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46 Pages: Tom Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independenceby S. LiellISBN 0762418133 (0-7624-1813-3)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: '46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence'Book summary:Thomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's coloines with little in the way of money, reputation, or prospects, though he did have a letter of recommendation in his pocket from Benjamin Franklin. Paine also had a passion for liberty in all its forms, and an abiding hatred of tyranny. His forceful, direct expression of those principles found voice in a pamphlet he wrote entitled Common Sense, which proved to be the most influential political work of the time. Ultimately, Paine's treatise provided inspiration to the second Continental Congress for the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. 46 Pages is a dramatic look at a pivotal moment in our country's formation, a scholar's meticulous recreation of the turbulent years leading up to the Revolutionary War, retold with excitement and new insight.[via]More editions of 46 Pages: Tom Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence:
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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of Lsd The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyondby Bruce Shlain, Martin A. LeeISBN 0802130623 (0-8021-3062-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of Lsd The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyond'Book summary:Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it gleaned from secret government files-tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early l950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history. "Engaging throughout . . . at once entertaining and disturbing." - Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation; "Marvelously detailed . . . loaded with startling revelations." - Los Angeles Daily News; "An engrossing account of a period . . . when a tiny psychoactive molecule affected almost every aspect of Western life." - William S. Burroughs; "An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era." - John Sayles.[via]More editions of Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of Lsd The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyond:
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congoby Ernesto Guevara, Richard Gott, Patrick Camiller, Aleida Guevara MarchISBN 0802138349 (0-8021-3834-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0786241225 (0-7862-4122-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Anarchists in the Russian Revolutionby Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress), Paul AvrichISBN 080140780X (0-8014-0780-X)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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And Quiet Flows the Donby Brian Murphy, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Robert DaglishISBN 0786703601 (0-7867-0360-1)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Breakdownby William W. JohnstoneISBN 0786003677 (0-7860-0367-7)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakdown'Book summary:Speeding out of a city that has been violently destroyed, a Vietnam veteran who has not held a gun for years and a woman trained in the art of military intelligence realize they are facing the second American revolution. Original. [via]
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A Brief History Of 1917: Russia's Year Of Revolutionby Roy BaintonISBN 078671493X (0-7867-1493-X)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Butlerian Jihadby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0765305852 (0-7653-0585-2)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Butlerian Jihad'Book summary:Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope.[via]
Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, an acclaimed SF novelist in his own right, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson. Their New York Times bestselling trilogy, Dune: House Atreides, Dune: House Harkonnen, and Dune: House Corrino, formed a prequel to the classic Herbert series that was acclaimed by reviewers and readers alike. Now Herbert and Anderson, working from Frank Herbert's own notes, reveal a pivotal epoch in the history of the Dune universe, the chapter of the saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: The Butlerian Jihad.
Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the long-ago war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines." Now, in Dune: Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues. Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the war that will liberate humans from their machine masters. We learn the circumstances of the betrayal that made mortal enemies of House Atreides and House Harkonnen; and we experience the Battle of Corrin that created a galactic empire that lasted until the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV.
Herein are the foundations of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Suk Doctors, the Order of Mentats, and the mysteriously altered Navigators of the Spacing Guild. Here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange . . . .
Ten thousand years before the events of Dune, humans have managed to battle the remorseless Machines to a standstill . . . but victory may be short-lived. Yet amid shortsighted squabbling between nobles, new leaders have begun to emerge. Among them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus; Xavier's fiancée, Serena Butler, an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions; and Tio Holtzman, the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause. Against the brute efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. It will have to be enough.More editions of The Butlerian Jihad:
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Cliffscomplete Julius Caesarby Sidney Lamb, Diana SweeneyISBN 076458569X (0-7645-8569-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Julius Caesar'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete Julius Caesar offers insight and information into a work that's rich both dramatically and thematically. Every generation since Shakespeare's time has been able to identify with some political aspect of the play.
