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Always Runningby Luis RodriguezISBN 0743276914 (0-7432-7691-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Running'Book summary:The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new cover.
Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man's life in a Chicano gang-and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.
By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more-until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants.
At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation. [via]
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The Arab Mindby Ralph PataiISBN 0684178109 (0-684-17810-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arab Mind'Book summary:The classic study of Arab culture and society is now more relevant than ever. Since its original publication in 1983, the revised edition of Raphael Patai's The Arab Mind has been recognized as one of the seminal works in the field of Middle Eastern studies. This penetrating analysis unlocks the mysteries of Arab society to help us better understand a complex, proud and ancient culture. The Arab Minddiscusses the upbringing of a typical Arab boy or girl, the intense concern with honor and courage, the Arabs' tendency toward extremes of behavior, and their ambivalent attitudes toward the West. Chapters are devoted to the influence of Islam, sexual mores, Arab language and Arab art, Bedouin values, Arab nationalism, and the pervasive influence of Westernization. With a new foreword by Norvell B. DeAtkine, Director of Middle East Studies at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School, Fort Bragg, N.C., this book unravels the complexities of Arab traditions and provides authentic revelations of Arab mind and character.
ONE OF THE GREAT LANDMARKS OF CULTURAL STUDIES
First published in 1973, revised in 1983, and now updated with new demographic information about the Arab world, The Arab Mind takes readers on a journey through the societies and peoples of a complex and volatile region. This sensitive study explores the historical origins of Arab nationalism, the distinctive rhetorical style of Arabic speakers and its effect on politics, traditional attitudes toward child-rearing practices, the status of women, the beauty of Arabic literature, and much more.
MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN EVER
Since September 11, the book s lessons have been misconstrued by some but have proven indispensable to those trying to truly understand the roots of the major political conflicts of our time. Patai s sympathetic but critical depiction of Arab culture explores the continuing role of the Bedouin values of honor and courage in modern Arab culture, inter-Arab conflict and the aspiration toward unity, and how anti-Western attitudes conflated with anti-modernization have led to stagnation in much of the Arab world.
DRAWS ON A LIFETIME OF EXPERTISE
Patai, a prominent anthropologist and historian, drew on both his research and his personal experience to produce this indispensable work in the field of Middle Eastern studies. With an updated foreword by Norvell B. DeAtkine, former director of Middle East Studies at the JFK Special Warfare School, The Arab Mind remains a relevant and crucial masterpiece of scholarship for anyone seeking to understand this multifaceted culture today. [via] -
Better Together: Restoring the American Communityby Robert D. Putnam, Lewis M. FeldsteinISBN 0743233417 (0-7432-3341-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Together: Restoring the American Community'Book summary:In his acclaimed bestselling book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam described a thirty-year decline in America's social institutions. The book ended with the hope that new forms of social connection might be invented in order to revive our communities.
In Better Together, Putnam and longtime civic activist Lewis Feldstein describe some of the diverse locations and most compelling ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. In response to civic crises and local problems, they say, hardworking, committed people are reweaving the social fabric all across America, often in innovative ways that may turn out to be appropriate for the twenty-first century.
Better Together is a book of stories about people who are building communities to solve specific problems. The examples Putnam and Feldstein describe span the country from big cities such as Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago to the Los Angeles suburbs, small Mississippi and Wisconsin towns, and quiet rural areas. The projects range from the strictly local to that of the men and women of UPS, who cover the nation. Bowling Alone looked at America from a broad and general perspective. Better Together takes us into Catherine Flannery's Roxbury, Massachusetts, living room, a UPS loading dock in Greensboro, North Carolina, a Philadelphia classroom, the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, naval shipyard, and a Bay Area Web site.
We meet activists driven by their visions, each of whom has chosen to succeed by building community: Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley who want paved roads, running water, and decent schools; Harvard University clerical workers searching for respect and improved working conditions; Waupun, Wisconsin, schoolchildren organizing to improve safety at a local railroad crossing; and merchants in Tupelo, Mississippi, joining with farmers to improve their economic status. As the stories in Better Together demonstrate, bringing people together by building on personal relationships remains one of the most effective strategies to enhance America's social health. [via]
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Better Together: Restoring the American Communityby Don Cohen, Robert D. Putnam, Lewis M. FeldsteinISBN 0743235479 (0-7432-3547-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Together: Restoring the American Community'Book summary:In his acclaimed Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes the United States as a nation in which we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and in which our social structures have disintegrated. But in the final chapter of that book he detects hopeful signs of civic renewal. In Better Together Putnam and coauthor Lewis Feldstein tell the inspiring stories of people who are reweaving the social fabric by bringing their own communities together or building bridges to others.
