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1994 American Guide to U.S. Coinsby Charles F. French, John AdlerISBN 0671781243 (0-671-78124-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Age of Napoleonby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0618154612 (0-618-15461-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Napoleon'Book summary:THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects - political, cultural, military, commercial, and social. Napoleon's rise from common origins to enormous political and military power, as well as his ultimate defeat, influenced our modern age in thousands of ways, from the map of Europe to the metric system, from styles of dress and dictators to new conventions of personal behavior. [via]
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The Age of Napoleonby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 067121988X (0-671-21988-X)
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0671009761 (0-671-00976-1)
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All over Creationby Ruth L. OzekiISBN 0670030910 (0-670-03091-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Amongst Womenby John McGahernISBN 0670811823 (0-670-81182-3)
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Bahama Crisisby Desmond BagleyISBN 0671434535 (0-671-43453-5)
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Barrayarby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 067172083X (0-671-72083-X)
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Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century Americaby Fred Wasserman, Molly McGarryISBN 0670864013 (0-670-86401-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Before Night Fallsby Reinaldo ArenasISBN 0670840785 (0-670-84078-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before Night Falls'Book summary:Reinaldo Arenas' account of his life as a writer and a homosexual. Acknowledged as one of the great 20th-century Cuban writers, he was born in 1943 into a poor, rural Cuban family. At the age of 15 he joined Castro's guerrillas against Batista's right-wing regime, only to discover that repression under Castro would be on a monumental scale. He spent 20 years of his life trying to survive his "re-education", to safeguard his manuscripts and to maintain his sanity when he was imprisoned in El Morro prison in Havana. But, despite everything that had happened to him, including betrayal by his aunt and some of his closest "friends", Arenas triumphed, finally leaving Cuba during the Mariel exodus in 1980. But America could never replace his beloved Cuba, and his anti-Castro stance made him unsympathetic to many American intellectuals. "Before Night Falls" was begun before Arenas left Cuba and was completed in the last stage of his battle with AIDS, which dominated the last years of his life until he committed suicide on 7 December 1990 at the age of 47. It is a compelling and moving account of the hell Arenas experienced in Cuba and the purgatory he endured in the United States. It is a book both raw and fierce, tender and lyrical. It reveals a man of enormous vitality, resilience and courage. [via]
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Beyond This Horizonby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0671318365 (0-671-31836-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond This Horizon'Book summary:Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century.
They should all have been very happy....
But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy.
However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman was definitely not a good idea.... [via]
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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolutionby Harold ShukmanISBN 0631195254 (0-631-19525-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Children of Menby P. D. JamesISBN 0679418733 (0-679-41873-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Men'Book summary:Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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Chinese Shadowsby Pierre RyckmansISBN 0670219185 (0-670-21918-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Confessionsby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Furbank P.N. RousseauISBN 067940998X (0-679-40998-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention to his startlingly alive autobiography. But the Confessions is also among the greatest self-portraits in world literature -which suggests, even more than the impact of Rousseau's thought, the extent to which the very high opinion he had of himself was ultimately justified. [via]More editions of Confessions:
Do It; Scenarios of the Revolutionby Jerry RubinISBN 067120601X (0-671-20601-X)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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The Elite: The Story of the Rhodesian Special Air Serviceby Barbara ColeISBN 0620074205 (0-620-07420-5)
Hardcover, Three Knights
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Empireby Antonio Negri, Michael HardtISBN 0674006712 (0-674-00671-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire'Book summary:Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's Empire has already caused quite a storm. After "anti-capitalist" demonstrations and books such as Naomi Klein's No Logo and George Monbiot's Captive State, a vacuum seemed to exist for an extensive, coherent philosophical take on where our world is going. Empire seeks to fill that gap by asking where globalisation comes from, what it means and whether or not it is a good or bad thing.
Negri, a Marxist imprisoned for his beliefs and his involvement with the Italian hard-left, and Michael Hardt, an English literature professor who had previously acted as Negri's translator (and the translator of an important, though philosophically more arcane, precursor to Empire, Giorgio Agamben's The Coming Community) have produced a key post-Marxist text (which builds on many of the arguments in Nick Dyer-Witheford's excellent Cyber-Marx) that views its world through lenses bequeathed to it by the best of the French post-structuralists. Negri and Hardt's accomplishment has been to apply the sometimes difficult work of theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (especially A Thousand Plateaus) and Jacques Derrida to describe a world that has undergone a paradigm switch to a new Empire (in a way not dissimilarly than Thomas Keenan does particularly in his chapter on Marx's rhetoric in the much undervalued Fables of Responsibility). According to Negri and Hardt, this new Empire is the result of the transformation of modern capitalism into a set of power relationships we endlessly replicate that transcend the nation state (so anti-imperialism is out as a progressive politics). Vitally, the authors argue that the multitude, through their many struggles, pushed the world to this point and it is the multitude who can push through to a much better world on the other side of globalisation.
