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1984by Thomas Pynchon, Erich Fromm, George OrwellISBN 0452284236 (0-452-28423-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Unionby David SatterISBN 0300087055 (0-300-08705-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Age of Extremes : 1914-1991by Eric J. HobsbawnISBN 0394585755 (0-394-58575-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, Ann PatchettISBN 0452284244 (0-452-28424-4)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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The Book of Laughter and Forgettingby Milan Kundera, Aaron AsherISBN 0060932147 (0-06-093214-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting'Book summary:In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0140059245 (0-14-005924-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0140096930 (0-14-009693-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ISBN 0394508963 (0-394-50896-3)
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Brave New World Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous Huxley, Christopher HitchensISBN 0060776099 (0-06-077609-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World Brave New World Revisited'Book summary:When the novel "Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.
Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. "Brave New World Revisited" is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late. [via]
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Bread and Wineby Ignazio SiloneISBN 0451525000 (0-451-52500-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Bread and Wineby Eric Mosbacher, Ignazio SiloneISBN 0451529782 (0-451-52978-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bread and Wine'Book summary:One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy.
Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war. [via]More editions of Bread and Wine:
Christ Stopped at Eboliby Carlo Levi, Frances FrenayeISBN 0374503168 (0-374-50316-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Yearby Frances FrenayeISBN 0374530092 (0-374-53009-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Conversations With Stalinby Milovan DjilasISBN 0156225913 (0-15-622591-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Crises of the Republicby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156232006 (0-15-623200-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crises of the Republic'Book summary:A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.[via]More editions of Crises of the Republic:
Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience on Violence, Thoughts on Politics, and Revolutionby Hannah ArendtISBN 0151230951 (0-15-123095-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Dictatorships and Double Standards: Rationalism and Reason in Politicsby American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Jeane J. KirkpatrickISBN 0671438360 (0-671-43836-0)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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El Asaltoby Reinaldo ArenasISBN 8483102269 (84-8310-226-9)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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El Castilloby Franz KafkaISBN 8471665565 (84-7166-556-5)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Castillo'Book summary:El castillo es una novela de Franz Kafka. Publicada póstumamente, se trata de una obra inconclusa que Kafka había empezado a escribir en enero de 1922.
Su protagonista, conocido solamente como K., lucha para acceder a las misteriosas autoridades de un castillo que gobierna el pueblo al cual K. ha llegado a trabajar como agrimensor. En líneas generales, El castillo trata sobre la alienación, la burocracia, y la frustración, aparentemente interminable, de los intentos de un hombre de oponerse al sistema.
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El Contrato Social / the Social Agreementby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 8484034518 (84-8403-451-8)
Softcover, Edimat Libros
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Contrato Social / the Social Agreement'Book summary:Segun Rousseau, los hombres ceden mediante el contrato social el derecho ilimitado a todo cuanto les apetece. El clásico de este maestro en una edición espectacular y accesible. [via]
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Europe Central: Library Editionby William T. VollmannISBN 0143036599 (0-14-303659-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Finding George Orwell In Burmaby Emma LarkinISBN 0143037110 (0-14-303711-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding George Orwell In Burma'Book summary:A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of george orwell in southeast asia over the years the american writer emma larkin has spent traveling in burma, also known as myanmar, she's come to know all too well the many ways this brutal police state can be described as "orwellian." the life of the mind exists in a state of siege in burma, and it long has. But burma's connection to george orwell is not merely metaphorical; it is much deeper and more real. Orwell's mother was born in burma, at the height of the british raj, and orwell was fundamentally shaped by his experiences in burma as a young man working for the british imperial