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1984by George Orwell, Mike DeanISBN 0582777313 (0-582-77731-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Orwell's classic novel tells the story of a world where thoughts and actions are controlled by the all-seeing Big Brother. When Winston Smith rebels and searches for the truth he learns a painful lesson about his world and the people in it. Also a powerful film directed by Michael Radford. [via]
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The 6th Lamentationby William BrodrickISBN 0670031917 (0-670-03191-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 6th Lamentation'Book summary:Larkwood Priory, England: Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world has turned against him? Anselm's response: claim sanctuary. But the answer sets off more trouble than he ever could have imagined when the man returns, demanding the protection of the Church. He is Eduard Schwermann, a suspected Nazi war criminal. Agnes Aubret has unburdened a secret to her granddaughter Lucy. Fifty years earlier, Agnes was in occupied Paris, risking her life to smuggle Jewish children to safety-until her group was exposed by an SS officer: Eduard Schwermann. Not only has the Church granted Schwermann sanctuary before; in 1944 it helped him escape from France to begin a new life in Britain. As Anselm attempts to find out why and as Lucy delves deeper into her grandmother's past, their investigations dovetail to form a remarkable story. William Brodrick makes a dazzling debut in this literary thriller where two seemingly unconnected lives gradually, shockingly converge. Brodrick, himself a former Augustinian friar, is a master of precision plotting, morally complex characterization, and crisp historical re-creation. In Father Anselm, Brodrick has crafted a unique and compelling hero. And The 6th Lamentation promises to be the literary thriller discovery of the season. [via]
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Alfred Tarski: Life and Logicby Solomon Feferman, Anita Burdman FefermanISBN 0521802407 (0-521-80240-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic'Book summary:Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His mathematical work on the concepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones of modern logic, influencing developments in philosophy, linguistics and computer science. Tarski was a charismatic teacher and zealous promoter of his view of logic as the foundation of all rational thought, a bon-vivant and a womanizer, who played the 'great man' to the hilt. Born in Warsaw in 1901 to Jewish parents, he changed his name and converted to Catholicism, but was never able to obtain a professorship in his home country. A fortuitous trip to the United States at the outbreak of war saved his life and turned his career around, even while it separated him from his family for years. By the war's end he was established as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. There Tarski built an empire in logic and methodology that attracted students and distinguished researchers from all over the world. From the cafes of Warsaw and Vienna to the mountains and deserts of California, this first full length biography places Tarski in the social, intellectual and historical context of his times and presents a frank, vivid picture of a personally and professionally passionate man, interlaced with an account of his major scientific achievements. [via]
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Alice Walkerby Alice WalkerISBN 0671922548 (0-671-92254-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0553204548 (0-553-20454-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby Aristotle, Roger CrispISBN 0521635462 (0-521-63546-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Being and Time : A Translation of Sein und Zeitby Martin HeideggerISBN 0631197702 (0-631-19770-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Beyond the Limits of Thoughtby Graham PriestISBN 0521454204 (0-521-45420-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Bonhoeffer And King: Speaking Truth To Powerby J. Deotis RobertsISBN 0664226523 (0-664-22652-3)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 0671019074 (0-671-01907-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color Purple'Book summary:Winner of the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize, "The Color Purple" established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. Her unforgettable portrait of Celie and her friends, family, and lovers is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, "The Color Purple" is a classic of American literature. [via]
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The Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predicationby Andrew NewmanISBN 0521811392 (0-521-81139-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Demianby Hermann HesseISBN 0553262467 (0-553-26246-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learnedby Kenneth C. DavisISBN 0606301119 (0-606-30111-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essaysby Willard V. QuineISBN 0674323513 (0-674-32351-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Genesis of Doctrine: A Study in the Foundations of Doctrinal Criticismby Alister E. McGrathISBN 0631166580 (0-631-16658-0)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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George Orwell's 1984by Ralph A. RanaldISBN 067100719X (0-671-00719-X)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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The God Delusionby Richard DawkinsISBN 0618680004 (0-618-68000-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The God Delusion'Book summary:A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.[via]
With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.More editions of The God Delusion:
Heidegger's Concept of Truthby Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Robert B. PippinISBN 0521643171 (0-521-64317-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Inherit the Windby Jerome LawrenceISBN 0553254359 (0-553-25435-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Rightby Al FrankenISBN 0525947647 (0-525-94764-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right'Book summary:Having previously dissected the factual inaccuracies of a single bellicose talk show host in Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken takes his fight to a larger foe: President George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Ann Coulter, Bill OReilly, and scores of other conservatives whom, he says, are playing loose with the facts. It's a lot of ground to cover, as evidenced by the 43 chapters in Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, but the results are often entertaining and insightful. Franken occupies a unique place in the modern political dialogue as perhaps the media's only comedy writer and performer who is also a Harvard fellow as well as a liberal political commentator. This unique and vaguely lonely position lends a charming quixotic quality to adventures such as a tense encounter with the Fox News staff at the National Press Club, a challenge to fisticuffs with National Review Editor Rich Lowry, and an oddly sweet admissions visit to ultra-conservative Bob Jones University (with a young research assistant posing as his son when Franken's real-life son refuses to participate in the charade). Less useful are comic book dramatizations of "Supply Side Jesus" and a fictitious Vietnam War story featuring the numerous righties who, Franken intimates, improperly avoided service. And Franken's criticisms of conservative talk show hosts Sean Hannity, OReilly, and columnist Coulter, while admirable in their attention to detail, fail to shed much new light on people who have built careers on broad arguments and relentless self-aggrandizement. But Franken is at his best, and most compellingly readable, when he backs off the wackiness and the personal grudges and writes about more personal matters such as the political circus surrounding the memorial service of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. But even on these more serious topics, Franken's wit is still present and, in fact, grows sharper. In a time when much political discourse is composed of rage and shouting, it's refreshing that Al Franken is able to shout in a witty manner. --John Moe [via]
