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The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subcultureby Howard P. ChudacoffISBN 0691070555 (0-691-07055-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture'Book summary:In this engaging new book, Howard Chudacoff describes a special and fascinating world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a significant population of single men migrated to American cities. Rejecting the restraints and dependence of the nineteenth-century family, bachelors found sustenance and camaraderie in the boarding houses, saloons, pool halls, cafes, clubs, and other institutions that arose in response to their increasing numbers. Richly illustrated, anecdotal, and including a unique analysis of "The National Police Gazette" (the most outrageous and popular men's publication of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century), this book is the first to describe a complex subculture that continues to affect the larger meanings of manhood and manliness in American society.
The figure of the bachelor--with its emphasis on pleasure, self-indulgence, and public entertainment--was easily converted by the burgeoning consumer culture at the turn of the century into an ambiguously appealing image of masculinity. Finding an easy reception in an atmosphere of insecurity about manhood, that image has outdistanced the circumstances in which it began to flourish and far outlasted the bachelor culture that produced it. Thus, the idea of the bachelor has retained its somewhat negative but alluring connotations throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Chudacoff's concluding chapter discusses the contemporary "singles scene" now developing as the number of single people in urban centers is again increasing.
By seeing bachelorhood as a stage in life for many and a permanent status for some, Chudacoff recalls a lifestyle that had a profoundimpact on society, evoking fear, disdain, repugnance, and at the same time a sense of romance, excitement, and freedom. The book contributes to gender history, family history, urban history, and the study of consumer culture and will appeal to anyone curious about American history and anxious to acquire a new view of a sometimes forgotten but still influential aspect of our national past. [via]
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America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shepard Stone Between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacyby Volker R. BerghahnISBN 0691102562 (0-691-10256-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shepard Stone Between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacy'Book summary:In 1958, Shepard Stone, then directing the Ford Foundation's International Affairs program, suggested that his staff "measure" America's cultural impact in Europe. He wanted to determine whether efforts to improve opinions of American culture were yielding good returns. Taking Stone's career as a point of departure and frequent return, Volker Berghahn examines the triangular relationship between the producers of ideas and ideologies, corporate America, and Washington policymakers at a peculiar juncture of U.S. history. He also looks across the Atlantic, at the Western European intellectuals, politicians, and businessmen with whom these Americans were in frequent contact. While shattered materially and psychologically by World War II, educated Europeans did not shed their opinions about the inferiority, vulgarity, and commercialism of American culture. American elites--particularly the East Coast establishment--deeply resented this condescension. They believed that the United States had two culture wars to win: one against the Soviet Bloc as part of the larger struggle against communism and the other against deeply rooted negative views of America as a civilization. To triumph, they spent large sums of money on overt and covert activities, from tours of American orchestras to the often secret funding of European publications and intellectual congresses by the CIA.
At the center of these activities were the Ford Foundation, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and Washington's agents of cultural diplomacy. This was a world of Ivy League academics and East Coast intellectuals, of American philanthropic organizations and their backers in big business, of U.S. government agencies and their counterparts across the Atlantic. This book uses Shepard Stone as a window to this world in which the European-American relationship was hammered out in cultural terms--an arena where many of the twentieth century's major intellectual trends and conflicts unfolded.
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American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Centuryby Gary GerstleISBN 0691102775 (0-691-10277-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribesby Angie DeboISBN 0691005788 (0-691-00578-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Angels & Insectsby A. S. ByattISBN 0701137177 (0-7011-3717-7)
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Antipodesby David MaloufISBN 0701128518 (0-7011-2851-8)
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Aspects of the Dying Process:Short Stories: Short Storiesby Michael WildingISBN 0702207624 (0-7022-0762-4)
Softcover, University of Queensland Press
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstressby Ina Rilke, Sijie DaiISBN 0701169826 (0-7011-6982-6)
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Betsy-Tacy: Library Editionby Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois LenskiISBN 0690138059 (0-690-13805-9)
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The Biographer's Taleby A. S. ByattISBN 0701169451 (0-7011-6945-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Biographer's Tale'Book summary:A.S. Byatt chronicles the life of the mind with the immediacy other novelists bring to the physical world. So when the graduate-student hero of The Biographer's Tale announces that he needs "a life full of things," we take his words with a grain of salt. Yes, Phineas G. Nanson has renounced the "cross-referenced abstractions" of life as a postmodern literary theorist, and vows to ground himself in what he warily calls the "facts" (the quotation marks are definitely in order). Yet he first forays into empiricism by reading a three-volume life of the Victorian traveler, writer, and diplomat Elmer Bole--then immediately undertakes a biography of Bole's biographer, Scholes Destry-Scholes.
