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20:21 Vision : Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Centuryby Bill EmmottISBN 0312422172 (0-312-42217-2)
Softcover, Picador
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essaysby Susan SontagISBN 0312280866 (0-312-28086-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinosby Richard MarcusISBN 0312336012 (0-312-33601-2)
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With the exploding growth of casino gambling, heightened by Indian reservation and riverboat expansion, more and more elaborate casino cheaters are illegally assaulting the green-felt, getting rich off of novice casino personnel. Richard Marcus's insider story is a window into the hidden world of intriguing personalities and tense situations he encounters as a member of expert casino-cheating teams who use their wits to turn the odds upside down and "earn" millions. American Roulette is a fascinating story not only for those who occasionally casino-gamble, but for everyone with a little larceny in their heart.More editions of American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinos:
Balsamic Dreams: A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generationby Joe QueenanISBN 031242082X (0-312-42082-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Biting the Dust: The Joys of Houseworkby Margaret HorsfieldISBN 0312220839 (0-312-22083-9)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion And Medicineby Richard SloanISBN 0312348819 (0-312-34881-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language And Culture in All Its Moodsby Michael WexISBN 0312307411 (0-312-30741-1)
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Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualitiesby Stephen O. Murray, Will RoscoeISBN 0312238290 (0-312-23829-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Centuryby Robert M. Page, Richard L. SilburnISBN 0312221142 (0-312-22114-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Brothers of Glastonburyby Kate SedleyISBN 0312272820 (0-312-27282-0)
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The Bureau : The Secret History of the FBIby Ronald KesslerISBN 0312304021 (0-312-30402-1)
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Clubland : The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Cultureby Frank OwenISBN 0312287666 (0-312-28766-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Constant Battles : The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savageby Steven LeBlanc, Katherine E. RegisterISBN 0312310897 (0-312-31089-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Constant Battles : The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage'Book summary:With armed conflict in the Persian Gulf now upon us, Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc takes a long-term view of the nature and roots of war, presenting a controversial thesis: The notion of the "noble savage" living in peace with one another and in harmony with nature is a fantasy. In Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage, LeBlanc contends that warfare and violent conflict have existed throughout human history, and that humans have never lived in ecological balance with nature.[via]
The start of the second major U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf, combined with regular headlines about spiraling environmental destruction, would tempt anyone to conclude that humankind is fast approaching a catastrophic end. But as LeBlanc brilliantly argues, the archaeological record shows that the warfare and ecological destruction we find today fit into patterns of human behavior that have gone on for millions of years.
Constant Battles surveys human history in terms of social organization-from hunter gatherers, to tribal agriculturalists, to more complex societies. LeBlanc takes the reader on his own digs around the world -- from New Guinea to the Southwestern U.S. to Turkey -- to show how he has come to discover warfare everywhere at every time. His own fieldwork combined with his archaeological, ethnographic, and historical research, presents a riveting account of how, throughout human history, people always have outgrown the carrying capacity of their environment, which has led to war.
