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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914by Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0394563190 (0-394-56319-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Alfred C. Kinsey: A Lifeby James H. JonesISBN 0393327248 (0-393-32724-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Lifeby James H. JonesISBN 0393040860 (0-393-04086-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life'Book summary:This astonishing biography of Alfred Kinsey, the man who launched the sexual revolution, is graphically frank about his decidedly out-of-the-mainstream sexual practices (including masochism and voyeurism), yet historian James Jones doesn't exploit the material for titillation. Instead, Jones argues compassionately and persuasively that Kinsey's personal sexual demons sparked his campaign to demolish Victorian taboos about sex by gathering the scientific data eventually published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Jones reveals that the data were hardly as unbiased as Kinsey claimed, but it was world-shaking nonetheless. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life is a magnificent work of cultural history as well as a sensitive study of a troubled individual. [via]
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American Dreams: Lost and Foundby Studs TerkelISBN 0394507932 (0-394-50793-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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American Mania: When More Is Not Enoughby Peter C. WhybrowISBN 039332849X (0-393-32849-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Arming America : The Origins of a National Gun Cultureby Michael A. BellesilesISBN 0375701982 (0-375-70198-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Authoritarian Personalityby T.W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. LevinsonISBN 0393311120 (0-393-31112-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Authoritarian Personality'Book summary:Bringing together the findings of psychoanalysis and social science, this book grew out of an urgent commitment to study the origins of anti-Semitism in the aftermath of Hitler's Germany. First published in 1951, it was greeted as a monumental study blazing new trails in the investigation of prejudice. As offshoots of ethnocentrism, anti-semitism and fascism cast new and dark shadows on the world, the topic again demands study and social action. "The Authoritarian Personality" remains an important document for our time. [via]
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Authorityby Richard SennettISBN 0393310272 (0-393-31027-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Authority'Book summary:Analyzes the role of authority in personal and public life. From the French revolution to the present, the author explores what happens when our fear of and need for authority come into conflict, and why, in the act of rebelling, we become tied to those we struggle against. [via]
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Babbittby Sinclair Lewis, Richard LingemanISBN 0375759255 (0-375-75925-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babbitt'Book summary:In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. The novel cemented Lewiss prominence as a social commentator.
Babbitt basks in his pedestrian success and the popularity it has brought him. He demands high moral standards from those around him while flirting with women, and he yearns to have rich friends while shunning those less fortunate than he. But Babbitts secure complacency is shattered when his best friend is sent to prison, and he struggles to find meaning in his hollow life. He revolts, but finds that his former routine is not so easily thrown over. [via]More editions of Babbitt:
Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Centuryby Betsy IsraelISBN 0380976498 (0-380-97649-8)
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Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoplesby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0375706488 (0-375-70648-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples'Book summary:"For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul. [He is] the world's writer, a master of language and perception."--The New York Times Book Review
"A superlative traveler who misses nothing worth the record."--The Times (London)
Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic conversion of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. It is not a book of opinion. It is--in the Naipaul way--a very rich and human book, full of people and stories.
Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Arabizing demands on its converts. In this way it is more than a private faith, and it can become a neurosis. What has this Arab Islam done to the histories of these converted countries? How do the converted peoples, non-Arabs, view their past--and their future? In a follow-up to Among the Believers, his classic account of his travels through these countries, V. S. Naipaul returns after seventeen years to find out how and what the converted preach.
In Indonesia he finds a pastoral people who have lost their history through a confluence of Islam and technology. In Iran he discovers a religious tyranny as oppressive as the secular one of the Shah, and he meets people weary of the religious rules that govern every aspect of their lives. Pakistan--in a tragic realization of a Muslim re-creation fantasy--inherited blood feuds, rotting palaces, antique cruelty; then President Zia installed religious terror with $100 million of Saudi money. In Malaysia, the Muslim Youth organization is alive and growing, and the people are mentally, physically, and geographically torn between two worlds, struggling to live the impossible dream of a true faith born out of a spiritual vacancy.
A startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon, Beyond Belief confirms the author's reputation as a masterly observer, a "finder-out" of stories, as well as a magnificent teller of them. [via]More editions of Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples:
Blaming the Victimby William RyanISBN 0394417267 (0-394-41726-7)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Futureby Neil PostmanISBN 0375701273 (0-375-70127-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future'Book summary:The problem with the world today, says Neil Postman, is that we've become so caught up in hurtling towards the future that we've lost our societal "narrative," a humane cultural tradition that creates "a sense of purpose and continuity"--in other words, something to believe in. "In order to have an agreeable encounter with the twenty-first century," he asserts, "we will have to take into it some good ideas. And in order to do that, we need to look back to take stock of the good ideas available to us." He finds rich source material in the Enlightenment, the salad days for philosophers such as Goethe, Voltaire, Diderot, Paine, and Jefferson, "the beginnings of much that is worthwhile about the modern world." Yet Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is a call for cultural progress, not regression: "I am not suggesting that we become the eighteenth century," Postman notes, "only that we use it for what it is worth and all it is worth."
Chief among the values Postman cites is the development of the intellect; it plays a part in many of his recommendations, from the cultivation of a healthy skepticism towards overhyped technology to sweeping educational reforms that include replacing grammar instruction with logic and rhetoric and introducing courses on comparative religion and the history of science. He also lashes out at postmodernists who start with the premise that language "is a major factor in producing our perceptions, judgments, knowledge, and institutions" and conclude that language is therefore tenuously connected to reality at best. Enlightenment thinkers knew that language molded perception, he notes, but they also believed that "it is possible to use language to say things about the world that are true" and "to communicate ideas to oneself and to others." Postman is excessively curmudgeonly at times, as in his reference to philosopher Jean Baudrillard as "a Frenchman, of all things," or his remarks on the ancient Athenians: "I know they are the classic example of Dead White Males, but we should probably listen to them anyway." But for anybody with a stake in the culture wars, or who wants to apply the lessons of philosophy to the modern world, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century will make for provocative reading. [via]
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Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolutionby Ivan IllichISBN 0394714725 (0-394-71472-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Lifeby Philippe AriesISBN 0394702867 (0-394-70286-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Classby Jilly CooperISBN 0394514149 (0-394-51414-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Class'Book summary:Jilly Cooper challenges the assumption that England nowadays is a classless society, and sets out to show how snobbery is alive and well and at home in the English mind. She chronicles the social attitudes and lifestyles of Harry Stow-Crat and his peers, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, and Jen Teale and her husband Bryan, and makes characteristically wry observations on the courtship behaviour, choice of furnishings, appetites and ambitions of the "merry-tocracy", the "telly-stocracy", and many other inhabitants of castle, Victorian terrace and council flat. [via]
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Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Countryby William FinneganISBN 0375753826 (0-375-75382-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country'Book summary:"When I first started going to New Haven," writes William Finnegan, "I was taken on a tour of the city's neighborhoods by two black residents. Their conversation reminded me of others I've heard--in countries suffering from chronic guerrilla war."
Cold New World depicts the lives of American teenagers and young adults, struggling to hang onto what little they've got. They are part of a growing underclass whose lives have become saturated with drugs and violence. Whether he's talking to an African American drug dealer who plies his trade in the shadow of Yale or a young woman caught up in the feud between two rival skinhead gangs in the northernmost suburbs of Los Angeles, Finnegan brings his subjects to life on the page with a compassion that doesn't undermine any of his bluntness about their desperate conditions. You may not like what Cold New World has to say about the state of the nation, but it's a book that you ignore at your peril. [via]
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Conscientious Objections: Stirring up Trouble about Language, Technology, and Educationby Neil PostmanISBN 039457270X (0-394-57270-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conscientious Objections: Stirring up Trouble about Language, Technology, and Education'Book summary:In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs -- and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty -- is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.
