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Absolute Dark Knightby Klaus Janson, Lynn VarleyISBN 1401210791 (1-4012-1079-1)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absolute Dark Knight'Book summary:Written by Frank Miller Art by Miller & Klaus Janson Cover by Miller Reoffered to coincide with the ABSOLUTE RONIN HC, this oversized, slipcased hardcover collects both THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN, along with bonus sketch material and more. Hailed as a comics masterpiece, Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS - and its equally provocative sequel THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN - get the oversized Absolute treatment in a giant one-volume, slipcased edition! This Absolute edition features an extended sketch section from THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN with commentary by Miller, a look at the plot and pencils from the legendary finale to THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, a new introduction by Miller, striking new cover and slipcase art by Miller, and more! On sale July 2 - 8.25" x 12.5", 512 pg, FC, $99.99 US - RELIST [via]
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The Absolute Sandmanby Brian Azzarello, Jim Lee, Neil Gaiman, Sam KiethISBN 1401210821 (1-4012-1082-1)
Hardcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Absolute Sandman'Book summary:THE SANDMAN, written by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, was the most acclaimed comic book title of the 1990s. A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven, THE SANDMAN is also widely considered one of the most original and artistically ambitious series of the modern age. By the time it concluded in 1996, it had made significant contributions to the artistic maturity of comic books and become a pop culture phenomenon in its own right.
Now, DC Comics is proud to present this comics classic in an all-new Absolute Edition format. The first of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes, THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 1 collects issues 1-20 of The Sandman and features completely new coloring, approved by the author, on the first 18 issues, as well as a host of never-before-seen extra material, including the complete original Sandman Proposal, a gallery of character designs from Gaiman and the artists who originated the look of the Sandman, and the original script to the World Fantasy Award-winning THE SANDMAN #19, "A Midsummer Nights Dream," together with reproductions of the issues original pencils by Charles Vess. Also included are a new introduction by DCs president Paul Levitz and a new afterword by Gaiman. [via]
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The Advancement of Learningby Francis BaconISBN 1404382259 (1-4043-8225-9)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Chris Sasaki, Lucy CorvinoISBN 1402712170 (1-4027-1217-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.No child is too young to appreciate the amazing deductive powers of the world's smartest detective. These easy-to-read Sherlock Holmes stories provide the perfect introduction to the super sleuth and his friend and assistant, Dr. Watson. Among the intriguing tales: "A Scandal in Bohemia," Holmes's first encounter with the mysterious Irene Adler; "The Red-Headed League"; "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" and others. [via]
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Also Sprach Zarathustraby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 140680827X (1-4068-0827-X)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'Book summary:Die Klassiker der deutschen und weltweiten Literatur in einer einzigartigen Reihe. Lesen Sie die besten Werke großer Schriftsteller und Autoren auf Ihrem Kindle Reader. [via]
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Anne's House of Dreamsby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 1406821721 (1-4068-2172-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:The newlyweds, Anne and Gilbert, move into their house of dreams where they share joys and sorrows with special neighbors Captain Jim, Leslie Moore and Cornelia. The births of the first children a moving part of the story. Five 90-minute cassettes. [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 1400307511 (1-4003-0751-1)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Captivating audiences in 1873 upon its first publication, Around the World in Eighty Days takes readers on a daring and extraordinary adventure. Englishman Phileas Fogg risks his life's fortune in a bet that he can circumnavigate the entire globe in only eighty days. Accompanied by his servant, Passepartout, Fogg travels by every means possible through some of the most dangerous conditions, all the while being followed by Detective Fix, a bounty hunter whose goal is to sabotage Fogg's plans.
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Bartleby, the Scrivenerby Herman MelvilleISBN 1406509884 (1-4065-0988-4)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'Book summary:By the American novelist, essayist and poet, widely esteemed as one of the most important figures in American literature and best remembered today for his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851). His short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1856) is among his most important pieces, and has been considered a precursor to Existentialist and Absurdist literature. [via]
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby Lew Wallace, Steven HinesISBN 1404185712 (1-4041-8571-2)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ'Book summary:Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. His old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. They become bitter enemies. Because of an unfortunate accident, Ben-Hur is sent to slave in the mines while his family is sent to leprosy caves. As Messala is dying from being crushed in a chariot race, he reveals where Ben-Hur's family is. On the road to find them, Ben-Hur meets the Christ as he is on the road to Golgotha to be crucified. That day changes Ben-Hur's life forever, for that is the day he becomes a believer.