Ultimately, though, LeBlanc's point of view is reassuring and optimistic. As he explains the roots of warfare in human history, he also demonstrates that warfare today has far less impact than it did in the past. He also argues that, as awareness of these patterns and the advantages of modern technology increase, so does our ability to avoid war in the future.More editions of Constant Battles : The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage:
Constant Battles: Why We Fightby Steven A. Leblanc, Katherine E. RegisterISBN 0312310900 (0-312-31090-0)
Softcover, Griffin
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Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking over Our Lives and What We Can Do About Itby Charles DerberISBN 031225461X (0-312-25461-X)
Softcover, Griffin
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Creating Change : Public Policy, Civil Rights and Sexualityby John D'Emilio, William B. Turner, Urvashi VaidISBN 0312243758 (0-312-24375-8)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Creating Change : Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rightsby John D'Emilio, William B. Turner, Urvashi VaidISBN 0312287127 (0-312-28712-7)
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The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Cultureby Douglass Shand-TucciISBN 0312330901 (0-312-33090-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Pastby Matthew Parfitt, Stephen Dilks, Regina HansenISBN 0312201575 (0-312-20157-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Deviance, Terrorism and War: The Process of Solving Unsolved Social and Political Problemsby John Wear BurtonISBN 0312197535 (0-312-19753-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Doctor Whoby John TullochISBN 0312214804 (0-312-21480-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother'S, My Father'S, and Mineby Noelle HoweyISBN 0312422202 (0-312-42220-2)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The Existential Pleasures of Engineeringby Samuel C. FlormanISBN 0312275463 (0-312-27546-3)
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Exploring the Matrix : Visions of the Cyber Presentby Karen HaberISBN 0312313586 (0-312-31358-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exploring the Matrix : Visions of the Cyber Present'Book summary:It is the beginning of the twenty-first century, and we are living on the cusp of change. Reality has already spawned one alternate state, and for many people virtual reality is now where they are most at home. But what happens when virtual worlds become indistinguishable from what we consider to be the real world? When you wake up from a dream, how do you know that you are not still dreaming? And if the reality we're in is virtual, who is doing the programming?[via]
These questions, and many more like them, spin effortlessly out of the box-office mega-hit The Matrix. More than just a computer-aided shoot-'em-up, more than just the latest cinematic expression of cyberpunk angst, The Matrix presented layer upon layer of challenging explorations of what the true nature of reality might be, and why this should (or should not) be important to us.
Exploring the Matrix presents eighteen thoughtful and though-provoking essays on what the film had to say and exactly how it was said. Here you will discover the long and fascinating history of some of the themes set forth in the Wachowski Brothers' landmark film, why they are important, how they have been explored n the past, and their implications for the immediate future of human society. The true nature of reality in our current cyber-age is not a rhetorical question, but rather one that needs to be answered as we move closer to seamless virtual scenarios, accessible online, in video games... and perhaps ultimately as the result of uploading software to an implanted chip in the brain.
You can take the blue pill and stay in the dream, unaware of your status, or take the red pill and see just how deep the rabbit hole goes.More editions of Exploring the Matrix : Visions of the Cyber Present:
Female Psychology: The Emerging Selfby Sue CoxISBN 0312287437 (0-312-28743-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflictby Peter Ackerman, Jack DuvallISBN 0312240503 (0-312-24050-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict'Book summary:"In a contest of violence against violence," the philosopher Hannah Arendt observed, "the superiority of the government has always been absolute." When confronted with nonviolent resistance on the part of the downtrodden, however, governments have often crumbled--witness the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime and the ousting of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia.
The worldwide spread of democracy in the 20th century, documentary writers Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall maintain, "would not have come to pass without the power of ordinary people who defied oppressive rulers not by force of arms, but by nonviolent action." By way of example, they cite the collapse of the Argentine military regime following peaceful protests by the mothers of men and women who had been murdered by the secret police; the eventual undermining of the Polish Communist regime by the nonviolent Solidarity labor movement; the refusal of the Danish people to comply with the laws of their Nazi occupiers during World War II; and the exemplary work done in India (and, earlier, South Africa) by Mohandas Gandhi, who took pains to emphasize that nonviolence does not imply passivity.
