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The Age of Revolutionby Winston ChurchillISBN 1568495064 (1-56849-506-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Another Chance to Get It Right: A Children's Book for Adultsby Andrew H. VachssISBN 156971830X (1-56971-830-X)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Chance to Get It Right: A Children's Book for Adults'Book summary:Vachss places you on a battlefield in Africa, your only living companion a boy patiently waiting to be killed; on a rof of an old tenement building, strapped into a renovated packing crate that's flying two children across the cosmos; within the courtroom nightmare of an abused little girl; and once again on the tightrope between adolescence and adulthood. And after all the stories are told, he asks you to remember what children are--another chance for our flawed species, another chance to get it right. Illustrated in B&W. Graphic novel format. [via]
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Architecture of Fearby Nan EllinISBN 1568980825 (1-56898-082-5)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Press
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The Art & Skill of Dealing With Peopleby Brandon ToropovISBN 1567313108 (1-56731-310-8)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Bernstein's Reverse Dictionaryby David Grambs, Theodore Menline BernsteinISBN 1567231535 (1-56723-153-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contractby Marta RussellISBN 1567511066 (1-56751-106-6)
Softcover, Common Courage Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract'Book summary:A WARNING FROM AN UPPITY CRIP. Marta Russell exposes the neoliberal drive to shrink social services with the Reinventing Government mantra. "We are dangerously close to a Jerry Lewis democracy where middlemen beggars and corporate CEOs getting huge paychecks may replace entitlements with charity," reveals Russell in her devastating analysis of the "reform" of the social safety net. [via]
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Body Languageby Julius FastISBN 1567310044 (1-56731-004-4)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body Language'Book summary:This classic books introduces kinetics, the science of non-verbal communication, which is used to analyze the common gestures we use and observe every day, gestures which reveal our deepest feelings and hidden thoughts to total strangersif they know how to read them. [via]
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Bold New World: The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-First Centuryby William KnokeISBN 1568361807 (1-56836-180-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Campaigns and Elections: Contemporary Case Studiesby Michael A. Bailey, Ronald A. Faucheux, Paul S. Herrnson, Clyde WilcoxISBN 1568024959 (1-56802-495-9)
Softcover, CQ Press
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Cattle: An Informal Social Historyby Laurie M. CarlsonISBN 1566633885 (1-56663-388-5)
Hardcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cattle: An Informal Social History'Book summary:"Cattle have come on a long journey with us, from pastoral times to settled agriculture, from the New World to post-industrialism." So writes popular historian and children's-book author Laurie Carlson in this wide-ranging meditation on the relationship between humans and cattle throughout human history.
Though her narrative suffers from a somewhat scattered approach, Carlson has much to say about that long journey. Cattle have shaped human societies for millennia, she notes, figuring prominently in the lives and imaginations of the cave dwellers of Paleolithic Europe, the farmers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and 19th-century Australia, South America, and the American West, to name but a few. She stops in at each of these times and places, pondering curiosities as she does. Along the way, for instance, she writes of scandals involving tainted beef served to American field soldiers during the Spanish-American War and subsequent advances in food safety; the efforts of German scientists to reverse-breed cattle to arrive at the ancestral aurochs, extinct for nearly four centuries; the ravages of "zoonoses," or animal-borne diseases such as smallpox and cowpox; and the role of the cattle industry in the development of transcontinental railroads. She also observes that cattle husbandry has gone from an economic given to a source of controversy throughout much of the world, thanks to the rise of new bovine diseases and the effects of overgrazing on already threatened environments. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Cattle : An Informal Social Historyby Laurie Winn CarlsonISBN 1566634555 (1-56663-455-5)
Softcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communitiesby Ray OldenburgISBN 1569246122 (1-56924-612-2)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortionby Angela Bonavoglia, Gloria SteinemISBN 1568581882 (1-56858-188-2)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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The Chosenby Chaim PotokISBN 1568493193 (1-56849-319-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith--the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant--the struggles addressed in The Chosen are familiar to families of all faiths and in all nations.
