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110 People Who Are Screwing Up America: (And Al Franken Is #37)by Bernard GoldbergISBN 0060761296 (0-06-076129-6)
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After Deschooling, Whatby Colin Greer, Ivan Illich, Alan Gartner, Frank RiessmanISBN 0060802820 (0-06-080282-0)
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American Beach: How Progress Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Powerby Russ RymerISBN 0060930896 (0-06-093089-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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An American Childhoodby Annie DillardISBN 0060915188 (0-06-091518-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Childhood'Book summary:Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole afternoon (or many whole afternoons) endlessly pitching a ball at a target. In this intoxicating account of her childhood, Dillard climbs back inside her 5-, 10-, and 15-year-old selves with apparent effortlessness. The voracious young Dillard embraces headlong one fascination after another--from drawing to rocks and bugs to the French symbolists. "Everywhere, things snagged me," she writes. "The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world." From her parents she inherited a love of language--her mother's speech was "an endlessly interesting, swerving path"--and the understanding that "you do what you do out of your private passion for the thing itself," not for anyone else's approval or desire. And one would be mistaken to call the energy Dillard exhibits in An American Childhood merely youthful; "still I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day," she writes, "as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive." [via]
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American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American Characterby Rupert WilkinsonISBN 0060912537 (0-06-091253-7)
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Among Womenby Louise BernikowISBN 0060908785 (0-06-090878-5)
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girlby John ColapintoISBN 0060929596 (0-06-092959-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl'Book summary:Once you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a mesmerizing story of a medical tragedy and its traumatic results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following a botched circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant son, Bruce, as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next 14 years trying to transform him into a her. Brenda's childhood reads as one filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are present on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain is caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man attempting to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant treatments.
Reading over interviews and reports of decisions made by this doctor, it's difficult to contain anger at the widespread results of his insistence that natural-born gender can be altered with little more than willpower and hormone treatments. The attempts of his parents, twin brother, and extended family to assist Brenda to be happily female are touching--the sense is overwhelmingly of a family wanting to do "right" while being terribly mislead as to what "right" is for her. As Brenda makes the decision to live life as a male (at age 14), she takes the name David and begins the process of reversing the effects of estrogen treatments. David's ultimately successful life--a solid marriage, honest and close family relationships, and his bravery in making his childhood public--bring an uplifting end to his story. Equally fascinating is the latest segment of the longtime nature/nurture controversy, and the interviews of various psychological researchers and practitioners form a larger framework around David's struggle to live as the gender he was meant to be. --Jill Lightner [via]
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of Rjr Nabiscoby John Helyar, Bryan BurroughISBN 0060920386 (0-06-092038-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of Rjr Nabisco'Book summary:Over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and pulicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms, giving us not only an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. As compelling as a novel, Barbarians at the Gate is must reading for everyone interested in the way today's world really works.
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005by James Ellroy, Otto PenzlerISBN 0060815515 (0-06-081551-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Crime Writing 2005'Book summary:The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable "ode to bar fights" written by Jonathan Miles for Men's Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party. But this year's edition includes a bonus -- an original essay by James Ellroy detailing his fascination with Joseph Wambaugh and how it fed his obsession with crime -- even to the point of selling his own blood to buy Wambaugh's books. Smart, entertaining, and controversial, The Best American Crime Writing is an essential edition to any crime enthusiast's bookshelf.
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The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950by F. AllenISBN 0060913231 (0-06-091323-1)
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Brave New World Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous Huxley, Christopher HitchensISBN 0060776099 (0-06-077609-9)
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Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. "Brave New World Revisited" is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late. [via]
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Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohosby Nelson GeorgeISBN 006092201X (0-06-092201-X)
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Capitalism, the Family, and Personal Lifeby Eli ZaretskyISBN 0060905387 (0-06-090538-7)
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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940'sby Otto FriedrichISBN 0060914394 (0-06-091439-4)
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Civilisation: A Personal Viewby Kenneth ClarkISBN 0060907878 (0-06-090787-8)
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The Committed Life: Principles for Good Living from Our Timeless Pastby Esther JungreisISBN 0060930853 (0-06-093085-3)
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Otherby Tzvetan Todorov, Richard HowardISBN 0060912146 (0-06-091214-6)
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Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty With the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith & Beef Jerkyby John MoeISBN 0060854014 (0-06-085401-4)
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Inventionby Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiISBN 0060928204 (0-06-092820-4)
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Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush And His Corporate Pals Are Plundering The Country And Hijacking Our Democracyby Robert F. KennedyISBN 0060746882 (0-06-074688-2)
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The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationshipsby Harriet Goldhor LernerISBN 006091646X (0-06-091646-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships'Book summary:In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged--by distance, intensity, or pain--she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness with others. Combining clear advice with vivid case examples, Dr. Lerner offers us the most solid, helpful book on intimate relationships that both women and men may ever encounter. [via]
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The Dancing Girls Of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams In Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure Districtby Louise Brown, T. Louise BrownISBN 0060740426 (0-06-074042-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dancing Girls Of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams In Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District'Book summary:The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are gandi, "unclean," and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it.
Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of a Lahori dancing girl. With beautiful understatement, she turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to a powerful Arab sheikh at the age of twelve; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the sheikh come calling once more.
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure Districtby Louise BrownISBN 0060740434 (0-06-074043-4)
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Deadly Consequencesby Deborah Prothrow-StithISBN 0060924020 (0-06-092402-0)
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Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soulby Dave L. GoetzISBN 0060859687 (0-06-085968-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul'Book summary:A great number of seekers find themselves in the seemingly unreal world of the suburbs. They read spirituality books but find themselves in carpools and coaching soccer, not in monasteries. Dave Goetz, a former pastor, shows that the suburbs are a real world, but a spiritually corrosive one. The land of SUVs and soccer leagues can truly be toxic to the soul. Suburbanites need to understand how the environment affects them and what spiritual disciplines are needed for their faith to survive and thrive. Goetz identifies eight toxins in the suburban life, such as hypercompetition and the "transactional" friendship, and suggests eight corresponding disciplines to keep the spiritual life authentic. Goetz weaves sociology studies, his own experiences, current events, wisdom of the spiritual masters, and a little humor to equip spiritual suburbanites for how to relate to God amidst Starbucks, stripmalls, and perfect lawns.
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Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideologyby Howard ZinnISBN 0060921080 (0-06-092108-0)
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Design for Dyingby Timothy Leary, R. U. SiriusISBN 0060928662 (0-06-092866-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Design for Dying'Book summary:Timothy Leary, high priest of psychedelia and former Harvard psychologist, spent decades enthusiastically investigating the meaning of life with the boundary-breaking, consciousness-expanding assistance of hallucinogenic drugs. It seems only natural that when "Mademoiselle Cancer moved in to share [his] body," he seized the opportunity to examine the nature of death ... and throw a big party. He didn't, as threatened, commit suicide on the Net or have his head cut off and frozen, but instead surrounded himself with good friends at an extended wake in his Beverly Hills home, where he drifted peacefully away.
In Design for Dying, his newly released book, Leary shows people how to die happily and well. "There are common-sense, easy-to-understand options for dealing planfully, playfully, compassionately, and elegantly with the inevitable final scene," he states. "Face it. At this point in human history, we're all terminal. It behooves us to focus some time and energy and courage on regaining personal and group autonomy over the dying process.... Talking about death is the last taboo in our society. And as we've learned, the way to overcome taboo is pretty straightforward. As the man says, 'Just Do It!'" The book includes contributions from R. U. Sirius of cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000; a guide to death and dying resources, online tools, and further reading lists; and an addendum of "Timothy Leary's Dying Performance as Remembered by His Friends." Timothy Leary vowed to "give death a better name or die trying," and Design for Dying attempts to do just that. Irreverent, original, and funny as ever, Timothy Leary urges us to face death with courage and joy, if not with laughing gas and a lava lamp. [via]
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The Devils of Loudunby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060902108 (0-06-090210-8)
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hellby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060900075 (0-06-090007-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell'Book summary:Sometimes a writer has to revisit the classics, and here we find that "gonzo journalism"--gutsy first-person accounts wherein the author is part of the story--didn't originate with Hunter S. Thompson or Tom Wolfe. Aldous Huxley took some mescaline and wrote about it some 10 or 12 years earlier than those others. The book he came up with is part bemused essay and part mystical treatise--"suchness" is everywhere to be found while under the influence. This is a good example of essay writing, journal keeping, and the value of controversy--always--in one's work. [via]
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in Americaby Shelby SteeleISBN 0060931043 (0-06-093104-3)
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Essays of E.B. Whiteby E. B. WhiteISBN 0060906626 (0-06-090662-6)
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Everyday Life in Early Americaby David Freeman HawkeISBN 0060912510 (0-06-091251-0)
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The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Milleniumby Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiISBN 0060921927 (0-06-092192-7)
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The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876by Daniel E. SutherlandISBN 0060916397 (0-06-091639-7)
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Father India: Westerners under the Spell of an Ancient Cultureby Jeffery PaineISBN 0060931019 (0-06-093101-9)
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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Dieby Michael LargoISBN 0060817410 (0-06-081741-0)
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Flight from the City: An Experiment in Creative Living on the Landby Ralph BorsodiISBN 0060910054 (0-06-091005-4)
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experienceby Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiISBN 0060920432 (0-06-092043-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience'Book summary:You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding--an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi's point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary. [via]