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Lisa R. Church, Lucy CorvinoISBN 1402711441 (1-4027-1144-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Black Beautyby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714521 (1-4027-1452-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Black Swan Greenby David MitchellISBN 1400063795 (1-4000-6379-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Swan Green'Book summary:From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys games on a frozen lake; of nightcreeping through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jasons search to replace his dead grandfathers irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatchers recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.
Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchells subtlest and most effective achievement to date. [via]More editions of Black Swan Green:
Burn Journalsby Brent RunyonISBN 1400096421 (1-4000-9642-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Categoriesby Aristotle, E. M. EdghillISBN 1406510203 (1-4065-1020-3)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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The Christian Theology Readerby Alister E. McGrathISBN 140515358X (1-4051-5358-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Cien Sonetos De Amorby Pablo Neruda, Hernan LoyolaISBN 1400099633 (1-4000-9963-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob BurckhardtISBN 1404343660 (1-4043-4366-0)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'Book summary:"None of his successors not even Cesare Borgia rivalled the colossal guilt of Ezzelino " proposes the author. [via]
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A Companion to Applied Ethicsby R.G. Frey, Christopher Heath WellmanISBN 1405133457 (1-4051-3345-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Daddy Long-Legsby Jean WebsterISBN 1404348123 (1-4043-4812-3)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veilby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 140651120X (1-4065-1120-X)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 1404383638 (1-4043-8363-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Einstein's Dreamsby Alan LightmanISBN 140007780X (1-4000-7780-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Dreams'Book summary:If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives is vividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in this drama.
The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man is occasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past: "He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness events without being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile of time." The dreams in which time flows backward are far more sophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, which Lightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study the different kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucid consequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables come off like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. People live for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to each unique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place of frozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advance exactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly.
"Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic," writes Lightman. "Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists are joyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing rich folks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth and scorning the swiftly aging poor folk below. Forgetting eventually how they got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamer food," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetry collection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who's been to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales than Marco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers of Einstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishing it. [via]
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Emma 1by Kaoru MoriISBN 1401211321 (1-4012-1132-1)
Softcover, Cmx
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma 1'Book summary:Cute story of romanace between social classes in Victorian England. [via]
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Emma 2by Kaoru MoriISBN 140121133X (1-4012-1133-X)
Softcover, Cmx
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Enrique's Journeyby Sonia NazarioISBN 1400062055 (1-4000-6205-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John LockeISBN 1406790273 (1-4067-9027-3)
Softcover, Read Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'Book summary:John Locke is widely regarded as the father of classical liberalism. This essay was groundbreaking in its approach to foundation of human knowledge and understanding, he describes the mind at birth as a blank slate filled later through experience, the essay became the principle sources of empiricism in modern philosophy and influenced many enlightenment philosophers. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Essaysby Francis BaconISBN 1404349545 (1-4043-4954-5)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Students in Every Childby Ron ClarkISBN 1401300014 (1-4013-0001-4)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Fatelessnessby Imre Kertesz, Tim WilkinsonISBN 1400078636 (1-4000-7863-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatelessness'Book summary:At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesnt particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, You are no Jew. In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kerteszs unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georgs dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnessesor pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski. [via]More editions of Fatelessness:
The Finishing Schoolby Muriel SparkISBN 1400077397 (1-4000-7739-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 1406503436 (1-4065-0343-6)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Large Format for easy reading. Hugely influential work in which the author attempts popularise the notion of multidimensional geometry, but the book is also a clever satire on the social, moral, and religious values of the late 19th Centrury. [via]
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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 1400064627 (1-4000-6462-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe'Book summary:The remarkable novel of two Southern friendships--the basis of the hit film--available for the first time in large print.
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From Eroica With Love 4by AOIKE YASUKOISBN 1401205208 (1-4012-0520-8)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois RabelaisISBN 1404304843 (1-4043-0484-3)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'Book summary:ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.
