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Africa : A Biography of the Continentby John ReaderISBN 0679409793 (0-679-40979-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa : A Biography of the Continent'Book summary:From the primeval cataclysms that formed the continent to the civil wars and genocide that ravage it today--a work of startling grandeur and scope that provides a remarkable panoramic history of Africa, by a deeply intelligent writer who has spent most of his adult life there.
We all originated in Africa, and no matter what our race, our most ancient relationship is with that continent. Reader tells the story of our earliest ancestors' adaptation to Africa's ferocious obstacles of jungle, river, and desert, and of how its unique array of animals, plants, viruses, and parasites has over millions of years helped and hindered human progress to a degree unknown anywhere else on Earth.
Illustrated with many of the author's own beautiful photographs, which capture the staggering diversity of human experience in every part of the continent--from the inland estuaries of the Niger and the rain forests of the Equator, to the deserts of the north and the high veld of the south--this book weaves together into a richly fluent narrative the rise and fall of ancient civilizations, the changing patterns of indigenous life over the millennia, the complex history of slavery, the devastating impact of European settlers, and the fragile reemergence of independent nations. John Reader has given us an extraordinary biography of an infinitely fascinating continent. [via]More editions of Africa : A Biography of the Continent:
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The Age of Empire 1875-1914by Eric HobsbawmISBN 0679721754 (0-679-72175-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The American Heart Association Cookbookby Mary Winston, American Heart Association, Ruthe EshlemanISBN 0679505822 (0-679-50582-2)
Hardcover, D. McKay Co
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The American Heart Association Cookbook: Recipes Selected, Compiled, and Tested under the Direction of Ruthe Eshleman and Mary Winston ; Illustrations by Tonia Hampson and Lauren Jarrettby Mary Winston, American Heart Association, Ruthe EshlemanISBN 0679509038 (0-679-50903-8)
Hardcover, D. McKay
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The American Heart Association Cookbook: Recipes Selected, Compiled, and Tested under the Direction of Ruthe Eshleman and Mary Winston ; Ill by Tonia Hampson and Lauren Jarrettby Mary Winston, American Heart Association, Ruthe EshlemanISBN 067950902X (0-679-50902-X)
Hardcover, David McKay Co
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Ancestors: The Search for Our Human Originsby Donald E. JohansonISBN 0679420606 (0-679-42060-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0679420398 (0-679-42039-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Asphalt: Science And Technologyby E. J. BarthISBN 0677000405 (0-677-00040-5)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Basic Beekeeping and Honey Bookby Louise G. Hanson, Lily A. DavisISBN 0679507469 (0-679-50746-9)
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The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Loveby Carol GilliganISBN 0679440372 (0-679-44037-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Blood : An Epic History of Medicine and Commerceby Douglas StarrISBN 067941875X (0-679-41875-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood : An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce'Book summary:Don't faint! Blood may be a highly charged substance, symbolic of our spirit and essential for life, but we can gain much from reflecting on its power over us. Science journalist Douglas Starr has examined the history of blood's medical uses, and his report is at once intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce covers the late 17th century to the present, detailing experiments with animal blood (one violent madman was briefly calmed by infused calf's blood), the long ban on transfusions, direct artery-to-vein suture between donor and recipient, and today's global blood-banking industry. It's a great story that shows the long climb from great risk and heroism to relative safety.
Our greatest stumble during this climb--the AIDS crisis of the 1980s--is the meat of the book. How could it have happened? Why were so many people given contaminated blood products after clear warnings about the risks of infection? Starr is unafraid to name names and lay bare the political and financial decisions that condemned so many thousands of hemophiliacs and surgical patients to early deaths. Those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it; Starr aims to help us keep the blood off of our hands. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Book of the Spiderby Paul HillyardISBN 0679408819 (0-679-40881-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Bulfinch's Mythology : The Age of Fable, the Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagneby Thomas BulfinchISBN 0679600469 (0-679-60046-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulfinch's Mythology : The Age of Fable, the Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne'Book summary:For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known.
