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1912by James ChaceISBN 0743203941 (0-7432-0394-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Abide With Meby Elizabeth StroutISBN 0739325914 (0-7393-2591-4)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Alabamaby Teresa L. HymanISBN 0737720794 (0-7377-2079-4)
Hardcover, Greenhaven Pr
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All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writingsby George BushISBN 0743200411 (0-7432-0041-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings'Book summary:In lieu of a memoir, All the Best, George Bush collects correspondence and diary entries from the former U.S. president to show, as he says, "what my own heartbeat is, what my values are, what has motivated me in life." The letters begin in 1942--when, fresh out of high school, Bush volunteered for U.S. Navy flight school--and continue to the brink of the 21st century, as the retired chief executive worries about the Melissa virus infecting his office's server and keeping his visiting grandchildren in line. ("I realize," he muses, "Keep the freezer door closed from now on and I mean it lacks the rhetorical depth of This will not stand or Read my lips.") All the Best hits all the highlights of Bush's career, from the Texas oil business to his role as ambassador to China, then CIA director, vice president under Ronald Reagan, and finally president himself. Along the way, he reveals a personality that is at turns compassionate, respectful, silly, doting, and resolute--a man for whom being a father and a grandfather matters as much as, and maybe even more than, being leader of the free world. Fans and detractors alike will find in All the Best an intimate human portrait that offers as sure a self-definition of Bush's personal life as A World Transformed did his presidential career. [via]
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Alternatives to Sex : A Novelby Stephen McCauleyISBN 0743224736 (0-7432-2473-6)
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American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Swordby Seymour Martin LipsetISBN 0735100268 (0-7351-0026-8)
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Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold Warby Thomas BorstelmannISBN 073510431X (0-7351-0431-X)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing and Home Improvementby Dominique BrowningISBN 0743226933 (0-7432-2693-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nestby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 074322454X (0-7432-2454-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest'Book summary:As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose tells the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from grueling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German cannons into dynamited ruins resembling "half-peeled bananas," on to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration camp, and a large party at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest," where they drank the madman's (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources, three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Bobby Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic C.O. who first trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons skipped his funeral.
The Easy Company survivors describe the hell and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a G.I. by his C.O. for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle." --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Blue Frontier: Saving America's Living Seasby David HelvargISBN 0716737159 (0-7167-3715-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Bone Vault: A Novelby Linda FairsteinISBN 0743223543 (0-7432-2354-3)
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Borrower of the Nightby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0727846647 (0-7278-4664-7)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Cadillac, Vintage Postcard Memoriesby Debra BricaultISBN 0738520039 (0-7385-2003-9)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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Centaur Aisleby Piers AnthonyISBN 0727851276 (0-7278-5127-6)
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Cities Without Crisisby Mike DavidowISBN 0717804496 (0-7178-0449-6)
Hardcover, International Publishers
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Coast to Coast Ghosts: True Stories of Hauntings Across Americaby Leslie RuleISBN 0740718665 (0-7407-1866-5)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coast to Coast Ghosts: True Stories of Hauntings Across America'Book summary:Ghosts have been the entertaining subject of many works of fiction, but they're even more intriguing (and perhaps even scarier) when they are the focus of real-life hauntings in our own backyard. An employee of the St. James Hotel in New Mexico watches in shock as a fair-haired toddler with a terribly disfigured face disappears into the floor. This is just one of the paranormal mysteries Leslie Rule shares with us--a result of extensive interviews and research uncovering the reasons behind ghost sightings across the country.
Coast to Coast Ghosts features dozens of spine-tingling, real-life ghost stories and approximately fifty black-and-white photographs taken by Rule, including some believed to have captured actual apparitions.
