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The Adventures of Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 158279037X (1-58279-037-X)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Oliver Twist'Book summary:The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in "Oliver Twist" Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, John MichaelISBN 1583483411 (1-58348-341-1)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:[via]The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twains tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life and array of irresistible charactersthe awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Aunt Polly, and the lovely, beguiling Beckyas well as such unforgettable incidents as whitewashing a fence, swearing an oath in blood, and getting lost in a dark and labyrinthine cave. Below Tom Sawyers sunny surface lurk hints of a darker reality, of youthful innocence and naïveté confronting the cruelty, hypocrisy, and foolishness of the adult worlda theme that would become more pronounced in Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Despite such suggestions, Tom Sawyer remains Twains joyful ode to the endless possibilities of childhood.
H. Daniel Peck is John Guy Vassar Professor of English at Vassar College and is the author of Thoreaus Morning Work and A World by Itself: The Pastoral Moment in Coopers Fiction.More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrinaby David Dante TrouttISBN 1595581162 (1-59558-116-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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All Things Censoredby Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noelle Hanrahan, Alice WalkerISBN 1583220763 (1-58322-076-3)
Softcover, Seven Stories Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Things Censored'Book summary:More than 75 essaysmany freshly composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball-point pen, the only implement he is allowed in his death-row cellembody the calm and powerful words of humanity spoken by a man on Death Row. Abu-Jamal writes on many different topics, including the ironies that abound within the U.S. prison system and the consequences of those ironies, and his own case. Mumia's composure, humor, and connection to the living world around him represents an irrefutable victory over the "corrections" system that has for two decades sought to isolate and silence him.
The title, All Things Censored, refers to Mumia's hiring as an on-air columnist by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and subsequent banning from that venue under pressure from law and order groups. [via] -
The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, And Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orientby Sheridan PrassoISBN 1586483943 (1-58648-394-3)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Cultureby John StrausbaughISBN 1585424986 (1-58542-498-6)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture'Book summary:A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race in America reveals our culture as neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel.
Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture. Particularly compelling is the author's ability to tackle blackface--a strange, often scandalous, and now taboo entertainment. Although blackface performance came to be denounced as purely racist mockery, and shamefacedly erased from most modern accounts of American cultural history, Strausbaugh shows that, nevertheless, its impact has been deep and longlasting. The influence of blackface can be seen in rock and roll and hip-hop; in vaudeville, Broadway, and drag performances; in Mark Twain and "gangsta lit"; in the earliest filmstrips and Hollywood's 2004 White Chicks; on radio and television; in advertising and product marketing; and even in the way Americans speak.
With remarkable common sense and clarity, Strausbaugh candidly illuminates truths about race rarely discussed in public, including:
- American culture neither conforms to knee-jerk racism nor to political correctness. It is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel.
- No history is best forgotten-however uncomfortable it may be to remember. The power of blackface to enrage and mortify Americans to this day is reason enough to examine what it still tells us about our culture and ourselves.
- Blackface is still alive. Its impact and derivations- including Black performers in "whiteface"-can be seen all around us. [via]More editions of Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture:
Black Rednecks And White Liberalsby Thomas SowellISBN 1594031436 (1-59403-143-6)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Blanche on the Lamby Barbara NeelyISBN 158547469X (1-58547-469-X)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identityby Ophira Edut, Rebecca WalkerISBN 1580050433 (1-58005-043-3)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Partsby Catherine E. McKinleyISBN 1582432597 (1-58243-259-7)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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Constitutional Law: Equal Protectionby Louis Michael SeidmanISBN 1587781794 (1-58778-179-4)
Softcover, West Group
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauerby Joyce ReardonISBN 158547231X (1-58547-231-X)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Discourse on Colonialismby Aime Cesaire, Robin D.G. Kelley, Aime Csaire, Joan PinkhamISBN 1583670254 (1-58367-025-4)
Softcover, Monthly Review Pr
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Diversity: The Invention of a Conceptby Peter WoodISBN 1594030421 (1-59403-042-1)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Dreadsby Francesco Mastalia, Alfonse PaganoISBN 157965150X (1-57965-150-X)
Softcover, Artisan
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Employment Discrimination Storiesby Joel William FriedmanISBN 1587788888 (1-58778-888-8)
Softcover, West Group
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Fall on Your Knees: Library Editionby Ann-Marie MacDonaldISBN 1587242583 (1-58724-258-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fall on Your Knees: Library Edition'Book summary:Fall on Your Knees, award-winning actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald's sprawling and powerful first novel, reads like a literary soap opera, but one whose mature themes are far from the pulp and clichés of daytime television. Its episodic rises and falls have the same sort of page-turning, cliff-hanging appeal of that lesser medium. It never drags, never over-burdens the reader, and, most importantly, remains likeable and believable despite the many--and sometimes magical--twists and turns of its tale.
