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Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics After Abu Ghraibby Henry GirouxISBN 1894037235 (1-894037-23-5)
Softcover, Arbeiter Ring Pub
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An American Tragedyby Theodore Dreiser, Thomas P. RiggioISBN 1931082316 (1-931082-31-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Tragedy'Book summary:A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, An American Tragedy is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departure a notorious murder case of 1910, Dreiser immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is both a remarkable work of reportage and a monumental study of character. Few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest.
In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an unforgettable portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence. Around Clyde, Dreiser builds an extraordinarily detailed fictional portrait of early twentieth-century America, its religious and sexual hypocrisies, its economic pressures, its political corruption. The sheer prophetic amplitude of his bitter truth-telling, in idiosyncratic prose of uncanny expressive power, continues to mark Dreiser as a crucially important American writer. An American Tragedy, the great achievement of his later years, is a work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking. [via]More editions of An American Tragedy:
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Anarchist Voices: An Oral History Of Anarchism In Americaby Paul AvrichISBN 1904859275 (1-904859-27-5)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anarchist Voices: An Oral History Of Anarchism In America'Book summary:[via]This book contains 180 interviews conducted over a period of 30 years. The interviewees were active between the 1880s and the 1930s and represent all schools of anarchism. Each of the six thematic sections begins with an explanatory essay, and each interview with a biographical note. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti. This work of impeccable scholarship is an invaluable resource not only for scholars of anarchism but also for those studying immigration, ethnic politics, education, and labor history.
Paul Avrich is a professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.
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Arrowsmithby Sinclair Lewis, Richard R. LingemanISBN 1931082081 (1-931082-08-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrowsmith'Book summary:Written at the height of his powers in the 1920s, the three novels in this volume continue the vigorous unmasking of American middle-class life begun by Sinclair Lewis in Main Street and Babbitt. In Arrowsmith (1925) Lewis portrays the medical career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his commitment to the ideals of his profession tested by the cynicism and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island.
Elmer Gantry (1927) aroused intense controversy with its brutal depiction of a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Through his satiric exposé of American religion, Lewis captured the growing cultural and political tension in the 1920s between the forces of secularism and fundamentalism.
Dodsworth (1929) follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy, retired Midwestern automobile manufacturer, as he travels through Europe with his increasingly restless wife, Fran. The novel intimately explores the unraveling of their marriage, while pitting the proud heritage of European culture against the rude vigor of American commercialism. [via]More editions of Arrowsmith:
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Avant-Guide San Francisco: Insiders' Guide for Cosmopolitan Travelersby Dan Levine, Michelle GoldbergISBN 1891603035 (1-891603-03-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Banjoby Claude McKayISBN 1902934040 (1-902934-04-0)
Softcover, X-Pr
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The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debsby Ray Ginger, Mike DavisISBN 193185940X (1-931859-40-X)
Softcover, Haymarket Books
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Berlinby Jason LutesISBN 1896597297 (1-896597-29-7)
Softcover, Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
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The Better of Mcsweeney'sby Dave EggersISBN 1932416331 (1-932416-33-1)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Better of Mcsweeney's'Book summary:This book collects some of the best stories from the first ten issues of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the literary journal that has become one of the country's most important and influential publications. McSweeney's began as a small collection of work rejected by other magazines, but it soon began to publish pieces primarily written for the journal, and to attract some of the finest writers in the country. Contributors to Best of McSweeney's, Volume One include Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, A. M. Homes, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Amanda Davis, George Saunders, Paul Collins, and William Vollmann, as well as many talented newcomers. Stories included here have been selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories, and one was performed in a regional musical theater.[via]More editions of The Better of Mcsweeney's:
Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda, Including the Doublespeak Dictionaryby Edward S. Herman, Matt WuerkerISBN 1895431484 (1-895431-48-4)
Softcover, Black Rose Books