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Forbidden Faith: The Gnostic Legacy from the Gospels to the Da Vinci Codeby Richard SmoleyISBN 0060783397 (0-06-078339-7)
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God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong And the Left Doesn't Get Itby Jim WallisISBN 0060834471 (0-06-083447-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong And the Left Doesn't Get It'Book summary:Secular liberals and religious conservatives will find things to both comfort and alarm them in Jim Wallis's God's Politics. That combination is actually reason enough to recommend the book in a time when the national political and theological discourse is dominated by blanket descriptions and shortsightedness. But Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, offers more than just a book that's hard to categorize. What Wallis sees as the true mission of Christianity--righting social ills, working for peace--is in tune with the values of liberals who so often run screaming from the idea of religion. Meanwhile, in his estimation, religious vocabulary is co-opted by conservatives who use it to polarize. Wallis proposes a new sort of politics, the name of which serves as the title of the book, wherein these disparities are reconciled and progressive causes are paired with spiritual guidance for the betterment of society. Wallis is at his most compelling when he puts this theory into action himself, letting his own beliefs guide him through stinging criticisms of the war in Iraq. In his view, George W. Bush's flaw lies in the assumption that the United States was an unprecedented force of goodness in a fight against enemies characterized as "evil." Indeed, although both the right and left are criticized here, the idea is that the liberals, if they would get religion, are the more redeemable lot. Wallis's line between religion and public policy may be drawn a little differently than most liberals might feel comfortable with, and while he pays some lip service to other faiths most of his prescription for America seems to come from the Bible. Still, for a party having just lost a presidential election where "moral issues" are said to have factored heavily, God's Politics is a sermon worth listening to. --John Moe [via]
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Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Womenby Jean Shinoda BolenISBN 006091291X (0-06-091291-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women'Book summary:Just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they may also be unconscious of powerful forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among women. Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen believes that an understanding of these inner patterns and their interrelationships offers reassuring, true-to-life alternatives that take women far beyond such restrictive dichotomies as masculine/feminine, mother/lover, careerist/housewife. And she demonstrates how understanding them can provide the key to self-knowledge and wholeness. Dr. Bolen introduces these patterns in the guise of seven archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women will identify. Goddesses in Everywoman shows readers how to identify their ruling goddesses (from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing Demeter and the creative Aphrodite), how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become better "heroines" in their own life stories. [via]
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Happy Hours: Alcohol in a Woman's Lifeby Devon JersildISBN 0060929901 (0-06-092990-1)
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The Heart of Manby Erich FrommISBN 0060907959 (0-06-090795-9)
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Help: The Original Human Dilemmaby Garret KeizerISBN 0060816147 (0-06-081614-7)
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High Tide in Tucsonby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060927569 (0-06-092756-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Tide in Tucson'Book summary:"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans.
In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom.
Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans. [via]
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History Laid Bare: Love, Sex, and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Hardingby Richard ZacksISBN 006092599X (0-06-092599-X)
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A History of the American Peopleby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060930349 (0-06-093034-9)
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A History of the Wifeby Marilyn YalomISBN 0060931566 (0-06-093156-6)
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A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Presentby Bonnie S Anderson, Judith P. ZinsserISBN 0060915633 (0-06-091563-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present'Book summary:This classic two-volume history is an exciting and revolutionary look at women's history from prehistoric times to the present. Its unique organization focuses on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society. Rather than examining women's history as an inevitable progression of events along a strict timeline, this text is organized within a loose chronology, with chapters focusing on women's place and function in society. This revised edition provides a new introduction, an updated epilogue on women's lives in Europe since 1988, and a completely revised bibliography that includes recent scholarship. A History of Their Own restores women to the historical record, brings their history into focus, and provides models of female action and heroism. Lively and engaging, this new edition takes readers on a fascinating journey through women's history and the changing roles they have played. In addition it is an ideal text for general courses in women's studies and women's history and more specialized courses focusing on women in European history.
