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Absalom, Absalom!by William FaulknerISBN 0075536579 (0-07-553657-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absalom, Absalom!'Book summary:Read, read, read. Read everythingtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! Youll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, youll find out. If its not, throw it out the window. William Faulkner
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Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkners epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.More editions of Absalom, Absalom!:
All American Girlby Meg CabotISBN 0064472779 (0-06-447277-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snoggingby Louise RennisonISBN 0064472272 (0-06-447227-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging'Book summary:She has a precocious 3-year-old sister who tends to leave wet nappies at the foot of her bed, an insane cat who is prone to leg-shredding "Call of the Wild" episodes, and embarrassing parents who make her want to escape to Stonehenge and dance with the Druids. No wonder 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson laments, "Honestly, what is the point?" A Bridget Jones for the younger set, Georgia records the momentous events of her life--and they are all momentous--in her diary, which serves as a truly hilarious account of what it means to be a modern girl on the cusp of womanhood. No matter that her particular story takes place in England, the account of her experiences rings true across the ocean (and besides, "Georgia's Glossary" swiftly eradicates any language barriers).
The author, Louise Rennison, is a British comedy writer and it shows. Whether Georgia is dealing with wearing a bra ("OK, it's a bit on the loose side and does ride up round my neck if I run for the bus"), pondering kissing and how to know which way to turn your head ("You don't want to be bobbing around like pigeons for hours"), or managing the results of an overzealous eyebrow-plucking episode ("Obviously, now I have to stay in forever"), she always cracks us up. Georgia struggles with the myriad issues facing teen girls--boys, of course being at the forefront--but she does it with such humor and honesty it almost seems like a good time. This refreshingly funny book is ripe for a sequel, which readers will await in droves. (Ages 11 and older). --Brangien Davis [via]
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Applications of Discrete Mathematicsby John G. Michaels, Kenneth H. RosenISBN 0070418233 (0-07-041823-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Applications of Discrete Mathematics'Book summary:Each chapter of this complement to any course in discrete mathematics examines an application to business, computer science, the sciences, or the social sciences. Students work these chapter-length models using basic concepts of combinatorics, graphs, recursion, relations, logic, probability, and finite state machines. [via]
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Artificial Intelligenceby Elaine Rich, Kevin KnightISBN 0070522634 (0-07-052263-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artificial Intelligence'Book summary:Artificial Intelligence is a somewhat dated introduction to the subject. If you are looking for an introduction to core topics in artificial intelligence (AI), such as logic, knowledge representation, and search, this book has something to offer. However, if you want to learn about some of the newer areas of AI, such as genetic algorithms, neural networks, and intelligent agents, you will wish to select a different text. [via]
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0075542714 (0-07-554271-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Bacchaeby Euripides, G.S. KirkISBN 0130552852 (0-13-055285-2)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bacchae'Book summary:Bacchae written by legendary Athenian playwright Euripides is widely considered to be one of the top Greek tragedies of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Bacchae is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Euripides is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Bacchae would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0140089179 (0-14-008917-9)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:'Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten'. "Boy" is a funny, insightful and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors. We discover his experiences of the English public school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer. This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired our most-loved children's writer. [via]
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Chronicles of Chrestomanciby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 006447268X (0-06-447268-X)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 007033739X (0-07-033739-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Darkness at Noonby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0091146100 (0-09-114610-0)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness at Noon'Book summary:This splendid novel is set in the tumultuous Soviet Union of the 1930s during the treason trials. Rubashov, the protagonist and a hero of the revolution, is arrested and jailed for things he has not done, though there is much about the current Soviet state that veered from his ideals as a revolutionary. His investigators, Ivanov and Gletkin, seek a public confession and interrogate him using a number of methods. Through the ordeal, Rubashov reaches an epiphany or two while his interrogators suffer the cruel fate of the Soviet machine. Darkness at Noon succeeds as political/historical novel, but even more so as a refreshing tale of the human spirit. [via]