Fall on Your Knees tells the story of several generations of the Piper family of Cape Breton, beginning with the marriage of James Piper, the controlling, emotionally stunted son of Gaelic-speaking Scottish Canadians, and Materia Mahmoud, the 13-year-old daughter of wealthy Lebanese immigrants. Materia's father cuts her off from her family for marrying James, and James in turn forces her to deny both her heritage and her emotions. James, out of a spite even he fails to comprehend, focuses all his attention on Kathleen, his first-born and a musical prodigy. He dotes on her and sends her away to study opera in New York. However, Kathleen's unexpected return from New York, where she has made some discoveries that will ultimately turn her father against her, becomes the centre of an intricately plotted series of tragedies involving each of the Piper sisters. In a startlingly skilful manipulation of prose, MacDonald teases out clues, secrets, and revelations that are both delightful to discover and disturbing to consider. --Jonathan Dewar [via]
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Fledglingby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 1583226907 (1-58322-690-7)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fledgling'Book summary:Fledgling, Octavia Butlers first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wantedand still wantsto destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. [via]
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The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritageby Loolwa KhazzoomISBN 1580050956 (1-58005-095-6)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrificationby Caille MilnerISBN 1594201099 (1-59420-109-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, John CrowtherISBN 1586638440 (1-58663-844-0)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:[via]No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (P)by Howard Zinn, Donaldo MacedoISBN 1594510555 (1-59451-055-5)
Softcover, Paradigm Publishers
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The Huey P. Newton Readerby David Hilliard, Donald Weise, Elaine BrownISBN 158322467X (1-58322-467-X)
Softcover, Seven Stories Press
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I Have Chosen to Stay And Fightby Margaret ChoISBN 1594482209 (1-59448-220-9)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Securityby Tom TancredoISBN 1581825277 (1-58182-527-7)
Hardcover, Cumberland House
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. WellsISBN 1595400281 (1-59540-028-1)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Jesus Land: A Memoirby Julia ScheeresISBN 1582433542 (1-58243-354-2)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jesus Land: A Memoir'Book summary:One of the most compelling, page-turning memoirs to come along in years-by turns jarring, shocking, and funny-a keenly moving ode to the dream of perfect family
Sinners go to: HELL. Rightchuss go to: HEAVEN. The end is neer: REPENT. This here is: JESUS LAND.
Julia Scheeres stumbles across these signs along the side of a cornfield while out biking with her adopted brother, David. It's the mid-1980s, they're sixteen years old and have just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees and trailer parks-and a racism neither of them is prepared for. While Julia is white, her close relationship with David, who is black, makes them both outcasts. At home, a distant mother-more involved with her church's missionaries than with her own children-and a violent father only compound their problems. When the day comes that high-school hormones, bullying, and a deep-seated restlessness prove too much to bear, the parents send Julia and David to the Dominican Republic-to a reform school there.
In this riveting memoir, first-time author Scheeres takes us with her from the Midwest to a place beyond our imagining. Surrounded by natural beauty, the Escuela Caribe is governed by a disciplinary regime that demands its teens repent for their sins under boot-camp conditions. Julia and David's determination to make it through with heart and soul intact is told here with immediacy, candor, sparkling humor, and not a note of malice.
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen RailtonISBN 1593080654 (1-59308-065-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of the Mohicans'Book summary:[via]The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:During the fierce French and Indian wars, an adroit scout named Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook weave through the spectacular and dangerous wilderness of upstate New York, fighting to save the beautiful Munro sisters from the Huron renegade Magua.The Last of the Mohicans is the most popular of James Fenimore Coopers five Leatherstocking Tales. With its death-defying chases and teeth-clenching suspense, this American classic established many archetypes of American frontier fiction.
An engrossing Western by Americas first great novelist, The Last of the Mohicans is a story of survival and treachery, love and deliverance.
