590-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Lessons: Adventures With Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew'Book summary:Peter Mayle has done it again--but differently. Travelling this time beyond his adopted Provence throughout France, the food and travel writer has produced French Lessons, a celebration of many of that country's gastronomic joys. Whether pursuing La Foire de Fromages, the annual cheese fair at Livarot; a Burgundian marathon offering runners Médoc refreshment; or a village truffle mass that concludes with a heady dégustation of the newly blessed tuber, Mayle takes his readers in hand and shows all. Wide-eyed yet knowing, ever affable but with a touch of mischief, he's an ideal companion, the best possible narrator of his lively food adventures.
Author of the bestselling A Year in Provence, Mayle's gastronomic baptism occurs when, as a 19-year-old, he dines for the first time in France. "At the first mouthful of French bread and French butter," he writes, "my taste buds, dormant until then, went into spasm." The paroxysm leads to serious food-and-wine perambulations--and, finally, to chapters including "The Thigh-Taster of Vitel" (a frog-eating fete); "Slow Food" (snail love in Martigny les Bains) and "The Guided Stomach" (an investigation of the Michelin Guide restaurant inspection), among others. Readers are also present for a debate on the secret of the perfect omelette; a search for the best possible chicken in Bourg-en-Bresse; and a visit to a St. Tropez restaurant notable for its scantily clad habitués. Those familiar with Mayle's work, and those yet to discover it, are in for a treat. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasureby Mireille GuilianoISBN 0375435484 (0-375-43548-4)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure'Book summary:The message of this book could be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. There is no hard science, no clearly-defined plan, and no lists of food to have or have not; instead, you'll find simple tricks that boil down to eating carefully prepared seasonal food, exercising more and refusing to think of food as something that inspires guilt. It's both a practical message and far easier said than done in today's "no pain, no gain" culture.
Author Mireille Guiliano is CEO of Veuve Clicquot, and French Women Don't Get Fat offers a concept of sensible pleasures: If you have a chocolate croissant for breakfast, have a vegetable-based lunch--or take an extra walk and pass on the bread basket at dinner. Guiliano's insistence on simple measures slowly creating substantial improvements are reassuring, and her suggestion to ignore the scale and learn to live by the "zipper test" could work wonders for those who get wrapped up in tiny details of diet. She sympathizes that deprivation can lead straight to overindulgence when it comes to favorite foods, but then, in a most French manner, treats them as a pleasure that needs to be sated, rather than a battle to be fought.
A number of recipes are included, from a weight-loss enhancing leek soup to a lush chocolate mousse; they read more like what you'd find in a French cookbook rather than an American diet book. Most appealingly, these are guidelines and tricks that could be easily sustainable over a lifetime. If you agree that food is meant to be appreciated--but no more so than having a trim waist--these charmingly French recommendations could set you on the path to a future filled with both croissants and high fashion. --Jill Lightner
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellersby Marina WarnerISBN 0374524874 (0-374-52487-4)
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Gayby Morton M. HuntISBN 0374387540 (0-374-38754-0)
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Gertrude : A Novelby Hermann Hesse, Hilda RosnerISBN 0374508127 (0-374-50812-7)
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The Good Bodyby Eve EnslerISBN 037550284X (0-375-50284-X)
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Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Beingby Andrew WeilISBN 0375407553 (0-375-40755-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being'Book summary:Spontaneous Healing . . . Eight Weeks to Optimum Health . . . Eating Well for Optimum Health . . . The Healthy Kitchen-in each of his widely acclaimed, best-selling books, Dr. Andrew Weil has been an authoritative and companionable guide through a uniquely effective combination of traditional and nontraditional approaches to health and healthy living. Now he gives us a book about aging that is unlike any other in the breadth and depth of its information and understanding. Hugely informative, practical, and uplifting, it is infused with the engaging candor and common sense that have been the hallmarks of all his books.At the heart of Healthy Aging is Dr. Weil's belief that although aging is an irreversible process, there are myriad things we can do to keep our minds and bodies in good working order through all phases of life. To that end, he draws on the new science of biogerentology the biology of aging as well as on the secrets of healthy longevity- diet, activity, and attitude-that he has gathered firsthand from cultures around the world. In Part One-"The Science and Philosophy of Healthy Aging"-he explains how the body ages, and he explores the impact of gender, genes, environment, and lifestyle on an individual's experience and perception of the process of aging. He describes the various would-be elixirs of life extension-herbs, hormones, and antiaging "medicines"-separating myth from fact and clearly delineating the difference between the spurious notions of preventing or reversing the process of aging and the real possibilities of inhibiting or delaying the onset of diseases that become more likely as we age. He writes movingly about the ways in which an acceptance of aging can be a significant part of doing it well, and of recognizing and appreciating the great rewards of growing older: depth and richness of experience, complexity of being, serenity, wisdom, and its own kind of power and grace. [via]