Things, as Nanson discovers, can prove just as slippery as ideas. His research quickly leapfrogs beyond the biographer to his other subjects: scientist Carl Linnaeus, playwright Henrik Ibsen, and eugenicist Francis Galton, all of whom Destry-Scholes chronicled in three unpublished, unfinished, and, as it turns out, well-embroidered accounts. Meanwhile, our hero continues his forays into the real world. He takes a part-time job with a pair of gay travel agents, who arrange some very specialized vacations, and meets up with a Swedish bee taxonomist named Fulla, who wants to save the world. He also unearths a perplexing series of Destry-Scholes's index cards, full of sketches, facts, quotations, and unattributed lines of verse. These he attempts to shuffle into some kind of order, even as the enigmatic figure of the biographer himself seems to appear and disappear from view.
There are echoes here of Byatt's Booker Prize-winning Possession, another detective story for the MLA set. Yet The Biographer's Tale is an altogether odder--and chillier--sort of book. It is, in fact, almost terrifyingly learned, and wears its research about as lightly as a pair of Fulla's Ecco sandals. The mystery here is nothing less than the nature of mind, so it's no criticism to say that her characters have little life outside the ideas they represent. What's surprising is that the result is so readable, even beautiful at times. Here, for instance, is Nanson on truth and beauty:
There are a very few human truths and infinite variations on them. I was about to write that there are very few truths about the world, but the truth about that is that we don't know what we are not biologically fitted to know, it may be full of all sorts of shining and tearing things, geometries, chemistries, physics we have no access to and never can have. Reading and writing extend--not infinitely, but violently, but giddily--the variations we can perceive on the truths we thus discover.
The index cards themselves can be painful to read (remember the ersatz Victorian poetry in Possession?). But persevere, dear reader--meaning emerges through the play of one esoteric piece of information against another, just as it does in real life. Byatt extends her philosophical variations as far as she giddily can, and in The Biographer's Tale, she has constructed an elaborate, glittering labyrinth at the center of which lie surprisingly simple truths. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Biographer's Tale:
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Black Princeby Iris MurdochISBN 0701119241 (0-7011-1924-1)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Bliss - the Screenplayby Peter Carey, Ray LawrenceISBN 0702219096 (0-7022-1909-6)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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C.P. Cavafy Collected Poemsby C.P. Cavafy, Philip Sherrard, Edmund KeeleyISBN 0691069840 (0-691-06984-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poemsby Edmund Keeley, George Savidis, Philip SherrardISBN 0691015376 (0-691-01537-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Charadesby Janette Turner HospitalISBN 0702221988 (0-7022-2198-8)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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Child's Play ; with Eustace and The Prowlerby David MaloufISBN 0701139021 (0-7011-3902-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Collected Poemsby Constantine Cavafy, Georgios P. Savvides, Philip Sherrard, Edmund KeeleyISBN 0691013209 (0-691-01320-9)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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The Collectionby Peter Ackroyd, Thomas WrightISBN 0701173009 (0-7011-7300-9)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Complete Poemsby Elizabeth BishopISBN 0701116080 (0-7011-1608-0)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafyby Constantine Cavafy, Rae DalvenISBN 0701200278 (0-7012-0027-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidaysby Leigh Eric SchmidtISBN 0691017212 (0-691-01721-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Contemporary American & Australian Poetryby Thomas W. ShapcottISBN 0702212113 (0-7022-1211-3)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts, and an Operaby Angela Carter, Mark BellISBN 0701163089 (0-7011-6308-9)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose Bierce, Jean-Claude SuaresISBN 0690017650 (0-690-01765-0)
Softcover, T. Y. Crowell
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dictionary'Book summary:The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title _The Cynic's Word Book..., a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. [via]
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Dicey's Songby Cynthia VoigtISBN 0689851316 (0-689-85131-6)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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Letting GoThe four Tillerman children finally have a home at their grandmother's rundown farm on the Maryland shore. It's what Dicey has dreamed of for her three younger siblings, but after watching over the others for so long, it's hard to let go. Who is Dicey, if she's no longer the caretaker for her family?