Stephen Railton, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, has written books on Cooper, Mark Twain, and the American Renaissance, and has created major websites on Twain, Uncle Toms Cabin, and American culture.More editions of The Last of the Mohicans:
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Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, J. J. GrandvilleISBN 1582790345 (1-58279-034-5)
Hardcover, Trident Pr Intl
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 1582182647 (1-58218-264-7)
Hardcover, Digital Scanning Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:This Tradepaper edition is a reprint of the 1st Canadian edition, "As Published in 1883" by Dawson Brothers of Montreal with 54 illustrations. A great gift for any Twain enthusiast. [via]
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 1593080840 (1-59308-084-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. In his prefactory note to this novel, Conrad said, "When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got beyond the writer's control. One or two discovered internal evidence of the fact, which seemed to amuse them. They pointed out the limitations of the narrative form. They argued that no man could have been expected to talk all that time, and other men to listen so long. It was not, they said, very credible. . . . After thinking it over for something like sixteen years, I am not so sure about that. Men have been known, both in the tropics and in the temperate zone, to sit up half the night 'swapping yarns.' This, however, is but one yarn, yet with interruptions affording some measure of relief. . . ." [via]
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 1583488340 (1-58348-834-0)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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- The complete text of the original play
- A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language
- A complete list of characters with descriptions
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Man Who Cried I Amby John A. Williams, Williams, John A. (AFT), Walter MosleyISBN 1585675806 (1-58567-580-6)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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Mariners, Renegades & Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live inby C.L.R. James, Donald E. PeaseISBN 158465094X (1-58465-094-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Mexifornia: A State of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonISBN 1594030561 (1-59403-056-1)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, George Stade, Carl F. HovdeISBN 1593080182 (1-59308-018-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:[via]Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cunningly observant crew member Ishmael, Moby-Dick is the tale of the hunt for the elusive, omnipotent, and ultimately mystifying white whaleMoby Dick.
On its surface, Moby-Dick is a vivid documentary of life aboard a nineteenth-century whaler, a virtual encyclopedia of whales and whaling, replete with facts, legends, and trivia that Melville had gleaned from personal experience and scores of sources. But as the quest for the whale becomes increasingly perilous, the tale works on allegorical levels, likening the whale to human greed, moral consequence, good, evil, and life itself. Who is good? The great white whale who, like Nature, asks nothing but to be left in peace? Or the bold Ahab who, like scientists, explorers, and philosophers, fearlessly probes the mysteries of the universe? Who is evil? The ferocious, man-killing sea monster? Or the revenge-obsessed madman who ignores his own better nature in his quest to kill the beast?
Scorned by critics upon its publication, Moby-Dick was publicly derided during its authors lifetime. Yet Melvilles masterpiece has outlived its initial misunderstanding to become an American classic of unquestionably epic proportions.
Includes an extensive Dictionary of Sea Terms (37 pages).
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie Collins, Joy ConnollyISBN 159308322X (1-59308-322-X)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Alongside Edgar Allan Poe in America, Britain's Wilkie Collins stands as the inventor of the modern detective story. The Moonstone introduces all the ingredients: a homey, English country setting, and a colorfully exotic background in colonial India; the theft of a fabulous diamond from the lovely heroine; a bloody murder and a tragic suicide; a poor hero in love with the heroine but suspected of the crime, who can't remember anything about the night the jewel was stolen; assorted friends, relatives, servants, a lawyer, a doctor, a sea captain-suspects, all; and, most essentially, a bumbling local policeman and a brilliant if eccentric London detective. Adding spice to the recipe are unexpected twists, a bit of dark satire, a dash of social comment, and an unusual but effective narrative structure-eleven different voices relate parts of the tale, each revealing as much about himself (and, in one case, herself) as about the mystery of the missing Moonstone.Filled with suspense, action, and romance, The Moonstone is as riveting and intoxicating today as it was when it first appeared more than a century ago. Joy Connolly teaches in the Classics Department at New York University. Her recent research includes the history of rhetoric and political thought, and the relationship of literature and ethics. [via]
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Americaby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 1587243687 (1-58724-368-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America'Book summary:Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some good old-fashioned journalism and find out just how they were going to survive on the wages of the unskilled--at $6 to $7 an hour, only half of what is considered a living wage. So she did what millions of Americans do, she looked for a job and a place to live, worked that job, and tried to make ends meet.