Ackerman and DuVall's book, the companion volume to a PBS television series, will be of much interest to political activists of all stripes, as well as to students of contemporary history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Gay Planet : All Things for All (Gay) Menby Eric ChalineISBN 0312253222 (0-312-25322-2)
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The Goth Bible: A Compendium For The Darkly Inclinedby Nancy KilpatrickISBN 0312306962 (0-312-30696-2)
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The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacyby Leonard SteinhornISBN 0312326416 (0-312-32641-6)
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Growing Up Fastby Joanna LipperISBN 0312422237 (0-312-42223-7)
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Growing Up Fast: Text and Photographsby Joanna LipperISBN 0312422229 (0-312-42222-9)
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Hair Story : Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in Americaby Ayana Byrd, Lori A. TharpsISBN 0312265999 (0-312-26599-9)
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in Americaby Lori L. Tharps, Ayana ByrdISBN 0312283229 (0-312-28322-9)
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Hyper-Parenting : Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too Hard?by Robert Coles, Alvin Rosenfeld, Nicole WiseISBN 0312203152 (0-312-20315-2)
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I Can't Believe She Did That: Why Women Betray Other Women at Workby Nan MooneyISBN 0312322070 (0-312-32207-0)
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Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors: And, AIDS And Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0312420137 (0-312-42013-7)
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Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in Americaby Ed MoralesISBN 0312310005 (0-312-31000-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America'Book summary:Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano.[via]
To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican nationalists in New York to more newly arrived Mexicans in the Rio Grande valley-that has so far resisted homogenization while managing to absorb much of the mainstream culture.
Living in Spanglish delves deep into the individual's response to Latino stereotypes and suggests that their ability to hold on to their heritage, while at the same time working to create a culture that is entirely new, is a key component of America's future.
In this book, Morales pins down a hugely diverse community-of Dominicans, Mexicans, Colombians, Cubans, Salvadorans and Puerto Ricans--that he insists has more common interests to bring it together than traditions to divide it. He calls this sensibility Spanglish, one that is inherently multicultural, and proposes that Spanglish "describes a feeling, an attitude that is quintessentially American. It is a culture with one foot in the medieval and the other in the next century."
In Living in Spanglish , Ed Morales paints a portrait of America as it is now, both embracing and unsure how to face an onslaught of Latino influence. His book is the story of groups of Hispanic immigrants struggling to move beyond identity politics into a postmodern melting pot.More editions of Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America:
Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilizationby Frederic J. BaumgartnerISBN 0312238347 (0-312-23834-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtshipby David GivensISBN 0312315066 (0-312-31506-6)
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A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in Americaby James H. MadisonISBN 0312239025 (0-312-23902-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0312422156 (0-312-42215-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Murder on Nob Hillby Shirley TallmanISBN 0312328559 (0-312-32855-9)
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The Myth of the Titanicby Richard Parton HowellsISBN 0312221487 (0-312-22148-7)
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russiaby Orlando FigesISBN 0312421958 (0-312-42195-8)
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Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emoby Andy GreenwaldISBN 0312308639 (0-312-30863-9)
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While shallow celebrities dominate the headlines, pundits bemoan the death of the music industry, and the government decries teenagers for their morals (or lack thereof) earnest, heartfelt bands like Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, and Thursday are quietly selling hundreds of thousands of albums through dedication, relentless touring and respect for their fans. This relationship - between young people and the empathetic music that sets them off down a road of self-discovery and self-definition - is emo, a much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term that has existed for nearly two decades, but has flourished only recently. In Nothing Feels Good, Andy Greenwald makes the case for emo as more than a genre - it's an essential rite of teenagehood. From the '80s to the '00s, from the basement to the stadium, from tour buses to chat rooms, and from the diary to the computer screen, Nothing Feels Good narrates the story of emo from the inside out and explores the way this movement is taking shape in real time and with real hearts on the line. Nothing Feels Good is the first book to explore this exciting moment in music history and Greenwald has been given unprecedented access to the bands and to their fans. He captures a place in time and a moment on the stage in a way only a true music fan can.More editions of Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo:
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On the Rezby Ian FrazierISBN 0312278594 (0-312-27859-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Rez'Book summary:Given that the Great Plains long functioned as a stomping ground for the Oglala Sioux, it was inevitable that Ian Frazier would cross paths with them when he wrote his 1989 chronicle of that sublime flatland. But the encounter between the self-confessed "chintzy middle-class white guy" and his Native American counterparts went so swimmingly that Crazy Horse assumed a starring role in the book. Now Frazier continues his cross-cultural romance in On the Rez. This account of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is as touching, funny, and maniacally digressive as anything he's written. What's more, he manages to avoid most of the politically correct potholes along the way, producing a vivid, ambivalent (i.e., honest) portrait of a community where the very "landscape is dense with stories."
