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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Dieby Ackroyd, Peter (AFT), Peter BoxallISBN 0789313707 (0-7893-1370-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die'Book summary:For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word.The featured works have been handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, including Derek Attridge (world expert on James Joyce), Cedric Watts (renowned authority on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene), Laura Marcus (noted Virginia Woolf expert), and David Mariott (poet and expert on African-American literature), among some twenty others.Addictive, browsable, knowledgeable1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die will be a boon companion for anyone who loves good writing and an inspiration for anyone who is just beginning to discover a love of books. Each entry is accompanied by an authoritative yet opinionated critical essay describing the importance and influence of the work in question. Also included are publishing history and career details about the authors, as well as reproductions of period dust jackets and book designs. [via]
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The Aeneidby Virgil, James H. MantinbandISBN 0804469520 (0-8044-6952-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Ali and Ninoby Kurban Said, Jenia GramanISBN 0786224851 (0-7862-2485-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ali and Nino'Book summary:As is true of all great literature, Kurban Said's Ali and Nino has timeless appeal. Set in the years surrounding the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union, Said's tale of an Azerbaijani Muslim boy in love with a Georgian Christian girl is both tender and disturbingly prescient. The novel, first published in 1937, begins as Ali Khan Shirvanshir is finishing his last year of high school:
We were a very mixed lot, we forty schoolboys who were having a Geography lesson one hot afternoon in the Imperial Russian Humanistic High School of Baku, Transcaucasia: thirty Mohammedans, four Armenians, two Poles, three Sectarians, and one Russian.
The multi-ethnic Baku, it seems, stands at a crossroads between West and East, and, as the smug Russian professor informs his pupils, it is their responsibility to decide "whether our town should belong to progressive Europe or to reactionary Asia." For Ali Khan Shirvanshir there is no doubt--he belongs to the East; his beloved Nino, however, is "a Christian, who eats with knife and fork, has laughing eyes and wears filmy silk stockings."Far away, to the West, there are rumblings of war. When the Russian Revolution begins, Ali Khan chooses not to fight; the Czar's fate is of little interest to a Muslim living in far away Transcaucasia. But the young man senses that another, greater danger is gathering on his country's borders--an "invisible hand" trying to force his world into new ways, the ways of the West. He assures his worried father that, like his ancestors, he is willing to die in battle, but at a time of his own choosing. In the meantime, he courts Nino and eventually marries her in the teeth of scandal and opposition. This union of East and West is at times a difficult one as Ali Khan finds himself lured further and further into European ways. When Soviet troops invade, however, he must choose once and for all whether to stand for Asia or Europe.
One of the many pleasures Ali and Nino offers is Kurban Said's lovingly rendered evocations of Muslim culture. Another is his compassionate portrait of the protagonists' difficult but profound relationship. Modern readers coming to this novel in the wake of the fall of Communism, outbreaks of sectarian violence, and the rise of religious fundamentalism will find disturbing parallels in its cautionary chronicle of cultures colliding and a way of life brutally destroyed. In the end, however, it is not historical accuracy, but rather the charm and passion of the title characters that lifts Said's only novel into literature's highest ranks. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Analysis of Human Genetic Linkageby Jurg OttISBN 0801861403 (0-8018-6140-3)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Applying for Research Funding: Getting Started and Getting Fundedby Joanne B. Ries, Carl G. LeukefeldISBN 0803953658 (0-8039-5365-8)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraqby George PackerISBN 078628451X (0-7862-8451-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq'Book summary:As the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins the debate with his thoughtful book The Assassins' Gate. Packer describes himself as an ambivalent pro-war liberal "who supported a war [in Iraq] by about the same margin that the voting public had supported Al Gore." He never believed the argument that Iraq should be invaded because of weapons of mass destruction. Instead, he saw the war as a way to get rid of Saddam Hussein and build democracy in Iraq, in the vein of the U.S. interventions in Haiti and Bosnia.
