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1900, the Generation before the Great Warby Edward R. TannenbaumISBN 0385004311 (0-385-00431-1)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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1939: The Lost World of the Fairby David GelernterISBN 038072748X (0-380-72748-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: '1939: The Lost World of the Fair'Book summary:This book is a strange beast: a meditation on the meaning of the 1939 New York World's Fair seen through the lens of David Gelernter's angry political opinion that society today has gone to moral rot and ruin--mostly because of the ideas of New York-style liberals, who have led us astray. Richly detailed observations of the 1939 World's Fair and its social milieu are interspersed with a rather sparse fictional account of an old-fashioned romance that got its fuse lit on the fairgrounds. If you want a straightforward 1939 World's Fair novel, the classic is still World's Fair, by E. L. Doctorow. But Gelernter writes likes nobody else. His historical research is painstaking, and his pro-1939, anti-modern political jeremiad gives the book an eccentric but propulsive narrative drive. Gelernter has a qualified love of two-fisted old-time social engineers, such as Robert Moses, and he yearns for a time when society was ruled by authority figures instead of celebrities. Ah, the good old days, when the 1939 World's Fair introduced America to TV, the fax machine, nylons, fluorescent lighting, long-distance phone calls, and an underwater Salvador Dali exhibit starring live, half-nude women. Gelernter wrote this book while recovering from a murder attempt by the Unabomber (recounted in Gelernter's Drawing Life), but his true claim to fame is the cranky individualism of his mind. [via]
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The Aftermath of Sovereignty:West Indian Perspectives: West Indian Perspectivesby David Lowenthal, Lambros ComitasISBN 038504304X (0-385-04304-X)
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All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violenceby Fox ButterfieldISBN 0380728621 (0-380-72862-1)
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All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Workby Barbara GarsonISBN 0385057229 (0-385-05722-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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America in Our Timeby Godfrey HodgsonISBN 0385115725 (0-385-11572-5)
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Among Schoolchildrenby Tracy KidderISBN 0380710897 (0-380-71089-7)
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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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And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Studentsby Miles CorwinISBN 0380976501 (0-380-97650-1)
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And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Studentsby Miles CorwinISBN 0380798298 (0-380-79829-8)
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Avon Books Presentsby Rebecca Brandewyne, Christina Skye, Kasey Drake, Michaels SkyeISBN 0380768321 (0-380-76832-1)
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Bachelor Girl: 100 Years of Breaking the Rules-A Social History of Living Singleby Betsy IsraelISBN 038079778X (0-380-79778-X)
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Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religionby Garry WillsISBN 0385089708 (0-385-08970-8)
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Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophyby Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Lewis S. FeuerISBN 0385094205 (0-385-09420-5)
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Between Parent and Childby Haim GinottISBN 0380008211 (0-380-00821-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Parent and Child'Book summary:Over the past thirty-five years, Between Parent and Child has helped millions of parents around the world strengthen their relationships with their children. Written by renowned psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott, this revolutionary book offered a straightforward prescription for empathetic yet disciplined child rearing and introduced new communication techniques that would change the way parents spoke with, and listened to, their children. Dr. Ginotts innovative approach to parenting has influenced an entire generation of experts in the field, and now his methods can work for you, too.