police. When orwell died, the novel-in-progress on his desk was set in burma. It is the place george orwell's work holds in burma today, however, that most struck emma larkin. She was frequently told by burmese acquaintances that orwell did not write one book about their country - his first novel, burmese days - but in fact he wrote three, the "trilogy" that included animal farm and nineteen eighty-four. When larkin quietly asked one burmese intellectual if he knew the work of george orwell, he stared blankly for a moment and then said, "ah, you mean the prophet!" in one of the most intrepid political travelogues in recent memory, emma larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through burma using the life and work of george orwell as her compass. Going from mandalay and rangoon to poor delta backwaters and up to the old hill-station towns in the mountains of burma's far north, larkin visits the places where orwell worked and lived, and the places his books live still. She brings to vivid life a country and a people cut off from the rest of the world, and from one another, by the ruling military junta and its vast network of spies and informers. Using orwell enables her to show, effortlessly, the weight of the colonial experience on burma today, the ghosts of which are invisible and everywhere. [via]
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Hitlerby Ian KershawISBN 0582437563 (0-582-43756-3)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler'Book summary:How could such an unprepossessing figure as Adolf Hitler gain control of the machinery of a complex modern state? Why -- contrary to all expectations -- was his authority not curtailed by the traditional ruling classes and constitutional constraints? This innovative study of Hitler's political life addresses these problems by focusing directly upon the nature and mechanics, the character and exercise of Hitler's dictatorial power. This is a powerful piece of analysis that belies its relatively modest dimensions. It will be invaluable to students and teachers of German and world history, and politics, as well as the interested general reader. [via]
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Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubrisby Ian KershawISBN 0393320359 (0-393-32035-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris'Book summary:Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness.From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in this century. Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit in his thirty-year ascent from a Viennese shelter for the indigent to uncontested rule over the German nation that had tried and rejected democracy in the crippling aftermath of World War I. With extraordinary vividness, Kershaw recreates the settings that made Hitler's rise possible: the virulent anti-Semitism of prewar Vienna, the crucible of a war with immense casualties, the toxic nationalism that gripped Bavaria in the 1920s, the undermining of the Weimar Republic by extremists of the Right and the Left, the hysteria that accompanied Hitler's seizure of power in 1933 and then mounted in brutal attacks by his storm troopers on Jews and others condemned as enemies of the Aryan race. In an account drawing on many previously untapped sources, Hitler metamorphoses from an obscure fantasist, a "drummer" sounding an insistent beat of hatred in Munich beer halls, to the instigator of an infamous failed putsch and, ultimately, to the leadership of a ragtag alliance of right-wing parties fused into a movement that enthralled the German people.This volume, the first of two, ends with the promulgation of the infamous Nuremberg laws that pushed German Jews to the outer fringes of society, and with the march of the German army into the Rhineland, Hitler's initial move toward the abyss of war. Black-and-white photos throughout [via]
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Homage to Cataloniaby George OrwellISBN 0156421178 (0-15-642117-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homage to Catalonia'Book summary:"I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets." Most war correspondents observe wars and then tell stories about the battles, the soldiers and the civilians. George Orwell--novelist, journalist, sometime socialist--actually traded his press pass for a uniform and fought against Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War during 1936 and 1937. He put his politics and his formidable conscience to the toughest tests during those days in the trenches in the Catalan section of Spain. Then, after nearly getting killed, he went back to England and wrote a gripping account of his experiences, as well as a complex analysis of the political machinations that led to the defeat of the socialist Republicans and the victory of the Fascists. [via]
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Inside the Third Reichby Albert SpeerISBN 002037500X (0-02-037500-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside the Third Reich'Book summary:From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their 1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues to provide one of the most detailed and fascinating portrayals of life within Hitler's inner circles, the rise and fall of the third German empire, and of Hitler himself.
Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. Speer's recollections of both duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic, imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. Throughout, Inside the Third Reich remains true to its author's intentions. With compelling insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's holding unrestricted power in his hands." -- Bertina Loeffler [via]
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Inside the Third Reichby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517385791 (0-517-38579-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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La Broma / The Jokeby Milan KunderaISBN 8432216283 (84-322-1628-3)
Softcover, Seix Barral
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Broma / The Joke'Book summary:La broma es la novela de un amor, pero se trata también de la novela de una broma extraviada en un mundo que ha perdido el sentido del humor. Una chanza fútil y mal comprendida ha roto la vida de Ludvik, aterrado al advertir que su tragedia personal quedará para siempre adherida al ridículo de un chiste. [via]
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The Language of the 3rd Reich: Lti - Lingua Tertii Imperii A Philologist's Notebookby Martin Brady, Victor KlempererISBN 0485115263 (0-485-11526-3)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of the 3rd Reich: Lti - Lingua Tertii Imperii A Philologist's Notebook'Book summary:A Jewish professor of Roman studies, Victor Klemperer lived throughout the Nazi period in conditions of great deprivation and, intermittently, of deadly peril. This text is a linguistic diary kept secretly by Klemperer from 1933-45 in which he recorded the characteristic literary forms and usages of the Nazi regime and analysed the impact of Nazism of German language, life and culture. [via]
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Lenin: A New Biographyby VolkogonovISBN 0029334357 (0-02-933435-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lenin: A New Biography'Book summary:The special assistant to Boris Yeltsin radically alters the traditional image of Lenin with a biography based on secret Soviet archives, revealing the Founding Father as a cruel, totalitarian leader who was responsible for the worst excesses of the Soviet state. [via]
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Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? in Contextby Lars T. LihISBN 9004131205 (90-04-13120-5)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? in Context'Book summary:Lenin's "What is to Be Done?" (1902) has long been seen as the founding document of a 'party of a new type'. For some, it provided a model of 'vanguard party' that was the essence of Bolshevism, for others it manifested Lenin's elitist and manipulatory attitude towards the workers. This substantial new commentary, based on contemporary Russian- and German-language sources, provides hitherto unavailable contextual information that undermines these views and shows how Lenin's argument rests squarely on an optimistic confidence in the workers' revolutionary inclinations and on his admiration of German Social Democracy in particular. Lenin's outlook cannot be understood, Lih claims here, outside the context of international Social Democracy, the disputes within Russian Social Democracy and the institutions of the revolutionary underground. The new translation focuses attention on hard-to-translate key terms. This study raises new and unsettling questions about the legacy of Marx, Bolshevism as a historical force, and the course of Soviet history, but, most of all, it will revolutionise the conventional interpretations of Lenin. [via]
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The Life of the Mindby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156519925 (0-15-651992-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of the Mind'Book summary:The authors final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of mans mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices.[via]More editions of The Life of the Mind:
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Life of the Mind: Thinkingby Hannah ArendtISBN 0151518955 (0-15-151895-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth, and Dissolutionby P. S. Falla, Leszek KoakowskiISBN 0198245475 (0-19-824547-5)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdownby P. S. Falla, Leszek Kolakowski, Leszek KoakowskiISBN 0393060543 (0-393-06054-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown'Book summary:From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly infuential study of Marxism. Written in exile, this 'prophetic work' presents, according to the Library of Congress, 'the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure, and posthumous development of the system of thought that had the greatest impact on the twentieth century'. Kolakowski traces the intellectual foundations of Marxist thought from Plotonius through Lenin, Lukacs, Sartre and Mao. He reveals Marxism to be 'the greatest fantasy of our century ...an idea that began in Promethean humanism and culminated in the monstrous tyranny of Stalinism'. In a brilliant coda, he examines the collapse of international Communism in light of the last tumultuous decades. Main Currents of Marxism remains the indispensable book in its field. [via]
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Mao: The Unknown Storyby Jung Chang, Jon HallidayISBN 0679422714 (0-679-42271-4)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mao: The Unknown Story'Book summary:In the epilogue to her biography of Mao Tse-tung, Jung Chang and her husband and cowriter Jon Halliday lament that, "Today, Mao's portrait and his corpse still dominate Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital." For Chang, author of Wild Swans, this fact is an affront, not just to history, but to decency. Mao: The Unknown Story does not contain a formal dedication, but it is clear that Chang is writing to honor the millions of Chinese who fell victim to Mao's drive for absolute power in his 50-plus-year struggle to dominate China and the 20th-century political landscape. From the outset, Chang and Halliday are determined to shatter the "myth" of Mao, and they succeed with the force, not just of moral outrage, but of facts. The result is a book, more indictment than portrait, that paints Mao as a brutal totalitarian, a thug, who unleashed Stalin-like purges of millions with relish and without compunction, all for his personal gain. Through the authors' unrelenting lens even his would-be heroism as the leader of the Long March and father of modern China is exposed as reckless opportunism, subjecting his charges to months of unnecessary hardship in order to maintain the upper hand over his rival, Chang Kuo-tao, an experienced military commander.
