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The Adventures of Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0192545051 (0-19-254505-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Oliver Twist'Book summary:This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers." Set against London's seedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of "Oliver Twist" firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion." [via]
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The Age of Extremes : 1914-1991by Eric J. HobsbawnISBN 0394585755 (0-394-58575-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessby Neil PostmanISBN 014303653X (0-14-303653-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ancien Regimeby Pierre GoubertISBN 0061361011 (0-06-136101-1)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Ancien Regime French Society 1600-1750by Pierre GoubertISBN 0061318221 (0-06-131822-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Aristotelis Politicaby AristotleISBN 0198145152 (0-19-814515-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Beyond Fear : Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain Worldby Bruce SchneierISBN 0387026207 (0-387-02620-7)
Hardcover, Springer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Fear : Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World'Book summary:Many of us, especially since 9/11, have become personally concerned about issues of security, and this is no surprise. Security is near the top of government and corporate agendas around the globe. Security-related stories appear on the front page everyday. How well though, do any of us truly understand what achieving real security involves? In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national governments and militaries. Schneier believes we all can and should be better security consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in the name of security - in terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished freedoms - should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional, and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national discussion. With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security. He also believes, for instance, that national ID cards are an exceptionally bad idea: technically unsound, and even destructive of security. And, contrary to a lot of current nay-sayers, he thinks online shopping is fundamentally safe, and that many of the new airline security measure (though by no means all) are actually quite effective. A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics, Schneier is also a refreshingly positive, problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing and fear-mongering world of security pundits. Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake, and how to best come to one's own conclusions, including the vast infrastructure we already have in place, and the vaster systems--some useful, others useless or worse--that we're being asked to submit to and pay for. Bruce Schneier is the author of seven books, including Applied Cryptography (which Wired called "the one book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published") and Secrets and Lies (described in Fortune as "startlingly lively...¦[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use."). He is also Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., and publishes Crypto-Gram, one of the most widely read newsletters in the field of online security. [via]
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Brothel : Mustang Ranch and Its Womenby Alexa AlbertISBN 0375503315 (0-375-50331-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothel : Mustang Ranch and Its Women'Book summary:A journey into a fascinating subculture, Alexa Albert's exploration of Nevada's infamous cathouses began as a public-health study into the safe-sex practices of these legal working girls and the effectiveness of condom requirements in preventing sexually transmitted diseases. It took her three years to gain access to the brothels, and when her project was eventually approved by the head of the Nevada Brothel Association, she was surprised to be invited to stay at Mustang Ranch, among the women of the brothel, for the duration of her research. She learned that despite the legalization of prostitution in several counties of Nevada, the working girls still faced restrictive local ordinances and work regulations that kept them virtual prisoners inside the brothel compound. Outside, they encountered the same social stigma that has always haunted sex workers. In her compassionate, engaging first book, Albert answers all the questions you might ever have about prostitutes, providing a rich and nuanced depiction of a largely hidden world. --Regina Marler [via]
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 9871138997 (987-1138-99-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalismby Richard SennettISBN 0393319873 (0-393-31987-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism'Book summary:In the brave new world of the "flexible" corporation, Richard Sennett observes, workers at all levels are regarded as wholly disposable, and they have responded in kind, ceasing to think in terms of any long-term relationship with the organizations they work for. This, he argues, has tremendous negative consequences for workers' emotional and psychological well-being. Even in menial jobs, we extract much of our self-image from the idea of a "career"--a life narrative rendered intelligible by specific loyalties, which is to some degree self-invented but also in some respects predictable. Innovations like "flextime" and bureaucratic "de-layering" seem to promise more freedom to define one's career, but in fact they create jobs in which there's less freedom than ever to be had. The Corrosion of Character is a short, anecdotal book, and while one might wish that it included a discussion of the social and psychological costs of the sheer increase of work time in the average worker's week, Sennett has created a pithy, disturbing picture of the cost of the corporate world's much-vaunted new efficiencies. --Richard Farr [via]
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Cry, the Beloved Countryby Alan PatonISBN 0020532105 (0-02-053210-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of Americaby Robert HughesISBN 0195076761 (0-19-507676-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America'Book summary:The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelona here delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture.
