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The Abolition of Manby C. S. LewisISBN 0805420479 (0-8054-2047-9)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abolition of Man'Book summary:C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly political, religious, and philosophical. In the best of the book's three essays, "Men Without Chests," Lewis trains his laser-sharp wit on a mid- century English high school text, considering the ramifications of teaching British students to believe in idle relativism, and to reject "the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the universe is and the kinds of things we are." Lewis calls this doctrine the "Tao," and he spends much of the book explaining why society needs a sense of objective values. The Abolition of Man speaks with astonishing freshness to contemporary debates about morality; and even if Lewis seems a bit too cranky and privileged for his arguments to be swallowed whole, at least his articulation of values seems less ego-driven, and therefore is more useful, than that of current writers such as Bill Bennett and James Dobson. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Animal Rights Movement in America: From Compassion to Respectby Lawrence Finsen, Susan FinsenISBN 0805738843 (0-8057-3884-3)
Softcover, Thomson Gale
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The Autobiography of Malcolm Xby Alex Haley, Malcolm XISBN 0808501488 (0-8085-0148-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'Book summary:Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African Americans. And there's the vividness with which he depicts black popular culture--try as he might to criticize those lindy hops at Boston's Roseland dance hall from the perspective of his Muslim faith, he can't help but make them sound pretty wonderful. These are but a few examples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X limns an archetypal journey from ignorance and despair to knowledge and spiritual awakening. When Malcolm tells coauthor Alex Haley, "People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book," he voices the central belief underpinning every attempt to set down a personal story as an example for others. Although many believe his ethic was directly opposed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s during the civil rights struggle of the '60s, the two were not so different. Malcolm may have displayed a most un-Christian distaste for loving his enemies, but he understood with King that love of God and love of self are the necessary first steps on the road to freedom. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Botchki: When Doomsday Was Still Tomorrowby David ZagierISBN 0807614963 (0-8076-1496-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Building Jerusalem: The Rise And Fall of the Victorian Cityby Tristram HuntISBN 080508259X (0-8050-8259-X)
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 080850861X (0-8085-0861-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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Class And Schools: Using Social, Economic, And Educational Reform To Close The Black-white Achievement Gapby Richard RothsteinISBN 0807745561 (0-8077-4556-1)
Softcover, Teachers College Pr
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Common Fire: Lives of Commitment in a Complex Worldby Laurent A. Daloz, Cheryl H. Keen, James P. Keen, Sharon Daloz ParksISBN 0807020044 (0-8070-2004-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Community and the Politics of Placeby Daniel KemmisISBN 0806124776 (0-8061-2477-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Community and the Politics of Place'Book summary:[via]Thomas Jefferson envisioned a nation of citizens deeply involved in public life. Today Americans are lamenting the erosion of his ideal. What happened in the intervening centuries? Daniel Kemmis argues that our loss of capacity for public life (which impedes our ability to resolve crucial issues) parallels our loss of a sense of place. A renewed sense of inhabitation, he maintains of community rooted in place and of people dwelling in that place in a practiced waycan shape politics into a more cooperative and more humanly satisfying enterprise, producing better people, better communities, and better places.
The author emphasizes the importance of place by analyzing problems and possibilities of public life in a particular place those northern states whose settlement marked the end of the old frontier. National efforts to keep citizens apart by encouraging them to develop open country and rely upon impersonal, procedural methods for public problems have bred stalemate, frustration, and alienation. As alternatives he suggests how western patterns of inhabitation might engender a more cooperative, face-to-face practice of public life.
Community and the Politics of Place also examines our ambivalence about the relationship between cities and rural areas and about the role of corporations in public life. The book offers new insight into the relationship between politics and economics and addresses the question of whether the nation-state is an appropriate entity for the practice of either discipline. The author draws upon the growing literature of civic republicanism for both a language and a vantage point from which to address problems in American public life, but he criticizes that literature for its failure to consider place.
Though its focus on a single region lends concreteness to its discussions, Community and the Politics of Place promotes a better understanding of the quality of public life today in all regions of the United States.