The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. He provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus; the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea; the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas; the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor; and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood.
The tales are eminently readable. As Bulfinch wrote, "Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. . . . Our book is an attempt to solve this problem, by telling the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement."
Thomas Bulfinch, in his day job, was a clerk in the Merchant's Bank of Boston, an undemanding position that afforded him ample leisure time in which to pursue his other interests. In addition to serving as secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History, he thoroughly researched the myths and legends and copiously cross-referenced them with literature and art. As such, the myths are an indispensable guide to the cultural values of the nineteenth century; however, it is the vigor of the stories themselves that returns generation after generation to Bulfinch.
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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, U.F.O.s and the Conference at M.I.T.by C. D. BryanISBN 0679429751 (0-679-42975-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Cobra Eventby Richard PrestonISBN 0679457143 (0-679-45714-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cobra Event'Book summary:In New York City in the late '90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she's severely disoriented. Within seconds, it seems, she's in convulsions and, most bizarrely, can't stop biting herself. All the reader can do is hope she'll die quickly, but Kate Moran's body still has a few more disgusting turns to undergo, and Richard Preston--a Jacobean master of ceremonies par excellence--takes us through them in bizarre and bloody detail.
Clearly, whatever Kate had was a head cold with a scientific vengeance. Preston's heroine, Alice Austen, a doctor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, realizes--in the first of several gripping autopsy scenes--that the girl's nervous system had been virtually destroyed. So far, only one other person is known to have died in the same way, but he was a homeless man. Austen must connect the two cases, seemingly linked only by the subway, before the media gets hold of them and drums up a paranoia-fest--and before the virus's creator can kill again.
The Cobra Event is itself a paranoia-fest, a provocative thriller that makes you wonder exactly how much bioterrorism is taking place in the real world. Preston, best known for his terrifying chronicle of the Ebola virus, The Hot Zone, and other impeccably researched nonfictions, is not content to create fast-paced nightmarish scenes. His novel is instead a complex morality tale anchored in uncomfortable fact. Preston is keen to convey the "invisible history" of bioweapons engineering and, equally, to show the unsung heroism of his scientific detectives (along with that of the nurses and technicians who literally sacrifice their lives for medicine). Like their creator, these characters are not without a sense of humor. One calls the manmade virus "the ultimate head cold." Readers will never forget literally dozens of scenes and will never again see the subway, rodents, autopsy knives, and--above all--runny noses in the same light. [via]
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The Company of Wolvesby Peter SteinhartISBN 0679418814 (0-679-41881-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches: The Riddles of Cultureby Marvin HarrisISBN 0679724680 (0-679-72468-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, W. J. LeatherbarrowISBN 0679420290 (0-679-42029-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Crime and Punishmentby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679405577 (0-679-40557-7)
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A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fateby Marc ReisnerISBN 0679420118 (0-679-42011-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate'Book summary:In A Dangerous Place, Marc Reisner, the author of Cadillac Desert, the classic history of the American West and its fatal dependence on water, returns to the subject that never ceased to seduce him: California.
