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Advise and Consentby Allen DruryISBN 038505419X (0-385-05419-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Alias Graceby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385475713 (0-385-47571-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alias Grace'Book summary:In the astonishing new novel by the author of the bestsellers The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum, Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders.
Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story, from her family's difficult passage out of Ireland into Canada, to her time as a maid in Thomas Kinnear's household. As he brings Grace closer and closer to the day she cannot remember, he hears of the turbulent relationship between Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, and of the alarming behavior of Grace's fellow servant, James McDermott. Jordan is drawn to Grace, but he is also baffled by her. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend, a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she a victim of circumstances?
Alias Grace is a beautifully crafted work of the imagination that reclaims a profoundly mysterious and disturbing story from the past century. With compassion, an unsentimental lyricism, and her customary narrative virtuosity, Margaret Atwood mines the often convoluted relationships between men and women, and between the affluent and those without position. The result is her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale--in short, vintage Atwood. [via]More editions of Alias Grace:
All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Workby Barbara GarsonISBN 0385057229 (0-385-05722-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0380789035 (0-380-78903-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Gods'Book summary:American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Among Schoolchildrenby Tracy KidderISBN 0380710897 (0-380-71089-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among Schoolchildren'Book summary:Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher -- sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and important book to date.
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The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Contemporary Livingby Letitia Baldrige, Amy VanderbiltISBN 0385133758 (0-385-13375-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Contemporary Living'Book summary:The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette is the most authoritative book of its kind. Filled with practical advice for every occasion, business and pleasure, this book ensures that all of your social interactions will be handled with grace and confidence.
This classic guide, first published in 1952, has been fully updated to reflect the concerns of the modern reader. The advice that has made Amy Vanderbilt the first name in etiquette remains pertinent today. Here is the final word on buying and using stationery, responding to dinner invitations, hosting a party, and attending religious ceremonies. The chapter of the most enduring popularity is, of course, the one on weddings. From addressing invitations to sending thank you notes, everything a bride needs to plan the perfect wedding is easily accessible.
In addition to the time-honored guidance that has made this book a treasured reference, this updated edition contains information that addresses modern concerns of every kind. Here is advice on answering cellular phone calls in public, behaving courteously at the gym, and speaking at business meetings.
Whether you need to compose an invitation, write a letter of condolence, address your senator, set a dinner table, or buy a gift for a foreign business associate, you will find The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette practical, down-to-earth, and always reliable.
Updated and revised by former White House Staff Coordinator Nancy Tuckerman and respected businesswoman Nancy Dunnan, this trusted book remains the most complete and authoritative guide to living well.
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Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architectureby Bernard RudofskyISBN 0385074875 (0-385-07487-5)
Softcover, Hacker Art Books
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Asimov's Annotated Paradise Lostby John Milton, Isaac AsimovISBN 0385079923 (0-385-07992-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Centuryby Betsy IsraelISBN 0380976498 (0-380-97649-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenby Susan FaludiISBN 0385425074 (0-385-42507-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'Book summary:A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. [via]
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Beyond Cultureby Edward T. HallISBN 0385124740 (0-385-12474-0)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Bittersweetby Nevada BarrISBN 0380799502 (0-380-79950-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Blind Assassinby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385475721 (0-385-47572-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blind Assassin'Book summary:Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin , she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a- novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin , it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience. The novel has many threads and a series of events that follow one another at a breathtaking pace. As everything comes together, readers will discover that the story Atwood is telling is not only what it seems to be--but, in fact, much more. The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale , it is destined to become a classic. [via]
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0385000286 (0-385-00028-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucerby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0385098693 (0-385-09869-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmasby Charles Dickens, John LeechISBN 0385128169 (0-385-12816-9)
Hardcover, J. G. Ferguson Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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The City, Not Long Afterby Pat MurphyISBN 038524925X (0-385-24925-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Civil Warsby Rosellen BrownISBN 0385332920 (0-385-33292-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Coming of Age in Mississippiby Anne MoodyISBN 0385337817 (0-385-33781-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'Book summary:Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Tills lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was&the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.
An all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has first-hand experience of the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement, and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs and deadly force that were used to destroy it.