Discover what happens to Rome's highly ambitious leader and to those who conspire to remove him from the ranks and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of Julius Caesar with these additional features:
- A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
- Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
- A look at Early Modern England intellectual, religious, political, and social context
- Coverage of Shakespeare's source and the play's performance history
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas
- A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Web sites
Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!
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Considerations on Franceby Joseph Marie MaistreISBN 0773501827 (0-7735-0182-7)
Hardcover, McGill-Queen's University Press
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The Constitution of the United States of Americaby Warren E. Burger, United StatesISBN 0760700761 (0-7607-0076-1)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Constitution of the United States of America'Book summary:The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation Collected here in one affordable volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation. These three documents are the basis for our entire way of life. Every citizen should have a copy. [via]
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The Counselors: Conversations With 18 Courageous Women Who Have Changed the Worldby Bill Clinton, Elizabeth VratoISBN 0762412151 (0-7624-1215-1)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0760723788 (0-7607-2378-8)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0785764038 (0-7857-6403-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dispossessed'Book summary:The ideas of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist world of Anarres are being stifled by jealous colleagues. So he goes to the hell-planet Urras, seeking a different kind of freedom - and finds himself embroiled in deadly intrigue and bloody revoulution. [via]
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Dune: The Butlerian Jihadby Kevin J. Anderson, Brian HerbertISBN 0765340771 (0-7653-4077-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: The Butlerian Jihad'Book summary:Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope.[via]
Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, an acclaimed SF novelist in his own right, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson. Their New York Times bestselling trilogy, Dune: House Atreides, Dune: House Harkonnen, and Dune: House Corrino, formed a prequel to the classic Herbert series that was acclaimed by reviewers and readers alike. Now Herbert and Anderson, working from Frank Herbert's own notes, reveal a pivotal epoch in the history of the Dune universe, the chapter of the saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: The Butlerian Jihad.
Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the long-ago war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines." Now, in Dune: Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues. Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the war that will liberate humans from their machine masters. We learn the circumstances of the betrayal that made mortal enemies of House Atreides and House Harkonnen; and we experience the Battle of Corrin that created a galactic empire that lasted until the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV.
Herein are the foundations of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Suk Doctors, the Order of Mentats, and the mysteriously altered Navigators of the Spacing Guild. Here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange . . . .
Ten thousand years before the events of Dune, humans have managed to battle the remorseless Machines to a standstill . . . but victory may be short-lived. Yet amid shortsighted squabbling between nobles, new leaders have begun to emerge. Among them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus; Xavier's fiancée, Serena Butler, an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions; and Tio Holtzman, the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause. Against the brute efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. It will have to be enough.More editions of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad:
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E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0753156067 (0-7531-5606-7)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation'Book summary:E=mc2. Just about everyone has at least heard of Albert Einstein's formulation of 1905, which came into the world as something of an afterthought. But far fewer can explain his insightful linkage of energy to mass. David Bodanis offers an easily grasped gloss on the equation. Mass, he writes, "is simply the ultimate type of condensed or concentrated energy," whereas energy "is what billows out as an alternate form of mass under the right circumstances."
Just what those circumstances are occupies much of Bodanis's book, which pays homage to Einstein and, just as important, to predecessors such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier, who are not as well known as Einstein today. Balancing writerly energy and scholarly weight, Bodanis offers a primer in modern physics and cosmology, explaining that the universe today is an expression of mass that will, in some vastly distant future, one day slide back to the energy side of the equation, replacing the "dominion of matter" with "a great stillness"--a vision that is at once lovely and profoundly frightening.
Without sliding into easy psychobiography, Bodanis explores other circumstances as well; namely, Einstein's background and character, which combined with a sterling intelligence to afford him an idiosyncratic view of the way things work--a view that would change the world. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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E=McP2s: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0753156075 (0-7531-5607-5)
Softcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Falling Leavesby Adeline Yen Mah, Suzanne OaksISBN 0767903579 (0-7679-0357-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Leaves'Book summary:Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer.