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionageby Christopher Drew, Sherry Sontag, Annette Lawrence DrewISBN 1891620088 (1-891620-08-8)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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"Most of the stories in Blind Man's Bluff have never been told publicly," they write, "and none have ever been told in this level of detail." Among their revelations is the most complete accounting to date of the 1968 disappearance of the U.S.S. Scorpion; the story of how the Navy located a live hydrogen bomb lost by the Air Force; and a plot by the CIA and Howard Hughes to steal a Soviet sub. The most interesting chapter reveals how an American sub secretly tapped Soviet communications cables beneath the waves. Blind Man's Bluff is a compelling book about the courage, ingenuity, and patriotism of America's underwater spies. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Bottomsby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 189228460X (1-892284-60-X)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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Bounce the Rhineby Charles WhitingISBN 1932033076 (1-932033-07-6)
Hardcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812by Robin Reilly, Donald E. GravesISBN 1896941257 (1-896941-25-7)
Softcover, Robin Brass Studio
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812'Book summary:In 1814, the final year of the War of 1812, Britain mounted a massive seaborne assault against the United States. The British burned Washington, forcing President Madison and his cabinet to flee, but the Americans succeeded in fending off an assault on Baltimore (commemorated in the words of the American National Anthem). By the end of 1812 the British had sailed southward to launch a bold attack on New Orleans, which was defeated by the Americans under the inspired leadership of Andrew Jackson.Reilly's account of the Battle of New Orleans and the events that led up to it was first published to great acclaim in 1974. It is still regarded by many experts as unsurpassed. This is the first paperback edition. The text has been reset and the maps redrawn, and there are more pictures. [via]
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The Bulletproof George Washingtonby Charles D. BartonISBN 1932225005 (1-932225-00-5)
Softcover, Wallbuilders Pr
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California: A Study of American Character From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Franciscoby Josiah Royce, Ronald A. WellsISBN 189077152X (1-890771-52-X)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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Cantering the Countryby Loree Pettit, Dari MullinsISBN 1931397333 (1-931397-33-3)
Softcover, Geography Matters
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Cast upon the Breakersby Horatio AlgerISBN 1931927812 (1-931927-81-2)
Softcover, Polyglot Press
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Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburgby Timothy Smith, Terrence J. WinschelISBN 1932714197 (1-932714-19-7)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg'Book summary:The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The May 16, 1863, fighting took place just 20 miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Federal army attacked Gen. John C. Pemberton's hastily gathered Confederates.
The bloody fighting seesawed back and forth until superior Union leadership broke apart the Southern line, sending Pemberton's army into headlong retreat. The victory on Mississippi's wooded hills sealed the fate of both Vicksburg and her large field army, propelled Grant into the national spotlight, and earned him the command of the entire U.S. armed forces.Timothy Smith, who holds a Ph.D. from Mississippi State and works as a historian for the National Park Service, has written the definitive account of this long overlooked battle. His vivid prose is grounded upon years of primary research and is rich in analysis, strategic and tactical action, and character development. Champion Hill will become a classic Civil War battle study. REVIEWS WINNER, NON-FICTION, 2005, MISSISSIPPI INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS [via]More editions of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg:
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The Children's Hospitalby Chris AdrianISBN 1932416609 (1-932416-60-9)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 1933652179 (1-933652-17-9)
Softcover, Bed Book
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in the revolutionary Bed Book Landscape Reading Format - a new approach to reading in bed as well as other places people enjoy reading while lying down, such as the beach, or on a grassy lawn in the park. Bed Books provide the freedom to lie in any comfortable position without being obligated to sit up in order to read. They can be an essential aid for readers who may be prone to back and neck strain when assuming the contorted body positions normally required for reading while lying down, and for those who have previously found it difficult or impossible to read books in bed, such as the elderly and the disabled. Bed Books can also be read sitting up as easily as with a conventional book. See the current Bed Book Catalog at: www.bedbooks.NET www.readinginbed.com [via]
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Constitutional Law for a Changing Americaby Lee EpsteinISBN 1933116803 (1-933116-80-3)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Constitutional Law for a Changing America'Book summary:Examining the Supreme Court's interpretation of the basic liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments to the Constitution, the authors cover such important topics as freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, discrimination, and political participation. Shaving off 50 pages with strategic streamlining, the book is now leaner, allowing students to engage more effectively with material, while allowing instructors to assign more cases without necessarily assigning more pages. Bringing the volume fully up-to-date, this sixth edition gives increased attention to the electronic age and the significance of the Internet on speech, press, libel, obscenity, and privacy, as well as the impact of the war on terrorism on rights, liberty, and justice. [via]