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a secular Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood. The intellectual and spiritual clashes between fathers, between each son and his own father, and between the two young men, provide a unique backdrop for this exploration of fathers, sons, faith, loyalty, and, ultimately, the power of love. (This is not a conventional children's book, although it will move any wise child age 12 or older, and often appears on summer reading lists for high school students.) [via]
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Codependent No More: Beyond Codependencyby Melody BeattieISBN 1567312187 (1-56731-218-7)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself Signedby Melody BeattieISBN 1568387385 (1-56838-738-5)
Hardcover, Hci
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 1568496281 (1-56849-628-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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A.D. 1000: A World on the Brink of Apocalypseby Richard ErdoesISBN 1569751579 (1-56975-157-9)
Softcover, Ulysses Pr
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depressionby David E. KyvigISBN 1566635845 (1-56663-584-5)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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The Darkest Childby Delores PhillipsISBN 1569473781 (1-56947-378-1)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darkest Child'Book summary:Evils regenerative powers and one girls fierce resistance. . . . A book that deserves a wide audience. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Filled with grand plot events and clearly identifiable villains and victims . . . lush with detail and captivating with its story of racial tension and family violence. The Washington Post Book World
[An] exceptional debut novel. . . . [Has] a depth and dimension not often characteristic of a first novel. Library Journal (starred)
Phillips writes with a no-nonsense elegance. . . . As a vision of African-American life, The Darkest Child is one of the harshest novels to arrive in many years. . . . [Phillips] buttresses those harsh episodes with a depth of characterization worthy of Chekhov, pitch-perfect dialogue, and a profound knowledge of the segregated South in the 50s. The New Leader
Rozelle Quinn is so fair-skinned that she can pass for white. Her ten children are mostly light, too. They constitute the only world she rules and controls. Her power over them is all she has in an otherwise cruel and uncaring universe.
Rozelle favors her light-skinned kids, but Tangy Mae, 13, her darkest-complected child, is the brightest. She desperately wants to continue with her education. Her mother, however, has other plans. Rozelle wants her daughter to work cleaning houses for whites, like she does, and accompany her to the Farmhouse, where Rozelle earns extra money bedding men. Tangy Mae, shes decided, is of age.
This is the story from an era when lifes possibilities for an African-American were unimaginably different.
Delores Phillips was born in Bartow County, Georgia in 1950, the second of four children. She graduated from Cleveland State University with a bachelor of arts in English and works as a nurse at a state psychiatric hospital. Her work has appeared in Jeans Journal, Black Times, and The Crisis. She has lived in Cleveland, Ohio since 1964.
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Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Roadby Anthony WellerISBN 156924670X (1-56924-670-X)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566632250 (1-56663-225-0)
Hardcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:Ibsen's seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment. The reverberations of Nora's slamming the door as she leaves Torvald continue to the present day. Plays for Performance Series. [via]
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The Doll's House: A Playby Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566632269 (1-56663-226-9)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangenessby David Weeks, Jamie JamesISBN 1568361564 (1-56836-156-4)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness'Book summary:This book summarizes findings from the first systematic study of "eccentrics": highly talented and unusual people who are somewhere between "normal" and "nuts". This is a domain occupied by genuine geniuses and charming crackpots whose common feature is that they refuse to hold commonly held beliefs or refuse to act in accordance with the norms of society. Although the book would have been a more compelling read if it treated each individual in more depth, and its conclusions more convincing if there were more tables of data, it is nonetheless a delightful book that will give you either more respect for the eccentric (if you believe that you are "normal") or greater confidence in yourself (if you suspect--or know--that you are eccentric). Recommended. [via]
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Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracyby Frederick ClarksonISBN 1567510884 (1-56751-088-4)
Softcover, Common Courage Pr
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Families in the U.S: Kinship and Domestic Politicsby Karen V. Hansen, Anita Ilta GareyISBN 1566395909 (1-56639-590-9)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York - The Last 200 Yearsby Benjamin MillerISBN 1568581726 (1-56858-172-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profitby Neil De Mause, Joanna CaganISBN 1567511392 (1-56751-139-2)
Hardcover, Common Courage Pr
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Field of Schemes: The Great Stadium Swindleby Joanna Cagon, Neil De MauseISBN 1567511384 (1-56751-138-4)
Softcover, Common Courage Press
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Firestormby Nevada BarrISBN 1568953992 (1-56895-399-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Foucault in 90 Minutesby Paul StrathernISBN 1566632935 (1-56663-293-5)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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The Frenchby Theodore ZeldinISBN 1568361572 (1-56836-157-2)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiiby Haunani-Kay TraskISBN 1567510086 (1-56751-008-6)
Softcover, Common Courage Pr
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworldby Herbert AsburyISBN 1569249911 (1-56924-991-1)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld'Book summary:The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather. A universal history of infamy [that] contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies.... Jorge Luis Borges The tale is one of blood, excitement and debauchery. The New York Times Book Review The Gangs of New York is one of the essential works of the city.... Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books[via]More editions of The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld:
Geography of Home : Writings on Where We Liveby Akiko BuschISBN 1568984294 (1-56898-429-4)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Press