How did such lofty aims get so derailed? How did the U.S. get stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East? Packer traces the roots of the war back to a historic shift in U.S. policy that President Bush made immediately after 9/11. No longer would the U.S. be hamstrung by multilateralism or working through the UN. It would act unilaterally around the world--forging temporary coalitions with other nations where suitable--and defend its status as the sole superpower. But when it came to Iraq, even Bush administration officials were deeply divided. Packer takes readers inside the vicious bureaucratic warfare between the Pentagon and State Department that turned U.S. policy on Iraq into an incoherent mess. We see the consequences in the second half of The Assassins' Gate, which takes the reader to Iraq after the bombs have stopped dropping. Packer writes vividly about how the country deteriorated into chaos, with U.S. authorities in Iraq operating in crisis mode. The book fails to capture much of the debate about the war among Iraqis themselves--instead relying mostly on the views of one prominent Iraqi exile--but it is an insightful contribution to the debate about the decisions--and blunders--behind the war. --Alex Roslin [via]
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Basic Pathophysiology: A Conceptual Approachby Maureen E. Shekleton, Maureene W. GroerISBN 0801619831 (0-8016-1983-1)
Hardcover, Mosby
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Basic Pathophysiology: A Holistic Approachby Maureen W. Groer, Maureen E. ShekletonISBN 0801624525 (0-8016-2452-5)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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Before Adam: Easyread Large Editionby Jack London, Charles Livingston Bull, Dennis L. McKiernanISBN 0803279930 (0-8032-7993-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Biochemistry: A Case-Oriented Approachby Arthur A. Spector, Thomas W. Conway, Barry H. Ginsberg, Rex MontgomeryISBN 0801635497 (0-8016-3549-7)
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Blindnessby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0786218347 (0-7862-1834-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blindness'Book summary:In an unnamed city in an unnamed country, a man sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light to change is suddenly struck blind. But instead of being plunged into darkness, this man sees everything white, as if he "were caught in a mist or had fallen into a milky sea." A Good Samaritan offers to drive him home (and later steals his car); his wife takes him by taxi to a nearby eye clinic where they are ushered past other patients into the doctor's office. Within a day the man's wife, the taxi driver, the doctor and his patients, and the car thief have all succumbed to blindness. As the epidemic spreads, the government panics and begins quarantining victims in an abandoned mental asylum--guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot anyone who tries to escape. So begins Portuguese author José Saramago's gripping story of humanity under siege, written with a dearth of paragraphs, limited punctuation, and embedded dialogue minus either quotation marks or attribution. At first this may seem challenging, but the style actually contributes to the narrative's building tension, and to the reader's involvement.
In this community of blind people there is still one set of functioning eyes: the doctor's wife has affected blindness in order to accompany her husband to the asylum. As the number of victims grows and the asylum becomes overcrowded, systems begin to break down: toilets back up, food deliveries become sporadic; there is no medical treatment for the sick and no proper way to bury the dead. Inevitably, social conventions begin to crumble as well, with one group of blind inmates taking control of the dwindling food supply and using it to exploit the others. Through it all, the doctor's wife does her best to protect her little band of blind charges, eventually leading them out of the hospital and back into the horribly changed landscape of the city.
Blindness is in many ways a horrific novel, detailing as it does the total breakdown in society that follows upon this most unnatural disaster. Saramago takes his characters to the very edge of humanity and then pushes them over the precipice. His people learn to live in inexpressible filth, they commit acts of both unspeakable violence and amazing generosity that would have been unimaginable to them before the tragedy. The very structure of society itself alters to suit the circumstances as once-civilized, urban dwellers become ragged nomads traveling by touch from building to building in search of food. The devil is in the details, and Saramago has imagined for us in all its devastation a hell where those who went blind in the streets can never find their homes again, where people are reduced to eating chickens raw and packs of dogs roam the excrement-covered sidewalks scavenging from corpses.
