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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby Aristotle, Roger CrispISBN 0521635462 (0-521-63546-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv'Book summary:Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavor. Topics covered include the role of luck in human wellbeing, responsibility, courage, justice, friendship and pleasure. This accessible new translation follows the Greek text closely and also provides a non-Greek reader with something of the flavor of the original. The volume also includes a historical and philosophical introduction and notes on further reading. [via]
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As You Like Itby William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway, JamiesonISBN 0521294126 (0-521-29412-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:Like every other play in the series, As You Like It has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed. [via]
Bacchae: Euripidesby Euripides, David Franklin, John Harrison, Judith AffleckISBN 052165372X (0-521-65372-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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A Book for Free Spiritsby R. J. Hollingdale, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0521319455 (0-521-31945-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Book for Free Spirits'Book summary:This is a translation of both volumes of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human. The first volume appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned his academic life. In 1886 it was republished, incorporating in a second volume two books of aphorisms which Nietzsche had published in the meantime. Subtitled 'A Book for Free Spirits', Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new 'positivism' and scepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. Nearly all the themes of his later work are displayed here with characteristic perceptiveness and honesty, it remains one of the works fundamental for an understanding of his thought. [via]
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Caxton's Malloryby William Matthews, Jamesw SpisakISBN 0520038258 (0-520-03825-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caxton's Mallory'Book summary:Caxton's Malory is the first scholarly edition since the nineteenth century of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Mort D'Arthur as it was printed by William Caxton in 1485. The first volume contains Caxton's text, illustrated with twenty-one beautiful woodcuts from William Copland's edition of 1557. The second volume contains the extensive critical apparatus.[via]More editions of Caxton's Mallory:
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Charlotte and Emily Bronteby Charlotte Bronte, Emily BronteISBN 0517147793 (0-517-14779-3)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte and Emily Bronte'Book summary:Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor by Charlotte Brontë and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë are included in this new addition to the Library of Literary Classics. [via]
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells'Book summary:Great collection of 7 science fiction novels by H.G. Wells... [via]
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Critique of the Power of Judgmentby Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Eric MatthewsISBN 0521348927 (0-521-34892-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critique of the Power of Judgment'Book summary:This entirely new translation of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This volume includes for the first time the first draft of Kant's introduction to the work; the only English edition notes to the many differences between the first (1790) and second (1793) editions of the work; and relevant passages in Kant's anthropology lectures where he elaborated on his aesthetic views. [via]
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Dante's Divine Comedy: 15th-Century Manuscriptby Dante Alighieri, Sergio Samek Ludovici, Nino RavennaISBN 0517282879 (0-517-28287-9)
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The Day the Teacher Went Bananasby James Howe, Lillian HobanISBN 0525441077 (0-525-44107-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Decameronby Giovanni BoccaccioISBN 0520058720 (0-520-05872-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguistsby Thomas E. PayneISBN 0521588057 (0-521-58805-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists'Book summary:This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of the world's many underdocumented languages. It offers readers who work through it one possible outline for a grammatical description, with many questions designed to help them address the key topics. Appendices offer guidance on text and elicited data, and on sample reference grammars that readers might wish to consult. This will be a valuable resource to anyone engaged in linguistic fieldwork. [via]
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik Ibsen, Kenneth McLeish, Mary Rafferty, Judith BaxterISBN 0521483425 (0-521-48342-5)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow. [via]
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Elements of the Philosophy of Rightby Allen W. Wood, H.B. NisbetISBN 0521348889 (0-521-34888-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right'Book summary:This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory, and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different ways, influencing many political movements from far right to far left, and is widely perceived as central to the communitarian tradition in modern ethical, social, and political thought. This edition includes extensive editorial material informing the reader of the historical background of Hegel's text, and explaining his allusions to Roman law and other sources, making use of lecture materials which have only recently become available. The new translation is literal, readable, and consistent, and will be informative and scholarly enough to serve the needs of students and specialists alike. [via]