A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nations destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement. [via]More editions of Coming of Age in Mississippi:
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The Complete Works of Sakiby Hector Hugh Munro, Noel CowardISBN 0385053738 (0-385-05373-8)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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Conflict and Stability in Southeast Asiaby Mark W. Zacher, R. S. MilneISBN 0385071760 (0-385-07176-0)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotionby Stephen L. CarterISBN 0385474989 (0-385-47498-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion'Book summary:The Culture Of Disbelief has been the subject of an enormous amount of media attention from the first moment it was published. Hugely successful in hardcover, the Anchor paperback is sure to find a large audience as the ever-increasing, enduring debate about the relationship of church and state in America continues. In The Culture Of Disbelief , Stephen Carter explains how we can preserve the vital separation of church and state while embracing rather than trivializing the faith of millions of citizens or treating religious believers with disdain. What makes Carter's work so intriguing is that he uses liberal means to arrive at what are often considered conservative ends. Explaining how preserving a special role for religious communities can strengthen our democracy, The Culture Of Disbelief recovers the long tradition of liberal religious witness (for example, the antislavery, antisegregation, and Vietnam-era antiwar movements). Carter argues that the problem with the 1992 Republican convention was not the fact of open religious advocacy, but the political positions being advocated. [via]
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Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracyby David CannadineISBN 0385421036 (0-385-42103-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Delusion of Satan : The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trialsby Frances HillISBN 0385472552 (0-385-47255-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Delusion of Satan : The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials'Book summary:This compelling study of the horrific Salem Witch Trials--the first of its kind in over forty-five years--draws strength from new psychological insights into the roots of the hysteria that spurred the witch hunts of the late 1600s, and links them to the contemporary "witch hunts" of the twentieth century.
For more than three hundred years, the hysteria that gripped Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s has fascinated readers worldwide. Now acclaimed British writer Frances Hill has applied contemporary psychology to the Salem phenomenon and come up with startling results. Why were nearly all of the "afflicted" people women? What kind of mentality did the Puritans possess to place a four-year-old child in prison? What were the politics behind the witch hunts and trials, and what similarities exist in the witch hunts of the twentieth century (for example, the "witch hunts" of the McCarthy era)? In A Delusion Of Satan, Frances Hill answers these questions and many more in a conversational and frighteningly realistic narrative as she maps out details of the witch trials and subsequent hangings-information never revealed before. Discipline, morality, and intellectual rigor-these are all attributes that Puritanism bequeathed to the New World. Unfortunately, along with them came a tendency to regard an enemy as beneath empathy and deserving destruction. A Delusion Of Satan reminds the reader that these impulses, lurking in all people, can only be countered by constant reminders of common humanity. [via]More editions of A Delusion of Satan : The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials:
A Different Drummerby William Melvin KelleyISBN 0385413904 (0-385-41390-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Disappearing Energy: Can We End the Crisisby Dorothy Edwards Shuttlesworth, Lee Ann WilliamsISBN 0385048637 (0-385-04863-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Edge Cityby Joel GarreauISBN 0385424345 (0-385-42434-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edge City'Book summary:First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. [via]
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The Edge City: Life on the New Frontierby Joel GarreauISBN 0385262493 (0-385-26249-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Edie: An American Biographyby Jean SteinISBN 0385297912 (0-385-29791-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Famished Roadby Ben OkriISBN 0385425139 (0-385-42513-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Famished Road'Book summary:You have never read a novel like this one. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit-child. Though spirit-children rarely stay long in the painful world of the living, when Azaro is born he chooses to fight death: "I wanted," he says, "to make happy the bruised face of the woman who would become my mother." Survival in his chaotic African village is a struggle, though. Azaro and his family must contend with hunger, disease, and violence, as well as the boy's spirit-companions, who are constantly trying to trick him back into their world. Okri fills his tale with unforgettable images and characters: the bereaved policeman and his wife, who try to adopt Azaro and dress him in their dead son's clothes; the photographer who documents life in the village and displays his pictures in a cabinet by the roadside; Madame Koto, "plump as a mighty fruit," who runs the local bar; the King of the Road, who gets hungrier the more he eats.
