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5th of July: A Playby Lanford WilsonISBN 0809012405 (0-8090-1240-5)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: J.D. Cullom, Michael Gladis, Lola Glaudini, Sarah Hagan, Marin Hinkle, Jay Paulson, Matt Roth and Claudette Southerland. [via]
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An American Tragedyby Theodore DreiserISBN 0808509519 (0-8085-0951-9)
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Centuryby John F. KassonISBN 0809001330 (0-8090-0133-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Army Life in a Black Regimentby Thomas Wentworth HigginsonISBN 080944237X (0-8094-4237-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Army Life in a Black Regiment'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Baja Californiaby William Weber JohnsonISBN 080941161X (0-8094-1161-X)
Hardcover, Time Life Education
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Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917by Matthew Frye JacobsonISBN 0809016281 (0-8090-1628-1)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Ageby Douglas AngusISBN 0808522752 (0-8085-2275-2)
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Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution-Making in Revolutionary Americaby Marc W. KrumanISBN 0807847976 (0-8078-4797-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societiesby Frederick Cooper, Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. HoltISBN 0807848549 (0-8078-4854-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Thomas Holt focuses on emancipation in Jamaica and the contested meaning of citizenship in defining and redefining the concept of freedom; Rebecca Scott investigates the complex struggles and cross-racial alliances that evolved in southern Louisiana and Cuba after the end of slavery; and Frederick Cooper examines the intersection of emancipation and imperialism in French West Africa. In their introduction, the authors address issues of citizenship, labor, and race, in the post-emancipation period and they point the way toward a fuller understanding of the meanings of freedom. [via]
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The Big Sea: An Autobiographyby Langston HughesISBN 0809015498 (0-8090-1549-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Centaur Aisleby Piers AnthonyISBN 0808522094 (0-8085-2209-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Centaur Aisle'Book summary:One of a series of novels about the enchanted world of Xanth, a land of magic and myth, of ogres, walking nightmares, wizards, magicians and nymphs. It is a land where anything can happen - and frequently does. [via]
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New Englandby William CrononISBN 0809001586 (0-8090-0158-6)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England'Book summary:The book that launched environmental history now updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976by Piero GleijesesISBN 0807854646 (0-8078-5464-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0808519476 (0-8085-1947-6)
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Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle Eastby Salim YaqubISBN 0807855081 (0-8078-5508-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Employing a wide range of recently declassified Egyptian, British, and American archival sources, Yaqub offers a dynamic and comprehensive account of Eisenhower's efforts to counter Nasserism's appeal throughout the Arab Middle East. Challenging interpretations of U.S.-Arab relations that emphasize cultural antipathies and clashing values, Yaqub instead argues that the political dispute between the United States and the Nasserist movement occurred within a shared moral framework--a pattern that continues to characterize U.S.-Arab controversies today. [via]
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Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukeboxby Paul GoldsteinISBN 0809015919 (0-8090-1591-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox'Book summary:In a refreshingly clearheaded and entertaining book, noted copyright expert Goldstein offers lucid answers to questions about copyright law and lore, and shows how important it is to understand that copyright issues shape not only the international marketplace but our very culture. [via]
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Dredby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert S. LevineISBN 0807856851 (0-8078-5685-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898: 1 1882-1888 Early Essays&Leibnizs New Essays Concerning the Human Understandingby John DeweyISBN 0809307227 (0-8093-0722-7)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 080857311X (0-8085-7311-X)
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testby Tom WolfeISBN 0808501518 (0-8085-0151-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'Book summary:They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of "tootling the multitudes"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Ender's Gameby Orson Scott CardISBN 0808586165 (0-8085-8616-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender's Game'Book summary:In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Back on Earth, Peter and Valentine forge an intellectual alliance and attempt to change the course of history.
This futuristic tale involves aliens, political discourse on the Internet, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a tale of a boy struggling to grow up into someone he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices. Ender's Game is a must-read book for science fiction lovers, and a key conversion read for their friends who "don't read science fiction."
Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula the year it came out. Writer Orson Scott Card followed up this honor with the first-time feat of winning both awards again the next year for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0808519549 (0-8085-1954-9)
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Fighting the Flying Circusby Edward V. RickenbackerISBN 0809479540 (0-8094-7954-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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First Generations: Women in Colonial Americaby Carol BerkinISBN 0809016060 (0-8090-1606-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Generations: Women in Colonial America'Book summary:This study of American women in the 17th and 18th centuries by historian Carol Berkin gives close attention to the lives of several women like Mary, who was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1622. She married another African, Antonio, and over the course of their 40-year marriage, they earned their freedom and established a 250-acre plantation before moving to Maryland in search of new land. Other black women were not so lucky and, as time progressed, laws restricting black freedom were codified. This study uses legal and other types of records to illuminate the lives and experiences of these and other black, white, and Native American women. [via]
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0808519387 (0-8085-1938-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. [via]
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The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politicsby Jason BivinsISBN 0807854689 (0-8078-5468-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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From Plantation to Ghettoby August MeierISBN 0809001225 (0-8090-0122-5)
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0808501526 (0-8085-0152-6)
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The Ghostly Gazetteer: America's Most Fascinating Haunted Landmarksby Arthur MyersISBN 0809242044 (0-8092-4204-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Golden Age of Homespunby Jared Van WagenenISBN 0809000660 (0-8090-0066-0)
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Grand Canyonby Robert WallaceISBN 080941144X (0-8094-1144-X)
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Half Slave And Half Free: The Roots Of Civil Warby Bruce C. LevineISBN 0809053535 (0-8090-5353-5)
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0808598295 (0-8085-9829-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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History of New Yorkby Irving, Edwin T. BowdenISBN 0808401580 (0-8084-0158-0)
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Home Front U.S.A.by Ronald H. BaileyISBN 0809424789 (0-8094-2478-9)
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0808519638 (0-8085-1963-8)
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Human Nature and Conduct, 1922by John Dewey, Jo Ann BoydstonISBN 0809314371 (0-8093-1437-1)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Nature and Conduct, 1922'Book summary:[via]Volume 14 of The Middle Works of John Dewey, 18991924, series provides an authoritative edition of Deweys Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.
Human Nature and Conduct evolved from the West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University. The lectures were extensively rewritten and expanded into one of Deweys best-known works. As Murray G. Murphey says in his Introduction, It was a work in which Dewey sought to make explicit the social character of his psychology and philosophysomething which had long been evident but never so clearly spelled out.
Subtitled An Introduction to Social Psychology, Human Nature and Conduct sets forth Deweys view that habits are social functions, and that social phenomena, such as habit and custom and scientific methods of inquiry are moral and natural. Dewey concludes, Within the flickering inconsequential acts of separate selves dwells a sense of the whole which claims and dignifies them. In its presence we put off mortality and live in the universal.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0808510576 (0-8085-1057-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950by Mark Bradley, John Lewis GaddisISBN 0807848611 (0-8078-4861-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950'Book summary:In this study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950, Mark Bradley fundamentally reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the twentieth century. Among the first Americans granted a visa to undertake research in Vietnam since the war, Bradley draws on newly available Vietnamese-language primary sources and interviews as well as archival materials from France, Great Britain, and the United States.
Bradley uses these sources to reveal an imagined America that occupied a central place in Vietnamese political discourse, symbolizing the qualities that revolutionaries believed were critical for reshaping their society. American policymakers, he argues, articulated their own imagined Vietnam, a deprecating vision informed by the conviction that the country should be remade in America's image.
Contrary to other historians, who focus on the Soviet-American rivalry and ignore the policies and perceptions of Vietnamese actors, Bradley contends that the global discourse and practices of colonialism, race, modernism, and postcolonial state-making were profoundly implicated inand ultimately transcendedthe dynamics of the Cold War in shaping Vietnamese-American relations. [via]
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In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil Warby Alice Rains TrulockISBN 0807849804 (0-8078-4980-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Incorporation of America: Culture And Society in the Gilded Ageby Alan TrachtenbergISBN 0809058286 (0-8090-5828-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Ageby Eric Foner, Alan Trachtenberg, Alan TrachenburgISBN 0809001454 (0-8090-0145-4)
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Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelicalby Philip F. GuraISBN 0809061961 (0-8090-6196-1)
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Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilderby Donald ZochertISBN 0809281740 (0-8092-8174-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder'Book summary:Courage, Adventure, Steadfast Love From a little house set deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, across Indian territory and into the Dakotas, Laura's family moved westward right along the frontier.
Their true-life saga, beloved by countless millions of TV viewers and readers of the bestselling Little House books, is one of spirit and devotion in the face of bitter-cold winters, wilderness trails, and heartbreaking personal tragedy.
Here, for the first time, and drawing on her own unpublished memoirs is the endlessly fascinating full account of Laura's life -- from her earliest years through her enduring marriage to Almanzo Wilder, the "farmer boy" of her stories.
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The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0808521667 (0-8085-2166-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Left Hand of Darkness'Book summary:Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, however, that this is a rollicking good story. Le Guin takes a lot of time to explore her characters, the world of her creation, and the philosophical themes that arise.