This is Volume Volume 1 of 5-Volume Set. To purchase the complete set, you will need to order the other volumes separately: to find them, search for the following ISBNs: 9781425026509, 9781425026530, 9781425045982, 9781425045999
Consisting of five books, this masterpiece is Rabelais' magnum opus. It chronicles different events in the life of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Using his learned wit and biting satire as a facade, Rabelais discusses several serious issues. The apparent humour and brilliant use of language offers pure reading pleasure. Entertaining and profound!
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The Golden Assby Apuleius, William AdlingtonISBN 1406509183 (1-4065-0918-3)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Ass'Book summary:A bawdy picaresque Latin novel, written in the second century AD. The only Latin novel which has survived in its entirety. An imaginative, irreverent, and amusing work which relates the ludicrous adventures of one Lucius, who experiments in magic and is accidentally turned into an ass. In this guise he hears and sees many unusual things, until escaping from his predicament in a rather unexpected way. Within this frame story are found multiple digressions, the longest among them being the well-known tale of Cupid and Psyche. [via]
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Grimms' Fairy TalesISBN 1404305378 (1-4043-0537-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Grimms' Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 1406821411 (1-4068-2141-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimms' Fairy Tales'Book summary:This clear print title is set in Tiresias 13pt font for easy reading [via]
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A Guide to Old Englishby Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. RobinsonISBN 1405146907 (1-4051-4690-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Guide to Old English'Book summary:The seventh edition of this popular introduction to Old English language and literature retains the general structure and style of previous editions, but has been updated, and includes two new, much-requested texts: the Cotton Gnomes and Wulfstans Sermo Lupia ad Anglos and two new appendices: A List of Linguistic Terms Used in This Book and The Moods of Old English.
- Provides a range of helpful pedagogical tools: a map of Anglo-Saxon England, notes, a glossary, indexes to Part I, and a general introduction to Anglo-Saxon studies.
- Contains a special "How to Use this Guide" section, to aid both self-study and classroom use.
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- Provides a range of helpful pedagogical tools: a map of Anglo-Saxon England, notes, a glossary, indexes to Part I, and a general introduction to Anglo-Saxon studies.
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Hedda Gablerby Henrik Ibsen, William Archer, Edmund GosseISBN 140650145X (1-4065-0145-X)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hedda Gabler'Book summary:Large Format for easy reading. Play that examines the realities that lay behind the many facades of victorian society from the norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama [via]
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Hellblazerby Garth Ennis, John Higgins, James SinclairISBN 1401202020 (1-4012-0202-0)
Softcover, Vertigo
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 1400052920 (1-4000-5292-0)
Hardcover, Harmony Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:Packed with an Astounding Amount of New and Never-Before-Collected Material.
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
No one but Douglas Adams could have pared lifes meaning down to these three questions, and they remain as inspired and head-scratchingly clever today as they did twenty-five years ago when they appeared in the first edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Showcasing his quick wit, comic genius, and wide-ranging intelligence, Hitchhikers has become nothing less than a cult classic and cultural phenomenon.
To celebrate its quarter century and the extraordinary legacy of Adams, this gorgeously designed, mostly harmless deluxe edition gathers never-before-collected photographs, original artwork, memorabilia (from the strange to the sublime), and wisdom gleaned from a first read or first encounter as Douglass friends remember how the galaxy was forever changed a mere twenty-five years ago (not to mention the original text of the novel) into a one-of-a-kind Guide as stunning as two suns setting over Magrathea.
