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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0140034994 (0-14-003499-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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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 Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath, Frances McCulloughISBN 0060573090 (0-06-057309-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0061148512 (0-06-114851-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060174900 (0-06-017490-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060930187 (0-06-093018-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060133562 (0-06-013356-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060573090 (0-06-057309-0)
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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the Newsby Bernard GoldbergISBN 0060520841 (0-06-052084-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Book of Five Rings: The Cornerstone of Japanese Cultureby Joseph Toledano, Rosemary Brant, Ashikaga YoshiharuISBN 9654941724 (965-494-172-4)
Softcover, Astrolog Pub House
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060898526 (0-06-089852-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World Revisited'Book summary:When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.
Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 9580470324 (958-04-7032-4)
Softcover, Norma S A Editorial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude'Book summary:Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo .
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
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Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0007144369 (0-00-714436-9)
Softcover, Harper Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wildes works, and is available in both paperback and this hardback edition.
Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wildes texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts.
Illustrated with many fascinating photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Merlin Holland (Oscars grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd and Terence Brown.
Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work.
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Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Editionby Oscar Wilde, Merlin HollandISBN 0004723724 (0-00-472372-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition'Book summary:The centennial edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works. A new centennial edition of the bestselling Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: now published in a special hardback centennial edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, with a revision of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. [via]
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Complete Works of Oscar WildeISBN 0004704738 (0-00-470473-8)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media
Find This BookBook summary:A unique one-volume anthology which includes all of Wilde's stories, plays, and poems. It also features a large portion of his essays and letters and an introduction by Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland. [via]
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: ISBN 0004706811 (0-00-470681-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: ISBN 0060551704 (0-06-055170-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: ISBN 0004704738 (0-00-470473-8)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media
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Courtesans and Fishcakes : The Consuming Passions of Classical Athensby James DavidsonISBN 0060977663 (0-06-097766-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black Garnett, Ernest Joseph SimmonsISBN 0075535742 (0-07-553574-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]
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Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts With Epilogueby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard PevearISBN 0099981904 (0-09-998190-4)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts With Epilogue'Book summary:[via]A troubled young man commits the perfect crime: the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but he convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins a tragic novel that illuminates the eternal struggle between human emotions and desire, and the harsh laws of ethics and justice. Part thriller and part philosophical meditation, this is a penetrating look at the core of human nature.More editions of Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts With Epilogue:
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The Crowdby Gustavw Le BonISBN 0140045317 (0-14-004531-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edgeby Nick DanzigerISBN 0006382495 (0-00-638249-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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El Lobo Esteparioby Hermann HesseISBN 9681500954 (968-15-0095-4)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Lobo Estepario'Book summary:Student edition, Nobel prize winner 1947 [via]
The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0070243751 (0-07-024375-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Eunuch'Book summary:Available alongside five other Modern Classics first published by Flamingo in the 1970s, this is a re-issue of Germaine's Greer's feminist classic. Translated into many languages, "The Female Eunuch" is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued piece of polemic. [via]
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Lifeby Robert N. BellahISBN 0060970278 (0-06-097027-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Handful of Dustby Evelyn WaughISBN 0140008225 (0-14-000822-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Handful of Dust'Book summary:"All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent."
Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars.
Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. While he earnestly plays the lord of the manor in his ghastly Victorian Gothic pile, she sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. In the first half of the novel Waugh fearlessly anatomizes the lifestyles of the rich and shameless. Everyone moves through an endless cycle of parties and country-house weekends, being scrupulously polite in public and utterly horrid in private. Sex is something one does to relieve the boredom, and Brenda's affair provides a welcome subject for conversation:
It had been an autumn of very sparse and meagre romance; only the most obvious people had parted or come together, and Brenda was filling a want long felt by those whose simple, vicarious pleasure it was to discuss the subject in bed over the telephone.
