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The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnamby Bruce PalmerISBN 0813190363 (0-8131-9036-3)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemmon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenidesby AeschylusISBN 0812234162 (0-8122-3416-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemmon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides'Book summary:The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
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Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenidesby David R. SlavittISBN 081221627X (0-8122-1627-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0812504186 (0-8125-0418-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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America's Constitution: A Biographyby Akhil Reed AmarISBN 0812972724 (0-8129-7272-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Constitution: A Biography'Book summary:In America's Constitution, one of this era's most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world's great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this "biography" of America's framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it.
We all know this much: the Constitution is neither immutable nor perfect. Amar shows us how the story of this one relatively compact document reflects the story of America more generally. (For example, much of the Constitution, including the glorious-sounding "We the People," was lifted from existing American legal texts, including early state constitutions.) In short, the Constitution was as much a product of its environment as it was a product of its individual creators' inspired genius.
Despite the Constitution's flaws, its role in guiding our republic has been nothing short of amazing. Skillfully placing the document in the context of late-eighteenth-century American politics, America's Constitution explains, for instance, whether there is anything in the Constitution that is unamendable; the reason America adopted an electoral college; why a president must be at least thirty-five years old; and why-for now, at least-only those citizens who were born under the American flag can become president.
From his unique perspective, Amar also gives us unconventional wisdom about the Constitution and its significance throughout the nation's history. For one thing, we see that the Constitution has been far more democratic than is conventionally understood. Even though the document was drafted by white landholders, a remarkably large number of citizens (by the standards of 1787) were allowed to vote up or down on it, and the document's later amendments eventually extended the vote to virtually all Americans. [via]More editions of America's Constitution: A Biography:
American Humor: A Study of the National Characterby Constance RourkeISBN 0813008379 (0-8130-0837-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Apple : The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blundersby Jim CarltonISBN 0812928512 (0-8129-2851-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Arthur Miller's the Crucibleby Arthur Miller, William BlyISBN 0812034082 (0-8120-3408-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Beatles: Anthologyby BeatlesISBN 0811836363 (0-8118-3636-3)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles: Anthology'Book summary:Puisque l'on n'est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même, les Beatles (ou du moins ce qu'il en reste...) ont donc décidé de s'auto-archiver. De s'auto-raconter. Le résultat est impressionnant. Une sorte de bible. Un monument de l'édition à l'iconographie somptueuse et dense. Un bel objet que le fan des Fab Four digne de ce nom se doit de posséder. Et si les plus calés n'apprendront sûrement rien de nouveau, cette Anthology propose de raconter chronologiquement et dans ses moindres détails l'incroyable aventure de ces quatre garçons dans le vent. Un conte de fées d'autant plus fascinant qu'il durera moins d'une décennie. Quel autre groupe pourrait en effet se targuer d'une oeuvre aussi importante et essentielle en si peu de temps ? Collage subtil d'interviews fleuves, archives photographiques de premier ordre (les premières années de la saga sont à cet égard copieusement servies en images inédites), The Beatles Anthology se feuillette au gré des humeurs, avec une écoute parallèle des albums, ou tout simplement en suivant le déroulement des événements. Unique bémol dans cette entreprise passionnante, l'absence de regard vraiment critique. Contrôlant totalement l'ouvrage, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr et Yoko Ono (dans le rôle du défunt) n'incluent qu'homéopathiquement la remise en question ou l'analyse critique. Mais malgré cet aspect "version officielle", The Beatles Anthology demeure un superbe livre pour tous les fans de musique. --Marc Zisman [via]
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The Beatles Anthologyby John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George HarrisonISBN 0811826848 (0-8118-2684-8)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles Anthology'Book summary:Puisque l'on n'est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même, les Beatles (ou du moins ce qu'il en reste...) ont donc décidé de s'auto-archiver. De s'auto-raconter. Le résultat est impressionnant. Une sorte de bible. Un monument de l'édition à l'iconographie somptueuse et dense. Un bel objet que le fan des Fab Four digne de ce nom se doit de posséder. Et si les plus calés n'apprendront sûrement rien de nouveau, cette Anthology propose de raconter chronologiquement et dans ses moindres détails l'incroyable aventure de ces quatre garçons dans le vent. Un conte de fées d'autant plus fascinant qu'il durera moins d'une décennie. Quel autre groupe pourrait en effet se targuer d'une oeuvre aussi importante et essentielle en si peu de temps ? Collage subtil d'interviews fleuves, archives photographiques de premier ordre (les premières années de la saga sont à cet égard copieusement servies en images inédites), The Beatles Anthology se feuillette au gré des humeurs, avec une écoute parallèle des albums, ou tout simplement en suivant le déroulement des événements. Unique bémol dans cette entreprise passionnante, l'absence de regard vraiment critique. Contrôlant totalement l'ouvrage, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr et Yoko Ono (dans le rôle du défunt) n'incluent qu'homéopathiquement la remise en question ou l'analyse critique. Mais malgré cet aspect "version officielle", The Beatles Anthology demeure un superbe livre pour tous les fans de musique. --Marc Zisman [via]