Writing with his signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Reisner leads us through Californias improbable history and rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the achievement of this, the last great desert civilization, hinges on Californias denial of its own inescapable fate. Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, mere prologues to a future cataclysm that will result in destruction of such magnitude that the only recourse will be to rebuild from the ground up. Reisner concludes A Dangerous Place with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of such a disaster and its horrifying aftereffects. [via]More editions of A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate:
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Darkness Visibleby William StyronISBN 0679643524 (0-679-64352-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Mythby Gar Alperovitz, Sanho Tree, Edward R. Winstead, Kathryn C. Morris, David J. WilliamsISBN 0679443312 (0-679-44331-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasuresby Anne RaverISBN 0679434836 (0-679-43483-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Discovering Dinosaurs: In the American Museum of Natural Historyby Lowell Dingus, Eugene Gaffney, Mark A. NorellISBN 0679433864 (0-679-43386-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Doctors: The Biography of Medicineby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0679722157 (0-679-72215-7)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0679405380 (0-679-40538-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agricultureby Craig CanineISBN 0679412727 (0-679-41272-7)
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Evolution Man or, How I Ate My Fatherby Roy LewisISBN 0679427279 (0-679-42727-9)
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Ficcionesby Jorge Luis Borges, John SturrockISBN 0679422994 (0-679-42299-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ficciones'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
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Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Becomeby Carl Ransom RogersISBN 0675095190 (0-675-09519-0)
Hardcover, C. E. Merrill Pub Co
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Freedom to Learn for the 80'sby Carl Ransom RogersISBN 0675200121 (0-675-20012-1)
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The Great Deep : The Sea and Its Thresholdsby James Hamilton-PatersonISBN 0679405968 (0-679-40596-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Human Geneticsby Thomas Robert Mertens, Albert McCombs WinchesterISBN 0675200083 (0-675-20008-3)
Softcover, C. E. Merrill Pub Co
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Imagining Atlantisby Richard EllisISBN 0679446028 (0-679-44602-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0679642617 (0-679-64261-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times
In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture.
"If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-Tribune
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Introduction to Aristotleby Richard P. McKeon, AristotleISBN 0679600272 (0-679-60027-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Introduction to Systems Philosophy - Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thoughtby Ervin LaszloISBN 067703850X (0-677-03850-X)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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Introductory Microbiologyby Fred RossISBN 0675204607 (0-675-20460-7)
Hardcover, C.E. Merrill Pub Co
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John James Audubon: The Watercolors for the Birds of Americaby John James Audubon, Annette Blaugrund, Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Carol A. Slatkin, Reba FishmanISBN 0679420592 (0-679-42059-2)
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John Von Neumann : The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and Much Moreby Norman MacraeISBN 0679413081 (0-679-41308-1)
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Learn Yoga in a Weekendby Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center StaffISBN 0679427511 (0-679-42751-1)
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0676978991 (0-676-97899-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Serious novels about young boys being drawn closer to God while trapped on lifeboats with dangerous wild animals ought to be impossible. Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, proves they're not. Its plot stretches the limits of credibility into new and exciting shapes, and the fact that Martel has made his materials into an enchanting story is almost unbelievable. Martel's Pi is Piscine Molitor Patel, a boy from Pondicherry, one of the few Indian towns to be colonized by France. Pi is an intelligent, unusual child: he has a scientific turn of mind but is also a practising Hindu, Moslem, and Christian. Pi's family runs a large zoo, but they decide to sell their animals to zoos in the United States and emigrate to Canada. Crossing the Pacific (with their animals), they're shipwrecked halfway between China and Midway. Pi survives, only to find himself sharing a lifeboat with an injured zebra, a spotted hyena, an orangutan, and Richard Parker--an immense Bengal tiger.
Most of these animals are doomed, but Pi and Richard Parker cling to life, establishing a tacit order on the lifeboat. Martel handles this part of the story perfectly: one would expect Life of Pi to become cute, or perhaps preachy, but it is neither. Life on the boat proceeds in strict accordance with the rules of ecology and territorialism, and the interdependence of the passengers is both believable and absorbing. Life of Pi is a superb novel, both for its story and for its rich examinations of religion, isolation, and love. If this is an indication of what is to come, we can expect great things from Yann Martel. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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The Life of Samuel Johnsonby James BoswellISBN 0679417176 (0-679-41717-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'Book summary:James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson, for example, memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in sonorous, balanced sentences. Early on in his massive Life, he puts all manner of ideas into our heads with his boobish attempts to clear the youthful Johnson of potential impropriety: "His juvenile attachments to the fair sex were, however, very transient; and it is certain that he formed no criminal connection whatsoever." And while it's often tempting to ignore Boswell's more personal intrusions and delight solely in the melancholic master's words and deeds, there are suchdelightful admissions as, "I was at this time so occupied, shall I call it? or so dissipated, by the amusements of London that our next meeting was not till Saturday, June 25..."
Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. On April 20, 1764, for example, he declared, "I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits." Many of the quotes Boswell includes are a sort of greatest hits: Johnson's definitions of oats and lexicographer, his love for his cat Hodge, as well as thousands of bon, and mal, mots. ("Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.") But there are also many unfamiliar pleasures--Boswell's accounts of Johnson's literary industry, including the Dictionary, The Rambler, and Lives of the Poets; Johnson's singular loathing for Scotland and France; and the surprising hints of revelry. Awakened at 3 AM by friends, he greets them with, "What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you." This at age 42. Johnson's final years were marked by pain and loneliness but certainly no loss of wit. [via]
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Limitations of Scienceby J. W. SullivanISBN 067803172X (0-678-03172-X)
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 067972110X (0-679-72110-X)
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Man Who Walked Through Timeby Colin FletcherISBN 0679723064 (0-679-72306-4)
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Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Mediaby Edward S. Herman, Noam ChomskyISBN 0679720340 (0-679-72034-0)
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Maya, the Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilizationby Charles GallenkampISBN 0679504699 (0-679-50469-9)
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Mental Retardationby James R. Patton, James S. Payne, Mary Beirne-SmithISBN 0675204836 (0-675-20483-6)
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Mooby Jane SmileyISBN 0679420231 (0-679-42023-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moo'Book summary:"DELECTABLY ENTERTAINING. . . . An uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest."
--The New York Times
Nestled in the heart of the Midwest, amid cow pastures and waving fields of grain, lies Moo University, a distinguished institution devoted to the art and science of agriculture. Here, among an atmosphere rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upmanship, Chairman X of the Horticulture Department harbors a secret fantasy to kill the dean; Mrs. Walker, the provost's right hand and campus information queen, knows where all the bodies are buried; Timothy Nonahan, associate professor of English, advocates eavesdropping for his creative writing assignments; and Bob Carlson, a sophomore, feeds and maintains his only friend: a hog named Earl Butz. In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, offers us a wickedly funny comedy that is also a darkly poignant slice of life.
"FAST, HILARIOUS, AND HEARTBREAKING . . . Not for a minute does Moo lose its perfect satiric pitch or its pacing. . . . Don't skip a page, don't skip a paragraph. It's going to be on the final."
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"SMART, IRREVERENT, AND WICKEDLY TENDER . . . Moo suggests a mix of Tom Wolfe's wit and John Updike's satiny reach . . . Engaging."
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"ENTERTAINING . . . Displays a wicked wit and an unerring eye for American foibles . . . Stuffed with memorable characters, sparkling with deliciously acid humor, Moo is a rare bird in today's literary menagerie: a great read that also makes you think."
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Floridaby National Audubon Society, Peter AldenISBN 067944677X (0-679-44677-X)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Tropical Marine Fishes: Of the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas, and Bermudaby National Audubon Society, C. Lavett SmithISBN 067944601X (0-679-44601-X)
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Natural Affairs : A Botanist Looks at the Attachments Between Plants and Peopleby Peter BernhardtISBN 0679413162 (0-679-41316-2)
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The Natures of John and William Bartram : Two Pioneering Naturalists, Father and Son, in the Wilderness of Eighteenth-Century Americaby Thomas P. SlaughterISBN 0679430458 (0-679-43045-8)
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Speciesby Charles C. Mann, Mark L. PlummerISBN 0679420029 (0-679-42002-9)
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Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatryby T. M. LuhrmannISBN 0679421912 (0-679-42191-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry'Book summary:Is the fight between cures worse than the disease? The fairly comfortable truce between psychotherapy and drug treatment for mental illness started eroding a few years ago, when the latter's bottom-line efficiency made it the preferred option for HMOs and many other health care providers. The often-sharp division between these two methods is highlighted in Of Two Minds, an insightful anthropological assessment of psychiatric training in America by University of California-San Diego's T.M. Luhrmann. She studied with psychiatrists in training, visited inpatient and outpatient facilities, and interviewed scores of doctors and patients to reveal the craft of a strange and misunderstood profession. Neither opponents nor defenders of the mental health establishment will find unqualified support from the author's careful evaluation. While she states from experience that she believes mental illness is real and in many cases of biological origin, she also despairs at the divide between research and treatment.