This is an optimistic, wide-ranging, defiant challenge of a book and Negri and Hardt should be commended on their erudition as much as their vision. While questions undoubtedly remain after reading the text, these should not stop the interested reader in coming to, and learning from, this profound piece of work. --Mark Thwaite [via]
Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800by Frederick C. BeiserISBN 0674257278 (0-674-25727-8)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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European Revolutions: 1492-1992by Charles TillyISBN 0631199039 (0-631-19903-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820by James A. Henretta, Gregory H. NoblesISBN 0669083046 (0-669-08304-6)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporariesby Christopher HillISBN 0670302082 (0-670-30208-2)
Hardcover, Viking
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Fathers and Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Avril PymanISBN 0679405364 (0-679-40536-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Feast of All Saintsby Anne RiceISBN 0671247557 (0-671-24755-7)
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Festivals and the French Revolutionby Mona Ozouf, Alan SheridanISBN 0674298845 (0-674-29884-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Festivals and the French Revolution'Book summary:Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals, although most historians have been content either to ridicule them as ineffectual or to bemoan them as repugnant examples of a sterile, official culture. Mona Ozouf shows us that they were much more than bizarre marginalia to the revolutionary process. Festivals offer critical insights into the meaning of the French Revolution; they show a society in the process of creating itself anew.
Historians have recognized the importance of the revolutionary festival as a symbol of the Revolution. But they have differed widely in their interpretations of what that symbol meant and have considered the festivals as diverse as the rival political groups that conceived and organized them. Against this older vision, Ozouf argues for the fundamental coherence and profound unity of the festival as both event and register of reference and attitude. By comparing the most ideologically opposed festivals (those of Reason and the Supreme Being, for instance), she shows that they clearly share a common aim, which finds expression in a mutual ceremonial and symbolic vocabulary. Through a brilliant discussion of the construction, ordering, and conduct of the festival Ozouf demonstrates how the continuity of the images, allegories, ceremonials, and explicit functions can be seen as the Revolution's own commentary on itself.
A second and important aim of this book is to show that this system of festivals, often seen as destructive, was an immensely creative force. The festival was the mirror in which the Revolution chose to see itself and the pedagogical tool by which it hoped to educate future generations, Far from being a failure, it embodied, socialized, and made sacred a new set of values based on the family, the nation, and mankind--the values of a modern, secular, liberal world.
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The French Revolutionby James Matthew ThompsonISBN 0631119213 (0-631-11921-3)
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The French Revolution: A Document Collectionby Laura Mason, Tracey RizzoISBN 0669417807 (0-669-41780-7)
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The French Revolution, 1770-1814by Francois FuretISBN 0631202994 (0-631-20299-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The French Revolution, 1770-1814'Book summary:This volume, comprising Part I of the authors classic work Revolutionary France 1770-1880, offers a vivid narrative and radical reinterpretation of the years surrounding the momentous events of 1789 and their aftermath. During this period there were not one, but two revolutions: by intent the first was egalitarian, the second- Bonapartes authoritarian. The tension between the two characterized the period and was to shape the Republic that eventually emerged from the ruins of the ancien regime. [via]
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From Yale to Jail : The Life Story of a Moral Dissenterby David DellingerISBN 0679405917 (0-679-40591-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980by Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0670292478 (0-670-29247-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Getting Your Kids to Say No in the 90s When You Said Yes in the '60sby Victor StrasburgerISBN 0671797964 (0-671-79796-4)
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The Great Mutiny: India 1857by Christopher HibbertISBN 0670349836 (0-670-34983-6)
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A History of Private Life: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great Warby Michelle Perrot, Philippe Arier, Georges DubyISBN 0674400038 (0-674-40003-8)
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In the Name of the People: Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russiaby Adam Bruno UlamISBN 0670396915 (0-670-39691-5)
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In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great Warby W. Bruce LincolnISBN 0671628216 (0-671-62821-6)
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Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americansby Joyce ApplebyISBN 0674006631 (0-674-00663-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans'Book summary:Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world's first liberal society. These are the people we encounter in Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities.
Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. They also had to grapple with the new distinction of free and slave labor, with all its divisive social entailments; the rout of Enlightenment rationality by the warm passions of religious awakening; the explosion of small business opportunities for young people eager to break out of their parents' colonial cocoon. Few in the nation escaped the transforming intrusiveness of these changes. Working these experiences into a vivid picture of American cultural renovation, Appleby crafts an extraordinary--and deeply affecting--account of how the first generation established its own culture, its own nation, its own identity.
The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always a fascinating interplay of the inherited and the novel; this book shows how, in the early nineteenth century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States. [via]
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Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Undergroundby Julia E. SweigISBN 0674008480 (0-674-00848-0)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722719 (0-671-72271-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Kissing through a Pane of Glassby Peter Michael RosenbergISBN 0671718061 (0-671-71806-1)
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Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsarby Robert AlexanderISBN 067003178X (0-670-03178-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Leopardby Archibald Colquhoun, Giuseppe Tomasi Di LampedusaISBN 067940757X (0-679-40757-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leopard'Book summary:The Leopard is set in Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification is coming violently into being, but it transcends the historical-novel classification. E.M. Forster called it, instead, "a novel which happens to take place in history." Lampedusa's Sicily is a land where each social gesture is freighted with nuance, threat, and nostalgia, and his skeptical protagonist, Don Fabrizio, is uniquely placed to witness all and alter absolutely nothing. Like his creator, the prince is an aristocrat and an astronomer, a man "watching the ruin of his own class and his own inheritance without ever making, still less wanting to make, any move toward saving it." Far better to take refuge in the night skies.
What renders The Leopard so beautiful, and so despairing, is Lampedusa's grasp of human frailty and his vision of Sicily's arid terrain--"comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung waves into frenzy." Though the author had long had the book in mind, he didn't begin writing it until he was in his late 50s. He died at 60, soon after it was rejected as unpublishable.
Archibald Colquhoun's lyrical translation also contains 70 more precious pages of Lampedusa--a memoir, a short story, and the first chapter of a novel. In "Places of My Infancy" the author warns that "the reader (who won't exist) must expect to be led meandering through a lost Earthly Paradise. If it bores him. I don't mind." Luckily, the reader does exist; even more luckily, boredom is not an option. [via]
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Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800by Mary Beth NortonISBN 0673393488 (0-673-39348-8)
Softcover, Scott Foresman & Co
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0674535812 (0-674-53581-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century'Book summary:Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist!" shouted singer Johnny Rotten--where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise.
This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands--demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life--seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris--based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0674535804 (0-674-53580-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands--demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life--seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris--based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Literary Underground of the Old Regimeby Robert DarntonISBN 0674536576 (0-674-53657-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Mark Twain and the Three R's:Race, Religion, Revolution--and Related Matters: Race, Religion, Revolution--and Related Mattersby Mark Twain, Maxwell David GeismarISBN 0672517051 (0-672-51705-1)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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Milton and the English Revolutionby John Edward Christopher HillISBN 0670476129 (0-670-47612-9)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Napoleon: A Political Lifeby Steven EnglundISBN 0674018036 (0-674-01803-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Notes from the New Underground: An Anthologyby Jesse KornbluthISBN 0670517135 (0-670-51713-5)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinsonby Bernard BailynISBN 0674641612 (0-674-64161-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson'Book summary:This book, Mr. Bailyn writes, depicts the fortunes of a conservative in a time of radical upheaval and deals with problems of public disorder and ideological commitment. It is at the same time a dramatic account of the origins of the American Revolution from the viewpoint, not of the winners who became the Founding Fathers, but of the losers, the Loyalists. By portraying the ordeal of the last civilian royal governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Bailyn explains what the human reality was against which the victors struggled and in doing so makes the story of the Revolution fuller and more comprehensible.