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The Golden Ghetto: The Psychology Of Affluenceby Jessie H. O'NeillISBN 1568381190 (1-56838-119-0)
Hardcover, Hazelden
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The Great Democraciesby Winston ChurchillISBN 1568495072 (1-56849-507-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 1567312160 (1-56731-216-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950by George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia OrwellISBN 1567921361 (1-56792-136-1)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacyby Desmond MorrisISBN 1568361637 (1-56836-163-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in Americaby Richard SchickelISBN 1566633176 (1-56663-317-6)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desireby Merri Lisa JohnsonISBN 1568581807 (1-56858-180-7)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Japan Edge: The Insider's Guide to Japanese Pop Subcultureby Satoru FujiiISBN 1569313458 (1-56931-345-8)
Softcover, Viz
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Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews With David Barsamianby Noam Chomsky, David BarsamianISBN 1567510329 (1-56751-032-9)
Softcover, Common Courage Pr
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Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cureby Benson BobrickISBN 1568361211 (1-56836-121-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Liberation's Children: Parents And Kids In A Postmodern Ageby Kay S. HymowitzISBN 1566635985 (1-56663-598-5)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Centuryby Wendy McElroy, Wendy KaminerISBN 1566634342 (1-56663-434-2)
Softcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 1568956940 (1-56895-694-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man in Full'Book summary:Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission?
On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.
Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick Opey McCorkle, to vivid life:
In true Opey McCorkle fashion he had turned up for dinner wearing a plaid shirt, a plaid necktie, red felt suspenders, and a big old leather belt that went around his potbelly like something could hitch up a mule with, but for now he had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms.
Readers in search of a kinder, gentler Wolfe may well be disappointed. Retaining the satirist's (necessary) superiority to his subject, he tends to lose his edge precisely when he's trying to move us. Still, when it comes to maximalist portraiture of the American scene--and to sheer, sentence-by-sentence amusement--1998 looks to be the year of the Wolfe, indeed. --James Marcus [via]More editions of A Man in Full:
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians: Essaysby Gertrude HimmelfarbISBN 1566633702 (1-56663-370-2)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Nonviolent Strategies and Tactics for Social Changeby John J. AnsbroISBN 156833169X (1-56833-169-X)
Softcover, Madison Books
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Naked Racial Preference/the Case Against Affirmative Action: The Case Against Affirmative Actionby Carl CohenISBN 1568330537 (1-56833-053-7)
Hardcover, Madison Books
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Neuromancerby William GibsonISBN 1569564116 (1-56956-411-6)
Softcover, William a Thomas Braille
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The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovoby Noam ChomskyISBN 1567511767 (1-56751-176-7)
Softcover, Common Courage Press
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The New Worldby Winston ChurchillISBN 1568495056 (1-56849-505-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey into Organizational Darknessby Howard F. SteinISBN 1567204422 (1-56720-442-2)
Hardcover, Quorum Books
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The Occult Conspiracyby HowardISBN 156731225X (1-56731-225-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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On Aggressionby Konrad LorenzISBN 1567311075 (1-56731-107-5)
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Optimism: The Biology of Hopeby Lionel TigerISBN 156836072X (1-56836-072-X)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Origins of Modern Witchcraft: The Evolution of a World Religionby Aoumiel, Ann MouraISBN 1567186483 (1-56718-648-3)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of Modern Witchcraft: The Evolution of a World Religion'Book summary:In The Origins of Modern Witchcraft author Ann Moura, a practicing Witch and historian, makes a sweeping tour of more than 5,000 years of religious and cultural history. She studies the evolution of concepts such as original sin, and the Tree of Life, the relationship between cermonial magick and Wicca, and much more. This is an evocative account of Wicca through the ages, the evolutionary story of an ancient religion, and an uncensored account of Wiccan history. [via]
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Passion of Youth: An Autobiography, 1897-1922by Wilhelm ReichISBN 1569249296 (1-56924-929-6)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorismsby Eric HofferISBN 1568490321 (1-56849-032-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Population Bombby Paul R. EhrlichISBN 1568495870 (1-56849-587-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Populuxeby Thomas HineISBN 1567313167 (1-56731-316-7)
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Queer Family Values: Debunking the Myth of the Nuclear Familyby Valerie LehrISBN 1566396840 (1-56639-684-0)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Regarding Animalsby Arnold Arluke, Clinton SandersISBN 1566394414 (1-56639-441-4)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regarding Animals'Book summary:What is it about Western society, ask the authors, that makes it possible for people to express great affection for animals as sentient creatures and simultaneously turn a blind eye to the most callous behavior toward them? Animals are sold as expensive commodities, used as food and clothing, killed as vermin, and hunted for sport. But they also are treated as members of the family, used as the cause celebre of social movements, and made the subject of art, film, and poetry. Such contradictions motivate these unique ethnographers to venture into social worlds most people know about only in passing, such as veterinary clinics where companion animals are cared for, animal shelters where dogs and cats are 'mercifully' euthanized, and primate labs where monkeys are kept for animal experimentation.Arluke and Sanders are not distanced ethnographers. They worked in the clinics, shelters, and laboratories, cleaning cages, assisting in surgery, and participating in "sacrificing" animals for science or helping to provide them with an 'easy death.' In this book, the people who work with these animals and live through them talk to the authors about the strategies they adopt to cope with the stress of the job. This fascinating book combines sociological analysis with ethnographic description to give us insight into the history and practice of how we as human beings construct animals, and by extrapolation, how we construct ourselves and others in relation to them.Arnold Arluke is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University and a Research Associate at the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. He is an Associate Editor of Society and Animals and the author of "The Making of Rehabilitation: A Political Economy of Medical Specialization" with Glenn Gritzer and "Gossip: The Inside Scoop with Jack Levin". Clinton R. Sanders, Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, is the author of "Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing" (Temple) and the co-editor (with Jeff Ferrell) of "Cultural Criminology". [via]
