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1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the Universeby William A. GutschISBN 038548223X (0-385-48223-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Adaptation to Altitude-Hypoxia in Vertebratesby P. BouverotISBN 0387136029 (0-387-13602-9)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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Advanced Concepts in Fluorescence Sensing: Macromolecular Sensingby Joseph R. LakowiczISBN 0387236449 (0-387-23644-9)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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Applications of the Monte Carlo Method in Statistical Physicsby K. Binder, A. BaumgartnerISBN 038712764X (0-387-12764-X)
Hardcover, Springer-Verlag
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Arctic Animal Ecologyby Hermann RemmertISBN 0387101691 (0-387-10169-1)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellanyby Graeme GibsonISBN 0385514832 (0-385-51483-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Bill Moyers' World of Ideasby Bill MoyersISBN 0385416644 (0-385-41664-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Bloodletting and Miraculous Curesby Vincent LamISBN 0385661444 (0-385-66144-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures'Book summary:Winner of the 2006 Giller Prize, Lam has assembled a collection of short stories that follows four characters from their student days, through medical school and into their careers as doctors. Ming is a perfectionist with a dark past and overbearing traditional parents. When she starts dating Fitz, she must keep it a secret from her family. Meanwhile, Chen and Sri, their closest colleagues, join them in cutting up cadavers as they learn the fragile mysteries of the human body. Lams prose reads as smoothly as a scalpel slicing flesh (despite a plethora of technical jargon) as he reveals the realities of operating and emergency rooms, air ambulance flights and maternity wards. Lam is capable of fine descriptions (the "melon color" of afternoon light) as well as striking awkwardness ("Entering the exam hall&from the whipping chaos of the snowstorm was to be faced with a void.") The power of these stories is his ability to allow the reader to empathize with both victim and healer. Although a few of the stories feel like scenes from ER, several work extremely well. A harrowing story about the SARS epidemic ("Contact Tracing"), set in a Toronto hospital, gives the reader an intimate, inside view, while a story that explores the mind of a psychotic ("Winston") can leave the reader feeling unnerved and groundless. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Braving the Elementsby David LaskinISBN 038546956X (0-385-46956-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weatherby David LaskinISBN 0385469551 (0-385-46955-1)
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385334206 (0-385-33420-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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A Breath of Snow and Ashesby Diana GabaldonISBN 0385340397 (0-385-34039-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes'Book summary:Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldons bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time.
Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldons New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.
The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.
With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamies death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.
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Bucking the Sargeby Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0385901593 (0-385-90159-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bucking the Sarge'Book summary:Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan.
As his best friend Sparky says, Flints nothing but the Titanic.
And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, Take my advice and stay off the sucker path.
The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum housing and group homes. Luthers just one of the many people trapped in the Sarges Evil Empirebut hes about to bust out.
If Luther wins the science fair this year, hell be on track for college and a future as Americas best-known and best-loved philosopher. All hes got to do is beat his arch rival Shayla Patrick, the beautiful daughter of Flints finest undertakerand the love of Luthers life.
Sparkys escape plans involve a pit bull named Poofy and the worlds scariest rat. Oh, and Luther. Add to the mix Chester X., Luthers mysterious roommate; Dontay Gaddy, a lawyer whose phone number is 1-800-SUEM ALL; and Darnell Dixon, the Sarges go-to guy who knows how to break all the rules.
Bucking the Sarge is a story that only Christopher Paul Curtis could tell. Once again the Newbery Awardwinning author of Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 gives us a whole new angle on life and a world full of unforgettable and hilarious characters. Readers will root for Luther and Sparky every step of the way.
Praise for The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963:
An exceptional first novel. Publishers Weekly, Starred
Ribald humor . . . and a totally believable childs view of the world will make this book an instant hit. School Library
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Curtis has given a fresh, new look to a traditional orphan-finds-a-home story that would be a crackerjack read-aloud.
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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Powerby Victor Davis HansonISBN 0385720386 (0-385-72038-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power'Book summary:Many theories have been offered regarding why Western culture has spread so successfully across the world, with arguments ranging from genetics to superior technology to the creation of enlightened economic, moral, and political systems. In Carnage and Culture, military historian Victor Hanson takes all of these factors into account in making a bold, and sure to be controversial, argument: Westerners are more effective killers. Focusing specifically on military power rather than the nature of Western civilization in general, Hanson views war as the ultimate reflection of a society's character: "There is&a cultural crystallization in battle, in which the insidious and more subtle institutions that heretofore are murky and undefined became stark and unforgiving in the finality of organized killing."