Volume Two covers the fifteenth century to the present. Topics include the roles of female monarchs and women of the court; the application of the new tools of the Scientific Revolution to prove traditional views of women; the salons and parlors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and wealthy women's contributions to the arts and social services; the impact of city-living and the Industrial Revolution on women's roles and family life; and the emergence, evolution, and impact of the modern feminist movement. [via]More editions of A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present:
How Could You Do That?!: The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscienceby Laura SchlessingerISBN 0060928069 (0-06-092806-9)
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I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Aquaintance Rapeby Robin WarshawISBN 0060925728 (0-06-092572-8)
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The Identity of France: History and Environmentby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0060916435 (0-06-091643-5)
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Identity of France: People and Productionby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0060921420 (0-06-092142-0)
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In the Little World: A True Story of Dwarfs, Love, and Troubleby John RichardsonISBN 0060931310 (0-06-093131-0)
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Internby Doctor XISBN 0060804912 (0-06-080491-2)
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A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Livingby Diane K. OsbonISBN 0060926171 (0-06-092617-1)
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Karl Marx: His Life and Thoughtby David McLellanISBN 0060905859 (0-06-090585-9)
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony BourdainISBN 0060899220 (0-06-089922-0)
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Life in a Medieval Cityby Joseph and Francis GiesISBN 0060908807 (0-06-090880-7)
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A Man's World: How Real Is Male Privilege-And How High Is Its Price?by Ellis CoseISBN 0060927224 (0-06-092722-4)
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Masters of Deceptionby Joshua Quittner, Michelle SlatallaISBN 0060926945 (0-06-092694-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of Deception'Book summary:On January 15, 1990, the AT&T long-distance phone network crashed. Although it was eventually ruled an accident, the event was a wake-up call to telephone companies and law enforcement agencies everywhere, exposing the fragility of the systems that we all heavily depend on. The feds decided that the time had come to crack down on the handful of computer hackers they had been monitoring for several years in connection with the phone companies. The term "hacker" is about to become a household word, and not in the sense of "great programming."
Set against this backdrop, two rival gangs--The Legion of Doom and The Masters of Deception--are about to go to war. What sounds like a clash of comic-book supervillains is actually a feud between factions of teenagers, fueled by misunderstandings and adolescent testosterone. The events leading up to the conflict and its climax are riveting and fun. The book features great depictions of some of the earliest celebrities of hackerdom, including Acid Phreak and Phiber Optik, as well as tales of their exploits and rivalries. Slatalla and Quittner do a great job of portraying the principals as both the powerful cyberspace masters they want to be and the scared, emotional young men they really are.
There is also a nostalgic attraction at work in Masters of Deception. Anyone who remembers their first Commie 64 or TRS-80 will long for those golden days and be thankful that they were elsewhere when the Secret Service came calling. [via]
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Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic & the Domesticby Esther PerelISBN 0060753633 (0-06-075363-3)
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Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, And How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Livesby Lori Leibovich, Anne LamottISBN 0060737824 (0-06-073782-4)
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Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth about Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of their Livesby Salon.Com, Anne LamottISBN 0060737816 (0-06-073781-6)
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Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip Secondby Fernand BraudelISBN 0060905662 (0-06-090566-2)
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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Whyby Bart EhrmanISBN 0060859512 (0-06-085951-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible And Why'Book summary:When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible. [via]
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The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminineby Nor Hall, Ellen KennedyISBN 0060925019 (0-06-092501-9)
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Only Yesterdayby Frederick L. AllenISBN 0060800046 (0-06-080004-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Only Yesterday'Book summary:Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals. Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise if post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against the colorful backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio, and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. Hailed as an instant classic, this is Frederick Lewis Allen's vivid and definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating decades, chronicling a time of both joy and terror--when dizzying highs were quickly succeeded by heartbreaking lows. [via]
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past And Presentby Peter HesslerISBN 0060826584 (0-06-082658-4)
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A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of timethe contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving countryis brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China's transformation.
Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in searchof freedom; William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher; Emily,a migrant factory worker in a city without a past; and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing in East Asia, and a man whosetragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand.
Peter Hessler excavates the past and puts a remarkable human face on the history he uncovers. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.
