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Absalom, Absalom!by William FaulknerISBN 0394556348 (0-394-55634-8)
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Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkners epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0394563190 (0-394-56319-0)
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The Age of Extremes : 1914-1991by Eric J. HobsbawnISBN 0394585755 (0-394-58575-5)
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The Age of Missing Informationby Bill McKibbenISBN 0394589335 (0-394-58933-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Missing Information'Book summary:"Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message." -- The New York Times Imagine watching an entire day's worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly better informed than previous generations. Bombarded with newscasts and fluff pieces, game shows and talk shows, ads and infomercials, televangelist pleas and Brady Bunch episodes, McKibben processed twenty-four hours of programming on all ninety-three Fairfax, Virginia, cable stations. Then, as a counterpoint, he spent a day atop a quiet and remote mountain in the Adirondacks, exploring the unmediated man and making small yet vital discoveries about himself and the world around him. As relevant now as it was when originally written in 1992-and with new material from the author on the impact of the Internet age-this witty and astute book is certain to change the way you look at television and perceive media as a whole. "By turns humorous, wise, and troubling . . . a penetrating critique of technological society."- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Masterful . . . a unique, bizarre portrait of our life and times." - Los Angeles Times "Do yourself a favor: Put down the remote and pick up this book." - Houston Chronicle From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Centuryby Frances FitzGeraldISBN 039474439X (0-394-74439-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Appointment in Samarraby John O'HaraISBN 0394711920 (0-394-71192-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Appointment in Samarra'Book summary:A twentieth-century classic, Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline Englishthe envy of friends and strangers alike. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Appointment in Samarra brilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life. It is John OHaras crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist. [via]More editions of Appointment in Samarra:
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Black Knight, White Knightby Gloria VanderbiltISBN 0394544129 (0-394-54412-9)
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Butterfield Eightby John O'HaraISBN 0394711904 (0-394-71190-4)
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, David WrightISBN 039470293X (0-394-70293-X)
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 039472657X (0-394-72657-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital. [via]
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The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopauseby Germaine GreerISBN 0394582691 (0-394-58269-1)
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In this compulsively readable, fascinating account of menopause, renowned feminist and author Germaine Greer gives us so much more than the medical facts. She has gone back into history, read textbooks, explored novels and poems, and has written a wholly extraordinary account of women and their changes in life.
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The Changing Anatomy of Britainby Anthony SampsonISBN 0394531434 (0-394-53143-4)
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The Chomsky Readerby Noam Chomsky, Jim PeckISBN 0394559568 (0-394-55956-8)
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Lifeby Jane JacobsISBN 0394729110 (0-394-72911-0)
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"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal...It is written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."Los Angeles Times
"Not only comprehensible but entertaining...Like Mrs. Jacobs' other books, it offers a concrete approach to an abstract and elusive subject. That, all by itself, makes for an intoxicating experience."New York Times [via]More editions of Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life:
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Cities in Civilizationby Peter HallISBN 0394587324 (0-394-58732-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities in Civilization'Book summary:Ranging over 2,500 years, Cities in Civilization is a tribute to the city as the birthplace of Western civilization. Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and outlines the precise combinations of forces -- both universal and local -- that led to each city's belle epoque.
Hall identifies four distinct expressions of civic innovation: artistic growth, technological progress, the marriage of culture and technology, and solutions to evolving problems. Descriptions of Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan London, and nineteenth-century Vienna bring to life those seedbeds of artistic and intellectual creativity. Explorations of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, of Henry Ford's Detroit, and of Palo Alto at the dawn of the computer age highlight centers of technological advances. Tales of the creation of Los Angeles' movie industry and the birth of the blues and rock 'n' roll in Memphis depict the marriage of culture and technology.
Finally, Hall celebrates cities that have been forced to solve problems created by their very size. With Imperial Rome came the apartment block and aqueduct; nineteenth-century London introduced policing, prisons, and sewers; twentieth-century New York developed the skyscraper; and Los Angeles became the first city without a center, a city ruled instead by the car. And in a fascinating conclusion, Hall speculates on urban creativity in the twenty-first century.
