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50 Ways to Save the Oceanby David Helvarg, Jim Toomey, Philippe CousteauISBN 1930722664 (1-930722-66-4)
Softcover, Inner Ocean Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: '50 Ways to Save the Ocean'Book summary:The oceans, and the challenges they face, are so vast that its easy to feel powerless to protect them. 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, written by veteran environmental journalist David Helvarg, focuses on practical, easily-implemented actions everyone can take to protect and conserve this vital resource. Well-researched, personal, and sometimes whimsical, the book addresses daily choices that affect the ocean's health: what fish should and should not be eaten; how and where to vacation; storm drains and driveway run-off; protecting local water tables; proper diving, surfing, and tide pool etiquette; and supporting local marine education. Helvarg also looks at what can be done to stir the waters of seemingly daunting issues such as toxic pollutant runoff; protecting wetlands and sanctuaries; keeping oil rigs off shore; saving reef environments; and replenishing fish reserves.[via]More editions of 50 Ways to Save the Ocean:
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbusby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 1597402664 (1-59740-266-4)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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The Aeneidby John Dryden, VirgilISBN 1853267775 (1-85326-777-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:'Something greater than the Iliad is being brought to birth', wrote Virgil's contemporary Propertius, in Western literature's most famous flourish of advance publicity. The Aeneid was published after Virgil's death, and at once established itself as Rome's national poem. The hero Aeneas flees from the sack of Troy, and after much suffering carves out a foothold for the future Romans in Italy. While defining and celebrating what it means to be Roman, the Aeneid confronts, with a bleak pathos, the tragedy involved in Rome's destiny. [via]
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The Aeneidby VirgilISBN 1853262633 (1-85326-263-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Translated by Michael J. Oakley The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by an undertow of sadness at the price that must be paid in human suffering to secure Rome's future greatness. The tension between the public voice of celebration and the tragic private voice is given full expression both in the doomed love of Dido and Aeneas, and in the fateful clash between the Trojan leader and the Italian hero, Turnus. Hailed by T.S. Eliot as 'the classic of all Europe', Virgil's Aeneid has enjoyed a unique and enduring influence on European literature, art and politics for the past two thousand years. [via]
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Andy Warhol 1928-1987: Commerce into Artby Klaus HonnefISBN 3822863211 (3-8228-6321-1)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squidby Doris Haggis-On-Whey, Benny Haggis-On-WheyISBN 1932416390 (1-932416-39-0)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid'Book summary:Here is the third installment in a series of reference books, all written by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, a team of highly energized and deeply focused scientists with over sixty-seven combined years of experience at their command, including six months spent lifting awkwardly-sized boxes.[via]
Animals of the Ocean advances many heretofore unexplored discoveries and opinions, including squid dating dos and don'ts, why squid are not at all able to watch television in black and white, the ways in which people who don't know any better might think fish are not animals, the long-term effects of salt water on musical theater, and also the adventure of Gunther.
Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid comes with a foil-stamped and leather-inspired cover. Its pages are full color and illustrated without reserve. This book does not contain a warning label, but if it did, it would advise readers to enjoy its pages only in small and furtive doses, such as while waiting your turn at tetherball.More editions of Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid:
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Berlitz Los AngelesISBN 2831514185 (2-8315-1418-5)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Billy Budd & Other Storiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 185326749X (1-85326-749-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd & Other Stories'Book summary:Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney, show the timeless poetic power of Melville's writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends. [via]
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The Book of Teaby Not AvailableISBN 1933330171 (1-933330-17-1)
Softcover, Stone Bridge Pr
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Cabinet 16: The Seaby Sina NajafiISBN 1932698124 (1-932698-12-4)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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The Captain from Connecticutby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 1877853305 (1-877853-30-5)
Softcover, Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer
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Chapman's Homer the Iliad the Odysseyby HomerISBN 1840221178 (1-84022-117-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer the Iliad the Odyssey'Book summary:Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia. Chapman's Iliad and Odyssey are great English epic poems, but they are also two of the liveliest and readable translations of Homer. Chapman's freshness makes the everyday world of nature and the craftsman as vivid as the battlefield and Mount Olympus. His poetry is driven by the excitement of the Renaissance discovery of classical civilisation as at once vital and distant, and is enriched by the perspectives of humanist thought. [via]
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Chrestomathy of Modern Literary Uzbekby Ilse Laude-CirtautasISBN 3447021322 (3-447-02132-2)
Softcover, O. Harrassowitz
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Coastal Fish Identification: California to Alaskaby Paul Humann, Howard Hall, Neil McDanielISBN 1878348124 (1-878348-12-4)
Softcover, New World Pubns Inc
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Complete Novels and Storiesby Kate Chopin, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 1931082219 (1-931082-21-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Novels and Stories'Book summary:From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece The Awakening (1899), challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin's novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume.
