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1215: The Year Of Magna Cartaby John Gillingham, Danny DanzigerISBN 0743257782 (0-7432-5778-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: '1215: The Year Of Magna Carta'Book summary:Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, 1215 sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today.
At the center of this fascinating period is the document that has become the root of modern freedom: the Magna Carta. Never before had royal authority been challenged so fundamentally. The Great Charter would become the foundation of the U.S. government and legal system, and nearly eight hundred years later, two of Magna Carta's sixty-three clauses are still a ringing expression of freedom for mankind. But it was also a time of political revolution and domestic change that saw the Crusades, Richard the Lionheart, King John, and -- in legend -- Robin Hood all make their marks on history.
The events leading up to King John's setting his seal to the famous document at Runnymede in June 1215 form this rich and riveting narrative that vividly describes everyday life from castle to countryside, from school to church, and from hunting in the forest to trial by ordeal. For instance, women wore no underwear (though men did), the average temperatures were actually higher than they are now, the austere kitchen at Westminster Abbey allowed each monk two pounds of meat and a gallon of ale per day, and it was possible to travel from Windsor to the Hampshire coast without once leaving the forest.
Broad in scope and rich in detail, 1215 ingeniously illuminates what may have been the most important year of our history. [via]
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1603: A Turning Point in British Historyby Christopher LeeISBN 0747234086 (0-7472-3408-6)
Hardcover, Review
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50 Walks in SurreyISBN 0749528753 (0-7495-2875-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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AA 2005 Drivers Atlas Britainby Not AvailableISBN 0749541695 (0-7495-4169-5)
Softcover, Aa Pub
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Aberystwyth Mon Amourby Malcolm PryceISBN 0747553858 (0-7475-5385-8)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aberystwyth Mon Amour'Book summary:Schoolboys are being murdered all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realizes that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Solsan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help him find out what is happening to the boys. [via]
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Absolute Beginnersby Colin MacInnesISBN 0749005408 (0-7490-0540-8)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absolute Beginners'Book summary:London, 1958 - Soho, Notting Hill ... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars and hip hang-outs in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless - the Absolute Beginners - were creating a world as different as they dared from the traditional image of England's green and pleasant land. Follow our young photographer as he records the moments of a young teenager's life in the capital- sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the era of the first race riots and the lead-up to the swinging sixties. A twentieth century cult classic, Absolute Beginners remains the style bible for anyone interested in Mod culture and paints a vivid picture of a changing society with insight and sensitivity. [via]
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Baggageby Emily BarrISBN 0747270619 (0-7472-7061-9)
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The Best of Enemiesby David DowningISBN 0747552797 (0-7475-5279-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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The Black Towerby P. D. JamesISBN 0743219619 (0-7432-1961-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Blue Nowhereby Jeffery DeaverISBN 0743230485 (0-7432-3048-5)
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The Burnby James KelmanISBN 074939949X (0-7493-9949-X)
Hardcover, Minerva
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The Businessby Iain BanksISBN 0743200152 (0-7432-0015-2)
Softcover, Scribner Paperback Fiction
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The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Badby Michael A. CusumanoISBN 074321580X (0-7432-1580-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad'Book summary:The world's leading expert on the global software industry and coauthor of the bestseller Microsoft Secrets reveals the inner workings of software giants like IBM, Microsoft, and Netscape and shows what it takes to create, develop, and manage a successful company -- in good times and bad -- in the most fiercely competitive business in the world.
In the $600 billion software industry it is the business, not the technology, that determines success or failure. This fact -- one that thousands of once glamorous start-ups have unhappily discovered for themselves -- is the well-documented conclusion of this enormously readable and revealing new book by Michael Cusumano, based on nearly twenty years of research and consulting with software producers around the world.
Cusumano builds on dozens of personal experiences and case studies to show how issues of strategy and organization are irrevocably linked with those of managing the technology and demonstrates that a thorough understanding of these issues is vital to success. At the heart of the book Cusumano poses seven questions that underpin a three-pronged management framework. He argues that companies must adopt one of three basic business models: become a products company at one end of the strategic spectrum, a services company at the other end, or a hybrid solutions company in between. The author describes the characteristics of the different models, evaluates their strengths and weaknesses, and shows how each is more or less appropriate for different stages in the evolution of a business as well as in good versus bad economic times. Readers will also find invaluable Cusumano's treatment of software development issues ranging from architecture and teams to project management and testing, as well as two chapters devoted to what it takes to create a successful software start-up. Highlights include eight fundamental guidelines for evaluating potential software winners and Cusumano's probing analysis, based on firsthand knowledge, of ten start-ups that have met with varying degrees of success.