This penetrating study reveals not only the lives of cities but also the lives of the people who built them and created the civilizations within them. A decade in the making, Cities in Civilization is the definitive account of the culture of cities. [via]More editions of Cities in Civilization:
Cities of the Plainby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0394705971 (0-394-70597-1)
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Civil Warsby Rosellen BrownISBN 0394534786 (0-394-53478-6)
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Classic Crimes: A Selection from the Works of William Rougheadby William RougheadISBN 0394716485 (0-394-71648-5)
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0394718917 (0-394-71891-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Concrete Islandby J.G. BallardISBN 0394741072 (0-394-74107-2)
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A Country of Strangers : Blacks and Whites in Americaby David K. ShiplerISBN 0394589750 (0-394-58975-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Country of Strangers : Blacks and Whites in America'Book summary:David K. Shipler, a long-time reporter for the New York Times in the U.S. and overseas, calls A Country of Strangers "a journey along the color line," an attempt to trace "the landscape where blacks and whites find mutual encounters." As such, it's a journey (one that took five years) across America, listening and talking to black and white Americans about the conundrum of race. At once poignant and profound, A Country of Strangers begins with an examination of the tension between integration and segregation, continues through a look at the ways blacks and whites stereotype each other, and concludes with a section on choices--the ways in which we can reshape the racial landscape. Not everyone will agree with Shipler's optimistic conclusions, but we could do worse than to accompany him on this remarkable journey. [via]
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imaginationby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394543955 (0-394-54395-5)
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Culture Against Manby Jules HenryISBN 0394702832 (0-394-70283-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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D.V.by Diana VreelandISBN 0394731611 (0-394-73161-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'D.V.'Book summary:As fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue, Diana Vreeland-and her passion, charm, insouciance, and genius for style--energized and inspired the fashion world for fifty years. In this glittering autobiography she takes us around the world with her, revealing her obsession with fashion high and low--pink plastic poodles, for example--and dropping timeless sayings like, "As you know, the French like the French very much." A fabulous, witty read.[via]
The Decline of the Westby Oswald Spengler, Helmut WernerISBN 0394604881 (0-394-60488-1)
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Diana Cooper: A Biographyby Philip ZieglerISBN 0394500261 (0-394-50026-1)
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himselfby Daniel BoorstinISBN 0394726251 (0-394-72625-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself'Book summary:Perhaps the greatest book by one of our greatest historians, The Discoverers is a volume of sweeping range and majestic interpretation. To call it a history of science is an understatement; this is the story of how humankind has come to know the world, however incompletely ("the eternal mystery of the world," Einstein once said, "is its comprehensibility"). Daniel J. Boorstin first describes the liberating concept of time--"the first grand discovery"--and continues through the age of exploration and the advent of the natural and social sciences. The approach is idiosyncratic, with Boorstin lingering over particular figures and accomplishments rather than rushing on to the next set of names and dates. It's also primarily Western, although Boorstin does ask (and answer) several interesting questions: Why didn't the Chinese "discover" Europe and America? Why didn't the Arabs circumnavigate the planet? His thesis about discovery ultimately turns on what he calls "illusions of knowledge." If we think we know something, then we face an obstacle to innovation. The great discoverers, Boorstin shows, dispel the illusions and reveal something new about the world.
Although The Discoverers easily stands on its own, it is technically the first entry in a trilogy that also includes The Creators and The Seekers. An outstanding book--one of the best works of history to be found anywhere. --John J. Miller [via]
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Dogeatersby Jessica HagedornISBN 0394574982 (0-394-57498-2)
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The Economy of Citiesby Jane JacobsISBN 039470584X (0-394-70584-X)
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Edie: An American Biographyby Jean Stein, George PlimptonISBN 0394488199 (0-394-48819-9)
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The End of Natureby Bill McKibbenISBN 0394576012 (0-394-57601-2)
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Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Centuryby Barbara TaylorISBN 0394527666 (0-394-52766-6)
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The Experience of Placeby Tony HissISBN 0394568494 (0-394-56849-4)
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The Fall of Public Manby Richard SennettISBN 0394724208 (0-394-72420-8)
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Vby William HintonISBN 0394704657 (0-394-70465-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese V'Book summary:More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff.