Though technological advances and superior weapons have certainly played a role in Western military dominance, Hanson posits that cultural distinctions are the most significant factors. By bringing personal freedom, discipline, and organization to the battlefield, powerful "marching democracies" were more apt to defeat non-Western nations hampered by unstable governments, limited funding, and intolerance of open discussion. These crucial differences often ensured victory even against long odds. Greek armies, for instance, who elected their own generals and freely debated strategy were able to win wars even when far outnumbered and deep within enemy territory. Hanson further argues that granting warriors control of their own destinies results in the kind of glorification of horrific hand-to-hand combat necessary for true domination.
The nine battles Hanson examines include the Greek naval victory against the Persians at Salamis in 480 B.C., Cortes's march on Mexico City in 1521, the battle of Midway in 1942, and the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. In the book's fascinating final chapter, he then looks forward and ponders the consequences of a complete cultural victory, challenging the widespread belief that democratic nations do not wage war against one another: "We may well be all Westerners in the millennium to come, and that could be a very dangerous thing indeed," he writes. It seems the West will always seek an enemy, even if it must come from within. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Cartoon History of the Universe II: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome/Volumes 8-13by Larry GonickISBN 0385420935 (0-385-42093-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Cat's Eyeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491026 (0-385-49102-6)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Eye'Book summary:Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. [via]
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Compendium of Practical Astronomyby Gunter Dietmar Roth, Harry J. Augensen, Wulff D. HeintzISBN 0387548866 (0-387-54886-6)
Softcover, Springer
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Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Gameby Jay Bennett, Jim AlbertISBN 038700193X (0-387-00193-X)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 0385504209 (0-385-50420-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's father's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself.
Brown (Angels and Demons) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
Don't Get Too Comfortableby David RakoffISBN 0385510365 (0-385-51036-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Easter Islandby Jennifer VanderbesISBN 0385336748 (0-385-33674-8)
Softcover, Delta
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Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Semiconductorsby James R. Chelikowsky, Marvin L. CohenISBN 0387513914 (0-387-51391-4)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmologicalby Wolfgang RindlerISBN 0387100903 (0-387-10090-3)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklinby H. W. BrandsISBN 0385495404 (0-385-49540-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:Benjamin Franklin may have been the most remarkable American ever to live: a printer, scientist, inventor, politician, diplomat, and--finally--an icon. His life was so sweeping that this comprehensive biography by H.W. Brands at times reads like a history of the United States during the 18th century. Franklin was at the center of America's transition from British colony to new nation, and was a kind of Founding Grandfather to the Founding Fathers; he was a full generation older than George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry, and they all viewed him with deep respect. "Of those patriots who made independence possible, none mattered more than Franklin, and only Washington mattered as much," writes Brands (author of a well-received Teddy Roosevelt biography, T.R.: The Last Romantic). Franklin was a complex character who sometimes came up a bit short in the personal virtue department, once commenting, "That hard-to-be-governed passion of youth had hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way." When he married, another woman was already pregnant with his child--a son he took into his home and had his wife raise.