If there were a canon of classic science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness would be included without debate. Certainly, no science fiction bookshelf may be said to be complete without it. But the real question: is it fun to read? It is science fiction of an earlier time, a time that has not worn particularly well in the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness was a groundbreaking book in 1969, a time when, like the rest of the arts, science fiction was awakening to new dimensions in both society and literature. But the first excursions out of the pulp tradition are sometimes difficult to reread with much enjoyment. Rereading The Left Hand of Darkness, decades after its publication, one feels that those who chose it for the Hugo and Nebula awards were right to do so, for it truly does stand out as one of the great books of that era. It is immensely rich in timeless wisdom and insight.
The Left Hand of Darkness is science fiction for the thinking reader, and should be read attentively in order to properly savor the depth of insight and the subtleties of plot and character. It is one of those pleasures that requires a little investment at the beginning, but pays back tenfold with the joy of raw imagination that resonates through the subsequent 30 years of science fiction storytelling. Not only is the bookshelf incomplete without owning it, so is the reader without having read it. --L. Blunt Jackson [via]
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Life Among the Apachesby John Carey CremonyISBN 0809439565 (0-8094-3956-5)
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Life in the Far Westby George F. RuxtonISBN 0809440458 (0-8094-4045-8)
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Madame De Treymesby Edith WhartonISBN 0808404865 (0-8084-0486-5)
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The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin Americaby Stephen G. RabeISBN 080784764X (0-8078-4764-X)
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Drawing on recently declassified materials, Rabe investigates the nature of Kennedy's intense anti-Communist crusade and explores the convictions that drove him to fight the Cold War throughout the Caribbean and Latin Americaa region he repeatedly referred to as "the most dangerous area in the world." As Rabe acknowledges, Kennedy remains popular in the United States and Latin America, in part for the noble purposes behind the Alliance for Progress. But an unwavering determination to wage Cold War led Kennedy to compromise, even mutilate, those grand goals. [via]
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil Warby Drew Gilpin FaustISBN 0807855731 (0-8078-5573-1)
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No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenshipby Linda K. KerberISBN 0809073846 (0-8090-7384-6)
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Not Afraid of Flavor: Recipes from Magnolia Grillby Karen Barker, Ben Barker, Ann HawthorneISBN 0807854980 (0-8078-5498-0)
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On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0808537989 (0-8085-3798-9)
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When the Ingalls family decides to move west to Minnesota, Laura is certain she won't like her new home. Her feelings quickly change as she and Mary make friends and Pa's wheat crop flourishes. Things take a turn for the worse when a cloud of grasshoppers destroys the crops and Pa is forced to leave to find work. Now it's Laura's chance to prove that she can help the family to survive.
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Parliamentary Law at a Glance: Based on Robert's Rules of Order Revisedby E.C. UtterISBN 0809288915 (0-8092-8891-5)
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Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empireby Tom ChaffinISBN 0809075563 (0-8090-7556-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire'Book summary:The amazing life of the explorer who first mapped the West and forever changed nineteenth-century America[via]
The career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) celebrates and ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's important new biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.
As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Frémont stood at the center of the vast federal project of Western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder.
But Frémont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Frémont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Frémont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat.
Chaffin brings to life the personal and political experiences of a remarkable American whose saga offers compelling insight into the conflicts, tensions, and contradictions at the core of America's lust for empire and its conquest of the trans-Missouri West.More editions of Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire:
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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872by Lyde Cullen SizerISBN 0807848859 (0-8078-4885-9)
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Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.
Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include. [via]
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82by Elizabeth A. FennISBN 080907821X (0-8090-7821-X)
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A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America.
By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and microbes, the epidemic worsened. Fenn's remarkable research shows us how smallpox devastated the American troops at Québec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston. Soon the disease affected the war in Virginia, where it ravaged slaves who had escaped to join the British forces. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, General Washington had to decide if and when to attempt the risky inoculation of his troops. In 1779, while Creeks and Cherokees were dying in Georgia, smallpox broke out in Mexico City, whence it followed travelers going north, striking Santa Fe and outlying pueblos in January 1781. Simultaneously it moved up the Pacific coast and east across the plains as far as Hudson's Bay.
The destructive, desolating power of smallpox made for a cascade of public-helath crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn's innovative work shows how this mega-tragedy was met and what its consequences were for America.More editions of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82:
Prompt And Utter Destruction: Truman And The Use Of Atomic Bombs Against Japanby J. Samuel WalkerISBN 080785607X (0-8078-5607-X)
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A Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0808508717 (0-8085-0871-7)
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Reveille in Washington, 1860 - 1865by Margaret LeechISBN 0809435578 (0-8094-3557-8)
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Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840by Steven C. BullockISBN 080784750X (0-8078-4750-X)
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0808599852 (0-8085-9985-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah, Plain and Tall'Book summary:MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would miss you more." The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. [via]
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Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf Warby John R. MacArthurISBN 0809085178 (0-8090-8517-8)
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Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Imageby Andrew BursteinISBN 0809085364 (0-8090-8536-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image'Book summary:The 1992 publication of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution renewed interest in interpreting the War for Independence as an expression of national rather than regional values. Most of these studies trace the universal desire for republican governance in the 13 colonies to the Enlightenment's valorization of reason and intellect. In Sentimental Democracy, Andrew Burstein argues that this nation's forefathers were not just led by the power of their minds but by the feelings in their hearts.