The Business of Software is timely essential reading for managers, programmers, entrepreneurs, and others who follow the global software industry. [via]
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Call for the Deadby John Le CarreISBN 0743431677 (0-7434-3167-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call for the Dead'Book summary:John le Carré classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, who is introduced in this, his first novel -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.
George smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Smiley was puzzled... [via]
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The Chrysalidsby John Wyndham, David HarrowerISBN 0748742867 (0-7487-4286-7)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chrysalids'Book summary:Teacher requests for new drama by the best authors are met in these plays recently commissioned from leading professional playwrights. Revised National Curriculum requirements for students to read recent and contemporary drama are catered for in scripts specifically written for 11-16+. Having been performed as part of a nationwide youth theatre scheme, Connections are suited for school-based productions. Connections are ideal for class reading and studio performance, lasting about one hour each, and with casts of 7-20+. Activities and support material provided on a dedicated website will encourage pupils to engage with and think beyond the text. [via]
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City of Spadesby Colin MacInnesISBN 074900116X (0-7490-0116-X)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830 - 1867by Catherine HallISBN 0745618219 (0-7456-1821-9)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, Mick HumeISBN 0745310338 (0-7453-1033-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0745310346 (0-7453-1034-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Cross Bonesby Kathy ReichsISBN 0743453026 (0-7434-5302-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cross Bones'Book summary:A gripping and explosive new thriller from internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and new york times bestselling author kathy reichs, featuring temperance brennan and detective andrew ryan on the trail of a modern murder and an ancient biblical mystery... When an orthodox jewish man is found shot to death in montreal, temperance brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her it is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as jesus, and one that could lead to the rewriting of two thousand years of religious history. As tempe investigates, she learns that the stranger's picture shows bones uncovered during an archaeological dig. She discovers the montreal shooting victim ran an import business that just might have been a front for the trading of black market antiquities. Along with detective andrew ryan and biblical archaeologist jake drum, tempe travels to israel to probe the origins of the skeleton and the ancient crypt in which it was found. Together they make a startling discovery that raises radical questions about christ's death and places them squarely in the middle of a swirling controversy. Could one of the tombs really be christ's last resting place? are the bones in the ancient ossuary the last remnants of james, the brother of jesus, as the inscription claims? or has someone concocted an elaborate hoax? using her skills as a forensic scientist, tempe plunges into the most controversial case of her career. The stakes have never been higher -- the more she learns, the greater the danger. And though ryan is sexier and more engaging than ever, he may not be able to protect tempe in this place where there seem to be so many foes. [via]
Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961-1971by Jonathan GreenISBN 0749390123 (0-7493-9012-3)
Softcover, Butterworth-Heinemann
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Death in the Stocksby Georgette HeyerISBN 0745172539 (0-7451-7253-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Divided Kingdomby Rupert ThomsonISBN 0747572186 (0-7475-7218-6)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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Egon Ronay's Coca-Cola Guide Best Pubs of Britainby Egon RonayISBN 0749500182 (0-7495-0018-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Grey Area and Other Storiesby Will SelfISBN 0747518718 (0-7475-1871-8)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 074347712X (0-7434-7712-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Head to Toeby Joe OrtonISBN 0749390298 (0-7493-9029-8)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Heart of Mid-Lothianby Walter Scott, David Hewitt, Alison LumsdenISBN 0748605703 (0-7486-0570-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian'Book summary:The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the murder trials of John Porteous and Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Scott's chronicle spans the eighty years of David Dean's life. A complex and challenging narrative that acutely raises the problem of a judicial system that does not produce justice. Placed within its immediate political context, history is represented through the life of the Deans, accompanied by the justice of Providence as perceived by his daughter Jeanie, the greatest of Scott's heroines.
This edition of The Heart of Mid-Lothian provides a new text established in accordance with the tired policies and practices of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Its annotation comprehensively treats the novel's historical, legal, religious and cultural sources.
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Irelandby Rough Guides StaffISBN 074953544X (0-7495-3544-X)
Hardcover, Automobile Association
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Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1776-1783by Stanley WeintraubISBN 0743226879 (0-7432-2687-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1776-1783'Book summary:Iron Tears examines the Revolutionary War primarily from the perspective of British politicians, soldiers, citizens, and the royal court of King George III. In this enjoyable and enlightening book, American historian Stanley Weintraub looks at myopic King George and his ambition to hold the colonies at any price, discusses how antiwar opposition in Parliament gradually gained momentum, and studies the sentiments of the general population who were forced to pay heavy taxes to support the conflict, causing resentment and, in 1780, a riot. Despite such rumblings all around him, the insulated king failed to realize how much the situation in far-off America affected domestic issues in England and was shocked enough when he lost America that he considered abdicating his throne. Most British citizens did not take it nearly as hard; many, in fact, welcomed the chance to get back to business with the Americans, feeling that commerce had been interrupted long enough by an expensive and unnecessary war.