And yet in the midst of all this horror Saramago has written passages of unsurpassed beauty. Upon being told she is beautiful by three of her charges, women who have never seen her, "the doctor's wife is reduced to tears because of a personal pronoun, an adverb, a verb, an adjective, mere grammatical categories, mere labels, just like the two women, the others, indefinite pronouns, they too are crying, they embrace the woman of the whole sentence, three graces beneath the falling rain." In this one woman Saramago has created an enduring, fully developed character who serves both as the eyes and ears of the reader and as the conscience of the race. And in Blindness he has written a profound, ultimately transcendent meditation on what it means to be human. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Calculation of Genetic Risks: Worked Examples in DNA Diagnosticsby Peter J. BridgeISBN 0801857449 (0-8018-5744-9)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Calculation of Genetic Risks: Worked Examples in DNA Diagnostics'Book summary:"It will be the basic aim of this book," writes Peter J. Bridge, "to impart to the reader the fundamentals of how we start with laboratory results and end up with numbers representing genetic risks." This practical guide for both clinical and research geneticists explains how to calculate an individual's genetic risk based on information available from genetic testing and from family pedigrees. Bridge begins with the general theory of estimating genetic risks, then progresses through familial and isolated cases, both simple and complex. A major strength of the book lies in the wealth of worked examples provided throughout the text. The disorders are selected to be widely applicable or adaptable as needed.
New to this edition are sections on consanguinity, multipoint linkage analysis, nonparametric methods, homozygosity mapping, and physical mapping. Also new is a chapter on other DNA-based calculations, including sections on paternity, zygosity, family reconstructions, and quantification of mitochondrial mutations.
From reviews of the first edition: "To use a computer package intelligently and safely, you need to have in reserve the ability to do the calculation by hand, at least approximately, so as to appreciate which factors contribute to the risk. And the current computer packages cannot cope with several factors which can crucially affect the final risk, such as germinal mosaicism or the risk of maternal cell contamination... Bridge's book is very thorough. Every combination of pedigree structure and marker data is discussed, with numerous tables showing the result of systematically varying one or more parameters." -- Journal of Medical Genetics
"A useful reference book." -- American Journal of Human Genetics
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Catalog of Prenatally Diagnosed Conditionsby David D. WeaverISBN 0801837715 (0-8018-3771-5)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Chicago Loopby Paul TherouxISBN 0804111618 (0-8041-1161-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Chickenby Chuck Williams, Emalee ChapmanISBN 0783502257 (0-7835-0225-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Coming Up for Air: How to Build a Balanced Life in a Workaholic Worldby Beth SawiISBN 0786865490 (0-7868-6549-0)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Cultural and Ethnic Diversity: A Guide for Genetics Professionalsby Nancy L. FisherISBN 080185346X (0-8018-5346-X)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedarsby Harold BloomISBN 0791078779 (0-7910-7877-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars'Book summary:David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Guides collection, presents concise critical excerpts from Snow Falling on Cedars to provide a scholarly overview of the work. This comprehensive study guide also features "The Story Behind the Story," which details the conditions under which Snow Falling on Cedars was written. This title also includes a short biography on Guterson and a descriptive list of characters. [via]
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed Americaby Erik LarsonISBN 0786252189 (0-7862-5218-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America'Book summary:Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. --John Moe [via]
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Diary Of A Seducerby Soren KierkegaardISBN 0804463573 (0-8044-6357-3)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Ron Tiner, John GrantISBN 0794502385 (0-7945-0238-5)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Exploring Collaborative Research in Primary Careby Et Al, Benjamin F. Crabtree, William L. MillerISBN 0803954905 (0-8039-5490-5)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exploring Collaborative Research in Primary Care'Book summary:The contributors to this book suggest that the failure of much primary care research is due to specialization and the fact that this in turn results in an emphasis on individual problems or illnesses and a reliance on technology. From this premise, they build an impressive case for multimethod research, moving beyond the perspective of any one discipline. [via]
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Exploring Collaborative Research in Primary Careby William L. Miller, Benjamin F. Crabtree, Richard B. AddisonISBN 0803954891 (0-8039-5489-1)
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Finding and Buying Your Place in the Countryby Les Scher, Carol ScherISBN 0793141095 (0-7931-4109-5)
Softcover, Kaplan
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The Flight from Science and Reasonby Martin W. Lewis, Paul R. Gross, Norman LevittISBN 0801856760 (0-8018-5676-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Fruit Dessertsby Chuck Williams, Lora Brody, Allan RosenbergISBN 0783502877 (0-7835-0287-7)