Americans, according to Burstein, viewed their culture as exceptional because of their susceptibility to emotions. While European politicos coldly manipulated their subjects, Americans recognized both the benefits and temptations that their senses provided them. By the time of the Revolution, patriots such as "the martyr" Joseph Warren demonstrated their commitment to public virtue by exercising sentimental passion while restraining excess emotion. Later, both republicans and federalists defined themselves publicly as individuals moderately appeasing the appetites of democracy. During and after Andrew Jackson's administration, Burstein argues, the virtues of moral restraint were relegated to the domestic sphere, while men exerted their nationalistic sentiments in a vigorous campaign of territorial expansion.
All in all, Burstein sheds new light on the primary documents upon which the political history of this nation rests. His assertion that nationalist intellectuals such as Thomas Jefferson and J. Hector Saint John de Crèvecoeur invested as much faith in human emotion as in reason provocatively revises traditional interpretations surrounding the passionate nature of politics in the Republic's formative years. --John M. Anderson [via]
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The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760S-1890sby Bertram Wyatt-BrownISBN 080784912X (0-8078-4912-X)
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This eloquent and richly textured study first demonstrates the psychological complexity of race relations, drawing new and provocative comparisons between American slave oppression and the Nazi concentration camp experience. The author then reveals how the rhetoric and rituals of honor affected the Revolutionary generation and--through a study of Andrew Jackson, dueling, and other demonstrations of manhood--how early American politicians won or lost popularity. In perhaps the most subtle and intriguing section of the book, he discloses the interconnections of honor and religious belief and practice. Finally, exploring the effects of war and defeat on former Confederates, Wyatt-Brown suggests that the rise of violent racism following the Civil War had significant links to the shame of military defeat and the spurious invocation of religious convictions. [via]
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A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society And Revivals In Rochester, New York, 1815-1837by Paul E. JohnsonISBN 0809016354 (0-8090-1635-4)
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Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragistsby Jean H. BakerISBN 0809087030 (0-8090-8703-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists'Book summary:They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women were the first to picket the White House for a political cause) and violent (women were arrested, jailed, and force-fed in prisons). And like every revolutionary before them, their struggle was personal.[via]
For the first time, the eminent historian Jean H. Baker tellingly interweaves these women's private lives with their public achievements, presenting these revolutionary women in three dimensions, humanized, and marvelously approachable.More editions of Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists:
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The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920by Jeffrey SklanskyISBN 0807853984 (0-8078-5398-4)
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For a century after Independence, the dominant American understanding of selfhood and society came from the tradition of political economy, which defined freedom and equality in terms of ownership of the means of self-employment. However, the gradual demise of the household economy rendered proprietary independence an increasingly embattled ideal. Large landowners and industrialists claimed the right to rule as a privilege of their growing monopoly over productive resources, while dispossessed farmers and workers charged that a propertyless populace was incompatible with true liberty and democracy.
Amid the widening class divide, nineteenth-century social theorists devised a new science of American society that came to be called "social psychology." The change Sklansky charts begins among Romantic writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, continues through the polemics of political economists such as Henry George and William Graham Sumner, and culminates with the pioneers of modern American psychology and sociology such as William James and Charles Horton Cooley. Together, these writers reconceived freedom in terms of psychic self-expression instead of economic self-interest, and they redefined democracy in terms of cultural kinship rather than social compact. [via]
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Texansby David NevinISBN 080941502X (0-8094-1502-X)
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TownsmenISBN 0809414899 (0-8094-1489-9)
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Uncle Dick Wootton, the Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region: An Account of the Adventures and Thrilling Experiences of the Most Noted American Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Scout, and Indian Fighter Now Livingby Dick Wootton, Howard Louis ConardISBN 0809439522 (0-8094-3952-2)
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The United Statesby Winnie Denker, Time-Life BooksISBN 0809451123 (0-8094-5112-3)
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Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoricby Carol MattinglyISBN 0809322099 (0-8093-2209-9)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilsonby Gene SmithISBN 080943671X (0-8094-3671-X)
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 0808566245 (0-8085-6624-5)
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The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century Americaby Eric Foner, James R. GreenISBN 080909830X (0-8090-9830-X)
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The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century Americaby James R. GreenISBN 0809001322 (0-8090-0132-2)
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The Wright Brothersby Quentin ReynoldsISBN 0808511513 (0-8085-1151-3)
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