Franklin is best remembered for other things, of course. His still-famous Poor Richard's Almanac helped him secure enough financial freedom as a printer to retire and devote himself to the study of electricity (which began, amusingly, with experiments on chickens). His mind never rested: He invented bifocals, the armonica (a musical instrument made primarily of glass), and, in old age, a mechanical arm that allowed him to reach books stored on high shelves. He served American interests as a diplomat in Europe; without him, France might not have intervened in the American Revolution. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He possessed a sense of humor, too. In 1776, when John Hancock urged the colonies to "hang together," Franklin is said to have commented, "We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Franklin's accomplishments were so numerous and varied that they threaten to read like a laundry list. Yet Brands pours them into an engrossing narrative, and they leap to life on these pages as the grand story of an exceptional man. The First American is an altogether excellent biography. --John J. Miller [via]
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Flamingosby Marc SavageISBN 0385423802 (0-385-42380-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Fokker-Planck Equation: Methods of Solution and Applicationsby H. RiskenISBN 0387130985 (0-387-13098-5)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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The Forgetting: Alzheimer's Portrait of an Epidemicby David ShenkISBN 0385498381 (0-385-49838-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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From Newton to Mandelbrot: A Primer in Theoretical Physicsby Dietrich Stauffer, H. Eugene StanleyISBN 0387526617 (0-387-52661-7)
Hardcover, Springer
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Fundamental Astronomyby H. KarttunenISBN 0387172645 (0-387-17264-5)
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The Future of Manby Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Teilhard Pierre De Chardin, Norman DennyISBN 0385510721 (0-385-51072-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of Man'Book summary:The Future of Man is a magnificent introduction to the thoughts and writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, one of the few figures in the history of the Catholic Church to achieve renown as both a scientist and a theologian. Trained as a paleontologist and ordained as a Jesuit priest, Teilhard de Chardin devoted himself to establishing the intimate, interdependent connection between scienceparticularly the theory of evolutionand the basic tenets of the Christian faith. At the center of his philosophy was the belief that the human species is evolving spiritually, progressing from a simple faith to higher and higher forms of consciousness, including a consciousness of God, and culminating in the ultimate understanding of humankinds place and purpose in the universe. The Church, which would not condone his philosophical writings, refused to allow their publication during his lifetime. Written over a period of thirty years and presented here in chronological order, the essays cover the wide-ranging interests and inquiries that engaged Teilhard de Chardin throughout his life: intellectual and social evolution; the coming of ultra-humanity; the integral place of faith in God in the advancement of science; and the impact of scientific discoveries on traditional religious dogma. Less formal than The Phenomenon of Man and The Divine Milieu, Teilhard de Chardins most renowned works, The Future of Man offers a complete, fully accessible look at the genesis of ideas that continue to reverberate in both the scientific and the religious communities.
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The Gate of Angelsby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0385421508 (0-385-42150-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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A General SCF Theoryby Ramon Carbo, Josep M. RieraISBN 0387085351 (0-387-08535-1)
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The Geometry of Biological Timeby Arthur T. WinfreeISBN 0387525289 (0-387-52528-9)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War Ii's Greatest Rescue Missionby Hampton SidesISBN 038549565X (0-385-49565-X)
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When Army Rangers among Douglas MacArthur's forces arrived in the Philippines, they hatched a daring plan to liberate their captured comrades, a mission that, if successful, would prove to be a tremendous morale booster at the front and at home. Led by a young officer named Henry Mucci (called "Little MacArthur" for his constant pipe as well as his brilliance as a strategist), a combined Ranger and Filipino guerrilla force penetrated far behind enemy lines, attacked Japanese forces guarding Allied prisoners at a jungle outpost called Cabanatuan, and shepherded hundreds of prisoners to safety, with an angry Japanese army in hot pursuit. Amazingly, they suffered only light casualties.
In Ghost Soldiers, journalist Hampton Sides recounts that daring rescue, once known to every American schoolchild but now long forgotten. A gifted storyteller, Sides packs his narrative with detailed descriptions of the principal actors on both sides of the struggle and with moments of danger and exhilaration. Thrilling from start to finish, his book celebrates the heroism of hundreds of warriors and brings renewed attention to one of the Rangers' finest hours. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War Ii's Most Dramatic Missionby Hampton SidesISBN 0385495641 (0-385-49564-1)
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When Army Rangers among Douglas MacArthur's forces arrived in the Philippines, they hatched a daring plan to liberate their captured comrades, a mission that, if successful, would prove to be a tremendous morale booster at the front and at home. Led by a young officer named Henry Mucci (called "Little MacArthur" for his constant pipe as well as his brilliance as a strategist), a combined Ranger and Filipino guerrilla force penetrated far behind enemy lines, attacked Japanese forces guarding Allied prisoners at a jungle outpost called Cabanatuan, and shepherded hundreds of prisoners to safety, with an angry Japanese army in hot pursuit. Amazingly, they suffered only light casualties.