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Death in Veniceby Thomas MannISBN 0075536692 (0-07-553669-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Discrete Mathematics and Its Applicationsby Kenneth H. RosenISBN 0073229725 (0-07-322972-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discrete Mathematics And Its Applications'Book summary:This text provides a balanced survey of major sub-fields within discrete mathematics. It demonstrates the utility of discrete mathematics in the solutions of real-world problems in diverse areas such as zoology, linguistics and business. Over 200 new problems have been added to this third edition. [via]
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Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College - Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications: ISBN 0072899050 (0-07-289905-0)
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Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications: And Its Applicationsby Kenneth H. RosenISBN 0072880082 (0-07-288008-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications: And Its Applications'Book summary:discrete mathematics and its applications, sixth edition", is intended for one- or two-term introductory discrete mathematics courses taken by students from a wide variety of majors, including computer science, mathematics, and engineering. This renowned best-selling text, which has been used at over 600 institutions around the world, gives a focused introduction to the primary themes in a discrete mathematics course and demonstrates the relevance and practicality of discrete mathematics to a wide variety of real-world applications...from computer science to data networking, to psychology, to chemistry, to engineering, to linguistics, to biology, to business, and to many other important fields [via]
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Discrete Mathematics And Its Applications With Mathzoneby Kenneth H. RosenISBN 0073312711 (0-07-331271-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discrete Mathematics And Its Applications With Mathzone'Book summary:Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Sixth Edition, is intended for one- or two-term introductory discrete mathematics courses taken by students from a wide variety of majors, including computer science, mathematics, and engineering. This renowned best-selling text, which has been used at over 500 institutions around the world, gives a focused introduction to the primary themes in a discrete mathematics course and demonstrates the relevance and practicality of discrete mathematics to a wide variety of real-world applications&from computer science to data networking, to psychology, to chemistry, to engineering, to linguistics, to biology, to business, and to many other important fields. [via]
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Early Writings [of] Karl Marxby Karl MarxISBN 0140216685 (0-14-021668-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Economicsby David K. H. Begg, Stanley Fischer, Rudiger DornbuschISBN 0070841683 (0-07-084168-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Education
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Economicsby Rudiger Dornbusch, Stanley Fischer, D. BeggISBN 0077078314 (0-07-707831-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd
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Electric Circuitsby Susan A Riedel, James William NilssonISBN 0130321206 (0-13-032120-6)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Electric Circuits'Book summary:Electric Circuits, Seventh Edition features a redesigned art program, a new four-color format, and 75% new or revised problems throughout. In the midst of these changes, the book retains the goals that have made it a best-seller: 1) To build an understanding of concepts and ideas explicitly in terms of previous learning; 2) To emphasize the relationship between conceptual understanding and problem solving approaches; 3) To provide readers with a strong foundation of engineering practices. Chapter topics include Circuit Variables; Circuit Elements; Simple Resistive Circuits; Techniques of Circuit Analysis; The Operational Amplifier; Inductors, Capacitors, and Mutual Inductance; Response of First-Order RL and RC Circuits; Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits; Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis; and more. For anyone interested in circuit analysis.
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Electric Circuitsby James W. Nilsson, Susan A RiedelISBN 0131989251 (0-13-198925-1)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Engineering Materials: An Introduction to Their Properties and Applicationsby David R. H Jones, M. F. AshbyISBN 0080261388 (0-08-026138-8)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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Engineering Materials 2: An Introduction to Microstructures, Processing and Designby Michael F. Ashby, David R. H Jones, M. F. AshbyISBN 0080325327 (0-08-032532-7)
Softcover, Butterworth Architecture
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Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States from the Original Text of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madisonby Alexander HamiltonISBN 0075536447 (0-07-553644-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Fifth Businessby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140167943 (0-14-016794-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifth Business'Book summary:The first book of Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy tells the story of three men destined to be crucial players in each others' lives. The story is, in fact, the memoir of Dunstan Ramsay, a long-time boarding-school teacher, set to retire. Written to the headmaster of the school, the memoir intends to disprove the common belief that Ramsay is nothing more than a senile old professor, "doddering into retirement with tears in his eyes and a drop hanging from his nose." The story includes two other main characters, the outcast and eventual circus performer Paul Dempster and socialite Boy Staunton, with his "too glossy perfection."