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Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Diseaseby Barton ChildsISBN 0801861306 (0-8018-6130-6)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease: Ethical and Clinical Issuesby Peter J. Whitehouse, Stephen G. PostISBN 0801858402 (0-8018-5840-2)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Genetic Variation and Disorders in Peoples of African Originby Robert F. Murray, James E. BowmanISBN 0801858844 (0-8018-5884-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Heart of a Dogby Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0802150594 (0-8021-5059-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0804901120 (0-8049-0112-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Poemsby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lisa Lipkin, Johanna BrownellISBN 0785812857 (0-7858-1285-7)
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Heredity and Your Family's Healthby Aubrey MilunskyISBN 0801843316 (0-8018-4331-6)
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The Hippodromeby Cyrus ColterISBN 0804006253 (0-8040-0625-3)
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A History of the World in 6 Glassesby Tom StandageISBN 0802715524 (0-8027-1552-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the World in 6 Glasses'Book summary:From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human historyThroughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. Beer was first made in the Fertile Crescent and by 3000 B.C.E. was so important to Mesopotamia and Egypt that it was used to pay wages. In ancient Greece wine became the main export of her vast seaborne trade, helping spread Greek culture abroad. Spirits such as brandy and rum fueled the Age of Exploration, fortifying seamen on long voyages and oiling the pernicious slave trade. Although coffee originated in the Arab world, it stoked revolutionary thought in Europe during the Age of Reason, when coffeehouses became centers of intellectual exchange. And hundreds of years after the Chinese began drinking tea, it became especially popular in Britain, with far-reaching effects on British foreign policy. Finally, though carbonated drinks were invented in 18th-century Europe they became a 20th-century phenomenon, and Coca-Cola in particular is the leading symbol of globalization.For Tom Standage, each drink is a kind of technology, a catalyst for advancing culture by which he demonstrates the intricate interplay of different civilizations. You may never look at your favorite drink the same way again. [via]
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The History Of The World In Six Glassesby Tom StandageISBN 0802714471 (0-8027-1447-1)
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. Beer was first made in the Fertile Crescent and by 3000 B.C.E. was so important to Mesopotamia and Egypt that it was used to pay wages. In ancient Greece wine became the main export of her vast seaborne trade, helping spread Greek culture abroad. Spirits such as brandy and rum fueled the Age of Exploration, fortifying seamen on long voyages and oiling the pernicious slave trade. Although coffee originated in the Arab world, it stoked revolutionary thought in Europe during the Age of Reason, when coffeehouses became centers of intellectual exchange. And hundreds of years after the Chinese began drinking tea, it became especially popular in Britain, with far-reaching effects on British foreign policy. Finally, though carbonated drinks were invented in 18th-century Europe they became a 20th-century phenomenon, and Coca-Cola in particular is the leading symbol of globalization.
For Tom Standage, each drink is a kind of technology, a catalyst for advancing culture by which he demonstrates the intricate interplay of different civilizations. You may never look at your favorite drink the same way again.More editions of The History Of The World In Six Glasses:
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Homer's Iliadby Harold BloomISBN 0791082407 (0-7910-8240-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer's The Iliad'Book summary:In his introduction Harold Bloom states that, together with the Bible, the Iliad "represents the foundation of Western literature, thought, and spirituality." The piece is the focus of this title in our Bloom's Notes series. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on the work, this text includes a structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
Human Pharmacology: Molecular to Clinicalby Theodore M. Brody, Joseph Larner, Kenneth P. MinnemanISBN 0801679281 (0-8016-7928-1)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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Integrating Research: A Guide for Literature Reviewsby Harris M. CooperISBN 0803934319 (0-8039-3431-9)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Intercultural Interactions: A Practical Guideby Kenneth Cushner, Richard W. BrislinISBN 0803959915 (0-8039-5991-5)
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Interpreter of Maladies: Library Editionby Jhumpa LahiriISBN 0786264349 (0-7862-6434-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition'Book summary:Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and Shukumar, the young couple in "A Temporary Matter" whose marriage is crumbling in the wake of a stillborn child. Or Miranda in "Sexy," who is involved in a hopeless affair with a married man. But Mr. Kapasi has problems enough of his own; in addition to his regular job working as an interpreter for a doctor who does not speak his patients' language, he also drives tourists to local sites of interest. His fare on this particular day is Mr. and Mrs. Das--first-generation Americans of Indian descent--and their children. During the course of the afternoon, Mr. Kapasi becomes enamored of Mrs. Das and then becomes her unwilling confidant when she reads too much into his profession. "I told you because of your talents," she informs him after divulging a startling secret.
