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Alcoolsby Guillaume ApollinaireISBN 0520000293 (0-520-00029-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Always Coming Homeby Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Todd Barton, George HershISBN 0520227352 (0-520-22735-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Coming Home'Book summary:Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.[via]More editions of Always Coming Home:
Babe : The Gallant Pigby Dick King-Smith, Mary RaynerISBN 0517555565 (0-517-55556-5)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenby Susan FaludiISBN 0517576988 (0-517-57698-8)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Beauty's Punishmentby A.N. RoquelaureISBN 0525242619 (0-525-24261-9)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loyby Carolyn BurkeISBN 0520210891 (0-520-21089-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United Statesby Karen OrrenISBN 052142254X (0-521-42254-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicagoby Mike RoykoISBN 0525070001 (0-525-07000-1)
Hardcover, Dutton
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The Boyds: A Family Biographyby Brenda NiallISBN 0522848710 (0-522-84871-0)
Hardcover, Melbourne Univ Pr
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Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nationsby John Milton CooperISBN 0521807867 (0-521-80786-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Brecht the Dramatistby Ronald D. GrayISBN 0521290031 (0-521-29003-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brownby Ethan RarickISBN 0520236270 (0-520-23627-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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California Rising illuminates a singular moment in time with surprising intimacy. John Kennedy laughs with Pat Brown. Richard Nixon offers the governor a schemer's deal. Lyndon Johnson sweet-talks the governor on the phone and then ridicules him behind his back. And as context for the human drama, key events of the era unfold in gripping prose. There is Brown's struggle with the fate of Caryl Chessman, the convicted kidnapper who gained international attention by writing best-selling books on death row. There is the tale of intrigue and politics surrounding the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964, and the violence and horror of the Watts Riots in 1965.
Through the story of the life and times of Pat Brown, we witness an extraordinary period that changed the entire country's view of itself and its most famous state.More editions of California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown:
The Cambridge Biography of D.H. Lawrenceby David Ellis, John Worthen, Mark Kinkead-WeekesISBN 052163105X (0-521-63105-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion To Nabokovby Julian W. ConnollyISBN 052153643X (0-521-53643-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: From C. 1500 to C. 1800by Nicholas TarlingISBN 0521663709 (0-521-66370-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: From Early Times C. 1500by Nicholas TarlingISBN 0521663695 (0-521-66369-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: From Early Times to C. 1800by Nicholas TarlingISBN 0521355052 (0-521-35505-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: From Early Times to C. 1800'Book summary:Southeast Asia has long been seen as a unity, although other terms have been used to describe it: Further India, Little China, the Nanyang. The region has had a protracted maritime history. Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity are all represented. It has seen a quintet of colonial powers - Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, the United States. Most recently, it has become one of the fastest growing parts of the world economy. The very term 'Southeast Asia' is clearly more than a geographical expression. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia is a multi-authored treatment of the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Unlike other histories of the region, it is not divided on a country-by-country basis and is not structured purely chronologically, but rather takes a thematic and regional approach to Southeast Asia's history. This volume, the first of two, covers the period from the region's pre-history up to the early nineteeenth century of the Christian era, tracing the development of early politics, the integration of religion with social and cultural life, the great changes caused by the advent of the Europeans in the region and the increasing incorporation of Southeast Asian trade into international markets. Under the editorship of Nicholas Tarling, Professor of History at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, each chapter is well integrated into the whole. Professor Tarling has assembled a highly respected team of international scholars who have presented the latest historical research on the region and succeeded in producing a provocative and exciting account of the region's history. [via]
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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: From World War II to the Presentby Nicholas TarlingISBN 0521663725 (0-521-66372-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia Vol. 2, Pt. 1 : From C. 1800 to the 1930sby Nicholas Tarling, Carl A. Trocki, Robert E. Elson, Reynaldo IletoISBN 0521663717 (0-521-66371-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Cannibals and Christiansby Norman MailerISBN 0523480148 (0-523-48014-8)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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China's Long March Toward Rule of Lawby R. P. PeerenboomISBN 0521016746 (0-521-01674-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Collected Stories of O. Henryby O. Henry, Paul J. HorowitzISBN 0517618397 (0-517-61839-7)
Hardcover, Avenel Books
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The Complete Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Library Editionby Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney PagetISBN 0517525127 (0-517-52512-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Conrad: Nostromoby Ian WattISBN 0521313651 (0-521-31365-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatownby Nayan ShahISBN 0520226291 (0-520-22629-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Nayan Shah notes how the production of Chinese difference and white, heterosexual norms in public health policy affected social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Public health authorities depicted Chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions as smallpox, syphilis, and bubonic plague. This resulted in the vociferous enforcement of sanitary regulations on the Chinese community. But the authorities did more than demon-ize the Chinese; they also marshaled civic resources that promoted sewer construction, vaccination programs, and public health management.
