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The Ambassadorsby Henry James, Sandra KempISBN 0460871609 (0-460-87160-9)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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The Annotated Walden: Walden or Life in the Woodsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0517224232 (0-517-22423-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Walden: Walden or Life in the Woods'Book summary:Walden; Or, Life in the Woods written by legendary author Henry David Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic on self reliance will surely attract a whole new generation of Henry David Thoreau readers. For many, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Henry David Thoreau is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Societyby Fatima MernissiISBN 0470596120 (0-470-59612-0)
Hardcover, Schenkman Pub Co
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Elizabeth McCrackenISBN 0451528697 (0-451-52869-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0486266893 (0-486-26689-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Witty and caustic, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. In the story of the trials and travails of the youthful Candide, his mentor Dr. Pangloss, and a host of other characters, Voltaire mercilessly satirizes and exposes romance, science, philosophy, religion, and government. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Candide:
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Candideby Shane Weller, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0486276252 (0-486-27625-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Voltaire's brilliant satire, in the original French, with a new and exacting English translation on the opposing page. Through the adventures of Candide, we experience life's most crushing misfortunes, see the redeeming wisdom those misfortunes can bring all the while enjoying Voltaire's witty burlesque of human excess.[via]More editions of Candide:
Candide and Other Talesby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0460019368 (0-460-01936-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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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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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sidney Monas, James D. Hardy, Leonard J. StantonISBN 0451527232 (0-451-52723-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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- Crime And Punishment: ISBN 0451530063 (0-451-53006-3)
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0451523350 (0-451-52335-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0517399903 (0-517-39990-3)
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mindby Gustave Le BonISBN 0486419568 (0-486-41956-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinkingby Theodore RoszakISBN 0520085841 (0-520-08584-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking'Book summary:The title notwithstanding, Theodore Roszak is no computer hater. But in an age that idolizes intelligent machines, he stands out as a rare cautionary voice. His book makes an eloquent case for a simple thesis: digital computing, far from being a panacea, has created as many problems as it solves. For Roszak, a fair measure of the fault lies with corporate hucksterism, a credulous educational establishment, and government's desire to control information. But the deeper worry is our own utopian techno-idealism--the belief that a scientific broom can sweep away our messy problems. The author challenges such computer messianism with a detailed, common-sense look at the history of what computing has actually brought us. The trends he sees--the conflation of data with knowledge, the erosion of human-centered values, and the rise of a digital oligarchy at just about everyone else's expense--are tough to deny. If you love computers, The Cult of Information is a provocative read, but one you shouldn't dodge. [via]
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The Darwin Awardsby Wendy Northcutt, Wendy NothcuttISBN 0452283442 (0-452-28344-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darwin Awards'Book summary:Warning: The Darwin Awards are not for the tenderhearted. The vastly popular Web site, now a book, recognizes "individuals who ensure the long-term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion." Who wins a Darwin Award? Terrorists who set their bombs on daylight saving time and delivered them on standard time, blowing themselves up. Folks who put garlands around a Bengal tiger's neck. Guys in Cambodia who took turns stomping on a land mine they'd brought into a bar. The six Egyptians who drowned trying to rescue a chicken that fell into a well. (The chicken alone survived.) The Buenos Aires husband who threw his wife out an eighth-floor window during a spat, noticed she'd gotten caught in power lines, and jumped after her, "angrily trying to finish the job, or remorsefully hoping to rescue her." He went splat; she escaped unscathed. There are some urban legends, like the sergeant said to have attached a Jet-Assisted Take-Off unit to his Chevy and hit a cliff 125 feet up (not true, says author Wendy Northcutt), and all-too-true honorable mentions, like the man who put weather balloons on his lawn chair, soared to 16,000 feet, crashed into power lines, blacked out Long Beach, California, and told police, "A man can't just sit around." My favorite winner: the man who was bitten nine times by the same king brown snake because he put it in a bag on his car seat and kept sticking his hand back into the bag. Why did he pick up the snake with his left hand? "Because I was holding a beer in my right one." And where did this take place? In Darwin, Australia. If you think somebody up there doesn't have a wicked sense of humor, The Darwin Awards may change your mind. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Fanny Burney, Katharine M. RogersISBN 0451525604 (0-451-52560-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World'Book summary:One of the first novels of manners ever written traces the adventures of country-born Evelina as she tries to make it in London pursued by cads, is used by boorish relatives, and, finally, is redeemed by the noble Lord Orville. Reprint. [via]