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0394745027 (0-394-74502-7)
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The Great Divide : Second Thoughts on the American Dreamby Studs TerkelISBN 0394570537 (0-394-57053-7)
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economyby Karl MarxISBN 039448942X (0-394-48942-X)
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0394705963 (0-394-70596-3)
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0394605292 (0-394-60529-2)
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Hard Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 0394746910 (0-394-74691-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:First published in 1970, this classic of oral history features the voices of men and women who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. It includes accounts by congressmen C. Wright Patman and Hamilton Fish, as well as failed presidential candidate Alf M. Landon, who recalls what it was like to be governor of Kansas in 1933:
Men with tears in their eyes begged for an appointment that would help save their homes and farms. I couldn't see them all in my office. But I never let one of them leave without my coming out and shakin' hands with 'em. I listened to all their stories, each one of 'em. But it was obvious I couldn't take care of all their terrible needs.
The book includes also the perspectives of ordinary men and women, such as Jim Sheridan, who took part in the 1932 march by World War I veterans to petition for their benefits in Washington, D.C., where they were repelled by army troops led by General Douglas MacArthur. Or Edward Santander, who was a child then: "My first memories come about '31. It was simply a gut issue then: eating or not eating, living or not living." Studs Terkel makes history come alive, drawing out experiences and emotions from his interviewees to the degree few have ever been able to match. [via]More editions of Hard Times:
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A History of Warfareby John KeeganISBN 0394588010 (0-394-58801-0)
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Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousnessby Peter L. Berger, Brigitte Berger, Hansfried KellnerISBN 0394719948 (0-394-71994-8)
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The House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 0394539079 (0-394-53907-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of the Spirits'Book summary:A best seller and critical success all over the world, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes destiny and overtakes them all. We begin -- at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country -- in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara del Valle. A warm-hearted, hypersensitive girl, Clara has distinguished herself from an early age with her telepathic abilities -- she can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, the fabled Rosa the Beautiful, Clara has been mute for nine years, resisting all attempts to make her speak. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon. Her husband-to-be is Esteban Trueba, a stern, willful man, given to fits of rage and haunted by a profound loneliness. At the age of thirty-five, he has returned to the capital from his country estate to visit his dying mother and to find a wife. (He was Rosa's fiance, and her death has marked him as deeply as it has Clara.) This is the man Clara has foreseen -- has summoned -- to be her husband; Esteban, in turn, will conceive a passion for Clara that will last the rest of his long and rancorous life. We go with this couple as they move into the extravagant house he builds for her, a structure that everyone calls "the big house on the corner," which is soon populated with Clara's spiritualist friends, the artists she sponsors, the charity cases she takes an interest in, with Esteban's political cronies, and, above all, with the Trueba children...their daughter, Blanca, a practical, self-effacing girl who will, to the fury of her father, form a lifelong liaison with the son of his foreman...the twins, Jaime and Nicol [via]
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The Idiot: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0394604342 (0-394-60434-2)
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0394601483 (0-394-60148-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:The last and most famous of D. H. Lawrence's novels, Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1928 and banned in England and the United States as pornographic. While sexually tame by today's standards, the book is memorable for better reasons-Lawrence's masterful and lyrical prose, and a vibrant story that takes us bodily into the world of its characters.As the novel opens, Constance Chatterley finds herself trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to a rich aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent. After a brief but unsatisfying affair with a playwright, Lady Chatterley enjoys an extremely passionate relationship with the gamekeeper on the family estate, Oliver Mellors. As Lady Chatterley falls in love and conceives a child with Mellors, she moves from the heartless, bloodless world of the intelligentsia and aristocracy into a vital and profound connection rooted in sexual fulfillment.Through this novel, Lawrence attempted to revive in the human consciousness an awareness of savage sensuality, a sensuality with the power to free men and women from the enslaving sterility of modern technology and intellectualism. Perhaps even more relevant today than when it first appeared, Lady Chatterley's Lover is a triumph of passion and an erotic celebration of life.[via] 
Lifelines from Our Pastby Leften Stavros StavrianosISBN 0394560949 (0-394-56094-9)
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The Making of the English Working Classby E.P. ThompsonISBN 0394703227 (0-394-70322-7)