The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man's alcoholic wife. In the story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales of post-Civil War bayou culture. In The Awakening, the now-classic novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her writing career, Chopin tells the story of a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment.
The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900, and three stories that were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers. [via]More editions of Complete Novels and Stories:
The Coral Islandby ConradISBN 185326170X (1-85326-170-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Crossing the Riverby Dana Sachs, Huy Thiep Nguyen, Peter Saidel, Ngyuen Nguyet Cam, Linh Dinh, Bac Hoai Tran, Courtney Norris, Nguyen Qui Duc, Birgit Hussfeld, Viviane Lowe, Rosemary Nguyen, Nguyen Van KhangISBN 1880684926 (1-880684-92-6)
Softcover, Curbstone Pr
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The Daffodil Affairby Michael InnesISBN 1842327305 (1-84232-730-5)
Softcover, House of Stratus Ltd
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Dashiell Hammettby Josephine Hammett, Steven MarcusISBN 1883011671 (1-883011-67-1)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Edward Hopper: 1882-1967, Transformation of the Realby Rolf Gunter RennerISBN 3822859850 (3-8228-5985-0)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Edward Hopper: Transformation of the Realby Rolf Gunter RennerISBN 3822805432 (3-8228-0543-2)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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The Enchanted Islesby Herman MelvilleISBN 1843910152 (1-84391-015-2)
Softcover, Hesperus Press
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The Gay Phoenixby Michael InnesISBN 1842327356 (1-84232-735-6)
Softcover, House of Stratus Ltd
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The Great American Bathroom Bookby Steve AndersonISBN 1880184044 (1-880184-04-4)
Softcover, Scarab Book Ltd
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H.P. Lovecraft: Talesby H. P. Lovecraft, Peter StraubISBN 1931082723 (1-931082-72-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hills and the Seaby Hillaire BellocISBN 1846379725 (1-84637-972-5)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Hopperby Ivo KranzfelderISBN 3822872105 (3-8228-7210-5)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hopper'Book summary:Edward Hopper (1882-1967) has been described as the greatest of American realists. His paintings enjoy universal popularity now and are featured in poster reproductions - but what is the secret of their appeal? This study attempts to find an answer. [via]
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin And Spread of Nationalismby Benedict AndersonISBN 1844670864 (1-84467-086-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin And Spread of Nationalism'Book summary:The definitive, bestselling book on the origins of nationalism, and the processes that have shaped it.
Imagined Communities, Benedict Andersons brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: what makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name?
Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the imagined communities of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kinship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the movements of anti-imperialist resistance in Asia and Africa.
In a new afterword, Anderson examines the extraordinary influence of Imagined Communities, and the book's international publication and reception, from the end of the Cold War era to the present day.
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Isla Negra: A Notebookby Pablo Neruda, Dennis Maloney, Milton RogovinISBN 1893996077 (1-893996-07-7)
Softcover, White Pine Press
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 1883011159 (1-883011-15-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck'Book summary:This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long Valley" displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums," "Flight," and "The Red Pony." "The Log from the Sea of Cortez," about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure. [via]
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L Etrangerby Albert CamusISBN 207030602X (2-07-030602-X)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L Etranger'Book summary:185 pages. Imprimé en Belgique. [via]
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L'Etoile Mysterieuseby HergeISBN 2203001097 (2-203-00109-7)
Hardcover, Casterman Editions
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The Lady of Ten Thousand Namesby Burleigh Muten, Helen CannISBN 1841480487 (1-84148-048-7)
Hardcover, Barefoot Books
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Life and Adventures, 1776-1801by Tim F. Flannery, John NicolISBN 1875847413 (1-875847-41-3)
Hardcover, Text Pub
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Little History of Pike Place Market: Seattle, Washingtonby Jack R. EvansISBN 1877882046 (1-877882-04-6)
Softcover, Pacific Pipeline
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Londonby Samantha HardinghamISBN 1841660604 (1-84166-060-4)
Softcover, Ellipsis London, Limited
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London: A Guide to Recent Architectureby Samantha HardinghamISBN 189985892X (1-899858-92-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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London a Guide to Recent Architecture: A Guide to Recent Architectureby Samantha HardinghamISBN 1874056773 (1-874056-77-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Los Pueblos Indios En Sus Mitos: Quichua Amazonicos Del Aguarico Y San Miguelby Paul HumannISBN 1878348094 (1-878348-09-4)
Hardcover, New World Pubns Inc
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The Lovely Bones: A Novelby Alice SeboldISBN 159413023X (1-59413-023-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones: A Novel'Book summary:On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.