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Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You'Ve Never Heard ofby David CarlyonISBN 1891620576 (1-891620-57-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Destruction of Young Lawyers: Beyond One Lby Douglas E. LitowitzISBN 1931968314 (1-931968-31-4)
Softcover, Univ of Akron Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Destruction of Young Lawyers: Beyond One L'Book summary:Young lawyers are morosely unhappy by every conceivable standard. They arrive at our law schools brimming with enthusiasm, but a decade later they are reporting staggering levels of anxiety, drug addiction, and depression. In legal circles there is talk about a "crisis of professionalism" and a "decline in civility," but the problem goes much deeper. Through ignorance and greed, the legal profession has designed a complicated system of education, licensing, and practice that drives young lawyers into fear, alienation, and self-hatred. The author of this booka law professor and practicing attorneyargues that young lawyers face a series of institutional absurdities built into the fabric of law school, the bar exam, and law firm practice. The current system is churning out a tidal wave of disaffected and bitter lawyers who see the legal system as a Byzantine maze, an endless artificial game totally disconnected from considerations of justice. The Destruction of Young Lawyers shows how these struggles can be reversed through massive structural change and is the first step toward diagnosis and treatment of the specific problems facing young lawyers. [via]
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Digging: The Workers Of Boston's Big Digby Michael Hintlian, Frederick SalvucciISBN 1889833924 (1-889833-92-4)
Hardcover, Commonwealth Editions
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poemsby J.D. McClatchyISBN 1931082359 (1-931082-35-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems'Book summary:A lively selection by J. D. McClatchy, the distinguished poet, critic, and editor, casts Millay's career in a new light. Here are familiar favorites alongside neglected gems: translations, a verse play, songs from her opera libretto The King's Henchman, and the complete sonnet sequence Fatal Interview. [via]
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Estes Park: A Quick History, Including Rocky Mountain National Parkby Kenneth JessenISBN 1928656005 (1-928656-00-5)
Softcover, J V Pubns
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Fear Itselfby Candida LawrenceISBN 1932961011 (1-932961-01-1)
Hardcover, Unbridled Books
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Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missingby Adam Mansbach, T CooperISBN 193335402X (1-933354-02-X)
Softcover, Akashic Books
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Frank Stella 1958by Harry Cooper, Frank Stella, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), Wexner Center for the Arts, Megan R LukeISBN 1891771426 (1-891771-42-6)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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The Good, the Bad & the Mad: Weird People in American Historyby E. Randall FloydISBN 1891799150 (1-891799-15-0)
Softcover, Harbor House
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A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China An Investigative Historyby Patrick TylerISBN 1891620371 (1-891620-37-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Growth of America 1878-1928by Clarence B. Carson, Beth A. HoffmanISBN 1931789126 (1-931789-12-6)
Softcover, Amer Textbook Committee
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Hamilton: Writingsby Alexander Hamilton, Joanne B. FreemanISBN 1931082049 (1-931082-04-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamilton: Writings'Book summary:One of the most vivid, influential, and controversial figures of the American founding, Alexander Hamilton was an unusually prolific and vigorous writer. As a military aide to George Washington, forceful critic of the Articles of Confederation, persuasive proponent of ratification of the Constitution, first Secretary of the Treasury, and leader of the Federalist party, Hamilton devoted himself to the creation of a militarily and economically powerful American nation guided by a strong republican government. His public and private writings demonstrate the perceptive intelligence, confident advocacy, driving ambition, and profound concern for honor and reputation that contributed both to his rise to fame and to his tragic early death.
Arranged chronologically, Writings contains more than 170 letters, speeches, essays, reports, and memoranda written between 1769 and 1804. Included are all 51 of Hamilton's contributions to The Federalist, as well as subsequent writing calling for a broad construction of federal power under the Constitution; his famous speech to the Constitutional Convention, which gave rise to accusations that he favored monarchy; early writings supporting the Revolutionary cause and a stronger central government; his visionary reports as Treasury secretary on the public credit, a national bank, and the encouragement of American manufactures; a detailed confession of adultery made by Hamilton in order to defend himself against charges of official misconduct; and his self- destructive attack on John Adams during the 1800 campaign. An extensive selection of private letters illuminates Hamilton's complex relationship with George Washington, his deep affection for his wife and children, his mounting fears during the 1790s regarding the Jeffersonian opposition and the French Revolution, and his profound distrust of Aaron Burr. Included in an appendix are conflicting eyewitness accounts of the Hamilton-Burr duel.
