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501 French Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses and Moods in a New Easy-To-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arrangedby Christopher Kendris, Theodore KendrisISBN 0764124293 (0-7641-2429-3)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '501 French Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses and Moods in a New Easy-To-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arranged'Book summary:What you see is what you get when it comes to this popular series of foreign-language grammar titles, and here what you get is 501 French Verbs, fully conjugated in every tense the French language has to offer. (That would be 28, in case you're counting.) You'll also find verb drills and tests as well as definitions of important grammatical terms, an index of irregular verb forms, lists of vernacular expressions and idioms, and much more. If you can't find the verb you're looking for in the 501 "model" verbs, author Christopher Kendris provides an index of 1,000 additional verbs that are conjugated in the same way as one of the 501. A lifesaver for anyone who does much writing in French, 501 French Verbs is an absolutely essential reference for every serious student of the language. [via]
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Screenplayby Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Ronald Harwood, Gillon R. AitkenISBN 0722180217 (0-7221-8021-7)
Hardcover, Sphere
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All About Action Photographyby David HodgsonISBN 0720708885 (0-7207-0888-5)
Hardcover, Transatlantic Arts
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Audel Machine Shop Basicsby Mark Richard Miller, Rex MillerISBN 076455526X (0-7645-5526-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Beating about the Bushby Len BeadellISBN 0727002260 (0-7270-0226-0)
Hardcover, Rigby
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Biochemistryby Lubert StryerISBN 0716719207 (0-7167-1920-7)
Softcover, W.H. Freeman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biochemistry'Book summary:With a balance of topic coverage and depth this updated third edition covers the subject of biochemistry, and reflects the advances made in this field since the second edition published in 1981. These advances are incorporated without loss of historical perspective and without obscuring the main goal of the text: to teach the enduring fundamentals of the discipline. Included in the third edition is a completely reorganized part one introducing the flow of information from gene to protein. It emphasizes the growing interrelatedness of molecular biology and biochemistry, and acquaints one with experimental methods of both disciplines. Also included is 150 new problems and a wealth of new material on molecular genetics and cellular processes. [via]
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The Book Of Photographyby John HedgecoeISBN 075660947X (0-7566-0947-X)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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The Calligrapher's Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Themby David Harris, Janet MehiganISBN 0764156152 (0-7641-5615-2)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Capital Punishment: A Balanced Examinationby Evan J. ManderyISBN 0763733083 (0-7637-3308-3)
Hardcover, Jones & Bartlett Pub
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Cliffscomplete King Learby Sidney Lamb, Stacy MulderISBN 0764585711 (0-7645-8571-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete King Lear'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]In this tragic play, Lear, a ruler in pre-Christian Britain, is described as a "very foolish old man." Grossly misjudging his daughters, he endures a harrowing experience and emerges as a man "more sinned against than sinning." This most tragic of Shakespearean plays speaks to us repeatedly about fate and chance, destiny and the gods. But we also are reminded that humanity has free will and King Lear's choices lead to madness.
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Cliffscomplete Macbethby Sidney Lamb, Christopher MorrowISBN 076458572X (0-7645-8572-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Macbeth'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete Othello makes you familiar with one of the most staged of all of Shakespeare's plays. Othello is a tale of love and betrayal, secrets, passion, and intrigue. Psychology and wit pit strength and virtue against jealousy and evil agendas. The results leave no winners, only tragedy in the lives of the jealous Moor, Othello, and his wife, Desdemona.
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Cliffscomplete Othelloby Sidney Lamb, Kate MauerISBN 0764585738 (0-7645-8573-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Othello'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete Othello makes you familiar with one of the most staged of all of Shakespeare's plays. Othello is a tale of love and betrayal, secrets, passion, and intrigue. Psychology and wit pit strength and virtue against jealousy and evil agendas. The results leave no winners, only tragedy in the lives of the jealous Moor, Othello, and his wife, Desdemona.