As a waitress in Florida, where her name is suddenly transposed to "girl," trailer trash becomes a demographic category to aspire to with rent at $675 per month. In Maine, where she ends up working as both a cleaning woman and a nursing home assistant, she must first fill out endless pre-employment tests with trick questions such as "Some people work better when they're a little bit high." In Minnesota, she works at Wal-Mart under the repressive surveillance of men and women whose job it is to monitor her behavior for signs of sloth, theft, drug abuse, or worse. She even gets to experience the humiliation of the urine test.
So, do the poor have survival strategies unknown to the middle class? And did Ehrenreich feel the "bracing psychological effects of getting out of the house, as promised by the wonks who brought us welfare reform?" Nah. Even in her best-case scenario, with all the advantages of education, health, a car, and money for first month's rent, she has to work two jobs, seven days a week, and still almost winds up in a shelter. As Ehrenreich points out with her potent combination of humor and outrage, the laws of supply and demand have been reversed. Rental prices skyrocket, but wages never rise. Rather, jobs are so cheap as measured by the pay that workers are encouraged to take as many as they can. Behind those trademark Wal-Mart vests, it turns out, are the borderline homeless. With her characteristic wry wit and her unabashedly liberal bent, Ehrenreich brings the invisible poor out of hiding and, in the process, the world they inhabit--where civil liberties are often ignored and hard work fails to live up to its reputation as the ticket out of poverty. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender And Conformityby Matthew Bernstein SycamoreISBN 1580051847 (1-58005-184-7)
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 1593081936 (1-59308-193-6)
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Ten years after his father is murdered by a brutal dictator, Englishman Charles Gould arrives in Costaguana to reopen the family silver mine. But instead of ushering in a shining era of prosperity and progress, the return of the silver engenders a new cycle of violence as Costaguana erupts in civil war, initiated by rival warlords determined to seize the mine and its riches. In desperation, Gould turns to the only man who can save the mines treasureNostromo, the incorruptible head of the local dockworkers, who protects the silver from rebel forces by taking it out to sea. But disaster strikes, burdening Nostromo with a terrible secret that forever alters the fate of everyone involved with the mine.
A stunning monument to futility, Nostromo reveals how honor, idealism, and loyalty are inadequate defenses against the inexorable assault of corruption and evil.Brent Edwards is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University. He is author of The Practice of Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Uptown Conservation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia University Press, 2004).
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Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemiesby Ian Buruma, Avishai MargalitISBN 1594200084 (1-59420-008-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of "the East" in the Western colonial mind. But "the West" is the more dangerous mirage of our own time, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit argue, and the idea of "the West" in the minds of its self-proclaimed enemies remains largely unexamined and woefully misunderstood. Occidentalism is their groundbreaking investigation of the demonizing fantasies and stereotypes about the Western world that fuel such hatred in the hearts of others.
We generally understand "radical Islam" as a purely Islamic phenomenon, but Buruma and Margalit show that while the Islamic part of radical Islam certainly is, the radical part owes a primary debt of inheritance to the West. Whatever else they are, al Qaeda and its ilk are revolutionary anti-Western political movements, and Buruma and Margalit show us that the bogeyman of the West who stalks their thinking is the same one who has haunted the thoughts of many other revolutionary groups, going back to the early nineteenth century. In this genealogy of the components of the anti-Western worldview, the same oppositions appear again and again: the heroic revolutionary versus the timid, soft bourgeois; the rootless, deracinated cosmopolitan living in the Western city, cut off from the roots of a spiritually healthy society; the sterile Western mind, all reason and no soul; the machine society, controlled from the center by a cabal of insiders-often Jews-pulling the hidden levers of power versus an organically knit-together one, a society of "blood and soil." The anti-Western virus has found a ready host in the Islamic world for a number of legitimate reasons, they argue, but in no way does that make it an exclusively Islamic matter.
A work of extraordinary range and erudition, Occidentalism will permanently enlarge our collective frame of vision. [via]More editions of Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies:
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, Jill MullerISBN 1593080301 (1-59308-030-1)
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Rife with Dickenss disturbing descriptions of street life, the novel is buoyed by the purity of the orphan Oliver. Though he is treated with cruelty and surrounded by coarseness for most of his life, his pious innocence leads him at last to salvationand the shocking discovery of his true identity.Features illustrations by George Cruikshank.Jill Muller was born in England and educated at Mercy College and Columbia University, and currently teaches at Mercy College and Columbia University. She is working on a book on the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, to be published by Routledge.