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reichby William ShirerISBN 1567311636 (1-56731-163-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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The Road Aheadby Bill Gates, Peter Rinearson, Nathan MyhrvoldISBN 1568953062 (1-56895-306-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Rootsby Alex HaleyISBN 1568494718 (1-56849-471-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescentsby Mike MalesISBN 1567510809 (1-56751-080-9)
Softcover, Common Courage Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents'Book summary:Violence. Drugs. Pregnancy. Suicide. Are our nation's teenagers out of control? Mike Males provides a different picture--how politicians, private interests, and the media unfairly scapegoat adolescents for America's problems. Among the myths he explodes:
Myth: Drugs, guns, gangsta rap, TV violence and "innate" youth savagery are causing crime and mayhem. [via]
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Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dressby Anne HollanderISBN 1568361017 (1-56836-101-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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The Sound Bite Societyby Jeffrey ScheuerISBN 1568581416 (1-56858-141-6)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound Bite Society'Book summary:Since the 1960s, American political life has undergone some major transformations: conservative politicians and values have proliferated, and television has become the main forum for public discourse. In The Sound Bite Society, Jeffrey Scheuer shows how these changes are directly connected and explains that the key to understanding these forces lies in the nature of television and its relationship to ideology. Scheuer asserts that television is an inherently simplistic medium favoring sentimental and one-dimensional communication: visceral sound bites and photo ops. But a vibrant democracy is possible only if conflicting, complex ideas are exchanged. The Sound Bite Society asks if television has served democracy; Scheuer answers with a definitive No. Challenging Americans to resuscitate complexity as part of our public life, this book is crucial to anyone interested in understanding and changing our political landscape.[via]More editions of The Sound Bite Society:
South from Granadaby Gerald Brenan, Chris FortunatoISBN 156836184X (1-56836-184-X)
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Spunkby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 1569247439 (1-56924-743-9)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Starship Troopersby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 1568492871 (1-56849-287-1)
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Steal This Bookby Abbie HoffmanISBN 156858217X (1-56858-217-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steal This Book'Book summary:In 1970, Abbie Hoffman conceived the idea for his most ambitious book project yet. He had begun criss-crossing the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting along in America--some illegal, but most of them having to do with survival techniques. Steal This Book captures the spirit of those years, describing actions and techniques that were already in use in all 50 states.[via] 
The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Ageby Hilton Kramer, Roger KimballISBN 1566634652 (1-56663-465-2)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Educationby Roger KimballISBN 1566631955 (1-56663-195-5)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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True Hallucinations and the Archaic Revivalby Terence McKennaISBN 1567312896 (1-56731-289-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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The U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracyby Judith Hicks StiehmISBN 1566399602 (1-56639-960-2)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroadby Paul HollanderISBN 1566636167 (1-56663-616-7)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad'Book summary:Original reports and observations that analyze the causes and impact of anti-Americanism in areas throughout the world. It distinguishes between rational and specific critiques of American foreign policy and American society on the one hand, and that brand of hostile predisposition that blames the United States for a wide variety of grievances and frustrations that are at best tangentially related to its policies, institutions, or way of life. [via]
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Understanding Comicsby Scott McCloudISBN 1568620195 (1-56862-019-5)
Hardcover, Tundra Pub
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Unmarried to Each Other: The Essential Guide to Living Together As an Unmarried Coupleby Marshall Miller, Dorian SolotISBN 1569245665 (1-56924-566-5)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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What No One Tells the Brideby Marg StarkISBN 1567313612 (1-56731-361-2)
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Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About Itby Allan Pease, Barbara PeaseISBN 1566491568 (1-56649-156-8)
Hardcover, Welcome Rain
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It'Book summary:Ever wonder why women can brush their teeth while walking and talking on various subjects while men generally find this very difficult to do? Why 99 percent of all patents are registered by men? Why stressed women talk? Why so many husbands hate shopping? According to Barbara and Allan Pease, science now confirms that "the way our brains are wired and the hormones pulsing through our bodies are the two factors that largely dictate, long before we are born, how we will think and behave. Our instincts are simply our genes determining how our bodies will behave in given sets of circumstances." That's right: socialization, politics, or upbringing aside, men and women have profound brain differences and are intrinsically inclined to act in distinct--and consequently frustrating--ways.