Dicey finds herself in new friends, in a growing relationship with her grandmother, and in the satisfaction of refinishing the old boat she found in the barn. Then, as Dicey experiences the trials and pleasures of making a new life, the past comes back with devastating force, and Dicey learns just how necessary -- and painful -- letting go can be. [via]
Echoes of Distant Thunder: Life in the United States, 1914-1918by Edward Robb EllisISBN 0698105834 (0-698-10583-4)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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The Ern Malley Affairby Michael HeywardISBN 0702225622 (0-7022-2562-2)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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Essays in Economic Sociologyby Max Weber, Richard SwedbergISBN 0691009066 (0-691-00906-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays in Economic Sociology'Book summary:The writings of Max Weber (1864-1920) contain one of the most fascinating and sophisticated attempts ever made to create an economic sociology. Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has selected the most important of Weber's enormous body of writings on the topic, making these available for the first time in a single volume. The central themes around which the anthology is organized are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, to law, and to culture and religion; a special section is devoted to theoretical aspects of economic sociology. Swedberg provides a valuable introduction illuminating biographical and intellectual dimensions of Weber's work in economic sociology, as well as a glossary defining key concepts in Weber's work in the field and a bibliographical guide to this corpus.
Weber's substantive views on economic sociology are represented in this volume through crucial excerpts from works such as his General Economic History and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but the reader can follow his attempt to construct a conceptual foundation for economic sociology in Economy and Society as well. Also included is Weber's celebrated inaugural lecture, "The Freiburg Address," along with a number of central but hitherto inaccessible writings. Though written nearly a century ago, Weber's work has the quality of a true classic, and the reader will find many ideas in his writings on economic topics that remain applicable in today's world. These include Weber's discussion of what is now called social capital, his analysis of the institutions needed for a well-functioning capitalist economy, and his more general attempt to introduce social structure into economic analysis. As this volume demonstrates, what basically motivated Weber to work with economic sociology was a realization shared by many economists and sociologists today: that the analysis of economic phenomena must include an understanding of the social dimension. Guided by volume editor Swedberg, the reader of this anthology discovers the significance and the enduring relevance of Weber's contribution to economic sociology.
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Exotic Pleasuresby Peter CareyISBN 0702223220 (0-7022-2322-0)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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Falcon Drinkingby Dimitris TsaloumisISBN 0702221139 (0-7022-2113-9)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Creditby Lendol CalderISBN 0691074550 (0-691-07455-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Forever . . .by Judy BlumeISBN 0689849737 (0-689-84973-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Prairie School Architecture in Oak Parkby Paul E. SpragueISBN 0695812130 (0-695-81213-0)
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Freedom & It's Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Libertyby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0691114994 (0-691-11499-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 6 Enemies of Human Libertyby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0691090998 (0-691-09099-8)
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The Golden Bough : The Collected Works of J. G. Frazerby J. G. FrazerISBN 0700714480 (0-7007-1448-0)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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The Good Fight: How World War II Was Wonby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0689843615 (0-689-84361-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voicesby Xinran, Esther TyldesleyISBN 0701173459 (0-7011-7345-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices'Book summary:For seven years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone-in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast between 10 and 12 at night, Words on the Night Breeze soon became famous all over China for its powerful, honest discussions of what it means to be a woman in today's China. It started in 1990, a time when China seemed to be 'opening up', both for the Chinese and for the world. Xinran's programme revealed aspects of women's lives that had never been talked about in public before. She felt as if she was opening a tiny window into a huge fortress whose inhabitants had never before communicated with the outside world. Soon she was receiving over two hundred letters a day from women telling her their stories. She realised that she knew far less than she had thought about what it means to be a Chinese woman and embarked on a journey of discovery to collect their stories. The stories presented here tell of almost inconceivable suffering: rape, sexual abuse, the separation of parents from their children, the suppression of human emotion in order to survive the Communist regime - never before have the tortured souls of Chinese women been laid so bare. And yet this is also a book about love - about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. And then there is Xinran herself: an extraordinary woman who, despite her own unhappy past, has given her life to saving the stories of Chinese women from oblivion,. [via]
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A History of Modern Germany: 1648-1840by Hajo HolbornISBN 0691007969 (0-691-00796-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Modern Germany: 1648-1840'Book summary:This second volume of a three-volume reassessment of the last five centuries of German history covers the two centuries from the crucial aftermath of the Thirty Years' War to the eve of the revolution of 1848-49. Dealing with the growth of absolutism, the author traces the founding of the Hapsburg empire and the rise of Bradenburg-Prussia, culminating in the conflict between Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great. Professor Holborn explores the impact of the French Revolution on Germany, its part in the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, and the subsequent reorganization of the German states. In his section on the Congress of Vienna, he shows the struggle between the conservatism of Metternich and the incipient liberal and national movement. Students of German history will appreciate the attention given religious, intellectual, and social developments, colorfully presented in chapters on Baroque civilization and the age of Kant, Goethe, and Beethoven.