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Harmony in Flesh and Blackby Nicholas KilmerISBN 1890208477 (1-890208-47-7)
Softcover, Poisoned Pen Pr
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Healthwise Handbook: A Self-Care Guide for Youby Donald W. Kemper, Steven L. Schneider, Katy E. MageeISBN 1932921222 (1-932921-22-2)
Softcover, Healthwise
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Healthwise Handbook: A Self-Care Guide for You'Book summary:Eight out of ten health problems are cared for at home, and the award-winning Healthwise® Handbook helps people do a better job of managing their health concerns at home. Topics range from ear infections to heart disease, first aid to healthy eating. Now in its 17th edition, the Healthwise Handbook contains new information to help people get the care they need and save money by taking an active role in their own health care. The Healthwise Handbook is the only medical self-care guide that is linked to more in-depth health information online.  Go to Web icons throughout the book connect people to related information in the online Healthwise® Knowledgebase. Readers of the Healthwise Handbook can learn about more than 200 common health issues with clear, easy-to-understand information, full-color format, and all-new illustrations about: First aid and emergencies; Cost-saving tips for medicines; How to live better with a chronic disease; How to perform self-exams; ! Pregnancy problems; Back pain; Advance directives; and Safety. [via]
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Her Smoke Rose Up Foreverby James TiptreeISBN 1892391201 (1-892391-20-1)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Smoke Rose Up Forever'Book summary:These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Awardwinning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Awardwinning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.[via]More editions of Her Smoke Rose Up Forever:
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The Hidden Game of Football: The Next Editionby John Thorn, Pete Palmer, Bob Carroll, David PietruszaISBN 1892129019 (1-892129-01-9)
Softcover, Total Sports
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How We Are Hungryby Dave EggersISBN 1932416137 (1-932416-13-7)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Are Hungry'Book summary:How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.[via]More editions of How We Are Hungry:
Indians of the United States: Four Centuries of Their History and Cultureby Clark WisslerISBN 1931313512 (1-931313-51-2)
Softcover, Simon Pubns
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Infinite Loopby Meghan O'brienISBN 1932300422 (1-932300-42-2)
Softcover, Regal Crest Enterprises Llc
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King Cohn: The Life and Times of Hollywood Mogul Harry Cohnby Bob ThomasISBN 1893224074 (1-893224-07-4)
Softcover, New Millennium Entertainment
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Kiss Me, Judasby Will Christopher BayerISBN 193156180X (1-931561-80-X)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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The Lanahan Readings in the American Polityby Everett C. Ladd, Ann Gostyn SerowISBN 1930398034 (1-930398-03-4)
Softcover, Lanahan Pub Inc
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Lazarus Ariseby Nicholas KilmerISBN 1890208906 (1-890208-90-6)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby James AgeeISBN 1931082812 (1-931082-81-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909- 1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent life, he left enduring evidence of his unwavering intensity, observant eye, and sometimes savage wit.
This volume collects his fiction along with his extraordinary experiment in what might be called prophetic journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a collaboration with photographer Walker Evans that began as an assignment from Fortune magazine to report on the lives of Alabama sharecroppers, and that expanded into a vast and unique mix of reporting, poetic meditation, and anguished self-revelation that Agee described as "an effort in human actuality." A 64-page photo insert reproduces Evans's now iconic photographs from the expanded 1960 edition.
A Death in the Family, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that he worked on for over a decade and that was published posthumously in 1957, re-creates in stunningly evocative prose Agee's childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the upheaval his family experienced after his father's death in a car accident when Agee was six years old. A whole world, with its sensory vividness and social constraints, comes to life in this child's-eye view of a few catastrophic days. It is presented here for the first time in a text with corrections based on Agee's manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
This volume also includes The Morning Watch (1951), an autobiographical novella that reflects Agee's deep involvement with religious questions, and three short stories including the remarkable allegory "A Mother's Tale." [via]More editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families:
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Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routinesby Bill Hicks, John LahrISBN 1932360654 (1-932360-65-4)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
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Now available for the first time are Hick's most critical and comic observations, gathered from his stand-up routines, diaries, notebooks, letters, and final writings. This collection features his controversial humor and witheringly funny attacks on American culture, from its worship of celebrity and material goods to its involvement in the first Gulf War. Love All the People faithfully traces Hicks's evolution from a funny but conventional stand-up comedian into a fearless and brilliant iconoclast. [via]
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Mcsweeney's 19: Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyleby Dave EggersISBN 193241648X (1-932416-48-X)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern: 15by McSweeney'sISBN 1932416153 (1-932416-15-3)
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Michelin the Green Guide Californiaby MichelinISBN 2061011217 (2-06-101121-7)
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Michelin the Green Guide ChicagoISBN 2061594018 (2-06-159401-8)
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Midnight Ride Of Paul Revereby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christopher BingISBN 1929766130 (1-929766-13-0)
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The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United Statesby Paul AvrichISBN 1904859097 (1-904859-09-7)
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The Mountby Carol EmshwillerISBN 1931520038 (1-931520-03-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mount'Book summary:[via]* Philip K. Dick Award Winner
* Best of the Year: Locus, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Magazine
* Nominated for the Impac AwardCharley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot: The Hoots are alien invaders. Charley hasn't seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains somewhere, with the other Free Humans. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back. Charley knows how to be a good mount, but now he's going to have to learn how to be a human being.
"I've been a fan of Carol Emshwiller's since the wonderful Carmen Dog. The Mount is a terrific novel, at once an adventure story and a meditation on the psychology of freedom and slavery. It's literally haunting (days after finishing it, I still think about all the terrible poetry of the Hoot/Sam relationship) and hypnotic. I'm honored to have gotten an early look at it."