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Cliffscomplete Romeo and Julietby Sidney Lamb, Karin JacobsonISBN 0764585746 (0-7645-8574-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Cliffscomplete Shakespeare's a Midsummer Nights Dream: Complete Text, Commentary, Glossaryby Michael McMahonISBN 0764587250 (0-7645-8725-0)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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Everything is not what it seems in this play. Stay on top of whats really going on and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of A Midsummer Nights Dream with these additional features:
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Cognitive Psychologyby John R. AndersonISBN 0716723859 (0-7167-2385-9)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cognitive Psychology'Book summary:This text provides a fully updated, systematic introduction to the theoretical and experimental foundations of higher mental processes. Avoiding technical jargon, John R. Anderson constructs a coherent picture of human cognition, relating neural functions to mental processes, perception to abstraction, representation to meaning, knowledge to skill, language to thought, and adult cognition to child development. New to this 4th edition are new separate chapters on attention and individual differences. Summaries now follow each section, as well as concluding each chapter. More emphasis has been placed on cognitive psychology, reflecting a burgeoning area of research. [via]
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Cognitive Psychology and Its Implicationsby John Robert AndersonISBN 0716711974 (0-7167-1197-4)
Hardcover, W. H. Freeman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications'Book summary:A presentation of the theoretical foundations of higher mental processes. Addressing both the information processing and cognitive neuroscience approaches to the field, it demonstrates knowledge representation as the central issue around which cognitive psychology is organized. [via]
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Cognitive Psychology and Its Implicationsby Barry F. Anderson, John AndersonISBN 0716736780 (0-7167-3678-0)
Hardcover, Worth Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications'Book summary:John Anderson's text offers a systematic and accessible presentation of the theoretical foundations of higher mental processes. Addressing both the information processing and the cognitive neuroscience approaches to the field (with more emphasis on information processing), the book demonstrates knowledge representation as the central issue around which cognitive psychology is organized. The new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, especially in the area of cognitive neuroscience. [via]
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Cognitive Psychology And Its Implicationsby John R. AndersonISBN 0716701103 (0-7167-0110-3)
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Color Atlas of Medical Microbiologyby Tony Hart, Paul Shears, C. T. HartISBN 0723423229 (0-7234-2322-9)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Color Atlas of Medical Microbiology'Book summary:Retaining the popular format and accessibility of its predecessor, "Color Atlas of Microbiology", this new atlas covers the appearance and identification of bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites of medical importance. Its high-quality photographs, each with a marker bar indicating magnification, illustrate microscopic and macroscopic features of disease causing bacteria and fungi. The atlas also includes charts highlighting the disease caused by particular groups of microbes and a completely up-to-date section on agents, reactions and tests. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Margaret BrantleyISBN 074348763X (0-7434-8763-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Enduring literature illuminated by practical scholarship dostoyevsky's penetrating study of a man for whom the distinction between right and wrong disappears, and a riveting portrait of guilt and retribution. Each enriched classic edition includes: a concise introduction that gives readers important background information a chronology of the author's life and work a timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context an outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations detailed explanatory notes critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction a list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience enriched classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in enriched classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by cynthia brantley johnson [via]
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Edgar Huntley: Memoirs of a Sleepwalkerby Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0781220688 (0-7812-2068-8)
Hardcover, Reprint Services Corp
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Edgar Huntlyby David Stineback, Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0742533506 (0-7425-3350-6)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edgar Huntly'Book summary:Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, written in 1799, is the most ambitious work by America's first important novelist. Not only a complex and challenging novel in its own right, it distinctively foreshadows the concern with depth psychology in later American fiction from Poe to Faulkner, as well as the scientific discoveries of Freud himself. Set in rural Pennsylvania, the story recounts the fate of young Edgar Huntly as he goes in search of the murderer of his fiancée's brother. Once he believes he has discovered the killer sleepwalking at the scene of the crime, he pursues the man relentlessly, and then obsessively, until it becomes clear to Brown's readers that Huntly is driven by motives buried deep within his subconscious. Though much of what occurs in Edgar Huntly may have escaped Brown's own understanding and intentions, he was certainly conscious of having presented a particularly American version of the classic gothic novel. [via]
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The Film Book: Choosing and Using Color and Black and White Filmby Roger Hicks, Frances SchultzISBN 0715304712 (0-7153-0471-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0743273567 (0-7432-7356-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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The Handbook of Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Study of the Ancient Languageby Samuel A. Mercer, Janice KamrinISBN 0781806259 (0-7818-0625-9)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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Handbook of Research Design and Social Measurementby Delbert Charles Miller, Neil J. Salkind, Delbert C. MillerISBN 0761920463 (0-7619-2046-3)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Handbook of Research Design and Social Measurement'Book summary:"If a student researcher had only one handbook on their bookshelf, Miller and Salkinds Handbook would certainly have to be it. With the updated material, the addition of the section on ethical issues (which is so well done that Im recommending it to the departmental representative to the university IRB), and a new Part 4 on "Qualitative Methods", the new Handbook is an indispensable resource for researchers."
