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Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nationby Jonathan KozolISBN 0517799995 (0-517-79999-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation'Book summary:The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. [via]
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Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, Maxwell ArmfieldISBN 0517205734 (0-517-20573-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:Hans Christian Andersens Fairy Tales are like exquisite jewels, drawing from us gasps of recognition and delight. Andersen created intriguing and unique characters a tin soldier with only one leg but a big heart, a beetle nestled deep in a horses mane but harboring high aspirations. Each one of us at some time, has been touched by one of Andersens Fairy Tales. Here youll find his classic tales such as: The Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and The Ugly Duckling, 38 of your favorite tales in all. This deluxe Childrens Classic edition is produced with high-quality, leatherlike binding with gold stamping, full-color covers, colored endpapers with a book nameplate. Some of the other titles in this series include: Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Heidi, King Arthur and His Knights and The Secret Garden. [via]
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The Annotated Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard WolfISBN 0517530716 (0-517-53071-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Aristotle: Politicsby Aristotle, Stephen EversonISBN 0521357314 (0-521-35731-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Politics'Book summary:This new edition of The Politics provides students with an unusually lucid and accessible account of this complex, difficult and enormously influential work. It is based on Jonathan Barnes' revision of the renowned Jowett translation, and includes detailed note, a guide to further reading and a chronology of the principal events in Aristotle's life. In his introduction Stephen Everson tackles those problems most likely to hamper students in understanding The Politics. Aristotle's political theory is closely related to claims and types of explanations which he uses and justifies elsewhere in his works, and so one of Everson's main purposes is to show how Aristotle's arguments can best be grasped through an understanding of what he has to say in The Physics about nature and in the The Ethics about human flourishing. [via]
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Bacon's Essaysby Francis BaconISBN 0518100359 (0-518-10035-9)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Workby Arlie Russell HochschildISBN 0520214889 (0-520-21488-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work'Book summary:Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three New York Times Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions--indeed, American life itself. This book gathers some of Hochschild's most important and most widely read articles in one place, includes new work, and brings several essays to American audiences for the first time. Each chapter reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work. Taken together, they are a compelling, often startling, look at how our everyday lives are shaped by modern capitalism.[via]
These essays, rich with the details of everyday life, explore larger social issues by looking at a series of intimate moments in people's lives. Among them, "Love and Gold" investigates the globalization of love by focusing on care workers who leave their own children and elderly to care for children and the elderly in wealthy countries. In "The Commodity Frontier," Hochschild considers an Internet ad for a "beautiful, smart, hostess, good masseuse--$400/week," and explores our responses to personal services for hire. In "From the Frying Pan into the Fire" she asks if capitalism is a religion. In addition to these recent essays, several of Hochschild's important early essays, such as "Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers," have been revised and updated for this collection.More editions of Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work:
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The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby H.C. AndersenISBN 0517229242 (0-517-22924-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales'Book summary:More than 156 of the great Dane's best-loved fairy tales. [via]
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The Complete Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0517120739 (0-517-12073-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Oscar Wilde'Book summary:An all-encompassing collection of the author's plays, stories, poems, and children's works offers The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Lady Windomere's Fan, and Salome. [via]
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells'Book summary:Great collection of 7 science fiction novels by H.G. Wells... [via]
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Dublinersby James Joyce, Andrew GoodwynISBN 0521485444 (0-521-48544-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:Dubliners is a landmark in modern literature, and one of the twentieth century's finest collections of short stories. In its remarkable portrait of a city and its people, it dramatises ordinary life in the modern world. Together, the stories form one interwoven tapestry which provides a rich and subtle picture of the struggles of men and women to rise above the constraints of their everyday lives. Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day. The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary. The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods. [via]
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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersenby Kay NielsenISBN 0517624834 (0-517-62483-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Fiftiesby David HalberstamISBN 0517156075 (0-517-15607-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fifties'Book summary:"In retrospect," writes David Halberstam, "the pace of the fifties seemed slower, almost languid. Social ferment, however, was beginning just beneath this placid surface." He shows how the United States began to emerge from the long shadow of FDR's 12-year presidency, with the military-industrial complex and the Beat movement simultaneously growing strong. Television brought not only situation comedies but controversial congressional hearings into millions of living rooms. While Alfred Kinsey was studying people's sex lives, Gregory Pincus and other researchers began work on a pill that would forever alter the course of American reproductive practices. Halberstam takes on these social upheavals and more, charting a course that is as easy to navigate as it is wide-ranging. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Barry Moser, Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0520201795 (0-520-20179-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0521587026 (0-521-58702-6)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517118807 (0-517-11880-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517668424 (0-517-66842-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0520052811 (0-520-05281-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0520201795 (0-520-20179-5)