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Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identityby Stella M. Nkomo, Ella L. BellISBN 159139189X (1-59139-189-X)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcosby Juana P. De Leon, José Saramago, Subcomandante MarcosISBN 1583224726 (1-58322-472-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos'Book summary:In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel, the poetry of a movement, and the literary genius of indigenous Mexico."
Marcos first captured world attention on January 1, 1994, when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves "Zapatistas" revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas. In the six years that have passed since their uprising, Marcos has altered the course of Mexican politics and emerged an international symbol of grassroots movement-building, rebellion, and democracy. The prolific stream of poetic political writings, tales, and traditional myths that Marcos has penned since January 1, 1994 fill more than four volumes. Our Word Is Our Weapon presents the best of these writings, many of which have never been published before in English.
Throughout this remarkable book we hear the uncompromising voice of indigenous communities living in resistance, expressing through manifestos and myths the universal human urge for dignity, democracy, and liberation. It is the voice of a people refusing to be forgotten the voice of Mexico in transition, the voice of a people struggling for democracy by using their word as their only weapon. [via]More editions of Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos:
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Our Word Is Our Weapon : Selected Writings of Subcomandante Marcosby Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Juana Ponce de LeonISBN 1583220364 (1-58322-036-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Word Is Our Weapon : Selected Writings of Subcomandante Marcos'Book summary:In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel, the poetry of a movement, and the literary genius of indigenous Mexico."
Marcos first captured world attention on January 1, 1994, when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves "Zapatistas" revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas. In the six years that have passed since their uprising, Marcos has altered the course of Mexican politics and emerged an international symbol of grassroots movement-building, rebellion, and democracy. The prolific stream of poetic political writings, tales, and traditional myths that Marcos has penned since January 1, 1994 fill more than four volumes. Our Word Is Our Weapon presents the best of these writings, many of which have never been published before in English.
Throughout this remarkable book we hear the uncompromising voice of indigenous communities living in resistance, expressing through manifestos and myths the universal human urge for dignity, democracy, and liberation. It is the voice of a people refusing to be forgotten the voice of Mexico in transition, the voice of a people struggling for democracy by using their word as their only weapon. [via]More editions of Our Word Is Our Weapon : Selected Writings of Subcomandante Marcos:
Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Areby Brooke KroegerISBN 1586482874 (1-58648-287-4)
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Picture Book of Martin Luther Kingby David AdlerISBN 1591127734 (1-59112-773-4)
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Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437by Barbara Drake Boehm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Jiri Fajt, Prazsky hradISBN 1588391620 (1-58839-162-0)
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Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysisby Richard LynnISBN 159368021X (1-59368-021-X)
Softcover, Washington Summit Publishers
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Race to Incarcerateby Marc MauerISBN 1595580220 (1-59558-022-0)
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Republicans and the Black Voteby Michael K. FauntroyISBN 158826470X (1-58826-470-X)
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The Riderby Tim Krabbe, Sam GarrettISBN 1582342903 (1-58234-290-3)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 1593080115 (1-59308-011-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:[via]Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719 and has inspired countless imitations.In his own words, Robinson Crusoe tells of the terrible storm that drowned all his shipmates and left him marooned on a deserted island. Forced to overcome despair, doubt, and self-pity, he struggles to create a life for himself in the wilderness. From practically nothing, Crusoe painstakingly learns how to make pottery, grow crops, domesticate livestock, and build a house. His many adventures are recounted in vivid detail, including a fierce battle with cannibals and his rescue of Friday, the man who becomes his trusted companion.
Full of enchanting detail and daring heroics, Robinson Crusoe is a celebration of courage, patience, ingenuity, and hard work.
L. J. Swingle is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Kentucky, where his primary field of study is the intellectual contexts of British Romanticism as reflected in the works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets and novelists.
Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black Americaby Jesse Lee PetersenISBN 1595550453 (1-59555-045-3)
Softcover, Nelson Current
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Shakespeare's Macbethby Harold BloomISBN 1594480087 (1-59448-008-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycottby Herbert R. Kohl, Marian Wright EdelmanISBN 1595581278 (1-59558-127-8)
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Sparknotes Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 1586635107 (1-58663-510-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparknotes Dune'Book summary:Get your "A" in gear!
They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
· They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.
· They're easier to understand, because the same people who use them have also written them.