A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China. [via]More editions of Falling Leaves:
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Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughterby Adeline Yen MahISBN 0786219149 (0-7862-1914-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Presentby David Brion DavisISBN 080140598X (0-8014-0598-X)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspectiveby Seymour Martin LipsetISBN 0765805227 (0-7658-0522-7)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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The French Revolutionby James Matthew ThompsonISBN 0750927585 (0-7509-2758-5)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Gilded Youth of Thermidorby Francois Gendron, James CooksonISBN 077350902X (0-7735-0902-X)
Hardcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Familyby William St. ClairISBN 0801842336 (0-8018-4233-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family'Book summary:Much more than the biography of a family. It is in large measure the biography of an era . . . The reader comes away with the feeling that he has witnessed a panorama of intellectual history which transcends the records of individual failures and weaknesses. [via]
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0770428207 (0-7704-2820-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harold BloomISBN 0791036723 (0-7910-3672-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Havoc, In Its Third Yearby Ronan BennettISBN 0753174014 (0-7531-7401-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Humanism and Terror: The Communist Problemby Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John O'NeillISBN 0765804840 (0-7658-0484-0)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humanism and Terror: The Communist Problem'Book summary:Raymond Aron called Merleau-Ponty "the most influential French philosopher of his generation." First published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two ideological armed camps. For Merleau-Ponty, the central question was: could Communism transcend its violence and intentions?
The value of a society is the value it places upon man's relation to man, Merleau-Ponty examines not only the Moscow trials of the late thirties but also Koestler's re-creation of them. He argues that violence in general in the Communist world can be understood only in the context of revolutionary activism. He demonstrates that it is pointless to ask whether Communism respects the rules of liberal society; it is evident that Communism does not.
In post-Communist Europe, when many are addressing similar questions throughout the world, Merleau-Ponty's discourse is of prime importance; it stands as a major and provocative contribution to limits on the use of violence. The argument is placed in its current context in a brilliant new introduction by John O'Neill. His remarks extend the line of argument originally developed by the great French political philosopher. This is a major contribution to political theory and philosophy.
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In Another Place, Not Hereby Dionne BrandISBN 0802136338 (0-8021-3633-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Inside the Revolution: Everyday Life in Socialist Cubaby Mona RosendahlISBN 080148412X (0-8014-8412-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Wayby Walter WinkISBN 0800636090 (0-8006-3609-0)
Softcover, Fortress Pr
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Julius CaesarISBN 0789160838 (0-7891-6083-8)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Maurice Charney, William ShakepeareISBN 0789122502 (0-7891-2250-2)
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Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrationsby Michael WalzerISBN 0788196359 (0-7881-9635-9)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Last Two Years of Salvador Allendeby Nathaniel DavisISBN 0801417910 (0-8014-1791-0)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Levellers in the English Revolutionby G.E. AylmerISBN 0801409578 (0-8014-0957-8)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800by Mary Beth NortonISBN 0801483476 (0-8014-8347-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Literature Made Easy Lord of the Fliesby Tony Buzan, Mary HartleyISBN 0764108212 (0-7641-0821-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature Made Easy Lord of the Flies'Book summary:TheLiterature Made Easy Series is more than just plot summaries. Each book describes a classic novel and drama by explaining themes, elaborating on characters, and discussing each author's unique literary style, use of language, and point of view. Extensive illustrations and imaginative, enlightening use of graphics help to make each book in this series livelier, easier, and more fun to use than ordinary literature plot summaries. An unusual feature, "Mind Map" is a diagram that summarizes and interrelates the most important details that students need to understand about a given work. Appropriate for middle and high school students. [via]
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0755100166 (0-7551-0016-6)
Softcover, House of Stratus Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'Book summary:The man who was Thursday is a classic of the spy genre that is equal parts mystery, suspense story, allegory, and farce. Each rereading of G.K. Chesterton's critically acclaimed novel reveals new meanings and nuances, while its jokes never become stale. The hero, Gabriel Syme, is Chesterton's ideal fo the virtuous common man. He must infiltrate and try to thwart an anarchist cell, at whose heart is the ambiguous Sunday, a man whose powers seem almost godlike. Syme's mission leads him through the back ways of Victorian London and on a wild chase through the French countryside, an adventure at once madcap, surreal, and cosmically important. More than just a charming tale full of Dickensian characters and a mysterious man who is supposed to be"Thursday," The Man Who Was Thursday asks the dark question: Will the human race survive? [via]
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Harold BloomISBN 0791075699 (0-7910-7569-9)
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 079105926X (0-7910-5926-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Atwood's best-known novel depicts one woman's struggle to survive in a futuristic society in which women have become property.