Glen David Gold"Carol Emshwiller's The Mount is a wicked book. Like Harlan Ellison's darkest visions, Emshwiller writes in a voice that reminds us of the golden season when speculative fiction was daring and unsettling. Dystopian, weird, comedic as if the Marquis de Sade had joined Monty Python, and ultimately scary, The Mount takes us deep into another reality. Our world suddenly seems wrought with terrible ironies and a severe kind of beauty. When we are the mounts, whoor whatis riding us?
Luis Alberto Urrea"We are all Mounts and so should read this book like an instruction manual that could help save our lives. That it is also a beautiful funny novel is the usual bonus you get by reading Carol Emshwiller. She always writes them that way."
Kim Stanley Robinson"This novel is like a tesseract, I started it and thought, ah, I see what she's doing. But then the dimensions unfolded and somehow it ended up being about so much more."
Maureen F. McHugh"The Mount is so extraordinary as to be unpraiseable by a mortal such as I. I had to keep putting it down because it was so disturbing then picking it up because it was so amazing. A postmodernist would call it The Eros of Hegemony, but I'm no postmodernist. Nearly every sentence is simultaneously hilarious, prophetic, and disturbing. This person needs to be really, really famous."
Paul Ingram, Prairie Lights Bookstore"Brilliantly conceived and painfully acute in its delineation of the complex relationships between masters and slaves, pets and owners, the served and the serving, this poetic, funny and above all humane novel deserves to be read and cherished as a fundamental fable for our material-minded times."
Publishers Weekly"Adult/High School - This veteran science-fiction writer is known for original plots and characters, and her latest novel does not disappoint, offering an extraordinary, utterly alien, and thoroughly convincing culture set in the not-too-distant future. Emshwiller brings readers immediately into the action, gradually revealing the takeover of Earth by the Hoots, otherworldly beings with superior intelligence and technology. Humans have become the Hoots' "mounts," and, in the case of the superior Seattle bloodline, valuable racing stock. Most mounts are well off, as the Hoots constantly remind them, and treated kindly by affectionate owners who use punishment poles as rarely as possible. No one agrees more than principal narrator Charley, a privileged young Seattle whose rider-in-training will someday rule the world. The adolescent mount's dream is of bringing honor to his beloved Little Master by becoming a great champion like Beauty, his sire, whose portrait decorates many Hoot walls. When Charley learns that his father now leads the renegade bands called Wilds, he and Little Master flee. This complex and compelling blend of tantalizing themes offers numerous possibilities for speculation and discussion, whether among friends or in the classroom."
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"Emshwiller's prose is beautiful"
Laura Miller, Salon"The Mount is a brilliant book. But be warned: It takes root in the mind and unleashes aftershocks at inopportune moments."
The Women's Review of Books"Carol Emshwiller has been writing fantasy, speculative and science fiction for many years; she has a dedicated cult following and has been an influence on a number of today's top writers.... it is very easy to fall into the rhythm of Emshwiller's poetic and smooth sentences."
Review of Contemporary Fiction"Emshwiller's themesthe allure of submission, the temptations of complicity, the perverse nature of compassionare not usual fare in novels of resistance and revolt, and her strikingly imaginative novel continues to surpass our expectations to the very last page."
The Philadelphia Inquirer"Both fantastical and unnerving in its familiarity. And like her work in romance and westerns, its genre-twisting plot resists easy classification."
The Village Voice"Emshwiller uses a deceptively simple narrative voice that gives The Mount the style of a young-adult novel. But there's much going on beneath the surface of this narrative, including oblique flashes of humor and artfully articulated moments of psychological insight. The Mount emerges as one of the season's unexpected small pleasures."
San Francisco Chronicle"A memorable alien-invasion scenario, a wild adventure, and a reflection on the dynamics of freedom and slavery."
Booklist"A brilliant piece of work."
Bookslut"...a beautifully written allegorical tale full of hope that even the most unenlightened souls can shrug off the bonds of internalized oppression and finally see the light."
BookPage"A fable/fantasy/cautionary tale along the lines of, say, Animal Farm. It's the story of Charlie, a preadolescent human who's being used as a horse by shoulder-riding alien invaders known as Hoots. Charlie wants nothing more than to become a great Mount, a loyal slave and servant, until his father, a renegade Mount who has fled from the Hoots and now lives in the mountains, comes to take him away. Like so much of Emshwiller's work, The Mount asks difficult questionsin this case, What is freedom? The issue is particularly appropriate at a time when "freedom" in America is increasingly defined as "security"freedom from uncertainty, freedom from fear, freedom from want. All of which is, in the end, not really freedom at all."Time Out New York
"In a recent interview with Science Fiction Weekly, Ursula Le Guin called Emshwiller "the most unappreciated great writer we've got." The Mount proves Le Guin right.... If Emshwiller is not already on your top bookshelf, The Mount will put her there."