As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]
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Maremoto Seqquakeby Pablo Neruda, Dennis Maloney, Maria JackettiISBN 1877727326 (1-877727-32-6)
Softcover, White Pine Pr
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Monkey Paintingby Thierry LenainISBN 1861890036 (1-86189-003-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Novels, 1942-1952by John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 1931082073 (1-931082-07-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels, 1942-1952'Book summary:This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.[via]
The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.
Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.More editions of Novels, 1942-1952:
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The Outsiderby Albert CamusISBN 1857151399 (1-85715-139-9)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outsider'Book summary:Set in Camus'' native Algeria, this story cen tres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an ap parently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvment in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental value s of society ' [via]
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Pablo Picasso: 1881-1973by Ingo F. WaltherISBN 3822882674 (3-8228-8267-4)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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Pablo Picasso 1881-1973: Genius of the Centuryby Ingo F. WaltherISBN 3822859702 (3-8228-5970-2)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pablo Picasso 1881-1973: Genius of the Century'Book summary:One name in the history of the 20th century art stands out over all others: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. As one of them, the painter Max Ernst, ruefully put it: "No one can touch Picasso. He is genius incarnate." The works selected here cover Picasso's entire output, from the less familiar to key masterpieces such as "Guernica", from the Blue and Rose Periods early in his career through his cubist and classicist phases and the formal experiments of the Thirties to his later involvement with politics in art. [via]
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Papillonby Henri Charriere, Jean-Pierre CastelnauISBN 2221006682 (2-221-00668-2)
Hardcover, Editions Robert Laffont
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Picassoby Carsten-Peter Warncke, Ingo F. WaltherISBN 3822812579 (3-8228-1257-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Pierre And Jeanby Guy De Maupassant, Clara BellISBN 1598187821 (1-59818-782-1)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pierre And Jean'Book summary:A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal at that other little animal which had suddenly come to lie in his father's and mother's arms and to be loved and fondled by them. Jean, from his birth, had always been a pattern of sweetness, gentleness, and good temper, and Pierre had by degrees begun to chafe at ever-lastingly hearing the praises of this great lad, whose sweetness in his eyes was indolence, whose gentleness was stupidity, and whose kindliness was blindness. His parents, whose dream for their sons was some respectable and undistinguished calling, blamed him for so often changing his mind, for his fits of enthusiasm, his abortive beginnings, and all his ineffectual impulses towards generous ideas and the liberal professions.
Since he had grown to manhood they no longer said in so many words: "Look at Jean and follow his example," but every time he heard them say "Jean did this -- Jean does that," he understood their meaning and the hint the words conveyed. [via]
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Pierre and Jeanby Leonard W. Tancock, Guy De MaupassantISBN 2253012351 (2-253-01235-1)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pierre and Jean'Book summary:252pages. poche. broché. Un couple de retraités parisiens vit au Havre, avec ses deux fils. Le cadet, Jean, est blond et sage; l'aîné, noir et emporté. Leur vie s'écoule paisible, agrémentée de parties de pêche en mer ou sur la plage quand un grain éclate. Le ciel s'obscurcit. Les vents se déchaînent, chassant le bonheur. En mourant, un vieil ami de la famille laisse à Jean sa fortune. Pourquoi à Jean seulement ? Pierre y pense nuit et jour. Il plonge dans le passé de sa mère, à la recherche du secret empoisonné. L'émotion intense, l'histoire cruelle et vraie, les odeurs de la mer, la lumière célèbre de l'embouchure de la Seine font de ce roman un des chefs-d'oeuvre de Maupassant. [via]
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Pierre Et Jeanby Guy De MaupassantISBN 2011691796 (2-01-169179-6)
Softcover, Hachette
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pierre Et Jean'Book summary:Une édition de référence de Pierre et Jean de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.« Jean, aussi blond que son frère était noir, aussi calme que son frère était emporté, aussi doux que son frère était rancunier, avait fait tranquillement son droit et venait dobtenir son diplôme de licencié en même temps que Pierre obtenait celui de docteur. [&]Mais une vague jalousie, une de ces jalousies dormantes qui grandissent presque invisibles entre frères ou entre sSurs jusquà la maturité et qui éclatent à loccasion dun mariage ou dun bonheur tombant sur lun, les tenait en éveil dans une fraternelle et inoffensive inimitié. »(Extrait du Chapitre I.)