Shah shows how Chinese Americans responded to health regulations and allegations with persuasive political speeches, lawsuits, boycotts, violent protests, and poems. Chinese American activists drew upon public health strategies in their advocacy for health services and public housing. Adroitly employing discourses of race and health, these activists argued that Chinese Americans were worthy and deserving of sharing in the resources of American society.More editions of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown:
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0517399903 (0-517-39990-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971by Edmund Wilson, Simon KarlinskyISBN 0520220803 (0-520-22080-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Diary of Vaslav Nijinskyby Vaslav NijinskyISBN 0520009452 (0-520-00945-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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English Culture And The Decline Of The Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980by Martin Joel WienerISBN 0521604796 (0-521-60479-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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English Culture And the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850v1980by Martin J. WienerISBN 0521270340 (0-521-27034-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925by David MontgomeryISBN 0521379822 (0-521-37982-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Villageby William HintonISBN 0520210409 (0-520-21040-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Fold a Banana: And 146 Other Things to Do When You're Boredby Jim Erskine, George MoranISBN 0517535033 (0-517-53503-3)
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For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffmanby Jonah RaskinISBN 0520213793 (0-520-21379-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Golden Bough : The Roots of Religion and Folkloreby James George FrazerISBN 0517336332 (0-517-33633-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Happy Hookerby Robin Moore, Xaviera Hollander, Yvonne DunleavyISBN 051734873X (0-517-34873-X)
Hardcover, Bell Pub Co
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History of Australia: People Make Laws, 1888-1915by Charles M. ClarkISBN 0522842232 (0-522-84223-2)
Hardcover, Melbourne Univ Pr
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A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chaptersby Julian Barnes, Ron MiddletonISBN 0521484782 (0-521-48478-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes is edited by Ron Middleton of the University of Reading. [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervilles : Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0517670283 (0-517-67028-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruinby Gray A. BrechinISBN 0520229029 (0-520-22902-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Informationby Martin AmisISBN 0517585162 (0-517-58516-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Information'Book summary:Martin Amis is at his savage best in this magnificent novel of literary envy. In The Information, the best-selling author of London Fields and Time's Arrow has written a totally mesmerizing and thoroughly entertaining novel that puts all of his extraordinary talents on display. "I've always thought of Martin Amis as the literary Mick Jagger of my generation."--Christopher Buckley, Washington Times. [via]
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Jane's Fighting Ships of World War IIby Francis E. McCurtieISBN 0517679639 (0-517-67963-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Jemima Puddle-Duckby Beatrix PotterISBN 0517652757 (0-517-65275-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Joseph Conrad: Nostromoby Ian WattISBN 0521328217 (0-521-32821-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Juan Davilaby Roger Benjamin, Guy Brett, Juan DavilaISBN 0522852440 (0-522-85244-0)
Hardcover, Melbourne University Press
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Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Casesby Thomas GinsburgISBN 0521520398 (0-521-52039-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Joseph M. GleesonISBN 0517631776 (0-517-63177-6)
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Just So Stories for Little Childrenby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0517436310 (0-517-43631-0)
Hardcover, Chatham River Press
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L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Barry MoserISBN 0520058224 (0-520-05822-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Lempriere's Dictionaryby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0517581841 (0-517-58184-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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It is 18th-century London and John Lempriere, a young scholar, is writing a dictionary of classical mythology in an attempt to exorcise the demons raised by his father's violent and bizarre death. While tending to his father's business affairs, Lempriere discovers a 150-year old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company. But as John begins to untangle the years of mystery and deceit, people begin to die, in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching....