Dan Cover, Department of Sociology, Furman University
The book considered a "necessity" by many social science researchers and their students has been revised and updated while retaining the features that made it so useful. The emphasis in this new edition is on the tools with which graduate students and more advanced researchers need to become familiar as well as be able to use in order to conduct high quality research.
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The Handy Science Answer Book: Centennial Editionby Science & Technology Department Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Naomi E. BalabanISBN 0780807278 (0-7808-0727-8)
Hardcover, Omnigraphics Inc
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History of the American Revolutionby Thomas Fleming, Bruce Catton, Bruce LancasterISBN 0743486811 (0-7434-8681-1)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the American Revolution'Book summary:From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown, Bruce Lancaster's classic, The American Revolution, covers the story of America's fight for independence in vivid detail. With an introduction by the critically acclaimed author Bruce Catton, and a new foreword by Thomas Fleming, The American Revolution is a highly readable and engaging volume. [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0743217179 (0-7432-1717-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0747560870 (0-7475-6087-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on Mango Street'Book summary:Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The House On Mango Street is the story of Esperanza Cordera, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For Esperanza, Mango Street is a desolate landscape of concrete and run-down tenements where she discovers the hard realities of life - the fetters of class and gender, the spectre of racial enmity and the mysteries of sexuality. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, Esperanza is able to rise above hopelessness and create for herself "a house all of my own quiet as snow, a space for myself to go" in the midst of her oppressive surroundings. [via]
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How to Read and Whyby Harold BloomISBN 0756777364 (0-7567-7736-4)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read and Why'Book summary:Harold Bloom's urgency in How to Read and Why may have much to do with his age. He brackets his combative, inspiring manual with the news that he is nearing 70 and hasn't time for the mediocre. (One doubts that he ever did.) Nor will he countenance such fashionable notions as the death of the author or abide "the vagaries of our current counter-Puritanism" let alone "ideological cheerleading." Successively exploring the short story, poetry, the novel, and drama, Bloom illuminates both the how and why of his title and points us in all the right directions: toward the Romantics because they "startle us out of our sleep-of-death into a more capacious sense of life"; toward Austen, James, Proust; toward Thomas Mann, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy; toward Cervantes and Shakespeare (but of course!), Ibsen and Oscar Wilde.
How should we read? Slowly, with love, openness, and with our inner ear cocked. Then we should reread, reread, reread, and do so aloud as often as possible. "As a boy of eight," he tells us, "I would walk about chanting Housman's and William Blake's lyrics to myself, and I still do, less frequently yet with undiminished fervor." And why should we engage in this apparently solitary activity? To increase our wit and imagination, our sense of intimacy--in short, our entire consciousness--and also to heal our pain. "Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others." So much for reading as an escape from the self!
Still, many of this volume's pleasures may indeed be selfish. The author is at his best when he is thinking aloud and anew, and his material offers him--and therefore us--endless opportunities for discovery. Bloom cherishes poetry because it is "a prophetic mode" and fiction for its wisdom. Intriguingly, he fears more for the fate of the latter: "Novels require more readers than poems do, a statement so odd that it puzzles me, even as I agree with it." We must, he adjures, crusade against its possible extinction and read novels "in the coming years of the third millennium, as they were read in the eighteenth and nineteenth century: for aesthetic pleasure and for spiritual insight."