Using exhaustive research in archives all over the world, Chang and Halliday recast Mao's ascent to power and subsequent grip on China in the context of global events. Sino-Soviet relations, the strengths and weakness of Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese invasion of China, World War II, the Korean War, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, the vicious Cultural Revolution, the Vietnam War, Nixon's visit, and the constant, unending purges all, understandably, provide the backdrop for Mao's unscrupulous but invincible political maneuverings and betrayals. No one escaped unharmed. Rivals, families, peasants, city dwellers, soldiers, and lifelong allies such as Chou En-lai were all sacrificed to Mao's ambition and paranoia. Appropriately, the authors' consciences are appalled. Their biggest fear is that Mao will escape the global condemnation and infamy he deserves. Their astonishing book will go a long way to ensure that the pendulum of history will adjust itself accordingly. --Silvana Tropea [via]
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Memoirs Found in a Bathtubby Stanisaw LemISBN 0156585855 (0-15-658585-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs Found in a Bathtub'Book summary:The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose.[via]More editions of Memoirs Found in a Bathtub:
The Portable Hannah Arendtby Ed. Peter BaehrISBN 0142437565 (0-14-243756-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Portable Hannah Arendtby Hannah Arendt, Peter R. BaehrISBN 0140269746 (0-14-026974-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Probability Broachby L. Neil SmithISBN 034528593X (0-345-28593-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Agesby Norman CohnISBN 0195004566 (0-19-500456-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages'Book summary:At the end of the first millennium A.D., itinerant preachers crisscrossed Europe warning that the end of the world was nigh. Hundreds of thousands of people took heed, joining religious cults and anti-governmental militias in preparation for the coming war between good and evil. (If this sounds familiar, it is proof only that history is cyclical.) During this heady time, Europe exploded in religious war, peasant revolts and sectarian strife, marked by the first large-scale massacres of Jews and gypsies, the first inklings of inquisitions and holy crusades. Norman Cohn, a masterful writer and interpreter, carefully explores this extraordinary period in European history in a book that bears rereading as our own millennium approaches its end. [via]
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The Road to Serfdomby F. A. Hayek, Bruce CaldwellISBN 0226320553 (0-226-32055-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition'Book summary:[via]An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist programThe Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Readers Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century.
With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Hayek's enduring masterwork.More editions of The Road to Serfdom:
- The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0415253896 (0-415-25389-6)
Softcover, Routledge - The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0226320545 (0-226-32054-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0226320596 (0-226-32059-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0415255430 (0-415-25543-0)
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Softcover, University of Chicago Press - The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0226320774 (0-226-32077-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0226320553 (0-226-32055-3)
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- The Road to Serfdom: ISBN 0415253896 (0-415-25389-6)
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The Road to Serfdom: The Condensed Version As It Appeared in the April 1945 Edition of Reader's Digestby Friedrich A. Hayek, Edwin J. Feulner, John BlundellISBN 0255365306 (0-255-36530-6)
Softcover, Inst of Economic Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to Serfdom: The Condensed Version As It Appeared in the April 1945 Edition of Reader's Digest'Book summary:In the last years of World War II, Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom. He warned the allies that policy proposals which were being canvassed for the post-war world ran the risk of destroying the very freedom for which they were fighting. On the basis of 'as in war, so in peace', economists and others were arguing that the government should plan all economic activity. Such planning, Hayek argued, would be incompatible with liberty, and had been at the very heart of the movements that had established both communism and Nazism.