Tony's indifference and Brenda's selfishness give their relationship a sort of equilibrium until tragedy forces them to face facts. The collapse of their relationship accelerates, and in the famous final section of the book Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado, throwing himself on the mercy of a jungle only slightly more savage than the one he leaves behind in England. For all its biting wit, A Handful of Dust paints a bleak picture of the English upper classes, reaching beyond satire toward a very modern sense of despair. In Waugh's world, culture, breeding, and the trappings of civilization only provide more subtle means of destruction. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of A Handful of Dust:
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High Tide in Tucsonby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060927569 (0-06-092756-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Tide in Tucson'Book summary:"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans.
In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom.
Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans. [via]
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Neverby Barbara Kingsolver, Paul MirochaISBN 0060172916 (0-06-017291-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never'Book summary:Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven.
In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Her canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, a family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.
In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction. Defiant, funny, courageously honest, High Tide in Tucson proves once again that "there is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature."--Washington Post Book World [via]
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Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicateby Steven A. JohnsonISBN 0062514822 (0-06-251482-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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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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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0030957648 (0-03-095764-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before strange and unnerving events occur in the house and Jane is forced to leave Thornfield to pursue her future. [via]
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Karby Orhan PamukISBN 9754709610 (975-470-961-0)
Softcover, Iletisim
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kar'Book summary:On iki yildir Almanya'da sürgün olan sair Ka Türkiye'ye dönüsünden dört gün sonra, bir röportaj için Kars sehrinde bulur kendini. Agir agir ve hiç durmadan yagan karin altinda sokak sokak, dükkan dükkan bu hüzünlü ve güzel sehri ve insanlari tanimaya çalisir. Kars'ta agzina kadar issizlerle dolu çayhaneler, disaridan gelmis ve kardan mahsur kalmis gezgin bir tiyatro kumpanyasi, intihar eden ve türban direnisi yapan kizlar, çesitli siyasal gruplar, dedikodular, söylentiler, Karpalas Oteli ve sahibi Turgut Bey ile kizlari Ipek ve Kadife ve Ka için bir ask ve mutluluk vaadi vardir.
"O ne bir ideolog, ne bir siyasetçi, ne de bir gazeteci. Orhan Pamuk büyük bir romanci."
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Societyby Raymond WilliamsISBN 000654021X (0-00-654021-X)
Softcover, Fontana Paperbacks
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Lat with a Punchby LatISBN 9679691802 (967-969-180-2)
Hardcover, Berita Pub
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The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060125748 (0-06-012574-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Left Hand of Darkness'Book summary:Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, however, that this is a rollicking good story. Le Guin takes a lot of time to explore her characters, the world of her creation, and the philosophical themes that arise.
If there were a canon of classic science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness would be included without debate. Certainly, no science fiction bookshelf may be said to be complete without it. But the real question: is it fun to read? It is science fiction of an earlier time, a time that has not worn particularly well in the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness was a groundbreaking book in 1969, a time when, like the rest of the arts, science fiction was awakening to new dimensions in both society and literature. But the first excursions out of the pulp tradition are sometimes difficult to reread with much enjoyment. Rereading The Left Hand of Darkness, decades after its publication, one feels that those who chose it for the Hugo and Nebula awards were right to do so, for it truly does stand out as one of the great books of that era. It is immensely rich in timeless wisdom and insight.
The Left Hand of Darkness is science fiction for the thinking reader, and should be read attentively in order to properly savor the depth of insight and the subtleties of plot and character. It is one of those pleasures that requires a little investment at the beginning, but pays back tenfold with the joy of raw imagination that resonates through the subsequent 30 years of science fiction storytelling. Not only is the bookshelf incomplete without owning it, so is the reader without having read it. --L. Blunt Jackson [via]
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 959030169X (959-03-0169-X)
Softcover, Arte Y Literatura
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:Hugo's classic tale set against the backdrop of political upheaval in 19th-century France retains its timeless appeal in this notably condensed rendition of the struggles of former convict Jean Valjean [via]
Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalismby Sean HannityISBN 0060735651 (0-06-073565-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism'Book summary:As Americans, we face two fundamental questions:
First, are we truly prepared to fight this new war to wipe out terrorism and terrorist regimes, and win it decisively -- no matter what sacrifices it requires or how long it takes?