I'm tired of feeling so terrible all the time. Eight years, Mr. Kapasi, I've been in pain eight years. I was hoping you could help me feel better; say the right thing. Suggest some kind of remedy.
Of course, Mr. Kapasi has no cure for what ails Mrs. Das--or himself. Lahiri's subtle, bittersweet ending is characteristic of the collection as a whole. Some of these nine tales are set in India, others in the United States, and most concern characters of Indian heritage. Yet the situations Lahiri's people face, from unhappy marriages to civil war, transcend ethnicity. As the narrator of the last story, "The Third and Final Continent," comments: "There are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept." In that single line Jhumpa Lahiri sums up a universal experience, one that applies to all who have grown up, left home, fallen in or out of love, and, above all, experienced what it means to be a foreigner, even within one's own family. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition:
The Marquise of O--, and Other Storiesby Heinrich Von KleistISBN 0804463654 (0-8044-6365-4)
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Maximizing the Value of 360-Degree Feedback: A Process for Successful Individual and Organizational Developmentby Center for Creative Leadership, London Manuel, Tornow Walter, Manuel London, Walter W. TornowISBN 0787909580 (0-7879-0958-0)
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Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David SedarisISBN 0783892799 (0-7838-9279-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Me Talk Pretty One Day'Book summary:"It's a pretty grim world when I can't even feel superior to a toddler." Welcome to the curious mind of David Sedaris, where dogs outrank children, guitars have breasts, and French toddlers unmask the inadequacies of the American male. Sedaris inhabits this world as a misanthrope chronicling all things petty and small. In Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris is as determined as ever to be nobody's hero--he never triumphs, he never conquers--and somehow, with each failure, he inadvertently becomes everybody's favorite underdog. The world's most eloquent malcontent, Sedaris has turned self-deprecation into a celebrated art form--one that is perhaps best experienced in audio. "Go Carolina," his account of "the first battle of my war against the letter s" is particularly poignant. Unable to disguise the lisp that has become his trademark, Sedaris highlights (to hilarious extent) the frustration of reading "childish s-laden texts recounting the adventures of seals or settlers named Sassy or Samuel." Including 23 of the book version's 28 stories, two live performances complete with involuntary laughter, and an uncannily accurate Billie Holiday impersonation, the audio is more than a companion to the text; it stands alone as a performance piece--only without the sock monkeys. (Running time: 5 hours, 4 cassettes) --Daphne Durham [via]
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Medical Geneticsby John C. Carey, Lynn B. Jorde, Raymond L. WhiteISBN 0801664144 (0-8016-6414-4)
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Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothingby Joseph EichendorffISBN 0804461341 (0-8044-6134-1)
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National Geographic Historical Atlas of the United Statesby National GeographicISBN 0792261313 (0-7922-6131-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'National Geographic Historical Atlas of the United States'Book summary:More often than not, we think of a country's history as a narrative, a sequential tale of great people and important events. But sometimes it's more revealing to think of history as a map of the eras, inventions, ideas, and people that have shaped our country for more than five hundred years, from the first visitors to North America's shores to the first years of the 21st century.