Only the reader can decide. . . . [via]
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Coloradoby Tamra OrrISBN 0737714638 (0-7377-1463-8)
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Colorado Springsby Elizabeth WallaceISBN 0738520918 (0-7385-2091-8)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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The Conservative Tradition in Americaby Charles W. Dunn, J. David WoodardISBN 0742522342 (0-7425-2234-2)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr And American Intellectual Cultureby Martin HalliwellISBN 0742508420 (0-7425-0842-0)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Controversies in American Voting Behaviorby Richard G. Niemi, Herbert F. WeisbergISBN 0716705354 (0-7167-0535-4)
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: Corruption, Decadence, and the American Dreamby Anthony V. BouzaISBN 0738208833 (0-7382-0883-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Downtown Vancouverby Pat JollotaISBN 0738529591 (0-7385-2959-1)
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Dreams from My Fatherby Barack ObamaISBN 0739325760 (0-7393-2576-0)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreams from My Father'Book summary:In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his fathera figure he knows more as a myth than as a manhas been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mothers family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his fathers life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).
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Echoes of Glory: Arms and Equipment of the UnionISBN 0737031549 (0-7370-3154-9)
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Erie Canalby Joan H. Cregg, Martin Morganstein, Erie Canal MuseumISBN 0738508691 (0-7385-0869-1)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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Escape from Lucania : An Epic Story of Survivalby David RobertsISBN 0743224329 (0-7432-2432-9)
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0735101191 (0-7351-0119-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]More editions of Ethan Frome:
Fort Story And Cape Henryby Fielding Lewis TylerISBN 0738518220 (0-7385-1822-0)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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Fresh for '01 You Suckas: A Boondocks Collectionby Aaron McGruderISBN 0740713957 (0-7407-1395-7)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building of America, from the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention of the Internetby James TobinISBN 0743210646 (0-7432-1064-6)
Hardcover, Free Pr
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Highland Laddie Goneby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0727844180 (0-7278-4418-0)
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History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Industrial Workers of the Worldby Philip FonerISBN 0717803961 (0-7178-0396-1)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Ho Chi Minh:Selected Articles and Speeches, 1920-1967;: Selected Articles and Speeches, 1920-1967;by Chi Minh Ho, Jack WoddisISBN 0717802558 (0-7178-0255-8)
Hardcover, International Publishers
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0743217179 (0-7432-1717-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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I Am Madame X : A Novelby Gioia DilibertoISBN 0743211553 (0-7432-1155-3)
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If Beale Street Could Talkby James BaldwinISBN 0718111265 (0-7181-1126-5)
Hardcover, Joseph
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The Imperial Presidencyby Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0735100470 (0-7351-0047-0)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Imperial Presidency'Book summary:This Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author questions the growth of presidential power in two centuries, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. One of the most important and influential examinations of the U.S. presidency. [via]
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Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1776-1783by Stanley WeintraubISBN 0743226879 (0-7432-2687-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1776-1783'Book summary:Iron Tears examines the Revolutionary War primarily from the perspective of British politicians, soldiers, citizens, and the royal court of King George III. In this enjoyable and enlightening book, American historian Stanley Weintraub looks at myopic King George and his ambition to hold the colonies at any price, discusses how antiwar opposition in Parliament gradually gained momentum, and studies the sentiments of the general population who were forced to pay heavy taxes to support the conflict, causing resentment and, in 1780, a riot. Despite such rumblings all around him, the insulated king failed to realize how much the situation in far-off America affected domestic issues in England and was shocked enough when he lost America that he considered abdicating his throne. Most British citizens did not take it nearly as hard; many, in fact, welcomed the chance to get back to business with the Americans, feeling that commerce had been interrupted long enough by an expensive and unnecessary war.
Weintraub also covers the battles on the other side of the Atlantic and offers profiles of the major players, particularly George Washington, who became a folk hero in Britain, earning the admiration of even those ardently against the American cause. The consequences of Britain's hiring of thousands of foreign mercenaries, some of which ended up deserting and settling permanently in America, are also discussed, along with the issue of why loyalists in the colonies failed to join the redcoats in significant numbers. Most importantly, in detailing the strategic and tactical mistakes made by Britain, the author highlights the various circumstances that greatly favored the rebellious colonies from the beginning, including the sheer vastness of America and the maddening logistical difficulties involved in sending soldiers, provisions, and messages across the ocean. Weintraub makes a compelling case that the mighty British Empire never really had a chance. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Jimmy Fund of Dana-Faber Instituteby Saul WisniaISBN 0738510459 (0-7385-1045-9)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navyby Evan ThomasISBN 0743205839 (0-7432-0583-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Korean Warby Max HastingsISBN 071812068X (0-7181-2068-X)
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Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Momby Lisa BelkinISBN 0743225430 (0-7432-2543-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Looking for You All My Lifeby Melody CarlsonISBN 0736900632 (0-7369-0063-2)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking for You All My Life'Book summary:Awardwinning author Melody Carlson offers another heartwarming story of love new and renewed and of Gods redemptive tenderness.