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Paris and London in the Eighteenth Century: Studies in Popular Protestby George F.E. RudeISBN 0670003808 (0-670-00380-8)
Softcover, Viking Press
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Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Communeby Rupert ChristiansenISBN 067083131X (0-670-83131-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Prelude to Terror: The Constituent Assembly and the Failure of Consensus, 1789-1791by Norman HampsonISBN 0631152377 (0-631-15237-7)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Prophets of Parisby Frank E. ManuelISBN 0674716000 (0-674-71600-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Raiderby Jude DeverauxISBN 0671743813 (0-671-74381-3)
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Rebel Moonby Bruce Bethke, Vox DayISBN 0671002368 (0-671-00236-8)
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The Reformationby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671610503 (0-671-61050-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reformation'Book summary:The Story of Civilization, Volume VI: A history of European civilization from Wyclif to Calvin: 1300-1564. This is the sixth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series. [via]
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Revolt in 2100by Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0671577808 (0-671-57780-8)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Revolutionary Europe, 1783-1815by George F. RudeISBN 0631221905 (0-631-22190-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Revolutionary France, 1770-1880by Francois Furet, Antonia NevillISBN 0631198083 (0-631-19808-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Robespierre: Portrait of a Revolutionary Democratby George F.E. RudeISBN 0670601284 (0-670-60128-4)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reedby Robert A. RosenstoneISBN 067477938X (0-674-77938-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Sacred Rage: The Crusade of Modern Islamby Robin B. WrightISBN 067160113X (0-671-60113-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islamby Robin WrightISBN 0671628119 (0-671-62811-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam'Book summary:For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative.
Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, Sacred Rage combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington.
Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows. [via]
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papersby Daniel EllsbergISBN 0670030309 (0-670-03030-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Shards of Honorby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671655744 (0-671-65574-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shards of Honor'Book summary:Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr. Will Mother ever understand? And can such an odd beast as love survive an interplanetary war? [via]
Shoot the Women First: Inside the Secret World of Female Terroristsby Eileen MacDonaldISBN 0679415963 (0-679-41596-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Term Limitsby Vince FlynnISBN 0671023187 (0-671-02318-7)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, And the Birth of Modern Nationsby Craig NelsonISBN 0670037885 (0-670-03788-5)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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The Troubles: Ireland, 1912-1922by Ulick O'ConnorISBN 0672517515 (0-672-51751-5)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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Unpopular Essaysby Bertrand RussellISBN 0671202537 (0-671-20253-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolutionby Gary B. NashISBN 0674930568 (0-674-93056-8)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolutionby Gary B. NashISBN 0674930592 (0-674-93059-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 0679410767 (0-679-41076-7)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Vidaby Marge PiercyISBN 0671401106 (0-671-40110-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Scot MillerISBN 0618457178 (0-618-45717-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:Published in association with the Walden Woods Project, this beautiful commemorative edition of Thoreau's masterpiece features spectacular color photographs that capture Walden as vividly as Thoreau's words do.
Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. Originally he was not, apparently, intending to write a book about his life at the pond, but nine years later, in August of 1854, Houghton Mifflin's predecessor, Ticknor and Fields, published Walden; or, a Life in the Woods. At the time the book was largely ignored, and it took five years to sell out the first printing of two thousand copies. It was not until 1862, the year of Thoreau's death, that the book was brought back into print, and it has never been out of print since. Published in hundreds of editions and translated into virtually every modern language, it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written. [via]
Weby Yvegeny ZamyatinISBN 0670753181 (0-670-75318-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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When the King Took Flightby Timothy TackettISBN 0674016424 (0-674-01642-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When the King Took Flight'Book summary:On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style.
The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic chapter spotlights a different segment of the population, from the king and queen as they plotted and executed their flight, to the people of Varennes who apprehended the royal family, to the radicals of Paris who urged an end to monarchy, to the leaders of the National Assembly struggling to control a spiraling crisis, to the ordinary citizens stunned by their king's desertion. Tackett shows how Louis's flight reshaped popular attitudes toward kingship, intensified fears of invasion and conspiracy, and helped pave the way for the Reign of Terror.
Tackett brings to life an array of unique characters as they struggle to confront the monumental transformations set in motion in 1789. In so doing, he offers an important new interpretation of the Revolution. By emphasizing the unpredictable and contingent character of this story, he underscores the power of a single event to change irrevocably the course of the French Revolution, and consequently the history of the world.
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Where Is Nicaragua?by Peter DavisISBN 0671657208 (0-671-65720-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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With the Contrasby Christopher DickeyISBN 0671532987 (0-671-53298-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaraguaby Christopher DickeyISBN 0671633139 (0-671-63313-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Year of the Heroic Guerrilla: World Revolution and Counterrevolution in 1968by Robert Vincent DanielsISBN 0674964519 (0-674-96451-9)
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Daniels vividly depicts the great crises of that era: the Tet offensive and the abdication of Lyndon Johnson; the denouncement of the counterculture; the fissuring of the civil rights movement and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; the student revolt at Columbia University; the May uprising in France that nearly overthrew the Fifth Republic; the "cultural revolution" in China; the chilling of the Prague Spring by the Soviet army; and, finally, the convention and riots in Mayor Daley's Chicago, signaling the downturn of the revolutionary spirit in America.
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