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Les Murrayby Steven MatthewsISBN 0522850057 (0-522-85005-7)
Hardcover, Melbourne University Press
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0517642727 (0-517-64272-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austenby Fay Weldon, Judith Baxter, Jenifer SmithISBN 0521589282 (0-521-58928-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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London Fieldsby Martin AmisISBN 0517577186 (0-517-57718-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Looking Askance: Skepticism And American Art from Eakins to Duchampby Michael LejaISBN 0520249968 (0-520-24996-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Loose Changeby Sara DavidsonISBN 0520209109 (0-520-20910-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000by Richard Rodriguez, Stephanie Barron, Howard N. Fox, Michael Dear, Ilene Susan Fort, Sheri BernsteinISBN 0520227654 (0-520-22765-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000'Book summary:This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.[via]
Drawn from the exhibition, which gathers more than 1,200 artworks and pieces of ephemera from many public and private collections, Made in California is an image-driven look at the past century, featuring more than 400 works in a range of media, from painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs to furniture, fashion, and film. The book also includes more than 150 cultural artifacts such as tourist brochures, posters, labor union tracts, personal letters, and government reports that convey the richness and complexity of twentieth-century California. Arranged provocatively by theme, these objects take us on a visual tour of a state that was promoted as a bountiful paradise early in the century; as a glamour capital by Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s; as a suburban utopia in the late '40s and '50s; as a haven for counterculture in the '60s and '70s, and as a multicultural frontier in the '80s and '90s. The book's exploration of how these themes were reflected and contested in California's visual culture deepens our understanding of the state's artistic traditions as well as its fascinating history.
The volume is divided into five twenty-year sections, each including a narrative essay discussing the history of that era and highlighting topics particularly relevant to its visual culture. Two overarching themes emerge that have been crucial for how we imagine and understand California: first, the landscape, including both the natural and built environment, and second, the multifaceted relationships California has had with Latin America and Asia.
Geographer Michael Dear has contributed a sweeping overview of the social history of California that examines the vibrant and sometimes turbulent conditions out of which the culture emerged. Essayist Richard Rodriguez closes the volume with a uniquely personal meditation on the Golden State.More editions of Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000:
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000by Stephanie Barron, Ilene Susan Fort, Sheri BernsteinISBN 0520337654 (0-520-33765-4)
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Maos Revolution and the Chinese Political Cultureby Richard H. SolomonISBN 0520022505 (0-520-02250-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Murder in New York Cityby Eric H. MonkkonenISBN 0520221885 (0-520-22188-5)
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Nights at the Circusby Angela CarterISBN 0517627531 (0-517-62753-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Nine & A Half Weeksby Elizabeth McNeillISBN 0525167153 (0-525-16715-3)
Hardcover, Dutton
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One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Societyby Barry A. Kosmin, Seymour P. LachmanISBN 0517882183 (0-517-88218-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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One Nation under God : Religion in Contemporary American Societyby Seymour Lachman, Barry A. KosminISBN 0517587890 (0-517-58789-0)
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The Origins of American Social Scienceby Dorothy Ross, Lorraine Daston, Quentin Skinner, James TullyISBN 052142836X (0-521-42836-X)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origins of American Social Science'Book summary:Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a millennial course, exempted from historical change and from the mass poverty and class conflict of Europe. Before the Civil War, this vision of American exceptionalism drew social scientists into the national effort to stay the hand of time. Not until after the Civil War did industrialization force Americans to confront the idea and reality of historical change. The social science disciplines had their origin in that crisis and their development is a story of efforts to evade and tame historical transformation in the interest of exceptionalist ideals. This is the first book to look broadly at American social science in its historical context and to demonstrate the central importance of the national ideology of American exceptionalism to the development of the social sciences and to American social thought generally. [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Flora White, F. D. BedfordISBN 0517632225 (0-517-63222-5)
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Peter Pan and Wendyby J. M. BarrieISBN 0517661896 (0-517-66189-6)
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Peter Pan and Wendyby Michael Foreman, J. M. BarrieISBN 0517568373 (0-517-56837-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan and Wendy'Book summary:The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. [via]
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The Pope's Rhinocerosby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 051759532X (0-517-59532-X)
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Portable James Joyceby James Joyce, Harry LevinISBN 0517618877 (0-517-61887-7)
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The Portable James Joyce, edited and with an introduction by Harry Levin, includes four of the six books on which Joyce's astonishing reputatuion is founded: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man; his Collected Poems (including Chamber Music); Exiles, Joyce's only drama; and his volume of short stories, Dubliners. In addition, there is a generous sampling from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, including the famous "Anna Livia Plurabelle" episode.