In this revised edition, Dr. Alice Ginott, clinical psychologist and wife of the late Haim Ginott, and family relationship specialist Dr. H. Wallace Goddard usher this bestselling classic into the new century while retaining the books positive message and Haim Ginotts warm, accessible voice. Based on the theory that parenting is a skill that can be learned, this indispensable handbook will show you how to:
" Discipline without threats, bribes, sarcasm, and punishment
" Criticize without demeaning, praise without judging, and express anger without hurting
" Acknowledge rather than argue with childrens feelings, perceptions, and opinions
" Respond so that children will learn to trust and develop self-confidence [via]More editions of Between Parent and Child:
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Book of the Courtierby Baldesar CastiglioneISBN 0385094213 (0-385-09421-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Book of Virtuesby William John BennettISBN 0382249240 (0-382-24924-0)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Pr
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Brazzaville Beachby William BoydISBN 0380780496 (0-380-78049-6)
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Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peaceby William BroylesISBN 0380703556 (0-380-70355-6)
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Clockwork: Life in and Outside an American Factoryby Richard BalzerISBN 0385110367 (0-385-11036-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin Americaby Penny LernouxISBN 038513150X (0-385-13150-X)
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Daisy Millerby Henry James, Elizabeth HarwickISBN 0375759662 (0-375-75966-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Timeby Edward Twitchell HallISBN 0385192487 (0-385-19248-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Design with Natureby Ian L. McHargISBN 0385055099 (0-385-05509-9)
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Dispatchesby Michael HerrISBN 0380019760 (0-380-01976-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dispatches'Book summary:Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr's book was the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic. [via]
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Est: Sixty Hours That Transforms Your Lifeby Adelaide BryISBN 0380006979 (0-380-00697-9)
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nutritionby David ReubenISBN 0380443708 (0-380-44370-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nutrition'Book summary:From Wikipedia: David R. Reuben (b. November 29, 1933) is a California psychiatrist, sex expert, and author of several books, such as Any Woman Can! and How to Get More out of Sex. He is most famous for his book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), published in 1969. ~~~ Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet. ~~~ The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the perceived palatability of foods. Dietitians are health professionals who specialize in human nutrition, meal planning, economics, and preparation. They are trained to provide safe, evidence-based dietary advice and management to individuals (in health and disease), as well as to institutions. Clinical nutritionists are health professionals who focus more specifically on the role of nutrition in chronic disease, including possible prevention or remediation by addressing nutritional deficiencies before resorting to drugs. While government regulation of the use of this professional title is less universal than for "dietician", the field is supported by many high-level academic programs, up to and including the Doctoral level, and has its own voluntary certification board,[1] professional associations, and peer-reviewed journals, e.g. the American Society for Nutrition and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. ~~~ A poor diet can have an injurious impact on health, causing deficiency diseases such as scurvy[2] and kwashiorkor;[3] health-threatening conditions like obesity[4][5] and metabolic syndrome;[6] and such common chronic systemic diseases as cardiovascular disease,[7][8] diabetes,[9][10] and osteoporosis.[11][12][13] [via]
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Expendableby James A. GardnerISBN 038079439X (0-380-79439-X)
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The Family Treeby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0380791978 (0-380-79197-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Family Tree'Book summary:This technically polished novel ingeniously combines elements from traditional quests, fables, and novels. A seemingly rhetorical question is posed in chapter 1: Why did sociable, smart Dora Henry marry cold, controlling Jared Gerber? But that question is the key to the book and to the parallel stories told by Sheri Tepper. The sets of characters unravel their separate puzzles until all become different aspects of the same web of events, shaking the reader's, and Dora's, perceptions to the core. Tepper's linguistic sleight-of-hand with metaphor and image is breathtaking; her storytelling is deft and funny; her characters are memorable and sympathetic. Topical, mythical, archetypal, and provocative, this is a book no fantasy or science fiction reader should miss. [via]
Father Loss: Daughters Discuss the Man That Got Awayby Elyce WakermanISBN 038518865X (0-385-18865-X)