On its publication in 1944, the book caused a sensation. Neither its British nor its American publisher could keep up with demand, owing to wartime paper rationing. Then, in 1945, Reader's Digest published The Road to Serfdom as the condensed book in its April edition. For the first and still the only time, the condensed book was placed at the front of the magazine instead of the back. Hayek found himself a celebrity, addressing a mass market.
The condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 and has been reissued to meet the continuing demand for its enduringly relevant and accessible message. [via]
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Russia under the Bolshevik Regime : Lenin and the Birth of the Totalitarian Stateby Richard PipesISBN 0394502426 (0-394-50242-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russia under the Bolshevik Regime : Lenin and the Birth of the Totalitarian State'Book summary:Ranging from the Bolshevik takeover in 1918 to the 1924 death of Lenin, the sequel to The Russian Revolution explores the formative years of the Soviet Union under communism and examines the impact of Bolshevik leaders and period events on the USSR. 17,500 first printing. [via]
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Son of the Revolutionby Heng Liang, Judith Shapiro, Jerome A. CohenISBN 039452568X (0-394-52568-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Son of the Revolution'Book summary:An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution. [via]
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Son of the Revolutionby Judith Shapiro, Liang Heng, Heng LiangISBN 0394722744 (0-394-72274-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991by Martin E. MaliaISBN 0029197953 (0-02-919795-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Spandau: The Secret Diariesby Albert SpeerISBN 0002167638 (0-00-216763-8)
Hardcover, Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spandau: The Secret Diaries'Book summary:He served as Hitler's architect, the undisputed master of the German war machine, and the one responsible for conscripted foreign labor in the Third Reich. And, when Albert Speer was captured and sentenced at Nuremberg--after becoming the only defendant to plead guilty--he started keeping this secret diary, much of it on toilet paper. After 20 years of imprisonment, he found 25,000 of the smuggled pages waiting for him, and from those entries he shaped this deeply powerful document. "Albert Speer's book is a deeply moving document. It is also of extraordinary political and psychological interest...a must for anyone interested in psychological motivation of political action and the problem of guilt and repentance. But, beyond this it is so fascinatingly written that I could not put it down before I finished it." --Erich Fromm.[via]
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Stalin: A Political Biographyby Isaac DeutscherISBN 0195002733 (0-19-500273-3)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalin: A Political Biography'Book summary:Firmly established as the standard Stalin biography, Deutscher's volume clearly demonstrates the forces that shaped this leader and the political scene of his time. [via]
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Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparisonby Ian Kershaw, Moshe LewinISBN 0521565219 (0-521-56521-9)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalinism and Nazism : Dictatorships in Comparison'Book summary:An internationally distinguished team of historians of Nazism and Stalinism provide a summary of the most up-to-date research and offer new perspectives on issues linking the two most terrible dictatorships of modernity. Three selected themes are explored: the leadership cults of Hitler and Stalin; the "war machines" engaged in the deadly clash of 1941 to 1945; and the ways in which interpretations of the past have shifted in Germany and Russia since the demise of the dictatorships. [via]
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Totalitarianism and the Modern Conception of Politicsby Michael HalberstamISBN 0300071809 (0-300-07180-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Wild Swansby Jung ChangISBN 0002153572 (0-00-215357-2)
Hardcover, Harper Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Swans'Book summary:Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China. At times scarcely credible in the details it reveals of the suffering of millions of ordinary Chinese people, it is an unforgettable record of tyranny, hope and ultimate survival under conditions of extreme harshness. In 1924, at the age of 15, the author's grandmother became the concubine of a powerful warlord, whom she was seldom to see during the 10 years of their "marriage". Her daughter, born in 1931, experienced the horrors of Japanese occupation in Manchuria as a schoolgirl, and after their surrender joined the Communist-led underground fighting Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang. She rose to be a senior Communist official, but was imprisoned three times. Her husband, also a high official and one of the very first to join the Communists, was relentlessly persecuted, imprisoned and finally sent to a labour camp where, physically broken and disillusioned, he lost his sanity. The author herself grew up during the Cultural Revolution, at the time of the personality cult of Mao and the worst excesses of the Gang of Four. She joined the Red Guard but after Mao's death she was to become one of the first Chinese students to study abroad. [via]