The small town of Pine Mountain has much to offer a bigcity girl: clean air, beautiful scenery, a marvelous mix of townspeople both funny and friendly. And though Maggie did not come to Oregon looking for love, she found it with Jed Whitewater. Or did she? While the possibility of a serious relationship exists with this enigmatic man, circumstances intervene in their lives that could spell disaster for both their dreams. What will Maggie have to sacrifice for the good of her new community? And will Jed ever be able to share his heart with her? Book 3 in the series.
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Lovely in Her Bonesby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0727844954 (0-7278-4495-4)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Mallby Eric BogosianISBN 0743214552 (0-7432-1455-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mall'Book summary:Penzler Pick, January 2001: Here Eric Bogosian, a playwright and actor, takes his keen eye to that particularly American venue, the mall. On any given day, the mall attracts hundreds of thousands of diverse characters who are not always there to shop. On this particular night, Bogosian concentrates on five of those characters, suburbanites who interact with each other in ways that are, for the most part, destructive.
Michel is an Haitian immigrant who works as a security guard at the mall. He's been there all evening and he spends his time thinking about his wife who died tragically. He misses her, but he will be forced to put all thoughts of her away as he becomes the first to deal with the horrendous events that start to unfold around closing time.
Jeff is a teenager who hooks up with his friends and drops acid. He wonders if Adelle likes him. She seems to, but she also seems to like his friend Beckett. Jeff's trip will get more surreal as the night progresses and will take him places he's never been before.
Donna is married with a son, but it doesn't seem to be enough. She is at the mall looking for romance and a little adventure. She'll find both.
Danny is a young businessman whose fetish for young women modeling underwear takes him to the women's dressing room at J.C. Penney. There he will find his own private nightmare.
And affecting them all is Mal. Mal is a speed freak who, before setting off for the mall with a car full of weapons, murders his mother and sets fire to his house. He is looking forward to an evening of more murder and mayhem.
This story moves along at the speed of an express train, one that isn't going quite where you thought it was. Bogosian has created a night that will not be easy to forget. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Middle East Illusionsby Noam ChomskyISBN 0742533093 (0-7425-3309-3)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middle East Illusions'Book summary:Middle East Illusions offers chapters written by Chomsky just before the 2000 Palestinian Intifada and up through October 2002, when 9-11 and a prospective U.S. military campaign against Iraq add new pressures to age-old conflicts. The book also includes the full text of Chomsky's earlier book, Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood, written during the crucial period spanning the Six-Day and 1973 wars, which continue to define and deeply influence events in the Middle East today. [via]
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Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhoodby Noam ChomskyISBN 0742529770 (0-7425-2977-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood'Book summary:What are the roots of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and how has it been influenced by the United States? Why has the U.S.-brokered "peace process" repeatedly failed to deliver peace? What are the prospects for a just resolution? What interests underlie current U.S. strategic doctrines in the Middle East, especially in its redeclared "war on terrorism" after 9-11, and how do we look beyond them to find more peaceful and viable alternatives?
These are among the current and long-standing questions Noam Chomsky takes up in his newest book. Middle East Illusions presents recent chapters written by the author about the myths behind the peace process, the second Palestinian Intifada (which began in September 2000 and continues today in defiance of Israeli repression), and the Bush administration's response to the September 11 attacks on the United States, including its drive toward another war with Iraq.
Middle East Illusions also includes the full text of Chomsky's earlier book, Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood, written during the crucial period spanning the Six-Day and 1973 wars, events that continue to define and deeply influence the world today. It therefore presents in-depth analysis covering several decades, making it one of the richest of any analysis published about the region's geopolitics.