RamblesCarol Emshwiller's stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Century, Scifiction, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, TriQuarterly, Transatlantic Review, New Directions, Orbit, Epoch, The Voice Literary Supplement, Omni, Crank!, Confrontation, Trampoline, McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, and many other anthologies and magazines.
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Moveon's 50 Ways To Love Your Country: How To Find Your Political Voice And Become A Catalyst For Changeby Moveon.OrgISBN 193072229X (1-930722-29-X)
Softcover, Inner Ocean Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moveon's 50 Ways To Love Your Country: How To Find Your Political Voice And Become A Catalyst For Change'Book summary:It's somewhat rare to see an entire grassroots political organization listed as the author of a book but it's perfectly in keeping with the spirit of both MoveOn.org and this handbook on civic activism authored by some of the group's members. It features 50 short chapters (one or two pages each in most cases) authored by non-celebrities from all walks of life who took it upon themselves to change the world. Some of the ideas are ambitious, as in the case of a liberal-minded Texan who decided the best way to make his views known was to run against Republican stalwart Tom DeLay in the GOP primary. Others are much simpler: write a letter to the editor, sign a petition, or go to a rally. But even in those seemingly obvious tactics, there are interesting techniques offered that could make a simple act a much more effective one. Included in each tip are bullet-pointed tips from MoveOn organizers to help the reader translate the idea into real action. While MoveOn is certainly not the first group to suggest simple steps to change the world, this volume scores points for it's concise editing and populist authorship. It's not a book to curl up with in front of the fire, it's meant to be thrown into a backpack or purse on the way to the next protest, campaign rally, or discussion group. The slant, like the organization itself, is a liberal one but the writers generally stop short of expanding on their political beliefs, choosing instead to focus on what those beliefs inspired them to do with their time and energy. Brief interstitial essays by notables such as Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi introduce sections of the book, providing expert gravity without detracting from the common person message. --John Moe [via]
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My Misspent Youth: Essaysby Meghan DaumISBN 1890447269 (1-890447-26-9)
Softcover, Open City Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Misspent Youth: Essays'Book summary:Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well-remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper's about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. She speaks to questions at the root of the contemporary experience, from the search for authenticity and interpersonal connection in a society defined by consumerism and media; to the disenchantment of working in a "glamour profession"; to the catastrophic effects of living among New York City's terminal hipsters. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her. In a review of The KGB Bar Reader, in which Daphne Merkin singled out Daum's essay about the inability to mourn a friend's death, Merkin wrote: "It's brutally quick, the way this happens, this falling in love with a writer's style. Daum's story hooked me by the second line. Hmm, I thought, this is a writer worth suspending my routines for."[via]More editions of My Misspent Youth: Essays:
The New York Times Guide to New York City 2002by New York Times Guides StaffISBN 1930881045 (1-930881-04-5)
Softcover, New York Times News Services Division
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No Time for Lunch: Memoirs of a Inner City Psychologistby Thelma BlumbergISBN 1932687092 (1-932687-09-2)
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Novels, 1942-1952by John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 1931082073 (1-931082-07-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels, 1942-1952'Book summary:This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.[via]
The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.
Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.More editions of Novels, 1942-1952:
Open Road Arizona Guideby Larry LudmerISBN 1892975807 (1-892975-80-7)
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Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religionby David BartonISBN 1932225269 (1-932225-26-9)
Softcover, Wallbuilders Pr
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The Original Thoroughbred Times Racing Almanac 2004by Staff of the Thoroughbred TimesISBN 1931993416 (1-931993-41-6)
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Orlo and Leiniby Rafael AlvarezISBN 1891521071 (1-891521-07-1)
Softcover, Woodholme House Pub
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Ourayby P. David SmithISBN 1890437115 (1-890437-11-5)
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President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetimeby Lou CannonISBN 1891620916 (1-891620-91-6)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime'Book summary:This is possibly the single best book available on the Reagan presidency. Lou Cannon began reporting on Ronald Reagan as a journalist when Reagan first ran for governor of California in 1966, and then covered him again in Washington after his 1980 presidential election. In short, there is probably no man or woman who has spent more years writing about the Gipper than Cannon. The result is a magisterial account of Reagan's two terms in the White House. Cannon is broadly sympathetic to his subject, but also coolly detached. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime pulled off the remarkable feat of winning praise from both Reagan's admirers and detractors when it was first published in 1991. This reissued edition, which includes a new preface describing Reagan's postpresidential descent into the abyss of Alzheimer's disease, must now be considered the standard text on the subject--especially in light of the controversy surrounding the book that aspired to Cannon's mantle, Edmund Morris's quasi biography Dutch.