Weintraub also covers the battles on the other side of the Atlantic and offers profiles of the major players, particularly George Washington, who became a folk hero in Britain, earning the admiration of even those ardently against the American cause. The consequences of Britain's hiring of thousands of foreign mercenaries, some of which ended up deserting and settling permanently in America, are also discussed, along with the issue of why loyalists in the colonies failed to join the redcoats in significant numbers. Most importantly, in detailing the strategic and tactical mistakes made by Britain, the author highlights the various circumstances that greatly favored the rebellious colonies from the beginning, including the sheer vastness of America and the maddening logistical difficulties involved in sending soldiers, provisions, and messages across the ocean. Weintraub makes a compelling case that the mighty British Empire never really had a chance. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscriptby James Boswell, Marshall WaingrowISBN 0748604715 (0-7486-0471-5)
Hardcover, Edinburgh University Press
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Keeping Up With Magdaby Isla DewarISBN 0747251126 (0-7472-5112-6)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074348276X (0-7434-8276-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King Learby Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare, Paul WerstineISBN 0743452941 (0-7434-5294-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:In "King Lear," one of Shakespeare's greatest and most enduring plays, an aging father's demand that his daughters publicly declare their love for him triggers a reaction that involves nations and brings suffering and death to his entire family. The play takes ordinary jealousies, demands for love, sibling rivalries, desires for money and power, and petty cruelties to the extreme. In this play, we see ourselves and our small vices magnified to gigantic proportions; also, through the character of Lear, we see the end of our lives, with old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, helplessness, pride, and finally, perhaps, wisdom.
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LIBRARY SHAKESPEAREDesigned to make Shakespeare's great plays available to all readers, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. Each play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater. Each play is followed by an annotated list of further readings and by a "Modern Perspective" written by an expert on that particular play. [via]
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King Richard III: The Tragedy ofby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743482840 (0-7434-8284-0)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard III: The Tragedy of'Book summary:"Now is the winter of our discontent," intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard III, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that "I am determined to prove a villain". Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of Richard III, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Land That Lost Its Heroes: Argentina, the Falklands, and Alfonsinby Jimmy BurnsISBN 0747501114 (0-7475-0111-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Land That Lost Its Heroes: The Falklands the Post-War and Alfonsinby Jimmy BurnsISBN 0747500029 (0-7475-0002-9)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Let Them Call It Jazz and Other Storiesby Jean RhysISBN 0747521050 (0-7475-2105-0)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub
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Linger Awhileby Russell HobanISBN 0747579849 (0-7475-7984-9)
Softcover, Bloomsbury
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Londonby NISBN 0749544538 (0-7495-4453-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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M16 : Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Serviceby Stephen DorrilISBN 0743203798 (0-7432-0379-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743477103 (0-7434-7710-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Susan Snyder
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey through Twentieth-Century Philosophyby Colin McGinnISBN 0743231805 (0-7432-3180-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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Martin Chuzzlewitby Charles DickensISBN 0749307595 (0-7493-0759-5)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Masterby Colm ToibinISBN 0743250419 (0-7432-5041-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master'Book summary:Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility.