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How Far Will You Go?: Questions to Test Your Limitsby Evelyn McFarlane, James Saywell, Diana StezalskiISBN 0375502424 (0-375-50242-4)
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Hungerby Knut Hamsun, Robert Bly, Paul AusterISBN 0374525285 (0-374-52528-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunger'Book summary:Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.[via]
Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now Olso) as he struggles on the edge of starvation. Existing on what little money he makes from selling the occasional article to the local paper, and down to pawning the clothes on his back, the young writer slowly loses control of his reason and begins to slip increasingly into bouts of madness, paranoia, and despair.
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I Am Charlotte Simmonsby Tom WolfeISBN 0374281580 (0-374-28158-0)
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If... Questions for Teensby Evelyn McFarlane, James SaywellISBN 0375505555 (0-375-50555-5)
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In Ruinsby Christopher WoodwardISBN 0375421998 (0-375-42199-8)
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It's a Slippery Slopeby Spalding GrayISBN 0374525234 (0-374-52523-4)
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Killing Time : A Novel of the Futureby Caleb CarrISBN 0375430768 (0-375-43076-8)
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Last Chance In Texas: The Redemption Of Criminal Youthby John HubnerISBN 0375508090 (0-375-50809-0)
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Letters Home : How Writing Can Change Your Lifeby Terry VanceISBN 0375402489 (0-375-40248-9)
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Letting Goby Philip Roth, James AtlasISBN 0374517010 (0-374-51701-0)
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Life Is So Goodby George Dawson, Richard GlaubmanISBN 037550396X (0-375-50396-X)
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Lives of Moral Leadershipby Robert ColesISBN 0375501088 (0-375-50108-8)
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Lost in the Forestby Sue MillerISBN 0375435239 (0-375-43523-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Forest'Book summary:For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of her novels, Miller has written with exquisite precision about the experience of grace in daily lifethe sudden, epiphanic recognition of the extraordinary amid the ordinaryas well as the sharp and unexpected motions of the human heart away from it, toward an unruly netherworld of upheaval and desire. But never before have Millers powers been keener or more transfixing than they are in Lost in the Forest, a novel set in the vineyards of Northern California that tells the story of a young girl who, in the wake of a tragic accident, seeks solace in a damaging love affair with a much older man.
Eva, a divorced and happily remarried mother of three, runs a small bookstore in a town north of San Francisco. When her second husband, John, is killed in a car accident, her familys fragile peace is once again overtaken by loss. Emily, the eldest, must grapple with newfound independence and responsibility. Theo, the youngest, can only begin to fathom his fathers death. But for Daisy, the middle child, Johns absence opens up a world of bewilderment, exposing her at the onset of adolescence to the chaos and instability that hover just beyond the safety of parental love. In her sorrow, Daisy embarks on a harrowing sexual odyssey, a journey that will cast her even farther out onto the harsh promontory of adulthood and lost hope.
With astonishing sensuality and immediacy, Lost in the Forest moves through the most intimate realms of domestic life, from grief and sex to adolescence and marriage. It is a stunning, kaleidoscopic evocation of a family in crisis, written with delicacy and masterful care. For her lifelong fans and those just discovering Sue Miller for the first time, here is a rich and gorgeously layered tale of a family breaking apart and coming back together again: Sue Miller at her inimitable best. [via]More editions of Lost in the Forest:
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Lover's Discourse: Fragmentsby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521611 (0-374-52161-1)
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Majoring in the Rest of Your Lifeby Carol CarterISBN 0374522243 (0-374-52224-3)
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More Than Humanby Theodore SturgeonISBN 0375703713 (0-375-70371-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Than Human'Book summary:First published in 1953, this most celebrated of Sturgeon's works won the International Fantasy Award.