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0521587026 (0-521-58702-6)
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Barry MoserISBN 0520089421 (0-520-08942-1)
Softcover, Texas Bookman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0517227819 (0-517-22781-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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Great Expectationsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517415097 (0-517-41509-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Howard Erskine-HillISBN 0521329345 (0-521-32934-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Arthur RackhamISBN 0517466112 (0-517-46611-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:A classic story is timed for release with a four-hour NBC mini-series starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and follows the adventures of a shipwrecked physician who inadvertently visits the tiny Lilliput and gigantic Brobdingnag worlds. [via]
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Habits of the Heartby Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. TiptonISBN 0520053885 (0-520-05388-5)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Habits of the Heart'Book summary:Habits of the Heart is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how religion contributes to and detracts from America's common good. An instant classic upon publication in 1985, it was reissued in 1996 with a new introduction describing the book's continuing relevance for a time when the country's racial and class divisions are being continually healed and ripped open again by religious people. Habits of the Heart describes the social significance of faiths ranging from "Sheilaism" (practiced by a California nurse named Sheila) to conservative Christianity. It's thoroughly readable, theologically respectful, and academically irreproachable. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Lifeby Robert N. Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Richard Madsen, Ann Swidler, Steven M. TiptonISBN 0520205685 (0-520-20568-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life'Book summary:Habits of the Heart is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how religion contributes to and detracts from America's common good. An instant classic upon publication in 1985, it was reissued in 1996 with a new introduction describing the book's continuing relevance for a time when the country's racial and class divisions are being continually healed and ripped open again by religious people. Habits of the Heart describes the social significance of faiths ranging from "Sheilaism" (practiced by a California nurse named Sheila) to conservative Christianity. It's thoroughly readable, theologically respectful, and academically irreproachable. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, Val BiroISBN 0517227185 (0-517-22718-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:Charming color illustrations in this gorgeous volume bring the classic stories of Hans Christian Andersen to life, including:
" "The Wild Swans"
" "The Emperor's New Clothes"
" "The Ugly Duckling"
" "Thumbelina" [via]More editions of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales:
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517542099 (0-517-54209-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:Don't panic! You're not timetripping! It's the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!
By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.
For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who've read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams's unique universe -- remember -- don't panic, don't forget to bring a towel, and don't forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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Hitchhikers Trilogy Omnibus Edby CrownISBN 0517552000 (0-517-55200-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitchhikers Trilogy Omnibus Ed'Book summary:Contains The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, The Restaurant at the endof the Universe, and life, the universe and everything [via]
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The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517599244 (0-517-59924-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:State-of-the-art, digitally generated graphic images and tricky visual puns accompany the complete text of the cult classic story of one young man's zany adventures in outer space. 50,000 first printing. [via]
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The Illustrated Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 0517563207 (0-517-56320-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal'Book summary:a new edition of the world's most provocative best seller now with 56 fabulous full color photographs [via]
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
Jane Austen : Her Complete Novels Liby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517351749 (0-517-35174-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Jane Austen, Her Complete Novelsby Jane AustenISBN 0517347997 (0-517-34799-7)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen, Her Complete Novels'Book summary:A new jacketed edition, illustrated with line drawings, of the works of the ever-popular, critically acclaimed English novelist collects the unabridged texts of all of her completed novels, making it a unique bargain. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0517227754 (0-517-22775-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre: Library Edition'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is edited by Susan Cockcroft of Mackworth College, Derby. [via]
Jane Eyre : Oxford World Classicsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517606100 (0-517-60610-0)
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Jobby Robert A. HeineinISBN 0517649128 (0-517-64912-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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King Richard IIby William Shakespeare, Michael Clamp, Rex GibsonISBN 0521409462 (0-521-40946-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard II'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's finest history plays, Richard II deals with one of the most sensitive and politically explosive issues of its day--the rights and wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. Forerunner to the two parts of Henry IV, the play deals with the abdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard's death in the spring of 1400. But the play has been celebrated above and beyond its stature as historical drama. Richard II begins with a portrait of Richard as a pompous, arrogant and self-regarding sovereign, with little sense of his people or his political responsibilities. As he consistently miscalculates in his attempts to destroy Bolingbroke, and watches his own power wane, he becomes a far more appealing, Hamlet-like figure, more interested in "talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs", and "sad stories of the death of kings". Richard's speeches become increasingly lyrical and poetic as his supporters desert him, until he finally takes on the stature of the pilloried Christ in the climax of the