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Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books - Pierre Et Jean: ISBN 2080710702 (2-08-071070-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Pierre Et Jean: ISBN 226608299X (2-266-08299-X)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 1853260061 (1-85326-006-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects of the religion, politics and essential bigotry of his background in late 19th century Ireland. [via]
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Rainbow Seaby Penton OverseasISBN 1740470893 (1-74047-089-3)
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Reef Coral Identification: Florida-Caribbean-Bahamasby Paul Humann, Ned DeloachISBN 1878348302 (1-878348-30-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reef Fish Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas'Book summary:You know the fishes and can identify the reef critters, but what about the animals that actually form a coral reef? Existing in an abundance of colours and intriguing shapes, these animals are worth a closer look. 530 classic photographs of living specimens and the most current scientific classifications help identify virtually every species of stony coral, gorgonian, fire coral and black coral inhabiting the tropical western Atlantic. This new 2nd edition includes a comprehensive photo-essay of coral diseases and predation and a photo gallery on coral reproduction. If you want to know more about marine plants, this book has got them, too; an appendix with descriptions and photos of 100 species of marine plants is included. Improved flexibinding with plastic covers allows book to lie flat. [via]
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Reef Creature Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamasby Paul Humann, Ned DeloachISBN 1878348310 (1-878348-31-0)
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Reef Fish Identification: Galapagosby Paul HumannISBN 1878348353 (1-878348-35-3)
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyagesby Richard Henry Dana, Thomas L. PhilbrickISBN 1931082839 (1-931082-83-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyages'Book summary:This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam.
Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) is the classic account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Written with an unprecedented realism that challenged the romanticism of previous maritime literature, Dana's narrative vividly portrays the daily routines and hardships of life at sea, the capriciousness and brutality of merchant ship captains and officers, and the beauty and danger of the southern oceans in winter. Included in an appendix is "Twenty-Four Years After" (1869), in which Dana describes his return to California in 1859-1860 and the immense changes brought about by American annexation, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, and the growing commerce of "a new world, the awakened Pacific."
Dana first visited Cuba in the winter of 1859 while the possible annexation of the island was being debated in the U.S. Senate. To Cuba and Back (1859) is his entertaining and enthusiastic account of his trip, during which he toured Havana and a sugar plantation; attended a bullfight; visited chuches, hospitals, schools, and prisons; and investigated the impact on Cuban society of slavery and autocratic Spanish rule.
Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860 records the 14-month circumnavigation that took Dana to California, Hawaii, China, Japan, Malaya, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Europe. Written with unflagging energy and curiosity, the journal provides fascinating vignettes of frontier life in California, missionary influence in Hawaii, the impact of the Taiping Rebellion and the Second Opium War on China, and the opening of Japan to the West, while capturing the transition from the age of sail to the faster, smaller world created by the steamship and the telegraph. [via]More editions of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast And Other Voyages:
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Serviceby Erskine ChildersISBN 185326038X (1-85326-038-X)
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The Rule Of Fourby Ian Caldwell, Dustin ThomasonISBN 1844130053 (1-84413-005-3)
Hardcover, Century
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rule Of Four'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide - a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries.
Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the book may finally reveal its secrets - to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with it, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it - when an ancient diary surfaces. Armed with the final clue, the two friends delve into a world of forgotten erudition, strange sexual appetites, and terrible violence. But just as they begin to realize the magnitude of their discovery, the campus is rocked: a longtime student of the book has been murdered.