In this genre-bending novel, among the first to have launched science fiction into literature, a group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover that their combined powers render them superhuman. There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts; Janie, who moves things without touching them; and the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. Separately, they are talented freaks. Together, they may represent the next step in evolution -- or the final chapter in the history of the human race. As they struggle to find whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction. [via]More editions of More Than Human:
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Morning, Noon and Nightby Spalding GrayISBN 0374299854 (0-374-29985-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morning, Noon and Night'Book summary:The hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, by the author of It's a Slippery Slope[via]
In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Spalding comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of "a wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Spalding time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness: "Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?" Cosmic questions that for Gray are reinforced by the view from his bedroom window-a seventeenth-century graveyard-a cold reminder to the author of the impermanence of things, the transient nature of his life, the strange calling of his profession, which brilliantly confirms Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father to the man.
A richly comic work about parenthood , about adults who don't grow up and children who do, that stands as Spalding Gray's most mature work to date.More editions of Morning, Noon and Night:
Mountains of the Mind : How Desolate and Forbidding Heights Were Transformed into Experiences of Indomitable Spiritby Robert MacFarlaneISBN 0375421807 (0-375-42180-7)
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Murder of Christby Wilhelm ReichISBN 0374504768 (0-374-50476-8)
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Mythologiesby R. BarthesISBN 0374521506 (0-374-52150-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense."--Edward W. Said[via]More editions of Mythologies:
Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Processby Kubie LsISBN 0374501807 (0-374-50180-7)
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The New Work of Dogs : Tending to Life, Love, and Familyby Jon KatzISBN 0375508147 (0-375-50814-7)
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No Go the Bogeymanby Marina WarnerISBN 0374223017 (0-374-22301-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Go the Bogeyman'Book summary:An exciting new work, richly illustrated, on the age-old images and stories about frightening men.[via]
In this provocative new work, Marina Warner goes beyond the terrain she covered in her widely praised From the Beast to the Blonde. She explores the darker, wilder realm where ogres and giants devour children, where bogeymen haunt the night and each of us must face our bugaboos. No Go the Bogeyman considers the enduring presence and popularity of figures of male terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age.
Songs, stories, images, and films about frightening monsters have always been invented to allay the very terrors that our dreams of reason conjure up. Warner shows how these images and stories, while they may unfold along different lines--scaring, lulling, or making mock-always have the strategic, simultaneous purpose of both arousing and controlling the underlying fear. In a brilliant analysis of material long overlooked by cultural critics, historians, and even psychologists, Warner revises our understanding of storytelling in contemporary culture, of masculine identity, racial stereotyping, and the dangerous, unthinking ways we perpetuate the bogeyman.More editions of No Go the Bogeyman:
The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japanby Ivan MorrisISBN 0374521204 (0-374-52120-4)
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On Late Style: Music And Literature Against the Grainby Edward W. SaidISBN 037542105X (0-375-42105-X)
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Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Levelby Sally ShaywitzISBN 0375400125 (0-375-40012-5)
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Passion of Youth: An Autobiography, 1897-1922by Wilhelm Reich, Chester M. Raphael, Mary Boyd HigginsISBN 0374229953 (0-374-22995-3)
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Patterns of Childhoodby Christa WolfISBN 0374518440 (0-374-51844-0)
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People in Trouble: Volume Two of the Emotional Plague of Mankindby Wilhelm ReichISBN 0374230684 (0-374-23068-4)
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Plowing the Darkby Richard PowersISBN 0374234612 (0-374-23461-2)
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Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performanceby James B. Maas, Meagan L. Wherry, Barbara Hogan, David J. AxelrodISBN 0375500952 (0-375-50095-2)
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Quickeningby Laura Catherine BrownISBN 0375503730 (0-375-50373-0)
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Rageby Jonathan KellermanISBN 037543481X (0-375-43481-X)
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Regarding the Pain of Othersby Susan SontagISBN 0374248583 (0-374-24858-3)
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Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured -or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock?