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The Convict and the Colonelby Richard PriceISBN 0807046515 (0-8070-4651-5)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Cranfordby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0805502505 (0-8055-0250-5)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cranford'Book summary:This work provides a timeless portrait of life in a peaceful English village in the early years of the 19th century. It is the most enduringly popular of Mrs Gaskell's works. [via]
Cultures of the Jews: A New Historyby David BialeISBN 0805241310 (0-8052-4131-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Economic Anxiety & Christian Faithby Larry L. RasmussenISBN 0806618574 (0-8066-1857-4)
Softcover, Augsburg Pub. House
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Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Lifeby E.A. Wallis BudgeISBN 0806512296 (0-8065-1229-6)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life'Book summary:1900. A study of the complicated ideas of the after life in which the Egyptians were so obsessed. Discussions from the Book of the Dead, as well as the three elements of the Egyptian religion being a solar monotheism, a fertility cult and a wild cult of anthropomorphic divinity. Contains many illustrations. [via]
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An Essay on Liberationby Herbert HarcuseISBN 0807005959 (0-8070-0595-9)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, Aby Ruth Hubbard, Elijah WaldISBN 0807004197 (0-8070-0419-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcersby Ruth Hubbard, Elijah WaldISBN 0807004294 (0-8070-0429-4)
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power And the Assault on Democracyby Noam ChomskyISBN 0805082840 (0-8050-8284-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Failed States: The Abuse of Power And the Assault on Democracy'Book summary:The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad--and at home[via]
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against "failed states" around the globe. In this much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and thus a danger to its own people and the world.
"Failed states" Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and that suffer from a 'democratic deficit,' having democratic forms but with limited substance." Exploring recent U.S. foreign and domestic policies, Chomsky assesses Washington's escalation of the nuclear risk; the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; and America's self-exemption from international law. He also examines an American electoral system that frustrates genuine political alternatives, thus impeding any meaningful democracy.
Forceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis, and its policies and practices have recklessly placed the world on the brink of disaster. Systematically dismantling America's claim to being the world's arbiter of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focused--and urgent--critique to date.More editions of Failed States: The Abuse of Power And the Assault on Democracy:
For Love of Country?by Martha C. Nussbaum, Joshua CohenISBN 080704329X (0-8070-4329-X)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotismby Martha C. Nussbaum, Joshua CohenISBN 0807043133 (0-8070-4313-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism'Book summary:For Love of Country is a rare forum: a real conversation among some of our most prominent intellectuals about an issue of urgent public importance. At the center of this lively and utterly readable debate book is Martha Nussbaumís passionate argument against patriotism. At a time when our connections and obligations to the rest of the world grow only stronger, we should reject patriotism as a parochial ideal, she says, and instead see ourselves first of all as "citizens of the world."
Fifteen writers and thinkers respond to Nussbaum's piece in short, hard-hitting, often brilliant essays, acknowledging the power of her argument, but often defending patriotisms and other local commitments with an eloquence equal to Nussbaum's. We hear from an astonishing range of writers from Robert Pinsky to Cornel West to Gertrude Himmelfarb to Sissela Bok.
This is contemporary American philosophy at its most relevant and readable. At a time when debates about crises in Bosnia or Somalia are dominated by politicians and military leaders, here are the voices of philosophers and poets, literary scholars and historians. A book of surprising insights and diversity, For Love of Country is especially written for a wide audience and is sure to spark debate. [via]More editions of For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism:
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Futureby Herman E. Daly, John B. CobbISBN 0807047058 (0-8070-4705-8)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Futureby John B. Cobb, Herman E. Daly, Clifford W. CobbISBN 0807047023 (0-8070-4702-3)
Hardcover, Beacon Press
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularismby Susan JacobyISBN 0805077766 (0-8050-7776-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism'Book summary:An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination (The New York Times)[via]
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason.
In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth centurys civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with liberal and tolerant religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for reforms opposed by reactionary forces in the past and today.
Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrowas well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanists. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system.More editions of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism:
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Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good For Gays, Good For Straights, And Good For Americaby Jonathan RauchISBN 0805078150 (0-8050-7815-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good For Gays, Good For Straights, And Good For America'Book summary:Marriage, when it's right (and usually when it's wrong), is a subject that stirs strong feelings. Gay marriage inspires its own set of passions, with opponents decrying it as a step that will undermine the very fabric of society while supporters posit it as an inevitable next stage in step-by-step acceptance of homosexuality by mainstream America. Appearing as the issue heats ups following President George W. Bush's call for a constitutional amendment that would block the gathering tide of gay nuptials, this polemic by Atlantic Monthly/National Journal writer Jonathan Rauch deftly walks a fine line, both personalizing the subject (Rauch is a gay man with a longtime lover and a lifelong wistful attitude about marriage) and addressing it with an intellectual poise informed by historical and philosophical perspectives. Rauch actually supports the steady-as-she-goes, state-by-state advancement of gay marriage, believing that "same sex marriage will work best when people accept and understand it, whereas a sudden national enactment, where it suddenly to happen, might spark a culture war on the order of the abortion battle." Might? It says a lot about Rauch's temperance that he doesn't forecast an inevitably fractious future for the nation while it sorts through the implications of gay weddings. There are more impassioned perspectives on the issue, but Rauch's positive approach advances the issue with a welcome coolheadedness that actually suits the controversy. This is, after all, a fight over the right of traditional outsiders to engage in an inherently conservative institution. --Steven Stolder [via]
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Geography of Faith: Conversations Between Daniel Berrigan, When Underground, and Robert Colesby Robert Coles, Daniel BerriganISBN 0807005398 (0-8070-0539-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economyby Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell HochschildISBN 0805075097 (0-8050-7509-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy'Book summary:The single most important and astonishing statistic in Global Woman is that half the world's 120 million legal and illegal migrants are now believed to be women. Globalisation has its female underside and it involves a process whereby women in rich countries, often those who have succeeded in a tough "male world", find career success only by turning over the care of their children, elderly parents and homes to women from the developing world. The flipside of this is that millions of poor women leave their own children and families and migrate north to serve as nannies, maids and sometimes sex workers. In short there has been a global transfer of the services associated with a wife's traditional role--child care, homemaking and sex--from poor countries to rich ones. The authors think of this transfer in terms of a "care deficit"
The 15 detailed and well-researched essays collected here range from personal recollections to broad economic analysis spanning the globe from Taiwan to Mexico and from Thailand to the Dominican Republic. They cover such topics as the transfer of emotional resources, the pressures global capitalism puts on women and their families and the ways that women's migration has modified relationships between men and women--both through marriage and through the global sex trade. Most importantly, the contributors have brought the personal stories of those the authors call "the world's most invisible women" into the light. This is essential and disturbing reading for all those interested in the effects of global capitalism, along with Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed--Undercover in Low-wage America. --Larry Brown [via]
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquityby Sarah B. PomeroyISBN 080521030X (0-8052-1030-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Livingby Scott Nearing, Helen NearingISBN 0805209700 (0-8052-0970-0)
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A Good Place to Live : America's Last Migrationby Terry PindellISBN 0805050248 (0-8050-5024-8)
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The Great Transformationby Karl PolanyiISBN 0807056790 (0-8070-5679-0)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Timeby Karl Polanyi, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fred BlockISBN 080705643X (0-8070-5643-X)
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Gynecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminismby Mary DalyISBN 0807014133 (0-8070-1413-3)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this "Thunderbolt of Rage" that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 and no hurls again in the Re-Surging Movement of Radical Feminism in the Be-Dazzling Nineties. [via]More editions of Gynecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism:
The Hidden World of the Misericordsby Dorothy KrausISBN 0807608041 (0-8076-0804-1)
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streetsby David SimonISBN 0805080759 (0-8050-8075-9)
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I Thought My Father Was God : And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Projectby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Story Project StaffISBN 0805067140 (0-8050-6714-0)
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To give the book shape, Auster has done his best to categorize the material by subject, such as Animals, Families, War, Love, Dreams, and the like. These categories hold true to the submission criteria: "[I was most interested in] stories that defied our expectations about the world, anecdotes that revealed the mysterious and unknowable forces at work in our lives, in our family histories, in our minds and bodies, in our souls.... I was hoping to put together ... a museum of American reality." I Thought My Father Was God is a testament that, despite what on a bad day we may think is a drab existence, we all have a few good stories in us. --Michael Ferch [via]
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Illuminationsby Walter BenjaminISBN 0805202412 (0-8052-0241-2)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illuminations'Book summary:Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. [via]More editions of Illuminations:
Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experienceby Matt KaileyISBN 0807079596 (0-8070-7959-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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As his body morphed and his voice dropped, Kailey began noticing subtle shifts in the way he was treated. Men suddenly stopped offering to change flat tires for him but insisted on talking to him about women and bodily functions. Women got nervous when he baby-talked to their infants but routinely asked him to move heavy things around the office. In these everyday exchanges, Kailey recognized the many ways we define what it means to be male. He also realized that, with few role models, he had to learn to accept himself as a person between two genders.