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Firestormby Nevada BarrISBN 0380725827 (0-380-72582-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firestorm'Book summary:A raging fire in a national park seems an unlikely setting for a murder, but that's exactly the circumstances that crime-fighting park ranger and medic Anna Pigeon confronts in this mystery thriller. A suspicious fire breaks loose in Northern California's Lassen Volcanic Park and Pigeon assists in battling the blaze and treating the wounds of other fire fighters. As if that's not enough, Pigeon finds herself without food and water trapped with a group of fire fighters, one of whom is a murderer. She tries to figure out who the culprit is before he, or the weather, strikes again. [via]
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Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family Historyby Helene StapinskiISBN 0375758704 (0-375-75870-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History'Book summary:Fans of Mary Karr's groundbreaking memoir The Liars' Club will relish the similarly funny, tough-minded tone of Helene Stapinski's recollections centering on her family's petty criminal history in the sordid precincts of Jersey City. But Stapinski is nobody's clone; her autobiography has a tart, distinctively urban Northeast flavor that will ring a bell with anyone familiar with America's aging, deteriorating cities. You can practically smell the soap suds from the local Colgate factory and the stink of the bone-rendering plant in nearby Newark; people didn't settle in Jersey City, writes Stapinski, "they settled for Jersey City ... they settled for less." She was 5 years old in 1970 when her Italian American grandfather was arrested for threatening to shoot her whole family, capping a long career that included armed robbery and beating his children. The Polish American relatives on her father's side included a bookie and an epileptic prone to fits of rage who nearly killed a sibling by breaking his back. None of this was a big deal in Jersey City, notes Stapinski, who deftly interweaves her family's story with the rancid saga of Hudson County's corrupt political machine. She fled to college in Manhattan and a career in journalism without ever really escaping the ties of blood and loyalty; her frank rendering of her mixed feelings as Jersey City was slowly upscaled reminds us what is gained and lost through gentrification. Stapinski's salty, savory account conveys the gritty, enduring legacy of Jersey City: "so tough, I was always prepared for what might come my way." --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Great Divideby Studs TerkelISBN 038070854X (0-380-70854-X)
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Villageby Elizabeth Warnock FerneaISBN 0385014856 (0-385-01485-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Businessby Pekka HimanenISBN 037575878X (0-375-75878-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business'Book summary:You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesnt even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. Its about harmonizing the rhythms of your creative work with the rhythms of the rest of your life so that they amplify each other. It is a fundamentally new work ethic that is revolutionizing the way business is being done around the world.
Without hackers there would be no universal access to e-mail, no Internet, no World Wide Web, but the hacker ethic has spread far beyond the world of computers. It is a mind-set, a philosophy, based on the values of play, passion, sharing, and creativity, that has the potential to enhance every individuals and companys productivity and competitiveness. Now there is a greater need than ever for entrepreneurial versatility of the sort that has made hackers the most important innovators of our day. Pekka Himanen shows how we all can make use of this ongoing transformation in the way we approach our working lives. [via]More editions of The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business:
Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Familiesby Joseph T. HowellISBN 0385053177 (0-385-05317-7)
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Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meaningsby Gail GodwinISBN 0380977958 (0-380-97795-8)
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The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmationby Peter L. BergerISBN 0385159676 (0-385-15967-6)
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Hidden Face of Shynessby Franklin R. Schneier, Lawrence A. WelkowitzISBN 0380783991 (0-380-78399-1)
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How Behavior Meansby Albert E. ScheflenISBN 038506571X (0-385-06571-X)
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How Democracies Perishby Jean-Francois RevelISBN 0385191200 (0-385-19120-0)
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How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of Ordinary Existenceby Timothy MillerISBN 0380726823 (0-380-72682-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of Ordinary Existence'Book summary:This is not a collection of encouraging essays on simplicity, nor is it perky advice on how to get by with less. Timothy Miller, a clinical psychologist, sets out to uncover in recent scientific studies the roots of the insatiable appetite of humans. After establishing our instinctual need for More, he pursues its destructive consequences and then he outlines a methodology for transcending the cycle. His infinitely pragmatic advice centers on his elaboration of Compassion, Attention, and Gratitude. Here is perennial wisdom transformed into practical science. [via]