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Elements of the Philosophy of Rightby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Allen W. Wood, H.B. NisbetISBN 0521344387 (0-521-34438-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right'Book summary:This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory, and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different ways, influencing many political movements from far right to far left, and is widely perceived as central to the communitarian tradition in modern ethical, social, and political thought. This edition includes extensive editorial material informing the reader of the historical background of Hegel's text, and explaining his allusions to Roman law and other sources, making use of lecture materials which have only recently become available. The new translation is literal, readable, and consistent, and will be informative and scholarly enough to serve the needs of students and specialists alike. [via]
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The Federalist: With Letters of Brutusby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, Terence BallISBN 052180650X (0-521-80650-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus'Book summary:The Federalist represents one side of one of the most momentous political debates ever conducted: whether to ratify, or to reject, the newly drafted American constitution. This authoritative new edition presents complete texts for all of the eighty-five Federalist papers, along with the sixteen letters of "Brutus", the unknown New York Antifederalist. Each paper is systematically cross-referenced to the other, and both to the appended Articles of Confederation and U.S. Constitution. Terence Ball's editing skills enhance the accessibility of a classic of political thought in action. [via]
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Girl with a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 052594527X (0-525-94527-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl with a Pearl Earring:
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A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chaptersby Julian Barnes, Ron MiddletonISBN 0521484782 (0-521-48478-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes is edited by Ron Middleton of the University of Reading. [via]
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Human, All-too-humanby R. J. Hollingdale, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard SchachtISBN 0521567041 (0-521-56704-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human, All-too-human'Book summary:This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdale's distinguished translation, together with a new historical introduction by Richard Schacht. Subtitled "A Book for Free Spirits," Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new "positivism" and skepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. Nearly all the themes of his later work are displayed here with characteristic perceptiveness and honesty--not to say suspicion and irony--in language of great brio. It remains one of the fundamental works for an understanding of his thought. [via]
The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, John LancasterISBN 0521639522 (0-521-63952-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Importance of Being Earnest and Other Writingsby Oscar WildeISBN 0517626411 (0-517-62641-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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In Defense of Anarchismby Robert Paul WolffISBN 0520215737 (0-520-21573-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Defense of Anarchism'Book summary:Here with a new preface is Robert Paul Wolff's classic analysis of the foundations of the authority of the state and the problems of political authority and moral autonomy in a democracy. [via]
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plaguesby Paul FarmerISBN 0520229134 (0-520-22913-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues'Book summary:Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering.[via]
Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, determine why some people are sick and others are shielded from risk. Yet this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions--remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them.More editions of Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues:
Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0517118300 (0-517-11830-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Joseph M. GleesonISBN 0517631776 (0-517-63177-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
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Just So Stories for Little Childrenby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0517266555 (0-517-26655-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories for Little Children'Book summary:Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Camel Got His Hump," "The Butterfly That Stamped," and "How the Alphabet Was Made." [via]
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King Henry Vby William Shakespeare, John Dane, Elizabeth Dane, Marilyn BellISBN 0521426154 (0-521-42615-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry V'Book summary:Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, King Henry V has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of Henry V aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed. [via]
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King Henry Vby Andrew GurrISBN 0521612640 (0-521-61264-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry V'Book summary:For this updated edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated war play, Andrew Gurr has added a new section to his introduction which considers recent critical and stage interpretations. He analyzes the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual and demonstrates how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are contradicted by the play's action. Gurr analyzes the play's more controversial sequences in the context of Elizabethan thought, in particular, the studies of the laws and morality of war written in the years before Henry V. An updated reading list completes the edition. First Edition Hb (1992) 0-521-22154-4 First Edition Pb (1992) 0-521-29369-3 [via]