The title, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Margaret Atwood, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Womanby Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar PaulISBN 0802139094 (0-8021-3909-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman'Book summary:Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror. An impassioned narrative, Zweig's biography focuses on the human emotions of the participants and victims of the French Revolution, making it both an engrossingly compelling read and a sweeping and informative history.[via]
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The Mensheviks in the Russian Revolutionby Abraham AscherISBN 0801409896 (0-8014-0989-6)
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Moving Marsby Greg BearISBN 0765318237 (0-7653-1823-7)
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New X Men: Imperialby Grant Morrison, Phil JimenezISBN 0785112014 (0-7851-1201-4)
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Olgaby Fernando Morais, Ellen WatsonISBN 080211086X (0-8021-1086-X)
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0755100182 (0-7551-0018-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Oryx and Crakeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008686 (0-7710-0868-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oryx and Crake'Book summary:In a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool's paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then. . . . He generated awe . . . in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds, gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman's broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world's destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humour. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Preconditions of Revolution in Early Modern Europeby Jack P. Greene, Robert ForsterISBN 0801811767 (0-8018-1176-7)
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Ptolemy's Gateby Jonathan StroudISBN 078683868X (0-7868-3868-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ptolemy's Gate'Book summary:Three years after the events of The Golem`s Eye, the young magician Nathaniel is an established member of the British Government. But he faces unprecedented problems: foreign wars are going badly and Britain`s enemies are mounting attacks close to London. Increasingly distracted, he is treating Bartimaeus worse than ever: the long-suffering djinni is growing weak from too much time in this world, and his patience is at an end. Meanwhile, undercover in London, Kitty has been stealthily completing her research into magic and Bartimaeus` past. She hopes to break the endless cycle of conflict between djinn and humans - but will she be able to get anyone to listen? Before any of these problems can be resolved, disaster strikes London from an unexpected source and the destinies of Bartimaeus, Nathaniel, and Kitty are thrown together once more. They have to face treacherous magicians, a long-fermented conspiracy, and an enemy from `The Other Place` that threatens London and the world. Worst of all, they must somehow cope with each other.... Bartimaeus fans will be entranced by Stroud`s brilliantly conceived finale to the series - sure to be a major best seller.