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The Logical Basis of Metaphysicsby Michael A. E. DummettISBN 0674537866 (0-674-53786-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitmentby Robert B. BrandomISBN 0674543300 (0-674-54330-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn'T, and Whyby Kenneth L. WoodwardISBN 0671747436 (0-671-74743-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Methods of Logicby W.V. QuineISBN 0674571762 (0-674-57176-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Methods of Logic'Book summary:This widely used textbook of modern formal logic now offers a number of new features. Incorporating updated notations, selective answers to exercises, expanded treatment of natural deduction, and new discussions of predicate- functor logic and the affinities between higher set theory and the elementary logic of terms, Quine's new edition will serve admirably both for classroom and for independent use.
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Mind and Worldby John Henry McDowellISBN 0674576101 (0-674-57610-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind and World'Book summary:Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore.
John McDowell amply illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy--the insidious persistence of dualism--in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as we would like to conceive empirical thought as rationally grounded in experience, pitfalls await anyone who tries to articulate this position, and McDowell exposes these traps by exploiting the work of contemporary philosophers from Wilfrid Sellars to Donald Davidson. These difficulties, he contends, reflect an understandable--but surmountable--failure to see how we might integrate what Sellars calls the logical space of reasons" into the natural world. What underlies this impasse is a conception of nature that has certain attractions for the modern age, a conception that McDowell proposes to put aside, thus circumventing these philosophical difficulties. By returning to a pre-modern conception of nature but retaining the intellectual advance of modernity that has mistakenly been viewed as dislodging it, he makes room for a fully satisfying conception of experience as a rational openness to independent reality. This approach also overcomes other obstacles that impede a generally satisfying understanding of how we are placed in the world.
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Monarch Notes on Warren's All the King's Menby George B. GerhardISBN 0671006975 (0-671-00697-5)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purposeby Eckhart TolleISBN 0525948023 (0-525-94802-3)
Hardcover, E P Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose'Book summary:Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.
Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one.
In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly arewhich is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we areand learn to live and breathe freely. [via]
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0553208071 (0-553-20807-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night'Book summary:Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography. Like Wiesel himself, the protagonist of Night is a scholarly, pious teenager racked with guilt at having survived the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. [via]
Paradoxesby R. M. SainsburyISBN 0521483476 (0-521-48347-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evilby Morgan Scott PeckISBN 0671528165 (0-671-52816-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Philosophical Investigationsby Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. AnscombeISBN 0631146709 (0-631-14670-9)
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Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, With a Revised English Translationby G. E. M. Anscombe, Ludwig WittgenssteinISBN 0631231277 (0-631-23127-7)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translationby Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. AnscombeISBN 0631231595 (0-631-23159-5)
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Philosophical Investigations/Philosophische Untersuchungenby Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. AnscombeISBN 0631205691 (0-631-20569-1)
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The Philosophy of Logicby W.V. QuineISBN 0674665635 (0-674-66563-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Philosophy of Logic'Book summary:With his customary incisiveness, W. V. Quine presents logic as the product of two factors, truth and grammar--but argues against the doctrine that the logical truths are true because of grammar or language. Rather, in presenting a general theory of grammar and discussing the boundaries and possible extensions of logic, Quine argues that logic is not a mere matter of words. [via]
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Philosophy of Mathematics: An Anthologyby Dale JacquetteISBN 063121870X (0-631-21870-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Pigmanby Paul ZindelISBN 0553253972 (0-553-25397-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pigman'Book summary:For sophomores John and Lorraine, the world feels meaningless; nothing is important. They certainly can never please their parents, and school is a chore. To pass the time, they play pranks on unsuspecting people. It's during one of these pranks that they meet the "Pigman"--a fat, balding old man with a zany smile plastered on his face. In spite of themselves, John and Lorraine soon find that they're caught up in Mr. Pignati's zest for life. In fact, they become so involved that they begin to destroy the only corner of the world that's ever mattered to them. Originally published in 1968, this novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel still sings with sharp emotion as John and Lorraine come to realize that "Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less." [via]
Poems: Including Varient Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscriptsby Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. JohnsonISBN 0674676009 (0-674-67600-9)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0674676017 (0-674-67601-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but in universals--an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world.
Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk--an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.
Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem--usually the latest version of the entire poem--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.
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The Poems Of Emily Dickinson: Reading Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 0674018249 (0-674-01824-9)
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 067467622X (0-674-67622-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition'Book summary:Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a desk drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the day, Walt Whitman, but in universals. As she knowingly put it: "There is one thing to be grateful for--that one is one's self and not somebody else."
Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer--an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Her family sought publication of Dickinson's poetry over the years, selecting verses, often altering her words or her punctuation, until, in 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas H. Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Now, after many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive edition is available. This three-volume work contains 1,789 poems, the largest number ever assembled. The poems, arranged chronologically, based on new dating, are drawn from a range of archives, most frequently from holographs, but also from various secondary sources representing lost manuscripts. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Franklin gives Dickinson's alternative readings for the poems, her revisions, and the line and page, or column, divisions in the source. Each entry identifies Franklin's editorial emendations and records the publication history, including variants. Fourteen appendices of tables and lists give additional information, including poems attributed to Emily Dickinson. The poems are indexed by numbers from the Johnson edition, as well as by first lines.
Franklin has provided an introduction that serves as a guide to this edition and surveys the history of the editing of Dickinson's poems. His account of how Dickinson conducted her workshop is a reconstruction of a remarkable poetic life.
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0553213105 (0-553-21310-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Softcover, Scholastic - Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 0521825148 (0-521-82514-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Pride And Prejudice: ISBN 0531169944 (0-531-16994-4)
Hardcover, Franklin Watts - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0563371900 (0-563-37190-0)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0671006010 (0-671-00601-0)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0521576547 (0-521-57654-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0525183817 (0-525-18381-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0606019332 (0-606-01933-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Pride and Prejudice: ISBN 0553213105 (0-553-21310-5)
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The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 064626642X (0-646-26642-X)
Softcover, Phone Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prophet'Book summary:In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Pursuit of Truthby W.V. QuineISBN 0674739515 (0-674-73951-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pursuit of Truth'Book summary:In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: "In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge?'
The pursuit of truth is a quest that links observation, theory, and the world. Various faulty efforts to forge such links have led to much intellectual confusion. Quine's efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and omega ofthe scientific enterprise. Notions like "idea" and "meaning" are vague, but a sentence-now there's something you can sink your teeth into.
Starting thus with sentences, Quine sketches an epistemological setting for the pursuit of truth. He proceeds to show how reification and reference contribute to the elaborate structure that can indeed relate science to its sensory evidence.In this book Quine both summarizes and moves ahead. Rich, lively chapters dissect his major concerns-evidence, reference, meaning, intension, and truth. "Some points;' he writes, "have become clearer in my mind in the eight years since Theories and Things. Some that were already clear in my mind have become clearer on paper. And there are some that have meanwhile undergone substantive change for the better." This is a key book for understanding the effort that a major philosopher has made a large part of his life's work: to naturalize epistemology in the twentieth century. The book is concise and elegantly written, as one would expect, and does not assume the reader's previous acquaintance with Quine's writings. Throughout, it is marked by Quine's wit and economy of style. [via]
Realism, Meaning and Truthby Crispin WrightISBN 0631171185 (0-631-17118-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Saving the Differences: Essays on Themes from Truth and Objectivityby Crispin WrightISBN 0674010779 (0-674-01077-9)
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Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk KiddISBN 0670032379 (0-670-03237-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Life of Bees'Book summary:In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 0606014268 (0-606-01426-8)
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Survival in Auschwitz and the Reawakening: Two Memoirsby Primo LeviISBN 0671605410 (0-671-60541-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondenceby Christopher S. HillISBN 0521892430 (0-521-89243-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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True Loveby Francine PascalISBN 055325295X (0-553-25295-X)
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True Tales of American Lifeby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Public Radio (U.S.), National Story Project (U.S.)ISBN 0571210708 (0-571-21070-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Tales of American Life'Book summary:Chosen by Paul Auster out of 4000 stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide an illuminating portrait of America in the 20th century. The selection requirement of the stories was that they should be true and not previously published. [via]
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The Truthby Terry PratchettISBN 0613572904 (0-613-57290-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth'Book summary:The Truth, Pratchett's 25th Discworld novel, skewers the newspaper business. When printing comes to Ankh-Morpork, it "drag(s) the city kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat." Well, actually, out of the Century of the Fruitbat. As the Bursar remarks, if the era's almost over, it's high time they embraced its challenges.