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A History of Modern Germany, 1840-1945by Hajo HolbornISBN 0691007977 (0-691-00797-7)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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If You Come Softlyby Jacqueline WoodsonISBN 0698118626 (0-698-11862-6)
Softcover, Puffin
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Jacob's Roomby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701209925 (0-7012-0992-5)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Johnnoby David MaloufISBN 0702230154 (0-7022-3015-4)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Janet Taylor LisleISBN 0689851251 (0-689-85125-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Initially written for his own "best beloved," Just So Stories was published in 1902. It has been a favorite for the past century and is certain to be cherished by generations to come. [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Nancy BondISBN 0689844077 (0-689-84407-7)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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Living Togetherby Michael WildingISBN 0702208965 (0-7022-0896-5)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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Looking for Estrellitaby Brian CastroISBN 0702231150 (0-7022-3115-0)
Softcover, University of Queensland Press
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Making Peace With the 60sby David BurnerISBN 0691059535 (0-691-05953-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Mansions of Bedlam: Stories and Essaysby Gerard WindsorISBN 0702231967 (0-7022-3196-7)
Softcover, University of Queensland Press
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Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in Americaby Ellen SchreckerISBN 0691048703 (0-691-04870-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discoveryby Brian BoydISBN 0691089574 (0-691-08957-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery'Book summary:Brian Boyd has already chronicled the life of Vladimir Nabokov in two superlative volumes, one devoted to the author's silver-age youth in Russia and the other to his American maturity. Now Boyd turns his attention to the great enchanter's trickiest and most unlikely triumph in Nabokov's Pale Fire. With its oddball structure--which shackles an epic poem in heroic couplets to an increasingly loony, enveloping commentary--this 1962 novel has always been a bone of contention among diehard fans. Some consider it less a work of art than a Rube Goldberg contraption, onto which Nabokov has brilliantly bolted his favorite motifs. Others call Pale Fire the author's true masterpiece, and Brian Boyd falls quite emphatically into the latter camp, arguing that the book is no mere satire on literary parasitism:
It is a reflection on the whole history of literature, on the shift from romance to realism, from the old kind of hero with whose glory the reader is invited to identify ... to the modern image of everyman as artist, the suburban Shade, in the modest circumstances of the real, coping with courage and self-control, with imagination, curiosity, tenderness, and kindness, with the fact of his mortality and his losses past and still to come.