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"Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement [via]More editions of The Making of the English Working Class:
Mark Hampton on Decoratingby Mark HamptonISBN 0394579879 (0-394-57987-9)
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Marx for Beginnersby RiusISBN 0394737164 (0-394-73716-4)
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Matingby Norman RushISBN 0394544722 (0-394-54472-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mating'Book summary:Had Jane Austen been in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1980s, Mating is the book she might have written. Set in Botswana in the days before the end of apartheid, Norman Rush's novel is, essentially, a comedy of manners played out in Austen's approved milieu: a country village. Granted, the village in question, Tsau, is a utopian society created by the great American anthropologist Nelson Denoon, and run largely by and for disenfranchised and abused African women. Still, the issue that interests Rush (and the one that fueled Austen's novels) is the age-old question of who mates with whom, and why? The unnamed narrator is a 32-year-old postgraduate student in anthropology whose dissertation has just gone south on her. Drifting around the edges of the expatriate community in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, she first meets Denoon:
He was smiling at Kgosetlemang--the event was to be considered over with, clearly--and I could tell that his gingivae were as good as mine; which is saying a lot. I attend to my gums. People in the bush don't always attend to their oral hygiene, not to mention other niceties. There was no sign of that here. I of course am fanatical about my gums because my idea of what the movie I Wake Up Screaming is about is a woman who has to keep dating to find her soulmate and she's had to get dentures. I have very long-range anxieties.
Entranced by this potential soulmate, our heroine strikes out into the Kalahari Desert with a couple of donkeys and follows him to his utopia where sexual attraction, regional politics, and social experimentation make for very strange bedfellows, indeed.Mating is a fiercely intelligent, hugely ambitious novel that takes on feminism, socialism, political corruption, foreign-sponsored rural development projects, and, yes, male-female relations in ways that are simultaneously hilarious and disturbing. Certainly Rush's language is a big part of what makes the novel work: the narrator's combination of elevated vocabulary and wacky non sequiturs is inspired. When, for example, Denoon explains to her that most of the women in Tsau are celibate and therefore so is he, she reflects that "of course the spiritus rector of a female community would need to be a sexual solitary, at least during the foundational period." She then wonders if "this situation was the analog of western series on television where the female watchership shrank to nothing when the producers let the marshal get married." Mating is remarkable for its wit, its acuity, and its ability to satirize without demeaning; it's also a heck of an entertaining story. Jane Austen would have been proud. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Errorby Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0394729641 (0-394-72964-1)
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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:
The Naked and the Deadby Norman MailerISBN 0394603214 (0-394-60321-4)
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Not in Our Genesby Richard C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, Leon J. KaminISBN 0394728882 (0-394-72888-2)
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On Learning and Social Changeby Michael RossmanISBN 0394480821 (0-394-48082-1)
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Pagans and Christiansby Robin Lane FoxISBN 0394554957 (0-394-55495-7)
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Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Huttonby C. David HeymannISBN 0394509420 (0-394-50942-0)
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Failby Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394726979 (0-394-72697-9)
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-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America
-- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO
-- The Southern Civil Rights Movement
-- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization. [via]More editions of Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail:
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Failby Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394488407 (0-394-48840-7)
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0394604326 (0-394-60432-6)
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The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]More editions of The Portrait of a Lady:
Reasonable Creatures: Feminism and Society in American Culture at the End of the Twentieth Centuryby Katha PollittISBN 039457060X (0-394-57060-X)
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Remembrance of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 0394711831 (0-394-71183-1)
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Robert Frank: The Americansby Robert FrankISBN 0394742567 (0-394-74256-7)
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A Secret Country: The Hidden Australiaby John PilgerISBN 0394574621 (0-394-57462-1)
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Areby Carl Sagan, Ann DruyanISBN 0394534816 (0-394-53481-6)
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World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a ROOTS for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits--self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics--are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS is a triumph of popular science.