The story of Ramsay's life begins when he is 10 years old, living in a small Canadian town called Deptford. A snowball thrown by Boy Staunton, intended for Ramsay, hits the pregnant mother of Paul Dempster, forcing her into labour early. She gives birth to a premature and deformed Paul. Ramsay feels responsible for this, and thus begins his guilty friendship with Paul, as well as his grudging friendship with Boy. Eventually, Dunstan Ramsay goes off to fight in the First World War, where he earns a Victoria Cross. He later travels throughout Europe and Mexico to pursue his interest in saints and write several books about them. He even attempts to prove that Paul's mother, whom he had taken a liking to over the years, is in fact a saint. Paul and Boy keep crossing paths with Dunstan, for good and ill, for the rest of his life. This fascinating, absorbing classic of Canadian literature is punctuated with elements of the comic, the supernatural, and the magical (even touching on the occult), while the writing itself is always elegant and at times exquisite. --Mark Frutkin [via]
Goodbye Mr Chipsby HiltonISBN 0133624358 (0-13-362435-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Grail Treeby Jonathan GashISBN 0140230157 (0-14-023015-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Harriet the Spyby Louise FitzhughISBN 0064471543 (0-06-447154-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harriet the Spy'Book summary:More than 30 years before it was made into a movie, Harriet the Spy was a groundbreaking book: its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood problems and emotions changed children's literature forever. Happily, neither Fitzhugh's style has dated nor her themes become obsolete, and it is still recognized as one of the finest children's novels around. The fascinating story centres around an intensely curious and intelligent girl, Harriet, who literally spies on people and writes about them in her secret notebook, trying to make sense of life's absurdities. When her classmates find her notebook and read her painfully blunt comments about them, Harriet finds herself a lonely outcast. Fitzhugh's writing is astonishingly vivid, real and engaging, and Harriet, by no means a typical, lovable heroine, is one of literature's most unforgettable characters. (Ages 8 to 12) [via]
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A History of the English Languageby Albert C. Baugh, Thomas CableISBN 0130151661 (0-13-015166-1)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the English Language'Book summary:The standard work on the history of the English language, written primarily for university students. [via]
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If This Is a Man and the Truce: And, the Truceby Primo LeviISBN 0140047239 (0-14-004723-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Introduction to Algorithmsby Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford SteinISBN 0070131511 (0-07-013151-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Algorithms'Book summary:Written by top researchers, this text blends theory and practice. It covers the modern topics of parallel algorithms, concurrency and recurrency. A McGraw-Hill/MIT Press collaboration, the text is designed for both the instructor and the student. It offers a flexible organization with self-contained chapters, and it provides an introduction to the necessary mathematical analysis. Introduction to Algorithms contains sections that gently introduce mathematical techniques for students who may need help. This material takes students at an elementary level of mathematical sophistication and raises them to a level allowing them to solve algorithmic problems. Simple, easy-to-do exercises, as well as more thoughtful, step-by-step case-generated problems are included. The book features standard analytic notation and includes trimmed-down, easy-to-read pseudocode. [via]
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Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead George, John SchoenherrISBN 0064471462 (0-06-447146-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julie of the Wolves'Book summary:Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and unhappily married, Miyax runs away from her husband's parents' home, hoping to reach San Francisco and her pen pal. But she becomes lost in the vast Alaskan tundra, with no food, no shelter, and no idea which is the way to safety. Now, more than ever, she must look hard at who she really is. Is she Miyax, Eskimo girl of the old ways? Or is she Julie (her "gussak"-white people-name), the modernized teenager who must mock the traditional customs? And when a pack of wolves begins to accept her into their community, Miyax must learn to think like a wolf as well. If she trusts her Eskimo instincts, will she stand a chance of surviving? John Schoenherr's line drawings suggest rather than tell about the compelling experiences of a girl searching for answers in a bleak landscape that at first glance would seem to hold nothing. Fans of Jean Craighead George's stunning, Newberry Medal-winning coming-of-age story won't want to miss Julie (1994) and Julie's Wolf Pack (1998). (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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July's Peopleby Nadine GordimerISBN 0140061401 (0-14-006140-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'July's People'Book summary:Not all whites in South Africa are outright racists. Some, like Bam and Maureen Smales in Nadine Gordimer's thrilling and powerful novel July's People, are sensitive to the plights of blacks during the apartheid state. So imagine their quandary when the blacks stage a full-scale revolution that sends the Smaleses scampering into isolation. The premise of the book is expertly crafted; it speaks much about the confusing state of affairs of South Africa and serves as the backbone for a terrific adventure. [via]
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Peter LeviISBN 0140183515 (0-14-018351-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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Karl Marx Early Writingsby Karl MarxISBN 0070406715 (0-07-040671-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungasby Louise RennisonISBN 0064473627 (0-06-447362-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas'Book summary:Desperate for further, further confessions of the hilarious protagonist of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God? You're in luck! Just in the nick of time, Georgia Nicolson is back, regaling her reading audience with the trials and tribulations of life as a British teen. Sure, Georgia is thrilled to still be the girlfriend of the Sex God. And yet, Dave the Laugh (her "red herring" ex-beau) isn't looking so bad himself these days. Meanwhile, as our heroine is updating her 1-to-10 snogging scale (6-1/4 is lip nibbling, otherwise known in Georgia-speak as "nip libbling"), her huge misbehaving cat, Angus, is on the verge of a trip to the vet to have his "chimney swept" in an effort to tone down his passion for the neighboring sex kitten, Naomi.