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Blinded by the Right : The Conscience of an Ex-Conservativeby David BrockISBN 0812930991 (0-8129-3099-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blinded by the Right : The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative'Book summary:David Brock made his name (and big money) by trashing Anita Hill as "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." But it was Brock's reporting that was nutty and slutty, he confesses in the riveting memoir Blinded by the Right. He absolves Hill; claims he helped Clarence Thomas threaten another witness into backing down; portrays a ghastly right-wing Clinton-bashing conspiracy of hypocrites, zillionaires, and maniacs; and accuses himself of being "a witting cog in the Republican sleaze machine." Now Brock is sliming his former fellows--everyone from the lawyer who argued the Bush v. Gore case to gonzo pundits Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham ("the only person I knew who didn't appear to own a book or regularly read a newspaper") to Matt Drudge and Tom Wolfe. Brock excoriates the gay hypocrites of the right wing, including himself, and tells how he cleverly spun his own outing. (He calls himself "the only openly gay conservative in the country," evidently forgetting about the far more open and famous Andrew Sullivan.)
If Brock says he was a liar for much of his life, how do we know he's not lying now? Blinded by the Right is less addicted to anonymous and third-hand sources than the madcap character assassinations that made him famous, and it is infinitely more plausible. But that doesn't make it necessarily true. (Anita Hill's lawyer has acidly observed that Brock confessed his Hill-related lies after seven years, when the statute of limitations prevents suing for slander.) Dumped by the right after he wrote a non-hatchet-job book on Hillary Clinton, Brock profits by running to the arms of the center and left. But that doesn't make this book untrue. All I can tell you is you'll have to read it and decide for yourself. And I'll bet you'll admit this mea-culpa memoir has the revolting, irresistible fascination of a bad car wreck. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Bombshell : The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracyby Joseph Albright, Marcia KunstelISBN 081292861X (0-8129-2861-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bombshell : The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy'Book summary:Recruited into the super-secret Manhattan Project while still a teenager, albeit a teenager who had already passed through Harvard, Ted Hall was unquestionably brilliant. But Hall, now an elderly physicist living in England, claims he was also very naive. While working to develop the atomic bomb for the United States, Hall approached Soviet intelligence and proceeded to pass along secrets. His breaches of security, while unknown outside intelligence circles until recently, dwarf the work of better-known Cold War operatives. And what's perhaps most startling is his motivation for giving the Soviets the secrets of the American bomb. Relying on recently declassified materials and interviews with the participants in the plot, Bombshell reads like an inventive spy novel, yet it's entirely true. [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry James, Pierre A. Walker, A. S. ByattISBN 0812969960 (0-8129-6996-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movementby David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly, Virginia Historical SocietyISBN 0813917743 (0-8139-1774-3)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement'Book summary:Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as a creative process of high importance in American history, but they understand it in a different way.
Where Turner studied the westward movement in terms of its destination, Fischer and Kelly approach it in terms of its origins. Virginia's long history enables them to provide a rich portrait of migration and expansion as a dynamic process that preserved strong cultural continuities. They suggest that the oxymoron "bound away"from the folksong Shenandoahcaptures a vital truth about American history. As people moved west, they built new societies from old materials, in a double-acting process that made America what is today.
Based on an acclaimed exhibition at the Virginia Historical society, the book studies three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. Each stage has its own story to tell. All of them together offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries, as it has rarely been studied before.
Fischer and Kelly believe that the westward movement was a broad cultural process, which is best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites, but also through the physical artifacts and folkways of ordinary people. The wealth of anecdotes and illustrations in this volume offer a new way of looking at John Smith and William Byrd, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Dred Scott, and scores of lesser known gentry, yeomen, servants, and slaves who were all "bound away" to an old new world.