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The Human Nature Industry: How Human Nature Is Manufactured, Distributed, Advertised and Consumed in the United States and Parts of Canadaby Ward Cannel, June MacklinISBN 0385079818 (0-385-07981-8)
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Huntedby James A. GardnerISBN 0380802090 (0-380-80209-0)
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Imaginary Friendsby Alison LurieISBN 0380711362 (0-380-71136-2)
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The Informed Heart: Autonomy in Mass Ageby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0380013029 (0-380-01302-9)
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Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metaliousby Emily TothISBN 0385159501 (0-385-15950-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrityby Richard SchickelISBN 0385123361 (0-385-12336-1)
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Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960by Mary Helen WashingtonISBN 0385183933 (0-385-18393-3)
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Just Another Kidby Torey L. HaydenISBN 0380705648 (0-380-70564-8)
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The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa'Udby Robert LaceyISBN 0380617625 (0-380-61762-5)
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The Kingdom in the Countryby James ConawayISBN 0380716135 (0-380-71613-5)
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Kissby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0380731479 (0-380-73147-9)
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Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye: Breaking the Spell of Feminine Myths and Modelsby Madonna KolbenshlagISBN 0385141866 (0-385-14186-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Lathe of Heavenby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0380791854 (0-380-79185-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lathe of Heaven'Book summary:Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers. She is also an acclaimed author of powerful and perceptive nonfiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. She has received many honors, including six Nebula and five Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Newbery, the Pilgrim, the Tiptree, and citations by the American Library Association. She has written over a dozen highly regarded novels and story collections. Her SF masterworks are The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), The Dispossessed (1974), and The Lathe of Heaven (1971).
George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.
The Lathe of Heaven is set in the sort of worlds that one would associate with Philip K. Dick, but Ms. Le Guin's treatment of the material, her plot and characterization and concerns, are more akin to the humanistic, ethically engaged, psychologically nuanced fiction of Theodore Sturgeon. The Lathe of Heaven is an insightful and chilling examination of total power, of war and injustice and other age-old problems, of changing the world, of playing God. --Cynthia Ward [via]
Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made a Differenceby Robert ColesISBN 0375758356 (0-375-75835-6)
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Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance Order Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Lifeby Alexandra StoddardISBN 0380705117 (0-380-70511-7)
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With the publication of Living A Beautiful Life, Alexandra Stoddard originated the idea of creating an atmosphere of beauty and tranquillity with simple touches that turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.
As a world-famous interior decorator, she has worked her madic on interiors large and small, from mansions and embassies to cottages and studio apartments. Though her writing and lectures, she has encouraged millions to brighten their lives and their homes by turning mundane tasks into small pleasurable rituals that add beauty and joy to everything they do. Alexandra Stoddard's secrets of Living A Beautiful Life are yours.
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The Lost History of the Canine Race: Our 15,000-Year Love Affair With Dogsby Mary Elizabeth ThurstonISBN 0380730499 (0-380-73049-9)
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May All Be Fed : Diet for a New World: Including Recipes by Jia Patton and Friendsby John Robbins, Jia PattonISBN 0380719010 (0-380-71901-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hopeby Gail SheehyISBN 0375761012 (0-375-76101-2)
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The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repressionby Thomas SzaszISBN 0385066465 (0-385-06646-5)
Hardcover, Anchor Press/Doubleday
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The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Familyby Jon KatzISBN 0375760555 (0-375-76055-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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New World, New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolutionby Robert Ornstein, Paul EhrlichISBN 0385239408 (0-385-23940-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Next Centuryby David HalberstamISBN 0380717069 (0-380-71706-9)
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Next of Kin: My Conversations With Chimpanzeesby Stephen Tukel Mills, Roger RoutsISBN 0380728222 (0-380-72822-2)
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Nobody Nowhereby Donna WilliamsISBN 0380722178 (0-380-72217-8)