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The Court Societyby Norbert EliasISBN 0394716043 (0-394-71604-3)
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Culture and Commitment: The New Relationships Between the Generations in the 1970sby Margaret MeadISBN 0385133871 (0-385-13387-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Democracy in Americaby Thomas Bender, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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Drinking: A Love Storyby Caroline KnappISBN 0385315546 (0-385-31554-6)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drinking: A Love Story'Book summary:The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anexoria and then alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: She found inspiration in Pete Hamill's A Drinking Life and sobered up. Her tale is spiced with the characters she's known along the way. [via]
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Early Textsby Karl Marx, David McLellanISBN 0389040568 (0-389-04056-8)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Imports
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The Executioner's Songby Norman MailerISBN 0375700811 (0-375-70081-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Executioner's Song'Book summary:The Executioner's Song is a work of unprecedented force. It is the true story of Gary Gilmore, who in 1977 became the first person executed in the United States since the reinstitution of the death penalty. Gilmore, a violent yet articulate man who chose not to fight his death-penalty sentence, touched off a national debate about capital punishment. He allowed Norman Mailer and researcher Lawrence Schiller complete access to his story. Mailer took the material and produced an immense book with a dry, unwavering voice and meticulous attention to detail on Gilmore's life--particularly his relationship with Nicole Baker, whom Gilmore claims to have killed. What unfolds is a powerful drama, a distorted love affair, and a chilling look into the mind of a murderer in his countdown with a firing squad. [via]
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0394464354 (0-394-46435-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,'Book summary:Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.
On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Fight Clubby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0393327345 (0-393-32734-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fight Club'Book summary:The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard's characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk's yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let's just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon.
But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn't happy unless he's first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it's about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club's protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you'll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you're not likely to forget the book's author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels [via]
Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids and Life in a Half-Changed Worldby Peggy OrensteinISBN 038549887X (0-385-49887-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Womenby Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre EnglishISBN 0385126514 (0-385-12651-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women'Book summary:This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert advice with a shaker of salt. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English ably show that many experts gleefully hammer recalcitrant souls into a shape acceptable to society, rather than encouraging people to find their own way. The book plunges into 150 years of misbegotten advice to women and questionable insights into feminine nature that have many modern parallels. In the service of better living through science, women have undergone deprivational rest cures that most war rules would disallow, submitted to surgical bludgeoning of ovaries and uterus to quell a list of unladylike behaviors, and humbly followed childcare advice that amounted to abuse. Though slanted by its bent toward worst cases and offenses against only one sex, it offers much to mull over for hopeful seekers of mix-and-bake directions for a better life. [via]
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Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Dollby M. G. LordISBN 0380720493 (0-380-72049-3)
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The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policyby Richard M. TitmussISBN 0394718100 (0-394-71810-0)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolutionby Steven LevyISBN 0385312105 (0-385-31210-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hackers : Heroes of the Computer Revolution'Book summary:Steven Levy's classic book explains why the misuse of the word "hackers" to describe computer criminals does a terrible disservice to many important shapers of the digital revolution. Levy follows members of an MIT model railroad club--a group of brilliant budding electrical engineers and computer innovators--from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. These eccentric characters used the term "hack" to describe a clever way of improving the electronic system that ran their massive railroad. And as they started designing clever ways to improve computer systems, "hack" moved over with them. These maverick characters were often fanatics who did not always restrict themselves to the letter of the law and who devoted themselves to what became known as "The Hacker Ethic." The book traces the history of hackers, from finagling access to clunky computer-card-punching machines to uncovering the inner secrets of what would become the Internet. This story of brilliant, eccentric, flawed, and often funny people devoted to their dream of a better world will appeal to a wide audience. [via]
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Hard Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 0380002833 (0-380-00283-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:First published in 1970, this classic of oral history features the voices of men and women who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. It includes accounts by congressmen C. Wright Patman and Hamilton Fish, as well as failed presidential candidate Alf M. Landon, who recalls what it was like to be governor of Kansas in 1933:
Men with tears in their eyes begged for an appointment that would help save their homes and farms. I couldn't see them all in my office. But I never let one of them leave without my coming out and shakin' hands with 'em. I listened to all their stories, each one of 'em. But it was obvious I couldn't take care of all their terrible needs.
The book includes also the perspectives of ordinary men and women, such as Jim Sheridan, who took part in the 1932 march by World War I veterans to petition for their benefits in Washington, D.C., where they were repelled by army troops led by General Douglas MacArthur. Or Edward Santander, who was a child then: "My first memories come about '31. It was simply a gut issue then: eating or not eating, living or not living." Studs Terkel makes history come alive, drawing out experiences and emotions from his interviewees to the degree few have ever been able to match. [via]More editions of Hard Times:
Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitmentby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 0385176155 (0-385-17615-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Hidden Injuries of Classby Richard Sennett, Jonathan CobbISBN 039331085X (0-393-31085-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939by David SchoenbaumISBN 0393315541 (0-393-31554-1)
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In fact, the gap between the ideology of the Reich and its actual character was enormous. But under the spell of the mirage, the will to resist was undermined by an accelerating process of social disintegration. [via]More editions of Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939:
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How to Lie With Statisticsby Darrell HuffISBN 039309426X (0-393-09426-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Lie With Statistics'Book summary:"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff.