Culture of Complaint is a call for the re-knitting of a fragmented and over-tribalized America--a deeply passionate book, filled with barbed wit and devastating takes on public life, both left and right of center. To the right, Hughes fires broadsides at the populist demagogy of Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Jesse Helms and especially Ronald Reagan ("with somnambulistic efficiency, Reagan educated America down to his level. He left his country a little stupider in 1988 than it had been in 1980, and a lot more tolerant of lies"). To the left, he skewers political correctness ("political etiquette, not politics itself"), Afrocentrism, and academic obsessions with theory ("The world changes more deeply, widely, thrillingly than at any moment since 1917, perhaps since 1848, and the American academic left keeps fretting about how phallocentricity is inscribed in Dickens' portrayal of Little Nell"). PC censoriousness and "family-values" rhetoric, he argues, are only two sides of the same character, extrusions of America's puritan heritage into the present--and, at root, signs of America's difficulty in seeing past the end of the Us-versus-Them mentality implanted by four decades of the Cold War.
In the long retreat from public responsibility beaten by America in the 80s, Hughes sees "a hollowness at the cultural core"--a nation "obsessed with therapies and filled with distrust of formal politics; skeptical of authority and prey to superstition; its language corroded by fake pity and euphemism." It resembles "late Rome...in the corruption and verbosity of its senators, in its reliance on sacred geese (those feathered ancestors of our own pollsters and spin-doctors) and in its submission to senile, deified emperors controlled by astrologers and extravagant wives."
Culture of Complaint is fired by a deep concern for the way Hughes sees his adopted country heading. But it is not a relentless diatribe. If Hughes lambastes some aspects of American politics, he applauds Vaclav Havel's vision of politics "not as the art of the useful, but politics as practical morality, as service to the truth." And if he denounces PC, he offers a brilliant and heartfelt defence of non-ideological multiculturalism as an antidote to Americans' difficulty in imagining the rest of the world--and other Americans.
Here, then, is an extraordinary cri de coeur, an outspoken call for the reconstruction of America's ideas about its recent self. It is a book that everyone interested in American culture will want to read. [via]More editions of Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America:
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry Thompson Rowell, E. O. LorimerISBN 0300101864 (0-300-10186-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire'Book summary:This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. It was a period marked by lavish displays of wealth, a dazzling cultural mix, and the advent of Christianity. The splendor and squalor of the city, the spectacles, and the day's routines are reconstructed from an immense fund of archaeological evidence and from vivid descriptions by ancient poets, satirists, letter-writers, and novelists-from Petronius to Pliny the Younger. In a new Introduction, the eminent classicist Mary Beard appraises the book's enduring-and sometimes surprising-influence and its value for general readers and students. She also provides an up-to-date bibliographic essay. [via]
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The People and the City at the Height of the Empire,: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry T. RowellISBN 0300000316 (0-300-00031-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The People and the City at the Height of the Empire,: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Dreams from My Fatherby Barack ObamaISBN 0307383415 (0-307-38341-5)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreams from My Father'Book summary:Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obamas struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mothera struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.
Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his fathera figure he knows more as a myth than as a manhas died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his familys unusual history: the migration of his mothers family from small-town Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his mother and a promising young Kenyan student, a love nurtured by youthful innocence and the integrationist spirit of the early sixties; his fathers departure from Hawaii when Barack was two, as the realities of race and power reassert themselves; and Baracks own awakening to the fears and doubts that exist not just between the larger black and white worlds but within himself.