Cannon's book is full of wise analysis and sound observation. He explains Reagan's success convincingly: "Optimism was not a trivial or peripheral quality. It was the essential ingredient of an approach to life.... [Reagan] had a knack of converting others to his optimism, almost as if he drew upon some private reservoir of self-esteem. People who listened to Reagan tended to feel good about him and better about themselves." Though the book bursts with detail, it's never so cumbersome that it bogs down Cannon's narrative. And these pages give only cursory attention to Reagan's life before the White House; this is more a biography of President Reagan than of Ronald Reagan. Conservatives who are defensive about Reagan's legacy may bristle at certain points; Cannon's portrait is not always a flattering one. Yet it's a compelling biography of a compelling man's most important years. It's possible to imagine that a fuller biography of Reagan will be written some day. Right now, however, this is the best there is--and it's very, very good. --John J. Miller [via]
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Publics and Counterpublicsby Michael WarnerISBN 1890951293 (1-890951-29-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Publics And Counterpublics'Book summary:Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants in common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible to imagine a social world without publics. In the eight essays in this book, Michael Warner addresses the question: What is a public?According to Warner, the idea of a public is one of the central fictions of modern life. Publics have powerful implications for how our social world takes shape, and much of modern life involves struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelations. The idea of a public contains ambiguities, even contradictions. As it is extended to new contexts, politics, and media, its meaning changes in ways that can be difficult to uncover.Combining historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extensive case studies, Warner shows how the idea of a public can reframe our understanding of contemporary literary works and politics and of our social world in general. In particular, he applies the idea of a public to the junction of two intellectual traditions: public-sphere theory and queer theory.
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A Quick History Of Leadvilleby Christian J. BuysISBN 1932738002 (1-932738-00-2)
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Rethinking Camelotby Noam ChomskyISBN 1895431727 (1-895431-72-7)
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Reveille in Washington, 1860 - 1865by Margaret LeechISBN 1931313237 (1-931313-23-7)
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Rough Ridersby Theodore Roosevelt, Louis AuchinclossISBN 1931082650 (1-931082-65-0)
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Secrecy and Privilege: Rise Of The Bush Dynasty From Watergate To Iraqby Robert ParryISBN 1893517012 (1-893517-01-2)
Softcover, Media Consortium
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Shipwrecks Along the Atlantic Coast: A Remarkable Collection of Photographs of Maritime Accidents from Maine to Floridaby William QuinnISBN 1889833738 (1-889833-73-8)
Hardcover, Commonwealth Editions
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Some of Your Bloodby Theodore Sturgeon, Steve Rasnic TemISBN 1933618000 (1-933618-00-0)
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Stormby George R. Stewart, Ernest CallenbachISBN 1890771740 (1-890771-74-0)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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"In _Storm_ we are&far from freeways, from megapopulation, from sprawl, from beach TV, from stress, from road rage. And we are in touch with a much deeper reality. Of land and water and weather, of humans huddled together on the planet in a dark universe."Ernest Callenbach, in the foreword [via]
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Storms And Shipwrecks of New Englandby Edward Rowe Snow, Jeremy D'Entremont, William P. QuinnISBN 1933212217 (1-933212-21-7)
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1933652454 (1-933652-45-4)
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Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairies/Astoria/the Adventures of Captain Bonnevilleby Washington IrvingISBN 1931082537 (1-931082-53-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairies/Astoria/the Adventures of Captain Bonneville'Book summary:Americas first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and inhabitants with an eye to romantic sublimity and celebrating the frontiersmans "secret of personal freedom," Irving published his account of that journey in 1835 as A Tour on the Prairies, an early and distinctly American depiction of the young nations borderland and its native inhabitants.
Irving followed up this eyewitness account with two works that chart the dramatic and tumultuous history of the early American fur trade, very much in the spirit of James Fenimore Coopers Leatherstocking Tales. Astoria (1836) recounts John Jacob Astors attempt to establish a commercial empire in the Pacific Northwest. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837) is a lively saga of exploration among the mountains, rivers, and deserts of the Far West. While working closely from original documents, Irving wrote also as a mythologist of the vast spaces traversed by "Sindbads of the wilderness." In these three compelling narratives he opened up a crucial region of the American literary imagination influencing such authors as Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. [via]
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripby George Saunders, Lane SmithISBN 1932416374 (1-932416-37-4)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Waging Modern Warby Wesley K. ClarkISBN 1903985552 (1-903985-55-2)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waging Modern War'Book summary:General Wesley K Clark was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe between 1997 and 2000, and in Waging Modern War he recounts how he masterminded "Operation Allied Force", the ultimately successful war against Serbia in Kosovo throughout the early months of 1999. However, this is no simple-minded military memoir. As a West Point graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Clark was regarded as both an intellectual and a hawk, a difficult position that led to a series of awkward political encounters throughout the military campaign. One of the most absorbing dimensions of the book is Clark's description of how he
...was torn between the guidance and perspective I gained from NATO, heavily influenced by the Department of State, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Downing Street, and the White House, and what I would hear in my US military chain reporting to the Pentagon.