Combining the unparalleled cartography and the extraordinary graphic archive of the National Geographic Society, this marvelous volume charts an engrossing web of connections, vividly displayed in a series of concise, self-contained essays and scores of maps that are the heart of a stunning visual chronicle that unfolds our history in a new and fascinating way. Each chapter is introduced by a time line that sets its subjects in context, then dozens of photographs, period maps, and illustrations capture the flavor of life in eras and places as varied as Texas cow towns and Tennessee coal mines, colonial Boston and gold-rush California.
Subject maps trace the great rivers and rough trails settlers followed as they fanned out across an unexplored continent, with a lively text that explains who they were and why they headed West, and are accompanied by a sidebar in which Mark Twain reminisces about life as a Mississippi steamboat pilot. We learn how an 1859 gusher at Titusville, Pennsylvania, led to a nationwide search for "black gold," and how John D. Rockefeller channeled it into Standard Oil. We learn how Eli Whitney's cotton gin, Henry Ford's Model T, and dozens of other inventions transformed our landscape; and we watch as social movements--labor unions, women's suffrage, civil rights--Sstruggle to include the disenfranchised in the American Dream. In these pages we find political battles and military campaigns, immigrants and industrialists, ordinary people and Presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush.
Wide-ranging, entertaining, and as expansive as America itself, the Historical Atlas of the United States is an important reference and an indispensable guide to the many intertwined paths that have led to the nation we know. [via]
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The New York Public Library American History Desk Referenceby Douglas BrinkleyISBN 0786868473 (0-7868-6847-3)
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Night Studiesby Cyrus ColterISBN 0804008272 (0-8040-0827-2)
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Nursing the Finest Art: An Illustrated Historyby m Patricia Donahue, Patricia A. Russac, Teresa E. ChristyISBN 0801614244 (0-8016-1424-4)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Richard P. Martin, Edward McCrorieISBN 0801882672 (0-8018-8267-2)
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The Odysseyby Richard P. Martin, HomerISBN 0801868548 (0-8018-6854-8)
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only this man longed for his wife and a way home."
Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style.
Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century.
To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey, its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniques, and his cast of characters. In addition, Martin provides detailed notesfar more extensive than those in other editionsaddressing key themes and concepts; the histories of persons, gods, events, and myths; literary motifs and devices; and plot development. Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.
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The Odyssey of Homerby HomerISBN 0804900574 (0-8049-0057-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 078628319X (0-7862-8319-X)
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Pathophysiology: Clinical Concepts of Disease Processesby Sylvia Anderson Price, Lorraine McCarty WilsonISBN 0801660513 (0-8016-6051-3)
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The Perfect Cityby Bob Thall, Peter Bacon HalesISBN 0801847265 (0-8018-4726-5)
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Pioneers of France in the New Worldby Francis Parkman, Colin G. CallowayISBN 0803287445 (0-8032-8744-5)
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Population Genetics: A Concise Guideby John H. GillespieISBN 0801857554 (0-8018-5755-4)
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Potatoesby Chuck Williams, Diane Rossen WorthingtonISBN 0783502753 (0-7835-0275-3)
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The Powerful Placebo: From Ancient Priest to Modern Physicianby Arthur K. ShapiroISBN 0801855691 (0-8018-5569-1)
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The Process of Patient Educationby Barbara Klug RedmanISBN 0801666708 (0-8016-6670-8)
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Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 0783885008 (0-7838-8500-8)
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The Rivers of Erosby Cyrus ColterISBN 080400563X (0-8040-0563-X)
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Scotland: The Story of a Nationby Magnus MagnussonISBN 0802139329 (0-8021-3932-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scotland: The Story of a Nation'Book summary:Near Stirling, Scotland, stands a memorial to the warrior William Wallace, put to death at the orders of the English king Edward I in 1305. Within that memorial stands a glass case, and inside of it stands a broadsword 1.7 meters long. Legend has it that the hero himself wielded the weapon, and so "Wallace's Sword" it is.