Louise Rennison's outrageously funny series, written in minute-by-minute diary form, perfectly captures the agonizing je ne sais quoi of adolescence in all its schizophrenic glory and comes complete with glossary for Georgia's oh-so-dim American chums. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas: Further, Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolsonby Louise RennisonISBN 0066236959 (0-06-623695-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The irrepressible heroine of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging is back, and funnier than ever! Georgia has finally landed Robbie the Sex God, but he's never around, and Georgia's ex, Dave the Laugh, is starting to look quite dreamy. Strangely, so does just about every other guy Georgia meets, even the new French teacher.
In this third installment of Georgia's hilarious confessions, Georgia's "red bottomosity" is out of control! Whatever will happen next?
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. BraddonISBN 0140161856 (0-14-016185-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Light in the Atticby Shel SilversteinISBN 0066236177 (0-06-623617-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Light in the Attic'Book summary:Last night while I lay thinking here
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic is now available in a special edition containing the classic hardcover book and a CD of highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album.
Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.
From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.
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Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behaviorby Donald O. CaseISBN 0123694302 (0-12-369430-2)
Hardcover, Emerald Group Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior'Book summary:"Looking for Information" explores human information seeking and use. It provides examples of methods, models and theories used in information behavior research, and reviews more than four decades of research on the topic. The book should prove useful for scholars in related fields, but also for students at the graduate and advanced undergraduate levels. It is intended for use not only in information studies and communication, but also in the disciplines of education, management, business, medicine, nursing, public health, and social work. This second editon of "Looking for Information" reflects a vastly increased literature on the topic of information behavior.Among the additions are over 400 new citations to relevant works, most of which appeared between March, 2002, and January, 2006. Many new studies are described in the section reviewing research findings (Chapters Eleven and Twelve), Chapter Nines examples of methods, and a widely expanded discussion of theories applied in information behavior research (Chapter Seven). This title reviews over 1,100 works - 60 per cent more than the first edition. It adds many new studies conducted from 2002 to 2006. It provides expanded coverage of models and theories of information behavior. It includes many new examples of occupations and roles - the contexts of information seeking. [via]
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Love Lies Bleedingby Edmund CrispinISBN 0140009744 (0-14-000974-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Lucky Jimby Kingsley AmisISBN 0140186301 (0-14-018630-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky Jim'Book summary:Although Kingsley Amis's acid satire of postwar British academic life has lost some of its bite in the four decades since it was published, it's still a rewarding read. And there's no denying how big an impact it had back then--Lucky Jim could be considered the first shot in the Oxbridge salvo that brought us Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week That Was, and so much more.
In Lucky Jim, Amis introduces us to Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer at a British college who spends his days fending off the legions of malevolent twits that populate the school. His job is in constant danger, often for good reason. Lucky Jim hits the heights whenever Dixon tries to keep a preposterous situation from spinning out of control, which is every three pages or so. The final example of this--a lecture spewed by a hideously pickled Dixon--is a chapter's worth of comic nirvana. The book is not politically correct (Amis wasn't either), but take it for what it is, and you won't be disappointed. [via]
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Macroeconomicsby Rudiger Dornbusch, Stanley Fischer, Richard StartzISBN 0072314850 (0-07-231485-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Education
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Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - Macroeconomics: ISBN 0070177767 (0-07-017776-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - Macroeconomics: ISBN 0070177872 (0-07-017787-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill - Macroeconomics: ISBN 0070178445 (0-07-017844-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College - Macroeconomics: ISBN 0072314850 (0-07-231485-0)
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Macroeconomicsby Richard Startz, Rudiger Dornbusch, Stanley FischerISBN 0070179859 (0-07-017985-9)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Macroeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policiesby Stanley L. Brue, Campbell McConnellISBN 007045521X (0-07-045521-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Macroeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policiesby Campbell McConnellISBN 0070468192 (0-07-046819-2)
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The Magician's Nephewby C. S. Lewis, Pauline BaynesISBN 0064471101 (0-06-447110-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magician's Nephew'Book summary:This large, deluxe hardcover edition of the first title in the classic Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician's Nephew, is a gorgeous introduction to the magical land of Narnia. The many readers who discovered C.S. Lewis's Chronicles through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will be delighted to find that the next volume in the series is actually the first in the sequence--and a step back in time. In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series.