As Clark increasingly pushed for a land invasion, US political interference ensured that the completion of the operation became even more difficult. Clark's clashes with both Slobodan Milosevic and US Secretary of Defence William Cohen are both fascinating insights into contemporary realpolitik, while President Clinton remains a remarkably shadowy, ambivalent figure on the political margins of Clarke's book.Waging Modern War is also an ambitious statement on the changing nature of warfare. Clark argues that Kosovo represented "modern war--limited, carefully constrained in geography, scope, weaponry and effects. Every measure of escalation was excruciatingly weighed". This is a timely reassessment of the political and military shape of the world in the aftermath of the Cold War by someone operating at its very heart. Clark emerges as a quiet but determined and ferociously competitive figure, who has written a formidably detailed account of Europe's first, and hopefully last "modern war". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Walt Whitmanby Walt Whitman, Harold BloomISBN 1931082324 (1-931082-32-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The War in Heavenby Kent NusseyISBN 1895837421 (1-895837-42-1)
Softcover, Insomniac Pr
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Warden: Prison Life and Death From The Inside Outby Ron Rozelle, Jim WillettISBN 1931721505 (1-931721-50-5)
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Washington Dcby Not AvailableISBN 1896339735 (1-896339-73-5)
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We the Peopleby Lou WeisbachISBN 1892866307 (1-892866-30-7)
Hardcover, Rare Air Media
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What Is the Whatby Dave EggersISBN 1932416641 (1-932416-64-1)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is the What'Book summary:In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.[via]More editions of What Is the What:
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White Stains - Anais Nin & Friendsby C.J. ScheinerISBN 1897767110 (1-897767-11-0)
Hardcover, Delectus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Stains - Anais Nin & Friends'Book summary:This collection of six sensual, yet explicit short stories is thought to have been written for an Oklahoma oil millionaire, Roy M. Johnson. Anais Nin is said to have paid a dollar per page to produce typescripts of explicit erotica for his own private amusement. In 'Alice' a couple spying on another couple screwing in a public park become involved in a steamy group sex scene. In 'Florence', a New York office girl enjoys sex for the first time sleeping with two men in quick succession! In 'Memories' a man recounts his youth and his teenage initiation into sex by a variety of older women.
This facsimile reproduction also contains an explicit sex manual, Love's Cyclopaedia, originally published with the stories. The intorduction by Dr. C.J. Schiener tells the story of the book's first clandestine edition by New York publisher Samuel Roth during the 1940s and all the evidence for attributing this anonymous work to Anais Nin. [via]
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William Carlos Williams: Selected Poemsby Robert PinskyISBN 1931082715 (1-931082-71-5)
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World War II In Cartoonsby Mark BryantISBN 1904943063 (1-904943-06-3)
Hardcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Writingsby Philip JohnsonISBN 1931082529 (1-931082-52-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writings'Book summary:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), James Weldon Johnsons first book and the first modernist novel written by an African American, is a groundbreaking and subtle account of racial passing, initially published as an anonymous memoir. Its veracitymany believed it to be a genuine autobiographyhas made it one of the undisputed masterpieces of African American literature and established Johnson in the African American literary vanguard of the first half of the twentieth century. He was also one of the central figures of the civil-rights struggle of his era, a tireless activist and longtime leader of the NAACP. Until now, however, his innovative and fascinating writings have never been gathered in a one-volume edition.
Johnsons complex career spanned the worlds of diplomacy (as a U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua), politics (as secretary of the NAACP), journalism (as the founder of one newspaper and longtime editor of another), and musical theater (as lyricist for the Broadway song-writing team of Cole and Johnson Brothers). Writings presents a generous array of Johnsons essays which, with the early work of W.E.B. Du Bois, established the foundation of twentieth- century African American literary criticism; a selection of his topical editorials from the New York Age; and an offering of his poems and lyrics, including Gods Trombonesa brilliant verse homage to African American preachingvaudeville songs, protest poems, and perhaps Johnsons most famous work, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a stirring hymn often called the "Negro National Anthem." [via]
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Xenophobe's Guide to Americansby Stephanie FaulISBN 1902825160 (1-902825-16-0)
Softcover, Oval Books
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You Can't Winby Jack BlackISBN 1902593022 (1-902593-02-2)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Can't Win'Book summary:[via]The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived.. With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.
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Zaatar Divaby Suheir HammadISBN 1892494671 (1-892494-67-1)
Softcover, Rattapallax Pr
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