William de Worde, well-meaning younger son of reactionary nobility, has been providing a monthly newsletter to the elite using engraving. Then he is struck (and seriously bruised) by the power of the press. The dwarves responsible convince William to expand his letter and the Ankh-Morpork Times is born. Soon William has a staff, including Sacharissa Cripslock, a genteel young lady with a knack for headline writing, and photographer Otto Chriek. Otto's vampirism causes difficulties: flash pictures cause him to crumble to dust and need reconstitution, and he must battle his desire for blood, particularly Sacharissa's. When Lord Vetinari is accused of attempted murder, the City Watch investigates the peculiar circumstances, but William wants to know what really happened. The odds for his survival drop as his questions multiply.
The Truth is satirical, British, and full of sly jokes. Although this cake doesn't rise quite as high as it did in previous volumes, even ordinary Pratchett is pretty darn good, and those who haven't read a Discworld novel before can start here and go on to that incredible backlist. --Nona Vero [via]
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Truth & the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theologyby Ian MarkhamISBN 0567086186 (0-567-08618-6)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Truth About Foreverby Sarah DessenISBN 0670036390 (0-670-03639-0)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Truth and Objectivityby Crispin WrightISBN 0674910877 (0-674-91087-7)
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Truth And Predicationby Donald DavidsonISBN 0674015258 (0-674-01525-8)
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Truth Games: Lies, Money, and Psychoanalysisby John ForresterISBN 0674001796 (0-674-00179-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Realityby Roger G. NewtonISBN 0674001818 (0-674-00181-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Truth: (with Jokes)by Al FrankenISBN 0525949062 (0-525-94906-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth: (with Jokes)'Book summary:Nearly a year after the presidential election of 2004, Al Franken is still checking facts, exposing lies, and trying to clear the record as he sees it. Sneering at President Bush's declaration of a mandate after a two-and-a-half percent victory, he deconstructs Bush's 2004 platform of "fear, smear, and queers," and explains how the president has done some flip-flopping of his own. He offers comment on well-known stories, including the Terri Shiavo case, and some more obscure, such as reports of forced prostitution, indentured servitude, and squalid conditions at clothing factories in Saipan (which is part of the American Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Franken focuses on Tom DeLay's connection to the territory and his efforts to prevent bills from being passed that would have required Saipan to follow U.S. labor laws. Iraq, too, is discussed, from its planning stages to the huge sum of money currently unaccounted for, including $8.8 billion missing from the Coalition Provisional Authority's coffers.
On the home front, Franken covers President Bush's attempt at Social Security reform, explaining how they came up with the projected shortfall figure of $11 trillion. For one thing, they adjusted life expectancy to 150 years, while leaving the retirement age at 67: "That's an eighty-three-year retirement. They're never gonna get to that without stem cell research." He also takes some wickedly funny swipes at Karl Rove, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pundits and hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert, and Sean Hannity, and, of course, President Bush. The Truth succeeds in providing ammunition to liberals and others dissatisfied with the current power base in Washington, D.C.--only this time (with jokes). --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Use and Abuse of Historyby Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Adrian Collins, J. KraftISBN 0672601729 (0-672-60172-9)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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Venus Envyby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553564978 (0-553-56497-8)
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Walking on Waterby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0553236199 (0-553-23619-9)
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, And Other Confusions Of Our Timeby Michael ShermerISBN 061391662X (0-613-91662-X)
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A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0613723023 (0-613-72302-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wrinkle in Time'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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