Better Together examines how people across the country are inventing new forms of social activism and community renewal. An arts program in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, brings together shipyard workers and their gentrified neighbors; a deteriorating, crime-ridden neighborhood in Boston is transformed by a determined group of civic organizers; an online "virtual" community in San Francisco allows its members to connect with each other as well as the larger group; in Wisconsin schoolchildren learn how to participate in the political process to benefit their town. As our society grows increasingly diverse, say Putnam and Feldstein, it's more important than ever to grow "social capital," whether by traditional or more innovative means. The people profiled in Better Together are doing just that, and their stories illustrate the extraordinary power of social networks for enabling people to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. [via]
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perceptionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753346 (0-679-75334-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception'Book summary:In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.
In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes -- in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death. [via]More editions of The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception:
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Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Livesby Frank J. SullowayISBN 0679758763 (0-679-75876-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives'Book summary:A landmark work that illuminates the crucial influence of birth order on personality and the far-reaching consequences of sibling competition--not only within individual families but on society as a whole.
At the heart of this pioneering inquiry is a fundamental insight into human behavior: that the personalities of first-born children differ from those of their younger siblings not because of cultural differences but because common human instincts play themselves out differently in the universal quest for parental favor. Frank Sulloway's most important finding--that eldest children support the status quo and youngest children rebel against it--provides the foundation for startling analyses of the Protestant Reformation, the French Revolution, and Darwin's theory of evolution.
Concerning first borns--Did you know that:
First borns are more frequently defenders of the status quo, more accepting of parental or conventional values.
In their support of authority they will use either brains or violence to resolve conflict.
More first borns--Albert Einstein, Ivan Pavlov, Linus Pauling--are Nobel Laureates.
First borns--like Stalin, Robespierre, and Carlos the Jackal--will not shy away from tactics of terrorism.
Concerning later-borns--Did you know that:
Most later-borns more frequently turn over convention and champion reform, revolution and upheaval.
Later-borns have been the catalysts of change supporting free speech, free worship, civil rights and women's rights.
They are the creators of revolutionary ideas--Voltaire, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson-- were all later-borns.
Those who pressed for the absolution of slavery--Frederick Douglass, John Brown and Harriet Tubman--were all later-borns.
Born to Rebel is a path-breaking study, a solid confirmation of the belief that a scientific, empirical basis exists for our understanding of human behavior. [via]More editions of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives:
Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fearby Jan BondesonISBN 0756774721 (0-7567-7472-1)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Call of the Mallby Paco UnderhillISBN 0743235924 (0-7432-3592-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call Of The Mall'Book summary:The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy -- praised by The New York Times as "a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves" -- now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about.
Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping, has run hundreds of research assignments in malls across the country (and in Tokyo and European capitals). He has visited them, observed his fellow mall-ers, looked long and hard for his car in mammoth parking lots, chatted up the staffers, gone hunting for jeans with adolescent girls and anniversary shopping with guys.The result is a bright, ironic, funny, and shrewd portrait of the mall -- America's gift to personal consumption, its most powerful icon of global commercial muscle, the once new and now aging national town square, the place where we convene in our leisure time.
Call of the Mall is about desire and buying lingerie, about why the same camel hair coat costs twice as much in the women's department as it does in the boys'. It's about why shoes, handbags, and cosmetics are clustered, why Cartier is next to cut-rate, and why the movie theater is hard to find.
It's about the shopping mall as an exemplar of our commercial and social culture, the place where our young people have their first taste of social freedom, and where the rest of us compare notes. Call of the Mall examines how we use the mall, what it means, why it works when it does, and why it sometimes doesn't.
