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Adam Bedeby George Eliot, Marion EvansISBN 0395052041 (0-395-05204-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0395051142 (0-395-05114-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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After the Last Sky : Palestinian Livesby Edward W. Said, Jean MohrISBN 0394744691 (0-394-74469-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 039486915X (0-394-86915-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Anthony Browne, Lewis CarrollISBN 0394805925 (0-394-80592-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0394869362 (0-394-86936-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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An Area of Darknessby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394746732 (0-394-74673-2)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Armadaby Garrett Mattingly, Leonard H. MattinglyISBN 0395083664 (0-395-08366-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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At Play in the Fields of the Lordby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0394750837 (0-394-75083-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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At the Bottom of the Riverby Jamaica KincaidISBN 0394736834 (0-394-73683-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Awful Rowing toward Godby Anne SextonISBN 039520366X (0-395-20366-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenceby David J. GarrowISBN 0394756231 (0-394-75623-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Bend in the Riverby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394743148 (0-394-74314-8)
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Care of the Self the History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394741552 (0-394-74155-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: A Book-and-Tree Kitby Charles M. SchulzISBN 0394934547 (0-394-93454-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Charlie Brown Christmas: A Book-and-Tree Kit'Book summary:Just like It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Valentine, this illustrated read-along seeks to re-create the popular Peanuts TV show of the same name. This edition also includes a four-song sampler CD from jazz-great Vince Guaraldi's brilliant soundtrack.
With illustrator Paige Braddock aping Charles Schulz's style, A Charlie Brown Christmas retells the Emmy Award-winning program blow-by-blow (with a few omissions), from the ice-skating opening scene to preparations for the school pageant to Charlie Brown's ill-fated Christmas tree rescue. Braddock almost perfectly mimics the show's cast and backdrops, but just as no one could be fooled by even expert impersonation of a loved one, Peanuts fans might find the niggling differences distracting (whether it's Schroeder's too-wavy hair or Pig Pen's just-too-small head).
A "novelization" like this probably can't ever hope to completely recapture the charm of the original, even if it had used Schulz's original art. Although the dialogue has been faithfully reproduced, much of the story's subtle appeal and cultural subtext gets lost in the book's simplified exposition--which is too bad, given that these are precisely the qualities which have made the show (and Schulz's timeless strip) so durable and well-loved in the first place. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394837398 (0-394-83739-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Complete Poemsby Anne SextonISBN 0395329353 (0-395-32935-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A Cultural History of Tibetby Rick FieldsISBN 0394748832 (0-394-74883-2)
Softcover, Shambhala
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The Death Notebooks.by Anne SextonISBN 0395184622 (0-395-18462-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Defeat of the Spanish Armadaby Garrett MattinglyISBN 0395352371 (0-395-35237-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Even Cowgirls Get the Bluesby Tom RobbinsISBN 0395245109 (0-395-24510-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489318 (0-395-48931-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth -- home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis -- a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms. [via]
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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Cultureby Carl E. SchorskeISBN 0394744780 (0-394-74478-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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First Gracesby Tasha TudorISBN 0394944097 (0-394-94409-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0394745027 (0-394-74502-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'Book summary:Everything is a symbol, and symbols can combine to form patterns. Patterns are beautiful and revelatory of larger truths. These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism, Hofstadter ties together the work of mathematician Gödel, graphic artist Escher, and composer Bach.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, a Pulitzer prize-winning treatise on genius, explores the workings of brilliant people's brains with the help of historical examples and brainteaser puzzles. Not for the dim or the lazy, this book shows you, more clearly than most any other, what it means to see symbols and patterns where others see only the universe. Touching on math, computers, literature, music, and artificial intelligence, Gödel, Escher, Bach is a challenging and potentially life-changing piece of writing. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0395051460 (0-395-05146-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
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Hermeticaby Walter ScottISBN 0394742303 (0-394-74230-3)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Hermetica : The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistusby Walter ScottISBN 0394742273 (0-394-74227-3)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Timeby Howard M. SacharISBN 0394736796 (0-394-73679-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 0395071224 (0-395-07122-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.
The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489075 (0-395-48907-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395177111 (0-395-17711-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit or There and Back Again'Book summary:Hardcover printing of the Hobbit by Houghton Mifflin copyright 1966 [via]
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The Hour of Our Deathby Philippe AriesISBN 0394751566 (0-394-75156-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hour of Our Death'Book summary:This remarkable bookthe fruit of almost two decades of studytraces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature.
Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Ariès shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Ariès identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Ariès shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own centuryhow it has been nearly banished from our daily livesand points out what may be done to re-tame this secret terror.