Boyd's study is at once a shrewd and eloquent guidebook to the intricacies of Pale Fire and a revisionist argument as to its meaning. After all, Nabokovians have spent the last three decades feuding over the ultimate authorship of this double-decker narrative: could the poet, John Shade, have created both the poem and commentary? Or should both be chalked up to that nutty exegete Charles Kinbote? As he wades into this factional war, Boyd can sometimes appear only nominally less insane than Kinbote. ("The prominence of the Shadean or Kinbotean or 'undecidable' readings had not gone unchallenged. D. Barton Johnson, attending to verbal and subverbal detail, stood largely outside the Shade-Kinbote opposition when he focused on the Botkin behind Kinbote." Help!) Yet his hypothesis--which involves a ghost feeding lines to the living like a posthumous Teleprompter--makes perfect sense. And it reminds us that for all Nabokov's vaunted irony and scientific passion, he was fascinated throughout his entire career by the afterlife. Volodya as theologian? Boyd is smart and persuasive enough to make the concept stick, and to send every last one of us back to Pale Fire--immediately. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery:
Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalismby William H. ChafeISBN 069105973X (0-691-05973-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Observatoryby Dimitris TsaloumasISBN 0702217654 (0-7022-1765-4)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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The Occupation of Japan: The Rhetoric and the Reality of Anglo-Australian Relations, 1930-1952by George J. DaviesISBN 0702232092 (0-7022-3209-2)
Softcover, University of Queensland Press
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroitby Thomas J. SugrueISBN 0691121869 (0-691-12186-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit'Book summary:Once America's "arsenal of democracy, " Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's dilemma of racial and economic inequality, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. [via]
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Personal Impressionsby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Noel AnnanISBN 0691088586 (0-691-08858-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Impressions'Book summary:This remarkable collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciations of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world, sometimes both. The names of many of them are familiar: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, and others. With the exception of Roosevelt, he met them all and knew many of them well. For this expanded edition, four new portraits have been added, including those of Virginia Woolf and Edmund Wilson. This volume also contains a vivid and moving account of Berlin's meetings in Russia with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. Perhaps the most fascinating of these "personal impressions" is found in the epilogue, where Berlin describes the three strands in his own personality: Russian, English, and Jewish.
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Susan CooperISBN 0689866917 (0-689-86691-7)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
Places I Never Meant to Beby Judy BlumeISBN 0689842589 (0-689-84258-9)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thoughtby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Joshua L. ChernissISBN 0691126879 (0-691-12687-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Railway Childrenby E. Nesbit, Marc D. FalkoffISBN 0694012858 (0-694-01285-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Reads like a Novelby Daniel PennacISBN 0704370735 (0-7043-7073-5)
Softcover, Quartet Books
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The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980by Gary Gerstle, Steve FraserISBN 0691006075 (0-691-00607-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980'Book summary:"As the twenty-first century approaches, a new generation of scholars is providing fresh historical perspectives on the twentieth. The contributors to The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order move beyond both the self-congratulation of traditional liberals and the hostility of New Left radicals. This collection of ten essays, written mainly by scholars who came of age after the New Deal legacy had been tarnished, represents the cutting edge of historical scholarship on twentieth-century American political life." --Susan Ware, The Nation "Empirically rich and intellectually provocative essays."--Theda Skocpol, Tikkun "`The New Deal Order is dead,' the editors of this book write, offering their collection of provocative essays as `a historical autopsy.' Calling on some of the leading writers in political economy--including Thomas Ferguson, Alan Brinkley, Ira Katznelson, and Thomas Byrne Edsall--the editors present a detailed look at how the New Deal was formed and where it lost its social-democratic potential. . . . This book contains many wide-ranging and stimulating pieces of revisionist history at its best."-- The Progressive [via]
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The Sea, the Seaby Iris MurdochISBN 0701123397 (0-7011-2339-7)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea, the Sea'Book summary:First published in 1978, this is the story of Charles Arrowby who, retiring from his glittering London world in order to abjure magic and become a hermit turns to the sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother. But he finds his solitude is peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions, [via]
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The Tax Inspectorby Peter CareyISBN 0702224243 (0-7022-2424-3)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845332 (0-689-84533-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tehanu'Book summary:Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan -- she, an isolated young priestess, he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not by choice. A lifetime ago, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Now they must join forces again, to help another -- the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny remains to be revealed. With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time. She lives in Portland, Oregon. [via]
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The Tiger in the Tiger Pitby Janette Turner HospitalISBN 0702222860 (0-7022-2286-0)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tiger in the Tiger Pit'Book summary:For months the charming and forgiving Elizabeth has been trying to get her family together, possibly for the last time before her husband dies. This story is of a family life - its hostilities, explosive secrets and its constricting yet enduring love. The author also wrote "The Ivory Swing". [via]
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The Tomtenby Astrid Lindgren, Viktor Rydberg, Harald WibergISBN 0698115910 (0-698-11591-0)
Softcover, Puffin
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Under Berlinby John TranterISBN 0702221376 (0-7022-2137-6)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New Yorkby Eric C. SchneiderISBN 0691074542 (0-691-07454-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York'Book summary:They called themselves "Vampires," "Dragons," and "Egyptian Kings." They were divided by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang, and codes of honor. They fought--and sometimes killed--to protect and expand their territories. In postwar New York, youth gangs were a colorful and controversial part of the urban landscape, made famous by West Side Story and infamous by the media. This is the first historical study to explore fully the culture of these gangs. Eric Schneider takes us into a world of switchblades and slums, zoot suits and bebop music to explain why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved so attractive.