In Ghost Soldiers, journalist Hampton Sides recounts that daring rescue, once known to every American schoolchild but now long forgotten. A gifted storyteller, Sides packs his narrative with detailed descriptions of the principal actors on both sides of the struggle and with moments of danger and exhilaration. Thrilling from start to finish, his book celebrates the heroism of hundreds of warriors and brings renewed attention to one of the Rangers' finest hours. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Girl in Landscapeby Jonathan LethemISBN 0385485182 (0-385-48518-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Hailstones and Halibut Bonesby Mary Le Duc O'Neill, John WallnerISBN 0385410786 (0-385-41078-6)
Softcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hailstones and Halibut Bones'Book summary:Since its original publication in 1961, Hailstones And Halibut Bones, Mary O'Neill's renowned work of poetry about the colors of the spectrum, has become a modern children's classic. This newly illustrated edition features lavish full-color illustrations from an award-winning artist, yet the poems have been left intact with all the powerful rhythm and rich language of the original. [via]
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Hannibalby Thomas HarrisISBN 0385339488 (0-385-33948-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannibal'Book summary:Horror lit's head chef Harris serves up another course in his Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter trilogy, and it's a pièce de résistance for those with strong stomachs. In the first book, Red Dragon (filmed as Manhunter), Hannibal diabolically helps the FBI track a fascinating serial killer. (Takes one to know one.) In The Silence of the Lambs, he advises fledgling FBI manhunter Clarice Starling, then makes a bloody, brilliant escape.
Years later, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno.
Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.
What happens when the Italian cop gets alone with Hannibal? How does Clarice's reunion with Lecter go from macabre to worse? Suffice it to say that the plot is Harris's weirdest, but it still has his signature mastery of realistic detail. There are flaws: Hannibal's madness gets a motive, which is creepy but lessens his mystery. If you want an exact duplicate of The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice/Hannibal duel, you'll miss what's cool about this book--that Hannibal is actually upstaged at points by other monsters. And if you think it's all unprecedentedly horrible, you're right. But note that the horrors are described with exquisite taste. Harris's secret recipe for success is restraint. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Healing and the Mindby Bill MoyersISBN 0385476876 (0-385-47687-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Healing and the Mind'Book summary:In the best-selling companion volume to the PBS series, acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers explores the fascinating, complex, powerful connection between mind and body in human health. Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to understand these connections. In Healing And The Mind, Bill Moyers talks with physicians, scientists, therapists, and patients -- people who are taking a new look at the meaning of sickness and health. In a series of fascinating and provocative interviews, he discusses their search for answers to perplexing questions: How do emotions translate into chemicals in our bodies? How do thoughts and feelings influence health? How can we collaborate with our bodies to encourage healing? With the incisive style that has made Bill Moyers's skills as an interviewer legendary, Healing And The Mind is destined to influence how America thinks about sickness and health.Full -color and B & W photographs throughout. [via]
Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burningby George MonbiotISBN 0385662211 (0-385-66221-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday of Canada
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A History of Chinese Mathematicsby S. Wilson, Jean-Claude Martzloff, J. Dhombres, J. GernetISBN 0387547495 (0-387-54749-5)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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In Search of Dark Matterby Freeman, Geoff McNamaraISBN 0387276165 (0-387-27616-5)
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In Search of Realityby Bernard D'EspagnatISBN 0387113991 (0-387-11399-1)
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Inert Gases: Potentials, Dynamics, and Energy Transfer in Doped Crystalsby M. KleinISBN 0387131280 (0-387-13128-0)
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Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean HollanderISBN 0385496982 (0-385-49698-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'Book summary:Translation is always an imperfect art, demanding from its practitioners a level of dual fidelity that even a seasoned bigamist would envy. And no work of art has prompted more in the way of earnest imperfection than Dante's Divine Comedy. Transforming those intricate, rhyme-rich tercets into English has been the despair of many a distinguished translator, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to W.S. Merwin (whose estimable rendition of Purgatorio found the poet rattling over more than one linguistic speed bump). Now comes a fresh rendition of the Inferno from a husband-and-wife team. Robert Hollander, who has taught Dante for nearly four decades at Princeton, supplies the scholarly muscle, while his wife, poet Jean Hollander, attends to the verbal music.
How does their collaboration stack up? In his introduction, Robert Hollander is quick to acknowledge his debt to John D. Sinclair's prose trot of 1939, and to the version that Charles Singleton derived largely from his predecessor's in 1970. Yet the Hollanders have done us all a favor by throwing Sinclair's faux medievalisms overboard. And their predilection for direct, monosyllabic English sometimes brings them much closer to Dante's asperity and rhythmic urgency. One example will suffice. In the last line of Canto V, after listening to Francesca's adulterous aria, the poet faints: "E caddi come corpo morto cade." Sinclair's rendering---"I swooned as if in death and dropped like a dead body"--has a kind of conditional mushiness to it. Compare the punchier rendition from the Hollanders: "And down I fell as a dead body falls." It sounds like an actual line of English verse, which is the least we can do for the supreme poet of our beleaguered civilization.