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She inhabits a place of chaos, cacophony, and dancing light--where physical contact is painful and sights and sounds have no meaning. Although labeled, at times, deaf, retarded, or disturbed, Donna Williams is autistic--afflicted by a baffling condition of heightened sensory perception that imprisons the sufferer in a private, almost hallucinatory universe of patterns and colors. Nobody Nowhere is Donna's story in her own words--a haunting, courageous memoir of the titanic struggles she has endured in her quest to merge "my world" with "the world." [via]
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One Childby Torey L. HaydenISBN 0380542625 (0-380-54262-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and Whiteby Brent StaplesISBN 0380724758 (0-380-72475-8)
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Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktalesby Vance RandolphISBN 0380017970 (0-380-01797-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabiaby Jean P. SassonISBN 0380719185 (0-380-71918-5)
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The Rainbowby D. H. Lawrence, Keith CushmanISBN 0375759654 (0-375-75965-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ravensbruckby Germaine TillionISBN 0385009275 (0-385-00927-5)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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Reagan's Americaby Garry WillsISBN 0385182864 (0-385-18286-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Return to Laughterby Elenore Smith BowenISBN 0385053126 (0-385-05312-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenagerby Thomas HineISBN 0380728532 (0-380-72853-2)
Softcover, Perennial
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Rise Gonna Rise: A Portrait of Southern Textile Workersby Mimi ConwayISBN 038513195X (0-385-13195-X)
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Rootsby Alex HaleyISBN 0385037872 (0-385-03787-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumphby Thomas E. LawrenceISBN 0385070152 (0-385-07015-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph'Book summary:This is the exciting and highly literate story of the real Lawrence of Arabia, as written by Lawrence himself, who helped unify Arab factions against the occupying Turkish army, circa World War I. Lawrence has a novelist's eye for detail, a poet's command of the language, an adventurer's heart, a soldier's great story, and his memory and intellect are at least as good as all those. Lawrence describes the famous guerrilla raids, and train bombings you know from the movie, but also tells of the Arab people and politics with great penetration. Moreover, he is witty, always aware of the ethical tightrope that the English walked in the Middle East and always willing to include himself in his own withering insight. [via]
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Shifting Gearsby Nena OneillISBN 0380002817 (0-380-00281-7)
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Six Moon Danceby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0380791986 (0-380-79198-6)
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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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Social and Political Philosophy Readings from Platoby Ronald SantoniISBN 0385012381 (0-385-01238-1)
Softcover, Doubleday
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Somebody Else's Kidsby Torey L. HaydenISBN 038059949X (0-380-59949-X)
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A small seven-year-old boy who couldn't speak except to repeat weather forecasts and other people's words . . . A beautiful little girl of seven who had been brain damaged by terrible parental beatings and was so ashamed because she couldn't learn to read . . . A violently angry ten-year-old who had seen his stepmother murder his father and had been sent from one foster home to another . . . A shy twelve-year-old from a Catholic school which put her out when she became pregnant . . .
"What do we matter?"
"Why do you care?"They were four problem children-put in Torey Hayden's class because no one else knew what to do with them. Together, with the help of a remarkable teacher who cared too much to ever give up, they became almost a family, able to give each other the love and understanding they had found nowhere else.
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The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football: Sexism and the American Culture of Sportsby Mariah Burton NelsonISBN 0380725274 (0-380-72527-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace Language, Sex, and Powerby Deborah TannenISBN 0380717832 (0-380-71783-2)
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HOW CAN YOU GET CREDIT & GET AHEAD?
In her extraordinary international bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen transformed forever the way we look at intimate relationships between women and men. Now she turns her keen ear and observant eye toward the workplace--where the ways in which men and women communicate can determine who gets heard, who gets ahead, and what gets done.
An instant classic, Talking From 9 to 5 brilliantly explains women's and men's conversational rituals--and the language barriers we unintentionally erect in the business world. It is a unique and invaluable guide to recognizing the verbal power games and miscommunications that cause good work to be underappreciated or go unnoticed--an essential tool for promoting more positive and productive professional relationships among men and women.