Although many of the examples used in the book are charmingly dated, the cautions are timeless. Statistics are rife with opportunities for misuse, from "gee-whiz graphs" that add nonexistent drama to trends, to "results" detached from their method and meaning, to statistics' ultimate bugaboo--faulty cause-and-effect reasoning. Huff's tone is tolerant and amused, but no-nonsense. Like a lecturing father, he expects you to learn something useful from the book, and start applying it every day. Never be a sucker again, he cries!
Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is.
Read How to Lie with Statistics. Whether you encounter statistics at work, at school, or in advertising, you'll remember its simple lessons. Don't be terrorized by numbers, Huff implores. "The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science." --Therese Littleton [via]
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequencesby Truman CapoteISBN 0375507906 (0-375-50790-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'Book summary:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
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In Defense of Elitismby William A. HenryISBN 0385479433 (0-385-47943-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Lifeby James DeetzISBN 0385483996 (0-385-48399-6)
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Subtle changes in building long before the Revolutionary War hinted at the growing independence of the American colonies and their desire to be less like the British.
Records of estate auctions show that many households in Colonial America contained only one chair--underscoring the patriarchal nature of the early American family. All other members of the household sat on stools or the floor.
The excavation of a tiny community of freed slaves in Massachusetts reveals evidence of the transplantation of African culture to North America.
Simultaneously a study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied, In Small Things Forgotten, through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicts a world hundreds of years in the past. [via]More editions of In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life:
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian Englandby Judith FlandersISBN 0393327639 (0-393-32763-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England'Book summary:"Almost criminal in its housebreaking, burglarizing, second-story genius."James Kincaid, University of Southern California
The Victorian age is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold forming and wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such household drudgery was routinely performed by the grandparents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been.
Judith Flanders's book is laid out like a Victorian house, taking you through the story of daily life from room to room. In each space she depicts the home's furnishings and decoration: from childbirth in the master bedroom, through the scullery and kitchen, the separate male and female domains of the drawing room and the parlor, and ending in the sickroom. A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings fills the rooms with the people and personalities of the age. 100 illustrations, 3 8-page color inserts. 100 illustrations, 3 8-page color inserts [via]More editions of Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England:
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Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Businessby Jessica MitfordISBN 0394476026 (0-394-47602-6)
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Kind and Unusual Punishment: The Prison Businessby Jessica MitfordISBN 0394710932 (0-394-71093-2)
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Man's Fateby Andre MalrauxISBN 0394543793 (0-394-54379-3)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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Miss Manners' Guide To Excruciatingly Correct Behaviorby Judith Martin, Gloria KamenISBN 0393058743 (0-393-05874-3)
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My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identityby Nancy FridayISBN 0385320159 (0-385-32015-9)
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institutionby Adrienne RichISBN 0393312844 (0-393-31284-4)
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The experience is her ownas a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a motherbut it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance. [via]More editions of Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution:
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The Old Regime and the French Revolutionby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0385092601 (0-385-09260-1)
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Englandby Steven MarcusISBN 0393302369 (0-393-30236-9)
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Pack of Two : The Intricate Bond Between Dogs and the People Who Love Themby Caroline KnappISBN 0385316984 (0-385-31698-4)
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Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogsby Caroline KnappISBN 0385317018 (0-385-31701-8)
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Power and Civilityby Norbert Elias, Edmund JephcottISBN 0394711343 (0-394-71134-3)
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Power and Civility: The Civilizing Processby Norbert Elias, Edmund JephcottISBN 0394527690 (0-394-52769-0)
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Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuriesby Eric J. HobsbawmISBN 0393003280 (0-393-00328-0)
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Little attention has been paid to modern movements of social protest which fall outside the classic patterns of labor or socialist agitation, and even less to those whose political coloring is not modernist or progressive but conservative, or reactionary or, at any rate, rather inarticulate. [via]More editions of Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries:
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revoltby Albert CamusISBN 0394442326 (0-394-44232-6)
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Silicon Snake Oilby Clifford StollISBN 0385419945 (0-385-41994-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silicon Snake Oil'Book summary:In Silicon Snake Oil, Clifford Stoll, the best-selling author of The Cuckoo's Egg and one of the pioneers of the Internet, turns his attention to the much-heralded information highway, revealing that it is not all it's cracked up to be. Yes, the Internet provides access to plenty of services, but useful information is virtually impossible to find and difficult to access. Is being on-line truly useful? "Few aspects of daily life require computers...They're irrelevant to cooking, driving, visiting, negotiating, eating, hiking, dancing, speaking, and gossiping. You don't need a computer to...recite a poem or say a prayer." Computers can't, Stoll claims, provide a richer or better life. A cautionary tale about today's media darling, Silicon Snake Oil has sparked intense debate across the country about the merits--and foibles--of what's been touted as the entranceway to our future. From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Seriousby Paul WatzlawickISBN 0393310213 (0-393-31021-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious'Book summary:Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable.