Propelled by a desire to understand both the forces that shaped him and his fathers legacy, Barack moves to Chicago to work as a community organizer. There, against the backdrop of tumultuous political and racial conflict, he works to turn back the mounting despair of the inner city. His story becomes one with those of the people he works with as he learns about the value of community, the necessity of healing old wounds, and the possibility of faith in the midst of adversity.
Baracks journey comes full circle in Kenya, where he finally meets the African side of his family and confronts the bitter truth of his fathers life. Traveling through a country racked by brutal poverty and tribal conflict, but whose people are sustained by a spirit of endurance and hope, Barack discovers that he is inescapably bound to brothers and sisters living an ocean awayand that by embracing their common struggles he can finally reconcile his divided inheritance.
A searching meditation on the meaning of identity in America, Dreams from My Father might be the most revealing portrait we have of a major American leadera man who is playing, and will play, an increasingly prominent role in healing a fractious and fragmented nation.
Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl). [via]More editions of Dreams from My Father:
El Conde De Monte Cristo/the Count of Monte Cristoby Alejandro DumasISBN 9871150083 (987-1150-08-3)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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El Principe / the Princeby Nicolas MaquiaveloISBN 9875503231 (987-550-323-1)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.
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Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800by Laurence StoneISBN 0060141425 (0-06-014142-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Family, Sex and Marriage in England, Fifteen Hundred to Eighteen Hundred Abr. Ed. Illus.by Lawrence StoneISBN 0060907355 (0-06-090735-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Family, Sex, and Marriageby Lawrence StoneISBN 0061319791 (0-06-131979-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0394464354 (0-394-46435-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,'Book summary:Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.
On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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The Feeling Child.by Arthur JanovISBN 0349118329 (0-349-11832-9)
Hardcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feeling Child.'Book summary:Bushnell's beat is that demi-monde of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and parties where the rich come into contact with the infamous, the famous with the wannabes and the publicity-hungry with the gossip-peddlers' EVENING STANDARD Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, SEX AND THE CITY blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through New York, as Candace Bushnell, columnist and social critic par excellence, trips on her Manolo Blahnik kitten heels from the Baby Doll Lounge to the Bowery Bar. An Armistead Maupin for the real world, she has the gift of assembling a huge and irresistible cast of freaks and wonders, while remaining faithful to her hard core of friends and fans: those glamorous, rebellious, crazy single women, too close to forty, who are trying hard not to turn from the Audrey Hepburn of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S into the Glen Close of FATAL ATTRACTION, and are - still - looking for love. [via]
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Fundacion E Imperioby Isaac AsimovISBN 9871138652 (987-1138-65-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Globalization and Its Discontentsby Joseph E. StiglitzISBN 0393324397 (0-393-32439-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Globalization and Its Discontents'Book summary:Due to massive media coverage, many people are familiar with the controversy and organized resistance that globalization has generated around the world, yet explaining what globalization actually means in practice is a complicated task. For those wanting to learn more, this book is an excellent place to start. An experienced economist, Joseph Stiglitz had a brilliant career in academia before serving for four years on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors and then three years as chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. His book clearly explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization--the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization--along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. He strongly believes that globalization can be a positive force around the world, particularly for the poor, but only if the IMF, World Bank, and WTO dramatically alter the way they operate, beginning with increased transparency and a greater willingness to examine their own actions closely. Of his time at the World Bank, he writes, "Decisions were made on the basis of what seemed a curious blend of ideology and bad economics, dogma that sometimes seemed to be thinly veiling special interests.... Open, frank discussion was discouraged--there was no room for it." The book is not entirely critical, however: "Those who vilify globalization too often overlook its benefits," Stiglitz writes, explaining how globalization, along with foreign aid, has improved the living standards of millions around the world. With this clear and balanced book, Stiglitz has contributed significantly to the debate on this important topic. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther Kingby Jean Marzollo, J. Brian PinkneyISBN 0439782244 (0-439-78224-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King'Book summary:In commemoration of his peaceful fight for freedom and change, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday is celebrated across the nation. Marzollo's simple writing style combines with Pinkney's engaging illustrations in this moving introduction to an American hero, created just for younger readers. Full-color illustrations throughout. [via]
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LA Muerte De Ivan Ilichby Leon Tolstoi, Susana AguiarISBN 9875505730 (987-550-573-0)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Muerte De Ivan Ilich'Book summary:Esta es una novela breve que sin dudas alcanbza la perfeccion. La magnifica tecnica narratiuva, donde la accion fluye como un torrente, permite que uno asista a las zonas oscuras de la decadencia del ser humano. [via]
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Los Limites De La Fundacionby Isaac AsimovISBN 9871138660 (987-1138-66-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Louis XIV and the Twenty Million Frenchmenby Pierre GoubertISBN 0394717511 (0-394-71751-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Marx-Engels Readerby Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. TuckerISBN 0393099652 (0-393-09965-2)
Softcover, Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marx-Engels Reader'Book summary:This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.