Second, are we once again prepared to teach our children the fundamental principles and values that make this country great -- the values that make this country worth fighting for, living for, and dying for?
Sean Hannity is the hottest new phenomenon in TV and talk radio today. His gutsy, take-no-prisoners interviews and commentary on the Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes have made him one of cable television's most popular personalities. And his ascendance to the top of the talk radio world with ABC Radio's The Sean Hannity Show has won him a huge and devoted following that includes not only conservatives but anyone else who values straight talk over pandering and excuses.
Now, in Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity offers a survey of the world -- political, social, and cultural -- as he sees it. Devoting special attention to 9/11, the war on terror, and the continuing threat we face at home and abroad, he makes clear that the greatest challenge we have to overcome may not be an attack from overseas, but the slow compromising of our national character. And he asks why, particularly in this time of war, should we entrust our future to the voices of the Left -- the very people who have spent decades ravaging so many of our core values and traditions?
Our nation, as Hannity reminds us, was founded on the idea of freedom. And in order to protect our freedoms, he argues, we must stand vigilant against liberal attempts to compromise our strengths. From our military and intelligence forces, to our borders and airports, to our unified commitment to root out terrorists at home and abroad, he reveals how our strongest lines of defense have come under attack -- by left-wing voices within our government, media, schools, and elsewhere. And he shows how even domestic issues like taxation, education, patriotism, and the family have been exploited by liberals with their own agendas -- with potentially disastrous results.
Filled with the commonsense commentary and passionate argument that have made Sean Hannity the most compelling conservative voice since Rush Limbaugh, Let Freedom Ring is an urgent call to arms. For, as Hannity warns, "We are engaged in a war of ideas. And civilization is at stake."
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Kevin McIntyreISBN 0020412401 (0-02-041240-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping, their souls into their father's; and to both parents ... they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death. Pretty Meg, tomboy Jo, shy Beth, and vain Amy, the four March sisters, are as different as sisters can be, but more devoted and loyal sisters you'll never find. For though the March girls fight, tease, nag, and scold as all sisters do, they do so with the knowledge that nothing is as precious as a sister's love. Discover the magic of family in the first part of this classic novel cherished by young girls everywhere.
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Los Limites De La Fundacionby Isaac AsimovISBN 9871138660 (987-1138-66-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Los Refugios De Piedraby Jean M. AuelISBN 9706516212 (970-651-621-2)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Refugios De Piedra'Book summary:From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a racial divide in all areas of the church's ministry. To oppose this religious apartheid and challenge the church to minister fairly to all of its faithful, a group of Chicano priests formed PADRES (Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos y Sociales, or Priests Associated for Religious, Educational, and Social Rights) in 1969. Over the next twenty years, PADRES became a powerful force for change within the Catholic church and for social justice within American society. This book offers the first history of the founding, activism, victories, and defeats of PADRES. At the heart of the book are oral history interviews with the founders of PADRES, who describe how their ministries in poor Mexican American parishes, as well as their own experiences of racism and discrimination within and outside the church, galvanized them into starting and sustaining the movement. Richard Martinez traces the ways in which PADRES was inspired by the Chicano movement and other civil rights struggles of the 1960s and also probes its linkages with liberation theology in Latin America. He uses a combination of social movement theory and organizational theory to explain how the group emerged, flourished, and eventually disbanded in 1989.... RICHARD EDWARD MARTINEZ is an independent scholar who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from UCLA. [via]
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Native Sonby WrightISBN 006053348X (0-06-053348-X)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Native Son'Book summary:Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via]More editions of Native Son:
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The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolutionby Michael LindISBN 0029191033 (0-02-919103-3)
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellionsby Gloria SteinemISBN 0030632366 (0-03-063236-6)
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The Plagueby Albert Camus, Stuart GilbertISBN 0075536498 (0-07-553649-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Max WeberISBN 0043310699 (0-04-331069-9)
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Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-To-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern Worby Walt AndersonISBN 0062500171 (0-06-250017-1)
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The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspectiveby Harvey Gallagher CoxISBN 0020311559 (0-02-031155-9)
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Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation Essays on the Politics of Comfort and Control, 1990-2000by Cherian GeorgeISBN 981306546X (981-3065-46-X)
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Super-Cannesby James Graham BallardISBN 0002258471 (0-00-225847-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Super-Cannes'Book summary:JG Ballard covers familiar territory in Super-Cannes: new social structures under pressure, new psychopathologies to be explored. As he did in his previous novel Cocaine Nights, he has avoided the more abstract imagery and plot of Rushing to Paradise or The Day of Creation to create, on the surface, a more mainstream novel, clearly concerned with modern issues of racism, random violence and sexuality. But familiar territory is always the most deeply subversive place in a Ballard novel.