Bloom is never heavy, since his vision quest contains a healthy love of irony--Jedediah Purdy, take note: "Strip irony away from reading, and it loses at once all discipline and all surprise." And this supreme critic makes us want to equal his reading prowess because he writes as well as he reads; his epigrams are equal to his opinions. He is also a master allusionist and quoter. His section on Hedda Gabler is preceded by three extraordinary statements, two from Ibsen, who insists, "There must be a troll in what I write." Who would not want to proceed? Of course, Bloom can also accomplish his goal by sheer obstinacy. As far as he is concerned, Don Quixote may have been the first novel but it remains to this day the best one. Is he perhaps tweaking us into reading this gigantic masterwork by such bald overstatement? Bloom knows full well that a prophet should stop at nothing to get his belief and love across, and throughout How to Read and Why he is as unstinting as the visionary company he adores. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Italian Politics Todayby Hilary PartridgeISBN 071904944X (0-7190-4944-X)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074348276X (0-7434-8276-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King Learby Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare, Paul WerstineISBN 0743452941 (0-7434-5294-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:In "King Lear," one of Shakespeare's greatest and most enduring plays, an aging father's demand that his daughters publicly declare their love for him triggers a reaction that involves nations and brings suffering and death to his entire family. The play takes ordinary jealousies, demands for love, sibling rivalries, desires for money and power, and petty cruelties to the extreme. In this play, we see ourselves and our small vices magnified to gigantic proportions; also, through the character of Lear, we see the end of our lives, with old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, helplessness, pride, and finally, perhaps, wisdom.
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LIBRARY SHAKESPEAREDesigned to make Shakespeare's great plays available to all readers, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. Each play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater. Each play is followed by an annotated list of further readings and by a "Modern Perspective" written by an expert on that particular play. [via]
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The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dyingby Lynne Ann Despelder, Albert Lee StricklandISBN 0767421620 (0-7674-2162-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743477103 (0-7434-7710-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:Each edition includes:
" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Susan Snyder
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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- Macbeth: ISBN 0743482794 (0-7434-8279-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Macbeth: ISBN 0748702563 (0-7487-0256-3)
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Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc - Macbeth: ISBN 078077034X (0-7807-7034-X)
Hardcover, Perfection Learning - Macbeth: ISBN 0743477103 (0-7434-7710-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
- Macbeth: ISBN 0743482794 (0-7434-8279-4)
Magnetic Disk Drive Technology: Heads, Media, Channel, Interfaces, and Integrationby Kanu G. AsharISBN 0780310837 (0-7803-1083-7)
Hardcover, IEEE
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Mastering Windows Nt Server 4by Mark Minasi, Christa Anderson, Elizabeth CreeganISBN 0782119204 (0-7821-1920-4)
Softcover, Sybex Inc
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0743477545 (0-7434-7754-5)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Each edition includes:
" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Catherine Belsey
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby Alan DurbandISBN 0748702784 (0-7487-0278-4)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance of the plays is reinforced by sections discussing Shakespeare's life, works and theatre. Pupils are encouraged to understand the language, characters, structure and themes of the plays by completion of practical exercises. [via]
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Molecular Cell Biologyby Paul Matsudaira, Harvey Lodish, Arnold Berk, S. Lawrence Zipursky, James Darnell, Harvey F. Lodish, Chris A. Kaiser, Monty Krieger, Matthew P. ScottISBN 0716743663 (0-7167-4366-3)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Molecular Cell Biology'Book summary:Provides key-facts and concepts in the field of molecular cell biology. The book is divided into four parts, the first part introduces the basic biochemical and molecular concepts and describes the experimental techniques used throughout modern biology. The second focuses on the central activities of the gene: gene expression, gene regulation, and replication. The third offers current and comprehensive coverage of cell structure and biochemical action. The final part explores the frontiers of research in cancer biology, immunology and cell evolution. [via]
