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Age Wave: How the Most Important Trend of Our Time Will Change Our Futureby Ken Dychtwald, Joe Flower, Kenneth DyctwaldISBN 055334806X (0-553-34806-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earthby Lewis Thomas, James LovelockISBN 0553348167 (0-553-34816-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth'Book summary:Lovelock presents the theory that the earth is a living organism and draws expertly from chemistry, biology, geology, paleontology, physics, and meteorology that life has evolved not just by adapting to its surroundings but by taking control of them and remaking them into an immense life-sustaining organism. [via]
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Always Coming Homeby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0553262807 (0-553-26280-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Coming Home'Book summary:Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.[via]More editions of Always Coming Home:
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Bhagavad-Gitaby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0553213652 (0-553-21365-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita'Book summary:The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the Mahabharata. [via]
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The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of Warby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0553353403 (0-553-35340-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Blue Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553101447 (0-553-10144-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Mars'Book summary:On the brink of completing the terraforming effort on Mars, colonists find their work complicated by a crisis on Earth, new colonization projects on Jupiter and Saturn, and the onset of a Martian ice age. [via]
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A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illnessby Patty Duke, Gloria HochmanISBN 0553072560 (0-553-07256-0)
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0553149660 (0-553-14966-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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The Catcher in the Ryeby Not AvailableISBN 055311722X (0-553-11722-X)
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0553258001 (0-553-25800-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
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Coming into the Countryby John A. McPheeISBN 0553255274 (0-553-25527-4)
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The Coming of the Quantum Catsby Frederik PohlISBN 0553257862 (0-553-25786-2)
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Couplehoodby Paul ReiserISBN 0553096834 (0-553-09683-4)
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Crazy Saladby Nora EphronISBN 0553143123 (0-553-14312-3)
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Don't Shoot the Dog : The New Art of Teaching and Trainingby Karen PryorISBN 0553253883 (0-553-25388-3)
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Doomsday Bookby Connie WillisISBN 0553351672 (0-553-35167-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doomsday Book'Book summary:Connie Willis labored five years on this story of a history student in 2048 who is transported to an English village in the 14th century. The student arrives mistakenly on the eve of the onset of the Black Plague. Her dealings with a family of "contemps" in 1348 and with her historian cohorts lead to complications as the book unfolds into a surprisingly dark, deep conclusion. The book, which won Hugo and Nebula Awards, draws upon Willis' understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit. [via]
Entropy: A New World Viewby Jeremy RifkinISBN 0553262998 (0-553-26299-8)
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Askby David R. ReubenISBN 0553231677 (0-553-23167-7)
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Federalist Papersby James MadisonISBN 0553212222 (0-553-21222-2)
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The Federalist Papersby John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Garry WillsISBN 0553213407 (0-553-21340-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist Papers'Book summary:"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren ... should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties." So wrote John Jay, one of the revolutionary authors of The Federalist Papers, arguing that if the United States was truly to be a single nation, its leaders would have to agree on universally binding rules of governance--in short, a constitution. In a brilliant set of essays, Jay and his colleagues Alexander Hamilton and James Madison explored in minute detail the implications of establishing a kind of rule that would engage as many citizens as possible and that would include a system of checks and balances. Their arguments proved successful in the end, and The Federalist Papers stand as key documents in the founding of the United States. [via]
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Feminist Papersby Alice S. RossiISBN 0553206036 (0-553-20603-6)
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Fire in the Belly: On Being a Manby Sam KeenISBN 0553351370 (0-553-35137-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Flowers for Algernonby Daniel KeyesISBN 0553274503 (0-553-27450-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flowers for Algernon'Book summary:Daniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.
Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:
I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.
I dint know mice were so smart.
Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: "Punctuation, is? fun!" But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry "friends" at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he's as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate...