Noam Chomsky is recognized internationally for his critical analysis of the Middle East. His thoroughly documented research draws on an immense range of sources, including Hebrew texts rarely discussed in the United States, declassified government planning documents, and other sources all too often overlooked in discussions of the U.S. role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. [via]More editions of Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood:
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Mitchell's Corn Palaceby Jan CerneyISBN 0738532576 (0-7385-3257-6)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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More George W. Bushisms: More of Slate's Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our Forty-Third Presidentby George W. Bush, Jacob WeisbergISBN 0743225198 (0-7432-2519-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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My Life in Franceby Julia Child, Alex Prud'HommeISBN 0739326155 (0-7393-2615-5)
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: The Classicby Bill JamesISBN 0743227220 (0-7432-2722-0)
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Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called "Win Shares," a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself. [via]
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New Orleans Cemeteriesby Eric J. BrockISBN 0738501263 (0-7385-0126-3)
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Nobody Left to Hate : Teaching Compassion after Columbineby Elliot AronsonISBN 0716744791 (0-7167-4479-1)
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adamsby Joseph J. EllisISBN 0735100225 (0-7351-0022-5)
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out and the Meaning of It Allby Richard P FeynmanISBN 0738207950 (0-7382-0795-0)
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynmanby Richard P Feynman, Jeffrey Robbin SISBN 0738203491 (0-7382-0349-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman'Book summary:Why do we do science? Beyond altruistic and self-aggrandizing motivations, many of our best scientists work long hours seeking the electric thrill that comes only from learning something that nobody knew before. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, a collection of previously unpublished or difficult-to-find short works by maverick physicist Richard Feynman, takes its title from his own answer. From TV interview transcripts to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, we see his quick, sharp wit, his devotion to his work, and his unwillingness to bow to social pressure or convention. It's no wonder he was only grudgingly admired by the establishment during his lifetime--read his "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry" to see him blowing off political considerations as impediments to finding the truth.
Feynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weapons. Though one or two pieces are a bit hard to follow for the nontechnical reader, for the most part the book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level. Freeman Dyson's foreword and editor Jeffrey Robbins's introductions to each essay set the stage well and are respectful without being worshipful. Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology; like any great scientist, he asked more questions than he answered, to give future generations the pleasure of finding things out. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out : The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynmanby Richard Phillips Feynman, Freeman J. DysonISBN 0738201081 (0-7382-0108-1)
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Feynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weapons. Though one or two pieces are a bit hard to follow for the nontechnical reader, for the most part the book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level. Freeman Dyson's foreword and editor Jeffrey Robbins's introductions to each essay set the stage well and are respectful without being worshipful. Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology; like any great scientist, he asked more questions than he answered, to give future generations the pleasure of finding things out. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupidby Joe KleinISBN 0739326147 (0-7393-2614-7)
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Quiet Stormby Rachel Howzell HallISBN 074322616X (0-7432-2616-X)
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Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965by Michael Beschloss, Lyndon B. JohnsonISBN 074322714X (0-7432-2714-X)
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Reagan, in His Own Handby Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson, George P. ShultzISBN 074320123X (0-7432-0123-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reagan, in His Own Hand'Book summary:A top advisor to Ronald Reagan once remarked of his boss: "He knows so little and accomplishes so much." Reagan, In His Own Hand will show that the 40th president knew far more than some people have given him credit for. It collects Reagan's recently discovered writings from the late 1970s, when he delivered more than a thousand radio addresses. He wrote about two-thirds of these himself, in longhand on yellow legal paper. "In writing these daily essays on almost every national policy issue during the 1970s, Reagan was acting as a one-man think-tank," the editors suggest. This edition reproduces everything faithfully, right down to the spelling mistakes and crossed-out words. And it offers a compelling look at the ideas and principles that animated one of the most important Americans of the 20th century. In one address, Reagan describes his contribution to a time capsule:
I wrote of the problems we face here in 1976--The choice we face between continuing the policies of the last 40 yrs. that have led to bigger & bigger govt, less & less liberty, redistribution of earnings through confiscatory taxation or trying to get back on the original course set for us by the Founding Fathers... On the international scene two great superpowers face each other with nuclear missiles at the ready--poised to bring Armageddon to the world.