In her first full-scale investigation of the role of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001.
As John Berger wrote when On Photography was first published, "All future discussions or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is now bound to begin with her book." Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will be equally essential. It will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.More editions of Regarding the Pain of Others:
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Reich Speaks of Freudby Wilhelm Reich, Chester M. RaphaelISBN 0374506728 (0-374-50672-8)
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The Riddle Of Gender: Science, Activism, And Transgender Rightsby Deborah RudacilleISBN 0375421629 (0-375-42162-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle Of Gender: Science, Activism, And Transgender Rights'Book summary:When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why.
Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angleshistorical, sociological, psychological, medicalRudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing ones gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years, and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain.
Informed not only by meticulous research, but also by the authors interviews with prominent members of the transgender community, The Riddle of Gender is a sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man, a woman, and a human being.
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Runby Douglas E. WinterISBN 037540838X (0-375-40838-X)
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A Short Guide to a Happy Lifeby Anna QuindlenISBN 0375504613 (0-375-50461-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short Guide to a Happy Life'Book summary:"I'm not particularly qualified by profession or education to give advice and counsel", confesses author Anna Quindlen, as she begins this tender little instruction book. "It's widely known in a small circle that I make a mean tomato sauce, and I know many inventive ways to hold a baby while nursing, although I haven't had the opportunity to use any of them in years".
It is precisely this commonplace form of wisdom that makes readers trust and respect Quindlen. She uses her candid heart-to-heart narrative voice along with her novel-writer descriptive skills to show readers how good we have it: "Life is made up of moments, small pieces of mica in a long stretch of glittering gray cement". Later she urges readers to "Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face". The format smacks of "gift book", with an abundance of pleasing, artsy photographs. Don't be ashamed to fall for the packaging, though. This is one of those books that could remain in the living room for years or in the family for generations. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Speakby Laurie Halse AndersonISBN 0374371520 (0-374-37152-0)
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Laurie Halse Anderson's first novel is a stunning and sympathetic tribute to the teenage outcast. The triumphant ending, in which Melinda finds her voice and loudly confronts her rapist, is cause for cheering (while many readers might also shed a tear or two). After reading Speak, it will be hard for any teen to look at the class scapegoat again without a measure of compassion and understanding for that person--who may be screaming beneath the silence. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darknessby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0375413189 (0-375-41318-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness'Book summary:Karen Armstrong speaks to the troubling years following her decision to leave the life of a Roman Catholic nun and join the secular world in 1969. What makes this memoir especially fascinating is that Armstrong already wrote about this era once---only it was a disastrous book. It was too soon for her to understand how these dark, struggling years influenced her spiritual development, and she was too immature to protect herself from being be bullied by the publishing world. As a result, she agreed to portray herself only in as "positive and lively a light as possible"---a mandate that gave her permission to deny the truth of her pain and falsify her inner experience. The inspiration for this new approach comes from T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday, a series of six poems that speak to the process of spiritual recovery. Eliot metaphorically climbs a spiral staircase in these poems---turning again and again to what he does not want to see as he slowly makes progress toward the light. In revisiting her spiral climb out of her dark night of the soul, Armstrong gives readers a stunningly poignant account about the nature of spiritual growth. Upon leaving the convent, Armstrong grapples with the grief of her abandoned path and the uncertainty of her place in the world. On top of this angst, Armstrong spent years suffering from undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy, causing her to have frequent blackout lapses in memory and disturbing hallucinations---crippling symptoms that her psychiatrist adamantly attributed to Armstrong's denial of her femininity and sexuality. The details of this narrative may be specific to Armstrong's life, but the meanin! g she makes of her spiral ascent makes this a universally relevant story. All readers can glean inspiration from her insights into the nature of surrender and the possibilities of finding solace in the absence of hope. Armstrong shows us why spiritual wisdom is often a seasoned gift---no matter how much we strive for understanding, we can't force profound insights to occur simply because our publisher is waiting for them. With her elegant, humble and brave voice, she inspires readers to willingly turn our attention toward our false identities and vigilantly defended beliefs in order to better see the truth and vulnerability of our existence. Herein lies the staircase we can climb to enlightenment. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Culturesby Anne FadimanISBN 0374525641 (0-374-52564-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures'Book summary:Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, overmedication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility." [via]
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Successful Aging : The MacArthur Foundation Study Shows How the Lifestyle Choices You Make Now--More Than Heredity--Determine Your Health and Vitalityby John W. Rowe, Robert L. KahnISBN 0375400451 (0-375-40045-1)
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The Theory And Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps And the System Behind Themby Eugen Kogon, Heinz NordenISBN 0374529922 (0-374-52992-2)
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Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision a Progressive's Handbookby George LakoffISBN 0374530904 (0-374-53090-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision a Progressive's Handbook'Book summary:[via]Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Dont Think of an Elephant! Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for more:
* What is the progressive vision of America;* Why progressive values are Americas values;* How frames are necessary to serve the truth;* Why sloganeering alone doesnt work;* How progressives trap themselves and how they can escape those traps; and* How political arguments and narratives can be put together to counter the Right.Thinking Points satisfies that call with a bold, concise, and systematic explanation of how conservatives think and use languageand how progressives can fight back . Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute offer a new understanding of the so-called political center and explain why the most effective way to appeal to those who identify themselves as moderates or conservatives is to remain true to progressive values.