Whether you are well versed in the antics of Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered Earthman plucked from his planet seconds before its demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, and Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy posing as an out-of-work actor, or are hitching a ride for the first time, this is the book that has everything youll nee to know about anything.So please do not be alarmed. Definitely dont panic. Just be sure to grab a towel. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1404309721 (1-4043-0972-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1404366342 (1-4043-6634-2)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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How to Study Linguistics: A Guide to Understanding Languageby Geoffrey FinchISBN 1403901066 (1-4039-0106-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Study Linguistics: A Guide to Understanding Language'Book summary:Intended primarily for newcomers to the subject, but with new material designed to help the more advanced reader, How to Study Linguistics is written in a refreshing and engaging style. It assumes no prior knowledge and contains many useful suggestions for developing a secure understanding of the subject. Chapters discuss strategies for studying phonology, syntax, and semantics, and for pursuing branches of linguistics, such as sociolinguistics, stylistics, and psycholinguistics, as well as practical advice on writing essays. The book also includes a glossary to aid learning and revision.[via]More editions of How to Study Linguistics: A Guide to Understanding Language:
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I and Thouby Martin BuberISBN 140672730X (1-4067-2730-X)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I and Thou'Book summary:I and Thou, Martin Buber's classic philosophical work, is among the 20th century's foundational documents of religious ethics. "The close association of the relation to God with the relation to one's fellow-men ... is my most essential concern," Buber explains in the Afterword. Before discussing that relationship, in the book's final chapter, Buber explains at length the range and ramifications of the ways people treat one another, and the ways they bear themselves in the natural world. "One should beware altogether of understanding the conversation with God ... as something that occurs merely apart from or above the everyday," Buber explains. "God's address to man penetrates the events in all our lives and all the events in the world around us, everything biographical and everything historical, and turns it into instruction, into demands for you and me." Throughout I and Thou, Buber argues for an ethic that does not use other people (or books, or trees, or God), and does not consider them objects of one's own personal experience. Instead, Buber writes, we must learn to consider everything around us as "You" speaking to "me," and requiring a response. Buber's dense arguments can be rough going at times, but Walter Kaufmann's definitive 1970 translation contains hundreds of helpful footnotes providing Buber's own explanations of the book's most difficult passages. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 1406510017 (1-4065-1001-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:By the American abolitionist and writer who was born to slaves in North Carolina. Her autobiographical accounts started being published in serial form in the New York Tribune. However, her reports of sexual abuse were considered too shocking to the average newspaper reader of the day, and publication ceased before the completion of the narrative. In 1861, she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Much of the book is devoted to her struggle to free her two children. She changed the names of all characters, including her own, in order to conceal true identities. Jacobs argued that the cruelty of slavery destroyed the virtue of an entire society, and "is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks". [via]
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Into Thin Airby Jon KrakauerISBN 1402809654 (1-4028-0965-4)
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Kilmeny of the Orchardby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1406821756 (1-4068-2175-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kilmeny of the Orchard'Book summary:Kilmeny of the Orchard is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is the story of a young man named Eric Marshall who goes to teach a school on Prince Edward Island and meets a mute girl that has perfect hearing named Kilmeny. He sees her when he is walking in the woods and hears her playing the violin. He visits her for a long time until he falls in love with her. When he proposes she rejects him, even though she loves him in return, believing that her disability will only hinder his life if they were married, despite his protests that it wouldn't matter at all. Meanwhile, Eric's good friend David who is a renowned throat doctor, comes to the island and visits Eric. He examines Kilmeny, and says that nothing will cure her but an extreme psychological need to speak. This need comes soon when Neil Gordon, who is in love with Kilmeny and madly jealous of Eric, comes behind Eric with an axe, meaning to kill him. Kilmeny is nearby, and without thinking, she yells to Eric to look behind him: she can now speak. Neil runs away on a ship, and Kilmeny and Eric get married. [via]
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1404368361 (1-4043-6836-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
Learn To Play The Guitar: A Step-by-step Guideby Nick FrenchISBN 1405437146 (1-4054-3714-6)
Hardcover, Parragon Inc
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The Life of Reasonby George SantayanaISBN 1406800406 (1-4068-0040-6)
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The Life of St. Teresa of Jesusby Teresa of AvilaISBN 1406811645 (1-4068-1164-5)
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The Light in the Forestby Conrad RichterISBN 1400077885 (1-4000-7788-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Light in the Forest'Book summary:When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them. A beautifully written, sensitively told story of a white boy brought up by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. [via]
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Literary Theory : An Anthologyby Julie Rivkin, Michael RyanISBN 1405106964 (1-4051-0696-4)