As he writes about his transition from female to male, Kailey answers all the questions you've ever had about what it's like to live as a transsexual. From the fear of public restrooms to deciding whether to "pack" his pants, Kailey explains what the world looks like from his new vantage point-a position more people are discovering as gender transitions become increasingly common.
More than a memoir, Just Add Hormones is full of sound advice for those who may be questioning their gender. And through his story, Kailey offers valuable insights to the families and friends of those who have started a transition.
Funny, fresh, and incredibly candid, Just Add Hormones can help us all consider-and even laugh at-our own notions of what it means to be a man or a woman. [via]More editions of Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience:
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0808509675 (0-8085-0967-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
Madame De Treymesby Edith WhartonISBN 0808404865 (0-8084-0486-5)
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Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in Pursuit of Powerby Norman LebrechtISBN 0806514507 (0-8065-1450-7)
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Magnitude 8 : Earthquakes and Life along the San Andreas Faultby Philip L. FradkinISBN 0805046968 (0-8050-4696-8)
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Man's Search for Meaningby Viktor E. FranklISBN 0807014273 (0-8070-1427-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Search for Meaning'Book summary:Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos "meaning" -holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. Born in Vienna in 1905 Viktor E. Frankl earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He published more than thirty books on theoretical and clinical psychology and served as a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere. In 1977 a fellow survivor, Joseph Fabry, founded the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. Frankl died in 1997. Harold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of several best-selling books, including When Bad Things Happen to Good People.William J. Winslade is a philosopher, lawyer, and psychoanalyst at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. [via]
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The Metamorphosis, the Penal Colony, and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Arthur SamuelsonISBN 0805210571 (0-8052-1057-1)
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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of the Avian Fluby Mike DavisISBN 0805081917 (0-8050-8191-7)
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Errorby Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0807608750 (0-8076-0875-0)
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With a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France, almost destroyed by internal feuds and religious heterodoxy. Ladurie's portrait is based on a detailed register of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers and future Pope Benedict XII, who conducted rigorous inquisition into heresy within his diocese. Fournier was a consummate inquisitor, an acute psychologist who was able to elicit from the accused the innermost secrets of their thoughts and actions. He was pitiless in the pursuit of error, and meticulous in recording that pursuit.
LeRoy Ladurie analyzes the behavior, demography, social mentality, and cosmology of the community of peasants and shepherds, and vividly evokes the daily life of the village and mountain pastures. His portrait of Montaillou is dominated by the personal histories of two men: the curé Pierre Clergue, a brutal and powerful man who placed his enemies in the hands of the inquisitor; and the shepherd Pierre Maury, a friend of the Albigensian perfecti and a fatalist who returned from Spain to disappear in the inquisitor's prison in his own country. Montaillou, which has received even more praise than LeRoy Ladurie's earlier work, provides a portrait of a fascinating place with a dark, intriguing history. [via]More editions of Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error:
A More Perfect Union: Why Straight America Must Stand Up for Gay Rightsby Richard D. MohrISBN 0807079332 (0-8070-7933-2)
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The Naked and the Deadby Norman MailerISBN 0805060189 (0-8050-6018-9)
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Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.More editions of The Naked and the Dead:
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Natasha's Dance : A Cultural History of Russiaby Orlando FigesISBN 0805057838 (0-8050-5783-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Natasha's Dance : A Cultural History of Russia'Book summary:History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations[via]
A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.
Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg-a "window on the West"-and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself-its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works-by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall-with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife.
Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory-a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.More editions of Natasha's Dance : A Cultural History of Russia:
Origins of the New South, 1877-1913by Comer Vann WoodwardISBN 0807100196 (0-8071-0019-6)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle Eastby David FromkinISBN 0805068848 (0-8050-6884-8)
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In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down, in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will continue to live with its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War.