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Pussy, King of the Piratesby Kathy AckerISBN 080213484X (0-8021-3484-X)
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Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola and the Performances of Historyby Sandy PetreyISBN 0801422167 (0-8014-2216-7)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolutionby Haleh Esfandiari, Halah IsfandiyariISBN 0801856191 (0-8018-5619-1)
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Revolution in the Church: Challenging the Religious System With a Call for Radical Changeby Michael L. BrownISBN 0800793102 (0-8007-9310-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolution in the Church: Challenging the Religious System With a Call for Radical Change'Book summary:Revolution in the Church, a follow-up to Michael Brown's previous book Revolution! The Call to Holy War, takes a thought-provoking look at the need for spiritual revolution in the church and ultimately the world. Brown exposes erroneous beliefs and practices and challenges believers to make radical changes in their ways of thinking and doing. Provocative and hard-hitting, Revolution in the Church stresses that large-scale change is needed for today's church to "put into practice some key teachings of the Reformation that are yet to be fully implemented, and to bring reformation that the Reformation never envisioned." It discusses the meaning of true discipleship, calls believers to recover the Jewish roots of their faith, shows how and why radical, absolute obedience to Jesus is considered cultlike by the mainstream church, and much more. Young people wanting to overturn the spiritual status quo and longing for God to revolutionize their spiritual lives will find this book's challenging message a welcome corroboration of the revolution already taking place in many congregations. Others will hear it as a wake-up call. Christians active in the revival movement, including intercessors, pastors, and other church leaders, will find Brown's dynamic content and lively writing style a catalyst for spearheading large-scale change in the contemporary church. [via]
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The Russlanderby Sandra BirdsellISBN 0771014511 (0-7710-1451-1)
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby Emmuska OrczyISBN 0755111184 (0-7551-1118-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:The French nobility are living in terror; one by one they are sent to the guillotine. Revenge at last for the years of callousness and cruelty suffered by the people of France. There is no escape; the city walls of Paris are guarded day and night. And yet a few achieve the impossible, disappearing without a trace in Paris, only to re-emerge in the safety of England. Rumours abound of a group of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring. Under their anonymous leader they save scores of aristocrats from terrible deaths. And each time a note is put mockingly into the hands of the merciless tribunal chairman, Citoyen Tinville. On it is the stamp of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Tinville will do or pay anything to see the Englishmen dead but they seem to evade capture with almost devilish ease. But with the cunning and ruthless spy master, Chauvelin, on his trail, the Scarlet Pimpernel must make no slip for he has everything to lose. [via]
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The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventureby Frank Wildhorn, Nan KnightonISBN 0769258476 (0-7692-5847-6)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventure'Book summary:The songs are: Believe Into the Fire Falcon in the Dive When I Look at You The Scarlet Pimpernel Where's the Girl? The Creation of Man The Riddle They Seek Him Here Only Love She Was There Storybook You Are My Home. [via]
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A Sentimental Journeyby Victor Borisovich ShklovskiiISBN 0801492912 (0-8014-9291-2)
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A Sentimental Journey; Memoirs, 1917-1922by Viktor Borisovich ShklovskiiISBN 080140536X (0-8014-0536-X)
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The Sex Offenderby Matthew StadlerISBN 0802136958 (0-8021-3695-8)
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, J. H. Brumfitt, John C. Hall, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0760770212 (0-7607-7021-2)
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A Son of Thunderby Henry MayerISBN 0802138152 (0-8021-3815-2)
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Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decisionby Jiri ValentaISBN 0801841178 (0-8018-4117-8)
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The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participantsby Richard B. Morris, Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0785814639 (0-7858-1463-9)
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St. Petersburgby John Cournos, Andrey BielyISBN 0802131581 (0-8021-3158-1)
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Stalin in October: The Man Who Missed the Revolutionby Robert M. SlusserISBN 0801834570 (0-8018-3457-0)
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The Star Fractionby Ken MacLeodISBN 0765301563 (0-7653-0156-3)
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jailby Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi, Ros SchwartzISBN 0786886307 (0-7868-8630-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail'Book summary:A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller--the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and remarkable life. Born in 1953, Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide. Adopted by the king at the age of five, Malika spent most of her childhood and adolescence in the seclusion of the court harem, one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom, surrounded by luxury and extraordinary privilege. Then, on August 16, 1972, her father was arrested and executed after an attempt to assassinate the king. Malika, her five younger brothers and sisters. and her mother were immediately imprisoned in a desert penal colony. After fifteen years, the last ten of which they spent locked up in solitary cells, the Oufkir children managed to dig a tunnel with their bare hands and make an audacious escape. Recaptured after five days, Malika was finally able to leave Morocco and begin a new life in exile in 1996. A heartrending account in the face of extreme deprivation and the courage with which one family faced its fate, Stolen Lives is an unforgettable story of one woman's journey to freedom. [via]
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Storming Heaven: Lsd and the American Dreamby Jay StevensISBN 0802135870 (0-8021-3587-0)
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Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856by Pierre Dessalles, Robert Forster, Elborg ForsterISBN 0801851548 (0-8018-5154-8)
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Now Elborg Forster and Robert Forster have translated and edited the most historically and socially significant portions of this unusual work. Previously available only in a four-volume French edition, these materials treat a wide range of topics, including the slave economy, management and socialization of the labor force, the role of free blacks in society, the lives led by the plantation owners, and, significantly, black-white relations before, during, and after emancipation.