Much of On the Rez revolves around Le War Lance, whom Frazier first met in Great Plains. This yarn-spinning, beer-swilling figure serves the author as a kind of Native American Virgil, introducing him to the hard facts of reservation life. In fact, their friendship, with its accents of deep affection and dependency, anchors the entire narrative and elicits some typically top-drawer prose:
Le's eyes can be merry and flat as a smile button, or deep and glittering with malice or slyness or something he knows and I never will. He is fifty-seven years old. I have seen his hair, which is black streaked with gray, when it was over two feet long and held with beaded ponytail holders a foot or so apart, and I have seen it much shorter, after he had shaved his head in mourning for a friend who had died.
On the Rez delivers a history of the Oglala nation that spotlights our paleface population in some of its most shameful, backstabbing moments, as well as a quick tour through Indian America. The latter, to be honest, seems a little too conscientiously cooked up from primary sources and news clippings. But elsewhere Frazier is in superb form, reporting everything he sees and hears with enviable clarity and promptly pulling the rug out from under himself whenever he seems too omniscient. Few accounts of reservation life have been this comical; even fewer have moved beyond the poverty and pandemic drunk driving to discern actual, theological wickedness on the premises: "At such moments a sense of compound evil--the evil of the human heart, in league with the original darkness of this wild continent--curls around me like shoots of a fast-growing vine." In the hands of many a writer, the previous sentence might resemble a rhetorical firecracker. In Frazier's, it comes off as a statement of fact--which is only one of the reasons why every American, Native or not, should take a look at this sad, splendid, and surprisingly hopeful book. --James Marcus [via]More editions of On the Rez:
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One Mykonos : Being Ancient, Being Islands, Being Giants, Being Gayby James DavidsonISBN 0312262140 (0-312-26214-0)
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The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trapby Alvin Rosenfeld, Nicole Wise, Robert ColesISBN 0312263392 (0-312-26339-2)
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Poverty from the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760by M. Shahid AlamISBN 0312230184 (0-312-23018-4)
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Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Danceby Harvey Arden, Leonard PeltierISBN 0312203543 (0-312-20354-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance'Book summary:Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his innocence ever sincehis case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horseand many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. This wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicles his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices.
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Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Danceby Leonard PeltierISBN 0312263805 (0-312-26380-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance'Book summary:Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his innocence ever since--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. [via]
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Regarding the Pain of Othersby Susan SontagISBN 0312422199 (0-312-42219-9)
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How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001.
In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.More editions of Regarding the Pain of Others:
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Rereading Americaby Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, Bonnie LisleISBN 0312405545 (0-312-40554-5)
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Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writingby Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, Bonnie LisleISBN 0312249179 (0-312-24917-9)
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Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egyptby Niloofar HaeriISBN 0312238975 (0-312-23897-5)
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San Francisco Bizarro: A Guide to Notorious Sights, Lusty Pursuits, and Downright Freakiness in the City by the Bayby Jack BoulwareISBN 0312206712 (0-312-20671-2)
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Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Storyby Fred MoodyISBN 0312304218 (0-312-30421-8)
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Seattle And The Demons Of Ambition: From Boom To Bust In The Number One City Of The Futureby Fred MoodyISBN 0312334001 (0-312-33400-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seattle And The Demons Of Ambition: From Boom To Bust In The Number One City Of The Future'Book summary:Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless port, to a sedate, conventional company town defined by Boeing Aircraft, to an accessible paradise for artists and recovering urbanites, Seattle repeatedly tried and failed to become bigger, wealthier, more like "major league" cities.[via]
In the late 1980s, Seattle's time suddenly arrived. Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless, and dozens of local dot.com startups began to drive a booming national economy. Seattle became a city of instant millionaires and brand name shopping, skyscrapers and sports franchises-- the place everyone wanted to visit, topping lists of America's "most desirable" cities. But with such wealth came consequences: overdevelopment, paralyzing traffic, racial and class divisions, and a street population of teenagers discarded by the new culture, whose rage and disaffection fueled the rise of bands such as Nirvana.