Flowers for Algernon is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact. --David Langford [via]
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicideby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0553273256 (0-553-27325-6)
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The Good News about Depression: Cures and Treatments in the New Age of Psychiatryby Mark S. Gold, Lois B. MorrisISBN 0553345117 (0-553-34511-7)
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Green Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553096400 (0-553-09640-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Mars'Book summary:Kim Stanley Robinson has earned a reputation as the master of Mars fiction, writing books that are scientific, sociological and, best yet, fantastic. Green Mars continues the story of humans settling the planet in a process called "terraforming." In Red Mars, the initial work in the trilogy, the first 100 scientists chosen to explore the planet disintegrated in disagreement--in part because of pressures from forces on Earth. Some of the scientists formed a loose network underground. Green Mars, which won the 1994 Hugo Award, follows the development of the underground and the problems endemic to forming a new society. [via]
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Helter Skelterby Vincent BugliosiISBN 0553278290 (0-553-27829-0)
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High Heartsby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553278886 (0-553-27888-6)
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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms Youby Elaine Aron, Tracy BeharISBN 0553062182 (0-553-06218-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You'Book summary:Are you an HSP? Are you easily overwhelmed by stimuli? Affected by other people's moods? Easily startled? Do you need to withdraw during busy times to a private, quiet place? Do you get nervous or shaky if someone is observing you or competing with you? HSP, shorthand for "highly sensitive person," describes 15 to 20 percent of the population. Being sensitive is a normal trait--nothing defective about it. But you may not realize that, because society rewards the outgoing personality and treats shyness and sensitivity as something to be overcome. According to author Elaine Aron (herself an HSP), sensitive people have the unusual ability to sense subtleties, spot or avoid errors, concentrate deeply, and delve deeply. This book helps HSPs to understand themselves and their sensitive trait and its impact on personal history, career, relationships, and inner life. The book offers advice for typical problems. For example, you learn strategies for coping with overarousal, overcoming social discomfort, being in love relationships, managing job challenges, and much more. The author covers a lot of material clearly, in an approachable style, using case studies, self-tests, and exercises to bring the information home. The book is essential for you if you are an HSP--you'll learn a lot about yourself. It's also useful for people in a relationship with an HSP. --Joan Price [via]
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Hiroshimaby John HerseyISBN 0553260588 (0-553-26058-8)
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0553213202 (0-553-21320-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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How to Survive the Loss of a Loveby Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams, Melba ColgroveISBN 0553077600 (0-553-07760-0)
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0553212087 (0-553-21208-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:Howards End [Paperback] E.M. Forster (Author) [via]
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Hunger of Memory: An Autobiographyby Richard RodriguezISBN 0553231936 (0-553-23193-6)
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguezby Richard RodriguezISBN 0553272934 (0-553-27293-4)
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The Idiot: Library Editionby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0553213520 (0-553-21352-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idiot: Library Edition'Book summary:"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." -- Dostoevsky
Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal and murder follow, testing Myshkin's moral feelings as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man." The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. "They call me a psychologist," wrote Dostoevsky. "That is not true. I'm only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul." [via]More editions of The Idiot: Library Edition:
In Her Dayby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553275739 (0-553-27573-9)
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Interfaceby Stephen BuryISBN 0553372300 (0-553-37230-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interface'Book summary:A biochip in presidential candidate William Cozzano's brain hardwires him to a computerized polling system that channels the mood of the electorate directly into his brain. Neal Stephenson fans should note (if they don't already know) that Stephen Bury is his pen name. [via]
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0553213539 (0-553-21353-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:Spine-tingling and entertaining, The Invisible Man is a science fiction classicand a penetrating, unflinching look into the heart of human nature. To its author, H. G. Wells, the novel was as compelling as a good gripping dream. But to generations of readers, the terrible and evil experiment of the demented scientist, Griffin, has conveyed a chilling nightmare of believable horror. An atmosphere of ever-increasing suspense begins with the arrival of a mysterious stranger at an English village inn and builds relentlessly to the stark terror of a victim pursued by a maniacal invisible man. The result is a masterwork: a dazzling display of the brilliant imagination, psychological insight, and literary craftsmanship that made H. G. Wells one of the most influential writers of his time. [via]
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Ishiby Theodora Kroeber, Ruth RobbinsISBN 0553248987 (0-553-24898-7)
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Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbyeby Madonna KolbenschlagISBN 0553149121 (0-553-14912-1)
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The Lives of a Cell : Notes of a Biology Watcherby Lewis ThomasISBN 0553275801 (0-553-27580-1)
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The Medusa and the Snailby Jane Resh Thomas, Lewis ThomasISBN 055325913X (0-553-25913-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medusa and the Snail'Book summary:Continuing the exploration of humanity and its world he began in The Lives of a Cell, the acclaimed scientist examines disease and natural death, cloning, making mistakes, and other timely topics with his trademark wonder and wit. Reprint. [via]
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Meeting the Madwoman : An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit: Breaking Through Fear and Destructive Patterns to a Balanced Creative Lifeby Linda S. LeonardISBN 0553091220 (0-553-09122-0)
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Members of the Tribe: On the Road in Jewish Americaby Ze'Ev ChafetsISBN 0553053086 (0-553-05308-6)
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Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them : When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Whyby Susan Forward, Joan TorresISBN 0553280376 (0-553-28037-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them : When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why'Book summary:Does the man you love assume the right to control how you live and behave?