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Passages About Earthby William Irwin ThompsonISBN 0060908351 (0-06-090835-1)
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Point Counter Pointby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060830484 (0-06-083048-4)
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Pornography and Silenceby Susan GriffinISBN 0060909153 (0-06-090915-3)
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The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern Americaby Robert NisbetISBN 0060915781 (0-06-091578-1)
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Pulling Your Own Strings: Dynamic Techniques for Dealing With Other People and Living Your Life As You Chooseby Wayne W. DyerISBN 0060919752 (0-06-091975-2)
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The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athensby Eva C. KeulsISBN 0060911298 (0-06-091129-8)
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The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840by Jack LarkinISBN 0060916060 (0-06-091606-0)
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtzeby Peter HesslerISBN 0060855029 (0-06-085502-9)
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"Few passengers disembark at Fuling ... and so Fuling appears like a break in a dream--the quiet river, the cabins full of travelers drifting off to sleep, the lights of the city rising from the blackness of the Yangtze," says Hessler. A poor city by Chinese standards, the students at the college are mainly from small villages and are considered very lucky to be continuing their education. As an English teacher, Hessler is delighted with his students' fresh reactions to classic literature. One student says of Hamlet, "I don't admire him and I dislike him. I think he is too sensitive and conservative and selfish." Hessler marvels,
You couldn't have said something like that at Oxford. You couldn't simply say: I don't like Hamlet because I think he's a lousy person. Everything had to be more clever than that ... you had to dismantle it ... not just the play itself but everything that had ever been written about it.
Over the course of two years, Hessler and Meier learn more they ever guessed about the lives, dreams, and expectations of the Fuling people.Hessler's writing is lovely. His observations are evocative, insightful, and often poignant--and just as often, funny. It's a pleasure to read of his (mis)adventures. Hessler returned to the U.S. with a new perspective on modern China and its people. After reading River Town, you'll have one, too. --Dana Van Nest [via]
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She: Understanding Feminine Psychology an Interpretation Based on the Myth of Amor and Psyche and Using Jungian Psychological Conceptsby Robert A. JohnsonISBN 0060804165 (0-06-080416-5)
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Skin City: Behind the Scenes of the Las Vegas Sex Industryby Jack SheehanISBN 0060838795 (0-06-083879-5)
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Matteredby Ernst Friedrich SchumacherISBN 0060916303 (0-06-091630-3)
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One the 100 most influential books published since World War II
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Hailed as an eco-bible by Time magazine, E.F. Schumachers riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during the 1973 energy crisis. A landmark statement against bigger is better industrialism, Schumachers Small Is Beautiful paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachss The End of Poverty, Paul Hawkens Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yuniss Banker to the Poor, and Bill McKibbens Deep Economy. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
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Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Educationby Roger KimballISBN 0060920491 (0-06-092049-1)
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Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Originsby Charles Earle FunkISBN 006091260X (0-06-091260-X)
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To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalryby Will BlytheISBN 0060740248 (0-06-074024-8)
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Too Good for Her Own Good: Searching for Self and Intimacy in Important Relationshipsby Claudia Bepko, Jo Ann KrestanISBN 0060920815 (0-06-092081-5)
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Uncle Tom's Childrenby Richard WrightISBN 0060812516 (0-06-081251-6)
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 006080615X (0-06-080615-X)
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The Way of All Womenby Esther HardingISBN 0060903996 (0-06-090399-6)
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Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984by Andrei AmalrikISBN 0060907320 (0-06-090732-0)
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Woman and Natureby Susan GriffinISBN 0060907444 (0-06-090744-4)
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Women in the Middle Agesby Joseph GiesISBN 0060923040 (0-06-092304-0)
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Writings from The New Yorker, 1927-1976by E. B. White, Rebecca M. DaleISBN 0060921234 (0-06-092123-4)
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Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-step Advice For Escaping The Trap Of Negative Thinking And Taking Control Of Your Lifeby Wayne W. DyerISBN 0060919760 (0-06-091976-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-step Advice For Escaping The Trap Of Negative Thinking And Taking Control Of Your Life'Book summary:From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Pulling Your Own Strings, positive and practical advice for breaking free from the trap of negative thinking and enjoying life to the fullest.
- If you're plagued by guilt or worry and find yourself unwittingly falling into the same old self-destructive patterns, then you have "erroneous zones"--whole facets of your approach to life that act as barriers to your success and happiness.
- If you believe that you have no control over your feelings and reactions, you give up the many choices that are available to you. Dyer shows how you can take charge of yourself and manage how much you will let difficult times--and people--affect you.
- If you spend more time worrying what others think than working on what you want and need, you will always be disappointed. Dyer shows that only you can make yourself happy and points the way to true self-reliance.
- If you are still caught up in old labels for yourself and an out-of-date self-image, you cancel out your present potential. Dyer shows how you can break out of the patterns of the post to become fulfilled in the present.
- If you depend upon others for your well-being, you lose yourself. Dyer shows how to take control of your own needs and learn to give and receive love without limits.
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