· The clear writing style and edited content enables students to read through the material quickly, saving valuable time.
And with everything covered--context; plot overview; character lists; themes, motifs, and symbols; summary and analysis, key facts; study questions and essay topics; and reviews and resources--you don't have to go anywhere else!
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Sparknotes Moby-Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 1586634151 (1-58663-415-1)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
· They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.
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· The clear writing style and edited content enables students to read through the material quickly, saving valuable time.
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Stagger Leeby Derek McCulloch, Shepherd HendrixISBN 1582406073 (1-58240-607-3)
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Symptomaticby Danzy SennaISBN 1594480672 (1-59448-067-2)
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Tom Sawyer: Library Editionby Mark TwainISBN 1591940257 (1-59194-025-7)
Softcover, Townsend Pr
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The Traveller's Treee: Island-Hopping Through the Caribbean in the 1940'sby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 1589762487 (1-58976-248-7)
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Townby Nate BlakesleeISBN 1586484540 (1-58648-454-0)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Understanding Affirmative Action: Politics, Discrimination, And the Search for Justiceby J. Edward KelloughISBN 1589010892 (1-58901-089-2)
Softcover, Georgetown Univ Pr
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Voices of a People's History of the United Statesby Howard Zinn, Anthony ArnoveISBN 1583226281 (1-58322-628-1)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voices of a People's History of the United States'Book summary:Howard Zinn is famous primarily for A People's History of the United States, the book in which he presented alternative versions of American milestones, including Columbus's "discovery" of the New World. Voices of a People's History of the United States is the follow-up to that original landmark work, but where People's History contained Zinn's interpretations of events, Voices turns the platform over to others, in a collection of first-hand accounts, journal entries, speeches, personal letters, and published opinion pieces from the nation's history.
The purpose of Zinn's work, Voices included, is to engage in an act of political dissidence and activism. "What is common to all of these voices," Zinn and co-editor Anthony Arnove write in the book's introduction, "is that they have mostly been shut out of the orthodox histories, the major media, the standard textbooks, the controlled culture ... to create a passive citizenry." With Voices, Zinn and Arnove seek to address that malaise, showing that the impossible--slaves rising up against their slave masters, for example--is not only possible, but has occurred repeatedly throughout the country's history. "Whenever injustices have been remedied, wars halted, women and blacks and Native Americans given their due," they write, "it has been because 'unimportant' people spoke up, organized, protested, and brought democracy alive." The common thread throughout Voices is this mandate, and each selection is preceded by a brief introduction by the authors, written from a far-left perspective. (As an example, one section is titled "The Carter-Reagan-Bush Consensus.")
Voices often works better as a reference book than a sit-down-to-read title. Its early chapters--on Columbus, slavery, the War of Independence, and the early women's movement--tend to be more engaging than later excerpts, largely because a contrary point of view to mainstream mythology has been so rarely heard. The modern sections have a haphazard, "greatest hits of the left" feeling, as the book jumps from an Abbie Hoffman speech to the lyrics of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." The problem may be inherent in the format of the book. Everything is treated equally, and a speech by Danny Glover is given as much weight as an excerpt from W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk. For context and background, it's best to stick with the original People's History, but to hear the words right from the speakers' mouths, there's no better resource than Voices. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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When Markets Fail: Race And Economicsby Angela P. Harris, Emma Coleman Jordan, Emma ColemanISBN 1587789558 (1-58778-955-8)
Softcover, West Group
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Who's Afraid Of A Large Black Man?: Speaking My Mind On Race, Celebrity, Sports And American Lifeby Charles Barkley, Michael WilbonISBN 1594200424 (1-59420-042-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Classby Michelle TeaISBN 1580051030 (1-58005-103-0)
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Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentuckyby Pem Davidson BuckISBN 1583670475 (1-58367-047-5)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 1593080441 (1-59308-044-1)
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Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights, an unpolished and devastating epic of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, is widely regarded as the most original tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak in the English language.Daphne Merkin is the author of a novel, Enchantment, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant award for best new work of American-Jewish fiction, and an essay collection, Dreaming of Hitler. She has written essays and reviews for publications that include American Scholar, the New York Times, where she is a regular contributor to the Book Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Elle, and Vogue.
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Nuestra Arma Es Nuestra Palabra: Escritos Selectosby Marcos, Juana Ponce De LeonISBN 1583222707 (1-58322-270-7)
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