This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to participate in shaping an America that serves the common good.More editions of Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision a Progressive's Handbook:
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Childby Alice Miller, Hunter Hannum, Hildegarde HannumISBN 0374525439 (0-374-52543-9)
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Traveling Merciesby Anne LamottISBN 0375409173 (0-375-40917-3)
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Trickster Makes This Worldby Lewis HydeISBN 0374279284 (0-374-27928-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trickster Makes This World'Book summary:Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating, and stealing, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable culture heroes. Here Lewis Hyde's ambitious and captivating study brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination as it is embodied in the trickster mythology. [via]
The Unity of Natureby Carl Friedrich WeizsackerISBN 0374281009 (0-374-28100-9)
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When We Were Orphansby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0375410546 (0-375-41054-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When We Were Orphans'Book summary:When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and his friend Akira play at being detectives: "Until in the end, after the chases, fist-fights and gun-battles around the warren-like alleys of the Chinese districts, whatever our variations and elaborations, our narratives would always conclude with a magnificent ceremony held in Jessfield Park, a ceremony that would see us, one after another, step out onto a specially erected stage ... to greet the vast cheering crowds."
But Christopher's mother also disappears, and he is sent to live in England, where he grows up in the years between the world wars to become, he claims, a famous detective. His family's fate continues to haunt him, however, and he sifts through his memories to try to make sense of his loss. Finally, in the late 1930s, he returns to Shanghai to solve the most important case of his life. But as Christopher pursues his investigation, the boundaries between fact and fantasy begin to evaporate. Is the Japanese soldier he meets really Akira? Are his parents really being held in a house in the Chinese district? And who is Mr. Grayson, the British official who seems to be planning an important celebration? "My first question, sir, before anything else, is if you're happy with the choice of Jessfield Park for the ceremony? We will, you see, require substantial space."
In When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro uses the conventions of crime fiction to create a moving portrait of a troubled mind, and of a man who cannot escape the long shadows cast by childhood trauma. Sherlock Holmes needed only fragments--a muddy shoe, cigarette ash on a sleeve--to make his deductions, but all Christopher has are fading recollections of long-ago events, and for him the truth is much harder to grasp. Ishiguro writes in the first person, but from the beginning there are cracks in Christopher's carefully restrained prose, suggestions that his version of the world may not be the most reliable. Faced with such a narrator, the reader is forced to become a detective too, chasing crumbs of truth through the labyrinth of Christopher's memory.
Ishiguro has never been one for verbal pyrotechnics, but the unruffled surface of this haunting novel only adds to its emotional power. When We Were Orphans is an extraordinary feat of sustained, perfectly controlled imagination, and in Christopher Banks the author has created one of his most memorable characters. --Simon Leake [via]
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While I Was Goneby Sue MillerISBN 0375401121 (0-375-40112-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'While I Was Gone'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 2000: In her still startling debut, The Good Mother, Sue Miller explored the premium we put on passion--and the terrible burden it places on a mother and child. Her fourth novel, While I Was Gone, is another study in familial crime and punishment. But this time, her wife and good mother is accessory to more than emotional malfeasance. Jo Becker has everything a woman could desire: a loving spouse, contented children, and a nice dog or two. When her New England veterinary practice takes on a new client, however, her past comes back to haunt her. Long ago, it seems, Jo had escaped her family and identity for a commune in Cambridge. Her Aquarian illusions came to an abrupt, bloody end when one of her housemates was brutally murdered.