play, the deposition scene, one of the most politically risky scenes in all of Shakespeare. The play remains most famous for John of Gaunt's "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle" speech, but historians believe that the play was also performed in the streets of London in 1601 in support of the Earl of Essex's attempt to depose Elizabeth I. Whilst the plot failed, it showed the power of the theatre of the time, and the politically controversial nature of Shakespeare's play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Leviathanby Thomas Hobbes, Richard TuckISBN 0521567971 (0-521-56797-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan'Book summary:S. A. Lloyd proposes a radically distinct interpretation of Hobbes's Leviathan that shows transcendent interests - interests that override the fear of death - to be crucial to both Hobbes's analysis of social disorder and his proposed remedy to it. Most previous commentators in the analytic philosophical tradition have argued that Hobbes thought that credible threats of physical force could be sufficient to deter people from political insurrection. Professor Lloyd convincingly shows that because Hobbes took the transcendence of religious and moral interests seriously, he never believed that mere physical force could ensure social order. Lloyd's interpretation demonstrates the ineliminability of that half of Leviathan devoted to religion, and attributes to Hobbes a much more plausible conception of human nature than the narrow psychological egoism traditionally attributed to Hobbes. [via]
Leviathanby Richard TuckISBN 0521394929 (0-521-39492-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Life, the Universe and Everythingby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517548747 (0-517-54874-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life, the Universe and Everything'Book summary:Arthur Dent now finds himself living in a miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. Just as he thinks things could not possibly get any worse--they do. Third in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. 4 cassettes. [via]
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Machiavelli: The Princeby Quentin Skinner, Russell PriceISBN 0521349931 (0-521-34993-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Machiavelli: The Prince'Book summary:In his introduction to this new translation by Russell Price, Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries. This new edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as well as biographical notes on characters in the text. [via]
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0517626365 (0-517-62636-5)
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Madame Bovaryby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517385880 (0-517-38588-0)
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The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Oppositionby Theodore RoszakISBN 0520201221 (0-520-20122-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition'Book summary:When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels--and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy--the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. He traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman. In a new introduction, Roszak reflects on the evolution of counter culture since he coined the term in the sixties.[via]
Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, "If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society--all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian."More editions of The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition:
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More Utopiaby Thomas More, Robert M. Adams, George M. LoganISBN 0521525403 (0-521-52540-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Utopia'Book summary:This revision incorporates the many refinements to the translation of Utopia undertaken in 1995. George Logan has also updated the editorial commentary and introduction to take into account the scholarship published since the first Cambridge Texts edition of Utopia appeared in 1989. This edition is the most accessible and student-friendly version of Utopia currently available. [via]
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Mostly Harmlessby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517577402 (0-517-57740-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mostly Harmless'Book summary:Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings. [via]
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Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Realityby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0521439612 (0-521-43961-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romanceby William Morris, Krishan KumarISBN 0521422337 (0-521-42233-7)
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0517606119 (0-517-60611-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...and soft-hearted a mood by the very first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion; and I wish I were a young fellow that I might avail myself on the spot of such a favourable opportunity for doing so, as the present. You are as great a boy as poor Brittles himself, returned Rose, blushing. Well, said the doctor, laughing heartily, that is no very ditficult matter. But to return to this boy: the great point of our agreement is yet to come. He will wake in an hour or so, I dare say; and although I have told that thick-headed constablefellow down stairs that he mustnt be moved or spoken to, on peril of his life, I think we may converse with him without, danger. Now, I make this stipulation---that I shall examine him in your presence, and that if from what he says, we judge, and I can show to the satisfaction of your cool reason, that he is a real and thorough bad one (which is more than possible), he shall be left to his fate, without any further interference on my part, at all events. Oh no, aunt l entreated Rose. Oh yes, aunt! said the doctor. Is it a bargain? _ He cannot be hardened in vice, said Rose; it is impossible. Very good, retorted the doctor; then so much th6 more reason for acceding to my proposition. Finally the treaty was entered into, and the parties thereto sat down to wait with some impatience until Oliver should awake. The patience of the two ladies was destined to undergo a longer trial than Mr. Losberne had led them to expect, for hour alter hour passed on, and still Oliver slumbered heavily. It was evening, indeed, before th_e kind-hearted doctor brought... [via]
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The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scriptsby Douglas Adams, Geoffrey PerkinsISBN 0517559501 (0-517-55950-1)
Softcover, Harmony Books
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Planet of the Apesby Pierre Boulle, Xan FieldingISBN 0517209489 (0-517-20948-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Planet of the Apes'Book summary:If you've seen the progressively cheesier Planet of the Apes movies of 1968-1973, you may be shocked to learn the first movie was adapted from an intelligent, ironic, and literate novel. You'll be less surprised when you learn the original novel Planet of the Apes was written by Pierre Boulle, author of The Bridge over the River Kwai.