Rich, heavy pages, a gold-embossed cover, and Pauline Baynes's original illustrations (hand-colored by the illustrator herself 40 years later) make this special edition of a classic a bona fide treasure. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigueby Norman E. DowlingISBN 013905720X (0-13-905720-X)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Mike and Psmithby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140124470 (0-14-012447-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mike at Wrykynby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140124543 (0-14-012454-3)
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 0140187758 (0-14-018775-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0072434236 (0-07-243423-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Plagueby Albert Camus, Stuart GilbertISBN 0075536498 (0-07-553649-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plague'Book summary:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. [via]
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The Portable Cervantesby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Samuel PutnamISBN 0140150579 (0-14-015057-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Cervantes'Book summary:[via]Contains Don Quixote, in Samuel Putnam's acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two 'Exemplary Novels, 'Rinconete and Cortadillo' and 'Man of Glass'; and 'Foot in the Stirrup,' Cervantes's extraordinary farewell to life from The Troubles of Persiles and Sigismunda.
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0075536374 (0-07-553637-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.
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The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James' novels, it is set mostly in Europe, notably England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early phase of writing, this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal, and sexuality.
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The Practice of Philosophy: A Handbook for Beginnersby Jay F. RosenbergISBN 0132308487 (0-13-230848-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Princess in Loveby Meg CabotISBN 0064472809 (0-06-447280-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess in Love'Book summary:It would seem that 14-year-old Mia Thermopolis ("five foot nine inches tall, with no visible breasts, feet the size of snowshoes") has the kind of life every Manhattan teenager could only dream of: She is, in her spare time, the princess of the European country of Genovia. Alas, the Royal Privilege is more like a Predicament. Not only does she have to endure daily princess lessons from her critical Grandmère ("It isn't as if I'm going to show up at the castle and start hurling olives at the ladies-in-waiting"), but her new stepfather is also her algebra teacher, her mother is pregnant and vomiting, she doesn't like her boyfriend very much, and she's convinced the real love of her life--her best friend's older brother--thinks of her as a kid.
Written in diary form like Louise Rennison's award-winning Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, Meg Cabot's endearing and often hilarious novel Princess in Love--third in the series after The Princess Diaries and Princess in the Spotlight--is sure to appeal to teen readers who will be able to relate to Mia--a young woman who would like people to know that "behind this mutant facade beats the heart of a person who is striving, just like everybody else in this world, to find self-actualization." (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Princess in the Spotlightby Meg CabotISBN 0064472795 (0-06-447279-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess in the Spotlight'Book summary:Fifteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis, the witty, lovable star of Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries, has had it with princess lessons, also known as torture sessions: "Do they really think anyone in Genovia cares whether I know how to use a fish fork? Or if I can sit down without getting wrinkles in the back of my skirt? Or if I know how to say 'thank you' in Swahili? Shouldn't my future countrymen be more concerned with my views on the environment? And gun control? And overpopulation?" To make matters worse, she's getting these lessons from Grandmère, a rather judgmental woman who dresses her pet in chinchilla bolero jackets and has eyeliner permanently tattooed on her eyelids. Princess in the Spotlight further records Mia's path to princessdom: her artist mother's relationship with her algebra teacher (how awkward), her forced television interview, broadcast to all of America (how humiliating), and her crush on her best friend Lilly's brother Michael (how excruciating). The result is another thoroughly entertaining diary of a very human, very self-deprecating, very unprincesslike princess. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0064471497 (0-06-447149-7)
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The Silver Chairby C. S. Lewis, Pauline BaynesISBN 0064471098 (0-06-447109-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Society: The Basicsby John J. MacionisISBN 0132284901 (0-13-228490-1)
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, Monica M. Elbert, Donald B. GibsonISBN 014018998X (0-14-018998-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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The Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 0075536668 (0-07-553666-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound and the Fury'Book summary:The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family.
If Benjy's section is the most daringly experimental, Jason's is the most harrowing. "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say," he begins, lacing into Caddy's illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character.
Notoriously "difficult," The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkner's more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis:
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis' voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo.
What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secures his place in what Edmund Wilson called "the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust." --David Laskin [via]More editions of The Sound and the Fury:
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Tales of a 4th Grade Nothingby Ian SerraillierISBN 0099504014 (0-09-950401-4)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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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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To Sir, With Loveby Edward Ricardo BraithwaiteISBN 0139230378 (0-13-923037-8)
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Weby Clarence Brown, Evgenii Ivanovich ZamiatinISBN 0140185852 (0-14-018585-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Wheelock's Latinby Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LafleurISBN 0064671798 (0-06-467179-8)
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Wheelock's Latin Grammarby Frederic M. WheelockISBN 0064671445 (0-06-467144-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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White Noiseby Don DelilloISBN 0140077022 (0-14-007702-2)
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Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0072435194 (0-07-243519-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 014006690X (0-14-006690-X)
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World of Wondersby Robertson DaviesISBN 0140043896 (0-14-004389-6)
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