Now this unhappy era returns in the person of Eli Mayhew, who had been the odd man out in Jo's boho household. His appearance is both tantalizing and upsetting: "Inside, I slowed down. I felt numbed. I had two last patients, and then I told Beattie to go home, that I'd close up.... I refiled the last charts, sprayed and wiped the examining table. I reviewed my list of routine surgeries for Wednesday. All the while I was thinking of Eli Mayhew, and of Dana and Larry and Duncan and me, and our lives in the house. Of the horrible way it had all ended." Sue Miller's fine novel is a penetrating--and sensuous--portrait of a woman besieged by her conscience. While I Was Gone also demonstrates that in the face of distance and betrayal, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing indeed. --Winnie Wheaton [via]
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A Widow for One Year : A Novelby John IrvingISBN 037570289X (0-375-70289-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Widow for One Year : A Novel'Book summary:John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).
Eddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her.
Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives--or at least to track her down. Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. Eddie is a lovable schlemiel, yet not too sentimentally drawn. And what set pieces Irving can write! The story of the boys' death is horrific and effective in dramatizing the character of Ted, who narrates it. Ted's attempted murder by a spurned lover is as hilarious as the VW-down-the-marble-stairway scene in A Prayer for Owen Meany (which has been adapted by Disney Studios), though not quite on a par with the celebrated "Pension Grillparzer" episode in The World According to Garp (reissued in a 20th anniversary edition by Modern Library).
Irving has the effrontery to get away with practically any scene that comes into his head--Ruth winds up an eyewitness to a hooker's murder in Amsterdam, a Dutch detective starts tracking her down (just as Ruth is hunting Marion), and the multiple plot strands all converge in a finale that neatly echoes the opening scene. It's all done with the outrageously coincidental yet minutely realistic brio of Charles Dickens, with a sad, self-conscious jokiness like that of Irving's mentor, Kurt Vonnegut. --Tim Appelo [via]
The Wisdom of Big Bird: (And the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch) Lessons from a Life in Feathersby Jason Milligan, Caroll SpinneyISBN 0375507817 (0-375-50781-7)
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The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literatureby Edmund WilsonISBN 0374514801 (0-374-51480-1)
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Zeno's Conscienceby William Weaver, Italo SvevoISBN 0375413308 (0-375-41330-8)
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The modern Italian classic discovered and championed by James Joyce, Zenos Conscience is a marvel of psychological insight, published here in a fine new translation by William Weaverthe first in more than seventy years.
Italo Svevos masterpiece tells the story of a hapless, doubting, guilt-ridden man paralyzed by fits of ecstasy and despair and tickled by his own cleverness. His doctor advises him, as a form of therapy, to write his memoirs; in doing so, Zeno reconstructs and ultimately reshapes the events of his life into a palatable reality for himselfa reality, however, founded on compromise, delusion, and rationalization.
With cigarette in hand, Zeno sets out in search of health and happiness, hoping along the way to free himself from countless vices, not least of which is his accursed last cigarette! (Zenos famously ineffectual refrain is inevitably followed by a lapse in resolve.) His amorous wanderings win him the shrill affections of an aspiring coloratura, and his confidence in his financial savoir-faire involves him in a hopeless speculative enterprise. Meanwhile, his trusting wife reliably awaits his return at appointed mealtimes.
Zenos adventures rise to antic heights in this pioneering psychoanalytic novel, as his restlessly self-preserving commentary inventively embroiders the truth. Absorbing and devilishly entertaining, Zenos Conscience is at once a comedy of errors, a sly testimonial to the joys of procrastination, and a surpassingly lucid vision of human nature by one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century. [via]More editions of Zeno's Conscience:
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir of Life in Deathby Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy LeggattISBN 0375401156 (0-375-40115-6)
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