At the heart of this hypnotic novel are the mysteries of love and human survival. "It is more difficult to love than to die," says Azaro's father, and indeed, it is love that brings real sharpness to suffering here. As the story moves toward its climax, Azaro must face the consequences of choosing to live, of choosing to walk the road of hunger rather than return to the benign land of spirits. The Famished Road is worth reading for its last line alone, which must be one of the most devastating endings in contemporary literature (but don't skip ahead). --R. Ellis [via]
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The Fifth Elephantby Terry PratchettISBN 0385409958 (0-385-40995-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fifth Elephant'Book summary:Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants, but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular place for those novels that feature the hard-bitten captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Samuel Vimes. Sent as ambassador to the Northern principality of Uberwald where they mine gold, iron, and fat--but never silver--he is caught up in an uneasy truce between dwarfs, werewolves, and vampires in the theft of the Scone of Stone (a particularly important piece of dwarf bread) and in the old werewolf custom of giving humans a short start in the hunt and then cheating.
Pratchett is always at his best when the comedy is combined with a real sense of jeopardy that even favorite characters might be hurt if there was a good joke in it. As always, the most unlikely things crop up as the subjects of gags--Chekhov, grand opera, the Caine Mutiny--and as always there are remorselessly funny gags about the inevitability of story:
They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains.
No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it--philosophically speaking--make a noise?
As for the dwarfs, whose legend it is, and who mine a lot deeper than other people, they say that there is a grain of truth in it.
All this, the usual guest appearances, and Gaspode the Wonder Dog. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dyingby Derek HumphryISBN 0385336535 (0-385-33653-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Forever Warby Joe HaldemanISBN 0380708213 (0-380-70821-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forever War'Book summary:In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman and Avon Books have released the definitive version of The Forever War, published for the first time as Haldeman originally intended. The book tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can't adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385177259 (0-385-17725-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Edge'Book summary:Now, 498 years after its founding, the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the Seldon Plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it!
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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonby Eliot WiggintonISBN 0385073534 (0-385-07353-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Selfby Leslie FiedlerISBN 0385470134 (0-385-47013-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Free to Chooseby Rose, Milton FriedmanISBN 038069879X (0-380-69879-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated With a New Chapterby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0385413726 (0-385-41372-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated With a New Chapter'Book summary:Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called "a sparkling intellectual guidebook... an engrossing journey not to be missed." Now with a new chapter that brings the ever-changing history of the conflict in the Middle East up to date, this seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." -- Seymour Hersh. "From Beirut To Jerusalem is the most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read." -- New York Times Book Review. [via]
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Going Nativeby Stephen WrightISBN 0385313861 (0-385-31386-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Good Bones and Simple Murdersby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385471106 (0-385-47110-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0381980332 (0-381-98033-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Earth'Book summary:The story begins on the wedding day of farmer Wang Lung and follows his simple, often one-sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the land. The land is a recurring theme throughout the novel, seemingly nurtured by the apparent protagonists, rejected and ruined by the antagonists. The author uses the House of Hwang, a nearby house of nobles, to contrast and predict their rise and fall. As the House of Hwang meets its slow and desperate end, Wang Lung rises.
However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, Wang Lung's family has to flee to the city to scrape out a meager living. Upon returning home, the family fares better. Wang Lung eventually becomes a prosperous man, his rise contrasting with the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. At the end of the novel, when Wang Lung is an old man, he overhears his sons plotting to sell some of the land, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall. [via]
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The Great Divideby Studs TerkelISBN 038070854X (0-380-70854-X)
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Heresiesby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0385111622 (0-385-11162-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmationby Peter L. BergerISBN 0385159676 (0-385-15967-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Humanity's Descentby Rick PottsISBN 0380715236 (0-380-71523-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimensionby Michio KakuISBN 0385477058 (0-385-47705-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In Defense of Elitismby William A. HenryISBN 0385468997 (0-385-46899-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great Warby W. Bruce LincolnISBN 0385274092 (0-385-27409-2)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspectiveby Peter L. BergerISBN 0385065299 (0-385-06529-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Killer on the Roadby James EllroyISBN 038080896X (0-380-80896-X)
Softcover, Perennial Pr
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Killer on the Road/Former Title Silent Terrorby James EllroyISBN 0380899345 (0-380-89934-5)
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Leaves of Grass; Selected Poetry and Prose.by Walt WhitmanISBN 0385042523 (0-385-04252-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Legendary Decorators of the 20th Centuryby Mark HamptonISBN 0385263619 (0-385-26361-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Life in the Fat Laneby Cherie BennettISBN 0385322747 (0-385-32274-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Man and His Symbolsby C. G. JungISBN 0385052219 (0-385-05221-9)
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The Martian Chroniclesby Ray BradburyISBN 0380973839 (0-380-97383-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Martian Chronicles'Book summary:Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.