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Little Womenby Lucy Corvino, Deanna McFaddenISBN 1402712367 (1-4027-1236-7)
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Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Little girls, especially, love following the adventures of the four March sisters--Meg, Beth, Amy, and most of all, the tomboy Jo--as they experience the joys and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up. This simpler version captures all the charm and warmth of the original.More editions of Little Women:
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Little Womenby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714580 (1-4027-1458-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.[via]
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
The beautiful Meg, artistic tomboy Jo, doomed Beth, and selfish Amy: since the publication of Little Women in 1869, these four sisters have become Americas most beloved literary siblings. Louisa May Alcotts rich and realistic portrait has inspired three movies and stirred the emotions of countless young girls. Set in New England during the Civil War, the novel follows the adventures of the March sisters as they struggle to pursue their dreams.More editions of Little Women:
The Longest Journeyby E. M. ForsterISBN 140431380X (1-4043-1380-X)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 1404313834 (1-4043-1383-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward, 2000-1887'Book summary:Originally published in 1888, Looking Backward is Edward Bellamy's most famous work. The story revolves around Julian West, a man who falls asleep near the end of the 19th century and wakes up in the year 2000. During the time he slept, the United States became a socialist utopia. The majority of the book is a vehicle for Bellamy to expound upon his ideas about societal improvement. Americans in his year 2000 work fewer hours, retire early, and receive all they need from the government. Entertaining and oddly prophetic in some ways, Bellamy's vision of the future from the perspective of the late 19th century is highly engaging. American author EDWARD BELLAMY (1850-1898) also wrote Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880), Equality (1897), and The Duke of Stockbridge (1900). [via]
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Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Storyby Brendan HalpinISBN 1400060834 (1-4000-6083-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Mabinogionby Charlotte Guest, AnonymousISBN 1406805092 (1-4068-0509-2)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:An assembly of Welsh stories from two ancient books, the 'Red Book of Hergest' and the earlier 'The White Book of Rhydderch' approx 500 BC. [via]
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 1404383581 (1-4043-8358-1)
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Manon Lescautby Abbe PrevostISBN 1404316434 (1-4043-1643-4)
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Maria or the Wrongs of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 1404316965 (1-4043-1696-5)
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The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in Collegeby Harlan CohenISBN 1402203373 (1-4022-0337-3)
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Old Goriot, 1835by Honore De BalzacISBN 1406791571 (1-4067-9157-1)
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On the Origin of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 1404322868 (1-4043-2286-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Origin of Species'Book summary:It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.
To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kidsby Alexandra RobbinsISBN 1401302017 (1-4013-0201-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids'Book summary:The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens
In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our highstakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. During the year of her ten-year reunion, Robbins goes back to her high school, where she follows heart-tuggingly likeable students including "AP" Frank, who grapples with horrifying parental pressure to succeed; Audrey, whose panicked perfectionism overshadows her life; Sam, who worries his years of overachieving will be wasted if he doesnt attend a name-brand college; Taylor, whose ambition threatens her popular girl status; and The Stealth Overachiever, a mystery junior who flies under the radar.
Robbins tackles teen issues such as intense stress, the student and teacher cheating epidemic, sports rage, parental guilt, the black market for study drugs, and a college admissions process so cutthroat that students are driven to suicide and depression because of a B.
With a compelling mix of fast-paced narrative and fascinating investigative journalism, The Overachievers aims both to calm the admissions frenzy and to expose its escalating dangers. [via]
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Philosophy of Science: An Anthologyby Marc LangeISBN 1405130342 (1-4051-3034-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Pollyannaby Eleanor H. PorterISBN 1406821810 (1-4068-2181-0)
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The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetryby Walter Horatio PaterISBN 140432836X (1-4043-2836-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry'Book summary:Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for the insights it offers and the beauty of the writing. [via]
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Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1406821772 (1-4068-2177-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilla of Ingleside'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Deanna McFadden, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726643 (1-4027-2664-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:[via]A shipwreck. A sole survivor, stranded on a deserted island. What could be more appealing to children than Robinson Crusoes amazing adventure? Set in the 17th century, and unfolding over a 30-year period, it offers plenty of suspense and everyday detail about how Crusoe manages to stay alive. Additionally, it paints a fascinating portrait of the ageincluding references to slavery and Europes view of the New World.