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of Chinaby Jung ChangISBN 0385425473 (0-385-42547-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China'Book summary:In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents. [via]
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Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968by Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Blucher, Ltte Kohler, Peter ConstantineISBN 0151003033 (0-15-100303-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968'Book summary:Here is the life story of two exceptional people, two Germans who fled their country for different reasons. It is the story of their life in exile in Paris and in New York, their dependence on each other and deepening love, their continued exchange of ideas, Arendt's teaching and writing, her involvement with Jewish life in Europe and in Israel, and Blucher's years at The New School and at Bard College. It is also an important document of the '30s in Germany and France, of World War II, and the post-war life in ravaged European cities. Meanwhile, there is love of food and drink, and of friendship-both intellectual and affectionate-with Karl Jaspers, Mary McCarthy, Alfred Kazin, and the complex relationship with Martin Heidegger and his wife. Within Four Walls is an extraordinary personal and historical record.[via]More editions of Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1936-1968:
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A Wrinkle in Time: Library Editionby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0312367546 (0-312-36754-6)
Softcover, Feiwel & Friends
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition'Book summary:Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg and Charles Wallace, along with their new friend Calvin, embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time.
Young people who have trouble finding their place in the world will connect with the "misfit" characters in this provocative story. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep into their characters to find answers.
A classic since 1962, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg's shattering yet ultimately freeing discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - A Wrinkle in Time: ISBN 0395771544 (0-395-77154-4)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin - A Wrinkle in Time: ISBN 0613723023 (0-613-72302-3)
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Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - A Wrinkle in Time: ISBN 0440228395 (0-440-22839-5)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books - A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440498058 (0-440-49805-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440800544 (0-440-80054-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books - A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440998050 (0-440-99805-0)
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Yo El Supremoby Augusto Roa BastosISBN 8437604222 (84-376-0422-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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El Hombre En El Castilloby Philip K. DickISBN 8445072420 (84-450-7242-0)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El hombre rebeldeby Albert CamusISBN 8420672386 (84-206-7238-6)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Intelectualesby Paul Johnson, Clotilde RezzanoISBN 9501509982 (950-15-0998-2)
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Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8476696310 (84-7669-631-0)
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Leer Lolita En Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8496333159 (84-96333-15-9)
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Liquidacion/liquidationby Imre KerteszISBN 8466314865 (84-663-1486-5)
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El Mito De Hitler: Imagen Y Realidad En El Tercer Reichby Ian KershawISBN 8449314887 (84-493-1488-7)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Mito De Hitler: Imagen Y Realidad En El Tercer Reich'Book summary:Pocos dirigentes políticos del siglo XX han disfrutado de mayor popularidad que Hitler, entre su propia gente, durante los años treinta y cuarenta. La fascinación que emanaba de su figura estaba basada en las esperanzas de los millones de personas que lo idolatraban y creían en él. Su magnetismo radicaba menos en los extraños y arcanos preceptos de la ideología nazi que en ciertos valores sociales y políticos reconocibles en muchas sociedades distintas a la de la Alemania del Tercer Reich. En este libro, Ian Kershaw cartografía la creación, la ascensión y la caída del mito de Hitler a partir de todos estos elementos. El autor demuestra de qué modo el culto creado en torno al Führer constituyó una fuerza integradora crucial para el Tercer Reich, así como un elemento vital para la consecución de los objetivos políticos nazis. Cima de las más perversas técnicas de propaganda, luego más cautelosamente utilizadas por el poder político y militar, la deificación de Hitler efectuada por los nazis en el contexto de un moderno Estado industrial conlleva un siniestro mensaje para nuestro presente. [via]
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La rebelion del atlas/ The Rebellion of the Atlasby Ayn RandISBN 9872095116 (987-20951-1-6)
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La Sociedad Abierta y Sus Enemigosby Karl R. PopperISBN 8475090990 (84-7509-099-0)
Hardcover, Ediciones Paidos Iberica, S.A.
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