The premises behind Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps is that all too often, these differences get in the way of fulfilling relationships and that understanding our basic urges can lead to greater self-awareness and improved relations between the sexes. The Peases spent three years researching their book--traveling the globe, talking to experts, and studying the cutting-edge research of ethnologists, psychologists, biologists, and neuroscientists--yet their work does not read a bit like "hard science." In fact, the authors go to considerable lengths to point out that their book is intended to be funny, interesting, and easy to read; in short, this is a book whose primary purpose is to talk about "average men and women, that is, how most men and women behave most of the time, in most situations, and for most of the past."
Why Men Don't Listen, therefore, deals largely in generalizations, and this is bound to alienate some readers. "We don't beat around the bush with suppositions or politically correct clichés," the Peases claim. Those up for an irreverent and unapologetic take on why men and women just can't help themselves sometimes may just decide to read on. --Svenja Soldovieri [via]
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolutionby Brenda Knight, Ann ChartersISBN 1567312969 (1-56731-296-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution'Book summary:Female Beats wrote poetry, took drugs, went on the road, listened to jazz, and lived on the fringe just as the men did, but their accomplishments are not as widely recognized. This volume attempts to correct this oversight by profiling 40 women of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Well-known poets Diane di Prima and Denise Levertov appear in the volume, along with the muses of male writers and other women who never became famous at all. As Brenda Knight notes in her introduction, counterculture women in the 1950s and 1960s faced difficult obstacles: "To be unmarried, a poet, an artist, to bear biracial children, to go on the road was doubly shocking for a woman, and social condemnation was high." The first portion of the anthology is devoted to women who were not Beats but who set the stage for the movement. Josephine Miles wrote poetry and mentored the younger Beat poets at Berkeley, while Madeline Gleason founded the San Francisco Poetry Festival. In the "Muses" section are short biographies of wives and girlfriends of famous male writers such as Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. It's widely known that William S. Burroughs shot his wife Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs; this book fills in other details of her wild and short life. Profiles of writers such as Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Janna McClure, and Janine Pommy Vega account for the rest of the anthology. The lives these women led are as interesting as their writing, and Women of the Beat Generation honors their determination to live outside the mainstream. --Jill Marquis [via]
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Working in the Service Societyby Carmen Sirianni, Cameron Lynne MacDonaldISBN 1566394805 (1-56639-480-5)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Working in the Service Society'Book summary:Continued economic restructuring has brought service work to center stage in labor and management studies, as well as in the sociology of work, gender, race, and inequality. Because the idioms of service have become so central to our public interaction, the everyday struggles for recognition and respect in the service workplace have become integral to the very meaning of democratic citizenship in contemporary America. This volume brings together some of the most important and engaging writing on service work. Based on rich ethnographic and case study material, the essays explore questions of power and control, resistance and empowerment, and innovation and organizing in the lives of front-line service workers.Cases are drawn from a broad range of occupations, including fast foods, clerical and paralegal work, domestic work and nannies, and direct sales, and from organizational settings, ranging from McDonald's to Harvard University to the suburban home. The problems of organizing and new models of unionism are analyzed in the context of women's work culture, multiracial workplaces, contingent and part-time work, and participatory innovations to improve service and experience of work simultaneously. Author note: Cameron Lynne Macdonald teaches social studies at Harvard University. Carmen Sirianni is Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. [via]
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