Magnus Magnusson, a native of Iceland who has long lived in and written about Scotland, may spoil it for some readers when he writes that Wallace's Sword probably wasn't Wallace's. To use it, Wallace would have had to have stood at least 6-foot-6 in height and to have lived two centuries later. The business of the sword is just one of the "cherished conceptions" about Scottish history that Magnusson picks apart and then, corrected and improved, restores. At other turns he considers the true identity of the legendary king Macbeth (and entertains some surprising but plausible theories about the king's alter ego); reconstructs decisive battles such as Otterburn, Flodden, and Glencoe; and looks closely at the complicated negotiations (and, many would say, treacheries) that led to the union with England of 1707. Magnusson closes with an account of modern independence movements and the recent return of some measure of national autonomy, opening a "new chapter in a nation's story, which the people of Scotland are now beginning to write."
Lucid, witty, and unafraid of controversy, Magnusson's book does a fine job of condensing a complex history, stretching out for 10 millennia, into a single volume. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Siege of Krishnapurby J.G. FarrellISBN 0786704845 (0-7867-0484-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Students of history will recognize 1857 as the year of the Sepoy rebellion in India--an uprising of native soldiers against the British, brought on by Hindu and Muslim recruits' belief that the rifle cartridges they were provided had been greased with pig or cow fat. This seminal event in Anglo-Indian relations provides the backdrop for J.G. Farrell's Booker Prize-winning exploration of race, culture, and class, The Siege of Krishnapur.
Like the mysteriously appearing chapatis, life in British India seems, on the surface, innocuous enough. Farrell introduces us gradually to a large cast of characters as he paints a vivid portrait of the Victorians' daily routines that are accompanied by heat, boredom, class consciousness, and the pursuit of genteel pastimes intended for cooler climates. Even the siege begins slowly, with disquieting news of massacres in cities far away. When Krishnapur itself is finally attacked, the Europeans withdraw inside the grounds of the Residency where very soon conditions begin to deteriorate: food and water run out, disease is rampant, people begin to go a little mad. Soon the very proper British are reduced to eating insects and consorting across class lines. Farrell's descriptions of life inside the Residency are simultaneously horrifying and blackly humorous. The siege, for example, is conducted under the avid eyes of the local populace, who clearly anticipate an enjoyable massacre and thus arrive every morning laden with picnic lunches (plainly visible to the starving Europeans). By turns witty and compassionate, The Siege of Krishnapur comprises the best of all fictional worlds: unforgettable characters, an epic adventure, and at its heart a cultural clash for the ages. Quite simply, this is a splendid novel. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0804901473 (0-8049-0147-3)
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby David GutersonISBN 0786205164 (0-7862-0516-4)
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A Spot of Botherby Mark HaddonISBN 0786291230 (0-7862-9123-0)
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Stir-Fryby Chuck Williams, Diane Rossen WorthingtonISBN 0783503008 (0-7835-0300-8)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Barry MoserISBN 0803292406 (0-8032-9240-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Stress & Health: Biological and Psychological Interactionsby William R. LovalloISBN 0803970013 (0-8039-7001-3)
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Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Processby Rae R. Newton, Kjell Erik RudestamISBN 0803945639 (0-8039-4563-9)
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Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionaryby Clayton L. ThomasISBN 0803601948 (0-8036-0194-8)
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Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionaryby Clarence Wilbur Taber, Clayton E. ThomasISBN 080368312X (0-8036-8312-X)
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Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary: Deluxe Thumb-Indexed Versionby Clayton L. Thomas, Donald Venes, Clarence Wilbur TaberISBN 0803606559 (0-8036-0655-9)
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What Jesus Meantby Garry WillsISBN 0786287683 (0-7862-8768-3)
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What You Really Need to Know About Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Familiesby Robert BuckmanISBN 0801855934 (0-8018-5593-4)
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Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing As an Artby Willa CatherISBN 0803263325 (0-8032-6332-5)
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Wisdom of the Bodyby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 078819609X (0-7881-9609-X)
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 078627722X (0-7862-7722-X)
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The groundbreaking new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman is a timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists. [via]
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Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatmentby Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Nancy S. JeckerISBN 0801863724 (0-8018-6372-4)
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