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The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry In Northwestern Europe 1944-1945by Paul FussellISBN 0812974883 (0-8129-7488-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Buying into America : How Foreign Money Is Changing the Face of Our Nationby Martin Tolchin, Susan J. TolchinISBN 0812916670 (0-8129-1667-0)
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Castleviewby Gene WolfeISBN 0812506251 (0-8125-0625-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Coming Apart: An Informal History Of America In The 1960sby William L. O'NeillISBN 0812962230 (0-8129-6223-0)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Coming to Terms With Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Cultureby Marshall FolettaISBN 0813920590 (0-8139-2059-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Daisy Millerby Henry JamesISBN 0812504402 (0-8125-0440-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Infernoby Carol Forman, Alighieri DanteISBN 0812034112 (0-8120-3411-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Inferno'Book summary:A guide to reading "The Inferno" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Dante's Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Marcus SandersISBN 0811842134 (0-8118-4213-4)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno'Book summary:A faithful yet totally original contemporary spin on a classic, Dante's Inferno as interpreted by acclaimed artist Sandow Birk and writer Marcus Sanders is a journey through a Hell that bears an eerie semblance to our own world. Birk, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of "realism's edgier, more visionary painters," offers extraordinarily nuanced and vivid illustrations inspired by Gustave Dore's famous engravings. This modern interpretation depicts an infernal landscape infested with mini-malls, fast food restaurants, ATMs, and other urban fixtures, and a text that cleverly incorporates urban slang and references to modern events and people (as Dante did in his own time). Previously published in a deluxe, fine-press edition to wide praise, and accompanied by national exhibitions, this striking paperback edition of Dante's Inferno is a genuinely provocative and insightful adaptation for a new generation of readers. [via]
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Dante's Purgatorioby Marcus Sanders, Michael F. Meister, Marcia Tanner, Sandow BirkISBN 0811847195 (0-8118-4719-5)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatorio'Book summary:Following the acclaim for their innovative edition of Dante's Inferno, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders guide us to the next level of the afterlife in Dante's Purgatorio. The second book of Dante Alighieri's classic poem The Divine Comedy, this version of Purgatorio couples a clever literary adaptation incorporating modern urban speech and contemporary references with powerful illustrations inspired by Gustave Dor's famous engravings. Whereas Inferno was primarily situated in a city that bears a curious resemblance to modern Los Angeles, Purgatorio is set in a surreal San Francisco Bay Area, an outlandish and hopeful milieu for those who have a chance to wash their sins away. Together, the sardonic yet playful combination of text and images comprise a vivid retelling of this masterpiece. [via]
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The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debatesby Michael Ruse, Edward O. WilsonISBN 0813530369 (0-8135-3036-9)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Exposureby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0812973593 (0-8129-7359-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exposure'Book summary:Luminous and affecting . . . [Exposure] examines the often fine line between art and abuse. . . . Taut in plot, beautifully realistic, and intelligently disturbing.
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Ann Rogers appears to be a happily married, successful young woman. A talented photographer, she creates happy memories for others, videotaping weddings, splicing together scenes of smiling faces, editing out awkward moments. But she cannot edit her own memories so easilyimages of a childhood spent as her fathers model and muse, the subject of his celebrated series of controversial photographs. To cope, Ann slips into a secret life of shame and vice. But when the Museum of Modern Art announces a retrospective of her fathers shocking portraits, Ann finds herself teetering on the edge of self-destruction, desperately trying to escape the psychological maelstrom that threatens to consume her.
Astounding . . . told in prose as multifaceted as a diamond, crystalline and mesmerizing. Remarkable hardly goes far enough.
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Impossible to put down . . . Kathryn Harrison is an extremely gifted writer, poetic, passionate, and elegant.
San Francisco Chronicle
Exquisite, exhilarating, and harrowing.
Donna Tartt, author of The Secret History and The Little Friend
A breathless urban nightmare not easy to forget. Stark, brilliant, and original work.