Eden-Olympia is more than a mere business park. It is an expensive and intense hive, the modern "Dream Palace" of "a new elite of administrators, enarques and scientific entrepreneurs"; its aim, "to turn Provence into Europe's silicon valley". Paul Sinclair finds himself with time on his hands in this radical environment when his young wife takes a job at Eden-Olympia. She replaces a doctor who killed 10 executives with a rifle before shooting himself. He left no note and no explanation. Sinclair finds himself living in the same house and learning some of the same lessons as the killer.
There are the (un)usual Ballardian motifs; the injured airman, the swimming pools, the cars, the voyeuristic sex and violence, the perverse personal iconography of the central characters (the hothouse social environment even harks back to High-Rise from 1975), but in this new context they are even more profoundly unsettling than before. The apparently slick, professional characters are flawed and ambiguous, while strange events, as in the outstanding novella Running Wild from 1988, lead to extreme conclusions. Ballard is an expert in explaining how what at first appears perverse, amoral or simply wrong, is actually obvious, sensible and sane, and then going even further. From the beginning, the clues are all there. Eventually, both Sinclair and the reader are clear on what must be done. --John Shire [via]
The Technological Societyby Jacques EllulISBN 0075441586 (0-07-544158-6)
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Tender Is The Night, 1934by F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0020199309 (0-02-019930-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender Is The Night, 1934'Book summary:In the wake of World War I, a community of expatriate American writers established itself in the salons and cafes of 1920s Paris. They congregated at Gertrude Stein's select soirees, drank too much, married none too wisely, and wrote volumes--about the war, about the Jazz Age, and often about each other. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were part of this gang of literary Young Turks, and it was while living in France that Fitzgerald began writing Tender Is the Night. Begun in 1925, the novel was not actually published until 1934. By then, Fitzgerald was back in the States and his marriage was on the rocks, destroyed by Zelda's mental illness and alcoholism. Despite the modernist mandate to keep authors and their creations strictly segregated, it's difficult not to look for parallels between Fitzgerald's private life and the lives of his characters, psychiatrist Dick Diver and his former patient turned wife, Nicole. Certainly the hospital in Switzerland where Zelda was committed in 1929 provided the inspiration for the clinic where Diver meets, treats, and then marries the wealthy Nicole Warren. And Fitzgerald drew both the European locale and many of the characters from places and people he knew from abroad.
In the novel, Dick is eventually ruined--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually--by his union with Nicole. Fitzgerald's fate was not quite so novelistically neat: after Zelda was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and committed, Fitzgerald went to work as a Hollywood screenwriter in 1937 to pay her hospital bills. He died three years later--not melodramatically, like poor Jay Gatsby in his swimming pool, but prosaically, while eating a chocolate bar and reading a newspaper. Of all his novels, Tender Is the Night is arguably the one closest to his heart. As he himself wrote, "Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith." [via]
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The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohsby Morris BierbrierISBN 9774242106 (977-424-210-6)
Softcover, Amer Univ in Cairo Pr
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperityby Francis FukuyamaISBN 0029109760 (0-02-910976-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity'Book summary:In "The End of History, " Francis Fukuyama showed that the human historical process had culminated in a universal capitalist and democratic order. The end of the Cold War thus marked the end of ideological politics and the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st century capitalism. Yet despite the historic convergence of economic and political institutions throughout the world, we still see a great deal of social and cultural turbulence, not only in the West but in the emerging liberal states of Asia and Latin America. Now that Marxist economics and social engineering both have been discredited, Fukuyama asks, what principles should guide us in making our own society more productive and secure?