Visiting the mall with Paco Underhill is a surprising and insightful tour through the American crossroads. Why We Buy changed the way we watch ourselves shop. Call of the Mall will deepen our understanding of how we live, work, play, and spend. [via]
The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier and Better Off Financiallyby Linda J. WaiteISBN 0767906322 (0-7679-0632-2)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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The Denial of Deathby Ernest BeckerISBN 0684832402 (0-684-83240-2)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Denial of Death'Book summary:Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing. [via]
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Deschooling Societyby Marion BoyarsISBN 0714508799 (0-7145-0879-9)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deschooling Society'Book summary:I bought this book for one of my classes and never even opened it. [via]
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The End of Education: Redefining the Value of Schoolby Neil PostmanISBN 0679750312 (0-679-75031-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School'Book summary:In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful social critics. Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning. [via]
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The End of Racismby Dinesh D'SouzaISBN 0684825244 (0-684-82524-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destructionby Milovan DjilasISBN 0679433252 (0-679-43325-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destruction'Book summary:"This is a book about the loss of illusions."
Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) was one of the most profoundly outspoken apostates of Communism. A loyal Stalinite and high-ranking official in the Yugoslav Party until the early 1950s, when he was ostracized for "revisionism" and eventually imprisoned for denouncing the Red Army's invasion of Hungary, he wrote one of the first internal critiques of the communist movement to be widely published, The New Class, describing how ideology was brutally imposed through bureaucratization and repression.
In this collection of thematically linked essays, Djilas returns to that theme, examining how the movement collapsed upon itself and reflecting on how he himself had come to reject its goals. "There is in each of us a Communist spirit," he writes, "hunger for fair dealing and social equality." But the world, he concluded, is simply not fair, and perfection, although it must be strived for, cannot be imposed upon humanity. Djilas had reservations about Westerners who criticized communism for its economic shortcomings; as a true insider, Djilas came to his understanding of its inherent flaws the hard way. [via]
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Gender Advertisementsby Erving GoffmanISBN 0783722656 (0-7837-2265-6)
Softcover, Proquest Info & Learning
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The Geography of Thoughtby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0743216466 (0-7432-1646-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geography of Thought'Book summary:Everyone knows that while different cultures may think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. Everyone knows that whatever the skin color, nationality, or religion, every human being uses the same tools for perception, for memory, and for reasoning. Everyone knows that a logically true statement is true in English, German, or Hindi. Everyone knows that when a Chinese and an American look at the same painting, they see the same painting.
But what if everyone is wrong?
When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment -- and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. For, as Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought, people actually think about -- and even see -- the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and that have survived into the modern world. As a result, East Asian thought is "holistic" -- drawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field. By comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to catergories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior.
The Geography of Thought documents Professor Nisbett's groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology, a series of comparative studies both persuasive in their rigor and startling in their conclusions, addressing questions such as:
" Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid?
" Why do East Asians find it so difficult to disentangle an object from its surroundings?
" Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?
" What are the implications of these cognitive differences for the future of international politics? Do they support a Fukuyamaesque "end of history" scenario or a Huntingtonian "clash of civilizations"?
From feng shui to metaphysics, from comparative linguistics to economic history, a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius. At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that might be able to span it. [via]
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Whyby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0743255356 (0-7432-5535-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why'Book summary:Eminent psychologist Richard Nisbett boldly takes on the presumptions of evolutionary psychology in a provocative, powerfully engaging exploration of the divergent ways Eastern and Western societies see and understand the world.