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Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Wordsby Lynn SherrISBN 0812927184 (0-8129-2718-4)
Softcover, Times Books
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Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Wordsby Susan B. Anthony, Lynn SherrISBN 0812924304 (0-8129-2430-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words'Book summary:Celebrating the 175th anniversary of Anthony's birth--as well as the seventy-fifth anniversary of the 19th Constitutional Amendment, a vivid biography combines biographical essays with selections from Anthony's speeches, letters, and quotes. 25,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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The Failure to Prevent 9/11: The Failure to Prevent 9/11by Gerald L. PosnerISBN 0812966236 (0-8129-6623-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Failure to Prevent 9/11: The Failure to Prevent 9/11'Book summary:Since 9/11, one important question has persisted: What was really going on behind the scenes with intelligence services and government leaders during the time preceding that terrible day? After an eighteen-month investigation, Gerald Posner reveals much previously undisclosed information, including details about a secret deal between Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden; how the U.S. government missed several chances to kill or capture bin Laden; how the CIA trackedand then losttwo of the hijackers when they entered the United States months before the attacks; the devastating consequences of the crippling rivalry between the CIA and FBI; and the startling account of top al Qaeda captive whose information subsequently led to a trail of mysterious deaths of Saudi Arabian princes and Pakistani military leaders.
Why America Slept exposes the frequent mistakes made by law enforcement and government agencies, and demonstrates how the failures to prevent 9/11 were tragically not an exception but typical. In the end, Posner makes a damning case that the terrorist attacks could have been prevented. [via]More editions of The Failure to Prevent 9/11: The Failure to Prevent 9/11:
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Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacificby Eric BergerudISBN 0813338697 (0-8133-3869-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific'Book summary:In the first two years of the Pacific War of World War II, air forces from Japan, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand engaged in a ruthless struggle for superiority in the skies over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Despite operating under primitive conditions in a largely unknown and malignant physical environment, both sides employed the most sophisticated technology available at the time in a strategically crucial war of aerial attrition. In one of the largest aerial campaigns in history, the skies of the South Pacific were dominated first by the dreaded Japanese Zeros, then by Allied bombers, which launched massed raids at altitudes under fifty feet, and finally by a ferocious Allied fighter onslaught led by a cadre of the greatest aces in American military history.Utilizing primary sources and scores of interviews with surviving veterans of all ranks and duties, Eric Bergerud recreates the fabric of the air war as it was fought in the South Pacific. He explores the technology and tactics, the three-dimensional battlefield, and the leadership, living conditions, medical challenges, and morale of the combatants. The reader will be rewarded with a thorough understanding of how air power functioned in World War II from the level of command to the point of fire in air-to-air combat.[via]More editions of Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific:
Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jerseyby Henry Charlton BeckISBN 0813510163 (0-8135-1016-3)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendshipby Jon MeachamISBN 0812972821 (0-8129-7282-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship'Book summary:The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of historys towering leaders
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the Greatest Generation. In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique onea president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.
Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nationsyet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDRs affectionswhich was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aidesand Winston Churchill.
Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.
Meachams new sourcesincluding unpublished letters of FDRs great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchills joint companyshed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.
Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.
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Good Old Boysby Elmer KeltonISBN 0812575997 (0-8125-7599-7)
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salemby Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox, Angela Y. Davis, Ann A. ScarboroISBN 0813913985 (0-8139-1398-5)
Hardcover, University Press of Virginia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem'Book summary:This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary Nanny of the maroons," who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her.
CARAF Books:Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.