In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all-even an alliance between Arab nationalism and Zionism-seemed possible he raises questions about what might have been done differently, and answers questions about why things were done as they were. The current battle for a Palestinian homeland has its roots in these events of 85 years ago.More editions of Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East:
The Pickwick Papersby Charles Dickens, Thomas Nast, Hablot Knight Browne, Joshua G. M. KartonISBN 0805511741 (0-8055-1174-1)
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Politics of Aristotleby Aristotle, Peter Simpson, Peter L. Phillips SimpsonISBN 0807846376 (0-8078-4637-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Peter Simpson offers a new translation of Aristotle's text from the ancient Greek. He renders the Politics into an English version that is accurate, readable, and in certain difficult passages, original. His innovative analytical division of the whole text, with headings and accompanying summaries, makes clear the progression and unity of the argumenta helpful feature for students or readers unfamiliar with Aristotle's studied brevity and often elliptical style. Books 7 and 8 are repositioneda move supported by Aristotle's own words and much scholarly opinionto restore the work's logical organization and coherence. Finally, Simpson places the Politics in its proper philosophical context by beginning the text with the last chapter of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which he sees as an introduction to what follows. [via]
The Private Death of Public Discourseby Barry SandersISBN 0807004340 (0-8070-0434-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Rights of Manby Thomas Paine, Philip S. FonerISBN 0806505486 (0-8065-0548-6)
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keepsby Emmett GroganISBN 0806511680 (0-8065-1168-0)
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Scientific Revolution: 1500-1800by A. R. HallISBN 0807050938 (0-8070-5093-8)
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern Worldby Barrington MooreISBN 0807050733 (0-8070-5073-3)
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New Foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott
"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now." -The New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World:
Studies in Language and Social Interaction : In Honor of Robert Hopperby Phillip J. Glenn, Curtis D. LeBaron, Jenny S. Mandelbaum, Robert Hopper, Wayne A. BeachISBN 0805837329 (0-8058-3732-9)
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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearingby Alexander S. NeillISBN 0805512993 (0-8055-1299-3)
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Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Pastby Sidney W. MintzISBN 0807046299 (0-8070-4629-9)
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The Trumpet Shall Sound : A Study of Cargo Cults in Melanesiaby Peter WorsleyISBN 0805201564 (0-8052-0156-4)
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Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Tortureby Jennifer HarburyISBN 0807003077 (0-8070-0307-7)
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the Peopleby Jonathan SchellISBN 0805044574 (0-8050-4457-4)
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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscienceby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0805055193 (0-8050-5519-3)
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What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal: A Novelby Zoe HellerISBN 0805073337 (0-8050-7333-7)
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Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the Twenty-first Centuryby Sam RobertsISBN 080507080X (0-8050-7080-X)
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Timeby Michael ShermerISBN 0805070893 (0-8050-7089-3)
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Witchcraft in the Middle Agesby Russel JbISBN 0806505044 (0-8065-0504-4)
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Women and the Law of Property in Early Americaby Marylynn SalmonISBN 0807842443 (0-8078-4244-3)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Salmon shows that the law assumes women would remain dependent and subservient after marriage. She documents the legal rights of women prior to the Revolution and traces a gradual but steady extension of the ability of wives to own and control property during the decades following the Revolution. The forces of change in colonial and early national law were various, but Salmon believes ideological considerations were just as important as economic ones.
Women did not all fare equally under the law. In this illuminating survey of the jurisdictions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, Salmon shows regional variations in the law that affected women's autonomous control over property. She demonstrates the importance of understanding the effects of formal law on women' s lives in order to analyze the wider social context of women's experience. [via]
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Timesby Howard ZinnISBN 0807071277 (0-8070-7127-7)
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It begins with his 1956 acceptance of a teaching post at Atlanta's Spelman College, a school for black women that would soon be caught up in the civil rights movement. Zinn, who had already been radicalized on the streets of Brooklyn as a teenager, got caught up along with his students (who included the future head of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, and author Alice Walker), and was kicked out in 1963 for "insubordination." He moved to Boston University, where he became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and would prove a constant thorn in the side of university president John Silber throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Zinn writes in plain language that brooks no nonsense when it speaks of moral urgency, but he isn't above a sense of humor. Noting that the FBI was watching him constantly during the war era, he wryly observes that, "I have grown to depend on them for accurate reports on my speeches." Individual scenes leap out at the reader: Zinn's horror when he realized, years after WWII, that he had dropped napalm bombs on German troops; a meeting in a college classroom with the sister and parents of one of the victims of the Kent State massacre; Selma, Alabama, police beating blacks attempting to register to vote while federal agents stand by and do nothing. Through it all, Zinn writes, "I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience." --Ron Hogan [via]
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