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King Richard IIIby William Shakespeare, Pat Baldwin, Tom BaldwinISBN 0521618738 (0-521-61873-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard III'Book summary:"Now is the winter of our discontent," intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard III, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that "I am determined to prove a villain". Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of Richard III, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - King Richard III: ISBN 0521276322 (0-521-27632-2)
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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandyby Wolfgang IserISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas MaloryISBN 051747977X (0-517-47977-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:An illustrated presentation of the legendary deeds of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table follows Arthur's magical birth and accession to the throne as well as the stories of knights Sir Lancelot, Sir Tristram, and Sir Galahad. [via]
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Looking For Alibrandi: Library Editionby Melina MarchettaISBN 0531301427 (0-531-30142-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking For Alibrandi: Library Edition'Book summary:Seventeen-year-old Josephine Alibrandi is no stranger to conflict. If she's not caught between her strict single mom and her even stricter grandmother, then she's trying to choose between wealthy good boy John Barton and working-class bad boy Joseph Coote. Josephine is always in trouble with the nuns at her Catholic school (who everyone calls "penguins because of them wearing wimples and all that Sound of Music gear") because she fights with native Australian kids over her mixed Australian/Italian heritage. Just when she thinks her situation couldn't possibly get more complicated, her mysterious, long-lost biological father comes back and Josephine must decide if it's worth getting to know this person who abandoned her and her mother. But through it all--including a startling revelation from her grandmother and the suicide of a close friend--Josephine manages to hold on to her sense of humor, as in this reflective moment: "I could have been a model for Hot Pants. Except that when I finally put my glasses on, reality set in. Hot Pants would have to wait."
Award-winning Australian author Melina Marchetta has created a strong and sassy role model in Josephine, whom girls with growing pains on both sides of the Pacific will love. With its accurate and insightful portrayal of a young woman's coming of age, Looking for Alibrandi will have female teens waiting eagerly for Marchetta's next novel. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Luther and Calvin on Secular Authorityby Jean Calvin, Martin Luther, Harro HopflISBN 0521349869 (0-521-34986-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority'Book summary:This volume contains new, unabridged translations of Luther's On Secular Authority and Calvin's On Civil Government. These works represent the authors' attempts to balance their commitments to the maintenance of order in Church and polity on the one hand, and the overriding imperative of uncompromising obedience to the will of God as revealed in Scripture on the other. The book is intended to be readily intelligible to students and nonspecialists, but precise enough for scholars. The introduction relates the works to the thought and activities of their authors, and a glossary, chronology and bibliography are also provided. [via]
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Machine Man and Other Writingsby Ann Thomson, Julien Offray De LA MettrieISBN 0521478499 (0-521-47849-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Machine Man and Other Writings'Book summary:Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709-51 , author of Man a Machine 1747 , was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succès de scandale in his own time. This fully annotated edition presents a new English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works, translated into English for the first time. Ann Thomson's introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism. [via]
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Medeaby Euripides, Donald J. MastronardeISBN 0521643864 (0-521-64386-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:This edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, with commentary designed for university Greek classes, from second-year Greek upward. It helps students experience a classic drama as they work through the process of careful translation and gives them an appreciation of the work's artistry and its relation to its culture and performance tradition. The introduction summarizes interpretive and cultural issues raised by the play and provides background on important aspects of Greek tragedy, including language, style, and metre. [via]
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The Metaphysics of Moralsby Immanuel Kant, Mary Gregor, Roger J. SullivanISBN 0521566738 (0-521-56673-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metaphysics of Morals'Book summary:This is the only complete English translation of Kant's major work in applied moral philosophy in which he deals with the basic principles of rights and of virtues. The Metaphysics of Morals (1797) is comprised of two parts: The Doctrines of Right which deals with the rights that people have or can acquire, and The Doctrine of Virtue which deals with the virtues they ought to acquire. Parts of the book have been translated before but this new edition is the only complete translation of the work. There is a substantial introduction that considers the relation between the two parts of the work, and extensive annotation on the unfamiliar and sometimes difficult vocabulary. [via]
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Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant: An Anthologyby J. B. SchneewindISBN 0521358752 (0-521-35875-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0525463461 (0-525-46346-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Side of the Mountain'Book summary:Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons.
Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain--a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Nietzsche: The Gay Scienceby Bernard Williams, Adrian Del Caro, Josefine NauckhoffISBN 0521636450 (0-521-63645-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nietzsche: The Gay Science'Book summary:Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as "perhaps my most personal book", when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, and the reader will find it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views most central to Nietzsche's own thought and most influential on later thinkers. This volume presents the work in a new translation by Josefine Nauckhoff, with an introduction by Bernard Williams that elucidates the work's main themes and discusses their continuing importance. [via]
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0517606119 (0-517-60611-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...and soft-hearted a mood by the very first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion; and I wish I were a young fellow that I might avail myself on the spot of such a favourable opportunity for doing so, as the present. You are as great a boy as poor Brittles himself, returned Rose, blushing. Well, said the doctor, laughing heartily, that is no very ditficult matter. But to return to this boy: the great point of our agreement is yet to come. He will wake in an hour or so, I dare say; and although I have told that thick-headed constablefellow down stairs that he mustnt be moved or spoken to, on peril of his life, I think we may converse with him without, danger. Now, I make this stipulation---that I shall examine him in your presence, and that if from what he says, we judge, and I can show to the satisfaction of your cool reason, that he is a real and thorough bad one (which is more than possible), he shall be left to his fate, without any further interference on my part, at all events. Oh no, aunt l entreated Rose. Oh yes, aunt! said the doctor. Is it a bargain? _ He cannot be hardened in vice, said Rose; it is impossible. Very good, retorted the doctor; then so much th6 more reason for acceding to my proposition. Finally the treaty was entered into, and the parties thereto sat down to wait with some impatience until Oliver should awake. The patience of the two ladies was destined to undergo a longer trial than Mr. Losberne had led them to expect, for hour alter hour passed on, and still Oliver slumbered heavily. It was evening, indeed, before th_e kind-hearted doctor brought... [via]
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Our Town: A Play in Three Actsby Thornton Niven WilderISBN 0531003159 (0-531-00315-9)
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Philosophy of Lawby Joel Feinberg, Hyman GrossISBN 0534008356 (0-534-00835-6)
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Plato, Symposiumby K.J. DoverISBN 0521295238 (0-521-29523-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato, Symposium'Book summary:Plato's Symposium is the most literary of all his works and one which all students of classics are likely to want to read whether or not they are studying Plato's philosophy. But the reader does need help in appreciating both the artistry and the arguments, and in comprehending the social and cultural background against which the 'praise of love' is delivered. Sir Kenneth Dover provides here a sympathetic and modern edition of the kind that is long overdue. It consists of an introduction, the Greek text accompanied by a very abbreviated critical apparatus, and a commentary on the text which is intended to elucidate the Greek, to make the philosophical argument intelligible, and to relate the content of what is said to the concepts and assumptions of contemporary morality and society. An edition for students of Greek in universities and the upper forms of schools. [via]
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The Prose Eddaby Snorri Sturluson, Jean I. YoungISBN 0520234774 (0-520-23477-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prose Edda'Book summary:Prose Edda is a work without predecessor or parallel. Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe. Prose Edda was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. It is an exposition of the rule of poetic diction with many examples, applications, and retellings of myths and legends. The present selection includes the whole of Gylfaginning (The deluding of Gylfi)--a guide to mythology that forms one of the great storybooks of the Middle Ages--and the longer heroic tales and legends of Skáldskaparmál (Poetic diction). Snorri Sturluson was a master storyteller, and this translation in modern idiom of the inimitable tales of the gods and heroes of the Scandinavian peoples brings them to life again.[via]More editions of The Prose Edda:
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Prose Edda of Snorri Sturlusonby Jean I. YoungISBN 0520012313 (0-520-01231-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson'Book summary:The stirring, bloody, and tragic saga that inspired such artists as Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien
Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok. Its time scale spans the eons from the worlds creation to its violent end. This robust new translation captures the magisterial sweep and startling psychological complexity of the Old Icelandic original. [via]More editions of Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson:
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Prose Edda of Snorri Sturlusonby Snorri Sturlson, Jean Young, Snorri SturlusonISBN 0520012321 (0-520-01232-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson'Book summary:The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Written by Iceland's most versatile literary genius, Snorri was born in western Iceland in 1179, the son of a great chieftain, and early in his career won a reputation at home and in Norway for his poetic talents. Later he traveled to Norway and wrote the lives of the kings: the Helmskringla Saga, Egil's Saga and St. Olaf's Saga, a work unsurpassed in Icelandic prose. The Prose Edda - edda means "the poetic art" - was designed as a handbook for poets to compose in the style of the skalds of the Viking ages. Snorri feared that the traditional techniques, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe [via]
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Rainbow Valleyby L.M. Montgomery, Robert McGinnisISBN 0517101920 (0-517-10192-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow Valley'Book summary:Continuing the saga that began with Anne of Green Gables, a seventh volume introduces Anne and Gilbert's six young children, their fantasy world of imagination, and their adventures with the Meredith children. [via]
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Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writingsby Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood, George Di GiovanniISBN 0521599644 (0-521-59964-4)
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia Woolf, Jenifer SmithISBN 0521485908 (0-521-48590-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism. [via]
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Selected Works of Jack Londonby Jack LondonISBN 0517053594 (0-517-05359-4)
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Shaftesbury : Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Timesby Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Ashley Cooper, Lawrence Klein, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. ClarkeISBN 0521570220 (0-521-57022-0)
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Shaftesbury : Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Timesby Lord Shaftesbury, Lawrence E. Klein, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. ClarkeISBN 0521578922 (0-521-57892-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shaftesbury : Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times'Book summary:Shaftesbury's Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was published in 1711. It ranges widely over ethics, aesthetics, religion, the arts (painting, literature, architecture, gardening), and ancient and modern history, and aims at nothing less than a new ideal of the gentleman. Together with Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Addison and Steele's Spectator, it is a text of fundamental importance for understanding the thought and culture of Enlightenment Europe. This volume presents a new edition of the text together with an introduction, explanatory notes and a guide to further reading. [via]
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Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas Malory, Keith BainesISBN 0517020602 (0-517-02060-2)
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0517101696 (0-517-10169-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Symposiumby Plato, K. J. DoverISBN 0521200814 (0-521-20081-4)
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The Symposium of Platoby Plato, Peter Forster, Tom GriffithISBN 0520066952 (0-520-06695-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Symposium of Plato'Book summary:A superb example of the bookmaker's and translator's art, this new edition of Plato's Symposium exhibits aesthetic, literary, and intellectual excellences rarely found together in a single volume.[via]
Tom Griffith's translation of this foundation work of Western culture is unsurpassed for the balance it achieves between readability and fidelity to Plato's Greek. For felicity of phrasing, freshness, care to match the sense of the Greek rather than its wording, and for its idiomatic rendering of the spoken word, it has no peer.