Robert Hollander has also supplied an extensive and very welcome commentary. There are times, perhaps, when he might have broken ranks with his academic ancestors: why not deviate from Giorgio Petrocchi's 1967 edition of the Italian text when he thinks that the great scholar was barking up the wrong tree? In any case, the Hollanders' Inferno is a fine addition to the burgeoning bookshelf of Dante in English. It won't displace the relatively recent verse translations by Robert Pinsky or Allen Mandelbaum, and even John Ciardi's version, which sometimes substitutes breeziness for accuracy, can probably hold its own here. But when it comes to high fidelity and exegetical generosity, this Inferno burns brightly indeed. --James Marcus [via]
The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Futureby Steve JonesISBN 0385473729 (0-385-47372-9)
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Life Before Manby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491107 (0-385-49110-7)
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The Little Islandby Margaret Wise Brown, Golden MacDonald, Leonard WeisgardISBN 0385746407 (0-385-74640-7)
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Machine As Metaphor and Toolby H. Haken, Anders Karlquist, Uno SvedinISBN 0387558160 (0-387-55816-0)
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Mathematics and Physics Disordered Mediaby B. D. HughesISBN 0387127070 (0-387-12707-0)
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Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanicsby Henry P. StappISBN 0387562893 (0-387-56289-3)
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Modeling and Control in the Biomedical Sciencesby Harvey Thomas BanksISBN 0387073957 (0-387-07395-7)
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Molecular Dynamicsby William G. HooverISBN 0387167897 (0-387-16789-7)
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Monte Carlo Methods: In Statistical Physicsby Kurt BinderISBN 0387165142 (0-387-16514-2)
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The Natural Laws of Business : Applying the Theories of Darwin, Einstein and Newton to Achieve Business Successby Richard KochISBN 0385501595 (0-385-50159-5)
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Nothing Sacredby Elizabeth Ann ScarboroughISBN 0385415303 (0-385-41530-3)
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The Observer's Sky Atlasby E. KarkoschkaISBN 0387515887 (0-387-51588-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Observer's Sky Atlas'Book summary:This sky atlas contains star charts and information for all those who observe the night sky with the naked eye, binoculars, or a small telescope, or who just wish to look at constellations and interesting objects. Equally useful for the beginning observer and the old hand, the atlas presents - clearly arranged charts of all the stars visible with the naked eye (limiting magnitude 6m) - enlarged chart sections for binocular observation highlighting 250 interesting nebulae and stellar clusters (limiting magnitude 9m) - data on more than 1000 sky objects - coordinates in equinox 2000.0 - distances of double stars until the year 2010 The Observer's Sky Atlas is a handy, indispensable companion for every observer. [via]
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Optics and Lasersby M. YoungISBN 0387161279 (0-387-16127-9)
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Persuader : A Jack Reacher Novelby Lee ChildISBN 0385336667 (0-385-33666-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuader : A Jack Reacher Novel'Book summary:Jack Reacher, the taciturn ex-MP whose adventures in Lee Child's six previous solidly plotted, expertly paced thrillers have won a devoted fan base, returns in this explosive tale of an undercover operation set up by the FBI to rescue an agent investigating Zachary Beck, a reclusive tycoon believed to be a kingpin in the drug trade. The novel begins with a bang as Reacher rescues Beck's son from a staged kidnapping in order to get close to his father--and trace the connection between Beck and Quinn, a former army intelligence officer who tried to sell blueprints of a secret weapon to Iraq but was murdered before he could pull it off. Or so Reacher thinks, until he spots Quinn in the crowd at a concert in Boston. As usual, Child ratchets up the tension and keeps the reader in suspense until the last page, although his enigmatic hero hardly ever seems to break a sweat. In the tough guy tradition, Reacher and his creator are overdue for a breakout, and this muscular, well-written mystery might be the one. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Power of Mythby Joseph Campbell, Betty S. Flowers, Bill D. MoyersISBN 0385418868 (0-385-41886-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Myth'Book summary:Among his many gifts, Joseph Campbell's most impressive was the unique ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder and funeral of President John F. Kennedy, and help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology. Herein lies the power of The Power of Myth, showing how humans are apt to create and live out the themes of mythology. Based on a six-part PBS television series hosted by Bill Moyers, this classic is especially compelling because of its engaging question-and-answer format, creating an easy, conversational approach to complicated and esoteric topics. For example, when discussing the mythology of heroes, Campbell and Moyers smoothly segue from the Sumerian sky goddess Inanna to Star Wars' mercenary-turned-hero, Han Solo. Most impressive is Campbell's encyclopedic knowledge of myths, demonstrated in his ability to recall the details and archetypes of almost any story, from any point and history, and translate it into a lesson for spiritual living in the here and now. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millenniumby Walter WinkISBN 0385487525 (0-385-48752-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium'Book summary:"Perhaps we are not accustomed to thinking of the Pentagon, or the Chrysler Corporation, or the Mafia as having a spirituality, but they do," writes Walter Wink. In The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium, Wink returns to the ancient view of a world filled with angels and demons, powers and principalities, and reinterprets these notions for contemporary people. Wink's book is a challenge for Christians to wake up and become dangerously different, by objecting to the Darwinian games of domination that prevail in many of our governments, corporations, and churches. The book also offers stunningly gracious comfort, by showing that we are all caught up in this game, that the game is even a part of our gift, and that as long as we live in the world, not a single one of us can be pure, but we're called, all of us, to be holy. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean HollanderISBN 0385496990 (0-385-49699-0)
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Purgatorioby Robert HollanderISBN 0385497008 (0-385-49700-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio'Book summary:Now I shall sing the second kingdom, there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to heaven. In the second book of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy , Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. As he witnesses the penance required on each successive terrace, Dante often feels the smart of his own sins. His reward will be a walk through the garden of Eden, perhaps the most remarkable invention in the history of literature. Now Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander's own decades of teaching and reasearch. [via]
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The Race : The Uncensored Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moonby James L. SchefterISBN 0385492537 (0-385-49253-7)
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Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure into the Arcticby Myron ArmsISBN 0385490933 (0-385-49093-3)
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The Rule Of Fourby Ian Caldwell, Dustin ThomasonISBN 0385337116 (0-385-33711-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rule Of Four'Book summary:An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four-a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery.It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili-a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past-and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled-until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a fellow researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia 's secrets. Suddenly the stakes are raised, and as the two friends sift through the codes and riddles at the heart of the text, they are beginnning to see the manuscript in a new light-not simply as a story of faith, eroticism and pedantry, but as a bizarre, coded mathematical maze. And as they come closer and closer to deciphering the final puzzle of a book that has shattered careers, friendships and families, they know that their own lives are in mortal danger. Because at least one person has been killed for knowing too much. And they know even more.From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of the Ivy League, from a shocking 500 year-old murder scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, The Rule of Four takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of history-as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable suspense. [via]
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Salems Lotby Stephen King, Jerry N. UelsmannISBN 0385516487 (0-385-51648-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salems Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Sex Kittens And Horn Dawgs Fall in Loveby Maryrose WoodISBN 0385732767 (0-385-73276-7)
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Sky of Stoneby Hickam, Homer H., Jr.ISBN 0385335229 (0-385-33522-9)
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Soul: God, Self and the New Cosmologyby Angela TilbyISBN 0385471254 (0-385-47125-4)
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Statistical Mechanics and the Foundations of Thermodynamicsby A. Martin-LofISBN 0387092552 (0-387-09255-2)
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The Story of Psychologyby Morton HuntISBN 0385471491 (0-385-47149-1)
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Stress and Strain: Basic Concepts of Continuum Mechanics for Geologistsby W. D. MeansISBN 0387075569 (0-387-07556-9)
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Strong Medicineby Arthur HaileyISBN 0385504098 (0-385-50409-8)
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Synergetics: An Introduction Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Self-Organization in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology ; with 724 Figuresby H. HakenISBN 0387078851 (0-387-07885-1)
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Tissue Growth Factorsby BasergaISBN 0387106235 (0-387-10623-5)