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Molecular Cell Biologyby Harvey Lodish, David Baltimore, Arnold BerkISBN 0716723808 (0-7167-2380-8)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Molecular Cell Biology'Book summary:This edition features: new chapters on recombinant DNA technology and genetic analysis, reflecting the major role of recombinant DNA and genetic techiques in modern cell biology; a new Chapter One that defines the book's organization and philosophy and its central dogma (that to understand cells you must understand proteins, and to understand proteins you must understand genes); a new chapter devoted solely to proteins; material on cell evolution now integrated throughout, instead of confined to a late chapter; discussions of new techniques, including electrophoretic mobility shift assays, DNA footprinting, gene replacement and transgenic animals, and role of sex lethal gene in sex determination of fruitflies; expanded coverage of developmental genetics, particularly regulation of genes in developmental processes (such as the biocoid gene); and a new part-opener, chapter-opener design. [via]
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0743477553 (0-7434-7755-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:Each edition includes:
" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Susan Snyder
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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- Othello: ISBN 0743482824 (0-7434-8282-4)
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Softcover, Coles Pub Group Ltd - Othello: ISBN 0743477553 (0-7434-7755-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
- Othello: ISBN 0743482824 (0-7434-8282-4)
Pascalby Chip Weems, Nell DaleISBN 0763703974 (0-7637-0397-4)
Softcover, Jones & Bartlett Pub
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Phlebotomy Essentialsby Ruth E. McCall, Cathee M. TankersleyISBN 0781734525 (0-7817-3452-5)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phlebotomy Essentials'Book summary:As an introduction to the collection and handling of blood specimens, this phlebotomy text provides a complete overview of A&P and places a strong emphasis on phlebotomy theory. Topics covered include standard precautions, transmission-based precautions, point-of-care testing, and procedure and safety equipment. An Instructor's Manual is also available. [via]
Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zeroby Phylis Morrison, Morrison, Philip and Morrison, Phylis, Office of Charles and Ray EamesISBN 0716760037 (0-7167-6003-7)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero'Book summary:What would you see if your vision could encompass as expanse of one billion light years? Or if you could peer inside the microscopic realm of the atom? Powers of Ten shows you. In fotry-two consecutive scenes, each at a different "power of ten" level of magnification, you'll travel from the breathtakingly vast to the extraordinarily small. [via]
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Powers of Ten : About the Relative Size of Things in the Universeby Philip Morrison, Phylis MorrisonISBN 0716760088 (0-7167-6008-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Powers of Ten : About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe'Book summary:Back in 1968, designers Charles and Ray Eames made a 10-minute documentary film, titled Powers of Ten, showing what the universe looks like at different scales. Philip and Phylis Morrison were scientific advisors on the movie, which Philip narrated, and it was chosen in 1998 for preservation in the National Film Registry, which selects "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant motion pictures" for preservation. The Morrisons' book translates the film onto paper.
Starting with a view of a billion light-years, the book (like the film) moves inward, with each page being at one-tenth the scale of the previous one. In 25 steps, you're looking at a picnic by the shores of Lake Michigan, then plunging into a human hand, down through the cells inside it, the DNA inside the cells, the atoms inside the DNA, and the subatomic particles inside the atom. By the time you've gone a total of 40 steps, you're in a world of quantum uncertainty.
There is no better guide to the relative sizes of things in the universe, and no better teacher about what exponential, scientific notation really means. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Quiet Americanby Graham GreeneISBN 0745117120 (0-7451-1712-0)
Hardcover, Curley Large Print
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Rapid Review Pathology: With Student Consult Accessby Edward F. GoljanISBN 0721670237 (0-7216-7023-7)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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Readings in Epistemologyby Crumley, Jack S., IIISBN 0767400097 (0-7674-0009-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Readings on One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichby Loreta MedinaISBN 0737705639 (0-7377-0563-9)
Softcover, Greenhaven Pr
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743477111 (0-7434-7711-1)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Nelson Thornes - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0764120859 (0-7641-2085-9)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc - Romeo And Juliet: ISBN 0735820902 (0-7358-2090-2)
Hardcover, North South Books - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0780770382 (0-7807-7038-2)
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Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1885)by Edwin ArnoldISBN 0766102491 (0-7661-0249-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1885)'Book summary:Being a Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the Form of Krishna. [via]
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Studying Children: An Introduction to Research Methodsby Ross VastaISBN 0716710676 (0-7167-1067-6)
Hardcover, W. H. Freeman
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The Sun Also Risesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0743297334 (0-7432-9733-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sun Also Rises'Book summary:The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.