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Megatrends 2000by John Naisbitt, Patricia AburdeneISBN 0380704374 (0-380-70437-4)
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 0385334303 (0-385-33430-3)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal'Book summary:"A startling view of man, stripped of the facade we try so hard to hide behind." In view of man's awesome creativity and resourcefulness, we may be inclined to regard him as descended from the angels, yet, in his brilliant study, Desmond Morris reminds us that man is relative to the apes--is in fact, the greatest primate of all. With knowledge gleaned from primate ethnology, zoologist Morris examines sex, child-rearing, exploratory habits, fighting, feeding, and much more to establish our surprising bonds to the animal kingdom and add substance to the discussion that has provoked controversy and debate the world over. Natural History Magazine praised The Naked Ape as "stimulating . . . thought-provoking . . . [Morris] has introduced some novel and challenging ideas and speculations." "He minces no words," said Harper's. "He lets off nothing in our basic relation to the animal kingdom to which we belong. . . He is always specific, startling, but logical." [via]
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The Next Centuryby David HalberstamISBN 0380717069 (0-380-71706-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Womenby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0385475772 (0-385-47577-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Official Mixer's Manual: The Standard Guide for Professional & Amateur Bartenders throughout the Worldby Patrick Gavin Duffy, Robert Jay MischISBN 0385023286 (0-385-02328-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle Eastby David FromkinISBN 0380713004 (0-380-71300-4)
Softcover, Hearst Book Group of Canada, The
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Plagues and Peoplesby William H. McNeillISBN 0385121229 (0-385-12122-9)
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The Pleasure Police: How Bluenose Busybodies and Lily-Livered Alarmists Are Taking All the Fun Out of Lifeby David ShawISBN 0385475683 (0-385-47568-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Popcorn Reportby Faith PopcornISBN 0385400004 (0-385-40000-4)
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The Power of Mythby Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers, Betty S. FlowersISBN 0385247745 (0-385-24774-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Myth'Book summary:Among his many gifts, Joseph Campbell's most impressive was the unique ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder and funeral of President John F. Kennedy, and help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology. Herein lies the power of The Power of Myth, showing how humans are apt to create and live out the themes of mythology. Based on a six-part PBS television series hosted by Bill Moyers, this classic is especially compelling because of its engaging question-and-answer format, creating an easy, conversational approach to complicated and esoteric topics. For example, when discussing the mythology of heroes, Campbell and Moyers smoothly segue from the Sumerian sky goddess Inanna to Star Wars' mercenary-turned-hero, Han Solo. Most impressive is Campbell's encyclopedic knowledge of myths, demonstrated in his ability to recall the details and archetypes of almost any story, from any point and history, and translate it into a lesson for spiritual living in the here and now. --Gail Hudson [via]
The Razor's Edgeby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0385043791 (0-385-04379-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Restoration London : Engaging Anecdotes and Tantalizing Trivia from the Most Magnificent and Renowned City of Europeby Liza PicardISBN 038073236X (0-380-73236-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration London : Engaging Anecdotes and Tantalizing Trivia from the Most Magnificent and Renowned City of Europe'Book summary:Here is seventeenth-century London as you've never seen it. The Restoration of Charles II marked a period of growth in colonization and trade, the rise of political parties, and an increase in the power of Parliament. Restoration London provides a fascinating look at everyday life in the city during that time. Using diaries, almanacs, newspapers, advice books, government papers, personal documents, and more, Liza Picard brilliantly portrays the human side of both ordinary daily living and catastrophic events. We see a fire out of control, leaving a great and prosperous city buried in its own ruins. We witness an enormous rebuilding, with determination from the people and a Proclamation from Charles that London would be "a much more beautiful city than that consumed."
From the splendor of lovely English gardens to pollution-filled air and streets clogged with waste and rubbish; from graceful living, fashionable clothes, and elegant décor to medical risks, plagues, accidents, and early deaths, this unique book describes the simple pleasures and the overwhelming difficulties of the time. We discover the craft of cabinet making, the art of embroidery, and the revival of theater. We are shown the importance of astrology, magic, and superstition in medical care, the labor of housework and shopping, the pleasures of music and dancing, the hazards of sex, the limitations of education, the nature of the laws, the conflicting views of the churches, and the extremes of poverty and wealth.