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The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) Translated by Samuel Moore
Das Kapital (Marx) Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling
Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx)
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Marx) Translated by Emil F. Teichert
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (Engels) Translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky
Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx (Engels)Essays (Marx) Translated by H. J. Stenning:
A Criticism of The Hegelian Philosophy of Right
On The Jewish Question
On The King of Prussia And Social Reform
Moralizing Criticism And Critical Morality: A Polemic Against Karl
Proudhon
French Materialism
The English RevolutionAppendix:
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Karl Marx Biography
Friedrich Engels Biography
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The Marx-Engels Readerby Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. TuckerISBN 039309040X (0-393-09040-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networksby Mark BuchananISBN 0393324427 (0-393-32442-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks'Book summary:As Chaos explained the science of disorder, Nexus reveals the new science of connection and the odd logic of six degrees of separation. How can geometry explain the puzzles of human behavior? In this incisive, insightful work Mark Buchanan presents the fundamental principles of the emerging field of "small worlds" theorythe idea that a hidden pattern is the key to how networks interact and exchange information, whether that network is the information highway or the firing of neurons in the brain. Mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, and social scientists are working to decipher this complex organizational system, for it may yield a blueprint of dynamic interactions within our physical as well as social worlds. Highlighting groundbreaking research behind network theory, Buchanan documents mounting support for the small-worlds idea and demonstrates its multiple applications to diverse problemswhether explaining the volatile global economy or the Human Genome Project, the spread of infectious disease or ecological damage. Nexus is an exciting introduction to the hidden geometry that weaves our lives so inextricably together. 20 illustrations. [via]
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Obedience to Authorityby Stanley MilgramISBN 006131983X (0-06-131983-X)
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Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others. Obedience, as a determinant of behavior is of particular relevance to our time. It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were built, death camps were guarded, daily quotas of corpses were produced with the same efficiency as the manufacture of appliances. These inhumane policies may have originated in the mind of a single person, but they could only have been carried out on a massive scale if a very large number of people obeyed orders.
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority. Facts of recent history and observation in daily life suggest that for many people obedience may be a deeply ingrained behavior tendency, indeed, a prepotent impulse overriding training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct. C. P. Snow (1961) points to its importance when he writes:
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. If you doubt that, read William Sbirer's 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' The German Officer Corps were brought up in the most rigorous code of obedience . . . in the name of obedience they were party to, andassisted in, the most wicked large scale actions in the history of the world. (p. 24)
The Nazi extermination of European Jews is the most extremeinstance of abhorrent immoral acts carried out by thousands ofpeople in the name of obedience. Yet in lesser degree this type ofthing is constantly recurring: ordinary citizens are ordered todestroy other people, and they do so because they consider ittheir duty to obey orders. Thus, obedience to authority, longpraised as a virtue, takes on a new aspect when it serves amalevolent cause; far from appearing as a virtue, it is transformedinto a heinous sin. Or is it?