Schneider begins by describing how postwar urban renewal, slum clearances, and ethnic migration pitted African-American, Puerto Rican, and Euro-American youths against each other in battles to dominate changing neighborhoods. But he argues that young men ultimately joined gangs less because of ethnicity than because membership and gang violence offered rare opportunities for adolescents alienated from school, work, or the family to win prestige, power, adulation from girls, and a masculine identity. In the course of the book, Schneider paints a rich and detailed portrait of everyday life in gangs, drawing on personal interviews with former members to re-create for us their language, music, clothing, and social mores. We learn what it meant to be a "down bopper" or a "jive stud," to "fish" with a beautiful "deb" to the sounds of the Jesters, and to wear gang sweaters, wildly colored zoot suits, or the "Ivy League look." He outlines the unwritten rules of gang behavior, the paths members followed to adulthood, and the effects of gang intervention programs, while also providing detailed analyses of such notorious gang-related crimes as the murders committed by the "Capeman," Salvador Agron.
Schneider focuses on the years from 1940 to 1975, but takes us up to the present in his conclusion, showing how youth gangs are no longer social organizations but economic units tied to the underground economy. Written with a profound understanding of adolescent culture and the street life of New York, this is a powerful work of history and a compelling story for a general audience.
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Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Yearsby Brian BoydISBN 0691024707 (0-691-02470-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years'Book summary:This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of 20th-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late in life, with the success of "Lolita." In this first of two volumes, Brian Boyd vividly describes the liberal milieu of the aristocratic Nabokovs, their escape from Russia, Nabokov's education at Cambridge, and the murder of his father in Berlin. Boyd then turns to the years that Nabokov spent, impoverished, in Germany and France, until the coming of Hitler forced him to flee, with wife and son, to the U.S.
This volume stands on its own as a fascinating exploration of Nabokov's Russian years and Russian worlds, pre-revolutionary and emigre. In the course of his 10 years' work on the biography, Boyd traveled along Nabokov's trail everywhere from Yalta to Palo Alto. The only scholar to have had free access to the Nabokov archives in Montreux and the Library of Congress, he also interviewed at length Nabokov's family and scores of his friends and associates.
For the general reader, Boyd offers an introduction to Nabokov the man, his works, and his world. For the specialist, he provides a basis for all future research on Nabokov's life and art, as he dates and describes the composition of all Nabokov's works, published and unpublished. Boyd investigates Nabokov's relation to and his independence from his time, examines the special structures of his mind and thought, and explains the relations between his philosophy andhis innovations of literary strategy and style. At the same time he provides succinct introductions to all the fiction, dramas, memoirs, and major verse; presents detailed analyses of the major books that break new ground for the scholar, while providing easy paths into the works for other readers; and shows the relationship between Nabokov's life and the themes and subjects of his art. [via]
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War Crimes: Short Storiesby Peter CareyISBN 0702214167 (0-7022-1416-7)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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The West Midland Undergroundby Michael WildingISBN 0702209910 (0-7022-0991-0)
Hardcover, University of Queensland Press
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White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0706415604 (0-7064-1560-4)
Hardcover, Octopus Books Limited
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0706413180 (0-7064-1318-0)
Hardcover, Octopus Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Wizard of Oz Book and Charmby L. Frank BaumISBN 0694013196 (0-694-01319-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Michael McCurdy, Ray BradburyISBN 0700611517 (0-7006-1151-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz remains one of the world's most beloved and widely read books. Throughout a century of remarkable change, the popularity of L. Frank Baum's classic tale has endured and grown, embraced by generation after generation of children and the young at heart. To honor the centennial of its publication in 1900, the University Press of Kansas is pleased to present this special anniversary edition that combines Baum's original text with the contributions of two renowned artists: book illustrator Michael McCurdy and writer Ray Bradbury. Distinguished by McCurdy's beguiling illustrations and Bradbury's provocative meditation on the Land of Oz, our book also embraces and even celebrates the oft-kidded connection between Baum's wondrous story and the state of Kansas. With good humor and appreciation, then, we are very proud to welcome both Dorothy and Toto back home. [via]
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