Luhrmann is strongly sympathetic with her subjects, whether physicians, patients, or instructors. She paints a portrait of harrowing training for young doctors and hellish experiences before, during, and after treatment for those seeking relief. She does find much to recommend both drug and talk therapies, though current research suggests that combining them is more effective for more patients than either one alone. In closing, Luhrmann warns that we are in danger of dehumanizing the mentally ill by emphasizing cost-effective pharmaceutical management of symptoms over interpersonal relationships. Of Two Minds has the depth and complexity necessary to match its subject and the warmth to reach its readers. It's essential reading for anyone involved or interested in mental health. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Physical Geologyby Robert J. FosterISBN 0675087767 (0-675-08776-7)
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The Pill: A Biography of the Drug That Changed the Worldby Bernard AsbellISBN 0679411003 (0-679-41100-3)
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A Place of My Own : The Education of an Amateur Builderby Michael PollanISBN 0679415327 (0-679-41532-7)
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Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, John CiardiISBN 0679602100 (0-679-60210-0)
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Purgatoryby Anthony M. Esolen, Dante, Gustave DoreISBN 0679642684 (0-679-64268-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatory'Book summary:A brilliant new translation of the centerpiece of The Divine Comedy
Purgatory, the mountain that straightens souls made crooked by the world, is Dantes single most conceptually brilliant creation. Anthony Esolens vivid and innovative new rendering unearths Dantes own voice with unprecedented vigor, accuracy, and a masterly use of English meter. It will set the standard for years to come.
Esolens Introduction incisively explores Dantes theological universe: the nature of Purgatory, how Dante came to invent it, and how Purgatory is finally about restoration, liberation, and friendship. Special features, from an appendix that reproduces key sources to extensive explanatory notes, make this a particularly illuminating edition for both expert and newcomer. [via]More editions of Purgatory:
Random House Atlas of the Oceansby Jacques CousteauISBN 0679408304 (0-679-40830-4)
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Random House Compact Unabridged DictionaryISBN 0679449914 (0-679-44991-4)
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Find This BookBook summary:ere is the only unabridged dictionary revised in 1996 and the only one packaged with a CD-ROM. Without compromising content, this incredibly comprehensive resource--over 315,000 entries--is now available in a smaller, more manageale size and as a CD-ROM. National ads, media. [via]
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Random House Webster's College DictionaryISBN 067940130X (0-679-40130-X)
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary: IndexedISBN 0679455701 (0-679-45570-1)
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Find This BookBook summary:Random House's 1997 college edition, thoroughly modern and inexpensive, is as current as dictionaries get, including '90s lingo (such as "carjacking," "Ebonics," "lap dance," "Prozac," and "Web site") in their 1500-plus pages and 160,000-plus entries. Their definitions are up-to-date, too, giving the most common meanings first, with less emphasis devoted to etymology, and they have a handy appendix featuring foreign alphabets, writers' guides, holidays, state capitals, books of the Bible, world maps, proofreader's marks, metric equivalents, and the periodic table. With festive red letter tabs and more than 800 illustrations, it's attractive as well as practical. [via]
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Red-Tails in Love : PALE MALE's STORY--A True Wildlife Drama in Central Parkby Marie WinnISBN 0679439978 (0-679-43997-8)
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The Republicby Plato, A.D. LindsayISBN 0679413308 (0-679-41330-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent European thinking about these subjects owes its character, directly or indirectly, to this most famous (and most accessible) of the Platonic dialogues. Although he describes a society that looks to some like the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, in the course of his description Plato raises enduringly relevant questions about politics, art, education, and the general conduct of life.Translated by A. D. Lindsay [via]
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Satan, Cantor, and Infinity and Other Mind-Boggling Puzzlesby Raymond M. SmullyanISBN 0679406883 (0-679-40688-3)
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 0679417230 (0-679-41723-0)
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The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, it set the terms by which subsequent works in its genre were created. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of that region's moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for the guilty and innocent alike.