Ian Caldwell was Phi Beta Kappa in history at Princeton University. He lives in Newport News, Virginia. Dustin Thomason won the Hoopes Prize at Harvard University. He lives in New York City. They began writing The Rule of Four after graduating in 1998. The two have been best friends since they were eight years old. [via]
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S,M,L,Xlby Rem KoolhausISBN 1885254865 (1-885254-86-5)
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Sea Searcher's Handbook: Activities from the Monterey Bay Aquariumby Monterey Bay Aquarium, Pam ArmstrongISBN 1878244159 (1-878244-15-9)
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The Sea-hawkby Rafael SabatiniISBN 1931839530 (1-931839-53-0)
Softcover, Ross & Perry Inc
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 159688083X (1-59688-083-X)
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The Secret Agent : A Simple Taleby Joseph ConradISBN 1853260657 (1-85326-065-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain 'Then the vision of an enormous town prented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.' Conrad's 'monstrous town' is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho. [via]
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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917by Ernest Henry ShackletonISBN 1841581186 (1-84158-118-6)
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The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the Worldby Benedict AndersonISBN 1859841848 (1-85984-184-8)
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Storms And Shipwrecks of New Englandby Edward Rowe Snow, Jeremy D'Entremont, William P. QuinnISBN 1933212217 (1-933212-21-7)
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Storms and Shipwrecks of New Englandby Jeremy D'Entremont, Edward Rowe SnowISBN 1889833576 (1-889833-57-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Storms and Shipwrecks of New England'Book summary:This Snow classic includes the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus, the Portland Gale, and the 1938 hurricane. DEntremont updates the wrecks and details recent storms. [via]
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Typhoon: Library Editionby Joseph ConradISBN 185715004X (1-85715-004-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typhoon: Library Edition'Book summary:In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, the author invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds. [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 1853264768 (1-85326-476-8)
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Warholby Klaus HonnefISBN 3822805653 (3-8228-0565-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warhol'Book summary:Andy Warhol is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist. Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings ("Campbell-" and "Brillo" series), as well as their fascination for sensational journalism. In 1963 Warhol founded his "Factory" in New York, literally a manufactory of ideas and work, which influenced film in the 1960s, published the influential magazine "Interview" in the late 1970s, and also produced Warhol's own artwork: Warhol conceived the idea, and a "worker" in his factory carried it out. The work remained (consciously) unsigned - a fact which nevertheless did nothing to diminish Warhol's reputation. He once complained that rich New Yorkers would willingly hang his "Electric Chain" in their living rooms - as long as its colours co-ordinated with the wallpaper and draperies. [via]
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Web Design Studios: Best Studiosby Julius WiedemannISBN 3822840416 (3-8228-4041-6)
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Whales & Dolphins: A Portrait of the Animal Worldby Andrew CleaveISBN 1597641472 (1-59764-147-2)
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White Squall: The Last Voyage of Albatrossby Jerry Renninger, Richard E. LangfordISBN 1892216361 (1-892216-36-1)
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Writing New York: A Literary Anthologyby Phillip LopateISBN 1883011620 (1-883011-62-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing New York: A Literary Anthology'Book summary:Few cities on earth exert New York's pull on the literary imagination. There may be nothing like Paris in springtime, or a foggy day in London Town, but for sheer page volume, neither of these can rival the city that never sleeps. In celebration of Greater New York's centenary, the Library of America has assembled almost 200 years' worth of literary Gothamiana--no small task, given the scope from which they had to choose. The result is a hefty, pleasingly eclectic anthology that works as both historical document and literary revelation. Editor Phillip Lopate has wisely chosen to include both the familiar (Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry") and the unknown (the diaries of English actress Fanny Kemble). Edith Wharton, Oscar Hijuelos, Henry Miller, Willa Cather, Tom Wolfe, Hart Crane: these are only a few of the writers who offer up their takes on the city, in terms that vary from nostalgic to cynical, romantic to tart. "I want this new novel to be delicate and cutting--nothing will cut New York but a diamond," observes Dawn Powell; "I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse," writes a homesick Thoreau. F. Scott Fitzgerald mourns the giddy New York of 1919, his "lost city," while E.B. White lauds the metropolis for its dual bequests, "the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." Vibrant, opinionated, more than a little bit overwhelming, the anthology is a fitting tribute to a city whose most enduring characteristic is the speed at which it can change. In the words of E.B. White, "A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines." [via]
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La Chuteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360105 (2-07-036010-5)
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D'or, De Reves Et De Sang: L'epopee De La Flibuste, 1494-1588by Michel Le BrisISBN 2012354637 (2-01-235463-7)
Hardcover, Hachette
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L' Etranger: Profil D'une Oeuvreby Pierre Louis ReyISBN 2218740729 (2-218-74072-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L' Etranger: Profil D'une Oeuvre'Book summary:L ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser le roman de Camus.