With meticulous detail and vivid descriptions, Restoration London shows us the people who lived there and gives us a better understanding of who they were. [via]
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The Second Shiftby Anne Machung, Anne HochschildISBN 0380711575 (0-380-71157-5)
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Second Sinby Thomas Stephen SzaszISBN 0385045131 (0-385-04513-1)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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Shogunby James ClavellISBN 0385292244 (0-385-29224-4)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Sirens of Titanby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385333498 (0-385-33349-8)
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Six Moon Danceby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0380791986 (0-380-79198-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Moon Dance'Book summary:In Six Moon Dance, veteran fantasy and science fiction writer Sheri S. Tepper tells the tale of the strange planet Newholme. An intriguing human society occupies the metal-poor planet, a society with gender values quite different from Earth, resulting from a virus that kills 50 percent of baby girls at birth. Newholmians use the best and the worst of dogma, religion, and "patriarchy" to uphold a society where men manage the money but women hold the keys to power through church, reproductive control, and their own short supply. "Family men" pay exorbitant dowries in order to gain a temporary wife, contracted for wifely duties and reproduction for a number of years. When their marriage contracts are finished, the women, relieved of duty, retire to enjoy the sexual services of male "Consorts."
The plot here involves an official Questioner who visits Newholme to investigate reports of human rights abuses, the strange native inhabitants whose biology may hold the key to human survival on the planet, and a disastrous lunar alignment. Although quite creative, Tepper's plot is simply not as gripping as the sociology and society she invents for Newholme. She uses her feminist instincts and knowledge about the sexes and religion to create a world worth taking a look at. James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award judges should be sure to take a look at Six Moon Dance for its unique take on gender roles. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Slaughter House Fiveby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385333846 (0-385-33384-6)
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Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledgeby Peter L. BergerISBN 0385058985 (0-385-05898-5)
Softcover, Doubleday
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 038533379X (0-385-33379-X)
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By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man. [via]More editions of Soul on Ice:
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The Star of Texas Cookbookby Junior League of HoustonISBN 0385181671 (0-385-18167-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Star of Texas Cookbook'Book summary:Southwestern cooking is emphasized in this collection of 350 recipes. The cookbook contains an excellent game section, a wine guide, and 52 different menu suggestions. Bits of Houston's history and culture make this "Star of Texas" shine. [via]
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Still She Haunts Meby Katie RoipheISBN 038533530X (0-385-33530-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Still She Haunts Me'Book summary:Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll he wrote two stunning classics that liberated childrens literature from the constraints of Victorian moralism. But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of his college, and the young girl who was his muse and subject, remains mysterious.
Dodgson met Alice in 1856, when she was almost four years old. Eventually he would capture her in his photographs, and transform the stories he told her into the luminous Alices Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Then, suddenly, when Alice was eleven, the Liddell family shut him out, and his relationship with Alice ended abruptly. The pages from Dodgsons diary that may have explained the rift have disappeared.
In imagining what might have happened, Katie Roiphe has created a deep, textured portrait of Alice and Dodgson: she changing from an unruly child to a bewitching adolescent, and he, a diffident, neurasthenic adult whose increasing obsession with her almost destroys him. Here, too, is a brilliantly realized cast of characters that surround them: Lorina Liddell, Alices mother, who loves her daughter even as she envies her youth; Edith Liddell, Alices resentful little sister; and James Hunt, Dodgsons speech therapist, an island of sanity in Dodgsons increasingly chaotic world. [via] 
Told by an Idiotby Rose MacaulayISBN 0385279566 (0-385-27956-6)
Softcover, Dial Press
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Trial of Socratesby I.F. StoneISBN 0385260326 (0-385-26032-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Twilight of Democracyby Patrick E. KennonISBN 038547539X (0-385-47539-X)
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Under the Sign of Saturnby Susan SontagISBN 0385267126 (0-385-26712-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Weddingby Dorothy WestISBN 0385471440 (0-385-47144-0)
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Welcome to the Monkey Houseby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385333501 (0-385-33350-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Welcome to the Monkey House'Book summary:Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonneguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonneguts audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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The Well of Lonelinessby Radclyffe HallISBN 0385416091 (0-385-41609-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Well of Loneliness'Book summary:First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career. [via]
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