Striving to reach its ambitions, Seattle seemed to be losing the struggle for its soul. And when it hosted the 1999 World Trade Organization convention, the city's conflicted personalities clashed, as violent riots by residents and a coalition of protestors left the downtown decimated and the nation transfixed by the spectacle of globalization gone wrong.
In Seattle and the Demons of Ambition, Fred Moody uses his own background as a native son, along with wide-ranging encounters with others, to trace the growing pains of the city he loves. Profiling Bill Gates and never-quite-champion football coach Chuck Knox, a pair of ambitious entrepreneurs and a homeless sculptor once profiled in the New Yorker, grunge music superstars and the preyed-upon children of the documentary "Streetwise," Moody offers a dramatic, entertaining, and insightful portrait of the city that defined economic and technological change in the America of the 1990s.More editions of Seattle And The Demons Of Ambition: From Boom To Bust In The Number One City Of The Future:
Shakespeare Behind Bars : The Power of Drama in a Women's Prisonby Jean TrounstineISBN 0312246609 (0-312-24660-9)
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Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide Americaby Larry ElderISBN 0312320175 (0-312-32017-5)
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Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever Afterby Bella DepauloISBN 0312340818 (0-312-34081-8)
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Skin Flutes and Velvet Gloves : A Collection of Facts and Fancies, Legends and Oddities about the Body's Private Partsby Terri HamiltonISBN 0312303122 (0-312-30312-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skin Flutes and Velvet Gloves : A Collection of Facts and Fancies, Legends and Oddities about the Body's Private Parts'Book summary:With over twenty years of experience as a sex educator and sex therapist, Dr. Terri Hamilton brings you this detailed look at everything you wanted to know about male and female 'private parts' and didn't even know to ask. In chapters such as "A Hose by Any Other Name" she examines historical and psychological perspectives on genital nomenclature and presents over 500 common - and not so common - nicknames. Dr. Hamilton also peers into a Pandora's Box of sexual scandals, untangles the mystery of pubic hair, tells tales of size and sighs, secrets and secretions, folklore and fertility rituals, and unveils the genital origins of numerous modern day social customs. Tantric teachings, medical mysteries, ecstasies and eccentricities, fashions and foibles all have a place in this meticulously researched compendium. Inside you'll find answers to such provocative questions as:[via]
* What do a woman's facial features reveal about the vagina?
* Why was pubic hair left off classic Greek Statues?
* Who "discovered" the clitoris?
* How many girls are born with a penis each year?
* Where exactly is the most sensitive spot on the penis? (the answer might surprise you)
* What does the "evil eye" have to do with the penis?
* What famous silent screen star was said to possess the "Eighth Wonder of the World"?
* What foods increase blood flow to the penis?
* What is the connection between the upper lip and the clitoris?
* What piece of bridal attire has its origins in the hymen?
* What do cool fingertips reveal about a woman's genital area?
Dr. Hamilton explores the history, development, legends, and myths of human sexuality to provide the revealing answers to these and a host of other questions in this fascinating look at our most private parts.More editions of Skin Flutes and Velvet Gloves : A Collection of Facts and Fancies, Legends and Oddities about the Body's Private Parts:
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Skin Gameby Caroline KettlewellISBN 0312263937 (0-312-26393-7)
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Snobsby Julian FellowesISBN 0312336934 (0-312-33693-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snobs'Book summary:From the creator of the Emmy-Award winning Downton Abbey..."The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them."[via]
The best comedies of manners are often deceptively simple, seamlessly blending social critique with character and story. In his superbly observed first novel, Julian Fellowes, winner of an Academy Award for his original screenplay of Gosford Park, brings us an insider's look at a contemporary England that is still not as classless as is popularly supposed.