Do you see the past through a rosy filter that makes it seem like Paradise Lost? Are you convinced that traffic lights always turn red for you? Do you have to win (so as not to lose)? After extricating yourself from a bad relationship, do you find another partner just like the previous one? If so, congratulations! You have the makings of an unhappiness expert. With the techniques in this book, you can raise yourself to the genius level. A word of warning, however. Along the way you may begin to ask yourself, "How did I manage to turn myself into my own worst enemy?" Fortunately, this tongue-in-cheek (but serious) volume takes a look at that question too.
Special attention is given to such topics as "Four Games with the Past," "Self-fulfilling Prophecies," and "Why Would Anybody Love Me?" Those who believe that the search for happiness will eventually lead to happiness will find much to ponder in the section "Beware of Arriving."
All readers will be both amused and startled to find themselves in these pages, but there is a special delight and enlightenment for therapists and counselors. Although the author does not officially admit it, the book is one complex "symptom prescription," a therapeutic double bind as described and practiced by him and his colleagues. [via]More editions of The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious:
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The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious: (the Pursuit of Unhappiness)by Paul WatzlawickISBN 0393018210 (0-393-01821-0)
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Do you see the past through a rosy filter that makes it seem like Paradise Lost? Are you convinced that traffic lights always turn red for you? Do you have to win (so as not to lose)? After extricating yourself from a bad relationship, do you find another partner just like the previous one? If so, congratulations! You have the makings of an unhappiness expert. With the techniques in this book, you can raise yourself to the genius level. A word of warning, however. Along the way you may begin to ask yourself, "How did I manage to turn myself into my own worst enemy?" Fortunately, this tongue-in-cheek (but serious) volume takes a look at that question too.
Special attention is given to such topics as "Four Games with the Past," "Self-fulfilling Prophecies," and "Why Would Anybody Love Me?" Those who believe that the search for happiness will eventually lead to happiness will find much to ponder in the section "Beware of Arriving."
All readers will be both amused and startled to find themselves in these pages, but there is a special delight and enlightenment for therapists and counselors. Although the author does not officially admit it, the book is one complex "symptom prescription," a therapeutic double bind as described and practiced by him and his colleagues. [via]More editions of The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious: (the Pursuit of Unhappiness):
Society and Democracy in Germanyby Ralf DahrendorfISBN 039300953X (0-393-00953-X)
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 038533379X (0-385-33379-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul on Ice'Book summary:The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.
By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man. [via]More editions of Soul on Ice:
The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimonyby Pamela PaulISBN 0375505407 (0-375-50540-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Criticsby Christopher LaschISBN 0393307956 (0-393-30795-6)
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The Underclassby Ken AulettaISBN 0394713885 (0-394-71388-5)
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Undergroundby Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki Murakami, J. Philip Gabriel, Philip GabrielISBN 0375725806 (0-375-72580-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underground'Book summary:From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.
In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakamis brilliant novels. [via]More editions of Underground:
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An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields ofby Richard ZacksISBN 0385483767 (0-385-48376-7)
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The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfareby Michael B. KatzISBN 0394534573 (0-394-53457-3)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394497716 (0-394-49771-6)
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A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailby Bill Bryson, Philip KerrISBN 0385257155 (0-385-25715-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail'Book summary:Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson's reading of A Walk in the Woods may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you'll be hooked.