Often his rhetoric is admirably forthright, and there are frequent glimpses of his later achievements, such as the foreshadowing of his desire to build the Strategic Defense Initiative.The bulk of the book comprises these radio addresses, but a concluding section includes everything from a short story Reagan wrote as a school assignment when he was 14 (it earned him a B+) to his memorable letter in 1994 revealing his Alzheimer's disease. This book will enthral Reagan's devotees, and even his toughest critics will concede he had a way with words. No wonder they called him "The Great Communicator." --John J Miller [via]
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Reagan, in His Own Hand : The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for Americaby Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson, George P. ShultzISBN 0743219384 (0-7432-1938-4)
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I wrote of the problems we face here in 1976--The choice we face between continuing the policies of the last 40 yrs. that have led to bigger & bigger govt, less & less liberty, redistribution of earnings through confiscatory taxation or trying to get back on the original course set for us by the Founding Fathers... On the international scene two great superpowers face each other with nuclear missiles at the ready--poised to bring Armageddon to the world.
Often his rhetoric is admirably forthright, and there are frequent glimpses of his later achievements, such as the foreshadowing of his desire to build the Strategic Defense Initiative.The bulk of the book comprises these radio addresses, but a concluding section includes everything from a short story Reagan wrote as a school assignment when he was 14 (it earned him a B+) to his memorable letter in 1994 revealing his Alzheimer's disease. This book will enthral Reagan's devotees, and even his toughest critics will concede he had a way with words. No wonder they called him "The Great Communicator." --John J Miller [via]
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Redmond, Washingtonby Georgeann MalowneyISBN 0738520713 (0-7385-2071-3)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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Robert Kennedy: His Lifeby Evan ThomasISBN 0743203291 (0-7432-0329-1)
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Robert's Rules of Orderby Henry M. Robert, Sarah Corbin Robert, William J. Evans, Daniel H. Honemann, Thomas J. BalchISBN 073820384X (0-7382-0384-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Robert's Rules of Orderby William J. Evans, Henry M. Robert, Daniel H. Honemann, Thomas J. Balch, Sarah Corbin RobertISBN 0738203076 (0-7382-0307-6)
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Robert's Rules of Order in Brief : The Simple Outline of the Rules Most Often Needed at a Meeting, According to the Standard Authoritative Parliamentary Manualby Henry Martyn RobertISBN 0738209236 (0-7382-0923-6)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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The Runaway Quiltby Jennifer ChiaveriniISBN 0743222261 (0-7432-2226-1)
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Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11by Tom Brokaw, Cathy Trost, Alicia C. Shepard, NewseumISBN 0742523160 (0-7425-2316-0)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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With a moving foreword by NBC News Anchor Tom Brokaw, Running Toward Danger is arranged along a chronological timeline of the day and is illustrated with more than 100 photographs, many of them rarely seen. The book documents how journalists overcame daunting logistical and emotional challenges to report to a shaken world the implications of the new century's most terrifying moment. It includes intimate details about the marathon high-wire work of the network anchors and the harrowing stories of ordinary journalists who put themselves in harm's way to report the story. The book provides an enduring record of a turning point in world history, a book that future generations will rely on for insights about how news was conveyed to a shattered world. [via]More editions of Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11:
The Shell Collectorby Anthony DoerrISBN 0743212746 (0-7432-1274-6)
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Sistersby Danielle SteelISBN 0739327011 (0-7393-2701-1)
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Songmasterby Orson Scott CardISBN 072784654X (0-7278-4654-X)
Hardcover, Stricker Books
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Stagecoach : Wells Fargo and the American Westby Philip L. FradkinISBN 0743213602 (0-7432-1360-2)
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The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomacby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0743225074 (0-7432-2507-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac'Book summary:Created at the outset of the Civil War to defend Washington, D.C., the Army of the Potomac had to contend not only with the skilled Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee, but the political pressures of the capital as well. In reading Jeffry Wert's The Sword of Lincoln, it's sometimes hard to determine which was worse. Though the largest and best-equipped Union army, the Army of the Potomac lost more battles than it won, certainly due in part to poor and inconsistent leadership. Yet in the end, the army prevailed due to the dedication of the foot soldiers who held on until final victory. Wert analyzes the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, and others, but his main focus is on the army itself. Based on diaries and letters, many never before published, Wert closely examines the motivations, morale, and fortunes of the enlisted men and junior officers and shows how and why they held on despite dismal circumstances. He also studies the generals who led the army and offers fresh critiques of their service. Abraham Lincoln's role is also a major theme in the book as Wert discusses how the success of the Army of the Potomac was closely intertwined with Lincoln's own political fortunes. This cut both ways--Lincoln was able to directly inspire and encourage the troops stationed near the capital, but he also became so involved with day-to-day operations that he often interfered with commanders, creating resentment and ineffectiveness in the process. The Sword of Lincoln is the first in-depth study of the Army of the Potomac in over 50 years, and Wert has done an admirable job of condensing a substantial amount of scholarship into one lively volume. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Menby Elliot LiebowISBN 0742528960 (0-7425-2896-0)
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The Templar Legacy: A Novelby Steve BerryISBN 073932621X (0-7393-2621-X)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace Vietnam And America October 1967by David MaranissISBN 0743217802 (0-7432-1780-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace Vietnam And America October 1967'Book summary:Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of truth, issues that are as relevant today as they were decades ago.