Edith Lavery, an English blonde with large eyes and nice manners, is the daughter of a moderately successful accountant and his social-climbing wife. While visiting his parents' stately home as a paying guest, Edith meets Charles, Earl of Broughton, and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, who runs the family estates in East Sussex and Norfolk. To the gossip columns he is one of the most eligible young aristocrats around.
When he proposes. Edith accepts. But is she really in love with Charles? Or with his title, his position, and all that goes with it?
One inescapable part of life at Broughton Hall is Charles's mother, the shrewd Lady Uckfield, known to her friends as "Googie" and described by the narrator---an actor who moves comfortably among the upper classes while chronicling their foibles---"as the most socially expert individual I have ever known at all well. She combined a watchmaker's eye for detail with a madam's knowledge of the world." Lady Uckfield is convinced that Edith is more interested in becoming a countess than in being a good wife to her son. And when a television company, complete with a gorgeous leading man, descends on Broughton Hall to film a period drama, "Googie's" worst fears seem fully justified.
In this wickedly astute portrait of the intersecting worlds of aristocrats and actors, Julian Fellowes establishes himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners.
Social History: Problems, Strategies and Methodsby Miles FairburnISBN 031222124X (0-312-22124-X)
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76by Michel Foucault, Francois Ewald, Arnold I. Davidson, Alessandro Fontana, David MaceyISBN 0312422660 (0-312-42266-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76'Book summary:An examination of relations between war and politics[via]
From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year. These lectures do not reduplicate his published books, although they do have themes in common. The lectures show Foucault ranging freely and conversationally over the implications of his research.
In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early 17th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war. War was now seen as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines a genealogy of power/knowledge that was to become a primary concern in his final years.More editions of Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76:
Sociology and the World's Religionsby Hamilton, Malcolm (Malcolm B.)ISBN 0312211694 (0-312-21169-4)
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Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Timeby Paul Rogat LoebISBN 0312204353 (0-312-20435-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time'Book summary:These are indeed cynical times. But to hide behind the smugness of cynicism is a kind of self-imposed death sentence, explains writer and social commentator Paul Loeb. In fact, now is the ideal time for gathering all our strengths and wisdom as spiritual beings and applying ourselves to shaping a better world, he claims.
Are we talking social activism here? Well, yes. But before you cringe from images of shrill, humorless, burned out activists, keep in mind that Loeb is talking about a new kind of activism--an exciting, spiritual model for creating social change. We don't have to be pious or martyred saints (as he explains throughout one chapter), starving ourselves in the name of a cause or staging protests in freezing rain. We can be "good enough" activists, assuming the task of helping 10 people in need rather than taking on the globe. We can remember the power of storytelling when convincing an audience, rather than angrily spewing scary facts. We can replenish ourselves so that we do not burn out. We can emphasize themes such as community and forgiveness rather than separatism and blame.
This is a deeply spiritual book, but make no mistake: Loeb's writing, research, and integrity are as solid as they come. Soul of a Citizen may well become The Handbook for activism at the turn of the century. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchyby Jeff FerrellISBN 0312233353 (0-312-23335-3)
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Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women And Rivalryby Susan Shapiro BarashISBN 031233432X (0-312-33432-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women And Rivalry'Book summary:[via]Tripping the Prom Queen is a groundbreaking investigation into the dark secret of female friendship: rivalry.Susan Shapiro Barash has exploded the myth that women help one another, are supportive of one another, and want each other to succeed. Based on interviews with women across a broad social spectrum, she has discovered that the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert. She tells us:
* Why women can't and won't admit to rivalry.* How women are trained from an early age to compete with one another.* In which areas women most heatedly compete.* How rivalry is different among women than among men.* The differences between competition, envy, and jealousy.* When competition is healthy and when it isn't.