Originally published in a limited edition with facing Greek and color wood engravings, Griffith's translation is here presented in reduced format that retains the aesthetic quality of the original version at an affordable price.More editions of The Symposium of Plato:
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Symposium of Plato: [Platonos Symposion]by Plato, Tom Griffith, Peter ForsterISBN 0520066944 (0-520-06694-4)
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothingby Judy Blume, Roy DotyISBN 0525469311 (0-525-46931-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing'Book summary:Passed on from babysitters to their young charges, from big sisters to little brothers, and from parents to children, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its cousins (Superfudge, Fudge-a-mania, and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great) have entertained children since they first appeared in the early 1970s. The books follow Peter Hatcher, his little brother Fudgie, baby sister Tootsie, their neighbor Sheila Tubman, various pets, and minor characters through New York City and on treks to suburbs and camps.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is the first of these entertaining yarns. Peter, because he's the oldest, must deal with Fudgie's disgusting cuteness, his constant meddling with Peter's stuff, and other grave offenses, one of which is almost too much to bear. All these incidents are presented with the unfailing ear and big-hearted humor of the masterful Judy Blume. Though some of her books for older kids have aroused controversy, the Hatcher brothers and their adventures remain above the fray, where they belong. (Peter's in fourth grade, so the book is suitable for kids ages 8 and older.) [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Perry Mills, Michael Fynes-Clinton, Rex GibsonISBN 0521425050 (0-521-42505-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:The story of Katherina and her marriage to Petruchio has been popular in the theater for four centuries, but the joke of taming an unruly woman has long been growing increasingly controversial. This edition examines how theater directors and performers have explored the complexities of Katherina's story and that of Christopher Sly, the poor man whose story frames hers. It surveys productions in the English-speaking world, reviewing precise details of the stage action in a social and political context. [via]
The Taming of the Shrewby Ann ThompsonISBN 052129388X (0-521-29388-X)
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Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violenceby Mark JuergensmeyerISBN 0520232062 (0-520-23206-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence'Book summary:Completely revised and updated, this new edition of Terror in the Mind of God incorporates the events of September 11, 2001 into Mark Juergensmeyer's landmark study of religious terrorism. Juergensmeyer explores the 1993 World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, and the killing of abortion clinic doctors in the United States. His personal interviews with 1993 World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, take us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion.[via]More editions of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence:
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To Sir, With Loveby Edward Ricardo BraithwaiteISBN 0515105198 (0-515-10519-8)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Orson Scott CardISBN 0531169634 (0-531-16963-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Weby Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, Gregory ZiboorgISBN 0525470395 (0-525-47039-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We'Book summary:First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless "numbers," the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; indeed, they are hardly aware it ever existed. More than half a century later, We remains a strange and telling tragicomedy of love and death. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.
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The Westing Gameby Ellen RaskinISBN 0525423206 (0-525-42320-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Westing Game'Book summary:For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell.[via]
This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Ellen Raskin has entangled a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. 
The Wheels on the Busby Paul O. ZelinskyISBN 0525446443 (0-525-44644-3)
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White Fangby Jack London, Katherine ApplegateISBN 0531169642 (0-531-16964-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Fang'Book summary:Jack London's classic companion novel to Call of the Wild is now available through Buki Editions! With a fully functioning table of contents. [via]
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Willa Catherby Willa CatherISBN 0517064936 (0-517-06493-6)
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The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare, Susan Snyder, Deborah Curren-aquinoISBN 0521293731 (0-521-29373-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter's Tale'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most haunting and enigmatic late plays, The Winter's Tale is a fine example of Shakespeare's fascination with the dramatic genre of "romance": the portrayal of magical lands, familial conflict and exile, and final reunion and reconciliation. Drawing on Robert Green's story Pandosto, Shakespeare play tells the story of the middle-aged Leontes, king of Sicilia, and his childhood friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. Leontes mistakenly believes that his friend is having an affair with his wife, Hermione. In his jealousy, and consumed by "tremor cordis", he tries to murder Polixenes, who flees, and accuses his wife of adultery. Hermione gives birth to a baby girl, Perdita, who Leontes denounces as illegitimate, and casts her out into the wilderness. Hermione is ultimately proved innocent, but her son, Mamillius, dies of grief. Hermione collapses, apparently dead, and Leontes is left to pick up the tragic consequences of his actions. Time passes, and the action moves to Bohemia, where the lost child Perdita has grown up a shepherdess in the midst of "great creating nature". The final scenes of the play draw towards resolution and reconciliation between Leontes, Hermione and their lost daughter, culminating in one of Shakespeare's most moving final scenes. One of Shakespeare's most consummate plays, The Winter's Tale is a fascinating study of male insecurity and the relations between art and nature. --Jerry Brotton. [via]
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