Toibin is "a great and humanizing writer" who describes complex relationships in "supple, beautifully modulated prose" ("The Washington Post Book World"). In "The Master, " he has written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages. [via]
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0743477561 (0-7434-7756-1)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" Shylock's impassioned plea in the middle of The Merchant of Venice is one of its most dramatic moments. After the Holocaust, the play has become a battleground for those who argue that the play represents Shakespeare's ultimate statement against ignorance and anti-Semitism in favour of a liberal vision of tolerance and multiculturalism. Other critics have pointed out that the play is, after all, a comedy that ultimately pokes fun at a 16th-century Jew. In fact, the bare outline of the plot suggests that the play is far more complex than either of these characterisations. Bassanio, a feckless young Venetian, asks his wealthy friend, the merchant Antonio, for money to finance a trip to woo the beautiful Portia in Belmont. Reluctant to refuse his friend (to whom he professes intense love), Antonio borrows the money from the Jewish moneylender. If he reneges on the deal, Shylock jokingly demands a pound of his flesh. When all Antonio's ships are lost at sea, Shylock calls in his debt, and the love and laughter of the first scenes of the play threaten to give way to death and tragedy. The final climactic courtroom scene, complete with a cross-dressed Portia, a knife-wielding Shylock, and the debate on "the quality of mercy" is one of the great dramatic moments in Shakespeare. The controversial subject matter of the play ensures that it continues to repel, divide but also fascinate its many audiences. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Merchant of Venice : Texts and Contextsby William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul WerstineISBN 0743452984 (0-7434-5298-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Mi6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Serviceby Stephen DorrilISBN 0743217780 (0-7432-1778-0)
Softcover, Free Pr
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Moor's Last Sighby Salman RushdieISBN 0745137946 (0-7451-3794-6)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Mr. Love and Justiceby Colin MacInnesISBN 0749001860 (0-7490-0186-0)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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Music & Silenceby Rose TremainISBN 0743418263 (0-7434-1826-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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My Elvis Blackoutby Simon CrumpISBN 0747549052 (0-7475-4905-2)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles DickensISBN 0749307560 (0-7493-0756-0)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'Book summary:In this, Dickens' last and unfinished novel, the author's own painful reflections on the nature of time and mortality deepen his more usual perceptions. This novel is probably the closest that Dickens came to the Gothic novel form. This edition contains an introduction by Peter Ackroyd. [via]
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Opening Nightby Ngaio MarshISBN 0745171796 (0-7451-7179-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Other Boleyn Girlby Philippa GregoryISBN 0743227441 (0-7432-2744-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Boleyn Girl'Book summary:Everyone knows the fate of Anne Boleyn, but not many know the story of her rise to majesty and the part played by her rival and sister, Mary, who was Henry's mistress and mother to two of his bastard children before the dazzling older Boleyn girl even caught his eye. Philippa Gregory, whose own role as the Queen of historical romance grows more secure with each new novel, has surpassed her self with this epic tale of lust, jealousy and betrayal. The Other Boleyn Girl charts the lives of both Boleyns--each in their turn "the other Boleyn Girl"--and their fiercely ambitious, conniving family who used the girls as pawns to advance their own positions at the court of Henry VIII. At 13, Mary is little more than a child when she is presented to Henry, ordered by her scheming family to serve her King and country by opening her legs whenever commanded, or doing anything else the great monarch desires. And while his loins are satisfied, life at court is sweet for the unofficial Queen and her pushy coterie. Inevitably though, the King's eyes soon begin to wander and Mary is overlooked, helpless to do anything but aid her family's plot to advance their fortunes, replace her with Anne and give Henry the greatest gift of all: a son and heir.
So good a job has Ms Gregory done at portraying the Boleyns and Howards as selfish, scheming, treacherous manipulators however, that it becomes increasingly hard to feel empathy for any of them. While Mary is merely hapless, Anne is the most ruthless of them all, so that instead of feeling cheated by knowing the outcome of her story, it only serves to help digest her unpalatable rise. Such a gruesome destiny was never more deserved. Ms Gregory has worked hard at researching her historical references. Daily life at court is described in fascinating detail--from the relentless leisure pursuits, masques and banquets laid on for the easily bored King to the complex hierarchies and machinations of the courtiers. However, the fall of Queen Katherine of Aragon and her only child, the Princess Mary, and the politics of the competing European courts and the break with Rome are seen only as a backdrop to the bawdy goings-on of the Boleyns and their fateful race for the crown. --Carey Green [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Raquel JaramilloISBN 0743214498 (0-7432-1449-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"Peter Pan," J. M. Barrie's tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up, remains one of the most beloved children's books ever written. For nearly a hundred years, kids across the world have drifted off to sleep dreaming about Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys, pixie dust and ticking clocks, crocodiles and Captain Hook. But in spite of the story's visual richness, it has never been illustrated photographically until now.
In this lavishly produced edition of the unabridged adventure classic, designer and illustrator Raquel Jaramillo interprets "Peter Pan" through her wondrous photographic imagery. By blending illustration, photography, and computer technology, she blurs the lines between fiction and reality. The result is fresh and startlingly beautiful -- pure magic. Neverland comes alive with the immediacy and drama of a movie. Pirates stalk savage forests, mermaids swim through sun-kissed seas, children fly above undiscovered islands. Portrayed with a flesh-and-blood intimacy, the beloved characters of Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, and Nana seem more real than ever before.