When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment. These different seeings are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. For, as Nisbett demonstrates in The Geography of Thought, people think about and see the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and that have survived into the modern world. [via]
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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyoby Saskia SassenISBN 0691070636 (0-691-07063-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo'Book summary:The author explores the parallel changes that have occurred in New York City since the late 1970s and in both London and Tokyo since the 1980s, in terms of transforming these urban centres into global cities that share comparable economic and social structures. [via]
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Globalization: The Human Consequencesby Zygmunt BaumanISBN 0745620132 (0-7456-2013-2)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Educationby Margaret MeadISBN 0688178111 (0-688-17811-1)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0770428207 (0-7704-2820-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchyby Shere HiteISBN 0747514801 (0-7475-1480-1)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy'Book summary:This report considers contemporary family life, observing that many families no longer fit the model for "successful" family life. Does this mean that the family is in crisis? Or are the cracks in its structure symptoms of the need for more democracy in the family and a radical new attitude towards sex and intimacy? This book looks into psycho-sexual identity within the nuclear family and aims to provide a new perspective to the debate. Men and women, teenage boys and girls, answer the Hite questionnaire and reveal their experiences of family life. Hite draws on these results to make her conclusions about lives inside family walls. The book details the subjects of: sensuality, eroticism and the boundaries of physical intimacy; parents attitudes to their children's developing sexuality; learning "masculinity" and "femininity"; erotic undercurrents in parent-child relationships; violent physical intimacy and its link with sexuality; and physic loyalties and betrayals between parents and children. [via]
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A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy Leagueby Ron SuskindISBN 0767901266 (0-7679-0126-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League'Book summary:Ron Suskind won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1995 for his stories on Cedric Jennings, a talented black teenager struggling to succeed in one of the worst public high schools in Washington, D.C. Suskind has expanded those features into a full-length nonfiction narrative, following Jennings beyond his high-school graduation to Brown University, and in the tradition of Leon Dash's Rosa Lee and Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here, delivers a compelling story on the struggles of inner-city life in modern America. While it appears to have a happy ending (with Jennings earning a B average in his sophomore year), A Hope in the Unseen is not without a few caveats (at times, Jennings feels profoundly alienated from his white peers). Trite as it may sound to say, this book teaches a lesson about the virtue of perseverance, and it's definitely worth reading. --John J. Miller [via]
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Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in Americaby Daniel Joseph BoorstinISBN 0679741801 (0-679-74180-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Researchby Russell K. SchuttISBN 0761985611 (0-7619-8561-1)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research'Book summary:This groundbreaking textbook uses real-world research examples and data to provide a revealing introduction to social science statistics. The Third Edition of this widely adopted text effectively links social issues and sociological concepts with statistical techniques. Realizing that students may lack a substantial math background, or suffer from "math anxiety syndrome," the material in this book is presented using straightforward prose that emphasizes intuition, logic, and common sense rather than rote memorization. Throughout the text instructors are provided with resources to support effective teaching: illustrations showing how statistical concepts are used to interpret social issues, guides for reading and interpreting the research literature, SPSS demonstrations, and a rich variety of exercises. The user-friendly, informal style of this innovative text has been widely applauded by students and instructors alike.
Highlights of the Third Edition
A number of important changes have been made to this edition in response to the valuable comments received from the many instructors adopting the Second Edition and from other interested instructors and students.
Clearer and More Concise Presentation of Topics
Revisions to Chapter 13: Testing Hypotheses about Two Samples
Supplemental Electronic Materials
Real-World Examples and Exercises
General Social Survey 1998 Datasets
Supplemental Tools on Important Topics
SPSS Version 11.0 is available packaged with the text. Please contact Pine Forge Press at (800) 818-7243 for more information.
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It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Usby Hillary Rodham ClintonISBN 0684818434 (0-684-81843-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us'Book summary:The First Lady, a longtime child advocate, expresses her concerns for the children of today's world and offers her ideas for developing our society into one that values children's unique contributions. [via]
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Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violenceby Gerard Jones, Lynn PontonISBN 0756778638 (0-7567-7863-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Languageby Steven PinkerISBN 0688121411 (0-688-12141-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language'Book summary:In this "extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written" (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers in the field of linguistics explains how language works--how people, ny making noises with their mouths, can cause ideas to arise in other people's minds. [via]
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Liquid Modernityby Zygmunt BaumanISBN 0745624103 (0-7456-2410-3)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Liquid Modernity'Book summary:In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history.
This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning.
Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today. [via]
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Literature Made Easy Lord of the Fliesby Tony Buzan, Mary HartleyISBN 0764108212 (0-7641-0821-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature Made Easy Lord of the Flies'Book summary:TheLiterature Made Easy Series is more than just plot summaries. Each book describes a classic novel and drama by explaining themes, elaborating on characters, and discussing each author's unique literary style, use of language, and point of view. Extensive illustrations and imaginative, enlightening use of graphics help to make each book in this series livelier, easier, and more fun to use than ordinary literature plot summaries. An unusual feature, "Mind Map" is a diagram that summarizes and interrelates the most important details that students need to understand about a given work. Appropriate for middle and high school students. [via]
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London Labour And The London Poorby Not AvailableISBN 0714611484 (0-7146-1148-4)
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Lord of the Fliesby William G. GoldingISBN 0698102193 (0-698-10219-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Losing the Race : Self-Sabotage in Black Americaby John H. McWhorterISBN 0684836696 (0-684-83669-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Machiavelli: Il Principeby Brian RichardsonISBN 0719007429 (0-7190-0742-9)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Harold BloomISBN 0791075699 (0-7910-7569-9)
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 079105926X (0-7910-5926-X)
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The title, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Margaret Atwood, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America' s Wealthyby Thomas J. Stanley, William D. DankoISBN 0743420373 (0-7434-2037-3)
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A Mind of His Own : A Cultural History of the Penisby David FriedmanISBN 0684853205 (0-684-85320-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Friedman begins with pagan attitudes: ancient Greeks considered the penis a measure of a man's proximity to "divine power," while the Romans, whose generals were known to promote soldiers based on penis size, saw it as an indicator of earthly strength. Thanks to the spread of Christianity, the "sacred staff became the demon rod"--a fearful manifestation of the devil. Theology gave way, grudgingly, to science. In the Renaissance, anatomical discoveries allowed for the possibility that this "agent of death" was, in fact, only a "blameless instrument of reproduction." Subsequent chapters discuss the penis's role as a racial yardstick; its "defining role in human personality" as asserted by Freud; its politicization; and finally, through the likes of Viagra, its objectification as a "thing ... impervious to religious teachings, psychological insights, racial stereotypes and feminist criticism."
Friedman's study of what he calls the "symbolic muscle" is filled with fascinating side trips (castration cults, ancient graffiti, the anti-masturbation "semen-retention movement," aphrodisiacs through the ages, and, to modern eyes, risible medical practices with the likes of monkey glands), as well as a rich cast of characters (Leonardo da Vinci, John Kellogg of cornflake fame, Kate Millet, Clarence Thomas, and Walt Whitman). The book is informal, but well researched (and documented), entertaining but not cute, wide-ranging but not sketchy, and simultaneously irreverent and respectful. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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The Mind of the Southby Wilbur Joseph CashISBN 0679736476 (0-679-73647-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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My Freshman Year: What A Professor Learned By Becoming A Studentby REBEKAH NATHANISBN 0801443970 (0-8014-4397-0)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Nations and Nationalismby Ernest GellnerISBN 0801492637 (0-8014-9263-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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A Natural History of Loveby Diane AckermanISBN 0679761837 (0-679-76183-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Courtby Edward HumesISBN 0684811952 (0-684-81195-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court'Book summary:This is one powerful book: it will grab you with vivid stories about individual kids, draw you in with honesty and compassion, and amaze you with alarming details about how the juvenile justice system works (or rather, doesn't work) in America. Anyone interested in the problem of crime should read Edward Humes's gripping account of how future criminals are shaped in youth, and how the system misses its chance to help them before they're lost for good. As Richard Bernstein writes in the New York Times, "There are many admirable things about Mr. Humes's book, which, despite its grim subject matter, has a narrative power that keeps you reading right to the end. One of them is that Mr. Humes is a shrewd and perceptive observer of his young subjects ... [and he] allows himself to feel sympathy for the young people whose lives and crimes he describes.... At the same time, Mr. Humes never exonerates bad children for their badness." No Matter How Loud I Shout was a finalist for the 1997 Edgar Award in Fact Crime. [via]
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On Death and Dyingby Elisabeth Kubler-RossISBN 0684839385 (0-684-83938-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0742542467 (0-7425-4246-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheismby Rodney StarkISBN 0691115001 (0-691-11500-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism'Book summary:Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would have been moral codes, but no Commandments. Had the Jews been polytheists, they would today be only another barely remembered people, less important, but just as extinct as the Babylonians. Had Christians presented Jesus to the Greco-Roman world as ''another'' God, their faith would long since have gone the way of Mithraism. And surely Islam would never have made it out of the desert had Muhammad not removed Allah from the context of Arab paganism and proclaimed him as the only God.
The three great monotheisms changed everything. With his customary clarity and vigor, Rodney Stark explains how and why monotheism has such immense power both to unite and to divide. Why and how did Jews, Christians, and Muslims missionize, and when and why did their efforts falter? Why did both Christianity and Islam suddenly become less tolerant of Jews late in the eleventh century, prompting outbursts of mass murder? Why were the Jewish massacres by Christians concentrated in the cities along the Rhine River, and why did the pogroms by Muslims take place mainly in Granada? How could the Jews persist so long as a minority faith, able to withstand intense pressures to convert? Why did they sometimes assimilate? In the final chapter, Stark also examines the American experience to show that it is possible for committed monotheists to sustain norms of civility toward one another.