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In Confidence : Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidentsby Anatoly Dobrynin, Lawrence MalkinISBN 0812923286 (0-8129-2328-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Infernoby Alighieri Dante, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0812970063 (0-8129-7006-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dantes masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dantes key sources and influences. [via]More editions of The Inferno:
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Infernoby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Pearl, Lino PertileISBN 0812967216 (0-8129-6721-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'Book summary:In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dantes literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the way Dante encounters and describes in vivid detail the various types of sinners in the throes of their eternal torment. [via]
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Inheritance in America: From Colonial Times to the Presentby Marylynn Salmon, Carole Shammas, Michel DahlinISBN 0813512662 (0-8135-1266-2)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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The Innocents Abroadby Mark Twain, Jane JacobsISBN 0812967054 (0-8129-6705-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Jefferson And His Timeby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923549 (0-8139-2354-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Peter Fish, Ken KeseyISBN 0812034333 (0-8120-3433-3)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Land of Little Rainby Mary Hunter Austin, Robert HassISBN 0812968522 (0-8129-6852-2)
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Landprints: On the Magnificent American Landscapeby Walter SullivanISBN 0812910761 (0-8129-1076-1)
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Language of the Underworldby David W. Maurer, Charles B. Wordell, Allan W. FutrellISBN 0813114055 (0-8131-1405-5)
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Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'n' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Sternby Susan J. DouglasISBN 0812933001 (0-8129-3300-1)
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Look Over My Shoulder: A Life In The Central Intelligence Agencyby William Hood, Richard HelmsISBN 0812971086 (0-8129-7108-6)
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On his return to Washington, Helms assumed responsibility for the OSS carryover operations in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe. He remained in this post until the Central Intelligence Agency was formed in 1947. At CIA, Helms served in many positions, ultimately becoming the organizations director from 1966 to 1973. He was appointed ambassador to Iran later that year and retired from government service in January 1977. It was often thought that Richard Helms, who served longer in the Central Intelligence Agency than anyone else, would never tell his story, but here it isrevealing, news-making, and with candid assessments of the controversies and triumphs of a remarkable career. [via]More editions of Look Over My Shoulder: A Life In The Central Intelligence Agency:
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Lucia, luciaby Adriana TrigianiISBN 0812967798 (0-8129-6779-8)
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The Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in Americaby Edward AbrahamsISBN 0813910803 (0-8139-1080-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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A Man Without a Countryby Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel SimonISBN 081297736X (0-8129-7736-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man Without a Country'Book summary:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles Times"Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut's] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend." -The New York Times Book ReviewIn a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age-or any age-holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America's soul. From his coming of age in America, to his formative war experiences, to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: Being himself. Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut's passions."For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person." -USA Today"Filled with [Vonnegut's] usual contradictory mix of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity." -Chicago Tribune"Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again [Vonnegut] captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning calligraphic simplicity." -The Australian"Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we discover his family's legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable humanism." -Studs Terkel [via]
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The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, And Thomas Jeffersonby Edmund S. MorganISBN 0813922658 (0-8139-2265-8)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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The Meaning of Independence, first published in 1976, has become one of the standard short works on the first three presidents of the United StatesGeorge Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. When the Mount Vernon Ladies Association and the Organization of American Historians asked 1,500 historians to name the ten best books about George Washington, this book was one of those selected. In this updated edition, the author provides a new preface to address a few remaining concerns he has pondered in the quarter century since first publication.
Tag:A classic work on the founding by the author of the bestselling Benjamin Franklin
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The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jeffersonby Edmund Sears MorganISBN 0813906946 (0-8139-0694-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Monticello a Guidebookby Frederick NicholsISBN 0813903297 (0-8139-0329-7)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Necessary Virtue: The Pragmatic Origins of Religious Liberty in New Englandby Charles P. HansonISBN 0813917948 (0-8139-1794-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stamppby Stephen E. Maizlish, Robert H. AbzubISBN 081311571X (0-8131-1571-X)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 0812520769 (0-8125-2076-9)
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October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reaganby Gary G. SickISBN 0812920872 (0-8129-2087-2)
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The Ox-Bow Incidentby Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Clifton Fadiman, L. L. Lee, Wallace Earle StegnerISBN 0812972589 (0-8129-7258-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ox-Bow Incident'Book summary:Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country.
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The Palace Thiefby Ethan CaninISBN 0812976177 (0-8129-7617-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran And Americaby KENNETH POLLACKISBN 0812973364 (0-8129-7336-4)
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Here Pollack, a former CIA analyst and National Security Council official, brings his keen analysis and insider perspective to the long and ongoing clash between the United States and Iran, beginning with the fall of the shah and the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Pollack examines all the major events in U.S.-Iran relationsincluding the hostage crisis, the U.S. tilt toward Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-Contra scandal, American-Iranian military tensions in 1987 and 1988, the covert Iranian war against U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf that culminated in the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, and recent U.S.-Iran skirmishes over Afghanistan and Iraq.
He explains the strategies and motives from American and Iranian perspectives and tells how each crisis colored the thinking of both countries leadership as they shaped and reshaped their policies over time. Pollack also describes efforts by moderates of various stripes to try to find some way past animosities to create a new dynamic in Iranian-American relations, only to find that when one side was ready for such a step, the other side fell short.
With balanced tone and insight, Pollack explains how the United States and Iran reached this impasse; why this relationship is critical to regional, global, and U.S. interests; and what basic political choices are available as we deal with this important but deeply troubled country.