* Why women find it irresistible to "trip the prom queen."* Useful strategies to stop the competition and forge a new kind of relationship with other women.Whether you've tripped the prom queen or been tripped yourself, you will discover an engrossing exploration of this female phenomenon, as well as a beacon of hope for better, more fulfilling relationships.More editions of Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women And Rivalry:
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call For Reform In Her Faithby Irshad ManjiISBN 0312327005 (0-312-32700-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call For Reform In Her Faith'Book summary:This "call for reform" reads like an open letter to the Muslim world. Irshad Manji, a Toronto-based television journalist, was born to Muslim parents in South Africa. Her family eventually fled to Canada when she was two years old. Manji shares her life experiences growing up in a Western Muslim household and ask some compelling questions from her feminist-lesbian-journalist perspective. It is interesting to note that Manji has been lambasted for being too personal and not scholarly enough to have a worthwhile opinion. Yet her lack of pretense and her intimate narrative are the strengths of this book. For Muslims to dismiss her opinions as not worthy to bring to the table is not only elitist; it underscores why she feels compelled to speak out critically. Intolerance for dissent, especially women's dissent, is one of her main complaints about Islam. Clearly, her goal was not to write a scholarly critique, but rather to speak from her heartfelt concern about Islam. To her fellow Muslims she writes:
I hear from a Saudi friend that his country's religious police arrest women for wearing red on Valentines Day, and I think, Since when does a merciful God outlaw joyor fun? I read about victims of rape being stoned for "adultery" and I wonder how a critical mass of us can stay stone silent.
She asks tough questions: "What's with the stubborn streak of anti-Semitism in Islam? Who is the real colonizer of the Muslims-America or Arabia? Why are we squandering the talents of women, fully half of God's creation?" This is not an anti-Muslim rant. Manji also speaks with passionate love and hope for Islam, believing that democracy is compatible with its purest doctrine. Sure, she's biased and opinionated. But all religions, from Christianity to Buddhism to Islam should be accountable for how their leadership and national allegiances personally affect their followers. One would hope that this honest voice be met with a little more self-scrutiny and a little less anti-personal, anti-feminine, and anti-Western rhetoric. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Truth About the Irishby Terry EagletonISBN 0312264038 (0-312-26403-8)
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Under the Sign of Saturnby Susan SontagISBN 0312420080 (0-312-42008-0)
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip GourevitchISBN 0312243359 (0-312-24335-9)
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The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan [via]
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Weavers Inheritanceby Kate SedleyISBN 0312276842 (0-312-27684-2)
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However, Margaret has barely introduced him to her cousin Adela when Roger's attentions are demanded elsewhere. The long-lost son of a wealthy Bristol weaver, presumed murdered on a visit to London six years before, has miraculously reappeared, to the delight of the old man and to the indignation of Alison Burnett, who refuses to believe that the bedraggled stranger is her brother Clement-the rightful heir to half her father's fortune. When Alison's violent objections provoke Alderman Weaver into disinheriting her altogether, she appeals to Roger's reputation as a solver of mysteries to prove her growing suspicions right.More editions of Weavers Inheritance:
White Noise: An A-Z of the Contradictions in Cybercultureby Andrew CalcuttISBN 0312216610 (0-312-21661-0)
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Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Cultureby Daniel SackISBN 0312294425 (0-312-29442-5)
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Writing on Drugsby Sadie PlantISBN 0312278748 (0-312-27874-8)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dale M. BauerISBN 0312210663 (0-312-21066-3)
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Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830-1996by John SpringhallISBN 0312213956 (0-312-21395-6)
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