A sweeping social history of religion, One True God shows how the great monotheisms shaped the past and created the modern world.
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morganby Friedrich EngelsISBN 0717803597 (0-7178-0359-7)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Pascalian Meditationsby Pierre BourdieuISBN 0745620558 (0-7456-2055-8)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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The Princeby Dominic Baker-Smith, Niccolo Machiavelli, W.K. MarriottISBN 0679410449 (0-679-41044-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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That Machiavellis name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Princethe worlds preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous, straightforward style that reflects its authors realism, this treatise on states, statecraft, and the ideal ruler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how human society actually works. [via]More editions of The Prince:
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Benjamin BeardISBN 0743487680 (0-7434-8768-0)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Classic guide to acquiring and maintaining political power.
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Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Societyby Krishan KumarISBN 0713911468 (0-7139-1146-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalismby R. H. TawneyISBN 0765804557 (0-7658-0455-7)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societiesby Margaret MeadISBN 0688060161 (0-688-06016-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Social Animalby Elliot AronsonISBN 071675715X (0-7167-5715-X)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, J. H. Brumfitt, John C. Hall, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0760770212 (0-7607-7021-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversationby Michael SchwalbeISBN 0767416414 (0-7674-1641-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart Mill, Edward AlexanderISBN 0765807661 (0-7658-0766-1)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Presentby Lillian FadermanISBN 0688133304 (0-688-13330-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surpassing the Love of Men : Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present'Book summary:First published in 1981, this feminist classic began modestly as an academic essay on Emily Dickinson's love poems and letters to her future sister-in-law, Sue Gilbert. In her original introduction, Faderman recalled her surprise at finding these records of an erotic attachment between women that showed no evidence of guilt, anxiety, or the need for secrecy. Yet 60 or 70 years after they were written, the original letters had been bowdlerized by a niece of Dickinson's, who clearly found them too shocking for publication. Why, Faderman wondered, was passionate love between women, once almost universally applauded in the Western world, now almost universally condemned? She learned that the love between Dickinson and Gilbert had many precedents, and that it was only in the late 19th century that medical literature and antifeminism combined to rank women who loved women "somewhere," as she puts it bluntly, "between necrophiliacs and those who had sex with chickens." For this new edition, Faderman explains that she has resisted the urge to update her text, hoping that her exploration of romantic friendship, from French libertine literature through the dawn of feminism through the lesbian panic of the 1920s will still serve as "solace and ammunition" for those hoping to find "a usable past." --Regina Marler [via]
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 0679410767 (0-679-41076-7)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0679413375 (0-679-41337-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy's second novel, Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminations while in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue -- delivered, like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possesses the utmost splendor and beauty -- of what might or might not be an armless and legless creature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novels represent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Within their linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again. where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineaments of our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compelling and always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling inside the boundaries of nature. [via]More editions of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
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Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemicby James GilliganISBN 0679779124 (0-679-77912-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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"Extraordinary. Gilligan's recommendations concerning what does work to prevent violence...are extremely convincing...A wise and careful, enormously instructive book."--Owen Renik, M.D., editor, Psychoanalytic Quarterly [via]More editions of Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic:
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequencesby Edward TennerISBN 0679747567 (0-679-74756-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences'Book summary:To the Hopi Indians in America's Southwest, our existence will soon become koyaanissqatsi or "a world out of balance." Some doomsday theorists, like historian Edward Tenner, argue we are already there. But unlike many of his colleagues, Tenner doesn't believe technology is causing the world's demise--rather, it is carrying us, as individuals, to our own koyaanissqatsi more quickly. Technological "breakthroughs" such as X-rays and computers have their immediate benefits, but their long-term consequences in terms of health and environmental risks, lost time, and disintegration of traditions set us back further than where we started in the first place. While Tenner doesn't damn technology, he cautions for modest and skeptical acceptance of it. [via]
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0679721886 (0-679-72188-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain. [via]
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El Senor De Las Moscasby William GoldingISBN 0785795618 (0-7857-9561-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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LA Vida Locaby Luis J. Rodriguez, Simon & SchusterISBN 0684815516 (0-684-81551-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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