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North Americaby David Allen SibleyISBN 067945120X (0-679-45120-X)
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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviorby David Sibley, Chris Elphick, John B. DunningISBN 0679451234 (0-679-45123-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior'Book summary:From the creator of the seminal field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, comes another indispensable book for bird watchers. This veritable bible to the world of birds is the collaborative effort of 48 expert birders and biologists, who combine scientific accuracy and detail with an easily readable and well-organized format. How does a tiny chickadee survive subzero temperatures? How do flocks of birds synchronize their flights? How can an albatross cross miles of ocean without flapping its wings? Which bird brains are actually intelligent? It's all here in essays giving an overview of avian evolution, biology, and the aerodynamics of flight and in chapters devoted to the 80 bird families of North America, each one detailing taxonomy, habitats, feeding, breeding, vocalizations, migrations, and more. Concerned about declining populations, Sibley also discusses the conservation status of each species and the factors that threaten them. This fascinating source of information is destined to be a well-thumbed companion. -- Lesley Reed [via]
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The Smithsonian : 150 Years of Adventure, Discovery, and Wonderby James ConawayISBN 0679441751 (0-679-44175-1)
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Space Physics and Space Astronomyby Michael D. PapagiannisISBN 0677040008 (0-677-04000-8)
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The Sparrow : A Novelby Mary Doria RussellISBN 0679451501 (0-679-45150-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sparrow : A Novel'Book summary:In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human." When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong... Words like "provocative" and "compelling" will come to mind as you read this shocking novel about first contact with a race that creates music akin to both poetry and prayer. [via]
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human Worldby David AbramISBN 067943819X (0-679-43819-X)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0679420738 (0-679-42073-8)
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Teaching Modern Scienceby Arthur A. Carin, Robert B. SundISBN 0675092353 (0-675-09235-3)
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The Trail Home: Essaysby John DanielISBN 0679412093 (0-679-41209-3)
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An Unquiet Mindby Kay R. JamisonISBN 0679443746 (0-679-44374-6)
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 0679410767 (0-679-41076-7)
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Varieties of Religious Experienceby William JamesISBN 0679640118 (0-679-64011-8)
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When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
Waves, Wind, and Weather: Selected from American Practical Navigatorby Nathaniel BowditchISBN 0679507531 (0-679-50753-1)
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, D. D. RaphaelISBN 067940564X (0-679-40564-X)
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Published in 1776, in the same year as the Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smiths celebrated defense of free market economies was written with such expressive power and clarity that the first edition sold out in six months. While its most remarkable and enduring innovation was to see the whole of economic life as a unified system, it is notable also as one of the Enlightenments most eloquent testaments to the sanctity of the individual in his relation
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The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causesby Adam SmithISBN 0679424733 (0-679-42473-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes'Book summary:Introduction by Robert ReichCommentary by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich's Introduction both clarifies Smith's analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, "Smith's mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth century-jobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics." Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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Webster's College Dictionaryby DictionaryISBN 0679401008 (0-679-40100-8)
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William Shakespeare Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Eric Rasmusse N, Heloise SenechalISBN 0679642951 (0-679-64295-1)
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