In the Long Nguyen Secret Zone of Vietnam, a renowned battalion of the First Infantry Division is marching into a devastating ambush that will leave sixty-one soldiers dead and an equal number wounded. On the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, students are staging an obstructive protest at the Commerce Building against recruiters for Dow Chemical Company, makers of napalm and Agent Orange, that ends in a bloody confrontation with club-wielding Madison police. And in Washington, President Lyndon Johnson is dealing with pressures closing in on him from all sides and lamenting to his war council, "How are we ever going to win this war?"
Based on thousands of primary documents and 180 on-the-record interviews, the story unfolds day by day, hour by hour, and at times minute by minute, with a rich cast of characters as they move toward battles that forever shaped their lives and evoked cultural and political conflicts that reverberate still. [via]
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To America : Personal Reflections of an Historianby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0743202759 (0-7432-0275-9)
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The Transformation Of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faithby Alan WolfeISBN 0743228391 (0-7432-2839-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's Worldby Alan DownsISBN 0738210617 (0-7382-1061-7)
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generalsby David HalberstamISBN 0743223233 (0-7432-2323-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals'Book summary:A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of 17 books, David Halberstam has a gift for bringing current events alive and putting them into historical perspective in an engaging way. In many respects, War in a Time of Peace serves as a sequel to his classic The Best and the Brightest in its examination of how the lessons of Vietnam have influenced American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Beginning with the Persian Gulf War, Halberstam discusses the political shift in emphasis from foreign to domestic issues that ushered in the first Clinton administration. Despite the fact that Clinton, along with much of the country, preferred to focus on the home front, the U.S. nonetheless found itself drawn into conflicts in Haiti, Somalia, and the Balkans--events that reflected American discomfort with the use of its military forces abroad while at the same time acknowledging that much of the world is dependent upon the U.S. for both guidance and support. The book also highlights the many nonpolitical factors that have influenced these political changes, including a generational shift in national leadership, the modern media's emphasis on entertainment over foreign news, a leap in military technology, and American economic prosperity that has rendered foreign policy largely irrelevant to many citizens.
Halberstam is a master at presenting well-rounded portraits and telling anecdotes of the personalities that have created U.S. policy, casting new light on well-known figures such as Clinton, Colin Powell, and George H.W. Bush, as well as supporting players such as Anthony Lake, Richard Holbrooke, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark, Al Gore, and many other influential American leaders of the past decade. Having covered many aspects of American history and foreign policy since the early 1960s, Halberstam is uniquely qualified to report on an era in which the U.S., and the world, has changed so dramatically. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Warsby Andrew Carroll, Douglas BrinkleyISBN 0743202945 (0-7432-0294-5)
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Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold Warby Frances FitzgeraldISBN 0743200233 (0-7432-0023-3)
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Who Built America?by Nelson Lichtenstein, Roy Rosenzweig, Christopher Clark, American Social History ProjectISBN 0716751399 (0-7167-5139-9)
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Timeby Michael ShermerISBN 0716730901 (0-7167-3090-1)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard Englishby John McWhorterISBN 0738204463 (0-7382-0446-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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