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The Travelerby John Twelve HawksISBN 038551428X (0-385-51428-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Traveler'Book summary:A world that exists in the shadows of our own.A conflict we will never see.One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequins-a fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect a select few known as Travelers.Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are brothers living in Los Angeles. Since childhood, the young men have been shaped by stories that their late father was a Traveler, one of a small band of prophets who have vastly influenced the course of history. Travelers are able to attain pure enlightenment, and have for centuries ushered change into the world. Gabriel and Michael, who may have inherited their father's gifts, have always protected themselves by living "off the Grid"-that is, invisible to the real-life surveillance networks that monitor people in our modern society.Summoned by her ailing father, Maya is told of the existence of the brothers. The Corrigans are in severe danger, stalked by powerful men known as the Tabula-ruthless mercenaries who have hunted Travelers for generations. This group is determined to inflict order on the world by controlling it, and they view Travelers as an intolerable threat. As Maya races to California to protect the brothers, she is reluctantly pulled back into the cold and solitary Harlequin existence. A colossal battle looms-one that will reveal not only the identities of Gabriel and Michael Corrigan but also a secret history of our time.Moving from the back alleys of Prague to the heart of Los Angeles, from the high deserts of Arizona to a guarded research facility in New York, The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. [via]
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Trees: Structure and Functionby Martin Huldrych ZimmermannISBN 038707063X (0-387-07063-X)
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What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? and 100 Other Great Cultural List S--Fully Explicatedby Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond PinkowishISBN 0385490623 (0-385-49062-3)
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The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zoneby McKay JenkinsISBN 0385720777 (0-385-72077-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone'Book summary:By turns gripping, informative, and even frightening, The White Death probes the interplay of human endeavor in the mountains, the fragile beauty of snow, and nature's mysterious power. Jenkins succeeds admirably in melding human drama with the indifference of natural forces, allowing the "avalanche-beast" to build in character through survivors' reports, news clippings, and scientific findings. The book's emotional centerpiece is the tragic story of an avalanche that roared down Mount Cleveland in Glacier National Park, where five young climbers set out to scale the treacherous North Face. Just days into their climb, snow and strong winds set in. "What they saw could not have been inviting: snow clouds covered the mountain's summit...with loose powder avalanches regularly scrubbing it clean." Bud Anderson, older brother to one of the climbers, flew his single-engine plane over the mountain to observe the team's progress. "He hoped, perhaps, to rock his wings at them as a sign of encouragement, or congratulations." Instead, "his breath caught. The tracks ended at the unmistakable edge of a massive fresh avalanche..." Jenkins's stirring account pieces the clues and rescue efforts together to read like a true and terrible mystery being solved.
The horror of being buried alive by snow is vivid and sober among these pages, and is sure to chill climbers as well as those reading from the comforts of central heating. The author's vision is acute and helps better assess the bounds of our human capacity and domain. --Byron Ricks [via]
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Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differencesby Leonard SaxISBN 038551073X (0-385-51073-X)
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A World of Ideas IIby Bill MoyersISBN 0385416652 (0-385-41665-2)
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Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Lettersby Isaac Asimov, Stanley AsimovISBN 0385476248 (0-385-47624-8)
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Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technocultureby Sadie PlantISBN 0385482604 (0-385-48260-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture'Book summary:Meet Ada Lovelace, daughter of mathematician Annabella Byron and poet Lord Byron, and a major contributor to Charles Babbage's famous Analytic Engine. Lovelace is in many ways the patron saint of Sadie Plant's exploration of women's roles in the creation of modern technology. The book begins with Lovelace's story, and elements of her writings appear throughout the book--sometimes to emphasize points but often to exemplify attitude. They also serve to anchor Plant's dynamic, almost stream-of-conscious approach as we travel to 19th-century Europe to meet the nameless women who laid the foundation of modern technology with the development of weaving, survey the major female technological innovators of today, and even explore female figures in technology-based fiction.
Plant's "cyberfeminist rant," as William Gibson calls it, attempts to demonstrate that women have always used technology. You won't find victims here, rather women who were empowered by the technological innovations in their lives. What emerges is a very nontraditional feminist picture, one in which women are neither bystanders nor victims but are in many ways the unsung heroes of technical innovation. The author also points to a future where, within zeros and ones of cyberspace many such dichotomies of life/machine, let alone male/female, may blur in unexpected ways. [via]
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