Have you given up important activities or people to keep him happy?
Is he extremely jealous and possessive?
Does he switch from charm to anger without warning?
Does he belittle your opinions, your feelings, or your accomplishments?
Does he withdraw love, money, approval, or sex to punish you?
Does he blame you for everything that goes wrong in the relationship?
Do you find yourself "walking on eggshells" and apologizing all the time?
If the questions here reveal a familiar pattern, you may be in love with a misogynist -- a man who loves you, yet causes you tremendous pain because he acts as if he hates you.
In this superb self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward draws on case histories and the voices of men ad women trapped in these relationships to help you understand you man's destructive pattern, the part you play in it, how to break the pattern, heal the hurt, regain your self-respect, and either rebuild your relationship or find the courage to love a truly loving man. [via]More editions of Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them : When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why:
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Patternby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0553342797 (0-553-34279-7)
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 0553211803 (0-553-21180-3)
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The Mind's Iby Hofstadter, Douglas R. & Dennett, Daniel C., Daniel C. DennettISBN 0553345842 (0-553-34584-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind's I'Book summary:Ever wondered who you are? Who you really are? This collection of writings and reflections by some of today's most notable thinkers is designed to enliven this most central, and most baffling, question in the philosophy of mind. In some ways, the questions posed and bantered about in this book are at the heart of all philosophical reasoning. They are the ultimate questions about the self. The Mind's I contains an astonishing variety of approaches to answering the question, "Who am I?" Between the covers of this book one encounters the literary erudition of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges alongside the analytic rigor of John Searle. There are sophisticated metaphorical pieces (such as "The Princess Ineffabelle" by Polish philosopher and writer Stanislaw Lem), intriguing dialogues (like Raymond Smullyan's "Is God a Taoist?"), and serious but engaging philosophical essays from a host of thinkers (see Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?").
Editors Hofstadter and Dennett--leading lights in the study of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind--follow each selection with a short reflection designed to elaborate on their main themes. The Mind's I admirably broadens their fields to a more general audience. The book's essays are grouped into six categories, each successively raising the philosophical stakes by introducing new levels of complexity. Ultimately, one confronts some of the thorniest questions in modern philosophy here, such as the nature of free will, our place in the metaphysical world, and the possibility of genuine artificial intelligence. The book closes with a playful and perplexing piece by Robert Nozick, an adequate summation to The Mind's I. He writes, "Perhaps God has not decided yet whether he has created, in this world, a fictional world or a real one.... Which decision do you hope for?" --Eric de Place [via]
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Mona Lisa Overdriveby William GibsonISBN 0553281747 (0-553-28174-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mona Lisa Overdrive'Book summary:Into the cyber-hip world of William Gibson comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled...or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes.
An over-the-top thrill ride sequel to Neuromancer and Count Zero. [via]
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My Ishmaelby Daniel QuinnISBN 0553106368 (0-553-10636-8)
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Obsessive Love : When Passion Holds You Prisonerby Susan ForwardISBN 0553073850 (0-553-07385-0)
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On Aggressionby Konrad LorenzISBN 0553145576 (0-553-14557-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Aggression'Book summary:First published in the 1960s, On Aggression has been the target of criticism and controversy ever since. It is not Lorenz's careful descriptions of animal behaviour that are contentious, but his extrapolations to the human world that have caused reverberations resulting in a statement adopted by UNESCO in 1989 and subsequently endorsed by the American Psychological Association that appears to condemn his work. But does On Aggression actually make the claims implicit in the Seville statement?
In a new introduction by Professor Eric Salzen, the debate about Lorenz's work is set in its social and political context and his claims and those of his critics reassessed. Human aggression has not lessened since this seminal work first appeared and there are no convincing new solutions. On Aggression should be read by all new students and re-read by more experienced scholars so that the important evidence he presents from ethnology may be reappraised in the light of the most recent research. [via]More editions of On Aggression:
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0553214632 (0-553-21463-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.