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Summer of Betrayalby Hong Ying, Ying HongISBN 0802135943 (0-8021-3594-3)
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Threshold of Terror: The Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolutionby Rodney AllenISBN 0750927100 (0-7509-2710-0)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Phyllis A. CorzineISBN 0764120891 (0-7641-2089-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:Marc Antony comes "to bury Caesar, not to praise him," and his funeral oration unleashes a power struggle among the Roman Empire's mightiest generals and statesmen. Books in this new, illustrated series present complete texts of Shakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up so students can see the bard's original poetic phrases printed side-by-side and line-by-line with a modern "translation" on the facing page. Starting in the late 1580s and for several decades that followed, Shakespeare's plays were popular entertainment for London's theatergoers. His Globe Theatre was the equivalent of a Broadway theater in today's New York. The plays have endured, but over the course of 400+ years, the English language has changed in many wayswhich is why today's students often find Shakespeare's idiom difficult to comprehend. Simply Shakespeare offers an excellent solution to their problem. Introducing each play is a general essay covering Shakespeare's life and times. At the beginning of each of the five acts in every play, a two-page spread describes what is about to take place. The story's background is explained, followed by brief descriptions of key people who will appear in the act, details students should watch for as the story unfolds, discussion of the play's historical context, how the play was staged in Shakespeare's day, and explanation of puns and plays on words that occur in characters' dialogues. Identifying icons preceding each of these study points are printed in a second color, then are located again as cross-references in the play's original text. For instance, where words spoken by a person in the play offer insights into his or another character's personality, the "Characters" icon will appear as a cross-reference in both the introductory spread and the play proper. Following each act, a closing spread presents questions and discussion points for use as teachers' aids. Guided by the inspiring format of this fine new series, both teachers and students will come to understand and appreciate the genius of Shakespeare as never before. [via]
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Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century FranceISBN 0801488486 (0-8014-8848-6)
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Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Franceby Joan B. LandesISBN 080143811X (0-8014-3811-X)
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Voyageby Tom StoppardISBN 0802140041 (0-8021-4004-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voyage'Book summary:Voyage is the first part of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard's long-awaited and monumental trilogy that explores a group of friends who came of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term intelligentsia was coined. Among them are the anarchist Michael Bakunin, who was to challenge Marx for the soul of the masses; Ivan Turgenev, author of some of the most enduring works in Russian literature; the brilliant, erratic young critic Vissarion Belinsky; and Alexander Herzen, a nobleman's son and the first self-proclaimed socialist in Russia, who becomes the main focus of this drama of politics, love, loss, and betrayal. In The Coast of Utopia, Stoppard presents an inspired examination of the struggle between romantic anarchy, utopian idealism, and practical reformation.[via]More editions of Voyage:
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0762405562 (0-7624-0556-2)
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War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870by Geoffrey BestISBN 0773517618 (0-7735-1761-8)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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What Is to Be Done?by Nikolai G. Chernyshevsky, Michael R. Katz, William G. WagnerISBN 0801495474 (0-8014-9547-4)
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Wickedby Gregory MaguireISBN 0786206438 (0-7862-0643-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Wild at Heartby John EldredgeISBN 0785287965 (0-7852-8796-5)
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Wild at Heart: Discovering a Life of Passion, Freedom, and Adventureby John EldredgeISBN 0785266941 (0-7852-6694-1)
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Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolutionby Olwen H. HuftonISBN 0802068375 (0-8020-6837-5)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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El Senor De Las Moscasby William GoldingISBN 0785795618 (0-7857-9561-8)
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