The richness of Ariès's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the historyindeed the pathologyof our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death. [via]More editions of The Hour of Our Death:
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0394847245 (0-394-84724-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy: The Chief Fragments and Ancient Testimony With Connecting Commentaryby John Mansley RobinsonISBN 0395053161 (0-395-05316-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Authorized Biographyby Humphrey CarpenterISBN 0395486769 (0-395-48676-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.R.R. Tolkien: The Authorized Biography'Book summary:One day while grading papers, J.R.R. Tolkien inexplicably wrote "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" in the margin - thereby setting out on the path that would bring him fame, fortune, and the devotion of millions. A veteran of the Battle of the Somme, he was a close friend of C. S. Lewis and an editor of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY before becoming the Merton Professor of English at Oxford. [via]
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Japanese Talesby Royall TylerISBN 0394756568 (0-394-75656-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0395051916 (0-395-05191-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Knowledge, Belief, and Transcendence: Philosophical Problems in Religionby James A. HallISBN 0395195020 (0-395-19502-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid UndsetISBN 0394752937 (0-394-75293-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kristin Lavransdatter'Book summary:The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin-beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate-stands with the world's great literary figures. Volume 1, The Bridal Wreath , describes young Kristin's stormy romance with the dashing Erlend Nikulausson, a young man perhaps overly fond of women, of whom her father strongly disapproves. [via]
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Letters of James Agee to Father Flyeby James Agee, James Harold FlyeISBN 0395123410 (0-395-12341-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence SterneISBN 0395051452 (0-395-05145-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Light in Augustby William FaulknerISBN 0394747437 (0-394-74743-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indianby Ray A. WilliamsonISBN 0395354145 (0-395-35414-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Looking-Glass Godby Menahum Nahum StiskinISBN 0394736109 (0-394-73610-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395193958 (0-395-19395-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:A one-volume collector's edition boxed and bound in handsome red leatherette with gold, green, and blue foil stamping, two-color text setting, and large format fold-out maps containing the complete texts of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, and six appendices. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest -- to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. [via]
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The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489326 (0-395-48932-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:A Christian can almost be forgiven for not reading the Bible, but there's no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn't read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien's definitive three-book epic, the Lord of the Rings (encompassing The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), and its charming precursor, The Hobbit. That many (if not most) fantasy works are in some way derivative of Tolkien is understood, but the influence of the Lord of the Rings is so universal that everybody from George Lucas to Led Zeppelin has appropriated it for one purpose or another.
Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, the Lord of the Rings is timeless because it's the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages, with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic, 10 years in the making, recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth's Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in the Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Lost Country Life: How English Country Folk Lived, Worked, Threshed, Thatchedby Dorothy HartleyISBN 0394748387 (0-394-74838-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas HardyISBN 0395051584 (0-395-05158-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Medieval Dramaby David BevingtonISBN 0395139155 (0-395-13915-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Motel of the Mysteriesby David MacaulayISBN 0395284252 (0-395-28425-2)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Motel of the Mysteries'Book summary:It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.[via]More editions of Motel of the Mysteries:
Motoring With Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Seaby Eric HansenISBN 0395483476 (0-395-48347-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0395083567 (0-395-08356-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Oral Reading of the Scripturesby Charlotte I. LeeISBN 0395189403 (0-395-18940-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Michel FoucaultISBN 039473954X (0-394-73954-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977'Book summary:Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
The Practical Cogitator : The Thinker's Anthologyby Curtis, Charles P., Jr., Ferris GreensletISBN 0395346355 (0-395-34635-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Question of Palestineby Edward W. SaidISBN 0394745272 (0-394-74527-2)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Religion in American Life: Selected Readingsby Conrad WrightISBN 0395031451 (0-395-03145-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Return of the Kingby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 039548930X (0-395-48930-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the King'Book summary:In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins. [via]
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The Riverside Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore EvansISBN 0395044022 (0-395-04402-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Robert Louis Stevenson's a Child's Garden of Verses to Colorby Diane DegroatISBN 0394872754 (0-394-87275-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Sacred Calligraphy of the Eastby John StevensISBN 0394748328 (0-394-74832-8)
Softcover, Shambhala
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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas B. Allen, James HoweISBN 0394864670 (0-394-86467-0)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Windby Suzanne Fisher StaplesISBN 0394848152 (0-394-84815-2)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Strangerby Chris Van AllsburgISBN 0395423317 (0-395-42331-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Taoist i Chingby Liu I-Ming, Thomas ClearyISBN 0394743873 (0-394-74387-3)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, a Key to the Enigmas of the Worldby P. D. UspenskiiISBN 039475168X (0-394-75168-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0395051444 (0-395-05144-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Tin Drumby Gunter GrassISBN 0394745604 (0-394-74560-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Tolkien: A Biographyby Humphrey CarpenterISBN 0395253608 (0-395-25360-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tolkien: A Biography'Book summary:A classic biography of J. R. R. Tolkien. CONTENTS: A Visit. 1892-1916: Early Years. 1917-1925: The making of a mythology. 1925-1949(i): "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.: 1925-1949(ii): The Third Age. 1949-1966: Success.1958-1973: Last years. The Tree. APPENDICES: Simplified Genealogical Table, Chronology of Events, The Published Writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, Sources and Acknowledgements. A section of black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489334 (0-395-48933-4)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0395081297 (0-395-08129-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394751221 (0-394-75122-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior? [via]More editions of The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality:
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0395051134 (0-395-05113-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry. [via]
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The World of Allahby David Douglas DuncanISBN 0395325048 (0-395-32504-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistusby Walter ScottISBN 0394742257 (0-394-74225-7)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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