To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Passages : Predictable Crises of Adult Lifeby Gail SheehyISBN 0553271067 (0-553-27106-7)
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Pathfindersby Gail SheehyISBN 0553270842 (0-553-27084-2)
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The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Cultureby Timothy TaylorISBN 055309694X (0-553-09694-X)
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The Proud Towerby Barbara TuchmanISBN 0553256025 (0-553-25602-5)
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Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Questby Daniel QuinnISBN 0553100181 (0-553-10018-1)
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The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0553213903 (0-553-21390-3)
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Red Hot Mamas: Coming into Our Own at Fiftyby Colette DowlingISBN 0553090593 (0-553-09059-3)
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Red Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553371347 (0-553-37134-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Mars'Book summary:The first novel in the astounding trilogy, Red Mars chronicles the lives of the first arrivals to Mars. The planet that the settlers find is empty of life and many of the pioneers want to begin changing the ecosystem right away to be suitable for human life. But the purity of the stark landscape convinces some scientists that it should be preserved. The stakes are high and the players on both sides range from politically naive idealists to ambitious manipulators without discernible scruples. No one can be sure that "terraforming" the planet will succeed, but it is certain to change the face of Mars beyond recognition. Red Mars won the 1994 Nebula Award. [via]
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Rubyfruit Jungleby Rita Mae BrownISBN 055327886X (0-553-27886-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubyfruit Jungle'Book summary:Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize. [via]
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The Savage God: A Study of Suicideby A. AlvarezISBN 055320906X (0-553-20906-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Savage God: A Study of Suicide'Book summary:"To write a beautiful book about suicide . . . to transform the subject into something beautifulthis is the forbidding task that A. Alvarez set for himself. . . . He has succeeded."New York Times
"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature. [via]More editions of The Savage God: A Study of Suicide:
Signing: How to Speak With Your Handsby Elaine CostelloISBN 0553346121 (0-553-34612-1)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0553213741 (0-553-21374-1)
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Six of Oneby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553278878 (0-553-27887-8)
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The Sixties: Years of Hope Days of Rageby Todd GitlinISBN 0553372122 (0-553-37212-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sixties: Years of Hope Days of Rage'Book summary:The author was elected president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963, and he brings an insider's perspective to bear on the turbulent whirl of political, social, and sexual rebellion we now call "the sixties." Gitlin does a nice job of integrating his first-person recollections with a broader history that ranges from the roots of 1960s revolt in 1950s affluence and complacency to the movement's apocalyptic collapse in the early 1970s--a victim of its own excesses as well as governmental persecution. His lucid summary of the complex strands that intertwined to form the counterculture is essential basic reading for those who don't know the difference between the Diggers and the Yippies. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Story of Bby Daniel QuinnISBN 055310053X (0-553-10053-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of B'Book summary:The Story of B combines Daniel Quinn's provocative and visionary ideas with a masterfully plotted story of adventure and suspense in this stunning, resonant novel that is sure to stay with readers long after they have finished the last page. Father Jared Osborne--bound by a centuries-old mandate held by his order to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--is sent to Europe on a mission to find a peripatetic preacher whose radical message is attracting a growing circle of followers. The target of Osborne's investigation is an American known only as B. He isn't teaching New Age platitudes or building a fanatical following; instead, he is quietly uncovering the hidden history of our planet, redefining the fall of man, and retracing a path of human spirituality that extends millions of years into the past. From the beginning, Fr. Osborne is stunned, outraged, and awed by the simplicity and profundity of B's teachings. Is B merely a heretic--or is he the Antichrist sent to seduce humanity not with wickedness, but with ideas more alluring than those of traditional religion? With surprising twists and fascinating characters, The Story of B answers this question as it sends readers on an intellectual journey that will forever change the way they view spirituality, human history, and, indeed, the state of our present world.