Le résumé détaillé est suivi de l étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles :
Sources et parentés de Camus
Meursault, un personnage de nouveau roman
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La Nauseeby Jean-Paul SartreISBN 207036805X (2-07-036805-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Nausee'Book summary:256pages. poche. broché. Donc j'étais tout à l'heure au Jardin public. La racine du marronnier s'enfonçait dans la terre, juste au-dessous de mon banc. Je ne me rappelais plus que c'était une racine. Les mots s'étaient évanouis et, avec eux, la signification des choses, leurs modes d'emploi, les faibles repères que les hommes ont tracés à leur surface. J'étais assis, un peu voûté, la tête basse, seul en face de cette masse noire et noueuse entièrement brute et qui me faisait peur. Et puis j'ai eu cette illumination. Ca m'a coupé le souffle. Jamais, avant ces derniers jours, je n'avais pressenti ce que voulait dire exister. [via]
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Papillonby Henri CharriereISBN 2266118358 (2-266-11835-8)
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Pierre et Jeanby MaupassantISBN 2070410854 (2-07-041085-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pierre et Jean'Book summary:Une édition de référence de Pierre et Jean de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.« Jean, aussi blond que son frère était noir, aussi calme que son frère était emporté, aussi doux que son frère était rancunier, avait fait tranquillement son droit et venait dobtenir son diplôme de licencié en même temps que Pierre obtenait celui de docteur. [&]Mais une vague jalousie, une de ces jalousies dormantes qui grandissent presque invisibles entre frères ou entre sSurs jusquà la maturité et qui éclatent à loccasion dun mariage ou dun bonheur tombant sur lun, les tenait en éveil dans une fraternelle et inoffensive inimitié. »(Extrait du Chapitre I.)
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Schnee, Der Auf Zedern Falltby David GutersonISBN 3442725348 (3-442-72534-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schnee, Der Auf Zedern Fallt'Book summary:David Guterson ist ein junger amerikanischer Autor, der gleich mit seinem ersten Roman einen Volltreffer gelandet hat. Schauplatz der Handlung ist eine kleine Insel im Puget Sound, an der Nordwestküste der USA. Ganz nebenbei bemerkt, auch David Guterson lebt dort mit seiner Familie.
Den Rahmen des Romans bildet eine Gerichtsverhandlung. Es ist das Jahr 1954 und der Lachsfischer Kabuo, japanischer Abstammung, ist des Mordes angeklagt. Er soll seinen früheren Freund Carl Heine umgebracht haben. Der Journalist Ishmael Chambers ist Beobachter und Berichterstatter des Prozeßverlaufs. Er kennt die beiden Hauptpersonen schon sein ganzes Leben.
Mit der heutigen Frau des Angeklagten verbindet ihn eine Jugendliebe, doch der Zweite Weltkrieg hat die ehemaligen Freunde auseinandergerissen. Die Japaner auf der Insel, die sich als Amerikaner fühlten und auf der Seite der Amerikaner in den Krieg ziehen wollten, wurden von diesen zurückgewiesen und in Internierungslager gebracht. Auch neun Jahre nach Kriegsende sind die damals geschlagenen Wunden noch nicht vernarbt.
David Guterson beschreibt das schwierige Verhältnis zwischen Amerikanern und Japanern mit sehr leisen Tönen, bedächtig, behutsam und informativ. Der Roman ist kein Reißer und verlangt das Zuhören, das genaue Hinhören. Das Erzähltempo gleicht den Schneeflocken, die langsam auf die Zedern außerhalb des Gerichtssaals herabgleiten. --Manuela Haselberger [via]
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