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The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - And What It Will Take to Win It Backby Geoffrey P. FauxISBN 0471697613 (0-471-69761-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - And What It Will Take to Win It Backby Jeff FauxISBN 0470098287 (0-470-09828-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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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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The Hand Of Ethelbertaby Thomas HardyISBN 0460876457 (0-460-87645-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.[via] -
Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Featuring a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, the author's two best-known stories tell of encounters with moral depravity in the wilds of the Congo and second selves on a voyage into the Gulf of Siam. Reprint." [via]
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History of the Idea of Progressby Robert NisbetISBN 0465030254 (0-465-03025-4)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Idea of Progress'Book summary:Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. [via]
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Hunger: An Unnatural Historyby Sharman Apt RussellISBN 0465071651 (0-465-07165-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunger: An Unnatural History'Book summary:Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. In Hunger, Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience. Step by step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to three days to seven days to thirty days. In quiet, elegant prose, she asks a question as big as history and as everyday as skipping lunch: How does hunger work?[via]More editions of Hunger: An Unnatural History:
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Ideas and Opinionsby Albert Einstein, Carl SeeligISBN 0517884402 (0-517-88440-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ideas and Opinions'Book summary:A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government. [via]
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Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicateby Steven A. JohnsonISBN 0465036805 (0-465-03680-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate'Book summary:Steven Johnson turns the tables on the way we consider our computer interfaces. While many discussions focus on how interfaces help us work by adapting to our ways of thinking and our real-world metaphors, Johnson jumps from there to look at how our thinking and world view are altered by our computer interfaces.
He begins with the simple: The mouse improved the spatial nature of our computers by letting us move, by the proxy of our pointers, within the screen. The windows metaphor made cyberspace a 3-D space. And while we tend to think about the graphical nature of interfaces, Johnson also explores the textual side and how it has changed the way we work with the written word.
Interface Culture then goes on to show how, with each advance in technology, the interface shapes our perceptions in new ways. Where mice and windows turned the computing world into cyberspace, agents have created a perception of software as personality. On the larger scale, Johnson sees these tools, originally built on noncyber metaphors, as creating, in their turn, a new set of metaphors for looking at the rest of the world. And while he finds it exciting, he spends considerable time on such shortcomings in our approach to interfacing: what he considers the excessive emphasis on graphics elements at the cost of anything textual. Johnson, who is the editor of the cerebral Feed Web site and whom Newsweek called one of the most influential people in cyberspace, has written an intelligent book about interface design, its relationship to the real world, and how it affects our perception of worlds both cyber and physical. [via]
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Ishmaelby Daniel QuinnISBN 0553078755 (0-553-07875-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ishmael'Book summary:Winner of the 1992 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, Ishmael is a unique and captivating novel that has earned a large and passionate following among readers and critics worldwide. One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, it is the story of a man who embarks on a highly provocative intellectual adventure with a gorilla--a journey of the mind and spirit that changes forever the way he sees the world and humankind's place in it. For this special fifth anniversary edition, the author has written a frank and informative introduction in which he discusses the worldwide Ishmael phenomenon. Timed to coincide with the eagerly anticipated publication of My Ishmael and the release of the movie Ishmael, this special edition is sure to attract new readers and reinforce Daniel Quinn's reputation as one of the most compelling and visionary writers of our age. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Brontë, Erica JongISBN 0451526554 (0-451-52655-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:[via]An orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane's first assignment at Thornfield, where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever deeper into a compelling exploration of the mysteries of the human heart. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.More editions of Jane Eyre:
- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0460012878 (0-460-01287-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0486424499 (0-486-42449-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Jane Eyre: Library Edition: ISBN 0517227754 (0-517-22775-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451514653 (0-451-51465-3)
Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451515560 (0-451-51556-0)
Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451518845 (0-451-51884-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451523326 (0-451-52332-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0460870858 (0-460-87085-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Jane Eyre: ISBN 052156865X (0-521-56865-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0517668432 (0-517-66843-2)