In the novel Planet of the Apes, the three Frenchmen making the first interstellar journey discover a remarkably Earth-like world orbiting Betelgeuse--Earth-like, with one crucial difference: The humans are dumb beasts, and the apes are intelligent. Captured during a terrifying manhunt, locked in a cage, and ignorant of the simian language, Ulysse Merou struggles to convince the apes that he possesses intelligence and reason. But if he proves he is not an animal, he may seal his own doom.
Like the first movie, the novel Planet of the Apes has a twist ending, but a twist of a different--yet equally shocking--sort. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Politicsby Aristotle, Stephen EversonISBN 0521354498 (0-521-35449-8)
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Quentin Skinner, Russell PriceISBN 0521342406 (0-521-34240-6)
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Victor FischerISBN 0520051084 (0-520-05108-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:"What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it." Mark Twain's "tale" became his first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, published in 1881. Intricately plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history even though it was only the stuff of legend. In sixteenth-century England, young Prince Edward (son of Henry VIII) and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks exactly like him, are suddenly forced to change places. The prince endures "rags & hardships" while the pauper suffers the "horrible miseries of princedom." Mark Twain called his book a "tale for young people of all ages," and it has become a classic of American literature.[via]
The first edition in 1881 was fully illustrated by Frank Merrill, John Harley, and L. S. Ipsen. The boys in these illustrations, Mark Twain said, "look and dress exactly as I used to see them cast in my mind. . . . It is a vast pleasure to see them cast in the flesh, so to speak." This Mark Twain Library edition exactly reproduces the text of the California scholarly edition, including all of the 192 illustrations that so pleased the author.More editions of The Prince and the Pauper:
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia Woolf, Jenifer SmithISBN 0521485908 (0-521-48590-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism. [via]
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Savage Inequalities : Children in America's Schoolsby Jonathan KozolISBN 051758221X (0-517-58221-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Savage Inequalities : Children in America's Schools'Book summary:A searing, eye-opening exposé of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by Jonathan Kozol, the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age. Traveling the most blighted neighborhoods of our country, Kozol discovers a separate and unequal school system for America's less fortunate. [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan M. CockcroftISBN 0521567831 (0-521-56783-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith. About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently' begun to fail. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp. Some declared, that, if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough, that the world was not worthy to be any onger trodden by his feet. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain. Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Koger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. His first entry on the scene, few people... [via]
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fishby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517554399 (0-517-55439-9)
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Social Postmodernism: Beyond Identity Politicsby Linda J. Nicholson, Steven SeidmanISBN 0521475716 (0-521-47571-6)
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Somebody Else's Children : The Courts, the Kids, and the Struggle to Save America's Troubled Familiesby John Hubner, J. WolfsonISBN 0517599414 (0-517-59941-4)
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The Spirit of Lawsby Anne M. Cohler, C. De MontisquieuISBN 0521369746 (0-521-36974-6)
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The Spirit of Laws: A Compendium of the First English Editionby Charles Louis De Secondat MontesquieuISBN 0520034554 (0-520-03455-4)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, George Woodcock, Hablot Knight BrowneISBN 0517385910 (0-517-38591-0)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Rex GibsonISBN 0521567149 (0-521-56714-9)
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Thank You for Smokingby Christopher BuckleyISBN 0517170191 (0-517-17019-1)
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guideby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517124858 (0-517-12485-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide'Book summary:It's safe to say that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war--stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly.
This omnibus edition begins with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction. Then in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur and his new friends travel to the end of time and discover the true reason for Earth's existence. In Life, the Universe, and Everything, the gang goes on a mission to save the entire universe. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish recounts how Arthur finds true love and "God's Final Message to His Creation." Finally, Mostly Harmless is the story of Arthur's continuing search for home, in which he instead encounters his estranged daughter, who is on her own quest. There's also a bonus short story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," more of a vignette than a full story, which wraps up this completist's package of the Don't Panic chronicles. As the series progresses, its wackier elements diminish, but the satire of human life and foibles is ever present. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Utopiaby Thomas More, Robert M. Adams, George M. LoganISBN 0521347971 (0-521-34797-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Thomas More's Utopia is one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. His complex and ironic account of an imaginary communist society has not only given rise to the genre of utopian fiction but has been an inspiration to generations of political reformers. The present edition differs from other English-language editions in that it includes all the ancillary materials that were included, at More's behest, in the early editions (encompassing letters and poems on Utopia by More and several of his humanist associates), in that it presents a new version of the highly-regarded translation by Robert M. Adams, and in that its introductory materials and annotations assimilate important recent scholarship. [via]
Watership Downby Richard AdamsISBN 0517198126 (0-517-19812-6)
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