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Romanticism: An Anthologyby Duncan WuISBN 1405120851 (1-4051-2085-1)
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzgeraldISBN 1406811564 (1-4068-1156-4)
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The Sea-Wolfby Jack LondonISBN 1404330623 (1-4043-3062-3)
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The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart MillISBN 1406502545 (1-4065-0254-5)
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Suite Francaiseby Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra SmithISBN 1400096278 (1-4000-9627-8)
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Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Processby Marius DeebISBN 1403962480 (1-4039-6248-0)
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Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Mannersby William HazlittISBN 1404335277 (1-4043-3527-7)
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Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friedrich NietzcheISBN 1406792047 (1-4067-9204-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'Book summary:Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is a book written during the 1880s by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Hard to categorize, the work is a treatise on philosophy, a highly praised work of literature, and in parts a collection of poetry and in others a parody of and amendment to the Bible. Consisting largely of speeches by the book's main person Zarathustra, the work's content extends across a vast range of styles and subject matter. Nietzsche himself described the work as "the deepest ever written". [via]
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Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 1406510866 (1-4065-1086-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'Book summary:Classic work by the German philologist, philosopher and author. Hard to categorize, the work is a treatise on philosophy, a highly praised work of literature, and in parts a collection of poetry and in others a parody of and amendment to the Bible. Consisting largely of speeches by the book's tragic hero and prophet Zarathustra, the work's content extends across a vast range of styles and subject matter. Nietzsche himself described the work as "the deepest ever written". [via]
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Treasure Islandby Lucy Corvino, Chris TaitISBN 1402713185 (1-4027-1318-5)
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Pirates, buried treasure, and action aplenty--that's what's served up in this fine story, mates, and kids will eat it up. After Jim Hawkins finds the map to a mysterious treasure, he sets sail in search of the fortune. Little does he realize he's boarded a pirate ship, and that surprises and danger await him...including a meeting with the inforgettable Long John Silver.More editions of Treasure Island:
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Treasure Islandby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714572 (1-4027-1457-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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The Trumpet-majorby Thomas HardyISBN 1404335056 (1-4043-3505-6)
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 1404357602 (1-4043-5760-2)
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The Ultimate History of American Carsby Frank D. Sullivan, Frederic WinkowskiISBN 1405475927 (1-4054-7592-7)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 1404336877 (1-4043-3687-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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VS. Versus 1by Keiko YamadaISBN 1401210686 (1-4012-1068-6)
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Watchmen : The Absolute Editionby Alan Moore, Dave GibbonsISBN 1401207138 (1-4012-0713-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watchmen : The Absolute Edition'Book summary:Has any comic been as lauded as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns but Watchmen remains the critics' favourite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and recently From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to garner praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterisation is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling, rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the fine pace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it retains its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacyby James Paul GeeISBN 1403965382 (1-4039-6538-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy'Book summary:A controversial look at the positive things that can be learned from video games by a well known professor of education.[via]
James Paul Gee begins his new book with "I want to talk about vide games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them." With this simple but explosive beginning, one of America's most well-respected professors of education looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. Gee is interested in the cognitive development that can occur when someone is trying to escape a maze, find a hidden treasure and, even, blasting away an enemy with a high-powered rifle. Talking about his own video-gaming experience learning and using games as diverse as Lara Croft and Arcanum, Gee looks at major specific cognitive activities:
* How individuals develop a sense of identity
* How one grasps meaning
* How one evaluates and follow a command
* How one picks a role model
* How one perceives the world
This is a ground-breaking book that takes up a new electronic method of education and shows the positive upside it has for learning.More editions of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy:
Whores On The Hillby Colleen CurranISBN 1400079950 (1-4000-7995-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Wind In The Willowsby Kenneth Grahame, Scott McKowen, Arthur PoberISBN 1402725051 (1-4027-2505-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind In The Willows'Book summary:Since its beginnings as a series of stories told to Kenneth Grahame's young son, The Wind in the Willows has become one of the best-loved children's books ever. Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger will find yet another new audience with this good-looking edition.[via]More editions of The Wind In The Willows:
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 1404339574 (1-4043-3957-4)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
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Poema de Mio Cidby AnonimoISBN 1400093031 (1-4000-9303-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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