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Prepby Curtis SittenfeldISBN 081297235X (0-8129-7235-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prep'Book summary:Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school's glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel. As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of-and, ultimately, a participant in-their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she's a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered. Ultimately, Lee's experiences-complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all. From the Hardcover edition. [via]
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Purgatoryby Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0812971256 (0-8129-7125-6)
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Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic poem of all timepresenting Dantes brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. In this second and perhaps most imaginative part of his masterwork, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in a continuation of his difficult ascent to purity. Anthony Esolens acclaimed translation of Inferno, Princeton professor James Richardson said, follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. It is living writing. This edition of Purgatory includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotesan invaluable guide for both general readers and students.More editions of Purgatory:
The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0812504798 (0-8125-0479-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Rising Sunby John TolandISBN 0812968581 (0-8129-6858-1)
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In weaving together the historical facts and human drama leading up to and culminating in the war in the Pacific, Toland crafts a riveting and unbiased narrative history. In his Foreword, Toland says that if we are to draw any conclusion from The Rising Sun, it is that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. [via]More editions of The Rising Sun:
The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacyby Strobe TalbottISBN 0812968468 (0-8129-6846-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860by Drew Gilpin FaustISBN 0812212290 (0-8122-1229-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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San Francisco Styleby Diane Dorrans Saeks, David Duncan LivingstonISBN 0811840433 (0-8118-4043-3)
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The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0812523385 (0-8125-2338-5)
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Severance: Storiesby Robert Olen ButlerISBN 0811856143 (0-8118-5614-3)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0812211103 (0-8122-1110-3)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Soldier of Areteby Gene WolfeISBN 0812511557 (0-8125-1155-7)
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Soldier of the Mistby Gene WolfeISBN 0812558154 (0-8125-5815-4)
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Sophocles: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216660 (0-8122-1666-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogyby Sophocles, Gerald Lee RatliffISBN 0812034309 (0-8120-3430-9)
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Sumter: The First Day of the Civil Warby Robert HendricksonISBN 081283111X (0-8128-3111-X)
Hardcover, Scarborough House
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Survive the Coming Nuclear Warby Ronald CruitISBN 0812828496 (0-8128-2849-6)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, Terence Kilmartin, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Richard HowardISBN 0812972090 (0-8129-7209-0)
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Tam Linby Pamela DeanISBN 0812544501 (0-8125-4450-1)
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Tell Me a Riddleby Tillie Olsen, Deborah Silverton RosenfeltISBN 081352136X (0-8135-2136-X)
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Testers and Testing: The Sociology of School Psychologyby Carl MilofskyISBN 081351407X (0-8135-1407-X)
Hardcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Thank You for Smokingby Christopher BuckleyISBN 0812976525 (0-8129-7652-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Christopher Buckley's satirical gift shines in this hilarious look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the unbearable smugness of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank You for Smoking is a delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream American ethics. And despite his hypertension-inducing, slander-splattered, morally bankrupt behavior--which leads one Larry King listener to describe him as "lower than whale crap"--you'll find yourself rooting for smoking's mass enabler. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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There Are Doorsby Gene WolfeISBN 0812503015 (0-8125-0301-5)
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To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehiclesby Roger D. Launius, Dennis R. JenkinsISBN 0813122457 (0-8131-2245-7)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Triumph Without Victoryby U. S. News and World Report StaffISBN 0812921453 (0-8129-2145-3)
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The U.s. Intelligence Communityby Jeffrey T. RichelsonISBN 0813368936 (0-8133-6893-6)
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The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American Peopleby Oscar HandlinISBN 0812217888 (0-8122-1788-8)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Urth of the New Sunby Gene WolfeISBN 0812558170 (0-8125-5817-0)
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Virgil's Aeneidby Virgil, Kathleen O'NeillISBN 0812034007 (0-8120-3400-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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White-Jacket : Or The World in a Man-of-Warby Herman MelvilleISBN 0812966171 (0-8129-6617-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, W. Meitcke, W. MeitcheISBN 0812034260 (0-8120-3426-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Amy BloomISBN 0812967194 (0-8129-6719-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Woman Who Loved Reindeerby Meredith Ann PierceISBN 0812503058 (0-8125-0305-8)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas L. ErskineISBN 0813519942 (0-8135-1994-2)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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