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Prick Up Your Earsby John LahrISBN 0520226666 (0-520-22666-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Rachel Papersby Martin AmisISBN 0517567776 (0-517-56777-6)
Softcover, Harmony Books
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Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830-1914by Martin J. WienerISBN 052135045X (0-521-35045-X)
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Sea and Sardiniaby D. H. Lawrence, Mara KalninsISBN 0521285755 (0-521-28575-5)
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0520229223 (0-520-22922-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets To Orpheus'Book summary:Written with astonishing rapidity in two weeks of February 1922, when Rilke was finally completing the Duino Elegies that had occupied him intermittently for a decade, Sonnets to Orpheus is a series of fifty-five brilliant and affirmative songs. It is in a sense a spontaneous creative dividend generated by a larger work. Because the sonnets were written only four years before Rilke's death, they belong properly to his final and philosophic period, and offer a sharp and striking contrast to the less mystical Das Buch der Bilder and Neue Gedichte.[via]
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation. 
Streetlife Chinaby Michael DuttonISBN 0521637198 (0-521-63719-8)
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunnyby Beatrix PotterISBN 0517652773 (0-517-65277-3)
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The Tale of Peter Rabbitby Beatrix PotterISBN 0517652765 (0-517-65276-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'Book summary:The quintessential cautionary tale, Peter Rabbit warns naughty children about the grave consequences of misbehaving. When Mrs. Rabbit beseeches her four furry children not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden, the impish Peter naturally takes this as an open invitation to create mischief. He quickly gets in over his head, when he is spotted by farmer McGregor himself. Any child with a spark of sass will find Peter's adventures remarkably familiar. And they'll see in Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail that bane of their existence: the "good" sibling who always does the right thing. One earns bread and milk and blackberries for supper, while the obstinate folly of the other warrants medicine and an early bedtime.
Beatrix Potter's animal stories have been a joy to generations of young readers. Her warm, playful illustrations in soft colors invite children into the world of words and flights of fancy. Once there, she gently and humorously guides readers along the path of righteousness, leaving just enough room for children to wonder if that incorrigible Peter will be back in McGregor's garden tomorrow. (Ages Baby to Preschool) [via]
Tale of Tom Kittenby Beatrix PotterISBN 0517652781 (0-517-65278-1)
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A Tolkien Bestiaryby David DayISBN 0517473259 (0-517-47325-9)
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Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion And Participation in Modern America And Germanyby Manfred Berg, Martin H. GeyerISBN 0521030560 (0-521-03056-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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We Don't Live Here Anymore: Three Novellasby Andre Dubus, Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 0517553627 (0-517-55362-7)
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The Windsor Storyby J. BryanISBN 0517314681 (0-517-31468-1)
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Charles SantoreISBN 0517695065 (0-517-69506-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In the 100 years since L. Frank Baum first published his Wonderful Wizard of Oz, countless authors and illustrators have adapted, interpreted, and retold this story of Dorothy and her unusual companions, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. But for sheer opulence and sumptuous color, award-winning artist Charles Santore's 100th anniversary edition takes the cake. Santore's large, fairy-tale style watercolors feature ominous, shadowy forests, magnificent but deadly poppies, the whimsical, green-tinted landscapes of Oz, and the golden gray fields of Kansas. Each page is awash in color; many of the two-page spreads have no text to distract readers from the illustrations' myriad details--not-yet-blooming poppy buds, the Tin Woodman's watering can head, and the radiant good witch, Glinda, posing on her ruby-encrusted throne. The text is condensed rather than adapted; so virtually every word is Baum's own. Although some scenes have been left out, Baum's classic story rings through, loud and clear. Sharing this lush edition with a favorite child would be the perfect way to celebrate a century of Oz. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Women in Loveby D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen, Lindeth Vasey, David R. Farmer, David H. FarmerISBN 0521280419 (0-521-28041-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love - 'the beginning of a new world', as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence's revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America, clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist's work as he himself created it. The edition includes the 'Foreword' Lawrence wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The introduction gives a full history of the novel's composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between the base-text and the first printed editions. [via]
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The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 0525237704 (0-525-23770-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Winnie-Ille-Pu/Winnie the Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0525242678 (0-525-24267-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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