In "Trust, " a sweeping assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History, " Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the hidden principles that make a good and prosperous society, and his findings strongly challenge the orthodoxies of both left and right. Conservative economists believe that only free markets can liberate individual initiative and thereby foster greater prosperity, an assumption that dovetails with the popular myth that America was built by rugged individualists making unfettered "rational" choices. If Marxist economics undervalued the role of individual choice in a market economy, neoclassical goes too far in the other direction, promoting a radical individualism that neglects the moral basis of community and ignores the many "irrational" factors that influence economic behavior.
In fact, economic life is pervaded by culture and depends, Fukuyama maintains, on moral bonds of "social trust."This is the unspoken, unwritten bond between fellow citizens that facilitates transactions, empowers individual creativity, and justifies collective action. In the global struggle for economic predominance that is now upon us -- a struggle in which cultural differences will become the chief determinant of national success -- the social capital represented by trust will be as important as physical capital.
But trust varies greatly from one society to another, and a map of how social capital is distributed around the world yields many surprises. For instance, contrary to the assumptions of the "competitiveness" school, the United States has historically been quite similar to Japan in levels of social trust; and both differ greatly from low-trust Chinese Confucian societies on the one hand, or Latin Catholic societies like France and Italy on the other. Fukuyama argues that only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the kind of flexible, large-scale business organizations that are needed for successful competition in the emerging global economy.
The greatness of this country, he maintains, was built not on its imagined ethos of individualism but on the cohesiveness of its civil associations and the strength of its communities. But Fukuyama warns that our drift into a more and more extreme rights-centered individualism -- a radical departure from our past communitarian tradition -- holds more peril for the future of America than any competition from abroad. [via]More editions of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity:
The Twentieth Century: A People's Historyby Howard ZinnISBN 0060530340 (0-06-053034-0)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Beingby Milan Kundera, Michael Henry HeimISBN 0060932139 (0-06-093213-9)
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A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel.
Controlled by day, Tereza's jealousy awakens by night, transformed into ineffably sad death-dreams, while Tomas, a successful surgeon, alternates loving devotion to the dependent Tereza with the ardent pursuit of other women. Sabina, an independent, free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals -- of parents, husband, country, love itself -- whereas her lover, the intellectual Franz, loses all because of his earnest goodness and fidelity.
In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel, says the novelist, "the unbearable lightness of being" -- not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.
This magnificent novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It juxtaposes geographically distant places (Prague, Geneva, Paris, Thailand, the United States, a forlorn Bohemian village); brilliant and playful reflections (on "eternal return," on kitsch, on man and animals -- Tomas and Tereza have a beloved doe named Karenin); and a variety of styles (from the farcical to the elegiac) to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world's truly great writers.
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0060955724 (0-06-095572-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:In 1845 Thoreau leased some land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, and lived in a cabin on it for two years, two months, and two days. The experience gave Thoreau the chance to make keen observations on the world around him. The result became an American classic: Walden explores not only the soul of the searching Thoreau, but defines what it means to be a truly free person, and distills the essence of our relationship of Nature.