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Sudden Deathby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553269305 (0-553-26930-5)
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 055320517X (0-553-20517-X)
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Swept Awayby Carol CassellISBN 0553251821 (0-553-25182-1)
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Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mindby F. David PeatISBN 0553346768 (0-553-34676-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind'Book summary:With fascinating historical anecdotes and incisive scientific analysis, this important work combines ancient thought with modern theory to reveal a new way of viewing our universe that can expand our awareness, our lives, and may well point the way to a new science for the twenty-first century. [via]
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Talking Straightby Lee IacoccaISBN 0553278053 (0-553-27805-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking Straight'Book summary:This is a continuation of Lee Iacocca's autobiography which is one of the all-time best-selling hardcovers and sold 6.5 million copies worldwide. Iacocca recounts some untold life experiences as son, husband, father and friend as well as Chrysler Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He also writes candidly on world economic issues and provides insights into achieving business success. [via]
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The Tao of Physicsby Fritjof CapraISBN 055326379X (0-553-26379-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao of Physics'Book summary:The Tao of Physics, Capra's first book, challenges much of conventional wisdom by demonstrating striking parallels between ancient mystical traditions and the discoveries of 20th century physics. [via]
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Third Waveby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553246984 (0-553-24698-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Third Wave'Book summary:Third wave keeps multidimensional perspectives Its for every human being, to read: students, teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers,sociologist, Economist,IT managers, sales personnels, and whosever can read and understand this Bible. [via]
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Third World War: The Untold Storyby John HackettISBN 0553236377 (0-553-23637-7)
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Time Fliesby Bill CosbyISBN 0553277243 (0-553-27724-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Flies'Book summary:WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER,
AND BILL COSBY KEEPS GETTING BETTER
America's best-loved humorist, media personality and bestselling author now brings his unique warmth, wisdom and wit to a subject common to all: aging. From five to fifty and beyond, Bill Cosby takes us on a hilarious romp through the trials and tribulations of growingand beingolder. Funny, highly personal, and with just the right tugs on the heartstrings, Time Flies is Cosby at his best. [via]More editions of Time Flies:
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The Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0553239031 (0-553-23903-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tombs of Atuan'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
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Virtual Lightby William GibsonISBN 0553074997 (0-553-07499-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual Light'Book summary:The author of Neuromancer takes you to the vividly realized near future of 2005. Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pick-pocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash. [via]
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Voluntary Simplicity: An Ecological Lifestyle That Promotes Personal and Social Renewalby Duane ElginISBN 0553227661 (0-553-22766-1)
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Walking to Mercuryby StarhawkISBN 0553102338 (0-553-10233-8)
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The Water Is Wideby Pat ConroyISBN 0553268937 (0-553-26893-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Water Is Wide'Book summary:The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence-unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher.Here is PAT CONROY'S extraordinary drama based on his own experience-the true story of a man who gave a year of his life to an island and the new life its people gave him.From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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The Way It Spozed to Beby James HerndonISBN 0553124536 (0-553-12453-6)
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What Do You Care What Other People Think? : Further Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard Phillips FeynmanISBN 0553347845 (0-553-34784-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do You Care What Other People Think? : Further Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound. [via]
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 055321439X (0-553-21439-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel "all of life within." In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town, he reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into unforgettable ones. Unified by the recurring presence of young George Willard, and played out against the backdrop of Winesburg, Anderson's loosely connected chapters, or stories, coalesce into a powerful novel.In such tales as "Hands," the portrayal of a rural berry picker still haunted by the accusations of homosexuality that ended his teaching career, Anderson's vision is as acute today as it was over eighty-five years ago. His intuitive ability to home in on examples of timeless, human conflicts-a workingman deciding if he should marry the woman who is to bear his child, an unhappy housewife who seeks love from the town's doctor, an unmarried high school teacher sexually attracted to a pupil-makes this book not only immensely readable but also deeply meaningful. An important influence on Faulkner, Hemingway, and others who were drawn to Anderson's innovative format and psychological insights, Winesburg, Ohio deserves a place among the front ranks of our nation's finest literary achievements. [via]
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Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0553262505 (0-553-26250-5)
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A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscoveredby M. Scott PeckISBN 055337317X (0-553-37317-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered'Book summary:Just as The Road Less Traveled provided hope and guidance for individuals seeking growth, this major new work by M. Scott Peck, M.D., offers a needed prescription for our deeply ailing society. Our illness is Incivility--morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness, and materialism so ingrained in our routine behavior that we do not even recognize them. There is a deepening awareness that something is seriously wrong with our personal and organizational lives. Using examples from his own life, case histories, and dramatic scenarios of businesses that made a conscious decision to bring civility to their organizations , Dr. Peck demonstrates how change can be effected and how we and our organizations can be restored to health. This wise, practical, and radical book is a blueprint for achieving personal and societal well-being. [via]
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 055321375X (0-553-21375-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings'Book summary:Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work.
In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women's "place" in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women And Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist.
Also included in a delightful excerpt from Gilman's utopian novel, Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting, "This is a civilized country . . . there must be men." Gilman's analyses of economic and women's issues are as incisive and relevant today as they were upon their original publication. This volume is an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a powerful American writer. [via]More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
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