The moral question of whether one should obey when commands conflict with conscience was argued by Plato, dramatized in "Antigone," and treated to philosophic analysis in every historical epoch Conservative philosophers argue that the very fabric of society is threatened by disobedience, and even when the act prescribed by an authority is an evil one, it is better to carry out the act than to wrench at the structure of authority. Hobbes stated further that an act so executed is in no sense the responsibility of the person who carries it out but only of the authority that orders it. But humanists argue for the primacy of individual conscience in such matters, insisting that the moral judgments of the individual must override authority when the two are in conflict.
The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous import, but an empirically grounded scientist eventually comes to the point where he wishes to move from abstract discourse to the careful observation of concrete instances. In order to take a close look at the act of obeying, I set up a simple experimentat Yale University. Eventually, the experiment was to involve more than a thousand participants and would be repeated at several universities, but at the beginning, the conception was simple. A person comes to a psychological laboratory and is told to carry out a series of acts that come increasingly into conflict with conscience. The main question is how far the participant will comply with the experimenter's instructions before refusing to carry out the actions required of him.
But the reader needs to know a little more detail about the experiment. Two people come to a psychology laboratory to take part in a study of memory and learning. One of them is designated as a "teacher" and the other a "learner." The experimenter explains that the study is concerned with the effects of punishment on learning. The learner is conducted into a room, seated in a chair, his arms strapped to prevent excessive movement, and an electrode attached to his wrist. He is told that he is to learn a list of word pairs; whenever he makes an error, be will receive electric shocks of increasing intensity.
The real focus of the experiment is the teacher. After watching the learner being strapped into place, he is taken into the main experimental room and seated before an impressive shock generator. Its main feature is a horizontal line of thirty switches, ranging from 15 volts to 450 volts, in 15-volt increments. There are also verbal designations which range from Slight SHOCK to Danger--Severe SHOCK. The teacher is told that he is to administer the learning test to the man in the other room. When the learner responds correctly, the teacher moves on to the next item; when the other man gives an incorrectanswer, the teacher is to give him an electric shock. He is to start at the lowest shock level ( 15 volts) and to increase the level each time the man makes an error, going through 30 volts, 45 volts, and so on.
The "teacher" is a genuinely naive subject who has come to the laboratory to participate in an experiment. The learner, or victim, is an actor who actually receives no shock at all. The point of the experiment is to see how far a person will proceed in a concrete and measurable situation in which he is ordered to inflict increasing pain on a protesting victim. [via]
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Obedience to Authority: An Experimental Viewby Stanley MilgramISBN 006073728X (0-06-073728-X)
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Philip HorneISBN 0140435220 (0-14-043522-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander Solzhenitsyn, H. T. WillettsISBN 0374226431 (0-374-22643-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby H.T. Willetts, Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0374529523 (0-374-52952-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich'Book summary:The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian. [via]
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Our Dreaming Mindby Robert L. Van De CastleISBN 0345396669 (0-345-39666-9)
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Our Dreaming Mind: A Sweeping Exploration of the Role That Dreams Have Played in Politics, Art, Religion, and Psychology, from Ancient Civilizationsby Robert L. Van De CastleISBN 034536435X (0-345-36435-X)
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The People of the Abyssby Jack LondonISBN 9968995029 (9968-9950-2-9)
Softcover, Synergy International of The Americas, Limited
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Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generationby Chris TurnerISBN 030681448X (0-306-81448-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terrorby J. M. BeattieISBN 019925723X (0-19-925723-X)
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Politicsby Aristotle, Trevor J. Saunders, T.A. SinclairISBN 0140444211 (0-14-044421-1)
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For this edition, Sir Ernest Barker's fine translation, which has been widely used for nearly half a century, has been extensively revised to meet the needs of the modern reader. The accessible introduction and clear notes examine the historical and philosophical background of the work and discuss its significance for modern political thought. [via]More editions of Politics:
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Politics: Books VII and VIIIby Aristotle, Richard KrautISBN 0198751141 (0-19-875114-1)
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Politics of Aristotleby Aristotle, Carnes LordISBN 0195003063 (0-19-500306-3)
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Sabertooth Tigers and the Ice Age: A Nonfiction Companion to Sunset of the Sabertoothby Natalie Boyce, Mary Pope Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0375823808 (0-375-82380-8)
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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #7: Sunset of the Sabertooth, they had lots of questions. What was it like to live in the Ice Age? How did early humans stay warm enough to survive? Who made the first cave paintings? What happened to saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. [via]More editions of Sabertooth Tigers and the Ice Age: A Nonfiction Companion to Sunset of the Sabertooth:
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Sex and the Cityby Candace BushnellISBN 0349111863 (0-349-11186-3)
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Ageby Duncan J. WattsISBN 0393325423 (0-393-32542-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age'Book summary:You may be only six degrees away from Kevin Bacon, but would he let you borrow his car? It depends on the structures within the network that links you. When the power goes out, when we find that a stranger knows someone we know, when dot-com stocks soar in price, networks are evident. In Six Degrees, sociologist Duncan Watts examines networks like these: what they are, how they're being studied, and what we can use them for. To illustrate the often complicated mathematics that describe such structures, Watts uses plenty of examples from life, without which this book would quickly move beyond a general science readership. Small chapters make each thought-provoking conclusion easy to swallow, though some are hard to digest. For instance, in a short bit on "coercive externalities," Watts sums up sociological research showing that:
"Conversations concerning politics displayed a consistent pattern .... On election day, the strongest predictor of electoral success was not which party an individual privately supported but which party he or she expected would win."
Six Degrees attempts to help readers understand the new and exciting field of networks and complexity. While considerably more demanding than a general book like The Tipping Point, it offers readers a snapshot of a riveting moment in science, when understanding things like disease epidemics and the stock market seems almost within our reach. --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age:
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Social Cognitionby Susan T. Fiske, Shelley E. TaylorISBN 0070211914 (0-07-021191-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Starship Troopersby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0441014100 (0-441-01410-0)
Softcover, Ace Books
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Stories of Ottoman Men and Women: Establishing Status, Establishing Controlby Suraiya FaroqhiISBN 9757622605 (975-7622-60-5)
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The Story of Ruby Bridgesby Robert Coles, George FordISBN 0439598443 (0-439-59844-3)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0060933275 (0-06-093327-5)
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Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Vikingsby Elizabeth JanewayISBN 0394848853 (0-394-84885-3)
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Battle Royale 1by Kohushun TakamiISBN 987562117X (987-562-117-X)
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Las Cinco Personas Que Encontraras En El Cielo / the Five People You Meet in Heavenby Mitch AlbomISBN 9706518991 (970-651-899-1)
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La rebelion del atlas/ The Rebellion of the Atlasby Ayn RandISBN 9872095116 (987-20951-1-6)
Softcover, Grito Sagrado Editorial
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A Caverna: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722113666 (972-21-1366-6)
Hardcover, Editorial Caminho
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Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722110217 (972-21-1021-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira: Romance'Book summary:Um homem fica cego, inexplicavelmente, quando se encontra no seu carro no meio do trânsito. A cegueira alastra como «um rastilho de pólvora». Uma cegueira colectiva. Romance contundente. Saramago a ver mais longe. Personagens sem nome. Um mundo com as contradições da espécie humana. Não se situa em nenhum tempo específico. É um tempo que pode ser ontem, hoje ou amanhã. As ideias a virem ao de cima, sempre na escrita de Saramago. A alegoria. O poder da palavra a abrir os olhos, face ao risco de uma situação terminal generalizada. A arte da escrita ao serviço da preocupação cívica.» (Diário de Notícias, 9 de Outubro de 1998) [via]
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O Ultimo Voo Do Flamingoby Mia CoutoISBN 9722113348 (972-21-1334-8)
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