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Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk, the Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man.by Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0380015811 (0-380-01581-1)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Turnabout: Help for a New Lifeby Jean KirkpatrickISBN 0385125135 (0-385-12513-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Turning Pointsby Ellen GoodmanISBN 0385098146 (0-385-09814-6)
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Vigilantby James Alan GardnerISBN 0380802082 (0-380-80208-2)
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Desperate to escape her past, Faye joins the Vigil, a band of fiercely independent monitors charged with rooting out government corruption. To help in this struggle, her mind is linked to the powerful datasphere that regulates the planet...and suddenly, she receives a cryptic vision promising peace and healing. Instead, Faye becomes the target of unknown assassins in a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash a new and more deadly outbreak.
For humans and Ooloms were not the first species to inhabit Demoth. Somewhere in the ruins of long-abandoned settlements, something was left behind: an alien technology of unimaginable potential to build--or destroy. Enemy agents will stop at nothing to find it. Some of Faye's own people will kill to uncover its secret. With no one else to trust, she turns to the one person who can help unravel the mystery: Festina Ramos--explorer, outcast, ever-vigilant champion of those whom society deems expendable.
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 0385027672 (0-385-02767-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woodsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0385095031 (0-385-09503-1)
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Weby Yvegeny Zamyatin, Mirra GinsburgISBN 0380633132 (0-380-63313-2)
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Before 1984...There was...WE
In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.
One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul.
A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.
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Who Owns Death: Capital Punishment, the American Conscience and the End of Executionsby Robert J. Lifton, Greg MitchellISBN 0380974983 (0-380-97498-3)
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Lifton and Mitchell begin by examining how three states--California, Massachusetts, and Missouri--handle the death penalty. In succeeding chapters, they provide a history of state-sponsored execution in the United States and describe the various ways the killing is done, from lethal injection (the most common form of execution) to hanging (yes, hanging--that's how Delaware, New Hampshire, and Washington put people to death) and firing squads (in Idaho, Oklahoma, and Utah). They also provide an in-depth look at the people involved in executions, from the criminals themselves to the families of murder victims to the folks in the criminal-justice system: prosecutors, judges, wardens, chaplains, and so on. The opponents of capital punishment often make the mistake of appearing to champion evildoers, either by denying their guilt or minimizing the harm they have done. Who Owns Death? avoids this fatal flaw (it is dedicated, in part, "to the families of murder victims"). Open-minded readers who want to explore what the death penalty really is--and Lifton and Mitchell think there are many more of these people than is commonly assumed--may walk away from it rethinking their own beliefs. --John J. Miller [via]
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Who Owns Death?: Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executionsby Greg Mitchell, Robert Jay LiftonISBN 038079246X (0-380-79246-X)
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Lifton and Mitchell begin by examining how three states--California, Massachusetts, and Missouri--handle the death penalty. In succeeding chapters, they provide a history of state-sponsored execution in the United States and describe the various ways the killing is done, from lethal injection (the most common form of execution) to hanging (yes, hanging--that's how Delaware, New Hampshire, and Washington put people to death) and firing squads (in Idaho, Oklahoma, and Utah). They also provide an in-depth look at the people involved in executions, from the criminals themselves to the families of murder victims to the folks in the criminal-justice system: prosecutors, judges, wardens, chaplains, and so on. The opponents of capital punishment often make the mistake of appearing to champion evildoers, either by denying their guilt or minimizing the harm they have done. Who Owns Death? avoids this fatal flaw (it is dedicated, in part, "to the families of murder victims"). Open-minded readers who want to explore what the death penalty really is--and Lifton and Mitchell think there are many more of these people than is commonly assumed--may walk away from it rethinking their own beliefs. --John J. Miller [via]
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Woman's Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Societyby Elizabeth FisherISBN 0385005512 (0-385-00551-2)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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