Part ghost story, part love story, tender, funny, and wise, "Peter Pan" is a haunting work that appeals equally to boys and girls. But in the wake of numerous abridged retellings, the famous Disney adaptation, and other big-screen updates, the true nature of the novel has been somewhat forgotten, its impact diminished with each passing generation. Jaramillo's stunning re-creation secures the legacy of the tale, in all its complexity, for a second century. It will prove to be as ageless as Peter himself. [via]
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles DickensISBN 0749307536 (0-7493-0753-6)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pickwick Papers'Book summary:Dickens' first novel - with its creative use of the old tradition of graphic satire - is an episodic series of adventures featuring the noble Mr Pickwick and a range of characters such as Jingle, Sam Weller and various other members of the Pickwick Club. [via]
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Reluctant Odysseyby Edith PargeterISBN 0747233365 (0-7472-3336-5)
Softcover, General Publishing Company, Limited
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The Return of John MacNabby Andrew GreigISBN 0747253536 (0-7472-5353-6)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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The Russia Houseby John Le CarreISBN 0743464664 (0-7434-6466-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Saint Who Loved Meby Mimi TheboISBN 0749005041 (0-7490-0504-1)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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Satan Wants Meby Robert IrwinISBN 0747551650 (0-7475-5165-0)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Satan Wants Me'Book summary:The summer of 1967 - the summer of "A Whiter Shade of Pale", "Mellow Yellow" and "Sgt Pepper". Peter is into path-working meditations, backwards causation, easy sex and drugs. There is acid on the streets and darker things are on the move. [via]
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Six Wives of Henry the VIIIby Antonia FraserISBN 074517700X (0-7451-7700-X)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day Peopleby Charles DickensISBN 0749308699 (0-7493-0869-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Spy Who Came in from the Coldby John Le CarreISBN 0743442539 (0-7434-4253-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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Stasi Files: East Germany's Secret Operation Against Britianby Anthony GleesISBN 0743231058 (0-7432-3105-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sweet Smell of Psychosisby Will SelfISBN 0747531110 (0-7475-3111-0)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 074347757X (0-7434-7757-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men -- the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio -- and the two sisters they meet in Padua. Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, the apparently ideal younger daughter of the wealthy Baptista Minola. But before they can marry, Bianca's formidable elder sister, Katherine, must be wed. Petruchio, interested only in the huge dowry, arranges to marry Katherine -- against her will -- and enters into a battle of the sexes that has endured as one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable works. [via]
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Tears of the Giraffeby R. A. McCall Smith, Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0748662731 (0-7486-6273-1)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Them: Adventures With Extremistsby Jon RonsonISBN 0743233212 (0-7432-3321-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Them: Adventures With Extremists'Book summary:In Them, British humorist Jon Ronson relates his misadventures as he engages an assortment of theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum. His subjects include Omar Bakri Mohammed, the point man for a holy war against Britain (Ronson paints him as a wily buffoon); a hypocritical but engaging Ku Klux Klan leader; participants in the Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, battles; the Irish Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley; and David Ickes, who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us. Despite these characters' disparities, they are bound by a belief in the Bilderberg Group, the "secret rulers of the world." In a final chapter, Ronson manages, with surprising ease, to penetrate these rulers' very lair. He writes with wry, faux-naive wit and eschews didacticism, instead letting his subjects' words and actions speak for themselves. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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Think of Englandby Alice Elliott DarkISBN 0743234979 (0-7432-3497-9)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracyby Anthony GiddensISBN 0745622674 (0-7456-2267-4)
Softcover, Polity Press
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The Translatorby Leila AboulelaISBN 074866257X (0-7486-6257-X)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluffby Mark GatissISBN 0743283945 (0-7432-8394-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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Warfare Accomplishedby Edith Mary PargeterISBN 0747233993 (0-7472-3399-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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White Doves at Morningby James Lee BurkeISBN 0743466624 (0-7434-6662-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and irreverent Willie Burke, the son of Irish immigrants, face the trials of battle and find redemption in the love of a passionate and committed abolitionist, Abigail Downing, and in the courageous struggle of Flower Jamison, a beautiful slave. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, and penetrating a landscape of shattering Civil War bloodshed as few novels have, this epic from an American literary giant endows readers with the gift of experiencing the past through new eyes, while its timeless prose style -- at once luminous and brutal -- ensures the legacy of this bloodiest of conflicts will never be lost. [via]
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The Woman Who Painted Her Dreamsby Isla DewarISBN 0747273243 (0-7472-7324-3)
Softcover, Review
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Zuleika Dobsonby Max BeerbohmISBN 0749399163 (0-7493-9916-3)
Softcover, Heinemann
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