When Bryson speaks for the many Americans he encounters along the way--in various shops, restaurants, airports, and along the trail--he launches into his American accent, which is whiny and full of hard r's. And his southern intonations are a hoot. He's even got a special voice used exclusively when speaking for his somewhat surprising trail partner, Katz. In the 25 years since their school days together, Katz has put on quite a bit of weight. In fact, "he brought to mind Orson Welles after a very bad night. He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of 20 yards." Katz often speaks in monosyllables, and Bryson brings his limited vocabulary humorously to life. One of Katz's more memorable utterings is "flung," as in flung most of his provisions over the cliff because they were too heavy to carry any farther.
The author has thoroughly researched the history and the making of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson describes the destruction of many parts of the forest and warns of the continuing perils (both natural and man-made) the Trail faces. He speaks of the natural beauty and splendor as he and Katz pass through, and he recalls clearly the serious dangers the two face during their time together on the trail. So, A Walk in the Woods is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man's desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it's also a plea for the conservation of America's last wilderness. Bryson's telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure. (Running time: 360 minutes, four cassettes) --Colleen Preston [via]
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When the Emperor Was Divine: A Novelby Julie OtsukaISBN 0385721811 (0-385-72181-1)
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Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Societyby Theodore RoszakISBN 0385027281 (0-385-02728-1)
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The Whole Womanby Germaine GreerISBN 0385720033 (0-385-72003-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whole Woman'Book summary:Thirty years after the publication of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer is back with the sequel she vowed never to write.
"A marvelous performance--. No feminist writer can match her for eloquence or energy; none makes [us] laugh the way she does."--The Washington Post
In this thoroughly engaging new book, the fervent, rollicking, straight-shooting Greer, is, as ever, "the ultimate agent provocateur" (Mirabella). With passionate rhetoric, outrageous humor, and the authority of a lifetime of thought and observation, she trains a sharp eye on the issues women face at the turn of the century.
From the workplace to the kitchen, from the supermarket to the bedroom, Greer exposes the innumerable forms of insidious discrimination and exploitation that continue to plague women around the globe. She mordantly attacks "lifestyle feminists" who blithely believe they can have it all, and argues for a fuller, more organic idea of womanhood. Whether it's liposuction or abortion, Barbie or Lady Diana, housework or sex work, Greer always has an opinion, and as one of the most brilliant, glamorous, and dynamic feminists of all time, her opinions matter. For anyone interested in the future of womanhood, The Whole Woman is a must-read. [via]More editions of The Whole Woman:
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Woman: An Intimate Geographyby Natalie AngierISBN 0385498411 (0-385-49841-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman: An Intimate Geography'Book summary:Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, as far as the health care profession is concerned the standard operating design of the human body is male. So when a book comes along as beautifully written and endlessly informative as Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography, it's a cause for major celebration. Written with whimsy and eloquence, her investigation into female physiology draws its inspiration not only from scientific and medical sources but also from mythology, history, art, and literature, layering biological factoids with her own personal encounters and arcane anecdotes from the history of science. Who knew, for example, that the clitoris--with 8,000 nerve fibers--packs double the pleasure of the penis; that the gene controlling cellular sensitivity to male androgens, ironically enough, resides on the X-chromosome; or that stress hormones like cortisol and corticosterone are the true precursors of friendship?
The mysteries of evolution are not a new subject for Angier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biology writer for the New York Times whose previous books include The Beauty of the Beastly and Natural Obsessions. The strengths of Woman begin with Angier's witty and evocative prose style, but its real contribution is the way it expands the definition of female "geography" beyond womb, breasts, and estrogen, down as far as the bimolecular substructure of DNA and up as high as the transcendent infrastructure of the human brain. --Patrizia DiLucchio [via]
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Women, Race and Classby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0394713516 (0-394-71351-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women, Race and Class'Book summary:Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of the fight for civil rights and working class issues. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard: the intimate tie between the anti-slavery campaign and the struggle for women's suffrage. She shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the women's movement have divided its own membership. Davis' message is clear: If we ever want equality, we're gonna have to fight for it together. [via]
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