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Walden, or Life in the Woods, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Charles R. AndersonISBN 002054720X (0-02-054720-X)
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The Yacoubian Buildingby ALAA AL-ASWANY, Humphrey T. DaviesISBN 9774248627 (977-424-862-7)
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Anticristo-Bolsilloby NietzcheISBN 968890273X (968-890-273-X)
Hardcover, Giron Spanish Books Distributors
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La Casa De Los Espiritusby Not AvailableISBN 9685956790 (968-5956-79-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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La Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 9681104714 (968-11-0471-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits'Book summary:Bestseller internacional y muy admirado clásico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia épica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los días violentos del golpe que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de los espíritus, Allende combina lo supernatural con lo real en una versión sumamente personal de realismo mágico.Es raro, el caso, en que una primera novela lanza a su autora tan repentinamente al foro internacionales.
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 968131574X (968-13-1574-X)
Softcover, Editorial Diana S.A. De C.V.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude'Book summary:Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo .
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
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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)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Desde Mi Cielo/from My Skyby Alice SeboldISBN 9685960356 (968-5960-35-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Elogio De La Lentitudby Carl HonoreISBN 9871068743 (987-1068-74-3)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Marx para principiantesISBN 9879065107 (987-9065-10-7)
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Nieveby Orhan PamukISBN 9707701595 (970-770-159-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nieve'Book summary:A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings for love, art, power and God. Following years of lonely political exile in Germany, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mothers funeral. Strange news of a wave of suicides lead him to Kars, a remote Turkish town where political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Pamuk creates a stark picture of a too-little known part of the world, illuminating the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. Description in Spanish: En pleno invierno, un poeta y periodista regresa a su ciudad natal, la remota ciudad de Kars en la frontera de Turquía, después de largos años de exilio político en Europa Occidental. La ciudad que encuentra es un lugar conflictivo: hay una ola de suicidios de chicas a las que se les ha prohibido llevar las cabezas cubiertas a la escuela, los islamistas van a ganar las elecciones locales, y el jefe de los servicios de inteligencia es de una eficiencia brutal. La nueva novela del premiado y prestigioso autor de Me llamo Rojo es un thriller político que retrata las más diversas formas de la ambición -el amor, el arte, el poder, la religión- y desenmascara las contradicciones que aprisionan el corazón humano en muchos lugares del mundo islámico. [via]
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La Posibilidad De Una Isla/the Possibility of an Islandby Michel HouellebecqISBN 970770392X (970-770-392-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Posibilidad De Una Isla/the Possibility of an Island'Book summary:Upended by a midlife crisis, Daniel enters a cult that aims to secure eternal happiness through cloning. Through biting monologues, he recounts the last years of his life -his encounters with Isabelle and Esther, and his connection to a cult whose members maintain that humanity is capable of reaching immorality. Houellebecq is back! He touches on philosophical, social and political topics, cloning and sex, youth and old age, violence and desire. It is impossible to leave this novel with an indifferent feeling. Description in Spanish: Abandona cualquier posibilidad de salir indiferente de la lectura de esta novela. Michel Houellebecq ha vuelto. La posibilidad de una isla es la historia de Daniel, famoso por sus monólogos cáusticos en los que mezcla la provocación con una visión fría y cruel de la existencia. El protagonista narra los últimos años de su vida, sus relaciones sexuales y amorosas con Isabelle y con Esther, y su contacto con una secta cuyos miembros aseguran que el ser humano alcanzará la inmortalidad. [via]
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Primer Suplemento a La Biblioteca Genealogica Guatemalteca: Notas, Comentarios, Adicionesby Ramiro Ordonez JonamaISBN 9992221496 (99922-2-149-6)
Hardcover, Publicacion especial de la Academia Guatemalteca de Estudios Genealogicos, Heraldicos e Historicos
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El Queso Y Los Gusanosby Carlo GinzburgISBN 9706512071 (970-651-207-1)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Retrato Del Artista Adolescente/ Portrait of the Young Artistby James JoyceISBN 9685270740 (968-5270-74-0)
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Seis Grandes Ideas/Six Great Ideasby Mortimer J. AdlerISBN 9684195842 (968-419-584-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0030801206 (0-03-080120-6)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Minda Melayu Baruby Siddiq FadilISBN 9838840149 (983-884-014-9)
Hardcover, Institut Kajian Dasar
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