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The Social History of the Machine Gunby John EllisISBN 0394731247 (0-394-73124-7)
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Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevensby Wallace Stevens, Holly Bright StevensISBN 039448715X (0-394-48715-X)
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Staying Alive: The Psychology of Human Survivalby Roger N. WalshISBN 0394726901 (0-394-72690-1)
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 0394480449 (0-394-48044-9)
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticismby Fritjof CapraISBN 0394716124 (0-394-71612-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism'Book summary:First published in 1975, The Tao of Physics rode the wave of fascination in exotic East Asian philosophies. Decades later, it still stands up to scrutiny, explicating not only Eastern philosophies but also how modern physics forces us into conceptions that have remarkable parallels. Covering over 3,000 years of widely divergent traditions across Asia, Capra can't help but blur lines in his generalizations. But the big picture is enough to see the value in them of experiential knowledge, the limits of objectivity, the absence of foundational matter, the interrelation of all things and events, and the fact that process is primary, not things. Capra finds the same notions in modern physics. Those approaching Eastern thought from a background of Western science will find reliable introductions here to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism and learn how commonalities among these systems of thought can offer a sort of philosophical underpinning for modern science. And those approaching modern physics from a background in Eastern mysticism will find precise yet comprehensible descriptions of a Western science that may reinvigorate a hope in the positive potential of scientific knowledge. Whatever your background, The Tao of Physics is a brilliant essay on the meeting of East and West, and on the invaluable possibilities that such a union promises. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Toward a History of Needsby Ivan D. IllichISBN 0394735013 (0-394-73501-3)
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Trotsky for Beginnersby Tariq Ali, Phil Evans, Robert LekachmanISBN 0394738853 (0-394-73885-3)
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Trouble in Mind : Black Southerners in Age of Jim Crowby Leon F. LitwackISBN 039452778X (0-394-52778-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trouble in Mind : Black Southerners in Age of Jim Crow'Book summary:The name of the era, "Jim Crow," was somehow derived from an old minstrel song, but there was nothing frivolous about the laws and traditions used to keep blacks from participating in society in the post-Reconstruction South. Leon Litwack, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a noted authority on black history, has written a searing account of the age of Jim Crow in Trouble In Mind. The book is arranged in thematic chapters that show how blacks were restricted at every turn. Blacks were kept in perpetual debt, denied proper schooling, and were subjected to daily assaults on their dignity. Most disturbing was the institution of lynchings, the thousands of hangings and burnings that terrorized blacks in the South. Litwack documents how lynchings were carefully planned and attracted large crowds who viewed them as cathartic entertainment. Trouble In Mind deals with a long and sad chapter in American History, but Professor Litwack has written a laudable book which deserves to be read. Trouble In Mind is considered a sequel to Litwack's Been In the Storm So Long, a critically acclaimed account of Reconstruction which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History. [via]
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0394743121 (0-394-74312-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394497716 (0-394-49771-6)
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Couglin and the Great Depressionby Alan BrinkleyISBN 0394716280 (0-394-71628-0)
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 039460475X (0-394-60475-X)
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Woman's Estateby Juliet MitchellISBN 0394719050 (0-394-71905-0)
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Women, Race and Classby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0394713516 (0-394-71351-6)
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Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern Worldby Sheila RowbothamISBN 0394719549 (0-394-71954-9)
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Workingby Studs TerkelISBN 0394478843 (0-394-47884-3)
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Doby Studs TerkelISBN 0394729536 (0-394-72953-6)
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The Works of Platoby Plato, Irwin EdmanISBN 0394604202 (0-394-60420-2)
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