Jake Barnes, Hemingway's narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafés, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fiancé and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he's a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands.
But what's most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation. --David Laskin [via]
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Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiologyby Connie Mahon, George ManuselisISBN 072167917X (0-7216-7917-X)
Hardcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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Tietz Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistryby Carl A. Burtis, Edward R. AshwoodISBN 0721686346 (0-7216-8634-6)
Hardcover, Elsevier Science Health Science div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tietz Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistry'Book summary:TIETZ FUNDAMENTALS OF CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, 5th Edition continues its tradition of accuracy and completeness for students as well as institutions. The authors have rewritten the chapters to read at a level more appropriate to less advanced students. At the same time they have incorporated the latest information. The result is a very up-to-date, accurate text. [via]
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The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialoguesby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0760762007 (0-7607-6200-7)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues'Book summary:"The European philosophical tradition. . .consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -- Alfred North Whitehead The dialogues of Plato stand alongside the Bible and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as foundational texts of Western civilization. The works of Plato collected under the title The Trial and Death of Socrates have been particularly influential. This is because they provide both an excellent point of entry into Plato's vast philosophy and a vivid portrait of Plato's mentor, Socrates - one of the most uncompromising intellectuals in the pantheon of human history. It is predominantly through Plato's account in these works of the words and actions of Socrates during his trial and execution for impiety that the latter's nobility and profound integrity have become known to succeeding generations. [via]
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Turing Omnibus: 61 Excursions in Computer Scienceby A. K. DewdneyISBN 0716781549 (0-7167-8154-9)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0760754942 (0-7607-5494-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcersby Robert M. SapolskyISBN 0716727188 (0-7167-2718-8)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers'Book summary:Why don't zebras get ulcers--or heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases--when people do? In a fascinating look at the science of stress, biologist Robert Sapolsky presents an intriguing case, that people develop such diseases partly because our bodies aren't designed for the constant stresses of a modern-day life--like sitting in daily traffic jams or growing up in poverty. Rather, they seem more built for the kind of short-term stress faced by a zebra--like outrunning a lion.
With wit, graceful writing, and a sprinkling of Far Side cartoons, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers makes understanding the science of stress an adventure in discovery. "This book is a primer about stress, stress-related disease, and the mechanisms of coping with stress. How is it that our bodies can adapt to some stressful emergencies, while other ones make us sick? Why are some of us especially vulnerable to stress-related diseases, and what does that have to do with our personalities?"
Sapolsky, a Stanford University neuroscientist, explores stress's role in heart disease, diabetes, growth retardation, memory loss, and autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. He cites tantalizing studies of hyenas, baboons, and rodents, as well as of people of different cultures, to vividly make his points. And Sapolsky concludes with a hopeful chapter, titled "Managing Stress." Although he doesn't subscribe to the school of thought that hope cures all disease, Sapolsky highlights the studies that suggest we do have some control over stress-related ailments, based on how we perceive the stress and the kinds of social support we have. [via]
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William Shakespeare's Macbethby Philip Page, Marilyn PetitISBN 0764131400 (0-7641-3140-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare's Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Wordplay: The Philosophy, Art, & Science Of Ambigramsby John LangdonISBN 0767920759 (0-7679-2075-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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World Geographyby Karin KinneyISBN 0783513550 (0-7835-1355-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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501 Spanish Verbsby Christopher Kendris, Theodore KendrisISBN 0764124285 (0-7641-2428-5)
Softcover, Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: '501 Spanish Verbs'Book summary:With more than 1 million copies in print, the new, updated edition of this all-time best selling language book of Spanish verbs is now printed in two colors for increased ease of reference. The most important and most commonly used Spanish verbs are presented alphabetically in chart form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all persons and tenses, both active and passive. This thorough guide to the use of verbs features many additional references and tips, including a bilingual list of more than 1,250 additional Spanish verbs, helpful expressions and idioms for travelers, and verb drills and tests with answers explained at the back of the book. [via]
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Cinquieme Emploiby Robertson DaviesISBN 0775300586 (0-7753-0058-6)
Hardcover, Cercle Du Livre De France
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