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0460012878 (0-460-01287-8)
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Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte BronteISBN 0460875965 (0-460-87596-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, orphaned, penniless, victim to a harsh Aunt, and miserable years at Lowood institution finds love as Governess to the sickly Adele, illegitimate daughter of Mr Rocheste. With their wedding interrupted by the sudden intrusion of Rochester's mad Creole wife, inhabitant of the upper regions of Thornfield Hall for years, Jane flees. Nursed from near-death on the moors by the Revd St John Rivers and his 2 sisters, Jane learns both that they are her cousins and that she is the recipient of some money from her Uncle. On the verge of yielding to River's appeal that she marry him, Jane is prevented by a telepathic appeal from Rochester and returns to the Hall to find the building burned, his wife dead and Rochester blinded. Yet marriage seemsaid in the restoration of his sight. [via]
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Jane Eyre : Oxford World Classicsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517606100 (0-517-60610-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas HardyISBN 0451525191 (0-451-52519-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the trail ofa cop-killer whose victims are selected all to carefully. Not only that, but they all leave suicide notes drawn from the poems of writer Edgar Allan Poe in their wake. More frightening still the killer appears to know that Jack is getting nearer and nearer. An investigation that looks like being the story of alifetime, might be Jack's ticket to a lonely end. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan StraightISBN 0451529308 (0-451-52930-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. Good Wives takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness. [via]
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- Little Women: ISBN 0460012487 (0-460-01248-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Little Women: ISBN 0486296342 (0-486-29634-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Little Women: ISBN 0486410234 (0-486-41023-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Little Women: ISBN 0534521169 (0-534-52116-9)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co - Little Women: ISBN 0460050028 (0-460-05002-8)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Little Women: ISBN 0517189542 (0-517-18954-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Little Women: ISBN 0517221160 (0-517-22116-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy - Little Women: ISBN 0451523415 (0-451-52341-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Little Women: ISBN 0517634899 (0-517-63489-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Little Women: ISBN 0451529308 (0-451-52930-8)
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Little Women and Good Wivesby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0460871412 (0-460-87141-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women and Good Wives'Book summary:Chronicles the humorous and sentimental fortunes of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England. [via]
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Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North Americaby Peter FarbISBN 0525152709 (0-525-15270-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America'Book summary:The publication of this book in 1968 marked the first comprehensive examination of the history and culture of native Americans. Today this work continues to stand as one of the major summaries of the indigenous societies of North America with its explication of such universal subjects as monotheism, war, capitalism, and sex. [via]
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The Master and Margaritaby Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovISBN 0452008999 (0-452-00899-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master and Margarita'Book summary:Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Jay Parini, John SutherlandISBN 0451527356 (0-451-52735-6)
Softcover, Signet
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Miss Manners Rescues Civilization : From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissings and Other Lapses in Civilityby Judith MartinISBN 0517701642 (0-517-70164-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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On Aggressionby Konrad LorenzISBN 0553145576 (0-553-14557-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Aggression'Book summary:First published in the 1960s, On Aggression has been the target of criticism and controversy ever since. It is not Lorenz's careful descriptions of animal behaviour that are contentious, but his extrapolations to the human world that have caused reverberations resulting in a statement adopted by UNESCO in 1989 and subsequently endorsed by the American Psychological Association that appears to condemn his work. But does On Aggression actually make the claims implicit in the Seville statement?
In a new introduction by Professor Eric Salzen, the debate about Lorenz's work is set in its social and political context and his claims and those of his critics reassessed. Human aggression has not lessened since this seminal work first appeared and there are no convincing new solutions. On Aggression should be read by all new students and re-read by more experienced scholars so that the important evidence he presents from ethnology may be reappraised in the light of the most recent research. [via]More editions of On Aggression:
Our Mutual Friendby Charles DickensISBN 0451522508 (0-451-52250-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Mutual Friend'Book summary:Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The mood is set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, and his daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that is later identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered and thrown into the river.
Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he'd never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon's father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman's daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam. Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellionsby Gloria SteinemISBN 0452255791 (0-452-25579-1)
Softcover, New American Library
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Talcott Parsons, Max WeberISBN 048642703X (0-486-42703-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'Book summary:This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.[via]More editions of Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism:
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Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfareby Dorothy RobertsISBN 0465070590 (0-465-07059-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare'Book summary:Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis--the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots. Using conversations with mothers battling the Chicago child-welfare system for custody of their children, along with national data, Roberts levels a powerful indictment of racial disparities in foster care and tells a moving story of the women and children who earn our respect in their fight to keep their families intact.[via]More editions of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare:
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0486415899 (0-486-41589-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:Hardy's best-selling novel about a country girl who is forced to sin against her will. Includes a reader's supplement. [via]
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- Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 0451525469 (0-451-52546-9)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 046087344X (0-460-87344-X)
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Womanby Thomas HardyISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman'Book summary:Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin-a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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Totem and Tabooby Sigmund FreudISBN 048640434X (0-486-40434-X)
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Brokeby Eliz Warren, Amelia Warren TyagiISBN 0465090826 (0-465-09082-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke'Book summary:More than two decades ago, the women's movement flung open the doors of the workplace. Although this social revolution created a firestorm of controversy, no one questioned the idea that women's involvement in the workforce was certain to improve families' financial lot. Until now.In this brilliantly argued book, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and business consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are suffering from an unprecedented and totally unexpected economic meltdown. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but actually has less discretionary income once their fixed monthly bills are paid.How did this happen? Warren and Tyagi provide convincing evidence that the culprit is not "overconsumption," as many critics have charged. Instead, they point to the ferocious bidding war for housing and education that has quietly engulfed America's suburbs. Stay-at-home mothers once provided a financial safety net if disaster struck; their move into the workforce has left today's families chillingly at risk. The authors show why the usual remedies--child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women--won't solve the problem, and propose a set of innovative solutions, from rate caps on credit cards to open-access public schools, to restore security to the middle class. [via]
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Brokeby Eliz Warren, Amelia Warren TyagiISBN 0465090907 (0-465-09090-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke'Book summary:In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable to financial disaster than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but has 25% less discretionary income to cover living costs. This is "the rare financial book that sidesteps accusations of individual wastefulness to focus on institutional changes," raved the Boston Globe. Warren and Tyagi reveal how the ferocious bidding war for housing and education has silently engulfed America's suburbs, driving up the cost of keeping families in the middle class. The authors show why the usual remedies-child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women-won't solve the problem. But as the Wall Street Journal observed, "The book is brimming with proposed solutions to the nail-biting anxiety that the middle class finds itself in: subsidized day care, school vouchers, new bank regulation, among other measures." From Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Dr. Phil to Bill Moyers, The Two-Income Trap has created a sensation among economists, politicians, and families-all those who care about America's middle-class crisis.[via]More editions of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke:
Very Special Peopleby Frederick DrimmerISBN 0517467984 (0-517-46798-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0486424723 (0-486-42472-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom, on society, government, and other topics. Introductory note. 1 line illustration. 1 map.[via] -
Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"by Henry David ThoreauISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 046087635X (0-460-87635-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau'Book summary:The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text summary. Presented in an affordable edition with wide format pages for generous margins for notes. Contact your sales rep or call Tuttle for a complete list of available titles. [via]
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woodsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0486284956 (0-486-28495-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden; Or, Life in the Woods'Book summary:On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is new in this edition, and those reading the book for the first time will discover why it has changed the lives of generations of readers. [via]
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Warby Gwynne DyerISBN 0517556154 (0-517-55615-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War'Book summary:While modern science ponders whether human beings are programmed toward belligerence and warfare, there is no doubt that war has been humanitys constant companion since the dawn of civilization, and that we have become all too proficient in its conduct.
In War, noted military historian Gwynne Dyer ranges from the tumbling walls of Jericho to the modern advent of total war in which no one is exempt from the horrors of armed conflict. He shows how the martial instinct has evolved over the human generations and among our close primate relations, such as the chimpanzee. Dyer squarely confronts the reality of war, and the threat of nuclear weapons, but does not despair that war is our eternal legacy. He likes and respects soldiers, even while he knows their job is to kill; he understands the physics and the psychology of battles, but he is no war junkie. Dyer surveys the fiery battlefields of human history, never losing sight of the people caught up in war. He actually believes there is hope that war can be abolished, that human beings are more than just our genes.
Dyers War explores the human past to imagine a different future. [via]
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Weby Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, Gregory ZiboorgISBN 0525470395 (0-525-47039-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We'Book summary:First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless "numbers," the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; indeed, they are hardly aware it ever existed. More than half a century later, We remains a strange and telling tragicomedy of love and death. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.
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